skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Someone being bombarded with messages like that is not going to see much of a difference."

Tough shit. Trump doesn't see any difference between questioning his net worth and threatening his business and way of life, and he wants to use the power of the state to punish journalists who insult him so egregiously.

As another example, there are plenty of folks out there who would like to see you punished for the insults against cops that I've read in your past comments. The line I often hear from LEOs is that such mindless prognostication on topics like Eric Garner's death ultimately costs police lives, and should therefore be treated as terroristic speech. Our dear president seems to agree, so this is not an idle threat.

You really don't want to live in world you're promoting, whether you know it or not.

> "You're also ignoring the silencing effect the speech you're defending has on other groups"

Cool, so it sounds like you'll empathize with the white nationalists who claim to be silenced and oppressed by constant pro-immigrant propaganda from the media. There's a very good reason this line of reasoning has never been used in the U.S. as a criteria for deciding whether speech is protected.
As an employee, it was pretty apparent people didn't want you there. The Stranger would post inflammatory articles about tech bros and unflattering caricatures.

My girlfriend and I moved up from Texas completely unaware of the stigma. She worked in bars and restaurants, where the staff would disparage customers suspected of being tech yuppies. I even remember being a guest at a BBQ once, I told someone I worked at Amazon (timidly) and the response was "Oh, you're one of those assholes."

Coming from small town Texas and being lower income, it was a weird time for me. I was newly middle class and when I would go back home I felt weird about my income, but then being in Seattle I felt unwelcome.
I've done it in the past where there's a prescreen phone interview, a homework assignment, then a non-coding exercise interview and it works pretty well.
And that standard was upheld by judges who were very clear that they were wearing blindfolds when it came to obscenity law. It is a huge step backwards - Rather, many many small ones by two irredeemable groups, both with good intentions and results that are comparable to serial killers - that we're even talking about "Hate Speech" as if it were a thing.
Drone footage of Seattle's new 57 foot SR 99 tunnel [video]
Stock photos are often pretty ridiculously sexist. My favourite are "mansplaining stock photos".

For alternatives, I like https://www.stocksy.com/ -- they're a platform co-op, and have good quality stuff (I'm not affiliated, although I do like co-ops).
...and it didn’t survive the lengthy process of legal challenges and revision. See: Miller Test
Forget the Pixel 2’s display problems, Google’s new flagship far too fragile
Note that they do let you swing by the factory in South San Francisco and to pick up your machine, if you like.

They also offer some kind of tamper resistant packaging, but at this point we’re entering a hall of mirrors of paranoia. If you have some clever system to resist interdiction, if it’s cheap and effective, I’m sure they’d consider it.
I've lived here for 14 years and it's come a long way. I was here when Amazon was merely a place down in the International District before it terraformed SLU.

You know what everyone bitched about then? Microsoft. And MS has done more to take over sections of the city than Amazon ever has, and ever will. Microsoft "killed" Seattle's soul by setting up shop in Redmond and Bellevue and causing urban flight. (Note: I don't particularly believe any of this stuff.)

Now Amazon is the new target. Whatever. Fair enough, that always happens. But Seattle was "dying" just like every other West Coast tech city before the bigger players got there.

What's not cool is railroading "techbros" who are merely 23 year old graduates making good money working a job they probably don't necessarily like very much, but living in a city that is still pretty damn awesome regarding quality of life. And regressive housing practices are driving prices up north of the Bay Area in some locations, all legacy policies that were long on the books before any of this expansion occurred.
THE SNAPCHAT HONEYMOON IS OFFICIALLY OVER
Well, except WebAudio. That standard omits some essential low level audio primitives while featuring an incomplete scatter of high level APIs.
Are y'all trying to say that an 8-16 hour homework assignment is too much to bear for a new job? You're happy in your current job...great. But 8 hours for a $10-$30K salary bump? I mean, worth it from a pure monetary standpoint, even if it takes several attempts to attain one of those jobs.
Proton, at least, was exclusively a purveyor of badge engineered cars up until pretty recently.
It's a recognition that there are complications beyond the simplistic picture one can get without personal experience. This often includes time, budget, and policy constraints the individual has no control over.
> So if you really want that "dive bar but might get stabbed" vibe you can move there?

