skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fat days" end for individual companies too. Google had much better perks/food in the early days. Same goes for many profitable startups (like Dropbox) who cut their lavish spendings once they realize they need to go public: http://www.businessinsider.com/cost-cutting-at-dropbox-and-s...
Sure, and I'm equally in my right to encourage people to take action to effect a different outcome. And, independent of the outcome, I feel quite comfortable in asserting the universal truth that people have a moral obligation to be involved in political processes that are tangibly in their direct self-interest and society's interest to participate in.
@darkersid : wow, this sounds so weird to me. If anything, this hole in the screen distracts from any immersion and constantly reminds me of the chrome of what I am looking at whereas I usually completely stop noticing the chrome of my phone after one week of use.
It doesn’t have much of the profit, though.
IMO, the landing page of any programming language site should include some code samples demonstrating what makes the language different from the crowd.
Someone else would have made a phone with the same multitouch idea eventually.

But it would have been one phone among 50 they sold, the gestures would have been clunky, it would still have had a physical keyboard lurking somewhere, their salespeople wouldn’t have known how to sell it, and everyone else would look at the market crater and decided the idea would never sell.
The point of the bird sounds is to help visually impaired people find the exit (notice it's always coming from where the escalator starts).
Key word there is convicted. Homocide in certain situations can be legal. Killing someone in self defense is legal (in the us). Another example of homicide with no fault to you would be someone jumping out in front of your car. Neither case would normally yield a conviction or even a case.

Also homicide is different than murder. Murder implies intent.
This is what I think:

https://imgur.com/a/EY1mc5L
What makes you want to avoid your filter bubble?

Sorry, not trying to be funny here, I want to understand why there are some people who seem passionate about consuming their Internet methodically and sort of like egalitarian, and other people are just content to delve deeper into their own idiosyncratic impulses. I kind of think of like polarization in consumption habits as like recursion, almost. Ya know, because like it seems like people who make that connection that they like to consume content they already agree with and they can consume from some source to get that stimulus, that they end up recycling those behaviors into all the different media they consume until some point where they reach like an island in what content they engage with.

Anyways, do you have any idea? I'm just curious
Another comment in this thread mentioned a similar project, a Swing "napkin" theme, which managed a rough look as normal styling. So I guess Swing did something better than HTML/CSS - from skimming the comments i gathered that this library had to reimplement everything from scratch using SVG/Canvas.
This reminds me of The Osmosian Order of Plain English Programmers.
I like the idea of micro transactions for user interactions, I just don't love the idea of it being via a cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies convert electricity to currency, which is great for energy companies, but I would much rather use fractions of a cent than jump through the middlemen and waste to use a satoshi.
Netflix can have users world-wide, while Comcast's non-content-business is restricted to certain geographic areas. That matters.

Also, the comparison makes sense as long as Comcast is purporting to be anything other than a dumb pipe.

It's frequently the case than an industry gets disrupted by a company that's "not a competitor".

As for me, I stopped listening to FM radio when I got an ipod. Not a competitor? Uhuh.
I’m not sure I buy this thesis. If companies were not making more money than they were spending then they wouldn’t be advertising. This suggests that the vast majority of the value is captured by the ecosystem and not Facebook or Google. Moreover, how many billions of people get value from Google and Facebook every day?
I built lnav (https://lnav.org) to help dig through the log files of the product I was working on at the time. I grew tired of having to manually interleave log messages from multiple files, so I created lnav to do the work for me. I started it over a decade ago and have used it at every job I've worked at since then.
Yes definitely. The old racket-lang site used to be the PERFECT programming language landing page. Imo. But it had to be close to like actually perfect too.
?? Apple's claims were dismissed in summary judgements -- yes, their cases were "thrown out" elsewhere. Where there were actual trials, in the UK for instance, Apple not only lost and was even sanctioned by the court for disobeying the court decision. Your "belief" that Apple won by merit really has no reality outside Apple's hometown. Yes and only in Apple's home country, as other commenters have noted, do you have the chief executive Obama coming out reversing Samsung's win at ITC that would have ended all these unnecessary lawsuits years back.
I think the point is that if the function and design were actually separate, a non functioning element would also be non functioning in plain HTML (no/little design). That would be much easier to spot, and wouldn't even really be the designers problem.

It's understandable why it happens here, the browser can't easily provide this design with pure HTML and CSS, so javascript and SVG are likely carrying some of the load, and bugs there are causing problems.

