skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the big hitters got to buy in at $0.37 and everyone else gets a call chance at $1.33, at which point the big hitters have already tripled their investment. I guess that's what the get for foregoing the usual equity and voting rights that go along with stock. They have essentially been offered an opportunity to make significant gains on the back of retail investors.

I had hoped that this ICO was going to lead the way on being a fair model but it looks like they are going for the cash grab just like all the other ICOs to date.
> What's a black hole without a singularity?

A black hole with a lumpy interior. (It does not have to be always lumpy).

Consider two black holes of the type you envisage, where the mass and charge of each is entirely at the singularity point of each black hole. Let the black holes merge. How do two singularities become one singularity?
Tiny Core v9.0 Released
I've been learning with Simply Piano for about 6 months now and I'm amazed at my progress in that time. I'd highly recommend it.
I'm exactly the same. I'm using the white Nexus 5 that I bought on the day of release. I recently installed Lineage OS to bring some of the newer Android features in. I don't see myself buying a new phone for quite some time.
I found this interesting after spending a few weeks there this Summer on a whim. Everything about it is just so improbable. Tiny ancient place, Arabic-descended language, Mediterranean climate, built environment like some cross of Crete and Jerusalem, Catholic culture and social mores, English food-and-drink, and now also ugly sprawl and car-culture, receding nature, people everywhere.

All that and crawling with the families of minor Russian oligarchs and unashamedly advertising all sorts of tax-haven services. Just... weird.
Have you read the paper and determined they are not taking adequate precautions against overfitting?
Fat-Free Framework vs. Laravel
>Commercial HVAC systems like Liebert dont get 5-6 strikes at the plate to figure out how to avoid shutting off a customers heat in the dead of winter.

There's more money to test in that side of the industry, I'd wager. Unless the people developing commercial HVAC are simply better software/hardware developers than consumer companies' solutions.
But then who would deliver the ads?? /s

I completely agree, but with the arts as my object of fixation. I could never live the swanky life I lead without my current job, but damn I would have been a good potter. Luckily, there is still time...
The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
So he's a 1) bastard 2) off-putting and 3) not as successful as you want him to be.

C'mon dude. At least be consistent with your line of reasoning.
This is what I worry about, and what I hope to avoid by asking who's tried it. I am hoping that my analogy is more imperfect than that. ;) Requiring people to hand out an assist quota to anyone that helps them, I hope, might be closer to each player rewarding assists to anyone else who passes them the ball. Since it's all players giving assists for any reason to each other, and not a single ref only handing out assists for the shot, perhaps that will allow for a fuzzier definition of success and a system that is harder to game?
I didn’t said it was applicable in this case however US copyright laws are enforced over most of the world in one way or another via the trade agreements basically any deal that the US signs has a clause about respecting US copyright and a mechanism through which to seek grievances.
Yeah we don't do metrics, we gather short appraisals from a list of people that you provide, that you worked with throughout the year. You are encouraged to provide names of people that are outside of your group. So if you helped some other team, this is the way you cash in on that.

Helping other teams succeed is a cultural thing and your organization has to encourage it with its practices and procedures.
If we look back to WW2 and Nazi, US did still conduct trade with Nazi Germany, but the trade volume fell between 1929 to 1938, when US started putting up protectionist policy (soooo eerily similar to China today). when Nazi invaded Czechoslovakia, FDR slapped a 25% tariff on Nazi (but it wasn't an embargo).

Let's hope this time if China invades any country (Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam), we contain and hopefully counter right away.
No... Just no! Facebook crawls into every portion of our lives. I killed my account because of its insidious feature creep.

You don't put up photos of yourself in a swimsuit at work and would sue any workplace that demanded that you show them those pictures.

You shouldn't bring your political beliefs into work, and would be uncomfortable if your boss cornered you and demanded to know how you felt about the president or some tax policy.

But, this is content that is often on your Facebook page. By moving employeer/applicant relationships onto Facebook, it's associating applicants personal lives into the sphere of employer consideration.

