skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the Bay Area a representative of Google was introduced to Scientology and our 4th dynamic campaigns through the Stevens Creek Ideal Org. This representative connected us up with the department responsible for non-profit advertisements. And as a result, Google awarded us a $10,000-a-month grant for free online advertising.

Scientology is a non-profit? is not founded as a company?
Maybe two years ago I interviewed at this train wreck of a company and left laughing.

I interviewed for a devops engineer and there was 0 built in production. They were so paranoid about competition reverse engineering their app. At the time I was told they had a lot of dev turn over so no one was really an expert.

the best part was I got a call the next day from the manager asking me if I knew anyone hiring cause the CEO fired they whole ops team
I'm curious to see what sort of bandwidth "gigabit wifi" translates to in real life. In my experience with public wifi, it isn't a competitor to a wired ISP, its more of an alternative to 3G (and not as good as a 4G data connection). I'd be very surprised if a city government had found a way to make wifi feasible as a primary home or business internet connection when none of the companies working in the space couldn't.

For all the "American ISPs are terrible" rhetoric, they are profit driven and possibly evil but not incompetent. I feel like if NYC actually had a technology here that could put a home ISP out of business, the current ISPs would have bought it up first. NYC's wifi will be great for residents and tourists trying to check their email or do a quick Google search from their phone, but sustained gigabit connections for every client is way too good to be true.
My favorite feature is explain (analyze, buffers, verbose). It took some work to learn how to understand it, but I don't think anything else had such a large payoff.

I also like the information and catalog schemas. Not something I use all the time, but all of the tables in each schema are worth exploring and seeing what information can be found. When they are needed, they can save a lot of time.

Call me crazy, but I also like using PL/pgSQL. A helpful function I have takes two table or view name arguments and compares if they are the same result set. Total life-saver and a major time boost for redesigning queries and checking to make sure table transfers won't cause corruption.

I love the error messages. They are so clear and always correct. I've found myself reading them and thinking "that can't be right" and sure enough, I was wrong.

Configuration is a breeze. The hba and conf files are fully documented and simple to understand. The location of the files are sensible and easy to find. Seeing how other database systems deal with configuration is eye-opening to say the least.

Last but not least, the documentation is just incredible. I've been asked about good PostgreSQL books, and I always say "read the docs; you'll see why there are few books around."
Personal anecdote: grief struck me last year => repeated heart failures.

If, for the sake of fond memories I allow my mind to wander, I feel my heart weaken in a second. There's a connection between some emotions and your organs. It's not far fetched that constant negativity could trigger this (I believe it's close to takotsubo syndrom, pain => bad hormones => change in heart tissue) and lead to very bad health overall.
I see music as emotion in the form of sound, but I can't say that I think it's of any grand importance to the universe.

Though I suppose that there's some slim chance that our radio emissions (many of which are music) might be noticed by other stars after some number of years.
> There's no GitHub issues MOTD

If you put a CONTRIBUTING or CONTRIBUTING.md file in the root of your repo, a link to it will appear on the top of the page when people create issues or pull requests.

https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines
I honestly don't care about fast public wifi. I will be happy if NYC (where I currently reside) has reliable 5 or 10mbps wifi. Fast enough to read websites - but not to watch movies or download massive size files.

This will actually address your point about private competition. City might offer free 10mbps wifi - whereas private companies will offer paid 50 - 5000mbps.
Build an ERP application user interface on top of this (or other complex business app)? Different components would be OS.js apps. Users could layout the screen as they wish, changes would be persisted to server.
I feel bad for the individuals who invested their time into this project, I've been reading about it for years. It's like getting to the Olympics after a lifetime of training and when the gun goes off you trip and fall on your face.
Listening to "marketplace" on NPR when the us federal reserve raised interest rates to 0.25%, they mentioned that actually there was a problem -- that they would need to pay banks to actually pay them to take the money from them at 0.25% interest rate since banks have some much liquid cash available now to lend each other that they don't need money from the fed. So "banks" are crazy awash in money now such that the interest rate being 0.25% and we need to pay banks to take the money, then that means the interest rate effectively is still at 0.0%. So what I see as the big problem is that banks have a ton of money, and I don't currently have anything to sell to the banks for 10X the price. :-) Tongue in cheek, but my point is that guess what.. that extra money that the banks are swimming in will probably be squandered in some way and somebody will get rich off of it.. I do wish they would pile up some of that money into venture capital companies specifically to get small companies to start and grow rather than giant banks sitting on literally 500 billion dollars of free money from the fed that they essentially never need to pay back.. or the interest rate is so freaking low they barely need to even pay any interest on it.. but if startups had access to even more money then that would be a great way to stimulate the economy more.. as much as I wish they would burn that kind of cash in the area where I live, people putting the money toward startup incubator areas at many different locations around the US would be a great way to stimulate job growth especially for the underemployed people in their 20s just out of college... and plus easy money for startups bring foreigners to the US because its hard to get that kind of cash in their country..
so long as it's a non profit religious organization I don't see google discriminating against it. (please correct me if i'm wrong)
Nice, another one exists for YouTube videos and pretty much any online HTML5 videos http://togethr.tv/
A 10% projected internal rate of return is unlikely to attract the capital necessary to develop multifamily housing. The lower the projected returns, the higher the risk.