That said, one of the main benefits of separating function and design is that this stuff isn't supposed to happen, or be much more rare at least, so it is sad that to utilize this we have to introduce those problems again.
My tests on a recent (6 weeks, I'm too lazy to re-build) git snapshot from master worked reasonably well, but I didn't quite reach the full testing stage, as it was doing something (I was trying to benchmark CockroachDB on Goldmont (server atom), and the -mnative flags are just a couple weeks old on the mailinglist, and a month younger in git master.) and I didn't have time to check back. But it appeared to work when I activated the command line flags.
SpaceX did get all 3 launch pads for cheap, thanks to them being stranded assets.
The professionalism of the trade itself has little to do with the nature of the work itself.

Software development and network management are engineering work, but the trades have yet to develop engineering guilds as with mechanical, civil, aeronautical, electrical, chemical, etc., engineering.

The present situation with data breeches, social impacts, systems vulnerabilities (think IoT) may change this. The fluidityy of tthe field makes this challenging.

Engineering certification itself isn't some eternal concept.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=certified%20en...
Are they encouraged in their languages? How many of those relays are run by ESL operators? Maybe internationalization could improve the adoption speed or update speed or whatever you call that metric.

Do these operators actually even know they are EOL'd?
OnePlus started with one stone and it seems to be doing quite well. I guess the business model is different though.
Designing a variable font that does that would be the best solution for that. Variable fonts still have to go before accepted on all browsers.

As for the randomness uniqueness, it was a bonus that came out of the algorithms I was using to draw shapes.
Probably falls into the category of physics. ;)
I mean, if this was a one in a million chance of happening, and there have been billions of conversations happening near devices like these, I'm surprised this hasn't happened more often.

If you have an echo and it kicks on unexpectedly, you can go to the app to see what it thought you said, along with a recording of you saying it.

I've had "alright, uhh..." trigger it. and on the grainy bad across the room recording, I could see how the computer thought it was "Alexa". So I could see how if the computer is purposefully listening for "right" or "yes" that it could mistake any number of other words for that.

I would much prefer an open source + open hardware alternative that works reliably, but I received an Echo dot as a gift, so after a few months of debating, I plugged it in.

Having an always listening internet connected device that has access to your contact list is a pretty big stretch. But somehow we go along with that just fine.
Sitting here eating a bacon cheeseburger and drinking a Guinness. Come slow and sweetly, reaper.
I wrote a simple web-based RSS client: https://github.com/travisred/bottomfeeder

I got tired of looking for a lightweight option that would run on pretty much any VPS or webhost. And I can modify it any time I want without learning a large codebase.
Ask HN: Regarding copyright Extended Ascii/Unicode signs
So I recently encountered a LICENSE file which had a copyright sign instead of "(C)" and that got me thinking so I am curious what you think is the correct way to do this.
>don't they teach basic astronomy in schools anymore?

Not in Ontario, Canada, they don't...

I had to get accepted into a university and then apply for first year astronomy to get any basic astronomy instruction whatsoever.
This doesn't leak anything about the length of the correct password. This leaks information about the length of the guess, which the attacker already knows.
Yeah it’s incredibly irresponsible and not really funny at all.
FWIW, latices are a pretty easy concept once you grok the basic idea.

I first encountered them when doing work-related reading on dataflow analysis, and I'm very glad I did. Interesting stuff.

(edit) Summary: the topic might look scary at first blush, but it's actually not.
I'm guessing they used this document as their 'slides' while presenting. The text is what they'd be saying, while the arrow keys hide the script, and flip between annotated graphics.

That said, the keyboard navigation is pretty much useless outside of that context.
I'm not reading TFA because I'm sure it's garbage, however Andy Weir, the guy who wrote The Martian (the book) recently out a new book out called Artemis and I won't spoil it, but there is a moon and there is people living on it.

Really awesome book with a TON of cool details about space and construction and chemistry and physics, orbital dynamics, welding, robotics, navigation, biology, religion, it literally has all this shit and more. Great book. One of the best I've read.
I see so many red flags with Bitcoin that is amazes me that it still has its backers.

There would seem to be organizations (states?) that can wield tremendous resources to mine Bitcoins. I would think this would devalue the currency and, as is so often the case in life, fuck over the little people.

Never mind the insane amount of actual energy resources needed for this virtual currency. It almost seems immoral.

And with exploits like the one in this article, how can anyone continue to have confidence in it? It feels more akin to Confederate money printed during the U.S. Civil War.
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That's a convenient attitude to have until you don't have the privilege of being so carefree about the potential consequences. That's exactly how Trump got elected - people who were politically apathetic or ill-informed took the bait of a loud 'charismatic' celeb with a message that was perfectly tailored to appeal to those who couldn't be bothered to learn the basic facts.
A century ago, both coyotes and wolves were kept in check by humans. Humans lived mostly on farms, not in cities. People carried guns. It was normal and expected that a person would shoot a dangerous predator.

