skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I'm not very knowledgable, but I think the first sale doctrine just says it's now your lego and you can sell the lego.

If you start copying the piece assortments ("lego recipes") that lego also sells, that's where I'm unsure that you're in a safe legal spot. Lego put time and effort making sets for specific purposes, and I would think that those "lego recipes" are possibly protected.

Especially if you were thinking of selling a large number of different sets, which would mean you'd be creating kind of a "lego recipe" catalog?

https://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html
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That's not a great rebuttal, because most of us who would be opposed to the ownership of things created under Chinese prison labor would also be opposed to the ownership of things under American prison labor. (I'd be fine with the American prison labor if they were paid a fair, living wage).
Ask HN: Where are the clothing industry disruptors?
Genuine question. Why do we often trawl high-streets and online vendors for clothing that is badly cut, of unreliable size and quality, and made by sweat-shop labour?

Are any clothing industry disruptors aiming to automate the clothing industry to provide affordable, decent quality, well fitted day-to-day clothing for the masses?

I don't mean just custom fitted formal attire. I mean anything that you'd normally buy for daily use that isn't a t-shirt. Trousers, button-up shirts, dresses, skirts.

Why can't I pick a style, a fabric, a colour, a finish, submit my details, and receive a robot-produced hand-finished item of day-to-day clothing that fits me perfectly?

Understood, there are technical problems regarding measuring, cutting, tailoring. Understood, there are logistic issues around fabric, machinery, and labour. However, these all sound like great opportunities for innovation.

Is there anyone doing this that I'm unaware of?
Hint: If site is empty for you, remove "amp." from domain name.
Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program
Electricity is fungible in the sense that it can come from many sources. Oil is not-- it really only comes out of the ground. (Biofuels also have the same problem.)

You can think about making cars electric as removing a tight coupling between transportation and fuel. It creates a more generic interface, which will create more flexible implementations. For example: wind, solar, and using charged car battery fleets to balance the electric grid at peak times.

It's hard to see how combustion can ever be better than electric. Even in situations where you completely offset the carbon by synthesizing fuels with clean energy, you still have huge issues around air quality in dense urban cities.

Electric motors are also massively easier to maintain, have fewer moving parts, are quieter, etc etc.
I thought DNS was connectionless? Don't all DNS clients have to bind to UDP port 53 to function correctly?
well... I guess you can say he has his own "style"
There are card identifier apps that connect to your webcam - you just flash a card under the camera and it will identify the card and set (used most often to give a quick market price or help you catalog your collection digitally) but you could definitely fit that into a larger automation project.
Are meditation and mindfulness all they're cracked up to be?
Has Lego approached you at all? If they don't have similar in-house technology, I could see this adding value to them.
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The best weekend activities are most likely not the ones you're currently doing
I'm sore about it too. I had one of the original phones and I loved it. It was simple and elegant. The author mentioned something about spending too much time copying Android. That was definitely misplaced effort. Why not spend the time making something original? IMO, Mozilla spends too much time in general copying others. Look at the Firefox browser. It seems more and more like Chrome every release. I much preferred the original Firefox.
I suspect that the curation of recipes is appealing. Online recipes are notoriously hit or miss.
The concept of 'lost time' should be abandoned, so our lives become less hectic again.
The How  for Empaths to Connect with Their Inner Power
You should try meditation. Effectively you 'stop' listening to the voice and then things all go a bit crazy. The voice talks to itself, memories become really vivid, hallucinations can happen too. And all while you just observe what is going on. Can be quite fun.
I've always wondered if that counts as hearing voices.

