skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
discussion has ended up around https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11083706
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11083706
Affected me today by screwing up Backblaze's .bzvol folder and disassociating the volume from the backup service.

Luckily it didn't delete anything vital, and the temporary fix is to just make a /.aaaaa folder for now.

But what on Earth did Adobe do? How does something like that even happen?

Here are two videos showing the problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xKlFO3_j5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrhygLKtLQ
Or there's a wide spectrum in people's ability to learn.

The real issue is that there is a designated time at all rather than just a test.
It is a 3-sided market with high acquisition costs and high churn on all three sides - the restaurants, the drivers and then the users.

A better business model may be to focus on one of these and provide it as a service to the others. ie. a driver/delivery network for restaurant fulfillment.

Restaurants having to set themselves up on each platform seems like a waste - there is no reason why a standards based interface for dispatch and fulfillment couldn't be built.

You can then integrate the 'best of' for each component - ex. Yelp or Google Ratings for finding restaurants & Amazon for local delivery

Being vertically integrated just doesn't feel like what this market will look like in 5-6 years - too many challenges.
I silently added those who said that to a certain blacklist. Been through enough of 'Me - I'm in Software not IT. Them- But it is IT since you work with computer right?' ping pong matches. Ignoramuses, really.
That is an awesome default.
Does this discovery make us insignificant or does it increase our understanding of the universe?

It depends on how you look at it. You are taking a pessimist's view on things that the universe is so large and we are so small that we don't matter. If you take an optimists's view on things you'll discover that we do matter and learning new things increases our significance.
I'm old enough to remember Pons-Fleischmann. But not so old as to forget the more recent faster than light neutrinos social media storm. I've been thinking about the nature of scientific claims for more than twenty years. Few people are intentionally wrong: that doesn't mean astronomers as men of science didn't sware by the Ptolemaic cosmology.

To be clear, I am not denying the possibility of the earth expanding in and contracting in what passes for space time. I am skeptical of the proposition that the instruments are measuring the collisions of black holes is methodologically sound.

The careful preparation and engineering that occurred before LIGO was constructed resulted in an instrument that ran from 2002 to 2010 without detecting gravitational waves. The consequence of this $400 million experiment was not reexamining the theory, but sinking another $200 million into an instrument that created good tweetable data. That's the way careers and politics and human nature works.

There are three components to the theory. Spatial change, gravitational waves, and colliding massive bodies. The reason I am skeptical is that the scientists are inferring two of them: gravitational waves and colliding black holes from the component most likely to have other causes. If I had the mountaintop shells and the flood, god would be more plausible. If I have the shells and god, the flood is. Two outta three is my threshold for reasonable scientific inference in this case.
If you're a startup, never waste time talking to or doing deals with other startups.
Where is the day-glo pterodactyl?
How do you know fans not running?
I know you are trying to provide some comfort to people and doubt you have very much impact/authority w.r.t community relations, but this is literally just another "we value feedback, you're important to us" without any actual plan to fix the issues or even acknowledgement that they are being worked on...

There's been no official communication in a month, so I don't think its unreasonable that projects are starting to look at alternatives and start to believe that github is unresponsive to their problems.
Using Cloudflare / Sucuri in front of your website won't hurt
Indeed, thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't heard of it.
You're not crazy, it's called "coil whine":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP73edpQwgc
There's certainly an argument that this is actually a feature as well.
'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.'

— Carl Sagan
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> Supposing you have a Bachelor's, would you want to date a woman who only dated men with a Bachelor's degree or higher?

Sure, why not? I only have a BS and it's probably the case that my wife (PhD neurobiologist) would have only dated someone with a college degree. Someone else's particular preferences aren't much of a concern to me, provided I meet them.
You are probably hearing "coil whine", where parts of the power supply circuits are vibrating and creating noise. If it only happens under very specific load, you can get the effect of only doing it while doing something specific. Displays also can make noise depending on what it is displayed, which probably is a similar mechanism.
That's both pleasant and disappointing to hear. Believe me, if they offer you S$90k base, that's already considered a fat salary.
Art of Product Management- LinkedIn
It's consistent with vibration caused by a wave which is why it seemed appropriate to me in this context...even if I think the claim of waves is an over-reach, I am not being deliberately argumentative.
So what does this mean about the future, now? What new capability do we have? What is possible now that wasn't possible before?
GSMGo – SMS HTTP Server with REST API, Written in Go Language
Huh, I was wondering why the new CEO had emphasized culture and value on his day 1 letter.
Hey guys, I made this, I would be happy to tell you more about it. The idea is pretty simple, static 2x2 blocks are replaced by another shape that creates a lot of growth. That replacement is treated like the birth of a new organism. The goal of the organism is to produce more 2x2 blocks. It can have slight mutations that make it faster to produce these blocks. What's interesting about this is that rather than having reproduction be a given, an organism spends it's whole life building a structure that lets it reproduce. It can collide with other organisms and disrupt them. It's simple, but it's open ended and is fast to compute.
I wish it was just the 20 something programmer that did this. I know more than a few 40 somethings that never evolved out of the good enough phase of development. They can't even be bothered to test their own code before hitting submit. Everything is just a small bug that can be easily fixed later.
GSMGo is SMS HTTP server with REST API, written in Go language.

