skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be giving him too much credit.

His recent interviews and (lack of) leadership have shown that he bludgeons no one, and the stubborn person is him. He's just an unusual kind of stubborn: unwilling to make any decision at all.
We've got hate crime laws even though we already have murder, assault and harrasment laws. Might just be another way of tacking on extra punishment due to the nature of the crime.
Does this mean that if I blast an ISIS recruitment video or whatever in like the House of Lords walls everyone sitting in there is automatically prosecuted?

Sounds like an awfully easy thing to exploit into nothingness.
The norms of the dreams should be accepted. If it is the case that drinking unicorn blood is normal in the dream, then it should be viewed as normal in the interpretation. The theory does not seek to normalise the dreaming situation, the norms of the situation are normally extremely useful in the interpretation.
> Isn't CofE flag just Saint George's Cross? I know next to nothing of matters religious.

In this case "CofE" is Council of Europe, not Church of England.
you can sue anyone for anything you can convince a lawyer to take a case for. Doesn't mean you can win, and I certainly haven't seen cases where the butt of a joke sued and won. I would definitely be interested in reading about the case that proves me wrong.
It's a .well-known way to serve additional metadata for a website.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_/.well-known/_services...

Better link from stedaniels further in comments: https://ma.ttias.be/well-known-directory-webservers-aka-rfc-...
>Most people don't hurl insults face-to-face.

I think you're wrong. I think most people do hurl insults face-to-face. They just don't do it often. Most people, especially of the working class, can very easily get into these kinds of spats in the real world.
Yeah. I just thought if anything similar to this exists. Actually there are no space separators in Japanese sentence, e.g. "Konoringohaakaidesu" (This apple is red).
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/

The full list of readings for the course is interesting as well.
Dota 2 seems to have eaten the custom map lunch.
Algolia: Redesigning Our Docs – Why, What Problems, and Key Principles
Congratulations to everyone who helped to make such a successful mission possible.

As an undergraduate, I remember friends working on the Pancam. One of our treasured instrument-makers at UW built the sundials. Science is a very human endeavor -- real people built, tested, launched, landed, operated, navigated, investigated, and interpreted. Some of the people who will use the measurements made by Opportunity have yet to be born.

Thank you for doing something incredible.
I'm pretty sure that eventually, one "winner" app will appear and grab almost all market share, similar to how Facebook has it for social media.
People don't want backups. People want restores.
Apple makes 400k per employee in profit, as an example.

I imagine you will see similar numbers for Amazon, when you look at their reinvestment numbers. Sounds good, but still when someone uses your production to expand their business, it's still your work, and that number is a tax on your work.

I don't doubt we'll see similar very large numbers at Google.

Our unwillingness to unionize allows them to run away with so much of our valuable work it's insane. There isn't a single engineer at Apple that should be making less than $350-400k. They might, if they had a union.
You can sue for just about anything. Do you have an example of a case where the plaintiff won?
> They both suffer from opposite ends of Customer perception. Google’s Customer perception problem is that it’s too hard to use. (Fear of the unknown) IBM’s is that people resent their history of broken promises and hype. (Fear of the known)

Google has its share of broken promises around sudden product discontinuation, and account closures without recourse.
It really comes down to having code I can copy-paste. Google's documentation tends to be minimalist, like a research paper. One small example for everything, just enough to cover every feature.

AWS is closer to "copy paste this big blob and modify it a bit". A lot less work for people trying to implement. I'm not planning to read all the documentation, I just want something that works. Google almost forces you to in many cases
It's not like the example in the article would be hard to reproduce. It's not like those insanely tricky bugs that only present themselves in rare circumstances.

They would easily test for this and fix it. They do not care.
People can use these features, or not, it's their choice. It's a positive for people who happen to want to use them, but what's the negative?
For just visualizing your document, sure.

I was thinking of my webkiosk software where Interfaces on Internet Explorer changed with version (but thankfully Microsoft provided compatibility).

But as long as the Event / API / I don't really know how it works with Chrome / Whatever way to get the Before Navigate information (and be able to stop it) still works from a version to another, W3C standard would suffice for the majority of cases
I think what confuses me is the chicken and the egg problem - I wonder how did Unions in Holywood become so powerful, that they could command companies to hire only unionized employees.
You're not wrong; CNN is barely even left, let alone far left. I don't think a viewpoint can seriously be called "far left" without being explicitly opposed to capitalism. The farthest-left viewpoints you're likely to see on any of the mainstream cable news channels, even as objects of incredulity, are criticisms of underregulated capitalism and advocacy for expanded welfare programs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

It's hidden behind the FAQ.
To put it into perspective, the Hoover Dam cost $49M, which is $750M in today's dollars [1]. They claim these train tracks cost over 100X more.

