skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I’ve been using them as workplaces for a long time and it’s really been expensive to sit there for 3 hours and order a drink and some food throughout. Plus the tip, which I feel obliged to make pretty decent since I’ve been taking up the space.

Then there’s the odd distraction and the closing hours, etc.

If there was some monthly service that, say, reduced prices to all-day happy hour and set a max tip of 10%, that would be cool. You could issue like a member card that enabled this and pay out revenue that went partly to tips and stuff.

Hope I understand your idea right.
There's plenty of positives to Reddit. The trouble is that the prevailing philosophy behind Reddit (and FB, Youtube, etc) doesn't accomplish what everyone thought it would. We have been operating under the assumption that "filter bubbles are bad" and that private businesses should uphold "free speech" the way the judicial system does in the public realm.

In practice, it looks as though online conversations aren't constructive unless the participants share a certain amount of common ground (eg: "first principles" like whether the strong should dominate the weak, or whether all "MSM" are part of a conspiracy and untrustworthy). I think in the future social media startups will have a "point of view" and not try to cater to everyone.
I don't like these in-the-grand-scheme-of-things-everything-is-the-same. There is a difference between emissions from a power plant and emission from diesel cars in densly populated cities. Just step outside.

In the grand-scheme-of-things the universe will cool out either way.
I as a manager “kept coding” and it made me a better manager 100% of the time. It allowed me to understand low level issues team had been facing that I couldn’t have from 35,000ft. Team members didn’t felt need to dumb down complex concepts so I “get it”. People didn’t had to prep PowerPoints all the time because I could only grasp pretty pictures. I much better understood the complexity of workitems, costs, collaboration opportunities, scheduling and skills required which allowed me to do much better estimates and task assignments. I didn’t had to find “deputy” who I delegate everything while I am just busy in meetings and emails. Ancient Greeks like called this type of management as “leading from the front”. Chinese called it working shoulder to shoulder with your team mates instead of trying not to get your hands dirty because, you know, you are too “busy” and a level up high. Being able code (not in just imagination, but really code) puts “Engineering” in the “Engineering Manager”.
I don’t think they’re actually likely to go away for many years. The CA/B forum may decide to deprecate them one day though.
I'm not sure you're meant to launch a train — launching is for rockets and cream pies.
Only a free return trajectory. If they where to land they would have to refuel it which would further delay the mission.
Switching a standard container might be much faster, but you'd need more infrastructure than - crane could be on the rail car though.
This is so moralizing it no different than joining a cult.
What is the goal of Americans not buying stuff? What is it they hope to achieve?
Thank you very much, glad to hear that :)
Upvoted for honesty
All main lines are electrified, many small towns are connected by diesel currently.
I have always heard it in opposite; that it will be hard to brake & stop if in neutral as compared to if in appropriate gear.
We were on an incubator where the staff were insistent that all the start-ups be 'high-growth' rather than work towards simply surviving, as an initial goal. This meant the projects were pushed to being ambitious to the point of farce...The other two in my team started trying to appeal to this 'high growth' mentality by just making absurd claims about what the technology would be able to do (without anything actually existing yet) and I was the CTO, so I got a bit annoyed by this and eventually just had to start saying 'look this is totally ridiculous now'. They said they didn't want to work with me if I wasn't willing to do it. I just said I can't do it so there's no point. I went to work at a consultancy for a bit and now I'm a research associate at a university. I have no idea what happened to the business in the end. I guess they just slowly died without proper tech staff.
All news is fake to some extent.

I think that so-called 'fake news' is good because it allows people to expose themselves to two extreme opposite views.

If people want to live in a filter bubble then they can go ahead and do that but it's nice to at least have the option to see alternative views.

I think that there is often a grain of truth behind fake news. If people feel that they're getting screwed over by the system and then an article comes along and tells them "you're getting screwed by the system, this is why...", even if the reason is a poorly researched guesstimate, it's still much more useful in terms of driving social change than articles that just say "the economy is booming, low unemployment all around, everything is great...".
What really happened when two mathematicians tried to publish a paper on gender?
>On what do they base these instincts and intuitions for evaluating research papers? If they wrote a blog post on rules of thumb for evaluating code, would you take it seriously?

Depends, since I tend to evaluate arguments on their merits, not on the author's credentials.

If one doesn't have the background to evaluate those arguments, I don't think they're supposed to be reading them anyway (whether they are from an "amateur" or a Nobel winning pro).
How do I find the best institute for Blue Prism training?
I've saved those two comments, because I found them to productive to this discussion. I see that their first comment contains "ethnic slur" (though not an ethnic slur), so that might be what caused the mistake?
Kendall Janner shared a bath la It's just my body Kend
Link doesn't work, says the IP cannot be reached. Maybe your DNS is misconfigured?
Although not _every_ product, such a thing exists!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ikea-place/id1279244498?mt=8
Unscientific test. Give the human individual brake control (I can think of simple analog systems to do it).