Server enables you to send SMS messages with simple HTTP POST request:

# curl -X POST -d '{"text": "Message Example", "number": "+38164182xxxx"}' http://localhost:38164

GSMGo uses libGammu so it has support for many different phones. Check Gammu Phone Database for details http://wammu.eu/phones/ .
Startup is slow right now, but there is a project underway at Oracle Labs which will reduce it to a similar level as MRI.
cool iOS 3rd party to observe the real reachability of network
How exactly do you invest in a startup, and how can you see their financials? It's not like they're listed on NASDAQ. And how would you know your shares are secure, without bringing in lawyers? Investing in a startup seems complicated to me.
FundersClub (YC S12) Is Hiring for a Head of Product
Ran into this recently. It's not open_memstream but same idea: https://github.com/NimbusKit/memorymapping
> I'm not sure that github is the problem.

Agreed.

Quote from nzakas who suggested the move: "It's not just that the GitHub experience is suboptimal, it's that it aggressively undermines development. There's just no way we can keep up with the pace of issues anymore, especially when most of them lack enough information to be useful. The tooling isn't good enough for the onslaught we receive."

If they can't keep up with the pace of issues, that's not GitHub's problem. Sure, GitHub could help make the experience better, but it isn't the problem. That said, I feel for them. It's tough to have a popular project.
UCLA and Stanford researchers pinpoint origin of sighing reflex in the brain
In my 2nd year of university the chair of the CS department shared an excel file via email containing the private data of all the CS students. ID numbers, addresses, phone numbers, first/last names.

He claimed it was meant for an office assistant but somehow he blasted it to both the BS and MS student lists. I doubt he got more than a slap on the wrist as he remained the chair for another 2-3 years.
1) Don't expect 9-5 work if you are in anything remotely high-impact like software or sales.

2) Hard to specify since it varies on the kind of company/sector. PM me if you have something specific to check.

3) Company pays for basic coverage, no International and maternity for 99% cases (take my own estimate with a grain of salt). There are additional packages you can buy on top of company insurance.

Labour cost for services is fairly high in Singapore too, not as high as North Europe but about as much as, UK and Germany.
I understand your concern, but depending on what product(s) you are selling, startups (and by startups I am referring to the PG definition of startups) are actually great customers for a couple of different reasons:

- Willing to try new products that help them focus their (limited) resources on their core product.

- No legacy integration issues.

- Generally high quality employees that provide strong product feedback.

- Willing to move quickly.

The downside is of course that they may not have a lot of money and in total, usually represent only a very small part of the market, so you have to use the initial feedback / momentum you got from your work with startups to move into more traditional customer segments, but they are still a great way to get started. The risk is of course that you end up building a product that only works for startups, but as long as you understand that risk and validated that the problem you are solving is not exclusive to the startup community, in my experience you should not avoid working with (reasonable) startups.
A picture is worth a thousand words : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/LISA_orb...

Source : https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Evolved_Laser_Interferometer_Spa...
I'd be very interested in seeing a comparison between storage engines like rocks, wiredtiger, leveldb, sqlite4-lsm, heck even kyotocabinet and berkeleydb. The comparison would describe what workload each storage engine optimizes for, what tradeoffs were made, and a basic feature matrix (multiple process? transactions / nested transactions? etc).

There are a lot of options out there but beyond pure speed or latency measures, its hard to get a high level understanding of what distinguishes one storage engine from the next.
Given the torrent of negative sentiments toward LinkedIn when news surfaced of it's precipitous stock decline, this slideshare on the 'art' of PM from a group that is missing the mark in that regard, just doesn't work. This slideshare full of jargon, rhetoric, and banal quotes that are barely interesting, but more importantly, not aligned with the evolution of their own product. HN users hit on so many key points that articulated how and why the product has lost it's luster, and I couldn't flip through this deck without grimacing.
Yep. The essence in what you said.

