skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of Americans express admiration for our founders and institutions too, though. Flags and conspicuous patriotism are everywhere in our country.

It's possible that that's just normalized for you but it seems jarring when you see someone revering a 'commie'. The programming runs deep on all sides.
I just Googled "rockbox" kickstarter but your comment came up as the first hit :)
There are non-Blizzard alternatives to most (if not all) of Blizzard's offerings. Magic: The Gathering Online instead of Hearthstone. League of Legends or other MOBAs instead of Overwatch. SW:TOR, Shroud of the Avatar, or even Destiny to scratch the MMO itch.
> So, while it might be cumbersome, but doable for, let's say, Amazon, it could be a real problem for a new small business.

Not to mention even larger non-tech businesses often see tech as a cost center and probably don't want to pay to fix things until it's too late. Though, I wonder if this could be an interesting consulting angle. Sell yourself to businesses as someone who can help bring business's website to up standard
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Everybody is different and some people may prefer to spend their free time in fun side projects. Nothing wrong with that.
IF google would make it part of their rankings it doesn't matter if you could be sued or not - you will make sure you are accessible to avoid being not found.

I wonder if google can be sued for not making it part of the ranking thus misleading blind users... Interesting angle for a lawyer. I hope someone at google is reading this and mitigates that risk.
Humans are emotional animals and many can be dominated by feelings, your answer assume they are entirely logical
>liberal censorship

There is no "liberal censorship", unless you can point me to an instance where a bunch of liberals imprisoned someone for offending them.

When people complain about liberal censorship, they're really complaining that other people have the right to respond negatively to what you say. Cancel culture is also not censorship, and it would be childish to conflate those two things.
Best joke I've heard today
So the GP volunteers unasked for feedback and that's cool. I do the exact same thing they did and somehow that makes me the asshole?

I already covered the fact that tracking problems can be due to reasons other than poor eyesight. I even provided supporting links for that assertion.

Part of my background is working for an educational organization that catered to the needs of gifted kids, including twice exceptional kids. It was common for early readers to have tracking problems and for parents to share practical tips on how to cope, as well as talk about at what point to get concerned and get the kids checked for something else.
I've said it a few times, but it's worth repeating IMO: copyright is a deal, where a creator gets a time-limited monopoly in exchange for works entering the public domain.

If a company have arranged things so their work can't enter the public domain (eg DRM) then they should not get copyright protection, fundamentally it's wrong to get the benefit of copyright without giving up your work to the public domain.

This can be solved by a requirement to register an unhindered copy, whilst they're at it orphaned works should be made copyright free, IMO.
Advanced Traefik 2.0 with Kubernetes
Who do you claim is oppressing who's freedom om speech on account of hurt feelings in your example?
I agree with your position but it is at odd with the general de-platforming movement. Where banning people from platforms where they can express their opinion seems to be now an acceptable form of political discourse.
You know... since the precedence has been made a few times now, an American president having an entertainment background... I'm just saying, if they decide to go in as a pres/vice pres duo, I'm not going to instantly ignore them at least.
Here's a high res picture of the C64 PCB, where you can see the markings on the chips: https://myoldcomputer.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/board-32...

You can see both copyright dates, and plenty of other English text. While in 1940 this would have represented incredible futuristic technology, it's pretty obviously made by humans and not a piece of alien magic. It also has components like resistors and capacitors with markings which would have been immediately obvious to 1940s electronics experts.
I don't have any really watertight first hand info unfortunately, only bits and pieces I stumbled over in German internet forums when I've been researching stuff for emulator coding.

Some of the stories of how Western machinery was procured is mentioned from time to time in articles like this one:

https://oiger.de/2011/08/26/die-teure-jagd-auf-den-megabit-c...

It seems to have been less "broad sweep style" than I mentioned above though, more like that new products required specialized machines which were only produced by a handful Western manufacturers, and which were under the CoCom embargo. And the "grey-importing" of those machines went through various shadow companies in different countries to cover everything up.
> Given how tightly the Chinese government controls domestic drug production and distribution I'm very skeptical that this export operation is in-spite of Chinese government action, maybe at best they ignore it.

I think you give too much credit to that government apparatus.

China has over a billion people, and if you think their government is one big well-oiled machine of surveillance and oppression, that might be a bit naïve..

