skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So can I assume that any self-respecting company producing IP has an army of toddlers 'working' on its products? ;-)
To understand propriety/coherence (about 2/3 of the way down the page) you'll also need to have an understanding of enharmonics, and perhaps some context on why it's important to be able to know whether an interval is e.g. an augmented 3rd or a perfect fourth.
I wonder if this has to do with building a war chest to compete with meetup + WeWork . . .

though meetup and eventbrite are definitely different.
Ha! I do love a good haiku.

Maybe something like this would be more fitting:

Way down to the wire
It gets bleaker than ever
Try and copy this
The best article I've seen so far is https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/23/ticketing-site-eventbrite-fi...
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> when's the last time you really felt a BIG uptick in performance or responsiveness from a new computer upgrade?

Earlier this year. I upgraded (my personal computer) from a 2010 dual-core i5 (Arrandale) laptop to a 12-core Threadripper. My old laptop was still usable for single-thread tasks - I upped the memory to it's limit (8GB) and upgraded to SSD, and this contributed to my long upgrade cycle.

My workflow has changed since I bought the laptop in 2010 - I now tend to run multiple VMs and docker in parallel, and there I noticed a BIG uptick in performance. I could only run 2 VMs (slowly, with swapping) at most before the upgrade, post-upgrade, I'm now able to run 6 VMs with no signs of slow-down - I haven't tried to find the upper limit to number of VMs, but there's plenty of room for growth for additional RAM and SATA disks.
Not going this year; have gone maybe 20 times starting in 95.

There was IMO and experience genuinely something special (I won't say unique, but probably... unique) there, which is now vestigial. Still discoverable but at a time, in some strata of the event, all but axiomatic.

I would describe that special thing as an emergent aspirational culture of techno-utopianism made possible by expending profound resources in the service of simulating (creating if you like, temporarily) an environment best described as "plenty."

Much about our culture is defined by axiomatic scarcity, from which competition emerges.

The thing that made me keep going back was the recurring experience of an inverted order, in which a uniquely large scale collaborative game was being played, in which the rules were changed. Lots of rules. This created open social space and possibility. Guards went down and spontanaeity blossomed. Altruism and kindness and generosity were, quite often, emergent.

This was of course highly imperfect in a very long list of ways. And there were of course as always, bad actors, bad experiences, and a shadow side.

But that does not diminish the power of experiencing the potential of existing in a culture in which the competitive instinct can be harnessed to drive collective rather than individual benefit.

Many aspects of the now ossified and largely ignored "precepts" attempted to define and explain the constituent aspects which made this emergent culture function. A fools' errand but an absolutely necessary one in the face of massive growth and the encroachment of the outside rules.

Many (most all) cultures have some sort of time-out-of-time in which traditional norms are suspended. It's a pressure valve and a laboratory in which the culture can tinker.

I consider myself unspeakably blessed to have lived in SF at a moment when my culture and generation experimented at this scale, thanks to the (at the time permanent-seeming) very temporary apex of the post-Cold War internet boom, when the Bay was still a meeting point between a lot of very creative, very iconoclastic people, and, suddenly, a f--k ton of money and resources.

We still have the latter, and it shows in the preposterous scale of very cool vanity projects on the playa now.

But we are in a much much darker moment historically and generally, the culture of the Bay is now within the event horizon of money and conventional rules of power.

I still have fun when I go, and there is still idealism.

But the safety, risk taking, collaborative play from a smaller city and the sense of fellow travelers who frankly were a lot more freakish and non-normal than attend now, lives on only in individual interactions and nooks and crannies.

It's still the background radiation shows, and to the extent the "precepts" are pursued, still leads to magic.

And it's still a great gathering of freaks, and celebration of potential.

Still worth it IMO if you can find the right people.

