skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
User Centered Design doesn't have to be BS but mostly is because it's used mostly as a get out of jail card more than as an actual tool.

Here is a critique I made of UCD back in 2010,

https://medium.com/@hello_world/getting-to-the-customer-why-...

UCD still have the same issue which is that it requires transcendence between insights and solution which is much less solid than what people suggest.

So what I mean with don't buy the BS is don't think that design thinking as a process is going to improve anything for you if you don't have the right people at the right places implementing it and even then it's not actually clear how much value it provides.
>They said this is partly because they get access to deals that don't hit the wider market and you need serious cash to get in the room to have that chat.

This is something I hear a lot and I just don't get. Are the people on the other side of those deals just...not greedy? After all, you are implying that the deal has better expected returns than what people are buying on margin in public markets, so why doesn't the person on the other side of the deal take a little more for themselves by selling there instead (at a slightly more favorable interest rate)?

Is it because the rich investors are needed to bring some level of expertise or connections to the investment to make it work? If that's the case, and it seems likely, I would not say they are getting "access to better deals" per se. More like they are getting a normal rate of return and they have a valuable asset that they are renting out as well (their expertise or connections), and it all gets rolled into one number. But complaining about the rich having valuable assets is different from complaining about them having access to better investment opportunities.
The article said the signal is stronger. That is the new anti-jamming countermeasure.
It's already done. Now we just need to improve the efficiency of such processes.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientis...
>You pay a monthly fee of your choice to the browser...

You DON'T pay a monthly fee for anything.
That statement was terribly misleading.
Interactive Beginner's Guide to ROP
I thought the donation was to some other group making political memes and not a candidate....?
Yep, just fire up any free-walking VR game and try to move around. I never get motion sick but it still feels very strange to move without walking.
So, then, with only a single owner left, owning the last remaining share: Who else gets parts of the profits, and which other people get to cast votes in elections to the board?

Edit: Quote from your link

By reducing the number of outstanding shares, a company's earnings per share (EPS) ratio is automatically increased – because its annual earnings are now divided by a lower number of outstanding shares.
how could you trademark 0s in the middle?

By talking to the French patent office, circa 1950s, apparently. I don't know what you're on about with the rest, but I'm just parroting what's well-documented, you're welcome to go look it up.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/fungus-eats-polyurethane-A...
Wait, you're telling me he could have turned $1M into $3B just through investing in mutual funds?
SQL does way less things than a full-blown logic programming system
Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019
One more reason to stick with gcc. It's not the same gcc as ten years ago anymore. RMS and gpl is ahead of its time.
> I believe having a system based on trust can be a viable solution.

Whats that mean? Something between existing rating systems and "social credit system"??
More like the George RR Martin of Silicon Valley
Seems to me Linux is the primary project affected by this?
YOYO, Locking Popping breaking

Check it! Check it!
I am eagerly awaiting the next bubble. I hope it will be the worst since the great depression. I will
probably lose my job but that's OK - It will be worth it; all the bankrupt corporations and the jailed executives
will need replacements which means more opportunities for everyone else.
No. When you read the patents you'll realize that Jull vapes were designed mimic the psychopharmacology of cigarettes, which everyone knows are pretty damn addictive. Regular vapes have a different chemistry. You hope that Juul gets sued out of existence and that the FDA rouses itself to action.
I think Microsoft just wants to give up on the browser market/share/innovation (for business reasons ofcourse </snark>). They just needed to have a default browser installed on their system and hence just wants to rebrand chromium and drop it in their default installation.

If they really cared, they could have adopted Gecko/Spidermonkey atleast.
I've done a project with the same stack, and our approach ended up being almost exactly the same (I used mod for go dependencies and yarn for vue). One thing I don't really like about it is having the compiled front end site checked in as public in the repo.

I was hoping to find a way for heroku to detect the subproject in the client directory, build it and deploy it as part of the heroku push. I've tried numerous approaches, and all failed for one reason or another. Did you experience the same? Does anyone else have suggestions as to how to make something like that work?
Tensorflow.js at the Edge
You are using the word "need" in an unconventional sense.
Interesting Android Apps on Google Play
To his great credit, Knuth included McIlroy's critique, in full and without response, when he published Literate Programming. Knuth also conceded in an earlier chapter that literate programming was probably a crazy idea and that promoting it was perhaps an act of madness! It's delightful that we live in a world where there's room both for industrial-strength Fabergé eggs and hack-it-together pipelines. :)
It doesn't just "change the referer". It redirects you to Facebook, which redirects you back to WSJ.

If you don't want Facebook to know which articles you read, there are web extensions to fake the referer. I'm using https://github.com/JoaoAparicio/read-ft-wsj .
Well if someone is even able to describe the other side in a nuanced way, breaking down some of the points of view of the various factions that make up each side...I would say they're half way there.

