skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it inevitably feels like bias to get moderated like that. But if you see a glaring case where the rules weren't enforced, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. HN gets over 7000 comments a day. We can't read them all.

You are welcome to alert us to such cases, by flagging them (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html for how to flag comments), or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com about egregious ones.

We don't have Mozilla sponsors or any other sponsors, nor care which $BigOrg is up or down on the internet wheel of fortune this week. The waves make these things happen. We're just bobbing in the waves like everyone else, trying to keep the peace here and never succeeding completely.
As far as I can tell instant apps are just websites that are conveniently (for Google) locked into Googles ecosystem.
This brings home the point Sam Harris makes often in his writing and blog (and books [1]): Our subjective experience of free will and being in control is largely an illusion.

I used to find that very depressing, but now made peace with compatibilism (the notion that determinism and free will are compatible) [2][3].

Sam Harris objects to compatibilism: both argue that determinism is true, but Harris thinks that thus we have no free will, while compatibilists argue that we still have the "free will worth having" (see the book by Dennett [4]).

Harris and Dennett had an insightful podcast/debate on that [5].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/books/review/free-will-by...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism

[3] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_Room_(book)

[5] https://samharris.org/podcasts/free-will-revisited/
- In general very bad service all around ("Kunde droht mit Auftrag" mentality)

- A lot of weird and bizarre people on the streets (talking with themselves, bad hygiene etc.)

- Not much respect for old people and pregnant women in public transport (young people will block only elevator, most of the time nobody will offer you seat etc.)

Still there are many more other things which make living in Vienna quite good experience.
Because C++ is not a particularly good language to write large UI apps in.

Also, because QML is still not as good as the rest of Qt. But it's the right approach - a dedicated framework for desktop apps that is not built on things intended for completely different purposes (like HTML), but stealing the good ideas from there, like using a markup language to define the UI tree, and bindings.

Really, what we need is a cross-platform WPF with less fat. HTML is not it - it's cross-platform WPF with more fat, and not optimized for UI.
OTOH, the pizza shop owner sure struck lucky, if he kept them
There’s an official API since 2014 (Yosemite): https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...
The interesting thing about that quote is that her family would've been fucked - even more fucked - had the Lowell factories not existed. The source of her family's misery was "a father’s debts are to be paid, an aged mother to be sup- ported, a brother’s ambition to be aided", all of which are pre-existing conditions that ultimately result from life (and perhaps some poor financial management).

Similarly, I think we're fucked today, and the source of our fuckedness has nothing to do with technology. It comes from overpopulation (there are now 7.4B people on this earth, compared to 4.5B when I was a kid and 1B when my parents were kids), and climate change, and resource depletion, and living like the good times will always go on rather than investing in the future. Life requires resources - when the planet has more lives to support and fewer resources to support them, the standard of living will necessarily go down.
Cardamom is widely used in Scandinavian sweet baked goods, especially around Christmas.

I also occasionally add a pod when I make a cup of tea.
1) Don't know didn't have a kid in Hawaii

2) Yes, these things are more expensive, but rent is cheaper for the same size apartment. In our case it was a lot cheaper. As a programmer though, you're in the top 5% anyway, it's all affordable.

3) You treat certain areas as native reservations, because that's what they essentially are. I did hear stories about obnoxious tourists getting a brick in their windshield. Personally, never had a problem with any of the natives, they were all nice to me. Though I do have an accent, maybe it helped.

4) No island madness for me, I love it. Best windsurfing in the world. Cleanest air in the world (besides maybe the polar caps). Cleanest water in the world. Cleanest beaches in the world. Amazing nature, lots of wildlife. No dangerous / poisonous animals or snakes in the jungle. Great climate, and you do get colder winters.
If TSB have gone through all of this pain and emerged at the other end as a truly modern bank without all the historical cruft I'd be seriously tempted to move over to them

They haven't eliminated it, they just moved from Lloyds cruft to Sabadell cruft.
Is it possible to receive Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) images? Didn't find it in the documentation.
> It seems counterproductive to me as it will push developers to use OpenJDK

OracleJDK is 99% OpenJDK since 8 or 7. OracleJDK comes with some minor performance improvements, used to contain WebStart (removed in 11), Rhino and MissionControl (now GPL2 included in OpenJDK), some build tricks. Not sure what are differences between OracleJDK11 and OpenJDK11, but pretty sure it's really minor and 99.9% of developers won't need them. Oracle actually wants us to use OpenJDK. Remember that OpenJDK has been "forked" a few times already, by Azul, more recently Amazon and RedHat.
I first heard about Shazam when I worked in a project to integrate Shazam API to Hello Moto J2ME app back in 2007~2008.
And it was amazing to see how they were able to move to the smartphone world so gracefully!
Ehh, the secrets that were shared really should be public anyway. Qualcomm have single handedly distorted the American mobile device market by working trade secrets and patents into the LTE standard.
OK that's enough, I had been doing a slow transition but this is just a step too far, qutebrowser is now my main browser... I just want a decent browser engine with a front-end that respects me, qute gets me chromium without the increasingly bullshit front end user "features".
> also being people also doing normal things

If you are cog in a machine then you still responsible for final outcome even if you only did "normal things".

