skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your office even has beautiful floor to ceiling windows that gives you a nice view of downtown and sunsets.

s/Your office/some offices

My company currently has an office in the middle of the floor of a WeWork building, it's cramped for 4 people, and the only "views" I have are of the walls of neighboring buildings in the windows that I can see through ~4 other offices and are ~80-100ft away (but, times are a bit tough right now and I think we're getting a pretty good deal for an NYC WeWork office).

In general though, WeWork is pretty solid; their coffee is acceptable, and the beer is usually pretty good.
The tragedy of the ordeal is that she tried and was lined up against the wall regardless, mostly due to lack of civility and poor communication:

> But the email that Simmons and Simonsohn had sent was, in fact, ambiguous: They had explicitly told her to drop the P-curve and yet left the impression that the paper was otherwise sound. At my request, Simmons looked back at his original email. I watched as he read it over. “Oh, yeah,” he said quietly. He had a pained look on his face. “We did say to drop the graph, didn’t we?” He read it over again, then sat back. “I didn’t remember that. This may be a big misunderstanding about — that email is too polite.” Cuddy and Carney had taken their advice literally.
Zero means zero, yes?

Alpha particles can flip bits and cause erratic behavior, can they not?

"[The probability of] at least one bit error in 4 gigabytes of memory at sea level on planet Earth in 72 hours is over 95%"
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> It really was the first NoSQL database that many programmers used

That was because it was heavily marketed, not because of timing.

> Mongo was the easiest to experiment with and to get working.

It really wasn't, it was the one they had heard about.
A Future Ruled by the “Botnet of Things”?
I agree that Discovery (and maybe it's fans) takes itself way too seriously. After watching it I posted on reddit expressing a general dissatisfaction and wondering who the target audience is, I was instantly and repeatedly berated. Maybe they know their show is weak or maybe they're just assholes. Either way, Orville seems the better choice.
Unless you're competing and pushing for that last 5%, there's no need to rest 3-5 min. 1-1.5 min should be plenty except maybe the last set or 2 if you're really going for it.
Yeah, when playing soccer for fitness you really need to think about how you are going to play because it can be easy to get hurt. Sometimes when I am hurt I play my best because I play smarter and don't overextend. Position yourself well and be strategic and sometimes you'll be better than if you go all out physically.
And they were generally hostage situations and rarely turned into mass murder let alone taking down the World Trade Center and smashing up the Pentagon. Really not the same thing. You couldn't even pull off a hostage-taking on a plane today because the passengers would figure you're trying to kill them all and they'd risk their lives to kill you. That didn't happen back when passengers could assume they'd make it home alive!
> their mindshare is going to continue to collapse as the warts on their product show more and more

I'm not clear on why you think this—software products with huge mindshare and an open contribution model, get their warts fixed, usually by programmers sponsored by corporations repackaging the software (Redhat and Canonical with Linux) or running the software in a SaaS model (Cloudant with CouchDB.)
Tokyo is so dense that they have a need for that.

TTC is killed by the unions.

The Toronto Subway has changed collectors - 7 of whom, in 2016 earned more than $100K.

I'm not making a political statement - just indicating that public transit in Toronto can't move without the unions - and unless you want to pay through the teeth - and keep jobs around where they don't need to be ... no future.

In Frankfurt, most stations have no staff, it's mostly the 'honour system'.

There are some 'token machines' in Toronto but it's archaic in 2017 to be paying people to 'make change'.

I'm fine with 'employing them' but surely there is something more productive they could do.
https://medium.com/basic-income/why-land-value-tax-and-unive... is a great article on how to do basic income.

The problem is not so much general price rises, as rises in rent.
> Did I mention you're surrounded by empty rooms with doors that close? I mean hello, you get a door! It closes!

That doesn't scale though. If everyone who worked in a WeWork space wanted to occupy an empty room with a door that closes you'd discover pretty quickly what a hot commodity the are. And that can change entirely out of your control - I've worked at a relatively empty WeWork, only for a large company to come in and take over a lot of space on my floor. Suddenly all the fantastic facilities aren't available any more.

All in all, WeWork is fine, but not in any way worth the money.
I think they were violating guidelines in that they qualified as off-topic. Is that worth a flag? I'm not sure.

But I don't think they should have been flagged "because I disagree with them."
I'm working one on, it's more of a static app builder though:

github.com/tmzt/isymtope

Working on a major push/update.
hyperbole
We're slowly realizing that there's not actually a difference between dangerous drugs and miraculous medicines. The dose (and the circumstances) make the poison, always.
How is UBI any different from welfare if it is what you describe?

From your description, it actually sounds worse. As I read it, it sounds sort of like this.

1) Reduce Social Security (so steal people's retirement money that they paid in...)

