skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that part of the CoC makes harassment OK.

Furthermore, there's this part:

> "We will not tolerate discrimination based on any of the protected characteristics above [which includes race], including participants with disabilities."

I don't know how that maps to participation on GitHub. I will say that as a cis white man I am absolutely OK if a marginalized group wants to exclude me for their own comfort or safety. This can already be done just by using private repositories, for example, and I don't think it's controversial.

For public repositories I'm not sure what discrimination looks like. Certainly before this CoC no one had the right to force someone else to accept a pull request, right? The CoC makes it explicit that if you complain that you're excluded because of reverse racism your complaint will not be acted upon, though, which I don't see an issue with. It's a way to protect marginalized groups from spurious complaints by a dominant group.
Diva Network is adding an Elixir devleoper to team, ONSITE, FTE only
( https://www.linkedin.com/company/ravio?trk=top_nav_home) We are currently looking to add a team member to our dev. team, and was wondering if you or someone you know would be interested in pursuing this opportunity. There is a Bitly link to the job description below.
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Images of Star Wars Reimagined as Gorgeous Ukiyo-E Prints
Roosevelt Island aside (didn't know it had the fancy system before) New York is stuck in middle-ages with it's trash collection system. I have yet to come to a city where the situation is so dire. Smell, noise and rats. I can't imagine why no other system has ever been devised.
Because I'm curious, could we have a link to your Go project if it's open-source? :)
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Part Hospital part EDU, Montefiore is looking for Mac SysAdmins in the NYC area.

http://jobs.mdoes.com (Desktop Analyst - pardon the HR-ness, and we don't actually use Remedy...)

This is a job you can grow in; I was able to open-source a good amount of code, (including contributions to munki and autopkg,)

spoke at conferences like PSU MacAdmins, and the boss and I both spoke at the MacTech Conference.

If you're as maniacal as I am about the devops mindset and sharing what you know, this may be for you.

(There's iOS-related and regular customer service tasks as well, but mostly you'd be sheilded from having to be reactive.)

Major aspects of this working environment include:

- Customers you'll respect, who have enough self-confidence to reciprocate

- Coworkers that want to work hard and make you look good

- A boss and leadership that give you room while challenging your ambition

- Benefits like... working at a hospital, and a college. Every week you earn ~10 hours off.

We're hoping you like the idea of making a difference with us. No ping pong, no rock band.

Go home at 5. Take the generous time off. Have the resources to experiment and reach your potential.

For the tool-builders doing keyword searches: sure, there's a good amount of django, flask, and (py-)objective-c.

But we're also getting the job done with puppet, munki, and autopkg. If you (or anybody you) know might be interested,

please reach out: @sacrilicious on twitter, Allister Banks on linkedin, Allister on macadmins Slack, and abanks@montefiore.org
I haven't evaluated Conda either, but the wheel vs egg distinction is categorically different from managing build chains for huge tools like Hadoop.
> Standardizing battery packs sounds like a terrible idea

But it would be great to standardize something. Imagine a world where my car could only burn Honda Gasoline (TM), whereas your car could only burn Toyota Gasoline (TM).
Years ago I posted a question on CraigsList (https://forums.craigslist.org/?ID=20211237) Science and Math discussion board, that I think may be nearly equivalent, and equivalently ambiguous in it's notion of random, to this post. It went on for quite some time, and was even reprised later (https://forums.craigslist.org/?areaID=4&ID=20432604) by someone else. Helpful people went back and forth with beautiful 3d renders to illustrate their solutions, though those links are sadly broken now.

It is very gratifying to read this post, as I think it explains why we were never able to come to a satisfying answer.
It's simply not true from public posting activity.
I was enthusiastically recruited by Vungle. I had a friendly, upbeat thread, back & forth with their HR which ultimately culminated in a technical phone screen. Twice I was promised a follow-up from the person in HR with whom I was primarily interacting; a follow-up immediately after the phone screen and then later with their decision whether to move forward with an in-person interview. After the phone screen, dead silence, nothing. OK, I get it, I'm not the right fit, but a little professional courtesy ins't too much to ask. It would've prevented this post, anyways.
This is much better than the linked site.
I am really glad there are higher mileage requirements. I feel it is this impetus that has pushed the industry forward technologically.

