skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are right and nobody cares about it, that's a good reason to remove it. If you are wrong and people care about it, maybe the poster has a point.

Nevertheless, I think there is a point in having a coarse activity indicator in order to assess how likely somebody is going to respond to issues or pull requests.
HAHAHAHhhaaahHAHAHAHA .... your are so wrong
Daily Standups That Don't Suck--With Slack
They have real every day users, but Google doesn't understand those users. Many Googlers eat at Google, play at Google, and most of their friends are other Googlers.

You'll notice Google has almost no comprehension of real people's lives. Google designers have never had to do work on a 1024x768 screen at the office.

Googlers live in a bubble where technology is perfect, which is why they seem to believe technology can solve a lot of human issues much easier than they actually can. For them, it's possible.
"Stop rewarding those who worker harder than me"
So do most databased, but they are SLOOOOOOOW.
I actually was using that yesterday. So so so so very very very very slow.
Curious as to the technology stack and if the source code is open.
I'm quite sure I have seen other attempts to generate music with RNNs recently, although I don't remember exactly anymore. You don't cite that many references to other approaches, only the one from Boulanger-Lewandowski from 2012.

I did a quick search, and I probably miss a lot, but I found these:

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5655-deep-temporal-sigmoid-belie...

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2806383

http://gitxiv.com/posts/WEoQCj8hxHz6vPxe6/gruv-algorithmic-m...
https://github.com/MattVitelli/GRUV

http://www.hexahedria.com/2015/08/03/composing-music-with-re...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10028878

I haven't really looked into any of these, so I'm not sure about the differences. But it would be good if you cite some relevant other works and point out the differences.
YouTube SnoopaVision (April fool's joke)
The reason sites do gamelike features like this is because it makes some people care and therefore participate more. Setting a metric which causes poor quality contributions or is damaging to participants is a bad thing. I'd guess a steak of 4 day weeks would be more productive.

Personally if I cared about this metric I would just set something up which held onto Friday's commits and pushed them out over the weekend.
The cheering makes sense to me. There was a pretty reasonable fear that the 3 might be too compromised to be good. See the first generation Volt for example: reasonable sized car, supposedly well built and pretty cool, but only seats four. I strongly considered buying one until I discovered that tidbit.

Considering that the $1,000 is fully refundable with no fuss, I don't think there's much need for rationalization.
I feel like this is too obvious to qualify as a good April fools joke.
Clearly you're angry, but the post you're replying to has a point. There is a tendency for countries to shed manufacturing and move into other sectors, and it's often a sign of success rather than decline.

When there's a major economic event, all of the other competing philosophies zoom out of the desert seeking followers like Small Gods. The risk is that if you get driven by your anger rather than your mind, you'll find yourself in the arms of a new bizareness, rather than something better.
Crowd Valley at the AWS Security Roadshow
People care a ton about their streaks and I have noted that before. It encourages people to not have weekends.
My wife paid $203/month for ATT service before I switched her to Cricket. Now we pay $35/month. Same phone same network...
My uncle is an engineer in Toronto, and often speaks positively of the startup scene in parts of Canada. I know Waterloo loses quite a few grads to the Bay Area and other major U.S. cities, but haven't some companies actually relocated to be closer to the scene there? I am thinking Pivotal Labs and Google off the top of my head.

I am genuinely curious on your take, since you seem to have direct knowledge. I have seen many people say things in the same vein, but also hear positive things from people in Canada and outsiders as well.
Javascript has a problem unique among all the other languages toolchains.

It's primary use is to ship to a browser. However shipping an entire string-util library because you need a string prefix function is wasteful and bad engineering. But javascript doesn't have dead code elimination anywhere in it's toolchain unless you use Closure. And that really only works well if all of your dependencies are using Closure as well.

As a result of all this javascript needs a poor mans dead code elimination at the package manager level. Including a package only includes the code you will actually use. This helps to keep your javascript code that you send to the browser small. What works for Java or C++ won't work here for the above reasons.

