skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the message board psychological analysis.

In the example that I was loosely referring to, and are not at liberty to discuss in further detail, companies must pay to be qualified to bid on a specific type of business.

Firms that license some specific information are far more likely (on the order of 50%) to successfully bid. This information is clearly disclosed to them when they get qualified.

So they make a voluntary, significant investment to participate in a process, and then fail to take a simple step that would make them far more likely to make money. I call that dumb, but perhaps I am in fact too incompetent to make that assessment.
We don't really have any "value". There's no "higher" reason why we exist. And the idea of us being "captains of this Spaceship Earth" is laughable when you look at the fact that we've wiped out an incredible amount of species. We basically left a trail of death wherever we migrated.

http://www.salon.com/2015/08/14/the_megafauna_massacre_human...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna

Add in the damage done during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.

I'm certainly no misanthrope, but we're not Earth's shepherds, we're kind of a scourge.

My personal belief is the goal in life should be to continually improve yourself, as much as possible and in as many ways as possible. Leave the world in a better place than you left it. Enjoy your time while it lasts. Seems like goals worth pursuing to me.
Google’s Long, Strange Life Span Trip
I'm curious why you believe all philosophers need to keep up with mathematics and science, as you appear to imply. Certainly philosophers working in branches that deal directly with science, math, and the nature of reality must maintain an accurate perspective on the latest research and methods to properly do their job. Philosophers of science must actually study the focus of their research. Those working in metaphysics must ensure their theories do not conflict with those of physicists (or ensure they conflict in interesting and valid ways).

But what of ethics, aesthetics, politics and other more humanistic branches of philosophy requires those doing working within them to keep pace with the latest developments in physics and maths?
That seems like a catch all blog, that at least to me gave little clue as to what they were working on.

On that note i seem to recall them working on a small web server and auto-discovery system that allowed any mobile device to share something. To me that seems like the perfect IoT starting point, as now you do not need an app for every damn device.
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It's worth noting that whenever there is a change of parties in control, the incumbent party is always going to lament the fact that it's the end of the world. Time will tell if the new FCC administration is actually bad for the consumer.
There's a curious lack of detail in this story. No direct quotes, or even reasonable level of detail to the accusations.

For example:

"One day, one of my supervisors jumped to my defense at a team event, in an awkward display of sexism."

I'm sure there's a way that a supervisor jumping to your defense could be sexist, but this isn't showing that, at all.

"At a lunch with several other coworkers, one of these men ordered me to summon the waiter and pay the bill, in the tone of a command to someone inferior and subservient."

Certainly odd behavior, but I'm not sure I would call it sexist. Arrogant for sure, but surely there's more context?

To be clear, I'm not saying she's wrong, just that this story isn't helping me understand what she went through, or that it was particularly sexist, versus just hostile.
Are you thinking only B2C or B2B as well? Also "user" sounds more substantial than what you describe in your last point which is really a lead with expressed interest that has agreed to be contacted again. A lead isn't exactly a user.

Having clarified that distinction between user and lead what you seem to be thinking of offering is $20 per opted-in targeted lead along with design and copy editing services to make pre-launch start-up look more professional.

The pricing seems fine if you have a portfolio that shows that you can actually do the design and copy editing. I feel like the 100 users or your money back is gimmicky.

Maybe a fixed pricing something like the following:

Logo, color palette and font selections - $300

Create landingpage - $300

Writing and copy editing for landing page, automated response email $400

Targeted opt-in leads $10 per lead

This still gets you to the $2000 if you succeed at the lead generation.
I see you posting your libertarian stuff all over HN. I'm not very surprised you also think the real victims here are her coworkers, whom you are unironically trying to liken to prosecuted witches.

You've turned this story about a woman being harassed at Apple into a story about her numerous anonymous male coworkers, and dudes at large, being targeted. It's fascinating.
> Many of the other comments in this thread are low-effort "mobile games aren't real games, lol."

Most people are on Android though, so there are a lot of people who can't give it a test run. I think that leads to more garbage comments like that.
I think the financials aren't the actual problem & aren't as bad as the article frames them to be. Look at other SaaS companies at a large scale (eg. New Relic) - they also had huge losses after raising larger rounds. I'm not saying that burning such a huge amount is necessarily a good thing. I'm just trying to put it into perspective.

For me, it's especially not surprising because GitHub needed to heavily invest into GitHub Enterprise, start doing Sales, etc. to keep growing at the rate they wanted and they probably made a lot of mistakes when they started Sales. It's hard, and especially if you put Sales into a very developer-driven culture (=> takes you longer to figure it out => more mistakes => costs you more money). That all being said, some things they did are certainly a sign of being a bit too confident (office, etc.).

