skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what irrational looks like. "just wrong" Um. Ok. Why? `limiting exploration of fair use` Unless you're one of those empirical people and like human experimentation, which is rather unethical when people's livelihoods are at stake, you can literally theorize that right now. Go ahead. Everybody's listening.

Well, while you continue to think about that and have no answer, we'll continue using laws that protect content creators.

Many of these opinions are nonsensical anti-capitalist drivel.

TPP is consistency and compromise and if there's a real better way, you better believe countries will adapt to it.
It isn't 1918. That question is meaningless.

We are at war with drugs, terrorism, and poverty, among many other abstract entities. Anyone, any time, any place can be killed for national security.
Seems sorta similar to this post I saw a few years ago: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/23920/

Best of luck. Definitely leave, should probably talk to a lawyer, and 100% follow their directions.
Ask HN: Article about a mathematician teaching his child about infinity
Hi HN!

I saw an article here a few weeks ago about a mathematician recording a conversation about teaching his child about infinity. I tried to find it via Google but couldn't. Does anyone happen to remember the link or author's name?

Thanks!
Not from what I've seen posted here. Hopefully that is a very fringe group that's just very vocal.
As posted elsewhere, it's not damning and could still be a total coincidence, but it does raise eyebrows:
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/06/10/google-is-manipulati...
I was a habitual moleskine user, I think I have about 30-40 filled ones sitting in a closet somewhere.

But about 3 years ago, I bought a Samsung Galaxy note 8.0. Because it has a pen.

I had the original iPad, and a stylus, but you either try to write with your finger (no good) or use a stylus (write holding someone else's finger) and it sucked big time.

But with the Note, and actually the stock S-Note app, I had everything I needed - nice size, pressure sensitive pen - plus extra benefits: I like to diagram out stuff, draw circles and squares and link between them, and the old version of S-Note has a great feature where I can draw a crappy circle, and it will automagically turn it into a perfect circle. Same deal with squares and lines.

So now I use it exclusively, have my ~200 notebooks backed up in various places, native form, image and pdf.

Shame though, it looks like it is going to be EOL'd. I am seriously considering buying a bunch of spare parts to mke sure that I can keep mine running for a while.

But to sum up: best of both worlds - like writing on paper, but with the convenience of all that is digital.
What would be the advantages of that?
I'm always blown away out how little cell phone manufacturers seem to listen to customer feedback. I don't care about my phone being paper thin. I'd guess most people don't either.

Often I'm sitting at work with my headphones plugged into my computer to listen to music. I'll then see a little video or something has been sent to me by a friend on my phone. I unplug the headphones from my macbook, plug them into my phone, watch the video, then plug my headphones back into my macbook. Simple.

Can you imagine what an annoying hassle it would be to have to pair and unpair the same bluetooth headphones between two devices like that? I'd be paranoid it's not connected to the right device and suddenly I'm blasting music to the people in my office. Not even including the fact that I now have another thing I need to worry about charging.

I like my apple earbuds. They sound nice, let me control the volume and playback, and don't need to be charged.

Also, all my nice headphones are 3.5mm. I don't want to have to get new ones, and I don't want to have to carry around a stupid lightning adaptor for them.
Any physicists around to elaborate on the prevailing theories for this? The article isn't exactly heavy on the details...

Is this suggested particle something like the muon-equivalent of the Higgs?

(edit: I've found http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-new-boson-at-750-g..., which at least has more details and more speculations)
Regulators allow only blood tests that work.
Even if the noise problem has been fixed, supersonic travel has another huge problem: Fuel consumption. Concorde positively guzzled fuel compared to the jets of its day, and this (among other things) made it uneconomical to operate. The authors of this article never even touched this topic. Has it improved considerably?
Thanks for the reply. Makes sense. Lots of people don't bother to look at their instance types per application or they run so much in a single instance type that it's both io and memory and network bound in a single instance depending on what the users are doing.
Tall Travel Tales from 17th-Century Mexico, Mapped
How would drone strikes have saved the americans inside the compound? How can drones be deployed so quickly at a moments notice, let alone get near their target in a reasonable time?

You're thinking of Iron Man. We're not there...yet.
Depends on your skillset, but indeed we are hiring devs for our Madrid office. We are not ready for remote yet. We pride ourselves, among other things, in eating all the crap at the top.

Required Skills: C#.