Never expect to see something ignite at that scale again in my lifetime. For a while Occupy had potential to be something more. Ah well.
Cmon, your "Atlas Shrugged" level hypothetical is way off of the IMO quite reasonable US implementation summarized on wikipedia[1]. Yes, hoarding can be very bad and thus laws will reflect that.

Capitalism & markets are great, but have failure modes we have to be aware of. Emergency situations exhibit many of those and thus it can be beneficial to temporarily suspend usual markets and capitalism on some levels. You cant make an informed purchase decision with no time, information, nothing to trade or a combination of all of those factors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging#Laws_against_pri...
The rest of society doesn't give their "business cogs" away for free though. It just strikes me as odd that in a business context, there's the expectation that lots of the software will be free.
fun fact

Not browsing the web at all, also avoids the GDPR/cookie popup spam.

That solution works 100% of the time. It blocks out 100% of the GDPR popup spam.
i actually thought about that one too. If they had a 16GB version, I'd totally go for it. Entirely the reason I'm leaning towards an HP Envy x360 13z instead.
Nobody will tell you straight up they are evil.

It’s the things they do, that they may not even be aware of.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/22/facebook-removing-onavo...
>300k income joint, >200k income single, or >1m excl. primary residence in any event.

Paraphrasing an attorney from years ago: The risk of lying to invest in something only open to accredited investors is colossal both to the entity raising funds as well as to the investor, and it can/does get caught during diligence, so it's not so much an honor system as it is something that inevitably gets audited/managed either down the road or especially when something goes wrong.

This may have changed and my recollection may not be accurate. Lastly, this isn't legal advice given that I'm not a lawyer.
Rand Fishkin on Why Your Startup Should Consider Alternatives to VC Funding
That's the first thing that the author states.

I'll bet you know more music than me, but maybe that puts me more into the target audience. It's a very interesting way to explore essentially the whole of western music. I did some similar "modeling" when I was learning, too, mostly because it's an effective way for me to commit things to memory. I remember struggling with using tones/scale degrees or intervals as a basis, just as the author describes.

It might not be universal and suitable for high-level academic use, but I don't think there's a problem with it.
Why would they always be closed source?
First, to be clear, we are the authors of this software, so our responsibility is to choose our license terms and clearly communicate them to those who want to use the software. We have done that and we are obviously not trying to mislead anyone. We think our licensing statement is easy to understand. We have not changed the Apache license terms. We have added an additional term (Commons Clause) and clearly stated that we are applying the two together.

If we had changed the Apache license, we would not have referred to it by that name. But given we have not changed the Apache terms, it seems to us more confusing to arbitrarily refer to those terms by a different name.

My take is that Apache + Commons Clause is more liberal than AGPL, something I can expand on in my blog post -- that's clear from our users, who actually appreciated the switch from AGPL to the current license.
Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years
I wish I could give you a formula. It’s mostly aimed at eliminating distractions and keeping problems fresh in your mind. Some things that help: No phone notifications, put it on mute or better yet leave it in another room. I turn my phone completely off when I get home from RealWork. Don’t open your web browser (no distractions). Bare, dedicated work desk. Headphones if in a loud environment. Keep your next problem in your head, even when away from work desk. Lots of “family time” stuff is low-mental-bandwidth. Play tag, make a pirate hat, stuff like that. I’ve always got one or two project problems I’m mulling over in a background process. Keep a pen and notebook on you to record insights while away from work desk. Sometimes I’ve got it solved while helping daughter brush her teeth and all I need to do is sit down and type it in.
The Hue does not rely on HA for network connectivity. The Hue hub connects to wifi, and you talk to it over the network. I don't believe HA is doing anything other than reading/writing the state of the bulbs.
If you’re on a Mac, it might be CoreAudio acting up.

Try sudo kill-ing coreaudiod

(disclaimer: I haven’t seen the video in question, but I had a similar problem with online videos in general)
> This is a common risk for all companies.

That simply isn't true.

