skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That whole story was a case of reporters not knowing what they were talking about. Every television/movie production is in debt at that point of the process. All the money is spent up front and it takes a while to recoup those losses and turn a profit (the whole long tail thing). The difference was this was self financed so the debt was his and not some studio's.

It is very similar to what happens at startups. No one expects revenue from day one but the losses can start immediately. Louie CK basically founded a startup and decided not to take any VC money. That means when it came time for his IPO (the digital streaming deal he signed with Hulu), all the money went directly to him making the entire endeavor profitable.
Just wake up earlier.
RE: Shooting on location in low light;

Yes, it was done in 28 Days later on the Westminister bridge over which Big Ben looms.

Shot at night, with a camera which had a large aperture.
This is a real bummer. I am not a programmer by profession (I am a PM), but I took time to learn Parse from scratch to quickly write my own app. I managed to launch my app on App store and everything was well till Parse announced their shutdown. Unfortunately, with a 1 yr old at home and a demanding work / commute, I didn't really have the time to learn about their migration guidance or educate myself on a new platform. So my App will stop working from today, which is a bummer.

For people who are more knowledgeable than me, I was really using Parse as a data store and using their APIs to store and retrieve data. I really liked their visual tools where I can create tables (classes) almost like in an excel document. This meant that I didn't have to learn a DB language. Is there a comparable tool that has similar features ? I have looked at Mongolab and Firebase and both seemed a lot more complicated than Parse. Or do I need to learn MongoDb now ?
Two other HN threads with a combined 128 net upvotes were declaried "dupes" and "merged" into this thread. This thread, having right now 8 net upvotes.

I agree that the OP post would seem like a conspiracy theory, except that he supports it all with cited reporting.

And his point is valid: If and as this does indeed appear to be a coup d'etat, it makes sense to sow deliberate confusion and misdirection (the recent executive orders and rapid retrenchments) while racing to outpace the possible organization and execution of an effective opposition.

What the author describes, is aligning with other reporting I'm encountering, although that reporting is not presenting this over-arching perspective on it.

It appears Trump is moving to make himself into the U.S.'s Putin.
They're probably planning to get acquired. Buying companies to increase their value, then laying off staff so they can keep the lights on until someone with more money comes along.
You have to remember that these were two French intellectuals, debating in a country, culture, and time period where Socialism vs Communism was very much a live issue.

That's not really true in the United States today, where even Socialism is generally held in contempt, and Communism is considered to be a demonstratably failed ideology which doesn't even deserve to be taken seriously.

On top of this, intellectualism itself is viewed with great suspicion by many Americans, who much prefer to hear celebrity gossip, or watch sports and reality shows. As a result, the "public" intellectual debates of the era are dumbed down and infotainmentized by a media mostly concerned with ratings and pandering to the lowest common denominator.

There still are plenty of debates in academia in the United States today, but they're not very public, and mostly take place in academic journals which most of the public would rather die before reading.

I've heard that France is still a culture that greatly respects their intellectuals, so I would expect they still have many public intellectual debates these days. Maybe someone who keeps current with them could comment.
I've been very pleased with SashiDo!
Please stop this kind of promotional posting here. Hacker News is a community, and organized behavior like this is a serious abuse of it.

We've banned the accounts that were created to do this, and we'll have to ban the established participants if this doesn't stop.
Trump and blacklisting of Muslim Brotherhood
yeah, and I wouldn't be surprised if it does really well in the very beginning. Bubbles oftentimes have an even bigger spike at the very end.
Oh I have passion, I'm just axious because I never feel like I know what I'm doing
> No country has interest in refugees, but modern nations have an implicit obligation to minimize human suffering.

Well, yes. But Saudi Arabia is not a modern, moral nation. It is a monarchy, a totalitarian autocracy, a hereditary dictatorship, with an abysmal human rights record promoting a particularly toxic version of Islam (Wahabism), which in turn legitimises the Saud dynasty's hold on power. They execute more people than the USA (though less than China and Iran).

(Note that I'm saying that it's a terrible political system - many Saudi individuals are fine people and suffering under their regime; just as can be said about North Korea, Iran, etc.)

The reason they get away with it is their oil wealth.

At any rate, they don't give a rat's ass about refugees, and used to have enough money that they didn't need to care much about anyone's opinion. That is slowly changing, and I hope the country will open up and modernise, but I wouldn't hold my breath for any substantial contribution to the refugee crisis.
I didn't no, but it's not something I measured.
Ugh, unfortunately, this is true. My Fitbit started peeling after less than a year. They replaced it with a brand new Fitbit. And now this new Fitbit is also peeling. They didn't make these to last at all! If you're using this every day like a watch you will encounter this problem. However, I like the product but man the quality sucks. I wouldn't buy it again but unfortunately not a lot of great alternatives out there now.
The other notable "Google Docs/Office killer" is Quip. Previous HN discussion of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205855

My gripe with these is that after using Word, these feel rigid and not full featured enough. And only with Google docs do you get what realtime collaboration should feel like.
There is something wrong with the food industry. When I was growing up, they taught us that we eat veggies because when they are fully mature, all the nutrients are there and good for us.

