skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the sibling articles explains that part of the project involves trying to cut labor costs on covering massively multi-sited events:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/nearly-live-production

The idea is explicitly that you would run the equivalent of a TV control room on a web app that knows how to switch between video feeds (potentially from fixed cameras without human operators) and then can output video to... whoever is your audience.

The "moving window" of near-live editorial decisions is pretty interesting as well, and seems geared towards giving non-professional editors a chance to fix mistakes.
It’s a meaningless comparison, the median Swedish/Norwegian citizen is far more educated, wealthy, and capable of producing software than the median Chinese citizen.

China’s per capita software production is dragged down by its massive rural population, many of whom have never even owned a computer other than a smartphone. If you don’t account for that, then obviously wealthier/more urbanized countries will have higher per capita production.
There is an awful lot of data that is routed around internally before you hit transmission. That's more what's being talked about here, not delivering the video to viewers.
Because if they pay to get the troll away, it will attract more trolls.
Yeah, I worked on a startup to push IP multicast TV to consumers way back when. Went nowhere for the reasons you state, but we got some cool tech out of it regardless.
relevant TLDR:

"Professional, live, multi-camera coverage isn’t practical for all events or venues at a large festival. For our research at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015, we experimented with placing three unmanned, static, ultra high definition cameras and two unmanned, static, high definition GoPro cameras around the circumference of the BBC venue. A lightweight video capture rig of this kind, delivering images to a cloud system, could allow a director to crop and cut between these shots in software, over the web and produce good quality coverage ‘nearly live’ at reduced cost."
> Antimatter+matter = nothing.

Matter and antimatter both are forms in which energy (and not “anti-energy”) is bound up; matter + antimatter = energy, as is observable in particle / anti-particle interactions.
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I don't really like the idea of having a coarse mutex handle the lock's internals.. I Wonder if that can be made a bit more efficient.
would be interested in learning more about this!
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We've been running this in beta for a couple months now, happy to answer questions about it. The SO team has been super helpful during the process.
Affects directly or indirectly.

But indeed, anything that does not affect anything that affects anything [..] that could be perceived, can not be considered in any meaningful way to belong to our universe.

Isn't that the meaning of "universe"? The set of all things closed under all possible physical interactions?
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I just got bitten by a vendor that changed a business critical API twice in three weeks with neither versioning nor notification. It's very unprofessional.

I strongly second the recommendation to version customer-facing APIs. You should never be releasing backwards-incompatible changes without giving customers the option to upgrade on their own timelines (within reason - its unreasonable to expect you to support an older API for a decade; 3 months is an absolute minimum, though, and I'd recommend more like 18-36 months for enterprise customers; and there can be exceptions for changes that address severe security or data loss defects.)

And yes, at the very least, email communication is appreciated. Even if you're versioning - if you have a customer using an outdated API, you should be warning them that it's deprecated and then again a couple times leading up to EOL.
- Nobody knowing who created it, especially since they control over 1,000,000 bitcoin (~5% of the eventual total supply).

- No solution to a 51% attack.

- The gradual loss of inflation in supply. There are very valid reasons why existing currencies use inflationary systems.
> I could talk for hours and hours and hours

Have you thought about just recording yourself talking with a few friends for hours and hours about it and uploading online (e.g. Youtube)?

(I don't gamble and never learned statistics, but I am interested occasionally and digging in more details "behind the headlines", so what's why I wouldn't mind listening to this.)
The people calling the meetings don't have any of their goals tied to engineering productivity and the issue isn't big enough in managements view to come in and deal with it. The issue has been brought before and ignored. It's one of the perils of being in a cost center
Maybe it’s time the EU took a look at advertising. I mean, we’re building things like the GDPR and a lot of legislation to protect minors from the dangers that come from social media. We see loot boxes, underage gambling, traders selling you recommendations for their own products, scammers, young people prostitute them selves to get photo shoots at exotic locations or for luxurary stuff for likes. Probably worse than that too, and at the heart of it is advertising and how it makes money on popularity, lies and knowing every about everyone.

Popularity will always be worth money to someone, but the current business practices surrounding it just don’t seem healthy.
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Guy they chose seems like a bad example.

- 30k on insta (since 2014): instagram.com/elijah_oezz

- 3k on YouTube youtube.com/channel/UCk4fZzhD8fStRHITL4sP_LA

- 0 comments on any of his pics

Forex trading is certainly big on SM but this guy does not convert a single visitor.
Toronto is more like 10th in size (metro population).

