skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A rhetorical question that has only one answer doesn't really require an answer.

Do you seriously think anyone would answer "yes i love getting yelled at"? If yes, then I'm done here. If no, then ask yourself why you asked that question. it's a rhetorical question to control your narrative, which has nothing to do with what GP said. GP never said it's a good thing to yell at others, and neither did I. You're the one who turned it into this narrative for the sake of your argument.
Spritemate: on-line sprite editor for the Commodore 64
cities should be for everyone, especially cities like SF,LA. a city that is an enclave for the rich is a sad community.

this isn't "how the market works". centralization of wealth and especially wealth in the form of housing is and has always been a result of state power. the fact that SF is unaffordable is the result of policy, not just the invisible hand of the market. And even if it was, that wouldn't make it OK
South Florida was unsettled marshland back then
You can install anything you want supposing the developer releases it in the wild as source with no hope of making money off AND no hope of normal users making use of it.

Doesn't sound useful to me.
The "bulk and weight" FUD needs to stop. There is no reason that user replaceable batteries need to be heavier and bulkier than soldered batteries.
Really!? They actually wrote an article about a non-issue?

"But if your car is an older model, you might want to avoid charging your phone through its USB port." - So how many of the older cars came with the USB ports?

A 5V/1A USB charger won't drain down a car battery for a very long time! It will take 48hours with an average car battery to completely drain it while sitting idle and not being recharged at all. And how long does it take for any smartphone to fully charge? SMH
I didn’t realize that skin color being unchangeable was the only reason those stereotypes were bad lol... you have a fascinating mind, and should still be ashamed lol
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NYC should not be an enclave for the rich. It should be affordable and accessible to everyone. I don't care about the whims of the market, I believe strongly in that principle, as do many new yorkers.
This, my friends,is a prime example of coastal elitism.

Does derefr really think that there are no jobs in the capital city of Kansas that pay enough to afford a house under 100k? Not a single job?

Lol.

Edit: Ha ha downvotes for pointing out that high paying jobs exist outside of California. Nice.
Interesting article coming from the IEEE, who has historically been very pro-DRM, anti-consumer.

Back in 2012, Toshiba told laptop repair tech Tim Hicks that he needed to remove 300 PDFs of Toshiba’s official repair manuals from his website, where he was offering the information for free. To avoid being sued, Hicks complied, and now fewer people have the guidance they need to repair Toshiba laptops.

Of course, you can still find the manuals if you know where to look, and even complete schematics --- no doubt leaked by those in the far East who actually have access. There's always been an underground repair movement, sharing manuals and other information and reverse-engineering as necessary[1][2]; but that's getting rarer as things get more "secure", and the sites themselves being DMCA'd or otherwise taken down. Perhaps LibGen/SciHub could start a subsidiary specifically for hosting such leaked/"samizdat" repair information, given how they seem to be staying alive despite copyright...

[1] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=446

[2] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=1970
Self-driving startup nuTonomy bought by Delphi for $400M
A city/town/neighborhood is part of a state and doesn't live in isolation. If you live in SF, your water comes from.... drum roll, Hetch Hetchy damn, which is a 3 h 49 min (177.7 mi) away.

Now image if the people living where the pipes come along, decided not to have them in their backyard..... because of democracy, they vote to tear them away.

No water for you....

Democracy can't exist without limits, otherwise you run the risk of 51% controller what the other 49% do in every way...

Zoning laws are restriction on the rights of what can be build in a property, and they should exist in a Macro scale,

Otherwise, your neighbors might decide against water pipes to come in your house, because democracy...
>It's my damn phone!

Correction: it should be your damn phone. As it stands, it's their damn phone; they're merely being gracious enough to let you use it in the limits they prescribe. And you're paying for the privilege!
Look at the article, he's talking about what changed from 100 years ago. I'm talking about why it changed.
That does not fix the e-waste problem. E.g. Apple has always been willing to repair or replace under warranty.

