skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice idea. I actually save the gems I find here. So in no particular order, wisdom from the archives -

enobrev 673 days ago on 'The self-hating web developer':

> I've always been a fan of collecting money for solving problems and letting others worry about whether what I'm doing qualifies as "real" programming. Knowing how to listen to potential clients has gotten me a lot further than worrying whether PHP is a real programming language.

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kingsidharth 2356 days ago on 'Evernote makes $800,000 per Month':

> This is the biggest mistake most of the people make. If it worked that way, every weekend app released here would be making tons of money. (We have better apps here as weekend projects than out there in market).But this is NOT app v/s app game. This is business v/s app. And you can't take down a business with an app. You need to create a business.

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knob 1217 days ago on Your best passive income? (2014):

ozh:
> "Do some freelancing during office hours & double the income."

viach:
> This would not be passive.

knob:
> You have to think bigger man.
Outsource the outsourcement... Interact with top-level outsourcer once per week... he interacts with low-level outsourcer daily.
Profit.

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mcphage 653 days ago on Japanese mini Segway “WalkCar”:

> "Can you remember the Segway?"

> Yeah.

> "And how we all thought of it as the new way of human transportation?"

> No, I don't remember that bit.

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cableshaft 619 days ago on '‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups':

pbreit:
> I dunno, hopping on board the rocket ship still seems a lot easier than building the rocket ship.

cableshaft:
> But building the rocket ship is more fun. Especially if you know it's going to explode midair once it's launched and you don't have to be in it when it does.

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graycat 760 days ago on First Round Capital Open Application for Startups:

> Can a solo founder of an IT startup hope to be successful without equity funding? Should be: All across the US, cross roads to the largest cities, solo founders do well mowing grass, selling pizza or hamburgers, pumping gas, paving driveways, ..., big-truck, little-truck distribution businesses, etc. without equity funding. IT should be an advantage.

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puranjay 838 days ago on 'Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard':

> I have the same issue (find the time). I've set aside 10pm-2am every weekday to learn how to code, plus entire Saturdays and Sunday mornings. I can, at most, manage 20-25 hours, usually when I'm already bogged down.
I've been toying with the idea of quitting everything and going all-in for 3-6 months.
Would that be 100% retarded or just about 70% retarded?
I can live with 70%.

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And my favorite:

blake8086 1962 days ago on 'How Trello is different':

spolsky:
> We wouldn't provide that kind of support, nor would be it be expected, for a free and easy-to-use product.

blake8086:
> I think you deeply underestimate the sense of entitlement people get about products they enter lots of text into.
Functionally you can achieve the same outcome using any one of the main methods of communication - a short email, a black snapchat, a tweet, an SMS and a Facebook post can all achieve the same thing (provided the message is short enough, or you can be bothered to chain them in the case of Twitter/Snapchat).

That said, all the different apps have a very different social context to them - how I meet someone and the intention of what I want to say to them will dictate which medium I will choose. Indeed even the expected response time will be different.

An email is a comparatively formal means of communication - I would expect the longest response time and would typically choose this for someone I either didn't know so well or was opting for a more official tone.

A Facebook message is quite informal so I would opt for this if I met someone under quite casual circumstances and/or I wanted to downplay the nature of my message.

Whatsapp is quite quick and fast to the point so I would use this for the fastest response time.

SMS has started to feel weirdly distant now, given that almost everyone is on alternative mediums, I find SMS to be quite the oddball for communication.

YMMV these are just my personal findings...
Yes, and there are many dark patterns that companies use to get your data from your contacts, even if you don't use those companies' products.
Here are the commands I ran to get this running on FreeBSD:

pkg install nim nimble sdl2
git clone https://github.com/JHonaker/wireworld-nim.git
cd wireworld-nim
nimble install sdl2
nim c display.nim
./display
It seems like we do go in the other direction, too, though. When computer scientists encounter some new problem domain—e.g. rendering photorealistic scenes at 60 frames per second—people analyze the domain into various 'primitives' or underlying principles. We don't have the same notion of 'truth' in selecting a set of underlying principles like you get in the sciences, though, which means multiple sets can survive and be used in different contexts (e.g. using raymarching and distance functions, versus using triangle meshes and Phong shading)—there doesn't only have to be one.

Then at some point, other engineers use those 'underlying principles'/primitives in order you build up particular complex instances of whatever domain was analyzed in the previous stage—but it does start with the science-like analyzing and 'theory building' (not literally—it just has an analogous structure/role).
Usually fast food lobster is warm water langistino.

I tried the McLobster a few years ago, it was pretty mediocre.
How would they prove that you own every subdomain?
> for packet switching this is between hard and impossible.

