skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hehe. That reminds me. On an Atari ST based CAD/CAM system I wrote we used a similar trick: a hair thin wire inside the DB25 shell of the Centronics port connected two pins together. In the software we checked for the presence of that wire and if it wasn't there we'd do a huge malloc causing the program to abend with an out of memory error.

Every now and then we'd get people complaining about the software using too much memory but they would never want to leave a phone number or other contact details behind. I don't think anybody every found out about that while the machine was still in production, it was very hard to spot and you had to drill apart the db 25 shell by destroying the two small rivets that held it together. Super silly copy protection but quite effective.
> The presentation of the words is also centered rather than aligned, which requires a saccade for each word, which defeats the whole point.

Does it actually require a saccade?

Testing with a quick and dirty command line RSVP program I have, my speed and comprehension seem about the same with either centered or left aligned. But I'm mostly testing with fiction written for the average adult. The words are usually short enough that they are within the field of good visual acuity no matter where withing them the focus is.

I've not done a comparison using text with a lot of long word.
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It's described as anti-feminist by some critics, namely the critics who are being disingenuous in their use of statistics lacking proper controls, or outright lying or misrepresenting what the statistics mean. It's not the brand of feminism they identify with, but it's still feminism.

Perhaps "proven" wasn't the best word for the parent, you can't ever prove a negative, but considering the wage gap vanishes to less than several cents with proper controls in every serious study, even those done by "pro-feminist" organizations that you claim would be objective[1], it's simply a myth.

Objectively, a gap of 4 to 7 cents may exist, but also may just need further statistical controls[2]. The 70 cent gap oft quoted is entirely meant to incite emotion, social unrest, government action, and is dismissive of the progress that has been made.

[1] http://history.aauw.org/files/2013/01/AAUWGraduatingtoaPayGa... * It's tucked in here, there's dozens of pages going on about the pay gap, but you'll see that in several figures that they talk about the gap with controls versus without them.

[2] https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/public-policy/hr-public-policy... * "Although additional research in this area is clearly needed, this study leads to the unambiguous
conclusion that the differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a
multitude of factors and that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify
corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be
almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers."
close - 'and' .. new user-interface and/or genuinely popular marketing campaign and/or new social drivers can change the dry desert of no-pay to the flowing streams of pay .. ads without consent are somewhat a mimic of broadcast tv/radio .. the future is evolving
And we as a society know that and think it is normal. Crazy.
Most took 5-10 hours, but the photo of the couple covered in black spots took about 15 hours. That one was a woman's only surviving photo of her parents, so she was extremely happy with the results. I did them all for Reddit users for free, and it was very gratifying. I'd recommend fielding Reddit requests as a good way to practice. Here's one I worked on for two days before giving up, early in my stint doing restorations. https://imgur.com/a/56pSsS7 I really should start over, but don't have the drive anymore. I'd say that was my most ambitious attempt. The guy I did it for still had it framed, despite its flaws. Thanks for liking my work!
I'm not saying that trading the GIL for the benefits of C was not a reasonable tradeoff. Nonetheless, it is simply a fact that the GIL is needed because of the constraints imposed by choosing to work in C.
That doesn't mean it can't be a legitimate commentary on a non fictional problem.
I have a different take. Healthcare, education, construction costs are all regulated by governments. Unlike companies, governments are systems of people who thrive from complexity. More complexity = more work, more power, more benefits (direct on indirect).

To give you an example from construction, a company producing a complex part is "giving away" 3 day training in fancy locations, with all hotel & meals paid by the company. As a government employee who gets a fixed salary no matter the results, would you prefer using a product which gives you to these free trainings (free mini-holiday), or using a cheap part which does the same thing, minus the fancy training sessions?

I think the root cause is having some people in charge of other's people money, without clear responsibilities (vs. evaluations which happen in private companies, with the possibility to getting fired anytime if you have a poor performance on result-oriented KPIs), AND having a monopoly. You can't simply start another healthcare or education system, without complying to all existing complex regulations & processes.
> This means I’m required to drive into the urban center for work where parking is already expensive and difficult to find.

Do you mean you literally drive into a city centre at rush hour, park there, and go into an office?

It blows my mind that people are even able to do that. It actually says something perversely positive about US roads and cities that it's possible!

