skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My bike is worth probably 10x my TV. I'm not saying it's representative, but it's certainly not unusual for bikes to cost as much as or more than TVs.
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I think it's only healthy when you realize you work is accessible to a large but finite audience to accept that you don't speak to or on behalf of everyone.

Appreciating the work of someone else with a large audience that largely does not overlap with your own is just respecting that divide all the more. Maybe you're both wrong and there's some third writer who everyone loves.

But you know, being a writer with 'only' and audience numbered in the tens or hundreds of millions is a lot better than I'll ever manage. The projects I number as successes have had less than half as many users as that, and that's still an accomplishment most of us never achieve. I haven't done the things I hoped when I was 25 but I have done enough.
Many disagreements arise out of people misinterpreting the tone of emails and texts. Phone at least conveys voice tone. Face-to-face gives the whole shebang, including body language. I never have conversations on hazardous topics without at least a phone call, and then only if the other person is too remote to meet face-to-face.
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(Texan here) -- if we had some decent shade and short distances to walk, it'd be a lot better. You get used to the heat after a while; also if walking culture took off people would adapt to a more traditionally Mexican schedule of not being out right smack in the middle of the day.
Isn't San Jose's tax policies part of the issues it's having in maintaining its city?
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Absolutely, but I was speaking to the experience of the loaders.

Edit: Sorry, I should have made that clearer in my previous comment.
Milo Yiannopoulos' recent 'RIP Twitter' talk covers this https://youtu.be/JoLs61YwuSM?t=1986
I agree that it sounds ludicrous to claim that one can be 'lower class' at $200k/year, however, I think there's a charitable way to read this position.

Perhaps their point is that autonomy is a better indicator of class than salary. Just like 'stupid is as stupid does,' 'class is as class does.'

Being able to afford your own office means nothing if you can't actually use it because you spend 8-10 hours a day trapped in an environment that you find degrading.

The barrier to class mobility in this case is mental. The engineer has traded autonomy for cash.

My own opinion is that one becomes upper class when they can choose not to work. If your living expenses are $20k/year and you make that from returns on passive investments, congratulations, you're a part of the leisure class.

If your expenses are $190k/year and you earn a salary of $200k/year you're a part of the lower/precariat class.
Kindles have a browser and various online features. If Amazon can do it so can someone else.
I think the author tries too hard to make his point. If I have a chat with someone and send thirty messages he's counting that as thirty conversations vs one phone call.

A much fairer way is to look at how many times you speak with your friends via text vs calling them. I find that I have many small text conversations but when we get together by phone it's usually a long conversation of thirty minutes or more.

I do not think the telephone call is going away. When a majority of smart phones sold only allow texting is when I will believe it. I do think that the landline phone sadly is going to become an endangered species, I will regret losing mine it's my secret weapon.
About half of the exclusion zone is under 5 micro Sv/h, which adds up yearly to less than the US occupational dose limit of 50mSv
Haha, I came to say exactly the same thing. I'll have to save that line for some code reviews.
Cell phone quality hasn't improved since my first cell phone in the early 90's. Everything else is far better but that.

Also, voice transmission only happens when the phone detects a voice, and this has the effect of clipping off the very first part of your sentence. I'd find this highly irritating, but I've noticed it a lot less in the last few years. Perhaps that has been fixed.
Yes, there's a lot of interesting prior art about graphical constraints, and Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad inspired so much work on so many different levels. Thanks for all those references, I'll check them out.

Ivan Sutherland was on the thesis committee of James Gosling, who wrote his doctorate thesis at CMU entitled "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints" [1]:

Abstract:
Constraints are a way of expressing relationships among
objects; satisfying a set of constraints involves finding an
assignment of values to variables that is consistent with the
constraints. In its full generality, constructing a constraint
satisfaction algorithm is a hopeless task. This dissertation
focuses on the problem of performing constraint
satisfaction in an interactive graphical layout system. It
takes a pragmatic approach and restricts itself to a narrow
but very useful domain. The algorithms used by
MAGRITTE, an editor for simple line drawings, are
presented. A major portion of the work concerns the algebraic
transformation of sets of constraints. It describes
algorithms for identifying difficult subregions of a constraint
graph and replacing them with a transformed and
simplified new constraint.

[1] http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/scan/CMU-CS-83-13...
NVIDIA shared a similar real-time deep editing demo developed by Adobe and Berkeley (https://www.facebook.com/NVIDIA/videos/10154055823608253/?pn...) several days ago.

Adobe's open source prototype: https://github.com/junyanz/iGAN
Video: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~junyanz/projects/gvm/
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He lives in a 'thrifty' 66,000-square-foot house. Sure, he could spend 10x as much on his lifestyle, but there is a point where more expencive does not mean better.