Somehow, they found out how to make them look ready but still not ripe. And now they found out how to screw the taste to taste better.

So they will look and taste good, but the nutritive value will be questionable.

Waste of research effort.

Edit: to the people modding this down: you realize that research will hit the poorest hardest? They can't buy organic tomatoes, they think what they paid for is good nutritive food, except it isn't.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13523203 and marked it off-topic.
I can smell a favored executive's pet project stink from all the way over here. And I'm not even pooh-poohing Dropbox - I love them and use them religiously.
Something Nifty: A Taste of Simple Continued Fractions
We used for a few rounds of design frontend review. It's actually quite slick. Seems like it's 90% there for a google docs replacement.
The term you're looking for here is a depth matte. It's a technique that's been in use for many years now, but of course it's only as reliable as your depth data so it's just one of the many tools in a compositor's tool belt.
"Party vs Country" is a wrong analysis. When the choice you have is between Thatcherism and Blairism (both of which ignore the interests of the 99%) it is natural that people pick the National Front.

Suppress the left and overfund the right for too long and you get facism.
A better strategy:

1. Wait a while

2. Buy them cheap

3. Wait some more

4. Now they are even cheaper, duhhh!
John Carmack https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack

Fabrice Bellard http://www.bellard.org/

Douglas Crockford https://github.com/douglascrockford

Guillermo Rauch https://zeit.co/blog

James Halliday https://github.com/substack

Terry Cavanagh http://distractionware.com/blog/

Sam Gentle https://twitter.com/sgentle

Caolan McMahon https://github.com/caolan
This seems fine for a single job but if you have dozens to manage it would become unwieldy.

Just like with good old... cron jobs. One wonders what's really new under the sun, here.

We even have to put "use strict" up at the top, like in the Perl days!
The nearest RedBox is only a 5-10 minute drive away. But renting that way still usually involves making a special trip to either pickup or drop off. Not really worth it to save $3 most of the time. I use RedBox but it's a very occasional thing--especially as I still have a minimal Netflix DVD by mail subscription.
I actually find the opposite here. For me, television follows more of a formulaic narrative arc than a traditional feature film. Television is mostly a writer's medium, and generally has a story-telling model where it is about dispersing narrative units of information in a pretty straightforward way.

Film, on the other hand, is a director's medium. While the worst films can be subject to the familiar beats as you say, overall it is a much more visual medium and, when done well, has a lot more ambiguity to it. Or at least more potential to be compelling.
Ned Batchelder.
Blog - http://nedbatchelder.com/
Stack Overflow answers - http://stackoverflow.com/users/14343/ned-batchelder
Coverage.py - https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy
Twitter - https://twitter.com/nedbat

Ned created coverage.py and is one of the most famous Python devs. He explains Python concepts in a very lucid, easy-to-understand way. Going through his stack overflow answers, his tallks in PyCon are worth doing it.
Try buying an RAM upgraded Lenovo from Amazon. I saw the reviews and didn't believe it because I never had a problem w Lenovo's from Office Depot. Bad idea.
> Are there so many thousands of those types of people that it needs to be broadcast as a blog post?

Yes. There are a ton of SaaS startups with two or three clients each paying a few hundred thousands of dollars per year. This is the area where it doesn't make sense to shut down the business because with even a couple more clients it would be worth $20M+, but where even if you could it probably wouldn't make sense to raise money.

For people who have already put in the 10+ years to develop the skillset to build a huge company (e.g. learned marketing, coding, sales, etc.), this may actually be the most common outcome.

The point is that once you raise even a seed round you're now a wealth manager who is getting judged on your ability to generate IRR and cash-on-cash return and liquidity, not just your ability to make something cool and use it to support yourself. Yes, starting a $100M business is impressive, but once you decide you want to be in the business of being a wealth manager then it becomes a means to an end rather than being the end goal itself.
This makes me wonder. If my startup reaches a certain amount of success, heck if only 5 customers, and for some reason I need to shut it down, what's a graceful way to deal with it.

I can give each customer all of their data back in a nicely formatted zip file etc. But is that enough? customers are more likely to want an equivalent service (remember the Google RSS reader fiasco?). Even if a customer finds an alternative service on their own, there should be a way to import the said zip file from their previous services. This brings in the idea of "service interoperability" (and related import/export) among startups that have no relation to each other. Apparently, standardizations like JSON etc, should make it easier.

