skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, your maths leaves $50k per athlete that actually competes in the Summer Olympics. But four years out, you're not certain who makes the team[1], so that money ends up split between the pool of athletes competing for each slot, which is quite a bit larger, particularly if your Olympic organization is trying to subsidise teenagers that might be the next generation of Olympians out of that same budget, and probably Winter Olympians as well[2]. So the idea that stipends to athletes might max out at $20k (as the article highlights for the US) starts to look quite reasonable even before we talk about the cost of sports coaches (lots of specialists and one-to-one coaching) and sports scientists, physios, masseurs, velodromes and other highly specialist venues, training camps, competitive trials, flights etc. On that basis, just as well that many national Olympic teams can top up their meagre Olympic allowances with sponsorship revenue, revenue from their own sporting events and government and lottery money.

[1]the ones you are sure will make the team barring serious injury are probably the ones most likely to have a decent sponsorship deal and not need the money so badly
[2]Not sure whether the Winter Olympians factor into the article's revenue numbers or what their competitor numbers are like, but they're surely even more expensive sports to properly train for...
Do they have a massive user base? Did they do a fantastic job at enterprise sales? Do they have a lot of recurring revenue?

Maybe Quip doesn't, but Salesforce certainly does.

Note I don't fully understand the valuation either but it seems like there are definitely synergies here.
The right person is. How much was Steve Jobs worth to Apple?

Bret is one of the most outrageously talented and productive people I've ever worked with. In a high-leverage position, such a person can be extremely valuable.
The piece clearly went out of its way to avoid any mention of PE successes. The closest they come is mentioning that Fortress claims they "will create jobs and take cars off the road."
Well then, I suspect you'll enjoy the trilogy a lot. It's definitely something I'd expect many here on HN to enjoy.
I suppose we have a different notion of shielding. If you look at this page, you'll see the shielding effectiveness dropping with frequency, hence the skin depth.

http://www.ets-lindgren.com/iSeries-71
"...we did not have much in house expertise using PostgreSQL"

This seems to be the underlying factor.
From what I read, I think (hope) so.
"The scale and unprecedented force of his playing demanded stronger technology from piano makers – his recitals often required two pianos, as the first was likely to be destroyed in performance."

Having only played on a modern piano, I can't even imagine how this is possible..
Like I said, it's been a few years, and the project I was working on was a smaller project, ~1000 lines of code.

I try to minimize imports, and am not touching them often. I'm very considerate of what I'm adding to a codebase, so I don't mind the extra space in my head.
Also keep reference docs for the language and libraries on hand or accessible, to alleviate some of the need.

And I consider frequent renaming to be a sign that I hadn't thought out the problem well enough before starting. When I see a true need, I use Multifile Find (& Replace) in Sublime, multi-step process for audit followed by action.

And I've always found auto-complete's to be more frustrating that a saver of time, especially those that would fire on whitespace, so disable them or put them under a secondary keymap.

I'm sure the IDE saves some time, for many, but all the reasons people use them are mostly annoyances to me. Though there are still some merit, like having an embedded debugger and intelligent index of signatures.
Yes. The FCC allowed operation outside the normal Part 15 unlicensed band range in exchange for the makers of wifi devices promising not to intrude on certain areas within that range of frequencies. By increasing the power setting, you're disrupting navigation services, weather services, aviation services and maritime services. Some of these services are very sensitive to interference, and by setting up your devices to use those frequencies, your little router is essentially screaming into their ear, blocking people from getting information that may be essential for their safety. If you want more bandwidth, pester vendors into hurrying up with 802.11ad devices, don't go tromping on the neighbors' rf lawns.
Strongly agree. Another good option for aerobic exercise is the 7 minute workout [1]. I often do a couple of rounds of this when I need a quick refresh between sessions of focussed work.

The routine is easily done in an office / park / parking lot, though you'll probably want a shower afterwards.

[1] http://7-min.com/
I cannot imagine why you're being down-voted. This isn't hypothetical; the FCC imposed these security restrictions after reports of actual interference to airport weather RADARs.

https://www.fcc.gov/general/u-nii-and-tdwr-interference-enfo...
Sure I'll give you that the design is merging, but they are a single company; wouldn't you expect the design to merge. And I—as a software developer—would appreciate more platform convergence. (I'm looking at you SCNLayer).
Though I am completely with you when it comes to feature stuff. I know their engineers work very hard but I wish they would spend time looking at some of their interface changes and really work extra hard to help non-techies "get" them. They seem to be doing that on iOS 10.
There needs to be a thread on "newish online tools that everyone is starting to depend on or love" because I had never even heard of this domain/product until this news.

