skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait until you're 40! The things that are important to you will make themselves known. I'm 40 and have decided the things that matter are my family, writing, piano, taiji, and baking, in that order. A short list, but each one of those things could reward a lifetime of dedicated exploration, and each of them (okay maybe not baking) yields arbitrary philosophical depths. I need to spend time on other stuff, too, but I get that stuff out of the way as soon as I can.

"Upkeep tasks" are never worth making your main focus. Fooling with diets, the quantified life, exercise regimens... these are not worth making the focus of life. They make you healthy and functional -- for what? You need something to be healthy and functional for. Start with that thing (or things), and work backwards. You can't make oiling your wheels (or tending to your .emacs file) the whole point. And I don't mean we all need some all-fired existential purpose in life, I just mean we need something we've decided to do.

If you're not yet 40... uh... hang in there.

Sorry, this might be my first ever man-on-the-mountain, lemme-tell-you-how-things-are post, and I don't mean to make a habit of it. But I've got some years behind me, and a lot of mistakes, and this is something I feel pretty confident about.
Say you have an interesting page on your website that I want to reference on my website - then I would pin at least the page I am linking to, to ensure that my links continue to work (I really hate dead links).
Top of this thread:

"I can't think of any good reason why music should even be copyrightable."

This particular argument is about whether music should be copyrightable.
Unrelated, but “Vapid” is an interesting naming choice. The word has a clearly negative connotation, no?
except it's much faster to put a few breakpoints than to recompile your code each time you want to add/remove a logging statement.
EMP? Cyber Intrusion?
Exactly. People see the one attendant standing near the self-checkouts and think "See? The jobs are still there!" But there's one attendant. Where are the other five checkout chicks they used to employ? They're not designing automated machinery or coding vision algorithms, that's for sure.
There is a large and growing team supporting Flutter at Google. Flutter is here to stay, and even beyond Google's investment in it there's a large number of dedicated community contributors too!
I consider sperm and egg donation immoral for religious and ethical reasons.

When I was at Harvard in the 90s there were posters soliciting sperm donors all over campus. They explicitly listed height, appearance, and academic requirements.

If you have the traits clients are looking for it is probably the maximally fit male reproductive strategy short of going full Genghis Khan.
Mosquito net is the first thing that comes to mind.

Then EM pulse weapons, lasers etc.
Cyclist in my area(not SF, LA, NY, etc) tend to be much more safety conscious. They typically have high visibility wear and lights in the evening, and ride in the lanes and obey traffic laws and signage(traffic lights, stop signs, etc).

As well, a scooter will casually accelerate very quickly up to 15mph which is not a casual cycling speed for most people; it's a beginner training speed and rarely seen in parking lots and other space constrained locations.

Lane splitting is not legal in my state, and scooters seem to be much more likely to zip between cars and between cars and curbs including through lights and stop signs. Typically, surprisingly, cyclists will actually full stop behind cars at lights and not go around them to the front.

I would contest, but be open to, it being a sampling biases. I would posit the scooter riders and my area are a much higher accident liability than cyclists in large part due to their own actions. Cycling is reasonably prevalent in the area I live at in my city.

I think I can sum it all up with one phrase: "Carte Blanche"
YC Startup knowledge summarized in bullet points
First party maps support has recently landed, as well as WebView.

Geolocation plugins have been available for quite sometime now, as have encryption and file storage.
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> If you're interested in kicking the tires and are comfortable with dev environments, then install the app via these terminal commands.

So is this actually an open-source project, or is the open source just intended as a preview, and it's expected that production workloads would always be in the SaaS version?

It looks great but I'm a bit confused by the intention.
> The top competitor in a supposedly open competitive field is refusing to compete with [blank] players for fear of [blank]

He's not refusing to compete with women. He's refusing to do two-person co-operative streams with them to reduce the amount of rumors and garbage that terrible people on the internet will create about him.

> When the #2 spot is held by a female gamer, his refusal to play with female players is exactly what you claim it's not. By refusing to play she will never get the chance to compete for the "top" spot. Then sequentially every other player that is not "a her" will get a chance to "win."

None of this makes any sense, you don't know what you're talking about. Have you ever played Fortnite or watched a stream? Did you even read his own justifications for his choices? I suspect not as you created a throwaway account so you could get angry about something and spout nonsense without repercussions.

To be clear, the gaming community in general is shitty to women, this is known. And it would be great if Ninja supported _everyone_ who wants to stream with him. But you can't just force another individual to have your viewpoints and do what _you_ want. You can criticize him for it all you want, that's your freedom to do so, just as he is free to choose who he plays video games with.
Reducing false positives in credit card fraud detection
Are there any features or settings not on the open source version? Is it an exact deployment of the GitHub repo?
> They identified organic matter and calcium crystals with ultraviolet light, which uses different wavelengths to make distinct minerals glow.

