skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abstract from a presentation by Ceri Nunn at last year's AGU meeting (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/239675):

"As a part of the Apollo lunar missions, five seismometers were deployed on the near side of the Moon between 1969 and 1972, and four of them operated continuously until 1977. Seismic data were collected on the Moon and telemetered to Earth. The data were recorded on digital magnetic tapes, with timestamps representing the time of signal reception on Earth. The taped data have been widely used for many applications. Data from the tapes had also been transferred to SEED (Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data) format and these SEED files were previously available at IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology). However, there were some timing-related problems with the original SEED files. We have re-imported the long period data to SEED format, and will make these data available via IRIS. There are many gaps within the data caused by loss of signal or instrument problems. The signal is reconstructed to be read in as a continuous record, with gaps within the seismic trace where necessary. We also record the ground station which received the signal from the Moon, and we preserve the timestamps within the file. The timestamps indicate that the sampling rate varies by up to 0.01 %. We investigate how much this is a change in the apparent sampling rate (due to the orbital parameters of the Moon and the rotation of the Earth) and how much is due to the instrument not maintaining a constant sampling rate. We also provide response files. The new files will be a valuable resource for analyzing the structure of the Moon."
And you know this cause you have family and friends that live in LI and commute to NYC for work everyday like I do? And just to prove you don't know what you are talking about, below are links to a cost of living calculator

West Palm Beach Florida - 85K
https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/

Queens New York - 130K
https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/
Amazon Under Fire in Europe as Germany Adds Antitrust Probe
> starbeast

Yellow, pointy... Oh shit.
Well at least in SF, the population was decreasing as people fled the city. It didn’t start going back up until the 1980’s.

And in addition, SF home prices dropped ~30% only 10 years ago during the financial crisis.

The truth is that real estate in the big urban centers will likely always be more expensive than the average American home, but there is no reason why NYC and SF couldn’t see a big reset with people losing a ton of money.

If SF real estate drops 20% and you bought a home for $2M, that’s a major loss.
I'm not a huge fan, but it's not bad. Some Rust sponsors have their big logos on there, and the Rust Book (the real documentation) is at the very bottom of the page.
Ah Asana. The product we try and make work like Jira, but really just end up putting in a bunch of hacks to emulate epics, tagging, and all the other useful features.
Are there others besides Strom Thurmond and Richard Shelby?
What I learned crafting strategic narratives for 100+ companies
Every few years, I read an article critical of testing. It's always written by a designer. It's always the same arguments, and the "solutions" are always qualitative. They rely a lot on rationalizing after the fact. For example, "this redesign failed because you didn't build your website around the EXACT words your customers might describe their problems and their solution" (italics a quote from this article). Saying these things don't actually help you arrive at better process.

At this point, all these articles get me thinking about is why they keep getting written. Were these designers abused by bad product managers? Are they ego-driven and don't like having their creativity reduced to quantitative values? I don't know, but I do know that designers who talk this way tend to be toxic to a productive culture. I've experienced that firsthand.
Is it a compliment ?
More Matthew, from, 10:34 and on, writing what Jesus personally says, according to him:

"“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I
did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to
turn

“ ‘a man against his father,

a daughter against her mother,

a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—

36 a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’"

Or maybe Mark 11:12 and on:

"12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it."
> ... that kind of multi billion valuation creates unrealistic expectations that cannot possibly be fulfilled by staying humble and focusing on just what Asana does best. So, this kind of investment smells like a kiss of death

This!

Exactly what happened to Evernote IMO. Otherwise excellent product almost killed by the expectations by the 1b valuation.
Sometimes it's easier to brush off a question, or make a statement in a learning context than get tied up in nuances. Do you really want to learn react with a 4-hour video on framework comparisons in the middle before you've learned the one you're looking at?
California's Oroville Dam: Repair bill now tops $1B
Our modern consumer culture infantilizes both sexes and keeps them "young in spirit". This is by design I now realize.

Remember the magic 18-35 demographic? Think about what would happen if the advertising industry could, say, move that out 5 years? 10 years? 15 years? (50 is the new 30!!!).

I'm convinced, either by design or the simple aftereffect of youth worship in America that is what is happening. Consumerism lulls you into a life of minute distractions in empty things, and prevents you from reflecting and appreciating long term / difficult things. AKA having kids.

For men, well, they can sire children pretty late, with some side effects of slight increases to defect rates.

Women? The march of time is brutal on the eggs.
The BlockClock – Electromechanical Bitcoin Display
Some of these I would argue are positively correlated, especially loyalty and kindness. Some I would argue are a bit of a toss up, like intelligence. I am not sure what flexibility means (ability to adapt to change? I would argue that a 40 year old is more capable than a 20-something on average in that regard). Some I feel are more about having a similar level to a partner rather than being an absolute value (energy level).

