skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re setting up a bit of a false dichotomy, in my opinion. Treating something like a black box doesn’t mean you have to “throw up our hands and claim to know nothing whatsoever.” Rather, it means you have to change your approach to understanding the system.

People who are concerned about “black boxes” seem to think that we need a first principles or causal-mechanistic explanation for what’s going on in a machine learning system to have any confidence in it. That couldn’t be further from the case. By interrogating the inputs and outputs of a “black box” you can learn all you need about how it works. Much (if not most) of our understanding of the physical world comes from carefully probing black box systems—systems for which we have no a priori knowledge of mechanism. So, the alternative is not to “throw up your hands,” it is to take a considered, scientific approach to understanding the relationship between inputs and outputs in your model: in what situations it succeeds, in what situations it fails, how changing a single variable affects the output, etc. Yes, that can be difficult for a complex model, but why should anyone expect it to be simple?
Could this be used as an oracle for a Smart Contract to get random numbers?
You can't construct a reference frame such that a rotating object is at rest.
What's OT?

why doesn't google docs use DS?
Who uses DS?

What's the best choice of making something similar to google docs' co-edit feature?
But if CSS Grid can handle one dimensional layout too, why not just stick to Grid? (ignoring browser compatibility).
Thanks! Sure are. Words currently go up to 7 letters long... I will probably increase to 10 soon, so long as that size dictionary doesn’t impact performance.
Open source is much older.
I remember contributing to nethack 30 years ago, and rogue was older than that.

Saying ESR defined open source is giving way too much credit.
Not to mention the extra overhead of supporting two forms of layout for the purpose of implementing a developer convenience, the point of which is defeated by having a fallback. (lolwut)
[ShareDB](https://github.com/share/sharedb) is the most commonly used, we use it extensively - also has bindings to rich text or code editors. [Y-js](http://y-js.org/) is a more academic project, also based on CRDTs I think.
The only people who think Five Thirty Eight had a complete miss in predicting a Trump victory are those who do not have an understanding of probability, statistics, or predictive models.
Is u/babich a bot? I don't understand the possible purpose of posting so many low quality articles about design that usually don't generate any discussion.
It's amazing to think that not long ago we marveled and scoffed at the prohibitive cost of 2D computer printing, going from simple monochrome printouts to highly detailed full color physical manifestations.
Then they should do away with the stupid downvotes. You can't argue points with people who don't actually say anything.
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Sounds like you were "groomed for this" more so than "made for this".
Totally. My now Fiancé asked me on our 3rd date what a midlife crisis looked like for me and I said "Quitting my software job and working (or owning) a coffee shop".
It's not a position of "someone is likely to do me wrong", it's a position of "someone is likely to do society wrong". Interacting with someone isn't an accusation...

It's a well supported position by the fact that I seem to witness theft (bikes, from cars, etc) in plain view on the street with a frequency of about once a year. Double that if you include things like hit and runs on parked cars that aren't exactly malicious but more crimes of opportunity.

I suspect that frequency is higher for me than for most people - simply because I walk a lot and I live downtown in a big city (Toronto). But if you change "6 monts to a year" to "3 - 6 years", applied over a city of a few million people that is still extremely significant.

I suspect things like police abuse of power are much rarer still, but the impact from them is so larger it's also a significant factor (why there is the huge movement for bodycams...).
This is pretty good stuff. My wife is an Art Professor who's trying to learn basic web-design so she is eligible to teach it to Art students. The schools mostly use Dream Weaver and Muse (both from Adobe) and to be honest I think its a good idea (Though I've convinced her that the first few weeks they should go through codecademy's HTML lessons so they at least have an idea about how HTML and CSS works).

I feel like web design is mostly a solved problem. These do's and don'ts highlight the fact that we know what the heck a web site should do, and there's so much crappy experiments to try and make it more that what it is.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for innovation, but sometimes I enjoy turning javaScript off and seeing how much easier life is by being able to just read the text without being assaulted by shitty attention grabbing cruft. If you're a web dev, I suggest you spend an afternoon each week turning off JS and seeing what it's like.
He was referring to a different "MetArt". Not worksafe ...
I just had to deal with this. In my case, I needed two columns pivoted and aggregated per "slot." (So each "slot" would have an aggregated A and another aggregated B column.) I couldn't find a syntax that allowed me to do that, though I'd still love to find it, for instructive purposes.
It's ok to not have pictures of every single minute of your daughter's development.

It's probably better for you -- and for her -- not to have so many photos.
Did anyone get tech specs on the display?

How many characters can it display at once? One line or multiple lines? What's the resolution? Are images supported?

