skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My music collection is all in FLAC, and encoding it again would be a waste of space and/or resources. Streaming FLAC is completely fine for me, as I don't have bandwidth caps or such.

I can see myself building a streaming service for myself to listen to my collection while I'm on the move.
Please do not hate Fentynal, hate the people choosing to use it. As a person who suffers from chronic severe pain due to a near fatal illness, I can tell you that For people like us Fentynal is a life saver as far as the quality of life it provides to those who need it. It is one of the few medications I can take as it does not metabolize in the liver, if any does it is a tiny amount. Fentynal also does not come in a powdered form they are taking a liquid version and mixing it into powders, other then that one form all other preparations are majorly tamper resistant being either in a matrix that almost makes it impossible to even be affective in the system or on a patch which breaks down over time to slowly release in the body. Of course there are exceptions, but please do not hate the drug, hate this sick bastards that are using it to increase their illegal sales! (my apologies to the OP for hijacking their question.)
I've taken many drugs just once...
If it was even remotely painful, it would sail through an ABX test.
> Currently, this is almost certainly grammatically incorrect, "they" being the third person plural and (not shown here, but assumed) the speaker being singular.

"They" has been grammatically correct for single person of unspecified gender for hundreds of years. Do a little research before saying ignorant things.
I don'the understand why people miss drug abusers, even if it is their own children. I would love to hear my son'a dead if he's stupid that bad to get an overdose.
Rings true for me as well -- I remember one near miss from many years ago where I was in disbelief for a long, long time -- how the hell did I miss seeing that car? This article + probability starts to explain it.
What computer technology's not Chinese made?
Thank god the Wall Street Journal is encouraging critical thinking, and more importantly fostering the discussion by putting articles like this out for everybody to read /s

On a more serious note, I don't believe this is true. In every place I've been, school, university, corporate jobs, the "critical thinkers" always got marginalised. This was the case even if they were truly nice people who cared - i.e. not abrasive and argumentative, just different. This is often called "difficult", because most managers and HR can't be bothered to actually engage with that person. So isn't that people can't do it, just the lesson is "you're better off if you don't say it". Political correctness also doesn't help IMO.

I feel like one of my favorite Mitchell and Webb sketches, "Kill the poor", describes this quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
I Hope this is better than the web version of Skype: it doesn't do the only thing it is supposed to do: phone calls.
>Yup. He doesn't need 'justice' because he doesn't feel he's been particularly wronged.

Way to prove the parent's point. You have taken this whole "innocent until proven guilty" scheme backwards...
The article, especially some of the examples, seems abusive to low-wage employees. How many of us would give a job description that said 'this is not a preparation for a slow motion contest' a second glance?

The meat and potatoes of the article is mostly just complaints to be honest. A lack of candidates is always the go-to excuse for managers and executives when explaining poor productivity or vacancies. Job seekers will gladly tell you that the pay stinks or that they just flat out don't want to work for a company.

Dig deeper and ask the managers and executives to show how they reward and retain employees with these skills.
You clean your grill with grass? And the next time you use it, your food doesn't taste like lawn?
Why the comparison to TIFF ? If you want to insist in that analogy, are you aware of PNG and UTF-8 ?
Are you positive you can tell the way the difference is going, even (especially) after a long time listening?
This is something that I've been designing and playing around for a while...

I wanted to implement a generic MUC protocol bridge. Kinda like https://sameroom.io/ is doing, but open source.

My initial approach was to look at Matterbridge (a mattermost<->irc bridge) and go from there. But I simply don't have time to do it anymore. The author is interested by the approach though so ... have at it:

https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/issues/9

--

I'm also the author of https://github.com/jleclanche/django-push-notifications and I don't use it anymore, but it's a very popular django app. If someone around here is using it and wants to maintain it (or part of it), please reach out - I tried handing it off to Jazzband but that doesn't seem to be happening.
Exactly. Given how much we know about psychoacoustics, and considering how often people who claim to hear dramatic differences end up failing the most basic ABX tests, it's just not a credible assertion without robust supporting evidence.
That could be because he has smelly feet or because he threatened someone with a jackknife. That's kind of a huge range of insinuations to make.
The quantity of white males who are removed from their position in a possibly career-ending way without trial or due explanation (e.g. Mozilla CEO, GitHub CEO, various conferences, colleagues), plus the quantity of government aid and help that are offered based on people's gender, and not based on people's weaknesses, now makes me uncomfortable. White males who work hard deserve a life too.
I built http://mlist.io but currently don't have time to do anything beyond maintenance. If you interested in email newsletters let me know!
Do we really need a framework for this? It's some basic CSS.
I totally agree with you and hope many of us too.
So? Those other guests might just hate my gut.

