skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh hey, my wife and I just started doing this kind of thing.

We bought a 2002 23-foot RV for $15k and renovated it to nicer furnishings than our $1.2k/month apartment near Dallas where she was working.

Now we live in it full time! We're only a month in, but it's been a blast, and something I can see doing for the foreseeable future. Every new city we visit we can explore at our own pace, while spending less than we would be living back home, and living in much more beautiful areas (I'm writing from an RV park near Lake Placid a five minute walk from the coolest waterfall I've ever seen).

When you can work remotely, there's not a lot of reasons to stay in one place.

My wife blogs about it at http://gogo.gen.co
This is fantastic. Reminds me of the better part of a morning I spent at the beginning of the summer at the Boston Science Museum, where, in a dark, neglected corner of the basement, they have a very old display with motorized versions of many of these mechanisms. I think I was the only person there the whole time.

There's a lot of buzz about "learn-to-code" movements, but people are generally just as illiterate about mechanics, electronics, and other basic science. I think we may have covered 5% of these mechanisms in one unit of my HS freshman science class.

We do a terrible job teaching science in the US...
This suggests improving the ratio, but honestly, if the rate is genuinely 99% good and 1% bad, then the truth may be that you're at a point where you won't notice improvements.

Say we make a huge effort and halve the rate of such harassment. That's a change from 99% good to 99.5% good. Will you notice the difference? Maybe, but it's likely you won't. You're still guaranteed to have bad experiences at regular intervals if you go to tech events.
Are you unattractive by any chance?
I don't think toolz was trying to say "boys will be boys", I think toolz was saying we should try to fix society, rather than pretend this is only a problem in tech
It can run on browser's console, You can try on 9gag.
Doesn't look like it [1]. Certainly a skilled team though!

[1] https://twitter.com/EspressifSystem/status/65372641801515827...
Why is your first response to get defensive about the tech industry and not to respond to the problem in the post? If its a problem everywhere, fine -- we have a chance to make it less of a problem in the tech industry than everywhere else. Wouldn't that be something?
This article just plunged down the front page.

Calling out the jerks that think this isn't relevant tech material. Bullshit. Tech culture is frequently mentioned. Articles about work-life balance don't get downmodded this much.
It is extraordinarily creepy.
University of Copenhagen says University of Copenhagen researchers are on the verge of a breakthrough. In other news, University of Copenhagen researcher reported, by his mother, to be brilliant and charming.

I'm probably being unfair, but I cannot get excited about "coming soon" cancer news anymore. Unless it concerns a treatment that is curing large numbers of people already, I relegate it to the "Incurable Optimism" drawer, along with the stories of diabetes breakthroughs, and new methods for reversing Male Pattern Baldness.
I've been using Sonar [1] to provide customer support for my clothing brand via text for about 9 months now, and customers have loved it. Interactions are much quicker than email, so it's great for us as well.

1 - https://www.sendsonar.com/
Men are expected to "hit on women" and score. Women just sit there and expect to be approached like a royalty.

They value their looks/sexuality so much that its offensive that guy who they deem is unworthy even approached her.

Has she ever approached a guy before ? I bet not.

Having a reaction to someone approaching you is sexist because it perpetuates the stereotype that you have protect your ultimate gift: your body. So in my book author of this post is a sexist and misogynist.
This guy at a minimum deserved a slap in the face and a firm command to get lost, and you don't have to be a third-wave feminist to think that. A lot people are of the mind that so-called "gender politics" solves fewer problems than it creates, and a "with us or against us" attitude doesn't help, either.
Yeah, um this happens all the time. I never wasted time worrying about it.
>Using crowdsourced reporting, readings from the barometric pressure sensor in the iPhone 6 and latest iDevices, and predictive algorithms that overlay all that information on a map to deliver 18-hour forecasts, Sunshine generates what Stroponiati calls "weather forecasting at the street level."

So no. This was one of the really cool things predicted, if not explicitly mentioned, when Apple announced new iPhones would have a barometer; hyper-local readings can only improve weather information, which is sorely needed. Admittedly this isn't the first app to do this, but the idea is huge. The concept that everyone could be constantly making weather predictions better and more accurate for everybody is a big deal.

We've come a long way since using metar data you grabbed from your nearest airport via IRC.
Does that still validate Yelp as art?
People think it's a joke because shows like south park and family guy have normalized the behavior. We really need to ban free speech and strictly regulate all public speech to make sure no one says anything "wrong".
Well in some cases it could be considered a felony, and you could go to prison for years, not to mention possible hospital bills and grief you caused the person you struck.
I thought 40G/100G ethernet was already optical (and multiplexed, much like PCIe)?