There is validity to scaling while incurring losses, and requiring funding to do so. But that doesn't mean that all companies are in that boat. Certainly not all companies that are publicly traded. So the statement is a reasonable description of where the company is at, allowing potential investors to judge for themselves whether that meshes well with their own risk profile.
>I vehemently disagree, we should absolutely revolt.

You would make things worse.

>Show me the non-technological incremental improvements

Civil rights, LGBTQ rights, women's suffrage, the rise of the middle class, worker's rights... I could keep going.

>Couple that with unregulated capitalism and things are looking quite bleak

We don't have unregulated capitalism. Not even close.

>Inequality is on the rise and there is no reason to think that trend will reverse.

There is every reason to believe that it will if you even have a basic understanding of history. This stuff is cyclical and, in modern times, shows a constant upwards trend (i.e. trending toward economic equality and equality of opportunity).

>We're very young as a species. Our current structures of power are not intentionally constructed but inherited

Well you had better back that up because a lot of more knowledgeable people would disagree with you there. You are making a broad claim about human behavior without any evidence. I don't think you understand the gravity or far reaching consequences of that argument.

>Now look me in the eyes and tell me everything is fine.

I never said that. I said that most things are fine, in fact better than ever, and we should continually strive to improve those areas which aren't. You seem to think that 'equality' is something that we can impose by fiat, yet we have reams of evidence to the contrary.
This is very cool. I got it build/running in < 3 minutes in Linux.

My boy love Minecraft. I like to use this as base to teach him more about programming.

Any suggestion on small projects that can be addon / mod use this code as base.

I am thinking a series of coding exercises that can be hack/add on to this:

Add a command/mod to:

1) Draw line, Square, Triangle.
2) Draw Circle, Ellipse, Cone, Cylinder
3) Build Car, Airplane
4) Build Space Ship
5) Putting picture of his own face on the block.

... Any other suggestions?

Each small projects take about 1-2 hours build on skill sets that learn before. It should be simple and fun to do with goals of encourage kids to learn programming.

My boy finished all the CS classes in Khan Academy and seems to enjoys them.

If anyone else has strong interested in this, I will see if I (we - group of us) can develop this as a new Khan Academy CS class and contribute it to KA.
Its useful to have phd because of the research methodology discipline and the classes you have to take to learn Statistics for the final thesis. Having a PhD in computer science almost means you do know how to code with one language, which is definitely helpful when you are building your model in R or Python. Also the fact that you have a broader knowledge in the domain (ideally), gives you the credential to create a defensible model.
I think the fact that you can’t turn off read receipts is a kind of shady way to keep you using the app. You also can’t turn off notifications for a chat without going into it and notifying the participants you’ve read the message.
Hey Brian, did you write the article? ;-)

I've enjoyed reading (all) your comments here. Just wanted to chime in and say I have a great appreciation for what CFA does and have had great experiences with the app and in general the entire ordering process at CFA. I've been, in fact, quite impressed. Nice to read about the stuff in the background that helps make that happen.

Doesn't hurt that every employee I've interacted with at CFA has been courteous, kind, and respectful.
Fake it until you make it. Just like any other training, you have to practice your goal of quick focus before it becomes habit. If you practice taking 30 minutes to get "in the zone" that is what your brain is going to expect. Having kids will help with fast context switching.

Also, if you watch TV, stop. There is way more time to get things done if you don't watch TV.
The best part about the Equifax breach is that the people whose data was released weren't even the customers. Pretty hard to stop doing business if there wasn't any in the first place.
That's a different definition of 'general public'.

Most of the public you're referring to are not pouring their savings into these IPOs.

Even so, the SEC shouldn't require companies to be profitable in order to be publicly traded - could you imagine if we took every non-profitable company private because the public needed to be protected?
Chipotle is launching a food and farm tech accelerator program
Serious question: is there evidence to support that claim?

We know there was "meddling", but has it been proved that it convinced a "non-trivial" number of voters to change their vote or that it actually affected the outcome of the election?
> Steve McBroom, a Spyfone representative, told Motherboard on Monday that the company is investigating the leak, and expressed relief that the person who found it had good intentions.

