skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Researchers at the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma found that if two people share negative feelings about a third person, they are likely to feel closer to each other than they would if they both felt positively about him or her.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate
My brother got lenses in Hsi occulus and watches TV inside the virtual theatre a lot. It was also really sharp and nice for me. Wouldn't use it to fully replace my screen but it's really not that bad
Take for example most "scientific" research into anything related to health and nutrition. Most of what we think we know about health, proper food consumption and exercise is science fiction and speaks to the ultimate agenda of the funding or otherwise affiliated organizations behind a particular study or institution under which it takes place.
Is that a rhetorical question, or do you really not know?
Good post.

I’m constantly trying to learn both sides of the fence as a startup founder and angel investor.

I truly believe learning how to be a better angel investor also helps one be a better startup founder, and vice versa.

Two sides to the same coin.

One of my biggest takeaways from the in-person YC Startup Investor School is how truly important reputation is.

While I’ve always worked hard to develop a good reputation, it was reinforced just how incredibly important reputation and crystal clear communication is between founders and investors.
> You'll universally find a much better healthcare system (e.g. health insurance not tied to your employer), with the exception of the UK.

The NHS has something of a funding crisis right now, since our government seems to secretly want to privatize it, but it's still better than losing your health insurance if you lose your job.
revolutionary_battery_tech_news++
Not sure. Look at any symmetric figure, and compare it with a real flower, or a leaf, or a bee. Which is more beautiful? The former looks dead in comparison. I think the laws of nature are more similar in their "beauty" to the latter.
Harassment? The guy was a drug dealer with a lot of drugs in his car, and they tried to ask him if they could search his car. I’d say that’s about as far from harassment as it gets.
Ask HN: Why there is no more leaks/news from Wikileaks.org?
Latest leaks in wikileaks dated at 9 November 2017, and latest news dated at 8 November 2016. What happens to wikileaks?
>Would that be possible without OSS?

In the case of Mac OS, probably. UNIX licenses are available and it's not like Apple has exactly turned Darwin into a vibrant open source community.

As far as large web and cloud services more broadly? It would certainly be a much different world.
Yes, Mozilla made mistakes (I think you mentioned the biggest ones), but they also did things right. Every of these mistakes was solved. Firefox OS was solved as well; it got us Servo/Quantum. The question is do you forgive their mistakes, or what is your alternative? The most popular browser, Google Chrome, is still worse when it comes to privacy.
How good is your diet? Does it provide all the needed macro and micro nutrients for your body to work effectively?
Platform Moats: Your superior technology does not matter as much as you think
Wouldn’t a spreadsheet program be easier and would not require trusting a third party with data about your income and your expenses?

Especially since you might want to revisit the same sheet over time to add or remove people, add or remove expenses, or change the weighting, specifically without needing to store that data with a third party or maintain a separate sign-in credential to access a history of data.
Not sure how you could disentangle the effects of the civil war on inflation in that period.
> The focus seems to be on the temporary nature.

For the DOL, yes. For you too, maybe. But for the individual involved, probably both intents are in equal importance, and that is perfectly legal and moral.
That’s fair. I just don’t trust police to be good judges of that. We can’t even get them to stop obstructing investigations by turning off their body cameras.
I was misinformed (or remembered incorrectly) about the founding/media blitz sequencing. Thanks for informing me.
I had no idea about the situation in Germany, but it's a well-known fact that the current power of the Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical industry comes from the lack of patents law in Switzerland during the late 19th century[1]: a few French chemists moved to Switzerland to circumvent the French patents.

A well-known example is Alexander Clavel who, in 1859, founded Ciba AG, a silk-dyeing business using a French patent with no license. Ciba later became Ciba-Geigy, which later became Novartis. One of the biggest pharma corp in the world today.

Source: Swiss National Museum, Zurich.

[1] : Patents were only introduced in the Swiss law in 1907.
I recorded process of JavaScript lib creation and then an webapp using it
If someone gossips to you, you can safely assume they are also gossiping about you. Knowing this about them is valuable.
Has anyone ever experienced a time where assigning member variables on a function made sense?

The thing I love about python is the freedom to do whatever I want and the responsibility to almost never do it. I crave examples of exceptional cases.
You can compare it with that. It's just built up entirely transparent and open and backed by a non-profit organization.
Yes but the interesting aspect of this is that they had to make a specific rule for this case. In the general case of "filing nonsense" the system fails.
Process innovation and best practices is not generally something that gets IP protection.

AS for the article: The richest countries have strong IP protections, generally, that might indicate something.

Certainly creative trademarks, brands etc. - I don't like Disney but I think they have the right to protect Mickey Mouse so long as they are a viable entity/business.

