skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't see how anyone with any shred of Protestant Christian values could successfully do business with today's higher education, especially given their favor for Islam and other destructive cults. They are diametrically opposed in worldview and what they aim to accomplish.

It was an echo chamber when I was in grad school in the late '90s and early '00s. I can't even imagine what it must be like for anyone trying to think for themselves today. Campus Republicans have been run off or pushed into hiding by modern-day Brownshirts, all the while those Brownshirts denying that they are acting as violent thugs in order to silence ideas that have been around since Martin Luther bravely stood up to the Catholics.
Meanwhile I've had Comcast residentually for about a year now without any noticed outages. At work we've got a local ISP (who we actually do design work for!) and our internet goes down once or twice a week at least.

There's really no point in saying a nationwide company is reliable or not because it's incredibly region-specific. At home I've never had connection issues, I generally get the speeds I pay for, and I've never had any billing issues. But you ask someone who lives 100 miles in any direction with Comcast and they'll have a completely different story.
The growth of games is 99% from bigger and better assets though, not bolted on frameworks.
I wrote a script to split up the people I follow into lists according to a few different categories (based on keywords in their names/handles/bios sprinkled with a touch of manual massaging). It really helps to sort through the noise.

I ended up with the following lists that I can now browse separately for several disparate interests of mine:

Founders / CEOs
Game Dev
Apple
AR / VR
Iowa (local people I follow from where I'm from)
I'm working on code bases that are 10 years old today, built on asp.net webforms and mvc. If you don't choose a FOTM you'll be ok, all the answers are still on SO.
The magical ways to retrieve bright smile again (Veneers) – Magrabi Hospitals
Thank you. I wish more writers cared about readers time and include TL;DR in first paragraph with more detailed content below
Many were terribly sick during D-Day, for sure. The army issued sea-sickness pills before the attack. Still the ride was so terrible many threw up during the crossing, and were already very weak before they got out on the beach. Saving Private Ryan had this kind of scenes iirc. And reportedly yet many more suffered side-effects and got killed because they had trouble staying awake.
The "family court" system in Ontario is provided by Social Justice Tribunals Ontario, a system of kangaroo courts set up to handle all the icky things Ontarians would rather not think about deserving a fair trial.
this is good for bitcoin
"We need 10x developers"
For me DataTables where magic objects with no type safety at compile time.
This is one of those articles that I don't want to read because the answer is in the title. Captivity is killing the Gorillas, the illness they are developing is a result of it.
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Is there any actual proveable science or math behind this post, or did the author just pull these numbers out their arse? I’m leaning towards the latter, but I’m hoping someone more knowledgeable here can confirm.
Going to laugh when anyone audits you for GDPR compliance. This is the exact sort of shit the laws are being brought in to prevent.

If a users wants data deleted they want the data DELETED, not kept for a hacker to hoover up in a few years time.
Washington becomes first state to pass law protecting an open internet
J2ME was doing perfectly fine in Nokia and Sony-Ericson devices, and we already had SavaJe OS when Android happened.

Android fragmentation, OEM customizations, lack of enforced updates and cheapo unresponsive 100 € devices are no better than the devices that gave bad name to J2ME.
But as a consumer I don't care what MoviePass wants or needs, that's not my problem. I'd milk them for all the tickets they're worth and then when they shutter I'd just go back to buying tickets like I used to for decades past. They offer marginal convenience at best for something that really wasn't all the inconvenient to begin with.
I don't mean it actually works this way (one actually has to prove the problem is real, serious and actually affects the children to remove them), I mean it should work this way (I've taken a look at the video, the first ⅓ of it)
xi editor, when i tried it, would crash upon opening minimised css of fontawesome

A 3 line file, be it long lines, shouldn't happen
Forgive me for diving in here but I happened to read this article from patio11 just yesterday and think it might help

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterpris...
I believe indexing with S2 can be made absolute if a polygon's boundary coverage cells contain a slice of the original shape. It's a bit more expensive on memory and insert times. But very fast and accurate queries. I've been experimenting with this method.
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This case was discussed on HN a few days ago, and from the comments there it seems there may be prior art from a 1997 MUD, which has been previously used to defend against similar patents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16505568

Does the USPTO have any route for third parties to proactively invalidate patents or somehow trigger their reinspection other than during actual litigation? (Maybe an open group to prioritise patents and pursue this could get crowdfunding?)
Dahmakan (YC S17) is hiring a VP of marketing in Southeast Asia
Sorry but how is the wealth destroyed exactly? That wealth isn't destroyed, it's transferred to the earlier adopters who sold the crypto-asset for legal tender/currency. It's true that it's removed from the crypto-assets ecosystem, the losses falling on those at the end of the Pyramid-Ponzi schemes.
But lie detectors don’t work
That's not really emergent behaviour. eg the decision making of an organisation is simply the decision making of it's personnel.

