skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was exactly my first thought - I should make a case for it, that'd be cool. Black anodized aluminium would be nice, but then the pushbuttons will look unsightly and having some printed covers for the buttons would make the scope much too big.
Debt-financed share buybacks  turned the stocks into a high-risk CDO residual
My wife uses a Chromebook and so do all students at my son's high school.
Extensive mod support has been present in the Unreal Engine since day one - it wasn't full source access to the engine itself, but people built some really impressive stuff on top of the Unreal games back in the day.
And if you're going to write multi-threaded programs or libraries that are going to be called by multiple threads, then please learn how to write decent thread-safe code.
> Your startup idea was to host large amounts of copyrighted material for profit, without checking who had the rights to distribute that material?

of course not don't be silly.

but so far liability was on the uploader, when the police comes knocking you gave out user data and that was it. see, for example, the jsfiddle constant issue with illegal content: https://remysharp.com/2015/09/18/jsbin-toxic-part-5

people miss here that any user generated content could be part of a copyright. even text if they are lyrics. there's NO user platform that's safe.
I'd love to see a "cliff's notes" summary of what A13 means as it is right now.
Something like the "Doorstep EU" app does for Brexit-related news -- an actual, thought-out summary which links to authoritative reference material.
Ask HN: Do you remember the name of this game?
About 20 years or so ago, there was a game on Mac, which I'd love to find. It was based on the 'Aliens' movie. It was turn based, and the objective was to get the Marines from one end of the map to the other, without having the Aliens wiping out the squad. The view was similar to Minesweeper, and some of the map was darkened out until your reached that square. At the end of each game you would hear the infamous "It's game over man, game over!"
Let’s Take Out the Web Trash in 2019
So, it could be worse...

EDIT: Intending to provide a more useful response now, here are links from the post above to the articles[1] and recitals[2] of the current negotiations. I'm seeing relevant platform liability language in the row labeled 239. While marked for continued discussion, the proposed language is concerning to me:

"Licensing agreements which are concluded by online content sharing service providers
with right holders for the acts of communication referred to in paragraph 1...,
shall cover the liability for works uploaded by the users of such online content sharing services
in line with the terms and conditions set out in the licensing agreement,
provided that such users do not act for commercial purposes."

[1] https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Copyright-Di...
[2] https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Copyright-Di...
That's getting closer to what I was thinking, but that's for new editors, not new articles.

"Only experienced editors should ever create an article from scratch. Others should first create a draft page and build the article there."

And as you say they aren't indexed.
Not all of this is the EU - which is not exactly some super-state that controls every aspect of life on the continent.

Almost all of these things are in the jurisdiction of the member states themselves, and the EU has little power to control them.

If the EU didn't exist, Germany would still be staffing its nursing homes with cheap(er) foreign labour, just done under a visa rather than EU freedom of movement.

If the EU didn't exist, companies would still produce high-quality products for rich markets, and low-quality products for poor markets. (If you want a fascinating example of this, read this Twitter thread about the manufacture of sanitary pads in Africa - https://twitter.com/aprzhu/status/1083278476310913024)

If the EU, ceased to exist, would eastern European supermarkets no longer be filled with "shit", or would local producers continue to export their good produce where they can get the most money for it?

There is a tendency to avoid criticism of the EU and congratulate it for things it does not do, but it is also a mistake to assign all the ills of Europe to it, when blame for them is much more accurately laid on national governments.
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I don't think Aquantia is "consumer focused" enough.

Looks like the next presentation is January 16.

https://investors.aquantia.com/news/2019/01-07-2019-14002744...
"Facebook Content Filter - protect your site from A13, only $1 per upload..."
>Their success with Fortnite isn't a one-off, it's come from an astute market awareness and adaptability.

It's impressive that they managed to build that Battle Royale mode so quickly and efficiently (although obviously it was helped by the fact that they could build on top of their pre-existing Fortnite game) but I think you're downplaying the luck factor. Or rather, if you don't think it's a one-off, do you really think that they will be able to replicate this level of success "at will" in the future?

And if so, why didn't they have the same amount of success and "market awareness" in the past? Remember Paragon?

>Paragon was a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game developed and published by Epic Games. Powered by their own Unreal Engine 4, the game started pay-to-play early access in March 2016, and free-to-play access to its open beta started in February 2017.[1] Epic Games shut down its servers on April 27, 2018.

I definitely think that the Fortnite people were at the right place at the right time, they saw an opportunity and jumped on it. They saw PUBG had great potential but was struggling to deliver a polished multiplatform experience. They had this brand new Fortnite game that they could mod a BR mode into relatively easily. They released it on platforms where PUBG was not available and on top of that they released it for free. It's clever but this particular combination of events do not occur every month.
That's a pretty strong claim. Do you have any evidence you can share?
If you pay for GitPitch Pro, you see your slides right away via GitPitch Desktop. (Plus the support from David is unparalleled.)
Perfect! What makes Nigeria so complicated? Is it corruption? Are they not letting health workers operate?

