skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a great programmer, so don't stop looking for information!

It mostly depends on what you want to do.
Xamarin would be a great fit for cross-platform mobile applications, WPF(https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms754130(v=vs.110)....) for big desktop programs and WinForms for tinkering with old software.

UWP is indeed the big thing for MS now, but it has lots of programming languages support(so not only JS)! I don't know anything like Sketch really; maybe this will help https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design

You should try VSCode(which is a lot like Atom, has excellent .NET support through OmniSharp) https://code.visualstudio.com/

C# is getting more attention because a lot of F# features got into recent C# versions, people not wanting to make the switch to FP and not getting full attention of MS.
You assume all investment is useful. Property speculation is an example of what I would call 'unproductive' investment.
> Most people who are seriously involved in open source know that GPL is ironically one of the least free licenses.

That's one way of looking at it. But another way is that GPL increases the freedom (by pulling contributions back into the open source), instead of limiting it, which is what would happen if no user was obligated to contribute back. It's about the possibilities, not limits, as some would say.

I've been around long enough (since the days Stallman introduced GPL) and do note a causal relationship between GPL and the blossoming of OSS. In no other field do you have people freely giving their endeavors back to the public, like GPL does.
The whole purpose of modifying crops, plants and animals is to ensure that the company has a patent, ownership, unlimited rights to sell and charge whatever price they desire. They want to replace all types of natural (non modified) products with genetically modified versions.
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You might find some help at patents.stackexchange.com
I think trusting a web user on the good faith that they won't share the discount code is like asking a troll to stop trolling. I love the cyber security paradigm that says that every user input you have to treat it carefully.

You might want to liquidate your company and restart again.
You stated that Austin has horrible diversity, which is not true statistically.

Having read the article, it doesn't say anything about how Austin is "pushing out minorities".

I won’t dwell on Tang and Falola’s results, which the American-Statesman’s Dan Zehr covered last week, other than to note that a majority of African-Americans — 56 percent — said they left Austin because they no longer could afford to live in the city. Many said they would move back if they could.

Furthermore, from the Zehr piece mentioned there:

Despite those indications, fewer than half the residents surveyed said they felt “pushed out” of the city, according to the report.

The people being "pushed out" say they aren't being pushed out. You are claiming the exact opposite. Did you read the articles?

They can't afford it. If you are familiar with Austin this is a problem for all residents - housing prices have shot up because there is so much demand. It's not a minority issue. Yes, they are disproportionately affected, but the city is not targeting them. Ask any resident of Austin that's been there before 2005 and they'll tell you the same thing. The city is having trouble with massive growth - ironically much of it is from West coasters.
If you want to make the silly argument that anything other than completely free markets isn't capitalism, stop calling authoritarian state capitalism "communism".
I'm currently at an infectious disease medical conference. Several of the major keynotes, given by immensely successful and influential doctors, contain defenses of, or references to, a classic liberal arts education.
But you can't play with all that expensive equipment until you get to at least the graduate level. Take chemistry for example. For your entire undergraduate degree you're doing strictly cookbook procedures in the lab. Other than a bit of technique, everything you learn in undergraduate labwork you could have learned from a book.

Try going to the lab instructor and asking him or her if you can come back later at night to run some of your own experiments. You'll get a hearty laugh.

The expensive equipment becomes an argument in favor of a traditional education only after you get to the post-grad level when you have real access to that equipment.
Does the touch bar works well under the sunlight?
One thing that I thought was funny about the hackers remotely hacking the Jeep, is that after the article was published and posted here, an HN user went on and reported them to them to High Way patrol.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921987
Can't do it at all. About 70% of the people we interview fall into this bucket. Another 10% can't do it cleanly.

The rest get to continue past the first five minutes.
Thank you for uploading this to the Internet Archive.
It's the aftermath from inventing intellectual property. Patents were once called monopolies. What I find amusing is, you get this staunchly anti-government/libertarians who are also incredibly pro-IP. And yet IP is all based on governments granting monopoly power over ideas, with violations enabling the owner to engage in all kinds of punative behavior with the government as the strong arm. Ironic.

I think there's something valid about a government protected temporary monopoly. But in the case of copyright, for example, it's life plus 70 or more years. It is ridiculous, as in, worthy of ridicule. Medical patents are 20 years, which itself is too long, but it's made worse by rather permissive ways in which they can be effectively renewed by barely changing the medicine.

