skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried courses a few years back, but what actually helped me get into OpenGL (I started with ES2 because it was compatible with every device I owned) was to find an existing OpenGL ES 2.0 program which compiled and ran on my computer, and tinker with that week after week. I think I have a pretty good grasp now of shading and how to take good advantage of the pipeline stages.

I suspect Vulkan will require the same sort of effort. I bought the Programming Guide in the first preorder campaign, but I think the way I will learn Vulkan is by transplanting my pet ES2 projects into an existing Vulkan skeleton.
The microcomputer kinda reset the clock on software development, as there was little co-mingling of mainframe people and microcomp people.

And i can't help feel we had a similar reset with the iPhone intro, again because of a split between desktop people and mobile people.
Double-tapping back sometimes works on sites where the landing page immediately forwards you to something else, but this site appears to actively hijack the back/forward buttons. For shame.
Warner Music has acquired Songkick’s concert recommendation app
Which in the end is actually a nice thing because that means the guiding principles were right.

Tooling is just driven by one of the primary attributes an engineer should have: an abundance of lazyness that strives to find solutions for the long run.
Good thing Google lectures us on how we should design our apps and websites, they know how to do it.
One of my handy co-workers set up an automated hook to the Google Hangouts API so that an IoT deadbolt clinks shut when he's on an active hangout: handy for preventing the random toddler intrusion, reduction in "pro" ish ness...
I figured they must be prominent people, but in that picture I don't see much. It won't be pink and purple but I can imagine tints of green and other colors that shake things up a bit.
Discussion from a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9652893.
It makes sense in the military, since as an institution it requires its individual members to have much less freedom and autonomy.

But if a company needs to use technics from the military, something is wrong. Life is not war.
The text recognition from documents is amazingly primitive. It doesn't use any type of spell checking to make a best guess at what a word is. It's straight text recognition.

On the other hand the "short text" feature works amazingly well to read text is sees from the camera. It's fast and accurate when reading text even at some non optimal angles.

How do you get it to try to recognize items that the camera sees?

Edit:

Oops. I guess it would help if I swiped right....
> only time he has on his own is after 10pm, as he needs to put his kids into bed first. And often before he has done it, he is too exhausted

This is pretty much my experience too, and I have just one child. Which is more than enough.

I can't help but agree with many of the already voiced opinions, because yes, "it depends". However... in my case, I have gone as far as to state, on several occasions, that if you want to work in tech and retain your sanity there is only one sensible option:

Do. Not. Breed. -- I have come to believe that a good part of this comes from my staunch certainty that bringing a person without their consent to this world is morally corrupt. The planet is over sustainable capacity already. Why should we exacerbate the problem?

However, it's important to note something. Even with my personal opinion being what it is, I am still happy and supportive of anyone making their own decision and going against my conviction. It's their choice and they believe it right. Who am I to judge?

I am not going to claim that my opinion is correct or right. Nonetheless, it's mine.
Because an advice without argument is ignored (in many cases). If it were me I would have rephrased my comment to include a summary. That would be sufficient to understand why you said things and in addition would be perceived less cocky. Now it came over as I'm saying this and you are not worth my time explaining the arguments.

Apparently you have knowledge on the subject so a sentence or five would have helped everybody reading this thread. In fact, it is what I would expect from an HN comment. I usually read the comments before the article as on HN there is often more information than the actual article. Most often different sides of the coin are in enlightened in the comments bringing insight in the otherwise one-sided monologue in the article.
The worst one I've seen, a man named Hitler Mussolini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ZuetUzxFI
Ages ago I had a teacher in 7th grade named "Mr Bonar". I have to think that if that's your name, "junior high teacher" is the worst job you can pick.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776536 and marked it off-topic.
So I'm thinking what the heck is pug?, and looked it up.

Looks to be "haml with templating" in a single language. Great idea.
If you want to discover Japanese culture via photography, I would suggest Daido Moriyama[1], [2], [3]. All NSFW-ish. He has a great look into what lies beyond the surface in Japanese culture. For more night culture, Kohei Yoshiyuki[4]

[1]http://fotoroom.co/daido-moriyama/

[2]http://www.americansuburbx.com/2013/10/asx-tv-daido-moriyama...

[3]https://www.moriyamadaido.com/en/

[4]https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/kohei-yoshiyukis-t...
Seems a bit too early to declare the winner: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/15/dublin-firs...
> In a free nation, demand can only be controlled through restriction on immigration and birth rates. For the USA that means demand is a national policy issue.

