skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You are clearly very unimaginative when it comes to exercise. I find the gym pretty bloody boring. But whitewater kayaking, mountain biking, rock climbing easily beat sitting in front of a computer. If those are too much go for a hike in the mountains and take in some scenery. Or learn to surf.

Those aren't routine activities, unless you are fortunately situated.
Please report bugs. "Crashes the entire session" is something we need to hear about.
>This moment of fizziness for the discipline was already underway when Cuddy arrived at Princeton’s graduate program in 2000, transferring there to follow her adviser, Susan Fiske, with whom she first worked at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

This is the same Susan Fiske who called people who pointed out statistical errors in psychology papers "methodological terrorists".
http://andrewgelman.com/2016/09/21/what-has-happened-down-he... The apple does not fall far from the tree.
The Fed is still keeping rates low because inflation isn't moving up, even with a tightening labor market (and they don't know why).

(Video) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-27/what-yellen...
i.e. price fixing.
MongoDB isn't usually seen favorably but everyone must admit that it's an unlikely success story that deserves admiration. Think about it. Bringing a database to the market with a completely different paradigm, growing it to the enterprise-production-ready level, and creating a billion-dollar business around is no small deal. Yes, they did ride the NoSQL zeitgeist but they survived when others had no major success.

Undeniably, they did have their fuck-ups in the start, but I think they have done a good job fixing them.
Makes sense. That's the clearest indication I've seen of contentious topics on HN (comment count higher than the topic vote count).
There are other reasons you might want a pop as opposed to squeezing every possible cent out of the IPO

- For better or worse, a pop is seen as a successful IPO. A lot of the market is about expectations and if you have an "unsuccessful" IPO you are going to get good press.

- Underwriters are selling to the same institutional investors over and over. They're going to promise those investors that there will be a reward for getting in on this IPO. If an underwriter sells a bunch of IPOs that don't go anywhere they are going to have trouble continuing to underwrite
The companies will keep coming and going. As long as there is a steady stream of startups being funded in SV, WeWork should do fine. In fact, they make it much easier for the startups to bootstrap and focus on their business problem, rather than worrying about the logistics.
> I have seen too often these things being elevated into a religion.

Yeap. I have no hard preference between sin(x) or x.sin, in an OOP context or not, as long as the language is somewhat consistent (e.g., it bothers me that Ruby has some of these functions on the numbers themselves, like 1.23.floor, but others live on Math, like Math.sin(42)).
SNES Code Injection – Flappy Bird in Super Mario World
> They aren't the picked upon underdogs no matter how many of us might still think of them that way.

Well, when you narrow the scope to "obvious tech" and brand names end users recognize. However, Silicon Valley is still small compared to the influence of, say, Wall Street.

I guess what I'm saying is that some other institutions may benefit from letting them occupy the public eye.
This is assuming they would even honor it. They might have a loophole to say "well it obviously wasn't working properly so too bad".
It only applies to people selling ads. And transparency around an election seems like enough reason to at least make the records public, which doesn't seem like a very high hurdle.
I'm not sure where you get this.

I studied linguistics in college and one of my cofounders got her degree in linguistics from Harvard. Another of our employees is a computational linguist from Cambridge.

Additionally, all of the curriculum and much of the course methodology itself was designed by teachers who have been teaching languages both online and in the classroom for years.

We have additionally consulted active linguists and educational psychology researchers to see if there is anything else we should be looking at in their fields that we can apply.

This post was about how my understanding of the product I felt I wanted as a customer was formed. Linguists and teachers built the curriculum and work with the engineers here to see how we can apply the ways they want to teach.
Looks like Lyft is testing the waters before they pick a direction. They also are working with Ford on what an on demand fleet of Ford self-driving cars would look like: http://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-ford-motor-company-self-...

Not to mention their historical relationship with GM.
A simplified view follows:

Previously: displays & input devices -> xorg-server -> compton -> window manager -> X11 protocol -> X11 clients

Now: displays & input devices -> wayland compositor -> wayland protocol -> wayland clients
I think my point is pretty clear.

In arguing that CNN's decision not to air your opinions in prime time is legitimate while HN's decision to be selective about what they'll provide a venue for isn't, you've accepted unquestioningly CNN's constraints while dismissing HN's.

In both cases, you're applying an enormous amount of subjectivity. But you'd prefer not to acknowledge that, and so have instead attempted to reframe the discussion as if your conclusions about CNN and HN are self-evidently objective. They are not.
Have you heard of the GPD pocket [1]? It's not so far from what you describe, although I often find myself wishing it had an extra inch or so: the keyboard is pretty cramped.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/gpd-pocket-review
AlphaGo Zero trains itself to be most powerful Go player in the world
I'd also say that the JS and its burden on CPU, RAM, and battery, is also pretty trivial compared to rich media consuming more than a few MB's off a user's mobile data plan. Many people consider 1 MB to be around the upper guideline for bundle sizes; 2 MB of JS is considered quite big.

