skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure what you mean by "trial by media" being a common point. Common where and used by whom?

I am also not sure what you mean. Are you taking the view that "influencing the zeitgeist" should only happen in the court system?
In NYC (or at least in Manhattan), when taxis are readily available (non-extreme weather), Uber is 2x to 3x less convenient than taxi. When taxis aren't readily available i.e. extreme weather, Uber is 3x - 5x more expensive than taxi and still takes forever to get one.

I believe that Uber in NYC will remain a niche player. But I do appreciate some competition against the taxis.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted, you make a good point. The reasons Uber is popular in San Francisco and other cities (hard to hail a cab, pay by CC, etc.) are moot in NYC. Uber advertises that they are 15% cheaper, but that's without surge pricing.
They can't stream to mobile, and CBS already has apps on all the set top boxes they can stream too. So twitter can stream to browsers?
What exactly did twitter buy here?

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> I think the sentiment the author is sharing is that a lot of women feel social pressures to appear outwardly successful, popular, etc, and this creates a very difficult situation where its perceived that asking a question that might make you sound stupid causes you to lose social status.

This is something i see my wife have constantly forced upon her by her mother. My wife wasn't allowed to do her own hair until senior year of High School, because she "Didn't do it right." My mother-in-law(MIL) would re-do homework that wasn't perfect. Essays that expressed opinions not 100% in-line with her opinion were re-written.

My wife is smart in her own right. She's smarter than me. She has her MS in Statistics. She's really good at what she does, but she has a hard time with confidence and asserting herself. She's been told she's not doing it right her whole life. I think some of the stress and lack of enjoyment at work stems from this. She should probably push back more often than she does. To be fair she has also had a few interactions customers who were outright sexist and make me want to punch somebody in the face.

Now, we let my daughter dress herself most days (She understands there times my wife picks her clothes and doesn't fight it). She may be wearing a purple, shirt, striped pants, and a polka dot skirt (honestly most of the time things don't clash THAT much). My MIL is horrified. "All of the other kids will laugh at her." No they won't, they're in preschool. All of the girls love whatever she is wearing. The boys don't even notice. We were talking her preschool teacher the other day and she told us "She'll be princesses with the girls one minute, and rough-housing playing ninja turtles with the boys the next." I couldn't be more proud.

Now that's not to rant against my MIL. My mother and father are crazy too in their own ways. As is everybody my family and that makes everything fun.
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Trend Micro has such a slimey leadership team that it is hard for me to see anything they do in a positive light. They desperately need to rebrand.
> Most Bitcoin transactions are P2P and hence there is no business/customer relationship and hence there is no KYC law applicable.

That's a bit of a nonsense statement. It's a P2P payment network so you have no way of knowing if most of the transactions going across it are between businesses and customers or person to person. Quite simply that's a claim you can't back up.
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I think a lot depends on team culture and perhaps that's where these kinds of anecdotes fall down - without the context of the team and personalities behind them, they are just snippets with three sides to every story.
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>sweetened with beet sugar.

Not in the US. Its corn syrup or an artificial sweeter. Curious to know if corn's water footprint is more or less than sugar beet.

I guess there's a larger issue here on how water like this isn't truly lost or in competition for human drinking water. Its part of a natural cycle of rainwater, runoff, and back into the aquifers or evaporated. A better metric is the real cost of irrigation for those farms. There are a lot of practical areas to grow corn or sugar beet. Those areas are rich in water, so its not a big deal if you use that much water for argiculture. Water heavy farming in the midwest is different than water heavy farming in California.
busted ssl, no cookie 4 you.
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> Or to put it another way, if this post was treated with s/girl/guy/, would anybody mention anything about "being a male programmer"?

Bingo.

There's a recent post on HN trending right now about mistreatment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11429590

The difference is that the person is male and the comparison of comments here and there is - peculiar.
I fully agree with using master for development. I also think that the git flow process is over the top for most teams. I detailed how to adopt just the things you need in GitLab flow.

"you lost track of the comments in the code and viewing what had actually changed since the last update became really hard" I don't understand why comments in the code would disappear. Line-comments on the code might disappear when lines are changed. We're adding a feature to GitLab where you can acknowledge line comments. And viewing changes is pretty easy as long as you don't rebase.
> "It was near the end of the working day, around 5pm, as the person coordinating the developer recruitment in our area I ping’ed our Slack channel to encourage our developers to start reviewing some code tests from job candidates. One person replied: “My end of day activity is doing the stuff I should have been doing all day instead of the other things that came up.”"