You know what it is? It's a way to get white collar work to continue to pay out more than, and longer than, the actual amount and duration of work on a thing takes. It's an incentive to do that kind of work. But I agree that it's grossly lopsided when you can't do repair or research on that same material - that's one of the original points of patent and copyright law. Put your ideas on paper so that you not only get protection for a while, but others can create derivatives that are better, and thereby we learn more about it all.
This feels like something Steve would not have let out the door, those kind of rules should never be the customer's concern.
Don't get me wrong, but doesn't the gpl allow for (or at least not stop) you to charge for the code?

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

Couldn't wix just charge some ungodly sum and be done until someone ponies up the $$$?
No intuition necessary

> The surprising existence of universal perturbations reveals important geometric correlations among the high-dimensional decision boundary of classifiers. It further outlines potential security breaches with the existence of single directions in the input space that adversaries can possibly exploit to break a classifier on most natural images.

The paper unpacks that explanation pretty well along with actual pictures and how they are related to the classification boundary.
Their being the people who crossed from one side to another.

1 or 100,000 the point is people who made the crossing did not get a popup saying "achievement unlocked: new continent!" And then run around telling everyone about it.

Yes, European mapmakers did not known about such crossings, but being a very remote area in 1400's they probably never asked. And from an oral history perspective it would not be anything unusual because a 50 mile ocean crossing is just a regular thing to sea going populations.

Also, DNA evidence is going to be sketchy because it's really hard to say if someone migrated 400 years ago vs 600 years ago.

PS: I am not saying this 100% happened, but it seems very likely.
"Another option may be to simply remove the offending code."

This would remove their dependence upon GPL'd code, thus obviating applicability of the entire GPL, including section 5.
I live in Australia, and having a map that centres on the Pacific so that Chile is in relation to us... is not very useful. Our political, social, cultural, and economic ties have very little to do with South America. The Pacific Ocean almost literally takes up half the planet. A general-purpose map can benefit from diminishing its importance (after all, are the seas ever any other colour than a simple plain light blue on these?). The benefit of a Euro/Afrocentric map is that the split goes down the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and there's only a couple of countries there, whose tiny islands are rarely shown on maps anyway.

This equal-area map dramatically distorts the shapes of the landmasses, and they're the very thing the map is there to show. Brazil is pregnant; Australia has a tumour; China is smaller than Australia, instead of being 25% larger; Saudi Arabia is as big as India; so on and so forth. The projection lines on the map do not match up with how humans see things - this is not a map for humans to use, since the only way to make sense of it in a practical way is to interpret it with a tool.
> If the platform controls how and when the work is done, doesn't allow subcontracting, and is in full control of the price, then that sounds like the platform isn't a middle man but an employer.

The client controls how and when the work is done. Uber can't just send a driver to drive somebody - somebody has to actually ask to be driven.

Most collaboration platforms - like TaskRabbit for example - don't allow subcontracting. And for a reason - if I asked for John, 5*, proficient in electrical work and general handyman work, many positive reviews, and Anthony shows up instead, I don't want him - I don't know him and don't trust him.

> is in full control of the price

Many such platforms have pre-set hourly or per-task rates. Such us Fiverr.

> Fiverr, for example, really doesn't meet these

Fiverr is literally named after a fixed $5 rate.

> And really, the requirements on employing workers isn't much.

Especially if you're not the one paying them.
Bicycles are hugely useful -- they were the first mode of transport that was affordable to an ordinary person (though relatively about as expensive as a car today), and didn't require feeding, shoding, tackle, or stabling. With a bike, a person could move beyond 3 miles in an hour, or get to and from a railroad station allowing for much longer commutes, visits, or recreational travel.

As of the late 19th century, horses consumed about 25% of the grain production of the US. Much of that was to provide drayage of people and goods to and from railroad stations or train yards.
You're not sacrificing anything. The old MBP had two usb ports and the new one has 3 available while charging. The only thing that has changed is now you can use the charging port for IO when not charging.

The MacBook Escape—which history says will be the most popular new MacBook Pro by far—has only two USB-C ports and a phono jack. There are no other ports at all.
I went to art school the same year Netscape launched. It was easy to see the potential for good design & creative - that was both created & presented digitally.

At the time, my school didn't have a program for this, I had to shoe-horn it into the existing design program. Nor was there, at the time, a well understood title in the professional world for my skills & approach & experience. At any given time through my early career was a: 'visual web designer', 'information architect', 'cognitive designer', 'user experience consultant', 'usability expert', 'full-stack web developer'.

So, yea, go to art school as it just might show you what doesn't yet exist and how to make a career there.

