skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the tasteful modernization script [0], it contains a ton of regexs (cause regexs never go wrong) with such tasteful changes as:

# pease -> peas (but "pease pudding")
# régime -> regime (but "ancien régime")

The last section of the script gets more interesting

# manœuvre -> maneuver (for the Americans)
# manœuvre -> manoeuvre (for the British)

# cosey -> cozy (for the Americans)
# cosey -> cosy (for the British)

I've never seen the word manœuvre and thought that I wanted it spelt any other way. Is it really just going to stop at cosy? What's so special about cosy that it needs converting but not other words.

Further they have script to [1]

> Try to convert British quote style to American quote style

So this is not 'standardized', this is 'Americanized'.

I was going to make a joke about how they'd probably try and get rid of the pesky 'e' at the end of Shakespeare, however it turns out, instead they actually have the opposite rule:

Shakespear -> Shakespeare

[0]: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/moderniz...

[1]: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools#british2american
A subtle way to reinforce your words is drawing on the famous million-dollar Amdahl coffee cup:

http://dealwhisperers.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-million-dollar-...

In this case, find a friend at Google/Apple/whatever and ask them if you can have some employee-only branded stuff.
A theological agenda does not imply xenophobia. Remember the wording OP used:

> Lewis's attempt at turning thinking, particularly child thinking, against the cultures found in the Middle East
That's not the advice you gave. In fact you gave no advice, you simply proclaimed your superiority when it comes to past decision making, in that you only worked for companies that make money.

Your reply was intentionally snarky at best; obnoxiously insulting, demeaning and entirely non-useful at worst.
I remember people in my office complaining about how bad the Millennium Dome was, when I asked none of them had visited it.
I was expecting "classic" to mean papers like Part-time Parliament, Mathematical Theory of Communication, Unix Time-Sharing System, etc. Certainly was in for a surprise...

They certainly do have data prior to 2006, based on Google Scholar results. It seems like an odd choice, but it's explicitly stated that these articles were chosen because they're roughly 10 years old.

I do find some of their choices a bit odd, though. Surely they can come up with better examples? The BigTable paper (OSDI '06) out of Google itself has far more citations (~4x per google scholar citation counts) of the highest-ranked DB paper, and I'd say it's much higher impact than any of them, being one of the early papers of the NoSQL movement. I'd understand if the algorithm in play were more nuanced, but the introductory page explicitly states that these are the most-cited papers of 2006, which doesn't seem to be the case.

Obligatory disclaimer: despite my current employment status, these views don't represent Google's.
Given that the car can not operate at all without the software enabled (and not just Autopilot, as Tesla has demonstrated with salvage title cars), this is a distinction without a difference.
You should have stated it this way in your original comment. Instead your comment comes a across as snarky and unhelpful.
> The population of the US is 100x more than Iceland.

Actually, it's 1000x.
Using deep learning to generate dinosaurs
I wonder if a kind of whistleblower's reward could help with enforcement? Restaurants have to display their business licenses and food safety certificates publicly. What if hosts also had to display their registration certificates publicly? Guests who can't find the certificate could report the host and receive a reward if the host is found to be violating.

The hard part would be spreading awareness of the reward to all possible guests.
>Management will have known about the cash crunch or should at least have anticipated it was a possibility for a while now, and should not have set expectations that they were unlikely to meet.

As user bspn has said before, this is a bad sign. If the company has good financial management, they have seen this coming and chose to inform its employees very late (which is bad). If the company did not see it coming, they have bad financial management (which is also bad).

So yes, from an objective point of view it surely cannot hurt to start looking somewhere else.
Would you also recommend that he eat food for sustenance, and continue metabolizing it with oxygen?
> Even though their destinations were closer and more habitable

I actually (genuinely) wonder about that those two.

Distance isn't the right metric - it's difficulty of making the journey. Ocean travel is taken for granted these days. In the past it was a lot more difficult and dangerous. How did those difficulties then compare to interplanetary travel today? (I'm genuinely asking).

And similar applies to how habitable the destination was. I remember reading about the initial English colonies in America, and all difficulties they had with things like trying to grow crops. How do those difficulties compare to the difficulties we'd face for Mars? (again, I don't know the answer, but I'm curious as to what it might be).
What checking is done on code generated by the compiler extensions? Do you manually have to build the code out of well-typed components, or does the compiler check again after each pass?

As an aside, it's very cool to see this implemented, though it does give me the depressing thought that none of my ideas are original anymore. Hopefully more languages follow suit and allow for this kind of utility.
You can make a lot of PCBs without having to route traces between 0.1" pins.
May Is Living Brexit Nightmare She Warned Of
Maybe an interesting time to point out a site I just ran across which is reddit-like, but (as far as I can figure) uses cryptocurrency to fund itself and pay contributors.

