skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not crying is merely a symptom of a larger problem of hiding one's feelings, much less talk about it.

It is more important to be aware of the ongoing feelings and understand their operation (self-awareness leads to change). Moreover it is not necessary to gushingly express those emotions -- like those SNAGs and feminal men[1] do -- especially as the social context is all against men expressing vulnerability.

In my opinion, this is the single greatest boulder that men as a whole need to get over. If we do not understand our emotions, we will never understand how other people manipulate those emotions to get what they want.

[1] Chinweizu wrote in "The Anatomy of Female Power":
The modern musho (the new or feminal man) is one of that breed of diffident men who have been bullied, guilt-tripped, ego-bashed and penis-twisted into pram pushing, diaper changing and breast envy. He is the befuddled, henpecked male who lacks the wit to recognizee his male interest. He is one of those male wives of female husbands who have been described, in Julie Burchill's apt phrases, as the "bleeding hearts" and "crying males" who make up "the walking wounded" of the modern sex war. The more articulate musho even becomes a missionary for his hen's anti-male views. This pathetic wimp is, quite naturally, hailed by feminists as the "new man".
Source?

According to Google:

> This add-on instructs the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) running on websites to prohibit their information from being used by Google Analytics. Using the Google Analytics opt-out plug-in will not prevent site owners from using other tools to measure site analytics.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en

I've heard that the reason it sets a variable rather than blocking the script is to avoid breaking websites that do custom tracking.
‘Shots not Fire’d – surge sh
Haha wow, well, I guess if you want to see it that way. I can edit it to just show the graphics of the CD covers, so I'll do that. I seriously was not trying to plug anything, just, you know, give a citation for context. I'll fix it tout de suite.
That's not the argument he's making.
Bet you anything this is what the next round of paid Fiverr reviews will look like.
Modern gasoline engines are supposedly 25% efficient the remaining 75% lost as heat. Modern turbo-diesel engines are again supposedly 50% efficient with the other 50% heat loss. I don't have specific stats just what I've heard over the years.

Not to be antagonistic but what gasoline engines which are not a hybrid get (US or Imperial) 50 to 60mpg? I could see diesel engine vehicle average mileage for small manual transmission getting high Imperial 60mpg gas maybe high 40s mpg.

Deep water and gasoline engine don't tend to work well, and in my region snow gets under the hood then melts (can't get it all out) which causes problems.

Compared to a gas engine a diesel engine will run underwater if it has air you see 4x4 trucks with snorkels on the A-pillar (and some other sealing) in Africa countries, Australia and military use too.
It is best learned by working at companies who are practicing this art.
I would agree with you on the webdesign, although I actually liked the image. It's a nice one as a wallpaper.
While the ethics behind the implementation might have been obvious, the actual legality of is not.
The law could very well have been written in a way that makes this completely legal.

A software engineer would most likely not know the intricate details of the law required to know whether it was legal(in all nations) or not.
This is well-explained and fairly concise.

It's a concept that could be much more rapidly explained in an intuitive way with a few interactive diagrams, or honestly a few animated gifs, though.

The CAP theorem is one of those things that's a simple idea, but I didn't understand it the first few times I ran across it just because:

1) the terminology is weird ("partition", huh... well, I know how to partition a disk, but this clearly isn't that)

2) broad concepts need good examples for newcomers -- to bridge the gap from familiar to unfamiliar. If you've worked with large scale distributed processing before, great, but these ideas are especially crucial for people who are going to need such systems but don't yet understand the tradeoffs.
This sort of reminds me how some IRC servers that engage in hostmask obfuscation can have it possibly reversed via a table lookup because the seed value used to produce that is generated at compile time based on epoch and said time is generally included in the server details, visible to any user at connect--this is specific to Unreal IRCd.