EDIT: yep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Gigabit_Ethernet

I'm pretty sure that the only obstacles against "ethernet as a truly universal bus" are either minor (someone's got to invest in making adapter interfaces) or of the "why bother" variety. Unfortunately the latter is a bit of a show stopper as far as I can tell :)
Men are expected to "hit on women" and score.

Patriarchy hurts us all.

So in my book author of this post is a sexist and misogynist.

This is drivel.
"So, software development is a special activity that should not be constrained by budgets or deadlines (or estimates)?"

Of course it is constrained, but how can you estimate it? Because "software development" is the continuous process of converting a real world idea into instructions that are so tiny and specific that a computer can understand them. Obviously you can't know in advance what those instructions are, or you've already written the program. When do you stop "pushing back against poorly defined projects"? You can literally continue asking for more specifics until the project is complete. This is different from other areas of engineering, because almost NOTHING demands preciseness like a computer does.

"Estimating work and committing to those estimates is what a professional does. Deal with it."

The reality is, we have been trying to deal with, for decades. And failing badly. The author is suggesting (probably rhetorically) that perhaps we need to abandon the idea entirely, because it is not working (for very large projects).
It's become impossible to ignore how terrible the NFL's decision making has been in the past few years, and I'm starting to wonder if a FIFA situation where every top executive is simultaneously removed is the only logical end-game for this mess.

Their hypocrisy about saying gambling is a major threat to the league, while simultaneously lobbying congress for fantasy sports loopholes in gambling legislation and ramming FanDuel commercials down our throats.

Ignoring concussion research for three years and actively trying to intimidate researchers. Then pretending to care about player safety while simultaneously pushing for a longer season schedule.

Making everyone in the NFL wear pink for a month to market to women, while simultaneously sweeping multiple cases of domestic abuse under the rug.

Ignoring federal labor law while trying to suspend their best player for something he didn't do wasting millions and millions of dollars in the process.

And now, declaring war against media companies and making it harder for fans to follow the sport because they want to run 30-second pre-roll ads in front of 6 second video clips which will never even come close to working. It's an utter disaster. I have no faith in the NFL to conduct itself competently in the modern media landscape. They are such an embarrassment of an organization. I've never felt that way about a sports league before but the 2011-present NFL is just so awful.
I found this in the code, https://github.com/poole/poole.
I can try to decompose a ~2-month task into one-day tasks, and still not improve my overall confidence level.
The courts say otherwise see sole focus picture in case of Nussenzweig v. DiCorcia[1]. If it were not possible, we would not have "street photography" we would not have Robert Frank, Cartier-Bresson, Winogrand, Meier or Arbus. Picture in question[2] We also would not have documentary photography.

Certainly it can feel rude to us, but the law allows it and moreover the feeling of rudeness comes more from believing we "own" our likelinesses in public spaces, which we do not. So, yes, I could feel intruded upon by a documentary or street photographer, no question, but at the same time, they have the right to take my picture, no question.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nussenzweig_v._DiCorcia

[2]https://wmuphoto.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/nussenzweig-v-dico...

If you disagree with the position, post a link to law which states otherwise. There is lots of case law asserting the right of photographers to take pictures unimpeded in public spaces.
You can use modus ponens to justify all kinds of weird shit. What's your point?
>Patriarchy hurts us all.

so we are all mere victims of patriarchy?

>This is drivel.

Why? Its true.

Why is it so offensive if someone asks her out ?
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> I don't understand why the emphasis is on the tech community.

Because that's the industry that the author (and presumably, most of us readers) are in.

> If this were an automotive convention it would probably be worse.

Probably, but like... do you go to automotive conventions? I don't, so what goes on in them is really outside of anything I know about or can change. So... I'm not sure the relevance.

> Most of them probably have not had much interaction with the opposite sex and don't even know how to initiate conversation.

Well, hopefully some of them will read this article and find out some things not to do.
Oh man, I was hugely surprised, riding my bicycle in the bike lane along a busy street, when I glanced left and suddenly a guy on an electric skateboard was silently gliding by, basically face-to-face with me a couple inches away (since our head heights were roughly the same, bike vs skateboard).
I'm not defending anyone, my point is that this is a societal problem.
How do you propose to change people's thinking? People in the our (tech) industry fight over coding standards, programming languages, frameworks etc.; good luck changing their outdated views on something that's been ingrained for years.
>$1,025-an-hour partners.

