skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need a #DELETETWITTER as well, esp. considering current POliTicians post stUpid drivel conStantly.
The SDK comes in three flavours.

C API, Unity and Unreal Engine.

There is an Magic Leap package manager which is used to install the SDK and some dependencies like the ML Remote Simulator.
I hadn't known that historical perspective, thanks. I was glad when the term started to become popular because the US post-Reagan era had made "liberal" into a term used to insult and degrade without considering the actual ideas of any instance.

I was shocked at Sanders amount of success, because I had grown up believing that the US public would immediately discount any associating with the word "socialist" (even by those that actually had beliefs not far from socialist views, and even allowing that Sanders positions aren't actually 'socialist' as used in Europe).

I suspect "progressive" was embraced for such reasons, but given how much I've been wrong about most anything political on the past decade+, I'd love to have actual evidence.
This is usually addressed in your program policy. For example, look at https://hackerone.com/twitter :

> Accessing private information of other users, performing actions that may negatively affect Twitter users (e.g., spam, denial of service), or sending reports from automated tools without verifying them will immediately disqualify the report
This is a good point. You can't actually measure any of these things, thus you can't prove them. What's the point in debating them then?
I'm building my company (https://weardulo.com/) while working as a web developer full-time. Mornings, evenings and weekends is when I dedicate time to it.
I'm not the original poster, but the metaphor clearly seems to be that Facebook is the dirty old man that many people don't want to get in bed with but feel they have to.
People who love games should make them, but people who want to make a living from games need to understand that is a business that doesn't always reward passion.

The good news for this guy is he has dipped his toe in the water and learned from it. Experience always makes you better. Others have pointed out the poor return on creating your own game engine.

Here is a point I would make: If it is a business for you, think about what kind of game people are likely to buy, as opposed to what kind of game you can do well. One of the reasons why there are gluts of certain kinds of games is that they are often the kinds of games that are relatively easy to make. Also, people who enjoy making games often are fans of similar games. There are ways to test how much traction your game is likely to find in the market before you make it.
>"Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III (1988-19994) and NHANES IV (2007-2010), the researchers examined how biological age, relative to chronological age, changed in the U.S. while considering the contributions of health behaviors. Biological age was calculated using several indicators for metabolism, inflammation, and organ function, including levels of hemoglobin, total cholesterol, creatinine, alkaline phosphatase, albumin, and C-reactive protein in blood as well as blood pressure and breath capacity data."

>"While all age groups experienced some decrease in biological age, the results suggest that not all people may be faring the same. Older adults experienced the greatest decreases in biological age, and men experienced greater declines in biological age than females; these differences were partially explained by changes in smoking, obesity, and medication use, Crimmins and Levine explained."
https://10minutemail.com, my favorite tool for reasons just like this.
I don't think that will help.

The problem isn't Facebook. The problem is us. People. Humans. We're too prone to addictive behaviors. We're too prone to believe what we want to believe. And at least some of us are too willing to exploit a medium to manipulate the behavior of others.

A non-profit won't change any of that. People will still become addicted to it; it will still propagate fake news; and people will still use it to manipulate others.
This requires a account with Magic Leap to even be able to read any content, this has no place on HN...
Just to be fair:

Wasn't Obama a "blustering populist without a shred of actual policy experience", either? And, no business experience.

Also, Trump's message (however controversial) was more concrete than "hope and change".
It kinda does. If the "types" of work that get compensated well enough for success are arbitrarily chosen, then that indicates that hard work itself is a lie.
> he was very down on immigrants depressing native worker's wages.

I'm not a Sanders supporter, but just wanted to point out that one can be both pro-immigrant (wanting to increase general immigrant quotas) and against programs like H1B that are designed to suppress salaries in specific industries.
> I also have no dependents, which is obviously the big difference maker.

Yep. Just try to build significant savings with a wife and 3 kids. I'll probably never have more than a couple of months' pay sitting in savings. I realize if I lived alone I could easily live on 1/3 of my current salary. Ah well, life choices and all that...
What's Orwellian is being publicly lynched for wrongthink. The far-left is just as authoritarian as the far-right, IMO. The left accuses the right of living in a bubble, but they're completely unaware of their own dogmatic echo chamber.

I'm queer. I'm in favor of universal access to abortion and socialised healthcare, but there are a few things I could say that would quickly get me labelled as right-wing and all sorts of bad things. It used to be that being liberal, being left stood for freedom of speech and the open discussion of ideas.
StellarSigner is a new secure key store app to sign Stellar transactions
Making 3d models look good on the screen and making them look good in VR usually optimize for different things.
Is it really that annoying that someone possibly made x thing with love in y location? What does money have to do with that? You can get paid to do something and do it with love.
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> Bush Clinton dynasty

oxymoron
There's a natural power law distribution to many things. Economics is a natural force. We can't change it just by dictating that we'd like some things to change, just like we can't change other natural elements by fiat.

