skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For that matter, Logo of Apple and Audi are two things that are iconic and just floats on top of mind with no effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Hindus

Scroll down to Akbar and you'll find some interesting things. Also of interest is Allauddin Khilji.
Does it bother you that there is substantial scientific research showing that no meaningful increase in reading speed is possible without sacrificing comprehension? In essence, showing that speed reading is a hoax?
Why is it so awful? Collapsing, threaded comments seem to be a great way to organize organic discussions. How would you do it differently? 'Awful' implies that it is very far from your preferred format.
> That's the character that was included in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Yes, and that's the character that was immediately overloaded to used to mean a whole bunch of other things, because ASCII only included 95 printable characters, and did not include a prime symbol, an 'okina, or a left single quotation mark.

For that reason, U+0027 is not an apostrophe anymore. As the only ASCII character that can be used for a long list of uses, it's been massively overloaded, which is why Unicode currently defines U+0027 as a typewriter apostrophe and U+2019 as a real apostrophe.
Right, and I'm saying Mozilla already failed at reproducing OS scrolling behavior once. Hopefully different people are working on it this time.
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Is Rotten Tomatoes Killing the Movie Industry? No, Bad Movies Are
> Not really, there are lots of private-hire firms in London.

If thats your definition of monopoly, then UBER is also not a monopoly. Those still exist and can continue to exist.

> I'm siding with protecting a diverse market

You are not siding with protecting a diverse market because you are eliminating an option. Its the exact opposite direction.
The rules are written by the same people that invented taxicabs. If the rules are removed, UBER would not be bending any rules. Its a problem created exclusively by the government, and uber drivers and passengers are being disregarded. This is what people want, and you are advocating for restricting those people in favor of another.

To help one side, you are advocating the attack of another one. That is not an even standing.
I'm not sure goofy is the word. Looks pretty neat to me. (recent tweet by their VP with a picture:https://twitter.com/brianstucki/status/897076500049969152)

But you're right, it needs to scale much better. I'm surprised how many people think macOS VMs are available at Amazon only to visit and see that's not the case. Maybe this is part of the reason for all the new Apple data centers...someday.
So a police bullet kills by accident and the ai kills by deduction that unrest of the relatives is likely
Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?
I founded an vertical-focused enterprise startup. We signed a few huge customers in the space on a build-and-beta basis, and that led to industry awards and a full pipeline of leads and signed contracts for installation (SaaS pricing with small implementation fee).

We've done it with a ridiculously small team, however. And it's become impossible to handle the dev and deployment, support and training, security reviews, feature requests, etc. So we are looking at options.

We've been approached by a few large companies in the industry regarding acquisition. It looks like we could sell for $12-14M. Kind of exciting, but also well under the value that's possible (which would probably be something north of $400M in our industry alone, with the possibility to move laterally).

The alternative is to raise money. We've put together a solid deck and model (I think), but the local venture capital scene is not great (think $1M+ ARR).

We think this is a product ripe for SV firms, but those critical "warm introductions" are elusive. We just don't have the network. Only 4% of my cold emails have even been opened (yes, we track it).

It's crazy to me that our industry is jumping up and down for our product, we've got offers to buy the company, but we can't raise a seed. I've failed hard here. I'm open for advice.
Really? I've seen it in heaps of places in London - adding 12.5% "gratuity" is common at many places where you'd pay ~£15+ pp.
The 'sexwave' was in the 70's when studio54 was a thing and disco and cocaine became common/popular/big in the mainstream culture (famously captured by the film Staying Alive).

Also the legalization of abortion in 1972 contributed to this as well.
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This is being downvoted to oblivion but I'm not sure if it's true or not; hopefully someone can weigh in before it disappears.
Why is that a bad thing? I don't know for the US, but in other countries you have mandatory tests (hepatitis, gonorrhea, many others) to do every 3 months in order to get the treatment. This alone makes you more protected than people who only use condoms as protection and think they don't need tests.
How private are your favourite messaging apps?
It sounds like you're assuming they were talking about x86 when they didn't actually specify...
It doesn't have to be easier, it has to be more approachable. The most important part of programming is problem solving no matter how you're doing it, visual, imperative, functional, etc. Some interfaces are much more friendly to different people than others. Text programming often puts off non-programmers instantly, and they are able to reason about visual programming languages much easier than they would text-based ones without putting more time into them.
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> The core principle of a productive environment is increasing the friction required to slip into distracting activities, so that it takes a significant effort to get distracted

I somehow believe that subconsciously, that's why we "go to" work. Staying at home doesn't disengage the leisure part of our brains enough for most.

