skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should be speaking of "a novelty device that weighs more than its mass would lead you to predict", that is to say, an object the measured weight of which does not correspond to what a different object of the same mass would weigh in the same location.

Measuring the force of gravitation between two objects definitely doesn't measure the mass of those objects without resorting to weight; the weight is the quantity you're measuring. Similarly, the fact that the center of gravity for a two-objects-attached-by-a-string system will lie closer to the massier object relies on the massier object also being heavier. If the massier object weighs less, why do you believe the center of gravity would still be closer to it?

> I understand 'weight' as how heavy something is within particular gravity field (ie on a bathroom scale on earth) whereas mass is independent of local gravity. The schemes I suggest measure mass without resort to weight.

Yes, those are the definitions of weight and mass. We can measure weight directly, because it's a force and we have tools to measure those. All of our methods of determining the mass of something, as far as I know, rely on the assumption that if you know the gravitational field at a point, all objects with the same mass would, if located at that point, have the same weight. The most common method of determining an object's mass involves measuring the gravitational attraction between the object and the earth (colloquially known as the object's "weight"), and then imputing a mass to it based on that weight.

In the spinning example, I could say that two objects attached by a string and set spinning around each other will spin around a point that balances the torque from each object (this might not be, strictly speaking, correct, but it's close enough that I think it's suggestive). But torque is defined by force, not mass -- if one of the objects gets heavier without becoming massier, that should draw the center of rotation closer to that object, shouldn't it?

Or phrased yet another way: if one of the two attached objects is heavier than it "should be" according to its "true mass", then the two-objects-and-a-string system will have the center of mass and the center of gravity in different places. Those terms are currently synonymous, but if we had a novelty object such as undersuit described they would be distinct. Is there any reason to believe that the two-objects-and-a-string system would, if spinning, rotate around the center of mass rather than the center of gravity?
Your values page is interesting, though the quotes may be a bit excessive. If you don't mind my drive-by critique, I would suggest listing those quotes at the end of each one as a kind of an "alternate telling."

For the "empathy" value:

> Oftentimes, this means acknowledging weaknesses and having difficult conversations. Feedback should come from a place of love and respect, under the assumption that everyone has acted with the best of intentions.

May I ask how this differs from the management consulting practice called "front-stabbing"?

And for the "Don't Always Be Right":

> We recognize that experimentation is crucial to innovation. We will not accepts “it works” as good enough.

Being right may be orthogonal to taking risks + building a legendary product. Perhaps a better wording would be "Don't settle for just right"
Top 1% of income earners pay 50% of all federal income taxes collected.

What would you consider a "fair" share of the top 1%'s wealth?
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The 'basic' cost of living for everyone is more or less the same. It's a proportionally larger share of your income if you have less money. $250K is a high wage relative to the cost of living in the US today.
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Nothing's being transacted besides public information, so it's not that bad.
I am particularly amused by the thick line between "Proofreaders and Copy Markers" and "Dispensing Opticians".
Mostly it's about letting folks know we're paying attention. I'm not in a community function at all (I'm a developer turned salesperson -- I just happen to be a long-time HN user and thought I'd mention that this stuff isn't falling on deaf ears). A challenge is that we get thousands of feature requests all over the board; and no matter what we do, we'll miss something that people want. That doesn't mean it's not coming, it may just mean that it's not ready (although to be fair, we are pretty unlikely to ever build everything people want). It's useful to us to see this feedback (truly), and I just wanted to mention that we see it. A quick glance at Pulse for the main GitHub repository shows that there have been over 200 Pull Requests merged (and shipped) and over 50 issues closed just in the past 7 days -- these are things that somebody somewhere wanted, even if it's not everything that's on one specific person's list. That's just in one repository -- there are similarly active repos with a similar number of ships in the past week.

Can we be better? Absolutely, yes. This is the most "care hard" company I've ever worked at, and we really want to do things to the best of our abilities. I know this doesn't help you if there's something you've asked for, or something you legitimately _need_ and don't have yet; what I hope will help is knowing that these requests aren't being ignored.
So I was specifically referring to startups. The question/issue I was answering was "Doesn't SV seem just a bit too... incestuous at this point. There's a whole wide world of people and businesses that could benefit from software."
Why do you assume that an economic gain would automatically be added to someone's salary? Salary is based on supply and demand, not the value you create.

