skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I can tell, this seems to reduce the cognitive load of a search session way more than using Google (for certain use cases).

The advantages are: fewer clicks/taps, session state is saved on the page and suggestions reduce typing. They seem like minor things but make a huge difference in practice when you are trying to decide between a few options.

That being said, curious to see if the team can get handle the limitations of machine learning and maintain the quality of search as it scales.
Wow! Do you know of anything more written about it? I can't seem to find any information.
I once built something like this for Redis but never really thought he would do it!

https://github.com/spullara/redis/tree/plugins
Uber says that 20% of its rides globally are now on Uber Pool
I've been thinking about this myself. I've been looking at doing some typescript stuff as I can share code between back and front-end still (and I'm moving into doing some IoT stuff in JS). I'd consider Elm if I could run it everywhere, but it feels to me like at the moment it is browser focused.
Basically, people are still free to post whatever they want and their friends and families will still see it -- they were just restricting their "Trending" section to non-conservative news sources. So their freedom of expression was upheld but FB just wouldn't amplify certain sources.
Mathworld has broader scope and a tighter license (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/about/faq.html#copyright)
Agree with Patrick on your next steps. So go do that.

My breakdown of the reasons to terminate:

1. New employee did not follow broadly understood/legal courtship protocol with female colleague. [e.g.: On tinder/okcupid/etc., you can try your luck with "DTF?" or "You're a lovely MILF." Doing the same with a work colleague (regardless of whether on the clock or not) is broadly accepted to be harassment. Why? Because the parties are both colleagues who have to work together. On okcupid, a recipient of "DTF?" can immediately block the sender. Not so easy to do a colleague. Our legal system protects workers from harassment. "MILF" isn't just a query about going out for coffee. It is a GOTO jump over many protocol stages without ACKs from recipient.

2. New employee is either ignorant of work-based courtship protocol, new employee actively chose to disregard it, or perhaps new employee was drunk during the exchange. It doesn't really matter. Either way, the guy does not meet the standards to work in a professionally run company.

3. By so flagrantly violating a commonly understood protocol [workplace courtship] very early in his employment, the guy is demonstrating to his boss that he is not worthy of trust and responsibility. Terminate him.

As for those few of you who think the guy should be given a break, this is corporate worker bee 101 stuff. Sure he is sexually interested in a colleague. There is no problem with that. The thing that is for very good reasons, your fellow workers are protected from harassment. Dating a fellow worker requires running a very different courtship protocol than picking up someone in a bar or over tinder.

Unless you feel qualified to run corporate-dating-protocol from start to finish (what will you do post hook-up/break-up?), please consider the advice of our forebears: don't dip your pen in the company ink.
It is a bug in the compiler. (Old joke).
There is no law against lying on the news.
In my case I've modified it to be an Plasmoid overthruster. :-)
I would never try to tell anyone what to do with his or her body. Would you try to tell someone what he should or shouldn't do with his mind?
Huh? I have a fair grasp of the cumulative effect since then (I've been alive the whole time!), I'm not saying it is low out of thin air, that period saw lower inflation than most of the 20th century. Maybe the difference is that I think invested assets largely follow inflation (even bank accounts), so that the primary effect it has is to make relative pricing more fair over time?

That's fine if you think it shouldn't be allowed to exist, but quoting quips is a dreary way to argue it.
I'm largely sympathetic to Moxie's core arguments, and to the extent that I disagree, it's his prerogative to do what he thinks is best with his project.

I will point out that some people are using "federated" and "decentralized" as synonyms, when they are distinct concepts. The Tor network, for example, is decentralized, but not federated. You can run your own Tor node, but that node has to be accepted by the directory authorities in order to become a part of the network. You could conceivably set up your own Tor network, with your own directory authorities, but of course you can also create your own alternative network with Signal, since both the client and server code are free software.

Ricochet, the messenger that uses client-side Tor hidden services to create server-less chat, is also decentralized, but not federated. Ricochet clients talk to other Ricochet clients. There is not IETF RFC out there for Tor or Ricochet, that you can use to build your own implementation and federate into the network.

Moxie's claim that federation inevitably leads to moribund cruft may be over-stated; after all, http is not exactly in trouble. Nevertheless, I think that it's probably true that maintaining a federated protocol that is also an easy, seamless, user-facing piece of software is most likely a tall order.
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Yes, but fast forward 5-10 years and we'll see Ask HN: how do I get rid of this lawyer who insists I can't do anything without his expert advice?
That one hit a little too close to home.
Imo, Uber is a pretty good example of a company that highlights rifts in the libertarian movement over the extent to which large corporations directing labor are compatible with libertarianism. The kinds of libertarians who emphasize freedom of contract and the free market would see them as a great example. The kinds of libertarians who emphasize individual autonomy against collective decision-making might be less keen. There's an old disagreement over whether corporations are an example of freedom of economic association, or an example of a quasi-governmental collective coercion. Roughly: Milton Friedman vs. Lysander Spooner.
Anglo-Zanzibar War
The article is as stupid as the website it's on is. Value-added sharing mechanisms that take the expertise out of creating useful Internet content does not de-democratize the Internet. You are still as free as before to make your own websites and share your content the way it was done before Facebook. Facebook is popular but that can't be held against it.