The developer is being treated poorly and gave a response to indicate why s/he was being treated poorly. I don't see the problem other than the person coordinating developer recruitment should respect people's time more.

> "A senior software architect who I used to respect walked close by in a meetup. We worked for the same company a while back so I smiled, said hi and was about to start a conversation, he quickly cut me off with “I need to get a drink” without looking at me and wondered off."

If I knew the person well enough, that one is actually a "I need to talk away from here" or a warning to not talk here. I've had friends go with that, but it really is not clear from the context what is going on or has gone on.
Plenty of works of art were created without copyright law. Would we have STAR WARS? No idea. Would we have awesome films? Definitely.
Long time coming.

I read The Goal and its sequels in the early 90s. The struggling fictional businesses were turned around by transitioning from production towards service oriented business models. Very out of the box thinking at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)

I really enjoyed the books at the time. Not great literature. But very thought provoking.
This may be true for a very broad definition of MVP. Specifically the "product" part.

Could be re-written as "6 Reasons to Validate Your Idea Before Building an MVP"
Anyone knows what 3D visualization software may have been used to generated these views?
But what about Freds feelings ?
I think the title is misleading, you say dumb girl but then you get into the top level, not an easy jump. Also if I was a professor I would like those asking questions to be prepared before hand in basic concepts, just to no slow down the class. There are certain type of questions that can arise naturally when discussing certain topics, but if you ask many times and your questions are of basic topics or greatly miss the topic you are giving a disservice to your class.

I think being a girl give you the opportunity to coach other girls, and help them, if you can prove that your personal experience can motivate others. But not everyone is ready to put the necessary effort to get to the top level. I think that mastering a subject requires some passion or being interested and excited by the subject and to be prepared to put in the effort.
I have a Retina Macbook, but I'm really pleased that PC makers have, finally, in the last two or three years started producing better laptops. For the longest time, only IBM and then Lenovo made laptops that were reasonably svelte and not actively hideous. But Lenovo ships malware in its laptops: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/now-three-pre-installed-malware... and should probably not be trusted.

Now Dell's XPS series is widely admired and HP is actively making good laptops. It's a miracle that shouldn't be miraculous!

Paul Graham wrote "Return of the Mac" in 2005: http://paulgraham.com/mac.html:

Powerbooks are beautifully designed and run FreeBSD. What more do you need to know?

I got a Powerbook at the end of last year. When my IBM Thinkpad's hard disk died soon after, it became my only laptop. And when my friend Trevor showed up at my house recently, he was carrying a Powerbook identical to mine.

It took seven or eight years between "Return of the Mac" and decent PC laptops to show up. Way too long.
And from the Beeb of all broadcasters!

Shameful, really.
It works well. I think with the original pull-request process we basically had a mental block that only one person is allowed to write the code, and the reviewer can only comment. This can be frustrating especially if you know exactly what needs to be fixed. If you just go ahead and make the change, you save both people's time.

I guess one place where it fails is that it's not very educational. If you're tutoring a less experienced programmer, you don't want to fix the mess after them, you want to teach them how to doing without you the next time around. In that case, I either leave the fix to the author, or fix the issue as they watch.
Dear god, no! They had to communicate through standard SMS!!! The horror!
Young people are easier to control. (When the "charge of the light brigade" was first written is was seen as a beautiful thing that soldiers would match obediently to their deaths; maybe in software we will accept how tragic it is in 2050 or something.)
See the other comment in this thread.
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> Would adding googly eyes and non functional arms to remotely controlled CCTV cameras or car speeding cameras

You don't?
Show HN: Are your APIs leaking user data?
All of Ben's books are amazing. Check Agent ZigZag out. I've read it like 4 times. Such an amazing fun story. http://www.amazon.com/Agent-Zigzag-Story-Espionage-Betrayal-...
Scientifically-speaking, is any water "lost"? Thinking back to those pictures of plains and mountains with a big circular arrow in my seventh grade science textbook: couldn't you say that even the water used by crops, turned into coke, and consumed by humans is eventually returned the ecosystem in some form or another?
> Why not? If it doesn't cost anything significant then it won't be selected against.