Apparently, neither did the Quip toothbrush people.

How is Quip better than good old Google Docs?

EDIT: Just looking at it, it looks very reminiscent of Apache Wave, which I was (unfortunately) a fan of. I wonder if it was inspired by it?

EDIT 2: It seems that Quip, unlike Google Docs, is end to end encrypted, which makes it possible to use on corporate intranets that normally forbid tools like Google Docs for security reasons. Hrm.

EDIT 3: Might as well plug the newest thing _I_'ve heard of. https://discordapp.com/ is a great voice chat client, intended for gaming but surely useful for productive ends. It's Erlang-backed, as well. Seems to have great connection quality and is just a nice, fun app.
Expecting Data from Theranos, Lab Experts Get New Product
I would also like to add that in my experience, unfortunately, "asshole"-like behavior isn't going to change when the source is a person in authority or a person close to someone in authority.

I've been at two separate jobs where I encountered people like this. (Thankfully, I did not have to directly work with them - that would have been tough). Coincidentally, both had the title of "Senior Architect" or something like that, and both were extremely bellicose and condescending in their tone to a variety of people, both in person, on the phone and in emails.

In both cases, I knew of multiple people who had complained about the individual's behavior to management yet in both circumstances, nothing was done and the behavior continued. In one case, more than one person quit and specifically called out the offensive person in their "farewell" email. (This is not something I would recommend)

I eventually left both positions, for other reasons. In one case, during my exit interview, I was specifically asked by HR if I'd ever experienced any "difficult" behavior from the individual in question. I declined to give any details, as by that point it was clear to me that management not only ignored this behavior but condoned it as well. (You may not agree with my course of action) As far as I know, both of these people are still working at the same places, and I'm assuming nothing has changed.

This is unfortunately how many of these situations end up. My advice is to choose your battles wisely.
Sounds like there's some room here for a service that does speed tests and files complaints each month automatically.
Why not just hire him directly? Hey, come work for us. Here, salary of $20/mil a year, guaranteed for the next 5 years.
I love Flask. People say Django is easier to use but I had a much easier time with Flask. It's well documented and very flexible.
>I don't see it as more and more people becoming jerks, I see it as more and more people becoming thin skinned.

When everybody else seems thin-skinned, is it everybody else that has the problem?
Unpaid wages is a different situation. A company running out of money and "suddenly" laying everyone off and winding down does not necessarily mean that there are unpaid wages. In this case, the article makes it seem that there was never a point where employees were working without the ability to continue paying them.
I am less curious about the year and more curious as to how the hell flip phones are rendering video. Like 64p 3GPP or something realtime transcoded?
on top of django tutorials, I found this tech blog to be excellent source of HOW-TOs

http://www.marinamele.com/django
Is paid really the same as worth?
Aka have the patience of a saint?
Perhaps DNA is a von Neumann probe?
You probably should learn how venture capital works.
As an ex-SFDC employee, I'd be surprised if Bret is still there in 2 years.

Not that there's anything wrong with it; Salesforce is a great place to work in many ways, but like many big companies they have trouble retaining key employees after acquisitions.
Do you have any sort of SDK for adding integrations that you do not support?

While this looks super useful if you support all of the integrations someone needs, it seems like the moment that's not the case someone needs to maintain a complete ETL pipeline for those data sources you don't support, and their load is only reduced by the fact that they have to maintain fewer data sources.
Is Atom the perfect example of "it's 2016 and my computer has multiple cores but stuff is still slow!"?
Theoretically, as the CEO of Quip, he has some interest in helping his coworkers cash out too.
It continues to surprise me how (why?) Netflix builds their infrastructure on their #1 competitors platform. They're basically funding Amazon Prime. They're undoubtedly smart, so they must have a lot of incentive in doing so.
And the name "Postgres" was an extension of "Ingres":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)
> That the efficacy of this approach is repeatable suggests that the problem exists primarily b/c sites are willing to put up with bad behavior.

