skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting. And I'm wondering if those patterns could be somehow useful also to design the interaction of chatbots.
I don't buy music from labels or online shops. I go to either an artists website or somewhere the artists will directly get the money from it or i'll buy albums from shows. I've probably paid for more music in the last few years than I did most of the time as a teenager. I feel a lot better giving my money to people who are more directly involved in creating the music than large companies that produce albums for them. Hell i've even bought some new recently produced vinyl albums in the last couple years. When I was young I refused to use places like hmv so all I did was either pirate or buy music from shows. Now i've replaced pirating with buying music online.

The thing is there's just so much music now. The artists you represent may be more popular but there's so much more competition for people's money. There's music i've bough I enjoy from artists whose shows i'll probably never get to see. I spend a lot of time listening to concerts and such these artists freely post online, i'm enjoying their music, legally, but I haven't paid for it.

There are a lot of things contributing.to lower album sales. Piracy, while i'm sure contributes doesn't seem to be the biggest problem. Plus i've been hearing this since I was a kid and cassette tapes were being blamed for killing the music industry because people could just record anything they want off the radio or a friend's cassette so album sales were dropping.
How is the other one natural? It's all based on artificial boundaries and divisions anyway. Seems to me the sun is highest several hours after noon and midnight is closer to sunset than sunrise.
I'm going to go against the grain and advocate in favor of daylight saving time, mostly because the alternatives are worse. Dr. Drang lays out the reasons nicely:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/03/why-i-like-dst/

>If we stayed on Standard Time throughout the year, sunrise here in the Chicago area would be between 4:15 and 4:30 am from the middle of May through the middle of July. And if you check the times for civil twilight, which is when it’s bright enough to see without artificial light, you’ll find that that starts half an hour earlier. This is insane and a complete waste of sunlight.

>If, by the way, you think the solution is to stay on DST throughout the year, I can only tell you that we tried that back in the 70s and it didn’t turn out well. Sunrise here in Chicago was after 8:00 am, which put school children out on the street at bus stops before dawn in the dead of winter. And if you’re wondering why I’m not accounting for predawn light in this case, it’s because winter skies tend to be more overcast and don’t provide as much twilight as summer skies do.
Before anyone turns this into a racist or other blanket stereotype of Chinese as superstitious, please consider that we now have to debunk flat Earth cosmology in America. Same goes for routine claims about superstition in Africa, etc.
Thanks for this. I've thought of making my own blog (or at least part of it) in a similar style.

(I've got the blog and the domain set up, I just need to start adding content).
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I know it would "feel" right to have the centre of daylight hours at 12PM on summer solstice... but it's much more useful to have lighter evenings that mornings in my opinion.

+1 1PM middday.

Full disclosure : I am not a morning person.
> Why 40 hrs? Try 24-32 and you might find the pace suits you better. This might work for a small org that needs a tech person but can’t support a FT tech person.

How do you find these? I've looked for PT work and everywhere wants FT employees or nothing because they say the marginal cost to them between PT and FT isn't much more (admin, training, office space and health insurance costs are pretty much fixed regardless of hours worked)

I end up leaving because I get burned out, because I don't want to drink the Kool-Aid and that doesn't sit well with management, and because I get bored: companies never do something so amazing that I want to keep doing it a year in. It's interesting in the beginning because you learn how the company works, how the software works, you meet new people, maybe discover a new area of the city where the office is in but all that eventually wears out.
It's a recommendation after all so once it's voted the speed is really determined by each local government/member state.
In the end does it matter though?

I mean, if it had a proven benefit for kids, schools could start at different hours depending on the seasons.

Companies can decide to start at 10 or 8 instead of 9, etc.

More light in the evening doesn’t seem to make sense to me as we are the ones deciding when is “evening”
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> Copyright should only have a term of life (with a minimum duration of 50 years in case the artist dies at 20-30) and that's all. Tell me one reason this shouldn't be the case.

I'll give you three:

1) Even if it's unlikely for anyone to act on it (which I don't think can be taken for granted), it's perverse to have a law making it possible to terminate a copyright by murdering the author.

2) The term is too long. At 50 years since first publication, the vast majority of works have been out of print for 40+ years. Roughly half of people who experienced the contemporary zeitgeist are dead, and by this time surviving copies of the work might be difficult to find or in long-obsolete formats that are difficult to work with.

3) For works older than 50 years, it requires would-be public domain users to find out whether the author is still alive. This wouldn't be difficult for a famous author, but many authors don't enjoy such fame later in life, particularly if their creative careers are short.

