skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SawStop invented a thing. Does that mean nobody else can ever produce a similar thing?

No. SawStop patents (there are many) begin expiring in 2021.

> Ford created the first mass-production automobile. Did that stop other companies from developing their own cars with their own internal-combustion engine?

As you say, Ford wasn't first to the ICE car game. They did have patents on the Model-T, though.

>Where do you draw the line on what is patentable and what is not?

https://www.legalzoom.com/knowledge/patent/topic/what-is-pat...

> If I have designed a new pharmaceutical compound and it is patented, does that mean other companies can not synthesize their own version of the same compound and sell it under a different brand name?

That is correct.

> I suppose if we apply this logic to mechanical devices, you pretty much kill all competition for the life of the patent.

This logic does apply to mechanical devices, but it doesn't "kill all competition" because companies can design around existing patents. If you can find another way to achieve the same effect that's not covered by the patent, then you're fine. In practice, this happens all the time.
Except standard stereolithography only solidifies the outer surface layer.
Well, if you think that it would be more reasonable and expedient to require users to read a contract beforehand and then authenticate themselves to the service before accessing any content―please, knock yourself out on your site.

It appears that the rest of the web gets by pretty well using the legal framework I've described. Because, you know, they tend to choose things to be pragmatical instead of those that “can be done.”
Schizophrenia has multiple symptoms. Currently there's only "hearing voices".
> Do iPhone users lack the ability to have control over their device by adding their own certificates?

That is correct, you cannot run software that wasn't explicitly allowed by Apple on your phone.
For all my friends
Abstract: We emphasize that color composition is an important characteristic of a painting. It impacts the auction price of a painting, but it has never been considered in previous studies on art markets. By using Picasso’s paintings and paintings of Color
Field Abstract Expressionists sold in Chrisite’s and Sotheby’s auctions in New York between 1998 and 2016, we demonstrate the method to analyze color compositions: How to extract color palettes from a painting image and how to measure color characteristics. We propose two measures: (1) the surface occupied by specific colors, (2) color diversity of a painting composition. Controlling for all conventional painting
and sale characteristics, our empirical results find significant evidence of contrastive paintings, i.e., paintings with high diversity of colors, carrying a premium than equivalent artworks which are performed in monochromatic style. In the case of Picasso’s paintings, our econometric analysis shows that some colors are associated with high prices.

[My comment] The ability to extract the colour palette seems much more interesting than the observation that some palettes were correlated with higher auction prices.
That's Some Wholesome UX by Lyft
2018 U.S. midterm elections review (Twitter dataset of election interference)
I created a robot to write news storied
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/01/why-i-created-a-robot-to-write-news-stories
The sheer audacity and disregard for just about ... anything makes me laugh though I don't want to!
Competitors only tried to enter the market after SawStop validated the market's existence. Something that never would have happened without the assurance of profit that the patent provided. The company tried to license the technology, unsuccessfully, for years, before going into manufacturing themselves.
Didn't Google have something along these lines or was it purely for choosing panel placement?
Is it racist to mention that "White" people are excluded, especially when diversity seems to be so important to people? I bet that if the skin color palette was more biased towards lighter tones, there would have been some bigger outcry...
So it can make you "tea, earl grey, hot" or anything else ... but made only out of unbcoloured acrylic resin.
Not all cars are automatic. You might need to get hold of a hand instead.
> The decision comes after the Catalan government insisted on imposing a 15-minute delay before passengers could be picked up.

I agree that the Uber model is problematic but making the taxi service worse for everyone (harder to order a cab for right where you are / right now) to level the field seems really shortsighted.
> A rival service, Spain's Cabify, has followed Uber's example.

This is what happened here in Oslo, Norway. Basically Uber left after a lot of difficulty, and the local cab company created it's own app that does what Uber's app mostly does.

I think the greatest gift Uber will have given us is getting the Cab companies to join the modern era. Honestly it was only a few years ago when you would have to make a phone call to order a cab, OR be within visual proximity of an available cab.
> Scala was not designed with tool support in mind and it probably never will be

You should pay attention to what's going on in the ecosystem. Dotty comes with LSP support. The Scala Center's main focus is tooling. JetBrains has been pretty committed and cooperating as of late. And several projects are building serious alternatives to SBT.
Barclays is a terrible example. If someone obtain your pin and nick your card then can do anything with your bank account as the card works with any pinsentry.

Much better is HSBC. The device you get is the only one that works, you cannot use different device.
My friends in Barcelona are furious that this also includes Cabify. While taxis are generally plentiful, if you don't live near a major street, are in the suburbs or need to get an urgent taxi there are few options. I think MyTaxi still works though? Are all taxis across the board subject to the 15 minute delay? What a weird thing to impose and not just demand that taxi drivers are subject to certain labour laws that are beneficial to them.

