skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mike, great job on Observable and thanks for all your work on D3 as well! I read through the whole thread about observable that was on hacker news a couple weeks ago, but I didn't see an answer to a question I have. Are there any plans to allow observable to be run locally like a jupyter notebook? Like an app or anything. Even if the site was like a progressive web app that could be nice.

I know observable as a whole is not open-source so I understand this may not align with the best interests of the company. Also observable is fairly new so I'm sure you have a lot higher priority features on the release radar. I honestly wouldn't mind paying for an application even if it was an electron app.

Anyways good luck with Observable! I think its a great notebook format with a great API.
Will Wright’s City in a Box (2016)
Just imagine writing a program with the most perfect, functional, well-documented code.... but obfuscated and self-referential to the point of total unreadability. That's what Joyce did with FW.
Ah yes I hadn't really thought about that for some reason. Do you view HTML as something that should only be used where necessary in MD or just go crazy with it?
Nice. Would love to read blog post around this. If you have one
I used Texniccenter also, but I don't find that I use any of the markup help, I just like the syntax highlighting (these days I just use vscode). I try not to do anything complicated with LaTeX anymore, its just never worth the trouble.
If I understood you earlier correctly that you've been trying to submit using a different account, I can't help any more without knowing that account so I can see its submissions (though I don't see any recent submissions for the inquisitr.com at all using 'gus_massa's link). I've seen that error IIRC when I've tried to submit the same story after previously submitting it from the same account. But again, I don't know which account you're posting it from. (Out of curiosity, why are you submitting from a different account than the one you're using here?)
50 Million is a massive number for sure but its a drop in the ocean when you see the number of sites out there. As a user i hope you hit even more bigger numbers in the days to come! :)
ReFS was only ever made the default on new installs of Windows Server 2012. It never actually made it to production builds of Windows 8 or above so it's actually only installed on a fraction of the systems that are out there. That's not really a sufficient sampling size to say that this deployment went along much better. The APFS update was a much, much larger endeavor and, based only on public response, was nearly seamless. This is the first major issue I've heard about with regard to APFS.
Non-https traffic will start being marked as "insecure" in upcoming versions of chrome & firefox. That should push the numbers up significantly.
What you're probably referring to with 1973 is probably something like the increasingly lopsided share of income on the top of society. To put some exact numbers to your intuition in 1979 the middle class controlled 46% of all income, and the upper/rich classes controlled 30%. Today (as of 2014) the rich and upper class control 63% with the middle class left with 26%. [1] There's even been a chiseling out of the middle class as a whole declining from 38.8% of society to 32% of society. I also find these topics fascinating. But that paper also has another datum in it that was completely eye opening to me. This is the change in the size of each economic group as measured by share of total income from 1979 to 2014.

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- Rich: 0.1% -> 1.8%

- Upper Middle Class: 12.9% -> 29.4%

- Middle Class: 38.8% -> 32%

- Lower Middle Class: 23.9% -> 17.1%

- Poor or Near-Poor: 24.3% -> 19.8%

-----

That's a very positive and rapid change. As another example China is experiencing something similar on a very rapid scale. They've gone from a relatively egalitarian society, to one where you have billionaires alongside people putting together $1000 iPhones living in on-site dormitories with suicide nets lining the building, working for a couple of bucks an hour. The contrast is stark, yet at the same time their overall population is starting to benefit from unprecedented opportunity and a gradual upward push. And what's left out of that picture is that even there those workers are striving for greater things, taking that money and then using it to return to their villages and open businesses of their own hoping to get their own piece of the pie. As an extreme example there Jack Ma, now one of the richest people in the world, spent years manually biking, what would have been from his perspective, 'rich' tourists around in China from international hotels.

Maybe the biggest point about the $52k figure is how shockingly small it really is. That's with all these crazy motivations for people to earn and generate as much as they possibly can, and then some. At times it might seem that post-scarcity is just a matter of logistics and benevolence, but that's just not justified by the actual numbers. So in the mean time, rather than dream of utopia, we need to create systems that enable people with sufficient drive to get as far as they can. And while our system has an immense number of flaws, I think you'd be hard pressed to come up with a robust alternative. Social systems have a strong allure, but I think this conflict of reality and ideology is really the fundamental reason that these systems collapse, in brief order, time and again - often with extreme consequences. China's inequality may be off putting now, but it wasn't 60 years ago that Chinese were dying and starving to death by the tens of millions in their execution of a so-called 'Great Leap Forward' to a full on social system. Ultimately you need to keep perspective in mind.

