skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, Flynn cofounder here. We merged the repos (there were a few dozen!) after encountering a ton of friction landing project-wide changes and managing the build system (vendoring dependencies in every repo got ridiculous).

Contributors were also having a lot of trouble figuring out where to report issues and submit patches. On the whole the unified repo and build system has been a massive improvement to our productivity and the quality of the project. Unfortunately using components in a modular fashion can be harder, and we haven't come up with a great solution to that. We're still committed to keeping our components independently useful and would love to get feedback on what we can do better.
Which is also not a radical subculture.
What's the range on that smartwatch before it is disconnected from your phone?
I sometimes use the dev tools but I prefer Firebug. Maybe it's only better looking but there are some real advantages. I'm on a phone now and can't make a side by side comparison. Relying on my memory won't work :-)
The dev tools are faster, that's for sure but Firebug is not slow enough to switch. I'd like the two teams to merge.
http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-SheevaPlug-setup.html
Penny Arcade has a good pitch:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/03/09/
> but its return value certainly doesn't depend only on its arguments

Note that value1 and value2 are not, and cannot possibly be, return values of notPurelyFunctional. The type of notPurelyFunctional says its return value has type IO Double, but value1 and value2 have type Double. IO Double is not Double, doesn't contain a Double, and cannot be converted to Double by a function call.

It sounds like you still think that the syntax "do x <- foo" means something like "let x be the result of some function call involving foo". Actually it can't be anything like that, it translates to something more compicated.

> If that were the case, then any operation on getLine would return the same value

Yes, and moreover, any operation on notPurelyFunctional 5.0 always returns the same value.

You have my honest word that I have some experience with Haskell and believe these things to be 100% true, with no wishy-washy philosophical caveats. I know exactly how to write an interpreter in which the machine representation of something like "notPurelyFunctional 5.0" will be immutable bit-for-bit, without using any dirty tricks like pointers to mutable memory. And I know that it's immutable in actual Haskell implementations as well.
I read your comment as implying that Apple's potential to swallow the world by increasing in size is scary. The other way of looking at it, if you're an Apple investor: Apple's lack of a "moat" is scary.
It's like a tamagotchi- you have to take care of it everyday for a bond to develop.
I vastly prefer ebooks for pleasure reading. I read them on my phone (white text on black background with the brightness waaaay down). It's great because I can read anywhere - in many places that I normally couldn't, because 1) I always have the book with me, 2) I only need one hand (in fact even that only occasionally since you can set the 'book' down without having to go to great lengths to keep it open), and 3) I can read in the dark without disturbing my wife.

That said, I would never want to try to study from an e-textbook. All reference books I still buy in print. You would think with their searchability, ebooks would have an advantage there, but I've always just found it too awkward trying to jump between sections. It's much easier to have a mental model of where information resides in a physical book than a digital one.
Are you referring to this talk by Stamos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1kZMn1RueI
http://www.earth.org.uk/low-power-laptop.html
http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-setup.html
It's also worth noting that misinformation can spread very quickly. It takes no effort to click "reblog" and then forget about a post forever. On other platforms with this weakness (such as Reddit), there is incentive to discredit incorrect information (you get a lot of comment karma if you do this on Reddit), but there is little incentive to do so on tumblr. Any commentary on a post is not inherently tied to future reblogs of the post, and users can edit the content of reblogs to make it look like that content was written by the post's original author.
Yes, but unlike crypto, a CAPTCHA doesn't need forward protection. If I deploy one, and it turns out to be weak, I can just upgrade and then not worry. I'm not worried about people time-traveling to the past.
I don't understand the downvotes to your comment. It is overly simplistic to say that Apple's success is merely due to marketing. As you pointed out, Samsung spends more on marketing (not sure if it is multiples more).

About 6 years ago I switched to Apple for computing needs and now I almost never buy non-Apple products when there is an equivalent Apple product. I trust their build quality and trust the decisions they've made with regard to memory, disk space, etc. Unless they start cutting corners I'm going to be a lifelong Apple person.

I recently bought the Microsoft Band and it feels like a Microsoft product. The build quality is not good. The band does not fit well on my wrist. I'm right in the middle between two sizes. The software quality is not good and I got anomalous results. I'm guessing the Apple Watch will be better and give better results.
Hierarchical management structures have nothing to do with government organizations. They exist in the private sector too as you described it.

Assuming the government is grossly inefficient in all aspects is strange. What if some organizations in the government are inefficient, while others are not?
Design and implementation of the MeteorJS platform
It's just interesting seeing someone promote the precise opposite of the now ever so popular Material Design thought of basically using animations everywhere to convey motion, meaning, and hierarchy.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

The national suicide prevention strategy has recognised social media as something to be aware of. This concern is reflected in some local strategies - it's possibly going to be in Gloucestershire's suicide prevention strategy.

