skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole debate seems to be missing the point. There has never been a world where independent content creators have been able to monetize what they do on a massive scale and collect most of the revenue.

At a large scale, the owners of the distribution eat most of the pie. That's true because of basic comparative advantage and the advantages of scale even though they are entirely dependent on the individual content creators to get anything at all from their distribution. If the content creator wants to collect most/all of the revenue, the pie is small.
I remember some time ago, watching an megafactories episode [1], about IKEA, and they described how they create durable, strong wooden frames, which they later using into making various furnitures. I am surprised there is no reference to that process, as I believe IKEA's has probably done 'a lot' of R&D on everything-wood (and probably disqualifies using $$$ criteria).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXI6Z3t6PDY
QtCreator is brilliant, I just wish the Qt company would stop trying to hide it away! It's getting harder and harder to find the download link on their website.
This was released on reddit[1] back in September of 2017 and is not related to any battery lawsuits.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/71p5qs/newsiboot...
>If we had arrested everyone that used cannabis half the country at least would have a record.

That is the nightmare scenario: when 51% of a population decides they want to lock up the other 49% and technology makes that possible.
> It would therefore be both hypocritical and meaningless to go through the comments looking for embarrassments. But also fun, so let's go.

This is going to be awesome.
Yeah. Wow. Powerful stuff.
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Don't use jQuery. Just learn plain JavaScript. People seem to enjoy the book Eloquent JavaScript.

Then learn a common frontend library like React. People also seem to love Vue.
80's the day my grandparents bought me an Amiga.

90's Scraping every penny I could get to buy a NeXT box so I could download the WorldWideWeb browser and editor so I could check out this new thing Tim Lee had created called the web. Got the money, got a NeXT box, built a page and decided that I wanted to get out of the desktop app development business that day. After the CGI spec I knew I was going to be able to.

A good follow up to this conversation would be what are your biggest technical disappointments by decade:

80's would have been LISP machines not catching on.

90's downfall of Commodore, Apple's handling of Copeland and the purchase of CosmoWorld's by Computer Associates (that might have been early 00's).
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Also maybe related, but in the inverse sense, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
There's no flight scheduled. They're developing a full-scale article to be ground-tested in 2020.

Prometheus or not, Ariane 6 is an expendable rocket in any form that currently or will soon exist. By the time they figure out the very basics of first-stage reusability on a launcher that is roughly equivalent to Falcon 9 FT, SpaceX will have BFR ... likely for quite a while.

At least their reusability plans are not a joke like ULA.
I remember fondly "back in the old days" spending a couple of years doing Java servlets (for reference, this was right when JSPs were becoming a thing) where we implemented a nice compact MVC approach. The performance was very good at the time.
When I moved over to ASP.NET I felt baffled by all of the heavy WebForms templating, but soon discovered that you could set up an almost identical framework as we had with servlets by implementing HttpHandlers and some light-weight views with all the ViewState stuff turned off (it was probably most similar to something like NancyFx now). I feel like many of the frameworks now are doing the same stuff that worked well 15 years ago, but it is fleshed out better. And of course there is a ton of open-source work, which was missing back then.
Kinda?

I think the problem is you have to keep the array and its length together and always remember to call the appropriate array functions with the appropriate lengths. This isn't made easier by the fact that many string/array methods have variants that expect (and only respect) null-terminated strings (i.e. where you actually don't keep a length and rely on a terminal null-byte).

The language could have decided that the first byte is the length and used that convention in string/array functions, but instead we have the convention you point out that the array is really referenced only by its first element and array-indexes are just sleight-of-hand for pointer addition.
Nice read, cheers
I did some research [0] and I cannot find anyone claiming that more than ~15% of the Win 2k source code was available.

People are able to build and boot Win NT, not Win 2k.

[0]: https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=33250...
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If you enjoyed the article, do dig out the memoir that he wrote while recovering from a cycling accident. http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783540287346

For the story on the fish, you'll need to get the book.
Reminds me of the surprising strength of armor made out of folded paper: http://mythbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Paper_Armor_Myth
This logic does not make sense. Do you never repair anything in your home? Do you always just only buy a home if everything will always work 100%?
Top comedians seem to disagree with your absolute assertion.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/10/living/seinfeld-comedy-colleg...