[1] - https://www.urban.org/research/publication/growing-size-and-...
There is middle ground though. Yes, if you don't have marketable, non-easily replaceable skills you'll have a harder time, but many people could make a median income, live a modest lifestyle, and retire 10+ years before 65.
Situation is bad, what to do? Work to change it. Criticism without means to enact improvements is meaningless. Then let these weak men suffer and wither. Harder working men will prevail
Oh, great, can't wait until social media companies become arbiters of truth and outright prevent you from reading things they've deemed unfit.
Check out NixOS and NixOps

https://nixos.org/

https://nixos.org/nixops/
How is the data export? I like the idea, but the fact that it seems to only export data into Markdown or HTML rather than something more structured, like XML or JSON, makes me nervous.
The cure is worse than the disease! An unaccountable Facebook Ministry of Truth is not progress.
Rust seems to disagree, and I'm glad of it. Documentation is easy to write, and reasonably extensible. Sure there are things I wish to see added (LaTeX math mode would be awesome) but there's nothing really stopping this from happening, even if it's not part of a universal standard.
Try the annotations at finwake.com to get a feel for the hypertext-like layers and connections in the language. Or just acknowledge that it's not going to all make sense in one go and let the text wash around you as you keep reading.
They are making an effort to prove they can do decent coffee at Starbucks Reserve apparently. One just opened here in Redwood City that I've been meaning to try out. I think you pay more for the experience, but regardless, it is good to see Starbucks get back to their roots in some form.
There are some topics that are just not usefully discussed on HN, even ones that many people are interested in. Part of it is the nature of internet forums in general, and some I think are due to HN in particular. This isn't meant as a judgement of either: it's not dissimilar to how you may want to talk about some things with one group of people and some things with others if you want a productive outcome. I suspect it was flagged at least in part due to expectations of the ensuing discussion.
This American Life had a nice segment about this phone. It's one of the stories on this episode: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/597/one-last-thing-before-i...
The spirit of failure of Google Wave was very similar to Google Glass failure. They were so badly presented, in so much wrong ways. The idea behind Wave is extremely great but why, oh god, WHY it was presented as a consumer (and not business/corp) product?!
Have you looked into engineering economics? The formulas you'd need are already developed depending on the scope you're building. Present value calculations will handle most of the hard work, letting you talk about everything in "today" dollars.
One big reason is language stability. Lua changes the language in backward-incompatible ways. It’s part of how they make the language so clean, but it makes it difficult to build an ecosystem around.
I swear every time I see YouTube Red, I'm reading RedTube (DON"T GO THERE. NSFW)
> I might buy this. Maybe. But she's a policy wonk in a time where "TV Charisma" matters more than competence.

It wasn't TV charisma that did it.

According to Donna Brazile, Hillary thought she had the electoral college vote in the bag, so spent big in areas she was already going to win in order to get out enough of the vote to ensure she won the popular vote also.

She ignored 'blue wall' states in favour of big cities.

In contrast, in the lead up to the election Trump campaigned almost exclusively in those blue wall states (much to the derision of analysts, pundits and commentators) holding rally after rally after rally.

And that made the difference, proving that he did have a path to 270 after all, and that focusing on the popular vote was a losing strategy when the votes that count are the electoral college.

"Russia. Russia. Russia" has been a face-saving distraction that is preventing the Democrats from identifying and fixing the problems that caused their loss.
Waiting for the day that all particles are found to just be various states of Photons and we can find the arch. :P
I'm trying to get in to game dev as a hobby and Love/Lua is great for someone who wants to make games, but would rather spend time writing code than learning something like Unity. Lua is simple and very easy to pick up, although I think the next time I touch Love and Lua I'll try out the OOP library the author mentions instead of rolling my own classes.

Other things on my list to try are Phaser for the easy cross platform distribution (it's JavaScript) and Godot, because although I enjoy coding little games "from scratch" I feel like I would be much more productive with the tools that Godot or Unity offer.

Here's my little game:
https://github.com/dj/dinojump
Most property value is in land, not buildings over it. Sometimes buildings carry extra premium, e.g. when zoning wouldn’t allow to build it again, but if we are talking about tearing buildings down, this is probably not the situation we are in. Thus, demolishing the building doesn’t decrease property value by much more than it costs to build it.

On the other hand, demolishing it also costs money, and with property tax rates on the order of 1% or less, it will only return in something like a decade.
As a consumer you likely wouldn't -- you'd buy the tokens as needed and liquidate them immediately. As an investor you might for the same reason you would invest in any other enterprise. If you believe that the application is likely to become popular, then more people will be needing the token that powers it, thus the price of that token (against other assets) will go up.
Is there a form letter available for sites that don't have certificates or are using self-signed/invalid certs? It would have a brief introduction, background on LE, links to getting started docs, etc. Something like:

"Hi, I noticed your website does not support HTTPS. Have you heard about Let's Encrypt? Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority. [...]"