More generally, populism by itself does not threaten democracy. It's when the people that elect demagogues let those demagogues destroy public institutions that democracy is undermined. But it's the people that are at fault here, they are the ones that let themselves get hoodwinked.

Napoleon destroyed the French Republic. But the French were absolutely complicit and just let him do it because they were hungry for empire. All of Europe was like that back then and she wasn't cured of that disease until WW2 showed them how utterly stupid warmongering in the Industrial age was.
i appreciate that you realized the comment was constructive,
even if it was phrased (intentionally) in an ambiguous way, because it was still a bug-report, nevertheless. in an age
when people far too often leap to the wrong interpretation,
a small dose of generosity will frequently go a very long way.
while i don't think they (or anybody else in the foreseeable future, save for Chinese Communist Party taking over the Western states :) will be able to build a real infrastructure piece of several hundred miles length - politics, economy, etc. wouldn't let it, the HT looks like a starting point to develop a space or subspace launch system - it has all the necessary components like evacuated pipe, EM acceleration and levitation. Nevada desert isn't a bad place for it (while throwing over Pacific is less favorable than the other direction would be, the cheapness of ground boost compensates for the loss of Earth rotation boost).
Bullshit, its monsanto.
Why is the PDP-11 so different from today's CPUs, and what about it made C implementations for it more efficient? The only thing I can think of is postincrementing registers. Other than that, the instruction set seems to me to be remarkably close to what you could see on a contemporary CPU.
The name has nothing to do with Google. D-Wave Systems is the name of the company that developed and manufactured the computer.
Beekeepers will build new hives as the old ones die off. Yes its been going on for decades. Its expensive in time and labor and reduces honey yield by a big fraction.

A new queen can be created at will with the right technique, so little danger of the bees disappearing forever. But imagine if you lost a third of your fruit crop every year. You'd want to get to the bottom of it.
I think people have a way too high tolerance for this kind of crap. We're also kidding ourselves if we think we're smart enough to work with this kind of complexity at no cost.

Our job is often to think up new things. It's really hard to come up with new abstractions when your thinking is muddled by all kinds of incidental complexity.
> I think some observers confidently think that Uber will ultimately lose the "employee" classification legal battle and there will be a financial windfall for the 160,000+ drivers. For the reasons I stated above, that is not going to happen.

I don't see how Uber changing their behavior for the future prevents them from having to cover what they should have been providing in the past.
And who knows what the upcoming move of Tsukiji will bring :-)
Is there a specific reason why Senator Thune is going after Facebook for this alleged bias? Why does there seem to be a separate standard of bias for Facebook vs. CNN/MSNBC/Fox/etc? I'm not making a point with these questions, I'm genuinely curious if there is something else going on under the hood that I'm unaware of.
Each bee species is different. Blue mason bees, for example, are only active for 3-4 weeks when the first flowers appear, then they die. It's a pretty incredible life cycle: 11 months developing from egg -> larva-> then spin cocoon-> finally a few weeks to forage for pollen and lay their own eggs. There are many species of native bee with short cycles like this. The native bees you see in April will be different than the bees in June, different than in August.
The elephant in the room is the bullshit that happens after you get the job.
I realize every new outlet on the internet is regurgitating this story but if I call you via whats app and are both using wifi does the communication even transit an SS7 gateway at all? Why would it? Also SS7 is generally a closed system, not anyone can connect to an SS7 gateway. To signal to a carrier's SS7 gateway you have to either be a subscriber or carrier that has agreement with the owner of a SS7 gateway to terminate traffic, since this is how calls are billed. For an external carrier to connect to another carriers SS7 gateway they need to know your "code points"(kind of like an IP address for SS7.) in advance. There wasn't a lot to go on in the google translated doc.
Interesting that every company has an agenda.
While your business might be your life, for most of your employees it's only a job.

This means that for most of them, it must be pleasant. They must be able to joke around and even, occasionally, flirt. If you try to turn every social interaction into a perfectly professional unfriendly and unsexualised environment, you will very quickly find that you are the only one left.

This is even more relevant in a small startup.
In my experience, the worst kind of work environment is a startup trying to act like a big multinational. None of the perks, but all of the soulless experience.