Being far makes it easy deep down to care about something else.
If you hate our culture so much why do you want citizenship?
I think Bay Area's tap water tastes fine. To each his own.
A layperson might not know why one photo looks better than another, but they can certainly tell that it still looks better.

An expert might know why, and be able to pick out a few reasons more why one is superior to the other, but the layperson still has a pair of eyes.
AKA "You're holding it wrong"
Sounds good. Just a word of caution to make sure you're ready for future UI design direction changes:

https://fluent.microsoft.com/

DirectComposition powers a lot of that and I bet web devs will want that kind of stuff too. Notice things like per-element shadows that are lit by global (OS-wide) lights.
Yes, moderation comments suck—to write as well as to read. If the community ever gets to the point of not needing them, it will be a dream come true.
Problem is, that's all the columnist does as well. He states, over and over, that the conventional wisdom is wrong, but he never seems to get around to explaining why.

Incredibly weak article, IMO, regardless of the merits of what he's saying.
This is just a poorly designed device front face, and the article attempts to hide some of the issues:

1. The scroll bar is disappearing under the notch when it's on the other side.

2. The chosen example has a solid color background while websites often have complex edge-to-edge ones which look even worse with the insets.

3. The home indicator and the round corners now permanently block some content at the bottom and edges in any orientation.

4. Objects in the vicinity of the prominent round corners will often look inharmonious, poorly clipped, etc.
What a mess. My condolences to the Apple engineers who had to implement this. The notch is probably something that marketing thinks is really important for branding reasons, but I'd guess most engineers dislike it. Yet some of them had to add all this complexity to their codebase.
> People won't become totally sexually irresponsible after the preventive shot, because there are many other hard to cure STDs now, especially as antibiotics are not as potent as they use to be, so i think there is no threat of 1960s style of unprotected sex wave.

The way you've phrased this, it sounds like you are casting "other hard to cure STDs" as a protective measure against the "threat of 1960s style of unprotected sex wave."

Isn't sexual freedom a goal?
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were they given a chance to "convince" ? are they banned forever then?
>> But it's silly to say that this hardware can compare to pro hardware.

Yes, that is true for people who have some knowledge. For most non-photography-buffs, the comparison goes as far as "hey, that looks as good as the photo Uncle Joe shot on his DSLR". It's a very superficial comparison, but for a layperson, perception is reality.

I would liken it to the concept of "virtual surround sound". Of course, it's not really surround sound, but if the listener's ears and brain are tricked enough to think it's surround sound, it's surround sound to them.
Successful treatment means you cannot infect others:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-hiv-transmission/p...

This is why "treatment as prevention" is important part of stopping further spread.
> Surveillance is the norm in China.

And in the US. And in Europe. And in Russia. And...
The passing of the sentence was quick, the execution of it was painful and slow.
> Most job growth is in low-skill jobs.

That's offensive. Please use the term "service industry jobs".
My anedoctes are from Brazil (São Paulo), I don't think that paper's conclusion extends to a different group.
> Servo's http code is notoriously neglected due to prioritizing development

Is it? It's freaking hard to make http code in rust at all. I just checked it's source and they use some old hyper's methods inside, which aren't available in recent versions. So you can use it only with tokio. Tokio is nightmare who those, who tries to learn rust. And I can't find a way around it.

> At the moment I expect they're in the same boat as ekidd, waiting for the async/await experiments to yield fruit.

I think that almost all rust users/devs there right now.
Maybe it's just me, but the Armenian genocide is much more well known than the greek one. There are pulitzer winning authors who discuss the Armenian genocide, and at least for me it was taught on when I learned about world war 1 (abet this isn't as touched on as much as ww2). And in more recent years, you have seen countries of serious prominence such as Germany recognize the arminian genocide as a genocide rather than just a war. I learned about the greek aspect from this post.

I'm curious if this is because the arminian genocide killed 90% of the ethnic groups population, being one of the most horrific and close to complete acts of ethnic cleansing ever to happen.
Here is the Amnesty International study mentioned in article -
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/10/which-me...
Also posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15314670

Tencent WeChat QQ 0/100. Hopeless.
Have the antibiotics used in animals (or any other antibiotics for that matter) been demonstrated to remain effective after cooking?

My guess is not, but if you have evidence to the contrary I'd like to hear about it.
Lego to lay off 1,400 people, 8% of its global workforce,after first sales slump
Ah, good ol' Reddit.
Thanks, we've updated the link from http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/companies/wechat-c....
You can see the power application note for the OSD335x at:

https://octavosystems.com/app_notes/osd335x-power-applicatio...

https://octavosystems.com/app_notes/osd335x-software-control...

the power consumption numbers for the OSD335x-SM will be similar.
See also S4E13 (“Never Again”)[0] of The X-Files.

