skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree mostly, with the exception that you shouldn’t do anything on a side project for money that directly competes with your full time job.
In short: no. Kodi itself is the environment, the problematic work is done by plugins that look for free movie streams. It all takes longer than Netflix and other paid services. Nothing to get too excited about.
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Not directly answering the question, but I just wanted to say that it's a healthy thing to encourage 1-on-1s between people in all sorts of different relationships, not just manager-report.

1-on-1s with your manager are critical because (in many cases) your manager has a big say in your career. But your manager isn't necessarily the best person to have as a mentor. Even if it's not a common occurrence at your company, I'd wager that if you approached the person you thought you could most learn from and asked if they wouldn't mind mentoring you via 1-on-1s, most people would be honored and happy to serve that role.
The World of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is as Crazy in Real Life
Kodi makes BitTorrent only marginally easier to use. It integrates a VPN a little more seamlessly than a laptop running your general-purpose OS of choice. All this makes a much bigger difference for a non-technical user, but for the average HN commenter the benefits are much less obvious.
> almost no one paid that marginal rate.

That's true, because almost no one made enough money to pay it. That's one of the reasons that it wasn't harmful.

> So you want 91% tax from what amount?

I dunno, $5-10M or so. I also think that you should be able to defer the recognition of income so that you don't get dinged too heavily for one-time windfalls. But I think anyone regularly making $5-10M/yr should be paying a lot more than they currently do.
The media companies, especially in the UK, have been making a huge deal out of these so called “piracy boxes.” People have gone to jail for selling them in shops IIRC.

Yes, it’s ridiculous.
A zero-configuration free CDN is a pretty good reason in my opinion.
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Because the cheapest chips have very limited code and memory space.

And back when this product was released, optimizing compilers were really poor by comparison with a human for these tasks.

Today you probably wouldn't bother with assembly for all but the most timing critical parts.
I understand your cation, but I'm hesitantly optimistic about this campaign.

I won't commit until I hear his stance on chores, are they necessary, does he do them, what is a fair allowance and should that allowance be connected to chores or independent from it?
None of them have plain vanilla Kodi on them. If they did, Amazon wouldn't have a problem selling them - and probably no-one would buy them either.

They're all preloaded with insta-piracy plugins.
How many cores must a CPU have until it's competitive with GPUs?
Those beasts could pretty well open the hell-gates to fully interactive raytracing soon, or not so much?
Of course am not expecting THIS processor to be competitive, but with the interest in raytracing, things might get interesting if this trend of more CPU cores keep on piling up.
" I spent 10 years writing games in 6502 assembly"

Well that would be the answer ...
And in TFA, the expression should be “not old enough to drive, let alone vote.” The more restrictive criterion should come first, otherwise the expression doesn’t really work.

I’m curious if he would have the legal capacity to sign anything as governor. My understanding is that as a minor he doesn’t have capacity to enter into a contract.
Kodi is what used to be XBMC, once it was obvious a “10ft” interface was desirable beyond the needs of OG XBox hackers it was revised to run on PC (XBox is 99% a PC anyway).

Eventually nobody knew why it was called XBox Media Center when nobody really used it for the XBox. So they changed the name to KODI because it vaguely resembles REWIND STOP PLAY icons:

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K O D I

So that’s a little history, but I still mourn the loss of legacy screensavers like the excellent ‘matrix’ and the native ProjectM/Milkdrop support which hasn’t isn’t present in the Pi version or newer PC builds for years AFAIK.

Anyway, this is like banning Chrome because you can go to a porno website.
“Fair” in a capitalist economy is based on supply and demand. If you want to get a developer locally to Silicon Valley, you’re going to have to pay more based on the pool of qualified individuals. If your pool is “the entire United States” or the “entire English speaking population”, as employer, you can pay less. As an employee, you’re competing with a much larger pool.

Why would s company pay more than they have to?
There is a huge conflict of interest here. The hospital makes diagnosis, requests that the person lose their autonomy, gets control over that person, financially benefits from that control, and can use that control to hide any misdeeds or contrary evidence.

There is also a profound disrespect for human autonomy. Hospitals disrespect autonomy for many people in many ways, with the most common being when birthing mothers get locked in.

In this case, besides the parents, credit goes to a couple judges who denied the Mayo clinic's requests. You'd think one should be enough of course, and that seeking another judge should be prohibited. To give a doctor analogy: it's like hopping from doctor to doctor in search of pills.

Hospitals that do this sort of thing ought to take a fatal hit to their reputation. Nobody should accept being a customer. I suppose the news doesn't get out much, memories are short, advertising works, and most hospitals have a regional monopoly.
Why? If they wait with releasing new versions because of a big blocking thing (concurrency) even though there are other things to fix and improve at the same time, they might lose people from the community. If your language is in beta you want to keep polishing a language as it develops, and keep making it easier for the users.