I would not attempt to drive into the centre of a city in the UK for any reason at any time of day ever. You would not make it to your office before the day ended and when you got there you'd simply find there was no parking anyway and you'd have to go home again!
The point is that these people will not be paying the ad networks; they will be paying the content creators ...
All of these applications and a whole lot more are available in Homebrew as well. Which can be kept upgraded with Topgrade [1]

[1] https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade
That's from back in February but more recently others have been saying similar things:

https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/28/17911372/there-are-too-man...
There is absolutely no doubt that all those sites, and many others, are continuously running such experiments.

There are also new financing methods, paywall implementations, prices, cooperations, etc. being tested all the time, with some successes and many failures.

While people here and in general often seem to consider publishers to be rather stupid, I think there's enough evidence at this point to conclude that it has become a particularly difficult business, what with almost half of revenue almost instantly disappearing when classifieds move to the net, and people generally considering to appear out of thin air because the costs of copying are zero.
Make it mandatory leave. No kids? Oh, well, still have to stay home and play video games for six months.
I completely agree - the lack of screenshots in the article was almost as strange as hearing the author wrote their own engine.

Furthermore, a simple Google of the game reveals very, very few results. As others have stated, nothing markets itself.
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We're looking for folks with a dual background in biology and data science for an analyst position. That might mean you're a statistician who has worked on hard biological problems, or a biologist who has gained a lot of technical experience while analyzing their own data. In particular, we need strong visualization, statistics, and data-storytelling skills. We're a Python shop, so experience with the data science in Python (NumPy, Pandas, Notebooks, Matplotlib, etc) is a plus. Our machine learning techniques rely heavily on probabilistic graphical models and Bayesian statistics, but we're not afraid to train a neural net here or there when it makes sense.

Our platform has already been used to successfully classify therapeutics, and we're working with several large pharmaceutical companies to help make better treatments for movement disorders like Lou Gehrig's disease, and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Check out the video accompanying our peer-reviewed publication for an explanation of the technology.

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Here are our academic papers validating the technology:

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Wow , reading comments was quite interesting.

I didn't thought so much people got "exhausted" by Angular. I personally tried it ( v2 , v4 , v5 , v6) and i really fell in love with it.

I use mostly Vue and Angular they complete each others very well , i prefer NGRX over Vuex and Angular native support for Typescript.

Typescript with Vue is a bit of hassle to set up and maintain, but with this new update this a bit of a game changer.

It appeals to a larger audience , especially those looking to build large scale project , while keeping the core of the community.

Really great news.
The ham radio spectrum is specifically regulated to require training because you will be using uncertified radio equipment that can communicate on whatever band you want, not just the ham radio ones.
"You can try out Git for free. To use it regularly, you must buy a license."

Which license does this notice message refer to? This is completely wrong!
And my point is that content creators will prefer to be paid more by advertisers, one you've proven you have money to spare.
More so a response to the parent that the article in the OP was an argument from incredulity. Still not convinced that arguing for impossibility is the same as arguing form incredulity, if you have a good argument for impossibility.

So for example, Chalmers arguing that consciousness can't be reduced to physics is not an argument from incredulity. Rather, it's an argument that it's conceptually impossible. People might disagree with either Bohr or Chalmers arguments, but that's different from them committing this particular fallacy, unless it can be pointed out how Bohr or Chalmers were arguing from a failure of imagination.
If I knew what the acronyms meant, maybe I could tell you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSG

??? I know what markdown is.
In Sproggiwood, the story takes place around dives into the dungeons. Each dive is "rogue like" but the overall progression outside each dive is persistent.

I think this is the best way to do a random dungeon roguelike with a story.

That said, I wouldn't sell Sproggiwood on its story in particular, just the arrangement of everything. The game is fun because it's a good bite size style of roguelike for a phone with interesting/fun mechanics in play.
Sure.

But why did he do that to start? Seems like focusing time on the content instead of the engine would’ve made him feel like he ‘wasted’ less time.
> People think they have to surrender agency and personal dignity for basic services.

who seriously thinks this? the only services i can think of off the top of my head that don't have viable paid alternatives are facebook and google search. and there's at least one decent alternative to google search that is a bit more privacy focused.

for most people, privacy isn't even worth a $5 monthly subscription.
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This is exactly why I fell off of the aquisition pipeline as well. I actually went looking to find out what the game was about. Cool, a play now link! Err...I'm not playing yet and there's a barrier to entry and lots of text and nah! Back to HN.