In my reading of Buddhist writings, the non-stop, live-streaming audio track is common enough (arguably universal) that this is addressed in those writings. So, no, I don’t think it counts if we all have it. :-)

As far as going to sleep, meditation helps. Zen-style Buddhist meditation addresses “the voice” specifically: be apathetic to it, not trying to block or ignore it, just be with it. Of course the whole of Zen thought can’t be described in a sentence. Contact your local zendo for more information. :-) Personally, when I’ve been a “good” Zen student for a period of time, “the voice” can go away on occasion, usually during meditation. Now that is...different.
> you have to add a ton of extra boilerplate to just render a simple triangle

It's true the modern OpenGL pipeline is a bit more boilerplatey.

But that small amount of extra code means it's vastly more flexible. Rather than programming stuff into a fixed pipeline that can only do a limited set of predetermined things, everything is centred around shaders you write, and they can do anything you want. The boilerplate is just needed to compile the shaders, and feed information to them.

Also, while it's slightly more code you're writing, the amount of code executed on the CPU is less, because mostly you just set up a draw call and let the GPU do the rest. Much more efficient.

And the boilerplate is small, if a little intimidating. This stars effect is 156 lines of JS code (of which only about half is actual WebGL stuff), and 24 lines of GLSL shader code: https://hoshi.noyu.me/

(I should add that I used to feel the same way and really didn't get modern OpenGL, but after a few abortive attempts I finally grokked the basic concepts, and once you have those, it's plain sailing, because most things are just small changes to shaders.)
>>> The right girl is out there. She's very much worth the wait. Be patient.

very very very true.
Laravel was excellent to work in, much better than the other ones I had tried.
The value of BlueApron isn't on a per meal price basis. As you mentioned, buying the ingredients yourself will be significantly less expensive.

The value for Blue Apron for us:

* I don't have to look through and choose recipes.

* I don't have to spend a hour in the store, we pretty much just get staples (eggs, milk, etc) these days.

* I don't throw away near as much food. We used to throw away around 50% of food purchases due to changing schedules / spoilage. We actually saved money moving to Blue Apron.

* Blue Apron can include specialty ingredients that I won't normally have (e.g. I'm not routinely going to the Korean grocery).

I like to cook. Blue Apron makes it easy to do that while exposing us to new and interesting recipes without committing a lot of time to the process. That's worth money.
Yeah, Blue Apron is not targeted to you. That doesn't mean it doesn't provide value to anyone.
It's uh ... speculative to say the least. But it's a fantastic read.
There's value and then there's value. They definitely save time and hassle -- but is it worth the price? I guess we will see.
It saddens me to see all the comments ascribing victimization where none has occurred.

This is how SJWs operate. Don't do that.
Lol, I remember seeing the film "Helvetica" [1] in which one of the commenters remarked how anachronistic fonts would ruin a movie for him.

[1] www.imdb.com/title/tt0847817
I'm surprised no one has made a meal delivery service catered specifically to Instant Pot owners/enthusiasts. Just imagine, all you need is an Instant Pot and whatever ingredients/recipes they send you and you can cook homemade meals. Go ahead someone, take this idea! :D
which part of open-floor plan do you not understand?
That does pretty bad for Snopes. Though I suspect you’re cherry picking… To be honest, I don’t usually read Snopes. However, I do read PolitiFact from time to time, largely for amusement, so I have a pretty good idea of what their output looks like. They do fake news checks too (more since the Facebook partnership thing), but most of their fact checks are for actual claims from politicians or pundits. The articles provide value with a few different elements:

- They do the research, things like finding the relevant statistics buried in some government website, as well as supplementary/background information to provide context for the claim. You or I might know how to use Google well enough to find the same information after spending enough time on it, but I’m not going to do that for every claim I feel like questioning; that’s their job.

- Most of the time there’s at least one interview with a relevant expert - indeed, even when that would seem semi-unnecessary, like when they’ve already found statistics proving something false, but still get an expert confirmation of “yeah, that‘s bogus”. I don’t know how often Snopes does this, but it definitely bolsters credibility.

