skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trademarks are funny in that they are confined to certain markets. If you do not compete in a trademark owner's business, you can use the mark. You see this in the wild: the word Namco, for instance, is trademarked to a Japanese video game company and an American swimming pool company. The word Shazam can refer to a superhero owned by Warner Bros., an app owned by Apple, or a financial services company called Shazam Inc. with a separate trademark for all three. And there's some interesting trademark history behind the name "Apple" itself!

So yes, while the tetrominos being a Tetris Company trademark precludes their unlicensed use in video games, they can be used in other contexts -- a tetromino pattern on pyjamas or wallpaper, for instance.

However, I would be wary about attempting to use them in a board game, as I seem to recall at least one licensed Tetris board game in the wild. Consult an attorney before proceeding. :)
I completely support this position.
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Humans don't date one to one. The top 80% of women date the top 20% of men.
so collecting superfluous intelligence and racial profiling is the answer.
Beam Wallet on iOS
Is this the Paul Vixie of Vixie Cron fame?

Edit: To answer my own question. Yes it seems

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie
Indeed. One should note that stupid people rule the world. Trump, for example.
Imposed rulers don’t usually end up bein the most popular politician in the country, yet somehow Saakashvili managed it. It’s hard to argue he’s illegitimate in the face of public support like that, so bravo for managing it anyway.

Still, the point is none of this America bashing in any way justifies Russia’s appalling abuses of of Ukraine and Ukrainians. It’s like a husband blaming his wife beating on how annoying the neighbours are.
Didn't know Flutter was from acquisition: https://acquiredby.co/google-acquisitions/flutter/2724/
Or directly give them the service they need. The example provided was that essentially the city they are in needs public toilets.

The plastic bags being a solution is a misdirection as it is a major health hazard for the people dealing with the poop bags in the trash.
The difference her is that hashcash is hackable (send spam via a botnet from other people's machines and them bearing the cost). With telephone calls such a scheme is harder to implement, it would be discovered quickly by the phone company, you'd be prosecuted and end up in jail.
The drastic approach: finding the culprit and replace it. Years ago I had a combination of MB and PSU that produced an annoying whine. Putting a different PSU model eliminated the noise. Sometimes it's the combination of GPU and PSU, YMMV.

The thinkerer approach: find the noisy coil and bury it with a generous amount of hot glue or some other similar dielectric material. You are trying to reduce the coil "vibrations" and dampening the noise.

Personal anecdote, both mine and my sister's Dell XPS 13" (9333 model) have an annoying coil whine that is really evident on quiet rooms, in a normal office environment I can't hear them tho. From what I've read online recent XPS models still have that defect. Baffling, a lower specs Latitude 15" that was provided to me in a previous job didn't had any.

In my case an user has solved the issue disconnecting the audio speakers, don't recall if it was one of them or both, if someone is interested the post is somewhere in the Dell support forum.
The guidelines might might specifically forbid talking about downvotes, but they do forbid talking about votes in general.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments.
This article was written in 2013, I wonder how he's been getting on since?

I'd imagine a lot of companies have wised up and won't call 0871 numbers.

Interestingly he mentioned he puts his 0871 number as his contact number for banks/energy bills etc so if they contact him about something he gets money for it.
> We are thinking of setting up a very simple CDN with encrypted servers, which only serve our JavaScript and store the page views temporarily before sending it to our main server in Iceland.

For the JavaScript, just encourage your clients to copy the script and serve it from their own server with the rest of their files.
How has the parent not been downvoted to oblivion then?

Edit: I see you're the author, I'll take your word for it :)
Nice work btw.
Whats the difference between personal dns server, vs using google, and opendns? Arnt u resolving to that?
I have A1 (Android One phone), if there is malware, they hide it well. There is no obvious MIUI stuff

The thing about their Android One offering is that they don't bring their A game hardware-wise, they don't really advertise them, and it's confusing to find them in their other phones.
Do you draw any line in relativism, or is it a holy value everybody should share?

And what if I don't acknowledge it? My reason not to acknowledge it is as valid as your reason to acknowledge it by that standard.

So really, nobody has to acknowledge or respect anything as long as there is some reason for it. And there are plenty of reasons not to share your opinion here.
It makes me not put on my phone things that I consider sensitive, like any of my CC details (the Apple account is connected to a spare debit card which hasn’t had any funds on it for quite some time), no sexting, no nude photos etc. I consider that a positive (and that’s why I thought a guy like Bezos would have been smarter than he really was, you cannot trust any electronic security thing when there’s literally a picture of your genital parts involved). On the other hand I’ve encountered lots of security-obsessed people here in HN who have given their fingerprints or, even worse, their face details to Apple on the premises of making their life more secure. I find that incredibly stupid.
Even UE4 is really accessible as a physics playground, with PhysX 3.x, GPU particles, cloth simulation etc.
Did this for over a decade. Kinda easy but also pointless. I'm switching Google Cloud DNS.
Plumbing is not what you read in your textbooks about.

