skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly it can work, because it works for Patreon. It also works for twitch, who allow people to "subscribe" to streamers they like. This entails paying $5 a month (half to the streamer, half to twitch) to receive exclusive chatting rights, special "emotes", and other non-essential features. People do it not because they want access to the special features, but because they want to support the streamer. It seems that people are adverse to paying only when it is on an-item-by-item basis, but are not adverse to it in general.
Setup spending alarms for your account. Personally, mine is $5, $10, $15, $20 and so on. At $30, my wife gets paged.
I love this, but I worry about longevity -- if we convert all our code snippets to this, and then this dies, all the older blog posts become useless. You'd be surprised how many reads even 5+ year old blog posts can get.
"Soundcloud is fine and will be around for years, stop backing up all of the music".

Didn't the CEO say something along those lines ~2 weeks ago when they forced the archive.org folks to stop pulling down a backup copy of everything? Funny how quickly that was proven to be BS.

Not that anyone should be surprised by this outcome.
I hope Elon Musk reads your inquiry
This is also from a pro-wind blog ;)
> and politicians were arguing that tobacco wasn't unsafe for a long time

did these politicians suffer any discredit as a result?
Didn't make too much progress yet, but I am making a PHP web framework inspired by the one file codebase that Bottle.py uses and the structure (loosely) of Flask. I am a Python programmer that recently had to use PHP for work, if you haven't noticed :P

https://github.com/Max00355/Feather
Agreed. Those are all very good points.

If this guy has any defense at all, it could be that he's a minority somewhere on the spectrum of Asperger's, and that a diverse company also needs to somehow accommodate his inability to understand how his statements could have made others feel.

On the other hand, it's quite possible he's just an angry white male who feels like he's being left out but got it off his chest when empowered behind his computer screen, and with his weapons of scientific fact. Jabs of harassment are often delivered buried within a harmless context.

Perhaps a bit of both. It will be for the courts to decide.

Long term, you gave me some ideas. If my company ever gets big enough to have a mix of introverts and extroverts I wonder if it would be a good idea to pair introverts and extroverts so they can "protect" each other? Extroverts can help introverts from saying really insensitive stuff, and introverts could help train the extroverts about when to leave the introverts alone, and to stop harassing them about "being more social". Just a thought...
The word "simply" sadly does not apply to climate modelling, reaching conclusions simply usually means lots of confirmation bias, and a foregone output. How do you know there are plenty of any opinion on HN?
Only if you're willing to give a pass on that type of behavior based on generated returns. Wall Street has certainly historically been filled to the brim with that approach. The problem, typical even on Wall St., is that fraudulent behavior tends to be derived from the person's character, not a one-off. The odds are very high - in my opinion - that it would happen again. The Wall St. types that cross the line to generate returns, seem to frequently also light the house on fire given enough time.
Comedy option: Intel makes the offer and Jen-Hsun demands to be CEO of the resulting company again.

(for those not in the know: AMD made an offer to buy out NVIDIA a decade ago, and it fell through for that reason, NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demanded to be CEO of the resulting company. The funny thing is that he would have been a much better CEO than Dirk Meyer or Hector Ruiz, but Ruiz was not about to give up his CEO seat. AMD ended up buying ATI instead.)

Double comedy option: Intel agrees to it.
And the answer is if you accomplished a miracle and cut military spending in half and freed up 8% of the federal budget, there would be a rioting mob charging towards the money... no... that doesn't really capture how much we're talking here... there would be a rioting mob charging the suddenly-available huge pile of MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY and there's very little reason to believe space exploration would be any of the winners.
Maybe tech giants like Apple and Google should start using some capital to fund awesome ideas like this.
Same experience. Using official channels, my request go unanswered. Twitter, the best customer service! Once CEO of a major retail company followed up with me to make sure my issue was handled properly.
> I wonder what would have happened to the Ozone Hole if it too got politicized at the time, or the link between smoking and cancer if it got politicized.

