skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might also be 30 people who know nothing about computers but have an agenda.

The way to get informed votes on technical laws is to carefully and transparently construct councils or committees whose members are technically competent. Give those councils the power to vote on technical laws, binding the main legislature to the result of such votes.

You can't have a voting body without a quorum rule and say it's to allow the subset of the representatives who understand the subject matter to vote. That's unenforceable and will be abused for political purposes far more often than it's used because the few representatives voting are the ones who genuinely understand the proposed law.

Quorum rules are critical for basic sanity in operation of a governmental body charged with voting.

It's a pathetic excuse that they have other jobs, and they can't show up most of the time. A few U.S. States had that sentiment, and what they do is have the legislature meet only a few months every year or two.

There's no reason they couldn't have an online voting system for representatives, either. The intelligence agencies of France and FVEY can't skew the votes by breaking the cryptosystem used for online voting if the voting record is published and the representatives verify that their votes were counted correctly. One barrier to doing this is probably that on some issues, representatives don't want their votes recorded; they want voice votes. (I'm guessing France does that most of the time; the U.S. certainly does.)
"Internet of things" devices mostly use cellular, WiFi or Bluetooth, and those frequencies are already in heavy use so I doubt it will make much difference for astronomers.

About the far side of the moon, there is little reason to put a telescope there. It is much easier to put one in orbit around the earch, sun or an earth-sun Lagrange point.

As for manned space exploration versus robotic, I think that is a debate for an other day.
You know what's terrible? How very unwilling nearly every company is to hire and train inexperienced workers while simultaneously complaining about not being able to find talent.
At a time when nginx (at least the commercial version) is starting to emphasize nginx+javascript instead of nginx+lua, it's interesting to see a project try the opposite approach: take the nginx+lua combination and replace nginx with more lua.
people already did this with Echelon a decade ago. I remember people crafting sentences with specifics keywords such as 'bomb', 'explode', etc. that are totally inocuous in context, but were designed to trigger the algorithm.

Maybe i'll make my personnal server connect to random IP on port 80 to send data with such keywords.
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If someone volunteers for a non-profit for no pay, does that mean they're providing $0 in value?

After all, they were willing to work for $0.
If you actually read the words in the article you will see that that test was the absolute best case they could find.
If you pay them all the median wage, that won't hurt convergence.
I don't use emacs, but have you considered something like Discourse (usable/postable as a mailing list + a proper modern forum for the less email liking)? Posts can also be made 'community wikis' and have revision history.
The CEO wholly owns the company. So his only fiduciary responsibility is to himself.
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Yes, exactly :)

(If you think about it, Java apps like Eclipse and so on, are also a tiny bit strange and non-native. They've come a long way towards blending in with native apps, over the years. But they still feel a bit off, from a native icon and windowing perspective.)
Is it possible that their Audio API is much simpler due to the fact that they control all of the implementations (Hardware interface) of iOS?
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I don't understand - he's giving up salary (not profit), so why does profit change at all?
Even if he didn't decide it, it would make similar effect: higher salaries would attract more people, and the company would eventually hire better workers (if they aren't complete idiots and are capable of selecting the best of the people applied).
What most people don't realize is that, working in a startup, he probably holds a large amount of equities.

When/If there is an exit, he will cash out a LOT more than his employees. That's his real 'bonus'.

In Wall Street/corporations, executives are less prone to have exits so they give themselves tremendous bonuses.

A totally different case.
Questions: "What is best in life?"

Acuman: "What is best in life? a characteristic state or mode of living."

Wolfram Alpha: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
Both your points are valid if the comparaison is strictly based on performance gains. The problem is they imply that optimizing is free and easy.
do you mind elaborating on this? What would be off limits, and what in assembly would allow a garbage collector free of false retention vs C?
Hire and train vs hire talented is a very different strategy. Training requires more resources up front and it comes with a higher risk; it's suitable in some situations, but it certainly isn't for everyone.
Those are expensive structures. Also there probably aren't spares lying around that can be tasked and moved into the range.
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Really not many. We are going to be getting a whole lot more implementation done now the filing phase is passing :D
We'll actually be switching to Discourse soon :) Believe me, I am no fan of Google Groups.

I didn't know that Discourse had community wikis. Then we can switch off of GitHub too (plus, git is a bit heavyweight for what is essentially a wiki doc :) )
It does a pretty good job though:

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/jenny/roomb...

