skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I went to grad school at a unionized school

Me too. One time the department admins decided it was too expensive to have the restrooms in the grad student offices cleaned more than once a week. We're talking about a men's room with a single toilet and a single urinal, shared by a dozens of people pulling verrry long days (some were just sleeping in their offices). The restroom was already pretty gross when it was being cleaned 3x/wk. Predictably, the change to 1x/week cleaning made things much, much worse. Honestly, it was a health hazard at that point. The administration didn't care. Faculty didn't care. Everyone could see that it was disgusting, but no amount of griping by the people who had to use those facilities had any effect.

Someone finally had the bright idea to contact the graduate student employee union steward, who was himself a graduate student in another department. He came down, took one look, and walked over to have a chat with department administration. I don't know what was said, but they resumed 3x/wk cleaning immediately.
Thanks. That helps!

For those who want to know more; here's what I found:

https://github.com/yeriomin/YalpStore - The readme is a great place to start.

On F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstore/

EDIT: It looks great!
How We Grew Our Shopify App to Earn $21M in Customers' Sales
Really? I guess it depends on who you talk to. One of my good friends works as a consultant at Facebook, and they are always complaining to me about how sensitive Facebook is about security. Minor things are scrutinized and require threat modeling and security review before they’re even considered for implementation. They say it’s worse than when they worked for the DoD.
There are quite a few, mostly German. For the hubs themselves look at Schimdt SON, Shutter Precision, or Shimano. For lights, Busch & Muller, Schmidt, or Supernova.

Most dynamo lights use a reflector (more like a car headlight than a normal bike light or flashlight) so despite the lower lumen output they can actually provide much more useful light on the road.
You can raise taxes to pay for most of it because everyone has an extra $10k. You might need to do it in a sneaky way so people don't just see it as a wash for them personally. But still, I agree with you, UBI ain't happening in the US any time soon.
Unfortunately, no. It's entirely up to NVIDIA to fully support KMS and Wayland, since they make a proprietary out-of-tree driver, and it doesn't seem likely in the near future.

This is, IMHO, the biggest advantage (other than hardware cost) that AMD has over NVIDIA right now.
Meet Otis, the Fattest Bear – Backpacker
I think you make some very valid points. To be clear my view isn't that blockchain is going to make banks obsolete (this blog post sums that up pretty well: https://blog.chain.com/a-letter-to-jamie-dimon-de89d417cb80). For example, certain activities that you mention, like M&A, are not going to be easily improved by just introducing a blockchain.

What a blockchain is useful for is eliminating the need for a centralized, trusted third party. Where I could see this being very helpful, and a potentially disruptive force is in areas like IPOs, mitigating counterparty risk, reducing conflict of interests, etc.

For example, if companies can raise capital and create liquidity for themselves with ICOs, the demand for IPOs will decrease. If investment banks break the "Chinese" wall and engage in market manipulation, then having public companies put their accounting on a public ledger will reduce the dependence on quarterly earnings reports. If more players are able to access the financial systems because they are on public ledgers rather than private ones, it will make it harder to banks to engage in oligopolistic behavior.

None of these things are guaranteed to happen, and certainly they won't all happen overnight. I do see though, the potential for these types of changes to slowly chip away at some of the revenue streams that banks have enjoyed for a long time.
The problem is to assume that he's a sociopath, but I'm inclined to think not, particularly in light of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15512398. It's possible to have empathy for someone whose actions are disgusting. The world isn't black and white.
Why would professors be in favor of a move that would likely make it harder to get the cheap labor needed to churn out publications?
How does UBI take into account mental incompetence, addictions, poor decision-making, bad luck, and bad investments, and where do you draw the line?

Don't a lot of welfare payments have strings attached, with regard to what you can spend it on? UBI explicitly does not, so you can use it for anything you want. If UBI did completely replace the social safety net, and someone gambles/fritters away their basic income and can't get a job to make more, are they allowed to starve (or depend completely on private charity)?
I frequently see people saying that they'd love it if Microsoft dropped a One Drive Linux client. My guess is that those companies could compete with Dropbox, with little real additional effort.
It seems odd they make a big deal about tabula rasa, but won't release the source for verification.
These comparisons are incredibly dishonest.
The UK is successfully going through a re-districting process at the moment. So I don't think it's impossible.
Understanding Customer Experience
I have been drunk before; probably more often than my fair share (I went to college). While alcohol has disinhibited me, it has never prevented me from distinguishing between right and wrong.

While alcohol has caused me to overestimate my dancing abilities or to tell a friend things that I regretted later, it has never made me say things that I did not believe or made me do things I knew were wrong.