I see no reason not to release these changes to the world just because concurrency isn't fixed yet:

> This release is focused on polishing APIs, bug fixing the compiler, keep working on windows support and some intermediate language changes for future releases. There were 119 commits since 0.25.1 by 24 contributors.
There's no reason to assume that chip was used only in the Furby.

It's likely it has been used in all sorts of toys and the like for the last two decades. And it was probably dirt cheap. And probably designed in the early 80s, hence the design decision to go with the 6502 as a base platform.
Can't you get the loan from the local bank and deposit the money at the national so you can benefit from their infrastructure?
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My daughters keep asking me for a phone (smart phone as I have a flip phone). I informed them, they can have a phone when they are able to read a physical copy of the Wall Street Journal understand everything. This provides an assurance to my wife and I that they are able to understand real information, before handing them a device with a constant stream of information.
You're actually able to electronically fetch all the data that the various companies (employer, broker, bank, etc) report to the CRA anyway. All you have to do is check it and send.
That seems to be a semantic difference then. The definition of request is usually just the act of asking[0][1], and I think most people would assume that intent is baked into an ask. This is not an ambiguous "who will rid me of this turbulent priest" situation, it's an explicit ask and I think the counter claim, that the ask had no intent behind it, has the burden of proof.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/request

[1] https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/request
It would be really neat to have a "build a furby" kit with motors and chips you had to flash yourselves with this source code..
Ask HN: Where to find data-driven smartphone reviews?
I recently found myself having to buy a new smartphone and I was overwhelmed by the amount of subjectivity with most reviewers. I wish there was someone who based reviews purely on data and facts, like performance/battery benchmarks, DxOMark score etc. rather than "it's a great phone but we don't like the camera".

The only example I found is notebookcheck.net. Other websites base the final score(s) on opinions rather than data (even though they present benchmark results).
All of those may entail much, much more work than banning Tor.

I can think of plenty of cool, robust systems I can build as well, but I do not have unlimited
resources.
You can see that for a 5MiB file average download time is around 12 seconds [0], which is around 425KiB/s, the main problem with Tor is latency, downloading a 50KiB file takes around 1 to 2 seconds.

[0] https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2018-05-15...
It was a custom 6502 like chip, made by a third party. And they already had to have a custom mask set beyond a 6502 because it integrated a bunch of peripherals. Also, a back of the napkin look at their changes probably means it was half to two thirds the die size, so a pretty good win at those volumes.

Datasheet for the chip they used:

http://www.ic72.com/pdf_file/-/428557.pdf

Looks like a fairly generic "sound processor" that was most likely used in tons of toys and other consumer electronics. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the Furby line wasn't even their biggest contract.
It's Ice Town all over again!
I would pair [1] with Hands On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and Tensorflow by Aurélien Géron (I own both). It gives an excellent overview of machine learning including non-deep stuff (plus the ins and outs of scikit-learn and tensorflow).
You'd be surprised how much overhead a compiler adds even for something like C. Also you can do things in pure assembly that you just can't do in C (w/o inlining assembly haha).
Looks like frequently recording one's life is becoming more and more important. Note here how there's video evidence of pure fraud.

The "terms of service" are there to absolve a corporation of fraud and what would otherwise be criminal acts by virtue of contracts. This is yet another example of how one-sided contracts of adhesion are in this country.
As far as i know this was really never aim of the project. But everybody uses it. I would even say it oppened doors for JS compilation.. because everybody already has build process for css so why not js.
That's counting from LMP, which is incorrect the way you are using it.

It would 3 years and 3.25 months if you want to actually be accurate.
Maybe if your options appeared below the selection rather than above they wouldn’t interfere.
That is what I have been told. It is however clearly messed up.
On the flip side, we have thousands of obviously mentally ill people on the street homeless because we can't commit them because of that human autonomy that you mention.

It all points to public healthcare where there is governance at a political level and not profit level.
Unfortunately the piracy users for kodi now far out-strip the non-piracy users and so kodi gets de-facto associated with piracy. Just like mp3 CDs and bit torrent, when the single biggest mass market appeal for your product is piracy then the product gets associated with piracy.
People can do irrational things under pressure to publish.
From my reading of the code, this microcontroller has 128 bytes of RAM.
Car2GO has a similar setup. You self rate the condition of the car before you accept it (ie, when you unlock it and get in) and after you're done.

