skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a hero. If we all try to scam Google and Facebook then maybe they'd stop existing, but you faxlets are too busy with sucking c0ck for peanuts and not understanding anything ab0ut tragedy of commons.
Their Merlot and Cabernet is super tasty to me! The only one I drank that gave me headache was their Malbec one.
I think you mean "in the USA outside of California". It's unthinkable for me in Poland, and I'd guess that in a greater part of Europe it's similar.
JOE (Joe's Own Editor)[1] is actually easier to use than nano, and it can emulate other editors (including nano/pico via jpico). It also has mouse support. It is installed by default in Slackware, and is in the package manager for most other OSes.

[1] https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
Evidence of Life on Mars Supported by NASA
Santo Daime is one I know of. High probability if you live in a large population centre there will be one or more Daime churches in your area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Daime

As far as I know most places use conditional licences that must be renewed every 2 years, it's in part to make sure those practicing are good and safe stewards/leaders.

Native American groups also have the right in different places, where the general population doesn't.

You can attend Santo Daime works without being religious, and as a guest to the church.

When thinking about religion I find it best to realize there's such a wide distribution of beliefs and practices, and a difference between mainstream religion or "TV religion" vs. other.
I’ve finally found a German law/regulation I take issue with.
The man's face on page 52 looks like a reaction image you would see on social media today.
And yet you're a thousand times more likely to die on your bike than in your car or in a 737 Max.
Sure the company realized that the patents are not really worth as much as they were originally paying. So developer decides not to bother which makes sense.

I don't think it is narcissistic but I do think the developer has to be careful in how she plays her cards.
Show HN: React webapp to showcase the stories of the New Zealand victims
Which just means the persistent can just find a state to incorporate in that is just a little bit more lax than the others...
drove a stickshift in SF for years no problem. My trick on steep hills is to pull on the parking brake (right hand) while slipping the clutch. Release the brake once the car starts pulling forward. Basically same as on a motorcycle.
I have tried everything. This is my last avenue before I die - yelling at wind and getting banned.
You are right, can read more about one proposal here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
Enlighten me as to which part of your comment I mischaracterized.
Render 100 node in browser it is less then 16ms, if you need hard logic, you can use reactive for that. Library first of all created all child deep, after that appendChild to DOM in memory, when all child and root ready and after that will be append in place on page.
Yeah, I suspect the OP is caught between a rock and a hard place. I know very little about the situation from what's given in the Stackexchange post, but this is how I imagine it;

The OP has had no say over this policy at all, and is actually pretty powerless overall. He/she has no ability to give out titles, perks, bonuses, promotions or anything really. Still the position of the OP entails being a link between senior management and the actual engineers, so the OP is the only one in management who actually sees this engineer's work ethic, creativity and problem solving. The few times this engineer has been in contact with senior management the engineer has pushed back their requests for him to just give up whatever work's been done, which doesn't work because the engineer barely knows who the f they are. So the senior management now asks the OP to fix it, but grants almost no authority to do anything.

The senior management would like this situation to end in a situation where they don't have to roll back whatever policies they implemented, or treat people in special ways just to get what they already believe is rightfully theirs, and if this doesn't go well they want to blame someone lower for the mess.
> That may sound bizarrely unfair to you, but elsewhere (Germany) it's actually the law

Yes, plenty of countries have bizarrely unfair laws.

(edit: it appears that the law in Germany is not as bad as initially presented by the parent comment).
How about uno
Sorry yes, of course.
> Ah, so this person, in addition to not being an expert on the topic, is a terrible driver.

This isn't really an event that allows any extrapolation to their driving skills. And backing out of a parking space isn't really a high stakes manoeuvre. Plus, the sensors are probably close to human's capabilities now anyway. The exhortation not to trust them is about liability more than safety.

In any case, one should applaud their honesty. If I'm wrong and this behaviour is dangerous after all, pointing it out to a few hundred thousand readers, many of whom engage in the same practice without even noticing, is likely a more significant contribution to safety than anyone in this threat will accomplish in their lifetime.
The year between point releases made me curious. FWIW, a road map with breaking change seems like a side effect of semantic versioning.
Wut?

No modern type system gives you runtime gaurantees (c++, Java, rust all erase in various ways).

Interfaces are more clear.
India’s data labellers are powering the global AI race
Neither Rust nor C++ eliminate logic bugs (and no language can do that).

If you are writing code that must work, you should be either formally prove the system (if feasible) or have a huge test suite covering everything.
> Have none of you really worked at a company that introduced an overly ambitious rewards program and had to dial it back?

Yes, and universally it resulted in a mass exodus of good talent, I have experienced it 2 times in my career, every time most of the good talent was gone at other employers with in a year

>He was gaming the system to get above market pay.

lol, I always love when people believe that using a program exactly as it was designed is a "loop hole" or "gaming the system"..