You can get a VW Golf with a 1.8T that gets over 40MPG while delivering 170hp for the cost of around $20k. Volvo's new SUV is going to get mileage in the mid to high thirties with a turbocharged and supercharged four cylinder that puts out 400hp.

I don't see ICE engines going away like the article implies, especially if they can hit mileage and emissions targets like we are starting to see.
Amazing story of escape!
I've attempted to contact several times, with no response.
How Self-Driving Cars Will Change the World
Garbage collection is controlled by the mob.
Also interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war
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Please let me know if Michelle Obama ever closes a pull request from you because you're not a Black woman. ;P

I am very curious though, what specific behavior are you worried this CoC will disallow? Can you give me an example of a bad outcome?
> the middle class was going to be destroyed and the world enslaved to the service of a tiny elite

wait. is this an example of a good theory or a crazy one?
What's with the weird shell company recruiting page?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Can I post a job ad?

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears at the beginning of every month, and you're welcome to post there. The rest of the time, job posts are reserved for Y Combinator-funded startups.

An account named whoishiring is the only one allowed to submit the regular threads. This prevents a race to post them first.

A single YC startup job post may appear on the front page at a time. Job posts have no vote arrow and just a timestamp in place of the usual story details. They begin partway down the front page and fall steadily in rank.

If you want to post your freelancing offer, look for the monthly freelancing thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
One Year Without Social Media
This article was at the top of hacker news then I refreshed and I could not find it again. Odd.
Maybe it's more PR on their side? If they ever want to run another KS campaign it helps to not have already created a lot of bad will with the target audience.
You may be right, but how do you define all cords?
We didn't relocate to SF. We are in Boston and kept the lab and the majority of the team there while we did YC. + lots of red-eyes.
I pointed that out to Vic and Shindig YEARS ago. Drives me fucking nuts still.

These days I blackhole services that do this. Pinterest most recently.
That's a reasonable point. We've changed the title to make it more neutral.
I predicted mass surveillance in 2008 and I am not known for jumping on board conspiracy theories. My reasons were that server infrastructure costs are getting lower while elites seek power to control others, and monitoring electronic things seemed like a natural conclusion to me. I was labeled a conspiracy theorist by my own family.

Today, when I bring the Snowden revelations up with my family they say, "well duh, everybody knew that for many years"

facepalm you just can't win. Everything at high levels is shit and corrupt and it will always be that way. Go make yourself a sandwich and be glad we aren't living in anarchy.
High School Student Pitches ReactOS Project to Russian President(2011)
Well, sure we CAN use it, but what he's saying is that we no longer notice. 15 years ago, ads for new computers and components had kids with their hair slicked back because of how BLAZING FAST they were going, because that's how it felt when you upgraded. Now, it's more like 'oh hey, it doesnt run like a slug anymore because this device is brand new'. People don't get new laptops because they need a faster device nowadays, they do it because they actually wore down the old one. That meme that computers are obsolete within 6 months of purchase is no longer valid, they're good pretty much until the physical components break down. Most people won't replace their smartphone until the screen, charging port, or digitizer breaks (barring the very real bleeding edge crowd that holds less ground these days).

Everything is just...adequate. People don't log on to an older machine and lament how slow it is anymore, they don't balk at how huge the new hard drives are, and consumer-grade disk speeds havent gone up since 7200rpms were introduced. Video hardware is pretty much the only technology in most computers that still has reason to march on, because game developers can always add higher textures and cooler shaders.
Something catastrophic would have to happen to advertising.

Something might....
Stop using Windows, it's impossible to keep any level of sanity on a non POSIX system.
> Some of my favorite HN articles are the ones that have no comments on them.

Others have said this too. It may be that more substantive stories demand reflection before comments arise. Conversely, shallower posts often trigger a flood of comments in a few minutes. That's usually bad because such reactions are more reflexive than reflective, typically served from cache with little attention to whatever is specific about this story.

