skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my biggest issue is that since some people don't understand my work, they can come to the conclusion that I'm not working as hard as I could be because I don't look stressed enough or busy enough when I'm working. My boss values my work, as do most of the people I work with, but I know for a fact that a lot of the clerical employees think I do basically nothing.

I've never worked in consulting, but I have friends who work as consultants for the Big Four, and it certainly seems like being stressed and working long hours is prioritized over making a meaningful contribution. That's probably a little unfair, but I've read the emails they are responding to a 10 PM at night, and it seems like everyone just stays up all night sending emails so that everyone else knows they are 'working'.
I've worked with Nim's sdl2 interface too, it is indeed pretty straightforward, and it was easy for me to tell vim to know how to jump to the nim wrapper's source. The main pain points for me were 1) sdl2 is harder than sdl1 and 2) I thought some type conversion behavior (or lack thereof) was odd, especially when working with 'cints' (which is what the wrapper api expects everywhere).

For a more flushed out example there's: https://hookrace.net/blog/writing-a-2d-platform-game-in-nim-...
"Engineers tend to be extroverted"

Where did you get your statistics on that one?
This is a perfect example of the tragedy of the commons. No one person feels the impact of abuse, but ends up ruining it for everyone.

Clearly they didn't intend for this service to be a general backup system.
It's typical for a judge not to take part in decisions relating to cases which were heard before he was on the court, even though the final decision was rendered after they joined.
Get your loved ones on Lyra instead. Lyra is an open conversation service which respects language, puts the user in control, and is designed with harrassment protection in mind.

We're a nonprofit and don't accept investment.
I paid for Amazon Drive in order to do backups, some of them with rclone. I am not using Amazon Drive for commercial purposes.

They said Unlimited storage, they should provide Unlimited storage, otherwise it's false advertising.

In other words, I hate apologists.
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Anker's battery charging docks are why I'm still using a Note 3.

I know it seems silly, but it is amazing to be able to just swap batteries whenever I get low. I never have to leave my phone somewhere plugged in and charging.
> Users who seem to need facebook in order to stay up to date with their friends

It doesn't sound like you actually understand the service Facebook provides, which makes your claim that it's all about to come crashing down very suspect.
There are no such routes around the places where people are willing to routinely pay a lot for fast delivery. Just look at any map.
Yet those places aren't seeing the same tech boom that the Bay Area is. Texas has tech in its economy (I have lived in Austin, and from SV have done business with Texas tech companies) but its economy is more dependent on extractive industries (oil/gas and ag) than California.

My point is that classical economics says that if the Bay Area becomes overpriced (the cost of doing business exceeds benefits) then plausible alternatives will spring up.
Me and a colleague would go for at least one but often times multiple walks per day. Sometimes just to shoot the breeze but more often than not it was to discuss some work we were doing or the conversation ended up there anyway. The walks were usually around 30-45 minutes.

During those walks we may not have banged out code or written emails or what have you, but damn if it wasn't the most productive time of the day. Usually, we'd go back to either his or my desk and turn the conversations we just had into something concrete.

We did some great work back then, and I don't think it would've been nearly as good if we hadn't gone for those daily walks. It also had the bonus of both of us missing some boring meeting every once in a while, but because those walks almost always ended up in something good we tended to get away with it.
http://d214mfsab.org/same.html
For those who want the less emotional/philosophical version, I prefer WBW article on Fermi's Paradox: http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
Robots Could Wipe Out 40 Percent of Retail Jobs
(almost) no medium to large aircraft can fly 24/7, especially not ones having to undergo the mechanical strain of liftoff/landing constantly. Unless of course you are ok with them crashing in your living room randomly.
I often enjoy the content from likeagirl.io, but I flagged this for two reasons:

1. Asking us to leave a discussion site to start a discussion. The link isn't to news, interesting content, or anything that provides value. It's asking us to create value for you.

2. Likely to be unproductive at best, flame war at worst. There are just too many languages and some are excellent for certain scenarios and terrible for others. The question is too broad and divisive.
Is like this better?

Perhaps it would be possible to display such cases with indentation so that they would stand out more and look more like real quotes?
How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store
I agree with the sibling replies. All the Chinese chargers I got were terrible, one even passed mains voltage to USB. I've also watched videos by bigclivedotcom et all, and, invariably, the cheapo chargers have abysmal separation.

I'd rather pay a bit extra and have peace of mind.
Venue != jurisdiction.
could you elaborate on that? Honestly curious.

EDIT: about the issue, not the materials in question!
Practically it's even less than 47 bits. :) But sure, know your limits.
But if that's true, shouldn't people who find the Bay Area too expensive/too highly regulated be turning, say, Cleveland into a new high tech Mecca?

