skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi everyone! The maker (and CEO) of Wave here. Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the app.

We're a seed funded start-up from Stockholm, Sweden with a background from Spotify and Beats Music among other things. We have been working on this for almost a year now. Our goal is to make the podcast experience more social and build the best platform for discovery and listening possible. We have a ton of cool features lined up waiting to be released in the coming months. But we're starting small with a very focused and simple app.
Beware of Google Apps. You are stuck with your primary domain
:) Being able to post links to products and extracting images directly is next on our roadmap.
I suspect that alcohol consumption is a significant contributor to obesity.
The central question of the start of WWI was who gets to pick over the bones of the ottoman empire and to a lesser extent the bones of the austrian empire. Several very big players decided "it'll be me, and I'll fight everyone else for my share".
Just a reminder: the best part of React isn't about its diffing algorithm or the virtual DOM. Plenty of articles have been written on this (e.g. https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/youre-missing-the-point-of-r...). The diffing algorithm is a smart way of circumventing the fact that the DOM is so slow; there's nothing to be proud of working with such thing. Ideally your platform isn't so.

Web devs will keep reimplementing parts of React elsewhere; but at least, be inspired by some other parts of React please.
"d" is not usually a known quantity beforehand and therein lies the problem OP's approach. The "average user" is also not necessarily the most important one to be designing for.

I've seen this kind of analysis "(b*d) / c" lead to a lot of useless SEO tweaks. Ie, imagine you've got some section of your site that is driving a lot of organic SEO traffic. If you are able to increase conversion on that part of the site by a small percent, it would have a huge impact on the business and users would experience more meaningful parts of your product.

Of course, it is very difficult to increase conversion on those parts of your site and most of those initiatives fail.

Better to spend more time focusing on making the experience stellar for a smaller, but strategically important section of users.
I don't disagree with you, but I was just googling the first three games you mentioned -- which I happen to agree are great games -- and I see that Syndicate, my absolute favorite, wasn't designed by Molyneux but by someone named Sean Cooper. Is it a coincidence that it's also not a God/sandbox game?

Black & White was ground breaking but it was such a disappointment to me that I wouldn't include it in any list of great games...
AppDirect Raises $50M from Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital
I once had a friend say something about how the Chinese valued hard work. Then I asked him what cultures don't value hard work. He squirmed as he started ticking off a list of countries whose populations are predominantly black/Latino...
Starting today, wireless carriers have to unlock your phone
I feel like this is something that needs to happen. The observation about $80 GSM shields is spot on. Amazing things would happen if we could have a $30 IoT board with built-in LTE and a country-by-country easy-to-follow guide to how to buy a SIMM and get online.

My one critique of the project is that I think the most important part (from a marketing perspective) is the "make your own connected IoT board for cheap!". The OS part is a huge enabling factor but not what gets me pumped about it.

I almost skipped clicking on this link because I was imagining strapping a full heavy smartphone (plastic case and all) onto a drone with zip ties.
You're going to have to backup that claim that the majority of people that graduate from college are functionally illiterate. I call bullshit on that being true.

The American food system is one of the safest and most regulated on earth. You may disagree with some of its practices, but that does not make it unregulated nor unsafe. The claim that America has a complete lack of food safety regulations is laughable, you couldn't be more wrong.

America has always had for-profit colleges, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. They work perfectly fine. America has had by far the best university system for many decades and still does. The rest of the world has nothing like it.

Massive subsidies for fossil fuels? In fact the subsidies are not massive compared to the industry and dollar figures in question, even if those subsidies should not exist. If you want to talk per capita fossil fuels and the destruction of the environment from that, let's talk about Norway's output - that bastion of everything America is supposed to aspire to.

America merely contributes upwards of half of all global science and innovation. Given the immense output record the US possesses, you're going to have to do a lot better to discredit it than throw out an empty soundbite.
Sad to see, my dear old friend ColdFusion did not even make the list.
Although it would have been tough to quantify, I would have loved to see some sort of analysis regarding culture in certain areas versus others, and maybe how that influences hours worked (overtime too), compensation, growth of companies, etc.

I only bring this up as I had the opportunity to visit with about a dozen businesses in Silicon Valley a few weeks back and one of the biggest things I noticed was the "all-inclusive" company culture.
In this case, that sounds like a distinction without a difference:

Persisting in a smoking addiction (condition) is as bad as persisting in obesity (condition.)

Regularly smoking (action) is as bad as regularly eating too much (action.)

