skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been watching videos of this guy narrate the process of creating and maintaining bonsai trees and they are interesting and relaxing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEGevD5jd64
Nope. This is real.
The dark side is probably joining a cool small tech company with interesting problems and work and cool people. As a result of your (& others work) it becomes successful and one day you look around and realize you no longer fit in -- it's become the big tech company you left and vowed to never work at again. Your peers don't care about tech in the same way and don't have the same passion as you, but are still there regardless and viewed as your equal. You feel as if they don't deserve their place, and many actually discredit your work with the benefit of hindsight and all of their 6 months of experience. Increasingly, your tenure is seen as a liability rather than an asset and you feel the distinct sense of an "old crew" vs. "new crew" forming as the people you know and loved are slowly replaced with new comers who are attracted to the success of the company, like a moth to a flame, but who you know would never have joined in the early days. You watch as design by committee takes firmly hold, insignificant straw man wins are the subject of great excitement, and processes replace unstructured trust.

Finally, after the company hires a "Director of UX" you realize it's simply not your thing anymore. You must make the hard decision to leave and never look back.
There's no concept of an "excerpt" in RSS, but if we're talking item descriptions, the RSS 2.0 spec says that HTML is allowed and provides examples.

http://www.rssboard.org/rss-encoding-examples
Gödel countered this with the incompleteness theorems. If you're interested, have a look here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/
> Assuming d is the note value (where 1 is a whole note) and h is the size of the gap between staff lines, the stem length is (log₂(1 / d) + 1) * h.

I wonder if the author thought about triplets.

...and what about quintuplets? They do appear prominently in some music.
> it's a politically and religiously motivated ideology to push anti-enlightenment values

Modernism is closer to being a parody of enlightenment values.

I mean do you really think that Descartes, who supposedly came up with most of his ideas while sick in bed and staring at a spider on his wall, would think it was a good idea for everyone to get their news from the Facebook news feed?
Who would that be? I'm asking because you seem to be implying something more than just a general "anti-SJW" movement or belief system, if you do think that there could be a concerted effort to blackmail Linus and usurp his position.
I've worked at a few startups in the relatively early days. My impression is that aside from money, early employees want to be appreciated for the success they helped build. People who were there when under 100 employees are less accepting of employee 500. Not always, but often enough. And those same employees can get preferential treatment from management. Again, not always but often enough.

Additionally it is important to remember that a successful startup isnt really a startup anymore. It's a business. When I was at WP Engine in the earlyish days I remember telling my boss "if we are successful then we are going to build a company we dont really want to work for anymore."
Would you pay $2000 for an iphone with a headphone jack? Because the masses are paying $1100 for an iphone. You need to beat that.
I bet no one will buy NewYorker. Opposite of reading is not not-reading it is reading something like NewYorker.
This is more like the time I got out of kernel development for a while
because I needed to write a little tool called "git". I need to take
a break to get help on how to behave differently and fix some issues
in my tooling and workflow.

And yes, some of it might be "just" tooling. Maybe I can get an email
filter in place...

Comes back a month later announcing a revolutionary new email service that ends up displacing every other email service and people start putting it on their resumes because almost every company starts using it and Microsoft integrates it into TFS.
CoreOS was acquired several months ago. You feel you were able to accurately understand the culture of a corporation attempting to bring in CoreOS to the fold that quickly? And you are confused why co-workers would be less than pleased with public condemnation about a corporate project from someone who joined as an acquisition barely any time ago?

If you truly can't put yourself in other's shoes and understand why they may feel that way, justly or not, I would strongly suggest counseling. I mean that with all sincerity.
This is really good, this story of RSS ends up being a representative illustrative example (synecdoche?) of a couple interesting themes in "what's happened with the internet".
How do you read HN via RSS reader?
OK, but why 50-50? There's no reason to expect that a priori. It's also better then 55-45 and 20-80, but none of those is good.
Thank you for this thoughtful response! I have been following your work with interest for awhile. These are all hard questions, and I don't see many people coming up with new ideas here, not to mention implementing them in elegant software.
First off nobody would be dumb enough to try to get a work permit for a remote job, even if it were required by some law. Secondly citizens of canada wouldn't need a permit.
So you're saying that if I have a business meeting in Canada but love and work in the United States, that I owe taxes in Canada? I've never heard of this. In any case, I can't imagine Canada going after you for a few days of taxes and I can't imagine the US saying, oh you were in Canada... No problem, you don't owe taxes for those days.

Can you provide some kind of source? I've worked for small companies and huge companies and I've never heard that.
Apologies, I thought lynching was your choice of words and I was using your words, I did think it was rather extreme. I agree it's overdramatic and a poor choice, I had missed that you were calling it out.

