skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently learned that this is due to a somewhat shady SEO trick referred to as Private Blog Networks.

You take over expiring legitimate domains, and ideally immediately (before Google notices) put up almost the same content, but with a link to whatever site you're actually interested in giving better search ranking to.

Repeat this 1000x and you can apparently make enough headway that people put time and money into the approach.
This piece is likely pertinent due to the discussion of e-ink screens: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100447 from a couple days ago.

I can see the appeal of something Dasung 13" screen: https://www.amazon.com/Dasung-Ink-Paperlike-13-3-Monitor/dp/... for long, sequential text documents. It'd make an interesting second display. Just not for $1,200.
Python 3 cleaned up a lot of other language warts like that one (though some may disagree as to whether or not they were warts). No more `super(SuperLongClassNameHere, self).method()`, no more having to teach beginners to always use raw_input() instead of input(), `0 > None` now raises an exception rather than evaluating to `True`.

I personally wish they would just make `self` implicit, but I understand that that adds a lot of magic in a language that currently doesn't have a lot.
Good games need a staff of 40-80 people working normally, a handful of highly-efficient people or a few people taking a lot of shortcuts and have more energy than a caffinated chipmunk with bags of cocaine instead of hides of acorns.
There is a Free Thoughts episode talking about DPC, if you are interested: https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/why-cant-...
Libraries that (properly) use {{insert anything here}} are less likely to have bugs and are .... etc

remove the (properly) and I'd give the technology some credit. Otherwise it's just "no true Scotsman" fallacy.
He’s not dead Jim!

Fake news on hacker news. We should flag kill.
>The fact that 85% of the normal room lighting is blocked by the lens means that wearing it would essentially be like wearing sunglasses.

As part of a costume I bought some $4 sunglasses at the thrift store and wore them in a dimly-lit bar the other night. Ended up bumping into people because I couldn't see.

I imagine this is what Magic Leap is like.
Interesting. That still wouldn't completely rule out environmental/cultural factors though, including diet and so on (e.g. maybe eating teff is good for long-distance runners).
Probably stuff that hardcodes paths like /tmp
Considering that a local government can't just spend the money allocated to "national defense" even if they wanted to, I'd consider that a pretty tenuous argument to make.
I didn't post the parent because I agree with this law completely, but to bring up the point.

The advocates of this law would probably argue that everyone discriminates all the time, including by gender.

I am on the fence. When I was younger I would have been firmly on the hands off libertarian side. Then I saw what a sham meritocracy can actually be and how much success is based on who you know. The more I saw of the high corporate and financial world the more liberal I became. Do some business consulting work and meritocracy starts to looks like survivorship bias.
You can market a 2D platformer all you want, it's still a 2D platformer in a market absolutely _saturated_ with them.

If you're making one in 2018, it should either be a hobby project, or you should be prepared for very few sales.
Both sides are only "states rights" if it benefits them on any given issue. Dems are against states rights until they get to pass legislation legalizing pot or net neutrality, then suddenly it's not so bad. Similarly, Republicans are all for states rights until some blue state starts passing legislation they disagree with.

Both sides twist the issue to their advantage. Rights for me, not for thee.
Can you share which deep tech startup companies you find successful in Germany?
I cross-compiled to Windows the other day for the first time (from Linux). It gave me a perfectly-working .exe in less than a second on my first try.

I love JS too, but I have yet to get Webpack or Babel working in less than a couple of hours.
> So far, things have turned out fine — I’ve only been billed a $150 copayment for my ER trip...

Copayment should be eliminated too. Paying for an insurance I want to be sure that if something happens to me I don't have to worry about anything, even about having spare $150.
Hmmmmm, the spam list downside is a non starter for me.

It sounds like you've invented a captcha for email. If that ever took off and became widely used, it would be rather easy for the spammers to write a script to comply with the scheme. Followed of course by the usual escalation to adding an image-based captcha, and then efforts to beat the captcha, and so on.

As an aside, you could do it entirely in email as well by sending a response that requires a specific reply to join the whitelist. That is you could eliminate the webserver and the mildly-questionable-looking URL.
My line of thought started from, "what would the world be like if every vehicle had a built-in valet?" I think the design of commercial areas would change dramatically within a couple decades, even just from the effect on parking.
Great comment, I've never had a good way of putting that same thought.
My understanding is that additional post-money SAFEs dilute solely common, whereas additional pre-money SAFEs dilute common and other pre-money SAFEs. So if you want to do a new round, by doing an equity round, you can dilute the post-money SAFEs with common. But if you do a 2nd post-money SAFE round, solely common gets diluted.

