skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, it's absolutely there, and your life is definitely crippled with a bad credit score in the US. But that's strictly financial. You can have an amazing FICO score and spend 24 hours a day shitposting bernie sanders memes on message boards, and trolling the hell of of every staff member of every trump appointee (within legal limits of not threatening anybody). Try the equivalent in China.

It's a social credit score which gauges your compliance with societal and police-state defined norms.
Arguing is generally acceptable on this site when there is an actual, logical argument. You didn't argue anything, just expressed your opinion that it is bad without explaining yourself.
One of the goals of the zine is to get people up to speed with what they need to know to learn programming--good to have a goal while you're learning, right?

When setting up Python (and really most languages), you end up needing things like sudo.

Really it was one of the missing pieces of content that beginners needed to get into Tracy's other books like https://hellowebbooks.com/learn-django/.
I disagree, and it's okay we disagree. I believe you using high-activation language saying nothing but "race troll" doesn't even try to engage the point OP and I were making.

Please just delete my comment above. It obviously didn't serve its purpose well so there's no point it being there.
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On the off chance that you have a genuine interest in knowing the answers to your questions, and are not grandstanding, I will answer.

First differentiate between the syntax and the tool. This isn't a tool that supports every possible game. It is designed for creating movement-based puzzle games. Though it can support many others, that is its focus. You can certainly stretch it to do Tetris or Threes, but probably not Mario.

If you are involved in game technology, it is a masterclass in supporting a very large (but still restricted) class of games in a very small tool set.

So, specifics:

> if I wanted something to turn into a different item

[> Player | Box] -> [Player | Contents]

assuming you open your box by moving into it, or

[Action Player | Box] -> [Player | Contents]

if you want to press the action button.

> What if I want something to slide over multiple tile spaces

[ > Player | Crate ] -> [ > Player | > Crate ]
[ > Crate | no Wall ] -> [ | > Crate ]

The first line says moving into a crate sets the crate in motion. The second line says it keeps going until it hits a wall.

> if I want the item to progressively become more difficult to move

What does it mean to become more difficult, given that moves are atomic actions? (Back to the restricted domain of this tool.) But, for one possible design, we can do:

[ > Player | LightObject ] -> [ > Player | > LightObject ]
[ > StrongPlayer | LightObject ] -> [ > StrongPlayer | > LightObject ]
[ > StrongPlayer | HeavyObject ] -> [ > StrongPlayer | > HeavyObject ]

Regular players can move only light objects, strong players can move either.

The ethos of the system is that to change state, you change object type. This is less restrictive than it sounds, because it is possible to layer objects. But it is still restrictive. And deliberately so.

> it doesn't do it well.

Based on the calibre of people who have used this, including for the rule development and level design for decently successful commercial indie games, it might be worth entertaining the notion that it might just be you. A more constructive and educational alternative might be to try and specify the same sophistication of rules in a more succinct syntax.
Some of these map to classes you might have taken in college - compilers, databases, AI, etc. I'd divide operating systems into more than one part:

* Core kernel (schedulers, memory management, virtualization)
* Drivers
* Filesystems
* Networking

Then there are some specialties that cut across more than one of these - high performance computing, financial tech (not even counting blockchain stuff), security engineering, performance engineering. Then there's a whole world of embedded stuff, from teeny-tiny microcontrollers up to high-performance medical imaging or genomics, plus large distributed systems to control things like military equipment or nuclear power plants.

Really, there are so many different kinds of computing that we just never even hear of on a site like this. It's really the web/app/mobile front-end stuff that's a niche technology-wise. (On my less charitable days I'd call it a ghetto.) It's a hugely profitable niche, to be sure, but to me it still seems to get a disproportionate share of attention and funding compared to other stuff that's just as hard, just as fun, and just as important.
> Looking behind, the landscape turns to black as the light can't catch up to the boat.

That's not the reason the rear view turns black. Light always travels at the speed of light relative to you. The reason the rear view turns black is that the light is red-shifted into the infrared, which human eyes can't see.
It is an "intro" after all. :)

The target audience is beginners who are just trying to learn programming and things like that.

Pipes are cool, but that's more intermediate/advanced. Maybe there will be another zine in that vein! For now, Tracy is working on an intro to Git zine which is higher priority.
> Its design promotes the arguments that are most popular, not the ones with the most intrinsic validity or soundness.

How would that be remedied? I think if a large enough group of users ranked arguments on intrinsic validity or soundness, the effect would be indistinguishable from popularity.

