skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there. Those are some awesome points you make and something we definitely try to be mindful about at buffer. Before I jump into them I'd love to note something about the parent post which talks about cost being the reason. While cost was definitely something looked at, I feel like the overall decision was much greater than that. It was a commitment to being a fully remote team. Like the post mentions, mixing remote and non remote might not be a great idea since communication can suddenly happen off the remote channels. And that's lost information. (That's just one reason :D ) It's perfectly natural for that to happen and ensuring we all truly embrace remote working was I believe the true deciding factor for this. Cost was mostly an awesome justification point to close the case.

So about the disadvantages :).

Having worked in multiple types of non remote places (closed plan, open noisy, open quiet), my feeling so far is that the information flow has never been inferior. It's been equal and in many cases better. A lot of this boils down to the hiring process that buffer has where over a 45 day trial period, we ensure people can handle this type of work style. A lot of the focus during this period is communication. Even the parts about isolation. We like to ensure that people have found their stride in this aspect and they know how to handle it. So far, I believe it's worked. When I have something immediate to ask, I jump on slack. When I have something I'd like a more asynchronous communication to happen around, we use discourse. Our team discovered that we are more productive by ditching the daily video call in favour of using a daily updated Dropbox paper. So that's how we've tackled this very valid concern and so far, it feels like it's working well.

About being diligent about not turning into a hermit, spot on! Many of the team members take breaks during the middle of the day to shift locations, do a run, or even pop into a fitness training/yoga session. It's encouraged and it works well.

About being on the hook for office space, if a co working location works for you (or sharing office space) buffer even offers to reimburse this (including additional net connectivity that you might need to get to ensure smooth communication as you move around).

So yea, all valid concerns and these are how we move around them. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. It's a lot of work for sure, but we do love it and we all jump in to make sure everyone has a good time. The company is extremely supportive and I think that's essential for remote working environments like this :)

Cheers!
I like your example quite a lot. I feel like if Google where providing a service that only indexed books, but did not provide any content, the authors guild would not have a leg to stand on.

In this altered Google Books service, let's say I search for the following phrase:

Then they were looking at the familiar environs of the ISS Flight Control Room,
which was at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The director of mission
operations was sitting in front of the camera stroking his iPad. He didn't seem
to be aware that the camera was on.

This "alternate universe Google Books" would present you with only the following information:

Book: Seveneves
Author: Neil Stephenson
Quote is found on page: XXXX
[ CLICK HERE TO BUY THIS BOOK! ]

The functionality of being a "Book search engine" would remain, without reproducing any copyrighted material. I imagine that this alternate version of Google Books would not incur any ire from the Authors Guild, or if they did take issue, Google's use of their books would be firmly upheld as fair use.

As it stands now, Google Books shows you some of each book you search for, and I suspect that's what the Authors Guild cares about.
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What is the URL of he project? Nm, learned how to read entire post :)
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GPS satellites themselves use atomic clocks

(and to find your position you use their also-broadcast orbital positions and math for the effects of relativity etc)
Wouldn't it be wonderful if only those who enjoy living in the city lived there, and the rest of us lived elsewhere? Lower housing prices for you, better quality of life for me, win-win.
Please refrain from suggesting I'm some "loud-mouthed" internet user. You do not know me.

I, as well, do not know you, so I'm unable to accept a drive-by accusation that having an Echo means I'll "not ever have privacy again", a bold claim indeed. Lots of people shout out things that seem plausible, even flash a bit of confidence-inspiring bravado, and have no intention of actually helping clear the air on a topic like this.

I stand corrected on one thing; I do see that Echo transmits a fraction of a second of audio before the wake word. I also know, from when I was doing my own debugging/hacking a while back, that there are requests made in cleartext to download packaged code during firmware updates, and based on the limited console hacking I did way back then (though I don't know enough about signal processing to have gotten more than that from the test pads on the bottom), Echo appears to have two bootable partitions, and swaps between them upon a successful upgrade - pretty standard stuff, it didn't appear that one partition was hiding anything, just that it had older packages.

My network analysis at the time was inconclusive in some respects due to some traffic being encoded/encrypted in a way I didn't immediately recognize -- frankly, my efforts at that time were focused on what was coming back to the Echo, and I will certainly investigate more of what's going out.

