skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather bet on something you can implement all by yourself without needing to wade through a thousand page spec. How about plain uncompressed text and netp[bgp]m for images?
Is there any legal protection for users' reading lists in libraries? Because it would be wonderful if someone could set up a legal online library which would extend such protections onto the internet.
There isn't a lot of reality to the idea that bitcoin is "hard". There is such lack of clear one page explanations to get started that people who don't feel like figuring it out are left in the dark thinking bitcoin is wizardry. It's not, that's why we're all exited about how SIMPLE it is. You have 2 numbers associated with your wallet. You send with one number, you receive with another. You protect those numbers like you would your actual cash filled wallet. That's it. If you can understand the grand system of calling someone on your cell phone, you can grasp Bitcoin.
The best-laid plans...
Astronomers go hunting for 'rogue' black holes
We have the last few years of data but we don't have back-testing yet - great idea though!
It's not like scientific notation precludes that. 1.234567E+06 = 1234567, but it's also at a glance obviously around 1 million
Not sure why this isn't on the front page already?! Especially when this time last year Adria Richards' story wouldn't go away for a week.
I guess flat organization means that you build the company bottom up but unfortunately companies don't work efficiently this way. Why? My most recent experience with flat organization revealed the fact that people judged by the perception of their merit not the real value or expertise. Since everybody is biased towards certain things, based on your gender, race or background, this makes flat organizations vulnerable of people forming cliques and jinxing other people's work outside their group. Politics get even stronger in such an workplace, now you need to make these groups happy instead of just going to the right manager or exec to get something sorted. These groups can promote broken ideas, screw other other groups and have subpar performance and blame it on other groups. Without management and data collected (how long does it take to deliver a feature, how many support hours the company need to spend on a product they wrote etc.) it can get nasty very quick.

Summarizing: I don't think that flat organizations are any better than hierarchical structures, I have experience with both and I believe that flat workplaces suck more especially above a certain size (200-300+ people).
That is certainly a neat side-effect of concentrating awfully hard. I think I experienced similar things when taking standardized tests for college admission. Haven't experienced anything like that since.

I'm not sure that you're not a notch above the mean when it comes to concentration skills in the first place Andrew. :)
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> As an aside: for me, Amazon Instant Video is _much_ better than Netflix Streaming.

And, at least the last time I used it, it works on Linux. Netflix doesn't, so I don't stream Netflix.
Why don't they partner with the Internet Archive? Its specifically structured to be a long term archival/reference system.
> we have what we might call the Milgram Experiment narrative - that authority positions are naturally corrupting, making belief in good management seem utopian

Wait, what the hell? Milgram's experiments, whether or not you find them valid (they're quite problematic on close inspection) had a narrative about proving that normal people were obedient. It has nothing to do with the corruptive influence of power.
I see where you're coming from but I think it's not as black and white. There are going to be situations and problems the individual or the team feel like they can't solve themselves. The definition isn't about ego, it's something observed externally, it has to do with the official structure vs. the un-official social order.

I think trust builds and breaks over time (breaks more easily) and external intervention can help to prevent this from getting to the point where someone has to leave. My point though is why is B coming to you about A in the first place and why is forcing them to talk in front of you a good solution to that?
Actually, we have a pretty good amount of information. We have one point of view from the employee who left, a message from Github that mostly confirms her story, as well as knowledge about how Github works internally. We have good reason to believe that was is on the table is mostly true, therefore it's not inappropriate to theorize about how things could have been done better, especially since similar stories may play (or have played out) out at other companies.
> That's a pretty neat project. Since it's a big effort, you shouldn't beat yourself up about it.

Thanks.

> You should be honest with yourself about motivations and reasons for doing open source. Do it because you like tinkering, not because it's a resume-builder. Truth is, open source is not a meritocracy, it's more of a lottery. I've been mildly successful (as in, entranced a nascent community) at it for a time, but I found it a bit stressful with expectations and all.

I was initially motivated by it being an interesting problem to solve. But I quickly ran into it being more difficult than interesting, so my steam started running out faster. I may be able to salvage it if there's any community interest in it, but it's difficult to get anyone interested without having a working prototype to demo, which is actually the hardest part of this project (i.e. dealing with libffi and boxing ObjC objects, etc).

> PS: do you work at 8th Light?

I used to. Now I work for http://www.cleancoders.com/
Just game out possible trails of thought. The most 'offensive' one may be true. That's all I'll say.
Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real audio
I suspect that you could easily implement channels on top of asyncio - goroutines = coroutines, hide the yield-from inside 'send', select = asyncio.wait(return_when=FIRST_COMPLETED).
I think your second point is the key one, I don't think the first point is necessarily valid.

