skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came to the comments to say the exact same thing: this is basically just a vote of no confidence in management.

I can't imagine any employee joining this company from this point forward without demanding all-cash compensation. Management and the investors have effectively set the value of restricted shares at zero.
In Japan, the future of beer, soda and coffee is colorless
Most certainly, percentile wise, they're the 99th. Nearly every case where I encountered a name that long though, there was a shorter form. Generally really long names are either patronymic/matronymic (listing ancestors) like many Arabic names, or names following Hispanic conventions. Hawaiian names can also sometimes be rather impressive.

For instance Pablo Picasso's full name is 103 characters (without whitespace): Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
I don't know and I also don't want to figure it out :)
You should resolve to stop buying Chinese goods, or using Chinese services or companies...or something?
Exactly. I recently looked at a landlease apartment for sale in NYC. Even if the landholder doesn't renew the lease in 27 years (not typical), based on my very simple model, the ROI on the apartment is enough that you are making nearly 100%. So even if the apartment has no return after 27 years, you're still fine. Obviously, you're better off if there is some residual value in the property after but you don't necessarily need a 50-100 year time frame to realize a decent return on real estate.
> and we are just not able as humans to control the climate

https://xkcd.com/1732/
WinRT is so very nice - but it's insane how most of its benefits and services are exposed only to UWP applications.
I’m not saying that animus doesn’t exist. Overt animus shouldn’t be tolerated in the workplace and deserves social condemnation, but the existence of animus doesn’t automatically bless or justify any and every political ideology that markets itself as “anti-Xist”.

I have personally experienced animus based on my sex, race, and sexuality before, but I don’t want to be in a politicized workplace just because the governing ideology is supposedly for my benefit.
> $2.5m of $3.5m was for founders and early team [of Series A money]

Terms:

> Series A class of shares included a protective provision which meant that Buffer was unable to offer liquidity for other shareholders

> a return of 9 percent annual interest on their investment at any point

So... the founders raised a series A mostly to give themselves liquidity, at the expense of a high interest loan that also threw their early investors under the bus? Well, they definitely achieved their vision of putting together an atypical round.

Given their lack of interest in going down the VC-startup path (high growth at all costs, keep raising, aim for IPO, etc), it's unclear what their motivations were to raise a VC round in the first place.
Did you mean no commercial stations? Because I can think of lots of listener-supported jazz stations that are mainstream, definitely not smooth. KCSM in my local area, for instance.
Except you're requiring someone to choose to not make money today in order to maybe make more money tomorrow. If the seller thinks scarcity will rise tomorrow, they'll just raise prices today. Capitalist markets are traditionally both selfish and short-sighted. Market limits are how black markets are created. Eventually the market demands will raise prices high enough to incentivize illegal activity. See: elephants, rhinos, whales, etc.
Move to a country like Norway or Germany where it doesn’t matter how much you make. Social security covers the basic and medical needs. Problem solved.
Toward cities without slums: Topology and the spatial evolution of neighborhoods
Reminds me of Japan's Tsunami Stones [1]. There are other examples around the world.

I spend a lot of time in Guatemala at Lago Atitlan. Only the white people live at water level, the indigenous generally live up higher given the ever changing water line. Probably a combo of white colonialists 'know better' mindset + more $$ so it's not as much as a big deal (waterfront premium as a vacation versus subsistence home).

Too bad we repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html
Urban planners aim to eliminate slums–with a mathematical approach
"1) Build a product people actually want and need and will pay money for"

This piece advice seems leftover from a bygone era as this is so fundamental that I wonder does it even bear saying?

Again, if you're building something people don't want or aren't going to pay for, something is seriously fundamentally wrong and you should try to define what you're even trying to achieve; that is, you're not even trying to build a business but may think you are.

In most industries, making money is usually the very first thing that happens and, in some cases, happens before a thing is built or a service is provided.

Starting a business == making money. Maybe it's not profitable, but money should be changing hands. If that's not happening, go back to the drawing board and question everything.

We're not in the Dropbox circa 2013 era anymore.
i cant wait to see the testing videos here. think Boston Dynamics kicking their machine and pushing them downstairs. There better be billions of dollars in destroyed airframes ahead of any human cargo.

Tail gearbox failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11TD0Dboixo

ground resonance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FeXjhUEXlc

lightening strike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uybTDikWzWs
Yes! Exactly. Intent and the meaning of what you say is important, sure, but equally if not more important is the effect and interpretation other people have upon hearing it. If you say X and others hear Y, if your goal is to communicate in an efficient and respectful manner, then the clarity of Your own words is Your problem.
We use bonfire, which is the same tool the community at Stack Overflow uses to interact.
I kid you not....

