skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has huge potential. I just saw the tutorial video and super excited. I don't know why I didn't think of this before, this could be the 'missing' piece of the front-end application puzzle. What I mean by that is that there are so much fragmentation in this landscape and a tool like this could eventually consolidate all the heterogeneous attempts by forcing others to adopt the same UI builder, and compete on that front.

The tool is shockingly reminiscent of early 2000s, where anyone could make software using VB. Recall that VB had everything done under the sun, somebody had built a component on VB, you could use that or you could hack it for your need. Another example is Google's Java Swing UI builder (as horrible Swing is), allowing data binding with the form. These never caught on but we now have this technology in the browser. Whoever owns the UI builder tool market will emerge as the victor, Facebook should hire you immediately.

There are several appealing points about the React UI builder which I think will help me:

- WYSIWYG editor to drop bootstrap component allows me to easily build from my mockup wireframes and save me from typing everything out.

- ability to edit the code directly for each component. Would be nice if I double clicked a button it would create a click event (just like visual studios or netbeans)

- ability to use html directly in the code (okay, feature of react which is a bit controversial but for me it definitely beats using + everywhere)

- generates clean, easy to understand plumbing code (this is what I spent a lot of time on when I used to build my swing tool https://github.com/jjk3/scrape-it-screen-scraper)

I been putting off learning react.js,flux and such but this actually entices me to use it for my next project (https://github.com/whatsdis/hedgehog). I will write up a follow up experience using the React UI builder, hopefully my feedback will be helpful to improve it.

You got something here. Keep at it!
The Uncanny Valley of Wearables
Also lol, Firefox is running this way faster than Google Chrome.
For a lighthearted introduction to many philosophical topics I can recommend the Youtube channel of "The School of Life".

https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel
The history of British slave ownership: now its scale can be revealed
I don't think anyone is arguing that the capability is missing, it's more that https://github.com/playnintendo/gba/tree/gh-pages/Binaries is an egregious violation of so many things
This is pretty amazing! And it works so smooth!
Using Google you can get past FT's paywall
How to Safely Generate Random Strings and Integers in PHP
Hi, thanks for this awesome feedback !!!

Generation of event handlers will be in the next release.

Thanks again. I appreciate your feedback very much.
From what I've heard, some of the larger cargo ships and oil tankers are big enough to carry the Empire State Building. And the Empire State Building is a lot bigger than any building I can think of in Colorado.

And besides, buildings just sit there. These big ships are moving machines that travel around the world. Much more impressive, IMO.
Yeah, same here - I was exploring this area last year in a few different ways [0]. I think it was still early then, but with GraphQL, DataScript, React Native, etc. I think we're really getting close to some very, very powerful tools for UI. A lot of the backend can be removed, and focus can go into the frontend (to some extent, obviously).

[0] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/412963/zenrise/zenrise_p...
Genetics as well play into the luck factor heavily
The point I take away from this is, how long is SSN going to be a super secret 11-digit pin for your life? Banking online, job forms, etc all use SSN and it gets thrown around everywhere. Are there any indicators that we're working on something a bit more modern for identification?
Can't click the buttons in Chrome on Win7

edit: solved by making browser window very wide
Graphics-resources
It's not sexist, it's just plain offensive.
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payment industry

http://goo.gl/Y6mhSh
New 3-D printing technique inspired by ‘Terminator 2​’
Privacytools.io sourcecode now on GitHub, send pull requests
Would that be covered under fair use, or not because the article wasn't about those songs themselves (as in, the author could have picked any song, not necessarily a commercial one?)
not blocking for me
This is great. One big reason that I'm so excited to see more tools like this is that they have the potential to make unit testing less annoying. Build your component and take snapshots of it in different states with different props. Convert that to a Jasmine (or something) spec automatically. This would take care of 90% of the UI unit tests that I write.
What about living in a society where guns are readily available, but with low gun violence? Presumably it's the gun violence that bothers you, not the availability of guns.
But Chrome extensions are easy to deconstruct. Just open the CRX file using 7Zip and read through the source code.

Your interview might have made them acutely aware that your extension exists and they may have either got a copy and looked their site's products to find issues or at least take care of the "low hanging fruit" examples you used.

So what occurred might have been as you say. And I suspect you didn't move forward on the interview process BECAUSE of your extension (i.e. they didn't want to muddy the waters in case Amazon's legal department wants to send you a C&D letter) but I don't think they needed to interview you to get intelligence on your extension (since any engineer worth their salt at Amazon could have told them the same thing, just by downloading a copy and reading).

