skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a huge fan of established religions, grew up catholic, but when a society has no moral compass, endemic instability is a constant. There are reasons for the most violent of boom / busts besides all the actions of the "white devils".
First decide if you just want it to look nice, or if you want it to work nice. For the first there are already lots of suggestions here.

For the second, do you have some users or potential users (right needs, skills, etc.) nearby? Get them to use your software and watch them. Or use screen sharing to do it remotely, along with an audio link. Get them to talk through what they're doing. Watch to see the trouble spots, ways they approach using parts of the software that maybe don't match how you expect people to try to use it. Does the way your user interface is organized help or get in the way? Do the cool widgets you used make sense to people other than you?

Start this early, with the crappiest thing you can get up and running visually. Don't wait until you've invested huge amounts of effort in making things look just so. This may lead you to deeper changes but ones that might make the system a whole lot better.

Or, you could wait until you've put in so much effort and baked in so many decisions about how the system should work that you're not about to make any structural changes. Just put some lipstick on the pig.
It reminds me Mark Twain's novel " A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" part when he convinced the people that he cause a Solar eclipse and gain a position as a principal minister of the King.
>I'm excited for this IPO purely for the money that will be invested in transportation this next year.

Not really. More like U.S. pension fund money being used to pay off the Saudi investors, or whoever is behind the SoftBank laundromat.
I think the main concern with biometrics is surveillance. Not as much the security problems associated with using the same password everywhere.
The nice thing about electricity is that you don't even have to get it shipped. It can come from the sky.
> WSL's backing filesystem (NTFS) completely runs like ass. It's dire. 10x the latency on everything at least compared to Linux running natively on the same hardware. This is because all small writes end up in MFT contention and the entire of Unixy type things are based on lots of small writes.

that is hard to emphasize more than it is - doing C++ dev on WSL is complete garbage, lots of small write on compile, SLLLOOOOOOWWWWWWWW...
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Shorts only work if the market corrects fast enough for it to be worth while.
Are you now claiming that climate change isn't a big deal because the billions of people whose homes are flooded, or too hot to survive, or otherwise uninhabitable can just...go somewhere else?

In today's world, we see (much smaller) groups of people trying to relocate as their homes become intolerably dangerous. The press calls it "the refugee crisis" and it's causing massive tension all over the world. What do you think will happen if the flow of refugees continues increasing, year after year, for decades?
Most big tech IPOs these days are just for the founders to cash out. Look at facebook's, they were essenitally done growing and innovating, the IPO was just a means for execs to cash in their stock at inflated rates.
I don't think Google is ever set on any of their products.

https://9to5google.com/2018/12/02/google-hangouts-shutting-d...
Steve Jobs is the canonical example of why CEOs matter and are well paid.
Liquidity for people with stock options?
Markets down 4.6% today and down 10% from its highs. Is it time to buy the dip?
Another option is simply using a tether and a counterweight.
I don't know anything about their shareholder distribution at this point, so this is all conjecture.

Since they took capital, the funds associated with their prior fundraising rounds ($1.2B total) likely have 10 year horizons. Investors are looking to recoup their investment during that window. Having the company stay private means that they either need to raise a new round to buy out their old investors, or they need to return sufficient profit over a short window (just a few years) that their investors are happy with the dividend.

Not to mention, there are tons of advantages in having access to the public markets. It's definitely a headache and work, but it's not without its benefits.
Dark matter is a weakly interacting massive particle which hasn't been detected directly yet. This is not a terribly controversial theory because we already know of other particles with very similar behavior (neutrinos) and we also know for a fact that our theories of particle physics are incomplete. Moreover, the most straightforward "improvements" of our current theories of particle physics (supersymmetry, for example) would all necessarily involve the existence of previously undiscovered particles. Additionally, the conditions by which such "new" particles would be created (high energy densities) are precisely the conditions which would occur during the early Big Bang, leading to a very natural process of formation of a "cosmic dark matter background" (just as there exists a cosmic neutrino background and a cosmic microwave background) as a relic of the Big Bang, which unlike the other background relics would evolve in structure significantly after the Big Bang, responding to the evolution of baryonic matter (into clumps which became galaxies and galaxy clusters). In short, it's not very far of a leap from everything we already know about physics and cosmological history, and it matches the observational evidence remarkably well, which is why it is the accepted theory in astronomy and cosmology.

