skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do quite a lot of integration with our Point of Sale, directly through it's SQL back-end. Occasionally I represent partial or all inventory in a separate DB which is easier to deal with, isn't subject to their odd schema, and so I can tie it in more directly with lots of other data we've acquired.

Occasionally the owner brings up that maybe we should just write our own POS, to which I very quickly back-pedal and let him know that's not a good idea. As much as the actual inventory tracking isn't that hard compared to what we've done, the accounting portion is not something I want to touch with a ten-foot pole. Let someone else make sure the accounting reports we do our taxes from don't have odd bugs, and spread the gains of bug-testing and fixing across thousands of customers. I've already got plenty on my plate before trying to take on a massive project with huge downsides like that.

> Certainly easier that try to implement the crazy scheme of "discounts" of my customers!

Any billing system that can correctly account for all the various ways businesses and sales departments want to display, link, sell and promote services over time quickly approaches a complexity which is hard to to explain, and without conscious effort also quickly becomes the domain of a few select people that have bothered to actually dive into the mess, leading to silo'd expertise.

Additionally, if you try to make it easy for non-programmers to use, you quickly end up with a DSL which while it may get the job done admirably, is necessarily powerful and expressive enough that you end up having pseudo programmers to write and read them anyway.
If anything the subscriber and online active count has been demonstrated to be tampered with multiple times by reddit staff. Even the CEO edited users comments - I have never seen that done ever or since. I say this as someone who has visit the_d since it had ~900 subscribers.
> Maybe Berkeley? The Portland riots? That was frightening behavior.

You mean Antifa? Those aren't leftists, those are anarchists. They believe that government is incapable of protecting against fascism, and are instead committing vigilante violence. This doesn't represent the "left", who would instead fight fascism through constitutional and judicial protections.

They only thing Antifa has in common with the left, is they both hate fascism. But they have completely different views on the role of government.
on its own, the word "search" doesn't imply "the internet". linguistically, the verb "google" has cultural value beyond the brand. it's rare for the phrase "google it" to actually mean "search the internet for it _using google_".
If coke became particularly more expensive (unlikely despite falling demand for electricity) then US steel (such as it is) would move to direct-reduced iron[1] using natural gas. Almost all steel in India is made this way.

It's also worth mentioning that steel can theoretically be produced electrolytically[2] (like aluminum). It's... essentially vaporware, but who knows. It's one of the Big Dreams: more energy efficient and pure oxygen as a byproduct.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_reduced_iron

[2]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cleaner-cheaper-w...
> I know everyone is going to say "but Nazis", but I think this incident should really drive home just how quickly dissenting opinion can effectively be purged from the Internet

Nazi/White Supremacist opinion is still all over the internet, so it doesn't seem to “effectively be purged”.
> Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. - Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

A lot of people here have been trying to defend free speech as a human right, and a right that all people and corporations have a responsibility to preserve. No matter how many appeals to authority, appeals to history or long-winded explanations used all these arguments have fallen flat on people who either don't agree with free speech, or believe it's only the problem of a small number of institutions.

I believe there's enough people who support speech as a human right that these companies will end up on the wrong side of history and be superseded by more content-neutral hosts. It would be nice if this had more support, but there's enough people demanding companies, who are denying service to groups with the intention that they are unable to find hosting elsewhere, that I think the near future of speech is safe, and will come back stronger.

EDIT: Reworded second paragraph
I actually remember seeing recent images of this very thing. If you image search for "2017 May Day protests stalin" you will see many different photographs, but to be fair it does look like the same single poster in all of the different photos.

https://redyouthuk.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/may-day-2012-...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15037499
macOS has PiP
Have you considered that advisers for Nixon's first Presidential campaign made the same complaint about network television?

My only point here is that many, many companies have been exerting their control for many, many years to further the varied agendas of their principal shareholders.

This really is nothing new.
You can't revoke a lot of permissions (such as vibration) from apps, even in that settings menu.
Do I need privacy policy or TOC for Landing page?
It also has the functionality to be able to wipe your phone when failing to unlock after 10 tries. It sounds so arduous to trigger in a tight situation that it's not useful in the real world.
Meet the Drapers: Yet Another Startup Pitch Reality TV Show
In which way(s) is Vive supposed to be better?
> > And of course the Ceci/Williams study showing a 2:1 hiring advantage for women for tenure track positions in STEM fields.
What does this have to do with anything? I don't think you understand what the issue is at all.