Your commentary thus far does not suggest anything privacy destroying (they know who I am and what I've bought? So?) but I will be happy to share what I find if I find anything. I know of many people smarter than I who've intercepted and analyzed the traffic and didn't find anything that suggests users "would not ever have privacy again", so I don't have high hopes of finding enlightenment without the assistance of someone who professes to have the answers.
We can insert any other source of knowledge from the developers (Site, twitter, blog, etc).
I will add Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie on C list, but please feel free to make a PR.
It doesn't work like that. Yes, a photon travels at 299792458 m/s, but photons emitted 13 billion years ago (a redshift of about z=8.6) travel much further than (1310^9 years 3.1510^7 seconds/year 299792458 m/s) due to the metric expansion of space.

The correct calculation involves an integral, an example of which you can see here:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/widget/widgetPopup.jsp?p=v&id=45...
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This is off topic, but I think there should be more tutorials for developers along the lines of "how to make life easier for packagers".

Sidenote: creating Debian packages is an intimidating task.
Fantastic work on this. Seriously, I LOVE RethinkDB. I've used it for my last three projects, and it's exactly what I've been waiting for, blending a relational database with nosql one. So glad this is getting exhaustively reviewed for quality purposes.
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> Curious how other people are dealing with it?

I moved to Austin after 10 years in the Bay Area. No regrets. Great startup/tech scene, no state income tax, more relaxed life, yummy tacos, and I was able to buy a house in a nice neighborhood for about a quarter of what it would have cost me in San Jose. (Oh, and I also am typing this on a Gigabit fiber connection...at my house.)
Or just as likely "Hi I'm Jim from accounting I need to access "bla-bla" to make sure the benefits are paid..."

Especially if you send it via a decently spoofed email/internal phone system (if it comes from an internal extension no-one bats an eye) or considering this is the government a fax might still be used some where.

Heck with "faking" an email on your tablet/phone it's easy to get into allot of places by just showing it to the guy or gal at the reception if it looks like it came form some one inside and it's on your ipad it's must be true because ipads are magic.
In 2004, when Cassell sentenced Angelos, he wrote a lengthy opinion, comparing Angelos’s sentence (738 months) with the guideline sentences for the kingpin of three major drug trafficking rings that caused three deaths (465 months), a three-time aircraft hijacker (405 months), a second-degree murderer of three victims (235 months) and the rapist of three 10-year-olds (188 months).

Where is the justice? Is there anyone who could argue this is the way we want our judicial system to work? Why can't we fix this already?
Once in a graduate abstract algebra class (without being prompted) I interrupted the professor's lecture to remark that he had skipped the prime "15" in a list of primes he wrote on the board.
If you look carefully at the press release, the group that's presenting on Thursday is the LSC, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which includes VIRGO and GEO. It's one big group, as everyone in the field shares hardware techniques and analysis techniques.
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Yes, I'm aware. ?
Can confirm... That is the funniest thing ever...
More on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070197
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That is an overly simplistic problem description.

It's trying to identify spam/abuse in a universal way, which is a much harder (and barely coherent) problem, and then delete those tweets which makes the cost of a false positive much higher.

What’s far more feasible is to compute the probability a given user would like to see a specific tweet, and then have those below a certain threshold hidden (IE, don’t ping the notification tab for it). This is actually a very well-studied problem, and the massively parallel ML infrastructure it would take exists. Eg, http://www.datanami.com/2014/07/17/inside-sibyl-googles-mass...
"Privacy Badger blocks a bunch of stuff on StackOverflow."

"Here's a list of above-board analytics services and CDNs."
Thanks for the link! This looks extremely handy for automating my dev workflow!
More on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070183
Agree 100%.

And we like the "boring" things. But I don't see why doing univariate analysis doesn't deliver on the promise of the post. Contrasted with guessing, that is.
So you would rather have a real office with a door and window and all those other holier-than-thou emphasized goodies that is still in a corporate gulag where you have to worry about face time and butts in seats, instead of working from the comfort of your own home or wherever else you choose? Why pay absurd rent for an office designed to optimally isolate you from your colleagues? Did you even read the article and understand they work remotely? Shameful that this is the top ranked comment.
Not only will the discovery of gravitational waves confirm an important prediction of general relativity, but it will be the first test of GR in the strong gravity regime. So far, all the tests of GR have been in the weak gravity regime, where Newton's law of gravity is approximately correct. The precession of Mercury's perihelion, gravitational redshift, the gravitational deflection of light, and the measurement of frame dragging by Gravity Probe B have all been probing similar regions of parameter space --- slow velocities (compared to the speed of light) and weak gravity (i.e. far from the event horizon of a black hole).

