skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet.

You'll have nobody to blame but the other vendors, and I think they'd be stupid to follow Apple here. The answer to headphones that Apple has now is the Lightning connector/adapter plus their wireless solution.

Other companies have nothing. Can USB-C do the job? Do they have a wireless standard they can all agree on? I have my doubts.

> Getting the telcos...

They have no say in it. You can use an unlocked phone on any network you want. You can already build your own phone with a Rasperry Pi and a GSM module. There's really nothing they can do.

They won't sell it in their retail stores, that's a huge barrier, but not if you don't care.
rootkit comes from unix, it was a tool helping to restore admin privileges even after the admin found that the host was hacked (that's where the name comes from root = admin on unix). Its goal was to be invisible.

Are you sure? It also commonly referred to such kits being used by hostile parties. I've personally interrupted an attempt at installing the "Hungarian Rootkit" in the 90's. (I put unpatched Red Hat 6 online when Red Hat 7 was out.)

(that's where the name comes from root = admin on unix)

The fact that you think this is something that bears explaining is interesting in the context of HN. I hope this is based on something you've noticed about recent user trends here. There was a time when someone would be very surprised if a user here didn't already know this.
Looks interesting, tremendously bad product name though.
Quite I am sure my experience doing MR back in the early 80's for British Telecom would be usefull today - but I suspect that I might struggle to get past the hr screen.

That was when 17 top of the line supermini's Pr!me 750's was a huge cluster (we where the largest non back user in the UK) - probably about the same as a 10-20k core Hadoop setup would be today.
Of course we run in all browsers. Also have native apps for windows, mac, linux, ios and android. 2004 never did call.
Wog ratio on HN... probably north of 98%
Favourite working music?
Hello. I have been wondering if anyone has any suggestions and/or what everyone's favourite "working music" is if any. Particularly among those of you who work from home / reportedly / alone / during your personal projects etc

Myself seem to have mixed results, with complete silence sometimes being the best when I do something that I am actually focused yet other times wanting something in the background to occupy the auditory channel so to speak (or to drawn other environmental noise)

That in turn often has countereffective results, with "too epic" making me feel like I do amazing work, despite not doing any or with "too chillaxing" music actually making me too relaxed in turn and finding myself drifting towards the abyss of random wikipedia article reading.

So I reckon, if 10 people here chip in, and all happen to have 1 particular style (track), that may end up fairly interesting.
I didn't! His karma's too low.
Good Eats was on for 14 years and has 252 episodes, what more can you possibly ask for? That's a good run for any show nevermind one as labor and time intensive as Good Eats.

What makes you think his Good Eats host character is his "normal persona"? He doesn't play a caricature, just a character.
Odd, I'm not sure if this is intentional but after the "check if you are registered" step it wants me to register, despite the fact that my registration is active (I can look it up for NC and I've voted in 2 primaries in the last 6 months without moving). This is either a mistake or an odd choice when people are already registered.

I wanted to see what the process looked like so I could share it on my FB because I think its a great tool (even if there are others like it).
Belkin Introduces Jumbo Dongle for iPhone 7
I have wondered about the same thing--both hoppiness and maltiness are good reactions against bland mass market beers, but somehow big malts never took off the way hoppy IPAs did. Is it difficult/expensive to make malty beers?
This is great. And crazy fast. Great work VS Code team!
Every time I read "curated list" I think to myself, "isn't every list curated?" Some lists are curated by humans, and others are curated by software algorithms.
Ask HN: How to monetize a Chrome extension with 50K users
I own a free Chrome extension that has over 50,000 users and is still growing. I had been looking at this as a fun side project and it hadn't even occurred to me that I would make money from it. During the past few months though, I have received 2 offers to buy my extension. I didn't think much and believed whatever offer they'd make would just be a tiny amount because I'm not making any money with the extension, so I said no without even asking for the price. In hindsight, that was silly of me, I should have worn a more business-friendly hat.

Anyway, I'm curious why people would want to buy a free extension. Can you actually monetize a Chrome extension? I read about the Chrome Store Payment API but I think hardly anyone would pay for an extension. I myself use many browser extensions and never have to pay for one. Does anyone have experience monetizing their extensions and how do you do that? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
>We're starting a new, more focused recruiting effort to recruit developers to the cause. Perhaps you yourself have given some thought to working on an OSS office suite?

Why would I want to waste my time working on a has-been office suite when I can work on the leading FOSS office suite, which is LibreOffice?

Why would I want to commit my time to a project that seems to only seems to exist because of a licensing dispute?

Why would I want to join a chronically understaffed project when I could instead join its competitor, which has far more development support?

