skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ctrl+F Soundcloud.. crickets

I once made a chrome extension to add global keyboard shortcuts to Soundcloud and now that is literally all I listen to all day (I know, artists aren't getting a penny from me and that is bad, especially for small indies, I would buy much more music off bandcamp if the ux wasn't so atrocious).

My point is, surely I'm not the only one here using SC exclusively? Just curious.
I share this link to neither condone nor condemn anybody, but rather to solicit thoughts from the HN community on the recent race-related protests at colleges in the US.
Passing the Baton
But using it for non-whole multiples of a year probably is.

Also, it both obfuscates the price and creates the impression that you can trial the product without being locked in.

If it didn't confuse people (even if only unconsciously), it wouldn't be such a widespread practice.
Ask HN: How do you manage hybrid clouds?
Do you have a favorite tool or platform?
Interesting point- care to share any data? I know a PC game requires supporting a variety of hardware, but it also does not entail paying a licensing fee to a console maker... so it would be interesting to see which one is less expensive for a reasonably popular game.
Former Apple designers say it has lost the fundamental principles of good design
I met Marcin at SXSW back in 2011 where he talked about this project (and other doodles). Some more info is here http://searchengineland.com/behind-the-scenes-with-googles-d.... Also invited him to come speak at Microsoft to share more about his work (some interesting internal debates about a Googler coming to talk at MSFT ;)
It's relevant to why people don't bat an eye when yet another thing explodes in Lebanon. Even if this time was different in the details.
But so many $10/month people are people like I am who rarely buy new stuff and just listen to older stuff and the radio. I listen to music a lot, but most of the bands I prefer have ceased to exist for a while. That being said, I don't subscribe to any services because I'm cheap and I hate the way I can't get everything I want in once place so I run off of my own storage.
Cool, thanks for the response! If I get a chance later, I'll look through the code and see if anything jumps out at me.
> How many hours per week are you spending helping him? And how long have you been helping him?

Probably 1/4 to 1/2 of my working day every day. We're a small company, ~7 ppl, I'm the CEO. I'm not a great designer, but some of the stuff he/she sends back is just amateurish. It ends up mostly-amateurish-but-shippable if I spend forever with him on it, but other designers I've worked with in the past have delivered much higher quality stuff for much less, and with way less headache. I think it may just be a sheer talent thing at this point, and I don't know how to instill talent.

> based on what?
People I've worked with in the past, including the person I'm going to hire to replace this person. I guess you'll just have to trust me on that though.

I recognize we hired a decent performer when we wanted a top performer. If you know a way to unilaterally avoid that I'm all ears. And yes, I am willing to pay for a top performer.

What I am not looking forward to now is actually firing this person.
http://a-sceptical-mind.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hockey-...

It turns out the data was blended, but it was weighted in an odd way to favor the spikey outcome at the end. This is just one source, so take it with a grain of salt.
Understood. I'm an engineer at the company, not a recruiter, but I'll pass the word along. Either way, thanks for the feedback and sorry for the inconvenience. A "no" response is better than no response.
It's not that the labels own Spotify -- it's that by issuing limited-term licensing deals, and owning all of the music, they'll be able to charge whatever they want for their music, leaving just a little bit on the table to keep Spotify in business. Spotify reports $100m in profit? Just raise licensing fees by $90m at the next contract. Spotify won't have the leverage to walk away.

Similar to Netflix, Spotify will need to create some reason for consumers to stay with Spotify, likely with some kind of music or music experience that is Spotify-exclusive like Netflix-exclusive TV shows. Also, Spotify has invested a lot of effort into its curated playlists -- this is an attempt to get people to listen to Spotify the way they watch Netflix -- fire it up and watch/listen to "whatever's on," instead of searching Taylor Swift and getting angry when they can't find it.
Saying you want your circadian rhythm match the outside light, then adding that you generally can't get to sleep while being steamrolled in the morning, sounds an aweful lot like you're not sleeping in accordance with your biological clock. Are you aware of delayed sleep phase syndrom?[0]? I have the same "issue" and it took me years to find a name for it, so I'd rather throw this at you, even if you knew.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder
I could be wrong, but I don't think those work globally (without an addon). Or has that changed recently?
> It's like if I do poorly other people lose.

