skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has something that works really well for them. It's nice to have an employer that respects that.

Personally, I find a lot of value in putting a face on everyone in my team. To me, it's a lot easier to work through a problem in person vs. over Slack or Skype.

But that's not to say I disagree with the OP. I totally value the efficiency of working in isolation if and when I'm at a point where I just need to be heads down to finish a task. At my office, we have the luxury of isolated couch rooms where it feels like working from home w/ the office and your coworkers steps away.
The last startup I worked at the server dev brought in an Echo and set up a basic analytics app that queried the database so we could ask it for user activity over the last 24 hours, or the last week.
Gitless, a user-friendly wrapper around git, updated to add Windows support
You must be living under a rock. They're a tabloid on par with Weekly World News.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/14/media/breitbart-incendiary-h...
Nanocavity advances technology for secure quantum-based data encryption
Firstly, they didn't have to go for the coalition. They did it for the electoral system referendum, which proposed a mediocre system and lost. Given that a serious chunk of their vote is expressly anti-Tory, the coalition was always electorally risky.

Secondly, their popularity was built in large measure on their reputation for honesty - for not being the same two-faced shits as other politicians. Signing an ironclad pledge on tuition fees before the election and then reneging didn't just piss off students and their parents, it cannibalised their own political brand.
> That's exactly what happened, isn't it?

Not quite. I suppose I just know more of what happened behind the scenes than is apparent in the text-based interview, because I recorded a podcast episode with Jason afterwards. Two things:

1) Yes, Indie Shuffle's users latched onto SubmitHub, but Indie Shuffle is just one of 250+ blogs and labels whose readers use SubmitHub. It's a small percentage of the total revenue and users.
2) Yes, others in the industry knew about Indie Shuffle, but Jason had to spend months and months sending cold emails and doing sales in order to land other blogs and labels as customers.

I agree with you that it didn't happen overnight. And I also don't think you're belittling what Jason did, at least not intentionally. My only point is that it's easy to conclude that the surface level details of any business' story played a much bigger role than they actually did.

In this case, Indie Shuffle was crucial for Jason understanding the problem, coming up with the idea, and even beta testing the product. But the user acquisition responsible for the massive sales happened the hard way, and it happened in the last year.
>made from bullshit

Well that doesn't sound delicious at all.
I hate to drag a thread like this out but I'm genuinely curious: why is there someone/are there people out there who have such an axe to grind? Or are they just trolls?
To save on having to have two versions of Firefox, you can start a new instance with:

$ firefox --no-remote --new-instance --profile /path/to/alt/profile
Odd. It was indicated in that thread that "We've banned this serial troll, of course, but the immune response from the community was particularly healthy here." I guess they got un-banned?
Aside from the technical issues with the machine, ultrasound imaging is harder to perform (in terms of scanning technique) and very difficult to interpret compared to a high-resolution MRI or even simple X-ray. It takes significant training to even find specific organs, and distinguishing between, eg, a gas bubble in the small intestine vs a potentially dangerous foreign object or even a tumor takes a lot of education and experience.
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Having an automatic thermostat is being indifferent to the climate.

In the old days we'd shovel coal into the furnace. We were in tune with nature.
> I firmly believe you could train a smart person to do an x-ray and to reset a bone, put on a cast and to it for under $1K. And it would cost $10K probably in a hospital sans insurance.

Imagine that your solution is a fraction of a percentage point worse than current treatment. Imagine there's 0.1% increase in harm.

The English NHS sees 1m patients every 36 hours.
In 2012 - 2013 there were 9 million ultrasounds.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sit...

0.1% of 9million is 9,000.

I wouldn't want to tell those 9,000 people that their treatment was, even though they got harmed, good enough.

And that 9,000 is just in England.

If you want to save money on ultrasound spending you probably want to reduce the numbers of ultrasounds being taken. Healthy pregnant women with no problems only need one ultrasound, but in some places they're offered very many more.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/pregnant-women-get-more-ultrasou...

> In 2014, usage in the U.S. of the most common fetal-ultrasound procedures averaged 5.2 per delivery, up 92% from 2004, according to an analysis of data compiled for The Wall Street Journal by FAIR Health Inc., a nonprofit aggregator of insurance claims. Some women report getting scans at every doctor visit during pregnancy.
I would appreciate if anyone can share your dev setup for Rust. I tried Rust and Racer long time ago and it's not a pleasant experience.
> It's odd to consider music written like this - where snippets of a piece are written in all sorts of conflicting tempos, and then finally assembled during "editing" into something cohesive (although I guess this is how the Norwegian megapop songwriters kind of do this).