Your comparison is based on population within "city limits" which are arbitrary and widely varying as to how much of the urban area of a city they cover.

Your overall point isn't invalid, just pointing it isn't that big.
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That's the point I was making, we won't know, we'll have to come up with a way of dealing without a central authority because the people who want to be our current central authorities are starting to show signs of being compromised.

Also yes you could produce a certificate for google.com by trying to MITM between me and my ISP, but if you managed to do that, I think I'd have bigger problems to worry about than getting to the real google.com.
If you want the law in a machine-readable format (YAML / JSON), we open-sourced our GDPR portal which includes parsers and raw data for the entire law as well as all recitals and footnotes in German as well as English:

https://github.com/DPKit/gdpr-portal

The website itself is available here:

https://gdpr.dpkit.com (EN)
https://dsgvo.dpkit.com (DE) (works well on mobile too)

This is a work-in-progress, please let us know if you have any questions.
Would you say that a company can become a "patent troll" by your strict definition after trying and failing to market an actual product? Are you sure that this lawsuit doesn't signal them giving up and looking for other ways to recoup their investments?
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One thing I've been struck by with movies and films like the Wolf of Wall Street, the film Wall Street, Fight Club, or even the Great Gatsby is how many people end up coming away with the exact opposite message of the movie. They end up idolizing the vapid, shallow lifestyle that the movie is critiquing, because even though the film is critiquing that it can't help but also make it glamorous. Michael Douglas has said that he has had people come up to him and tell him that Gordon Gekko inspired them to get into finance, so it's not surprising that Belfort is now inspiring a new generation.
Shouldn't smartphones, if they do cause cancer, cause a much larger spike in the hands or pocket area?

I sure have my phone adjacent to those parts of my body a whole lot more than my head.
Here's a description of the "Automata Processor", a phrase I hadn't heard before [1]:

> Micron’s new Automata Processor (AP) architecture exploits the very high and natural level of parallelism found in DRAM technologies to achieve native-hardware implementation of nondeterministic
finite automata (NFAs). The use of DRAM technology to implement the NFA states provides high capacity and therefore provide extraordinary parallelism for pattern recognition. In this paper, we give an overview of AP's architecture, programming and applications.

[1] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/wang_APoverview_...
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Not sure if that's a complaint or not :-)

My view is that of all my susbscriptions for entertainment - sky, disney, netflix, and time wasted listening to ads, the one that gives easily the best value for money is 12 quid a month to the BBC.

(I mean sky is nearly 60 quid a month and i cannot persuade my other half to go broadcast-less)
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This depends very much on your position and the structure of your company. 5 minutes is fine if you're getting one a day. If you have dozens of ad-hoc interruptions every day, you're getting interrupted for hours. Placing these interruptions randomly throughout the day means you don't have any solid blocks of time in which to get work done.
How does a web app know how to switch between video feeds, or cameras know where to point?

Maybe we're talking about different kinds of events, but there's actually a lot of creativity that goes into camera framing, movement, shot selection, timing of cuts, etc. to end up with something that's actually interesting to watch...
This was essentially my first question - who owns the data?
At least the frequency of questions getting closed without any sane reason will be lesser than Stackoverflow.com
If they have a chance at sinking Tesla with damages, I bet you'll find their runway suddenly, mysteriously grows with cash infusions from innocuous sounding companies that are in no way related to Tesla's competitors...
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Pushing the need for clear documentation is a battle I find myself frequently fighting. Many devs just aren't sure how to prioritize it or write it, and even worse, many seem to have absorbed the idea that code should be self documenting and that comments are a code smell.

Whoever is responsible for the idea that comments are code smell deserves to receive all future vitriolic emails from anyone who ever stumbles into a complex nest of undocumented code and has to figure out what the hell they're looking at.
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I hear people in the UK are dead tired of having BBC license "collectors" coming round every 2 months

I have never heard of this (I am in the UK). Yes, they'll send you letters from time to time (yearly?) but "coming round every two months"?
Is there any evidence of any wrongdoing here? His access to personal information is absolutely normal given his job title and frankly, I’m surprised that the other person feels unsafe after hearing this despite the fact she’s apparently a software engineer so the fact he has this access shouldn’t come to her as a surprise, and in her job she has probably the same level of access if not more.
> If you're smart and hardworking enough to store your own bitcoin securely, you can do so, and no-one can take it away from you.