I think there's a little more at play, here. Look at the two subreddits /r/askhistorians and /r/askreddit, which vary about as much as possible in moderation patterns and resulting quality: /r/askhistorians is possibly the best moderated forum on the internet, allowing only high quality top-level comments from a historiographical perspective. OTOH /r/AskReddit is a cesspool of bigotry, puns, and reddit memes so tired they might as well be generated stochastically.

However, looking at what differentiates them, it's entirely culture. It's not that the moderators on /r/AskReddit are bad or aren't interested in moderation, they are simply trying to cultivate a much less formal discussion. Similarly, I think you'll see higher rates of success wrt moderation on focused, interest-driven discussion than on "free-for-all" forums where one can e.g. successfully start a blessed conversation with the intent to troll the forum itself.

For an example, people arguing for neo-nazi type politics on HN (or Dr. Dobbs) might not be tolerated for obvious reasons. But they're also not likely to comment in either place. On an article discussing controversy affecting the general public, you're going to have an extremely difficult time finding a line between civil and uncivil discussion—the normal for the context is probably not civil by most peoples' standards, but restricting the conversation would look a whole lot like trying to shape it.

Tl;dr every community has its own needs and expectations; I don't think there is a moderation panacea without creating isolated communities that self-select towards the conversation they want to have.

Thoughts?
I see I'm not the only one who's never heard of Quip. It seems hard to believe they have so much traction and aren't an HN-household name...
PiP looks great. There's nothing stopping you from opening two browser windows side by side, but that's a huge pain. I don't want all the various other parts of the webpage showing, or to have to resize the window manually to just show the video. I just want to pop-out the video only. I love the feature on my iPad. I think when you try it, you may grow to appreciate it.
I'll have to check out spacemacs. I've always been a vim person in that eternal war, but spacemacs looks doable for a vi user and interesting.
Obviously the rest of the team is likely to be very talented as well. Also, he's the founder, which includes a responsibility to act in the best interest of the company (plus $20M/yr would be much less money).
It might not be blocked any longer... https://m.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/46sefz/archiv...
C* makes it much easier to manage a cluster of Solr as the data grows (specifically with DSE), as with the tight integration you get all the benefits of C*. (HA, eventual consistency, multi-dc replication..)
I can only assume this is satire.
> Why do companies wait till the dying moments before informing employees?

Because the "dying moment" is, almost by definition, the point at which you determine you have no viable route to get new funding or restructure to keep the business a going concern. Any earlier notification to employees means that employees started fleeing ship for safer shores -- especially the most employable with the best outside options -- undermining your efforts to find a way to save the company as you lose key staff.
>* In other words, Django used to be picked because it was the hot new thing, but since then it's no longer hot or new, but since enough people adopted it, they wrote enough libraries for it to make it worth continuing to use on new projects.*

Yeah, in other words, it's now both mature and with a rich ecosystem. Just the ticket!

And I wouldn't even say that people went for it because it was "hot new" back in the day. People went for it because it solved their problems. Being in fashion was never it's strong point, Rails and Node/Express did far better with that.
How much are scoopers paid?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12183414

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12160013

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12144150 (5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132344

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12127218 (4 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116777 (3 comments)
Would patching it using Cydia Substrate keep the app's signature intact?
Mark Benioff, Sales Force CEO, personally invested in the original venture round that raised $15M [1]. Assuming that round set a $75M valuation, it implies M.Benioff made at least a 10X with this investment.

I'd assume boards are diligent when it comes to potential conflicts of interest and the $750M valuation is justifiable. But I don't know that for a fact. Does anyone have insight on how boards deal might deal with this scenario ?

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quip/investors

edit: grammar
Pokevision stopped working because they banned the whole ec2 IP range.
Was pretty limited and very very inferior to SQLAlchemy. It still is, but it's bearable.

As an example off the top of my head when I started with Django you couldn't bulk create objects, if you wanted to create 100 records it needed 100 separate INSERT statements. That got old fast.

Edit: Not sure why the downvotes, perhaps comment on why you think I'm wrong?
What is the most complex game ever made in assembly
Mattermark is hiring a Research Analyst
Didn't you just say that this situation is fine because you dislike Gawker?