I feel like this list is really answering the question "what do I find attractive, besides her face/body?", and not "what kind of traits in a partner actually bring me happiness?" - with the exception of kindness and loyalty.

Even as someone who used to identify as a man and thus was in the dating market as such, I can't understand how emotional maturity is of no value; it's one of the most important traits to me in a partner and essentially the reason I picked my last partner for a long term relationship.
13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Solid-State Drive Service Program
2018 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: “Developer Toolchain for the Nintendo Switch”
> If you never intend to use public transit no matter how robust it is, this won't apply.

They actually still benefit, even if they don't use the public transit. If the less people took public transit, then they would have to drive, and traffic would be much worse.
If all bathrooms were communal and wait times were a problem, I might agree to this theoretical deal!

There's also a wide array of possible benefits to more people moving into your neighborhood, that don't really exist in a house. It's not just a larger tax base for public transit—there's also a greater potential for new restaurants, shops, etc to open, to serve the greater customer base. I suppose your new housemate could in fact be a master chef who is happy to share dinner most nights—but probably not.

But more fundamentally, I don't think people should have the same level of control over their neighborhood as they do their houses. You don't own your neighborhood. Other people's interests—including those of future residents—should be considered.
How to Irritate People
Being a police officer is less dangerous than being a house painter, convenience store clerk, taxi driver, or any of a multitude of jobs in which you are not given a stick and a gun and encouraged to use them freely.
The “chemical imbalance” is a myth.
They're working on it, coming in 2019 (announced today) [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/jeremy_daly/status/1068272580556087296
And yet they still can't solve empty tasks getting created for no good reason. Yes, I know you can hit the delete or backspace key, but bloody hell, just don't save the damn thing unless there is some data to actually save.

I'm sure that allocating 0.01% of this funding round to the dev will be more than enough?

Also, how about being able to convert lists to kanban and vice versa?

Other than that, quite a happy user :)
I don't know what world releasing a tool that addresses some of the main gripes that people have is a "screw you", but it doesn't seem like a pleasant one to inhabit. The important bits are in Clojure 1.10.
I can't adjust the volume on the player, every time I hover over the soundbar to adjust it it disappears.
For a free account, the time limit is 7 days.
SF property tax rates are ~1% the last time I looked.
Don't know if you've made the connection yet that first impressions can set the tone for the rest of your relationship with a group.

If you attend a new event like a church group, don't really get involved in any conversations or the ones you have go really poorly or awkwardly, and then end up sitting a table by yourself, it might actually build its own momentum and make people feel more awkward if five weeks later after coming 4 times and just sitting by yourself you try again and try to join a group conversation. It feels very weird to them because at that point they've already categorized you mentally as 'weird guy' or they mentally feel awkward when you join. First impressions matter a lot. As do a lot of the tropey dating advice about confidence, friendliness, conversational skills, etc.

And at that point, you really can't expect people to approach you if you come in and sit alone.

It's honestly better if when you join a new environment like that, you join a big circle of people, try to portray confidence, introduce yourself, try to hang back in the conversation a bit but contribute a little here and there - importantly, not just saying nothing at all or people might start getting weirded out. Maybe when you join these conversations you aren't smiling and being friendly enough. Maybe you don't know how to show people that you care about they have to say or they don't feel like you are interested in them.

Perhaps you haven't learned yet what's 'awkward' and what is not.

I have experienced the 'I may as well be invisible thing' many many times, but I can always trace back how things got there, because I can tell when someone has become awkward, and I usually kind of know why things got awkward. I might say something stupid or weird people out accidentally - but I'll at least be able to tell when I've done that.

Can you tell when things have suddenly become a failure? Or it's a mystery all the way through?

Another thing you could try to is to find some examples of socially successful people in media and try to emulate them. Act like them. Speak like them. See if communicating like they do leads you to better outcomes. And then learn to identify what those 'characters' are doing differently than the normal you.

You may also try a dating coach, but instead of having them help you with dating, you go to events with them joining you and join these group conversations, and afterwards have them debrief you on what to do differently.
Your argument seems to be along the same lines as “my grandad smoked 2 packs a day and lived until he was 95”.

On average, smoking is harmful. On average, women’s perceived attractiveness is highly tied to their beauty and youthfulness.

It’s a shame if the woman in the article believes her value as a person is tied to her attractiveness and age. Given that “value as a person” is an entirely subjective concept, there’s no reason for this to be true.

However, her value in the “dating market place” is tied to her attractiveness and age. That’s a fact, it’s objectively measurable and it’s as cold and uncaring as natural selection. It certainly doesn’t care how offensive you find it.
Erlang and elixir.
The suites are nice, especially when my stays were 3+ days.