Or they might prefer their pal to come speak at the last few open entries, and Douglas got invited instead.

Or they might be idiots.

Or insane.

Or "professional" touchy-feelers....
There's a 'New' button on the top row that does this. I read it daily. I don't see the benefit of splitting the page - the greate thing about HN is it's plain interface. If it got as busy on the eye as say, Reddit, I feel the experience would not be as good.

A simple and easy fix would be to add 'Random' as an option on the top bar which shows a list of random posts (that are not already on the front page) from the past 7 days.
Maybe "overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug," but it's because it's the most used one. The "harm to others" score is not by individual, and there is a large difference in the number of users.
You are equating "philosophy" with what philosophy looks like today ("armchair astronomy").

The point is that this wasn't the case, philosophy was the umbrella that included everything.

Heck, just look at the title "Doctor of Philosophy", which is the name for doctorates in both the sciences and the humanities. Not just for doctorates in today's specific sub-discipline of philosophy.
I must be naive but I thought this was public information in most countries.
The word "xenoracism" has actually been applied, but it strikes me as a make-do lashed-together word. "Xenotyping" is no good because it already has a precise scientific definition. "Stereotyping" ends up the best description, though it's less than satisfactorily insulting.
Does anyone actually think it _should_ be free? Are there really people who think a developer who creates and maintains an opensource project should be obligated to answer any and all support questions and requests?!

I assume you must have run into people who think this way OP, or else you wouldn't be asking the question. I can't say I've ever heard anyone argue that though.

Offering free open source software with paid support is a well-established business model. It's probably hard to scale quickly, but if you have a popular project with decent enterprise adoption you can probably make it work. In fact, offering paid as opposed to free support will probably help your project get traction with enterprise users. They'll feel more comfortable knowing they can have a contractual guarantee for support as opposed to just hoping you follow through.
The people who are overdosing from the Fentynal problem are doing so mostly unknowingly. Dealers are "spiking" their heroin with it in an effort to boost sales as when someone OD's from taking heroin, the user community takes that as being a great batch of heroin and the OD being caused by someone who is not very tolerant to heroin. It's a sick and disgusting game that dealers are using. Again it's not the drug and generally not the users who are OD'ing that are bad, it's the sick twisted dealers out to make more dope money!
The whole thing feels like "reverse bullying" to me.
Indeed, quite odd to describe "soft skill" as critical thinking skills, ie cognitive skills. soft skill typically is social skill, the type of nebulous skill that while it may have value leaves huge room to interpretation.
We still do this. Don't drink a bottle of rubbing ethanol (not taxed as drinking alcohol) or you will get extremely sick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubbing_alcohol#US_legislation
As others have said, maybe it's to affect a customer. However, hosting industry had a lot of roots in the adult content industry, and those guys didn't have many ethical guidelines. It was not uncommon for hosting companies to DDoS each other to drive a competitor out of business. Not saying that is the case here, but perhaps?
Subtle Tech Informs Without Demanding Interaction
That's the point. The point of the analogy is precisely that there are existing formats that are capable of the same practical quality with much smaller file sizes. PNG is smaller than uncompressed TIFF. UTF-8 is much smaller than UTF-32.
>If the HN moderators wanted to do that after reviewing complaints against me, it's certainly within their rights.

What's legal/within one's rights and what's right is not the same thing.

To be also right, those HN moderators should also have thoroughly investigated (reviewed) those complaints, not just knee-jerk reacted to them (as seems to be the case here).

And even then, they should publicly state the reasons, not just leave an insinuation open.

And if this did had happened to you personally, with all the possible implications in your reputation, job etc, you'll be also demanding this of them too.
Good job so far, just add some airbnb hook there and you got income.
Lawyers are paid to make cases. Here, it's quite simple. The author of this code saw the Skype code, indeed he admits it. Then he wrote new code. Same person. Your honor, it is unreasonable for him to claim that his new code was not heavily influenced by what he had seen. It is like me listening to a song and then writing a new one "heavily inspired by it", and then claiming I'm not committing copyright infringement.

