skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there are generally ranges someone can be convicted in, for certain crimes 1 to 5 years, 5 to 10, etc.

That he got an 800% increase in sentence doesn't matter, as long as the conviction fell within the ranges set up by the law.

You can call a judge biased, but if he feels it's a correct sentence, then you're out of luck. You do know that is why we have judges right? In part to make judgement calls on sentences.
And once again it's a stupid copyright law that is going to ruin everything.

I've never seen a copyright law so far that isn't downright draconian and authoritarian and with a huge potential for unintended consequences and a lot of collateral damage (even if the authors' intentions were "good").
Ask HN: How to validate a startup idea?
I have a startup idea for a better way to interview and hire tech talent - one that is optimized for developers instead of recruiters. How can I go about validating this idea?

I have a landing page and an email capture good to go - but i would need to build it to submit it to HN - but I thought we built landing pages so we didn't have to do that?
> its legal first obligation as a traded company save for a legally defendable company charter that counters this in any way

This is widely claimed but there is no such requirement:

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...

The reason is obvious: it’s hard to predict over any non-trivial time in the future, so there’s a broad deference to business judgement. In the case of Toys-R-Us, for example, if they’d been a public company at the time that argument could simply be that lower returns to shareholders now was critical to the long-term health of the business. People who disagreed could sell their shares or attempt to find enough like minded shareholders to replace the leadership but nobody could say their view is unambiguously correct and so the law stays out of it.
There needs to be an acceptable alternative for everyone to migrate to. The general public won't move to the likes of voat or imzy (which apparently already shut down).
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It's a direct representation of Wikidata, I'm merely passing it on.
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Maybe not corruption, but i would say that lobbying is legalized bribing. We can discuss if its good or bad, but i do not believe that its healthy for us the people as it pushes leaders to follow corporate policies instead of public policies.
If the copyrighted code, against which your pushes would be compared, are by definition closed source, how could these filters work ?
Or will software companies reach an agreement with repo providers like github so the filter robot can parse their closed source code ?
Kind of a politics BS just destined to keep the discussion boiling for a few months.
Belief, even acceptance, isn't interchangeable with certainty. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen".

There are plenty of things you accept and believe without evidence. The world, and especially the inner lives of humans, isn't made up exclusively (in some aspects not even predominantly) of empirically observable facts.

The idea that believing is incompatible with being thoughtful is not worthy of something who (presumably) considers themselves thoughtful. You can do better.
If that were the case, wouldn't Google or any other search engine that points to any illegal website be in trouble as well?

I think it is a gray area and the real liability is whoever hosts the website.
It's maintained by the Wikidata/Wikipedia community. I'm fetching the URLs from their API.
>You'll also find system libraries with C calling conventions. If you crack open your OS, you find C. It's easy to see the connection between "open", "hacker-friendly" and "C" – but the connection is between your OS and your knowledge of C – not C itself.

You're right (and it's a bummer that the C standard is behind a paywall) but don't you think that having a large open ecosystem is more important and significant than having an open technical standard, especially when several high quality open source compiler implementations already exist? Having an open standard won't do you much good if all the tooling and libraries are closed source.
Just one: Quebec
"hey Google" does work

I always found the phrase ok Google simply awkward to pronounce
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Don't corporations more or less fill the role of homo economicus?

I mean, that's not necessarily great for homo sapiens, but there you go.
Yeah most germans know basic first aid and CPR

Also, was it when you had to give the puppet mouth-to-mouth? Because I was slightly stoned when I had to do that and I almost died laughing
It's neither a false nor a true statement. It's a mostly non-meaningful statement.
To each his own. Not having to carry a phone when running is the best thing digital watches did to me.
Care what you wish for. As much as I dislike the content, I will vigorously defend the right for free speech.

That regulators are pushing for it doesn't make it a good thing. What is "hatespeech" anyway? Antisemitism? Mean things about women? Mean things about other people, Reddit is full of it. Who is to decide?

Rule of law requires a clear definition of what is required to be compliant. Please come up with a definition of hatespeech which people can agree upon.

I don't think that suppressing speech is the right way to handle dissent, even in its most appalling forms. This will not make the problem go away but just sweep it under the rug (a bit).
Don't wanna sound like a party pooper. But isnt this the same as what movie streaming sites are shut down for, linking to sites with copyrighted material?

For information: I love to download or stream movies and tv-series.
I think you've overlooked this bit of the article:

> (Amazon's) roughly $180 billion in annual sales remains dwarfed by Walmart’s $500 billion, but sales at the big-box retailer inched up 3 percent in the year ended on Jan. 31. Amazon’s revenue rose at least 25 percent in 2017, excluding sales from Whole Foods. That also means Amazon is growing faster than it did three years ago, when it was half its present size.