Imagine the results of asking everybody in the US to rank music on musical skill and artistic achievement. You would get the Top 40.
Blink (the HTML engine) is still going to push the same drawing commands to all the backends. Winding rule order stuff might be different if a backend is buggy, but things like this shouldn't be different.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. :)
That's really allowed? In my country it is your right to change the locks, If the landlord keeps a key and you have proof of that, then he even has to pay for the new lock.
Yeah but everyone needs to use a cellphone in this day an age so if you don't want to be tracked like a sheep then a dumb phone with the microphone and camera removed will do the trick. They(3 letter agencies) can only track you to an approximate location and probably are unable to run it in fake off mode if you want to turn it off.

It's actually pretty liberating to have a purpose driven cellphone to only communicate with.
Why do you think Microsoft removed themes from Windows after XP? Why did Windows 7, 8, and 10 only have a UI single style?

(which, in the case of 8 and 10, is close to no style, little more than lines on solid rectangles.)
Everybody is somebody's terrorist. The US doesn't have a great track record on this. I mean MLK was tracked by the FBI.
> I wish researchers would start to think more creatively about what we can do with large video datasets and tools like face recognition.

Some very smart people in China did exactly that, and arrived at a conclusion on what the local market for surveillance tech was lacking. Based on what the government will fund, they came up with an answer we seem to dislike.
> “The whole point is that people don’t know if they’re being monitored, and that uncertainty makes people more obedient,” said Mr. Chorzempa, the Peterson Institute fellow.

Straight from 1984.
Yeah, parser combinators are basically magic, and not in an “overly clever code that you’ll regret later” sense.

And, while a Haskell-style type system makes them nicer, they work really well in dynamically typed languages too. (e.g. https://github.com/drewc/smug )
I wrote an AI to detect AI hype. So far it's batting a thousand. Let me know if you want in at the ground level.
Sounds like Google Facebook and Amazon
Classic... they called the software skynet! :P At least they have a sense of humour.
You must have missed the part where a 50k$ Czech passive radar is defeating the F35 stealth capability.

Problem of EM sensors is most often then not, are active (especially radars and IFF), they broadcast or ping signals thus leaving quite a huge EM signature that can be pinpointed precisely with 3 antennas.
I would actually recommend his "The Timeless Way of Building" [1] instead. :) This is the book that explains the philosophy and thinking behind all those patterns, and where I personally found the vast majority of his insight.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Way-Building-Christopher-Ale...
Tracy has been working on Linux and Windows specific versions, but turns out the differences are super minimal.

With Windows, the recommendation is to install the Linux subsystem, then things end up being the same (give or take some UI).

If your friend gets confused, would be curious to hear what the problem was. There is also a related forum/community here: https://discuss.hellowebapp.com/
I don't think the rear is black because light can't catch up. The craft is moving slower than the speed of light at that point.

Is it possible that the rear light has been red shifted so much that it is no longer within the visible spectrum?
This bike trailer of my sister was with all that. My 3 year old niece managed to rip apart a cover and stuck her hands outside. The bike rode near some poles, causing potential hurt. My 4 year old nephew in the same trailer was close in "trying out what happened if I stick my finger there" (the wheel). I had to make a yell to impress him enough to stop. Luckily, I was cycling behind.

Likewise, if your kid gets acute illness (throwing up, dizzy, etc), you're not going to notice it right away.

I would go as far as outright banning these things for transport of living beings, with hefty fines for it. Please stop selling these things for living being transport, you will make the world a better place and have better margins on cargobikes.
Never heard of this. Its great!
There are many people who disagree. Historically, the government and its institutions had a goal to create a color-blind nation. Heck, even Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of a day that people would someday be judged by "the content of their character" rather than "the color of their skins"[1].

Funds who judge people on the color of their skin or their sex, gender, or national origin is the opposite of color-blind, thus goes against the mentality that many of us grew up with. It is fundamentally a culture-clash that likely won't ever be reconciled between those with differing opinions. I personally don't think that two wrongs make a right, and I don't think that fighting racism and discrimination with racism and discrimination will make the country be better or come together in the end.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness_(race)
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i don't know what say here.
Google treats Firefox Mobile as 2nd class
>> A lamp in the 1920’s had a screw bulb and a switch.

> The bayonet mount is alive in most of the English-speaking world (except for North America). It has been mostly phased out in France but it can still be found.

And right now we're at a time where LEDs are rolled out everywhere, giving much more free hands to lamp designers.
I absolutely love the Argo but would caution to make sure your bike plays nicely with it before committing to purchase. Argo claims it should work with Aluminum bikes but I would be very wary of that combination, most AL bikes are near the edge of their engineering parameters and the Argo loads the frame in ways that I'm not 100% comfortable with. If I were to use one - almost bought it but then settled on a 2nd hand Christiania - I'd use it on a steel bike, not an aluminum one. (The bike it was supposed to go on was an aluminum one and that is why we ended up abandoning the Argo.)
> Dissidents and revolutionaries would hardly be able to do much.

