skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Niantic is currently developing a Harry Potter AR game. I wouldn’t be surprised if they allow you to cast spells at other players during duels and what-not, as one of the demos shows
Market manipulation is not a victimless crime. Money does not condense in the stock market from thin air, all of the realized funds are coming from a place and going to a place...

Confidence is a big factor, whenever someone manipulates the market they're shaving a few thousandths of a cent off of everyone's funds in stock exchanges by lowering the general public confidence in the stock exchange - and if that ever dips low enough all our futures could evaporate.

Realized gains is another big factor, the stock market is large and nebulous and terrible to try and understand, but money goes in whenever money comes out - when your stock goes from 10$ to 11$, good for you, have a party... but you haven't realized those gains yet - when you actually sell your stock there is a buyer buying them from you, often times you'll sell to a mutual or index fund which constantly allow market liquidity, when you do so your benefit is coming out of someone else's pocket. The idea is that the other person has made an informed decision with all the information available to both of you to take a certain level of risk - when you add in insider trading the information available becomes unequal and you are selling them a risk of quantity x and they're expecting to buy quantity y, where x > y, these damages end up (generally) being pretty wide spread, but they slightly lower the margins on your mutual fund return or index fund or what-have you.

Criminals love to minimize the impact of their crimes so don't buy into it here you wouldn't believe that a burgler that broke into your house to steal a broken TV should only be liable for the lock (or even that he saved you money in the disposal fee).

There are real consequences for insider trading and they are serious ones.
Did they create Hack before PHP 7, which has near full typing on its own?
Ive conditioned my fb feed to be 95% memes. I go there every couple of days for some fresh memes
I am sure they have thought about it already.
OOP as described by java and C++ involves a graph of objects changing each others' state. This is not an orthogonal pattern to functional programming.

If you're thinking of functions operating on immutable objects and returning new objects then that is not typically what we refer to as a OOP pattern though technically it may fit the definition.
So many of them are paying people living wages, or at least had been during their lifetime. Compare that to failed or scam ICOs, which do literally 0 people any good except maybe the "founder."
Curious who you would trust more: Brex or a 3rd party you may have heard of?
Oh, do ICOs give people jobs and living wages?

I'm sure you're going to come up with some esoteric edgecase, but no: it's not comparable.
Flagging doesn't make things unreadable.
Mid-size city, similar size and population, more affordable. Living in the city and owning your own home there with one job is completely doable, as is childcare.

Usually 'lifestyle' in the context of affordability is used to describe a set of activities that cost a certain amount. Like eating out, going to the movies, having multiple cars, etc.
they probably just would’ve made it another chat client
Chipotle to close Denver, New York offices and move headquarters to California
How long ago was that? Lego from the 80's sometimes got stuck together. I even remember two (2-brick) sets of bricks that stayed together to this day.
>>> I don't see anyone biking with shopping bags, even in the summer.

See, this is where cultures clash. You don't expect people with shopping bags in bike friendly European cities either. Why? Because they don't buy groceries for a week at a time.
And citations are only needed when something is in contradiction to your experience? :)
There are some interesting security issues in the underlying systems that pharmacies like PillPack use. Here is a security advisory for PillPack from 2015:
https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2015/04/30/advisory...

Basically the system that pharmacies used to transfer prescriptions isn't secure
Here is the english version: https://youtu.be/-w2m-TeLi6I
I fail to see how making a place pedestrian friendly is one extreme. Are you saying the disabled are only able to move around by car? This will bother some of my disabled friends who have to rely on unreliable buses, too narrow sidewalks, and other city failures.

Also, a mobility scooter is a perfectly acceptable form of transportation in pedestrian areas.
Information+for+Translators+-+FSFE
Perhaps your social circles lack diversity of thought?

Partly due the to recent news on Harvard admissions, most of my Asian friends think affirmative action is racist against them.
Good to hear! Glad to see that some state is going to stand up for consumer protections.

> Facebook initially supported the opposition initiative, but pulled out publicly in April, a month after news broke that a political consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica amassed data on tens of millions of American Facebook users for political purposes without their knowledge.

Hilarious.

> [] lobbyists affiliated with the group TechNet were working behind the scenes to change crucial parts of the bill, as well, including the stipulation that businesses include a clear button on their websites giving people the ability to opt out of data collection.

> The law goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The Internet Association has already hinted at efforts to modify the legislation before implementation.

A year and a half before it goes live; the fight's not over yet. Gotta make sure they don't completely gut it before then, like the net neutrality bill.
IRC channels of the most various subjects.
Serverless Consumers with Lambda and SQS Triggers
That is good. You know your situation best
Interesting. Thanks for correcting me on that. I thought I had seen that before; but perhaps that always requires moderator intervention.
What is unethical about her posts? I must be missing something...

