skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the original 1997-ish release was so much fun

It was insanely laggy, when the servers were up at all. It probably was the best game ever made for a six month period, between when the servers finally got semi-stable and when they started releasing the expansions, which basically took all the fun out of the game. (What was the point of accumulating wealth and power once you could disable PVP to prevent yourself from getting randomly killed, and when there was now unlimited space for houses? Basically none.)
“All of a sudden you can have the idea that an hour-long commute is actually a big perk because instead of driving and having to sit and focus and lurch through traffic, what if your car is a rolling living room? What if you get to spend that hour playing with your kid or reading the news or watching TV or actually working because you don’t have to worry about driving?”

I suppose one can find these answers from people who commute by company shuttles, trains or subways.
I agree. Just pointing it out it does sometimes come up in background checks, since you said it never had for you.
That's not e-paper.
My bad. I missed the part "there are people who suggest..".
One of the more interesting lines of thought on Ars was that the request was so badly implemented (without a judge's signature; could have a been a National Security Letter instead; other similar reasons), that it was almost as if the person implementing it was doing it because he was pressured to by higher-ups, not because of true desire to see the request succeed.

Either way, I'm glad to see the negative attention the request received and even more glad to see the request withdrawn.
Agreed. It's more disturbing that people seem so comfortable calling others liars without evidence. Or racist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc. I heard Chris Matthews push that yesterday - saying things like "maybe they're challenging her like they are because she's a woman... I don't know". If you don't know, don't suggest it.
No, the state does not have absolute power over you. I'm not even going to engage with an argument based on a self-evidently false premise.

The first amendment doesn't come with the 'strings attached' that you seem to think. There's a nice outline here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce....
Your hyperbolic example of "your money or your life" is clearly in the 'Fighting words' category, constituting a threat or intimidation, if used as such.

Yes, I'm using a hyperbolic example to expose the flaw in your argument, while saying that there should be restrictions on speech. Trying to invalidate a counter-example directed at your by appealing to my priors is tantamount to an admission that you have no meaningful point.
There's one for $1799 intended for prototypes.[1] It's clever; it uses more vision processing and less tooling than other pick and place machines. Parts only have to be close to the right place; the vision systems do the fine adjustments.

Unfortunately, few people seem to have one working. There are two hacker spaces that got one, and there's even an unboxing video, but didn't get it assembled and working.

I could use one of those occasionally. The tweezers and microscope thing gets tiring, fast.

[1] http://www.liteplacer.com/
No, I'm not saying the law shouldn't change.

Advocate changing the law if you want but acknowledge that you're asking for a change in the law. Then consider the reasons the law exists in the first place and why they're no longer applicable, if you think that's the case.

And please don't misstate my position. I don't desire having zero privacy. I just recognize why searches are necessary.
Remember, we're talking about Google introducing fact checking. In this context, "fact checking is not enough" is a very different position from "fact checking is subjective".
> The tech can do better, but as I've heard it told, the market for it has been eink readers. Who needs to refresh their book at 120hz? is the thinking. Folks that want to game or have a "retina" resolution buy a tablet proper.

Personally, I'd love to read most web-pages on an e-ink display, due to the high contrast, minimal power usage, and great readability even in direct light. I don't care hugely about usability for dynamic content, but I'd want fast scrolling with no update artifacts.

Related question: what's the state of color e-ink displays? Seems like it should be possible to produce a bi-stable display with a little bit of color depth, even if just through filters and dithering.
> Building Unity on top of Gnome Sell should be very straight forward. I'm still surprised nobody has tried to do it.

I think this is what ElementaryOS[1] did. It was funny/interesting to me that the "flashiest" features demoed on the website were pretty much just stock Gnome 3 features.

[1] https://elementary.io/
Both. And I try to give them a rough idea of the things that factor into pushing one into the higher end of the range or lower end.
Good point.

Somehow I wasn't considering unique_ptr<T> as a smart pointer, despite using it all the time for resource management to avoid writing wrapper classes.

I do now, you're right.
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Don't you ever drive somewhere and realize you have no idea memory of doing several of the steps involved in driving? I've been driving ~15 years, and can certainly say that at this point my daily vehicle operations are not all performed with full focus. I still check for traffic, and drive safely, but it is more automatic than just about anything else I do.

Substitute in "riding a bike" for driving, and I bet you do the same.
> Don't create the expectation people should work in their time off.

I have no such expectation, nor did I say people should work in their time off.

I think people need to keep up their education. Learning doesn't stop when you graduate. Your company should be willing to pay for training/courses/conferences, but I also think people that are passionate about things will naturally grow on their own.