That's why an assembly worker building a $20K Ford makes about the same as one building a $100K SUV.
It'd be hitting Firebase, not HN.
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If I'm reading the source article correctly (linked below by Perixoog), it sounds like change was so subtle that the participants themselves weren't even aware of it:

"Participants were unaware of this manipulation"

"We chose to manipulate sensorimotor variability so that participants were unaware of the fact that there was any change in the task"

[1] http://www.cell.com/cms/attachment/2045379445/2056784269/mmc...

So not only are the tasks similar, but they're so similar that participants weren't consciously aware that they were doing something different. Wacky

They also mention that "participants strengthened skill through the re-exploration of sensorimotor space."

I wonder how large an exploration of the sensorimotor space could be while generalizing/improving the original skill. (re batting and kendo). No idea, but interesting article either way
Priceonomics?
Yellen: Negative rates not 'off the table'
Dating apps favour the top 20% of men, and the top 50% of women. The data says as much. I do think there is a 'cliff' where the amount of responses you get drop at a certain point - whether from height, income level, whatever. In real life it's much more nuanced than that because people sort themselves out gradually and not as much from limited statistics or even just visuals.

The issue for men (and to a lesser extent, women) at the bottom of that cliff is that online dating has the possibility to demoralise the person into not doing actual physical dating. I do think we are entering a period where a significant chunk of the population is going to finish life having never had a real life partner.
What discussion do you hope to provoke here?
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It is funny how the issue is about low quality issue tracking and then it instantly gets spammed by garbage. Good on them.
10 to the minus 19! It's mind boggling. Semiconductor process nodes constantly boggle my mind, and yet they sit at a cool 10 to the minus 9. These vibrations are smaller relative to a CPU transistor than a CPU transistor is to me.
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management wants to be able to see everyones screen as they walk by

Jesus! Are you serious? Do they have a good reason or is it literally to keep an eye on everyone to make sure they are working?

If it's the latter, I'd suggest looking for a new job.

Whenever I take a "brain rest" at work, I'm surfing the net and often it's Hacker News. My boss (and her boss) have often walked in, looked at the screen and asked me if I'm reading something interesting.

My company's culture is basically "get your work done, otherwise I don't care how you spend you time".
Either every individual who used the script, or the entity that created or promulgated it, is held culpable/liable. When an employer is tacitly encouraging employees to ignore a legal requirement, and the employees are happily doing so, there's plenty of blame to go around.
See this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/39yj8y/why...

>The code is a mess - Most code is written by grad students, it's often sloppy scripts that are duck taped together to get the numbers and graphs needed for the paper. I know some students who essentially have to rebuild things from scratch if they need to expand on what they did for their thesis. Releasing this type of code is embarrassing to the dept, advisor, and student.

>Don't want to support it - Even with disclaimers, there'll inevitably be someone who downloads the code, and emails asking for help/support. Depending on the quality of the code some may even claim that your results are false because they couldn't get it running on their application. I'm all for peer review and agree that code should be available, and further i know that the scenario is probably a rare occurrence, but still some would rather not publish it to avoid it entirely.

>Simply don't know where or how - granted i'm in the engineering school (not cs) so milage may vary, but you'd be surprised how many students i've talked to that just don't know much about github or repositories (even svn).

> There's no incentive - students are already overworked, what benefits do they gain from publishing their code? It helps academic research, yes. But most just want to finish their phd and move on to the next thing, anything else just takes time away from them accomplishing that goal.

>Funding conflicts - part of the code i use was developed by another student who was funded by a particular grant where a deliverable was required at the end. Thus, anything i release cannot include that code, which inevitably breaks the rest. I do not know the particulars of the grant or why it is not allowed to be released, this is just the response i receive when i ask to put my code online.
Welcome to how I perceive most of the rest of everyone. What weird fear-drugs are they even on?
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I'm not very in touch with device drivers, but I suspect 'supporting classes of device drivers' vs 'a framework for all device drivers' is at the heart of the disagreement on frameworks here.
I really want to like this but it could do with a better summary explanation of how it works. I'm not sure I can understand the security properties of this without reading the 70 page whitepaper.

The whitepaper also mentions it is built on a commercial database but it doesn't mention which one on the website, that sounds like important information.
Most of this was known to the likes of Diogenes, Rufus, Epictetus, and Aurelius. All that is required to have a good guess at this at least is close observation of our fellows.
GitHub really needs a per-project StackOverflow. Probably half the issues are just people who need to ask a question of subject matter experts or are confused by something.
We're getting beyond my depth here, but a few things occur to me. First, I know microwaves `work'; the optimal frequency at which water exhibits the skin effect is about 10GHz, so at 2.45GHz the energy from a microwave oven penetrates meat effectively instead of only frying the surface, as one would expect if the skin effect dominated. Also, I suspect the skin effect could actually cause internal burns; an internal organ that exhibits a strong skin effect at some frequency will cause localized heating on its surface, burning tissue internally.
Containers in Dev vs. Prod
> I believe that an employer should make a substantial margin on an employee's labor. That provides a stable situation, covers for the employer's risk (if an employee's project/work fails to create value, they still get paid), and covers the overhead.