I learned to drive on ice covered dirt roads, many times I would have liked to have the ability to asymmetrically brake. A simple 2nd order gimble would be awesome. Having a single symmetric pedal dumbs it down way too much to make a pre-programmed car vs human comparison.

Same thing goes for torque distribution.

It's generated dogma that pre-programmed devices can perform better than biological systems, so I bet my suggestion will be met with incredulity bordering on "y humans cant handle x".
I really have no idea...
The cert is issued by Let's Encrypt and so far it works pretty well (but maybe that might be an issue for that firewall)
Millions of years of evolving to fit our environment, and then an asshole invents “office hours” and we’re all screwed. File under “qwerty-level bad choices”.
>Barack Obama

Obama is good with words but other than being the first black POTUS I don't see what inspiring thing he did.

>Bill Gates

Depends on who you ask. Bill Gates also caused a lot of damage in the tech world in my opinion and pushed us back many decades in software evolution.

>Steve Jobs

Who in their right minds would choose a marketing sociopath as an inspiring figure? Seriously, every person I know that views Steve Jobs as their idol is a jackass in some way.

I agree with the rest though. I'd put Musk up there with them simply for the fact that what he is doing with companies just flies in the face of so many modern assumptions of what a corporation is.
Read half the article and then get blocked by their Login popup...
This sounds familiar. Was the app food related?
Yeah, that's the right URL. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Then we shouldn't have done things like spend millions pushing 4G only to bait and switch with 4G LTE once everyone had upgraded. We shouldn't claim certain capabilities that simply aren't there. The worst thing you can do for a bad product is good marketing, and that's exactly what these ISPs are doing.
XMPP federation certainly is authenticated, so that your identity to other servers on the network is never in doubt.

As for social media controls, you certainly can publish items only visible to e.g. certain groups of people, unsure if that's what you meant.

XMPP is not the narrow subset of XMPP that Pidgin implements, but sadly that's how most people are familiar with it. Projects like Movim for example provide a much richer view of how XMPP can also be used for social media.

Personally I'm a fan of ActivityPub if it gets more people federating. It's not impossible to bridge the two protocols (we did that in the past with OStatus, the previous iteration of federated HTTP social networking).
I put it on my to-do list :) Thanks
I’ve been looking to install WiFi internet for some tenanted accommodation (think 8 flats or so). As it’s an “included with rent” perk, I need a way to dynamically throttle based on number of clients and protocol.

Is there a simple prosumer solution for this? My current path is leading me towards openwrt on a beefy router with some custom firewall rules.
What happened in Lisbon?
You can't change the number of daylight hours in a day by fiddling with your clocks. That's just impossible. All DST does is move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening.
>That is classic unwelcome behavior on HN.

I'd say middlebrow dismissal is even more classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920

>I didn't criticize them for being open about their background, but because they lack expertise to offer expert opinions.

You didn't criticize the author's opinions or any specific signs of insufficient expertise however. Just their credentials.

Credentials != expertise (one can be an expert by self-studying, in fact in CS many are).
> You can argue the accuracy of the numbers or estimates, but my understanding it is just supposed to take into account long-term discouraged workers

Sure, and my estimate (based on very sophisticated modeling I won't give you any details about) is that the number of long-term discouraged workers is exactly 42.

Here's the entirety of SGS's stated methodology for their estimate by the way:

> The ShadowStats number—a broad unemployment measure more in line with common experience—is my estimate. The approximation of the ShadowStats “long-term discouraged worker” category—those otherwise largely defined out of statistical existence in 1994—reflects proprietary modeling based on a variety of private and public surveying over the last two-plus decades.

SGS's estimates don't even pass basic plausibility tests either. For example, in May 2015 the SGS metric was 23%. Using the published U6 for the same month, we can solve for SGS's estimate for the number of long term discouraged workers: 26,114,100. That's 4x the BLS's estimate of people who wanted a job but did not not have one (6,536,000) and 7x the number who wanted a job and had not looked at least once in the last year (3,712,000) for the same time period.

What's their model? What "public and private" surveys are they taking into account? What makes up the discrepancy between their estimates and the BLS's numbers? We don't know because SGS doesn't tell us, but I think we can both make an educated guess; their numbers are pulled out of their underwear.
A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon
Because 12:00 is not the middle of the waking day, at least in western countries. It's closer to the first third or so.
It’s the same at Facebook and other places, and it’s just going to get worse.

