skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. It's an interesting plan. Actually what's interesting is these ideas coming out of Microsoft now that Bill Gates is back on the clock. He's very smart, and in his age I've come to respect him as a person. This leads me to wondering: Would I use a future, open-source version of Windows? Perhaps. I suppose it depends on how many more systemd-like force-feedings we will have to endure from the power players in the Linux community. We certainly live in interesting times.
All right. What you don't want to do is increase artificial light intensity. A big part of the issue is the light spectrum and distribution of it. There is a pretty easy way to test / verify this, if you have an eye chart handy. Compare your acuity in outdoor, shaded light, to a solely fluorescent lit environment. Once you get to where you can barely make out the line, note the difference in acuity natural vs. artificial light.

Also, the minus lens creates focal plane stimulus inside the eye that prompts axial elongation. Lots of studies on this subject, it's basically uncontested. What you really don't want to be doing is wear a lens that gives you sharp distance vision, while working up close. You want to have a specific reduced prescription for close-up, that just gives you correction to the distance you need.

Breaks, also. Initial myopia is a ciliary (focusing muscle) spasm. Lots of studies there too, look for pseudo myopia or NITM (near induced transient myopia). Part of your current deficiency is ciliary, part is axial elongation. Take an hour break every three hours. Get outside. Focus at a distance. Your ciliary muscle isn't meant to be all tensed up (close-up use) all day.

For more on the subject, take a look at www.frauenfeldclinic.com, those guys are fairly awesome.
Why do you regret NCSU? Undergrad or Grad?

Make the most of your opportunities. Plenty of people I know from NCSU went to grad school at top institutions or to work at Google, MSFT, etc
The 4k screen thing barely plays a role here.

The real discussion is about bijections and infinite sets.
One thing the OP missed is the fact that Tokyo Skytree is also a broadcast tower. Just a bit better on the aesthetics than the American ones.
You can combine perfect hashing with string compression (Huffman, prefix tries) and de-duplication techniques to vastly improve memory usage for a wide variety of use cases. DiscoDB does this to good effect (http://discodb.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).
Which means you weren't one of today's 10,000 (when it comes to xkcd)
Given that these are people who put significant amounts of money at risk in unregulated and outright illegal businesses; you may be making unwarranted assumptions about their intelligence and operational security.
Kaisu. She's a bit nutty perhaps, but knows what she is talking about. Only works before you start to get into more than pseudo myopia (since at that point you just can't see anything with a plus lens).
GAE or Parse for first app?
See gettingstronger.org, frauenfeldclinic.com, myopia.org, etc. Absolutely reversible. No economic benefit. How is it going to be popular if there's nothing to sell? :) Pills, more pills, that's how most non-acute conditions are dealt with.
Getting people to respond to your emails
Oh boy. Go on scholar.google.com and search for "lens-induced myopia", "axial elongation eyeball", "near induced transient myopia", "pseudo myopia". How myopia happens has already been figured out, hundreds of times over, over the past 4 decades. It's in the major ophthalmology journals at least a few times a year. Researching what caused myopia, low light, just plain silly in 2015. ;-)
No, the whole point is that even what innocent people say can screw them later. And I agree with this!
Also of note for those new to Pope Hat, Ken White is a former Federal Prosecutor. His perspective from both sides of federal law makes for some interesting posts.
Even though this sounds plausible, it's actually false. The counterxample is the first uncountable ordinal ω₁ [1], viewed as a well-ordered set (and thus a fortiori totally ordered). For every a,b in ω₁, the closed interval [a,b] is countable (by definition), but ω₁ itself is not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_uncountable_ordinal
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"the situation regarding border crossings and the TSA is more thorny"

Since the TSA is fishing on behalf of local cops' revenue raising operations more and more and the CIS has become the state's lever to repeal the Fourth, it seems like we need a lot more information about TSA and borders than how to say no to regular cops.

But I don't see much about it online. And the law seems unsettled, so it should be even more discussed.

In particular, Customs and TSA are more and more taking smartphones and laptops and using them and their stored passwords to get access to personal and business online data stores to plant long term monitoring and download personal data from all your customers. Immigration is asking me a lot more personal questions and apparently recording the answers whenever I cross the border.
Ah, if you're looking for insights, I may not have too many of those. It was a long time ago! But let me see what I can remember.

The big thing about VB is the obvious one: it was really easy to get started using it, and despite the flaws in the visual environment and the language itself, it was good enough to get things done.

In fact, Basic was a lot better than the language we were originally going to put in, which was barely more than a glorified batch language (and not even as powerful as .bat).

