skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple took a step in the right direction with the do not disturb feature in the Notifications bar. When I don't want to be bothered, I turn it on, when I want to be chatty I turn it off. The next step should be apps that are aware of your do not disturb state and update your presence (as an option) when it's set. Then, I want a timer so I can get blasted with updates every 25 minutes like Pomodoro timer.
Because the massive troll armies will post far more content then a massive number of humans could police. One hour of video is uploaded to YT every second, from a statistic 4 years ago.

Using your metrics, it's just better for Google to turn the service off to free uploads.
That was one of the things that burned us once we finally got our task estimates accurate. Most tasks would be finished in about the time estimated, but one would be off by a factor of ten and blow the iteration.

We discovered that for estimates to be accurate overall, most tasks need to be finished early. It's counterintuitive, but it's directly the result of that asymmetric distribution.
There is something like a decade of video uploaded to YouTube every day.

Even if you employed entire countries you still wouldn't stand a chance at reviewing it all.

Automated systems are the only way it can function at all.
I don't think the book applies at all to the hacker news crowd. "The E-Myth Revisited" basically advocates turning every business into McDonald's.

That's fine if someone wants to start some kind of tech consulting business; but that's not the kind of business that I see promoted on Hacker News.

The "The E-Myth Revisited" describes how to plan a business where labor is low-cost and unskilled. With software, (and hardware, to a degree,) when you write a program, the program is done. Most of your labor goes into R&D that is not repeatable according to what "The E-Myth Revisited" advocates.

At least with hardware, the low-cost unskilled labor can go into manufacturing, but that is now mostly outsourced.

At most, "The E-Myth Revisited" can be applied to the sales and support part of running a tech business, which is what Oracle does very well.
I like it. Basically the design choice was to focus on threads within channels, instead of simply channels. Slack has that thread feature but I never use it because it's hard to follow. I guess slack could copy them and have a "text mode" and a "thread mode", easily being able to switch between both, and then the threads will be much more useful.
No, I really don't suspect that.
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why not Maps.me? nice UI and doesn't require play services
>It is planning what it calls a “social-credit system”. This aims to score not only the financial creditworthiness of citizens, as happens everywhere, but also their social and possibly political behaviour.

This already exists across the world in the form of credit rating agencies and social media. It's merely an issue of data integration
This looks like a great tool, particularly the ground-up focus on threading and giving teams more options. As with its competitors, it can still easily become just another distraction when people use it wrong.

It's easy to see how you could design a "process" around using something like Slack to achieve the same experience and if you don't design a "process" for using Twist then it will suck just as much. We tried to heavily use channels in HipChat as a threading and noise-avoidance mechanism, it worked well but we often ended up with a lot of channels with the same people in; at which point discipline becomes stressed.
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What is missing is a government actively pushing this scheme - which China is doing with their "social credit score".

An intermediate step would be selling of derived data to anyone, not just companies interested in hiring you but really anybody.
Exactly! Sounds like Usenet.
The negative and dismissive comments here are enlightening. Progressivism (the religion of many of the narcissistic STEM grads on HN) would appear to in reality be a form of temporal parochialism; for this Star-Trekian religion to function, the past simply has to be worse than the present and future.
Physicists Discover a Possible Break in the Standard Model of Physics
Glad to see it dead. MLMs are cancer.

I attended one of MonaVie's "internal"[0] meetings, invited there by an acquaintance of mine who was over-eager to get me to join in under him. I can tell you, this thing was literally a cult. The meeting consisted of people one-upping each other in describing how happy and rich they will be, coupled with top regional staff promising rewards for best performers - including, I kid you not, an orbital flight as a space tourist. The entire meeting was a happy death spiral[1] - a chain reaction of good feelings.

Seriously, I am so glad to see it down.

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[0] - i.e. by distributors, for distributors, not meant for the product end-users.