Drugs ... this is one place where innovation might come to a halt of things could not be protected. I'm aware Unis do a lot of key research, but bringing something to market is hugely expensive.

Also remember a lot of patents are defensive in nature - their only purposes is to prevent trolls. So that's a sad artifact of it all.

No doubt the system needs an overhaul.
I get the sense from reading the book that a lot of the fraud Holmes perpetrated was with the intent of buying time and pushing forward with a finalized product. It's still fraud, of course, but fraud with a vision I guess you could say.
Not sure if this was studied here, but I wonder if it's really "humans" or if its humans of modern-day, industrialized, "western" culture. E.g., do indigenous populations have the same effect on animals?
THT v0.2.0 – a language that compiles to PHP
It's hidden away now, you have to open the "Page Info" window, available most-readily from the page's context menu, then go to the Feeds tab, select a feed and hit the subscribe button that appears, and it'll take you to the feed itself, where Fx shows its subscription interface (which you can get to directly if the page is helpful enough to provide its own link to the feed, as I think WordPress used to do by default in its meta links section back in the day).

However there's a distinct possibility said subscription interface will go away in future. (Whether or not the list of feeds in Page Info would go away at the same time is less clear)
"I disagree with/don't understand/don't like $thing" does not imply "$thing is irrational."
Does inequality cause suicide, drug abuse and mental illness?
First law of battery tech headlines: it’s all vaporware unless it’s shipping in laptops.
Actual paper [1].

They don't have a battery yet. Just a "half-cell".[2] They have the cathode side, but not the anode side, apparently.

This group has access to all the good toys. They're doing X-ray crystallography with a synchrotron beam line. They have a scanning tunneling microscope with a 3-axis nano-manipulator.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04476-2
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-cell
I actually had to think, before realizing you meant it runs on android/Linux, but not gnu/Linux..
I also thought that, but `math.factorial` is a builtin, and so you cannot get the signature of it, and the code can't determine how many operands the command needs. This is similar to the `self.stack.clear()` example. (`signature(math.factorial)` gives "ValueError: no signature found for builtin <built-in function factorial>")
That's the thing, you're new to Windows and thus are learning the optimum way to use the interface as it is now. And yes, just hitting the Windows key and typing is the easiest way to get what you want. But that wasn't always there, and when it was it wasn't the best way. Existing users had grown accustomed to picking what they wanted from a list. It was this disruption in their workflow that upset people.

In Windows 95 and NT 4 it was indeed horrible and there were as many complaints about the original start menu as there was the full-screen one. This was mostly handled starting with Windows 2000 by having the first few icons in the menu be frequently used items. The things you use 90% of the time were no more than two clicks away. (One if you pin it to the task bar.)

Search was added in Vista but was unreliable because the word matching wasn't predictable. Today I was having to use regedit on Windows 7 and the icon wouldn't be shown until I typed the 'd'. Windows 10 improved a lot, though I still am befuddled why it decides to show or not show certain things.

Also, it's further confused by their being two searches. The box you see when you press the Windows key or icon isn't the same as the Cortana bar. Add to that that opening a link to a website from there will always send you to Edge. It's easy to be skeptical about what Microsoft will do with search in the future. How will you feel if in three years they do away with the search box that you've become accustomed to?
You're thinking about this from the perspective of a developer, rather than the population at large. Suggest building a spreadsheet to one of your non-technical friends or family for something like this and you'll get a blank stare.
> to pad their statistics for how much media they have or to focus on product placement shots.

The important point here though is that this has nothing to do with Netflix. They don't demand a certain length nor do they require product placement. That's all on the producers and creators of the show.

If the show runners want to make a bunch of money with product placement, that's their creative tradeoff.
"Prominent physicists and biologists couldn’t care less what private companies are doing."

Unless, of course, they are sniffing around looking for funding. Consider for example the current NIH/alcohol kerfuffle.
> Silly Valley

I hope that typo was intentional, because it’s accurate.
SkyPod: rethinking the elevator as a vertical Maglev
I always found it confusing that the lithium solution is most of the mass of the battery but all of the energy is in the anode and cathode.
I think it's more about human occupied area than modernity. There just isn't much space which doesn't have constant human presence through it.
Thanks for bringing this up!

It can be addressed with warmer LED's, filtered LED, narrow-band LED... trouble is the bulk of the market is at 4K & 5K white balance, so that's the default choice to put in.

The good news about LED is, due to more even color profile, they can use dramatically less lux, but that requires adjustment to lighting level too.
But you said “modern science”, so I assume you can back up your claims in physics and chemistry as well?
Sure, but that doesn't make it "terrible and terrifying". It is literally life saving in certain circumstances.
I guess this is an example of communicating 'up'
I completely agree about the performance art aspect of games, but I disagree that this means the game design itself is not art. Play within the ruleset is made possible by the deliberate constraints proposed by the designer, who (if skilled) has considered the range of performances encouraged and allowed. Plenty of art is deliberately ambiguous; ceding some part of the work to a participant doesn't immediately kill the author.