Looks like a huge blind spot that the startup industry doesn't pay attention to. (Graceful shutdown and graceful import/export built in as a rule rather than the exception).
FWIW, I set up IFTTT to export to a Google Sheet daily. Not sure if it will give you the level of detail unless the API is already providing it though.
Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer Teardown
Don't be Silent
I thought that in order for a holographic universe to exist, then the universe needs to have a non-flat e.g. slightly-curved spacetime; in order to "close the boundary", so to speak.

But my understanding is that so far all our evidence shows that spacetime is flat?

i.e. we spacetime needs to be an Anti-de Sitter space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-de_Sitter_space
But I didn't think many actually think we live in an ADS universe?

Also relevant to string theory, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence
> Do audiences actually need high production value if they have great acting, writing, directing?

La La Land was made with a $30M budget and has grossed >$220M already.
I hadn't even heard of libevhtp before it was brought up as a failure of the open source model. But I'll bet a pretty big chunk of readers know what libevent is. That's not a minor mixup. All I'm interested in is correcting it, and now that I have, I'm not not interested in litigating any of the rest of this.
You're conflating legally permissible and socially acceptable.

You're just crying about your feelz because nobody likes you. Go cry on your waifu pillow.
I have a Fenix 3 HR, and unfortunately I couldn't disagree more. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Automatic sleep tracking is abysmal (regularly off by >4 hours, sometimes more). The wrist heart rate monitor tends to have inaccurate spikes at least once a day, and when the watch doesn't detect motion the wrist heart rate sensor is essentially turned off (sampling rate goes to greater than once every 30 minutes). Resting heart rate is calculated in at least 3 different ways in various parts of the UI (and none of them seem accurate). And then there's the tons and tons of bugs (and terrible iOS companion app).

Honestly the hardware is ok, but I get the impression that Garmin just hasn't invested in (or doesn't know how to do) software. It's not worth the (very high) asking price in my opinion.
I think it's more like going to a zoo and complaining that it's not a safari.

Logistically, it makes sense to sometimes put up with the artificiality of a zoo, but I think it's the superior option to appreciate animals in their natural context when you have the option :)
Anyone want to explain to me like I am five, because I got no fricking idea what it does and why would I want it?
>Any seeds that happen to get cross pollinated

You can actually sue your neighbors and/or these companies for geneflow into your heirloom crops.

There has never been a recorded lawsuit where a farmer has been sued for unintentional gene flow. Only intentional patent infringement.

>(thanks GE).

People have been patenting crops for over 100 years.

Nobody cared until GMO's came along...
Here's a bet (confidence level: I don't know if I really think this, but I might think this): Long-term, the size constraints of "mobile" displays are likely to be an aberration for most applications. We'll get some kind of head-mounted display / glasses with high resolution and a bunch of augmented-reality fanciness, while other interface features disappear into wearables and the environment, and in 10 or 20 years, the phone-sized displays that have come to seem normal will mostly be as forgotten as the temporary popularity of "netbooks" from a few years back.

Well, that or civilization will collapse.
For home play K.C. Munchkin actually turned out to be the better game.
I like my Vivoactive HR and can confirm its reliability. Just be aware it's pretty large compared to a fitness band, more like the size of the Apple watch. Also, I wish they had contoured the heart rate LED bulge; it digs into my skin occasionally. Nothing else comes close to its combination of activities tracked, battery life and low cost.
Freedom is an awful word (to use in rigorous discourse) because it simultaneously means two very different, if not in some way opposite things. Freedom can be used in the sense of having many options to execute your will, or it can be used in the sense of having nothing to lose by executing your will[0].

[0] - http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kriskristofferson/meandbobbym...
the older you are the higher the likelihood of birth defects or autism or Down's syndrome

For what it's worth, we've been getting really good at identifying these very early with tests that also hold little or no risk to the mother and baby (e.g. NIPT with free-cell fetal DNA). Of course, if there's moral objections to terminating such pregnancies even in the very early stages, that doesn't help.

reality of modern American society.

Yeah, that explains a lot. I understand daycare and healthcare aren't really subsidized here, apparently American society has problems with distributing the costs of childbearing over the population in order to encourage it. I guess they'll keep the population demographics at a sustainable level by immigration or something.
If this had been GPL or AGPL, even dual licensed, it wouldn't have been included in a BSD-style licensed product like Chromium. And Google or any entity behind such a product probably would have written something similar themselves. There is a nonzero chance that they would have acquihired Libevthtp Inc. to get his expertise and IP and allow them to relicense as whatever they wanted... but that's a small chance indeed. So there were really no paying customers, and the market clearing price for a copyleft libevhtp is effectively $0.

