skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's open, but you'll be fired.

A gross mischaracterization. Open never means anyone can just say whatever comes to mind.

"Open discussion??? Oh goody!!! Kike, kike, kike, kike, the bosses are cheap Jews! Wait, what??? You're firing me? Whaaaaaaa, look at me tears, you promised open discussion!!! I'm suing, all woe is me!"

I'm confident you're not that naive, and I hope you can see the point of my exaggeration. Everything, even open discussion, has limits.

The CEO made it clear which parts of the memo were ok (almost every part of it). And which parts violated the code of conduct.

Violate the code of conduct, and you're fired. Sed lex, dura lex. Everything has limits. So the discussion then is about what those limits should be.

> If talking about something is considered intimidation or harassment,

It's not. There are almost endless things you can talk about at work that aren't considered harassment or intimidation. There isn't a little rule book to guide you. It's up to you as an adult to to have adult relationships with your co-workers and to figure out for yourself what other people are comfortable hearing and what they consider harassment. I'm sure you already know that you can't tell a female employee she has bigger than average tits, no matter how factual it is or even if it's just "talking about something". But the more subtle points are up to you to work out with your co-workers. Be enough of an jerk to enough people by just "talking about something", and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

This has been the reality since humans have had emotions. Every adult with an ounce of understanding about human relationships knows that there is a lot of stuff you can't talk about at work.

> which is the reality of the situation in USA 2017

Where did you get this idea that you ever had some kind of right at some point in history to talk about whatever you want to talk about at work - with no care towards how it makes your fellow employees feel? For most of America's business history you could get your butt thrown out the door just for saying something the boss doesn't like. You're actually slightly more protected in USA 2017, but a smart boss will find a way if he doesn't like what you say. So will your co-workers.

I guess at one point in USA history you could more easily get away with sexually harassing female employees. Safe to say that's not the point in history you're trying to return to? If I'm right, can you describe the point in history you are trying to return to and why it was better? What was ok then that isn't ok now? Specific examples please?

> All these do-gooders are going to reap what they sow in the long run, and it sure as heck isn't what they think it is.

I guess we should be afraid... of.... something? Your revenge? Back up your vague threat with what you predict will actually happen or with what you plan on doing.
From philosophy to psychoanalysis: a classic Freudian move
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Actually it looks like the reason is purely chronological:

This article is about the research and live events following up to the publication of his seminal work A Mathematical Theory of Communication in 1948 and ends there.

He met his wife Betty in '48 after most of this already happened.
Right we all expect this sort of thing, but so far it's all theory and I haven't seen anyone seriously test and study the idea based on real world factors.

For example I doubt we'll see any benefits of decreased safe separation in cities where there are cyclists and pedestrians and other factors that are hard to predict.

My prediction would be that the efficiency gains will be marginal and will be dominated by other factors that affect congestion.
What about the Internet Archive?
I always have to think about Louis CK's "Indians, White People and God's Earth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWZkwuILn_s

It's both hilarious and sad at the same time
He obviously has a smaller account so Amazon might be less flexible, but it's worth contacting support and explaining the error. Sometimes they do give your money back in my experience.
Indeed–that image caption serves absolutely no purpose except to beat on someone who is at a low point anyway.

And it doesn't even make sense! Taking a vacation every now and then is likely to improve productivity, and for SoundCloud specifically, it seems almost necessary to go to Burning Man and mingle. The criticism is especially rich coming from a guy who looks at least twice as stoned in his official TechCrunch photo than the SC CEO at Burning Man.

Creating SoundCloud is more than 99.x% of people ever achieve, including me, the author, and the editor of this shameless excuse of an article. SoundCloud is obviously beloved by many. If they don't find a way to get those people to pay, they're in good company.

At least they're not selling to AOL.
As they say of NYC, "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere".

People living in large urban centers are essentially 100% disconnected from any sort of natural day/night light cycles, but they still manage (with, admittedly, some negative health effects). Same deal with gravity; the human body can support people who way 2x the average for their demographic, so I don't think 10% different gravity will matter much.

In the worst case, we could probably do genetic modification or just use exogenous hormones to help adapt to weird sleep cycles.
It didn't pay much American tax either because it doesn't make any profits anywhere.

Lots of physical shopping chains aren't paying tax because they dont make money either.

The real question is will Amazon ever make money and at that time - will it pay taxes then?
I like what Brian Krebs does. He doesn't link to any sites, he shows screenshots and says "this was posted by user paulgb on news[dot]ycombinator[dot]com."
Time-Tracking via a Real Device
I wonder if road signs will evolve too. The other day a few red lights were put in blinking mode because of roadwork. While asking for way more attention, it also avoid many 50sec pauses.. I found it very very nice. With collaborating SDV you could get rid of many stuck intersections that creates bloat and useless consumption (even though EV can just cut power on stop ...)
>Asking questions like, "How do you seriously not know how to X?" and reporting them to management.