It sucks that Amazon didn't see the value of your innovations and exploit them to make their site better. But their loss I guess...
static_assert(sizeof(DWORD) == sizeof(void*), "assume 32-bit pointers");
Amazing. Can anyone give a brief description of how this works? It looks like it's already down too. www.letsplaysnes.com/ also does the same thing it looks like.
Perhaps the maintainer of the legacy application can override operator new to use a custom memory allocator that uses a block of memory allocated below 4GB using VirtualAlloc.
Ask HN: How do MOOCs compare from an instructor perspective?
There are so many options in the MOOC space with Lynda, Coursera, Pluralsight, Udemy, Udacity, and so many others I'm probably not aware of.

I've been thinking for awhile about putting together some classes to submit to one of these (I've been doing live presentations and classes for a few years now), but I'm not sure how they all stack up with each other?

I've looked into Pluralsight and Udemy and it seems like Pluralsight has better revenue share rates, but they are also more prescriptive in how classes should be styled. Udemy takes a bigger cut, but it seems the instructor is free to do things their own preferred way.

I would love feedback from anyone who has experience creating content for any of these programs.
I would very much like to hear more about this.
Are you a 5' 5" woman who was handed a gun to protect herself against someone likely to over power them?

Or are you someone who was personally offended by the generalization that they might be in the group of people, considered Normal Humans, who don't handle life-threatening situations like a person in the special forces?
Cool! Couldn't find any way to skip the long demos on some of the games :/
isnt driving on the left (with the driver sitting on the right) the better way of driving ?
because the hand that you use to change the stickshift/gear.. or change the radio ... or pick your coffee is the left hand. Which for most of the population is their weaker hand ?
Senators: We Want FCC Investigation of “Ridiculous” Cable and Internet Prices
Stprogress.js
Advice for a First-time new startup advisor?
Hey HH community,

I'm an experienced data scientist in the NYC area who was recently offered an advisor position with a fashion startup that's doing very well. They want to bring me along to help advise the growth of the data science initiatives / the data science team, and they're currently working out the typical 0.25% advisor equity arrangement.

I'm absolutely new to advising startups, and while I'm very excited (and a little nervous!), I wanted to get your words of wisdom on how to be a good advisor. Some particular questions:

(1) What should I be expected to do as an advisor, and how can I tell when the tasks are too much for my role?

(2) We're in the midst of hiring data scientists. After growing that team / bringing on experts / etc, how can I continue to contribute value, if the people we hired have more industry/technical experience than I do? (which seems like a good situation for the startup, in my limited experience)

I'd really appreciate any tidbits of advice. Thanks!
Then make yourself the Postmaster General! Who knows, the idea might catch on :-)
Sorry but this is nothing like the 2015 election. Tories won with 36.9% because the other parties got even less (30.4%, 12.6%). Even with proportional representation they would have "won" and probably would have formed a majority coalition government with LibDems/UKIP and co.
Who enabled Wall St?
or save... looks like you can't do that either
> maybe there is an evolutionary reason that a strong and weak pair produce better results.

It makes sense for some things. Perhaps the human vision system uses one eye to provide certain hints about precise alignment, in the same way that you close one eye when aiming a gun because you need to align the sights.
Google removes the largest Russian app VK from its Playstore
but the email ID he used to register at Twitter is also one of resources associated with his account and can be accessed as Twitter Data?

(beginner here, trying to understand why not use OAuth for Identification/Authentication)
Commercial impetus and residential harmony
If my political stand doesn't alleviate suffering, then it deserves to lose.
At SeatGeek, we use Lastpass. I don't personally know what it costs - yes, I'm a lazy operations person - but it seems like it might be $24 per person at our size[1].

I personally use 1Password and if it had group password sharing, I would be lobbying to switch every day of the fucking week. The lastpass interface is confusing, slow, and ugly (I've beens spoiled by the spit and polish we've built). $8 per person compared to what we may be paying now seems very small, so it's probably not unreasonable (to be fair, enterprise pricing is hella weird).

- [1] https://lastpass.com/enterprise/pricing-roi/
If the average developer's time is worth $60 an hour, then it would only have to save 4 - 8 minutes per month for it to be worth it, or 10 seconds a day.
Scientists Want to Rebuild Tesla Tower to Solve World's Energy Crisis
Google Maps urged to remove Chinese reference to shoal
>Sociological privilege often refers to constant and immutable characteristics that cannot be taken away, and moreover makes the value judgment that the group with privilege is bad, and that said privilege must be abolished.

Privilege is no more or less than a source of cognitive bias in political opinions.

"I support drone assassinations because they make the world a safer place" is an understandable thing to say as a white guy in Iowa, but comes from a place of privilege: said white guy in Iowa probably does not understand or even consider the realities of living in constant fear of summary execution from the sky with no warning, has never seen a friend lose his children because they were within the blast radius of someone on the kill list.

No one is suggesting that we sic the drones on white guys in Iowa too out of some ridiculous idea of fairness. What we are suggesting is that his opinion is wrong, and should be excluded from American foreign policy, because when you remove the lens of privilege, drone assassinations stop looking like a good thing.

