skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Irrelevant hogwash. The left absolutely lives (and perhaps dies) by identity politics. Individuals are invisible non-entities unless and until you can lump them into some race/gender/oppressed group.

Name me one signature left policy isn't couched and positioned in-terms of victim identity politics?
In multiple comments, you've point blank said it would be really easy. If it's really hard to get the political will to spend the money to do the technically cheap and easy thing, then actually the task is hard.
If China and the USSR didn't have a vested interest in the outcome of the Vietnam War? Perhaps.

If it didn't cause the NVA to completely dissipate into full on guerrilla warfare? Sure.
That poem means the exact opposite of what you seem to think it means (like most allegories, to be fair).
D&D blazed the trail for gaming systems like GURPS. No matter his personal shortfalls Gygax was a legend that influenced culture for decades.
Perhaps initially, however their use would be normalised and so ultimately casualties would likely be higher as more were used. Also radiation pollution would be the gift that keeps killing.
A bit, yes.

Like in any GUI toolkit, one needs to have the taste and knowledge how to make into reality the wishes of a designer, or be a designer themselves.

On Swing's case taking the effort of reading books like "Filthy Rich Clients" and "Swing Hacks: Tips and Tools for Killer GUIs".

http://filthyrichclients.org/

https://joshondesign.com/c/writings

And be aware of cool 3rd party components like http://www.jgoodies.com/

The biggest problem with Swing is that Sun wasn't that good understanding the desktop, so although Swing is quite capable it has lousy defaults, like requiring the native look and feel to be explicitly configured, or making it too easy to run everything on the main thread.

On JavaFX's case, it is easier to use, but similar to using QML, XAML or the Web.

Following blogs like FX Experience http://fxexperience.com/ helps discovering cool components.

For those that care about UI/UX, GUI programming is graphics programming.

There is only so much that the default controls can do in any toolkit, extending them, customizing how they behave, or even creating them from scratch requires knowledge of graphics programming, because in the end you are putting pixels into the screen.
Seem to be, as per reviews. Since there is only 5 others with ear shaping tips but with bad reviews...
>even then we have to deal with China and India joining the developed world and what that means for CO2 emissions.

Evidence disagrees. Chinese coal consumption is declining ever so gradually (~1% annually) despite their economy growing as normal. In fact their overall co2 emissions are slowly falling as well. Its an open question whether this is going to continue or if this is just a false peak, but if their commitment to renewable and green energy is a predictor then they may fall below the us emission level relatively soon.
Coincidentally I wrote a comment that explains it the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15088782
Ask HN: Are there systemic reasons for contractors being unreliable?
Why are home contractors often unreliable? Typical example: a contractor is scheduled to come in on day x, but creates delays and comes later than expected.

From what I've seen, both through personal experience and anecdata, it seems that home contractors are frequently unreliable both with respect to time commitments and quality of work.

I am wondering if this is fundamentally because contractors overbook and over-commit themselves because they can only compete with rates that force them to try and do too many jobs at once.

Or is it something that can be explained other reasons? E.g. - typical contractors simply don't have the background, training or perspective to build completely reliable service levels in their business?
Yes, if you break the contract, better abort. But throwing errors can be part of the contract, even for some programming errors. Failure tolerance, resilience etc.
"If a protest falls outside of the media, does it make an impact?"

No. But in my lifetime these protests changed life

Womens rights. NOW. riggs vs billy Jean king. Women took a job away from a man. Now you cant afford to own a house without a woman's income.

Vietnam war. War is bad. Draft is evil. How america treated returning soldiers means today it is taboo to say anything negative about a veteran. (yet 20 years earlier there was family shame if you didn't enlist for wwii)

Civil rights. Who even met a negro back in 1966??. Now who cares.

Gay rights. So.. Its not about inability to procreate... Before gays were oddities. Now.. Who cares. Marriage even.

Animal rights. Yeah, out of sight... Lets protest. Cleveland amory. Aspca.. Now we turned the word "rescue" into a washed out version of saving.

Nukes. We forget that one nuke will wipe out life with years of darkness... Remember iran in 1979??? "Nuke Iran"

YES. PROTESTS MATTER
I prefer the original DS or Lite over the 3DS - there's too much internet garbage on my gaming device. Plus, region-locking. So, no.
>I haven't signed the back of one in about 20 years.

I was made to sign the back of my cards by stores in the US over the last year. Now all my cards have signatures.
Really recommend Peter Drucker's books. It's not about Alpha at all, it's about effectiveness which also doesn't come naturally but can be habitually trained.
If browsers offered an "open in a chromeless window" mode that could be called by other apps, then Electron apps wouldn't need to bundle the own browser.

