skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mechanism you're describing also made the non-populist politicians complacent, they forgot (if they ever learned) how to articulate why their way is actually better. See for an example the completely anemic campaigns fought by Hillary Clinton and the remain side in the brexit referendum. Those should not have been hard battles to fight.
> Is writing one a particularly challenging thing to do?

Depending on the speed at which you want frames to appear (vs. noise), it can be. Writing a raytracer that can render a few shiny spheres in a few seconds on modern hardware is trivial - not more than a weekend project if you know nothing about the subject. Writing one that can render a Stars Wars scene 25 times per second is a vastly different beast.
In 1999-2001 when I was doing dialup tech support, running into a customer with Eudora was a dream compared to the nightmare of basically any other contemporary mail client around: Outlook and Outlook Express. EarthLink even made their own abomination of a mail client called Total Access, IIRC it could import and export Eudora dbs.
That sort of discourse is used to paper over some uncomfortable class dynamics. There are more elite players than there used to be, but not by that much, and playing (sometimes owning) a known instrument is an indicator of lineage and favor.
Do you mean three separate js files? Two of them are plugin specific files I separated out to make managing the different features easier.

The only library I'm loading is tinycolor.js, which I added for the togglable feature where it checks the site background colors and adds an appropriate gray for it. You'll find that making the background always be white doesn't actually work some of the time, especially for sites with darker backgrounds.

The extension is (god forbid) more than one line of code because I wanted to add features and controls I didn't see in other plugins, like:

* setting it for specific tabs

* setting it for all sites

* being able to save sites to always be gray

* being able to exclude sites from being gray when the "tab" or "all sites" settings are on

I too wish extensions had the built in functionality to add/remove saved sites, tabs, etc, but as that's not the case today, I had to do it myself with the chrome extension APIs.
It's under an open source license too:

"The transfer agreement allows CHM to publish the code under the very liberal BSD open source license, which means that anyone can use it for either personal or commercial purposes."
One thing that needs to be discussed is the accuracy, which is independent of gravity. You can juggle at about 6 to 8 throws per second, so if you want to juggle, say, 50 objects, each one needs to be in flight for about 7 seconds.

That gives 7 seconds of time to drift from the intended landing location (time and space) and that's a long time.

Even if you don't have to throw things really high, their "beaten area" grows with time, and that's a quantity I'd be interested in seeing explored.
I agree with everything you say, and don't see it as contradicting anything I've said. [I ain't saying I couldn't have been clearer.]

Note that our feelings are influenced greatly by social comparisons. For example, those whose immediate neighbors are all poorer than they feel much happier than those who are richer but the poorest in their immediate neighborhood. As Buddha said, expectations tend to rule feelings.

Modern society, both for dating and friendships, sets up false expectations ("The Illusion of Choice"), that often leave us without partners. Some combination of finding a crowd you like better, and lowering your expectations has to suffice: or nothing will.
Does anyone know of any smartphone projects where the circuits are designed to give the user's OS (usually GNU/Linux, but could be anything the user fancies if the bootloader's free) control over power to the baseband CPU, SIM card processor, and OS on the Wifi card? As far as I know, the Neo900 project is the only one attempting to allow the user's OS to control power to all those other ones.
Unsurprising. On Italian Wikipedia it was recently shown that a clique of people was actively spreading right-wing misinformation and propaganda related to the Eastern border issues (Trieste / Dalmatia and so on), purging dissent through organised activities.
The end of Iridium flares?
I am all for constructive criticism and don't think your comment fell under that umbrella.
Yeah, I think this should work: https://userstyles.org/styles/160346/greyscale-4206969

Just try it out and let me know if it doesn't.
I'm happy as the next person to eye roll a lot of the stuff that gets funded but the world is just fundamentally different compared to 2000. The average time an internet user spent online at home was ~3 hours in 2000 and is about 18 now.[0] People are just so much more willing, and able, to spend time and money online now days I would be surprised if there was 2000 style crash.

[0]http://www.digitalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2017...
Nope. Which is why I haven't said that. But even in cities, people did move less then, and did rely on their neighbors more, due to poverty if nothing else.

As it happens, one set of my grandparents lived on a farm with no neighbors within something like four miles; the other, in a few small farming villages with maybe 32 people.
These are sometimes called pulse motors, ez-spin or bedinimotors

https://hackaday.com/2016/01/01/ez-spin-motor-spins-forever/
http://bedinimotors.blogspot.co.uk/
Yes. Yes you can.
I found it odd that the article talked throughout about "dispersal" of funds, which sounds a bit like scattering money to the winds. Is this a standard use with which I'm unfamiliar, or did the author mean "disbursal?"
No, they are just for establishing [partial] orderings of events, they are not designed to be resistent against adversarial behavior.
there he goes https://www.flightradar24.com/C56X/11772b7f
> Things like being able to recognize someone in cardiac arrest, or who is at risk for a stroke.