Isn't that what Virtual Circuits[1] are for?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_circuit
I had a mixed experience as well.
An order of six micro USB cables went faulty in no time. The small springs holding the cables' micro usb plug in place tend to easily lose all tension. After that has happened the cable sits loose, slips out easily and the plug heats up due to increased contact resistance.

After having left a review on Amazon, i was contacted by Anker and got an apology and 6 new replacement cables. Alas, they were of the same bad quality :-(
He should do a Youtube series of physical effects - how they would have been done then, improvements that can be made today without going full CGI.
Fantastic comment, this cleared up one or two headscratchers I encountered while patterning a Lisp I was writing in Lua with LPeg (I had just encountered LPeg and wanted to do something fun with it) on Peter Norvig's Lis.py. It didn't 100% square with what I recalled from other Lisps.
Long haul is the only type of trucking I can see being replaced by autonomous vehicles in the next 10 years. Milk runs require, at least for the time being, driving through many surface streets, unloading product off the truck, and potentially upselling the customer using the relationship you build with them over time.
One of the things that got me to leave was how crappy facebook has gotten for actual communication. This part of the post really resonated with me

> If you’ve ever had that conversation, you’ve noticed that there’s a big disconnect between your expectations when you communicate on Facebook and what really happens. Basically, Facebook filters out your posts based on whether or not people will use Facebook more if they don’t see it.

Too often I'd want to share or talk about something and radio silence. Checked with friends and no one saw it. Putting aside caring about privacy, why put effort into a system that over time is more and more geared to peddling crap to you and your friends, and gets in the way of actual communication.
Typical laptop battery has pairs of cells in parallel, so removing half of them is trivial.
So, for negative conclusions about Assange we need to apply Occam's razor (if he's innocent why didn't he turn himself in), but for positive conclusions about him we need to avoid that and invent more and more complex, evasive answers?

Thank you for your help in getting president Donald Trump elected.

Sincerely,

A Russian Bot
I purchased a different bluetooth speaker from them - https://www.anker.com/products/A3102011 and I really like it too. I use this speaker at home in the kitchen and it's amazing how well it sounds for a 35$ gizmo.
From user smacktoward:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7314434

> For all the intellectual firepower of people in the tech community, there is a curious strain of anti-intellectualism that comes forth in projects like this; an eagerness to discount the expertise of people who have studied a subject for their entire lives, just because they weren't CS majors. It's like trying to send a man to the moon without working with any aerospace engineers. I honestly do not understand it.
I personally think these types of coding projects are way more effective at determining skills than whiteboard or fizzbuzz type stuff. It also opens up opportunities for you to discuss the solutions you used with the hiring manager.

Now if they are requiring you to spend more than 2 to 4 hours on a project, that is unacceptable imo unless the hiring company is willing to pay contract rates for the time.
> I'm sure if Google developed Android Studio from scratch, [...] maybe they would have chosen Groovy

I'm sure they would have also developed the build language from scratch also, and I doubt it would have been as cluttered as Apache Groovy. Check out the Groovy developers mailing list [1] to see how inactive Groovy development is nowadays.

[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/groovy-dev/201705.m...
Gecko-based adhesives have been reported for like a decade, are any of them commercially available yet?
Thanks Mr Mondo!
What would make you switch?
I use a cheap, no-brand 7x 18650 cell USB battery with a seemingly gimmicky solar panel that actually works from Amazon. It both charges and discharges slowly, but it works good enough for now and it's TSA-compliant to pack in carry-on. It's really poorly designed in that all sides are symmetric and the manual power button lacks an affordance... it does have automatic power-on based on USB draw.

As a similar potential business model, Monoprice seems like a great business for the customer, as cables are/were the highest margin items in electronics store, but I wonder if they're making enough money to be viable: anyone can knock-off cables and compete to the bottom worse than DRAM ($.75 USB cable, where's the profit in that?)

I'm wondering if Anker is potentially investable or if it will at least earn a comfortable living for workers, suppliers and owner/s. Differentiating a-la Zappos but beware of an inherent lack of long-term defensibility and brand-crowded marketplace.

I'll give em a try when I need that next thing that normally would be an Amazon/Newegg/Fry's purchase.
Wow, I remember enjoying the HBO intro as a kid. Never thought about how many people and how much work it took to create. At the time I think I believed the logo was computer generated as I'd seen Tron by then.
Here is another page on distance functions...

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfun...

...written by one of the authors of this amazing 4k (four kilobytes!) demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0vBmiTr6o
> How easy or not it is to be fired varies by state. Right to Work states are the easiest to be dismissed in (fired or laid off, not all dismissals are firings). More union friendly states (NY, CA, WA), it's harder to be dismissed.

All US states have at-will employment, which means that if you don't have a union contract, you can be fired for any reason or no reason.

All of them. "Right to work" is a completely different policy question.