Unlike VC, a project that goes south has a massive impact on a portfolio. There are not 1000:1 real estate projects to make up for losers.
When referring to tooling for a language, 'native' tends to mean it's written in that language.
The importance of user acceptance testing
I am under the impression that it is an easier defense (at least "we patented this because that's what we're doing, so either your patent which postdates ours is the same, so it's invalid, or not, so we're not infringing it"), even if you don't get to countersue a non-troll competitor. That is, while you still have to go to court against a troll, having your own duplicate patent means you're less likely to lose, which is even more onerous than just paying for lawyer time.

(I don't base this on any particular courtroom experience with this, though, so maybe I'm totally wrong.)
"Things are totally moving here, but they are only posed to take over China; they aren't in competition with the valley."

But which one is more important? If you manage to serve 15% of the Chinese market it will be the same as serving 100% of the American market.
Conceptual Debt is a terrible new name for something that everyone already understands: Bad User Experience/Interface.
We've hit a weird period where if I hear about a song, like Lowery's Almond Grove, I can instantly listen to that song on demand on a legal service without paying anything. (I don't even get a pre-roll video ad.)

The underlying economics here have changed from the 90s. Partly because of all the price fixing back then,[0] but mostly things have changed along the lines any economist would have predicted, once you add instant free duplication and teleportation of bits to the world.[1]

A right is a right, and Lowery makes great stuff so I want him to get some return. But it seems like he keeps starting fights with all the places trying new business models, trying desperately to fight against the economics. He's picking fights with the few holdouts still trying to trade music for actual money.

He's capsizing all the lifeboats because he's angry at the sinking ship. It's like he doesn't understand he's at sea.

[0] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-30-cd...

[1] ie, Price tends towards marginal cost. Overly simplistic maybe, but this is an awfully provocative case study: negligible marginal cost and pricing at effectively nothing.
just thought of an idea to add to my previous post, so maybe for banks that are sitting on that big pile of cash the "easy money" that they got from the fed, we could say "hey well, we know you basically probably will essentially never pay us back on this, so if you loan the money to small businesses, then you can get a 10 year loan extension on that free money we loaned you... and pay no interest on the money that you loan back out to small businesses.."
Free public wifi, unless intensively engineered in cases where problems develop, can't promise 100% coverage to everyone's residence. Some people will get a windfall that effectively replaces their SP's service. Some will get only unusable connectivity.

SPs have a simple way to compete: Offer service that provides a lot more bandwidth than the free service. They should do that anyway, now that Google Fiber has announced a push into some major cities.
Removing incentives to come in and compete is of no consequence when no one is doing that anyway. Gigabit fibre to the home has been all over the world for years (more than a decade?) and the vast majority of Americans are sitting here being treated like shit by Comcast/AT&T with connections that work barely or not at all at peak streaming time.

The free market has had its chance; we've gotten nothing but the token effort from Google Fibre in a tiny handful of markets.

I'm not sure public WiFi is the answer. I'd much rather see municipal fibre from homes to PoPs where consumers can ask to be patched to various ISPs. But competition just isn't doing it.
ETH Zurich related project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol1sW4cejM4
Some `design patterns' are expressible even in very weak type systems.

For example, array of tuples vs tuple of arrays. In pseudo Haskell notation:

:: ([a], [b], [c])

:: [(a, b, c)]

The second option enforces that you have the same number of a's, b's and c's. The second option can be faster to access in, say, C.

(I wonder whether you can do a similar, but more complicated, analysis for internal vs external linked lists and other containers.)
Thank your for the comments. Yes, it's the article which I would need help understanding. I don't plan to put in enough work to understand it well; the explanation from jordigh and others here was good enough. I do like the self-deprecating nature of the "dry, ridiculous" statement from the authors, and the valiant efforts of others to explain it!
It would be a lot more newsworthy if Google refused to give promotions or sell advertising to a non-profit based on public perception / the organization's reputation.

Assuming Google gives similar offers to other potential new customers, this means nothing.

