skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People keep doubting Twitter's lifespan, but...

> Twitter has woven itself into the fabric of our global society.

Regardless of how long it actually has to live, I can't really argue with that.
It's much harder to estimate the demand of a child care center than that of a gym or a cafeteria. Not every employee will become a parent and those who do so will only have one or two children in the lifetime.

On top of that, some would prefer an outside child care service, specially if the position has a lot of traveling involved (can your partner or caregiver bring the kid to campus when you are not there?) Even if you decide to do it. ¿How many people should you hire? ¿What happens when the employee is fired or quits? (it's hard to find a daycare center in short time), add insurance, etc...

The way most companies solve this is by subsidizing the daycare facility of you're choosing or allowing for remote work some days of the week. It's more efficient.

That being said, not sure what the policy at Apple is right now.
Sometimes tools even create problems as many tools require frequent care and feeding or make assumptions about workflows that either don't apply to your organization or crosses difficult organizational political boundaries. I'm fond of saying solutions boil down to people, processes, tools/technologies and the tools/technologies are the easy part.
Without bearing witness to that communication, how can you assign blame? What was said/written? There are so many unknowns here that it's all entirely inconclusive right now, yet people are happy to assign blame and responsibility with almost no information and evidence.

Is that how you'd want your trial to be conducted if you were the accused?

There are serious allegations here that merit more than a peanut gallery trial by public opinion and speculation.

I'm not saying we shouldn't hold top management accountable, but we should have actual facts and details on what transpired so we know who to hold accountable.
Skin cells found at root of balding, gray hair
Worth mentioning: http://libremusicproduction.com/
Lossless?
I'd love to have both, though. Debian apps for productivity, android apps for communications/games, side by side on the same screen with shared storage and maybe synchronized state. As it is, I have to manually sync state between the two devices which results in missed messages and inconsistent state.
Designing a _good_ validation system (to reliably discriminate between "good" strings and "bad" strings, including all corner cases) is really hard, error-prone, not future-proof (standards change) and might be even theoretically impossible in some cases.

Some basic sanity checks are useful, of course. But it is not a good idea to use input sanitization as the only (or even main) method of injection attacks prevention.
I think minute incremental charges are the signature for a service that is "serverless". While serverless components are part of your architecture, what is exposed and billed monthly is a standard SaaS interface. In this sense, it is only utilized for its buzzwordiness.

That nitpick aside, this looks pretty neat.
Start a consulting service, charge people by the hour
It'll have to fight Pittsburg for that title.
"What is the default sudo password in Maru Desktop?

"maru" is the default sudo password. When installing debian packages, you may need to enter "root" as a password"

Oy.
Why Happiness Doesn't Matter
> It doesn't really "prove" either one, but it is a step in the right direction.

Mind sharing whatever information you have that shows that CTO was aware of everything HR and other managers were trying to sweep under the rug?
> For certain audio shapes, MP3 is a rather bad™ compression (as is, to some extent JPEG for some image shapes), whereas AAC produces much better results due to different compression mechanics.

Do you base this assertion on blind testing? I'd really like to know how much of the people that says "MP3 sounds X/Y/Z" actually did one (actually, I'd like all of them to actually do one), because in the blind tests I've participated/seen participating, with a modern encoder and mid/high bitrate (in the average range of 192/224 kbits) users were systematically not able to hear any difference.

Of course I found some exceptions; for example, a friend of mine had good hearing on high frequencies, therefore, he could immediately spot 128 kbps CBR mp3s which have a lowpass threshold at ~16 khz.
I've been playing with this for the last hour and I must say it is a beautifully-designed experience throughout. I've seen quite a few BaaS (Backend as a Service) products debut on HN, and I'd usually play around with them for 5 minutes and then throw them into a bookmarks folder. What really got me engaged here was the many examples, the excellent documentation, and the gorgeous interface.

