jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Helping the company and helping the harassed are not exclusive. If there is someone who is truly harassing employees, it behooves the company to get rid of them as quickly as possible because people like that are a tremendous liability."

You would think, but reality is sometimes different. The problem is that these things are often he said/she said, and HR does not want to do anything that creates the appearance that one-side is telling the truth, because this opens them up. Or if there was negligence in the past, this makes them vulnerable to federal law. Or if they have a pending lawsuit. I'm not saying every company is out to screw you, but why take an unnecessary chance?

And sexual harassments suits are civil suits (that's kind of a tautology), but sexual harassment itself can be criminal. This is a common incorrect belief you noted. It can even be a felony in some cases. This is why I suggest talking to the police (or an attorney) as you're not likely to know the law in your state (and there is also federal law on the books too).

And why don't you imagine Google is the type to cover something like this up? Is it because of their motto? I don't have as much faith in multibillion dollar corporations as you do.
I agree 100%, the author comes off a bit unprofessional, pushy, and demanding. You can't even begin to imagine how many people send in suggestions, feature requests, ideas, etc. to companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft. I know because in middle school I sent such an email to Capcom on killer game ideas. After some time I received a nice letter in the company letterhead from them encouraging me to stay in school and excel in math. Even though I didn't get acquired or got a job, that letter meant so much to me.
Assuming your cofounder is also involved in the design of the product, the easiest way to show him the rest of the iceberg is to sit down and write a functional spec of the feature together.

As a non-technical founder, he's likely just thinking about the end result of feature X, not the implementation of it, whereas you see the technical details at a much higher resolution.

You don't need to do this every time with him (although it's not a bad idea)--just once or twice will be instructional enough. The goal is for him to understand the amount of thinking and problem solving that goes into feature X before a line of code is even written.
The Japanese did video calls 7 years ago, some nokia phones have also integrated this without third party software and its very easy to use. Apple is not the first to do it right
Right. But you can still run whatever protocol you like -on top- of SSL.
In some ways their sample bias might be useful because it shows where the early adopters and the experimenters are going -- the kind of people who might lead the larger market by 3 – 10 years.
hoodwink.d was great. Something like that needs a larger community, though. Even at its most active, hoodwink.d didn't have a whole lot of chatter. Was always fun to use, though.

There is a hornswaggl.d (a new instance of hoodwinkd) in the wild, but I don't think there is very much activity there.
I'd say that "everywhere" is a bit of an exaggeration.
"Terrorists aren't as inhuman and single-minded as you've been essentially brainwashed into thinking. They have the same motivations as most other human beings."

As a whole, this is true of the leadership. This is virtually true by definition because being that inhuman and single-minded is incompatible with leadership and anybody who tries fails as a leader. Unfortunately, the way they lead is to fire very very potent memetic weaponry around with relatively wild abandon and they do unfortunately end up producing True Believers in quantity. We know this, because a suicide bomber almost by definition has to be a True Believer, and suicide bombers definitely exist. I would tend to agree that most terrorist leadership would rather use the nuke as a stick to beat people with rather than fire it but I am uncomfortable with the scenario in which one or more True Believers come to believe that their leadership are actually traitors and in their True Belief fire the weapon anyhow. Terrorists build their structures around some very toxic and volatile belief structures and we are justified in being very concerned about the combination of that and nuclear weaponry. Perhaps not "terrified" but certainly a matter of justifiable international concern. (I would reserve terrified for 5-15 years in the future when biological warfare becomes easy enough for them.)

It only takes one True Believer.
I like that they use nginx as an asset host and not also as a reverse proxy in front of Apache.

Xerxes and Slowloris still rule supreme.
I have nothing insightful to say but I am in awe.
I want a Chaos Monkey, too!

Actually, that was my first reaction, but after thinking for a moment, that isn't really a reliable way to test. If you make changes to something, you don't know for sure if the chaos monkey hit while you were testing a certain thing or not. Proper unit tests would seem to be a lot more useful.
I'm not sure you could call the engineering schools of Columbia, Poly or CUNY "top rated". Cooper Union gets top students (being free), but hardly has top faculty. (Columbia and NYU do have good CS depts, however.)

None of these schools have the Stanford/MIT-like community I believe the plan is designed to create. Throwing money at existing schools is unlikely to create such an environment - the bureaucratic inertia is too large.

[Edit: Didn't mean to imply that Columbia/NYU are in the same league as Stanford/MIT for CS. Their main strengths are physics and math, respectively. ]
Well, the argument was that user-imperceptible hash times should be sufficient for all passwords. I was trying to make the case that even the class of extremely weak passwords can be protected with perceptible hash times.

So really I think you were demonstrating my point :)
No, the Cloudkick as a monitoring/management service of all cloud providers will always remain.
SpaceX has > 1,100 employees. How small is a small company?

