skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We completely rebuilt this in React/Redux from a previous version based in Flash. We think it does some amazing things with the Web Audio API.

Some more info about what we are trying to do:

http://www.hooktheory.com/blog/introducing-hookpad-2-a-music...
You're certainly showing us what the original Jessica Livingston @YC rule means : no asshole, thank you for being a generous you ! Let's make this shine and inspire more YC alumni to become Advisors for this #epicbatch @startupschool
Hedge funds generally do not track benchmarks as the point of them is to provide diversified return streams. Over a specific time window, any hedge fund worth its salt should outperform vs SPX but really shouldn't be month to month.
I use to get one every morning into work crossing over one bridge. After years it never went away (never chanhed jobs either) but I started working from home
I wonder if any of investors are backed (indirectly maybe) by memory makers Kingston, Samsung, Micron VC arms etc.. Just a thought..
Drones Air-Dropping 50,000 Mosquitoes from Above
This looks like a regurgitation of a Vanity Fair article that I found a bit flimsy.

The idea for example that MS are effectively excluded from bidding because they can't achieve the feat of putting 32GB of memory in a server is a bit absurd when you think about it. For a big contract like this I reckon MS techs could probably just about manage it.

Have the people drafting the requirements done a bit of copy-n-pasting? Definitely.
This is just an ad with a lot of very general and non actionable advice.
I'm not really a fan of these types of posts. You can earn 6 figures in San Francisco or other expensive cities pretty easily as an entry-level employee, so this is just exaggerating people's expectations of the earning power of becoming a developer. Which will increase the rate of labor market saturation as people think they can earn a six figure salary as a developer in cities with modest costs of living.
Google is developing an experimental podcast app called Shortwave
Nvidia is using AI in chips to make video games even more realistic
I guess it all boils down to how you want to spend your time. Elm typically requires at least 4x the lines of code and at least 10x the time of dealing compilation issues compared to Clojurescript. So ultimately I think this is just a question of a desired workflow in one language vs. another. Any time spent on Closure-related issues (which have never personally bit me on any project -- I just use the library itself as an extern file and everything has always worked with no effort), is made up for with the fast development cycle on Clojure projects. Even including the increased runtime debugging in Clojurescript vs. Elm, Clojurescript has always provided me a significant productivity advantage over every other JS-family toolkit.
Error message states

Do not post about the alpha/RC version of elm-upgrade on reddit, twitter, HN , discourse etc

That's already an issue about alpha.elm-lang.org being broken, changing it to point at package.elm-lang.org gets me further but the next set of errors are so unhelpful I'm giving up.
"At some point this stops looking like normal relationships and start looking like an act of war"

Well, as far as 'normal relationships' are concerned, the USA have quite a reputation to uphold. E.g:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/sunday-review/russia-isnt...

https://www.dw.com/en/merkel-testifies-on-nsa-spying-affair/...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/congress-intel-committee-to-pr...
>The best minds of my generation are doing data entry and working at call centers.

Alternatively, the best minds of your generation are doing none of those things because they didn't fall into the trap. Don't assume the loudest people speak for everyone.
> In what continent does one find Ukraine?

Earlier you accused Russia of meddling everywhere, just to pull Ukraine out of the hat.

Completely omitting that Ukraine didn't start with Crimea, it started on Euromaidan [0], with heavy involvement of "Yat's our man" [1] and even that was only the ultimate result of decades, and millions of US$, in "regime change" efforts [2].

That's the actual context of Ukraine and not "Russia having ambitions to invade all of Europe". The annexation of Crimea wasn't an offensive play, it was a desperate defensive play trying to hold to as much ground and, and military industrial infrastructure [3], as possible.

The way all of this is constantly omitted, in favor of the "Russia just went into aggressive expansionist mode" narrative, is pretty good evidence for how one-sided this whole topic has become in the public discourse.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

[1] http://openukraine.org/en/about/partners (Originally he was the face of the org, they later replaced him with his wife)

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa

[3] https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-military-equipment/25...
Asking nice can work, but I find it depends on what is in my hand at the time.
If self-hosting is an option for you, I can highly recommend looking into Mattermost as an open source Slack replacement.

We have been using it for the last 2 years and it has been working pretty much flawlessly for us. Upgrading it is really painless too, since it is just one Go binary that automatically applies DB migrations when it detects that you moved to a new version.
When it's standardized, and implemented in the servers, and said software part of mainstream and enterprise distributions, and all major desktop and phone OSs have implemented it (I am looking at you Apple!), and all of your clients updated their OS and all people updated to the latest version, then you can disable all other key exchanges and finally get rid of some part of the old crypto in IPSec. Or you use an appliance for IPSec, then you're screwed.
Prostitution is the world’s oldest profession. Preventing a woman from consenting to sell sex services is immoral and paternalistic. Arguing you should do so because it might cause an increase in abuse or harm to minors is the same logical argument as banning alcohol because it could increase domestic violence and car accidents.

