skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human beings are remarkably good at compensating for deviations in frequency response. You can very quickly acclimatise to deviations much greater than +-10dB. The main shortcoming of mid-priced headphones is transient response, which we are acutely sensitive to. Heavy, flexible and poorly-damped drivers in highly resonant enclosures might look reasonably accurate in the frequency domain, but they have absolutely dismal real-world performance.

Audio engineers routinely choose transient response over frequency response, hence the popularity of Yamaha NS10 and Auratone 5C monitors in professional environments.
In these situations, it's important to know what the alternatives are. How much waste would there be if computer chips didn't exist? How much would there be if they didn't get faster and more capable each year?

Considering all of the different things that computers make possible (from advances in medical research to improved logistics, to more efficient designs for everything), my best guess is that computer chips produced this way are quite a leap forward for overall human well-being.

None of this makes me revel in or ignore anyone's suffering. All I'm trying to say is don't lose sight of the big picture, too. More and better technology (i.e., applied knowledge) is the answer to this problem. The specific form this probably takes is automation of the most dangerous work. And what controls those machines? More computer chips.
But it was Congress that forced the creation of ULA. Both Boeing and Lockheed were planning to leave the launch business and leave the US with nothing (except the Shuttle). Launch is an ugly business, you have big fixed costs but very lumpy revenues since you get paid when the rocket leaves the ground (which can be delayed for years due to late payloads, political roadblocks etc), and Delta and Atlas weren't competitive in the commercial market so they couldn't smooth things out.

So Congress told them to form ULA and they would give them a readiness contract to make it worth it to them even if they weren't launching often. Basically, it was that or lose the heavy launch capability which would have been a huge national security problem.

Obviously, that changes with SpaceX around, but what hasn't changed is that if Congress pulls that contract, they'll just kill ULA and the Delta and Atlas will be gone. Lockheed and Boeing still don't really want to be in this business and there is nothing they can do to make Atlas price competitive with Falcon, since their customer won't let them change anything.
Yeah. He also made a gazillion dollars holding.
Unions exercising the one power they have 3x in 15 years (by your timeline; the url dates suggest otherwise) is ridiculous? What should they have done instead?
How does that differ from HUD?

In North St Louis they tore down the projects that were hud and forced families to move to North St Louis county aka Spanish Lake and Ferguson etc and built HUD apartments there.

Maybe what you want is basic income to live on and afford housing and food, etc?
> I know unions have done a lot of great in the past, but I rarely see much good coming from them anymore. Of course this is all anecdotal, but I've had nothing but bad experiences with them in my life.

This post includes the work NYTWA did to resist the travel ban at JFK (but is otherwise irrelevant to the current discussion, so search for the relevant parts): https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/all-worked-up-nowhere-to-go...

What did your company do to show solidarity?
> As a former member of a union, I honestly find it odd at how many people think that unions are always good.

Unions are made of people, like any group, there are as good or as bad as the people they are made of. Unions absolutely can make the difference for underpaid workers. Unions have lawyers workers can get advisce from and they level the playing field between the employer and the worker.

What I find odd is you pretending a lot of people think that unions are always good. In US the majority of people think unions are bad.
Didn't lyft shut down their carpool commute feature, because nobody wanted that?

If you're "ride sharing" without actually stopping to pick up/drop off additional passengers, it's just a taxi. An unlimited, unregulated number of taxis. More cars on the road, fewer people on public transport, more pollution.

It's possible I misunderstand how these taxi companies work. I'm invisible to them. I don't have their apps. I'd rather they not track my movements every half minute for the government to subpoena, for a fee of course.
"His tumor was first diagnosed in 2003 and he basically ignored it for a year in favor of alternative treatments and healthy eating. By the time he actually had surgery, the cancer had progressed to mets in his lymphs and his liver."

And, to make it clear just how ridiculous his decision was, among the alternative treatments he used included coffee enemas. There's literally no reason at all to believe coffee enemas can cure cancer, but that's what he was doing while his cancer was spreading.

Everyone should be able to make their own treatment decisions, of course. But, my dad was killed by the distinctly not good kind of pancreatic cancer, and I feel a little entitled to be pissed off at folks who squander the incredible fortune of having a treatable case and ignoring every bit of relevant science in favor of the advice of quacks.
Currency definitely enables crime. There are a few reasons why institutions (government, banks) are crazy about digital currency: auditing (taxes, crime), fees, negative interest rates.
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For me (not from or in the US), I see this as US Congress legitimising cryptocurrencies. If not fully, at least partially.