>“Thank god it is a researcher, someone good trying to protect,” McBroom said in a phone call.

Mr. McBroom needs to be worried about people with ill intentions who have accessed this data in the past and they have no idea about.

Given this is a routine S3 bucket access breach I'd assume lots of bad people have rainbow dictionary found this by now. You can assume people are basically doing that for public buckets all the time now.
> despite the theoretical benefits of entering into the datacenter CPU market, they've never made that leap (though I don't know enough about their history to know if they tried).

They haven't, they instead entered the niche of low-cost kiosk hardware. Intel and AMD completely abandoned it due to lower profit margins, but plenty of raw sales numbers to help Via float by.
The point is that the comparison with doctors doesn't make much sense (and neither is medical ethics a recent thing). Doctors are judged by their continuous practice, but developers/entrepreneurs would not be ethically "judged" because of their programming style, but because of the things they create, which transcend them and remain in their absence, much like anything in engineering.

(let alone that revokign a license does nothing to stop them from building it anyway)
650 consecutive days?! Lock your phone in a safe for a weekend and take a walk in the woods, I beg you.
Agree. But ... I sure hope that the new way of developing distributed systems doesn't follow this pattern:

1. write some code

2. submit to Jepsen

3. if errors, goto 1

The problem with this approach is obvious.
How much is $0.30 + 3% on every transaction for a $0.99 cost the seller?
Look for the X10 protocol.

Problems with it:
- doesn’t work across phases, but I believe there is a ‘bridge’ for that.
- noise ie from switching power supplies on the lines can be a problem. Use filters / better supplies.
Supermicro at Risk of Delisting from the NASDAQ
I loved tTBP but its nowhere close to Asimov's Foundation. Perhaps the 2nd & 3rd books flesh out the universe?
I've always found CFA employees to be kind, courteous, and respectful.
Inside the progressive movement roiling the Democratic Party
Im curious to see the benchmarks too.
Exactly. Yes these issue can be somewhat hard to understand for non security folks, but everyone can get the basics.

1. Do you have sensitive information?
2. Is a Password required to access that information?
3. Is that password set to "password" or something else that would be trivially easy to guess.

It's like saying it's not your fault if a hacker takes extraordinary measures to tunnel into your house from below ground. But it is your responsibility to at least shut your front door.
Helpful side-effect of this leak: benchmark public reaction.
You don't have to actively wish ill on society to damage it. The thing is, Zuckerberg has a level of power that in many ways is unprecedented. I don't think he has poor intentions, but his and Facebook's naivete about the impacts of their every decision, and the emergent properties of the systems they are creating, make them truly dangerous.
10,000 hours is five full work years. That's a really long time. The device itself only costs a few thousand dollars, and it's going to be technologically obsolete long before the lasers wear out.

I can't think of anything I own in my life that lasts for 10,000 hours of use, except for housing. Hell, cars don't last nearly that long, not without major maintenance. 10,000 hours of highway driving is a million kilometers.
Wow, yeah. Then again, who knows if the conclusions here are based on the same flawed studies Taubes references. Being a non-scientist, it is quite a fatiguing process to try to make sense of the plethora of contradictory studies. Then on top of that, it's difficult to find someone that can compile them and draw a conclusion without themselves adding bias, or worse, completely misrepresenting the data (news organizations I'm looking at you...) Yeesh.
> After hearing lots of old-timers talk about how Burning Man was in the 1990s

There were people already saying "it's not cool any more" even in the 90s. That was in fact how I first heard about Burning Man, due to someone complaining about it not being cool anymore, around 97 or so. Very likely people have pretty much always said it.

It's like the old joke about how the first car race happened the day someone built the second car:

Q: When did someone first say Burning Man wasn't cool any more?
A: The day after the second Burning Man.
They almost all say they will report payment history (particularly late or non-payment) to credit bureaus.