But, that's all not their biggest threat. You can get the burn easily under control and reduce cost especially if they are primarily in Marketing/Sales. The bigger issue is a decrease in product quality, a (perceived) slower pace for innovating/improving than their competitors (GitLab) and all the internal culture/team struggles. Having changes in your key positions, 2 out of 4 founders leaving, CEO change, etc. - that's all far more dangerous. A good leadership team can control the burn and reduce it if necessary. A good leadership team sets the right culture.
You conveniently ignored the most important part:

> There's a ton of shit on the internet these days funded via advertisements, and I won't mind if most of it dies.

Advertisement funds listicles and clickbait in a vicious cycle.

That is the kind of content that can only exist because of Internet advertising. That is the kind of content you "pay" for with your attention-span.

Investigative journalism is being actively replaced by clickbait, listicles and bullshit because Internet advertisements are so much more profitable. Because you don't need to be good any more, you just need to hack weak minds on scale.

THAT is the kind of Internet you're arguing I should support by not blocking advertising.

Actual quality content has so many ways of monetizing itself (online and offline) it's disingenuous to ignore. Just not this one. Real life dead tree newspapers also take a dive in quality when they go down the hole of cheap shitty advertising.

It will always lose against the low quality fire hose swamp of shit content because it's just as profitable (often more) and so much cheaper to produce. That is why people have been blocking Internet ads since forever. The ad-companies themselves are often shady, parasites come automatically with the territory.

I'm blocking ads until that shit goes out of business. Not because "fuck everyone else" but because "fuck everyone that supports it".
Eh, I remember years ago on the LKML that Linus gave a few reason why you should run a swap file. Those were much older kernels then we are using now, so the question is, have the reasons changed for wanting swap in the first place.

First, swap wasn't about 'extra' memory in modern large memory devices, it was about being able to evict some pages from running memory that rarely need to get used, leaving more space for filesystem cache. Memory defragmentation was another reason why some swap should exist. OOM handling works differently on systems with and without swap.

Myself, depending on the amount of disk space I have, I tend to only give the system 1 to 2GB of swap space. This allows a temporary overcommit to occur in smaller programs without OOM killer. If a service trys to allocate many gigabytes of memory it gets killed without ruining system performance, and it probably should be killed anyway as something has gone terribly wrong at that point.
Don't forget the costs to dispose of them once they are not producing energy (or enough energy), typically after 15 to 20 years, and the overcosts for replacements due to "natural" events, like hailstorms.
A more apt figure from Greek mythology than the god of war, though, might be Sisyphus, who was condemned by the gods to push a rock to the top of a mountain, only for it to roll back down again so that he had to repeat the punishment for eternity. ARES does indeed push rocks uphill, only to let them roll down again. - See more at: http://www.aresnorthamerica.com/article/9232-sisyphus%E2%80%...
They have a "deal" with Apple to be first.
Just wait.
codygman and I both understand Haskell well, but neither of us (apparently) can work out what you mean. There's no "can of worms" around equality in Haskell as far as I can see.
You're asking "for a friend", right? :)
Hacker takes over online account in minutes using nothing but a phone
Lisp was developed because McCarthy needed a tool for experimenting with AI. Found a video of McCarthy talking about AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozipf13jRr4

And if anyone cares, here is nice Shirt with McCarthy on it ;)
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/666689-john-mccarthy-lisp-...

I think it should be mandatory for CS students to implement their own little Lisp using the building blocks McCarthy described! Instead they are learning Java and ist crappy OO...
It's amazing how many cloud providers there are. Here is another one to add to your 'They have a cloud?' list. CenturyLink: https://www.ctl.io/.

Note: I am in no way affiliated with them; I just heard they had a cloud a month ago so they are the newest addition to my 'They have a cloud?' list.
It's easier than you'd think. The sad truth about assholes is everyone knows. Everyone knows who they are. Everyone knows what they're doing. Everyone knows that management is aware of the assholes, and chooses to do nothing.
Find out the most asked questions/frequent problems, and offer the company ways to save money on tech support by eliminating this problem.
Last time I was in Amsterdam, a friend of mine related the experience he had last night. (Details changed a bit to protect the guilty.) After being out late drinking, he was refused service at several bars for being too drunk. Then, while stumbling around in the streets in search of a bar that would serve them, this craazy biker stopped and punched him in the face completely unprovoked. Then he biked away. Finally he found a bar that would let him in, and gave him sympathy for his bleeding face. Shortly thereafter the asshole bartender kicked him out for no good reason. He's doesn't remember getting home.

Now I wasn't there. But I do feel entitled to paint an alternate picture of what could have happened. After recovering from his hangover he recognized that my alternate picture of what happened was actually pretty reasonable.

