skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The habit turned into a (second) job, I now get up and work remotely in the same field I was studying just I'm getting paid for it now.
Why would I get hurt? You seem pretty weak and easy to defeat. In this brave new world of yours where I'm not bound by any ethical calculus, what makes you think you'll get any opportunity for redress?
Aren't current sensors arrays like $10k? Where velodyne hours to get that under a $1k.
Wonder what the cost to start on this one will be
Maybe that's a good thing.
Yep. That was why it was like this for me. Also 11am is also called "the moment when the coffee from the 10am break is effective".
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I've always been amazed by the product adaptability of Snapchat in spite of the apps technical shortcomings, so much so that I believed the buginess of their app may have only applied to myself. In a world where Amazon loses X% of dollars from milliseconds of latency, the poor performance and bugs of Snapchat apparently do not matter to most users which is quite surprising.
The new Budgie flavor looks really tempting:
https://ubuntubudgie.org/features
I can't help but think that if the Linux kernel were under a CC-NC-BY-SA-type license, as you suggest, that it would be practically unheard of today.

BTW, please mind the distinction between open-source software and Free Software. You don't have to like the FSF, but the distinction they recognize is important.
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I think our first disagreement comes over the meaning of cognitive dissonance itself. I don't believe it to be a mental disorder- just that you're holding 2 conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. I'm well aware that I often do that, as so others. There's nothing horribly wrong with it, other than of course that you should realize you're doing it and stop.

Maybe you could turn your statements about good faith first on me and assume that I'm not accusing everyone who disagrees with me of having a mental disorder. That would be rather extreme. :)

In fact, it's rather surprising to me that you write about good faith but take my own argument in such poor faith!

As for dying industries, I was referring to journalism and you are the second person to miss that so I am willing to believe I did a poor job explaining. I think I clarified well here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14107993
Link? My mom believes this zombie lie (and I assumed it was true too?)

I suppose I can farm some of my own links, but if you have more please LMK!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ddt-use-to-combat... (Article mentions that we are still using DDT in africa)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140224204808.h... (a single mutation is required to for mosquitos to become DDT resistant)
If you're in your twenties, you've probably spent 8+ years building up a habit of sleeping late. It's expected that it would take you a reasonable amount of time to break that.

As an anecdote in the opposite way, I am a sort-of night owl (my peak hours are roughly 10:00pm to 1:30am). As a teenager I was a late night, late morning (4am to 2pm) sleeper. Around 17, I started training at 7am, meaning I had to be up at 5:45 every morning. When I eventually quit after about 4 years, it took me another 4 years to un-learn the habit and move back to being an evening person.
This is the way to handle it. Offer a monetary reward, and obviously the problem can be solved in a way where everyone wins. Even the airline. They shouldn't want to piss people off, and can consider it as spending on their brand if nothing else.

And great point about how it is more efficient this way. Reminds me of surge pricing, or congestion pricing. Economics ftw.
I really wish that the content library subscription business model wasn't inextricably linked to a given provider's user interface. Our software could be so much better if the APIs for accessing content were open, especially for music. I really don't like using cloud software with shifting feature sets beyond my control.
I think it is absolutely fair to question. I thought it was not fair when OP stated big brother throwing fist at smaller company (and Snapchat isn't a startup / small player anymore).

> you'll never beat Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft or Amazon

But Facebook is the youngest. Apple did fail and almost vanish until Steve Jobs came back. Microsoft was sucking on its Windows license and losing so top talents, it came back with Azure and better Windows and Office product. Amazon diversified its product in 2005 and continued to do so now it has so much more capital to invest.

But Google destroyed Yahoo, MSN and AOL, and other web directory websites out of business.

MySpace is sold. Yahoo is sold. Tumblr's ability to make profit is questionable, and will likely fail eventually. Blackberry failed to come back. Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia all sold after Android came along and too late to adopt (from Seamian to Android). Google's first smartphone was a big step up. Wii U sale wasn't good. I can go on with many examples. Sony's digital music products were doing well then Apple's iPod came along. But was Apple's success a pure luck? A pure technical ingenious coincidence? Sony was much bigger than Apple at the time.

The business world is funny because the "too big to fail" will eventually fail one day, either through merge or complete bankruptcy. I predict Uber is too big to fail, but it might eventually pull back its main business back to NA. But that's my wild guess.

So the question is fair, but I think there's a question on leadership. Why some big company fail and others strive? Pure luck? Luck is 30%, 70% is people.