Ideally available in multiple languages as well.
It'd be interesting for Facebook and the like to provide a report to users of all the content they were shown that originated from accounts linked to foreign actors.
In fact very few people -- nearly none -- are truly "swing voters" who could plausibly vote for either candidate. Most swing voters identify as "leaning" Dem or Republican and vote with that party as reliably as registered voters of it. Winning an election is about mobilizing your supporters and getting them to show up to the polls. Understanding of this is one reason why there are so many contentious changes to voting laws popping up.
This. Everytime I'm thrashig out a design with other developers on Skype I wish we were using something mixing wiki and chat.
> Some people develop deficiencies when they exclude meat from their diet.

I'm one of those people.

Personally, I think refraining from consuming animals is the morally superior option—nothing to do with health. In the longer history of humankind I hope that's the direction we take. I'd happily take an artificial steak made of a complex of vegetable proteins, fast, etc that tastes like prime beef over slaughtering an animal if it contains all the similar nutrients that are absorbed the same way...

My sister-in-law and brother—both former/current athletes—are vegan and vegetarian, respectively, and make great work of the diet. She runs a vegan recipe blog, and he keeps in great physical shape as a provincial police officer while restricting his animal consumption to eggs and dairy.

I unfortunately inherited deficiencies in B12, Iron, and other deficiencies from my mother's side. She, in her old age, has to resort to transfusions once every few years to live. Wouldn't wish it upon anybody. I like to think I can fare much better.

It got to the point in my own restricted diet where my doctor explicitly instructed me to eat a lot more red meat. After some time I've reduced my intake there, and increased my sublingual B12, but still need to keep up enough other nutrients (forgive my omitting details) to keep up.

The difference that appropriate nutrition has isn't limited to the physical, either.

Nutrition is a very complex problem.
I saw the live presentation of Google wave at Google IO in 2009. I was in awe of the technology & wanted my hands on it as soon as possible. The product vision was amazing and long term. But the product was just way ahead of its time. Apart from the performance issues and clunky UX, I feel the product overall was very cool. I still maintain that Google gave up too early on Wave.
NO MOER DHEN
Raffle regulation in Australia is commonly treated as a joke though. Everyone just calls them "guessing competitions", where you buy a raffle to "guess the name of the three letter easter chocolate that starts with e and ends in g".

Even schools - noting you can't promote gambling to children - get away with that regularly. With those loopholes, you could probably get away with a lot.
The Stellar Rise and Murky Future of the XRP
So some humans think they finally have the luxury of seriously considering animal ethics while some other humans would still kill for survival. Meanwhile, the earth or the universe continues to not care.
I think the person you were responding to was saying that he does not hesitate, because he does not kill spiders, because he is dead. Not necessarily bait of any kind.
>My mother in her mid 70s said to me kids at school who had lobster were mocked because everyone knew they were poor "Eww lobster".

That explains Doctor Zoidberg
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11292280.
What about other areas in Canada? Would you recommend a certain place? I am a 17yo Canadian citizen, but currently not living there. I would like to move back to a university or a "programming" related job after college.
I disagree with your interpretation. Here is the exact verbage you are referencing from the AMA:

A spotter should be used to assist in monitoring the surrounding airspace for manned aircraft whenever a flight is expected to exceed 400 feet above the ground and that operation is expected to be in proximity to known manned aircraft traffic such as at a mixed-use facility or within three miles of an airport. The spotter must have sufficient visual acuity and be mature enough to take this responsibility very seriously.

So unless you are operating at a mixed-use facility or within three miles of an airport, you do not need a spotter to fly a model aircraft above 400ft AGL.
They can manipulate the content in every way imaginable, that is a literal truth. They can skew the drops any way they like, there is no transparency. At least with packs the contents can't change with a backend update.
I agree. I liked it back in the day, and the fact that you could attach people to subtrees of a conversation was rather cool. IT also fixes infinitely-deep email chain problem very well.
Is Google banning Prime Video from using chromecast? I thought chromecast used an open API and anyone could cast to it.

https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/chrome_sender_integr...
I had to make room on my MBP SSD to install windows through bootcamp and bashed my head against a wall on the same issue. It took me half an hour to find the reason why so much of my hard drive wasn't available despite me having deleted almost all third party apps and personal data on my macOS partition. Time Machine does 'local backups' and there is NOWHERE in the user interface that fully explains the space they occupy and how to get rid of it. To delete those local backups you need to use the terminal program tmutil.

That gave me even more vindication for my move. Also, you really don't know how fast your hardware is until you've used something other than macOS on it. From booting the system to launching software.. everything is snappier now.
> The First Amendment & They are talking on the Internet

Most of the Internet, in fact all of it except the USA, does not have a first amendment.

