skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just find a volunteer" is the canned non-solution people roll out whetnever they are unsatisfied with work they've been given for free.

"Find a volunteer" is a useless suggestion to make to a volunteer organization.
Yes, this is correct.
This is an incredibly sarcastic and immature robot.
Corruption is a very natural and logical consequence of socialism.
Safe-guarding ikura in Rails
I'm not looking at the moment, and not in SF, but having a minimum vacation policy and working on software for governments is impressive to me. Kudos.
I think that's less true than Picasso - "Inspiration exists, but it has to catch you working". Or indeed Palmer - "The more I practice, the luckier I get". It's important to be flexible and open to serendipity - but it's all too easy to use that as an excuse to avoid putting in any effort.
This is silly. Rust could not achieve its performance and safety goals without macros and generics. Generics may have been optional for Go (I don't agree, but let's go with it), but there is no way to achieve zero-cost memory safety without generics (while supporting first-class references and dynamic allocation).

Rust generics are deliberately less expressive than C++ templates, in that they're strongly typed. That's why we get so many complaints from C++ and D developers that you can't do certain things. But Rust sticks with its strongly-typed generics, because Rust has always tried hard to strike a balance between code expressivity and maintainability.

This is a terrible example if you want to prove that point, anyway. This 6502 assembler is obviously a total abuse of the system, and nobody will deploy it to production. It's a neat hack, and that's all. Nobody would use an obfuscated quine written in Go to argue that Go is unreadable. This is exactly analogous.

Finally, Diesel is just an ORM. It uses exactly enough features to be an ORM; the only "problem" with it is that it's an ORM.
Founder of Yii PHP Framework Qiang Xue Now Writing Golang Packages
As someone who routinely has more work than they can finish in an 8-hour work day, the headline and article strike me as tone-deaf and victim blaming. It's simply not possible to solve the overwork problem entirely by 'good habits' alone. When you do a good job digging ditches, often your reward is a bigger shovel. When you do well, somehow more work finds it's way to your desk. I don't think you can always be finding ways to optimize when your workload is constantly expanding. Sometimes you have to get up early and stay up late to finish a project.
Thx @Dan, confirmed this via the email.
er, I didn't attack anyone, nor did I imply anything about "sufficient compensation". I said "some upside".
My taxes are inflated so rich can pay a lower percentage than I do or even just skim off the government. Beyond that, my Rent and healthcare costs are ridiculously inflated, but you can find a lot of padding in other areas.

FYI even just at the federal level things are effed up. 33.9% of taxes collected are payroll taxes, but social security caps at ~120k. Hint it's just a tax, you can receive benifits without ever working and millions on disability are simply pulled off welfare rolls.
Ethical Will
I used Opera as my daily browser for years, up to the 12.x release. It was my little "browser that could" vs the big guys. Chrome was gaining huge ground but I kept with Opera as sort of the underdog and knowing the Presto engine was just as good at the time.

Then the switch to it being a skinned Chrome. That was tough for me to swallow as it always was on the back of my mind. I still gave it random tries for days at a time as the new blink/chrome skin, but a discovery had turned me off for good.

Over a year ago, I noticed outgoing traffic to 1-2 IP's in addition to the URL I was visiting. Turns out it was to Opera's malware scanning and to Akamai. Opera and Akamai had info on every web page you visit and there was NO way to turn this off. You can turn this off in Chrome simply in the settings, but Opera purposely spent time removing that ability from Chromium. By-default URL/malware scanning is probably a good thing for the masses, but I did not need it and also felt it was a privacy violation being it was also involving Akamai.

I raised this issue up SEVERAL times with Opera through the desktop blog comments as well as survey's with them. To this day I don't think they even acknowledged the posts I made and just ignored the issue. I recall, I think, one Opera employee saying they will look into it for future versions, but every new release I saw nothing.

Before the switch off Presto, Opera would quickly work on resolving bug comments as well as community feedback. I felt the major difference once it went to being Google's b&tch (even making it very difficult for some time in changing off of Google as default search from address bar), that Opera no longer became a browser for the fans and somewhat of the underdog you could cheer for to a cold, commercial sellout. On their own path adding features no one asked/wanted yet several times reverting them back. Much energy spent on throwing stuff out to see what sticks with Speed Dial, theme, bookmarks, but nothing at all in bringing back the features and customization that made Opera 12.x great.

This latest news though is the FINAL straw for me being sold to shady Chinese companies with KNOWN attachment to malware and tracking in whatever they put out. I already had issues with the URL scanning mentioned above and having my info sent to Opera servers was one thing. I will not even let Chinese Opera touch my PC going forward. Opera is good as dead and I will not even look at it anymore.

