skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're called Design Patents. They exist. Apple vs Samsung was quite a famous case over them with hundreds of millions in damages on the line. I have no idea if Google is using Design Patents on their products but can if they choose.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/08/03/swipe-to-patent-design-pat...
Thanks. You're reply gave me a boost of inspiration. I'm working now to learn more of the Math and modeling side of things, but I know it's going to be a _long_ hard road. Thanks for the link, that site seems to have some great info - I particularly like this http://www.markjoshi.com/downloads/advice.pdf.

I'm curious what sort of side projects I could try that others could take notice on.
I thought the reason for Tesla switching away from Mobileeye was that Mobileeye and Tesla couldn't come to an agreement on price and data licensing?

https://electrek.co/2016/09/15/tesla-vision-mobileye-tesla-a...

... and because Mobileeye wasn't comfortable with Tesla using their system for level 4 & 5 driving:

https://electrek.co/2016/09/16/mobileye-responds-to-tesla-ag...
s/Guber/GNUber/g
Why do they need one gigantic distributed fs? Seems like a design miss to me.
As someone with a family member with diagnosed major depressive disorder - NO. Also, go ahead and quantify "hope."
I mean to say why do you assign that adjective to my comment?

It isn't like I've been commenting every day on your blog or something and today decided to voice my opinion on the wiretapping, stingrays, etc.
Why is that a dumb rule? The NSA is gonna have a much harder time tapping into Google's cables on Russian soil.
Hey, I've never used Uber. I'm in Australia where we don't tip taxis, are you supposed to tip Uber drivers?
> I think the only people who were supporting the surveillance apparatus were the same people of an authoritarian bent who are now supporting Trump.

And the folks who voted and agitated for surveillance state champions Obama in '12 and Clinton in '16, of course.
>> Losing crazy amounts of VC cash to compete against traditional companies that must be cashflow positive.

> So borrowing money from investors to compete with somebody is now a despicable thing, maybe even a crime?

That's considered economic dumping and is likely a net negative in the end. They ruin the competition by operating at a loss and then collect rent when they are the only ones left.
That is to say, you voted for the surveillance state. There were other candidates running, you know.
Your are crazy. I taught myself rails part time using Lynda.com. I'm a sales and marketing manager, but love tech and wanted to build stuff.

The skills you pick up learning to code will be tremendous for managing others to build what you need.

Coding is hard to do well and takes years to get really good at it, and you will likely need to start at the bottom of the food chain to get the right coaching and support. I'd recommending learning enough code to be dangerous but get experts to help you do the hard stuff.

That said if this choice is about happiness, then go with your heart. Money shouldn't factor into that decision, it will come over time.
Of course.

Unfortunately, her e-mails are revealing a lot of stuff that are not just smears. Smears are smears when you have no way to prove it. But with Hillary, her emails are right there for everyone to see, to read, and judge for themselves.

So I try to extend it to her too, but she made it impossible, especially since you don't need to rely on someone else telling you that she is corrupt. Instead, you can read the e-mail evidence for yourself and decide.
From personal experience: medication stabilised my last depression 7 years ago. After his stabilisation me and my therapist decreased and finally overcame it using EMDR therapy (very interesting technology by the way). This after 18 years of on-and-off depressions in which unaware of my condition.
WebTorrent Desktop: https://webtorrent.io/desktop/
Many points are fishy. After reading the start of part 2 (which is supposed to present objective information about the impact)

- Quibbling over whether building them consumes oil or natural gas.

- Badly reporting other reports (5% of bags are littered vs bags make 5% of all litter). It looks like neither figures are correct, anyway, which is the point the paper wants to make, but basic proofreading should have caught it.

- They say that the fact they only make 1% of the matter clogging storm drains makes them unimportant, ignoring their mechanical properties (their robustness and large surface make them retain other debris)

I stopped reading at that point.
then he'd probably be celebrated by the left as "standing up for freedom"
Society doesn't have an interest in assuring a predictable supply of anything?
I think the "Trump supporting CEO" part of the title is largely irrelevant—he was not kicked out because of that, but because he acted like a fucking retard.
None of that really matters in this context. @jamesmp98 is asking if it were a left-leaning founder harassing Trump supporters. And if someone wrote a screed like https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-11/12/1... I would hope YC would react. That type of discourse is unbecoming
I believe We have a moral obligation to fight the Trump regime by any means necessary.

It's no longer about what is politically or economically polite, it's about maintaining our dignity as human beings. This is a step in the right direction, but it's too little, too late.
> Also these days in sankt petersburg or other cities in europe, uber "driver" is a guy leasing 5 cars and hiring 10.. 15 drivers to drive them 24h.

Was in St. Petersburg last month. Most Uber rides were around $4-$6.