Lawyers make such arguments all the time and it comes down to who has the time & money to take them to court, and defend against them, and then the judge is a human who decides, and is heavily influenceable.
Talk recordings for promcon2016 (Prometheus) released
That's a reasonable counter-example. Thank you.
HugoDaniel was referring to the fact that PNG is lossless as well. The rest of your point still stands, of course.
>drinking too much water and dying

Citation needed.
As I said, people use copyright law to take other people to court, and then get money from them. Your "fuck copyright" statement is bold, and one I'd generally agree with, unfortunately it has zero relevance to the legal risks a business would take, using this code in a commercial product, in such a country.
It can be incredibly frustrating to find slightly odd-ball calibers like that. My father has a couple of old lever action deer rifles that he's inherited, and they can be lots of fun to track down ammunition for, since some are larger caliber rimfires that are virtually extinct, and the rest are tend to be odd flat-nosed Winchester cartridges, to accommodate the tubular feeds.
Except if you make it to "fame/success status". Then you can use the minority card all the time in your favour.
Due to incompetence/apathy. They have no motivation to kill their paying customers.
Yes but if you are going to give half-assed reasons for uninviting him, then you are going to have to defend yourself. If they had said: " Unfortunately Douglas Crackford will not attend the conference for unforeseen circumstances", we would not be in this outrage. If you are going to publicly shame someone and possible harm their career, you better have proof that he has done some very horrible things or comments. Listing a possible twitter message calling someone stupid does not sound like a reasonable cause too me. That is why we are voicing our concerns, and why hardly anyone here is agreeing with you.
Google and AWS probably have sophisticated DDOS mitigation (can anyone comment on this?) and you can scale up pretty quickly.

But if your service is the direct target of the attack (as opposed to the whole provider) and your servers are getting hammered...

Even if you architecture allows quick horizontal scaling, you still face a tough decision.

The attack could go on for days, and the hosting costs can go really high really fast.
Which can be catastrophic for a small company.
The site I recall was Blogspot rather than Github: https://web.archive.org/web/20110602182718/http://skype-open...
I don't know about the reasons either, but if there are multiple, yet hard-to-proof claims (like harassment or just being a jerk), it's something they need to take serious while not being able to talk about the specifics without really doing Crockford wrong.
I wasn't, bad choice of words.
>I feel there's a knee jerk reaction from people in the tech community to minimize very legitimate concerns about bias and about making people feel uncomfortable and unwelcome.

Maybe people shouldn't be so precious snowflakes that should always feel "comfortable" and "welcome"? Maybe they should have the courage to be challenged?

I blame it on the BS "you are so special" mode of baby boomer parenting...
A) The old west DID have a government. The US government wasn't exactly helpless out there.

"So-called land clubs were organizations established by settlers before the U.S. government even surveyed the land, let alone started to sell it or give it away."

before the U.S. government even surveyed the land

before the U.S. government

You don't read much do you?
One team documents the protocol as a spec. A second team takes the spec and writes implementations. The advantage of this for open source is that when the protocol changes, it's relatively simple for that first team to update the spec, and safe for the second team to update their code.

This is legal and safe. It is how the first clone PCs survived even IBM's lawyers.
Time to read Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa again:

In 2003, Pope John Paul II approved the beatification of
Mother Teresa. At the time, Christopher Hitchens called
Mother Teresa “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud,”
arguing that “even more will be poor and sick if her
example is followed.” On Sept. 4, 2016, Pope Francis will
canonize Mother Teresa. Hitchens’ original essay is
republished below.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor...

Criticism of Mother Teresa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa
I have been holding on to http://ampoll.com for a while. Technologically, it's there despite a couple of bugs but I've not touched it for over a year now and will probably scrap it in the near future.
Interesting to compare to the "Math Myth" (previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418788 )
> Personally I'd not touch this with a 3-meter bargepole, because I live in a country where people use copyright and trademark law to take people to court, yet it's an interesting project.

You feel using it would open you up to a copyright claim?
When you refer to what an artist or producer is doing, you may be talking about a different kind of compression (dynamic range compression) than this topic covers (data compression).

I don't want artists or producers having any say in audio encoding formats – because the audio encoding format should be transparent and therefore have zero impact on the actual artwork.
It wouldn't be 10-20g. That should be easy to handle for most hosting providers. Attacks these days are commonly over 100g. That becomes challenging
>they usually just roam in a small area around their owner/team.

That sounds quite distracting in a small/medium office space by itself.

My experience has been people who bring dogs to work are often oblivious to the nuisance they cause to others who try to focus.
Does your business need a bot?
Definition: Hyponatremia is a condition that occurs when the level of sodium in your blood is abnormally low. Sodium is an electrolyte, and it helps regulate the amount of water that's in and around your cells. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/b...

Risk factors: Certain drugs. Medications that increase your risk of hyponatremia include thiazide diuretics as well as some antidepressants and pain medications. In addition, the recreational drug Ecstasy has been linked to fatal cases of hyponatremia. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/b...

While staying hydrated can reduce the risk of heat stroke associated with MDMA, the drug can also cause the body to retain water, so drinking too much can lead to a potentially fatal electrolyte imbalance. http://healthland.time.com/2013/09/03/concert-deaths-five-my...

