skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've stopped listening because now they have two classes of users: multi-million dollar enterprise contracts, and everyone else. I guarantee you that they're very responsive to the "users" in the former class.

And really, I don't think there's a good solution to this problem: almost all SaaS businesses are built on the premise that all the free users who join in the beginning are a loss-leader on the path to acquiring the enterprise contracts. Even bootstrapped companies are not immune. The pool of non-enterprise users just can't support engineers' salaries on their own.

The only real way to avoid the eventuality of a SaaS service focusing its resources on its enterprise customers, is to just avoid using SaaS services. Maybe use FOSS projects like Gitlab instead.

Though, even then, the people who build themselves up as experts on that FOSS project will—with nearly the same inevitability—be hired as employees by some company that wants to sell support contracts for that FOSS project to enterprises. I work at such a company; we're just as enterprise-focused as anyone else, and we've basically sucked our FOSS ecosystem dry of developers who would be heavy user-focused contributors, redirecting their attention (via their salaries) to the enterprise needs.

So, really, I'm not sure if there's any viable solution for most projects. Some projects, with enough reach, can thrive off having multiple competing corporate sponsors—that's when you see committees like WHATWG or Khronos forming, so all the corporate contributors with conflicting enterprise needs can tug at one-another. But nearly nothing has that level of reach.
(None of my points below say the graviton is massless, just that it's not crazy. As another post says, this new observation probably confines the graviton mass to be less than 10^-55 grams)

> If the massive gravitron was leaving a black hole it would be slowed by the black hole's gravity.

A graviton wouldn't be able to escape a black hole. A photon can't, and it's massless. The gravity of a black hole is actually a self-sustaining effect of the curvature of the spacetime around the black hole.

> (1) We should see this as some inconsistency in how gravity scales with the mass of a black hole. The larger ones would have proportionately greater 'drag' on leaving gravitrons.

We don't know details of the gravitational field around black holes and the mass that created it, because none have been observed close up. To an extent, the mass of a black hole is defined by its gravity.

> (2) 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?

Again, photons are massless and subject to the doppler effect. Gravitons, massless or not, will be too.

> (3) 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.

Force carying particles can interact with themselves, c.f. gluons in QCD. In fact, GR is a non-linear theory so there will be non-linear interactions (as far as you can describe them in the weak limit).
Interviewing Jared Leto at AngelConf 3:30 PST, what should I ask him?
Hey guys,

I'll be interviewing Jared Leto at 3:30pm at the AngelConf in LA. What should I ask him (about investing)? Also I'll be covering the event via Snapchat, follow me username: justinkan for some exclusive content!
> he makes a lot of points that GitHub is particularly awful at, specifically things that aren't very relevant to enterprises (who pay their bills) and therefore aren't priorities for GitHub.

As someone who has managed teams at such enterprises that have used GitHub (and pay handsomely for it), I can confess that it is indeed an enterprise problem too. Everywhere I've worked with a team of > 10 people is paying for something other than GitHub to track issues because this solution is unworkable.
The science behind breaking bad habits
They're used to be in front of the camera, so it became natural for them. Seeing someone not comfortable, wouldn't freak them out, again because they're at ease.

It was actually not really good and I hope this guy will either get used to these "public" speakings or find a way to "get control" of the situation.
Zenefits Program Let Insurance Brokers Fake a Mandatory Training Course
OKGO – Upside down and inside out FAQ
In all honesty I do think Einstein is getting too much credit today. I'd paste the list of co-authors here to congratulate them but HN doesn't allow comments that large. The list is available here for reference, and I think every one of them deserves credit for this.

http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102

On another note, I feel like the importance of this finding is less in proving Einstein's theory; having taken a formal relativity class and an degree in Physics, I think GR itself is an astounding mathematical framework for describing spacetime, to which Einstein deserves credit, but the existence of gravitational waves is completely natural consequence of the equations within. It's not very different from the existence of light being a natural consequence of Maxwell's equations.

I'd say the true importance of this discovery is in successfully creating an experimental apparatus to detect what was previously almost universally agreed to probably exist but thought to be nearly impossible to detect. What's truly exciting isn't proving Einstein right, but the possibilities of what we'll be able to to detect with this apparatus in the future. So it's the team that built the apparatus which truly deserves the credit today.
Ask HN: How to secure a website?
So I'm new to deploying apps to production, I'm curious of everything I need to do to make a website secure. As of now, I only know to setup SSL, I imagine there is more beyond that.
Then you should have concentrated on theoretical physics instead of experimental?
I really disagree with the argument about heatmaps. It's hardly difficult to convert a matrix into into a long dataframe that can be used with ggplot. Literally one more word.

ggplot(melt(matrix), aes(x = Var1, y = Var2, fill = value)) + geom_raster()
> All other taxpayers in the state that will have to cover the amount this entity would have paid.