People have tried to politicize the smoking links. Mike Pence in 2001:

pence> Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill. In fact, 2 out of every three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness and 9 out of ten smokers do not contract lung cancer. This is not to say that smoking is good for you.... news flash: smoking is not good for you. If you are reading this article through the blue haze of cigarette smoke you should quit. The relevant question is, what is more harmful to the nation, second hand smoke or back handed big government disguised in do-gooder healthcare rhetoric.

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20010415085348/http://mikepence.c...
> I hope the US in particular will return to sanity

Not the US. Conservatives.
This is splitting hairs though. It's a mistake in the code that caused it to do something unexpected that costs money. In the serverless world, that means invoking a function repeatedly, costing money. In the old-server world, maybe it means your script had a bug that downloaded an image repeatedly, causing you to rack up networking charges.
There's a bunch of ideas that the rocket equation doesn't apply to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Non-rocket...

Yes, it's hard at our current tech level. But not nearly hard enough to explain the Fermi thing. I mean, take your scenario of solar system development: it'd be natural to exploit the Kuiper Belt and then the Oort, and the Oort blends into interstellar travel, as Freeman Dyson pointed out -- still quick on a geological timescale.
I wish tools like this would account for equity.

Base salary in the Bay area has never been particularly high compared to comparable cities, but in my admittedly anecdotal experience, The Bay Area has the highest equity compensation of anywhere in the US.
If there wasn't anything bad in the report we wouldn't be having this conversation.
It appears the tethers are for positional stability, and the keel or whatever you want to call the underwater portion of the structure provides rotational stability, but I'm sure there is much more to it than that.
I first learned about Machine learning from Darpa in 2008, so I doubt they are behind
here is the original paper mentioned in this article...

http://dnasec.cs.washington.edu/dnasec.pdf
I just reached out to him. Thank you so much for letting us know about their short sighted decision.
Samsung's high-capacity V-NAND memory is perfect for massive SSDs
Care to provide details ? I don't live in the valley so i'm not up to date with the latest gossip. Last time i heard about this firm, it was pretty complimentary
Kaspersky drops Microsoft antitrust complaint thanks to new Windows 10 changes
Launching Open Hardware Satellites
Not all SSH implementations use this convention. Git would need to start detecting if your ssh is openssh.
No I hadn't but looking at it, this is essentially what I wanted. Really wish I had found this before I built overseer lol. That's a great looking site, I'll give it a try.
Student Creates Algorithm to Predict Who Will Die Next in Game of Thrones
Uh, you are aware Twitter allows "direct" (i.e. private) messaging?
Am I crazy in thinking the listed comp is crazy low?

Not disputing that the COL is too damn high, but the only people I know making that little are very early in their careers and/or working for a startup, and that's be valuing their equity at 0 (which is probably an appropriate valuation).

Or maybe I'm just in a weird bubble.
The important thing for getting bureaucracies to do what you want is to make it expensive for the bureaucrat to not deal deal with your problem. That's a distinct advantage to calling in - you're using one of their employees time, and you will continue to do so until you're satisfied. The line agent wants to handle you ASAP for their statistics, and if you get escalated then even better.