I can't comment on how useful this is for understanding the industry, but it is essential for looking at the works.
The most common cases are decorator functions, e.g. one that counts the number of invocations: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44968004/python-decorato...
breakfast most important meal of the day, they say.
A friend of mine had a generalized anxiety disorder, and for a while she was living in an apartment which had a large living room / kitchen which connected all other rooms. Basically, you entered directly into a large room, some part of which was used for cooking, another for playing games and watching tv, other again for dining and some part was just a transfer zone between the rooms and the lavatory.
She reported feeling uneasy when entering her apartment, as the potential for action was too large, and she couldn't concentrate on the one task she had in front of her - the task of arriving at home.

I guess it is connected to the concept of 'affordance' that is used in psychology and UX design. In the view of Gibson it is more about relations to the environment whereas Norman appropriated it to mean the perceived possible actions that are offered by objects, and as such are object properties. In both senses, the affordance of the space was too rich and uneven, and offered too many possible uses for the room.

My feeling is that we are having this problem more and more with generalized soft- and hardware. As browsers and phones offer ever expanding possibilities for action, they become more and more faceless and bland. My hope is that we will embrace limited affordances as a force for good, creating highly opinionated, characteristic and specialized products that offer precise ways of using them.
anecdotal background says -- pre-IPO the UPS company aggressively fired union employees and promoted low-power middle managers by the thousands, then got the IPO with a promise to expand to EU and Middle East, and then with loads of cash, blundered through execution with multiple public errors and mismanagement.
Cities look much better at night on white light. I doubt we will ever go back to yellow light.
If you put whole recipes into the neural network, of course it won't work. You need to separate the parts. One neural network for ingredients, and a separate one for "instructions".

Then you feed the output of the first network into the second to get a set of preparations that actually prepare the chosen ingredients.
It is. I don't remember where I picked it up, but I've been using it for years.
My take on the fake modern science is based on decades of knowledge and experience in various fields, so yes, I can certainly back it up, but I'm not going to spend my afternoon doing this on an HN thread that ultimately gets me flagged and my content gets removed, as has been the case recently.
I suppose the answer might be in the actual article, but

> In chess, by contrast, there is a relatively large search space but each move can be evaluated and rewarded accordingly. That just isn’t the case for the Rubik’s Cube.

I don't follow this at all -- how do you reward an individual chess move other than by using a reward system that may or may not be anywhere near fully accurate like counting material? Seems pretty similar to solving a Rubik's cube.
Rentier activity, as usual, inhibits growth.
I do the same, but it's not for us (who know about:config exists).
please, link to arxiv abstracts, not directly to the pdf.
Every time Mozilla does something like this, or a promotion like the Mr. Robot thing, they remove a differentiator between Firefox and Chrome.

Mozilla is making it easier to think thoughts like this: If Firefox is just as bad as the other browsers, you might as well use the most popular one.
This sounds quite similar to the fastrange [0] method. I’ve used it for random sampling but not a hash table. It’d be great for non-power-of-two tables while avoiding integer modulus.

[0] https://github.com/lemire/fastrange
In the UK (as I understand it) you might become liable for the costs of replacing you until the end of your notice period, probably because of "breach of contract". But the business would have to be pretty shitty to do this and probably willing to lose all of that money again in legal fees. Mostly they would probably on refuse to give you a reference.
yes in fact, but we're not talking about a factory.
systemd is pretty much the exact opposite of that philosophy. Quick and dirty would be an init system that simply executed script files in a directory in asciibetical order and then bolts on a configuration language in the comments of those scritps when they become too hard to manage manually. And then extending that configuration language with X-* options when you need to add new keys but can't be sure a existing software doesn't already use those names differently.
For the BaseException you’re right.

About the mispelled word I didn’t notice it... that’s weird, it IS a copy and paste, probably when I pasted it I lost that line and I rewrote it?

Can’t remember, I posted the original article on Medium on December 2017. However I will surely modify the article next week to address that typo, thanks!
Hieronymus Bosch's work is remarkable and getting to see it in person was one of the most delightful experiences I've had. To convey beauty in the grotesque, the macabre and the unreal: what a genius he was!

(Also, visual art is not something that I used to enjoy for the majority of my life and I still know next to nothing of art but I just found his work spellbinding)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

Users often post workarounds in the threads, as they did above.
There are lots of knock of bose headphone that sell for 300+ real, but 100 fake. The difference of a bose noise canceling, and generic brand is huge difference. The packaging of fakes is getting really good. Im not taking a risk from Amazon, when best buy has a lower chance of counterfiet inventory.