(Source: http://www.spacex.com/updates.php)
I read that statnews article. Nothing in there actually indicates that young and HEALTHY people are at a high risk. What it does say is that 2-4% of the 20-44 age group needed ICU treatment. No indication is made to the risk profile or previous issues that group has. That being said there is a 0.1-0.2% risk for people within the age range of 20-44.

The example of the hero doctor frankly stands out as an outlier. We aren't actually sure he was healthy, and even if we were, what we know is he was exposed to a high viral load very rapidly. Beyond that he was under tremendous stress from being a front line worker, meaning he might have been exposed to multiple infections and under stress from an authoritarian government trying to silence him with questionable means. Stress has a very real effect on our immune systems that has been empirically shown to make it very challenging for the body to recover from infections.

I want us to be incredibly careful about how we share information and our interpretations of it. I have yet to see anything that clearly indicates that young people age 20-44 are at a high risk if they are HEALTHY. Healthy here means not currently battling any other severe infections, and in a general state of good health. The percentage within this demographic is clearly stated as 0.1-0.2% and this includes immunocomprised people.

Please help spread accurate information, as this panic is getting absurd. I was at a grocery store today and people were fighting for supplies that there is not actual shortage of, and being generally rude to each other.

People are losing their livelihoods and our economy is crashing. A recent bloomberg article is stating that we should expect a 30% unemployment rate. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-22/fed-s-bul...

This would be a devastating outcome which will be substantially worse than this virus has been, especially in a country like the USA with no universal health care and no clear indication that will ever happen. Have you ever tried being poor in the US? It's not fun or easy.

Unfortunately our leadership is not equipped to handle this correctly. Corrupt congresspeople are profiting off of this. The sitting president is showing signs of mental instability. The alternative probably isn't much better. Beyond that, sentiment on social media now seems to have people favoring authoritarian measures enacted to force people to stay home.

This virus is serious, but our reaction to it is much more serious. We cannot sustain this type of quarantine for the long run. We may end up finding ourselves under authoritarian rule that won't disappear anytime soon.

The only solutions we have are that we accept this virus as a real part of life, we attempt herd immunity through a more targeted type of quarantine, or we wait for the miracle of a vaccine to be developed. Referring back to the statnews article, they come to a similar conclusion and say that the demographics of a country should dictate the measures taken to prevent the most at risk populations from contracting this virus.
Turns out having institutes of higher education really was worth it after all.
This may have been mentioned, but don't assume that you can attribute your maladies to one diagnosis: "x" disease. It's quite probable that it is the result of a multitude of things. The same can be said about the remedies.

It's very easy to relate to your problems, but who the heck can't to some degree. This is why people should shy away from playing doctor (curious youngsters excused), because there are a lot of fallacious pitfalls that people are not aware of most often.

I, too, have some of the symptoms (which may or may not be ADHD) and some kind of chronic, constant allergic reaction. It sucks like hell, but I don't let my frustration cloud my resolve nor my wish to attribute it to one thing to blame everything on and to find, because I may just be punching at apparitions.
Thanks for your explanation. I honestly didn't think saying "smart" was a way to bored readers but if you guys say so, I take not of it.
>For instance, let's look at the whitespace thing.

I immediately fell in love with significant whitespace. Since I was already indenting anyway, why not make it meaningful and skip the additional overhead of matched curly braces?
recur is a special form (i.e. not implemented as a function or macro). It handles the case of the self-recursive call whereas the trampoline handles the mutually recursive call. There is no generalized tail call facility in the JVM and therefore not in Clojure.
Who else would be on the board?

What value are you bringing to the business? and your intended partner?
Apple is still 17% smaller than Exxon: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple+market+cap,+exxon...
How do they even tell, given that sites can avoid having .php/.asp/.jsp in their URLs if they want to?
I watched the clips on my iPad here: http://video.allthingsd.com/
I like mit.edu, it has pretty pictures.
Google syncs all your bookmarks if you use Chrome. I've yet to lose any. Something to think about.
How much are they paying? I love nitpicking the errors of others' errors, so why not do it for some pittance?

edit: Oh. Ten cents per review. Probably a bit too pittance-y even for my tastes. Still, back when I was an undergrad...
Hmm, perhaps I should add tags to hackerstream.com. I think you can solve this problem with UI. That's basically what subreddits are. In the backend reddit has just one pool of stories; subreddits allow us (kinda) to configure views into that pool.

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Tangent: HackerStream creation myth

With HN I found that I tended to read a story's comments once and never return[1], so the odds of seeing a specific interesting comment relied mostly on whether it was posted before or after I encountered the thread. Now with hackerstream the odds rely on just whether I am reading when it was posted. A real-time UI may seem noisier, but if you care about comments it's just as noisy. And switching between traditional and real-time views is strictly better than either alone.