The idea we had at the beginning was that you'd drag an arrow on the screen from one component to another, signifying that an event triggered on the first component would make an action happen on the other. This is where the phrase "fire an event" came from: I was looking for a verb for this, and "trigger" didn't sound right. I was frustrated and had a bunch of rubber bands on the table, so I started firing them at the screen. That didn't help. So I fired up a doobie, and between flicking the lighter and firing the rubber bands, "fire an event" seemed like the phrase to use.

What worked well in VBX? Well again it was fairly simple to use and easy for people to make extensions with. The big disaster was that it was pretty much tied into the Win16 programming model, so when Windows moved to 32 bits, VBX wasn't going to cut it and Microsoft developed OCX to replace it.
Ask HN: Predictions on the announcement from Tesla?
regardig range anxiety. Any guesses on what they are going to announce??
This kind of silliness is why I ignore philosophers whenever I can.

It is clear that the subject of how we personally experience X is not, strictly speaking, part of the body of knowledge about X. But the reverse is also true. Learning more about how we personally experience X does not increase our understanding of X. It is a different topic.

There is an important asterisk on this. And that is that we actually learn about things through our subjective experience. And therefore understanding our subjective experience can be necessary to get clear understanding of that thing.

This is true in a very literal way. "How long did that take?" If you give three people a stopwatch and have them record a common event, you will get 3 answers. And the answers will be consistently different in similar ways. In astronomy this phenomena is well-known as your personal equation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_equation for verfication.

But now I return you to philosophers arguing that something obvious is something deep that has consequences that it really does not...
I'm already a fan because of @ericflo.
Spain also has nearly 2x the average rainfall of California. Rainfall in California is also mostly concentrated in places where we're not growing almonds - I don't know if that's true of Spain.
On December 10, 1989, two of these 2,000 towers collapsed near Raleigh, NC. It was as the ice was melting after a really bad ice storm.

Pictures of the aftermath: http://www.oldradio.com/archives/warstories/WRAL.htm
Put yourself in the shoes of a federal agent investigating a crime. Crimes happen all the time; they're commmitted by people who then try very hard to hide what they did.

So a criminal investigator is going to treat everyone they interview with suspicion from the start. That suspicion is not a personal failing any more than a software QA tester who doesn't trust the latest build. It's inherent in that type of job.

And investigators only have certain tools that they can use in order to find the criminals who are lying to them. If they get information the wrong way, even if it is accurate information about a real crime, it will be ruled inadmissable and the criminal will get away.

A big tool they have is relationships. If they can get one person in a criminal network to cooperate, then they can try to traverse the network and find the other criminals. Since criminals rarely want to cooperate with law enforcement, they use "gotcha" type tools to compel cooperation--like the false statement trap. They just need a little leverage on the person to get going.
But only if you lie during that conversation.

Edit: this is literally what happens in Ken's hypothetical story. If the subject didn't lie about the phone call, they couldn't be charged with a false statement.
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I think Daniel Dennett nailed it.
"it's this behavior that reinforces"

It's a mild reenforcement but the root reason to fear and not cooperate with the police is the same as ever. When most police resources in the USA are focused on drug enforcement and most Americans have committed federal felonies they don't think they should be incarcerated for and most underclass young men are committing them routinely, you can't expect crime ridden communities to see the police as any kind of blessing.
"the 'browner' people of Argentina"

Argentina has a much larger fraction of "white" people than Brazil, right?
I came across Visual Basic when Access 1.0 hit Office Depot for $99. Of course in the preWeb trying to learn VB on top of Database design in my spare time wasn't all that successful. But I still remember my wonderment at the ease with which the pieces went together. The drag and drop design paradigm for interfaces is near ubiquitous.

Reading an article like this and hitting the comment link and anticipating meeting one of the developers is, for me, what makes HN so amazing.
Best practice is to always add [async] or [defer] attributes.
Document location will always be a hint to the browser, but you shouldn't toss it in the head if you don't need it till later.
"heavier: this.button.on" has ambiguous semantics. Do libraries really use this pattern?

Also, use of the "new" keyword is contentious. You can hardly pretend that it is best practice.
The argument seems to assume that "knowledge" is some sort of indivisible base class. "Knowledge" is shorthand for memories, compressed sensory input videos (plus smell, touch, and taste) of finite length in the brain. You can remember facts (beliefs, really) about wavelengths, and also the experience (believed experience, really) of sight. Not sure what there is to write a book about.

These philosophers seem to think that humans matter a lot more than those who "subscribe" to physicalism (if you can call believing in the least extraordinary option "subscribing") do. I don't care about all of those "the book is red" koans; "red" is just a word, and words are invented, primarily for convenience.

