skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Buying her books for your kids or the kids of someone you know is the right way to recognize her.

Then we've recognized her a lot in my house :-)

> Awards are circle jerks that add no new value on their own.

There's nothing wrong with valuing respect from your peers.
I still really like Slashdot's comment moderation, with multiple characteristics, and the ability to quickly collapse all ajudged low-value comments with a slider.

The ability to promote certain users comments (and vice versa) is good too; but you have to use that carefully.

Would love to have that with the content and users here.
Not OSS nor free, but I've always been happy with Navicat: https://www.navicat.com/en/products/navicat-for-postgresql
It's a disincentive to own property instead of a disincentive to work/produce/spend like our other taxes.
It's not binding to the salt, in any chemical sense. Just that, in quantities of sea salt crystals, you also find tiny pieces of plastic mixed in.
Agreed except there isn't a problem with biblical literalism. The arguments against biblical literalism generally boil down to metaphysical or theological arguments, which are fine, but they're not scientific. I'd challenge someone to demonstrate a bible passage that cannot be true given an all-powerful God.

They generally come down to "Could God make a fossil record and evolution in a 24-hour period?" I don't see why not. You don't have to think it's true, but it's logically consistent assuming an omnipotent God is possible.
Wait for the Black Friday sale or a Steam sale to buy Substance Painter. It should be significantly cheaper.

Also, Substance Painter works on Linux which is important for some people.
No no, you say, that's not right, pigs say Oink all day and night.
Can you give examples of such things that probably don't work, but you can't say it if you don't want to be ostracized?
Even more curiosly, Sun never saw a full solar eclipse in the US
Kemalist Turk here,

Whoever installed or used ByLock in Turkey, then she/he is 99% Gulenist. ByLock server logs were taken from a datacenter in Lithuania by our national intelligence. So, Tr government has much more information than just IPs.
Powerful solution. OneNote and Collaboration =?
Interesting, hadn't heard about this.
One major problem with state-owned centralized media, in my opinion, is that objectivity usually degrades into propaganda whenever that's seriously requested by a senior government official, e.g. in times of war. IIRC the BBC was not always forthcoming about setbacks during the early parts of WWII, for example.
Modal interfaces are bad practice for software that will be used by people with minimal training, in a "pick up and go" fashion, but they are not necessarily counterproductive for skilled experienced users. Douglas Engelbart was a strong proponent of modal UI's and IIRC did extensive studies showing that although disadvantageous for "newbies", such interfaces could eventually yield higher productivity. I don't know how much of this was simply due to his having such a small and biased sample. It is also important to point out that his conceptualization involved using a 5-key chording keyboard in one hand and a 3-button mouse in the other for most routine operations, so the modes helped extend the number of operations that could be encoded. Anyway, as someone who uses emacs instead of vim, on a regular old keyboard, I really can't say personally.

EDIT: I suppose many people use a program like Blender with one hand on a mouse/trackball and the other on a 3d mouse, so the point about having different modes to get more versatility out of the same few buttons is still relevant. With that approach I use the radial menus plugin for Blender which makes changing modes pretty painless IMHO.
I'm sad for the user, but every time I read this type of story I'm hopeful it may be an inflection point; maybe people will wake up to Google, how integrated it is in our lives, and how big of a black box it is. If nothing else, its one more brick in the wall.
Let me add a few cons then

- Saying the error messages are "not intuitive" is a bit of an understatement. Most memorably, this was an actual message I was presented with after upgrading to Flow v0.53 - https://imgur.com/UseQxEz.png

- Flow's goal appears to be ensuring correctness rather than being useful. Object.value produces an array of mixed, effectively erasing their type (https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/2174). document.body is a Maybe (https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/4783). All use of getters and setters are marked as unsafe, with no way to selectively opt in or out (https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/2826). These are pedantic to the point of uselessness.

