skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work with a lot of time tracking data in my job (calculating the R&D tax credit). I like this tool a lot. It's simple, responsive, fast, and covers nearly all the relevant data points without any obfuscating clutter.

There are a couple items we look for that might be worth including in the CSV exports, depending on what kind of scale you want to plan for. Specifically:

1. Project name,
2. Project ID or number,
3. Employee name,
4. Employee ID or number,
5. Employee email,
6. Supervisor name,
7. Supervisor employee ID or number,
8. Supervisor email,
9. Task or activity code, and
10. Task or activity description.

It's important for us to be able to line up time tracking data to W2 data from a payroll system, which is frequently hosted separately with different data standards. So employee numbers (not SSNs obviously) really help when dealing with larger companies where a significant number of employee names may change (e.g. due to marriage) or may be formatted with slight variations (e.g. nicknames instead of full legal), or where the odds of a name collision are high. We also like to see departments, cost centers, legal entities, locations, lines of business, etc. where applicable, but we can usually layer those on from other data sources if we can join on a unique identifier, whether it's at the project, task, or employee level.

If I can get that data in a single CSV export for all employees at a company, I'm like 70% done with the calculation.

And while this sounds like an odd use case, pretty much any profitable company doing software development in the US should be claiming the credit (and actually in pretty much any developed country, because most have a credit that was modeled on the US's). Even smaller shops with only a handful of employees usually see substantial benefit. Having the data formatted like this up front reduces the costs of doing an R&D credit study and dramatically reduces the odds of an adverse adjustment in exam or audit. Especially when the employees have been diligent about recording their time and the associated activity/project/task data. It's also worth noting that this is one area of the tax code that does not seem likely to be affected by tax reform as both the Ryan and Trump plans propose to leave the credit as it is.

Edit: oh and I forgot because this doesn't relate to my work, but having an option for charge codes is nice. So something like [client ID].[project ID]. It will improve interoperability with third-party invoicing tools.
Exactly. Some programs are inherently ambiguous. In such cases, we cannot do much.
- Example 1: `void f(){x * y;}`
It's impossible to know whether that is a multiplication or pointer declaration.
- Example 2: `void f(){x y = 0;}`
We can only know that x is a scalar type (in C terminology), but it could be an int, int * , int * * , etc.
Wow, they are. Very surprised.

This is so good I'm wondering whether this is actually a massive (massive) sound bank. I think it might be a sound bank.

A random radio receiver site I found that doesn't require Flash, tuned to NOAA for Akron OH: http://tunein.com/radio/NOAA-Weather-Radio-1624-s88289/

The list I got the above link from (^F "noaa"): http://tunein.com/radio/Weather-c100001531/

I suspect the warbling I'm hearing is not due to TTS imperfections but 64kbps artifacting.
Then why google is using kernel written in C mostly in fuchsia? It's new OS in development.
Hank's bus is much prettier than ours. :-)

In addition to his superior craftsmanship, we also treat our bus like an engineering and teaching platform; we leave a lot of things taken apart (or in a raw, visible form) to use as teaching tools.

It's a balance; though - we have an almost-2-year-old, so we have to have a certain order and steadiness to things so he can't (or doesn't want to) take them apart all the time.
Yup. The site's FAQ page says that while you don't require a pilot's license, it is designed to be flown over freshwater in non-congested areas. That's pretty limiting.

There goes my dream of commuting to work like a boss in half the time.
I believe all technical articles are now required to include at least one Impact font meme. I'll see if I can dig up the RFC.
> Now that they've got some hard data to ignore, they have another shitfest of lies, confusion, and using the word "generally" to mean "in the cases I have noticed." One Hackernews wonders what the big deal is with the Constitution. Someone shows up to compare it to software.

That is a stunningly apt description of those comments.

And I am definitely guilty of using "generally" in that manner.
It's great that you're trying so hard to accomodate such a broad landscape; of course there will be trade-offs. Being a weird intentional corner-case you get what you ask for, I suppose!

Thanks for engaging with questions.
7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Create an Online Course – From a Reformed Creator
I helped organizing stuff for student's union waay back in university while studying. Great environment to make mistakes and learn from them. You have skin in the game because you don't want to screw up and make your friends mad, yet the risks for all stakeholders are fairly minimal - all the while the scale is large enough for all sorts of scale and communication based maladies kick in that really don't appear in a small tight knit group.
So why was `self` designed to be implicitly passed but not implicit in declaration?
> But are you're saying that the Rotherham scandal was reported on less because it resonates with xenophobia? That journalists suppress stories if they promote the wrong ideology?

