skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, Instagram or Facebook, they thrive on stolen or relinked content and monetize it day in day out. Scrapping is the way of the web, that you like it or not.

Really, being amazed at this kind of bad behaviour where the targets are some of the most despicable companies on the web is a bit ironic. Scrape away, these companies hurt the web, let's hurt them.
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To play devils advocate, I've quit a few jobs who offered small annual raises because other companies offered me a lot more money to leave.

Honestly a few percent raise a year for a competent programmer is insulting, assuming you're increasing your skill set all the time.
> Would you "fix" a movie?

Yes, if I had the time and artistic ability. I've enjoyed various unofficial re-cuttings of Star Wars, different edits of Blade Runner, and so on. I'd put other things in the same category: upscalers for emulated games, texture packs for N64 games and Minecraft, mods for Minecraft and every other game under the sun, re-implementations of game engines or whole games that introduce features not found in the originals, etc.

> to make a full-on clone of the game.

Nintendo shut down Pokemon Uranium within 9 days, after 9 years of fan development. If they'd only called it Rucksack Goblins and made up their own characters...

I think that ways to extend an existing system in unintended directions are more interesting than most of the existing systems. Reinterpreting art is an art-form of its own.
Eh.. Kinect GAMES are kinda weak...

The most useful features of the kinect only need a mic to work, but of course MS wont let you just use a mic for those features... they want you to buy a ridiculously expensive gadget to collect dust while waiting for a voice command...
LibreOffice isn't bad now. I've been using it and its predecessors all the way back to the OpenOffice era. It was originally terrible, but now, it's a good alternative to Microsoft Word. I haven't bought a Microsoft Office product since Word 97.
They also get to see what people go out of their way to read. Not a bad score for a site that is based on that sort of thing.
Even since I was 10 or so I would often come back to school on my own. Then let myself into our apartment. Eat some lunch, do homework, play until my parents came home in the evening. I was effectively often alone for about 4 or so hours.

I wouldn't let my kid do it here in US. Not because I wouldn't trust them or think it is dangerous. But because I am afraid what neighbors, school, CPS would do.

In grade school, my sister and I and our friend would sometimes spend the entire day in the woods in the dead of winter. The real danger in this country isn't the criminal and the bogeyman. The real danger in this country is the evaporation of real community and a broken pseudo-society of mutual disdain suspicion. Who is your real community? If you had a pet, who could you ask to watch your pet for a week? Who would you ask to watch your kids for an afternoon for no payment? That's your real community. Large numbers of Americans have no real community at all.

But apparently you are never safe from neighbors with an agenda.

Because they are "neighbors" and you are not in real community with them.
> You want get outdoors when the sun is out and it's warm.

Many people, no doubt, but I'd prefer to get outdoors when it's grey and snow is falling. When the sun's out, it burns my skin; when it's above freezing, there can be rain. Cold & snowy is easy to deal with: throw on a coat, a hat and a scarf.

Hot is impossible to deal with: cool or die. Actually, even if one cools down, the sun will give one skin cancer. So, really, it's cool and die.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12341787
depends on if there is still inflation. I'd say the Weimar Republic had a worsening economy, but when you need a wheelbarrow of money to buy a loaf of bread, raises should probably be given, lest your employees become bakers...
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." -- Oscar Wilde.
And the original point of my comment was that doing this is extremely rude and not appropriate, not that it couldn't be done or that others weren't doing it.

Feel free to send any request to any server you want, it is certainly up to them to decide whether or not to serve it, but that doesnt absolve you of guilt from scraping someone's site when they explicitly ask you not to.
> However, the reality is, that your neighbors and the HOA just want to tell you how you will manicure your home.

Actually, it's that they want to enforce some basic standards to ensure property values aren't diminished because of the negligence of a home owner.

There are plenty of neighborhoods in the US that don't have neighborhood Associations nor HOA's.
If that is the case, moving the houses should be no problem (Maybe not no problem, but easier than getting brand new ones!)
You should donate malaria nets to help reduce the 440,000 deaths, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. It's quite cheap.

https://www.againstmalaria.com

I've donated in the past. Then people with more ability can work on the harder problems.
Quite a lot of embedded architects would say that allocation should never happen at all. That rules out the STL and much modern C++ style.
Their service strongly undermines the end-to-end principle upon which the Internet is based.
HTTP keepalives prevent the excessive connection requests. The main issue with HLS distribution is TCP sucks over high latency links, so you have to have edges near your users.
Wait until school starts...
In practice people I know who've built startups on top of tech they built at universities haven't run into problems. A common strategy is to open-source any code you might want to later use commercially, as a way of throwing it over the fence. Your startup can then use it on whatever terms you open-sourced it under (probably BSD/MIT, if you want to give your later self maximum flexibility). Granted, so can anyone else. But usually the research-prototype code itself isn't enough to build a competitor, and the common case for research code open-sourced by a grad student in some random .tar.gz code dump on their website (or worse, included as a file appendix to their thesis), is that nobody else will even so much as look at it.

