skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel this particular mind trick may be restricted to members of the HN community - who might already be very willing to give Amazon the benefit of doubt in the first place.

Note that, as you say, the information may be completely fabricated (or it may be "technically true", but attached to a lot of catches and conditions that the "ambassadors" conveniently didn't mention)

Also, while the article didn't research the claims, it did put them next to the (vastly better verified) claims of the ex-workers who reported absolutely undesirable working conditions. Even if they beat the pay for industry average, would that matter so much if they in turn offer vastly below-average working conditions?
Ask HN: What are some examples of great software that's documented terribly?
I'm struggling with publishing some software of my own which, based on what I can tell, has more OOTB features than my competitors, but the documentation is god-awful and out of date.

What are some examples of software you've used that's actually pretty good, but not well documented?
e.g. Levi's
> can't just write `import "./util"`.

Afaik thats actually possible. Or at least it was for a while. But there are good reasons why you shouldnt.
misplaced modifier in the title is a bit of a let down ;(
"Update: The Democratic National Committee said late Wednesday that what it had earlier feared was the beginning of a sophisticated attempt to hack into its voter database, was, in fact, an unauthorized 'simulated phishing test.'"
Hm, not sure I like the example for 6/8 time. It's so much slower tempo than 3/4 time example that it's very hard to compare the two for me.
I see only one good solution:

The dev lead was the first technical person, so he knows the history and understands the business needs best.

So convince the founders that he should become the product manager (work on deciding features), but stop coding. Not get involved in the how (technical decisions), but only the why (what to build).
If you like John Roderick, you will love his weekly 60-90 minute conversations with Merlin Mann, "Roderick on the Line," which recently rounded the 300 episode mark.

The ease at which John and Merlin weave between interesting subjects and cool stories from mostly-John's bonkers life is really something to behold.

EDIT: Also, John has another podcast with Dan Benjamin, "Road Work," that is a lot more focused on how John's peculiar mind works. It is very good too!
> In most other contexts we encounter, stuffing an adjective in there means "NOT".

I think that's less a comment on grammar and more about how there's a tendency to name stuff that is similar to other stuff, yet markedly different, in oxymoronic ways. For example:

"virtual reality", "business ethics", "educational television", "military intelligence", "magic realism"
That's not in between though, it's on the opposite end of 2 different axes.
That sounds awful.

As an LA resident, I've long held a more general shame that LAX is such a poor airport in general. The whole experience of arriving, taxiing for 20 minutes, waiting an eternity for checked baggage in 1960s civic utilitarian architecture, and then standing on a concrete island outside amidst an armada of cars, trucks, and buses with squealing disc brakes and clouds of exhaust... LAX is an embarrassment to Los Angeles.

Now I hear that our CBP is also irrationally angry and offensive. Yuck.
People like security, stability, and safety. They want a company to give them salary, benefits, a decent life. They don't want to worry about running a business, making next months paycheque, worrying about sales and so on. Companies know this as well. Why would they pay you if you have no incentive to do start your own business. It just means the people in your job market have given up and don't care about money.

If you want more money, ask for it. If they offer $40,000, then tell them you won't touch this job for under $140,000. If the rest of the developers did the same, they would start paying that, but they won't because everyone wants stability.

Then you get to the point where $500K is not enough as a salary, and companies know this also, so you are going to quit and start your own business. If they can keep you around for longer and longer before you quit, the lower they start you, the more time they can keep you, in essence growing their business.

Either start your own company, or ask for a lot more and be prepared not to receive the offer.
A Concept Designer's Take on the Rumoured Foldable iPhone Flex
For all the people in this thread musing that our ancestors had it good- a little risk, sure, but plenty of fulfillment & meaning- I can't help but wonder if the stigmatization on the left & among techies of serving in the military, could have unintended consequences.

I've never served, but if you want to live in a small tight knit group, live adventurously with real danger and do physically grueling work and get your hands dirty- you still can.
They're used by a variety of communication devices. I recently worked with some Phoenix Contact industrial bluetooth devices that used Hayes commands for configuration.
i'm sure "we use fifty different kinds of virtualization and a hundred different operating systems" is valuable information
Lenmo – Open-source blockchain-based peer to peer lending platform
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Making a platform called Lenmo. Open-source blockchain-based peer to peer lending platform.
Who wants in?
temporary-contact-001@lenmo.com
we are all fucked six ways from sunday
> But there are good reasons why you shouldn't.

Wonder why, care to explain?
You can write `import "./util"`

Also, it's really not that bad considering that go works (`go get` grabs git repo) with git repos. So you can go into your GOPATH (or vendor dir) and checkout your fork in place of the origin.
In the end, a little pain to get started to get used to it, then it's second nature.... but I suppose if you primarily work in other languages it is likely tiresome.
What impact did this book have on you? What have you achieved since reading it that you otherwise would not have? Investments? What other books do you recommend?
It's not a math thing. It's more about feel than counting.