> A high-resolution method, called Airyscan super-resolution microscopy, captured colorful snapshots of organic matter and crystal layers in the kidney stones, “crosscut and truncated” by newer crevices, triangles and other geometrics, Dr. Fouke said.
Scary video of today's cyclone in Hongkong.. Some clips of
I mapped CMD-G to copy the full path of whatever I have highlighted in a finder window.

So if I am using the terminal and I want to give the full path to a file or folder I use this and then paste it into the finder.
Show HN: A new podcast where founders interview each other
more clos advantages:

- simplified operations: can service/remove/add ToRs without affecting global routing or the forwarding capacity of the fabric.

- tor uplink flexibility: if a rack has higher bandwidth needs then double up the links (4 vs 8 in your example)

- tor location mobility: it's a lot easier to manage 4 fiber runs per tor than it is to manage 43 different fiber runs... backhaul to 4 spine blocks vs. a complex web of interconnect spreading all over the datacenter floor. with the fly network it's unlikely you can move a rack once it has been placed, at least not until you're ready to tear down the whole fabric and build something new. so you better get your rack density and layout just right. with tor you're stuck with your spine locations, but everything else can be moved around.

the fly advantages for homogeneous supercomputers built and decom'd N years later are clear... but for datacenters which grow and evolve with heterogeneous devices, fly doesn't seem to really hold up well compared to clos.
The only people I know with twitter accounts are journalists. One friend in particular has a hard time understanding how you can function without twitter.

I tried using it, like most people, but when you work a job that doesn’t involve trolling the internet for news, it’s really hard to use twitter in any meaningful manner.

You’ll post something and a few days later you’ll have time to post a reply. Or you’ll follow a few interest points and miss everything they post because you don’t visit every hour and it’ll drown in the feed if you don’t.

I honestly think all the regular people on twitter are either unemployed or spending so much work time on social media that they ought to be fired.

I like social media by the way, but I don’t think it has a lot of value when it’s done primarily with strangers. I mean, my friends use Facebook groups and events to organize stuff and it’s really, really good at that. We use discord/WhatsApp chats to keep in touch on day to day chitchat - which would be better in person but we live in different cities/have children etc. So that sort of social media is great.

But talking with strangers? I mean, I’m home in bed with the flu right now, and we’re having this conversation, except I can’t be sure you’ll ever read what I post or if you’ll find it interesting or reply, and even if we do get to have a talk, we’ll likely never have another one. So it doesn’t hold a lot of real value aside from wasting time, and that’s kind of what twitter is all of the time.
Please mark in the headline that this article is from 2016.
Netflix Observability with Kevin Lew
Dart 2.0 is not Dart 1.0. And the Flutter team has had a large hand in shaping and forming Dart to its current state (and continues to drive certain priorities for it).

Dart is easy to learn (espeically if you come from a JavaScript, Java, or C# background). It can be compiled in ways suitable for distribution in both Apple and Play Stores. And the Flutter team has direct access to the language team behind Dart to ensure that it works well for mobile development.
It might be, but if its running in my DC I can isolate it to authenticated VPN users and audit the hell out of it. Also helps that I can deploy it single tenant.

I can't do that with third party SaaS.
UCF has a really nice one hour intro video tutorial[1] on using the Bloomberg Terminal. It really is crazy powerful, but has a high learning curve. It is however the defacto standard for professional traders and finance. I'd often thought would it be feasible to come out with a competing product that is iPad native and offered as SaaS ($99/mo per user) with no special hardware, annual contracts, and high costs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE8HiHZcgEE
This looks like it takes influences variously from Haxe, Rust, and Haskell, which are all great in my book. But the first thing that crossed my mind was, "could it compile to other languages besides C?"

The reason being that I think the way to really move up the baseline is to take another page from Haxe and aim for cross-compatibility between different systems languages, becoming a "language that unites them all". So that could mean relatively new and hip ones like Rust, D or Zig, or older ones like Pascal(Delphi), Fortran, Cobol...

And those are niches relative to C, but they're nearly unserved niches AFAIK.
I just experience kidney stones for the first time last week. Question: has anyone else suffered from these shortly from taking valacyclovir (Valtrex)? Lot of popular articles here about taking that for HSV / HHV.
Oh the irony, phabricator has had mercurial support since day one almost.
As a 15+ years since my last, I too struggle. I mean sure, calcifications are cute. So is stone picked up on a beach. I'll take the beach stone please.
Beautiful images. They use "A high-resolution method, called Airyscan super-resolution microscopy"

I'm guessing this type of microscope: https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/us/products/confocal-micros...

And I had never heard of the "Basic Principle of Airyscanning" which is pretty neat: https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/us/products/confocal-micros...
The fact that LogisticRegression uses L2 is stated _very_ clearly in the documentation. Maybe someone who is not on mobile wants to check since when?