As to being rich, sure he inherited millions. But, connections, background, timing, and luck only go so far. You really can blow any amount of money.
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For any given font, the license is specified on the font's specimen page.

For example, near the bottom-right corner of https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat we can see that the license used is the SIL Open Font License. And from the SIL fonts FAQ[1]:

Please feel free to use SIL fonts in printed publications and PDF documents, including PDF documents posted on web pages. Such use is within the intended use of SIL fonts. No additional license or fee is required to use the fonts in a printed publication.

[1] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...
Thanks, I did not know that was an option. It should make a few different queries quite a lot nicer. I was starting to get scared that I was wishing for the old Alta Vista.
Isn't this just shine theory, albeit without the intent to support a minority? I don't think it is so hard for a human to recognize alternative forms of greatness.
It looks an awful like the one that's right there in iOS - are you sure that Apple isn't going to go after this? I mean, it's very similar in look, even with the name.

Is it something that really needs a premium version?
Love loves to love love.
There's still great space art, though more is always better!

Check out the JPL's [Visions of the Future][1], play some [Elite][2] [Dangerous][3] and see the new [Cosmos][4].

[1]: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/

[2]: https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/experience-flying-spac...

[3]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djy83O0nfds "Video using Hans Zimmer's music from Interstellar."

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey
We haven't tested it yet but if Proteus supports P-CAD then you can try downloading an Altium format which we export currently to P-CAD file format. Let us know how it goes.
Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use?
I am about to start the writeup of my thesis. I have tried many LaTeX editors over the years but am yet to find one that I like.

I want to be able to type in code with proper syntax highlighting, code completion etc like a programming IDE, and see the rendered results immediately.
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I find the same, but cheap Bluetooth headsets have got really good, which is another way to fix this.
As usual, there's the emphasis on how much one makes, very little on how much one spends. Personally, I've spent the last few years not so much trying to earn more but rather spend as little as possible.
Seems like you're doing the same thing to me.

What do you mean when you say "mass"? Mass, matter, etc, at least to me, seem to be what you call certain processes when you look at them from an extremely "zoomed out" perspective. The further you zoom in, the less the concept of matter makes sense. Even concepts like fields, waves, etc may be just as much abstraction as the idea of "particles" is.

In regards to spacetime, is the 4d manifold we are situated in according to special relativity all that there is? Or if we zoom out, would we see a 4d manifold "wedged" inside higher dimensional spaces?
Does anybody knows if there is or will be recordings of this available for download?
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My favourite is how it's easier to sell a couch for $20 than it is to give away. Proven three times in undergrad.
Most things arrive fully assembled. With that TV you just plug it in and that is it. You don't have to adjust the HDMI sockets with a screwdriver or double check the earth lead is correctly bolted on. You don't have to get a spanner out to adjust that five degree tilt to one side in the base.

But with a bicycle, it is an entirely different story. The seat is not centered on the rails, nice and level. Much has to be assembled and that is understandable, however, the brakes and the gears rarely work as well as Shimano intended. The bike is part assembled and the consumer is left to do the rest. Rarely is the finished result as polished as the fit and finish that the TV arrives with.

If a bicycle manufacturer jost got that final assembly together so that only seat height adjustment was needed with nothing else needing a double check, then they might be able to sell to the end customer properly. As it is there is no quality in the final delivery, bikes sent to the customer will be far from expertly 'tuned'.
He said that they do honor it:

> ... If I had a nickel for every time I've had an Amazon purchase refunded or replaced because ...
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Consider that it provide multiple ways around concurrency.
We'd love to work with distributors to help proliferate this content. And yes internally we prioritize development of content in bulk. But sometimes there's a model that is needed that is outside of our development efforts. This is where InstaPart fits in. It's an option to 'skip the queue' and get any model quickly if it's outside of the models we are prioritizing internally.
I must be the only person who adores Bloomberg's design/presentation. It's a very interesting intersection of flat-modern and brutalist, and completely unapologetic. So much of their content also features distinct art and layout in a way that conveys a special amount of care went into its publication, but always within a familiar design language.

I understand that it's not appealing to everyone, but I am always surprised at how much it gets ragged on.
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> I'd sooner read The Sound and the Fury again

I have to assume this means that Joyce is somehow worse than sticking forks covered in bees into your eyes. The Sound and the Fury is on the shortlist for the worst book I ever heard was a great piece of literature, and soldiered through despite its awfulness.
I would say that is likely
In my experience, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy can generally be considered reliable.