Can those things actually be done with a vanishingly low false-positive rate? If I'm walking down the sidewalk and a camera sees me suddenly grimace because a rock got into my shoe, I don't want paramedics rushing to the scene to offer me assistance for a heart attack.
This reads as a fairly myopic solution.

“People should be free to walk down the street without being watched by the government,”

So why not cut to the heart of the matter: don't allow governments to do mass surveillance. Simply stopping Amazon from selling the tech does nothing; there's clearly a market for it, so other companies will fill the void. Alternately, facial recognition software is fairly easy to come across, the police could simply implement it themselves.
I don't see how that follows. Just because things can be explained by biochemical processes doesn't absolve anyone of responsibility. Even if you assume a person's behavior is completely deterministic, without any free will at all, holding someone responsible for their actions is still the right thing to do. It might change how we should treat those individuals, of course, but it isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_responsibility
Though I would propose that in the vast majority of applications, the amount you're going to need to do graph-like operations is significantly outweighed by the amount you're going to need to do regular relational-type operations. Being able to do them "well enough" without adding yet another moving part to your system (one which holds data that probably needs to be synchronized with other data stores) is extremely valuable.
I think the point is that the chance of all of those IF conditionals being true is close to nil, which means that Tesla is currently over-valued.
> Sorry, if you remove donations to their own churches, the unchurched do better.

That result is both unsurprising and meaningless.
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> Because free supercharging easily makes up for the price difference. Some poeple use something like 4 supercharges a week, which at $20 a charge means $160/month.

4-supercharges a week implies ~1000+ miles per week. And its only ~$9 a super-charge last time I checked (https://twitter.com/TheRealPTFI/status/920306238830735361/ph...)

If the car lasts to 300,000 miles at 250-miles per super-charge and $10 per charge, that's $12,000 over the lifetime of the car.

And that's a relatively extreme case. No charging at home, no charging at work, no charging anywhere except at super-chargers for all 300,000 miles of your car's lifetime. An absolutely absurd result but still doesn't make the Model3 comparable to ModelS.

And hell if I'm going to a charger if I buy a car like this. I'm buying a home-charging station so that I don't ever have to go somewhere else to charge. Charge at night every day forevermore.

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Note that the Model S and Model X only receive 400kWh of supercharger credits per year (~1000 miles). So what, that's like $100 / year?? After that, you have to pay supercharger fees.

So its not like your extreme use case even saves much money.
If you're looking for a great long form article around juggling, I highly suggest Grantland's article[1] as one of my favorite "why did I just spend an hour reading about that?"

[1] http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-...
You can also mitigate this by judiciously ordering your CTEs, when you have more than one, having earlier ones do more of the winnowing work, and being used as inputs to later ones.

An often unrecognized consequence of CTEs being optimization fences is that they're much easier to farm out to background workers when parallel query execution is a thing.
t feels like there are new competitors coming up every day

Such as Instagram and WhatsApp? It's not competition if you just buy them up as soon as they start to compete...
Extrapolating is not always useful... See relevant xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/605/
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That's fair, but I think with Elm-Conf coming up it's worth it to keep an eye on at least.
Works great for growing mushrooms though...
I'm confused by how severely you've misrepresented my points. For example:

> If you think "hav[ing] to worry about stuff like locking and transactions" is an imposition, you don't want me to sit in your interview.

Why did you remove "at a fine grained level" in quoting me? I'm saying that people want the facilities that a database painlessly provides with respect to these things. What I'm saying is that programmers don't want to implement MVCC themselves, for example, or invent their own system for managing locks. These are things that are great about RDBMSes, but my point is that they could be done without SQL.

For another example:

>"Strange features"

That's not a thing I said at all. I said "a bunch of features". "with recursive" is an example of this. It's a great feature, but as the commenter at the top of this thread pointed out, using it is clunky and hard to read. I believe that this is in large part because how it had to be worked into an existing, weirdly designed language in a backward compatible way.

Edit to add: I don't understand why discussions about software engineering so often quickly turn into these attacks on people's competence. I might be wrong, and if so, you can convince me of that without raising your hackles with these aggressive statements about what you would or wouldn't do if this were a job interview. That kind of rhetoric is toxic to productive discussions.
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Purescript looks like a great language and if you want to dive into the deep end of typed FP, then it looks like an excellent choice. One reason I went with Elm for our in-house customer support app, was because of the simplicity of the language. It does result in more boilerplate but I don't think the project would have been successful if the learning curve was steeper.
Launch HN: Dharma (YC S17) an open protocol for borrowing/lending cryptoassets
Greetings HN!