RIP Opera: 2/11/2016

FF is our last hope in a browser that still worries about privacy to an extent and is still pretty customizable. For daily use I will use Edge and FF equally.
I wish I could buy everything from Bandcamp. I feel like I'm the only one who thinks FLAC is important. I may not be renewing Spotify, so I'm back to using my (very limited, where is my SD card Google?) local storage, therefore I'm going to be transcoding my collection to ~85 kilobit Opus which seems to be acceptable quality for listening to while out of the house.
Einstein wasn't sure at first. It was Feynman who introduced the thought experiment that settled the debate in the physics community:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bead_argument
http://www.cell.com/cms/attachment/2045379445/2056784269/mmc...
> We should see this as some inconsistency in how gravity scales with the mass of a black hole.

This inconsistency is a part of general relativity (even though gravitons themselves aren't). A black hole does not follow the GM/r^2 gravity law.

> If they are massive, and therefore subject to slowing, shouldn't gravity waves leaving a black hole be subject to some sort of doppler effect? Should we be looking for red/blueshifts in these waves?

Yes, there is a doppler effect.

> If gravitrons have mass and are subject to gravity, what brings that gravity? What sub-gravitron particle regulates gravity going in/to/out of the gravitron? This would require a new set of particles be created by non-gravitron massive objects (ie black holes) alongside the gravitrons. Like I said, too strange to exist.

Gravitons. Every now and then a pair of gravitons may exchange more gravitons (these are also virtual particles, so it's fine). This is why Feynman diagrams exist, so that you can not only calculate the interaction between two particles through a graviton, but also calculate the contribution of the lower-probability situations where more gravitons magically appear to transmit gravity between gravitons.

This is nothing new. Gluons (the carrier for the color/strong force) do basically the same thing. They are also bound by the force they carry, and thus gluons can interact with each other with more gluons.

Because these are virtual particles and only exist as a probability, this doesn't lead to infinite recursion. The secondary gravitons are improbable, and the tertiary gravitons more so, and so on, and the final series converges.
Network Virtualization Is VMware's Next Frontier
Weird nobody mentioned here the excellent threads on this topic here https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/458ppo/ligo_makes_... and here https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/458vhd/gravitat...
Who should be allowed to brighten your teeth?
You have confused scale of corruption, definition of corruption with something that you think is wrong.

I remember we had to bribe a local fair price to get sugar and better quality rice. Those days are over long back.

Also I don't see private company managers favoring people from their state of region as a corruption. It all depends on company's internal policies and whether they can run profitably under those cases or not.
That zero-G OK Go video taking over Facebook isn't on YouTube
Notably, the bit.ly link directs you to Facebook.

Nice play, FB Video team.
why was this downvoted?
I don't think that's true.

http://www.downloads.reactivemicro.com/Public/Users/David_Cr...

Code is straight from the Red Book listings. Search for ROR - accumulator (shown explicitly), indexed, you name it. 4 modes each.
Bugzilla is a little too unfriendly, the search can be a pain so its hard to know sometimes whether you're submtting a dupe.

And of course even with the best of intentions, most issues raised will still be NotBugs or other time wasters. (I'm guilty of that myself, just yesterday I reported what I thought was a bug in Firefox but turned out to be chrome and IE not implementing the spec and us using their incorrrect behaviour).
I'm probably alone in this opinion but I think the OSS community should be patient and supportive of the organization that has supported our OSS projects all along.

From an outsider perspective, it looks like they're preoccupied with putting out fires.

The flat organizational structure, absent strong leadership, has allowed some bad actors to manipulate there way into positions of power/influence within the organization. The CEO and driving force of the organization from its outset has been ejected after making the mistake of fraternizing with his employees. The new CEO lacks the leadership and strong personality required to take up the reigns with the current structure. A culture that was established to be inclusive is being leveraged by a malicious outspoken minority to achieve the opposite; which is causing a lot of backlash internally and externally. The public perception of the company is in free fall. Most, if not all of these issues present a legal and/or financial threat to the future of the company.

In short, GitHub's open and informal culture has become a liability.

It takes an established record of misbehavior to legally justify firing bad employees. Especially, those who will use their 'protected' status and public support to attack GitHub after being fired. I'd be willing to bet that their lack of organizational structure has left them without justification/protection and they're scrambling to make up for it.

To protect their investment, the wise thing to do would be to build some management hierarchy; which they're doing by pulling in all of the leadership from remote positions. They need to shield the current CEO from any more mishaps. They'll follow by establishing a record of poor performance for the outspoken assholes. Eventually, when they've established sufficient justification they'll eject the toxic individuals from the organization.

GitHub will emerge a mature and stable but less friendly/open organization. Hopefully, this doesn't negatively impact GitHub's willingness to support OSS.