Languages have different amount for the words snow, but it's not relevant to time in the environment AFAIK.

As long as you have snow, you'll be exposed to all forms hence similar amounts of names. England or Arctic. The increased exposure for the Inuit does not make for more words.

> cultural context has absolutely zero bearing whatsoever in how events are seen or interpreted.

As long as seen means by sight, and interpreted means lower level brain. And by zero you mean insignificant (Or way way less than these theories state.
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No, but we predict it to be essentially impossible to observe a graviton.
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0601043
This works on just a single machine for now. I imagine it would be relatively easy to distribute. One could simply clone a bunch of applications. Then creatures from cloned grids could be swapped, or grids could be placed adjacently to determine who the winners are...
Beacuse you can't judge a PM's work as easily in an interview. For all the difficulty we have hiring people to write code, either your fiz buzzes or it doesn't.

A long term bad-quality PM knows the vernacular and can talk a good game. And thats all you have, really. Not even that fizz buzz level of pass or fail
A mass of a million bacterial eyeballs probably resolves images pretty well. Maybe better than us.
Well, it's not just "space", is it?

We (as in, species) just observed a phenomenon that's related on a fundamental way to any form of matter, doesn't matter(no pun intended) if it is space or not.
> Come on now. I'm sure the commenter knew you could search the subscriber list when new comments come in.

Well, that may have been obvious to you, but I didn't want to assume anything about the asker, and while it appears the majority of users here are developers at times, there are still people that frequent that have little or no practical software engineering experience. In any case, it's easy to overlook features of a site you never or rarely use. I've clicked on the comments feed maybe 3-4 times in a few years, if I hadn't thought about this issue previously (as obviously you have as well), I might or might not have immediately thought about the comments link, and how it's really a feed.
> The good news is that positive construal can be taught. “We can make ourselves more or less vulnerable by how we think about things,” Bonanno said. In research at Columbia, the neuroscientist Kevin Ochsner has shown that teaching people to think of stimuli in different ways—to reframe them in positive terms when the initial response is negative, or in a less emotional way when the initial response is emotionally “hot”—changes how they experience and react to the stimulus. You can train people to better regulate their emotions, and the training seems to have lasting effects.

Sounds like the complete opposite of what some people seem to promote.
If you live in silicon valley, I think it's easy to make the mistake of believing that most of the economy is made of VC-funded startups.
BottomOfProductHunt: A Look into the “Product Hunt” Effect
You are missing the broader system.

It's about #theCapitalCycle of an entire ecosystem...#theUnicornEconomy
With today's technology, for some compounds... you can count atoms by physical measurements and known structure, and figure mass by atomic weight.

http://www.nist.gov/pml/si-redef/kg_new_silicon.cfm
A decent analogy for most governments is that they behave similarly to an insurance company with an army. You absolutely pay a percentage of the value of what you are insuring (here your life, wealth, earning potential) not a flat fee.
That makes sense. But then what exactly happens when this hypothetical conversation happens:

- Hi insurance broker man. You did't follow regulation X when you did Y.

- Oh, I didn't know that, I wasn't told that.

- Oh really? It was right in that mandatory training program you took. See here on screen #7?

- Oh that dumb thing? Most people at my company just ran this script to get through the damn thing. I wasn't paying attention.

What happens then?
What? Protons most definitely have mass.
I’ll buy anything that enables me to run Firefox OS for TV on my “dumb” Panasonic.
I've seen a lot of scripts written in my career and most of them do things that scare me. It boils down to “explicit is better than implicit”, and there are too many lazy or careless developers out there.

Another good reason to demand open-source, to have a fighting chance that someone has proofread what is about to ask for admin privileges.

More than once I've seen people using "rm -Rf" habitually whether the target is a file or a directory, because it will basically always work (remembering when to use "rmdir" is apparently hard). Well, great...now the side effects of using "rm -Rf ${dir}/${file}" where there's an undefined variable are just a bit ridiculous when all you wanted to do was delete a temporary file.
"Passive Income"? :S
Back in the 80s I could "hear" the CPU of my old 8 bit micro by turning the sound volume up to maximum. I assume that I was hearing some sort of interference, as that system also used to mess with nearby televisions.
I think if you research it more, you'll be surprised.
BigchainDB – The scalable blockchain database
The biggest problem with these business models, in the long run, is they all target the same labor supply.

