skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry I offended. These aren't rumors just things we've been blogging about, etc. and I'll own being unclear. The Electron and UWP bits are things we've tossed around internally. I don't want to give more details because then it's more then I really know, which is unfair to the teams really working on it, etc.
At least the article doesn’t say how much the founder made. It may well be just the investors that got shafted.
At the current rate we will soon have phones with 8GB RAM and who knows how many cores not having to rewrite same code 3 times in 3 lang. will def. be catching on more.
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I think students who know they don't want to do mostly web dev need to avoid computer science and go for a computer engineering degree instead. They'll get the engineering depth they need there. I was able to get my BsCpE with a SE concentration and avoid some of the EE classes because I knew I wanted to do mostly software anyway.
It's a society-wide majority opinion of tit-for-tat.
> turns out teenagers were only bird hunting as a novelty

If a teenager can grab 20 bucks with minimal effort they're definitely going to be doing it. One big leaky part of the plan is that it doesn't seem scale to non-big-cities like Uber can/did.
That's the basic idea of humanism. I don't find it worrying at all.
I always dislike it when the Amiga 1200 is mentioned as a forerunner to modern computing and the wonderful, albeit buggy, Atari 1040ST, released in 1985, is totally forgotten about

Using the Motorola 680000 with 32 bit internal/16 bit external buses and color bit-mapped graphics, my ST, hardware wise, totally blew away all other PCs from a technical POV and it just annoys me when the Amiga gets all this love the and the ST gets none whatsoever.
Netflix seems to be hedging their bets by partnering with T-Mobile, the company aiming to bring 5G wireless to the US. As for Alphabet, I'm submitting this comment via my 1Gbps synchronous Google Fiber internet connection. Google seems to have stalled rollout of Fiber, however.
There actually is some gae specific authentication

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/conf...

But it has nowhere near the features of Firebase Auth.
Weirdly it feels like it might lead to more inaccuracies to have everything re-keyed many times, due to variances in how people remember things and enter subtly different information in forms on subsequent occasions.
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Are they actually compiling JavaScript (or TypeScript) ahead of time to native code? I was under the impression that AOT compilation wouldn't work well for JS because of its dynamism, hence the JIT compilers in all the web browsers.

Or are they merely compiling TypeScript to JavaScript and minifying/bundling/etc. the source code, the way React Native normally works?
I think it reduces some mental load because it documents the interface: you don't have to look up which flags are valid for which functions, the types tell you.

Plus, with a small amount extra code you can do things like iterate over all the flags that are set etc.
JavaScript general utility: lodash and jQuery. For dates and currency: Moment.js and the numeral.js but I don't consider then "general utility" so much as "not infrequently needed."
I hate to play the role of the grouch, but I read it after constantly hearing about it and think it's definitely worth reading, but the book just isn't that good. The writing was poor and it tried to force narratives on events with a heavy hand. The actual history in it is cool but mostly lacking technical details which would have made it more interesting. It's worth reading if you already find Carmack interesting but keep your expectations low so you're not disappointed like I was. It's a fast and easy read though so it won't take long to try it regardless of who's opinion you listen to.

Thinking about how much Carmack has been up to since that book was written is super cool.
I'm not sure, since it doesn't introduce the notion of detailed balance, whether this article really deals meaningfully with the use of Markov chains at all.

It doesn't bring out the fact that the Markov chain transition probabilities have to be tuned to explore the parameter space. The relative efficiency of MCMC versus a naive random sampling approach depends on this leveraging of detailed balance so that the correlations of the Markov chain work in favour of the experiment.

So given that the article introduces this notion of a random walk, so it seems like it's going to discuss the Metropolis algorithm, it's not great that it ducks the main issue which is why a correlated Markov chain random walk is a useful approach.

The key is that it's a "conditioned" random walk, and the method by which it is conditioned is the real trick to MCMC (at least to Metropolis, which is the cool kind.)
this js-is-not-a-real-language stand is only to be expected from someone like a professor or a computer science student. universities and educational institutions in general will always be the last ones to adapt to changes, after the rest of society has moved forward, and they will try imposing those conservative opinions on everyone who are not in their camp. times are changing, computers are becoming more complex and we need more abstractions too. and the ignorant js-is-only-a-scripting-language statement is simply not true anymore.
While I do think this is an interesting argument, I fear that this may somehow be spinned into the toxic masculinity narrative.

edit: I'm getting downvoted for adding to an argument with an unpopular opinion?

It would be more educative of people responding to me to tell how I'm wrong, instead of just downvoting.
The role of empathy in decision making is allowing us to understand the other, and bring their mental state into our own larger decision making process. Empathy in and of itself is not a decision making tool.