Why would I want to join a project which all major Linux distros have abandoned, when I could instead join its competitor, which all major Linux distros have switched to?

I'm sorry, I haven't seen any good answers to these questions at all. Working on a FOSS project that is popular and stands a chance of becoming even more popular among non-techies is laudable. Working to increase FOSS fragmentation, in my opinion, is not. I haven't seen one valid argument yet about what AOO brings to the table the LibreOffice does not. The "diversity" argument isn't valid here; this isn't like, for instance, The GIMP vs. Krita, where the two products are very, very different underneath, have different UIs, even different feature sets, different strengths and weaknesses, and different tasks at which each one is better-suited for. Instead, you have one product that's a fork of the other and has all the developers, and another one that is a dying husk. This resembles the X.org vs. XFree86 situation more than anything, and I would hope everyone here remembers how that one went. What you're doing here is basically like Dawes begging for more help for XFree86 even though everyone else is perfectly happy working on and using X.org, all the distros use it, and everyone's forgotten XFree86.
I think the answer to the headline is "sadness." but the situation is important to understand on two levels, both from technical level and from a governance level.

In my experience, understanding governance is not something that comes easily to engineers. This project however provides a textbook example of the forces involved. Governance, or the right to set direction, can be imposed if the governed are prevented from expressing an opinion on it or choosing an alternative. Dictators who simply kill anyone who stands against them, small groups where a superior assigns governance like a VP telling your group that some person is your new manager. But actual, durable, governance only occurs with the implicit assent of the governed.

Libreoffice (LO) and Apache Open Office (AOO) both existed at a point in time of the fork, when a portion of the governed (in this case the developers) withheld their assent to the impositions by AOO and started LO. From that point forward there were two options for working on open software for business tools.

Given the choice, contributors chose the LO governance over the AOO governance, and as a result what was the premier and leading open office software project is now contemplating its own demise. No one person was responsible, everyone was responsible. This sort of thing happens all the time in all sorts of situations, whether it is countries that lose faith in their leaders, or startups that are suddenly involuntarily losing all their staff, or open source projects that stop being relevant.

From a technical level this is a tremendous validation and condemnation of the power of open source. The ability to fork the software and produce a better, more secure, more maintainable product is huge. I have had the opposite experience of watching a proprietary program I really liked die because the "owner" of the software lost interest in maintaining it. It was frustrating to be unable to contribute to its survival.

But it is also a condemnation in the form of how open source is so loosely governed, there was no effective process of keeping it from getting to the fork or die state. There doesn't exist any sort of neutral arbitration board that would allow troublesome developers who were out of sync with the governed to be removed from the project. I believe that is part of the reason we have a dozen different window systems for Linux.

So bottom line is that it is a sad day for the once dominant Open Office platform, but a very good learning experience for the community.
"If you have personal preferences about whom you let live in your home that don't align with mine, you shouldn't be allowed to have anyone in your home at all!"
So I know SQL, Python, Django, Java (though its been a while), Javascrit, Linux, some cloud computing and a bit of devops. Am I a data engineer? Software engineer, with a lot of database background? What makes a data engineer different from a software engineer?
Agreed, it would be nice if the eslint module swallowed javascript linting errors for you... Also, would be cool if it defaulted to using an in-module copy of eslint with the airbnb preset as it's default if no eslint config file is found in the project/workbench.
Couldn't it cause issues with "object definition" code in REPLs and editors, and interfere with documentation generators, i.e. [Sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/)?
All right on the mark and thanks to the author for saying this! I think a big part of this issue is that there are way more great teams/ideas/new businesses than there are investors in PDX with money... so it's an investors market. They have all the power here and they know it and act on that. Companies seeking funding outside Portland upset this balance and that's good for other founders/companies. Bravo!
Thanks for the heads up. Unfortunately, we don't currently have Windows on the near term roadmap.
This analysis, like other similar ones, assumes that a vote for a third party is a vote "stolen" from one of the two major parties. Which implies that those two parties "own" votes, since you can't steal what someone else doesn't own. Which strikes me as a very disrespectful attitude, all in all.

In my opinion, the mistake is here:

"If you don’t vote for a plausible candidate, then you lose the right to complain when you don’t like what happens."

You're placing the full responsibility on the person who, given the bad choices, with one slightly better than another, elected to not choose either. I think that responsibility in this case rests largely with those who proffer the choices. In other words, if you want, say, Jill Stein supporters to vote Democrat, well then, Democrats should 1) adopt a platform that clearly makes them a much better choice for Greens, and 2) offer a candidate that represents that platform in a convincing way. You don't "own" those voters - it's up to you to convince them to vote for you. If they aren't convinced and vote for someone else, and you lose, the fault is largely yours.