See this item: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14175771
Because "living hand to mouth" doesn't sound good...
It's weirdly impressive that you still find wide, systemic misuse of random number generators in professional products. But maybe un-use is a better term for not using one where appropriate. In a Def Con talk Dan Kaminsky described it in a slide as "a drop will do ya". Where even a half assed attempted at using a csprng will result in something that will resist all but very well resourced attackers. Also see OpenBSD who have been banging this drum for probably 10-15 years now.
My biggest take-away from all this -- look at how much high quality engineering work was just crowdsourced for $1,000?!
Ask HN: Did I hit the Programming Wall?
Hi!

I am currently teaching myself programming in Python 2. I attempted to learn programming in Java before, however, I ALWAYS hit the brick wall at OOP. I understand the abstract concepts, however, calling classes and functions (like calling a variable in Python 2 from a class in a imported file, etc.). I just had never understood OOP. I understand literally everything else, like functions, variables, debugging, etc. Any advice for me?

Thanks!
A good answer: http://blog.darkbuzz.com/2014/03/counterfactuals-math.html

"Mathematician Terry Tao explains his version of counterfactual reasoning in three posts on The “no self-defeating object” argument. As he explains, many elementary theorems are very confusing to students because they are based on constructing some impossible object. There can be no impossible object, so the proof seems like a paradox. The contradiction is avoided by precise mathematical definitions and analysis."
आज 25 अक्टूबर लाभ पंचमी आज गणेश जी को चढ़ा दे थोड़ी सी ये चीज़, होगी धन की बरसात
In the case of iOS, update it to what? By the time Apple drops iOS support for a device, it's already starting to show its age. I have an old working 1st gen iPod Touch that can only handle simple web pages like HN and most apps that require a back end can't connect to the server like Netflix and YouTube.

My old 1st gen iPad fared a little better - you can still download "the last compatible version" of apps and use many of the streaming apps but it's crash prone trying to display complicated web pages.

Sooner or later smart phone advancement will get to the point where computers are now - a 10 year old computer * can run most modern non game software but we aren't there yet.

Neither of my old iOS devices needed "repairs". While I had long since abandoned my iPod Touch, I just replaced my first gen iPad as a PDF/Ebook reader with a 2017 iPad.

* My parents still use my 2006 era Core Duo 1.66 Mac Mini with Windows 7 and my current Plex Server is 2008 Dell Laptop 2.66Ghz Core 2 Duo running Windows 10.
Source of data:

0) We analyze products that have a public footprint.

1) We analyze products that don't have a public footprint.

2) For 0), we crawl the internet periodically and create a time series curves of B2B product usage for companies.

3) For both 0) and 1), our verified community has trained our algorithms with tens of thousands of data points on usage and sentiment, thereby reinforcing or nullifying these deductions.

4) If you have stopped using Angular and started using React (or vice-versa now that Angular 5 has better server-side rendering), it is deductible at a global context.
I don't quite follow. What was the role of the IP address in this? Was it the IP address of the phone?
Dynamic Programming is one of the most common tools when doing optimization.

Generally, shortest path algorithms rely on dynamic programming for a reasonable solution. Examples of include the Traveling Salesman.
Too late to edit: it looks like people are reading my comments as obliquely questioning 'waster's credentials. I can see how one could read my comments that way and given how conversations on the internet can go, how one may believe that to be the case; but that's really not my intent. If I took issue with their findings, I'd come out and say so. I'm just interested in finding out more where their coming from.
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Reality Winner missed that day at NSA training!
That's true and Tokyo is a good example of this: https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-...
What we're doing with Substitutes is to complement the NPS ranking with a mapping of actual switch behavior. It's entirely possible that a lower-rated product is a much more popular substitute for a product if it's a better fit (e.g. targeting SMBs or Enterprise).

