skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a complex issue, but one key component is this the relative bargaining powers of the parties [1].

Supply and demand in the job market is only one component of the bargaining power. Social norms and many other factors play in.

The field of Organizational Ecology [2] also can offer some metaphors about what is happening. Both herd behavior and organizational inertia are significant factors that explain how companies interview.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequality_of_bargaining_power

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_ecology
There are so many startups that are getting funded by YC of which "I had the idea (first)". Of course I could think of the idea but this truly shows that the nitty gritty part is actually building the dream instead of coming up with an idea. On the bright side, if you ever find one of your own ideas or a derivative thereof being funded try to see it as market validation and get to work!
Try ivona tts kendra voice. It was available on play store but not anymore so you'll have to workaround to install it.
Reading about the choice between reasonable pay and rewarding work, I was reminded of this Dilbert cartoon. As usual, Scott Adams got there first.

http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-06-02
Some food for thought...

What if a large group of developers banded together and said "We'll only interview with companies that offer us a range of choices on the interview process, because we want to be able to choose option(s) that suit our strengths. We do this because not only because we want to put our best selves forward but also because this helps nudge companies to explore the space of various interviewing methods, which ultimately makes the companies better off as well because they get better long-term matches."
> In casual conversation, content, the ideas, intent are primary. Those have very high value. Minor gaffes, grammar and other bits?

Try to explain this to a compiler. ;)
I wonder if this dynamic soaring principal can be applied to wind turbines.
I'm not in SV, and very much outside the startup community in the rest of the world these days, especially since I no longer work in a coworking space.

I have to say, some of these legitimately look like parodies, like something out of the Silicon Valley TV show. Emojer cannot be a legitimate company with real funding. It just can't.
Codex Arundel – A collection of papers written by Leonardo da Vinci
People might be paid for open source, but they are not doing it for money, they are doing it because they enjoy it
Occupations and Their Ideologies
If you use Wine to play DirectX 9 games, try the d3d9 fork. It's a fork with patches that give a much increased performance with DirectX 9 games which aren't merged into the Wine mainline because of the usual bikeshedding reasons. I use it to play WoW and I get better performance than on Windows.

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-emulation/wine-d3d9
Given that most art dealers "add value" by putting something in an expensive window and talking it up to people with money to burn, yes.
What does that even mean ? Shouldn't they sort things out ? Is it signalling when police conducts interrogations following someone's accusations then ?
The first "serious" C program I wrote was a GIF87a decoder on Linux, using SVGAlib, back in 1998 or 1999. The reference implementation I had was written by somebody else, in QBASIC of all things. So I just translated it into C line-by-line until it worked. Of course the resulting program was not pretty at all, and I don't really think I understood how it worked, but I learned a lot. It was my first experience learning how to not write good C programs, something I am still trying to avoid today.
You have been an answer to my prayers. I'm a beginner and I've been struggling with importing and understanding the path/environment_variables/etc. And I come across this little gem in the middle of the night while pulling my hair out telling myself I guess i'm just stupid.. now i'm merely stupid and informed.. Thank you so much.
KDE developers release stable images for the the Pinebook
A quick Google search gave me a couple of sources [1][2] (sorry, it's in Greek, but Google Translate can work)

As far as I understand, some small parts near the north are indeed connected to the grid, some use photovoltaics/solar energy, and some just use generators or no electricity at all. The first article cites 9000€ spent for generator fuel per year for the Police Station in Karyes, the capital of the Athos peninsula. The way I understand it, is that the monasteries try to be as self-dependent as possible, the logistics of building large-scale infrastructure are too big (for a variety of reasons, and thus, small-scale solutions are preferred).

[1] http://newpost.gr/ellada/619145/ieres-mpiznes-me-to-amartwlo...

[2] http://www.photovoltaic.gr/el/master/page/portfolio/%CE%B1%C...
Do we care how the Linux compatibility is achieved? If the end result is the game is available on Linux, stable and performant why should I give a damn that it uses Wine internally any more than whether is uses Unity or python or whatever?
The Pinebook is a small, inexpensive and light netbook built around the PINE64 SBC that can (now) run a full KDE Plasma desktop.
I was surprised for the opposite reason - I was recently in Croatia and from the outside it seems ("developmentally") indistinguishable from any nearby rich country such as Italy or Germany. We live in Germany and used to live in Austria and the main visible difference was that it seems Croatians don't mind littering their archaeological sites (which is more cultural than economic I guess).

Maybe Russia is as well these days, and my perception of it as a bit of an industrial/economic shit-hole is due to now-outdated western propaganda.
Well, in that case was the Mechanical Turk a machine that played chess? I mean, it was a machine and it did play chess. There was a person inside it that actually did all the work, but does that make it not a machine that played chess? We could debate the meaning of "plays" until the cows come home and perhaps arguing that the machine should be able to play chess on its own, or that it doesn't because one component of it is a human being that also functions independently to the machine is pedantic. But perhaps it is productive after all, to challenge and analyse claims regarding the nature of things people make.