- And they reason through the claim, consider different angles, and ultimately decide on a rating. This is the most subjective element, of course, and the easiest to challenge with claims of bias. Certainly I’ve ended up disagreeing with a decent fraction of their ratings, even as a sort of moderate liberal, pretty close politically to where you’d imagine PolitiFact to be. (Usually in a minor way, though, e.g. thinking something rated False should be Mostly False.) Nevertheless, I find their perspective valuable: more analytical and details-oriented than traditional publications tend to be, even the ones I like. Your mileage may vary.

Again, I don’t know how well Snopes holds up by comparison - if nothing else, PolitiFact seems to make it much more clear what exact statement is being checked. And certainly no outlet is perfect, as demonstrated by your link. But at least what I’ve read I believe to be far, far better than nothing, if you care about finding the truth rather than throwing around political slogans.
That's a good point. While they're definitely not the same thing, I wonder if the goal posts are just changing. So at first, it was: complete high school and you will def get a job! And then it was: get a univ education and then you will def get a job!

Maybe the economy is just changing so much that we simply don't have the capacity to absorb so many workers. Or maybe we need to direct more resources to create employment in those areas (i.e. more funding for arts, history, archaeology etc.). I don't know what the solution is.
I did mean rhyming with "meh", not a long "a" at all! In IPA, I'd say it's ɛ, like the vowel in the English word "bed".

So it really sounds like "a" to you? Huh.
I'm sure Dollarshaveclub will pick up the slack. ;)
I think this is a really thorough mea culpa which is quite impressive, given the frequent failure of other newspapers to publish a prominent apology when they have got things far more wrong than this.
China’s Big Tech Advantage Is Speed, Not Cost
> there's a saving in the lisp version of a token or two, at the expense of having additional meaningful structure / nesting.

You mean at the expense of losing the meaningful structure?

I.e. the token count is one token smaller between these examples, in favor of the Lisp:

(let [a 1
b 2
c 3]) ;; 11 tokens

let a = 1,
b = 2,
c = 3 // 12 tokens

but this comes from flattening the expression for the variable bindings.
I love the motivation and message of this comment - to not worry and just dive in. But a few people most definitely do know how to make some very realistic graphics. So much so, that I guarantee you've seen some in movies that you didn't know was fake. I used to make CG movies, and I can't spot the best CG anymore.

The trend in film rendering is, across the board, graduating from "tricks" that work to physically based processes, to whatever degree it is feasible. The setups are getting simpler, not more complex. The surface modeling, material modeling, color processing, lighting and rendering have all moved by leaps and bounds in last 10 years. It is is the process of shifting from art to physics, and the job of CG lighting technicians is becoming closer to the job of stage lighting technicians, because the lighting and rendering is physically based now.

It's possible there are developments you don't know about. It's also possible you're suffering from evidence of Sturgeon's law and not seeing the top 10% clearly; there is plenty of crappy CG that doesn't look real, the vast majority of it doesn't look real. But the best of it is realistic and getting better every single year, and the people studying it do know some ways (and are currently adding more) to improve the realism when the computational power arrives.
I don't think this is a revelation to anyone in tech circles. For this reason, I usually choose products that aren't internet enabled.
I'd always hoped this concept took off, an IPO auction instead of a fixed price offering:

https://wrhambrecht.com/openipo/

I first learned about it during the Google IPO, but after that, I never saw any companies doing an auction IPO that I was interested in investing in.
Why not go big? Write up a business plan that involves buying 100 tons of lego, making a bigger machine with 200 bins off the belt, or whatever, and making a new brickowl / bricklink site of your own. I'm sure you could find investors, you've got great publicity already. And you could propose it as a general sorting AI (or web sale of small item) firm in the long term, with the lego being your initial application.