2) Reduce Medicare / Medicaid (The group of people that receive these are often the one's least likely to be able to afford medical care (the poor & the eldery) while simultaneously being the one's most likely to need such care (at least the elderly)).
Wouldn't a better solution be exempting Mozilla from these checks? I mean really.. it's MOZILLA. The same one that Google, Microsoft, et al are teaming up with them to improve web docs but at the same time some (does gmail and htomail do it or not?) of these hinder it's mailing lists about the very same subject they are supposed to be teaming up on?

Other reputable mailing lists operators should also have all their addresses exempt from this charade.

What is the danger that mails from Mozilla are actually SPAM, seriously.

On the other hand, I just looked into my spam on gmail right now - 2 spammy emails (from shady domains, I guess they're okay, since they don't run mailing lists) and 1 genuine email, form a reputable big site, emails from which I always open that gmail judged to be spam (?!). Yes, it's promotional, so the 'content is similar to spam' but it's a newsletter that I subscribe to and always read, from contact@ a large genuine website, so what the hell?

I used to be subscribed to some lists and only read mails I found the titles interesting personally to me, I wonder if that hurt them too now...

'An algorithm did it' is like a new 'a wizard did it'. And it somehow exonerates the people who put that crap in place and then its up to the victim to fix it (complain on Twitter your YouTube was wrongly banned, complain on HN your AWS got locked, track mailing list readers to not get demerit for operating big mailing lists, etc.). This isn't right and often attempting to dispute it doesn't even work, with a human reassuring the victim that the algorithm was right until there is a mini-scandal and only then the decision is overturned. All with 'you broke our terms and/or social guidelines', no concrete information what even happened in the first place and then it happens again to someone (or to the same person again).

It boggles my mind a reputable behemoth like Mozilla can be stuck in a situation where they can't send an email to anyone until someone overturns the algorithm's judgement which takes a lot of time (because it's soooo hard to judge emails from Mozilla aren't SPAM, yeah, right).

I won't believe there isn't a way to do that because in that case Twitter, YouTube and Facebook would be penalized very BADLY for all their spammy notification emails many people leave in their social tab on gmail for years. Somehow they don't end up in spam ever (and many of them I never open and they would fit the description, especially Twitter updates about what's trending in my country, that I literally can't turn off since my account was judged to be a bot and locked right after creation and 1 Tweet and they now demand my phone number to unlock it).
OK.... so if I enforce "no hateful posts targetting specific people or people groups", I have to ban the person who posts "the KKK are awful people and I think we should jail them" as I do someone who posts "people with dark skin are awful people and I think we should burn them"?
Just so you know, the basic statistical problem with this type of research was pointed out back in the 60's (http://andrewgelman.com/2016/05/06/needed-an-intellectual-hi...), it's just that nobody listened.
Yes!

I found https://github.com/oaprograms/lingo-player, but it seems to have a broken dependency.

For (1), I have considered using https://cloud.google.com/speech/ because it's so cheap. I am learning Cantonese, and Cantonese subtitles virtually don't exist – frustratingly, everything is in Mandarin.
From lmbench, http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/lat_proc.8.html

Try it out.
If I'm not mistaken, WeWork owns a number of the buildings in which they have offices. Not sure what the percentage is.
Which can be easily identified and blocked..

"If <10% of users in the pool are actually being served ads, block that pool"
"If other rules w/in the campaign exclude x% of the pool, block that pool"
first mass market laptop to be exclusively on USBC? Yeah if anyone, you'd get expect them to get the USB C stuff right...

But it wasn't the case. It's downright infuriating to use.
That's not how it works. When you're shopping around your IPO before going public, you need to get commitments from institutional investors to buy your stock at IPO at a particular price. Just because people will start buying at +30% shortly after IPO does not mean you can get investors to commit to a 30% higher IPO price beforehand.
> Similarly, people don't go to WeWork because they need a desk.

Err, yes they do. I don't doubt that WeWork has an above average number of startup entrepreneurs in their office spaces, but every WeWork I've been in also has a lot of self-employed people who just want a small office space to work in.
It's a gradual process and you start feeling the pain fairly early on.
Rover.com made it to the list this year! I think that's a great milestone that we reached as a company.

If you like pets and want to be part of the future of pet care services, give us a try. We're hiring!
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVzKCk066g and this book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316113514/ref=as_li_tl?ie... suggest that it’s movement.

They talk about how complex movement in creatures typically correlates with the size of the brain.

Anecdotally, I’ve been doing the Cambridge Brain Sciences[1] tests every so often over the past few months to see how various things affect my score (mainly because I wanted to see which nootropics were most effective) and the best scores always occurred on days where I got exercise and the worst scores were in days where I didn’t and also got little sleep.

