skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does every use case for this tech involve some stupid "my laundry detergent can order more by itself" bs? I don't need my laundry detergent to order more by itself for the same reason I don't have automatic bill payments turned on. It's not a legitimate use case as far as I am concerned.
Unhelpful if you're a female: PDF
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/cfawis/bowles.pdf

Even trying to put yourself in a position to negotiate doesn't work: PDF https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/orsc.1110.069...
Long Cyphering Key (3000 to 27000 Bit), Large Prime Numbers, Binary ReScheduling
I think I might be one of the few people in this thread who now want to buy an echo specifically to root it and play with possibility connecting it to my own servers...
David Rockefeller’s Rolodex Was the Stuff of Legend. Here’s a First Peek
Winning money at a casino doesn't mean you made a good investment.
You've got it backwards. They're paying people in low cost of living locations less not the other way around. If you frame it that way the economics make a lot more sense; one of the reasons places like SF and NYC are so expensive is because everyone wants to be there for all the jobs. Competition is high and salaries adjust accordingly. Also, speaking from experience (biased toward the financial side of things), you save money just on the talent differential alone hiring in tech hubs vs taking advantage of cheap real estate in a less trafficked area.
Reactopt – CLI React performance optimization tool
What do you mean by 275 seats..? EC votes or what? The polls were pretty accurate - they tightened to 3ish% in the end IIRC and she won by 2%.
> Hence the need for the coordinator. The coordinator will be turned off once there are enough transactions to secure the network.

I already said this in my comment, no need to reiterate it. You didn't repeat, though, that there's no ETA or rough threshold of when it would be safe to turn it off.
This is why I love Youtube live channels. They just play a constant stream of music without having to sign up or do anything else complicated.
Zipcode is an integer? What about zips in New Jersey?
wait... you contacted the cellist???? wow, ok. I'm impressed with your research! Who was the cellist? That might help me. If it was something he had with him, it was more likely for a gig or a student. I did a quick check of all Dvorak Quartets- but didn't hit upon the passage. I chose Dvorak because of the pre-copland what would become the American vibe. Don't you think? The reason I don't think it's by Ry Cooder is because not in his composing purview- also not by a film composer there probably because would not want to be caught bringing in something from another gig, no? I'm sticking w Dvorak for the moment- I must have just missed the passage- major key at least...
Very good. The only missing feature would be a way to be able to navigate with the music still playing. Perhaps a simple "open in popup" like a lot of radio website used to do would work fine. Ideally having the website as a single-page-app.
A lot of the points in this article are good, but I don't agree with the Cost vs Revenue section.

There are often a _lot_ of benefits that come with higher sales beyond simply revenue. For instance, you may reach a higher order threshold with your supplier, unlocking better pricing across the board. Or you may show better growth, attracting investors or other momentum.

There are definitely customers where cost is more important than revenue, which in my experience are companies "run by the accountants". In my years of consulting and being inside growing and dying businesses, I see there's 2 main drivers of a company: sales, or the accountants. One focuses on growing at any expense, the other focuses on cutting costs and minimizing risk. They aren't generally compatible, but they both have their place. Some company heads focus on one or the other, and some can balance it.

There's no way that you can claim cost savings are more valuable than increased revenue, it's just too complex.
Show HN: Chrome extension that puts a comment section on any site you want
> [...] if you don't like it, don't make your thing open source.

Or you use the GPL license instead of Apache.
> Nobody, or next-to-nobody, would want to have that.

I wouldn't say that. I think that everyone would want it if it didn't add more work, cost or mental overhead than it would remove. And to do that it would have to be ridiculously reliable and simple and be integrated into the products rather than work as an add-on. That won't happen for many years for many of those products.
That is a very salient point. I don't recall it specifying when the SF prices are recomputed, but maybe we should give them the benefit of the doubt here.
IoT furniture + tags. Put stuff [with tags] into cupboards and whatever, and when you're looking for something you can locate it [via that damn' app], so cheap & green tags would be nice.

Similarly tagging stuff that you bring yourself to any group event (let's say you are an event organizer and you hand out things and you want to easily account for them).

Sole pressure monitors in shoes would be great to detect problems with stance/gait/load, etc.
MyTwoCents adds a comment section to any site you want (client-side). The idea is to offer discussions on sites where there originally is none or where comments are disabled. I could think of it being used on news sites, youtube with disabled comments, netflix, live sport streams...

It currently uses the Facebook comments plugin (let the hate come... :D, but I chose it for simplicity for the MVP, and for mainstream users) and comments obviously will only be visible to people with the extension installed (so little bit of a chicken and egg problem).

Happy for any feedback and ideas! :) Also if you have any ideas for what sites/communities it could be useful, let me know...

