skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice false analogy you have there, maybe fluffy is a horseshit, a bit like this post.
Good point. In a coffeeshop, those conversations are less likely to be repeated day in and day out, and if sufficiently annoying, you can choose to be elsewhere. In an office, you're stuck with the situation, and can do little about it.
I don't know about Dollar General but the demographics of Walmart shoppers is not especially low-end. If my own experience is any indication, there's one that's convenient to me, they have good prices, and they're a one-stop shop for a lot of things. I don't particularly like shopping there but it's a convenient place to pick up staples.

According to Kantar Retail’s ShopperScape, the average Walmart customer is a 51-year-old female with an annual household income of $56,482. Interestingly, that number exceeds the U.S. median household income by $4,500, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2013, which goes against the perception of Walmart as a low-end discount chain. Eighteen percent of Walmart shoppers earn more than $100,000 per household annually. And Walmart shoppers as a whole, actually earn more than Kmart shoppers.

https://www.ama.org/publications/eNewsletters/Marketing-News...
That being my point.
Google blog post: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/10/building-unified-documenta...
The doctor who coughed up part of his own spine
A few years ago most of these companies got together to do the same thing and launch the WebPlatform for the same thing. If you watch the video, you can see some guy named Tim Berners-Lee with a title "Web Developer" say it was the place to learn.

I wonder why they are relaunching instead of using Webplatform.Org ?
What do you expect him to say? He's not an Apple engineer. He didn't design the keyboard. He's a blue-shirt working customer service at an Apple store.
1. It used to be possible to make a bit of a living by doing your own farming. Now if you aren't industrial scale you probably won't even make a profit, let alone a living.

2. Globalization - Look around - there are almost always old warehouses either for food, lumber, or a small manufacturing plant that are run down - usually a few blocks away from downtown. These places one by one couldn't compete manufacturing cheaper goods from china or elsewhere

3. Walmartization - big box stores come in from out of town, suck up all the economic activity, pay people nothing, and ship all of the profits to HQ. Then the walmart closes, and there is nothing left.
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> In any practical chip design, isn't one required for the other?

No. Superposition (in a qubit sense) is not necessary for superconductivity. Most quantum computer designs require superconductivity, but it is not a strict requirement. Photon based quantum computers don't need any superconductivity iirc.

> it is a superconducting chip, and that is a major engineering problem

Superconductivity is not a super high bar. The bigger issue from quantum computing is coherence time; and it just happens that low temperatures are critical for lengthening it.
Ask HN: how can i avoid reinstalling an opensource desktop app if I tweak its codebase? Do I need to reinstall it?[soapUI]?
the more informative blog post [1] doesn't really give any evidence that she was banned -- just locked out of her account and unable to recover it. i don't even see enough evidence to conclusively blame facebook.

[1] https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/18/facebook-update-removed...
> what we normally describe as OOP

OOP just means "functions are associated with data in a syntaxic construct of the language". Namespaces are irrelevant.
> for many contractors like me

Ooooooh! Yeah, I should have caught that earlier. 6 months now makes a lot more sense.
It's a mystery to me why they didn't do this, at least on the 15" Macbook. Instead they made the already-plenty-big-enough touchpad even larger. A secondary screen / input control above the full keyboard would be awesome. It'd be a great way to get notifications (tests passed, build finished, sports scores, whatever...) or have ad-hoc controls.
We are also doing an AMA on reddit tomorrow: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/76xjb5/ama...
By all accounts, the Trump administration seems more constrained by the rule of law than the Obama administration. Exhibit A being the DOJ settlement money that the Obama administration steered towards liberal activist groups.

Left wing authoritarians hold significant power in colleges and businesses. Look at how they handled Bret Weinstein or James Damore.
Some important context: There is an organized movement among GOP-controlled state governments (which is most of them) to block Democratic policies in cities and other localities. For example, in one state (I forget which one) a city passed a law banning plastic shopping bags; the GOP-controlled state government tried to pass a bill outlawing such laws in the state.

As with other state legislature movements, especially GOP ones AFAIK, national special interest groups write the legislation.
I've hired lots of people that used to run their own businesses and want to go back to being an employee.
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Facebook is just social networking web site. People can get bored and use some other web site.

Amazon is only a shopping web site and a hosting company. There are popular companis like Amazon, such as AliBaba and DigitalOcean. There is nothing special about Amazon.

Google is a search engine, smart phone OS, mail, maps, video service, web browser. Looks like Google has way more chanse than Facebook and Amazon.
w3schools.com is a great resource.

I prefer it when I need a quick refresher on an HTML element because it's especially good for having short, simple examples I can copy and paste.

