skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you dispute what the loan money has been spent on? If so, show me your sources.
They are not ignoring the result, and are doing exactly what the author wants them to do, except they started doing it before this hysterical piece was written.
Running the Field – The Story
Except /u/kn0thing reported Ellen according to a former SVP, /u/kickme444 who was the other employee getting fired that started this whole thing [1]. Additionally, Dacvak was fired by Ellen for having cancer proving Ellen was making the personnel decisions. His comments were deleted due to a non-disparagement clause but could be found here [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3d2hv3/kn0t...

[2] https://archive.is/kfrFM
This is in direct violation of the Chain that Binds.
I can't comment on my own observations because I don't have enough experience with this. However, some suggest that default choices are hard to resist: whether it's online or off. NYT wrote about that several years ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/technology/default-choices...
I'll shift+right click all I want on your site. ;)
Live production is ALL about reliability. A boring lights-up lights-down corporate show ALWAYS has 2 $100,000 light boards in active/hot standby even though one $50 DMX controller would do.

We always opt for wired where possible, even if wireless exists. We are paranoid about secure and safe cable runs. When wireless is necessary, we transmit on multiple frequencies with smart frequency-hopping algorithms so that if two of them get interference, the content still comes through on the third.

We have a visceral distrust of rechargeable batteries. We swap out AAs and 9-volts (only the brands we trust) obsessively. A good sound engineer is made very uncomfortable by (and thus obsessively monitors) battery-powered devices in the critical path.

In short: there's no way you're going to get respectable production companies to trust this thing. One, it flies, Two, it's battery. Three, it's RF. Under these circumstances, we proceed with EXTREME caution. We'd much rather build truss to get a camera where it needs to go, run cables to it, mat and tape them as appropriate. Automation is okay, but there is existing, battle-tested camera automation and it's not even that widespread yet.

Film production, maybe. A blown take isn't free, but it's pretty cheap. A flying camera at WWDC hitting battery starvation, motor failure, RF interference, etc. is the end of the world in that line of work.
Thanks, I was aware of that site and problems long before I purchased my 2015 MBP-R 13". I have only used Whoosh cleaner and I'm starting to notice a stain. I'm guessing this is why Apple pulled this product.
It's a matter of magnitude.

A magnitude 2 earthquake releases ~30x the energy as a magnitude 1 earthquake. A magnitude 3 releases ~900x the energy of a magnitude 1. You can see where this is going. (Note, the "shaking intensity" of the earthquake doesn't increase as quite as rapidly as the amount of energy released, but the relationship depends on a lot more than the earthquake's size.)

Let's say we were to trigger many magnitude 5's. We'd need to trigger 810,000 of them to equal the energy released in a Mw 9.0 earthquake.

Interestingly, though, there are other types of earthquakes that _do_ release accumulated elastic strain over large areas. Cascadia is actually where they were first noticed.

Every ~11 months, the cascadia subduction zone has a magnitude 6 or 7 earthquake. You'll never notice in Seattle, though, because it occurs over about a month.

These "slow earthquakes" _do_ release significant amounts of accumulated strain. Sometimes they trigger "normal" earthquakes and vice versa. We don't really understand the details. The most interesting part (and the part most relevant for seattle) is that the same fault can have both these "slow earthquakes" and a full on >Mw 9 "normal" earthquake.

This is one of the "hottest" topics in earthquake seismology and convergent margins research at the moment.
Ask HN: What “retro” PC game(s) do you miss but have not played in years?
We currently have a service available which allows you to play Warcraft III in your browser.

http://www.arcadeup.io

The time has come to expand beyond Warcraft.

We're looking for other games that the HN community would like to see available in our catalog.
Handlers for every UI control ? Could you elaborate on that part ?

Does this approach scale well ? Have you done large apps ?

FB has an open source ComponentKit Framework.
Why wouldn't it be "fire employees whose bad decisions are reflecting badly on the company, even if those employees are also on the board of directors"?
Greece wants access to other people's money. Those people can demand pretty much what they like -- if Greece doesn't like /that/ they can borrow on the free market (and pay dearly for their CCC- rating).

Collateral must always be placed where those who lend the money can get at it if the borrower breaks the terms.

Germany was in no way alone in wanting collateral and the rest of the Northern EZ was fine with having Germany/Luxembourg in control of the "Treuhandfonds". But it could also have been placed in Hamburg or Helsinki and they would still have been okay with it.

(It was, as you might know, not to be placed directly under KfW but under the IfG in Luxembourg probably precisely so that it was not under Germany's /direct/ control.)

It should in no way whatsoever have been placed in Athens under Greek management, though!