Keeping legislation up to date with the latest methods of money laundering is their job. Digital currencies (in all of their forms) are the latest methods used. Therefore, including them specifically in legislation will help law enforcement combat money laundering.

This will mean exchanges will need to cooperate with US agencies, if they operate any business in the US, and provide records of holders and balances, etc.

This reduces risk for the businesses and individuals. At the moment, it's like the wild west (e.g. bankruptcies at Mt Gox and Cryptsy, large scale wallet thefts, WannaCry, etc.). Enabling US law enforcement to subpoena records from these exchanges will mean the 'dark money' moves out, and legitimacy takes it's place.

I see this as a good thing. For those of us NOT laundering money through cryptocurrencies, this adds to the argument that they are legitimate replacements for the existing currencies of the world to perform transactions.

That's how I see it from a completely external perspective.
Nostalgia still marks the way forward for Nintendo
How to build self contained .NET Core binaries for Windows, Linux and OS X
> The demonization of unions in the country is a pointless exercise and seems ideological.

Ideological? A vast multitude of people have cited ongoing examples of misbehavior and abuse that they themselves have personally witnessed, which you casually handwave away by saying it's just "ideological".

How about unions start actually cleaning up their act and making themselves respected champions of the worker again?
The ability of the Polynesians to settle huge stretches of the Pacific might be one of the most impressive human achievements ever.

Odds are they reached South America even if we never find direct evidence (there is some).
It's a crime if you live there and it's considered the law of the land that you have broken. Don't like it and can't effect change lawfully? Move.

This is the best explanation I have seen. Morality is a completely artificial construct. There is no such thing as something being provably evil or good. It's not a math equation, but rather the consensus of your peers.

I love crypocurrency as much as the next guy, but I also enjoy the happiness I get from living in a law abiding community.
Two more links than I provided ? Um, right. But I am not claiming to have evidence from a "systematic study".

There must be millions of people around the world who have bought and held growing assets, my fucking dad did and he is no warren buffet.

I have absolutely no back up evidence of this, but you don't either. One blog, now two blogs neither of which are peer reviewed or provide any form of source data. This second blogs just quotes someone else.

Its hard to hold on to a growing asset ? I really don't think it is. Unless you desperately need the money for something more important.
Well said. This knowledge is "out of the way" and with effort can be gained.

I work in networking industry (as software dev). Think Juniper, Cisco, Brocade etc. This industry needs only C devs.
Imagine you had two fingers and not ten. Try counting in binary. That should clear up the anomaly.
In the enterprise storage market I think they're probably quite close to being a volume product. The versions I was working with were a few years back and admittedly a different chemistry than is used these days. The issue I think they'll have in the short run is that these will be quite expensive relative to NAND. I don't think you're going to have a memristor based disk in your home PC for quite a while. I do know that there are already some space systems that utilize memristors and reram already. The really novel applications (as in not just big hunks of fast memory) are probably much further out if they even go anywhere.
Except right-to-work laws allow non-union members to freeride. If we truly wanted to restore balance then people opting out of the union wouldn't be able to benefit from any of the union's negotiations. Of course then everyone would join the union so...
Right, never said otherwise. Prussia was militaristic and did lead the German states.
a few years back in Michigan, governor Snyder signed into law the right-to-work legislation. Indiana did the same earlier that same year (2012 I think). Giving employees to opt out of any unions
How Telegram is making money?
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As someone who worked for one of the partner companies in ULA... the price quoted by ULA is just the base cost for the rocket hardware. They then nickel and dime the government for all the various launch services as well (fueling, launch prep, payload installation, integration tests, mission control, etc.). It's a bit like the basic cost of an appendectomy being $1,500, but then the bill from the hospital includes a bed fee, a surgery prep fee, $15 per gauze used, etc.

SpaceX's <$100m price print is all inclusive -- it is the full price you pay. No extra or hidden fees.

The author is a little deceptive in that they quote the upper estimate rather than the average. They should have quoted the average cost. But to be clear I don't think that's nearly as deceptive as saying ULA's comparable cost is $140m.
If we extend the definition of "Z80 computer" to include those which aren't using the original Zilog Z80 DIP40 CPU, e.g. SoCs, then these may be the smallest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1_MP3_player

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=138

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=139
If that's true, that should make it easy for you to work with your coworkers to allow more lax rules about firing when negotiating and in return -- since management will surely be happy too -- you can probably get management to negotiate something that your coworkers would prefer!
I had forgotten all about COYA books until recently, when I was at a yard sale and found Twist-a-Plot's "Calling Outer Space". I had never heard of it but instantly knew I had to have it as soon as I saw that crazy cover.