Example:

16:37:30 [network] -!- Welcome to the ircnetwork.network IRC Network afreak!irc@hostmask
16:37:30 [network] -!- Your host is ircnetwork.network, running version Unreal3.2.10.5
16:37:30 [network] -!- This server was created Thu Oct 15 2015 at 00:00:55 UTC
Show HN: Mu – Minimal HTML5 Song Search
Part of the problem that I see, is that in modern America, everyone is a victim. Anything can be considered offensive. And when that happens, we find it acceptable to utterly destroy people's lives over 140 characters...in the name of "social justice". It's ok to call Justine Sacco a fucking bitch and wish brutal rape upon her, so long as you do so in defense of social justice, right? It's ok to shame her, cause her to lose her job and go into hiding, so long as you're part of the "progressive" and "forward thinking" mob, right? In fact, one may even consider it comedic, right?

That is what you call justice?

We have effectively returned to the days of witch hunting and public hangings, but this time our medium isn't the town square. It's the Internet.

Justine Sacco's tweet was a joke. And she even subscribed to the very "liberal" thought that was shaming her. Her joke was tongue-in-cheek. But her shamers weren't liberals. They didn't care about actual reason and discourse and open-mindedness. They weren't the liberals that we think of today; the ones that were always on the right side of history. The ones that marched alongside MLK. The ones that stood up for women's rights. No, they were "progressives". Pseudo-liberals that fight for the oppressed by oppressing others. The open-minded, forward thinking, altruistic group that wants everyone to be heard...until they disagree with their views. Then they must return to the mob-mentality of the stone ages, in the name of "progress".

These people don't care about progress. They don't care about social justice. They care about the entertainment of destroying someone's life, the feeling of dehumanizing another human being, and the gratifying thought that in doing so, they were being a model human...an enlightened individual...better than the rest. But they aren't. They are the most simple, selfish, uncompassionate, and closed-minded beings of our generation.

And we support them. We encourage them.

We have no idea how stressful and oppressive of a world we are creating for ourselves. And all in the name of pseudo "anti-oppression". We must remember the importance of true freedom of speech. The importance of unpopular thoughts and discussions. The importance of open discourse without the threat of condemnation. Where everyone can be heard and we can build a better world together. Where the enlightened truly care about helping the unenlightened to see things differently. Where true progress is bred.
Agreed, that was not really a convincing argument unless you already believe that there are some absolute rights. Let's attack this from a different angle.

Where are those rights coming from? And do they only apply to humans? Why? Why not to primates? If they apply also to primates, are lions hunting and killing primates - not sure if they actually do - violating basic primate rights? How do you come to know about your fundamental rights? Could you still come up with the same ideas if you were the only human on earth?

And more specifically, if reproduction is a fundamental right, can you rape other humans in case no one voluntarily wants to reproduce with you? You probably don't think that, so you are not really arguing for an ultimate right to reproduce but the right to do so with consent. This again raises the question of incest. Why can we outlaw incest when you have a fundamental right to reproduce. Because bad things are likely to happen to possible offspring? But so does reproduction leading to overpopulation just not in such a direct way.

Absolute rights and a right to reproduce in particular are - at least in my opinion - hard to defend positions. The only more or less reasonable argument I can think of is declaring that those absolute rights are a god given thing and period. In that case there is not much I could argue against besides the believe in a god in the first place.
There's Airtable, and although the form feature is rudimentary, it is point and click: https://airtable.com.
It is. By redefining the equality method (operators are just regular methods really), you abstract away how this kind of object need to be compared with it's peers.

The fact that it's an operator or a method doesn't change a thing. For example in Java many classes redefine the `equals` method. It's default behavior is just like Ruby, comparing identity. It's not an operator but the effect is exactly the same. And IMO it's worse because now you have a leaky abstraction with types you need to compare with `==` and others with `.equals`.

It's just you who have this expectation of operators being not redefinable. When I read Ruby code, for me `==`, or `+` are just regular methods like any others with just a bit of syntactic sugar.