I think that's always true of management.
About “state” variables in Perl 5.10
It's an homage to the long, insecure, mostly-plaintext history of the Internet itself. Telnet and FTP FTW!
For indie bands, it's not so much Spotify's efforts as the bands' effort themselves that has gotten them on Spotify. If you're an indie band, you're going to take the effort to make sure that your music is showing up correctly on iTunes, Spotify, and other popular services.
original source discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10559387
There's still plenty of room for enough entropy to power most use cases. Even two people trying to take identical pictures should have enormous differences when analyzed at the pixel level.
I talk with him all the time about where he stands. That still doesn't make it easy.
Unfortunately, I can't access the publication at the moment. You can read the abstract here: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21610

Whatever measurement they made that they're calling "hyperactivity," it seems to have a strong inverse association with academic achievement, so perhaps it warrants concern regardless of how well it relates to our concept of "self-regulation."
A&M alum here. This is kind of a cynical take, but I think some of the things you mentioned are done for more than one reason, and they're not all obvious at first glance.

For example, if lots of students walk on the grass around the MSC, it gets all trampled and torn up. The administration would have to spend a lot of money to maintain or fix it. But if the grass itself is a war memorial, then the students won't walk on it. In fact, they'll police each other so that if anybody does walk on the grass, they get a stern reminder.

Oh, and the grass on the football field at Kyle Field is a memorial too. Conveniently, the football team and the band can walk on this memorial without desecrating it. But if the fans were to rush the field after a game? Oh no, that would be extremely disrespectful. So A&M doesn't have to deal with the same kind of post-game chaos that you sometimes get at other schools.

It's really clever in a Machiavellian sort of way.
To reiterate: "This is for fun. It's not secure. Don't use it in production :)"
And also for "deleting" an entire class of data from all of your backup media.
Microsoft's QuArC launches quantum computing simulator: LIQUi|
NASA engineer here. Title typo aside, that actually sounds a lot like our legacy code-base. Though Python has been making a lot of inroads, thanks partly to f2py
Like I said before, "I have little hope that we will be able to maintain this form of privacy." My dispute is that it isn't worth trying to save, or that it's a thing of little value.
Relevant yes, engaging fine, but is the outcome better? Being flooded with overly biased information is exhausting and not what is good for the outcome. If I am buying a GPU I want as unbiased a reviewer as possible to tell me all the upsides and downsides to each. Content that pretends it doesn't have a huge bias is lying, and it leads to poor personal decision making.
It sounds like UDP packets that fit within the MTU work fine. If you need to transmit more than fits in one packet (1452 bytes), UDP is a bad choice.

SCTP is ideal for this use case but it is not well supported by OSs or networking APIs. TCP works but adds overhead. TFTP works, is UDP-only and has less overhead than TCP, but it does not respond well to packet loss. UDT is like TFTP done right, and is a good solution if you can setup a dependency on its large C++ library.
This confirms my belief that my toenail clippings are valuable and must be stored indefinitely.
Firefighter Patrick Hardison Adjusts to New Face After Transplant Surgery
Such is the way of the world. 50,000 customers willing to pay $50 a month aren't worth the trouble, especially if they're even slightly demanding. Everyone wants the 50 million users willing to put up with ads that bring in $3 a month or are willing to pay $5 or $10.
How SDSS Uses Mysterious “Missing Light” to Map the Interstellar Medium
You can already compile BLAS/LAPACK/etc. to JavaScript, but you have to jump through some hoops.

Proof of concept: https://github.com/harveywi/arpack-js
Re: global keyboard shortcuts.

