skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COLA = Locality Pay: https://www.federalpay.org/gs/locality
G Suite admins can now whitelist connected apps
Pastebin for voice recordings is basically what vocaroo.com is, and I discovered that in the same context you discovered SoundCloud. And also because popular use by 4chan.

When I first heard of SoundCloud it was mostly used by self-releasing EDM artists as a place to upload their music, before YouTube was a popular alternative. Nowadays I see a lot of artists buying visualizer templates and uploading their music with that - or sending it to an aggregator on YouTube who displays a certain style of music (many of these aggregators don't seek artist permission and just upload popular songs and such, but many of the ones I follow get things sent to them by indie artists because a channel with 60,000+ subs will beat their own personal channel for recognition).
As somebody who listens to SoundCloud almost daily I really hope they can turn things around. They should completely ditch the free plan, and just have a $2.99 or $3.99 plan. I am actually signing up for SoundCloud Go+ (offline listening) now.
A second (time) is already defined on cesium transition, a meter (length) is defined as a fraction of the distance light travels in a second. Both things which we can accurately measure for some time now, and which universal and stable over eons.

What is the problem that would be solved by switching to a single element?
From the parent post:

> I work at a large Fortune 150 [...] we have [an] internal CA

(This was a lot clearer when there weren't so many other comments in between.)
What's up with reductionist posts like this every time a company announces layoffs? Scaling out a global business takes a lot more work than it does to run a no-SLA side project. And you hire people to build out businesses that don't yet exist. When you've overreached, or targets are consistently not being met, you re-org, or, if that isn't possible, you scale back.
A real Soviet hero, with good training and some vodka, can do almost everything comrade... No fool proof is a real proof, people manage to break all kind of things. But, that is not a wear and tear - it is about as easy to brick a new battery as a 10 year old one.
As soundcloud are a UK registered company you can actually see all their accounts/filings here https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06343600/filing-h...

looking at their accounts to Dec 2015 (latest available), they don't make great reading. The balance sheet value went from £8m to -£34m in one year...
We (Fraugster Gmbh) are hiring Go developers and devops in Berlin. We've always held a great amount of respect for soundcloud given all that you guys have done for the golang community in Berlin.

If any of you are not based here we can offer relocation/visa support, check my previous comments on whoishiring for more details or contact me directly stefan <at> fraugster <dot> com
Why not? Because of extreme nipple fear?

It would most likely be the #1 application of this technique if it worked in general.
I would say it's common to use the phrase "It's <current_year> and..." when describing something that one finds appalling in modern society.
> Ha, the irony! The USA's NIST defines a SI unit to the rest of the world; meanwhile, most of citizens don't know what it is.

...except actually it's the International Committee for Weights and Measures.

However I will help you retain your justifiable sense of ironic superiority: the US is one of the 17 original signatories to the metre convention (in May 1875: http://www.bipm.org/en/about-us/member-states/original_seven...). Also all the US conventional units have been based on the SI metre and kilogramme since 1959. And of course the metric system is familiar to any American in the military and/or who uses illegal drugs.

Although its not part of the BIPM, my favorite such standards organization is the International Earth Rotation Service (justified paying my taxes -- what if they stopped???). Sadly they recently renamed themselves "International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service"

Apropos of little: I used to live quite close (a couple of hundred metres) to an official metre, as there is one on the wall across the street from the French Senate. When the system was originally promulgated, markers were erected around France; you could bring something (piece of string or whatnot) and make your "own" metre to bring home and measure things. There are two or three of them still extant.
There are plenty of popular safe languages. Java, Go, and Python are all viable options here.
It can be a headache when their OCSP server and issuance process run into problems that break the Internet for a large number of people. https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/may-19-2017-ocsp-and-iss...
Yet another cat generator then (:
Is there a date on this? This feels like a (1997) article at the latest.
have someone lined up to buy them and removing duplicated jobs to make themselves more appealing?
Hopefully not. Domain name similarity does not fall within the scope of DV certs.

For the usability problem you're hinting at, people mistaking DV certs for EV certs, I believe web browsers should consider demoting the color of the pad lock displayed for DV certs from green to plain text color, while still retaining the pad lock symbol (plain http would still be red). This solution would both provide enough distinction between the two types of certs to the normal enduser without retraining them; "look for the green padlock" would still hold.

That said, 17k (even multiples of this) is still a rounding error compared to the total number of certs issued. I believe the public good done here far outweighs the bad.
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If you're passionate about independent music, we are actively hiring multiple roles at ReverbNation. http://corporate.reverbnation.com/careers/
Medically speaking a mental illness is no different than a physical illness.