I've had a blast reading this together with my 7 year old son.
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself” ―Albert Einstein
You can count from zero to two on two fingers, so two-fingered aliens may invent numerals for zero, one and two. If they develop that into a place value system, it will be (fingers+1)-ary, or in their case trinary.
The Effective Altruism community is a group of a few​ thousand people that have been attempting to do this for the last few years. Organizations like GiveWell.org (giving money) or 80000hours.org (giving time) have proved immensely helpful in my career and donation life choices.
It is ideological. The same people decrying the wholesale existence of unions due to bad unions are very rarely willing to decry the wholesale existence of corporations due to bad corporations. Unions and corporations are just flipsides of the same coin. They exist to balance one another.
You're probably right, but it could just as easily be signs that authorities finally are starting to understand them and it's step one in a crackdown.

I'll admit, that's partially due to a bias due to Bitcoin enthusiasts turning every event into a positive. Mt. Gox disaster? Oh well it's just the community policing itself. It's the sign of a healthy economy. To the moon!

Sounds like an exaggeration, but checkout r/bitcoin and you'll know that sentiment.

The really fun part about this is without tumblers or with regulated tumblers, you've now got a currency where every single transaction is globally available and traceable. Hits money launderers but hope you like the government tracking you. Cash transactions don't seem so bad after all.
> This is an unusual situation; many people need geospatial databases, and contributing their local data is useful to them. The value here is in the data, not the code.

I disagree. Every organisation with geospatial data needs these types of applications and tools like GeoNode are viable alternatives for organisations that are invested in FOSS GIS or that can't afford ESRI.

I've worked in GIS at national, state, and local level government and have fought the same battles to bring open source GIS tools into the enterprise at every level - IT leadership are almost always enamoured with COTS products (i.e. ESRI) and resist the FOSS approach of having to assemble something equivalent to ArcServer/ArcPortal etc. Having solutions like GeoNode allow FOSS to actually compete with ESRI when the decision is being made by IT leadership who know nothing about GIS and are impressed by "solutions".
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Apple unveils Business Chat-brings customer service and shopping into iMessage
Don't worry, Lyft Line definitely exists.

I don't know what kind of crime being a passenger in one would result in though.
So people who can't teach their own language to foreigners in simple terms don't understand their own language?

I've witnessed dozen of people try and spectacularly fail at teaching their own language.
Not quite, as ULA was also operating under capitalism, yet clearly cared not a whit for minimizing the government's resources. Non-monopolistic capitalism is a closer description.
Usually contracts are specific in identifying jurisdiction/venue.

http://www.adamsdrafting.com/if-you-want-exclusive-jurisdict...

(can't vouch for it... I'm not a lawyer nor did I review it much.)

Given that many contracts are with parties across state lines, yet subject to some state's law, I have to assume that there is a substantial set of precedents which have established how to properly set jurisdiction/venue. It won't be a new problem.
Backwards navigation puts me back at the top in the previous page. It's broken UX.
No one dismisses the concept of banking because of bad banks or startups because of say Theranos, so why must unions live up to this mythical status of a perfect organization?

There will be bad eggs so blame them. Using that to demonize unions as a concept is ideological and disingenuous.

Business and industries have industry groups and lobbying groups. Professionals like lawyers, doctors, architects and engineers have their own groups. Why would everyone in the system need protection and safeguarding of their rights and interests except workers?
Good idea: updated.
> _All of this is leading up to Firefox 57, which will be a major release in November that marks the deprecation of legacy add-on APIs in favor of cross-browser "WebExtensions", an overhauled UI ("Photon"), and the integration of many components from the Servo Parallel Browser Project ("Quantum")._

Is Firefox getting a more modern icon anytime soon? it's starting to show its age.
American Hispanics are still less likely to access the internet
The US isn't China's only customer. They sell things worldwide, particularly to Europe.
And it's quite hard to do that. Companies tend not to want to negotiate with a union and have a separate compensation structure for non-union employees in the same job families. It's hard to have or benefit from one set of working conditions for union members and one for non-members.

IMO, both employees and employers should be free to form what groups they please and negotiate what contracts they will. This includes contracts that forbid an employer from hiring non-union workers. But there should also be no law mandating such a provision. Of course subject to government regulation that supersedes contracts (health and safety, human rights provisions, others).
This was a rejected offer from that 2008 article. The url without a date on it was March 17, 2000.