The only thing I find a bit hard to get from physicalism is why one's locus of consciousness happens to be in the brain that it is in. If the time I come into the world as a baby is "random", what "makes" it random?
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I wish they would have used an SVG.
Your argument does not rest on most cops being good cops, it stands if some cops are good cops. So why throw in an assertion you can't back up?
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I'm a fan of CMake for C++ as well, but have also worked on projects that included C++, C++/CLI, and C# and unfortunately CMake support for .NET projects is close to non-existent (there is some, but it's woefully inadequate). I managed to get it to work, but in a very non CMake way (basically generating the .csproj files by replacing variables within the XML with the appropriate value).

As for MSBuild and VS - I thought that Visual Studio actually compiles things with devenv.exe, rather than MSBuild. I remember working on a project where I was trying to set up Jenkins CI to build our projects and MSBuild wouldn't work (because the environment wasn't set up correctly), but using devenv.exe instead worked perfectly.
While reading this, did anyone else realize that this is basically formatted like a white paper, but made to be far more approachable? It reminds me a bit of this[0] presentation from Bret Victor.

[0]: http://worrydream.com/#!/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable
I've wanted to scratch this itch for years and keep putting it off. Your desires don't look too far off from mine. (I do want a relational database-based index, and I'm fine having encryption handled by the filesystem.)

For now I've been scanning the documents and storing the paper copies in boxes in the order they were scanned. My eventual hope is to import the scans into the mythical document management system, categorize the documents, then go back thru the boxes destroying any items that I don't absolutely need on paper.
Actually no, because for it to be systematic there must be enough cases to be noticeable, and also they must pass all aptitude tests, and sometimes that puts some people in disadvantage: for example if one of the test for a new position is heavy lifting men will be the majority of the ones being selected, you can call it discrimination but is the same way choosing only people with computer degrees is discrimination.
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Do these people not see how easy they have it? I am pretty sure no one would hire me at Mozilla with just php experience then get an interview with y-combinator without a product. I'm guessing he went to Stanford or some other Ivy League.
StackOverflow's VBX tag only has three questions. I guess that means it must be near to perfect...
Ask HN: Startup is about to be shut down. What options do employees have?
I am an engineer at a start-up that has raised ~$5M over around 6 years, but has now run out of money.

I realize it's impossible to give advice without particulars, but... What are my options? There are 3 other engineers which great domain knowledge, and we are thinking of starting a new company to spin out a product related to what we've been doing. However, we have a lot of questions.

What avenues should we be exploring?
i treat rdio like a collection of full length previews that allow me to discover a lot of new music. stuff i like gets my money for tickets, merch and vinyl. i do not understand why anyone would pay $10 a month to listen to the same shit they have on their ipod.
It looks like a logical next step is to store the optimized and compiled code. And after that, you can perform more aggressive optimizations on frequently-accessed scripts.
For the love of FSM, please don't call your library "phash". "phash" is already in wide use for "perceptual hash", or the hashing mechanisms used for things like fuzzy image searching.
Note that, at least in the Argentinian custom, you do not simply reach over and grab the mate. You are in a round and get offered the mate by the guy pouring hot water in it. After you sip the water, you return the mate, the guy pours more hot water, and offers it to the next person in the round.
> screen potential tenants via social media

How is that not inviting a discrimination lawsuit?
The Scientific Case for Cold Showers
Slightly off topic but: I actually did bail out when I saw the math warning. I had enough of math and infinities in college and just am not curious right now. Still, I think it's very interesting how he tailored his blog post to two audiences: first a general tech/designer audience, and then a second math-oriented audience. Makes me thing how maybe in the future we can have dynamic content like a Wikipedia article about a computer science topic that gets more specific the more programatically/academically inclined the audience is. (As to how you could identify this, one example is adsense, but users might be able to fill in or identify their interests themselves) You can't really make something that fits everyone's purpose perfectly, but it would be a first good step.
Calling someone a "prick" on multiple websites, as you have done, is massively rude.

The fact that your nasty comment here got upvoted rather than flagged to death is really sad.
It doesn't negate the validity of wanting compensation for Spotify plays. Not being on a music service is one way to let your listeners know that the system is fucked and maybe make it change.
I also tried Moves and found it really bad if you're actually interested in accurate tracking your location. Runkeeper and Strava seem to use a lot of power because it's GPS only. Is there a GPS+celltower combo app you've found? I found GPSLogger for Android tries both GPS and cell tower, and stops when one of them returns with an accurate enough coordinate. So it gets amazing accuracy and uses very little power at the same time, since 95% of the time it uses cell tower.
This series of comments is absolutely disgusting.
I agree with most of what you've said, except for it being light years ahead of Delphi. I used both tools extensively in both a hobbyist and professional capacity from 1997 onward (VB 5, Delphi 3) and I couldn't say that one tool was significantly ahead of the other. They were both hugely similar and fantastic for rapid development. In fact I'd go so far as to say I preferred Delphi as its database capabilities were better (at least, in my experience) and I liked not having to package my software with a set of run-times. Although the latter was more important to the hobbyist side of me. Commercially, demanding a client had the required VB run-time files was no problem.
He went to http://www.rit.edu/ but I'm not sure where that fits on your exclusivity scale
yeah if the pages stored hashes of the script, it could be pre-executed before you even visit the page. or common libs like jquery could be pre-parsed into binary structs in RAM.
Sorry, but I just wonder wouldn't this pointer to self structure prevent garbage collection?
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> Iron democratized violence compared to the bronze age