This is good for wages, but bad for their margins.
Is this reasonably small enough not to cause performance issues? I notice it mentioned trying to keep the size more reasonable.

Ad-blocking via hosts files can often lead to a noticeable performance hit.
Companies like Exxon, BRK, Johnson & Johnson etc might be surprised to hear that no one is investing in them. Even the most unicorny of the unicorns (Uber) barely cracks the top 20% of the S&P 500.

Thats to say nothing of other investment vehicles like treasuries or real estate.

SV is an important side show in the investment arena, but it is just a side show.

I won't speak to whether SV has a problem with being insular as I don't have any information one way or the other. Your comment though might be titled exhibit #1 for "lack of wider vision".
> Major problem with it going offline, hence this new tool, which may or may not go offline at some point again.

I'm not sure I understand this sentiment. It's a tool that provides a capability that wasn't there before, so event if it goes away later, you still get the utility it provided while it worked. Since the cost is just providing and email address, that seems a worthwhile trade to me. If it was a trade between this and some other implementation that worked, and it's possible closure at a later date would force you to set up with another service afterwards and you wouldn't if you chose the correct service in the first place, then that's a different story.

> I am sure you could build an extension that polls the HN API every couple of seconds or so to check for replies and have it show a popup when you get a notification as well as send an email.

Well, I'm not sure it would be nice to HN to query them an extra time every few seconds X the number or people that might install the extension. If it's a query every 10 seconds, and 1000 people run it, you've just increased their load by 100 queries a second.
Scientists are not prone to falling back on explaining observations via postulating a new kind of matter we can scarcely observe. Ever since the first indications of "dark matter" scientists have been attempting to explain it as something more familiar to us, some kind of atomic matter or some-such, maybe gas or dust or lots of planets or dark stars or something. At every single turn they've been stymied, and instead of eliminating the idea of dark matter as an ethereal particle they've instead eliminated other possibilities.

Don't look at the current theory of dark matter (weakly interacting massive particles) as some hare-brained scheme that scientists thought up, instead look at it as the hard-fought victor of numerous observational challenges. Dark matter is the theory that survived. We tried explaining things a zillion other ways (gas clouds, compact objects, neutrinos) and those theories just didn't match the observations. There are also a few exceptional circumstances (such as the bullet cluster) that indicate very strongly that dark matter is something different than either gas clouds or stuff like stars and planets, because in the bullet cluster we can observe the gas and the stars and planets and the mass, and each of them are in different places because each of them follow different rules when it comes to interacting during a galactic cluster collision.
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Not sure why I get downvoted. I'm genuinely interested in an opinion. I've repeatedly evaluated GitHub and its competitors for various non-open-source projects and the costs simply never justified using it.
Do you have a link to a job description or somewhere I can get more info about the team?
Elon Musk's vision is not for the faint of heart – Mpelembe Media
It's good news for both, it doesn't mean it's a bad assumption just because it might benefit more than one demographic. It just comes off as smarmy with the whole "As a ____, I feel". That line always comes off as condescending.

Could have just stated its good for lesbians too (and included like me), and been done with it, and come off as less hostile.
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LISA and LIGO aren't in competition. They are very different projects trying to be sensitive to very different frequencies. (Likewise, Hubble isn't competing with ground-based arrays of radar antenna even though both are looking for electromagnetic waves.)

Furthermore, the only satellite currently in orbit is the LISA pathfinder mission, which is just a testbed for some of the requisite tech. It is incapable of detecting gravitational waves.
If it's the new Macbook, it doesn't have any fans.
I doubt it. "Naughtiness" is creativity combined with a lack of conscience, which is a good way to make a quick buck. Regulatory arbitrage or capture, exploiting known cognitive biases, and creating subtle information asymmetry should all feature prominently in "YC 1[6-9]."
Actually the history of the eye has been farily well understood, and the various stages of its evolution can be seen in animals that exist today. Dawkins explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwew5gHoh3E
The idea that resilience can be learned also implies that resilience can be spread through social groups -- if you spend more time around resilient people who view potentially traumatic events in a more positive light, it may lead you to do the same.

I certainly found this to be true after hurricane katrina; talking to people who had been through other large-scale disasters helped me re-frame the events as a learning experience, and I've subsequently found myself more resilient in the face of other (unrelated) negative events in my life.
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