I'd also recommend minoring in business.
USB C mouse? Let me know when you can pick one of those up at Staples or Best Buy
before DMCA - "whatever is not prohibited is permitted", in the DMCA world - "whatever is not permitted is prohibited". New generations wouldn't even know it the other way.
If your custom plugin distributes its output, no. Generally speaking, the output of a GPL'd program is not also subject to the GPL (quines notwithstanding.)
My actual position is that a good argument against the top comment here is that a) this is an incredibly bad place to be trying to make such a point and b) if you want to make such a point, even under better circumstances, you really, seriously need to up your game as to expressing yourself clearly, sensitively and in a nuanced manner.

But the reality is that there are studies suggesting that porn has reduced the incidence of rape and that conservative eras where good girls cannot put out have a great deal more prostitution. So, the essence of his position is not incorrect. It in no way justifies this heinous crime, but raking him over the coals over the deficiencies in his writing also in no way will improve his ability to express the idea effectively and appropriately.

Thank you for the apology. Rest assured I have no desire to have you "soften your tone" over my gender.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/01/oh-my-god-it...
They're accurate insofar as they match up correctly with the map's own grid lines (which are also horribly distorted to our eyes)
Self-Interview: Seeking Co-Founders for SAAS Startup
THE PRIMARY FOCUS

RideBounty - http://www.ridebounty.com
On-demand vehicle sharing platform (similar to Uber and Lyft, but also for developers). This platform is targeted toward rural areas/users who prefer not to have a mobile application. The process for vehicle-matching takes place through txt messaging and customer has the ability to set a higher fare (or bounty) to make their ride request more desirable. We are opening up the API to developers who can in turn develop whitelabel on-demand service applications, such as pizza delivery, courier services, etc.

THE COMPANY

Dynamictivity is a start-up company I have been playing around with for several years now, trying and failing on many ideas. I believe I have a winner here and I do have one co-founder who is committed to the success of this company. We are 100% boot-strapped and I pay for everything out of my own personal bank account. We have not approached any investors yet, however we do plan to in the future once we launch our beta. We are launching our alpha in a couple weeks and will begin having customers utilizing the platform, along with drivers.

THE INTERVIEW

To give you an idea of what kind of company I am building and also what working with me might be like, I am performing a self-interview. I will post the question and then I will answer it directly. I hope that this method will give you all a good idea as to what my vision is and hopefully attract the people who share similar visions.

Read the interview here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ic-Rjhs7fOqtxT_MrjGqss_o6D_oqoc3u53S-cCul04/edit?usp=sharing
If deaths caused by leaders purporting to advance communist ideals can be attributed to communism, then how many have died at the hands of those purporting to advance capitalist ideals? Would it be reasonable to attribute these deaths to capitalism as well? I really don't these type of conclusions are a positive contribution to economic discourse.
> how much will that sloppiness cost the employer/customer in hardware and the maintainer and users in time?

Next to nothing in almost every case.

In fact that hash table is probably overkill most of the time. Unless you're dealing with keys that have a costly comparison, a large number of key value pairs, or a large number of lookups (for some context-specific value of "large") the most naive and "inelegant" of solutions you could imagine, an unsorted array of key value pairs, is sufficient most of the time. So in fact what you call a "sloppy" solution is probably, and quite by accident, far more powerful an algorithm than the problem truly calls for.

Understanding complexity analysis is useful when the domain has performance demands or constraints that make it necessary. "Lowly" web dev is almost never one of those domains.
Validation of my decision to never use HR for hiring data
Pesticide resistance is much harder to develop and spread than Antibiotic resistance. Vastly smaller populations and much longer reproduction means plants adapt/evolve much less quickly. Further, lack of horizontal gene transfer means each species needs to evolve resistance independently.
while I 100% agree the next iPhone SHOULD switch over to USB-C I'd be very surprised if it actually does...Apple isn't going to want to go through a second port transition in such a short period of time (30 pin to lightening) and certainly won't want to change anything after the headphone port this year. Especially b/c next year is the 10th anniversary, and it's understood that they really want it to be something special,
I want the grievance mongers in the media, academe and government to stop filling the minds of minorities with hate for white people. I want you to stop trying to criminalize me for owning firearms. I want the elites you vote for to stop air dropping "refugees" on our towns and schools and then condemning us from their high offices and the safety of their gated communities for complaining about it. I want the working class to stop having to compete with the disposable subjects of unregulated third world hellholes on behalf of the donors of the leaders you elect. I want you to stop elevating thug-life gangbangers like Trayvon Martin and Micheal Brown to SJW sainthood when their violent behavior finally catches up with them. I want you to stop pulling up the ladder on behalf of your "values", be they your extremist environmentalism or knee-jerk anti-capitalism or whatever, so that social mobility can reemerge and provide some opportunities for the bottom half. I want the rent seekers you ensconce through the statists you elect to experience a degree of instability in their world and a few setbacks in their schemes.

