skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going to sound condescending but I really don't mean it to be, I just couldn't think of a better way to phrase this:

Did you read the bottom half of the entry's summary or the entry itself? Specifically:

> In the 1950s and 1960s, states rejected Dodge repeatedly

> The general legal position today is that the business judgment that directors may exercise is expansive. Management decisions will not be challenged where one can point to any rational link to benefiting the corporation as a whole.

and quotes from a number of law journals:

> Dodge is often misread or mistaught as setting a legal rule of shareholder wealth maximization. This was not and is not the law.

> the rule of wealth maximization for shareholders is virtually impossible to enforce as a practical matter. The rule is aspirational, except in odd cases.
It's ok to go kick a garbage can sometimes. Raising kids is hard enough without feeling bad for damaging garbage cans.

Pro-tip, though: don't kick walls. Broken toes suck.
> There are more than enough non-carb sources to get calories

Sure, I just meant that most people are too quick to attribute causation when they notice a correlation. Sounds like you track your calories, so that could rule out caloric restriction.
> You can’t do whatever you want with the character of Superman

Yes you can.
How do you navigate the Ribbon using a keyboard? How do you learn about shortcuts now that they are displayed nowhere?

The Ribbon traded a bunch of text pull-downs for a bunch of icons pull-down that you have to hoover to discover what they mean, it kept the "multiple levels of pull-downs" problem, but now the extra levels have no icon or text with even more levels because each one has a limited space, and threw away the icon toolbars that had a much larger density of icons.
That’s awesome. Your dad had a good head on his shoulders during those moments. Cudos.

update:spelling
I’m canceling my Netflix account
As an outsider this boggles my mind. Why not just implement strict employment verification instead of walls ect. what i am missing here.
I think you can swap out FIDO in the role of certification for any other group willing to run the process of certifying devices, so it is basically just CA style PKI for client certs again but with an initial attempt at a free CA.

I think FIDO specifications and most organizations feeling pressure to at least support devices they approve would mostly be good for the user.

The rate FIDO will introduce more invasive behavior instead of user benefiting behavior before there is a version too common for most sites to reject is going to be related to the level proprietary dongles issued by Banks, etc, remain acceptable.

In the FIDO case, the consumer actually is the customer, so negative features will have to arrive by vendors fighting their own customers interests, and pushing institutions to reject their older devices. I think they probably will, but not at the rate they can fight users when the institution is the customer.
> That would suggest that it is not worth it for people who are only going to make a small amount of money over minimum income to move to SF

Although, to be fair, it is debatable if most high earners even benefit from the move. It is not like you can't easily make $150,000+ in rural areas as well if you have the developer chops that the Bay Area seeks.

As unfortunate as it may be, poor areas are poor largely because of who lives there and them moving does not change who they are.
when I was a kid, the cockpit version was the coolest most immersive experience ever. all my boyish excitement for the films was captured; I really did feel, for a moment, that I was Lukeskywalker.
There's a pretty long tradition of political standup, which is what I take Minhaj's act to be. Lewis Black, Will Durst, Lenny Bruce of course, Mort Sahl (who is said by some to be the first modern standup comic), and Will Rogers all relied on current events and commentary for their routines. This doesn't even touch on the much larger (and mainstream) community of riffers like Vaughn Meader, David Frye, Rich Little, etc.
Full disclosure I started the intercoin.org project. So I am speaking from about 2 years experience working on and thinking hard about these problems, such as doublespending and distributed hash timestamping.

There have been very interesting PARALLELIZABLE distributed byzantine fault tolerant systems being built, like MaidSAFE and Holochain. They are based around Distributed Hash Tables and have no centralized bottlenecks unlike the miners in proof of work. This is much older than cryptocurrency, we are talking 2002 - Kademlia and Merkle Trees, used in eg BitTorrent.

That is the key. Any technology, like a blockchain, where the entire network has to store all the data, scales ridiculously poorly. To coin a phrase, it’s EMBARASSINGLY UNSCALABLE.

You can call the opposite of that sharding, but I will call it PARALLELIZABLE. The good news is future is simply to take EXISTING systems (eg the Web) and INCREMENTALLY make them end to end encrypted and make the backend into a DHT where each activity or token is watched by SOME but not all computers.

The current Web topology is scalable but TERRIBLE for security, as evidenced by the steady stream of hacks and leaks and untrustworthy behavior by platforms. We throw up our hands like after every school shooting, as if there is nothing we can do. We can, and blockchains are not necessary.

More details can be found here, including mathematical results from 2009 on the probability of a successful double-spend attack as a function of how many computers watch each token. The results are perhaps surprising:
https://forum.intercoin.org/t/intercoin-technology-the-ledge...