And anyone who suggests Google should refuse to do business with Scientology on the basis of their personal feelings is advocating trampling all over egalitarianism.
I'll have to give it some thought. Given that I passed all of the lower-div requirements and a few upper divs, I'd have to account for a decent CS background some other way. As my projects alone aren't so advanced as to verify exposure to all foundational CS concepts, my best bet is to try to spin what university education I have in some positive way.

Thanks for the advice, by the way. :)
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Other first tier cities have taken on the task of providing free connectivity in public spaces. Think of it as a competitive response.
Yes, having your employer file a patent on your work (whether you want them to or not) is very much like taking part in the killing of humans through starvation, experimentation, and gas chambers.
>If NYC actually had a technology here that could put a home ISP out of business, the current ISPs would have bought it up first.

The capital allocation strategy for current ISPs has been to secure legislation prohibiting competition and sue threats out of existence. They might have invested in R&D as a hedge against that strategy not working, but that would seem to defeat the purpose.
When I first read "conceptual debt" I thought it would mean poor architectural decisions as it relates to building software. Of course that's not what he meant. What he really means is what I would call "UX debt" if I were crafting a name for it.

I don't think it's helpful to create a new term to describe something that could be easily encapsulated by using a term that most everyone already knows, is industry standard, and is implicitly obvious to anyone versed in the practice of building software products. Right now "bad UX" would be the same as "UX debt". That terms makes sense to me because it codifies a real concept that I've absolutely held in my mind.

With all due respect to the author, and I applaud his effort to try to improve communication tools, I believe this name has "conceptual debt" :)
Bank of America is the Comcast of banking.
I teach computer science at a prison on a volunteer basis, and occasionally I've had to use Google Maps to get directions. Always amusing to see some one-star reviews of it as I find the address.
As a point of discussion, the German government doesn't consider it to be a religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_in_Germany
I admit I started sitting up straight while reading that.
E.O. Wilson explains why parks and nature are really good for your brain
Because you're confident that your employer will only use them defensively, and because the system is broken enough that it's genuinely advantageous to good people to have hopelessly vague patents that appear to a judge to cover their inventions.

(That said, my own patent applications probably went to the highest bidder after the sponsoring employer collapsed. So maybe I shouldn't have been so confident they'd remain in good hands.)
Hey, if the IRS recognizes them as a religion[1], not doing so in your non-profit/religion grant system is likely to get you sued by them. In truth, that's probably how it should be. In this case, a lot of us may dislike it, but if it was reversed and Google wasn't recognizing the EFF as a nonprofit a lot of the same people would likely be in arms. It's a lot like freedom of speech, we uphold it for all not because we believe everything that is said, but because when we allow individual judgement on the matter we descend into a morass of argumentation based on peoples differing concepts of what qualifies, and the ideal is too important to allow that.

1: Yes, I know the IRS was browbeaten into it. That actually supports my initial point.
All religion orgs are considered non-profit; the funny thing is that "religion" is purposefully vaguely defined by the IRS, related: Jhon Oliver televangelist bit https://youtu.be/7y1xJAVZxXg

Organized religions including televangelists are one of the best business around, in a more cynical world I think there would be VCs and accelerators for creating new of them.
The definition of egalitarianism suggests that people, not organizations, are held equal.
Back when I was in school we shared ponies. Ponysharing would allow 2 or 3 or us to make it home for winter break on the same pony, and split the cost of feed.
1. Create religion
2. ...
3. Profit!
There's a minimum payout, so unless you listen to your neighborhood band a lot then they still get nothing and all of your $10 goes to bands you never even listened to.

The Spotify model even encourages people to not listen to music. Putting your music library on shuffle and turning off the speakers is the best way for a paying subscriber to get money to the bands they like. Streaming an excessive amount on mute also takes money from other bands that you don't like and redirects it to your favorites. Even better, sign up for an ad-supported account, play your favorites on mute, and the artists will get even more money per play.

It's a terrible model that rewards people for abusing it. Splitting your $10 among your bands is a much better model, but they won't do it because ads don't pay enough so they mix together ads and paid accounts so they can get more listeners. Spotify model is good for Spotify, but not for anybody else.
I've been a christian for a very long time, finding myself sliding away, just don't find the solace in it anymore? Any thoughts? I still find myself attracted to the ideas - grace, forgiveness, love, a relationship with god, just so attractive - but just can't seem to make the bridge from it to the daily grind.
That sounds ridiculously stupid. The design patent seems legit but, demanding for the entire profit is totally unreasonable.
Some of these shipboard gravimeters originally developed for subs during the cold war ended up on research ships -- and are still on them.