And thanks for asking.
I'm not sure, because it's hard to guess whether the cost advantage of electric cars is due to efficiency or subsidy. By the same process, one could ask why they don't just run their tractors off of ethanol produced from their crops.

But regardless of the energy source, an extra one or two passes across the fields is going to be an added cost.
Yeah, this is discussed in Catmull's book Creativity Inc.. Pixar has never had contracts. When Pixar's leadership took the reins at Walt Disney Animation in 2007, they eliminated contracts there too.
If you don't like the terms of the license, don't use code licensed under that license. You can't just download GPL'd code, disagree with the license, and continue using the code in a manner incompatible with that license.
Is there actually any evidence that indicates this? In theory it sounds like it could happen, but I'd also expect the time scales to be proportionately... macro, compared to what's happening with resistant bacteria right now.
You can now get four DisplayPort outputs from two ports: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F81EIBC/ref=ox_sc_act_t...

And they can all be 4k.
Are there significant examples of that in history? I would be looking only at governments causing the deaths of their own citizens. I don't think it'd be fair to count foreign wars there.

EDIT: Just to be clear, i'm not implying that they do not exist. Genuinely don't know of any and would be curious if you do.
> The people who can make a living as an artist are a few dozen worldwide

That's really hyperbolic and inaccurate.

There are full-time artists in my family. They personally know dozens of artists who make a living doing it, and that's only a tiny segment of the art world.

The art world isn't enormous, but its certainly more than 10^-8 of the world's population, as you claim.
I generally avoid Google (except for search). I prefer iOS over Android because part of the point of Android seems to be to mine my personal data.
You'll be able to use a single thunderbolt 3 port to get power, monitor, ethernet, and USB accessories, sit down, plug one cable in and you're off to the races.
> GPL is ironically one of the least free licenses

This is a common misunderstanding as you are talking from the perspective of a publisher, rather than that of an End User.

GPL is about enforcing the rights of End Users, not Publishers. So, from a End Users perspective, GPL is more free than say MIT as it gives the end user the freedom to look at and change the code of software that they are running. This takes away the freedom of the publisher to keep code secret.

MIT provides more rights to a Publisher than the End User as it allows the publisher to do pretty much whatever they want, but removes freedom to look and modify code from the end user.

It is all a matter of perspective, wherein lies the confusion.
Picketty's theory is that there's something inherent to market economies that leads to capital's share of income increasing. The evidence suggests it's due to peculiarities related to how advanced economies treat property/land, that are orthogonal to their status as market economies, that are responsible for capital's growing share of income.
You should see the comment section of that web site. I read them all since I like watching people's behavior in these things. Her audience is mostly people 100% agreeing with her interpretation of things with a clear message: "any counterpoints are people clueless about racism esp if it's white people and all whites might as well shut up anyway since it's inconceivable for them to have ever felt something similar regardless of circumstances." [1] There's recurring patterns in the responses vs what I see in similar articles' comments that effectively cause censorship where there's little argument as the comments have total dismissal built in to them. In this case, unless I missed on, there was no argument after the first counterpoint posted by each commenter. So censorship worked to point one skin color and one gender were pushed out of being heard commenting on an article that's about people of non-dominant, skin colors and/or genders not being heard with any credibility.

As disgusting and racist as the kinds of haters they claim to oppose. About the only one that seemed especially fair among the supporters of her claims was one claiming the post itself might be highly-biased due to it being a catharsis of sorts that may lead to a constructive response to her situation she hasn't elaborated on. I could easily see that possibility being it's her personal blog & she left identifying information off. Past that, I knew I shouldn't comment as specific people there would disqualify it on color/gender, imply I couldn't conceive similar things, imply the stated bias was true since it was a minority that claimed to experience it, and drag me into a bunch of tangents unrelated to data original source provided. That's what they did to the others. Hence, my suspicion it would happen to me.

[1] I review this from perspective of a white male who grew up in mostly black areas where hating on whites was norm and redneck areas that weren't big on intellectual or "soft" types. I experienced subtle and overt racism + discrimination constantly that hurt my education, cost me jobs, got me targeted by authority figures more, got me served last at lunch lines, question whether I was the problem, etc. So, I have to work extra hard maintaining balance and rational approach to reviewing stuff when the comments basically act like I never experienced that or play it off as existential vs circumstantial or some other nonsense. Yes, we do experience it with those of us in minority areas experiencing it at the level of blacks except there's more beatdowns of us and murder in general. That they keep pretending we don't despite our claims and journal introspection being almost identical to theirs is itself a form of racism. I always point that out in case someone assumes I'm a white, suburban guy from middle class home in a white area going to college on a football scholarship or something.