skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't like one of the biggest job satisfaction complaints Senators and Congresspeople have the amount of time they have to spend every week fundraising?
Wait, so we're supposed to believe this was some kind of merit or business acumen thing? Is anyone really that gullible?
It makes $0. It's a social app just getting its legs so we're focused on growth right now. We do have some outside the box ideas for monetization down the road though.

We've reached a manpower ceiling with just two of us working on it daily so the 200k is about double what we need for a few hires that would allow us to build out the desktop experience, some general design/UI updates, get off of Parse and onto our own backend and complete two large features that will make the overall experience a more shareable and viral experience. It should also be enough to take us to our first 1mil users.

The other half is a buffer against the 1000s of things that can go wrong and to give us a little runway while we raise a real round if things go right.
And RSI.

In the chicken processing plants near where I grew up, the workers were expendable. You're worked hard until you get injured and then discarded/fired/pushed out and replaced.
Thanks for the quick reply, looks like a great release!
Why be rude to the interviewer even if that is the case? What does such juvenile rudeness accomplish?

Is it genuinely offensive to be asked the complexity of bubble sort? If such a question causes you so much offense that you lash out involuntarily, then you have some serious personal problems to work out.
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it ticks me off when pedants run to the terms of service/etc. to undermine something exceptional.

if you're big enough, or influential enough you can negotiate your own terms of use for any API or any service.

if you're small, then they probably won't even notice your usage.

shyp is not a weekend hackathon project. While it's certainly possible they're blatantly violating terms and hoping they don't get caught, that seems unlikely for a venture backed startup.
The 1000X is bleeding new. It's been out in Europe for a few weeks, and is just now coming out in US I believe.

After having gone through a number of pretty expensive NC headphones, I can say confidently that up until now nothing matched late-model Bose for NC specifically (music sound quality is another discussion). Parrot came closest, but everything else was way behind and really only blocked airplane/subway/bus-type loud hum, nothing more random or higher-pitched.

However, the initial reviews for the 1000X have all been pretty adamant that the 1000X matches and possibly beats the QC35 for NC. That's an amazing accomplishment for Sony, no lie.

At any rate, you're welcome. I have really bad noise sensitivities that make productivity hard in shared spaces, so your question is near and dear to my heart.
Call me old fashioned, but I think it's important to know what words actually mean, and to use the words that mean what you actually intend to convey. To quote Tom Stoppard, "If there is any point to using language at all is that a word is taken to stand for a particular fact or idea and not for other facts or ideas." (If you're not familiar with that quote, it worth looking it up and reading it in context.)
When I was in China early this year, they use baidu map on my iphone version. It looks like there was a partnership between baidu and uber back then. There's even a "get Uber" feature build inside Baidu Map app back then.
It's interesting that most people rely on the raw values, since the standard does not require them to be meaningful and depending on the vendor it could be anything.

I suspect this is because value, worst, threshold columns are kind of confusing to understand.
When you're dealing with the motion of objects close to the Earth, a geocentric reference frame is entirely appropriate.

However, when examining the motion of the planets a heliocentric reference frame is "more correct" in that the motion of the planets in that reference frame suggests a deeper truth: that the primary influence on the motion of the planets is somehow the Sun.
Interesting. After playing with it a bit I came to the example:

You must not have local noto fonts installed for this to work.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/dpdOzk

Using chromium we see that:

Inheriting the font means the "bug" doesn't affect you.

Adding a class with the font only affects textareas, not inputs.

Adding the font directly affects both.

Notably the google demonstration page has the rule:

html,input,textarea{font-family:'noto sans',arial,sans-serif}

this applies the noto bug directly to the input field.
To follow up, of course Surveyor would be the proper name of the profession. Geodesy is the related/underlying science in respect to positioning on the earth.

https://twitter.com/kennethfield/status/784163099615989760
I live in the southeast, and the forest service does controlled burns all the time instead of fire suppression and, granted there's a huge climate difference, but it works well.
It uses Baidu for sure and has been for at least 1.5 years.

Edit: looked up the first time I used Uber in Shanghai.
- Are these jounalists working for media companies that are competing for time?

