skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get better transcriptions and better search results if you give your search backend a probability-weighted list of possible transcriptions and let it combine that with what it thinks you might be trying to search for given the context it has for you.
>Surely I had earned an extra margarita.

You can stop reading right there, that's the problem. You have to both eat well and exercise to lose weight. You don't get to eat extra things just because you exercised.

Focus on two things: First, portion control. I know it's wasteful for the environment but I get the single serving versions of (healthy) things (e.g. pre-sliced cheese, single cups of greek yogurt instead of the big tub, etc) so you know exactly how much you're eating. Get a kitchen scale and some measuring cups for everything else, the odds are excellent that you're a crappy estimator. And bring your lunch to work.

Second, blocking out time in your day for exercise, even if you don't work that hard. It's important to put on your workout clothes and at least go through the motions until it's an ingrained habit (1-3 months in my case but ymmv). Once it's an ingrained habit it's much easier to keep going. I start to feel gross and unclean if I go more than three or four days without some kind of strenuous exercise.

It's a lot of work and it's very difficult, but it's not complicated. With these two things I have lost 70 pounds and kept it off for seven years.
I know, right?

:)
I think where a lot of technical people get fleeced in compensation discussions is they let themselves get into a 1:1 personal discussion where they feel compelled to agree on the spot. Most business deals are worked out at a distance once the in person meetings are out of the way.

Treat this the same way you might go over a lease for office space. Let them make the initial offer (they have much better data about market rate and what they are willing to pay, you don't and may box yourself into a lowball position). Then take some time to figure out if it works, and take the comp discussion offline.

Keep the negotiation about compensation in writing. There are a million ways for an experienced negotiator to manipulate you in a live conversation. Break things down (salary, PTO, equity, 401k match, telework, other hard benefits), and figure out where they'll budge. And remember, it's not about being greedy, you'll be locking in your pay for 1-2 years, and you're doing your job of negotiating a good deal for you and your family. If someone doesn't respect that, that's a big red flag right there.
I'm sorry, I'm really not clear on what you're trying to say here. Do you disagree with the #1/#2 breakdown I presented? That's totally fine. But I don't think it's any less productive than the discussion about whether "infosec has a jerk problem".
If I were cross-pond translating I'd probably swap in "nutty" for "barmy"
Documenting the Chilling Effects of NSA Surveillance
One shouldn't expect HN commenters to be well educated in the fields of economics and finance.

They are, after all, complex fields that take degrees and years of study and this is largely a tech forum. You don't see economists jumping onto stack overflow and yelling about how wrong this or that piece of code is, but somehow the reverse occurs with mind-boggling frequency.
They were obviously not impressed that he missed a day of work, one of many. I'm not surprised they let him go.
The author refers to Napster as a "pirate site." I stopped reading at that point because I realized the technical info in the document is likely to be incorrect.
>Someone considering that they deserve the same as someone else for doing and easier job is a kind of entitlement. I'd like to see someone justify that.

I'd like to see someone provide a reason why anyone would pick the "harder" jobs if they were paid the same.

If I could choose between a job digging and filling holes all day or a job where all I do is play video games - I'm not sure many holes would be dug. Extend this to hundreds of "easy" jobs and hundreds of "hard" jobs and it makes one wonder how many jobs requiring physical or repetitive labor wouldn't exist.
Agree. Tolls (assuming they means the same thing as tariffs) can also create the critical mass necessary for commuter bus lines to work, thereby allowing people to spend only a little more than they do now on commuting but get there faster since the roads are cleared. (The per person effective toll would be lower on a bus, even if they are charged by size.)

But they would have to be much higher than in most proposals, and they should be much lower or non-existence during hours when they're not choked despite the zero price.
No more secrets 1992: A tool set to recreate decrypting text effect
> Why do people invent these strange terms?

Same reason we talk about a "for loop" or a "while loop", instead of just a "conditional branch". Different words add different context to the concept that they're based on. For example, "modular arithmetic" doesn't include the context of checking for undesired leaks in Rust's arithmetic implementation. "Unchecked arithmetic" does.
> any of the mirror sites uploaded all 50M papers as a torrent

yes... but their bandwidth (seeding) is atrocious. Send help.
My understanding is that OnHub routers are managed through a mobile app via Google's cloud. If Google end-of-lifed that service, owners would have no way to manage their routers.
Hm. It could be both. And probably the 'cowboys' we've all experienced are not all brilliant. It doesn't take brilliance to torpedo a team.