Can we at least agree on that?
This is by no means limited to Australia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_investor_programs

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27674135

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-11/passport-k...
Possibly also something that cross-references all the different GOSUB commands and the FLAG commands to the places they're checked. Then someone could go through and give them friendlier names. Also, you'd want to cross-reference all the text pointers to the text they point to. After that, it shouldn't be too hard to write a tool to do the reverse and pack it back in the original format.
Interesting. I had a strong feeling this whole 'censorship' controversy was bullshit manufactured by trolls, especially given the very trolly nature of the banned subs.
I've had this experience from time to time. I don't have this "on" all the time. This has been useful for stuff like martial arts.

It's possible to empathize with, if you have sufficient skill in concentration and visualization. You can empathize with anything.
If Google App Engine goes down many sites will stop working. OAuth services will also start to fail. So will custom search provided to 3rd party sites (ok that may not sound too bad but you never now). Then there is cloud storage which in many cases is used as a backup mechanism. And how about the gazillion of sites that load js libraries from Google's CDN? Sure, a day or two is bearable, but make it a week and then the shit hits the fan.

The one thing you should bear in mind about earthquakes is that in many cases the aftershocks make more damage than the main one, because damage accumulates. Which means that critical infrastructure could take weeks to become fully operational.
I think you make good points here, but I don't think it'll stop this from happening. There are ways to try to capture the intangibles, and the functionality is just too rich for us to avoid.
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I really like you, for some reason. I think it's your green handle.
Ask HN: Viable InDesign Alternative?
There's been a decent amount of buzz around Mac apps like Sketch, Pixelmator, Affinity Photo, and others for replacing Adobe apps like Photoshop and Illustrator.

Some have gone so far as to ditch Adobe CC entirely and turn to these new-ish apps exclusively.

My question is: does anyone know of a viable InDesign alternative? I haven't seen one to date and wanted to know if there's one in existence or in the works.
He's in the news today due to his role in the Greece crisis over the weekend: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f908e534-2942-11e5-8db8-c033e...
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9880424
I don't suspect he was referring to the gocardless product site, but instead the actual dashboard product.

https://gocardless.com/pro/#features

https://gocardless.com/features/#dashboard
No diagnosis, I got burned out at work, I pushed myself far past the time to take a vacation and find another job. I took a few months off and felt much better but not back like my old self in college.

NSI made me feel like a kid again. Brought me back to 100%. Stress is really, really bad for our brains, particularly our hippocampus.

No side effects for me.

I got it through back channels, can't say anymore and risk the pipeline.

It will be on the market in five years and will in my opinion revolutionize the treatment of depression, ptsd and other neurodegenerative disorders.

Curious what medications you were taking?
I've started seeing (and occasionally using) util-eval as a configuration language for Scala, but it's generally pretty rare.
I know you are being rhetorical but even New York Times would agree the Greek government is more corrupt than the German government.

I was trying to point out the moral relativism at work in painting Greece as a hotbed of corruption, and Germany as paragon of financial virtue.

What I think is not helpful here are moral arguments over debt full stop. Nation states are neither moral nor people, and you can't 'teach them a lesson' which is the basis of much rhetoric around Greece at present.
From his homepage: http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/

Though most of his comments are rather cogent, if a bit caustic when talking about SV.
The purpose of the tunnel is to provide a better view of Puget Sound for real estate development, not to provide any sort of substitute for the viaduct. We will lose significant traffic capacity and downtown accessibility when the viaduct comes down, tunnel or no tunnel.

Engineers have told us that the tunnel will be safer in an earthquake, but then, essentially everything those engineers have told us has been straight out of the Brothers Grimm.
Don't forget that Alexis is both above AND below Pao in the org chart. He's an employee, but also is the Chairman of the Board.

EDIT: Sources that Alexis reported to Ellen Pao:

From Alexis: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3d2hv3/kn0t...

From u/kickme444 (previous employee; fired last month): https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3d2hv3/kn0t...
It's interesting that people criticized Pao for not being very engaged with the Reddit community (she was famously dinged for not knowing how to send a private message). Yishan Wong's repeated indiscretions show the downside of having Reddit's CEO also be an active Redditor.
Respectfully, while this is true in some areas, it is absolutely not true across the US that they are null and void, nor is it necessarily true that the inclusion of a non-compete will have a bearing on severability.
The Reddit community is not the customer. They're the product. It's just like Facebook or Twitter or any other social media website. Think about the real, cold-blooded economics of it. Reddit can afford to piss off the community, because, even if a small number of people leave, there will still be plenty to view advertisements and the controversy and publicity may even drive more traffic. Sure, moderators can take subs dark and post long rants against the Reddit staff, but ultimately, most people WILL keep visiting the site.