I suspect you really do have firmer grounding for your position, but haven't performed the introspection necessary to figure out the boundaries of your position, or how to articulate them. And that's fine. Many people have the luxury to never be tested.

If we take the reductive approach of only using empathy, we wind up doing whatever it is that the other wants. Such a system has no room for doing what we think is the right response to the situation, because it has no mechanism for determining responses beyond those considered by the other. It leaves no room for personal self-determination because it has no way to evaluate our wants against another's. And has no way to handle a situation where you empathize with two people holding conflicting desires. I know I'm unfairly stretching an idea past it's breaking point, but that's sort of my point...

There must be a higher-order decision making process.

Frankly, I consider the way people frequently speak of "empathy" as an attempt to hide that process. Hiding it from just me, the world, or maybe from themselves too.
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BREAKING NEWS: A free service on the web monitors how you use it.
> keep the graphics card and throw away the legacy CPU

If you throw away the CPU, how do you run general purpose programs (of which games are one type)? If the graphics card can run them, why are you not calling it a CPU?

The Amiga had a CPU :) Never owned one, but I understand a key feature was that graphics were very easy to program (mapped to main memory, or so a friend who owned one told me).
Change mouse brand to surreptitiously become another person without telling a single lie or changing any normal user data :)
Plus: At least Instagram and Messenger will force you to enable the microphone to let you use the camera even if just to take pictures. Now I always take pictures from the Camera app and simply load it into the app instead of giving them permission to use the microphone.
Redirects to history.nl for me, with no article to be found.

(I'm not even in the Netherlands, and my browser doesn't ask for Dutch via Accept-Language.)
Try plotting a 2x10000 range in libreoffice. Takes > 2 Mon just to render the graph. I'd be happy to provide the CSV to anyone interested
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The trouble with D3 is the banner right at the top of the homepage, full of beautiful visuals. Beauty is great, but clarity has to come first. And clarity is partly driven by what the audience is familiar with. For most audiences, scatter plot, line plot, bar chart, and maybe parallel coordinate plot. Possibly a map as well, although plots on top of maps are famously easy to misinterpret if you don't know what you're doing when you make them. Engineering disciplines have their own specialized visualizations like Smith Charts and carpet plots.

The complexity of designing a plot comes with how you compose together the basic elements. The consumer of the plot will want insets or annotations, two plots overlaid or juxtaposed. Error bars. It's very easy to get overwhelmed if your starting point is trying to design beautiful visuals. D3 will let you build all the needed complexity, but if you start by copying a beautiful plot, you'll soon find yourself overwhelmed, unable to deal with beauty and complexity at the same time, struggling to reconcile new functionality with the initial design.

My advice is to make the simplest possible plot of your data (one of the basic types, monochrome if you can get away with it), and figure out whether you need to add anything once you and your customer have tried to work with it.
Just about everything uses an API to the CPU/OS/GPU. We're really just drawing lines in the sand and placing goalposts. Sometimes it shifts back and forth.

Honestly the distinction is pretty useless as far as reading/writing production code goes. What really changes in your development mindset between compiled vs. scripting languages? You still want to write working, maintainable, and performing code in both.

It's a useful distinction when teaching programming to show the different ways things boil down to primitive instructions.
I'm not sure why people fail to account for it, the IRS does the hard work and comes up with $0.53 per mile, so for most people just calculate how many miles you're traveling in a year and multiply by that, or add 20% to have a safe buffer. That includes the cost of gas, tire/oil changes, routine brake work.

Or every time you go somewhere, the cost of a roundtrip is the number of miles to reach your destination, in dollars (since each mile costs around 50 cents, or more). Plus some for tolls and the rising gas costs, but a 20% buffer should take care of that.

If you have a luxury car, add another 20% or 30%.
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> Moreover, it shows how you basically need to re-implement Virtual DOM and other tricks in vanilla JS code to approach the same speed.

Surplus [1] is the fastest in most benchmarks, and it doesn't use a virtual DOM.

[1] https://github.com/adamhaile/surplus
But C# can run on WebAssembly!
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>it's not for spying on users but to improve the user experience

So, it's for spying on users. What happens then?
I'm in the Netherlands, and have the same problem
Isn't it about time? The "32" ought to be a clue...
I am slightly surprised by the choice to use ECMAScript instead of WebAssembly.
Einstein's travel diaries reveal attitudes towards people he met in Asia
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Err yeah, get your three phase power fitted now :)
Same here in Spain. Utterly retarded.
My hope would be for an improved mobile app for iOS.
I for one welcome our new Libre Office overlords.
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This is right, its more nativeish apis and webview for UI and friends. Worthy Snipe and misinformation on my part in thread.
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Really the choice of language is unlikely to be the cause of any slowness you are experiencing in different versions. JS can be faster than a native experience, all depends on program architecture. The main JS engines are blazing fast and a low-latency UI is perfectly possible; sluggishness is not a sacrifice you must accept when coding in nearly any language in 2018. But bad practices in any language can lead to a poor user experience.
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will that work with gdpr? it sounds ok but i am not sure
I thought this was a parody on the impact of video games to our current population.