Illicit drug production has been a worldwide problem forever. It's logistically impossible to keep tabs (no pun intended) on every legit lab 24/7 and even more impossible to find and shut down every illegal operation, in any country, much less one with such a massive population and also with such a production-focused economy.
It's a very poor argument to dismiss or dilute criticism of China because the US also warrants criticism.
I'm concerned as to how you would justify such an institution
Sure it depends on what manner, but what is wrong with a regime change? I am sure there are plenty of Falun Gong, Muslims and Christians who would not mind a freer government. I think only US business would mind because they would not have such easy access to cheap labor and electrical and human parts.
As noted in that article, the system is ineffective (officially, at least) against ICBMs. It only works against ballistic missiles that don't leave the atmosphere.
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If you've never done a side project, I would definitely recommend the experience. That being said, the people I know who always have to have something software and/or business related on the side are stretched thinner than anyone else I know.

I've gotten the most mileage out of the extracurricular pursuits that have the least to do with programming - usually those around art or sports. When I have an interesting idea for a technical side project I pursue it, but when I was in a phase where I felt obligated to do so, it brought more stress than enjoyment.
Warframe
> Or you know, a laptop. I've got like 6 of them piling up dust and all they need is 19V

Mechanical parts fail first. The keyboards on those laptops will be gone after a few years of use. The USB ports won't last much longer. How long will the thermal paste and internal fans last?

The point of the z80 is that they're cheap and relatively easy to build from scavenged parts.
I don't think practicing piano or performing alone is a creative endeavour unless you are either adding to or mutating the piece you are playing, or are using your piano skills to compose new pieces. "Making" art, as another commentor put it, is the productive action, not studying to make art. The distinction is different for visual arts and music.
Conversion rate, yes. But the parent asked about customer retention, which is also quite important but much harder to optimise for...
But what could be more rejuvenating, not to mention fulfilling, than spending your free time working on your career and making more money?

It's a win-win. Work, work, work until you die!
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Rich privileged people get to do cutting edge science. How is that surprising?
I found a very similar tool, but with advanced functionality. You may see baggage allowance, aircraft model with the tail number on the route and flight schedule https://flightsmap.org
Are you comparing a polluted river to the deaths of millions?
CockroachDB has a different cheat where the voting nodes would "follow the sun" as different regions would be the most highly active at different times of a 24h period. This has then been generalized to "follow the work" where each voting range keeps its voting nodes near the location of high activity. I'd like to see how this benchmarks to Slog.
Magit sounds great. If I only could use it without remembering a bunch of arcane emacs commands.
Ask HN: What are your concerns about about holding user data?
I am trying to understand how small and medium businesses are thinking about data security.

Storing personal data has an associated risk. Data leaks can be harmful for your reputation. Customers can be put off your product when asked to provide data consent. Finally GDPR has financial consequences for failing to protect data properly.

My questions are:

What is your approach to data security? are you using external services, have you got legal advice.
Do you think how you handle data will affect your customers opinion of your service product?
Does the operation of your business rely on knowing personally who your customers are? For example flights require passport information but twitter doesn't need to know anything about you.
I agree to this to a certain extent.

This view that everyone must be passionate about programming is dangerous. What does "passion" mean - working an extra 4-8 hours every day on some random side-project to prove to a hypothetical future employer that you are "passionate"? I don't know if that is what "passionate" means, but I know that for junior people I have in my team that I will repeatedly bang home the need for work-life balance if I ever catch them sending emails or submitting code late into the evening.

That said, if you enjoy spending all your work time coding and your spare time also coding, sure fine go ahead (and I think that probably all of us go through this from time to time). But I really don't think we should be encouraging that you should be trying to hustle a genuine revenue-generating side business as well as your normal 9 to 5. I fear that it is unhealthy to set these expectations that you need to be working two jobs simultaneously.
Easy to say these things when it's not your life on the line.
That kind of markup may also be useful for software analysis. Parsing prose is becoming tractable. Maybe Alexa or the (nameless) Google Assistant will be able to order the pizza for you. They're supposed to be able to do it over the phone.
PyPy's New JSON Parser
This is terribly enlightening. I'm an Ashkanazi Jew of average intelligence, but there seems to be some stigma that Jews - especially Ashkanazi [1] - are brilliant. I'm constantly judged by a very high standard because of that. Be there no mistake, I keep that standard, but due to Anki and Ankidroid and not due to my intellect.

I wonder if there is a self-fulfilling prophecy about that. The 96% statistic hints that because men are traditionally associated with the hard sciences, men typically win the Nobel prizes. What percentage of senior scientists and researchers are women, I wonder, and does that percentage correspond with their representation at the Nobel prizes?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
The Lottery
The downvotes are too easy. They should cost karma.
You can compile it on linux and run it through "weston"
Android and iOS autocomplete both need to get smarter about this as well. I don't always want to switch keyboards to use a different language/script!
Non-binary is literally the categorization, I wouldn't say they avoid categorization at all. See, by "they" I could mean anyone, so it doesn't necessarily refer just to non-binary people.

