skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why did the Chinese merchants exchange their tea for opium? If they didn't already have a market for it, did they set about creating the market.

AIUI the opium was traded in local ports, then smuggled to the interior by locals (because other ethnicities couldn't get access). Is that wrong; could you cite sources.

Are you saying British merchants navigated the Yangtze and Huang He in order to initiate opium use, just to trade tea ... why didn't BEIC choose some other product (whatever drug was being used, for example) if opium wasn't already in demand -- it must have taken decades to create that demand, especially as they might AIUI be killed just for being there (in the interior) and stood out from the crowd quite considerably.

It seems somewhat analogous to blaming North African nations (Kenya, Ivory Coast, etc) for my coffee/chocolate use, Nestlé are still evil, but I'm the one buying it.
I'm using Common Lisp for all my personal projects (https://ichi.moe is the biggest one). I find it the easiest language to develop in, because of the tooling (SLIME), language features (CLOS, macros), and it fits my mental model the best. Granted I've been using it for a very long time, so maybe I'm just more familiar with it.
Edsger Dijkstra: How do we tell truths that might hurt?
‘Snappy’ is the 2017 version of ‘haptic’ or further back ‘skeuomorphic’.
You web folk are mentally ill, with the desease known as Not Invented Here Syndrome.

The w3c completely detests the idea of utilizing existing technologies that don't have their name on them. Whatever the technology, it MUST be reinvented (often badly) so it can be one of their standards.

I've even seen WebVR pop up recently. I'm surprised nobody has standardized a WebOffice yet, but I assume it has been put on hold because of the magnitude of the task.

Can be pretty sure we'll be seeing these in the coming years:

WebStore: It's silly to have Google Play and the Apple store as separate things. In future, all apps will be written in WEB and distributed from WebStore.

WebCoin: Bitcoin is great, but it exists separate from the web. We find the utterly unacceptable, and we are therefore publishing WebCoin so transactions are standardized across browsers.

WebPilot: Self-driving cars, IN THE BROWSER!
Alex Jones being Bill Hicks is the most interesting conspiracy story concerning him and it is best to view him in that light as a comedy act albeit with more outrageous content, seeking publicity and notoriety.

Allegedly Alex Jones hates that particular conspiracy but he plays up to it to. I say put him in his box by considering him as a comedian.
I work in the industry and obviously I can't say for certain, but I don't think Amazon has anywhere near the most accurate face recognition software available. If you want to see where the tech is in terms of performance, the various NIST tests are highly informative.
Well XMLHttpRequest has support going back to IE7.
Sure, it can become the main reason for people to start using it. It's disingenuous to claim that that is Mozilla's goal, though.

(Apart from that I doubt that it will result in a significantly worse web than what we have today, but we'll see.)
This is so hacky compared to working in a well-equipped lab. Not having analysis instruments also limits how much can be accomplished.
How is a license that allows someone or some corporation to take some code, add to it, and make those additions proprietary "more open" than a license that specifically disallows that type of scenario?

This gets argued all the time. What the corporation did was freedom for them not the code. GPL protects the code, MIT/BSD protects the people. Depending on your definition of "freedom" you will prefer one over the other.
Try any popular RPG, or otherwise dialog-heavy game with quests and instructions and such, but switch the language package. For example I did this with the Diablo games to help me learn Polish. A cool part is you pick up a lot of archaic vocabulary that your average native speaker doesn't even know. :)
It was also quite nice for users, assuming the intentions of the makers were good. Ads and security exploits were the truly nasty bits.
The premise looks really good. But it would be great if it is able to get all the information from your AWS or Google Account and create beautiful diagrams

A small feedback:
To give more examples in landing page of what kind of diagrams can be created
> Not beyond its initial cause.

Who cares about the initial cause? Initial cause of everything in deterministic universe is the initial conditions + the set of rules that govern it.

And it's also the main influence on anything that happens in our universe, no matter if it's deterministic. If Earth wasn't there you wouldn't write this comment. Who caused your comment, then - you or Big Bang?

It's our arbitrary convention to stop looking for a root cause when we hit a person. It's useful for social organization, but it's not objectively more true than looking up the chain of "why" till you hit the Big Bang, or stopping on the first step.

> If free will doesn't exist (in the universe), then nothing that happens after our birth can influence it.

Influence = cause change. When you're born you interact (and influence) very many things. That's true no matter if the universe is deterministic or not.

You might be confused about change in predetermined universe. There's in-universe change (particle moves as laws of physics dictate), and external change (universe was going to develop one way, but then something changed the future and it will develop differently). I don't think only the second kind of change deserves to be called "influence". I don't think the second kind of change ever happens.

> If free will doesn't exist (in the universe), then nothing that happens after our birth can influence it.

