skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a driver tell me he would give me a $20 coupon for future rides, pull my phone, input the coupon code (which didn't work, since it was first riders only) and rate himself five stars.
Post OC to reddit, get upvotes, create the OC and go to jail.
What costs money is the spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, and Microwave Studio license.
Well, I've checked again and now, to be honest, it looks fine. I'm certain it didn't process the redirect earlier, and I know this isn't the most helpful bug report in the world - sorry! I'll let you know if it happens again.
Can you recommend any other articles that share your view? The perspective of the present time is strange. I share the authors view that progress happened much more rapidly in the past, and that the future always seems 10 years out. Is that simply my brain playing tricks on me or is there any validity to it?
Hi HN, Readr for reddit is a small chrome extension I have built that opens up a Medium like viewer for those long reddit comments (more like short stories) that are a pain to read with standard reddit UI.

Landing Page - http://codepen.io/saransh/full/qEOLKj/

Being a regular on reddit, I (and perhaps some of you) have come to like its UI for its simplicity, but I felt the need to make some improvements to the poor reading experience on some of the longer, more detailed discussions. Like on /r/AskScience, /r/WritingPrompts etc. So I made this.

Readr adds a 'read' link at the bottom of every comment, and clicking on that opens up a Medium-esque viewer for that comment. All this without actually leaving reddit. (Press 'ESC' to jump back in to good old reddit)

Currently very much in alpha, I am looking for any and all feedback and feature requests.

Thanks
Why can't recovering from WW2 have been the cause? Re-building institutions and cities from scratch causes people to think more creatively.
If book-based or street view-based captchas go away, I suspect it will be because bots/spammers got better at solving them than humans

But, wait. Isn't that what we want? It seems like bots and spammers have a relatively small cost to a company like google, while digitizing books and house numbers is relatively valuable. I don't have numbers for a detailed cost-benefit analysis, but if bots get good enough to do time consuming work accurately, that's a win right?
Yes. Real offices for everyone, and some open space (e.g. meeting and lunch tables) for people who want it. People should be in contact some of the time, but not exposed to every inane conversation.

Also, open-back visibility (that is, being visible from behind) does more damage than the noise itself, and there are no noise-canceling headphones for that.

Office space isn't that expensive, compared to the productivity loss of having everyone work in a crappy space. (Compared to a traditional office, open-plan saves about $300-450/month per employee in San Francisco, Class A commercial real estate. It's less if you're in Oakland, Brooklyn, or the Midwest) Open-plan is just another case of crappy HR (the norm in tech, sadly) "cutting" costs in a way that actually externalizes them; there are marginal savings on office space, but productivity plummets.
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I think it must be getting slammed; I was able to get a couple of descriptions out of it, but that was balanced by probably 2 times as many instances of the above error.
"Receipt" is frequently a fill-it-yourself business card from the service.
If a bot just makes more random mouse movements of varied speeds, and takes a bit longer, won't it appear human?
No, the best way to supply glucose is eating glucose. I used to do this.
The regular CAPTCHA is already approaching the point of being unsolvable for mere humans. If the only people who have to use it are cutting into Google's profit margins by blocking tracking, that gives them even more incentive to make life miserable for those users.
Perhaps a way to mitigate the bad effects of open offices is to allow people to work from home when they need to focus. I spent a year and a half working in an open floor plan, and about 90% of my coding got done at home. I'd remain well-connected to everyone over Skype, and I'd only show up to socialize and/or attend necessary meetings.

Perhaps this isn't optimal for every employee/company, but it's how I made the best of the situation for myself at this company...
There are lots of areas where we've seen significant breakthroughs. Astronomy is one. And the future for astronomy is bright indeed. The Gaia telescope will soon give us a vast trove of new data to learn from.

Virtual reality is on the brink of mass adoption. It has the potential to be more significant than the invention of the TV.

Let's not even talk about nano technology, smartphones, tablets, notebook computers, satellite tv, ...
Logging to the console with Firebug 3: http://cl.ly/image/0V1x2g253J3F/Image%202014-12-03%20at%202....
Ah, I thought this sounded familiar. From a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6896237

Has there been some sort of update/change to the site or is this post a (re)discovery of said site?
That's an interesting point. It reminds me of something Joel Spolsky wrote:

Here's the simple algebra. Let's say (as the evidence seems to suggest) that if we interrupt a programmer, even for a minute, we're really blowing away 15 minutes of productivity. For this example, lets put two programmers, Jeff and Mutt, in open cubicles next to each other in a standard Dilbert veal-fattening farm. Mutt can't remember the name of the Unicode version of the strcpy function. He could look it up, which takes 30 seconds, or he could ask Jeff, which takes 15 seconds. Since he's sitting right next to Jeff, he asks Jeff. Jeff gets distracted and loses 15 minutes of productivity (to save Mutt 15 seconds)."