No, we're saying that the suppression of the Rotherham scandal which was extensively reported on by the British media exists only in the imagination of the far right and people that don't understand how Google Trends works, as you conveniently demonstrated by earlier linking to an Wikipedia article explaining that it was investigative journalism by the Times - about as mainstream as UK news journalism gets - that ultimately lead to a public enquiry.

I'm not convinced that drawing attention to the fact other sex scandals happened in the UK under completely different circumstances and were generally less reported on than the Rotherham ones and didn't necessarily get multiple BBC Panorama specials devoted to them like the Rotherham ones really helps your case.
Last time I tried it (from Spain) it told me I need to be in the UK.
> This sort of text generation is like a magician's trick where he appears to saw the woman in half and put her together again.

That's a really good analogy!
Blocking access based on arbitrary user agent strings is a really bad idea. Every single bad bot will avoid known user agent strings or pretend to be Google, so you're only blocking well behaved ones. Plus there's thousands of browser versions out there, so there's a very good chance you're blocking some users for no reason.

The proper way to do this is to block by IP, based on behavior. Block IPs slowing down the site or throw up a captcha like cloudflare does.

Blocking bots sounds great but it just brings Google one step closer to a monopoly. Even good bots just pretend to be people nowadays because lots of people are implementing naive site protection strategies.

Edited: to be less mean
How could a safe system actually do it? Without some kind of run time garbage collector? Doesn't this kind of problem really require run time (either manual or automatic) care of memory by definition?
A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”
Often times, companies in the US lobby for regulation that adds barrier to entry. Of course economies of scale greatly contribute to barrier to entry, forcing an entrant to have large volume to even compete. I've read where large companies sell products cheaper than competitors can buy them wholesale. Once there are a few large competitors, mergers happen resulting in monopoly or near monopoly.

Of course industries like food service don't have monopolies, but they don't pay very well. They are also geographically restricted. I don't really care about those companies, they don't contribute much to the middle class.

Google is an effective monopoly, Amazon is certainly headed that way. Facebook is pretty close. Microsoft would be except the rare occurrence of someone writing a free operating system that was very good at the dawn of the internet age. Airlines are effective monopolies in their selective hubs. Monsanto certainly. They don't have to be the last company standing to show monopolistic tendencies in my mind. Microsoft wasn't technically a monopoly in the 90s, but it might as well have been.
Do you have a link for that? DoJ appears to include only dogs (and maybe miniature horses): https://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm

Or do you mean emotional support/comfort/therapy animals?

https://www.animallaw.info/article/faqs-emotional-support-an...

https://adata.org/publication/service-animals-booklet
What Programming Language Are Bots Written In?
Now we can't trust the news anymore. In a year or two we'll never know if recordings are real or not.
The Basics of Linux Server Virtualization (containers vs. Hypervisors)
Many developers think that they can integrate systems but it's often the case they have no idea.
DevOPS in my opinion is a person that integrates and maintains various technical + non-technical systems / parts of the company.
So size is the most critical aspect of significance?
'Government is not about getting what you want. '

This speaks for itself
I thought it was pretty fun!
This is exciting! If you look at historic speeches (ie from American Rhetoric http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html), there are large variations in average characteristics between various styles/contexts (on average, pitch/volume/speed are different for inspirational vs somber speeches, for example). But there are also really large differences in the variation - an inspirational speech may be marked by large swings from quiet, reflective pieces to booming, rousing calls-to-action while a somber speech has fewer swings in delivery.

For the examples given for various intonations from Obama/Trump, some intonations are much more natural than others. It would be interesting to decide how to parametrize a sentence for the intended intonation. (based on word2vec analysis of the words in the sentence, punctuation cues in the sentence, and perhaps a specified category of "emotional delivery").

It would be interesting at the sentence-level, but also at the macro speech-level to include the right "mix" of intonations for a specific context. On a related note, it would be interesting to study the patterns of intonations in successful vs unsuccessful outbound sales calls, for example, to learn how to best simulate a good human sales voice.
Rich push notifications boost engagement by 30%
Alleged Kelihos botmaster indicted
I was introduced to these at USMC Officer Candidate School and agree wholeheartedly; these principles are effective and I have tried to live into them (as appropriate) as I've taken on manager/director roles in my career.

Amazon recently reached out to me to attend a giant recruiting event and included a link to these principles, and the "Are Right, A Lot" line item turned me off completely. There's something about stating that as a guiding principle that runs counter to my instincts and experience.

I'm as smart and as "right" as anyone on my team, but as a headline that rubbed me the wrong way. The finer print "...seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs" sounds better, but confirming my beliefs along with every else's has worked pretty well so far.