In the business space, I think there's a sense that everything people are doing is going to line some asshole's pockets and you're going to get none of those benefits. HNers in particular just often seem like they can't see the meaning in plugging away at the company they're working for, and the Silicon Valley dream is predicated on making a startup and compressing your work life down to a few short years.

The dream is inspirational to some because there's rarely any glory in being a cog in a machine. Even guys that work at Google get burned out after awhile. It's just hard in many cases to stay motivated. PG's essay wants to say that it's just working in a big organization is unnatural. I think that's way way off the mark, we would never have society and people wouldn't collect into cities if that were the case, and his understanding of hunter-gatherers seems trite, even for 2008.

But Silicon Valley is a thing and people do flock there from all over the country to chase a certain kind of ideal. I think it's the same kind of thing that encourages young community workers to keep gathering data in their communities year after year. The opportunity to chase a real goal and be a part of something bigger.

Silly Valley wants to unify intelligence, glory, and meaning together. All things that run out of the tap at CERN. In order for that to happen though, there needs to be a healthy amount of creative destruction. Not all companies know how to manage teams. Encouraging those who are feeling burned out and squeezed to find greener pastures can only make it better.

But yeah, I don't think any of the generalizations he makes are at all accurate enough to be stated. Some programmers work better in small groups. But lots of them need lots of structure.
The german version is called "Kraftfahrtechnisches Taschenbuch" and is ~15EUR cheaper.
Big difference vs Lenovo Mirage Solo is the addition of two 6DOF tracked hands as well as built-in audio.

Oculus Go allows transferring files via USB so good chance Quest will too.
English is pretty easy due to the insane amounts of English media we consume.

I could speak and understand decent English when I was less than 10 or so due to watching so many subtitled shows and playing video games.

My native language is Finnish. Which is farther from English than Hindi (Which is in indo-european language tree unlike Finnish).

The biggest obstacle to using something like Mandarin is the writing system. Hieroglyphs are imho just fundamentally inferior to systems using alphabets.
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Yes you did, because that's not the article's core idea (which is more focused on Jackie's refusal to say more about his past hardships, what the article calls his "blindspot" [1]), and it says nothing about whether I agree with the article.

Did you wonder why I even felt the need to write a summary? Why would I need to, if one could simply just read TFA? It's because at the time I posted, most people were commenting stuff like "I love Jackie Chan's movies, Rush Hour is cool!", which seemed to me to be entirely off-topic and likely written by people who hadn't bothered to read the article. So I summarized one of the ideas of the article -- the one I thought was worth discussing -- in hopes of getting the discussion back on track.

I succeeded. I just didn't expect your extremely literal and hilariously childlike interpretation of my post.

[1] Please don't debate this point with me as if it was mine. I know it's confusing because the words are there in my post, but that's not magic: it's called "summarizing what someone else said" -- trust me! If you disagree with it, I don't know, write the author an angry email.
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Don't they already have that covered through existing policy, though? bittorrent is highly policed
I hope my country leaves the European union, soon.
System isn't necessarily low-level. System code is and can be quite high level, the distinction to just calling it "application" or "application level code" is that it caters mostly to system (no direct user interface) or applications (such as system libraries) instead of end users.

Then you can have "low level" as in close to the metal, for example drivers that talk to a hardware. That being said even these are (and should be written mostly) at fairly high level (especially in the user space) and it's only a relatively small part that has to mess with HW specifics.

And then of course there's some embedded IoT stuff that has also different layers of software although for some people working anywhere in the embedded stack would qualify as "low level".

Generally speaking you'll want to lean on a few core technologies and APIs such as POSIX (on linux), have a decent understanding of the von neuman architecture and a solid grasp of C/C++. Having a decent idea of how different subsystems such as network or TCP/IP stack works and such can be useful depending on the domain.
The only thing I've noticed is even more website popups about cookies that make it hard to anything but give the go-ahead to all the cookies, but I'm not sure whether that is a result of GDPR.
It's a pretty good wiki! I'm reading some of your material now :)
Yes, a clear goal sounds like it would help. There should be something to work towards.

I would also plan for some way of presenting the result of the project (eg. a presentation to the team).
In all likelihood, EU users will just end up using VPN-type services to bypass the blocks... rather than talking to their MEPs.

