skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But hey: it isn't January anymore and Microsoft in June, 2018 is looking a little bit like IBM back in the 1930s.

This is obscenely hyperbolic, cheapens the Holocaust, and is just plain wrong.

ICE has a legal mandate, well-established, to perform enforcement of the normal and just laws of the nation, focused on immigration law. They're not jack-booted thugs rounding citizens up for gas chambers, they're police officers rounding up criminals. Yes, you're a criminal if you're in the country illegally.

> Under the Trump Administration's direction, ICE and other Homeland Security entities have been busy breaking up families, emotionally scarring thousands of innocent kids, and driving their anguished caretakers into cages, or worse, to suicide.

The policies of breaking up families aren't new. We don't put children in jail cells! Using the word "cages" is emotionally manipulative - they're jail cells, which is where we put people that break the law. Entering the country illegally is breaking the law, plain and simple.

> That Microsoft's Azure cloud computing services are helping such villainy along, in any capacity, might be good in the short-term, for the company's bottom line, but the optics are shit.

Supplying IT services to the federal government for the enforcement of laws is not villainy. Writing articles that intend to punish a company for taking a totally reasonable business decision is more villainous, especially if you're going to compare it to supporting Nazi Germany. Yikes.
Actually the free world is all non-Communist countries. It's a propaganda term invented by the west (literally they were interchangeable, "free world" and "western world"). You can still see this influence as the use of the phrase "the leader of the free world" is exclusively held for the President of the United States.

The "free world" as a broader idea is still kind of useless in the modern world. Your government may not have made end-to-end encryption illegal (yet) but as private corporations actually run everything that people use, they get to impose their own will and determine your practical "freedom". There's no law preventing Apple from changing its encryption technology.
Ensuring the integrity of your distributed application by running the same code on every node in the network is a fundamentally bad idea. It only makes sense in zero trust, monetary applications like Bitcoin and Ethereum itself - or speculative tokens built on top of them.
> beautifully curated modern fabrics.

Surely beautiful fabrics and not beautiful curation. Of course, I could be wrong.

So this is mark-up and ship?
I think the crucial problem is that the cost is borne by the Air Force but the benefit goes to other branches. This is a classic externality in reverse.
We as a society just need to focus on getting out of this local minima that we are stuck in. It is clear to any of us here on HN that autonomous cars will result in fewer deaths, I have no doubts about that whatsoever, humans are statistically terrible drivers. It will only be when the data becomes clear that autonomous vehicles (Uber at the bottom, Waymo at the top currently) are better than humans, that naysayers will not be able to fight this. There is not enough data at this point to fight naysayers. The argument will necessarily proceed to the point where "who is responsible" becomes less important than "reducing vehicular deaths". Since big money is driving all of this, the conversation is still about financial liability, the conversation needs to move past that. In 5-10 years time, we should be able to judge just based on statistics:

For the USA:

37,000 vehicle deaths / year

2.35 million injuries / year

1,600 child deaths / year

8,000 killed in crashes involving drivers ages 16-20

$230.6 billion per year in crash associated costs

If any company can show that these statistics can be reduced (halved/thirded/decimated) in any meaningful way with their autonomous tech, that's when we'll finally reach a new era in transportation. How can anyone advocate for human-driven cars once the implications become clear? Let's say that the Uber autonomous car reduces vehicular injuries and deaths by only 5%, well shouldn't that be enough evidence to say, put that on our roads? I think that the current level of tech is already at a point where it will save lives on average more than a human driver, what more do you need from a regulatory point of view?
I do think the keyboard issue is leaking into the mainstream actually, thanks to class action lawsuits, etc.

But you're right, most of what us nerds argue about, the public just isn't aware.
Man charged with making $1.3M in fraudulent computer returns to Walmart
Microsoft Windows is magnitudes more popular then Linux, yet it has less holes, so its not only popularity.

Since the source is not generally available, it is probably inspected less. Also, a lot of device drivers are provided by third parties, whereas they are included in the Linux kernel.
This is some combination of Americans Revising History, Cherishing The Past, or Nostalgia.

A large population of Americans picture the American dream as post World War II high growth America, with an unstoppable economy, GM + Ford as the American Made Automobile, the Suburbs as the best place to live, coal and hydroelectric power, and being a World Leader with a clearly defined mission and enemy.

So, in essence, things that are not part of that image are new and "liberal" and ruining America. Whether that's Apple, solar panels, or innovative companies like Tesla.
Good points. Thank you.

I totally get that a FrankenDebian type of system can result from mixing packages from outside of Debian with a base Debian system.

What I really wanted to convey was that saying someone should run Debian unstable or some other OS in order to update a single package is not reasonable - that it is far more reasonable for a person to take point updates using a PPA in such a case.
IBM's AI can beat humans in an argument
This is a real quote but, without context, gives an unfair impression about Buffet: he said that while supporting bigger taxation.