His point is that there is no "hand on the other part of the scale holding down women" or whatever quasi-poetic phrase you use.
So on average YC companies have raised some 10 m, but what is the median? Similarly to total valuation, this number is probably heavily skewed by a few whales.
Cool post. Some insight into why this problem is so hard: what this post is describing seems to be an integer linear programming problem [1]. I.e. optimizing a linear cost function constrained by (convex) linear bounds with integer-valued variables. The reason it's so difficult is that ILP is an NP-hard problem. Finding the right way to represent program source is also tricky, but, as the post says, doing so in a way that caters to the extremely performance-sensitive solver code is the really difficult bit. A better approach might be to produce an explicit ILP program and use an ILP solver to decide where the line breaks should go. As with many NP-hard problems (e.g. SAT, TSP), there are very good solvers these days that are much faster than anything you could ever hope to write yourself – and they produce fully optimal solutions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_programming
"An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1" by Paul J. Nahin is delightful. (If you liked this and want more.)

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9259.html
You surely do see the difference between "far right" groups and "far left" ones. There are important differences.

America has a history of white supremacy, and so Americans are rightly very concerned about its reemergence into the mainstream. The extreme left does not have white supremacist tendencies; the extreme right does.

If the extreme left were trolling across the Internet at the scale the extreme right does, and if this leftist trolling were leading distraught men into plowing cars into crowds of fellow citizens, we would rightly be more concerned about extreme-left Internet groups. But today, it is the extreme right that does this, not the extreme left. Far-right would-be terrorists are of greater concern and numbers than their far-left counterparts.

The far-left does have fascist tendencies -- I went to UC Berkeley, I've seen it first-hand -- but it simply isn't at the scale the far-right is currently at. This difference of scale is very relevant, and is part of what escalates society's response to the threat.

But I do agree with your sub-point that there's an asymmetry between reactions to Stalin and Hitler. There's probably some historical explanation; disgust toward historical figures is a socially acquired reaction. Excluding countries with special relationships to these men (i.e. Germany, Russia), it would make more sense to treat both with equal disdain and mockery.
Typically such zones are small and prone to interference, if you move just a little bit your coverage could disappear and reappear. The same happens in the 'urban canyon' of big cities between the high rises.

Even so, the default is that if you're in a hull you should not expect to be able to get out, and a submarine especially has a nearly cylindrical hull with only a very small hatch up top and this particular one has a few windows.
Vive does have new controllers in the works: https://www.vrfocus.com/2017/07/a-guide-to-the-htc-vive-knuc...

Both HTC and Oculus have tried to say something along the lines of "a major shift isn't coming too soon. If you want VR in the next 2 years or so, don't hold out".
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You can't expect any platform to provide free speech unless it's designed to make censorship impossible. Such as Freenet, or Tor onion services.

Edit: Here's the juicy quote:

> The recent rise of all-encompassing internet platforms promised something unprecedented and invigorating: venues that unite all manner of actors — politicians, media, lobbyists, citizens, experts, corporations — under one roof. These companies promised something that no previous vision of the public sphere could offer: real, billion-strong mass participation; a means for affinity groups to find one another and mobilize, gain visibility and influence. This felt and functioned like freedom, but it was always a commercial simulation.
I honestly don't know if it would help. You could try and argue that they're setting themselves up as victims but the other side of the coin is that they're exposing the true feelings and cruelty of the people they've been claiming are using their power to discriminate and silence them.

I don't think there's much to be gained by putting on a circus that exposes the Nazis as the scheming bad guys -- it's already in the name. They're provoking a reaction from groups and people who have been long claiming to be tolerant and respectful of dissenting views.

The way I see it the only way out is to be the better people, let them say and do as they please, challenge and criticize their ideas openly, respectfully, and with evidence, and be secure in the fact that in the long run they'll be proven wrong.
"There are hard-right alternatives to Twitter, to Reddit and even to the still-mostly-lawless 4chan."

The writer obviously has no idea what 4chan looked like before the fappening.
Where I am now, not so sure. I contract with an SME that's now owned by a big German car maker. Previously I've worked with Big Blue and a lot of smaller firms not reliant on VCs so far as I can tell.

The nearest would likely have been when I worked with London "unicorn" Powa Technologies, and we all know how that went...
Ok, but I'm talking about Control, not Command. And on mac laptops, the corner is taken up by the Function key instead of Control.
> You mean Antifa? Those aren't leftists, those are anarchists

Antifa isn't all anarchists, those that are are mostly specifically anarchocommunists, and anarchocommunists are emphatically leftists.
For some reason this reminds me of banks refusing to do business with marijuana dispensaries. All this will do is push digital currency, and the hate groups will still get their money. Then it won't be traceable, accountable, and completely decentralized.
But that assumes all tracking occurs client-side. YouTube, Amazon, etc. doesn't _need_ to track you client-side; they can report usage statistics for the current user (i.e. you) server-side and there's no way that you can stop them from doing so via a browser extension.
You could just as well say communists aren't on the left because communism is supposed to be a stateless society. If we're going to stupidly map all of politics onto one dimension we have to apply our reasoning equally stupid to both sides.
LaTeX is a wonderful gateway for many students to expand their exposure to code.