My absolute best scores (99.5 percentile, although the next days scores were much, much lower and my average has been about 50-60ish) were on a day when I got approx 1.5 hours of brisk walking (throughout the day, not all at once), 8+ hours sleep the night before and I had been taking nootropics. I imagine diet also plays a part, but I’ve not yet experimented. I’m also not sure f sleep or exercise affects me most positive, but together they certainly make a huge difference.

Nothing conclusive, for sure, but it does make me think that exercise/movement may play a big part.

[1] https://cambridgebrainsciences.com
I agree. I don't generally touch stories about new and important events on that topic, but when it's just a random gender-related submission that's bound to induce a flamewar in comments, I just flag it.
What made you chose those two companies among the million others?
First version of Turbo Pascal isn't the language discussed in the topical write-up. Of course Kernighan couldn't be criticising Object Pascal; and the author points out that the language has picked up new features since which makes it far more bearable to him.

The point was raised that Delphi isn't "relatively recent", and if that's true, from points 1&2 it then follows that the original Kernighan criticism still applies to it. I pointed out that the criticism is much older than Delphi, giving enough grounds to think an improvement is possible in the timespan of two decades.

Then you come with Turbo Pascal 1.0 out of left field, which bears no relation to any of the points. Noone was stating Turbo Pascal 1.0 is a "relatively recent" language, nor that the K's criticism wasn't a good summary of TP1.0 era state of the art.
Not really surprising; like many industries, the US style of warfighting is more capital intensive.

(Also, former military functions—even fairly core ones—have been outsourced to civilian contractors: in WWII, we didn't generally have non-military contractors providing security for US military bases in combat zones, which has been done in recent overseas operations. So, simply comparing uniformed strength, even aside from capital intensity, is misleading.)
He also was behind the new Cosmos series. Regardless of whether you liked the remake, you have to admit he's is a genuine fan of all things sci-fi and space related.
As far as I can tell he's never mentioned it, seemingly because it doesn't really matter to him at this point.
> Similarly, Facebook messenger wasn’t as popular as WhatsApp.

That depends wildly on country. That's only the narrative from a non-US perspective.

In the US, WhatsApp is basically unheard of, and most people I know use Messenger for everything because we're all on Facebook anyway so we might as well use the same service for everything.
You are right, although I found only one place where this was stated. It is corrected now. Thanks!
Toddlers’ screen time linked to slower speech development, study finds
Stakes matter. A million dollar poker game might be structurally identical to a game played for fun, but its effects on the people involved are very different. We wouldn't expect the players in these two games to think the same way.

Talking about the stakes is in direct conflict with the scientific ideal of focusing on the science without talking about its effects on the scientists involved.

For example, from Gelman's response: "I just wanted to emphasize that there’s no reason her career, or even her famous Ted talk, has to rely on a particular intriguing idea (on there being a large and predictable effect of a certain pose) that happened not to work out." Well, except that maybe she wouldn't have gotten a Ted talk without it?

He's saying, hey, this paper shouldn't have been as important as it was. And according to the scientific ideal, we shouldn't get too attached to any particular results. But in practice, putting bad results aside sometimes requires a significant change of identity. Forgetting about that, even for a moment, is always going to come across as tin-eared.

The scientific ideal is more compatible with low stakes than high stakes. But talking about the game as if it's low-stakes (or ignoring the stakes altogether) when actually it's high-stakes is always going to make discussions focused on the science alone come across as unsympathetic.
Yeah, and that is exactly why they are saying it.

The urban rail systems of 100 years ago were ripped out of the streets and replaced with bus-lines and consumer automobiles after considerable lobbying effort from auto-manufacturers. Public rail infrastructure has never really bounced back.

When the interstate highway system was designed and built, it bulldozed through dozens, if not hundreds, of lower income / minority neighborhoods. The public housing projects constructed as a replacement became problematic straight away. Guess which large companies at the forefront of the push for an interstate highway system?

Point is American cities have been shaped by these corporate forces for along time. In many of those cases, perhaps most, their influence and actions have hurt the community, disbanded or destroyed neighborhoods, made transportation more expensive and nightmarish (traffic), and benefited the bottom lines of 3rd party interest groups / corporations.

That is why we are skeptical of Google, or any other for profit large institution, influencing urban planning. Far better to set standards of urban design and have multiple smaller institutions, some for profit, some not for profit, some collectivized to represent of organized neighborhoods, all develop and participate in a dynamic urban planning system.
Famed Greensboro denim plant (last in US) to close after 112 years
I disagree with your premise that doubling the number of dollars everyone has would simply double prices. If you take someone that has $1 million in the bank, and magically make that $2 million, they almost certainly won't double all of their expenditures (they probably wouldn't change what they spend at all on a wide variety of categories - food or clothing, for instance). Rising inequality means that lack of demand is actually a big issue, since we're transferring income from people that would readily increase consumption, given more income, to people that will largely sit on that money. Globally speaking, our factories could easily produce more goods without raising prices much, if any. I believe a UBI would effectively be a transfer of wealth from people that have lots of money (but don't spend it) to people that don't have lots of money (but would readily spend more if they had it), but it wouldn't be the zero-sum game that people often assume it would, just by virtue of our productive capacity not being nearly maxed out.
http://brainscale.net/dual-n-back
Simple demonstration of hole punching for logging
> However, nothing else is really known about AutoML. Unlike Alphabet's DeepMind AI, AutoML doesn't have a lot of information available about it...