One estimate of the cost to build the trans-continental railroad, including the Central Pacific ($47M) and Union Pacific ($77.5M) [2] is $3.5B in today's dollars, so this railroad costs 22X what two cross-country lines once cost.

1: https://www.marketplace.org/2010/05/28/sustainability/why-we...

2: http://cprr.org/Museum/FAQs.html#Cost
Young people tend to take the presence of rovers on Mars for granted thanks in large part to Spirit and Opportunity and the amazing job they did of exceeding even the most optimistic expectations for their longevity. Kids who are in high-school today don't remember a time when there wasn't a rover exploring mars. The people responsible for that success of Spirit and Opportunity have enabled a generation of scientists and engineers to grow up knowing that something built by humans is driving around on another planet. Prior to Spirit and Opportunity n rover on the surface of mars was the exception. Since Spirit and Opportunity it has been the rule.

The Mars Exploration Rovers have been truly groundbreaking in terms of how we think about the feasibility of exploring other planets. The idea that we would send a rover to another planet and it would drive around studying for more than a decade would have been laughable in 2004. Now it is something that we think of as being perfectly reasonable. That is an amazing accomplishment.
This isn't quite Twitter, but I think Instagram is close enough: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

Teenager was found guilty of "sending a grossly offensive message" because she cited lyrics of a song in memory of a dead friend.
Opportunity did not answer Nasa’s final call, and it’s now gone to us
That's very cool - thanks for sharing!
Yelp Users Bemoan Disappearing Recommendations, Adding to Company Troubles
The relevant XKCDs: https://xkcd.com/695/ & https://xkcd.com/1504/
What's the alternative service you're going to use now?
I'm not OP, but I can share a story that just happened a few minutes ago that illuminates how having a child helped me see the wonder in daily life.

My daughter is almost three and we live in a Canadian province that's in the midst of a serious cold snap. We got some snow last night. The drive to daycare was slower than usual - roads were extremely slippery and it was an all around ugly commute.

We drive by a performing arts/theatre complex on our way to daycare. The Arts Centre has very bright lights. With a light snow fall and ice crystals in the air, it looked like the light shone up in columns in the sky. Lauren was blown away by it, "See daddy, see daddy!"

I have seen that effect so many hundreds of times in my life that I don't even notice it, but my toddler was absolutely mesmerized by it. There is a lot of wonder in the world and, for me at least, having a little person pointing out all that wonder really helped!

For the love of all that you consider holy, don't have kids because you're bored!
> The first is about testing for banned words deliberately.

After being banned for using those words inocuously.

> That isn't an "innocuous reply to harrassment" as you implied in your first comment.

No, that wasn't one of those. It was clearly a joke, however.

> None of the examples of these suspensions were replies to harassment

A fair point. Next time I log into Twitter, I'll make a collection and come back with those, ok? I just didn't happen to have one ready for this discussion at current time.
I'm not sure the design is responsible for much of that. I see plenty of people on Reddit and this very site who talk past each other and skip straight over the nuance when it is presented. I also see favoritism shown to the "sound bite"-style comments over the thought out ones, particularly on contentious issues.
Torrent? Well, if you read the Daily Mail it really might seem like it. I take it you must live here, on account of your concern about our society, though you presumably haven't been here long, because you haven't figured out step 1, which is ignoring everything you read in the Daily Mail. (Their agenda is simple: get old people to click on the links, fulminate, and forward on to ten friends, putting as many eyes as possible in front of all that advertising that the Daily Mail's customers are paying for.) That will help make it clearer that the apparent torrent is much more like the trickle, if even that, that you will see in your daily life.

Breaking that first rule, I do note the Daily Mail article is good enough to mention the phrase "campaign of targeted harassment", which (if you ask me) rather makes it sound like there was a bit more involved than simply somebody calling her a he, something that judging by her Twitter feed she must be pretty used to by now.

In fact, on her Twitter feed (I found this by googling her name. I've always been pretty good with Google): https://twitter.com/flyinglawyer73/status/109531093363797606... - summary is apparently that she complained to police because of somebody releasing private information, and not because she was referred to as he (though I'm sure that was mentioned as evidence of malicious intent); the arrest was entirely at police's discretion; there's some kind of ongoing investigation.

This may well give you no further confidence in the police, but the ongoing investigation (and injunction - though we're given no details about what it covers) may explain why the BBC haven't printed anything.

(There's more in her recent tweets, including as many of the predictable responses, from exactly the people you'd expect, that you can be bothered to trawl through.)

I don't like trawling through this muck, nor especially do I like dragging it in here like this - but I even more dislike seeing the Daily Mail's shite promulgated.
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I wish Google has a CloudFront equivalent cache system. Their CDN can only be bucket supported or in front of an load balancer. But sometimes I want to just have an arbitrary back end which I can do on CloudFront.