Thus if the first amendment is the resolution I expect robust legislation from the EU, and other places, in due course.

No, that is very probably not, going to lead to the best solution.
A friend of mine lost a ton of data this week after mac os crashed and he restarted it. The only things he had done since getting the computer a week ago were:

1. update to high sierra
2. copy over files from old mac
3. record about 40gb of screen share data using quicktime (which is what he was doing when it crashed)

He spent hours on the phone with apple, the tech said he had never seen anything like it and they weren't able to recover his data... but after reading the other horror stories in this thread there seems to be some serious problems with high sierra and/or APFS.
To my understand, some 3D artists are currently building things using VR to create the rough mesh layout, and fine tuning it after in a program like blender

There's also modelmakers that scan real objects as well too
The alternatives mention python and ruby. What drew me to markdown in the first place was the absence of dependencies.
How to rig and economy
At 600k you could work a job that covers your expenses only while investing the money, and have ballpark 1.2M in a decade. Another decade could put you around 2.4M. Saving just 10k/year would massively inflate these numbers.

I encourage you to think in terms of percents. The Trinity Study says you'll need about 25x your expenses saved. If you can lower your expenses by 5k/year, you can not only invest that money, but your target also lowered by 125k. That double whammy allows diligent savers to do very well and retire on a much shorter timeline than those spending 95%+ of their paycheck.
I use it when it’s needed:

1. Tables

2. Collapsable sections with <detail>

3. Color-coding with <span style=“...”> or <span class=“...”>
A company's "copyright usage terms" doesn't override law, so regardless of what are on those pages, the copyright owner can ignore it and take the proper, typical legal path to protect their IP.
I agree, which is why I think they should be on completely separate busses. That said, they at least seem to be taking security seriously... finally.
Articles like this come up every so often, and they usually point to all the problems with Markdown -- slightly incompatible implementations, nonstandard extensions, how difficult it is to correctly parse in all cases, how mixing non-tag markup and HTML offends proper sensibilities, etc. And I can't say that they're wrong, per se. Markdown is a terrific example of "worse is better."

That's the thing, though -- the whole argument for "worse is better" is that it produces more successful software. In practice, it turns out that it's pretty easy for most people to write most things in Markdown, no matter which processor they're using, just merrily mixing in HTML (or template tags) when they need to. The arguments for AsciiDoc and ReStructuredText usually boil down to "they make difficult things easier," which they do -- but they tend to make more common things (links, images, blockquotes, footnotes [not technically "standard" Markdown but the [^fn] notation is nearly universal]) a little more difficult. Markdown, by contrast, makes the things you're typing all the time trivial, while still letting you do anything that you can do in HTML by, well, letting you do it in HTML.
Woah, my life story.
Fwiw, $800 is the price I was quoted.
And I can't buy Windows laptops at an Apple store. That's because Apple stores only sell Apple products, nothing else. People don't go to an Apple store when they want to buy some arbitrary item. People do go to Amazon when they want to buy an arbitrary item, because Amazon sells almost everything (but not chromecasts).
Firecalc is amazing, but be sure to read all the instructions carefully.
> Agreed. We should destroy an many animals in nature as possible to prevent them from reproducing and causing more suffering.

There is a fantasy series with this motif. It's called The Second Apocalypse, by R. Scott Bakker, and the first book is called the Prince of Nothing.
> the fact that you have a Facebook account allows advertisers to track and target you

I use a separate browser profile just for Facebook; I never log in from my main profile. Do they link the separate browsers? There'd be a bunch of clues like the IP address, window size, browser version and OS, related but not identical time of activity, etc.

So how hard do they work at linking up data from people who expressly don't want them to? I despise Facebook and expect this is the sort of thing they'd do, but does anyone know more?
The counterpoint to your wall of text? Trump won. He wasn't so far from even getting the popular vote.

My point is that this goes directly against the idea that people want universal health care. This was a very strong vote against any sort of help for the poor against any sort of government regulation of healthcare.
Please don't take threads on flamebait tangents. Nothing good can come of it.
What you support is immoral. IF you want to live in a society where people prey on each other in every way possible, do not be surprised to eat a bullet. This shit is destabilizing because you advocate taking food off the tables of the poor.

Impressive karma btw.
I know plenty. Fwiw, contrary to popular stereotypes, vegans don't tend to have that much in common other than the ethical choice they've made.

It makes for really subpar meetups and online groups, I"m sad to say. No one has all that much in common, other than food -
the preferences and priorities of which, as we are discussing, vary from person to person.

Well that, and generic, somewhere-left-of-center outrage at the current administration.
You would think that we might one day get past this whole "strong vs weak" rhetoric, but therein lies the problem: we exit from the state of nature only to recreate those same conditions in a slightly more civil form.