skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook has no solution for China, which will never allow a foreign company to capture all the wealth of that network. The totalatarianism of China also allows them to create the type of invasive dystopian social network that is probably Facebook's ultimate, yet inaccessible, business model.
He didn't say we should treat people like animals, he said we'll treat each better.
>Or try driving with a legally owned gun through a few USA states and see...

Stay away from the coasts and it would go pretty well.
I could make a long list of natural behaviours that you really wouldn't want humankind to adopt.
I've always been curious: Pretend I'm totally ignorant, and have no idea what need a typesetting tool fulfills. Someone who has used and been happy with Word / Open Office for years to write documents. What does LaTeX/InDesign solve for me, besides "nice looking math" that I'm not getting out of basic word processors? How do I know which one I need? I honestly have no clue. If I were to start writing a book tomorrow, I'd just open Word. Why not? What am I getting when I invest either the time to learn LaTeX or the money to buy InDesign?
I agree and have lived through both of those categories. I should add as well that there is immense value in people knowing how to talk someone through this so that they are able to update their model of reality (over time as it does take work). I have found that if I can describe a potential better future with someone they can move towards that and better understand and deal with their current situation.
This was spurious entirely. They claimed ownership of an asset that wasn't theirs based on a composite asset they didn't own. They literally did no checking on whether or not they owned the original resource. The fact of the matter is this was an automated shakedown in one of the most corrupt industries in America. Automated copyright and patent abuse claims are literally sucking money out of the productive engine of the country and the whole industry needs to be sued out of existence and people who do it need to end up in jail for long sentences as a warning to other jerks that might try it.
Again, why? FWIW I have a fancy degree in computer science and spent my childhood rebuilding and scraping together old 2/3/486 boxes. Yet I think it’s terrific that someone would be interested enough to enroll in a CS program without having wintel/Linux boxbuilding trivia knowledge.

The perception of what makes a viable CS major needs to evolve past what those born during the “Personal Computer” era think it should be.
Not a shill: I think Notion [1] gets close to being a spiritual successor to Wave (much more so than Slack). It's essentially a multimedia collaboration tool and it's really nice. It's not quite a wiki, and distinctly more freeform than a document editor, but still way more powerful than just a plaintext editor or a chat app.

My social group has begun to use it it for a pretty wide variety of things, ranging from rough notes to blog posts to draft documents.

[1] https://www.notion.so
I was two cohorts later and Quark just got killed by PageMaker then Freehand which got killed by InDesign and Illustrator. But I also learnt Authorware that got killed by Director that got killed by Flash. Then I learnt Hotdog, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, ColdFusion, ASP, PHP...

Can we just settle on a standard already? (Now learning Sketch and ReactJS and Clojure)
I catch all spiders at home with a wine glass and piece of paper and throw them out. I do the same with all the flies. No need to kill. Also, I am grossed out to see people smashing insects at home.
I'm not OP, but I couldn't get past the fact that arrays start at 1 rather than 0.
My dad use to run an offset printing short in the 80s. (like shown the second page but smaller.) By that time technology was starting to improve but still mostly manual. He used to get a lot of business making video game manuals for a company that was nearby. They had one christmas given us a ton of their video game cartridges to play with. It was a small shop so we used to help our dad out in the weekend so along with helping him out, would read through all the books and publications that were being printed, particularly computer related. This was all the seed of my interest in computers. Sadly not much later he died of leukemia and I've always suspected that is was due to the all the inks and solvents he worked with on those machines.
Ask HN: Finding interesting projects to work?
So, I don't like opensource projects because most of the projects I've been involved working with big data. It involves handling data reliably, efficiently, securely and doing this all within strict limits. Opensource isn't offering me this kind of opportunity to set up a system which consumes tons of data and new challenges keep popping.

My team is looking for such projects, see what I posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16400111

Now, we've projects which are bringing in good money. So, we switched from working for money to working for fun.

We operate mostly in ad tech. What do you recommend?
I’ve tried submitting multiple times with shorter titles but I get the same error (as the second screenshot in the Imgur link) after I hit submit:
“Sorry, that story was previously submitted.”
A lot don't have a clue about programming before uni they just like playing games and saw the word computer in the degree
I think the very reason I like it is the reason it didn’t crossover to mainstream success - it is so minimal it couldn’t compete with the all encompassing standard python library.

NodeJS is an obvious counterpoint to my thesis - it’s minimal stdlib as augmented with tens of thousands of NPM packages to implement every feature. This is my preference, but maybe Lua was too early for this strategy to succeed. The vicious attacks NodeJS gets (read about the leftpad.js debacle) because of their philosophy shows that a lot of people disagree with me, but I like the small language augmented with a rich third-party ecosystem.
Long ago (in a company far away!) I evaluated Lua vs Python for use in a simulation engine as a scripting language for extending behaviors of stuff. Lua won, because of the easy integration with C and it's general lightness. However, I prefer Python. The big reason I like Python is that it doesn't try too much to be elegant, and happily creates specific functions for specific usages. I was able to get more done, more quickly in Python, even though I, from an aesthetic standpoint, though Lua was ... neater.