And I suggest that 3X a small team may be less than 10X the one person. Maybe a better team is one that supports a brilliant developer, making a deliverable out of their prototype. That's another way to manage it.
It's seems pretty obvious to me that pigs and cows have feelings and are somewhat intelligent, so I'm reluctant to eat those. But I'm really wondering about dumb animals like chickens, fish and insects. Do they have feelings? Does a chicken or a fish suffer when imprisoned?
Agree with this. The resolution the author reveals at the end, that simply playing with the cat more reduced anxiety behavior, almost makes me think that it wasn't that the cat was anxious, just that the cat was under stimulated and acted out to use up excess energy.
Sherbit
Same here.. Long string of custom built routers, pfsense with wifi, OpenWRT, etc... even at one point a very expensive Cisco industrial-class 2.4/5 AP.

Now I have an Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite as my "core" router, and the OnHub acting as just-an-AP in bridge mode. It Just Works, and works better than any piece of wireless gear I've had before.

My only "complaint" would be that I'm forced to use a mobile app for configuration - although in the OnHub subreddit, it was said a while back that a basic web UI was in development.
Have you ever measured combined power usage of your two devices?
On the other hand, quarterly profits.
Somewhat uncannily, I am currently in Switzerland (from the UK), working on a project to install a 13PB object store for the Montreux Jazz archives (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040853).

Last night, we had a meal out in Lausanne with our hosts and when walking back to the car, we saw a small animal dash across the road. Our hosts, in French, described this 'animal who eat cables', and we ended up translating this into 'ferret'. Maybe our 'ferret' was on his or her way to/from the scene of the crime.

Regrettably I cannot give a description that will aid in its capture for interview.

PS: We completed the initialisation of the object store today (Friday 29th April) and will be testing with the customer on Monday for handover on Weds. We started work within one hour of flying to site last Saturday (I have two colleagues over from the USA) and we worked some 8am-11pm days to make it happen. We are knackered!
I believe AWS uses the Github API to determine when projects compromise their (or their users) AWS credentials and takes steps to (i.e. revokes credentials) mitigate disaster. Perhaps Slack needs to start doing the same for their bots?
I know knowledge is power and the plan you linked is probably good advice, but for my personality type I don't think that would've worked. It's simply too much work :).

During the first month I did 5 min of stretching and then 20 min of jogging in one shot for the day. Every 3 days I would try to add 5 min. Sometimes I could, sometimes I had to back off and try a few days later. After a month I got to 45 min. I then did only 30 seconds of stretching before the jog. I did't think I needed it anymore (probably should have).

As I understand it the first 20 min of jogging doesn't really help you lose much weight, it's every minute after, for the session, that really burns fat.

As for miles walked, this was 14 years ago I didn't think or care about miles walked.

Probably not helping you, but that was my experience.
Yes, toll is the better word. For a system with dynamic pricing, once you have a critical mass of vehicles with some sort of system to notify the drivers, you can even set the toll experimentally.
No, at it's most basic level I mean a spy or insider threat.

In the NGO contexts that I have seen that usually means someone who legitimately is works in an organisation but turns for the standard reasons. (More effective, faster and cheaper for an adversary that way)

To a slightly lessor extent, that means someone from the outside who has been placed on the inside. (Less effective, longer and more expensive for an adversary that way).

Sometimes both of these scenarios also include digital aspects, like stealing a USB drive or something but not always.

Before you ask, why do people do it in an NGO environment - fairly similar reasons as elsewhere (though I tend to order them differently based on experience):

US Method of Counter-Intelligence:

-Money

-Ideology

-Compromise or Coercion

-Ego or Extortion

or these days:

-Reciprocation

-Authority

-Scarcity

-Commitment

-Consistency

-Liking

-Social Proof

A good read for more info here:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
20 years ago, most people assumed that MP3 file sharing would never take us to a place where you can pay a company $9.99/month for unlimited streaming of a huge portion of published music. Surely, the Industry would never allow that to happen!

Yet, it did. I'm told that the journals will never allow themselves to become antiquated and that they play a vital role in the review process. I'm seeing this being chipped away at slowly, and have to wonder if soon that small movement will accelerate greatly.
Even if it works? I mean sure, in a perfect world. But the advice was to job-seekers in the current world. Thus, 'reality check'.

We can spell out the right and wrong way things should be run all day long. Not useful unless you're in a position to change them. For the rest of us, good advice is to adapt.
>How do you justify 150k salary in US vs 25k salary in India ? Different costs of living ? Yes and no. In many poor countries some stuff is just more expensive than in the richer ones.

What people are willing to work for.

If nobody in India was willing to do the job for $25k annual salary - they would need to be offered more to do the job. Flat out, that simple. It turns out that there are many people willing to do the job for the lower pay - because it beats other options available to them.

On the other side of the coin - fewer people would take the job in the U.S if it wasn't $150k/yr salary. They'd walk to another offer that they feel is worth their time because the offer doesn't beat other options available to them.
That's the paradox of security.

You can be a security superstar, or a total idiot, and you may achieve the same result!
That is exactly the nutrition advice that has been promoted in various government and school health programs for decades: eat what you like, just do X amount of exercise and you'll be fine. Calories in, calories out.