(I don't blame them to be fair, I've gone down the MEP route - they replied with a form letter to the effect of "this is party policy and I'll support it because it's for your own good, and I'm not discussing it further")
I've already tried e-mailing the MEPs, it doesn't work. If you do get a response it goes in the lines of sorry mate, but you're wrong, here's why blah blah; our party consensus is that we're doing the right thing by voting for this controversial measure. Good luck with that.
Any _good_ reason? Probably not.

Any use? ... Yes.

Obfuscation. It might be a terrible practice, but has spawned entire languages, including some that have been used on occasion by industry, as well as the puzzle-solving community at large. (Say, integrate it into a `compile --release` flag.)

Right off the back of obfuscation, DRM. If the code modifies itself, especially in unexpected ways, then breaking it becomes harder. (`compile --protect`?)
Yes, apologies I made some approximates in the article!

Interestingly if you're talking about discrete time fourier transforms (which is what we usually deal with in computers with jpegs, mp3s, etc), then you can perfectly represent a signal with say, 1024 samples using exactly 1024 sine waves without worrying about that effect. It's only in the continuous time variant that you have to worry about things like the Gibbs phenomenon (which you do run into once you start translating to real world output)
Voting lurkers do so because they can. The main drivers of this dominant behavior are antiquated social media technologies supporting voting and sharing.
Teen drives his hot hatch with 3 friends as passengers into lamp post by showing off his high speed handbrake turns.

Accident figures peak.

Council installs "safety" camera and lowers speed limit.

Next year figures revert to mean. Council: "Aha! The lower limit and camera has cut accidents, we'll make it permanent".

Net result: speed camera in middle of nowhere, on a dual carriageway, in isolated section of 40mph limit. Often on a bend.

Goodbye 85th percentile rule in yet another spot. I can see why that's unpopular. Yet the spots that really should have cameras near schools, or in other spots around town, generally don't.
We can definitely learn things (CompSci people). In fact, my career is full of near constant learning. However, when it comes to marketing, knowing where to start (on one's own) is a challenge. And as you say, having a good bs detector is important.

I'll take your advice about reading the Google Ads and FB ads docs! Thanks.
This is such an anecdotal experience that I don't even know why you posted it. With this kind of harsh judgement I would expect at least some sources.
I believe the poster was meaning that the UK press is insular and doesn't report on wider European issues like the Spanish press and not commenting on Catalonia or making a comparison with Scotland.
I don't think that's fair, there's detail in there. For example, his approach to sales calls.
Non-sense. Their example assumes that some new-yorker who earns $10MM as regular income (not capital gains) not only buys property in Miami but also moves with the job there. Well, good luck finding a job that pays $10MM in Miami. But even if you do, it's still non-sense. Here's the tax picture before and after the new law (from the article):

-before: NYC $5.1MM, Miami $4.2, difference $900k

-after: NYC $4.9MM, Miami $3.9, difference $1MM

So for some reason, you decided the NYC lifestyle is worth a $900k hit in your total income (which after tax is about $5MM), but $1MM will make you pack up and move to Miami. Really?

If you earn only capital gains, please note that your property tax rate in Miami is much higher. Sure, you'll be able to deduct more for federal tax purposes, but that's faint consolation as overall, you'll still end up paying more.

All in all, this is probably a submarine piece by the realtors in Miami hoping to get the rich guys in NYC to spend of few minutes even considering buying property there. It doesn't matter that the tax calculus does not make sense, maybe they'll like the sun ...
Current versions of C have some features that are not present in current versions of C++ (e.g. designated initializers).

But that's not the point. C and C++ are in practice used completely differently, so writing C++ using C concepts with some additions rarely happens in the wild.
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Indeed. I get a little tired of the sneery tone many journalists take towards the past, giving themselves an implicit pat on the back for being sooo much smarter.
Oh man, it took me a while. I started in August and have been chipping away at it on the side, until now.
Instapaper was a sort of nice utility that blocked EU users after May last year. Fortunately there are alternatives, some of them arguably superior (pinboard?).
I highly recommend Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective for learning C. In particular chapter 3 of that book is what made it all click for me. Understanding how C is translated down into assembly is incredibly useful for understanding pointers and reasoning about your code.

EDIT. The book also comes with a collection of excellent projects, which the authors have made freely available online at http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html
That's not really the EU failing, that's just poor countries being poor. A smart businessman will export his goods for the highest price to make more money if he can. That will lead to shittier products sold in poor countries, but it also brings food to the table of the farmers.

It's not as if Poland and Hungary would have been booming economic superpowers if it hadn't been for the EU. The people fleeing their country because of the lack of jobs won't suddenly find new jobs if they can't leave.

