skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really good summary. At my job we always talk about how much we wish we had a developer B just for assigning tasks such as you mentioned
That would have been an interesting alternative, yes. (The NAS systems are long sold or dead, but the Linux boxes that replaced them are running Debian too.)

The hardware is decent for the price, it's just the software that's problematic.
Creating Advanced Drop-Down Menus
>So use a real issue tracker.

That's a reasonable answer -- but it's an answer to question I wasn't addressing. Whether github reinvents the wheel is not relevant to my point.

I was specifically debunking the illusion that "simplicity of the issues submission form == no cognitive overhead".

If the "issues creation" web form is lightweight, the submitters will eventually expend "cognitive overhead" by clogging up the threads with clarification messages.

If the project maintainer uses your solution of an external tracker, that means the submitter still expends cognitive overhead by noticing that the project's "issue tracking" has been disabled, and then reading front page README.TXT or CONTRIBUTIONS.TXT to figure out what external website he's supposed to use to submit issues. No doubt the web forms[1] on those external trackers will have the checkboxes and dropdowns that some people are suggesting people avoid.

The "cognitive overhead" required to clarify and provide meta-descriptions for bug reports is inescapable. You're only deciding whether it is structured or unstructured and where it is shifted.

Your reply is going in different direction from cognitive overhead and on that perspective, I don't know what makes the most sense. My guess is that many open source maintainers don't need a heavyweight tracker that can do things like assign tasks to multiple programmers, burn down dashboards, correlate activity hours to billing, etc. They don't need all that. They just want a template to improve how users file issues. Maybe a survey would provide insight as to whether your answer is the most sensible.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=jira+submit+issue&source=lnm...
Maybe he was, but you just totally spoiled it for everyone who doesn't get to see the latest episodes the moment they air. A lot of us outside the US don't even get the "current" season yet. Warning next time, please?
Name any software you use that is produced by a democratic process... anyone?
I've yet to find a city that doesn't have Adele's Hello in the top 5.
I am not sure I understand how do you think this is going to improve the probability of making correct decision.

In fact, I think it would be bad to select this "leader" according to his expertise; he should rather be selected according to his ability to produce good consensus by incorporating those different inputs. However, we already have procedures (such as voting) that do that and that we can understand; why then bother selecting a person to do it in a black-box fashion?

In short, if you can reliably decide who is an expert, you can also reliably decide the issue itself. If nothing else than by following the expert in his opinion.
Moscow's twin is a city in the Ukraine, which I suppose isn't terribly surprising. Homyel seems to come up a lot; it's also the twin of Magnitogorsk.

Someone should write a script to generate a directed graph of all of these cities; I wonder what it would look like.
It certainly wasn't -- he could have included a couple of pictures and some some key words to Google, even some examples of brands quite easily. It really takes from the article because I feel frustrate having read it hoping it would be explained to me or would be revealed.
Not mentioned in the article, but paypal allows you to send a single invoice to up to 100 different email addresses with a single click.

It also allows a 1-click way to email anyone that "hasn't paid" with an update.
The internet's supply of masters is much larger and more accessible. Is there a reason to think the video or other sources he found are from someone inferior in expertise to a local? Does that reason apply even for people who live outside major urban centers?

Also, that line of thinking is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Remember the most likely outcome before was recognizing the cost of acquiring the knowledge exceeded the benefit of having it; there would have been no learning at all.
It probably does, like a lot of widely used medication. But if it's not economical to extract lithium from batteries significantly made of it, it's certainly not economical to get it from waste water.
> What does that $70MM buy for investors?

A brand. They're building a brand that is synonymous with "mattresses by mail".
The same reason so many other websites decide to waste so much real estate: phones.

edit: also being lazy.
I understand that argument and what a hipster "is", but how does shipping memory foam from an internet site resemble this in any way?
Explosion sprite sheet generator
Is Sharing Economy to Robot Economy Exploitative?
What happens to all these sharing economy jobs when cars drive themselves? or drones drop off your sandwich?
It would be neat though if GCC and Clang supported some compiler flag like Wsafe to warning on all raw pointer manipulation and raw memory addressing. Would make maintaining a C++ project and avoiding unsafe habits easier.
Sure, but the apocalypse scenario - and there have been uncountable apocalypse scenarios even in my lifetime, starting with 'The Jupiter Effect' - is also very unlikely to happen. Buying farmland you never use or enjoy, and which brings in no rent profit, is a waste if there is no apocalypse. While playing videogames brings a lot of enjoyment.

The premise of this piece is to be "rational". To do that you need some idea of the odds. If you think another Tunguska event is something to prepare for, then having a farm is probably no better than playing video games - I can't even guess which would be safer from a random 10+MT event, and playing games is more fun and safer than doing the extra drive back and forth to the farm or operating the farm.
hey there, thanks for your feedback, glad you like it =)
I took care of implementing the ghost logic from the original game (not 1:1 but close), I think I even based it on the article you just recommended, cool stuff!
no. not me.
Gender and race issues frequently get flagged to death. Doesn't that take a collective?