(From http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html)
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Oh, I wasn't aware that there was a database that supported them. I mostly use postgres and sqlite, which both do not support them.
I agree but I also use DEBUG in my scripts to allow for on the fly debugging to occur.

I consider it a degenerate case and its only there for my own use and abuse. All it really does is redefines certain functions to be more verbose or print out debug level information.

I had one script that let you do DEBUG=somefunc and it would instrument just that one function. But to be honest it was overkill.
Well, I guess I think there are kind of two levels of nativity. Operating System native, i.e. uses API's from the OS directly.

But then I think there's also hardware native, which means the IR that the code gets compiled into executes directly on the hardware.

Both Java and C are compiled into a binary IR (Intermediate Representation), C is executed directly on the CPU (provided it's in the proper format: ELF, etc...), whereas Java is run in a compatibility layer, the JVM, which interprets the IR into native machine instructions.

I don't think Java is hardware native,but it can be OS native, making use of features or APIs that are OS dependent.

I feel like Android itself is native, it's compiled into direct machine code by each vendor, but I don't feel that the applications that run on it are hardware native, but they are native to Android, in that Dalvik and Hotspot bytecode are incompatible with each other's respective VM.

I guess I'm just a pedantic dickweed :|
People are being paid to think, which they sometimes do while playing a game of ping-pong. I say the problem was a shitty office manager.
As a recent convert to Node who switched to it because I thought we'd be closing in on 1.0 this year and instead got ... crickets. For my part, "pulling more regularly from V8" is enough all by itself.
Probably from a technical lawyery standpoint that's not enforceably clear, but from the standpoint of someone who uses paid creative assets as part of my regular work, it's certainly clear enough that I could feel fine using them and moving on with my life, and knowing if I was stepping over the line.
Why closed source sucks
I'm aware of that but it logs everything without a way to filter (unlike the network tab)
OK, I'm pretty dumb about Bluetooth so feel free to laugh:

Why does BT know or care about IPv6? It have thought it was a physical layer, like Ethernet, that you could pass IPv4, IPv6, PPP-over-ATM, or whatever thing you wanted to over it. My home network switch doesn't support or not support IPv6. Why would Bluetooth?
> banner from Google saying, "Hey, you might have a virus, someone reported you to this list."

Unfortunately this is already in use with some malicious ads as well as phone scams to get people to give remote access to overseas tech centers that then scam them into paying good money for nothing.

To date the only tech line about this is, "nobody legitimate will ever contact you to tell you you're infected with a virus."

So I don't know how you could develop trust in that environment.
Seriously?

https://www.google.com/search?q=PROGRAMATICALLY_REPLACE_ME
Equally as annoying.
The regular classroom, not the 'open classroom', is the analogue of the open office - a group of people with a common task, unseparated by walls. A private tutor would be the educational equivalent of a private office.

Additionally, 'open-office' to me means OpenOffice, and while I can accept that it doesn't to everyone, be consistent. It's one of the rules of good journalism. The hyphen in the heading is not used in the article. Likewise, we have 'nineteen-fifties' versus '1997'. The ironic bit about spelling out 'nineteen-fifties' in a non-conventional, inconsistent manner... is the phrase in the article immediately following it... </oldmanrant>
Particularly in more advanced applications of the Wolfram System, it may sometimes seem worthwhile to try to analyze internal algorithms in order to predict which way of doing a given computation will be the most efficient. And there are indeed occasionally major improvements that you will be able to make in specific computations as a result of such analyses.
But most often the analyses will not be worthwhile. For the internals of the Wolfram System are quite complicated, and even given a basic description of the algorithm used for a particular purpose, it is usually extremely difficult to reach a reliable conclusion about how the detailed implementation of this algorithm will actually behave in particular circumstances.

Trust us, we're professionals!
Microsoft provides users' information to Turkey. Telegram haven't done something similar, yet.
Thanks, I will check them out. A shame that their quotes are hidden behind a lead capture form, though.
Perhaps you can explain something to me that I have found mysterious for years - how does one develop the mindset where they cannot conceive that their opinions on things are not universal? Three separate times in your screed you insinuate that people who like what you do not are not thinking. It's incredibly arrogant.
Ask HN: Are there medical practitioners who understand founders and engineers?
I've seen a lot of threads on HN recently where health issues have come up. Quite often the comments are filled with anecdotes that lead me to believe engineers and startup founders have unique health concerns.