It also allows for greater polymorphism. Like the Money object from before. If I couldn't redefine `+`, then `[Money.new(20), Money.new(22)].sum` wouldn't work.
Its all about context. With your bro's after the game, sure. But in Twitter, where the whole world (anybody who cares to look anyway) can see it? Its expected to have a different voice there. Folks who get all chummy on Twitter are forgetting where they are.
Also happy 20th birthday OpenBSD! The other email from Theo today: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=144515087006177 and/or http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/225844.
Perhaps a lesson to learn here is consider who won. While AltaVista focused on physical details (number of servers, resource usage, etc...) they missed the boat on the bigger picture - how to significantly improve search engine results. Brin&Page did, filed a couple of patents, secured investment, registered google.com, scaled, etc and won.

Perhaps this is another example of what you measure is what you become. I realize it's just one email and we're missing all sorts of context, but to me, this email seems to boast at their technical prowess of being able to pull off the scaling aspects. Perhaps this email indicates measuring physical resources was a higher priority than DRASTICALLY improving search engine results.
Way to fight the easy fight Amazon. Didn't sue Fiverr of course, but sue 1k+ John Does? Don't want to invest a little into fixing your easily gamed, crappy ranking algorithm, but want to scare people off from gaming it instead? Priorities straight, not even once.
Girl dexterously stolen goods in the supermarket
They could.

But one of the bad side effects of "free" delivery is a race to the bottom in quality. My neighborhood UPS guy is awesome -- he rings the doorbell, if it's raining he puts a bag around each box, if a box is heavy he'll bring it inside for my wife. The local Lasership folks (different ones every time) are far less awesome -- they just drop the box on the porch, not bothering to ring the doorbell, not bothering with weatherproofing. So we've had a couple of boxes soaked, even when my wife was home, because she didn't hear the delivery.

I'd pay a couple bucks more to get UPS over Lasership, but it's not easy for me to select that option with most web merchants.
How I Wound Up as an Early Mac Pioneer and Built Something Crazy
Only if you do it that way. Make it MatchForParticularPurpose(v1, v2) instead, and voila no leak.

Operators are unique in the language. They hold a special place. They deliberately are written to imply something we already understand. No fair lumping them in with every other attribute or method of an encapsulated type.

Intuition is a very, very poor thing to depend upon in a programming language. I disagree heartily that it should be the solution to disambiguating any operation.
> Readability > cleverness every single time.

Readability is in the eye of the beholder. For those unfamiliar with higher-order programming, maps are just a 'too clever' form of a for loop.

A clean and understandable solution is one matching the problem being solved in a precise way. In search for simplicity one can't forget that programming is a trade, and one should be expected to actually learn some shit.
A 'drop box' near the curb by the mailbox may be an acceptable solution.
The tag manager does. The code you are linking to is a developer reference for the raw tracking code.

The tag manager has a "noscript" tag that points to an iframe with the domain googletagmanager.com
>In fact, there’s actually no such thing as big science; we should really be calling it big engineering.

This is so true. Engineering is undervalued in comparison to science. It's easier to sell multi-billion project to the general public if you label it as science.
Scientists are much more publicly visible than engineers; they are Nobel winners, geniuses, brilliant men single-handedly unraveling mysteries of the universe (or so it seems to the layman).
Engineers generally work in larger teams, don't seek individual fame, don't receive their Nobel prize.

And yet our lives depend upon the quality of engineers' work on a daily basis. Our largest global problems (climate, energy, pollution) are engineering problems. Shouldn't we praise engineers more?
I use them all the time. Highly recommended. Especially when your system isn't powerful enough to compile things on it's own.
Congratulations, according to google you are the first person in the world to use that phrase to refer to thinkpads: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22dime+thinkpads%22&ie=utf-...
First of all i must applaud you on your level-headedness and self-restraint. It is so common to see people exaggerate and rant on public forums / blogs when confronted with such frustrating situations.

