skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. But when a government is involved, you cannot even start explaining to `the business` they have flawed logic. (Believe me, I've tried... and failed)
I feel for some companies this has backfired in the long run. Take for example Blizzard, a video game company. They used to have a perfect reputation but over time it has tarnished due to catering to the masses.

World of Warcraft became more and more accessible over time, and eventually reached a point where it was so accessible that no one wanted to play it since it wasn't fun and there was nothing to achieve.

Diablo 3 was meant to appeal to the mass market but it was really obvious to everyone that the game was horrible since it wasn't actually meant for anyone in particular. They literally had design choices that were obvious to teenagers that it was a profit-making machine.

I haven't really been a video gamer in years but AFAIK they don't have the same reputation and are just an ordinary company now due to changing their model from "amazing product" to "mass market product".
I'm very skinny and often get comments that I can and do eat anything, but I think I have some traits that make it easy for me: I hate ice cream (that fatty feeling in your mouth, ugh, I do love me some butter though!), in fact I don't like most desserts at all. I always prefer savory stuff (like a sandwich or olives for snacking) over sweet things (like cookies or candy). And I never get hungry anymore at night after a good dinner. My wife can each crisps 2 hours after dinner, I don't know how she does it. Or even how people can eat a piece of pie after a fulfilling meal, it just doesn't fit anymore. This could be genetic.
The out-of-print book East Minus West Equals Zero makes a case for exactly this.
> “And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters — who your neighbor is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit ... or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.” Lee Kuan Yew, April 20, 1987.

Taiwan was "civilized" by 50 years of Japanese occupation that wasn't brutal or repressive as Korea. Though I think Taiwan was more of a backwater island nation when the Japanese came. Likewise for Hong Kong with Britain. Taiwan and Hong Kong sort of organically grew into and internalized the modern legal and business structures laid down by the occupiers. China is having to do what Lee Kuan Yew did, which was transform an unruly, anarchic, but otherwise sophisticated culture into one that obeys and values modern legal, rules-based norms.
> But whenever you're pressed to give examples you just keep coming back to build quality, which was the one thing that was never in question.

Huh? This is the first time I've been asked to give any examples.

The build quality is fantastic, but it's the workflow (the interface design) that makes the Cirklon special (and so sought-after). There are plenty of other sequencers that can get you the same result, but music is all about the process of getting there.

> VC is just what people used before MIDI was a thing.

You should look at what's happening in the modular (specifically Eurorack) scene. Control voltage is back, with a vengeance. Most Cirklon users I know primarily use its CV interface.

It seems like you're just really out of touch. Look up some reviews or youtube videos if you want to learn more.

> I'm not trying to be argumentative here.

You're failing ;-)
Forget RxJava: Kotlin Coroutines are all you need
racking up thousands of listens and
(perhaps) hundreds of pounds

I thought artists earn something like $5 per 1000 plays these days?
I oftentimes find it difficult to balance actually attempting to be successful with finding time for the backlog of Medium posts and other blog articles about "How To Be Successful" that I assume I have to read in order to be successful in the first place
I won't agree with the "normal countries", but I wonder at what point does a society become uncivil?

Obviously in a tribal village in the past you know who lived in the hut next door and it was like a big family who trusted each other (food was shared, mothers would take care of each others' kids). Maybe it's related to the Dunbar number?
> In this situation, a significant new revenue stream ( an Android tax) is definitely worth fighting for.

Except that there is no hope of that ever happening. Even if Oracle won in a big way, then Google would eat the one-time cost of deprecating the Java API on Android, similar to what Apple did between Objective C and Swift. There is no sustainable revenue stream there.
The article mentions that JMAP does calendars as well. Anyone have a quick status update on how it compares to CalDav and if it's supported by any of the major calendar clients or servers? I did a quick google and looked at the JMAP site but couldn't find any info.

Background for this is that I implemented a calendar client and a calendar server (with SabreDAV) last year and I'm wondering if I should be adding support for JMAP anytime soon.
When the big mainstream media are pushing fake news to the left and right on an almost daily basis and getting caught doing it, people tend to look elsewhere for their news.
Kinda disappointed to not see a single photo in the entire piece, but a nice real overall
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If by "normal" you mean a society with highly developed rule of law, institutional maturity, low corruption, etc., then I think you are talking about a small minority of countries.
I'm glad this was posted despite being perennial -- it's the first time I've read it.