We could then have downloadable apps with sizes of a few MB instead of the >100 MB monstrosities it generates now.
> MTuner is a C/C++ memory profiler and memory leak finder for Windows, PS4, PS3, etc.

I don't see any mention of Mac at all in the Readme, and I find the "etc" part confusing. For example, I use FreeBSD. PS4 is based on FreeBSD. Does FreeBSD go under the "etc" part? If not then what does?
Environmental issues and class economics.

But of course, this is my white male privilege speaking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA

About the only supporters those bills had were IP owners; effectively everyone else in the US was against them and Congress got the message.
The Democratic Socialists of America went from 5,000 people to 25,000 people in a year.
Generally people that sell inputs like shovels, jeans, and land. Prospectors generally lose money.
I think you misunderstood my meaning. Of course CS classes don't teach you that stuff. The point isn't that CS classes prepare you for the workplace any better than a bootcamp. The point is that the intellectual curiosity necessary to go learn things on your own is the only thing that prepares you for coming into the industry and staying relevant once you're working in the industry. And those that are curious about computers from an early age are the ones that end up in CS classes or getting jobs in the industry without a degree from a university or bootcamp. The education CS grads receive in school is mostly bonus principles that help them make sense of what they learn on their own and isn't really necessary.

I guess my point is that the people going into these bootcamps, from the ones I interviewed, didn't seem to be people with that curiosity who had taken the time to learn a bunch of stuff on their own. They seemed to be people that wanted to quickly learn to be a developer. And it's perhaps possible to cover the part of a CS degree that's actually applicable in the workplace and a few technologies in the months that students participate in these bootcamps. But it isn't possible to cover the years of independent exploration that most CS graduates did both before, during and after their degrees. That's the bulk of what makes someone qualified to work in the industry. And there aren't really shortcuts around that learning process.
I would like to think that there is but it seems like any time the current administration gets significant negative reaction it just turns even further towards racism. As for local members of congress, I live in Indiana and our republican senator seems content to toe the line despite the fact that many of my friends called in protest of the healthcare repeal and I did not see a single post on his facebook page or at him on twitter that supported his vote.

My fear is that Pence does somehow end up as president since he is both a career politician who knows how to work the system and seems to want a theocracy.
If you are interested in the history of role-playing games, I recommend Jon Peterson's "Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventures, From Chess to Role-Playing Games". It is a monster 720 page tome. Very comprehensive and well-researched.

https://amzn.com/0615642047
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Fortran is a scientific language, and is not used in banks and financial transactions.
To be fair, that may more be a function of Trump more than Bernie.
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HTC vive is in trouble. The tech is basically licensed from valve (I say licensed, valve give it away for free I believe). There are multiple competing headsets (LG) due for release soon also licensing the valve lighthouse tech.

But no one is interested in the HTC app store, everyone gets their content from valve via steam.

So HTC can't sell their headset as a loss leader and make the money back on games, because they don't have any monopoly on the games channel.

The other major competitor Oculus is owned by Facebook who basically have infinite money. They have undercut the price of the vive significantly (presumably selling it at a loss) and throw money at all the studios to make Oculus exclusive content.

I have a vive, I think it's amazing tech. I think the lighthouse technology is far more promising than the camera tracking used by Oculus. I far prefer the open philosophy, and the strategy of not making content hardware exclusive. I want it to succeed (and maybe it will via other partners with valve). But right now, i think HTC are going to struggle to make it work for them.
It seems like it means what he thinks it means.. What do you think he meant and what do you think the poem means?
The democrats don't need to abandon identity politics, but talking about poverty helps minorities and white poor people.

As it stands though, the Democratic party won't touch economic issues. They've got a supermajority in California , have a bill passed by the state senate for single payer healthcare (SB562) and the (democrat controlled) assembly shelved it.
data => $0.1 / GB / Year in a public Cloud, or even $0.01 / GB / Year if using Glacier / Coldline.

code => a Docker/CFI image.

dependencies => captured in the image.

format => the code understands the format.
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I think you are overly pessimistic. I haven't looked at the actual drawings but if they reflect the picture the sides appear to be built as inverse parabolas. This would transfer all of the vertical weight into a horizontal force at the foundation. If the base of the building was deep enough, you could counter balance an arbitrary height. Essentially creating an unnatural cinder cone equivalent. Internally the sides would be pressing inward and distribute lateral forces around the circle. It should be at least as stable as an equivalent volcano which typically has a much more variable material structure.