It could well be that good managers are much more common than good engineers, but that the essential problem is that it's hard to find good managers and the consequences of hiring a bad manager are much worse than that of hiring a bad engineer.
sounds like fun.
OCaml is actually taught in the second level computer science course at my university. I think its a great language for learning topics like recursion especially with its pattern matching. Its also a great intro to functional programming
You really don't need to take some developers not knowing this quite so personally.
If ocaml is a language waiting for a killer app, this might be it: http://www.openmirage.org/

There was a presentation at the FP eXchange in London
last Friday about mirage and many a mind was blown!
Yes, indeed! I just saw that post yesterday. Highly recommended read.
So the status page ( http://www.google.com/appsstatus ) mentions that Hangouts isn't covered by an SLA. Is that still true if you bought one of the Chromebox for Meetings which when discussed sounded like it used the same infrastructure?

Or are those Hangouts actually Google Talk and not G+ Hangouts? And how stupid is it that that is something resembling a decent question?
The USD is already a digital currency. The Fed keeps a ledger of how much USD every bank has and transactions between banks, which enables banks to go back and forth between hard cash and digital currency. Note the Fed does not know how much each account has but that's the banks job.

From a banks perspective there is no reason to change things. They can trust checks from random people as long as the Fed clears the transaction between them and Bank X at the end of the day there in the clear.
I've always found these attempts for "holacracy" as efforts to square the circle. There is actually a solution to this problem - it's called democracy. Every person gets the same amount of power - one vote, and they can decide things (or decide they don't care). This is compatible with hierarchies, both formal and informal, but the authority is challenged all the time (which is a good thing). Some companies work like that, they are called worker cooperatives, but they are rare. Any eventual power cliques have hard time to be stable in such environment, because the power is equally distributed by default and according to a fixed, well-known rule. This actually allows participants to focus on production rather than politics.

But this is seldom what the owners of the company (who invested capital) want. They don't want people to run things, they want people to run things on their behalf (and get rich from the process). And even if they were sympathetic to this idea, it's very hard to grow such a company at all stages (in small group it's very prone to hostile takeovers and later there is no incentive to grow, since the power of individuals is always the same compared to number of people).

I don't see transition to democratic workplace happening unless lots of people give up any hope to have more power than other people. Interestingly, in political system, this largely happened, although it's still not enough and there is resentment from some.
You might be talking to yourself, but I am reading. =) And I largely agree with everything you're saying. It's utterly incompatible with the growth-obsessive sort of business plan that AirBNB must follow, but it'd be a better thing for human beings.
We've built a sheet-music rendering engine in JavaScript/HTML5. It syncs real audio with sheet music and is intended to be the best way to learn a song.

Here's a quick video demo I made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1go7Ld1Q4
Thanks cobalt for the link - since 2010 it has migrated to an XML format [1] - which is documented albeit not really human readable.

However, I can't figure out how to retrieve a .one file from the Mac Client to check for the format - anybody knows where it stores its file locally ?

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd924743(v=office.12...
Horse shit.

There's lots of very well-vetted science supporting the problem of ADHD and attention span disorders. Ditto for the pharmaceutical interventions that are the main-line treatment for them (amphetamine is one of the most well-studied drugs in existence).

Sad to see Time sinking to clickbait headlining.
Darwinian Product Design – and the Natural Selection of Creative Ideas
"The techniques of the police, which are developing at an extremely rapid tempo, have as their necessary end the transformation of the entire nation into a concentration camp. This is no perverse decision on the part of some party or government. To be sure of apprehending criminals, it is necessary that everyone be supervised. It is necessary to know exactly what every citizen is up to, to know his relations, his amusements, etc. And the state is increasingly in a position to know these things."

- Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society" (1964)
> Above all else, I want to make sure you understand how deeply I value the principle of private communication.

How deeply? Enough to implement proper end to end encryption? Otherwise, you're just paying lip service to "privacy", just like Facebook and others are. They all say "we value your privacy greatly", but track and mine every single thing you do or say. The facts don't match the words in almost every case.

So show us how much you value our privacy. Implement end to end encryption (by default, obviously - don't pull a Telegram).
> Unless you have a better idea how to treat it

Actually, if you read the article until the end, it proposes a better idea to treat it: Do not lump together all the conditions that lead to the symptoms together. Treat them as individual conditions with different causes and administer appropriate treatment - don't just hand them pills because it's simple.

I sincerely doubt that stimulants are the best treatment we can give those people. They may help in the short term, but they're highly addictive and your body develops a tolerance. What are you going to do once those people are tolerant to medication? Wave your hand in the air, tell them "bad luck, you developed a tolerance, now have a nice day". Medication may be required in some cases, but it's often only the beginning of a treatment. You need to solve or at least tackle the complex problem to really help them - and assigning a simple label doesn't always help.
The article is dangerously mistitled.

