skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would only expect that to happen in a case where there's some wiggle room. For example, I might expect it if I settled with an insurance company after a car accident, but I wouldn't expect it if I was obviously owed money by my insurance company.

The case here seems completely cut-and-dried. AirBnB owes this money, so they should pay it, end of story. I'd only expect an NDA if they were paying more than they had to. Thus the question I led with: what's going on? Either AirBnB is trying to pull a fast one here, or the case is not as clean as the story makes it sound.
AOL Server
Ah you're right. Totally forgot about that. Thanks for clarifying. :)
New John Carmack Software Doubles Oculus Home Resolution on Gear VR
My partner worked at a school that handed out iPads to the middle school students for use in class.

Hearing what they use them for just makes me think that Apple needed someone to dump last year's leftover iPads on. It's really dumb stuff. They don't get access to the internet. They get a handful of stupid "learning" apps to use and a social network type thing that can be summed up as "instagram where mommy and teacher watch and control everything".

The devices are so locked up that inquisitive kids ignore them, dumb kids never figure them out, and everyone in between just kinda lugs them around because they have to.

I am beginning to think that tech capitalists have milked the general market and are now turning to the next juicy targets of education and healthcare.
> Facebook, which acquired the VR company almost exactly three years ago today.

Perhaps Palmer is able to 100% cash out all his stocks/RSUs today so he's out to do something else?
My understanding is that all electronics are essentially analog, but we make them digital by assigning arbitrary thresholds digital meanings (e.g. everything < 5 is 0 and everything > 5 is a 1).
Is he really that "embattled"? Do people really have the energy to keep the outrage going this long?
Homeless to Home
Homeless to Home

This touching story has touched so many hearts across the country. Alfred who has given himself the nickname "drop the sign" says, he owes it all to Evon Latrail. Evon Latrail is the author, of "When Mommy Went to Heaven." She is getting ready to release another book on stopping bullies in school. Evon who did a little modeling in the early 2000's made her way to the studio writing and recording music. She made her way through the entertainment business with connection after connection.

Alfred, says he was on the highway with a sign asking for money when Evon Latrail pulled up to him and said, "are you looking for work?"
She told him to hop in the back of her pickup truck. She first took him to McDonalds and got him something to eat. After, that she took him to a huge house where someone assigned him to yard work paying him $100 a day with Saturday's and Sunday's off. He also had his own tiny room out back.

After, months of working, getting himself together and no staff pointing or judging this once Homeless man, he decided to search for his family. And, he found them. He lost hisself years ago at an early age due to drinking and drugs over a woman who walked out on him. He said he found himself after being picked on, laughed at, and judge because of another woman who walked towards him......giving him another chance to try this thing called life over.

Alfred said, Evon Latrail is the reason he calls himself "drop the sign." He no longer stands at a highway hoping for a dollar here or there with a sign asking for money. He has dropped that sign. He now stands on his own 2 feet, helping out those he can help because of the one woman who helped him out without judgement or a cause.
I agree, the analogy is the only interesting thing about this article.

The $315B figure is there just to have a click bait title. He just assumed teachers only use 30% of the features from the solutions is used, thus 70% of the money is wasted. But in the real world that's not how it works. The same goes for enterprise market, where feature availability is important. It doesn't mean that every business will use every feature but vendors have developed this multitude of features over the years to address specific needs. It doesn't mean that if you don't use every feature you are throwing money away. You are not expected to use 100% anyway.
>The key thing in monarchial feudalism is that a single person is the state (Imagine a person worth 'only' 14 trillion dollars, he's got his own airforce, navy, army).

This is entirely wrong. Other people have already commented on what feudalism is, but I wanted to provide a brief high-level history in case people were interested.

So let's take the historical look! How did we go from ancient Rome, an imperial monarchy, to feudalism being the law of the land?

The seeds of feudalism were sown from the Roman Emperor Diocletian's decision not to tax lords if all commerce took place within a lord's domain. Diocletian was a wonderful Emperor, one of the best, but he was around at a time when the Empire was cannibalizing itself with constant civil wars, making his main goal was peace and stability. To simplify, if I owned a city, and the city blacksmith supplied everyone else in my city, the state (i.e. the Roman Empire) would not take a cut of this. Only if goods flowed into a neighbouring lord's areas would the empire tax it.

What's the incentive structure here for the lords? Build up as much as you can within your domain and make it as self-sufficient as possible. It's legal tax avoidance, baby!

Because of all the civil wars there were labour shortages, both from bloodshed, devastated landscapes, and people fleeing. What's the solution to this? Outlaw moving, making peasants stay where they grew up and work the job of their father. This made economic planning much simpler, and Diocletian was an economic planner. In doing so, we get serfdom going hand in hand with the seeds of feudalism.