3/4 is ONE two three, with a foot stomp on the ONE. It's a dance beat - STOMP skip skip.

4/4 is so common it appears in a lot of variations, from the bass drum beat of EDM to all the different rock and pop variations. The usual - not infallible, but strongly suggestive - tell is how often the chords change. Failing which, there's often a unique rhythm marker at the starter of each bar.

6/8 is skiddledeediddledee - often used in folk and/or ethnic music. It's a much lighter, more skittery feel.

You can generalise the /8 time sigs to 9/8 and 12/8, although they're more rare. They're often used to signify something exotic, alien, ethnic, or maybe a bit spiritual.

Like this, which you've probably heard, and is in 12/8 when it eventually gets going. The clue is in the phrase length:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLnL63cXmD8

Exotic sigs like 5/4 and 7/4 are much less standardised, so they're open to interpretation. You can play 5/4 as 2+3 or 3+2 or 4+1. Or just as 5.

Likewise 7/4 (listen to the snare):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kcet4aPpQ
The Sims FreePlay Cheat Hacker – CheatHacker.com
The mechanic's, machinist's, and engineer's practical book of reference
That's a whole lot of rationalisation about how it's not an 'open core' model where text actually supports that it, in fact, is open core. Not that it matters.
There are myriad legal, diplomatic, and technological solutions to reduce their impact. You can never stop them from trying.
Seattle is 111 miles from the border. Which means the burbs are within 100. Hours away, really. There are quite a few metropolitan areas that close to the Canadian border and a couple to the Mexican border.
>"n-lover whiteboy"
>...
>but it'd be respectful.

Does not compute.
You're right, but several important business models stop working out when patents disappear, most notably drug researchers.
To communicate with all the other traffic lights and sensors at the other intersections on the road to optimize traffic flow.
Arduino is not real time.
Nor did I say so. But the point was it is ridiculous to fail to plan for something that has never happened if it could happen and there is a reasonable motive for someone to attempt to do it.
Images and videos are less important though.
You need to pay estimated taxes quarterly, but file only once a year (correct me if I'm wrong).
>For example providing a single node of a database into the open source, and then having the clustering logic and mechanism implemented in a different non-free layer, is an open core technology.

> that is able to provide strong guarantees is non free. In an open core business model around an open source system it is fundamental that you take something useful out of the free software part.

Isn't that an exact description of the difference between redis clustering and RLEC ? I would say that easy setup and automated (ie, no downtime) recovery are "strong guarantees" and are the "clustering ... mechanism implemented in a different non-free layer" .

I support there being a real business model to maintain the FOSS redis. Just wanted to point out that it sounds like you're arguing against yourself about the true nature of Redis / Open Core
So Invalid patents are prior art, but content in valid patents outside of the claims section is NOT prior art?
You can get XPS 15 on eBay. There are 33 brand new ones listed

https://m.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=dell+xps+15&_...
My team deploys probably 5 times in a given day, including Friday. They are all small deploys, and none can happen at the end of the day. If shit hits the fan, we rollback and maybe people figure out the root cause over the weekend but they aren't sweating bullets.
> unless you're randomly selected

There is nothing "random" in the selection, let's not continue spreading this delusion. It took 4 trips to the US, for that sorry excuse of an AI they use for the selection, to finally decide I wasn't a threat.

If algorithms to generate numbers were all as random as the TSA one, I could probably predict every encryption key out there.
Perhaps my tastes are too low but for food there is nothing better than cooked meat of which the kings had in abundance. Netflix is a (virtual) substitution for real drama, real romance , and real violence. If your gonna count the netflix you might as well just say The Matrix is material utopia.
Dinner for Five
Yes, I was wondering if I read that right, but it seems that AT commands are still in use.

Us BBS nerds used to know AT commands by heart. We would send instructions to our 2400 baud Hayes modems using QModem:

ATZ = reset

ATDT1234 = dial 1234 on a touch tone phone (DP for pulse dial)

Those of us who later moved to US Robotics modems started learning proprietary USR ampersand codes.

ATH0.
I mean, I’m angry at a lot of people, legislators included. There’s plenty of anger to around..
Sounds like Accelerando by Charlie Stross.
Just to ensure we're talking about the same thing, I'm referring to 'Cognitive Science' not 'Cognitivist Science,' which sounds more like a branch of philosophy.

I think that's the main disconnect in what we're talking about here: mainstream scientists in psychology left Freud behind quite a while ago. There are certainly other corners of academia who continue to use his ideas, but not scientists. Nowadays the two main branches covering similar theoretical subjects are various branches of Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology (both of these are often grouped together under the heading 'Cognitive Science').
+1. I wrote some near flight software for an instrument using Ubuntu with a RT patch on modern hardware, in parallel with another team that took the traditional approach. Not to brag, but our “undeterministic” system ran far more reliably than the real time one that didn’t have the advantage of modern application libraries. Plus, even though we had that pesky operating system in the way, we ran on blazing fast modern architectures and were actually more deterministic than the slow as hell hardware we were benchmarking against.