I'm not sure if the backends in use actually allow for a non-regularized use. I would assume so, but does someone know?
Recovering from depression: seeing a phycologist, starting on sertralin(antidepressants) and getting peace of mind by removing a big project that was waiting for me for "when I recovered".

Managing stress: through the above journey I learned to better identify when im getting and why I'm getting stressed, and act on it.

And generally ive become better at distancing myself emotionally from project.
"I'm not going to tell anyone they must use a Mac, but generally if I see a room full of developers, 90% of them will have Macs. Surely that says something"

I did not use Mac yet and would like to try it someday. But I know a quite profane proverb for this thinking: "eat shit, ten million fly cannot be wrong"

I have never seen a developer with Mac in my life - only managers. Developers use highest grade of ThinkPads Dells and HP so consider this to be more of a cultural thing around your country/part of world.
Depends - it's defined as "offering nothing challenging". Creating content for others to read online has become as essential as being able to write with pen on paper. So in a sense, a CMS that isn't challenging for the average Joe is indeed better off being 'vapid'
>I don't know what's up with all the conspiratorial rejection of these basic stats.

That's an easy one. There is a massive political movement for solving the wage gap; and that political movement is overwhelming dominated by people who insist highly misleading statistics, and call out anyone who questions those statistics as sexist.

This is why you don't want to lie in politics. Once people catch on, they won't believe the kernel of truth you were basing the lie on; they'll just assume your still lieing (which is objectivly closer to the truth than believing the original claims being made).
I think git became dominant because there's no MercurialHub
I'm not an expert in mercurial, and I'll defer to those who are.

My understanding is that while Git stores a tree of objects indexed by hash (and then packs them into packs along with an index, which can be repacked arbitrarily later on), Mercurial's primary data format is a log-structured list of revisions as deltas.
Flutter takes full control of the rendering pipeline directly on both platforms - all the controls your seeing are written in Dart for Flutter, but designed to mimic the best of what the platform offers.

In particular, this means that if you're running an Android app on an older device, it can still show the latest Material design widgets (and similarly for iOS, showing the latest Cupertino styled widgets, or Material).
Total noob here, what's the difference between wrapping a quadcopter with a duct and this?

Is it because a single rotor is much harder?
Why does Microsoft not make those changes themselves? Does the Chinese government not want them to know what changes they want?
We get this a lot. To the point that my colleague wrote this: https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf

It's not easy to explain in a HN comment. Technical decisions like these never are. In this particular case, there is no single "Dart can do X and nothing else can". That's not true for any feature. It's the combination that mattered.

All in all, Dart was a really, really, really good choice. Not from a marketing perspective, obviously, but that's not everything.
For Medium, I get what I expect: Some annoying "we've seen you here before" banner covering up the whole page. That usually doesn't happen for personal web pages.
The+20+Best+Science+Blogs+|+GeekWrapped
A few demo pages would help visualize the end result, before signing up.
As I understand, much of the difficulty controlling this comes from the gyroscopic effect. So wouldn't it be feasable to add a gearbox and a secondary rotary mass to cancel out the angular momentum? If you spin the secondary mass fast enough it also wouldn't add that much weight.
Mostly stupid/unsuccessful people. The elite is very good at disagreeing with each other on a polite manner.

I work in the public sector, as a manager who is on a board that designs suggestions for our national digitization strategies. I know how to play the game now, but the most eye opening thing to me when I was starting out was how people disagree at those levels of society.

If you want to say that you think something is a bad idea, you sugarcoat it to hell and back, focusing first on complimenting your counterpart on where you think they are successful. Then you politely present your view and the facts that support it.

In public it’s different, here you’ll sometimes get heated for the audience, but you’ll still be beat friends once the cameras stop rolling.

The reason behind this is that the world evolves around compromise.

These days you’re seeing more and more people who don’t understand how necessary compromise is, but hopefully we’ll kick them out before we destroy our democracy.
>Should we really be incentivizing making music as a career?

Of course not. There is an enormous glut of cultural works, and people's quality of life would not be meaningfully harmed if all commercial production stopped. See:

https://www.gwern.net/Culture-is-not-about-Esthetics
Speaking of investments against principles -- you might want to check out Facebook stock as of 9/20/18, it's trading at something like 20% under, if you think it will rebound. (I'm not a FB shill, just read my post history).
So the goal is to enable authors and inventors to have exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries? Out of curiosity, how many authors and inventors do you think live 110 years after their writing or discovery?

And of course this is securing for a limited time to authors and inventors. In other words, it should be limited relative to the life of these authors -- not even life long, let alone long after they're deceased.
(Disclosure: I'm the Eng. Mgr for the Flutter project at Google.)

