skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in Silicon Valley but live in Fremont in the East Bay. Traffic is awful, would take an hour by car, and no one at my work lives that far. But on a motorcycle? A fun 30 min ride in the midst of traffic.
Can we be certain of consciousness? How can we be certain that what we perceive as reality isn't some demon feeding sensory information to our brain?
I have never felt the need to write swagger by hand, despite publishing a few API's in it. I always generate them directly from the domain code/function arguments.

It might be a benefit of statically typed languages though. I have no idea how you would automatically generate swagger from Javascript, without adding so much annotations that they become a poor man's types.
Interesting. Got specifics?
There are only a few people per century at the level of Elon Musk. This isn't the same discussion.
Trust me, it's not different this time. The crazy hot housing markets will eventually falter and go down in price. It always happens and as interest rates start to rise it's going to happen in the not too distant future.
Growth does not necessarily need more planet. The same amount of natural resources produces a lot more wealth today than it did a thousand years ago. The style and amount of growth we've seen in the past couple of centuries uses up more and more, but that doesn't have to be the only way.
Yes, I fly into Santa Clara every week and live in the Portland, OR area (actually across the river in Vancouver). When I fly in it seems far from dense ... there is room for a lot more housing w/o becoming super dense.

I think people in the Bay Area got their's and don't want others moving in... they love the high prices... it suits them just fine.
Conducting or Controlling Microservices?
In such a situation they would have to favor housing policies that lead to a sanely priced market for other people to acquire homes, no?
I just described a home that is $100k less than the $1MM example. The property tax rate in San Jose is roughly 1.3% of the price of the home you bought it at. So for $1MM, you're looking at $13k in property taxes, not to mention a higher mortgage overall from my example. A quick mortgage calculator tells me that we're adding another $400/mth for the $1MM example. This doesn't include the second mortgage which will roughly be $100,000 loan at about 6.5% interest.

So, you're telling me that the $1MM home (which will be roughly $5600/mth) will give you nearly $20k in tax deductions (in order to meet your ~$4000/mth)?? Effectively making your property taxes free for you? You're either delusional or I am going to have a very exciting tax season come next April...
"each cell from the same person will have different genomes"

Did you mean each cell will have different gene expression ?

I thought all the cells have the same nucleotide sequences barring maybe occasional mutations (like in cancer)
"you usually have to press a bunch of keys in just the right sequence to do the equivalent with the keyboard"

Compared to a veteran vim/emacs user, you'd to do a whole ton of mouse movements to get the same effect of a few keystrokes.

"Some things are quicker to do with the mouse and some things are quicker to do using keyboard shortcuts."

The only things I've found to be quicker to do with the mouse are doing things like drawing in Photoshop/GIMP/Inkscape, or interacting with GUI applications which don't have keyboard shortcuts for most of their functions. Text editing and coding, on the other hand, tends to be much faster, sometimes exponentially faster, than the mouse.
That doesn't prove it - maybe you just decided there was lint there when you looked down.
SOAP, WCF, CXF, et al, what’s old is new again.

It’s strange to have been playing this game long enough to see a full cycle.

Here be dragons.
This isn't really a bay area specific issue but rather a problem with any area that is desirable to live in with jobs. I live in Honolulu and we see the same issues here. Home prices are even more out of sync with salaries here as there are no where near as many high paying jobs as in the bay area. We also have a large homeless problem like SF
Anyone have any experience with how this compares to Postman?
Introducing Sequence: a cryptographicaly secure ledger-as-a-service
How can you be sure that you are concious and it's not just a usable abstraction running in your software?
GBPUSD: Threatening Further Upside on Corrective Recovery
That's a good point. It is a bit unique situation where there are small suburban homes for $2M+.
Molecular Mechanisms Linking Exercise to Cancer Prevention and Treatment
Going with your theory, I'd say that pointing devices are more precise which means they require more brain-CPU cycles to operate ... pixel-space is large and you must position it within some delta of the target widget you're trying to use.

Whereas in emacs, say, it's a quick "C-x o" to change to the next/other buffer.
But WHY do this at all? Is it because of public fascination with anything "atomic"? Good public relations? I don't get it. Because of little or no residual effects, why not just press the times into a souvenir holder and skip the irradiation altogether? It all just seems odd to me.
significantly more buggy in my experience (this was a few months ago though)
Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone* can edit.

*People who are not experts in a technical field writing entirely new pages on technical subjects are nobodies, and so do not count as "anyone."
Yeah, why does Hacker News not have a real way to indent things? It wouldn't make loading the page any less light-weight.
Yes, I'm aware of those, not sure if there is legislation to cover their use across residential sidewalks.
Those places have trade-offs, just like anywhere else. For example, the Midwest is a very nice place to live, but the winters here are absolutely awful and we also tend to have at least a month in the summer where it's also extremely hot. The job market for tech is decent, but it's not nearly as lucrative as the coastal markets, although the low cost of living does make up for that to a degree. These things matter a lot for some people, even if not so much for you.

