skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't identify the case you're talking about.

Seems like the problem is trying to have a category (as in folder, as in old school email) rather than a label.

"Technically capable", "contributor", and "technical contributor" all sound like ways to positively express "not looking for non-technical managers".

The problem comes back around to "do not restrict people to the categories you assign to them".

(Which is also a way to phrase many social justice issues and IMO where "being a cog in a machine" comes from).
> Maybe interactions are more valuebale than pageviews?

They are, to Twitter. Twitter is driven by engagement, not by user needs.
The obligatory Philip Greenspun link on Montana marriage laws:

http://www.realworlddivorce.com/Montana
The article uses "commercial" when it should really use "proprietary". The open source projects mentioned are all very much commercial software.
My rule is if I don’t want video to be that public, I don’t post it on YouTube even under private setting.

I use unlisted feature to reduce clutter on the channel while embedding them elsewhere.
The headline's premise of censorship seems a little bit hard to believe, considering the nonstop media circus surrounding the president.
Twiiter Lite is an example of a horribly designed website: it's jerky, it has inconsistent behaviour, it has multiple UX issues.

It loads reasonably fast, and that's the only thing that's good about it. As a representative of a good React site, it is not.
Fast C/C++ header only implementation for creating 2D Voronoi diagrams
"having" a patent is different from "assigning" a patent. I haven't read through all of them but having your name on a patent is more a prestige thing and very difficult to monetize. There are exceptions to this, however.

Whoever ends up liquidating Theranos will be in a position to make a call with licensing and enforcement, assuming, of course, they don't let the patents lapse (which is probably a shorter timeframe than a complicated bankruptcy will take).

Letting the patents lapse is a deliberate strategy sometimes (it's more a defensive rather than offensive approach, to block other actors from blocking you from your own technology).
Act II: Patent Troll
At urging of Minneapolis police, EMS workers subdued dozens with ketamine
If you make the stuff that powers your way of doing business free, you'll push out everyone who tries anything different. If your way is rule, you're king.
Not so scrappy by the rest of that description.
1) Marriage is a state function; there is no federal marriage license.
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein involves some of that.

But how difficult would it be to intercept the payload safely outside the atmosphere? Seems it would be easier than intercepting an ICBM.
Lots of uninformed responses here.

1) Yes, but Chaplains are strictly religious, not legal, entities. Further, they are employed by the federal government and would have no ability to marry even if there were some legal status. Marriage is a function of state governments.

2) It's important to keep in mind that military is a case where the free market is generally not at work. Servicemembers take long contracts that they can not negotiate their way out of and surrender all control of most of their lives. In exchange, the military generally takes responsibility for a standard of living on top of their salary. In Spc Lloyd Baker's case, he is probably assigned a barracks at his home base and hence not eligible for a housing allowance. Once he is married, the military recognizes his need to cohabitate with his wife and now pays him a Basic Allowance for Housing. Keep in mind, as a military spouse his wife will be unable to pursue most professional careers due to having to move with her husband at the beck and call of the military.
To start, I wanted to share more about the Velodyne VLS-128 LIDAR. As far as I'm aware, this is the first 128-channel LIDAR on the market, and it really is nuts.

• 9.6M points per second

• ~300 meters of range

• 360° coverage

Long-range and high-resolution LIDAR has historically been a unique advantage for Waymo, and my feeling is that the VLS-128 dramatically closes the gap for the rest of the field to have the same quality of vision.

Some video:

1. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*1qQPsYeu8suHJn412...

2. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*D13g1k2Ugq0NJJ3CN...
How an engineer imagined the internet in 1945
Yes, reviews that are not of the genuine product are against Amazon rules and removed (often automatically).

Such situations are considered as seller-at-fault (they sold/shipped an incorrect product) and not generally applicable to the product as sold by any other sellers, too. Product reviews have to be generally applicable as they are not seller-specific.

You are expected to leave seller feedback (which affects the seller's star rating etc) instead of product review in such cases.
What if I say making a window is a giant pain in the ass and I'm not set up for handling molten glass in that scale. I might could pull off a bottle or glass with the right equipment and a few hundred hours of training and practice. Is that reasonable? And yes I'd be buying tools and raw glass, not sourcing sand and blowing my own fire brick or making my own kanthal wire from scratch.
So basically an editorial cartoonist gets a new boss who tells him to change his work. He doesn't and gets fired.

Not really surprising.

Now he's playing the censorship card to get some attention and hopefully a new employer. Probably a smart move given his situation.
Google supports the robots meta tag:

https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_t...

They could easily add a noindex meta tag to unlisted YT videos and then have Google Search treat it like any other site.
"With the extra money the Army will pay him now that he’s married — an estimated $1,200 to $1,400 a month — the Bakers will be able to afford their dream wedding this fall, he said."