This is the kind of messy iob people are going to hate.

And for the record, I predict that the job is going to split. Community management and community policing. Part of the job now is specializing and identifying attackers, which was something never imagined before.
Torrengo: a concurrent torrent scraper CLI in Go (Golang)
Great. I hope the EU follows through and reduces US services imports to strengthen the local economy.

I thought trade was good? Haven't I been hearing that from US officials for over 50 years?
> 1. I should never have given up. If you don't give up you can't fail.

I think if you expand the scope of 'failure' to mean your life, as opposed to just the business, then you didn't fail. You were pursuing a strategy that would have led to the failure of your marriage, which is much worse than a failed business. I think you succeeded.
"We believe that interpersonal skills are at least as important as technical skills."

- Me thinks that technical skills are not important at all. If we want to compete with Chinese all we need is warm feelings and Kumbaya.
It's quite simple actually. This tariff is essentially is price disadvantage for China made products; products made in the US now have a relative advantage. So this is done in the hope that it will make sense for people to buy US made products and will also encourage local (US) companies to manufacture and sell in the States (since the tariff protects them from competition).

It's a great move IMHO. I visited a WTO (world trade org) event in Mumbai recently and the US representative (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_N._Haass) was somewhat happy with what Prez. Trump is doing with import duties.
Watchdog calls for warnings on DNA testing sites
Been there, done that.

(It was only a $10mil buyout offer of a startup I owned 5% of at the time, but we believed we'd be worth 10 times that in a year's time and turned it down. ~8 years later I spent everything I got from the acquisition we got taking a few friends to dinner. (well, "they" by that time - I'd been out for a couple of years but still had my shareholding. Wrong decision in hindsight, but no regrets. I'd make the same choice given the info we had at the time...)
Bunnyshell-Automates Devops Processes from Code to Release-Request BETA
Path was not better. They got busted repeatedly playing fast and loose with user privacy, and iirc their bad behavior was the proximate cause of Apple adding contacts permissions to iOS. Good riddance to these jerks.

https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/7/2782947/path-ios-app-user-...
Thanks for the kind words!
Would be great to learn what kind of format you'd use for writing lyrics. m@arcstudiopro.com

The OT is custom and clj/s was the perfect tool for the job. Highly recommended.
> We believe that interpersonal skills are at least as important as technical skills.

So most people on the autism spectrum are out. And then later:

> We must make room for people who are not like us [...]

> Our success and value is not dependent on exerting all of our energy on contributing to software.

Success and value were never a function of how much of your time and energy you dedicate to your job. Success/value is a function of results. If the products you build are successful hardly anybody will look at how much time you spend at work. In other words success is a function of... success. I don't understand why anyone would try to redefine these basic concepts.
I’m certain the community would be very surprised if Nadella’s “OSS is good” Microsoft tried to go after an independent research post citing that clause. It’s there so they have some legally valid substance to roll with if they want to go after a significant case. Say, Jetbrains implementing something that blatantly seems to have been inspired by reverse engineering a proprietary part of VSCode. Not a good example and VSCode’s proprietary bits are so minor it probably isn’t worth pursuing but it should highlight the difference. Keep in mind too it could gain more proprietary features in future, added without needing to update the EULA and bothering users with Yet Another Policy Update they have to agree to.
Yes, the desktop versions are in Electron.
this is a repost from a few days ago although they didnt have the google form for signup then just a semi broken sign up on the site (to get it to work you had to sign up for a vectordash core account before it would work)

im hoping that the service can iron out the few issues i have with liquidsky which is the service i currently use for gaming till i can afford to replace my laptop which manages to be nearly good enough sadly the few issues i have are enough that it just isnt worth it, maybe for a single player game where you can pause or save etc but not for competitive gaming.

i just hope this manages to handle the task, its one thing doing it on a server that is constantly running with a set amount of resources but theres no guarantee these machines will stay on, those selling the power may need it themselves so disconnect just like when mining.

what happens if the GPU doing the lions share of the work drops offline, are the threads it was processing seamlessly passed to the next nearest card with no loss, dont get me wrong, i like the idea but ill want to see how well it works before i commit to it.

also if theyre looking for feature suggestions may i suggest an android client thats capable of using in app purchases to pay for the sub, currently only one cloud gaming service ive seen offers this its called vortex but rather than having a VM of your own where you can install games of your choice that one has a set list of games which sadly doesnt include the main one i care about, overwatch, so i havent tried it myself however i know im not the only one with a rather fat balance of google play credit earned from survey rewards going unused
Wait why do they or we care if she/they sign it? Aren't they "Post-Meritocracy"?
Yes - sounds like it. The express doesn't do AC on 5Ghz does it, only N?