Debates about consensus:
https://forum.intercoin.org/t/intercoin-technology-consensus

If you want to discuss architecture of DLTs in detail, you are welcome to post in our forum. (The guy arguing in that particular thread is the chief crytographer of Ripple, he signed up to debate ideas of the architecture.)

Anyway the short story is that any “blockchain” system with global consensus simply can’t scale, not enough to support actual transactions. Has a single ETHEREUM token been used for its intended purpose in daily transactions? (Cryptokitties is the closest and it nearly brought the whole system to a halt.) It’s all been relegated to speculation on upcoming things, and this is what killed the dream. The exchanges are centralized databases. The actual ledger they post to when you cash out can handle 10 transactions per second regardless of the number of computers on the network. The same is NOT true of almost any other distributed protocol (email, web, etc.)
Are you also going to renounce your citizen ship and leave the planet?
Most people, sure. But it only takes one who's different.
How does your comment not also apply to any immigrant including those who move to wealthy nations?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18802933
Exactly. I used to work for financial traders, so I got to see some highly effective markets up close. Those markets were heavily regulated. Not just by governments, who were from my perspective almost irrelevant, but by the exchanges themselves.

I think markets are amazing, and have a lot of sympathy for the more thoughtful sort of libertarian and their concerns about state power. But there's what I think of as fundamentalist libertarians, who seem to worship an abstract idea of "market" that has very little to do with my real-life experience of markets, financial or otherwise.
Sorry I hurt your ego.

Those numbers are completely reasonable, and anyone who took half a second to go over them would agree.

Further, at this point the post is old enough that no one besides us is likely to read it. No discussion is being ruined.

I have been engaging in good faith. I have to conclude that you haven't been.

You can reply again to have the last word if that will make you feel better.
See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
Derivative works of expired copyrights, yes. Disney doesn't own the plot to Snow White and never has because the Snow White story is in the public domain. Movies in the public domain can be reproduced in full or in part (as you mention, an exact copy) and the plot/storylines can be copied but Disney has a solid trademark claim on their characters. And that trademark claim continues indefinitely so long as Disney continues to use those characters in the marketplace.

If you make a cartoon using Mickey Mouse will reasonable consumers falsely attribute that cartoon to Disney? Yes. That
cartoon would likely cause confusion in the market place. Mickey Mouse is inextricably linked to Disney in the consumer's mind. You cannot use the Mickey Mouse character even if you never claim to be Disney. 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.
Essays for academia thus typically insist on word counts.

Albeit they encourage 3/2 or double spacing so they can leave annotations during marking.
Having worked on a product for Windows for 26 years. Fortunately Windows hasn't changed as much in that time frame as Mac.
the problem is that this must be told
Ribbon-like interfaces that feature actual buttons you can click or tap on, with more important buttons larger and/or highlighted, have been a huge improvement over trying to wade through a sea of identical-looking pull-downs full of text.

I completely disagree. Being a list with each item on a line, regularly spaced, a menu is easy to read. Humans have been reading lines of text for a long time outside of computers, so they're quite skilled at it. The buttons on a ribbon change appearance and position depending on the width of the window, and the barrage of icons makes for difficult skimming. It's essentially visual overload.

("A picture is worth a thousand words. However, sometimes you don't want a thousand words when one or two is enough.")

It's important to remember that the move away from pull-down menus was informed by a good deal of end-user research, a lot more than this article.

The problem is that those who participate in such research are unlikely to represent the majority of the userbase. It's unfortunate, but those who have seen calls for such studies and then thought to themselves, "I have better things to do with my time" will understand this completely.
The News app didn't exist until iOS 9, and was never skeuomorphic. Maybe you're thinking of iBooks, which had the bookshelf.
And that's great when you have Raytheon's reputstion, clout, budget and bargaining power with insurance companies. If you want to start an engineering firm, I expect that having an accredited professional engineer on staff to ensure these processes are respected or the work meets certain standards will significantly affect your premiums. I wouldn't underestimate these costs, particularly for a new company.
I think Courier New is a decent programming font. I think Courier Prime Code is a bit too stylish. I'm currently using DejaVuSansMono. Consolas has been my favorite for it's great LCD sub pixel anti-alias, but it's Windows only and with better pixel density screens we no longer have to use sub-pixel anti-alias.
The history of political organization is driven by the history of military technology. Historically, the earth has flip-flopped from centralized to decentralized power several times, eg. Rome (legion) => feudalism (mounted knight) => Mongol Empire (mounted archers) => Rennaissance city states (crossbow, musket) => nation state (industrialization) => global superpower (atom bomb, ballistic missile). Basically whenever the dominant military technology is expensive to produce or benefits from large highly-organized armies, the trend is toward centralization, while whenever it is cheap to produce and gives the advantage to independent guerilla fighters, the trend is toward decentralization. There's some evidence (break up of Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Islamic terrorism) that we're headed toward a new era of decentralization, driven by microchips, the Internet, drones, and cheap encrypted communication.
I renounce you at least. Bye
> If soundness is trumped by other considerations, e.g., "development velocity", developer availability, convenience of tooling, etc., I would say you are not practicing engineering

I think you could argue they might be engaged in other forms of non-recognized engineering (like process engineering), but I agree that software is not what they're engineering.
Really glad the test came back positive. Sorry to hear about your ex.

