skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're arguing about (and what I'm arguing about) is not what their actual motivations were, it's about language.

If you're happy with technological change -- except for technology you don't like -- are you for or against technology?

If you're happy with free speech -- except for speech you want to ban -- are you for or against free speech?
Surprised that we haven’t seen a class action suit against Onity and/or the hotel chains that used their locks after the hack was known and they weren’t patching it.
yeah malware vector is quite an accusation
Inigo is a pioneer living decades ahead of the field. Utterly futuristic approach to graphics.
Google wins U.S. approval for radar-based hand motion sensor
I did not deny there was plenty of crap. Do they have more than one brand of orange juice though? Is one of them good? Do they sell at least some quality products? It’s been a long time since I was last in an Aldi or Lidl but the answer to the second at least was yes. Their bread was great and they had tons of quite good Italian ham, cheese and preserved and condiments that were just not previously available at those price points.
For more on this, check out the PBS Frontline on child slave labor in an Ohio egg farm: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trafficked-in-americ...
Also, the number of sovereign nations is just one measure of centralization of power. Economic structures are now more centralized than ever (with, in many cases, a handful multinational megacorps controlling most of each sector).
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That would actually solve the problem. The goal is ineffective grandstanding so the problem can keep being used as a divisive get out the vote issue (by both parties) in future elections. Better verification would also cost far less than a wall, making it a less effective way to distribute pork.
> "This was more of a copyright claim than censorship."

Why should taxpayer-funded creations be copyrighted? They should be in the public domain by default, like in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th...
There was a mutiny on a Skylab mission due to overworking the crew
Further, I would argue that you cannot use the character even if you explicitly state you are not Disney because Disney's primary consumers are children and even with a disclaimer the mere use of the mark would likely cause consumer confusion.

Ahh, but were I opposing counsel I would argue that the children young enough to be unable to read and comprehend the clear disclaimer that this is not a Disney production are also too young to have made the purchasing decision and therefore cannot be considered a market participant / consumer.
It's only a thing inside a Silicon Valley bubble. There are plenty of people who are proud to make the world a better and safer place working for the military.
I'll share my last car buying experience. We had done our homework and more or less knew within a couple within a couple of models, which car we wanted.

After going through the test drives and the stupid dance with a couple of dealerships, the process smoothed out.

I checked out a few regional dealers, and called 3 different ones for prices. 2 of them were willing to me prices over the phone. Great. I found another regional dealer which had this "amazon-style" process. I could configure the car I wanted on their website, and it showed me the price. It was the best of the 3 prices I was quoted, so I "placed my order".

I got an auto-responder email email saying that paperwork was on the way and salesperson would be in touch. The guy called to discuss the trade in process, and tell me how the paperwork would be handled. In about 3 days I had a new car, delivered to my house, having never set foot in a dealership. They even did the trade in estimate remotely (I took some photos and sent them in).

Hopefully that's the trend things move in the future. It was a breeze.
Long-lasting rings would be - fundamentally all you need for a ring to form is some debris and a gravity well.

To be clear, something that "doesn't last long" on an astronomical timescale could still quite happily exist stably for several dozen human lifetimes.
I found this video very strange, it looks heavily cut, with an odd conversation that comes across as a bit awkward and forced
Facebook Censoring Ads Depicting 'Ideal Physical Body Image'
See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/adgroup/f... for IDEALIZED_BODY description. I was skeptical of this tweet at first, but it appears legitimate.
If anyone is near the Pittsburgh, PA area, Pinball PA has a working version of the sit down (and I think the upright too?) for play. Played it and it is an experience that still holds up. I'd recommend a visit for anyone with an arcade interest or nostalgia itch: https://www.pinballpa.com/
Roadmap to becoming a Web Developer in 2019
The consensus appears to be no among people with no power to effect those decisions. The consensus among legislators and members of the public who could change the minds of legislators is quite different.
You may be confusing it with Atari's Battlezone, which was a black and white vector game, with a green gel overlay on the screen to create "color".
If blog posts published as Twitter threads make you as impotently outraged as they do me, try this: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1079759096272818178.html
Today's most popular blockchain application is centralized exchanges. The main use case is to send fiat, play with the markets and then hopefully withdraw more fiat than you put in. The improvement over traditional online gambling is minimal.

The Silk Road, which kickstarted Bitcoin adoption, brought a much more interesting improvement over the status-quo. Suddenly, acquiring illegal drugs was easy and safe(r). That was the Napster of blockchain.