The difference in reaction times is noticeable, like a timing attack on the brain. Hmm... we could measure this.

One can sum up everything we're striving for on HN as s/reflexive/reflective/.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10000428
iOS Blue Screen of Death Bug(BSOD)
Which packages?
Really bummed that the team came to this conclusion. I am a backer and found them at CES 2015 since they said they would be there with a demo. They had screencasting working and controlled it with an app on their phone. It was a little buggy and froze once, but totally worth the amount I backed them for. Around this time they decided to redesign the sticks with more processing power. I figured respinning the boards would take a while, but the software looked so good in January that I never thought it would be what brought the project to a halt.

Personally I'd be fine with transcoding videos on the fly from another machine to remove the DRM, but I suppose that defeats the purpose of a small hdmi stick if you have a full powered desktop running in the next room over. But really most of the stuff on my local netowrk doesn't have DRM and I don't do a whole lot of online streaming beyond Amazon Prime and I have an app on my TV for that. I suppose all I really wanted was screencasting without having to pay $100 for a WiDi adapter. Oh well.

But at least I'm getting a refund, so I don't suppose I have any ill will for the team. I have backed projects before that did a magic trick with my money - one shoe KS took $130 for a pair of boots and kept up a sham for almost a year, even claiming that production had started and we would see our boots in a few weeks (it was always just a few weeks away), and then abruptly vanished. So I hope whatever project the Matchstick team works on next pans out better for them.
When you say that 1/3 of them have a certain property, how are you counting that? Are you enumerating all chords with and without the property, then dividing? :-)

This is exactly the issue: when dealing with infinities and probabilities, you need to choose a measure. Depending on how that measure is chosen, you might get different answers.
I remember an IRC channel about security in the early 2000s. Somehow we started discussing government surveillance, and someone mentioned ECHELON. People's reactions were interesting: most people immediately dismissed it as being "impossible", or "another conspiracy theory".

It makes me sad.
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Who said I would be grumpy or toxic? Just working the same hours as my peers would actually probably make me less grumpy. I'd be very happy and grateful to adjust my effort downwards if I can keep my same salary.
But we all need role models to model ourselves after and sadly, there is a lack of women role models in computing. I'm not saying they don't exist - but it is an predominantly male profession.

Think back to why you got interested in computers, wasn't it because you had someone to look up to? Perhaps some family member or a computing legend?

Women also need women role models and those usually just don't randomly appear - there is a certain critical mass that might have to be created with other methods, perhaps with encouragement from the so called "allies" the article mentions, although that might not be the best way to put it.

Young women have to look at it as a viable career option to work in computing, and for that to happen they need someone to pave the way.
I'll take a pro-Boston comment on hackernews however it comes!! It is true that BOS is basically unrivaled for pharma-biotech. Biotech is moving into other markets now too though. That said, we (Ginkgo Bioworks) are mostly non-pharma but are in BOS anyway. There is an awesome pool of bioengineering talent here.
In my experience, an apartment being "taken" happens once signed PDFs are exchanged via email (or worse, dead-tree paper forms are signed in person).

The notion of a computer system having an accurate idea of the "real-time" state of apartments available for rent requires you to actually know what inventory is available before you can integrate it with the listing website.

That said, apartment pricing is also supposed to be opaque -- bigger communities appear to raise or lower prices algorithmically like airlines (raise the price of available units right before existing leases are up; lower the price when nobody is looking to rent; account for how much rent for "comparable" units has gone up; sell cheaper, less desirable units before more expensive ones).

In most cases the phone call is the bare minimum you should be doing -- you want to go visit a community in person to get a "feel" for it anyway, and to let them do their sales pitch (what are the amenities; what is the best, most expensive unit you can afford versus cheaper ones, and what trade-offs are there; etc).
I'm genuinely curious - do you not think that this chart indicates some kind of distortion in the tech community:

http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/women-cs/child.ht...

Bear in mind that the social status of medicine, law, and STEM has (at least by my observations) remained fairly constant during that period, but that of computer science has sky-rocketed.

