skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it isn't. For example in today's environment when someone suggests something stupid, it is no longer acceptable to say "this seems stupid to me" because it might hurt someone's feelings. So instead you walk it back and say things diplomatically (which is a tiny form of a white lie). Then people reply to your diplomatic statement with another diplomatic statement, and pretty soon nobody is saying the thing they want to be saying at all.

Have you been to a corporate meeting? It feels like soul death for precisely this reason -- nobody is saying the thing they want to be saying at all.

Tech/open-source was one of very few domains where people did say the thing they wanted to say. The culture selected for people who want to interact that way, and then encouraged that form of interaction.

Now that's dead. Codes of conduct, inclusion, and caring about people's feelings are lofty ideals, but if people can't say "it's a stupid idea" when they think "it's a stupid idea" the whole thing will disintegrate into a dilbertesque nightmare along with the rest of the corporate America.
When it comes to car channels you also need to mention Project Binky from Bad Obsession Motorsport. They are building a 4 wheel drive classic mini cooper and it's both high quality metalwork and high quality very dry British humour. If you are even remotely into project cars (or British humour) then this is a must watch!
Yes, totally. See https://twitter.com/ZephyrRz/status/1003112556091838467
It would have been better if he got rid of the cult that alienates anyone who criticizes him

That's an incredibly tall order.

I've been popular in the past on various forums and, inevitably, any position I took became a polarizing case of "I'm on her side!" versus "I'm against her!" And I never found a good solution to that.

I spent some time making sure that people trying to "side" with me for pecking order bullshit reasons were handed their head publicly while being as civil as I could be to people whose disagreement seemed genuine and not just asshole behavior. It didn't work all that well, though.

I have spent a lot of years trying to sort out how to not wind up tangled up in mess of that sort. One solution that kind of worked: Be a big fat nobody.

Time will tell if I have my crap sorted enough to not wind up mired in that again should I ever gain any real popularity ever again. But I'm 53 and spent a lot of years living quietly and eschewing fame. Torvalds came to fame young and seems to not have the best social skills and that may not be something he can ever really fully sort on his own. It's not an easily resolved issue, from what I have seen of life, the universe and everything.
Exactly what I meant. Why would foreign policy majors need to know how to program an Arduino. I can't think of a single reason to.
A license for only people within one group is simply a proprietary license. It does not matter how easy it is to join or leave that group.

I would never put such a license in the same category as the MIT or Apache licence.
There aren't four (or any finite) number of orientations. You start off facing an arbitrary bearing.
Waterloo region has a lot of great tech companies. But I didn't find any that came close to paying Boston dollars.
That, too, is an ambiguous term, since damascene and damascening can refer to ground, engraved or machined surface patterning (such as in watchmaking or "engine turned" panels).
I learned a lot of Category Theory from The Catsters.
Reality is more important than one's feelings which is why he has been effective in making linux what it is today. Throwing that out the window and caving to the postmodernist "feels" will not bode well for the project as a whole... and in the end the activists will try to find another reason to push him out of the project he founded even if he completely capitulates to them.
This can be done too in MacOS by configuring iTerm2 to open a new pane in the same directory and using tmux integration. Cool part is you don't have to learn the tmux commands, but you can use the iTerm2 commands to split panes, among other things.

Edit: Added MacOs
Ethereum is unquestionably an interesting technology. Whether the price is justified is a matter for the markets, which currently place several billions of dollars of value on it. If you are so certain it is mispriced, there are numerous places for you to profit from such stupidity, if you are confident enough to put your money up.

Vitalik is the benevolent dictator for life of Ethereum, and EOS is a radically different model than proof of work blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin. However Vitalik and the ETH community recognizes there is some value in proof of stake and is working on their own implementation which is different than EOS’ model.

Cryptocurrencies make us question why money has value, what makes an asset, and all sorts of interesting philosophical and economic questions. I wouldn’t write off the entire industry and technology. It has been attacked by intelligent people for a decade and it keeps moving forwards.
Why did you move to vancouver, a place with an even worse affordability problem than the bay area, and no high paying jobs outside of a few specialized doctors and real estate agents.

If you need to stay close to vancouver for family reasons, go work in seattle and get a nexus / global entry card and drive to see them. Cheaper rent, cheaper everything and much higher pay. As a person working in software, your health plan will be better than or equal to the Canadian system for your family and you'll still come out ahead $$ wise.

If your stuck in canada due to some visa snafu, maybe google waterloo then?
I read both those blog posts, which manage to be both over-long and free of concrete content. Which particular part of them do you feel is relevant to this thread?

> But that is not the reading that I see in court decisions
> or professionally drafted copyright licenses, which impose
> blanket use and purpose restrictions all the time.