TIL some people make literally a 100 times what the average person makes.
A case like this, you'll have several doing research, poring through contracts, writing motions, etc. It's part of the reason why the judge gave such a big award. The other being that judge's really don't like being jerked around, and withholding evidence like this is just wasting everyone's time. Had Acacia provided the documents when they were requested, the case would have been settled years ago.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. The "Are you actually technical" quote is not part of her anecdote, its in the list of things "men have said straight to my face at tech events" and it is quoted directly as "Are you actually technical". There is not context or narrative that can be twisted.
Yeah, I'll grant you that. I guess that I dream of someone pulling off an enlightened semi-dictatorship based on liberal values...
Heading off an extremely unproductive subthread:

It's not that women (or people in ethnic minorities, or older workers, or demonstratively observant religious people) experience flak from peers at conferences or in their workplace.

It's that they experience that flak while being a member of a tiny minority. It's the power imbalance that makes this toxic.

Also: "are you this socially awkward in every situation?" and "do you shower daily?" cracks would be infractions in a lot of workplaces. If you did it repeatedly after being warned, you could get kicked off a team. It is absolutely not as if guys just hear this stuff all the time and deal with it. Probably nobody who believes that has ever managed a large team.
Depends on how sloppy and bullheaded they are. In this case, the defendant had already paid to license these patents, and the troll evidently dragged its feed in dealing with its mistake. A bit akin to The SCO Group v. The Universe, in which they didn't have the rights to UNIX(TM).

No way is a good judge going to let this off with a "mistakes were made" attitude.
I'm pretty familiar with Whitehorse.

Whitehorse can be a pretty magical place -- my old friends up there got me into paragliding (Sean Kitchen still up there ?), and I got to practice my fly fishing up there for lake trout, or head to Haines for the salmon run (I was always skunked, nearly always had a good time anyway), and good hiking and beautiful terrain around Haines or pass to Skagway...

I just assumed by your description you would be somewhere else, and it piqued my curiousity. Enjoy Whitehorse, good luck with your African trip!
We need a plea for companies to provide support at all. Google still lacks any meaningful support for many services (AdSense, Google Play, etc)
Have you actually read Asbosto's comment?

> [...] but sports are [...] for kids to _do_. [...] correlation between time spent _playing_ sport and academic performance, [...] preventing obesity [...]
> Why is it so offensive if someone asks her out ?

There are good ways to ask someone out. And there are offensive ways to ask someone out.
An average person might not know better than to talk to the FBI. But this guy considered himself to be a journalist? He should have kept quiet. Period. End of discussion. Was he utterly unaware of exactly how and why Martha Stewart went to prison?

Seriously. There are Youtube videos that go over this. I can't believe this guy fell for the oldest trick in the book!

I guess it's either one of

1) journalists are used to people talking to them, which makes them willing to talk to law enforcement

2) this guy thinks he's the smartest guy in the room (e.g. "this is bullshit"). I guess he never watched any episodes of Columbo? The smart person always goes to jail at the end. Just ask Martha.
What sort of problems?
It doesn't really require that much force. Subjectively, it feels to me like Peek requires less force than pushing the Home button, and Pop requires a bit more, but not significantly more.

Also, under Accessibility, there is a way to control the 3D Touch sensitivity, so it requires less (or more) force to activate.

That said, for people who use alternative input mechanisms (whether it be various forms of assistive touch, or just using VoiceOver), AFAIK they can't 3D Touch (well, you can 3D Touch with VoiceOver, but only if you can see where to push; there's no way to trigger 3D touch on the highlighted element if it's not under your finger).
Going to prison for assault over something that somebody said (maybe they are on medication or have some sort of illness/generally not around people) is also pretty un-cool.

You just tell them not to do that again. 'I would have' stories on the internet are pretty lame too.
When I switched from emacs to vim, I was looking for something that

1. starts up fast - I used emacsclient but that got to be sort of a headache, and still did not start up as instantly as Vim does

2. Better keybindings - I would have used evil-mode but I felt at the time that it would be better to use actual vim.

3. Runs in a terminal window - Absolute necessity, so my only real choices were emacs and vim. I liked the workflow I had with `emacs *.py` or whatever I was doing but I thought at the time that vim would better support it.

A friend actually pushed me into using vim, which is funny because he uses the arrow keys with it... I got used to vim way quicker than I expected to, mostly because it was the only editor I installed at all (I switched from emacs to vim at the same time I switched from mac to linux)

Of course i do not recommend you switch between them but those were my reasons at the time.
Each partner hour costs you 1 kUSD. If you have two partners working one hour each, or one partner working two hours doesn't matter.
I think the dating ritual depends on the city. I probally shouldn't say this, but I see many single women move to San Francisco, and while if they get housing, they enjoy big-city events, but dating is not one of them here.

San Francisco is not a good place for straight women to date. No one talks about it, because it's not politically correct, but in my observations they come here, and are lonely.