Seems a bit out of step with the current American zeitgeist.
Thank you. Was not aware. Figured if I included it in the info it was viewable. Changed.
It's 2018, tabs or spaces? And how many?
That's not even getting in to the current mess of Amazon Logistics deliveries. I thought perhaps it was just my bad luck, but a quick search online shows that their attempt to save money on shipping by doing it themselves has comically bad results. Unreliable quality with unreliable delivery, but unfortunately some of my attempts to shop elsewhere have also had very bad results.
Scientists say new material can triple lithium-ion battery energy density
> 2) This is the wrong frame of mind. The answer is zero.

What? That doesn't make sense. At a glance, otherwise, what's the point of marriage versus civil unions? I'm assuming here, and could be wrong, that there's no legal difference - but people still fight for marriage when they can only have civil unions.

Even if you got rid of all the legal and pay advantages to marriage, people still find it valuable and enriching. It may be an ephemeral benefit, but it's still articulable.
I’m actually thinking the other way round. If you want to change the society, you first need to know the (biological) truth instead of denying it.

If we’re talking about salaried employees, clearly people who cannot work as many hours (pregnant women) will be less valuable than people who can work more (everybody else). You won’t change this reality by legislating that employers shouldn’t be realistic. On the other hand, you might nudge reality (i.e. make pregnant women worth comparatively more to employers) by e.g. awarding companies that hire pregnant women (i.e. a direct monetary payoff to offset the implicit loss of a less productive worker). But noone is talking about such solutions because they’re too busy lying with straight faces for their own political benefit.
its the same structure as a Bloom filter but more efficient because it has no empty slots
As the pedant will note, neither Newton nor Heisenberg actually allow "non-invasive" power monitors. Your current sense transformer will draw some minute amount of power :-)

Separately, you might be able to use a second transformer clamp to trickle charge a supercap and not need batteries at all?
>>The irony is that what makes open source work—and differ from commercial software—is that only a few developers do the major work on any project.

Comparing Open Source vs. Commercial software - that's the fail of the article right at the beginning... Apple vs Oranges... What has one to do with the other? Maybe they meant proprietary?
Apple’s Next Laptops Could Be More iPhone Than Mac
Bloom filters don't do anything special to change FP rates, a compact list of random hashes is always more efficient than using a Bloom filter until the filter is 100% full
OCaml Tetris
Is she suggesting us throwing out Occam's Razor? That's pretty radical.
The standard doesn't have to prohibit anything, merely define names for types which are guaranteed to be conformant. Even if they redefine float and double, you could always have platform-specific names for weird types.
Once a patent is issued, it is exceedingly rare for it to go through additional review unless there is litigation that prompts it (re-exam, IPR, etc.)

Separately, it's quite common for people to patent things that don't work or can't be directly implemented as stand-alone things at all. Indeed, defendants in patent litigation often point out the many early patents on "flying machines" as proof that the issuance of a patent is not proof that it would lead to a working thing.
Value of Entrepreneurial Migration for Startups
I use PHP Composer, but the fact that its logo is actually a conductor makes me cringe and wonder what else is fundamentally wrong with the product. Close enough for PHP, I guess ;0
i work as a professor in a nutrition school, im a biologist but i am sure i can find someone interested in the project. My e-mail is; ivan.sosa@uniceq.edu.mx, be confident to contact me please
I can only offer the same advice given when the same thing happens to a conservative: "well you know, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences."
I posted this with regard to the possibility of harvesting asteroids and the dangers of huge amounts of precious metals being sold into the market.

I imagine futures contracts could ameliorate this to some extent.
Throwing a pig roast for 150 inebriated friends benefitted myself and my relationship immensely
you're right, although I don't think compression would save a ton of space since the hashes are random. Might save a bit or maybe 2 per entry
Open source contributions are actually mostly not from the project in question. You'll almost always depend on a mountain of other code, in the form of the kernel, software libraries, user utilities, and so on. A lot of these are specialized projects and have their own core developers. Your project may be possible without them, on another platform for example, but in Linux there's still thousands of random devs contributing to a whole.

Cloud software has suffered from NIH for a good long time now, and required proprietary APIs to function. You have to "integrate" your app with another app, it never just has implicit compatibility. Sad really.
I think Amazon is determined to solve a hard problem. Fraud and counterfeiting are very difficult problems to solve, and many buyers are happy to buy a knock off product. In a way, many buyers and sellers are cooperating to optimize one metric. Amazon has also recently pushed for more direct relationships with far east manufacturers, so that a branded product from Hamilton Beach now has to compete with eerily similar products that carry brands no one has heard of.

Amazon seems determined to co-mingle its products, and to confront the problem of counterfeiting head on. One thing I would like to see is a feature that allows a buyer to "delete" or ignore a seller - I want Amazon to remember my "anti relationships" with sellers so I don't have to. Buying and selling is about relationships and reputations.