Then 49 other states with no such factory but tons of leftover cash will win big time and laugh at Nevada with its stupid battery factory employing people who buy houses and pay property taxes, shop at local stores generating sales taxes, attracting suppliers (with their own employees) who rent out office and industrial properties, generating taxable business activity.
"Dark Matter" is an unfortunate name, since it sounds like regular matter that is not adequately lit.

In reality, it's something we have no idea what it is, except that it's not visible and a big source of gravity.
I prefer QGIS and PostGIS. Sorry.
Very cool. As a Rust newbie I'd like to understand what's going on here. Is this a "procedural" macro? Does Rust specifically target writing DSLs using its macro system? Can we expect macros like this to continue working for a long time? There's a blog post that suggests possible changes: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/the-future-of-syntax-exten...
I know plenty of people who want to port everything to JavaScript. When you ask "Why?" they don't know. That's an ideology.
"Does marrying someone with less education mean “marrying down” economically? Not necessarily. When we look at the newlywed women who married someone with less education, we find that a majority of these women actually “married up.” In 2012, only 39% of newlywed women who married a spouse with less education out-earned their husband, and a majority of them (58%) made less than their husband."
Current Biology - Motor Skills Are Strengthened through
Reconsolidation

12 page pdf:
http://www.cell.com/cms/attachment/2045379445/2056784269/mmc...
In my experience, hosting code/issues off of GitHub reduces triage time maintenance burden by reducing the number of contributors.
Oy. I don't see any reason to abandon your account. Nothing I said was intended to make you feel awful, make you feel you should delete anything and so on. I have made the same mistakes in the past and I am still working on trying to learn to effectively communicate online. The lack of voice tone, facial expression etc ad nauseum makes Internet discussions especially challenging. I get wildly misinterpreted in an ugly way on a regular basis. I absolutely have no plans to abandon any accounts over it.

If you learned something from the exchange and are more careful in the future, that's as good as it gets. Lots of people keep making the same mistakes over and over, never getting any better. As long as you learn from your mistakes -- so you can go make all new mistakes -- you are fine.
I found them very effective. But I don't ask people to pay, I ask for feedback. If the software is good, they'll want to use it anyway!

People are willing to help if you are equally open about what the software can and cannot do. I implemented several features straight out of what people said they wanted through email, and the product was noticeably better for it.

I've also had people not respond at all or react strangely.
Yes, AI Can Be Profitable
Yes, I've read both the full comment thread in the OP and the dear-github letter.

GitHub adding those features would be a huge boon for teams like this. And honestly, it may be that switching to a different system is the best move for this team. If their motivation is "we need features which GitHub has been unwilling or unable to provide", that's a great reason to move.

But, as I quoted, they also say that they want to move to another system because it will put up artificial walls and isolate them from the people that are currently inundating them with issues. I think that's a bad reason to move. Both because I think it will be ineffective, and because I think it represents bad faith towards their users and community.
What is "Pls"?

Linus also delegates to his kernel "lieutenants" to scale Linux development.
Argentine and Brazilian Doctors Suspect Mosquito Insecticide as Microcephaly Cause
They chose to use tax money to support one business over the existing businesses in the state. If it requires tax breaks to foster businesses than perhaps they need to work on the whole system and not pick a specific business.
That ... is ... f*ing ... ugly to look at.
Lobbying and political contributions are two different things.

Funding is important, as we've seen with the Sanders' campaign, but grassroots efforts equally (if not more) so.

I think funding is the smaller of the problem: unions, labor, regular people need better tools to organize and hold their representatives (either government or union) accountable.

EDIT: If you're looking for a problem to solve, help build these better tools. Help people be represented!
Don't drill the message that she's "not gifted" into her. Drill the message that she works hard into her.
At no point in the war was the Luftwaffe capable of (a) clearing the English Channel for such an invasion and (b) keeping the channel clear for reinforcements. It might have been possible to get an initial landing party on the shores of England, but reinforcing them would have been extraordinarily difficult.

The Luftwaffe would have been harassed not only by surface ships with rather formidable anti-aircraft systems, but also by the RAF which they continuously failed to knock out of the war.