> The company had offered union members raises over the next three years totaling 11% of current pay. Boeing also offered bonuses and pension improvements it said would give the typical worker about $34,000 in additional pay and benefits during that time.

When you're given offers like that and rejecting them and it becomes a pattern that the company can expect to cost them billions of dollars every few years...what exactly do you expect company execs to do? Not have backup plans?

This is a company that's literally handing out jobs throughout a lot of the worst periods of the US economy...and it warrants constant strikes?

Look up some Airbus strikes for comparison. The articles I've seen are strikes over job cuts. There was a German strike at 4 plants that lasted...90 minutes.

At some point...yes...it is ridiculous and there are a lot of other people who would be more than happy to have the jobs you're striking over.
There doesn't seem to be mention of few existing companies that have been producing notebooks and other products from limestone, for years now. One example:

* http://nuco-direct.com/nu-stone/
Mongo really isn't about storing JSON. At least that shouldn't be it's selling point. The selling point that is since it's basically just a glorified key value store it's very replicable and distributable. Postgres is very much not either of those things. The JSON is nice for a few things and I use it sometimes but Postgres is and will always be extremely difficult to cluster and replicate.
I actually think this is the wrong way of thinking about it.

While Silicon Valley may be unique, that just means the things workers in those jobs want to focus their collective bargaining around may be unique, too. Not working in Silicon Valley, I won't pretend to know what those things are, but I certainly know that every workplace has issues and that without unions, the power structure is completely unbalanced in favor of management.

OP mentions sexual harassment. But if the workers wanted, they could actually collectively bargain even STRONGER sexual harassment policies than management wanted!
> Then, I realized the full ramifications of federation and I realized that Mastodon was likely to go the way of IRC if it ever "caught on" with the masses, in that open federation was doomed to outside abuse.

They're working on ways to prevent this. Individual users can now mute both other individual users and entire instances, for example, which makes silencing abusers and other pests a matter of a couple of clicks the way we used to do on Usenet with a killfile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file).

I'm cautiously optimistic about the future of Mastodon; it has a lot of challenges ahead of it, but the developers and the community both take them seriously and are actively engaged in tackling them.
What makes you think their is an "issue with unions now" any more than their is an "issue" with corporations? When Wells Fargo steals from it's customers we discuss the problems with Wells Fargo and what's wrong with the culture at Wells Fargo and is this the fault of the CEO at Wells Fargo. When the union workers at Boeing strike we say "see, unions are bad."
> The same people decrying the wholesale existence of unions due to bad unions are very rarely willing to decry the wholesale existence of corporations due to bad corporations. Unions and corporations are just flipsides of the same coin.

Unions are corporations, in every sense of the word, both legally and conceptually.

Unions are just a special type of corporation that has been granted a special right: the exclusive, irrevocable[0] right to dictate the terms of employment of its members.

In some states, the union even literally acts as the employing entity, creating a de facto subcontractor relationship.

[0] In theory, the NLRA allows for members to deunionize. In practice, this is almost impossible - once a union forms, there is almost no way it's members can feasibly remove it if they decide they don't want to be represented by it anymore.
Establish an Endowment whose goal would be to re-train people who are looking to get trained with in-demand skills to off-set the dislocation of labor due to the disruption our workforce will experience due to automation. Teach old dogs new skills/vocations.
Generally because environmentalism is luxury for wealthy countries. When you stack up carcinogens that may or may not kill you in four decades against feeding your family today, the food will always win.
Who says you have to be in the car?

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-soon-able-to-track-your-...

Or did they roll that "feature" back?
Name a company where regulations and workers' rights have lessened.
Is the #SVG fragment in the link intentional?
Are they placing different values on the glass of water? Or is that not the correct way to think about this? The person who hasn't had water in 3 days places a certain value on quenching his thirst and avoiding dehydration. If there were two items available to him (water and something else we can call X) that would serve that purpose, one would expect he would pay the same amount for both things. And the reason he would do so is because the thing he is valuing is avoiding dehydration and quenching thirst - not any particular tangible thing.

Let's say we call the person above A and the person who drank the gallon of water B. And let's say instead of a glass of water, A and B were offered a bottle of water. And before you make the offer, you tell B that he will be spending the next 3 days stranded in the desert. Now will he value the bottle of water the same as A?

From this perspective, back to your scenario, instead of looking at it as A and B valuing water differently, one could say they value avoiding dehydration the same. It's just that in the scenario, there's no dehydration for B to avoid.
Pairs well with Bezos' request for philanthropic ideas: https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/875418348598603776
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