And from their perspective, they are doing the rational thing - by rejecting your candidate for not doing enough to accommodate them, they're strategically voting to push you towards either offering a better choice next time, or reforming the electoral system such that they can express their preferences in a way that affects you less (e.g. by adopting some form of transferable vote). From their perspective, they sacrifice the chance to let the "lesser evil" block the "greater evil" in one particular electoral cycle, for a very long-ended play to try to change the rules of the game in their advantage, so that at some point they can actually get "good" elected.

This isn't to say that there is a certain amount of responsibility for not anticipating indirect effect of your vote, given the constraints of the political system. Depending on how much is at stake, the strategy above is not always applicable, if the losses in the current electoral cycle would be more than anticipated long-term gains. Many people, myself included, believe that this cycle is one of those, and that the long-term goal requires allying with the "lesser evil" for the duration of the crisis.
That does turn out to be more effective in teaching them to write coherently.

Spelling and punctuation details can come later. If the kids start out being wrong all the time, they just quit.
I don't have to hold the door for the person behind me, I do it because I'm (sometimes) not a jerk.

I vote (in MA) not because I'm going to pick the president, but for two reasons:

1) People literally died for my right to vote and I'm grateful.
2) I have friends who live in autocracies who would be
disappointed in me if I didn't vote and have said this clearly.

The USA has given me opportunities many people around the world don't have. I consider it my duty to vote.

*I know not everyone in autocracies thinks voting is great, but some do.
Algorithms and elite schools doesn't tell me whether you'll use the right-sized solution for a problem and be able to prioritize and focus on tasks accordingly. It doesn't tell me if you can perceive and extract requirements well and have a process of communication and a professionalism of management in how you go about getting to solutions that work for the humans that will be using it.

It also doesn't tell me about your personal value system and whether you are passionate about creating good user experiences or if you are just interested in a technical playground or if you are a social climber or what.

It also doesn't tell me if you are highly opinionated and want to do things your own way or if you are flexible enough to deal with the imperfections of the real world. I don't know whether you value the mantra that the perfect shouldn't be the enemy of the good.

No, none of these brain teasers or abstract bootcamp style things tell me that - and those are the actual things that will make or break a company and determine whether your product will hit the market on time. Those are the things that will get you a customer base and will create a company culture of productivity and not something that doesn't lead to results.

Until interviews become more about how people approach work and their ethic and process of conducting it (which is a major part of classical engineering), these are ineffective tools for finding the right people.

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[1] although as a disclaimer, I strongly prefer companies of under 20 employees. If you have 200, then the employees can be more insulated from the exposure to these types of risk and the necessity of this type of vertical thinking. But it's an "insulation" - everyone is working either directly or tangentially on something that is intended to be used by something in the world (usually humans).
The discussion from a few days ago on this topic was pretty informative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12411747
Do yourself a favor and read the Sendy source code.
dupe, please check before submitting!

This is already on the front page with 100+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12454714
"director of data engineering"

This is already generic.
Neither voteplz or vote.org show me as registered, but ocvote.com does. Seems like the main thing these sites are designed to do doesn't work, unless they are actually designed to collect and sell emails...
> That would kill Python for scientific use.

If Python used the Perl 6 model, you could still use floats by writing your literals in scientific notation, so if you want floating-point performance, you can still get it. For example, 2.2 would be a Fraction, but 2.2e0 would be a float. I don't want to eliminate floats from the language, just hide them from average users by default.

And it's not like rationals-as-default are just some weird Perl 6-ism. Haskell does the same thing, and the language is fairly well-received.

> Also, while nice, Fractions have their own pitfalls due to potentially catastrophic runtime behavior.

Elaborate?
so you find some real full stack devs ie layers 1-7 or you buckle down and do a CCNA or similar is there a CCIE track for big data?

And I would bet across all of the tech workers in the USA there are well more than 6k that could do this.
So I guess you are a data engineer? What makes it fun for you? How do work with your customers to give them what they need in a timely matter? I would be interested to know what stack you use to go from dirty data to customer consumption.
This x 100. Yes, please do.
You are doing the Lord's work here.
Nothing really new here that isn't covered in Lean Startup materials.

>We've spent millions of dollars ... so you don't have to.

This two person company that's had, from what I can tell, a hand full of clients, has spent millions of dollars testing their marketing? I find that a little hard to believe.

