skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmmmm. "We are entrepreneurs that want to give back to the community, by making it easier to get access to early feedback by experts. You can always reach out for more info."

My read: "we're not YC alum ourselves", since that would obviously be the first thing they'd say to engender trust.

Funny how that changes how I think about this. If they are in the YC family already, definitely more trust. YC alum abide by a certain code. If these guys aren't YC alums -- just some random guys -- then very different implication.

I personally wouldn't use this unless these guys are verifiably YC alums themselves. Otherwise, if you're an applicant - would you really want to trust some random dudes with your plans for world domination? If you're a YC alum - do you really want to pour time into something with unclear motivations and actors?

My $0.02. Probably being too cynical.

Edit: Ooof, the "I’m an investor, can I access your user base? The short answer is maybe." doesn't make me feel any better. Seems pretty counter to the YC spirit for there to be a side-hustle on paying-it-forward / helping each other.
The whole point of a virtual DOM is to simulate and reconcile changes before pushing those changes to the real DOM; it would be fairly clean to do all that processing in wasm and then send the result over to JS for reification.

It's true that there would be some challenges when it comes to "sending" data to the virtual DOM; in particular, event objects could get complicated. I assumed this project has solved that problem, but I didn't read very deeply into it.
Edd Barrett – Why VM Benchmarking Is Probably Misleading You
I'm under the impression that you need to opt-in to any research studies that would use your genetic info (though I'm not 100% sure).
As a male scientist with a family, I wouldn't mind if someone wrote news articles about my work and mentioned I'm "a loving father of two" or whatever. Just as long as it doesn't dominate the whole article and distract from the actual science. A family is something to be proud of!
Instead of autopilot, think of this as (or should be) more like fly-by-wire systems in every modern fighter jet. The computer reads the pilot's inputs and translates them to the most effective possible control adjustments, making many more changes than a pilot would be able to make even given the controls.

Or maybe the tool should be limited to retrospective evaluation of doctors' decisions. Basically an automated peer review.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22...
This is likely why the author of this list only accepted submissions from people who had read at least two other textbooks on the topic.
These images are either real or derived directly from data (the centroids of images, I imagine):

http://www.galacticcenter.astro.ucla.edu/animations.html

The top one "Stellar Orbits in the Central Parsec" is particularly remarkable. I can recall when the movie was first being made, and Andrea Ghez suggesting that, well, in about a decade, that one star will come back around....

Good things come to those who wait, prepare, and pounce.
Good for them. After some of my favorites were just gone (because license was not renewed or something like that - no clue) I'd rather stick with having files on my devices, like in old good days.
I tried reading the modern quantum mechanics book, but it seems very difficult off the bat. Seems like there is a lot they expect you to have a very heavy physics background already. I have a major in mechanical engineering and a minor in math so I figured I had enough to work my way through it, but I don't know any more. Anyone have a recommendation for a book that can ease me into it a little better?
This is also how I see what's new on HN and other sites I subscribe to. I've been a FF user since the early days and I've always assumed the other major browsers supported live bookmarks by default. I'm a bit shocked to find out that this was only a FF feature.
Yeah, I'm surprised there wouldn't be any mention at all of at least one person who is involved.

Also, is it free?
Ask HN: What growth hacks worked for your startup?
Link to the study: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24846
" Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

- Douglas Adams
NY threatens to kick Charter out of the state after broadband failures
No idea why this is being downvoted. Maybe they missed the qualifier?

> . . . at least in a for-profit systems.
I'm pretty fond of White Wolf's games like "Scion". Where you get to play the offspring of a god and mortal.

Also, you can't go wrong with a good game of Cyberpunk
> 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.

Not really. Action Script has always been close to Javascript/JScript.Net and now Typescript, it is the same syntax. In fact ActionScript 3 was supposed to be the template for ECMASCRIPT 4, before it was abandoned.
Same.

The UX doesn't matter so much to me because I spend so little time using it. I've never cared about the social features in any music service. I either want to listen to something specific that I search for and play, or just play Beats 1 or another radio station.
> I wouldn't be surprised if GCC is abandoned eventually, but it will be at least 10 years.

It will not be, because LLVM does not align with the goals of the FSF and GNU projects. A free compiler under a free license is a pretty central project for them. (Besides that, making predictions 10 years out into the future of software seems meaningless. Saying "this thing might still be around in like 2 decades, or not" is... not particularly noteworthy, nor damning)

Plus, I simply see no reason to believe this, even aside from that. If anything, GCC development has gotten far more active and improved greatly in the past few years, with consistently high quality releases, each bringing in major features, and adopting work from Clang, and bringing in their own unique work. It would seem each of these projects has livened up quite a lot over time and are offering higher quality than they ever have before.