If you think the car is damaged they know it likely was the previous renter. It should be the same story when you get in a Lyft. "Is it clean enough?" and "Did you leave it dirty?" are your feedback to the company about how you think the place was left. Maybe add in photographic evidence...
I attended a talk that Dave Hampton gave on the creation of the Furby, it was a lot of fun. For such a "simple" toy there was a lot going on. I picked up a couple of Furbies and did the 'make them talk' hack (basically inserting an SBC with Ethernet into their bodies so that you could feed their audio and animitronic circuits with the output of a text to speech converter. For a while I had one reading out nagios alerts, and yes that is as creepy as it sounds.
While we’re on the topic of fringe candidates, I’d like to plug my all-time favorite political contender: Vermin Supreme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme
Almost all of the attacks on my website have used Tor (trying to get bitcoin from other users).

Sure, attackers can find an alternative. It just won’t be Tor. :)
Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
Lyft changed their policy to prohibit refunding crap rides. (Recently had a driver on their phone the entire ride, blowing through red lights; no material response from support.) Flipped me from a loyalist to (a) logging out of my account and (b) reporting their lawbreaking drivers to New York’s TLC.
I, indeed, did find it interesting and to which I respond, "'dafuq?" I grew up in the U. S., and growing up actually raised sheep. And when you are served adult sheep, you are served "mutton". IOW, the term "mutton" was not "uncommon in the United States" in my part of the country at the time I was growing up.

But that's another time and another place; I'm kind of curious about when the change came about. Partly because, were that article written thirty years ago I would have argued that it is wrong. But I've since become a vegetarian, and might not have gotten the memo when the change came about. Or maybe I've always been wrong, along with all the other hicks I grew up with. :-)
Sounds like a terrible idea if you ever plan to sell your product in another market. Regulators aren't typically big fans of trying to deliberately skirt their regulations.

(I work in the medical software industry.)
The product isn't going anywhere for our customers. That's a big reason we did the deal.
>> And then it takes a second to realize .. wait...that's ..that's just a robot. But our brains make that association because it looks human enough.

When robots become self-aware and ingest the video of us kicking the Boston Dynamics robots and screwing with them with brooms and all that... that's not gonna be good.
They perform quite worse:

https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2018-05-15...
https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2018-05-15...

You can see that for a 5MiB file, hidden services perform 2-3 times slower, I would put most of the blame on data having to travel through more hops when using hidden services.
Matt's schtick is automated, large-scale FOIA requesting; he obtains huge collections of data from cities and then tries to do interesting stuff with it. Here, he apparently managed to get all the tickets in Chicago for several years running, and then used that data to fix the parking signs.

This, to me, is so neat.
[This](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/double-solitu...) piece for The New Yorker is one of my favorites from him.
Sonneborn. Great name for going into politics! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sonneborn
With limitations on the contributions at once and also on the withdrawal (first time home buyers (semi-ok), 10K USD limit - you call that a down-payment?)...

Yeah this is just some silliness and I don't understand why there are so many different types of vehicles.

It seems like there should be a given list of things that are OK for any tax exempt or deferred use, and I don't see why artificially limiting the case of that use is a good thing for society.

The exception should be based around one of two concepts. Either "investing" pre-tax, and being taxed when pulling from the pool, or post-tax and being allowed to spend for allowed uses without any tax. Any profits should be forced to go back in to the same type of pool. Given the fact that taxes are assessed at some point, transferring (at current taxes) from the not-yet-taxed pool type to the already-taxed type should be allowed.
Yeah, I totally get a lot of these points.

Where I get worried with these sort of questions is they mess up incentive structures and get really difficult so quickly! If we say some engineers (or perhaps more accurately, some engineering) creates the wealth, then do we say other types
of engineering doesn't create the wealth? Is integrating a customer creating wealth (possibly?), how about developing a feature that no-one uses (hmm). What about engineering that destroys value / wealth?

I like sales because I have great information asymmetry, but it does come at its costs. I don't like doing things that aren't revenue generating, especially if they seem like moonshots. It makes you short term minded (to a degree), and focused on the dollars involved. Not that these are bad things, but they do limit the way you think about problems.

I think one thing we need to remember is that engineers* have pretty amazing job security. And that's the crux of my point. Should Facebooks engineers have been better compensated for the machine they've built? Possibly. Should they also be on the hook for the havoc they've created? I'd say yes if they're capturing a lot more value (just like Facebooks executives should very much be on the hook).