I was wrong.
At least here in the UK, all high-quality CS courses emphasise a functional language in the first year. The rigour and purity is important for teaching abstract concepts.
"We think you may have Parkinson's, your driver's license has been suspended until you can confirm your fitness to drive. Also you're no longer registered to vote"
I find that Google Charts is great when I need simple charts:

https://developers.google.com/chart/

High quality, very good browser support, good docs, and well-maintained. There are wrappers out there for React/Vue/whatever too
Earnest question from someone without much front-end knowledge: how is browser-based mouse tracking performed in a way that doesn't significantly degrade performance?

Do they use some type of client-side library that caches data for a while and asynchronously uploads it occasionally? Or occasionally try to asynchronously sample the mouse position and just get a coarser set of data?

It seems like real-time requests that respond to mouse changes would create huge performance problems and/or be easily stopped with browser extensions.
Happy to take the blame :) It was too interesting a tidbit not to share though.
Can I ask, what does "assets get wasted if they don't get comsumed" mean?

Also, I agree with emergent situations, as a gamer, I'd call myself an "explorer" I'll check every nook and cranny, often, with modern games, I end up breaking things because I go places I shouldn't yet, instead of following what the developer expected of me.

As for replayability, I agree that it has mostly been lost, but, I don't feel it's a bad thing. I have a backlog of games on various systems to last me several more years, and I continue to buy games at a pace that means it'll sustain for some time to come.

Coupled with increasingly less time to game as I get older, I struggle to play some games at all.

Fallout 3 and Oblivion were two of my favs, New Vegas and Skyrim sit in their plastic wrap since day one, as I haven't found the time to commit to them. Fallout 4 got some 60 hours of my time compared to Fallout 3 in which I spend over 400 hours.

I don't play COD, or similar games, their "experience" is too shallow and linear, and it's easy to just keep them out of my backlog.

I want a game with a solid deadline that I can shelve when I'm done and move on in the backlog. The really greats will get a special "shelf" where they'll come back out, or are given to friends with similar taste.
Isn't that an argument from final consequences? Whether bottleneck for the Y chromosome is based on female sexual selection or wars between patrilineal clans (or potentially some other as of yet unknown cause), we shouldn't accept the likelihood of an explanation based on it's relation to political narratives of today.
You realise it is because it is called “Lake Superior”, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior
Agricultural producers have razor thin margins almost anywhere in the world and face strong international competition. The rent seeking landowner gouging consumers through food prices is an ideological fantasy. Quite the opposite, there is a strong tendency to overproduction and subsidies.

A large land tax in such an ECON101 postcard-perfect market will immediately increase the costs of inputs to the point where production no longer makes economic sense. Either through decreased production or tariff protectionism the food prices will rise, passing the tax to consumers.

That's not say taxes are always passed down to consumers, that's a pure straw-man you conjure to hurl insults. But in these two cases, they are, to an overwhelming degree.
Just C in year 1 seems a bit limiting. What was the focus? Electronic engineering a big part also?

My year 1 was Turing, Haskell, Fortran, Mathematica (certainly a language); tackling problems with multiple methodologies. Prolog in year 2, and then go from there depending on what you select. Java was not yet 'a thing' though I understand it took over the role of Turing for year 1 quickly later.
Google Charts is an option I use a lot - surprised more people don't know about it. Maybe just because it was developed before the hip new land of React? (A bunch of react wrappers exist for it though)

https://developers.google.com/chart/
No harm done <3
Redirects to www.historytv.se in sweden
For everyone having trouble accessing the article, here's a paste: https://pastebin.com/raw/S229NyJW

Actually, it's interesting reading an article with just text and nothing else. It kind of makes me want a text-based browser mode that works on modern sites.
Yes, of course, I'm sure Facebook only uses this data for usability studies. I'm also sure they could pretext all other tracking they do to some other marginally positive use case.
I'm curious, what do y'all actually like about Vue over React? I spent over two months doing proof-of-concept migration work for an AngularJS to (React-Redux|Vue-Vuex) and, other than the component-data wiring it does internally, I found it to be worse in nearly all respects.

Despite being an "opinionated" framework, Vue provides so many escape hatches and alternatives that it, in practice, hardly seems opinionated. Additionally, the templating language it promotes seems like a step backwards compared to JSX render functions. As it were, the "unopinionated" React, by offering a small handful of primitives, ends up making things simpler and more ergonomic to work with.