- If they are shareholders, they don't seem to be declaring their conflicts of interest.

- For Twitter to respond would require that Twitter be taking editorial positions regarding the activities of competing media conglomerates. ("You're down, you should all just cash out now" [while you have far more daily active customers and revenue per user than a number of TV channels combined].

- Are there competing international interests and biases? Is the market for noiseless citizen media saturated? How much time is there, really?
>>Get over it and move on with your life already.

Please review HN guidelines.

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When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Yeah, I'd like it, too. But the only one of which I'm aware is IBM's Watson, and that's still wildly impractical.
My employer requires me to change my password every 8 weeks, and I can't use any of the last 4 passwords.

You can change your password five times in a day though :D
It's now the accepted understanding that past aggressive fire prevention contributed to giant burns. There's a lot of substance to that, and letting smaller burns happen and even introducing some controlled burns are considered part of good management practices now.

This is not all that's going on, though, in the Sierras and elsewhere. Other contributing factors:

1) Drought. Severe drought. Trees need water. There's less of it.

2) The heat. Higher average temperatures (climate change!) affect how living trees use/need moisture and how dead trees turn to tinder.

3) Where these don't kill, they stress, and things like the current bark beetle infestation epidemic happen: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-milne/pine-tree-deaths-p...

Fortunately, in the United States, we have several robust federal agencies dedicated to... wait. We massively cut funding to all of them years ago (http://wilderness.org/blog/sequestration-continues-threaten-... ). Largely under pressure of wild fantasies from the growing unhinged wing of the Republican party (which, let's hope, has reached its apotheosis in Trump) whose economics and governing philosophy are on par with their ability to recognize and admit science into a discussion of how we handle our environment.

So, yeah. Overprotection has been a problem. But prescribed burns have found their way into Forest Service philosophy (http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/management/rx.html ). And it's not going to solve the problem.

If only we were as able to let observant study and good stewardship guide us in other areas.
So what stops someone who is against X app, pays for clickworkers to leave fake reviews to get the app pulled? Would the same thing happen if fake reviews were left for a major company like Google/Microsoft/Dropbox in the app store?
Again, I disagree. When major industry figures are found to be supporting extremist politicians by either covert or overt means, then pointing this out isn't "riding a high horse" -- it's due diligence.
Jesus christ go outside
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I appreciate the comment, though I think the situation is often more nuanced - a junior employee may simply not have all the facts, and a more senior one may either have a 'gag order' on exit or worried that saying anything negative will affect their chances with future employers. Whistleblowers can end up harming their careers despite doing the right thing, and a halo doesn't pay the mortgage or buy the kids Christmas presents.

But onto Theranos - I just posted something on this at my blog. More than the employees, look at the Board of Directors and ask why they didn't do their jobs and enforce change. If they can't alter the ridiculous plans of the Founder/CEO due to the voting structure then they should resign. It's not their full time job, they won't go hungry if they leave, so what is their excuse for not speaking out?
I’m fairly convinced that there are contractors making money peddling the same stupid ideas to IT staff everywhere, leading to common solutions no matter the merits. It seems every site I use has now sent me that dreaded E-mail, boasting how everything has been “improved” with new “security” measures; meanwhile, every last one of their changes has been not just ineffective but usually provably detrimental to security.

You forgot to mention the kicker: after hurling 14 different password requirements at you, they let you reset your password only by answering “security” questions which are usually fixed and not even applicable. Seriously, some of the questions are so ridiculous, I have seen fixed lists where NONE of the questions applies to me. Which is OK because it’s insecure to answer truthfully anyway; I end up creating keychain items just to store the answers to my “security” questions.
It is seemingly to do with how the "web fonts" are implemented by browsers. For more weirdness look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12656642
Multiple.
> considered

By whom?
Nice.

I'm just the victim. Whenever I suspect the firewall to be the cause of a problem I use a proxy via a ssh tunnel. As long as it's not forbidden for me to actually solve problems.

The list of software that isn't usable behind a WatchGuard firewall (and maybe similar enterprise firewalls) is getting longer and longer. No Google fonts, no Drupal, no ShopWare 5.2, JIRA barely usable, etc.
> You don't have to pay money to use Xcode or the iOS SDK

You are not going very far away by deploying apps on the simulator. You can't even test on a real device without paying the fee.