And since that topic is associated with race, good luck having an objective discussion in a Western country. In Canada, if you even suggest there is a discussion worth having, a huge percentage of the population will immediately assume you are a Trump supporting racist. More subtler topics like the obvious fact that some segments of immigrants are not contributing to the economy via income taxes while massively increasing housing demand are completely beyond discussion.
Her passing and leaving behind a young daughter reminds me of the loss of my mother due to breast cancer when I was a child. I am saddened by the set back her passing will have on the field of mathematics, but more angry at the destructive power this disease has on families. I pray her child and spouse learn to live with this burden.
The Norwegian DMV equivalent recently enabled us to order custom plates.

I promptly ordered NULL as an experiment. With any luck, the parking ticket database throws a fit.
There are some assumptions embedded in your question:

1. Entrepreneurs are doomed to "fall", to failure.

2. Being an entrepreneur requires much greater time than being an employee.

Both those are assumptions are true if you go traditional VC-funded startup route, for example.

But there are examples of entrepreneurs who have built companies around a 40-hour work week, and around making money, instead of "5 billion dollar valuation or bust." (VC-funded companies usually go bust, as it turns out.) See https://stackingthebricks.com/how-do-you-create-a-product-pe... for some suggestions on how to go in that direction.
Language bots will be useful, but we don't know how to build them
Thanks! I'll read through this.

A quick scan seems to reveal consumers in the US don't have as much control over their private data as I thought we might. Which is bad. If someone has my driver's license and credit card data in their database and I want it completely erased they ought to be legally required to do so.

As someone operating multiple websites as well as a user my policy is to delete any and all private data on request. For me it's a matter of what I would want as a user.
"on occasion" being the keyword. It's good to be able to leverage a suit as a tool or for pleasure. Many people rejecting formal dressing miss that.

But the problem with a very strict dress code is that you don't feel being respected, you feel coerced.
That's not the case. The problem only started to pop up several hours ago.
> Dressing formally puts you in a different frame of mind.

Actually, it makes me feel like I'm talking to a sales person. It is as if dressing up is used to conceal something about the intentions or shortcomings of the person. I probably don't explain it in the right way, but that is more or less the feeling it evokes.
Underground tubes that deliver packages directly to your residence instantly.
AI will fill human's blindspots says MSFT
"modern" is a useful concept. Like fashion, it has to be something different every year.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any language where "null" == null
Wait....so job losses are not due to offshoring, it's due to automation. Now, it's not due to automation, it's due to....what?
> math can't grant you a legal privilege

It wouldn't grant you anything you would become a criminal if you use the certain math regardless of the motives. Why don't we prohibit certain kind of music as well (let's say hard rock since terrorists might listen to it), and french baguettes and humus because they might eat those, etc.
It doesn't matter whether he does or not. He's using your own argument against you. Stepping in here and saying, "don't worry guys I'm the expert, so don't ask any questions", is just pompous and doesn't actually convince anybody. Use logic to support your claims, not your resume.
> but to know that you would need to know history

I already stated historical analysis is bunk.

> Do you see difference

Your posts would be a lot shorter if you stated what you thought, instead of speculating of what I think.

> And another "I didn't care"..

So? What's your point? I'm repeating myself because you don't seem to get it. "I don't care for historical analysis" means I don't value it. I won't start to value it, just because you keep claiming it has value.

> it's historical analysis that proves your ignorance

How? What do you mean by "proves"? Can you show me the parts proving the Stanford paragraph wrong?

> But maybe it's also "meaningless"

again, why not spend more time describing it's meaning, than speculating on what I think.

> Because I am "appealing to another authority" ?

Yes,feel like it, that you are appealing to the Guardian. You point to an entire article as proof. I pointed to a specific paragraph, instead of quoting the whole thing which I believe characterises my opinion well. If you disagree, please state what you disagree with.

> I call things how I see them

You don't have to say anything that pops into you mind, if there are no reasons for them that you can think of. If you have reasons, provide those instead.

> can't stand raw critic about yourself? Then you have problems

It's called personal attack/ad-hom, and it's generally considered bad form. No one like nonconstructive criticism, especially that motivated by spite.

> when they do not understand what someone else is writing to them

I don't care because the burden to provide an argument is on you. The burden is not on me to read the works of Gandi to find one, when you brought it up.

> Your attitude to authority only shows how big your ego is

What does this mean? Is Gandi an "authority"?

> I know how this discussion will end, with more "I don't care" and "meaningless" instead of real arguments.

The argument is it doesn't matter what Gandi says, if the meaning isn't communicated. This is a nuanced argument. Some of the things you've written here suggest to me that English isn't your first language, so maybe you are not fully understanding what I write?

> ignorants that claim history is irrelevant because they don't know it

I never claimed that "history is irrelevant because [I] don't know it".

