skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I imagine this is good advice in some places, but as a line manager, if you pull this on me I'm more than likely to shake your hand and wish you luck in your new job.

A serious question for scaryclam (or anyone who agrees with him): Why is this? Excluding a few people with dream jobs, I didn't get hired at Company X because I love what they do or I feel they add to the world in a meaningful way: you guys needed code written or systems maintained or whatever it might be, I needed money. That is the extent of our relationship. Even if we've worked together for a long while and developed a bit of a friendship, it seems like the whole stigma surrounding bringing job offers into a workplace is based on a few things that when said aloud sound insane:

1) That I would be willing to subvert my own potential success for the good of Company X, which seems at best like a weird trade-off and at worst like some sort of cult;

2) That Company X doesn't want other people in my department to see what they could be making elsewhere, in which case see #1 for each of them and add to it a line of disingenuity to it too;

3) That Company X already knows that there are better competing jobs in the area (or close enough to threaten them anyway) and are taking internal action to prevent those threats from costing them employees in mass by trying to prevent employees from knowing about them, instead of raising pay/benefits to be more competitive

In any situation where a company is attempting to hide information of any kind, you can usually find a solid financial motive for doing so. I'm not saying that a company should always be paying everyone as much as they possibly can; obviously, each side of this table has their side to fight for. But if one of the sides is being dishonest about the facts then that side has already lost points going to that table; you say you'd fire me if I came to you with a job offer? Odds are that's known and I'm already on my way out, and whether you want to call it good or bad, that means you've lost me, and you're probably winding up to lose a few more.
What would work for marketing if you can't compete on the raw number game is framing the amount - like Apple did with "1000 songs in your pocket".

If you want to design a cap - Goog probably has an idea of the kinds of file people store (whether it's pics or docs or videos or sheets etc...), pick a number of those that's impressive and is just lower than what your 10% power users has, and then use that to influence the package size.

2TB of files can easily be turned into "half a million photos" or like their previous ad campaigns, show how it can store every photo from birth to university for your kid or something. Or a love letter every day from first date to goodbye.

If you can't compete on the number, don't compete on the number.
I've seen quite a bit of publication in the last 2 years about vitamins and their widespread overuse. Daily vitamins can actually make you less healthy and in some cases are quite damaging, even if following the instructions on the bottle. In cases of a medical need, such as a true vitamin deficiency, they are important, but that is not the reason the vast majority of people buy and use them.
Ask HN: What do you think of the blockchain based social media site steemit?
steemit.com is a blockchain based social media site that rewards content creators and curators with the cryptocurrency STEEM[0].

I discovered steemit recently and frankly, the premise seems to be revolutionary and game changing. However, I have not been able to wrap my head around its economics and legitimacy. However, if legit, it might change the face of social media as we know it.

Many detractors[1] allege that steemit is simply a scheme designed to benefit the founders and has no long term potential. For example:

1. There are allegations that the STEEM proof of work mining was gamed (or at least not done transparently) before the system transitioned into (mostly) proof of stake. This led the founders to control a majority of the STEEM supply, leading to centralization[2].

2. In addition, said founders have been alleged to be dumping their STEEM methodically ever since, thus inviting the comparison to a Ponzi or Pyramid scheme[3].

3. Many people still don't understand the economic mechanics of STEEM. In particular, people are asking that if both content creators and consumers are being paid, then who is paying for it?

I would love to know what the HN community thinks of this new blockchain based social media site.

[0] (White paper) https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf

[1] (White paper annotated by a detractor) http://www.libertylifetrail.com/2016/10/23/steemit_started_as_a_scam_and_only_got_worse/

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1427230.0

[3] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1558366.0
Ever work with Sun servers? Yeah, you could swap out cards, CPU, ram, drive, power, without halting or rebooting the OS. But not just Sun servers. This is not a feature unique to Alphaservers/VMS.
Wikipedia have a list of the numbers, with or without PPP compensation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_...

It seems the keys to doing well on that scale are:

- be a small African country without oil (low CO2/low GDP)

- be a financial services exporter (Switzerland, Ireland, UK)

The countries which are doing badly seem to be central Asian former USSR states, petro-states, China, and Zimbabwe.
I'd guess that standard would be set by a court case, unless there already has been one like this (in which case please enlighten me). In general, with vagueness like this, a court usually has the final say.
>And he's right. Tech companies have an obligation to figure out a balance of privacy and public safety that works for everyone, not just stonewalling governments with complete noncompliance and then wondering why politicians become adversarial.