Good level of cognitive dissonance there.
"People like bullies." -- Daniel Kahneman

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/06/05/british-voter...
Researcher: 4K passwords leaked from porn site, including US Govt credentials
How Ransomware era might finally end
These tools are taking a new approach to the problem, which is to constantly monitor for encrypted files and stop the relevant processes, thus often limiting the loss to the first few files. Some have proved far more efficient than any standard antivirus as of now:

Linux, Windows:
https://github.com/unixist/cryptostalker

OSX:
https://objective-see.com/products/ransomwhere.html

more theoretical information on Cryptodrop's paper:

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~traynor/papers/scaife-icdcs16.pdf
IMHO, most people who misbehave online are decent people that get carried away in the emotion of the moment. If the community calls them upon it and force them to own up they comments, they will probably appologize. This requires explict rules and bounderies, as well as the community being able to disengage the minute the infractor does not show any signs of remorse.

On the other hand most online misbehavior comes from a minority of repeat infractors. I am willing to believe that the majority of those are not checkbox assholes, but inmature individuals that do not know any better. However, I do not think trying to understand them and accomodate them do any good to either the community of the asshole-to-be. The best online communities I have been part of do have a sort of virtual sign at the entrance saying: "Your manners have to be this tall in for you to ride this game."

If you fail to meet the requirements, your posts are erased (or never put thru in the first place). In an ideal world, a moderator may contact you and invite you to express your point with a minimum of decency. If this cannot be achived by personal message, a broadcast announcing an otherwise worthwhile post have been deleted due to open disregard for civility rules can be an acceptable compromise.

Finally, there is such thing as a "checkbox asshole", and nothing you do will make them change, because they trive on negative emotions they trigger. You just dont feed the trolls, keep hellbanning them over and over, and hope they get tired and go trolling elsewhere.
Sometimes they are, but for people who would self-impose an additional challenge anyway, achievements can provide some extra fun.

I've also seen achievements used for humor and story purposes; they can provide that bit of levity that helps ameliorate an excessively dark moment, or turn a nasty trap into a chuckle, or provide a fourth-wall-breaking moment.

For an example of that last case, see the Portal 2 achievement "This Is The Part Where He Kills You".
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>> Many people do not know how to address bad behavior that doesn't involve some form of fighting, punishment, etc and this tends to deepen the problem rather than resolve it.

While I would agree with this, I would add that banning and punishing people only makes them try harder to continue to be the thorn in your side and make every else just that much more miserable.

Multiple accounts, using proxies, and other means to cloak your IP address then leads to spending untold hours trying to track this people down and block them instead of actually doing moderation and even site improvements.

It's a zero sum game in the end.

source: ran several BBS's in the late 90's early aughts.
Last I checked, YouTube still does not support encryption when broadcasting a live stream.
Speaking as the smartass who made the original comment, your work is much appreciated! If you need additional printed works for examples, I have quite a few.
I would love—assuming Congress had their heads in the right place—to make a small council (council to prevent Luddite or crazy Presidents/Congresses from completely wreaking havoc) that would understand tech stuff like we do. People who just comment "Yea that's not how this works," or "hey techies think this is a good idea." Because I give a lot of governments good credit on tech stuff (and especially local governments) but on the federal level I think we're a little lost and lobbyists get to influence what congress members believe.
Well, you're taking things I said to the extreme. When talking about these stuff, remember, we have to use common sense.

Obviously, if everyone agrees, the 2nd Amendment will be repeal legally.

But the problem is, not everybody will agree, due to the nature of how America was founded, and due to the importance of arms to the American people, the culture, the history, etc., no Congress will be crazy enough to go against the people and repeal the 2nd Amendment.

And should the government try to bypass the Constitution, then obviously, people will revolt.

Of course, nobody wants that. But that's what will happen. Can the people win a in war against the government? No. But a government that kills its own citizens in order to disarm them will no longer be viewed as legitimate by the citizens.
It should not take an i7 processor to run a text editor. I mean no disrespect, but either something is very wrong with your computer, or something is very wrong with this software.
Nice, thanks for the demo. I used to be a web developer awhile back but had no idea you could do this type of animation with pure css. Looks like I need to refresh my skills.
That's actually my point.
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Maybe. Many hot Jupiters are probably tidally locked, but it's not clear to me whether rocky planets will be tidally locked. Though given that they're considering timescales of 100s of Gyr maybe they will end up tidally locked by that point. At any rate, I don't think our understanding of tides is good enough to claim that they will or won't be tidally locked one way or another. But needless to say, the authors didn't consider details like this in their paper.