Regarding the CoC, I had spared you the details. Opal didn't have a CoC when this happened, they were pressured into Ada's by the outrage mob from twitter - told it would help prevent problems like this. Upon success at getting it adopted the group from twitter realized the CoC didn't have the clause they needed, so they added it. Opal was spared by customizing their CoC. The CoC everyone else got means twitterers have a codified excuse to shift their harassment to smearing the maintainer if they don't side with the mob in censuring a target of a pile-on.

My example isn't that an attempt to use the CoC in bad faith actually failed (do you really think Elia was unaffected?), it's that the attempt nakedly exposed how the whole purpose of the CoC had been bad faith. That was the revelation to me - CoCs had appeared so positive and community-minded before.

Anyway, I mistook your call-out for a question, so I realize the intent/history of the CoC wasn't of interest here.

> look at how you bring up the problem of "everybody else using the Contributor Covenant" that now includes the "Elia clause". Think about how absolutely absurd it would be if, in that argument, you replaced "Code of Conduct" with "[some library well-known to be broken/insecure]", and then used that line of reasoning to assert that open source software is "evil at its worst" or even, "kind of evil".

Lets leave evil and awkward analogies out of this. I meant literally the projects that adopted the Contributor Covenant now contain a clause that was written specifically to be bendable to to attack Elia. The clause isn't there to improve communities, it wasn't worded for that, it's in there to help facilitate attacks.
Not to be snarky, but you listed two. Add in the Facebook guy that bought New Republic years ago and that's three in the last 6 years. That's a spree?
As I point out occasionally, most hard news sources have RSS feeds. The New York Times, Reuters, the BBC, CNN, and Fox News all have RSS feeds. The Hill, Roll Call, and Politico have RSS feeds. The Congressional leadership has an RSS feed. NASA and the ESA have RSS feeds. The National Weather Service has RSS feeds. New York City and the LAPD have RSS feeds.

If it matters, it's probably in an RSS feed. It's social media blithering that's left out. And ads.
Here's a hypothetical. Say we do archeology, and find remains from wootz which include crystals which can only form at a given maximum temp, and others which only form at a given minimum temp, and slag which has like properties, and other evidence of quenching at specific times in the production cycle.

If we collect enough of this, would you actually accept we had re-discovered the technique or would you nit-pick it to death? If for example, plunging the blade into the belly of a slave doesn't materially alter production, do we fail to make it the same way, if we don't do it?

Primo Levi writes about an industrial chemical plant adding sal volatile to a paint recipe because "thats how they do it" when he originated the technique to counter excessive acidty (or alkinility, I forget which) during post war conditions which no longer applied. I think this is worth bearing on, because it made absolutely NO difference to the paint, but persisted as a process. You think this didn't happen in Wootz manufacture?
> [RSS would] be even nicer as json.

Already a standard! https://jsonfeed.org/
Back in 2006 I wrote an extremely detailed history of some of the infighting that shaped the history of RSS. It was a popular article at the time. For anyone interested in this bit of history, written at a formative moment, the article is here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/rss-has-been-damaged-...
As long as those sources have an RSS feed (that is usable, looking at you Medium), sure. But, most sources that _most_ people (not geeks) like... don't.

The comment above where someone said "RSS isn't dead, I have a business scraping pages to make RSS feeds when they didn't have one already"... yeah, exactly.
I really don’t think this is true. I don’t think what’s provided here is better for piano than standard notation, but much of standard notation is optimized to be easy to write by hand. We don’t really need that constraint anymore, and could probably come up with a notation that would be easier to build familiarity with without throwing away information.
"direct and lacking any attempt to disguise unpleasantness"

Seems fine.
Design. Tech can bloom and fade. Languages can be hyped and forgotten. But design stays. Learn to empathize with your users. Learn to design stuff that works well but also allows for fixing when it breaks. A good developer understands the interfaces and communication that is inherent within writing code.
Here are a couple of options:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

* https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
> Much modern management theory recommends against the praise-criticize-praise format.

