skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a really bad example to use as there is no general agreement on the issue. The Italian government obviously has a biased opinion in wanting to credit one of their citizens(I’m actually confused if he was Italian or American because it said his invention was in New York).

I don’t know what skin in the game Canada has when they passed a resolution recognizing Bell Graham as the inventor.

Honestly to me it looks like there is not a clear answer. You can pick either of them you want, draw an abitrary line in the sand about what a ‘telephone’ really is and use that line to defend your choice.

Any rational argument on the topic will have to start with both parties agreeing on what a telephone is first and then looking at the two parties to see which invented their agreed definition.
Does it maybe require accepting that random or targeted drug tests can be carried out and you have no right to refuse? Source this is the case in several countries.
Had anyone tried to crowdfund and buy some flat-earther a ticket to orbit? Maybe a TV company could fund it and make a reality show?
> Rust is promising, but will never be a good option on low level devices.

Why not?
Ad rates keep dropping and the algorithm changes have chopped off more than half my organic traffic.

2016 was my best year and I made about $500-$750/mo. This year about $100/mo. In 2016 I got ad rates from 20-30/1k now it's 5-8/1k. Channel is a coding channel: http://youtube.com/devfactor
"commercial-property company that is unjustifiably trading on a tech valuation"

I kind of wonder which way the causation runs. Those "tech multiples" are supposedly a reflection of profit & growth potential. Growth requires investment. Margins tend to be in some way linked to investment too. It's easier to have a better margin if (a) you have cheap money and (b) if you can afford to take some risks for long term gain. Both have to do with multiples.

Why doesn't Tesla have an auto manufacturer multiple?
Lenovo Z5 is the world’s first full screen smartphone
It can be fairly fast for many use cases (specially because of async processing) and it was the basis one of the original scalable web servers that implemented multi-threading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver
Google Duplex Demo from Google IO 2018
This is a little bit of a silly sentiment. Not everyone wants to use emacs as their daily planner, esp. since it doesn't come with cross-platform syncing or modern GUI out of the box. It would be like saying "It's slightly amusing how often people reinvent the Model T" every time a new car was announced.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I forgot compilation can take a while. I used to write C++, but the only compiled language I've worked seriously with in the last several years has been Go, which tends to compile in about the same time it takes a Python program to load its imports.
NotePlan is really nice indeed, and I’ve recently started using it as it’s avalible through the Setapp [1]. I think the iOS app needs some more polishing but since files are plain text, I can live with it and edit stuff on some other apps on iPhone or iPad. I also wish they’d have used the Taskpaper syntax for date-time management.

[1]: https://setapp.sjv.io/c/1237684/408056/5114
you might call this a gotcha of this obscure standard called UNIX/POSIX, although...

> %G The ISO 8601 week-based year (see NOTES) with century as a decimal number. The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V). This has the same format and value as %Y, except that if the ISO week number belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. (TZ)

I think that's pretty clear, so its actually just a case of not reading / bothering to understand the documentation. I think if you really want to bulletproof a system against incompetency we should probably not start with C.
I'm sure there are many ways. Self discipline, meditation, practice, or cannabis.
You can statically link a LGPL'd library without releasing the whole under the LGPL, but you need to provide a way for the user to modify the library and re-link it. See: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami...
I don't know much about this movement, but Google employees are not at all comparable to refugees; that's not a valid comparison.
Please dont go this toxic route.
They are using the banks of the bitcoin exchanges.

As a swift alternative that's fine, but you can't avoid banks if you're using country denominations.
At this point can SoftBank make winners in silicon valley by pouring money on companies and having the other companies they have invested in support each other by using each others products?

Is this good/bad for the silicon valley ecosystem? Is there a point at which massive investment groups get treated as monoplies and regulated?

Uber and Grab (both SoftBank investments) merged into one in the Philippines:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/grab-vanq...
Is that right ? I have never used Ruby. I should have my expectations on running time in check in case I do try Ruby out -- I have been meaning to.
I can comment on this firsthand. I was born in a hospital here in California, so my DNA was collected. A couple years ago I heard about this program, which I believe to be a gross violation of privacy and overstepping of authority. I read somewhere that you can have your/your child's sample destroyed by filling out a form and sending it to a state health agency (don't remember the specific one now). You have to provide name, date of birth, and the name of the hospital. I did so, and perhaps a month or two later I received a letter saying that my sample had been destroyed. Clearly these samples are not de-identified if they are able to be located with the info provided.