As much as a lot of non-SV folks, myself included, enjoy ragging on California, the nice weather and good job prospects make it a very desirable place to live, and as such makes people far more tolerant of the hilariously awful housing situation and political climate.
In other words, about as good as gmail but with better control over false positives.
I've found Paw to have much better UX than Postman. Plus it's not an Electron app which is always nice.
Google may theoretically demand that, but:

https://betanews.com/2015/08/11/htc-and-samsung-phones-stori...
Microsoft Azure customers now can run workloads on Cray supercomputers
Product Hunt Global Hackathon
> Forget about vim and emacs, those were for times when people were coding over SSH.

If you're struggling and have the suspicion that it might not be worth it for you in the end, sure.

For everyone else, don't be afraid to learn how to be more effective by using a more expressive feature set for editing.

I think your advice is potentially harmful. Just because you didn't end up learning this doesn't mean it's useless to other people.

It's quite possible that you're just not learning effectively enough and you're not grasping the tools correctly. There's no shame in that, but to then advise people to not learn it only because you couldn't is completely pointless.
When a scammer calls something a scam, isn't it really an endorsement?
I'm surprised the article didn't even mention "High Fidelity", a VR platform created by the original founder of Second Life.
I'm repeating that argumentation after Marcin Popkiewicz, a Polish climate expert. He wrote a few fat books about it.

No one forces you to take bank loans, but banks definitely foster geometric growth. They want geometric returns on investment. If you don't have constant business growth, borrowing money from bank is losing money.

I don't know what would be the right answer. I know what human population is growing at a geometric rate, and the planet is finite in size. If a colony of bacteria doubles in size every 30 minutes, and it fully covers a petri dish at 12:00 am, the dish would be half covered at 11:30. 25% covered at 11:00. My point is that when there's geometric population growth, saying "oh, we still have 75% of the planet left" is just stupid. At that point the time is almost up.

Also, countries have a geopolitical interest to have as high population as possible, to have a manpower advantage over neighbors. This is why birth control - probably necessary at some point if the planet is finite - is bloody unlikely to happen. It would need to be introduced simultaneously in all countries. It reminds me of the story of Europeans buying African slaves at African shore. If there was a kingdom which refused selling slaves, they went to your neighbors and sold them rifles.
Organic community building is everything
fuck that's cool
Ask HN: Do you feel bad conducting code reviews?
Lately I've been doing most of the code reviews on my team since I have the most experience with this part of the stack.

I can't help but to feel bad when code comes back 2+ times, sometimes for logic, but mostly for stylistic deficiencies.

How do I get myself to not feel bad, for what I imagine must be a frustrating process for the devs on my team?
Its not quite 40%, and 3k buys you ample space. I had a studio for 1800 in hayes valley ,which is one of the nice areas of SF.

And even in your calculation, means that after 4 years you can do the downpayment. Its not unreasonable for house prices to be where they are in that calculation.
Or maybe rschulman was just looking for some web interface to complement corporate XMPP server, in which case appealing to cultural differences (no matter whether it's relevant/valid or not) will make virtually no difference.

(Also, comparing antique statues to anime girls? I'm not sure about that either.)
I think, therefore I avoid vacuous statements like "I am therefore I am"; moreover, I think I am.
My bet is that there is someone, or some group, at a very, very high level in the Chinese government, who understand that these (quantum science, AI) are superhot science and technology areas, and agree that investments right now would pay off extremely well in the future.

Central planning has downsides - but apparently some advantages too.
Pollution from internal combustion engines causes more deaths.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231013...
> “The problem is, when you have the same exact words, it’s hard to assemble,” said Lander, just as if jigsaw puzzle pieces show the same exact blue sky.

This is inaccurate, though the fault is with the author, not Lander. When you have genomic repeats, the appropriate analogy is if you had multiple puzzle pieces that had the exact same edges on all sides.

Puzzle pieces that show the same blue sky but with different edges can still be uniquely assembled. But puzzle pieces with identical edges create non-unique but equally satisfactory assembly solutions, and this is the case with the problem of genomic assembly.
$50? Ouch. I support developers making a living, but this is a market with a lot of competition, some of it free, some of it great, and some of it free and great.