I really can't seem to grok why folks like Vue over React.
The UI system in Blender is a part of Blender and not a reusable library or framework.
The ST was not as good as the Amiga, that's why. The only advantage it had over the Amiga was the slightly higher CPU speed, because the Amiga's was reduced to keep in sync with the hardware it had. The hardware being what it needed to trounce the ST. You only have to look at the range and quality of games for each to see what I mean. ST ports always had that muddy look to them.
>But I think you need to be careful between labeling people as political shills, since even political shills can make good points from time to time.

Yes, I don't dismiss political points of view outright, but the language he uses and the phrases he uses, it's fairly obvious he's trying to convince the reader of his position by discrediting the education of the counterpoint rather than using points of his own. It's intellectual dishonesty wrapped in a false shroud of academia for people who can't tell the difference.

I'll wager free air that if you read is articles over time, he starts to contradict himself depending on which political party is in power. This article seems to be written when the whole austerity thing was going on when the Dems were in office. I suspect now that the GOP is in office, he's ok with government spending, or he ignores it altogether. (actually it appears he's no longer writing for Forbes).
I have written a blog post on macaroons for you: http://evancordell.com/2015/09/27/macaroons-101-contextual-c...

It may be sufficiently half-baked (not because I'm unfamiliar with the material but because I'm not sure I wrote it for the right audience).
> 38. I realized what a terrible thing is the self-esteem of a boy or a youth: it’s better to steal than to ask. That self-esteem and boastfulness are what make boys sink to the bottom.

Sounds like start up culture. Move fast and break things. Better to do than to ask permission.
My wife is very self-righteous about her lack of "need to sleep" - she stays up all night, sleeps four or five hours, and goes on and on about how she's just "wired differently" than the rest of us and doesn't need as much sleep as us "lesser mortals". Then as soon as I turn on the car or start a movie, she's out like a light.
In Finland I get historytv.fi. Google Cache to the rescue: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ehTZ26r...
Redirects to https://www.history.co.uk/ for me. Stupid.

Google's cache works.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ehTZ26r...
I wonder how much of global warming is caused by inefficient code written in higher level languages requiring more powerful hardware to run. It might be infinitesimal but still non-zero.
Really? Currently, I think video games are a terrible way to tell a story. Much worse than a book, tv show, or movie.

The way games are used as a narrative medium is by shoving movies inside them and forcing you to watch them instead of actually playing the game. Its like going to the movie theater, being handed a book, and told to read the book while we pause the movie between two scenes.

Obviously some games are exceptions, but they are few and far between.
I have a hard time with these studies because they obviously had an agenda before they started.

Rural areas likely do not have as much communication with friends and the income to support a tech lifestyle.

While you grow up in the suburbs, you see your friends get the latest video games, you spend more time online. One day you decide you want to 'hack' and 10 years later you are making apps and websites.

There seemed to be a culture among my friends that math/tech was extremely important. I know my sister had very little interest, they'd play outside with my both male and female neighbors who none ended up being good at math/tech.
We absolutely should stop research into chemo- and radio- therapies as cancer treatments because they may kill the patient.

Is this article a satire?
Ask HN: Why are there so many new job boards
Hi there!

Today I was just doing some research and noticed that right now there is a huge number of new "niche" job boards.

Especially within the "remote work niche" I found a couple of sites like:

- https://remoteok.io/

- https://weworkremotely.com/

- https://remote.co/remote-jobs/

They are basically all of the same scrappy type and design and are nothing special, but they seem to be thriving.

My questions:

Why is there suddenly a huge number of these boards? I mean nothing has changed technology wise, but somehow these businesses must make sense now.

What is the business model of these sites? The traffic potential for these sites is not that great and the job board niche itself is a tough nut to crack - is there still enough money in it to make it work?

And additionally, if you are an employer: What would you make use some of these sites instead of the entrenched brands?
I flubbed the link to jackhammer questions last night: http://bash.org/?866112
I'm not an expert in this domain, but something seems a little off to me. Are we saying that all male populations around the planet 5000 to 7000 years ago were engaged in serious clan wars, or are we just focused on the Asian and/or African continents?

What about populations in Australia, the Pacific Islands and other places?
Treating unknown packet as "hack" is stupid.

Didn't we learn that from icmp blocking break path MTU discovery already?
The graph looks fairly different if you scale it to the price of bitcoin
Why is it so "shocking"? Discussing racial differences was more common in his time, and being a great scientist does not necessarily coincide with general wisdom.

I hope this story will help people realize that we should not ban the work of people who have said problematic things.
I'm genuinely confused as why this is getting so much attention. The NativeScript-Vue integration is out for over a year already. It fulfils exactly the same purpose, without the additional strange cross-compilation/transpilation.