You really hit that dopamine rush in a developer's mind when they imagine the possibilities. I think that was a really powerful effect that Firebase had with me and I see it here too. Really awesome platform and can't wait to see where it goes!
Agreed. Most media outlets often embed tweets in their news stories. Live news feeds + tweets just go hand in hand. Not to mention the POTUS constantly making the news via twitter.
Go and read the two sentences in question, and what I said about them. It's completely different to that.

#(X or Y) > #(Y-only)

vs

#(Y or X) > #(X-only)

See how these can both be true? (See how meaningless the comparison in either one of those statements actually is? That was the point I was making).

It seems to me that people are so ideologically driven in their thinking that they could only see what I was saying as "taking one side, to the exclusion of the other".

That is, people treating my statement as like

#X > #Y

is equivalent to

#Y > #X

like you did in your millionaires/billionaires attempt at an analogy. Even though if you take the ideological blinkers off it is plainly obvious that I'm not saying anything at all like that.

My original comment would be really greyed out if not for also having received a lot of upvotes along with all the downvotes (the points count on it has swung up and down over time).
> Snap generated $150M

Yes, but Magic Leap generated 0 revenue. How can you be so sure it will generate something? It can be something like google glass, very cool but noone used them. Or the next smartwatch, some traction for a year and later the market size is really small. That is why it sounds crazy for me, it is a huge risk, and the have 0 feedback from users.
I am really surprised that the "single computing / storage device" idea which can switch between different screens and input methods seamlessly (and maybe support plug-in CPUs) is just is not happening, though the concept here is a small step in that direction.

Having everything in the cloud seems to have made this somewhat redundant for most users, though I still hope one day I can carry all my data around, of course given proper encryption and backups and the ability to distinguish between safe and possibly monitored (public) displays/inputs.

Or maybe wireless displays are missing so that decision to quickly do a task with a mouse and keyboard leaves out the cable plugging aspect.
Not surprising when 90% of your users are bots.
Could be a fun SpaceX or Tesla HQ.
Somewhere there must be a few people severely allergic to some ingredient in chicken soup.
Tutorial link for executing this type of 'drawing'?
OK, for anything that is queried on demand it is not a good idea, until we get homomorphic encryption.
This is the second time a text has brought tears to my eyes. The first was "Where the red fern grows". Read this, it's well written and worth the time.
I find it amusing the promo shot shows it running on an Apple Thunderbolt display - which famously does not support HDMI input, only Thunderbolt - for which there is no MHL adapter.
Always on silent, DnD at work, and usually have it turned off the entire weekend.
we only wake you up for the important meetings
But, besides that, don't you think it's pretty cool?
Depends on your choice, personally i would choose between 410 or 501 but whatever you choose, just don't allow an implicit redirect with any of the 301/302 codes.
There's also voat and imzy
I'm wondering how secure it is.. According to https://github.com/maruos/maruos/wiki/Tips, they start sshd up by default, listening on the local network, with the default user maru and password maru. That seems like a bit of a red flag and makes me wonder if it is the tip of the iceberg.
There's zero chance that building doesn't last 50 years, whether it's still being used by Apple 50 years from now or not.
If space was really that much of an issue, they would be using stacked parking lots like they do in NY.

I assume on the Apple campus most of the parking is multi-level & underground. In that case, what's the issue?
> "You act like the train-test-deploy cycle only happens once"

My impression is currently the train-test-deploy cycle is very much not an automatic process but rather a tricky, difficult process which experts working and scratching their heads to get working. The phrase for getting a deep learning system working is often "graduate student descent". Sure, you could just blindly run the process again but there's a lot to know to get it right - why we don't just have "deep learning in a box" right now (though people are working it).

So yeah, I am sure the process is re-done periodically but redoing may not be a slam dunk as is (though people are working on that too, people are working everything...).