It's wrong and I hope that nobody takes this seriously.
> I submitted my first promo packet, and the results were what I feared: the promotion committee said that I hadn’t proven I could handle technical complexity, and they couldn’t see the impact I had on Google.

Ha! I think the promotion committees have a rubber stamp with that justification. It's so vague and unactionable, yet they tell _everyone_ that on their first go round.

The second time around, you get to point their feedback and say "Last time you told me to do X, Y, and Z. I did X, Y, and Z. Shit or get off the pot."
Beyond Lemons and Vinegar: How to Clean with Ketchup, Vodka, Butter and More
"The worldwide attention given to the firehawks article provides an opportunity to explore the double standard that exists concerning the acceptance of Traditional Knowledge by practitioners of Western science."

I'm not losing any sleep over this "double standard."
I run Scribophile, one of the largest writing communities online, as a one-person business, though I have a ton of help from our volunteer forums moderators.

The story is pretty unimpressive... I had the idea back in the days when web 2.0 was the new hotness, so I decided to make it happen and use it as an excuse to learn web 2.0 technologies. It was a freemium model from day 1, though I didn't expect many people to buy the paid upgrade.

People seemed to like it, paid upgrades were getting sold, and after a while of it being a hobby I realized I could live off the earnings and decided to make it full time.

It allowed me to spend many years being a digital nomad back when that sort of thing wasn't quite popular yet. I traveled to a lot of places and met a lot of fascinating people. Now I'm settled at home but those years of my life were priceless.

These days we're one of the largest and most respected writing communities online, at least 3 of our members have been in Writers of the Future awards ceremonies, and our members regularly go on to be published by major publishers and smaller outfits.

I should also emphasize that having one's own business doesn't mean you're a millionare, like many assume. I make a comfortable living but much less than you'd think if you pictured a "business owner guy". I still very much consider myself a success, because I get to do what I love, and on my own schedule. (For example I took a little time off to start a new hobby, standardebooks.org, which produces high-quality, modern ebook editions of public domain literature, and releases them free of cost and via CC0.)
Facebook is pivoting into becoming Craigslist.
I was thinking that with a browser the need for on-phone apps is significantly reduced.

If one does want or need native apps (e.g. for security), then is it possible for a third party to emulate Google Play Services? Or do they use a certificate to prevent third-party clones?
Sure, there are many possible generalizations, some of which are more intuitive than others. But it should be clear that n=3 is a specific case of this particular generalization, for which I think the intuition is clear, which should help illuminate why the n=3 case holds.
The article while acknowledging the popularity of older models but focuses on refurbished phone market. Which makes me wonder, doesn't Apple already sell refurbs and they can try to grow in this market?
Get a popular sbc and a USB quickcam and use ssh+v4lgrab.
[video] Intro to JuliaDB, a package for working with large persistent data sets
The fraction of women with Erdos number one is already very small, no reason to assume that they are less important than corresponding man with the same Erdos number.
Screenly 2 takes Raspberry Pi digital signage to new levels
At many organizations, Senior Engineer is not the end of the IC track, not even close. For example:

... > Senior Engr. > Staff Engr. > Sr. Staff Engr. > Principal Engr. > Sr. Principal Engr. > Distinguished Engr.
View Detection Challenge: Help the Pentagon Analyze Satellite Images
It's not 'love', there is simply no reason to replace objects only because that's the plan of the company producing them. It's much better for the environment if we purchase a good, durable, high quality device that will serve us for years, rather than buy low-quality thrash and replace it every year.
Working on a new view for Indie Hackers that will allow you to filter more powerfully. For example, revenue-generating businesses with a solo technical founder and no employees: https://www.indiehackers.com/products?employeeCount=0&founde...
Nope; the benefit of being a good team player is that it helps you build relationships. Those relationships often turn into opportunities down the line. But it’s hard to drive that behavior at an individual level without creating some conflicts of interest.