Does anyone have any similar "classic" Feynman stories to share?
Please don't represent us.What you doing is same as Big Brother.
I note that some languages effectively do the array-padding by default. In PHP, accessing an out-of-bounds element results in a Notice (not even a Warning, let alone an Error) and a NULL return value. Of course, in an integer context, NULL gets coerced to 0, so the following will work just fine:

$input = array(1, 3, 4, 5, 0, 1, 8);
$i = 0;
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// outputs 3
That works for sugar water companies but private security not so much, unless you have a very very large wallet.
"if someone had just jammed XMPP and SMTP together" - wasn't that kind of what Google Wave was aiming for?
Small claims hearings are held in county courts.
The same capabilities that allow you to prevent crime are also always the same capabilities that allow you to prevent other kinds of unwanted behavior.

In the end, the solution is a high level of culture in a society. A level of culture that would mean crime is naturally low (it seems to differ a lot between cultures) and that enables trust in institutions designed to control the powers that can use force, e.g. law enforcement and secret services.
My brain when reading your post: "wait isn't that fo... oh!"
Most projects like this fail because they don't practice TDD. They have pages of code and no single proof that it works as expected apart from feedback from people testing it which is prone to errors.
6000 pages of rules is not a problem. You can implement anything but if you don't care to prove you implemented it correctly then that will almost never work.
I am saying that if you make an argument in court that says "This law should be overturned!" as google literally did, then I am going to assume that this means that you think the law should be overturned.

And I will judge you morally if I believe overturning this law is a bad thing.

A company is responsible for it's actions. And if it's actions in court cause a good law to be overturned, as is their stated argument, then I will judge them very poorly for this.
Yes, it would be nice if your inputs could take any form at any time to accommodate your "ideal algorithms". Sadly, inputs have definite form and changing them may require unnecessary work, such as allocating memory!
What the WP leaves out:

January 2009-2011: Democrats control the Presidency, House, and Senate. For much of this time, the Senate Democrat caucus has filibuster-proof control. Absolutely nothing is done toward "immigration reform".
How did China get its empires on and off for thousands of years of ancient history if its people are unruly and anarchic?
Seq looks lovely. I'd love to try one sometime.
Are Microsoft Mobile Developers Moving to Generic Browsers?
It depends, hard coding 12 as in months in a year is fine. Best to do it through a named constant though.
the problem is that "ugly" isn't precise and can get translated from other reactions that aren't based on experience but are instead just cargo cutting. it's great to use the faster parts of our brains to reason but still important to make sure we're not accepting the mistakes they might make.
(Firstly, I don't accept your assumption that cheating is endemic in China, i.e. and not elsewhere. But I'm no expert at all.)

Maybe the question should be, why do you hear a lot more about it. Because China is 100 times the population of those other places? And, well, there seems a trend at least on HN lately, in stories from US papers/journals, and in the US media generally I assume (don't know, I'm not there) to favour 'China bad' stories, over 'China good' or '(Other country) bad'. It's pretty tedious, and seems to have started not long ago. It has that nauseating feeling of that regular US media obsession on the next country they'll invade/bomb. Demonization, subhumanization, whatever you want to call it.
Much of the work put into Revery will also be applicable to other variations of it that can use platform components for the most important parts. See the Brisk project for an example that adheres to much of the same API and can target MacOS native platform components.

But also, take a look at VSCode, and Atom and notice how much of those applications are actually rebuilt skins from the ground up. Even the exit buttons in the Windows version are rebuilt from scratch, not using the platform "components".

The number of times I've ever heard anyone complain that VSCode reimplements clickable regions that look exactly the same on all platforms instead of using some ugly stock Windows buttons: zero.
When coding from a well maintained specification, I always try to find an architecture where the structure of the code mimics the structure of the specfication. This way, maintenance of the code becomes a lot easier. Sometimes, there are some small points in specification that makes it difficult to have the same structure in code. It is a "spec smell". Often, after discussion with spec writer, it was an incorrect point that had to be fixed in spec.
Life is made of special cases and it isn't an ideal mathematical model that you can describe with a beautiful one liner.
Write solid tests, write meaningful comments, don't over engineer things and you should be good.
From an outside perspective, Japan still seems extremely civil despite being very densely populated. I have never felt safer anywhere else as a visitor. I suspect a near-ubiquitous level of high homogeneous culture is a big factor.
I wish my girlfriend who became addicted to Kondo who stop doing this in the kitchen.

I worked in kitchen since I was a kid and always had my mis en place ( the kitchen is sacred for me ), whenever she does it you can hear me swearing because I cant find coffee, my knife sharpener or because she rearranged my knives setting causing me to try to cut bread with a chinese cleaver!