The proper definition of terms - same goes for the guidelines of discussion, even though those aren't as relevant to define in this instance - is indeed both an issue philosophy concerns itself with deeply as it is problematic in itself.
Especially in the field of Ontology, 'to be' can and will have so many wildly varying definitions that discussion becomes tedious and at times impossible without learning the specific vocabulary of whatever subset of Ontology one is debating in or against.

Something and something and nothing and nothing are hardly the same ad hoc.

I'm by no means an expert in astronomy and astrophysics, as I only follow it with an amateur's interest.
That said, as far as I'm aware, the quantum fluctuations that are presumed to have caused the big bang are fluctuations within a field of potential.
While we may be inclined to call it 'nothing', as there was no matter yet, nothing tangible at any rate, the existence of said field and potential does not make it the absolute nothing philosophers would normally consider when they ask whether the universe came from something or nothing.

Gorgias of Leontinoi, contemporary of Socrates and eponym for the platonic dialogue Gorgias, argued that 'nothing', the absence of everything, allows this void to be filled with just about anything one pleases to fill it with. I can't recall the exact argument, but despite Gorgias being a troll of sorts - he famously perverted Parmenides' thesis on being - it was a rather sound foundation for his rhetorical efforts. Not much of his work on nothing remains, so it's hard to say for sure, but I'd argue that Gorgias is also talking about the nothing that still allows for potential.
As silence, the absence of sounds and words, potentially allows for someone or something to make a sound. Take away anything that can make a sound, everything that could potentially ever make a sound, and everything that could potentially lead to something making a sound and we're getting closer to the silence that rivals the absolute nothing around which we cannot wrap our minds.

Absolute nothing would be the absence of anything, without any potential for something to ever come from it or exist in it, but that's not necessarily the same nothing people mean when they speak about nothing.
I believe that Paul Fussell's "Class" makes the best accounting of the [American] class system. In it there are nine levels:

-

Top Out of Sight:

Billionaires and multi-millionaires. The people so wealthy they can afford exclusive levels of privacy. We never hear about them because they don't want us to.

Upper Class:

Millionaires, inherited wealth. Those who don't have to work. They refer to tuxes as "dinner jackets."

Upper Middle:

Wealthy surgeons and lawyers, etc. Professionals who couldn't be described as middle class. I suspect this is the class to which I, an engineer, am supposed to aspire.

Middle Class:

The great American majority, sort of.

High Proletarian (or "prole"):

Skilled workers but manual labor. Electricians, plumbers, etc. Probably not familiar with the term "proletarian."

Middle Prole:

Unskilled manual labor. Waitresses, painters. (In other words, my mom and dad!)

Low Prole:

Non-skilled of a lower level than mid prole. I suspect these people ask "Would you like fries with that, sir?" as a career.

Destitute:

Working and non-working poor.

Bottom Out of Sight:

Street people, the most destitute in society. "Out of sight" because they have no voice, influence or voter impact. (They don't vote.)

http://www.wesclark.com/am/class.html
My apologies if I failed to detect humor here. But in my experience a 3 paragraph email usually get's the message to about 10% of the audience. The other 90% will either not read it, read it but not take it very seriously, maybe they take it seriously at first, but then the effect wears off, etc. Especially if there are dozens of competing memos going out each month.

A photo of a TV on the side of the box tells the worker right then and there that this is both expensive and delicate, handle with care. It does it more than even "FRAGILE" does, because that's been abused to death already.

I suppose if everybody starts claiming their boxes are TVs, then the effect will wane as well. But this is way more effective than an easily-ignored memo.
Sarcasm? Reading comprehension for emails is so bad. And these are blue collar workers that you're targeting. If anything I'd have it be an item in a weekly team meeting, but don't you think these workers are _always_ hearing the same thing? "Hey guys, HQ said we need to break less stuff. I know we're only at 0.2% breakage but corporate says we can do better." They probably don't really give a shit, or are already doing their best, and the picture on a box targets their subconscious.
> imagine that the algorithms you write had to work (perhaps slightly differently, but essentially the same) when hit with bit-flips in the code. How would one do that?

Gray code [1] does it for integers: Any two consecutive values are one bit-flip apart.

Instructions could perhaps be encoded similarly: Say an n-bit gray code represents an instruction. Each instruction has an n-bit ID, IDs are spread evenly over the space of n-bit values, and each instruction code resolves to the ID with the smallest Hamming distance [2].

Then most bitflips would yield essentially the same program, as long as the number of instructions is small compared to the number of n-bit values.

Our CPUs wouldn't run that directly, but I think it should be possible to construct simple bytecode instruction sets where practically any permutation of bits gives a syntactically valid program, and where bit sequences with a small Hamming distance in most cases resolve to similar programs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance
Let my country die for me.
More shock stickers on all products please!
I think it's ethically questionable to carelessly break things people are waiting for just because the thing is perceived to have low monetary value. The shipping company may have to eat the dollar cost of the item, but the cost to the sender and receiver in time and hassle is non-negligible.
Isn't it kind of interesting that normative respect for software engineers is so low that even when salaries are $80k to $150k on a team, that same team is going to be sitting in an open plan setting and talked down to by management?