My name’s Nadav Hollander, and I’m the founder of Dharma Labs (https://dharma.io). At Dharma, we are creating a suite of protocols, standards, and developer tools for issuing and administering tokenized debt agreements on the Ethereum blockchain.

After three extensive external security audits of our smart contracts, we are releasing the public beta of Dharma Protocol v1 on the Ethereum mainnet -- developers can take a crack at building decentralized lending applications at docs.dharma.io, and non-developers can try out borrowing and lending a wide variety of crypto-assets using Dharma Plex (https://plex.dharma.io).

I first became interested in the cryptocurrency ecosystem in 2015, when I took Dan Boneh’s class on Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies at Stanford. Though the technology was (and still is) quite immature, I fell in love with the nascent space, and subsequently worked as an engineer at Coinbase.

At Coinbase, I was struck by the fact that a huge amount of users’ cryptocurrency was sitting idle in cold storage, instead of being deployed in some capacity as dollars would in a savings account. The advent of generic, programmable blockchains like Ethereum presented an intriguing possibility -- what if we could build borderless infrastructure for borrowing and saving that wouldn’t require a company like Coinbase to sit in the middle?

That’s why I started working on Dharma -- a framework for originating, issuing, crowdfunding, and trading debt on blockchains like Ethereum. In essence, what we do is create tools, standards, and smart contracts that developers can use to build profitable lending applications that can tap into a borderless pool of credit liquidity. These tools are all fully open source and free to use -- there is no native “Dharma token” that users are forced to leverage in some capacity.

We look forward to hearing HN’s feedback / thoughts!
I found a series A to be very ambiguous. Some people thought of it as a big late-stage seed and others had more series B type expectations.

IMHO the series thing is outdated. Just call it R0, R1, R2, R# where # is round number and be done with it... or move to a continuous fine-grained fund raising model.
To paraphrase Hoare, Eudora was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on its successors. And now we can all help stamp out flying e's.

Edit: CHM has a survey for past/current Eudora users: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/eudora-poll1
I'm biased because I'm french :) But french food, like every other food, is average in most places.

There's certain things we do really well, which somehow nobody else does. Bread for example. If you're into meat, there's excellent paté both in the north (Bretagne) and south (Corsica and PACA), and some of the world's finest beef in central france (Limousin). Corsica also has amazing Saucisson.
We also do really good pastries. One French specialty is called the Calisson, you can find loads of it in/near Aix-en-Provence (Calissons d'Aix).

These things are all very commonplace and not expensive if you live there. And as long as you stay out of big restaurant chains, fast food, etc it's very easy to eat healthy and delicious food in France.

I miss my country.
This is just speculation-- but to jump on your point, I suspect one of the reasons the rate of depression and loneliness is highest in males is because male friendships are often more guarded (less warm or emotionally close).
Evolution on earth is heavily influenced on dark/light cycles through its entire history. No evolutionary path that has received this influence can tell us anything about what would happen, on things that are highly correlated to it, for one that has never received this influence.
The case you linked refers to Beck, which is a ruling on the NRLA which as far as I can tell does not apply to the public sector.

Wikipedia points to Lehnert v. Ferris Faculty Association, which has:

"Non-chargeable expenses include: Lobbying, electoral, or other political activities not directly related to contract bargaining or implementation;[144] political or public activities aimed at winning a greater budget for the collective bargaining unit;[140] litigation or publications reporting on litigation that does not concern directly concern the bargaining unit;[145] and public relations efforts (including informational picketing, media purchases, signs, posters, and buttons) designed to enhance public respect for the workers' profession"

I'm not a lawyer and I'm not sure what the difference is between this upcoming case and that one. But it sounds like the supreme Court has already ruled that lots of the behavior I find objectionable is not chargeable as an agency fee to nonmembers.
This is truly a down moment, to be sure, but it's pretty telling that the site became too hard to maintain because it's written in old Perl.

I'm not a Perl hater. I like Perl! I got my start in Perl and spoke at a YAPC::NA a few years ago. It's telling, is all I'm saying. It tells us something.
cool! how'd you associate zuck to the jet?
Exactly - also increasing focus on critical thinking skills.
I would assume any good path tracer is a good ray tracer as well. If you start with a simple deterministic ray trace you can probably layer on a path tracer that doesn't require as many samples to produce a good image that's fast.
Agreed that is the bottom line.

This isn't a technology problem, it's a legal problem.

The technology isn't going away no matter who provides it and as long as it's legal someone will.
Yes there is lots of room. There is plenty of food. But what kind of place will the planet be in 100 years on our current trajectory? Pollution is being done on a grand scale. Deforestation too. What good is it to have all that land when it's polluted? As the world gets richer and people consume more it seems clear to me that the present path is not sustainable.

