skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does India have working holiday arrangements with the EU? As a Ukrainian living in Australia without a degree, to move to Europe I got my Australian citizenship so that I could then get a working holiday visa. In the meantime I freelanced and contracted in Australia to save up money. The working holiday visa allowed me to move to my chosen European country for a year and look for work while there - much easier than trying to get a company to relocate you remotely. I ended up applying for jobs through listings on various company sites after moving and started work about 2 months after the move with a largeish company (which then assisted with applying for a proper longer-term employment visa when the time came).
I actually like this idea, and see it as a variation of an idea that i was fleshing out the details of. I would love to learn a few more of the details of how you set it up!
How about lowering CEO pay by about 90% and distributing that to employees, i.e. paying a fair wage adjusted for gains in productivity?
More like "watch our fund" (that just happens to be wrapped to the eyeballs in nauseating marketing playing on gender politics) face down the dangers of the financial market. After all a "bull market" is slang for a market going up up up.

In effect marketing is doing to feminism what it did to punk.
> And yet there's still no sane way to move data from my laptop to my desktop without physical media.

If the laptop and desktop are connected to a network, then there's no reason to use physical media, in fact the medium can only be an additional failure mode. Try this instead:

$ rsync -av (source path) (destination machine name):(destination path)

On your LAN, use Zeroconf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration_networking) to resolve local machine names to IPs.

> As long as it is easier to send the data round trip to a datacentre in Kansas and back than it is to send it within my own lan ...

Yes, but the premise isn't correct, and it only adds to the list of possible failure modes.
Of course spam was not mentioned, but I don't think it is a blindness of the people involved so much as an unpredictable problem, by anyone, until it had happened. Certainly it is easy enough for us to predict it retrospectively.

I think it's for both technical and social reasons that the web is the way it is, and it's hard to separate them. If there was a stronger social demand for decentralization, the technical problems would be solved. On the other hand, if setting up a decentralized service and using it didn't require a Ph.D. then more people might do it.
Yeah, you did it right in my opinion. Good on you for resisting the urge to make everything fancy.
Have you tried a Diskstation?
My favorite user interface is the rubber bands i use to connect pots/encoders on synths like mopho, ms2000 or MIDI controllers. You have to find the right length and thickness to get kind of a sigmoid acceleration curve to the connected-over knob with not too much slippage.

Aside from that, like many guitar/piano people, I'm pedal oriented, I see all these new things like Elektron Analog Heat and i think, that would be a great pedal. I don't know if it's possible for a single pedal to control multiple parameters but if it exists I'm willing to practice dexterity for months to get the control
If switching citizenship was on the level of ease like switching rental apartments, complex but doable, then you'd have a point, but you generally don't have that much choice in your citizenship. It is one of the last bastions of socially accepted generational discrimination. Countries try to keep you in their club and try to keep others out of it, even if discriminating between people based on where they were born is objectively morally wrong.

Not that I think it's a good idea to get rid of borders today, just that a natural extrapolation of western morality, which favors choice over birth, leads you down a path to a borderless world.
Great story and I shouldn't nitpick this, but it really drags down a story for me when it's stated matter of fact like (rather than as a "memory") and yet has an obviously flawed timeline. "Eight years ago", aka 2009, is "long" after Facebook became publicly accessible and Twitter had existed publicly for about the same duration. Are either the point of your story? No, but it detracts from the point when readers know this and it makes you seem less credible when you shouldn't be.
Based on that mailing list post and other things I've seen, I'm a little concerned that OpenBSD lacks sufficient funding or that Theo De Raadt is burnt out enough not to care (which would be completely understandable; I'm certainly wouldn't blame him after his long, insufficiently remunerated, Herculean efforts). That would be a much bigger issue than the availability of CDs.

OTOH, he also suggests that the OpenBSD Foundation could be generating enough revenue. Does anyone know? Relevant excerpts from Theo's mailing list post:

I made 40 CD releases in 20 years, investing personal effort and risk to build and sustain the costs of this project and sub-projects.