The 2 vice principals in my Junior High at one point were James Slaughter (he did the paddling) and Seymour Butz. Butz had this huge James Earl Jones voice that just boomed down the hallways... No one made fun of him within his hearing.
Ok Stallman, now back to reality where people do own software, they do have legal restrictions on its use, and it's not a human right to circumvent it.
That the icon changes color is a nice touch. I can see this being useful in generative art.
And now you can't even embed Edge into your own applications.

Microsoft recently released a new web-view control for desktop programs which actually works by hosting Edge in its own process and blitting the page render back into your application.
I live a couple hundred feet above sea level in the middle of the United States in a place where winter sucks. It is a struggle to actively care about climate change despite knowing that I should.
What does a hunger strike make happen in people's heads that compels them? Do they think "Oh, these poor strikers will starve to death, and that is too terrible to allow." or "This striker's conviction is genuine and powerful, I should listen and be receptive to what he has to say."

It is the content of their souls that allows them to do what they do and this recognition that makes their demonstration compelling.

By the way, spirit strikes are very much a thing, and they are far uglier than hunger strikes.
Pretty moronic of Slack to try and take it down considering it just furthers their own product.
> The FCC presented evidence that ISPS will often build up to a mile of wire reach new customers of these high-value service contracts.

That is an extremely bold statement, and obviously both technically accurate and utterly misleading on its face.

Sure providers will build out a half mile of fiber to you. For $50k. Exceedingly few are doing a build out for a single corporate customer for free. I've been involved in build-outs where the customer simply moved offices to a lit building because the build-out costs were more expensive than eating an early termination fee on a lease.

Not sure how that is remotely competitive. It's about as close to outright lying to the court as you can get without actually doing so, in my estimation.
oh, yeah... that's something I want to look into
In any other situation it would be the CEO leaving. The investors clearly didn't have enough votes to boot him, and took a cashout to avoid it being a total loss.
And people starting to speak at the same time and stopping multiple times due to a few seconds of lag
Couple random counterarguments (no idea how valid):

* It's hard to exclude people from whaling, so you can't "stockpile" whales.

* Markets had less global visibility and insight than we have now, so it's clearer what the speculation opportunity would be.

* Important financial instruments used in speculation (standardized forward and option contracts) had only recently been invented, and wouldn't be generalized out from farm commodities until after the collapse of whaling.
> Even balloon helium is usually almost 100% pure

Are you sure? I ask, because latex helium filled balloons slowly lose air as the helium leaks out - but after some time they stop, and stay a fixed size.

But they don't float when they reach that point!

If it were pure helium, wouldn't a: all the helium leak out, and b: still float if for whatever reason the helium did not leak?

Personally I suspect helium balloons have just enough helium to float when full and the rest is regular air.
I remember armageddon! I was a "god" there due to my work on a couple of other popular muds (Epic and SillyMUD), but was likely better known there for taking up the challenge of building a character there and seeing how fast I could kill everyone in alphabetic (and then reverse-alphabetic) order.

the challenge became easy with two things:

1) you could set your "title" to anything you wanted, as long as you included your name somewhere in the title. I named my character "Delver", as in "Foo the Delver in Spells" (the first level mage title)

2) I found a remote area that increased mana production, camped there, and summon/fireball'd everyone very quickly

good memories.

as an aside, there's a copy of SillyMUD running at legitimatesounding.com 4000 for those feeling nostalgic.
I don't know to be honest. When I think of contemporary Jazz Artists out there, I think of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Gordon Goodwin, (to an extent) Trombone Shorty. I enjoy playing and listening to Jazz, but I personally am disappointed when I go to shows and it's obvious that the soloist is there to show off how great they are at Jazz, not to be there to entertain. Granted that could be a one off thing and not really a greater issue.
This is almost entirely incorrect. Helium is generally not extracted from the atmosphere, it comes as a byproduct of mining natural gas (the same conditions that trap natural gas underground also traps noble gases produced by radioactive decay, Helium (being just a neutralized alpha particle) is a very common product of such decay and so abundant in natural gas deposits, but it requires special equipment to trap it). Historically the US has excelled at Helium production due to its natural gas infrastructure, and it has created a national strategic Helium reserve to maintain stocks of the gas just in case. However, the government has decided to sell of much of that reserve in recent years, lowering the price of Helium to artificial levels and destroying the natural economic incentives that would exist to produce and conserve Helium.
I think it’s less about being a “bad” word and more about not injecting a bit of bias in before the reader even gets to the article. HN is big on “sterile” titles. I believe this falls under “gratuitous adjectives” in the guidelines.
There's definitely both of these items if you listen long enough.
I agree about Signal for sure, actually I love it. Double Ratchet is especially intriguing to me as forward-secrecy is something that's often overlooked, as well as "exploding' messages. My only problem with Signal is that while it's nice to have a more reliably verified endpoint like a phone number for many contacts, it can't be used for communication between random people very easily. If I want to start an encrypted conversation with someone online I don't have to distrust them in order to be uncomfortable sharing my phone number with them. I get enough spam calls as it is, not to mention maybe I don't want this other person to be able to pay $10 or whatever it costs these days to reverse trace my number. It'd be great if there could be an ephemeral key you could generate for your profile for each new conversation you didn't want to have with someone that shares your phone number. That's really my only gripe with Signal.