Even assuming your weird definition of "influence" this is still not true, you can have nondeterministic universe without free will.
Do you have udemy telling you Python is a powerful programming language before every YouTube video as well?
Forget GDPR. Think HIPAA, SOX, PCI, SHIELD and the CCPA
> For instance, when looking for current weather, I want to input my location and a time span, and get weather data. I want to be able to script that. I don't want to waste time looking at ads, pretty pictures, non-relevant text and links.

I feel the same way. But those ads are there because that's the entire business model of people putting weather data out there for free. On most free sites, ads aren't just a sideshow, they're the driving engine. Take away the ads, and there goes the business model.

What we need is some other way to pay for the weather data. Maybe this could be a service provided by your ISP, like NTP or DNS. Or some third party subscription service. Or maybe even taxpayer funded. But if you're using a service that relies on ads as their revenue model, then expect to put up with ads. They're part of the deal.
Blockade: test apps under network failures and partitions with docker
There's not a ton of civilian craft cruising about at nearly Mach 2.
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Your mention of Electron is the perfect example of why this is no different for native apps. Of course, on mobile this is usually mitigated through app stores, but there is no reason similar mechanisms could be introduced for the web if this really turns out to be problematic.
Why is progress in the field getting slower?
Macromedia Flash keyframe animation was great even for technical users who didn't know animation. However, as soon as you wanted any kind of interactivity you had to start learning a new scripting language and that was painful for everyone.
I whipped off the comment pretty quickly. Yes, Elixir is the language and Phoenix the framework. My experience is that most people using Elixir are doing so via Phoenix, whereas Erlang tends to be used for more disparate things.
> the mass of humans is an order of magnitude higher than that of all wild mammals combined

What if we factor out yo momma?
PCMR on Reddit, Intel marketing, and everyone who paid Intel's extreme processor mark-ups because it was "the best money could buy" when they were the biggest game in town and doesn't want to feel like a fool now that they're half the price.
$20.99 for all of creative suite is also a much lower entry point price.
The examples are mentioned in the landing page itself.

Although it would be great if we can use this for other purposes as well
> Well this is a site for startups. It seems like you have a good initial idea/problem and/or need. Now the next hard part is conceiving and implementing a solution.

Aha, I'm already moving onto implementation. I've been thinking about this for a while. Maybe I'll be one of the next billionaires in tech ;-)
in the 70s on the PLATO system (predates the internet) there was a game called bugs and drugs.

It was a graphical dungeon in orange/black 512x512 where you used medicines to attack diseases. Medical students used it to learn pharmacology.

The PLATO network functionality predates much of the internet.

<<PLATO's most popular game, is one of the world's first MUDs and has over 1 million hours of use.[citation needed]. The games Doom and Quake can trace part of their lineage back to PLATO programmer Silas Warner.>>
Lucky you. We’re stuck on RHEL 6. That’s GCC 4.4. And nobody we knows installs the toolset (I think the target user also needs to have it, because C++ libs?)
Well, it could be. As long as #foo exists on the page at the time that line is executed. If you inject #foo into the page after load then the click event won't work.

The jquery example delegates #foo, so it can be injected in the page after load and the click event will still work.

But there are ways to mimic the behavior as another person has pointed out.
@robjan thanks! I have a free plan that must satisfy most of the users. Regarding the price, I understand 200 sounds like a lot. But look it's just €17 per month. For me, it's a reasonable price for a blog platform that updates in nearly real time, provides with free SSL and boosts SEO. I'm an indie dev living in Europe and can't cut the price leveraging the network effect. I have to pay rent and for the infrastructure.

In the future, I'm going to add more cool stuff like AMP, RSS (also podcasts), comments using Telegram login, cross-posting to Twitter and things like that. So I probably will even increase the price or introduce plans limited by features.
>> Royal Navy Nuclear (weapon) submarines are to open a safe with hand-written letters of instruction from the Prime Minister if they can't pick up Radio 4 long-wave

It is one of many factors. Shutting down Radio 4 will not send the subs into attack mode. I do laugh every time I read about the "hand written" part. The assumption is that PMs are unable to use typewriters. Anything typed would therefore have been handled by their secretaries/PAs, making them a target. I have this image in my head of a sub captain not being able to read the PM's handwriting. These are embellished protections generated by novelists.
>"This is because in early cases of Alzheimer’s, patients may have the biological indicators of the disease without actually showing symptoms."

This is called a "degenerating research programme". The theory always lags the facts, this is just another ad hoc adjustment to keep it going for some reason. Why? I really cant understand. Whats the last interesting prediction that has come out of the amyloid hypothesis?

Here is an interesting prediction: Amyloid accumulation will be found to be associated with every single disease state where it is investigated. Every single one. This is because amyloid formation is very thermodynamically favorable for polypeptide chains and a cell must be healthy to prevent it.
What purposes/use cases are you looking for ?

