skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, D&D is a very American thing. In Germany we have a pretty active Pen & Paper scene as well, but D&D is not so common. Instead, the "major" system is DSA (The Black Eye). But I have a feeling that we have a higher variety of systems played on this side of the sea.
I played D&D once and didn't like it that much. Too much focus on being the hero, too much encouragement of powergaming for my taste. But that might be a cultural thing as well.
Eh, I've been in lifts where the close button does something.

I know this because you had to hold it until the doors fully closed, otherwise they would judder to a halt and open again.

I'm not sure I'd say it worked to close the doors early, but it certainly did something.
Google supercharges Gmail with third-party add-ons
I guess it depends on what you consider high profit. From https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/18/patreon-pushes-as-youtube-... looks like Patreon has 50k creators and 1M+ patrons.

The challenge could well be that whilst they're growing and making money, they're not making enough money to satisfy their VC backers, having taken $47m in funding so far.
The physics of bread
> The growth was well described here: https://boilingsteam.com/linux-gaming-in-2016-the-good-the-b...

That actually says (if you follow the links to try to find the actual claims): The Linux Market share on Steam is about 1%, Mac is about 4%. They are relatively stable around that. But obviously more people join Steam every day.[1]

So... about 1%, using Steam to estimate (not steam hardware though).

[1] https://boilingsteam.com/our-fifth-podcast-with-feral-intera...
I'm looking for same thing but for macOS. People usually recommend Vox, but Vox is absolutely awful. Tiny ass window, that always, ALWAYS, drags songs when I try to scroll.
My first reaction to seeing this headline was recognizing it as a username. I thought that was here but given you are newly registered it must have been the place with the ducks.
Those "commits" are just bringing in stuff from Node.js as far as I can see
Step-By-Step Guide on How to Do Healthcare Email Marketing
If this turns out to be more effective for younger people - it would decrease the number of people becoming care-seekers, rather than increase them.
> A disproportionate number of homeless youth identify as LGBT+. LGBT+ youth are overrepresented in the populations of youth who are at risk of arrest.

I haven't heard that before. Is there any data to support this?
I like the look and style, and I think you really nailed the vinyl aesthetic. Unfortunately, I've abandoned music on my iPhone in favor of Spotify+Amazon. But, I would love to see this for non-iOS devices. If you could get it to run on a touch screen powered by a Raspberry Pi, I would totally use it for a home jukebox-stlye device. I think the album art elements and other mechanics would be awesome in that regard.
This is horrible.Its just coverflow except portrait. Nothing 'Beautiful' about it.
We are designing nothing, excel allows you to create variables with names assured unique in a namespace(A single spreadsheet). You could use it any way you like.

But if you are copying a formula that has things like variable names into a new sheet, you have to understand that pasting the formula with its variables pointing to nothing is like inducing a NullPointerException.
Really? I see no connection between the two. explain more? Perhaps honesty. Not integrity. More likely good marketing skills. "Nothing shouts "good marketing skills!" more than sharing failure.

They're VC's... so a much higher standard of proof is required to establish integrity. (cough cough Eduardo Saverin)

Gotta remember, all angels and VCs are desperate to increase their "deal flow", that means they need startups to know their name when they go looking for money. So the VC puts on a sort of phoney humility... a kind of "hey we're worth billions but same as you its been hard!" type thing. "Look at how we made mistakes where instead of making tens of billions we only made billions". That way when you are looking for money you might think "Hey those Bessemer guys seemed pretty down to earth, like me!"

It's more like a good PR agency wrote it than 'refreshing'. No one there actually writes... they're al playing golf. It was Sally at the PR agency who wrote the thing that evoked a sense of integrity from you. She needs a pay rise.
I don’t want people to “hide what community they represent”, but I also don’t want them to use that fact as a bargaining chip instead of arguments.
It's rather the degree to which Python is dynamic that makes it slow. PyPy could be considered an implicit JIT compiler for Python, yet it is still far slower than Julia. The level of magic you can apply to Python objects that the interpreter/compiler must support is just a different league than Julia. I'd be interested if someone could compare to JS.
Thanks, this is somewhat orthogonal to purely UI concerns, but it's very useful to know it exists!

BTW, is it really possible for third-party players to access music from Apple Music?
Its a bit streamlined compared to pathfinder/3.5 and allows for less customisation to fit a wide range of character concepts.

but then again I am so used t dnd having started in the 3 brown books days
Well the current Kim is 3rd in his line, so clearly they die.

And clearly death doesn't end the dictatorship.
Some lobbyist somewhere is super excited about getting pro-lifers and strong-in-crime types sufficiently riled up that they’ll approve this treatment to force prisoners to live out every year they were sentenced to.
That's some weird gatekeeping. Culture is a collection of social norms shared by a local population. It's not determined by time, or Race, it's determined by action.