Tech companies have not (and should not have) such an obligation.

Figuring out the balance of privacy and public safety that works for everyone has to be determined by the elected by the people, not by a company.

The elected ones have also the responsbility to propose something that is actually possible/doable, and only then the tech companies start having an obligation (only that of implementing it, in the best way possible for them as long as the Law is respected).
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You are going to be biased towards renewables because there is "wind" in your username.

Jokes apart, this analysis greatly substantiates that point of view:
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=18851
Modified a vintage typewriter to function as a USB keyboard using an Arduino
I was really suprised when the original paper for this didn't make it to the top of HN: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/AudioToObama/

Nor any of the follow-up articles I posted. Given onslaught of fabricated "news" that spread around the last election, this type of ML technology is almost guaranteed to play a role in the next one.
The next generation of fake news is going to be fantastic.
I'd recommend transcoding to 96kb/s VBR Ogg Opus during crawling.
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They are, but perhaps agile methods who diminish the importance of documenting have played against it. We will see what price we have to pay for this.

In my experience, people don't like to document, developers even more, and managers probably don't like to read documents, either. However, if people leave your company (something highly probable), how are you expected to train the new people?

If you are working in a startup, that's not major problem: the startup may just die and you can have fun programming in the meantime. However, if there is company that intends to last more than a few years, ways of documenting your system are needed.

IMHO, not using UML, or any other language, to think about our systems or even tell others how they work is a complete mistake. It is not only for telling others (colleagues and future workers) what the system does and why it does it that way, it is also to save effort and realize sooner that it will not work.

So, whatever the case, training in how to explain your system to others is required. Call it UML or whatever. And, since UML is there, it may be worth to use it. It is not just the invention of a couple of mad engineers. You are free to use UML as you like. And do not need to use a huge tool. Text UML is a nice and refreshing way of looking at UML which I strongly recommend. Have a look at http://planttext.com, for instance.
Firefox + Firefox sync + ssh keys.

That's all I need and that works for me.
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IMO, WebRTC is the technology which will make browsers trump apps. Especially, now as iOS 11 starts shipping with support for it.
Holy shit those spam replies to this comment... what the hell was so special about this that it warranted like 5 spam replies?
It's worth mentioning that answering will tend to reduce call volume; in general scammers will mark a number as done once their pitch has failed. They don't do that for no answer.
For apps like 1Password one would prefer one-time sales. (And I am glad I have it)

However, as with apps, at some point the money will stop flowing in. And then you have a problem keeping your business.

If we compare this to the past: you bought some software for managing your contacts. This cost 50$. Then, one year later they released a new version with new features and bugfixes, again for 50$.
Even if your userbase didn't grow, they probably bought the software ever x years, giving your company revenue.

Now however, nobody dares to charge for a new version of some software. (Even in the AAA game industry people are asking for DLCs instead of a 20xx full version), reducing income from one-off licenses.

This might all have started with the app stores.
I always encrypt because I worry an automated copyright scan will be the end of my account. If there was a policy that assured my non-shared files wouldn't be subject to these scans I would happily store content unencrypted.

For reference, I don't store pirated content, rather content that I have a license for, but cloud providers have no way of knowing that. Unfortunately the dispute processes are unreliable, so when it's time to backup a media project, I play it safe and encrypt.
Perhaps another factor in this shift is that there's a higher incidence (anecdotally) of counterfeit bills - especially larger notes?
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But this is not pornography-specific. This applies just as well to views about healthy relationships, self respect, food consumption, alcohol and drug use, financial discipline, world views and whatnot. Teens need to be educated so they can form an informed and nuanced view of the world. Not sure you should ban all teens from McDonalds because some parents can't get the message across that fast-food is unhealthy.

In other words, is the main problem here that gangbang videos exist or that some kids get a really shitty upbringing that leaves them full of gaping holes, incapable of handling life or making wise decisions?

The point I'm trying to make is that people are shifting the responsibility and consequently limiting freedom and varied views for all, like the ban on "gay propaganda" in Russia or "facesitting" pornography in the UK. It's the wrong solution to a (I assume for some) real problem.
Um... I've gotten a 20%+ raise before, I also have several weeks more vacation than I started with. If you prove yourself as valuable and ask for compensation to match, your employer may be more flexible than you realize. You can renegotiate your current employment at any time as well.