I totally get last paragraph. If you venture into something it’s totally possible to love others’ children as your own. But to have it thrust upon you is horrid. You sacrifice not only your life - the money, the labor, the freedom, etc., but you inevitably sacrifice your ability to propagate. And that’s not an uncertainty any human should face. But of course women have 100% certainty a child is theirs (minus hospital switching schenanigans of course) so it’s really only an issue a man has to endure.

Guess this comment is a bit winding. I really don’t like to dwell on the subject I guess...
Thoughts on Modern C++ and Game Dev
As someone who fought and lost a war with holes in an inflated mattress I have to say that even one atmosphere is a surprisingly powerful amount of pressure when applied over a long period.
You made the crucial mistake of leaping without looking in a era where looking is very cheap. (ie. You have no clue what you’re doing, you should have googled it.) I’d step back and ask yourself why you are doing this. Honest advice, if you’re dead set on doing a startup, join one as an employee, try to understand how it works as a business, and start reading the extensive literature on the field.
I read the fourth turning some years ago and it repeats effectively the same argument. Previously the histories from Polybius.

From my study of it, it's closer to a ratchet. So while dissolution might happen at the highest organizational level, the hierarchies trend toward growing over successive cycles.
in what way are native americans not a faction?

i have no opinion in this argument, i am just trying to understand yours
It's less about how old it is, and more about how long it's been out of the general public consciousness. The courier font hasn't been (out of public view) in recent memory, so it doesn't have the same nostalgia factor.
Are we talking months, or hours?
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This could be a hard problem as many games fail to solve it. There's also the problem of idle units giving way to the ones on the move and formations and stances and many other stuff. In the end, you get some sort of compromise.
I understand there are many tech workers that flatly refuse to work on drone technology, especially if it may have military applications.

Is there any affordance given for the possibility that some of this military technology will actually be used for good?
Fira Code is Fira Mono with coding ligatures:

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

I used to prefer Consolas (Inconsolata is a ~clone of Consolas) but the ligatures made me switch.
If you look at their financial statement they received 6 million in donations. They paid 250 million dollars for software development. So donations cover just 2.4% of their software development expenses. That doesn't include sga expenses or any of their other expenses.

If you really want you can just build the browser your self and change the startup page.
My Reading list - 2018 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-reading-list-2018-sanjeev-...
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here. Is it that the huge mega artists now aren’t good, or that good music isn’t getting recognized/doen’t have a sustainable fanbase? The latter is demonstrably untrue.

If we’re talking huge mega stars that also have talent/artistic merit, that’s admittedly more limited (Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce are the only two I can really think of), but if you go to medium sized artists that still have big followings (say, 1M+ monthly spotify listeners) you’ve got James Blake, Janelle Monae, Frank Ocean, Mitski, Future Islands, Earl Sweatshirt, Rosalia, etc. Some truly important artists in that list.

Is it possible you just don’t have a taste for the direction certain genres are going in (especially rap)?
Ah. I see. Certainly these things are under constant video surveillance. Just review the tape?
Carmax / Carvana seem to basically charge new car MSRP + tax + fees if you want to buy a one to two year old used car with 5-15k miles, at least in my experience, so I ended up ahead just buying the same model new from a dealer. They also have pretty high interest rates and it is in your best interest to do the 'backdoor' method into PenFed for their rates, which are pretty good.

I have sold cars to Carmax; Carvana requires an official payoff letter from your lien holder, unlike Carmax, which can be a pain or take a decent chunk of time, depending on the lien holder.
"Will Freeman lives a serene and luxurious lifestyle devoid of responsibility in London thanks to substantial royalties left to him from a successful Christmas song composed by his father."

Heh, someone collecting money like this was the story of "About a Boy" with Hugh Grant (2002).
They got btfo pretty hard by sites like this https://chatbot.fail and others. But they’re still around, easy to sell this concept to low IQ types.
This is a really neat solution to a very constrained problem space. For those who don't know, Hollywood lives and breathes 12 point Courier. It is the standard font for screenplays. Producers won't even look at a script that is set in anything else because it implies the author doesn't know industry culture and norms.