I'd support making it a 20-year fixed term with no renewals, although I think it can still be argued that that's too long.
I bet the Japanese would remember that pretty quick. If I visit Japan, I don't know customs and practices of local business and have to look things up or go with a local anyway. I certainly don't like people forgetting what timezone I'm in and scheduling important meetings for 6pm on the Friday before a long weekend, or having to stop and look stuff up because I can't remember whether or not I'm in sync with the next state of over during this time of year. The fact is time is different everywhere but we hide that in the way we represent it, making it harder to deal with it.
Yesterday's more indepth discussion on the same topic from the economist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875803
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Do you often find it necessary to remember when stores open in other countries? Even within my town all the stores open/close at different times from each other.
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It's incredible people still try and do things like this.

This is such an over ambitious problem...

1. Webpages are ladden with errors, how do you deal with this?
2. Knowledge does not fit in a graph. It's asymptically a graph, as in: I can define relationships like: This recipe contains carrots. carrots contain sugar => this recipe contains sugar. Cool. But, what about this "sugar-free carrot cake recipe?" Well it still contains carrots, so still contains sugar... Contradiction? => requires human curating...
3. It doesn't even solve a real problem... Look at IBM watson, it probably knows a lot more crap than diffbot, and yet, is a pretty useless piece of software...
I remember reading something here that this is already the unofficial case in Japan. You sign up with a corporation, and in exchange for working long hours at that corp for life they essentially guarantee you a middle class lifestyle complete with legal support, corporate reputation, a social life, and even finding a mate.
You already have to do that - if you're in France and it's within a couple of hours of when the sun is highest in the sky the shops are probably shut. On a Sunday they probably don't even open at all.
It's also worth pointing out that Trafford Park, only 3 miles from the centre, was proudly claimed to have been the densest industrial development on the planet until the end of the war. It was the primary target of the Manchester blitz, as there was much aircraft (Avro) and tank (Vickers) production, not to forget Ford's old plant producing Merlins, and the ICI plant. Also home to lots of warehouses and food companies including the then fairly new Kellogg's plant. There were bomb sites that lasted into the 80s. The big Royal Ordnance plant in Patricroft (Bridgewater Foundry) hung on until the 90s.

There was a lot of industry packed in between the ship canal and the Bridgewater.

Fancy apartments in Salford Quays were only possible after a lot of decline.
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Yeah, I should have been more clear in my previous comment about that. But I just think it's strange logic. Like, no one is using 'Android' referring to any smartphone, or 'Toyota' when talking about cars, just because they have the largest shares within their fields.
I see the rules more as an instrument for guaranteeing a certain quality of life and less as an end unto themselves.
And even if he did tell us how much he paid them, none of us are qualified to determine what wage rate is “exploitation”.
This is how fighting patent trolls works too IIRC, companies can countersue for false litigation, increasing the risk of DMCA trolls
>http://gordonbrander.com/pattern/start-with-a-toy/

This post reminds me of some PG essay I once read (too lazy to look it up). Did you use the PG essay as reference material? Because if yes it might be nice to put some links that served as inspiration for the article?
Ask HN: Going to work for a big corporate as a developer?
After searching around here for similar question I could find plenty of posts asking for advice in the following career trajectories:

Big corporate --> Work in a startup

Big corporate --> Start a company

However I am keen to ask what peoples experiences have been for

* Startup / Small/Medium Tech company --> Big Corporate

The company is very big in the automobiles market and they are now doing a lot of projects to do with electric vehicles.
Since they are a monolith, they decided to startup a separate tech company inside their organisation to work on these EV products. So they are claiming to have a high a good degree of autonomy from the rest of the company.

The salary is good, and its early days for the team. However I am worried about bureaucracy which does frustrate me.

After some google-fu, it seems that being a software developer in a big corporate is bit more laid back. However it is more prone to archaic business models and management plus you are at risk of vegetating away to a comfortable pension.

Most of us have seen Office Space and can relate to those situations

Interested to hear peoples experiences and advice.

Thanks
Do you speak Russian, or do you target those that went to top colleges, e.g., Moscow State Univ. that are more likely to speak fluent English?

Every Russian I've worked with that went to MSU or MIPT had excellent English, but they also all went to the US for grad school so I don't know how representative they are.
I believe that copyright only refers to creative works. Technology would be covered by patents. See also trademarks as the third kind of intellectual property.
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Yes!