More common, ecstasy has led to serious hyponatremia and hyponatremia-associated deaths. Hyponatremia in these cases is due to a "perfect storm" of ecstasy-induced effects on water balance. Ecstasy leads to secretion of arginine vasopressin as well as polydipsia as a result of its effects on the serotonergic nervous pathways. Compounding these effects are the ready availability of fluids and the recommendation to drink copiously at rave parties where ecstasy is used. The effects of ecstasy on the kidney as well as therapeutic measures for the treatment of ecstasy-induced hyponatremia are presented. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18684895
Would you mind saying which country you live in?

I'm from the UK, where income/tax is private, and my understanding is that this is the same in the USA, and most European countries.

It's interesting that what's "normal" to me is so alien and unexpected to other people.
I'd guess others are less likely to read HN.

I know people that design electric motors, microphones for hearing aids, overhead electrification for railways, railway signalling systems and power distribution in very large buildings.

However, I don't know what a typical day would be for any of them.
If it's a small project, you can do whatever you want. Most (all) open source licenses don't force the owner/maintainer to provide support. They have big "AS IS" clause.

For a big project, you can try it, but it's very difficult to build a community around it without some free support.

Also, you want (good) bugs reports, so you have to allow free bugs reports. (It's also allows bad bugs reports, but it's difficult some user to tell them apart.)

Also, you want to provide some babysitting of good pull request from power users, in spite perhaps some of them don't pay. (For example, at some low levels of academic work, they can run/install whatever they want, but they have no money.)

And you want some free support for people installing it only for testing. Usually Windows box are very homogeneous and you an provide a foolproof installer, Linux has usually more configuration details.

With all of these, you will have a group of users that get to a big company that can invest some money to hire you as consultants, pay to attend conferences or make donations.

It's possible and legal to attempt your method, but I don't know a big project that was successful without some free support.

Also, I you don't provide support, you will get anyway an unofficial support group in StackOverflow or a subredit.

And you still have the possibilities of a hostile fork. If the hostile fork has approximately the same capacity to produce new code and better free support, it will probably take over.
Perhaps for not wanting to be that guy?

Besides, I don't work at Google. At the companies I did work, when someone brought a dog to work (few times) it was always a problematic situation, people tried to ignore the ruckus, moved to nearby desks etc.
Honest question: what am I looking at?

I feel like there's a joke but I don't quite get it. Or is it earnest advice about not asking users questions you already have the answers to?
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> Discourse and disagreement with speakers is natural and should be encouraged, as it oftentimes leads to enlightening discussions for bystanders and conference attendees, which was the entire point of the conference in the first place.

I agree with this, but we should tease “disagreement about the ideas that are the purpose of the conference” apart from “disagreement about things not relevant to the conference.”

If I go to a JavaScript conference, I am more than happy to see two speakers in a monkey-knife fight over whether the class keyword is taking two steps backwards. Those are the core ideas relevant to the conference.

Making jokes or metaphors that touch on contentious social topics like gender roles and so forth can touch of disagreement that may be valuable in a larger social context--like on HN and a whole or the internet as a whole, but it is off-topic for most technology conferences.

It’s a lot like discussing a programming problem on HN, and then someone mentions IQ, and someone else mentions how terrible it is that we can’t give interviewees IQ tests, and then we’re discussing racism, the right and wrong way to interview programmers, and on and on and on with something that si no longer the original programming problem.

None of what I am saying implies that I agree that Mr. Crockford should have been uninvited, and nor is it an endorsement of his choices as a speaker. But in a general sense, I totally get why its ideal that when I give a talk, I avoid jokes and metaphors that invite off-topic debate.

And likewise, I get why conferences ought to attempt to moderate the talks such that they have the highest probability of leading to on-topic debate. It’s much the same as moderating Hacker News threads to stay roughly on-topic and with high quality.
Ask HN: What are best ways to prepare for RHCA/RHCE
So far I've been studying on my own and doing various exercises. I have an account at a hosting company for developers and have a vm running on my macbook. I'm using Safarionline to watch an excellent series of videos by Sander van Vugt and reading the Linux Bible. This is flat out fun but I've started to feel there's something missing. What's missing isn't enough to cause me to fail anything but it's just a feeling I'm not quite doing this right but I'm not sure why. Any suggestions on preparation for this exam? Any ideas on what's missing? One thing I considered is that I'm doing it 100% on my own but I really don't want to pay $2,500 or $3,500 for a training course and I don't know anyone who's studying for this. It occurred to me that it's possible the feeling of community is missing but I'm just guessing as mostly working on my own is great. So if anyone can look at what I've described as my training methods and tell me what they think's missing, even if it's a guess, I'll take it seriously. Thank you!
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Thousands of birds got trapped in Hurricane Hermine's eye
Paper at https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~rgemulla/publications/delcorr...