skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use higher octane fuel than necessary for one of my cars, because I feel it's prudent to use ethanol-free gas which is only available at the highest octane level. According to what I've read, the ethanol that's standard today can degrade the rubber in older cars' fuel lines sometimes and that can lead to a leak and catastrophic fire. It's also rumored that higher octane gas may (sometimes) have more detergents or something.

In any case, I wouldn't trust even a modern engine computer to handle gas that is definitely too low in octane, because as far as I know, it's going to compensate after it detects pre-ignition, which is suboptimal.
ExpressCard is the succesor to PCMCIA. It's not limited to disks, you can also get cellular modems, gps cards, or whatever. The drives I use are these: http://www.wintecind.com/features/filemate/ssd/wf_expresscar...

I agree my setup is probably pretty secure, but not any moreso than a single os install with FDE, especially since I often leave an OS ExpressCard in the machine and the other ones I leave scattered around my desk...
Wait, your first-ever victory was a 15-rune game?
"My understanding is weed is more expensive per intoxicating amount than alcohol in seattle."

What "intoxicating amount" would that be?

A single beer might get a teetotaler drunk, while it might take a six pack or more to get an alcoholic drunk. The same goes for smoking cannabis. One hit might get someone with no tolerance high, but someone with a high tolerance might need much more. That doesn't even begin to take in to account all of the different varieties of cannabis or different types of alcohol, which could have quite varied potencies.

You can actually kind of compare different alcohols by the percentage of pure ethanol in them, and with cannabis you can compare the percentage of THC, but there are so many other compounds in cannabis that can have an effect on your intoxication that they're really difficult to compare in a standardized way.

Even when sticking to one particular alcohol or cannabis variety prices vary tremendously based on brand and where they're bought (ex: a beer at the grocery store will cost much less than one at some trendy bar, a mass-produced generic beer vs some hand-made microbrew, etc).

When I hear such comparisons I really have to question what they're actually comparing and why they're comparing it and not something completely different. For alcohol vs cannabis prices, I struggle to understand how there can be any comparison.

"So let's get everyone hooked and in debt"

How many people go in to debt buying legal cannabis? If money's such a problem for them, it's trivial to just grow your own for free: it's a weed.

Anyway, if your goal is to keep people from going in to debt, the last thing you should be for is prohibition, which astronomically increases the cost of drugs far past their legal price.

"Doesn't mean I think you should be able to buy h when you hit 18."

Well, whether you think you should be able to or not, you can. Making drugs illegal has flatly failed to stop their availability. Like it or not, if you want them, it's not hard to get them.

The question is whether the state should continue to spend billions ruining people's lives by throwing them in jail or outright killing them during raids, breaking up families, propping up organized crime with illegal drug profits, corrupting the judicial and political system, etc.

To me it doesn't make sense, especially as it's so ineffective or even counterproductive (as people are drawn to the forbidden) in preventing drug use.
I could never work in security. I worry enough as it is, without it being my job to worry.
Face uncertainty by decoupling Redux state
I agree. It seems that calling people "resources" is encouraged by the existence of a "Human Resources" (HR) department. There are surely better names for that too.
Synchronous messaging is insufficient for making multiple requests at once and waiting for the responses. Also asynchronous messaging allows for optimistic notifications -- for example to clear a cache when coherency isn't required.

With asynchronous messaging it's simple to build synchronous interactions if desired --- send a message and wait for a response; but you can't build asynchronous interactions on top of synchronous messages.
I haven't driven a Charger, so maybe you're right. Based on test driving both the current generation Prius and the last one, and looking at the Charger, it would surprise me though.

The most annoying thing about my 2016 Honda Accord coupe is the massive A- and B-pillar blind spots. It's got one of the rare all-around 5 star ratings for crash tests, including rollover, and has lots of airbags, so of course you can't have everything. I don't think I ever notice any issue with the rear window.
The other issue with Epic is that it's designed for hospitals. The parent comment sounds like a doc in a smaller practice. There are certainly EMRs out there better suited to that environment (disclaimer: I work for one that I think does an especially good job at that)
Clearly downvoted because you called a Windows tech a Java tech
"Plant trees, and then build things with them. Be careful not to burn them. Repeat"

I don't think this pencils out. We use quite a lot of machinery and trucks and electricity to build with and it's not obvious that the carbon sequestered by the wood in a structure is larger than the amount of carbon expended in all aspects of the building of it.

In fact, I suspect it might be quite a bit off ... a dry 2x4 weighs very little and there is a lot of driving and idling and generating and power usage involved in building.
Retail is under terrible pressure, and one reason among many is in your pocket[0]:

"Consumer income has not changed much since 2006, thus over the last 10 years $190 billion in consumer spending was diverted toward mobile phones. [...] Between phones and their services, this is $340 billion that will not be spent on T-shirts and shoes."