This isn't npm's fault, it's intrinsic to javascript the language and it's primary target platform the browser.
Show HN: BiiM – An iOS MVP for meeting people near you
If Donald Trump was a scientist
It breaks my heart but the first shots in that war were fired long ago, during the Cultural Revolution, when all humor had to be pro-"Revolutionary ".
There are none.

Moving to Canada from the USA lowers your quality of life by 50%.
If I try some time-math:

The article posted to a UK site with a byline that says "Posted 43 minutes ago". At the time of writing this comment; 43 minutes was ~2pm in the UK, give or take a few minutes.

The article also has an update on 11:50. That update either came ~2 hours before the article was posted, or 8-9 hours in the future.

So, I'm going to guess the whole article is fake.
I'd love to create a statup in a bureaucratic, third-world country. Canada sounds perfect!

(preparing for modbomb oblivion)
This event was invite-only too, Tesla just invites a different set of people. Apple only invites journalists, while Tesla invited a bunch of current owners, mostly chosen by lottery.
Platform.sh announces world’s first LDN for web applications
Installing the Docker Client CLI on 32-bit Windows
Then your comment was irrelevant, but glad we've cleared up any misunderstanding.
There is something about this that makes certain kinds of things easier to draw. And I'm not talking about isometrics. Not sure what it is...
You need leverage. That's how you improved the initial offer on signing - because there was the implicit threat you'd not sign. To get another raise you need a credible alternative gig, and to be prepared to walk. You also need to have proved your worth, so they want to keep you.
Cleverness and semantics aside, be warned that if you do "testing" that per the agreement, the developer edition "may not address known security vulnerabilities."

Seems like it'd just make more sense to expect if you're getting value from this that will transition to "production like use" on RHEL, you should plan to pay for it; either in cash, or dealing with the lack of security patches.
This technique could be applied to archive b/w photos and footage. In the same line of ideas, it's a pity that some classical music recordings are very distorted. Some have been recorded by famous players who are long dead and carry important significance.

Maybe there is a way to transform noisy recordings into ones that sound as if they were recorded in a modern studio. They could first try to emulate noise and distortions and generate a dataset of distorted recordings, then train a NN to reconstruct the original.
Reasons People Want a Mac ;)
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I had expected more due-diligence before publishing the article by HBS - sadly they have included a promising piece on Escape Dynamics without bothering to check that it has already closed down! http://escapedynamics.com/
College Admissions Shocker: Stanford's Acceptance Rate Drops To 0%
Here's a demo written in Defold. Lots of shaders! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ij7louE670
Congratulations Google, you played yourself.
Thank you very much for these links. 3) is the closest to what I'm looking for, and really good! but is still an implementation and not a spec. 1) is fine for a spec for an internet committee who has to delve into every detail for standardization. But if a client can be written in 150 lines of code, there should be a much shorter version of the spec (only a couple pages) in a standard format. I should be able to easily write a client from a 3-page spec without looking at all the implementations.

All due respect to the client authors, but only a few clients are good. Many are very poorly written, which I do not trust for security. I believe the cause is not having a clear, short, standard modern spec.
What are the reasons that lead you to believe that?

I have lived in both the US and Canada, I prefer Canada.
Show HN: Chakka – Akka, Akka.JS, typed websocket chat
The linux kernel also hotpatches itself (not just kpatch either) for performance and errata fixing. For example:

https://lwn.net/Articles/620640/

Other unix kernels do the same for much the same reasons.
5 Quick Things to Remind Yourself When Startup Failure Is Haunting You
Was this april fools joke supposed to fool anyone? Google needs to hire some copywriters with those billions...
I took a couple of minutes to chase the butterfly ...

It's featured here: https://perl6.org/

"Hi, my name is Camelia. I'm the spokesbug for Perl 6, [...]"

(image: https://perl6.org/camelia-logo.png)

and the link in the image leads to the 2009 rationale by Larry Wall: http://github.com/perl6/mu/raw/master/misc/camelia.txt

Also, some people were not amused: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1149576
If global warming was a short term problem or if this was going to continue indefinably then sure.