Dark energy is less well studied but the idea of vacuum energy is not a new one. We don't understand why vacuum energy is not zero but instead a very tiny number, but it's only a little surprising. It is, after all, fundamentally a theory that is a century old, dating back to Einstein's work with the cosmological constant.
Depending on what you mean, either yes or no :-) This is based on my poor understanding of the situation. Someone who is knowledgeable will hopefully be able to correct me.

I think there are actually plenty of nutrients in soil (even many "poor" soils). The real problem is that they aren't bio-available. So you'll have lots of different mineral salts in the soil (usually one or two orders of magnitude more than you need, by weight), but it's not in a form that the plant can absorb by its roots.

I think the real problem is the kind of mono-culture cropping we do. Really you want a variety of plants pulling up nutrients out of the ground (because different varieties have different abilities to break down and convert the nutrients in the soil). Then you want those plants to break down and be reintegrated in the soil. Finally, you often want some of that happening in an anaerobic environment, so you don't bind oxygen to it.

There are some new (old? ha ha) techniques being developed to build fertility (really just making existing nutrients bio-available) in the soil. Avoiding tilling, building up micro-organisms and insects to distribute the soil, allowing a variety of plants to grow (some long roots, some short roots, etc, etc). It's pretty complicated, though and I expect that it will take us a very long time to learn how to do these things effectively.

It definitely seems easier to just add what you think the soil is missing, but there are many disadvantages to that approach as we see over time. I did some experiments in containers a while ago. My idea was to see what kind of production I could get without adding any inputs to the soil at all (just water), and harvesting as much food as I could.

I had some experience from doing planted fish tanks with really intense planting (every single space possible occupied with a plant) and knew that it was reasonable to assume that plants can grow really well being very crowded as long as nutrients are available. I planted my containers so that light was the limiting factor, but grew a lot of local weeds that grew in poor soil as well as food on the assumption that they would build fertility fastest. I ran my experiment over 5 years and was really surprised at my results -- my production increased over time. One year, I even got 5 (!) harvests of potatoes from the same container -- I've never even come close to that level of production doing it more traditionally.

It was all very unscientific and I was really doing it out of curiosity more than trying to prove anything. In the end, it seems my neighbor didn't like my container garden of weeds and he convinced my gas man to apply herbicide to it. That was the end of my experiment (I caught him in the act as I came home from work a little bit early that day -- one of the few times I've really blown my top).

Anyway, I don't think we really have to worry over much about actually depleting our soils. I think they can rebound fairly quickly with the right approach. However, I think it is possible that our current intensive farming approaches do not produce the most nutrient rich produce possible.
It turns out that, when he thought he was wrong, he was mistaken.
Yes.

There has been data like this out there for ages.
EGR and DPF deletes are very common in the states too, only on the diesel truck side. I own a diesel truck, and it won't win me any brownie points but I will consider an EGR delete since it absolutely kills the engine sooner. My truck takes DEF fluid and I won't tune it out or delete the DPF though, I like being able to breath.
I’m curious as to how they manage rival gang factions. In the first picture alone I noticed three gang signs. Perhaps they stick to their own groups? Not sure but would be interesting to know how that works.
It is trivial to prove that anything that a code generator can emit can be translated into something that an interpreter can interpret. Run the generated code through an interpreter. QED.
That makes much more sense. ;)
Music is a very different domain than visual design and we have heuristics for both that, if followed, will keep a musician or designer from composing/designing something demonstrably 'bad'. Will it be brilliant? Likely not, but "not bad" is not a bad goal to aim for.
I would assume that when we’re talking about billions of dollars that the people in charge of creating an IPO strategy are a bit more ahead of the markets than the rest of us right? Full disclosure I’m not knowledgeable in this area, but it would seem to me that this is the case and having made plans months before the market turns isn’t necessarily proof that it isn’t being done with market knowledge. Just a thought.
What if I'm "a couple of standard deviations better" at "giving incredibly good feedback in a variety of areas" too but lack the rest of Steve Jobs' talents so this "rare and hard to identify ability" feels like the only thing I'm really good at? How do I start a career around this?
What about daily beatings? Anti-Vaxxers put not only their children but many people in the general population at serious of death and should be sent to prison.

