skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
250kms from Bangalore. Road is like 4 hrs journey and I live in HSR. So considering the journey to airport and everything road is cheaper and takes almost the same time.

Also flights are cheaper only nowadays. It used to be unreasonable.
SCRUM does not push for bad, tech
debt laden products any more than any other development system. Managers who want you to push code out the door ASAP will do it just as much no matter the system you’re using.

The solution is not to blame whatever particular form of agile you’re using; the solution is to replace the bad managers if you can’t educate them on why that’s short sighted.
A lot of Distributed Systems patterns in a single talk
And it is for reasons like you mentioned that I discourage everyone I know from using debit cards for anything.

I only use credit cards for purchases, and I control when the money moves around. And I always pay the balance every month.
The customer, whoever that may be, is certainly an out group in that case
It certainly isn't perfect. You have to interview the reference a little too, not just "how was he?"
Why do people jump so eagerly to this assumption about the wishes of the dead being unimportant? We honor wishes of the living concerning the exterior world beyond the mere facts about their brain state (e.g., someone can justly want to climb Mount Everest or set a world record, and not just believe they have). Continuing to respest their reasonable wishes after they die is not fundamentally different, e.g., not desecrating their bodies, even if they don't have family who would be upset.
http://cultofthepartyparrot.com/
Audio samples for various levels of noise would help a ton. Would even be fun to write a fool which could detect it.
> FOSS with donations is a perfect monetisation strategy.

Only if your monetization goal is less than a few bucks per month.

That's some serious Shit HN Says. Thanks for the chuckle.
Society has long treated human bodies very differently than mere documents.
What every socialist country ever has learned is that eventually, you really do run out of other people's money.
Tesla has multiple revenue streams though.

Solar installations (via SolarCity acquisition) should ramp up during recession if they still provide cost savings to consumers compared to utility rates.

Semi trucks are also a product line that at scale should be able to deliver savings to large delivery fleets.
It's not uncommon to see vital documentary footage that was crudely digitized twenty or more years ago, to a resolution that was less than standard TV resolution at the time. It looked okay on TV then, but looks horrible now, and the originals are lost forever (since that was the point of digitization, to save rent money in the long run.)
I remember seeing that OS/2 circle on books and boxes and it never even occurred to me that it was 'the' logo. It appeared as if a single (OS/2) circle was a unit applied indiscriminately.
I have an open source project that got quite popular lately, and I can tell you that I just spent 100+ hours to add 2 lines of "code." No, they were not code, they are two lines of configuration to make a piece of hardware work. 100+ hours. Two episodes of headaches. Two new pieces of hardware purchased out of pocket. Two weeks of waiting. From kernel driver code, dkms to ALSA. Pages and pages of manuals. Asked for help on tons of places from forums, reddit, github, emailed, only a few suggested what I already knew. No one knows the answer. Two lines made it work, and I had to figure it out on my own.

That's the level of optimization that I have been doing with a project that has only hundreds of users but are building momentum for something I believe in. I know people will need it, use it, and enjoy it, and it teaches me things.

I certainly wouldn't have done so if I knew it only affects one or two users.
Principles such as what, though?

"I won't read an ad-sponsored site's article for free if the number of blockable items I didn't actually see is appallingly high."

:)
Is a similar thing possible with a micro-scooter? My son would love this as a project if anyone has any resources.
> "LSD can't make you crazy if you weren't in the first place"

It can't. There have been some very good research done which show that the society we currently live in is completely insane, which implies that almost anyone living in this society is mad. I really enjoyed 'Characer analysis' by Wilhelm Reich - very good stuff - in which he showed that the facist society we live in has turned us against ourselves. LSD and its brothers will break the 'emotional armor' that people have build up to supress their emotion to survive the facism of their family/classroom/workplace. Releasing too much emotion at once can very easily harm people. So I am not backing off my claim, but I'll admit that since mose people are insane, LSD is potentially dangerous for most people.

Did you friend have a very rich sexual life when the incident happend? I'm not asking you to answer here obviously, but I'm almost certain he did not.
> The seems rather bizarre.

A HN user called Bizarro, posting a bizarre remark?

What are the odds ...
But that would have destroyed the incentive - to save on rent for future decades.
>To both possess empathy and then proceed to do harmful things requires you to actively convert to a negative moral philosophy

Or taking a consequentialist moral philosophy quite seriously. You can both empathize with terrible people and believe that harming them the correct thing to do for the greater good.
Yeah, i think that's the distinction between cooperative and non-cooperative games. Though the formal definition might be a bit different from the naive interpretation of those terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_game_theory
How to build companies that are a force for good in society
>Maybe I'm not picking a good term / elucidating properly, but the second type of "social credit" is the fostering of a favorable view, building good rapport with your manager. Your manager does not put you in a meeting for shits-and-giggles, either because there is a real need or as some impotent display of power. For the latter, when you walk out you're making some strife and come salary review time, vacation request time, etc. it can bite you in the ass.

