skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep coming back to that article everytime someone talks about big data :)
Design is cyclical in about 30 year cycles. Grunge is back in. Everything ugly is beautiful again.
>Why is ":" problematic exactly? It's more concise.

Anyone, including non-java programmers, can make an educated guess at what the "extends" keyword does to a java class.

The colon operator is contextless. Unless someone tells you or you've coded in c++/c#, you can't know for sure what it means without googling it.

Here's a case in point, my biggest bugbear with the nim documentation. When you first see nim code, you're gonna see the '@' operator pretty much immediately. You're going to wonder what it does, and google "nim @ operator". You'll then remember that googling symbols doesn't work very well, and google "nim at-symbol operator". Sooner or later, you'll find your way here:

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-opera...

The nim documentation helpfully says "Yes, the @ symbol is an operator".

So what does the @ operator do? It's a mystery, go fuck yourself, errr I mean figure it out for yourself!

If you ignore the mystery and move on with your learning you'll come back to it via the key word "seq" within about 10 minutes, but there's no easy way to search for it if you don't know that, and by the way what a frivolous waste of time.

Shorthand symbols are worth having, but they should be used only in cases where the coding speed benefit outweighs the readability loss. If you had to write "extends" in kotlin instead of use a colon, how often would you be doing it? If it's more infrequent than once every 2 minutes I would argue that "extends" is better because it's in natural language, and thus easier on average for new kotlin developers to understand /regardless of background/.
Vendor lock-in is what they're after in the cloud case. Every time we talk to our cloud provider reps they ask us which of their SaaS offerings we're using. Their heads spin when we tell them we're just using VMs and ask us why.
I am not making the argument that the behavior is ok. I'm showing that people in the past have complained about similar behaviors and stating that blaming the technology is probably not the right idea.
Hey, here's a crazy thought. Why don't we end the drug war? Then people can easily get safe drugs with accurate dosages.

The deaths, money laundering. They're not symptoms of drug dealers, they're symptoms of the drug war. We should clean it up, but it's naive to think that we should just "fight the drug war harder".
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>I followed him while he was alive and know a ton about his life.

Then you should know better than most what's wrong with your statement.

But, it seems that you misunderstood much. Look more carefully and you might gain a new appreciation for a life that you currently seem to believe is most accurately summarized as a descent into some sort of thug darkness.
Enumerating Active IPv6 Hosts for Large-Scale Scans via DNSSEC Reverse Zones
> What should I know about the program as an international founder?

> Applicants do not have to be United States citizens, but should be able to stay in California for at least three months for the program.

> It will be the responsibility of each applicant to ensure their team members have the proper paperwork in place to join.

> Do we have to be U.S. citizens?

> No, as long as you are legally permitted to operate your company and physically participate in the program (not virtual).

> Can you get us work visas?

> No, we won’t be able to handle any immigration related matters. If you need help, we can refer you to legal and immigration services teams.

Can someone decode this one for an EU citizen?
Embracing Light-Weight Microservices at Flywheel Sports
And what's up with the highlighting of (to me) seemingly random characters?
Furthermore, mammals have been eating dinosaur eggs for over 100 million years, humans have certainly continued this habit. Chances are very good that eggs are excellent nutrition for most humans.
The past decade of 0% interest rates has had a really bad effect on the economy.

It seems that most of the money in the world is flowing around in circles from one useless company to another and everyone has a useless office job to match.

The people who get paid the most are those who do the most useless work of all; pitching silly ideas to foolish investors and trying to predict the next hot useless trend in an economy that is founded on complete randomness.

...all in the hope that they too will one day acquire enough capital so that they can afford to start making their own random investment decisions about random trends in the economy and create more useless jobs in the process.
I've got a couple languages in mind that have "proper IDE" support, and the vscode experience with them is pretty fantastic as well, even if not perfect.
this is suggested frequently in these threads. it is already used in the very limited application where it is useful.

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

"It is also impossible to control attitude in all three axes even if the full three coils are used, because the torque can be generated only perpendicular to the Earth's magnetic field vector."

the non-earth orbiting mission i worked on didn't have any; it used little thrusters to desaturate its reaction wheels.
> With smart phones you can be a bad parent while being in proximity with your child. Its a new issue.

Having observed quite a number and variety of parents in proximity with their children over the years, I can quite confidently state that being a bad (in the sense of neglectful) parent in proximity to a child does not require a smartphone and is not a new issue.

And obviously being an even worse (abusive) parent in close proximity to a child really doesn't require a smartphone, and is equally not a new issue.

> I think in the old days bad parents were forced to be good parents sometimes because they had to look after their children.

No. You never had to look after your children except out of a desire not to be a maximally neglectful parent, either out of sense of duty or desire to avoid adverse social consequences. That hasn't changed.