The biggest benefits for me when it comes to hotel status are:

1) lounge access / free breakfast

2) points for personal hotel stays (though I typically spend my hotel points on flights). I basically pay for my vacations in points.

3) The ambassador with Starwood would basically handle all of my bookings and make sure if there were any issues I was taken care of. Anytime I had a flight cancellation or change of plans, I could shoot them an e-mail or call and know it would get handled.
The problem with suburban office hubs is that outside of anomalies like Tokyo, rail networks are generally heavily radial, going from the suburbs to the city. A job in the city will be accessible to pretty much every worker in the region via rail; you put a job center further out, and a good portion of the labor market is stuck having to take trains into the city and back out into your suburb.
The thing is despite the very loud whining about it they don't really need low taxes or loose regulations. That is the pony for a little girl essentially. It might make them happier but it isn't what they need at all. If that was really true then we would see corporations setting up in unincorporated areas. Instead basically nobody does that now.

What they really need are good services, an educated workforce and a place their workforce wants to live.

Elites need the high end of resources for the winner to take the lions share - otherwise they would be one among many and not elite because many can do it. In this case talent is the resource they must seek.

They tend to want to live in an area with plenty of alternative jobs and like minded people. Those two tend to self perpetuate. Since demand is high and working in a hot area is good for advancement, makes them look good and helps boost salary expectations combined with a desireable place to live the demand stays high unless it is a bubble and it bursts.
Amen. I'm on medication but even with it I used to forget to pay bills frequently despite having the money. I'm better now, mostly because I have a loving and supportive fiancee who helps me organize my life.
Nothing new here. Ideologies are mind viruses that infect their hosts and their goal has ever been to build an organization to perpetuate themselves and fight off any competing ideologies that pose a threat. Humans are expendable.

What I want to see is a systematic epidemeological study of ideologies. Including Liberal Democracy.
Salar de Uyuni
The $0.006 Object in Your Sushi Container Is Doing an Important Job
The topic is so brutal I feel bad pointing out how artistic they made it render in mobile. I’m so used to short articles now that I kept getting surprised by each step they took in actually doing research. Great job all around.
It's easy to make a (poor) copy of the product. It's hard to execute the idea, take market share, and capture customer revenue.

Asana blogged this year about 50k organisations, 6 quarters accelerating growth [1].

Back in 2015 they blogged mentioning the heating up 'enterprise collaboration market'. There's countless office tools, diagramming tools, collaboration tools. Even in software there's more CI systems than I can count.

My guess is there's a big market which the VCs think is accessible to Asana in a way it's fundamentally not to a competitor. Combined with big growth it makes sense.

[1] https://blog.asana.com/2018/09/asana-company-updates-2018/
NASA is outsourcing its next moon lander to a private company
Office continues to be an ATM.

LinkedIn is far more profitable than you'd think.

Azure has sustained double-digit YoY growth for several years.

Even lowly Windows 10 is seeing modest growth.

They don't need to innovate to continue to print money for shareholders. The company is so diverse that they can write off a few billion in loses on, say, a phone division, and still enjoy double-digit revenue growth.
Although I don't quite agree with the content of your analysis, the fact of this kind of analysis itself is wonderfully Hegelian.
> For those that aren't familiar, byebug lets you put the command "byebug" anywhere in your code that opens an in context REPL. It's enormously helpful for hard to figure out bugs.

Isn't that what a normal debugger does? Or am I simply just living in lala-land because of C#.NET/Visual Studios terrific debugging experience?

I remember php and the hell that was xdebug. It was much easier and more efficient to simply to a `var_dump` whenever you needed to debug.
My experience is limited to c, c++, java, all of them did 'type variable' instead of 'variable type', now I see there are many others that are doing things very differently. Thanks.

Love Go's one binary does http-server-login-everything-etc, can't be simpler for deployments.
Given that nearly half of work-related casualties police officers experience come down to things like heart attacks on the job, I'd be interested in seeing the statistics. Sitting in front of a computer cannot be good for long-term heart health.

Either way, it's more dangerous to be a pizza delivery boy than it is to be a cop.
I end up going back to Trello. - Years ago I was using PivotalTracker. But Trello was way better. Every couple of months I try to see if there is anything better, that's when I check out Asana and go back to Trello.
They Shall Not Grow Old
FBI and Google dismantle multi-million dollar ad fraud scheme
Satellite imagery from a BBC investigation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_cam...
I haven't tried Asana again recently, but my early impressions were that they were trying to target the space between project management and a todo list in a very awkward way that could only succeed if all the stakeholders buy in to its use. I guess that is what enterprise sales is for, but given the fact that they just publish growth graphs with no numbers, and that I don't know a single person in SV that both uses and likes Asana, I'm very skeptical about their future.