This post reads like a personal jab at one individual, rather than a discussion about the broader tech industry.
I'm pro GDPR, but I get tired of the immense amounts of shade some pro GDPR people throw the way of some who complain about it.

These arguments tend to be very circular. It goes something like this: GDPR is reasonable and easy to understand; if you're having trouble with it you are probably user hostile/don't understand it; you're having trouble with it which means you are user hostile/don't understand it; therefore your complaints are not legitimate; therefore GDPR is reasonable and easy to understand.
Does human life span really have a limit?
> everyone started moving to frontend/backend services and SPAs

Yes, there are valid reasons for SPAs, but many web applications and most classic web sites are still better served with plain old server-generated HTML, IMO.

First, because replicating even basic functionality in JavaScript comes at a cost, namely in bytes sent, bytes to be parsed, bugs introduced, etc. Second, because most projects don’t have unlimited development resources, so developers might just slap a few libraries together without necessary optimization, customization, or testing.

Third, because the well-known experience of browsing static web pages is already pretty darn good, and what developers will find exciting, users might just find irritating. Needlessly breaking conventions is simply bad UX.

Contrary to that, I keep reading that SPAs are the “new way”, as if classic server-rendered HTML enriched with some Ajax suddenly became a deprecated, inferior technology. It really isn’t. Unless you know what you’re doing, and why you need to, the classic way is still a sane default. If in doubt, I would always prefer a solid Django site over a half-baked SPA.
The whole thing was a shambles, there was no reference design that you could just implement for your ecommerce store/blog/software service or anything else that required it.

Instead we had people running around like headless chickens rushing to put in place some extra tick-box on their website.

The funny thing was how people sent out those emails to their newsletter subscribers and I do wonder how decimated those lists became. People got GDPR fatigue and could not be bothered with the emails after a while. This particularly affected smaller businesses who had legitimate reasons to email customers.

Does anyone here have any anecdotal data on how badly some of these email lists were purged?
Developers automate things, that's their whole job. The point is that we don't have people in dedicated ops/sysadmin roles, and are better for it.
No, I'm saying citizens should solve the problem. And I know it's not your job. It's nobody's job. That's why nothing has been done.

I mean, the stupidest thing about this is this isn't that hard a problem to solve. Homeless people are just regular people with a problem and no resources to fix it. You provide them resources and help and they are no longer homeless and no longer a nuisance. Instead, people see them like pests, as if rats invaded the buses and need to be exterminated.

Typically the government would be the best way to provide funding and access to the resources and help, but they suck at execution, and they always get screwed in funding. If citizens would see that funding for helping homeless people would improve their commute & community, they might invest more, which would both solve their immediate problem, as well as the homeless' problems. A citizen led organization could do this with a combination of private funding and grants (as many today are), but first they have to convince selfish privileged assholes to reach out and help. Good luck there, as it seems privileged people just don't want to help, even though it would actually be helping themselves.
I've experienced this phenomenon. While competing at powerlifting, my field of vision shrunk to just the platform I was on. I couldn't hear the crowd or my family cheering. It was an incredible, transcendent experience that I would liken to an out-of-body experience.

I credit the experience to the immense amount of visualization I went through in the two months leading up to competition. Every night I would visualize the entire day of the meet, every little detail of the whole process.

I also spent a lot of time reading Zen and the Art of Archery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17417410, and absolutely used those techniques. The whole motion should be effortless and spontaneous, "like a dewdrop slipping off a leaf."
No,a PM/channel troll&spammer. but his persistence and discipline really merits the title of an artist.
Whoops, didn't see that one when I posted this, thanks for the link!
Loved his (unmade) "I, Robot" screenplay.
In the modern world medicines come in pre-counted blister packs where there is zero room for error. Here in America we have to wait around an hour for some dolt to count and then double count the pills.
A Sketch History of Early Color Photography
I sometimes think I am like a storm glass or barometer. If there is a huge storm brewing that meter is going up or down. From my perspective I am doing exactly what I am thinking about doing, this storm really wants to make me go up or down. Of course, I have a limited view on reality, I may not even notice the storm itself.

But cognitive science, only through study of brain lesions and experiments, can offer glimpses of what is out there. What the weather really is like.

But what if the very act of categorization was an error to begin with? Causal inference poses problems like: Does the barometer change cause the storm, or does the storm cause the barometer change? These can be better solved by saying: The pressure in the barometer changing _is_ (part of) the storm. Instead of saying: If I go up, I cause the storm to follow ("If I am thinking I am a single agent, my consciousness must be singular").