I have nothing against firing someone for bad behavior.
However, with the little info you provided us, there is nothing serious.

Make sure the new employee knows that her colleague didn't like his approaches and that it won't happen again.

You should also try to get both sides of the story.

Finally, you did say this:

> The employee in question has made it clear that it's not a big deal and she knows how to deal with it (...)

How is she going to react if you fire his ass? Wouldn't it be acting like she can't take care of herself?
> It was created by people who had no experience in databases and are learning as they go[4]. As they started adding things that are essential for database they realized it's not that simple.

This sounds exactly like what MySQL development looked like to me early in its rise to popularity.
So basically when Tridge "reverse engineered" BK, he basically reimplemented SCCS?

https://lwn.net/Articles/132938/
I misread as "You have until the next spring" and I wondered if you were hiring.
I have stopped driving as of July... While in San Francisco, I made about $1500/wk pre-expense, probably somewhere around $1300 post-expense on a 50 hour week. I don't count depreciation since my car was what I consider a sunk cost. Anecdotally from my driver friends it is not as lucrative anymore, mostly due to driver saturation and loss of primetime. I would say if 50% of my rides were not on primetime, I would consider to have failed for the day.
Make it run, right, rapidly.
Hire slow, fire fast.

He's new. If he's still in a probationary period - either by statute or contractually - get rid of him. If he's not, and he's a brand new employee, consider adding wording to future contracts regarding a probationary period.

Obviously, still talk to a lawyer.
And Captcha!
"She did the correct thing. She went to her boss. That is where she should seek remedy before going to the police.
It is typically dangerous for a woman to try to assert herself directly with a man she feels is harassing her."

Understood. I'm a male from a different culture and maybe miss the cultural context of the incident.

"This is a problem space I have studied for a lot of years. I am unusually well equipped to deal with it. Please don't start talking like the guy must be innocent. That is as bad, or worse, than the people ready to hang him high with zero due process."

I don't think I implied that he is/must be innocent. What I wanted to say --sorry if not clear-- was that accusing someone with sexual harassment is a big thing and should be done with the due care and consideration. Once labelled, there's no recovery.
>> It is relatively easy as an individual to give the bees a helping hand.

You can also choose to NOT spray harmful chemicals on your lawn/garden/landscaping. As a hobby beekeeper in a suburban area, I appreciate it when my bees are not bringing this junk back to their hive and my honey!
I think Luka has done a great job of exploring a lot of different approaches to this space. We've bet pretty heavily on the idea that most people will want one bot, not a family of them. But it's exciting to see so many people working to make this happen!
It's less likely to break if it's manageable first.
When I was in that age bracket it was not having a Myspace that was socially isolating. A few years ago (I'd estimate 2009 to early 2013) it was Facebook within the later half. Having just clicked the WSJ link. The graph shows "Fall 2012" is the fall off of Facebook which lines up with my memory.

Either way, my broader point was "social media being 'optional' doesn't really mean it is 'optional'". You can opt out - but there is a tradeoff that not everyone is willing to make.

As for indoctrination - I'm far more concerned with 18-25 year olds who have the ability to vote being indoctrinated into a certain mindset than 13-17 year olds. (E: You know what, on a second visit to my post both are equally bad as the 13-17 will be able to vote "soon" too.)

ps: Twitter has a similar issue. They suppress and attempt to censor trending hashtags (preventing them from autocompleting) that go against their political standings.
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Well, I find that when my C++ compiles <segmentation fault>

When I first learned Java, still in my undergrad, my first impression (and nearly everybody's) was that when it compiles it works. It was still more work than Perl, Lisp, Prolog, and everything, but didn't require the annoying C debugging cycle.

But, anyway, all that is kids play near Haskell.
You can be extremely selective in the evidence you present. For all you know, they previously could have had "dirty talk" moments earlier. Fell out, and now retaliating.

If you want to be properly moral and just about this? Then you need get his side of the argument and all the information.

If you just want to reduce hassle, then yes just fire him.
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Thank you for clarifying.
It may stretch to fit, but has a higher likelihood of shrinking back down during sex. Furthermore, a less comfortable condom due to it's size will increase pressure on the penis and reduce sensation even further. If you have a big cock, get an appropriate size condom.
Oh thank you I didn't know that!
If the person is new employee, presumably you have a probation period clause in the contract, and at the end you can state that it's just not working out, protecting both the accuser and and the accused from knowing circumstance?

You absolutely have to get rid of that type of person, it's already moved outside of work context to a personal context (WhatsApp), which implies that the author of the messages is not comfortable talking about what he's talking about in the context of a work environment because he knows it is wrong, and because he is willing to take that risk, it signals a danger.