Over time, as the Roman Empire waned, this political structure stayed in effect. Power was increasingly ceded to the regional and away from the imperial. Basically, the state collapsed on itself. While we do get the Catholic Church springing up, it only sorta-kinda fills the power vacuum as it's clearly not a state in the same way Rome was.

Ambitious lords take more power, filling the vacuum of the the monolithic state. Without a single arbiter to enforce relationships between the lords, fealty and swearing allegiances become much more important. Literally the only thing holding these states together were a few lords word, some marriages, and often some hostages. If it was worth it to break those things, the 'state' would crumble, and everyone knew it.

That's basically it. From then, feudalism became the law of the land for around a thousand years (let's roughly say 300AD-1500AD). Then we're onto absolute monarchies, the renaissance, and the bourgeoisie throwing a wrench in everything.

In case all that hasn't helped, here's a (probably weak) analogy: monarchies are monoliths, feudalism is microservices.

FYI, Diocletian didn't use the word lord, he used dux. Which is where we get duke, doge, duce, etc. We also get the word dioceses here, which the Catholic Church still uses to this day.
The purpose of innovation is to create happiness. We need to weigh the happiness innovation creates with the unhappiness that the system promoting innovation creates. This calculus is complicated.

More equitable distributions of goods and services create more happiness than less equitable ones due to strong diminishing returns on happiness from external things. Furthermore, a lot of unhappiness is caused by wanting that results from comparing yourself to others, so equitable distributions also directly reduce unhappiness. On the other hand, feeling in control also causes happiness, and having your income taxed heavily does cause some perceived loss of control.

Ultimately I think that a slower pace of innovation resulting from a more humane system with a more equitable distribution of wealth would make people happier. We don't know for sure though, so it is worth experimenting to find out. That being said, the Nordic countries have done this experiment and they are rated as the happiest nations on earth despite having a horrible climate, so there is some evidence for my position.
I've noticed digital artifacting on radio broadcasts, particularly in rebroadcasting programmes from earlier in the day.

I've experienced this with multiple NPR affiliate stations where it's particularly noticeable for their generally high audio quality.

My suspicion is that audio is recorded with different codecs or at different bitrates, though I've never been able to establish this.

I've also not noted the problem for a few years, so it may have been addressed.
You can tag entire roles themselves.

Lately I've been using this as a way to quickly apply selective config. It feels 'hacked-on', but it works.
I think it's most about awareness/marketing. Just go out in the streets and ask people if they know about nextCloud. If they do, ask them if they run it. Most don't because it takes time and effort to run things. nextCloud is squarely in the enterprise space. nextCloud-as-a-service is a supremely hard market to enter because you need investment from day 1 (storage has to be very high and pricing has to be very low since it's the first thing people will compare against).
Why is it legally easy for them to do this, but in other high profile examples it was difficult for companies to dilute a now-unwanted partner? For example, Gates and Ballmer pushing out Allen, or Zuckerberg pushing out Saverin.
We've been working a lot with Graph.cool recently in conjunction with Apollo. It's a powerful combination and each day we are learning of powerful ways of working with our data. Our data is going to be heavily dependent on the relationships we build between each model. All very exciting. Easier now to build apps on both web and native that share their data.
>While you could teach practical skills such as

Those aren't practical skills that need to be taught to secondary school students. They need to learn mathematics, writing, reading, literature, science, etc. They don't need to learn how to code, they don't need to learn how to make memes in Paint or youtube videos of themselves playing minecraft, nor how to play irrelevant (if fun) games like Chess.

>Only use for computers is for people to write documents, search online, print and... waste a lot of time on games, social networks.

We certainly were not allowed to be on social networks or games during computer lab time whe{re,n} I went to high school.

>Then, test taking could use more automation. Lots of teachers do their test taking by hand... Grading tests without an written answer is very easy to implement.

That's simply not true. Test taking is done in written form for good reason. It's possible to draw diagrammes, to write emphasis, use italics, etc. without learning some arcane editor or (worse) syntax when you're meant to be doing a test.

Marking tests without a written answer might be easy to implement, but that just encourages more fucking shit tests like they have in the US, where there are few written answers. EVERY test should be ENTIRELY written answers.
ZTE Gigabit Phone takes the lead to come up with the world’s first 5G smartphone
I've been using Apollo now for the last month or so, in production and I have to say that it's been a fantastic tool to work with. The community and the team behind it are also second to none out there; hugely friendly and incredibly helpful. Check out their Slack channel if you run into any issues!
Motherboard - Mutterbrett is ok i'd say, even Platine goes well.
I think it would be easy for a policy to waive contents insurance in such a case, but a lot more challenging if it waived liability. (Otherwise, as a condo association or whatever, you could be potentially ruined if any condo owner owns a unit, has "full insurance" as required, and sublets/has a guest burn the entire building down.) Insurers have far deeper pockets than individual property owners, guests, or condo associations. It's possible the condo association would have additional liability insurance above and beyond this which would step in, though.
I have a low paying, tedious, non-technical job, so I have no such urge. I work to pay the bills, I write code on the side because I enjoy it and now and then make some money.