> Now bad parents can be bad parents 24x7

They always could, and those “best” at being bad parents often were.
Yes, sort of, but that’s mainly useful for torque rather than thrust as thrust relies on (if I’m getting this right) field gradients rather than absolute field strength. It’s not nothing, but it might as well be.

I back-of-enveloped a launch system with a very big magnet on the ground, supplying a much steeper gradient to push against, and it was still crazy expensive.

(I wonder if it would be useful for skyhooks?)
> In addition to a Social Security number, users wishing to buy ads will need to provide a picture of a government-issued ID and a US mailing address. Once Facebook verifies the information submitted, the company will mail a code to the provided address to authorize the user's Facebook account to buy ads.

State actors more than likely...

1. have access to giant databases of Americans' personal info (including SSNs),

2. the ability to forge a genuine-looking fake ID (or photoshop a photo of one), and

3. the ability to conduct a well-timed mail-theft (American mailboxes are notoriously insecure, and they could use USPS Informed Delivery to know exactly when to do it).

I don't think these procedures will be effective against any of the entities that matter.
Symptoms suggest microwaves at work
Of course they can - and he can mute them and never see their responses. Practically the same as a block from Trumps point of view but without the legal problem.
You can choose to server-side render a page only for googlebot or other crawlers, no sure if it's worth the effort though.
A smartphone might well be a multiplier for addictive activities, but treating it as the object-of-hatred carries a risk of throwing the baby out with the bath-water.

Hate Facebook, if you like. Hate news services with apps. Hate the addictive ecosystems.

But hating the phone means biasing yourself even against phones with no addictive apps installed on them. It means fomenting a movement to get away from "smarts" in phones altogether, resulting in things like https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/1/17066494/li....

"Dumb smartphones" are a cute idea, but also a reactionary one; rather than just curating an apps marketplace to disallow these addictive activities, they entirely preclude this thing in your pocket from being a portable Turing machine, capable of achieving whatever functionalities you might want/need it to.

Consider an alternate world to our own, where we had had an established+successful smartphone-luddist movement for the last 5-10 years, most phones looked like the Light Phone, and you'd be breaking social norms to have a "full-fat" smartphone. Would these exist?

• ride-sharing apps

• WordLens (and its incarnation in Google Translate)

• password managers and TOTP 2FA (and mobile cryptocurrency wallets, if you like)

• podcasts

• maps with buildings and travel-times on them, and solid public-transit routing models

• competent voice-recognition (and thus the leaps-and-bounds-better accessibility for blind users we have today)

• the eBook ecosystem

• DSLR-quality phone cameras

• VoIP apps (and thus, the commoditization of cellular providers)

• streaming video-service mobile apps (and thus, demand for 4G cellular infrastructure)

All of these things are—at least in my opinion—unalloyed goods. None of them are addictive (or are addictive only to the background level of addiction we've already culturally come to terms with in entertainment products); they're just things that allow your smartphone to be the solution to a problem you've already set out to solve.

But, if we spin smartphones themselves as a cultural net-negative, I don't expect we'll see many more of these utility-type innovations.
Paradex is a decentralized exchange that's built on top of the 0x protocol.

DEXs are great because you can trade cryptocurrency pairs without trusting an intermediary (think Mt. Gox for why this is needed).

This move shows that Coinbase is serious about building a decentralized trading platform (unless this is just an acquihire which would be very disappointing).

Really exciting news!
Being a celebrity with loud political views is not the same thing as holding office.
The question was "what invention do you wish had never been created?"

This is not a very nice question for second grade - something is generally described as an invention if it solves a problem, so second graders are unlikely to have a realistic sense of how inventions could be bad.

The phone is the most visible "invention" to second graders and I find it more surprising that only 4 out of 21 said it - any reasonable answer to the question is likely to viral around the classroom.
> Remove the phone, and they'd still be addicted to those activities; they'd just be doing them somehow else.

Not necessarily. A smartphone makes a lot of activities much lower-friction than they would be otherwise, and often much higher-reward. This is enough to drastically change a lot of people's behavior.
A visitor visa typically disallows you from working, so I'd imagine not.
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Why is it impossible? Is it the amount of thrust that's generated that's impossible, or the mere concept of generating thrust from electromagnetic waves?

The reason that I'm asking is because light has momentum. If I shine a beam of light out the back of my spacecraft, then I will accelerate in the opposite direction. Not a lot, just a little.

Was EmDrive impossible because it was claimed to generate way more thrust than could be explained from the energy levels involved? (Edit: It looks like an additional reason it's impossible is because the EmDrive was claimed not to emit radiation, and rather keep it bouncing around in the cavity. Thanks for the replies and explanations!)