Read book referenced below, maybe you'll change your mind and refrain from such comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18067690

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25530963-soldiers
The Poles cracked the pre-war version of the Enigma, that is the point. That version had fewer rotors. Then upon the invasion the German command switched to a more secure Enigma with more rotors. So the British had both information about the new Enigma and how the Poles decrypted the older version.
In the Battle Royals space the place is littered with the corpses of devs and publishers who kept on the fad. PUBG got there first, and then FortNite leapfrogged them, and to be blunt all of other attempts are names with little or no recognition. Remember The Culling II? Yeah, neither do I. And I don’t remember the dozens of other games that have tried to copy the formula and never even got the trivial recognition of something like Radical Heights, which killed its publisher Boss Key.

Fade in games go something like this: a workable formula makes someone a lot of money. They rise and at a certain thresholds major publishers take note and iterate, crushing the original. Then other publishers inject said mechanics into their flagship games until people are so sick of them that they can’t stand it. There is a reason why all of the big upcoming shooters like CoD IV have battle royale modes.

To a lesser extent fads can burn out without studios ever really getting into it because it’s too small (relatively speaking of course). Surgeon Simulator set of years of “simulator” games ranging from I Am Bread to Black Screen Simulator. Eventually we got Shower With Your Dad Simulator which subverted the genre a bit, and set of another explosion of imitation. These indie fads tend to follow that pattern of initial massive explosion followed by secondary ignition when some slight twist on the formula introduces some air to the. mixture, and this repeats with smaller explosions until the last dregs of fuel are exhausted.

Zombie modes are another example, as are hero shooters like OverWatch (the “big thing” before BR). Remember LawBreakers? Exactly.

https://www.gamecrate.com/shadow-overwatch-how-games-are-try... What we’re seeing now with BR as it played out last cycle.
I would include more cities on this list. For starters, LA/NY/Boston/Seattle. The software scene in Los Angeles is great right now. I don't have first-hand knowledge of the other cities but they definitely have the reputation of being great for developers.
This was true until about 14 hours ago. :)

https://github.com/ssbc/secure-scuttlebutt/pull/220

You can now generate an unbox key for a private message send it to a non-recipient for them to be able to access the message, which is really cool. No private key sharing necessary!
Honest question: How can you trust FF when they less than a year ago silently modified installers for a small % of users, to include tracking - which then sent all browsing data to a 3rd party?

https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...

Or after they (ab)used systems intended for testing features to inject, what's basically an ad? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass
It will be cheaper if you buy in bulk the local Tescos to me in the UK sells rice in 10Kg bags which is several times cheaper than boil in the bag

And I am sure the local Asian cash and carry's sell even bigger bags even cheaper.
While that might be true today, I don't agree that increasing risk-taking behaviors was evolutionarily advantageous past some equilibrium (otherwise, we'd have a new equilibrium).
I saw that on reddit and downvoted it, title says it shows new Java 11 things, so I expected dynamic class-file constants example and explanation, ZGC tuning and showcase, not "var" from Java 10 and HTTP client from Java 9... Your post describes some minor syntax changes and a few new base methods, doesn't cover release notes.
Do you live in Utah? That's not been my experience at all. You meet a lot of Mormons and you can often tell who they are, but they are very nice and it doesn't seem to affect day-to-day life much at all.

I would not describe the government as a theocracy. Liquor stores aren't open on Sunday and you can't buy full strength beer in the grocery store. Other than that the differences living here vs. elsewhere aren't huge.
Indian Hotel-Booking Startup Oyo Raises $1B to Fund Overseas Push
There are solutions to this (check the #offchain-content channel) in the works, but currently it's true: anything you post will continue to be replicated by your friends.
How did telltale have 90 developers to lay off in 2017? Wasn't their bread and butter a pretty simple quicktime event engine and their differentiator storytelling?
US communications act 230[1].

Tech companies aren't liable for user content on their sites as long as they act as the equivalent of a digital public square. The minute they start selectively editing content they become a "publisher" and can be sued into oblivion for any illegal content they host.