An example:
In the Recruiting/ATS space, Greenhouse and Lever are each other’s most significant competitor.
Meanwhile, companies looking to replace iCIMS by far most frequently end up using Oracle Taleo (and vice versa)

We generally see company size and employee count is highly predictive of which products they’ll consider and we can see a progression as companies grow out of services catering to SMBs to more fully-featured alternatives.
Still waiting here, anyone else?
Where did you get the $110B number from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia shows something quite different. Nvidia is nowhere near Intel.
Apple has also fought consumer laws in other nations to ensure no more than a 12 month warranty.

If they feel like including DRM in this hypothetical law situation, require the warranty be twice as long as otherwise.
You're implying that in purchasing a property you acquire a perpetual right to the sunlight that exists on the day you purchased. There is no such right. If this gardener wanted to retain that sunlight, they should have purchased the lot next door, put a building-height covenant on it, and resold it. They would incur a loss due to the covenant, but that is the cost of legally gaining the right to that sunlight.
Your asterisked comment is the whole point.

It wasn't the staff all choosing to leave, it was the staff being told to leave. That'd be two very different stories, which is why 'exodus' would be misleading.
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Too difficult to judge once it has been tampered with. The courts don't have time to judge each case on its merits and there's no reasonable surety that your modification didn't harm the product.

The line has to be drawn somewhere.
Show HN: De-anonymize WordPress users, comments and Gravatars
Still haven't got my email yet, hoping and praying I get the invite!
Current share price * outstanding shares.
Mkt cap	119.21B
Absolutely. I live in literally the middle of nowhere and we can't find software engineers even though the cost of living is 90% of the national median. Here a $200k house is a mansion.
Anyone else not trust pdfs?
Asking to be free from the consequences of your decisions is really not reasonable IMHO. I think it's perfectly reasonable to demand freedom to do what you want with your own device (and I do), but to also demand that somebody else pay for it when you break it would make providing a warranty a suicide-operation, meaning few companies would do it. And the answer to that problem (created by government in the first place) would be more government in the form of forcing companies to provide warranties, which would result in nobody shipping anything cause it's too damn expensive, or else charging insane markup to cover warranty repair costs. Then the government would have to institute price controls...
AMD is a clear winner now on Linux. Nvidia will become an underdog, if they won't open source and upstream their driver, which is very unlikely. Nvidia was and will be plagued by integration issues, while AMD already nearly caught up performance wise, and will overtake Nvidia soon enough.
Honestly, it's hard to completely grok a concept until you have solved at least a couple or three problems about the topic, no matter how many examples or lines of pseudocode you have seen. I think that's his complain, and I have to agree with him. I also took a class some years ago that was purely theoretical and I didn't really learn much besides some general concepts.
How much money do you really think a developer can make without going through the App Store?

Can you name one successful profitable Android app that isn't sold in the Google Play Store even though Android devices have been able to sideload for years?
5 years of decline in PC/x86 sales.. Intentionally terrible product lines of a monopoly not wanting to canabalize any higher pricing potential.

I see why. I had a three-year-old Retina iMac that was a nightmare to set up (https://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/01/5k-retina-imac-and-mac-os...) and now have a current-gen Retina iMac that was easy to set up, which is a great improvement, but the day-to-day performance increases are small. The screen is better but not by much. The GPU is apparently much better but little that I do is GPU constrained.

Laptops have gotten lighter, at least.
yeah, waiting in the consumer category
i am waiting. invites are still getting out, so nothing is lost
still waiting as well.

I think invites are done sending. Seems like things have slowed down. Haven't heard of anyone getting rejection letters either
Hmm, I think makes sense regarding counting things: it's nonsensical to use Z for counting things greater than five if you assert that it doesn't contain 6.

But at the same time, that's just one use of Z. There are other uses of it besides counting.

> Z exists independently of this universe or any universe.