I get what you're saying and not sure what the right word for it is. Basically, it's showing them 'respect' or whatever for their position so that eventually when you have to have something that matters to you signed off on, you get it. I think social credit is a decent phrase though there might be a better one out there.
> it takes is for one of them to recall the debt owed

That’s not how corporate bonds work.
I've been wondering if inertial engines could be placed on either side of a VR helmet, to combat motion sickness. When your VR avatar would be moving forward, the inertial engines would both pull backwards, hopefully tricking your inner ear. This could be extended to make all motion feel more natural.
> The makers who contribute earn equity.

How exactly does that work? How are contributions measured and is equity actual equity or some sort of cryptographic asset?
"Death ceremonies are performed for the living."

There are all sorts of other beliefs about death out there.

Quite a lot of people believe in the afterlife, that the dead can observe what the living do, and be pleased or upset by it.

Some believe that specific burial rites must be performed in order for the soul of the deceased to rest or go to an afterlife or to not bother the living, and that the body must be intact for this to happen.
Ask HN: Pain points in influencer marketing campaigns
What are the pain points - solved & unsolved - in measuring influencer marketing campaigns? How does a marketer "acquire"influencers/ambassadors for their brand? Subsequently, how do they measure the effectiveness of their influencer in promoting the brand?
Apologies for the silly comment in advance - but how ironical that "Goodhart" is applied in this case to heart surgeons.
FWIW, works fine with uBlock & uMatrix preventing JavaScript from running.
It's actually more complicated than that. At the time (2016), most of the people who used the brackets for their own names were pro-establishment political types who wanted to make a public stand against the neo-Nazis. This included many people who were not Jews, in fact my own perception in 2016 was that most of the people who chose to use the brackets at the time were not in fact Jewish. As part of the daily conversation, WikiLeaks understood this! This totally changes the intent of the WikiLeaks tweet. My impression of the tweet has always been that they were skewering the mainstream political commentator class, who they perceive as being both virtue signaling (hence the brackets) and fashionably "intellectual" (hence the glasses).

Was it a stupid tweet, prone to misunderstanding? Absolutely. But one vague tweet does not justify labeling a person or organization as anti-Semitic.
The Robber's Cave Experiment for one https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MBpj3QKfPg9xKNeXW/the-robber...
50km/h is suicide.

ps: anybody here owns a gyrowheel ?
It's interesting that you use the phrase "promoting Marxism", which in the US is tainted by decades of deliberate negative propaganda.

What do you think it means? Because to me it sounds like you aren't distinguishing between politically Marxist and economically Marxian, when I was only referring to the latter.

In case you hadn't noticed, the entire freaking country has been moving towards the left, including the Civil Rights movement, feminism, and LGBTQ rights.

So, whoo-hoo - Harvard researchers no longer support scientific racism.

Have you considered that academia might be accepting these ideas because they have stronger evidentiary support for them than the older ideas? As it stands, your comment reads as "it's from the left therefore it must be wrong."

To to back to the reason I mentioned Marxism, I bought it up because you proposed that these 'leftist ideological biases' were somehow new to economics theory. The introduction of these ideas in economics started 150 years ago.

I read the rent-seeking topic on Wikipedia, but it offered no insight into your declaration that "All union profit-seeking is rent-seeking". It is quite careful to say:

> Rent-seeking is distinguished in theory from profit-seeking, in which entities seek to extract value by engaging in mutually beneficial transactions.[6] Profit-seeking in this sense is the creation of wealth, while rent-seeking is "profiteering" by using social institutions, such as the power of the state, to redistribute wealth among different groups without creating new wealth

It distinguishes between profit-seeking and rent-seeking, but you do not appear to do so. Perhaps you should read the page?

I have elsewhere pointed out how unions don't necessarily depend on the power of the state in order to leverage collective bargaining.

I have looked for but failed to find a mention about unions on that page.

So, please describe how all union activity is rent-seeking.

Furthermore, the page says "In many market-driven economies, much of the competition for rents is legal, regardless of harm it may do to an economy."

Are you trying to assert that all rent seeking should be illegal? Or only that union rent seeking should be illegal?

Based in what you ended with, you're the sort of died-in-the-wool libertarian that capitalists love to have around.

Are you one of the people who thinks that the Koch brothers aren't using their billions to manipulate public opinion against unions?

