skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that is really good information. I originally had a basic Fitbit (work was giving them out), got addicted to the fitness / sleep tracking, but wanted to upgrade to something that showed time and give notifications (I frequently miss text messages because I don't hear or feel the phone in my pocket all the time) -- so I got the Pebble. The apps I don't use that much, although there is one Weather-related watch face on the Pebble that I don't think I could live without. It shows a graph of the temperature and chance of rain for the next several hours, and has a mini calendar on it with color dots next to each day representing sunny, cloudy, rain or snow. Makes it real easy to tell at a glance what is coming up weather-wise.
I believe their original product was a song recognition system similar to Shazam. It looks like they've now expanded to other applications related to audio recognition and processing.
> I have many Fitbits (Fitbites?) and I've stopped using them because the app and website are "meh" at best.

I'm curious about this. If the app and website are bad enough to stop using them, why do you have multiple? I would have expected the issues would be noticeable with just the first device.
Yes, the Nader thing was just Democratic propaganda to ensure future left-wing parties are discredited by people and the media right from the start, just like they tried and failed to do this time with Jill Stein. Call it "fake news" if you will, not that Google or Facebook would ever ban a media entity like MSNBC [1] over it...

How can you blame Stein for a few thousand lost votes when millions of other voters who voted Democratic in the last election stayed home because they didn't like your candidate? Do you really think those thousands of people that didn't stay home because they didn't like your candidate, but went to vote, and voted for Stein, would've voted your candidate instead? No, best case scenario, they would've stayed home just like the others, otherwise.

Also, in some states tens of thousands (more than those that voted for Stein) actually did go to vote, voted on local elections, and didn't vote for president. Either way, blaming Stein is just laughable.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xK5NaH0oy4
This worries me a bit. At the moment they are providing the software and hosting it all absolutely free.

I would happily still use Discord if they provided the exact same thing with a monthly fee. Hopefully at some point they throw in some extra features for a pro version and start charging.

I just use Discord for gaming and haven't used Slack a lot, but I think Discord will be great for work as soon as they release search.
> Where will the tech, talent and investment go, if smart phones and watches are good enough, and VR/AR is a wash?

Cloud services, I guess? They seem to be doing well enough to last until the next "big thing" comes along.
The UAP-AC-PRO and its generation support ZHO. Set up a new VLAN group and you'll see the option.
What exactly does that mean? ART will recompile (and pre-art, dexopt) an app on every update, it's not something you do yourself.
May be they are thinking that cloning is not yet well understood and have too many unknowns to legally apply on humans? Imagine a cloned human with some problem starts reproducing en-mass...
Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe
Can you afford to go on maternity or paternity leave?
My favorite (kind of related) little gem from the postgresql documentation is from the century section of EXTRACT, date_part: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/functions-datetim...

Under the century section it notes:

"The first century starts at 0001-01-01 00:00:00 AD, although they did not know it at the time. This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar countries. There is no century number 0, you go from -1 century to 1 century. If you disagree with this, please write your complaint to: Pope, Cathedral Saint-Peter of Roma, Vatican."

I chuckle imagining someone in the Vatican mail room tossing aside one letter a year related to this.
Number one problem doesn't really convey the severity of the problem. There will always be a number one problem.
> Your claim that authoritarianism is non-centrist is not obvious, I don't even agree it's true.

I made no such claim. My sentence has an "and" in it.
I am 100% owner of an internet company making 7 figure profits annually. I am extremely secretive of my business, almost to the point that some would consider a pathology. However, I will divulge my hiring strategy, because even if everyone uses my method, there will still be many employees for me to choose from.

I look to hire people who just need a job. People who are qualified, but not overly qualified. People I know will depend on the job for a long time, but not looking to make it their lives. Hard workers - getting there on time, but also leaving at the stroke of 5. Ivy league schools are a red flag. Huge resumes are a red flag. These people will constantly question whether every decision is optimal, prod incessantly at company strategy, continuously try to impress, and are always hungry for praise, recognition, and "interesting work." When they get bored after 6 months, they quit and go somewhere else (remember they can easily do so because of their pedigrees), often to a competitor, bringing company secrets with them.

I need someone loyal, who knows how to take orders without question, and is prepared to do the work that needs to be done day in and day out because they want the paycheck. Reading the above, you might think I'm a terribly demanding boss, but using this hiring strategy has produced a 100% employee retention rate and by all accounts we are all quite happy.
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Me too...

"How on earth did they get water waves to obey Bose-Einstein stats!"
Some people swear that jailbreaking + installing various "speed up" tweaks (be it animation reduction or daemon killers) will help.

