skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have changed from a system where small complaints are usually handled between individuals to a system where people are encouraged to report complaints into a long lived formal system that can be viewed by the management chain as well as by HR.

How would you respond if I file a HR complaint about you or send a complaint to your manager?

Better than if we had just had a quiet word?

Or now rather than blowing off steam by complaining to another colleague that e.g. you don't want to delegate your co-worker will formally report it into a system used to manage compensation and career progression.

Others will game the system and make sure people write lots of positive comments about them. Now when it comes to the next pay cycle I have dozens of positive comments and you have a couple of positives and a few negatives. Guess how that will work out for you?

It encourages people to complain in the heat of the moment.

Etc etc etc.

Not to mention that people who want to badmouth you behind your back still will.
Yeah - make a huge rotating disc of a runway that rotates at a constant speed, so the pilot can stick the landing at whatever radius has an angular velocity equal to groundspeed.

Then slow down the disk enough to allow taxiing toward the center exit drain.
Choosing a job title (for people who code)
Another alternative: https://github.com/jimpick/lambda-comments
It also speaks to the need for purpose. One of the things not discussed enough in conversation about universal basic income and the like is that jobs give people a sense of purpose as well as money. It's "coal not dole" because no one wants to drift aimlessly while being given money for doing nothing, no matter how great that might sound on the surface.
Do read this bit about take home tests, though.

http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/09/18/companies-who-give-cand...

No real need for me to summarize it, it's all pretty well expressed in this blog post.
Anyone know of great albums similar to his songs Avril 14th or Aistsan[102]? I have little musical context if this is a dumb question.

I like all his albums but those songs are really some of the most relaxing sounds I have heard.
When I read your reply I had to laugh and comment. I'm not sure where you got your impression of Singapore, but I think you are truly misinformed. May I ask have you ever been to Singapore or you just formed your own opinions of it online? I'm a foreigner living in Singapore for the past 7 or so years and who has gone through the education system here.

> significantly racially charged

What evidence do you have of this? In your other comment you say they come in with significantly restricted rights -> what does that even mean? First I will say that no one is forcing anybody to come into Singapore. These migrant workers come to Singapore because after weighing the odds, they feel that they can get a better life in Singapore instead of their home countries.

> class-entrenched society

In Singapore we have National Service. From the richest to the poorest Singaporeans, you serve national service together side-by-side doing the same thing. There is virtually no way of avoiding NS and there are heavy penalties if you do. Even the prime minister's children serve NS.

On top of that more than 80% of the population live in government housing flats. And these flats are not cheap, some of the bigger units have sold for more than 1 million dollars.

> rose to power on a platform of communism

This is the funniest part. The government was so against communism that communist leaders were jailed... and this harsh treatment of communist leaders is a common critic of Singapore. So for you to say they rose to power on the platform of communism just shows the depth of your misunderstanding.

Now, Singapore is not perfect. But trust me, its far better than whatever picture you are trying to paint of it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14166966
I never understood why westerners like orange light. I find it depressing. The same goes for the lights at home. I make a point of always replacing the 2700k bulbs with something whiter.
The other side of the waste equation is also worse for coal. Fly ash is typically radioactive enough that if it were produced at a nuclear facility it would be categorized as nuclear waste.

To be clear, burning coal concentrates the uranium and thorium that naturally occur in coal by a factor of about 10. There is still only a very small amount. Living within the stack shadow (~1km) of a coal fired plant only increases your exposure to background radiation by about 5%
Thank you.
Down in comment I gave offending parts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14166514

and as they say they are not willing to change contract, I have to think twice... as I do not want to retire my skills or cut out my possibility to have a startup one day.
What about "biomass"? I've read that wood burning facilities are significantly worse than coal shops when it comes to emissions; a simple google could answer my question I know but it seems you're into this stuff so I'd like your take..
Yeah, and it is effectively interchangeable with diesel, except without catalytic converters. You could put it straight into a diesel car, except for the red dye and the fact that it is illegal to avoid the highway taxes by using this fuel in road going vehicles.

A bunch of houses in the area also had propane heat, which was also delivered.
That might hold water if the robots.text where the default on every site ever used by a company, but change even a single bit on any of them and what's left is clearly your intent on all of them.

Further, setting up a physical device connected to a public IP is never default behavior so you are putting up the sign in either case. So, at best your argument is someone athorised to do something put up a sign by mistake saying something that was not intended, but your intent has little relevance at that point.

Worse, your argument is based on the assumption that nobody knew what was going on so even simple coursework mentioning robots.txt would demonstrate knowledge and thus intent through willful inaction.
Unfortunately, this article doesn't really say anything about the technology used by these bulbs. Here's a description of how they work:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/new-acandescent-lighting-t...