Maybe the HR got laid-off?

Maybe the 3 people who interviewed you are from multiple teams within the organisation and they are now fighting over which team gets to hire you?

Its good that you did NOT name names. So in case this turns out to be a long list of co-incidences that lined-up to create this weird "no-response" situation, you are still on track to get hired and work in a job that you find fulfilling.

> Company X is a very well known company that makes GPUs

If Company X is a 3 letter acronym, their recent quarterly finances might have prompted them to re-evaluate all their future hires.
It would be great if anyone had more insight on this. I roast a pound of coffee about once every other week in my garage. I obviously grind it later, as I use it.

It would be nice to know if this is something that compounds over time or if it is just the high concentration of the chemical that is affecting the people being reported on.
I know all about the nuisance of BigCorp dumping my (non-commercial, mind you) email into the spam folder for obscure reasons, but whatever company you're trying to push, you miss the point. A web service to say "this is what most spam filters will do to your email" is just a training signal for spammers. That is, unless they are smart enough to implement an amazing meta-spam filter.
Tornado took out my grandfather's farm many years back (At 80-odd years old, he was out on his bulldozer 12 hours later, rebuilding). The tornado pulled the back window out of an old car and deposited it in one piece yards away. Tornado's are freaky.
Indeed. Look how Obama moved from a strong and repeated "if you like your guns, you can keep your guns", and previously as a Senator even voted for the bill putting heavy, direct penalties on Katrina style mass confiscations, to this month calling for ... mass nationwide confiscations of all handguns and semi-auto long guns, which Hillary! echoed in the debate.

Not sure if Sanders has changed here, he's not as viciously anti-gun, he's changed his language recently but, not, based on what I was just able to dig up, his real positions.
ESA's first nanosatellite reporting for duty
If you do not reside in Estonia then, when you extract money, you get to keep 80%, minus the dividend tax of your country of residence.

Despite there being double-taxation treaties with several countries, Estonia taxes the company paying dividends, and not the individual receiving them, so you may not be in a double-taxation situation. But I am not a lawyer or an accountant; it is better to consult with one.
The HR person might have changed jobs / companies. It sounds like this is more an internal screw-up on their part, and that they would be lucky to have you. Definitely email the head of HR. In the email, try and go with "really enjoyed interviewing, but why haven't I heard back, as it's been 4 weeks?" instead of an angry message. I doubt they turned you down; rather, they aren't very well coordinated.
Okay Cowboy, it's a bet.

I'll bet you my HackerNews account against yours that not only do I not have a Fiverr account, but that you'll never see a shill with the wordsmith skills that I have, only trying to use examples as part of a story because a website won't allow in-line graphics to be posted.

Taps foot in 7/8
from the e-mail:

Chuck and I also worked on setting up the first 'anoncvs' to make sure
noone was ever cut out from 'the language of diffs' again. I guess
that was the precursor for the github concept these days :-). People
forget, but even FSF was a walled garden at the time -- throwing tar
files with vague logs over the wall every couple months.
A friend has a software product that does image deblurring. His focuses mostly on motion blur. Depending on the type of motion, it can work quite well.

https://www.blurity.com/
Ehh, there are good and bad uses. Yes, dot product should not be overloaded asterisk operator because elementwise multiplication of vectors is a thing, and also if you overload multiplication for matrices then dot product should be u-transpose-times-v for consistency. But what about vector addition? There's no ambiguity. Try writing any 3d graphics code without overloaded vector addition. It sucks.

I generally disagree with people who dislike a language feature only because of its abuse potential. Good programmers should not have to suffer for the sake of damage controlling bad programmers.

Edit: I do think it's stupid to make the identity-equals operator overloadable. Identity-equals and value-equals are separate concepts. In C++ this isn't an issue because == is the value-equals operator.
The difference is completely in the eye of the beholder.