Mental illness does not have to be severe just as physical illness does not have to be severe.

Sick leave policies typically only require a doctors note/visit if you are absent for multiple days.

Taking a single day off for mild mental illness, something like elevated stress levels causing anxiety that interrupts your sleep, seems perfectly consistent with most of the corporate sick leave policies I have read.
I was very bad at picking up non verbal clues myself. Like every thibg else you can learn it. But first you must accept irrationality in your life. After that social life gets much easier.
I was about your age twenty-six years ago [ie I am about twice your age. In my youth, personal computers and expert systems and anti-lock brakes and microprocessor controlled automotive drive trains and laptops that fit over the shoulder and mobile phones -- called home after school on one in 1977 because I was staying late for HAM Radio Club.
Later CD ROM's and 9600 Baud Modems and The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog and 800x600 displays with 16 million colors and the 80486 with a built in FPU and two ethernet cards + two cables + a hub for $149.

Today I've got four Raspberry Pi's and a laptop with a GPU that does two terraflops and four wireless routers running linux and half a dozen other computers scattered around the house and a drawer full of smartphones and there's a straight line from what I saw in seventh grade to here because I saw it happening. And if I look back to before I was in seventh grade or at the things I didn't know were happening in the 80's and 90's and 00's then it all looks incremental -- I had one of these http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-011212sprint-thumb-photo.h... in 2002.

If I am saying get off my lawn, it's because I have changed. That's what life does, at least hopefully and hopefully for the better. Chess playing computers were a big deal thirty years ago. They're still amazing today even though they have become part of the furniture. What has changed is my expectations.

Good luck.
People don't know how to quote in mail and forum posts, and one expect them to use emoji "correctly"?
There are ads like every 3 songs on mobile. That would make someone like me either pay for their $4.99 service, (which I didn't even realize existed until recently because they only seem to advertise their $9.99 service) or use something else.
Which kinda sucks, because if I don't know what a word means, I go to the dictionary. Someone using a word wrong is going to really throw me off if their usage doesn't match the dictionary definition. If I don't know what an emoji means, I'll look at the title. And it's likely something very different than the emotion trying to be portrayed.
Income Inequality in the United States
Sure - this was in reference to my top level comment, but I see that this dropped lower down the page.

I work for a large Fortune 150, one that you've heard of, and we have a security team that is constantly scanning our network for weaknesses and potential exploit vectors. They will kill (firewall off) any sites that might compromise the network and tell the application owner to fix the issue before they allow it back on the public net.
I've seen some companies in the UK operate what they call a "duvet day" policy. It's basically just two floating holidays a year you can choose to use at any time, doesn't require explanation and doesn't count as a sick day. I personally haven't worked somewhere with such a policy, but know some people who do, using it largely as a "sanity day" as you describe. They really seem to appreciate it. I'm in no way trying to demean or imply mental illness isn't real and not deserving of 'real' sick days, but it's nice to have a range of options.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvet_day
First hand experience. As a founder it's terrifying to let people know that you are experiencing debilitating levels of burnout, anxiety and moderate depression that prevent you from being effective at your job. There are days when you're just sitting there staring at your screen for 10 hours hoping nobody can tell you're checked out.

You put on a smile, try to follow the usual routine as a robot, and secretly go to your therapist to try to fix it before someone catches on. I was lucky therapy got me out of it, or at least mostly smoothed it out, in under 6 months.
Isn't facebook basically file hosting with a bunch of links?
"There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is." -Niels Bohr

All of science is abstract, not even "force" describes something physical. There are many more concrete models like Bohmian that don't rely on unprovable conjecture.
EC looking for organiser of open source bug-bounty
Famous Last Words: Three Memoirs of Mortality
I ma not sure about the rest of the points made but I agree about the lack of deterministic destructors to free up external resources. C# has the same problem. It would be really good if the destructor ran when the reference count of an object goes to 0. This would make a lot of code that deals with OS resources much cleaner.
At the boundary between chaos and order, order rules (eventually)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)#Origin "Other scholars such as William Camfield have never been able to match the urinal shown in the photo to any urinals found in the catalogues of the time period." "an artist's multiple was manufactured in an edition of eight in 1964."
It's iconic. At some point a high-resolution version of the image turned up online. I regularly switch to this high-res variant at work just because it's funny how people react to seeing it: https://i.imgur.com/C5ja2Kp.jpg
A Playable 12-foot-tall Electric Guitar
Ask HN: Where can I find a “literary” equivalent to HN?
In other words: I come to HN because I'm a programmer and love technology, I come to X because I'm a writer and love language. What are some good values for X?
"Why I hate garbage collected languages"
They may still be able to warrant their fees by providing customer support for companies that need it, but I agree most people will never look back.
I'd have guessed this was taken somewhere in Palouse, WA because Microsoft and all... So much for Golden Hour, eh? I'm going to make another wild-ass guess and assume he's used a Circular Polarizer because the sky looks a bit too unnaturally blue on the right side of the image. :)
I'm in Hull in the UK and we have basically identical latitude, Hull is just fractionally north.

