skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never had a good experience with their platform, or their customer support.

I've had an account bug with them for over a year, and every time I reach out to their customer support they just tell me I'm wrong and everything is okay with my account...
Meanwhile, the dashboard is essentially "bricked" for me and I have to send invoices to my customer via email (how I prefer, but not how my customer that pays all their bills through bill.com prefers).
Maybe a federation of blogs is needed? Everyone has their user pool so that a user on `blog-a` named `user` can post on `blog-b.com` as `user@blog-a.com`.

Users would be free to explore a huge network while admins and creators would truly own their own little domain.
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I don’t know if I could really trust the opinions of a co-worker who believed the earth is flat. I’m pretty sure that would influence my attitude towards them in technical discussions as well.
Do Babies Cry in Different Languages?
Yeah, the Copyright Clause is pretty unusual. More than literally anything else in the Constitution, copyrights and patents actually are supposed to be judged in light of what's better for society.

Most stuff in the Constitution gives the government the power to do X (sometimes stating explicitly that it's for reason Y). The structure of the copyright clause is that Congress has the power to do Y, using mechanism X — a strict reading of that means that the government cannot do X for reasons other than Y, and cannot pursue Y using means other than X, and definitely shouldn't do X for reasons of not-Y.
> It's hard to be candid and open if what you say might end up distorted in the media and without you having an ability to defend yourself.

Distorted by the media? That's the point of "leaks": to make transparent leaderships' opinions verbatim.

The firms that control our lives should not be allowed to confer behind closed doors.
Thanks for that video. That is actually one of the more pragmatic, easy to visualize ways to explain the scale space operates at....
Terminal is really for people like this guy. For folks who want to sell/distribute integrated POS systems e.g. Shopify.
You seem to be trying really hard to give the impression that copyright law is a special case of common law property rights. The US Constitution plainly disagrees with you on that.
He's getting 80% of the gross = 48,000/month. That's impressive income, half a million a year for what amounts to a good idea implemented at the right time. I love reading stories like this, and it demonstrates that there are still many opportunities out there. I don't understand some of these comments which seem to resent his success or belittle his company as "not a unicorn". That's good money, he works for himself, not beholden to investors or creditors, and he's raising a young family in an affordable region. Congratulations to him for a job well done.
Well, if you can imagine that there is a world where people can use the same device in the same home to access videos (ever heard of families?), surely you can imagine that Google would not terminate all accounts used on that device because they have no clue who is watching what when they are not logged in.
I can't wait to see the double-slit quantum eraser version of this experiment.
Yes, hex plots in the video.

I think you should mention it near the top of the demo notebook linked here, if it's intended to be a main entry point. I looked at the notebook and videos before heading to bamboolib.com, which has the first mention of pricing, at which point I felt like I'd wasted my time (because I'd gotten the wrong idea). I think most people are used to anything demoed in a Jupyter notebook being open source.
> There is no reason to think Google would be exempt.

Except that it did seem to be exempt, for much longer and while becoming much larger than I think most people would have imagined.
I admit having never heard or encountered that, so do you have any kind of evidence to support the claim?
> Don't get me wrong. Google is still the best workplace with top notch pay, but as it's got big, it's also morphed into a typical big corporation with typical corporate politics.

Sorry but I cannot stand that level of internal koolaid. I guess you also think that Google got the "smartest" people?
There are literally thousands of companies working on problems way more interesting and with more stakes and upsides for humanity than Google and the adtech industry. I would qualify all of those companies as "better place to work" than Google.
It is maybe the best place to work if you have no sense of ethics, want to take it easy, work 9 to 5 and maximize your money.
What about the legal arguments made makes a distinction between "code" and "REST" APIs like you're doing? I've been reading the decisions and haven't seen anything like that.
Carnegie did the same thing. First injure a lot of people in your factories and then suddenly become a noble philanthropist.
What a distasteful sentiment. Management is punishing workers with their silence, and their lack of transparency, and you have the gall to suggest these workers deserve it? That they brought it upon themselves?

It's our right to speak up about our experiences, even if that means "leaking" our bosses words. In a sense, it's our duty–Google's actions impact us all, and we're owed transparency with which management's not forthcoming.
I agree. Frequency of updates also becomes more of an issue as you add workers. Say you have 1000 workers each updating every 2 seconds. That's ~500 timestamp update statements per second which is not trivial in terms of added load on the DB.
What if the defendent doesn't have the funds to get all the way to the frivolous decision?
Ask HN: Eyes failing due to programming job. Any way to stop it?
First off, I am self-diagnosing this issue. I have an optometrist, but I am unable to go through a complete eye test because I experience vasovagal syncopes [1] from the combination of eyedrops and bright lights involved (3 times and counting).

