skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, at least people might end up engaging in fewer self-destructive behaviors as a result either way.
Alcoholics. Gambling addicts. Drug addicts. People who leave their children to starve while playing MMOs.

It turns out that a small subset of humanity is incapable of controlling themselves regardless of the medium and all that really matters is how destructive the activity is when abused.
Agreed, the MDN Docs are fantastic and I'm glad we have Mozilla around
* Soylent is an extremely convenient meal that doesn't leave me feeling groggy or worrying about being nutritionally deficient in any area. That's real value.*

Marketing 101: make people believe there's something wrong with what they are doing, then sell them the solution.
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There are a lot of tools available in the "compressed bitmap" space. When last I needed something like this, I evaluated several approaches and ended up selecting Roaring Bitmaps:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6407

http://roaringbitmap.org

That application had some particular wins relating to large sparse bitmaps, especially the ability to efficiently perform binary operations directly on their compressed representations. I didn't need random insertions, so this ended up being a win across the board: faster runtime, lower memory footprint, and lower I/O requirements versus a normal bitset.
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That sounds like it would create an insane glucose spike though.
It does this by converting them to AZW3, which can have poor results or fail entirely for long books, books with lots of images, or books with certain formatting.
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It is a matter of prudence in governance. For example, we may permit prostitution (without sanctioning it) if we find that banning it will lead to worse state of social affairs (e.g., society "convulsing with lust", as Aquinas wrote when writing about this very topic). It can be argued that the tolerating of prostitution is actually as such preferable to the toleration of pornography.

Point being, because it is a matter of prudence on the part of civil authorities, I am not claiming that people have the right to these things as hedonists are wont to claim.
Who is this guy again? Some serious problems with this article that call into account the integrity of the author:

1. He makes a direct, unqualified comparison between a Windows vulnerability that allowed remote execution of code over the Internet to a macOS one that was only a local privilege escalation.

2. He mischaracterizes the macOS bug as "password-free access," when in fact you need to log in to an account to begin with. Basic miscomprehension.

3. Apple Park isn't even open yet. Who knows if it will have bugs too (spoiler: DEFINITELY). Holding it up as less buggy than other Apple product is nonsensical on its face. It is just idiotic to report they don't lavish the same attention to detail on the iPhone as they do the pizza boxes in Cafe Macs.

4. Apple has a long history of favoring the cutting edge over the tried and true. It has worked out pretty well for them. It is totally dishonest to characterize that as something new.

5. This author is part of a long history of click-baity "Apple has finally screwed things up this time" reporting that happens every single product cycle.
I'll take this opportunity to vent.

I bought new 13" mbp w/touchbar (only the touchbar version has the most powerful CPU). From day one, the butterfly keyboard's been a pain. Most days its fine, but now and again, for hours, keystrokes aren't recognized.

I don't live anywhere near an apple store and the local authorized repair store has a) crappy online reviews and b) wanted to keep it for 2 weeks.

I flew to a country with an apple store and they were super friendly and "fixed it". One week later, the problem is back (though much less severe).

Also, my touchbar occasionally crashes (maybe once every 2-3 weeks) and I need to kill the process. It gets "stuck" on whatever the last key I press, which is fun when that happens to be reduce brightness.

Even though it's new, I've seriously considered abandoning the platform. However, when I looked, I still didn't find anything that seemed close to acceptable. I don't understand why Google doesn't turn the Pixelbook into a proper linux laptop. (XPS 13 has awful camera placement, isn't available in my region, and you can only get 16GB ram if you also spend more for a touch screen).

I feel a little better now.
The apple campus has been 6? 7? 8? years in the making. Hardware simply can't be that long in dev.
That's a great little anecdote, and crazy insight into the creative process, especially how it merges with corporate needs.

We love to hate Studio Execs - but think how hard their job is ... they have to justify a $300M budget and make sure it hits specific audiences. Can't be easy.

Then again, most big budget films are actually crap, and it's all in CGI anyhow ... so ...

Maybe a better study would be the likelihood that the execs notes actually create better returns :)
I wish they’d let us ship MacBooks in to a service center and bypass the local authorized repair centre even if they had to tack on a small surge charge. I can send in an iPhone (and presumably an iPad): why not their MacBooks?
I know Moore's Law is coming to an end, but it's not over. The Mac mini has a 3.5GHz dual-core i7-4578U while today for the same money you can get a 4.2GHz quad-core i7-8650U. Only double the performance.
Unfortunately, some people do not recognize the difference between "I personally don't like X" and "X is immoral and destructive" and "because X is immoral and destructive, it ought to be banned". Morality isn't just about killing or stealing.
If they were trying to get engineers to acquiesce to an office layout design that some have agued has reached its peak, I can totally see why they would say "eff that bull".