You should speak to a lawyer about removing the person from the company in a quiet way (which I think is what the accuser would prefer to protect her complaint) – since he is new, it's generally easier than ridding the company of a long-standing employee. Probation clauses are common in the United Kingdom, I'm not sure about the U.S. – so this advice might be awfully inaccurate.

If you have seen proof, the accused needs to be removed. He is toxic if you know for sure of the correct circumstance.
Yep. You can read more about these things at Ask A Manager (askamanager.com) and a continuous theme is that everyone is scared of wrongful termination, but that's really quite rare in the US. It involves breach of employment contract. (Lots of similar misconceptions about "protected class" as well.)
Where you see your greatest weakness, I see your great strength.

I'm good at building stuff, but I'm not a great engineer (I'm ok, but others on my team are way better).

Not to say I don't have my strengths. I'm good at figuring out what to build and the general architecture of how to get it done quickly and working well.

But when it really comes time to scale and scale big, you don't want me coding. You want me looking at the next features etc. etc.

If you love getting into the nitty-gritty of high quality beautifully considered easy to work with code, why do you feel you should focus on 'building stuff'?

Personally, I think focusing on your strength (not to completely ignore building stuff) can be a huge benefit.
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Relevant: https://www.facebook.com/sheryl/posts/10156387360185177
But you can just connect to a carrier SS7 network because you bought an SS7 gateway appliance or because bought a SIP trunk to some third party. It doesn't work like this. You need to have an agreement with a carrier to even talk to their gateway. These are usually well vetted as well because you are entering into a financial agreement with a carrier when you connect to them this way.
OpenBSD's CVS contains implementations of bootloading[1], logging[2], device management[3], network[4], etc. For the simple reason that you need all that to have a useful operating system.

[1] http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/stand/boot/

[2] http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/syslog...

[3] http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/atactl/

[4] http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/ifconfig/
> How is she going to react if you fire his ass? Wouldn't it be acting like she can't take care of herself?

You know, it occurs to me you can't have this both ways: take care of yourself and rat out the fiend to the boss above.

"Hello, 911? There is a robbery at Elm and 41st. But don't send anyone, I can take care of these dudes! One of the perpetrators saw me using my phone, so if police arrive, they will know it was me! And that scares me --- that's how much I can take care of this myself!"

If you don't want some authority to take action, don't burden them with the conflict of the knowledge and the request not to take action.
The crazy thing is that you don't need to do any "intense indoctrination". Facebook has both numbers and time on their side.

The same large numbers that makes A/B testing and "growth hacking" so effective for a marketing message can be learned and automatically applied here on a scale that dwarfs even Google.

All of the messages between people on Facebook in a country? In the US, I'm sure it's probably 80%+ of the American electorate at this point. Just subtle suppression of a few stories is enough. Even manipulating trending topics might be enough to have a statistical effect. Facebook was researching emotional effects as far back as 2012 and they never said that they stopped nor did they close that part of the company.

With Facebook it's not if, it's how much manipulation is going on. Not just in America but, around most of the Western world.
Posted a few minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11671314
Awesome. I interviewed at one of these once, I knew I wasn't going to get it when I saw the massive imacs and the square glasses... plus the guy couldn't explain what it was they did at all.
I can report that mine is about 2/3's occupied. Its a bit hard to tell if a single tube has been abandoned or the larvae has failed though. I've been considering making a bug hotel with a camera or the like to monitor that.

Putting up bug hotels are quite popular:

http://bushblitz.org.au/all-abuzz-about-new-bush-blitz-bee-h...
http://www.sgaonline.org.au/insect-hotels/
A pile of dead unicorns is not around the corner
> They use market-like mechanisms, but ultimately they set price.

The law aside, that should be irrelevant. If amazon sets the price of their digital streaming offerings (let's say they want to uniformly set all movies to be $10/view for the first weeks then $5/view after opening) would the movie studios be subsidiaries" of amazon, and would the gaffer that worked on making that movie be an "employee" of amazon?

The contractor still has the option to accept (or not) the price point that is offered.
Referring to someone as a MILF at work is inappropriate at work, even if you are trying to 'spark a romance'. You don't get a free pass to try anything once. If you are trying to spark a romance, you have to do it in a professional way that leaves the other person an out before you take it to an inappropriate level.
Good thinking, I like that. I normally zoom when for these kinds of details, didn't realize at the time the view was not sufficient.
Facebook is prioritising native content over external hyperlinks. That's a subtle but significant lock in.
If the Hyperloop had a very predictable timeline compared to some feight or other transport, it might make more sense to use it, if the lower deviation from leadtime lead to reduced safety stock inventory costs.
In hardware dev I've followed a similar paradigm from an old mentor:

1) Make it work

2) Make it work better

3) Make it work cheap