I found https://github.com/msfeldstein/chrome-media-keys a while back. It's amazing.

It's not flawless, but it adds global controls to most websites.
A photo of you at birth is not really going to tie you to something 20 or 40 years later.

DNA sure will.
> It's refreshing to read an article about a scientific study from a university press office that doesn't exaggerate or misinterpret its implications.

It's still weird to read about a paper via press release. Papers should stand on their own, not require PR.
There's no black and white language on this though. The brain is composed of parts that sort of compete and work differently. A simplistic view might say you have a rational brain that thinks in terms of logic and facts. There's another, intuitive or emotional, that detects patterns in raw data from the senses, makes approximate models of the world, and triggers instinctive responses when seeing them again. This is the part of the brain that pulls your hand off the stove before you've recognized it's burning. This is how soldiers have described being compelled to dive to the ground for no reason just before a bullet hits where the head was. An input comes in, matches a model, a response is selected, it's activated, and this all happens in an instant.

That intuitive part of the brain represents the vast majority of what we do day to day. Our rational brains activity feeds into it, too. However, cues about people's speech, behavior, emotions... these are naturally all picked up best by the emotional brain. Jessica may have been doing what Paul describes for much of her life with that part of her brain soaking in details she can logically spot and some that are unconscious impressions/feelings. Trial, error, and external observation correct inaccuracies over time if one lets them. At some point, the models in her mind were honed so well that they can spot significant positive or negative traits very reliably.

So, there's nothing wrong with Paul's description and it's likely Jessica couldn't fully explain her mental model because she doesn't know it. She will certainly, with introspection, have elaborated out many specifics that she could explain and you could train yourself to work with. However, as I said, this is mostly a subconscious process that can at best only be partly elaborated. Like any black box, you can only assess its reliability by looking at the quality of outputs that come from inputs.

There will always be false negatives, false positives, and occasionally WTH!?'s from intuitive decisions about people. What's good in this space is quality of results whose accuracy is consistently good with relatively-low, error rate. Paul's statements indicate her emotional/intuitive brain uses very-effective models of people far as their character goes. The results speak for themselves. That's all you should need.

Note: Only way to learn such skills is experience. A job where you deal with lots of people in ways that makes their ethics show can accelerate the process. Still takes years and years, though.
I would add that Spammer logic is the nature of life itself. I think it was Neal Stephenson who commented that plants "Spam nature their environment with pollen." Same goes for sea turtle eggs, tadpoles, and sperm.
The name of the program is "LIQUi|>" and is an acronym for "Language-Integrated Quantum Operations". Direct link to MSR page http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/liquid/

HN formatting cuts off trailing ">" char in title for obvi reasons ;)
Oh, I misunderstood your comment then. I suppose you're right, but I think industry-oriented school programs will start featuring more FP in their curricula as hybrid languages advance even further in the real world.

Like a sibling comment said, this is an advocacy piece. I don't know if anyone will pick OCaml (or any language) for their company immediately after reading a blog, but it might pique their interest and make them research the language and consider it for their own projects, an interest which might eventually develop into considering the language for their day job. I know it was the case for me with Scala!
Liberty Global to Buy Cable and Wireless in $5.3B Deal
Why Many Moderate Muslims Don't Believe the ISIS Threat
I've run into several misfires while using Google Cloud/Compute Engine: MySQL database access, email and encryption. These features didn't work without either a Google or third-party service. I set up postfix and use SendGrid for email and Google's Cloud SQL. You can get tech support at Silver or Gold level. I think everyone starts at Bronze.
Danny Meyer’s Team Faces a No-Tipping World
How long will it take for people to start using this? This sounds like another potential RF background for mthe experiment I work on.
Divisive Android support for Windows Mobile dropped, nobody knows why
I think a distinction on revenue-positive in a given period vs. ROI-positive on LTV is an important one.