It has always been the case that the majority of programmers are plumbers. As a fraction of people I would be surprised if we do not have more people working on blue skies problems today because all the tools are available for free, as opposed to the 80s when a workstation with the software on it cost 30% of the developers yearly salary.
A curated list of the best drones on one filterable page
No. It would show up on a good old fashioned metal detector that we had in the 80s and 90s though
HTTPS Isn't Always as Secure as It Seems
Unbound resolves to root DNS servers. They are the authorities on the domains they advertise.
>I came here to make the same point. The real test would be to take those same Lisp or Smalltalk programmers, and have them work in Java. I’ll bet you see the same increase in productivity. It’s the people, not the language.

They write a mini-lisp in Java and obfuscate it. I've been on project where this had happened.
In this era repairability doesn't do well because hardware performance obsolete fast, while os and software need higher spec each year. It's easier to buy newer, higher spec phone than repair it.
I've been surprised by how slow the C++ standard data structures are (likely due to the need to support a lot of functionality). I once wrote a basic heap in C and tried benchmarking its performance at -O3 relative to the C++ STL heap. Was expecting mine to be slower compared to the highly optimized STL heap, but was wondering how much slower. Instead, it turned out to be 1.5-2x as fast (and this was despite freeing up memory when the underlying vector shrunk - something which the C++ vector does not do).
The only thing this thief exploited is the idiocy of the victim, who carried around a backpack full of expensive items, his passport (leave it at home or in the hotel), and his wallet (put it in your pocket), and then left it piled in the corner. Of a bar.

We should all be glad that the police don't waste their time on petty crime like this. This guy didn't deserve this, but the rest of us shouldn't have to pay for his naivety.
Codesmith bootcamp scam Watch out
Hey guys,

I'm a CTO for a Silicon Beach (Los Angeles) startup, recently, I came across 3 potential hires for software engineer position, very deceptive resumes, all graduates of Codesmith, a bootcamp in LA. So what they do is Codesmith tell their graduates to be very deceptive, if not straight up lies, on their resumes. I fear that this has been happening with their graduates for awhile, and part of the reason why companies mistrust bootcamp grads, because of this very reason.

Codesmith tells them to put their group project on their resume as so called "work experience", as well as telling them to put "open source" as work experience as well. I had one potential hire that went as far as lying about another job on top of what was mentioned above.

For hiring managers and engineer managers:
Watch out for those things listed above, and ask your candidates about their details of their "work experience", make sure to ask them if it was a paid gig or not.

For people looking to change careers via coding bootcamp: I would suggest you avoid it completely, most of these bootcamps are too good to be true, and they usually are!
Having that ability is also disastrous to productivity. People realise this and resort to wearing headphones as deterrent to being interrupted. It means that certain people work in constant fear of being dragged out of their flow at any moment. This is why universities have strict office hours. There are types of work that just can't be done with random interruptions.
Conversely, if the only value you add can be codified and delivered as work packages without physical contact with your peers, what makes you think that you have more value than someone offshore / a robot?

If you're doing real, creative, problem solving work, then daily physical contact with your colleagues is essential. The bandwidth of knowledge transfer is vastly in excess of anything that can be done remotely, and quickly bouncing ideas off other people will get you through problems and blockers far more effectively than anything else. We still don't have any collaboration software which can replicate this experience.
Single data point, but I've been running a home DNS server (bind) for many years; it's set to be authoritative for the .local domain and caching for everything else (except for major tracking and advertising sites, which it blackholes).

For hits that are in the cache (the usual case) it's obviously faster than going out to the 'net,. The black-holing combined with ad-blockers mean browsing is a lot faster and considerably more peaceful.

In terms of maintenance, it's no real effort other than updating every few years (being behind NAT the security risks aren't huge) and it means the entire household sees the benefit (plus access to webservers/wiki's etc on the .local domain).