Another observation about marketplaces is that many buyers don't want quality. Some are extremely selfish. Not because they're bad but because they're desperate either emotionally or financially. We all enjoy getting a good value but some people are consumed by their selfish needs and are not interested in building a healthy balanced society or encouraging quality products. A successful attack on counterfeits has to filter [the behavior/reviews of] some buyers as well as some sellers, because some people can't see past their own selfish needs.

Finally, counterfeiting is an extreme form of re-implementing the designs of others. A large part of Free Software, for example, is historically rooted in re-implementing other people's designs (Linus & Unix, Stallman & LMI, Linus & Bitkeeper). It's not altogether destructive but if your only differentiator is that you're cheaper, then that's similar to Samsung's business. Making something that takes another's work and does something a little different with it, that's a lot better than a copy and also it's by definition not what we mean by "counterfeit". I think it's important to draw a distinction between someone who is competing with a possibly superior product and eroding a brand name (i.e. using a brand name as a descriptive word), versus someone who is making a product that is identical in appearance.
Keep in mind that many of these corporate employed developers would likely contribute to the same OSS projects as a part of their job regardless of what company they happen to be employed at.
This story is still being written.

The removal business is 'medical', a different set of laws, liabilities and standards apply to tattooing. Because of this it means that the way removal gets done is not a fast moving, innovative business. A while ago it was worked out that if you put a glass slide on the skin and press hard then the blood cells get forced out of the way meaning the laser doesn't zap them and the trauma to the skin is minimised. Healing is quicker, the 'patient' is also more likely to return for follow up work. The pain is also a lot less.

However, despite these benefits, the removal business sticks to doing things the painful way where the blood vessels get zapped too. This is because of the 'medical' aspect and how experimentation with the better technique potentially opens up a world of medical liabilities.
Its like gravity. You make a divot in spacetime, and things being to roll downhill toward the divot. Mass collects, attracts other mass, and soon you have a significant planetoid. Leave it alone long enough, you have a star, or in the case of some places, a black hole.

In HSV case, several significant divots. NASA MSFC, Army Materiel Command (Logistics), and the Missile Defense Agency. Caveat on living here, if WWIII happens, we will get nuked.
Game developers seemed to be swapping just as many floppies as everyone else. With the added advantage they often had stuff you weren't otherwise going to come across.

Later when I was buying everything the first thing I'd do was find the No CD hack online.
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>>Everyone is different.

I personally hate it when people use such cliche sayings to justify all kinds of crazy and irrational behaviors.

But I guess everyone is different.
Show HN: Ludigraphix, my new geometry-oriented vector drawing software
Hello HN, I have recently release the first version of my vector drawing software that I started a very long time ago.

It's currently only on mac app store but I have demo versions for mac and windows here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jhpub6pfIS0tvbFzoiBq...

The website is here http://www.ludigraphix.org/ but the documentation is still a little short.

The main difference with other drawing tools is that shapes are defined by points that can be shared between shapes. It can be seen as a sort of simplified crossover of Inkscape and Geogebra.
“Isn’t it better?”

No!!!!!!!!

The original code looks by far the best to me. Why over-complicate?
I never use Google to search, so I get to see all the private unlisted stuff?

No, that would be a big fail on Google's side.
Show HN: A playground for Jargon (lemmatizer)
I've made purchases from Amazon 1-2 times per week for the last few years, and have never once received an item that I suspected as counterfeit. I've ordered everything from food to everyday sundries to pretty esoteric lab equipment. I'm always very surprised by these threads on HN where people say that everything is counterfeit.

Cheap, no-name electronics are plentiful, of course. Not everyone can afford to shop at high-end electronics stores that stock only name brands. Sometimes the knockoffs work better than the original. Often times not. Why do people think the sky is falling?
The original "study" http://redmonk.com/fryan/2018/04/03/who-contributes-an-analy... has an appropriate title:

> TL; DR: The vast of code contributions to each CNCF projects outside of Kubernetes come from a small subset of users and companies.

InfoWorld sensationalized the title.
I'm a bit surprised that Matt used that terminology. It's pretty obvious from the context that he's using commercial as a synonym for proprietary and he certainly knows that's sloppy IMO.
TBH I suspect in any given case, the differences between the last draft and the final text are smaller than those between the final text and reality. Especially since the implementers were probably working from the draft.

I actually think it's quite an ingenious mechanism for making money from the people who have it while not hindering the people who don't.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17321322
A Facebook employee talks about Mark Zuckerberg's human zoo
For the same reason maternity leave and other family-oriented benefits are worthwhile in the private sector: organizational performance requires expertise; expertise requires experience be retained in the organization; experience remaining in the organization requires that people not leave when life happens.