That multiple actual mental health conditions exist that all have been labeled ADHD is well known by the research community. There are multiple causative factors that can lead to ADHD symptoms, and what have traditionally been referred to as different subtypes of ADHD respond to different types of treatment.

This is hardly news! It is also where there are multiple treatment strategies for ADHD, until we get a better naming scheme in place (and make no mistake, the lack of proper names impacts both communication and how we think about the problem), we are stuck with using the catch all term ADHD. (Though some people have split into using ADHD-PI from primarily inattentive, it often doesn't respond to stimulant treatment at all.)

Now I fundamentally disagree with the author's final assertion that "everyone is misdiagnosed" is pure BS.

Primary evidence is that there are structural brain differences in people who have ADHD. The portion of the brain responsible for self control is dramatically smaller. Arguing that "it isn't real" when there is literally missing brain matter is disingenuous at best.

Next up, people with untreated ADHD have THREE TIMES the rates of auto accidents.

Now, maybe, just maybe, ADHD isn't real at all, and instead psychologists have spent their time and energy coming up with the best auto insurance risk test ever!

But I doubt it.
If someone could implement "512 in 2D", that'd be great. I might actually win a game.
Bear in mind that some countries (i.e. UK) will not allow you to change visa categories while already in the the country. You must leave and apply for a new visa from your home country.

Example: in the UK if you hold a valid student visa (Tier 2) and find a company willing to employ you based on your expertise (Tier 2), you must to go back to Brazil and apply for a visa "Tier 2" from there and then come back to the UK.
Back in the ye olden days, derision was aimed at those who programmed by filling in all the bits left by MSVC ClassWizard. It was a bit harsh, but a lot of the criticism stemmed from the perception that people were just coloring by number without truly understanding how it all fit together.

Now, we promote such a way in the name of productivity. Little wonder SRP gets squeezed out.
This man is peddling a book. I'm not saying that precludes his correctness but it does mean that the more analytical of us should apply a little more salt to our appraisal of his motivations than a journalist might.
I have many Pages/Keynote/Numbers documents from 2005-2008, and I remember wondering if they'd ever become unreadable with future technology.

The date came sooner than expected.
Somewhat related: http://www.webcitation.org/
It seems incredibly disingenuous to assert that WhatsApp won't collect personal data while sidestepping the question of what happens when WhatsApp identities become correlated with Facebook accounts.
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> The popular media really like to grab any neuroscience paper and twist the hell out of it.

This is true, but a specialized case of the equally true:

"The popular media really like to grab any science paper and twist the hell out of it."

Which is just a specialized case of the also equally true:

"The popular media really like to grab anything and twist the hell out of it."
I don't understand your comment.

You need to read my comment in context of the linked blog post I was responding to which addressed only the cost of adding additional emergency geolocation and the reason why it was expensive.

I suggest that it shouldn't actually be expensive because the safety impact is negligible.
Hey netcraft - we built this really quickly so the source is a bit messy - we'll work on open-sourcing it sometime in the near future though.
No print and no export functionality are a deal breaker for me. I want to own my data, but unfortunately even my own data could only live inside Microsoft's domain. This is the vendor lock-in that I don't want to face.
Are you kidding? If I can buy the rocks at $4 per rock and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to sell them to somebody later at $6 per rock, absolutely I'll keep buying the rocks.
> It's not that you can't have flat hierarchy, it's that you have to ensure that it's supported by transparency and process to then prevent it actually being a mask for another power structure.

To wit, this is the actual democratic experiment that people keep thinking they refer to when talking about America.

"Holacracies" aren't impossible. It's just that they're hard. Brady's point is more that many people refuse to admit this and, accordingly, run into the worst problems posed rather than having ways to deal with them as they arise.
>I take this to be an argument about complexity. The fox side of the argument is roughly that the world is more complex than most people allow for, and one principle or world view will usually not cover an area of knowledge well.

I don't think there is a clear division between those two. Both, the fox and the hedgehog use only one view– their own to seperate signal from noise. The fox side is just more open to integrating conflicting point of views into their worldview.

What I mean to say is that in the end both use only one trick, one skill- filtering information. This of course doesn't mean that the metaphor is wrong, just that it's wrong to think that the fox doesn't filter information the same way the hedgehog does.