Winter nights are long but I love them, I sleep far better in the cold and dark than hot and light, insomnia and the sun appearing at 4:30am sucks.
At this point, you essentially have a boutique consultancy.
Build an automation flow to avoid churn in 5 steps
Why is the kilogram the base unit and not the gram?
What's the performance impact of this? Are OpenBSD reboots suddenly going to take 5-10 minutes because the kernel has to be re-linked?
Exitround (https://exitround.com) facilitates some of what you are talking about. The primary purpose of the site is to sell an entire company, but it can also be used as a tool for acquihiring.
It would be interesting to see a language that implements RAII but provides a GC as a fall-back.
Unfortunately I'm not authorized to publicly speak for the corporation, so I can't really give you any more details. Sorry about that.
Here, 2/4 comments on this new post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14709907

jff 9 minutes ago [-]

If anyone else is using uBlock Origin, at least for me the page displayed completely blank until I disabled uBlock temporarily.

Nice one.

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sluggg 10 minutes ago [-]

what if I want two? I can't have two third thumbs

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piyh 44 minutes ago [-]

When I was a kid, I dreamed of having a functional third arm, this seems like the first step in that direction.

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googlryas 25 minutes ago [-]

This is what my ex-gf would call my manhood. Guess why we aren't dating any more...
Also https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010SKSTO/, "What Every Body is Saying".
Dave McClure: “I'm a creep”
Mars surface 'more uninhabitable' than thought: Study
There is a paywall, but only for the kind of music you can find everywhere else.
Maybe not 1997, but surely not "recent" (let alone "news") at least the Wayback Machine has it archived since Feb 8,2006:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/...
That first link, oh my god! I can have some fun with this.
Please keep unconstructive comments off HN, this is why you were downvoted.
The Model 3 starts at $35K without incentives and they expect the average sticker price to be $42K. Honda Civics start at $18K.

The Model 3 has an estimated 215 mile range where as a 2017 Civic is estimated a 521 miles. The annual improvement in capacity for Lithium batteries is 8%. So in 4 years you can expect battery packs of equivalent size to go for 293 miles.

So 1.95x the price for .4x the range today and if all things except battery price remain the same, then 1.95x the price for .56x the range.

The biggest problems for electric car is fast charger availability and the fact that DC Fast charging degrades the batteries over time. Deploying DC Fast chargers to homes isn't feasible so charging a 200+ mile battery from 10% to full would take hours using a Level 2 charger.
Given that the only alternatives that I know of are seniority (age of employment before contributions) or favoritism (find the right people to move you forward), what alternative is there that won't enforce a bias? At the end of the day, businesses are driven by people, and people are emotional.
Exactly. If venting can be converted into identifying a problem and looking for a solution, then it can a good thing. Venting often? There may be a larger issue to tackle here.
Is IH open for people to publish posts on now or does the author have some sort of connection to them? I've never seen a post like this and it's cool.
While I agree with the author's argument, stating the current year does not advance it. Seriously, it's even a meme.
The bad part (and one could argue this being a "good" part as well) for the VIC-20 and C64 was that if you wanted to do anything useful and reasonable in BASIC on those machines, you almost HAD to delve into some deep areas; the BASIC they used wasn't even as sophisticated as what was available on the Apple IIe (which was pretty nice). The best versions of BASIC (in microcomputer land - there were BASICs out there for business purposes on much more sophisticated 16-bit machines of the time that were amazing) were on Radio Shack's offerings (mainly because they were from Microsoft). Compare, for instance, BASIC for the C64 and the Color Computer 2, and you'll see a great difference (especially in the areas of sound and graphics generation).

That said, the C64 forced you to use either arcane commands to access internal ROM routines for certain graphics or sound generation, or you had to resort to machine code of some form or another. So you if you wanted to do something beyond the "basics" (so to speak), you had to get down and dirty with the hardware. This led to some amazing things being done by people with that machine; it was much more popular than Radio Shack/Tandy's offerings - it was much cheaper, plus it had built-in sound (SID) - whereas it's Radio Shack competitor, the Color Computer line - everything was done by the CPU.