In general Flutter takes the position that Flutter should not limit your choices and your apps should be able to do anything the phone can do. Flutter apps are just iOS or Android apps, you can always open up the ios or android sub-folders and write as much Obj-C/Swift or Java/Kotlin code as you like.

Flutter's core engine/framework are all about providing portable UI, and leave everything else up to "plugins" (the opposite of say the Web were everything is baked into the core platform). Lots of plugins exist today, but there are always more to write:
https://pub.dartlang.org/flutter
https://flutter.io/developing-packages/
https://flutter.io/using-packages/

Responses to your specific asks:

Showing arbitrary native views inline with other Flutter content is actively in progress: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/19030 (already possible to show views to the side of/on-top-of a FlutterView of course).

Full inline Google Maps is similarly in progress: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/73

There are several community authored plugins for geolocation e.g. https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/geolocator.

AR is not something I've seen any work on yet, but it's always possible to throw up a full-screen ARKit/ARCore view using ObjC/Java your otherwise-Flutter-built app.

Flutter includes BoringSSL as part of it's runtime, some encryption APIs are exposed, there is probably more for us to do here. There is also pure-Dart crypto, e.g. https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/crypto and of course always possible to write your own wrappers around iOS/Android APIs (which someone may already have done too).

Audio/Video plugins exist today, e.g. https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/video_player

Some storage plugins exist (e.g. https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/sqflite), definitely more to write here.

Always more to do. If there is something specific you believe my team should help provide, please let us know: flutter.io/support. Hope that helps!
Uh, I guess. Usually I equate it with “dull”.
Just have the tracker store the data locally and sync with your phone or computer via a cable or bluetooth. "The cloud" was never necessary unless you eventually want to monetize the data. In fact it doesn't make sense for the manufacturers to provide that infrastructure unless they plan on getting money out of it. It's not like servers come for free.
Aws-health-tools examples
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151111-why-do-dogs-look-li...
Why would it be, though? It's two adults having consensual relationship. May be you think the rule should be there because the current society haven't developed enough.
The video covers this...
I believe a quadcopter has variable-pitch wings that spin to create lift. This is a fan that pushes a column of air down to create thrust.

Helicopter blades pull the vehicle up from the top, rocket thrust pushes the vehicle up from the bottom.
Ducted-fan VTOL aircraft are surprisingly stable. Here's the Hiller Flying Platform of the 1950s.[1] It's very stable, even though top-heavy. It's mostly steered by leaning, but there are thrust-vectoring vanes to control yaw.

Many variations on this theme were tried in the 1950s, and many of them flew. But it never caught on. There's been recent interest in larger ducted fan drones. This apparently scales better than quadrotors. But nobody seems to really need large ducted fan drones.

If you like early small VTOL craft, many of them ended up in the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, CA.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3FS3D1rCos
Bitbucket was the Mercurial equivalent of GitHub.
(Disclosure: I'm the Eng. Mgr for the Flutter project at Google.)

I've seen Flutter run in lots of places, including desktops. Desktop isn't something my team is actively developing at this time (we're very focused on making mobile awesome), but we're definitely not stopping others from doing so. There is even another team at Google experimenting with the idea:

https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
What I read is that random tweets gain extra credibility by being shown on a big screen on a news show. And they’re cherry picked to support whatever topic and angle is being covered.

You could go out on the street; but finding and then having someone say something on camera is -very- different to finding and showing a tweet. I feel pretty confident in saying that a lot of people tweet stuff they’d never say live in front of a camera.

Hence the argued bad practice of presenting tweets on news shows as well thought through and relevant opinions.
UIKit has been pretty much been the same thing for about 10+ years.

There are additions and tweaks here and there, but you can still make table views inside navigation controllers inside tab bar controllers using frame based layout with near identical code you would use in iOS 2.
You should read what you post, it was coined doing the Cold War but it had to do with developing countries and their economy back when influence was king.

The Cold War ended 20 years ago though, and since then the term started to mean “poor/backwards” countries.

Now in the case if Brazil, you’re post-industrialized country with the worlds 9th largest economy.

You simply don’t fit any definition of the “third world”.
> Flutter takes full control of the rendering pipeline directly on both platforms - all the controls your seeing are written in Dart for Flutter, but designed to mimic the best of what the platform offers.

You see, this is rarely what I want. I’ve seen time and time again people trying to emulate controls and it just doesn’t work. Apple has a whole team that’s spent years making the iOS UI look just the way it is, and I don’t trust any other team to be able to copy this without serious effort. Sure, it might look pretty similar, but something always doesn’t work: the control behaves differently, isn’t accessible, animates incorrectly, etc.
I'm a legitimate fan and willing to pay a fair price for a ticket, but due to my job I usually can't buy the moment the ticket is released. So if it weren't for the "scalpers" I'd never get to see a show.