I ended up using CloudFront in front of Google services just last month to hit a performance need.
Queue mirroring in rabbitmq for high availability,replicated queues
With the availability of Unity and other engines funded by AAA companies, that's enabled startups to pursue new game concepts using AAA efforts as a foundation. That's an ideal model. AAA games are both the standard bearer and the entry level. It's up to gamers to pursue and support a community built on top of that for more experimental games.

Wherever there is attention, someone will monetize it.
Isn't it $100/month/user? How are users calculated?
This is an accurate and concise summary of the incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSkpPaiUF8s

Basically: the kid was entirely blameless, preyed upon by a racist native activist specifically because he was wearing a MAGA hat.
Doing what you describe (getting an off-axis laser transmission hologram and playing around with it) is one of the best ways I know to build intuition about light fields. A hologram is essentially a dense surface of light field emitters.
Microsoft does all of that now, but ~6-8 years ago when the initial cloud pushes were happening they most certainly weren't.
Secrecy is another tool. The real keystones are the implied use of imprisonment, violence and death, if you don't obey.

When a government no longer abides by their constitutional oath (if they have one) and does not respect the people it is supposed to represent, then you will have tyranny.
I'm thinking about some comments about a potential of the Ireland conflict which arguably included a lot of terrorism flaring up again as a consequence of Brexit and the issues with the Ireland land border. Not saying there is some connection, but it's been coming up.
Twitter's whole experience is convoluted and it feels like either the developers didn't want to update the UI or were unable to, so features like DMs are handled through highly context sensitive means.
That makes it worse; enacting a law intended to be selectively enforced based on the offender is just tyranny with a fig leaf and traduces the principle that one prosecutes the crime, not the criminal. Once you write laws to be used against some people and not others you’ve created an entire class of unpersons.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19150914
Washing machine motor robots
Look at the credits for many major AAA titles and you'll see that a huge amount of work is done overseas in asset factories. Talent is a commodity.

Automation is here and has been for quite some time. The skill required to produce assets and code for games has fallen through the floor thanks to good tools that do much of the heavy lifting.

Games was never lucrative for the lowely employees, and it's certainly not going to be in the future.
He is busy pushing code to overwrite users' font preferences and install multigigabyte updates...
Moreover, WaPo gives a few free articles per month so it's not like this is a one-off where he wanted to read a WaPo article. I can't fathom being in an industry like VC and not having a subscription to all the major papers even just to skim articles that mention portfolio companies.
> You're suggesting there's some sort of logical relationship between income and talent.

Yes, there is. If you have the talent then in the current landscape you can work for about anyone you want and demand about anything you want. Talent is in _extreme_ demand in the software world right now.
Free speech?
That's not really what hate crime laws are, though. They're all about the motivation. Reforming a person who threatens to kill because they're angry about a personal dispute is very different from reforming a person who threatens to kill because they don't like the color of someone else's skin.

The difference between libel and "cyber libel" is just the medium. Arguably it'd be more like the difference between how the 1st and 4th amendments should be applied in your home vs. on Facebook. But like the GP, I'm not aware of specific cyber libel laws or charges.
>It evolved into the anonymous comment section for the entire internet somewhere along the way.

I don't think this is the case. It became influential in certain circles, but there are many people who don't use Twitter. It became a circlejerk too quickly.
>It is not an accident that GCP and Azure storage service has a S3 API and not the other way around.

both look like third party projects rather than something by Google/msft. saying that "gcp/azure has a s3 API" would be like saying "Linux has a win32 API" because there's WINE.
Criteria to kickstart your research and evaluation of third-party libraries
HN often contains very specialized articles that would not make much sense to people not involved in the technology. That doesn't prevent such articles from being upvoted. There are enough specialists within various domains in HN to be interested in such articles. This is not a typical generalist-software-developer-only forum.
Garmin Acquires Tacx
Why not? I haven't seen anyone portraying the country as a state that respects the rule of law lately.
"Reasonable prices" is only fair compared to, for example, Oracle's gouging. It's not that MS has actually reasonable support pricing, just that ELA maintenance has become a cornerstone of most CIO's IT budget so there's no real incentive to do anything differently. I think the more important factor here is that MS sysadmins are a dime a dozen and the ramp from supporting an on-prem data center to "Azure Cloud" is a lot lower than learning something brand new.
Were you able to stick with the daily meditation schedule?
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I am using my Twitter as a test bed for this. My life was ruined by a false assault allegation, so I am using my real name on Twitter and saying things that seem horrible that I am willing to defend over coffee—nobody has taken me up, or even called my phone number that I leave in threads to discuss.

I’ve always tested authority, this one is worth more than my life. I’m currently at a job readiness program in SF, and was flippantly expelled from the BA Clojure group last week based soley on Tweets.

