skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whence you can find the sentence:

> In terms of speech act theory, his locutionary acts — the things he says — are the same as his illocutionary acts — the meanings underlying what he says
I'm kind of being facetious.

It's just an observation that the more professional you look, the better you'll be treated. Yes, that's a fact. Yes, it's probably a sad commentary. And I rarely wear dress clothes - but I know when to, and I don't complain.

Anecdotally, I have worked at restaurants where we wouldn't seat people who were wearing denim, no matter how expensive it was.
Well that may be. But, this bill isn't it. It is almost a copy of other ineffective laws in place in other states.
RocksDB has fixed this https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/commit/3c327ac2d0fd50bbd... now and moved to Apache / GPL dual license.
It saddens me that so many people focus on the graphics aspect of Vulkan.

I wish there were more beginner-friendly tutorials of Vulkan compute.

If I'm not mistaken, only 2 out of the 7 tutorials listed cover compute.
Can somebody please comment on why using a 2d canvas is a better solution than webgl? Or is it?

I was under the impression that to get the best GPU performance, webgl is the answer.
binpress does this already: http://www.binpress.com/. I've purchased iOS components from there in the past. Not sure how active/popular it is currently. As others have said, there's also flippa, hotscripts, etc.

I like the idea and I'd look into selling some code (I have a collection of Sinatra apps I re-use for all sorts of things from APIs to payments). The issue really comes down to support, customization, and deployment. I don't mind writing some documentation once, but I don't want to spend 4 hours supporting something I sold for $299.

Ignore the people that say there's no market. One way I think you make this stand out is with a "verified" badge of sorts. For any project, ensure that it has one or more of the following:

- Dockerfile that works

- Deploys to Heroku with min. effort

- Has a test suite that passes

- Has a working demo

- Includes a minimum amount of documentation/setup videos

That's my 2¢
>In your logic "life support by banks" = "pay for concerts and stuff".

No, in my logic there are two distinct things: the public paying for concerts (and the public not caring) vs the public caring and supporting them itself.

In the first case, it's just the banks buying some prestige by playing to supposed upper middle class preferences, and get some free publicity plus some tax exceptions for those sponsorships.

>The dimension you are missing is spatial, in that this would now happen elsewhere from London, and the "externality" of non-banker Londerners being able to experience this, is the negative effect referred to by the OP.

So? If the Londoners didn't care for those events enough to support them themselves in the first place, why would they have a problem now that foreigners, and not themselves, will get to "experience" those?
So push finally comes to shove.

Glad the long-term legal implications will be given serious consideration publicly, rather than the "this is not the droid you're looking for" I've seen nearly everywhere so far!
Start with WebGL? The concepts are the same.

http://webglfundamentals.com
For those of you software engineers who-- like me-- work from home in a non-tech hub, how do you network/socialize/meetup with other tech people?
Yes. The UK could vote to abolish the monarchy, but they haven't. In a typical democracy, you are subject to laws that you didn't vote for or "agree to". A modern constitutional monarchy is a structure agreed to by the people.
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I agree with you that they matter but there has to be balance. Right now the pendulum is stuck so far to the emotional side that people are willing to eschew facts that would make them challenge their own biases and actively look for material that would only reinforce it.

Emotion is the root of all action and social interaction. It's also why I or anyone else chooses to pursue anything intellectual. But that doesn't justify manipulating the emotions for destructive and self-serving purposes. I consider deliberately flattering people and dealing in overly simplistic platitudes to foresake intellectual honesty and reinforce their bias because they consider it comfortable to qualify as destructive and self-serving.
Facebook has reserved its rights with their license and they can decide to enforce it at any time. Personal projects should be ok, but commercial projects should involve a discussion with legal. If the company thinks it's possible that they end up in a lawsuit with FB, it won't be allowed. For those who get caught unawares, they will have to move off react if possible, or seriously consider settling.
(Disclaimer: client is by me) but I have an alternative front-end for TIO which supports syntax highlighting and indentation for popular languages: https://vihan.org/p/tio
The proposed law is useless. Other states have similar laws -- they are useless.

The problem is that they rely on infringement claims being made in "bad faith." Patent trolls never make claims that would trigger these bad faith conditions.

Or, if they had made qualifying "bad faith" claims in the past, it is trivial to update their demand letters to avoid triggering the bad faith clauses in these bills or laws.
From Mark Thomas's comment on this bug:

> My reading of that is if you use this code and Facebook infringes a completely unrelated patent that you own, you can't sue them for infringement without giving up this patent license. That is much broader than the language in the ALv2 which is limited to a single work.