The university may have to approve this, but at major CS departments approving students to open-source the code that goes with their thesis is pretty rubber-stamp, at least if it's self-contained.
That's what is bothersome about this blog post. The insinuation is that there are only two types of people: brave entrepreneurs and small-minded hater trolls.

I don't know which I'd classify myself as. I've been part of several successful startups, but I'll still make negative comments about harebrained ideas or Silicon Valley's sense of self-importance and general overvaluation
+1, it's the most interesting of the lot. On the other hand, it seems to assume proficiency with those automated voice menus, which my grandparents can't use either. I wonder if "fully human" system would be profitable.
My take is that this means that graduate students who have "assistantships" are students and employees. And just like undergrads who have "work-study" jobs at the university, they should be eligible for the protections that come with labor law. An undergraduate scholarship is not comparable because it does not have a work requirement (or when they do have a requirement, it's a separately compensated thing, and the scholarship is not direct compensation for the work).
First of all, cost of living goes up gradually, so at the very least, it makes sense to have your satisfactory performers not literally lose purchasing power in their base salary year to year. Or if that's not compelling because a corporation doesn't concern itself with its employees' finances, at the very least, it should be tracking the market, which is liable to change from year to year.

When it comes to me, policy is whatever; at the end of the day, no matter how my comp package is arranged, I'll be looking after my bottom line. If I'm not happy, I'm confident in my ability to seek a better deal. I'd have to really believe bonus-based comp is likely to work out in my favor, at least on the timescale of a few years. Longer than that, it's not appealing, due to the lack of compounding of bonuses.

But I feel like as a developer, I'm a bit insulated from concerns of the mainstream labor market. I just worry that for people without a whole lot of mobility, this is just another step toward institutionalizing wage stagnation.

> Moreover, managers are reluctant to increase base pay further because higher payroll costs could result in heftier prices for customers, says Tom McMullen, a senior compensation partner with Korn Ferry Hay Group.

That's rich.
Bonuses aren't taxed higher. They are, when paid separately, subject to a different (flat) withholding rate, which is often higher than your average withholding rate and, when paid together, they are subject to a higher withholding rate than your average withholding rate because regular withholding rates are shaped by progressive tax structure.

They are actually just regular taxable income, and are taxed exactly the same as additional non-bonus income.
The cars they're competing against largely have two clutch packs, allowing the shift to take milliseconds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_time
Isn't half the point of having 5 bloody DNS servers is that they shouldn't _all_ go down at the same time?

Get it together Linode!
>Well it's certainly worthwhile to the Japanese people that work at these jobs for decades. Otherwise they would not do it.

Being conditioned to do something, or being forced to do something to feed yourself because few other job opportunities exist outside Japan's corporate world, are not the same as "certainly worthwhile".

Except, of course, in the sense that not getting homeless or starving is worthwhile.
Like the other poster, I've spent my entire adolescence on internet forums. I can't say they negatively affect me either (as anything other than noise). In general all the mean comments I've received have been lazy, contradictory and eventually you see these comments as a indicator that you've "won" as the other commenters are now "salty".

One thing I can say it has affected me is I tend not to get into arguments over subjects I don't care about - online and off. Years of arguing online about inane subjects and logging in the next day to see your opponent's views have gone unchanged makes you realize how much time and energy you waste getting mad at things on the internet - there are far for effective ways to change the world.

Even though I've spent probably entire years of my life reading comments, I am of the camp that most comments aren't even worth the silicon they are stored on. However, there are a lot of diamonds in the ash.

I understand, however, that this experience might be much different on non-anonymous/social platforms like Twitter and Facebook where it may seem like the attacks are personal, but I'm not popular enough to have this experience.
> Should we perform this extremely expensive treatment to give somebody a few days in agonizing pain, or maybe save a few dozen other people with a simple, straightforward procedure?

Does the current system in the US evaluate that?

We could also go back to feudalism, people accross history and the world have gained rights against the wealthy minority, and I think healthcare for everyone should be something US citizens fight for now.

(It's a bit of a marxist reading of history, but in this case it works)
Everywhere I worked at in the past 20 years - from startups to fortune 50 companies this was/is a thing.

Large companies do this "by the book" with HR-imposed bell curve type quotas (that they are trying hard to hide) with ~80% of the employees getting an average rating/raise, ~10% getting below average rating/raise, "top" 10% or so - getting a higher but also capped raises.