Altho' the bedroom is a bliss to find stuff in now.
Interfaces in general have been protected. Certainly mechanical interfaces can be. But it's usually protected through patents in the physical world.
This is from 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs

I will take this with a grain of salt.
I think there is some kind of illusion that the previous generation of medias were impartial and fair.

But news always had an agenda. People with power always affected news. And even without that, the sheer imperfection of human nature makes any kind of communication a distored version of reality.

It does feel like it's getting worse though, but I think it's just a feeling: we now have so many sources, and points of view, that we can see more clearly how much BS we are being fed with.
I wonder to what extent the barriers of entry for CS programs filter out some of the best future software engineers. Being laser-focused on getting all the homework done and maintaining a 4.0 GPA is generally not the same kind of personality that results in creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
> There are plenty of other sequencers that can get you the same result, but music is all about the process of getting there.

Yes, I completely relate to that. I tried for a long time to make Linux DAWs work for me but I just hated the process.

> You should look at what's happening in the modular (specifically Eurorack) scene. Control voltage is back, with a vengeance. Most Cirklon users I know primarily use its CV interface.

> It seems like you're just really out of touch. Look up some reviews or youtube videos if you want to learn more.

Yes, does sound like I'm out of touch. Thank you, I will do.
Here's a recorded demo:

https://twitter.com/bryphe/status/1086295979563708416
Reading through the JMAP website [0], I'm actually wondering whether whoever's behind JMAP has looked at GraphQL. There seem to be a lot of similarities (especially the "why not REST" section).

[0] https://jmap.io/index.html
The top infrastructure priority in the entire United States should be to remove all lead pipes. It would cost a lot but it would have an enormous effect on health and reduce crime/violence.

It would also result in a very large number of jobs.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/01/famed-impu...

Unfortunately the marshmallow test as a predictor of later success is debunked. It's part of the replication crisis in psychology. Half of the psychology we learned may be wrong. People just aren't that straightforward.

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/576223
I second that, encrypted /boot? Who is the adversary this is protecting you against? Many of these things looks like snake oil to me.
They're quite a rare sight, though. I've only ever seen one at a train station in Vienna. Maybe they're a bit more common in Germany.
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Why we subsidize low density suburbs is beyond me.

We need to stop pretending roads are free and trains/trams are subsidized. Government plays an essential role in transportation. People should pay for the roads they drive, income adjusted. That's healthier capitalism, because the prices are clear and better mobility = better markets.
>[news isn't] free to produce

Software also isn't free to produce, and yet here we are - in a world dominated by freely available software. It runs on every computer, because it's either "good enough", or in some cases, outright better quality and supported for longer, than paid-for software.

And yet Microsoft and friends are alive and thriving in the ecosystem with free competing software. How come? They re-invented themselves into billing for related hardware, services & guarantees.

We are still waiting for the top-heavy media - including the missing link "online newspapers" media like HuffPo and WaPo - to adjust to the current market situation. If they can't, or won't, too bad.

The new-style online media, typically a one-man operation spanning several channels, are already well established and turning profit. By publishing for free news that costed real money to produce.
Ever been in a liason with a policemen wife and had your DNA turn up in a murder case?
This is really good. I'm fairly well versed in these topics already but I've sent this off to some friends who have only recently started their CS studies.
Wasn't that in reaction to the previous America's cup challenge where the Australians introduced a winged keel that had previously been disallowed from 3-meter boat competitions? IIRC, both were allowed because the charter gave the challenger the power to set constraints.
It's just a way to say "hey, see what happens if we get angry ?" so that smaller players will always try to comply to their ludricrous future claims. You can see that even if they will spend millions, knowing to loose, against a giant like google, for a reason that ridicoulous, a tiny business won't stand a chance.
In the UK, claimants using a 'no win no fee' deal usually buy After The Event insurance to protect them against having to pay the other sides' costs.
I recently started reading texts from Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Ralph Waldo Emerson and to me it seems that, no mater the epoch, people are facing the same problems and asking themselves the same questions.

You don't have to look very far to find answers to these issues, people have been working on them for at the very least the last 2000 years

"Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession. What fools these mortals be! They allow the cheapest and most useless things, which can easily be replaced, to be charged in the reckoning, after they have acquired them; but they never regard themselves as in debt when they have received some of that precious commodity, – time! And yet time is the one loan which even a grateful recipient cannot repay."

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...
Who doesn't?! Don't you feel a bit ... dirty?
What has that to do with the question or my reply?
Wow, your gear is treated so nicely. The stuff I work on has to deal with anywhere between 0C and 80C while having the crap shaken out of it and occasionally being hit with a high pressure hose.