For what it's worth, I was probably looking for an excuse to back off anyways. I have a great job where I am.
I looked on their website, Frequently Asked Questions, and even hovered over text like "Unroll.me is a free service" in order to find a disclosure.

I could not find ANY disclosures whatsoever.

Nowhere does Unroll.me disclose that they sell your emails to the highest bidder.

I wish we had a FTC that could bankrupt Unroll.me's previous and current founders and executives. Absolutely despicable behaviour.
I’d accidentally ridden into a Critical Mass Cycle protest ride in London around 2010. Ended up setting one up in Bath, that ran for a bit and started attending the local cycle campaigning group. A respect ride held in honour of a young man that was killed in a hit and run however became something bigger than a Friday night protest ride, and I was the main speaker at a large ride held in his honour. It was rather humbling.

After that I was asked to be chair of Cycle Bath and over the last 3 years I’ve taught myself about transport, helped the council win millions in funding, and made cycling a key agenda item locally. I’ve learnt a lot about social media, public engagement and how to work with councils.

My proudest moment was cycling along a towpath I’d fought hard to have upgraded to a 4 season wheel friendly surface, even having police protection at a meeting, and seeing people in wheelchairs using it. It brought home that much of the cycle advocacy is just about making public space easier for people, particularly kids and people with mobility issues, to get around independently.

Recently I created a transport tube map for Bath and this resulted in a national series of workshops teaching people how to make this key campaigning tool for cycle advocacy groups and even some council officers.

I’ve begun to apply my IT skills to analyse UK Census 2011 commuter flow data and model modal split flows within the city. This piece of work might go national in the next couple of weeks due to some of the analysis I’ve been able to do. (Cycling and Walking can be hugely under-represented in the stats that councils use for transport planning.)

I’m now thinking of running for council in 2019 and hopefully getting the transport brief. It’s considered a bit of a poison chalice but personally I cannot see a better way to help improve the city which has been my home for the last 16 years.

If somebody had told me in 2010, that that one cycle ride home would have lead to this, I simply would not have believed them. What I will say is that I almost wish I could get paid to do this full time, but thankfully IT consultancy seems to give me the time to do this for now.

[edit] A lot of what I've written on the subject can be found here https://cyclebath.org.uk/author/awjreynolds/
What bothers me is that this phrase becomes a thought-terminating cliche.

Too often, it's used to shut down all conversations around corporate malfeasance re:privacy, so the industry doesn't get better, we all just move on to the next big story. And victims are blamed and shamed. "Your fault for using a free service, what did you expect?" vs. "This is unacceptable behavior, let's force a change."

Not to mention so many don't understand free vs. non-free. Are there ads? Are there optional purchases that keep the company going? As someone else mentioned here, unroll.me showed ads, which would lead users to believe their usage was being subsidized by those ads - and Slice's About page on its web site says nothing about using unroll.me as a data source, it claims to use its own shopping app.
If you have ever used the service, it probably has still almost full access to your gmail account (I noticed it had in mine).

You can remove its authorisations at: https://myaccount.google.com/permissions
I don't find the practice ethical at all, but that said, don't understand why anyone would be surprised by this. Users are almost always the product.

Seems like the Gruber version of outrage porn.
Basically a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180463

Had to search my inbox as a sanity check to make sure I hadn't signed up for the service. Turns out I hadn't, but it was pitched on Product Hunt both in April 2015 and May 2016.

I'm hoping at least security folks made the mental connection that signing up meant compromising your personal emails. That's the single reason I didn't bother.
Yeah. Open any source file and you'll see dozens of "not implemented yet" FIXMEs. This needs a few more years of maturity before it's worth looking at.
Ask HN: How do you gain weight?
Context: a skinny guy, 24 years old.

Currently, I am working at a startup. I am used to walk to the office. I don't do regular exercises, except walking and doing chores. I usually eat three times each day. No snack.
> single dumbest idea

I agree with your sentiment, but you should try to be a little more constructive.
I'm almost 34 and when I watch Calculus One videos on coursera, I sometimes get stuck when the guy easily expands (a + b)² or folds it back. We used to to this at math class at school and then probably in university, but I haven't been doing anything like this since then (talking about importance of math for programmers!).
I'd love to hear your reply to this:

"what do you expect from a framework with more than 1000 issues on github that will let you install alpha dependencies by default (React@16.0.0-alpha.6) to develop your native app?!?"
Another thing that does not seem to be very constructive is complaining about all those kernels written in evil C instead of writing one in Rust.
And I think that use of "generally" is justified, at least if you are (relatively) experienced.
How a Facebook designer thinks
I haven't worked extensively in voice adaptation, but I learned working in text-to-speech that adding a bit of reverb is quite effective at covering up artifacts.