Tweets are just an extension of this. It's immediate negative public PR, and there's people whose job it is to manage it. You get an outsized amount of leverage in the "how will my issues get solved" negotiation.
I shared a two person office at the university that I worked at before my current job. If that sounds like a good deal in exchange for 50% of the industry salary, I believe they're hiring... :)
TL;DR: clear winner in multithread productivity, intel better in single-thread productivity, around Ryzen 1800X in gaming (in game mode, which tries to pin threads to one die at a time and disables SMT), great TDP (stays under 180w at full load), has some teething issues with the NUMA nature of two-dies, but is overall a great processor.
Google and Facebook envision Stories for news, not social
What is this based upon? Do tech companies give different equity if you e.g. Work out of the boulder office? I've been looking for an excuse to move to CO.
Probably voting and non-voting shares.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/12/uber-chief-travis-kalanick-g...
I think the biggest issue of SystemD was not only the controversial development process, but the dependencies of other projects like udev into SystemD's repo and packaging.
Down vote for advocating for unit tests? That's just good practice in general.
I believe the voting power is not proportional to the equity. So it's possible that Kalanick still holds biggest voting stake.
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Uber has multiple classes of stock and Kalanick successfully negotiated retaining most of the voting rights. VCs won't put up with those shenanigans for must investments but they occasionally make exceptions for unicorns due to FOMO.
agreed; more than half my compensation comes in the form of RSUs and bonuses.
While $1.43 billion may be the GAAP tax rate they record, in practice they did not pay anywhere near that much.

For the 2016 reporting period, cash taxes paid was recorded at $412 million, not the $1.43 billion you noted above. Given that, their effective cash tax rate was 10.6%, not the 36.7% you quoted.

Source: Page 22, AMZN 2016 10-K (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872417...)
I did this for awhile but occasionally (about daily) urxvtd would segfault and I'd lose all of my terminals. Never could figure out why :(
I founded YesGraph, almost exactly 5 years ago. AMA
There are a number of ways autonomous could significantly change this including:

Platooning https://youtu.be/t9uEPnGI6zA?t=54s

Shuttling to and from stations

Road pricing to get people to share

More road available as there would be less parked cars
But is the equity actually worth anything?
dont forget algorithms ! http://nonhumans.net
It works but I hate to bring up my issue publicly. So for me to Tweet an issue, it has to be pretty bad. Otherwise, I use official channel or just let it go.
Uber has different share classes with different voting rights

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/technology/uber-chief-tra...
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Even if a worker sells only 10 percent of his or her stock back to the company, that worker agrees to give Mr. Kalanick the voting rights to 100 percent of his or her stock. Each share of Class A stock comes with one shareholder vote, while each share of Class B comes with 10 votes.

Uber had 545.8 million Class A shares at the end of last year, which included 43.4 million employee stock options that had been issued, according to financial statements obtained by The Times. If all of the early employees who owned those options sold even a small part of their stock to Uber, Mr. Kalanick could control the votes of up to 43.4 million shares, or an additional 7.9 percent of that stock class.

Uber also had 459.7 million Class B common shares at the end of 2016, which included 9.9 million employee stock options that had been issued. If all of the holders of those options sold even part of their stock to Uber, Mr. Kalanick could control the votes of up to 9.9 million shares, or an additional 2.2 percent of that stock class.

Mr. Kalanick does not control those votes until he issues something called a “voting notice,” which requires the employee to vote all of his or her remaining stock in accordance with Mr. Kalanick’s wishes on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders, according to the agreement. If Mr. Kalanick issued such a notice to a Class B shareholder, the stock gets only one vote a share, which goes to Mr. Kalanick.
I have commented many a time on Shiffman's twitter that we need more gifs of him dancing, so yes :)
So the board agreed to create 3 new board seats over which Kalanick would explicitly have full control to appoint people. And now they're suing him because they regret that?
as a hiring manager it looks very low to me as well.
I need coastal weather data to find the best waves for surfing so I built http://www.swellmatrix.com

I would start other projects with money- making potential but there are always features to add to the site that can get me more waves...
Yet another Game Boy Color emulator, written in Java:

https://github.com/trekawek/coffee-gb

It's quite compatible and brought me a lot of fun. Blog post describing it:

http://blog.rekawek.eu/2017/02/09/coffee-gb/
Turkey definitely are signatories to international copyright treaties. Last i looked only a few places weren't including Papua New Guinea.

