skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went down the LFS path a year ago, but then I found buildroot (https://buildroot.org/).

I had a super old desktop system (running dos and jnos, an amateur radio packet bbs). We have repurposed it as an APRS node and no longer needed the PC to do anything, but wanted to have it run minicom and display the aprs activity. The bios only supported booting off of the hard drive or floppy drive (could not boot off of cd or usb).

I first tried attaching the hard drive via usb to a virtualbox vm so I could do a minimal linux install, but kept running into little glitches.

Then I found and used buildroot to make a small OS with just enough to run minicom. Installed this to the hard drive along with a bootloader and it amazingly all worked.

I wouldn't have put that much time into something commercially, but I saw it as a fun project/learning experience. I would definitely recommend buildroot for anyone looking to build a custom (tiny) linux os.
I live in "socialist sympathizing" Sweden, and disagree with the broad brush of "suffered with communist/socialist sympathizing governments for a long time". Communist is not socialist, and socialist sympathizing governments don't automatically lead to suffering.

There are also many shades of red here; on May Day the Social Democrats, Communists, Marxist-Leninists, Red Front, Kurdish Worker's Party, Leftists, Anarcho-Syndicalists, and more will march.

I mentioned GDP because you wrote "Exactly. They are able to trade with every other country in the world, and yet Cubans are still living in poverty." I want you to say why that's meaningful.

All other Caribbean countries can trade with "every other country in the world", and yet some are still living in poverty equivalent or worse than Cuba. I mentioned some proxy methods to estimate poverty, to back my opinion.

That's why I argue that you cannot single out Communism as the primary reason for Cuba's poverty. We have no idea of what it would be like without the embargo.

Regarding the embargo, I again point to the Bahamas. Its economy depends on tourism from the US and international banking. Suppose the US were to embargo the Bahamas in the same way it embargos Cuba. Tha is, restrict travel and trade to the Bahamas, and prevent financial transactions to/from the Bahamas from going through the US banking networks. (Remember, the US can control SWIFT transactions inside the EU if they concern Cuba and transit the US network - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interban... ).

How much poorer would the non-Communist Bahamas get if the US were to embargo that country?

Or, how much richer do you think Cuba would be if the US allowed the import of Cuban sugar, and dropped the tariffs which double the price of foreign sugar? It's much more expensive for Cuba to ship sugar to Europe than to the US.
For the curious, here's the sources of the extension: https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/crxviewer.html?crx=https://crx.da...

Fun thing: there's a list of jewish sounding names in background.js

Also a link to a list with "the right stuff" containing only "trump": https://gitlab.com/therightstuff/public/raw/master/theList.j...

Also, some metadata here: https://crx.dam.io/ext/hldnghbakgkgeocjllocmpobpppkfepo.html
This is a definition of "fulfilling" that captures "subsistence farming".
I believe that's 100 million COPIES sold, not $100 million in revenue. At $27/copy, you do the math.
"It's likely that when we are all working for a living and prospering then we all prosper a little more." Well, of course, we all prosper when we all are prospering. :)

While life isn't exactly a zero-sum game, for certain moments it works that way. In any case, for now (nearly) all of us are Earth-bounded, so the limits of what our planet and our Sun can provide to us (over time) is what truly matters. There's only so much of Earth to go around, and only so much radiation to be received from the Sun. (And I am of course overlooking the occasional changes from meteors and comets and other whatnot from the heavens.)

This thing about income (and wealth) inequality is about more than mere discontents. There are plenty who fear that our global economic system (leaning heavily on capitalism with sprinkles of socialism) will soon arrive at a point of being unsustainable - a point that arrives prior to actual resource depletion.

The heart of it is in the ways that people can be so entitled to things, such as water, food, clothing, shelter, education, offspring, healthcare, etc. The worries are about the consequences of greater portions of the population being at or below subsistence levels. This is especially alarming when the statistics show it growing more significant within "First-World" nations.

The three big factors seem to be (to me, anyway): (1) Strong property rights which enables more rentiers and natural monopolies; (2) Rentiers/Monopolizers out-competing most or all others for political and economic influences and favors; (3) human labor becoming less needed over time due to the growing rise of adaptable and reliable automation.

The automation of item 3 would make a "Galt's Gulch" more tenable, but it would probably be realized as an artificial island nation. Well, one can dream of one, anyway (see http://theweek.com/articles/482427/libertarian-island-billio...).

One can easily google on "wealth inequality" and get some sober/reasonable/academic reads on this. A good primer is at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/21/the-t.... Also, look up NBER Working Paper No. 20625.
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Note that the tool didn't actually hurt anyone.

One can easily imagine a similar tool used for, say, annotating affiliations of authors or people in the news with companies.

