skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think somebody becomes an employee because they require you to use a hammer and not a rock to push nails into wood when building a house. While that is not the best analogy I think you should be able to expect the contractor to show up to work with the right tools to do the job.

This is actually a relevant distinction for the building trades. A contractor will have their own nail gun with a brand-specific feeding system, or might even choose to use an impact driver in certain circumstances. When a construction firm requires all its subcontractors to have a particular model of nail gun that would be an argument for them being employees.

> I would really like to see a system that was more like a real time Angie's list. In such when ride request came in drivers made bids, and requesters could pick from the bids. The bids might also have information about distance from pickup location (or expected pickup ETA, along with price). Maybe have a default setting to pick lowest bidder and shortest ETA. But other things like car styles or types could be part of the system too.

This was how a lot of people expected Internet commerce to work in the early 1990s - the research term for it was agents/multi-agent systems. The passenger would have their agent put out a call for bids for a ride from one location to another. The driver's agents would reply with bids and the passenger agent would take the lowest one. The driver's agent would base the bid on some function that could take into account things like distance, predicted driving time based on current traffic conditions, predicted mileage cost based on MPG estimates based on data from the car's OBDII sensor data, etc.

That would be a market system. Uber and Lyft are a duopoly from the point of view of passengers and monopsonies from the point of view of drivers.
>Not all of us can delay playing Zelda in 900p@30fps for that long

cant tell if sarcasm or gneuine console user
The real question to ask is: why are some of these political nuts working so hard to push people off of Twitter? The answer, in my opinion, is because it allows people they don't approve of the same public voice as themselves, for the first time ever in many cases.
No, wind prediction is a major part of weather forecasts, and are particularly critical for aviation. I don't think I missed your question here. You seemed to want to get raw data... and I wanted to make sure you knew that there is already a community (weather underground.)
Completely untrue. The IPO is already 10 times oversubscribed. [0]

[0] http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000597530
Are you really seeking medical advice on HN? See a doctor for goodness sake.
I see Twitter is getting harder and harder to use anonymously. As someone living under a totalitarian government that is tightening its grip everyday on free speech and the internet in general, this worries me.

Trying to signup and use Twitter using Tor is practically impossible.

I understand the spam problem on Twitter is out of control,but I wish there was a way to use it anonymously.
Is this inevitably going to lead to fewer free online lectures, as public institutions will now be unable to release the videos for free without including the closed captioning? How frustrating, particularly in light of the fact that at least a portion of the Deaf community chooses to remain so.

EDIT: Plus, as noted, the chilling effect of damages awards.
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Funny you mention Google. If you keep logged in to Google (yes, yes I know but for me its the lesser of two evils) you'll only occasionally need to tick a "I'm not a robot" box instead of doing a full captcha.
It would be one thing if students were required to watch the videos as a primary source of instruction in their courses. But blocking the videos from the public seems like a severe overreaction.
> Of all the float-pointing point numbers your computer can represent, a quarter of them lie in [0,1].

Many people think floating point numbers are magically precise. They're not. They're far more accurate at lower magnitudes and precision fades as you work with larger values.
Asking how many "are" in the interval implies that these numbers exist in some sense in that interval.

A clearer way to phrase the question might be: "How many floating-point numbers between 0 and 1 can be generated without duplicates?"
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but to me it looks like their solution has a strict positive impact on reliability unless you are concerned about the local HAProxy node causing a problem. (Local to the running service, that is--it looks like it's on the same box?) It caches or falls through as appropriate, does it not?
I didn't want to state the obvious and be too detailed but yes that's exactly what I meant. And is what people were trying to assess above too: what are the reasons behind Nintendo hardware. And to phrase it again differently, Nintendo tries to be vertical for "entertainment", doesn't really matter how, as long as they achieve quality fun.
Hmmmm... I'm pretty sure this is Visual Studio Mac though I've never heard it called that before. You can edit and debug C# as well as many other languages with Visual Studio Code on your Mac.
This comes as Intel reduced their CPU prices a few days ago and Nvidia reduced their GPU prices yesterday. Competition is good!
Sure, that's well understood. Being a low-risk point of failure, isn't it still a new one? It does come with setup and maintenance costs, test scenarios etc., so it's only fair to recognise this as a risk.
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> it permits reproducing on GitHub only. Any copying from GitHub not granted by way of another license would be a violation of the author's copyright.