Sorry, but alcohol is not sufficient to explain groping or Mel Gibson's rants.
Scoble's not a sociopath. He's a man. Pretty normal. Not exceptional.
The fairness doctrine was not found to be unconstitutional.
Ubuntu 17.10 released
How easy it is to forget the scientific method begins only after a hypothesis is proposed.
Yeah it's not clear. Sorry about that.

The form is just a mailto form to test how mailto links are handled in your browser / setup.

The real purpose is to use the bookmarklet at the bottom of the page on GMail.

The real question is why didn't I just change it and make it more clear? I don't know. I like mailto / protocol forms. They're pretty cool. Sending data from browser to almost anywhere, not just HTTP POST and GET. I really like that. One reason is it signals the vast affects you can have with something so simple as plain old HTML.

Ok, I'll make the font-size of the Bookmarklet bigger. Done

Edit: I also noticed the Runkit site is slow sometimes. Here is a CodePen version in case anyone needs it: https://codepen.io/dosy/full/aLMOBQ
I've spoken to a few of the women I've worked with about this before, and honestly you'd be shocked how much absolutely does go on, right under your nose, and you don't notice it.

How did everyone get home from the last happy hour the team had? Who shared taxis? Do you remember who shared with who? I certainly didn't. I was pretty drunk and what does it matter anyway? Well, turns out that after one night one of the managers shared with a subordinate and made a totally inappropriate move on her. Turns out he has a habit of doing it. I had absolutely no idea.
I understand where she is coming from, but I don't know that I can explain it effectively. Even trying to do so tends to get me accused of blaming the victim.

To attempt to explain it: One of my criticisms of Cheryl Yeoh is that her BATNA wrt to sexual harassment was that she has a black belt. So, I think she did not feel compelled to try all that hard to make sure to avoid trouble and misunderstandings. She felt safe, even if the worst came to pass. I think that was a contributing factor to the incident in which Dave McClure sexually assaulted her. *

That does not make Dave's behavior okay. It in no way excuses it. But if you take the position that women are simply victims who have no power at all to influence the social environment in which they participate, I think you do more harm than good.

Most discussions of "rape culture" assume that only men can do something about it. It assumes that only men create "rape culture" and only men can work to stop it. This is an incredibly disempowering way to view women. I think it actively reinforces the problem in insidious ways.

That said, I am totally okay with Quinn Norton successfully enforcing her boundaries with Scoble by stating clearly and unequivocally that if he touched her again, she would break his nose. He was drunk. She had just met him. He was in the midst of trying to rape another woman, then sexually assaulted Quinn at first introduction in spite of witnesses. This was not a situation where more polite, respectful measures were going to work.

But I also understand her mixed feelings about expressly seeking permission from the organizers to break his nose, should push come to shove.

(Edit: In case you did not know, I am female and very open about being a rape survivor.)

* https://cherylyeoh.com/2017/07/03/shedding-light-on-the-blac...
They were men, actually. Again, rather than speculate, I suggest you get over your fear of Breitbart and just go read the interviews.

Damore didn't say or imply what you're claiming either. I wonder how carefully you read what he wrote, if at all. He talked about interest at the population level. He didn't claim female Googlers weren't as good as male Googlers. That was a strawman thrown about by people who couldn't argue with his actual points and so preferred to argue with something else.

So - lots of assumptions on your part, all wrong. Not the type of data driven analysis I remember Google exalting, back in the day.
Sway 1.0 will have a different means of configuring the keyboard, but only incedentally. I think that there's nothing wrong with the environment variable approach _or_ with writing scripts.
> Uber's been running at a consistent loss.

So do a million other startups. That doesn't mean the drivers don't get their money.

> Ponzi Schemes don't have customers?

The majority of the scam's revenue comes from payments from workers rather than sales to customers.

> It's the exact same behavior - pay us to make money.

Pyramid schemes have pyramids.
I think the advantage it gives you is that you can optimize the mechanical structure of the rocket parts.

I speculate that the disadvantage is that a many extreme environments also have hard requirements on the microscopic material structure of the components - and that will also have to be managed at the extruder/nozzle (as well as in the temperature and pressure environment afterward). Getting the materials properties right is much more finicky than the mechanical scale printing. And might change when you change the mechanical design (e.g. do you is there more material on some corner - then that might cool slower, which might give you a microscopic weakness around the corner...). I think you'll need world class materials modeling to do that right - and you'll have to do all sorts of validation that produced parts are ok.

In comparison, the spaceX welding techniques have less to worry about - the weld itself as well as properties the change/arise around the weld - the rocket tube presumably already at it's designed material strength.
Marxism as an analysis technique and as a political philosophy are totally different. This is not surprising.
Then there you have your answer. That is who set them
Do you have a source? The screenshot from Uber itself indicates otherwise.
Where did that effect the numbers?
There's loads of jobs on the east coast! And plenty of remote work even if you can't move. Start looking, who knows what you'll find.
Uber drivers thought leasing cars would boost their credit scores. Wrong
Abuse is no excuse.