If I had two colors on a spectrum, lets say blue and yellow, we wouldn't call the middle of the spectrum "color", we'd call it "green".

> Why would a new set of pronouns be needed to categorize such a non-homogeneous group when neutrality already captures everyone between the normal binary categorizations?

I think this is the issue, it doesn't necessarily capture them directly. I think there is merit in having a pronoun, but it shouldn't be forced by law (as it is where I live). It doesn't arise naturally probably because there are many different categorizations in the middle and most people are on the poles, which I think is fine.
Effect of network traffic engineering on TCP connections between AWS regions
I can't understand why people bother writing this type of posts in HN. It's just childish.
Devotion was a pretty big one: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-25-devotion-devel...
This is basically just marketing for a book
Not at all the same though. If I release software specifically for a national market, I adapt to the local law of that nation. In this case, the software is WoW, and the country is China. It could have been Wolfenstein and the country being Germany. It could have been a nipple in a game, and the country being USA. We don't notice such.

However, in this case, we're at an Asian (not Chinese) esports event where one should be free to express their opinion. It is not as if we don't see skeleton cosplay on esport events being banned, or that Germany demands Wolfenstein esports events (?) don't contain blood and Nazi paraphernalia. It is not as if the USA complains about a nipple on TwitchCon in Amsterdam. This is about a country applying censorship beyond their jurisdiction.
The Guardian was pushing the narrative that Dix and the rest of the Cambridge Analytica management were evil geniuses.

The alternative is that the management didn't really understand technology and were often overselling what was possible to potential clients. A story that Sophie Schmidt had helped them understand stuff reinforces this alternative line.
Works in Serbia, too!
Lissajous Curves and Knots
In my experience consulting opportunities come through personal connections and often to work with early stage clients that are not very technical. What you bring is experience they can trust because you were referred by someone they know. Clients often don’t have the ability to get the project started or hire the right people so often consultants start as the interim lead developer and then migrate to the interim hiring manager and then pass the baton. I recommend asking for equity if you’re launching early stage companies for clients.
From the obit in The New York Times:

Late in life, Dr. Schrieffer’s love of fast cars ended in tragedy. In September 2004, he was driving from San Francisco to Santa Barbara, Calif., when his car, traveling at more than 100 miles per hour, slammed into a van, killing a man and injuring seven other people.

Dr. Schrieffer, whose Florida driver’s license was suspended, pleaded no contest to felony vehicular manslaughter and apologized to the victims and their families. He was sentenced to two years in prison and released after serving one year.

Florida State placed Dr. Schrieffer on leave after the incident, and he retired in 2006.

Richard Klemm, a professor of physics at the University of Central Florida, who collaborated with Dr. Schrieffer on a research problem in the 1980s, said he had tried to contact him but did not hear back.

“He wouldn’t communicate with anyone,” he said. “He apparently didn’t want to have anything to do with his community any more after what happened.”
The comparison I am trying to make is between consuming and producing acts. After all my years of playing video games; my point is that the opportunity costs are higher for playing video games than shooting freethrows.
As a limes disease survivor I vehemently oppose your idealized depiction of sliced citrus fruit.

It's a very impressive project and I can't wait to see what else you come up with. Good job!
So we are at the point where American video game developers are banning people from e-sports competitions for their comments over a domestic issue in a foreign country? Because the Chinese government probably didn't like his comments, that counts as 'public disrepute'? This is just wild to me.
>boycott Hearthstone

Sure no problem! I'm still boycotting blizzard because of how they handled the bnetd situation.
The Go tooling works fine with repositories hosted elsewhere. It’s a minor inconvenience for contributors, potentially.
Using trees of resources is building nondeterministic amount of latency into your system.

One of my first (after awhile) forays into C++ was to analyze big WFST graph to find various statistics. And I found that my program spent as much time freeing resources as doing actual work. Subjectively, of course, yet.

I knew it can happen, so it was not big surprise.
My understanding of 'show, don't tell' is that instead of just telling the reader;

he was nervous

you show it through the prose like this;

He hesitated. Wringing his hands together, shifting from foot to foot. "I... I don't think you're right. Maybe not about that."