Exactly. Between my freelancing and full-time experience, I've been involved with dozens of teams. Very few of them react well when you question their abilities, no matter how fair and justified the question.
Yes, but you do not heat it in all desserts.
First and foremost: blockchain, in its essence, is a document timestamping
service. As such, it allows somebody reading it to tell the order of arrival
of stored documents (documents themselves being unmodifiable, as they are
usually identified by content in cryptography).

It just happens that ledger is a quite good fit for document timestamping, and
account balance can be used as a way to transfer money-like values (note that
it's not the only way; cryptographers have a history of developing digital
money systems).

About the only thing new about blockchain is that it doesn't need a trusted
third party (system with rights and means to modify the data) to timestamp
documents to defend against adversarial modifications to the timestamps
stream.

Anyway, anything that would use ordering of documents/messages could be built
on top of blockchain, but calculating proof-of-work is a very steep price to
pay for the defense against some of the participating servers being malicious,
given that enterprises happily trust regular databases that don't sign
cryptographically anything.
They can terminate your AWS/Azure/DO account though.
Maybe an auditable electronic voting system: each candidate's campaign can run their own "miner" making it impossible to tamper with voter results.

On the other hand such a system might make the individual votes less anonymous ...

Edit: campaigns and any other interested party such as the press
I'm not sure that I understand your comment, but you can go to

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=franl

and enable showdead to see the [dead] threads. Warning: There is a lot of crap in the [dead] threads.
> why don't we trust our scientists and climatologists?

1) I don't think local news media has helped last few decades. The constant reports of study that say "X" bad, followed by no no "X" is good (all the while both studies were describing tiny results) has led to distrust.

2) Govt funding of stupid studies creates image where researchers are scam artists who provide results by money

3) Lots of research is done by universities. Growing dissatisfaction with university system being projected onto researchers therein.

4) It was always sold wrong. It should have been sold as energy independence (freedom) not a burden (we need to change how we are doing things and limit ourselves).
Do you also think that if the government for example sets limits on the price charged by schools, they might as well set prices for cars or books?

Not all things are the same, especially not houses and parking lots.
Agreed, I also think it's smart to pay your programmer $350k/year. If you don't work for a place like that then you don't work for a true software development company, or you work for a dumb one (in which case you shouldn't work there).
There's a lot of movement in this space at the moment.
I'm aware of the following players:

- Veezoo www.veezoo.com

- Wizdee www.wizdee.com

- Kueri www.kueri.me
JAX-RS vs. Spring for REST Endpoints
> Well, for a bank it can be super duper useful because it's "incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions" (the very definition of a blockchain).

If that’s the definition of a blockchain then it must include proof-of-work. Data doesn’t become incorruptible because you put it inside a block that points to the hash of a previous block.
Your statement would be more fair and accurate with qualification, such as "some parts of the left". For example, would you agree that classical liberals are still on the left?
> I have a Ryzen 1700 in the desktop I built at new job, it's performance per £ is simply staggering.

I can confirm that, I bought a new desktop PC with a 1700 for home use around Easter, and on CPU-bound workloads with sufficient parallelism (e.g. video encoding), that thing is just insanely fast.

It's a bit of a shame, really, that most of the time it just sits there doing almost nothing. ;-)
Counterpoint: different tools and tasks have different requirements for interaction. Each tool provides an interface specialized to its workflow, and the hierarchical nature of the system allows me to split even inside the same tool for different workflows.

My primary window-organization tools are: i3 virtual desktops, web-browser, emacs, and tmux. i3 virtual desktops are named by task/workflow: I have one desktop for project management, one for emacs, one for terminals for one project, one for terminals for another project, one for work-related communication, and one for personal communication. Emacs does its thing and makes great use of it, but its spectacular profusion of buffers and its insane customization never pollutes the rest of my WM because it's contained within emacs. The browser desktops group related tabs, but they go one further and let me put tabs side-by-side without multiple windows of project management polluting my global window list. And so on and so forth.

Allowing each tool to specialize information management for its particular use case gives me much better performance overall. It's definitely specialized and idiosyncractic; I would not want to make everyone deal with it. But for me, doing this 8+ hours a day: every time I'm forced to work without that hierarchy and that specialization, I can tell you that the effort is worth it.
If google showed that their retention of women in tech was similar to men (it isn't), that their pay scales isolated for grade tended to equal outcomes for men and women (ongoing lawsuit says it doesn't in all cases), and that their proportion of women employed was close to the candidate pool?