It's not like the Bay Area is invincible. It nuked Boston's once-dominant 128 tech empire, but has been losing ground in the life sciences to Boston/Cambridge (and never made a dent in La Jolla).
Scale (YC S16) Helps Engineers Outsource ‘Microtasks’
There's good information available on the early 20th C concrete tugs built in Britain which that article glosses over. Three are visible near the mouths of various Irish and English rivers.

http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-14...
> Where do you see that?

In your post. The bit about "BETTER and NEWER".

I've never had an issue finding out any metrics about their products from the Amazon page. That includes what all of their trademarked features mean. Having a chart that compares all of them doesn't really make sense when each one has the relevant info.
You're kind of forgetting that a lot of these kind of recordings are not taken by the victims knowledge. And that they can literally destroy someone's life in the future - especially if they're entering a public profession like teaching.
Does any government in the world have a sensible plan for what happens when (probably) 1 in 10 of the workforce become unemployable when self-driving cars/trucks take over their jobs?
If you accidentally mixed an object with a string you would lose the ability to access it's properties, but that's not a good reason to throw an error.

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> primitive wrapper functions?

I though that primatives would be unboxed so that their toString method could be called. Apparently not.
Athletes are the branding antidote to these concerns - they're extreme users in their own right and love to track all the things. One step down from the halo-effect of athletes is the 'Athleisure' segment of the fashion market (think Lululemon and the like), which shows broad interest in healthy living in desirable/cool demographics that have high correlation with Apple purchasers.

On the contrary, going into health will reinforce the brand, not dilute it. Apple has always been an aspirational lifestyle brand. Given the growing scope of computing in our lives - work, social, leisure, health - the lifestyle that Apple sells is only going to get more complete and compelling.

There's also a growing trend of QS and tracking health data points, and increasingly not just among geeks. You can see it in the nutrition space as well, where people are optimizing food, getting bloodwork, etc. These fields are ascendant and glucose tracking matters there too.
The Big Book of Sarcastic Stats
Yeah, this is a hard one. There are users on /r/DataHoarder/ that claim to have uploaded literally 100s of (encrypted) TBs to Cloud Drive, which is plainly unsustainable and abusive.

On the other hand, they've also killed the product for a lot of more legitimate users as well. The Amazon web interface and apps for Cloud Drive are obnoxiously terrible, and Rclone really is just a better way to use it. I've been using it to sync 10s of GBs of photos between all my different computers, but with Rclone unavailable, I'll have to fall back to Google Drive, S3, or some other option (the unlimitedness of Cloud Drive was good peace of mind).

I'll be keeping an eye on it over the next few weeks to see whether shipping a binary with OAuth secrets was actually the reason for the ban, or just a pretext for getting the Rclone users off the service (personally, I suspect the latter).
I like riding my bike to work because driving puts me in the mindset that I need to get to my destination as fast as possible. Riding the L has a similar effect.

The funny thing is that driving is maybe 10 minutes faster each way, but I'm way more productive when I ride by bike. I doubt I could convince anyone to let me work 20 minutes less a day when I ride though.
Sarcasm University.
Apple patented a pizza box, for pizzas
Who has the top share of voice for application performance monitoring?
I wanted to reply to the original response which is now dead so I can't respond to it, but I think it fits here as well:

The point would be the same if he had taken those photos/videos without her knowledge. What'd be the suggestion then? Don't ever have sex in a room you didn't search thoroughly, and if you have to go to the bathroom, ask your partner to leave the room first, lock the door, have them wait while you're in the bathroom, and then go back in?

> I mean imagine a case where this guy found her bosses and family's phone number and texted the image to her family? Does that then become AT&T's problem to go in there and clean up those images and moderate them?

Facebook wants to see my ID after 9 years of membership and 100+ RL friends, just because some random clowns who sure as fuck didn't show their ID probably don't like my political views, and how good I'm at expressing them. So something like that is their problem, some random people clicking on "fake profile" or whatever and then they just HAVE my papers, and pronto. But a pretty clear cut case of revenge porn, not touching that with a barge pole? Heh. Stuff like that makes it clear Facebook isn't an utility like mail or roads, and isn't even trying. And you can't be half pregnant with this. The "life decisions" people make are kind of orthogonal to that.
What's Lyra? I just see a website that looks like a social media marketing agency.
Is there a way to enjoy all the advantages of the fb stack while preventing this breach of privacy? Would love to know how if someone has ideas.
This is from 2013, and has been posted nearly a half dozen times now: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=http:%2F%2Fwww.gamasutra.com%2...
>If Facebook were suddenly gone tomorrow, I would feel devastated (so many memories of my kids, deceased father, mom, all would be gone).