You'd need to solve the inverse problem of how to efficiently go from bin to packing container, which doesn't seem too hard. Rotating carousels of bins with little robots or something. Set the item on a tray, and if isn't the right item, puff it back into the bin.
We were trying to it to sort by set at first - when ingesting a large collection of cards (my wife owned a brick and mortar card shop) they were often unsorted. Then with multiple passes we wanted to pull rarity, color and even alphabetize uncommons and rares [way, way too many passes]. The real goal was to be able to process a booster box quickly, so when a new set was released 40 cases in singles could be available very quickly - never even came close to that goal. It turns out that on release night customers are always willing to sort a booster box for you for a pack of cards...
Still, we shouldn't discount his perspective so quickly. After all, this is Marlon Brando we're talking about...
No, but I don't think I'm qualified to polish the shoes of the maintenance technicians that designed Lego's internal logistics, let alone measure myself with their engineers. There are some videos floating about of what Lego's manufacturing lines look like, very impressive stuff.
Amazon already offers subscription-less premium mealkits via a partnership with Martha Stewart/Marley Spoon [1] and more affordable options via their Tyson Tastemakers partnership [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=14828691011
[2] https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16207550011
Laravel or Symfony
I can't judge the popularity aspect of it but "nobody knows how to make anything look real." assumes obviously that the goal is to make it "look real".

There are so many interesting aspects of modern computer graphics that have nothing to do with rendering realism. My favorite is visualization, or using graphics to create a visualization of a process that is not visible normally like fluid dynamics. But there are lots of others.

I think that if you start from the most featured APIs you end up jumping in with a hugely steep learning curve that really hinders learning. Starting from the basics, very simple OpenGL or WebGL rendering, learning the algebra behind projections so you can think about what you want to see, and then the notions of texturing and shading, all help get from not knowing anything to knowing something much more efficiently.
Ohnana is a tent for festival lovers that prevents tent from heating up, AMA
Daily standups: A roadblock-remover or productivity interrupter?
Add to this that there are many, many different types of cancer. There won't ever be a cure for cancer. We may find a cure for a cancer, but there are many types of cancer.

A good friend is an oncologist. He kinda hates it when people talk about a cure for cancer. I guess it just doesn't work that way.
'Hug of death' isn't saying it's an attack/DDOS. It's equivalent to your suggestion of 'slashdotted' but probably a much more frequently used and relevant term.
>'propped up' by government money

It's pretty well documented,

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-2015...
That's a great, dubious idea. Nice job!
There is a window between "interesting enough that it keeps my attention" and "not interesting enough that I need to hear the whole thing" that works for me.

It can't have a narrative arc that makes you want to hear the end, so mostly it's witty but aimless conversations, and newscasts type programs.
I don't mind so much the price. What bothers me is that Blue Apron hasn't really made any accommodations for gluten/vegan options, and I feel like given their price range that might be part of their demographic to target.

But yeah, I guess if you have celiac's or live with someone with celiac's you're just kind of shit out of luck for Blue Apron.
Thanks for this one. I hadn't stumbled on a good way to search my history before.
I do try to keep it up to date every so often - though saying that I've been in my current job over a year and haven't touched it.. - those yellow and red flags definitely trigger a more urgent need to update it

HN being the global sort of place I (and others) should really mention where I'm at - in the UK at least short of anything that gets me fired on the spot I know I'll have a month's notice if I do need to start looking so that does give a bit of complacency as it's in writing in my contract.

Having said that it couldn't hurt to keep the eyes open, the job I've got now was a lucky gem of a find
Their recipes an instructions are nice. But their problem is after I did a trial run, I have the recipes and I'll just go get the ingredients at my local grocery. I can get recipes online for free or from the good cookbooks I already own. Any money I saved by getting just the amounts of ingredients you need is lost to them being an expensive middleman. Sure you might waste less but it's more money to me.
Hm. Ok, so 'white sheet of paper' would qualify I guess. Then only white parts would be hard :)
Thanks, this works. I read somewhere that as of 2017, Twitter and Facebook referrers work for WSJ paywall, and that Google was removed sometime in 2016.
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Understandable, but my best answer is to say the other series were too naive. Besides, no matter what the series, The Captain Always Wins In The End.
Several major podcast producers have taken VC investments, so VC's supporting other VC's!
Absolutely, the executive needs CPAs and MBAs, the legislative needs lawyers, the judiciary needs judges and to be honest that's the only one where meritocracy permeates, just add a little randomization instead of handpicking, that's all.
My side project Read Across The Aisle also has free unlimited access to WSJ, through a recently-launched partnership with them. I've made an iOS app and Chrome extension (both free).