I've since used Lua on numerous occasions, and I still love it. But I always reach to Python because of it's pure, raw usability.
What is it you are hoping to find in a tweetstorm that you would want to read through all of it? There is rarely any outcome worth digging.
I agree, but to add a few more details:

* This is typically cited from the Trinity study (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity study).

* It is looking at a 30 year time horizon. For longer periods you'd need a but more money, but not double. 3% is incredibly safe, and wouldn't take that much longer to acquire once you're at 4%.

* Slight reductions in expenses during down years have a huge effect on the overall success of the portfolio. If you could reduce expenses to 3.5% during severely down years, that would significantly help the success and longevity of your portfolio.
Underestimating Estimation
Can anyone recommend a way to appreciate Finnegans Wake?

I'm a lit buff, high-IQ by and standard (among those whose IQs are measurable at least) and have found this book impenetrable. Yet I feel drawn to it.
Totally agree with you. Zero-indexed arrays are one of those language design dogmas that are simply set in stone, really awkward to switch between languages when Lua has such a fundamental difference of opinion.
Go on Reddit, advocate for minor fines as a punishment for nonviolent crime. Read the responses.

Those people vote. That's why practically everything is an insane fine with jail time at the judges discretion
I'm a bit confused by this. As I see it, LaTeX can do everything that Markdown can before things get complicated. Where LaTeX does get complicated (e.g. when designing figures or drawings), Markdown doesn't offer any advantage or even any functionality. For composing simple documents or outlines and doing typesetting of equations, LaTeX has some boilerplate but it's really not that much.
In Urdu they sleep as well. "Mera paoun so gaya hai". "My foot is sleeping" i.e. my foot has that intense tingling feeling.
Having hand rolled my own retirement calculator (excel) with a lot of other variables that seem like overkill at first, I think this is very misleading if you don't at least account for inflation. It gets complicated real quick when you start realizing that if you need amount X and it takes Y years to get that X amount, the goalposts have moved by the time you actually save up to X, and now may need 1.2X. Not to mention that the passive income buying power will go down each year, so you actually need to have passive income growing at the same rate of inflation. Yes, this complicates and it would be nice to have a simple calculator, but the reality is there is no real utility for this other than to highlight the principle of "gotta have money to make money".
Thanks for the alternate suggestions (biased as they may be).

My biggest pain point when writing doc in md is tables. They are so hard to parse in the raw text, and I constantly have to be checking the rendered output to make any edits/find my place.

Does anyone know of a good alternative to md (including Sphinx and Asciidoctor) that deals with tables better?
It also irks me that that list was shared as an image. For me, it's just an inconvenience. For others, it's an accessibility problem, at least until OCR is 100% accurate.

Anyway, here's the list (I tested all the URLs):

Windows: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

macOS: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos

Linux (Qt): https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop

AR: https://github.com/HippoAR/react-native-arkit

VR: https://facebook.github.io/react-vr/

TV: https://github.com/react-tv/react-tv

Shell consoles: https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed

Word: https://github.com/nitin42/redocx

PDF: https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf

3D: https://github.com/Izzimach/react-three

Sketch app: http://airbnb.io/react-sketchapp/

Keynote: https://twitter.com/nishb1/status/913744410537537536

Hardware: https://github.com/iamdustan/react-hardware

Samplers: https://twitter.com/GabeRicard/status/911989894267973633
Installing PostmarketOS on Mozilla Flame (Weston and Plasma Mobile)
If I can anyone to actually write documentation, I don’t care what tool they use as long as it’s a reasonably accepted tool.

Any flavor of markdown qualifies.
What Is the General Data Protection Regulation?
Yes, though neither a wiki or text editor need to be installed, therefore even more accessible.
While many languages follow a 0-indexed convention, as you see here, not all do. Another couple of cases I run into are Postgres arrays, and switching between “first”, “second”, and “nth” in Clojure.

If it helps, you can think 0-indexed as referring to the offset, and 1-indexed as referring to the position. It’s a shame to dismiss the entire language due to what one might argue is a minor aspect.
The litany of issues about Markdown flavors and interop issues there doesn’t ring true to me: most tools these days use Github-flavored Markdown. Never had a parsing problem between the various Ruby, Python, and C markdown libs I’ve used over the years.