The article goes into some detail about this, mentioning that a great deal of that research was funded by companies that make sugary drinks and other high-calorie food.
I guess this (switching from Torch to other deep learning libraries) will become a trend as deep learning have become more mainstream in tech companies. I say Facebook, Twitter and others who use Torch (I don't know of any others actually), will move away from torch gradually. Unless the Torch community steps its game up.
Yea, I remember getting stuck in a huge traffic jam and feeling dumb for driving on 66 at rush hour. Until, I remembered it was Saturday. In northern VA traffic is often bad at from around 5AM to 10PM. But, we can have traffic jams at any time day or night 7 days a week.

Granted, bad night time traffic is often aided by construction. But, that does not help when your parked on a freeway at 3AM.
> Add that to the fact that he was "fired" initially because he didn't show up for work

That is his claim.

We don't know what else was going on and due to confidentiality rules, we're unlikely to hear anything from Pillar.

Based on his reaction on Facebook, Medium, and in these comments, I'd wager they had other concerns.
Exercise makes your face and overall aesthetics look better even if you don't lose weight.
If you wanna feel something rare, find a win98 box on a pentium 2/3 and run turbo pascal IDE. Enjoy the paradoxical bliss.

ps: TURBO.EXE amounts to a whopping 600KB.
I'd take that any day over the insecure, circa 1999 web UI on my Asus router.
Dyson: The company that spent $71M and four years on a hair dryer
Even bigger than VPS is storage, which is the closest thing you will get to a commodity/drop in replacement in the cloud.

It was recently reported that Apple was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on S3 (before they switched). I think it's safe to assume that a couple of billion dollars of AWS revenue is cheap commodity storage.... which has low switching costs.
Of course a healthy dose of exercise is not harmful and the article reiterates this point many times. However, it also says that exercising may make your body more efficient, which lowers the overall energy that's used to keep us alive, which in turn may "hurt", to a certain extent, the weight loss rate.

When I was running regularly, I could see my heart rate go down day after day when I measured it right after I woke up.

Don't exercise to lose weight. Exercise to keep healthy. If you want to lose weight, you need to keep an eye on your calorie intake more than you keep an eye on the calories you burn. Not everybody can perform a 2000-calorie workout in one go.
Microsoft is using synthetic DNA to store data
Absolutely true. MQTT exists, as does CoAP and AMQP. There's also simple JSON blobs that can be emitted under an API. None of these things are hard...

... But they do free you from the company. And these days, ball-and-chaining you to their servers is the big "In" thing to do.

Now for me, I'm a big fan of Node-Red. It's best described as a IFTTT for your machine/network. Runs locally, and just works. I also use PageNodes, a client-only modification of Node-Red. You can use it here:

http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSCrZUPkqH4gsncsD7tGXPiFpymsbwmywsHXLDh...

(It's an IPFS link, and is on the permanent web. That link will always work as long as machines are hosting it.)

EDIT: Really? Multiple -1's for a valid criticism of "companies want you locked in to their network"? We just got done with Google killing off a whole platform because of extensive tie-in to 'cloud servers'. I'm just giving a converse answer how to approach the problem.
On the topic of Sea Monkeys, did anyone ever buy that submarine in the back of comics where the Sea Monkeys were sold? I couldn't sleep as a kid wishing I had the $5 to buy that submarine and take it to the lake.
Keras is the best framework out there.
I have two sites I wrote in Go that have hand coded templates. I am thinking about moving more in this direction. I have gotten a bit frustrated with WordPress lately as I cannot get the level of control I would prefer to have.
Because then you have to slow down to open a new gap.

And then once you do some other genius pulls into the space.

Repeat for entirety of journey.
Doctor Ready to Perform First Human Head Transplant
You shouldn't even want to accelerate immediately at the same rate as the car in front of you, unless you're very optimistic about 1) having instant reflexes on the brake pedal even though your foot is currently on the gas pedal, and 2) your car's stopping distance being exactly the same as every other vehicle.

Having a time delay on your acceleration means that your following distance will increase as speed does, which is the safe behavior. I've had plenty of times when I thought "woo, we're accelerating, it's the end of the traffic jam!" and then had to hit the brakes when we came around a turn into more traffic. Traffic might be reduced if we all rode everyone's bumper all time time and accelerated as a single unit, but that doesn't mean we can actually do that without tons of collisions.
Not a particular surprising move. Microsoft's CPC for Bing has be going up quarter over quarter and Google's has been going down. Presumably at some point they meet in the middle. But as Bing's have gotten high enough to pay the freight sending more traffic there is all upside for Microsoft.

The reasoning is a bit flimsy though, if you consider Cortana as simply a "hands free typing device" its kind of like restricting your special snowflake keyboard to only your apps.