I tried a Neato but it was much more prone to getting stuck (every single time actually). Obviously that will vary depending on your furniture.
But ... why is there a period size? Isn't that a broken design that can only introduce latency? What is wrong with "however much audio data is ready when the application asks, send it"?
It can definitely foment discontent when, say, a low-mid-level software engineer pulls the same as clerical workers. I wonder if that will have any effect on the company's ability to hire professionals. Maybe they'll expect a commensurate salary bump; if you're paying 1.8x the normal salary for a clerical or support worker, shouldn't you pay 1.8x the normal salary for a professional? What kind of message does that send about how much the company values professionals, and will pros be more comfortable at companies with more conventional pay structures (even though I doubt any would admit that publicly)?
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Perhaps you were told it was secret. It was not secret. Here's one of the articles I was referring to. http://www.wired.com/2013/03/google-borg-twitter-mesos/ John Wilkes mentions Borg, acts coy about the name for some reason (seems like a pattern), and mentions Omega, its nascent replacement.
Isn't machine learning a first step towards "how to train itself" ?

Honestly, I would say "chatbot" is a class of primitive AI - I'd also class Eliza as an (extremely) primitive AI.

I feel like you're making a distinction without a difference because you have some arbitrary barrier in mind for "sufficiently non-primitive to have earned the term AI" and are then applying that.

Would "a chatbot with primitive AI capabilities" seem like a reasonable compromise definition?
Why not? It seems interesting to me. I've always called scheme/racket a lisp, and I never knew that anyone felt differently. Does this mean that clojure is also not a lisp?
Kind of my question. Why can't they use one of the standard open frequencies like 433mhz? I assume there is some reason, maybe broadcast distance and strength for bigger yards?
The page is also a reference server implementation for people working on clients are well.
It seems I'm the only one who agrees with you. The project is really cool in itself. Saying I'm 14 makes it difficult to judge whether people are truly impressed or just impressed this was done at 14.

It certainly is impressive at 14, but I suppose I dont feel like we should be making 14 year olds feel like they're less capable.

Then again, in the end its a matter of questioning the purpose of Show HN. If its to boost your ego, and there's certainly nothing wrong with needing that from time to time, adding the circumstances helps. On the other hand if you're looking for improvement, it seems better that people look at what you made without the bias or lowered expectations.

Either way, this is awesome =]
underyx was right above — the Zapier reference was added post-publishing
What then is the purpose of making such a press event out of it? It's clearly them promoting their brand by jumping onto the fairness bandwagon. That doesn't mean the CEO doesn't actually believe in it - he probably does - but it means that they wanted to do it in a way that makes a spectacle out of it.

As others have pointed out though, all it's doing is moving up the skillset requirements of people they hire in the future. So while it helps the few people who are already on-board by getting a raise (which is great by itself), it likely wont help an entry level person who now won't be hired in at 70k.
Are there encryption algorithm such that we could decrypt the payload with more than one key, but only with one key, the real one, it will return the true result, and other keys will return fake, but plausible result ?

something like 'hidden volumes' in TrueCrypt.
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Looks nice but, why would I use this instead of openresty ?

If I were looking for a stand-alone -no nginx- solution: Why would I use this instead of lev[1] or luvit[2] ?

[1] https://github.com/connectFree/lev/

[2] https://luvit.io/
I think that if you're looking at the entire field and see that, in terms of the entire market, you're being well-compensated, you probably wouldn't spend a lot of time being resentful of other people in your company. I guess I could be wrong.
Seems unlikely to me a "natural" group of hacker news users would upvote a link to a landing page with email capture.
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I'm foxed too. Due diligence is about assessing risk. The lower the valuation the less you're risking. Hence I'd expect early acquires to require far less due diligence. What am I missing?
It's in coffeescript! I wasn't expecting that, I was expecting C, Go, or Rust.
Yev from Backblaze here -> TRY IT AGAIN! We just introduced multi-process uploading, which has helped some of our users abroad 2x or 3x their speeds!
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> There is one important thing to understand about VersionPress: though it is technically a WordPress plugin, it is one of the most complex ones you can imagine.

This send shivers down my spine.
Yes, this launch will take place from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California (according to http://spacexstats.com/upcoming.php)
While I am a vim user, I love seeing people having conferences to promote editors that aren't IDEs. Don't get me wrong, Eclipse and Visual Studio are great tools but nothing beats being able to open vim (or emacs in your case) and going to town on some code. Good luck guys!
Two factors:

1. Yes, they will eventually be launching elsewhere. SpaceX is currently building its own launch facility in Brownsville, TX, which would indeed permit landing at the cape.

2. Elon Musk seems to think that despite the expense, they can fly the rocket back to the launch pad for lighter payloads.
Especially true in software, isn't it? I kind of get it, though. We tend to jump ship a lot. So a company isn't willing to invest time and money to train me and then I jump ship a year later to greener pastures.