Smaller/less "formal" companies tend to reward/"punish" (you're still getting a raise but it's small) based on individual contributions.

So yes this is definitely a reality of the "corporate life".
I have had some 0% years during the early 2000's. A couple times I've seen companies slash 5% across everyone to not do layoffs. Just nit happening right now in the US, enjoy the good times while they last!
> misuse of other's resources against their will

Nonsense, there is no implication that this activity is illicit. Many sites (I have worked with hundreds) are happy to be included in my service, but don't have the technical ability to provide a data feed. They were delighted when I told them I could aggregate their content without any extra work on their part.

We respect TOS, we respect robots.txt and so on. Just because you study scraping techniques doesn't mean you intend to break the law.

> Breaking captchas and the like is basically blackhat work

Um, captchas only work if they work. If breaking them is trivial, they shouldn't exist. Don't shoot the messenger for pointing out the front door is unlocked.
You can set the detection range for your setup, or disable auto-unlock.
When I was a kid my parents would let me pump their gas. I also ran errands in town by myself, and was left to look after younger siblings before my teens.

IMO the sooner you're given responsibilities the sooner you learn to be responsible.

As when there was talk of raising the driving age because 'all these teens are dying' - it's inexperience, not so much the age which matters.
> It's a competitive game, though.

Again, we're playing very different games ;-)

> By "unlimiting" yourself you're changing the rules for competitive play for everyone.

Again, what competitive play? I'm not competing against you or anyone else, by any reasonable metric.

> It's a very selfish way to play the game. It's a relief you've stopped.

No more selfish than being relieved that other people aren't having fun anymore.
They commented that a green lawn wasn't really a status symbol for yourself, but rather your neighbors.

When I was young, we moved into a house my dad built new on an odd shaped lot. A triangular section of what had been our lot had been purchased by the neighbor, in hopes that no one would move in and conflict with the landscaping. This neighbor came over and told my dad how the landscaping should be done, so as not to conflict with his.

My dad proceeded to do everything the opposite of what this neighbor said.
So its moral to continue bad behavior because someone else did it?
For the first few days while the game was live (and a huge chunk of the beta period), the game worked as if you had a map. You could see Pokémon quite far away, and it would tell you how far away it was with a resolution of 20m. Once this got taken out of the game, and replaced with nothing, people who depended on that feature kept wanting it back so much that they re-made it.
This is a bit... absurd. What age are you allowed to cross the street unsupervised in the US / Maryland?
Any year that the purchasing power of the currency in which you are being paid goes down, and in which you don't get a raise to accommodate that loss ("cost of living raise" or whatever), you have effectively been given a cut in pay.

I can't speak to other countries, but the USD is intentionally inflated as a matter of monetary policy and it has done so consistently in good times and bad for my entire adult life (I'm over 40)[1]. If the company is not doing well, and they choose not to give me a raise each year, that is still an effective cut in pay so long as the consumer price index is rising. Your reaction to that is yours to make, but you need to recognize it for what it is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index#/media/Fi...
Maybe they could give an x% baseline inflation increase, and then y% bonus for quality of work.
Will never forget this:

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

Obviously he meant well at that time.

But one never knows how a startup or an idea would do unless you try. Comments often can be like peanut gallery. Has little or no value depending on the situation.
What is your use case, and what issues did you find?
Babies take a while to learn how to grasp things, it's believable that the number of attempts they make is in the 10,000s. 1 grasp attempt a minute, 8 hours a day for 3 months is 43,000 attempts.

Of course they are learning a lot of other stuff at the same time so it's not really comparable.
And the current stylized "E" and "3" are the same symbol.

Seems Ford owns the trademark "Model E", hence the "3". http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/03/18/tesla-motor...
Global events just need to be triggered based on their geodata. They can even use dynamic triggers like if a lot of players are online, find a central location to spawn a Quest/Challenge and alert everyone in the app.
Hard to say. It's entirely possible that there is no heavy equipment suitable for house moving and this is all just for cranes, dozers and telephone poles to roll houses on, not to mention barges and tugs. The ground is pretty soft, so moving big loads may be problematic, and they probably don't have a dock with a lot of house loading provisions, so maybe all that would need fixed to move houses.

Could also be that existing housing is too fragile to move, conditions are mighty rough out west.

But, it could also be a tiny bit of pork helping out some disadvantaged people in the boonies. Maybe a combination of all of them

I guess my main point is that things are surprisingly tricky in the arctic, far away from developed places
Apollo Paid Itself Some Fees and Gave Itself Some Loans
When I'm tired.

(not OP, but we have the same mind-set.)
True, but that's what they always say. See: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
>> The fact that you want to be unbiased makes you biased for information and people you think are unbiased.
>What?