I’ve seen the same pattern a few other times. Slow, hand built, rad hard systems CAN be more stable and demonstratively safer... but that is rarely the case and the effort required to get such a system right is orders of magnitude greater than using standard “undeterministic” systems. That engineering effort can be better spent innovating and building fundamentally more advanced solutions.

Just my experience. Just my opinion
Missing the point? My point is that a little trash on a riverbank pales in comparison to the large-scale environment destruction being committed every day by giant companies. Provide the homeless with food and shelter instead of worrying about some minimal pollution.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615297/

This study says earthquake precursor movements send signals into the ionosphere, that cause other signals to propagate to earth, which can make objects vibrate audibly, minutes or possibly hours before the main shock. It argues this may be what animals are hearing. Rube Goldberg if true.
Shooting heroin is also an activity that many would like to do. Wouldn't you agree that shooting heroin is more like drinking alcohol than like driving?
I read something a few years ago which led me to believe all phones had a baseband processor which scarily accepts all AT commands, unauthenticated, over the air-http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...

Am I conflating 2 different issues? Before, it was a theoretical risk. So with a basestation/stingrays you could do it remotely, and now over USB as well.
Not sure why it would. Companies would still market the drugs they had.
I'd like to. Do graduate programs accept devs who have been working the last decade?

There are areas I feel I could be helpful with, e.g. creating reproducible experiments or ensuring a codebase could be open sourced in relation to a paper. It's a lot of grunt work that nobody really has time to do.

If that were possible, I'm not quite sure where to start with executing that plan. (Chicago area, FWIW.)
Arduino boards arn't designed to operate in a rugged environment such as a car which is a pretty hostile environment regarding vibrations, electro magnetic interference and thermal cycling.
This post is really quite misleading. Better coverage here: https://patentlyo.com/patent/2018/07/diagnostics-provisional...

The EFF writeup makes it sound like material appearing only in the specification of an earlier published patent does not count as prior art, that it must appear in the claims. That’s not true in the general case:

> In the simple case outlined above, the courts all agree that the disclosures found in an issued patent or published application count as prior art as of the patent’s filing date.

Ariosa addresses a very different issue. Generally, patent applications are prior art even before they are publicly disclosed—they count as prior art starting from the day of filing. Ariosa addresses what happens when you have a provisional patent application:

> In this case, the Federal Circuit ruled that a published application can count as prior art as of its provisional filing date — but only as to features actually claimed in the application. According to the court, features disclosed in the provisional but not claimed in the published application will only be prior art as of their date of public disclosure.

The EFF writeup is in fact completely inaccurate, because it starts by talking about a “published” patent application. Once the application is published, all agree that it is prior art. This case is about what happens between the date if filing of a provisional, and the date of publication.
I really enjoyed following the WASM CLs. A huge effort from both neelance and the reviewers. Thanks to everyone that donated their time to make this happen!

If the compiler output is deterministic perhaps the Go runtime
and Go standard libraries could be bundled as modules, allowing for aggressive cache policies. Maybe even served from a central CDN. Just a thought ...
YOSPOS
There is no difference between 3/4 and 6/8 unless you are trying to decide on which one makes your score easier to read. It's just different ways of conceptualizing the phrase. Mathematically (and therefore rhythmically) they are the same, of course. Maybe the site is trying to make some other differentiation but it didn't work at all in Firefox.

(Source: I am a professional drummer)
That sounds to me like the size of Hello World. Start including more and more of the runtime and it’ll get quite a bit bigger, much the same as native Go binaries.
> With "method" patents being an absolute joke, what would stop me from patenting, "A method of acquiring patents for the sole purpose of litigating infringement without actually creating a licensable alternative"?

I believe that IBM actually has a patent on this, to whip out in case a troll decides to step to Big Blue.
It's easy to complain about, but I've been using go professionally for 3 years and having a gopath hasn't affected me since I installed it. Obviously it's better to not have the gopath requirement, but it was like 2 min of set up.
What kind of advancements do you think Arduino should be making?

Hadn’t heard of mbed before, but it looks way more complicated than Arduino to me. Is it easy to setup? Does it run on the same tiny 8-bit micro-controllers?

What I like about Arduino is it’s just me and the very limited hardware. Same reason I haven’t tried Ras-pi yet. I don’t want an OS with threading & security & networking for my little sensor robots. I have all that on my computers & deal with it ad nauseum for my day job. I like only having a tiny C program and some 5v pins to play with and nothing else.
Go does a lot of things right without having to carry legacy mistakes like other languages, it's such a breath of fresh air in a landscape of constant change and competing implementations.