So to sum up: (1) Amazon doubled it's revenue in 3 years (2) It's growing faster now than it was 3 years ago (3) None of that even includes Whole Foods; and (4) Walmart's revenue grew only 3 percent.

So if it continues on it's current path it seems that Amazon could pass Walmart within 5 years. I'm not saying this will surely happen but I wouldn't at all be surprised if it does.

As an aside it's also worth noting that Amazon has a significant non-USA presence, AFAICT Walmart has none.
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I appreciate that the BBC links to the original study. The tables and figures are all at the end: https://johnjerrim.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/piaac_working...
Yes but you're still bound to java semantics. Java is very high level. Almost everything except the blessed primtives long/int/short/byte is an object. This is not a suitable target for lower level languages like C.
They’re also free to loot assets: e.g. one popular technique is to transfer things like real estate and then have the former owner rent its stores back. At the end, they have that property to sell with none of the obligations.
While the final rendering code for visualizations may look very differently from game rendering code, the underlying techniques are exactly the same unless you are doing some really hard out of core stuff or something else that is really extreme. So I do not see the point for separate resources, to be honest. Visualization is much more about the pipeline that you execute before you start rendering.
It could. After all the internet has tended to route around censorship so far.

Or it could make the whole internet more like the Chinese internet. I'd rather not take that chance and allow the decentralized systems to grow organically instead (and they do, albeit quite slowly).
it also means the end of the internet as a disruptive force, the prevalence of legal force over everything and the end of utopians
It uses https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21980377 as input to extract the provided URLs.
> Belief, even acceptance, isn't interchangeable with certainty.

Totally agree. I think.

> There are plenty of things you accept and believe without evidence.

Incorrect.
> Commission members have explicitly stated that they do not serve the citizens of the EU.

See, that’s just completely unbelievable.

> Free roaming is also in corporate interest. Big industry lobbyists lament in a regular fashion about too little migration.

It’s somewhat funny that you’d associate “roaming” with what I can only presume are imaginary hordes of immigrant scavenging the countryside.

But, in this case, it was referring to mobile phone “roaming”. Something European telecoms taught with all the might of their lobbying power.

(Oettinger is an idiot, I give you that)
actually not even that spinning camera array can capture a decent approximation of it (assuming it wants to cover the entire volume of the sphere to account for head movement). Lightfields are not going to look very good until we get DeepRendering or something.
> the author should really find an easier url

Hehe, I guess - I just thought of this and coded it up this morning. Feel free to host it somewhere easier though, it's open source :)

I agree that Wikipedia is easier to remember; it's just that people don't seem to realise that it's always up-to-date, as people keep tweeting the latest links. The point of the website is simply to make it clearer that there's a place to stay up-to-date. (And that you can bookmark for a direct link.)
The Times Higher Education rankings puts 3 UK universities in the top 10 worldwide for physical sciences and for engineering.

Or do you just mean they aren't considered attractive careers to students and children?
Brexit is bad. The EU is not great and does make some indefensible decisions, but the UK government is increasingly obviously descending into some kind of Greek-style basket case.

As a sibling comment says, after Brexit the UK will most likely try to enact all kinds of bad ideas that it feels it's been held back from by the EU. Most of which will be directed at "immigrants".
Is HN now illegal then?
Don't think so, as these are the exact same links as on Wikidata (and, hopefully, Wikipedia).

I think the difference is between linking to material directly, and to such a website. For example, I don't think linking to the Pirate Bay is prohibited.
Wouldn't it be challenging to create any interesting wearable tech that would actually last 10 years?

I may be an outlier here because I came to the Apple Watch from the world of higher-end watches. My usual daily wear piece before was an Omega, e.g.

I started wearing the Apple Watch when I was training for a half marathon, because it worked really well for that purpose (when paired with Strava) -- and I discovered it was also so USEFUL for me that I wore it almost all the time.

After about 18 months, I realized I was really only taking it off when I felt I needed to wear something that looked a bit fancier -- but I didn't want to give up the Apple functionality. Then the series 3 was introduced, with actual water-resistance and the in-built cell capability, and that was that. I sold my initial one (a Sport model) and bought the next nicer model in steel with the sapphire crystal on the Milanese loop. I swap in a composite band if I'm being active, and wear the loop if I'm going to dinner.