That said, their Playbook page is pretty cool and informative, even if seemingly most of it is behind a paywall. It'd be nice to have more information about how these ROIs were calculated. If it's a sample size of three it doesn't mean much. Or whether it was done in combination with other things, and how long those results were measured for also matters a lot. As it stands right now it just sort of comes across as marketing bullshit because it's impossible to tell how meaningful the ROIs are.

The case studies are also pretty weak. Your solution is two sentences? Really?
The center is thought to be solid. It consists of iron and about 10% lighter elements, probably mostly nickel.

There is even a paper that states it is crystallizing at a rate of about 1 mm/year, and this process contributes some of the heat. [1] I have been trying to dig back to the data on this in the past, but haven't found anything but the claim itself.

[1] http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v4/n4/abs/ngeo1083.html
The thing is that nobody cares if a white male experiences any sort of problems with anyone, but the moment a black person or a woman says something, everybody rushes in. Now we see white males in blue collar jobs are committing suicide in huge numbers and many checked out of society completely (unemployment + gaming, porn) as they don't see any point to be involved as they are invisible to women in their 20s and get automatic scorn whenever they are accused of something. There are now many women-only places/clubs but the same is denied to men in the US. Does this really seem fine to you?
What a hatchet job.

Unfortunately we don't have the raw data available; but all we can infer from these heatmaps is that yes (and exactly as one would expect) there's a bit of variance between between the two sets of ratings (in both directions). Maybe a bit more than can be explained by the sample size, or from the simple fact people (on both sides of the process) are forced to discretize their assessments (so even if both parties were to objectively agree that the "real" performance was in the 2.4-2.7 range, which it is a good chunk of the time.... inevitably you'll find them be off by +/- 1 in their quantile assignments a good chunk of the time -- which is exactly what the data seem to show).

In particular: independent of how we explain the variance (whether due to sampling effects, or bona fide DK/IS) note that the vast majority of the variance is in the +/- 1 range. And on the alleged DK side (-2 variance) the measure is apparently quite miniscule.

However, that's not the original D-K effect. What D-K specifically predicted (and were able to show with much better data and methodology -- in their very specific sample population, at least) is that, among the general population there will be a striking degree of -2 variance, specifically in the bottom quartile. Going by the oft-quoted abstract from their original paper:

Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.

In other words: "Performers in the bottom quartile estimated themselves to be performing, on average, at mean performance in the third quartile."

So if were to look for something analogous to a D-K effect, we'd expect to find a "hot spot" (or at least the strongest amount of red ink, for that quartile) in the upper left of the first chart.

Instead we find most performers in the bottom quartile (correctly) identifying themselves as in the bottom quartile; with a smaller portion bleeding up into the second quarter; and an an almost negligible portion placing themselves in the D-K zone -- namely, the third quarter.

If anything what the data show is that (even assuming there's nothing to contend with in how the actual data were taken), while inevitably there's some variance (both ways) in the two sets of rankings, and probably some of due to distorted self-perception -- on the whole there's actually much less of a D-K effect among engineers than among the general population (or rather, "Cornell undergraduates taking psychology classes" -- which, lest we forget, were the actual subject class used in the original D-K study).

So basically the opposite of what the author of the original article is claiming to infer from this data.
> My point is you need smart enough people for your job and nothing more. You do an IQ test, a personality one and that's all. The rest can be learned.

Company culture matters. Even the most intelligent people that are willing to grow will fizzle if they are in an environment that isn't productive.
Based on your comments in this thread, it sounds like you may need a new job.
discussion seems to end up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12456548
The point isn't that the VSCodeVim extension is bad, it's that it isn't good. Having said that, as a project, I would call it a bad one.

Last time I commented on this on HN, I pointed out that the VSCodeVim group's extension had three times the number of downloads as the one called amVim. And of course it would. I speculated last time, just like I'm doing here, that this has more to do with the names chosen for the projects and the air of authority they have (VSCodeVim vs amVim) than it does with extension quality. More troubling is that recently the VSCodeVim folks changed their packaging so that it appears under the Vim name in the extension gallery and began using the official Vim logo, too. Not cool.
This is going on my wishlist
2 Second Password Hash Hack
11 Key Factors for Securing Outside Funding for Your Startup
Except to a foreign government that is actively hostile towards my rights.

That’s more than enough.
It's honestly hard to tell sometimes. People are emotionally complex, and life is messy. But there is a reason office romances typically have HR rules in a lot of companies.
I usually listen to synth wave when I study because it gives me a euphoric feeling.
Looks like this well end up like X.Org/XFree86 (yes, http://www.xfree86.org/ still exists)

Edit: I should have reloaded before posting, the argument is much better made by Grishnakh above.
I don't see why many aspects of intonation couldn't be taught the same way ...