And I'm not advocating any particular approach, just observing current approaches.
As one of the backers for the doomed "Ubuntu Phone" kickstarter, this really looks like a great alternative. I will have to play around with it this weekend for sure.
I won't defend the stamp thing's discoverability (though it's not that bad—and besides, if you know what an envelope is you probably know what a stamp is, and if you don't then it's because you're somehow encountering envelopes exclusively in non-mail contexts so how is that going to be associated with mail for you? Anyway...) but I don't think it matters how appropriate an icon they use if half of them are same-proportioned, white, and sitting in identical blue squares that are mostly wasted ("negative") space, compared with MacOS icons that are larger in proportion to the space they're granted and use color so you can tell what they are without having to look directly at them.

Looking back at Leopard screenshots (I assume that's part of the era with the supposed excessive-shininess?) those icons were slightly worse because smaller (probably configurable though? I don't remember) but their shape seems to be a bit more apparent and distinctive (most of mine on Sierra are squares or circles) so I'd call it a wash, usability-wise. Maybe slightly favoring the new ones because color is easier to distinguish in peripheral vision than shape. I'm not seeing a practical problem with the use of depth, aside from "depth is bad now, because reasons".

Microsoft's Win10 design is like the kind of thing developers come up with when they manage to banish designers from a project—not saying that's what happened, and I doubt it is, but it really looks like it (I can't get over that drop-down box, god, it's like I tried to style it). It's incredibly bad. It reminds me of really old "how to make your web forms pretty" tutorials from the pre-CSS days. I seriously thought I was in some kind of safe-mode when I started it up the first time.

[EDIT] actually, rather than pre-CSS, let's specifically go with "when people used the term DHTML". STRONGLY reminiscent of that time period—but not of finished websites, of web design tutorials from that time period.
The investigation is ongoing, and the results will be announced by the end of the month. You are already passing judgment that they should not be held accountable, when you don't have any facts either! All I'm saying is that if the investigation concludes that Thuan was informed directly by Fowler and did nothing, then he deserves to be fired. Same with Graves.
And yet, it has almost no actual impact on the real world.
~100 billions neurons in a human brain I guess.
Not sure what 1.6KB per neuron is too close to
It does actually. You can exclude subs from /r/all.
It is but it's quiet expensive.
If you have to travel, then would you rather spend the 15 hours in Economy class or First class?
Everyone has a different front page, and it's up to you to tune it to make it work best for you. A few popular communities on Reddit may be toxic, but I'd say the vast majority isn't.
Codefresh just became the first CI to add Docker multi-stage build support
The landing page and the quick start are amazing. Keep up the good work, it definitely landed in my `to try` folder!
People switched from Digg to Reddit for mainly two reasons.

1. Digg started sucking

2. Reddit offered a truly innovative feature that most people found useful, subreddits

Reddit is still great, and this doesn't offer any significant features that I'd consider important enough for most people to switch.
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Think of any task that has ever caused your laptop fans to spin up, and cross that task off of what is possible on a phone-as-desktop list. No high definition video calls. No 1080p gaming. No fully functional IDEs (intellisense and interactive linting/compiling is computationally expensive). No high definition movies. Video/batch photo conversions are probably out, though may be possible at 1/10th speed.

The most successful tablet-laptop attempt thus far has active cooling simply so they don't have to throttle back performance.

It's possible that more energy efficient processors will come about and prove me wrong, but they've been working on the heat dissipation problem for decades now (yes, even in desktops/servers).
5 minutes a year is really impressive.
Ah. The article drew a connection, which is why I assumed that. But googling the founders, it appears you are correct.
I hated Aliens 3 - it's like the guy who got it basically wanted to say "f* you" to Aliens, which was a good, fun, if not particularly deep movie.
Bring Americans together over drinks
Behind the Scenes at Bookcelerator: How do we read 35+ books a month?
The virtual world is the real world.

