skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ACLU seems like a worthwhile cause for actual advocates of free speech. And no, they don't only advocate for liberal causes. Campaign finance laws would be one area of policy where they have starkly different ideas than the political left.

As to these platforms: the whole argument is essentially build on this slippery-slope fallacy that banning vile racism, anti-semitism, etc. inexorably leads more restrictions on speech, and (eventually) the end democracy.

That's demonstrably false: there have always been restrictions on speech (such as obscenity laws), so there really isn't some bright red line that would be crossed, and these restrictions have also not lead to the end of free speech.

There are restrictions on almost any other activity if you expand your definitions to the extremes: the right of peaceful assembly is just as central to democracy, but nobody is bothered by the restriction that you can't hold your protest in the Oval Office.

So maybe these people should consider being kicked out of all these platforms not as an incentive to change platforms, but to rather think about how far they must have removed themselves from society. Seriously: if the people who think youtube comments are worth it ban you, it's time to start listening more and posting less.
I worry about the extent to which too-cheap labor night slow the development of labor-saving technology. It's ultimately this technology that improves per-capita productivity and keeps us ahead of Malthus. In an environment where you can throw bodies at problems, why bother with more-expensive automation?
I attended a military academy boarding school where being outside after "Taps" could technically get you dismissed. This did happen to some people. My senior year, I started going to after hours D&D games. Some people tried to dress up all in black and do the commando thing, but a lot of them got caught. I just got into my dress uniform and walked around looking official. Everyone just assumed I was "Officer of the Day."
Two things:

1) No direct link means no one is actually googling for your page. People are lazy. Without a direct link, they won't go out of their way to google your website.

2) If you're able to retarget the video, this is how I would use it: Retarget anyone who watched the entire video with more YouTube Ads, Google Display network ads, etc... Send it to an optimized landing page that sells an ENTRY LEVEL box (like $9/month) and upsells to a much bigger subscription "Candy fiend" or some such for like $49/month. If people don't buy that, DOWNsell to a $19/month subscription.

In general people underestimate the value of BIG, BRIGHT COLORED buttons, mobile optimized landing pages with the buttons above the fold, upsells, downsells, "Squeeze pages" (enter your e-mail, get free stuff) so you can do e-mail marketing, etc...

Marketing is not a hit and run. Once in a great while you might post 1 thing in 1 place and it will magically make tons of money, but that isn't the norm. Most of the time Marketing is a tedious, boring thing that involves lots of micro-optimization, setting up retargeting, e-mail marketing, making more endless content to drive organic traffic, etc etc...
CORDIC? Yes. It's what most if not all scientific calculators use.
I think that the software should fill the window, not the entire screen unless the user has used the full screen mode or if it is not on the window system (e.g. for full screen DOS software).

If it is a window system but the software may use a fixed screen size, then whether it is window or full screen depend what resolution is set, and may have a user option to set integer zoom. However, this is usually for a computer game, and if you can, it is best to allow the user specified size.

I don't like the websites to don't use the full width of the screen for text; the user can resize the window to put the width that they want instead. If a website does not use the full width, I will use the Stylish extension to override it.

However, many program doesn't need GUI, it can be command-line interface, and does not need to deal with screen space at all (and you can use for example "| less" if it doesn't fit on the screen and want to scroll through it).

I also think that a maximum password length of four digits is way too short, although maybe that can be reasonable as the minimum length.
What 'dependency' means in Unix init systems is underspecified
FYI, this is the same person(people?) that came out with the YOLO Objection Detection classfier.I haven't used Darknet before but the Tiny Darknet seems very interesting and I might use that in the future for my small projeccts
Was that last line supposed to be "readIORef x" instead of "pure x"? If you return the IORef then the result is equivalent to "newIORef 1", not "pure 1"—and newIORef does have observable side-effects. (Two IORefs are distinct even if they hold the same value.)
Your OS pwns you.
Me too. I've made at least $50 in amazon gift cards from bing rewards.
Maybe. Perhaps it would have been better as a HTML document or plain text document, although perhaps they did PDF because they want to print it out on the paper (although HTML documents can also be printed out).
inflation.
Did you mean TokyoTreat? Because if you didn't, tokyotreats has to work on its SEO. I'm being sincere, I have no idea.

Anyway, I was expecting murder when I went to the Candy Japan homepage, but there are changes they can make right now that would help. White text on light-colored header, doesn't use professional typefaces, as great as the animated candy SVG is it takes too long to see a real piece of candy, body text is too small and in the background (just unchecking the 80% rule improves the readability by a lot), testimonials distracting the body and flow, the list of past boxes is a list of blog posts that I have to individually click on to see the contents of (which is a shame since there is associated prose that I would love to be able to skim through quicker).