*in my experience knowing engineers, I have never been one
Probably the only way they can hire decent talent anymore.
Kodi has one of the most arcane UIs I've used in years. Also, you need to find and set up plugins to get streaming going and this is a complicated process. The streams can be good but not worth all the hassle.
This is entertaining but it's completely broken on Chrome mobile in a way I've never seen before.
No higher level languages were ever competitive with assembler for the 6502. The stack model of C is not a good fit, as the 6502 machine stack doesn't give any support for reading or writing stack-based variables. Good performance depends on effective use of the zero-page -- the first 256 bytes of memory which have special addressing modes and allow more efficient access. Registers are few and quirky -- accumulator, two index registers which are not quite interchangeable, a byte stack pointer. All operations are 8 bit; 16 bit calcs like for pointers are costly both in code size and speed.

Back in the 80's and 90's the best compiled languages were probably COBAL and Forth. As far as I know nobody seriously used these for games or applications.

There are more recent C compilers, but the code generation is multiples of size and speed (5* maybe?) away from assembler.
Ask HN: Paypal sucks! Should I start a LLC in the US to be able to use Stripe?
Hello there,

I have a predicament and would like to hear what you think about it.

I'm a freelance frontend developer based in a third world country and the only ways I have to get paid by my clients are Paypal, Transferwise or Wire Transfer.

Here are my issues with those 3:

- Paypal withdrawals take 4-5 days to arrive in my bank account and they charge $10/witdhrawal. Their fees are also 5.4% for my country and, as you most know, their support sucks.

- Transferwise is awesome but I have gotten some pushback from my clients with this method since a lot of them want to use their credit card/PayPal to pay me.

- Wire transfers are too expensive for me and my customers.

After some research, the only solution I see is to open an LLC in the US and travel there to open a bank account (which I can do) and use the new company info to open the Stripe account.

I tried Stripe Atlas but they rejected me because it looks like I posed a financial risk to their banking partners (that's what they said).

What do you guys think about it? Would it be worth it to go through all this hassle just to use Stripe? I keep fearing the day when PayPal freezes my account for no apparent reason (I have heard stories...) and I lose my only way of getting paid.
Does anybody think these clowns are actually going to be around in a decade? I can understand the business desire to censor political minorities to please the majority, but how does doing enforcement for the content cartels generate any goodwill from their users?

It will be interesting to see what happens when their surveillance archives go off to the highest bidder (and are subsequently leaked).
Is WinAmp a piracy player?
I wonder how often the driver had been able to get away with this.

I assume there is an accepted normal rate of passengers vomiting. Maybe something like ~5% for midnight to 6:00am rides.

If a driver goes significantly over that rate, Lyft should be able to spot that something is up way before it gets to tracking down security footage.
There's no way to know for sure. The best option is arguably buying from local producers, who have established reputations for organic operation. But beware of mainstream "organic" designations, because there are huge loopholes.

Also, the truly horrible aspect of this is how persistent these endocrine-disrupting chemicals are, and how they bioaccumulate up the food chain. And not just in the environment, but also in our bodies. In particular, in our fat, given that they're for the most part lipophylic.

Even worse, they're persistent across generations. I recall estimates that, for some compounds, mothers' milk accounts for ~20% of total lifetime exposure. We have indeed been well and truly fucked.
Ask HN: People from whole Africa, startup?
I don't have a lot of friends on living in Africa or that left and left it, for some reasons apparently:

- Better education (ahem)

- Money (maybe)

- Discotheques (don't care)

And sadly because of global warming :'(

Africa is the part of the next two billion users of the Internet that GAFA and Google, in particular, they want to reach.

I am thinking about moving to North Africa to start a startup, I have several ideas and one big idea. That evolves around people using and learning more about their own history past and recent.

Now, You can tell me my idea is old. You can tell me my idea is old. That's NOT the point of the topic!

Do some HNers tried to start a computer science related company in Africa and failed?

+edit: the topic is not about my MVP idea, it's about what works and what doesnt' work in Africa.

For instance, what do people think an Algerian coming 20 years later to its elders country?

Do some HNers successfully started a computer science related company in Africa and succeed?

Q: What are your bits of advice? Good things and Bad things.
Questions for the downvoters: what is your justification?

Do you believe the content of this video is untrue?

Do you disagree with the words I've written?

Is it something else?
What about cigarettes?
Yes, it appears to have been "optimised" at some point. Anyone have the full-res original?

Edit: https://archive.org/details/furby-source
> we have thousands of obviously mentally ill people on the street homeless because we can't commit them because of that human autonomy that you mention.

I think there's more to it than that, if we look at some graphs over time.
Definitely in line with your statement, I ran a forum for years. At one point I found an iptables script that blocked all known Tor endpoints. What happened was, trolls posting gore and porn to a child oriented forum (which had persisted for 2-3 years) immediately and totally stopped. People in these threads point out that "criminals can use a VPN", but in practice it never happened to us. I never once heard from anyone that a legitimate user was impacted.