We will talk about blockchain again when a similarly disruptive use case is found/created. We're missing a couple of crucial pieces of infrastructure before the "people's money" use case can even be put to the test (decentralized fiat on ramps, convenient wallets, scalable price stability, fast confirmations).
I’m sure they care more than that. Global opinion matters, especially if it can influence policy makers, particularly citizens in the western developed countries.
Thanks I was going to respond and say the same thing.
When my youngest daughter was still a toddler, she would try to swipe on our 32" bedroom TV that was more or less at her height.
What I'm trying to say is that your mileage might vary. I think it all depends on their experiences.

If something looks like a button and they try to push it, is because in real life buttons have a certain look and feel.

But I'm pretty certain that if you teach them at an early age to discern what does what in a flat UI, they'll have no problem switching from one UI to the other (I actually learned _from her_ that in the Android YT app you can swipe those pesky lower right corner videos to make them go away).
And we're still to try flat in real life ;)
I think this is a delicate balance as a user.

On one hand, I understand the commenters frustration over constantly changing API's. I understand that it is difficult and not fun and a lot of work.

On the other hand, as a user, I appreciate the fact that Apple forces people to update their code. I don't know how true it is, but there are roomers that Microsoft didn't release Windows 9 in fear of code that checked to see if the Windows version started with "9". Look at Windows first party apps, you have things like control panel and settings, two apps that have no excuse for being duplicates besides the fact that Microsoft refuses to stop supporting legacy code.

In my opinion, software is something to be maintained. Maintenance is ugly and isn't glamorous (won't see BBEdit on product hunt anytime soon), but is necessary. I think the user and developer experience would be worth is software written 25 years ago ran perfectly on my computer, I don't want that.
If you're near a city that can sustain such a business, you can in fact rent fancy cars you'd never otherwise be able to afford.
> Economic systems are rather like cellular automata. They either splutter around for a while and die out, or they take over the board and assimilate everything.

This metaphor is amazing. I wanted to reply that cellular automata can in fact produce highly-localized, stable systems (like glider cannons in Conway's GoL). Then I realized that while those systems are stable, they are also so brittle that a single flipped bit will destroy them incredibly fast. That sounds a lot like economics.
But if that is the case (that people want easily digestible pop), then wouldn't the most popular music be easily digestible pop? I don't see how not using analytics would change that.
I don't understand your beef with describing it as a Go project. Most of the common pentesting tools are in Python or Ruby.

I've been hoping Go would replace Ruby and Python as the language for security and pentesting tooling, so in that respect I'm happy to see this and hope for more.
Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now
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If you want to be sure that you're watching the Disney original, just look for the video that says "Steamboat Willie, presented by Disney". That's what trademark law protects - it stops other businesses from passing off on your reputation.
Saudi Arabia is 100% backed by Israel and Israel controls the media and most politicians through AIPAC and so on, so good luck with that.
I think the idea is that you generate the matrix outside the renderer, then pass the matrix to the renderer. Euler angles are evil[0], and if you're using them (especially inside the renderer) > you are most probably doing things wrong.

0: https://www.sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/eulers_are_evil.html
> We have rules about how road signs should look.

Probably a bad example because its signs on public, state owned roads. Private roads don't have signage requirements, you can even have your kids drive your cars without a license on private roads.

However we do have building code and more importantly the ADA which sets standards for businesses (like, ya know, websites) to meet minimum accessibility standards.

The problem is I don't see any congress where the average number of mathematicians within their ranks is within a margin of error of 0 or rarely enough scientists to fill counting on one hand being capable of writing actually good regulation in this or any software related regard.
New Center, Woodbridge, and North End is where I'm currently investing. Property no where as cheap as 10 years ago but you still see stories like this: https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2018/12/27/detroi...
Actually this happened 5 or 6 times already and crypto rebounded within a couple years every single time.

So, there was no “told you so” moment for me at least. If you're apt to invest in new technologies and don't invest in crypto soon, there will be a big “I told you so” moment for yourself I think.