Put up some screenshots, even a game play video, give me the short version and let me get playing.

Edit: went back and found the screenshots on the home page, so apologies for missing that. Though missing them was quite easy, perhaps consider putting others on some of the play now pages, etc
> a framework that has a forward path to the latest OS features.

Microsoft usually adds support of OS features into old frameworks. For example, they have added touch support into their 25+ years old MFC.

Technically speaking, WPF gets updated regularly with each release of .NET framework. For example, in 4.6.2 they have implemented per-monitor DPI scaling support.

As a developer, I like stable APIs, and frameworks which don’t break my code with version upgrades.
Although I want to, it's hard to justify shipping price of 17$ over t-shirt price of 10$.
a potpourri it may be but it is a response to your question about why I think this is an especially bad time frame. I see no reason not to consider them relevant and I also see them as being indicators that things could be a lot better. Based on this my original comment was a desire to try to increase positivity.
React is a great framework, the only thing I couldn't find is a great solution to have runtime templates. I know they're not optimal but for some small projects it's better to eliminate the build step. Of course no one in the right mind would manually write render functions.
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If such discrimination exists (it probably does), this will just change the bias to be against anyone who is part of a young, potentially child-bearing couple.

It also seems utterly against my rights as a human, and unconstitutional.
I am sure the equipment hasn't been upgraded or the codes even changed in decades. And the code was probably 1234.
This one was pretty good and goes into deeper details instead of just claiming x is better than y: https://medium.com/@swizec/some-thoughts-on-vue-after-deploy...

The fundamental difference between React and Vue is vision. React bets on functional programming and moves closer to reaching its goal, perhaps shedding the last OOP parts some day.

Vue follows an older paradigm, Angulars basically, but with React underpinnings. It's heavily inspired by OO templating, pseudo code mixed into html. Perhaps the gravest difference if you come from React is that it encourages mutation, to an extent that now forces it to maintain two incompatible versions going forward due to IE11's lack of proxies.
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Unless you "save for retirement" by putting canned food in a basement, all you're doing is arranging for some sort of entitlement to a share of the production of a future generation of workers. That's true whether you're talking about social security paid with tax dollars, dividends paid on stock holdings, etc. Those are all abstractions over an arrangement in which a working generation gives up some of the surplus of its labor to the retired generation.
I think that the current ideas of dark matter is that it is formed by some kind of particles that don't interact too much with normal matter, and also that don't interact too much between themselves. So it is more like a gas than something that is solid or liquid, so [I think] [that the current guess is that] there are no dark life forms.

For example see https://www.forbes.com/sites/jillianscudder/2016/12/22/astro... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Composition_of_dar...

As always, remember that this is a very new, difficult to measure, not very understand problem, so future results may change this guess.
Such a double standard.

Every time an open source project complains about the challenges of monetization (see the recent Redis controversy), people say "Don't like other companies making money off your software? Then don't license it that way!"

But now that someone is actually doing that, people are not happy.

My hypothesis is that people's opinion on this subject depends on what's convenient for them, and is not necessarily a reflection on whether the act itself is a good one or not.

People can already get all these CLI apps very conveniently from a package manager, for free, and that is the reason why the idea of a paid app store disgusts people.

Every time a GPL vs BSD conversation comes up, most people support BSD, saying that it's "more free". But I think the true reason is that people want to be able to use BSD-licensed libraries in their apps, which they profit from.

Why were so many people against Redis Labs trying to protect their revenue streams? I think it's because people felt threatened that they may have to pay more in the future.

We, as a community, need to make up our minds and stop being misled by our own agendas. It is fine to have one's own agenda but stop conflating that with moral issues.
> Also... no Linux version? Really?

You're criticizing an indie game developer who feels he just wasted 3 years of his life making a failure, for not spending the extra year or whatever it'd take for it to be cross-platform?
True enough but would your GP have the specialist knowledge for all possible uses of ultrasound is the real issue.
Somewhat. Mostly an attempt to better understand virality but yes. Memes.
I question companies prohibiting basic human rights. Free speech is a basic human right.