Personally I don't use those kinds of tweaks but it might be worth a try.
I wonder if people without a history of homelessness who volunteer at shelters are more likely to experience it themselves?
This is a fascinating tool but I can't imagine this will exist much longer after the NBA's lawyers find it.
Super interested in this space. I checked your profile but only saw a keybase profile. A friend JUST hooked me up with an alpha tonight!

What if I am infosec/netsec/whatever student and I watch a ton of Pluralsight on AWS and Docker and I am starting to build my own lab. Will people hire someone like me? I ask publicly because I assume I'm not the only one.
I work at Periscope Data - we do our own lead scoring using home-baked ML through SciPy. It was interesting to see it play out in the real-world - interpretation of features/parameters was definitely important to the people driving the marketing/sales orgs.

We also support linear regression in the product itself - it was actually an on-boarding project for one of the engineers who joined this year, and he wrote a blog post to show them off: https://www.periscopedata.com/blog/movie-trendlines.html About 1/3rd of our customers are using trendlines, which is pretty good, but we haven't gotten enough requests for more complex ML algorithms to warrant focusing feature development there yet.
I can think of a great many buses I'd like to see Elsevier under. Perhaps Google can do some sort of self-driving bus to automatically do it.

Elsevier is a leech on academia and actively work against open access to papers. They run scam journals and try to strong arm university libraries into buying tons of journals they don't want to get the important ones they do.
I'm a big basketball fan (mostly college). Where are you sourcing the videos? Also, are you manually tagging each video with player names, teams, and keywords or is there some magic happening on the backend?
Loss isn't the same thing as corruption, which is the real fear here.

What you're looking for (I think) is SQLite in WAL mode, with PRAGMA SYNCHRONOUS=NORMAL. That's ACI but not D.
How many de-anonymization schemes have withstood more than casual attacks? There's so much stock data available that I wouldn't want to bet against someone using historical data to de-anonymize a stock and then place a bet using insider information. The use of ML would even give plausible deniability – just imagine a prosecutor thinking about the odds of successfully arguing that your model couldn't have produced that result?
How does that make him/her less credible?
A hero of micromanagement!
I agree that modern websites too often tend towards being bloated messes, but I also agree with vacri's idea that for most uses the jump between dialup and ADSL1 feels much more substantial than further increases.

After a certain point the thing rate limiting you for most network usages (including web browsing) stops being your own connection to the ISP and starts being other things, like the speed of the website you are visiting under whatever load it is currently under, the website's own bandwidth out to the greater world (split up among however many people use it), etc.

I currently have 300/20 service, and though I see a nice set of numbers when I visit speed testing sites, in typical real world web browsing situations it feels no faster than the old 30/5 service I had before this.
I was under the impression it could have been a nuclear winter. There's seems to be some disagreement about how severe and long nuclear winter may be, so maybe McCarthy was making some false assumptions.
Not to mention, the current people in power benefit greatly from the current system, so our odds are even worsened.
I'm guessing druglord. Not too bright, takes orders without question. Fits the bill. How do you incorporate tech into that though. CRM?
Wikipedia[1], at least, seems to disagree:

"While many disaffected conservatives may have voted for Ross Perot to protest Bush's tax increase, further examination of the Perot vote in the Election Night exit polls not only showed that Perot siphoned votes nearly equally among Bush and Clinton, but roughly two-thirds of those voters who cited Bush's broken 'No New Taxes' pledge as 'very important' (25%) voted for Bill Clinton."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
I think they got Line wrong. Line is most popular in japan and thailand.

Line is run by the "korean google" naver. It's also now a publicly listed company.

Kakaotalk (which they also mentioned) has by far the most marketshare in korea (which again they also mention).

I'm assuming this is just a typo though?
I imagine many people here saw Don Quixote on the list and kept scrolling. Sounds like YC is trying to make you go back to a book you probably gave up on in high school.

The edition pictured, translated by Edith Grossman, is extremely approachable. It uses mostly modern language which makes the original humor of the book really stand out. It's incredible that a book written over 500 years ago can still be funny and engaging. I'd recommend it to everyone, after reading this translation it moved from 'boring book I couldn't finish' to 'one of my favorite novels ever'.
here, i'll paraphrase for you, since i'm a "real world" hiring manager as well, with a business that i keep anonymous/secretive on hn.

"a reliable person who can actually, really, like, totally for real drive a problem to resolution and then go spend time with family. if there's an emergency, they pick up their phone and try to help."

this is a small percentage of the population, but big enough. it's why we (based in california) have a 75% remote workforce. hint: we still pay california $. that's how you retain talent. everyone on my team lives in huge houses and i live in an apartment.

you'd (well maybe not you, but you know what i mean) be surprised at the number of super-intelligent ("smart") people who can't solve problems when the pressure is on.
I have had a mixed relationship with fitness. Something that works for me is audiobooks and walking. The book keeps things interesting and makes it easy to lose track of time. There isn't much activation energy required either, you just grab the headphones and go. It gets really fun when you find a great book.
Each grid point just has sends armies in 1 to 4 directions per timestep. So you have to visit each occupied square once per time step.