People worked hard to get media outlets to develop guidelines that balance freedom of speech with reducing harm. The national union of journalists has pretty good guidelines.

https://www.nuj.org.uk/news/guidelines-on-reporting-on-menta...

Perhaps the social media industry could set up some meta group to draw up guidelines around social responsibility? Many sites have rules that ban pro-anorexia information.
At $100-$150/hour $20k/month ranges from doable to dependable. If you are good and experienced I don't see why you couldn't bill that as a generalist.

Also, generalist-vs-specialist depends on your perspective. To your clients, you are a specialist. :-)

Personality-wise I'm really a generalist, but I've started thinking of myself as a specialist in full-stack Rails development. I don't think that's as oxymoronic as it sounds. I've done web applications for 15 years, and Rails for a long time. Besides Rails I can go deep on Postgres, Chef, and AWS, which I think all hangs together very nicely, and I can go broad on Javascript, machine learning, and Java/Python/C/iOS. You don't want me in charge of buying your routers or architecting your Django app, but it's not like all I do is Postgres performance tuning. HN folk would call me a generalist, I'm sure, but for a lot of clients, I'm specialized enough. Anyway, a generalist with 15 years experience might know more about x than a specialist with 2. :-)
You can troll on tumblr and write criticism too. Many tumblr users do just that. You can also create echo chambers and circlejerks in Reddit too. /r/tumblrinaction and /r/kotakuinaction for example.
Your definition of 'actually useful' is going to be different than everyone else's. Economic value is the only objective value we have.
Business for idiots
I would gladly accept all those issues over working in an open floorplan any day of the week.

I'd prefer private offices to remote distributed work. But I find it's actually easier to find remote jobs than software companies that make an effort to provide private offices.
People may love the free course, but does it actually make previously unsuccessful people successful? I think the implication here is that the free course is essentially just there to get you pumped up for the paid course, and is not actually useful.
They've added 36 bytes for input sizes > 120K elements. That's not even one cache line. This, instead of a few more branches that would need to run every iteration, no matter the input size. I haven't run a benchmark (they probably did), but my gut says they've made the right choice.
The only reason they aren't able to crush people is because of Android and Microsoft. If you look at how the App Store was run and the general way Apple did things before Android became dominant, it was pretty scary. There were stories almost every other day about Apple just arbitrarily banning apps that might have conceivably intruded upon their corporate interests.
µBlock vs Adblock Plus vs Ghostery vs Disconnect vs No blocker
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-and-other...
Neither Python nor PHP are thin glues. They have their own GCs, and are byte code interpreted. How is that a "thin" glue on top of c? They are an environment on their own happened to be written in C.
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I am beginning to feel that Vox is more of a time-sink than a useful addition to my regular feed. This article is an example of why. It's long format, goes over well-trod ground, adds in some items that are politically interpreted a bit heavily, and ends up kicking off partisan discussions that don't go anywhere.

They're like Op-Ed columns presented in Wikipedia format. If we had a thesis and supporting arguments you would at least know what you're dealing with and engage it on its own terms. But as it is, you're left either accepting this huge hunk of text or going through half a dozen items to nitpick it to death. Either choice is suboptimal.

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I'm a huge supporter of the space program. NASA lost its way a while back, like the 1970s, and is not the right tool for the job we have. It's no fault of NASA's -- every new administration and every new Congress feels free to whipsaw it into a new direction.

We have some clear foundational science goals that NASA could supervise other competent organizations doing, like reducing cost-to-orbit 100-fold (mass-drivers, anybody?), creating a cheap, mass-production radioactive battery that can be used everywhere, or rewarding the first team to optically-image an earth-sized habitable exoplanet.

Writing NASA a check won't help much of anything, because five years from now the money will all be re-allocated various political ways. Yes, I grok the multi-year planning thing. Not germane.
Don't Fly Etihad Airways
> but in this case Pebble has a proven track record of delivering a quality product in a reasonable time frame.

Hardly.

http://readwrite.com/2013/07/09/why-i-cancelled-my-pebble-sm...
Why not list the name of the tool here. Maybe someone will offer to help you out for free, or in exchange for equity if the product has the potential to generate revenue.
Blind Man Sees for the First Time with Bionic Eye
Are you still on 2.3 Ginger Bread? When did you buy your phone? 2011?
> In foreign affairs, states are mostly rational and risk-averse.