Please link to an American, Canadian, or EU court decision holding that restrictions on use are enforceable via copyright law. I'll also accept a recent ruling that execution of a copyrighted program does not automatically qualify as fair use.
Gemini Sun Sagittarius Moon Personality – Astroligion.com
Newton was an asshole in an era when men being assholes was, in essence, acceptable. There is no evidence that being an asshole is a requirement for being a successful innovator or leader.
The 'wootz' style Damascus is; Europeans didn't know it originally came from Southern India because it came through traders in Damascus.

The 'pattern-welded' Damascus is known from Europe (maybe as an attempt to replicate the 'wootz' style Damascus?) But it exists elsewhere as well.
> It eliminates any military, security or even anything useful.

Haha, I love the implicit signaling you're doing. I mean not only is it just not true but your qualifications for "useful" and "not useful" are really stupid.
Maybe he realized that his behavior would be against the new CoC.

Maybe he had a good conversation with people he respects, where they confronted him with his behavior, and he was finally able to view his behavior through the lens of an outsider.

Maybe he finally found and realized the "bugs" in his social interaction code and needs some time of to improve his mental tools.
That's not Coercion in this context, it's Money.

Think more along the lines of Honeypot and blackmail when you think Coercion in this sense.
So what you're saying is that Apple's implementation of the USB-C connector is terrible? I don't see how that's a legitimate criticism of the standard.
I think this can be further generalized, that there is a tier of talent that we must excuse from having to filter themselves and that this may serve humanity even if it rubs some the wrong way.
We are hiring roles pretty much across the board at Top Hat (in Toronto), and value skills and aptitude over years of experience. Feel free to email me if you want to chat more (address in profile).
Siraj Raval is a social media hack who got popular making videos about ML and Crypto mining back when college kids talked about it on Reddit. If you watch any of his newer instructional videos, the code is just bad. The code itself is either not finished, or it doesn't compile when run, or it's full of linting / syntax errors. There are so many other better teachers out there, please don't recommend Siraj. He teaches bad practices, and it's clear he only does it for the internet fame.
If we posit that his being in Russia is not good evidence for him being a Russian agent all along, that does not mean it is good evidence he was not a Russian agent all along.
Say I have my genome in a text file, is there actually software that could give me disease predisposition data?
So then what you think a "theoretical physicist" is? ;)
That's pretty much the opposite of postmodernism actually is.
Neither the health insurance issue nor the sidewalk was under US government purview.

In fact, repair of sidewalks between private property and the street are almost always the responsibility of the property owner.
Ask HN: Does it help to launch prior to applying to YC?
Launching is a huge milestone, and coincidentally were planning to launch ~2 weeks after the the YC deadline of Oct 2.

Would it improve our chances if we expedited our 'soft' launch prior to our application submission?

While we don't foresee any crazy spikes in revs occurring that week, we do however expect hundreds of free users ( our current beta-testers )

thoughts?
Personally by the time that I get to paying for my seat I’m so frustrated by the experience that I refuse to give them a single cent more.

Some of my frustrations include their unpredictable pricing changes. Pricing flights with an extra stopover or two cheaper than a direct flight. Advertising a price that isn’t actually available.
P Is for Phosphorus
Search for "Who's Hiring" posts like this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902901

Then search for Canada within the page.
Agreeableness in general is negatively correlated with career success. Have you noticed that Fortune 500 CEOs tend to be extremely disagreeable, to the point of psychopathy in some cases. At the risk of sticking my neck out, it's also one of the many reasons for the gender pay gap, woman are more agreeable than men. And you have to be somewhat disagreeable to stand up for yourself and demand a raise (or quit and seek a better paying job.) But on the average it's a relatively smallish difference and only accounts for a small part of the pay gap. The biggest component of the pay gap is the difference between mothers and non-mothers. I've heard it said that woman who are not mothers earn 95 cents to every dollar a man earns. But I don't have a source on hand, so take that with a grain of salt.
That's not what you asked. The article lists several occurrences which the author interprets as support for Putin. You said you read the article and found no such thing. That's not a reasonable representation of the article. Or of reading.
And his wife?
> There are nice diagrams showing "source available"
> separate from "open source".

That's good, because it's not open-source and is therefore proprietary. But also confusing, because if you're not claiming your license is open-source, then what exactly is the "third way in open software" from the title?

First way: Highly permissive licenses such as ISC, BSD, and Apache.

Second way: Copyleft licenses such as GPL and AGPL.