Complex organisations can self-organise even though the individual parts have little understanding of their position in the structure.

A better simile would be societies at large, and the changes in things like housing markets or stock markets, driven by individuals who are only guided by their own private interests, not those of the market as a whole.
Coinbase Accused of Cheating Consumers in More Ways Than One
That's just wrong and demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of basic economics.

If labor were much cheaper, I personally might be willing to hire a maid, a gardener, a masseuse, a cook, etc. Similarly a retail business might hire more cashiers, or have more staff on the floor to answer customers questions and help them find things. A gas station might provide a full service experience for their customers. You could do this analysis for virtually any type of business and given cheaper labor they would hire more people.

Why is this so? Because the demand for labor, like goods, is infinite.
forgive my ignorance, but....could this be applied to aircraft? Make a near fuel-less jet?
Great work. Looking forward to listening to more episodes.
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Extrapolations upon extrapolations proves nothing.

Furthermore, the author selects moments in time to illustrate losses. But take a one year or larger view, and one could argue that an enormous amount of wealth was created overall.
A much better headline would have been "Googling for 695033 results in an internal server error".

That actually sounds somewhat interesting, as opposed to the pointless transient noise generated everytime Gmail or GitHub go down for a few minutes.
If someone had enough money, could they conduct this independently of the government parties?
https://eloquentjavascript.net/3rd_edition/00_intro.html

Not exactly a blogpost but a nice reading, explains a lot of the functional programming terms and their mathematical analogs.

edit: s/slang/terms
"John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
What does the "new brand of patent troll companies" gain from this? Patent trolls exist today because of the monetary gain, why would those exist for no monetary gain?
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"latter", not "later"
> ... aside from the American auto industry up through the 1980s or so. Planned obsolescence drove automotive design for years, prompting people to pursue new vehicles every few years.

And now that everyone makes dependable cars, they simply change the headlight/taillight configuration every year to make one's car seem out-of-date much sooner.

Those infotainment centers don't help at all, either.
I think you're too harsh. Akamai, Oracle, Samsung, UBS, HSBC and plenty of other well-known companies have R&D centres in Krakow. Even Google had been there but their office was merged with the Warsaw one a few years ago.
Obviously, if you're an aspiring manager you'd be better off working in the corporate HQ but from a developer's POV it's a decent city to work.
WeWork acquires SEO and marketing company Conductor
I must confess I'm not up on the details of maglev technology (which is why it's not central to my argument). I have to wonder, though, if maglev is so cheap and easy why hasn't it been deployed more already?
While I don't want to disagree with you about that locale, it's also taught here in Japan, and the English level is abhorebt. (Source: part time English teacher in Japan in my free time, taught every level from kindergarten to senior highschool).

My point being, teaching from an early age, while is an advantage, does not necessarily mean a good comprehension or ability to speak.
I didn't think this would ever be relevant:a man decides to eat nothing but monkey pellets. Interesting things happen to his gut.

http://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html
A lot of people?

Or, the few people who have accrued enough wealth that they no longer need government support - and can afford to purchase a large amount of available public messaging to say this.

I find it literally impossible that a single person's decision could be a better way of allocating funds than a (proportional) government's decision.
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It's not the same thing. "Planned Obsolescence" implies purposefully handicapping an otherwise durable product.
It isn't destroyed, it is a temporary price change on that exchange. What a terrible analysis.
Spotify uses DMCA to takedown spotify-dogfood (in error)
Serenata de Amor is a brazilian candy: https://hibrazilmarket.com/products/garoto-serenata-de-amor-...

From their faq:
https://serenata.ai/en/faq/

1 - We were inspired by the Toblerone Affair, a case in which a Swedish politician was pushed to resign after being caught paying simple Toblerone chocolate bar with public money. That’s what we want to do: empower social control of public expenditures including values as low as a chocolate bar.
As loxs points out, it's actually bad food.
Why do they need to drill 150 meters down to reach 50f temperatures? Most geothermal heat pump systems are six feet!
They won't, because commercial mass surveillance is an essential part of modern government mass surveillance.
12 Risks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities in Moving to the Cloud
In the whole area. Where I spent time people still use coal heating and you had garbage pick up once a week (and you had to tip), so even tho burning garbage in the stove is illegal you surely knew when a neighbor was doing it. Part of my coming back home culture shock was not seeing cars covered in sooth.
On the plus side, it means I can charge my XPS 13 from new macbook chargers now.
If the test was a coin flip then the result coveys no information. That means the only information to base the decision on was the husband’s accusation and the wife’s counter. What should be done in that situation?
> Floats are so slooooooooow! Why don't you use fixed-point numbers? On newer computers, there is not much speed difference, but on older computers the speed gain of using fixed numbers is significant.