Caveat: We want people that like learning new technologies, as we do use some other tech stacks other than .NET's. We will train you if you don't know it yet, as long as you are interested and capable.
Tell that to the Facebook team who recently rewrote their entire front end codebase using React.
Thanks - this is really interesting and thought provoking feedback.
That would not work in aggregate. Lightning-fast quants would lurch the stock price back and forth every three months, and would require a premium to be paid for the lack of liquidity.
Satya Nadella email to employees on acquisition of LinkedIn
I got curious a year or so ago about writing a program to play freecell solitaire. I looked around first and there were a few programs out there with open source, but they were thousands of lines of C code. I was able to write a program that worked as well as these, but it only took 200 lines of python or so. This allowed me to experiment with my algorithms and data structures so easily that I was happy with it in a couple of days.

If I was going to market such a program the next step would be to rewrite this in Java, C++, or Go (even Rust once I learn it).

I'm not interested in marketing a freecell game, so I will rewrite it only for fun, someday. I got started on the program because my wife is twice as fast as I am at that game (and every other game not requiring shooting or math); I thought well at least I'm a better programmer than her (for now, she hasn't tried that yet!) so I'll write a program to play freecell.
All-Weather Graphene Solar Panel Can Power Up in the Rain
A lot hangs on this distinction in the law, but the guidelines for determining seem to strongly favour and employee interpretation. Definitely lawyer territory though.
I was going to say much the same. Completely uninstalled the FB app the other day as it was driving me up the wall. The messenger app will probably not be far behind.

I don't even use the website anymore as it's so clunky. FB are dropping the ball in a big way at the moment.
> In MBA-speak, "secular" means "non-cyclical."

It's not "MBA-speak"; this sense of the word "secular" is used in economics, time-series analysis, astronomy, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_variation
Settlement finalized in Square invention dispute
> I think too often the folks in SV abuse the CTO title

I believe part of it is overall title inflation, which makes it confusing for some people to understand what the actual role is and what you will be doing.
There's a search box at the bottom of the page.

Also, anything you upvote goes in your saved stories on your profile.

Was it this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627955
Why don't you plug your nice headphones/headset into the computer and pair your phone bluetooth to the computer? That way you can listen to audio from your phone and your computer without swapping jacks.
About half to two-thirds comes from job listings, the remaining is split evenly between subscriptions and ads.
Irrational and anti-capitalist these are not.
There is nothing free-market about a patent or copyright, they are exceptions to the free market meant to try and subsidize "innovation," and smart people are still arguing on whether or not that is working well today. There are other issues that the TPP forces the hand of the American legislative system to pass new restrictions where we had previously voted against doing so. It is an undemocratic, anti-free-market end run around the American legislative branch.
$26.2bn / 400mio user = $65 per user

Facebook paid $30 to acquire WhatsApp. (And afaik similar what Murdoch paid for MySpace.)
Hi there! Yeah I should review it, a bunch of projects are old-ish
We in the west are so convinced that we are speking from high ground, that we go to the extreme to conflate western citizens with "high value people". We are thus not really worried about what happens to the rest of humankind: we are good, and drones are killing some people somewhere, imagine how horrible if the bad guys came to the idea of using drones to kill us good people. That is just horrible!

And you missed this part: this forum is a part of western media. The expressed opinion is not an isolated one, is an extremely widespread one. Call it media, or call it western society, the fact is that it is not a personal opinion: we value the life of "interesting american person" above the life of civilian bystanders in irak, and that is a reflection of what society we are living in.

You call it misplaced rant, I call it pointing a very big fault of our collective opinion, one which is so intrinsically part of our nature that we are even unable to recognize it by what it is: a despicable lack of humanity.
For those that need to get around the paywall

https://www.google.dk/search?q=Drop+the+Supersonic+Aircraft+...
We already see folks like Bose making wireless (BT) noise-canceling in-ear headphones with no audio cable capability (QC30, http://www.cnet.com/products/bose-quietcontrol-30/).

The new Bose on-ear noise canceling wireless headphones QC35 (https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/featured/qc35.html) do include the cable... but for how long?

The original post tries to shy away from BT and wireless, but that may wind up being where things head, for better or worse.
Concorde was more-or-less viable for BA (though not for AF). Specialized maintenance for such a small fleet (because it effectively only operated the transatlantic route due to regulations) was the thing that killed it economically.
? The mid/senior leadership of the best known companies hires all thr available techie MBAs. There are few CTOs because a 50K employee company only has 1 CTO. Others are CEO, COO, CIO.

A mid/senior person at a big company is similar to a CxO at a small company.
You're right; let's go nuclear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft
Uncovering the Significance of Revenue Management for Hotels
Revenue management has always been the least understood part of an independent property’s operations – hotel owners do accept that proper revenue management strategies can boost occupancy, but they don’t consider it something crucial to a hotel’s success.

The truth is, it is!

The scenario within hospitality is changing. Unlike before, an increasing number of independent hotel owners are beginning to take up active roles in their property. While it’s beneficial to the management team to have the owner around the hotel at all times, it can often lead to increased pressure on the hotel’s administration. Managers may find themselves having to justify all their decisions to a person primarily concerned with the ROI.