As things stand now, we're going to have coyotes and wolves everywhere. They will be in city parks, eating the garbage and pigeons and raccoons. City dwellers don't normally shoot predators; it would be weird and would likely result in an arrest. Small and frail people (children included) won't be safe alone, as they had been for a couple centuries.
Now that's just uninformed. Yes most of it is BLM/USFS land, but there is definitely plant life, it's desert, some of it high desert, with snow in the winter and everything. You can have 70 degree weather in the summer in NV if you know where to go.

That said, there is definitely a reason Nevada is the place they tested a bunch of nuclear weapons. :)
Many astronomers don't study astronomy until grad school! Physics is fundamental.
In a symbiotic relationship who is the host and who is the parasite, your post reminded me of an old story themed "host or parasite" from here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5lLxJWew7E&t=13:30
There are too many guns in US households. That's why the police reacts as such...
In this case it looks like the investors picked up the stone.
It looks like GitHub is active [1], but documentation hasn't kept up. The blogs don't seem to have been updated since 2014, and the links to the mailing lists are broken.

[1] https://github.com/AvailLang/Avail
Yeah, but that doesn't allow them to slip in authoritarianism via the backdoor.
In some jurisdictions the monitoring is forbidden due to privacy or labour protection laws.
He didn't say anything about US politics - he specifically said anything 'slightly political'. Trump is an example of what happens when a critical mass of people adopt that attitude, and it could just as well happen in any other country under the right circumstances (and indeed has many times in the past).
I read a portion of it before looking at the author. It certainly is fluffy.
This is pretty tough. What you’re doing is probably illegal, at least now that you’ve realized it, and particularly as you’ve qualified it based on your own opinion of white privilege.

I’m going to go ahead and say the unpopular thing: the best way to make the world a better place is to fake it until you make it. Be kind and treat applicants fairly and equally. Hiring people you don’t need or hiring below your standard will only drag your team down over time.

We need to change the way we post jobs and market opportunities to women and minorities. Constant internet message boarding is mostly a white dude thing. If you want different candidates, you have to go to them.

But please don’t think a personal, sneaky morality crusade is the best way to improve your team.

My two cents.
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This looks great! I might try to make a theme for https://idyll-lang.org/ that utilizes the components.
I think clever placement of traditional IR sensors is the answer here.
The explanation for this is fairly unremarkable (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/24/family-claims-their-echo-s...):

Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like “Alexa.” Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a “send message” request. At which point, Alexa said out loud “To whom?” At which point, the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customers contact list. Alexa then asked out loud, “[contact name], right?” Alexa then interpreted background conversation as “right”. As unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely.
This is probably the story you are thinking of: "Draw Dragon Dot Eyes" https://www.wattpad.com/178269525-fables-of-the-past-draw-dr...

The story is acted out by elementary school students in this video -- showing things don't always have to be perfect or polished to be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krptm4-mTDM

I've found this entire discussion enlightening. I especially liked the comment about the story of a baker who starts a bakery and soon finds out that being the owner/manager of a successful bakery actually has little in common with baking skills (even as baking is obviously important to a bakery).

For me, as with some other posters here, a big issue for programming projects I start is that while you are working on a project -- as a programmer who likes to program (working person-to-machine) -- the programming is usually fun. And also you can also imagine anything about the potential value of the results while things are under development. But when a project is "done", then getting others to try a project and dealing with support questions or major design feedback and such involves a whole different set of skills (working person-to-person). And those tasks -- especially promotion and support -- are probably are not fun things for a typical programmer. And also you might have guessed wrong about the need if you did not have users lined up before you started or got incremental feedback. If you couple all that with a perceived need to make money from the project when it is released, putting software out there can be a big source of looming stress -- especially if you begin to realize you are someone who loves to bake software and not someone who loves to run a software bakery.

My latest FOSS project took about a month of spare time -- porting to the web a CYOA-style interactive fiction Delphi app I co-wrote twenty years ago. And while I enjoyed working on it, I did drag the end out a bit and also consider even just not releasing the result just because I did not want to have a support burden from unpaid users. Luckily on that score it sank like a stone. :-) Thankfully I didn't need to make money from it.
http://storyharp.com/

And at least that result is a big improvement from some previous independent projects which took much longer (sometimes years) and where hopes for making money from them were disappointed.
Well, That's extremely disappointing. They're only shooting themselves in the foot though. I'd planned on purchasing an Apple TV to give this a try (a single box to replace my Fire TV and Steam Link).

I'll give nVidia Shield a try instead. Still a bit disappointed I won't be able to play from my phone, but who knows maybe that'll change too. Only one month left on my iPhone 6s plus payment.