I do not want to keep making CDs to sustain myself and the project anymore. Other ways need to work now.

and

The CDs haven't pulled in sustaining revenue for many years.

Based upon income from contributors the Foundation performs a
fantastic function -- making worries and problems disappear.
No, DRM won't help that. It will be broken and stuff will be downloaded anyway. So again, if you don't want that - don't publish it. At all ;)
Working Alone to Be More Productive?
> In my own post-doc experience, I caught a National Academy of Sciences member at Johns Hopkins faking data 20 years ago this year, and he decided to threaten me over it.

That's a bold claim.

Do you have evidence to support this claim? Or a name? Could you point us to the data set they faked? If others aren't able to reproduce their data (under the same circumstances), that's fraud.
> They are a Cleveland-based hardware startup
> Disclaimer: I am the Director of Architecture at BluBoard

Then you should probably say "we are" rather than "they are" so that it's clear from the outset. (PS. When you disclose something, it's a "disclosure".)
This was posted in 2013. Maybe a mod should edit the title?
Companies like Toyota have long understood that a more democratic workplace leads to better outcomes overall. But the reality is, barring a major cultural change or wide-scale labor organization, this kind of management system will never take hold in America.

We're a fundamentally authoritarian society who organizes all our systems like their mini-fiefdoms. I've never understood why a society that prides itself so much on its tradition of democracy would build within itself an economy of autocratic rulers, but I guess these kind of contradictions are as much a part of our culture as anything else.
Snapchat CEO’s ‘poor India’ comment sends ratings crashing
Lack of "employee engagement" is not a new insight by far. It's just that implications of what it takes to address the root cause of it go down quite a deep rabbit hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
I've been thinking of and recently started working on this exact problem most companies that cross the 40-50 person mark face.

Can we get coffee sometime? I'd love to exchange thoughts and ideas and just learn your perspective as well. I'm in SF (moving to Oakland soon - looked up your twitter).
Yeah, leading 500 is a pretty different animal then 50. New hires are probably not going to expect to be "changing the course" and more focused on stepping in and keeping it. Turns of phrase from the leadership can frequently bewilder people unintentionally.
Yeah, I see that now. Must've been edited while I was commenting or I just missed it. Mea culpa! :(
You forgot "not annoyingly frequent." I don't necessarily want to be emailed every time someone comments on a post I commented on, or whenever you post something new. Once a week or once a month, in digest form telling me what's new is more than sufficient.
The weight distribution of a fully fueled and payload-carrying Falcon 9 prohibits it from attempting any sort of boostback burn back to the landing pad if an abort is needed. It would tear the vehicle apart.

It would be similar to a a fully loaded semi truck trying to turn on a dime.
How to Create Asterisk Server Dashboard in 10 Minutes
With noscript + request policy blocking everything the content loads perfectly fine. Everything else is apparently unnecessary junk.
It sounds like an interesting technical problem at first. A search engine for hobbyists. Use AI or whatever to filter out commercial interests.

The problem is that nobody will pay you by definition and you are in an arms race against commercial interests. Does not sound sustainable.
Sort of related question I've always had:

What is the highest resolution non-color display? I.e. are there '4K' versions of things like e-ink? It seems like most of these things are sort of pixelated looking.
Yes I know - So much for my big talk about handing a large load. There's no substitute for proper load testing.

The server that both the app and my blog are on only has 1 core and 1.5gb of ram. I didn't pay close enough attention to kafka, and it turns out kafka was using half of the available ram starving the rest of the processes. And it didn't help people's bots were thrashing POST requests at nginx to edit the page.

I've just done some high fructose server maintenance, spinning up a new machine 4 cores and 8 gigs of ram. The old site is proxying all traffic across, and once DNS propagates it'll stop being hit at all. Hopefully that'll ease the congestion.

