skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here, willing to take questions on this. The post is intentionally made very simple, but if there are questions about the subtle details, glad to help out!
The Art of Video Game Photography
Real-World Hashtags on Twitter: Do You Surf Tags? Do You Use Keywords?
FWIW, if you're interested in this subject, the best reference is Jobst Brandt's "The Bicycle Wheel". It's been out for 30 years or so, but it's still the best reference.

Past that, you might want to look at Timeshenko and Geere's "Theory of Elastic Stability", but you'd need a good university library for that one.
> Lots of C code that looks fine can be sped up by 12x by rearranging memory access, and by 50x using SIMD.

Any recommended papers on this topic?
ah, I remember that - that's when I more or less stopped commenting. I still think it was a really bad move.
Stock photos of real science is hard, it's easier to put someone standing at the side of the equipment they use in the real scientific work.

For experimental physics I like the photos of optical tables ( https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=optical+tables+lase... ) and the racks with a lot of electronic equipment ( https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=physics+laboratory+... skip the first 10 images). They look like something you may find in a real laboratory.

Theoretical physics is harder, they look like normal people (i.e. mathematicians) until they start to talk about the real word. I prefer to discuss writing in paper, but for a photograph the only sensible solution is to write a bunch of slightly related equations in a blackboard.

(And there are many other science branches. For Geology you may put someone with a bunch of rocks, but I don't know a real geologist so it may be not a representative image.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080610175916/http://news.ycomb...

Some interesting things on mine:

Does Apple's Steve Jobs have cancer again? (alleyinsider.com)

https://web.archive.org/web/20080610175916/http://www.alleyi...

Toyota Announces New 516-Mile Range Fuel-Cell/Electric Hybrid

https://web.archive.org/web/20080611123133/http://gas2.org/2...

Interesting to note how HN has grown since then. Much more people on, though content has stayed similar.

In retrospect Jobs did still have cancer, and the Toyota hybrid was not much of a game changer.
They're businesses though; not rights organizations. Those billions of pounds would also be on them.

Google at least has allowed backdooring before with PRISM, and probably will again in the future.
Relevant anecdote: I used to do some programming for my job, and have an incredible vocabulary and am fluent in Chinese; I'm extremely "smart". But, sbout a year and a half ago, I was in a terrible motorcycle accident in which I was knocked off by an SUV and went into a coma, suffering a massive amount of neural damage to various areas all around my brain. Unfortunately, because of this brain damage, it is now incredibly difficult for me to learn some new things (specifically the logistical complexities involved in programming or advanced math/physics, for example). Also, my short-term memory is now awful. Many a time, in recent months, I've figured out how to do some kind of little software trick on my PC or phone, but then I'll forget how I did it, and have to spend hours re-learning it. Am I not "smart" anymore? Conclusion: sometimes how you appear and the things you say can't completely represent one's capabilities. "Smart" is a very broad, and possibly ambiguous term.
The point is to get those 64 million people to tell the one idiot to stop being an idiot.
Anglo-French Supreme War Council Plans to Attack Soviet Union(1940)
I think JS in the browser is a great way to start developing these days. The setup is close to zero (a script tag), the dev/build/deploy cycle amounts to saving the file and reloading the browser, and the language itself, while far from perfect, is quite typical of many widely used C-type languages. I'd say this is probably the optimal environment for someone looking to learn programming.

On the server, something like PHP is so ubiquitous, that even though the dev/build/deploy cycle is a little more complicated because it involves a server, it's still a good candidate. With preset stacks like XAMPP/MAMP, all the user has to do is write some code and upload the file to the right place and reload their browser. I think that can be manged. True, the beginner will not know about servers and things like that initially, but that knowledge is not essential or even important to starting out.

I think the big reason for suggesting web development to beginners is interpreters and their ecosystem. Learning an interpreted language is much easier, IMO, for beginners than JIT or AOT compiled languages because the tool chains dev/build/deploy are simpler and many times invisible to the user. Web development does use a lot of interpreted languages. Finally, getting real results on the screen is huge. Showing people they can build real things with only a few lines of code is very powerful and something that is much more powerful in a graphical web environment than on the command line. In web development, the product is graphical by nature, so that is also a huge plus.
I'd say that they're the same issue -- whether the state can honor expensive obligations that a lot of people are depending on -- and that distinguishing them is pedantry. ("Oh, see, it wouldn't technically be reneging on a debt.")