I don't expect this watch -- about $750US -- to last 10 years, but I will be happy if I get 3 out of it before I want to upgrade. I also expect it'll still WORK at that point, and the driver for me will be new features or functions and not failure. I'm okay with that, because of the relatively modest cost vs. definitively high usability/duty cycle.

If I were the sort of person who would wear a sport model all the time, it'd be an even easier choice ($359 w/o cell; $429 with).
Drowning is a problem, but a good kind of problem to have in my opinion.

I'd rather have a positive feedback that my business is growing in the right direction but can't keep up with demand than being the never-ending void of finding a product-market fit. This is purely my opinion (so I don't expect everyone should do/think this way), I just feel the trade-off is better.

"Overall, the trend might not last" - I love this bit. I think this is one of the biggest problems with finding a product-market fit that is often mixed with "catching waves" (think AI wave, sharing economy wave, blockchain wave). How do I know which is which is the driving force of my product when it's mixed up?

You're 100% right, market-fit is about the long run and there's this tendency in tech culture that everything should be fast-tracked to become a unicorn, hyper-growth, press coverage on TechCrunch. It is a purely bro/VC idea.

But iterating your product/business to the best/biggest possible realization that it could possibly be can lead you to get "drowned". At the end of the day, when coming on the crossroads at that point, we should ask if we want to "go big" or "stay as you are". Both are equally accepted answers and comes down to taste and preference.

We all hate the toxic tech bro/VC culture telling us not going big is akin to being a failure and we don't talk/promote enough the idea it's absolutely fine to go slow and steady (my favorite example would be Basecamp). Tech bros are all in to get a few seconds of fame and VC are in maximizing their returns in the shortest possible time. It's unsustainable and unstable idea. I think it's the primary root why there's a diaspora of engineers, VCs, startups in silicon valley.
If you have a compatible headset (Vive/Oculus/WinMR), check out the experience here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/771310/Welcome_to_Light_Fi...

This approach is a pretty major step for creating believable VR experiences. You're still limited to a pretty small space (great for seated users), but the effect is very convincing and entirely unlike traditional photo-captured experiences previously available for VR. You can move your head around (but only within the sphere) and everything tracks the way you'd expect: parallax works, light rays through windows move, reflections change as your perspective changes, and people's eyes can track you as you move.
And DivX!

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Ask HN: Am I the only one who thinks Dropbox pricing is baffling?
Hi everyone,

Currently, the minimum plan for Dropbox is
CA$10.75 / mo (or $8.29 USD).

My usage is less than 5% of the space given, and I am considering switching to Apple iCloud since they actually have pricing options for the space that I actually need.

So I am extremely baffled that I am switching to an Apple product based on price.

Why wouldn't Dropbox offer something closer to $4 or $5 a month? Why is the minimum 1 Terabyte?
I like this, 1 things I think you should do though.

Replace where the listing came from with the company the job is for, it's initially confusing (is this job at stack overflow or something?), as a user I don't really care where it's listed only what the job is and who it's for.
> It's a theoretical conclusion that could be drawn from this proposal but is in no way how the law is supposed to be applied and will very clearly thrown out of court if you'd try.

I history of selective enforcement of laws (especially when using them as leverage to plead guilty on another charge) in the US has taught me that overreaching laws are a bad thing. The ones in power will, given time, always take advantage of poorly worded laws.
If the link were directly to specific pirated content perhaps, but it's not, it's to the homepage.
It's super cool, super smart, super fresh, but still sounds like those synthesizer in 90's. I was really expecting something new when I opened the link...
Somewhat disappointed that it's yet another book about Vulkan graphics.

I want Vulkan compute.
Ask HN: What is the difference between engineer and developer?
In your opinion.
How do you know you love your spouse? (Or mother or whomever else you might say you love)?
Well, in that case your phrasing really wasn't that great.
I get the feels when you got a trip to Toys R Us it was really cool.

Today, my kids get to a toy store weekly - Walmart and Target have pretty decent sized toy departments that they repeatedly get lost in for a while. There isn't a need to go somewhere to find out what is new, kids just research it online.

Target's website prices are usually close to Amazons and they will price match themselves.

Toys R Us had slightly higher prices than pretty much everywhere, even a Lego store was usually cheaper.

What I hope this spawns are more mom-n-pop toy stores that will carry the specialty items.
I've noticed this as well here in Sweden. Take for example bacon - product A is listed in terms of price/slice while the other is listed as price/weight. It's ridiculous.
Capitalism is great for the many when most business are small and there's plenty of competition.

Capitalism is great for the few in more or less all other scenarios.