Third way: ?
Tesla is ending its lifetime free Supercharging offer
I also run screen emacs and urxvt. For what it's worth I choose screen over tmux mostly because I've worked fairly hard at keeping most of my stack gpl.
What makes Torvalds uniquely qualified is he is:

1) Technically capable of maintaining the kernel

2) Known to be mainly motivated by technical concerns

If you role the dice with another governance structure, you might get one that is motivated by "collaboration" and then the integrity of the kernel might get compromised by corporate interests. We have no idea how the subsystem maintainers would deal with the politics of a situation without Linus calling shots. We know how Torvalds reacts; rudely :P.

The choice isn't ever going to be Torvalds vs. Sunshine & Roses, the choice is Torvalds vs. Unknown. Because of that, he is practically (but not technically) unique.
Bootstrap and leverage canadian government programs? There isn't much of any sort of venture capital in vancouver
It takes effort to be not be an asshole because you have to expend energy to model and simulate the feelings of others outside of you. That's an objective fact. Being a genius may require not expending such energy.

Of course there are other geniuses that find things easy and they behave very nicely, but then they may not be reaching their "true" potential, heh.
The key is to call right when they open at 8a EST. Wait times are usually about 20 minutes then. The rest if the day it's at least 45.
It's getting a bit long in the tooth, but the Samsung S5 has a microSD slot (up to 128Gb), is waterproof, and has decent battery life. What is more, just pop up the back and swap a new battery (US$14 off of Amazon) in. And it has LineageOS 15.1 on it. Again, it is older, but is a high end phone.
None of those words are in the kernel Code of Conduct.
I was just about to say Eddie Woo, but searched the comments first. For high school math, he is one of the best.
Wonderful project!
If you want to get picky with words, open source is actually a subset of free software, a rather inconsequential part of it since all GPL licensed software is free software first and foremost.

It started as a way to sell Linux to companies that didn't like Stallman. That you're trying to define away that history to people, such as myself, who were there when it happened and are still deeply ambivalent about the choices made is extremely disingenuous.
Steve Jobs did it better.
Thanks for this. Very well taken. I agree with you on the need for a new coinage, in the middle, so to speak.

Without meaning to overshadow that positivity, I'd offer two tiny quibbles:

The OSD is pretty clear ... if you ask easy questions. I tried and failed to find the strongest copyleft license that OSI would approve. The main upshot of that laborious process was that OSI wouldn't likely approve such a license, even if it met the OSD.

As for creating confusion with an established "brand", I tried to address this in the post, by analogy to vote splitting. That may have got buried too deep, in the final edit. My point there is basically one I've made here on HN before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823328
It really does depend upon what you are trying to achieve. I'm not familiar with the operation of the Linux kernel team so my comments are more from experience with large organisations.

You want your team lead/manager to mentor, encourage guide and assist towards a goal that she has clearly defined.
You want your leads manager to provide the resources your team lead has identified as being needed.
You want the senior (ultimate) manager to set the goals, provide extensive praise when goals are met and come down like a ton of bricks when they are not. He or she is the "boggy man" who must be pleased and carries the big stick, and the one the team lead insulates the team from. In most cases the boggy man is a big act, but it is an effective tactic to get all the teams working in one direction. Problems happen when the subordinate managers start hiding or changing information that the senior manager may not like. This can be avoided by having a senior manager who actually knows how things work, and can test the water on his own.
Ruby works out pretty nicely in that case!

def order_list_by_predicate(l, &blk)
l.partition{|i| blk.call(i)}.flatten
end

part(1..6) do |i|
i % 2 == 1
end

And you can always sort the incoming list if that's a requirement.
RE: Conference Speeches

There's a channel called 'Coding Tech' that conglomerates talks from a variety of conferences.
Interesting problem.

First I thought that I would formulate the problem as finding a path that in every step minimizes the number of possible starting positions for the current travel length.

Then I thought about adversarial forest designer who would design a forest where following optimal path for lengths smaller than X produces solution that is not optimal overall. What kind of forest that would be? Do they exist?
You're confusing propagation with conveyance (which is admittedly very easy to do). From the license:

- To "propagate" a work means to do anything with it that, without permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying, distribution (with or without modification), making available to the public, and in some countries other activities as well.

- To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.

They make the distinction in the AGPL (which I think they don't in the GPL) for exactly the reason you state.

It's exactly the same with any proprietary server software. You can have a copy of the software, but without a license to allow others to run it, then you can't make it available on a network. These days most server software explicitly allows unlimited use in their license, but in the old days it was always per seat licencing.

If the AGPL is invalid, then so are all extant proprietary server licenses.
Yeah, everything else aside, I'm impressed by the statement.
> The key is to realize it, apologize and do better.

Apologies are begging for redemption after a failure. This misses the point, and often any apology becomes a magical panacea for any fault.