Hence the scary question: Once the technology is available (now) and complete surveillance is implemented (soon), is there a going back?
But it's possible that the people who are drawn to use this toolset will be more interested in and committed to honest rational discussion than the mean.
Don’t forget how Code snippets require lots of horizontal scrolling on mobile. It’s bad but understandable when it’s actual code, but it’s just aweful when someone is using code formatting to represent a quote.
Reminds me of when Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters" was ripped apart by a real painter.

http://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
If anyone wants to try out teams (private portal for team discussions etc), please drop us a mail to support@ and we'll enable your account, reference HN.

It's been used in organizational contexts for decision-making, -preparation, -logging, ideation and funnily enough job interviews, where you let people reason a business decision in a given time and then compare their reasoning to others'.

We are right now building dedicated sites for edu (free) and teams, which won't be cluttered up with the public debates.

Yes, SAAS is how we will want to make money at some point in the future. :)
Initial mounting and setup will be a couple of hours, they talk about the time it takes to convert the bike back-and-forth once all setup and mounting are done.

This is a bit deceptive but that does not diminish that it is a good product, please note my comment in the other thread about connecting the Argo to Aluminum bikes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17486836
I've wondered for a while if what you describe might be the next dark age. The last one was built on the use of religion in tandem with feudal power. The new dark age replaces religion with surveillance and scientific propaganda and feudalism with corporatism.
It’s not even close. A false equivalence. Assuming a camera represents a unit of surveillance, then that comparison might hold, but it’s what China actually does with that stuff that makes the difference.

There is always this knee-jerk “What about the US?” every time there is an article like this. If you haven’t lived in China and actually lived within their system, it’s easy to take for granted the freedom Americans have.

I taught in China and showed a YouTube (via VPN) of the Tiananmen Sqaure uprising to a classroom of high school senior journalism students. This was an international school and there wasn’t a single Chinese citizen in the room — a few days later I am called to the principal’s office because they had a visit from MSS about potential “subversive content” being presented in a classroom. This was about 6 years ago. Some of the teachers held clandestine bible study on weekends — the fact that it had to be clandestine should say something. Even the most radical Muslim in the US isn’t going to get arrested for having a religious meeting in his home. Of course if the conversation leads to a conspiracy to commit violence, then of course the authorities are going to be interested. Clandestine Christians in China have never been involved in the planning or execution of violent acts in China — yet they risk arrest by even having an unsanctioned get-together in their homes! In the US, tens of millions practice their religion without government molestation, even “scary” religions, yet in China, a person even talking with their next door neighbor about religion can get them on a list.

If a teacher in the US shows a video of the Kent State protests or plays disparaging videos about Ronald Reagan, the FBI doesn’t show up.

I can walk into any bus station in America and buy a bus ticket to anywhere without being denied because I may have had friends that were anti-capitalist. But in China, you can be denied the right to travel even within China if you are identified as a someone who has associated with anti-CCP elements. Look at Ai Wei Wei — an artist with 24/7 surveillance because he dared make a fuss about the Sichuan earthquake. He has been arrested, detained on multiple occasions, denied a passport and all sort of other indignities for simply making art. And yet in the US, we have stand up comedians that have built hugely successful careers criticizing and even humiliating the government, government officials and government policies. We have protest groups that burn effigies of presidents practically in front of the White House without being sent to a re-education camp, having their kids kicked out of school and/or banishment to the countryside. Try that in Beijing. See what happens when an Occupy protest happens on the streets of Shanghai.

Comparing China to the US is comparing a pigeon to a velociraptor when it comes to this stuff.
San Mateo is considering 55 foot height limits until 2030 – can you help?
Do you live or work in San Mateo? The city is considering a ballot measure that will cap new development to 55 feet until 2030. This will make it harder to add more apartments and more office space, which should increase housing costs and make it harder to start companies, hire employees, afford childcare, etc.

Do you work for SurveyMonkey, Rakuten, Oracle, Franklin Templeton, VISA, or another employer in San Mateo? Do you live in San Mateo? We are going to need a lot of help to beat this ballot measure - there are a lot of folks that would love to see the city become an unaffordable playground for the wealthy.

There is a big City Council meeting on July 16 - it would be great to get residents and employers to show up and ask the City Council to put an alternative measure on the ballot, that would allow for denser development around Caltrain stations.