In my old life I would tend to these instruments (still in operation). Finicky, old, entirely analogue systems ... but they keep "working" 35+ years later.
I lived in a very quiet building from the 50s in east Germany. But my apartment was at the top, so no noises from above, and only quiet people to one site.
As I understand it, that's not how it works. When the Federal Circuit issued its decision saying APIs are copyright eligible, Google appealed to the Supreme Court, claiming the decision was incorrect. The Supreme Court, however, declined to hear the case, strongly implying (or maybe directly indicating?) that it thought the decision was correct. As such, there is no hope, at least as far as this case is concerned.
The wireless technologies we have today don't deliver anywhere close to the throughput of fiber. There's no way municipal WiFi will support every household running a couple of Netflix streams at the same time in the evening, something that's (occasionally) possible on cable infrastructure. We've already seen from dense apartment buildings that WiFi does not deal well with more than a handful of active users at close range, even on separate SSIDs.

Some form of radio communication might be the answer, but there is very little unallocated bandwidth and it's bandwidth that we need.
Join a local credit union. Some limit membership to employees of certain companies, but many simply require that you live in the area. A credit union exists to serve its members, and members have voting power in the union. You'll generally get much better rates on loans as well.
Some countries have this system, e.g., I think Belgium at least used to grant patents without examination. A patentee would then sue and the validity would be taken up for the first time upon suit.
It took me way too many years to discover FOSS, but after getting hooked on it, I find that I'm actually more motivated and creative when I'm using tools that nobody owns.
I think this is one of the few cases where you don't need a step 2, or step two is "get followers". Not much more needed beyond that.
Maybe it's just me but, when I see things like this, I lose confidence in the method naming process on the Android SDK:

glEGLImageTargetRenderbufferStorageOES

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/opengl/GLES11...

They capitalized Render but not buffer. Also: what does this even mean?

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readExceptionWithOperationApplicationExceptionFromParcel

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/Data...

Do they really need to put the word Exception in this name twice?

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getGestureStrokeSquarenessTreshold

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/gesture/Gestu...

What's a Treshold? (Yes, that's how they spelled it).

---

Ok, so the standard way they spell it is N-U-L. One L: getAllButNulLegal

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/UrlQueryS...

But wait: readMessengerOrNullFromParcel

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Messenger....

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Ok, so the standard way they spell it is C-A-N-C-E-L-E-D. One L: registerOnLoadCanceledListener

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/co...

But wait: onGestureCancelled

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/gesture/Gestu...

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There's also this: http://blog.danlew.net/2015/04/18/is-your-user-a-goat/
I suspect that in these animals, there gene diversity is quite low. Most humans cannot even share blood with one another, let alone cancers because our immune systems doesn't like things that are too different than our own cells. I suspect cancer from a twin could be more easily transmissible than one from a stranger.
> My primary response: Fix the noise problems. Then we can talk.

People in some other parts of the world already denser and quieter. It's a shame the US is so backward there.
Most likely it's just that Chang has enough class and good sense to not bad-mouth a former employer publicly.
Pretty sure this violates the Yelp TOS. Certain it violates good taste.

Friend works as a psychiatric counselor in a max security facility for 20 years. Commutes 2 hours to and from work for safety reasons. Amazingly decent fellow. Really cares. Really tries to do the right thing.

I showed him this and his reply? "Fuck those guys."

From a job description: "Specific safety and security duties for wardens include approving security policies, assessing safety and security systems, managing internal investigations, managing prison intelligence operations, ensuring facility compliance with applicable standards and overseeing inmate classification systems. Human resource and budget duties include interviewing applicants, conducting staff development, promoting career advancement, compile budget requests, maintain staffing within financial constraints and set budget priorities, according to ACA. Correctional employees, including administrators, operate in a dangerous environment where inmate assaults and more dangerous incidents, such as riots, are a threat. Managing critical incidents is a significant part of a warden's job. Duties include drafting and reviewing emergency plans, ensuring the readiness of response teams and implementing emergency plans when an incident arises."

The last thing these people need is automated FAXes scraping one of the least reliable services on the web. It's shameful.
they could publically announce that's what they are doing, or transfer them to a company that holds them, like RPX.
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Aah, I can definitely see how twisted wires would make that friction noise worse. It's especially annoying when they scratch against a beard -- augh, just awful. That being said, I normally just clip 'em if they're making too much noise and take them out when eating.
It's all too easy to ignore the admonition to maintain good posture when you are young. I can speak from experience that our back doesn't forgive that mistake and it's very hard to make it forget.

I wish that article had more practical advice in addition to re-iterating the horrors of bad posture though.