"I oppose welfare because if those poor people weren't lazy, they would have jobs" is a reasonable thing to say when the only world you know is one where your parents' friends offer you jobs and internships at dinner parties. This comes from a position of privilege: unemployment predominantly affects people of color in poor inner-city communities where people do not have such social networks, have in been deliberately excluded from those social networks, in a world where having a Black-sounding name on your resume makes you many times less likely to get the interview. (It is entirely possible to rationally oppose welfare on other grounds: poor incentive structures, support for alternatives like public works projects instead, ideological commitment to the free market, etc. But specifically the claim that poverty is a personal failure of character, unambiguously comes from privilege and is therefore not correct.)

When someone makes this argument and we call them privileged, we aren't asking for them to get laid off, we're arguing that their idea of social policy is immoral and people who believe it ought not to be voted into positions of control over government budgets.

tl;dr: privilege isn't why you're evil, but it is why your opinion is wrong
If the shoulders are the problem (because they are the widest part of the body) why not putting every other row slightly ahead? Or slightly rotate the chairs from the side rows outward?
The Droid brand is Verizon's. It just so happens that the most famous Droid branded phones, including the original, were manufactured by Motorola. I'm of the opinion that all Android phones on Verizon are terrible, Droid or otherwise, and have learned to stay away despite their superior network.
I don't think moral realism / moral universalism would claim that whether something is morally ok depends on where (I.e. in what community) it is. Instead, I think "considered morally acceptable" might be an alternate phrasing which doesn't say (much of) anything about meta-ethics.
Seems a bit silly.
Actually isn't it the stronger arm, while your dominant hand has finer motor control? Which means you want you left hand to control the left/right of the steering wheel and the right hand to fiddle with the smaller knobs and buttons.
The power of focusing on a small market
> Why use OAuth unless you want to grant 3rd parties access to your services data, on behalf of your customers?

Can you explain me this? How Google will be able to access my service data?
i've had that problem too. All my contacts received a spoofed message yesterday.
Daniel Tammet has some pretty impressive synaesthetic abilities. From Born on a Blue Day:

> I never write anything down when I'm calculating, because I've always been able to do the sums in my head and it's much easier for me to visualise the answer using my synaesthetic shapes than to try to follow the `carry the one' techniques taught in textbooks we are given at school. When multiplying, I see the two numbers as distinct shapes. This image changes and a third shape emerges --- the correct answer. The process takes a matter of seconds and happens spontaneously. It's like doing maths without having to think.

> [...] I'm multiplying 53 by 131. I see both numbers as a unique shape and locate each spatially opposite the other. The space created between the two shapes creates a third, which I perceive as a new number: 6943, the solution to the sum. [sic]
I think, even Django also has most of this stuff.
Long was not 64 bits? This is why C standard has stdint.h which typedefs numeric types of specific length (for 64 bit integers use int64_t, etc). It seems Visual Studio also has it nowadays https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh874765.aspx.
I don't think that first thing follows from what they said.

"If there is suffering, and none of it matters, then nothing means anything" does not seem to imply "if there is no suffering, nothing matters".

Their claim does not seem to imply that all meaning eventually derives from suffering. Only that either some suffering matters, or nothing matters.

It also doesn't seem to imply that if there was no suffering that the statement would still apply?

I think?
I wanted the data in a form I could easily query, so I wrote a program to convert the JSON to an SQLite database: https://gist.github.com/ers35/3b615a75fa0ed5e6d5cc

I have the program running on Amazon EC2 right now converting the whole dataset. I plan to upload the database to the Internet Archive when it completes.
Thank u very much! The article is very useful for me, I translated it into Chinese.
here http://codecloud.net/2015-web-app-4932.html
What does he mean fight-or-flight mechanisms? I've worn a watch for a long time and I've never had the thought that it was a "fight-or-flight mechanism". He makes it sound like he's comparing wearable tech to ninja stars strapped to your wrists. As to which one is cooler is obvious to us all.
I don't know about the others, but at least both QNX and Minix3 cheated a little, i.e. allowing servers to write directly to other user space programs.

Also, the presence of microkernel+multiserver systems is still quite symbolic in comparison with the monolithic couterparts.
Looks similar to fzf[1], which is also written in Go.

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
>is tantamount to saying that they're a bad person and they should feel bad

What makes you (hypothetically) a bad person is having privilege and supporting policy which benefits the privileged at the expense of the unprivileged. The blame is assigned not for being a member of a privileged class, but for forming and acting on political opinions (including acceptance of the status quo) based on that privilege.