If you can't make it, can you send a message to the City Council asking for more development? https://sf-yimby-emailer.appspot.com/san-mateo-city-council

Contact me for more information, kev@inburke.com
You'd have to list out the pros and cons and...
> trying to figure it out is still very hard

If you are learning CSS in 2018, then there is little chance that you didn't encounter flexbox and its capabilities. Nowadays there are many good, crossbrowser solutions for common problems, but I have to agree, intuition is not a feature of CSS.
Stack Overflow had an article taking about how they did translations for their web app, which I found useful: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/05/03/stack-overflow-how-we...

As someone who has done a few translation projects, you want to always have a dedicated translation team (eng should not be doing the translations). As the article mentions, the business should decide whether they're ok with incomplete translations. You should prefer to keep translations in a standard format such as po files in your source code. It may make sense to bundle it into your building processes. The UI/UX aspect can be the most challenging as suddenly some lines are now two or 3 lines and wrap weirdly.
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-brompton-co...
First, I'd like to apologize for being rude and negating your statement. There's nuance to the problem; we shouldn't just tit-for-tat dismiss each other.

The U.S. welfare is multifaceted. Try to shift to a stack oriented model. The real picture should include both indirect subsidization and multiple direct benefits/subsidization.
Income, rent, food, medicine, childcare, transportation, utilities. There are what someone in poverty would consider sweet spots under certain conditions.

Now, Not all welfare programs stack. Local cost of living changes the stickiness point. But, imo, the most overlooked problem is poor people get good at being poor. There are ways to exchange benefits and untaxed labor for value, even if it's not explicit or monetary.

I've lived it. I know people who are scared to lose benefit X if they earn over Y. The bigger problem is that the government can't manufacture meaning and purpose no matter how much cash they pour out. No marketable skills develop, no local capital accumulation, no gaining experience and moving up. There are no good jobs to escape to. The cliff is doing what you know. What you consider unlivable is life for a lot of people.

Also, I can give some sweet spot scenarios if you want hard numbers.
You don't need sudo to set up Python (and probably most commonly used languages). But beside that, I don't think rm and sudo are the third and fourth thing you should be typing into a terminal, whatever your end-goal.

If you haven't seen it before, an ancient but worth-thieving-from example of a beginner programming manual is 'The Applesoft Tutorial'.
I can see that I suppose. I'd avoid any negative conversation that named applicant's names with people external to the company though.
The theoretical argument would be that one teacher gets sacked and their 27 students get distributed amongst the other teachers bringing the student:teacher ratio back to 30:1.

Indeed, if this doesn't happen (which is fully possible) you get an interesting avenue of inquiry about market inefficiencies.

As an aside, I personally know of a case where a school needed to cut costs, and they did that by increasing the student:teacher ratio. That ratio is a metric that gets attention and consideration; at least in the Australian system it is not some arbitrary number.
Argh. And support all of them on all platforms, the dev team will shoot me. :)
This is a good question. I think the answer is "yes" with proviso that it would most likely come from the top.

The CCP, is not exactly a monolith. It has factions, some get suppressed, some come to prominence. One that saw the negative aspects as being too negative would have to come to prominence to undo the overreach.
UI Design can be timeless in the sense that it becomes the adopted standard for specific usage by a given culture and that this culture by default uses the solution so much that everyone knows it's meaning.

It's however not because of some objective universal criteria but instead that no other solution has been needed which made it worth changing that standard.

Intuition is learned within the confines of the culture that understand the reference.

The desktop metaphor isn't timeless it's just one that society has invested enough time that it becomes shared understanding

In that sense, it's not different than a language where no specific word or sentence or meaning is objective in itself but rather points to something that "everyone" understands.
I guess similar to how stocks work, but instead of having to wait for an IPO, the acquisition price would be distributed proportionally to all of these "acqui-stock" holders.
I think it should always be left up to the patient, what they wish to do, and doctors should support it. If it gets to that point, I would very much like to spend my last days stoned and comfortable, and die peacefully. But if I have a terminal illness or I am in great pain, I very much want that choice of when to go.
That might be true but you also have this bit in the article:

> “Mr King is expected to receive a payment of up to $11.3m as a result of the Paddy Power Betfair deal. The firm’s current chief technology officer Robin Spira is due to make up to $3.5m, its legal officer Christian Genetski stands to make up to $6.2m, and it chief financial officer Andy Giancamilli is due to receive up to $5m” (Those add up to $26 m)"

All these guys can be classified as "late stage" employees and I can't believe that these guys were given a way much more bigger payout than to the founders or to the original team of founding employees. I am not saying they don't deserve the payout however some comments below stated that these guys are possibly the reason why the company could even have an exit thus rewarded accordingly but wouldn't one argue that if the founders did not start the company, there wouldn't be anything to sell with? I am just completely confounded how unfair compensation is regardless of what the terms of the VC were.

My honest question to YC members - What is the general advice shared between the YC community to prevent this happening to founders and/or founding employee(s)?