[1] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/lm/affective_death_spirals/
How much R&D does Casper do in developing their mattresses? Seems like they're more of a marketing experiment than a "bedtime is back" sleep revolution.
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What is the goal in asking these questions?
It's definitely not something I'm interested in, and that's all I'm saying. I like having a family, spending time with my family, and having a fully functional digestion system. If people want to, I say more power to them.
It could mean that we should shift more resources into bringing people up to age 5 and let them coast from there ;-)
They're also employing more real people.
Reminds me of Gitter.
I think it's supposed to have a more damaging impact when you're younger, and your brain is rapidly developing.
Why Companies Release Bad Features (at Least in SaaS)
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I used to be very anti-ad blockers. But ads seem so much more annoying these days, can't really live without one anymore :(
Fact: we don't have an issue with positive population growth in most western nations.
Fact 2: the populations of these western nations are human.
Q.E.D.: explosive population growth is not human nature.

It is a cultural, educational, social security and rights issue. The Chinese failed because they tried to fight the result instead of the cause(s).
alt.religion.slack > slack

Jokes aside, the article did hit the nail on the head in its critique of realtime comms. That said, there was always a subset of any team that seemed to have cold feet / anxiety / or other resistance to writing the longer-form messages of newsgroups.

I think if I had to pick between shallow, but broadly used comms, and slow but heterogeneously used comms, I'd still pick the latter.
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Future employer can blow me.
MacOS High Sierra tech preview: A quick look at the stuff you can’t see
Really nice post. We've suffered similar challenges using slack with our remote team and switched to Basecamp, which has been much better.

What's your sense of how Twist and Basecamp compare?
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Man, that would be amazing. It would be sweet if there was a third party slack notifier that could do that kind of thing. Basically you just run the notifier and quit the main slack app, until the notifier tells you to pull it up. Then you interact with it, and when you're done, quit it again.
> The eventual disruption will come not from a traditional asset manager, but from a 22-year-old kid in Silicon Valley

Someone please prove me wrong, but I don't think this is a start-up idea.
The big problem is how would you sell this? It's going to be very difficult.

I have several comments:

(1) The idea is sufficiently complicated that average people won't understand it. And with retirement money, if they've managed to save some, the average Joe will be fearful about switching it to something new and different. (Bitcoin is complicated too, but the average Joe--not the techie Joe--is driven by greed if he gets into Bitcoin. There's a huge possible upside to Bitcoin, mining stocks, options and commodities trading, etc. No get-rich-quick option exists for a tontine.)

(2) The name tontine has to change. There are too many murder mystery and ghastly "death pool" associations. Beside changing the name, you need to tweak the concept just enough to deny that the new thing you're selling is a tontine. "No, ours is not a tontine because ours maximizes payout when it reaches 100 long-life members, not the last survivor as in a tontine."

(3) The only way I see tontines coming about is by edict. The teachers' pension fund or the government employee pension proclaims that they are switching, and that's that. Or they give employees a harsh choice: pay a huge fee to continue with the normal pension or enroll for free in the tontine.

I suppose a start-up could implement the technology and try to sell it to big pension funds. That's more like contract work rather than a high-growth business.
Why license the kernel GPL if it doesn't matter any because every vendor would be totally willing to put it up in any case (or defer to the official repo because they made no changes anyway)?

Such an approach smells of virtue signalling, and IMNSHO we have way too much of that already.
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I think you're misunderstanding the goals of the project. It's not to create a horizontally scalable DB. Write perflrmance will not scale horizontally at all with this database.

The goal is to create something more like an etcd that can hold structured data.
Postgres Transactions Aren’t Fully Isolated
Even better: Ad Astra University on Mars
And Slack is a modern version of IRC :)

It keep being surprised by how much a fresh coat of CSS and a mobile app can reinvigorate these old ideas. Who knew how important adding gifs and emoticons would be?
New Study: Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Your Job, Millennials
I used this (in it's beta) to get started with Go. I learn best by doing. The course provided a solid base for me to understand the larger concepts and then diving into the language documentation as I progress. For me it was quite handy.
I think you can get the "data scanned per query" from Redshift by querying the STL_QUERY_METRICS table.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_STL_QUERY_ME...

I would be interested in seeing the settings for the table in Redshift. I don't know much about how BigQuery works, but Redshift relies heavily on distribution and sort keys to efficiently query data.
Of course not, but they are increasingly harder to find and mine, and processing them is not nice for the environment.
This makes me wonder whether it'd help if media sources would stop posting their names of the terrorists in their articles. Basically, don't profile them. Don't say where they came from or their personal situation. Don't interview their friends or family members.