A cynical, disparaging term is opinion, not fact. So you can't be "factually correct" when evaluating someone's opinion.
Small assault-style rifle firms thriving under activists' radar
I think they've recently added support over HTTP.
This is nice and I like the advice to not dwell on the past. I can see the temptation to do this as I grow older.

One sentence, though, I disagree with is "One’s thoughts must be directed to the future." I understand what he is saying, but I think better advice would be "One’s thoughts must be directed to the present." His main advice seems to be to find something that interests you enough so that you are happy to do it every day - to me, something like this keeps you focused on the present and not the future.
https://www.ft.com/content/61684fa6-d2f6-11e8-a9f2-7574db66b...
'Can Germany survive the 'iphone' moment for cars?' in FT, a good write up of why Europe and North America are ceding the vehicle industry to Chinese EV's.
I can't see this ending well for the western automotive ecosphere.
This is a single anecdote.
Sure but how much of them went extinct?

I am not strong on early stage primordial soup and what went on there but I find it a little hard to believe that something went completely extinct and then something completely new appeared. Surely there must be something that survived no?
This seems to serve a purpose similar to Rook [0] for deploying distributed (or non-distributed) storage systems, including database. For example, Rook can deploy CockroachDB and also Ceph, which would have a lot of the same challenges as deploying some of the databases supported by KubeDB.

[0]: https://rook.io

disclaimer: red hat employee working some on rook.
If that's what people understood as implied, it was not what I meant to imply and I apologize. What I meant by that was, you can only buy back stocks up until the point where you run out of money. Not that you HAVE to, but if your goal is to manipulate your share price, you can only do it up to the point where you're out of money. If I'm spending money from my savings account, there is no law saying I have to spend all the money in my savings account, just a law saying I can only spent up to the balance in my savings account.

I guess you assumed I was arguing that companies who do buybacks must dump all of their money into buybacks, which I certainly did not mean to imply. Big difference between "able to" and "must".

The point is, if you as a company are trying to manipulate your share price in a down market by buying back stocks and you choose to continue buying your stock until the market rises again, you're taking the risk that you will run out of money before the stock market rises again. At that point your share prices fall no matter what.
Yeah but those skills could have been improved by doing other things too. I.e. it's not WOW as such that just a vehicle for developing skills.
If you like this game, you might find this project interesting:

http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/shadama2/live2017/

http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/shadama2/

It's a bit similar, but uses GPU and spawns millions of particles. On the other hand, it's less of a sandbox and more of a demo. You can write your own code in the browser too, but it's a bit tricky to program, because it compiles to shader language and it has some weird limitations.
China can mine their own raw materials for EV batteries. All the major ingredients (lithium, cobalt, nickel) can be dug up on their own soil, dramatically reducing the cost. If anything, that right there is a major cost savings and a boost to their production.
A Panel: The Changing Token Economy and Why ICO Regulation Is a Must
I’ve posted this comment on HN before, but this is my best Knuth story:

In the 70's I had a co-worker, perhaps the best programmer in the department, that had gone to school with Knuth. He told me that one day while in college Knuth was using one of the available key-punch machines to punch his program on cards. My friend was ready to punch his program so he stood nearby to wait for Knuth to finish. Knuth, working on a big program, offered to Keypunch my friends program before finishing his own because my friend's program was shorter and Knuth could keypunch quite fast.

While watching over Knuth's shoulder, my friend noticed Knuth speeding up and slowing down at irregular intervals. Later he asked him about that and Knuth replied that he was fixing the bugs in my friend's Fortran as he punched it out.
That's a good one. It's one of the classic examples of the Unix philosophy and how pipelines can be powerful, although of course not applicable in all cases, and they have their issues too - which often becomes an argument on HN (about text streams vs. object pipes a la PowerShell, etc.).

I had seen it a while ago and blogged about it here, with solutions (approx.) in Python and shell:

The Bentley-Knuth problem and solutions:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-bentley-knuth-proble...

Also, previous HN thread about it here:

Revisiting Knuth and McIlroy's word count programs (2011) (franklinchen.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15264997
'Treasure trove' of dinosaur footprints found in southern England
This looks interesting, and I'm going to try it. Alternatively if you want something a little more lightweight but less-feature packed, there's http://www.pivpn.io
The sole reason that the path to public markets is a long and compliance-ridden one is enough to seek private investment. It's much harder to raise money in public markets than private ones.
Python 3 Comes of Age
Could you talk more about the process of moving to Poland and what you do for work? Remote or do you get a local salary?
This is hn -- software-in-development fits well here :)

This site? You mean this software?
Huh? The current version of the GPL has a similar patent clause, and its no different in the treatment of object code AFAICT?
Is the fraud that much worse in China than in the US?