In my short lifetime I've seen drastic changes. I've been to many countries and to many national parks. I've seen the degradation and I know it constitutes anecdotal evidence. In the 70s things were not so bad. Now, it's terrible. Trash a much more common sight in the ocean and in reefs. Micro plastics everywhere. Deforestation. We have room, we have food but soon we won't have a decent place to live in. It'll be too polluted

I'm not smart enough and don't have enough moral insight to be able to determine who should be gotten rid of as you put it. That's too great a power for me to responsibly wield. I don't think anyone should be gotten rid of. I think people should breed less. But even though I haven't enough insight to say how to get to the desired outcome, less people, I know that it's the outcome we need.
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From the article:

> In recent years maintenance has become a burden. Most of the site is running 2005 era Perl code. Luckily, there is now a viable alternative: MetaCPAN.org. The MetaCPAN team has been getting ready for the transition and is nearly ready to take over. Shortly, a link will be added to all pages on search.cpan.org to inform users of the upcoming change. After about a month, all traffic will be redirected to the equivalent MetaCPAN page.

Existing search.cpan.org links will continue to work after the transition.
In the places that are exposed to the UV light.

You could have life that's 100m deep underwater, or living in protected structures (caves, etc). Life could evolve more protections against UV (e.g. some kind of carapace that the organism resides within).

Maybe the hard part is figuring out a way to use UV-heavy light to generate energy.
Then it seems I misunderstood you in the first place. I agree with you.
We use Hyperapp to power our most complex UIs (decision trees, onboarding sequences, etc.). We didn't need any of the existing React ecosystem for that, and by removing React, we saw several benefits:

1. Smaller library for faster page loads

2. Simpler API, docs and library made it easy to get started and understand what's happening behind the scenes as well as debug any issues we faced

3. We aren't supporting a project run by Facebook, which I personally view as a good thing given Facebook's many previous issues. Facebook's patent clause (while it no longer exists) was a factor in our original decision.

I would choose Hyperapp again for my company, and I use it for personal projects as well.
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I'm not sure what kind of phone you have, but on an iPhone you can set your phone to toggle B&W and normal color by triple clicking the home button.
Its exactly analagous. The government agencies want to implement this technology for the same reasons they do it in prisons - not for your benefit.
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DMCA 1201 needs a full repeal. But Congress consistently proved to be inept of doing it.
It ultimately comes down to Amdahl's law: doing something in a browser requires updating the DOM. Since you always have to do the DOM processing, the only way adding the extra virtual DOM work will be a net win is if it makes it easier to avoid unnecessary updates or allows something like ordering updates to avoid triggering repeated layouts / reflows[1].

Since updating the DOM is relatively fast in modern browsers it's not particularly hard to find cases where the work the virtual DOM has to do cancels out any savings.

1. See e.g. https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/r..., a list of triggers at https://gist.github.com/paulirish/5d52fb081b3570c81e3a, and https://github.com/wilsonpage/fastdom for a common technique to avoid it by manually ordering read operations before writes.
To be precise, they are having a net loss of 800 million a quarter. Their negative cash flow last quarter was over a billion.

Even the biggest Tesla bulls, like Adam Jones of Morgan Stanley, expect Tesla to raise cash this year. I have not seen any major analyst say otherwise: to the contrary, all of them do say they need a major cash raise. Goldman Sachs thinks it should be in excess of 3 billion, and up to 6 billion.
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Wow... I wouldn't have bet on this 10 years ago.
My grandparents on both sides lived in shack-house farms, far from any villages or towns or whatnot. This was after the family moved to Canada. They had large families (6+ kids), which was also common, and I suspect it was hard to be lonely surrounded closely by so many brothers and sisters and daughters and sons.
yes, thanks for the explanation!

i was just saying to a friend that the simple rice cookers (seem to) cook faster and make rice just as well as the fancy models but did not have this explanation in mind to back that up.
At the very least it should be much less of a leap to virtualize old PPC hardware on them, compared to doing the same on x86 or ARM.
I can tell you that the Guardian shifted noticeably to the right, attacking Corbin, insisting that the British left is full of antisemites, blindly supporting Israel and generally subscribing to US interventionism and a "us vs them" mentality. Now, I can imagine it's still far from being a neo-con newspaper in US terms, but for a newspaper that was considered the voice of the left, in a European context, that's more than enough.
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Does it work in ie9?
A commenter over at arstechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/new-speculative-exec...) found an old article explaining the optimization which led to this vulnerability: "Faster Load Times - Intel Core versus AMD's K8 architecture" https://www.anandtech.com/show/1998/5
It is a rather drastically simplified picture to talk about "tea" as one big undifferentiated product rather than an entire class of goods with wildly varying qualities and prices (then again I suppose that's also true of coffee to some extent, but I know less about it).
You forgot the classic third option, “Can I have sex with this?”