I don't think a monochrome device will sell, but the display is (to me) by far the most interesting development here.
Vendendo+Produtos+Digitais+Quais+São+Os+Tipos+De+Formato+Deva+Criar
Find me anything with fake egg that passes itself off as Egg Something. Cadbury doesn't count, it has to be an egg substitute.
This comment reminds me of this hangul tutorial, which makes it pretty easy to learn: https://9gag.com/gag/3968335/learn-to-read-korean-in-15-minu...
How do you feel other manipulations other than compositing? What about Ansel Adam's photographs? His photographs have extensive manipulations in the dark room. He dedicated an entire book to such techniques equally important as the camera part.

The "no retouching ever" seems to come from people who shoot color positive film. For this style of photography whether it 35mm fashion photography in the 80's or large format landscapes, the color positive slide is the final output. There are not many manipulations that can be done. The image is meant to be viewed projected directly from said slide. However the choice of film greatly changes the look of the image (eg Velvia vs Kodachrome). However extensive manipulation of B&W photos has been around for decades.
Would you please start commenting civilly and substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I see your and other poster’s points. I suppose that I let morality and rationality mix in my assessment of Elsevier’s behavior, with predictably confusing results. Yes, it is rational to fight for so much money and power, even if it’s just for another quarter. The fact that I despise that behavior doesn’t change the rationale behind it.

Thanks.
This might be true if Mulvaney’s position on the CFPB wasn’t known before he was given the job, and if GOP Senators and Representatives hadn’t already vocalized support for placing a known hostile actor in charge of the bureau.
Deep learning 3D render engine to model Lightening Network and Nash equalibrium
This please. I was expecting an interesting article about why pixels are outdated and possible new displays or something and it turned out to be some huge piece about CSS?
The article deals with this. And, while esr is mentioned, he doesn't get anything like all the credit.
let ye who test all your logging strings cast the first stone
Will check out Wordement. I definitely plan on incorporating heads up mode, as I love the competitiveness of blitz on lichess and similar. But it introduces a whole new level of engineering challenges, so first building out solo mode.
The article is a bit odd in acknowledging this fact and then saying he's going to ignore it "for the sake of the argument". I guess he wanted to document all the other tells, too.
WRT "What's OT?":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

The wiki article includes information that should answer your last question as well.
Good luck, my wife actually tried that after she left a PM job at Microsoft. No one would hire her because they figured she was just biding time until the next high-paying software gig, and would leave shortly after being hired.
The Pebble company is no longer in operation.

You can still buy an older watch and play around with it if you are a hacker, but its probably a bad idea for the general consumer because it doesn't receive support/updates.
> The people who feel they need to own cars or houses and have children struggle to meet their personal expectations.

Yes, possibly yes, and no.

The great thing about personal expectations is that they're personal.

I'd argue the choice to have children guarantees you a future benefactor to your retirement plan (planning a life that guarantees you subsidies).
One has to wonder at the reasoning of a person who complains that the world sucks and decides that the solution is to make it suckier for their own benefit.
The company is a tool for streaming music. The politics are extracurricular.

When I go to Spotify's site, they sell me music streaming. Their company tagline isn't "Spotify: unlimited music and social justice activism".
This was largely by unspoken agreement up to now, because it was understood that certain things -had- to be maintained. Even if not as a promise to the american people (they did, after all, vote the prior pack of people in, so what those people set in motion is just as valid as anything you want to do now), as a promise to the world. Imagine the state of diplomacy if any agreement could be thrown out on a whim by a newly elected president? That's effectively what we're seeing now, and even if you disagree with the agreements, and feel they never should have been made, the tarnishing of our diplomatic status and general trustworthiness on the world stage is not easily dismissed.
Specifically:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Manifesto

“The GNU Manifesto was written by Richard Stallman and published in March 1985”

It is mentioned in the article.
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Flexbox handles wrapping pretty elegantly without specifying breakpoints.

More to the point, why wasn't a two dimensional layout standard with nice syntax proposed and implemented as a top priority circa 1998 when it was obvious this was how people wanted to design websites, in which case browsers might have caught up by now?
As a previous C++ and Erlang programmer, polymorphism on return type was the hardest thing for me to internalize.
Like, I could repeat the words, but I didn't "grok" it for the longest time.
I wish there was some standard way of emphasizing this. (Might help with the Monad tutorial jungle, too, as that's the implementation linchpin)
This is so true. I think my biggest achievement is that I evolved my ability to search. A few years ago it would take me days to find the solution to a problem, but now I find it much easier to formulate a question or Google query.
What’s Next for Nest at Google?
What's wrong with carton eggs? How are they not real eggs?
I've been following this pattern by Kelsey Hightower on his blog https://medium.com/@kelseyhightower/optimizing-docker-images.... I love because the end result is a small base image.
ops, bad memory, didnt realize that much time has gone by. it stuck in the 20s for a year, the following year in 2014 it was in the mid 60s for a 3x return. even from 2012 - 2017, you are still looking at 6x returns, which is very good.
I wasn't trying to imply whipped eggs from a carton aren't eggs.
> I am glad that English doesn't try to accomplish this

AFAIU, English was phonetic, more or less. When English spelling was first formalized it closely reflected the pronunciation of Middle English. Events like the Great Vowel Shift systematically divorced the pronunciation of many syllables from their original spelling. British and American attempts to reform the spelling in response complicated things further.

