skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I didn't hear that ad and yet, we're talking about it. That's got to be worth something. Likely only because it is the first time though.
I ask people regularly to pay for a service that I provide for free:

https://easy-a.net/

The only thing I provide for paying me are some nice graphs and insight(s) (predict end of semester grades for the given student/user) if they pay me $20 / year. That's from college students... and I have plenty paying me.

All the data was gathered from a FOIA request which I make publically available. The only private data is what users enter about themselves.
Wow, I totally missed that it was from 2015. Thank you for the update and for your work!

I find stories like how Niko met the authors fascinating, so thank you for that as well.
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I would love to see the HN community response if suddenly SaaS start-ups could be easily pirated or app pirating becomes as easy as streaming a movie. How many would feel the same way when it involves 2,000 hours of their own work coding and marketing the product being pirated?

The internet's culture of normalized piracy and stealing is part of the reason why we can't get anybody to pay even $1 for something on the internet while they will happily hop over to Starbucks every morning and drop $6.50

Hence why intrusive bloated dystopian advertising is the only way to stay afloat for most sites. Would you rather pay directly for someone's work you like or sell your privacy/attention to get it for "free?" I see the world heading in the direction of the latter. A dystopian future indeed.
Imagine when they start asking for your passwords. Many of my colleagues said they really won't go anymore if that happens. It won't be long before conferences in the US will see diminished attendance from other parts of the world. In my field (biophysics) I'm pretty sure more local conferences are going to much more preferred in the future.

At Boston Logan airport me and some colleagues (+ the rest of the people on the plane waiting at customs) were once barked at: "The next person who forgot to fill out the back of his green form will be sent back to his home country!" No smiles, just a death stare while you put in your finger prints...
It's a shame, it's such a beautiful country but I could do without.
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The scope of such a project is way too large.

You'd have to become everything to everyone.
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I get your point.

But just what is it to be a criminal on the Internet? I mean, copyright law in Russia emphasizes fair use far more than does copyright law in the US. Laws about pornography are very different in Japan vs the US vs Saudi Arabia.

Also, regarding Pirate Bay, the MPAA etc who persecuted them are arguably the major criminals involved. Because they have abused their power to defraud artists, and to fix the prices of CDs and DVDs.
I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic when you say "this is fantastic/this is great."
> only used for hardware-accelerating video decoding and such

Not true. GPU layer compositing is implemented in all modern engines. That's how the CSS 3d transforms work. That's why the translateZ(0) hack existed to speed up animations (it created a new GPU layer. Now there's an official property for this, will-change.)

WebRender (used in Servo) goes a step further — it's not just compositing, it's actually rendering the colors, gradients, borders, shadows, rounded corners and so on in OpenGL. Look at the shaders: https://github.com/servo/webrender/tree/master/webrender/res
Some bullet points I wrote when I tried it:

- The display technology is very nice. I was very impressed by how good the object permanence was: when you put an object somewhere, there is no lag or jitter when you move your head and it stays anchored to the spot. The holograms are reasonably bright and opaque.

- Also, when you pin an object somewhere, it stays there even when you walk around the room. It even stays if you pin it in like the middle of the room where there are no obvious reference points or anchors to use.

- The field of view is neither great nor terrible. It's usable but more would of course be better.

- The major downside is the interaction: "air-clicking" is not great and the gestures to trigger various actions aren't very reliable. It really needs hand controllers like the Vive has.

- The unit itself is comfortable, much more so than the Vive. There was an annoying lens-flare-like glare below the field of view. Not sure if that was my unit not set up correctly or a problem common to all of them.

Overall I'm quite impressed, although I probably wouldn't buy one even if I had $3,000 to burn. V2 will probably be the one to get, if they expand the FOV.
I can speak best to pip, but versioned dependencies are a non-problem in Python because of it. Who cares if pip isn't baked into the standard library?
Count me as another in the "Americans who avoid air travel" bin.

I'd rather rent a car and book overnight hotels than buy a US-based airline ticket, to the extent that I have driven (with another driver) 50 hours on the road to avoid 12 hours in the air. And with the prices of airline tickets, even renting the largest passenger vehicle for a week plus two weekends and staying in mid-range hotels was less than half the money cost for four passengers. Also, we got to see Oklahoma in its "everything is on fire" season.