This is why I generally dislike measuring individuals against specific metrics. I try to set individualized metrics for all of my direct reports — for example, if I had a developer who keeps checking in code without valid tests, code coverage might be a metric I track with him just to help him understand how he’s doing against his personal goal. Even within the same job description there is often room for a significant variation in technical and interpersonal skills, and you need a team with a good mix of both to be successful. A one-size-fits-all approach to individual metrics just leads to a team of people with the exact same skill set.

I think the way you measure teamwork is at the team level by having a consisitent set of team-level metrics the entire team is judged against. This means individual personality and career path variations don’t matter as much. I’m talking things like say, number of broken builds, velocity improvements, production issue counts, etc. These should be business outcomes that the product folks care about. If you make it the team’s responsibility, you’ll find teamwork happens more naturally.

This approach to performance management is in direct opposition to stack ranking, and a big part of why I refuse to work for a company that forces its managers to stack rank within teams. The question of “what makes a good employee great?” is so difficult to answer that if you have multiple high performers, it’s effectively arbitrary. It also tends to punish people who are maybe less technically brilliant, but have strong interpersonal skills (after all, how else does a mediocre programmer make it through a CS degree?) Those interpersonal skills often lead to better technical discussions and avoidance of miscommunication between technical folks.
Good stuff. I posted some technical videos about DTube/IPFS vs. HLS+CDN in the past few days (2x 20min), and design lectures in the past 90 or so days (2-3x50min)... I forget etiquitte about posting links but my profile has some pointers and I use this handle widely on the web. Highly recommend if DTube is of interest (unscripted+uncut, I rewatch them a few times for myself but share).
This is a hypothetical question unrelated to China's activities in Xinjiang: If I take an ethnic group off their land, put them in camps, force them to perform hard labour and prevent them from raising children, but do not murder any of them, could that be considered extermination?
Flipboard did exactly this with react-canvas[0]. Runs nice enough even on older devices (try this[1]), but it completely decimates accessibility. Looks like there have been attempts with Konva too [2].

[0] https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas
[1] https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/flipboard-picks-8a1uu7ngz
[2] https://github.com/lavrton/react-konva
Maybe they could use this for the JRE bundling: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/tools/javapackager.htm#JSWO...
? Israel defense budget is about 20 billion these days the military aid to Israel is about 2.5 billion without special congressional allowances.
Israel’s GDP is ~320 or so billion.

And if you wondering about the reason for discrepancies from the article above it's because that one is from 2012 the budget is larger and the US dollar devaluation against the Israeli Shekel by 15% since then, in fact fluctuations of the US Foreign Military Financing (FMF) as portion of the Israeli Defense budget are often due to currency exchange as much of the Israeli budget allocated in local currency is spent locally while the FMF is spent over in the US in dollars.

It's also important to note that the Israeli allocation of the budget does not include FMF or any other aid so when Israel allocates say 18 billion USD equivalent in local currency in the budget that is the amount to which the government will fund the defense ministry, beyond that the defense ministry has it's own internal budget which is funded via the Israeli government budget, FMF as well as any additional revenue streams of defense ministry such as rent, dividends from it's share of now privatized national defense contractors like IWI (form Israeli Military Industries) and IAI etc.
Concurring with sibling comments, last week I had a Lyft driver who was using that feature because she was ending her shift.
I'm saying that, at least as described in the blog post, the Azure function is unnecessary because that decision can be made on the frontend (or in the API client).

Here is how it sounds like it works now when someone visits https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

1) User enters abc123 in the form

2) The frontend translates that to the hash prefix 61ee8

3) The frontend interpolates that into the URL for the function, https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/{hashPrefix}

4) The frontend requests https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/61ee8

5) The Azure function interpolates the hash prefix into the URL for the response in blob storage, something like http://pwnedpasswords.blob.core.windows.net/foo/{hashPrefix}...