Google search is probably safe but Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter could be argued to be in violation with their policing of conservative content in the past year or so. Social media companies would basically cease to exist without the protections from US communications act 230

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
Jim Sterling went into this a few times, likening TT to a magician with one really exquisite trick. The problem as you put it and he explained, is overexposure shatters the illusion. Instead of trying to invent new tricks, or at least new ways of presenting them, they just went mad exposing people to the same device ad nauseum. It didn’t help that many of their recent titles were very grimdark, which gets tiring, or that their engine was old.
Well, there article mentions they were primarily concerned with children, and that Coke once had as much caffiene as a can of Redbull. Do a google news search for "children energy drinks", and you will see that absolutely not much has changed.
>Working to change that.

How are you planning to move from 5 to 8/11? Our migration from 5/6 to 8 was really painful.
Java FX does look pretty, but the menu bar implementation is as broken as the one in Swing:

* Switching to a different window with alt-tab will have moved keyboard focus to the menu bar when you switch back.

* Holding down the mouse button, pointing at menus to open them and releasing to activate an item – the way people did it in ancient times and which has been supported everywhere forever – does not work.

* To avoid submenus disappearing as you try to move the cursor towards them, GUI toolkits use either a small delay or something more clever to keep the submenu for a bit while you try to reach it. Except for Swing and JavaFX, which do neither, leading to a frustrating user experience. Interestingly, they have documented the correct behaviour in the JavaFX wiki[1], but it's apparently not implemented. (They had similar design documentation on the Swing wiki, which I can't find now, which was also never implemented.)

(The Swing menu bar is broken in many similar ways, but in case someone is wondering why it works in IntelliJ, they implemented[2] the expected behaviour themselves.)

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Menu+User+Expe...

[2] https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/...
July 27, 2015
There was an alliance between the Polish, French, and British to work on the Enigma problem. Rejewski made a simple assumption about the connection between the keyboard and the rotors that turned out to be correct. The British did not think to make this assumption. Why, who knows. The brains of the British operation was Dilly Knox, who was smart but not a mathematician. Rejewski was a mathematician.

Rejewski was aided by a French spy, though. It's not clear how far he would have gone without that. It's neat to try and play this game of "who was first" but I think ultimately you have to give credit to the team: it was Poland, England, and France, and they each had some contribution in the early days of Enigma. However, critical to note, this work had been going on before Turing got involved with GC&CS. The alliance began around 1931, and Turing got involved with GC&CS in 1938.

The entire signals problem was also not constrained at all to Enigma. Turing worked extensively on that problem, but there were other cipher systems, like Tunny, that Turing had a much more limited role in, which was mostly a crypotanalysis result from Tiltman (the "1+2 break") and engineering work by Flowers, to create an almost-entirely-electronic vacuum tube computer (which he personally funded because Bletchely thought it was impossible).
Not just ad-free, but free now as well. Shazam had a free tier and you could pay to get rid of ads.
You might find this library interesting https://github.com/scf4/callbaxx
Exactly. Startup is just a buzzword
Go code is about ~30% more verbose than equivalent python.
I find the opposite is often the case.
Leasing was my first choice for the same reasons as you pointed out. However the work visa limits my lease period to 24 months and that drives the monthly lease to around the $700/mo range (not including insurance/gas/maintenance) that adds up to roughly 20k with taxes and fees.

For the same $45k Merc that I am looking at, the 2016 model is up for sale around $28k - $30k. That gave me the impression that I am in for around a 30% hit if I kept it in good condition. Good point about the low balling dealers and the "California debt" factor, I did not look at it that way.

So I'm looking at a price tag of around $30k. Add in insurance, gas and parking.

Wow! Just Wow!
An Indian wedding in Southern California can easily cost $120k+ given the number of attendees, the sizes of the venues required, the food, the white horse...
Introducing Original Prusa SL1 – Open Source SLA 3D Printer
Perhaps rather than denigrating Swizec, you could take note of the key message from his posting: An informative seller. I'm the kind of guy that only goes into a store if I know what I need. In, out, 5 minutes. Generally this is because American retailers have been reduced to cash register operators rather than knowledgable salespeople. When you meet someone who actually understands their business - in this case offering expertise on helmets and gloves - they stand out and yes, you do become more likely to open your wallet because you can now understand the value. Compare this to most shopping experiences where the only apparent difference between products is the price, and where the seller is literally reading the box art to try to explain anything about it to you.

I suspect Swizec will be very happy with his purchases and will be a return shopper. Once upon a time, it was articles on business fundamentals like this that drew me to HN.
It's not. The SUVI data is not broadcast on the HRIT feed, only on the GRB (GOES ReBroadcast) feed. Receiving GRB requires more effort: minimum 10ft dish, dual circular polarized feed, DVB-S2 demodulator, and different software. Never tried this, but would make for a fun project.
I think selection for intelligence was a feedback loop. I think you're interpreting my idea as circular, and I disagree.

Here's what I think was part of what lead to the development of large brains (and general intelligence). Keep in mind that biology and psychology are not my fields.

Intelligence was inherently advantageous for humans because they allowed us to operate better in different environments. That's where natural selection took effect.