Do you have an explanation for the decline that doesn't call for a change in the way that women are treated in tech?
This page is vastly dated
I think you may be mixing up introverts with shy.

Introversion is how an individual replenishes energy. Alone or with others.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't seem so hard. Every cord must start at some point on the circle and end at some point on the circle. If P is the set of all points on the circle, then the set of all cords is the set of all possibilities of (p1, p2), where p1 and p2 are in P.

The ninja story doesn't work here, since for any p1 I think there's exactly one p2 possible. The photographer story DOES work, since he can start at any point, and the mermaid can then be at any second point. I'm not sure about the dragon story, but I'm guessing it doesn't work either.
Did you read the post I linked to? In the U.S. power and privilege are institutionalized, meaning that White people don't have to be well-off to enjoy some privilege (though sure, being both well-off and White provides more privilege).
EMP would probably feature in a nuclear war as well, so there goes most of your power grid, cars, computers, and everything that comes from them like modern finance and modern agriculture.

Humanity would be fine, but civilization would be in for some real trouble. I imagine that deaths from starvation and disease would rival or exceed immediate deaths in the nuclear exchange.

The novel War Day is an intense and fascinating look at the aftermath of a limited nuclear strike. From my limited knowledge it's pretty accurate about what would happen.
I am saying that theories without predictive power are generally worthless. (this is true in many fields.)

it is not enough to be right all along. if you want to be credible, you need to avoid being wrong all along, too.

real example. the theory that the NSA secretly poisoned the DES s-boxes to introduce a backdoor. People insisted that's what happened without any evidence. They were wrong all along. Later, when dual-EC came along, I think people were a little skeptical it was really a backdoor precisely because of the DES story.
Why nobody gets the Harvard connection and phased growth through Ivies and selective universities I just don't get.

Games I'm not so sure. Addictive yes. But so's crack, and that doesn't make for a good neighborhood.

I cheared, loudly, when Games died.
What exactly are you looking for and why would you expect to see it in these comments?
You should easily be able to allow self hosted ads in most good ad blockers, right?
Advertisers only get your attention because publishers want their money. It still boils down to money.
Title changed from "This is item # 10M. Here's to another 3088 (or) 3220 days" to be less misleading. :)
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There are cars that run on diesel fuel, cars that run on ethanol, cars that run on gasoline, and cars that run on hydrogen fuel cells.

Your suggestion of cars that only burn HondaGas seems fairly implausible, as Honda would need to build a large network of special HondaGas filling stations, and no one would be willing to buy a HondaGas car until the network was complete. It would be massively risky for the company, and they would be pretty unlikely to try it absent some kind of external force.

(By contrast, an electric car can charge from widespread, non-proprietary electricity sources, not only specific branded superchargers.)

But in any event, I don’t think your world would be so bad in a nascent industry, where formulating a special type of fuel might conceivably lead to a dramatic improvement in efficiency or a dramatic cost reduction, or some other advantage.

Sometimes forcing standards helps build a common platform on which people can innovate in other areas, but sometimes forcing standards (or even just having de facto common standards win in the market) holds a whole industry back by precluding better alternative infrastructure.

In computing, we have many examples of this: the dominance of the x86 architecture, the C programming languages, UNIX, the mouse and keyboard as basic input devices, HTTP as the main network protocol, the Mac/Windows GUI, MS Office, Photoshop, etc... these behemoths all won over their respective markets then stagnated, in most cases allowing flourishing innovation on top but preventing some amount of innovation at the same level unless and until radically different conditions unseated them.
If we are naming cities NYC should be included. With 8 leading medical research institutions, the second highest annual NIH funding, and a wealth of talent/capital in adjacent industries - NYC's foundation for Biotech is extremely strong.
I would put it in this way: Merely saying "random" is insufficient information.

To solve the problem, you have to know from what distribution chords are drawn. It could be equal probability per unit angle, per unit distance along the circle, or something else altogether.

Similar difficulties emerge when someone gives you a problem that starts with a "random real number."
Well, this is a huge, industrial one. You don't need that much power for home trash / christmas trees.