Many SaaS products cannot hope to be ROI-positive off of initial revenue when their plans start at $10/mo, CPC's are $1+ (and that's being generous), and conversion rates are <1%. But if a customer sticks around long enough or generates enough LTV to be worth substantially more, and you have smart data on that, suddently your ROI calculation changes dramatically, and you can be more aggressive where less-savvy/more conservative competitors cannot.

Now, startups who spend all of this with high CAC and no business model other than "we'll monetize someday" are a different story, and inherently more risky. But that is certainly not everyone.
That makes sense with 1 or 2 people, but when you start talking about 9+ people willing to blow themselves up that typically requires some prodding. Then there is target selection, and bomb making abilities. I know the bombs were 'simple' in relative terms, but making that many for the first time means they were very lucky or someone experienced helped. They also needed money for guns and other equipment.
Let's not overlook the economic effect of delaying kindergarten by a year.

But my main objection is simply that kindergarten has turned into an artificial environment where self regulation is the primary survival skill. Another approach is to take kids as they are, a year earlier, by adapting the kindergarten environment.
Nice read. I being somewhat younger than the author, didn't get into the scene (such as it was) until after the dust settled from Operation Sun Devil. There was a lot of what he describes, excepting less emphasis on long-distance codes (understandable in our 5ESS LATA) and greater emphasis on hacking nearby universities to get onto the somewhat nascent Internet, as well as the occasional Tymnet/X.25 NUI. Almost none of us 'carded', although there was an epidemic of nice modems being stuffed down pants at the local Comp-USA. But for a few years, if it was connected to a local phone line or was on the Internet with a security vulnerability, one (or more) of us had root access.

I did get receive modest interest from local law enforcement, but I owe a sincere debt of gratitude to university staff (who I hope recognized something of a kindred, non-malicious spirit) who begged district attorneys not to proceed with my prosecution. Between that scare and somehow raising modest capital to start a local ISP with a Sprintlink T1 line, I eventually graduated from 'the scene' and found myself a straight-laced system admin (later software developer).

I like to think 'the scene' didn't disappear; Most people can buy fast Internet access somewhat cheaply (or hack a wireless network) and install Linux for free. For a couple nickels more, you can operate your own IN-WATS PBX with help from Twilio or a cut-rate SIP provider. In short, much of what was forbidden to us became easily and/or cheaply within reach. Welcome to utopia.
Just be honest and get it done. Tell them that you expect better performance from a designer that works for you. Then let them go. Consult with HR/lawyers as needed. Whether someone is close but not quite at the bar, or far from the bar, your conversation is pretty similar.
What assets do they have worth $75M?
No. It's broken. The title should be longer and include "which fragmentation".

Large UDP packets have a packets success rate of the single packet success rate raised to the number of fragments power, so don't get attached to them in situations with significant packet loss. But this behavior is just an unaddressed bug.
Or everyone just misunderstands the concept of intuition and how it works. Which is funny given neural nets that get lots of press here have overlap in what they do, strengths, and weaknesses. Here's a summary of a lot of research I did on it long ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10578474
In C++ - unlike C - you can actually implement quite good matrix/vector support. E.g., Eigen3 http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page or Blaze https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze or if you have a specific BLAS library tuned to your cluster then maybe FLENS http://apfel.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/~lehn/FLENS/index.html
In the demo I started typing United States and it was showing a bunch of other countries above United States.
I've had a couple of issues with Google Apps and their support has been very helpful, getting a phone call from them and the issue solved in the same day. For example I got them to revert me from annual to the flexible plan by simply asking nicely and I even got them to operate settings that aren't normally available, like changing the primary domain. Nowadays I've been moving off Google Apps, but let me tell you, it's the support that I'll miss ;-)
Also back in the day when I was working on integrating with AdX, their reply was very slow, but they did reply and they did help us with our integration.