Also, just like you don't need to remember timezones today (you can just google them), you won't need to remember daylight hours (or whatever the terminology will end up being) in a single timezone future (because Google will know)!
I don't really get what you mean; that's the whole point of zoning and an approval process. What's your objection to that way of doing things?
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The Wikipedia article on bulk carriers states the fleet size as: "9,570 vessels over 500 GT".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_carrier
How is this not considered fraud or theft?
Paid time off is merely a component of salary. Some employers might be willing to pay more $$ for less PTO, others more PTO than $$.

Personally, I'd rather have the extra cash, and take only unpaid leave. I'd rather have the extra cash and buy my own health insurance.

You are already being paid at your market rate, it's up to you to plan for these unforeseen life events and save accordingly.
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You have to check what you can do.

I can't write or program longer than 2h a day.

But you have to allow you to see other things as work too.

Learning about work related topics (business, tech, design, news, etc)

Answering mails and talking to other people in general.

I think the problem is not that people want to work less, it's that they want flexibility and not wasing away in offices, when they aren't abel to work anymore.
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As another commenter said, I'd come to the opposite conclusion. I always discount service related complaints as I rarely if ever experience service so bad that I'd not come back. Often you'll see people complain about a long wait or something on the menu not being in stock.

I only look at food quality and restaurant cleanliness reviews and it works out pretty well. If multiple people are saying a place is dirty, I'll avoid it at all costs. People talking about greasy, old... food is also a pass. Most of the time when people complain about service I feel they have weird expectations or lack skills for properly interacting with the staff.
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Winter time is definitely crap for western europe, but I don't know how good or bad it is for eastern: CET is used from poland to france to spain so it covers a fair bit of territory, and the difference between solar and standard time is already negative: http://blog.poormansmath.net/images/SolarTimeVsStandardTimeV...

FWIW remaining on summer time is the recommendation.
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Apparently it's easier for our collective society to agree that what was 9:00 yesterday is now 10:00, rather than allowing companies to start at 10:00 instead of 9:00.

I fully agree with you, but in many people do not agree with your argument.
Interestingly in my experience whether people agree with this is different depending on whether that person has a STEM/non-STEM study or job, STEM people tend to agree.
You have no parents, no siblings, no friends to grieve over you? The EMT whose effort to stabilize or resuscitate you fails should shrug and move on? Your employer is able to replace you with no disruption? Your insurance will cover your treatment and disability for the next 20 years?
Two years after this post, the Linux kernel added strscpy, the api of which is equivalent to the safe strncpy in this post. Internally, it stops copying once it reaches the null terminator.

https://lwn.net/Articles/659214/
> everyone has a lot of expectations about their partners

This is the thinking you have to get away from. The expectations are not that great, and if you think they are, this just makes you more anxious. You'll be surprised how forgiving/nice/helpful people can be when you're vulnerable or screw up. So go and do it anyway, and ask forgiveness later.
May I suggest you get access to a monitor?

In all seriousness, data visualization requires all the space it can get. I agree the graphics are not that fancy, but displaying them on mobile would be rather uninteresting as everything would be tiny.

Hence the minimal effort put on responsiveness.
It's everywhere now. Costa have recently launched flat blacks and flat mochas too.

No, it doesn't have to make sense...
Unless you’re proposing everyone on earth work during the same hours, you’re still going to have to know the standard working hours in the region they’re in. Time zones are basically a standard version of that. Not to mention, a single solar day makes dealing with weekends/holidays way harder.
Along similar lines, I strongly believe that "Blazing Saddles" could not be made today. It would send people into utter hysterics, and not the kind the writers intended.
If engineers had our own unions, we could actually have these discussions with our employers.
Seems? More like its mainly used in this way nowadays. There is no risk in sending DMCA notices so of course its abused.
These are really fun shapes to play with -- here's another little python script to draw animated hypotrochoid frames that can be stitched together with ffmpeg:
https://github.com/hecanjog/hypotrochoid.py/blob/master/hypo...

I stole the relevant bit from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22894942/plotting-hypotr...

Here's one video example: https://vimeo.com/99493389
> "we need to hire more female engineers even though none are applying."

> abysmal dating environment

It's kind of funny you say that you're sick of people complaining about lack of diversity then you yourself follow it up with a complaint about a lack of diversity.
Same California that's made giving someone AIDS a civil infraction. Duck California
Same experience from me: they run thing really bad.

A TV company came to our office doing a report. They gave us the video, and I uploaded it to YouTube as a private video to share it internally. After a week the private video has maybe 20 views. Months later I receive a copyright claim from the TV network. Their contact email obviously didn't work, and since I'm not a content creator I don't really care about my YouTube channel. So my account ended up being locked/limited during 6 months for a private video that had 0 views since several months...