Reddit (the company, not the community) is NOT your friend and has no obligation to the community. Just like every other social media company out there, their fundamental goal is to make money, and serving the community isn't always aligned with that interest.
Which is certainly a valid case, but I would argue that if that IS the case, and it cannot autorecover, then that is a good candidate for the instance to self terminate.
*bad C isn't portable. and you can pack as many platform as you wish in your binary distribution, so single download still works everywhere (everywhere you built beforehand).
And even if they were built to withstand a mag 7 earthquake every three years, the things inside of them likely won't be. Imagine the engineering that would have to go into designing every single item in your house to withstand a deadly earthquake on a regular basis. No more popping out to Ikea to grab the same furniture everyone else uses. Your TV stand is on springs. Your TV is on springs connected to the TV stand on springs. Your cupboards have notches where your dishes can lock into them so they don't slide. The cupboard doors have latches that let them open when pulled slowly, but resist opening when sudden force is applied. Your refrigerator bolts to the floor and is filled will elastic pockets that hold every item individually.

Its either that, or spend a significant amount of time every few years packing all of your items into boxes to ensure they won't be damaged when it's earthquake time.
Is there an escape mechanism?
Your original outburst began with negativity and calling names. I pointed that out, and it turned into a conversation of whether comments that have consensus are good advice. And certainly, even comments that have consensus can violate the HN guidelines.

People are free to choose how to use their own time.
After 30 years? Probably enough time for enough people to wake the fuck up and realize what they are about to do.
Excellent book by John McPhee on the general topic of your last paragraph: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77.The_Control_of_Nature
Not only hairdressers but also radio hosts -- microphones harbour a lot of dangerous bacteria, you see.
> Sadly, I think the bureaucracy here will be tough
> to beat. I've already seen a few people try to
> tackle bureaucratic issues and fail.

They weren't you right? The point being that don't limit yourself to setting goals that you are sure you can achieve, set goals that you have no idea how you will achieve and work to get there. It is much more satisfying.

Bureaucracies have a weak point, self preservation. They will do almost anything to protect their own existence, even change. So the trick to "defeating" one is to put it into an existential crisis and use the uncertainty to drive it into a better place. If you set it up as a game and take notes, you may find it just as much fun as programming (but with people rather than computers)
> The fact that that hasn't happened seems to imply that the real reason would only make people angrier.

That is a non sequitur.
What about if your idea will never succeed? You also need to understand when to stop and move on.

With airbnb, there were rejections, but there were also two facts that makes me believe it was a different story:

* They could already make it profitable by just starting to use their own service

* There was an idea of making the world a better place by doing this. This might sound cheesy but I truly believe airbnb, couchsurfing, blablacar and others have really changed the world and how people travel/interact with each other, in a good way. I'm sure I'm not the only one who can see that.
Agreed...I remember using VRBO before Airbnb was a thing. For historical reference, VRBO was purchased as an 11 year old company by Homeaway in 2006, 2 years before Airbnb was started.
Americans Flew the Confederate Flag in Foreign Wars
I don't think the hardware is simple. How would you design something like this? I've thought about this problem for years and no elegant solution has occured until I saw this.
> It can determine traffic direction; which is a leap beyond current technology i.e. a break beam, which cannot.

all it would take is two or more beams and some pretty simple code, am I missing something?
It's also the lack of support of CSS in XAML. JSX didn't re-invent HTML with proprietary tag names and strange layout attributes... though this whole CSS in JS thing I can start to get behind if the tooling improves.
I'm halfway done creating my living will. I appreciate the contextual information like "Unless you specify otherwise, most health care documents state that you wish to receive all treatment necessary to keep you comfortable and alleviate pain."

Right now that info is hidden in a tooltip. Although it will lengthen the page, I think it should be visible.
I really want to hear what happens when a mirror-touch synesthete watches porn.
Here's a fun one: by design, you can play Earthbound entirely with your left hand, using just the direction pad, L, and select.
If you are looking for more wargames like this, https://www.wechall.net/ has a large index and allows you to keep a persistent score based on which challenges you have completed.
Same article was just posted 3 minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9880848
I always hear that page in Gil Scott-Heron's voice. But then he was very sparing with the bad language indeed so that when used it meant something.

I do miss the fast-web (you know, text and pictures)
I have a secret I can share. Steve Jobs allowed Edgar Schein to have teams of his grad students follow Steve around and record every conversation and interaction. But Schein made one mistake - He gave Steve the right to veto the final book which was produced. When Steve saw that the book was almost exclusively about him, and didn't put him in a positive light, he refused to let it be published. So Schein rewrote the book into "Organizational Culture" - it is famous because it coins the term "corporate culture" - and it mostly describes Steve and how he created a culture of innovation (even though the examples are based on other executives.) When I read the book while working for Steve it was amazing - it described Steve with incredible accuracy (though, unfortunately, it lacks good examples since Schein couldn't describe how Steve handled specific situations.) For me, the book was like a master class in creating a culture of innovation.