In the end you are free, and I encourage you to, call it a simplified model, not an illusion. But to discard all of Dennett's consciousness philosophy on the basis of a poorly chosen word, is not a valid or fruitful conclusion. You'll miss the memetic good sauce that cures Naive Realism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism

I myself, personally, prefer RAW's Maybe Logic approach to consciousness, though that it arguably less academically sound (though not less wise for it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7N6TOFyrLg
I'm a depressed startup founder
I'm a startup founder and depressed. I'm super passionate about what I'm building but I am so depressed right now I struggle to get out of bed every morning. Any ideas on what I could do?
This! Free hardware is great. Anyone remember the Cuecat?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
That is not reliable. Windows for example won't connect to an open AP that previously had encryption enabled. At least not automatically. The next problem you might face is that TLS enabled websites will trigger an error warning.
It's not coercion since it's well within your rights to not borrow money or buy financial products if you don't like the terms. Neither of the things you mentioned are life requirements. If you want them because you think you'd enjoy them then you need to agree to the other parties' stipulations, and if not you can continue to live without them. The fact that people have offered these products to the market doesn't mean you are entitled to have them under your own terms.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(time)
Codefield
Without any real court cases showing how GDPR will be actually enforced, this 'introductory period' was useless. It could last 4 years instead of 2, and it would not make any difference.
Then I guess you're choosing to watch Fox News, read Breitbart, avoid any political discussion on here or Reddit, watch no late night or comedy TV shows, and work at a remarkably conservative workplace (especially for tech). Maybe you're choosing to read a more conservative local newspaper?

Very little of this is regional because most media consumed is not regional, and most reporters and editors lean left.
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If they do it, they may get the NSA to fund the whole thing.
It's historical reasons. They use Oracle 9i with 15-year old software and they don't have budget to upgrade, so, I guess, they'll use it for another 15 years. Actually it works well for its age. I'd say that PostgreSQL would as well and I'd choose it any day if I have to pay for it. But I have to work with what I've got.
There are no part time jobs in tech because it's cheaper and less coordination required to hire 1 person full time than 2 people part time.

Your projects are probably not valuable, you should just get a full time job and do your hobby in your own time.
In this day and age, apparently!
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39

There was a really great COBOL programmer back in the 1990’s who was making piles of money hand over fist. But she was terribly overworked, and getting really tired of slaving away on Y2K fixes.

From all her experience fixing mission critical code, she was becoming increasingly worried that civilization was going to collapse due to Y2K bugs.

After all that hard work, she never wanted to look at another line of COBOL ever again, she was just so sick and tired of it.

So she signed up with Alcor, and had herself cryonically frozen in 1999, leaving behind explicit instructions that she was to be revived after civilization had finally put itself back together again.

Time passed by, Y2K came and went, but to her, it was only the dreamless flickering of an instant.

Finally she woke up, in a clean futuristic hospital room, surrounded by inscrutable machines that go “ping” and strangely dressed doctors with funny accents and weird hairdos.

She was just so happy to be alive that she proclaimed “Thank you so much for bringing me back to life! I am eternally grateful, and in your debt! Is there anything I can do to repay you? And by the way, what year is it?”

Then one of the doctors smiled at her cheerfully and said, “Yes, actually! It’s the year 9999, and the records indicate that you’re a COBOL programmer...”
They'd just sign off on every line and then later say they had no choice because they couldn't enjoy the thing they wanted otherwise. Just like every other ToS. Probably using arguments like "who should be expected to read each clause?!".
This seems to me like one of those issues that has way too many variables to make a reasonable guess at how things will really compare in the counterfactual situation.

If you've got a city that really is dense enough to be pedestrian-friendly, I think it's likely to be the case that the time situation is shifted considerably. Not only will it take less time to walk and bike places, but you probably find that the kinds of places you might want to walk or bike to end up being located closer to where you live and work. At the same time, driving becomes less convenient due to congestion.

Whereas, in car-centric cities, it often ends up being the case that businesses float out to the periphery of town.

My own pet theory, which seems to hold in every place I've lived or visited, but hasn't been backed up by any any rigorous data gathering, is that, no matter where you live, everything you might need to get to (e.g., the supermarket) ends up being 10-20 minutes away using the dominant mode of transportation in that city, regardless of what that mode is.
Same here.

(For those unaware, it refers to Black Books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Books )
Ask HN: Where to find a rare expert co-founder?
So I started working on a project me as a technical founder on my idea and my co-founder on his expertise field which is neuroscience/neuroengineering.
The project itself is very futuristic and interesting.