Much of human activity is moving out of the physical world and into the virtual world today, in the same way that it moved out of nature and into buildings thousands of years ago (but much faster this time).
I don't think you would. They're a lot more potentially dangerous up there.
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Seeking Remote Work
Hi Everyone,

I am looking for remote opportunities as consultant and contractor. I have more 12+ years software engineering experience working for companies like Telerik and Pivotal. At Telerik, I was a senior engineer building their UI components for Desktop and IOS Devices as well as their cloud IDE (git integration). At Pivotal, I was engineering lead working on Cloudfoundry PaaS, where I was building Garden Linux Containers (an open source containerization technology tailored for CF). After that, I was leading PCF RabbitMQ team where we were building and operating RabbitMQ for Cloudfoundry.

Languages: Golang, Ruby, C#, Objective-C, TypeScript, FlowType
Web: React, Redux, Redux-saga, Redux-Logic, BlueprintJS
Other Technologies: Ansible, BOSH, Concourse CI
Methodologies: Scrum, XP, Pair programming and TDD

Github: github.com/svett
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/ralchev
Blog: https://blog.ralch.com

Projects:

- Provisioning RabbitMQ for PCF

https://github.com/pivotal-cf/cf-rabbitmq-release

- Built App Containers for Cloud and Cloud Foundry PaaS

https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/guardian-release
https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/guardian
https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden-linux-release
https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden-linux
https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/goci

- Open Source Maintainer

https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo
https://github.com/onsi/gomega

Feel free to contact via email: svet@phogolabs.com and I can send you my up to date CV.
Yes, Apple insists that by working in a place where artificial hills are dotted with pines transplanted from Christmas tree farms in the Mojave Desert, its employees will make better products. But didn’t Apple create its marvelous Apple II in a bedroom and its ground­breaking Macintosh in a low-slung office park building? The employees who work at the new campus are leaving behind the buildings that provided sufficient inspiration to invent the iPhone.

This is something I worry about. Some of the most groundbreaking works were created by artists being super poor and living in a hole somewhere while suffering from personal problems. Sure once they become popular and make money they can afford to refine their craft and over-produce, but the original inspiration comes from a grittier, more punk place.
Ah, well that is certainly not what the article was claiming, or what the context of the quoted sentence is.

So whether or not your contention is correct, it is of no help to the original comment.
I agree on both points.
Yeah, this is currently a huge problem with the patent system as a whole, and can be summarized in one word: lawyers. I believe the patent system has been hijaked by lawyers and has veered off course from the original intent (even though i hate that term). The solution to this is to rewrite the written description law to reduce the burden on patentees to add in a bunch of verbosity and at the same time require more in the claims. And while we're at it to simplify the whole damn claim construction process. I'd advocate for putting examiners at the forefront of construing claims, and requiring statements by the examiners on the record of what the claims mean at the time of examination and why they are being allowed. A mini memo on claim construction at the time of allowance. This will never happen, of course.
Still happy with Jquery-mobile , is Easy ,OOP and Better.
React.js is a lost of time as many other framework that try to copy the javaBean concept.
When browser support completly ES6 all this framework will be forgotten
None of what you say negates the need to make improvements. Doctor workload impacts the quality of care, therefore we should investigate solutions and mitigate the problem where possible.
There is also the excellent setting "don't show me submissions after I've downvoted them".

Click once to mark something as the sort of thing you don't want to see and to hide it!
What's your experience with i3 on it? Is it lightweight enough to be usable as an Internet device?
No DML Statements prevent quick migrations.
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Study: VR twice as effective as morphine at treating pain
Did you read the article or Fowler's account?

>In Fowler’s account of her year at Uber, she says that she explicitly reported the incidents of sexual harassment directly to Pham when she ran out of clear remedies. Nothing came of her attempts, she wrote.
Anything that involves radiant cooling relies on radiator size and surface area. Neither of which are present in abundant quantities in a phone form factor. Especially when you add a rubber case (an insulator) to avoid damage from falls.
This is completely untrue. I am most certainly not a multi-millionare and, according to Google Maps, I can drive from my apartment to Apple Park in 13 minutes. I can also get to eBay in 10 and Netflix in 11.
I thought it was the GraphQL equivalent of SQLite..