In hindsight, I've often wondered how the benefits of a culture of innovation could be created without the derangement of Steve. Personally, I did my best work for Steve. To a large extent, the most positive thing I remember was that nobody was destroying my motivation to innovate. Every other company where I've worked talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk.
From the Twitter help center: "Note about DM fails: Your service provider may split SMS messages greater than 160 characters into multiple messages. In this case, the second message will post as a normal Tweet because it doesn't begin with d+username, as the first message did. Please be careful to ensure that your messages are under 160 characters."

Twitter doesn't have multipart SMS reassembly? Twitter advertises that the size limit for direct messages is now 10,000 characters.[1] But apparently you can only send big from their app, or when advertising ("sponsored tweets"), not from SMS.

Multipart SMS reassembly isn't all that hard; every smartphone does it. Messages are split into 153 byte fragments with a binary header, with a max of 255 fragments. At Twitter's scale message parts may come in to different front end machines, which means having to reassemble fragments across multiple processes/machines. Most SMS gateways don't reassemble fragments on inbound because of that scaling problem, but Nexmo and Twilio will pass through the fragment numbers so you can do it. (This is a new Twilio feature in beta. Ask Twilio to turn it on if you need it.) Outbound, SMS gateways almost always handle multipart. Have to be able to send big ads in bulk, after all.

[1] http://time.com/3918810/twitter-direct-messages-length/
Reading the details of Juncker's €315bn investment, it just sounds like a new loan package, what makes this particular loan package good for economic growth?
Frankly, if the mod teams were this disrupted by a single employee's departure, that's at least partially their own fault.

If she'd been hit by a bus or she'd had a personal/family emergency (hell, upcoming AMAs would've been potentially problematic even if her laptop just got stolen), they'd have been just as fucked - and no one to whine at.

They failed miserably at disaster planning. They got very lucky they could shove the blame off on someone else.
You think technology is the key component to human civilization?

I would have thought of food.
Not really. Reddit users - the ones that view the advertising - are the product. The community mods are the ones that ensure there is content to make it worth coming to the site in the first place. Without that community people will stop coming to the site.
When I first came to US, I didn't mind drinking public fountain. But one day, I walked by one and a dog was drinking from it, licking all over it in the process. From that day onward, I stopped.

Still, I have to wonder: is that reasonable of me? And otherwise, is it expected to let your pet sharing the same water source with human?
How do you know she didn't know about it? And what level of involvement do you expect a CEO to have in personnel decisions of random departments? You think Tim Cook hears about even 1% of the people Apple fires, or that Craig Federighi can't fire a senior manager directly below him on the org chart?

From what's been said publicly by principals in the story, we know that Ohanian had taken the AMA section into his personal portfolio. By the way: that by itself is weird: the chairman doesn't usually have an operational role in the company, among other reasons because it's a conflict of interest. Regardless of who he was, he had ownership of the department Victoria Taylor worked in. In most well-managed companies, that makes hire/fire his prerogative, and coordination of personnel changes his responsibility.

When people screw hire/fire up and cause disruption, the CEO normally fires or demotes them, and gets extra careful about future promotions and delegations to keep there from being a pattern of poor decisions about delegation. Here, neither thing was allowed to happen: Ohanian is effectively unfireable, and Pao wasn't given a chance to not delegate more stuff to him.
> It seems a system that produces different outcomes for two individuals differing only in their racial identity, or other "irrelevant factors", is unfair. The question is, of course, what factors actually are relevant.

I'm interested in a little thought experiment:

1. for the sake of this algorithm there are two people: a white person and black person

2. race and other "irrelevant factors" aren't recorded or used

3. these people are except for race, otherwise identical

4. how can the algorithm discriminate between them?

It seems tautological that lacking race as a feature to discriminate with the algorithm won't be able to successfully discriminate, right?

So how does the discriminatory information somehow bleed into the system such that it negatively affects two otherwise identical (or practically so) people?

I'm not trying to defend the algorithm as the perfect arbiter or anything. I'm just honestly a little confused. Is it that the irrelevant factors are actually recorded somehow, but shouldn't be?
"Is this a joke?" is the wrong question. Yishan believes this is what happened. Rather, the question should be "is Yishan's perception of the events what actually happened?"

Remember, Yishan is biased. He quit under fire from the board, and is a big fan of Ellen Pao. That doesn't make him wrong (or right); just biased.
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