As somebody who's lived there my whole life, :(

I know we were just ranked the most violent city in Washington (or something) but tbh it's never _felt_ that way.
They shouldn't have to compensate you for a trivial exercise to prove your ability. This isn't production-code type of problem, these are usually toy problems just designed to show you can code and you care about quality.
This is a clever idea. Good job! I would love to see a real vim plugin as v-yadli suggested.
That’s logic, not Law.
Yes, my calculation is one-directional. Two directions just doubles both costs and profits (and is probably necessary to make it appealing, and for fire safety reasons).

The bigger problem is that I casually listed average vehicles per minute, but in practice you likely have barley any traffic at night and four times the average during peak hours.

Also "finance over 50 years for free" is a giant stretch. Even at a theoretical 0% interest rate the opportunity cost makes this much more expensive in reality.
> It's also funny that many of the people complaining about this issue were first wave gentrifiers pushing out people before them in an effort to get to the hot neighborhoods. It's frustrating how many Seattleites refuse to admit their own hand in this process.

This, right here, is what drives me the most nuts about all of the complaining. Of the handful of native-born Seattleites I know (yes, yes, anecdotes don't make data, I get it), they're split about half and half between "meh, who gives a rat's butt" and "holy shit my family is rich for the next nine generations because my parents got divorced in the mid-90s and both of them bought a house in [Ballard | LQA | Capitol Hill | Magnolia] and they've said that's my inheritance."

There's a poster on reddit who typifies this to a T. He regularly whines and moans about the construction, traffic, noise, and people around his place on Capitol Hill. The thing is, in his rants, he gripes about how things were so much different when he moved here 20ish years ago. He refuses to see that HE was also a "dirty gentrifier" considering people didn't move to the Hill in 1997 who weren't looking for that hippy cool vibe and bar doors you could get all kinds of exotic diseases by simply walking past.

Cities change. They always change. Sometimes they change in ways a particular person likes; sometimes they don't. But this whole business of "good Seattle" is just crap.

> everyone in the region knows the "new Seattle" is Tacoma

I've been to Tacoma several times. They can keep it.
I avoid phone calls for anything technical because even without IPv6 it results in stupid misunderstandings at a rate of several per minute. I don't even want to think about the number of times I've had to explain the difference between a backslash and a forward slash multiple times in one phone call.

But, I would imagine you'd want a set of auto-generated names in your DNS zone for your organization. That's how I'd handle it anyway. e.g. if I had a few thousand IPv6 addresses, I'd generate a few thousand word-based subdomains in my second level domain. If you wanted to get fancy, you could make them pronounce-able (e.g. two words could easily represent thousands of IP addresses). I dunno if people do this, but it's technically easy enough, requiring only a few lines of code to generate a zone file, and solves the problem of sharing it over the phone. I've noticed most hosting and cloud providers provide names for all of their IPs; so even if your own DNS isn't working yet you can usually contact your IP addresses using the name the provider has assigned (it's usually somewhat clunky, like "sw-48he839.pool.domain.tld", but more humanly usable than an IPv6 address).

Of course, if you were trying to get it from someone outside of your org where those names don't exist, it'd be ugly. But, maybe it'll finally make people stop thinking you can solve any technical problem with a phone call. That'd be a win for my happiness, anyway.

But, really, we should just accept that we shouldn't deal with addresses directly. Once we got a naming system we didn't need to remember a string of numbers, anymore, even though it was possible with IPv4 (and I'm guilty, too; I used to have several of the servers I managed IPs memorized...a dozen or more of them). And, with cloud-based infrastructure, the IP of your host might change all the time. I don't know or care what the IP of any services I have running in AWS or GC might be (except the frontend EC2 of GCE instance).
> And Elon Musk is the worst thing to happen to tech.