Sample-heavy (hip-hop, house) musical genres have been doing this for a while. They'll take old 90 BPM records, sample em, pitch em/speed em up, or cut samples in such a way that they fit into new time signatures, keys, tempos, etc. The really good producers will take a bunch of samples and mash em up into a new work.

I think a lot of popular art forms have an internal tempo, whether their creators are conscious of structuring the tempo or not. All stories (music, movies, books, plays) have "shapes" [1] which incorporate a component of tempo. It would be interesting to make it explicit though for an art form where language rather than music is the main form of expression. Musicals are a happy medium here, a completely time-based dinner party or play might end up more like Jeopardy and less like free-flowing art.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
Rust _adds_ new things all the time, but it does not break old things. Every language does this. We have put in a _tremendous_ amount of work to ensure this is true, from testing every commit before merge, to our stability infrastructure that ensures only stable features can be used in a stable release, to the "crater" tool that tests releases against all open source code, to our RFCs that specify exactly what constitutes something breaking.

> It is unclear if there ever will be a Rust 2.0.

I'm not sure how this implies that Rust is changing too fast to be useful, but it's meant to state the opposite: we do not plan on making gratuitous backwards changes in the future.
Give me a break.

The author was giving two meals a day and often got home late in the evenings. Only the evening meal was from a machine. Don't act like the cat is being abused. The author looks like she is providing the cat with a very nice life.

"Whys?" It helps prevent tripping incidents when the cat knows its food time and is rubbing on your feet as you walk. It helps with anxiety associated with irregular feedings. That's just two reasons I thought of off the top of my head.
No, that would would not be special treatment or illegal state aid, because it is based on objective criteria. A specific company either is or is not in a particular industry. A specific company has a particular size or it doesn't.

It's not negotiable on a case by case bases depending on what a specific company offers in return.

But of course there can always be disputes and differences in opinion, so ultimately a court will decide whose interpretation of the law is correct, just as it would be done on the national level.
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> It is, as you even quoted, a one-off deal between Ireland and Apple.

no, the phrase referred to _possible_ one-off deals between Ireland and Apple. Just mentioning them does not cause them to appear.

See:

> the words “any aid” covers not only one-off deals between Ireland and Apple, but also any general provision...
Exactly, we should encourage attacking adversity. It is the only way to get resiliency.

I've been told in the past I'm good at solving complex problems I've never encountered before. I just show them my notes on how I solved it and say I'm not good at all, just persistent and willing to learn as I go. I notice a lot of people give up at the first sign of adversity. I might too depending on the criticality but that doesn't mean I accept defeat.
> But then the 1 in 1000 person comes along that is... less than great... and that person puts a raincloud on your day as a maintainer (or even worse: puts a raincloud on SOMEONE ELSE in the community)

I find this to be so true. Both as a condo board members and someone who volunteers time for an open studio event.

(everyone is great in the building but there are those 2 new
complainers/threateners ...and they have had a chilling effect on everything). The feeling in the building changes because of those 2. Try not to let that happen.

Be polite people! It makes a big difference.
afaik the problem is this.

apple should pay taxes where they do business, but they dont, they tunnel everything thru ireland.

and ireland says, ok apple you have to pay only the tax on the income u generated here in ireland, everything that came from outside is free.
I agree with you. I personally am much more distracted at home because "I'm home". When I'm at work, I'm in work mode. I also find that I solve a lot of yesterdays roadblocks during my commute (20 mins each way) and the shower. Solving problems is not always about characters per second of new code.

Over the years, I can't even count the number of times that I heard a conversation taking place and was able to step in and say "that's wrong" and stop several people from a multiple day detour.

I do think 40 person open spaces are bad but small ones for a team of 2-5 that are all working on the same project are great (ideal imo), especially in a sealed room with lots of white boards, etc.

I do think that remote will become more and more common as companies see it as a way to reduce costs.

It seems like the author is mainly concerned about what is best for them, not the team. Requirements and clarifications constantly evolve. It is expensive to have every requirement exactly defined with full test cases when you aren't sure what you need to build. Being involved in that process gets everyone to good enough quicker. Also, I'm not sure what to do when a customer calls (8-6, presumably) and has an issue and the night owl is the one who knows that part of the system, telling the customer to call back at 1:00 cause that's when Bob is awake seems pretty silly.

Most tech companies have hours ~8-6, because that is their customers hours too, not out of a mandate to irritate employees. I do agree with the author that if the employer only cares about butts in seats, then it is a bad place to work but that has nothing to do with remote vs on site.
Up until the last Parker patriarch gave half the ranch to his workers, it was the third largest producer in the US.

Now it's fifth, IIRC.

Also interesting, the paniolos were the first US cowboys AND they have unique rodeo sports (including my favorite - ranch mugging).
If it's something that isn't standard or I know is so peculiar to me (mechanical keyboard, expensive mouse, headphones) that the company can't redistribute it when I leave, I just buy it myself and bring it in.