But HTML CSS JS cannot compete against rich media, and how badly it drains the user's most finite resource of all -- mobile data. That's what makes an information lookup even on native Yelp costly to the user.
One of the things about UBI is that these pilot programs aren't UBI, because they aren't universal. Giving a segment of the population free money is going to benefit that segment, no question. Welfare and Quantitative Easing are both examples of that. But when you make it universal, my economics intuition says that the effect will be washed out by a commensurate rise in prices.

Or put another way, you can subsidize the few at the expense of the many, but you can't subsidize the many at their own expense and have it result in a positive effect.
I started working in robotics because I wanted to empower people and make the world a better place. But what I have started to appreciate is that increasing automation is by default a transfer of wealth from labor to capital owners. The two million long-haul truck drivers who are going to be replaced by self-driving trucks are going to lose income; the owners of the self-driving trucks are going to capture that wealth. I am not sure what the right social policies are to address this; retraining, basic income, and universal healthcare all seem reasonable. But I think a lot of people don't appreciate how automation leads to both increased productivity and also increased inequality.
Is Toronto among the class of cities that are relatively new enough to be shaped by a large corporation moving in? From what I've heard, a lot of the development in that town has happened in the postwar, and is still in rapid development mode.
Original title: Here’s how U.S. lawmakers want to regulate political ads on Facebook, Google and Twitter

Techmeme summary: Tony Romm / Recode: Senate bill on political ads, called the Honest Ads Act, would regulate web firms with 50M+ annual visitors, require copies of ads and info on $500+/year buyers
I'd venture to say that in the far majority of american cities public transportation is a net negative. Lots of large, expensive, idling buses belching pollution and providing little useful service.
> For example, I would like to support the smart and diligent kids that could be my doctors one day...Second, it makes no difference between useful education, e.g. the doctors, and useless education, such as...

> Similarly, not all "old people" are the same. I'd rather support a former doctor than a former criminal, for example.

That's precisely the problem to be avoided by universal support. Some people want to make sure artists are supported, some people want to make sure doctors are, some people don't want their money "wasted" on scientists who don't believe in the {insert religious book here}, etc.

> And a higher-level problem is...how to make it politically acceptable.

The US social security system is a good example of this: it was made universal (not means tested) and mocked up to look like an insurance program with the explicit aim of making people believe that they "paid into an insurance system so are just getting their money out". Of course it's not really like an insurance scheme at all, no more and no less than using your current taxes to build a bridge that will be used for years.

It's quite interesting to read the contemporary (1930s) internal discussions to see how nakedly they propagandized the description of the system to make sure it wasn't later killed. It's a great system; shame they had to prey upon widespread economic ignorance to manage to put it into place.
Show HN: Universal API for Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Line, Viber
Wikipedia is being dishonest here. The infrastructure is doing fine, thankyouverymuch, the hosting costs could be paid in perpetuity by taking the cash reserves to the stock market.

But there is all the administrative overhead, outreach, Wiki for Women, Wikimania conference, salaries for the staff in SF who would use their Wikipedia experience to land a cushy job elsewhere - that's what the fundraising is intended to support.
No kind of death at this point would be considered quick for python2
I speak three languages fluently and I can attest to Chatterbug's methodology. However, there's still much research to be done in the field. I participate in a lot of linguistic research since my case is a slightly more unique than others.

Also, I'm curious if they're hiring and/or have plan to scale. There are so many features they could add.
I'm sure who ever started this got the main db set from DHA (probably illegally). And that would quite likely be all citizens both alive and dead.
On Linux, I've been using kvm with libvirt and virt-manager as the GUI.
Facebook, Twitter lawyers to testify in Congress on Russia meddling
I used to use Anki Flashcards but I actually found that online tutoring is a lot better now. I use Verbling which solves a lot of the issues mentioned in the OP blog. The video system is all in the browser, no Skype as others have mentioned with iTalki and my teacher shares PDFs directly on the site. It also tells me what page she is on so I can be in sync, and we draw notes etc on top of the whiteboard.
Alas, I've still seen no news of X11 forwarding or an equivalent capability. I've heard that it isn't wayland's job anymore, but nothing to replace that major feature yet.
I have no real bearing on it yet, but if their former projects are any tell, it's likely they will want a mix. They do a lot of traffic optimization research. Maybe this is their chance to implement some of it. It will be interesting should this go forward.