Imagine that I attach a 1 megawatt laser in the 630 nm spectrum to my spacecraft. From some rough calculations based on (1), it looks like the laser will generate about 0.003 newtons of thrust (equal to the weight of 0.2 pounds on Earth), which is very little thrust, and impractical for accelerating a spacecraft over regular time scales.

(1) Momentum of a laser beam: http://umdberg.pbworks.com/w/page/50455623/Momentum%20of%20a...
Circle acquiring Poloniex changed the game. The rumored assurances from regulators that Poloniex's prior KYC/AML transgressions would be ignored as long as Circle fixed them going forward was all it really took. Now we are seeing a huge wave of M&A deals while Coinbase uses its very strong financial position to buy up the the less compliant but cashflow-rich overseas exchanges. In particular I wouldn't be surprised to see a huge deal such as Coinbase acquiring BitFinex/Tether at a greatly reduced price w/ some negotiated deal with US regulators to phase out Tether as long as holders can prove their Tether balances were acquired legitimately.

That said, if trading is the killer app for Bitcoin/Crypto [0] in general - what is the point of this whole business? For example most of the genuinely innovative things I've seen on the ETH blockchain like 0x (the backbone of Paradex), dydx (decentralized derivatives) and related technologies or higher level platforms like relayers and decentralized exchanges involve trading. Which begs the question - what tokens are actually worth trading in the first place? Is all this value really justified by CryptoKitties?

Just making HFT bots to trade around a bunch of monopoly money that is useless other than hype-driven speculation? I'm sure this could continue for way longer than I and other skeptics expect, as it already has before, but the whole cryptocurrency sector seems fairly irrational to me. And I say that as someone who was VERY interested/knowledgable about bitcoin during the 2013 bubble, to the point where I was hanging out on IRC channels like #bitcoin-wizards, discussing BIPs etc.

[0] - https://tradingplacesnewsletter.com/move-over-crypto-enthusi...
Fashion moves reliably in cycles of twenty years. It's entirely expected that 1998's visual styling looks fresh again in 2018, always filtered through an ironic-nostalgic lens of varying density.
I mean... Google has being running javascript for while now.
> judging a parent for spending a lot of time on their smartphone at home is simply wrongheaded. You have to ignore the phone (the medium), and look at what they're actually doing (the activity.)

I do not agree with this. Just because you're doing some important work on your phone doesn't mean it's not bad parenting, if you should be interacting with your child instead.
Actually no you don't have to, if the claim breaks some fundamental property like conservation of energy or momentum. Tremendous skepticism is most warranted.
Fake news? ;-)
Previous posts:

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12472905

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908462

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16810756
> ...the highlighting of singular characters in words in a different color.

In case it wasn't obvious they've highlighted the letters for "Yellow".
> This meme that people from Eastern Europe or India are less capable purely because they live in lower cost-of-living economies is a disgrace.

To be clear: I didn't say that.

> I also doubt that the advantage of being a native English speaker matters much if you cannot express yourself in a clear and concise manner, which has less to do with country of origin, and more to do with your grasp of the subject at hand and your ability to think straight.

You need to both have a firm grasp of the subject matter and be able to speak a shared language fairly well. There are lots of companies where the overhead of dealing with somebody who doesn't speak English well and is in a vastly different timezone just doesn't make sense. I mean, when you're dealing with technical subjects, below a certain level of fluency, it's hard to even know if the other person understands the subtleties of what you're talking about.
I don't know much about Erlang - wouldn't it be able to interface with HTTP in the same way?
Difficulty levels have been a thing for over 20 years.
Mitsubishi makes a very good example. I remember back in the '80s being struck by an issue of Consumer Reports that reviewed two different Mitsubishi products - one was a car, the other a can of tuna fish.

American companies aren't diversified in the same way because investors realized that breaking up a conglomerate maximizes the stock prices - the underperforming parts put a damper on the stock.
Traditionally, American conglomerates flourish in high-interest-rate environments, such that the money emitted by profitable verticals can be used to subsidize growing/unprofitable verticals, all beneath a single centralized authority which overtly acknowledges its legal and financial control of the subsidiaries.

Conversely, when money is cheap, you can just incorporate all your verticals as freestanding entities (aka "startups"), often beneath a decentralized control structure (aka "cabal of venture capitalists who collude with one another") through which you maintain influence over them without incurring any of the unpleasant legal ramifications caused by explicitly linking the verticals together in the eyes of the law. You can do this latter decentralization thing since you're freed from the frequent need to move money between verticals, and can instead just pump money into them (if necessary) every year or two (aka "funding rounds").

However, I have no clue how Asia works.
MI6 didn't exist until just prior to ww1
Rust SGX SDK v1.0.0 released
> Grunge is back in.