Much of the point of the article is that it does have significant metabolic cost.
I think in general there is a lot of people with very different backgrounds that work in an industry where standards are self defined.

Team leaders need to invest into their listening skills and stop thinking they are all Steve Jobs, and that they have to be an asshole just to get anything done.
There is the larger decline of the Ottoman Empire as a single ... syndrome.
That and the article asks the question 3 times and then immediately digress into yet another repetitive example of why the question is so important.
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Hi, I work for the TSA, would you like to do QA for us?
I don't have that much faith in disk-based caching. The disk doesn't know my workload, but I do. At least in the Windows world, hybrid hard drives have been a scam because the problem with windows has never been that the average disk access is slow, but that every so often your machine goes out to lunch for 30 seconds because of an I/O storm. What people actually feel and what affects your brand image is the 99% latency level or worse.
> Taxi, Uber, and Lyft Usage

I wish we had access to such numbers for apps on the App store.
I think that's a great point--socialization is a solution that should be considered a realistic option. It seems like publishing would have a comparable bureaucratic load to that faced by science funding agencies.
Note that you can change the default branch in github:

https://help.github.com/articles/setting-the-default-branch/
We are building tools to automate lot of the security flaws found across tech companies. Lot of the bugs are generic across many companies, so its better to automate them if possible. For the above tool, which basically checks for direct object reference, please use two different test accounts.
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If you look at my GGP comment, you'll see that mirroring to the Chromecast is what I initially suggested. I was specifically asking about the statement "OR the Chromecast can run an SSH client".
Guess someone likes to watch Wall Street.
> Are your APIs secure?

Hosted on a site without SSL...
KYC laws apply to financial businesses, like those whose sole servers is the transfer of money, i.e. bitcoins. Exchanges for example must comply with KYC laws. Money laundering, aka mixing, is itself a purely financial service. There are no mixing services that are on steady legal ground; they are proving a service that expressly allows one to launder money as such they will always be a target for authorities.
> I can appreciate that you had a great environment with an older brother and father that encouraged you to participate in technical activities with them, but not everyone has the same environment. <

What women need to understand is that just by solving this problem of "encourage women to do X" won't do anything. Why not? Because that's not the real problem.

What you miss about AlyssaRowan's post is that she is telling you that she never cared about other people's validation. What you read there is as 'her brother and father encouraged her'.

Try ignoring what other people expect out of you and you will find that suddenly everybody is rallying behind you.
They do.

But it doesn't work even in the US's case. US companies will routinely "sell" their intellectual property to a subsidiary in e.g. Ireland and then license to back to the US company to avoid paying US taxes. There are some highly successful US companies who, per the books, make nearly $0/year profit within the US.
>You can create bundles and submit them for approval. Very similar.

Bundles do not have anywhere near the same flexibility and nuanced capacity that patches do.

>The work philosophy is different, though.

That's an apology if I've ever seen one. Again, not the same.

>False.

Rename a file. Then try to merge. Tell me what happens.
> my newer projects just use scripts now to do building and I just simply reference the same depdencies grunt and all wrap

Which is basically reinventing the wheel for the Xth time, but now with your spin on it. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against spinning a script or two for building, but as soon as you share them with others there might be some problems. Modern build systems have pretty thriving ecosystems which means less time doing stuff which is out of the development time. Thriving ecosystems mean that many are already familiar with the tools, which means less time for them to get a grasp of your project. And so on and so on. There are many benefits of using commonly used tools besides just running few simple or complex scripts.
Yea and then you get points off for not being a "self-starter" haha.
That's not double-taxation if the US has a tax treaty with the other nation (which is does with most nations). You get tax credits for foreign income taxes paid such that you pay max(foreign_tax, us_tax).
It's nice to see PC laptops taking advantage of lower power chips to improve their external design. But from online reviews of previous Spectre 360 models, it seems many users complained of overheating and poor wifi reliability. I wonder if HP have done anything to address those in the new thinner version? Aside from that it looks like an attractive machine (golden swirls and jewels notwithstanding).
This should be a daemon, going by the name
I don't see anything in the article that goes against gitflow. Is it just me?

They don't want to use Github for the code review and prefer to use Gerrit? Good for them, I don't either and actually prefer GitLab or BitBucket for git in general. But hey! thanks for the Gerrit introduction.

But gitflow?

I've been using the gitflow way of working for ~5 years (although not always the gitflow extension) and I don't see anything there that clashes with that way of working. You want to work on a feature, perfect: Branch from develop and work away.