If that was the only data reported to credit bureaus, that would be great.

But "reputation data" is increasingly becoming important in this sphere. Are you Facebook friends with people with a low credit score? Do you drive through a dodge neighborhood on the way to work? Do you watch the wrong kinds of movies? Buy liquor? Stream the wrong shows?

It's all up for grabs, and with the "credit score" formulae locked up as trade secrets, there's no way to determine if your mortgage denial was because you were one day late with a cell phone bill, or because you stop at a red light next to a pawn shop enough times that your phone thinks you're a regular customer.
Memory Market for Dummies
I reread some of the book after the last n-word-in-English-class controversy, and Jim comes off as witty and sympathetic. I don't know if that is enough to pacify the armchair mob. I also think it could probably survive the removal of one slur. It's a great book.
ARM and RISC-V can't come soon enough
They can still use two eye parallax to make items appear to be at different depths the limitation is that your eye wants to focus differently on far and near objects. In VR with a simple screen your eye has to focus on a constant distance while you look at objects that should be deeper based on their parallax. It's not a huge deal but can make things blurry or increase eye strain. ML1 has two focus planes near and infinity that it will switch between depending on what object you're focusing on. You can actually see the switch between the two planes depending on what object you're looking at in the scene.

In theory this will help a bit with eyestrain and make things look a bit better but with only 2 planes it's a bit limited.
Show HN: Salary.Center – Find Out Exact Base Salary in Company for H1B Visas
The problem is that the twelve-tone system was designed for a very specific "use case", in the context of a certain kind of music: classical/Baroque revolving around major and minor scales, modulating around the cycle of fifths. For anything else, it is basically a misuse. Mass produced equal temperament instruments are used all over the world and basically turn the local music into shlocky pop.
I looked briefly into this but would appreciate a recommendation since that particular market seem very DIY'ish at moment.
>> a lot of fuel just getting through the thick low part of the atmosphere

That statement is misunderstood. Google "rocket ISP". Rocket engines work less efficiently at lower altitudes, and cannot be properly optimized due to the rapidly changing pressures between sea level and the near-vacuum at altitude. They burn extra fuel due to this inefficiency. And since rockets are at their heaviest in the lower atmosphere, even little inefficiencies really add up. Atmospheric drag is next to nothing in the equation. Even speed isn't the issue. It is about how they cannot design an efficient engine bell to cover the initial climb.
Fascinating. I always thought Python 2.7 support would end July 3, 2020 (exactly 5+5 years from when 2.7 was released), but for some reason they recently decided to go with Jan 1st.

> Specifically, 2.7 will receive bugfix support until January 1, 2020. All 2.7 development work will cease in 2020.

> I've updated the PEP to say 2.7 is completely dead on Jan 1 2020. The final release may not literally be on January 1st, but we certainly don't want to support 2.7 through all of 2020.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/#maintenance-releas...
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-March/1523...
So many assumptions here. Maybe they’d be able to, but why would they want to? What’s the point of probing a galaxy that you can only ever explore below the speed of light, at the cost of ungodly amounts of energy and eons of time? Why wouldn’t that same civilization stick within 1-100 light years instead? There is only a paradox if an advanced civilization with high tech is so irrational that they can’t control their breeding and doesn’t care about time dilation and efficient use of resources.

It also assumes that it’s safe to broadcast your presence to the whole galaxy that way. It assumes a lot of unproven ideas and then hand waves at a “sufficiently advanced” species that has only apparently enjoyed technological advancement rather than personal or social advancement. Maybe humans as we know them would spread unmanned probes across the galaxy for the sake of doing it, but I have doubts that humans capable of th feat would do it. I suspect we’d be wiser, or we’d be dead.
I'm curious about what a respectful and user-controlled smart household appliance looks like and how it's built. Thanks for pointing out that there is a non-BS vision of IOT, hard to remember that sometimes.