Edit: at the time of writing everything seems back up and happy. Nginx was running out of open file descriptors, kafka was eating all the ram and ghost (my blogging platform) wasn't sending the right cache-control headers.

A few tweaks and a bit more CPU to play with and everything seems happier now.
30, or one Carmack.
Definition: Your "Facebook ____" is the lowest ____ of any of your "friends" that has a Facebook account.

Where ___ is any applicable attribute such as intelligence, privacy, etc.

Corollary 1: You will be surprised at who is included in the set of "friends" that have a Facebook account.

Corollary 2: You will be surprised at how low the lowest ____ is for your "friends."
Those of us with more "normal" lives can never understand how much RMS gave up for his dream. Is he a weird old man with some unsettling habits? Probably, but that makes him no less of a genius. He could have done anything and he chose to give us GNU.
My first thought on this has always been the famous statue of David. It originally had political undertones (David meant to show what a good ruler would be). Later, the Perseus with the Head of Medusa statue was erected. [1] Subversively, the head of Medusa is positioned so that David would be turned to stone. Rather clever, but I think the greatness of David has rather out shown the political commentary there. (All this according to my tour guide.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus_with_the_Head_of_Medus...
This sounds great and all, but I've seen corporate rebels and how often they get fired. The most dangerous thing you can do at most companies is to disagree with your boss and be right. I was a rebel myself until I realized the risks.

The safe path to promotion is sucking up to the level of management right above your manager. Always show up early, look
nice and busy, and make sure you're always presenting at meetings.

The true rebels will be seen contracting or running their own businesses. Or defeated and working in the dark corners of the corporate world just waiting for the day they can escape, real or imagined.
Ugh. Hadn't thought of that. That means, probably, they are also filling in their social graph for people that have never touched Facebook at all.
Facebook suggests a person I keep seeing on my commute that also works in the same building as me (not same company). I always think the 0 mutual friend recommendations are a bit weird/interesting
Interesting. I had the opposite perception. Most Europeans I know (Scandinavians, Germans, Dutch, British) prefer subtitles on movies (even when they are foreign non-English movies), whereas the impression I have gotten of Americans through e.g. news broadcasts and talkshows, have been that everything is dubbed into English (for example interviews from the EU parliament or other foreign countries). I am sure it depends on the context, but now I wonder if there are any statistics on when things are dubbed vs subtitled.
The picture is going to be a completely black rectangle.
Playstore process was fast, almost immediately.
App store at best take 1-2 days even on expedition, and number of expedition is limited per year.

source: am iOS developer, screwed up few times.
Is this a real RMS quote or a parody? Hard to tell.
For me there is an undeniable appeal to “voting with your feet” after the result of the voting at the ballot box turned out so poorly.

I personally likely won't be impacted too badly by Trump and his supporters. I may have economic options here that are as good as or better than my options anywhere else. But I feel a need to put some distance between this country and myself now. It doesn't represent me anymore. I don't belong to it anymore. I'm not ok with the decision it made. I've even felt that it ceased to be a place worth caring about.

There are just a couple things that pull me back from this line of thinking: A broader view of history and a broader view of alternative places in the world.

History: The last election may be the biggest step backward my country has taken since I was born, but I don't get to pretend that it was so wonderful before that. Yes, we all know this. But I just relearned it even more forcefully in a piece I read a couple weeks ago:
http://www.mtv.com/news/2998426/fascism-has-already-come-to-...

Places in the world: If I'm going to leave for the reasons above, I need good reasons why another place is better. But every place has its downsides. There probably is a good case to be made in favor of a number of places, but if I'm going to be honest about this, I need to research it and not move reflexively without knowing a lot about the place I'm moving to. And if I do move somewhere, I should do it with some degree of commitment to put some effort into making that place better. Otherwise any anti-immigration sentiments that exist there will probably be right about me.

Being able to chose your home, rather than having to stay where you were born, is a valuable thing. But at some point it is good to choose a home and invest in it.
Why do you have to go past the 50? Or even past the 5 people in the room?