Since keeping cap flat is logistically / emotionally easiest for both sides to swallow, the founder dilution is worse under a "flat" scenario. In the pre-money world, if you did pre-money $10mm cap and raised $2mm, then later another $2mm at same cap, common would own ~71% (10 / 14) on conversion (assuming A is high enough). In post-money world, if you do $12mm cap and raise $2mm (so equivalent to old world in 1st round), then later raise another $2mm with same cap, common would own 67% (8 / 12). That's just 4 - 5%, but a real difference.

So I believe the incentive is higher to do an equity round to convert the post-money SAFEs so they can be a part of the dilution of the new round. Unless I am mistunderstanding how they'd convert or something else here. The math is complicated (which I guess is the whole point of why moving to post-money will improve founders' understanding).
Really interesting project, though it's tough to browse/navigate though it. Keep at it!
Board members don't represent the public. In the U.S., they are elected by, and represent the shareholders. Evidently now for half the seats, the shareholders can elect whoever they want, as long as they identify as a woman.
I get that SA ORM is unfit to run on the eventloop thread, but I’m increasingly unclear if you hold your position that asyncio is bad solely because it makes SA ORM less competitive - and less of a ecosystem standard.

The alternative being just using SA Core and something like aiopg, using asyncpg, or using SA in a threadpool (unfortunately, a technique that’s involved enough that the recipe for using SA isn’t a 5 min “gotcha”, re: flask).

I like SA. I’ve used it for years, and you’ve helped me on the forums, so I’m appreciative for the work you’ve done. I just don’t understand why you’ve written off an entire style of programming.
Google is crawling all over the web but cannot detect these as fraudulent requests?

Google crawls surprisingly little of the web, even on web sites it knows about. That’s why web developers have to use site indices and Google Webmaster Tools to tell G that stuff exists on their sites, hoping that it will be discovered and indexed.
Interesting. Anecdotally, I have seen the opposite, where a company will raise multiple layers of SAFEs since pre-money SAFEs get diluted as you add more SAFEs, and you don't need to negotiate board seats or any control terms with a SAFE round. But obviously you have seen the real data on what co's are doing, not just a few anecdotes!
Expansion of federal jurisdiction under the Commerce Clause is an egregious violation of Constitutional law.

Does the federal government have the enumerated right under the Commerce Clause to, for example, ban football for anyone that doesn't have a disability? No!

Was the Commerce Clause sufficient authorization for Federal prohibition of alcohol? No! An Amendment to the Constitution was necessary. And, Federal Alcohol and the unequal necessary State Alcohol prohibitions miserably failed to achieve the intended outcomes.

Where is the limit? How can they claim to support a states' rights, limited government position while expanding jurisdiction under the Interstate Commerce Clause? "Substantially affecting" interstate commerce is a very slippery slope.

Furthermore, de-classification from Title II did effectively - as the current administration's FCC very clearly argued (in favor of special interests over those of the majority) - relieve the FCC of authority to regulate ISPs: they claimed that it's FTC's job and now they're claiming it's their job.

Without Title II classification, FCC has no authority to preempt state net neutrality regulation. California and Washington have the right to regulate ISPs within their respective states.

Outrageous!

Limited government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_government

States' rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%27_rights

[Interstate] Commerce Clause:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause

Net neutrality in the United States > Repeal of net neutrality policy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United...
Copayments are essential to keep bored and lonely people from going to the doctor every day for nothing in particular.

AFAIK, only the UK has a zero copayment system among the government run health care systems.
Women creating a company for women's products are good and all woman boards are good. Men creating products for men are bad and all male boards are bad. Where's the hypocrisy?
I agree, C++ projects are quite easy to get running on Linux. I've done cross platform C++ game stuff and almost always had more trouble with Windows than I ever did with Linux. MacOS was pretty annoying in some cases too, actually...
I can't speak to the X1 Extreme but I use the X1 Carbon 6th Generation and it runs Linux great.

Initially, there was an issue with S3 sleep but Lenovo addressed that with a firmware update. Lenovo also recently joined the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). It is now extremely easy to update firmware in Linux by executing the fwupd command. The one remaining issue is some thermal throttling threshold issue. I've installed a service that is a work around but I'm hoping this gets addressed in a subsequent firmware update.

I was coming from a MBP as well and I've completely switched to Linux. I went back and forth between getting the Dell XPS or the X1. I finally settled on the X1 because I liked the keyboard more after using both at Microcenter, but it was a tough decision.

The Arch wiki entry[0] on the X1 is a good reference point regardless of what distro you use.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carb...
Agreed. I'm always impressed with the production quality of his videos, he clearly spends a lot of time on them. He even has a google doc linked in the description to all the songs he uses in each video.
"I believe failed projects have a duty to release source to the backers in some way."