There's a town hall on November 1. If I can make it work I'm going to go.
I'm curious, have you ever used TeXmacs? It is, in my non-expert oppinion, by far the best WYSIWYG editing experience (barring some minor implementation bugs). The visual bounding box cues, in particular, make formatting much easier.
the ultimate goal of college is not to be the most financially well-off. I'm not sure how you can imply that those who work in social services and teaching would be considered "worthless".

Your argument and the other poster's both are making incongruent comparisons.
Fuck no. I have no desire for the world to turn into hipster Shadowrun.
But you are the relevant people. And just like in business, while it's important to research and plan effectively, if you never take any risks you never get any rewards and the opportunity slips away. Getting involved and taking action isn't going to drown out the voices of research scientists, because while we operate serially as individuals we operate in parallel as a species.

You're never going to persuade everyone. There are people who know how dirty fossil fuels are, how risky pollutants are, and so on. They know that research costs money and that preserving a healthy environment will require major changes - and they don't care. Maybe because they're old and bitter, maybe because they're selfish and figure they'll ride it out while the rest of the world goes to hell, maybe because they have a death wish. You're never going to convert that group, and in fact they'll oppose you every step of teh way because they're assholes. Too bad.

The large mass of uncommitted people in the middle want to be told what to do, and the best way to tell them is to lead by example. You don't have to rush out and start dismantling pipelines, but you do have to do something - whether that's raising awareness, embarrassing a political opponent in public, blocking the loading of chemicals you've decided are especially toxic, establish a weekly neighborhood cleanup crew or whatever.

Carrying on with your own life while waiting for something you can just vote or donate to is not working very well, is it? I don't mean that as a criticism of you, but of the system that purports to offer you environmental policy as a set of consumption choices that you can choose and feel good about. I've been doing recycling and conscious consumption and 1-1 advocacy for maybe 30 years. Those efforts are great, but we're not going to conserve our way out of the problem any more than you can become wealthy by saving a few $ a week. You can outsource it by making donations to organizations you approve of, but let's be honest here, unless you can throw large sums of money at a cause on a rolling basis you might as well be flinging quarters at an oncoming steamroller. Devoting some of your time and labor and investing a bit of your capital if you can is more likely to be effective, because people are primarily motivated by the example of others. And you need to think boldly, or you won't have any impact.

Of course people who are predisposed to study and able to do so should consider academic routes. But we already have lots of highly qualified scientists, while the head of the Environmental Protection Agency likes to do photo opportunities with coal miners to show he's not a creature of the evil science lobby. There is a political conflict here and it needs activists as well as researchers, because just having the correct answer isn't enough.
The hubris! We have a set of democratic institutions to do that called "government"
lol All roads lead to Trump? shivers
Techmeme summary: Dustin Volz / Reuters: Facebook says its general counsel, Colin Stretch, will testify before House Intelligence Committee inquiry into Russian meddling on November 1

>> Quote from the article

An executive from Alphabet Inc’s Google unit also is expected to appear at public hearings before the House and Senate intelligence committees, but the company has not yet said who will testify. A Google spokeswoman said on Thursday there was no update from the company.

General counsel Colin Stretch will be the Facebook representative to take testify before both committees, company spokesman Andy Stone said. The company’s high-profile Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg will not appear.

A Twitter spokeswoman said acting general counsel, Sean Edgett, will represent the microblogging site before the panels.

>> End of quote
for a rap artist
It's a tad complicated. Toronto isn't that new. However a good portion of the city burned down in 1904 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Toronto_(1904)
I can't think of a compelling reason to use Mongo over Cassandra except "we already use it and don't want to change".
It's amazing that the title is this misleading for an article that is scarcely longer.
WeWork needs to go prove itself by surviving the next downturn. I believe most of WeWork's customers are other startups who valuations are fueled by large rounds of VC investment. This capital tends to dry out during a downturn, however WeWork will still be saddled with long term leases during this period. I wonder what their strategy is to ride out a period of low capital raise for startups.
Another shadowbanned user here. Used to be an occasional poster, made posts if I had something meaningful to add.

At some point I noticed that I never got replies, but didn't think much of it, continued posting. Then, one day I looked at my profile while I was logged out, and surprise - the the posts for the last few months are no longer there.

Like OP, I went through a few accounts. They worked for a bit, and then responses dropped off. Eventually, I realized that apparently, my new apartment's IP is toxic.

Not sure who a shadow ban is supposed to punish since any spam bot can check just as trivially of they're banned. On the other hand, legitimate users have no idea keep wasting their time submitting their comments to /dev/null.