The issue isn't that an individual married Marine is worth more than an individual unmarried Marine. The issue is that a Marine Corps where good Marines stay when they start a family is better than a Marine Corps where good Marines leave.
Someone on HN asserted that it is in Amazon's long-term interest by suppressing competition. Specifically, the arrangement they have now keeps prices lower than competitors can match.
Canada, Europe, Australia, NZ. There are places with Bay Area style salaries, there are other places with lower salaries - either way, you'll be living a comfortable life since costs will be lower than Bay Area.

You'll universally find a much better healthcare system (e.g. health insurance not tied to your employer), with the exception of the UK. You'll find a humane immigration system that doesn't kick you out if your employer decides to screw you over (again with the exception of the UK). You'll generally have some form of state support if you lose your job instead of being thrown to homelessness. Etc etc. The US is a second world country nowadays.

And any children you might have will be far safer, and at lower risk for severe mental health problems.
This book (Far Travelers) has a lot of interesting details on early probes. I first ran across it in a university library twelve years ago, I seem to go back and re-read parts of it occasionally every other year. Some of the personal histories cataloged in the book make it compelling too.
Open source has turned into a net-negative for the profession. I work on an open source project (paid), and I dislike the constant interaction with random strangers who think they have a right to influence the project and make architectural decisions.

Competition is fierce and drives down the salaries. I'm very cautious about Microsoft apparently also adapting the open source serf model.

Open source eradicated too many solid desktop-apps and forced everyone into broken web-apps.
Matt is generalizing outside of the CNCF though. He specifically mentions Linux.

Personally, I wouldn't have used the term "all" absent having actually looked at the numbers myself. That said, it's probably at least mostly true, especially if you look at the subproject level in the case of projects like Linux and OpenStack.
That would be amazing! But you're right in that we'd need vastly improved technology before we can get there.

I tried oculus desktop with the rift, and all I ended up with was a blurry, unreadable display and a headache. We have a long way to go.
And there's the rub: as long as the item is good quality.

The main reason for trademarks, economically speaking, is to increase information flow in the marketplace. If some seller claims they have good quality products, you have to just trust them; if they have a trademark and you know that they have a reputation for quality, that trust can be much more accurate.

Where Amazon messes this up is in the intermingling of reviews and inventory for genuine and counterfeit trademarked products, so that customers can't tell whether they're getting Apple-quality or random-Chinese-manufacturer quality chargers, which will either be super-safe or will blow up their devices.

I'm totally okay with buying a battery from a third party, as long as the real manufacturer is clearly indicated and I can check up on the reviews of their build quality.
People did figure it out though.
You could still find the unlisted videos on a page that links to them (such as a playlist). Google couldn't delist pages that merely link to noindex content, in general, without allowing everyone who can control noindex tags being able to delist any page that allows UGC with links.

Imagine if Google say "if it links to a non-public YT video we'll delist it", that's just a weapon to get pages that take UGC delisted.
My mom’s company sells on Amazon with her own branding. Much of what she sells is her own design and manufacture, and some of it white label and in her own branded packaging. Her company and brand are in the Amazon Brand Registry, which is intended to help defend merchants from counterfeiting and other types of branding abuse. Her company does not sell wholesale and is definitely the only source for products under the company brand.

When another party lists as “New”, counterfeit goods on her listings or Trademark-stuffs her brand name onto their listings, it should be quite simple to determine the other people are in the wrong and their listings should be deleted.

Here’s what really happens. First email mom sends clearly mentions all pertinent facts and requests the takedown. Five or so email exchanges (and about 4 days) later, all spent re-answering some subset of questions that were answered by her initial message, Seller Support finally refers the case to Amazon Legal (aka "Seller Performance"). And even then it's hit or miss if Seller Performance will delete the infringing listing.

She's even emailed jeff@amazon.com about all these shenanigans. So yeah, he's complicit.
I can't point to AR actually selling anything

Maybe you personally can't, but that doesn't mean it doesn't. Our company increased a client's purchase rate, A/B tested over 100s of thousands of AR user instances, consistently by 1.89% in a sales cycle. So yes it works.

Where implemented well, there is a measurable shift in user behavior.

Apple is hyping AR more because they don't have any VR to speak of

No. It's because they want to own the AR mapping and content landscape which are both required for glasses to work.
Happens to the best of us: http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/kepler.html
I wouldn't surprised if years from now, people will look at the current visa system the same way we look at slavery and indentured servitude now.
> I wonder about all the things happening today we're not being told about
Considering the usefulness of quantum computing for cracking ciphers, I wonder how far along development of that is and when we'll see it.
Sorry if I was unclear I meant some ordering that sorts by natural language but breaks ties in some arbitrary (but deterministic) manner, e.g. by binary.