This is now even more true than when this article was written, enough that I've been surprised lately and feel like I need to unlearn things I thought I knew about floats and transcendentals. They only cost a handful of clocks now in the worst case, with dependent instructions before and after. Depending on what else is going on, I think you can sometimes get sin & cos for the same cost as 1 add instruction; as long as you have a lot of other independent math nearby and/or memory access. Sin & cos & sqrt are crazy fast on GPUs, when using ShaderToy, for example.
Nice to see Lisbon on the list.
It isn't countless procedures, there are standard rules of civil procedure, which are not countless. And they are balanced - if you counter sue for legal costs, you get to play the same game, and you also have actions you can take under the rules of civil procedures to which the trolls must also respond or lose the case.

Also, there is no lawsuit here. This is a letter. The harm of ignoring a letter is simply a matter of risk management. But in short, no suit, no foul.

I have literally said this a dozen times on HN. Learn the law enough to not get bullied.
How to brew a beer with Artificial Intelligence
Nice work. Having written a few WAFs for unpopular languages, I think it's most compelling to also include a more stable/mature backend like FastCGI in addition to the self-rolled socket driver -- similar to how Flask has the dev server and WSGI backend support. If your socket driver (and HTTP parser) ends up being more performant and stable, that's awesome. But it's probably unlikely and definitely a harder sell.

FastCGI in particular has the benefit of being incredibly simple to wrap. Here [0] are some rudimentary bindings I wrote for Chicken Scheme.

[0] https://github.com/eatonphil/pine
I thought patents weren't valid if it was just a normal thing done in the real world "with a computer".

Isn't the patent essentially "money - with a computer".
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I believe this DMCA takedown notice is in error and would like to contest it.

(a) Spotify does not hold copyright on the open-source modifications that are posted in that repo. Those instructions are work-product of linuxctl and he holds copyright on them.

(b) The posted instructions are not a copyright protection circumvention mechanism. Spotify does not need to provide an ad-supported freemium plan; they choose to do so to prime their funnel. Removing the ads does not circumvent any copyright prevention mechanism.
We were taught "Some Old Hippy Caught Another Hippy Tripping on Acid"
Slightly OT but combination of gov and data kind of reminded me of Project Cybersyn. If you like this project, you might find reading about Cybersyn interesting http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machin...
thanks, now I understand the value
Velocity alone doesn't answer the question. Direction matters.

My assumption (knowing nothing but basic Physics), is that the xenon is ejected in a direction slightly toward the earth, and mostly directly in the opposite direction of the current travel, because that's what would be necessary to counteract drag and keep a satellite on the same path.

This means that if the satellite is going almost 11km/s one direction, the xenon will have that much less speed compared to the earth. And the trajectory will be slightly toward the earth.

I would assume that makes it substantially more likely that the xenon falls back to earth.
S2 can also output interior coverings, which will return only the cells in a covering that are fully contained in a polygon. So if you encounter a point (or any cell) whose parent is in an interior covering, you don't have to do any additional checks to produce an exact result (whereas on the boundary, you may want to do a point-in-polygon test to be exact).
Sounds like you’re pitching to customers rather than investors.
Is the iMac popular?

You struggle to find a 5K display outside that one machine that Apple doesn't seem all that fussed about compared to their laptop and iOS offerings.
This is up to the Fathers to step in: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/cathy-meyer/dispelling-the-my...

>According to the report, a married father spends on average 6.5 hours a week taking part in primary child care activities with his children. The married mother spends on average 12.9 hours. Since two-income households are now the norm, not the exception, the above information indicates that not only are mothers working, but they are also doing twice as much child care as fathers.
Hoo-ray! It's refreshing to see an honest online business model for a change: "you pay us money, we write stuff for you." It's also interesting to see what they think you're worth in ads and tracking: $2-3 a month. I hope they succeed.
And yet we seem to have fairly reasonable discussions about other contentious issues like vaccination, race, and sex. But somehow discussions of Indian politics turn into flamewars and get flagged off the front page within minutes. As an outsider, I don't get to hear the parties in these debates have the kind of civil discussion this site is generally known for, and I'm left in the dark as to what's even at issue, let alone what the truth might be. This is disappointing, because India is a large, populous, and influential country, and it behooves all of us to understand what's happening there.
Porting AI middleware to Android in a few hours?
Reflections on Anaconda as I start a new chapter with Quansight
Is this built on top of Redis, or just use a Redis-like protocol?
If a patent has been found invalid - can previous lawsuits that awarded damages to the patent troll be invalidated? This might make it far more dangerous for a troll to go to court.
Yes, I've been to tech meetups there. They asked if there were non-Portuguese speaking folks in attendance and all presenters used English.
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Ion engines have very low thrust, so they're not suitable for in-atmosphere work. In space they can apply a gentle thrust for a long time, which is useful.
This is horseshit analysis of an intriguing concept.