We don’t let people drive drunk for good reason, vacations are far more critical.
- Medium (https://medium.com/.well-known/dnt-policy.txt)

- EFF (https://www.eff.org/.well-known/dnt-policy.txt)

- Read the Docs (https://readthedocs.org/.well-known/dnt-policy.txt)

Sites that implement DNT should respond to either /.well-known/dnt-policy.txt or /.well-known/dnt/ or both.

Responding to /.well-known/dnt/ means a site has implemented the W3's Tracking Preference Expression (https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/). This doesn't necessarily mean much as there's no agreed standard of what complying with DNT means. However, it typically implies that the site does something different for users with DNT enabled vs. disabled.

Responding to /.well-known/dnt-policy.txt is typically stricter and means a site adhere's to the EFF's guidelines (https://github.com/EFForg/dnt-guide) for DNT. This has rules for how long data is retained, which data can be retained, specifications around anonymizing data, and security precautions.

Disclaimer: I worked on Read the Docs' DNT implementation.
Distrust of Firefox does not imply trust of Chrome.
Twitter was just added to the S&P 500 this year. Facebook wasn't added until 2013.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sp500-facebook/facebook-t...

The chances of Uber getting into a major index quickly is very remote. On the bright side, Uber has a CFO now :). I doubt many institutional investors will be forced to buy the stock. It will be interesting to see what percentage Uber tries to float though.
For a moment, I thought you were referring to the authoritarianism/hierarchy as the “anchor of familiarity” - and everything Steve Jobs did in mass-tech as the “wildly new concepts” - you would still be right in the context of the executives and engineers he led.
Does ClojureScript run on mobile platforms ?
I would have thought PETA would be all in favour of efficiently putting down animals. >.>
How Myst Taught a Generation of Gamers to Explore New Worlds
I don't understand how this brings insight into "additional factors" in their "valuation", as the article mentions nothing about their valuation, just that they have efficient batteries.
medium does the same thing
I'd love to see a blog post that gets a fully-featured C++ dev env working in VSCode.
Ironically, my old electromechanical appliances lasted decades longer than the computerized ones. The motherboard in them is always failing and costs $$$$ to replace. The camwheel with contact switches works forever.
So did literally everybody else building a website that was embedded in an iframe. I was there in 2011, at a startup, copying the same StackOverflow answer as everyone else so we could store cookies in Safari.

This is such a non-issue. It was widely regarded as a bug in Safari.
Again, taking the over on all dates.
Strange that some constitutional protections apply to non-citizens whilst the second amendment does not.
“fudiciary duty” is typically a corpspeak invoked at allhands to explain why certain benefit is being cut. There’s no obligation to sell afaik and whether the company is public or not should be irrelevant really.
Just because they've been performing does not imply that they're not overvalued. TSLA has been overvalued for years. That doesn't mean it's a bad investment, it just means it brings along higher risk.
For engineering you just have to follow logic, reasoning, good practices and have discipline. Also you can test your code to death to make sure everything is correct.

Maybe it’s because I just stepped away from a harrowing 5 hour troubleshooting session (which I’ll be continuing on Monday), but I just can’t bring myself to agree with your comment.