Something similar seems to be going on in live vocals. If you lack confidence in your own voice, adding a bit of reverb can make it sound much better. Not sure what's going on — whether the reverb jams the critical listening facilities in one's brain or something like that.
> By your own logic why would anyone invest in anything that wasn't public if you were just throwing money at some dude that wanted to do something that wasn't in your interest?

Because usually you get preferred stock, that means that all the 'crazy' non-profit-oriented things that the founders might be doing are still done with their money, rather than yours.

There's just a difference in both incentives and philosophy, isn't there? If the company is controlled by a private person, they're not obliged to make decisions that are 'best for the company'; and anyone choosing to go along for the ride is expressing trust into that persons ideas and goals. (And any contractual terms they set in their shareholder agreement; but the owners can refuse terms that misalign with their vision)

>It sounds like you're saying, it's sad that founders don't get to spend money anyway they want without carrying about the wishes of who gave them the money.

No; I'm saying that if as a founder you want to be able to spend money any way you want, you do not want to go public.
Clearly some do. That's why Wine is working on it (FOSS) and there are closed translation layers too, like from Feral and VP.

I obviously mean DX11 on Linux for running Windows games, not DX11 on Sandy Bridge.
Because people often don't realize how much water they need.
My understanding is that electric motors are necessary because they can change speed faster than an internal combustion driven motor in order to maintain balance. What I don't understand is why we don't see more drones or similar flying machines using a small gasoline generator driving electric propellers to get high energy density combined with maneuverability.
Couldn't you leak anonymously?
> "DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users."

That's not very specific, is it?
Soldiers die all the time during training exercises, let alone actual deployment. Dehydration is definitely a cause: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362942/Soldiers-mar...
> Heroku style solutions could perhaps eliminate the need for operations, but that still seems pretty niche.

That's sort of the direction that AWS has been aiming lately with some of their newer releases.

For a variety of reasons, from security and privacy to cost analysis to performance I don't see pure ops or devops anywhere near vanishing though.
Very impressive, but like someone else said there are definite robotic/synthetic moments. I wonder how easy it would be to combine all of the other projects linked in these comments, is there a common interface that could easily combine all of them? Probably not because of commercial concerns...
Programmer dad?
> signing up meant compromising your personal emails

Assuming someone only signed up with their personal address. Curious how many .gov email addresses are in their database...
Yeah, this is a feature I've been using and enjoying since they added it a while back. I was under the impression that Google created the iOS "Motion Stills" app to add similar functionality to Apple's built-in Live Photos and turn then into stabilized animated GIFs so you can get them off your iPhone in a more widely supported format.
People did not read the source material of the Snowden leaks, only the editorialized articles which made unsubstantiated interpretations of what the leaked slides mean. That is probably why you are being downvoted, regardless of the fact that you are entirely correct.
NASA spinoffs: Bringing space down to Earth
It all sounded sort of slurry and muffled. Maybe if you're imitating a naturally slurred speaker it would be more effective.
Hugo v0.20.3 just released
Cool idea. Just tried it for a UK trip but it could not pick up the place where I wanted to start my trip?
Can we get these speeches in audio form now?

https://medium.com/@samim/obama-rnn-machine-generated-politi...
Hi.

This is your first and only post, you have no submissions or favorites, and your account is 193 days old.

I'm very curious (and perplexed) as to why you have linked a video from elsewhere in this thread with no supporting context regarding its relevance other than "hf".
You can cut out the grounds and let them dry as usual, but I get your point on the aluminium - recycling alu is only eco compared to making new alu - it's still energy intensive compared to not using any capsule at all.

> the price your paying per cup is an insult

What do you pay?

Besides, the true innovation here is the standardisation of pod coffee, not Nespressos specific supply chain.

> Besides pure laziness and indifference regarding the good things in life

too binary. the difference isn't worth the time every morning. If you want to slander everyone that agrees with this value judgement as 'lazy', so be it.
Well now you have an excellent value proposition you can point to for why you aren't free.
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I've personally volunteered in NYC, LA, Spain, Brazil, mostly in the homeless, substance abuse, and prostitution/human trafficking related causes.

I believe we exist to give to others. Now more than every people are looking to make a real difference.

That's why I've quit my day job and started

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A place to connect with other like-minded people, and rally support around social causes. We're making it super easy to get involved with shaping policy, volunteering, and fundraising.

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This is irrelevant. With all major engines gaining Vulkan support this list will baloon fast.