But a huge centralized curator that decides what everybody reads is something people feared for centuries. It does not really matter if its intention is benign.
"As many as 70% of sweet-flavored e-cigs contain diacetyl [...]"

Happy to known at least the ecig fad is a problem that will solve itself.
Can't seem to read it, there's a paywall.
License to initiate warfare under authority of Congress, yes.
License to own and operate harmlessly one defensively, no.

The philosophy of the Founding Fathers is extensively documented. Not the least of which is their carrying out revolt and secession against a superpower for the purpose of securing personal liberty and minimizing control & harassment by government. In light of that, the notion of them fearing cars and using government to restrict ownership thereof by punishing lack of paperwork is absurd.
You and anyone interested in this should read Jon Ronson's book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed". An excellent, rational, balanced take on this issue. Also check out the works of Dr. Gad Saad. If you'd rather not take the time to read their work, they've both given speeches on this and participated in several big podcasts as well (just search their names on YouTube or iTunes).

Awareness of this issue is dramatically increasing by the day and these public figures (among others) are leading the charge.
I also find it interesting that in the "Women rating men" table, the "White men" column doesn't even have a negative entry for the first three years...
The quest for Shadow of the Colossus' last big secret (2013)
I believe nobody could understand those stale and tricky code.
Shows you how times have changed, years ago it would have been a song lyric about slashdot and the "BSD is dying" meme.
Fascinating stuff. Wanted to dig in a bit and google sent me to this 2013 blog post? [1] citing a 2005 study that runs into a similar conclusion:

One scientist on the team, Li Hui, said that 100,000 years ago humans began migrating through South and Southeast Asia into China from Africa. Their testing showed that 65 branches of Chinese all carry similar DNA mutations as the people of Southeast Asia.

Another scientist on the team, Jin Li had this to say about their findings, “we did not see even one single individual that could be considered as a descendant of the hοmo erectus in China, rather, everybody was a descendant of our ancestors from Africa.”

Interesting social theory in it as well:

Richard Leaky, a well-known, Kenyan-born Paleoanthropologist who has dedicated his life to studying fossils and the past believes that we must study the past if we are to have a future. He had this to say, “If you get to the stage where you can persuade people on the evidence, that it’s solid, that we are all African, that color is superficial, that stages of development of culture are all interactive, then I think we have a chance of a world that will respond better to global challenges.”

[1] http://kulturekritic.com/2013/12/news/dna-evidence-proves-fi...
The article says the second phone is just for accelerometer data, so it could be replaced by some sort of Bluetooth device. I'm sure one of the many fitness trackers on the market provide real time data.
To that point, Jef Raskin famouly said that “intuitive == familiar,” and all-too-often, that’s exactly what people mean when they talk about “intuitive" code and/or user interfaces.
I think you mean median intelligence :)
Should Money.new(20, 'USD') == Money.new(2000, 'US Cents')?

Or Money.new(20, 'USD') == Money.new(125, 'CNY') when ExchangeRateManager.getExchangeRate('CNY', 'USD') == 0.16?

My point is that when performing these comparisons, it may be useful to use a more descriptive function like:

boolean currenciesHaveSameWorth(Money m1, Money m2)

And then a reader of the calling code might not have to look into the implementation to understand what the function is doing, whereas you definitely would when using == because == now means "whatever it's overridden to mean"
The article's headline states, "Why a scientist killed a bird that hadn’t been seen in 50 years" and waits until well into the article to mention, "Filardi stressed that, among Guadalcanal locals, the bird is known to be 'unremarkably common.'"

In this way, this article, which is trying to explain why the bird was killed, seems to recreate the problems that led to people being mad in the first place: giving the impression that this is a rare bird that no one had seen in 50 years and burying the fact that this isn't true. The majority of this article makes it seem like this was a bird that no one had seen in years when that simply isn't the case. It is just that no scientist had seen it in years. Big difference.
UN climate reports are increasingly unreadable