There is also a common theory that the Salem witch trials were at least in part motivated by ergot, but there is at least a circumstantial case[1] against it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Again_%28The_X-Files%29

[1]: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/witches-curse-clues-evidence...
And how long do you think that'll last? As developers stubbornly persist in trying to make desktop applications on the web, they'll demand more and more access to the host, and browser developers will give it to them in an effort to one-up each other.

If anyone had actually cared about security on the web we wouldn't be where we are now.
16:9? Not classic. Nvidia graphics? Not good for Linux users. Pass.
I use https://hckrnews.com/ since I can sort out top 10 or 20 and top 50% (my usual default) or hit all to see everything as it updates. It also keeps track of dates and when, on all, what's new since my last visit.
Of course not. I was not making the claim it was perfect. Merely that only Apple goes to the lengths they do to try to make perfect things. You think samsung and google are running around studying paintings to try and understand the nuances of various styles and lighting? Hell no. They just through a common image processor in their phone and write some software to use it and call it a day. That's all I was saying. Apple goes really deep into things to understand how to make something better. I don't know any corporation other than Apple that dives that deep into details.
What if your elected representatives can vote to abolish the royalty?
> "redis of databases".

That's like saying <good truck> is a "Prius of 8 wheelers".

That's really weird comparison. Especially that PostgreSQL is more of a database than redis is.
https://prism-break.org
The devil is always in the details. You need a unified approach from first-line managers up to directors setting big picture goals for it to work. There's about 20 things we'd like to do as an organization every year. But, to stay focused and execute well we need to choose the 3-5 most important things. The same applies at the individual level. If everyone's on the same page then it works great.
3. Police publicly destroying the harvest and brutalizing of local farmers in a South American country for 'patent license' reasons.
We can port webkit to wasm, so our developers won't have to deal with browser inconsistencies anymore :)
> Java only had one closed source implementation...

This is not true. There were alternative implementations from very early on, most notably the Microsoft one.

> ...and had many security issues during its life.

True, but WASM hadn't had much of a life so far, so we will see.

> And its communication with the rest of the browser was done through a slow and ugly channel (IIRC everything had to be sent around as strings).

From what I understand, so far, every communication between the browser and WASM has to go through JavaScript and from what I see I think it's ugly as well[1].

Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all against WASM, but I see the very same arguments for and against WASM I remember from the 90s about Java. This is especially true when it comes to security. Java was designed with a sandbox and a bytecode verifier from very early on.

[1] https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/conne...
>We spent a long time wishing for a VM for the web that could be targetted by any language and being told that wasn't possible.

Technologically speaking, this has been possible since the days of p-code. The browser vendors have only just decided that it's something that's actually beneficial
Volvo wants to make car access seamless and hassle-free
As far as I know, no newspaper has published anything that indicates that the puntCAT foundation ignored a clear order by a judge to censor a domain (though it is possible that they did). It's also possible that this is part of the open blanket investigation of anything the Catalan government does about the referendum.
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The NVidia graphics one might just be an option.
All the rest of your points have been addressed, but re: the Mughal Empire

It is important to note that while the foundations of the Mughal Empire were forged with plunder and loot, the Empire itself became native to the Indian subcontinent not soon after and also subsequently for a couple of centuries brought about great cultural boom in the general area. The Mughals eventually came to see themselves as "Indians"(sic) and built their homes here.

This is a far cry from an Empire which was founded on loot and extortion & also evolved into siphoning off the wealth (both cultural and scientific) to a motherland completely disinterested in the welfare of its subjects.
> What is the story behind why they have embraced the "unsexy" label?

PR.
Canvas is too slow and handles text rendering poorly. If browsers really want to take another step in that particular direction, they're going to have to expose a lower level API for graphics and text rendering.
You would benefit from hearing this anecdote, gradstudent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDsP5n2kSM#t=13m20s
one cabbie took me hostage till we found an ATM.
The invention of AI ‘gaydar’ could be the start of something much worse
But I think your remark was valid though. Leopold II's atrocities get very little attention in Belgium compared to Nazism.

There are still quiet a lot of statues of him. Which indeed sounds weird in relation to Hitler statues. It might be an idea to give them the same treatment as the Nazi party grounds in Nuremberg. Proper context next to them.
No, there should ALWAYS be more work. If there is not more work, then as soon as work runs out the team is idle.

