skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came here to say this. Never touch a job, contract, anything that takes away your right to avail yourself of the legal system. There are quite a few "Christian" organizations (in particular, rehabs) that require "biblical" arbitration. While the discussion around this is usually limited to "lol conservatives are scared of sharia law and then this???", the real issue is that arbitration clauses, whether they're founded in corporate culture or bibilical law, always hurt the person who gave up their legal rights.

Perhaps the corporate U4 agreements are more honest, as their purpose is simply to save the employer the cost of arbitration, but they're every bit as scary.

Don't sign away your rights!
They're not all equally bad. Even in the 1960s, for example, Mercedes had introduced unibodies, collapsible steering columns, disc brakes, crumple zones, side-impact reinforcement. A lot of what became standard, mandatory safety features were pioneered by Mercedes and a few other companies that have always had safety as a concern.
This will be massively labor-saving for a key cryptocurrency use-case: exchange operators who "get hacked" won't have to worry about whether they sufficiently hid the outbound funds... ;)
I doubt that it would work in practice. Sega tried similar thing (requiring games on Sega Genesis to print "PRODUCED BY OR UNDER LICENSE FROM SEGA ENTERPRISES LTD.") to block interoperability, and they lost a case against Accolade.
Yeah. Yeah i would, honestly. There's always the exception to the rule, but we're talking about systemic issues, not playing the "but not all men..!" game. Refer to my other reply but when you put people who have grown up in a racist and sexist society into a racially and sexually homogeneous group where they spend most of their time, racist and sexist attitudes will be fostered in the absence of accountability. (Which u don't have, because racially and sexually homogeneous.)
Since all the other comments here seem to be afraid to fully explain...

Cold makes the skin hard, especially the nipples. This happens on men and women, but it tends to have a bigger effect on women, in part because their nipples are larger and in part because they tend to wear thinner fabrics.

If a woman is going to go out in a thinner fabric and she knows that where she is going might be cold, she'll put band aids on her nipples to help smooth it out under her clothing to prevent them from poking out, which can draw unwanted attention.

The implication here is that the man can not control himself and wants them to cover up because he will stare at their breasts if they don't.
That's interesting and all but-- I admit I haven't read the source-- I was under the impression that the actual text was fairly clear about Atlantis being a fictional political allegory.
If you intentionally prolong the gap, you can force the other side to feel discomfort. Also known as awkward silence. Most people will instinctively fill the gap by starting to talk again, even if they don't have anything more to say.

You can use this in negotiations. After someone makes an offer, they'll stop and expect you to respond. If instead you act as though you're thinking and hold the silence, they may get the natural urge to fill the gap and start speaking again, sometimes offering better terms.

One time I used this technique at a negotiation but the other party was an MBA grad so they might've known about this. This resulted in very long pauses, maybe several of 20-30 seconds each, where we both waited for the other person to fill the gap. If someone were watching us they'd think we're both crazy.
> a oil service company in Norway ... we sold our software to Iran

The company was helping Iran avoid sanctions?!

Imposing costs on their oil sector, including by banning trade with it, was a necessary part of preventing them from acquiring nuclear weapons. They only gave up the weapons program in return for relief from the sanctions.
If this Doctor was using drchrono she wouldn't have this problem.
Funny cause it's true. It's really something I desperately seeked a few years ago
You assessment is perhaps a bit harsh, but I don't think it deserves the downvotes. The Chevy Malibu is not a small car. In Europe the design was sold as Opel Vectra/Signum which was actually a "large family car" by European standards. It's the largest sedan that GM sold under the European Opel/Vauxhall badges; to get a bigger car, you got a minivan.
hg-git[1] lets hg interoperate with git repositories, which helps a bit with the network effect problem. I'm currently using hg-git for my projects and I am loving it because I much prefer the hg UI (both the command line and tortoiseHg) to git's UI.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git
Yeah I'm not sure where/how that started. A firmware update broke the battery charging, device died, and cut off the heat. That's a software problem, not a thermostat problem.

If you bought a Nest, and never connected it, that problem would have never impacted you.
Why oh why did you have to ask! I didn't get it, now I do, and I'm that much angrier this fine morning.
Sexism may have been one of the problems that contributed to the problem. The collapse originated in that frat boy echo chamber of insanity. Maybe if Wall Street was a place where responsible adults of both genders thrived, it could have been prevented. Just as many men as women feel alienated by that environment.
Have you ever tried out hg-git? It lets you interact with github repos using mercurial.
Ask HN: Is it viable to use Facebook to verify age/gender?
I'm not really sure how hard it is to fake a Facebook profile and whether this can be effectively countered by say, only allow profiles who have existed for longer than a month and have more than 3 friends...etc

Or is there maybe a better way that is more user friendly?
No one makes you sign up for Google or Facebook. By using those services, you accept their terms. What the EU is doing is actually taking away your options.
HTTP Digest also makes HA1 (hash stored on the server) the credential, so if it were leaked, then you could still authenticate as the user.
>Forget optimism/pessimism, even criticism of downright unethical/illegal actions is largely nonexistent.