After my partner left the project due to academia commitments I am struggling to find this expertise. It doesn't come into my social circles or my colleagues from work (I am a developer).

Putting an ad on a university feels very wrong to start a business relationship.

I would at some point ideally apply to YC or other tech funds after critical research has been done.

Any ideas to point me?
This seems disingenuous at best. Why are you commenting on HN when you could be out helping these homeless anyway? Is your time, happiness, etc, really worth more than their lives?

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
There isn't anything in GDPR to cause the problems he is describing. It's realistically the most probable scenario.

If I'm not allowed to call out dishonesty then there's basically no point in discussing any subject.
Lack of a great command palette was a big one. It is how I do everything in vscode.

However, after being frustrated for long enough, it motivated me to make my own that is more of modern command palette for Eclipse.

https://github.com/dakaraphi/eclipse-plugin-commander
Considering that Amex business charge cards are free for employees I would not have the same sentiment. Card issuers make lots of money on the % fee that merchants pay to process a credit card transaction.
I'm on a terrible high latency connection in Athens, Greece. The serverless SPA is one of the fastest sites I've ever visited. It's a ton faster than HN for me.

Yes the initial pageload takes time. But afterwards I can click around the site and get immediate feedback. Immediate as in native app speeds. Images and such obviously still take time to load and render but they do not block loading. There's no whitescreen while I wait for new pages to load.

So as someone with shitty internet who often browses documentation, give me hundreds of sites like this. This is significantly faster to browse around than, say, the Python or Django documentation, both of which make very little use of Javascript. I'm sorry you're not getting the same experience, I can't speak to that.

To reiterate: An SPA will bloody obviously not faster on the first pageload. The whole idea behind it is that you load more machinery upfront but you don't load it again afterwards. Depending on how good the app is, you make up for it very, very quickly. And if you have any significant JS usage on your site at all, you make up for that too.

My point, which everyone seems to have completely missed, is that well-built SPAs do exist. They don't have to feel slower to use than other apps.
Is censorship of argumentum-ad-nauseam bullshit really censorship, though?
I am well aware. I am referring to pre-Stripe.
Who is l0de? Are you implying they are the ones who did this?
I realise it might be shocking to hear but it's genuine and meant sincerely, I think you're probably making a mistake and because you are cto are not being picked up on it
Back when I was working on Django codebases, I saw almost no use of `full_clean()`, largely because some validation was performed on `save()` (by virtue of being database constraints, e.g. non-nullability) while other validation was not, and there was no indication in the APIs which was which.

In a world in which Django applications were always written by people who read and understood the docs in full, I would totally agree with you about these criticisms. But I've never had such an opportunity outside of my own projects. I've only dealt with codebases that were written with falty assumptions, enabled by Django's choice to hide some but not all tricky work from its users. By then the database constraints would be incredibly painful to add since there was lots of data already violating it, and switching global defaults like ATOMIC_SAVE were nearly as bad since code had widely relied on other behavior.
That 1k is a week or two of dev work depending on where you live. If you've spent more than a week on procuring that laptop, you haven't actually saved any money.
I see your point, there are a lot of tools required for that approach though and those tools are expensive and will see - at best - part time use making each of those welds and cuts a relatively expensive affair.

If you're doing production work then sure, you will need that kind of optimization to stay in business.

But if instead you are looking to produce one-offs with relatively low skill and a limited amount of money to spend on tooling then I totally see the point in making things from re-usable and easy to size components.

And then there is the garbage disposal element: almost none of this is waste, even at the end of life of the original object. The same goes for Lego, all it is is parts, and parts have a life of their own (in the decades!) that is totally different from the life of the objects made from them (minutes to several years).

So the over-design and the over-thinking go towards doing that work once so that the users of the system won't need a tools budget in the 10's of thousands of dollars (welder, plasmacutter, grinder, machine shop to go with it) and still build functional equipment that is not readily available.

As for how sturdy the bed frame looks: that's mostly a function of the design of the frame, not of the parts that went into it (Ikea sells kids bedframes that look quite close to what is shown in the article), you could do a much better job if you wanted to with the same parts.

I also note a lot of 'cheating' where the system doesn't work anymore (for instance: the stays to stabilize the bed and the legs under the sled).
Running a bingo card creator qualifies as a startup.

Unless of course we are using the ultra narrow HN definition of a startup.
I recently noticed this with Google News in Chrome. The recommended stories in my feed were creepily relevant to my current location and interests. And yet, the top 2-3 results were not at all -- they were about some ridiculous political rumors/squabbles on CNN/Fox. I never visit those sites and also do my absolute best to be completely ignorant of such political "news". It was blantantly obvious they were forcing irrelevant political nonsense to the top of my queue.