That is the extent to which air travel has fallen. I would rather drive across a state that is literally on fire than fly an airline in the US. I would rather piss at a New Mexico low-water-use rest stop than in an airliner's toilet. I would rather be surrounded by an entire herd of leather-clad hog-riding bikers in the middle of nowhere than put a laptop or decent camera in checked baggage. And if I ever get forcibly dragged out of my seat by some thug, I'd like the cops to be on my side.
The best way to look at it is a corrective to the harmful pathologization of unusual mental states by psychiatry. Yes, the new-agey claims are not really plausible. But mental illness is less prevalent in traditional societies where it is understood in a more nuanced way.

AFAIK dementia patients don't generally get involved in the oppressive and demeaning psychiatric system. It's a horrible business.

It is important to listen to the experiences of the "neurodiverse" to understand how we need to make life better for them. It's true that schizophrenia is generally a disaster that destroys the life of the sufferer and the people around them. What needs to be more widely recognized is the psychosocial aspect of illnesses like schizophrenia, e.g. the extent to which they are caused by toxic families and/or social circumstances. This is where "healing" becomes relevant: a psychotic problem can be an opportunity to change and escape from a toxic situation. Of course, it often has the opposite effect, when the patient is pathologized, medicated, and told that they are the problem.
Really cool but it would be even cooler if it offered sponsored newsletters in other industries like finance, real estate, faith, gaming, etc. Are there other services like this or is this the first of it's kind?
> Releases first occurred in 2014! I'd be surprised if it had not been considered.

I wouldn't be surprised if it hadn't been considered. The paper was released in 2015, so development may have begun in 2014. Furthermore, I don't believe the authors were engaged with the broader Rust community before this paper was released (they are today), so it's possible that there was no expert there to advise them about this approach. Also, discoverability of libraries was more of an issue back then, so it's plausible that they wouldn't have found it independently.
This is the original context for "trust, but verify."[1]

There is already a lot of infrastructure for monitoring the development and production of new nuclear weapons. As you suggest, tracking existing weapons is much harder and depends mostly on the cooperation of the club members.

It wouldn't be easy, but it can be done.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=JQGHqScEFtoC&lpg=PP1&dq=ho...
Those are good points worth considering for a given tool.
I often say that we don't need to agree, just commit together. I particularly like disagree and commit better. It seems like it would shorten time to decision as long as no one takes it personally.
There's a fix already for text input on Windows, it just didn't land in the current nightly
I completely agree. Steam was the reason I stopped pirating.
For music, spotify did the trick :-)
Agreed! That's an ideal kind of setup.

Total conjecture but the people who I have seen struggle with WFH are the same people who don't have a social group outside of work, so WFH ends up meaning no social life and they become very lonely and isolated as a result.

For people who do have that social group, they tend to want to get the work done as quickly and efficiently as possible so that they can then spend time with their family and friends, ie the people they want to be around, not the people they have to be around to make money for their employer => themselves.

With family and friends you can talk about life and have fun. With coworkers, often you talk about work or things indirectly connected to work...
I always thought "it's day one" sounded like something a man says to his wife after he's been caught having an affair.
> Now if you want to change something in that framework, you have to change and deploy every last one of your services.

Do you? As long an appropriate versioning strategy is in place, it seems to me that you would only need to update the service that prompted the code change, leaving the other services to use the older version. If the other services need to have their code changed as well, then that'd be the case whether or not you used a shared library, except you'd have to update the code in 12 places instead of just one.
There are demos, reviews, and about a million voices on the Internet saying the new Call of Duty is crap. If you then go out and buy it then you should accept the risk it might be crap.
aww. Thanks! I'm looking forward to tasting the results. Metric-driven food for the win.
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That is already clear from my post ;)
Not worded this way, but the idea of commitment is valued more heavily then unanimous decisions at my work. In particular, we follow that puts commitment right after conflict, agreement isn't necessary.

I don't think this is abused because it's up to all parties to give their commitment. I can't give your commitment if you disagree, only you can.
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Is there a solution to commenters who think monospace quoting on HN is legible on mobile?

Edit: I apologize for the snark, but still, monospace for quoting doesn't add anything, and I don't see why people do it once they see it forces a side scroll on small screens. Please just use >
If greed was the only driving force in human history we wouldn't have democracy, philosophy, sciences, etc.