Bullpens (and open layout ala google/fb/etc) work for some kinds of teams and especially for sales and support, but probably not for engineers used to cubicles and offices. I am thrilled to see someone in leadership stick up for their team and say no!
For me it's been about getting into web dev itself. I feel it is a complete shitshow out there in terms of proper educational material. Everything is pretty much create-react-app with a string of tools.

As beginner who didn't want to dive into the deep end, I've found this and freecodecamp.org to be the best resources to get started.
Shazam has patents on the Audio fingerprinting tech and their lawyers have been great at giving cease and desist order to similar tech left and right.

This could just be Apple’s way of acquiring more patents and mind share through Shazam brand.

At the level Apple is at and the hordes of cash they have in bank, it probably makes business sense to buy Shazam just for the patents.
If you look at the Switch and the Wii U, it feels to me that they probably stemmed from the same pitch:

"Wouldn't it be great to have a home console that you can take away to the other room for when someone else wants to use the TV?"

The difference is that the tech with the Wii U wasn't good enough yet to make a really great product. With the Switch it is now cheap enough to make a really high quality product.
Gold has obvious ornamental and industrial uses.

And art is a totally different market. Largely the players are the richest of the rich, who invest in below 1% of their net worths largely for decorating their castles. Other forms of art have recreational and entertainment and genuine uses.

Even tulips have their utility, Bitcoin too. The question here really is at what price?
Time is a pretty powerful force, and enough of it can be monumentally terrible. In my opinion, the most recent apple releases have been a bad signal for future performance. They're leaving behind the community at their core to focus on wider market penetration. The logical conclusion to this scenario is a race to the bottom; a good way to kill the company. Obviously, Apple has a lot of padding to buy time and make up for their screw-ups, but the trend is currently in the wrong direction if they are to maintain the brand that would enable them to sell a "Bag o Glass" with their logo on it.
> No, you have to go through a seriously crazy api wherein data is passed into a single managed array in wasm, and pulled off in JS and visa versa.

That's false. When writing a game, you interact with APIs in your implementation language (e.g. SDL).

> Are bindings from other languages to C considered to be really an important things for those languages?

Yes, it's a fairly critical feature, which is why successful languages almost universally have a C FFI. Some languages have several FFIs to choose from, and others can even integrate with the C preprocessor. So many libraries that we use on a daily basis are written in other languages than the languages we use, and that's just how modern programming works.

> So where is the market/product need? And use case?

> This is cool tech that's a long way off from being useful in the real world.

It will happen faster than you think. Some JS developer somewhere will want to use a native library. They will want to use it badly enough to port it to WASM, write a JS wrapper interface, and upload the whole thing to NPM. Suddenly, a C++ developer with no knowledge of JS will be delivering features to front-end developers with no knowledge of C++, all thanks to some third developer who put in the effort for the WASM port.

Which is how it already works everywhere else, so it shouldn't be a surprise. For example, you can use SDL from C#, even if you don't know C and the SDL developers don't know C#. All because some guy with a bit of knowledge about P/Invoke figured out how to copy data in and out of the C# runtime to make some SDL bindings, just the same way you'd have to do it with WASM.

I mean, you can complain about problems with copying data in and out of WASM, but it already works that way with other FFIs.
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I'm not sure anyone could of predicted this could of happened as a result of building social networks online in the way it has been done. Consider the idea that the novel idea of a feed morphed into overwhelming data that leads to the demand for curation. The seemingly simple and innocent concept of likes, shares and posts are built not intentionally for malice but out of innocent curiosity for connection.

That being said I think the financial incentive immediately takes over here and as a result those innocent ideals are trampled by analytics and pure psychological nudging.
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Probably too late in the thread to be noticed, but I have the real answer for you. This change doesn't make Patreon more money, it just costs patrons a bunch in Paypal and Stripe fees effectively. Patreon proposes to charge every donation to different projects or even each release of per-release things as separate charges, thus wasting everyone's money. It doesn't make them much profit.

They are doing it because a large portion of creators use Patreon as a paywall service not a donation platform. Using it as a paywall is the source of the demands for instant charge (not waiting until 1st of the month). The changes are just Patreon bumbling through stupid decisions trying to deal with that issue.

More details https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...
Note that post-coital depression/tristesse/dysphoria (terminology has varied over time) is a very real thing that people feel, regardless of whether porn is involved. Human contact can counteract this, however, which is an advantage of in-person sex.
The article doesn’t make that statement. The article doesn’t provide data to support any statements (it’s a pop science piece).

The original blog:

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...