The spelling of diphthongs in English make much more sense after reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

The process continues. See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cities_Vowel_Shift
Obama Targeted Killing Document: If We Do It, It’s Not Illegal (2013)
1) don't use flash
2) don't use coldfusion
3) don't ????
The R package tidyr - a tidyverse package - makes this incredibly easy http://tidyr.tidyverse.org/. Just wanted to note that if you're considering trying out R and work with SQL, you will probably love the tidyverse. The SQL-like task replacements in tidyr, dplyr, and others, are how I came to love and appreciate R.
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's unsafe. From the description it sounds like the laser is incapable of a high enough output to damage your eyes.
Uploading a scrapy crawler that downloads PDF books to github in a few hours, gonna post the link here
Not the best of articles: an inappropriate title, an inexplicable contrarian example in the middle (the "wacky grid" with non-semantic markup and unreadable names) and too little emphasis on the main technical point: that a CSS grid based layout doesn't need to bother with a hierarchy of container boxes and therefore it can be much more flexible and systematic than more ad-hoc approaches.

Can anyone recommend better discussions about what uses CSS grids are good and less good for? This article suggests a strong resemblance with the GridLayoutManager from the Java Swing framework: you can do almost anything, but you'll suffer doing it.
That is until your boss's boss from up above complains that the web app you've built for them isn't working on their Windows 7 computer. I would normally agree with quickly dropping support for the old web, but then I'm forced to balance that with the dirtiness of mobile/feature detection for CSS, in which case I would choose to use the CSS that will just work for the situation at hand.
Show HN: Contextually searching TED talks
You are asking very good questions.

In my personal experience, I'd say it's preventing. I live in Los Angeles and if I lived somewhere else I would have bought a house and had a child with my partner earlier.

We thought about moving, but our networks and support systems are here as is the free baby-sitting provided by two sets of grandparents.
You have a kitchen so tiny it cannot find room for a single old tomato sauce jar? My condolences.
Reagan’s policies were aligned with this rhetoric... or at least, the rhetoric was used as justification for the policies, which e.g. shifted the tax burden from the rich toward the middle class by cutting taxes on income (in particular slashing the top marginal rates) and inheritance, hiking payroll taxes, and using Social Security money to pay for general federal expenditures.
They keep inventing new drinks that seem suspiciously like old drinks, but with a few trendy ingredients thrown in. Instead of refining the new drinks until they are just right, they take them off the menu and invent more new drinks.
That really seems like the billion+ dollar long tail. Either way, the mobile-first with grid on top strategy works out there.
Agreed. The only thing Trump didn't do was appoint a pacifist as Secretary of Defense.
> or not allowing cross-district service usage

There's a mod for that. It's called "Geli-Districts" [0]. There's also the more aptly-named "District Service Limit", but it's no longer maintained.

[0] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92729...
HN for all the people who read and don't comment comes to mind.
Folks, please: do composite natural-looking photos. And when you do, be 100% honest and say nothing about how the picture was made.
How to SSH into your servers using Github team membership via OAuth2 + 2FA
You can construct a reference frame such that a rotating object is rotating but not translating. You can also construct a non-inertial reference frame such that it's not even rotating.
Ah, I see the confusion. Shouldn’t have used “declare” in that context. My point was that you needed to specify the type every time you used it. So the more operations you add the more your code looks like generic soup.

I think you’re confused as to what return type polymorphism is, though. It’s the ability to have the compiler infer the type of something from its site of use. So your example doesn’t exhibit it because the types need to be specified.

So, the following code works in Haskell

x = [1,2,read “3”]

y = [“1”,”2”, read ”3”]

In the first case read returns an Int, in the second a String. This is a useless toy example but it turns out to be really useful and to make ergonomic a huge number of things that are just painful in the languages we normally use.

Everything’s achievable in every language, but what’s convenient changes massively.
But either way: it’s older than 20
Are you saying there is something illegal going on? There is a lot of disagreeable stuff going on but it's all within the law as far as I can tell.
Because enforcing the law to make money is obscene.
In that case, only my 2nd concern would hold - potential unforseeable long term effects. I‘ll pass the beta invite on that one.
Apple is focused on products, and is only interested in technologies as they can be leveraged into products.