For example, elephantinthevalley got killed and reposted multiple times.
If a few people write unportable code in your language, they're bad programmers. But if everyone writes unportable code in your language, it's a bad language.
This new finding from the most recent issue of the medical journal Duh.
I find myself harumphing at much of the proposal. It's not the topic itself; democracy can work in open source, and I think Debian is well served by that model. There are interesting things to be researched about open source project management, but the approach doesn't seem to face them head on, and is full of assumptions that could be detrimental to the usefulness or quality of findings.

I'd have to really dig into the proposal but I don't even have time to fully absorb that blog post. I'll try to expand on this after work if I still give half a damn.
Done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10909727
I spent way too much time with Robocode a few years back. Those advanced "surfing" bots some people built though... It was quite disheartening having not the slightest bit of a chance as a novice programmer.
Give Farbfeld 30 years to evolve in the wild and it'll probably look pretty similar.
150 to make, 90 to ship, total costs < $300. Sells for $850. Main marketing advantage is portability, but apparently only on delivery (compressed into a large box).

I thought by hipster, they were implying that for once someone was selling a good, cheap, portable mattress. Turns out this isn't any of the three.
It's really important to understand that the news aggregation site is not about topic or implementation, it's all about the community around it. So instead of forming your own, why not improve existing? Filtered by "open-source" tag?

By no means trying to ruin your enthusiasm here, but please DO consider using one of the existing aggregators for the same purpose.

Also Open Source seems like a very broad topic to me, covering most of the programming languages, *nix systems and so on...
The Triumph of Stupidity (2016 Version)
What's Hessian?
Uber Is Raising More Money from Rich People
Thought of this story this morning when I read that a prominent UK politician would have the investigation into his alleged sex crimes dropped as he'd died.

It kind of highlights the argument this article makes. The accused is dead, so there's nothing more to be done according to the current system. The closure of the people who are making the accusations, or the people who might want to ensure that systems have been put in place to prevent this happening again aren't considered part of the process.
Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin
If you're so interested in typing in spam links you might as well search up something like "cheap electronics online" in Google and start clicking around page 10.
Ask HN: Where do I find a new petitioner for my H1-B if I have a I 797 approval?
Hi,
In 2015, I got through the H1-B lottery but during my H1-B interview, the interviewer gave me a 221g slip asking more documents from the petitioner.
It has been more than 2 months but the petitioner has not submitted those documents. And as such I want to look for a new employer.
Where do I start?

Thanking in anticipation!
>link

How can methamphetamine be 3 times more harmful than ecstasy (a.k.a. MDMA a.k.a. 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine)?
take a look at http://purecss.io/layouts/marketing/

and all the files it pulls like yui-min.js
look at the 2.2K of css just for the page.

At first glance pure sounds good given the file size it touts, but when you need to use it, it seems like you have to include a whole lot more.
Lio 4Real – Repetition [Soul]
This article should be called, "For me personally, running my current startup is not that hard". The generalization is laughable and arrogant.

Here are just some of the asinine and easily-refuted parts of the article:

> You don’t hear about how hard it is to be a veterinarian, scientist or politician.

YES YOU DO. All the time, if you actually know these people. I dated a veterinarian and have many scientist friends. Those jobs vary quite a bit between people, so guess what? Like any job, some people have a hard time, others have an easy time, and still others are well-suited to the rigors of whatever they're doing. What a completely ridiculous, uninformed generalization!

> [Running a startup is] hard in what sense of the word? Sure, long days can contribute to fatigue that make things physically and emotionally challenging, but how is that different from many (or most) jobs?

It's different from most jobs because you answer to clients and are on-call all the time. You lose money every minute that you're not working. You are ultimately responsible for the success or failure of the company. That's radically different!

When people like Andreessen and Graham are saying that running a company is hard, I trust them, who have worked with thousands of companies, over some guy who is throwing out his own anecdotes.

Don't tell people that what they do isn't hard or that it could be easier. Your experience is your own. Surveys, better-informed people, and common sense disagree with you.
Where did you see that? At 8 hours a weekday, that's ~47.5 days off a year. Doesn't sound like the average American full-time worker to me.

edit: s/workday/weekday/
I've found once I hit about 40 I started calling everything new 'Hipster'. Something new in bedding? Well that's totally 'Hipster Mattress'. New song from Skrillex? 'Hipster Noise'. Those beards that all the kids have now? 'Hipster Beards'. Node.js? 'Hispter Twaddle' Ghost? 'Hipster Blogging Platform'. Uber? 'Hipster Taxi'

If you're lucky to live long enough it'll happen to you too :-)
What constitutes heavy lifting in this case? I find that in a regular gym workout, if I'm doing some sort of circuits with moderate weights, I'll fatigue physically by the third or fourth circuit as you would expect. However, if anything I tend to feel more alert and mentally capable after a workout, at least by the time I've got home, showered and changed.
I'm glad that going to HR actually worked for her. Most people (i.e. anyone that's not employed by the company) would tell you to never go to HR.
I guess they were unable to grok responsive design CSS practices, even at a $1b valuation.