I would say the worst are the people who religiously believe everything he says, independent of any constraints or consideration of reality. I think he does undeniably accomplish some pretty amazing stuff, but that doesn't make me blind to his more idiotic ideas.

My favorite symptom of Elons delusions of grandeur so far, is his announcement to wanting to utilizing rockets as a means for intercontinental transportation, "London to New York rocket flights in 29 minutes". Maybe we can find some volunteers for a few test flights in a falcon 9? [http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41441877]
Cities of eternal spring
The best data I could find is here: http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/minerals/mineral-reso...

That document lists 51GT of 'accessible economically demonstrated' iron ore, with an production rate of 0.81GT per annum, and 86GT of inferred resources (ie. yet-to-be-prospected).

So there's at least half a century of ore left, even if production ramps-up steadily. 1% prospected doesn't seem supportable though; it's more in the range of 50% based on the ratio of the inferred to known figures above.
> Interesting, because most police officers don't need to go to school for it to get the job, right?

It's usually not a minimum requirement, but a degree, usually in criminal justice, can be a significant competitive advantage in applications.

You don't strictly need to go to school to be a professional programmer, either, but people still go to school for it.
People in technology use the machine metaphor for the human mind literally. See neural networks and even basic terms like Artificial Intelligence (there are no and have never been any intelligent machine or program). This certainly is not a strawman.
I am thinking about spectrum comparison, like shazam does
Maybe that's a curse in disguise. Too much choice, directions to branch off in causes dissonance. Paradox of choice.
> I've wondered what sort of security issue PayWave is..... what if somehow a criminal got a PayWave reader and surreptitiously touched it to everyone's bag and pocket on a crowded train? Is there a possible exploit there somewhere?

Yeah, I thought about that too. On the plus side, Apple Pay works pretty much anywhere PayWave is accepted, and Apple Pay requires a fingerprint or face.
> and the response was "Oh, you're one of those assholes."

Frankly, and I mean this with all sincerity, fuck those people. They're what happens when empathy dies and envy takes its place. Ask any one of them if they'd have liked to immediately be vaulted into a six-figure salary with a stable company and a benefits package that would make a Congressperson blush and I bet you six shares of AMZN (that I've never own, full disclosure) that they'd take that deal in a hot minute.

The bulk of the animosity about the "asshole tech-bros" seems like simple envy to me. To wit, lots of people are moaning about all of the wealthy people moving into the Central District and decrying that others are being "pushed out." Something like 72% of the CD was, four years ago, owner-occupied, so the people who are leaving (and, presumably, making bank on those properties they've owned for two decades) are doing so of their own free will and profiting from the sale.

Yes, housing costs are a beating here but the bleating coming out of Wallingford and Magnolia and Roosevelt can just shut the hell up because the bulk of those voters ARE THE REASON that new housing doesn't get built at the rate it needs to be built.

/end rant

//sorry about that
Out where? East of Redmond is MOUNTAINS. West of Seattle is WATER. So shove it way more north and south? And increase traffic 10 fold while waiting 30 years for the highways to catch up?
> If such a bias does exist it won't be eliminated because they aren't allowed to ask a single question.

Agreed.

> Most research I've seen show that it's the women who are failing to take initiative in asking for raises, rather than the employer purposefully holding them back.
Yet the pretext of these laws is always under the assumption it's the employer actively doing something to block it instead of passively not offering it to people who don't ask (for whatever cultural or biological reason), likewise the women are not active but also passive in this situation.

I don't get that impression but that's a fair point.

> Additionally you made the same jump in logic to assume women aren't getting the same jobs, the study was limited to promotions and this can't be easily assumed either.