You have to actually prove yourself as valuable first though.
Both LinuxThreads and the current NPTL are implementations of POSIX threads. NPTL is closer to the standard, but if your code doesn't need the stricter conformance, it could run on either with no changes.
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Archiveteam has discussed about backing up the Internet Archive a long time ago in their project called INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK (http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK). They decided to go with git-annex because its creator was a cofounder of the ArchiveTeam and was willing to work with that project, who is still waiting for IPFS's proposal on how to do this (http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/i...).

You can participate in the effort of course. Have a few hundreds of GB and a good connection ? Head over to http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/g... and follow the steps !
That is what they said about Amazon Cloud Drive and every other Unlimited service that came before it right up to the day the Unlimited Service died
Agreed. Especially when you consider the article considers the following areas as a unit:

"New York Metro Area"

"LA/Orange County"

and of course the whole of "New England" -- yup an area that takes almost 10 hours to drive tip to tip: https://goo.gl/abZHs7

It's clearly an intellectually dishonest maneuver to split SF from Silicon Valley. Done probably just so they can generate the headline "San Francisco's VC boom is over".
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More: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/114055529676/my-verdict-on-gend...

It contains links to many more sources at the end.
This attitude is horrible just like the Forbes article.

This situation is only happening because of bubble cash and a lot of inexperienced leadership with too much money on their hands.

Once the bubble pops you will see all of these people with a resumes full of 6-12 month stints and outrageous salary expectations working at Starbucks (if they are lucky) and everyone who puts in years for reasonable salaries still employed at profitable companies.

Enjoy it while it lasts.
Cash is already somewhat traceable (what did you think it was numbered for?) and it's illegal to buy some things anonymously, so it's really strange that you believe these things.
Except for the fact that when Google, Amazon and the rest talk about "unlimited" they are referring to unlimited PERSONAL storage of data you create as a person, this would include backups of your personal computer, photos, important documents,etc

Not backing up SoundCloud or the entire Internet for $5 a month
Safe subsets of C exist already. Any safeguards active at compile time could in principle be achieved via static code analysis. Only, if that means making assumptions and transformation to a different type system, that's like putting an old engine in a new car.
But that's... He just...

How would _you_ describe an agressive attitude towards one's career?
In case anyone's seeing this using SVP3 and had no idea that 4 had released, 4 is well worth paying for, it is far less hardware intensive (SVP3 would choke getting high bitrate 1080p videos to 60fps, SVP4 handles the same files like a dream - anecdotal but better than nothing), the interface of the main application has been... improved (kinda subjective, but it's definitely more idiot proof) and it even supports VLC now if you swing that way.
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What about torture or murder? and I'd also argue many news sites should be 18+ too. So you're gonna need age verification to watch people engaging in a natural sexual act but if you want to see the Zeta's hacking off a rival's head with a chainsaw, go right ahead. Madness!
My off-the-cuff response is that cryptocoins behave more like a commodity more than a currency, so their value is always relative to cash, not part of global cash reserves.
Even when this company has > 100,000 emploees and has individual divisions with more engineers than Google
Yes and the code/models go through extensive testing. Everyone in the industry knows that a callback because of faulty software will cost an insane amount of money. This is changing a bit since more and more work is going towards over-the-air update.
I wonder if it's easier to make a fake speech of someone who talks the way Trump does? Not making this a political thing, but I've noticed that he's not very eloquent and frequently starts and stops in his speech and changes what he's saying mid sentence. Might it be easier to synthesize that type of speech pattern since any awkwardness can be hid in the erratic speech the real person employs?
I don't pickup my cell unless it's from someone I know. I get at least a couple a day and my parent's landline gets even more. I use google voice for voicemail and get zero service at work so I get notifications about having a voicemail throughout the day. Most of my voicemailbox is recordings of spammers and robocallers. Google has started identifying spammer numbers by a report service so anyone can flag a number as spam. This helps a bit but most of the calls don't show up as spammers. It's no use to delete the numbers because they will probably never be used again to call me.
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A while back, the Guardian wrote a piece about their annual expo:

"Everyone is feeling good. Employees weave through the crowd with trays of probiotic juice. I decide I like the Goop expo. It is silly, but most of us seem to be in on the joke"

It's a fascinating read [1] and it seems that not all of the attendants wanted their ego stroked. Some just need a quirky, random excuse to dig in their coffers - I think.