Apparently the taxis demanded a 24 hour wait..
All you've done is increase the registration fee by $6 per year as the registrar will happily handle the monthly aspect. The money will just increase the profit of the rent seekers who control DNS.
It's not hyperbole at all. If anything, it's too gentle of a take.
It looks good on macOS for years now. Even Windows figured out a way to make it work on those displays (although it's worse than on macOS).

So your explanation, while common amongst Linux devs, is a rather cheap cop-out in comparison to the bigger two competitors who have mostly solved the problem.

The end result is that Linux DEs can be horrible to use on many HiDPI laptops, which don't have exact resolutions to make integer scaling feasable.
> Maybe journalists should go out on their own via Patreon etc.?

The problem with that is that the person with the byline isn't the only one that matters. Editorial oversight is equally important. You need the guy who's enthusiastically digging into a story and the guy who keeps his enthusiasm in check. I don't think those can be the same person.
> You can even do it without signing up or logging in.

Then what's their business model? Do they sell aggregated customer traffic data to merchants?
Now I'm unsure if each individual click is actually billed for that much. Or if that's a sum / average of all the advertising costs until someone finally clicks.
The 15 minute delay was only for Uber
Good old reductio ad Hitlerium: we still show historical movies about Hitler and many countries do not outright ban his literary "work". (Others do.) It is still getting published. And it is a political piece, unlike just a mere association!

The problem is probably the lack of option due to centralization of publishing (esp. movie publishing) and enormous political pressure from there.

You cannot show Cosby if MPAA or whichever organization does not agree to it, nor you can sell them. The only bet is a media library which may have an exception in copyright, until that fades away in half a century or more.
Even Apple configures their new laptops with non-2x scaling by default.
My comment from the original post verbatim:

I agree with the part that you should write tests, but I definitely disagree with the part that most of your tests should be integration tests.

As you pointed out the testing pyramid suggests that you should write more unit tests. Why? Because if you have ever tried TDD you know that unit tests make you write good (or at least acceptable) code. The reason for this is that testing bad code is hard. By writing mostly integration tests you lose one of the advantages of unit testing and you sidestep the bad code checking part.

The other reason is that unit tests are easy to write. If you have interfaces for your units of code then mocking is also easy. I recommend stubbing though, I think that if you have to use mocks it is a code smell.

Also the .gif with the man in pieces is a straw man. Just because you have to write at least 1 integration test to check whether the man has not fallen apart is not a valid reason to write mostly integration tests! You can’t test your codebase reliably with them and they are also very costly to write, run and maintain!

The testing pyramid exists for a reason. It is a product of countless hours of research, testing and head scratching. You should introspect your own methods instead and you might arrive at the conclusion that the codebase you are working on is bad and it is hard to unit test, that’s why you have chosen to write mostly integration tests.
Java really felt refreshing versus what C++ world was doing before it came out.

Go dig out a book about Boochs, CORBA, DCOM/MTS,...
I love all the innovation that's created to warn us about active shooters, all to let the active shooters keep their guns.
"You can't make a scientist work effectively under threat of punishment"
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/soviet-s...
I'm also a remote software engineer, and my guess is that you're starting too high. My first job (on-site in Ohio) paid something like $7.50/hr (so ~$15k annually), and I'm now at $165k base 14 years later. That puts me in the same ballpark of 18% annually.
Definitely not. See my comment on the parent.
Taxi drivers are a cartel. I don't like Uber and their approach of wiping their butts with the law, but I hope all taxi drivers have to find another job. In a coal mine, for example.
it's a pity that we are losing good services cause we are unable to create a fair form of regulation
Apart from "The taxi model has worked for decades, don't take our livelihoods away" are there any articles on why Uber is actually detrimental?

I find it way easier to use Uber than get Taxis mostly due to the app based "click and collect" model, I would still use that even if it was the same price as a regular taxi. It annoys me that there seems to be lots of "crackdown" on Uber but I don't feel informed enough to know why.
I could not find a reference to 60dB in the paper. It states 30dB SPL in the relevant plot, which is very quiet.
San Andreas version history is particularly convoluted and messy, as you can read here: https://gtamods.com/wiki/San_Andreas_Versions

Short version:
1.0: Various bugs
1.01: Patch, fixed a whole bunch of issues
2.0: Only introduced a (easily defeated) tampering check after the Hot Coffee controversy
3.0: First steam release, is not based at all on 1.01 or 2.0 but on the Xbox version. Fixes from 1.01 are thus NOT IN THIS VERSION(!). Also contains many Xbox UI changes.
newsteam r1: Removes the aforementioned songs, drops support for DirectInput controllers, blacklists 5:4 resolutions. Doesn't actually have a version number anymore (and is named by the community)
newsteam r2: Unlocks 16:9 resolutions. Also doesn't contain an official version number.