The key is to never fail the same way twice, and to do better in the future, so you do not need to apologize for this, ever again.
Managing hypergrowth. Especially if it is investment-driven rather than customer-driven. But either way, it's hard to watch your fun and quirky little company become just another profit-motivated machine.
> because it's not open-source and is therefore proprietary

For reasons I point out in the post, I consider that implication harmful.

The third way referred to in the post is source-available software. Others may or may not include software under stronger-than-strong copyleft or reciprocal licenses, like my Parity or OSI-approved RPL, in that category.
Try embouchure - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embouchure
I'll take a wager and say it's overwork. If you're a startup, and a successful one, you're probably very busy. Busy doing a lot of things, wearing a lot of different hats. Many startups can be victims of their own success, and don't necessarily scale up well, or at least well at first. There can be some real ups and downs. If you get traction but then are in a hiring frenzy, that can be hard, since you have your normal workload, plus the additional workload of interviewing.
What's the one sentence version?
What if, and this might blow your mind, we tweak things so that agreeableness is rewarded more?

Society is constructed too adversarially for my tastes. More collaboration would be better.
I think it needs to be acknowledged that many people don't get subtle feedback. If you give me subtle feedback, either positive or negative, chances are I will miss it all together. I need feedback that is clear and obvious, what others could categorises as being blunt or abusive otherwise I will walk away scratching my head wondering if I've done well or otherwise.

Reminds me of advise that was given to my Wife by a friend when I got married.

Subtle hints don't work,
Hints don't work,
if you have something you don't like that he is doing, make sure you are bloody obvious when you talk to him about it.
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The dark side is probably the equity - how to actually cash out on that. For example, employees at Gilt were expecting an IPO and then eventually it got acquired by another company and devalued their stock, yet they paid taxes on the earlier value of it, and ended up losing money.
The Scientific Case for Eating Bread
OP here, wasn't expecting this to gain much traction. Lots of great comments and ideas!

This started as a fun challenge/side project, nothing too serious. Not trying to replace modern notation, just testing an alternative.

The notation is more intended for piano beginners who want to play songs they've already heard. Within that context, here are some (perhaps wrong) assumptions the project is based around:

- Most people know what sounds good

- Most people don't care about about recreating songs "perfectly", they just need a little bit of help

- Most people can already hum the songs they want to play

- Improvisation is fun (and encouraged with this sort of trimmed-down notation; letting loose is better than constraining)

And some of the issues I faced when trying to read and play music:

- Key signatures require constantly scanning left-to-right

- Hand positioning is different for different scales

- Rest symbols bring little value considering the visual noise they add

- At any reasonable tempo, 1/16th, 1/32nd, etc. note symbols bring little value considering the visual noise they add

- Inconsistent symbols

Will keep working on this. I'm no musician and would love to learn from those more experienced than me.

Thanks for the interest!
>In your example - what's the point of thicker skin if people simply don't say mean things to each other?

You can never control other people's behavior, only your own. Learning to deal with mean comments is a valuable skill.
>Cheaper rent

Rent is not cheaper in Seattle. Salary will make up for it if you are a programmer, though.
I usually talk to someone in India whose both highly enthusiastic about hearing from me and apologetic about the circumstances.

Same here, but they are utterly ineffective at actually resolving anything beyond prewritten scripts.

Their converter boxes are cheap, energy hogging crap, and they hang frequently. The cure is to have them reset, but they usually fail to issue a reset despite claiming that they did (you can easily see the process when properly triggered). Power cycling doesn't always work.

I finally gave up and keep an extra, then rotate the cold one in when there's a problem.

And even when you do call, they generally omit the day credit they owe you.

Comcast can survive only as a de facto monopoly. Few users choose them of their own volition.
DAO platform giving incentive to OSS using blockchain
I think it's important to recognize every startup is different, some may have dark sides others will be wonderful place to work. Furthermore, people are different, and what might be a dark side to some would be attractive to others.

If you're asking HN, does that mean you feel something bad in your gut? If so, just talk to people who hired you or reach out to existing employees and try to get your questions answered. They'll help a lot more than people on HN who aren't familiar with your exact situation.
I think this makes sense. He will most certainly be running for office soon. I think that’s why he entered into the whole “co-ceo” thing recently. He can focus outwardly but make sure the ship stays right.
I was the target of the Nerf tank assault. I was winning until Dave picked up the tank and started aiming it at me ;)

Talk video should be up next month for those interested, which goes into a bit more detail about the process taken to reverse the tank. Good research, would get shot again!
Indeed, I've read similar comments about cycling in Amsterdam. Folks who live there say that they have one bike for the city, and another bike (with helmet) for weekend recreational rides in the countryside.