Could you expand on this? If I have the resources to make an iron sword and you don’t, I can cut your bronze spearhead like butter. That doesn’t seem particularly democratic.
You asserted that it was "dangerous" for him to bandy around such statements.

Care to back up that assertion?

"Unnecessary" and "dangerous" are quite different.
So ... what, be honest and incriminate yourself?

No. LAWYER UP AND SHUT UP.
People committing to gcc probably have workflows that predate github. I think there are many "forks" that are just done as fixes on a local machine then sent directly as a patch.
I think the followup at the end is wrong, unless I'm misreading. Originally all lines at coordinates k/2^n were drawn and the points not on those lines form an uncountable set (also, between any two points a line we drew is separating them). Then at the end the intermediate representations are counted, which is a completely different thing. An infinite binary tree has countably many nodes and uncountably many paths, yes. The article was fine the way it was.
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My point was that he's making it seem like this happens a lot without actually quantifying it. It seems misleading to me.
If Hemingway Wrote JS: Explained
"Jeepers, another stupid newsreel! I hate the news!"

-- Roger Rabbit
Which you may be deliberately manipulated into.
They play that card as a matter of course, because once they've got you for felony false statement, that's leverage to get you to play ball on the real reason they were talking to you in the first place.

"That's a nice, felony conviction-free life you've got there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it..."
I use GAE. For the most part it's quite good, but there are these hidden critical flaws littered through it that most people won't run into until they're already heavily invested. If it weren't for them, it would be fantastic. The fact that they have existed for so long without being addressed makes me nervous about GAE's future, but my understanding is that Google are compelled to provide the service for at least 12 months following any announcement to discontinue it.

Examples:

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8...
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The problem is it's all speculation. We don't have any hard numbers to tell us how any given revenue split policy would affect payouts to different artists. My instinct (and I'm the Co-Founder of a streaming service that does revenue share FWIW) is that the reason so little is paid is because there are just a lot of streams period, and changing the algorithm around to try to make it "more fair" might shift the distribution a bit, but it won't really move the needle for anyone. The fact is that when people had to buy music they were spending a lot more on it than they do on Spotify for the same quantity. It's just like Netflix vs cable—you can play shell games all day long, but the minute you go to raise the price from $9.99 to $11.99 the entire customer base flips their lid. So you'll never monetize like you could in the past, and this is a permanent change because there is no limit on supply anymore.
It is pretty hard to cache optimized JavaScript, I've been told, due to the generated code containing inline caches and other tricks. But at least in some cases it is possible, for example Firefox has had persistent code caching of asm.js content for a while now, https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2014/01/14/asm-js-aot-compilat... , which is the actual fully-optimized machine code.
Just to summarize the article:

People doing a "non physical" experiment, while using physical proof methods.

This is scientific comedy at its finest, people.
A 1:1 ratio isn't a "goal", it's how things statistically would be, in any field with a large enough population, when biological sex becomes as socio-economically significant as shoe size. That is with the possible exception of any fields that directly involve biological sex differences, but we don't even have a definite answer that there are any of those.
This is fundamentally wrong and very poorly described. All this unusual article amounts to is "you can rotate things." A planet is not a 3d projection of a 4d object. Space itself contains at least four spatial dimensions but it is not shaped like a hypersphere around every star that a planet revolves around.
Typical 'let me mock this because hating on MS on HN is cool'

Can you name one build system that people like, and concretely compare how its better than MSBuild, please? Once you do that, please feel free to omit the perfunctory thank you to look unbiased.

Also, this would now be community developed, let me know your github handle and I'll see what contributions you made to make it better (oh wait, that would require actual work and give you 0 internet points)
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."
— Cardinal Richelieu
yeah, s/he missed the point (if you like what you're doing, then great!) and got their feelings hurt. i went super one-sided on purpose. more fundamentally i am simply trying to remind people that life is about what you spend your time doing, and whether or not you enjoy that. don't sacrifice your life for goals, they slip away as soon as you grasp them like sand in your fingers, giving you no fulfillment. focus on making your present as nice as possible.