By now I have given up on trying to comment on HN. I can use my time on better things.

Ironic that a the site like HN can't get a proper quoting markup, can't fix the pre-block scroll, took forever to add support for mobile and comment collapsing, and used blanket IP bans...
I very much like DevDocs. But it looks like Python and Go documentation are incomplete. In Dash, the full documentation is available: the library reference of course, but also the language reference and other things. In DevDocs, I only see the library reference. Am I missing something?
> In particular, exercise is boring. Very very boring.

I regularly spend 2-4hrs on a road bike and I've never found it boring and I have a low boredom threshold generally (outside of programming).

It's just a case of finding your niche.
Lab Notes: Implementing Non-Collapsable Subselects
Did you Enable it?
Honestly, as someone dealing with small businesses, selling insurance and HR services to tiny startups is not a $20B business. Selling those to large companies is, but that market is already saturated.
Never had any corruption ever with VirtualBox.
I was going for smallcase, but that is already taken: https://www.smallcase.com/
I think you fail to understand just how involved, expensive, and business critical some of this dodgy software actually is. Some of this crap software costs millions of dollars and takes years to upgrade.

Ignoring even the security implications, you can't simply not upgrade either as software doesn't exist in a vacuum. All the other software/hardware involved might need newer versions or bug fixes. Microsoft doesn't even support newer Intel chipsets in versions of Windows older than 10 -- that's only even possible because 10 is highly compatible with older versions of their OS.
> "Yep, they are subjective. That's what I want. I want the HN mods to curate the content based on those guidelines. It's what makes this site worth coming to."

Agreed. If you try to make something more prescriptive then you end up with a massive increase in bureaucracy as you try to categorise every kind of content and every type of way of presenting that content. Effectively you turn moderators into lawyers and judges.
That's why I love cycling on a road bike, at a steady 17mph it's rarely boring because the scenery changes quickly, I used to run but since I don't drive it was largely the same places over and over.
AFAIK, Sidewalk Labs in NYC has just put up fast-speed Internet WiFi stations that also function as advertising billboards and phone stations (and phone charging stations) at the same time. This Wired story has some photos: https://www.wired.com/2016/02/googles-city-fixing-sidewalk-l...

It looks like they're looking to do a lot more than that in Toronto?
Zachtronics' New Game “Opus Magnum” Now Available in Early Access on Steam
net result being an increase in taxes on many (or at least mid-to-high earners) with zero benefits to society, only a built-in voting block for those who enable this

edit: if I wanted upvotes I'd jump on the socialism/communism bandwagon. I feel sorry for the future if this is the prevailing thought :(
I don't understand "no explicit recursion". How do you do any kind of binary tree search without recursion?
The adult product usually is the right one for kids. Most 'for kids' products aren't actually easier to use, and suck to administer (which falls on the parents.)

The problem is, if you send your kid to school with the latest iPhone, it gets jealous reactions from other kids.

Also, an expensive phone creates cognitive dissonance WRT allowances. My youngest gets $1.50/wk, which she budgets carefully to buy craft supplies. If I also get her a new $800 phone, the numbers seem out of whack. I can't give her a comparable number for allowance, because our house would overflow and she wouldn't learn to budget. So we give her our old ones when we upgrade.

It's a shame, because (as you say) younger people probably get more benefit from better tech.
[Amethyst](https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst) is a decent tiling manager for macOS if that's what you're after.
Wealth is stolen not created
Seriously, the whole article is some guys large photo and a quote.
They've been given additional powers lately to expand surveillance on regular citizens, so I wonder how much that "sweet innocence" of theirs will last and how long until they also become more like the NSA, especially under a conservative government in the (near) future.
> clueless software engineers

I think it's a bit unfair to assume out of hand that they'll be clueless.

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The other side of the coin is that new ideas often come from outside of a field. Sometimes expertise can mean expertise in the established, unquestioned dogma of a field. (I'm saying that as a matter of principle. I don't know specifically what it's like in this case).

I definitely think we need more experimentation in society - small experiments to test out ideas, where successes can be copied elsewhere in the country and world.
It could go full Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 with googles power of surveillance and monitoring. No doubt they may have the ability to implement helpful new technologies, but googles revenue model is still advertisement.
Difficulty, block time, mining wastage in Ethereum and Bitcoin
Probably better. I almost used it but thought people would complain about it burying the lede.
Looks nice, but seems to be mostly focused on web dev. No Scala, Java, .NET/C#/F#/Powershell, Win32, Azure... Would be great to have JVM and/or Msft ecosystem in there.