skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be the obvious interpretation, yes. Induced currents from EMI can be dangerous, and implants don't necessarily have the luxury of shielding, but if that was why... then how would encryption help?

I'll fully admit I'm speculating. It just seems odd.
I use streaming services all the time, but this is why I buy albums from artists I like and keep a self-hosted plex library.

Should anything I like ever be taken down, I can still listen to it.

The good thing about music is that it is ultra portable so mixing music from many sources, services and providers is hardly a problem.

And you can clearly see that in how the market for online music works. Unlike video, which is so dysfunctional I'd be hard pressed to even say there is a market.

End result: despite streaming services I still spend $100s of dollars on music every year. 0 on video.
Maybe it does. How many 2pm meetings are had to correct for 11am meetings? The thing is, most systems have a lot of checks and balances built even. Even if a decision is made, it is quite easy to revisit it hours later. Even days after it is often pretty easy to revise a decision.

It would be better to look in areas where decisions are irreversible and consequences are immediate instead of society in general.
First, I want to congratulate you all for your hustle -- I think your energy and progress so far show that you have something to offer. That said...

1. Friday evening is the 7th not the 5th. While I imagine that this is just a simple oversight or typo, it does not reflect high attention to important details (rightly or wrongly). Note that slide 20 also is not updated, so this also seems a bit slapdash.

2. Consumer internet... gah!

3. You want everyone who uses the internet to use your service. You seem to be asking people to write personal endorsements. Most people in the world (even most "educated" ones) cannot write a clear paragraph, much less a compelling personal endorsement letter. Ask anyone who has sat on a hiring committee or admissions committee if you need evidence.

4. It's great that Clyde played rugby for Australia, but I don't expect the rugby references for your CMO to go far in the US... and I'm not sure they should in other parts of the world either given his limited international career (due to injuries). At best, that would seem to matter more for stuff like enterprise sales or f2f sales. For mass online engagement, I struggle to see the benefit of mentioning these facts.

5. You're two years in with 2000-8000 (?) users. Your predictions for the rest of 2017 seem overly ambitious. Also, how is $200k going to get you to 500k users? I can't see any other clear revenue streams, so costs seem like they may swallow this number sooner rather than later.

Anyway, best of luck!
> He answered with a useful, relevant comment that provided the data point you were asking for.

Pardon me for nitpicking, but I can't help it. :)

Here is the original post to which I replied: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14704091

>> True, but socially, we've moved past that. There might be the rare individual baker who would not want to bake a cake for a gay wedding, because he's a devout Christian or Muslim or whatever and thinks homosexuality is a sin. But 98% of businesses won't care, as long as you can pay the bill.

> Untrue. There are still many communities where you can be totally ostracized for those things.

The point of contention is not whether some (and sometimes very severe) discrimination exists, it is whether as he claims that there are places where it is so common/frequent that you could be considered ostracized. I was looking for proof of the latter (his original assertion), not proof of the former (that which was provided, and now provided by you).

> The point you were trying to make was that these were isolated incidents

I'm not asserting anything, I am simply being skeptical and asking for proof of an extraordinary claim.

If my "stance" pisses you off, I beg that you reconsider. To win over those who are still not "on your side" (and I'm not one of them, by the way), using exaggerations and half-truths is most definitely not the way to go about it, especially in this modern day "everyone's-a-victim" culture we live in. I am not your enemy, I'm just offering some well-intentioned advice on how to talk to your enemies in order to persuade them.
If, however, you're into judging and/or trolling over Linux, then welcome to HN! There are tons of upvotes to be had in comments disparaging Linux.
It looks like the 2015 Leaf has a 24 kWh battery. The current entry-level Model S has a 75 kWh battery and it can have up to a 100 kWh battery.

That matters because battery capacity fade increases non-linearly with depth of cycling. If both a Leaf owner and a Model S owner drive 40 miles per day, I'd expect the Leaf battery capacity to fade more than 3x as fast as the Model S capacity, because of the deeper battery cycling. That's true even of the Model S 60/60D that had a 75 kWh battery software-locked to 60 kWh of usable capacity. The capacity fade is linked to the physical characteristics of the battery; the software unlock to a full 75 kWh just bought the option to discharge the battery more deeply for longer uninterrupted driving.
I use MinUnit for C on an embedded linux device. Minimum overhead and fast.

That is the MinUnit source code:
http://www.jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002.html
That's essentially the idea of what we were building. Ran out of time due to moving and job change, but I had that working great on Chromecast. Chromecast at least then was awfully clunky though.