Nobody except for union workers and some executives in the United States has what other First World countries consider a binding employment contract. All employment in the USA is by the mercy of the employer.
Asked on the release post of 9.2 in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14396680
Can you point to any evidence that Tesla owners are being confused by Tesla's marketing?

For example, after being challenged by the German authorities, Tesla commissioned a survey and it turned out that 98% of owners weren't confused:

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/t...
You've now reminded me of my most-upvoted HN comment to date: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417168

I remember a couple of techies sitting around, watching the thread, and the guy pissed us off to the point where I just couldn't keep my mouth shut.
There's a real opportunity for AMD here if NVIDIA doesn't release a consumer variant of Volta because Titan X Pascal intentionally cripples FP16 performance to drive P100 adoption. It's the same sort of nonsense they pulled with crippling FP64 performance on GTX Titan (Maxwell) to drive K20/K40/K80 adoption, but it got old a long time ago.

What's more interesting is the disruptive change to the underlying programming model for Volta (thread-within-thread) that will break a lot of existing CUDA code without refactoring. So if there's no GeForce Volta option, I suspect a lot of that code won't get refactored. So Vega just needs to not suck and to deliver decent TensorFlow/Torch/Caffe performance to succeed as an alternative to NVIDIAopoly.
There are pros and cons for each.

React: once you get the framework down, it's a lot easier to build a native mobile app with React Native. There's no Angular Native.

Angular: powerful and abundant. A little different, but flexible. Answers on SO for every little thing that will come up to ask. Not sure if newer frameworks will have that same luxury.

Rails: a lot of convention. But once you get it down, you'll be able to build complex apps in little time. Also a lot of community support and search engine presence.

If it helps, I've open-sourced all code around Standard Notes. It's mostly a Rails/Angular stack.

https://github.com/standardnotes/
I'll speculate that he will design a new cloud-first programming language.
Almost all letters in GAFAME has their own programming languages:

Google has Go (and Dart)
Apple has Swift (and ObjC)
Facebook - Hack and ReasonML
AWS - ?
Microsoft has DotNet-based PLs, Typescript
Ethereum - Solidity, Serpent, Viper, etc.
I looked at it as a pay per task, each task came with a list of associated sub-tasks, which was often a bunch of sitting.
like I was saying, many people would like us to abandon this large source of protein even though sustainable fisheries are possible.

Look at the fisheries in New Zealand or Alaska for examples of very well managed fisheries.

In many developing countries it's not a tragedy of the commons problem, it's a structure/stability problem. How can you ever have managed fisheries without political stability, or with stability but rampant corruption?

How can you have political stability without economic stability and food? It's a chicken and an egg problem.
Unions fixed this issue a long time ago.

Then Reagan de-regulated and lots of companies from right to work states moved in and killed the market. The union shops like Yellow Freight mostly operate in blue states and are profitable.
My experience lately has been that yes "full" is expected even though its not specified as such.

What I mean is some recruiter will say "we would like you to complete a coding challenge it shouldn't take any more than 2 hours to complete.' Then the feed back will come back that "the team was disappointed that you didn't implement features x, y and z."

The whole homework/project/coding challenge requirement has really become disrespectful in my opinion. Extremely vague requirements, arbitrary or unrealistic time constraints and then you are judged but not allowed to participate in any discussion about the code you produced.

And perhaps the height of absurdity is recruiters asking via email if you will complete a coding assignment. This is even before speaking to a human being to see if there might even be a fit.

The hiring process just seems to be becoming more broken all the time. Just refuse and say "No."

I think companies might really benefit from smoke testing their own hiring process in some blind fashion.
Washtech Appeals Against Dismissal of STEM OPT Case
4-meter mirror blank cast for the ELT project (Warning, auto play video)
Ask HN: What are your biggest Web Accessibility Complaints?
Hey HNers,

I'm in the process of building a web project and want to make sure anyone with disabilities can use it as best as possible. The project has a lot of javascript and is very interactive i.e. a true webapp.

Anyways I'd like to know what your biggest complaints and gripes are with web applications in terms of accessibility. What do a lot of apps miss or fail to get right? What's annoying?

Thanks in advance!
Nope. Look at trucks on interstates, most are from the South or Midwest right to work states on the east coast.
This is wrong.

The classification level of information is determined by confidentiality of the information's source. This is done to protect deeply embedded or highly technical means of information gathering.

For example, information that could have only come from the second in command of some organization would require the highest of security classifications whereas information that could have come from any dozens of members of that organization would only require a confidential or secret classification.