I think that'd be a fantastic outcome. Then we really could think about "the pipeline problem."
Fossil combustion is directly heating the Earth by ~16 terawatts. Radiative forcing from human emitted CO2 (primarily fossil combustion) is ~1 watt/m^2:

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

Multiplied by the surface area of the planet, 510,000,000 km^2, that's 510 terawatts heating from CO2 in the atmosphere. As time goes by the relative importance of radiative forcing continues to increase, because fuel produces heat for just a short time as it burns but the combustion emissions amplify the effects of sunlight for years to come.
Curious to see how the industry will play out.

Seems like more analytics and BI companies will have to incorporate NLP if they want to compete.

Currently working on a similar project

- www.askned.com
>This is probably the most stupid thing I ever did. One missing return; ended up costing me $206.

No, dear author. Setting up the AWS billing alarm was the smartest thing you ever did. It probably saved you tens of thousands of dollars (or at least the headache associated with fighting Amazon over the bill).

Developers make mistakes. It's part of the job. It's not unusual or bad in any way. A bad developer is one who denies that fact and fails to prepare for it. A great developer is one like the author.
Tilix supports this as well via a quake mode.

https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/manual/quake/
8 ways to fix Snapchat
In theory, this benefits complex business processes running across corporations/agencies/gov/etc. requiring a distributed ledger. For example, mineral mining/procurement/certification/etc is a complicated lifecycle across many actors. I can't remember which podcast I heard it on, but the suggestion was anywhere there was a "clearing house" in use by multiple corporations for a particular process, there was an opportunity for blockchain/smart contract use.

In practice, I have yet to see anything concrete, but I haven't exactly been looking hard.
BMS-663068: Another Quiet Victory for Chemistry
If you want to read some German. Dietmar Dath's Skye Boat song is a more fictional hommage to Shannon.

http://literaturkritik.de/id/4437
> but something else.

The high cost of completely changing your fleet of vehicles, your driver and mechanics training and bringing in a whole new set of vendors and service professionals to tie it all together.

> My first suspicion is that fossil fuel transportation is still cheaper.

Yes, it's just about a lot more than the vehicles themselves.
It's almost as if... they should offer multiple options so customers could choose based on their business/hobby needs:

1. Warn me at $X but don't throttle me for any reason--I'll pay if I go viral

2. Warn me at $X and start throttling until I get to $Y at which point stop service and stop charging

3. Warn me at $X and stop service/charging immediately
Congrats on the new release!
If you'd like to get a good overview of the case for fossil fuels, check out The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein. [1]

Here is a video trailer for the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu6637cjk8A

Edit: This interview with Dave Rubin may also be helpful in understanding the other point of view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJmL9hRrpIQ

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Case-Fossil-Fuels/dp/1591847443
Do you know how much of a gear reduction the Sawyer uses? If it's harmonic and back-drivable, it can't be that large.

This is all much easier with three-phase brushless motors. You can hold the motor rotor at a specific angle under computer control.[1] With DC motors, you could just exert a torque, and it was hard to maintain tight position control, especially if the load changed. So with DC motors, robots needed more gearing down. The usual arrangement was a small, fast motor and a high-reduction geartrain. Adept Robotics was the first to go in the opposite direction with a direct-drive motor, a pancake-like thing almost a foot across.

(Robotics is full of routine engineering headaches like that. Many have been solved in recent years. Motor control used to be a much larger headache, and good motor controllers used to be a lot more expensive.)

[1] http://hackaday.com/2015/04/20/driving-a-brushless-dc-motor-...
Lyft has late night Taco Bell runs coming soon to Seattle. I'd guess 100% of those will fit exactly into the demo you mentioned
Real estate crowdfunding through cryptocurrency [pdf]
I always wished airline/hotel "point" programs were blockchain based. This would instantly create a valuable secondary market for people to transact points for things. This will never happen, of course, because I assume the business model for those programs factors into account that only a small % of the awarded points are ever redeemed. (I remember reading this many times over the years, but don't have a reference.)
Not sure more coverage would be good for them. I graduated from the U of MN so I was well aware of them, they were always recruiting. They had a reputation for only hiring fresh grads, enticed by 'perks', and then working them as hard as possible until they quit. They probably see it as in their best interest to not be talked about too much.
Capture groups are where I get 99% of value from regexs. Being able to quickly transform data is where I find regexs perform best. Just matching is not something I have to do all that often.
An important difference is that in the olympics, a fair and objective qualification system exists. Kenyans are disproportionate in the RANKINGS but not the POPULATION.

In Google's case, women fare poorly in botrh (with rankings expressed in the axis of pay or leadership positions). That's a significant difference.
SoundCloud plans to replace its CEO as part of a new funding deal
I've actually seen it a few times myself but I don't have any examples offhand. My company's filter is lazy so it doesn't filter https traffic. Sometimes if I get a blocked site that's http I try the URL with https instead. Once in a while I get a redirect to http.
What you say is if course true. However, with EC2 that risk is mostly limited to the code launching EC2 instances. Serverless expands that risk to your application code. There are just way more opportunities to screw up in a way that directly hits your wallet.
Go back to basics.