Obviously the downside is it needs to be on something that runs 24x7 and a modicum of IT skills are required to set it up. One other catch is that your ISP might block you for not using their DNS; BT (UK ISP) did this, but it is possible to turn off this 'security feature' via a rather obfuscated web page (may have changed since I last did it).
For once, I thought this was something related to the political scene in India. Now that it's election season and the right-wing (BJP/RSS) actually protested against Twitter on roads alleging them to be left aligned or supporting the opposition.
I actually liked WP8 once I was allowed to make tiles transparent, and they just partitioned whichever wallpaper I chose with "launcher rectangles". It was a quite cool design actually. But the original tile layout with that disgusting color palette one couldn't change was obviously something that should have been confined to some modern art gallery for the people that could appreciate it, and never tried in mainstream.
In tourist destinations around europe (particularly Italy) there are people who go around with a bunch of roses and will try fairly forcefully to give a free one to your partner then fairly persistantly request a donation from you. Guessing thats what they are referring to although calling them a florist seems a push.
AFAICT it's impossible to get from _any_ vendors now. The XZ3 compact doesn't exist, and the only other phone I know of that has a comparable screen size is the Nokia 1, which as a phone isn't comparable at all.

There are also rugged devices like the Zebra TC75, but even though it has a 4.7" screen, the phone itself is large. Similarly, the Blackberry KEY2 has a 4.5" screen, but the keyboard adds quite a bit of bulk. Both phones are also pretty wide, which is a big factor in whether it fits in one hand.

The Galaxy S10e is being touted as a brilliant compact phone, but it's the same size as an S7, and comes with a giant 5.8" screen. Today's "compact" phone is yesterday's "phablet".

Then there are the clamshell smartphones. Surely there's a market for these. The only one sold in the US is the ZTE Cymbal-T, and it's carrier-locked.

And while I'm ranting -- why hasn't anyone made a decent shoephone yet?
Excuse me but the error you are getting makes it clear that you have to compile YCM before using it.
Or the wrong religion, or none, or an apostate, or gay, or...
The top reply to that comment is Drew Houston explaining why the first two objections aren’t true and the third one will be fixed in an upcoming release.

Blind faith would have led Drew to ignore the comment out-of-hand and stay focused on plowing forward. (Or try to anyway. Some people don’t know how to avoid distraction when they’re trying to suppress suspicions that they are going down the wrong path.)
> his passport (leave it at home or in the hotel)

You may be legally required to carry it with you. In China this is the case. (Or at least, China publishes a lot of documentation for foreigners claiming it is the case. I don't see why they'd be wrong about that.)

I don't carry my passport with me anyway, because that is crazy, but I don't like being placed in the wrong like that either.
You don't even need rare(ish) occurrences like rule changes to trigger this. Consider recurring events, like "every other Monday at 1pm", and what happens to them at the twice-yearly DST shifts.
We also like to give our population crap food and then whistle away the tsunami of diabetics and of the obese as those conditions drain TRILLIONS of potential wealth.

A diet of pure fat would literally be healthier than the diets of a majority of Americans. At least satiety is activated much sooner.

If we examined it, we'd probably find a number of preventable deaths per year far exceeding that from any drug use. Hell, the side effects of our dietary metabolic wreckage probably impel the search for comfort/escape in intoxicated states.

Of course simultaneously we're dealing with a breakdown of a post WWII script, in mainstream American society, where the dream is available if you work hard and your purchasing power will only get better as society "progresses". But for the average Joe, the price of everyday consumables (Food, gas, water) and shelter has outpaced inflation. At least electronic soma is cheaper!

For me, it's hard to extract our drug problem from the pervasive shitstorm of other factors.

PS: MXE was/is the shit. It's a damn shame such a relatively mild dissociative with a promising profile will probably never be allowed for public use until the current generation of puritan drug cop-regulators die off.
it's an improvement (iirc, it makes the error-growth linear), but does not 'fix' the problem.
When I read soul destroying I was certain the punchline is that you'd later started cycling, making commutes both enjoyable and beneficial. Alas, I was wrong.
LIPS: Simple scheme like Lisp in JavaScript
This is untrue for heroin.
What I find absolute f'in sucks is living/working in Europe and interacting with Silicon Valley. The time difference between CET and PST is 9 hours. That means the European workday is essentially over when SV starts waking up and piling on the emails, bugs, requests, meetings, etc. So you either end up staying an extra hour or two to do meetings/chats and handle issues, or go home and check email periodically in the evening. Worst when there's a fire alarm and shit hits the fan at 9pm...

Even if you do manage to disconnect, there's wreckage leftover for you to pick up the next morning. Have that happen about once a month and you'll be a frazelled mess, knowing every evening something could go horribly wrong.

Just say no to timeshift!
Ok, never come across that, even in Italy, but would make sense.
I am having a hard time with the do not read email part here. Let me tell you why.