You shouldn't be keeping the stuff you're not telling secret. It's not about not letting the reader know things, it's about not being fucking boring about it.
Polluted by dead bodies...
PrestaShop in 2019 and Beyond, the Pain Points
Nationality is often an interesting question. To quote the German wikipedia page on the nobel prize [1] (translated by deepl):

> One of the consequences of this practice is that nationality information is sometimes controversial or confusing. For example, Elizabeth Blackburn, who is also an Australian citizen but is listed in the Nobellists only as an American with an Australian birthplace. In the case of prizewinners who stood between several nations, such as the Alsatian-born Albert Schweitzer, for example, the indication of only one nationality is also perceived as insufficient or, depending on the point of view of the observer, wrong. Another reason for discrepancies are the numerous state changes in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some prizewinners, for example, mention the place of birth with the nationality of the time and today, while others mention only one of the two. An example of this is Günter Blobel, whose birthplace lies in Poland today but is listed as a place in Germany. Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, which then belonged to the Ottoman Empire and is now the capital of Northern Macedonia. However, her family was Albanian, which is why she is often seen as an Albanian. However, none of the three states is mentioned in the official list of notices, but the place of birth is shown as belonging to Turkey, presumably because this was already a common name for the Ottoman Empire before the foundation of the Turkish state. Her nationality is declared Indian because she was an Indian citizen at the time of the award.

> Since the Nobel Peace Prize has already been awarded several times to laureates who have worked towards a solution to a conflict over the nationality of a region, the indication of nationality already runs the risk of being regarded as tendentious. For example, when the 14th Dalai Lama Tendzin Gyatsho was awarded the nationality Tibet was declared, although this state only exists in the form of an exile government. In 1998 and 1976, the state received awards for its efforts to settle the conflict in Northern Ireland. Here the Nobel Institute chose Northern Ireland as its nationality, although this region was never an independent state and no party to the conflict sought to establish one. The Nobelstiftung, on the other hand, names the United Kingdom as its nationality after its current formal affiliation.

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobelpreis#Nationalit%C3%A4t_d...
Best the "commies" by being more communist than they are, love it.
How were Labor Unions justified? I'm not saying they don't have issues, but the idea is similar.
More like, "Why I feel like I should have a side project"
I an not of any Christian denimination. I don't know what you are talking off.
For a tangible example, imagine saying something pro-HK on an online multiplayer and losing access to your entire library of Xbox games.

From Microsoft's community guidelines:

"Under permanent suspension, the owner of the suspended profile forfeits all licenses for games and other content, Gold membership time, and Microsoft account balances."

And in 2019, saying things as asinine as "haha I banged ur mom" are enough to trigger such a suspension, despite the embracement of such an immature, tongue-in-cheek culture being tantamount to Microsoft's early success in the gaming industry.

My Steam games aren't much better off.
On my android phone I've got two languages set up and it seems to be pretty good about autocorrect in the right language.

I'm rather curious what the difference is between us that it doesn't work automatically for you. Even google assistant understands me when I speak either language.
Did you use any tool to make the SVGs?
Why are some people so strongly opposed to others using their free time to better themselves and stretch their minds a bit?

Many of humanities greatest scientific discoveries and works of art were 'side projects'.

It's better than lounging around like a lemon doing nothing with your time.
It's a shame that the blog doesn't mention Mishima's most famous work, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (a fictionalized account of the real case of a deranged monk burning down Kyoto's most famous temple), or (IMHO) his magnum opus, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, which he finished immediately before his death. Both showcase Mishima at his finest: intense, dense, obsessed with sex and death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_of_the_Golden_Pavil...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_of_Fertility
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Unfortunately DNS based ad-blocking solutions are nowhere near as effective and convenient as an extension like uBO. Even if you have a publicly available DNS based service they will tend to be more lax in order to not break sites which lets many ads through.

I use a combination of PiHole, Firefox+uBO, and VPN + FW rules to stay as much away from ads as possible even when browsing mobile. uBO is the single most convenient and effective measure out of all of them.
What does lynx have to do with anything? No blind person I know browses the internet without JS, and every major screen reader supports it.
I'm not quite sure of the point?

At worst UNICEF has lied. Don't trust these organisations at face value is true, they are just people getting the next round of funding to justify and pay for their job while feeling good about fighting their personal vendetta.

But in the scheme of things UNICEF is probably ok, and 'can' in this seems obvious to me. A child gets it as much as they get anything from the back of a candy box .

UNICEF both makes the packets and tells other how too. They have continued this research in cheap, easy diarrhoea solutions- https://www.unicef.org/supply/files/Oral_Rehydration_Salts(O...

Is there another example that's done lives saved to cost that we hate?

Organisations that don't even try(most) are the really really scammy ones.
Well...first thanks for ankidroid...

Second, maybe jews are on the list because of that pressure put on them to succeed constantly. Would be interesting study.
> In our society, it still matters that people can tolerate other opinions.

Who is "our" in this? If you mean USA, then are you sure about your claim? Eg: "Guy chooses to kneel on the field because kids were getting shot, guy gets canned.". How is that significantly different than what is happening in this case?
Might as well title it "Why there should be more hours in the day"
Anticipating performance can hinder memory