At the least, this might mean staying current with news and/or community, especially within your current toolset/ecosystem. As an example, if you don't usually know within at least a week or so that your main language/framework/database/etc has a new release, you're in this category if people I'm talking about.

And to clarify when I say "9-5" I mean the type of person that always has their stuff packed up and is walking out the door by 5:01pm. This tells me either you've stopped in the middle of something, which means instead of staying for 10 or 30 minutes to finish it you will take two hours tomorrow to regain context, or that when you're done something and it's after say, 4 o'clock, you just don't start anything new.

I don't believe in working crazy (or even just 'extra' hours beyond what you're paid for): that leads to burnout and that is bad for literally everybody. I do think it's better to stay longer to finish and not waste time on the context switch of going home, or other days just leave "early" if you are done and can't finish anything further.
The other cheap trick is to write a news article and turn it into an editorial by finding random people who agree with the story writer's position and quoting them. This happens all the time with tv news where they interview the random guy on the street.They probably interviewed 20 people and only kept the opinion of the one person they agreed with.
Podcasts were my gateway to Librivox, Librivox was my gateway to Audible.

Librivox is fantastic; however, our copyright laws are just too restrictive. Librivox is the kind of thing that shows the immense value of a robust public domain.
No, you're wrong. Uber doesn't know if Levandowski stole the documents or not. But they are saying it doesn't matter, that any stolen documents are between the individual and Google, because none of those documents made it into Uber's code base or designs, and none of Google's designs are in their current research Lidar, which was developed by an entirely different company that was bought before Levandowski even left Google.
iOS: Experimental https://wiki.dlang.org/LDC#iOS_.28iPhone_OS.29

Android: Experimental https://wiki.dlang.org/Build_LDC_for_Android

Windows: Works. Here is the Visual Studio Integration https://github.com/dlang/visuald
Yeah. I worked next to these guys in the Harvard iLab when they were getting going. They had the opportunity to cut corners and cash out early on, but seemed to remain focused on building a truly robust, broadly capable picker.

I often noted with them at the time similar notions of the implications for the job market. There's so much hype out there, but I think RHR will be one of the companies that actually illustrates to the public where things are headed.
Yeah.

> Self-driving cars, for example, could potentially put 5 million people involved in transportation jobs out of work. And creating 5 million new jobs for them seems impossible with net monthly job gains typically in the hundreds of thousands. “Five million jobs seem like a lot of jobs. It is a lot,” Andreessen says. But looking at the big picture shows that “every year in the U.S. on average about 21 million jobs are destroyed and about 24.5 million are created,” Andreessen says. “So the real answer to how do you replace 5 million jobs is, we already replace that in less than a quarter [of a year] today.”

This is disingenuous, bordering on stupid.

If a McDonald's closes and another one opens, 20 jobs are destroyed and 20 new ones are created, but they're the same!

What we are talking about with self-driving cars is an entire category of jobs being destroyed, and 5 million people doing the same thing, becoming unemployed at the exact same time (a time when their job doesn't exist anymore).

Very different from the normal life of the economy.
My past salary is an irrelevant information for my potential future employer. If they ask about it, my response would be: "Why would you like to know it?" Any answer to this question is bad. If they do not bail out and stop asking at this point, then I bail out.

The point is that if I want, I can completely change my way of life by switching to a job which pays 50 % of my current salary. Or 400 % of my current salary. It does not matter. What matters is that it is solely my decision and none of my potential future employer's business.

If they want to know my current salary, it is a red flag. I do not care about them knowing it, but there is a high risk that they will use that information to try to make an offer which they think that I ought to consider good. They can offer e.g. my current salary + their negotiating margin and think "hey, we have offered you more than you have now, so you ought to be happy". While in reality, the only person who can responsibly decide whether I am happy about it or not is me.

Note that I am not criticizing companies which want to hire for cheap. This is all right. But they need to do it transparently, from the beginning. They should say it clearly and upfront: for this position, our budget is somewhere in this range ... are you interested or not? This is a fair way to go.
In intellectual and creative work, the mind is not just hardware but also software and data. It's entirely plausible that the software gets better fast enough (with the right life experiences) to dominate the hardware getting worse with age.
That's a brainfuck
Ctrl+F generics :(
Billy Jack was rated M.

This is just another new rating system.

As long as they don't prevent me from reading false things, I can live with it.

Keep it my choice.
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famine is bad for most species
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What do you think the EULA is for?
It would be nice if you would cite your sources. (http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websi...) Your quotes look like little more than personal attacks, and a glance through Lacapria's list of articles on Snopes reveals plenty of debunking from both sides of the isle. http://www.snopes.com/author/kim/ Further, the articles seem clearly written, well cited, and as factual as I would reasonably expect.