> You can live a happy life not doing iOS development

As a mobile developer? Not really, at least not where I live.

Users are both on iOS and Android. I'm not so stubborn as to ignore that truth.
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I'm very interested to see how Google will defend themselves in this suit and what numbers they'll show to prove otherwise.
If you do not know the complexity class of the bubble sort then you probably do not a have formal CS education. It also follows that it is possible that when you see a similar bad solution then you are not able to recognize it as such.

I think that these three questions showed are quite good and fair (for example I did not what is Hopscotch hashing, but it looks quite important after looking it up, so thanks for this).

Some of such questions might be possibly indifferent for the position you were applying, but seeing some hate behind these questions is in my opinion quite unjustified.
Another problem is the scope of the stack and problem space to be addressed. Someone can easily come up with a better solution to some subset of the problem, but it won't be interoperable and have the features necessary to solve the problem that all the people using the original solution expect. If you have a big enough fundamental improvement you can motivate the change to happen over time, but by the time that transition is done you've accumulated a whole different set of crufty legacy.
Issue trackers have substitutability. Not much maybe, but certainly some. As less pompous way of putting this, is to say 'if they don't buy this one, they'll buy another'. Yet another way is saying 'buyer BATNA is buying another product'.
I found this list for best noise-isolation headphones: http://headphonesaddict.com/best-noise-isolating-earbuds. There's a Sennheiser in the top 2. I may consider noise-isolation over noise-canceling. Would be great if there was a noise-canceling pair with amazing noise-isolation properties as well.

The simplenoise.com site is great. Thanks
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Forking and testing locally :-) will submit some design (minimalist doesn't mean no design, right?)
Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letters are one of the better ways to learn about these things. Easier to read than textbooks with plenty of real life examples.

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
Since the page is not available anymore: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/05/apple-creates-orchard-up...
Even as someone who prefers the Vive in terms of overall experience, I think this article glosses over quite a few points and misrepresents the facts to the point where it shouldn't even be on HN for discussion. There are far less biased articles surfacing in the wake of Oculus Connect that don't for example, highlight Luckey's political leanings in the subtitle.

For one, the crux of the article is that the Rift is expensive. And sure, for some people, it definitely is. However, it's unfair to say that Oculus is a "$1,500 to $2,500 gaming platform" and shortly compare it to the $800 price point of the Vive which does not include the also required "$500 and $1,500" computer. Similarly, it seems wrong to compare either the Rift or the Vive to Google's Pixel because well, they're targeting different segments of the market with vastly different experiences. In addition, the article neglects to mention that a big announcement today was Oculus lowering the minimum specs of a VR headset with their new software that (from what I understand) interpolates frames. In fact, Oculus will be selling $500 dollar prebuilt systems which brings the minimum buy-in to experience VR on the Oculus considerably lower.

The rest of the article proceeds in a similar fashion; Oculus has quite a few interesting titles announced not even including the free title by Epic Games (makers of Unreal and the Unreal engine and definitely a well known studio) given out with the Touch. In particular, I'm excited about Luna because it was made by quite a few people from thatgamecompany (Journey). Similarly, having non-game media by OK Go (known for their virally popular experimental music videos) and Disney (no other introduction necessary) is huge for both the platform and VR in general. Yes, it's lacking a few big players like Bethesda, but I think the future lineup is far from as barren as the article so blindly suggests.
> When crack teams from around the world converged on Kuwait, invented new techniques on the spot and put the fires out in a mere six months, that did not get anywhere near the hype that the initial dire predictions got.

The problem here is that the parallel to the burning oil wells are already on fire, have been on fire for years, and the collective response hasn't been one determined to address this, it's been a fight between people who are saying there's a problem and people who are saying the idea of burning oil wells is a conspiracy (and even if it's not, we didn't light the oil wells on fire).
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You could surgically remove your eardrums.
You can set it to never speak/listen and only do text. That's how I use it. Obviously I'm missing out on the hearing/speaking portion of learning the language, but it's still been pretty useful
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> This. Interviewers, stop asking questions that only a fresh college grad should have at the forefront of their mind.