There's a process, a technology, a science that has to be applied to shape and command natural forces. Human psychology is no exception. Things must be done within workable, realistic parameters. We can't just say "everyone will share and be happy and nice now" and expect it to work like that.

"Corporations as people" is a massive politically-charged misnomer that doesn't mean anything by itself. The entire point of incorporation is to create a separate, independent legal entity divorced from its principals. This is what is meant when "legal personhood" is discussed. You have to be specific about what you'd like changed.
You also have to enter your name, birthdate, sign some agreements, etc.
Here's my checklist (originally included in an email sent out to my mailing list - https://softwareclown.com):

Understand the big picture direction of the organization, team, and product I’m working on: management, marketing, sales, and engineering.

* Talk to relevant managers about where we’re going, and what they’d consider success or failure. Also a chance to meet managers I didn’t talk to during interview process.

* See if anyone’s done a pre-mortem, or if not try to informally or formally do one: “it’s one year in the future and the project has failed. What did we do wrong?” Usally I’ve started mentally creating a list of big picture risks, but many of those are probably irrelevant, and I’m probably missing quite a few.

* Learn meeting schedule, start forming opinions about existing ones (useful/needs improvement/useless) and what meetings might be missing.

* Get to know co-workers: names, roles, who knows what.

* Wander around introducing myself, and asking people what they are working on.

* Figure out lunch and snack culture.

* Join social chat rooms / email lists.

Set up work environment.

* Standing desk, with keyboard and monitor correct height.

* Kinesis Advantage keyboard.

* Mat for standing desk.

* Install Linux on laptop.

* Editor configuration (using my dotfiles repo).
* Setup email, chat, other communication methods.

Start learning the development process, code base, tool chain, and relevant technologies.

* Get code checked out, figure out how to build and run it.

* Figure out how to file tickets.

* Get smallest possible commit merged (fixing a typo, say).

* Improve or write documentation for the above three, for
the benefit of future developers.

* Next smallest code change: improve code quality by adding a linter, or setup EditorConfig.

* Start work on a small, real feature or bug fix.

* Order (and expense!) books covering topics I don’t know enough about.

Logistics.

* Health and dental insurance.

* Retirement account.

* Bring relevant legal documentation first day (passport / birth certificate).

* Figure out best time to leave for work.

* Figure out bike parking.
Show HN: Create continuous development pipelines for static site generators
What? No human trades that quickly, and this is not about automated HFT trading systems but rather running database queries and what typical business users expect as "instant" results.
The website doesn't demonstrate it on the "front" page. But the effect is so subtle I didn't even notice it on the "individual"'s page, probably due to a color display limitation of a laptop screen.

I would have put a "side-by-side" comparison of the same text on pages like this to make it more prominent--one with the beeline effect and one without.
I don't even know where to begin to critique this. It entirely leaves out factors like race and gender that are known to have an impact.

I've spent a lot of years trying to understand the details of exactly how my gender is a factor and trying to find solutions to those details. I don't believe it has to be a problem, but we know it currently is a problem, and these cleaned up models seem to never include the idea that if you are female or a person of color or gay etc, you will tend to have "demerits" or be handicapped (in the horse racing sense of carrying an extra burden).

If talent, work and luck were everything, then we shouldn't have such consistent outcomes that certain groups overall do better than others.
Libraries exist for Swift and JavaScript for sure but honestly the implementation in vanilla JS wasn’t that hard.
So it seems like @kerkeslager's reasoning in a sibling comment was correct, that it ignited a naming war.

That said, maybe a list of tags for the styles would help? "Also called: [functional, imperative]" etc.?
I don't think it's a shame at all, I bought my first laptop in 2004 for iirc 2200 EUR, in my 2nd year of university. (OK, I wanted a nice laptop and not the cheapest piece of junk(.

It served me well for quite a few years, but I wasn't the starving student type, but actually working part-time as a programmer. I also wouldn't say this laptop was essential to finishing my studies, but (computer science) it was very, very handy.
Thanks, that's what I was trying to say lol.