There are multiple other tools which are available.
You say this like it's a bad thing? I'm more amazed that anything like this is even possible outside of a lab environment.
Because the wheels are proprietary and full of quirks. For instance, $('.foo') returns an array of jquery objects and not HTMLElements that you can act directly upon using the standard API that was made for replacing it.
> Insanity is not comparable to languages or beliefs, they are severe dysfunctions, some or many of them genetically linked.

I don't know man, I'm not exactly for the idea that insanity is a "social construct", but after reading this paper (http://hci.ucsd.edu/102b/readings/WeirdestPeople.pdf only the first two pages are the actual paper), I'd say that a lot of behavior in different cultures would be legimitately called "insane" in ours.

And besides that paper, there's also this meme flying around that "schizophrenics used to be shamans", although I don't know how believable that is.

Anyway, my point being, even insanity isn't exactly definable. Although I do agree stuff like a rabies infection, extremely severe aggressive and psychotic disorders would likely be considered "insane" in all cultures.
Efficient compression in color naming and its evolution
AI generated fake video has advanced past human detection
Obligatory, the take on generics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX8r6zATHGU&t=50m29s
Take a look at the LARTC: https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/
Senior Full Stack Developer
I thought Shadow DOM only provides encapsulation??
The accusations of trolling can do a lot of damage.

Some people find hacking ecoli is cool - I am one of them, even if this experiment failed it is great to see what is possible right now.
This is brilliant. Your first comment had me laughing; your second had me second-guessing myself.

I think I have some new tech to tell my coworkers about. >;)
This captures the late-night, meditative feel of it to me:

Prayer
by Carol Ann Duffy

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;
then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
in the distant Latin chanting of a train.

Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales
console the lodger looking out across
a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
a child's name as though they named their loss.

Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -
Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.
Well look at that. Be great if they changed their pricing model. A possible 2 weeks down the drain seems a bit staggering.
Usint Typescript in a graphQL server
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Don't forget RMS's refusal to accept patches to gcc to run on the Mac.
I'm pretty sure deep sea vents and similar environments will be alright.
It's not a cure, it only slows the progression and has no positive effect at all on the mental symptoms.
Building a Better Receive Loop
Would making alcohol cheaper prevent drunk driving? Bar fights?

Cheaper drugs will likely reduce theft and gang violence, but they sure as hell won't prevent people from being irresponsible while intoxicated.
I also worry that WASM will just bring another era of non-standard Flash and Java Applet like UI design. Just check this QT demo:

http://example.qt.io/qt-webassembly/SensorTagDemo/SensorTagD...

Then there is this gallery demo:

http://example.qt.io/qt-webassembly/quickcontrols2/gallery/g...

The right sidebar right now doesn't scroll with standard mouse wheel. I had to scroll it using mouse drag.
Are they sure this was a mistake? I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out if that many had mugshots.
Except for people who do work that requires them to wash their hands that often (or more), and people who live in cultures where that is part of some daily religious ritual, and...
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Ad networks are the next Macromedia.
> Does no one else get sick of this?

One paragraph of that insufferable nonsense, and as a rule, I'm out.
That sounds like a cop out to me.
Evidence Shows Hackers Changed Votes in the 2016 Election but No One Admits It
> Simply folding all the candidates on a UI would be a massive step forward in reading template errors.

well... that's already what happens if you use an IDE ? That's at least the case on Qt Creator
Agreed, and I realize that your point was (I assume) more about the historic hot mess.
I agree ... they explain "This type of visualization is similar to pie charts but has a much higher dynamic range".

So it's true that it is better than pie charts, which are horrible and inexplicably popular. All they emphasize is that the total adds up to 100%.

But it is still hard to compare relative areas even with the Voronoi. Comparing bar height is easier, but not sexy.
React already does this, though perhaps not in the way you're imagining. You can use react-dom/server with your client side code to render out HTML templates, then when you run the code on the client side it'll call componentDidMount(), where you can add client-specific code.
This happens more often then you might think.

A lot of people are adding padding when they need to store IPs. So they can be easily sorted using alphanumeric sort:

192.168.001.001
192.168.001.002
192.168.001.003
...
192.168.001.254

And then use it that way to connect to servers, causing lots of confusions.
Michael Crichton/Outbreak type stuff isn't what scares me. It is going into a hospital for a routine hernia surgery or dental surgery and getting an infection that responds to nothing. It could happen right now, but is unlikely. The chances will increase as antibiotic resistance spreads. It's not people screaming in the streets, it a more gradual change to a new normal where routine care may no longer be routine, with maybe occasional bursts of incidence at some hospital or other. There will be a lag-time to making new antibiotics, and honestly it's not now an area of focus for Pharma for economic reasons.
$506.2B to go.
Raymond Smullyan's books can teach a fair bit about logic, up to about Godel's theorems and the halting problem (I remember To Mock a Mockingbird fondly), through carefully written sequences of puzzles that lead up to proofs of them.