Reason magazine and the Reason podcast are important journalistic institutions. They do not parrot right or left ideology. They have a libertarian philosophy.

It is a classic truism that if you put 1000 libertarians in a room you will get 1000 definitions of what libertarianism is. In my opinion it is essentially a belief in the individual over the collective and that permeates all ideas, such as a distrust and dislike for the government for many different reasons.

Libertarianism is easy to criticize in broad strokes. Many people hear such criticism and assume whatever evil things they want about it. I am used to the criticism and accept that as being neither the stereotype of conservative or liberal my views are easily criticized by people who follow mainstream dogma.

If this philosophy is appealing I highly recommend the Reason Podcast. The latest episode on Elizabeth Warren’s plans for corporations is a good summary of libertarian views on populist rhetoric whether it comes from the right or left.
Bamboo itself is "green" but the process to turn it into textiles is anything but. The marketing of bamboo textiles relies on your assumption, which is why it has so far been doing well.

https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-fashion/whatever-happ...

https://blogs.wsj.com/informedreader/2007/11/06/bamboo-has-a...

The second article requires a subscription to WSJ but you can find the same information elsewhere on the web.

My philosophy for a long time now has been to take good care of existing clothing/textiles, purchase used as much as possible, and purchase fewer items overall - only what I absolutely need to live my life in a reasonable manner, without excess or mindless purchases.
> It's valuable to remember facts today

The last thing you want to do to an oppressed minority in an autocratic state is compile a public membership list. This article is someone tagging their pet fad to a humanitarian crisis.
Agreed. To support that point, Discord's videocall functionality is probably the best I've seen, despite using electron as well.
Today my wife and I woke up to, "A Colorado man has been convicted of killing his wife and children."

I would LOVE a feature to disable these types of headlines, this certainly IS NOT it.
This is a good point. Obama got rid of defaulting on student loans, so there's really not much of an excuse for banks not to give people a loan they won't be able to pay off. If there were, the bank might take more of an interest in what you were studying and what your career goals were.
I now read on the surface and very quickly; in fact, I read too fast to comprehend deeper levels, which forced me constantly to go back and reread the same sentence over and over with increasing frustration.” She had lost the “cognitive patience” that once sustained her in reading such books.

I had a similar, but opposite problem most of my life since computers came along. In high school, I started reading technical books on programming. Along with my textbooks, of course. Around my junior year, I realized that I'd lost the ability to just smoothly flow through 'light' text. I'd obsessively rescan paragraphs if I'd missed a single word.

About once a decade, I'd realize that I'd lost the ability to read fiction for pleasure and make it a point to redevelop the skill. My last bout was reading everything by Murakami.

Maybe her mind is just wandering, because in my opinion the key to fiction is allowing yourself to skip minor details and let your brain figure it out as you go.
This is what happens when someone with a clear idea of a lumped element model slams into someone with a clear idea of Maxwell's equations.
You should read the article, the headline is very misleading :)
> New features require building a routing map for all possible URLs on boot, which is a dramatically heavy operation. We were eventually forced to forgo our traditional ORM layer entirely to get any degree of performance (insert: shock/awe) - Related: It turns out SQLite3 has a query limit of 999 SQL variables, so we had to implement a recursive query strategy for SQLite only. Wild.

Out of pure technical curiosity, how did this come to be the chosen approach? A query with 999 variables strikes me as a serious code smell, but at the same time I don't doubt you guys seriously considered the alternatives before choosing this route.
The system seems broken when states representing more than 50% of the population have to sue in court to try to change something like this. Instead with that much backing it should be done through the legislative branch. I'm concerned about the growing use of courts to try to decide policies because our legislative bodies can't work together and instead just try to force one sided issues through or block each other.

> Together, the AGs represent states totaling 165 million people — more than half of the U.S. population.
Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
As if government indictments are objective, give me a break.
From the article:

> The stories are selected and summarized by the nonpartisan nonprofit Solutions Journalism Network, an organization that helps train journalists to better cover how people are responding to problems and how those actions can have positive results.

Google is not choosing the stories.
I'm a Redux maintainer. I did some stats collection last fall, and concluded that about 50-55% of React apps use Redux, and about 10-15% use MobX. (I also gathered some stats on Redux side effects addon usage as well.)