Also, I seemed to have missed that vote that granted you the role of humor police, judging all that is and is not funny.
The key is that steel tensile strength goes down quickly as temperature rises. It softens dramatically long before it starts to melt. Wood does much better. My understanding is that wood weakens only by burning off on the surface. The unburnt core essentially seems to retain its mechanical properties for the most part.
Isn't that already illegal with proscribed legal remedies?
The source that was credited turned out not to be the rights owner, nor did they have a license to publish that photo.
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Why does glass turn purple?
What about YouTube? I hear people can make a living off that with 100s of thousands of viewers or more - note sure that's Funny or Die's league, though?
The paper is behind a pay wall, but their figures and extended data stuff is free to view here: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25476#extended-data

They say that their ultimate tensile strength of their material is ~600 MPa. Steel ranges from 250-2500 MPa.
"Tenzing Norgay — the second man atop Everest and Hillary’s Nepali climbing partner" - I'm surprised the author missed this important fact, that Hillary and Tenzing made a pact to not say who reached the summit first. This is illustrative of why Hillary and Tenzing are so beloved: they truly believed in teamwork, not in self-promotion.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/hillary-and-tenzing-s-everest-...
Concrete does provide some form of insulation as it has a fairly low rate of heat transfer. At the end of the day it'll still heat up though, and it's that heating up which weakens the steel, direct contact is not a requirement (there are specific methods like insulated concrete form which have higher fire resistance).
We all know that true independent digital comedy ended with YTMND.
http://www.knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/ytmnd
What is an MVP for a B2B startup?
Show the different rows or documents one besides the other and let the user choose which to put in the merged table. It would need to change foreign keys to match the id in case it needs to change. But dothub seems to work at the filesystem level so this seems impossible for it.
> 2. To achieve the best X, we should allow our best X people to dedicate their lives to it full time.

Yeah, that's the real killer. One person comes up with the current best thing, and maybe even does it a few times. But a crowd or industry of like minded people can typically put out a fairly continual stream of stuff like that. Is any one person out of that crowd worth singling out for such treatment?

Another issue is things become "best" especially in entertainment when they're unique and creative. You can't bottle lightning, and you can't pay for it either. Individuals who pulled out the "best" for now will be stale tomorrow. How do you predict the next new "best" that hasn't put out anything at that level yet?
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> Expecting money to come in just because you spent time working on something, and put it out for the public to see, really isn't.

Expecting to be paid for work you did that other people are making money out of is perfectly legitimate, though. And that’s what this discussion is about: under the current model, their videos are popular enough that they get plenty of views on Facebook, Facebook gets to monetise them, but they see none of that money.
Sorry, what can be explained? Why you came here, or why they got like that?

Which ideology is being pushed? (I dont know /.)

I don't really believe in that biased/unbiased thing. 'Unbiased' I think means you agree with them, with their 'bias' if you use that word. Same with 'objective'. In fields as unscientific as politics anyway. And any time anyone speaks, they speak with their own personal 'bias', don't they? Hopefully anyway.
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While the tech is interesting, I'd like to know the security of the backend system and the data access system. Poor security allowing it to be manipulated by others could make it a powerful tool for all sorts of criminals or foreign governments. Like Stalin said, its not who votes that matters, its who counts the votes. Likewise the recognition might be perfect but the data is fake.
As ranked in Hofstede

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede's_cultural_dimensions...

https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/the-usa...
It's copyright infringement, but that doesn't make it not the case.

TBF I'm not entirely sure what the current play is with Facebook and freebooting. Last I knew it seemed like creating original content was extremely financially disincentivized compared to just reuploading other people's.
TIL traveling within a huge multicultural region of the world with anything more than a single change of clothes and a toothbrush means I deserve to get robbed.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031224-00/?p=...

This may answer your query. Microsoft takes (took?) user-friendliness as the most sacrosanct thing. Breaking a user's apps is the biggest anti-user thing to do. In hindsight, it has maybe turned out that taken to extremes this approach is not sustainable. But I agree with the basic logic.
> the Canadian guy with the wooden gears and the pantograph

Matthias Wandel[1]?