For some demos I used cheap Android-powered dongles (like the Amazon Fire Stick, but wide-open rootable Android) to make a plug-and-play display device. With some small work it would be a fun Kickstarter.
In related news, USA plans to stop using coal by 2300
One thing that they did right was their use of HTLM5 to keep what you're listening to playing while you browse the site. Especially for long running podcasts it's nice not to feel like you would drop the thing you were listening to if you weren't careful.
I've been tempted to start a blog...I've gotten a few requests on HN...but I'm still in the "rather be a programmer than a web celebrity" phase. I'm afraid it'll be too much of a distraction from my projects. Plus, I usually write better in response to a prompt than coming up with content in a vacuum.
My beloved works in health care (currently with oncology patients, previously hospice and Alzheimer's). The idea of taking days off for mental health is pretty normal and well accepted within the industry. Then again, it's a culture where mental health is treated as a health issue and sucking it up for the dollar is recognized as unsustainable over the long term.

Well that and even the bosses are ready to acknowledge that the job people are paid to do sucks at least sometimes. Many industries and businesses pretend that that's not the case.
> But as long as I've been involved in what you could call "the hacker community" - a period of time that dates back more than 20 years now - I've observed that many self-described "hackers" did, indeed, adopt somewhat (albeit not exclusively) libertarian attitudes, and did adhere to principles like the ones mentioned above.

20 years isn't nearly long enough to cover the phenomenon I'm describing. Part of my thesis is that, starting in the 80's, a vocal minority began attempting to redefine the "hacker ethos" to conform with their specific libertarian views, and that in the 90s, venture capitalists and SV "thought leaders" eagerly co-opted and encouraged this redefinition so that their drones would oppose any regulations that might get in the way of profit. So the fact that you've seen lots of libertarians in hacker spaces from the 90's onward doesn't disprove my point.

> And frankly I find that disturbing, but what can ya do?

You could start by realizing that calling your opponent's views "disturbing" does not automatically give you any moral weight. For example, I find it disturbing that people

- equate "banning plastic bags" with tyranny

- refuse to accept that coordination problems and externalities are a real thing and that not only is government the most efficient way to fix these issues, but, empirically, the only one that reliably works at all

- are fine with widespread environmental destruction, for the sake of avoiding things they think are tyranny but really aren't

but I just have to accept that you don't care about any of that.
It wasn't a short-term item, but poor Kepler's has shrunk so much who knows if it's in stock or not. I would call them. It wasn't described as using regexes of course, so you'll have to say something like that special version of scrabble.

The designer is local so if they no longer stock it you could look online...but it's better to get it from the shop if you can.
My company produces brain implants. Technically you can upgrade the firmware wirelessly (we do this in testing all the time) but nobody wants to take the responsibility for doing that with patients. With more RAM available I think wireless upgrade will be the standard in a few years.
This threw me off for a bit.

The \1 is from the original puzzle, and refers to the value of the first (capture group). I ran into this issue while filling out the puzzle. The \1 is required to 'propagate' the value in that square to other places. The puzzle is ambiguous without this fix.

Thanks for the pointer, I've added the note in the comments. Hopefully the puzzle is editable.

Lovely puzzle, and it's a great quote. :)
I agree, which is why I'm building https://pubrank.carbocation.com to do just that.

One of the more challenging things about PubMed and its 27 million indexed papers is that there is virtually no sense of a unique author identifier, which has made that aspect somewhat of a research project for me. (It's an active area of research on which a few CS papers have been published. I'm trying to hack through it with some older statistical methods for a "good enough" solution.)
Capsule is hiring in NYC! Frontend (React) and backend (Django/Python) especially.

https://www.capsulecares.com/

https://jobs.lever.co/capsulecares
Thanks for the gregex in HTML format! (gets coat)
Oh. I remember a post on HN from SC employee couple weeks ago asking if he/she should stay given that salary reviews have been postponed. In retrospect it seems he/she should have left.
Where are most of your roles located?
Super interesting post. Would love to read more detail about their backup and restore infrastructure.

If Tom and/or Shlomi are reading this: you mention taking multiple logical backups per day. What benefit does this bring versus just having one per day and doing a point-in-time restore using binlogs? Is this just a tradeoff between time taken for a restore and storage you're willing to dedicate to backups?

Disclaimer: I work on Facebook's MySQL backup and restore system (https://code.facebook.com/posts/1007323976059780/continuous-...)
> Turn Returns Into Repurchases

That slogan took multiple passes to grok.

The fact that the word after 'turn' is 're-turn' makes my mind go to the usual purpose of prefixing words with 're': to do again. That's not how it's used here but then in 'repurchases' it is. There's too many twists and turns (no pun intended) from a language standpoint.
>File hosting is just not a profitable enterprise.