So it almost certainly doesn't affect personal projects unless you are the sort of person who files for patents as a hobby, but for a commercial project, the scenario, I think, is that if you own some patent (not even a software patent!) and you sue Facebook for it, you lose your patent rights to React. In effect, you may as well be granting Facebook a patent license to literally all your patents for use in any context, in exchange for using React.

Also, it's not just Facebook: it also covers suing anyone for infringing your patent in their use of any other Facebook product or service, as well as "any party relating to" React -- so quite possibly, depending on how lawyers and judges read the license, you can't enforce your non-software patents against anyone who uses React.
Considering almost every single large tech company is using React, presumably there's not much reason for concern? IANAL.

But you're not wrong, preact is a great alternative to react and it comes with a permissive license.
In my opinion, there's a lot of talk about how Japan or Asia is different, perhaps with truth and perhaps also with the idea of orientalism. In my view, the different cultures have different expressions of the individual, and likewise their expressions of conformity differ too. I also think that we may have trouble seeing this because it's all we have experienced, perhaps also the bias of categorising as conformity when there are many non-conformists.

The truth is that I've heard the line about conformity a lot, and it's made me think about how conformity exhibits itself in the West, and I think that fails at least partially because "the West" is such a big mass of different cultures, and of course the same applies to the East. You may deny this, but could that be a bias of assuming conformity when thre is little at play?

I don't mean to be attacking or even disputing your point, but personally it's an issue I have struggled with. Many humans desire to be the same, to be around the same people, so where might I fit in if I want to be accepted? To be either a perpetual foreigner treated well for being a foreigner, or a perpetual foreigner treated poorly for being a foreigner. These options are greatly saddening to me. Is it a matter of accepting my condition that I cannot conform by no fault of my own, or to attempt to steer society away from the pressure of conformity which drives many people to such sadness and suffering? Am I, as you say, obsessed with individualism to say this?

Sorry for the rambling post.
Dismissing the arguments of others as mere "virtue signaling" is not debating with them.

Edit: autocorrect
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This is such a good point. Personally, I'd rather not copy to win but in business, it's easily possible to copy poorly and fail hard.

There's a saying in Hindi - you need brains to copy well.
This argument is nonsense. Maybe the problems of our society is rooted in history and institutions and a fresh start is what's required. Maybe an equitable society requires a frontier to satisfy some aspect of human psyche and provide fresh ideas.

I could spend all afternoon coming up with alternative explanations. Ultimately your point of view is not popular on HN because it amounts to the logical fallacy of whataboutism and is a rude change of subject.
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Can you remove my comment altogether? It's getting downvotes because in light of you cleaning up the rest of this thread my comment here is no longer relevant.
Create a simple spinner icon in Sketch
"Only the good die young" is the result of bias: the bias of people not giving a damn, not noticing or else soon forgetting, when the bad die young.
But people still need to type those snippets. Typing up fresh code in online code runners (as opposed to pasting in pre-written code) is extremely common.
From a performance standpoint it’s definitely not better. I just built this for fun.
Hardly. Apple's drivers are notorious for their... "idiosyncrasies." Not to mention that at best, you can expect 4.1 support.
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Hi guys,
I was wondering if chatbots are going to rise and gain revenues for companies just like websites and mobile apps did for them in the past.

Right now chatbots are efficient as websites were back in the days of Web 1.0. In most cases, they don't really help the user get things any better.

I'm talking about companies which chatbots is not their main business. Do you believe that once AI / ML will be more mature, companies will adopt chatbots as an additional communication (and revenues) channel?

Really interested to hear your take on that.

Tomer
That's not exactly correct, in your last sentence, for the case of things which bioaccumulate: a million doses in the parts per billion range would be a single dose in the parts per thousand range, no?
One of the other commenters mentioned this: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki

If you’re interested in learning graphics, this is a great place to start!
I wonder how would things have been if Turket had been accepted to EU 10 years ago. Would it have helped?
I voted for Trump actually.
Just to confirm, this is being developed in the main TensorFlow repo?
Lots of large companies are not using React because of the licence. It's just that companies generally don't talk about legal matters like this openly. So you only hear about who is using it, not who isn't.

Often the large companies that are using React have patent cross-licensing agreements with Facebook (or other special arrangements) that make the issue moot for them.