Markets create wealth out of thin air and can destroy wealth with nothing to show for it.

A lot of analysis of cryptocurrencies, stock markets and commodities wrongly assumes that if an asset's value increases $1 billion, then $1 billion more was purchased than sold.

But assets aren't bank accounts that store flows of money. Stuff is only worth what people will trade for it, so markets routinely create and destroy wealth independent of the money flows.
It seems like Bazel's support for Go is still not first class and a lot of the issues mentioned here come from that.

But it strikes me as odd that they are figuring all of this out _now_, as opposed to a year ago when they first switched. Why did they switch to bazel in the first place? Did they do a trade study/test drive?

All of the problems mentioned (more complex build files and workflow, increased build times, lacking support for Go) you can find out right away as soon as you do a test drive. Unlike C++ or Java, it seems like the native go build tooling was always superior to what Bazel could offer, and they knew that. Why switch then?

In my experience using Bazel in a large and complex C++ codebase, it has been nothing short of amazing, compared to the CMake horror show that we had... We did have problems with it though, but mostly the lacking documentation in some areas, like building toolchain files, or the fact that support for Windows only got really good a couple of releases ago only. We did identify all of these in the initial migration effort and none of them was by itself a showstopper.
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It'll collect dirt.

A lot of rocket starts have been filmed and photographed using mirrors.

A small silvermirror is much much cheaper than most lenses and doesn't change picture quality much (if the mirror glass is good).

Mirrors can also be easier cleaned; in the simplest model you pour acid over the backside to dissolve the silver then run the silver-drenched acid over a mirror while neutralizing it (of course the actual process is much more complicated.
It's certainly older than 2002. I remember reading it in the "Pixelate" online magazine way back, and sure enough, I was able to find it here https://web.archive.org/web/20020724103458/http://www.pixela...
It is much easier to create a mandatory annuity than an optional one because you don't have to worry about people who have a lower than average expected payout opting out. If the annuity is optional you need to have a much more sophisticated way of determining how much people should pay.
There is, but since I live abroad the community on my region has been increasing quite a lot in the last 10 years, with very few willing to return.
Wouldn't that make it dangerous to own and enforce patents in the first place?
Totally agree. Better yet, don't present an article whose value is premised on a set of facts as some kind of novella.

>Just before 8 o’clock on a snowy Wednesday morning, deep in a maze of doors and steel fencing...

Good grief. Just tell us what's happening.
Well, not within some strict confines, but there is academic work that looks at society as a sort of "social organism" that exhibits many of the traits that you might ascribe to "life".
Evolution of HCI Performance
Still hodling here
When we used Bazel at Staffjoy, we had two main issues:

(1) NPM dependency management was hard. We ended up committing built dist files, like index.html

(2) We ended up duplicating dependencies between Bazel and Glide because tools like goimports and linters could not read the Bazel remote dependencies system.

We open-sourced the repo with Bazel when we shut down -> http://github.com/staffjoy/v2
This is one functionality I wish Twitter included! I’d love for it to use some machine learning or whatnot to naturally group all the people I follow into several distinct lists.
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Yes, if they were on the edge of validity.
Stand for part of the day.
They can't be collecting data continuously if the location privacy setting is set to "While Using the App" on iOs. I remember Uber removed "While Using the App" option and provided only "Never" and "Always" options. And they got a lot of heat because of that.
Their CS is very poor. The app, even the updated one, doesnt work very well and will sign you out randomly. You're allowed to check into sold out movies. They got rid of the largest supported AMC theaters. The company has so many downsides now. Before I was telling everyone to sign up now I'm talking about all this type of stuff.
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Feeding the homeless.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article1253...
> On the other hand, if all platforms use the same compiler, if it builds on your machine then it’s probably going to build on all platforms.

This also works the other way: buggy code that "works" in Clang may now go unnoticed.

This means it will be harder to build Chromium using GCC or MSVC. I see that Arch Linux already has to depend on Clang to build Chromium [1], which isn't very reassuring.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/chromium/
We should have a portable national pension scheme. That's the only way to make this work. If that means expanding social security then so be it.