If I understand this memristor paper correctly, the whole issue seems to be that what is supposed to be a new kind of Thing, that didn't exist before, is actually made up of already existing Things with well-understood properties in one possible configuration that doesn't do anything radically new, that other configurations can't already do anyway.

So in other ways- we have the useful properties but a) we always had them and b) there's no new Thing.
Good article, but as a new learner, I'm interested in (your experiences on) how much time taken for the common task to train a model? 1min vs 2mins, probably I will get a cheaper GPU but if there's 5h vs 10h or 1 day vs 2 days, I'd save more money for one with good performance
>I'm pretty sure there wasn't a lien on the property

Which country was this in? Banks don't typically hand people hundreds of thousands of dollars without making sure that they'll get their pound of flesh when things go south. Not having any kind of collateral is a pretty big mistake on the bank's side.
From the FAQs of the original post on Steam:

"Modifications to Wine are submitted upstream if they're compatible with the goals and requirements of the larger Wine project; as a result, Wine users have been benefiting from parts of this work for over a year now. The rest is available as part of our source code repository for Proton and its modules."

Wine has very tight/strict requirements for what can merged into its codebase, it's why DXVK has had to remain a standalone project because it doesn't live up to Wine's code/goal requirements.
Monetizing game modding?! Nooo
VyOS is another good option
Controlling image loading process in Aspose.Imaging
Audrey Tang has been a HN member since 2009 (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=audreyt)
Scientists Devise Paper Battery That Uses Bacteria to Generate Energy
Marketing Your Side Project on 0$
> Thinking back on my experiences, this is a gem of an observation. Most people hate long meetings because they are just a lot of status updates with 2 or 3 people dominating the conversation.

Agreed. I think meetings should strictly be for decision-making and everyone who's in it should have the power to say yes or no.

> At the two large orgs where I've worked, I've seen a lot of extra work come from teams being motivated in completely different ways. One team is focused on blame-avoidance, another in gaming KPIs, one team wants to show off how awesome they are, one group is just tagging along for visibility reasons, etc. So there's an incredible amount of "too much work" that has very little to do with actual execution.

I'm actually facing and faced the same thing with larger organizations.

In my experience with smaller companies, it happens but to a lesser degree. It might be the case that I haven't been in a toxic culture small/medium-sized company as I can definitely see no reason why it would differ from a larger organization.

My theory on larger organizations having this issue is that there's quite a lot of bloat and a lot of fear that if you're not doing anything, you will be restructured. Personally, I don't blame the teams who act and behave in this way - I would hold the senior leadership responsible for fixing the culture. Unfortunately, most are focused on business results as opposed to fixing softer things like culture. Someone needs to make it such that visibility and accountability are just irrelevant - everyone is in it together, succeed together and fail together.

What's been your experience?

PS. Just noticed you're in data science? Funny coincidence that I am as well.
Open-source or closed source projects?

As discussed upthread, avoiding being used in closed source projects is the entire purpose of the GPL.
Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for taking the time to respond.
I always love to imagine the havoc it would wreak if Sysadmins went on strike...
Depends on the license. You can just fork a MIT project and incorporate it in a project with a different license. The MIT licensed part would still be MIT licensed, but any newly written code not. Makes little to l no practical difference.
We have no real way to do anything here, unfortunately. Medium deliberately export a totally vague dump of HTML files which don't even contain publication date and are essentially unintelligible. They also have no API to read from. There might be a route to creating a scraper, but that comes with its own set of challenges which are not insignificant and then potentially can also be misused by people scraping content which is not their own. So it's a tricky one.

IMO Medium should provide a real export format and not hold people hostage... but you'd have to convince them of that
Emojer cannot be a legitimate company with real funding.

There's a very clear exit route to selling to a phone manufacturer that wants to add more "fun" functionality to its camera app..
This would be like building a Facebook app or twitter client; essentially at the mercy of the platform owner. MS is already competing with Valve - it would be incredibly stupid on Valve’s part to be dependent on MS
> I'm curious what better solutions you would have suggested would be.

Dual licensing as commercial and AGPL.
There are many companies that offer pretty good pay and great job security outside FAANG. Try Microsoft, Oracle, Siemens, Airbus, SAP or one of the million medium sized companies whose name you've never heard of unless you're in the same line of business.
I am curious what it is exactly the process of this Demo Day?

Is the normal flow: pitching for a couple of minutes, then Q&A and then at the final day a decision?