EDIT: Aaaand down votes. Time was HN could think critically about the news and tech. Good work folks.

EDIT2:

So, note that this was removed for the following reason:

Google's Terms and Conditions for apps explicitly prohibit "promotions of hate or incitement of violence."

If merely highlighting names according to some criteria counts as a promotion of hate or incitement of violence, it would seem our standards have slipped.

Also note that this was something being used purely to "enhance" the browsing experience of users. It wasn't being forced on anybody, there wasn't a button "right-lick to lynch", or anything like that.

Again, this is the moral equivalent of any of those plugins one uses in Gmail to view a correspondent's business information. Don't lose sight of that.

It's not obvious that this was either a) a bad thing or b) hurting anybody.
Thanks...do let us know if you want any features. We are continuously improving it.
I also expected to see Grime on its own tree, or perhaps I expected to find it somewhere under Rap genres or Jamaican.
Well, I simply pointed out hypotheses.

In any case, I don't care. This community is filled with mediocrity, idiocy and shallow-mindedness. An abstraction for the vicious culture that poisons and destroys the world with useless innovation.

Congrats! This wouldn't be possible without YC.
A look at the user' comments history may answer your question for you.
You mean Symphony? https://symphony.com/

https://next.ft.com/content/111e433c-5b8c-11e5-9846-de406ccb...
Except that in my understand, the decoded version looks like shit. So, while optimistic that this technology might be quite good eventually, more heuristics are probably needed for the right way to extract an optimal encoding.

e.g. see the screenshots here:

http://www.eteknix.com/blade-runner-gets-trippy-auto-encoded...
I think this is a false dichotomy, Linux is both free as in beer (unless you choose to pay for it) and free as in speech.
After using it for 10 minutes

- Chrome plugins

- tabs configurable at the side instead of on top

- native (?) mousegestures

So far so good!
Bug Fixing Before Time Machine for .NET
I have found no indication that my TeamViewer computers were hacked, but after reading this for a few days I finally disabled TV on them last night and I'm looking for other solutions.

After using TeamViewer for over 5 years, I started getting a handful of invites on the service from random names about a month ago (I had never gotten a single invite prior). That alone signaled to me that something may be amiss. I'm afraid that where there is smoke, there's fire.
It's base64 encoded. If you decode it, you will get the answer.
I didn't downvote you, but it looks like a spammish comment to me.

Knowing nothing about the situation, it looks like

1. You work for ProductHunt.

2. This is a veiled promotion of "your" site.

3. In any case, the comment adds nothing to the conversation for HN readers. It's merely a personal message to the OP.

As someone who has also been on Hacker News for years, that's my take.

Edit: You'll notice that other, similar "low-value" top-level comments have also been downvoted: "Love it! Thanks!" and "good job".

Although such comments are polite to OP, they add nothing but noise for all the other readers of the thread.
Make sure you get a title and compensation change that is proportional to the additional responsibility and increased value being delivered to the company. You may be surprised how that will change the nature and quantity of demands being made on your time.

If you keep saying yes (to everything you did before) and yes (to everything you are discovering you can do), it is only human nature for individual requests to increase to the point where they collectively overwhelm you. You could individually re-negotiate boundaries and committments, but that itself is work and requires political skills. A public change in title and a financial change in compensation will require executive approval and that process will help change company-wide perception of what tasks are the best use of your time.

Once that is out of the way (increasing your price as a form of demand/flow control), find good books and external mentors on:

Leadership (managing down _and_ up) [1]
Project Management (execution logistics) [2][3]
Communication & Politics & Sales (human semantics)

[1] Being a Manager is lonely, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881752

[2] How to run successful projects (3rd Ed), http://www.amazon.com/How-Run-Successful-Projects-III/dp/020...

[3] Adaptive Software Development, http://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Software-Development-Collabor...
> There is nothing personal about my question. As I see it, this guy has questionable credentials to get such a prestigious job, so I ask what has he done.

If that's all you did, I would say that's not a personal attack. But how is saying "looks like cronyism to me" not a personal attack?
very detailed and interesting read!
ReFS provides the same filesystem APIs as NTFS, but the implementation does not depend on NTFS at all.
WHAT WAS THAT? NASA says asteroid entered atmosphere over Arizona
Brave isn't relying on people who hate ads, but you should not underestimate that population size.

The big problem is how much of the digital advertising "rent" goes to Google and Facebook alone, for so little. Perhaps 80% of 70B/year in the US alone. This will not continue. What's next? We have an idea.
I agree with the last part. But here OP said "we presume X is not a factor", and then goes on to conclude X is not a factor.

OP requires evidence for biological differences, but requires no such thing for the discrimination theory.

Throwing around "epistomological presumption", "corollary"' and "prima facie" does not make this a scientific argument.