Otherwise, getting your in-house council (or even your board, depending on the situation/risk) to approve of using React with the very broad patent restrictions can be an uphill battle indeed.
Hi,

Eul's target audience is primarily professionals, so it's silly of me to forget about HipChat. I just had a look at its API, and yes, it will absolutely be supported. In fact, most likely this is going to be the next protocol implemented.

Should be done by mid-August.
So you'd prefer Ted Bundy or Ted Kaczynski as a romantic partner? :-)

While it may be important to you to have an intellectual match as a romantic partner, there are many other factors involved for most people. Empathy is very important to many, along with, yes, physical attractiveness and financial security.
Devils devils advocate here :)
It's part of the nature of radio that you are in control of the channel, but not the message heard, as it's controlled by programming - the other kind of programming. This is dissimilar to telephone where a specific channel (number) is uniquely expected to reach a specific person, company, or household.

Thus the analogy breaks twofold. First, while the radio works as expected under these conditions, the telephone does not. Secondly, opting out means to take some action without affecting anything else than what you are opting out from. If you consider opting out in this context, it's clear that waiting can not be considered to be an action we take, and thus can't be considered a way of opting out, our waiting in line could be considered to be "opting out of standing in line", an obvious contradiction.
Yup! The code is here:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...
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The future is in the Moon
He did less than a lifetime of work because he did almost all of his work early in his lifetime. Then he selfishly betrayed his agreement with society and MIT by spending decades of tenure fiddling with his toys, and underachieved his potential. He probably could have done so much more with his talent if he had just some more structure to his life. That is why he is a cautionary example - he was a victim of his own success. You can have all the talent in the world and casually revolutionize fields as different as genetics and electronics when you bother to finish something, but if you don't put in the work, nothing will happen and you will squander it all.

> Shipping is good when you need feedback, but that's not the kind work he was doing.

No, Shannon was a genius and didn't need much in the way of feedback. Shipping is good because it requires you to complete the project and take it from 99% finished & only 1% useful to 100% finished & 100% useful, and it makes it available to the rest of the world, instead of buried in your estate's papers for a journalist like William Poundstone to uncover decades later after it would have been useful if it had been completed & published in a timely fashion.
This (mostly) isn't laziness. Voter turnout is falling because people are increasingly disaffected.

As people realize the majority does not rule[1], they are choosing to not waste their time. When someone has spent the last 30+ years watching politicians sell their future so so business and the rich can concentrate even more wealth, why should they bother participating in Democracy Theater?

Call these people lazy at your own risk. Far too many people are sitting right at the homeless/hungry threshold that can trigger rebellions/uprisings. We are dangerously close a critical mass of people deciding that "The Hamptons are not a defensible position."[3]

[1] Actual policy changes correlate well with the preferences of the economic elite[2]. The average citizen's preferences have almost no correlation to the same policy changes.

[2] http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fil...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK0jeJ8wxg
My most recent 'big' fortune 500 company put me under very strict legal terms regarding what type of software I was allowed to use. Any code I didn't write 100% myself had to be approved by legal before it could be used in software I wrote for them.

No, seriously, that is what the contract said.

In reality, the bulk of developers used whatever they wanted with no consideration. I assume other contractors were under similar legal terms, but not sure about employees. I was seen as a pain when I kept asking for formal permission for stuff.
It happens for trademarks too.
Why use ROVs for mapping? AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) are so much better suited for pure-mapping tasks when compared to ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles). There is no need to have a full pilot/team operate a ROV 24/7 for tasks when most underwater mapping can be done with autonomous vehicles. The cost of developing and operating an AUV is near half of what it costs to operate a ROV, since you don't need nearly as complex of vehicles or as many staff on the ship - write the software once for an AUV and the important things can be replicated. I agree that the search space is huge, but human operated vehicles (especially humans driving via expensive ships) are absolutely not the answer. The cost of processing the multibeam data is negligible when compared to running vehicles in the deep ocean. (source: engineer for underwater vehicles)
Finally, people are beginning to realize the insanity of this entire PATENTS file situation!

When I first brought up how misguided people were for embracing React and projects with this license, I was downvoted to hell on HN. But really, everyone, THINK ABOUT IT. This is a company that glorifies and celebrates IP theft from others, and lionizes their employees who successfully clone others’ projects. They’ve built their entire business on the back of open source software that wasn’t ever encumbered with the sort of nonsense they’ve attached to their own projects. And this industry is just going to let them have it, because the stuff they are putting out is shiny and “convenient” and free?