Construction would be very interesting and challenging to pull off, each 'floor' at the bottom would have a tremendous amount of overhang.
Ask HN: Suggestions for new LEADERSHIP role
Hi, I am taking a new Technology leadership role in my automotive organisation. We work on automated driving stuff. Earlier I handled 30 enggs. Now it's big responsibility to handle 150 enggs of course with 5-7 direct reportees. I need your inputs or suggestions on how to motivate, set vision and make them align,create roadmaps, bring efficiency, conduct workshops etc. Any pointers/ideas will be of great help.
I would like to know your approaches and effective methods.
On the level of working on a single task or commit I agree with the "never be afraid to throw something away" concept.
Have you ever known two relatives who hated each other?
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It may be just me, but every time I download an app I have a feeling that I'm signing in into something that will do whatever it wants on my phone - geolocation, read address book, access the internet? for what?

And then, you know, there are these things called "websites" that you access using a single app called "browser" that end up being pretty useful even on your phone.
>While this seems interesting, in this type of application what benefit does this have over, say... unit and integration testing?

It provides infinitely more assurance than any amount of unit/integration testing: it guarantees that the application behaves as specified, which guarantees correctness if the spec is correct (and if the spec is not correct, then testing won't help either). It also turns what's possibly the least enjoyable part of software development into the most enjoyable part.
My first reaction is to not let the threat of a foolish group of leaders to become more foolish override ones place to voice their opinion.

Second thought is that these foolish leaders stay in power as long as they can point a finger and or claim superiority

I don't think silence helps but it's important to stay principaled and not turn protests into riots which gets difficult at high volume and where people are instigating it
They're not really correct that Starbucks has no free alternative. However, this depends on several understandings. The first for me is a sort of A=A mindset, that coffee=coffee regardless of all else. Assuming for the moment ground coffee rather than whole-bean or instant, I can get over a month's supply for about 5 bucks. It's not "free", but it's $60 a year for a pot of coffee per day. On top of that, if I don't want to make my own coffee, a $1 coffee mug allows me to get refills at 7-11. And I can get coffee at the food bank reliably.

While you might argue that I'm discounting the cost of the water and electricity, I'd argue that instead we're talking about the same issue as the cost of the phone. I have a $20 phone which works well for me. But any purchase in the Play Store is getting judged against that $20 value; if the phone were worth more there'd be no hope of an app significantly increasing the value of the phone.

There's no app I really need that's not free (or OEM like phone, text, memo, camera, ebook reader). The few that I do want or which I might need? I can get that function working in a browser.
That’s exactly what I meant—conceal the details so anyone can use it, but base those details on common standards so it’s possible for a savvy individual to work with such packages manually without vendor lock-in. The true challenge definitely isn’t the technical side—it’s getting people to adopt it, and thereby make it standard.
Yeah seeing the refugee crisis, the uprising of ISIS, terrorist attacks that are indirectly related to a lot of American invasions we Europeans are getting definitely the long end of the stick.

I find it really weird how over the ocean they are always pounding the self on the chest but they never think about how some of us need to deal with the consequences of the decisions they made in the past. You can bicker a whole day of keeping people out and travel bans but you need to ask yourself what is one of the reasons we have them in the first place.

Military spending is also not about the bill but funding the American military complex by forcing shoddy products (JSF) to other countries. I know this is the reason why this country is still debating about replacing our old F16 fleet.

America is not perfect in that regards that they only brings safety to the world or they do everything because they have high moral values.
If you want to influence someone, or some orgnanisation, you need leverage. It could a reward, or a threat, something. Otherwise how can you motivate them to accommodate your wishes?

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Eg. A well organised strike threatens the businesses profits and can be effective.

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But simply marching on the street, who cares about that?
The legal minimum across the EU is four weeks of paid annual leave.

Source (article 7):

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...
Is there an ICO? If it is an ethereum app, there has to be an ICO. It's the only way

Edit: color me surprised, there is not an ICO. They even want to have working app first. Well that's new. Mostly those apps just write a whitepaper, accept money and then do nothing.

>According to Ryan Ozonian, the CEO of Dust and a leader of the Mercury Protocol, the only way for people to earn tokens at the outset will be through participation. In the future, though, he says there will be an opportunity to purchase them.

Edit2: oh there will be an ICO of course though

>Roadmap

>Phase 1: Dust (Q3 2017)

>We will build version 1.0.0 of the Mercury Protocol, conduct the token sale, and integrate GMT into
Dust. The Mercury Protocol will remain closed-source at this stage.

Ummm ok. Good for them I guess. Let's throw more money at broken blockchain protocols!
The country has a huge stake regardless since they likely pay unemployment benefits if they were to go under etc.
One question nobody dares to ask aloud.
How many high-danger buildings like the Grenfell Tower ware there?

I guess a list and a map of this would be enough to set a revolution into motion.

Im sure, the usual suspects will show up- defending this atrocity with the same excuses socialist use on Venezuela.

"This is not really capitalism.."

"The people who lived inside choose to live there- they where free to leave - until they were not.."

"This is not a systematic failure, but the failure of person XY, a morally outrageous being we should shun into the dessert.."