I don't think anyone is arguing that there aren't any other factors or that this justifies not helping less fortunate people.
The Clintons are powerful now, but Bill came from rather inauspicious origins.
I used them recently to stay in a hotel in San Francisco, CA near the AMC Metreon. Big mistake. We thought it was a deal, and it was, I guess for San Francisco prices, but still, buyer beware. We booked two nights, but bailed after the first night. Sometimes you gotta cut your losses.
> To Epic, they're definitely worth $12M

No, that's the fallacy. The assets are only worth $12 million to Epic if Epic has a viable way to reap $12 million in benefit from them. The fact that it cost Epic $12 million to create the assets has nothing to do with it. That's just sunk cost.
I think you may be exaggerating a tad. I think it is hardly a significant phenomenon, people getting fired from their jobs for saying stuff online. As for insults and threats, well that's a consequence of being able to say what you want to people halfway across the word. 99% of people saying mean stuff on social media wouldn't say it to people's faces.
Yes, that should be doable but not quite how you have it sketched out. See here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines.html
Basically, she came up with her own names so that the examples could work stand alone without everyone bringing their "but to be called X it needs Y!" baggage and quibbling about it.
Here's the announcement blog post https://www.magicleap.com/stories/blog/developer-journey-sta...
I have no passcode on my phone. I don't expect privacy anymore.
I literally don't know anyone who uses Whatsapp, only Messenger. These things are very different across the world.
Jaded much? I think it's cute, and also shows they're ok being a tiny bit whimsical.
This is one of the things that has me split about Facebook. There is essentially no anonymity on the platform, and some people even report needing to verify their names with state IDs, which is a little much IMO (I was one of those users).

Yet, this also means very little spam and garbage. There seem to be little bots in the platform as far as I can see, and the few that send me friend requests seem to be taken down within hours, as opposed to Twitter for example.
It's even worse than that--Trump is the last stand of Americans voting a fix for what is broken. If this fails, it's revolution.
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> I think your typical anti H-1B person would have no problem blanket granting all H-1Bs citizenship

I wouldn't, as long as we didn't continue to bring in immigrants targeting one specific profession such as continued H1B, and instead increased general immigrant quotas, perhaps half skilled (college educated) and half "low skill" (who have often become successful entrepreneurs here in the US).
Well, pivot while you can...
C) would happen regardless of the other items.
Careful when making that statement that you don't fall into the trap of believing that only physical labor counts as "hard work".
Privacy Badger, Ghostery plugins are wonderful for curtailing this.
Anecdotal evidence: That is the case in my circle of friends. My news feed has been empty for quite some time, but we still use the messenger and facebook itself to organize our own private events.
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>One could argue that scratch-off games are inherently unfair

There's nothing inherent about scratch-off games that forces sellers to be in a privileged position about whether tickets they are selling are winners. If the buyer supplies a source of entropy that they commit to, the ticket has a it's own entropy.
Most people don't grasp the _extend_ of what they give to the advertisers. Not even in the slightest way. They still think that as long as they don't fill out a questionnaire, "they" won't know.

Right, it's like if you think about searching for some controversial thing and get as far as typing it into the search bar then think I don't want this in my permanent record and close the tab. Too late, every keystroke was already sent as you were typing! Surprise! Or an angry message that you think better of sending, the recipient might not have it, but it's still recorded and may or may not be used against you in some way in the future.
Cool, hopefully mods change the link to this instead.
> the wall, tariffs, and now the death penalty for drug dealers?

I think this backs up djsumdog's point that Trump's purpose, or the one for which he's being used, is misdirection.
I disagree. Unprovable things can and often should be a part of a dialogue. I don't know what that has to do with unquantifiable things being left out of quantitative economic models, though.
I saw it for the first time in the bootstrap page, now it's everywhere. Not too original. I guess it's in line with that 'we make the world a better place' and other silicon walley sh*t.
Yeah, I lied. It worked. Bob John 02/22/1992 has access now. They get to spam the email I specifically have for useless logins.

Win-win?
If you are an employee, you should protect your interests. This includes ensuring that you, your children, and your fellow citizens are hired preferentially to importing labor.

The 'better future' people many immigrate for includes higher standards of living for similar work. They are willing to work for less because they believe citizenship is worth something. That 'better future' only exists if the country maintains this inequality by ensuring that citizens are hired first where possible.

Issues of globalization, birthplace lottery, and wealth inequality aside; these policies are in your favor if you are an employee, immigrant or not. Conversely, these policies hurt the company's bottom line by preventing hiring of the most cost efficient labor.

The backlash against this message is weaponized political correctness and/or employees speaking out against their best interests.
Yes. The point is that when you "trade" BTC for something, you're selling it. We differentiate between a sale and a trade colloquially based on whether currency is involved, but currency isn't that special--its just another good. You realize your gain when you sell your thing in exchange for some other thing.

Moreover, if you bought the toaster, and sold it for $20 in BTC, you would have profited $10 and would need to pay taxes on it.
You should read Discord’s experience with Elixir if you haven’t already [1]. They didn’t use Phoenix channels though AFAIK.