If the rumors are true that LIGO has detected the merger of two black holes, the observed waveform will be the first test of the predictions of general relativity in the strong gravity limit. This is the most interesting limit because this is where physics diverges the most from Newtonian gravity. Moreover, it's much easier to detect deviations from general relativity in this limit.

LIGO's detection won't be the only test of GR in the strong gravity limit for too long, however. The Event Horizon Telescope has been trying to directly observe the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way (or its shadow, anyway) and should have its first images within a few years.
> No 3rd party analytics service can provide more accurate data than server logs. None.

For raw pageviews, sure, but try tracking a SPA with server logs, or seeing what the most common screen resolutions are, or seeing what percent of your visitors have Flash installed.
The use of TLS (which is what uses a CA-issued certificate) isn't to prevent phishing attacks, it's to prevent emails being read or modified in transit.

DKIM (which does not use a CA-issued certificate, it uses a public key published in DNS) is the technology that's intended to authenticate the email sender. It still wouldn't stop phishing attacks where the purported email sender is something like "admin@facebook-account-verification-2016.net" though, and I don't know that there really is a good technical solution to that sort of thing.
My issue with GA is that they are definitely the sexiest/best known evolutionary algorithm in their class, so they get used for a lot of things that they're not really designed for. GA work best if you have lots of discrete parameters that combine in weird ways to determine fitness (you know, like DNA). I'm a structural engineer, and most search problems I run into have a smaller number of continuously valued parameters (like the locations of the joints in the car in the video). GA tends to try to swap parameters between the fittest of the previous generation, instead of looking in the area between those individuals.
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Going to be on the road and thinking of a capsule wardrobe for the next few months. Any suggestions for affordable and good quality hoodie, t-shirt, jeans, and socks?
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Yeah, the algorithm behind that is insanely stupid for a company with so many technical resources. No, Amazon, I don't want to buy three more $1,300 SLR cameras.
I replaced it with a macro!
I think it says something about both conscientiousness and intelligence to meet the SAT/GPA requirements for getting into Stanford. And when you look at someone's grades at a good college or graduate school, I think it says something that they managed to do well while competing with a bunch of other smart people.
Dude, never let anyone that has worked for GCHQ have another job! If the worked for the Gov then they must be evil!!! OMG!!!

Still no comment on Turing?
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I'm not arguing that we shouldn't do anything. I'm arguing that the presentation of the data is at best meaningless and at worst downright harmful.

DKIM authentication is in no way an attestation that it was sent by its sender. Furthermore, from what I can tell, more damage is caused by spoofing that works on the "I use a very similar name which is hard to see the difference" level (e.g., animenewsnetwork.com versus animenewssnetwork.com). Finding and testing solutions to that problem is something that doesn't require changing or deploying anything to new to the ecosystem, and it would arguably bring more benefit than deploying end-to-end encryption.
I agree. Working from home will test your discipline, and I personally cannot work in pajamas and blur the lines between my personal life and my work (though it's convenient to have the option if needed).

Like you, I need to have some variety. Working from home can get extremely boring, and I never really thought that I needed a bunch of social interaction until I began working from home. I really enjoy doing it (been going strong for about 3 years now), but I can't just sit at my desk all day either. I like to get out, go to coffee shops, friends houses, co-working spaces, and even the office about 2-3 days a week.

I personally see working from home not as I'm literally working from home, but that I'm not tethered to my desk in the office. As long as I have an internet connection, I can work from anywhere. It's really nice.
Typically that's how I have been working, as a 1099 contractor. The one client I had who fit that description was a developer himself and reached a relatively feature complete point with his application and decided he no longer needed a 2nd developer. I'm not sure where to find more clients like that.
> But they aren't just indexing the book. They are copying it completely.

Is that different than what they do with web pages? Here's their copy of this site:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DjfN_3...
US tax system is based around tax events, i.e. triggers, which require a transaction to take place. Unlike other economic systems, money sitting quietly will not be taxed until it kicks off a dividend, pays interest or changes hands thereby triggering capital gains.

Outside of municipal property taxes there's currently no framework for taxing wealth. An extreme theoretical case would be a billionaire with nothing but a savings account earning 0%. Under current system, he could while away indefinitely, making small withdrawals here and there to cover the lifestyle, while generating 0% tax burden.