Just call them 'evil monster' or something similarly vague and hope history forgets their existence. Otherwise, you end up with a lot of criminals and terrorists causing great amounts of suffering to have their names recorded in the history books.
Android video game:
https://traveler208.com/
Not making much, spend more in ads trying to make it works (300$) then what it brought me (about 100$).

Other old android apps are still bringing me 8$/month such as:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pervychine...
The Mexican Fisherman and the Investment Banker (Author Unknown)

An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, “only a little while.”

The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish?

The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs.

The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siestas with my wife, Maria, and stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine, and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life.”

The American scoffed. “I have an MBA from Harvard, and can help you,” he said. “You should spend more time fishing, and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats, and eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middle-man, you could sell directly to the processor, eventually opening up your own cannery. You could control the product, processing, and distribution,” he said. “Of course, you would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles, and eventually to New York City, where you will run your expanding enterprise.”

The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”

To which the American replied, “Oh, 15 to 20 years or so.”

“But what then?” asked the Mexican.

The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time was right, you would announce an IPO, and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich. You would make millions!”

“Millions – then what?”

The American said, “Then you could retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you could sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, and stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play guitar with your amigos.”
3. Reduce the number of people on earth to 19th century levels.
It's impossible to do at this scale, as other posters have already pointed out.

More to the point, machine learning is just building a model of what humans would do. Feed thing a million non-extremist posts, and a mission extremist posts, all of which have been manually marked as such by a human. Then ask it whether image 2000001 looks like the first million or the second million.
They said you "shouldn't" be able to. Being able to sue for anything becomes effective censorship by those with the deepest pockets.
Disclaimer: Workplace Partner @ Job

I was cynical about it to begin with, when it was just 'Facebook at Work' but I do believe it addresses a lot of the issues brought up in the blog post and the Workplace team are executing very well.

Accounts are completely separate from Facebook, no crossover at all.

I don't think it's a Slack killer, as they both solve different problems in different ways, and Workplace is very much a 'big co, top down' approach.

I do think other existing collaboration tools have a lot to be worried about between Slack & Workplace though.

Last stat I heard was there is over 14k companies using it.
Thanks for the pointer to Mithril. Hadn't heard of it.
Doctors take a test and go through a verifiable apprenticeship period.

If Dr. Nidal got his MD from Johns Hopkins and did his residency in pediatric oncology at Sloan Kettering where he is a fellow and has published 2 papers on Nueroblastoma you can safely assume he knows a thing or two about high risk pediatric solid tumor cancers.

What do we have for programmers?
We've left the "social" era and have entered the era of interruptions. All the innovation this decade is in interruptions no longer human-interconnections.

My smart watch for example post dates the social era so it has only minimal social features, but its deep in the interruption zone and spams me mercilessly until I block apps and if I block enough apps I may as well have a cheap dumb watch.

Another way to look at it is we no longer have 100 people shallowly liking us, we now focus on 100 apps shallowly claiming our attention is vital because we are important and we must be interrupted now.

Some of this is probably cultural backlash against automation and bureaucracy and general economic decline. If more people than ever are in fact not useful or important at all, then a communication style focused primarily around telling people they're important, is going to be very popular.

Under that analysis Slack is a post-social communications media, and it constantly rewarding you with endless micro doses of "your attention is valuable" is not a bug, its the whole philosophy of its existence as an app. You can see why curmudgeons see Slack as something negative, like the intrusion of participation trophy culture, because thats pretty much what it is.

The purpose of Slack is to constantly interrupt you with a narrative that you're important. There are incidental side effects that make it semi-useful. Companies spend a lot of money on "make employees feel special" and Slack is merely a modern example of the genre.

This philosophical analysis of Slack is probably extendible past Slack into startups. Don't try to market something as interconnectedness, not in 2017. Try to sell something that symbolically, or whatever, tells people they're important.
I think that Slack (or any other IM client for work, really) is just a tool, not a solution. Meaning that it requires some organization and thought, rather than installing and hoping for the best. At least to some extent (i.e. have no idea about companies with hundreds of engineers online), it works. Equally important it is to acknowledge what is suitable for doing on IM and what is not.

If you want to discuss some large changes, sure, IM is a bad place. Conversation will probably get interrupted, derailed, etc. That's where, in my opinion, things like Google Docs or plain simple GH Issues shine. The format forces into better thought out, longer messages.