Could be congestion - the makeup of your house, the wireless chip in the express going bad.
> Bye-bye awesome summer afternoons with the sun setting down at 8:30

For whatever it's worth, there are plenty of people who hate this. The sun is still up when they're going to bed, meaning summer is a season of lost sleep.
That's not her real email either: evesmith@invisiblehandstrategies.com

I suspect that the memo was not even written by her, the real author being her husband Adam.
These tariffs aren't new to China however. Do import duties ring a bell? Countries like China and India have been imposing (and raising) them on various products for many reasons (mostly protecting local industry, generating employment, etc).

Import duties in the US however, have been relatively non-existent. To give you an eg: A non local made car that costs $60k in the USA costs $150k++ in India (and duties make petrol here more expensive too).
"Our highest value is diversity. We shall support and empower people unlike us so they can be part of our group. If they mentally process social interactions differently than us we shall have absolutely no tolerance for that difference. Technical and non-technical contributions are of equal value. Even if someone doesn't make good technical contributions, we shall value them for the other contributions they make. If someone doesn't make good non-technical contributions, we shall disdain them for their equally valuable technical contribution."

Yeah, sure, makes sense.
Indian Uber rival Ola raises $50M at a $4.3B valuation
Symfony 4
I really recommend Keigo. Malice is probably my favourite so far but only because I loved the TV series Shinzanmono.
This is ridiculous. People can tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on a mobile screen.

If they can't then they're a small subset of the population.

Also it should be up to me to select what resolution I stream at. Not the service provider making the decision.
Aaaaand it's flagged
Do you really want Nietzsche to be your guide in this subject?
Wow! That's amazing. Looking forward to running it on a VM this weekend.
A lot hardware startup that started from zero made a first product that can barely called a MVP (Gopro first product was a camera shell, DJI first product was flight controller) do you think such ultra minimalist product(yet very meaningful to understand customer) could have been done looking back now?
I don’t understand when startups just closes down. Isn’t minimum established unit of success is aquihire these days?
I always thought that DST is unnecessary and did not really understand the rationale behind it. I mean, sure, in 1916 it might have made sense to conserve those cca. 3% in home electricity consumption. Today, however, spending more time at home in the heat may introduce additional costs through higher use of air condition. I guess wikipedia's article on DST rationale can explain better than I can :)

That said, doing away with DST is IMO not necessary. People are already used to it and there is little confusion, even if people have to be reminded each year. How the benefits compare to the drawbacks I cannot judge, there are different arguments either way.

But...

The way the EU decided to approach this is worse. Every country will be able to decide whether they want to keep summer time or they want the "normal" time? I think that's another example where the compromise just destroys every benefit of the proposal.

I live in a small country where a lot of our businesses work with neighbouring countries. There is even a significant percentage of people that live here but go to work to another country. So, the kids' kindergarten will use a different time than your workplace?

I think this will create much more confusion and stress if the different countries choose different times than the problems we have now with the switching.

I guess there are countries that have this problem already (if the neighbouring country is in a different time zone) but still we may introduce the problem to places that did not have it before.
A high school friend had one of these in front of his house…it was obviously the butt of many jokes every spring. It's nice to know what kind of tree it actually was after all these years!
Ask HN: What's the best way to get early feedback on research?
I recently graduated and I'm currently finishing up some additional research related to my thesis, trying to get the work published.

My work is an empirical study concerning popular web frameworks. However, I'm not a web developer myself and would really like to get feedback from the web dev community on the usefulness of some of the ideas in my work before I submit to a conference or journal.

I've considered 1) writing a Medium article explaining the ideas and results from my paper and asking for feedback or 2) submitting a draft of the paper to Arxiv and posting a link on places like HN and reddit. In the latter case though, I'm not sure if it's acceptable to submit unpolished works to Arxiv, or where else I should be requesting feedback.

Is there a good and/or standard way to get early unofficial feedback from a community of developers?
This is already possible to a degree within existing type systems - here’s a small experiment tracking execution time of list comprehensions on the type level in Purescript [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/pkamenarsky/status/961666713900249088?s=...
Instant advantage towards the two pizza rule.
That may be true but certainly having morning light brutally change twice a year can't be a great thing then? I always found the switch from DST to winter time pretty jarring for instance, you go from very dark mornings to much brighter ones.

In the end no matter how you look at it trying to match any form of "sunlight cycle" by merely offsetting time is bound to fail. It's not a translation you need, it's a homothety.