Life is too short to care more about making someone else rich than you should.
Do you pass the MobX stores down to every child component as props or do you use @inject? I started with the former but all of a sudden all my components had all these "default" props that cluttered things up. @inject seems great but the documentation doesn't push it enough to make me believe it's best practice.
He makes me almost as nauseous as the headset.
Thank you for your thorough reply, I really appreciate it.

I can guarantee you I'm no guru at all, I just have a solid understanding of distributed systems on top of average coding skills.

Anyway, I talked to the recruiter and have still been on the defensive side, so he just told me to share with him what's the number I'll need in order to stop this and just say yes, and he'll work with the financial department to see what he can do. I'm going to probably try to get a very mild increase after I hear what the other companies have to say, but it's definitely good to know I can't overly milk the cow
SpaceX is life support for the capitalist cancer of exponential growth, so I agree with you there. On the other hand, electric vehicles are going to be necessary for a sustainable future.
As a counterpoint to this, my second year in CS had four papers (Programming, Data Structures and C, Operating Systems, and Networks). The course was being revamped one year at a time, and right at the beginning of second year there was a problem with the workload:

they had set the load and level for Programming to final year level. A dozen (out of 140ish students) dropped out by the end of the first week, and by the end of the course (13 weeks long) more than half of the students had dropped out, and just 37 were in a position to pass. I don't mean that they had completed the work necessary to pass, but they could conceivably do so by the final due date for the course.

I don't know how many actually passed, but of the 37, not everyone did. It was so bad that they had to drop the prerequisites and allow in anybody who had completed the other papers just so there could actually be a final year (three year Bachelor of Science).

Funnily enough, they refused to refund any fees, even though the person in charge of the course was eventually fired over the mess - one that he didn't even create! He was handed the course and workload, and told "This is it, this is how you must teach it." We were all told "Suck it up and do it." Even the teaching staff had told the professors that it was a badly designed course, which didn't go down well.

I passed that paper, failed all my others (no refund: I was told I should just have worked harder than double the standard semester workload), and burned out. Not one of us paid intending to be part of their incompetence. Had I known how badly put together the course was, I would have dropped out in the first week as well. If I wanted the Honors workload, I would have entered the Honors program.
meh. I'm starting to hate using GUIs reaching out for the mouse is almost as irritating as clicking it. Since my hands are already on the keyboard, I may as well type... Maybe that's why this is unimplemented. Maybe I'm not alone.
That's why I switched to Fossil and now spend more time writing code than trying to deal with Git CLI weirdness.
Why would you have problems with Gödel's incompleteness theorems (which are, I assume, the ones you are referring to), and why do you put 'theorem' in quotes as if they aren't actually theorems?
Handmade what?
He almost certainly shed a lot of his supporters with his actions.
You bring up a good point, I never really thought about the fact that you'd still have the base amount after. Thanks for the insight.
Maybe that just means that current charities need to be disrupted.

Part of the problem is most charities throw money at symptoms rather than addressing the root causes.
Thanks I'll check it out!
So you owned one? Tried it briefly?

Do tell.
I would do all of this if 80% of these savings were converted (sic) into green power research and actions. The issue, and I feel it's not power only, is when you efforts are dilluted to god knows where by the socio-political structures.
I didn't know OS/X used the decimal prefixes, but that just means it's less true, not untrue. There are still many more systems out there that use the binary prefix. I imagine most *nix, and not sure about Windows. And RAM is still power of 2.

I don't think it's terribly user hostile to express sizes as powers of two when you work with these kinds of numbers for a living, especially when it's near the bare metal (Erlang binary data type FTW!)

But I do think it's user hostile to have two different units depending on what you're looking at. If it were all decimal or all binary, it would be much easier.
Enthusiasts are _intense_, and the VR community is still all enthusiasts. At least partially because of the price, but probably also because of the severe lack of high-budget games.

So yeah, the Reddit echo-chamber keeps the hate going long after it would normally die in that kind of community.
I don't find it takes much energy to consider him a horrible person.

e: Downvoting because you disagree is not a proper use for your downvote button.
Why is that supposed to increase the odds that I'll give the writer's company money? At least to me, it's more likely to give me a distaste of them as windbags who have nothing to offer.

Do companies actually think marketing like this works? (Worse: Is it possible that they're right?)
The gas tax is a good point. It's going to become less and less effective over time. Regions will need to move to comprehensive road pricing and tolling to make up the lost revenue and to not induce demand.
magit[0] solves many of the issues identified here. It's the first tool I've used that makes git feel like a paint brush rather than a camera.