Information is required to be classified at the lowest possible level, a guideline that is both taught and enforced throughout most if not all of the Intelligence Community.

source: I was an intelligence analyst for 6+ years.
Show HN: Genetic Algorithm Explorer
One thing the author doesn't mention are the legions of loyal Ingress players that have contributed to the rise of Anker ( years before Pokemon Go launched). Many hours are spent walking around from portal to portal and socializing with other players.
Oh don't be silly. US is 48th on list of countries by suicide rate. Czech Republic is 83rd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
The article seems to be saying that it didn't need to change much at all to be Py3 ready.
James Gosling (invented Java) Joins AWS
Random noise can't really take any form when you apply the implicit restriction of your search fitting within finite time and space.
They didn't 'ally with Al Qaeda', they just both happened to be opposed to the same guy while also being opposed to each other. It's a complicated situation out there. Even at the height of the Cold War, sometimes the CIA and KGB would share information of mutual benefit. That didn't mean the CIA was allying with communism. Even Trump has learned this when his 'bombing Syria is the wrong thing to do, what Assad gets up to is non America's business anymore' policy lead to Assad feeling free to start nerve gassing civilians again. Oops. Turns out him being against Islamic State doesn't make him our friend either. It's a horrible nasty mess, but even trying to stay out of it just makes you even more vulnerable to even greater problems in the long run.
There's still a lot of physical model making in movies for props, and costumes. Also there are companies that make costumes, animatronics, and physical models as publicity for movies and games.

http://www.legacyefx.com/

http://wetaworkshop.com/

And then there are the model makers who make prototypes for game pieces, toys etc... Many of them still start with physical models.
Well that's what we've perfected in animal farming isn't it. Cows, pigs, chicken injected with vaccines, given food and hormones that makes them live long enough to produce offspring and maximum human consumable resources. Their emotional and psychological needs are the least of our concerns.

I am with "letting wild animals be wild". If an animal can be patched up and let back into the wild after a couple of week, great. I hate aquariums and zoos for this reason. Its the human equivalent of https://popularresistance.org/deep-racism-the-forgotten-hist...

I would rather prefer reserves. e.g Nairobi national park, serengeti, mara. Really large spaces where animals can remain wild but conservation programs can still take place.

Vancouver aquarium in its Vancouver's ridiculously priced real estate doesn't have enough space to host big intelligent animals.
Indeed. Trucks cause several orders of magnitude more road wear than cars, because road wear scales like weight per wheel to the fourth power (this might not always be the perfect model http://www.nvfnorden.org/lisalib/getfile.aspx?itemid=261 but even so the general idea holds), and trucks weigh a whole lot. If trucks had to pay their fair share of road maintenance, shipping by truck would probably be noticeably more expensive.
Absolutely agree. I've bought 10 Anker products and to this day still operate and function as intended. Best price to value products.
Well plenty of people got shot crossing the wall, but that's not really a "random shooting". Certainly much less random than "walking while black" or something.

Apparently there were 139 wall-victims in 29 years, so less than 5 per year, or about 0.03 deaths per 100k people per year. Apparently, twice as many people died of natural causes while crossing the border.

The US seems to have about 1000 shootings by police per year [2], which would be about 0.3 deaths per 100k people per year.

So the US has 10x more police-shootings than the GDR had wall-deaths per person.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todesopfer_an_der_Berliner_Mau...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...
I see it too now. I guess it either wasn't there before or just wasn't loading.
The ToS is a good find, thanks! Perhaps I'll need to stop using WhatsApp for the 14 days, plus a few more days for a good measure.
This is super neat! But... why is it undocumented? Is there a reason it's kept a "secret"?
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I visited Kerner Optical some years ago, which did that kind of work. They were originally a part of Lucasfilm, and were spun off to sink or swim on their own. They sank. Here's some of those guys at work, on the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" film.[1] They were 10-20 year veterans of physical effects. Someone who'd been there five years was the new guy.

Tippett Studios was one of the big model work studios. Phil Tippett saw the writing on the wall when Jurassic Park went digital. The original plan for Jurassic Park was to use models of various sizes. Now Tippett is a digital effects house.

Not that being a digital effects house means job security. That's become a grind of a business, outsourced and offshored.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvcYSpiwQA
It stops more coming in; existing holders keep driving (base case) or move to those supervisory roles. Ending the supervisory license and mandate is the end game, done once most of that last generation of CDL holders has hung up their hats.

This is really about long distance, semi truck freight only. Local delivery (as someone mentioned above) is likely to need humans for a very long time.
I'm referring to the charge rate of the packs themselves. Amperage doesn't work the same way voltage does. You could hook your phone up to a 1000 amp supply as long as it's 5V so there's no point in starting lower and ramping up the output since the device will only use what it can take.

(for clarification, the principle is V=IR, you could hook a 5V incandescent lightbulb or LED up to that same 1000A supply and it would only draw I=V/R (Current = 5v / series resistance). Yes, there is silicon controlling the battery, but at the most basic level, if the series resistance of all that plus the battery is 5 ohms, it will only draw 1A)

Edit: math fail