WTF? How would they be "gone"? Facebook does not control your memories. So what else would you be losing if Facebook suddenly disappeared? Photos or videos? You don't say exactly, but I suspect this is the case. If so, then that's your own stupid fault for not keeping personal copies of that stuff. If you don't value that data enough to keep your own personal copies of it, then you don't deserve to have it IMO. Portable hard drives are not expensive these days, and store literally terabytes of data (I just bought a 4TB USB drive a couple months ago for just over $100). USB thumb drives are less than $10 for smaller sizes which will still probably hold everything that's on your phone now. There is absolutely no excuse for not having copies of data that's most precious to you.
For whatever it's worth, one of the other comments points out that heavy-lift drones are likely to be conventional helicopters rather than multicopters, since smaller rotors are less efficient.
Best Practices for Startup Founder Equity
I regularly get friend requests from scantily clad teenagers in a city I no longer live in, whose profiles are full of links to porn sites. I report them, and a few weeks later get back a message saying 'we reviewed your report and found nothing objectionable'. There isn't even a report category that seems accurate - I usually pick 'fake account'.
> I'm quite far from a technological utopian, but when Hinton states that radiologists should halt their training, he is not joking.

> https://youtu.be/2HMPRXstSvQ

Thanks for pointing to that clip. Hadn't seen that
>Facebook gives your data to “third-parties” through your use of apps, and then say that’s you doing it, not them. Every time you use an app connected to Facebook, you’re allowing Facebook to escape its own privacy policy with you and with your friends.

Has anyone checked what data is given to these third party apps that connect to Facebook?

Tangentially, I'm reminded of an Austrian that asked for all of the data Facebook had on him. Facebook then sent him a 1,200 page PDF containing the messages of every person he talked to, all of his IP addresses as well as messages that he had deleted.
This is a great article. I remember reading this a few years ago during my undergrad- my big takeaway from it was that sometimes you will encounter bugs which you can't solve alone. I always assumed any error I came across was my fault, but that's not good (it's also not good to just assume it's someone else's). Fixing problems in an organization is often a team effort that requires good communication and incentive for improvement- not just one genius coder that knows the whole source code.
> They ignored supreme court precedent in a series of rulings that made patenting abstract concepts possible

Oh come on. Have you read that line of cases? They're internally inconsistent and largely nonsensical. The fact that Alice was unanimous is pretty strong evidence that the Supreme Court doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about when it comes to patent law.
Some serious tea leaves reading going on here.

Regarding the power consumption of the TPU2 racks and whether or not Google will continue to use them: as long as they're more power efficient than GPUs of course they will continue to be used. That is most likely the only reason the TPU exists in the first place. Running the same workload on GPUs would consume a few Mega Watts if the TPUs consume 500 KW. And Google has lots of workloads like that so the savings must be enormous.

But GPUs are a moving target and even if for now the TPU seems to have the edge on power efficiency that could easily change.

Another thing that does not make much sense to me is that if you were to use systolic array processors with a certain limit that it would make very good sense to figure out a way to daisy chain them so that multiple units can be combined into larger arrays.

That may very well be the function of that chip in the center, some kind of crossbar to allow for easy linkage of single TPUs into larger fabrics.
I'm sure the mighty invisible hand will save us all in its bosom. What we need is faith.. err confidence in the market. All praises be to the one true god money.
Oh, screw side-effects -- Elixir is much more hardline about immutability than Scala. I'm talking about jamming half your program logic into the type system, then braying to anyone who stays still long enough about how that's the right way to do things.
'Deleting' seems pretty clearly to convey that they do not retain that info, for any purpose. (IANAL?)
it's going to depend where you live. In the united states no opt-in is required for sending marketing email - https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...
My dad worked on the floor of the Chicago Option Exchange for years. Even the craziest open-outcry pits were way more organized than any movie has made them seem.

I'm sure trading is way more productive now that it's done from a desk in an office, in the same way that auctions done online are probably more productive than auctions conducted in-person.
So why not just take apart the official apps for Google Cloud Drive and use whatever API and authority into has to build your alternative client?
I submitted one with AW - with email ending in .wa.us.

Thanks!
Explaining precision and recall
Reeaally?
That article reads just like a SIGINT intelligence report on some foreign country's new radar system, inducing capabilities, limitations, and specifications from clues visible in photographs.
If you've been around HN for a long time, you'll have watched him take the path of a salaryman, to a small-time app, to a SaaS product, to consulting, to productized consulting, to a new and better SaaS product, to selling a company, to angel investing, and beyond, etc.. While he's really good at some stuff, he's also not an expert at everything. Its a really relatable story for so many people here.

And he's transparently written about all of it along the way, including a lot of financial stuff
The idea was to have a place for events/topics that aren't covered by the traditional news publishers. I understand it would be a hard sell.
Useful hints:

- Put anything on Facebook you're willing to have on a public web page. Stop there.

- Don't use Facebook's messaging or email.

- On desktops and laptops, run Ghostery and Privacy Badger. This keeps Facebook's "like" buttons from tracking your browsing.