TRIPs and Berne are probably the main ones.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
Bias actually makes for interesting reading and clickbait. That is what it's all about. It's not about being fair and balanced. And actually given that the truth does not matter to the vast majority of people reading Techcrunch (or honestly any publication) I am not sure it even would be a smart business strategy. People watch wrestling and they know it's fixed. People read fiction. This is another version of it.
I know this is completely off-topic, but that might just be the worst format for support that I've ever seen.

Why bother with topics when you can just mash every single thread of conversation together into a giant wall? And it looks like you can track quotes back to original post, but not the other way round? So good luck following a conversation where time flows backwards I guess...
The OP probably should have been a link to Axios, which is the outlet that broke the news; TC is just reblogging it and adding its own commentary/context: https://www.axios.com/soundcloud-asks-investors-to-support-r...
Please correct my understanding here if I'm wrong, but if a user was able to use sign language wouldn't they be able to type? What accessibility improvement are you envisioning?
Just out of curiosity, why do you have two webcams?
They're... not unbalanced.
Sure, living and working in the city sucks. But the Bay Area as a whole? Very Good.

https://www.mytrove.com/ca/the-bay-area/cheddar/software-app...
How to virtually guarantee funding: Create a research project that attempts to better understand a cause or a potential effect of some aspect of Climate Change.

How to be ostracized from the University zeitgeist and receive little/no funding: Create a research project that attempts to disprove any major assumptions or pillars of modern Climate Change science.

Welcome to politics.
Pretty sure it fails to take into account equity
At first I thought you were making a joke about the human race prioritizing Ska[0] over new telescopes, but then I realized I wasn't on reddit and saw the "the".

What is SKA? Super K? Aperture?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska
I am taking this event as reminder to go back to my own self-hosted website with an RSS feed. It doesn't have the complete social factor offered by Soundcloud, but hey, it's my own!
You're basically saying what I'm saying: harassment isn't something that can be objectively determined. Googlers might be lying about it, they might be telling the truth.

If you don't want to get fired for harassing folks, and you don't have great people skills, you should probably keep your controversial opinions at home. YMMV.
I don't think so, really. It's surprisingly rare for politicians to face blowback for pushing stuff that later turned out to be obviously terrible. Everyone was pretty much pretending Strom Thurmond wasn't awful right up to his death, say.
I don't see anything bad that he said. Also, I've met a decent amount of people who come across as very "bro" who are actually really nice considerate people so being kinda bro isn't inherently bad (unless you define "bro" as essentially just being an ahole, which doesn't seem to apply here)
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I think there might be multiple stocks classes kind of like with Google. Some shares classes hold higher value for voting.
Uber's first CEO steps down
This one should really be up-voted to the frontpage.
This is a tricky question. (Hell, it could well be a trick question.)

El Niño takes place 2-3 times per generation. A stronger than usual phenomenon is a single data point, and we all know how much validity one should give to an outlier. In order to quantify the strength of consecutive events, and especially to rule out freak outliers in both directions you will need a few distinct data points. Let's say 6-8 data points at a minimum.

So the timescales for measurements will be in the range of 40-50 years.

By the time you can reliably use El Niño as a yardstick to say that it's getting late to act, it will have been too late for quite some time.
See Bandcamp. The main thing that it doesn't have that SC does is a feed, but otherwise, they do have a Patreon-esque system - you can listen to the music on the website for free, but you can either buy the albums you like (and download them) or subscribe to users you like (and get subscriber-exclusive releases, which may include earlier versions of songs, stems etc)
I find this pretty off for silicon valley. <$1000/month for housing? Even with utilities, this is still nothing. If you added in all of misc, it'd be more realistic. Wasn't aware that salaries in Seattle had risen to $130k+ so quickly either. I remember starting at $80k being a good salary there just 3-4 years ago.
Six figures in San Francisco is a joke. I was working out of Raleigh, NC until recently, with a take home pay w/benefits around $85k. I calculated to have an equivalent standard of living and spending money in SF, I would need to take home around 150-160k. Equivalent! That includes no raise over my previous position!