However, Signal also is only for one thing essentially: chat. If I want to communicate via email or even just sign this message to verify it's me, I can't request Signal perform a signing function and generate some output so that others can verify I sent this precise message. Well, at least they can't verify that someone who claims in their public key declaration to be me didn't send this precise, unaltered message, haha.

Regarding linking identities together I agree entirely. I suppose in theory you could add subkey identities to your public PGP identity and then push those to keyservers. Something like [MyProfileName]@[ServiceDomain].[ServiceDomainTLD].Service or something (where it's not a real email address or domain) but it signifies that you're claiming that specific username at that specific service and then manually posting a verifiable proof publicly on that service. The only downsides there are that revocation is ... yeah. And everyone would have to agree on a standard for how to name identities for subkeys for services and that's honestly never going to happen.

Keybase messaging is pretty cool, I just wish it could be run from the terminal because I'm with you on the UI. Like chat history would still be in the GUI for review and stuff but you could spin up "keybase chat [username]" or something in a terminal and that just runs and let's you chat IRC style or something.

Surprisingly though I've found that teaching people how to use GnuPG for Mac is remarkably easy because it's well integrated with Mail and things like that. With Time Machine people really don't even have to migrate their keys properly. Only downside is that if someone loses their private key they'll have no idea what to do about it and again, revocation. The upshot though is that if they're using GnuPG you get, at very least, signed emails and then you're not outsourcing your identity to a third party like Keybase. I trust Keybase more or less ultimately because I can't see any reason for them to do anything annoying and they've got a great track record but trust is always violable.
So can I define custom operations in llvm ir?
Would a sufficiently good track record convince you? Say, a million flights with 80% lower accident rates than human pilots?

A strict utilitarian should only care about accident rates. But as Greene [0] and others show, most people don't make moral judgements in a strictly utilitarian way. Thus, we judge homicide as worse than choosing not to save someone from death, even though in both cases someone dies as a result of a decision.

One of the lessons from probing moral calculus is that nobody can really articulate reasons for their actual moral decisions. People can articulate utilitarianism, but not what people actually do.

But, if you can articulate why you might prefer a human pilot over an autopilot, even given sufficient statistics that the autopilot is safer, it'd be interesting to hear.

[0] http://www.joshua-greene.net/
Worked with a guy with a really long set of names. Found out much later that what I thought was his first name (which he went by) was actually the initials of his names before the family name.
Helium is so light, won't it rise to the top of the atmosphere? Wouldn't that make it more difficult to extract from the atmosphere?
Set goals to have something done as in „delivered“ not „developed“. Even if you work on a fun hobby project.
i just got access a few months ago, and now i am hooked. the content is great and up-to-date !
I've lost count how many meetings I been in where I completely lost what the speaker was saying because someone was clickly clacking on their keyboard the whole time. The requisite "Whomever is typing please mute yourself!", never works because the typist is never paying attention.

There should be an app that logs you into your mandatory conference calls so you can get the checkmark for attending, but completely isolates the user. Then, when you suddenly have to talk, and someone pings you, it will call you, and while its ringing it will play a pre-recorded, 'Oh damn, I think I'm having connection issues, can you repeat the question?'
Why don't Android apps clear their own caches?
I took a look at a couple social media apps I have installed and realized over the course of a month and opening them maybe once or twice a week they've managed to accumulate a combined 1.4 GB.

Does anyone else find this unacceptable? And secondly, why are they not clearing their own caches?

I can understand Android not doing it automatically, that could cause problems. However, a good app should certainly cache data when possible but only for as long as it's relevant. Keeping an entire stream of photos from a dashboard, for instance, seemingly forever, seems to me to be just plain stupid. Installing an app cache cleaner seems an equally bad idea as Android doing it automatically because again, some apps have caches they need and that don't get excessively bloated with time. I'm thinking banking apps, messengers, things like that where clearing it could cause issues or at least slow things down as it resyncs.

So what's the deal? Is this just not a function an app can have? Is an app allowed only to store a cache but not delete items from it? Or are developers just being lazy here and eating up my storage just because I scrolled through some photos a month ago on a dashboard now so ridiculously filled with newer updates I'll never need to draw on that cached file again?
That is orthogonal to actually making OS APIs easier to deal with.