We live in one of the others, I'm afraid.
It's the white collar version of walking out with chairs and the coffee machine -- so, naturally, 1000x more damaging and 1000x less illegal.
Not really ironic. It is exactly one of the reasons that I want to leave. It's very easy for our government to subvert democracy by having the EU make unpopular legislation.

If our government brings in legislation then I want them to be accountable to that, and not have the ability to pass the buck.
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> Most of the C code could even be reused with minor modifications

I've done such conversions with C to Rust converter (https://gitlab.com/citrus-rs/citrus), but quickly found out that the style of writing idiomatic in C is part of the problem.

To replace code function by function you're generally forced to keep the same structs and APIs (often even internal ones) for most of the time, and these require you to erase the extra type safety, degrade smart pointers and slices to plain pointers, etc.

If you just do all the same wonky stuff that C does, but only with a slightly different syntax and compiler, you don't gain that much. The value comes from using idioms of a safer language, and that's much more work, and it's especially hard if your hands are tied by the rest of the program being C-like.
This came from a comment in another thread. I wonder if someone has modeled these kinds of intra-HN graphs.
One argument against redistribution is that one is taking money from high-IQ, more responsible people who know how to manage money on average and giving it to low-IQ, less responsible people who don't know how to manage money.

This needs to be balanced against the primary argument for redistribution, that someone earning $30K/year can use an extra $1K more than someone earning $300K/year wil l miss it.
That's why we need direct democracy more than ever.

One that will include unratify voting.
The snoopers charter that got enacted recently keeps getting proven illigal, so they keep changing the law.

Currently politicians have said a number of times that they'd like to get rid of human rights.

There's currently talks about making social media platforms responsible for editing content rather than acting as a transport layer.

There's plenty more, I'm sure others can chime in.
Why is almost the entire article in italics? Is that the author’s stylistic choice or am I doing something wrong?
Go ahead and allocate and deallocate lots of tiny objects in a short period of time. Depending on GC, you'll either run out of memory, or grind down to a halt.
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I get your point but none of your comparisons fit:

o Your Plex system is a home server, which have always typically been lower powered desktops even 10 year ago (I know because I was building home servers back then. In fact 10 years ago I was running ZFS off an old desktop PC with some really budget consumer RAID controllers)

o and you're comparing that to a gaming machine which are systems which are typically at the higher end of spectrum). To put things into perspective, in 1999 I most certainly did not have a 3D accelerator. Yet I was still using my computer for software development and web development (including, by the way, 3D markup via VRML). In fact I don't think I even had a P2 considering my upgrade a few years later was to Celeron. I have a feeling my '98 PC was a Cyrix.

o It was really common even in the 90s to run old PCs. Even in 1995 I was still seeing 386s and even the occasional 286 in use running Windows 3.x.

o Lastly you cannot really compare a watch to a PC. Sure, smart watches are basically just computers these days; but the point the OP was making was peoples expectations are different for watches. I mean we have digital watches from the 80s that still work as well today as they ever have done, yet smart watches made 2 years ago are already junk. Before people comment on the difference in tech, yes I already know. But that's not the point. The point is people's expectations - which frankly I think are more than reasonable. If there's anything we have learned in the last 20 years it's how to futureproof our products.
Oh true, I shouldn't have been so universal.

I want every app to start thinking about voice ux, but that's probably down to the individual apps, and you're right that some do. I can play some things on Stitcher, say, though I can't remember if I have to use podcast names specifically or if I can use my playlist names.

Some Google apps don't seem to support it though.

Ok Google, log my weight on Google fit as X? Search results page.

Ok Google, play (my playlist name) on Google Play: plays unrelated radio station inspired by my playlist name, with sometimes comical results.

I'm sure it will improve with time.
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If you were still a runner, or did any type of sport with decent training, you would still be using Garmin or equivalent.

Apple watch just doesn't cut it. I own both (AW2 and Garmin 735xt) and I gave up trying to use the AW for any of the sports that I do. (Running, swimming, biking, gym, Triathlon)
>"We have been involved with independently reviewing the findings and methodology to ensure the study is robust and credible," said lead researcher Andrew Mayes, from UEA's School of Chemistry."

If that independent review confirms the findings, that will send shockwaves throughout the industry.

The issue that was mentioned but has a few counter examples like Flint Michigan, is groundwater always safer than bottled water throughout the U.S?
I tried to find the relevant articles (admittedly I read the most striking ones two years ago, but I assume the regime hasn't improved that much since then?). If you are really interested I can google again.
Like film vs movie whatever difference there was it's now used interchangeable.
The European Parliament is just as accountable as any other. There’s an election next year. Go vote.
Do you expect your watch to get new major-version system software upgrades throughout those 5 to 10 years?