Plenty of places have friendly policies and are taken advantage of by a few, but they keep the policy because people like it.

There always will be those people.

I often hear "oh we can't do that, people will take advantage of it" then someone comes along and somehow doesn't go under and does well.

I think sometimes people and businesses are far more fearful of a potential risk than the actual impact.
I find this hard to believe. Got a link?
Oh, I meant to get solids conducting heat ;p
Are you accusing someone of being misleading while calling Steve fucking Bannon “an ex-journalist”?

Christ.. I don’t think this level of obfuscation should be left unchallenged. What are you trying to do here exactly?
Switching to Apache 2.0 plus some license compatibility exceptions means we should stick with GCC... why, exactly?

EDIT: if whoever downvoted me can answer that, then that'd be much appreciated.
Playing the “Russia Card” in the JEDI Competition Is a Sign of Desperation
Probably because it’s a relatively new problem. People drink more water than other drinks like Coke, so the impact factor is high. We also have infrastructure to deliver water without bottles (the tap), but we don’t for other drinks.
Or, if you prefer a book: http://t3x.org/amk/index.html
From https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=18801

Basilisk exists "to demonstrate and make use of the [UXP] platform," according to Basilisk's Github site. Moonchild and/or Tobin (can't remember the exact posts) said here in the forum that it will continue to exist, essentially as a perpetual beta, because it will continue to be used to demonstrate the capabilities of the platform.

Pale Moon will continue to exist, and is currently in the process of being ported to UXP. That will eventually be released as Pale Moon version 28. Once this version of Pale Moon has been released, Basilisk will continue to exist as a separate browser. And Pale Moon will also continue to exist as a separate browser.
You can get chat and phone support with Pixel and with Google Fi;not clear if you and other commenters know that.
Complexity systems researcher, Didier Sornette, did something similar in 2009 for [The Financial Bubble Experiment: advanced diagnostics and forecasts of bubble terminations](0):

• ...We do not make this document public. Instead, we make its digital fingerprint public. We generate three digital
fingerprints for each document, with the publicly available (1) MD5 hash algorithm [1] and (2) 256 and 512 bit
versions of the SHA-2 hash algorithm [2] [3]. This creates three strings of letters and numbers that are unique
to this file. Any change at all in the contents of this file will result in different MD5 and SHA-2 signatures.

• We create the first version of our main document, containing the first two sections of this document, a brief
description of our theory and methods, the MD5 and SHA-2 hashes of our first forecast and the date (1 May
2010) on which we will make the first original .pdf document public.

• We upload this main ‘meta’ document to http://arxiv.org. This makes public our experiment and the MD5
and SHA-2 hashes of our first forecast. In addition, it generates an independent timestamp documenting the
date on which we made (or at least uploaded) our forecast. arxiv.org automatically places the date of when
the document was first placed on its server as ‘v1’ (version 1). It is important for the integrity of the experiment
that this date is documented by a trusted third party.

• We continue our research until we find our next confident forecast. We again put the forecast results in a .pdf
document and generate the MD5 and SHA-2 hashes. We now update our master document with the date and
digital fingerprint of this new forecast and upload this latest version of the master document to arxiv.org.
The server will call this ‘v2’ (version 2) of the same document while keeping ‘v1’ publicly available as a way
to ensure integrity of the experiment (i.e., to ensure that we do not modify the MD5 and SHA-2 hashes in the
original document). Again, ‘v2’ has a timestamp created by arxiv.org.

• Notice that each new version contains the previous MD5 and SHA-2 signatures, so that in the end there will be
a list of dates of publication and associated MD5 and SHA-2 signatures.

• We continue this protocol until the future date (1 May 2010) at which time we upload our final version of the
master document. For this final version, we include the URL of a web site where the .pdf documents of all of
our past forecasts can be downloaded and independently checked for consistent MD

0: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0454
The video is must-watch for those who are unfamiliar with the many ways in which shady vendors game Amazon's systems to scam customers.

Speaking as a longtime Amazon customer:

* I do feel the authenticity of products in some categories can no longer be taken for granted on Amazon. For example, if I search for electronics, the search results look like "a sea of endless crap," full of the kinds of products you might find at a counterfit-goods store in a shady part of town.

* Product search no longer works as well as it did in the past for me. Frequently, I find myself having to invest time and effort to identify which items are of decent or good quality in that "sea of endless crap." I find myself having to click on results and scan descriptions to find products that are sold "by Amazon" instead of third parties, to minimize worry.

* Product reviews and ratings no longer seem trustworthy. It's not just that there are large operations cranking out fake reviews every day,[a] but that I often find it time-consuming to sort out which reviews are true versus fake. Fake reviewers seem to be getting better and better at fooling human beings.