I think this program is utterly disgusting. It's a terrible violation of privacy. The DNA of every baby (born in an actual medical institution) is collected, tested for whatever, and then stored indefinitely. There is no opt-in or opt-out as far as I'm aware, just that you can later have the sample destroyed if you happen to hear about this program and go to the effort of finding out how to do it. This is some disgusting Orwellian BS.
toString on a java.time.instant gives it in ISO format without even needing to bother with formatter objects.
Pretty much. I'd say it stimulates the immune system before the virus does much damage rather than before it takes hold.
Might be worth filing a CAN SPAM ACT report.
Given Orwell's extended definition it looks like Orwell is actually talking about to collectivism. It is not clear why he chose the more specific term 'nationalism' over the more general term 'collectivism'.
> a person made the wrong decision.

Even if that were true, they doubled down on their decision:

"Hi Chris, Thanks for reaching out. We've removed you from our email list."

That is not acknowledging they made a wrong decision here, it's an attempt to re-frame what they did as as simple opt-in/opt-out mailing list business.

It's not that hard either:
"This shouldn't have happened. We're looking into it. We're sorry (and here's cake for your trouble)." Not this "I'm sorry you feel sad because I ran over your cat (but not for running it over)".
Time to consider that your experience may be outdated. Wub, to take one example, is a pure-Tcl web server whose performance is comparable to Apache. Network latency in handling socket I/O swamps any differences in code execution speed.
I'd imagine your average spam list purchaser removes the + stuff on Gmail addresses.
because mac != emacs
That accident involved a pressure difference of 8 atmospheres. For comparison, when a plane explosively decompresses, the pressure difference is much less than 1 atmosphere, and that is enough to cause some pretty severe damage, so you can imagine just how much more violent an 8atm decompression is.
The great thing with org is that you can as much or as little of it as you want. One can even use it as a simple TODO list in a single file without using any of the power features. And then one can gradually expand this by using more features if needed. But org can be used efficiently as a very simple, barebone tool if one prefers that.
You're overthinking this. People don't add up the value of a "mate" and pick the highest valued one. They look for someone they get on well with. No one cares if you fear driving, no one cares if you have student loans. Maybe you should talk to friends about your problems, I know when I did I discovered everyone's got problems, mostly the same as mine, and no one gives a shit, including their girlfriends. No one's perfect.
Edge is one of the best browsers, as promised, and this didn’t happen in Edge.
I don't really think you can compare "multi-national megacorp" with refugees.

It's not like they said "People who are working at Google or have worked at Google are not welcome" - for me this is a clear message to Google, the company.

I don't have a real opinion on the matter per se, so please don't take this as taking a position.
For a literary treatment once can read Ernst Jünger - the Mauretanier-Orden pops up every now and then in the course of his writings.
Emacs is cross platform, and since org mode works on plain files, dropbox or any similar software will provide you cross platform syncing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
> It's a question of nuance, on a case-by-case basis.

I agree, although I don't think "nuance" or "case-by-case basis" have ever been used in accusations of appropriation.
Xiaomi slapped with patent infringement charges by Coolpad
Sorry, yes, I reversed the examples.
>>People will need to realize that they will need to be welcoming to either everyone or noone, everything else is just bigotry

If an individual or company violates prevailing prosocial norms within a community (not paying taxes in either case), the community reserves the right to remove them. If a company or individual threatens the long-term well being of the community (e.g. the business ecosystem) the community has the right to reject them. In the limit this is obvious (and provides a fairly robust counter-example to "Let's be welcoming to everyone"): a company can reject criminal or criminal organizations. Google's tax avoidance behavior has been pretty clearly antisocial (e.g. the double Irish Dutch sandwich arrangement), and arguably criminal.

There are limits on Uber in Germany and limits on AirBnB in Berlin (IIRC it is not Germany-wide) for exactly this reason. It seems that Berliners are similarly worried about negative externalities entailed by Google establishing a campus there. If Google is willing to conform to community standards it may well have a place there. But that would probably require paying some back-owed taxes :)
Possibly, the writer meant that Tesla is one of his investments.
Home births are popular in California (well, relatively speaking anyway); has anyone had a baby at home & did the state come asking for DNA when you went to get a birth certificate or some other time?
What's the actual risk here? I'm not seeing it.
Ask HN: Who pays for remote worker travel to office?
If a remote job requires occasional visits to the home office (e.g. for 1 week every 2 months), does the employer or employee cover this travel/lodging cost? Thank you!
I have been in the room when a proposed occupational license was debated among the current practitioners. This was the group that got the legislation passed. The debate was all about keeping people out, never about the public interest.