(imo people being forced to admit they were wrong and missed a golden opportunity is part of the reason for the extreme hatred of cryptocurrencies. As a counterexample, there isn't any hatred of Linux, for not conquering the desktop, which is a technology which also failed to meet expectations. The funny part of it is, is that the negative feelings towards themselves for not investing get projected onto the technology itself, meaning they are blind to the positive sides of it. This manifests as the boom/crash cycle as we see it, since most people are blind to the progress of the technology until it is in their face. Then everyone rushes in, and due to the rapid increase in price, the “buy because it's going up, fast” mentality springs up, recreating the same bubble for the 8th time, the same crash, the same outwardly projected self hatred and the same cycle repeats, yet again. And people never see their own role in it... It amazes me how this human trait manifests itself and plainly laid out for everybody and yet no one is able to see it.)
It sounds as if you like your current position and saving for early retirement is a great idea (from a 60's dev who can't retire soon). I agree with others here that technologies you fear you might miss out on could be learned through side projects.

Just my $.02 and I'm sure you'll make the correct decision, whatever that is, since you are thinking it through.
GM’s decline truly began with its quest to turn people into machines
This is why I personally don't love using Windows. The user is left with duplicate, inconsistent experiences like Control Panel and Settings, Edge and Internet Explorer, all because Microsoft is too afraid to cut off old APIs.

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, supporting things longer than Apple, and shorter than Microsoft.
> Although traditional methods are effective for traditional mass-produced items, they are unable to take account of the local needs, cultures, and history of individual people and communities. The literature on the world-wide aid community is filled with examples of well-intentioned “solutions” failing to work when introduced into developing nations (see (Easterly, 2013; Ramalingam, 2013). And if they do work at first, they are often so difficult to maintain and service, that they soon fall into disuse. Finally, in some cases the unintended negative consequences outweigh any good that has resulted. We believe that the people best equipped to address these issues are the people who live there: This article shows one approach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Verify

> Research shows that E-Verify harms the labor market outcomes of undocumented immigrants and improves the labor market outcomes of Mexican legal immigrants and U.S.-born Hispanics, but has no impact on labor market outcomes for non-Hispanic white Americans.[4] A 2016 study suggests that E-Verify reduces the number of undocumented immigrants in states that have mandated use of E-Verify for all employers, and further notes that the program may deter illegal immigration to the US in general.
But that makes no sense from a business perspective... I feel like corporations actually do the opposite... "Oh, this band is really popular with a profitable audience segment? Lets find and promote a hundred other bands that sound just like them!"

They won't make more money by choosing one and discontinuing the others... you are only going to buy a band's album once, you can only go to the concert when they are in town.. a record label is going to want to give you multiple albums to buy and multiple bands to go see.
I don’t think oil is going anywhere any time soon. Even if vehicles were suddenly completely electric in 20 years and all power generation no longer required fossil fuels, we still have things like jet fuel, asphalt, and plastics that require petroleum.

Not saying the saudis aren’t forward thinking about what to do when demand decreases, but so many folks do believe that oil = cars and going electric means we don’t need oil.
I've been trying to tell people similar things for about a year now. Most people just think I haven't grasped how truly amazing and revolutionary blockchain is.

Thanks Arvind for all your work. You're doing some of my favorite work in CS. Every time I hear about an awesome project in privacy/security it turns out you're involved.
Minimalism is one of those things where simplicity is the goal, but not the measure of success. It seems many people (I'm looking at you Windows 10) forget the design part of flat design. Making all the icons indistinguishable general forms is simpler, sure. This study makes the same mistake: it finds removing indictors of function make things harder to read. But they forgot to indicate function in other ways to compensate. It's as if you intended to prove goto isn't bad by removing it from a language without break, return, continue, or loops.
I fully agree, and this is coming from someone from the right-wing who believed in the myth of “equal opportunity”. Opportunities are unequal, however, I would claim that’s natural. A working class repairman in his mind may dream of wealth as owning a home with a boat; he may capitalize on the opportunity for bringing to market a unique tool to his trade which an otherwise white collar society would never conceive of, with these material goals as motivation. And his labor conditioning may give him an edge in bringing the product to market because he “executes” every day with his work.

After all, most businesses are started in middle age by those who likely have built up the resources (including financial acumen) and network to capitalize. It’s fallacious to continue to pigeon-hole affluence as only coming from trading on information asymmetries from higher education.
Why? Because design.
Great reply. Just out of curiosity, did you end up giving your semiconductor job before joining the start up with a data scientist title ?

I am deep into semiconductors, and am facing the dilemma of giving up my expertise so far, to join a startup as an entry level engineer.