What reason do you have to believe it will be completely abandoned? Just because there's an alternative available? That never happened with Linux, either...
As per author's recommendation I checked the alibris website for books on other subjects. Unfortunately top books in programming are C/Java/Algo & Cracking interview.

https://www.alibris.com/search/books/subject/Computers-Progr...
Using static analysis in Python, JavaScript and more to make your system safer
Google Cloud and GitHub collaborate to make CI fast and easy
Helping enterprises with support for SAML 2.0 in Helpmonks
Cool, so it looks like they're going all-in on the international money laundering clearing house thing. I'm sure it will be quite profitable.
Moreover, the voting on this submission looks promotional.

Out of curiosity, what’s unusual here? The number of upvotes on a Microsoft-related story or the number of upvotes on a Google-related story?
Startups and Shit Hitting the Fan with Edwin Frondozo – The Art of the Fail
I like Deezer, I am an Apple music subscriber (nothing special about Apple music but the devices I listen to are Apple and I don't see any reason to switch to Spotify, it doesn't seem to offer good at all), but I do miss the Flow feature from Deezer, I really liked this. I would often listen to it.

However my ideal setup, which nobody yet offers is to have all my favourite songs (somewhat like Deezers flow) where I can like them and then have a playlist of all my favourites, but mixed in with what I am currently listening too, like priority playlists. So it plays more of what I am currently listening to (10-20 songs in a separate playlist) mixed in with a bigger selection of my classic song playlist (thousands of songs). The currently listening to playlist would get a higher priority, say 60% of the songs would be from here and since there are less songs I would hear them more often.

Kinda like a personal radio station, that's kinda how radio stations do it, they have a, b,c playlists with priorities.

p.s the biggest problem I had with Deezer is they took too long to add new releases, an artist would announce something and it would be on spotify or apple music, but not yet deeper, being very much into music and certain artists, this was not acceptable.
I think it stems from a world view that presumes any difference in outcomes must be the result of oppression, and that no other contributor could be notably relevant.
This is interesting, but you will probably get better reviews and feedback through your network. It is probably better than sending generic cold emails to YC founders though (which happens and I would discourage).

While I am open to giving back to the community, this should really have a little more information on who's behind it, what a sample review looks like, etc. Also if the reviews are truly double-blind, it seems to take a lot out of the value for the founder. One of the big reasons I help many startups I don't already know is simply to expand my network.
I think listing out every brand-name (without even linking to a single one) is just an example of what an unusual Wikipedia page this is, seemingly written by one expert in the field, but without the editing standards one comes to expect from Wikipedia.
Time to break up Google and Facebook, says New York attorney general candidate
Lessons from the failure of General Magic
Flash was indeed a tool for cultural creatives. You can tell because it only ever worked properly under Internet Explorer for Mac OS Classic. On every other browser/platform combo, there were framerate issues and the audio would gradually desync from the video. Forget about seeing these issues resolved in the afterthought of a Linux port.
The Usenet Deep Space Nine recapper who helped inspire modern TV criticism
How do they get profitable? Won't the big three music publishers just squeeze their margins cause they can?
Think it's actually this one (with postprocessing tweaks), but yeah.

https://pro2-bar-s3-cdn-cf1.myportfolio.com/483775244caf67b7...
I somehow missed this. What a jerk.

https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/john-edwards-in...
> The product was originally called Adobe Edge, and it was rolled into Adobe Animate.

Not Adobe Edge was killed dead, it was not rolled into Adobe Animate. Edge did export animation with jQuery and DOM element, while Adobe Animate exports animations in pure canvas.
That's funny - I was thinking today that I really like this feature, but I do think it's an odd default.

I have massive playlists of all random songs, so I like that I can hit the button when I'm on the move to play a random selection of my preselected music.
> No one ever says there’s a desperate shortage of corporate lawyers and we need special visas to import more!

Yes, they do. It's called the H-1B visa. Lawyers, accountants, financial analysts, physicians, surgeons, management consultants, architects, journalists, school teachers, nurses and many other occupations qualify for H-1B visas.
Nothing the god of capitalism wouldn't let you into heaven for.
If I could ask, where do you live? Your experiences don't reflect my own.
You can use whole galaxies as gravitational "telescopes".

And yeah, it's super-cool.
Spotify does a great job generally but they lost me as a customer because they keep testing removing the Discovery functionality. I don't understand why that's a section they want to kill, but so be it. I canceled in 2016 after a year of being annoyed by the on again-off again presence of the Discovery section. It looks like the same game is still going on.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Discover-re...

https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/7rbvnr/discover_se...