This is something that scares me about Silicon Valley. That kind of attitude opens a market for respectability, and once that becomes accepted, the tech bro douchebaggery is going to get shunned, hard. The services they made so cheap will make it even easier for someone else to eat their lunch, and even pointedly NOT being a part of the Valley could be a point in a company's favor (privacy-centric consumers who see SV companies willingly send personal data to NSA dragnets). Then it becomes a matter of fashion. ("You're still using snapchat after X came out? What are you, 12? The government is reading all of your snaps by the way.")

But leave it to a society of nerds to forget the vital necessity of being cool.
i'd argue pauli(o) already answered the question of whether all snowflakes are wholly unique

that said, this tech demo is an awesome display of environmental control and deterministic macro processes

i am unsure why people are so fond of fetishising the "we're not special" mantra

it seems an agenda driven denial of reality with dubious consequences relying on the agreement of the definition of words without actually defining them

i suppose the problem lies in the innate ambiguity of the word 'special' and in the case of the article's headline 'alike'

how alike? because in the examples in the videos i can see with only my eyes that these twins have minute differences

so the question arises: are the inconsistencies an issue of mechanical precision?

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
Historically speaking, the so called "middle class" does not imply the median of population, but the people in the range from 80% to 96% of wealth/income.

Paraphrasing a comment I read earlier today: "[Middle class] is someone with the power to fire you, [Rulling class] is someone with the power to fire everyone, close the plant and outsource the operation abroad".
You know, with a title like this and the source, you probably could have filtered this out yourself.

People on the internet disagree with you. Grow up and deal with it.
Your tax dollars at work. The auto industry fought most of the improvements that make that safety improvement possible. They fought seat belts. They fought air bags. They fought crumple zones. They lost.

Except Volvo, which was usually ahead of regulations on safety. They had each of those things before they were mandated.

Volvo's CEO has announced that they want to eliminate all deaths in Volvo cars by 2020. He also says that if a self-driving car has an accident, it's the manufacturer's fault and the manufacturer's financial responsibility.
From the piece:

"We went to all this trouble because there is perennial fascination with the flying habits of the 2,800 Davos delegates. Use of private aircraft, though often wildly overstated, highlights the vast wealth and power that descends upon this small skiing town in the Swiss Alps each year. And their transportation choices are frequently criticized for their environmental impact at a conference that seeks solutions to reducing carbon emissions, among other topics."
> Early in my life when I hadn't experienced failure, I used to aspire a lot and actually did achieve quite a bit despite my shortcomings

I was just like this too. I would have preferred experiencing more failure when I was younger when the risks held less consequences. Now I feel like I never met the expectations of my former self but now my future aspirations are more achievable. Rather than running my own business like I always wanted to do or working for a big-name tech company, I'll be happy when I self-publish the book I'm working on with no expectation of it being successful. I am happy with progress since progress is better than failure and doesn't have the same negative consequences when I don't succeed.
Not meaning to imply that this would be useful. I just think it's an interesting idea.
Wow, TIL. I knew South Korea had some internet censorship, but it definitely is a lot higher than I thought. That changes the context of the article a lot!
> No, they are left with a normal programmable thermostat with a nicer interface than most.

Ehh... I don't think the Nest Thermostat is completely programmable from the hardware itself. You can definitely set temperatures and toggle between heat/cool, heat, and cool; but I don't think you can edit the schedule. Even if you could, I don't think I'd want to. The hardware's UI is beautiful but UX leaves much to be desired.
What Paul Graham Is Missing About Inequality – Tim O'Reilly
A Java Reactive Streams Generator/Distributor, Release 2.1
Some interesting stuff---but I've developed a reflex aversion to languages that proclaim "everything is an object!" as though that were an unalloyed advantage.
I suspect the pricing of the book has less to do with any judgment about the features and relative superiority of the delivery substrate, and more to do with the economics of authoring a worthwhile text, which require a risky up-front investment of time few authors have any reasonable assurance they'll see a return on.

So most of the cost is probably going to paying the people who produce the book and repaying investors/publishers.
Monitoring an external tcp service in Elixir
REI in particular is a member owned consumer cooperative.
Or having cross-continental calls, which introduces similar latency.
Very Nice ndo cheap!
This has been fixed. It is MIT.
OS X Window Manager Apps
Very Nice and cheap!
Let's hope they decide to target F#.
> Two people can agree on anything, even giving up rights.