"Do they actually want all those large open source projects to leave?"

Absolutely not. To ensure GitHub has a future, they have to fix the present.

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What we may be witnessing is the hastening recovery of an organization that experienced a systematic failure.

They'll survive... Not before shedding some blood.
To Annoy or Not to Annoy: That Was the Question
I am purely just curious, but could you provide some specific examples of poor UI/UX in Sportify?
That's public information anyway. I'm more interested in what happens with the list of email addresses.
California Department of Justice Agrees to Stop Skirting Open Meeting Rules
Reminds me of mint.com. I used to work at Venmo and they tried to integrate with us, but then without even reaching out to us they decided they couldn't because of the 2fa on our web login. We had a documented developer API but they seemed to never even consider using it.
The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.1
There are a few tasks/requirements at issue here, 1) the legal requirement that the individuals be sufficiently trained, which then requires 2) the legal requirement that training be provided. If the individual in (1) is "phoning it in" by avoiding watching the provided video, it could also be that the individuals who are providing the training are "phoning it in" by considering a video to be sufficiently fulfilling the requirement for providing training.

As is the case with a lot of these kinds of things, one ends up without any value after taking the training compared to where they were before taking the training. If this is the case, the training is meaningless. The only way to asses the value of the training is through some kind of testing as part of or after the training occurs. This is like requiring attendance of driving school for traffic violations. It is very rarely the case that anyone in driving school actually didn't know the law, but rather they were skirting it and ended up getting caught. They are only in driving school to satisfy the requirements of getting the limits on their driving lifted (being licensed or being able to get cheaper insurance). The driving school ends up being a burden because it takes time, and doesn't necessarily end up making anyone a better driver (although, you could use the lack of further infractions as the metric that the training was successful, but there's a lot of other influences here).

If both the trainer and the trainee are phoning it in, does it matter? If the trainer is phoning it in, is the trainee really doing anything worse by also phoning it in? If the trainer fails at their job because they are providing pomp and circumstance, we end up at the same place we were without doing any training at all, even if the trainees do make a concerted effort to be trained. That is, the trainee could bust their butt watching this video, but in the end, no one has actually been trained.

This isn't meant to get the trainees off the hook for phoning it in, but let's call a rose an rose and acknowledge that there might not actually be much value in 52 hours of video watching.
It's a converging series; instead of getting a clumping you may get a slight mass increase. These new gravitons that modulate gravity between existing gravitons are not 100% there, so they do not contribute that much.
Currencies can be redeemable. Until 1968 if you held US dollars you could take them to the treasury and trade them for silver coins (or bullion, post 1934). That gives you the benefits of precious metals without the hassle.
Ask HN: When am I allowed to use other company logos in my product?
Say I have a page that says "choose a service" and the user must choose which service they wish to connect to. Can I use the Google & Microsoft logos there?
One would think so. I'm not an expert in this area, but from the descriptions it seems like they would have at least two options for finding the source direction:

One is to compare the arrival time at each of the detectors and infer direction from the speed-of-light delay.

Another option is to measure the difference in relative strength between each of the detectors. I'm assuming the detectors aren't uniformly sensitive; perhaps they're most sensitive to waves travelling in a direction parallel to one arm of the detector and perpendicular to the other, and completely insensitive to waves that are perpendicular to both (i.e. it would affect them both the same and cancel out, or perhaps not affect either of them at all). With multiple detectors at right angles to each other, you can get a pretty good idea which way it came from.

Combining the two methods could give you greater accuracy, and also help to rule out spurious signals that are not gravity waves.

This makes me wonder what you would see if you had a sufficiently accurate directional gravity wave detector and let it run for a long time. Sooner or later, you'd get an actual image, like a telescope.
I've performed solo as an amateur musician exactly once (to an audience of about 100), and spoken publicly exactly once (to an audience of similar size). Admittedly a decade separates these two events, but when I performed as a musician (violist, playing a piece I had very thoroughly memorized and mastered when I played by myself or with my instructor) I did absolutely terribly, the anxiety ruined my performance.

In my mind, I performed like someone who had just picked up the instrument when in fact I had been playing for 10 years. The reality is of course a bit different, but that's the perception of the performance I remember, and I definitely did not perform the piece anywhere near as well as I had when practicing.

The public speaking twelve years later, which I had never done before (short of a couple of roles in school theatre), went great. I had minimal anxiety and I honestly thoroughly enjoyed the experience. This happened at General Assembly, back when they had both a for-profit educational system and a coworking space in NYC (and the company I work for was working out of there). One of their employees asked me to give a presentation of our product as the final presentation of a demo day they were having for one of their immersive web development classes.