I tried Google, Amazon, and Apple's offerings and went with Apple Music since I'm a Mac, iPhone, Apple TV user. Couldn't be happier. Should Apple remove their discovery section I'll find a different provider. Rinse, repeat. I've found a lot of awesome bands that way without any effort on my part.
I love obscure pages like this... too technical to be removed, too obscure to attract users who would edit the content into a more readable form.
Also removed in the next version is The Developer Toolbar (accessed with Shift+F2).

Another thing I never used or knew existed. :)
Spivak's Calculus, oh, the memories!
Logic at its finest. Definitely a nice maths book, as it is the place to learn how logical reasoning combined with fundamental concepts can be developed into a rigorous mathematical theory rather than a bunch of tools and techniques learned by rote.

Combine with the oldish, but still unbeatable in their clarity and charisma, video lectures by Herbert Gross and you can have tons of pure, free fun.
Duo taught me japanese characters, but I had a hard time really improving my french grammar from it. There's no substitution for in-person conversation.
Spotify is great if I want to hear a specific song, but I've managed to curate Pandora over many years that I almost never hit the down thumb. I haven't tried the Spotify equivalent. But SoundHound and Spotify is a pretty great experience.
I don’t buy your reasoning. Intel has had their Celeron line for decades and it is widely understood to be their value line.
It looks like this listing ended about the same time that I posted about it, or at least in the time between my posting about it and six hours ago. Now there are only $499 kits by third-party sellers. But when there was still FBA inventory (fulfilled by Amazon), it was $349 plus the secret $100 "promotion" discount during checkout.
The Dark Side of the Chinese Dream
> Why should Firefox support tabs? Shouldn’t my window manager do that?

You're close to enlightenment. ;)

There should be a renderer, there should be a network engine, there should be a persistent storage, a secret storage keyring, a history tracker, etc - and they all should be small separate programs, talking common protocols, easily replaceable.

Non-interoperable giant monoliths are why we can't have nice things anymore and have to stick with whatever large companies can provide us at their own discretion. Because it's incredibly hard to patch that behemoth and even less so to maintain the patchset. That would be possible again if there'd be a plethora of small programs, each doing its own single thing and not trying to be everything and a kitchen sink.
I would argue against this one, simply because of the Airbus incident from some time ago where to avoid pushing feedback into the controls, the plane was designed to average out the inputs from the two pilots. The older, more experienced pilot was attempting to maneuver the plane in such a way to correct their problem (I believe it was a stall) and the younger pilot was panicking and attempting the opposite maneuver, the plane averaged it to roughly no course adjustment, and they hit a mountainside.

I'm all for automating driving and other such tasks once the computers are ready, but until we know they're at least most likely ready to do it, I want the ability to turn it off and do it myself.

(And frankly, I want that ability anyway because I genuinely love driving and it makes me sad to think someday I won't be able to do it.)
The only good content in Flash was games and animations (like Homestar Runner). If you were using Flash as a Web/application design tool, you weren't making good content. You were making a pain in my ass.
Even if you let the computer run the show wholesale it could work out net positive. Autopilot might cause problems, but it might also prevent twice as many accidents that would have been caused by pilot error.

We're still in pretty early days here, so I don't know if Watson's advice is at a point where that could be true. In the meantime, I do like the idea of having an unaided doctor and the computer program evaluate it independently, then afterward say "Ok, let's see what the computer thought" before coming to any final conclusions. Maybe it'd help avoid any dangerous recommendations. Or maybe people would say "Well the computer has a lot more data than me, it's probably right." I think that depends on whether the differences are errors similar to what a human would make, or if they're the "oh my god how did it even come up with this result" nonsensical error that are easily spotted by human review.
Seconded, Human Resource Machine and Zachtronics in general!
I think Dear Esther taught me more about environmental design
I'm pretty surprised of the high number of Apple Music subscribers. As hinted at the end of the article, geographic, but also age distribution would be interesting to see.

Anecdotally in my mid 20 central European bubble, ~95% of my peers use Spotify, with the rest using Google Play Music (including me). I don't know a single person using Apple Music, and I wasn't even aware that it existed as a paid service (though I think I've heard of it a few years ago).
Add the workspace folder as an exclusion to your AV.
https://github.com/mozilla/shumway

is supposed to be an implementation of the Flash VM in typescript, But it can't even run in latest Firefox browser anymore apparently and no commits from 2 years.
Where's your data to back up that a manned mission would be a trillion dollars? You can't just throw out random numbers and then use the random numbers you guessed at as a reason to not do something.
Show HN: Dirt cheap landing page creator
The missing profits of nations
Yes I mis-remembered. The source was always open, but parts of it were encumbered by ATT Unix licensing.
My wife is a doula and apparently the injury and mortality rates for mother and child are much higher than through natural childbirth.