He said in the link

"I will prepare the source code for release"

And he will be in touch after the source is released.
A collaborative platform for reproducible research
In this past job which was the first one that didn't track time at all, I still wrote down my hours every day and still tried to balance it to +/- 0 at the end of the week, if not possible then end of the month.
After a while (months?) I did what everyone else seemed to do. Just eyeball if it's either roughly 40 hours per week or if the last days/week was very stressful tread a little more careful, or if nothing seemed to work and I was distracted make a mental note to catch up next week.

That said, I enjoyed most of my time there very much and often would be doing exploratory stuff that I might have done on my own time anyway, so sometimes I took some extra time to evaluate one more possibility and used some spare time. Other times I just did some private stuff only veeery distantly related to actual work stuff and chalked it up as "learning".

So yeah, probably not a really helpful answer. But if you're having fun and are learning a lot a few more hours won't hurt. If a fun evening of spare time does not include programming (which I guess is true for at least 50% of programmers) then don't put in extra time. I think I've mostly done "I have a guilty conscience if I leave a lot sooner" but I also try really hard to not slack off during my 8 hours and count them as working hours. And yes, if you have that "Today I achieved more in 6 hours than the whole last week" then absolutely stop working, it's probably true.
I'll bite: What do you mean by "Hayek was an enemy of democracy"?
I initially dismissed this advice. However, when i thought a bit deeper, it makes a lot of sense to do this.

If you can't convince somebody to market your game, how can you convince somebody to buy it from you directly?
> one has great graphics but bad gameplay, the other has bad graphics but great gameplay. The great gameplay game is going to win that match up.

Yes, in terms of player satisfaction, but no, not in terms of sales. Terrible movies with great explosions out-earn great movies with low budgets every single summer.
Is there a case that considers how this applies to preemption?

For example, could the federal government preempt the states from having public schools, public roads or a police force under the commerce clause because they impact the interstate market for private schools, private roads and private security? It seems like maybe they should only be able to preempt when the thing is actually interstate commerce and not just affecting it. But is there any case deciding that issue one way or the other?
Funny, this book was considered not mathematically rigorous enough in my program but I agree, it is a bad idea to not be familiar with this book because the lingo the book uses (for example, sticky delta) is widely used in trading desks and one cannot afford to be unaware. For my program, Shreve's Stochastic Calculus for Finance (I & II) are the old & new testaments
I will obey your decisions as a mod.

However, I disagree with the assertion that my comment was about ideology or politics. My comment was about the very concrete conditions of life of someone working in the tech industry in California, which is why I thought it may be of interest to the readers of HN.

The situation I mentioned is not about following this or that political faction. It is a threat to free discourse, to the ability to have an intellectual life, and to folks' actual livelihood. And it is certainly relevant to many people who visit this site or comment on this article.

The only connection to a particular political side was the work "against" in the first sentence. I regret that, and I have replaced it with "about". If, with that change, you feel that it is still possible to identify a particular political or ideological faction which is responsible for the danger I mentioned, that is not something I can control. I can only say that the boot may be on the other shoe someday, and I would still be speaking up against it.

As for the rule against using HN primarily for ideological battles, I was not aware of it, and I apologize. Would it be better if I started posting more technical comments as well?

Also, how does your interpretation of the rules affect users that use "throwaway" accounts? If a user makes a throwaway to talk about a controversial issue, that account may only have one post, meaning that 100% of its posts are controversial. Would that not prevent people from discussing controversial issues at all? Which, in the end, is the same as the advice I was offering.
> But the trend clearly shows the average sales per game going down. However, there is also a huge uptick in shovelware, so this could be a problem as well.

doesn't this imply that shovelware is actually taking away some of the sales? In other words, making a large number of low-effort shovelware is a better money making scheme than making 1 (or few) mediumly good game?
Note: this is the history of Western Philosophy. All the other philosophy in the history of the world is left out.
nVidia automatically means hassle w current gen laptop hardware.
I love my DX. I just wish Amazon would push an update where the screensaver was the last page read.
now u just need Magic Leap Autopilot :)
To be honest I believe DCMA is a entirely negative law

I’m not a huge fan of DMCA, but it’s not entirely negative.

Without DMCA, there would be no YouTube, Imgur, Twitter, or pretty much any other site that allows the public to upload content.

It’s an ugly compromise, but one that allowed a significant portion of the web to exist and grow.

Hopefully it will eventually be replaced with something more nuanced.
Well, I have narrowed the statement to be about free OSes because there is a version of VisualStudio for MacOS as far as I've heard and because whatever works on Linux/FreeBSD usually works on MacOS too. I mean it should be cross-platform in the way VSCode is.

I don't use Linux for ideological reasons, I use it because it works a lot faster (especially when using PyCharm - the difference is drastic) and more reliable than Windows and gives me "almost-MacOS-and-much-more" experience on my PC.