These tradeoffs had their own implications, of course - there wasn't much like OS-9 available for the C64 (a multitasking, multiuser operating system for 8-bit machines of the time - which was ported very successfully to the Color Computer, and still lives on in the open-source version called NitrOS9). But the 6809 chip (which facilitate the OS-9 conversion, as that chip was also used in a lot of embedded and industrial controllers, which was the primary purpose for OS-9) was an expensive chip that, while really powerful compared to what was in the C64, ate into the bottom line, and was part of the reason why a sound chip wasn't included on the CoCo.

Radio Shack/Tandy later came out with expansion offerings for sound (the Speech/Sound and Orchestra-90 cartridges), which could be plugged into a multipak interface (MPI) along with the floppy drive controller, and give great sound - but it was too little, too late, and both were expensive upgrades (if you had a floppy drive, in order to keep everything you had to spend several hundred dollars more just for better sound).

There were ways to get better sounds out of the Color Computer, but they consumed a lot of the CPU resources, and so they were mainly only used for music generation software (Musica and Lyra were two of the popular ones; the Rainbow also published a long program to type in that gave a really sophisticated "tracker" style four-voice system, where each voice could be defined with an envelope and waveform). Some ML coders learned to combine some sound generation realtime with graphics for some games, but it wasn't great, though toward the end of the heyday of the CoCo it got better. Recently, people have made greater strides with sound and music for games, graphics, etc - heck, I think there is even a SID emulator for the Color Computer...
The ads are mostly regionally targeted/restricted so users might not see them if they have the right IP. E.g. in Canada and France I can't recall hearing an ad but they spammed me in the US until I finally paid.
The world in 2076: The population bomb has imploded
For me, the interesting parts of Stripe's description of BYOT are the size limit 2-5 and the acknowledgement that it is an experiment. The size because of the current top comment to the question describes a larger team and the problem of pruning for needs and Stripe more or less shifts pruning to the team. The experiment because it seems directly drawn from YC's language regarding new programs -- maybe it will work and we'll try it out and see.
> What's really need though is a universal, stable over eons, single standard for time, length, and mass. I believe time is N cycles of an excited sodium (light) emission. Length is N wavelengths of that same emission in a vacuum. Mass would be N atoms.

Turns out they know that :-)

The problem isn't definition, its the accuracy of reproducibility. You need a mechanism that can be built from scratch and can be believed to produce identical results. You can pull that off counting wavelengths of an unknown number of a known pure atom. Counting actual numbers of atoms is quite difficult. Typically we do it statistically...via mass! We could get it precisely by using a small number, but then actually measuring the mass (rather than calculating it) would be difficult.
Also signals the difficulty in building large companies in the European market. I've been to Berlin a handful of times, and even tried to raise money from Berlin investors... Needless to say it was a very frustrating process. They are very conservative and risk adverse. Additionally the bureaucracy and "red-tape" hampers business.
Should add 2006 to the title...
Silly puns don't add to the conversation here.

A better comment would be addressing vulnerabilities or interference issues in bluetooth.
It's a way to signal incredulity with something being an issue which you think shouldn't still be an issue.

https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/The_Current_Year
The wonder child of Berlin's startup scene is deceasing. Says a lot about the scene unfortunately.
C limits the pool of contributors. It doesn't expand it.
Fort Meade, Maryland? Are you kidding me, I'm in the DC area you're looking at close to a 1/2 million dollars for a reasonable house in a decent neighborhood in that area, not to mention Maryland's taxes are some of the highest in the country. On top of all of that, you have neighboring PG County, Maryland where corruption and crime are out of control, as well as terrible traffic around the entire DC metro area. Of all places you mentioned, Fort Meade does not belong in the same lot.
Ask HN: Developers with small AWS clusters, what are your monthly costs?
Aws costs are hard to understand for the non experienced. Perhaps a few real life examples could help.
It also could be a matter of which factories near the borders are closer to which power plants, to save on transmission costs.
Cutting through the crap: the technical details behind Bitcoin scaling proposals
It predates generics at least.
Ugh, when I was a security analyst for an enterprise, I'd occasionally have Network Solutions call me and try to sell me certificates. I'd explain that it's not my decision, you've got the wrong person, how did you get this number and turns out they'd call the front desk or the help desk and say they found a security hole on our public facing websites. The security hole was that we used another company for our certs.

The real security hole was that the operators were patching through salesmen directly to the security staff without verifying who they were...
I wonder what their terms were when they signed up with the labels to be yet another Spotify clone. If it was any sort of upfront payment that would hit them hard since I don't think they have many subscribers to their SoundCloud plus (or whatever it's called)
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Can you explain this to the unenlightened? Is employment at a national security organization somehow indicated in the DMV database or whatever it is that cops look you up in?
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