But, in 10 years this is the same as an extra 2,000 cars for 10 years. 2,000 * 10 * 84 = 1.7 million cars for 1 year.

Methane basically forces you to see future climate change effects today. But, it's the ever compounding release of CO2 that's the long term problem without an obvious solution.

PS: IMO diluting focus is an issue. If two things are bad there is a tendency to stop thinking a that point. Even if knowing which one is 100x worse is very important.
Google did roll this out: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/03/introducing-gmail-mic-d...
I agree that it's a largely irrelevant / frivolous feature, and if someone cares deeply about it, it's likely a sign of some deeper psychological issue.

But deeper psychological issues are real, and gamification definitely pushes a certain agenda. When that agenda (in this case "streaks" and "commits per day") isn't really serving a community, it would be sensible for the community to tweak those rules. Putting some upper bound on them (for example, no "penalty" for missing days here and there, or stopping counting at some point) makes no difference to people "who don't care about it", but may make a positive difference to those people who care too much about it.
Flask Was an April Fools Joke
Oh most certainly. But the original comment was basically a call to "hang'em high" which is what I was addressing.
Same thing regarding the downvote ;-) But seriously, it's open source. Everyone has their reasons for contributing, but if you're trying to manipulate your stats in order to satisfy some psychological issue, well then you've got an issue. Why not address it instead of trying to feed it?
That's an interesting stance on immigration.
People make the same criticisms about Scala, but many people use Scala in production. My point is that we're talking about opinion here, not fact.
Our team has remote members; having a standup where everyone gets to see each other once a day is a feature, not an annoyance.
Does that answer my question about what type of work/labour is defined as "marginal" in the OP?
The first stable version was officially released November 28, 2015.
Congratulations it's awesome to see the AMIs published.
SRED is impossible to get, and has been for several years. We make novel manufacturing plant floor technology that is sold inside and outside of Canada and seen as unique IP. Getting SRED is harder than building the technology, so we just gave up. I would gladly trade places with an American running away from Trump, to escape Liberal^2 here in Ontario. Google "Ontario Sunshine List" if you want to see our California-esque problems with government misinvestment.
I don't know if the Node.js project has the resources for this, but if they did, it would be much better if all these 10-line dependencies everybody loves to use could be included in some sort of standard library. That way they could all benefit from centralized services (e.g. security vulnerability handling process) and offer a smoother developer experience.
Personally, I use the rule of three. If it's copied three times, refactor it into some form of dependency. At that point, you should understand the use case, and should be able to create a reasonably designed API.
>So, I'm going to guess the whole article is fake.

Honestly this is the best April Fools I've seen on the internet in years because I've no idea whether the mic drop feature existed or not. The uncertainty in whether it's real owns
Why C# is not a good choice for web development?
good idea for Google's next year's April Fools joke...Not
>Efficiently run government

>Low corruption

>policies that encourage education and health

>progressive expanded rights and freedoms.

You can chose only 3.
Timbaland accused of unlicensed sampling again, this time by Cirque du Soleil
'Not fit to lead': letter attacking Xi Jinping sparks witch-hunt in Beijing
Nvidia energy drink: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx...
Ask HN: Do you have a personal copy of CV?
It seems strange to me that HRs are often asking for a personal copy of my CV when I'm sending them PDF from LinkedIn. I mean LinkedIn does a great job of formatting and aligning text, headers, links etc. My handmade variant wouldn't be so good and fancy, and I'll have to keep both in sync.

Do you have your personal CV? If you do, don't you want to automate generation of a portable version? Why don't companies like autogenerated CV's?
Short version: Google couldn't keep Reader going because it would take money to get it working on the new Google+ infrastructure that failed spectacularly.