Over the past year, I've started going to local "brick and mortar" retailers like Best Buy more and more, because I find they provide a better-curated shopping experience. There are fewer products from which to choose, but I feel more certain that they're authentic and of known quality.

I'm hoping Amazon will address all these issues... soon.

[a] For example, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18262101
Robotic Farming Startup Farmbot Open Sources the (Whole) Company
My favorite Knuth quote:

One of the first times I was ever asked about the title of my books was in 1966, during the last previous ACM national meeting held in Southern California. This was before any of the books were published, and I recall having lunch with a friend at the convention hotel. He knew how conceited I was, already at that time, so he asked if I was going to call my books "An Introduction to Don Knuth." I replied that, on the contrary, I was naming the books after him. His name: Art Evans. (The Art of Computer Programming, in person.)
Thanks for the link, quote:

> by adesh » Fri, 06 Apr 2018, 17:23
Okay. You know what Pale Moon is, right? It is a browser built from some old (how old? scour forum) Mozilla platform code which does not have latest shinies built-in. Note that old does not mean useless and insecure, you know that. It's because Moonchild makes sure important security fixes released by Mozilla are ported timely. Also, Pale Moon has many extra modifications done on top of Mozilla codebase, most notable of which is its classic UI.

Now, Basilisk. Well, Basilisk is also a browser, just like Pale Moon (and Firefox), built from relatively newer (something around FF 52) Mozilla codebase. Again, this is built after making some substantial modifications to the codebase - e.g. after removing devilish pieces of code and putting in some necessary optimizations. However, Moonchild decided not to change the "look and feel" of this browser, so it is very similar to Firefox in look and feel (and feature set too). That means most of the changes are made under the hood.
https://archive.is/3VGLm , but there's isn't much content beyond the video.

You should be able to download the video with youtube-dl.
Cool! Would be nice to include a brief description of the materials type (Ex: glossy or paper) in the description of each sticker.
My interpretation is that this is mostly a project for the die-hard users who lost support for niche extensions they really liked when XUL left mainstream Firefox... it reads mostly like they intend to maintain it as a time capsule. "No different from last time" is exactly the main selling feature.
This kind of dehumanization isn't at all new in factory-type environments.

Frederick Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management[1] was very popular 100 years ago, and included things like time and motion studies[2] which served to optimize processes as much as possible and remove individual variations as much as possible. The whole point was pretty much to make every worker a replaceable cog in the industrial machine.

I'd argue that this is actually pretty much what happened - and as the abilities of robots and other forms of automation grew, it was easy to replace humans because so much of the work had already been precisely measured and systematized.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principles_of_Scientific_M...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study
What it allows is portions of the compiler runtime library to be embedded into your program without changing any licensing effects of your program. GCC has a similar exception to their GPL for similar reasons.
That's why I added that a game is something you "play".

I'd suggest that in order to make something into a game, the user is adding "playfulness", which is pretty subjective and may or may not include a simple goal.

In an open game or fun simulation, the player is going to be coming up with their own goals or roles of play. Or maybe they will just be going with a simple open ended goal of curious exploration.
https://youtu.be/DmbGs290qeM
> If anyone can point to a place where a sovereign democracy with reserve currency status ever went bankrupt or suffered ill effects from too much debt

Plenty of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_debt_crises
> I guess you assumed I was arguing that companies who do buybacks must dump all of their money

No, wrong again. People take issue with your representation of stock buybacks as "short-term market manipulation". The major effect of buybacks comes not (just) from the increase in demand, but from lowering the denominator future profits are divided by. It directly increases earnings per share.
Geneticists make new discovery about how a baby's sex is determined
As I understand it, if motion sickness were not a thing then it would enable a lot more compromises on the performance of VR headsets and the games that play on them. Dropping framerate and stuttering in these games is 100% unacceptable at the moment because it instantly induces intense motion sickness (unlike when the same thing happens on a conventional screen and it's merely irksome).
Kind of sad that compliance never given as much importance as it should have... What good is a fast server if it doesn't fully comply w/ the spec? Luckily, there are some, like Apache httpd, that do both.
I'm pretty sure the intention is that it does not allow that. Notice that they say "as a result of your compiling your source code".

That is intended to mean that if the compiler copies in some binary code (to implement a compiler primitive or the like), that it doing so does not require you to treat that code like it is licensed under the LLVM terms.

Note that the LLVM source code is not "your source code", so simply copying in the LLVM source and compiling it will not trigger this exception.

That is not to say that there might not be a loophole. E.G., modifying LLVM to always copy all of its binary code into the resulting exececutable (and licensing those changes under this license), and then compiling a program that wants to embed LLVM. I'd like to think that courts would refuse to allow such abuse, but who really knows.