But because of their insurance coverage, if a mother or baby dies during natural childbirth the doctor is at greater risk for malpractice. So, they will rush mother's into C-section at any excuse (it saves them hours of work too not having to sit through a long labor).

Unfortunately, money and efficiency have taken priority over natural processes.
+1 Waterloo/Kitchener area; As for commuting via car, the TTC hasn't fared well as well. Satisfaction keeps dropping month over month in polls. Driving isn't an ideal option either due to the traffic - it is the worst indeed.
I already had iTunes Match, and then Apple Music launched first in my country, I tried Spotify but when they finally launched but their catalog was worse, and syncing your existing library of music never worked well (network error? let's delete everything!).

Apple Music's killer features for me are the iOS integration and cloud sync+playback of your existing library of MP3s and iTunes purchases. Also as bad as the iTunes UI has gotten, my experience with the Spotify app was even worse.
Amazon’s next Echo Dot reportedly revealed in leaked photos
> Any law that limits the cases where patients can sue, or the amount of money they can collect, is likely to lower medical use in the hospital by less than the 5 percent they measured in their study.

The telling thing about laws to address malpractice liability is that they typically are focused on capping large verdicts. But such laws are illogical: generally, large verdicts will be awarded where a doctor screwed up and caused the most damage. Cases with large verdicts are the most meritorious ones, and the ones where limiting liability is least likely to eliminate over-testing that does not contribute to quality of care.

If states actually wanted to address the costs of defensive medicine, they would do something like create affirmative defenses for doctors who adhered to certain established testing protocols.
The article is incredibly biased. Although Phoebus was a price fixing cartel, the "planned obsolescence" is bullshit. Walmart replaces all of their lights and ballasts (power converters for the lights) on a regular schedule. That is why you rarely see lights not working at Walmart anymore.

They don't do it because they want all the lights to work. They do it because if they don't, it costs more in energy and the brightness goes down.

Long life incandescents also put out less light per watt and end up using more energy as the bulb ages as well as the light decreasing. Often times I would replace the bulbs before they died because the light was too low.

We do not have "truly free markets" and never have. This is not an example of that because there are no examples of that.
Yes, and at least here they are more than willing to do so.
Every single game in the Final Fantasy series, even some of the silly spinoffs like World of Final Fantasy.

https://kotaku.com/world-of-final-fantasy-the-kotaku-review-...
I'm 32. I have a wife and 3 kids (two of which don't live with me). My commute is 1h30m (depending on traffic).

I play every Wednesday and Saturday.

Wednesday is a short game, usually 8p-10p. My wife doesn't get home until close to 10 because my daughter has dance class (game is cancelled if I take her).

Saturday is a game I run. It's typically 7p-11p (although it can run past 12 sometimes). I've been running this one for quite awhile since before I met my wife.

I'm extremely grateful that she lets me have this hobby. Besides woodworking it's my only other hobby. I needed something that wasn't more coding. I used to sit at my desk at work and then come home and sit at my desk working on a side project but I burnt out super quick.

The thing that makes it possible for me is Roll20[1]. I've never met my group in person. I've never even seen a picture of a few of them. We met on reddit and a dnd discord and the rest was history. We're actually planning on an IRL game in the coming month or two, so there's that.

[1] https://roll20.net
I don't see how this is a problem, unless the police are feeding it blurry surveillance camera footage then claiming "success, it matched person X", which I doubt, as it would fall apart at the smallest of questioning.

For the most part, this sort of article makes things seem like there will be some sort of racial-based, dystopian police future where automated algorithms will target people and have them put into jail. I don't see that happening in the near future at all. The police departments' personnel currently using this probably LOOK at the matches and only then make a further call. Just like I would assume AFIS fingerprint hit results are double-checked by skilled operators after matching to reduce false-positives.
My understanding is they have started trying to become publisher as well similar to what Netflix is doing. Perhaps remove the middle man and have content which can be exclusive on Spotify or content they can license to others.
It really is that empty. Science fiction movies mess up our perception, but reality is way more mind-boggling that we realize.

Check this out: if you want to build a model galaxy to scale and you start with the Sun as a two-foot-diameter exercise ball, how far away do you have to travel before you can set down a smaller ball that represents Alpha Centauri, our nearest(-ish) stellar neighbor?

10,993.3 miles.

Just bask in that for a while.

(http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/)
Aren't a lot of these costs baked into all services due to malpractice insurance itself? If these doctors could be sued by some of their patients (the families), they still need to cover the cost of that insurance.

Beyond that, once defensive medicine is the status quo, why would they make a choice to not order their usual defensive panels? They aren't paying for them themselves.
Easy to do steps 1-3 and 5, but 4 is a pre-requisite for single sign-on for a few popular 'meet other people' type of apps.
This new app wants to help women sell the clothes they don’t need