[0] https://magit.vc/
No it's not. The fruit is: use a sideloaded Signal which you built yourself if you really need to be secure. If you're not, Signal is still better than Telegram or Whatsapp.
Agree. The first sentence was so awkward that I stopped reading.
This is a very interesting proposition - imagine what could happen if you paid teachers 120k!

Are there any countries that do pay teachers very highly?
> failed Reddit campaign

Failed all the way to the white-house.
OpenGL accelerated x86 games come to Raspberry Pi
To be clear, this is presuming a (multidimensional) bell curve distribution for dart throws, or weights and heights, or for whatever. Let us be clear that the GCI is specifically about bell curve (i.e., normal, Gaussian, etc.) distributions, not about anything else.

Also, I believe the shapes must be not only convex, but symmetric under reflection through the center. But it suffices to consider only parallelepipeds.
Testing the invisible, preventing elements invisibly blocking other elements
#17 Rest before you are tired

Time really is a constraint. It does not make much sense to try to work all the time in order to achieve your goals. As programmers, we really ought to get that there are constraints and trade offs to things.

I would add to the list -- "Don't go it alone. Get other people involved, even if you don't have to."
Ah..I recall attending a startup launch party that had Don Johnson and Chinese food. There must be some Perl script they use to generate the permutations..
The median high school teacher salary is $57,200[0], the median salary for the same level of education is $48,500[1] and often works more hours on a yearly basis, has less job security, and has worse benefits. Where does this teachers are underpaid meme come from?

[0]https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/mobil...

[1]http://study.com/articles/Average_Salary_With_A_Bachelors_De...
> I didn't say that. This is why it's hard to have civil discussion online because people take words out of context and use whatever interpretation they have.

How about I just agree and say you are right?

Its pretty hard to have a civil discussion when you top level post and accuse HNers of commenting like lemmings.

> This is at best an irresponsible piece of writing that's clearly targeting discussions like what's happening here. This is the 1000th time I've seen a post on this topic on HN, and every time it's posted here it's like groundhog day, same comments. Well this is what publications like these want, they want more traffic.

It sounds like you took a lot of: words out of context and use whatever interpretation they have to come up with your theory.

And now your sort of playing king of the mountain on your original comment (being contentious with me and others) and not wanting a discussion. I even originally mostly agreed with you (see my original comment).

> It's your choice, but there's plenty of evidence where people who came from the bottom rose to the top by working hard (and I mean "top" as in someone who's made world-changing achievements)

Yeah we have had lots of female presidents.

Yeah sure people can go up a few rungs with hard work (hence why I agreed with you) but extremely rare is the true Cinderalla story. It usually takes generations.... but I suppose even success is nebulous.

Actually one could even argue you don't need hard work to be "successful" ... you just need to be happy (this is even based on your previous comments).
Unrelated to this thread, I was just thinking to myself a few minutes ago "2015 me would be very surprised at how mad i've been able to bee for this long". So I would be more surprised if people weren't still outraged.
Start a new project with a domain from Google
VR is impressive tech, but is Luckey a time traveler now? He went back to 2008, publicly supported and voted for Ron Paul to give himself plausible deniability for his future support of Trump? (EDIT: I'm leaving this error here, but Bob Barr was the Libertarian party candidate in 2008, and Palmer wasn't yet voting age. He would have needed to time travel to 2012 and vote for Gary Johnson, I suppose.)

Are you unwilling to even consider the possibility that Palmer is actually a libertarian, and holds beliefs consistent with mainstream libertarian positions? The 'evidence' in that article includes him liking posts on Twitter indicating he probably dislikes Hillary Clinton (something he would have in common with virtually all libertarians), supports Wikileaks (again, pretty common among libertarians), and that he frequently likes tweets/retweets from his girlfriend (common among virtually all young adults in CURRENT_YEAR who like being in a relationship).

It's pretty flimsy stuff, but presumably all the author could find to prop up the main bit, that Palmer donated to a non-profit with roots on T_D (which, obviously, is a cesspool) that…never seemed to do much of anything as far as I can tell.

I'm not "surprised" people call him a Trump supporter as a consequence, people say all kinds of dumb and unfounded things every day. I'm asking you to provide evidence for the assertion you made, or perhaps to reflect on why you (and seemingly everyone else in our culture) are so quick to label anyone with whom you have any difference in ideology as THE BIG BAD OTHER.
I wonder how those "cylindrical layers" JC implemented are a product of just well enforced dogmas (again).

Carmack never does things twice, mind you.
I owned a DK2 for a little while. Didn't make me feel sick even at low framerates (about 7FPS playing Elite:Dangerous on my very out of date gaming machine). After about 6 hours or so of continuous use I felt a little strange in a different way than 6 hours of computer time usually makes me feel.