He also said something in the lines that "he was paying a lower tax rate than his secretary". That sounds crazy to me, but I'm not going to discuss about finances with Warren Buffet.
But do people feel that they pay their fair share?
I am very much with you on this but I was saddened to read this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub... - it describes active attempts to throttle adoption of mass transit.
Look around for what I call The MicroConf Crowd. Practical advice on the business part of business abounds. Books courses and more. Often targeted at programmers.

The Independent Consulting Manual is a good place to start, then go down the list of authors and read their other stuff.

They often do a christmas sale too.

Follow Patio11 on twitter, read his stuff. Follow Amy Hoy, do 30x500.

Then spread out from there.

If you’re funded, great! All the same advice applies, you just have more gasoline to pour on the fire. Try things faster.
The feeling of financial insecurity certainly exists in Americans, but it does not exist as the reason Trump was elected.
Warning :Don't put this project on github because Microsoft aka CIA /NSA are injecting invisible malicious spyware in github and Atom. To sum up, only blind sheeps, Cuckold Sisi Devs and Dev Slaves support Github via the backdoor of Microsoft (Spyware corporation) and others Alphabet (intelligence) agencies like Amazon, facebook and Google.... Put the project on gitlab if you don't want people to be killed with Metadata..... Cheers
> React (really JSX) solves the single problem of making HTML a part of JavaScript

The reason I like the way Vue works is because it makes javascript part of the HTML definition (with component definitions), essentially the opposite of what you like about React. That said, my use case of Vue is very different to my use case for React. Even though Vue does essentially solve the same problem set, their approaches have pros and cons in different scenarios.

(all that said I typically don't need to use either for what I do, in preference of light vanilla JS classes)
Thanks for that well-reasoned disagreement. The quality of arguments here has been pretty low, but this is excellent.
> BTW, 40Gb/s was so 2015. I have a box serving at 156Gb/s :)

That's right, I wanted to put 100+, but I wasn't totally sure. I stopped counting when you got way beyond the 20G connectivity on the servers I manage.
Tracks with rise of social media and using outrage to get eyeballs.
Yep, yep. I tried to create a great circle routes between the cell vertices if the line is longer than a threshold value. I might also see about filling each cell with triangles which I'll also need to make work with geodesics.
If the dataset it was trained on is CC-BY-NC, I'm pretty sure the model also has to be CC-BY-NC. However I think this is not respected, or even considered by most people.

I'd go with limiting how competitors can use it as the main deciding factor.
> Any reasonably-sized library written in just JS gets hairy very quickly.

I mean, that's just demonstrably false.
> some simple common sense controls on what levels of certainty are required to take down a video

This is solved already, but there will always be false positives.

What isn't solved, and likely never will be, is copyright.

But it seems that the issue isn't due to content ID, but contractual issues.
How Bad QA Killed 2.2M Imperials: A Death Star Post-Mortem
This violates the HN guidelines against insinuating astroturfing and calling names in arguments. Please read them and follow them when posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I cited a direct NAFTA bylaw, that a product can be considered Mexican or Canadian if 50-60% of it is sourced from those countries, hence China doesn't need to be mentioned directly in the article. Take a trip to Vancouver sometime and tell me there isn't a large Chinese presence.

The fact you assume anyone you don't agree with or who provides information contrary to mainstream opinion a bot is the sign of a stunted mind.
Most American’s can’t afford to invest in the stock market to any meaningful degree, and certainly not in any way that would offset the proven wage stagnation that has been going on form decades. Therefore your first point is false and all economic analysis concludes that the share of prosperity for most Americans has been declining.

Apple certainly does pay their fair share of taxes, but this doesn’t do anything to change the economic structure.

Your facts are correct, but irrelevant.
Yes I was actually mainly talking about their processors (and other silicon), and the additional performance gains you get from tight hardware/software integration.
Your first two examples (lines 2 and 3) seem like symptoms of inequality in how financial gains are distributed.

Why should someone care how apple is doing if they're struggling to make ends meet / have limited upward mobility.
This is pretty much exactly how I feel. There has been a lot of "anti-React" virtue signaling in the Javascript community over the past few years, and I just don't get it. Why is your whole front-end team switching from React to X, where React - X ~ epsilon? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you're switching from jQuery or templates to X, it is more reasonable, but I've seen teams rewrite Angular and React codebases in Vue (i.e. "we're hip and modern now").

In my experience, React's API has been far more intuitive than directive-based frameworks, and switching between the various directive-based frameworks seems like too much work for too little change. I would be interested in frameworks which aim to mimic React's API but offer more in terms of size (smaller is better) and performance. This is why I closely watch projects like Preact.
It can play a HEVC file that is 6144x3072 at 60fps.
Best ways to reach startups for design and development services?
Hello, I recently started offering design and development services for various items like web app, mobile apps, logos, branding, and landing pages.