What is recommended by modern management theory instead?
I've looked into it quite a bit, you have to meet all the requirements of being non resident and confirm with the CRA that they do not deem you to be resident. But then it should be fine. I haven't personally tried it, but I've heard of wealthy Canadians legally escaping taxes that way - so I'm pretty sure it does work.
This seems to be on par with psychology and medicine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Ask HN: How do I start open source contribution?
At my corporate job, I work in Java, python in cloud providers like GCP and Azure. We use a lot of open source stuff like Apache Commons, beam, spark etc. Wondering how to start contributing to open source as beginner as I don't have knowledge about the internals of any of them.
There's a credible argument that Snowden didn't even bother to confirm how many documents he extracted from NSA intranet servers before disclosing them en masse to people he barely knew, so there's an irony to trying to ding this article for getting a count wrong.
Assume the physicist is a spherical cow in a vacuum.
Not necessarily, considering Apple's market dominance. A good majority of accessory makers usually weigh either developing for USB or Apple's proprietary connectors (40 pin and Lightning). If Lighting were to become legacy because of this move, it would mean more competition between accessory manufacturers. And more competition means more innovation.
What I mean by that is many fast food companies like KFC have already switched away from using trans fats and no one noticed.
See Inside Typhoon Mangkhut in 3-D
Sennheiser's revenue in 2017 was 600m. In 2017, Apple's revenue was 220b.
Thinking that Newton's success is caused or strongly correlated to him being an asshole seems to be begging the question. Why can't we just as well argue his achievements were intrinsically linked to his fanatical religious belief? After all, we can at least quantify the latter -- it's said that at least half of his writing was on religious subjects.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newto...

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/05/newton-papers-q-and-a/
My coworkers had similar issues with similar results. I estimate that around 2/3rds of the CoreOS team has left Red Hat.
You're describing a situation where they are behaving this way only when alone with a specific person.

The actual suggestion was for all one on one interaction.
I think "It's a stupid idea" is not a great criticism. It lacks detail as to why you think it won't work. I think in a healthy culture, you should be able to say why you think it won't work, even if you don't call it "a stupid idea."

But I'm sorry you are dealing with an unhealthy culture where "politeness and respect" require you to walk on egg shells. To my mind, that's not what should be happening.

I talk to my sons at times about the following idea:

I say "chair" and maybe my mind conjures up a wooden kitchen chair and the person I am speaking with envisions an overstuffed living room chair. Then we start to argue because we aren't even really talking about the same thing, but we think we are because we don't realize the word "chair" means something so different to each of us.

So I will suggest that some people here have experienced environments where communicating clearly was not "asshole" behavior and others have not experienced that. Such people can be equally convinced they are correct and failing to understand they really aren't talking about the same thing.

Growing up, I hated pineapple. But I had never had anything but canned pineapple and it was awful. While living on the West Coast, I began eating fresh pineapple, not canned. And it's incredible.

Sometimes, it's a bit like people are arguing about whether pineapple is wonderful or awful and not realizing that one party has only ever had canned pineapple and the other has only ever had fresh pineapple and neither side ever thinks to specify that detail because it seems like a given.
It seems pretty hard to read the note length quickly vs the current system. Especially when we start getting to 32nds or 64ths the difference isn't as immediately obvious and you'll have to sit and count lines.
Words and phrases I hate seeing from a brilliant and competent leader:

1. "[something] was Not OK"

2. An apology to "people who were hurt by my behaviour"

3. "I'm going to get outside help to learn how to be better"

etc
etc
etc

Basically all the hallmarks of American PC overly sensitive culture that ruin excellent organisations or products because of weak-minded, mediocre nobodies.

Here's hoping Linus comes back fired up. He (and the rest of you lot) cannot let useless people dictate the direction of important projects and organisations.
Assume you measure an effect and get two values, the estimated effect size in standard deviations and a p-value representing the probability that, if the effect size were zero in reality, you would have estimated an effect size at least as large as the one you did get.

In phase two, assume you publish a paper if the p-value is less than 0.05, regardless of the effect size. If p >= 0.05, you don't publish anything.

We are now done with the assumptions.

p-values get smaller as the effect size increases, and they get smaller as the sample size increases. There is a concept called statistical power which measures the smallest effect size it is possible for a study to detect at a given p-value, given the (fixed) sample size that that study has to work with. Larger sample sizes mean more statistical power and mean that it's possible to estimate a smaller effect size for the same p-value.

Adding this all up, we can see that:

- if the true effect size is small;

- AND if the sample size is "small", defined relative to the true effect size;

- AND if we filter studies by whether they meet a p-value threshold ("reach statistical significance");

- THEN the only studies that can be published will find effect sizes that are too large. They do not have the power to detect the true effect size; the only possible results are "no effect" and "unrealistically large effect".

The quick summary is that a reduced effect size on replication is a strong indicator that the original finding was spurious. As replications continue they will trend toward the higher of the true effect size or the floor set by the available statistical power.
It is - The Library of Babel.
https://github.com/arthurpham/wsjUnblock
I have always felt that "center" was less a matter of the specific opinion positions* , and more a matter of the style of discourse, or the degree of nuance presented about the varying opinions for a particular topic. That may be just my personal feeling on the word, but I have had people agree with it over the years.