> abusers of all varieties tend to realize the mileage they can get out of saying, “I’m abusive because the same thing was done to me.”
— Lundy Bancroft, "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men"
In both cases real wealth is lost from the economy.

State sponsored destruction of property.
Same with a private blockchain....

You are right. That's dumb. That's my entire point!
Academia is essentially a class of institutions and/or an industry concerned with higher education. Of course adjunct professors would be associated here.

Apparently you are missing the irony in such critical theory, post-structuralism, marxism, etc. having been so vigorously theorized that it's application was overlooked! The "system" here is quite late to blame itself and the brazen approach to doing so is
a bit humurous.

Are you seeking to divide academia into smaller parts; innocent ones and guilty others? Where have we seen that before?
Can We Generate Software from a Spec?
I think you should reconsider that dismissal: everyone needs n > 1 instances for reliability while increasingly few tasks require more {CPU,RAM,IOPs} than a single server can provide. That means that a growing percentage of problems will require clustering for reliability more than performance, and that favors the easiest to manage since in most cases every option will be fast enough.
Hmm, I work for a competing nosql company and the good news about the IPO is:
It should raise the visibility of all database products, not just Mongo.
The second part is that IPO for a database company is viable in this climate. Some of the early workers have been waiting for a long time for the IPO. I bet this spawns a new group of seed investors.
It's the only place I can be pretty sure a "flashlight app" is actually a flashlight app and not going to ask me for extraneous permissions. It's great.
Warburg Effect confirmed
Police, insurance, and fire department are paid services to protect property. UBI is a scheme intended to increase consumption, that is, destroy property.
Seems unlikely to drive the cost of education lower.

The value of a degree will continue to lose ground against the cost. This is not good.
Sexual abuse is not normal.
The blockchain solution is slower you mean.

A blockchain solution has the same code literally running on every single node.
Wait, are you suggesting that people shouldn’t post their own stuff to HN? Or by “promote on HN”, do you mean posting on Twitter and telling people to go upvote?
Sounds like an episode of Black Mirror.
We just launched our re-design using the beta (https://www.drugbank.ca). We couldn't be happier as well.
I pay $400/month for an office for four. Probably another 100-200/month for random services like Internet access via an ISP, general commercial liability insurance I'm required to carry by my landlord, and other random stuff like, idk, paper.

You absolutely can get a much cheaper office than WeWork. Maybe not if you focus is MEGA GROWTH and you're going to hire 100 people in the 5 days it takes to get a basic network setup going (calendar time, not wall clock - ISPs take time). But that's not the game I'm playing, been there done that, and the place I worked just got bought for about 1/5th of the capital it raised, so I'm kinda over it.
Emotional Fugitive Detector turns your face into a game controller
Marklogic has a much better design when it comes to durability of writes and ACID in general. Disclosure: I work for Marklogic.
Same. I learned about it while in uni and got into it thinking that it'd help me improve my academic performance. While I don't know of a good way to measure if I have really increased my intelligence, I did noticed that I could focus longer on my tasks: studying, coding, solving problems, etc.

Nowadays, I could study for a couple of hours before going for a short break. I know that some of you don't think that's good enough but for someone who used to struggle with procrastination and being "easily distracted", I am happy with the result.
The solution is less people becoming PHDs.

Unions, and the like, just move around the real problem, which is that we have too many people in academia, and that those people should move to industry.
After watching https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ videos (a guy in Canada who works for/owns an industrial/military turbine engine refurbishment shop and publishes great videos on a lot of the details), I've thought about trying to 3d print an inefficient, cold, boring, small jet turbine -- I know GE has already done a reasonable job of it, but making one which can be made at the lowest possible cost and skill level as a learning experience would be interesting. Unfortunately the machines are still a bit too expensive for recreational use.
Please cite something or elaborate. This is a fair statement, but it's hardly an excuse in this context. I think you are stretching the meaning here. Marxism is not an ambiguous term.
Surely there must be some kind of statistical method to prove that this is happening, the drivers should start logging and sharing data so someone can analyze it.
GNOME could just use those gifs. It's plain gnome, I have this in Debian 9, or am I missing something?
This is the second comment in this thread criticizing the biopace, what exactly was the problem with it? It seems to me that the oval chainring is seeing a resurgence lately (in the MTB community at least).
You got hit by teamliquid's anti hotlinking filter
That is such a lovely service.
When auditing smart contracts you need to test them privately. So you run a test network with this or testrpc or ...

I'd imagine it's good for developers as well for quick testing.
Adjunct professors are notoriously overworked by the rest of "Academia"... they're like the H1B workers in tech.

Face it, the entire system probably needs an overhaul but isn't governed by some sort of "evil overmind". Small regulatory or incentive-based changes or movements like unionization will probably cause the system to re-adjust.
Thank you for those (and the first link especially). That's more in line with what you said originally.