Like CFLs, these bulbs contain a small amount of mercury, so I think I'll stick with LEDs.
Programming.

I forget the code I wrote last week and how it works.

Gotta keep coding.
hmm.. Nope. why?
Are most of these actually still there? The password requirements have changed dramatically in the last 6 months.
> But if (non-anonymous) colleague writes in a system that she thought I was brusque to her, that I wasn't communicative

So if a colleague writes an email to your manager, your managers manager, HR, and to your future manager about your poor handling of an issue you would take that well?

Better than to an email addressed just to you?
> He ignores the silent and flawless consensus that is part of the air we breathe – the consensus of all the people who are, or are reputed to be, reasonable.

Very well put, especially considering this is from a personal journal.
Why Is Starbucks Always Out of Cold Brew? And the Solution
Once upon a time I wrote a java applet, which looked like it was showing an animation, but was secretly calculating digits of PI.

Over a period of a few months I got quite a decent result from people who'd just happened to visit my website.

Not quite as malicious as your story but equally nefarious.
Hmm, I imagine there's probably a generic way to do it; but I was imagining a straight port of the Haskell version. Note that it might be difficult to generate values of some heavily-constrained dependent type; you'd effectively be implementing a proof search!
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Mixing colors in the array would be horrific. The array is sparse enough that each LED casts a distinct shadow through foliage. This forms a unique lighting texture on the pavement. If each LED were randomly red, amber, green, you'd have wild colors all over the pavement.

Single color is the way to go. And the broad spectrum produced by phosphor makes for better vision compared to the narrow spectrum of sodium or straight-LED lighting. IMO the best option would be phosphor + yellow or green LED.
When you have large assets, the gov makes sure to charge property tax.
> I don't see why a human has to do this.

Because a human driving the plane has a vested interest in surviving the landing.

A person who writes buggy landing software, or an operator "piloting" it from the ground can get another job if they fail.
Avril 14th is one of my absolute favorite songs. It's my go-to song when I need to just relax and push away from reality for a bit; one of the few I can just put on repeat and be happy with.
For bathroom lighting at night, red would be ideal. You can see but it won't really wake you up.
That's so beautiful that I have to admit my eyes started to tear a little bit. It's lovely to live in a world in which wonderful people are empowered to touch people all over the world in such a powerful and profound way.
Kunze and Lehmann [1] show with facts and figures that your assertion is false.

> Critics of renewable energy have mocked the Energiewende, claiming that it has led to an increase in coal power and related CO2 emissions in Germany. But Conrad Kunze and Paul Lehmann of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ show that this is a myth. German coal generation and CO2 emissions rose not because of but in spite of the Energiewende. They would have been even higher if Germany had not phased out its nuclear power and embarked on its remarkable renewable energy path. “There is no dark side to the Energiewende”.

[1] http://energypost.eu/energiewende-dark-side/
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I'm not sure why you think I'm saying that.

My comment primarily points out that framing it as something that "environmentalists did on a whim after Fukushima, because Tsunamis oh so funny" is gross misrepresentation. Also that "environmentalist" is a very broad label.

It's not like being anti-nuclear is a niche sentiment. A large percentage of the general population is "anti-nuclear" in that they support existing plans (=laws) to phase out nuclear power. E.g. in 2010, before Fukushima, ~50 % didn't want delays to the plans, and only 25 % supported large delays to it. The government added delays. Fukushima happened, and within days they changed their opinion back and reaffirmed the old plans (more or less).

If you look at people more actively supporting the movement, sometimes being part of it since decades ago, when it was a niche opinion, I'd say in many cases they are less motivated by protecting the environment in general than they are by protecting humans, or protesting bad policies. But there is of course a big overlap with environmentalists.
Sodium lights are trivial to block using optical filters. This is very common in astronomy.

LEDs + phosphor, not so much, due to their wider spectrum. That less is emitted directly skyward doesn't help if what's reflected off pavement can't be filtered out. (Pavement is surprisingly reflective even though it's "black".)
croachdb.com is available...
It is, especially (but not necessarily) if the person promising not to sue has a valid claim. This is covered in any contract law textbook, but it's an old common law principle so there are plenty of free online sources, too. For example, in the US, see Bennett, 'Forbearance to Sue' (1898) 10(2) Harvard Law Review 113–118 [1]; in the UK, see Kelly, 'Forbearance to Sue and Forbearance to Defend' (1964) 27(5) Modern Law Review 540–545 [2].