Human tribes were and are (like most populations of social species) characterized by hierarchies, particularly among males in the species. Females tended to choose (and still tend to choose, as far as we can tell) males higher up in social hierarchies when all else is equal (just like most social species, even favoring position in a hierarchy more highly than most other traits). If a tribe has many different possible kinds of hierarchies for males (e.g. they inhabit many different kinds of environments), then one trait that enables a male to do well across many hierarchies is general intelligence. When females select males as high up the hierarchy as possible (in general), they are in effect sexually selecting for intelligence.

I think something similar likely happened with males selecting females with higher intelligence, but it was likely more subtle of a process than I can grasp, since males tend to mate far less selectively than females among humans (and most other animal species), which complicates it quite a bit for me.

Also, just because a choice is unconscious does not mean it is illogical. Many unconscious human choices are quite logical and make a lot of sense, but are not well suited to our current environment.
If you replace the word “coffee” with “drink”, “cigarette”, or “heroin” it’s pretty easy to understand where they’re coming from. Addicts are pretty miserable until they get their first fix of the day, and although I’m not comparing the severity of caffeine addiction’s effects on an addiction to heroin, alcohol, or cigarettes, the basic point remains.
Your isValidEmail() function is incorrectly and redundantly implemented.

function isValidEmail(e) {
const b = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+)*)|(".+"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/;
return b.test((e + "").toLowerCase())
}

1. The valid email address n@ai (which used to be the real maintained email address of Ian Goldberg) doesn't pass this function. People can put DNS records on TLDs.

2. You're calling toLowerCase() yet the regex is already case-agnostic.

If you're going to attempt email address validation, either go all out[1], or just use isValidEmail=(e)=>~e.indexOf("@")

[1]: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
What Spotify's DNA-Test Playlist Gets Wrong About Genetic Ancestry
Ahh...responsive layouts in VB, those were the days. Cramming everything into a frame, and looping through each widget to set width to 49% of the frame.....every time they moved/resized the form. It seems a lot more pleasant in my memory that it likely was at the time.
How can there be any results if so few have tried reviving unions, in recent years? That’s like writing off electric cars in 2003 or virtual reality in 2011. There’s always a Musk or Luckey working behind the corner. People just have to try.
Ask HN: What are the best alternatives to Google Analytics?
False equivalence. This is like showing a story about an arm amputee living a normal life, and using that to claim that someone who had just had their arm blown off would "be fine".
Just because OP doesn't agree with the prevailing politics doesn't mean they agree with your particular beliefs.
Silicon Valley? Left wing? You've got to be kidding me.

SF is like the ultimate neoliberal bubble.
Perl 6 speed improvements over the years
New Features in Qt 5.12
They traded their company for hundreds of millions of dollars. Good on them for turning a product into something that was so lucrative for FB and a real enjoyment for so many people the world over. I think it can't be understated how Instagram has become a pillar of so many brands and online businesses today.

But in reality their departure is really part of the business of software, the founders sell out, become exceedingly wealthy. After a few years the disillusionment with being part of a corporate machine (and not in control) sets in and they quit to spend time on their burning man floats. Its always been this way and theres nothing wrong with that.

I think many of us would do exactly the same given the option of struggling for a decade to profitability or a $10m+ exit with a comfortable VP level role.

I find it interesting that Instagram would want to include more adverts, as I find myself drawn to brands/interests without the help of annoying ads.
coffee test sounds cool :) I'll do it in our coworking tomorrow!

Yeah, the white site has some UX issues. We need to fix it if we decide to keep it.
If you just run something for 3 days every 2 weeks using your numbers that comes out to $432 per month. Just one month! Still not including storage costs etc. So after 6 months you're even. And you can still sell those GPUs in 1/2 years for a decent chunk of money when you want to buy the next generation.

The cloud only really makes sense for the on-demand burst capability IMO.
Dear my... this is way leaner in C.

return strrchr(str,',')+1;

There are just a handful of branches unless your library goes nuts with vectorization.

If you want to handle three forms of broken input:

if(!str)
return NULL;
str = strrchr(str,',');
if(!str)
return NULL;
if(!*++str)
return NULL;
return str;
Word from the wise, stay off motorcycles!
It is not that you are a bad rider, just too many people in heavy cars not paying attention. I have been hurt myself and had a few friends die. Just not worth it.
We surveyed 10K employees about perks
Hi everybody, cool to see this submitted on HN. I'm around for questions so ask away.

Also beware that the guide is a little out of date:

1) the listed antenna is no longer available, but there are comparable ones for comparable or lower price, and

2) the SAWBird has been generally available for a couple of weeks.
I would love to know how you made a profit on it. (That's not a snarky question at all - I have a child likely to get married next year, and I would genuinely like to know.)