No he was not gaming the system

>If you think someone came up with 30 truly novel and useful software patents in 2 years you might not have read enough software patents.

I am opposed to all software patents, however that does not change anything. The fact is to the company and the current legal climate around patents I can assure you each of those patents are worth more than the $$$ they where paying out.

>Has he worked in software before? Clearly he's never been in a management/leadership position where he actually has to balance the concerns of the company with his own ego.

Clearly you one of the bad managers that believe they are putting company concerns above all else and ends up hurting company due to their short sighted policies.

I bet you would be the type of manager that would outsource an entire dept, pat yourself on the back for the cost savings, and then jump ship as the company plummets of the cliff you created
Just came here to say, check out KDE Plasma it is amazing (:
Firefox has its own problems in this realm, namely that all "Private" windows/tabs share a single session that persists as long as any of them exist.

I discovered this recently when I logged in to website X in a Private window, then closed the window without explicitly logging out, and returned to X later that day. I had another Private window open (with a completely different site). I was still logged in to X! because that second Private window had preserved the session.

This means, of course, that sites you visit simultaneously in separate Private windows are not isolated from each other either.

I still am mostly happy with Firefox and use it daily, but this was a completely unexpected and unwelcome behavior.
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I need to look up sometime what happens when you have two jobs. That's uncommon here, but I'm sure the law spells it out.

(Edit: couldn't find it in the law, and will not be in the University library soon to check the legal commentaries — but I still find that question interesting)
Maybe part of the driving test should be conducted in a car or sim with no assistive technology, or with some of it randomly turned off. Also maybe test for accident avoidance situations. But then here the modus operandi seems to be to get the most drivers on the road as a means of access.
The maze is random and will regenerate when you execute the program, so you need to be lucky to pull that off. I mean, you can just reload until it works, and I think that is a solution within the spirit of the game too, but quite an inelegant one :)

Mine was to bypass the maze solving completely by instead breaking out of the function scope to declare a global direction variable that lets the phone toggle the direction of the robot, then just press R to take a step in the chosen direction ;) Stupid? Elegant? Rule-breaking? You decide...

https://gist.github.com/Untrusted-Game/ba346481d41ce8576d21e...
I doubt that he is getting above-market pay. 7 years for a decent bonus to kick in is not what the market does; I got a good bonus my first year at Google and the first year at the startup I quit Google to join. That's the norm. Being relocated to a different part of the country to accept a promotion is also not normal. At any organization interested in retaining engineers, you demonstrate that you're working at the "next level" and get the simple pay increase that that is worth.

I would expect someone with the title "senior engineer" to be getting in the ballpark of $300,000 total compensation. Otherwise, their version of "senior" means something different than what the market leaders call it. If this guy is getting $400,000 a year with the patent bonuses... it's probably money well spent. With the right patents, you can extort Samsung for a few billion here, Apple for a few billion there. $110,000 is pocket change. Just pay the guy that and make it unappealing to leave for Google and get an endless stream of patents that you can have in your back pocket for defense, at the very least.
wow I had no idea thanks!
It's always fun when people frame any given problem as an engineering problem. I'd enjoy seeing the reverse: an engineering problem framed as an artistic or literary problem, for example.
Very cool. We’re going to be adding the job posting piece in the next couple of weeks. We’ve been focused on the network and the functions to help people find each other. If you’re signed in, you can go from question to question and seeing people’s answers. It’s pretty cool how it works. We had the idea but we weren’t sure what it would be like. Once you find an answer you appreciate, you can then learn about the person, jump to others, etc.
Successful small studio, bought by EA, and never heard from again.
>It is shocking to me that the second crash happened, if they both turn out to be MCAS and stab trim sourced. How could you step into the cockpit of a 737-Max that day and not know about the MCAS issue and be primed to respond according to the checklist?

the MCAS caused almost crash the day before the first crash of the same plane - it was only that off-duty pilot who knew about MCAS and thus saved the plane. Yet the next day that plane flew again with an MCAS unaware crew. Looks like some systemic issue. Grounding of the planes would allow to correct the specific tech issue of MCAS. Whether the systemic issue is going to be corrected is yet to be seen.
Information can be irrelevant for evaluating autistics and relevant for allistics, too. Especially if you give autistic employees roles or support that obviates some of their common weaknesses - you'd still care about whether non-autistic applicants have those weaknesses.
I don’t think Zurich and Berlin can be compared without considering your personal preferences. If you need a million people around you’ll feel lonely in Zurich. If you’re into mountain hikes and skiing, Berlin is just plain boring.