Yep. There's simply no money in just "pushing bits" anymore. That business has been consolidated by people like Google and Amazon.

You have to both provide a valuable service, as well as create a "network effect" around your product. Otherwise you're easily susceptible to being out competed.
To add to what others have said so far, I think the real case where this comes in useful is when a startup is failing and going down. A lot of times startups have good engineering teams but are shutting down for various reasons (most likely failure to get product market fit, etc.). If you already have a good network, it's not hard to land somewhere in an acqu-hire thing, but that's not the case for everyone. Such a platform could help in these cases.
The post would never have been written if the author of the question hadn't immediately escalated by complaining to her manager. The data scientist was not walking on eggshells- they felt perfectly justified in escalating the situation. Even the manager didn't have a problem with how she'd handled it!

I read it as an indictment of the company and its procedures. The data scientist was not even named. The bulk of the post is indicting management, HR, company culture, and insane bureaucratic nightmares designed to push someone out.
Are they dead set on the name? This isn't the first time Facebook has caused naming conflicts.

For those who don't know, ELF is the name of the format for Linux (and other OSs) executable files, and it's had that name for almost 30 years.
I worked on pacemaker firmware about 15 years ago. Even back then, this kind a scenario would have been very improbable.

To reprogram a pacemaker, you needed first to activate a reed switch with a magnet, then transmit the right commands, properly encrypted and with their matching checksums.

Parameters could of course not be set outside of safe bounds and in case of software failure there was a safe default mode that was running on dedicated hardware.

Either there are some really dumb companies developing active implants out there, or the article and allegations are sensationalistic conjectures.

Edit: I don't know much about brain implants, maybe induced currents in the electrode are enough to trigger some kind of seizure. This scenario may be possible. For a pacemaker though, I doubt that it would be possible to trigger a single extrasystole with normal electric or RF devices.
Microsoft announces thousands of job cuts as it refocuses on the cloud
> I'd much rather live in a society where I pay a small premium

You don't, small businesses do. Plus, there are plenty places in Europe that cater to people in wheelchairs, it's just not mandated for all.
I've been using Lenovo Thinkpads. Not the prettiest laptop but well built, military spec and I've never had an issue running Linux on any Thinkpad I've owned. Currently have a Thinkpad L430 which I got refurbished for $300 on ebay. Used to have Debian on it, now I'm running kubuntu 17.04 with no issues.
I think the definition of a "dead end job" is one that does not provide clear ways to get promoted.
Can't speak to current popularity, but I think the overall critique is spot on. It became really popular riding a combination of up-front friendliness and the No-SQL hype bubble. The next morning, a lot of folks started feeling the hangover, whether from actual problems with Mongo or a realization that they did, in fact, need a relational DB.

To be clear, I've only ever run it as support for something else that depended on it. It just isn't well-suited to my projects and it wasn't interesting enough to invest much more than noodling a bit with it. I'm sure it is a fine product that turned in to a victim of its own hype.

It does serve as a decent example for the next generation of developers about how flavor-of-the-month trends in tech make people do stupid things, like decide they don't actually need ACID for handling money.
Why is this even news? This is similar to not doing anything and letting time pass-by. Where's the urgency? Most of the polar ice caps will have been melted by then.
I'm not surprised. It seems to me that they lost their way when they thought their competition was Spotify when it really was Bandcamp. At least Bandcamp is still growing especially when it comes to independent musicians and niche genres like synthwave. I really wish them the best of luck to get back on their feet because I think there's still plenty of room for competition in music hosting and sales.
Wireless updates viewed as riskier than surgery? Or is it just that the liability moves from your company to the surgeon?
I'm not sure if this is appropriate here (which is why I made a new account) but some friends and I have started developing a site which we hope captures the main benefits Soundcloud used to have for independent labels, DJs and artists.
We can see many ways we think it could be sustainable as a business that benefits the creators and owners of the music as well as the listeners.
So if anyone out there is interested in fixing this space and has the time and the inclination it would be great if you would make contact via DM.
We've so far been developing in our spare time. We are getting close to Beta. No thought or plan as yet to raise investment.
I was wondering if this had anything to do with the Linux format when I saw the name. Ungh.
I feel like SoundCloud (and similar indie music services) could really benefit from a microtransaction-based model. I don't want to pay SoundCloud $10/month for what they offer, because a competitor is fulfilling an aspect of that offering for me already and doing a better job of it, but I'd be keen on paying them something for what their competitor doesn't offer.