So you have to plan ahead.
Apple can't be unaware that this is a problem, right? They have to be one of the biggest users of such a solution for building and testing software on Macs and iOS devices. What do they do? And why aren't they (either themselves or in partnership with someone like IBM) offering a SaaS product for Mac/iOS developers to handle this sort of thing?
No. She's CEO at HP and, at least in LA, I've heard rumbles of people talking about her for a possible run. There's even an article today from Forbes:

http://fortune.com/2017/09/22/hp-hpe-meg-whitman/

She tried to be governor and I think ever since a few people have put her on a short list. At the end of that article, she seems to be portrayed as uninterested in the proposition.
Startups are not evaluated like that though, the earnings multiplier approach only really applies to big public companies, and even then not so well - just look at Tesla or Amazon stock.
It's funny you mention Audi before the Olympics' logo, though similar.
Url changed from https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/18/bringing-the-web-up-to-s..., which points to this.

acolyer.org's glosses on papers are excellent and I like reading them myself, but sometimes it's a bit of a struggle knowing where to situate them on HN given the original source rule (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Edit: changed my mind. Like I said, a bit of a struggle.
Java bytecode is 100% portable.
"Write once, run everywhere" was literally the motto of Java. Java bytecode does run everywhere there is a JRE and the JRE has been ported to a lot of hardware.
I meant criminal, not civil.

Whether Jeff Sessions thinks so is another story.
I wrote the first version of the Android scrolling code and also the first version of the WebRender scrolling code so, uh, sorry to disappoint you, but I'm still working on WebRender.

(Keep in mind that back in those days—the days of Froyo and Gingerbread—I was way more concerned with not having the whole browser crash due to absurd bugs in the Adreno 200 drivers than replicating minute scrolling details. Times change.) :)
But here's an even better model:
1. Do a good job
2. Consumers use your service & rely on you
3. Wait for the government to try to shut you down
4. Consumers will back you
5. Government backs down & lets you do what you want
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Thread collapse on the right, increase text size (seriously why is it so tiny?), remove pointless numbers on the left side of homepage, remove BS sponsored YC job postings, take better advantage of horizontal real estate on desktop, make everything easier to click on mobile (I have to zoom to hit stuff all the time).

This site is fine, and I use the regular version on desktop and mobile, but let's not deceive ourselves into thinking it's perfect.
The argument is not that the recent improvement aren't noticeable. The argument is that there is a point of diminishing returns, and with such dramatic changes in the past few years we are closing in on them fast. Future changes are going to be harder and harder to notice.
How did you actually get those first few users? What was your biggest source of traffic?
Last year before I graduated, I was offered a very lucrative software engineering position in Nowhere, Arkansas. It seemed interesting, but in my 10$/hour opinion I had other goals for myself, and there didn't appear to be a community that would help me grow where they wanted me to work.

On top of this, one of their VPs made a hard sell of the position, which, didn't make me feel particularly comfortable so I politely declined.

This article didn't mention Arkansas, or Software positions at all. I'm curious in any SME's opinion if I've dodged a bullet?

IBM is also building up a cloud provider solution, in addition to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon's solutions. I feel like a lot of shops are pretty entrenched in AWS, and HPE is kinda new and seems to be pivoting a lot. Somethings got to give in that market, no?
Here's where the market is being irrational in my opinion. I would bet that in 10 years Flexport dwarfs Slack in revenue and in growth potential.
The article title is actually

Walmart partners with smart lock maker August to test in-home delivery of packages and groceries
Your entire comment misses the point. What I'm saying is that most journalism was always this way. Algorithms don't exacerbate this tendency any more than daily sales did for the Sun. As a former reporter for the NYT, I can say that journalists there are subjected to many of the same pressures, if in a more limited way than reporters at Buzzfeed. And that sales always mattered at the Times, too. Reporters have always, always chased readers.
It's not that simple. In most cases, you'll be fine without antibiotics, it will just take longer to get rid of the disease. But as avoiding antibiotics in general is a good thing, the question is basically about how much you value getting better sooner. If you actually needed antibiotics they would not ask you that.
Which is what makes me sad being primarily a programmer. I often wish I had another career first so that I could use the programming skills to solve something there. As it is, I often feel like a loaded gun without a direction to aim in.
Yeah but a taxi driver can buy a home and put a kid through college, perhaps even take a vacation once a year. An uber driver may have 6 or 8 months of economic boom but eventually the house of cards will come tumbling down. It is exactly the type of company that is destroying the middle class. It is also the status quo of making a few people extremely wealthy. If you use uber you're just contributing to the decline of western civilization. That seems a bit melodramatic and believe me I'm the first guy to be looking for a deal and stick it to the bloated establishment but uber cuts all the necessary corners, sticks it to the drivers yet it's so popular because it's cheap.