Most Americans live similarly to their neighbors, and have for hundreds of years.
"Memoization" is only used in the context of caching results of previous function calls.

So if you see the word, you instantly know that this is the context. You wouldn't know that if you see "memorization".
Gmail Add-Ons
Something Rotten in the Core
In all fairness: there seems to be a little bit more of documentation on http://www.lemon-lang.org
So, whoever posted this to hacker news should have used that link rather than the GitHub link and of course, it seems to be way to early in development to post it at all. I have some quite unfinished projects of mine on GitHub, but I would never post a link to them until they are in a state where they would be relevant to a larger community.
My layman's understanding is that stem cells have not yet 'differentiated' into a specialised cell type which makes them useful for many different types of treatments.

Edit: so you can use them to create "healthy" versions of whatever you need.
Ask HN: How reliable is WebMD?
When reading about general stuff (like sugar or diet), not looking for simptoms?
Artificial body parts and a backup of the mind on USB...
How about anything regarding "black-on-black" crime? YOu hear about "serial killer" in Tampa after 3 shootings, but nothing about Chicago or Baltimore or Cleveland, etc... WHERE IS BLM THERE? Granted, some cops are assholes. there is no doubt about that. some shouldn't be cops. But as a black man, you're 11 times more likely to be killed by another black man than you are by a cop [1]. Inconvenient facts
Or that police officers are almost 20 TIMES more likely to be killed by a black man [2]. Now - Think about the population ratios and what that entails.

How about the ENTIRE "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" movement was based on a known LIE. That didn't stop BLM, though, did it?

How about being "unarmed" does not mean "docile" or "not dangerous"?

How about statistics that that BLM and the regressive left don't like to hear? like how the Welfare system is a GENERATIONAL crutch that drags society and their individual communities down [3-7], but what do people vote for? MORE WELFARE, and anyone who votes against less welfare (or anything that doesn't "redistribute" or otherwise steal money) is obviously racist. Its things like THIS that gave you Trump. Identity politics is what gave you Trump. Yet very few in this country want to take responsibility for their actions or their current situation. It's always someone else's fault, and someone else's job to fix it. Stop wallowing in the past. Today and every tomorrow is a blank sheet. It isn't "my" fault that some people can't see or don't take advantage of their opportunities. But what do I know? You've probably already labeled me a "racist", not knowing my race, not knowing my background or circumstances.

[1] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/c...
[2] http://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-kno...
[3] https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/more-welfare-mo...
[4] https://www.brookings.edu/research/work-and-marriage-the-way...
[5] http://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/povert...
[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/22/the-e...
[7] http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/21/opinion/spalding-welfare-state...

one more for good measure:
http://nypost.com/2017/09/26/all-that-kneeling-ignores-the-r...
Based on recent HN discussions[1], I will recommend (macOS/Unix-like ncurses): https://cmus.github.io or (personal server with minimal-ish [mobile] clients): https://www.musicpd.org

[1] Efficient music players remain elusive | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14634658 (Jun 2017, 246 comments) +3 similar: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=efficient%20music%20elusive&ty...
As a white hetro male who consumes porn, as do %90 of us white hetro males do. I do not understand how it can be "fine" and "modern" for us to watch porn. But not "fine" and "modern" for the women who produce it to be paid for it. Porn is one of the few products out there that provides real value, real stress relief, and has no environmental or moral downsides.

Porn is better for the environment, animals rights, and, when sold independently, workers rights than icecream. But no one bans the sale of icecream.

Porn is better for the environment, the local economy, and workers rights than the fidget spinners which are produced in China, but no one bans the sale of fidget spinners.

Lets face it, as hetro males, the women who make our porn are providing real value to us, and we should be ashamed that so few of us pay money that actually goes their way.
Thank you, kind stranger on the internet! :)
I actually only recently started learning how to code, this is my first project.
Lots of innocent young people, not many dictators
I would create an unsustainable business in return for $10 million. Does that make me a bad person?
Apple Music support is on the roadmap!
Everyone is in the middle because no country, no political state of any kind, has ever been, nor likely ever will be 100% capitalist or 100% socialist. Achieving such extremes is so impractical as to be impossible.