[0] http://contrarianedge.com/2017/07/26/not-just-amazons-fault-...
Some Kobo models have adaptive light, that is, blueish during the day, reddish at night.
The "trust the buyer" thing seems to work reasonably well in practice, especially if on say eBay you limit buyers to ones with positive feedback and not living in iffy countries. Trust the seller is vulnerable to people offering say bargain laptops, selling 100s then running off.
That all sounds fine. The title of the post seemed to indicate this project was about the WYSIWYG editor. I understood codingdave's question to relate to the WYSIWYG editor in particular.
If the investors were fully aware this is at risk and they backed you because of the team and not the product/market then I'd use the remaining cash to build something else where you are the first customer and start over. Reduce the team to just the co-founders, 100k is still a lot of money for a team of two or three and you can probably afford one or two more experiments.
> curses based TUI app
I really love these
Websites which irritate you: clue to UX design "do it better"

Websites which are incomplete: market demand proven, "do it better"

Websites off to one side: find your niche

Do one thing, but do it well.

Do one thing, but be comprehensive with pointers onward.

Be responsive to feedback.

Provide a service to people in your niche: finding websites with bad copy? write a simple tool to fix simple copy mistakes and give it away on github but sell the service of doing "moar" but applied to your niche.

Go to conferences, and talk to people in your niche and pick up on gee I wish that x was done better signals
Counterpoint: there is justification in the claim that the possibility of parinfer is one of the advantages of parentheses. So maybe: use parinfer, but don't overlook the other advantages of parentheses.
This is misleading spam.

It's a company selling some kind of personal CMS and productivity suite with notes, spreadsheets, calendars, etc.

It has nothing to do with the editor, which has no technical details, no open-source code, seems to be just like dozens of others, and has a working XSS attack documented on this very page.

Also why would anyone trust a company with no business model or privacy policy with their personal data?
That is a potentially big change if you like to use Elbereth to protect your stack. Now you basically have to burn it.
I'm not particularly sold on this proposal, but the examples in the OP seem like poor counterarguments; there are a lot of ways to write incomprehensible python. (Nested list comprehensions anyone?)

And it's already possible to write one-liners that do too many things; I'm not convinced that this proposal would make that worse.

Best to consider how this feature would actually be used, and make a judgement as to whether the value outweighs the cost of making the language more complicated and harder to learn.

This proposal does have some benefits - this is the best use-case I can think of:

Instead of

response = do_thing()
while response != 200:
handle_error(response)
response = do_thing()

(Which in many other languages would be a do-while)

Instead we could write:

while (response := do_thing()) != 200:
handle_error(response)

That doesn't seem like a big improvement though...
You don't need special clout for most journals (including Nature) in order to self publish. The Nature license [1] allows it directly, as do journals such as Science.

The main thing is that they typically don't allow you to publish it outside of your website. I also don't know what the terms of this new journal are going to be.

[1] https://www.nature.com/authors/policies/license.html
Three radical new user interfaces
That sounds to me like a great starting point for others to contribute code. :P

Can't we all just be happy that someone decided to write a fun project and made it freely available for others to learn from?
That's not what he said.

To summarize:

- "price gouging"/"overpricing" -- "businesses are held guilty of overcharging if they price their products as high as the market will bear"

- "predatory pricing" -- on the other hand they are guilty of dumping if they keep cutting their costs and lower prices below what some busybody feels is right

- "price-fixing" -- "they charge the same as their competitors happen to charge"
My favorite things - analytical and sorta useless. However, it is interesting that moving the figurative to the literal could be deriving a single dimension metric and applying simple trig.
Why shouldn't an outlet pertaining to issues for people of color mention people of color?
Can someone please explain what is it doing? I thought it was giving whatever you draw, a more artistic expression, but it seems it does not preserve the original content.
His page mentions that he's not working currently due to personal reasons, so you might not see his signature. http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton
I've worked in tech for 30 years and never experienced a single company that does math the way you describe: "I.T. generates or saves us $X million per year therefore we'll share that with frontline developers." Ha, puhleez.

In my experience, you'd consider yourself lucky to work for a company that sees I.T. as a strategic/operational advantage (and not merely a "cost center") and therefore pays its staff 10% better than market average plus bonuses.

Unfortunately, I've worked for truly "I.T. forward" companies like that and still seen a merger or buyout completely flip the culture. Overnight I.T. salaries and budgets were seen as indulgences and people were laid off or quit in droves.

The one thing I've learned about this industry is that no matter how innovative or adept an engineering department is, an exuberantly stupid executive team can completely squander and destroy that asset surprisingly quickly.
I think fatal accidents have been decreasing for a while, so it's probably the case that objectively we are optimizing the right thing overall with safety regulations.