Is there some good ways I can reach Startups and companies that are in need of those services before they launch?

Thanks
I see a huge possibility of replacing expensive mocap hardware and software using this tech, allowing for video games and VFX to become more accessible and use commodity hardware.

I’ve been eyeing things like the Kinect and iPhone X face tracking for this kind of task (for a fun side project I’m working on), but it would be great if I could track at least position and pose of multiple actors in a scene using just a standard webcam or camcorder.
> If you have a hearty revenue stream but no profit, you can tweak the model to make it profitable.

I don't think this necessarily follows.
Looks neat! I just bought the previous one.
Had a very quick read through it, it looks really good.

Looking forward to the compiler one!
To be honest, the person you're responding to either doesn't actually know much about Apple or is being disingenuous. Essentially everything they said about Apple is wrong:

Apple pays taxes. Labor is cheaper in places other than China, but nowhere else has the ecosystem to support integration and assembly of consumer electronics. Apple is one of the few companies that is taking steps to ensure that their entire supply chain treats their workers well. And Apple has been an innovator when it comes to implementing environmentally friendly manufacturing practices and product packaging materials. Oh yeah, and they are making serious efforts to build enough renewable energy to offset their energy needs.
The average American does not have a significant 401k balance or own enough stock to have it affect their mindset.
I just assumed it was developed after a long period of market testing different phrases to see what audiences liked best.

- "Cause it to be."

- "Arrange for things to be as we discussed."

- "Instantiate that state of affairs."

- "In regards to bringing about what we had just been describing: yes."

- "OK. Fine."

- "I've had quite a bit of tea today and I'll be in the lavatory. Please ensure our plans come about by the time I return."

- "Just do it!"

By the time the market testing team had decided the final phrase was the most successful, they realized Nike already got to it first and had to throw something in at the last minute.
I was thinking lines of latitude.
Is there anything in iOS that can protect against this?
Europe has been rewriting the rules of the internet for a while. It's amazing how europe/EU is getting a pass when it comes to censorship. Not to mention what our corporations and our media have been doing.

The problems with the internet isn't china. It's our media and our government but for some odd reason, all I hear is "china/beijing".

Is beijing the reason why there is so much censorship? Is beijing the reason why google search is so terrible? Is it beijing why there is so much censorship of the social media and the rest of the internet in the west? Of course not. The real reason is News Corp, NYTimes, WashingtonPost, The Atlantic along with corporate america and their stooges in the government.

Try googling anything. Half of the frontpage is now links to nytimes, washingtonpost, cnn and rest of the media.

I remember googling for yanny vs laurel not too long ago. Do you know what the top result was? A nytimes article. It wasn't the original instagram post. It wasn't the reddit post that made it go viral. It was a nytimes post. And almost all the results on the first page of google were links to news companies. I've been using google search since the late 90s. It's pathetic what google search has become. Youtube is going down the same path.

I'd take the atlantic a bit more seriously if they did an article about themselves or the rest of the media in regards to the rewriting of the rules of the internet. The biggest supporters of censorship and destruction of the internet is the media in the west.
I did exactly this. Joined a big US tech company that I had put on a pedal stool for years. It's nothing like I imagined. Code is poor, documentation is poor, office interaction is poor. It's thrown me into this place of depression and unfulfillment that I don't know how to get back. Every day I go to work and think "is this what working at one of the best tech companies is meant to be like?".
> But in a recent macOS version, Apple has added a new feature to Finder called QuickLook. This feature allows users to hold down the Space key while having a file selected and view an image-like preview of the document's content.

QuickLook was added back in 2007, to OS X 10.5 Leopard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Look
Apple does not pay their fair share - http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/apple-bonuses-money-us-350-bil...
I stopped using the YouTube site long ago. I only subscribe via Feedly/RSS and watch the videos I want directly with 99% no ads even without an adblocker via the embeded video player.
Yes, but they might get more money cold-sending monetization contracts a la those junk letters you get that say "SECOND NOTICE PAST DUE" on them.
Is a real life Pied Piper "decentralized" internet even desirable? I kind of like not having a big chunk of the internet on my hard drive and serving it up to other clients.
Whenever low carb gets popular, industry is threatened and spins up some FUD as illustrated in this talk 'Undoing Atkins: A Cautionary Tale'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIegMp5cWBY

Keto sub is really growing fast, up 400k this year
http://redditmetrics.com/r/keto
Ah yes, the "let's go back to subsistence" argument.
and not only that, but buses are almost continually working but most cars spend most of the day parked taking up some public space.
> Navigation might be Google Maps or Waze, but everything else is Uber. My point is that Uber is 100% serious about mapping and they are investing a ton of resources into it. They're likely one of the few players who are doing this at scale, internationally.