Is better suggests deep learning resulted in maybe 10% improvement. Isn’t as good as human in all cases.
Does anyone have any recommendations for intermediate level web development texts, websites, tutorials, etc?

I've been teaching myself for some personal projects, and had an easy time finding "Javascript/PHP/CSS 101" type materials, and have a decent grasp of these. But when it comes to sticking them all together into an application, I find myself just guessing what the best way to do things is. What I should do server side vs in the browser, when to use iframes vs ajax requests vs reloading the page, etc.
Maybe they're referring to the 200k income threshold for the other accredited investor test?
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Learn python. Seriously, I fell in love with python when I noticed it looked just like my psuedo code.

As to your question of depth, I start at the highest level if abstraction I can get away with, assume that some magic function exists and does what you need. If said function isn't in the standard library, implement it if it's simple, implement it, just know that you're getting closer to actual code the more of these functions you flesh out, and some of them are likely to be libraries, you'll want to look up later.
The Apple Campus is not intended to be discarded after eighteen months of use. Your phone is.
It is insane, but they are doing it because they thought it made sense with their business model, namely Patreon is not a donation platform, it's a paywall service.

https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...
> The fact a customer has a comment doesn't mean you should just implement what they asked for, it means you should really look to understand what they value in the current product and enhance that.

I often felt this way with public education, even down to the elementary-school level. When I was in school, specifically high school, I felt appalled that my voice didn't matter. It was always some school board member telling me that they knew best for me. And certainly that is true to some extent; there are some insights adults will have that students just haven't been exposed to yet due to limited life experience. But they didn't even bother to ask us how they could improve school.

An elementary school kid can still provide great value. Ask them what they would change, and they may reply, "less homework". You know less/no homework isn't the best solution, but maybe what they're really asking for isn't what you hear on the surface. A plea for less homework could be a plea to make education more exciting, without necessarily changing the dial on homework. Is there a way to keep the same amount of homework, but make it more engaging or meaningful that it feels like less work? I think at times we need to dig deeper on people's feedback, past the surface.
I don't have a particularly negative attitude towards Apple, but 7 years ago I was a fanboy. Now I am "meh" about their products. Too many dick decisions taken by them lately.

If there's one thing I dislike is making laptops more expensive. I'd like to see some other laptop manufacturer creating a decent touchpad like the one in the 2013 MBP (not the super sized recent ones with fake click). The touchpad is the last thing that makes Mac a must for me.
They are proposing multiple charges each month, super wasteful. It's because they are first and foremost a paywall service.
Yep, I spent over $3k on my MacBook pro and I had the exact same experience. Keys stopped working consistently, brought it into the Apple Store and they cleaned it out, only to have it stop working just a few days later -- and has been getting worse.

I regret buying this laptop every day. I'm considering switching to Linux or even Windows for my next personal computer.
I recently marked 4 months with zero acces to my Facebook news feed. I used the hacker news plugin to prevent the feed from showing on my laptop, and when I realized how much I was still looking at the app on my phone, I deleted the mobile app.

I can’t overstate how much of a positive change this has been for me. It was a level of life altering freedom and a return of free time and mental clarity in the ballpark of abstaining from alcohol.

The number of times it has inconvenienced me is precisely once. I still have messenger for those people who like to reach out that way. I still can log on and see events and notifications.

But the addictive news feed is gone from my life and I couldn’t be happier.

That’s my n=1 but I will never go back.
I'm getting ever closer to accepting the pain of shifting my life away from Apple. Apple is becoming gimmicky and useless. On top of that, the security issues of late are like Windows XP level crap.
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McDonald's first introduced salads in 1985, but their modern salads were introduced in 2005.

Subway started franchising in 1968, started wide expansion in 1974, was on both coasts by 1978 and was inter-continental by 1984.
As I have stated previously, these market participants should treat payments and other transactions made in cryptocurrency as if cash were being handed from one party to the other.

I think for a long time this is how crypto is viewed, it is risky but people are willing to take the risk currently. More reputable US sources like Coinbase are making this possible rather than historical risky bets like mtgox, btc-e etc. In the statement they do mention whether an ICO is domestic/foreign in their research as something you should look out for in terms of the "security" of your purchase, but also whether or not the SEC can even do anything about it.

Regulation will be coming along and they have a blueprint for how that might happen, i.e. securities vs tokens/coins/currency. Before the regulation the risk is higher but probably also the reward.

At this point cryptocurrencies and ICOs are an unstoppable train, either the SEC will be able to regulate currencies + securities or some new group will be formed to handle oversight in the US at least.
Why would I care what the SEC thinks if I'm outside the US?
But the fee change won't make them much money, it just throws away patron money and gives it to Paypal/Stripe.