Fun fact: Google+ also royally broke the Google contacts feature in Gmail and it still hasn't quite recovered, meaning you can't really trust it when you sync it to other things. I wound up with 2 or 3 duplicates of contacts, some linked to Google+ profiles and some not, that sometimes had invisible connections to each other. They wouldn't merge correctly. Sometimes when you deleted one of them, more than one would disappear and you'd lose everything that was in that contact. They appear to be trying to remedy with this with the new Contacts web app that's in beta.
I think its irrelevant stat. Single commit can take 1 second or several weeks of work.

And several people have cron jobs for website synchronization etc...
Hatchback? It's neither technically a hatchback, nor does it look like a hatchback.

When you open the trunk on the Model 3, none of the rear window glass opens up, the trunk hinges behind the glass. So technically, it's a sedan.

Looks wise, it's a fastback.

So to someone with typical American sensibilities, it's got the worst of both worlds: the looks of a fastback, but without the cavernous rear opening you get with a fastback or a hatchback.

Luckily, I've got more European sensibilities and much prefer the looks of hatchbacks, fastbacks and wagons to boring sedans.
Advanced face recognition wetware.
I can confirm. Two of my Chinese colleagues here were trying to pull an Aprils fools joke here in the office and they were promptly taken away by the Public Security Bureau.
https://youtu.be/6gOjRqlgk_Y
> Don't write your own data store

I wish more people had this attitude. The amount of times I have seen people re-implementing something that PhD's have been perfecting since the 70's... it's cringe worthy.
>imports from Mars (specialized, high tech manufacturing equipment) will increase

The only thing Mars can export will be Martian rocks and information.

The market for extremely expensive Martian basalt counter tops is going to be limited. The only really valuable thing they would have to export is partial g sports.
The Trouble with CloudFlare
Patch: Implement leftpad syscall
BBC mistook Dr Kai-Fu Lee (Li Kaifu in the page) for a freelance journalist, though he is/was quite outspoken at times.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
It doesn't mention test at all in the agreement, I don't know what OP's talking about. It only forbids production installations.
As someone who used to care about streaks, it only takes one small commit and it can be a small reword of a readme ;)
I know people who commit CONSTANTLY. They may not push for a while, so they can end up with a small pull request that has 100+ commits. It has nothing to do with how hard someone works, and more to do with how often they commit.

I don't care about the community aspect of it, but I worked at a corporation that did care about those graphs when they're completely meaningless. When your bonus depends on how many commits you make, why not commit once per line?
Not even Trump would make we want to work in adtech.
Try a standing desk if you can. I find that aside from tired feet I feel a lot more energetic throughout the day and no longer get and aches in my back that I used to experience when sitting
Ah, yes, it looks like you're right. Looks like it just used a generic "skin" colour and the luminosity in the photo made it look "right" for black skin.
So, -typically- (across the set of environment-risking things), the -worst case- (within one of those things) is not beyond the reach of insurance.

Right -- I think I've been making it pretty clear, though, that I was referring to high-risk industrial activities, not to average case ones.

Generally speaking, the moment you refuse to quantify the damage, it's no longer in the reach of reasonable debate. "This thing is infinitely valuable" makes for nice platitudes, but not sound policy.

I disagree; I find that qualitative reasoning can often be quite useful. Especially to avoid the pitfalls of purely quantitative reasons, which can often lead one to either-or arguments (such as you are invoking above), reduction to extremes, or other cul-de-sacs of the mind.

In particular, you'll note that I've never used the phrase "infinitely valuable" (or "infinitely bad"), and have in fact specifically eschewed it, despite your repeated attempt to assist the contrary.

All I'm referring to, basically, is the fact that some forms of damage are basically irreparable -- which is quite different from saying "the thing is infinitely valuable" (or that wrecking it is "infinitely bad"). In other words, it's a distinction of kind, rather than simply degree. And all I'm saying, policy-wise, is that industrial activities which carry a high enough risk of large-scale, irreparable environmental damage are of a different kind, such that it is no longer reasonable to believe that insurance requirements (or any threat of civil penalties against the corporate entities engaging in them) will provide adequate protection; instead they should banned outright.

