skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, sorry about your father. My comment that follows is in no way trying to diminish what you have been through. Please do not take it that way.

What your describing sounds a lot like team debugging and trouble shooting! Trial and error of a failed hypothesis, further testing when someone looks at the data with fresh eyes. Finally a solution, or in your case, clarity.
I will note that contributing to GitHub is pretty much just as complicated, and requires just as many steps and git commands. The difference is that folks are used to contributing to GitHub.

And that's an important difference. I feel that projects should allow newcomers to contribute through multiple channels. For tiny patches from newcomers, it doesn't really hurt to let them make patches on github, go through review (without annoying other folks with nitfix review emails), and mail the final patch to the list for them. Of course, as they start to contribute more, nudge them towards the "real" patch process. This moves them towards contributing the regular way without the process being one more barrier in the way of entry.

I've mentioned this in http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/01/03/making-your-ope... -- you can tailor your process for newcomers. Your current process is probably great for power users but might be complicated for newcomers, but at the same time a lot of what makes the process great really isn't necessary for the patches that most newcomers contribute.

Of course, all this works when the project actually cares about helping newcomers. As mentioned in the other comments, it seems like Linux doesn't care about this; it prefers to restrict itself to contributors who can (and want to) figure it out on their own. This could end up filtering out smart people who could have figured it out (but found better uses of their time), but that's their choice.

Not to say that projects which don't do this don't care about this. GDB has a pretty complicated process, but they're also very helpful to newcomers. I might work on providing an alternate workflow or a mentoring process at some point. Firefox is similar; the bugzilla-based workflow can be new and tricky, but there's mentorship. (Another thing I may work on improving at some point)
> Not buying it. Bleeding edge of research doesn't really exist, it just doesn't move fast enough to have any sort of "bleeding edge". It's slowed down by lack of money and poor management and too much bureaucracy far more than it is by someone not working long hours. As has always been true with these things.

You're thinking of bleeding edge as "new drug that at least shows up in some pop-sci stuff". People working in labs come up with new methods of doing X in situation Y all the time because X and Y can both be crazy specific to a certain line of inquiry. A thousand of those lines of inquiry will likely be explored before anyone outside of their extremely specific area of study notices. Your sampling bias is pretty irrelevant to the process.

As a concrete example, maybe you need to apply a novel algorithm to a high frequency data source (e.g. a single photon counting module). So you need to program an FPGA with a deserializer to do the processing (in lieu of wasting money on a DAQ that can pump data into your computer at a few GHz sampling rate), and only one postdoc understands the algorithm and FPGAs well enough to do it. Does that sound like a crazy, unusual, made-up scenario?

> This is why startups will, sadly, end up beating academic science over time. Because startups are bleeding edge.

Have you seen how hard it is for startups that actually work on bleeding-edge scientific work to take off? Is that not something that Y-Combinator (for example) has specifically been looking for a more hybridized model for? Most research done at university is a very risky bet even for startups, especially if you want not just a result but a marketable result.

Want some concrete examples of the system working? Take a look at the envelope that quantum information research has pushed in the last 5 years. On the theoretical computer science side, you've got people like Scott Aronson answering significant open questions at a dizzying rate (read his blog for some basic, well-explained evidence). Meanwhile you've got groups like Martinis'[1] making the first quantum computer that can accurately simulate a different quantum system. All with a huge amount of collaboration in a social network of scientists that spans the globe.

Where's your evidence that startups are the hammer-screwdriver-impact-driver combo that solves all of humanity's intellectual problems with but one institution? Because that's a much stronger claim than "academia does moonshot research that wouldn't get done otherwise and its not the scientific equivalent of another day another CRUD app".

[1]: http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~martinisgroup/publications.shtm...
> "Everything in this new generation is trying to come back to what feels real," she says. "So we’re making a bet that live video is as real as it gets."

Oh God, I weep for the world we're making for ourselves.

Last I checked, putting down your phone and actually being present with someone is as real as it gets. But I guess it's hard to monetize, gamify, and micro-transact that.
It adds up. A few bucks for dropbox, a few for music streaming, a few for audible, a few for repo hosting, a few for test vms, a few for something else. Suddenly you're paying annually over $1k for all the services that cost you less than ten dollars a month.

I did mix up consumer and development, but I think the general point still stands.
Let me reexplain the threat model that I see.

Consuming one token bypasses the need to solve one CAPTCHA. Now you have heard about people being hired to solve CAPTCHAs, right? Well with these tokens, every time a human solves one CAPTCHA and obtains 100 tokens, it's as if he helped a robot bypass 100 CAPTCHAs.