Our work leaves little time in the day for many regular administrative tasks, much less more spaced out tasks like health checkups. In males the deferral of health checkups is already a problem, but for founders and engineers who are male I believe it is exacerbated.

We work long hours in tense environments, but with little cardiovascular activity. If we do perform regular exercise, many of us gravitate towards very goal oriented intense workouts like spin classes, crossfit, marathons, century bike rides, etc. With such limited time and a drive to "succeed" at anything we do, there are no half measures.

I recently skipped on a doctor's visit, despite my company having access to on-site physicians. The problem was a "typical male" problem, but a few hours of research led me to believe I understood the symptoms and the physiology enough to spend the time on some critical stuff that needed to be done. My head was also filled with the drama of the U.S. medical system, where tests would be ordered that left me with a feeling of dread and uncertainty for weeks despite the statistics indicating a serious condition was extremely unlikely.

So what to do ... can we use our healthy remuneration packages to visit doctors that can spend the time to keep an eye on us? Can someone build a "Doctor as a Service" that I feel is always available and will spot unusual patterns in my results, rather than the doctor roulette of medical centers? Should I just get an exhaustive imaging scan every two years to find those dark patches that will eventually kill me ten years from now? Has anyone, as a founder or engineer, found a way of integrating a medical check into their lives that seems to make sense?
That should read, "Type the following into the Emacs buffer." You should have something like:

module LearnYouAn where

data ℕ : Set where
zero : ℕ
succ : ℕ → ℕ

_+_ : ℕ → ℕ → ℕ
zero + m = m
(succ n) + m = succ (n + m)

data _even : ℕ → Set where
ZERO : zero even
STEP : ∀ n → n even → succ (succ n) even

proof₁ : succ (succ (succ (succ (zero)))) even
proof₁ = ?
Do you care to address the interesting part of what I linked?

A gross receipts tax is similar to a sales tax, but it
is levied on the seller of goods or service consumers.

...I'm thinking this is a distinction without a difference, which is really my point. They're both transaction taxes. And a fair gross income tax rate would probably be set lower than a fair tax on profits since the amount of taxes paid per business should probably be roughly the same, at least on average.

Will some low-profit and no-profit businesses have problems? Sure, but I'm not sure why they shouldn't have to contribute to the general fund just like all the other businesses. If their business models aren't sustainable while paying taxes, I'm not sure why I should be upset. What we have now is overly complex (deducting losses from previous years) and amounts to a subsidy for losing money.
<quote>The market value of labor is unaffected by the level of profit tax.</quote>
Only if you can guarantee that changing levels of profit tax would not cause any wide scale lay-off or hiring sprees that would certainly effect labor market saturation and thereby the market value of labor.
What other Hacker News for Xes are out there?
By similar token government-regulated marketplaces have a long-term problem with corruption.

We already observe the cases where teacher unions sponsor political candidates who will negotiate with teacher unions, police unions approving or disapproving of mayoral candidates who will sit on the opposite side of negotiating table when police contract is being discussed, insurance companies (ahem, industry) supporting (or not) state insurance commissioner candidates, or financial companies paying a bonus to a manager who departs for a government job.

How do you prevent corruption and align incentives properly in a government-run marketplace?
Very cool:

Comment: If you click on source code right now it gives me to javascript alerts that were trying to print out JSON objects.
Conversely, I've been able to save days of employee time by hearing a conversation between two colleagues that had a faulty assumption on our infrastructure setup.
It's just CC, not "open source," but there are plenty of places (i.e. Flickr) where you can share your assets for others to use. I've had people contact me about using some of my photos in books they're publishing (wasn't necessary, given the CC license, but gave me a warm fuzzy and was appreciated), and I've contacted photographers about using their work for a wedding invitation I was making. But many of the kinds of things that are actually useful have the kind of specific requirements that make them not fun to create and share for free, so Shutterstock makes lots of money.
yes convenience, saves time switching back and forth. chrome didn't have this feature either but they recently added it (even though not as good as firebug's since when you click on the entry in the console it takes you to the network panel and hightlights the entry rather than opening it up automatically)
Most DBs don't support unsigned int [0] as a type (though its perfectly sensible to have a constraint that enforces >0.)