That's a pretty strong claim. Another possibility is that it's a purely human construction, and even in this universe it wouldn't exist if it weren't for us. (To be clear though, I am specifically referring to the set Z, which doesn't exist without the human creation of Set Theory. Maybe other universes would use something like Set Theory, but I think it would be hard to demonstrate one way or the other.)
Harvard Business Review is almost as bad as Buzzfeed. I guess everyone need to compete for clicks.
Mastercard releases blockchain API
"Perhaps the assignments are easy, and nobody cares about the quality of the program so much as the quality of the students."

That sounds like a rationalization to justify arrogance rather than a claim you have any sort of evidence for. I'd say I've got abundant evidence to the contrary.

The Silicon Valley arrogance sure is on full display today. In another thread on the homepage we have people expressing shock and surprise that yes, there are in fact ways to put a roof over your head in Topeka for $100K.

This may sound weird to you, but I don't live in Silicon Valley because I don't want to. I didn't go to one of the elite colleges (which I most likely could have qualified for) because I didn't want to. My house is bigger, my yard is bigger, my commute is better, I like the people better, my student loans were paid off years ago and I have a realistic prospect of owning my house before I'm 40 without having had to go to Money Mustache levels of frugality, and in some ways it's easier to hire here than in the Valley. I know, I've been to the Valley many times.

But I suppose the net effect of the number of people currently getting out of SV is evaporative cooling, so SV will be left with an ever-increasing portion of the population who Truly Believe that just outside of the comforting mountains is a horde of barbarians with sloped foreheads who can't quite seem to figure out this "fire" thing. For your own sake and sanity, you might want to escape that massive filter bubble and have a look around at your options, which you may discover are nowhere near as monolithic as you think. It's always good to have an escape route, as evidenced by the many people availing themselves of it.
I appreciate that you and your company is doing this. Many years back, I sat on the graduate school acceptance board for my department at a tier-1 research university. Before we were given the applications, we were given a spreadsheet with the applicants name, GPA, GRE, and last university. This led the members on the committee to immediately pull the applications from the known universities and given them preferential treatment. This made it difficult for students who came from underrepresented groups to have their application appropriately considered. They may have had good research and work experience, taken the appropriate classes, but they went to local state schools, not tier-1 universities. Literally, I was told one student was a B-student at Columbia, which is like an A-student anywhere else. Anyway, I lobbied to have all of this information stripped in the future, but my request was denied. I'm glad someone is doing it. In my belief, if the majority of workplaces used this process, a large amount of implicit bias and discrimination during hiring would be eliminated.
fairly sure this is sorted by category. what is your category?
a lot of people got rejections
Doesn't that reveal the serial numbers of the printers they use?
Try ADnD.
Zoning would be the ultimate gerrymandering. Don't like your voters? Not only can you define specific areas to give your party the advantage, but you can now control who lives there, if anyone does at all.
In The Witcher 3 in Wine, AMD with Mesa beats Nvidia blob by a huge margin. Nvidia usually tries to optimize individual titles by cheating and substituting shaders and etc. In conformant OpenGL tests, AMD / Mesa is already close if not better. Mesa developers did a great job in the past year, and they are still working on improving performance.
Scott Kim has a wonderful talent at designing "ambigrams". Check out his classic book "Inversions" and his gallery of more recent work!

http://www.scottkim.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com/inversion...

An inversion is a word or name written so it reads in more than one way. For instance, the word Inversions above is my name upside down. Douglas Hofstadter coined ambigram as the generic word for inversions. I drew my first inversion in 1975 in an art class, wrote a book called Inversions in 1981, and am now doing animated inversions.
I agree. I would also rather have clear rules up front than have to rely on the (often arbitrary and subjective) decision of the judge.
we too. hardware
This is a valid defense! The real issue though, primarily, is that video game cameras don't emulate this well enough. My eyes don't respond nearly as fast to light changes as a video game camera does, and they're not as sensitive to small variations in the overall light level. They're also quite a bit more sensitive, especially to darkness and shadow, even in bright daylight. I find that most video game lighting exaggerates the shadows way too much.