Unfortunately, the same does not apply to the author who wrote the article attacking her. Not that the Daily Caller looks much like a high-quality source to begin with ("conservative HuffPo" doesn't inspire confidence), but the author seems to toe the standard conservative conspiracy lines (Soros, etc.), with an fair amount of misrepresentation in his attack article. If I had some hours I'd look through his articles to see what I could find as far as accuracy, but as it stands, I'm going to go off the headlines and say Snopes probably checked some of his articles, found them wanting, and he took offense.

http://dailycaller.com/author/peterhasson/
One key factor is the way people act in groups are limited to basically one mode: master-slave. We don't have the environment to nuture other modes, which is crucial for innovation. Also avoiding people equipped with that ability is one of the fundamental work to make sure no group can emerge to do anything effective.
The people who define Go as a "systems language" use their own terribly useless definition of "systems language". Per wiki: "For historical reasons, some organizations use the term systems programmer to describe a job function which would be more accurately termed systems administrator."

So for them, a language that can be used by DevOps Engineers is a systems language. While for sane developers, a systems language is one with deterministic attributes and the ability to be compiled to native code with no/a minimal runtime. I.e. one you can code "a system" in.
To say nothing of the challenges of a rigorous fact-minded enquiry in to the topic of KATE!
He downloaded the documents 6 months before leaving the company. Have you ever downloaded a git repository to do some work at home, 6 months before leaving a company? Google hasn't proven that Levandowski actually did anything with those documents, besides downloading them onto a work computer, months before leaving Google. They don't even know if he copied those files off his laptop. Could it be conceivable that he was actually just working on those files?
The fines happen. The evidence is photographs and my testimony if the driver doesn't plead guilty.

One Twitter user documents his use of the process quite thoroughly:
https://twitter.com/D00RZ0NE
At a previous company I found an internal excel document with everyone's salary, from the CEO down to his assistant. On the doc my salary was inflated ~25K to what my actual gross was, I can only assume these perks/benefits were included on top of the salary. But it shows they see that on paper that's how they saw my salary hit. I think it would be wise to include these in your previous "salary".

I never did find any more details on the document though :(
That's not a consumer product. That's an enterprise service.
Honestly I don't find much difference. I think the quality of the books and the writing matters quite a great deal. A brilliant book is memorable whether you read it or listen to it. Audiobooks tend to be more tied up with my memories of (bicycle) commuting.

I find it easier to listen to dull books rather than reading them, because there's an innate flow of pace with the audio version, rather than having my attention drift, so it's easier to get through the darn thing.
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My moderating day generally goes as follows:

- Look at the mod queue, replying to any mod mail we've received and any posts that have been automatically removed by our AutoModerator script.

- Have a peak at the new posts, on any one day my sub-reddits only get a couple of hundred, so it takes a couple of minutes for a cursory glance.

- List all reported messages and see whether they're acceptable.

Then, because most of the sub-reddits I'm currently contributing to are about projects I'm working on, I generally answer any questions people have or problems they're facing.

However, this is just for me. It really truly depends on the type of sub-reddit you're looking to moderate as to what work you're required to do.
To be fair, trust isn't the only reason many companies want workers to be in-office.
That's because he's a corporate shill. Corps need to keep their dirty fingers out of politics. Gov't has already restricted consumer choice with ISPs and now they want to use that lack of choice to punish us. It's really messed up, and there's no actual way for consumers to go somewhere else. I hope all the major US ISPs get sued into oblivion for anti-trust violations.
I agree that they'd have the power to do it. I don't think they have the motivation, though. It's a clear win for the customers, but a lot of work on their part that I don't think would translate directly to numbers on earnings reports.
Even a partial driver with a blob or two is much better than a fully closed driver.

AMD drivers ship important blobs...
You were expecting a patch bump to contain a major language change?
"Uber also claims that, contrary to paperwork filed with the Nevada DMV, it has never deployed a custom LiDAR system in any of its cars or trucks and will not be ready to do so by the time the case is slated to go to trial in October."

via https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/07/ubers-legal-defense-waym... --

"A Waymo spokesperson told Engadget: "Uber's assertion that they've never touched the 14,000 stolen files is disingenuous at best, given their refusal to look in the most obvious place: the computers and devices owned by the head of their self-driving program. We're asking the court to step in based on clear evidence that Uber is using, or plans to use, our trade secrets to develop their LiDAR technology, as seen in both circuit board blueprints and filings in the State of Nevada."

If they've legally filed with the state of Nevada as using proprietary LiDAR tech, doesn't that put the nail in the coffin?