And if you wanna share some love on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mytwocents <3 :)
77-Year-Old Artist Who ‘Paints’ Japanese Landscapes with Excel
Well, I would recommend you search for Spark, and check the website of AdaCore

But, I would suggest that investing in Rust might be more valuable for one's career
I am learning a bit of ADA, only for educational purposes and to scratch an itch, it is very different from anything I used, and I like that
I can recommend Isso, it's rather easy to install and use.

It also seems like the project is working on a moderation UI, I'm waiting on that.
What are the best channels for bots? The bigger picture
Briefly:

1: grind up the middens (sorry archeologists!)

2: put the resulting slurry in a bioreactor (an open tank would work) with your bacteria and stir for a while

3: rinse and drain tank. Spin down the rinsate.

4. Profit!
Yeah, that's volatility. I'd talk to a financial advisor. There's plenty of financial products and investments that can help you reduce that.
While the article was interesting, I completely missed the significance of the two code examples. The second example of creating a graph query in SQL via temporary tables brings back some MySql nightmares. I was late to realize the first example was a three line replacement with a graph DB. That is sweet!
College is a bad decision for most people
Ah yes, as we all know all sexual assault is equivalent touching a knee. And no one faces harassment after putting their story out. No one.
Winter takes care of that for the tree's. No worries, the surface will be potted and uneven in a year or two.
I don't care about Republican voter opinions on Moore. Similarly, I don't care about Democrat voter opinions on Moore. It isn't up for us to decide, but the courts. I'm so glad we don't live in a system where a party's opinion would land me a prison sentence.
Writing a C Compiler, Part 2
> Yesterday I wanted to install bitcoin core

Why did you want to do that? Altruism? Just so that you could truthfully write this comment?

Bitcoin users don't have to do that.
I cringed at that too, but to be honest, this is the least ridiculous implementation of the "automatically order consumables from Amazon" idea - because all the prior versions required you to buy an expensive piece of electronics to mount on something that itself is ~100x cheaper. Here we have a disposable dumb device with no electronics, that could be 3D-printed or mass-produced via the usual techniques.

That said, the usual caveats to this idea apply: it's too easy to have the device order stuff when you don't need it or don't order stuff when you need it, and I definitely don't want to tie myself to a particular retailer.
That's not why. See the article. Google has stated this is because amazon doesn't sell certain google products through their store, and doesn't allow prime video on the chromecast.
The benefits of having it "blockchained" that I see are that:

There's a trend of open sourcing blockchain code and the smart contracts that run upon it, meaning anyone can go and write a client to generate the tags or display the data without relying on a company's proprietary API or private IP. Despite this the guarantees are still there for the consumer.

In addition to that, the whole system is described in code that anyone can audit and is not susceptible to any human error (if done properly).

Ultimately this means that a company can't render all the RFID tags useless by going bust.

You're right, someone could go and host an API for charitable causes, but why do that when smart contracts are open source by default and do not require dedicated servers doing just that one thing.
Yes, there is definitely enough evidence to conclude Ray Moore's accusers are telling the truth, if you use "beyond a reasonable doubt". Too bad so many people politicize this and take it way beyond reasonable.
Justifiably so, given the immense professional risk in publically outing the harasser. (e.g. Weinstein’s attempts to dig up dirt on the accusers)
Software, the process not just writing the code... is so complex (often times even irrational) in terms of interactions (all kinds) that as humans we continue to treat it as damn near alchemy because our comprehension can't keep up.. I think to get what you're looking for there might be more hope for systems writing systems to understand more about what's going on than with humans.

I'm not sure how much sense that makes but anyway I look forward to reading more
Author here - thanks a lot for the feedback, it's appreciated.

You're right on the naming convention, it's very haphazard. I'll raise an issue on Github to revisit that - although it may take me quite a while to get to it as I have a two week old to look after right now :-).
I hadn't heard about this feature update! Thanks for pointing me at it!
I meant that F# itself is optional. So are tests, by the way, and therefore also completely useless.
Proof of work isn't about forging transactions, it is about ordering them.
I would say the person doing the sexual abuse is clearly the worst person and the clear bad guy- yes people shouldn't enable them, but not cancelling a contract or something like that is not the same as doing sexual abuse. And it's not like cancelling the contract would've prevented the abuse.
Initially when I saw this open salary approach and especially the calculator I was intrigued. But you cannot make salaries into a formula and get 100% good results.

The approach Basecamp (37signals) has with picking a location, then paying people based on 95% percentile (top 5%) market rate regardless of where they live is just much easier to explain to employees than some arbitrary multiplier thing that just leads to endless discussions.

https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-people-at-basecamp-f1d...
US says it doesn't need secret court's approval to ask for encryption backdoors
What do you think of Libratus which won quite convincingly against top players in no-limit Texas hold ‘em poker?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libratus
While I commend the author for taking the time to write this article and sharing their experience with the community, I can't help but think that this is a solution to a problem that was created by the very team that solved it. Or maybe another way to think about it is that this accelerator is attacking a symptom of a larger, more systemic problem.