Keep it.
ah then you guys would have loved my home page back in 1998. Pretty sure I used this exact color scheme, although I think I had a really horrible logo in there too.
Yesterday I was leaving a grocery store at the same time as another customer who had 3 kids with her. I got into my car and noticed the family getting into the car next to mine.. being a polite guy I kinda waited a bit for them to pack in to the car and also to wait for them to drive off. After about 3 minutes I was still waiting but being polite wasn't watching closely. Finally I had to see why they were taking so much time. The 3 kids were just sitting in the back seat quietly and the mother was just messing around on her phone. soo this is a thing.
I read those reasons they switched back to Java, and frankly, I like how things are done in Kotlin better than Java (unless it's identical). I'm not sure what the complaining is about. Looks like the main reason is they don't want to learn a new language.
It spells out Yellow, if you read the highlighted characters in order.
It is also much more likely for such a discovery to appear at the edge of our knowledge where our understanding of the rules is at least a bit fuzzy (like near black holes and whatnot). Something like EmDrive, which is in a regime that has been exhaustively tested, would be like discovering that Bin Laden was hiding in the Oval Office all along.
So, you really took my post and ran with it, and it's not the first time this has happened. I see you didn't copypaste that text and you actually typed it out, so just to state it clearly, I did not say it must be some kind of astroturfing, and I did not say some astroturfing must be happening because no one could possibly post X in good faith. I stated I've noticed strongly pro-PRC posts which are also anonymous, and I find it interesting. You took my use of the word "brigaded" to assume that I implied an astroturfing context and that is not the case. I suppose in the same spirit of this thread, you're saying that brigading can only happen in an astroturfing context, which is as much a toxic idea as accusations of astroturfing in the first place. Also, I do not have faith in anyone's ability to detect any kind of astroturfing but the lowest-hanging fruit. It does happen as stated here, but having worked in some shitty companies in my time, it's basically impossible to detect (let alone prevent) if it's done with really any amount sophistication.
But you are missing the part where Trump is allowed to pick the private company, and is thus able to pick one which enforces a ToS that the government would not be able to enforce themselves. This creates a loophole where by the government only has to pick private companies that ban anyone who is against the current government to get a defacto censor on the public square that wouldn't otherwise be allowed.
Not sure what SEO issues you're talking about, since many search engines index React apps properly even with no server rendering.

Also child comments are talking about it being a waste of developer time and server resources. If the developer saved time doing the React version instead of using a static site builder, was it really a waste of time?

Finally, if there's ever a next step for this site having to convert from a static version to a dynamic one could suck.

I have to wonder if this is criticism just for the sake of having something negative to say. Does anybody really think the kind of micro-optimizations these comments perpetuate are really worth making it a more complex problem?

Props to the devs of this site for using what they wanted and felt was best for their use case.
> Fashion moves reliably in cycles of twenty years. It's entirely expected that 1998's visual styling looks fresh again in 2018,

But it's 1998s bad amateur design, which didn't look fresh in 1998, either.
What I am trying to say is that Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Fusion 360, and many of the other products he mentions are not technically AutoCAD. I was differentiating, as I thought others were, between Autodesk the company and AutoCAD the specific product.
The difference is owning major assets. Be it a company, many housing investments, office spaces, factories, big farms, major amounts of stocks, financial institutions etc.
Secondary, amount of political and medial power and pressure wielded.

Finally, a condition wether your own labour is not technically required for survival.

Most petit bourgeoisie still has to work, does not wield direct (individual) political power nor has big enough assets to survive despite major downturns.

The difference from proletariat is that they can rent and hire labour. Sometimes they get to manage it too.
It looks like garbage.
What's your definition of quackery? I have always thought of it as a claim in the absence of experimental evidence.
How can you honestly compare the "addiction" to using a landline phone with the addictiveness of modern smartphones and social media? Yeah there were some chatty-Cathy moms that were on the phone 24/7 but those were restricted to the home, and originally, to wherever the base unit of the phone in the home was, with a physical cable. I don't think it's a massive leap of logic to assume that the number of households this affects has drastically increased as smartphones have gotten increasingly cheap and ubiquitous over the past few years.
Keeping it brief is good and all but maybe give him a link to the website in question and also mention what would be the topic of your podcast?
> They've just made it less legible

I think they have severely facilitated bad parenting. They've made it easy.

In the past, if a borderline bad parent was faced with hanging out at home with their child vs going out to the bar, they might very well have stayed home whereas the same parent would opt for the dating app. It's gotten much easier to make the bad choice.
The Future of AI Depends on High-School Girls
https://visualgo.net/en is super cool!
Thanks for posting it
No, I have never heard of bears. What is a bear? And what do bears have to do with humans?
Being able to use one framework instead of two.