Edit: It is because in both cases, persisting in the condition requires the action.
Grinding in WoW is at least fun and you get to socialize...
> keeping the view logic in one place

Each component has its own logic. If you are rendering your main app state in child components you will be passing the state via props.

var UserInfo = React.createClass({
shouldComponentUpdate: function (nextProps, nextState) {
if (nextProps.id !== this.props.id) {
return true;
}

return false;
}
})

which makes perfect sense
Microsoft Confirms Sunrise Acquisition
Not always. In this case, they'd be using correct grammar as it was used for quite some time (centuries?).

Of course, there are cases where people use a false whom because it sounds more sophisticated, but this isn't one of them.
Yeah, I think that was a huge mistake. They have literally one of the worst brands amongst the tech community. At this point their brand is synonymous with sexism, killing endangered elephants, and censoring the internet. They've been on the wrong side of pretty much any issue you could pick the wrong side of.
Oof, why not try something like setting up a Vagrant machine running Linux instead of rewriting the entire project? Seems a lot simpler and way better for the project.
The question comes down to how you evaluate things. Are the growth rate and money the only measures here?

God doesn't favorite China. Looking at its past 100 years, huge political unrest and communism experiments kept the country so behind the rest of world.

The technology, free market reform and globalization help China quickly escape from its historical baggage and catch up with developed world. The question is what value would win out at the end now everyone has equal footing.

Culture, political system and work ethic are the deterministic factors going forward. Would you prefer a world looking more like America or China?
In fact, one of the data points that McKenna uses to base his theory on is that magic mushrooms increase visual acuity, making edges and outlines "stick out" more. This is a positive effect that could give some survival advantage to a primarily tree-dwelling creature that, due to desertification, must spend an increased amount of time on the savannah potentially being stalked by big cats, and could explain one reason why the apes would have sought them out.

It's a very interesting idea in which he invested a lot of time exploring. In the talk that I listened to, he opens by giving a disclaimer of sorts: he recognized that it's a far-out idea, but it is not an unsound one even though it lies pretty far away from the established narrative. He had a bunch of these "psychedelic ideas" and thought that it was important for people to keep coming up with them because they expand our understanding of what is possible. Sort of like psychedelics themselves, which is probably why he used the term.
Fascinating. My ZTE Open has been sitting on a shelf collecting dust... wonderful opportunity for reuse.
http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#literacy
For a delightful take on the other side of this, sometimes a trainwreck, consult:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029363
The RMB is growing in importance and rapidly becoming an increasingly stable financial instrument in global trade. That is not to be debated.

Even though China's economy has overtaken the US in scale, there is one MAJOR issue that is commonly overlooked when contemplating the possibility of them becoming the go-to global currency... They are still an authoritarian state that controls and manipulates the free flow of information in-and-out of its borders. Baidu, Tencent, Weibo, and Alibaba are all still clones of basic US internet infrastructure. Until there is a great lifting of restrictions on the flow of information inside of China, I don't see them building the next Google anytime soon. (Baidu does have Andrew Ng doing some cool stuff in Deep Learning tough!)

I'm not trying to say there isn't innovation coming out of China, just that there won't be a technological renaissance to the likes of Silicon Valley until people can communicate more openly online about potentially dangerous ideas.

Can the RMB survive and increase its power with constant tension with HK and Taiwan over political ideology? I'm not sure... If the Chinese can slowly open up its internal lines of communication without massive protests or radical power struggles, they will be unstoppable.

The only question left in my mind is when given the choice to purchase technical infrastructure from the likes of Google/Facebook or Baiudu, what are developing markets (SEA, Africa..) going to pick. Chinese tech companies ideals might be more inline with rapidly developing companies than the old guard in SV..
Was Syndicate (an all time favorite of mine) designed by Molyneux? According to Wikipedia, it was designed by someone named Sean Cooper. I have to wonder... is it a coincidence that it's not a God game?

(To give Molyneux his well-earned credit, I also loved Populous and Dungeon Keeper!)
I went into a Fedex/Kinko's in the US, to try to print something on A3.

They looked at me as if I had just asked them to sell me a unicorn. They then offered to custom cut a piece of paper for what I'd approximate as several tens of thousands of percent markup.
Ask HN: Is taking an extra 'light' semester in grad school worth it?
I'm a grad student in a 'top-10' university for computer science. This is my 4th semester here, and the normal timeline seems to be to take your masters in 3-4 semesters and get into the industry.

I've been doing research since my first semester. Since I was funded almost throughout I don't have much of a debt.
I feel that my foundations in the areas of my interest (ml and systems) is shaky at best. I took grad level classes in both but realized that I didn't have a firm grasp on a lot of things.