Please don't call yourself "Serverless" if your service goes down with the remainder of the world once AWS has some problem. Please don't call yourself "Serverless" if someone acquihiring you means my database disappearing from under me.
Especially considering that all of AWS database solutions require a 20 minute maintenance window per week!
I’m in marketing and not here to pump our own tires, but Spanner is /the/ database beneath so much of Google. We trust and rely on it, so it’s very exciting to me to see other big companies who need mission-critical /and/ global scale performance do the same.
If asians count for diversity, there is no lack of diversity of tech companies.

This statement doesn't really make sense. By definition, no one group (or two for that matter) can "count for diversity", as "diversity" is the absence of such clustering.
I assume poster is referring to the human brain, but yes, too clever by half and doesn't contribute much to the conversation.

Personally, I'm quite disappointed that this isn't memristor based - not much of an improvement in holding a conscious statefile that disappears when the power goes out.
Cyber attack could spark lawsuits but not against Microsoft
In addition to the other comments, vendor lock-in. My shop is strictly AWS, so...
Disappointed no pictures of the pods
You should google bistrobot
Reminds me of this robot that was trained in a simulation, then in real life, "Autonomous Drifting using Machine Learning":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=opsmd5yuBF0
Teaching Your Kids to Invest Their Allowance
Important lessons from the first NSA-powered ransomware cyberattack
HPE unveils 'world's largest' single memory computer
> since Licensors have agreed to license the unexpired Licensed Copyrights and Licensed Patents of the G.729 Consortium Patent License Agreement under the existing terms on a royalty-free basis starting January 1, 2017.

Am I reading that right? The consortium has graciously begun issuing royalty-free licenses now that the patent has expired?

How nice of them.
You realize that you can make your own front page called a multi reddit right?
"Jobs was adamant that the new campus house indigenous flora, and in particular he wanted fruit trees from the orchards he remembered from growing up in Northern California."

A perfect example of a the stereotypical Californian mindset. Indigenous is what California was like when one first experienced it and everything should remain unchanged into the future.

Edit: On second thought, this is just a statement from the article's author. It's unlikely Jobs would not have confused indigenous California flora with fruit trees.
Mass market support questions:

PHP Support?
Does it support views and triggers like MySQL/PostgreSQL?
Yeah, just a bunch of pictures of Jonathan Ive with 2-day stubble and dramatic lighting.
Exactly. For that reason we really should cut the defense budget in half back to pre-9/11 levels. Talk about an easy fix for the US budget problem.
You don't get the value proposition. This isn't for cost saving, it's for time saving and organization.

Here's where we are today: If I spend any significant amount of time away from one of my devices (phone, laptop, desktop), it piles up with dozens of notifications. Even with cloud based apps, there's no shared state. So when I get back to a device, I have to clear away all the notifications, assuming that they must have appeared on the other device at some point. And if I change a password on my laptop, because of one of the dozens of data breaches that have happened this month, I have to retrieve my new password out of my password manager and re-login on my phone. At any given point, 2 or 3 apps on my phone are in a "logged out" state because I use them primarily on one of my computers, so i'm actually not getting all my notifications everywhere, and I miss some of them.

Also, even with google drive, not every file on my computer is immediately available on my phone and vice versa. So if I need access to a file on the go, there's a good chance it won't be there.

I don't expect this to solve all these problems, but I'm looking forward to a day when I don't have to carry my laptop everywhere I go.
I don't disagree. "Marked as off topic" also has a technical meaning here.
It has been around forever, and sufficiently detailed practical demonstrations are all over the network--often flagged with the acronym NSFW, which stands for "Natural Sapience Field Work".~
It reminds me of the GCHQ campus: https://www.gchq.gov.uk/gchq-cheltenham