Just some of the things I would change. TokyoTreat seems to be part of a larger network selling Japanese loot boxes so it's seemingly stiff competition and maybe that's the key here. Perhaps CJ can pivot itself as something more personable and intimate? You can even make your own content (vlogs, perhaps) on how you go about hand picking a selection. You also already have a cute mascot.
Ray Ozzie on Lotus Notes and Slow Hunch Innovation (2011)
That's not saying much.
A classmate of mine who was a teenager in Las Vegas in the 80's used to tell me that he would get together with his friends, dress up in suits, dumpster dive for conference badges that had defects or typos, and just walk into conferences like CES.

He also claimed his mates would go out into the desert to find orgies and break them up with bottle rockets. People were too scared about being busted and were too busy running away for them to realize it was just some teenagers with bottle rockets.
What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD
YouTube provides a lot of similar analytics as Facebook - the demographic profiles of channels, similarity scores, ad metrics, etc to advertisers.

So most of the analysis is done by Youtube but with some snapshotting you can start to find trends, subsegments, seasonality ...
Original file looks like it's available here: https://gist.github.com/caffo/1326838
I think seeing the code would be interesting, not just for me but for others too.
Too bad it’s javascript.
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Oh, definitely. The two seem to be more similar than not, once you look past the window dressing. I don't know if this is new or I'm just more cynical these days.
Did you get something like this?

https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/4421736...

Here's the video link I used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCgXVkYQcA
Yeah, that's essentially the purpose of Next.js and it does it very well.
You keep assuming that his classmates are smarter than them on the basis of one point of data. You're extrapolating so much out of a simple statement that it ventures into the realm of absurdity.

And you brought us into this wild tangent by implying that SAT scores are somehow indicative of general intelligence and asking the OP to see what they got on their SATs.
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Make lets you specify all 3 kinds of dependencies. Requirement is the default, want can be had by prefixing the commands with - (ignore errors), and ordering can be had by putting the prerequisites after a |.

foo : requirement want | ordering

requirement:
generate $@

want:
- generate $@

ordering:
generate $@

Make could have been the engine behind a lot of unix infrastructure. I suspect the language-specific stuff like VPATH made it an undesirable choice.
VDOM - virtual Dom, right ?

> Texas keeps an elixir data structure representation on the server as a cache of client state and diffs against that.

Sorry, I don’t think that’s scalable. And, in a load balanced environment, you have to have a central server for this purpose
Related and of interest: What Developmental Milestones are you Missing? http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/11/03/what-developmental-mile...

But a real answer might be a set of concepts around self-management, that you'd find in a Christian self-help book, or stoicism, or Buddhism, or the rules of St. Benedict, something in that category. But if you look at the uselessness of "mindfulness," maybe not.
Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
now you should try openbsd or netbsd, as they are even less tolerant of linux-isms
Any Applicative can be turned backward, although the backward way will not necessarily be compatible with the Monad instance, and also sometimes the backward one is same as the original way.
Agreed. Our modern work life is so far removed from what natural selection has prepared us for that it's no wonder we have chronic pain. We're like a bear riding a unicycle 40+ hours a week and then atrophying our selves most of our non working free time. Weight lifting always seems to bring things back to reasonable baseline.
SAT scores are indicative of general intelligence, and a good double check that it isn't underpreparation with algorithms or less experience simply coding.

OP presumably isn't the smartest kid in his university. It's unlikely. Such is life.
I'm confused.

Systemd has separate 'wants', 'requires', 'after', and 'before', which sounds like what's being asked for here?
Yes, and actually I wanted that to be the actual method of Applicative (although I called it "liftPair" instead, but maybe "pair" is better), because it make sense to me, I agree with you.

(Although for optimization purposes it can help to also have the other stuff it already has too, in case you want to use an optimized implementation instead of the default implementation.)
I feel horrible for what she went through as a child, and still goes through. But. For this article, if felt she was over-analyzing and extrapolating a bit much.

This one felt borderline unnecessary and hyperbolic:

"No one cared what I was doing. Is this what it feels like to shop when you're not black? "
At least it seems this is unlikely to hurt people more.
World has truly moved on from < 5" phones and my palms stopped growing a decade ago.
I'd just like to confirm that if you're noticing the sedentary lifestyle worsening your health, you'll want to get out of it asap. Muscles do wither away from disuse, and hence they stop supporting your posture (for which they are surprisingly important). On top of that, you lose the muscular memory for proper posture and movement, and become constantly hunched instead. Then chronic cramps (tenseness) set in, blocking blood flow and causing nerve stress, which feeds back into the poor posture. Basically it's a cluster failure of factors feeding into each other.