Like, you know -- drunk driving.

I don't see this as an unreasonable position, not does is it (as you would seem to suggest) undermine our axiom systems to such a degree that everything becomes unknowable and all debate becomes pointless. Rather, it's just common sense, qualitative reasoning -- that's all.
It sounds like you've made quite a life adjustment. Can you tell us more about your experience?
Occasionally I'm motivated to do some work so I don't "break the chain". I try not to sweat it though.
Yes. It won't replace Python, but it's a good addition to the toolbox.

- It's high level enough you won't find yourself writing excessive (i.e. Java) amounts of boilerplate. But the corollary is that there much more boilerplate in Go than Python.

- It's fast enough to blow away Python for most network based usages.

- There's enough metaprogramming capabilities to make some really clever code. The downside is that there's enough metaprogramming capabilities to make some really clever code.

- You'll dig the distribution method of Go programs when compared to Python.
Best Moments from Tesla Model 3 Unveiling
Sorry, can't seem to submit a link: Have to do it through the comments:

https://www.ecli.ps/topics/Tesla Model 3 Unveiling
I would be surprised if that's intended, given the negative experiences with this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11404115

That said, you can already mute (or "murder" any email thread by selecting it and hitting the 'm' button: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/47787?hl=en
It was launched in Australia, presumably that time is ACT which sort of makes sense as an update while they were writing the article.
We used Sococo for that, for 3 years. Worked pretty good; supported meetings up to 30 or so with webcam and doc sharing. They're still using it; I moved on to another job. I'm going to miss Sococo.
Anyone else thought about the fact that now that they have removed this feature, they have put the "job death" sentence on those that accidentally used it and would have had a reasonable explanation to their boss?

"Look, this button is right here and I thought it was send." Now a non-technical boss will just assume that person is lying because no button is in gmail anymore. Thanks Google. Stay Classy.
thats not the argument made in the issue
This same thing works for OS X running on VMware on a Windows host. While it's not officially supported, it works and is pretty simple to get up and running.
I really like this because even if you dont like MSFT tools, you can absolutely get a taste of them without paying 69 dollars (I think the cost for a dev license before) and do things like benchmarking/etc with ease.

Now let's just hope SSMS starts receiving pull requests at some point and someone writes other db adapters for SSMS and it becomes something you can use with other engines.
Seems like this guy has had bad luck in his decisions to sell apply stuff.
Why smart people have no friends
215 miles is the starting range, and its likely that they will have battery upgrades available that increase this.
This was fun: https://i.imgur.com/rOZxLAz.png
Hm... Absolutely true for me. Mostly because my code is hosted at GitLab, and I don't usually mirror at GitHub. ;-)
Both of the pieces at the top of the article sound like off-key broken record renditions of the main refrain of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" to me. It's like the RNN cannot hold enough state to express the structure of a real musical piece and it just emits riffs here and there of main themes from its training set.

What would be somewhat impressive is if it spontaneously figured out the note sequence I hear from observing its re-expression in bits and pieces from various jigs and folk pieces in its training set, kind of like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPLp_gInC-o
A High Tech Responce to an Active Shooter
They have different membership levels:
http://www.hackerdojo.com/Membership

The $195/month is for people who use it as their office all day. If you're only there on evenings and weekends it's only $100/month.
Bayesian Linear Regression Models with PyMC3
That's correct. We (I work at Looker) are written to leverage the analytical capabilities of SQL. So we support all kinds of SQL implementations, from totally standard (PG, MySQL, MS) to MPPs (Redshift, BigQuery) to SQL-on-Hadoop (Hive, Impala, Presto, Spark).

But the JDBC -> Druid connectors that exist look pretty janky. So if someone builds a stable connector, I suspect we'd support it. But for the moment, no Druid.
Please explain yourself. If you are conflating QoL with salary then sure but I've heard stories of Canadians moving from Ontario to the Bay Area and their opinions on the move are mixed.