If you grant Github a right to reproduce your IP, but no further rights, do people have a right to view Github's reproduction of your IP?
I've worked at a few startups, and with many more - and most of them did not require 150%. The two most successful were unicorns (networking, back in the day), and there we were barely past 100%. We worked mostly 9 to 5. Sometimes there was a push.

The extra bit past 100% is what you get equity for.

Moreover - it's definitely a choice on the part of the employee.

Software developers are generally in high demand, wages are high, and there's no reason to go '150%' unless you feel the 'total package' is right for you.

If service workers were required to put in 70 hours a week for 'no extra comp' then this would be a different story.
One big problem with dilution isn't that you make less money but that you lose control of the company. And poor decisions by investors are a good contender for the #1 thing killing companies. For a VC this is yet another bet which they don't quite understand or care about, compared to a founder for whom it's the bet, and they understand it and care about it much more. Founders being in control is better than VCs being in control.
> now nobody can use the videos

The Americans with Disabilities Act came in in 1990. The fact that even after twenty seven years organisations chose to ignore the law shows the contempt that organisations have for people with disabilities.
This is correct assessment. HAProxy is running on localhost, and it strictly falls back to hitting public S3 directly if our cache is down.
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Bug fix: in an earlier version I used 12.5% and 20% as the rough targets for seed and A rounds. Then I decided to switch to 10-15% and 15-25% ranges. Somehow that change only partially got made, indicating 10% and 15-25%. Now it's fixed.
You remind me of Osho's talk on the word 'Fuck'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2lNFikMFdY
Does anyone else find this binary view of success to be... sad? I guess you could say that if your goal isn't "Uber or bust" then don't take external capital. Is there really no funding available for companies that just want to make relatively safe, modest bets and deliver relatively safe, modest returns?
Yes, but the Genesis came one year before and had quite a more beefy CPU (even two IIRC). This makes the SNES "processing" power a bit tame in a way. Otherwise I agree, visual and musical capabilities were vastly more important for gamers. Lots of games looked magical on a SNES but rusty on a Genesis.
nextAfter is probably also including the denormals (an additional 2^23 values near 0).
We're also hiring in sales, pre-sales engineering, technical marketing and customer success.
Librem 13 is a laptop:
https://puri.sm/products/librem-13/
I think it's a bit insensitive not to mention that at the seed stage most companies throughout the world cannot raise any money on any terms, period. (Literally: period.)

This includes companies with revenue and built product.

The rest of the advice is good and interesting - but it really is for companies that can raise in Silicon Valley.
I guess in tech sometimes you just have to expect the competitors to be too incompetent/short-sighted to be an existential threat. That's how I always understood Apple's survival, at least.
Imagine somewhere between Wikipedia, a shared bookmarks.htm file, and Yahoo's directory (from back when Yahoo was relevant)

(how much does this comment show my age?)
If you're making range requests against S3 objects, look no further than Varnish as a reverse S3 proxy. More details on accomplishing this here:

https://moz.com/devblog/how-to-cache-http-range-requests/
How do you draw the distinction between permissible zero-rating and non-permissible zero-rating?
> Downloading Youtube videos, except with Youtube Red, is a breach of contract.

Too bad, then every single user of Youtube is violating this rule: the browser needs to download the video to play it, streaming is just the act of automatically removing the video chunk after it's played. I don't seen written anywhere that the user is forbidden to prevent the deletion of the video chunk he downloaded.

Even if Youtube updated its rules to fill this loophole, I would still be allowed to do it. In France people are protected by «l'exception de copie privée» which allow them to have their own copy of video or music which their are legally allowed to see/listen.[1] That's why we are allowed to record TV broadcast. I guess there must be a similar law in the US but I'm not really aware of the regulation there.

[1] sharing the video with somebody outside of your family is forbidden though.
Re side-effect-free functions: If you want the semantics of the "mutating" keyword shown in the article, use C++ and use "const" for everything that's not being mutated. In my experience vigorous use of "const" helps avoid mistakes (like anything that makes the type system more expressive), but it ignores the elephant in the room: Side-effects to global variables (such as the state of a random-number generator) or external resources (files, the network, etc.). The submission touches on this in the "Sandboxing" section, but sandboxing only works for a certain class of applications that have a well-defined set of resources. How do you sandbox a root shell?
For Wikipedia, if you aren't logged in (with an editor's account etc.) you are hitting a cache most of the time.