And it's not only posture—if you just browse through topics on general health on Wikipedia (i.e. not acute diseases), you'll notice they're pretty much all linked to exercise. E.g. anti-inflammatory function is linked to muscle work. And of course, you see articles every week saying brain health is dependent on exercise.

Instead of a chiropractor, you might want to consult a physical therapist who can recommend daily exercise and regime for the back. E.g. Nordic walking with sticks, which puts load on upper back and shoulder muscles.

I don't know how others live with just walks to and from work, but for myself I highly doubt that even a couple hours of exercise could offset being propped at the desk for the rest of the day.

For the work hours, you could look into contract work (freelancing), where you could choose your hours and set the rate instead of being locked into the terms of your job. But of course, other considerations also apply.
Hmmm, a p2p version that uses local storage on each device you have could have some interesting applications. As a client-server architecture it's a tad complex for a lot of users to set up, but with a good UI it could become a viable alternative storage method, as well as allowing for potential app cross-compatibility. You would have to make sure at devices had a chance to sync - perhaps have a web service there? - and I'm unsure how you would deal with conflict resolution, but the idea definitely seems to have a lot of potential.

I'll need to think about this.
I thought you were taking the piss, then I actually tried it.

13 seconds to the compose window for me. Fuck me...
Show HN: Prime numbers generator
This story is amazing and probably a parable for every hardware based startup.
Only if we can say that SaaS obsessives have Cloud Syndrome
He also eats things he picks off his feet. A perplexing genius.
I know I'm a bit of a broken record, but a <noscript> notice that JS is required is always appreciated rather than a blank page.
No they aren't, the UC Browser is listed in the Windows store (third most popular mobile browser in the world,) along with some others. Microsoft has been very willing to help companies list Win32 apps in the Windows store, especially large ones.
I absolutely sympathize with the concern - but I don't believe it's an a priori solvable problem.

Bitcoin is theoretically fully decentralized, but when I sold mine off it took 2 days to sync the chain - I get why people use Coinbase. I'd still be running my own email server right now if it weren't for spam.

My point is that I think there's inflection points - when weaknesses in design or implementation become apparent - where centralization can get a foothold, and I don't think it's inevitable which course things take at those points. HTTP hosting, for example, has some big players, but it's still very much a commodity.

I realize that this is a crowded field, with lots of contenders, like yours. I think it's an important enough problem that it warrants parallel attempts, so that at least one of them sticks. Edsu picks a very specific strategy, which is that it's a compromise - it's not like, say, IPFS in its level of decentralization. For an app platform, I think there's challenges enough at any level of decentralization, and Edsu tries to b-line it straight there by being very orthodox and old-skool in nearly every other way. I thought it was a good bet, but only time will tell.

Props for the password resets, BTW. The importance of that feature is underappreciated :)
This reminds me of the effort to enumerate all ways of tying a necktie: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/tieknots.shtml
This has echoes for me of the Twitter thread and subsequent NYT article from last week about how Sears' approach to home sales was a boon to black people in the Jim Crow-era US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/us/sears-jim-crow-racism-...
Yes. Fairly non-descript error!
Not just automation, but some industrialization, too. I was shocked to watch them build railroads, essentially by hand. One Dutch guy was working the surveying tools, and a translator stood next to him, shouting out the orders. What appeared to be about 30 people straddling railroad rails, lifted up the rails using wood and strap lifts. Hard to explain, but they basically just used a whole lot of people to lay rails.

I asked our fixer what the story was, and it was similar to what's written here. If you want to use a machine, you have to buy the machine from the US. That's expensive, and people in China are cheap. Then you have to pay someone to run the machine, and that person costs 20x what the cheap labor does. Then when the machine breaks, you can't get anything done (and you have to pay someone even more expensive to fix it). When the cheap labor can no longer work, you just replace...them.

He said that the large companies got paid rebates for each person they hired (or something to that effect). It happens in tech, too. Not much in the way of build automation, but lots of people running around datacenters with DVD's and USB sticks.

In short, it keeps people busy and lessens the chance of uprisings (which is a thing in China).
I remember when several years ago I typed "download Flash" in Russian Google, there were non-official sites in top results. Now Adobe's site is the first result.

Also I tried to experiment a little. If I type "download flash player" in Russian, official Adobe site is only on the 3rd position [1]. The first and second results are "adobe-flash-player.ru.softonic.com".