Isn't it just better to keep companies small? Maybe have/work on multiple companies, have companies interact better with other ones so they can accomplish more, but keep them smaller.
In practice, that “modern brightly colorful composition” already exists, in the form of a gaggle of tourists taking selfies in front of the Mona Lisa at all times.
If Facebook went away tomorrow, no one on the planet would be adversely harmed. IMO, investors price in the fact that most social networks are ephemeral. Grow or have stock price hammered into dust.
The $10 entry fee and heavy use of bans made the topic subforums the best on the web. While FYAD may have given birth to the shitpost, shitposting is only allowed in the designated shitposting zones.

If you want to talk or read about a massively popular topic: cars, guns, motorcycles, games, money, pets, health, houses, coupons... it's nice to go somewhere that weeds out low quality posting. How ever quality happens to be defined in that particular forum.
The difference between games and video is there's precedent for video: Netflix, e.g., has been on the web since 2007, games never really have. Videos moving away from the web would be far more noticeable to the average user than games continuing to not be on the web.

There's good reasons to kill plugins: their security policies are almost always weaker than browsers and many security attacks on browsers and networks have used them. EME, even in plugin form, is in many ways better in this regard, as you can put it in sandboxes with fewer privileges.
I believe the X Overflow are the old format, and are now just grandfathered in. All new ones are in the latter style.
My go-to example here is Craigslist. It's pretty fugly, but functional enough as a site, not to mention useful for the content.
How can they patent this? It's been occurring naturally for millennia.
> The latter has the amazing JVM eco-system to hand.

What do you mean? Scala.js allows you to use things from the Java ecosystem in JavaScript?
Did I miss something? Should you give someone feedback on a public post? Writing generically about something you noticed would be fine but to specifically talk about a project, I don't know, I would feel super uncomfortable if it was done to me.
If Net Neutrality goes away TV will thrive. This battle is far from over.
> Images, gifs and short videos seems like a logical step forward for mass consumption.

Yup, their first order of business is to optimize for the widest swath of users. That being said, as feeds become more customized, I'm sure you'll start seeing more rich articles if that's what you desire.

Twitter delivers desirable information because the user curates it strongly (it's normal to follow/unfollow users over time), but Facebook will likely replace that effort with algorithms.
This doesn't sound right to me.

As I understood it, all kids used to wear grey/white dress gowns that were easily bleachable and reusable and able to be passed down.

And then marketing companies decided that it was better if they imposed a cultural norm that if you have a boy and a girl, you need to buy two different outfits for each.

Similar to the only raison d'etre of absolutely stupid gendered products like shaving razors and deodorant.
Apple users in a nutshell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbmgV7Oyp0w
This statue speaks volumes to me, but not in the way it's probably intended to.

This is corporate marketing both adeptly using culture war tactics and manipulating them to its own end. They knew that they could put their ad there and appeal to feminists. They knew that anyone who disagreed with its placement, regardless of their actual reason for objection, would be shouted down as sexist, thereby reenforcing the supporters' convictions. They knew that that interaction would generate extensive buzz.

You can either buy into their message or become a target for those that do, but no matter how you engage with it, you end up pushing their message. Whether you're a die hard feminist, or someone who finds this divisive, you are being manipulated by cynical marketers. They've correctly identified the mechanisms of a current social schism, and subverted them.

Regardless of how you feel about the statue, the campaign is simply genius. This is truly art on a next level. The divide of American culture, the cynicism of corporate America and its willingness to stoop to any level, the furious fighting while blind to the real mechanisms at work. This statue may be the perfect representation of America in 2017.
Black holes aren't necessarily dark. In fact, they usually emit a lot of light, especially in the x-ray spectrum.

https://www.sciencealert.com/visible-light-emitted-from-a-bl...
Even 'real' social activities are increasingly reliant on multinationals that economically dominate their spaces. You don't HAVE to use them, but it is rarer and rarer to not roll up to a multinational. That is still a form of centralization.
It is a series of public feedback posts; the devs know it will be public. It is supposed to be able to help other people.
Think you misunderstood - I'm a customer, not a driver
> a language with a fully phonetic alphabet

So there are no dialects or regional accents?