So you're comparing scaling out a mapping back end to building and running massive transit infrastructure?

> With respect to your point about Airports, they're not even close to being paid for by the airlines in any meaningfully fair way.

Take a look at JFK. Airlines absolutely do pay significant amounts into airports.

> Absolutely wrong. I use Uber/Lyft every day. I don't have a car. Uber/Lyft are nothing like a bus route - not even close. To even suggest that they're similar to a traditional bus service route is to reveal that you haven't used the services in any meaningful way.

FWIW, BART doesn't run buses.

> Ride sharing is creating a whole class of jobs that have a very important role to play in society.

Minimum wage jobs with no benefits (thus externalizing the cost of providing the jobs)? That's not much of a win in my book.

> Now, should these be the only career options for people? Obviously not. I think that's where most people's concerns are valid. We can't create a society where this is the only type of work available. But can this type of work exist alongside other meaningful options? Of course!

And absolutely none of that means Uber is doing something more challenging than running a transit agency like BART or NYMTA. Uber's externalized most of their costs, disregarded most laws, and is scaling a very specific part of their software stack. It's not surprising to see growth under those circumstances.
I agree. There are a few interesting areas, such as how a blockchain scheme might be useful to the Tor network, but it is all hype. I really laugh at those who think blockchain tech can/will replace property registries, real estate agents, and lawyers. I guess these were the same people who thought SecondLife would replace teleconferencing.
I find the whole premise of putting the html in JavaScript bizarre and I think it is a passing fashion while the various debates around web components and shadow DOM isolation get sorted out.

I would hope my graphic artist will eventually be mixing 3 layers of HTML elements that seem entirely standard to him except the 3 different sources of docs.
> With React there's no weird "v-if ng-if" template logic that you have to grapple with.

Yes, I hate that syntax. It's like they picked the worst from HTML and Javascript. Instead "if" statements should be dealt with in Javascript entirely.

It's one of the reasons why I don't use Vue.
Lots of French learn English with a British accent and vice-versa, no?
To invest in American companies you'd first need capital to invest. It's not like that's a birthright.
Custody and holding service is for institutional investors with over $250MM in wealth.

This isn't for your average Joe investing off the street who can obviously just buy a Trezor or Ledger wallet for their security.

But of course this is HN so the anti-crypto squad will be here shortly to smash all positive posts into grey-hell.
I wrote this! Disagree? Come at me, my nerd brethren
Agreed. If your company is 9 years old and making billions in revenue, it's not a startup. If it's still very growth-oriented, call it a growth-oriented corporation.
This is a really good write up and I love how they were cautious not to feed the ongoing fanboyism in for and against React Native folks.

Say what you like but this is a very mature move from a young engineering organization.
Wait, am I reading this right? If you're a particularly popular channel, you're required to monetize and YT will block you if you don't?

That's ridiculous, and it's totally shooting yourself in the foot. The vast majority of creators with many views do want to monetize, YouTube is losing almost nothing by allowing people not to if they choose. They must be really be desparate for revenue over there.
Could you explain why this is Holy Grail ? As someone who's totally hostile to advertisement my brain is not wired to actually envision that holy grail. I ask the question honestly: having my face on a picture with a celebrity rings zero bells for me (even if it was RMS :-))
Or if could just be that it’s a fact that the success of these businesses isn’t resulting in shared increases in prosperity, and that things that were attainable for more people in the past such as healthcare and housing are increasingly unaffordable.

You don’t need ‘nostalgia’ or whatever other descriptor will make people seem backward when you have the basic facts.
Copy + pasting code between Linux and FreeBSD kernels isn't going to work (although see trasz's post about how code is reused for graphics drivers -- doing that for networking would probably not be good choice). There's a lot of differences in data structures, locking, etc. Copying concepts can be fruitful though.
Wait - this presumably happened in the USA, and a car which is primary evidence in a murder investigation could not be located?

This is despite automatic numberplate recognition on most freeways, many cars having trackable cell/wifi/bluetooth connections, automated RFID identifiers for toll roads, every car having a unique VIN which is printed on nearly all components and will be registered by scrapyards, and tracking on all mobile phones (presumably the driver had a phone!).
I found Angular to be a godsend. I'm not a web developer by any means, but I wanted to move some of my applications from pure C# to be client-side web based, with a still powerful C# server end.

Angular2 allowed me to very simply create a fullscale web application which is MANAGABLE. It's OK if I don't touch any web code for a month or two, I can go back to it and it's very clear how all the components are laid out etc.

I find a lot of frameworks require that you are already an extremely knowledgeable web developer.
Curiosity does not kill the sale
It might change your results if this were done based on drive times instead. I noticed because Chatham seems to be furthest from Boston radially, but Provincetown is definitely further by car.