[1] http://woodgears.ca
Oh cmon... they didn't say 'ant-y biotics'?
Definitively not a lawyer. Sorry for the typo.
Sure, though that's entirely different from the grandparent post's statement about "Denaturing a protein generally", which happens well below boiling point.
https://learn.jquery.com/ is a maintained online resource. At the bottom it also links to three books (the third seems to be a free PDF version). Personally I learned it via a book and use http://jqapi.com/ now to check for syntax.
> Backwards compatibility used to be the norm for most stuff, didn't it?

I think this seems true only because of Microsoft. I cannot recall any other major OS spending so much effort on backward compatibility.
The article made me doubt, so I called my dogs. All my dogs have the eyes clearly in the front, so I spent some time trying to find dog races with eyes on the sides on google Images. I found none.

It is not a good idea for your credibility that the first thing you say in an article is blatantly false.
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Typically when someone says you "deserve" such a thing, they mean "you will learn a hard lesson." They aren't impugning your morals, but your judgment.
The bigger issue is what happens when someone commits terrible code and makes bad architectural decisions. Firing someone is hard, but firing code that is in active use is even harder and in some cases not possible.
When I read "Recently, though, a photographer pointed out another theme: that these subcultures are loaded with machismo. It rang true in a way that made Owen rethink the work."

I was immediately reminded that the US itself ranks pretty high on the Hofstede masculinity index:

https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/the-usa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede's_cultural_dimensions...

Anyone else thought about "spending all his money on film"? :-D

That is also a statement in and of itself these days. Anyone capturing pictures with film cameras instead of digital these days, is doing so very deliberately.
Yes. Any government can fall if there's sufficient public outrage[1]. And government employees of basically any government can make use of this. I remember driving with an off duty US police officer once and him pointing out which issue of code every car on the road was in violation of so that he could legally conduct a stop if he wanted to.

[1] AI and robotics might change this later.
I also have an iPhone. I'd still like to be able to use a standard protocol such as aptX to stream high quality music via Bluetooth.
Which part do you believe I have misrepresented?
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I got your point from the beginning, and your other comments have made it clearer on why customers could get upset with this percentage cut. The way I see it, a lot of it is basic human psychology.

That said, I wonder what YC is bringing to the table here, since this is marked as YC W18. Shouldn't there be some experienced people advising on pricing and such while a venture is being launched? From the OP's responses, it seems like YC wasn't involved. Or it's highly likely that I don't understand the significance of YC W18 here.
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Worded slightly differently, Funny or Die is incapable of monetizing that product in the current environment, but Facebook is capable of monetizing it. For that specific part of the issue, tough cookies Mr. Funny Man. Somebody got your product for peanuts and is doing way better with it.

Now, the other part of the issue would be if something like copyright infringement is happening around how it's being monetized. If so, then it's a real issue. If not, well, we're probably back to tough cookies. They don't own the distribution model, they agreed to it, they have no say otherwise besides to pull their content off and monetize it themselves; or skip the TOS and negotiate a different & specific contract with Facebook directly about how their content is handled (fat chance).
Muji clothes are nice, but wear out crazily fast.
Somewhat off topic, but I'm increasingly finding that Qt is the last remaining reason to use C++. Qt is amazing, but C++ isn't a very productive language to code in, even if you're good at it. OS-less microcontroller stuff is probably better done with plain C, and everything else (games, system programming, embedded programming with an OS, etc) has mature and better options available such as Rust, Go, Nim, and (particularly for gamedev) C#.

But none of those languages have Qt. Of course, there's stuff like PyQt which is nice, but it's not got the status that C++ has in Qt land. Really what I'd love is if Qt would add first-class support for one of those newer languages. Rust maybe? I reckon it's a enormous, maybe simply unfeasible undertaking, but first-class Rust support, so I can fire up Qt Creator and start coding Qt apps in Rust would be fantastic. It would suddenly increase the usefulness of Rust by enormous amounts and it would keep Qt relevant.

Does anyone know if the Qt people are evaluating other languages? Are they worried, commercially, about C++'s demise?
Unfortunately, a lot of software written for Windows 95 comes with 16 bit installers. And there's no 16 bit compatibility in 64 bit Windows.
At conservative withdrawal rates, $1.6 million is $64k a year without ever touching the principal. Definitely a solid middle-class life, and even more so in Ecuador. And that's assuming you want to die with $1.6 million in the bank. Pulling out $100k a year at the same return rates will still last you 25 years.