A workers' cooperative can do the same job. What justifies the privatization of the cooperative's profits to a single individual?
The Tantalizing Quest for Gravity Waves (1981)
Impermanence and Change Are Part of Life: What Travelling Has Taught Me
Whaaa...? "Nothing wrong with getting you killed -- it opens a partner for someone else who was single. The net effect is the same average amount of coupling." Do you even see individual humans anymore?
>I've got a better idea. Keep the vacation and cut work hours down to 40.

Pff, more like we should go to 35hrs with mandatory _paid_ overtime and also _increase_ vacation to 6 weeks.

And also demand reparations for all the stolen time. (Real pay hasn't increased since 1970.)

After that we can talk about taking it further.
Airbnb Purged New York Listings to Create a Rosier Portrait
Well then prepare to stand corrected.

Inside a charged black hole there is a second horizon. Beyond this point the black hole is gravitationally repulsive. http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/rn.html
That was over a thousand years ago. And it even proves my point that people in the past did try to preserve things.
How Effective Leaders Move Beyond Blame
Create a Basic Loader with JavaScript Promises
Take up dancing?
JavaScript Developers: The New Kings of Software
Ask HN: What are your favorite hiring quotes?
Here's a great list I put on GitHub, feel free to fork: https://gist.github.com/montanaflynn/d648f0be98909e2d9571
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We do SSL and content inspection of uploads to unexcepted sites to prevent this sort of thing where I work.
https://huboard.com/ is another one. Haven't used it but I know it used the Github API as well.
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a lot of the subject of this article - "why do some children from awful backgrounds succeed and why do others fail?" is still a very open problem.
Each of those major verticals supports software/technology companies. I'm sure Exxon has a whole ecosystem of smaller companies hanging from it that are all extremely sophisticated from a technology standpoint. There are probably any number of disrupting technological innovations waiting to happen in those industries that have virtually no SV presence.

When people talk about the insular nature of SV they are usually referring to the echo chamber it creates. To those of us on the outside looking in, it seems like SV is more interested in "a social network for X" or "Uber for Y" than branching out to those other major industries.
We do! I'm in the middle of adding the schemas API to parse-server, without which the dashboard won't work.
>most of the work we as software developers does not need long hours but deep focus.

Most of the demands for long hours in the software business come down to the fact that no one wants to be the one to _organize_ things.

Instead of planning our work so the team knows what they are building, we go in two weeks sprints to build half baked solutions to ill posed problems.

Then we fight fires in production at all hours and feel like big heroes for cleaning up messes that could have been avoided.
I have a techno song on my computer that I downloaded at least 5 years ago, I think maybe 2009? I remember downloading the song when I was trying to pirate a copy of Fruity Loops Studio.

I recently came back upon it and couldn't find it on the internet, so I uploaded it to YouTube for posterity [0].

It's amazing that in something so massive like the internet, a single mp3 file can be almost lost forever. It really shows how important sites like archive.org are.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1phpSqAjgY
Thanks, that's pretty useful. Next time I'm doing image analysis I'll have try applying a sigmoid transformation in fourier space. Never realized it was this straightforward!

BTW, perhaps it'd be handy to list prior art if it's really a redundant patent.
Quick fix: set the type= of the email box to "email". This makes it easier on mobile.
The 52 hours is meant to be spent exploring inside of an LMS (Learning Management System). You aren't simply reading a manual, but rather going through lessons, taking quizzes on them, working through different scenarios, etc. It's supposed to be an interactive process where you're familiarizing yourself with the information, learning to identify how to handle different situations, learning what "gotchas" to watch out for, and generally reinforcing your recall of the rules and regulations around the industry.

The LMS has the actual license exam locked until you've clocked 52 hours inside of it, so the macro just ran out that timer until the broker could get directly to the exam. Scraping by an 80% on that license exam (especially with all of your colleagues around that have taken it already) is ridiculously easy.

Insurance companies are sticklers for technicalities and love to deny claims, so as a consumer I'd consider the 52 hours / 6.5 work days worth of required training to be an absolute necessity for an insurance broker.