For other things, you need to organize the chat rooms. If you have 10+ people and 2 chat rooms (I think slack defaults to #general and #random) then yes, sounds bad. But instead having quite a few chat rooms with <10 people each might work out well. Even having multiple rooms with the same people can be good to separate different topics of conversation.

"Always on", I believe, comes not from the IM itself but from the culture of the company. I know places where everything is e-mail only and people constantly refresh it. Equally, IM is mostly ghost town outside working hours at other places. And Slack has decent notification settings to make sure that you don't go crazy.

So, IM has it's place and provides value if you are willing to make it work. It's just not a 'it just works' solution, which is hardly surprising.
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this is correct, international calls from home country are not affected by roaming regulation and cost more than same calls using foreign networks, they should regulate this as well, to make at least international EU calls from home country on par with roaming prices (aka domestic calls)
Oh yeah, I read this as like "you fail for giving me a standard answer" but reading the original it's clear they missed the point here.
Easier to give / remove participants and automatically give them access to previous messages in the thread, without having to quote all previous messages just to give some context.
Not OP, but correct. I've never seen anyone create their own layers. DIY in this space simply means selecting/arranging multiple layers yourself, rather than buy a brand that has a bunch of layers pre-selected.
I guess "net negative" can be interpreted different ways. I was thinking of "net negative" to mean "capturing CO2 that's already been emitted", as opposed to "capturing CO2 before it is emitted in the future".

I agree any CCS scheme must be "net negative" in the sense that it doesn't produce more CO2 than it captures. But all the technologies in the pipeline today fulfill this.
But if you were able to come back into the bar in a disguise a minute later, they would want to know your real identity to prevent you from coming back.
My inlaw family does run a mattress distribution company. They have represented many brands over the last 30 years. There is one thing that never changes, you get what you pay for. So before buying into the whole "cut the intermediaries", "mattresses have big markups", lies - yes, lies, I'd advice to do a lot of research and see what you buy.

I've run the idea of moving the family business to a similar online model to what casper, eve and others are doing, with similar prices, margins, etc. multiple times. and we always drop this idea off because it's impossible to sell in the prices these companies do and sleep well with yourself, i.e. these guys have the same margins but they sell pretty basic mattresses with a 5 years ( if you are lucky ) lifetime under regular use.
"expanding counter-radicalisation efforts by working with (other Alphabet division) Jigsaw to implement the “Redirect Method” more broadly across Europe. “This promising approach harnesses the power of targeted online advertising to reach potential Isis recruits, and redirects them towards anti-terrorist videos that can change their minds about joining. In previous deployments of this system, potential recruits have clicked through on the ads at an unusually high rate, and watched over half a million minutes of video content that debunks terrorist recruiting messages,” says Walker."

Does them performing this kind of intentional manipulation, and having such success, scare the shit out of anyone else?
Every update to pokemon go is reported as the best thing ever. Wake me up when I can directly battle my friends.
Their "new" approach sounds suspiciously like a mailing list: asynchronous communication for a group that supports threads of communication.
I would like to see a meaningful discussion of the tipping points between various forms of communication.

ie: Phone call when you need immediate, high-bandwith dialog; IM when want to chat, but don't need instant responses; email when you want persistent communications, etc

Those are very brief, single faceted views, and there are a lot more factors.
Research project for security salary guide
If you are a hiring manager hiring cyber security roles, where do you get your salary info? From your HR (and which resource do they use)? From your network? An industry resource? Online search? Are you able to find good and updated information whichever channel you utilize?
Could FPGA be configured as cache out of the box, or is there too much overhead for this to be at all meaningful?
Reading the chapter about time in "Good and Real" by Drescher blew my mind.
See http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=11068 for a short version.
I think most teams push back when any new, stricter ruleset is imposed upon them. Sometimes they need some time to see the benefit. I was in the same boat in having to force TS on my team, but they've come to appreciate how effective it is at preventing issues and helping to track down already existing issues. Originally my decision was based on cost, so much dev time is burned away dealing with the shortcomings of JS.
Code for Cash revenue report, month 6: $40k
that's not what they say in official FAQ, all calls placed abroad are same as domestic calls. calling internationally from home country is not regulated yet, hopefully they will fix this nonsense and cancel international EU calls completely
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