You (and too many other people) make it sound like engineering is akin to following steps in a cookbook.
The number of Lyft and Uber employees is minuscule compared to the size of the housing market.
Many people think of Tesla as a car company, when actually it's an energy company. Other car manufacturers are not.
At the risk of being a little combative, I'm going to call this an excuse.

Why didn't your company disable it for just IE? It wasn't hard at the time to detect which browser people were using based on headers.

You could have checked to see which browsers turned it on by default and ignored them specifically. If IE went the route of trying to make IE's headers imitate Firefox's or something, fine, then disable it for IE and Firefox, but keep it on for Chrome.

But the idea that one browser misbehaving meant that suddenly no browsers could be trusted sounds to me like an excuse. Across the industry we build browser-specific behaviors for all kinds of things. What's so special about user tracking that nobody in the industry could do that?
Must Haves:

1. Battery Size -- phones should last atleast a whole day of use

2. Smaller Screen Size (5") (I dont need a phablet) -- I dont need huge ass screen. I have laptop for that.. I just need to read a few emails, message and take phone calls. Small screen is easy to hold and less changes of dropping.

3. NFC / Contactless payment enabled -- This getting to must haves as new applications like pairing over bluetooth headphones via nfc, paying for groceries is getting contact less.

4. Compatible with International Standards -- I do travel and hence would need phone to be compatible with various wireless standards.

Nice to haves

1. Wireless charging -- This is a great luxury to just place the phone on a mat and not worry about whether the wire is connected correctly (considering some companies keep switching wire formats -- I am taking about Apple as you must have guessed.)

2. Headphone jacks -- There is an ongoing war on headphone jacks -- Want to charge your phone and listen to music? well, you are out of luck.. you cant if you dont have headphone jack. Bring back headphone jack.

3. Expandable memory -- 32 GB vs 128 GB its ridiculous that there is a difference of $100 or more?.

4. Ability to uninstall all or any apps.. I dont want another (MUST have Homescreen app) -- Choose Android One if possible.

5. Okish Camera -- Not much of a photo snob.

6. Fingerprint scanner for easy unlocks.
Get out while the getting is good, as they say.
> but it's not like it's incapable of putting out less torque if you give it a light touch.

That's the bit I was curious about. It seems obvious that would be the case. It'll be fun to try it one day!
I have nothing in principle against ED vehicles (besides the unfortunate designation “ED”), but I am completely against them in practice. Especially in the US, we have no infrastructure for it. Americans, myself included, love to hit the road for vacations. Electric cars simply cannot handle the rigors of long-distance travel with the engine load of air conditioning or heat, a car full of kids and luggage, and a few amps of accessories (chargers, PSUs for devices, etc.). No one has even proposed anything close to a reasonable solution for these things. The ICE vehicle works so well and has catapulted our economy over the past century because the fuel is so readily available and very quick to fill, and we have built an entire nation on a huge network of gas stations. Sorry, no matter how many futurists want to believe in the Church of ED, the electic car revolution can’t and won’t happen until we completely revamp our infrastructure. And the country isn’t just the idyllic land of California where everyone drinks at juice bars and has solar-paneled houses, and commutes 22.7 miles per day with a hybrid or EV, there is Alaska and West Virginia, where it’s as rural as you can imagine where the ICE is the most reliable source of transportation. VW, and Europe in general are delusional at best.
V1.0.0 release of v-chart-plugin data visualizations for Vue.JS
Assistance and Access Bill 2018 FAQ for Australian IT Workers
Copying my cousin commemt:

> User isn't deanonymized to the publisher, publisher analytics and ads don't register page views, page can be trivially transformed to lazy load below the fold, etc.

This is all explained in the AMP documentation itself. There was even an article about it on HN not too long ago (https://medium.com/@pbakaus/why-amp-caches-exist-cd7938da245...). People like the author who criticize AMP without knowing what problem it solves are willfully ignorant.