It seems very unrealistic to assume to 0.5% security and operational expertise for anything pitched as a general solution.
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Fascinating. Am I the only one to wish for a time capsule every now and then?
Thank you for the clarification. In that case I absolutely agree. If the US and the "Will of the People" (which is largely decided through apathy it would seem) decide that they really don't want tech minds from around the world in their midst, I'm sure Canada will gladly take that on.
Am I correct in thinking that since a design patent protects ornamental design, then if a design is necessary for functional reasons, the design patent doesn't protect it? That you couldn't design patent a wheel looking like a circle, because that is a necessary part of its utility?

Because the filed complaint itself seems to admit that the protected fuselage shape is necessary to achieve the ~0.37 drag coefficient that both vehicles have, which it also admits is necessary to attain appropriate range on EVs of this class.
If you tell the BBC licence collectors (phone/letter/in person) that you're not watching TV, they stop coming.

The license collectors remain a favourite grumble of anti-government or anti-tax people, most people aren't affected. (Most people buy the license, most people who don't need to instead tell the BBC roughly every 3 years.)
China is 55% urban. Its had a massive urban influx, and in fact the largest growth area in population is urban.

However 1 in 5 are 'migrant workers' with no fixed address. I'd guess they are the least educated demographic.
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I have actually, but most of my friends are bored rigid by this stuff.

I might well do some video blogs actually - nice idea, thanks for giving me the thought!
Re: meeting length. I started scheduling 15 minute calls and it caught on. With a pre-circulated agenda and the usual 5 mins to get everyone onto the WebEx it was quite effective

"We only have 10 mins so let's get to the point"
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I find it easier to just block off 4 hour chunks of my day as a way to convey: I'm only working during these times no meetings. In manager land a block of free time is fair game, so play by those rules and make your own meeting with work.

When any manager asks why you just tell them and explain. Seems to work fine.
Something is not totally clear and will make a big difference. Prior to this with standard it was 25,000 free loads per day. Is this being dropped? It seems like it but I received an email saying based on my usage I would be within the $200 free credit limit.
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On HN, cause ASD correlates highly with intrest in technology.

On the news on average, don't have a good theory but mabbye just cause it is interesting forefront research.
So I solves a lot of pain points and the only problem you are left with is dealing with JavaScript? It's quite neat, but why not simply use a better language and an engine? E.g. Unity3d, MonoGame, Godot?
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"Documentation on-demand" seems a great solution indeed!

Although $5/month per user is not cheap. I work at a medium-sized funded startup and I doubt it would be approved for overall use (as it would be nice to include other teams as well, like Marketing, Analytics, Customer Support).

It is the same price of GSuite, that adds a ton more value than SO for Teams could ever add.
If you have 100k in cash, I feel like your 401k should be much higher. I would look at using the cash to supplement income so you can maximize your tax advantaged 401k savings.

Otherwise, personally, I would put 60% in low cost index funds like Vanguard, 20% in bonds and 20% in crypto, but that's because I have a high risk tolerance.
I still don't understand why people use Slack for work for non-emergencies. For talking about bullshit (cool places to eat near the office) or for emergencies (@zach @sarah prod is down!) it's good, but for product planning it's terrible. Hard to keep up with, hard to reference later, encourages temporary / lazy fixes like quick questions over maintained wikis.
That’s funny. As a doctor with a long background in managed care and healthcare policy, I find the healthcare-related comments here painful to read and extremely painted over with know-it—all-ism.

I’ve begun actively avoiding them because of how unpleasantly off-base they are. No one wants to read an entire thread of, well, what you imagine doctors would say if they were discussing programming.
I'd say long conversations are a pretty common thing for me if I'm actually bothering to make a phone call.
I use regular Audio Technica headphones with a Mod Mic that I plug/unplug when needed.
I did also. Needed that laugh.
Thank you for creating CodePen.

Others have mentioned, it already but I feel like I must echo the same sentiment.

I finished a 4 years CS degree years ago and I can honestly say that throughout my career I never had to create a linked list by hand.

Quiet frankly, knowing how to implement a heap with your eyes closed doesn't mean anything.

Running a successful SAAS for many years and scaling it on the other hand, is far more of an impressive accomplishment.

Kudos to you.
Is that actually true? Surely they'd encounter some problems but why would they absolutely be doomed?
Hey everyone,

We're launching IntroJoy (https://introjoy.com), an​​ easier way to make double opt-in intros.

We decided to build this after learning how there were people out there making hundreds to thousands of intros every year, but without an efficient tool.

IntroJoy is a simple app that uses your Gmail account to minimize the hassle of making double opt-in intros.

It's mobile-friendly, has no dependencies, supports forwardable intros, and open/click tracking.