I do not have experience with GCE, but saying that you don't get support for any Google product is disingenuous.
Quick charge battery could charge smartphone 10 times faster
Indeed. I didn't learn to read until first grade, even though I could read and write my name before that and caught on to reading very quickly.
> I'm not sure if I'd go so far as to say that apps which rely on UDP fragment reassembly are "buggy"

Isn't fragment reassembly essentially implying all the packets (fragments) will arrive, and will be rearranged in order? i.e. exactly what TCP does?

For example imagine sending a single 1MB packet via UDP, letting it fragment and be reassembled. What distinguishes that from TCP?
Oh I see. Sorry for the confusion. The initial need was for a rails app to send data model updates to dashboard clients. Later, as our infrastructure became more micro-service-oriented, mist has been used as a place for the dashboard javascript client to subscribe to a centralized event queue. Each micro-service will publish messages to the mist cluster, and the dashboard can respond accordingly.
Sugar crash.
> Arrays are separate things than Hash-maps

I think this was a very elegant solution for Lua and ads to it's simplicity
Are We Alone or Just Too Ignorant to Notice?
Facebook will be 'better than humans' in a DECADE, Mark Zuckerberg claims
No. Why should they? Surveillance has nothing to do with this.
Our experience mirrors yours...we couldn't be happier with ZenPayroll/Gusto. We signed up with Zenefits recently to try to get the benefits piece in place, and it was a nightmare, both with the software, and the reps/support.
Don't End the Week with Nothing
IMO, this is a huge part of why so many startups fail so badly.

Google glass might have caught on as a 50$ toy, but at 1,500$ it's firmly into the realm of things people working at Google would buy, and that's about it. What's really interesting IMO is they could have made a 50$ version of the basic concept, but it was simply not on anyone's radar.

In theory, these blinders are why startups can show up and eat incumbents lunches. But, when starts are drawing from the same talent pool there making the same kind of mistakes.

Net result, way to many food delivery services.
tzs's link is good, here is another example of "lab says DNA match -> guilty!":

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dna-testing-foolproof/

DNA analysis is a tool that has a lot of failure cases that aren't properly understood by many. Keeping peoples' DNA out of databases is a good baseline defense until there is enough understanding and transparency to make sure it is used properly.
Sugar crash. Blood sugar levels drop to the point that your body wakes you up and you have racing (and sometimes negative) thoughts which, from my experience, is your body saying it needs to eat some carbs.
> codes

Scientist/engineer detected.

In the standard programming dialect, "code" is a mass noun. "Program" or "library" is countable.
> I wouldn't think there's anything magical to it.

I might not be so quick to discredit what's required to be a great judge of character. Even many of the people who can be considered to be more socially adept, maybe business or humanities majors, are quite poor judges of character.

It might be difficult to write about, but I imagine that even trickier would be to take the written word and internalize it.
Hi there,

I manage digital media for a living and have for some time. I don't do astroturfing or anything like that. Primarily paid search/social/display.

Short answer is it works, and any advertiser with decent analytics should be able to see that plain as day.

Longer answer is that as more data becomes available around cross-channel attribution, the question of incremental effectiveness, and which channel/placement/ad gets what % of credit becomes the murkier, more difficult question to answer. For a glimpse of what I mean, do some googling on cross-channel attribution. Google Analytics has some great free tools they make available, but it is by far a perfect solution.

The further out from the purchase step a given touch point is (like a display ad that is driving awareness), the harder it is to attribute revenue to and determine the incremental lift of. Certain channels like display and social typically play a heavier role at the top of the funnel vs. search and email that are more prevalent at the middle and bottom of the funnel. Historically digital media focused on last-click attribution, but that view is fast changing since it discounts top of funnel efforts more than it should, and you need those to fill the lower parts of the funnel.

Happy to answer other questions you might have. Not all of us in the space are scammy/shady people looking to fleece everyone we can online.
I am also a happy ZenPayroll/Gusto customer, with one major issue: see how many trackers they have running after you are logged in. It's appalling, and I have filed a complaint.
Hope this can lead to a more equitable service industry.