- Don't run Facebook's phone app. It's way too intrusive; it gives your contact list to Facebook, just for starters.

- Remember, sharing is spamming. Don't "share" links from others on Facebook. That makes you an unpaid employee of Facebook's ad engine.
I think you are taking this a little out of context. The best part for me is the feed into other peoples lives. It's a service I'd be sad to loose.

It's interesting to find someone on here who maintains all of their files/email/photos/etc locally in a redundantly backed-up manner at home on their own personal server. How did you do that? Can you recommend me a way to do that for a non-technical person?

If you don't then it would horrify and frighten me to reflect upon the fact that so much of my personal data was tied up into one private company. See what I did there?

Again, just to reiterate it's about the feed, and the loss of that connection to the people in my feed. I mean what would you do if apple/google wrote an update to their os that wiped all of your contacts for good? It's not going to happen, just like your example of loosing access to my memories because Facebook decides to destroy it's own brand.
In my opinion, if you know you're going to be working in an open office setting, you should try to be courteous and minimize the negative impact you have on your coworkers. I think you should be willing to make the choice to use a quieter keyboard that isn't necessarily your favorite.

So I'd say the problem is with both. The open office is the ultimate source of the issue, but it can be compounded by workers who make choices that exacerbate the situation. The reality is that an open office can be quite pleasant if the people working in it collectively make effective choices that take into account the well-being of the group.
Thanks! I'm sure those on mobile in particular will appreciate you doing so.

As for indenting block quotes, I agree it would be a nice-to-have, though I think it's unlikely that HN will update the formatting options, at least any time soon. The formatting on HN is limited, though workable.
> Facebook still knows who I am even though I sign up with different email addresses.

Do you have some evidence for this or just presuming?
Is there an alternative way for me to stay this connected to the people that I care about?
There is an online service (forgot the name) in which older english-speaking people chat online with teenagers learning english as a second language. If I recall correctly, it was not paid, more a volunteer exchange of company for education.

So not exactly a market, but a neat idea and possible jnspiration on the topic.
This ruling is about venue, not jurisdiction. Venue is less fundamental, and waivable; jurisdiction is fundamental, as you discuss.
they are providing unlimited storage sure, but they also say they can terminate your account at any moment for any reason.

If you stop to think about this part for a second you will realize this service is completely inadequate for backups.
If a service claims that they provide UNLIMITED storage why using it is abusing?
Isn't spring boot "thread-per-request"? Some people care about that kind of performance-related stuff.

Also, I think "It gives you all errors at runtime.", should have been "It doesn't give you the errors other frameworks are able to give you at compile time." -and I kind of agree, if memory serves "Spring" is sort of synonymous with "reflection", which isn't exactly performant either.

EDIT: Wow, just read my comment and realized it comes across like I really hate Spring.
I don't, I think it's nice. It's great for web apps that have human users; for services that are consumed by other services, I would probably go for something else.
No, they should stop providing unlimited storage. What a dumb idea. Or charge people on bandwidth. TANSTAAFL.
I used to feel the same way, but had an opposite experience: bought a buggy cable and, since I could find no other way to contact customer service, left a negative (not insulting) review. Cust svc contacted me and sent me a replacement...which was a much more expensive cable which wasn't even yet advertised on their site. They then asked me to change my review. So I amended my review saying the new product which they'd sent me for free was OK but I had no idea if the old one worked.

Also their Type C chargers didn't work with a MacBook + accessory adaptor, which was only described in the reviews.

It's not like one bad experience has soured me on the whole company, but now I try to spread my purchases between them and Aukey (who has also had some Type C duds -- check Benson Leung's reviews before purchasing!)
>So why was the stolen x-ray equipment kept a secret? I asked my source if there was some security reason for keeping the stolen x-ray equipment from the public, and was told, unequivocally, no. “It’s because the mom from the midwest planning to fly her kids to Disney would freak out. They are worried that people would stop flying if they knew.”

Kind of ironic, because I've already stopped flying - not because I'm afraid, but because these sorts of measures have gotten to the point where traveling through an airport is an awful experience that I actively avoid.

If I absolutely must travel, I take a train or drive. The only reason I ever fly is if I have to cross an ocean or if I face an emergency that requires me to be present somewhere far away, very quickly.

And in the case of an ocean, honestly, renting a stateroom on a cargo ship seems like a very relaxing way to go if you have the time. I've got a HUGE backlog of books and games and writing and projects to design and you get the idea.
You can delete your account... I had one that I requested deleted back in 2009, and then had "reason" to get back on, and when I created my new account my prior data from 2009- was not there.
To boys? really?

Have you ever read the cover of Cosmo or seen clothing with blatant cleavage?

The power/control dynamic extends in all directions & I have no doubt that some of this revenge porn extends in the other direction..