My sources and conclusions are in the slides for this presentation, around slide 32:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/09/presentation-might...

I'd be interested in seeing someone re-run these comparisons today, and include the Apollo GraphQL client in the mix. In addition, it would be worth including Github's "dependency" counts as a metric as well.
Romney also suggested requiring porn filters on every computer sold to protect the children.
Dune and A Song of Ice & Fire use very different narrative techniques.

In Dune most of the narration follows a protagonist that navigates the world. In A Song of Ice & Fire there is not a single protagonist. There are multiple characters that are elevated to the same level of importance. Covering world events from each point of view requires more pages. Having multiple characters that are the same level of importance is one of the hallmarks of the series. When starting to read the series a person is usually told that they will not be able to predict who will die. This is a key element of the story telling process.

A Song of Ice and Fire has more named minor characters and a wider range of named minor characters. In my opinion this makes the world more rich and represents a deep understanding of the entire society. Dune deals primarily (99% or more) with aristocrats and their servants/warriors. A Song of Ice and Fire will talk about everyone from Kings to poor fisherman.
Dark Patterns in Google Ads
I dont know but I'd say that's just people trying their best to discredit the industry. The only part that would be non-meat is the casing if it's a natural casing.
With the massive size of their infrastructure, I'm guessing it would be very difficult to conclusively identify a single query, let alone attribute it to Bing.

Also, the process you describe isn't conclusive, since it's possible that someone else randomly searched for "hiybbprqag".

Finally, it's a stronger argument the way it is. Otherwise, it's just Google's word against MS. With their method, they could show that they could predict the search results by sealing a prediction before running the search on Bing. It's independently verifiable.
...or just user the mechanism of a digital signature. No need for a block chain if implemented correctly.
Some states allow a civil suit against all known creditors, lien-holders, or anyone else that may have an interest in the property, forcing them to show proof of their interest, then the judge makes a declarative judgment stating who owns the property, and the obligations the owner may have to the other parties.

Statutes enabling such suits are custom-tailored for removing clouds. If the lenders don't have their paperwork in order, the judge can sever the mortgage from the note, turning it into an unsecured debt.
When did they say the latter? It's more of just not giving out the codenames anymore.
Most compilers that target WebAssembly can also target asm.js, which is compatible with IE.

AFAIK it's more about missing stuff like DOM access and GC that stands in the way.
I think we have very different definitions of 'respectable'. Maybe it's an American thing where absolutist free speech is worshipped as part of the cult of civic religion, but where I live Holocaust denial[1] isn't considered respectable or acceptable.

If you mean it should be taken seriously because it is influential, then yes I suppose it's worth knowing what they are saying (today that's defending child sex trafficking apparently, but that's not new ground for libertarians). Freep, /pol/ and Stormfront are all influential these days, but that doesn't make them respectable either.

[1] https://pando.com/2014/07/24/as-reasons-editor-defends-its-r...
What about the #epicbatch instead, for the t-shirts?
Yea, it's like when the auto mechanic says its "unsafe" to not replace your brake rotors when you change your pads and that he won't replace your breaks unless you pay for rotors too. Just say that the job is too small to be worth it unless you replace the rotors.
I think this article specifically refers to "how reliable someone's flagging reports are", which doesn't mean anything for non-account-holders.
Oof. I completely forgot about that. I remember seeing a footage of a young boy in Singapore sorting dumped US plastic PC chassis by burning them with a lighter and smelling the fumes.
The connections between Neural Networks and the human brain are superficial at best and it's unwise to abuse the analogy beyond it's limit. The author's make no such claims and I don't think you have the standing to either.
I might be putting words into the op's mouth but, what I think the they were trying to say that this is what their life looked like right before experiencing a severe panic attack. So if you find yourself making decisions like this, you might be on a path that doesn't end well. I don't think the shaming was entirely necessary.
It costs $71 to buy a share of Citi right now. Less than half that for Bank of America.

You don't need to be wealthy to have a financial interest in the financial sector. You need only to have a retirement plan.
Yes, and their long term returns support this. My phrasing was regrettable, but my feeling is that they are doing a post hoc rationalization for what maximizes their profit (or are describing themselves as an amoral agent in a complex system, at best).
There are too many mediocre artists
Sure it is. Just ask for only the good news. It does exactly what you want.
Except the case against Larkin and Lacey isn't premised on "preventing a woman from consenting to sell sex services", but rather on what they did to enable and surreptitiously profit from child sex trafficking. Again, I feel like people with strong opinions about this case generally haven't read either side of it carefully.
>Trump voters are old and unsophisticated (on average; of course there are exceptions); they take their instructions from TV not online sources.