What a mess.
How did you get the folder/file icons in there?
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But you don't want more light in the evening, you want it to be dark earlier. Especially with summers getting hotter due to global warming.

The past summer was a good example, you can't spend any time outside before the sun goes down because it's just too hot in direct sunlight. If anything we should move the clock back an hour in summer, not an hour forward. It doesn't start being nice to be outside until after dusk.
> In the end does it matter though?

Yes.

> More light in the evening doesn’t seem to make sense to me as we are the ones deciding when is “evening”

Western society has pretty much embedded the idea that the day is centered around 16:00 (4PM) and "night" around 03:00~04:00.

Lights out being when the vast majority of people are asleep with no light when they're actually up is stupid.
It's not about backwards compatibility. It's about the fact that text is what we read as humans and if commands parse the same format there is only one output format to implement.
You think it’s better that they return money to the fat cat investors then to invest in their own products?
Humans have a sleep cycle driven by circadian rhythms, and most jobs in a country work similar clock hours in order to coordinate with other companies more easily.

So in fact, it's much easier to change what the clocks say than it is to change either of these.
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The problem is fundamentally that ContentID is done on the cheap.

Things would work better with human interaction on the requests by Google. But bluntly, if you want your video host to do due diligence, hire one that does. Google do a bad job of this because they're a free hosting provider, and as a video uploader you subsequently get what you pay for.
The mashup "genre" currently is full of amateurs, because copyright law won't allow you to make money off it. Sampling is used to great effect by hip hop artists, but only in very limited ways because they have to negotiate expensive licenses each time. If not for copyright, we'd see amazing innovations.

To get an idea what would be possible, listen to the Beastie Boys album "Paul's Boutique", which has been called "The Sgt. Pepper of Hip Hop". It liberally samples all kinds of sources (including Beatles), and the results are amazing, even with that limited 1989 technology. Unfortunately, shortly after that album was released, legal precedents around music copyright doomed any similar works until copyright law changes.
The title is clickbait...It doesn't turn anyone into a better dancer. It's just about CGI stuff. A kind of future of emoji.
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Here you go.

Furthermore, it has been proven album sales are on the decline due to the meteoric rise of streaming: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8092882/on-deman...

If that means lost revenue overall for label companies, well, ask yourself if you haven't had a broken business model all along to begin with and now it's when you're taking the hit.
To be fair: much of it it practice and prior knowledge. I personally found the book Pragmatic Unit Testing helpful, as well as the Clean Code chapter on unit tests.

Others may be more able to find you more readily available sources.
Maybe the candidate just trying to show their passion and they just not completely trusted you, so they're not sure about the answer.

Or the candidate may have just failed another interview hours ago because he said he enjoyed working 8 or 12 hours a day, and lose the faith of humanity all together.

You'll never know why they've generated that answer if you don't ask a follow up question.
What does UTC lack for you to fulfill that role?
Why do you think that companies don't care about employees? Everyone who works at a company has an emotional stake in the work, the product, and usually pride in what they do. That matters.

Most founders that I know do care about their employees, they want them to be happy, productive, and have a great career. It doesn't always work out, but the intention is there.

Companies are run and owned by people, especially the small ones, and people empathize and care about other people.
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Well that they fail and that they take minutes to run isn't a bad thing; what is bad is that broken things end up on master.

Think of it this way: Any time the build is broken, everyone working on the project is interrupted. If you have 10 people working on the codebase and the build is broken for an hour, that's a whole workday and then some wasted.

You could start a grassroots movement - create a pre-push or pre-commit hook that runs tests before it ends up on the remote. Don't worry about the tests taking minutes to run, if you're waiting on that several times a day you're probably publishing too many small changes over the course of a day.
Different situation. Brick layers are getting their full salary when they work. Content creators don't have a salary, but a recurring revenue from sales.
I don't know enough about tablet sale history, but I am under the impression that a few years back iPad was really the only tablet device embracing the format strengths you could get, and the sales hugely reflected that. Android equivalents were just larger smartphones.

As for the logic part, I think it's not as uncommon -> q-tips are just a brand of cotton swabs, hoovers are just vacuum cleaners etc.
I wouldn't want to live or hire in SV either, but your Russian engineers are only loyal because the Russian economy has been in a tailspin since 2013. It's not that SV engineers are entitled, they just have options and your Russian friends don't.

I also don't see how wanting more female engineers could get in the way of building products so I'm not sure why you threw that in there. It's not like people are staring at the wall all day pondering diversity issues instead of building products.