What is the sequencing problem? It's just 4 bits per square (send armies N,S,E,W).
Where is all the footage from? Is this allowed by the NBA? The quality of the footage is quite good.

This seems to be just searching the clip title. For example, if you search 'curry 3' ('curry three' returns nothing), it'll return things like "Curry 2' Finger Roll Layup (6 PTS) (Iguodala 3 AST)" or "Curry REBOUND (Off:0 Def:3)". If it could match the search query with play-by-play data, now THAT'd be cool.
... a disjoint ridge where the bottom panel ...

THIS!

I was checking out the new MBP's at the apple store and this was one of the first things I noticed when I picked it up by the sides. There is a huge gap along each bottom towards the side and it feels very sharp there when you pick it up. I could easily see someone getting cut or losing a fingernail. It's very unpleasant to hold there and just feels "wrong".

I have a 2015 15" MBP and this is not a problem on the 2015. While there is still the same gap, it is much narrower and is barely noticeable to the touch.

Shocking design flaw in the new body.
cool stuff...

every letter search becomes a new route.. yikes that is awful for going back

also, I searched for ginobili assist but it found all plays with ginobili and any assist.

good start and the video quality is pretty strong on mobile
It might be worth trying on the idea that you don't exist.

At least not in the way you might imagine. Consider where your consciousness goes when you fall asleep and aren't dreaming. Or when you're put under for surgery. I don't know if you've been put under, but for me one moment they were putting the mask over my face, and the next moment I awoke and the surgery was finished. I didn't experience any passage of time. You could say I wasn't here or didn't exist during that period.

It seems like certain things have to be occurring in the brain to say that you are awake, conscious and here. So this consciousness has certain dependencies, now what are they? Can we deactivate certain parts of your brain and you still feel here? I think so, but if we take away enough, you're no longer here. And I think if we add them back, your experience becomes more vivid and here, like slowly coming to in the morning, or when a deaf person has a hearing implant added so they can hear again.

So having the feeling of being here is a higher order thought, depending on the hardware faculties to be functioning. And that hardware can be substituted for non-biological equipment and you can be conscious of the readings of the sensor. It also comes in degrees, meaning we can be more or less here.

Which is to say, maybe the NPC doesn't have to be biological. It just needs to have the same dependencies to exist that exist now for you. You couldn't be reading this in your sleep, you read it when all the dependencies exist to say, "hmmm, that's interesting but my left frontal lobe says..."

PS. I hear you have nothing further to add, but my own left frontal lobe was compelled to chat. Apologies if it disturbed you, have a good one.
It’s 4 a.m. at MGM. Do you know where your money is?
Fedora 25 on the Dell XPS 13 (late 2016 model)
The Next 1000 Crypto Bubbles
You can't take photos and videos with watch.
Without odds, players can't make informed decisions about their spending. They have no idea whether a rare drop is 10%, 5% or 0.002% of the time. So this regulation will help them calculate the probable cost of acquiring the item.

Example: If it costs $0.99 to open a box, and the desired item drops from 4% of boxes, then it will cost you $9.90 for a 33% chance of getting it. But if the drop rate is 0.5%, $9.90 only gives you a 5% chance of getting the item. At some point you might just decide to buy the item on the secondary market (and indeed, these odds will influence secondary market prices).

(I personally think that these loot crates are effectively gambling. Even if the developers claim the items have no monetary value - because they have to, otherwise they're clearly offering you odds of a return on investment - the same developers often operate secondary markets which assume the items have a value, e.g. Valve and its Steam trading service.)
I thought this was pretty realistic portrayal of how some sort of global winter may play out. The sun is blocked by dust or debris or whatever, plant life dies, the rest of the biosphere dies, and all that's left is some humans who scavenge and end up eating each other.

I guess rotting plant matter like trees might provide nutrients for some sort of meager ecosystem composed of fungi and insects for quite some time. Maybe a few small mammals and birds. The book didn't really touch on that, though.
Chris Sacca seems very courageous, as does Kara Swisher. Unfortunately, it's probably only a matter of time before HUAC gets them fired for their brave, outspoken, original and iconoclastic political positions...