I have done a couple of MOOC specializations and am trying to find projects within my industry to gain some credibility. Also trying to stay active on Kaggle to build some basic data analysis portfolio.
> reducing regulations

Copyright and intellectual property are entirely state constructs. Media companies and IP trolls (to whatever degree you can separate the two) definitely do not want deregulation in this regard.
Star Control: Origins removed from Steam after DMCA takedown notice
I came here to post a comment about the Lone Wolf books, but this is even better!
`Throwable` in Rust is `dyn std::error::Error`.

If you make your functions return `Box<dyn Error>` (or `failure::Error`), they will all convert out of the box. The `?` operator performs conversion itself. For chains `.map_err(From::from)` does it.
The most inane are from the emotional intelligence author, like blatantly obvious nonsense.
Hi, I am in a similar boat, and would love to network with you either in person or online.

I have a PhD in EE, working in semiconductors. I have done a couple of MOOC specializations on Coursera, and am trying get some data science projects on my resume. Also trying do some Kernels / Scripts on Kaggle to build up a basic portfolio.
> All this "harmonization" is simply a corrupt trick, driven by the same Disney and Co.

Disney might be a force behind it, but it's literally true that Europe has been the leader in extending copyright terms, both the original extension last century, and then the most recent push as well.
lol well played
Yes, you can add a key with mokutik and sign your locally built drivers.
I think it’s problematic. The fact it’s only censored inside Saudi Arabia means it doesn’t impact me directly. That being said, as the saudis continue investing in the west, in social media, in other Silicon Valley start ups, I don’t want there to be any chance these traditions (which I consider oppression) could seep up into my or my children’s way of life.
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Related to this I have the "best-worst" idea for a business...

So everyone hates car dealerships. But we need to test drive vehicles (or physically look at them). Right now car demos are linked to buying, and therefore the dealership.

What if there was a business that ONLY did car demos? You go in, and there's a row of SUVs from all the major manufacturers.

This saves you from driving all over town for the different dealership, and because they aren't selling you vehicles it is a no-pressure situation.

I'd pay money for this. But people are cheap and I doubt it would work as a concept, unless buying cars online became the norm.
My last three cars, all second-hand, I bought without having driven them at all.

Most recent: Emailed dealer interstate. Negotiated price by email. Sent interstate mechanic to review/report on vehicle. Paid. Vehicle was delivered to me - first time I'd even seen it.

Previous: Bought through local government fleet online auction. First time I'd even seen the car was when I picked it up.

Another: Attended fleet auction. Could look over the car but not test-drive. Bought same day and drove it home.

Low hassle and all have been decent cars. In the most recent search, I emailed another interstate agent who said of the car, "I wouldn't buy this one sight-unseen, mate. It's a bit rough." - so I didn't.
The Supreme Court said limiting campaign finance is unconstitutional. What do you propose politicians do about it?
> And we're still to try flat in real life

Plenty of appliances have electronic buttons, which are close to flat (though definitely not flat) and commonly paired with a flat visual style on top of them. They work pretty well, in that context.

And now plenty of appliances have capacitive controls, which are in my experience normally a disaster and literally never good (I exclude situations where a screen is involved; those are hit and miss). To take an example, microwaves: almost without fail, I find that the newer it is, the harder it is to use—though the old dials were only easier to use in certain ways, lacking precision. I now have one with a capacitive touch surface, and it’s very hard to use unless the room is brightly lit, at which point is’s merely quite painful unless I want to turn it on for exactly 30 seconds.

Decide for yourself whether these things are “real life”.
(communism, Nazism, eugenics, manifest destiny, crusades)

None of these are tech products, so it's apples to oranges.

Additionally, just because most good things have come from military in the past doesn't mean that's the best way to produce good things, now or in general.
What is the design process like for landmines? Do they consider if they look like toys? Do they put duds in a toy chest and see what a sample of children will pick out?

This whole concept really upsets me to think about.
Is not Ayende also a big expert in .NET. I am curious about his current experience with C# considering the huge improvements regarding memory management in the 7.x series of C#.
I looked that game up Liquid Wars 6 is a GNU game. Who knew.

https://www.gnu.org/software/liquidwar6/manual/liquidwar6.ht...

It is funny... the manual tells you a lot about the game ... just not how to actually play. Sigh.
The case for AppBinding
That all depends on how deep into macro territory you get. My experience has been that serde-derive and diesel.rs give absolutely arcane error messages. There are a lot of things that rust at least tries to get right, and that helps a lot.

That said, even with all the nagging faults I find that rust development feels more productive than lots of other languages. A large part of that is the tools, sure, but the other major part is the rust community itself.