As an aside, if it is found that the stolen documents were disseminated internally, don't they have a near-impossible burden of proof that no trade secrets were integrated into the braintrust of the company? How is this typically handled? I imagine it involves rebuilding the division and dismissing any previous project participants.
Yup, A-Frame supports Rift/Touch and Vive with controllers and room scale (Firefox Nightly)! Watch me code A-Frame room scale VR with motion capture recording https://www.twitch.tv/videos/133862568
I use librivox material to learn foreign languages which is awesome, because I can have an e-book and audio book and read words while native speaker is pronouncing them. I have used Anna Karenina and Tom Sawyer.
Hey Greg,

Thanks a lot for your feedback. Reddit for books would definitely be more relatable to people on HN :)

You've suggested some serious interesting things.

Like giving the link to other shelves on which a book is. I currently don't have a book view because the site itself is very new and I want to validate if people really like the proposition as such. But this information can be integrated in the current shelf model too. I'm thinking something at the bottom of a shelf where the reader gets to see the other shelves that contain the same books.

Hearting of a shelf and the share on the right is indeed confusing people. Will do something about it sooner than later.

Thank you again for taking out the time to write your feedback :)
Such a strange frame for this article: Some people like to listen to lots of audiobooks, and get more reading in that way. It must be addictive! Let's tie it to trends we like to finger-wag about, like multitasking and productivity culture!

Maybe some people just like reading/listening to books rather than watching TV and noodling on their phones all the time? And that's OK?
This is what I get for another similar query..

http://imgur.com/a/iy2cK
They still get millions of location updates every 15 minutes. I don't remember the exact number as it has been a couple years since I talked with people using their data but it is much much higher than you would expect.

They don't need you to "check-in" when they are grabbing your location every 15 minutes in the background. They've also built APIs into ad networks that ping their location database with coordinates millions of times a day to find relevant ads. There's thousands of apps using ad networks that funnel location data back to 4sq.

Techies may have abandoned them, but they still have a ton of middle America thinking that 4sq is cool. My mom for example.

On another note, 3-4 years ago I had access to a large anonymized bank/credit card transaction database from a well known company. It had about 1-2% of all transactions in the US by our estimates. When we modeled the quarterly sales of Walmart compared to it we found that it was incredibly accurate going back 5 years, even with 1/50th of the US population.
Yeah definitely.

I completed https://aframe.io/aframe-school via https://webvr.rocks/firefox on my PC & Rift.

It's a great framework.
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Agreed. jQuery is NOT going to be coming back around for another round of dominance. It will continue to slowly fade.

It was a huge step forward, but that was several steps back...
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Looks pretty interesting. I like the curation a lot better than some others I've seen. Although this may be a function of user base and audience at present. My comparison would be Goodreads, which is so overwhelmed with historical romance, fluff, young-adult sci-fi, and New-Agey self-help that I've yet to see anything on their newsletters that looks remotely appealing to me. People love that stuff, but it's not what I'm looking for.

I'd be curious (at some later date) to know what kind of a return you're getting on Amazon affiliate fees. At this point, that's the most reliable advertising income stream on my side-projects. It seems to be the best deal going, considering it's a pretty minimally invasive kind of advertising, and they actually pay a decent cut on referred sales. And that's on a piddly little blog that has some reviews, some code tutorials, and a page where I list some favorite books, as opposed to something like this which is really designed to get people to convert.
In asm.js (excluding fonts and documentation) it's about 3 MB
https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/pdftex-wor...
Amazing! D has really been exciting me for the past couple of years.
It has great potential.

Hopefully a fully FOSS compiler will bring it right into the mainstream.
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> I think what he was referring to was the fact that the graphs appear to be hand drawn.

Yes, and so was your parent comment. Some people have suggested that the hand-drawn appearance communicates imprecision. For example:

> The rough, seemingly hand drawn nature of the graph provides a visual hint as to the imprecision of the results.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graph...
+1 for the community aspect.

I also could afford to live on my own but I prefer to have roomates.

I live overseas,where as a foreigner a personal network is even more important that back home.

Having roomates makes my social life easier. No need to spend so much energy meeting new people outside. There are often people hanging out in the living room. I rarely feel lonely and often meet new cool people,at home.
I use Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.7 to RDP in from home on a 4k monitor to work servers running Windows 2008 and 2012 and the DPI scales correctly. Have you tried following these steps?

https://superuser.com/questions/891413/remote-connection-des...
Between the alt_uscis Twitter suit and recent changes in ISP legislation it seems like there are going to be more and more of these "give up the anon!" pushes.

What a great time to be a VPN service.