Link to UN human rights
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Right number 19.
Article 19.
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

So its a basic human right to be able to express how fast or slow Atlassians products are.

Further First Amendment to United states constitution

Amendment I

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
You either have a democratic legitimacy or you rule by power. If you have power to rule, you have power to change legislation at will. So it becomes rather meaningless.

So, if you refer to western democracies, the one necessitates the other anyway.

And in this case, surveillance as part of the executive branch of a government can have a severe and chilling penalty to any form of democratic decision-making process.
Yup, it sucks but is ultimately necessary. Having parking minimums is a big part of why there are no good alternatives much of the time, after all: why even build alternatives where abundant parking
everywhere is legally mandated?
OP counts tracking conversions with the FB pixel being part of the evil ad tracking syndicate.
You need to find as soon as possible trusted people that can tell you how bad is your idea/game play/sound/narrative so you can fix it or do something else. Most will just be polite to you or be trolls.
I doubt most of these tool companies make much of their money from small indies. For one, a lot of these small indies seem obsessed with writing their own tools (there was a good article on here a few months ago about "how to take seven years to ship your indie game"). For another thing, a lot of the biggest tools are moving a model where you pay out of royalties rather than up front (Unreal Engine being a recent high profile example). Precisely because so many indie devs want to use these tools but can't afford them, so this payment model allows them to pay off the back end rather than up front.
They claim the same for those. How they implement that is a good question.
This is why AirDrop only works on some newer hardware: It requires Wi-Fi interfaces which can do Ad-Hoc and Infrastructure mode simultaneously.
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Plus when there were only two levels of page tables it didn’t matter that much. Now that we’re starting to see for and even five it’s becoming an issue.
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Why isn't it possible?

More likely it's just not profitable, because most people are only willing to spend so much money paying for parking, and often "downtown" land is quite expensive.
I would say that nowadays is not that difficult to have a game that works on both Windows and Linux.

Also, it is a legit thing to point out when and developer complains about the lack of sales.
That's the difference between computer science and software engineering. Software engineering has only a single hard problem: people.
Those are different issues entirely.

Right now, a party that is independent of the original developers has attempted to charge money for the work. There's no indication that the original authors consented to this, and there's no assurance besides some platitudes in a blog post that the authors will receive any part of the payment
I read that as a joke, personally.
What are 'parking minimums'?
They are openly lying about the terms. Click the "trial license" (what?) text on any of the shop pages and read

> You can try out Pandoc for free. To use it regularly, you must buy a license.

They do not detail how they intent to share the money with the authors. Did they prepare with all the authors, are or they collecting money in their name without them agreeing to that? E.g. money paid to buy something is different than a donation from a tax perspective: how many authors are actually going to go to the paperwork to get the money?
I'm not sure.

I think some folks are reacting to the forced paternity leave bit. And in one sense, I understand - but women don't realistically have those choices and I think most doctors would rather women didn't get right back to work. The other bit, as you've said in another reply, is that women get stuck with the assumption that she's going to take maternity leave and there is nothing the company can do about it. If it is extended to males, companies would have to worry about that with everyone and they'd rather not, thank-you-very-much.

Offering is, I think, is both wonderful and not enough. If I understand correctly (immigrant here), Norway used to require some paternity leave and had a portion of parental leave that could be split between the two parents. At some point, the government quit making paternity leave a requirement, but still leaving it in place if the father wanted it and still allowing parental leave to be split between the parents.

... and fewer fathers took paternity leave at that point.

The thing with not only offering but requiring such things is that it helps to change societal norms and expectations as long as they are offered for enough time. When it is simply optional, safeguards need to be put into place. I'm not the one to ask what the safeguards should be at the moment :)
Strictly limiting parking is unnecessary. Market-oriented policies for parking and traffic (congestion charges) combined with solid support of alternatives (protected bike lanes, protected intersections, bus lanes, light rail/subways) are sufficient to encourage a balanced transportation distribution.
A wrongful termination lawsuit in a case like this should cost no money (contingency) and take very little time and energy, if you have the right lawyers. Arbitration would be even less commitment, with potentially less upside.