skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> could actually be rephrased as "Why Don't Everybody Agree with the Left?"

Well, let's have a look at the actual examples in the article: what things are people apparently failing to change their minds about? (I've also included a few things that aren't examples of that but that seem relevant.)

1. Their ability to distinguish real from fake suicide notes. No obvious political slant.

2. What makes a good firefighter. No obvious political slant.

3. The effectiveness of capital punishment. Highly politicized topic, but reported experiment and reported results both symmetrical.

4. Answers to an unspecified set of reasoning problems. Presumably no political slant.

5. Next study described is one in which people actually did* change their minds, when asked to explain in detail things they thought they understood. Also not political.*

6. Next one also isn't about changing minds. Found that a rough proxy for ignorance about Ukraine is correlated with eagerness for the US to intervene there. Definite opportunity for political slant here.

7. General discussion about mutually reinforcing ignorance. Has kinda-gratuitous anti-Trump comment at end.

8. Next one also isn't about changing minds. Found that trying to explain things in detail leads to more moderate opinions, whichever side one's on. Politically contentious questions; procedure and results seem symmetrical.

9. Alleged dangers of vaccination. Anti-vax sentiment tends to skew left, though I think less drastically than is sometimes thought. Brief, semi-gratuitous, Trump comment here, but it isn't particularly negative.

10. Whether owning a gun makes you safer. Politically contentious question.

So. Most of the stuff here is either entirely unpolitical (1,2,4,5) or concerned with political issues but balanced in both procedure and conclusions (3,8). The last section (9,10) describes a book that discusses demonstrably-false opinions held by some people who skew left (9) and some who skew right (10). That leaves 6 (which looks to me -- your opinion might differ -- like an unbiased attempt to investigate a question with political consequences) and that little swipe at the Trump administration in 7. (And, if you really find it offensive, the comment about Steve Bannon at the end.)

I don't think any reasonable person could summarize this as anything even slightly like "Why don't everybody agree with the left?", even though those little swipes make it clear that the author is no fan of Donald Trump. (A characteristic he shares with plenty of Republicans, so it's not exactly a clear indicator of egregious bias.)
"You cannot convince a right person"

This was a realization I came to years ago, long before it was a political topic. And when I say 'right person', I don't mean right in political views, but I mean "A person that believes they are correct in their thinking on the topic".

But that's what politics seems to be these days "Convincing your side they are right", then repeat it often so they don't forget they are right. In this way you can create a person that never changes their mind.
If nine billion people have to compete for enough food to feed one billion people, it won't be surprising if some nukes fly.
The original Javascript was intended as an easy language that runs in the browser. And so it was in 1996.

In reality, it seems, a successful language that runs in the browser had no way around becoming a "full-blown" language, as opposed to "easy".
Along those lines, I'd nominate "The Structure of American Industry" by James Brock (now in its 13th edition) for a seminal text on industrial dynamics that focuses on case studies and analysis.
Incidentally, fun fact - you already know that X, Y, and Z linear momentum are all conserved separately. In special relativity, mass-energy conservation gets folded into this as well - an object's mass-energy is just the component of linear momentum along the time axis! (and "rest mass" is its value in the reference frame where the object is otherwise stationary and moving only through time.)
This makes me wonder if this is how Stuxnet was birthed, very interesting.
This is great, but small usability requests (from a Macbook user):

1. Scroll should scroll, rather than zoom. It seems to me scrolling the list is a much more common action than needing to zoom (which doesn't seem to be very useful as the writing becomes unintelligible quickly). On a Macbook/touchscreen pinch can be used for zoom, some modifier key in other cases.

2. Filtering on topics should remove instead of greying out, similar to what clicking on a line does. With the greying out you need to zoom out and somehow (haven't yet figured out how) zoom back in? Or scroll endlessly.
I disagree about Millman and Halkias. The content in that book is from 1970s. Better books to learn about Semiconductor devices are
1. Device Electronics for integrated circuits by Muller and Kamins
2. Solid State Devices by Ben. G Streetman and Sanjay Banerjee

Millman Halkias is a staple in Indian universities but its high time it is replaced.
I think there's more value to be had in building better learning resources around programming languages than continually trying to simplify them at the expense of power.