I have heard horror stories about conspiracies to use health care licenses to keep outsiders out of California and other states. These detailed stories were from practitioners themselves.
Depends on what you're watching, but to be immersed you're looking for a 16:9 screen to be 30 degrees of width (for immersive cinema you want 40")

At 8', that's 60" screen size for 30 degrees (80" for cinema)

Now I treat these with a pinch of salt, they're SMPTE values, and the last SMPTE event I went to we all agreed that in the UK 4K is pretty much pointless for 80% of the country, but SMPTE can't say that because panel manufacturers want to sell new screens every few years. Still 30 degrees feels like a fairly good number.

Assuming you have 20:20 vision, and have a 60" TV, it's only worth going to UHD over 1080 for resolution if you're nearer than 8'. For a 40" TV, it's 5'.

Now UHD comes with other benefits, namely a higher temporal resolution (interlace has gone, there's no 2160i - thank god), and higher dynamic range. I suspect they'll flog 8k panels for the Tokyo 2020 olympics, but bundle 120fps at the same time.
And then the Gell-Mann Amnesia kicks in!

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
My keybase is in my profile, drop me a line!

Or rummage about in my github. It isn't alpha yet, but what's visible is the tip of an iceberg...
I think it works with the iCloud calendar, maybe if you have the Google Calendar setup on your iPhone, then it does.
This study was several years ago with a company that does call center work. This sort of productivity is easy to measure compared to other forms of team work. I don't think that it would be beneficial to extrapolate that finding to all kinds of work. Co-location is a huge benefit when working with small, focused teams. There have been volumes written on the benefit of being in close proximity to members with a shared goal.
wow, this is fascinating. i totally believe that ancient people had internal voices that were real-sounding enough that we’d consider them hallucinations.

i don’t fully understand what this has to do with consciousness though. isn’t someone conscious if they are subject to hallucinations?
I made a video in which I tried to replicate this effect. It didn't work. Unrolling tape will definitely create a high potential difference, which will accelerate electrons in a vacuum. For medically relevant levels of x-rays, the potential needs to be 20KV at least, and about 100 microamps at minimum. This is 2 watts. The triboelectric effect is not very efficient, so imagine you have to get 20 watts into the unrolling tape. The adhesive will separate before it will accept this power level. Anyway, I was thinking of revisiting...
https://youtu.be/QLvzvwQFKfI
Japanese Artist Re-Imagines Captain America Battling Iron Man Samurai-Style
> Try explaining to people that you’re a programmer who doesn’t own a cell phone, and count the seconds till this term gets raised.

Reporting in! Nobody has ever called me this -- to my face, at least.
Am I not the only one who feels like Tim Draper is like the Trump of the VC world?
Can you please explain your last sentence ?
Broca's area is certainly expert in language, but when it runs on its own you get "embarrassing things under anesthesia". The central control of all subsystems is essential for coherent functioning.
Wow—this guy really buys into the hype machine to fix all problems. There was a reason most top VCs turned this down—for most of the use cases proposed there is intrinsically too much natural heterogeneity in blood that you need to use a larger blood draw. Journalists were not going to change that fact that this machine was never going to work.
The HN title is misleading - it wasn’t a bug report but the Yubikey 4 replacement. The process by which it happened seems understandable: they used their existing store to process replacements (you got a coupon code for the same model as your old key) and notified all past customers when a major new standard shipped.

They should have handled that better and made it clearer under which conditions you’d get email but it’s way down the list of annoying corporate email practices.
> The people in Guatemala [1], Iran [2], Chile [3], Timor [4], and dozens other places ...

Agreed, and I considered whether to include that part of the story. On one hand, every HN comment can be criticized for leaving out details - we always can write more; these aren't dissertations or books, and each comment needs to draw the line somewhere. On the other, I probably should have mentioned that side of it.

But with that issue in mind, I was careful to write something that didn't contradict the parent's point. I said the expansion of freedom and prosperity have been unprecedented, which is true. It should be even more, including for the people of the places mentioned above, but it still has been unprecedented. I also wrote that the international order "embodies a just and fair way of managing international affairs, through law and democracy"; I was careful not to say it implemented those things are actually is democratic; it's not nearly that. But the UN, alongside the leading country actively promoting democracy and liberty is a huge step forward compared to human history, as are other international organizations and structures. There is a very long way to do, and every person that has suffered in those places and does suffer today deserves justice; we have a lot of work to do.
> That's all academic. Current nationalists base their 'nation' on skin color and religion

They do?

> You can read people advocating it in HN, just like you can read many attempts to whitewash it.

> if you accept the nationalist argument that 'people on my side have rights and those on the other don't'

> We've had enough slavery, segregation, Holocausts, Tutsi massacres, Milosovic's, ISIS's, oppression of women, Nazis, etc, etc. to know how it turns out; we don't need to try again and hope it's different this time.