Revenue management is by no means a new industry practice, but its value is not always appreciated by owners and managers may face an uphill task convincing them otherwise. However, today we have a scenario where guest trends and booking patterns are changing so rapidly that having a robust revenue management strategy is absolutely imperative.
I suspect this is the case.
The market can figure that out. If the noise problem is solved (I can't read the article because it says I need to sign in), then allow it and let the airlines decide if they can make money doing it.
wow, nice exit for LinkedIn. Microsoft now also owns Lynda.com .
It's funny how you hit the MBA nerve there. I've been considering going that route, but with the intention to get more involved with people from different backgrounds than anything else.
I don't want the MBA to move away from my position as CTO, but to improve my abilities in other areas of the business and networking purposes.
Would you still recommend not getting the MBA in that case?

This is all in preparation to take the entrepreneur route, while I can't simply take it right now.
Can you be specific about the country? Where I live a similar thing happened to a friend of mine, and he finally managed to discuss with the employment agency who agreed to grant him assistance in the end. He didn't have to mention the company's name in the end.
This is Peter Thiel's hypothesis in action: that the world of things sees little progress due largely to regulation.
Very cool insight, do you know if the Windows kernel does the same? I'd like to learn more about it in context of Windows first, then Linux.
Ok have been told in another group that there is penetration testing / network security but the best firms are not from London. Having a look at fintechs and scientific programming now.
Not valid when using pointers and references.

And then you need to add smart something into the mix.

Which is no different than using resources from scoped pools.
just over 1B (1.15b) but yup you're spot on
> I'm surprised by the amount of negativity about the deal here on HN

price tag + whether it really makes sense for MS. Everybody remembers the Nokia fiasco.
WinDocks releases Free port of Docker for Windows 8 and Windows 10
I'm going to be the one to argue here that this is a good thing. The barrel jack has had a long good run, yes. There will definitely be a period of painful transition, yes. In the long run, this will be good.

The barrel jack is a hack and has a tonne of downsides. We hacked stereo into a mono plug. We then hacked a mic into the stereo plug. Hotplug detection is a patented minefield mess. It's a big plug that tends to collect cruft and makes it difficult to waterproof devices.

Eventually we'll have USB-C DACs that are cheap and small enough to keep connected to the ends of your headphones. For people that don't care about audio quality, a $5 Chinese-branded adapter from Amazon will be indistinguishable in a few years.
Unfortunately, I've never seen anything like this at this price point in the US. There's Moleskine, obviously, but they're crazy expensive and the journals don't lay flat on a desktop which drives me nuts. There are grid books at art stores like Blick, but those are even more expensive.

This might a be a good compromise. I should go to my local Blick and check this one out:

http://www.dickblick.com/items/77825-1310/

The only thing I've ever had from the US that came close was a 5x7" JournalBooks 91340 that Freescale gave me as a promotional giveaway. It's a little larger, but had a durable plastic cover and a pen holder which was pretty sweet. It seems you can only order these in bulk as a custom-branded item. Perhaps someone enterprising could kickstart up 100 orders and do a foil-embossed HN-branded cover for people to purchase. I guess HN needs a logo, too. =)

https://www.journalbooks.com/products/24-hour/24-hour-journa...
Google has come down on the right side of the TPP - for Google. The company is a major major major player for most of humanity outside of China. Even people who use exactly zero Google products or services are inextricably linked with those who do, by just a few degrees of separation. This deal would be a huge benefit to one of the most global corporations in history. I'm not defending Google by any means, but the company had every right to defend its own self-interest.
The articles states that he's assembled a team of 20 engineers. That doesn't sound like a MVP to me.
Why would a techie want a MBA job below VP level? Most don't want to be advertising account managers or business analysts either. Does that matter?
Interesting to see the obvious pro-microsoft bias in comments here. I can only imagine the worst from microsoft and their user-hostile behaviour.

* trojan-like telemetry impossible to control or block

* malware-like behaviour through "legitimate" software update channels, force-feeding windows 10 on unwilling customers

* embrace-extend-extinguish, mission accomplished by destroying Nokia's smart phone business

* their recent shenanigans with skype, and how they killed Linux support

* their abysmal, hard-to-use new directions in UI design (flat, 2D, no contrast, paper-like, or even metro for that matter)

I can already think of three to four nasty ways they can leverage (abuse) all the LinkedIn user information, work history, contacts, and networks, and I'm sure they will do it based on their recent user-antagonistic behaviour.