BTW, this reminds me of something from Laozi "Through what do I know the nature of all things? Precisely through them." While the things are many, the principle of understanding them through themself remains singular.
The US bombed Yugoslavia pursuant to its commitments to NATO, which voted to intervene in the conflict.
Apart from being a rather risky investment vehicle, the only use case that seems to be unique to Bitcoin is black market transactions.

It's an excellent intermediary currency for purchasing items such as illegal drugs. Or for services such as paying off ransoms, as demonstrated by the CryptoLocker trojan.
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heh, what at the odds: two libs that give you object-oriented access to git repos both coincidentally named the exact same thing:

python: github.com/rsgalloway/grit
ruby: github.com/mojombo/grit
When you go to heaven, and St. Peter asks you what have you done with your life. You don't get past the judgement by saying, I'm sorry I didn't get to be the next Steve Jobs, the next Bill Gates, the next Elon Musk.

You'll get asked why didn't you become the best you possible.
> I would have expected a community of smart individuals to sincerely examine these accusations

From my experience, smartness, sincerity and a sufficiently malleable ego (that enables one to look at accusations constructively) don't always go hand-in-hand. They seem like orthogonal qualities.
The Island of Stone Money, by Milton Friedman
uh oh . someone is scared...
You complain that the public's reaction to these issues has been lethargic and lazy, but then the rest of your post reads as an obituary of freedom in Australia.

I, for one, am sick of this defeatist attitude which I see all too often from (small-l) liberals in Australia.

Australians have fought against authoritarianism, and we need to continue to fight. We stopped the Internet filter, we pirate more than any other country, and we have Green party representatives in both houses of the national parliament.

I think a Bill of Rights is non-democratic in Westminster-judicial societies. Whereas in the US the judicial branch is somewhat accountable to the people, in the UK, Canada and Australia, the people's will is only expressed in parliament. So, if the Australian parliament amended our constitution with a bill of rights, it would be handing power from our elected representatives to our non-elected High Court judges.

Furthermore, bills of rights are only superficial in protecting rights - they are always subject to the whim of the culture and society in which they operate. Canada has a bill of rights [0] supposedly protecting freedom of speech as a fundamental right, yet "discriminatory speech" is illegal (e.g. a comedian discriminating against homosexuals [1]).

[0]: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-12.3/page-1.html

[1]: http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/06/20/comedian-dinged-for...

Sure, "discriminatory speech" has been ruled illegal in Australia too [2], but my point is: what's the point of a bill of rights, then?

[2]: http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/29/bolt-decision-irresponsi...

Or, another example, look at how well the US' Fourth Amendment is protecting Americans from mass surveillance. I would posit that the reason the US has maintained more freedoms than other countries isn't thanks to its Bill of Rights, but thanks to their cultural belief in the importance of liberty. (or maybe its their distrust of government oppression of liberty? I can't tell)

So, as an Australian, I have no problem with not having a bill of rights. If we become a republic, and our High Court judges are then accountable to us? Maybe. But I'll want to hear from respected law professors before making my mind up. See [3] for a good discussion, and links to reading material.

[3]: http://www.reddit.com/r/auslaw/comments/q7xhm/what_are_the_a...

Anyway, more on-topic, I do agree with you that Australians need to step up their game to fight against authoritarianism. I don't agree that what we need is a bill of rights, and I do think we still have hope as a society.
There are alarms for everything under the sun, I don't think it would be possible for a fire to knock off a key system and the pilots not know about it.
Apple is also better at supporting old MS formats. I found some old recipes I wrote in Word 6.0.1 in 1998, which opened fine in OS X Mavericks's TextEdit.
iWork '09 works on Mavericks.
Even non-SAML sites can get 2FA support via Google Auth -our company Meldium (https://www.meldium.com/) now supports over 1,000 web apps, while there are only a few dozen major SaaS apps with SAML support.
Any suggestions on how to find part time consulting gigs? I know I can't compete with the odesk rates, not sure of non-spammy places to find em. I'll have to check on terms, as well.
except for the fact that you can print and export in other versions of onenote. and this is a 1.0
How did they go about finding the work?
Site seems dead for me. Anybody have a tl;dr or cached version?
Tagging is simply not how OneNote does things. If you're looking for that, use something else. Where OneNote excels is in giving you a tool to organize and manage your structured content. Personally, I prefer that paradigm since it gives you so much more control as well as allows you (in my opinion) to organize your thoughts and ideas better.
Have to call bullshit on this one. "Run rate" for a business with single-digit gross margins (marketplaces) are a pretty different animal than "run rate" for a pure software/SaaS company.
Really Cool way to increase your productivity...
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I'm also interested in knowing how did you trade the DVD for a bay battery. What are the specs (RAM, Proc, HDD, SSD, etc)? how much did you pay for it?
EDIT: Asking more questions.