Is it unreasonable to assume that someone with a higher position and more responsibilities would have an easier time landing a higher position job at another company? Or perhaps I'm not understanding what you're saying?

> This isn't about blaming the victim either but if you're going to micromanage it at least have to clear motivations and end goals that are being controlled for...

Fair point.
Bad aesthetics and non-existent information architecture of visually obsessed people are unskillful detractions from credible calls to action. Even church and restaurant sites make actionable perusal difficult much less parking an event or registration in a calendar app easily.

Splashing colors, fonts and pictures around free text is not marketing. The prevalent transactional design SOP over the last few decades was A/B's on "pig lipstick" for customers often not capable of judging possibly good outcomes. We suffered (and sold) multiple delusions of "portals" and "destination sites" only imagining their own immersive relevance to customer gazes. Those who did better or avoided over investment were exceptionally wise.

We have years and decades to clean up the Web dump from inoperative airbrushing at most local or broad market service reaches. I don't know who teaches real decision support based information architecture for commercial markets. We have data now on what works and what does not with requisite methods and metrics. Someone might fill a gaping niche.
> I doubt any merchant ever has been punished for violating the cardholder agreement in this fashion.

There used to be forms on the Visa and MasterCard site to report this specific violation. So, yes, I imagine some merchants were reprimanded for requiring ID.
I've been signing my name on credit card statements with a smiley face for years now.

Living in Saigon Vietnam now, doing anything out of the ordinary like that always makes people smile.
Was Seattle stable when you were growing up? I hear people talk about how much Seattle has changed but that seems like the norm.
Ah, but some terminals will still require a signature with Apple Pay.
As far as I can tell, there is no analysis of the video data mentioned in this article. They're only comparing numbers of complaints with and without cameras.
Or make it real data:

#define KEY_TABLE(ENTRY) \
ENTRY(MODKEY, key, XK_p, spawn, ...)\
ENTRY(MODKEY|ShiftMask, key, XK_p, spawn, ...)\

Then:

#ifdef KEY_TABLE_ENTRY
#undef KEY_TABLE_ENTRY
#endif//KEY_TABLE_ENTRY
static Key keys[] = {
#define KEY_TABLE_ENTRY(MOD, KEY, FUN, ARG) { MOD, KEY, FUN, ARG },
KEY_TABLE(KEY_TABLE_ENTRY)
#undef KEY_TABLE_ENTRY
};
In contrast, full transparency of body cam footage could and would compromise ongoing investigations and identities of people in witness protection and so on. So full transparency in private/closed court or redacted versions showing only 'relevant' information in public/open court. Maybe full transparency after the information in the video becomes irrelevant, but micromanaging a hude amount of body cam footage would prove to be quite difficult.
For this kind of project, given the stakes involved (e.g. a defendant's freedom), why would you want to use the brand-new framework-of-the-month that the cool kids are using?
I think the examples track pretty well. You could say that body cameras somehow cause a rise and reporting that exactly offsets the reduction in violence, but that’s not even wild conjecture. It’s worse. It’s inventing factors to make the data fit, factors that are by definition not measurable. Whatever we measure, it’s possible to invent a factor that makes the measurement completely wrong.

Scientists could similarly argue that there is another particle that only shows up when we measure that happens to look exactly like the Higgs boson in every way we can measure. But then everyone would call bullshit.

Again, if there are better/other things to measure, that’s legitimate criticism. Simply inventing factors that make the valid measurements null and declaring it impossible to actually measure isn’t.
Link to "Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal" c. 1500 BC. Modern arrangement could easily score the opening to a new David Fincher film ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AKedKrxoLI

21st Century notation software is fascinating in the way it bridges classical technique into contemporary sound production. It allows for the tiniest nuances in composition and engraving. A combinatorial ruleset of very high dimension indeed. While simultaneously integrating with state-of-the-art instrument synthesis and production software. It's just a remarkable attention to detail and UX design. I'm really inspired by it. Truly software as an "Extension of the Mind"!