That isn't accurate. For example, you cannot agree to be a slave or to give up your right to overtime, a safe work environment, etc.; even non-compete agreements often are difficult to enforce. The law trumps your contract.

More accurately, Two people can agree on anything; they can put whatever they want in the contract but it may not be enforceable.
> My candidate took the job, and while she was passionate about her work, she was uncomfortable with the raucous trading floor environment, and lasted only five years.

I'm surprised five years is considered short.. I imagine people in the tech industry don't get treated nearly as badly but we seem to switch jobs way more often.

Why is that?
The answer to that entire question is no.
You should probably also know about the "Despecialized" editions of the original trilogy which removes the CGI crap and restores the original movies (more or less) as they were, with some color correction and other odds and ends.
Notice it doesn't say the first "successful" human head transplant.
DO YOU KNow How to CLEAN Your WINDSHIELD?
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Well okay, you got me and my unscientific reasoning. I mean, it's not like the perception of personal space is in the head or something; it's clearly physical.
Okay, we got off the wrong foot here.
I am an angry and unpleasant person. Please, let's not antagonize eatch other.
They talk about this in one of the special features on the DVDs. The average script length for a typical "hour" show (42 minutes, running time) is one page per minute. Gilmore Girls episodes were closer to 80 pages. They even talk about bringing in a speak coach for the actors so they could learn to speak faster while still being clear.
This is exactly why I did it in Go. It is just a binary. Has full support for OS X, Windows and Linux. Not to mention I find that Go is far more readable than shell scripts.
The Palmer method, that is what I learned back in the mid-nineties in elementary school. I didn't know it had a proper name other than 'cursive writing'. Neat!

Edit: Err wait, maybe not. It looks the same but so does the Zaner-Bloser form. Looking at some more methods, apparently I don't understand how it all works.
I'm probably cynical but I dont think the world need more languages. A clean and simple language turns ugly and complex given enough time. The programming world is fragmented enough as it is. I think we need more libraries and tools for the languages that already exist.
Neither your comment nor the comment you cite replies directly to mine - meaning, neither of you addresses the question what happens if people refuse to work for universities at the current level of compensation (perhaps some do not have a better option right now, but those who studied STEM certainly do.) I claim that comp will have to go up, boom, problem solved. Where am I wrong? What other solution would you propose that cannot be circumvented by the employer as long as the employees are willing to help circumvent it, for the same reasons making them willing to accept a raw deal now?

Instead, your comment in particular rejects what I said because it's "neoliberalism." All I said was that employers will tend to give you shit as long as you take it, be it for-profits, non-profits, government or individuals. I don't think that's quite the same as denying externalities or market failure or generally arguing about neoliberalism and other abstract concepts at a great distance from the issue at hand.

In concrete terms, I believe the someone quitting a bad job or not taking it in the first place is better off than someone who does take it and then broods about the debasement brought about by neoliberalism or whatever the supposed root cause of their condition is. In other words, my angle is more productive than yours as a basis for action.
That article reminded me of this: http://i.imgur.com/XQJ3ACO.jpg
I didn't want the users on Windows to require cygwin to run this. That dependency is huge and would be required if they want shell support in Windows.
Also Denemo might be worth a look: http://www.denemo.org/
Ah, perhaps I should have been more specific.

Having mandatory arbitration be a part of an employment contract seems like it is something that should be disallowed as part of employee protections. Or perhaps disallowing the choice of arbitrator by the employer would be sufficient.

I don't care (I don't think) if two companies agree to mandatory arbitration as part of their business dealings, in part because it seems more like a meeting of equals. But for vastly unequal negotiations (renters would also be a likely culprit) it seems like a 'works in theory, but not in practice'.

I know that in Canada, mandatory arbitration for consumers was disallowed recently in BC. Note that I'm not a lawyer or in the know, this is just a google search result: http://www.duhaimelaw.com/2011/03/18/supreme-court-of-canada...
Deep learning workloads are typically compute-intensive, but they also tend to be extremely I/O intensive, and convergence may depend on a synchronous step where all the nodes must finish making their contribution to the model before any of them can continue. (This may not be quite true though -- see Google's DistBelief paper--but most frameworks work this way). Often times, adding more machines to a cluster may make training proportionally slower.
This does not query escape the search, which means you are sending an incorrect URI to google.
income inequality allows the middle class to have maids

That's an interesting way to phrase it. From the perspective of the maids and people being forced into poorly paid labor jobs to get by, the view is decidedly different.
I was shocked when I discovered that if you just removed every scene with Jar Jar + pod race, the movie REALLY tightened up. Not because Jar Jar is offensive/stupid, but because a lot of of the pacing and tension are thrown off. It's like he was added into an existing decent script, with minimal effort made to integrate the new parts. (No idea if that's true, but that's how it feels)
Great job! Useful and simple!
Various governments were not happy with BitCoins ... I'm sure this will drive them crazy x10 if it catches on.
Not mutable, but tethered state, I think OO/Objects/Classes work slightly better when used as a means of tethering state/presentation/events... not that they need to mutate... for example the React.Component via ES6-style classes doesn't bug me as much as some... but I use it sparingly, most of the rest is more functional.
Like Utopia?
You can edit the schedule from the thermostat (at least v3 I think).