There's plenty of other powerful counteracting forces to greed in the human psyche and society, like justice, social consciousness, and fairness.

It takes education and awareness, I think to really feel like those are important. And America is increasingly becoming less educated and aware.
Again, I would be very, very upset - but as an outsider looking in, it seems a bit childish and primitive to assume that whoever raced to the seat first gets to keep it, regardless of any other factors.

It isn't like a city bus where you can elbow your way to the front of the line and grab a seat. There's an assigned seating process that's 100% controlled by the airline. If they screw it up, that's on their heads.

It is an entirely reasonable expectation that once you've been issued a boarding pass, board the plane, put your bag up, belt in, and get a drink that you are sitting in that seat. There's nothing childish or primitive about having that expectation.
I use my shell history to pickup past command invocations, but at some point, you have to clean things up and create a script. The script could be for repetitive tasks or help tame complicated command line syntax. The nmap, curl and groff utilities are a few of my favorite examples of commands that have too many options.
Add to that, I don't even know where I can buy a digital copy of most movies. I know I can sorta rent rights to them on amazon, google, etc, but to actually be able to use it as I please and copy from device to device? Itunes is the only one I know to be close to that.
This reminds me of a project that Texas Instruments was working on a number of years back. They invested in and helped fund the development of a wire that could work suspended in fluids.
The startup that invented it and was further developing it was doing the work to develop an optical implant that would allow the blind to see. TI didn't care about helping the blind re/gain their eye sight, they just cared about getting their hands on a wire that didn't short circuit in fluids.

Not sure whatever became of that project...
> This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services.

Emphasis added is mine. US coins and currency are valid offers of payment for debts, but for most other purposes a vendor can choose what to accept. The uniform commercial code, §3-603, then states:

> If tender of payment of an obligation to pay an instrument is made to a person entitled to enforce the instrument and the tender is refused, there is discharge, to the extent of the amount of the tender, of the obligation of an indorser or accommodation party having a right of recourse with respect to the obligation to which the tender relates.

Unless there are other statutes that apply (I'm not any kind of expert in this area), it sure sounds like if I make a valid offer of legal tender to an authorized agent of a creditor, and they refuse, I have satisfied the terms of the debt. So, if I owe someone $10,000 I can legally offer them one million pennies, which are legal tender under the Coinage Act of 1965 (perhaps I also should provide some form of proof that there are one million pennies in the truck so there's no dispute about that). They can also legally choose to reject it, but if they do then I no longer owe them anything.
You tacitly accept rules you refuse to oppose or do anything about.
I work from home a couple days a week, to avoid the fairly long commute to the office.

I definitely think seeing my family around during the day is a big plus. I mostly start really early (around the same time I would normally go to take my bus), so I have a nice 10-15 minutes break with my kids, before they go to the daycare. My wife also just started a bakery and works from home mostly, so I have the opportunity to take small breaks during the day and spend some time with her.

Last but not least, I am more productive and on average create more value when I work from home, just because I start my day doing what I like the most and commuting.

Obviously, this is just an anecdote and everyone's case is different, but I think if you work from home and you're not alone, it shouldn't be as depressing and/or demotivating.
I'm planning on expanding for sure. I couldn't find anything like this, that's really why I built it. So I didn't have to google them every time I was looking for one.
If the company is a huge one, with offices on all continents except Antarctica is it still an anecdote?
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I'm not very experienced but the part about (non-)shared front-ends doesn't sound convincing to me at all. Why are some methods to combine front-end code bad (angular) but others are good (ESI tags, allegro)? If there is no coordination between front-ends, how do you get a unified user experience and a consistent design?
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That's also an API service, http://docraptor.com, with a different pricing model that uses the Prince library for PDF rendering.
I couldn't care less about content creators. I'll start caring a little bit when they stop stealing from me every single time I buy a SD card, or HDD, or DVD, or whatever that has some storage in it that will never see any of their material. Until then... Piracy is also a form of protest and a valid one. It's a shame that when they make something worthwhile at times, I'll pirate it too, but if they want to be indiscriminate, I'll not bother discriminating either.