The difference between the EU and America is actually pretty slight on these two scales, but tiny shifts in policy can have a huge impact on society.
From the article: "Dynamic typing makes Python easier to use than C." The author gives no justification for this claim. Do any language experts care to comment?
But... Who would benefit from living longer?
Even in European countries where everyone has a health care insurance - it would be too expensive to give everyone who gets older and more fragile with this treatment. So? The richer you are, the longer you'll live?
"This is different from genres because genres don't really mean anything today." uhh.
I’m not that familiar either, but there’s loads of building work going on near me in London that looks pretty modern. There’s a hotel nearby that has been built out of prefabricated rooms that came in on lorries, and there are two blocks of flats being built with a platform that rises up a floor at a time, producing seemingly fully completed floors out of the bottom (difficult to describe). Both of these seem relatively modern to me, and are certainly seeming to produce building more quickly than normal.
How is saying Row 'C' , Column '5' any different than saying Row '3', Column '5'. These are just ways of pointing to a cell with regards to its position from the cell at the top left column & top left row in the spreadsheet.
Yes, the point is, this is why people avoid naming things in Excel. Getting them to name things removes functionality.
Proposed New Features in C# 8: nullable reference types
"no compromise to be found because whatever the state of neighborhood was when they moved in, it was the best compromise in their view"

But the radius within which homeowners gain is wider than the radius in which homeowners bear inconveniences (e.g. shade on their garden). So of course it's rational for a homeowner to be pro commercial development in their city and near their neighbourhood (as it would increase demand for housing, and hence increase property value), but against commercial development near enough to affect traffic and noise levels.
so not much different than the stock market or ANY speculative investment, right?
If those two statements form a "highly sentimental story, drama, or performance" every Reuters report does.

If you're convinced of the importance of ignoring misery one believes to be self-inflicted you should have that argument, though.
> Why would anybody use a programming language with zero documentation for anything? Are we supposed to guess the language and its features from a single five-line hello world program?

As someone who has done a handful of compiler/interpreter projects: I don't think that they expect anyone at this point to be using that language. They're targetting it at language geeks like myself (who go and dig around the source, which I just did). Maybe in some years' time this project will reach a stage where end user docs matter.

A little more verbose readme would have been nice, though. Things that I did not find out by looking at the examples/docs, but I care about:

* what paradigm? imperative, functional, etc?
* interpreted or compiled language?
* what's the target? interpreter, a bytecode VM, LLVM, compile-to-C, native codegen?
* static/dynamic typing? type inference?

By looking around the code, I think that this is an interpreted language with dynamic typing that's implemented with a stack-based bytecode virtual machine. Not unlike Lua, Python or Ruby, that is.
Most dynasties in history were overthrown by competing heirs, not the people. It is actually very rare for dictatorships to turn into democracies. Many reigns only end in death. Do you think Putin will ever be overthrown?
seems a bit similar to lua? So little information it's hard to know what interesting things the language provides
Technically, it's a full body transplant, not a head transplant.
> If CSS selectors needed only a few enhancements to compete with XPath

You may want to try ParslePy, it combines CSS/XPath functionality, allowing you to declaratively specify the selector paths in a JSON file.
I just made a PR to allow YAML over JSON, but not sure if Pip picked up on it yet.
At least in some places, the root cause of high housing prices is their proximity to work. In those cases, why not address the root cause?

Example: If you wanted to start a business that would consume more city resources than city infrastructure could support, say sewage/water/parking/etc, the city would deny a permit
to build.

Why not restrict the number/size of businesses in a location based on how many people/workers could reasonably afford to live there?
Apple Music support is absolutely on the roadmap, and so is iPad support!
If you haven't already, do send me an email. TestFlight is Apple's platform for doing beta testing, it's super straightforward.
Hanami v1.1.0
> If you don't fit the target audience of the porn industry, you have to look elsewhere, like Patreon.

Except, you know, maybe Patreon doesn't want that.
To give an example of something a smart investor would do, Warren Buffett supposedly only invests in industries he understands in depth:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/05/012705.asp

What proportion of investors would you suggest show such restraint? Over half?
This is going to sound slightly tin-foilish, but the question needs to be asked:

Are there rich/powerful people who are benefiting from anti-aging technology already? I'm thinking of Robert Mugabe (age 93) who regularly goes to East Asia, as an example, for medical treatment, but there seem to be others.
They do not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events
I can believe this to a certain extent; certainly the only reason most at our labs use Word on a week-to-week basis is to download and print forms distributed by the HR department, which should just be PDF.

Where this data would come from/how this categorisation would be made, I have no idea.
Discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78biiz/why_we_...
I'm a big fan of strong static type systems. I believe type-safety increases code quality significantly.

I used to think several years ago, that the main benefit of strong static typing was code safety / eliminating a whole class of bugs. But I've changed my opinion. I now think the biggest benefit is that it makes the code a lot easier for other people to read and understand.

I mean I have multiple personal projects where I've used Python (which is a dynamically typed language), but these are small one-off projects. But I think when working in a team, especially a large team, having types becomes a huge thing. Having types for objects is especially useful. Having types forces you to think more clearly about the structure of your data.