A seller can easily submit many fakes into inventory on amazon. But someone who returns a fake to best buy, but keeping the real device had to risk getting recorded, and can only do so at a slower rate of one item at a time.
apparently randomness is important factor in comedy, just like somewhat funny memes created by neural network https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302917
maybe joke-generation is actual future of AI?
Mike pall wrote some posts in various mailing lists over the years that explain some of the things he did (but be aware that they only really scratch the surface)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11322060

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2588696

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851

The thing that makes luajit hard to understand is a combination of two things. First, the jit compiler uses advanced techniques that aren't easy to learn just looking at the code. You really need to know a lot of compiler theory to just get started. Additionally, mike pall wrote a large chunk of luajit in assembly language and hand-optimized lots of things, which gives the code that dense demoscene feeling that was mentioned before.

If you want to learn more about luajit one crucial thing would be learning about tracing jits for dynamic languages (luajit goes all in on tracing jit). The wikipedia article is pretty good. For papers make sure you read "Trace-based Just-in-Time Type Specialization for Dynamic Languages"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_just-in-time_compilati...

If you want to dive into a jit codebase one that might be interesting is the Higgs JIT. I haven't looked at the code itself very closely but I read Maxine's PhD thesis and her presentations on jit and I liked her approach of trying to make a jit that is as simple as possible. Most jits these days are massively complex beasts.

https://pointersgonewild.com/higgs/
Imo the only serious contenders for crossplatform apps are react native and flutter. There is no good reason to use other frameworks when you get similar dev speed, better community support, and a relatively fast product with these 2.

Probably 6 months ago flutter wouldn't be on this list but Google has surprisingly shown strong support
It’s community and yes lots of releases
Fisherman catches talking fish
Consider the energy density of a cup of water when viewed as fuel for fusion reactions.
I agree with you there. I love open-source, I barely use anything else. And yet I have to admit that much of it is absolutely not user-friendly in the sense of "I can explain this to my grandmother in under 10 minutes".

Much of it is technically amazing, and absolutely fantastic for technical users, but not really suited for the general consumer market. (With some notable exceptions, of course - see Firefox.)
fastrange is discussed in the article.
> ...unless you really think that a person born in Tuvalu should have 130,000 times higher chance of a green card than a person born in India.

I personally think people (and capital) should be able freely move anywhere they want without having to worry about some arbitrary lines on a map but that's not the point, the point is no matter how you look at it someone is going to be "discriminated" against so a person from Tuvalu is either going to have a higher or lower chance than a person from India depending on whatever selection criteria you use.
It was a pretty loose comparison and only used it to allude to my question. Mainly was noting how OP said they were a really small team and very experienced. Also discussing jet turbines at nearly century old companies not start ups.
If I want to use LastPass (or any other popular extension), and it does not work in a particular browser, I don't care whose fault that is -- I won't use that browser.

If Firefox is going to regain any of its former glory, it needs to be easy for people to switch to without making sacrifices.
Top 6 Ways to Make Money Before and During the World Cup
Indeed. It's difficult to read this article.
Computer Vision in the Browser for Web Developers
> The open source business is thriving.

Thriving, may be, but not exactly dominating the consumer market. The vast majority of software companies still keep their code well under wraps.
I’ve been there. Transition to your car, but find someone or some place to stay before worrying too much. You’re off the grid, so look and plan where to start again. In the future, always plan for this. But for now your life will be reset. Just go with the best you can.

Once you can think, stop and do so. Acknowledge you are a SJW and as a result, lost a standoff with your previous employer when you brought it up. That company isn’t going to risk the livelihood of its employees, even if you might and did.

What did I do? Living in my car there’s few options, so I took a job canvassing for causes I believed in. It paid nothing, but I got out there doing my SJW stuff and felt better.

When I got off the streets, stayed with relatives, found a tech job and moved out, I learned somethings.

I never have enough info. Social justice causes are fine, but if you don’t have all the info, you’ll lose. Support agendas only with all info.

Second, make commitments and stick to them. I agreed to work for an employer, so to accuse them of bad data practices is not the right move. If the company bothers you, leave, stop trying to ‘change the world’.

Finally, be prepared. Jobs can be lost at any time. Apartments are not yours, be prepared to move at any time. And stop spending. Buy what you need. Adults do not need workstation computers, they need laptops. Not toys, Legos, Funkopop dolls, etc. Those are for kids.

Yes, after 15 years most have saved or diversified. Improve your handling of money.

Some turn spiritual at this point and pray your body stays healthy. It’s a strange journey called life!