Besides that, if someone is already looking for a simple scripting language, Lua already exists. I personally prefer its syntax as well.
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I can see two questions. Let me start with books I can recommend:

(1) Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers — Weinberg, Gabriel
(2) Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't — Harnish, Verne
(3) The Lean Startup — Ries, Eric
(4) 100 Days of Growth - Sujan Patel & Rob Wormley
(5) Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose - Tony Hsieh
I find it interesting that someone would think that. Where I grew up in Atlantic Canada they're really common, if a bit old fashioned. They also came up in Boy Scouts a lot. Basically a go to culinary tool for old ladies and young outdoorsmen.
*voting computers
The source is actually pretty readable, do you have a git repository anywhere so others can contribute?
People who switch mail providers: maybe use your own domain with the new provider, so you don't have to change your email address next time.
>Couldn’t then this energy coalesce back to regular matter through the mass-energy equivalence? E=mc^2?

That's just not how that works.
To be honest it doesn't look that much worse than the Hololens and the Hololens was perfectly fine. Not perfect, sure, but technology has limitations. People still buy LCDs even though they reflect ambient light, don't work outdoors, etc. I don't see what the point is of complaining about having to look through a diffraction grating if we have no other way of doing it.
Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix
The thing is, slim majorities of conservatives will answer phone surveys with things like "yes, Obama was born in Kenya" or "no, global temperature isn't rising".

Specious argument can come from anybody, but the "la la can't hear you" portion of the left is measurably smaller compared to the right.
The only thing I dislike about this machine is the screen options. FHD is too low, and 4k is too high density for a 15" notebook. MacBooks have had a ~2k display for ages and it works great in my opinion. (Also, I don't want a touch screen display.)

Oh that and the repeated fiascos of Lenovo embedding spyware in their devices: https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
A person might make a language so they can learn to make a language. How could Lua exist if a person had no idea the tradeoffs in implementing various languages? You do not know the person's reasons.
Agree with 'Solid State Devices' by Ben. G Streetman and Sanjay Banerjee
> We can probably say a lot of our reporting on current Western terrorism is alarmist - numbers wise, it didn't compare to road deaths or regular shootings

Because we have adapted. But how many are affected by the terror it involves? Terrorism = terrorizing people, not just murdering them.

> But global warming will be/is unprecedented

Erm, no.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte...
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Huge congratulations! I noticed there was a constant revenue at 20K MRR but then starting January 2017 it picked up in growth. How did that happen?
The fart-under-the-blankets thing is called a "dutch oven" by analogy to the cast iron cookware. IOW if you don't know about the cookware, you haven't gotten the joke.
Taking out a mortgage in the US is not mandatory. Getting a loan for your business isn't either.

I get what you're saying, but I still sense some cognitive dissonance. If the US lets some hip start up build a social credit score and then just heavily buys into it, I think it will face less pushback than if they use a scary federal contractor to build the same score. I get the feeling that people think governments are intentionally evil.
Technically Fun: Covariance vs. Contravariance Within Function
KDE Plasma5 splash screen load delay
Yes. You did. Sadly.

And it is very little to do with luck or numbers or the state of the industry.

Good indie games:

1. are almost never distinguished by programming (the days of Doom are gone and you are not John Carmack). Far too much time is spent coding. Use existing tools. Code only gameplay.

2. are much more about art. The trailer looks like programmer art: no coherent style, no direction, no class. If this is what you produce. You need a collaborator.

3. are even more about feel. Your character movement is janky. Jumping is floaty. Shooting feels flaccid. There is little sense of gravity, inertia or impact. If it isn't fun to move around a single screen, it's not fun.

4. need a hook. There is almost nothing original about this game. You've got about 10 seconds to hook me. (10 seconds into the trailer you cut to a mostly empty UI.) Find the wow. And zealously focus on it.

5. need to be polished. Ambient animation. Consistent sound effects. Screen shake. Lighting. Particles. UI. These are implemented. But none of them particularly well. And they don't tie together into a whole.

6. need to be marketed. Someone needs to be working on that.

7. needs to catch (or create) a zeitgeist. So many features of this game shout '2014' to me.

8. needs a bit of luck. But beware! The converse is very rarely true. If your game isn't successful, it is probably _not_ because you were unlucky. The game probably wasn't very good. Don't spend your time trying to find alternative explanations. Be brutal with yourself. In game terms, git gud.

So this is harsh I know. I'm sorry. But frank. I've been in the industry for more than 20 years. 99.9% of games fail horribly. But 99.9% of them are not very good. This has absolutely always been the case. It's just that the 'fail point' used to be the publisher pitch. Now you don't need a publisher, you get to fail in public.

So yes three years have been ...um... call it learning. I suggest you do more jams. Figure out what it takes to win. Find a game artist. Use tools. Build prototypes. And start to build a community.
It's a genre of video where a shitty harmonica version is dubbed over the original theme.

I believe the jurrasic park one is the original;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk

"They do move in herds"
What's under the hood?