- When a function call's parameter type disagrees with the function signature, Flow flips a coin and marks one of them as incorrect. GitHub issue from Oct 2016 - https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/2587 (issue is closed because they're 'working on it', not because it's actually resolved)

- Flow's libdef is a fraction of TypeScript's. I frequently convert TypeScript libdefs to Flow libdefs. I have yet to see a library that has Flow libdef but not TypeScript libdefs.
Nice presentation. Something I've seen a lot over the decades is internal politics. One huge advantage of not using a brainstorming team is 99.999999% of humanity is more creative by sole mass of brain power than the team will be (Six billion people vs a team of ten people) so almost all good ideas, for any problem, will be discovered outside the team.

If the team is in charge as a group of doing the brainstorming, 99.999999% of the good ideas will come from non-team individuals who will be automatically shot down as "not your job" "work on your own team" and similar primate dominance games. If you brainstorm individually, that 99.999999% of good ideas has a better change of getting implemented. Groups hate outsiders (and by extension, their ideas), without a boundary there is no group.

Another internal politics problem is reward. Teams exist to funnel all success upward and channel all failure downward. Everyone knows if they actually have a solution its wasted on the team unless they're the leader. There are financial and career pressures for teams to fail so individuals can keep the fruits of their labor, so to speak. This can lead to very low team performance.
She was well known here in Australia about 20+ years ago. Virtually every greeting card I used to receive back then was a Boynton one.

Of late, she seems to have disappeared off the shelves in newsagents etc. I was actually quite surprised to hear a couple of years back that she was still creating new work. Followed her on Twitter for a dose of nostalgia every now and then on my timeline.
If you want something to get done, go do it (and hopefully many will follow). Do not hope others will do things or solve issues while you wait and see.
What Computer Security Experts Wish You Knew: The Top Experts Speak
>the craft is spin-stabilized to minimize thruster usage

So one good reason for it to hibernate is to save thruster fuel.
If this is not satire, then it's scary.
A Tesla model S has 476 or 544kg of batteries, depending on battery capacity.

A typical engine of a comparable car weighs ballpark that in pounds (http://www.team.net/sol/tech/engine.html; links to better data welcome)

You have to add the weight of petrol to that (let's say 80 liters or 60kg). That's partly compensated by the weight of the electrical engine (70 pounds = 30kg) that you have to add to the Tesla.

=> all else being equal, the Tesla will be heavier.

However, 'All else being equal' currently is a bit debatable, I think. Tesla seems to have optimized further for weight than conventional manufacturers do.
People did fight in each case, sometimes they lose though.
Larry Flynt on censorship
So...

1) yes they are, that's why I named them specifically as part of a broader group of "Atheists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins". Here's one item where Richard Dawkins apologized for doing so: https://the-orbit.net/greta/2014/08/07/richard-dawkins-apolo...

2) I never said it was the main argument, just an argument,

3) yes, I mostly of agree, but don't really see that much benefit if these non-religious people are still committing genocide based on pseudo-science or other such things. It's not the believing in nonsense part that ever really bothered me about religion, as I'm self aware enough to realise that atheists believe a lot of non-religious nonsense too.
> Thus every project has its own set of dependencies that have their own APIs.

Yes, this means that if your project depends on ten other projects, and all ten projects implement their own copy-file routine, your project will end up with ten copy-file routines.
XFLTReaT – Tunnelling Framework – Hack4Net
I happened to be doing some bug/feature chasing in Firefox a couple days ago (Firefox doesn't support Shadow DOM yet!! >.<), and found myself reading https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205323.

The reporter (who I am not calling out - it's the reply I want to focus on) happened to say "hey guys" as a salutatory address of the whole group. The very much unexpected comment reply that came next briefly digressed from the bug report to point out that small sentence and reference this URL: https://notapattern.net/2014/10/14/ways-men-in-tech-are-unin...