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%...
OK, although that is not relevant to the arguments he is making, I think. (Although I suppose it is still something to say, perhaps? But I have not seen that elsewhere anyways so do not know if it is true or not, but anyways it is irrelevant is what I am saying.)
If you reread the opening paragraph - the author is responding to part of a blog post which questioned why a separation between ordering and dependencies was necessary, and provides an example.
not true at all. For one 99% of the time people on a realtime updated page will be viewing the same content meaning you can keep a local-only cache that all clients connected to that server can share...that makes the memory footprint negligible...we're talking maybe a few MBs on a typical webapp

secondly as far as scaling goes you only need to broadcast extremely small messages (on the order of bytes, not kilobytes) across servers to tell clients to update themselves using their local caches

it's extremely scale-able

further texas only builds on top of HTTP semantics - meaning it can fall back to a stateless protocol at any point and the user won't even notice other than their app working a bit more slowly (but still working) for a few seconds while the websocket reconnects to a new node
I may get hate for this but watching JavaScript development mature makes me feel like I am taking crazy pills. So much shit was figured out decades ago but it's like everyone is just learning this shit for the first time. I don't know if it is because the standard library is so lacking or that it's been historical a client side only language but it makes me feel completely disillusioned with programming. It's like we're not progressing at all, merely learning that same shit over and over again each generation in a series of cycles.

Or maybe I'm just too old and need to get off my own lawn.
There's a third way, very popular among hackers, yerba mate. Used by South American people.

It has good caffeine content, but apparently has a slower absorption. Helps you to keep focused, without the strong highs and lows you have with pure coffee.
I'm not even white, nor do I honestly "admire" white people per se. But it seems perfectly okay to say- "kill all white people" on twitter. Only recently Australian parliament voted against a symbolic motion- "It's okay to be white". And nobody seems to raise a finger. I mean fucking white people ruined Asia, sure. But it had nothing to do with their skin color and it was the ancestors.

Somehow gab is the bad guy here just because a certain group is the one being victimized. Also just to be clear, I have nothing against jews (before you read my name and call me an "enemy"). Just like nothing against whites.

I just want fairness. Period.
Legal battle: Amiga Inc. resurrected from the dead
These Americans fled the country to escape their giant student debt
If Only Airline Tickets Were Like Sports Tickets
I'm seeing a lot of posts about NextJS here...

Adding a (huge) abstraction on top of another (huge) abstraction to solve a problem introduced by the first abstraction is rubbish software engineering. It's one of the oldest anti-patterns in the book.

I get that these libraries provide some utility beyond their core purpose, and that it's a bit more nuanced than A -> B -> A, but I'm highly suspicious of people that recommend these libraries without giving much context behind it.
No, it's not you. I read the title and I immediately understood the context and said to myself- welcome to 1997.
Many in this thread are quoting his "non-free" statement yet ignorant that Stallman violates his own standard. That totally counts and proves the point.

Besides the fact he outright calls corporations evil?
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personally I've had more engaging eye contact with a pig (who we then proceeded to turn in to a variety of sausages) compared with any other animal. falling back to the various studies showing how the dilation of pupils relates directly with cognition, it suffices to say that you can gage someone's intelligence by looking in to their eyes. it is not then a stretch to see that a pig is intelligent when it catches eyes with you (which not that many animals can do).
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The only thing worse than stock options that might be worth nothing is cryptocurrency that will definitely be worth nothing.
...I just described a subsection of git... although with better UX.
Joyent is a private company, they can choose to refuse doing business with anyone they like to, I think this was confirmed (by supreme court) a few weeks ago when some baker refused the business of a gay couple. (That decision is protected by the same first amendment that Gab claims to be protecting! Brilliant really.)

However, for everyone looking to host at Joyent: Beware they might cancel on you, too. And giving a company 2 days notice is far beyond comprehension. I wouldn't want to deal with this. I think it's really poor business standards.
From 2011, should probably change the title.
I got a 750 verbal (680 math) and am quite stupid. Am I the exception that proves the rule?
Gab hosts many, many, white supremacists. It has become a dumping ground for every social network's rejects...the people who've been booted from Twitter, reddit, etc (platforms that have been criticized for being slow to remove hate speech and incitement to violence, etc.) have congregated on Gab.

This isn't a free speech issue, it is an issue of whether Joyent wants to have responsibility for spreading that kind of thing. They don't, so they aren't. They gave Gab time to sort out alternatives, even though the kinds of things Gab hosts conflict with Joyent's terms of service. I think Joyent is well within their rights to tell'em to kick rocks and go spread their shit somewhere else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18315577
If you're using node.js and redux, then https://github.com/faceyspacey/redux-first-router pretty easily gets you there. Other than turning route changes into redux actions, I don't find it particularly opinionated.