6) The Azure function requests http://pwnedpasswords.blob.core.windows.net/foo/61ee8.txt

7) The Azure function returns that to the frontend

Here is what I was proposing

1) User enters abc123 in the form

2) The frontend hashes that to 61ee8

3) The frontend interpolates that into the URL for the response in blob storage, something like http://pwnedpasswords.blob.core.windows.net/foo/{hashPrefix}...

4) The frontend requests http://pwnedpasswords.blob.core.windows.net/foo/61ee8.txt
A cacophony of management dissonance, bureaucratic internal processes, your job being outsourced to India and then being asked to clean up the mess created by said India team...

So basically Google is like any run of the mill tech department in a boring corporate environment, but with free food and a side project on self driving cars. Got it.
> Keep in mind as well that no observation has yet distinguished between a neutron star and a black hole.

No, that's wrong.

Narayan, R. and McClintock, J.E., New Astronomy Reviews, 51, 733–51, 2008 [arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0322 ] has a beautiful chart (Fig. 8) comparing the quiescent bolometric luminosity of star-to-accreting-neutron star binaries and star-to-accreting-black hole binaries. Observed NS binaries are brighter than observed BH (candidate) binaries.

This is one test for whether a compact accretor in a binary is a BH rather than an NS.

This technique was used by Bennett et al., 2002 and Mao et al., 2002 to find several candidate BHs.

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Bennett, D.P., Becker, A.C., Quinn, J., et al. (2002). Gravitational microlensing events due to stellar-mass black holes. Astrophysical Journal, 79: 639–59.

Mao, S., Smith, M.C., Woz ́niak, P., et al. (2002). Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment OGLE-1999-BUL-32: the longest ever microlensing event—evidence for a stellar mass black hole? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 329: 349–54.
The Lollipop TeX Project
Have a look at Rekognition: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition
There hasn't really been a must-have iPhone hardware feature since Touch ID. The faster speeds of newer models are nice, but for the vast majority of people, anything back to a 5S is perfectly adequate.

And that's a good thing - encouraging a culture where everyone throws their phone away for the newest shiny thing every single year is incredibly wasteful, even if it is good for AAPL shareholders.
I thought that Bazel's notion of "incremental building" was at the project level of granularity too. Is that incorrect?
afaik their "average individual employee" is actually pretty damn good. Anyway that's the point, if they don't care then you shouldn't remain there trying to impress them, especially if that doesn't align with your life goals.
yes, during 0.7 version, after writing docs on all active repos

the popularity of this thread on hackernews makes it obviously needed, and im quite certain with our popularity we would get quality pull requests from the community
hey man i love my boss :).
I would have used this phone forever if the battery life wasn't mediocre to bad. And yes, i put in a fresh battery that came well recommended. It took it from pathetic to just barely ok. It's a shame too, because just about everything else about the phone feels current. Even the design has held up well with the tiny bezels.

I always wished someone had made an extended battery mod for these with a different back cover or something. Or that someone had figured out a trick like the S7 batteries in the galaxy S6...
> personally my arm would be bouncing all over the place from car motion when the arm is extended that far.

Good point -- this screen would be basically unusable in much of Houston, TX, due to rough roads.
Some GWAS studies thats definitely true, but ultimately if the only signal you're picking up from the genetics is someones ancestry (haplotype) and that is enough to confer accurate predictions then Im not sure what your problem is? Thats great, plenty of people in the US for example have no understanding about what their genetics might confer because they might not even know where their genetic heritage comes from.
The problem is in measurability of a change. If I improve a developer or analyst workflow that makes 100 people 1% more successful, that's likely both more beneficial and also harder to measure than a change that makes 5 people 10% more successful.
> We miss the perimeter shooter who positions themselves just so to pull two defenders out of position, but give credit to the point guard who makes the now-easy pass for the "assist".

The NBA has an advanced metric for that called gravity. As you could imagine Steph Curry's gravity is through the roof.

Another related metric is +/- for when a player is on the floor. That one is more nebulous and error prone but it is meant to describe a player's impact on the floor outside of things like assists, points, rebounds, etc.
Nice writeup! You should definitely keep writing.