Tossing gender aside for a short moment, when I saw that link (and the multi-paragraph followup comment following the author's mild rebuff of the callout and URL as irrelevant), I'd say I was mildly irritated and maybe even fractionally offended (in the sense of "a tiny bit fed up", but not unreasonably/irrationally so) by it. This was mostly because calling this out seemed so out of place, and really, for what end?

Heheh. Then I read the article. It's well-written, grounded, and the links in the page point to similarly high-quality content (I may have link-chained for a couple hours...). I consider this page pretty much required reading; Mozilla found a good URL to reference for this.

I can understand your standpoint; I had it myself. Had. I'm grateful to say I'm comfortable how I was born. I also happen to like the opposite gender :P. So I'm pretty much a stereotype. But, as a stereotype, there was a ton I learned from that article, and I see everybody differently now.

To answer your question in good faith (no offense intended) - the site displays a small avatar photo of the author at the bottom.
MachineLabs.ai now supports saving trained models
Am I missing something with compile-to-javascript languages, or does this kind of heavyweight tooling and build system preclude most on-the-fly repl/console use for development? I'm far from a professional webdev, but have been attacking it recently with the goal of shortening my idea-to-implementation time for side/portfolio projects (I'm tangentially in ops at a tech company now, but want to move into programming).

Coming from a lisp background, the immediacy of the JS console in the browser seemed like a huge win, and I can't really imagine javascript-heavy webdev without using https://github.com/skeeto/skewer-mode or something similar, or at the very least heavy use of the browser's javascript console.

Don't you give up a lot of efficiency/speed when you compile to JS instead of using JS directly? Or do I misunderstand the trade-off and the benefits of static typing are enough that it's acceptable to have a separate build step after every change, like you're a C++ programmer?
I'm not suggesting that Tesla (or Musk) are underestimating the competition and taking it easy. To the contrary, I expect they're working as hard as they can.

But if it wasn't for these factors, there would be no competition, only annihilation. It's remarkable that there's competition at all. When multiple members of the competition can restructure their R&D budget on a whim to allocate more than your entire company is worth, you need systematic advantages like this to stay in business!
I find that lightworks does a great job
Create Your Own ASP.NET Core Middleware
Downloading the app wasn't the only reason they are under arrest. The app mentioned isn't available to anyone, but could only be used if you were endorsed by 2 members of the US-based cleric Fethullah organization. It's only "one" of the reasons people are under arrest. Most of their logs of conversation, and with whom they spoke is the main reason why they are under suspicion.

The app was used extensively during the military coup attempt, executed by the members of the Fethullah organization - which killed around 250 and wounded 2000-3000 civilians during last years military coup attempt.

Read Sedat Ergin articles on hurriyet.com.tr if you truly want to get informed about the court case against the military coup attempt. He is a well respected investigative journalist.

[1] http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/sedat-ergin/darbe-sanikl...
From gospel of Hacker News, blog post. May the Founder be with you!
Where from? Care to plug them?

Assuming you like them, trust them, etc. My home "server" was... "reclaimed" recently and until I buy new hardware I really should get my shit up and running again.
Do you think there is any significance to this choice of pseudonym (unless the author's name is Mitch Brenner or Rod Taylor?) I cannot think of one, but I don't know the film well.

Under 'Reception and Interpretation', the film's wikipedia entry says

"Humanities scholar Camille Paglia wrote a monograph about the film for the BFI Film Classics series. She interprets it as an ode to the many facets of female sexuality and, by extension, nature itself. She notes that women play pivotal roles in it. Mitch is defined by his relationships with his mother, sister, and ex-lover – a careful balance which is disrupted by his attraction to the beautiful Melanie."

which isn't leading me anywhere (other than to think this analysis tells more about Ms. Paglia's interests than the movie.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)#Reception_and...
You mean heap-only-tuples: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f...
Yes, it could. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoliation_of_evidence
Pretty sure the iPad could make/get phone calls? It was essentially just a charge for grouping it into my existing data/etc plan. $10 a month is definitely the price they're currently saying:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/12/lte-apple-watch-att-ver...