> You know why law is written the way it is? You need to know history to know that.

Laws are written by individuals, often motivated by specific events. Specific events can be correlated with events preceding them. But these kind of stories are less useful in predicting the future, which is what Historicism is.

> "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - that's why historical analysis is so important and that's why you are ignorant.

Are quotes proof too? You know quotes aren't even consistent?
It's an interesting experimental outcome, but I wonder to what extent the results are impacted by the type of work being done. From the TEDx talk, the company, C-Trip, was actually based in Shanghai. It's a travel agency.

It's not mentioned, but if the employees' salary has a variable component and the more they sell the more they earn, then eliminating their commute and giving them an extra 1-2 hours per day to sell travel services, and thereby earn more money, will certainly increase their productivity. I would be interested in knowing if that is the case for these workers.

What if the workers were instead, say, an AP/AR department at a fortune 500 company? Would they see the same increase in productivity? The same decrease in turnover and absenteeism? I am not arguing that they wouldn't, only that I'd expect different types of work to have different degrees of improvement.
Suggestion: Have threads marked offtopic start "collapsed". People can open them if they wish (and the browser will remember it), but they start closed.
The word "company" itself is military in origin, Latin "companio", soldiers who lived and ate together in a mess/barracks. In the modern day armies still use the term, several platoons make a company, several companies make a battalion.

Schools and sports teams also have uniforms, if that helps set your mind at ease...
Those are not contradictory. You can choose to live most of your life so that you get as much freedom as you can and is important to you. But also use your knowledge as tools to take advantage of your environment.

Too many people makes it about conformism or morality. But really it's giving too much credit to it: we are just making animal behavior very sophisticated. It's no use to blame or get angry, or it's good to just do like everyone else. Just make the best of it, it's the reality you live in. And if you want to change it, you need to see it for what it is anyway so starting by that is always a good step.
I'm not the original person you are asking, but over a 27 year career in IT, I've worked from home for 17 of them.

Here's how I stayed social. First, I used the time you would spend commuting or going out to lunch to get non-work chores done. I'd do laundry in the morning when I'd otherwise be in the car. I cut the grass or worked out during lunch, etc. I'd already be fixing dinner during everyone else's evening drive time.

That freed up my weekday evenings to be social, since I wasn't in after work commute-cook-chores hell.

I'd spend time at programming language groups; taking classes related to hobbies (brewing, a little woodworking); going out with friends to nice restaurants on Wednesdays when they weren't crowded; and doing some social volunteering. I got involved in running a couple of software conferences and joined a wine-and-movies social club.

I found—since I am a "gregarious introvert"—that not having to be around coworkers all day left me more energized to socialize with friends and family in the evenings.

And instead of a social circle dominated by coworkers, I have one that provides interactions with people from all walks of life, and have friends scattered around the globe to visit when I retire.

If you plan well and work at it, you can be more social working from home.
Linux specifically is wrong, but according to ifixit, there are two general purpose 32-bit processors, and two radio SoCs also containing 32-bit processors. Which to me still seems like a heck of a lot of CPUs and software for a smoke alarm.
discussion started a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776864
Problem is, immediately after the colonies become self sustainable, they will want independence and eventually become more powerful than earth.
It doesn't have to be about immigration, that's silly. The US currently had supply and demand issues amongst it's growing and declining cities.
From what I would guess, you didn't see a flamewar because off-topic comments have been heavily downvoted and downmodded, pre-empting that situation. I do agree dang's lengthy responses here are unusual -- maybe Saturdays allow for more time to deliberate. But the mod action here seems consistent to what's applied on a regular basis on HN. The difference is that we're getting an explanation for actions we likely take for granted on an average day.
Oh right, in a democracy "the people" make the decisions, I forgot about that. /s
There's already extensive discussion (still on the front page) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776357
Bunch of the teams I've worked with over the years have had "formal fridays". I can confirm it was a fun tradition.
> I don't see that Google has an unfair monopoly.

really? isn't the use of their search engine to squelch competition in local reviews support that they are a monopoly?
Why do you think you need to do that? You can import sperm and eggs.
> She also grew up in a richer family than mine. She seems to be used to a higher life quality. I feel some pressure about it. but I have never talked with her about it for the fear for disagreement, whereas I lean toward a Minimalism, less materialized life.

Sounds like a recipe for resentment and disaster. You guys should hash this out and have a discussion before you move forward in your relationship. Differences in lifestyle and finances are the #1 reason for divorce.

Best of luck!
Today I learned! If you're working with a scene graph you still need to glue your matrices to WebAudio, but I'm consistently amazed at how far you can get without a library in modern browsers.
Q: What's the difference between a developer and an environmentalist?