To clarify: I live in a country where we have to pay tax to content creators organization every time we buy something with storage. And it's not an insignificant amount. Justification being: "It can be used for storing copyrighted material (music and movies)."
You're not describing cognitive dissonance. There's nothing inherently incompatible between free sharing and paid creators. It's hard, of course, but most economic issues are hard.
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Ask HN: Some important/interesting YouTube channels 4 dev/programmer you follow?
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They will never do that, since it impacts profit.
Ask HN: Preferred Solution to Pay Vendors?
Paying my vendors / independent contractors is a pain. Half accept payment via their own website. The other half require checks.

Hoping someone here might have a solution that they're really happy with... possibly one of the new fintech startup? Thanks in advance!
One of the things I liked about Caltech when I was a student there (late 70s, early 80s) is that when someone did or suggested something stupid, people would tell them it was stupid [1]. Everyone recognized that everyone has utterly idiotic ideas now and then, and so being told that an idea of yours was stupid didn't imply that you were any dumber than anyone else there.

A typical conversation would go something like this:

me: [suggests some stupid idea]

friend: that's stupid!

me: Huh? [pause a moment to think about it, realize he is right] Oh, yeah, that was stupid.

...and then we move on. Sometimes the last line bit might instead be

me: Huh? [pause a moment to recheck my idea, and see that it was not stupid] No it isn't!

friend [pauses a moment, realizes that he was hasty] OK, maybe it was not stupid.

...and we then consider my idea.

I find this much nicer than the way it is often done nowadays, where what you have to do is try to get the person to figure out for themselves that it is a bad idea, typically by asking them questions designed to make them think about the area where you have spotted a fatal flaw in the hope that they will eventually see it themselves.

[1] Well, not always. Once someone hacked into my account on the mainframe, found something I was working on that had some stupid bugs...and they fixed them and left. I never found out who did it. On general principle I suspect Walter Bright. :-)
I've been working from home for 10 years; our entire company is a virtual office. For me, there's far more positives than negatives, but every personality is different. Some people can't handle it. Sometimes work invades personal/family time, and sometimes it's the other way around.

I miss the social, in-person part, but I spend more time with my family. And we have enough calls, IM's, and occasional in-person meetings that I'm satisfied. But then again, I've also been known to not go outside for a full week and it doesn't phase me. ...which reminds me, it's Spring. I'm going to go take 5 to lie down in the grass in the backyard and watch the clouds until my next meeting starts. :)
I'm fine with a few friends (who I also interact with solely remotely as they live a few hundred miles from me), working remotely and just seeing my wife daily. I love it and have never been happier with a job or my living situation.

As with anything. YMMV. I've never been an ambitious person though, and my job to me is just a 'do what is needed, and no more' type of thing. I'm never out there trying to network or dig up leads on new opportunities either though, so if I wanted to do those things or were more ambitious I guess I could see the appeal of going into the office.

We (my wife and I) do get out quite a bit though, although we're eachother's best friend so we're not out socializing with out couples in our off time (thankfully).
The bank had the HoloLens for a few months before I had started, but they never did much with it. Basically, they had a budget to expend on R&D and that's one of the tools they felt could be useful (and also probably to market the department to their higher-ups). Me having experience with Unity, the Kinect (the precursor technology to the HoloLens) and just barely with the HoloLens (had a chance to try it before it was publicly available while I was at Microsoft) made me an ideal candidate for the bank to hire and engage in AR projects with it.

I can do whatever I want with it. I was surprised to find out after I joined that the regulations are really not that bad, less even than when I was at Microsoft. I think it really depends on the department and the function. The HR department for example is a lot more stringent (though believe it or not, they also explored VR with our team).

They have a pretty good set of tutorials on the HoloLens site, though they're kind of monotone and over polished for my taste. I think the key thing is to know Unity, which I've mainly done through doing and exploring their API or youtube videos. MVA is a pretty good resource, though I haven't needed to use it.
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Spotify succeeded where others failed because the RIAA basically picked it as a winner.
I like the idea (barring name issues) but the cost for getting on the list ($25/month) is a little high considering the idea is untested and, unlike the orgs on the list, I don't know how big your potential audience is.

As a NL owner with 8k subs, I would recommend offering a test plan of some kind.
> But people that come to NYC have a much greater experience.

That's quite a statement. I certainly enjoyed my NYC trip a couple of years ago, but there are many european cities that I rather (re)visit before going back to the US. This is not only because of the current administration (though that doesn't help). People have different preferences.