When someone brings up the figure, the point is, "hey, there is a huge bill coming due, and not paying it would screw over a lot of people". When you dismiss that on the grounds that:

- We can just not pay it

- We can debase its real value

- It wouldn't be a default in the legal sense

then you are not addressing the core point. I don't see how someone can read your post and say, "oh, I guess I don't have to worry about this anymore", and if your post is not arguing to that effect, then I'm not sure what it adds to the discussion. At most, you're just saying, "you shouldn't totally freak out because the figure is just $60 trillion."

Let's assume for a minute that Illinois did have legal recourse -- say, but implementing a special tax on pensions. Would you feel any better? I wouldn't; someone is still getting screwed, the situation is still bad.
RESTArt: A Python library with good intentions for building REST APIs
Huh, I joined the day MegaUpload went down. I don't remember, but I expect that those are probably related.
BetterPrivacy to manage Flash Cookies

Cookie Monster to manage regular cookies

HTTPS Everywhere

DNSSEC/TLSA Validator

RequestPolicy Continued to control third-party requests

NoScript for selectively allowing first-party JS, and keeping third-party scripts blocked when other third-party requests are allowed through RequestPolicy, and for its other always-on features like XSS protection, permanently forcing encryption for cookies set over HTTPS, etc.

µMatrix has apparently been available for Firefox for a few months now, and is probably a viable substitute for RequestPolicy, but not a complete replacement for NoScript.
Feature toggles are a good option too; I have used that before and like it. The downside is that you can end up with a giant set of feature toggles and very little idea of which combinations work.
1980s? Philips cassettes were widespread long before the 1980s. The first one I had was in 1972 and it was a long way from the earliest. Philips launched the system in 1963.
Now that's cost saving.
Defined benefit pensions are a ridiculous idea to begin with. The underlying assumption that humans can predict economic and biological conditions 30 to 60 years in the future is ridiculous. Add the fact that a huge pot of money can be easily corrupted, and the concept of taxpayer funded pensions becomes absolutely stupid, only working for the past 60 years due to a baby boom.

The voters in local elections are mostly government employees (edit: my speculation based on a few elections, but also how unpopular it is to reduce pension benefits nationwide), so you vote someone in who promises you more pay, but the pay has to be deferred so it doesn't affect the current budget. You also hire the actuary who will use the most liberal risk free rate of return (hilarious that they assume 7%+ risk free rate of return over the next 30 to 60 years), so the costs look smaller than they are.

On top of all of that, you ignore the insufficient funding requirements the actuary suggests to meet your budget somewhere else because there are no laws around funding a taxpayer funded pension...which obviously makes sense because you can just keep increasing taxes.

The only way taxpayer funded pensions make sense is for politicians and union leaders, who gain from the influence that comes from sitting on billions and billions of dollars and directing that money to money managers who will somehow return the benefit (aka corruption). If they weren't corrupt, then governments would just give the employees the cash to go out and buy an equivalent life annuity from an insurance company. Of course, the annuities don't exist or are ludicrously expensive because it's crazy to try and predict the future so many years out.
I can relate a bit to this article. Although, I never find myself "hating" what I do per se, but I definitely find myself looking for something more "difficult". I've done the same as the OP, bought C books, read a few pages, wrote some example apps, etc. But I quickly lose interest.

I work as a "software engineer" by day, which is basically a glorified title for a guy who writes a ton of JavaScript. But I like to put a positive spin as to why this profession is so easy: Maybe it's easy because I've been doing it for so long. Maybe it's easy because I really know what I'm doing.

I find it important to always challenge yourself and continue learning. Honestly the JavaScript community is great for that, hell every couple of days there is some new framework to learn.

Overall, it is sad how down the OP is on his self, I hope he can find his way again. Programming is one of the most enjoyable experiences I have ever had, and I wish everyone could see that same enjoyment.
It's certainly convenient for getting started, but I think he wants to say that the drawbacks of choosing PHP outweigh the benefits.

I started out with Java, moved on to Python, and now I'm using Clojure. Every language & ecosystem -combination is some sort of trade-off, but one could reasonably make the case that Clojure is the best trade-off currently available.

Whatever he does, he should not get stuck using PHP because there are much better tools available.
I wrote about the common "Sign Up" buttons you see in the top-right corner of nearly every SaaS site: http://www.gkogan.co/blog/stop-asking-me-to-sign-up/

Every time I test a more prominent and specific button, it wins in terms of clicks or signups. So an indirect answer to your question is: "It usually works."

Does it win in terms of better customers? Not always. Which is why it's important to measure beyond just clicks.

> Does anyone else do this? Do you often get to a landing page and feel like you can't figure out what to do next, because the idea of clicking "get started" honestly doesn't occur to you?

If you're the target audience and you're hesitant to click "Get Started," then the landing page failed.