Oh yes. This is a great insight. Thanks. Why would take great risks when you are on top?
Anybody here successful with the strategy of hiring somebody to find good jobs for you?
Obviously false. They could not guess from the screenshot.
I believe certain of its actions are subject to audit by the Office of the Inspector General and others by the OMB. Regardless, your point stands that a comprehensive audit of the Fed's actions is not readily available.
That's incredibly dishonest, and pissed me off immediately after clicking the link.
How is it dismissive? 'Radical subculture' just seems descriptive to me. 'Radical' is synonymous with fundamental, and gender identity definitely seems fundamental to peoples' subjective identity. 'Subculture' just indicates a distinct subset of a larger culture.

The fact that subcultures can be voluntary, whimsical, or ephemeral doesn't mean they have to be, and I certainly don't assume any lack of seriousness or significance to the notion that someone is a member of this or that subculture.
1. Communication with remote people is very easy. If I'm debugging one of our robots at a client's home, I can share output and code snippets easily. We also have a channel for news that might be particularly interesting for our company, so less e-mails to be sent and read. Slack is handier for that because of page previews etc.

2. Channels, triggers from ifttt, GitHub etc. And integration with giphy is much used :-)

3. Free, we tried this and it works like we wanted

4. None experienced yet
And it's not like the majority of books people own are that great as physical objects anyway- grab a random hardback from the fifties and compare it to any hardback you're likely to grab at Costco or B&N- the quality isn't even close.
http://www.docracy.com/tos/changes is also good for tracking changes. And today I saw a talk about http://commonterms.org/ which could be useful if widely implemented.
"At anytime up until your watch has shipped, you may request a full refund"

Nice. I own a pebble and pebble steel. Hardly use them but the full refund policy won me over.
This is not true. On tumblr, you can get bubbled with everything you say/do/are. And posts glorifying self-harm and suicide are still happening.
What isn't everywhere is making fan-art of suicide victims. I think it is fair to assert that there is a distinct subculture here.

Furthermore, I reject the idea that identifying a subculture means that you are dismissing that subculture.
The real missing part of this article is that NASA's budget is dominated by building launchers. If all NASA did was build payloads and buy launch services, it would get a lot more done for its dollar.

In the short term this is not feasible, but we are on track for it happening in the next 10-20 years. I think we'll have many years of SLS/Orion, but that is probably the last NASA launch system. Once NASA gets out of the launcher building business, the entire enterprise because much more viable. The cost of any particular mission is not terrible, and if any single mission fails it's not the end of the organization. If the launch program fails, NASA gets off track for a decade. Effectively the Space Shuttle was a slowly unfolding 30 year failure that pushed NASA off course for decades.
Agreed, and I'll add one more to the list: when reading for pleasure, I have the habit of going back and forth, sometimes going a few pages back to remember who was the character that said something. Sometimes when I continue reading a novel, I go back a few chapters and re-read a specific paragraph. I don't know exactly where it was, but I know it was "some pages back, in the middle of the page".

For some reason, doing this with an actual book is a lot faster than with an ebook. Partly this is because of the slow screen refresh in my 2nd gen Kindle, which makes repeatedly changing pages a pain, but mostly it is because "random access" for a print book is way faster than for an ebook.

The only ebook feature that beats a print book is searching for a specific word or sentence that you remember verbatim, but I seldom remember things verbatim...
Unreal Engine 4.7 is the biggest release yet
I get the chills just looking at those photos, no way you could get me within 20ft of that ledge. Really cool pictures though, congrats on pulling it off.
The latter. I suppose if you haven't had someone close to you pass away this is hard to understand, but often the last scrap of someone's voice is their outgoing "please leave a message" recording.
You probably didn't mean to reply to my post which is about the effect of savings and consumption on economic activity, but I'll address the points nonetheless.

Insurance companies who sell annuities are have credit ratings, and some have been around for quite a while. Metlife was founded in 1868, Prudential 1875, or of course Lloyd's of London 1688.

Mental health decline is of course a concern. If you trust your children, or a younger relative, it's a good idea to give them durable financial power of attorney ahead of time.

There's no disputing that a social security scheme, or a paternalistic compulsory saving scheme can decrease poverty in the elderly, especially if people are hyperbolic discounters, but it also has downsides.

1) There's a risk that a compulsory saving scheme can be nationalized by the government, as it happened in Argentina for instance.

2) In social security schemes, the money is typically invested but rather spent directly by the government. The hope being that the future tax base can pay for the liabilities. The model has proven unsustainable and eventually requires that government resort to inflation, fiddle with the retirement age, or cut benefits.

3) The money paid into and out of social security is controlled by the government, which gives it a lot of political power. Governments often use their money for nefarious purposes such as wars, cronyism, corruption, etc. Giving them more control can be a bad thing.

4) There are moral concerns with forcing people to participate in a financial scheme against their will.
Is three teens in two months really an epidemic? If these notes were passed around on paper, would they be blaming paper?