They're doing it because of demand for instant-charge because their main business is being a paywall service.
This would be more compelling if it was not set in the backdrop of advertising. Advertising is an entire industry set up to mislead the consumer, with the aim of getting the consumer to make choices that they wouldn't ordinarily have made by their own. This is adequate explanation of why people don't buy things they 'want'.
> I feel like the Hollywood version of invention is: Thomas Edison goes into a lab, and comes out with a light bulb. And what you’re describing is that there are breakthroughs that happen, either at a conceptual level or a technological level, that people don’t have the capacity to take full advantage of yet, but which are later layered onto new advances.

Brilliant.
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They are being honest. They just aren't admitting why they would stop batching charges. And a large part of the answer is that they are a paywall service more than a donation platform, and everything follows from that.
I've experimented with Intercooler, and it's a nice intermediate step between just enhancing a site with some jquery or vanilla JS and full-fledged SPAs.

This is almost a general theme in webdev, the middle ground is often left out, with things accumulating either on the complex or purposely minimalistic. Rails/Sinatra, Flask/Django, React/Angular... (and yes, I'm aware that it's slightly ironic that RoR is now my "monolith" end of things, given how light it was back when we were doing horrible things with Struts and J2EE)
It was always (and remains) a paywall service first and foremost. It wasn't meant to be a micro payment platform.
How many ICOs "advertise as being sure to appreciate"? I've looked at like 40 different ones, bought into none, but none of them promised any return on investment. That's some straw man argument.
It's a small nitpick, but I've seen this repeated several times and it's just not correct that Wii U was Nintendo's worst selling home console. The Virtual Boy owns that title.
Ah I misread "as good" as "better". It's still an epsilon difference, though. And the article lists other applications that have had "step wise" improvements, which is the opposite of incremental of course.

Also, you didn't answer the question.
I explicitly put "romantically" :)

I meant that I don't have a, "I'm a Soylent fanboy" attitude.
> even if they had to tack on a small surge charge

I think you meant "surcharge," but in this era of Uber, congestion pricing, and cryptomania, that is a marvelous malapropism.
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i suspect that what he's referring to is that he's heuristically minimizing a somewhat arbitrary (loss) function in a million-ish dimensions using the simple variants of gradient descent that work under these conditions. it sounds far too WIBNI to produce good results reliably (in practice, let alone in theory). the landscape has so many stationary points at which to get stuck; why would you ever get good results?

there's a small cottage industry of papers (like [0]) that try to explain this.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.0233.pdf
Me too. Went from 6 to SE. really hope they maintain this form factor.
It was true ten or twelve years ago, and don’t think car dealers were lying. I think what’s changed is the switch from resistive wires to carbon panels. Heated wire with cloth seats would probably leave griddle marks on your ass. :-P

So, yeah, my example might be dated.
That's part of the problem. Why are they making their phones hard to repair? That's why they last only 2 years.
These type of articles always come with stark warnings that in the future many people won’t have jobs, however if you compare today’s technology versus the 60s and 70s, the data would tend to disagree.

In the US the unemployment rate is now at it’s lowest point for 15 years, and if it continues to drop like this will be at the lowest for half a century. What’s going on here, is it just the criteria for unemployment has changed?

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
I've just never found a reason to move on from SVN, to be honest.

I use GIT when I am forced to, but for everything under my control, SVN works the best.

I was unaware you could get rid of the staging area in GIT. I may need to look more into that.
Worth noting that the MDN docs are not yet updated for Django 2.0. The url syntax has been changed in Django 2.0, but other than that the current MDN tutorial is fine as a resource to get started with Django. Django 2.0 release notes : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/2.0/
Ironically, extremely unnatural for most "Google" interactions. Asking non-trivia questions just doesn't work very well at all.

Asking basic questions like the weather, the time, and maybe my calendar (doesn't work well with multiple calendars so while I look forward to when I can use this, I can't yet).
Famous Company could help me reach my goal. Having the Famous Company name on my résumé would increase my chances of getting job offers in future, whichever country that would be in.

If they really wanted, Famous Company has a lot of money. They could buy citizenship for me and my girlfriend at a cost of $250,000 USD each. Then I'd be able to work for them anywhere.

These parameters are personal though, not job-interview criteria. It's about relationships, friendships, trust, and life goals. "Networking", in the social sense.

But if Famous Company doesn't want me to tell my boss, I feel like they don't respect that social network. I'm committed to being a good boyfriend, employee, and foreign resident.

I'd like to make friends with the person from the Famous Company, and build a connection with them too! Maybe stay longer in Taiwan to work for the Famous Company in 2019, or apply for their jobs in another country. I just don't want those communications to disrespect my existing commitments.