Fwiw, I am totally jumping on this. I'm not a big watch person, but the utility of leaving the phone home on date nights is going to be a huge win. This is a much bigger game changer than anything else they introduced
Does it still choke up on any file that is either larger than 20,000 lines or has a single line that's longer than 20,000 or so characters?

I used to use Atom a lot but being that I regularly am pulling and investigating large files that was a deal breaker.
Why are you arguing completely different points then?
Presumably whoever did it is a clever person. If I were in that position, I think it would be a fairly obvious step to season the article with subtle misdirections that send people on a wild goose chase. In fact it would be quite fun to do. So I wouldn't take the "information" in the article at face value at all.
And be careful if you're a security expert, not to store entropy on your/our harddrives.
I have to say that I've just watched the video and I'm still surprised by how some people get confused by promises.

If you forget to handle an asynchronous error in Node.js by default it will silently fail (forget to check err in (err, data)). If something throws synchronously the process will crash so if I find an endpoint that does a `JSON.parse` in your server and pass it invalid JSON - I can easily do a DoS.

With promises, you drop the incorrect assumption that operational === asynchronous and acknowledge that things like `JSON.parse` can cause "operational" errors too (and asynchronous errors can be caused from programmer errors).

With promises, both synchronous and asynchronous operational errors are handled in the same way - nothing is swallowed and everything is reported. Except for extreme edge cases you get your core dumps - and debuggability is actually much much better because you have real stack traces and errors.
Religion will persist until humans will become smarter on average, meaning until humans will have bigger brain on average. But bigger brain may happen only if we solve how to birth babies with bigger heads or how to boost brain and head size after birth. Both requires significant medical and other breakthroughs.
You know, not everyone wants to be at the same company for 8 years. The whole idea that if a co-founder leaves its a bad thing is antiquated.

After a while you want to do something different.
There is a war on science from fundamentalists, sure, but it's not limited to theists.

Was Damore a religious fanatic? He was engaging in a rational, scientific discussion (merits of the attempt aside, that was the stated goal).

What about anti-vaccine people? What about there-is-no-good-GMO people?

I think it's inconsistent at best to think the biggest enemy of science is religious fanatics. In fact, the biggest enemy of science these days is bad science. Lack of replicated results, for example.
Comment systems are tricky, everyone has an opinion on how they should work and how they should be moderated. Its very similar to forums and community building.

I was so opinionated about my comment system I decided to build my own called Remarkbox (https://www.remarkbox.com)

Its embed-able like discus but I want it to feel more like hacker news or reddit (deeply nested threads). My system is still a work in progress but I'm actively dog fooding it on my own websites and so far its working well.

One major take away I've learned from this thread is that people really like to use the collapse feature here on hacker news and reddit to narrow in on the conversations they care about. I actually never used this feature on either site (I didn't even know what that [-] was on hacker news until today)
Adam Coates, Director of Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab, Leaves Baidu
New Affectiva cloud API helps machines understand emotions in human speech
I'm afraid this is what happens when the exercise of democratic freedoms is cordoned within the platforms of corporations who have no duty to uphold them. Google's unilateral suspension of AdSense accounts without reason or recourse has brought this realization to lots of people on a less overt level.
"Oh boy, the shit consumers click on...."

At one of my old jobs we had this annoying offer that appeared all over the site; it was confusing, convoluted, and presented in obnoxious ways. We all (marketing folks) hated it. Every damn time we experimented with turning it off, revenue went down.

"If only users would stop clicking the damn thing and stop handing money over to us because of that click, we could finally turn it off!!"