I guess I just had impostor syndrome as a violist performing solo (had no problems in the orchestra, though obviously violists don't get much exposure in most orchestral works - not all though!), and didn't as a professional web developer with ~8 years of experience following presentations of people who literally had 10 or so weeks of experience, even though I'd never really spoken publicly before and my presentation was _entirely_ ad libbed; they literally asked me to present about an hour before the demo day presentations started.

I'm very curious if I'd be able to handle the public speaking as well as I did if I had to follow people who I perceived to be my peers and betters, but I've not yet had an opportunity to test the hypothesis; when I performed on the viola, the people who went before me I viewed as better musicians than myself, and I have no way of knowing if that was what set my performance anxiety off until I put myself in a situation where I feel like I'm not as good as the people who are performing with me.
"image detection" isn't a thing. Unless they mean finding subcomponents of images which are themselves images. Which they don't.
Also, many parts of the tax act have grey areas where even the CRA/IRS is unsure. You can call the CRA/IRS several times and get different opinions on a situation depending upon which agent you talk to.
IPFS proposes a distributed solution to link-rot and long-term storage solution

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5...
Not to say Sacks shouldn't be responsible but, to my understanding, all of these issues being reported on are coming out of the sales org (which is what Parker primarily focused on) where as Sacks primary focus as COO was on post sales customer success (product, ops, support, etc.)
Could such a device be used to increase the reaction mass of your fuel when it exits your engine? A sort of way to cheat F=MA by artificially boosting M, but only after you are in orbit?
Yes users have to be trained and you need guys who's sole job is issue triage.
Well it is trained on Reddit comments. What do you expect...
These provided the first way to get trucks and tanks across in quantity. The temporary harbors were destroyed in a storm, but by then enough soldiers and gear were in France to capture a real harbor at Cherbourg.

Not quite right - only one was destroyed. The other was damaged, but used for the better part of a year and brought in millions of tons of supplies. A good part of the Aromanche harbour is still there. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour

It's not an understatement to say the logistics aspects of D Day were masterful, as was the disinformation campaign (Operation Bodyguard).
The DaVinci is cool, but you get 10 uses out of each arm then you have to toss it... At a few grand a pop it's not cheap. I have two and am working on 'hacking' the usb interface, but they've epoxyed over the chips.
Facebook confirms pulling the plug on Free Basics in India
Sadly, there are plenty of people in the world who are great at memorising but are actually horrible at applying their knowledge. While such degrees can be impressive achievements, it says very little about a person. I've met brilliant high school graduates and plain stupid people with phds. A lot of it depends on the person.
Herein lies the business model magic that hopefully give us an edge.

We work with local builders, providing the fully designed/engineered packages, with ALL materials needed to build that specific high performance home.

You are right, trying to do this in a fully centralized and detached from community is not workable. We think our take leverages the strengths of both parties and allows us to do this much more broadly.

Regarding technical challenges, we engineer our SIPS shells for seismic by default and can accommodate most snow loads (Tahoe project in the works). HOA's are a PITA no doubt, but urban infill is possible and green field is always going on regardless.

From floor down is all local and must be adapted, so not so turn key there But hey, can't have everything.

Gotta run, but like your approach. Maybe more later.
Dear Mr Ed Bott

For your information, HTTP(S) can be used to send data, not only to receive it. See this weird stuff called POST, which is actually part of the HTTP protocol, is used mainly to send data to the server.

So we can't discard all these HTTP connections as non-tracking.
Read the classics in the original, with automated subtitles
That is one very, very length announcement post. Very TLDR. :(
No they haven't proven Einstein right, they've failed to prove him wrong; that distinction is the essence of science. Theories are never proven right, they can only be proven wrong.
Animats had a very important point. While magic is so attractive and perhaps even useful in moderation, it causes so much damage in a large code base.

In C++, you get this damage from for example operator overload abuse (ok for math, not many other defensible uses), template abuse (ok in moderation), ninja exceptions and inheritance (especially multiple inheritance, ugh).

Anyways, if Rust proves to be a feasible workhorse building medium/large systems with bigger teams, it does sound interesting to me. Especially catching concurrency issues at compile time.

I just hope it won't ever become another C++.
No ORG, no deal. I can't use this in production unless it supports ORG.
I have read that after his graduation from West Point in 1944, Lt. John Eisenhower got to visit with his father. On one of the beaches, watching the dense motor and foot traffic, Lt. Eisenhower said, "You couldn't do this if you didn't have air supremacy." Gen. Eisenhower snorted and said "I wouldn't be here if I didn't have air supremacy."
You know that optical illusion where you can't tell whether you're looking at a cube from the top or the bottom, so your brain keeps flipping back and forth between them? This code is like that for me, but flipping between Perl and C.