The source code is parsed to an AST, which is then executed. It began with a Java-Applet. When WebAssembly appeared, I ported it to C++ with a JS/HTML interface and added graphics. Recently I converted the C++ part to C, which halved the size of the wasm file.
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You're absolutely correct, and making your own programming language implementations to generally improve as a programmer, for fun, or to get better at implementing programming languages is great. It can become a daunting task very quickly.

I was basing the person's reasoning after the original poster's reply:

> There are so many programming languages - but imho not a real easy one for beginners.
I think it's also important to point out that Stardew is in an odd place as a "remake". It's one thing to try to make the 10th battle royale that's coming out this year, and another to do what Stardew did: be, as far as I know, the first full-featured Harvest Moon-like to come out for PC, and also come out at a time where it had been a while since ANY good Harvest Moon game had released, even on consoles.

It filled a niche for gamers who had grown up playing HM on Gameboy, but hadn't been able to really scratch that itch. If anything, his choice of genre to work in was genius. It was a passionate and pre-made fanbase that was craving a new game to jump onto, and he happened to make an excellent game as well.

It also helps that HM is a highly generic game/genre. There's very little about what makes the original games popular that is trademarked. I played thousands of hours of a couple of them, and I probably can't name any of the characters any more. You can easily make an "off-brand" remake, and most people won't miss anything specific. You wouldn't be able to just go make a knock-off Pokemon and have it work, even though the demand for it on PC is high.
Microwave Engineering by David M. Pozar - surely not for beginners, but worth the effort for those interested in high fequency transmissions and EM propagation
> Honestly, this is a vile and selfish attitude.

I don‘t care about your assessment. You are free to live in humility, poverty, extreme heat, whatever - if you think it will make you a superior human being. I prefer having bearable temperatures where I live, sleep and have visitors, without having to beg and wait for the whole world to stop burning fossil fuels, eating meat etc.
another slightly more palatable way of framing this is:

i don't want to change my lifestyle to lower carbon emissions, because that ends up being a net loss for me.

i want you to change your lifestyle to lower carbon emissions, because that ends up being a net win for me. that's right, i'm talking to all n billion of you!

what can i do to get you to agree to doing that? can i coerce you, or do we end up negotiating or trading?
DeepMind Safety Research: Building Safe AI
No, hololens just isn't good enough. Won't see market traction, because it's too unrealistic, the immersion factor too low.

There's a minimum bar of realism we need to hit to have reasonable AR and VR. The original Vive hit that bar for VR, but nothing has hit that bar yet for AR.
The entire page must be an advertisement... it is rendered as blank white page (uBlock Origin).
The term would be skywave propagation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave

Enjoy. It's mind boggling!

Oh, and the related over the horizon radar!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar
People use the word "graphics" and "sound" often, but that's not all that makes a game. So many indie "ugly" games work out just fine. It's all about the gameplay. You can make the graphics and the sound be a core part of that, but you can also focus on other places.

Factorio and Dwarf Fortress are two examples of those. Can someone say their graphics are amazing? Probably not. Yet they focused on their differentials: the unique gameplay.

I have to agree with the GP. They're always unique in one form or another.

People however overuse the marketing card IMO, saying that you need a lot of marketing. Good games do stand out for being good games. Word of mouth only works if your game is good. Nobody will urge their friends to play a bad game and for indie games, word of mouth is king. You can't "force" word of mouth marketing, so it's not really a marketing effort. It comes naturally with good games.
I've long heard the term but never really looked into where it comes from.

If you're like me, check this out: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/09/why-a-baker...
Obvious cancer treatment aside, I'm amazed about the possibilities for treating allergies. Sure, allergies might not seem as big a deal, but with the last few American generations having to deal with - what seems like a crazy increase in manifestations - from mild nasal/environmental allergies all the way to severe, deadly anaphylaxis-type (such as vs. peanut and other food) allergies...I sure hope this area of research gets tons of money thrown in.

Don't mean to get political, but when many U.S. administrations talk of throwing billions towards military weapons, but nowhere near as much towards positive research like this, it just gets me frustrated. (Caveat: I do understand and support some types of military research that lead to positive technologies such as GPS, etc. I'm referring to governments spending billions on stupid projects like the F-35 joint strike jet fighter.)

Anyway, kudos and hearty congrats to the Nobel winners!
Given DNA is quantised into just four nucleotides -- and I suspect that there is no organism that uses, say, just three -- then wouldn't your statement be trivially true? That is, pick a 1mer of a random nucleotide (A, C, G or T) and there you go.