Many of the drivers drove taxis during their regular shift.
I really like material-ui but am constantly bummed about their use of inline styles.

Each component has multiple style props, lest you resort to "div > div > div:nth-child(2)" in your own CSS.

Each "style" prop now has to be diffed by React too.

Doing things like hover on mouse/touch events seems like it will never be as efficient as using ":hover".

And when doing universal rendering, the amount of markup you send is huge. And you have to disable the browser-prefixing of style props.

Having said all that, the material-ui library is still great.
Alternate less click baity title: Abusive Bully CEO Kicked Out of Y Combinator Startup Incubator

Admittedly less interesting, though...
Could you please show us a few screenshots? Thanks!
Impressive work.

[0] http://cx.codaxy.com
What they did wrong is they didn't actually report news, they just followed Trump and said what he's doing and fed the press releases given out, which we could have gotten ourselves anyway. They didn't use their army of reporters to travel to the rust belt and show us the ghost towns. They didn't talk to the people there and really show the country why people are voting for Trump.

Instead they just laughed about the possibility of Trump winning the Primaries (people voting for Trump don't watch CNN they watch Fox News), laughed about the possibility of Sanders winning (he got extremely close with 0 name recognition despite all the dismissing, laughed about the possibility of Trump winning.

They did their normal of prioritizing access to politicians in the future, and helping their advertising donors, instead of feeling passionate about showing the truth.
Care to share what you saw when you looked deeper?
Washington, DC has 5 cent fee for a store-supplied bag. You can still get one, but you get to make that choice.
Copy engineering rules
Is it hard to figure out how to get out of a house in an emergency? I mean, houses are only so big, and are typically one to two stories tall. They're not a large hotel with windows that don't open and halls that are nothing but doors.
As a casual gamer who likes playing the games of my childhood. I'd prefer a dedicated retro rig that (due to minimal requirements) could be the same form factor as an Amazon FireTv stick without dealing with the "hacky" nature of the emu scene or purchasing a full blown console.
If you enjoyed this, Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation is what he has drawn heavily upon. He talks extensively about the "hyperreal" mental reality we exist within.

If you enjoyed that, you might like Phil K Dick's existential works like Flow my tears, cantata 140, hell anything of his almost. Even "the defenders" is a full on frontal assault on reality.

Finally, if you want to go clean off the deep end, read his Exegesis and Valis.
One suspects GP was pointing out that late-middle-age men die by suicide more often than late-middle-age women.
I'm not an iOS developer myself but I don't think you can switch on screen-size support and high-red graphics as an in-app purchase (unless you have every screen defined twice)
No, I did mean everyone. Or everyone who cares about understanding the world. Or rather, everyone who cares about understanding the world they themselves should be wanting to learn more maths than just sums and multiplications.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback.
The distinction is that the music is being composed as a creative activity and the notes are the essence of the production. The chess game is a game, winning is the game, and the notation is just one of many possible transcriptions of it.

If you composed a poem from chess notation, it would be copyrightable.

If you transcribed a chess game (mechanically) with a series of notes, it would not be.

And besides, if there was creativity (for its own sake) in the process and the moves were copyrightable it would be the players, not the stenographer, that owned it.
People don't use it simply because it's not what they signed up for. It's not obvious that a software engineer will enjoy being a data scientist. I for one think it's tedious, and I don' t enjoy spending time and effort collecting the necessary data to solve my problems the ML way.
Agreed and I think this should be handled under anti dumping Law anyways?

It's idiotic to allow these unicorns to destroy existing businesses only to screw customers later on. They are not moving the world forward in any manner. It is just a power grab.

At best we will end up replacing many small businesses with behemoths with a virtually limitless lobbying powers.
We can calculate things like if the moon is ever going to leave Earth's orbit and we can tell it was much closer to Earth in prehistoric times.

We can predict the future and recall the past, just not in a scale that is practical for our mundane lives. Personally, I think this is a humility lesson: in the grand scheme of things, the entire span of a human life is less than a tiny drop in the ocean of time.
Indeed. If there's one thing I've learned in >10 years of building large, multi-tenant systems, it's that you need the ability to partition as you grow. Partitioning eases growth, reduces blast radius, and limits complexity.
Mac, chrome and an i7 here (early 2011 though). Seems fine. A little jerkier than other sites but not particularly bad.
I had this happen to me in a different way. I overmarketed an online traffic school for traffic tickets website and Google sent through webmaster tools an email "this website is harmful to the google index" and actually removed the website from Google's organic index and removed listings from links to the site from other sites (like from court websites, etc). The site completely 100% disappeared. I tried to get them to re-list it but they never did so I had to use a different domain. This was a site that had 6+ years behind it. Google does de-list sites.
What's wrong with a phone call? If we expect immediate feedback we should use more appropriate communication tools.
Those thing occur sometimes, but rarely, in a purely residential area. someone has a louder party every couple of months, people travel now and then... Compare to basically every week with a flat that's being airbnb'd constantly.