Case in point of some people who get it: medium.com
All successful products will have stupid users. If you don't want to have stupid users, don't write successful software.
It's a question of who gets to "input various things". CAD systems whether or not they incorporate heuristics or parametrics are based on:

human owner ->
human designer ->
production [possibly human] ->
artifact

However, the important high level abstraction is:

human owner -> artifact

where the "->" simply accounts for the time gap that we call "production". Getting closer to the high level abstraction is why people pay for design. For many projects having humans in the "->" is seen as a cost not a benefit...they're forced to pay a designer for time spent rounding corners and gradienting drop shadows because those things are more fun and easier than iterating.

It's also more fun than writing up vast arrays of heuristics and parametric constraints.

Computers are really really good at iterating. With machine learning, they don't require long lists of heuristics and parametric constraints. Just a lot of examples and an unimaginably large number in human terms of CPU cycles.

That's not a place AutoDesk as a publicly traded company can pivot. So in the 1990's when you were developing computational approaches, they pivoted toward a product line architecture that allows Autodesk to roll out features at regular intervals. If it had wanted to go computational, it would have doubled down on AutoLisp with macros and promoted developers. There's a business reason that full blown AutoCad developer tools require approval and that there's no AutoCad app store.
French drug trial leaves six hospitalized, one brain-dead
I've investigated this topic for a while. I've been thinking about adding a mandated wide gamut color space.
Even though the wide color spaces "destroy" accuracy in small gradients, it doesn't matter when using 16-Bit. And because farbfeld is 16 Bits, it would definitely be an option.

Care to hit me with a mail (you can find it at the bottom of the page) so I can write you in a more sensible way what I've been thinking. Maybe you can help me decide on which color space to use (Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB, ...).
Thats a personal view.

For example, I do not like the huge 17" screen in the Tesla. It looks weired and clunky. The design of the UI is also not that great. It all looks more like "we do it, because we can and we don't care if it is good or not."

I like much more the new Volvo XC90/S90. I would like to see the Volvo Concept 23 on the road. I like the new Mercedes S class. And you know, the production quality is also in so many ways better than this cheap plastic in the Tesla Model S.
> Imagine a building whose design and construction was governed by democracy

I haven't seen that, so it's hard to imagine (and I would thus reserve my judgement on that). But I have seen comedy governed by democracy, and it's not as bad as you suggest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python But I do agree it's a mish-mash. :-)

Anyway, I think it's hard to make the OSS model work in politics. In politics (and other fields), you are severely resource constrained. However, in OSS model, anybody can fork the code on their own system.
I did look pocketgrid last year. I could not get it to behave like something like bootstrap. It would be nice if there was a simple grid that just sort of worked on all the modern mobile and desktop browsers. I am ok with not supporting IE or other browsers that have a tiny market share
Show HN: SVGnest – irregular bin packing in the browser
As someone who went, I agree. I think most people who do it right now consider the high price to be a donation to help them scale, rather than an actual product-for-money trade. I'd pay $500, maybe, if I thought the marginal benefit they'd get from my going was negligible. That's how much conferences of that length usually cost, anyway. Also, it's totally right that the techniques aren't exactly the point - you don't go to a tech conference because you can't read about the things presented there elsewhere, you go because you won't focus enough on them. But it's definitely not 4k of value from the workshop, it's 3.5k of giving them momentum to refine and scale the org, and .5k of actual experience.
RE: FourSquare. Very interesting to me that he doesn't mention that they just changed out the Founder/CEO this week and did a significant down round. I almost feel like the entire article was a camouflaged smoke screen for propping up FourSquare. Just odd.
Optimization story: Switching from GMP to gcc's __int128 reduced run time by 95%
Stop wasting your time on gimmicks and focus your time on making the core experience life changing or at least the best time they've ever had. You'll find plenty of Ambassador then.
I was literally describing this idea to a friend whose sitting on the opposite side of the table like 5 minutes ago - insane timing there mate. Lovely! I need this so much!
The 10x Rule:  What Raising $1 of Venture Capital Really Means
I like pcpartpicker quite a bit especially their $/GB search feature for hard drives. I do wish they would include some basic server hardware for enthusiasts though, big ECC dimms are getting affordable and it would be nice to do some price comparison.
I wonder if anyone's written a guide for surviving a not-too-long term emergency for residents of a large city. Everyone basically agrees that the best thing to do in case of a large-scale emergency is to leave the city - but my wife and I aren't prepared for camping, and we're definitely not prepared to walk out of Manhattan with five million other people into Jersey.