A: A developer is someone who wants to build a cabin in the woods; an environmentalist is someone who already has one.
What do they do for languages other than JavaScript?
So by the same measure do you also support legislation to disallow rural Americans from moving to the cities? How about those from sparser cities into denser ones?

So by what metric does increasing population
help those of us who live here

Not everything is about helping you. Why do people in HN complain about zoning/density restrictions in SFBA? Keeping real estate restricted/expensive is beneficial to people who already own a house there!

areas that are about as packed as most of
Western Europe: LA, SF, Boston through DC,
and about a dozen other massive metro areas.

http://www.newgeography.com/content/002808-world-urban-areas... - only 2 of the top 20 metros are in the US and they have the lowest density (table 1). Also from that page: "the least dense urban areas with more than 2.5 million population are all in the United States."

The US is sparse in any meaningful metric.
No, it doesn't.

Overpopulation is a non-issue, because it's not population itself which is a problem for sustainability, but rather resource consumption. Which, unsurprisingly, is vastly higher per person in places without an “overpopulation” problem (“developed countries”) than in places “with” one (“undeveloped countries”).

Overpopulation is a way of blaming the rest of the world for the industrialised world's problems.
I don't think it's sane to mix linguistic origin and social aspirations, especially when it's about comparing the civil and military life.
> There's no zoning or technology for too much demand

Agree with your first sentence, but I quibble with this part. Demand for real estate is local, and defined as something resembling density: it's an intensity distributed over some area. That area is limited by development and infrastructure.

For example, you can alleviate the intensity of demand by widening the area in which those consumers can be satisfied. In other words, build more transportation that makes it more palatable to live further afield. The article even mentions it specifically: running the commuter shuttle to Gunnison more frequently eases the pain of living there and working in Crested Butte.
I started learning stenography few years ago, though I didn't go through it to
the end.

Similarly to you, I like to take handwritten notes, especially that some
meetings are convened impromptu and getting a laptop takes much more time than
taking a pen and notebook.

I don't take part in meetings often enough to warrant that much effort, so
stenography would be merely a patry trick for me, so I gave up. But I clearly
saw the potential with my own eyes (few weeks in and I could write at one
fourth of my normal speed with what was a completely foreign alphabet
initially), and from what I've read, a proficient stenographer could write
up to four times as fast as one can speak.

Given all this, if you have enough energy to learn and you note often enough,
I would say go for it.
>So much money is floating to the top x% that even just renting to them on weekends is more lucrative than renting to locals 365 days per year. Where are people supposed to go when even the middle class is homeless?

This has always been the case in mountain towns. The article is more doom and gloom than anything. I spent my early teen and twenties ski bumming around the exact towns mentioned (Crested Butte, among others) years before AirBnB existed. It has always been a lifestyle of poverty couch surfing and floor camping. The dichotomy of extreme rich and poor has existed in these towns like nowhere else in the US for as long as skiing has been an upper class pursuit. Those who wish to make their lives in these towns know this and value the lifestyle above all, so they adapt. The ones who don't move to Denver.
Funny enough, I do own one of their
orange suits. The quality is really shitty, though, and they are cut for surprisingly tall and skinny people.
What could hotels do to beat AirBnB so badly that it goes out of business?
Ask HN: Looking for more to strip from HTTP headers
I'm working on trying to ensure that the first TCP frame has some usable renderable real content for the user to read, and so far (having put my HTML head on a diet) have stripped down my HTTP response headers to this typical example:

Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 20:33:45 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Last-Modified: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 17:07:04 GMT
Etag: "1f4389-1995-5545e31eba047"
Content-Length: 6549
Cache-Control: max-age=1382400
Expires: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:33:45 GMT
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Encoding: gzip

What of those are likely to to be redundant or not useful for modern browsers (ignoring Content-* and Vary)? I can't get rid of Date or Server entirely; my Apache 2.2 (on my RPi) won't let me it seems.

Sticking with HTTP/1.1 over HTTP for now.
I realize that, historically, immigration has involved race. But I don't see any intrinsic reason that should be so.
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More on the work-in-progress here:

http://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals.html
Can we change the link to point to the full video[0]?

[0]: http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/07/12/fintech?videoId=3720...
But when the elites adopt casual dress in their professional lives, what is left are much more subtle and hard-to-adopt class signifiers: manners of speaking, interests, childhood experiences, travel, etc

The NYT had an article on this recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/how-we-are-ruinin...

I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named “Padrino” and “Pomodoro” and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican.

American upper-middle-class culture (where the opportunities are) is now laced with cultural signifiers that are completely illegible unless you happen to have grown up in this class.