What I suspect you're getting at is, rather, if our DNA contains virus DNA, then presumably that virus' DNA also contains the DNA of organisms it encountered (using the same mechanism), etc. Thus, there ought to be an unbroken history -- albeit probably highly corrupted from successive adaptive mutations -- in our DNA to the first living thing. This wouldn't necessarily be everything, though; just everything we've assimilated.
Part of the reason it lay undetected was that he was using it primarily for child exploitation, and not for financial gain, which is typically how evidence of malware rapidly turns up.
Yes, generally speaking, but there are genes that were evolved on branches after they separated from ours.
We don't produce chlorophyll even though we share some DNA with plants.

Imagine in languages: Indoeuropean languages share a common ancestor, but we can say that suchandsuch word is originally from some language and then adapted into another language and used for potentially different meaning.
They integrate with Jira, so my thinking is that the answer may be that they are not any different to Jira with a few plugins, because their solution IS Jira with their product as the plugin.
I don‘t really want to play this game of stupid comparisons. Because then we don‘t need treatments for many uncommon diseases either. It‘s a fact that people demand these barriers for their peace of mind and cities build them.
A great video explaining the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PI6GwKVAeY
I'm sure. I personally never been part of communities more or less because of laziness, but I could see that if this is something getting embedded into the clients directly, it could be a solution.
Note: frame perfect means that the opportunity only exists during a specific frame of a game, in other words within a specific moment at the rate the game displays discrete images. Nearly all older games (and most newer games) have their rendering code and logic code running in lockstep, so frames are not just discrete graphical events, but discrete ticks of the universe simulation as well.
Those as well as Python, JavaScript, C, and C++.
"Gee, wouldn't it be nice if leechers could pay seeders instead of just leeching? There's a lot of hype right now about a tech that's supposedly good for building various kinds of Magic Internet Money; maybe we could integrate some form of that."

("decentralized" at least actually means something here - BitTorrent is already a decentralized protocol, there are no central BitTorrent servers that coordinate things. So anything that would be properly integrated with BitTorrent would have to be decentralized somehow.)
Of topic: who cares if you get upvotes or downvotes? Do people actually care what others think of their comments? Please, state the unpopular opinion however brashly you choose.
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The war over music copyrights
Bitcoin Price Stabilize Analysts Optimistic About Parabolic Breakout
For undergraduate mathematics (semi-opinionated, not exhaustive):

Calculus: Apostol and Spivak, take your pick

Linear Algebra: Valenza

Abstract Algebra: Artin

Multivariate Calculus:

- Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms by the Hubbards

- Calculus on Manifolds by Spivak

For other fields and classes I am not recommending a book because either (1) I don't think there is a clear winner, e.g. as in the case of Real Analysis, or (2) I'm not familiar enough with the books in that field.

If you have other recommendations, please add them! These books changed my life in the best of ways.
Best Buy accidentally sells customer the new, unannounced Chromecast
I'm on mobile and don't have a link right now, but there was a guy a while back that did a TAS speedrun of I think Pokemon red/blue, and got a full RCE exploit to work, rewrote the cartridge to the play the opening to the next game in the series (Pokemon gold), and after playing that for a bit hit the endgame credits of the first game breaking the world record at the time.
Ask HN: Stack/Advice for upgrading personal legacy web app
Hi,

I've a side project (web application) I’ve done a few years back for a family member (Java 6, JBoss 4, using an obscure java web framework based on JSF + ExtJS... it was really productive at the time, but the framework is mostly unmaintained and so is my app). It’s mostly CRUD, but lots of it.

I’m thinking of throwing it all away and starting from scratch as I feel the task to bring it “up do date” is just to much work. I do have the legacy data to deal with, that’s what been holding me back (it’s very coupled with the framework).

The stack I’m most comfortable with is Java 8, Play Framework (for REST API) and EmberJS for the front-end, so I’m tempted to go with that as I would like to be as productive as possible, but I was wondering if there was something out there that I should consider (even if making me slower in the beginning).

Ideally something with lot’s of community addons/plugins and open-source and probably conventions. I’m very fond of EmberJS because of the amount of decisions that I don’t have to make and all of the things I don't have to implement/glue myself.

Thanks for any input.
Like an LCD of some sorts.
Article in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06337-4

Press release from Radboud University: https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/imm/solid-stat...

The phys.org "article" is word-for-word the same as the press release, except that they added a link to an earlier phys.org "article" on a related topic, which in turn was word-for-word the same as this press release: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-step-closer-to-single-atom-data-... apart from, again, a link at the bottom to an earlier phys.org "article" which, well, you get the idea.