If it were $19, the professional looking UI would have had me pull the trigger, but $50 is way on the other side of of my price sensitivity.
I'm surprised to hear this. They happily serve RankScanner, a European company who continued to charge my credit card after I canceled with them. Stripe wouldn't do anything about it. Countless stories of people having to have their bank involved to cancel RankScanner. Stripe still happily processes their transactions.
I suppose that's true based on what we know. But perhaps there is a way to demonstrate it's only a temporary split and the universe will come back together when we (as in the universe) are done considering two thoughts in parallel.
> Latency is problem, but when you're the universe I imagine you've got a lot of time on your hands.

Best sentence I've read all month
I'm glad to see some of the recent research on threats to insect populations getting more attention, HN recently had a good discussion on this in "75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas" [1]. But in reading through that thread I saw a lot of discussion about pesticides but surprisingly nothing at all regarding nighttime light pollution, and in that context I think another Atlantic piece is of interest, "Night Lights Drive Pollinators Away from Plants" [2]. In particular I think that's an area where it seems like there is more direct action potential for technologists. Both individually and in terms of community ordinances we should push to better take advantage of advances in LEDs and sensors to try to reduce color temperature at light and try to better ensure that lighting exists only when and where humans actually directly need it at the time, rather then the current dumblight defaults of "always on, lots of spread, and always at the same temperature".

This should be an area where at least some level of technological win-win is possible, because we generally only need lighting on when a human is not present. Permanent-on has just been that way by default because there was no better way to ensure it would be on if somebody came around. Fixed color temperatures too have been a matter of simple necessity given the technology available. So there should be a lot of room to reduce wasted light (and in turn energy) and simultaneously benefit pollinators via smarter lighting tech.

From a personal perspective, this provided me the impetus to get my camera, door sensors, and other presence detectors all linked up with my lighting at long last so that my outdoor lighting is by default off at night except when directly needed. I'd support a national push to develop more directed, warmer, and smarter street lighting and the like as well.

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1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15502074

2: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/confirme...
I often think of GE Moore when I see this argument:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_is_one_hand
His comments. :) But "its" would have been interesting.
Imagine if these engineers put their skills to use advancing society...
Technical challenges aside, I don't think VR will turn Second Life into a Snow Crash Metaverse anytime soon.

Speaking of 2007, remember how hyped motion controls were? Remember how excited we got when we saw people "bowling" and "boxing" on Wii Sports? Remember the thrill of booting up LoZ Twilight Princess for the first time? Remember that first sword swing that was blocked on screen even as your real-life arm kept swinging, undaunted but by a pithy vibration?

Even with VR that didn't cost an arm and a leg and ran Second Life at 90fps without trouble, the simple fact is that without realistic force feedback, every user will be constantly reminded that they are not actually flying a spaceship in zero G, they are not actually being double-teamed in a mass orgy, and they are not actually relaxing in mud bath at a sprawling spa.

True immersion is decades away. Until we have Star Trek holodecks or Metal Gear nanomachines, we are only fooling ourselves into believing that virtual reality is completely immersive.

We really ought to have a kind of Turing Test for VR to restrain the hype.
demand outweighs supply on a much bigger scale and we'll see exponential growth here
Wi-Fi hacking is nothing new
For every "silly" rule there is some scumbag that's the REASON there's the "silly" rule.
This reads like a non sequitur, and a nasty one at that.
Even as a convinced protonmail user I think this post is too much advertising focused and not addressing the facts correctly. It would be better for the reputation of protonmail if they would resist launching such campaigns and stick to the real advantages that differentiate it from the competition.
Btw, the answer is "spaces" because tabs can be interpreted differently from editor to editor.

To take it a step further, its 4-space indents. I've seen code where people pull off 2-spaces, but it gets crowded failrly quickly.
That's ridiculous. Soviet-style central planning is not what is happening in the Bay area. The zoning there is being done by democratically elected governments and the land being developed is privately owned and can be freely bought and sold. The resulting high prices are absolutely the result of market forces.
Haskell has ways of expressing that sort of logic well, but you still need to write, maintain, and test all of the code that abstracts all the languages. There will be a lot of demand for optimizations, customization points, support for importing third party packages, and so on. There's a huge gap between proof of concept and fully mature product in this space. You're basically talking about modelling all the compilers and interpreters with one product.
Also http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/
Indeed, that would be neat.
Maybe think about LA? You can make that salary and own a home easily. And the Armenian community there is great!
This sounds like the sort of thing that was developed for one specific high-value customer. I wonder who it was.
second to last paragraph:

> All tests were run on both ubuntu 17.04, 4.10.0-37, as well as on arch, 4.12.8-2. We got the same results on both machines.
Again Crystal is not Ruby. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/4731#issuecom...