Was I wrong to suggest this alternate picture?
I'm not sure if you are looking for other opinions, but I'm looking for something to move away from react toolbox.

It's too difficult to overwrite styles, they are changing their style "system" for the 3rd time in under a year right now (SASS -> postCSS), and the lead maintainer has started posting updates both minor and a major bump without any kind of changelogs or info on what changed, and there is no real roadmap to speak of.

I hate being overly critical of FOSS projects, especially ones where it's clearly a passion project, but I can't rely on React Toolbox any more in a professional way. If it were a smaller library i'd be more okay with it, but the "theme" or "UI framework" of our application is not something easily replaced, so it becomes a bit more important.

I shied away from Material-UI as inline styles just won't work for us for a bunch of reasons, and they aren't far enough along their "conversion" to the new style system at this time for us to take it on faith, so we struck that down too.

This library is looking like a good replacement. If some of those performance issues aren't the libraries fault and are the "app maintainers" fault (in this case the same person, but the main dev has told me that it's because he was lazy when making the docs website that it's sluggish), then it's looking like it'll be a winner!
Is this B2b or B2C?
> But that is precisely how it is. Things that do not interact, do not exist.

What kind of predictive statement are you trying to make? How does the world change if your statement is correct, as opposed to false? What would be different?
Just curious, are you still programming in your first language then?
I'd burn it all and whistleblow the source.
Where does all the hardware go when one decides to shut down an operation that large? Can I buy it?
exactly for this scenario

Not really. Building from local sources only or "living off the grid" as parent poster put it typically isn't just about temporary loss of Internet connectivity, but instead serves as a shorthand for a more complicated set of requirements.

Generally speaking there will be (at least) disaster recovery requirements such that a computer with a fresh OS install and access to the local very-well-backed-up archives can produce a build. And the local archives typically have exactly one entry point so that legal and process controls can be applied as they go in.

So the problem isn't how to cache dependencies for a working directory, but how to get, archive them, and distribute them to a development team easily. A lot of package mangers approach supporting this kind of use case, but still need a fair bit of customization and manual steps if not new tooling built around them. And all that infrastructure also has to meet qualification criteria (through testing).

It gets to be enough that any tool that decides to add in their own half-assed download manager will be quite annoying to anyone that doesn't use "YOLO" as their quality management system.
Here's the related news article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13193166
Maybe because ML algorithms of today aren't AGI. Also because humans have already trained on lots of data from birth.

There's no reason machine intelligence would be much worse at this and still be called AGI. It's an active area of research called one-shot learning.
https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriram_Krishnamurthi

http://www.htdp.org

I think he knows the background of Racket quite well. ;-)
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The thing is to evaluate the size of this "most". Sure, the others are biased, even pressured by powers, but how close to zero are mediapart and the likes ?
I think a lot of non-Indians have this impression that arranged marriage means forced marriage or child marriage. I was talking to a South Korean guy and he thought we (Indians) get married at a young age or something equally bad. When I told him how it happens in India, he remarked "thats how it happens in his country as well".

Nowadays, we have matrimonial sites similar to your eHarmony. Guys/girls or their parents will create profiles and contact each other. If all their criteria match, guy will meet the girl, talk for some time and may say yes or no. Both the girl and the guy can say no. Nobody is forcing us.

I know the next question will be how can you choose a life partner in 30 minutes. To me, marriage involves a lot of understanding and compromise from both the parties. I was talking to a 65+ year old American recently. He was talking about something called a "spark" when a guy/girl meet. If you have that spark, you go ahead in the relationship. I don't know if this "spark" is real, I saw a lot of girls in person after liking their profiles, but didn't like them (or they didn't like me) in person.

I think at some point, our culture decided that interest of the society is bigger than personal freedom. They may have decided its better to find a partner this way rather than spending several years like in other cultures (I worked with an American who dated the same girl for 5 years and got divorced in 6 months). If you are going to say that such a lack of personal freedom is regressive, I don't feel that way. In America, you have the draft which to me means you loose the right to your body.
Grep for illegal activity, short-sell the companies involved, anonymously tip off the authorities.

What's the point of this?
A large source of GPS inaccuracy is atmospheric variations that cause the signals to bend and delay. The data sent by the satellites contains information that can be used to correct for this but it is encrypted so only approved parties can use the resulting accuracy.

Using a fixed nearby station as in DGPS is another way to correct for this.
unions and work councils are fairly rare in the IT/startup sector in Germany. If they exist it's usually because it's the IT department of an old, established enterprise. The rate of union membership in anything that's IT related is comparatively low as well.