Getting engineers to contribute to docs is hard enough; it’d be quite a barrier in my org to also teach them a new markup language. Everyone already knows Markdown or some subset of HTML.
It would surprise me to hear that the majority of depressed people are in mental health facilities, therefore it seems more likely that your perspective is based on exposure to a small subset of depressed people.
Maybe we're prosecuting too many people because too much otherwise unremarkable behavior is illegal.
Why LL Bean yanked the rug out under customers by ending lifetime return policy
My wife refuses to kill southern house spiders (harmless). She names them, usually some variant of “Charlotte.” Talks to them and drops off dead bugs for them to eat.

As a bonus, we don’t need to decorate for Halloween.
Exactly; $1000 / month might be nice now, but 30 years later could be equivalent to $500.
I use HTML <table> in my markdown. Works great. Many already know the syntax. Supports large table cell bodies in a readable manner.

The downside is the syntax is noisy compared to your average markdown, and the tables don’t make much sense in text view.
I've said it in the past, and I'll say it again, Google Wave was a great idea that was pitched by Google in a bad way. All it's promise was torpedoed because of the way Google marketed it. There is nothing out there that solves the problems Wave solved, and because of that, communication and collaboration is still stuck in the Stone Age of the internet. Slack and Google Docs is the best we have, and they don't do anything that couldn't be done decades ago.
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and then updating the documentation and test plans
exactly the same expression in Hindi as well.
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In Slovenian we say that our hand is ant-y, "mravljinčasta roka" or that we have ants "mravljince mam".
Absolutely. When I was a kid, I'd skip tutorials, I'd skip text in RPGs. I just wanted to get to the ACTION.

As I'm older, I'm actually able to sit down and appreciate slower-form / long-form RPGs with lots of text that adds the real texture to the graphics--which only really form a symbolic / tactical representation of the world, and the flavors, the smells, all come from text. In many ways, the game mechanics of most games are all the same and the flavor is what sets them apart.

Exile 3: Ruined World for example. (And the two remakes Avernum 1 and 2 series.) Are legendary for their novel length text and story.

When I was a kid, I spent my time playing with character options, trying out new diseases (more diseases = less XP per level--neat idea) and skipping texts to explore. But then I'd always get stuck at some point because I missed a key piece of text when I skimmed

(That's actually one "game sin" I hate in many games. If you're going to have important text buried in tons of flavor text, COLOR or EMPHASISE IT. The last thing you want is a player who gets tired one night, skips ONE line that was important, and then hates your game because they're frustrated without information they should have had.)
The hardware is likely being blamed for a lot of failures that are software related. Its almost assured there is a software problem in cases where reinstalling the machine fixes the problem. A random machine which won't boot due to disk/filesystem failures could be a hardware issue, but that is pretty much ruled out if reinstalling/reformatting doesn't immediately manifest in further failure. Bit rot, stuck bits, bad links are a thing, but they generally show up as massive soft error correction long before it reaches the point of simply being unable to read the sector and when that happens the OS will almost always tell you that the sector can't be read rather than giving you garbage data.

That is because the likelyhood of undetected hardware failures given the layers and layers of ECC on the disks, links/etc manifesting itself as filesystem meta data failures rather than garbage in the middle of video/images/document streams/etc is really unlikely. Or the more likely case of the machine performance degrading due to read retry/ecc correction/retransmission making the machine appear to have severe performance issues long before it manifests as silent data corruption sufficient to eat the filesystem structure (its a fun excise to intentionally flip a few random bits on a hard-drive image (or in RAM)) and see if/when they are detected.

So, yes the first thing I think when I hear filesystem corruption is BUG! That is what the experience of tracking down a number of incidents in a large data storage application a few years ago taught me.
> Ruskey visited four different Blue Bottle cafes before finding a location where California coffee was still available.

The article never said how good the coffee was? That’s an important point in this context.
>This approach should prove useful for producing novel quantum states of light and quantum entanglement on demand.
Awesome work people
Polish has ants or stiff hand or pins and needles sort of (ciarki).
Pick up a copy of annotations, such as Roland McHugh’s. I found it interesting on an intellectual level, but in the end it felt more like decoding than enjoying literature. Of course, tastes do vary! Give it a shot. I expect 2000 words submitted by next Friday.
It was a great idea when I pitched the exact design to Vint Cerf five months before Google came out with it.
It's common for governments - enemies and allies - to try to influence each others' elections. Quite often there are major dollars, defense agreements, etc, etc tied up in one candidate/party being in charge over the other. Russia doing it in 2016 was not the first or the last.