Modern apps targeting professionals and enthusiasts should be cross-platform (run on Windows, Linux and MacOS) and not force you to choose from just one or two major OSes.
This can be greatly simplified since there are only 4 major philosophers: Plato/Kant and Aristotle/Rand who took the fundamental opposite positions of the Primacy of Consciousness versus the Primacy of Existence, respectively.

Kant secularized and removed the contradictions in Plato's theories whereas Rand completed Aristotle's revolution which began with the Law of Identity and which she applied to consciousness itself and solved the problem of universals and answered the skeptics.
I have a large number of French colleagues, so it's possible I've mistaken it for being more widespread than it really is.
Zim, if you actually need the wiki-like stuff.
Cherrytree, if you are mainly after the structured note-taking functionality.

I use both. Cherrytree for all my daily notational needs.

http://zim-wiki.org/

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/
The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
Men ask why women are so pissed off. Even guys with wives and daughters. Jackson Katz, a prominent social researcher, illustrates why. He's done it with hundreds of audiences: I ask just the men: What steps do you guys take, on a daily basis, to prevent yourselves from being sexually assaulted? after some answers someone finally raises his hand and soberly states, 'Nothing. I don't think about it.'
Then I ask the women the same question. What steps do you take on a daily basis to prevent yourselves from being sexually assaulted? Women throughout the audience immediately start raising their hands. As the men sit in stunned silence, the women recount safety precautions they take as part of their daily routine.

- Hold my keys as a potential weapon.
- Look in the back seat of the car before getting in.
- Carry a cell phone.
- Don't go jogging at night.
- Lock all the windows when I sleep, even on hot summer nights.
- Be careful not to drink too much.
- Don't put my drink down and come back to it; make sure I see it being poured.
- Own a big dog.
- Carry Mace or pepper spray.
- Have an unlisted phone number.
- Have a man's voice on my answering machine.
- Park in well-lit areas.
- Don't use parking garages.
- Don't get on elevators with only one man, or with a group of men.
- Vary my route home from work.
- Watch what I wear.
- Don't use highway rest areas.
- Use a home alarm system.
- Don't wear headphones when jogging.
- Avoid forests or wooded areas, even in the daytime.
- Don't take a first-floor apartment.
- Go out in groups. Own a firearm.
- Meet men on first dates in public places.
- Make sure to have a car or cab fare.
- Don't make eye contact with men on the street.
- Make assertive eye contact with men on the street.”

― Jackson Katz, The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
+1, this is a good one. It was the textbook for one of my grad school classes and I frequently referenced it during my postdoc.

I usually suggest getting older editions of textbooks to save money, but this is one textbook where I bet you want the latest edition, because the field has been changing fast enough that there's probably some incorrect/missing information in a copy that was published even five or ten years ago. [ Edit to note: actually it looks like the latest edition was published in 2010, so it's probably quite out of date by now. :( ]
> throwing it away and getting another toy to test for fitness.

how do you know what the opportunity cost of continuing is? It's hard to know either way.
Ask HN: Is there a search tool for Google drive, slack, code, etc?
Like an all in one service?
> It works like gambling. You play the game 100 times and you just lose most of them, but on the rare occasion you get very lucky

And then there are some players who can win virtually every game they play: https://alt.org/nethack/ascstreak-360.html

That's right, Tariru has won 61 times in a row. So that makes my 100 losses 'avoidable' in some sense, which spurs me on to do better. It only requires luck if you play inattentively :)
How Would a Kavanaugh Hearing Play Out in 2054?
Not really, finding seeders for a less popular torrent is a huge problem that's leading to the decline of torrenting.

If this incentive model solves the seeders problem it'll have a major impact on the growth of torrenting.
Week 39: Azure Databricks Delta, Kafka Streams, SQL Server 2019
No, I get it.

As a JS dev, Cofeescript appeared to be nothing more than an attempt to make JS more like Ruby.

From this perspective, TS appears to be nothing more than an attempt to make JS more like C#.

Either way, both appear to be attempts to use JS's massive flexibility to make the language work more like another language, because people are more familiar with that other language. And in both cases, there's a familiar response of "please don't do that. Please stop complaining about JS because it's not like your favourite language. Please learn to use it properly instead".

I played very briefly with CS to see what the excitement was about, and haven't touched TS at all, because I enjoy JS. But with Vue moving there, I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and take a look.
i just looked at the website, went to the main page and watched bits and pieces of the gameplay video.

rogue-lite: check.
metroidvania(gotta get that retro street cred) : check.
Bland uninspired assets: check.
post mortem blog post posted to some link aggregator about how you released the same thing that every other copypasta developer on greenlight has crapped out for the past 3 years and it isn't selling well?: check.

yep. 3 years, down the crapper.
Can you recommend _one_ good book that covers Primate biology?