After you are done and before you merge with develop again, you push your feature to Gerrit and do the code review/changes. And then merge back to develop.

Really, I don't see the issue between Gerrit and gitflow and still think that gitflow is a very sane way of working in a team, specially if you have people that are not used to work with [distributed] version control systems and you probably wouldn't believe how many developers are out there like that.
> sexism can be plain-old rudeness directed by men at women

No, that's a double standard. But if we're using the modern redefined version of sexism, yes you're right.
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If you haven't noticed, the New Yorker also redesigned their top navigation. It's a brilliant design from https://twitter.com/mimicdecipher and implemented by https://twitter.com/erik_erikson
> it's the quantity of it that makes the difference //

Surely not, surely it's the reason for the rudeness - if the reason is based [at all] on the sex of the person one is being rude to then it can veritably be called sexism. Otherwise it's just being rude to another person.
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I don't get node and npm (although I was good with JS), but you seem to be cool.

Noted. : )

Edit: again, now that we have a bunch of people capable of understanding trendy JS here: Care to share a link to somewhere I can learn?
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I met Jessica when I interviewed at YC. She was very nice in addition to extremely intelligent, of course. She was smiling the entire time and made a clear effort to make me less nervous. I hope she enjoys the recharge!
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I'm approaching 40 and this is something I think about a lot. In fact this is something that everyone should think about. Everyone, assuming you are lucky enough, will get older.

The person you reject because they are over 40 today will be you in 10 years. If you pass on someone due to their age you can't turn around and get mad when some other 20 year old does the same.

Whenever I interview someone I always ask myself, if I was the person across the table from me would I think I got a fair shot during this interview.

Having said that, this is a two way street. You need to be aware of what your skill set is. I took the Scott Adams career advice [0] to try and be in the top 25% in two areas. In my case its Math and programming. If your skill set is FoxPro DB support then, as the kids say these days, you're going to have a bad time.

[0] http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...
Responds here are pretty "interesting" compared to carefully crafted ones in another trending HN thread [1]. They're both daily CS/IT problems, except one is somehow about gender and the other should "man up, because masculine talk".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11427467
Pump-and-dump is a major threat. Almost every cryptocurrency or related asset, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, has been vulnerable to pump-and-dump, and it is impossible to prevent.

One way to try to deter pump-and-dump is to make it so that the founders don't have any sort of privileged position, but then how could you afford to do all of the work to create a solid, usable protocol? The Zcash team (https://z.cash/team.html) is a world-class team of experts, and we all have mouths to feed during the years of our lives that we're devoting to this project.

Our solution is to trickle the Founders Reward out to the founders incrementally over the first four years, integrated with the rhythm of mining.

This militates against pump-and-dump in two ways:

1. Neither the Founders nor anybody else has a giant stash of Zcash at the beginning with which they can manipulate the market price.

2. The Founders are locked into receiving more and more Zcash over the first four years, so their incentive is for the price of Zcash to go up during that time.

In my opinion, this hack is awesome.

It affords us the opportunity to focus several years our lives on solving this important problem, which otherwise would probably go unsolved, and it offers a transparent and simple financial setup that users can evaluate for themselves if they think it is a good deal.

So I categorically reject the word "scam". There is no reasonable interpretation of the word "scam" which applies to the Zcash Founders Reward.

https://z.cash/blog/funding.html
Really? A 32 slot hash table? How do they justify that these days?

I think a stock Linux kernel listens on enough ports to risk a collision, doesn't it?
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There's a large income exclusion that means unless you earn a really kick ass salary, you're unlikely to be double taxed.
Ugh, the PC industry has been dying like lemmings ever since the "Return of the Mac" and since it gave up power for the pursuit of fashion.

Just because they make machines look like Macs doesn't mean they will get the high profit margin Apple gets. Today you can buy a Mac or buy a fake Mac so people will just buy a Mac. If somebody in the PC industry was competing on power they might be getting the high profit margin 2 years from now and Apple's profit margin will collapse the way Wall Street has been expecting since "Return of the Mac".
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I agree that double taxation is crazy BUT lets add the fact that US will tax you ONLY if your worldwide income is over a certain threshold (believe it is $90,000 currently). Not that I am defending this but there is difference between saying that you are double taxed vs you are double taxed only for a certain portion of income
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