> It described the intricacies of the AutoML system: "In our approach (which we call "AutoML"), a controller neural net can propose a “child” model architecture...

At first I was nonplussed by the 'code' being ML models, but that now has great value and are currently the abstract (hw+base sw) machines of tomorrow.
Introduction to Webpack (Module Bundling, Loaders, Plugins, Babel)
It's sort of sad that nvidia does actually support wayland, but only on embedded side. Can't say how good the drivers are but I've worked for a good while for nvidia tegra's & wayland and they well. There was one issue one the drivers that I had access to: mmaped memory leaked file descriptors but besides that, performance was better than other hw in similar price range I was provided with.
I found this case study video to be a good summary of what went wrong with Blue Apron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQkAEei08w
"lined up against the wall", really? I think you would be more convincing if you toned it down a bit on the metaphors.
Along the same lines, I'd love to know if they have power savings, fan control, or other configuration refinements baked into this (or available to pull into other distros) for their hardware line.
That's part of it for sure. $50/month in 1945 was about 50% of median individual income. $1,700/month in 2017 is about 70%.
The thing is, as far as I can tell, it's only other users that have been using that name. I haven't seen Blow use "Jai" or "JAI" himself (aside from the file extensions), though he doesn't make a fuss about it when people ask him questions about his language and refer to it as "Jai" or "JAI".
Which generation XPS is that?
> As I indicated up-thread, I'm mostly on your side of these politics.

I know, and I think we are mostly in agreement. I generally don't like seeing individuals dragged through the mud. It's also somewhat unfair to judge her actions pre-replication crisis by our standards post-replication crisis.

I also agree that a single study failing to replicate is not an instance of malice or incompetence, in fact I think all scientists should expect it to happen. But that also means that no career should be built on the back of a single study. It seems that she is still sticking to her guns even after 11 failed replications. That does cause me some concern.

> but how many years self-replication studies are you willing to run on $20k/yr? At some point you get the quality of science you can pay for...

Then maybe one should more hesitant about promoting those results?

> If Harvard hired Cuddy because she gave a popular TED talk, then that was an extremely poor hiring decision by Harvard. But that's a separate issue from the one we're discussing.

I think it makes me more sympathetic to her case. If Harvard had not hired her, or TED not promoted her, she would not have been subject to nearly the same scrutiny or ire as she was. Ironically, she might have had a better shot at a good long-term career. But who, at that point, would have turned down either of these prizes? I know I wouldn't have.
> It is however..simple. Very simple. It's easy to reason about. It's easy to setup. For 90% of use cases it's very easy to administer.

I think most of HN would feel this way about, say, Redis. And Redis isn't "highest scale" or "most durable" or "most available" either. (Though it is pretty reliable.)

It's interesting, then, to compare the general impression people here have to MongoDB to the one they have of Redis. To me, Mongo is a "why use it when Postgres is just as easy to install", while Redis is exactly what I'd think of "to bootstrap a project, but three years later it's still running."

Is it just the slightly-different pitched use-cases of "working store" (Redis) vs "persistent store" (Mongo)? Is it that Redis still has its uses even when you've got Postgres there beside it, whereas Mongo doesn't so much (at least since Postgres got JSON columns)?
Proper RDMS databases have two phase commit with transactions.....
You probably mean USB 3.1 for which PCIe 2.0 x1 Bandwidth seems not sufficient, but USB-C can also serve USB 2.0 and charging independently of that, or am I wrong?
No. It's a gray area. What matters is being transparent and receptive to discussion about it.
Overprescribing and somebody taking a super expensive variation to market worries me too. But it's probably unavoidable.
Detecting earthquakes accurately (mostly by subtracting noise) has historically been technically difficult, as well. I wonder how many orders of magnitude more noise reduction is required for gravitational waves, as compared to earthquakes.
It was parent's metaphor, not mine. The substance holds.
They're not off-topic according to the guidelines so far as I understand them.
Sequence is a system of record for managing balances in applications
Verizon Agrees to Paid $17M to Resolve FCC Fraud Case
Are studies of "downstream effects" considered to be replications? It sounds like they are something different.
The output binary has no dependency. The dependencies listed and Rust are only necessary if you want to build from source.
Apple: even its most banal features require a proficiency in machine learning