If someone who participated could share, that will be great!
The hidden epidemic of compulsive hair pulling
Too much Hydro (by percentage of generation) also leaves the power generation at risk if a drought occurs too[1][2][3].

There is just too much uncertainty in long term seasonal rain fall levels, especially with the effects of climate change as well as El Niño and La Niña cycles. Resulting in low production years.

[1]http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/sd...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/08/malawi-blackou...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/mar/30/weatherwatch-ha...
> There's the reflex (here and elsewhere) to dismiss reciprocal licenses such as GPL, AGPL as "uncool", pretentious, and show-stopping.

They aren't uncool, they just have terms that lots of people have good reasons not to want to deal with, and which many devs don't want to impose on downstream (in part because lots of people don't want to deal with them.)
It's an interesting idea but Ghost is a primarily self-hosted application with a non-technical user base. The freedom to swap out or add core dependencies like database servers isn't really available in that environment.
Anima does seem really great. As a front-end dev seeing this stuff makes me happy and slightly anxious for the future. On one hand, styling basic marketing sites manually is boring and I would happily use this if it fits easily into my work flow. On the other, I hope it doesn't start making complex React apps soon or I'm in trouble :)
I was describing a hypothetical system such that congestion levels would be provable as they happen. For all we know our household connections could be artificially throttled during evening hours when the network is supposedly congested, while in fact they are trying to push us on more expensive plans.

In fact I am not against on the spot pricing schemes, as long as the demand and supply is provable.

I would consider such a system neutral enough. I wouldn't mind scheduling some datasets to download when network demand is low etc...
Why I pull out my hair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Taiwan
True, but today's cheaper gear and instruments are much much better than back then, if even they existed. I keep reading nothing but positive comments about this brand (no affiliation whatsoever) http://kaminstruments.com/index.htm

Also cheap electronics makes diy solutions more affordable. One could mike a drum set using cheapo low end Behringer dynamic mics paired with a self built preamp to get very good results for the money.
Nim days
git is a both domain specific programming language and library of software routines that enable version control. Curious why you don't see it this way.
I meant the fact that you're actually reinterpreting bits and not really copying them somewhere.
a professional VPN company is probably using some cloud provider themselves.
Now those advertisements for "wahrscheinlich das beste bier der welt" I used to see while I lived in Germany finally makes sense! At the time I thought they had confidence issues or just wanted to be very precise
We are already talking about a small percentage of people who wanna buy a graphics card.

From those people, it is easily justifyable to spend less on a car, a holiday or rent and instead having a nicer gaming rig. If you spend a lot of time playing games why not?

Modern technology is way cheaper than the previous/old status symbols.

I'm thinking about buying a car and one simple calculation is still what else i can do with that money.

And yes in munich, where i live right now, there are enough people with a car who could use public transport and don't us it.

The target group of a 1k graphics card is not someone who can barely afford the car he/she needs every day and would not be able to earn anything if the car breaks down...
This already happens. Gnomoria had just bolted on Mono. And there were many games that simply used winelib.
It's more complex than that. This is 2018 not 1949, and the nationalist party in Taiwan is the pro-friendly-relations-with-the-PRC party, as historically ironic as that is. A big instigator of the Sunflower Movement was free trade and market integration treaties the nationalist government was making with the PRC, which got them thrown out of power.
Same in Central Europe.
Reminds me of a job I once had where I would travel for an hour and a half each way just to try and find ways to occupy my time. Eventually I developed a routine of long walks in the parks and afternoon naps.

It was soul destroying and eventually I quit. My boss phoned to ask why so I told him straight. His response was 'So what, you're getting paid for it?

Obviously, he was doing more or less the same thing but for more money and better perks.
You could have invented the LMAX Disruptor, if only you were limited enough
> The hypothetical here is whether you market something as a "50 mbps" service with the caveat that it's best-effort

It's already been explained to you that the "unlimited" plan at issue was clearly not best-effort after the limit was reached. The throttling that Verizon applied was around-the-clock and resulted in the fire department's device getting a tiny fraction of the speed that personal devices at the same location were getting. The throttling was not happening as a result of congestion, it was an artificial limit on a plan advertised as "unlimited". All theses arguments you're making about best-effort service are irrelevant distractions. A plan that stops being best-effort part way through the billing period cannot be honestly sold as "best-effort" any more than it can be honestly sold as "unlimited".
IMO 100% of ventured backed Open Source project will adopt this licence.

Just to name a few :

- Elastic

- Docker

- CockRoachDB

This licence is a disguised "Oracle" intellectual property.

This what Oracle has been doing for years and bring them billions in revenue.

It ensure that one way or another you'll pay $$$ to the vendor of the tech.

Most of these companies quoted above are not profitable and are trying to find a way to be profitable.