The exploitation of cheap, foreign labour is an issue though and it's not just hurting the people being exploited; the natives of the country the exploitation takes place in will see their wages drop if some shady outsourcing company can have the same work done for half the price. Those old people don't want their assets wiped by someone who can barely understand their language either but they need to put up with it because of cost-saving measures that has degraded the level of care. This is something the EU can change, but the many labourers who'd be out of a job if the EU added more restrictions to foreign travel wouldn't agree with changing the policy to make them unemployed.

The double production line issue would just come back in a different fashion if quality goods weren't exported; there'd be no money to be made selling most of the goods, so they either become a luxury product or only the cheap, garbage production line remains.

Despite all the known problems, countries like Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia are all applying for (or already negotiating) a position within the EU. If they would really be better off without the "dysfunctional" EU, they'd form their own bloc or remain independent. Even for poor countries, the EU brings benefits.
Depends on the forum. HN emphasises that, by not notifying users that they had replies. Reddit on the other hand colours your mailbox in red so you're aware of replies without actively seeking them.

I don't know which foster the best quality discussions, but I feel the HN way is a bit impersonal.
The article is also just shit clickbait.
right! in a way it creates a couple of jobs but only for those who can program - somebody has to implement these policies into technical reality. looking at GDPR (which I fully support) it has created quite a large niche of specialized lawyers and people are now busy educating themselves about how to isolate PII. No doubt this bill will also produce quite a bit of demand for specialists. But it's hardly innovation.

As you say the small start-ups in Berlin & Paris are left in the dust because only the big ones have the resources to take care of this bureaucratic horse-manure.

In the long run we'll continue to dig our own graves while China and the US laughs.
Zed Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way.
A group of 100 is 10 groups of 10. Does the autonomy of the group of 10 shrink as predicted by Paul Graham's "virtual person" argument? It might or it might not - and it's certainly not obvious that the constraints imposed on a 10-people company by their relationships with the external world are any better or worse, from any given angle, than the constraints imposed on a 10-people team by their relationships with the company employing the team.

Why do people contribute to projects like Linux or LLVM without getting paid for it? (Of course lots of them get paid to do this, but many are not.) It's not exactly easy calories for a caged lion, the way Graham describes a corporate job taken by recent college grads. Instead, people choose to work in these large groups because they want to make an impact. You can instead contribute to TinyCC or MenuetOS - smaller team, less impact. Are Linux or LLVM uninspiring? Were they only inspiring when they were too small for most of their current practical uses?

If productivity is concentrated in small companies - or companies of size X - why aren't companies of this size drive the other companies out of business? I think that market realities point in the direction of there being economies of scale and diseconomies of scale, without a single one-size-fits-all procedure for determining the optimal firm size for any particular endeavor.
But seriously.
> Are there any languages that could actually make use of self modifying code?

Kernel livepatching (and by that ftrace) would come to mind.
How, exactly, are they going to starve to death on food stamps? Some sort of fancy medical diet Medicaid isn’t covering?
I disagree about HN being among the best for managing judgment. Down-voting requires X amount of karma but up-voting doesn't.
GPS is passive. Ideally they would just know which place you're requesting data about.
Not the heroes we deserve but the heroes need.
Huh. Given that the first 6 minutes (out of 7:15 total) were spent with a HUMAN player fumbling around looking for a fountain, presumably writing an AI capable of doing that step would get the ascension time down to just over a minute. I wonder why they didn't do so?
The Toqueville argument is a fair point, but the no-agendas-in-public-schools is nonsense. Every school has and actively teaches a worldview (aka an agenda). Banning all non-government schools simply means that all kids are taught the same worldview. (Which suddenly doesn't sound that democratic anymore...)
- I lived in Germany

- lived in France

- now I live in Eastern EU

Seems like you're getting plenty of benefits out of the EU.

Most of the issues you mention, while acknowledging that they're real, are not caused by the EU.
Outliers write most of what we read, period. Our whole existence is outliers. Most people don't live in our town, don't do our job, don't live in our country, don't speak our language.

The problem is we think our life is normal and everyone is like us when that isn't true.
When someone works really hard, goes through lots of hard moments and eventually succeeds the general public or not so close friends see the end result but don't see all the struggle. Then they try to explain how this happened and when they fail to connect the dots it all looks like magic to them and all they can say is that luck was involved.

The hard truth is that everyone comes by opportunities in life (call it luck) but very few people have the knowledge and experience to achieve something meaningful out of those opportunities.
Yet it's the language with
- the most available teaching services
- the most available free teaching resources
- highest percent of use-cases in the world
- easiest methods of finding a training companion anywhere in the world

It's just so far ahead in these structural things that supporting any other language does not seem to make any sense anymore at this point.
that has less than half functionality (and across different browsers it may be even worse)
If they wanted to save on property taxes move to London :-)