But I share the sentiment that Stories is not as exciting as hearing a robot can talk to me like a normal human. That would be a huge breakthrough, big innovation, and a whole new business venture. Was Facebook's AI messenger great? No, it was a poor experiment.
I'm thinking of games, really. The ones I'm most familiar with had certain performance-critical parts written in assembly, with the bulk of the connective code written in C. I suppose it depends on the definition of "written in C".
Solving B2B sales and cash flow problems
A perennial problem in B2B/enterprise businesses is having to sometimes wait 30, 60 or 120 days after submitting an invoice before you get paid.
This is a headache for many business owners.

Whether you're building AI products or you may even be a painter, financial advisor, florist, freight forwarder or lawyer. This tip is for you.
You can fix this cash flow problem by adding a subscription service to your business model.
Find a niche of clients who you can charge a monthly fee for maintenance, routine deliveries or a bundle of your services. As long as they see the value, you're almost halfway there.

You can also productize your services and charge a fixed fee.
This is a great step towards automating your business.

If you're planning on selling your business in the future, bear in mind that acquiring tend to value discounted cash flows in their assessments.
The more predictable your future revenue is, the better your business looks.

Predictable revenue no matter how small will also help with paying your fixed costs.
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> The response to people in psychiatric distress should not be police, especially not armed police.

A uniformed response to an assault, even if that's just taking an official police report, is absolutely a reasonable expectation. You're probably envisioning a specific kind of psychiatric incident. I understand that inference. Let me try to clarify here.

You seem to be speaking more abstractly, but I have personal experience with this sort of thing happening on a small church campus without professional security.

Churches are somewhat special in this area because they don't refuse service just because someone is different, homeless, or strange. And they don't generally consider it someone else's problem and just evict people who aren't lucrative clients or whatever. But they also have to say 'no' or address conflict at times. For example, a true one, a mentally ill person might be refusing professional help, asks for money for rent from the church, and then gets agitated at the conditions attached to the money (see a doctor, take your pills, join a program for the drugs, etc.).

Also you have things like relationship counseling happening on site (domestic-disturbance-type situations, but at church). Schools (mom wants to pick up kids, doesn't have custody, etc.). And lot of this stuff is all volunteer-staffed.

Churches are holistic and generally have to deal with any given problem any particular visitor or member might have. And they have to be sensitive to people who are healing while protecting everyone around. People are just messy, and at scale, there are absolutely advantages to having a public servant in good standing on the scene. I'm not saying that's the only way to do it, but it's a lot more complicated and acute than people in these comments seem to realize.

Bottom line is that, despite what people watch on TV shows, churches tend to be for people that need healing of various types. They are often people with issues. Wealthy, balanced, fulfilled people often decide they don't need church, correctly nor not, so there are significant selection effects going on here. Due to the law of averages, the larger churches probably have significant security incidents happen on a regular basis.
"money" - turns out it's not so bad; who knew?
A good list of current developments in the field of the mesh networks can be found here: https://prism-break.org/en/all/#mesh-networks
Launch HN: VoiceOps (YC W17) – Data analysis for sales calls
I'm Daria, a co-founder and CEO of VoiceOps (https://voiceops.com/). We built a product that analyzes sales calls and provides actionable tips to close more deals.

We transcribe, parse, then analyze calls for what behavior is most successful (e.g. how many probing questions to ask on a call, the value of describing benefits vs. features, when to time an upsell or close attempt, etc.). Once we understand what works, we help managers scale that out, improving performance across their entire team.

Currently, sales managers spend 10-20 hrs/week listening to the call recordings of their reps and then guessing at how to provide feedback. The process is slow, lacks consistency, isn’t based on data, and often fails to motivate or change behavior.

Every other part of the sales stack (email especially) is already data driven. With sales reps spending most of their time on the phone, it should be the most important activity to optimize.

The prototype was built and first clients closed while I was living in a van and Ethan was sleeping on a kitchen floor in the Mission. Between our three co-founders we’ve spent nearly a decade building sales and support tools for companies like LinkedIn, Gusto, Coinbase, and General Assembly. Even there we saw this lack of data become problematic and expensive.

Take a peek - we’d love to hear your feedback!
Agree here. If people don't like this, what do they expect to happen in a world without patents?
Sounds like exactly the sort of not-actually-a-real-metric metric that would entrance a number cruncher. Forget those moments of excellence where everything gels and you could get days or weeks ahead... Sigh.
Have only used ours a few times since we got it. I like the display tech and image stability. I dislike the incredibly narrow FOV, imprecise and cumbersome gestures, and how difficult it is to get a comfortable fit on my head. I wouldn't pursue the first generation unless they make tons of progress on FOV and fitting.
Given how well the Snapchat guys have done, I'm curious as to how you can say there's not a great incentive.
This is pretty much exactly my review. A couple things I'd add is that being completely wireless is pretty amazing. Having no trackers to set up or tower to connect it to is also pretty amazing. Turn it on and it just works in any room you throw it into.