I had 20/15 vision in both eyes in my teens. I am now in my early thirties. My eyes started to go astigmatic after starting a programming job in my late twenties, getting worse at the rate of about 0.25 diopters every 1-2 years. According to my optometrist, I am neither near nor farsighted. Both eyes now have what's called "against-the-rule" astigmatism, which is less common. I can, by looking at distant street lights at night, tell that the astigmatism is correlated with time staring at a computer screen.

I can't simply program less, so is there a way to "stop" the progression of astigmatism due to the screen viewing? One thing I thought of is if there were a visual device that allowed the screen to appear at infinity, for example. I have already switched to using a 65 inch television from a distance of 10 feet at home, but it doesn't appear to help much.

To be clear, I experience no pain from my condition, just apprehension that it will get worse and affect my driving.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/vasovagal-syncope/symptoms-causes/syc-20350527
Not really, that would be an excuse if someone said that to you. Most enterprises use Windows Server and manage this through Group Policy, which supports all browsers for all operating systems. If you're not using Windows Server it can be more difficult.
Of course we can blame them for hiding their abusive, violent behavior. It's never too late to come clean, and embrace accountability.
Yeah, my first thought was "isn't it unethical to peddle pseudoscience?".
My whole point to begin with is that the VR market is close to nil. Compared to how much the big corporations have been pouring in in terms of investment, the returns are ridiculous. Google recently stopped DayDream and Samsung is getting rid of GearVR. Sony is the leader in terms of headsets sold and even that is not very impressive, we are talking about just a few millions of headsets per year. It's just not taking off, and looking at "43 % increase year on year" is a useless metric since the sales were ridiculously slow to begin with. Compare that with the uptake of smartphones just 10 years ago and you will have a good laugh.
> Congress passed in 1982 a statue called the Federal Courts Improvement Act, where instead of having a random judge make decision, you now instead have selected judges specialized in IP.

No.

Instead of the geographic Circuit Courts of Appeal hearing patent cases, any first appeal of a case with any patent claims involved goes to court specialized in Patent cases.

Other IP (copyright, trademark, trade secrets, right of publicity) cases are not affected and have appeals go through the regular geographic circuits, so substituting “IP” for “patent” is incorrect.

(Oracle v. Google is a copyright case, so why is CAFC and not the 9th Circuit involved? Because there were also patent claims in the case, so even after they were dead the Federal Circuit “owned” the appeal.)
Oddly, snake interference patterns are actually exhibited in horses and hikers...
Google lost its varnish around the time it sought to fight Facebook with Plus. Around the time they released the Nexus 7.

I guess around the time Sundar became ascendant.
Companies on HN exert pressure all the time. She's being savvy.
I haven't seen this, but assuming it's true, people used to want Microsoft to follow standards, so they created the most standards-compliant browser on the market and then reject it. The answer is to reject de facto standards like IE6 and Chrome.
I have a hard time believing SCOTUS will toss 50 years of standard practice in the software industry in the trash bin, regardless of what the law says.

Every programming language has stolen large portions of their API from other languages. Even Java.
Is it greater turmoil, or greater vocal agreement on perceived abuses?
What does this do that Square doesn’t?
Some known background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudoxus_of_Cnidus#Mathematics

(A tidbit about that Definition 5 there: I read in Russo that Galileo could not see the point of it. To him a ratio was a concrete thing, a number you got by dividing two other numbers. His civilization, says Russo, had lost the concept of freely invented axiomatic definitions and didn't really recover it till the 19th C.)

I like to think of Archimedes as the first mathematical physicist. Of course Euclidean geometry itself is a physical theory, so there's one ground to disagree.
If we did any of this in the US, we would all be shot.
The website claims it's a monetization method for projects: https://www.outpan.com/developers

Not trying to be overly cynical, but I don't know how true that is. It's still possible this was lifted without the creator's consent.
The blog post is also available on Medium: https://medium.com/twitch-news/go-memory-ballast-how-i-learn...
Have you ever heard someone say that AND say you should keep politics out of the workplace?
I'm really not sure about why this comment has been down-voted besides that people disagree with it. This comment and the one above that was heavily down-voted both inspired some relatively interesting responses. It's a shame because the HN that I used to appreciate had more tolerance for civil disagreements. (Maybe this is just a reddit norm leaking here.) So it goes.
What I want is a decentralized Reddit with the same type of interaction that we have with our beloved Google search engine.