"On the map, its in a state, thus if there is a state, the execution was not pure enough.."

Silence in the comment below- seems even fanatics know shame.
That is short term thinking, who will guarantee any of that stuff will be around in the next 50 years?
Most states emissions testing requirements are not stringent. Having lived in Washington, Oregon, and California I can say that WA's and OR's tests don't do much.
It totally can be that easy, though. Imagine the software in the car has the following pseudo-code…

if (emissions_test_running()) {
run_efficiently();
} else {
business_as_usual();
}

… which could get replaced with …

run_efficiently();
I don't think it's supposed to be an analogy, the point is just to illustrate that 1 dollar is a very small amount of money and you shouldn't hesitate to spend it on an app.
>The Democrats own this as well. When the rank-and-file realize that, there will be talk.

No, I cannot accept "both sides are bad" as an argument. There certainly is a degree to which the parties are complicit. I simply didn't observe the Democratic party leading a very deliberate and effective war on the very notion of truth. I have witnessed the Republican party in the US (and Vladimir Putin in Russia) do that successfully.

Not that I'm a fan of the Democratic party either - its establishment is its own undoing, and if they don't change fast, we'll have eight years of Trump. But I don't see any evidence for your claim "when the rank-and-file realize that, there will be talk". Many of the rank-and-file who supported Sanders know full well just how bad the party is. It didn't make it any easier to talk to "the other side", when a conversation focused on the issues and solutions is easily derailed.

Finally, I can't accept an ad-hominem argument against the article I linked to. Please argue against the content of the articles, if you may.

You are right about the outrage, but I think there's more to it. Even when people are not angry, their way of thinking has changed fundamentally.

The remedy will take a while, and it will have to start in the public education system, which doesn't do a good job at teaching critical thinking at the moment. It doesn't surprise me which party seems to be hell bent on cutting funds to education - and has been, for decades - aiming to turn education into nothing more than trade schools. So, alas, even a major calamity will not change the outrage-as-political-currency state of affairs.
Do blockchain people have any other arguments other than decentralization, security, probable future monetary incentive. These arguments although sound have become cliched, every whitepaper has the same arguments, same methodology, same roadmaps, substitute noun and you have got a whole new whitepaper.
It's the lack of ideas of use of blockchain.

Ohh that business is centralized, ohh that guy is making so much money off it, ohh they sell user data, ohh they got hacked !! lets decentralize that business, lets make some crypto money while we can ( and unload it on suckers when crypto hits high ). we got hacked (oops) ...it wasn't us it's the underlying layer under the layer on which our "smart" contracts are based.

I don't care if zuck or anyone is making millions for a centralized product ..he should be he made that product. It was needed that's why people use it.
Data isn't safe with centralized network, they misuse it ..heck i have got a choice to share what i want, i can control it. Maybe educating yourself on what and what not to share is better.
Networks get hacked ..use 2FA, go MI6. Not everything comes with lifetime guarantee.

what if I don't want to make money off your blockchain protocol or ICO or early adopter incentive or what not.

I am curious to know reason other than mentioned above on why should anyone care about blockchain based protocols/networks etc.
No reason why there can't be both. Syntax to opt in one at a time for old projects, and a compiler option for new projects.

Yeah, or a file level switch would do, that would be fine. As long as there is some way of transitioning a project little bit at a time.

I hope we get one of those options
Awesome! The market is really short on good MIDI pedals. Most pedals are in the €150 - €500 range and they have no versatility. You have to buy different pedals to be able to connect it to different gear. When you compare them to MIDI controllers from of the likes of Akai and Korg it's just depressing. They have velocity sensitive buttons, wireless-, USB-, standard MIDI and beautiful hardware for less than $80.

Someone go make a Kickstarter!
Okay, that was interesting reading. Now I actually know what Stuxnet did and how it worked.

The un-named nls_933w.dll responsible for modifying firmware on "over a dozen" HDDs is only termed as Stuxnet-like however: https://securelist.com/equation-the-death-star-of-malware-ga...

That's remarkably impressive though.

HDDs aren't impenetrable walls - http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack - but reflashing firmware on over a dozen disks, presumably from Windows... nice.
Did you consider using dependent types to define the image database in such a way that it's impossible to create one that's not InternallyConsistent? This approach can often make proofs shorter/simpler.
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> Last week I bought a game for 99 cents and it was terrible. I played it once, for 15 seconds. I could be shoving $1 straight down the toilet again for all I know. Your app, good sir, is a total gamble. Sure, it’s only a $1 gamble… but it’s a gamble and that fact matters more than any price you might place on it.

Haven't the ability to return apps been around for like, 6-7 years?

EDIT: I see downthread that this has apparently changed
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