Also the sound is well done. Similar to vision, it doesn't cover up or plug your ears so you can maintain awareness of your environment. I didn't have high hopes for the sound quality but I was pleasantly surprised.

The gesture thing needs a ton of work though. There are only a handful of gestures, none of them interact directly with the virtual objects. You need to turn your neck to look at something, then make a click gesture to select that item. There is no ability to grab something, mold clay, punch bad guys, etc. Just look around and click, occasionally drag though if you try to drag something out of the field of view of the sensor it gets dropped.
Same thing.

Except freenas was so hard to configure and integrate. I removed it and tried a windows server instead. After installation, the network shares were accessible right away from my other windows machines. So much easier.
I, for one, care mostly about absolute quality. If the rendering is better than native then that's splendid.
I'm the same. Midnight to 2am is peak creativity for me. I just don't feel bad about not being at my top at my job, and can never make it into the office before 9.
To me the thing that is shocking is that a buggy app with crap UX and only the network effect as their moat against competition could be valued at $29B.

If you build a product that can be cloned trivially, you should expect others to clone it. If you are relying on the network effect to beat off competitors, you'd better not have competitors with a bigger network.

The question is, can Snapchat use their newly obtained war chest to make a counterplay that differentiates them from Facebook/Insta. If I had cash to gamble I'd short Snapchat and bet no, but we'll see.
Yes, but this does not include things happening right now: Sports (yes, I love watching great games from the past, but for many people it's important to see it as it happens), and News (also yes, I prefer text-based news, but talking heads are the preferred method for many people). Streaming doesn't have a good answer for these services.

Live soaps and reality TV shows, though, I agree are kind of pointless.
I had roughly 8 times the contact hours that my theology housemate had, so it's fairly likely that I would be starting earlier than them most days.
This is generally true if you buy internet from a cable provider. They'd rather sell you both services.
Not quite; Hotspot (Sun/Oracle JVM) and Android Runtime are both C++; the major C/C++ implementations (GCC, LLVM/Clang, MSVC, Intel C++ Compiler) are all C++ too, although GCC was C until 2010 and MSVC's 16-bit ancestors were as well.
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That's not what I asked. I asked for evidence Republicans were deliberately trying to suppress voters.
You are right that they aren't causally connected. The OP is using the colloquial understanding of introversion. A more accurate description would be "asocial".

Psychological terms like these get confused in common-speak all the time. I am always a little thrown off when someone describes an asocial person as "antisocial", without realizing that the latter means something very different and disturbing [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGN8bP5uJvM
I was an early adopter of tech like XML and SVG. Even did a website in XForms. There was a lot of talk about making browsers support all of it. In the time since SVG was standardized, I think I've run into just one... maybe a few... media that I was sure was SVG. Everything else was a different tech.

I'm not worried about whether Servo supports SVG.
So I can only speak for myself, but I've been exclusively working in low level C type work for the last 9 years. Think embedded, kernel dev, reverse engineering, etc. type stuff. I'm good enough at it, but hardly an expert.

I can't say I've ever lacked for work and I make $125k in a very low cost of living area, and if I wanted something new I could have interviews arranged tomorrow both where I currently live and pretty much any major US city.

It's probably not on the same scale as web dev, but there's also a lot fewer of us working on this side of things.
Ideally we'd abandon this weird psuedo-capitalist idea of education and just convince our government that education is the best investment a country can make.

An educated populace will devise better defense technologies and strategies. An educated populace will create more efficient means of production. An educated populace will strategize better trade deals. An educated populace will create more cultural icons that attract foreign tourists.

In other words, yes, open-source the lesson plans, and increase the education budget by 500%.
By almost every account, Amazon is terrible place to work: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...

This isn't the type of leader you want to be.
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There are some other ways to slice and compose PDFs under Linux. The pdfpages package for LaTeX is pretty handy, but it's a bit awkward if you don't need LaTeX. Then there's PyPDF2. Although I don't think it fully supports Python3, it works fine under Python2 and has been quite useful for me.
Reference counting is a form of GC. It has nondeterministic delays. You don't know which dropref() operation will just decrement and which will finalize. Moreover, when refcounted objects finalize, they recursively drop the refs they hold.

Of course, in some trivial cases it is obvious. But in those cases, you could use manual memory management. For instance, trivial case: making an object and then dropping it in the same scope.
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That's an interesting question to ask the vast hordes of people around the world who partake in torrents -- applied ethics research.