A lot of students will shy away from coding prefering more hands on work in the lab.
Some students will use Matlab or LabVIEW to perform some essential task and hate every minute of it. It might be some stastical analysis they don't understand built with spaghetti code they've inherited, or it might be for controlling a contrary piece of lab equipment. Either way they feel threatened by it or don't want to spend the time learning to understand it.

Show them a basic LaTeX document and how it can make writing papers and, importantly their thesis, much easier than the horror show that is Word and suddenly there is a moment of wonder.
> The one paper I read spends 80% of its effort defining the representation of text.

These days, an equivalent effort would incorporate Unicode and UTF-8 by reference, which together amount to much more verbiage, especially Unicode. Back then, text standards weren't quite so mature, and it's possible nothing existing at the time really solved their problem.
I am having a hard time deciphering what your position is.
Kernel syspatches will soon be smaller thanks to KARL (OpenBSD)
Ask HN: What does deliberate practice look like for computer programming?
Both were considered similar with the Vive being a bit better technologically (as well as not having a locked ecosystem at launch) and the Oculus being more comfortable.
>On a side Note: Yc doesn't understand people like me will never have the resume they are looking for, but have the talent and drive. I could game the application process to get accepted. Because we know what you accept and its not just a race issue.

I would venture to guess that YC understands more than you think. How could you game the application process to get accepted and what purpose would it serve? Sure you could misrepresent who are the founders in the video but don't you think they would not at the interview, assuming you would be offered an interview?
> For Apple, updates often mean some subset of the full operating system updates, or a crippled version.

A bit harsh, no? If new software requires hardware, why should that be considered "crippled"?

I find amazing that my 2013 iPhone5 can play games (Hearthstone) that some 2015/2016 Androids can't.
I'm not saying they're the only ones, but you cannot deny that those sites have a large proportion of that kind of content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)
The left is very much pro-Palestine, anti-Israel. You must not be paying attention.

And if you want to see Communist flags, go to any Bay Area protest. There's always Communist hangers-on in attendance.
The lighthouse tracking system is almost incomparably better than the optic sensors of the Oculus.
> whatever the leftist version of anti-Semitism is

I believe that's just anti-Semetism.

https://jewishjournal.org/2017/07/13/anti-semitism-and-anti-...
Most of the time I work a solo dev at the companies I've been in. Which to be more specific means, maybe I'm not always the only dev in the company but more often than not, the only dev in a project. The big exception was my remote job of over a year, where all the devs worked on the same project.

A lot of my correspondence involves talking to non-technical people such as project managers, so I have gotten to figure out how to communicate many things to non-tech people.

1) I usually don't. Unless I really bombed on a problem and am stuck on solving a problem for so long, I really can't tell true negatives from false negatives by the tone of someone's voice, or what they say to me.

2) I apply to mid-level jobs. I used to apply to senior positions (have held 5 jobs) but as I'm getting so many rejections, I've lowered the bar since.

Going by the phrase, "walk before you run" I consider myself still in the walking phase for many skillsets, yet even if I apply to jobs that are less challenging to get into, many people assume I have enough experience to run and say I cover lots of ground but not a lot of depth to have an exceptional strong point. And this is coming from someone with a lot of experience in small companies, where "running" is the norm. I thought years of experience is just a number? Many people learn at different rates, and have a diverse set of work histories.

3) I do some research in questions I should ask, and what I should know about the company beforehand. Typically would be able to find some work they're doing and bring it up.

4) My go-to questions to ask interviewers is "how long have you been working at this company and how have things changed since then?", "What is a typical team size for engineering/development?" and "What is the onboarding process like for new hires?"

5) Interview practices are almost impossible with a friend because I don't know any close friends in the industry, or with any experience interviewing people in general. More of a homebody so I don't talk to many of them. Because of that, I don't believe a mock interview with a random friend is a good substitute for a real interview, because they will not have actual experience in hiring developers.
Is Zurich the most livable city for you or according to some study? I found it average (definitely not bad) but I have only been there about 10 days in my life. For example, given a choice I'd choose to live in Luzern than Zurich.
I think you're confusing campaigning with saying, and compulsion with ostracism. You're not talking about free speech, you're talking about freedom from consequences. If you truly believe all political speech should be considered equal, I suggest you upvote this comment.

And yes, some forms of speech can be used to close down other speech. Online harassment is an obvious example but I seriously doubt it's what you had in mind.