Dorico | Steinberg

https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/dorico/start.html
Agreed. I've only given it a cursory glance, but I've read several people bemoaning how awful it is. And, I think it's an example of what happens when APIs are built by folks who aren't actually building things with them. Audio always seems to get screwed up by engineers, sometimes for years. Linux had absolutely shitty audio up until...like yesterday.

It's a feedback loop, I think. Almost nobody uses the web for serious audio because the web sucks for serious audio, and thus almost nobody who uses the web for serious audio is working on the standards for web audio. I admire anyone who can make the web platform work at all for anything audio related.
Some effort? Sure. Raking prospects over coals in discriminatory interviews that don’t actually test for coding ability? Nah. Bad hires are bad, not disastrous and the response in the industry is wildly out of proportion.
2004 wrx sti. I bought it new, it's been fun ever since.
Who are the administrators of blockchains?
I hope not. This arbitrary distinction between people you're allowed to laugh at and people you're not is just assholes pretending to be nice people by following the popular culture. You're not doing that, but you can see here on this thread someone complaining that I wasn't supportive enough of the suffering of alcoholics. Who would have guessed they had to be respected but adventure tourists didn't?

Anyway, don't reply because I think you're just here to release your frustrations without understanding things. You've used brags and personal insults which show that you want to engage in an argument but you don't have anything constructive to say.
Isn't that true of everywhere?
Same thing has happened to Venice, Santa Monica, SF, Bay Area, etc.. the world is constantly changing. The only constant is change.
React Bootstrap with Material Design
"“This is the most important empirical study on the impact of police body-worn cameras to date,” said Harlan Yu from Upturn, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit consulting company that studies how technology affects social issues. It was not directly involved in the research. “The results call into question whether police departments should be adopting body-worn cameras, given their high cost.”"

The point of police body cameras is to have positive evidence of police behavior. If the presence of cameras reduces the number of reported incidents, that is a nice side effect, but otherwise completely irrelevant.
It's just standard provincial water cooler talk about how someone ruined the place because it changed. It's basically just code for "I've lived here a long time, so respect me for that". I grew up in Seattle, and I remember when they complained about California people migrating up, and then the horrible Microsoft Millionaires, and now it's Amazon. This kind of griping is what happens when very little interesting stuff is actually going on.
Since I'm not terribly great at the technicals of playing a piano, I thought I would do really well with a piano roll, but in practice, I find it much easier to read sheet music. Some reasons why:

1. Piano rolls spend a lot of visual real estate on functionally unimportant stuff. You need to see the full 7-octave range even if you need to play only 3-4 octaves at any given point of time. By contrast, traditional scores let you use clef changes or 8va/8vb notation to do access different ranges, allowing the full range to be compressed in around 2 inches or so of space.

2. Even worse than pitch range is the difference in the time dimension: when you have a piece that varies between long, sustained notes and bursts of short melodies, a traditional score can give you the pitch contour of the first part and the sufficient detail of the second part. A piano roll means that you either have to stretch the first bit out so long you can't see the overall contour or you have to make the second part so small as to be virtually unreadable (or, as I've found on some pieces, both!). Alternatively, you might opt for a non-uniform mapping on the time dimension, but that is probably going to screw players up big time.

3. Piano rolls (at least every one that I've seen) are unable to reflect useful ancillary information, such as dynamics, very effectively. Admittedly, traditional scores tend to suck at reflecting the true dynamics very well, but they are more than adequate for getting people to reproduce them in a rather recognizable way. It's kind of like written text and language--our written languages, even IPA, can't faithfully reproduce spectograms of human speech, but there's sufficient information to reproduce sounds that we can understand as pretty accurate speech.

4. It definitely seems a lot harder on a piano roll to recognize patterns that ease the actual playing of the tune. For example, seeing that this section is an earlier section at a different tempo, different key, different pitch, etc.