Then there is the Microsoft Store version, which is based on a mobile version!
Excellent work and write-up. Very happy to see the next generation of engineers are top notch like you!
Clarity Ventures Outlines How the Online Marketplace Disrupted the Industry
> But then publicly the USA point fingers at Huawei or Chinese government from doing the same.

The only thing remarkable about this is the mechanism: Mainstream media mouthpiecing these viewpoints. Surely, they know better. But they are obviously willing tools.
> The countries of Europe are our allies and friends, the EU as an entity seems to treat the UK as an enemy.

Do they? Nobody wants the UK to leave as far a I know.

> It's important to note that the EU has not agreed to /anything/ in terms of trade as part of this deal, that's why it's a terrible deal. It's a deal to make a deal,
> The EU /can/ enforce this on us, because of their relative size and our political disunity/mismanagement, but it seems obvious that they /should/ not.

Why shouldn't the EU act in its own best interest? And why should the EU expect ongoing negotiations would be more productive than what happend the last 2 years and be finished in a pre set schedule? I think the political mismanagement in the UK is fully to blame here. Yes the UK is in no position to simply dictate the terms of an ongoing relationship, everyone knew that (at least who wanted to know). What the EU is willing or able to accept was also known. Despite that article 50 was triggered without a plan, not even speaking of a realistic one while knowing that 2 years are not a lot of time to untangle such a deep relationship even with a solid plan.

> but it includes us agreeing to pay massive outstanding budget commitments.

I think it's reasonable to demand budget commitments already made to be paid for. It's not some arbitrary "exit fee", it's just paying the bill. Would you be willing to sign a new contract with someone who is unwilling to fulfill outstanding obligations of the previous one?
No, Apple has to observe regulations. If e.g. a bank wants to do business in the US there are (lots of) regulations. If there were the political will to 'open up' the now closed iOS mobile ecosystem, such laws could be written.
Worth noting that the person who coined the term "meritocracy" did it to criticize the use of just those proxy values, particularly education, rather than actual performance:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
This seems irrational. What's the argument behind such requirement?
I'm sorry but I think it is horrible to put Louis CK in the same sentence with Bill Cosby. Maybe I don't fully understand the situation, but there have been no reports as far as I know that Louis CK drugged anyone or physically forced himself on anyone.

The case against Louis CK is purely that of abuse of power which is seen as a "white" crime as opposed to physically restraining someone. The distinction is important because "white" crimes are generally seen as better crimes and indeed when I started writing this comment I too felt it was ridiculous to hold Louis CK to the same standard as Bill Cosby.

I'll end like a broken record though. We in the software industry like to do "blameless postmortems" add they like to say in devops culture. However, as soon as we walk away from our jobs, we become the same primate as everyone else. Maybe we shouldn't blame the abuser. Maybe we should not blame individual district attorneys or prosecutors for failing to prosecute cases or for acting tough on cases that simply had no common sense not. Maybe we should not blame individual police officers for waking into someone's apartment and shooting to kill claiming they thought they were in their apartment and the person was an intruder.

Maybe we ought to treat the root cause of the problem — huge inequalities of power. But how?
This GoDaddy domain front-running thread is from just 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655630
In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business
It's interesting that you mention that last bit. As a matter of fact, it's got a lot to do with left and right political ideology here.

Possibly inflammatory post coming your way ...

Qatar, Turkey, Iran, Syria (at least historically, maybe not so much with the current Al-Asad), old Libya (Qaddafi) are very leftist, and thus get along better with left-ish media and left-leaning governments like France and Canada. Also the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir, even ISIS is (extremely) leftist and there are allegiances and/or sentiments shared between all these.

Saudi Arabia, UAE, are very rightist. And thus they get along better with USA, Russia and also even Israel.
Instagram is doing something
My way of how I learned React:

1. Read the book [1] and type every code of his by hand and create a snippet folder. Stop reading this book around two thirds in when he gets too deep on caching and does not much with React.

2. Read the Facebook Hello World tutorial, type everything by hand again and understand it. Add it to your snippet folder.

3. Try to make your own to do list++ app. You can use Google and Stackoverflow but try to remember things first and don't jump back to the Facebook tutorial and the Road to React book. The app I created was a React app in which you could submit your bookmarks and give it a star rating up to 5 stars, it's a feature that I'd really like in Chrome. Add it to your snippet folder

4. Get started with a real project.

In this approach, I think this website would be a good addition or replacement for step 2.