So, adjusting the curves, especially at a slow, steady rate? That might be a good idea, and should actually aid visibility if it's done right. Say, walking all the way into a dark cave should lighten things up a bit, since your real eyes (and most cameras) would do exactly that. On paper, this part of the HDR effect works, and if it's done well it enhances the gameplay rather than distracting from it.

Imitating a faster, more jarring camera transition when it fits the mood, especially during cutscenes? That's fine, and the article gives some great examples of this being done well. Scaling up the contrast so that any HDR changes cause you to either lose all the detail in all of the darks, or all the detail in all of the lights? That's the problem. The effect, if it's there at all, needs to be a lot more subtle. This is partly due to limitations with the final RGB space (only 255 color values to work with and weird curves to boot) but mostly due to the fake-HDR effect just being a poor imitation of nature.
The idea here is to make a clear split between owning and licensing. If the company decides they are selling the items themselves then the items should be repairable by the new owner. If the company decides they are merely selling the rights to use the items then it is reasonable for the user to be unable to repair it, provided the owner (the company) is willing to keep it in working condition.

That should absolutely include wear and tear as well as accidental damage. Intentional damage is an issue, but there shouldn't be much motivation for it under such a system.
This is on top of the glaring issue that, if my formula says multiply "itemCount" by "itemPrice"... Where do I actually find those things? If I see A2 referenced, I know exactly where to find it.
So you got accepted mail
It hasn't been discontinued, and some Labs have been promoted to supported features (e.g. "Undo send".) And I always turn on the "Unread message icon" feature, which is still in Labs.

If you are using G Suite, you might need to ask your administrator to enable Labs.
I actually couldn't tell if the title was a joke or not.
Cheater’s Poker: Esther Perel’s suave, crowd-pleasing take on infidelity
The pressure from consumers is in the favor of slimmer, sleeker gadgets. This causes manufacturers to use production techniques that make repairing impossible.

So even if companies made every little detail about the internals of the product public, it's gonna be of not much use to repair today's cellphones that are held together essentially by glue.

I understand what the EFF is trying to say, but frankly, consumers have chosen with their wallets on this one.
Thanks for the feedback. Agreed on all points.
It's certainly gotten better but I would not call it a great experience. Right this minute for example, my metrics machine's disk is filling up at higher than usual rate and I have no knowledge of what is causing this to happen, no tools to figure it out.

A week ago, I tried to set up a "successful writes per second" metric. I have a "time since start", and "successful writes since start", but no way to operate one with the other.

The HTTP input API is dog-slow with HTTPS, and the UDP input API requires a separate socket for every database.

It's lots of things like these...
they may be sending invites from the categories populated least to most. Just a theory based off the anecdote that most consumer categories haven't heard back.
I've been concerned about the amount of author and commenter information that the REST API exposes by default in 4.7+, and this site is an attempt to illustrate how serious it can be.

Nothing here is new - people have been talking about the privacy implications of Gravatar for nearly a decade, and the amount of data exposed by the REST API has been pretty controversial. I thought that a easy-to-use tool showing just how easy it is to reveal this information would be educational and, hopefully, a little scary.
Unfortunately, Macbooks and Macbook Pros are like this now too :(

Apple will say it is necessary to make it as thin and efficient as possible. But that has a smell to it. My Dell XPS 15 9550 can be easily serviced : the SDD, Memory, wifi card and battery are all accessible and it doesn't sacrifice (much) thinness or weight to accomplish.

I sometimes wonder if the customer would be OK with Macbooks being 1mm thicker with user replaceable parts. There is only so thin you can go... If Apple wants claim to tell a sustainability story or to be "green" this planned obsolescence stuff needs to go.
people on https://yc.metachat.com/ are saying 25-30 percent of interview slots are already filled. about 200 still open. seems like a lot of invites have been sent.