So you are right, if Reddit is so central to our lives, why do we have such a hard time taking it down? Is it because we are so used to having it there that it's just not something we can imagine not having?

No. I know a lot of us want to take it down. But the good thing about reddit is that it can be taken down. That's why it is one of the most interesting internet communities. It doesn't really have a "community" in the true sense of the word. But in reality, it has communities. And it doesn't matter how big or small those communities are; that's how the site functions. Reddit can be taken down and Reddit will be back with a new identity and a new identity will be created. We don't have to worry about it.

So we have a choice.
The comparison is valid, because it's not a price point issue anymore. Smartphones are more expensive than the Quest for most of the medium high range one, and among the numerous reasons why VR is not taking off, is simply because people don't feel like they will make good use of it or even need it. The awareness is there (the PR machine has made sure everyone knows that VR is around), the tech is decent (the Quest works relatively well compared to VR headsets 5 years ago), there's some content to purchase (might be lackluster but it's not missing anymore), and the pricepoint is low enough that it's not an issue anymore for adoption. So at the end of the day, lack of sales = lack of interest.

Some other anecdotal evidence: I have numerous PC entusiasts and gamers in my cirles, who have tons of disposable income and who like trying new stuff and actively follow the latest news, but I can only point to one who has purchased a VR headset. That can't be a good sign.
This explains it:

> Developers Earn Money On Outpan!

> How It Works

> Once you choose to monetize your apps we'll take care of everything. Outpan will use sophisticated ads with optimized placements on your apps to autmatically generate revenue for you.

From https://www.outpan.com/developers

So basically this is monetization spam
This is not what he said at all. He said that the interests of men are different than the interests of women. You are blindly repeating what blogs and other activists reported he said. Go read his memo.
I'd be interested to hear what Googlers have to say about recent deals with the Chinese government. Any qualms about that, or is there more of a feeling of relief or "glad we're back in China"?
Do you honestly believe this is an unmitigated acceptance of his entire person? Haven't you ever heard of "the lesser of two evils?" Of compromising?

Are you actually taking his election as evidence that "the left is racist"? I pity those who depend on you for inference.
I have halos after LASIK and they don’t bother me. I understand how they would have a negative association because you experience them at the same time as a migraine, but they don’t cause me any suffering. They’re just... things that in my visual field that I don’t pay much attention do. When I notice them, they are a gentle reminder of how fascinating brains and eyes are.
As a Xoogler who just wanted to get on topic product updates ( and Sergey jokes I guess - he really is insanely funny), I actually found it frustrating that it was an overloaded forum for any and all random topics.

Were I working there, this would have made sense to me.

I didn't work there to be an activist. I worked there to go work on products.

I don't get other comments that say "courted activists". The recruiting pitch is about impact, a good work environment, compensation and interesting products.
Well, i think it makes sense for google to be run like a mature company now. Their core products are pretty well developed, but they still have sections that are more focused on innovating and researching stuff that can possibly be part of Google's core business in the future.

Dont fix what ain't broke.
I'm a co-creator of Outpan. You are correct that there are lots of open source projects on Outpan, because we offer financial incentives for people to host apps on Outpan (the incentive is similar to Youtube).

That said, there are also many proprietary apps and games on Outpan too and if an app is posted by someone who doesn't have the rights to do so, it is removed and the user is banned; then again with open source, as long as the license is valid and the terms followed properly, we can't really remove them. In the case of this particular app, it was under MIT license as mentioned in the about section. I understand that the 'About' section of the app may not be super clear causing confusion, we'll try to make it more visible.
Data privacy: more important for early-stage companies than large enterprises?
My wife has run a business for some time on Amazon. It's not big, mainly for baby related products. She's in the process of issuing removal orders for all the stuff in their warehouses and will discontinue the business there. Partly this is due to the numerous cheap knockoffs and imitations of things she worked pretty hard to source quality materials and manufacturing for driving prices into the dirt, partly it's due to Amazon's outrageous fees (FBA can take over 30% of the gross on some items), and partly it's Amazon's inconsistent deactivation of products and demanding she "request approval" to sell them--products she's been selling on Amazon for months or years.