I get that, but at the same time, if I wasn't treated like a disposable cog, maybe I wouldn't jump ship even if I was actively being poached? Just an idea.
Why on earth would a janitor position 'move up in skillset requirements'? That's speculation that I don't see supported, and can't quite imagine how it would work.
I agree. We went through hundreds of interviewees who didn't pass the coding tests and it really stifled the growth of the company. At the same time, the wage rate being offered was below average because that's what we could afford at the time. I saw some potential in some folks but other team leads felt otherwise. There's a difference between being able to code and not having enough experience in a particular domain to solve the problem in 20 minutes.
I don't think lawn bots will take off. I live in a nice neighborhood. I am 100% certain that a $500 to $3,000 lawn bot would be stolen within a month.

Also, it is far cheaper and more efficient to pay a gardener for lawn maintenance. They take care of far more than just mowing the lawn.
Just from middle-school biology that doesn't sound right. How could a cell be so few atoms across?
The lowest possible input-to-output latency of an audio workstation is always two times the period size (samples/buffer) (plus a few microseconds of internal delays in the ADCs, controllers, ...)

The sound chips operate on integral periods or a fixed number of samples, and when you get a period worth of audio data from your ADC, the DAC will already have started putting out the first samples of the next period. Hence, you prepare your audio samples for the second-to-next period.

Assume you have audio processing code roughly looking like this:

while (1) {
poll(); /* some API function waiting for the "next period" */
read(soundcard, block_of_samples); /* or let DMA do it */
process_samples(block_of_samples);
write(soundcard, block_of_samples); /* or let DMA do it */
}

Let's try some ASCII art:

v- audio samples going into your soundcard
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
/1\ /2\ /3\ /4\ /5\ /6\ /7\ /8\ /9\ /0\ /1\ /2\ ...
\_/ \_/ \_/v \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \
|
\________________/\________________/\________________/\________________/
Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4
|
|
[*] here, Period 1 has been DMA'ed from the soundcard
to an mmapped buffer of your audio application

<~~~~~~~~~~~> here processing of your audio takes place

[*] this is the latest point at which processing
| must complete so that there will be data for
| the soundcard to output. DMA will start
| from the buffer to the soundcard DAC.
|
_ _ _ _ _ _ v _ _ _ _ _ _
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /1\ /2\ /3\ /4\ /5\ /6\ ...
\_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \

\________________/\________________/\________________/\________________/

^- processed audio samples will come out
of your laptop's speakers...

Obviously, your machine has to be fast enough to do the whole real-time audio computation in a little less than the time between two interrupts, that's the period size. And it must reliably be able to do this, because if it misses the time to have a block of samples ready for the DAC. If it misses that goal, a "underrun" will take place, and the audio application will have to resynchronize, possibly causing some clicking, intermittent audio, ...
This is what lead me to believe that:

http://spacenews.com/spacex-leases-cape-canaveral-launch-pad...
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You're missing the bigger issues related to TC, for example the fact that it doesn't even run on new windows versions (and never will)...
There's a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg scheduled for July 22. VAFB is a large coastal installation with lots of room for a return to land.

schedule: http://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

read near the end of this story for a statement that booster return to land is planned for the July 22 launch:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/03/spaceport-america-spa...
Hi there, you can view the PDF without entering your email address - the email capture is just if you want to stay updated.

Here is the direct link to the PDF:
https://chartmogul.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ChartMogul...
> Average salary for a programmer in Seattle is $72K

> Average salary for a software engineer in Seattle is $92K

And Glassdoor 'salary' doesn't include bonuses or equity.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/seattle-software-engineer-...

> keep up with the latest technology, learn several different languages, fix bugs at odd hours, forced to learn new things or be obsolete,

These are not the programmers making <= $72k/yr

Why is "should" relevant here? Why is the free market sacrosanct, except when someone makes a decision you don't like?

Anyway, there are plenty of programmers who haven't honed their bodies in a way to make them competent mailroom staff.
I guess you could argue this if it was a publicly-traded company (although sometimes you get what you pay for). For a privately-owned company it's a totally irrelevant argument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ca6x4QbpoM

http://www.space.com/13140-spacex-private-reusable-rocket-el...

"After separating in orbit, the two stages of the rocket would come back to Earth and land at the launch pad."

They've always intended both the boosters and the second stage to return to the launch site.
This is actually better done with a robot team or swarm. There are several 'frontier' algorithms which use basic particle swarm or metaheuristic algorithms to rapidly move across a landscape or frontier.
Henry Ford did something similar a century ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#The_five-dollar_wor...
But there's no such thing as an absolute market value for chairs--it's a function of quality (among other things). There are plenty of CEOs who choose to buy expensive chairs for their employees without causing any controversy.