My Norwegian teacher tried to tell me the same thing thirty years ago. For Norwegian it is manifestly untrue because pronunciation varies from valley to valley.
There is the ED312TT2, a 2560x1440 31.2" display which costs $2k:

http://shopkits.eink.com/product/signage-evaluation-kit-v3-w...
"If scientists allocated 50% of their money to colleagues they cite in their papers, research funds would roughly be distributed the way funding agencies currently do"...assuming scientists didn't change their citing practices to exploit the new incentive structure.

Still think it's a pretty interesting idea, but they should probably team up with some game theorists.
This is a thing that John Carmack, specifically, does routinely. I'd imagine most people who work with him know he does this, and he was probably in communication with the devs.
Silicon is a close contender to Carbon as evidenced by the creation of a bacterial enzyme that efficiently incorporates silicon into simple hydrocarbons[1].

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/researchers-take-smal...
I got a huge popup blocking everything asking me to register before I could even start reading it. Stopped bothering at that point
I'm very familiar with what it takes. We built a mobile AR engine based on OpenGL starting back in 2013 that launched in 2015.

I'm sure FB has more than enough fantastic personnel and resources to build a great engine.
How do you program this? Is it easy to get started with?
To be fair, users who appear to travel in the same circles (even just an IP address can reveal such correlation) seems like a fairly good choice for making that kind of suggestion.
About your 'vimrc'…

* 'set nocompatible' is useless.

* 'syntax on' also does 'filetype on'. Why enable something if you are going to disable it a few lines below? You should move that line to your "Theme and Styling" section.

* Why is 'set nowrap' not in the "Configuration Section"?

* 'set encoding=utf-8' is generally useless on Mac OS X. Your whole config is broken if you need it.

* 'set backspace=indent,eol,start' is not an "OSX stupid backspace fix"; it's needed everywhere. And… why is this setting not in the "Configuration Section"?

* 'set ruler' is overridden by your "fancyline" plugin so it's useless.

* 'set t_Co=256' is useless, Vim can determine that on its own.

* 'set background=dark' is also useless; your colorscheme already does that.

* Your whole "Enable omni completion." section is useless; Vim already does all of that.

* 'get(g:, 'elite_mode')' will always return '1' so you should simply keep your four mappings and scrap all that unnecessary configuration.

* 'mapleader' and 'maplocalleader' are not set anywhere, not sure what's the point of a '<localeader>' mapping.

* Your PHP and Elixir autocommands should be in dedicated groups or, ideally, in proper ftplugins.

About your writeup…

* Vim's built-in file explorer already does everything NERDTree does so why did you decide to add a second file explorer? Maybe you should explain that to your readers, don't you think?

* Vim doesn't do autocompletion to begin with so any kind of autocompletion is like steroids.

* Like with NERDTree, why Syntastic instead of the built-in ':help :make'?

* Vim is not your IDE; it's the editor of your IDE.
Great example! I had the misconception that Arabic had no vowels. I fed your Arabic transliteration into Google Translate[1], clicked on the "speak it" icon for the Arabic, and I could hear a comprehensible English sentence:

https://translate.google.com/m/translate?hl=en#ar/en/أَرَبِك...

If Arabic had no vowel sounds then this should have been impossible!

[1] Ignore the English translation which is meaningless and irrelevant. In this case I'm using Google Translate for speech synthesis, not for translation.
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It was unprofessional. Once I saw it, I couldn't un-see it. I would understand if it was a personal interaction but if you're leading a company, take feedback and do not respond like that. It was incredibly immature and I couldn't imagine what things look like behind closed doors if that is how he'd be willing to look on camera (he must have known it was a possibility he was on camera)