Other example: say a CAPTCHA system is so good that only 0.1% of its challenges can be solved by a robot. With these tokens, if 100 are signed per solved CAPTCHA, then it's as if the robot could solve 10% of them. A 100x improvement.
I've found Billings Pro works well, but the timers are mostly manual. It will ask you about pausing/stopping timers after a period of inactivity (i.e. you forget to his pause when you go to lunch, then come back, it will ask what to do now, and what to do with the time since you were last active on the computer)

Having said that, I'd also love to hear about an open source option (ideally a native client-side app that can integrate with a self-hostable server-side component - basically Toggl but open source I guess)
Sounds like you might benefit from a cheap security camera on your bike, car, or backpack that can be started quickly. Must be cheap by now.
I noticed that the Samsung 960s are rated at almost exactly 0.3 DWPD, which happens to be the standard endurance for "read-optimized" SSDs, even across different generations of flash. This looks more like market segmentation than a measurement.
They are targeting youtube-mp3 (and has a big chance to win) because:

1. they store the illegal copy on their servers

2. they are profiting from this (probably a lot because it's the first result for "youtube mp3" in Google)
The pups always goes for the new shiny (get off my lawn)...
On the other hand, the genuine arduinos with morr modern cores seem to be very expensive. The arduino used to be fantastic a number of years ago but they move a long way down the value chain in recent years. I have boxes of all the original ones but have not used them in years.
Ah, MS And their hatred of line breaks...
Online music distribution companies may not want Creative Commons music
Uh oh... Please please let this be a defensive patent to use against other OSes which include ads, and not an indication of a future macOS/iOS to come..

This MAY make sense in tvOS, to present ads during a "channel" app while "disabling certain operating system features", but I really hope Apple of all companies aren't that greedy for extra revenue to include ads in macOS/iOS..

The patent filing is also dated 2008, and nothing's happened so far.
Recognizing self/other isn't a metaphor, cells really do that.
(2012) Google Search Quality Meeting: Spelling for Long Queries
I do wonder if we could get XMPP to adopt store-and-forward messaging...
I think you are mistaken as to the recency of this definiton.

According to wikitionary, the definition : "Exhibiting social equality, egalitarian" for the word "democratic" dates back to 1915.
I had their VPS, but they do not give you root access. (In fact removed root access from one I used for a few years, screwing a bunch of my stuff up). Kind of a strange definition of VPS they have now.
I doesn't seem to me that having what I consider a reasonable retention period would be too bad, where "reasonable" is on the order of 7-30 days. If a person hasn't reported a crime within that time, then the tapes (or drives or whatever) are wiped. Any shorter than 7 days, and you risk the person being in a state of shock/in a period of "I should report this - no, wait, I don't want any trouble - no wait, it could happen to other people," etc.
Cloudflare Certifies Under the New EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
My first thought about this is "yet another proprietary telepresence app"? It's a bit sad that although the IETF and ITU have developed plenty of standard protocols for things like this (SIP, RTP, H.323, etc.), which would've allowed for great interoperability in the same way that the Internet standardised on IP/TCP/TLS/HTTP(S), others have chosen to create their own closed protocols and their own isolated userbases. IM is the other related service that would've been well-served by standard protocols, but instead turns out to be scattered among different providers all with userbases that don't completely overlap. One of the comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12620468 about having half a dozen IM clients is very relevant here.

At least email is still pretty standardised, but in some ways it feels like the Internet is breaking apart. :-/
How Tesla killed automotive glamor
When a CA becomes untrustable
> I'll need to find and install one of the x tens of IM clients.

Only one? :)

It got so bad at my company, that at one time we were having conversations on 3 platforms. And, of course, no one emails anything! Because it's all done on Slack or whatever now. So everyone is 100% out of the loop at all times.

I'm up to about 20 Slack channels. I'm constant switching between things to see if I need the information. We have Github integration (and 10 other things) into everything, so it's a constant stream of garbage. And stupid gif animation integration. God forbid you take time off work. Good luck catching up on all that mess.

People like to shit on IRC today. But at least I got to choose the client I wanted, and log to an actual file that I could actually grep on. And timestamp on. And organize. And block all the stupid nonsense. First thing on the cutting block would be ignore all Github.
A good counterpoint to this is Banting and Best (https://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/insulin/disc...). These guys back in the 20s discovered insulin and brought it to market and started using it on patients in widespread distribution in 3 years. As soon as they figured out it would work by injecting a dog, then themselves, then a patient they went into a children's hospital and started injecting kids with it who were in diabetic comas and they started waking up. These days their research would require multi-million dollar clinical trials and take 10 years or longer.