Steemit "Your voice is worth something"
https://steemit.com/

Of all the supposed reddit-killers that have been put forward, this is notable because of the funding mechanism, and because everyone there seems so damn excited. However, a lot of the most popular articles seem to be about... Steemit itself.
Yeah. I do think it looks really good though. Especially on the actual ID the difference is hard to tell.

The hair is the thing that gives it away most to me. Do love the detail with the beard stubs!
I think what he's trying to say is that a representative democracy with single-member districts (rather than any sort of party lists) and first-past-the-post, winner-takes-all electoral system, is inherently biased against political compromises and towards partisan polarization.
> I work hard to create a sense of commitment and loyalty in my current start up

I work hard to feed my family. I can't give my baby a bottle of loyalty before she goes to bed.

How loyal are you to your employees? If they come to you and say, "sorry, I can only work four days a week from now on, but I want you to keep paying me the same" - would you willingly give up 20% of your employees' time simply because of being loyal and caring for the organization?
interesting. i never thought of Trader Joes as progressive. do they try to market themselves that way?
I'm sorry to hear this. However...

> What questions should we ask our founders that'll help us build confidence that the company's financials are in a reasonable shape?

... there is no question you can ask anyone that will help SoundCloud from burning money. Building confidence is just an act of faith, but this won't solve the underlying issue that SoundCloud does not have a viable business model, at least, with it's current corporate structure and business model. Don't get fooled by cheerleading VCs and CEOs, it's the oldest trick in the book. Always at the expense of employees and other stakeholders.

Many people join startup-land with the impression that these multi-(b)million, VC-funded companies are as safe as joining other old-school corporate companies which apparently are going to be disrupted by those very startups. Some other people joining startup-land are aware of this issue, and they will be the first to jump ship. All I can suggest is that you start looking for other opportunities, just in case. Do not get fixated on the back pay date, etc... just move on.
A lot has happened in my profession since 2006...
I disagree on both counts. It is affordable to hobbyists (although only those that really value time over money - it's a lot more expensive, more hassle and lower quality than OSHPark). And a lot of companies could use this for prototyping, i.e. something between a breadboard and final PCB.
Should be labeled "Top cited papers of 2006" or something similar. Calling this collection "Classic Papers" is misleading at best.
The Next Decades: Forces Shaped by Machine Learning
I think this might be evidence of the trend that is already occurring of IT companies (including startups) becoming more like companies in other industries. Which is to say, no champagne on your birthdays. I've noticed less lavishness. It was only a matter of time for the excitement of a whole new industry to begin to wear off. Many components of what is necessary to create a startup are becoming commodified by so called cloud offerings. There is less need to exert the same level of effort to retain your developers and a failure to do so has less consequence.
Donald Trump is completely irrelevant to my support of Assange.

Like many of his critics, you are making a lot of ad hominem attacks on Assange rather than focusing on his massive contributions to democracy and journalism.
Cloudflare's new Argo feature billing surprise
A heads up for any other Cloudflare customers that have enabled Argo. This feature is supposed to improve performance due to better routing but what is not mentioned is that any abuse traffic, even explicitly blocked traffic is still counted against the $0.10 / GB.

I had an attack come in a few days ago generating false traffic and blocked it via Cloudflare's IP firewall. All traffic, including blocked, still counts towards billable per gigabyte bandwidth as confirmed by their support staff. They may sometime in the future separate the counts but for now the support recommendation is to disable Argo.
MySpace is a social network based on friends, yes it feels like one community.

Forums have topics, reddit doesn't have topics, subreddits have topics.
A good manager manages expectations when reality changes.
It is even worse, there were only 7 male participants. Imagine - of course totally theoretical - that men eat more red meat then the study may attribute the fact that men age faster to red meat.
That's the TL;DR of the article. ;)
The article is good but the title is false. Eyewitness testimony is, as a rule, always filtered through layers of perception contaminated by various unchecked influences, which is largely the point of the article. The fact that properly isolated witness testimony is surprisingly reliable has no practical benefit for anyone, since, in practice, no witness testimonies are properly isolated.
> If they had wanted to extradite him to Guantanamo, they would've done it long ago.

Do you have any evidence to support this claim?
A great manager doesn't make promises he can't keep.
That assumes the devs read here, no?
From what I read, throwaway-sc is being paid 100% of salary. They're just not being paid 103.5% of salary after a raise that's been deferred.

While there are certainly things to worry about, this is not a case of employees not being paid.
There are plenty of billionaires doing those other things, and only one Musk doing his thing. I don't see why we have to make value comparisons either way.
newbie here... where can i run this thing? from your post it seems like someone is hosting "fh-bigquery.reddit_posts" somewhere?
Nice list, but as many other said, seems to only be for 2006.