People are happy in Berlin and Zurich but for different reasons (and usually you couldn’t change that with money).
This one is 59 american dollars... https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive1 hope that helps!
In the cases I've noticed the middlebox vendor claims TLS 1.3 only meaning that now their product isn't critically insecure in the face of TLS 1.3. It can't actually speak TLS 1.3 it just knows to say "Sorry, TLS 1.2 only" without breaking everything.

In my country we had many televisions labelled HD Ready when HD television first became available. Were these actually ready to play HD television? Er, no. They could however tolerate existing in a world with HD while not being HD themselves and this was what they marketed as "HD Ready".

Do you have examples where they actually do TLS 1.3?
Yeah, but this isn't porn, it's just stories that feature some nudity. No idea how exploitative it is, although if they try to insert it everywhere, it's probably at least somewhat exploitative.

Still, that won't mean it's not going to be talked about at the watercooler; Game of Thrones definitely was, and that had plenty of nudity.
Yet, many people in the world cannot afford iPhones and have to use non-pristine Android versions where Google siphons data, along with a multitude of other shady parties that paid the vendor enough to put their apps or spyware on their phones.

Also, in a lot of parts in the world $10 per month is a lot of money.
Depending on the concentration of defects and the length scale of the system, theory suggests that it may be possible to observe second sound at much higher temperatures beyond 120 K.
Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook
I haven’t looked at the code, but I hope someone who has been using Python for 20+ years knows how to write and use it properly... so yeah, I’m inclined to agree with you.
There is little point to introduce a GC in Rust. If you don't mind a GC, you have nicer languages out there.
Hey! Yeah ha! I've collected 7000 Single Page website references since 2008, safe to call it a little obsession:) Really interesting use-case though on mobile, I'm unsure if numbered pagination is better as an indicator how deep you've gone? On desktop I LOVE the infinite scroll though. Especially effective when browsing tags and categories. You really get inspiration MUCH faster than clicking to page to next...
Reminds me of this story - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_That_Laid_the_Golden...
He's Lithuanian, he already has one.
Also located in Germany; I was not aware of that regulation. I only had one employment contract before I started my own business, but on neither side of HR, I had situations dealing with this issue. Thanks for pointing out.
They have a dubious law banning 'dual use' security tools too
The pre-history of Hewlett Packard: David Packard in Schenectady
A lot of my side work involves fixing things for companies and individuals who use a cheap shared hosting plan from a bottom-barrel reseller. Often this is a virtual host in cPanel/WHM or Plesk and is very limited on what you can install outside of Fantastico, Softaculous, or similar web app stores. In those situations I normally have to deal with extremely restricted SSH access (if any at all) and can't install unapproved software. It's frustrating but it does happen frequently.
Read italo calvino!
Haven't read the article but I'm assuming it's an empty page?

<ducks>
Nano is a text editor, not an IDE. There's no reason why every text (not just code) should contain less than 80 characters in every line.
> I was glad I had an automatic there, the hills are insane

Yeah, on, but you're also from the flattest country in the world :)
I very much enjoyed this. Got to level 17 before I ran out of enthusiasm. Level 14 was a sly puzzle, had me stumped for some time.
I think it's uncommon in the Windows world.
I smell serious Privacy concern just in this statement. Could company do that? I wonder why that engineer still working for that company if he is so good & company is playing all these tricks.
The NHTSA treat 1.5 seconds as a typical reaction time, so seven car lengths is really rather marginal at 60mph.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/Safety1nNum3ers/august2015/S1N_S...
Not really, most users (even tech people) don't know that it is a POSIX standard, or what's a POSIX standard, or what's POSIX really
> It's too bad the Windows Store only contains Ubuntu LTS editions. It'll be July 2020 before all the improvements

It’s really as trivial to dist-upgrade Ubuntu on WSL as real Ubuntu.

Heck, I bet 19.04 works fine already if you dare run a beta.
Show HN: Harmopark – Web tool to visually build chords and progressions
There are a number of high end cars that let you control the cameras when moving forward. Range Rovers spring to mind where you can select from all the different cameras at anytime, including the reverse camera.
If this were a salesperson and they reduced commissions, would it surprise anyone that motivations were also reduced?

If management thinks these patents are worth less, a reasonable position, then they should file fewer of them. Indeed the cost of patent prosecution is significantly greater than the engineer's patent compensation. Raise the filing bar; that'll save some money. But if they lower patent compensation, they have to understand that it will also lower motivation.
EINE [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EINE_and_ZWEI
I have the opposite experience: notepad, notepad++, vscode, kwrite/kate, sublime, gedit, and many more I've used... none of them had this unwanted behaviour.
(Asking for legal advice on the Internet. Double oops).