Keep it focused on community facing artists, remixes, dj sets, etc.

From what I've seen they suffered most from lack of direction, weak leadership, and no real business plan from the beginning. It seems (correct me if I'm wrong) it started as a hobby project and got twisted into a SaaS model that didn't fit it's purpose or audience.

As far as monetization - why not have a Patreon-esque system of support specific content producers/artists? I don't think a blanket monthly subscription is really a good fit but personally I would pay 1-5$ / month for specific artists/content providers and follow only them.
I'm not an expert on BTC or anything. In fact I'm not even long on BTC. I don't think it will work in the long term. That said I'm just answering questions as I understand them:

> BTC is worth thousands of dollars, so if everyone starts using BTC will people pay irrational fractions of BTC for bread and milk at the supermarket? will there be some adjustment?

The block chain supports values as small as 0.00000001 BTC (called a Satoshi). More terms will be coined as more common denominations eventually are used to buy things.

> How will other entities handle conversion and exchange? Will the general population have some compulsatory event to liquidate their own bank accounts into BTC funds?

There will be no single event, over time people will simply not use their local currency any more in favor of BTC. Slowly, over time, the population will lose trust in fiat and gain trust in BTC. This may occur over decades or more.

> Could this change asset valuation worldwide(Real estate, investment funds, etc)? If no government entity mediates currency value and printing can they tax your earnings if companies pay through some decentralized medium? What happens when nobody is paying taxes?

I'm not sure about these. Right now if you sell things for BTC I'm pretty sure you have to pay taxes on the "fair market value" of the BTC, which I have no idea what that would be (maybe the average price at the time of the payment?). I assume people long on BTC are hoping laws will adapt by the point when it is widely accepted.

> How about other cryptocurrencies, is there some kind of zero-sum game race to the top going on? Can they co-exist in the long term purist scenario?

I mean, a cryptocurrency is only as valuable as the trust people have in it. So all the same rules/theories apply to other cryptos the same as BTC. BTC just happens to be the most popular at the moment, and therefore has the highest market cap (not even sure if this term applies).
(Not OP, and) Not sure about aquatic life, but if those turbines are anything like the ones on land, then the rotors are definitely NOT spinning slowly! And they look even bigger, which would imply a faster speed at the rotor tip for the same rotational velocity.

And as a result there have been issues with them killing lots of birds, esp 1) IIRC large predatory birds which are looking down at the ground for prey and can't change course as easily as a small bird, and 2) being in migration paths. But I think both of those problems are pretty well understood by now and I'm guessing this project takes both into account.
Many are admittedly hard challenges, but;

> Give me a non-browser client.
> Make the browser client not leak memory.
> Don't interleave Soundcloud Go previews with free music.
> Give me reasonable discovery of similar music.

Until Go happened, Soundcloud was my everyday work listening. Now I only use it for long mixes that I can't find (or am too lazy to find) elsewhere.

The challenge for any clone isn't going to be features, it's going to be content.
Sure, I wasn't talking about the legality of burglary, but the legality of video record others on your ground, or house for that matter.

If your house has a door, unallowed entry is automatically "Hausfriedensberuch" unless under some limited circumstances. Still, you need a sign beside the door if you want to video record burglars and use that recording in court.

I think it's stupid, but that's the way it is, apparently.
For programmers, it can be automated to not need a manual physical timer on your desk.

For ex: https://wakatime.com
Incorrect question: you want the graduate rates. Not the staff rates.

Google's diversity rates are worse than the graduate rates for most schools I've checked. I have not found a composite data source to compare a larger average to.
There's no real evidence that there is a profitable business model for streaming music except insofar as subsidies from other parts of the business make sense overall. Just because a lot of people like something doesn't mean that there is a path to making money with it.

I don't have strong feelings about what's good and bad about their UI, etc. Their main failing is that they're probably not going to exist much longer unless Apple, Google, or someone along those lines snaps them up at fire sale prices and is OK with losing money on them.
WeDeploy beta is up (new application development platform)
Will Intel buy NVIDIA ? Stay Tuned !
> I get intimidated everyone tells me I should speak more with clients or be more social during lunches.

Talk to HR about it! If they are good at what they do, they will find a way of letting other people know to lay off a bit on the introvert employees, without mentioning you specifically.

> it bugs me how often people with people skills tend not to have enough people skills to understand I don't have enough people skills and sometimes prefer to be alone or to text instead of speak

Well said. And it's hard for people without people skills to stand up and take action for themselves too.
i really like soundcloud for drum and bass mixes that would otherwise be pretty difficult / impossible to find otherwise. I will miss it if it goes under :(