MDN tends to be verbose and technical. It's good when you need to know everything in detail, but often I need a quick refresher and a simple example and for that w3schools.com always seems to have better content.

Compare these two pages for input types:

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_form_input_types.asp

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...

The MDN page is more complete, but reading it gives me a headache.
I hate when other people watch me work. Always have.
Instrumental music, or songs I've heard a million times before? Just noise.

That's why I listen to techno/trance music. High energy, but intended as pure background, always changing but never distractingly so. Enhances an experience/activity, but never demands your attention; not something you can sit down and listen to for its own sake.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15500220
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While I never buy anything there, I have been impressed with their ads for how cheap good tools are from HB
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From the article, talking about Decatur but generally describing "many rural towns":

> Like many rural towns, Decatur once fed itself and shared its bounty with the rest of America. At the turn of the 20th century, it had a tomato cannery and exported peaches, apples, strawberries, and beans by the boxcar from a downtown train depot. A population of 245 in 1915 supported two grocery stores and four general stores. But in the 1930s, blight outbreaks and insect invasions largely wiped out local orchards. The depot is now a museum where antique bushel baskets and poplar harvest crates hang from the ceiling.
My years on a Sun keyboard spoiled me, so I remap backquote to escape (much more easily reachable than now-standard Escape location). Also Capslock to control and swap backspace and backslash. Everything I use more frequently is closer in. :)
I think I am just shocked someone is okay with saying they make a living off screwing others

yes, that is a low amount of money in the US but in a place like greece, you would be doing pretty well. (only know because I visited this past summer) I just cannot fathom how any of that money can be 'taken' and spent with any conscious at all. but I suppose he/she is not alone...
Ask HN: how do you tweak and see changes in an opensource desktop software?
I want to play around, tweak an open source desktop app (the gui of soapUI).

Do I need to always reinstall it to see the changes/tweaks i made in its source codebase?

How do I even start?

clone the code from its github repo to a folder on my machine?
then What?
Microsoft was mentioned in the article as the Fifth Horsemen. Not part of the original because it's more of a B2B company now.
Unfortunately for Intel, it is probably too late. The specs of new processors are not impressing even in comparison with previous Tesla generation.
If you're talking about escaping a non-normal mode, control+c should always work just fine.
Oh no Taleo, the corporate ATS blackhole where resumes go to die. I rather not apply with companies that use Taleo for various past bad experiences. The first being the resume and all the details that I type in Taleo goes into HR oblivion. The problem of job applicant tracking & recruitment is not yet solved.
Simple solution -- go contract 1099 or W2. They have to pay you for every hour and you get paid more if you have the right set of skills and live in the right area.
Probably hold it down even longer.
Some googlers made this w3fools, so employees certainly aren't fond of w3schools.

http://www.w3fools.com/
I'm from small town Indiana - the biggest "city" I lived in had maybe 50,000 people. The average town I lived in had about 3000 or something.

There has never truly been anything in most of these towns. A good number had rail, canal, or other trasnportation connections, which made them viable (yet still small) at one time. Now most are really dependent on the next biggest "city" outside of the farming communities that bring them together. I Think the reason they get worse is because the hub cities - places like Kokomo, Marion, Muncie, and to a lesser degree Lafayette - have suffered. Manufacturing jobs that held these together no longer do that. Even outside of the "good-paying" factory jobs, it used to be OK to drive to the nearest city for a basic job. That's no longer the case (even though fuel prices have improved). And you wind up feeling like you are stuck.
Who is "the guy"?
>though every group that has successfully established a government (whether or not they had a utopian vision) has employed violence

Counter example: the peaceful handoff of Hong Kong between the U.K and China - they managed to create a government in Hong Kong without any violence.

>widely divergent ideologies if it were true

The ideologies aren't wildly divergent in the dimensions of interest:

1) utopian idealism
2) willigness to use violence

though I repeat myself.
I would have thought that Pascal is a great candidate for a simpler, safer language that still has enough features to write serious applications.
Simple benchmarks are a useful yardstick. I recently wrote a service in Rust/Iron which only has 4.7x the throughput of the same Ruby/Rails service. That was rather disappointing considering how much more effort is required to do it in a lower level language.

Is Python/Django performance significantly worse than Ruby/Rails? The situations you describe are things I do every day in Ruby. Getting 1000 rows from the DB and performing some operation only takes a couple of milliseconds in Ruby.

Ruby/Python are meant to be glue, and you can most certainly use them to glue together "interesting things", like image processing or audio processing in a web layer.

Memory caching rarely changed, often accessed, but ultimately persisted in a DB things like exchange rates in a global object is exactly what you do in Rails. There's a specific helper for doing it. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Cache/Memor...
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I've participated in 5 ICOs. I don't recommend buying unless a) the company looks great (like filecoin or similar) and b) you get in at a substantial discount.