The point being, the drug testing process for terminal illnesses is very very slow. There are also drugs that show some efficacy in curing Parkinsons like Nilotinib, but they won't cure anyone who isn't getting it outside the system for at least another 10 years, even if it works perfectly. I think there should be some more risk tolerance and looser regulation for people with terminal illnesses as long as the research is done on a non-profit basis. Even if you had the cure for a terminal illness right now it wouldn't be on the market for 10 years and a lot of people would die needlessly because of that.
So does macOS https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Ge...
Where else is a Israeli company going to go to do their launches? It's not like Irael and Russia are bestest buddies, and Israel has a lot of political and financial support from the US. That makes no sense whatsoever.
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Hello,

could you please start including proper changelogs in your release notes on the Dropbox forum?

Beta testing makes no sense when the changelog states "bug fixes and improvements". That's also a common complaint of the people in the forum, which you're ignoring completely.
Is there a way to get judges in East Texas prosecuted?
Kolmogorov Complexity – A Primer (2012)
I removed Dropbox from my Windows computer as soon as they started to include a minifilter driver with new versions.

https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/9249

I don't believe a program needs to integrate so deeply into the system just to sync the files.
It's not obvious to me that you need to research this stuff. Just start going to a gym and do whatever the bug guys do, then ask advice when appropriate.
Why do I read about HouseParty app on HN only in Oct 2016? Recode featured it in June 2016, other websites in Sept - as I found out today. :(

I am little interested about yesterday's news or last months news.

What other websites would you suggest beside HN to read about latest startup trends?
Hmm I wonder what the author means by: "Aside from the fact that this banner looks like something free software would install as a toolbar, [...]"

As alternives, depending on your requirements, I recommend SpiderOak, SyncThing, or a third-party offering / your self-hosted Nextcloud.
Sorry, that was a typo, I have a 950 pro, and Windows 7 doesn't include an m.2 driver, which causes constant problems with booting and starting up after crashes. The 850 and 840 are both great drives.
Is there a category of YC companies directly tackling environmental science and cleanup? I'm only aware of energy and transport related investments.
Japanese also has something like "Yes, this is difficult" that is really a polite way to say "no".
Syncthing has the .stignore file: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html
Yes, it was; it seems you were the only person to notice that. :(
What to do when your ex boyfriend still wants to get back in the picture
simply not true. refusing to talk removes the cop's ability to use what is said against you. Talking to them gives them ammunition. Don't take it from me. See what a lawyer and a cop both say:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
> As machines become increasingly capable, facilities once thought to require intelligence are removed from the definition. For example, optical character recognition is no longer perceived as an exemplar of "artificial intelligence" having become a routine technology.[3] Capabilities currently classified as AI include successfully understanding human speech,[4] competing at a high level in strategic game systems (such as Chess and Go[5]), self-driving cars, and interpreting complex data.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence)
Web development is the absolute worst at this. None of the technology is new, whatsoever (mostly stealing from Lisp, rebranding it, and doing it wrong or calling MVC by yet-another name). It's impossible to quantitatively state that the new tools we use today are any better than the tools we just tossed out yesterday. Because no one became a master at the tools of yesterday. There is no basis for comparison. No expertise. Just the eternal trend following.
You can increase the rescan interval in the folder settings (advanced settings section). If you use inotify, you can just set it to 0 to disable automatic rescans.
>The matter is only pressed when there's no mutually-beneficial agreement to be had, like in Oracle v. Google regarding the Java API; Google wants the right to re-implement the Java API as they see fit, without having to pay royalties, and Oracle wants the right to exact payment from anyone implementing the Java API.

Why would Google need to pay royalties to duplicate the SSO of 37 Java API's that were open sourced in 2008? If you really think companies should have to pay royalties for using the SSO of an API then perhaps we should start with Oracle paying IBM for their use of the SQL API's.
To sum the post up to avoid this in the future :

- OP needed to state he used the beta release, which are prone to be in an unfinished state,

- Dropbox needs to be more transparent about their releases, with including proper changelogs (they're only stating "bug fixes and optimisations" in the Dropbox forum). If you're adding/changing the UX in some way, document it. If you want a feature to be developed discretely, make a private beta, but still - document it.

It's an opportunity to learn something from this.
And while traveling Mars seems like an exciting engineering challenge, I can't imagine why would people want to leave the comfort of Earth to go to the red planet?

Going to Mars isn't like discovering America...
Microsoft is intentionally doing a poor job at all the non-porn uses of Bing?
This was one of my first thoughts - trying to imagine how he was really feeling while putting up a strong face for everyone, especially his wife.
In most professions, quality is enforced by some sort of autocratic or bureaucratic process. Software seems to tend more to the autocratic, au least outside of enterprise emvironments
Hi! Thanks for the heads up on the vid. Rideshare real estate - that is exactly the idea. Many are licensed, 75k agents in LA county alone and not many are doing much all day as the top 20% of agents close 80% of the transactions. It would be harder to find 5 star review uber/lyft drivers than agents to be honest. Yes, must be licensed as homes are on lock boxes only agents may access. Please check back in a few weeks or so, really working on MVP atm and will push working model out into market soon. Thanks for the feedback.
Like a world without lawyers, one shudders at the impossible dream.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/9/9b/Bes...