Anyway, it's a testbed for exploring a less noisy experience.

[1] Except when notified of responses to my comments - thanks notifo!
Some dates are mislabled, but mostly OCR errors:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22internet%22&tbs=bks:1,...
Read: Software patches to hardware vulnerabilities.
I was confused about the unsourced claim of 50-60,000 but they answer it in the questions section. Apparently it comes from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Am...
More and more people live alone, now.

But yes, perhaps at the router level, managed by device MAC.
20$ arm from Amazon works just as well.
An increased House would have led to Gore over Bush, but would not have led to Clinton over Trump.

The reasoning behind it is a little confusing and when I try to remember it I usually state it wrong, but I think it's because the states won by Trump had more people (not voters, people) than the states won by Clinton.
> Right, a house of 6000 can't discuss anything.

Perhaps not in the ceremony-heavy, grandstanding inviting format we currently use, but that sounds more like a problem that lies with the format, not the size of the governing body.
Unfortunately, that site doesn’t provide evidence on the ‘fast’ part of that claim. I would like to see a performance comparison.
I have the same question as DiabloD3, and I presume others do as well. Your desire not to hijack is honorable, but private email doesn't scale that well. I fear I'd be wasting your time to engage you directly. Perhaps you could write a short blog post and post it to HN for discussion? Or a Show HN? Or you could just answer here, toning done the marketing as much as possible.
The article makes a surprising and unattributed assertion, "Mr. Kasparov’s obsession with Deep Blue’s surprising strategic insight was partly responsible for his loss in their 1997 match. Today, smartphones play better than IBM ’s supercomputer did then."

Does anyone have a link or attribution for this? I would be gobsmacked to learn that 2015 smartphones play better chess than Deep Blue in 1997. Could this possibly be true?
The technical term is "loss leader." It's a venerable technique.
Double-blind experiments are a great way to separate correlation and causation. See my (@zenkat's) wife's story above. Every so often, she accidentally and unknowingly eats foods she is sensitive to, and exhibits symptoms shortly afterwards. We go back and check the label and ... yep, there's the dairy/soy/yeast extract.

Oh, and there's no financially motivated third-parties here. We've done all this testing, elimination, and observation on our own.
I'm not trying to be harsh on Asus or anything, but in the Amazon review I linked above, there are many people who were very dissatisfied with how Asus dealt with the defects.

So while it's great that you got lucky in this regard, I wouldn't recommend people this particular model because of the high defect rate alone (even if they choose to use Windows).

> I'm not sure I'd prefer companies releasing their own distros for this kind of stuff

It's not just keyboard shortcuts though. For example, take a look at all the modifications made for C720 from plain Ubuntu:

https://www.distroshare.com/distros/get/12/

I just don't think it's a good idea that lots of smart people get frustrated and waste time going through hardware-specific documentation and applying fixes like these.

Writing good documentation (like the Arch one you mentioned) is a better-than-nothing solution, but in my opinion releasing distros with all the right configurations for that specific hardware is the right solution.
I would recommend adding a warning for Hartz products - they are notoriously toxic and kill pets. http://www.hartzvictims.org/
You can do 1080i over YCbCr analog, but no one has done this for like a decade, and it only made sense for pre-HDMI HD sets (which made as little sense to manufacture as pre-Rec2020 4k TVs being made now).
In your research, did you explore other common immunizations like bordetella, parvo, rabies? (I realize these wouldn't fit into any overlapping things like you have here, I'm just curious if you might add it at some point.)
Nice answer. I've gone from Java->Haskell->Clojure->CoffeeScript. I was never fluent in Haskell->Clojure but I could get around.

But being completely familiar with Java, CoffeeScript/JavaScript feels nice. I really like underscore.js. When googling for why people don't like JavaScript, it seems that CoffeeScript has already fixed all those problems.
> you more then likely never get more then what you paid for

They tell you beforehand exactly what the payoff will be. If that doesn't sound economical to you, you don't pay in. There's absolutely no deception here. There's no promise of riches. There's just a promise of a product that is worth what you paid for it.

> and you have a risk of loosing it all.

...which is exactly like every other investment in the history of commerce.
He's 78. Whatever happens to his money, he likely won't have to live with the consequences for very long. I mean, say gold starts to crash and he only gets his money out when it is down to 20% of what it once was. How fucked would he really be?
So naive. Wish you were right, tho
I think Google's hiring is less about finding a few good engineers and more about collecting impressive specimens of humanity for a dream team. They're playing a different game than most, and that's their prerogative.
Not only is the title absolutely wrong (it's 64%), but I don't see why this belongs on HN.
I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking the unspoken end of the sentence "I welcome a debate..." was "...anytime after February 2016."
Get the adapter, and try to relax for the intervening year or so until lightning cables are as ubiquitous as dock connectors are/were.