Would love your thoughts!
If someone at my company routinely doesn't answer internal emails then they should be fired.
The only people who have problems are the people who refuse to tick a box on a webform that says "I do not use iPlayer, I do not watch any tv live as it's broadcast".
> Try and pull your savings out of a bank when there is a bank run.

Familiar with the FDIC?
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When I'm just standing near my running microwave, bluetooth will totally drop out and WiFi will degrade so even with shielding it must surely be radiating a lot more than a phone. Haven't payed attention to how the LTE signal is affected though.
> I think, for most people, the damages are all that matter.

They certainly aren't all that matters legally, because damage awards aren't the obly remedy in patent cases, injunctive relief is available.

> It's whether you're going to be sued

While damages effect the risk that you will be sued, Tesla is in fact being sued here.

> and lose a lot of money.

Sure, but damages aren't the only costly outcome. In this case, an injunction that forces a non-infringing redesign would be expensive for Tesla even before considering any damage award.
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That’s why there’s a market for $10k+ rackmount versions of these devices (enterprise HSMs).
Thanks for sharing! Responsive design fixes are on their ways.
Ask HN: How do you memorize syntax and common API for a new language?
I'm sure a lot of people here will recommend doing a lot of side projects, but is there a more boring yet effective way? Similar to flash cards instead of writing for vocabulary. The biggest contextual block from coding with an unfamiliar language is the syntax and basic API.

If I could draw an analogy, it would be trying to learn a language in a foreign country without any fundamental understanding. I find it much easier to absorb new materials when I have a basic set of common phrases memorized beforehand.
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It’s not typically adjacent to those body parts while emitting a steady stream of radio waves. Even if it remains away from your head and near those other body parys during a call, there’s no a tube (that may channel the radiation) from the phone leading internally like the ear canal.
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This is great! I love how it automatically pulls full definitions for terms from the relevant "Article 4. Definitions" section and surfaces them throughout the text. I would love to see more legislation made available in this easy to understand format!
Fight Club gets a lot of retroactive flak now that people know how they were "supposed" to read it. The book was a dramatization of the way young men feel about life. If the author and book had any valid insight, then of course young men would identify with the "bad" lifestyle in the movie, and not suddenly turn into old men while watching the movie. The movie is entirely showing the fantasy from the "vapid" perspective. It does nothing in itself to destroy the fantasy except at the very end where it shows "maybe it's possible to take this too far?"
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1) Most people aren't autopsied upon death, autopsies are only performed in limited circumstances. I don't personally know of a single person whom died who an autopsy was performed on.

2) The article is vague and short but "cases of GBM in England have increased from around 1,250 a year in 1995 to just under 3,000" almost certainly refers to diagnosed cases of GBM, not including incidentals found in autopsies.
I think it means the word salad. Are you really working on a project that mixes Python, Java, C# and C?

On the flip side of the coin, this word salad appears on many job posts. It would be nice to see them clearly define their stack but also other languages they accept on a separate line.
I get it, but target is an odd choice to flee this - they have a house brand for almost everything they sell, from BBQ gear to baby wipes...
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My bad, I had assumed fission was splitting atoms by adding neutrons, but actually fission is just the "splitting" part, so both cases are indeed fission....
I know of a guy who “pivoted” from exotic car rental operator in Florida to Forex and Drop Shipping coach via Instagram. His Lamborghini, chartered jets and 30k followers really shine but I also know he still buys fake shoes. Wouldn’t trust him with $1.

Gary Vaynerchuk is spot on in that there are too many experts and not enough practicioners. Showing others how to make it is how these guys are trying to make it.
If $650 is a lot for your business, wouldn’t you just keep the keys on disk? Hardware-based security implies that you have a compliance regime to satisfy, or at least something valuable to protect.
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Mobile phones create much more radiation while on a call just as people tend to be holding the phone to their head while on a call.
Still shouldn't be patentable. I understand if you're trying to prevent counterfeit. But Tesla trucks aren't trying to pass off as Nikola trucks or whatever vaporware that company has.

Pure patent troll rubbish.
Search is something that (with the advent of Teams) we've been bolstering our investment in. We've updated to the most recent version of elastic (which unblocks us on a lot of improvements) and we have upgraded how we are indexing questions/answers for Teams. and most importantly, we will just be continuing to improve it - since now it's more critical than ever to be successful there. To your point though, it's the first time we've invested in search in...well, I don't know how long.
People exhausted by all day meetings aren’t in a good mental space to solve the problem (often the retro is at the end, after all, when everyone wants to just gtfo)