If not, what does rational choice theory suggest is the reason for their funding of so many right-wing and libertarian organizations?
I think you would put the surrogate key in the block chain interactions, and then have a side place where you store the encrypted gdpr data. Then you can just overwrite the fields with null and keep the key.
My comment was meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek. Sorry I didn't convey that well.

I do think the boardgame community has enough subniches that it's not immune to this problem, though.
> Did you friend have a very rich sexual life when the incident happend? I'm not asking you to answer here obviously, but I'm almost certain he did not.

No I don't think he had sex before that incident. But how would that affect his trip. As I wrote above, his first trip (which was about 6 months before the second one) was really fun for him.
Right, remember that when Middle English was around, the New World hadn't been discovered, so the word definitely was not applied to maize originally. This British usage still remains in place as far as I know. Those darned Brits - you'd think they invented the language, the way they sling it around any way they want!
I believe that nobody can “have” empathy. Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes is still you who’s in their shoes. It’s just impossible to share the same emotions as someone if you’ve lived a different life, different experiences. When we see a teen yelling, “You don’t understand!”, we really don’t understand even when we were teens ourselves. I’m not a huge fan of the word because I think the first step to true connection is to admit that you in fact do not understand, but you’re there for them. Like the video suggests (which in my opinion isn’t really talking about empathy).
No it isn't. The world record is 146.73 km/h (91.17 mph) by Peter Connolly [0]. While most skateboarders never go that fast, downhill racers routeinly hit very high speeds [1].

[0]: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2018/2/watch-this-s...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longboarding#Downhill
I'd say the Shapeoko is actually a bit easier to use than a 3D printer (a makerspace staple)- you don't have to do any of the more complicated CNC/CAM things like creating toolpaths or calculating feedrates if you just want to carve an SVG, the software does it all automatically. The machines are a bit more dangerous so you need to take more safety precautions, but the overall process is less fiddly than a 3D printer or more advanced CNC jobs (though the Shapeoko can also do that).

I mean I get it, the Shaper is neat and I do see the appeal. I just can't help but thinking the price is too high for what you're getting considering that the alternatives are pretty good too, as well as far more capable for a lot of uses. If they had hit the $1500 mark I'd probably be considering one myself but man $2400 is pretty steep for a router with autopilot.
Installation speed will help you provision more VMs faster on Azure, and make the Azure infrastructure much more resource-efficient.

That said, many VMs on Azure are Linux anyway so Microsoft may not have too much incentive to improve their Windows VM provisioning perf.
The psychology of pricing (when .99 is not enough anymore)
Redis has been called a "data structure server".

Isn't that what a database is?

Is there anything fundamentally better about Redis than say, a single connection to Postgres?

Except with Postgres you would be allowed many concurrent connections and greater throughput, while having the same external behavior thanks to transaction serializability. It's as if the operations got applied by a single thread in a defined order, but in reality can be parallelized. Redis cannot do that intelligently.

I use Redis occasionally because it's a very simple system and it's easy, and has been micro-optimized very well. I don't think it necessarily contains any good computer science ideas. Am I wrong here?

Tidis is more evidence that Redis's single threaded design leaves a ton on the table.
I moved to an organization using Kanban about a year ago and couldn't be happier. I'd been doing scrum for years and had a lot of complaints similar to the author. Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse, but overall it seems like a bad system.

We work by having an engineering manager work out requirements with a product owner, and my manager just comes and asks me how things are going and when they're going to be done. Often times, my estimations are off, but some of that is just expected. Honestly, I'm very happy with it and I've never felt like I was doing better work.
My interpretation of events is that before 2010 wikileaks operated mostly like a dumb disk drive that publish whatever with minimal editorial.

The War documents leak established them in international news, which change wikileaks tactic to more editorial style. This then resulted that they got the cable leak the next year.

After this there were internal fighting, blocking, ddos, economical blockades, volunteers being detained at airports and a lot of intelligence agency taking a lot of interests. The new "editorial" style also meant that they now held on to leaks rather than publishing.

And then we had the Swedish investigation and all that mess. Calls for assassinations, "enemy combatant", drones, diplomatic back channels, all contributed to a very antagonistic/paranoid relation between the US government and Assange personally. At this point there is nothing resembling the original style of wikileaks. I see it less like a "anti-western intelligence/military bias", but rather a anti-Hillary/US government bias.
NY Times and Washington Post were breaking a lot of important stories. I decided to subscribe to NY Times - because Washington Post has the backing of billionaire Jeff Bezos. I felt NY Times needed the $10 a month from me more.

I really wanted to get paper delivery, but the price was just too high. Also it would probably be unrealistic that I actually read the paper - as I do most of my reading when I have a few idle minutes.