*Though obviously extremes can be identified, e.g. advocating violence against $GROUP_NAME is not especially "center" in the current US context.
“It can reach speeds of more than 68 kilometers per hour, and can fly more than 75 kilometers before recharging.”

So groundbreaking flight time is... one hour?
Krita Developer Fundraiser: let’s squash the bugs
I agree mostly. Guitar is often easier to learn for a lot of the music people want to play, pop songs with simple chord progressions. Once you get your fingers in place, strumming in rhythm is pretty natural to most people. Bar chords (and their bastard stepchild power chords) make this even easier.

Also the regular layout of the frets makes improvisation much easier as you just find the right starting point to whatever song you want to jam over, and start going up and down the same pentatonic scale pattern.

Of course all this only gets you so far, but it's enough for a lot of teenage rockstar wannabes to have fun. No harm in that at all.

By contrast most of the songs people seek to first play on the piano requires a much steeper hill to climb. Even Fur Elise can be very challenging to play at tempo for a beginner. Moonlight, while slow, still requires catching a lot of notes at once and reading a dense score with plenty of double sharps and what not (and God help you if you want to try the 3rd movement). Outside classical, it's much more difficult to get a good sound by just banging out chords, unlike strumming on a guitar. Some sort of separate melody and baseline is almost always expected on the piano.

Now if you want to rip out some mad Eddie Van Halen solos or perform classical finger-picking songs then all bets are off. In fact I'd say mastering multiple melodies at once (some sort of counterpoint) on guitar is much more difficult than piano.

And yes translating standard notation to guitar fingering is much more challenging, because it makes no sense for the guitar neck, and you have to know not just to hit say A3 but where on the neck it would be best to do that given your current position.
I recommend your grandmother try feedly if she finds rolling her own too daunting.
I've had a couple run ins with the IRS.

Oddly, my situations were all very pleasant. My contact with the IRS was all by mail. Each time I'd mail them something a clock would restart (6 weeks or something like that) and they'd respond a few weeks later (clock restarts) and we'd go back and forth me sending them some paperwork, and they asking for something else.

Eventually they got what they needed and we all moved on. It was a bit drawn out but I also enjoyed the amount of time I had to respond.

On the other hand when it comes to insurance I had a run in with State Farm who I'm 99% sure has a system entirely setup to ask repeat questions (same person asking the same questions and they're looking at the paperwork where I already answered it too...), provide inaccurate information, and simply delay you long enough to drop whatever claim you have. It felt like an actual scam...
I think he was implying that better than 50% implies its at least not mostly bullshit, or that we could perhaps draw usful inferrences if we are right at least most of the time. But agreed, none are particularly enthusing.
> But Bezos would be more successful

Maybe due to his age? as he has seen more shades of life than Zuck
Sounds like I'm past due for pulling Labyrinths out of storage.
Yup! The adult industry is relatively big in Montreal. A few people I know work office jobs at Porn Hub. They operate under the name "Mind Geek" so you don't have to put Porn Hub on your resume. You can Google it, if you're curious. I hear it's a decent place to work.
they say multiple times that drones only regularly do 20-25 mins
And this is how that creator is reacting to Linux's merging their CoC based on the CC: http://archive.is/6AyZy
There's a simpler mathematical explanation. It's called Regression Towards the Mean:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
The later - especially the kind that is also a teaching/research assistant at university.
No, the predictors making that prediction weren't doing propaganda, and most mainstream outlets didn't make that (or any other prediction), though many reported the fact of the existence of one or more of the predictions that were made.

Those making the 95% prediction were using statistical models established for that purpose before the identity of the candidates or what those models would show were known. They quite arguably are bad models as they assumed state level deviations from polling results are independent where history suggests that, in fact, they are strongly correlated (a fact pointed out by Nate Silver prior to the election, in explaining why 538 had a much lower projection of Clinton's probability of victory.) But choosing a bad model isn't propaganda.
I think he was being sarcastic and highlighting the absurdity of the situation.
Really? Even without knowing your orientation or location within the 2d shape? I doubt this solution is a general one. Apparently there's an abstract "bounty" of a million bucks [of value to be reaped by mathematics]. Likely means that solutions that grad students could execute within a day have already been tried.
Also possibly of interest: NHK World's _Japanology Plus_ episode "Bladed Tools": https://youtu.be/afQgQ5gLYO8
How does hn decide what articles to put on rss?
I'm a hobby carpenter by night. I really liked Wood Working for Mere Mortals when I first got started. He is smart and doesn't take himself too seriously.

Other channels I love: Jay Bates, April Wilkerson, I Like To Make Stuff, and Make Something.