Employee market rates are a function of quality too. If paying twice as much gets you employees who create three times more value, that shouldn't be a controversial decision either.
Downvoter: Did you actually try that question? Acuman gives a pretty funny reply.
I think the article may be ascribing too much technical reasoning to why iOS has a better community of music apps - remember that Apple is also has Garage Band and dominates the online music sales business. It's fair to say that music is a core part of Apple's brand, and so the platform has a much greater draw for people who prioritize music software.
> And ultimately if it doesn't pan out, he can sell the company to a larger processor and cash his 100% stake out.

Do you honestly think that isn't plan A? He's going to flip the company, pocket the cash, and all those employees who experienced a temporary rise in salary will be unemployed. When Mr.CEO doles out equity instead of cash I'll give into the warm fuzzy feelings.
Who needs "an online message platform that restricts your messages to 140 characters"?

Oh wait ...
This is false, because you are ignoring the fact that raising the minimum wage flattens the distribution of wages. Purchasing power decreases, but only low-wage-earners income increases. higher-spending people feel more of a crunch, and lower-income people get more of the benefit

price increases impact higher-spenders more than lower-spenders
How long would they be willing to stay at that rate? Raises aren't entirely altruistic.
Return to Launch Site (RTLS) has been the goal from day one. Yes, it's expensive in terms of payload (about 30%), but SpaceX thinks it's worth it. The cost to fill all tanks is ~$200,000, which pales in comparison to everything else. They will land every rocket they can (determined by how much ΔV the payload requires). I'm quite sure that reusable Falcon Heavy launches will be cheaper than expendable Falcon 9 launches, which incentivizes customers with payloads on the margin to choose the Heavy, which allows SpaceX to return at least 2 cores to the launch site.

(Neat little aside: launches from Florida and Texas can also take slight advantage of the earth rotating beneath the rocket in the direction they want it to.)
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Interesting to read of the details behind this issue. This has been a serious issue for me - it's actually why I own an iPhone.

My first modern touch device was an iPod touch 4. I downloaded Garage Band and, as a long time milt instrumentalist and composer, loved it. I was amazed by how well the touch instruments worked and how easily I could record riffs and flesh out small snippets of songs. It ran almost flawlessly on the 4th gen Touch.

Next, I decided to buy an Android phone - a Motorola Droid 2. I was surprised to find that despite the power advantage over the iPod, none of he music apps I tried were usable. The drum programs, for instance, we're so lacy and unpredictable as to be worse than useless. Hit a drum, and you may hear it seemingly instantly, maybe 1/8 a second later, maybe half a second, possibly never. Meanwhile the tiny iPod could play Garage Band instruments so well one could use it for live performance.

I upgraded my phone twice, first to a Droid X, then a Galaxy S3... Each time was disappointed that the improved specs gave no improvement in the terrible audio performance.

Currently I have an iPhone 6 so I can use Garage Band. Kudos to apple for doing this right - it's the best app I've ever used.
I've never asked anyone to change. Note how I described getting stuck and hearing chinese pedestrians admonish each other to let me by. If I get really stuck I get off and walk the bicycle.

Bicycles on the sidewalk are fairly common. They're not dangerous.
Where you can use sam (a gui-ified version of ed) or acme (like emacs, but with hand-eye-coordination replacing carpal tunnel syndrome)?
Almost certainly not. They're still working on building a second drone ship on the west coast. Even after they accomplish landings on land, there will still be a need for barge landings in two scenarios: Falcon 9 launches with payloads large enough to prohibit a full boostback burn, and more importantly, Falcon Heavy launches. On the Heavy, the two strap-on boosters will be able to make it back to land but the core stage will be much further downrange and moving much faster, almost certainly necessitating an ocean landing.
No it's not fair, he doesn't deserve that company he put his whole life in! Nobody deserves such a thing!

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Perhaps they meant seekable when compressed? As in the header for each object has the compressed length of object? Presumably in a meta data header with name, compression format, claimed uncompressed length, date, etc.

Personally I'd like a tool that lets me extract files from TB size archives easily without decompressing everything. Only virtual disk images seem to have that random access functionality. There are ways of using gzip/bzip/xz that use sync points, so you could produce a compatible archive that allowed decompressing metadata bits, though it would suck for many small files.
Those other locations still be susceptible to stray radio transmissions, especially an Earth orbit which would also have issues with Earth's ionosphere. All that moon rock is going to be a great radio insulator.

I also imagine there are cost savings by having it sit on the surface of a moon than being its own satellite. No need for worry about orbit corrections or strict weight limitations. The Tsiolkovskiy crater is pretty flat and would make a good candidate for a telescope which would have long antenna arrays laying on the surface.