It's funny because software developers are more kin to the 'real professions' like law when it comes to earnings potential: like lawyers, a software dev can simply make money by setting up his or her own shop with very* little capital investment beyond education.

Edit:

Now that I think about it, the loss of respect might come from the fact that software devs have a 'management' looking over their shoulders at all. In other 'true' professions, the ones who are liable to cut-costs, haze, or otherwise pour abuse on a professional would also be in the same profession. E.g. if you're a lawyer, you may work 100 hour weeks for the first 8 years, but you're doing so not because some pointy-haired MBA is telling you, but because X lawyer with prestige who owns the company is telling you to. So even though the outcome is the same, it may feel more okay because its coming from someone of your same class/category.
Note that more and more phone systems record every call.
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Author here. I am hoping to get some feedback from the readership here on HN.

You basically connect 5 or 10 keys, such as Cherry MX, to an Arduino. The software on the computer creates a layer between the keyboard and the OS that lets you easily script what the key inputs do. It features a built in stenotype style dictionary for fast text expansion that works across applications. The chord combinations let you access millions of symbols, Lisp functions, or shell commands mnemonically. The finger patterns form a binary sign language that can be implemented almost anywhere through machine vision, keyboards, gloves with MEMS devices, or possibly even non-invasive neural connections. You can even learn the system without a keyboard.
The killer feature of non-telephone voice services like Skype/GotoMeeting/etc is that it shows you who is speaking. It's a small thing, but it makes a huge difference.
Well done! I can't believe how little support Hillary has been getting in general (media/ my friends etc.). Ok, so she is not your favourite politician / has made some mistakes / represents the old elites. But you can't have a pony [1], especially since the alternative is Trump, and he _will_ become president unless people rally around her and put up a fight.

Finally, I would love to see the US run by a woman. In Germany, people were irritated for about a month when Angela Merkel became chancellor, then everybody just got on with it. It is the 21st century after all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No,_you_can%27t_have...
> ...I could probably buy a candy bar.

Hah, looks like I forgot how expensive candy bars are. Okay I get it.
This is really cool! Can anyone comment on what the state of art is on restoring motor function in paralyzed animals (i.e. rats, mice) ?
Agreed -- I was delighted to realize that patent finally expired, but horrified to realize it's been 20 years.
Glad to see 'When Genius Failed' (Lowenstein) here. I felt like it was the perfect sequel to 'Liar's Poker', Michael Lewis' first book on his life as a bond trader at Salomon Brothers in the 1980's. I feel like these two books are valuable, even essential, background for studying finance as practiced by Wall Street.
Bikes are super great in Austin.

And, you get used to the heat. I spent many years in Texas; Houston and Austin (about 20 years, in total, across both cities), I really don't mind the heat. I prefer it over cold, anyway. And, there's a certain style of living that is/was pervasive in Austin; do stuff early in the day or late in the day. Hang out inside during the heat of the day. Lots of bars and restaurants have outside patios, which are open nearly year round; many have misters to keep it cool. The only things most people do outside during the heat of the day are swimming or tubing or stuff in the shade (and there's loads of shade along the river and green belts).
The top one is the before.

Wouldn't you want to change that?

(Just joking. It's the reverse.)
At a glance, that looks awesome. Thanks.
I wish instead of lasers and magic ink Apple would add group chat iMessage (and conference calls to Facetime).
That's the pitch for Ubisoft's "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon - Wasteland". There are several different ways to approach the battles.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdJub3Kz2wI
Yes! I have many times complained about what happened to phone ergonomics. It started with cordless phones. The old corded handsets had a nice design with a deep cup for your ear, and they were pleasant to talk on. The cordless phones were bricks, and as often as not the earpiece actually stuck out a bit. Very uncomfortable, and of course with the size requirements of cell phones it's gotten even worse.
I've found that phone is far more effective at resolving disagreements than email/text.

People who are better at talking in person tend to feel this way. Others are better at emailing (I am like this, it gives me time to clarify my thoughts, and delete the petty insults), and think the opposite.

The only time I prefer to see face-to-face is when I need to build a relationship of trust with the person, and it's easier for some people (like you) to see that I am not ripping them off.
Which is too much to ask from the average person.
Only if it is a super simple clbuttic one will I support the idea.
In the same week UPS made me sign for a set of $5 kitchen utensils I'd ordered off Amazon but left a Mac Mini on my doorstep no problem.
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