With this licence it allows them to charge $$$ and to have full control over the IP for and become the sole allowed provider for consulting / support / training and basically anything that is related to this technology.

This is proprietary software with an "unlimited trial" edition and source code hosted on Github.
Apps like Shopwith are built with limited social media engagement in mind. In this case the engagement seems to be - sell stuff to people. There is another called Stardust which has videos "but only "reaction videos" and reviews".

While it seems like specialized social media apps like these are a natural progression from more generic tools like Facebook, Twitter etc, I am not too sure. Most of social media has been taken over by bots. But twitter, fb etc do have some incentive to try and root the bots. In comparison these apps are made specifically for bot based engagement.
Gnomoria running Mono? It's not a .NET project but a Java one, might you be confusing it with Terraria or something?
It would be undesireable at least, and possibly come at great cost. The question is perhaps - is that cost still not smaller than trying to make future games work with wine (something that has traditionally not been very successful)?
Yes, this is usually how I handled it in my (very few) OSS projects.
The Redis protocol uses TCP connections, pretty much the perfect case for AGPL which deals with "interacting with it remotely through a computer network" etc. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html

Sure, interpretation varies on what kind of interactions with what software cause what obligations, but imagine how much case law and clarity you can have with a license 10 years younger.
Built-in commenting is planned as part of the Memberships & Subscriptions feature[0]. Ghost needs a robust visitor authentication system for native commenting to work well and that will also involve a big concept-shift for Ghost's front-end from static generation to each page load potentially being dynamic.

In the meantime, Discourse[1] and Talk[2] are great options that can be self-hosted if needed and integrate well. If you look at them you can see the level of effort that is required to do commenting, moderation, and spam protection well at scale.

[0] https://forum.ghost.org/t/memberships-subscriptions/377
[1] https://www.discourse.org
[2] https://coralproject.net/talk/
The same people who eats pizza with banana
Umbraco.

I was a .NET developer for many years before moving onto a Linux stack, but I am still yet to find a CMS that rivals Umbraco for ease of use.

It's open-source, has a great community behind it, has cloud offerings, and has enough extensions available that you can plug in (mostly) any functionality you want. The key thing, for me, is that it blows WordPress out of the water in terms of ease of use - it's not even remotely close.

It's not perfect by any means. there is a disconnect between what HQ wants and what the community asks for, the back-office is on Angular 1 (for good reasons - switching would break existing extensions), and it suffers from the same problem that WordPress suffers in that dev jobs are quite cheap. The ease of use means the market is flooded with bad developers, and there seems to be little incentive to offer more money to get quality in.
So the BBC have been performing a variation of this by playing 30 year old "Top of the Pops" programmes on BBC4, and it's an interesting experience to see what has and hasn't stood the test of time. Most episodes have at least one spectacularly terrible "hit" on. Bonus points if the presenters intro them as the next new thing. Back then most of the performances were mimed to the track, with occasionally hilarious results.

However, at no point did someone as annoying as Ed Sheeran dominate the charts...
I hear the entire game is controlled by goons from an unfunny comedy website.
The animation has race condition issues btw.
I used to lead Counter Strike 1.6 teams in my teens- I often reflect on how that was some of my early leadership "training".

Good memories of motivating my teams of 15/16/17 year olds to get online at 6/7am in the morning to work on our skills before school, and for epic days during the summer.

Ah, simpler times.
and if at some point linux becomes good enough, companies might start targeting dxvk directly instead of wine. that alone would remove a lot of friction to proper ports.
No, actually they say "4G+ illimitée abonnés Freebox" and as they explain in the "en savoir plus" link, the limit applies to people who do not sign up to the Freebox plan (for home Internet).
VSCode Ported to Run in Browser
Ask HN: Which are the best audio recorder apps for mobile phones?
Provocative characters from Trumpworld have been releasing audio recordings of meetings and phone calls that they've had. I've never done this kind of thing before, so I was wondering what are the best apps to use for audio recordings. I'm interested in both Android and iOS apps.
Israel to end licensing agreement with Microsoft
Another cool thing one could build on the moon is a rail cannon to bombard Earth. Moon's gravity well makes it relatively easy to hurl stuff from there to here, and the stuff _accelerates_ as it approaches Earth, assisted by earth gravity. The scenario is explored in detail in Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
"It's only some enterprise modules." Sure, ownCloud said the same and eventually forced its own founder to fork and make Nextcloud under AGPL. Good luck with that.

Did you completely fail to learn from experience, or are you pretending?
https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/nextcloud/
Egypt tightens grip on government Internet controls
I would check that Google isn't ratelimiting you, and I would also check that your hard drive/SSD and RAM aren't dying. I've experienced issues like what you describe, but the first time was caused by a dying hard disk, and the 2nd by Google limiting the number of IMAP connections to a hilariously low number.