In reality there is plenty of evidence for biological gender differences (and for discrimination). Pinker's "Blank Slate" is a good start if you have time to read 600 pages.
9/9 could have gotten wet. On top of that they were exposed, away from the protection of trees, and possibly in high winds. There is nothing to say this was not the case.

And while there are steps you take, those are things we have learned since 1959. It's not clear at all that this group's 1959 best practices (even given their considerable experience) was on par with what we would do now.

The trauma injuries are explained by falls or by misinterpretation of damage done to the bodies by passing animals after the fact. Paradoxical undressing isn't just a leisurely comfortable stroll in the buff; it can be a panicked race toward the nearest place where a dip into freezing water might be sought (by a deluded person who forgets that the water will be frozen solid), such as into a ravine.
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Tablet (www.tablethotels.com/en/careers) was founded in the year 2000 by Laurent Vernhes and Michael Davis, a pair of new-media veterans in search of a cure for boring travel and an antidote to the internet’s most common affliction: an overdose of options. Our users trust our taste — we do the hard work of selecting only the most extraordinary hotels, and we make booking them as painless as it can be. Sixteen years on, Tablet is still growing fast, and for that we credit three things: a mission with resonance, a lot of hard work, and — perhaps most important — an extremely talented team. Our New York office doubled in size in 2011, and we’re not done expanding yet.

On the mobile front, we’ve recently launched version one (ecommerce platform) of our first iOS app and building out version two (social platform). On the backend, we’re tackling a third party integration which will more than double our inventory and it requires our SOA become fully distributed, an elimination of technical debt, cloud migration, and frontend redesign. We’re seeing more traffic and bookings than ever before and gearing up for an influx of traffic and users while venturing into new territory like personalization/recommendations.

Backend Lead interview: Recruiter information call>Head of Tech call>Two onsite interviews
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>Here's the thing: it simply isn't possible that TeamViewer has done a thorough security audit in such a short amount of time. That means their claims of "no breach" are knee-jerk reactions, not truthful statements.

What makes you believe they've got any real reason to conduct a security audit? Just because some randoms on reddit said that they got hacked?

For all we know TV knows exactly what's going on here.
The others could be due to animals damaging the bodies.
Which many would consider fulfilling :) c.f. any farming commune.
Blockchain and Media, a One-Two Punch
Opus is not descended from Vorbis. It's descended from CELT and SILK. CELT was developed by Xiph.org, SILK by Skype. The CELT portion handles complex, arbitrary audio like music and sound effects. The SILK part handles voice.

Xiph, Skype, and IETF (among others IIRC) pooled their expertise in CELT, SILK, and the standards track respectively. Xiph.org did develop Vorbis though.
> clearly their arrogant NIH attitude

Sure. (Except the opposite is almost always true.)
Every Startup Gains from an Incubator or Accelerator
IBM famously made a lot of money creating a database of Jews: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II#German...

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

This is similar.
The way popular music is produced today, the artists performing almost never write their own music. Songs are shopped around by songwriter/producers to music labels, and label executives say "yes, that song properly portrays the slutty image we want to market for Miley Cyrus, we'll buy it." Then Miley performs it and we all cringe...

It's sad, but this is the reality of the music industry today. It also means it's highly unlikely that a modern version of the Beatles would ever exist or become successful in the music industry. I guess Coldplay is probably the closest we will come (they certainly write all of their own music).
c.f. impoverished rural Asia and Africa.

A lot of unfulfilling labor becomes "fulfilling" when you have the luxury of picking it up and putting it down whenever you'd like.
But doesn't mighty Google have an obvious lead in AI and Machine Learning over all the other tech companies?
Sometimes you can't be sure when you'll be at home to receive them.
Yes. It was the one and the same. JoeB was heading the Windows User Experience team in Windows Shell before going to the TV team and then most recently Windows Mobile.
That MPH filter is dangerous. I see no use for it other than bragging about speeding.
At the society-level UBI costs very little. It is wealth redistribution, but its not like the military where significant productive efforts are wasted with tax dollars and where the marginal return for taxpayers is extremely low. UBI money comes out of the rich primarily and goes into the poor, and economics have demonstrated pretty concisely that the poors consumerist goods spending is significantly more stimulating to the economy than a capitalists investment spending.

You can't really judge a states spending exclusively in tax dollars in, or you get where we are in the US with derelict infrastructure and understaffed hospitals, fire departments, and public schools. You are taxing money to spend it for a reason. As long as the results are worth the price paid (and infrastructure at least is enough of a force multiplier to give you a lot of overhead for corruption before it is inefficient) you aren't "spending a lot of money" because your economy is growing more than you shrink it by taxing it.