This is why I do usability tests in which I watch participants interact with a page and tell me what confuses them. You won't know those things from quantitative metrics.
Same way that we handled other new technologies before (e.g. the alphabet, the printing press, perspective art, the Internet, etc.)

We’ll stumble along for a few decades making more entertaining toys (along with a few interesting tools) before we end up realizing a new and powerful epistemology that launches us into the next great age civilization.

Or, we could end up with Huxely.
are the tabs done in QML? as a qml developer i would really love to be able to use that code if they are! any plans on sharing it?
Gobekli Tepe was the high point of an ancient near east archeology class I took in college. Interestingly, it was discussed as part of a more recent theory that the "origins of civilizations" were really in the Anatolian highlands, a region distinct from the fertile crescent.

Our focal point of the site was the incredible stone monoliths. A massive endeavor requiring advanced technology, organization, and craftsmanship to quarry, transport, and carve the reliefs, all happening 5x as far back in history as the time between present day us and the Greeks. That's a lot of really advanced stuff, and obviously advanced social relations and intelligent people, happening a really, really long time ago. If you're the kind of person who likes to identify with your fellow man, regardless of nationality or race or whatever, it makes you a larger person knowing things about our very distant ancestors.
Inshallah!
So, then it was exactly as I said: it's either the government or the public's - not the original mapmakers like your mother-in-law. In pretty much no circumstance will the copyright on military maps ever belong to the original person who made them; such things are almost always going to be for-hire works. (Why on earth would any government or organization hire people for the extremely expensive and laborious work of making global maps and give the copyright to them?)

If the governments still care, let them deal with it. It's no business of yours, nor do you need to white-knight on their behalf and throw in irrelevant arguments & gratuitious nationalist slurs.
And the internet has enabled those fans to be continuously engaged in their interests.

Where trekkies/ham operators/beatlemaniacs might have assembled once in a while or yearly at a convention, now they can stay with their tribe all the time. What's the cultural impact when that happens?
> Because both are paid for with tax dollars, while private sector pensions and 401(k) accounts are not. Moreover, the public can't be forced to raise taxes to bail out underfunded private sector pensions, while courts are doing just that with public pensions.

Both private sector and public sector employees receive Social Security benefits. It makes no sense to pretend that Social Security benefits are exclusive to private sector employees. The article makes it seem as though only public sector employees can retire at 59 and expect to get anything, while hardworking private sector employees must wait until 67. This is certainly not the case. Private sector employees are (sometimes) offered pensions and (almost always) offered 401(k)s, both of which allow for early retirement.

> I'm outraged because I'm paying for it with tax dollars. I love paying my taxes, but now that we're at the point where a dollar that goes to pensioners is a dollar that doesn't go to schools and infrastructure, it's definitely legitimate to question how comfortable a living we want to provide to public employees at taxpayer expense.

We should pay them every dollar we owe them. It isn't their problem if they paid in every year and the government did not meet its obligations. If you must, cut off pensions for new employees. Don't change the rules on the old ones.

As for 'taxpayer expense', you may be interested in this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corpo...

If too many private pensions start failing, taxpayers may still be on the hook.
Quite seriously, if there was any collusion between companies which had operations on UK soil, I'd imagine this could be seen as cartel-like behavior and grounds for legal action within the UK.

Of course, if only the UK was part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership... then Google and Github might be able to take the UK government to private court to protest the law in the first place, and sue for lost profits... wait... what...
Besides what DanBC suggested, it doesn't work (gives username not found error) if you're blocking JS.
birds arent made of aluminium and copper, and birds are aware of the surroundings, and usually fly away the steel/noisy steel monsters.
The major key. Hard work and perseverance can make up for just about any deficit in natural ability, but it doesn't work the other way around.
Would someone care to comment on this hypothetical- If New Horizons was launch today instead of nine years ago, what equipment improvements would we likely to have the since that time?
Ask HN: Joining the Product Hunt Community?
Hello HN!

I was wondering if anyone has any advice for breaking into the Product Hunt community?

I've been an avid browser of the site for some time, and I'm a strong believer that this tool is an absolute necessity in this day and age, but now I'd like to get involved and start contributing!

Thanks,
Connor Black
@connorblack_
The problem seems to be that no matter how you tweak GC, you will always have a class of program that it performs terribly for

For casual use, most programs can treat GC like magic, but if you are doing serious work in a language with GC, then you should learn about the GC's characteristics. That bit of due diligence and up front design effort is still often going to be tons cheaper than doing the manual memory management.