But with Amazon owning the cloud computing dollars, Facebook consuming a bigger and bigger serving of the Internet Advertising pie, Netflix and Amazon being the place where video streaming makes money, I would expect Google has to feel a bit backed into a corner, and its competitors feeling a bit like they have a way to weaken it further. It feels like another "big shift" in terms of players in the market space.
The main thing I get from reading this is that the author thinks very highly of themselves.. Perhaps a bit too much, which is why they seemed surprised when they got fired for not showing up.

I sympathize with the sleep apnea bit, though - that can turn your life into living hell unless it's properly treated. Mine almost killed me - I did a writeup that's archived at http://weblog.mrbill.net/archives/2014/01/13/falling-in-love...
Why Intel Waited Until 2016 to Launch Broadwell-EP
Bezos is a much more accomplished business man -

Tesla has ~3,000 employees

SpaceX has ~5,000

Solar City has ~13,000

PayPal has ~13,000

Total: 34,000 as they stand today which is a very generous measure since it's years after Musk left PayPal and he doesn't even work at Solar City afaik.

Amazon has ~222,000 employees, roughly 8x larger than all of those companies combined, not even counting Blue Origin, WaPo, or w/e else Bezos owns, and they did $107,000,000,000 revenue last year, slightly more than all of Musk's companies' combined value.

http://www.geekwire.com/2015/huge-growth-amazon-reaches-2224...
I feel like asking "what kind of updates" is too vague a question to reasonably answer.

Yes, updating any software adds some risk of something breaking. This is not unique to OnHub. This is still a pretty nice feature for most people.
Yeah, we had that at one of my previous employer. Some guy was really a 20x dev. But he did it at "all costs". That meant working from home, not attending meetings, not answering emails, ignoring the PMs, not mentoring junior devs, not explaining how he did stuff, etc.

Now, we all hate a lot of the above stuff, and many companies handle these things better than others, but it did mean the only reason he was "20x" was because he didn't do 90% of the stuff that was expected of everyone else.

Maybe the company culture needed to change, but until it did, everyone else looked really bad compared to him, even though they were essentially spending their time trying to deal with his crap without help.
That's the question we're trying to answer now. We've been maintaining Capistrano with effectively zero data about our users since the project's inception.

HN always has very extreme, and usually very negative reactions to any kind of tracking, integration, promotion, analytics, etc - and rightly so, with governments and corporations eroding our privacy at every step, we have to be on guard.

That said, this isn't some coup to drive Capistrano into the hearts of it's victims, it's an experiment to see how to approach people and whether sitting on the front page of hacker news is a net benefit or a net loss.

My gut feeling is that the reaction has been fair. The thread title is unfortunately misleading because of OPs miscomprehension of the message displayed, and I don't know how to reach the mods to request it be reviewed.

> Maybe it is better to find other ways of reaching potential users than with a message during cap install.

Almost certainly, we have to experiment a little bit and see where the threshold lay.

I'm glad you're getting value out of Capistrano, I hope it can continue, and that Cap will improve at a faster rate once we better understand how people use it and optimize for those cases.

Might I ask, how do you find the new default formatter?
In theory, the new "instant run" feature addresses some of the "clean, build, deploy, run" pain.

http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/instant-run

In practice, what I've seen so far is that sometimes I'm not sure what is being "instantly run" -- my latest code change or something older. Still trying to gain confidence in that feature (or just not use it because I don't understand what it's deploying all the time).
Is the compensation competitive? I've gotten the general impression that sometimes hiring is more broken than other parts of the company, and that the more competitive positions can sometimes have more frustrating interviews.
Wow. Haha. No. That's not at all related. If people buy drugs online, I thought it was best to advise them to test them first. Harm reduction and all that.

A lot of people die from bad mixed up shit, and if they knew there was a way to be sure what they were taking, is in fact what they think they're taking, then I think it's wise to let them know about that.
Selling and Marketing yourself or something you want to succeed. Its something all of us have to do, whether it be to get a new job, or convince someone to signup for your startup project. Seth Godin has a few great books in this subject area. I only mention this as I just happen to finish listening to one of his audio books last week.
Sorry no figures just I know someone that works i a court here in the UK and said there are regularly people in on child abuse imagery/video charges, they are usually some boring guy that no one cares about so they don't make the press.
ES6, ES7, and beyond
everything in the article is true because they use technical terms, when you consider the overall effect of exercise and the overall goal of 'weight loss' being body fat reduction and improved fitness, exercise is an excellent way to achieve that
see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/elon-musks-s...
Of course you're going to meet resistance as the new guy telling everyone else how messed up a project is.

When starting at a company never try to change anything about it within the first several months of working there. Learn what they do. Emulate what they do.

After you've reached a trusted status then you can start suggesting improvements.

Don't be that guy.