I can use one of several apps to do effectively the same thing, but they lack the Big Picture and Steam Input API integration. Moonlight, Parsec, etc... Some of which are open source. Even if they were rejected down the road I could just run them myself using my dev account.
The landing page does

http://www.availlang.org/index.html

I tried to link to a more interesting page though. I stumbled upon someone mentioning the language, but don't really get it. It seems to promote building DSLs, but lots of languages like Lisp & Rebol have been doing that for ages.
Hah, yeah it reminds me of a runaway shopping cart when you see our bike rolling. We expect people will get used to it eventually but we have some ideas to test in the future on how to make it more obvious, such as giving the bike a ‘face’ and having it lit up with LEDs that are visible from all angles. Def not a solved problem, but as far as design problems go it’s a pretty fun one.
There are plenty of people who move to large cities for better jobs, these people could just remain in the town they already live in instead. The problem you point out then becomes a benefit.

There are also people who move when they retire, or when they have kids. This could facilitate that happening earlier which would also reduce the pressure on housing in cities.
An announcement I heard recently at a major station was made in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean. The station staff suggested that local passengers should feel free to offer assistance to any tourists who appear to need help.

I felt crowd-sourcing passenger support is a good approach. The number of tourists in Tokyo is increasing considerably, but people in Japan often need prior affirmation that their behaviour would be socially acceptable.
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Electrons can interact in additional ways, so they aren't as penetrating. Neutrons are rarer than muons in cosmic ray showers and are also much more difficult to detect.
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Yea, but in the US there are basically only two kinds of illegal anti-competitive behavior:

- Horizontal agreements, like the one you describe, where competitors cooperate in one way or another. Apple and Steam are not cooperating here.

- “Single firm conduct,” i.e. monopoly stuff.

Which laws do you think Apple is violating here?
Definitely, will be interesting to test. We have several cameras onboard so that we can see what happened but an equal concern with vandalism is how people feel about being watched. We want to avoid feeling like your neighborhood is suddenly a panopticon. Still unsolved.
> The question was why the car doesn’t brake early.

No it's not, the issue was jerky driving.

> “Drive until collision is unavoidable” is a failing strategy.

No kidding.
Well, I guess we’ve answered the “are we in a simulation” question. The answer is a big, fat yes. /s

Look, however you feel about copyrights or patents aside, I’m sure we can all agree that everyone’s time could be better spent addressing any one of our economic dumpster fires rather than applying for, approving, and enforcing protection of Play-Doh’s fucking scent.

This is literally childish.
Had a great time at Spec: Slack's first developer conference :D
That sounds pretty good compared to my Midwest experiences :|

Hourly schedule, literally never fits the times presented so you just go and wait. And sometimes you end up waiting 1.5 hours with nothing, so you call up the station to find out wtf and they have no idea where the bus is. "It should be there soon!" -> it finally comes after 2.5 hours.

This happened at least 4 times in the 30 or so attempts I made to use it to get to college. A mere 3 miles away. Then I gave up and just walked or drove. Eventually attended a town hall, and the higher-ups claimed no knowledge of any of this. Last I heard it was still performing at the same level.

I assume they were either skipping our stops to fake a normal round-trip time, or just disappearing for an hour or two to smoke.
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> They can't detect me slowing down before I start slowing down. So if it's t-4 until impact and I'm still moving at full speed, they would need to start braking now if they can't stop in 4s (assuming the worst case that I continue on my current trajectory).

Right, collision is basic physics accounting for the stopping time and distance of pedestrians and cars. So the question is whether pedestrians on sidewalks really have so many collision vectors with traffic such that autonomous vehicles would be jerky all of the time as the initial poster suggested.

I claim reasonable defaults that would far outperform humans on average wouldn't have that property. Autonomous vehicles should be programmed to follow the rules of the road with reasonable provisions to avoid collisions when possible.
Emotions themselves are very woo-y things.
> Eluding is the invariable game. The typical act of eluding, the fatal evasion that constitutes the third theme of this essay, is hope. Hope of another life one must “deserve” or trickery of those who live not for life itself but for some great idea that will transcend it, refine it, give it a meaning, and betray it.

The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus

The submitted story really rubs me the wrong way. It's just fatalism with a bit of make-up. It's saying that should let go of your lack of growth as an individual, because you can just pretend you don't exist in the grand scheme of things, and defer to your relationship to the universe and live vicariously through some bastardized concept of the universe growing as one. It's just an excuse for fully embracing fatalism. Sure, you walk away from this story with a tinge of positivity and a slight mandate to start treating others the way you want to be treated, but that's just a meaningless platitude, and it's just a red herring to distract you from the horrible message underneath.