I think what is meant is that your analysis of people is different when they say the "right" things. The wife-murdering Earth Day founder comes to mind.

As Dag Hammarsköld said: It is much more difficult to care about those close to you than those far away.

I have seen plenty of people that use implicit accusations as a means of getting ahead. White, "angry", old men is a term that's been popular lately - I will use that as an example.

Are all old, white men "angry"? Are only the old, white men that disagree with the speaker "angry"? Are old, white men angrier than old men in general? Than old, white women? Than <colour> [menopausal|child-caring|single] women? Is there some skew in who brings their opinions to market? In who is heard?

I say that the people that the most seductively claim some one is biased, are those most likely to sweep their own biases under the rug.

Furthermore, I claim it is a much better goal to be consciously fair in one's dealings, than to seek some mythical state of "biased-less-ness". It seems more work, but it truly brings greater rewards to you and the people you deal with.

Trying to be "unbiased" leads to exactly zero good, because it isn't how the human mind functions. I will put my own family before the stranger on the street. That doesn't mean I won't help the stranger on the street that I _see_ needs it. I need a functioning mind for that, and this college nonsense about bias is something I had to unlearn to do so, as it leads to cowardice at the hint of personal danger or embarrassment.

(Unless, of course, you dont't perceive a real threat, but just some poor sod you can lecture about how morally superior you are.)

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This CNC also represents what appears to be the best UI in almost any machining tool I've seen. Glad to see good design thinking not just get it done engineering.
There are laws against inciting violence, even toward physicists.
"I'm not interested unless this is the most innovative thing to ever happen by an order of magnitude". Okay good luck with life mate.
Is not about "thick skin" is about entrepreneurs not having the right motives.

From the music book "Effortless Mastery":

"If you weren’t so concerned about your level of playing, you’d hang in for as long as it took. It would be like a hobby.
That’s why this book stresses again and again developing a detachment to what you’re doing while you are doing it.
However, it is so easy to become discouraged.
All you need is one night when you didn’t play what you wanted to hear, and the ego says,
”Screw it! It’s not happening.”
Again and again, this needs to be said:
you probably cannot develop this level of patience if you are vain about your playing!"

Excerpt From: Kenny Werner. “Effortless Mastery.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/LiM3B.l

Or I can change it for you guys:

"If you weren't so concerned about your personal image and more concern about changing the world,
you'd hang in for as long as it took"

The problem here my dear Sam is, most modern entrepreneurs have HUGE egos, and that's exactly why, without the bless from Mr. Luck, they all fucking fail.

Basically, whoever was "down" that you used as example, is a person who just hasn't found the passion on his project that he claims to have.

Why do people who claim to be "changing the world" go home cry over somebody, being "mean" to them? Is that how easy they get discouraged? Is like if Batman gave up after 1 time the joker made fun of him... Seeing this here, with a bunch of nerds that think they're better than anybody makes me sad. Cause I'm one of you, and I HATE being associated with egotistical people.
> My co-worker let his kids play in the cul-de-sac for an hour while they watched from the house. An anonymous neighbor reported them to police, and a sequence of embarrassing calls at work ensued, statements to police, follow up visits from police, etc.

This story doesn't add up. 1 hour playing in front of their house resulted in a thorough investigation conducted by the police? I'm sorry, but I don't buy it.
If its 455 TB of source video then you need around 91 5TB hard drives to store that. Although they probably have a cheaper tape storage or something.

If you wanted to buy that many on Amazon you can get external 5 tb now for $109. So that would cost about $9900. Which to me is a pretty small number considering.
Everything seems to be back now in our case. Thanks!
Here in Florida, there seems to be less ageism than in SV. Maybe it's because our industry is more oriented towards medical, defense, and aerospace. There is still pressure to use the latest languages and frameworks, but it seems less intense than on the west coast (I think this is one of the drivers of the ageism). Also, when you write software that has life or death consequences, it's nice to have a few people with 15+ years of experience on your team.

Or it might just be that everyone else here is old too. :)
Depends on who you are. Excessive interrogation of your own behaviour can be a crippling anxiety disorder.
Watching via the BBC is a completely different experience: complete on-demand archives almost every event, time bookmarks for groups/bouts/matches, no annoying commentators unless the event was also being broadcast on a channel, no missing most of the event because we need to watch a manufactured interest piece on the US athlete, and you can go 30 seconds without hearing the name Phelps.

Watching NBC's broadcast, in contrast, made it seem like NBC had no belief that any of the events were interesting in and of themselves.
Ingress did this with so-called "Anomalies".

I would expect Niantic to have a similar idea in mind for PoGo, but also think they've not fully figured out how they want the mechanics to play out long term, and that might need to happen first.