Housing was a large part of it, but equally problematic was taxes. The more you make, each extra marginal dollar is taxed at the highest bracket. So each marginal dollar earned goes a little bit less far. Combined, the high cost-of-living and marginal tax rates make SF extremely expensive. I laugh at 120k offers in SF, that's like making 65k in a reasonable city.
This is based on the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data: https://www.mytrove.com/t/cheddar-counter/methodology
From a practical standpoint though (assuming that every nation decided to work together) how would such a mission work?

We'd most likely need a generation ship, given that current estimates of max velocity is in the range of 0.5 to 0.8c.

That means spending trillions of dollars and putting thousands of people in a ship in orbit, sending them off and most likely never seeing them again.

But before that we'd want to send unmanned probes to:

a) test out the propulsion and other systems
b) scout the planets themselves, identify a good candidate

But the probe itself would take 20-30 years to reach + 12 more to report back.

Otherwise you're asking thousands to be explorers and guinea pigs for all this technology, with no guarantees about finding a habitable planet or coming back home. With something like the Mars mission you'd probably get volunteers without any family. People would be far more reluctant if it's a generation ship.
The ones I'm referring to are in large installations in the last 10 years in the US Midwest. Each rotor blade is transported individually on the back of a flatbed semi-truck.

As pointed out elsewhere in the thread: indeed the RPM can be low, but the rotor tip velocity is high.
Being bro is synonymous with being male to some people.

It is, of course, still an insult to them.
This is wayyy off in housing. I don't know anyone who is paying 10k a year for rent in santa clara county. This is the rent if you are sharing a house with 5 other people in bad parts of san jose. Peninsula rents are almost the same as SF.
established companies (FAANG) come as RSUs that vest monthly or quarterly. so yeah, real money.
If actual fraud is not found what sort of message does this send to entrepreneurs that Benchmark is founder friendly?

I don't think "The VC company will sue me if they suspect I've committed fraud" is something many founders need to be concerned about.
My point was moreso about how prevalent the phenomenon of ignoring obvious objective reality is when certain topics are involved, the key ones off the top of my head being: race, gender, sexuality.

Threads such as this are chock full of examples of people who are normally very logical and scientific, but once the subject turns to one of the above, suddenly everything's different, nothing can be determined, observed, or measured, the entire world is completely random with no patterns whatsoever, etc.

I wonder if all cultures are like this or only us in the west.
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God bless Texas.

(please don't come here and screw it up for us.)
That is actually part of the plan. Everyone believes in a manufactured environmental doomsday scenario, and can blame it on nameless "others" who "pollute" the Earth with their trace gases. Soon there will be a carbon indulgence available for everyone to pay in order to secure your salvation. Then you can continue your patterns of actual pollution with a clear consience: littering, not picking up after your dog, not conserving resources, starting flamewars online, using too much water, ignoring the real environment around you.
Health care: the network of providers and insurance companies need to share limited information securely. Right now it's completely ad-hoc and broken (I was billed $3000 for a cancer drug. I had the flu!)

Identity/reputation: If you have a certain reputation on eBay, you can't carry that reputation over to Amazon to sell goods. You must start from scratch. If the reputation score was independent of the service you could even post it on Craigslist and people could trust it.

Real estate: I paid a lot of money for a completely useless title insurance. If the details of a home title were stored on a blockchain, there would be no need for this entire industry of bloodsucking leeches. :)

Supply chain: there's an ad-hoc network of suppliers for many things (cars, planes, electronic doodads). There is no central authority, and it spans the globe. Having perfect knowledge of the supply chain can save companies lots of money. It's what made Walmart successful, now everyone can do it on a shared platform.

The tech for this stuff is still very primitive. I'd compare it to when Jaron Lanier started virtual reality in the late '80s. He was right but several decades too early. There are still some limited contexts where a current blockchain can be useful right now, but it won't be a big thing for a while.