On the other hand, I am enjoying having an old car, and sometimes I think if we allow motorcycles and three-wheelers on the roads, why not allow recreational four wheel cars that are exempt from most safety equipment (other than say, seatbelts). Beyond just grandfathering them in, that is.
when I first came across this story last week, there was some HEAVY spin that he was an environmentalist just doing his piece to save old technology. I've since read all of the emails, and that's definitely not what he was doing. That may have been his original intention or a very very small part of his motivation, but this was a money making venture from the get go. There's no doubt about it.
Ask HN: Turning 40 soon – seeking personal and professional life advice
Hi HN - I have always enjoyed being part of this community. I am turning 40 within a month and would love to have any personal and /or professional life advice you might have to give a curious person (and a techie) who is married and a father of two. Look forward to all you have to offer!
Reminds me of the way Bezos writes about Customer Obsession in his letters to shareholders:

"There are many ways to center a business. You can be competitor focused, you can be product focused, you can be technology focused, you can be business model focused, and there are more. But in my view, obsessive customer focus is by far the most protective of Day 1 vitality. Why? There are many advantages to a customer-centric approach, but here’s the big one: customers are always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied, even when they report being happy and business is great. Even when they don’t yet know it, customers want something better, and your desire to delight customers will drive you to invention on their behalf. No customer ever asked Amazon to create the Prime membership program, but it sure turns out they wanted it, and I could give you many such examples. Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight. A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen."
Ask HN: Node.js library for extracting times from text
I know there are libraries to extract dates from text (e.g. "last Thursday" becomes a date object), but is there a library to find time or duration (e.g. half an hour or 20 minutes to a numeric value in seconds)?
Stop buying things.

As for rural areas, why not try something new? Delivery by drone, goods exchanges, unstaffed warehouses access through a smartphone, 3d printers, fast book printers.

It's time for radically new ideas to save the rural divide.
From the link: "The lawsuit, filed Apr. 27, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was spurred by a proprietary, independent investigation by the law firm’s antitrust attorneys who determined that DRAM manufacturers Samsung, Micron and Hynix agreed to limit the supply of DRAM, driving up prices for this widely used memory."

No mention of any evidence that this actually happened. The way I read it, the only "proof" they have is that these memory makers hold 96% of the market, and that the prices skyrocketed at some point.

Of course, that leaves out what happened with the companies that hold the other 4% of the memory market.

If they weren't involved in the scheme, we would expect to see an attempt by them to increase the production of memory to take advantage of the unforeseen boom in memory prices.

And if they were involved in the scheme, why aren't they mentioned in the lawsuit?

I don't buy this claim at all. Until I see some hard evidence to explain the above, I am inclined to agree with mkempe's conclusion that these lawyers are just parasites.
Context: Boids is the name of a classic flocking model by Craig Reynolds.

https://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
Public servers like NAO is also a good place to learn NetHack.
https://www.alt.org/nethack/

You can download session files from players and play it on your machine, their configs are also available on the website.
I'll add to this that each degree at each university has a pre-published entry score. If you achieve this score, you are automatically accepted.

The score is based on the previous year's intake, so the universities must predict demand for each degree in advance to meet their enrolment targets. In practice this means they set the bar a little high and give the remaining spots to students who didn't make the score on a case by case basis.
That’s a great point. Auditors are in a unique position as they observe and measure success and failure without making business decisions.
> But Electron did the same thing?

> Yeh, but sometimes, all you need is just a webview to display your web application on a desktop. You don't need file system access or automatic update, blah blah, it would be a huge waste to ship your app with >100MB of Chromium and V8 in it.

> In fact, this application only uses 0-3% CPU and the bundle size is >800KB on macOS.

~800Kb is really nice leap from 100M !
> I was even without an oven for a year and learned to bake bread in a cast iron pot on a gas burner/hob

What was the results like? This post piqued my interest but I don't have an oven in my home. Only gas stove top and a tiny gas grill.
Perhaps for a very specific and arcane definition of "forgiving." (Or maybe you just mean "more forgiving than Rogue," which is not saying much.) NetHack is famously brutal, and the people who beat it tend to sink hundreds if not thousands of hours first.
Former CEO of Paypal, Intuit: “Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history”
Clean solar/wind energy with batteries? The OP did say long term.

Also wood buildings can look cool https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wood+buildings&num=30&tbm=...

and maybe our future AI robots can build them.
Ugh, that kind of development approach gets my skin crawling for some reason.
Looks interesting. Anyone tried this?
great point. So in fact Slack's superficially meteoric rise was prefixed by a long incubation period within Tiny Speck. So if you shift the timeline to when the precursor internal version of Slack was developed it supports the point of most B2B SaaS companies needing 24 months to prove real traction.
One of the main drivers of CRISPR-Cas9 biotech development is to perform targeted single-nucleotide DNA editing, to cure or significantly reduce the risk of getting a disease.