Also, by having a standard font size and metrics, it means that the number of pages in a script directly corresponds to a certain quantity of text. That in turn roughly corresponds to a certain length in time. The guideline is about a page a minute. So people who work in film know that a 90 page screenplay will be about a 1 1/2 hour-long film.

So Courier Prime is trying to improve the readability of that font without touching any of the metrics that the industry relies on or alienating readers who might think anything "not Courier" means "not professional".
I was diagnosed in my mid thirties with atypical cystic fibrosis. By the time I was diagnosed, I was at death's door. My specialist informed me that people like me don't get well, that symptom management is the name of the game. I informed him that it might be true that I would spend the rest of my life fighting off the next infection, but this one had to go as it was killing me. He physically took a step back as if I had slapped him. He also began scheduling me fewer appointments as I got healthier while expressing zero curiosity as to how I was accomplishing that.

I've spent time around antivaxxers. Many of them have legitimate reasons for pursuing alternative medicine. Those reasons are rooted in being failed by conventional medicine. Some of those folks gave me useful information after doctors dismissively wrote me off for dead.

There's a lot of information out there on the importance of gut microbes and even how body chemistry fosters biofilm which promotes antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is potentially reversible.

I had an infection that the doctors never ID'd that was not responding to antibiotics. I went through multiple rounds of antibiotics, some of which had side effects like "kills some percentage of people." I saw zero improvement.

I came up with my own hypothesis as to what was going on, ran it past a friend who happened to be a doctor and he said it wasn't crazy talk. Within two weeks, my condition stabilized and I began gradually improving after talking doctors into giving me certain antibiotics and pursuing specific therapies.

Antibiotic resistance tends to be fostered in developing countries that lack adequate water and sewer infrastructure. There is also research out there on failure to thrive and stunting that I've looked at. Stunting has a component of "probably infection related." Some kids don't respond to simply giving them more food. You also need to add probiotics and address the hygiene issues.

The gut is home to about 70 to 80 percent of the immune cells in our body. So digestion, nutrition, diet, fasting, etc all can have significant impact on immune health and how the body handles infection.

It's possible to use spices, like cinnamon and oregano, to help fight infection.

There's a lot more to it and it's a complicated topic. Also, lots of folks believe I'm insane and telling tall tales, because a former homemaker can't possibly understand anything about health that doctors and scientists can't figure out, no.

So, have a nice day. This is probably a pointless discussion for various reasons.
Do they know for sure it was sealed or is that just the theory how it would have got into space without detecting air loss on the ground?

Based on the tracks around the actual hole it looks accidental to me.
I assume (though I'm certainly not as knowledgeable as Inigo) that he's suggesting most functionality that uses trigonometry during rendering in some way tends to be performed using dot- and cross-products - which are calculated using only basic arithmetic operations - and therefore don't require slow mathematical function calls. If the actual value of a cosine is needed in some way, it will likely be calculated via the dot-product of two vectors, where one or both has unit length.

As far as construction of rotation matrices goes, most of that will be baked before rendering a frame, so expensive trigonometric calculations and their conversion to rationals will occur ahead of time and therefore much less frequently than anything done per pixel, improving performance.

In computer graphics, because a great many calculations need to be done for each pixel to be displayed, use of expensive functions tends to be avoided. In the literature I recall reading a number of triangle-ray intersection algorithms where each breaks down precisely how many adds, multiplies, divisions, etc are performed because the goal is to minimize all these things. If you are intersecting 10 triangles per pixel at 2 million pixels per frame, a single multiply per intersection becomes 20 million multiplies per frame. By contrast, recalculating the camera matrix using expensive functions should only happen once per frame.
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Used to be called news stand, and had a picture of some empty shelves as the icon. Was replaced by, or renamed news.
Then it didn’t?
I guess that's a possibility; however, Go isn't the most lightweight and portable language out there. Rust and Erlang both seem like better options if those criteria are important.
100% agree with this and the parent.

Especially with landing pages I aim for the 'mum' test. She's in her 60s and is petrified of computers. If someone like her understands what has to be done / the messaging is clear / the flow of the page directs her to do what I want, it'll probably be a success.

Anecdotally I remember being on a call with my dad (in his 60s) trying to talk him through downloading and installing some antivirus software from download.com (or whatever it was back a few years back). Frustratingly it kept going wrong - "I'm pressing to the download button, but it's just not working!" Except he wasn't. Eventually we figured out he was clicking a banner ad because it "looked like a button," far more so than the flat, actual download button. On a site like that, I often wonder whether it's entirely by design. Happy advertisers get more clicks (albeit probably with shitty conversion), happy site owners get to charge more knowing they provide more clicks. Everyone wins. Except my 65 year old dad.