Free speech or die. In my first college course, mass communication, we learned that people decide how to feel. I changed my stance to agree with that, in that course. Now we see the exact opposite!
What does jQuery do to play poorly with React that this reimplementation doesn't?
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144006
The real question is why would anyone even try to have a conversation on twitter?
Users demanding animated Slack avatars since 2014
article says it's hard to source motors for larger robots.

that's junk. we built robots like the one in the photo, and larger, using easily sourced commercial DC brushless motors.

Nobody should be using a washing machine motor for this unless they want to have "fun" using an "alternative" (which is totally fine, but it's by choice, not necessity.
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This is just an industry getting bigger, more people gain more experience and start to question all the dogmas. LR was taught dogmatically, but was never realistically any good or even useful in practice, hence "NoLALR" was born.
An Introduction to WebBluetooth
So true. I had some wild, wild rides at night while wearing the patch (which I wore 23hrs and removed before exercise)
I visited RDU for a week to figure out if it was a place that I would want to settle down in. I was told the American Tobacco Campus was a hotbed for new startups, and of course SAS in Cary has a big presence. There's definitely talent in the area (State, UNC and Duke) and there's definitely potential.

One thing I noticed though was the relative lack of cultural diversity and city feel (the entire RDU area feels suburban and comfortable, and lacks "struggle" as it were), but I don't know if this adversely affects startup viability, so it probably doesn't matter. I decided it wasn't a place where I would feel comfortable settling in, being a city-person, but for many people who are turned off big cities, I could see RDU being a good middle ground.
Ah yes, talking to one employee about a car no one's driven definitely makes their company 'have their shit together' more so than a company pumping out 6k+ vehicles a week of some of the highest rated cars of all time.
This 100%. I originally thought this was the US DOJ. When I saw it was PH, I said forget it. Duerte runs a junta. PH history is full of judicial malpractice.
Agreed! And besides financial bankruptcy, you can also expect personal and reputation ruin from being charged with being a terrorist.

And good luck working after being acquitted, with the Internet history that no doubt will have accumulated.

A jury of your peers is the last line of defense for justice, but in no measure whatsoever does it serve to balance the cruelty of an unjust law.
To add some fyi... a lot of Qt experts recommend you restrict the usage of Javscript to the QML layout of GUI controls and data binding. For business logic (especially cpu-intensive tasks), use C++.

Example of that "avoid Javascript" advice:

deep link: https://youtu.be/vzs5VPTf4QQ?t=30m55s
Agreed, I don't believe those who now have emoji representation see this as a negative.
Dialogflow for Web v2 now available Check it out
Contempt of court (attempt to unduly influence court proceedings); perhaps unduly strict in the UK but in no way Twitter or Internet-specific. And getting arrested was I suspect part of the protest.
Since Dialogflow V1 API will be deprecated soon, I have started working on a new version of my Product.
It is built from scratch and based on the Dialogflow V2 API. And it offers the same great features my first iteration had, but even more new features are added and the product is now rock-solid for your Integrations. Furthermore it is built on top of custom gRPC client for Dialogflow (I call it “Dialogflow Gateway"), to make sure it works very tightly with the API and implements more platform features, that are not accessible by Web clients before (like multiple languages for Agents).

Today, I just want to notify you, that Dialogflow for Web v2 is available on GitHub. I will be happy, if you could check it out.

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For any questions and doubts, leave a comment below and I will respond as quick as possible.
Best wishes to you and your loved ones. Thank you.
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If you don't mind sharing, what kind of ballpark amount of traffic were you getting for those domains that generated that many emails per week on the subject?
Daily Mail reporting will be grossly inaccurate on this subject. I suspect this was not for a single incident but as part of a campaign of harrasment. There's a lot of that going on against trans people at the moment, often enabled by twitter and the gutter press.
No encryption is intended to be permanent. That's an all-but-impossible feat. Encryption exists to protect data for a meaningful length of time. A threat model extending far into the future is naïve.

The Caesar cipher worked until it didn't, the Enigma was secure until it was broken, and DES was good until it wasn't.
That’s not entirely true. Twitter launched at SXSW, and people who were there can tell you that it was primarily used to build on the fly chat rooms during each session.

Speakers would define the hash tag at the start, and then many would project the post stream up front and respond to questions or comments from the feed on stage. The audience would also discuss what was being said amongst themselves.

It’s really just too big and too public for that to work anymore. It almost needs a feature where posting to a certain hashtag requires a password or being a certain user, then the 2 of them could’ve posted to that hashtag exclusively and been the only thing in the feed, and easily followed.

Obvious problem there is that hashtags don’t really scale like that, but it gives you some sense for strategies they might take to tackle the issue.
It could be a continuous crime, online publication crime are continuous in French law.