I could graduate this semester if I wanted to. As an international student, I don't have the option of graduating and not taking a job. However,I don't feel confident enough to pass an intense interviews in the places I want.
My other option is to graduate next semester. In my next semester my course load will be almost negligible giving me a lot of time to focus. Even if I don't get funded the number of credits would be low enough that I can pay without debt.

I'm in the pool of interns for Google this summer (convert from a full time interview to the pool) and although it's late in the process I might get matched to a project. If not, I might end up doing research or look elsewhere.

I'm facing quite some opposition. People said that it makes no sense to spend 5 more months in grad school if not for a PhD, instead to graduate now and look at shifting jobs further in your career. I've been told that delaying at my age (I'm 26 turning 27) would just harm my career further down the line.

The people on HN are experts so I thought I could get some insight. My main motivation for doing this was to get 5-6 months of intense deep diving into areas that I feel I lack - something I would not be able to do easily once I go full time ( I worked at Microsoft before this and I remember that initially I had barely any time to spend studying).

What would your advise be in this situation? Do you think it would be worth the time, and would this adversely affect my career options?
It's worse over here in the US. At least in Europe the paper doesn't require a different shelf height when dealing with printed materials from 'across the pond'.

I would find it ever so sensible if we would just let imperial measures die over here so we could end the pain of international business.
More like Mondo 2000.
That's federal prison, which houses a small fraction of inmates, and for more serious offenses. You need to look at the state stats. In California, for instance, drug inmates make up about 14% of the prison population. Violent crime makes up 44% (actually, it's probably quite a bit higher than that, because "burglary" is counted as a property crime).

To see why the federal statistics are misleading, consider how someone ends up in federal prison for burglary.
A Study of “Wheat” and “Chaff” in Source Code [pdf]
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Looking at the list, it appears they don't support Java, but that's only because is not actually in alpha order, as it first appears to be. Java listed right at the start (between COBOL and C#).
More like "the number of lifetime teetotalers they could find was so small that there was insufficient data to measure an effect"
Can you elaborate on the case design process? What language is being spoken? Are you meeting in person? Is he showing you CAD or physical prototypes? How much are you spending during this process?
But alternative syntaxes are regular expressions too.
We're in the process of moving from Ubuntu to CentOS 7, with which I am largely unfamiliar. We're not in the finance sector, but latency does matter in our systems (probably not so much as it matters to the HFT people, though).

Can anyone tell me whether this guidance for RHEL 7 is likely to apply to CentOS 7?
It was available on the NHS. It was available under the "named patient" scheme which is a bit more complex than just a doctor prescribing it but suggesting people couldn't get it on the NHS is false.

The cost to the patient would have been exactly the same - about £8 per item per month with a range of discounts and exemptions.
I think the typical rhetoric of "China is bad because it steals innovation!" is usually misplaced. From China's perspective, there is nothing wrong with "stealing innovation," as this model has helped grow China's economy and lift millions out of poverty over the past few decades. The diffusion of information does not produce the same "value" as the production of information itself, but from China's perspective this diffusion certainly has its own value if it boosts the growth of native industry (which can one day hopefully enable China to produce more value from its own production of information).

From the American perspective, I think we tend to ascribe more value to hanging on to our innovation than is actually there. Hanging on to innovation will always provide a temporary advantage. The value of innovation is also dependent on the cost of preventing diffusion of the products of innovation. If the results of innovation are so valuable, companies should do more to prevent the outward flow of information, by locking up information systems and trying to hold on to as much of the involved human capital as possible. However, we do not do that as much as we should because there are other forms of "value" we can get by not locking up our innovation and human capital. In previous decades, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have all followed practices similar to what China does today. The growth of native industries may have hurt America's ability to compete in these markets (and even in America itself), yet companies like Sony, Samsung and others have brought value directly to American consumers and encourage more innovation now that they actively compete with American companies in the innovation game.
Some amount of kids can't get vaccinated due to medical reasons, it's not safe for them.

And if less than 80% - 90% of the total population are unvaccinated, you get these large outbreaks like we're seeing today. At 95%, it's a lot harder for that happen.
The GUI side of NT4.0 lacked a tiny bit of glitter to make the 98/95 siblings irrelevant to a newcomer like me. 2K was the first to have a little visual appeal (slightly revamped color scheme, 16k icons, some animations/fades here and there). So much that I often disabled themes in XP to enjoy that 2K feel.
Where can I buy a poster of it that ships to Spain?
>have one very good feature democracies lack - they get things done.

I think this is a misconception. Chaotic system almost exclusively defeat planned systems. A chaotic market will beat communist central planning every time. A chaotic fight for life via evolution will beat robots every time, etc.