1. I do not use google for DNS
2. I do not use chrome. I use firefox with ad blocking
3. I only browse in private browsing mode 99% of the time.
4. I have a script that updates a block list of 10s of 1000s IPs for ad and tracking blocking, etc into my host file.

So I order a box of cigars. Confirmation is to a gmail account. Next day I get stop smoking ads in YouTube. Never seen them before then.

So...
I hink you are wrong to blame cussing here, it's mostly about emotions. If you were cussing from a place of frustration or complaining, then of course it would make people feel worse. Even without cussing. But if it helps you think more positively then it's good.
People with an addiction to legally prescribed opioids are caused harm by that addiction even if they never move to illegal opioids.

This is because they're taking very large quantities of opioids and suffering the side effects, and they've developed a tolerance so they need larger more risky doses, and because it's probably not treating the problem they started taking opioids for.
> that by all means should have failed

Why should it have failed? What did the engineers and salespeople at SpaceX do about those reasons?

A) Throw their hands up and decide they weren’t worth investigating solutions to them

B) Plow forward and completely ignore them

C) Study the problems to understand the conditions that would make them irrelevant

D) Study the problems, decide the only way out of them was through solving them, and then apply their skills and time to doing so

E) both C and D

————

There is this idea I keep seeing. I’ll call it, “Impossible is Nothing”. Where you ignore roadblocks just plow forward blindly in spite of them and overcome them through force of will. But magic doesn’t exist. Things don’t get built because someone shouted loud enough. Things get built because people saw the potential problems and then

1) Exercised judgement to evaluate if the problems were real.

2) If so, applied skill to uncover their details and solve them.

If you decide to skip step #1 and just blindly have faith that the problem isn’t real, then it still stands in your way and still causes you to fail.
It is great if these things have helped you.

They have the ability to do absolutely nothing in some folks and the ability to make mental problems worse for other folks. This is why some retreats won't take people that have a history of mental health issued.

You could simply stick with what works for you and let others do what works for them without judging them harshly for doing something you believe won't help (even when the research and their personal experience says otherwise).
I don't think the "UI Toolkit" Flutter you know today was from an acquisition. Eric Seidel (leading the Flutter team at Google) mentioned in a video that they needed a name for the project and they used a name from one of their acquisitions. As verifying that a name is available in most important countries is expensive and time-consuming, they just went through their internal database of available names and this is how they picked Flutter. I couldn't find a link to the video right now.
Usually not being open means that the price was only high enough to repay the investors.
That sounds like a good idea. I'm sorry but I am bit new to these things, any suggestions from where I can get a hint of how to start with creating a tool which can automate this process?
Hrm, that's interesting. I went through Schipol a few days ago and don't recall having to go through a metal detector. Nude body scanner yes, metal detector no. Maybe I just wasn't looking?
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I went from Z3C to XZ1C last year when the rubber on the USB cover piece stopped working right. After getting used to the look, I like it a lot. It's a more physically solid design.
It is understood from this these animals are created for biting human beings and sucking from our body.
Maybe there are some benefits we may does not know
Right. Because the rules from one inconvenience other people and the rules from the other inconvenience the posters.
Always. There were a lot of failures, few successes, but the successes more than cover for the failures.

I make double the salary of other people of my age and ethnicity, which is not great when I take risks with 1000x payoffs, but it's not bad at all either.

Generally when you take risks, you should take the ones with good rates. Roll the dice enough times until you get somewhere good enough.
Sometimes this works but most times you don't know what you don't know. And because of that you end up discrediting an idea which if you had stayed at would have revealed a new direction that would become a success. In sense the idea becomes a stepping stone for you to see farther and higher.

Although not all the time.

So decision is still a big chance, either way
One more 'O' gets you the Olympic rings.
Interesting, but I’m not sure why I’d use this over processing/p5.js augmented with a library to provide the fast compute part on an accelerator. I already do this for compute intensive things: I have a library for agent based models that I give to students that provides fast data structures and algorithms that they use from processing. I don’t see the benefit of a whole new language. The primary feature that it seems to add is live updating of the code, but I’m not convinced about that either (similar ideas have been kicked around for years in computational science contexts with respect to online tweaking/steering of models, and rarely have had any traction in practice.)
Plastic can be recycled into fuel rather easily. Sponsoring plants in africa and china which convert waste plastic into fuel would appear to be a worthwhile endeavor. Then people might be incentivized to hold on to their plastic and exchange it for something of value, rather than discard it into the ocean.
Are you sure they know that themselves? As others here have noted TSA agents aren't the most employable/educated types.
Although Survivor bias very much
Partner with someone who can keep up, like Amazon?
Stripper poles?