For more papers, there is a nice list here: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html not limited to 2006

There is a bunch more places to get papers listed here too: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love#other-good-...
Yea... this aint the DHS at the USA entry points...
> I don't think suggesting a 4 day work week due to an incomplete salary review is a good option. That suggests that you may have anticipated a 20% raise, which isn't all that realistic.

Came here to say this. Missing a 3-5% raise and cutting your work hours by 20% is a petty over-reaction, both practically and mathematically.

(Mathematically, that would be the even-money proposition if you expected a 25% raise.)
The Ante code to generate each portion of llvm-ir is checked as normal but there is no checking done on the llvm-ir that is generated. It is expected for each extension producing ir to generate valid output. That being said, one of the cool things about Ante (imo) is that if you dont like this, you can write an extension that does check for validity.
You know you can turn off the "ask about connecting to open wifi network" thing right?

I still turn off WiFi when I'm not at home though. Never need it unless it's one of those things iOS is unreasonable about (downloading large apps, syncing photos)
Trees = renewable resource

Stone = not renewable resource

I don't think we should waste stone even faster than we already are.
“Will the next case be a Facebook posting?”
> He is no more a neutral party when talking about Clinton than Clinton would be talking about Assange.

This may or may not be true, but it does not matter since the approach WL takes is to release materials in full without editorial discretion/bias.
I do cook rice, in a rice cooker, when I make bean stew. I mix a bowl together in the microwave.
it's monetization is even worse than twitter's (and that's saying something)
Yup. Freedom isn't absolute, including freedom of speech. No freedom in the US includes a right to harm others. Monopolies are harmful.
you realize hacker news is just a destination subreddit right?
Surely you mean negative change in population growth?
Job Stuck in Print Queue in Windows
Press and hold down windows key and hit R key. A run window will open. Type in Spool over there. A new window will open. There open Printer folder. You will see files over there. These are the jobs stuck over there. Delete all of them. Then turn off the printer and then turn it on and most probably, printer is gonna work. For More information, you can get in touch with me at: http://onlyprintersupport.us
It means that UTF-8 text will only contain NUL bytes in the same situations that ASCII text does. That is, usually only in binary files.
you can unsubscribe from the toxic communities and subscribe to the wholesome/uplifting ones. seriously i dont know why so many people complain about stuff entirely within their control
Sometimes, a great manager needs to speculate and do things at uncertainty and risk, while motivating their subordinates. They are clearly working to save the company in OPs case.
...to employees who will actually quit. Ethical managers never do it, great managers (measured from above of course) always do, strategically.
Funny thing is that salary changes with a raise, so technically they'd be < 100% of their promised benefits after July, and past that, who knows?
A totally valid use case for this would be to embed a few dynamic widgets in an otherwise-static HTML page. I've been trying that pattern a bit today. It works well, and seems to be a natural fit for this kind of framework. If anything a framework that makes simple plain-HTML apps easier should be welcome news to you.

But yeah, a homepage should probably be a real HTML page with embedded widgets, even if building the whole DOM is a cool use case.
I mean, you can go verify it yourself. This is the way I feel: even if some of them are valid, what prevents someone from adding in a bunch that aren't? Just because some are valid, doesn't make the entire dump valid imo.
If you literally want $1400 you don't need to invent anything. $1400 over a month is $350 a week, or $175 a day for Saturday or Sunday.

Could you generate $200 a day for two days a week? Almost certainly. Anything from cleaning windows, to shovelling snow, or digging gardens. If you've extra skills and experience it should be even easier - child-care, for example, or dog-walking.

Hacker News is obsessed with side-businesses and "passive income", which is often anything but passive. If you're actually just wanting a comparatively small amount of money then there are much easier ways to get it than starting a business.

(Of course if you do explicitly want to start a business, which your post doesn't really seem to suggest, then good luck to you.)
Why does it have to change? It's a free market, internationally. Perhaps if they don't want to pay for drugs, drug companies should stop selling to them.
Maybe this makes me the devil's advocate here, but why would you suddenly only work 4 days a week?

I assume you have a valid contract that says you work X hours for Y amount, what makes you think you're not bound to that just because you don't get to talk about a possible (!) raise?

It's up to you if you interpret the company's behaviour as a red flag and leave, but reducing your working hours because you don't get your regular fix of more money seems like a sense of entitlement to me.

As a side note, your post would have worked just as well without publicly shaming your employer.

(I am not affiliated with SoundCloud, except for the coincidence that one of my previous companies used to share an office with them.)
You are correct, this is a remarkable claim...but it seems to be the simplest explanation.

Even in the face of claims to the contrary: https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/1997/nov/17/no-airline-subsid... the difference between air fares to Vegas and comparable cities and the difference in hotel rates clearly shows that there is something going on.