The marketplace on Amazon is a dumpster fire.
If you click on the 'i' at the bottom right it shows this dialogue:

"Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator
by LetsPlayAGame
A quick way to sketch out musical chord progressions.

Copyright (c) 2019 by Jake Albaugh

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."

So that looks to be mostly in the clear, but it would be nice to know if the uploader really is the creator.
Eh it's kind of relevant. I worked at a high end tobacco sales company and we were limited to a few payment providers due to selling tobacco online. This amounted to using a very second tier provider. Also PayPal would flag anything with the words Cuba in it. So many cigars use the word Cuba, and we didn't sell those. Annoying at best, but at worse we had more frequent downtimes because our payment gateway wasn't close to reliable.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 states:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/arti...

Sun invented Java. Oracle bought Sun. Oracle owned Java. Google copied Java without compensating Oracle, who owned the rights to Java.

It's pretty clear. The Supreme Court should confirm that Google owes Oracle compensation for the use of Oracle's intellectual property.
> If you're intellectually gifted (many programmers are)

Lets not jerk each other off too hard, eh? Just like everybody in life, in any trade or profession, most programmers are just average people like everybody else. They just happened to luck out and be good at a talent that pays well.

Odds are incredibly high you aren't any smarter than somebody who paints houses for a living, fills your prescription, or plays football for the NFL. We are all just people trying to make a living -- don't ever forget that.
Another option is to have a culture of not permitting political fires to be lit on company property. In other words, not talking about politics at work.
Interesting, okay. I like your stance on moderation transparency. At this point I'm not sure how many people recognize how important that is.
That very elegantly sidesteps the question: is this app uploaded by you or by the original author or by someone else entirely?
Lolcommits: Selfies for Software Developers
> You may as well burn the whole industry to the ground if they have their way.

At least in the United States. China, on the other hand, will laugh at us as they lay claim to everything American lawyers prevent us from doing.
Here is a good high level book [1] that touches this subject

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982789742/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_...
It was uploaded by someone else entirely, but we did check to make sure the license is valid.
Almost everything you'll find in either of those stores is made by a Chinese manufacturer that provides the same kinds of goods to multiple businesses. The store brands, especially, are essentially white-label Chinese goods.
I was always playing with electronics in school. A student project, or my friends' project, or some project that came up at a computer lab class. My mom used to make me play with calculators and other electronic devices. I'd sit down, turn off the lights and turn on a few lights, and play with a little bit of circuitry on a breadboard until it became my hobby. I was always fascinated by them and always wanted to learn how to program computers.

But I wanted to do something more complex than just play with my calculator. I wanted to learn how to program. I started using the computer in the fourth grade, and my friends and teachers were very supportive.
But I wanted to do something more complex than just play with my calculator. I wanted to learn how to program. My first year of high school was an amazing experience. In college, I worked as a web designer for about two years. Then I switched to an education department and did research on computers, and also spent some time working on my own, building a web application, which I called "Math Tutor".
After a few years of designing and developing web apps, I decided to go into education full time.

As a teacher, I've seen the power of computer programs and how they can be used to enhance learning.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21548757
You are misguided in thinking that Reddit is a good source of information. Reddit is heavily biased, very left leaning on any political matters. Most subreddits are echo chambers where anyone who voice a different viewpoint could be down-voted to smithereens. The toxicity there is also too high, some are so eager to use insult to drown out any argument.
To be fair, making the argument that something is obvious from context is also arguing about semantics. The other poster makes a defensible point (as do you!).
Electron microscope slow-motion video of vinyl LP (and CD and DVD and more)
With postgres, you have a chance to not lose data.
How is there a difference here between "code APIs" and "rest APIs"? Both are simply interfaces which allow two pieces of code to talk to each other, the only difference is the protocol used (HTTP vs the platform's ABI)
A few observations I generally do not see discussed.

Velocity of money has a large impact on the inflationary impact of circulating money.

Bank loans endogenously produce new money in the economy. This can dramatically impact the inflation seen relative to Fed printing.

Official macro stats, especially inflation are tweaked to death and are not a stable metric.
Don't you find it odd - to say the least - that you would offer to financially reward someone who did not author the project?
“Complete chaos”? For real?
Definitely cheeky. All work on CodePen is by default MIT. Looking at the first demo on the homepage, the act name is “cpmirror”, so fair to say people looking to jump on making money from others work is a big incentive... but also, what’s new I guess :(
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