Like a startup, writing open source requires that you find customers (or employers) who will pay, or you do it as a passion project. In an ideal world people would have basic income and could write open source all day long, but that's not our world.
Parse is now completely open source: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server

Your app can also be migrated to a free alternative hosting provider with a single click: http://back4app.com/
The first is people incorrectly using the dictionary definition of the word without understanding Organisational Strategy. The second is the "canonical" definition of the term as defined extensively by Christensen.

The state of the film industry and streaming services fits into Christensen's parameters of "disruptive innovation" but it's a long way off given that something like 90% of houses pay for network TV services.
Changing Philips Hue light colors holographically [video]
From the quote you gave, "What is going on is he is effectively giving Green Cards to people on H-1B visas who are unable to get Green Cards due to the [annual] quotas… it could be over 100,000." [emphasis added]

The article states effectively which means that while they aren't given out in reality, they are accomplishing much the same thing in practice and that 100,000 more people are working here than should be according to the intent of the law. For every one of those workers working here, there is one less American working here.

When Congress passed the law, they knew what they were doing. 7% is about 1 in 14 for a world with over 180 countries. Instead of an executive order, they should probably change the law through Congress.

If you want to talk about fairness, then talk about how unfair it is that American workers have wages further depressed and have a more difficult time finding jobs because of this change in executive order (and not the law). The President is supposed to represent American citizens who vote him in office, instead represents the elites (e.g. Silicon Valley firms and Wall Street firms) who want depressed wages for American STEM workers.
World's Lowest Unclimbed Mountain Is Shorter Than a Basketball Rim
Easy to say on a full stomach.
Where in Europe is that? I live in Eastern Europe and we get most blockbusters in theaters the same day as US release date.
> When you start a startup, you get pushed off the side of a cliff with a bag of aerospace parts.

Here's a pain point for someone to solve: why the fuck does the VC process necessitate pushing unequipped people off cliffs?
I believe it's vim vs. emacs :P
I've said it before and I'll say it again: A big part of Fitbit's problem is the poor hardware quality of their products, especially considering the high price. A lot of people, me included, will never buy another Fitbit after having been burned.

This is an opportunity for Apple. They could come in with an "express sport" offering at under half the pricing of the current Apple Watch, optimized as a watch, fitness monitor, listening to media during your workout, and for only charging once a week. (I'm thinking around $120) The selling point would be that you'd pay more than a Fitbit, but you'd get better build quality, experience, and support.
Become a contractor and work remotely. Search patio11 comments / threads on HN about it. This probably isn't something you do overnight, but create a plan, and hopefully in a year or two you'll be in a place to make it happen.

Maybe check out the monthly who's hiring threads posted on HN too and see what type of jobs are remote and what type of skills they are looking for. Adapt your skill set to fit their needs. Working remote is probably the easiest way to do what you are asking. Starting a company is many many time harder and you'll be working 9am-9pm 7 days a week.

It's not like you really escape the 9-5 working remotely, but you just have more flexibility with your time and location. You need to want it bad and be self-motivated. Find a way or make one.
Information on local small businesses. The thing that immediately comes to mind is menus, store hours, etc. Just today I had to call to find out if a restaurant took reservations.
He's torvalds on GitHub....
Too easy to 'cheat' at. Just look at the comments page for the challenge and the answer is usually there. In the end, you just have to take a risk when hiring people, remembering that it is a 2-way street, and that you have to put in effort to make your employees great ones.
C Header File Guidelines (2012) [pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503912
Why paint a target on your back?

If you have a device that's relatively well hardened against attack, why subvert those protections by giving a copy of your secrets to a third party who isn't (and can't be, from a legal standpoint) as well protected?

Why give a copy of your secrets to an adversary that's 10 to 20 years ahead of the rest of the world, crypto-analytically speaking?

In short, make them work for it.
>
Dictatorial and authoritarian are not necessarily negatives

Yes they fucking are.

> we knew that's how this candidate wanted to operate and voted for it anyway

Most didn't vote for him.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13505287
That picture of the Louvre looks like my twitter feed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13505287
Vitalik, one of the devs of Ethereum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin
Does that mean there are more low-level 2-D laws of physics that give rise to the observable laws of physics? If yes, would we be able to access them?
Why was this downvoted? It would be helpful if someone stated the reason why. What is clear is that Trump represents American workers over the elites that want to depress wages. What is also clear is that Rubio was "bought" by Disney precisely because they wanted to depress American wages.

Are these facts incorrect?
I'm not surprised. He seems quite smart and engaged with the project. But he became a maintainer in 2015; the project itself goes back to something like 2002.
Exactly what I had in mind when I said "or a library with a C interface".

(Someday, I hope we have a better cross-language ABI than C.)