It's really sad when I see `foo(bar)`, and I have no idea what the type of `bar` is, and if it's an object, I have no idea what fields `bar` has. I have to simply guess the structure of the various implicit types by looking at the code (sigh). It makes the code difficult to read, and rather unpleasant to work on. Not to mention, all the multitude of bugs that come from duck/dynamic typing.

I don't think good statically typed languages are hard to use at all. Type inference has spread everywhere that the old argument of having to repeat your types doesn't hold anymore. TypeScript, Flow (JavaScrpt), Haskell, languages from the ML family are really good at type inference. Even the `auto` type inference in C++17 was better than I'd expected.
A Glimpse of a Changed AI Perspective
Sign up to move to Silicon Valley. I don't think they're paying these salaries in other areas.

Still, articles like these do make me regret leaving AI and moving into web development 15 years ago. Back then, there wasn't a lot of work in AI.
The Drive Home
Check out Notes Towards Detached Signatures in Git [0].

[0]: https://grimoire.ca/git/detached-sigs
> People somehow seriously claim that the authors should hide what community they represent,

Starting the letter with "We’re writing you today both as adult creators and concerned individuals about free, legal, expression." seems to show the community they represent is "Adult creators and concerned individuals about free, legal, expression".

> hide the unintended discriminatory effects of the policy changes,

They shouldn't hide it, but they should at least show some evidence for it.

> and not be so emotional about losing their livelihoods,

They can be emotional all they want, but it's maybe not the best argument to change a company's policy. If it's masquerading as an argument, then it's emotional blackmail.

> because it makes them feel uncomfortable to read an emotional appeal in an open letter.

I don't mind emotional appeals when they actually make sense.
War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength;
MIT students use irradiated plastic to create stronger concrete
The problem with using a tool with say 5% of the features excel provides is you sooner or later run into some feature you need, but is absent in the niche tool. You can't exactly split your work between two tools now. So it just makes sense to use the tool with the super set of all the features, even if you don't use all those features all the time.

The right comparison for this would be using some thing like awk/sed compared to using Perl.
> Why is Patreon having a fuzzy stand against pornography disproportionately affecting the LGBT community?

First of all, they say the vulnerable among them are disproportionately LGBT. They do not say that it affects an LGBT creator differently from a straight creator all else being equal.

Given that there are massive mainstream porn companies that cover most of the non-queer market, it stands to reason that the creators on Patreon are disproportionately queer. Thus any change on Patreon, postivie or negative, will affect queer performers disproportionately by that fact alone.

Changes that are not intrinsically discriminating, can have discriminatory effects.

If you will further grant that LGBT people suffer discrimination outside of Patreon, they will be over represented among the most vulnerable creators by that fact. Thus they will be disproportionately represented amongst the vulnerable content creators on patreon, affected by this change.

Let's take this to another area. Homeless youth shelters. Let's say a politician somewhere campaigns on closing down local homeless youth shelters.

You could say: Closing down these shelters would hit the most vulnerable among us – disproportionately queer, trans, disabled, people of color and those whose first language is not English - hardest.

Because, in fact, all these groups are strongly over represented among American homeless. Drastically in some cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_among_LGBT_youth_...
I assume less typing, more flexibility from type inference.
There's no way to have meaningful freedoms of speech, assembly, and petition while the government decides what counts as "fair" speech, assembly, and petition.

Lobbying is literally talking to people in power. It involves money because advertising and marketing aren't free. A special interest group is literally a group of people who want to talk about a particular set of issues.

So to return a question, what are some plans for limiting lobbying and money that don't violate the rights to petition, assembly, and speech? Minus points if the new rules help incumbent powers erect new barriers to talking to elected officials.
The way Intents are designed it's really not.
I quoted the Wikipedia almost verbatim. Studies are referenced in the footnotes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_among_LGBT_youth_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_people_in_prison
Baidu: Supporting 50M Inserts a Day with CockroachDB in Production
My first modem was 600 baud. I used to like waiting a long time before source code would be in and I could check & run it. I would read the description of the game/program and in my mind I used to make up what it would be like. The reality was always nothing like it, but that was ok.

There was something fun about reading/typing in/very slowly downloading game/program listings. Later I had the same feeling with going to meetups and standing in line for ages to copy sources onto floppies.
Dunno about Apple, but i find it unlikely from Microsoft. They have tried again and again to go beyond x86, only to find that they can't escape the weight of win32.

Our best bet would have been ChromeOS, as it is a platform with no legacy to deal with. But even there new models are now Intel based rather than ARM.
I'm a language geek and none of the above is what I want to see when I read about a new language. What I want to know is, what does this language offer that no other language does? What platform it runs on or whatnot is trivial boring detail that I might want to know afterwards if the language offers something interesting to try out.
scrypt: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8417
Pivotable API – create excel from csv including pivot and charts