Disclaimer: My current company got our insurance royally screwed up in the short period of time we used Zenefits thanks to their corner cutting, so I'm a bit jaded.
keep going until income distribution looks more like log(x)+3 instead of x^e
Sean Carroll on the detection of gravitational waves
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Ask the founder of Airbnb... guessing the answer is still no.
Agreed. The book has gotta be worth $20: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319155234
Newest Bug in iOS lets you download any App for free
Where in sokoloff's answer did they specify that the margin went to an individual? I interpret "employer" to mean the employing company, composed of many individuals who, like sokoloff, also want stability.
At my university, a publicly accessible file on the university systems listed addresses, phone numbers, and names for all students, not just those of a particular department. Leaking the same information in an email would have been superfluous. Are those supposed to be secret?
If you subscribe to the belief that we're basically a bacterial mat of about 37 trillion [1] cells, each extremely large and complex on its own - it's not too large a jump to interpret the eye as being a 1 billion cell "bacterial sub-mat" that does primitive image capture to support the overall bacterial mat.

[1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-372-trill...
"The enemy of my enemy is my food."

I love this restatement of RPS.
It's a trade-off. Having to manually look for replies means that people are less likely to end up in back-and-forths defending their honor on the internet.

I'd say most comments don't warrant a response. Everyone shared their thoughts, here are some different opinions, we move on.
The Epic Story of Maximum Likelihood
Yup! And hosting the Node server on Heroku/MongoLab should be a reasonable solution, especially if the open source community takes this and runs with it.
Nice. I feel like there's a relation to[1], but it's not obvious to me how to apply it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11078635
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These are the kind of things that make me wish for ubiquitous micropayments. In the right space, you could ask for 0.000000001 BTC or whatever a comically trivial amount would be. Something large enough to cause friction, but small enough to not generate entitlement.

ZenHub and auto-closing bots both seem like fine present-state improvements to me.
English used to allow 'they' to be singular (Shakespeare used this). Some people are coming back to it as acceptable as it's easier than the other solutions.
Ok. Why should the company be subject to nonworker ownership and exploitation?
Storyboards should have been multi-file from day one. Even if I didn't have issues with revision control, etc. I don't like the idea of a single corruptible file format encompassing the whole universe (all it takes is for Xcode to one day decide it can't open the file, and you lose everything?). This single-file risk happens with other GUI environments too (e.g. in Qt Designer it is quite easy to jam a lot of stuff into a single interface file; you have to go to extra effort to logically separate things into different frame classes or something so that they can live in different files).
If you don't personally know entrepreneurs you'd like to back, you could check out Funder's Club [0] or AngelList [1].

[0]: https://fundersclub.com/
[1]: https://angel.co/
I'm assuming that the same rules apply as do in straight RF detection. A signal becomes a decent signal at 6db above noise and gets exponentially better every 6db above that. Something 20db above noise is rock solid reliable.
Same can be said about children from good backgrounds. What makes Donald Trump's kids 'successful'? I know some extremely privileged people in the early 20s that could do anything, are very attractive, have no worries but live a life of complete chaos. I know others who were smart and super wealthy, but stumbled and couldn't recover emotionally/mentally.

I personally think it has a lot to do with stoicism and those who look for solutions vs those who just try to cope.
Yeah, since percentages can be highly misleading once the base size drops close to zero.
Just to add, you might not benefit from the lower income tax in Singapore when migrating from the US due to the Double Tax Agreements between Singapore and US (i.e. you'd have to pay for the tax difference between the Singapore and US tax).
I have been on both sides of the fence.

I had continuous allergy problems without knowing it for a large part of my life. Among the effects were a minor depression.

When I got rid of the allergies I had a bit of an identity conflict, I wasn't the one I thought. My humour and world view weren't as dark, I liked people more. It is a strange to adjust your self image so much after 40.
Here are some presentations explain the technology:
http://www.slideshare.net/apachegeode
I remember reading a bit on how the kernel stores the hosts list, but I stopped before finding how it scales. All I remember is that it seemed like a linear list. If it was a trie it would be alright.
What's your definition of "older people?" If you're talking about above 35, yes, they do. However Tinder charges them twice as much for "Tinder Plus." And the landscape is definitely different. From what I've seen in my area, it's as people are just thinking that it's another version of ChristianMingle. Definitely not a "hookup app" for them. And a lot of users are just using it to cast a wider net too, which isn't surprising.
Writhem is still around. After Grooveshark, they moved to plug.dj, which then got shut down.

Now a couple of them are developing their own solution. I sorta stopped following them after a while, but you've reminded me to check their progress.