The real problem I see is a system composed of over 3500 frequently changing modules, all with the concept of repeatability (ie release versions) removed. The issues with snapshots only aside, the core issue is the massive number of modules involved.

I mean what is the ratio of modules to engineers? I don't know the size of their engineering team but assuming it's around 100, that ends up with 35 modules per engineer!

Looking at it from another perspective, what's the ratio of modules to features in HubSpot and their internal tools. My guess is HubSpot has less than 3500 features...so now you have more modules than features?! That implies that functionality for a single feature spans multiple modules and isn't organized properly. Again, a fundamental architecture problem that should be solved rather than patching maven to work around it.

Even with a magic build tool to handle this at build time, the system is so complex just with modules alone that it's fundamentally unmanageable in any holistic way, which is probably why they stopped bothering with releases and went to a snapshot only approach.

My unsolicited suggestion to them would be to focus on reducing the complexity of the modules and their interdependencies along quantitative metrics like modules:engineers or modules:features ratios. It varies by org of course but in general, worst case should be no more than one module per engineer and definitely less than one or equal to one module per feature.

It's great that they've open sourced the tool but if they don't solve the underlying complexity problem of their system they're going to spend most of their time solving problems that they've created. This time would be better spent moving their product forward which would benefit all stakeholders at HubSpot.
over-engineered stuff that does not really connect to anything! but needs a special device to permanently listen to signals from the 3d printed toy.
The most popular Marvel and Star Wars mobile games have used loot boxes since their respective releases 2+ years ago.
Softbank's purchase of ARM is looking like a genius move even more now.
> Mr. Rockefeller recorded contact information along with every meeting he had with about 100,000 people world-wide on white 3-by-5-inch index cards. He amassed about 200,000 of the cards, which filled a custom-built Rolodex machine. He kept the 5-foot high electronic device at his family’s suite of offices in New York City’s Rockefeller Center for about half a century.

5 foot device just for rolodex cards. Wow.
I don't think anyone who works remote starts in Nashville then goes to NYC on some thought they could get a salary increase to cover.

I may be misunderstanding what you're saying, but people definitely move from places like Nashville (where I live now) to places like SF and NYC (where I'm moving next year) to increase their salary.

No one pays devs mid-six-figures in Nashville, but you can make that in SF and NYC (not easily, but possible).
If it was IBM, it could get up there real fast in performance, by reusing power.
Unfortunately, they're having issues letting go of the power ISA.
What Bacteria Can Tell Us About Human Evolution
Yeah, I have zero design sense and just went with the defaults of a bootswatch theme that I liked :-)
I did not want to imply it was unjustified.
Digitale Kassensysteme – Lage in Österreich
Succeeding by making use of open source is not "stealing." Were Sony's developers stealing when they integrated FreeBSD into the PS4? No. They were following the licensing terms set by the FreeBSD project.

Apple's XNU is actually also released as open source (for the most part; last I checked, the parts that pertained to iOS weren't exported). It's based on Mach (which wasn't licensed in an open source way! http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/FAQ/license...) as well as 4.3BSD (which is BSD-licensed).
Can you quantify and measure it? If not, shut up.
> As Cuba works to limit damage to its reputation and economy, its government has produced TV specials and an online summit about its own investigation.

I guess if is deliberate, it might be interesting to look who would benefit from it? It hurts American diplomats but it also hurts Cuba's position. Would stand to benefit from Cuba looking bad or from hurting the improved relationship between Cuba and US.

There was talk of using something like a passive listening device, say something embedded in the walls or furniture that's not powered but has to be activated with a ultrasound beam. Something like The Thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) but miniaturized?
Not really. It wholly fulfills being financially responsible through this basic tenet -- buy low, sell high. Few asset classes can appreciate in value as astronomically as BTC and it would be prudent to overcome sellers' remorse.

Some may regard "going long" as the bedrock of strategic investment and realizing short-term gains is erroneous, but few will put it towards their retirement. There's absolutely nothing wrong with liquidating assets for life purchases (or even vanity projects (within reason)) rather than dutifully drawing down for one's twilight years.
Hello frik, Redis at this point is still handled by me directly for most parts, but we got recently (a few days ago) a new OSS payed contributor, https://github.com/artix75. Fabio works part time but 100% at Redis OSS. Additionally I receive help from Redis Labs core developers, and by an impressive Chinese community, see for instance the work made recently by http://github.com/soloestoy in pull requests about bug fixing and improvements. Plus other spontaneous contribs from other companies or individuals. I continue to be the person that writes most of the new code, basically, but without the contributions to bring stability, testing and investigations to Redis, it would not be practically possible to continue the development alone. Not now that we have so many subsystems: data structures, scripting, modules, replication, cluster, sentinel, persistence, and so forth.