[1] http://www.jstor.org/stable/1321438

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1964....
I agree with the not having it be the first step.
What keeps you coming back?
To suggest that mental acuity is uniformly distributed with respect to age seems a bit "post-truth". The priors at play most definetly suggest much greater scrutiny of a 95 year old, but by no means should they be preclusive.
That's a bit ironical.. GitHub is another free service after all, and they do have a careers business which essentially trades on your public profile
Lmao Morris Chang would like a word with your ageism.
Why not namecoin?
> but it implies that feedback is not a path to skill or career development, and I deeply and fundamentally disagree with that premise.

Feedback is important.

Negative formal feedback... not so much.
Ask HN: Apple's lightning headphone jack. What's the game plan here?
Can someone explain to me how Apple is going to consolidate this lightning headphone jack situation on the iPhone 7 and its line of products going forward? How is a proprietary jack going to be prevalent on devices from other manufacturers and how are they going to motivate the purchase of 3rd party headphones with lightning if they're only going to work with Apple products? Why did they not go with USB-C? Why are they not selling a lightning female to headphone jack adapter for the majority of Macs already out there? Does Apple believe that the way forward is wireless or bust?
One thing to keep in mind, though, is that internal combustion engines are quite inefficient, piston engines typically convert less than 20% of the chemical energy into work. Electrical engines are much more efficient, so that gives you a factor of about 5 to 10.

In other words, getting batteries with, say, 4 times the current specific energy would already make a lot of electric flight applications practicable.

At the current rate of improvement (5% to 8% per year), we should be there in about 20 to 30 years :-)
Macros are run at compile time, and are used to rewrite source code prior to interpretation or compilation. They're mostly used to make nicer syntax, e.g. a macro could turn an expression like `(with-file (f "/tmp/foo") ...)` into a working implementation like:

(let* ((f (open "/tmp/foo"))
(result ...))
(close f)
result)

Here, the authors make macros for type annotations, i.e. they take expressions like `(my-value : my-type)`, check whether the types unify correctly, and spit out an untyped expression implementing that value if they do.

By using macros, the type system becomes modular: new type system features (subtyping, kinds, etc.) can be written by the programmer as a set of macros, rather than as a whole new language (and all of the work that entails). They test their claim by implementing a bunch of features, combining/reusing them in a bunch of mini languages, and write some semi-plausible programs in these languages, to see if they're realistic.
A typical bank mortgage will be for a 30 year term. Flood insurance is typically renewed annually. There is no guarantee of renewal.

Banks have assets at risk for longer than the insurance coverage period. They have to be thinking longer term than insurers do.
Is there a specific reason (related to POST requests or anything -- I know absolutely nothing about HTTP) that this doesn't have https?
> No one has carried a human passenger yet

Volocopter, first manned flight, April 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OazFiIhwAEs
> > rose to power on a platform of communism
> This is the funniest part.

Not just funny, but suspiciously racist. Ethnic Chinese in Malaysia and Indonesia were branded as communist all through the 1950s and 1960s and, especially in Indonesia, slaughtered. contingencies sounds like he might be from one of the non-Chinese ethnic groups in SE Asia, or part of such a family.

He's not wrong that there's deep racism in Singapore. But it goes both ways. Singapore was ejected from the Malaysian Federation for baldly racist reasons--the ethnic Malays wanted to consolidate political power. The Chinese in that region are like the Jews of Europe--economically successful but culturally still the out group. It creates a ton of resentment for all sides.

Also, I've traveled widely throughout the world and turns out _everybody_ is racist. The U.S. is probably one of the least racist countries in the world. Why? Because we _talk_ about it and _admit_ it. In the vast majority of countries people still literally take for granted that ethnic group X is obviously naturally inferior, without making the connection between that belief and the Western concept of racism.

In the U.S. even the most rabid racists go through great lengths to justify and explain their prejudice. Believe it or not, that's what progress looks like. People need to stop using racism as a cudgel as it makes it impossible for people to discuss issues of racism. It's like calling somebody Hitler--it just ends the conversation. Ultimately it makes it easier for people to stay in denial about racism.
There are a number of references, some oblique and some more direct. One of the clearer you've probably not hit yet (at least at the writing of your comment). But you've earlier passed, for instance, "But the idea of living out his life in the mind-groping-ahead-through-possible-futures that guided hurtling spaceships appalled him. It was a way, though. And in meeting the possible future that contained Guildsmen he recognized his own strangeness."

> They certainly haven't been an important part of the story.