Which is why discussing income taxes is a red herring - at this point people generating eight-digit incomes choose to work, and have a rather nice and comfortable way out if/when they decide to "spend more time with the family".

Wealth tax is a third-rail for either party, as majority of donors on both side are wealthy, but not necessarily high-income individuals.
Online education is not new. Before the internet, you could get a college degree by taking correspondence courses. It's how my grandfather got a degree (he was too poor for college). He liked it so much he became a salesman for the online courses, and met my grandmother through selling her mechanical engineering courses. (In 1920. Yes, there were women engineers then.)
Any law that mention guns that simply counts their alleged presence is bogus. I can see if it was used in commission of a crime but not "he might of had one in the car". If you judge owning a gun = violent the you are part of the problem that sentences people like this to unjustified sentences (edit: I do not assume that is the parent poster's opinion).
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I don't understand how the migration to a monotomic clock source is treated as a trivial move. In practice, using a monotomic clocks source makes coordinating lease time records correctly even more complicated.
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Most sites that have ads are really just entertainment for me, even news. And there's lots of other entertainment.

It would be a shame if $FAVORITE were to disappear, they have great journalists, but I don't read $FAVORITE regularly, so if I never see a link for it on HN I probably won't remember it existed.

I pay for three outlets: NYT, Economist, Guardian. Nothing else in the world has seemed important enough for me to pay for it, and I won't miss them if I'm blocked.
I basically said that the concept of "giving head" had transcended a particular gendered relationship. In other words it had moved far beyond just being about a women giving head and that it was just about human sexuality at this point. I said his stance on the phrase was behind the times. It wasn't exclusionary, it was sexual and I think those are important to distinguish.

He edited my post to say I only cared about telling people they were overreacting and talking about games. I own a company in the video game industry. What do you think my Disqus history will have in it?
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I'm not so much disagreeing with what you have said, as obviously the various courts this has already been through hold a similar position on the matter, however, I would like to emphasise two points:

1) Google continue to possess _copies_ of books that they do not own. Hence my suggesting they purchase the books (i.e. I don't think that partnerships with libraries is enough). To offer the service of Google Books they must retain these copies, i.e. to allow you to read individual pages of the books.

2) Fair use usually entails the production of another copyrighted work that includes as a very small portion the existing copyrighted material. For example, a quote in a book. However, there are some instances such as for criticism or satire that allow a far greater amount of the original material to be used. But my main point is that a new work is created that is now distributable and is complete in and of itself, i.e. it does not rely on the maintenance of any source materials for its continued existence, e.g., a paper, a book, a video, a movie, a poster, a painting, a program, etc.

The copyrighted work that Google have created is entirely their own, i.e. the source code related to the Google Books service. The copyrighted material they are using is the data used by their system. I don't think it is right to argue that each time a person accesses Google Books that the transformation from data in the database to webpage output constitutes a fair use as the content output is largely just a subset of whichever book it is. There is no extra criticism, satire, or transformation added,
as you can then read the output as you would a normal book, and the entire purpose is to read the book as the author originally wrote it (albeit with some pages missing).
Gravity actually acts kind of... weird... in an infinitely large uniform universe. You end up with gravity acting like a time-dependent position-independent scaling factor on position. Leonard Susskind goes over the derivation (for Newtonian gravity) in a Cosmology lecture available on youtube [1].

1: https://youtu.be/ERjkSbdn6-4?t=53m50s
Do you have an equivalent experience of working in offices to compare with? When I worked in offices I never had a problem talking with coworkers (about work or personal life).
Nobody in this thread mentioned warrants. It appears that all the posters here care about the disclosure of their information, full stop.
this looks like it has potential, but it it will be difficult to pull eyes away from MU. good luck
Election process is fairly similar to startup process, where you come up with a bunch of ideas, see what polls well with demographics and then compile the points that have the most rapport into your "platform".

We're being tested on attitude towards the top rates, just as we were tested on free college tuition paid for by financial transaction tax, radical rise in minimum wages, gun control and a few other things. Some of those you don't hear about anymore as campaign data scientists deemed it irrelevant.
I was hoping you were a Reddit bot who's been farming /r/todayilearned for the last year.
<Do you think people who own a house should be allowed to buy a 2nd one and push first time buyers out the market?>

To say, "you can't buy a second house" seems fundamentally contrary to American tradition.

On the other hand, whether second homes should be eligible for deductibility of mortgage interest and property taxes is another question altogether (present law = yes).