There's just too many single women, and not enough men. I have a very attractive ex-girlfriend, and we had so many conversations about social life, or lack there of. It got to the point, where I took her out and watched what took place. Guys--way below her league wouldn't talk to her unless she aggressively talked to them first.

I know I get hammered because I'm not being politically correct, and yes--there's always the exceptions, but at least in San Francisco it's difficult for sigle women looking for a steady relationship.

I'll point out the politically incorrect thoughts, and save you time:

I shouldn't have stereotyped. I shouldn't have assumed some females are looking for a steady relationship. I shouldn't have mentioned looks/personality when I said "way below her league". I probally left out something that hurt someone deeply--sorry.
I watched (and commented on) this happening to an extremely similar article six months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9322540
Are you in Bellevue? One of them lived in my building.
What, a Raspberry Pi (which for that price doesn't have ethernet, wifi or a case for that matter), and on which I'll have to wait 5 minutes before the OCR is done that my central server takes 10 seconds to do; and which requires Windows 10 which didn't even exist when I first got my setup 2-3 years ago?
Chef and Google App Engine
Critical Thinking Mapping
European migrant crisis and the security industry's role
Don't take this too critically, but what you wrote gives the impression that you aren't familiar with feminism as it extends beyond the tech sphere. HN is a tech news site, not a feminism one, so the posts you see about feminism here will be naturally related to the former. All those shows you mentioned are criticized.
Implying that the presence of a woman at a tech conference is unexpected then insinuating they are cheap sexual property while addressing them in the third person is at the very fucking essence of violence. Jokes don't justify violence, oppression does.
Sexism is normal in our society. The top rated television shows are filled with sexist and off color jokes, but you rarely see the feminists trying to take down The Simpsons. So how can you take them seriously when they seem to be focused on calling all programmers who aren't proactively brigading for their political ideology a "racist" or "sexist" while not paying much attention to the root causes of sexism?

The reality is that media from the 50's, 60's, 70's, etc was much more racist/sexist than media today. Society has come a long way. Society is still progressing. Things aren't going to change over night. But the feminists seem to suggest that things are getting worse or are worse now than they've ever been.
There is a huge difference between building a bridge and building a piece of software.

The complexity is just many many times bigger when it comes to software projects. With bridges it's actually fairly straight forward and the budgets are often of a completely different scale.
My point is that being offended isn't a valid reason to use violence against someone. If a stranger says something non-threatening and you react by hitting him, you're a danger to the public and should possibly be arrested.
There are Mathematical Limits to Software Estimation: http://scribblethink.org/Work/kcsest.pdf, http://scribblethink.org/Work/Softestim/softestim.html

In general, unless you've done something very similar before, estimation can't be done accurately. Your manager should know and accept this.

The best you can do is probably this: Repeatedly split the project into tasks, estimate the time it will take for each, until the next task takes several hours, and then do the next task. Keep track of estimates and actual times spent. Your manager should ask you to do this and keep it updated. Joel Spolsky wrote something similar here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html (I'm sure I read similar advice elsewhere, but can no longer find it.)

It should go without saying that you should include unit testing, code review, debugging, etc. in your estimates. And, of course, making and updating the time estimates.

The project, when "complete", will still usually require maintenance, so work on the project only stops when the software is no longer used.

You should never be given deadlines, as you won't know in advance what problems you might encounter, and the quality of your work (and probably your health) will suffer. This will result in a build up of technical debt, increasing maintenance costs.

It's well worth reading The Mythical Man-Month, especially if you're managing a project, or working with others on the same project.
Everytime something like this comes up a portion of men will respond with either "It's a public place, people are free to look at and talk to strangers, etc" or "Men are like that, deal with it." Oh, and also the "It's no big deal" rendered in so many ways. Here's a mental exercize for all the men who think this way:
You have to go to a conference, and the whole place is filled with big, muscular, thug-looking men. You walk around and you notice they're all staring at you. Every now and then when you stop, one or two will approach you, and they will do it with that look in their eye. You know, like you're their prison meat. So the huge thug comes up to you and starts some small talk, asks your name, what you do, if you're there by yourself, and then, you know, he says you have a nice little ass, and wouldn't you want to go there in the back with him. He's just talking, you know, didn't touch you or anything. Plus, it's a public place. You're just unconfortable because he is a huge guy, looks like a mma fighter, but, hey, he's just talking to you, saying he wants to have sex with you. No big deal, right? You just deal with him and all the others and won't make a fuss about this behavior, and I'm pretty sure you'll attend all future conferences with a great mood and won't think there's anything wrong with all the thugs wanting to have sex with you.
Thugs are like that. No big deal.
The feels. 10/10 will read again.
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