[0] though several do support UUIDs, which are essentially unsigned 128-bit ints, and which (with a well-selected generation mechanism) are better as server-assigned surrogate keys than sequential integers, signed or unsigned, anyway.
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It's a lot easier to drive WebKit from Lisp than to try to get the Closure web browser to HTML 5.
The Mods are chosen by the existing mod team themselves. The first mod is the creator of the sub.
There are pretty serious problems with the glucose theory right now: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jan/kurzban_et_al_on_opportunity_cos...
Amount done per dollar = total done / total spent

It is fair to count everything SpaceX has done with NASA money as stuff NASA has gotten done, NASA still has an astronomically larger denominator.

> And fwiw SpaceX so far doesn't have anything resembling a rocket that'll make it to the Moon much less Mars.

fwiw NASA does not either and SpaceX is much closer. The Falcon Heavy is expected to launch next year and will be capable of putting 14 tons in a trans-Martian orbit to Mars.
Datomic has a very simple concurrency model that makes a sophisticated distributed B-tree like this unnecessary. Minuet carefully manages concurrent access to the data, through snapshots and keeping track of read/write data access per transaction to manage concurrency according to the desired isolated level. Datomic has scalable read-only views, but a serial write transaction executor, so the distribution aspect is fairly simple.

On Minuet, while I do like the area of work, I think it is a mistake to keep track of read and write sets for concurrency control. The performance is not great when you want to do real-time analytical queries. Check Figure 17, where you can see that the throughput barely increases when adding machines for frequent snapshots.
The Images in the article does not do Skogskyrkogården justice. It is an amazing place.
I'll keep an eye out, maybe it was due to high traffic or something, but I can understand how confusing it must of been! Thanks for checking it out :)
I am on v35 and it doesn't. It allows you to log all network events which fills up the console.
Also as a related but possibly incorrect observation - it seems that there is usually more table space per employee in cubicle layouts than in open-space. Whenever I see open-space office pictures there are long rows of tables and each worker has a laptop, maybe one monitor and small place for notes and stuff. And right next starts another similar workplace. In 4-person cubicle I (and all the the others in the office) have place for 2-3 or 4 monitors, laptop in dock, heaps of wires, analyzers, stacks of device parts, normal keyboards and mice, plants and other stuff and have free space left.
But do you honestly work every second of every workhour? This isn't Germany, breaks and downtime are inevitable
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Have your developers work from home then. I work for a fully funded startup where the entire team is remote. I would never go back to an office (I have insane levels of productivity compared to my last gig that had an open office plan, not to mention 0 commute time).
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I have had both and been working in software about 10 years. I don't know if I would say open offices are an unalloyed good, but I would say that people tend to focus on the negatives without honestly considering the drawbacks of the alternatives they'd prefer.

Further, the time when I did have my own office was when I got interrupted the most. My boss would come in all the time and talk to me about whatever, a lot of times not even work-related stuff. Now I work in a place where people will only ever try to interrupt you via Slack, and if you tell them you're busy they will go away. So I think there is a cultural aspect as well, if your company accepts people bothering you whenever, I don't honestly believe an office will put a stop to that.
There are over 200 results of HN stories along this line[0]. Just eyeballing the list, it seems as though there is quite a variety.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hacker+news+for+#!/story/sort_by_d...
Just to clarify on "open-back visibility", it means that people can see you from behind (ie your back is facing the door/ open space rather than a wall, and by extension it means that they can see your screen), right?

If that's the case, I agree with you, but I'd like to see more details on how/why it is the case. Do you by any chance have any more evidences?
I agree that the open office layout definitely hinders your ability to focus. My current company has an open office but about 9 empty offices that people can go into and focus if they need them. That has worked out well... people utilize those often... I certainly do.
Put the PCB board plan online, and it can be built/printed at almost any PCB fab shop.

Goodbye export controls. Its PGP all over again, just with atoms instead of bits.
The upside to the open office is that collaboration is effortless.

The downside is that collaboration can become a crutch. It will only hinder you when you need to do the kind of "nose to the grindstone" work that's often needed.

To me, the ideal working scenario includes a private working space for each person and a public space for when collaboration is needed.
>A similar misconception is "I need glucose therefore I should eat sugar" .

That's not a misconception, it is reality. It is amazing how many people on HN really hate science. Diabetics are told to eat juice or candy when their blood sugar is low for a reason.

>The most stable way to supply blood glucose is by eating fat

That is also too slow to be of any use.
It really depends on which stage in life you are at. Do you currently have a comfortable life (make good income, no major debt)? Then don't change anything, just place your money safely.

Piece of trivia: the first thing people in your situation buy is a new bed.
My biggest fear of the "Internet of things"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things#Security
When I was last here it was mostly post-for-post consistent with /r/MachineLearning.