What I'm seeing now is even good companies that trade below ICO prices after they hit some of the exchanges. Example is https://www.saltlending.com/

Actually that is probably a better strategy: buying good companies that are down since their ICO.
https://www.google.com/search?q=querySelectorAll+-site:w3sch...

this syntax has been supported for many years
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What would you ask the test subjects though? Seems to me as soon as you say anything regarding realism a lot percentage would notice things they wouldn't have before. I'm sure a clever experiment designer could come up with something though.
Make sure you know what your metrics are so you can answer initial questions and separate business records/accounts from personal way ahead of sale.

I sold a business not too long ago.
For the people who have and will comment on how bad w3schools is, Google provides a Chrome extension for blocking domains in search results.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension...

I don't know if there's a Firefox version.
Its the last vestige of industry in small town america, it seems. Wonder what happens when it, too, goes away.
2 Million! Wow! Now that is a LOT of code. I can't imagine anyone being able to master all of that and then keep up with the changes. That would take a decade at least!

For reference, the Bible has ~30k verses in it. A verse isn't a line of code, but I'd say mastering the Bible is a good benchmark for equivalent complexity to coding. If anything the Bible is more straightforward than a 2 million line code base.
What drives customers to your site?
Blind luck implies it was a metaphorical dice roll in which the person had absolutely no impact, which is demonstrably false. Sure, there are plenty of folks on trust funds or with large inheritances who basically won the genetic lottery. There's nothing wrong with that, but that's not who we're talking about.

Even people like Gates, Musk, etc would probably agree they had a healthy amount of luck. Being in the right place at the right time, starting a conversation with the right person, being in the right college course or being at the right college. But saying that the primary cause of wealth is blind luck eliminates almost all the personal agency and hard work that actually goes into being a successful person. Maybe they wouldn't have gotten where they are without some luck, but the same amount of luck + being lazy would leave them just as poor (or worse).
Where did I say bad crypto is fine in production?
Except that they charge $1.50 for everything.

Which is only annoying because similar stores in Japan (which for me are a highlight of any trip to Japan) only charge ¥100.

I don't know if it's because of proximity to China or because Daiso knows they're offering better stuff than their literally $1 competitors here in the U.S.
It became tensorflow slim:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...
yea.. having kids while wanting their best probably doesn't go very well with "not wanting to think about money" in our society/economy

having kids can be a good reason to change that attitude.
I think MDN is already quite a trusted reference for developers, so abandoning that would be abandoning a lot of “brand value” that’s been earnt through lots of hard work.
Is There Any Startup Weekend Like Event in Georgia in the Coming Months
The expansion of Dollar General described in the article is in places unlikely to have bus service or a Kroger or CVS/Walgreens nearby. Those chains rely on high traffic counts found at busy intersections.
The annoying thing about startup jobs in particular, though, is that "having a job that makes 'enough' money" this month doesn't guarantee the business (and thus your job) will still be in existence next month.

And so, if you care about eating (by being paid, by having a job), and you work for startups, you have to think about a bunch of things like improving your resume, paying attention to the company's ups and downs, etc. ...because you need to be able to recover from your money-source disappearing out from under you. You can't really just join a startup and "drift along" doing your job, the way an employee of a bigcorp can.
R.E.G. Davies worked out why this isn't as powerful as you think because the earth is round. The justification for that expensive ticket is that you can have your meeting without getting jet-lagged. So, basically, leave your house at a reasonable time, get to a meeting on the other side of the Atlantic at a reasonable time- that's worth an awful lot of money. If you have to fly out the night before anyway, what justifies the extra money versus subsonic transport?

So let's imagine you live in New York and have a meeting in Paris- and let's say, for the purpose of argument, that it's actually a transporter, instantaneous travel from airport to airport. You leave your house at 6AM, get to the airport at 7AM. Its an international flight, so you need to get to the airport early, so your flight leaves at 8AM. You instantaneously arrive in Paris, but that's six hours time zone different: 2PM in Paris. Two hours to navigate through customs and the airport and it's 4PM, an hour to do ground transport to your meeting and it's already 5PM.

So even with exactly zero travel time between JFK->CDG your meeting can't be conducted at normal business times. So if your meeting still requires traveling out the day before and dealing with jet lag and all the rest, there just isn't that much benefit to justify the costs.

It might make sense for a business jet, so long as the costs are really not much more than a GV, or if it's primarily about prestige anyway.
I have the same experience. I am probably upper middle class (whatever that means) and my kids, as well as my wife like dollar stores. Whenever we visit one I also end up buying at least $10 of random stuff myself (jigsaw puzzles or light sticks or toys to hack).