Expectations and goals for each step:

1. Gives you context and insight (you care about context).

2. Gives you insight while having the context.

3. Transfers this knowledge 'to your fingers' a bit, you just feel the idioms in your fingers a bit more when you're done. I.e. practical experience

4. Deepens the practical experience enough for one to say "I am able to program with React."

[1] https://roadtoreact.com/

[2] https://reactjs.org/docs/hello-world.html
https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/

This is beautifully done.
If you think the support for fractional scaling is bad, wait until you see the support for having monitors with different DPI settings.

Linux on the desktop is death by a thousand cuts. I would argue that it's getting worse and worse, because new technologies are introduced (like scaling, GPU switching like Optimus, touch, good desktop composition, etc) and they are never well implemented. 15 years ago the biggest problem you could have with Linux is having to recompile your kernel to make your sound work or something like that.
Take a break and enjoy some scolding hot resin.
How can you know that it isn't doing that?

I imagine sex crimes to be really hard to proof. Because the difference between a completely legal act and one that is deeply wrong is the state of mind of two people at the time.

The justice system shouldn't convict someone if it can't be sure that the accuses really did the crime.
Just because a domain may appear to be unused, it doesn't necessarily mean it is unused.

For instance, I have a domain I use as a file hosting which I can link to when I want to share something (I used to use Imgur for this purpose before, but frankly I don't trust any image host at this point, so I set up nginx to host a single directory). As you need to know the file names to download them, the domain would appear to be unused.

Although now that I look at I suppose I do explain its purpose, so here is that: https://i.xfix.pw/.
NPM Scripts Tutorial in 10 Minutes
True, but Groovy is even cooler!
Makefiles – Best Practices
News has always been funded with advertising the cost of the newspaper was just a nice bonus. I pay for it by giving you my eye balls. Journalists just got sloppy and started money grubbing is all.
Setup and fine tuning of such devices can take months so I highly doubt that.
The Guide to the Carnivore Diet
Huawei to Launch Its First Foldable Phone on 24 February, 2019
Why would I pay for a media that humiliates me, writes biased articles and tells me that I am a bad person because my political views differ from theirs?

I am actually kind of glad that the media landscape is changing, because they way it has been has been terrifying. I'm not american, so I can't speak for new york times but the layoffs in the shit-media that was buzzfeed and others like it is just good news.

I'd rather see a world without a news media than with them being the only option. But I do pay, for alt-media.
In germany i had to verify my id at a post office. Deutsche Post has a infrastructure for verifying ids that buissnesses can use.
You do understand that the people laid off at Buzzfeed were not the people at the Buzzfeed media side of the house, they were actual reporters on the Buzzfeed news side?
Including "the other side" on such issues is only a problem if you include them uncritically. But that requires a debate, not just airing of opinions as most news is nowadays. Censorship of ideas only makes them grow stronger. Look at antivax - what we needed was a complete and repeated dismantling of their ideas in the mass media BEFORE it became a problem so that people would been vaccinated (in this case with knowledge) against the well-sounding and emotionally compelling arguments of the antivax movement.

So, no, we don't need balanced news. But we need critically inclusive news.
CloudBalkan Control Panel vs. 2.0 is now public
Your argument holds for mailboxes because it is not a common use case of mailboxes that their owners want complete strangers to check as often as possible because they've left something they want taken.

A better real world analogy is a bulletin board on campus or a wooden power pole.

Lets suppose that it is super common that people staple flyers to power poles, with the expectation that people will read them as they pass by. Your analogy would claim that if I staple a letter to the power pole, expecting that only my friend that I told about the letter should read it, that passers-by are doing something unseemly by reading it, while being surrounded by want ads and for sale flyers that people do want read.

Websites are nothing like mailboxes. The vast majority of websites would prefer that as many people as possible read their contents as much as possible. Email would be a better analogy.
No, that was absolutely not what happened. The discovery of radio waves happened in two parts: first, Maxwell completed the fundamental equations for electrodynamics by postulating that a temporally changing electrical field must be creating a magnetic field around it. Otherwise the behaviour of plate capacitors would be inconsistent. This brought the equations into a form that rather obviously allowed the derivation of a wave equation. Then it took about 20 years IIRC until Hertz managed to prove in his lab that these waves exist and can be both created and detected.
Right. Capacitors. Especially for write cache, I think.

But yeah, battery-backed RAID plus UPS would be good enough for most, I guess.
Empowering further research of potential information operations
Right now it maybe isn't but that could quickly change if newer protocol versions get more common.

If IP addresses were as anonymous as claimed, there would be little incentive to save them in any long time storage.
IBM Puts Oranges on the Blockchain
With Android you suffer privacy intrusions. Unfortunately the market has failed with the dominant iOS/Android options. Regulations to protect consumers are required imo. Apple and Google are too big and have no incentive to fix this on their side.