Where's the guide for what to do in case of a solar storm that knocks out the power grid for a month when you're a resident of Chicago, or New York, or Los Angeles?
Plus some extra costs in website hosting and maintenance, marketing, rent of office / packaging plant, and of course personnel (management, support, fulfillment). I don't know how much those cost per item though.
It's certainly something to consider; HR exists to protect the company. I suspect it depends on ensuring that the harasser is portrayed as the person threatening the company, rather than the complainant.
This is the best comment so far, because it helps others understand the other 400 comments so far.

What I'm seeing play out is a lot of smart people defending their tribe the only way they know how: smear campaigns in HN comments, censoring other communities, denying bystanders' internet access through DDoS.

People do some awfully ugly things when they feel their tribe under attack.
Because Tumblr, for a large part of its audience, fills the geocities-era niche of self-expression. The majority of tumblr bloggers don't care about 1920-pixel screens, they care about the colors and the aesthetic, web design principles be damned.
I'm picturing a piece of plywood—but made of Walnut, or Teak, or something equally delightful.
Show HN: Pangaea – Text preprocessing with JavaScript
I work near a large urethane foam processing plant. Judging from the trucks parked outside, they make the same foam mattresses for a lot of the large brands.
Technically, IMSI is not a device identifier. MT has IMEI and SIM (or more precisely ICC) has ICCID (which is normally never transmitted over the network). And the legislation probably specifically targets spoofing the IMEI, as spoofing IMSI does not gain you anything other than absence of service (on normal GSM/3GPP network).
Funny. "Bobo" means "stupid" in Spanish, although it comes from the Latin "Balbus" (stammering, stuttering, lisping).
I was playing with the parts in this article, and it was up near $2500 from amazon. $250MB motherboard, 4x$60 8GB dimms, etc.
The logic to make data structures in C ANSI
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I consider myself an entrepreneur and I drink a lot to deal with stress. It's either - go to the gym and be healthy, or drink. Luckily I go to the gym enough to offset weight gain and the like, but I drink a lot....
> How do you actually know an idea has failed, though?

The same way you know if a clinical trial in unsuccessful. You set milestones in advance, and if you don't meet those milestones then you've failed.
I think in North America it's called 'burlap'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_fabric
From a personal experience: my best days are when I get a good morning workout in. I feel energized the rest of the day. I think the sense of early accomplishment helps in a way.
... and biology's.
United.

Bad weather delay? Miss a connection to another United flight?
Bad luck buddy!
Could someone more knowledgeable than me compare and contrast this with Rust?
Auto multimodal would be cool.
It's a joke that her manager was allowed to stay and even continue to be her manager and have a hand in her promotion. From several stories I've heard about Google HR, I can't say I'm surprised.
> Tumblr's just not a place you go when you're thinking about buying stuff.

I'll agree that the largest part of tumblr's userbase doesn't have the ability to whip out the credit card at the drop of a hat. I'll argue that TV is also not a place you go when you're thinking about buying stuff, yet display ads seem to be working there.

I'll also add some sympathy for that Etsy seller. I have a friend with an Etsy shop, and the bane of her existence is people reblogging a card or print with no link back (or worse, "google images" listed as the source).
All source code that's available to me falls under the "I'll do whatever I want with it" License unless it's related to work for a high-profile client. Most of the time these licensing debates and discussions are an abstract philosophical matter in my life, not a practical one.
Eh... Sort of? The two organisations together would form a cult, but the community split I mention makes it a bit confusing. Overall, I agree that miri's level-of-cult is too damn high.
> If you see something problematic, why don't you click the edit button and address it? Or if you don't have the necessary know-how, why don't you click the talk tab and bring up the issue there?

In my case, I can't.

I began editing Wikipedia in 2004, and I got banned last year after leaving a message on the talk page of another user telling them not to use aggressive language when interacting with new users. The way oversight on Wikipedia works is that it's incredibly easy for someone to block you if you do something that they read as a slight towards them.

It's something you know all along if you spend any amount of time on Wikipedia. Over the years I was constantly running into people talking about things like overreach and abusive admins, but as an editor, you don't really look into those cases. When you're more interesting in creating content than getting involved, you trust that the admins are doing their jobs properly, and if they ever aren't, then the conflict resolution process will take care of them.
President Obama (US) Emphasized the Importance of STEM Education in SOTU Speech
Wholesale would be half that, so about 425 give or take. 43% margin is good for a physical product but not great or hugely out of line. You'll want 2-3x costs for wholesale and about ~2x wholesale for retail.
This makes me sad - the same happened to me, but at 26.
Interview w Dario Floreano on acoustic sensing, multi-drone operations