It may not be a true subsidy; perhaps the airlines found that the high volume of very price-sensitive travelers to Vegas justified thinner margins than to other cities. But the point stands that it's disingenuous to use a $43 flight to Vegas as a price point for the cost of air travel.
I went though a similar situation as an employee of a struggling start-up in the late 90s (dot com bubble 1.0). The founders (who by the way were wonderful people trying to make the best of a bad situation) decided that rather than start firing people, we'd all be taking half pay until we got funded, with promises to square everyone up eventually. I was young and dumb at the time so I, along with most, accepted this. A few months later, it went down to 1/4 pay, and we lost a few people but many stayed. Then, no more health insurance, at which point I finally bailed, and ended up unemployed for close to 6 months. I'm not sure what additional sacrifices the remaining employees had to accept, but I know it was much better for you the earlier you got out.

There's no way I'd make the same mistake today. No pay, no work. If I want to do work without being paid for it I'll get a hobby. While I might enjoy what I'm working on for you, YOUR dream is not my hobby. If I was a founder and the company went through tough times, I'd gladly work it for free because of the upside potential, but not as employee number 5 with 0.1% equity. No way, no how.
Out of curiosity, does anyone have any examples of scientific books (or papers) that are the exact opposite: influential or famous at the time but completely and utterly destroyed by the test of time. Like, that seem silly to us in how completely and utterly wrong they turned out to be in their every single conclusion.

I'm thinking about research versions of Lord Kevin's favorite edict: "Heavier than air flying machines impossible" or the patent person (examiner? head of patent office?) who in the nineteenth century said everything that can be invented has been invented.
> All of these frameworks are "relatively new". TensorFlow: 1.6 years. CNTK: 1 year. PyTorch: 0.5 year. Are they really impossible to compare?

1.6 years is a long time in DL community.

> That's not what "people" say. They tend to say the opposite. Maybe we can ask OP what he meant when he said it.

Go ahead! Ask it.

> They use Chainer and DyNet.

You know Chainer came far before PyTorch, which heavily influenced PyTorch's design. You are always saying XX is using XX. Why not talk about frameworks themselves?

If you insisted to your idea, let's settle down. I don't want to start a framework war. I just want all frameworks to be equally considered.
Don't Tell Me I'm Pretty [Article]-An Article on Feminism
The UK is already (getting) there. UK Universities are assessed by the "Research Excellence Framework" (REF). In order for work output (i.e. papers) to be considered by REF, final peer reviewed papers must be deposited into an open access repository within 3 months of acceptance.

Source: http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/next-ref/
Honest, slightly OT question: what motivates researchers to perform and publish studies with low N? Can it have a positive or negative impact on their career?
There are already a few artists working on this, some with some success.
It's unfortunate that you're being downvoted. Not because I agree with you, I don't in the least.

However, understanding the mindset of startup CEOs is interesting. Particularly the mindset of the minority of CEOs who are able to raise money (again, not saying I agree, but VCs select for particular personality types).

But, I doubt the majority of the workforce (even the really good motivated people) out there agree with you. The level of commitment you're talking about isn't what I'd expect form an employee. It's more what I'd expect from a cofounder.
It's a ponzapi scheme.
Password security is always important and I agree with one point that longer you create the password, the better it is. But there are more points we should be aware of and I think this article explaining at its best -http://gotowebsecurity.com/now-thats-password-security/
You'd be surprised how many devs do.

And if it's not specifically the web devs for this site lurking, discouraging others from following the same path isn't bad.

I personally got two screen-filling pop ups on this site, the second of which was a survey before I was even able to browse. If anyone out there is considering doing this on your site, consider that I added this site to my growing list of filters and will never visit it again.
Posting this with the company name is a little indiscreet.

If it was my company and I was having a bump in the road with funding I would hope for it not to immediately hit the front page of HN for the sake of a few weeks.

Soundcloud actually have a good reputation as an employer so maybe they deserve a small benefit of the doubt? I get the mercenary attitude but it's only potentially a few weeks or months for an incremental pay rise, not as if they are going under....

I suspect this won't be a popular point of view but I like to think company and employee owe each other at least a modicum of loyalty.
I might be excessively cynical, but I suspect that most of these ARM server plays are narrowly targeted at the biggest cloud/advertising companies (Facebook, Amazon, Google, etc.), with the publicity being meant more for investors than potential customers. I remember seeing some server architecture (Cavium ThunderX, maybe?) specifically being advertised as good for social media analytics. Are there more than 10 companies in the world that actually buy their own hardware specifically for that?
Ah yes, with a late June notification.

Maybe communicate earlier hmmm?

That would be better management rather than hold my beer I'll probably close this round while I risk the livelihoods and futures of my rank and file.
With startups you often don't know if they will (in the long run); you want to say you only go for no risk big corps? Or you mean something else?