Directly? No. But they're why the spice is necessary to space travel, which plays a major role in the economics (and thereby politics) of the situation.
I assume they used to specify the number ("loss of up to 6 engines"), then switched to the vague "multiple", and screwed up the editing.
I really don't get this meme. Who cares? Lots of projects have weird names. It's a database, not a consumer packaged good brand. Surely those who are evaluating the engineering tradeoffs in database technology aren't basing their decision making on a name.
This is excerpted (as the "technology" segment) of another great video, Bret Victor's "Humane Representation of Thought." (at about thirty minutes in)

https://vimeo.com/115154289
Not in perception, however.
ExplainXKCD has lost the plot, which is a shame it was quite good.
I strongly disagree. It conjures up thoughts that are unpleasant. That isn't a good marketing strategy.
Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate announced
For any given approach, with a circular runway there's exactly one point tangent to the runway to land. Landing short or long isn't an option.

Things are conventional because they tend to work well. And part of working well is being resilient to errors and non-optimal situations.
Yes, screw the people who allocate capital and make purchasing decisions. Who would ever need their favor to found a successful enterprise software company...
In German as well.
Local tax of a few hundred up to $1k, $300 loan a month, insurance is more like $1200 depending on experience. Hangar and tie down fees...
I have to think about cockroaches every time I see a post about this database. It is fair game.
I was quite surprised that Shomi died. Looking into it, I found the CRTC's commentary interesting:

> The discontinuation [of Shomi] was criticized by CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais, who remarked in an address that he "can't help but be surprised when major players throw in the towel on a platform that is the future of content – just two years after it launched. I have to wonder if they are too used to receiving rents from subscribers every month in a protected ecosystem, rather than rolling up their sleeves in order to build a business without regulatory intervention and protection."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shomi
I like Isso as an open source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus
https://posativ.org/isso/
The satellite launch the article references was mostly nano stats from Planet Labs. These satellites are designed to deorbit and burn up on rented with a lifespan of about 2 years. Space debris is a problem, but they could have done a much better job motivating that problem with something more accurate.
I've also seen lots of reports of some serious vulnerability - "major product X doesn't validate TLS certificates" - where it looks like the reporter forgot they had added their own cert to the OS's trust store.
All Wirth languages did this. Great for clarity when a specific mapping is needed. Damn I miss me some Modula 2.
I think luck is a bit overstated there.

Sure, sometimes an opportunity appears through some random chance which later on we might feel is lucky; if you were able to actually do that job, or deliver on whatever chance appeared then luck did little more than open the door.

If you're good enough, or hard working enough, a chance will usually appear. Don't dismiss an achievement as just being "luck" -- it was earned (I sure did)..

You're lucky if you pick a winning lottery ticket. You do well on a job or a opportunity? That's because you worked to be able to exploit the chance, not because you got lucky to get offered it.
You might be interested in http://blog.racket-lang.org/2017/04/type-tailoring.html, which argues for customised type checking.
> That's not really Chrome's fault

It's Chrome's fault that it's shipping non-standard things. Not like any browser is blameless here, but let's not pretend they're innocent either.

It's _Google's_ fault that it's shipping non-standard things in its browser and then using them in its other products to lock out other browsers.

> We didn't blame Microsoft for "lock-in" back in the IE-only website days

We sure did. And it wasn't even Microsoft creating the IE-only websites!
That's a cool idea, I need to look into that. Up until now I used isso, but the non-static nature of Isso-comments always annoyed me.
In Germany, there is talk of a new category/class of aircraft for certification of the Volocopter and similar designs, and possibly a new airmen license, as well, as operations are just so different. (I mean, landing consists of choosing a spot and then pulling the thumb switch downwards until touchdown...)

FAA and EASA are increasingly looking at performance based, rather than narrow implementation based certification. I agree that the regulatory hurdles are monumental, but they're not insurmountable.
Yeah the constant obsession with the name is so weird that it really makes me wonder if there's some astroturfing campaign going on. I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist but I mean seriously, the name is not that weird and the tech seems very interesting. The first time I saw comments about it I thought, "huh, yeah I guess that is sort of a weird name now that you mention it". The second time u thought, "ok I've heard this before". The third time I thought, "hmm, this is pretty tedious". And this is the 7th or so time now and I just think, "wtf is going on here?".
Increased mine by 120 points.
Privacy really isn't transactional, it's a ecological issue. There's no way for you to make that decision without (as a group) impacting others. A choice to not use Google or Facebook can now be crippling for some people, and fairly bothersome for most.
That is a different point. You are changing the party being considered by re-framing it under yourself, a customer, instead of considering it from the point of view of the bank.
In South Korea, Windows achieved lock-in via legislation requiring IE (or more precisely ActiveX). See https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/due-to-sec... for a decent summary.

And yes, there was very much expectation of achieving lock-in via ActiveX. And it worked in some cases.
You really should have written:

> "It really whips the llama's ass!"

(I feel like I should apologise for such a low-effort comment, but .. That phrase is the first thing that comes to mind when I remember WinAmp, and if you're going to make a one-line "praise" comment about Winamp it's the only one you should need!)