That said, it is a bit suspect that it's always the same reporter writing about this topic. I'll have to dig into this some more, thanks!
With regards to point 4, the 99 names of Allah supports this. It's very precise on which parts Allah is powerful at, e.g. The Creator, The Raiser of the Dead. There is still omnipotence, just not infinitely so.

Also if you look at wording, it's things like "Most Merciful" rather than infinitely merciful.
Thank you. Links to catb have no place in a rational discussion. Gun nuts, racists and men's rights activist should troll somewhere else.
When something competes with established channels for individual fulfillment, the people who control those channels (politicians, manufacturers, priests, ministers) will oppose, vilify, and demonize it.
Nobody's saying being drunk is an excuse to do things or gives you permission.

Some people have repressed thoughts, feelings, etc. that they might act on when dis-inhibited. I recall one coworker being drunk and going from happy to angry repeatedly and another one pouring out his heart to me about his unhappy marriage. I discarded those events and never asked them about it, but I imagine that if this is what happens in a purely vocal way, then someone drunk acting in ways they only didn't before because they were sober means there are deeper issues only hidden and controlled by the rational mind prevailing during sober times. This is why those that went through something like the 12 steps become fearful of getting drunk/high again, since they recall their destructive side. Some people have "demons" they only release if dis-inhibited by being drunk or irrational due to a primal instinct in control.

This means some people should never drink at all.
In real-live-production workloads I've had nothing but pain with MongoDB. They see more like a marketing and sales team piggybacking on a strange and immature database technology.
Ending with dignity
Uhh, no thanks. The research money should be spent on research, and the student tuition should be spent on students.

That research and undergraduate education are combined together is the real problem here.
Facebook security chief, in leaked audio: Facebook should boost cyber defenses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15506334
It smell like a consulting company ...
I would speculate that their eventual end goal is to be bought out by either SpaceX or Blue Origin. A small space launch startup focusing on one technology isn’t going very far on its own, and few other companies would have an interest in their approach.
Agreed. It's great that we have domain-specific approaches that can beat humans in their domain (and that we're learning how to make these approaches more generic so that, with re-training, they can adapt to new domains), but the real "oh snap" moment will be when we build something that's barely-adequate but widely adaptable. Something with the adaptability of a corvid or an octopus, say. If we get to that level, it'll mean we've discovered the "universal glue" that joins specialist networks together into a conscious entity.
> It doesn't matter how easy to is to scale if it doesn't do it right.

I would refer you to an earlier comment:

> In general NoSQL solutions are optimized for certain use-cases at the detriment of others

Your definition of 'right' is absolutely not the only definition of 'right'.

More to the point: there are a lot of problem spaces where the data integrity provided by MongoDB are more than sufficient.
This phenomenon is likely due to Uber’s incentives timing out around the same time, meaning many drivers are competing for less trips as promo end nears. It’s highly unlikely they are doing something actually malicious.
There must be so many other applications for a 3D printer of this size and quality.

Custom cars seems like one direction that has a lot more volume.
The super-secret Google X lab has hired its own lobbyists in the nation capital
What's wrong with that interaction?
I learned 80% of my current (high) level of English when I was about 14 in about a year, besides the 3 or so hours at school I tried to immerse myself in the language any way I could, and I achieved a good reading, writing and listening level (spoken came with practice later), I did:

- listen to songs and follow the lyrics
- read simplified books or children's books
- watch movies with subtitles in English
- listen to American radio
- read computer British magazines

Picture dictionaries and regular English dictionaries helped too.

Extremely important, as in anything you want to learn is motivation, I was really motivated to learn.

My only "pro tip" is not to memorize vocabulary using isolated words, but complete sentences.

This was before the Internet, now I don't know what the excuse would be...
Another possible exit scenario is to be acquired by ULA or another cost plus contractor who is grasping at straws to become competitive against SpaceX's reusable vehicles.
Marx was first and foremost an analyst of class in history, and capitalism. That's Marxist analysis, which can be largely divorced from specific communist implications.
Didn't South Park do an episode where Robert Scoble took a photo of himself wearing nothing but Google Glass in the shower, or did that really happen?
We can totally have both "old" bikes and new ones.
oh wow, it's almost like opening in a new tab bypasses this!
These huge moon caves could shelter humans
Industry left to China: https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i41/Chinese-chemistry-PhD-gr...

The only thing that the US is producing these days is student debt.
You are misunderstood about my point. I do not assume any authoritarian presence.

I guess it's just textbook components of neo-liberalism: priorities which lead to bloated administration and marketing initiatives.

I agree unionizing is a good solution. One would think the experts would have acted sooner; that's all. The trajectory has been obvious for a very long time.