That slippery slope is also slippery on the other end, ok, company A bought you "xyz gamer laptop" when everyone uses MBPs or what not. 99% chance it's going to go sit in the closet for a few years after you leave until donated or sold whereas if you used the standard equipment it can be cleaned and released.

I'd rather skip the hassle and bring my own things in if it's not a change to the standards.
The problem with your rant is that people have different opinions on what is "good". You would probably hate my setup because it's a tiling WM with nothing. No conky bar, no date/time in the bar, no power monitors, etc. But it works the best for me because I don't like any distractions at all.

Linux gives you the freedom to choose the environment that suits you personally best. Windows doesn't give you ANY choice, and it's still bad! If you like to be told what is good and make no optimizations for your personal workflow, more power to you. But don't go saying that Linux is "not the right answer", that's just silly. Works on my machine :)
Totally, I just was considering the fork point from Hudson back about 5 years ago. As an independent project they've had 5 years to think about design and it seems like no one really has cared.

I still think core functionality shouldn't be put into plugins in any software system. You should have sane functionality and defaults right out of the gate. Plugins or modifications are for extending the base use case. Configuring your software to me is a base use case.
This article could use some youtube links.

For example this one, to the 12-note piece mentioned towards the start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sylplEFxXo and the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8K9gkuHpMo
Universal framework for choosing technology stack for your next project
I've always wondered how promises like this are possible since twitters public API allows only partial access to the stream of tweets?
Does making me a little sick to my stomach about how low the standard for discussion there has fallen in the past couple years count as an accomplishment?
Your professional reputation should have a price, equal to an amount of money that would make it so you don't have to ever work in that field again.

You can explain to your customers that POTUS bought you out and offer a generous gift, paid for by POTUS.
Ah, that song is one of Jack Black's "Top 5 Crimes Perpetrated by Stevie Wonder in the 80s and 90s" -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjRqwUfwp7s
If you want to improve ultrasound, combine it with the positioning sensors of a VR system so the position of the sensor is known. Then you can do full tomography and build up a 3D model as the sensor is run over the body. For extra points, have alignment sticker targets you can attach to the body to track the patient if they move. Veterinarians would go for that.
One thing that I found interesting was the various media coverage of the time describing Y2K as a 'non-event'.

The media - and consequently the public - was generally unaware that it was a non-event because of the massive resources poured into making it so. Instead they wrote it up as a bunch of hype and paranoia over nothing.

IMO it's one of the greatest unsung engineering success stories of our time.
Fortran has pointers since Fortran 90. But you don't always need to resort to pointers like in C, as Fortran also has allocatable arrays. You can still follow a null pointer, though, if you don't test for it first.
Can you say more? I'm happy to help wherever possible.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11456060

It was a fun distraction on a Friday...
afaik the problem is this.

apple should pay taxes where the do business, but they dont, they tunnel everything thru ireland.

and ireland says, ok apple you have to pay only the tax on the income u generated here in ireland, everything that came from outside is free.
Landmark ruling by EC could render the UK Govt’s new ‘Snoopers Charter’ unlawful
That's awesome! Do you mean autoscaling the pods or nodes?

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
This is not strictly true. You can reproduce a band-limited signal as long as the bandwidth of this signal is smaller than half the sampling frequency.

For example, a signal that only has energy in the range of 9MHz to 11MHz has a center frequency of 10MHz, but a Bandwidth of 2 MHz. You could sample, and reconstruct, the signal perfectly with a sample-rate higher than 4 MHz. Any content between DC and 9MHz that would be present would distort the sampled waveform, though, and create artifacts.

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

Of course, nowadays most often one just uses a very fast ADC, and one can then choose a suitable sub-band by decimation (in a FPGA or ASIC), a kind of digital frequency filtering.

Undersampling was often used in older RF gear (and, maybe it still is for reaching the hightest frequencies? I don't know what's the current state of the art).
These blind tests, again and again, conclusively prove that those listening to the music cannot tell a Yamaha from a Strad. They'll describe the Yamaha in glowing terms until they realize it's a violin made last year, then immediately shit all over it.

It's like wine people who are easily duped by a fancy looking bottle. A true sommelier can identify different wines by taste alone, but for every one of those there's a dozen frauds who pretend they know what they're doing, just parroting stuff they've memorized.

The other troubling thing is the gender of performers is very hard to discern from a blind performance, but when the performer is visible the judges skew very heavily towards men. It's absurd. https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/...
There's also the issue of calibration and recertification. Some industries can skip it but I'm guessing it's a hard requirement in the medical field.
No, there is lots of experimentation in electronic music. "Dubstep" and "Eurodance" are not the only instantiations of electronically composed music.