(I might as well excerpt your entire post, it is the perfect embodiment of my confusion on this topic. As are the rising downvotes, arguably proving my point and censoring my voice, as I will now have to leave this tab open and wait to post my sincere rebuttal later. Freedom of speech is a great principle until it disagrees with your ideas I guess.)

I gave you a definition of nationalism from the dictionary, I will ask you once again: what definition are you using for the word nationalism?

Going further, what is the origin of the various extreme beliefs & hatred you hold? Where did you learn these ideas?
I can’t believe it, but I guess “correlation doesn’t imply causation” needs to be said on a site that is nominally for hackers.
I hate the Cracking the Coding Interview/Leetcode style... studying for these type of interviews is annoying. Trying to find a good video on youtube, where they aren't just naively coding up the bruteForce->optimal possible solutions, especially is irritating. It is literally a landscape of college kids with thousands of viewers who treat these interviews like a standardized test (SAT, GMAT). Even the author of the book produces videos with very little insight or meaningful content.

"Find all the subsets in a set that add up to sum" -- "Okay for this we will use the sliding window technique and here is how it is done" -- WTF is this. I get that they want to see problem-solving skills, but this is on a different level requiring the interviewee to have studied and knowledge of the technique, otherwise we are basically trying to develop efficient algorithms from scratch and in little time. --This makes sense for college interviewees who have only studied the past 4 years, but for a professional with experience, why is this adequate??

Does algorithmic programming matter?-- still yes. But the way it is interviewed is absurd and inadequate. I had a production service centered around the stable-roommate-problem. It took me a week or two (mostly research) to develop something out and fit it into our codebase. It then took 1-3 more weeks to actually make it work for us and cover edge cases (i.e. Irving's algo quits after instability -- this isnt an option in the real-world). I read much material on the subject, other's code, had many deep-thinking sessions where I was mostly in my head, wrote unreadable scratch on paper, collab-whiteboarded (sometimes arguing), tested&failed PoCs, and had many breaks in-between it all. How successful was that project?--very, did I need to know and study techniques with lacking/meaningless basis to do it--no.
I'm sorry to say - you are a bit disconnected.

IE reincarnated as Edge

Hotmail -> Outlook (one of the best if not the best)

Windows (Hugely popular. Windows 10 is the best so far)

Skpye (Unreasonable baby cries)

Xbox one, Hololens - going good so far
I apparently have a somewhat common name, and so my Gmail account first.last@gmail.com gets a fair amount of misdirected email due to idiots with a similar address. (As best I can tell, most of them have something like first.last42@gmail.com and forget the number.)

Good companies will require verification before sending anything else. Those I can ignore and they’ll go away. For the others, I make a good faith effort to unsubscribe, but a small one. They get about ten seconds for me to find the unsubscribe link, otherwise they get reported as spam. I’ve had some which won’t let me unsubscribe unless I log in to the corresponding account, which of course I can’t do.

Just remember that this stuff is spam. You’re not abusing a tool to your advantage, you’re using it the way it’s supposed to be used. Spam doesn’t have to be knockoff viagra or whatever.
> we the people should be making the rules to protect ourselves through laws

The government has a moral obligation to make sure we aren’t spending too much time on our devices? People can’t think for themselves anymore.

It’s the same thing as the war on drugs. The government can provide medical assistance and services but otherwise it’s not their place.
The website got discussed 4 days ago (175 comments) in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17027834 The submission from today has plenty of comments and I see it marked at [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17059006.

Conspiracy theories about downvoting armies on HN aren't really helpful.
CATS RIGHT MEOW
At my last company where >50% of the employees were remote: yes. Although the office-visits were less often. Mostly we got together twice a year.
Why solve the problem in Excel when you can solve it with a 1000 line C program and earn 4X what the Excel analyst makes? Why solve the problem with a deterministic and efficient C program when you can solve it with 99% confidence using TensorFlow on a 100 node Spark cluster and earn 4X the C programmer?

Incentives are currently aligned toward everyone choosing to solve problems using the most complicated tools available.
Masayoshi Son nearly destroyed his entire business during the dotcom crash, and was really only saved by his investment in Alibaba, an essentially state-owned
technology company. It’s weird to frame his success in some “great man of history” terms when the only reason he’s still wealthy and powerful is because of his alliance with the world’s largest authoritarian regime?
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Valley/dp/1...
The Scooby Doo defense.
A few of Euler's masterpieces
Highly depends on the company.

Some are 100% 20s bros, others are all over with more families etc.

You should ask people working there.
Why do/should they care if people in the gym are on drugs or not?

I understand you can be fired from the job because of them (due to negative affect they might have on your work), and when participating in competitive sports, but rejecting someone to the gym for the sole reason of them being on drugs seems in-line to refusing them serving in a supermarket for the same reason.