A tool should either be simple and flexible enough that it invites creative uses (Trello, Slack) or have a very clear commonly understood purpose that has widely (if perhaps grudgingly) acknowledged value (JIRA, Salesforce). Asana is in this uncanny valley like Google Wave where some people are impressed but then ultimately no one knows what to do with it.
This is the kind of stories we need in the valley. This more than any other story gives you a the sense of anxiety that goes with each phase of building, marketing and launching a product.

Thank you for sharing!
> It's beyond me why they don't reward

Who? They?
Tell me, why has Wikipedia been able to maintain such high quality in spite of being a honeypot for misinformation efforts like tripling of elephants?

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/08/colberts-complicated-r...
Teacher training is subject to OFSTED every two years (or was) and so things are pretty tight. Teaching standards in general undergraduate courses are being slowly pulled up - but I know what you mean.
Tomorrows World review of the 70's [video]
You are the messiah. Money is the god.
The listings on Airbnb at any given moment are all the flats on offer in the city, while the ones on offer for long term rental are there only for a few weeks before disappearing from the market for years. So simply comparing the absolute amount of flats on offer on Airbnb and, say, Daft.ie or Rent.ie doesn't make much sense.
As a beginner, I really like rust.

It has excellent package management, robust compiler messages, pattern matching... etc. But once I start trying to build non trivial data structures it becomes a nightmare. For example, doubly linked list, any sort of graph is extremely hard for me to build in rust but extremely easy to build in golang.

I am still learning the full capability of rust, hopefully as I do more practice it gets easier. In the worst case I think I would still use it to build data pipelines since I really enjoyed the syntax and the safety check as long as I don't get into smart pointers or raw pointers.

Also another annoying point is that some libraries use nightly.
> Decisions have consequences.

Like, for example, the decision to increase the price of an Epipen to US$300 in the USA, whereas the same product in Australia costs AU$100

> Society isn't some laboratory where you can run experiments to your heart's delight.

In a way that's what policy and regulation are. Since we can't know the full consequences of policy and regulation until they're implemented and time passes. Sure, most policy and regulation aren't willy-nilly.

Trade-offs I guess. Regulate the sale of some emergency medicines so that those who need them now can afford them at the expense of, what exactly? It's not like regulating the sale of one medicine is going to break a pharmaceutical company?

Why do I feel like I'm trying to defend sensible pricing here? Are people really that allergic to the word regulation?
Tried Asana, couldn't stand it. Moved to Airtable, which is vastly superior to Asana and moderately better than Trello. Now I use Notion on recommendation of an HN poster. Far from perfect, but beats Asana out of the park.

All of these services with these massive valuations still somehow struggle to get their core product right, it's like it lacks vision. These products are also mindbogglingly slow-moving. I don't know how Asana can justify a $1.5b valuation though. On paper, maybe, but when we talk about profit or revenue, I'm skeptical to say the least.

What exactly they need $50m for, I'm not quite sure.
Indicadores: performance indicators for online platforms (a template)
This website seems like they are targeting CEO and CTO's. The website looks very much like a business website trying to get corporations to sign up. The old website felt it was targeting programmers with it's code sample that you could modify and run directly on the web page.
Unfortunately no as the plat night requirement also bumped up to 75 from 50. I'm a big Kimpton fan so now that IHG bought them I shifted enough of my travel this year to IHG to qualify for Spire Elite. I doubt the treatment will be as good as SPG Plat but we shall see.
Well yeah obviously that's going to be considered a threat. But is that what we're talking about here? No. That would be the equivalent of contacting eBay and asking for money, then implying you "wouldn't want the source to fall into the wrong hands".
It already is:

https://www.instagram.com/danbilzerian/?hl=en.
Hotel rewards are often a little different than airline rewards because they transfer out of the brand's portal. So the main utility is fungibility.

Sure your credit card might let you transfer to a bunch of Star Alliance brands, but once it is in that one brand or you earned that one brands airline points, its stuck there.

Secondly, yes upgrades are possible. It is very random but more frequent with being in certain tiers. Late checkouts, early checkins perhaps. Free stays just because you have points, and earning free stays that don't require the points. Earning points faster because you have a certain level.

The amenities are negligible. Definitely not the point.

And finally, Marriot/Starwood is now a HUUUUUGE portfolio. You wouldn't have to stay in the corporate business hotels.

The redemption rates are also pretty nice and easy.

There are still lots of boutiques, AirBnBs and interesting hotel tonight options, but Marriott/Starwood has a compelling portfolio.