And it isn't so much for the bandwidth saving, more the saving in CPU time in rendering the page up from the Wikitext source, which can be substantial. Some very big pages used to take 2-3 minutes to render because Wikitext is a rather slow ugly programming language pretending to be a document format. (A lot has been sped up after a lot of the rendering guts got moved to Lua.)
Offtopic, but:

Is this not just shorthand, but an actual legitimate Java program these days?
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> My only disagreement is that its all fake usernames

Plenty of people have added their real names in addition to their usernames. But even if they don't, contact lists often have real names.

I'm not sure if that's how you use Snapchat, but personally (and I may be in the minority) I only add people I've either met, or who are in some capacity a celebrity. You can also typically see how close a friend someone is by how many connections they have to other friends in a user's network. Snap users (like Facebook users, I think?) also tend to mostly interact with people they're actually friends with. So at the very least I think the data Snap has is at least as high quality as FB's (and I'm not at all disappointed we're comparing more with Facebook than Twitter, as the latter has had a much more positive market story.)
I think they are different? https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/
In Wikipedia history there was a famous fork of es.wiki called Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español, which split in some sense over policy disagreements. It remained larger than es.wiki for over two years following the fork.

Right now there are collaboratively-edited encyclopedias in some languages (at least Chinese) that are larger than Wikipedia, like Baidu Baike, which is much larger than zh.wiki.

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

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

There were at least two famous attempts to compete with English Wikipedia over policy disputes (Citizendium, which was concerned about verifiability and anonymity, and Conservapedia, which was concerned about the neutral point of view policy). These competitors haven't been very successful, but I can easily imagine people wanting to give each of them another go.

Right now there are about 100 online encyclopedias, each of which potentially competes in some degree with Wikipedia in some sense.

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

An example that's not particularly a result of an editorial policy dispute is Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, a super-great online math encyclopedia (that competes with Wikipedia for attention in its coverage of math). Another is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a super-great online philosophy encyclopedia. Both of these encyclopedias are stronger in at least some parts of their respective areas than Wikipedia is, and perhaps better even on Wikipedia's own terms (e.g., I bet the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy manages to have a more "neutral point of view" on several philosophy controversies than Wikipedia currently does). But zero-rating probably means that people interested in these topics on some mobile carriers are more likely to look only at Wikipedia's articles, even if they're not the best online encyclopedia articles in those areas.

Edit: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics has been renamed to "Wolfram MathWorld". Although Wikipedia's coverage of most math topics is really excellent, I still think MathWorld has areas where it's likely to be even better.

Edit 2: Suppose you're interested in a particular religion's official take on some religious issue. Then an encyclopedia edited by adherents of that religious tradition (like one of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_encyclopedias#R...) may be more helpful to you than Wikipedia, for example because it may go into more theological or ritual detail, as well as more detail about polemics or apologetics from a particular religious view. That might actually be what you were looking for, but currently none of those religious encyclopedias is zero-rated by a mobile carrier.
Wow did 4 people respond to one comment at the same time?
How fast is exponentially?
Why is that? Is Everytown's message so shoddy that it can't hold its own against a ten second NRA ad?
2.1% of your budget for a single campaign of that size does seem like a reasonable tradeoff.
Any word on GWT support for VSCode?
Or you can think of it as precision in the number of significant digits for a number. Each floating point number can only store a certain amount of significant digits. The fractional precision on each float is the same, but the absolute magnitude of the error in the float value increases as the value increases.
Define underpowered. It had a slower clock, but supported much more feature wise. You can't just compare clock speed when comparing different architectures. It's more appropriate to compare the entire system. By that account, the SNES was the most advanced console out. Same for the NES. Same for the 64 (which was a joint development with SGI of all things). Even the gamecube had some grunt but was hampered by it's silly disc format and poor development environment.

No, Nintendo didn't decide to go with underpowered hardware until the Wii. Prior to that they were certainly competing with the top tier systems.
Yes! All of the time! When people talk about moving away to their own datacenter, I like to ask how many of the top engineers in the world will be on-call at any time to monitor it?
> I've specifically been told that it's wise for one person to own 51pct of the company and be CEO.

Well, if that CEO puts up 51% of the capital that might happen. But otherwise the better formula is to be equals as co-founders.
I'm very curious, how long does it actually take to make captions? Seriously, the slowest it could be is probably the length of the actual lecture. Just pay some student $20 to do it. $20 for an hour of work. Am I missing something?

EDIT:

Hmm, I think I was unclear. I am not referring to making a "professional grade" captioned video. I am simply referring to having literally what the speaker says included with the video as a transcription.