But this all assumes you can invest it. If you've got $1.6 million in gold bricks and the police in the country all these investment figures are based off of know you have it, you're probably not going to be able to do that.
How does somebody like NetFlix deal with it? (E.g. a half hour show Standups.[1])

Does a pirate post the Netflix clip and therefore Facebook+pirate make money off of it? Or does Netflix issue a DMCA takedown so fast that it's a non issue?

(I realize that FunnyOrDie is voluntarily placing their show on the Facebook platform (and also paying Facebook to place their content there) ... but let's hypothesize what options FunnyOrDie has to keep their content off of Facebook.)

[1] https://www.netflix.com/title/80175685
I love your thinking, Ivan!

We have an issue for this here: https://github.com/dotmesh-io/dotmesh/issues/85
> If we had arrested everyone that used cannabis half the
> country at least would have a record.

That idea seems deeply troubling if you're a White American. Meanwhile, this is the daily reality of Black Americans, because the police have been systematically enforcing these laws against people of colour.

Now we face a world where that same disproportionate enforcement may be applied to Democrats, or the young (who disproportionally vote against Republicans).
So your argument is that most of the tickets go unsold at any price, despite having been purchased by resellers, and that attendees arriving at the venue will find it mostly empty despite it being impossible to find tickets?
>The general consenus seems to be, in a nutshell: It's just not worth it

It probably isn't for the creators I follow, and I try to put a few bucks of coffee money into patreon like collections for them.
The value for youtube red is in time saved and advertisement avoided for the user. Then again never being interrupted by advertisements I don't go looking for is a personal eccentricity so it's a time money trade-off. How many minutes of video commercials avoided a month is worth $10?
Do you have an idea why this is not just merged back into 'regular' Imgui? I like the look of some of the addons, but by having this fork no Imgui bindings will support them.
That looks like it.
The other advantage is the ability to function in low-light conditions where everyone loses their color vision. Color blind people do not lose the visual cues in twilight. Colorblindness is much more prevalent in norther Europe, which has very long twilight, than it is than Africa and India.
Do Tuna and other forms of life effectively act as a sort of biological filter collecting mercury over time though? Like we would too if we ate too much Tuna getting mercury poisoning.

Could an order of magnitude less actually be a lot if you look at it that way? Since the permafrost would just be passively accumulating, as opposed to actively in a way which only something living can do.
I’d say that the main conclusion is the observation of a statistically significant (> 3 sigma) radiation reaction effect which is pretty consistent with both the classical model and the quantum model. The data “hints” that the quantum one fits the data better, but not at a very significant level (1 sigma). Moving to higher electron energies and/or laser intensities will help make that difference clearer. The paper is not called “first observation of quantum radiation reaction” for a reason.
> light by definition... of energy levels between electron orbital states

No, that's not the definition of light, photons or quanta.

The fact that electrons on an atom emit or "absorb" energy in a quantized way is a consequence of several basic elements of QM
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I don't care what anybody else thinks, I 1000% agree with this rant. I feel similarly strongly about it, and have ever since I discovered the whole open source thing myself several years ago.

With gcc, IIRC Richard Stallman was basically just playing cat-and-mouse with feature parity with the commercial compilers for several years. Okay, very impressive investment in terms of total SLOC, but methinks that's a byproduct of a brain being able to excel in exactly the field it's really really good at. Apparently rms wasn't a kernel person (?).

Broadly speaking open source gives me the impression of a bunch of people who honestly don't know what they're talking about and who aren't really all that smart. As a collective, that group isn't going to have very good ideas or execution. There are undoubtedly some smart people hiding in the corners, but their work is shunned or scoffed at because of the collective lack of intelligence of the whole.

While probably a frustratingly unanswerable question, I've been yearning for an online community for some time that are like-minded toward the idea that open source isn't everything and that there are better things out there.
>making it effectively thinner, lighter and stronger at the same time.

The article never says it's lighter, and the paper is behind a paywall. Interesting process none the less.
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You could just use a VPS, SSH and sshuttle. It does forward DNS requests through the tunnel as well.
Check out how much it is if you provision a CloudHSM (IIRC it’s $5k).
Moving on from a Silicon Valley model