There's a point in the application process where you need to affirm, under penalty of perjury, a bunch of legal stuff about the invention. I can see having second thoughts about (say) the prior art landscape, or having sincere doubts that the application teaches something patentable, and refusing to sign.

If the potential patents are actually valuable, the cheapest way for the company to realize them is to pay the engineer for his time. The company already sounds like a horrible place to work, and lawsuits against current or former employees are going to send an awesome message to the ranks. Engaging in a suit to force someone to patent an invention is going to get really interesting and expensive.

It's also possible that the engineer has been gaming the patent reward system, turning in inventions that are just reworked prior art, or that are not actually very valuable (too narrow or obscure to be interesting, or too broad and risky to use in legal action). 30 patents is a lot, relatively speaking -- perhaps the company realized that it was actually getting low-quality inventions and decided to adjust the compensation accordingly.
It seems like nano has started to reach vi-like levels of ubiquity. Every fresh Debian install annoys me by dropping me into nano as the default editor at some point (until I update-alternatives and point it at vim.tiny).

The edge still goes to vi, especially if you log into older/legacy things, or in very resource constricted environments. It looks like busybox, for instance, has a vi but not a nano: https://busybox.net/BusyBox.html
Read. They need the work, not the patent. You know, the thing they're paid to do as an engineer. It doesn't matter if they did it on their own time voluntarily, it obviously belongs to the company. It's the engineer's own fault if they did it on personal time to keep trying to game the system (even after being offered 25k, jesus).
Brb adding a JIRA ticket for this feature. Great idea. Killer app.
If only it could run Linux.... I have enough AtTiny boards at home
Xendbg: A Full-Featured Debugger for the Xen Hypervisor
Yeah, that's a pretty good summary of the issues Stadia brings, from Google's history of killing off products to the technical problems with latency and input lag and the adverse effects on game preservation and mods.

But there's also enough danger it may bring as well.

Namely, it turns video games into yet another front for the culture war, by letting someone's ideological opponents target their video game collections as well. Or against a developer, their entire customerbase.

We all know how companies like Google react to social media outrage (aka often deleting the accounts of everything the witch hunt is targeting). Now with Stadia, they can lose their games too, since without the account access to their games or save files is probably gone as well.

This is even worse against developers/publishers, since they could see their whole library wiped off the service altogether, basically removing it from every single one of their customers at once.

There are also non political issues about Google and how accounts are sometimes tied together when they logically shouldn't be too. 'Associated' accounts can get you banned and account removed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124324

And from what I remember, losing developer accounts, YouTube channels, etc can take down your Gmail account as well. Like this:

http://www.jonasblog.com/my-gmail-account-got-deleted

If Stadia is connected to this, that means you can lose all your games in such a situation too. And likely again, all your progress in said games too.

Services like Stadia basically leave your games and work at risk of going poof due to social controversies and account issues.
It's not uncommon to have prolific inventors in companies like IBM or so. Maybe the company realised that this person's patents were not worth enough, however, they might turn valuable in a few years, who knows, through some acquisitions, etc.

The sad thing about these situations is that the inventor is not owning the patent, the company screwed the engineer, and this is now on his/her own trying to fight legal battles.

In my opinion, the best thing to do in such situations is to leave your job and make a startup. If this guy is able to fill 30 patents he has probably some good ideas.
Have you driven a car with a backup camera? All the ones I have shut off the camera view once you engage drive or shift into 1st. The only thing displayed on the screen at that point is navigation or entertainment stuff.
Hello HN,

I'm Pedro, the creator of Harmopark (https://www.harmopark.app). A year ago I found out about this interesting hexagonal lattice named 'Harmonic table' and decided to build a web music tool whose UI includes this note layout with the purpose of exploring harmonic concepts and helping with composing.

Features:

- Build chords in a visual way and get their possible symbols immediately.

- Harmonize scales and their modes. Display a chord chart based on any scale.

- Create chord progressions and visualize them while they play.

- Easily switch progressions to any parallel scale/mode you want.

- Get a mirror version of a chord progression using negative harmony concepts.

- Use modal interchange borrowing chords from the parallel and negative progressions to create more interesting harmonic sequences.

- Export progressions as MIDI files to work with them in a DAW.

- Share progressions via link or embed code.

- Just use the harmonic table as an instrument to play around on. Sound can be adjusted choosing among several synth presets and effects.

I would love to hear your thoughts.
The BolaWrap 100 is a hand-held remote restraint device that discharges an 8 foot bola style Kevlar tether at 640 feet per second to entangle a subject at a range of 10-25 feet.
Emacs comes with extensive built in documentation. At the bottom it says hit C-h C-a which takes you to an about page which has various help links.

The GUI app as a menu bar, a standard gui feature that includes at the far right an entry entitled HELP under which one can find a manual, docs, a tutorial, a FAQ and various other options.