Reducing latency in exchange for throughput is the right decision for the vast majority of programs that will be written in Go. It was already a very attractive language for writing a multiplayer game server, so long as I didn't have very large heaps. (Even so, I can still support 150-250 players and 10's of thousands of entities.) With the "tweak," that limitation is much relaxed.
Whatever else it is, it was an option that was clearly on the table 20 years ago when these people were deciding on a career, and is probably in large part why they went into the public sector in the first place (as part of a larger package of "job security.") It's not freeloading, I think, to accept the "gift" of a nice career freely given; any more than it is freeloading to accept a scholarship, or an inheritance.
The mortality rates used could have been wrong, and people living longer than expected means more money having to be paid out than expected. I'd also take pension fund return #s with a grain of salt, as there are lots of ways to massage taxpayer funded pension numbers. And all pension funds can't just copy each other, otherwise a bubble happens and in the end everyone ends up with less. The only way out for all pension funds to win is to inflate the dollar, i.e. making the people receiving the pension lose. Or to increase taxes, making taxpayers lose. Actually, taxpayers lose in both cases.
I imagine the Luna, in addition to being geared towards couples who want their sides of the bed at different temperatures, is also geared to people who don't sleep well who want to improve their sleep routine. The first thing any sleep doctor will tell someone with sleeping issues is that the bed should only be for sleeping and sex, and most especially you should never work at a computer or watch TV in bed. Of course, this sounds like it's not an issue for you, but for the target market of people who want to improve their sleep, using their bed just for sleeping is step #1.
Momentum is the thing that truly matters.

That's certainly true. You learn by doing stuff. But PHP actually is a bad language, and the guy would be better off starting with something else.

Why use PHP for X years until you realize you need to move on, when you could start out with something you can still use even after that point? Even worse, he could get stuck using PHP because it's comfortable and he's used to dealing with its brokenness.
Rape is very different from showing a breast or two, or two people making love.

There are many illustrations of murder which include the psychological impact on the victims. I really haven't found any material that empathizes with me, as a rape victim. Instead, every rape and sexual assault scene in Hollywood is 1-5 minutes long and triggers me into wanting to cry and rock back and forth.

I haven't seen any of his work regarding sexual violence, but there is a lot more depth to it than just the illustration of it. People who write about it who have never experienced it nor researched it sufficiently will not portray rape in a way that demonstrates the impact it has on the victim. It is often exaggerated and minimized as 'part of the life' of the character that endures it. The reality is that it is like your life was made of glass and rape is the bullet that was shot through it, creating cracks that continue to crack in everything that is connected to it, and sometimes the whole thing shatters and you can't ever imagine how to go back to the person you were before you were raped. You don't know how to put the pieces back together and neither does anyone else. But yet you are expected to keep on going. Happiness without sadness is a thing you don't understand, and you acknowledge that you may never understand. Fear is your best friend and your worst enemy. You might become repulsed by your own body. Your identity may fracture and your sense of reasoning and rationality may twist and warp. Labels follow you everywhere. It is a violation of life.
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I once absentmindedly put one of those small CDs into a slot drive in a laptop... Taking the laptop wasn't a problem, but taking the slot drive apart?

It makes me sad that everything is built to keep you out of your devices.
Become an entrepreneur instead. You work in a jail, possibilities for content creation in such environments are endless.
The FAA sets altitude zones to separate drones from helicopters, but these helicopters have exemptions that allow them to fly low. I have seen someone fly a drone around a low flying helicopter before. Both the drone operator and the helicopter pilot noticed each other from a long ways away. The drone pilot adjusted his altitude to stay about 100ft below the helicopter, navigated out of its flight path, and both were able to navigate the same airspace safely for 20 minutes.

These operators would likely do the same if a helicopter was present. You may need to fly to 500ft so that the operators know there is an aircraft that needs the airspace. An ambulance doesn't wait at the hospital until the roads are clear, it turns on its lights and sirens to notify surrounding vehicles to get out of the way.
Mark Cuban is actually a rare example of someone who bootstrapped from smaller successful businesses into larger ones.

His success with Microsolutions led him towards creating AudioNet -> Broadcast.com .

Sure, he benefited from nice timing, but also he was quite smart about protecting his windfall(that infamous Yahoo collar trade:http://investmentxyz.blogspot.com/2006/05/cubans-collar-anat...).

I really can't speak about his activities since 2000, but most of it has seemed quite sane and sensible.
What qualified Steve Jobs to start a tech company? Right - nothing!

What qualifies anyone who is not technical to start a tech company?

Perhaps you should ask the non-technical founders of almost every single successful tech startup. Maybe some will comment right here as there are so many ...
> I don't know why you contrast violence and rape, as rape implies violence.

No, it does not. There are many instances of rape without violence e.g. adult with an unwilling minor coerced into having sex.