Humanity's greatest achievements have been done under largely western, open, and democratic societies (for various definitions of) from ancient Greece to what the US and EU has been able to do. While autocratic systems have their success stories, they're more rare and often hit a wall due to the natural of autocracy (threaten the political order, favor system stopping innovation).

You're using an American OS on an American network stack and American root DNS and American URLs on an American designed CPU in English at an American website to have this conversation for a reason.

I suggest you check out Kelly's Out of Control or Taleb's Anti-Fragile.
The silly thing here is that this macro is not guaranteed to accomplish anything. The C standard limits how compilers can optimize accesses to volatile objects, but says nothing about accesses to non-volatile objects which are accessed via volatile-qualified pointers.
It seems so weird to me that so many people confuse someone saying a phenomena is a mental process for saying that phenomena doesn't exist.
In your article, you also mentioned the facebook-app needing tons of permissions;
Normally you wouldn't be able to deny an app these permissions (the alternative would be not installing the app), however there is a Xposed module called XPrivacy what's able to do exactly this. This way you can still install facebook while not giving it access to your contacts/location/microphone/etc. Sadly it doesn't work wit ART (So no Lollipop support).

http://repo.xposed.info/module/biz.bokhorst.xprivacy
Right there in the first paragraph (emphasis added):

> The most important story of 2014 that most people ignored was the Chinese economy overtaking the US economy. (This is using the purchasing power parity metric, which incorporates differences in the price of goods, but the Chinese economy will overtake on other metrics soon enough.)

"Other metrics" does not include GDP per capita. That seems to me something you might not want to overlook when comparing the US and China.
That sucks, I really was looking forward to the first stage recovery attempt. Does this mean in the future(if they ever manage to do it) that they'll scrap first stage recoveries in terrible weather?
*depending on when you bought.
I'm sorry but I couldn't get past the first paragraph. It's common misconception that people claim China's economy has overtaken US, it's really a clickbait for media outlets last year.

Yes, using a calculation called "purchasing power parity," it looks as if China has passed America. But that calculation is a statistically manufactured one, which supposedly makes up for different costs of living in the two countries. In short, it doesn't measure anything that's real, but a concept that some economists — and certainly not all — believe is important. It's a phony comparison using a made-up number.
So what do the numbers show when you compare real apples to real apples? Real U.S. GDP this year will be about $16.27 trillion, adjusted for inflation, according to data from the U.S. government, World Bank and IMF. China? It will be less than half that, about $8.06 trillion. Not only has China not passed the U.S., but it's quite possible it never will. China's population growth is heading for a dramatic Japan-style collapse, which will slash economic growth dramatically in coming years. Growth has already slowed from 10% a year in the 1990s and 2000s to 7% — and it's likely to fall further from there. That's not all. The real measure of a nation's standard of living, productivity and, ultimately, the size of its economy is GDP per capita. What does that tell us about the difference between the U.S. and China? This year, America will have per person output of $50,979 in real terms, China $5,947. So the average American is nine times more productive than the average Chinese. So don't panic. The U.S. isn't No. 2, except in certain IMF statisticians' minds. Nor will it be soon. This is from a credible research article.
SSL is officially declared dead
What is your take on http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1217 and http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1217, who seem to be less than totally excited about the output of static analysis tools in terms of bugs found.
It's interesting, I started following development of Godus and https://wftogame.com/ at the same time, both spiritual successors to early Bullfrog games. None of them are out of beta/alpha/early-access/whatever yet, both having been delayed for YEARS.

It's such a strange thing to witness; this developer passion and designer dream just slowly withering away.
Play Godus for 2 minutes and you will feel why people ache for that experience. It's beautiful. Like The Witness. Calm. And WFTO, watch the trailer. The speaker is the same guy who did dungeon keeper in 1998. These games are pulling your heartstrings, no wonder they get their money. In some way, I would still throw money at another one of these games, if only because a slim chance of a new Bullfrog title is better than none.

At least Blizzard is still going strong; if anyone want a truly unique and delightful experience I can recommend Hearthstone.

Maybe the indie game world need an incubator, like YC.
Huh? I didn't say that at all. This person CAN afford their medicine. Instead they spend that money on a trip to the UK to see family but also gets their medicine. Medicine they didn't contribute taxes to pay for.
Why You Should Care About the Health of the US Treasury Market
I'm surprised that he didn't talk about the last decade of US science funding. The US has radically cut back on research support. In theory, it shouldn't matter where the science happens. Publication means anyone can read it. In practice, the country that hots the training and tech transfer sees a lot more from scientific progress then anyone else.