>Apple has been ignoring VR and AR for a few years now.

I strongly disagree with your assessment of ARKit. However, Apple has indeed ignored AR and VR from a _product perspective_ because right now, the technologies cannot be leveraged into compelling consumer products.

From a _technology perspective_ I think Apple has very much not ignored AR.There is a lot pointing to the fact they are pursuing it, including Tim Cook’s own words, and the existence of ARKit in the first place.
It's odd how long the market took to start pricing this in. Everyone knew, but maybe only now everyone knows that everyone knows.
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If you've got a minute, you should check out https://www.testufo.com/ just to see a comparison of different framerates.
FYI: The Rijksmuseum in Netherlands has their entire collection digitised and available. It was mentioned here a while back.
It's ironic is because Basecamp is the anti-VC tech company. They have better work-life balance, more modest ambitions, and less buzzword-worthy tech than the prototypical SV company. Assuming this is about hoodwinking some of the best-treated employees in tech shows goes against everything they've been preaching for the last 15 years.
No, I really don't have a need to transfer the proverbial "files" straight from my PC to my iphone. I don't need it to be a USB stick. I like that itunes manages my phone. And I have my icloud documents in my phone anyways in case I need them, which I never have.
Why on earth is this exposed as a web service? This seems like the perfect example of something that should be done locally in email-sending code, via a library. This is why microservice zealotry scares me.

"Why can't we alert our customers about our security breach, Bob?"

"Well, Alice, it seems that we can't send them emails because the email-ability verification service we use before we attempt to . . . y'know, send the email, is crashing our app! Even worse, that service is taking so long to return error messages that our app is unresponsive for other requests!"

"Shit, Bob; couldn't we just email them ourselves to see if they are email-able?"

It also seems likely that repeated use of the "start to compose a letter then bail out" network behavior might get people using this added to a blacklist by programs that naïvely detect DDoS attacks on mail servers/relays.

Oh, and you now have another location where all of your customers' email addresses may be stored in plaintext: your email-verifier server's logs.

To be clear, I think this is a useful thing to be able to do, but designing it as a remote service seems misguided and unnecessary.
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Trying to win isn’t the problem. Here’s how to do it well:

If you think you can win while doing the right thing and helping others, you’re good. Just do it.

If you think doing the right thing will cause you to lose, go into R&D mode and find a more creative strategy where you can win without hurting people. That’s the time to get ahead of the scam.
> So it's your phone's fault you've "missed experiences".

I did not say that, don't twist my words like that. It is my fault I missed the experiences - I was busy looking for my phone.

> The smart phone explosion has come and gone; 95% of adults in the US have a cellphone and 77% have a smartphone

Sounds like we're at the start of people having smartphones. I don't see how you look at those numbers and think it's gone. The explosion and cultural changes are just starting, as backed up by those numbers.

> Next to none of today's tech even existed 50 years ago can we not comment on any technological progress?

I'm not sure where you got this. Of course we can comment on technological progress. But it's ridiculous to talk about the smartphone explosion and its societal effects like its the distance past. This stuff is happening now, nothing is "settled" or "said and done". It's all starting, really.
...from the people who brought you Flash. And continue to bring you Dreamweaver. And so so many other web atrocities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUM_Manifesto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

Poe's law can become a cudgel when paired with takedown rules that companies don't want to (or can't) enforce with the level of thought as a real court decision. I don't like cloudflare saying that they're totally absolved of responsibility, but I do have a lot of sympathy towards their CEO's complaint about being the gatekeeper. If I was in their shoes, I wouldn't want to have to try and formulate a policy rule that keeps Solanas but bans whatever satire or allegory the alt-right publishes.
Modernizing Node.js with idiomatic JavaScript
When you're cooking with motorbikes, it tends to accumulate at the bottom of the fryer or pan as a hot liquid which can be put down the drain, but re-solidifies once it hits the cold water in the sewer.
I think this becomes true when any programming website becomes popular. Just look at reddit.

Highly technical programming articles can be hard to digest and don't appeal to a wide audience so they get less upvotes, especially if it's about a specialized language. If you really wanted to read those articles, you could still find them in abundance on other programming/hacking/specialized forums.
> I share this history, and while Fireworks would export complete HTML, "responsible" web builders never allowed that.

I guess I wasn't responsible - I confess that I left DreamWeaver's output intact: those sweet, shiny rollover buttons where easier handled by mm_preloadImages() :-D.
This isn't quite as bad as saying "don't poop in the toilet; wait for it to dry out before putting it in the trash", but it's in the same neighborhood.

Neighborhood? It's not even in the same city. Your toilet was specifically designed to consume poop. The same cannot be said for cooking fats/oils and the sewer system.