They're entirely avoidable. I live in central london, and I've never had any issues with neighbours until I moved to a flat where the landlord upstairs decided to just full-time airbnb the place, rather than rent to someone permanent.

Tourists are way more inconsiderate of neighbours. It makes sense - they're never going to meet us, they're just here to have fun. But pretending it has no impact on the quality of the area is silly.
It would be like death itself on Firefox, consider it an upgrade
I might be reading your comment wrong, but I can't see how you can support silencing opinions (yes, even ones that promote hateful sentiment) through fear of being fired or similar witch-huntey behavior.

That doesn't shut down the root cause of the trump support mindset, it only legitimizes it further.

That said, this guy wasn't fired for being a trump supporter, he was fired for spouting idiotic /pol/ memes while being a fuckwit.
Appreciate your analysis defgeneric, though we probably don't see eye to eye.

In my view what you're calling Thiel's anti-political phrases are important. I know you see them as the spread of virus-capitalism, but I think without that kind of frontier building the world would be a much more boring place. I take it you're familiar with Patri Friedman's thesis. What did you think then of Balaji Srinivasan's Exit Ycombinator talk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A

I know presently the anti-Trumpists are getting a lot of airtime with their talk of secession, but to be honest there is something much deeper beyond the current election fallout which is worth looking at. From a right perspective I have been wondering for a long time whether Silicon Valley's interests are ultimately orthogonal to Washington but appear to be similar in the present because they're competing for the same thing.

This is a strand of Rene Girard's philosophy, which Thiel is a big fan of (he knew Rene at Stanford I think), many of his ideas revolve around ideas of mimesis and scapegoating. Interestingly; he had a Girardian rationale for investing in Facebook. Never say reading philosophy doesn't pay off! I would love to have a photo of his library.

John Strange is very wrong about Thiel's activities being random. I was asked to write essay on Medium which I called "Peter and the Wolfe", which was an attempt to explain the deeper undercurrents around some of his recent decisions.

The main content of it was written before Trump got into power, so it makes it more interesting retroactively. If you recall, many people on HN were calling him mad, stupid, trying to get him kicked out of Ycombinator and Facebook's board etc. Here is the original comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884413
I am completely the opposite. I get anxiety over e-mails that I've personally left unattended in my inbox, because I didn't have time to handle them yet. Damn it, another e-mail I have to "mark as unread"...

If I hit "send", and the ball is in someone else's court, then it's usually somewhat of a relief.
The disparity in technical knowledge is enormous along with the lack of optimisation by using humans instead of robots.

It's time to go to the next level, with universal income and less (much less) working hours, free education and so forth.

The alternative is dark ages + war.
What is a court system for, if not enforcing a party's rights? Why would you chose fifty long, hard fights over one long, hard fight?

Ironically, libertarians seem pretty happy to stay in the US despite all their wailing and gnashing of teeth, and despite there being a variety of places with low centralised government in the world (some of them are quite nice).

> Liberals may not want surveillance, but they helped create the power structure

Ah, they 'helped' create it. Not 'created' it, but merely 'helped'. Even though you can't even say that they did it themselves, you're more than willing to just blame them for it. It's bizarre how 'liberal' is a derogatory term in the US.
I believe the average is around $35 / hour, then you have to add the cashier cost which is $20-$30. The cashier cost is $20 for salary plus $10 for benefits.
Please, I beg you not to let go of your compassion for human life. These people obviously had troubled lives and went through great amounts of pain. There is a time and a place for debates about gender equality, but I don't feel like it is helping anyone to do it here. With that said I understand your frustration and sincerely wish you well.
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In my experience if you are a real Excel wizard you are close to irreplaceable and yes you can demand a very good salary. A lot of the business world runs on spreadsheets and being able to do some magic will make you a very popular person with management.
I appreciate that you didn't sling mud at Azure, but re-reading the commit for the move to Azure [1] there were tell tale signs then that it might be bumpy for the storage layer.

For what it's worth, hardware doesn't provide an IOPS/latency SLA either ;). In all seriousness, we (Google, all providers) struggle with deciding what we can strictly promise. Offering you a "guaranteed you can hit 50k IOPS" SLA isn't much comfort if we know that all it takes is a single ToR failure for that to be not true (providers could still offer it, have you ask for a refund if affected, etc. but your experience isn't changed).

All that said, I would encourage you to reconsider. I know you're frustrated, but rolling your own infrastructure just means you have to build systems even better than the providers. On the plus side, when it's your fault, it's your fault (or the hardware vendor, or the colo facility). You've been through a lot already, but I'd suggest you'd be better off returning to AWS or coming to us (Google) [Note: Our PD offering historically allowed up to 10 TiB per disk and is now a full 64 TiB, I'm sorry if the docs were confusing].