I'm very optimistic that the modules system is another step in the right direction, however long it took to get here.
Thanks everyone working on Go.
What did you end up doing with your literature degree if you don't mind me asking. I hope you found your profitable niche, if not what is the barrier to success?
Funny, I recall seeing a post on HN that such a patent did in fact exist. From the NPR [1]:

> It turns out, a couple giant companies — IBM and Halliburton — have been working for years to patent what patent trolls do.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/01/157743897/can-...
> what would stop me from patenting, "A method of acquiring patents for the sole purpose of litigating infringement without actually creating a licensable alternative"?

Absolutely nothing other than your willingness to pursue it and pay the fees.

As an exercise, I once applied for a patent on a device that would violate the laws of physics (specifically allowing faster-than-light communications) to test the theory that you can in fact patent anything. The result was receiving U.S. patent number 7126691.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7126691B2/en
> Content-based sites should be server-rendered.

Why?
No, you can't "triangulate" from the contents of that report. Even the table entitled "Births by Age, Race, Ethnicity and Marital Status of Mother" just lists three time series without demonstrating how the different series interact. Do you want to assume that all the unmarried women are nonwhite, so that will "prove" all the white women are married?

It's remarkable, that you don't "reason based on anecdata" but you were happy to kick off the thread with some racist assumptions. Go ahead, show us some "data" about all those 20yo white women who are just taking some time off from their college careers to work minimum wage while paying for daycare and waiting for daddy to get a job...
So it's like Jupytr Notebooks for OCaml and ReasonML, nice!
Yup, there are a number of well regarded CS professors who recruit burnt out industry programmers as students. Check out Peter Alvaro at UCSC for one.
The military’s purpose in the US is far from meaningful unfortunately.

Go into the fighting forces and it’s endless war against fake enemies that does nothing to help the nation. Come home broken, with terrible support. If you’re badly broken enjoy winding up on the streets in your mid twenties with PTSD and no future.

Or for techies, maybe you’d go into the clandestine services and then find it’s massive overreach, spying on your own citizens, and building the tools to bring about dystopia.

It’s a pity because otherwise you’re right. And it should be as you say. It’s just that’s not what our military is sadly.
I still think it's too big and look forward to size reduction. One of the things I found was also a bit heavy is init with tens of thousands of instructions to initialize the unicode package with those dozens of structs.
Multiple vulnerabilities cause compromised AT&T and T-Mobile account PINs
The argument is that people should do less of these things to preserve their health, where people used to believe that drinking some alcohol was beneficial.

Same with hand egg. People used to believe that the fitness and team-building aspects made playing the game beneficial. Now that we know about the certainty of brain injuries, the recommendation is to reduce playing time and prefer other team fitness activities.
Does the last bullet in section 2.2 mean that clients hang on to revoked keys?
The cell phone I’m typing this on is fueled by two patent-powered business models: ARM’s and cellular companies’. Also, a substantial fraction of all modern computing paradigms came from PARC, which was fueled by Xerox’s patent monopoly.
This approach is open core. The open core model funds open source work by finding "market differentiating features" and keeping them proprietary in order to charge clients who might pay. Bruce Perens wrote about this in his classic post, "The emerging economic paradigm of Open Source" [2005]. This is what you're doing.

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1470/13...

Frankly, I think it is great that RedisLabs is using proprietary [1] software in order to sustain and fund improvements for real, honest to goodness free & open source software. Thank you.

[1] "Commons Clause" is proprietary and non-free for many reasons, the asymmetric permissions are the tell.
Interesting article but the font was so horrible that I ended up changing it in the developers tools.
IIRC, hello world that uses println is actually smaller. It's once you import fmt and unicode directly or indirectly (most libs) where those reported sizes start from.
Yes. It's "Roderick on the Line" that makes me think of him as a raconteur.

Don't forget about "Friendly Fire", the war movie podcast. His love of history comes through in that almost as much as in "Omnibus."
Not sure if any of those brands try to blast firmware updates over the net with a "push to prod" mentality...
> We don’t believe that the courier change was responsible for the losses. We think we need more training, bugfixes, and to remove the last pieces of scripted logic in our model.

It is interesting to consider that manually scripted behavior may have been responsible for some of the more strange moments in the matchups; possibly they may have had hardcoded place-ward() routines that resulted in all of that clumped-together warding... or maybe even "check-roshan-pit()" without adequate training data to identify Roshan's respawning patterns?
Interesting contrast to the recent wave of posts about how you should absolutely not go for academia in the current market of having 1 job spot for every 3 PhDs. What's one to make of this?
My blog was built when AMP was new and looked cool. It was done with my permission - but the content was not vetted by Google in any way.

People have told me they asked Google to take down my blog, because they thought it was hosted there.