Personally, I felt that the author's trying too hard to be satirical. The whole expo feels slimy; IV drips, oxygen sessions, colour-coded bracelets... it's New Age plus hippie plus hipster plus Paltrow probably cackling in the background.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/14/gwyneth...
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It just works, passing tests and all that fancy stuff is out of the project's scope.
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To put it like the wise Karl Pilkington:

> I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have a cake every single day for the rest of your life, you’ll get sick of it. If you’re happy every day, you’ll get sick of being happy… that’s a good saying actually. Happiness is like a cake. Have too much and you’ll get sick of it.

Even if that's not the most joyful quote, on some level it did make some sense to me.
we are talking like for like jobs and id prefer a less biased source the ONS for example) than right wing thing tanks
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I prefer "if you don't have a fork, you're on the menu"
Got any studies for this?
What you say is true only for session cookies. From the linked document:

> first‑party persistent cookies DO require informed consent.
Nothing is unlimited, it does not exist.

Unlimited is a marketing term used to express simply to the consumer there are not overall limits placed on your storage provided you adhere to the rest of the terms of service.

In the context of data cloud data stroage when Google, Amazon and the rest talk about "unlimited" they are referring to unlimited PERSONAL storage of data you create as a person, this would include backups of your personal computer, photos, important documents,etc

Not backing up SoundCloud or the entire Internet for $5 a month

So if you are a amateur photographer then storing 10TB of photos you took on the service is acceptable, downloading 900TB of music files you do not own, you did no create and have no permission to "as a backup" because the service is going to go under is abuse.
Actually, I did raise an issue towards that direction.

https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs/issues/66

I mean why not do it properly if it's not an hostile fork.

But sadly, the lead-dev seems to have made up his mind. Being a nOOb with emacs I'm in a position to judge the reasons though.
Employees have an inherent need for loyalty to work and face considerable risk just for following their true worth to new companies and situations.

This makes it impossible to adequately take employers up to your real market worth as a long term employee. Too many of your coworkers will accept 50% of their worth rather than risk stress and a crises if a change falls apart. So as long as the employer only needs a kernel of long-term employees only a union has the necessary leverage.
There's an implied trust between the telcos. Everybody has to trust everybody's caller ID, because there's no other information available. This works as long as your Telco cares. But many don't.

There are valid reasons to have a "spoofed" caller ID. Calling out from a company phone, providing switchboard caller ID. Having multiple (or a block of) numbers. Having international number from another provider bound to your cellphone. And many others. But for that to work, whoever you're calling has to accept what the Telco sends them.
Yeah, it's definitely high. I'm building muscle though so it should be around 35% of my total cals for hypertrophy.
Survivor bias much? Obviously SOME people will become VP/President by sticking to the company. 99% of long-term employees will not.
You don't have to; If you would be hosting the archived material yourself anyway, there is no negative I can see in doing it through a P2P network. Long-term storage could still depend on you and any other users helping with any of the content for any amount of time would just be a bonus.
As someone said on HN a month or so ago, do a temporary change of address. The USPS does not sell this data. You can do one for up to six months; so, if you do two consecutively, it's the same as the permanent change of address information, which they sell.
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I think only a few bits of emacs are in C. The vast majority of it is elisp.
buildkite looks nice - but on premise is a current requirement, as not all our repos are on the internet. Looks like a cool product though
We are in E-health so focused on writing software for E-health platforms as well as supporting the government in deploying these solutions in our environment.
How to Make an App Like Tinder?
Grow a pair.
I was once told a long time ago that analog is proof that god hates us :-)
"I really don't think you are in a position to judge that. "

Neither are you. You can't just dismiss someone's experience as bullshit.
One of the few free apps that I've donated to! Quality podcasting app that has been receiving non-trivial updates for years.
From first line of code to frontpage of Reddit: the story of Hoodmaps (draft)
I wrote a blog post about WebRTC data channels which has the complete source for a proof of concept in a gaming context: http://blog.brkho.com/2017/03/15/dive-into-client-server-web...

The example in my blog post isn't really minimal because it assumes that you're writing your server in C++ for performance reasons. You can cut away a lot of the setup and boilerplate if you're fine with your server running on node and delegating all WebRTC tasks to a background electron process (see electron-webrtc).

Also, recently Mozilla has released their own WebRTC abstraction (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/introducing-humblenet-a-cr...) which seems to be easy to use on the server. I personally haven't tried it yet, but I've heard good things.
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Very very far from the truth. A reminder that what one reads in comments should be taken with a grain of salt.

There are many reasons this statement is flat out incorrect.
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I would love to have my own personal backup of SoundCloud. It's like having a huge library at home, only not limited by physical space.
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