When I used to torrent stuff, it was mostly because I was a kid with no money to spend. I'm glad my family wasn't sued for a hundred thousand dollars or whatever!
The bull artist does seem to be quite immature.
Can I ask what that field is? I also study math and am looking at options.
I would like to find out what people who have been traditionally been the target of white supremacy groups would say to your reply. I would like to know if they would consider it acceptable, given the history and context of white supremacy and the violence toward minorities that it's led to.

I wonder if they would be OK with, "well, Jean marches with a group calling for your extermination, and you know, throughout history, there's been a lot of violence from them to people who look like you, but since she doesn't bring it up at work, deal with it."

I think I'll ask around with my POC friends, in that ham-fisted way white folks always end up asking about these things ("So, I don't want you to speak for all people of color, but ... I'm hashing something out on the internet with some stranger who's probably also a hetero white guy, and ...").

My hunch is, knowing your coworker wishes for the extermination of your people would be considered hostile and unacceptable, especially by those people historically targeted by white supremacist violence, even if she's nice to your face. Like, I imagine you'd have the same tension with a card-carrying nazi and a Jewish colleague who lost family in the holocaust.
I did and had a series of issues.

* Docker containers failing after running for ~24 hours due to networking problems with boot2docker vm.

* Failing to automatically import my zfs pools on upgrade

* UI "freezing" or generally stopping correct functioning (requiring reboot)

* UI login failing requiring reboot

I reverted back and forth a few times, I will probably stay with Corral until the next 9.10 release.
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Embedded/devices aside, regular/high-level C/C++ jobs are scarce as well, in REMOTE space.
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The experience was pretty good for what they were doing. I found a critical bug in UI that I submitted. I enjoyed watching how quickly they tackled the bug even more than how quickly it was rendering the sites. They're doing great work. I might fire it up again in near future and put it through it's paces.
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I had a quick look at their site but I'm still not sure what they change from vanilla ubuntu.
I find the exact opposite. My WFH days are far more productive. I feel no need to go to the office at all, most of the people I work with are remote, anyhow.

And for technical communication, I'd MUCH rather have everything in writing via email. No, I don't want to call someone on the phone and have them read logs at me. I want a copy of the damned log file so I can look up what's happening with each message and figure something out, not to listen to someone ramble on the phone.
Would be interesting to see the demographics on those users. My understanding is that if you're under 25, you use SnapChat, and if you're over 25, you can't figure out how the hell to use SnapChat. Instagram Stories may've exploded into the demographic that doesn't use SnapChat. This is possibly supported by the comments here about Instagram's UI being a lot nicer; most of us on HN are in the demographic above SnapChat users.

If this is the case, it's not as damning for SnapChat as it seems, at least until some younger, hotter social app bumps them off the pedestal in a few years. Young users get older, but older users don't get any younger. My understanding is that SnapChat's inscrutable UI is deliberate: they want you to have to be shown how to use SnapChat by someone already on it, to avoid the "My grandmother's on Facebook, how uncool is that?" problem.
That is a nice way of putting it.
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Ownership is where you can get other people to support your possessory interest. I think the fact of violence is extremely relevant, and that you are discounting the impact it would have on you.
Differnt issue.

4'33 is a recording of the audience, not silence. I studied it in a music class in school.

Cage's estate's infringement claim on "silence" was not upheld by a court.

The defendant on that suit put Cage's name on the album as a songwriter, of his own accord.
I just said: Copyright is not the same as trademarks... Movie adaptions for example could be prevented even if the book is in the public domain.

Further, some authors make their first book free on Amazon in electronic format in what amounts to advertising for their second book. As long as an author can 'make a living' being an author you need to demonstrate the need for additional revenue when they are not writing.

Only a tiny fraction of Music, TV shows, Books and movies get revenue over a very long time period.
It seems that, for this very tiny OS, they're trying to do real work in interrupts. Most OSs do that, including UNIX/Linux. This has the problem that you can't block the interrupt while waiting for some thread to clear a lock.

QNX, though usually sends a message to a thread in a process when an interrupt comes in. The interrupt is processed slightly later. QNX has no interrupt lockouts longer than a few microseconds, because it's not doing much from interrupt code except sending messages. QNX also has a strict real-time priority system, so this doesn't hurt interrupt processing latency. So everything running in a thread uses the regular locking mechanisms, rather than depending on interrupt lockout.

Something like that might be a better fit to Rust's locking model. Either that, or the language has to know about interrupts, as in Modula I.