It is only effectively dead weight taxes (corruption, the military, modern foreign aid, politicians salaries, bureaucracy, insane overregulation) that is tax money wasted. And sure, a lot of it is wasted. Which is half the argument for UBI - the metrics are simple and should be transparent to prevent anyone corrupting what would be a force multiplier.
CSS Bloat Comparison
I think your first step is to delegate some of your responsibilities ASAP. If you stop writing code and building estimates (but keep doing code reviews!) and hand off parts of the new hire training, that will free up time for other responsibilities. It will also help the people on your team grow so they can carry even more of the load for you.

The Manager Tools podcasts have a lot of very useful advice that I think would help you. I recommend subscribing to their "Basics" feed to get started, and then listen to the full feed. http://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts/basics-rss.xml

You can see their whole "map of the podcast" here: https://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/trinity-one-ones. It's overwhelming at first because they have almost 1000 casts. But you can navigate through the list to find the topic you're struggling with, and download the podcasts from there.
Where on reddit?

Edit: The OP post looks to have been removed from front page. Not sure why.
Hashnode, Segmentfault, I can use GitHub flavored Markdown without making others feel noisy.
Depends on the country. I shop for food almost daily (basically buy as I need; store almost nothing). There's a supermarket 100 meters away. Another 150 meters. Last one (with bad opening times) is 200 meters. Next one is then 1 km away or so.

If within walking/cycling distance your habits change quite a bit.
This is someone else.
Specifically, /r/nosleep would probably go nuts with this both ironically (with her problem being like something you might actually read on the sub) and directly (as something to throw impromptu fundraisers for).

A link to the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep
You might be overthinking it. Use it. Add friends, play around with it -- filters, video chat, stories etc. If you still don't like it then, we'll its not for you, and that's perfectly ok.

I use it for the ease of communication and the ability to share moments instantly. Sometimes I'll even use as a camera app.
Here's my plausible explanation:

The hikers are awoken by some disturbance. They discuss among themselves briefly, and decide to go out--a few people start putting on shoes, while someone is attempting to open the tent door. Something spooks them, and they all panic and want out now. A convenient knife to the wall provides a faster exit point, and they run out and make for shelter of trees.

I have some experience hiking and backpacking, but the information given in the Wikipedia article is way too sparse for me to attempt to derive a coherent explanation. For example, there's no indication of where the clothing was located for those who were undressed; more importantly, there's insufficient explanation to posit when the group broke into the two who stayed at the tree, the three who tried to return, and the four who died in the ravine.
This is one of those happenings that captures popular imagination and keeps coming up over and over again. I wrote about it when I first heard of it almost a decade ago, and received a steady stream of conspiracy theorist comments thereafter: http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/27/dyatlov-pass-acciden...

I've resolved myself to never knowing the truth of what happened both here and for many other things. It's really hard to let it go like that, but at some point you're just making a bigger and bigger intellectual itch that can never be scratched.
Yea, its alot quicker to develop and experiment with new features.
No. That was not the case.
The more interesting application of this IMO is not replacing current popular/practicing musicians and artists but enabling non-professionals who have some musical inclination but limited time/skill/etc. Imagine a synthesizer for dance music with knobs for high level parameters like "grimy-ness" or "shine." Rather than auto generate a complete song with no user input, semantic control could be offered using learned models, allowing a rewarding experience with musical creativity without having to spend a lot of time learning the technical intricacies of these semantics.
Buffer’s Top Lessons from Growing to $10M ARR
What's the ballpark of how much you're paying these people? How forward are you to candidates about that number? If the answer is too little for either, that might be the problem.
And same can be said about several big corporations or businessmen.

The IBM fact is new to me, though!
Nerves looks like a really exciting project. IoT is only going to get bigger and as a result there are a number of problems to overcome. Things like how to do remote deployment and version handling to the devices.
Also with Nerves you can write the device "client" code and backend server code all in the same language.

Anyway checkout the Elixir Conference talk on Nerves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=118-g0ODfgg&feature=youtu.be

If anyone wants a 30% off coupon to an Elixir course, here you go:
https://www.udemy.com/elixir-for-beginners/?couponCode=Save3...
I think we're arguing past each other here. I accept that the computer controlling the VR might be conscious of something while it runs the AI software, but the brains of the NPCs clearly aren't conscious. In fact, they don't even need to have brains. The computer isn't immersed in the VR the way you and your friend are. It doesn't use senses the same way you do.
Monitoring team health in a startup
Most useful info:

If you run the 64 bit JRE and have memory problems, use the flags

- Xcompressedrefs

- XX:+UseCompressedOops

for a decent 35-45% reduction in memory use.

The rest is well-known stuff (use primitives, use arrays with fixed size, ...)

Still, the numbers are quite interesting (and the overhead quite scary)