www.ReadAcrossTheAisle.com
The album says it was about a week of work. It really is a very impressive album, too!
I was listening to the booing, shouts of disbelief and guffawing (and clapping) when he gave his zinger about journalists.

He was invited on stage, and continually berates Krebs. He could have did that graciously, but instead continually insults. He admits that when the Booters do pay, they're paid with stolen CCs. And then, finally attacks Krebs' standing as a Journalist.

Uh, no. Absolutely not. No way, no how.

I'll deal with Google, Amazon, Microsoft.. Whomever for a CDN. I'm not touching CloudFlare.
Just you. Some smaller towns farmer's markets are amazing.
Point 1: that probably depends on your farm's markets. Indianapolis has one ever Wednesday. Being in the heart of the heartland, it's pretty good. Down side is it closes too early for folk that work on the ring of Indy (I465 to downtown is about 30 minutes, so it's hard to hit up on a lunch HOUR).
Point 2: I'm working on getting that 21 meals planned fixed. Unfortunately, it's just me and my wife, who's a Social Worker by training. Going to be a while since it literally took me 4 months to get the security system in place. Look for a Shown HN.
You are paying for convenience to eat a different recipe every day, if I were to buy products that are used in their recipes I could certainly save some money but the problem is in quantities. When you purchase in bigger than needed for specific recipe quantities your ingredients tend to get bad really quickly. Also to be able to make any recipe from the internet you have to have a pretty big fridge and kitchen to store all the ingredients that might be needed. You can of course go to a store everyday and purchase ingredients that you need for specific recipe but then you would waste time and money on shopping.
Ithaca has a great farmers market, lots of pop-up farmers markets, and even a lot of farm shares around the community.

What are you thinking expecting major metropolitan areas to be good places for farmers markets?

Although I'm told the one in Seattle is supposedly legendary...
Don't worry, it's not required.
I don't see any mention of big (e.g. $60M/yr for 10 yrs) AWS customers...

b^)
There's also the "entire department" (often post-acquisition) rationale. In any case, your perception is pretty common, and that creates a hiring opportunity for savvy recruiters who know better and don't pre-judge.
I am a blue apron subscriber. Issues with the economics of their business and the IPO aside, I like the service.

Have you ever tried printing out a recipe online, driving to the grocery store, and picking up all the ingredients? It's a pain in the ass. Try finding tandoori spice rub, or pink lemons, or dried currants. Chances are your local supermarket doesn't have one or two ingredients, so you leave it our or sub it, but that makes a difference in the taste. On top of that, you're usually forced to buy much more than you need for any given recipe, making it pretty wasteful, and more expensive than it should be. Not to mention all the time wasted physically moving around the supermarket, driving, gas to the supermarket, etc.

The recipes taste great and they're easy to follow. I routinely have better meals cooking blue apron than going out to eat. For me, this is a much faster, cheaper, and better solution. That's not to say this is a great business, personally I think anyone can copy this service, in particular larger companies, so I probably wouldn't buy the stock.
I like cooking and consider myself lucky for starting the process of learning to cook a few years back. There are a lot of completely garbage recipes out there now. Allrecipes dominates Google but I've never made anything that actually tasted good from that site. I've got experience and know of specific sites that deliver that I use pretty much exclusively now instead of searching Google directly.

However I can see someone just starting out being tricked by one of the many crap recipes out there and just simply wanting the convenience of a quality recipe with the exact ingredients.