These aren't questions "only a college grad should know" they're often questions that are baseline knowledge for understanding programming vs just having a few rote cargo cult "skills".

I have been on both sides of the interview process at Google, and I remember when I was prepping to conduct my first interview, one of my teammates gave me some advice. He suggested I open with something along the lines of "merge two sorted lists". Someone who couldn't do this with a minimum of effort barely fits the definition of "knowing how to program" (let alone being a good engineer). And yet, a non trivial chunk of the candidates he had met with didn't clear this bar! Starting with an assumption that your candidate can handle complex questions when they can't even program can just muddle the issue, and there's very little advantage to skipping over the basic test.

Bear in mind that this was at Google, and these were candidates who had already made it past the first line filter.
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Beware of the hype around "high CRI". It's more of a global snapshot of a light's various colour rendering abilities. I've seen some "high CRI" bulbs with shockingly bad spikes in certain colours. What you really want to pay attention to is the individual R1-R14 values and make sure there's no dips.

For example, if you're looking to replace your household tungsten lightbulbs then it's really important to pay attention to the R9 value that your LED ilght has (1), as it refers to the red value being emitted by the bulb and is what affects skin-tones.

And, yes, CRI is completely independent of temperature. You can have a daylight or tungsten LED bulb with completely varying CRI values.

(1)http://www.eyelighting.com/resources/lighting-technology-edu...
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Life science investors need to invest in life science deals -- it's the promise they made to their customers (err...LPs) and what the need to do to make any more than the management fee.

If anything, they can tout their prowess in passing on the Theranos shitshow.

As far as I can tell right now life science investing is doing fine. I am advising one company (and in the device diagnostic space, same space, if different application than Theranos) which is deciding over multiple offers.
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> There is an industry that created the "growth hacker" position, and I dont think it was journalism

True but it seems that most journalists were keen to embrace that credo. At the end of the day, "hockey-stick growth" has become the predominant narrative; does it matter much where it came from initially?
If you're writing diagnosis software, your approach to sorting should be "use sort()". Sorting is not your core competency, diagnosis is.
I find it's way easier to write stories when I have a known audience (i.e. I'm posting on Reddit).

Heck, one of my favorite plot ideas came when I was taking a SciFi lit class in college, and the final had a short response where we had to sketch an original short story concept.
This is a discrete problem. You cannot have 2.9 replicas instead of 3. The fact that 24% of these drives failed without smart indicators means no test exists which can lower your replication from 3 to 2.
Scroll tracking can be disabled with adblockers. Read more can always be tracked since that's the primary purpose of the link - when you want to read more.
Copy/paste was the real problem, not init scripts. Look at the init scripts of FreeBSD some time. They're short, well-documented, and built around reusable components. SysV init was a mess because init scripts became a cargo cult of copy-paste, rather than actually using all the capabilities that were available.
Your spin vs. my spin is a boring, meaningless game, but it would probably help your play if you use a phrase that has a more applicable definition to the activity you're spinning.
No, I think it's the high probability you'll be executed for this sort of thing that keeps people in line.
It took Serif 2 years to deliver a decent color picker tool.

How long will it take to have a group isolation mode?
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I'm more surprised that Hacker News in general is that old. Is it really 10 years since this community began? Because I've always felt like it was started more recently than that.

Then again, I feel the same thing about a social networks at the moment. I can't quite believe the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are anywhere near as old as they actually are.
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My understanding is that this article series is not about experiences that are uniquely female. Rather, it's just generally about the experiences of female engineers. Many experiences are likely to be the same as for a male engineer, but not all. I really like this approach, as I think it makes it easier to understand their perspective.
Aside from the obvious benefit to having a Web that's less broken for everybody, one of my previous projects at Google was implementing support for multiple scripts in a mapping product. I literally don't know how I could have pulled this off without Noto: all other alternatives would have involved some combination of subpar quality, incomplete coverage, incompatible appearance or near-impossible license requirements.

(Standard disclaimer: I work at Google, but these views are my own, not Google's.)