Wait, what's that you say?
That sounds like a minority use case- most people take pictures with phones these days, unless they're professional or amateur photographers.
This seems to imply that you haven't experienced the full gamut of motels in operation in USA. The percentage of innkeepers who are Indian is higher than that of pretty much any other occupation.
The question was what tech skills will you be hiring for and your answer was essentially I just want a plodder who's not overly smart and won't question my authority. Sound about right?
Some usb-c cables that don't follow the usb spec can be dangerous (i.e. cheap 3rd party cables) Apple cables wouldn't have a problem with this, they would just charge devices slowly. The only danger occurs when usb cables lie about what they can do (in the physical layer to the host/slave devices)
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You're absolutely right to question that – ultimately what I meant there is "non-programming" rather than "non-technical" and have updated the original post to reflect that. Poor choice of words on my part!
I am looking to hiring a jr ruby or elixir developer in the next few months that doesn't mind cross training on the job. They will probably be remote since I live in a small surfing town half way up the Australian coast at the moment.

Since it's a jr role I'm looking more for evidence that they want to learn than examples of accomplishments.
Trump will realize this and will take swiftnand decisive action to fix things once he gets in office.
I am no expert on this, but Wikipedia cites four sources for the claim that "further examination of the Perot vote in the Election Night exit polls ... showed that Perot siphoned votes nearly equally among Bush and Clinton" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot_presidential_campai...). FiveThirtyEight put together a little doc making the same claim: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-ross-perot-myth/
Any suggestions? Based on your comment should I throw up my hands and accept it? Call my representatives? Donate to or volunteer for verifiedvoting.org? Are the odds so bad that we should consider emigration? Revolution?
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating JavaScript..."

-- Allen Ginsburg
Is lack of talent the only reason to discontinue a product? My money is on the more general concept of focus, and specifically focusing on the future. This is not a new thing, Apple has always operated this way, so it's totally in character now as it was during the Jobs era.

I definitely believe Apple has a plan far beyond what we are privvy to, and that that plan is focused on the long-term. But that said I'm skeptical of Apple's to deliver on the next big thing. Amazon and Google are the ones on the cutting edge of cloud services which I believe are shaping the next sea change, and Apple is playing catchup. I'm definitely biased, but I feel like nerfing the Mac and shrinking it's accessory line could lead to a reverse halo effect where all the influencers leave, and before Apple knows what happened their App Store ecosystem dries up and all the cool stuff is now happening somewhere else.
Grandpa Fred was my beloved's grandpa. In 1998, we were out in Iowa visiting the extended relatives on that side of the family and did a video interview life review...on video tape. Grandpa Fred was born in 1912. We asked him about his life. The first thing he said at age 86 was that his mother died when he was twelve and "after that there was no picnic". It had been 74 years. He'd buried a wife. And a son. And in his mind the death of his mother was the defining event in his life.

From a business standpoint, it's an unlucky break. From a personal standpoint it's a profound tragedy for your cofounder. If the business is viable this won't be the last encounter with bad luck. How this one is handled will set the company culture.

My random advice from the internet:

1. Google up "grieving process". You won't discover how to fix it because there ain't no fixing it. It might help you understand what your cofounder is going through and suggest constructive ways to help.

2. The tragedy effects all three of you. That's why there's demotivation and frustration. Group counseling might be a way to work through the current situation. Relationships are one the things that counseling strengthens.

3. Reframing your coworker's condition as grieving rather than depressed puts it in the right light. It acknowledges the proximate cause and places the sadness within a timeline. More importantly it recognizes that the condition is not pathological or a mental disorder. It's simply a healthy part of the human condition.

4. Suppose you and the other founder kick out the grieving cofounder. Afterwards, there's still just the two of you. It is nice to imagine that the business would be in the same shape that it's in now. But it won't be. It will have gone through the distraction and disruption of removing a founder. On top of the disruption and distraction that the death has already caused.

5. Ultimately the business decision is whether to lawyer up or to team up. I hate sports analogies, but here one would be managing a squad where someone has blown out an ACL. The person can usually return to full fitness but it takes time.

Good luck.
I manage the Google Container Engine and Kubernetes team in Seattle (we have other sites in Mountain View and Warsaw).

Aside from the obvious interest in building container orchestration systems, I look for a passion to solve real user problems, not only building a piece of tech.

Bonus points for knowing about Docker or containers or clouds or Golang or security.

More points for meeting users where they are. And the most bonus points for leadership and initiative.

We're particularly looking for someone to lead and/or manage our software eng team building security features into Kubernetes and GKE.
For all the people asking where it's from, quick google brought up http://www.nba.com/sitemap_videos_0001.xml and changing it to 0002 seemed to work. It's just an index of something from nba.com and nothing is hosted on the site.
Thank you for the assist!
How I can find who made this? Would love to work w/ him/her on a project.
I read it originally as 1M QPS, and thought that was a nice number. It was upon further inspection that I saw it was 1M QPM, and I was no longer intrigued.