Different worlds...
I recently thought about email being based on such an old standard and then I wondered if maybe it didn't matter anymore, because most of the web is moving to gmail, and my guess is (and somebody please correct me) that when I send an email from gmail to gmail, that no actual SMTP is involved? I'm assuming that they have some internal protocol that is just adapter'd to "Email" at the very end?
I think Fastmail are the primary ones behind JMAP: https://fastmail.blog/2014/12/23/jmap-a-better-way-to-email/
I wholeheartedly recommend The Drive [1] and Alex Roy [2]. Both are biased. Towards a good driving experience :]

[1] https://twitter.com/thedrive

[2] https://twitter.com/alexroy144
Well the example application seemed fairly solid, well worthy of a screenshot. I would like something like this for some simpler custom tools every now and then.

It does seem to exhibit the usual custom rendered app issues. I suppose it is constantly redrawing the screen, as it seems to have constant cpu usage even when doing nothing, so not laptop friendly (though perhaps fixable still).

Some of the widget seem fairly arcane but usable. No keyboard control that I could find. Screens that needed to scroll didn't. Text input is custom, so that will be a source of frustration for many for a long time (lack of cursor control, IME, etc.), likely fine for internal tools for a while.

One thing that was very alien to me was the build tooling and language/runtime. It was easy enough to run the example per the readme instructions, but it is quite hidden what kind is the end product. I eventually found an actual executable of around 4MB (3.3MB stripped), but I'm not quite sure how self-contained that is. Also how easy would it be to link C/Rust lib, so that revery would only be used as the UI layer for something else.
I was hacked because at the time I set up a free account I used an old default password I'm pretty sure shows up in a leaked dataset. I suddenly noticed messages showing up that someone played music from a device I don't own. I changed my password and deleted all offline devices. It's entirely my fault, still it's odd that spotify wouldn't notify me of suspicious behaviour, since they kind of pay for it too.
I guess it’s like phone SPAM where you get a phone call from an overcharged number and they hope some of the called will ring back (and then be charged some euros or dollars).

Maybe they found a way to spam thousands of Spotify accounts, and hope that a part of them gonna try to listen some out of curiosity.

If there are enough doing that, they’ll get royalties money from really played music, and not from pseudo played track, which might be what Spotify monitors
> Oh and it's funny you think this site is any different from any of the other cess pits out there.

You're the one who's coming into this forum and contributing negativity. You're just taking a shit in public and doing it for all to see. Most people here at least take the care to articulate their thoughts even if they have strong (or sometimes even misguided) opinions or ideas.

"Just listen to yourself holy shit" has never been a type of comment that's been welcome here, and you won't last long with that kind of attitude.

Contribute substance, otherwise don't engage at all. No one needs to see your garbage, irrelevant thoughts if you're not even going to take the time to give your own thoughts the respect and articulation they deserve.

Your comment is already dead, and that proves my point.
I didn't know that it is legal to force someone to resign from being able to go to the court. I thought that right to use court to defend ones right is a right that cannot be revoked by some agreement. For me it looks as if someone would sign an agreement that company might kill employee if sales target is not met or enslave him and his family.
The Nobel prize is awarded for academic, cultural, or scientific advances. If at any point the decision is influenced by your nationality, birth place, eye color, or anything other than the intellectual achievements mentioned earlier than it is not fair and square. If all other things equal you get the prize for coming from a certain country it is not fair.

The implication was clearly that the particular "home" advantage made the difference and without it the person wouldn't have won. And the comment sounded like "I'm not saying it was unfair but it was unfair".

P.S. In sports you usually play both home and away to even out that unfair advantage. Big one time matches might even be held on neutral ground for the same reason.

Let's not play on semantics here. It's common sense not to suggest something is fair but then imply someone's nationality made the difference. I'm not saying I know nationality doesn't make a difference when awarding a Nobel prize. Just that if it does, then it wasn't fair.
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Current state of calendaring is horrible, it's basically not possible right now to create compatible and reliable library/application.
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AlphaZero was set up against Stockfish similarly on unequal footing.
> feel that these types of interviews are inadequate at measuring a candidates potential

This isn't meant to measure potential. It also isn't to make you feel good about the process. It's to give the employer some assurance that the candidate can think through not only the problem but how to implement a solution. It's not enough to understand the theory and be able to write whitepapers about it. It likely exists because other candidates have got through the process but were not effective. It likely won't apply to you, but they just want to do some up-front filtering. If you want to find a research position that doesn't involve implementations as a deliverable, then perhaps you could apply for those if they exist.