While I do not dispute the fact that many folks, especially in rural areas are very tight on money, the argument that Dollar Tree cannot be successful without rampant poverty seems unproven.

Just a single data point.
So Trump is a harbinger of technocommunism?
No, we won't trust things less. It's wired into us to believe what we see. Rather we'll get fooled more often.
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its not a truth, it is merely what some believe or want others to believe. the simple matter is many small towns were abandoned by larger retailers when they consolidated their stores in far larger models.

there is always an allure of only having to drive a short distance to obtain regularly needed goods. it gives a feeling to many that they aren't in the backwoods. for some it is all the community they will ever have outside of church and school. yet what the larger stores forgot is the good prices aren't always key, being quick to get to is. Dollar Tree/Dollar store remind me in some ways of some European grocery chains that have and are coming to America, shying away from large "centrally" located stores with tens of thousands of items instead for a tightly controlled and easily managed inventory in smaller lower cost areas.
Once the 15" retina display arrived, I instantly abandoned any notion of working on a desktop system. Far superior visuals than any big monitor I could afford, and I can work anywhere anytime.
You are correct. In the small town where I live, we have two options: a local overpriced grocery store and a Dollar General (also overpriced).

Both survive because they are convenient and close. I can get a gallon of milk 20 miles away at Walmart or ALDI for $1.00. A gallon of milk at one of these stores is $4.00.
Given that the blog is on windows.com and it mentions MSDN, I think the title should include Microsoft as well. I was actually confused/befuddled seeing the juxtaposition of Google and Mozilla in the title, and windows.com as the domain in brackets to the right of the title.
How does watching people give you any actionable information "about reflows/repainting, layout trashing and overall performance on the client side?"
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Neither this statement nor any variations thereof have ever been found in Thomas Jefferson's writings

https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/i-a...
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Turns out one doesn't have to. The users hand movements are at least one pixel as long as the phone is handheld. Just use natural movement to do superresolution.

Everything you need is available in the camera2 RAW API.

Using the users hand movements help cancel out various types of per-physical-pixel noise too.
Michigan is peppered with old railroad stops and logging towns.

My parents grew up on either side of a small village that now has a dollar store as one of 4 or 5 shops. It started when the railroad came in to log and became a "potato town" where farmers brought their potatoes to the railroad.

There's a museum in the old potato warehouses.
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Well, coherence and superconductivity are closely related. Superconductivity implies no interaction with the environment, which is necessary and sufficient to maintain superpositions.
The one that did it for me was Disney's remake of The Jungle Book.
Rackspace to discontinue discounted services for open source projects
So, is it 1 (qu)bit faster than i8086? ;-)

Congrats Intel!
For me it's being on an airplane. The lack of wifi means I just stub things out as "TODO" when I don't know how to do them and move on. Then when I land I have a bunch of simple / googlable TODOs to knock off.
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I’ll never/rarely click a w3schools link, but I do find MDN to be quite difficult to read with it’s pages being quite technical and terse. W3schools is quite pragmatic with providing a reference for CSS properties.

I hope these extra resources will let MDN improve on this.
Can't beat them, join them. Developers simply go to MDN and MDN often is on top of the search results anyway. It often gets linked from stackoverflow too.
Your comment excellently demonstrates the problem with them: W3Schools is not related to the W3C in any way. Many beginners see the "W3" and think it's an official resource. This is bad.
Thanks for pointing that out. I did test on an iPad, but perhaps it had a non-current version of Mobile Safari or navigation gestures were disabled.
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So, how much was the experience different from flying subsonic?
I hope I will never have to work with you.
Don't forget you can use https://devdocs.io/ too which also searches MDN and store offline. The two are a great pair.
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It seems like your view of “valuing your own work” is narrower than mine. I never said disregard criticism, I said approval is not necessary to find value.
Regardless of the argument, I'd really like to see an objective measure of "automation" in industry...

For example, how many farmers are going to be displaced by robot tractors vs how many harvesters will be replacing Mexican farm workers.

I just picked a bunch of cherry tomatoes recently and it was a tedious endeavor which I believe would be near impossible with a robot, given the growing conditions (I.e. Not grown in an indoor lab/greenhouse)

We talk about "automation killing jobs" - but I am not aware of any objective study on the topic.

Do you have anything I can read on the subject?
I also like the "Personal Blocklist" extension for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
I don't know about that. CGI effects are everywhere in modern film and TV, but I rarely hear people talking about them except in the case of action scenes or "obviously CGI" (fantasy/fictional) creatures. Take a look at the VFX highlights reel from season 1 of Game of Thrones [1]. Even 8 years ago they were using CGI throughout the show's environments.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpjdpDx8_l8