Essentially I want to pay them something to be able to listen to SoundCloud's uploaded tracks on my phone offline. That's it! Until they can compete with Spotify on a technical front and make me switch, I can't justify the $10/month, but I can certainly justify paying less for a sliver of that offering.
Wasn't the reason for the shift to try and make enough money to support themselves? Free Independent music is not really sustainable
I haven't noticed any boot time checksum verification on Linux or OpenBSD in the past 15 years.

Some Linux distributions support kernel and kernel module signature verification in combination with secure boot. As far as I understand, RHEL does this automatically when secure boot is enabled:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Signed_kernel_module_support
City+Of+Brass+Announced+For+PS4,+XBox+One+And+PC
Orthogonal to my other comment, I feel like most of those reasons for sick days are really good reasons to have your company set up to facilitate remote work. When my wife was on maternity leave, I was more willing to be flexible with when I took leave because I could be at home anyway and help her when she needed while she recovered (which was just occasionally throughout the day). Same with when my kids have been ill. When I have a contagious illness, it hasn't mattered because I just work from home. I don't remember the last time I actually took a full sick day because I personally felt like I couldn't actually perform mentally. Because my company is set up to make remote work almost seamless, I take fewer days off but can tend to the needs of my family even better. Win-win.
For future reference, HN formatting uses asterisks to start and end italics.

My mistake was thinking [] was a single symbol.
Look at a parrot's foot some time, and let the envy over the gripping ability of their zygodactyl toes flow through you.
There are other devices that would probably be more appropriate for this use. I bought this device https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K6MHRJI/ref=oh_aui_sear... for travel. I wanted a robust firewall and VPN client capability. It has worked very well. I use my Wifi Pineapple as a learning tool. It gives practical experience with hacking techniques.
I'm not a back-end dev strictly. I played with mongo on some side projects back when it was all hyped up. One thing that appealed to me was the on-boarding process for a non "database guy". I got lots of small side projects up and running very quickly and the concepts made sense. Similar to jQuery being easy to understand and popular to newcomers but you later learn it isn't always the best tool for the job.
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Why do engineers in good standing at SoundCloud have to do coding exercises? Our industry is annoying.
Yep, I'm in the same boat as GP. I am currently exiting to take several months of rest. I might even cook/bake again, part time, if I get restless.

While I'm very happy that the author seems to be getting what they need, a day or even week here or there is not fixing my problem. I've always been the kind of person anyways who doesn't really settle into a vacation or travel excursion until around week 2, so maybe I just move more slowly.

Eventually I would like to contract again (been salaried for a few years now). I am lucky enough to have a partner in a different, but still also well-paying and in-demand industry, to help with finances. We live minimally anyways, so I'm hoping it wouldn't be impossible to maintain our quality of life without working myself to death chasing leads and payments. Partner is trying to do something similarly unorthodox. We have no aspirations for hockey stick growth or jackpot payouts, we just want to enjoy our lives while we can, while creating and helping in a way we like.

Edit: meant to reply to the comment regarding sabbaticals below.
It does. "service nginx reload" (and similar commands, like systemctl reload nginx in systemd territory) sends SIGHUP to the nginx master process on all distributions I'm aware of, and that will cause the certificate and key files to be re-read.

I've been using this in production for more than a year now, and if you google around a bit, most guides for automating renewal on nginx[1] will use that command.

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secu...
Severance is pretty common, and some companies will just keep you technically employed (and thus paid, and even given health insurance) with no expectation of you doing work or coming into the office. Three months is definitely on the generous side, but not that unusual from what I've seen and heard.
12 years, plus college, a gap year, and a couple internships & projects in high school.

It's helped that it's really been 12 (well, 13+change) years of experience, rather than one year repeated 12 times. Each year has brought something new and different that's just out of my comfort zone.
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> it should have been done as they were posted

This was not something they where required to do?The implication here is if you add requirements to free content, institutions just won't bother - the material was only released due to the low bar to do so in the first place.

> sometimes there is no other way forward

There is if you change the law, which is what I think parent was implying
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We knew it was coming, but still, shedding 10% of your sales staff is a big deal.
I think (I'm really no expert on this stuff) I've read that device itself is located just below the skull, but is connected to a relatively long and very thin electrodes (or electrode arrays) that go deep inside the brain matter.

I could be wrong, but if that's how it is - well, it's not trivial to shield a needle to prevent it acting as an antenna.

Would be great if someone who knows this stuff can tell us how it really is.
On a tangent, I now hope that A16Z podcast will be available on google play et al. That was the only reason for me to use Soundcloud and it frustrated me when I used it because it severely lacked features something as trivial as sorting by podcast date.
I am sorry to hear what you guys are going through, and kudos for posting this here.

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