White people voted for Trump in a majority in both the educated and uneducated categories. People making more than 50k voted more for Trump and people making less voted for Hillary. Trump pulled in more independents than Hillary.

Don't repeat the trope that Trumps supporters are 'old and unsophisticated'. It does a disservice to any actual debate and results in completely incorrect analyses of why he won (e.g. your assessment that only tv-watching morons voted for him).

https://verdict.justia.com/2018/02/16/trumps-base-broadly-sp...
I've run for office as a Libertarian, but in general I find the philosophy distinctly lacking. I definitely have a strong distaste for Objectivism.

I think it's good to have the libertarian voice at the table when discussing policy. I dread the thought of it being the dominant voice.
I recently moved to Seattle, but I got my six-figure job in Knoxville, Tennessee. (See https://www.bestplaces.net/cost_of_living/city/tennessee/kno...)

Not saying my experience is typical, but just wanted to put that out there. I didn't have to move to an expensive coastal city to get the salary. In fact, the opposite was true. The salary allowed me to move to the expensive coastal city which is where I wanted to live.
One thing I don’t understand is why states do not enact their own net neutrality legislation. As far as I know every state has a public utilities commission of some sort that regulates power, water, etc. Why could this not work for ISPs?
Awesome! I lived in Bangui, Central African Republic, for a few years and used to listen to "Radio Rural" every day (mostly for the music, but also to improve my Sango). One of the highlights of daily programming were the lists of messages that people were trying to get to relatives in distant villages. It was a pretty steady stream about the health of family members and requests for different things.

Asking someone to find the "tall, white guy" would not have been out of place!
They need to be protected somehow. Doesn't seem like that bad of an idea.
I'd recommend listening to this Reply All podcast episode specifically about the child protection act that passed shortly after Backpage was taken down and which caused Craigslist to remove their adult services:

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/119-no-more-safe-harbo...

There is significant evidence and research showing that these services helped protect prostitutes and kept many of them safe. They used technology and private forums to inform one another about dangerous Johns and screen potential customers.

Where teens being trafficked? Probably. But that's an entirely different problem, one of getting more social services available to help teenagers if their domestic situations turn bad; so they have some place to go and don't end up on the streets or being taken by pimps.

Since these services went away, sex workers are already reporting people they know disappearing, or being assaulted.
Although many people have seared-in memories about the transition from AngularJS 1.x to Angular 2.0, since 2.0 the improvements and Angular have a lot in common with today's Elm release. The same code still compiles, to smaller and faster output. The few breaking changes or deprecations happen slowly, with plenty of warning, and very little effort to keep up.

Of course it's more dramatic to find and discuss stark differences between "competing" platforms, but the boring truth here is that Angular and Elm are on the same side of the "should we be careful and methodical about development and change?" question.
Instrumental Convergence
How to fail and win big -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_To_Fail_at_Almost_Everyt...
One Native American tribe killing another Native American tribe is still genocide. Africa is a continent, the slave trade was focused on nations / tribes within the continent. I think the appropriate application of ethnic group is applying it to the tribes / nations within the continent of Africa. Not the entire continent, which is made up of hundreds of ethnicities.
https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/7055029?hl=en
You can argue all day about the 'best' thing to spend $80bn on, but there's no way the 'defense' budget will be reduced by any meaningful amount for the foreseeable future.
Who decides if the blockchain based solution is accurate?

An illustration: you do not trust Amazon because of a TLS certificate. That certificate means that you trust the entity on the other end is Amazon. But it doesn't make you trust them. You trust Amazon because of a bunch of soft reasons: you have ordered through them before, and it worked; they appear in the media a lot as a place people go to buy stuff online; a lot of your friends and colleagues buy things through them and are satisfied. All of these factors go into your soft judgement of why you're willing to give Amazon money.

(If you don't trust Amazon, substitute them for some online entity that you do trust. If there are none, please accept that some people do trust online entities enough to give them money and expect to receive goods or services in return.)

This is what I mean by technology does not solve civil problems: in this case, a specific technology solves the specific problem of establishing an online entity is who they say they are. But now you're back to the same problem that exists with any human interaction: do you actually trust the other side?

Back to the database: if we're going to trust some individual or institution to be the arbiter of accuracy, we're better off just using a normal database with whatever encryption we want. Because once your system has that basic level of trust, you don't need blockchain.

And back to my original point: this set of information (in whatever form) makes no difference if the people in power don't care. This information will not make the people in power care. The problem with any oppressed people is caused by those in power abusing that power. Those in power have power because they have might and the belief of the people that they will use that might to enforce their power. Blockchain doesn't change that.