People who use privilege as an argument aren't asking you to be ashamed of being white, they're asking you to be ashamed of being conservative.
Can such condition be improved to a certain degree? I mean whether there are some measures can be taken to help.
http://www.creative-biolabs.com/
Literally none of those quotes make any sense. Can you explain them?
As someone with a tech startup in Europe:

1. Europeans are more risk averse, and there is not the same entrepreneurial spirit.

2. You're comparing it with the home of tech and startups so it's not going to compare well. More of a question would be why does the US generate more fast-growing tech startups than the whole world put together.

3. European investors are comically small-minded, stingy and don't have much cash to use.
Firefox user on OS X reporting in. Super Mario Advance 4 caused a kernel panic within 60 seconds and force-rebooted my laptop. I was resizing the window while the emulation was taking place which may have been a factor.
Yeah, I misspoke "argument". It's odd that he doesn't actually articulate the "increasing returns" argument. It's that better technology enables you to see and do better (smaller, larger, faster, purer; whatever your trajectory). Knowing more gives you awareness of more avenues; more people (population) working on it (not needed for the basics of food, shelter etc) enables exploration of those avenues. But most of all, better technology, tools, methods give faster iteration. Because trial-and-error is how we explore unknowns.

Of course, all of that is about discovery - and pre-conditioned on there being something useful to discover. Whether there is or not is necessarily a matter of faith... since, by definition, we don't know. Historicaly it's turned out that way, but rephrasing you, past performance is no guarantee of future performance.

Personally, I see Chaitin's work as showing that there is infinite pattern; and with infinity, some of it is bound to be useful. It's a matter of finding it.

Of course, in the present case we already have a proof by existence that better technology is there to be discovered: you.
C:\con\con anybody remebering this?
This reminds me of Peter Thiel's idea of "indefinite optimism": we've been spoiled by a recent history of frequent cutting-edge innovation, so we assume that it will continue despite having no idea of the shape it will take. The key here is recent history -- humanity has only been advancing at its current breakneck pace for a few generations. Technological stagnation is more the normal mode.

I think we should consider the possibility that growth in processing power will level out at least for a while. There are some interesting research avenues which may yet bear fruit, but there's no guarantee that some miraculous scientific breakthrough will appear just in time to salvage exponential growth. "Moore's Law" is not some fundamental law of the universe.
Hey @ipselon - I'd love to get in touch and chat about this. I can't find your email in your HN profile; any chance you can contact me via vlad [at] webflow [dot] com? Thanks!
It's not Neil's beliefs on politics that people care about. Instead, we care when he makes statements about the field of physics. Not a phenomena, but the field itself. It's because those statements can be incredibly useful to a lay audience.

Imagine hearing this claim: "Most psychologists nowadays use cognitive behavioral therapy, or some kind of statistically-backed similar therapy involving cognitive work, while psychodynamic approaches have almost all but died except in southern California."

This doesn't make a claim about psychological phenomena. Instead this is a claim about the field of psychology. And it's incredibly useful because you don't have to understand the merits of one therapeutic approach over another. Just by hearing about trends of expert behavior, you can develop useful guesses.

If I heard that a dental procedure had fallen out of favor among dentists, I would use that information. As a layperson, I don't need to know about the technicalities of some dental procedure. And I am quite aware that experts can talk me into any way they want. What I want to hear is a representation on the field of dentistry.

I think it is THIS function that we want out of an expert scientific journalist or propagator. We should want someone who can represent the temperature of the field, as opposed to merely making a claim on a phenomena. I trust Neil to say that "most physicists believe X" without spin or deceit.
I'm so excited with the technology coming out of facebook right now, imo it's the best possible way they can attract new developers. I can't wait for react native to come out for android so I can start playing with it!

I really think this has the potential to be something of a game changer. One of my pet favorite libraries is sqlAlchemy (python ORM) and I really want to write a server for graphql that automatically generates api routes for a sqlalchemy mapped schema!
Ask HN: Realistic to apply for tech jobs as an undergrad in another country?
I did SAT and AP in high school. However due to various factors I'm finishing my undergrad education in Hong Kong(I myself am not Hongkongese). I really don't see much point in doing a master's degree just for the sake of getting a job, not to mention the high tuition fee. I have decent experience in Ruby on Rails, having done programming job over a year for a startup, and also having built a web app on my own. I contribute to some open source projects and follow Hacker News regularly.

I don't know how difficult it would be for an undergrad from another country to get a job in places where programmers are highly remunerated. For a starter, you can hardly interview on-site. And from what I see, H1B visas are hard for smaller-sized companies to sponsor. I do hear somebody got hired by Google via some recruiting event they hosted outside of US, but that guy was an ACM-ICPC finalist. I don't know much about situations with smaller companies though. On the other hand, US-related information pretty much still dominate sites I usually go to, therefore employment situations in other countries such as Canada, Australia and Germany are less clear to me. It seems that people are crowding into the US in part because of its reputation in IT, but what about those other options out there.
Isn't it $24 for a year of subscription?