Also the Phoenix channel implementation uses CRDTs behind the scenes from what I gather. They make problems like user presence much more tractable [2].

1: https://blog.discordapp.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b
2: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/guid...
Asking employees to work long hours in order to meet deadlines is not unique to the games industry.
Ask HN: Need career advice facing burnout?
I can't seem to work 5 days a week, somedays I wake up and just decide I rather take a vacation or sick day than show up.

I just don't know how to cope.

Please advise on how you handled workplace burnout?

Thanks
> I think LinkedIn is a social hole, where people deposit an account and information out of perceived necessity, and then rarely engage the product again until they change or update their job situation. There appears to be a shield of social-work pressure that keeps it alive and updating. People use it, so people use it.

This is a fantastic summary, and something I'm going to think about with non-LinkedIn contexts as well. At this point, I update LinkedIn so it won't be out of date, and keep it alive so I'm not confused with other people. (And because deleting the thing looks like more of a pain than having it...)

It's an entirely defensive posture, and I only go to LinkedIn to pour information in, rather than to take anything valuable out.

Actually, it makes me think of those stupid "communication for recipient only" email disclaimers. They probably don't carry any legal weight, but once they got common some companies worried that if they didn't use them it could be brought up in court as evidence that the communication was shareable - so now everyone adds 5-10 lines to their emails just to get back to where they were before the meme ever started.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but VAT is only applied to goods sold to consumers, not to companies. If I'm a VAT registered company (like Facebook) and I buy a VAT-able item like a computer (from MSFT), I don't pay VAT.

So similarly, if I'm a computer manufacturer (MSFT) and want to buy VAT-able advertising (from Facebook) then I don't actually pay VAT.

So in what way would this lead to tech giants that primarily sell B2B being taxed?
It's in photoshop too!
LG opens sources webOS to foster startup ecosystem in South Korea
Maybe, but I suspect not.
The same absurd premise that causes people to think eg Rockefeller's peak wealth adjusted should be more like $400 or $500 billion today (when in fact it would be closer to ~$30 billion using an inflation adjustment from the early 1900s).
You built your own straw man.

Nobody said that video gaming companies "are somehow out to provide benevolently for it's software developing community."

If we were talking about Epic Games giving $100 to each American, that wouldn't follow either.

But if you can't acknowledge that some decisions are more well-meaning than others, you're just sour grapes.
I'm not entirely sure that this is correct.
As an example, this recent article from the NYTimes looks at the economic status of black Americans and their children vs. white Americans and their children: [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...
This is neat.

For added security, maybe better to hide the canary URL in a bit.ly link? Someone might know your 3 URLS.
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One also has to remember Facebook is about a third the size of Google (25,105 vs 73,992), according to Wikipedia [1][2]. So if anything, unless it grows more or focuses better it'd be hard to move into drastically different ventures.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
I’ve been writing an API in Phoenix for a high message volume high user count application and it’s pretty amazing how little code I have been writing thus far.

Some concepts are a bit weird like GenServer but it completely decouples your application from your state.

Writing tests was intuitive and one of the few times I’ve been doing TDD that really felt faster than manual testing.
If a Spotify competitor started out today with zero advertising it would never make it - how would you hear about it?

I can remember when one of the killer advantages of online retail vs B&M was that in the former you didn't need to spend any dollars on TV and magazine and billboard advertising - word of mouth was sufficient. So I think that they would be fine.
In your opinion, what is a valid reason for software to be non-open source? Sure, saying the software doesn't "deserve" to be open source might be a bit extreme, but I keep seeing the sentiment on HN that free and open source is the only allowable route and people who want to charge for their software are to be demonized. I'm curious under what circumstances you think it is allowable for a company to profit off of software their engineers were paid to write?
> “Americans now fill only 29% of the tech jobs in San Jose, the cradle of Silicon Valley. Despite the demand for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workers, wages have been flat for years,” the website reads.

Is this true? It is a very important point to say the least.

> "It is important for our riders to know the ads contradict our values,” a transit spokesperson wrote via email.

Why is the transit system making political statements? What do "values" have to do with it? Have they disproved the claim(s) above, or not?

> San Francisco’s BART took a strong stance on immigration issues. Its board of directors passed a safe transit policy in June 2017, which banned federal agents from questioning riders, and stated its “commitment to stand together with the people of the Bay Area in opposing hate, violence, and acts of intolerance committed against our riding community and employees.”

Following immigration law equals hate/violence? Or perhaps agents were overstepping their authority? They need to get their story straight because it is hard to understand as a non-expert on the subject. Perhaps just poor reporting.