I think all the effort of this misguided article would be much better spent tackling transphobia rather than advocating we curtail free speech.
>whose private key is provided to the user

Just like the private keys in our SIM card, eh? https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heis...

That plan doesn't remove the threat, it just moves it: to the privacy of the private key.
Yeah, cause so many people would want/need to change the chrome default search :). Firefox fans, it would make more sense for you to preach how good FF is, rather than how you can make it suck less...

It is fascinating to watch you guys. You love Firefox OS because of its principles - even though it sucks. You love the Yahoo search engine even though it sucks. That is some religious zeal.

Downvotes from zealots incoming...
> Because the professors, department, and college cause it to happen. They choose to assign a $150 textbook instead of picking something else, they choose to likely get kickbacks from the publisher (e.g. free lesson materials, free teachers edition, free grading, etc) and they choose to ignore their duty as guardians to educational access. They're sellouts.

I'm offended ... I'm still waiting for my kickback from the publishers for the books I choose for my classes ... anyhow ...

If I choose that expensive textbook for my class, it's probably because I think you need the book even outside of my class.

Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest--"Introduction to Algorithms" is about $100. Yes, it's expensive, but it's an important book for your professional reference. A programmer better have a copy of that on the bookshelf.

And before you get too huffy about your lecturers, you might want to consider that anyone lecturing in your class who isn't full-time, tenure tack is probably getting about $5,000 for one class for the semester (I know this to be true for UCal system and Stanford). Given the amount of time it takes to teach, working at McDonald's probably pays better.
That's a very good point, still I worry about destroying, infiltratration, censoring these "bubbles". We don't know the stats of kids who were considering (or had resigned themselves to suicide) who then found such a bubble that gave them the support they needed to keep living. What I'm saying is the effort to stop this from happening may have worse consequences than doing nothing or rather working to fix the root issue instead of playing whack-a-mole when it is finally staring us in the face and we can't ignore it any longer (See: War on Drugs).
Getting on Point
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I did customize wmii default theme colour too. Twice falsified.
Why is this sad?

For independent comics creators, drawing the book then going to Kickstarter to handle pre-orders is a great thing. I've done it twice and will be doing it again soon; it's a great model that lets you generate some excitement around a book release, and maybe get some new fans as well. If you go to a comics convention, I can bet that a lot of the books you'll find being hawked by their creators were funded via Kickstarter, with roughly that model. You can only say "here is a pitch, give me lots of $$$ to spend a couple years making it" if you have one hell of a track record, and a huge fan base.
Is there a similar document for US-news (Covering responsible reporting for situations like this)?
Stenography for Programming
> On Chrome, non-technical people won't be able to change default search engine.

By design. Thanks Google.
What app do you use to read the books?
I'm curious how DuckDuckGo makes money. They don't charge us for search results, and they don't use our information to target ads. How do they make money to run their operations?
I'm glad they went with ePaper, but I think I'll hold off until the battery life has developed to be quite a bit better (lasts a few months on a single charge?). The biggest value prop to having information on a watch to me is that I never have to think about charging my watch so I can always rely on it having the information I need. I don't recall ever replacing a watch battery and I'm looking forward to when smartwatches reach that kind of longevity.

Considering my Kindle lasts over a month on a single charge, I'd be thrilled to have an e-ink watch that showed me a listing of notifications and the time that lasts just as long.
Yet those differences are, as you said, subtle, that is, very small. That means that, in the context of this article, there is no huge range of faces we can determine from genes, but the genes (when we know them) actually determine the face very very precisely as proved by identical-twin-resemblance. The predicted faces in the article are fuzzy not because environment has a great impact but because our knowledge of the genes that form our faces is still very limited.
Don't be so quick my dear, sometimes screenshots differ dramatically from what the user sees.
Is CSS really more popular than HTML5?
Interesting! Hadn't thought about the psychology of it all, but it rings true for me: when I'm reading a book, I seldom put it down every few minutes, like I do when reading the same book on a screen.
I agree with you. There are so few companies that support remote work that this is the biggest issues with working remotely.
ES6 gonna fix the little bit broken part of javascript.
Interested in testing out HTTP/2
What it is about our minds that make it so easy to imagine being up there, on the ledge, looking down, maybe with one foot over... and my palms are sweating heavily already.

It's a bit like having a child; I now spend nights worrying about the most ridiculous events that could happen to my daughter.

Why do our brains like to torture us like this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9098501
>I don't buy the argument that it was a coup. It was a mass protest which spiralled into a political crisis when Yanukovich disappeared, which could only be resolved by appointing an acting head of state and calling new elections.

thanks, the best spin i've seen. Yanukovich just decided to leave. At his own will. End of story.
And the first class action against...

You're driving it wrong!