Let's also not forget that Germany possessed no vessels truly capable of taking an invasion force across the Channel to begin with.
I agree. I just don't know the correct word. In German we have "Tastschreiben" (touch typing), "Blindschreiben" (blind writing) and "10-Finger-Tastschreiben" (yes this is a word, 10 finger touch typing).
Have you read a modest proposal by J Swift. Satire at its best! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Yeah from the viewer's perspective it wasn't the kind of clip I was expecting!! The clip is absolutely fine (I mean that it wasn't tens of seconds of dead air or something someone would notice who is barely paying attention) - if I hadn't been paying THAT much attention after glancing through the write-up I wouldn't even describe it as awkward. they handled it really well, first probing him with leading questions and then when he explicitly broke character and said "I'm losing it", saying it's no problem and moving on. Unless someone is paying extreme amounts of attention they never would notice anything odd about that clip, just something they got through, the slightest of hiccups. Yes, anyone paying attention will notice what happened, but it's not a disaster from a programming perspective at all. it wouldn't get shared on youtube with the title "awkward interview!!" the way newscaster blooper reels get shared. (You can search for that.)

But after glancing through the write-up this does give you an amazing insight into just how much CONTROL over a narrative and an interview like this the newscasters have. it will certainly give me more insight the next time I observe what seems to be the slightest of hiccups.
I don't just base graphics because making a simple legend is a PITA, when every other plotting library seems to handle it fairly easily.
Build a cheap IoT sensor that sends data to back end for persistence and monitoring
BuzzFeed reporters are saying on Twitter they this incident is the root cause for the weird firing. (And implied by Sacks' letter)

> That was how executives discovered the Macro program, which Conrad had created based on a belief that 52 hours was too long to spend in training, the lawyer for Sacks said.

That's literally a joke you'd see on Silicon Valley.
Take a look at one of their recent patent application. A cursory look shows that it's a "computer system" for transferring money to someone who does not have a bank account. I'm not an expert in claim analysis, but looks obvious.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
Overworked?

Everyone is overworked. We live in a post scarcity industrial world, or very very close to it, and bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.

How much of the entire economy is predicated on grey money? How much of your time is indirectly consumed by this leviathan?

The more I think about it, the more i want to opt out of the entire fucking thing.
I've long been a proponent for hackers to "disrupt" labor by reinventing unions. (And call them guilds, because hey it's a name that works on multiple levels).

On the subject of dues being required to pay for full-time guild leaders as brought up in the sibling comments, that makes sense. But could it be supplemented by crowdfunding and alternate pay models, instead of mandating a set price? Tiered membership? Freemium guilds? Free 2 Protest?

On a less semi-satirical level about startups, hackers already voluntarily contribute willingly to non-profit endeavors, namely open source projects, and sometimes causes such as Wikipedia/Wikimedia, the Internet Archive, even tech-related lobbying like the EFF, etc. Surely some could put that same spirit of voluntarism towards supporting their labor class.
Monster guide to learning front-end and UX
A supreme court justice is there to do a job, not insert her own corrosive worldview into precedent.
People still use untyped languages for some things, but for the rest I don't think so? I mean if you have virtual functions then you can effectively implement (inefficient) tagged unions, and every language I've seen used on the web has a reasonable syntax for basic values.
We've all been there Dr. Habib.

> I waited there for about twenty-five minutes, absent-mindedly scanning old newspapers while watching the goings-on about the office and repeating what I wanted to say about the North Korean rocket launch over and over in my head.

As someone who is also an introvert struggling to pass as an extrovert at many times (though thankfully not on live TV, thank god), I can offer a little trick that helps to prevent these situations: practice out loud.

It's simple, but effective. When you encounter one of these "freezes" your natural instinctive response is to fall back on what you've practiced -- physically, not mentally. And what you actually practiced, Dr. Habib, is mutely thumbing through newspapers.

What I do when I have a big speech or talk is find some quiet room beforehand and actually practice my speech or talking points out laud, until I have them basically memorized. Then I throw out the notes and give an extemporaneous talk. It always goes different than planned, but when I get stuck my mouth automatically goes to start forming the phrases I had practiced and I get back on track. I get complements and people are super surprised to find out that I'm actually introverted and dread public speaking...
I'm going with the theory that black holes ARE gravitons themselves.
A typo (now fixed).
It was debug builds, which put an additional strain on the linker in that they keep around all the debug symbols. Regular builds were slow but manageable, so it's not like we couldn't release or develop, but it meant tracking down any sort of crash or serious bug became very difficult until we got the dependencies under control.