Having known so many people involved with Facebook for so long, I have come up with a phrase to describe the cultural phenomenon I’ve witnessed among them – ladder kicking. Basically, people who get a leg up from others, and then do everything in their power to ensure nobody else manages to get there. No, it’s not “human nature” or “how it works.” Silicon Valley and the tech industry at large weren’t built by these sorts of people, and we need to be more active in preventing this mind-virus from spreading.

By the way, the fact that Facebook is using this on their mostly-derivative nonsense isn’t what should concern you. It’s that Google has decided, as a defensive measure, to copy Facebook’s move. Take a look at the code repo for Fuschia and you’ll see what I mean. Imagine if using Kubernetes meant you could never sue Google?
> Considering almost every single large tech company is using React

React isn't as popular in the real world as it is on HN.
Taking a commercial flight over Southeast Asia is a very similar experience. Endless acres of once-rain-forrest that's since turned into palm oil plantations. Occasionally you'll see massive fires set by people who are too lazy to clear the land themselves. It's totally depressing. Since seeing that, I've now started reading labels and boycotting any product made with palm oil. Since it's not the healthiest stuff, it's mostly a win-win.
Isn't there already a cottage industry for Squarespace themes?
Some large tech companies may have large coffers of money and other bargaining power, and thus use React.

Many don't, and don't.

BTW one can use [preact] which is an almost drop-in replacement, but smaller, and is under MIT license.

[preact]: https://github.com/developit/preact/
I expected them not to lie and tell me they had what I wanted when they didn't.
Sure, and some of my classmates did the same. I didn't, because I foolishly assumed that going to classes and doing homework would teach me the things I needed to know and I could relax the rest of the time, and no one ever told me otherwise until it was too late.

I thought I was paying for an education. I was actually paying to hang out in the vicinity of an education, while being distracted with useless busywork.
Google had to shift an entire business model to attempt to do social.

Facebook just had to add features.
> Yet voter turnout often is quite low. Why?

The idea is that only the knowledgeable vote. If you do not feel confident that you have a good grasp on political issues, your vote dilutes the signal sent by those less ignorant.

Encouraging ignorant voters to vote is often the visible part of the propaganda iceberg, the kind of politics we have increasingly witnessed in most of the Western world in the last two decades and that used to be the preserve of third world dictatorships.

You then see elections via mud-slinging and highly visible non-issues taking on most of the mindshare, and the media is captured by interest groups who need it to hijack a larger percentage of the vote. It is harmful to the fabric of society as all sides of the political debate become vote harvesting machines and the citizenry is radicalised and encouraged not to reason about issues [1] [2].

"A free society gives its citizens the right to vote but that right should come with the responsibility to not abuse that right by voting ignorantly." [3]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1qffh9/vot...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-me-care/ - "the research [...] found that college students’ self-reported empathy has declined since 1980, with an especially steep drop in the past 10 years. [...] during this same period students’ self-reported narcissism has reached new heights"

[3] https://www.quora.com/Is-this-reason-for-not-voting-valid-or...
A simple text correction could tell the difference between the word "rnethod" and "method" and know one is more likely an error in ocr.
https://threejs.org it seems
Turkey has been powerful when it had the "Islamic World" under its stewardship. Being EU member would have improved the hand of "Secularists" for few years or so. Given the unraveling of EU experiment it would have at best delayed certain things, sooner or later in a generation the Turkey will look more like the Ottoman era both in its power and projection than it was for much of 20th century.

So broadly speaking, NO.
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We are working on it, but batteries make long-term missions hard. Sonar sucks up a lot of power.
It happens pretty quickly once you start producing database queries by manually concatenating strings, or manually parsing database response strings.
I think in cases like those, we as a community ought to work on nullifying such decisions by refusing to cooperate at all with them. An artist would refuse to surrender their art over such ridiculous nonsense so why shouldn't programmers?

In the artist metaphor, I also assume that it took a non-trivial amount of time, say a year.
If you can build a flexible back end, then you could find entrepreneurs willing to pay thousands or tens of thousands to have it customized.

On Flippa?
Interesting note from the discussion:

> As noted earlier, the availability of a GPLv2 license does not preclude inclusion by an ASF project. If patent rights are not conferred by the 3-clause BSD and required by ASLv2 then would not these licenses be incompatible?

---

> he has discussed the matter with FB's counsel and the word is that the FB license is intentionally incompatible. It is hard to make the argument that it is compatible after hearing that.
I've asked myself similar questions, and it's good to hear that they aren't unreasonable ones.

Readers might be interested to know that I actually made it through the PIP period and kept my job. When a wave of layoffs came, however, I was let go. I am sure that having been on the PIP contributed to their decision to cut me.