I do admit it would probably take more than $20. Even if it was $200 a video that would still be pretty cheap. It's probably what, less than a cent extra per student per semester? Unless of course you do this for every new iteration/instance of the class.
Sorry, I feel like the portable-gaming system went the way of the compact camera, MP3 player....
Ah, fortuitous timing! :)

If you were looking to protect yourself against S3 going down and had bigger drives, I assume you could use cron to sync the entire bucket and use `try_files` to prefer local and fall back to S3 if the file was missing?
Honestly, I think IEEE 754 floating point numbers are a pretty bad way of dealing with real numbers and just cause tons of headaches that every math library has to deal with. Even high level programmers aren't shielded from the NaN nonsense. It would be great if we had an underlying implementation we could ignore and that allowed us to think at a more mathematical level.

I actually found something recently on this topic while googling for any alternatives, its called Unum and looks very interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)

Does anyone know more about this? Are there any chips out there that support it?
What would that have added to the article? The issue seems to be between Snap and Everytown. NRA ads just happen to be the thing they're disagreeing over but it could've been pandas.
I shorted Google back in the day! Gave up once I lost $500 or so.
Don't worry, they run HAproxy in front of haproxy incase the haproxy to S3 service goes down.
So... :IANYL:

_I am not your laywer_
Me too. I use send zip files to my customers every now and then.

This is another example of them, subtly forcing you to use google drive for files.
I joke this is the real reason Elon Musk is digging tunnels and preparing to live in a Mars-like environment...
Thanks DoJ. This will definitely make it a little harder for people to access high quality, free content online.

URLs of the videos won't be removed: "Individual video URLs (links) will remain unchanged."

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/02/24/faq-on-legacy-public-cou...

How could one get all URLs and put them in one place for all 20k+ videos?
Unfortunately they have gone for the Harrison Bergeron approach to achieving equality.

A better approach would have been to build a tool that allows crowdsourcing of captions with a way for students with special needs to tag videos for prioritisation.
They grow up really quick. That's actually really nice for an investment, since you are literally betting on the future.
I'm actually quite suspicious about everything Amazon is doing out there. I was recently contacted about a job at Amazon that they advertised would gain me a government security clearance. The main problem being that I'd have to move to Virginia.
Irrespective of left, center or right, scientific values dictate great skepticism of these results. The authors of the GREML study do not address the possibility that performance on the intelligence tests correlated with social status, which is a highly heritable trait but for reasons completely unrelated to biology.

Essentially any evidence based on a Genome-Wide Association Study should be regarded as suspect. They use extremely simple population-genetic null models, and it's extremely rare for them to turn up novel, testable biological insights.
I don't use twitter, but I've heard and seen that there is a way to turn your account private, so only people you follow can tweet you. That seems like a much more proportioned solution to getting spammed by tweets, than outright deleting your account.

This particular issue seems ripe for a technological fix from Twitter. It should be possible to tweak your privacy settings in such a way that you can turn down noise and only focus on the tweets you are interested in. Maybe it's just my naivete as a non-user, but it seems like adding a couple of settings would help you weather such a storm:

- allow tweets only from people you follow

- allow tweets only from people you've already tweeted at

- temp-block all non-followed accounts that tweeted you in the last X hours

I think asking Twitter to fix the much larger problem of "eliminating assholes from the Internet" is counterproductive. Twitter's inherent design is flawed as it is essentially a single loud public forum, but they can at least provide you tools to handle the worst cases of spam.
Is that very different from a Holter monitor? Those are cumbersome, but seem like they could be a feasibly portable technology at some point. Also, those two tests are necessary for getting a relatively immediate result. Might a) alone provide valuable insights over a longer period of time? I could see your EKG over the course of 48 hours having the potential to provide a comparably accurate test result. Layman, obviously.
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Great idea. I've seen various writing tools, but nothing quite like this. Thanks for sharing.
What do you expect that the NRA would say that would be of interest?
At Stanford, we have similar requirements to caption any video publicly available. This meant that some professors simply stopped posting the videos publicly.

I understand the intent of the regulation, but there should be other ways than do not disincentivize releasing content for free.
No it is inherently a well parallelizible problem, it is just that code was originally written for the original vector supercomputer CPUs (Cray, NEC SX) and had to be rewritten for MPI style clusters.

It ironic because now we have to rewrite everything to use SIMD/vector accelerators (GPUs).