Again, I'm not saying this to have you come to us or another cloud provider, but because I honestly believe this would be a huge time sink for GitLab. Instead of focusing on your great product, you'd have to play "Let's order more storage" (honestly managing Ceph has a similar annoyance). I'm sorry you had a bad experience with your provider, but it's not all the same. Feel free to reach out to me or others, if you want to chat further.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
So, what you're saying is that in 2016, there's only one valid side to the political discussion?
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> Uber: Losing crazy amounts of VC cash to [often illegally] compete against traditional companies that must be cashflow positive. It's not a level playing field. Laws exist so that drivers could make a livable wage; Uber is devaluing the medallions they've invested in.

It never was a level playing field, not as long as Uber has been around in any case. Taxis are propped up artificially by city laws and airport regulations and that has resulted in low competition and poor service. I don't see why Uber or its customers should have to respect the unfair city+industry collusion.
Thanks. Here are a few more links for things implemented with Cx:

http://cx.codaxy.com/fiddle/?f=vwyHzOO1

http://cx.codaxy.com/starter/dashboards/sales

https://codaxy.github.io/state-of-js-2016-explorer/

https://mstijak.github.io/tdo/
I included the cashier cost, because the store will need to hire more cashiers if they have longer lines. That's an estimated $20 for salary and $10 for benefits or $30 / hour per cashier
I would still advocate migration even of 10-year old apps to new languages. You will learn the language and its frameworks better, you'll enrich your neural paths and many other things will suddenly become clearer, and you might even help your customer succeed even more. Worth the shot most of the time, I believe.

I am currently tasked with maintaining and upgrading a Spree 2.2 (ancient version) and Rails 4.0.8 (very old) based e-commerce shop and even slight modernizations are extremely painful and have proven impossible. The test suite I inherired is sorely lacking in several areas so I can't even rely on that. Most of the problems in the project are related to payments and real cart / order / payment flows and the payment processors don't provide sandboxing environment. Cute, right?

I tried once to upgrade it to the latest Rails 4.1.* and I drowned a weekend in fuzzy and frustrating tasks I can't even remember anymore, only to give up frustrated after what has practically been almost 3 work days fit in a weekend.

My point is, if you want your app not to die by itself (while adding some features and chasing 2-year old bugs that cost your customer money even today) and if you want to modernize it, you _will_ suffer. Not a matter of "if", it's a matter of "how and when".

One of my former customers used to say this about rewrites or maintenance: "Both approaches are gonna hurt a lot so we might as well suffer for the right cause". Granted that's not an universal rule but IMO it's quite on point for a good chunk of scenarios.
Picked up a copy for my father for Christmas, thanks for the rec!
You're crazy. I could say the exact same thing about Hillary Clinton: That we have a moral obligation to fight those who use government to pursue their own ends. American voted and just because you don't like the outcome does not give you any special rights or obligation to be anything but polite.

And what does this have to do with maintaining dignity as human beings? If you are in the country legally there is no problem here! What people who voted for Trump are tired of is underwriting the demands of a group of people who showed up uninvited and who have decided they don't even care to assimiliate and instead just make demands of everyone else. It's ridiculous and it is well past time it stopped. Immigrate legally, work for a living, contribute to your community.

Get out of your bubble once in awhile.
Bad-tempered name calling tends to get you kicked out of any private club. I had to look that one up on Urban Dictionary...

edit: went to the other thread minimaxir linked to, read some of the examples. The guy was behaving like a total asshole. Some purely left-wing analog of the same behavior wouldn't last long anywhere.
The person you replied to didn't say anything about silencing opinions, and neither did TFA. Free speech is not about speech without consequences.
Does anyone know how you can tell the good buzzfeed articles from the clickbait without clicking?
GDP is just easy to measure, but tends to correlate well with almost everything we care about in an economy (in the long run). There's nothing too magical about it.

I don't see why you want government fat cats and lobbyist deciding about innovation? Why are they better placed than the people who risk their money?
This. Not sure why 'Send in x min/hours/point_in_future' isn't a more common feature of communication software.
Well, in fairness, one was just elected president, so maybe we should give them more leeway.

/s
My bad and I apologize for the oversight. When I reviewed jrcii's comments I failed to notice the "More" link at bottom of the first page and there is indeed a bit "More" to read!8-O

I appreciate your thoroughness.

jrcii is indeed a bit sensitive. From the nature of his last post, I suspect he regrets being banned from YC, where he was active for almost two years. Too bad.
I agree, supporting Trump doesn't look like the only reason he got booted. Let's not forget that YC has a Trump-supporting "part time partner" on staff.