But scheduling interfaces are hard.
Yes, I acknowledge that, but it's important to bear in mind that costs for improvements are typically linear (or super-linear) so the cost/benefit of more safety has increased markedly.

I didn't expect my comment to provoke such a tremendous backlash.
Isn't almost anything that is open to interpretation a Rorschach test then?
There are machines at every station that will accept your cash or credit card and give you a paper ticket in return. Or give you an Oyster Card, for that matter.
He means that Mozilla devs running Windows led them to adopt Mercurial (which was, in his opinion, a "poor technical decision"). Not that Mercurial made poor technical decisions as a result of supporting Windows.
With respect, I understand some people want this to be true, but the description of the United States is almost entirely incorrect in practice:

> American understanding of society is about removing government hinderances for your pursuit of happiness. Government is not believe to have a role in giving you anything.

That may be the desire of a few people, but currently in the U.S. government provides trillions of dollars in services to its citizens, from roads to security to healthcare to income to universities to transportation to communication to much, much more.

> European understanding of society is that governments are there to ensure your rights

Check out the U.S.'s Declaration of Independence, where you will find perhaps the most famous words from one of the most famous political documents in history:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men

It's not just theory; in practice a very important role of governmnt in the U.S. is protecting rights. Many key rights for minorities and women are obtained through government. Property rights are protected by government. The U.S. Department of Justice even has a Civil Rights Division. [1] The whole contest for civil rights in the U.S. is centered around getting government to pass laws or rulings.

[1] http://www.justice.gov/crt
I don't like it either. But what to do about it? It seems logical to use `{|` instead, but that's not much prettier. Presumably just a plain old open brace is hard to parse.
There are white frats, black frats, party frats, and studious frats. You can justify generalizing all you want but it still reeks of ignorance.

I'm sorry that some of your friends from highschool turned into douchenozzles, I'm sure if they didn't join a frat they'd be outstanding citizens.
My experience is much like yours: linear reading is much superior on an e-device. But for technical stuff, I haven't found a reader device that gives me a good substitute for having multiple books open on my desk, with marked pages so I can flip between multiple locations.

One other thing that bugs me about e-readers is that they intentionally carry all the disadvantages of chopping text into discrete pages, when there's no reason at all to do so. In particular, it bugs me that, at the bottom of a page, I've got to memorize the context before flipping to the next. As I say it, it seems more jarring than it is, but even so, it's forcing a discontinuity that can interrupt the flow.

I just can't fathom why they don't do something to avoid that jump. Back in the early days of e-readers, I used software called "iSilo" on Palm and later PocketPC. This allowed me to configure it such that scrolling was in chunks of half a page. With this I could find any convenient spot (a paragraph or at least sentence break) on the lower half of the page, and choose to flip there. My previous "cursor" point would shift half way up the screen, and I could continue fluidly from there. I really wish Kindle allowed this.
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ha, unsure why you are getting downvoted clearly some people deny their imagination

any deterministic process can 'encode memory', just look at compression,
so if you have an initial state that you know will produce a final result, like this technology is showing can be done with snowflakes then you can encode the final result as a piece of memory and 'store' that value as the initial state and processing requirements

but you are subject to working backwards, determining the memory from the process

so, could you use this snowflake process to encode arbitrary memory as an initial state and process? it is unknown because this article fails to speak to whether the tech can design the snowflake to an acceptable precision
While reducing costs is a valid concern for both parties, particularly the employer, I wonder if there is a better approach than binding arbitration with the arbiter selected by the employer, which has serious conflict-of-interest concerns?
They always hurt the person who gave up their rights?

I'd argue that 99.9% of the time, they don't. How often do people want to sue their employer, anyway?

I've worked at two big-name companies, and I think they both had arbitration classes. I don't remember for sure. Never mattered.
What is it about these revsets that can't be achieved with a "git log --graph --decorate --all"?
Just wanna say that I don't think "white" is a requirement. It's the homogeneity of culture, background, and privilege level that makes it possible, though those things are pretty highly correlated with whiteness in the USA.