Regarding what to optimize for promotion: I would say it's choosing the right manager (and peers, to a lesser extent).

I know somebody who has struggled to get promoted for multiple cycles (funnily enough, in the same large group you were in). Then he decided to move, and the new manager went out of her way to get him promoted, and he got it relatively quickly.

I've seen this scenario happen a lot in the last few years.
As much as I'm against software patents, I do love the idea of companies like Microsoft using them on GUIs.

Bad GUI design will eventually literally be against the law.
That's different per legal system.

In which EU or EU member state jurisdiction is that not the case, please?
So, would you mind helping me see if I understand quadratic voting correctly?

Let's say there are 4 voters: A, B, C, D, voting on policies 1-10. Everyone gets a certain number of votes (say one per policy, so 10 total).

Voter A only really cares about policy 5 & 7. So they want to buy votes for these 2. They can give up their votes in, say, policies 1-4 to get 2 more votes for policy 5, and can also give up votes 6, 8-10 to get 2 more votes for policy 7. So they put 8 votes into the "common pool" in order to ensure that, in addition to their vote for 5 & 7, each policy also gets 2 extra votes?
Sidekiq is a one person business. The creator, Mike Perham, gave an interview about what it was like building his business: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/sidekiq-6e71309457
For a simple example, any music that “grooves” (makes you want to tap your feet) tends to not be perfectly sub-divided into 4 beats. Different players in the same band may be intentionally (and/or subconsciously) hitting their notes on different parts of the beat to increase this effect. In this type of scenario there really isn’t any substitution for practice and “feel”, a metronome would never get you there.

In terms of piano, GP may have been referring to rubato, or holding notes for longer/shorter than notated for artistic effect.
A few months ago I turned off Facebook notifications on my phone. Then I turned off Messenger notifications. I recently deleted the Facebook app. A month ago, the Messenger app moved to page two. Two weeks ago I deleted both from my phone (still have WhatsApp) and force myself to log out when I visit on my laptop.

I'm not sure this is the level of disconnection I'll remain at. (Maybe only in election years.) I do think it's a gentle enough curve that everyone should try it.

When I ask friends whom, among Facebook, Apple, Google, Netflix and Amazon, they trust most, the results are heterogenous. When I ask whom they trust least, it's universally Facebook. If you don't trust someone, they may not have your best interests at heart; keeping them close is like holding on to a toxic friend.
Are you referring to Swyft Card or Raskin? How are either significant, for the uninformed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7544389
Noticed your new project is a keto recipe webapp - this will have to compete with some good ones: https://ketodietapp.com/, and https://www.ruled.me/keto-recipes/ . Fascinated by how ruled.me in particular seems to have won the 'indexed by google' game for 'keto recipes.' Also fascinated by how much ruled.me might be making with adsense. Also generally fascinated by special interest communities and how to monetize them, any content around strategy here would be greatly appreciated!
Can Lyft “Nice” Its Way to the Top of the Ridesharing Heap?
How a small town reclaimed its grid and sparked a community revolution
Scoring in hocker is rare? Scoring in football^Wsoccer is even rarer :)

That's why they have a million statistics, these days. Goals, assists, distance covered, top speed, region of the pitch most used, etc.
Bwaha, revenue can be massaged even worse. There are companies making BILLIONS in revenue, and it all sounds very impressive until you see they are actually burning more money than they are even making. Profit can’t be more than revenue, but it can certainly be negative.
Great, now it's just a matter of time until recruiters start trying to contact me via FB. In which case... that will be the end of my FB usage.

In less snarky terms, spam is the bane of nearly every "jobs" site I've ever seen. Since FB attracts such a wide net, i.e., not very technical and skilled folks, it will be a significant challenge to make any kind of jobs/careers feature not turn into a noise-fest as they grow it. I wish them luck.
Google's Walled Garden: Are We Being Pushed Out of Our Own Digital Backyards?