Numerous diseases have a genetic component; some people have a higher risk of getting a disease due to their genetic makeup. Often a significant amount of the risk is attributed to a 'single nucleotide polymorphism' or 'SNP' (this is known to be true for diseases like sickle-cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer's disease, and others).

If we could alter this SNP however, from the disease-associated nucleotide to the control nucleotide, theoretically this would substantially reduce the risk of getting that disease. CRISPR-Cas9 allows us to do that. This process relies on fabricating an RNA-guide sequence to match the segment of DNA we want edited; and if we are careful, we make sure this Guide RNA matches ONLY this segment of DNA and nowhere else in the genome. If the Guide RNA matches some other random segment of DNA, it will result in 'off-target' edits. Now, this shouldn't really be an issue if we perform whole-genome sequencing on an individual prior to making the Guide RNA. We can just make sure the Guide RNA doesn't match anywhere else in their genome and all is well, right?! Well... maybe not. Maybe these i-Motifs will fuck us over like in the picture I linked above.
6 is different than 8. My 8 year old rides to the library.
That is not being aware, that is the brain making stuff up from noise.
> Those who weren't going to dope in the first place wouldn't be inclined to anyways.

Are you sure about that. I really want to experience drugs like cocaine, meth etc. The reason I dont do that is because its illegal because if I get caught my life and my family would be ruined, I cant take that risk.

If drugs were legal, you bet I would try them and I assume there would be many more people like me.
Last week we caught a bug caused by a security check on the users id (a Java Long) that was accidentally using == instead of .equals(). Since Java caches Long’s between -127 and 128, == will pass for any ids <128, including those from our tests. Our QA stage only caught it because the tester happened to be a later stage employee, so had a user ID > 128.
Yeah, signed distance fields:

A Volumetric Method for Building Complex Models from Range Images https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/volrange/volrange.pdf

(cited by 2630)
People pay the property taxes wherever they go. If you rent a home, your landlord pays property tax. If you work for an employer, your employer pays property tax. If you go out to eat, the restaurant pays property tax. I suppose some federal and religious things may be exempt, but that is also the case with non-commuters.

So a person who lives in the suburb but works and shops in the city will be paying most of their property taxes in the city, via their employer and the shopkeepers.

It's taxation without representation. Perhaps they should also get a pro-rated vote. :-) It could be based on time spent in each location, or economic activity in each location, or simply 1 part for each kind of activity spent in each place.
The truth about Apple's engineering [video]
This Neural Net Reconstructs the Missing Parts of Images
> "The game's strategy should not be dependent on spoilers." This is a request to increase the headroom

Not necessarily. You can give players enough information to theorethically enable deduction of the correct choices, will still making the deduction hard. Mixing up my genres, Go is like this, where the rules are very simple and it's just that deriving good gameplay from them is a tricky problem that takes a long time.
Has anyone programmed an AI to win Nethack? It seems like an obvious thing to try.
Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died
Apple is shutting down AirPort
There is an ambulatory module that is designed for clinics. The cost of implementing Epic certainly is not within the realm of an independent practice so it is only reasonable for hospital systems to deploy for their clinics and affiliates.

I would not expect the commenter to have had an experience outside a hospital affiliated clinic if they work as an AMB provider.
Thanks wasn't sure of what to use for search terms, examples would have helped the article. This Asheville article indicates that one should encourage more commercial development of more expensive buildings so both property taxes (based on building value) and employees make money downtown and consumer taxes go to the city, I can understand how there is incentive for a business for the latter but not the expensive building part ( how does one motivate a developer to do that over something more economical for an owner?).
They are not the same, but they share two key properties: their danger and potential addictiveness.

Most people would not even seriously consider making extreme sports illegal, despite their danger and potential addictiveness, but it's those very same properties of some illegal drugs that are most frequently cited as the primary reasons for making them illegal.

If those are honestly the main reasons that so many drugs are illegal, then why not make extreme sports illegal as well, for those very same reasons?
Why Hitler is not a dirty word in India
Winning Nethack games is just like any other hard accomplishment; you have to plan, know what's needed to win, and have patience. It's an unforgiving game, but winnable with no cheating. I have ascended a couple of times as a Valk and Wizard. I stopped playing a decade ago because it's very hard to play casually; you just get so involved. I am in awe of people who do mind-boggling conduct ascensions like the one here :

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/rec.games.rogueli...

I suppose the time spent was worth it for them.
Not quite.

The setup is that the brains come from people that "broke" the system, and are wired up to look for others that match their kind.

They are effectively there much like Neo and Zion are to the Matrix, a way to rebalance the system over time.