> we might never get static typing for Ruby anytime soon

Yes we will not get type declarations as a part of Ruby syntax anytime soon, but this doesn't mean we can not have static type checking right now
You're not unemployable and don't underestimate the value of your experiences over the last four years.
Thanks. So it's for people looking to build their own Stripe?
Facebook tests removing publishers from News Feed
No, there is good reason to believe the election was fair. The mainstream U.S. reporting on this is extremely biased; the U.S. has a long history of deeply anti-democractic attitudes towards Latin America (since at least the Monroe Doctrine). Excellent and detailed reporting here:[1]

"...key opposition candidates in the governor's races in Venezuela are gradually accepting the results as legitimate, except for one controversial close race that is being challenged in the State of Bolivar where opposition has some serious allegations due to the discrepancy in the results that the CNE announced, that's the election commission in Venezuela, the results that they announce and the printout of the report that was given to each party by the voting machines."

"ALEXANDER MAIN: First of all, it's really nothing new... Already in 2002, much of the corporate media internationally was suggesting that the presidency of Chávez had become something of a dictatorship and completely ignoring some of the anti-democratic activities of the opposition parties in Venezuela, and namely a coup d'etat was supported by most of Venezuela's opposition parties in April of 2002. This was initially represented as some sort of a popular uprising against the dictatorship, and it was really, I think, thanks to the reaction of other governments in the region that clearly saw that there was a coup d'etat that the narrative began to change around that.

"Soon afterwards, we got back into this tradition of suggesting that there was creeping authoritarianism going on in Venezuela. Very little was said about the fact that nearly every year, sometimes twice a year in Venezuela, you had elections being held at different institutional levels. These elections would typically have very big turnouts, they'd be very transparent, very free and fair... In fact, it can be argued that the electoral system in Venezuela has gotten more and more refined in terms of the degree of transparency, to the extent that in fact, it [speaks] in part to that transparency and the internal checks and balances that today you do have this controversy in the state of Bolivar... They can do this, in fact, because they have records from electronic voting machines, which everyone believes... the fact is that you have a system that's in place that can very easily allow for verification... It really is sort of a direct contradiction of this constant claim that the country is slipping into dictatorship. You don't have that when you have constant elections in which people, the majority of voters participate and where you can have confidence in the results."

[1] http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=...
The site’s Let’s Encrypt certificate is revoked, causing SSL errors upon attempt to visit.
In this article they're using the word "dendrite" to mean a bit more than just an input to a neuron (which does exist in NN models) - one of the often criticized simplifications of most neural net models is that they don't account for the structure and function of the entire dendritic tree. Specifically, in the image you're referencing in the article they point out that synapses very near the soma directly cause action potentials, whereas further out they will cause some depolarization but not actually cause the cell to fire.

The way some authors explain it is that you can think of a neuron as really having an entire neural net embedded inside of it (based on the structure and function of the dendritic tree), that does some non-trivial amount of information processing even before you consider the connectivity of neurons to each other. Exactly how non-trivial that is is a deeper question, but it's worth noting that these structures are extremely plastic, and change over timescales of seconds to minutes, so it's not hard to imagine that these details are significant.
Sure. We'd get in touch with you soon.
5 Most selling Games of 2017 are shocking
It doesn't have to be that way ? What else could people compete for ? Facebook likes ? So far, almost all wealth is material in nature. As for digital rewards, data-centers and other computer infrastructure needs constant input of energy. Human population is growing, humans love to copulate and take pride in having children. We need bigger and bigger internets for bigger facebooks.
Yep. A negative result is still a result.
WTF is a Thread
This is why calling fsync(fd) before closing the file and exiting is a good idea if you need that kind of error to be handled. You should get it as a return of fsync if it happens after the write.
If you have not seen this from last week, others may be willing to continue a vaguely parallel discussion there:

Ask HN: Why do you believe that your religion/faith/worldview is correct? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15505294 (Oct 2017, 29 comments)
It is a bad idea to reuse project names, though since the older Smalltalk Express (freeware version of Smalltalk V/Win) was from back when the web was new there won't be too many search results about it to get in your way:

http://www.andreadrian.de/smalltalk/09-11-96.htm
It's a problem of presenting that contrast ratio on a screen
that is not capable of a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1

If you have such a high contrast ratio, it also means you have discretized amount of light in such amount or more. Talking about the number of bits minimum needed indeed makes the assumption you are storing and manipulating light in a linear way (hypothesis not true for most 8 bpc rgb values).
I'm no economist, but: If I borrow from a bank to buy a hotdog stand, and the payback is two years at $500/month, I need to earn $500/month + other expenses + profit every month for two years (or default and give the bank the stand, which is the collateral). I don't need to grow. The bank gets its interest, and I get an income from my business. Win-win. Where is "growth" required?
Agree. It's a poor person problem, not a minority problem. The effort some people will put into pushing identity politics is astounding.