I'd link you to some but I don't really care about convincing someone with unknown tastes.

Synths and sequences are tools, and are no more limiting than fingers or strings. Throwing away every musical convention might be interesting, but so is experimenting to see why those conventions developed in the first place. What parts of the structure can be removed? When and why?

Computers are generally very unrestrictive--they can be used to put together virtually any sound one can think of, as opposed to physical instruments which have physical limitations (although there are exceptions - the people doing pop music or the boring wub-wub-wub of dubstep or the endless 4/4 oontz of Eurodance have different goals in mind than mere experimentation, and they enforce their restrictions with their tools to help produce their ideas more effectively).

One of the best modern music performances I've ever heard was a live electronic performance where a single tone was generated and then manipulated on the spot beyond recognition. It was complex, dynamic, exciting, and above all, musical - but it worked only because of the availability of electronic musical tools.
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Software is there to be used by humans, if you put the blame on your users, you have actually failed to design the software correctly.

I understand the idealistic goal that all software be turn-key simple for every user and every use case. But even if we assume it's a plausible, reachable goal, I just can't get on board with blaming the people working towards this for the failure of not being done. We're simply not there yet. We've barely even started.

I can simultaneously respect the notion that we should be striving towards it as a goal, while still having practical expectations towards the experts of today that have to interact with systems that are imperfect enough to require expert users.

We only have a few warm bubbles where interaction are easy. And there are still expectations of the users, the bar is just lower. Even the most-comfortable of tools makes demands of the users' literacy and ability to figure out how to carry out their particular goals. And we paradoxically put blame on expert users when they use those environments and want to be able, or (more ominously) allowed to do the kinds of things they know are possible but not supported.

So I can sympathize that the tools suck. I get livid at the limitations of my tools too. I can share in the frustration of fresh new roadblocks and suddenly having to learn something new. I hate hitting that kind of roadblock. But I have a hard time getting on board assigning blame when I'm a colleague of the people working to solving these problems, and I don't have the answer either.
> When a response to "why can't anyone buy an ultrasound machine" is to disingenuously reply "because you have to have the FDA ensure that it's working correctly and people aren't running around killing each other with it," it puts huge constraints on innovation and growth in this area. I can go buy a crowbar and kill people with it, so why can't I buy an ultrasound and use it to study muscle movement, or for education, like the author of the posted article is noting?

Nothing is stopping you making, buying, operating a toy ultrasound, so long as you make clear that it's a toy and not to be used in human health.
You mean you wont address them because you cannot I presume? The critique is aimed at desktop Linux as a whole but is 99% is about how fedora works on his particular known to be problematic hardware.

Fedora is first of all an unstable test bed for a commercial product running on hardware known to be problematic and the user is a red hat developer.

I realized I had more useful things to do than beta test rhel in 2011 and I started buying hardware that works well with linux in 2003.

Not knowing to how do this is certainly a forgivable thing in joe random business user but it becomes ridiculous when we are talking about a red hat dev. If a device doesn't work with its target platform be it windows, Linux, or mac you blame the oem.

In this case whose job do you imagine is it to donate free labor to a multi billion dollar juggernaut to ensure their machines work well with Linux?

Given the benefit Apple has derived from open source software it would be nice if they would help but they certainly have no real obligation nor do open source devs whose time is inherently a limited resource.

In the end Linux has plenty of room for improvement but supporting everyone's hardware for free with finite dev resources just isn't a rational or achievable goal and lampooning linux as a whole because fedora doesn't work on your mac isn't even useful dialogue.

Rational actors will react to this by reasonably picking hardware that is known to be well supported. Irrational actors will continue to complain on the Internet.
Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and Andrew Hill stand out(to me) in this way. Love the Funk picks, and I would throw in Sly Stone. Ishmael Butler, of Digable Planets and Shabazz Palaces, also has a knack for creating music with a futuristic yet timeless quality.
Okay, breaking my rule here: yes, I am wondering that as well. Here's my assumption: the mods straight-up banned this individual's previous accounts, but shadowbanned this one instead. But shadowbanning just kills your comments automatically; in recentish times, HN has added a "vouch" feature that lets you vouch for a comment and get it un-killed. So I imagine that's what happend, which seems like a weakness in the shadowbanning feature, though maybe it's good as well, I don't know. The right way to know is to email the HN mods via the "contact" link at the bottom.
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A carefully choreographed mass evacuation in Syria
I hope it doesn't get bulldozed for apartments and more strip malls, like near the airport right up the road.
There was no neglect. Quinn bought a fancy feeder because nerds love stuff like that, right? Cat figured out how to defeat the feeder. By the time she's welding a steel enclosure for the feeder, the story has clearly moved from "solving a problem" to "I'm not going to be beaten by a cat."