I forget the exact compiler settings - wasn't my department - but I think it included link-time optimization, and also FDO.
A number of OEMs are pursuing internal initiatives to simplify the buying process so you only have to go to the dealership to sign the paperwork and pick up your car. However, most of those are a good year out and I'm sure the dealerships will still try to extract additional money from customers however they can since that's how their business model works.

It's nice to see that the market isn't waiting around and is building legitimate alternatives to the traditional process.
Another great bit of ancient graffiti are runes carved by some Vikings sheltering inside the ~4800 year old tomb of Maeshowe on Orkney:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeshowe

"He is a viking...come here under the barrow"

http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/maeshrunes.htm
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I want to go to the dealership. A new car is something I am going to live with for many years. I don't throw away working machines easily. So I want to look at the real object prior to purchase. I want to see the materials in the interior. I want to see how many screws are between me and the parts I will one day replace. I want to look at the jacking procedure (ie do you have to climb under the car or not). I want to see how the colour will look in actual sunlight (ie not on a screen). None of that can be done properly through a website. We might hate them, but visiting a dealer to look at physical object has its place.

One big thing that isn't ever in the reviews: How many buttons do you have to push to get in/out of the thing? Getting me and my dog out of the new BMWs takes like 10 different steps.

And one more: I want to see multiple cars of the same basic model to look for consistent build quality. A reliable car will be from a factory where every product is identical (Honda) rather than hand-build shed cars (TVR and anything british).
They mention nowhere that they'll somehow end up with less bugs if they leave GitHub

Thing is that is exactly what will happen. The whole "low barrier for contribution" called out in that thread recurrently, equates to "low barrier for logging an issue anytime you have a code problem". People with show stopping bugs will find a way to log an issue.

Making stackoverflow the path of least resistance for everyone else will ony serve to make everyone's lives easier.
Shouldn't states be able to compete among themselves, in a free market fashion, in order to attract business development that is likely to pay huge dividends over the long term?

Of course they should but I believe his objection is the sweetheart deal for one company.

For example, if Nevada wants to compete with Arizona, it should lower its tax rate. It shouldn't be able to keep the tax rate high and offer a deal to one company that eliminates taxes for them and for them alone.

It provides one company with an unfair advantage over any potential competitors.
Yes. Though I often times claim Spanaway, since I attended Spanaway Elem, Spanaway Jr High, and Spanaway Lake Highschools.
In my experience, the interest of one or both of the parties in meeting drops quickly to ~0 if you wait any longer than 1- 2 weeks after starting messaging to arrange to meet.
GitLab seems like what they need based on all of their wants. I'm not sure why more people aren't wanting to move over to gitlab, it's great.
>>I think American youth has developed a sense of entitlement and no clue about rest of the world, that is why people like Bernie are getting such support.

As an Indian, who has experience working in the U.S.A here are statistics for you. Close to 50% in US pay taxes(Almost everybody working is paying taxes), in India close to 3% are paying taxes.

I can't even imagine the level of chaos, resentment and strife that will follow any attempt by the government to bring more people into the tax base. I have relatives and friends with small businesses and shops, who don't pay a rupee in taxes, nor do they think they need to or have any responsibility to pay. I know almost any body in that position(Nearly all of India) does the same. But every one thinks, they are entitled to development. They are entitled to roads, highways, airports, energy infrastructure, irrigation infrastructure, defence and what not; all for free.

I'm not least bit surprised US citizens who pay that much taxes, expecting things in return. Not to say that they don't get a good deal already.

But if I were to paying up 50% of my income to bail out bankers I would probably be equally pissed.
The standard RN schedule is 12-hr shifts, but 3 days on and 4 off.. So they work 36-hours per week. Often times they can build their own schedules, so they can work something like, Th - F - S - S - M - W then have a week off without PTO. On-Call is typically voluntary, but typically pays very well past 36-hrs per week.

My wife's a nurse and it's an amazing schedule if you like to travel. Especially in California since they are actually well compensated for their time, and can afford to do so.

Your mileage may vary by state though, we came to California from Michigan where they treated nurses like shit and it was extremely dangerous for patients too (1 ICU nurse taking care of upwards 5 or 6 critically ill patients etc.) but the schedule was pretty much the same.
Well, a creative abuse of the language. Programmer humor.
Writing yet another map implementation is not solving any problems.

People get so bizarrely bent out of shape over npm dependency quantity rather than ease of use.
Many 1st semester students want to get involved and can't code yet. And I know they'd jump at this.