Personally, I consider that a problem, because it leaves each employee to fight their own fight. But IT folks somehow tend to believe that they don't need any help (and then subsequently sign contracts with unlimited unpaid overtime because they don't know it's illegal).
I'm way out of my element here, but I can't pass up the opportunity to ask a professional how something like Roland Omnes book Quantum Philosophy fits into this back-and-forth between physics and philosophy. I found it in a Barnes and Nobles many years ago, and found it steeped in both fields. Is this not relevant, not really ground-breaking in any significant way, or just a oddity in the field philosophy?

https://books.google.com/books?id=nVZ7AAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PR...
>I'm talking of not having to dedicate an ops team to maintain your bare metal infrastructure.

You can still build an architecture that works on any of the large feature rich cloud providers with minimal retooling, and that can be deployed on bare metal if needed (minus automatic scaling, load balancing etc.)

In the end the trick is to build infrastructure agnostic apps that work on AWS as well as on IBMs cloud
I guess it will be built around the system they use for ChromeOS and also introduced with Android 7. Meaning that you have two OS partitions. One is active, another on standby. When a update gets pushed it gets written to the standby partition. Then on the next reboot, the two partitions switch roles. If the new and updated partition fails to boot, then it falls back to the old one. If not the old one enters standby and will be overwritten when the next update gets pushed.

Thing is though that on ChromeOS, there is a core part that never gets updated. This is why only certain newer Chromebooks could get Android app support. Because the way they implemented it required a minimum Linux kernel version.

And over on the Android side you still have the issue of OEM and carrier meddling in the update process.

So i fear that this platform will be beset with similar issues once it starts to spread beyond the realm of enthusiast dev boards.
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Interesting points. I have only a Linux laptop. I use Smart Unlock on my Android phone but don't know to what extent it relies on signal strength.
At what point does the Fitbit privacy policy with regards to user data take over from the Pebble privacy policy? After a quick read through, the Fitbit policy seems pretty reasonable, and doesn't contain terms that (for instance) let them track personally identifiable data for later sale. Once the Fitbit policy is in effect I'd even half consider using the official Pebble app.
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Time to give the old box a massive update i guess.
>We don't have a proof for warp-drives same as we don't have a proof for building AGI.

We don't have a warp drive to copy, no idea how one could even exist, they are not in our known universe.

If we want to learn about an AGI, we just look in the mirror.
In Germany, 20% is charged.
Isn't that basically the ""everyone should get their fair share" argument?

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3du1qm/e...
When did I say the real victims were her coworkers? The fact that I think your reasoning is deeply flawed does not imply I hold what you believe to be the opposite view.

Pointing out logical flaws in the reasoning of the inquisition doesn't make me a Satanist (or a libertarian, for that matter).

(Hint: I'm neither a satanist nor a libertarian.)
> There were a lot of concerns when Mr Wheeler took over and he greatly surprised everyone. Let's be patient and see what happens next.

When Wheeler was nominated, there were some concerns that he wouldn't even want to live up to the promises that Obama made.

That's a very different situation from being worried that the next chairman will live up to the promises that Trump has made.
Ask Boeing - http://www.economist.com/node/1842124
See,

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/11/06/the-problem-...

The "socialist" state runs a systematic unwritten discrimination regime where every thing from higher education to state services are restricted only to English speaking class; yet, it is the remainder that get the boot due to the inflationary forces of the currency. It is by every meaning of the word, an apartheid; this state mandated scheme of slavery is kept in check by various schemes of cultural propaganda and distractions by the Anglical state. Of course, without education, feudalism becomes only too normalized.

This system is widespread all over former colonies in Africa and Asia.
Running a sex party like a startup: will anyone come?
This is interesting; I use Android myself and assumed Health was just Apple's app.

I'm likely not to reply back here on this thread, but I'll talk with coworkers about it internally.
So... second guessing someone's retelling of a completely sober, undoubtedly career impacting scenario (one way or another) in the workplace is equivalent to second guessing someone's retelling of a drunken haze of a night?

It's folly to think that the same level and style of scrutiny need be applied to both. You aren't wrong to paint the alternate picture for your friend's case, but it's sidestepping the issue in question (e.g., potential harassment in the workplace) to attempt to make that equivalency here.
Hearing protection is worthwhile. I don't know if we understand tinnitus well enough to say whether most of it is preventable.
Old media have tried to bury truths all the time, I personally think the new media with people commenting stuff on twitter is more truthfull than the old new coverage.

Read the article by: Cringely "News we aren't supposed to know", http://www.cringely.com/2016/12/15/news-arent-supposed-know/ which descibes old situations where the media did not report anything about events which had big impacts.

This Guardian article is more like a flame war from someone who does not get to deicide what the media agenda is no more.
The alternative media, was much better at covering Erdoğan power takeover than main media in my opinion.