A few years ago I subscribed to The Economist...you can find it at a good price on slickdeals once in a while. Their articles were highly indepth and provided a good international perspective...even in magazine format I couldn't read even half of the content.
Maybe just maybe, what "Egyptologist" have been telling you all these years....has been garbage.
Computer glasses are critical for me. Without them I can hardly work on a computer for more than a few minutes before my eyes start to bother me.

When I first got prescription computer glasses, about five years ago, I tried to use one set of glasses for both reading and computer work, so they were calibrated to focus at about 21" (roughly halfway between book reading distance and my monitor distance). It was a major improvement for my computer work, but it was noticeably less than ideal for reading.

So last year I just got two pairs of glasses, one focused at 12" for reading books, the other focused at 30" — the more or less exact distance from my eyes to my monitors. This was a huge improvement for me. Text on the monitor was so sharp I could hardly believe it (still is, but now I'm used to it), and my enjoyment reading books was vastly improved too.

I highly recommend prescription computer glasses if you're getting up there in years.
What are you using to measure your speed? Do longboarders have an equivalent of Strava?
On the other hand... if you wanted to quickly identify incompetent individuals, give them rope and let them cause damage.
Elon doesn’t employ average workers. If you can’t work this way, your tenure will be short.
Whether you like crypto or not, other people will mine it.

Don’t the miners pay tax in your country?
What are the situations where you'd still use "it" or "that"?
This is how it works in Sweden, as far as I understand it:

Real estate agents have to be licensed, and part of their duties is of course to verify that the seller is who they say they are and that they own the thing they're trying to sell. When I sold an apartment, I had to show my ID to my agent so he could verify me.

The registry of who owns what pieces of land is managed by a government office, and government data is by legal default public, so checking if a seller actually owns a piece of land is trivial. You don't need to chase down a distributed sealed deed history thing thing, it's basically a single national database at this point.

So it's really simple to do, and the responsibility is on the seller's agent, who in turn has a strong incentive to not screw up, or they lose their license and their job.

When you go to your lender for a pre-approval on a mortgage, they want to know which piece of property you're buying, and they typically check that it's being sold by a licensed real estate agent, because if it is, then they can be assured that the seller is verified and actually can sell the property.

When you sign the purchase contract - which is typically one or two pages long - you sign one copy for the seller, one for the buyer, one for the agent, and one for the government office, and the agent helps you fill out the (short) form that goes with it so you can send it in and get the ownership legally transferred to you. That's it.

There's so little work involved with verifying ownership and transferring ownership, that it's just put on the shoulders of the real estate agents. The idea that you would need yet another party to handle this aspect is completely ludicrous in Sweden, it makes no sense.
Skeptical. You may be star struck and/or undervaluing yourself.
Not convinced. In history as automation has increased working hours have tended to trend downwards.

I doubt anyone smart wants to burn out working under those kind of conditions.
Homeopathy and 3% of a standard dose of one of world's strongest drugs are very very different things.

Even setting aside the massive, proven, perceptual effect that placebos have -- which means that if you do believe in homeopathy, it could actually have a strong effect -- this is analogous to saying that a couple of sips of beer is going to do "jack shit". It won't do much -- but your liver will still process it, and it will provide some energy, and it will have a very mild affect on your nervous system. Is a couple of sips of beer an "active dose"? What's an active dose here?

In contrast with homeopathic solutions, which are diluted down to figures like 1 PPM (presumably a very very low % of what would be an "active dose" of its chemical), this is a 3% dose we're talking about! It's intellectually dishonest to assert that there would not be an effect on the nervous system at that level, and it is a strange position to assume that because the effect on the nervous system does not rise to obvious perception, that it has no effect on the experience of the subject.
The word “probably” indicates uncertainty.

Therefore, there is no evidence, just suspicion he is not doing the actual engineering work himself.
Minor nit: you may want to ensure your blog software isn’t making “fi” and “fl” into ligatures within your code blocks, because it makes them look funny and can break copy-paste.
Comparing productivity to hours worked is a type error.
Just reading the README.md makes me feel like I've leveled up my understanding of functional concepts, well done!

That said, pardon my ignorance on the subject -

> This seems nice, but we've introduced an inefficiency: in mapping over the array twice, we unnecessarily create an intermediate array.

Isn't this an optimisation that could/should be handled by the compiler (JIT evaluation or something like that)?
I don't see the problem here. Make the default preserve backward compatibility, but offer an option like 'SIMULTANEOUS_ASSIGNMENT' to be standards-compliant.
The author doesn't strike me as the type to let something as trivial as those facts get in the way of his narrative.

The irony is, just like those he describes in the article, he's also selling a something that is more fiction than fact - the story about the elysium-esque dystopian future popular in so much sci-fi these days. But hey, it gets clicks...