Alternately, buy a Mophie Juicepack. Extra battery life AND an integrated microUSB adapter.

I think the real misstep here is Mophie shipping the juicepacks for the iP5 with microUSB as power input (vs lightning), though.
That seems kind of silly given you can easily buy a SIM card from eBay for another country that doesn't have such requirements.
It doesn't matter much if it is entitlement or not, does it? If you are sought after, you can afford to refuse jumping through hoops. If you are desperate for work, you will be more likely to jump through hoops.

Likewise, if companies are in desperate need for employees, they will behave differently than when they are swamped by job applications.

It is kind of "entitled" to be able to picky about jobs or applications, but people and companies probably got there by acquiring valuable skills or valuable market positions. I don't see what labeling it "entitled" adds to the issue.

I could say you sound "privileged" for being able to afford to spend so much time on your applications, talking about yourself. But what would be the point? I personally wouldn't even say it is unfair if companies filter for young candidates without family or money issues that way. It just is what it is. People without family or generally more spare time also need jobs.

Another way to look at it, think of job interviews like a date. It is not a one sided thing. How much "testing" would you accept from date? I once had a company call me in for interviews four times (each time costing me at least half a day). Imagine a date telling you after three dates "I'm not sure if I like you yet" - how much more would that make you want to invest into those dates?
Here the usual price is 0.2 euro per mask.
https://www.maltron.com/store/p19/Maltron_Single_Hand_Keyboa...
I was also thinking as Rust as a backend for a FP language in the last day. I found some Ocaml binding for Rust. It would be interesting to see how it fits.
TPL?

It seems to be a "classical" OO model with mutation-from-anywhere. Effectively a database in memory.
If you're lucky, you can find old IBM model M keyboards for free, or close. I got two, first one like 25 years ago from a surplus store for like 10 Euros of today and the second one a few years later for free as it was being thrown away by a government office "because it doesn't fit the rack drawer and doesn't have windows keys".
I'm still using the first one, which is old enough to carry a shiny Lotus 1-2-3 version 2.2 sticker on it.
Those are rock solid beasts; I already know I'll die a lot before any of these keyboards will fail, and I don't plan to die soon:).

No USB connection of course as those keyboards predate the standard, but any cheapo PS/2-USB converter will work.
Does your power plant deal with any steam? Gag a few safety valves and find out the hard way.
Ummmm, any introductory book on Emacs or Vi would have a chapter on cross-referencing tools, specially etags/ctags.

Do people really not know how to "dive into" code bases?
It's semi-automated scripting from RoG. I'm trying to work out the most useful method(s) of detecting duplicates and cross-referencing. In this case I didn't put the number of comments, and marked the referenced items as "related". Compare with:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005790

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004764

where one is marked strictly as a duplicate, the other lists related, along with a note of how many comments.

I'm working on this. There's a sort-of A/B testing, since I'm able to go back and see which cross-references get up-votes, and which get down-votes. Currently I'm getting precious little of either.
you can't quit your friends

My friend, for your sake I hope you never have to fully understand what I am about to say...

But there are times when you not only will quit your friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife, but you will have to.

You can quit your family too.

When I was twenty I had no comprehension of this, but having almost reached forty I can reel off examples. Most of which are not mine, fortunately, but some of which are so painful that they hurt even by proxy. Mental illness. Divorce. Physical abuse. Emotional abuse.

Facebook, by the way, with its ridiculously naive conception of identity and privacy, is actually a lousy platform for conducting real-world relationships. It's like trying to compose a story out of the messages written on greeting cards.
Not necessarily the best examples - traders who are trading millions of dollars a day may be living in a flat with no furniture and be in debt up to their eyeballs. Just because they are trading other people's money a lot doesn't necessarily mean they're in the black.
1. Everyone has the right to deny being treated without stigmatization or punishment.

2. Everything the article depends on in its interpretation of the chart, mostly summarized by the 2nd paragraph, is based on unwarranted assumptions.
Bait bikes of a make/model make sense in a sufficiently bureaucratic organisation because it makes purchasing, tooling and technician training a hell of lot easier. Police cars (Crown Victorias) are obvious for the benefit of a few chases/crashes, when police fleets could have been a bit more surreptitious. I don't see a large organisations doing any different in selecting a "perfect bike to steal".

I assumed cheap bikes because of Ainmats[1] ratio of 1 in 100 bikes being trap bikes. 1 in 100 in any reasonably-sized city means tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars of kit (including GPS), and anyone with that kind of scratch has someone trying to minimise expenditure. Or, why spring for a Trek Butterfly to catch a hungry junkie when a Huffy would net hundreds of the same?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818498
It is interesting that I get downvoted by this.

I suppose some people are offended by my words, but by using inappropriate words on a HN tittle offends me and other people too.