About message queues, I developed recently one called "Disque", but this is going to be totally ported to Redis, as a module, during the first two quarters of 2018. Otherwise there are many other solutions, many of them are based on Redis itself.
This is a truly awesome technology. But ITT an abundance of nit-pickiness on how this isn't exactly what the title says it is or how it could be presented better.

Yes, the nitpicks are correct. But wouldn't it be more inspiring to talk about how it could be used?
Webmention is quite a cool tech, though it seems to have a very low adoption outside the indieweb community. The validation tool seems to be broken too [0] [1] and a lack of compliance [2] in the community. It's probably also not good that there is only one test suite, I'd feel more comfy if I could validate against more independent suites.

[0] https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/26

[1] https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/32

[2] https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/27
The audit log already exists, or else how would China have found and prosecuted those executives?

The problem at hand is ensuring that the information that makes it on the chain is correct, or at least that other members of the chain have a way of noticing and repudiating that contribution. Cryptocurrency blockchains accomplish this via proof of work and forking, which is why everyone is so interested in the technology. But the only reason they work is that the proof of work mechanism is literally what keeps the network running, and if the network isn't running, all of the sunk costs miners have made are effectively worthless, so even though the miners don't have a reason to trust each other, all of their economic incentives are aligned. The only reason to fork is if you think some people have defeated the proof of work mechanism, or if they are pushing a different version of the blockchain software, which wouldn't be allowed in any real-world application anyway.

Proof of work uses inherently useless calculations to determine that one isn't flooding the network with transactions, because every transaction with a correct key is just assumed to be correct. What real-world application does that map to? Certainly none of the ones in the article, which is why these companies don't use proof of work, they use permissioned blockchains. But a permissioned blockchain is effectively like a standard write-only database with an audit log that each individual in the production line has a password to, which is trivial to accomplish with existing tech. The only way other actors can verify if their peers' inputs to the system are correct is if they verify the physical results, and now we're right back where we started, where you can't trust the system more than you trust any one individual, but now with a db that's at least an order of magnitude slower than any competitive option.
yeah thought the same. 100k USD is next to impossible for a web developer in Berlin for example, and salaries for devs in Barcelona are considerably lower than here, maybe a max of 80k USD. That guy is living like a king.
Postgres is definitely a great choice if you want a taste of NoSQL-like flexibility while staying in the familiar SQL world. In my eyes, ArangoDB provides similar benefits if you want to move beyond SQL without going "all in" with a pure graph database.

You can model your data as documents and use arbitrary joins to start with and then restructure your data in terms of edges and vectors when you run into situations where you would benefit from graph queries. It's not either-or and because ArangoDB is multi-model you can mix both approaches in the same queries.
Are you confusing finance for accounting? There's still not a terribly great distinction here, but accounting is way off.
The damage done to Amazon would benefit them a lot more than the laughable fine from the EU would hurt.
They state they pay 85% for Average CoL area and 75% for Low CoL area. So they wouldn't halve a developer's salary who moved from San Francisco to somewhere else. Working in San Francisco gets 100%. Now I don't know how their SF salaries compare to other companies though.
I would be shocked it this didn't happen. Calling accusers "liar" is pretty much exactly what everyone has initially done for, well, pretty much as long as people have been accusing each other or anything.

I understand your point and am hopeful that at some point it goes the other way and the rightfully accused say "ugh...better to just admit it and try to move on with my life too."
Rocket Jump: Quake and the Golden Age of First-Person Shooters
I'm not sure how this works but if the breeding depends on the "genes" of the parents and isn't completely random then virgin cats might be more valuable because they haven't yet made their genes more easily available via their children?
"The map is not the territory." -Alfred Korzybski
So my WiFi should easily be able to detect if my (all metal) garage door is open or closed? I would like this. I run dd-wrt. Is there an all-software solution to this? Or does this research rely on fairly specialized hardware? (sorry, didn't have time to read the whole article)
I would not applaud if my company would decide to make my salary open.
The PostgreSQL Query Cost Model
At the end of the section you referenced, regarding endorsements:

> So I contact friends and acquaintances, and put them to work.

I think that's all there is to it.
This is delusional. How does someone have the nerve to put a paragraph like this in a blogpost about how they're giving almost every employee a paycut?

The question on everyone’s mind was “Can we afford this?” and “is this sustainable?” When we sought input and advice from those outside of Buffer we also were asked, “Why would you pay your team members with more generosity than you need to?” As it turns out, our answers are: Yes, Yes and because we believe it’s the right thing to do.