If you try to go through his books encoding the puzzles and their solutions in Coq, then you'll learn quite a lot about Coq and constructive mathematics also.
Patrick has denied this and described it as an attempt to rip him off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17611071
Oh yeah. I have no doubt they were failing. But those two pieces of tech were very smart for their time.
I made a similar thing and open source few years ago to quick blog and share things with my family (i dont like much social media) but it was taking me more time to keep with the project than creating content so I stopped developing it

Its nice that you are making a whole product rather than a hack! Congrats!
Play The Witness (the-witness.net). The game is full of puzzles which each teach you a different concept. It's a great experience to play this game. Avoid spoilers!
Honestly the kid section of bookstores is amazing to me. There are so many hyper pedagogical book/games/labs to learn about anything. I don't know why we don't shop there as adult
This release also fixes LTO bug with large binaries
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Halt the construction of that wall!
Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter
They do the same for US cards. EU regulation states that you need to at least give this choice for a consumer, and they cannot force you to take bad exchange rate. If I recall correctly EU might have given a slap on the wrist for AirBnB, as an US company, for not complying with this and forcing to pick bad USD rate. (I do not have source now, on mobile). So overall I think we can agree EU system with regulation is vastly better and less crooked for anybody else expect card issuers and payment processors.
Electron (or embedded Chromium, etc.) is lazy development: save time on cross-platform work at the expense of your users' CPU overhead/battery time/SSD life.

Spend time watching some of each year's WWDC talks and noting how much effort Apple engineers give to fine-tune certain APIs to enable app developers to optimize battery use, disk access, or graphics rendering. State-of the art stuff. And then your Electron app just ignores all of that.
Well, considering there are devices out there for the purpose of signing names repeatedly, I would say your example doesn't necessarily work.

Totally depends on the situation.

And why the assumption that modern versions of jQuery don't make use of modern DOM APIs?
Https://yousician.com teaches you play musical instruments via a guitar-hero like game interface. Also supports your own/community content
I thought I was bright carrying around my portable hard drive with my backups on my backpack.

Until one day I got robbed and I lost both my laptop AND my backups... (and USB sticks, etc). That sucked.
Nope. I said we "think". So far we have only one data point. No idea if right or wrong :).
Which implementation do you use?
Sorry but I shouldn't have to use 2GB of RAM to browse the web. Compare Airbnb to Craigslist. One is visually pretty, the other isn't. One uses every framework under the sun, the other is HTML.
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Yes its bad for document markup, but I wouldn't waste time coding the next Excel in HTML and CSS, I'd just straight to a gui language with guaranteed cross platform rendering.
You could build with bazel, which ships compiler configs for clang and gcc on linux (among other combinations) in its "CROSSTOOL"[1] file. Then it's trivial to switch compilers with one argument. This feature is a result of Google's years-long support of both GCC and clang for its own build, test, and release.

$ bazel build --compiler=my_favorite_compiler //my/fine:program

1: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/wiki/Building-with-a-cus...
www.nandgame.com

it was a couple of days ago on HN, really loved it and learned something from it.
> it's especially common in long form journalism

And always has been. This is tradition as much as anything-- and as with other traditions, some of it probably just boils down to how brains and cultures currently work.
"We estimate that the contribution of reptiles and amphibians to the total animal biomass is negligible, as we discuss in the SI Appendix."

It was pretty non intuitive, a lot easier to spot them than non domestic mammals.
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I played Khan Academys "World of Math"-missions as if it was a game. It really helped with my mental arithmetic and memorizing middle school equations, for which I did understand the concept, but could never remember.

https://www.khanacademy.org/mission/math (need login)
Do you mean the single threaded part or that OP claims that it's what most users desire? If it's about the single threaded performance then OPs claim is true.

default clocks: https://i.imgur.com/dU3aI35.png

normalized clocks: https://i.imgur.com/wg3SQUd.png (sadly they have not normalized memory clocks)

In single threaded games this can be even more apparent. But Intel is mainly faster because of a significant clock advantage. Clock for clock the advantage is small.

I'm looking forward to Zen 2 which could allow AMD to close the IPC gap or even get a bit ahead of Intel. Combined with the 7nm process which should allow better clocks it's looking good for AMD.

Question is if AMD uses the high performance process which is touted to allow up to 5 ghz [0] at the cost of increased power usage, or if they use the low power process (which is also more affordable). Since Ryzen, Threadripper and Epyc use the same die probably the latter since power consumption is so important in the data center.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12438/the-future-of-silicon-a...
Do you have some details on the relative transaction fees of direct credit card usage vs indirect via apple pay?
To learn Chinese get wordswing. It's an interactive gamebook where you can hover words you don't know. It's amazing.
Relatedly, I played quite a few flash games, and they were nice for me.