Can you imagine?
> Between email and lisp, is there any other system that you can find in any sufficiently large system?

Make. How many systems try really really hard to just update the things that need to be changed in an output store from a different input store using a serial number? Nah, just use the date. That's almost like a serial number, isn't it? Except for those handful of things for which we couldn't be bothered to set up the dependencies correctly - those get updated every time. It won't be that expensive to refresh just a handful every run...
You beauty: The new club banning ugly people
Sure. If it's a question that might be relevant to Octo (especially things to do with quirks modes or programming techniques or ergonomics) you can ask a question on the Octo Github page or mailing list.

Despite the widespread cursory interest in CHIP-8, as exemplified in all the VM implementations in this comment thread alone, there isn't currently any sort of centralized community for it. The users and developers of Octo are open to furnishing that to the extent they're able.
Show HN: RTL-SDR signal collection and analysis toolkit
So how does this compare to the stuff Google was doing with document summarization? Is the content unique, meaning does it summarize using brand new words?

It's unclear but still seems Really promising.
How does it compare with the summarizer in Microsoft Word (removed around 2010)?
It reminds me of this:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirel...

I wonder if his wifi is still open.
The problem with perfection
6' 220V Cabochon Lapidary Cabbing Grinder Units Machine
Yeah, the new 3rd-generation 3 has a lot more room under the hood than the 2nd generation. It's nice to see a carmaker going backwards from that whole "cab forward" BS with jam-packed engine compartments.

Did Mazda ever make a full-size minivan? The 5 wasn't; it looked like a slightly larger Fit. If I had to buy a full-size minivan now, I'd get a Honda Odyssey. My mother has one of those (2015 model) and it's great.
From <https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html>:

GNU General Public License, GPL, LGPL, copyleft, etc.

The GNU Public License and licenses modeled on it impose the restriction that source code must be distributed or made available for all works that are derivatives of the GNU copyrighted code.

While this may superficially look like a noble strategy, it is a condition that is typically unacceptable for commercial use of software. So in practice, it usually ends up hindering free sharing and reuse of code and ideas rather than encouraging it. As a consequence, no additional software bound by the GPL terms will be considered for inclusion into the OpenBSD base system.

For historical reasons, the OpenBSD base system still includes the following GPL-licensed components: the GNU compiler collection (GCC) with supporting binutils and libraries, GNU CVS, GNU texinfo, the mkhybrid file system creation tool, and the readline library. Replacement by equivalent, more freely licensed tools is a long-term desideratum.

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Ask HN: Why do companies buy ads when they are the top result in search?
For example, go to google.com and type in: "Squarespace". Squarespace has an ad at the top and then they are the first result. On the surface, this seems counter-intuitive because a user searching 'squarespace' would likely choose the organic link anyway. This is very common. Why do companies do this? Is it a defense mechanism so other competitors do not win ad placements right above their organic search result?
Lessons for How to Build Sticky AI Apps and Compete with the Big Companies
It's "No True Scotsman".

I'm not interested in the noodling semantic argument. Don't bullshit me. You're not getting anywhere with it.

I stand by everything I've said on this thread. Anyone who suggests men in this industry deal with harassment of the same kind women do should be embarrassed. Will, inevitably, be embarrassed. I'll happily sign my own name to that.
Yet he exceeded hit professor and many experts in the field while he was still a student.
Do you enjoy or find time to write code outside of work?
"The enzyme assay has to get done after you prep, and the prep is an 8 hour block of time after your cells are ready, and you have to do 10 hours of enzyme kinetic work... So you stay up all night."

I don't get it. Why can't this be done by multiple people in 8 hour shifts?

The medical profession is also pretty insane for making its residents work crazy hours and get almost no sleep for 24, 36, or even more hours a shift. It never made sense to me, especially as these people are risking their and other people's lives by going without sleep for so long.
Show HN: A tool for generating simple HTTP APIs off of static files
No. I should have written childfree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_childlessness
It's not that easy on my 2015 Mazda 3 either, but from what I've read you just need to pop out the inner wheelwell lining to get to them. Not super-easy, but not too terribly horrible. Mine has HIDs so the bulbs shouldn't need replacing any time soon.

My wife's 2005 Volvo S40 has really easy-change bulbs though: they look impossible to get to, but the trick is that you slide a metal clip up, and then the entire headlight assembly slides right out.

Modern cars can be very DIY friendly when carmakers design them that way.
Off topic but as I read this

> Secondly, that practice makes permanent, so be mindful of what you're practicing

I started thinking about why deits are hard to stick to.