Even with plain C there are ways to have higher-level usable frameworks.
While that never died, social media is the modern rolodex. And on top of that, someone can jog their memory of you and warm the iron back up a little bit.

Swapping social media details has been more effective for me because often I don't pounce on a number immediately. And I would hate to lose contact with someone just because I didn't.

Social media keeps someone on the fringe of your vision. Bit easier to spark something from that than cold-texting "hey, it's Jeremy from that one party two months ago. remember me?"

Besides, at age 30 and having been dating for a long time, I can't tell you how many times social media has given me serendipities like someone asking what to do while visiting the city I live in and I can PM them with "hey, I'll show you around."
The Tragedy of Craftsmanship
SurveyMonkey S-1
CEO takes the call on his old cellphone while hiking along I-5
Shoptiques (YC W12) Is Hiring a Technical Implementation Specialist
>change every day by a few hours

I personally know someone that lived on a 28 hour day for a while (6 * 28 / 7 = 24). He was able to keep a fairly normal workday during the week but over the weekend he was crashing in the day. It only worked because he was religious about managing light levels at home with blackout blinds and sunlamps on timers.

If your willing to try just about anything it might be worth a shot, but you end up making a lot of sacrifices and must keep a very tight schedule.
You also don't need to worry about 90% of the web, either. ;)
A disclaimer would not work. Disclaimers might work where there is a risk that the user will violate the acceptable use policy but this cease and desist letter has effectively said that all users will violate the acceptable use policy therefore the disclaimer would be quickly dismissed by any court of law.

As a slightly bad analogy imagine a disclaimer that customers of a fairground ride might experience back pain. If it was found that all previous customers had suffered back pain then the disclaimer would not be enforceable and the ride owners could be sued for negligence.
The difficult line between being helpful to normal users and malicious users...

This reminds me of the classic enumeration attacks in the 90s where you could figure out usernames in machines by various remote services they had running.

Doing it on AWS global level is kind of cool. :)
My first search for "apple" gives you a bunch of greys and a red is only the 8th result. There's more grey, beige, a blue, black, yellow, orange, but only one green and 5 reds total.

Searching "heart" at least gives you a red first and majority reds.
"Hash and Sign" timestamping is flawed in that it relies on the trust of a central authority. An insider with access to the private key could easily backdate a timestamp and sign any document/timestamp combination. Surety's widely-witnessed approach was meant to fix this issue.

Chaining the hash values made it fundamentally impossible for any malicious actor to generate a notary certificate for a future document that would roll up and produce the correct super hash value that is woven into the chain.
Show HN: 80+ resources for the future of work
I have a feeling you are selling yourself short (and being overly hard on yourself, something I'm well acquainted with but more easily recognize in others).

Based on your technical focus, you're clearly (in my opinion) way above the "average" developer in technical ambition and appreciation for computer science.

A bit of unsolicited advice: If you organize your preparations around the concept of providing value to a prospective employer, rather than merely getting hired to write code, then I bet your outlook will change. One book (and definitely not the only one) that can help with that is Bob Martin's The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers:

https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Coder-Conduct-Professional-Prog...
Announcing Project Athens and GopherSource for the Go Community
It was only a bug in civ1, iirc, in the other ones they put it in intentionally.
If anything, speed limits are usually too high for non-grade-separated roads in populated areas.
A lot of the guys that worked on 'To Pimp a Butterfly' are doing interesting things. E.g. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C13UQaE0ZaQ
I struggle to get respect in the workplace. New in the last 5 years.

Have been a programmer since high school, now early-30’s. Am now homeless in Silicon Valley because coworkers at each job profile me wrong and bully me out. Recently I was wrongly identified as a Trumper and fired while on berevement leave via bogus HR reports. Later I had my Christmas days off revoked while boss was laughing in Hawaii at next employer, and had the final employer do an illegal reference check and refuse to officially acknowledge it—walked off these two. My network abandonded me in doubt, so options are worse than ever and confidence is hard to muster/maintain.

Seems like there is no way to get on track beyond luck/good will, and I am so skeptical of nice gestures that it can be offputting for all involved.
Look at the "Live Stream" on the lower right. It is all placeholder data. I think its just a demo page for whatever baremetrics is.
Not trying to cause trouble, but this story leaves out a pretty important detail[1]:

>> Also, because of a dam on a tributary of the Elbe, it's seen more often now than it used to be — although the current river levels are still exceptional.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641331544/drought-in-central-...
Lol, what? Democrats have a super-majority, but there are still Republicans in office. I also haven't noticed much abolishment of private property or class going on in California, so the "socialist" part is inaccurate too.