This all works on the open web without signing an agreement with the traffic source, unlike Facebook's and Apple's proprietary instant article solutions. That's why it has been adopted by so many other search engines and link aggregators.
That. Funny enough redfin stubbornly shows my property is gradually up 6% since jan 1st with no drop while I know it’s been +15% just 6 months ago
This is the same guy who recently vowed to provide any/all of MSFT's AI technologies to the Department of Defense https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/us/p...
Thanks for that reminder (I was going to say: “I wish I could sort this by average or something instead”).

Neither are perfect though. A lot of the best articles come from the BBC. Yet because so many people submit (and resubmit) BBC articles, they have an awful per-posting score.

I think you’d want to pre-filter by submissions that actually got some traction (made it to the front page?) and then look at the score distribution.
We just need a React native for desktop that works well cross platform.

It’s so stupid that we keep on re-inventing the UI libraries that are already built into the operating system. They arare accessible, high performance and use very little extra memory since the resources are shared.

The problem is electron, not JavaScript. V8 folks work very hard to make JavaScript nimble and fast.
I read it on optocrypto.com it must be true!
> Compatibility layers are great, when they're actually compatible. Almost-compatible layers are a nightmare.

That's why you should not use them. You decided to use them.
Yes. That’s pretty much what I said in my first comment.

It’s not a huge deal. It’s a moderate deal.

Moving cities is not a huge deal. I’ve personally done it 3 times. It’s not a small deal either, don’t get me wrong. But it’s not a mayday scenario.

Even my ancestors who made 1/100th the income I do moved multiple times.
> This is in violation of you usage agreement with ycombinator.

I do not see how it would be the case.

> No, that's not true.

Care to elaborate as to why you think that it is impossible for him to be negligent or wrong?

> I see that you created your account just a few days ago

What does it have to do with anything?

> you might want to be careful with it

Are you threatening me?

> I won't be engaging with you

Okay.

> I doubt that I'm the only one

Perhaps.
Props to Medium, because not only does it respect DNT, it pretty rigorously follows the advice about blocking third-party embeds if they don't respect it.[0]

Medium is not always on my good side, and I think the site has some problems, but at least somebody working there does really care about privacy, and I regularly notice and appreciate their work.

DuckDuckGo as well, but I would have a problem if they didn't respect DNT. Medium is the site where they really didn't have to care, but they did anyway.

[0]: https://github.com/EFForg/dnt-guide#a-embedly
DeepMind's AlphaZero has managed to learn and play three complex games, and won
It's helpful to deconflate art and design. Design uses artistic tools in the service of clearly defined and objective goals. It is a learned skill.
It is laughable how Uber MUST follow Lyft into everything. I remember when Lyft announced Line, Uber announced "Pool is in the works!!!"
We can only hope not.
Just pass a goddamn law, any website that doesn’t respect “Do Not Track” headers will get fined like GDPR.

That’s why we have regulation.
What about vaccines for nuisance illnesses where the vaccines have potentially severe consequences? For example, the rotavirus vaccine has been known to cause intussusception in some small but non-negligible fraction of recipients. This is sometimes fatal, and generally involves surgery. Rotavirus typically causes diarrhea, which can be dangerous, but generally isn’t if monitored closely.

Do you call CPS on parents that refuse that one?
Nitpick: The historical problem with stars being suns wasn't (just) the universe being larger than the solar system, but that the telescopic observations available at the time seemed to imply that every other visible star would have to be much larger than the Sun, in fact larger than the orbit of Saturn. This was because early astronomers didn't understand optical diffraction and thought the Airy disks visible around stars were the stars themselves, making their angular radius in Earth's sky seem vastly larger than the reality. [1] Both characterization of the Airy disk and observation of stellar parallax didn't occur until the 19th century, by which point religious objections wouldn't have had the same status as in Galileo's day anyway (for example, Darwin's work was published only a few decades later).

Source: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.612...