(A bit of an oversimplification, as I know it did some damage to the brand. But the point still stands: Most marketers today live and die by testing -> measuring -> dumping money/effort into anything that catches fire. We're not going to continue using tactics that don't produce, which means that in many cases user behavior drives our decision making.)
It's the cost of competing for block rewards, which incidentally secures the consensus, yes. It's the price of decentralisation.

And it's still not an external task, it's a facet of running the currency rather than work that is independently useful.

And it's still conjuring money out of nothing.
I don't think so, if you stop past my local church on a Sunday you won't have any worries about fundamentalism, you will just hear endless debate about where the nearest toilet is and what pills people are taking.
How about labelling that button "support" or "maintenance contract"?
The last election cycle gave me the idea:

A reality TV show about making a reality TV show.

With The Garry Shandling Show, Entourage, political campaigns (and their documentaries), social influencers, paid placement, Spinal Tap...

Everything's so meta now, I can barely discern fact from fiction.

"All the world's a stage." -- Shakespeare
The author starts with a short dating story that strongly talks about the guy "Mitch" was dating was a creep. I may be biased but I think a gay man calling the other man a creep is very unusal versus a woman calling a man a creep.

I don't even know what the word "creep" is supposed to mean and why it's a commonly used word by women.
That might be the case, but when using jekyll you don't even have to build anything - you simply change the source and gihub builds it automatically.
Ah, interesting - thanks. I'll be honest chemistry never really was my strong point (I much preferred the more practical aspect of physics in school) - I try to pick up what I can from creators such as codyslab, nilered, nurdrage, etc, but I guess my attention to it falls in the "interesting but not interested" category, for lack of a better term.
I almost _never_ write comments, but I had to write here and say that despite having almost all the Boynton's books we own memorized that I still enjoy reading them for my 18 mon old.

edit: clarify I don't have ALL Boynton books.
> A big barrier to those discussions is the view which society has of anyone expressing preparedness/resilience viewpoints. "You're not one of those tinfoil, gun-hoarding prepper hillbillies, are you?"

How people's disaster preparedness is viewed depends on three things:

- are the disasters being prepared for plausible or not?

- do they give off the impression that they're somehow looking forward to the disaster, either as vindication or the opportunity to deem people "looters" and murder them without repercussion?

- is this a form of preparation that theoretically everyone could do, or is there an implication that, in the manner of Jehova's Witnesses, only a subset of the population can be saved?

So, if someone in Florida is preparing for hurricanes by securing their property, moving valuables out of the basement, and preparing for the possibility of evacuation? That's a plausible disaster with no talk of violence, and almost everyone could attempt, so that's a "normal" activity and won't get someone deemed the bad kind of prepper.
It'd better not be, I collapse good comments all the time when looking for something specific.
secularism is as much a religion as a religion

I hear that endlessly and it's just not true.
The theological arguments are really much more important than the scientific ones. Genesis 6 conflicts with the basic monotheistic nature of Christianity, and means there's no real way to take Genesis literally while professing the Nicene creed (which pretty much defines Christianity).
I swear to God, WhatsApp is THE startup fairytale.

No dilution, bootstrapped, greenfield tech and mind boggling earn out. A once in a generation business story.

I always mention WhatsApp when people want to do something overly complicated.
Fine, the original Portland in the US.
I'd prefer not being forced into a union myself if my compensation was linked to the productivity of my peers I'd make much less.
> religion pays little heed to analytical theology

What do you mean by this? There's a very strong, very cerebral theological subculture in Christianity. I think they'd raise their eyebrows to be told they aren't analytical enough. And their works aren't widely read, but they produce memes that filter through popular Christian sermons and books as time goes on.

Or do you mean something specific by "analytical theology"?
The issue I ran into with Kdenlive was that I couldn't figure out how to cut within a clip without saving to a separate file.

I don't have much experience with Kdenlive or video editing in general but am looking for an Audacity-like tool that can slice out useless portions of longer videos (and also mute sections of audio). For now I use ffmpeg on the command line, but wrangling timestamps is cumbersome.