Incidentally, the answer to your above questions is: in many states, actually, they do. If that's something that concerns you, maybe campaign to make that illegal.
The trouble with Zerglings: How Blizzard updated a classic
> anarchocommunists are emphatically leftists

Perhaps I should have been more specific, and clarify that the antifa values, goals, and belief systems (thank you for the term) anarchocommunisism is completely incompatible with the democratic-social capitalist hybrid model espoused by the contemporary American political left.
> Even William Gibson and Bruce Sterling are approaching retirement age these days...

Iain Banks has died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks
Any thoughts on a timeframe? This is the only thing holding me back from using Prometheus in any sort of serious way.
There are a few factors to consider.

1. Many early adopters were upset by Oculus' decision to pursue platform exclusives, where a piece of software will only work on a single company's hardware. This is a common feature of console devices, but not commonly found in computer-based gaming. This may or may not matter to you.

1B. Some people are bothered by the fact that Facebook owns Oculus; this may or may not matter to you.

2. Oculus is considerably cheaper than the Vive, even after this price cut. Their system, including motion tracking, is roughly $400 before taxes.

3. Video quality on Oculus and Vive are roughly comparable. Framerates and resolution on the PSVR are strictly lower, which can cause some users to experience nausea or headaches.

4. Most reviews rank the accuracy of the motion capture of the three platforms as Vive > Oculus >> PSVR. This is an important metric when measuring subjective "immersion", which is, after all, the entire point of buying a VR system.

5. Both Oculus and Vive require a relatively beefy computer to run the headset at sufficiently-high framerates. If you already have one, great. If not, it should be a sizable consideration in your purchasing decision; a PSVR would be quite a bit cheaper than either computer-based headset in this scenario.

So far, Vive is leading in terms of adoption rate, since Oculus' movement tracking solution launched many months after the headset. This meant that for quite a while, anyone who wanted motion capture needed to get a Vive.

Now that Oculus' solution is available, it is speculated that they are using their Facebook money to buy back marketshare by undercutting Vive's solution and selling below cost.

I would suggest that if you are in the market for a VR system, you should go and experience it at least once before making the plunge. Some people are extraordinarily sensitive to visual latency, which can cause severe nausea. If you are close to a Microsoft store, many have Vive demo kiosks you can use for 15 minutes to get a feel for the technology.

Hope this helps.
Didn't the Tor guys say they were going to do something about hate speech?
I'd probably give most places the benefit of the doubt — companies will rarely make UX or UI changes just because. There's usually a problem they are aiming to solve, and the solution they choose is some sort of interaction. Is it always the right answer? That's up to the users.
As an absolute layman, I always feared there is no way for the responsible part of mankind to control ALL ai research once the technology becomes reasonably available. I mean, we could not even prevent North Korea from getting nukes, how could we hope to control all AI research?.
They were always technically speaking compatible (Nougat and iOS10 have Unicode parity iirc, now Oreo pushes ahead with new Unicode points).

However, the blobs didn't always socially have the same meaning as iOS emojis. The push to the more circular emojis was to normalize them against iOS emojis, which for better or worse are the primary target of emoji use.
"Normal people" have absolutely not stopped using imageboards. Perhaps they feel outnumbered on the boards specifically devoted to politics because every other venue for political discussion bans certain viewpoints, concentrating proponents of those controversial positions in the free speech platforms. That's only one portion of the imageboard use case. Most people are there to talk about anime, video games, technology, or whatever other esoteric hobbies drive them to seek Internet discussion; it's difficult to work in advocacy for fascism to those discussions without catching a ban for being off-topic.
> ...just how quickly dissenting opinion can effectively be purged from the Internet...

But not quick enough to keep them from electing a US president who they embrace as their own.

Really, there was nothing quick about it. It's more like watching the straw that finally broke the camel's back.
You have the two flipped. You can demo VR at some Best Buys, Microsoft Stores, and Microcenters.

I bought an Oculus for $399. It's definitely worth it for that price, but I personally wouldn't pay $599 quite yet.
>* We see that it does for female founders.

...for this specific batch. Is parent questioning if this is historically the case or suggesting this is a move by YC at gender diversity? Just curious.
One day after switching to DuckDuckGo I found myself explaining to a friend that, "I no longer use Google to google things." It gave me pause.
Seattle, 2011. But there's probably been more. I don't hang out at these kinds of events.
not to diminish the rest of your argument, but my understanding is that java apps should be smaller than native apps (not significantly, since a huge part of apps' storage requirement is for assets, not code)
I dislike this. I almost hate it...

Why? Because you think it's poorly argued or because it challenges the idea that the family is not the ultimate reward?