If we want them to stop, maybe we should stop too?
The real issue is loss of control. “Ask me again later” is dehumanizing because it robs the user of agency. I can’t imagine how a forced windows ten update would have felt. Studies have shown (not to mention common sense) that a feeling of lack of agency is depressing. I recently quit the Mac OS after 20 years of rabid fandom, over the feeling that I wasn’t the one in charge of my Mac. Linux still lets me own my gear and I have to say that a few unpolished areas are worth the renewed sense of agency. Unfortunately there’s no user positive answer for mobile. Android is even worse than iOS. Maybe the black phone will free us from this insanity and put the user first again.
It's not a tutorial, per se, but Game Programming Patterns is a free online book that explores common design patterns in game development: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

As a non-game developer, it's been one of the most invaluable resources I jump too when trying to optimize something.
Can humans throw better than animals?
> "I'll probably get downvoted for..." are nonsensical

It's a psychological trick.
What I had drawn from the leftpad event in regards to ecosystem was the improper usage of third-party libraries; depending too much on libraries without actually validating what work they were doing, and how well they were doing it, and the realization this was common behavior throughout the community

I don't recall anything particular to comment on small vs big std library. The above complaint would apply to either case
The formal medical term is related to the "running ants" expression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formication
Man I hate that every json parser has the need to introduce their own language.

We already have a bunch of well adopted and extremely powerful languages such as Xpath, why reinvent the wheel?

I recently made a simple tool for enabling xpath parsing for json https://github.com/Granitosaurus/pq - it just converts json to xml and lets you go at it with xpath or css selectors. Easy, beautiful and convient, except it's really slow with bigger files :|
Oh that makes sense, bloom filters are super fun
In Sinhalese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhalese_language), there is a specific word for numbness and local anesthesia: "හිරිවැටීම". Literally translated as "falling into numbness".
In Japanese, they go numb (痺れる). The kanji 痺 means numb, palsy, or paralyzed.
It's enjoyable to listen to (audiobook-wise) after a tall glass of scotch. Not unlike, say, Gertrude Stein. The euphony and cadence of sentences, the unlikely word pairings, the stark impenetrability of it—it gives it the pleasure you'd get from an abstract painting. Certainly not everybody's glass of prune juice, but in those strange moods you can get yourself into, it can sometimes hit the spot.

Definitely not required reading for your moral (or even literary) education, though. It's a madman's backflip of a novel; something you'd write for a lark once you knew you had nothing to prove.
Typo: "Widthdrawal"
I work at a nonprofit and I've had great success pushing LE there. We used to have an org-wide wildcard certificate and we'd buy additional certs as necessary, and at first there was some serious skepticism about "free certs" even though I pointed out the significant players behind it. The IT people are now on board and looking to spread it to more projects.

It's been great for us in many respects. We no longer have certificates shared between servers, which removes the vulnerability to DROWN and some other problems. We also tend to serve multiple domains from a single IP, which requires a cert that covers all domains. LE lets us trivially get a cert to cover multiple domains, which would be especially expensive with project managers who can't make up their minds on what domains they want to use. And, we get the usual benefits of LE - effective forward secrecy in case someone obtains a single key/etc.

There was a little bit of pain at first getting the renewal infrastructure set up properly. My setup still isn't quite perfect, so far the standalone certbot option is the least painful for me. I have a cronjob which shuts down httpd, starts up certbot-standalone, does the renew, and restarts httpd, so we are down for an additional ~5 seconds per day while we renew. Not the end of the world for our usage.
JSON, JSONP, XML, YAML, HTML and File Rendering Package for Go
Re: flagged status, I presume this submission was flagged for seeming "political". However, the concern, as I understand it, is over articles that are not so much "political" (many of those are never flagged), but rather blatantly "partisan" or "factional" (which can go unflagged as well). "Liberalism" here refers to something much deeper than partisan squabbling. It is a political philosophy having its most prominent origins in Locke, and a worldview that underpins Western democracies. As the article notes, both prominent American parties are in fact liberal parties in this sense. The question being addressed isn't "is the Democratic party finished?", but rather whether the liberal worldview and the liberal order is playing out its own demise. There are tensions deep within liberalism, e.g., between science and liberty, that we see manifest across the American political spectrum. Many of the issues raised in many submissions are grounded in a tacit and particular variation of liberalism. This article addresses the much more fundamental question whether liberalism as a whole, not a particular variation of it, has failed.
I already have a query language for json. I insert json into mssql 2017 community edition and query it there. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/js...
OT: Anyone know the best architecture using LE with a Docker Swarm cluster. I let one server do the challenge and renew the certificates with cron every three months. Those certificates are synced with every Docker Swarm node through Docker secret.

Once the certificates got renewed the secrets are not working anymore because they must be immutable.
I've stopped posting interesting comments because I get downvoted just because my opinion is different.

Lately, I began to feel HN is full of people who sell their time. They just can't believe that anyone might be willing to work for free. Here is the evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16400111 Albeit, it's not enough to draw this kind of conclusion.

See this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16391332

Here I simply asked for people's opinion of the experience on different platforms.

From now I'll just read and rarely post. My work area is ad tech and people here seem not like ads much and will downvote/ignore ad tech questions.