Oh, but they've nicely polished up their PR machinery so everything's cool now.
Rather than penalizing short-term trades, why not build an exchange that only allows trading once per week, or once per month?
I feel like this is one of those things we can afford to let China get ahead of us on, and if it works good, if not, it didn't cost us anything.
I bought linkedin a couple of months ago at like 108 or so... I'm debating whether or not to sell half or all my stock... needless to say the wife is thrilled that I finally did some investing right :)
They trained the algorithm to watch the stick and play sounds from the database where the stick moved similarly.

But the title makes it seem like the algorithm is synthesizing the sounds from scratch!
"To be honest, they're probably buying the users, not the product."

I thought the same when they invested in "Facebook" and gave some kid with a website 17M or so.

And then when they overpaid for Skype.

I would not say "probably" any more. They are buying users.
Maybe it's the only way they can stay in the game.
Why not say it personally and stop generalizing and using "many of us". If it's buggy for you, say it for yourself. "I feel that the lack of privacy...".
North Korea mounts long-running hack of South Korea computers
I thought another problem was that there is no market for shorter flights if they are still too long to do in a single day?

To give an example - Concorde's 3h flight time from London to New York was perfect, because there were people actually interested in going to US/UK for a day for business and coming back the same night. But Concorde wasn't very popular on longer routes, because if you were going to spend 6 hours on a plane you might as well spend 12 and fly overnight, getting some good sleep, and saving yourself a tonne of money.
> In the case of GM, investors who held shares of the company before its reorganization saw their equity holdings cancelled in March, 2011. Per the company's reorganization plan, they did not receive any shares of the "new" GM.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/23/what-a-corp...
Peter Thiel has a lot of hypotheses tho https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/09/paypal-co-fou...
And we have every right to criticize them for it.
> Yahoo were borderline negligent with that purchase

That's not what most HNers were saying at that time, they were praising Mayer and her "awesome strategy" of shopping her way into success. Of course it didn't make sense at all, like that deal makes very little sense at all too.
Well, Microsoft has effectively killed off Lumia, and will be focusing on the Surface Phone and its OEM partners. They have said this year they will not be focusing on marketing Windows Mobile (frankly, it's not ready,) but I imagine once Surface Phone is made reality, they will be pushing the phones again, but mostly to enterprise and Microsoft fanboys/girls.
Thanks for the link.

The Standard Model is pretty much believed to be incomplete. It's why many people were hoping to not find the Higgs and allow room for things like super symmetry (SuSy). It is still standing though (which the article mentions), so I'll keep waiting for further experiments on what is going on here
Indeed doesn't seem to agree: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/industry

One quarter over quarter it seems more mixed, but then again seasonality: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/industry/quarter
All about writing an SDK
The internet is also much larger than "the Web." Just some hyperbolic tech-is-king nonsense from a breathless journalist.
Very difficult stuff. Only a lawyer can answer this. What I can say is get out - now - and don't do another second of free work for this clown.

I've been in a similar situation myself up until very recently (hence the throwaway)... Was initially (briefly) paid as a contractor, money supposedly running out, volunteered to take equity instead to help keep the project afloat, equity never materialised. After 2 years the whole enterprise is now in the final stages of falling apart. Speaking to employees of another of the owner's companies, they're in a similar situation of being massively underpaid with vague promises of equity that have also failed to materialise. Any attempt to confront the owner on this is met with a lot of hand waving and/or an abrupt change of subject.

Thankfully in my case I maintained some independence and kept up enough other contracting work to stay afloat, but it still leaves an awful taste in the mouth. Unfortunately I can't say the same for the employees of the other company who are still being strung along day by day.
I think my business connections data is the least of my concerns. It's mostly public anyway.
Walmart is basically saying:

"By screwing us on the kinds of transactions we make the most of you're hurting our profit margin and giving us less wiggle room to undercut the competition by offering lower price. Therefore screw you, we're not taking your cards. Oh and BTW we hold the moral high ground because we serve the poor"

-IIRC the vast majority of prepaid bank cards use the Visa network.

-The vast majority of bank cards are issued by employers who don't want to deal with the costs associated with paper checks (not a bad thing by itself).

-The vast majority of prepaid bank cards are issued to people without bank accounts (i.e. poor people) and have shit terms (which is a different issue).

-Poor people typically buy lower priced, lower margin goods and make transactions for smaller amounts.

-Walmart moves a ton of lower priced merchandise relative to the amount of higher priced merchandise they move.

-Even at a fixed profit margin per dollar, the more small transactions are made the lower the profit margin (because 100 people buying 1 $1 item takes more cashier time than 1 person buying 100 $1 items).

-IIRC payment networks usually have a fixed minimum cost of a few cents or have cost brackets based on transaction size.

Therefore Walmart's statement makes sense (or maybe their PR people are really good at their jobs and I analyzed that exactly how they wanted me to).