skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Care to elaborate on how that works?

A fully clothed women in a still image still has no personality, no interactions, no lines, no inherent character. A still image is within itself a prop or an object.

So criticising a still image for objectifying women is inherently both true but also completely redundant. Everything in a still image is static, it is an object, plants, animals, women, men, naked, fully clothed, they're all objects.

The term "objectifying women" (as a negative) originated from turning women into objects or props in situations where they wouldn't otherwise be so. So for example, you take a female character, you remove all of her lines, put her in sexy clothing, then have the male characters stand around and talk about how sexy she is. That's objectification, they've literally turned that women into an object or prop for male character's use.

Calling all sexual images of women "objectification" is simply an overreach. It also doesn't make rational sense when applied to women who couldn't have dialog, personalities, or interactions such as a still image on a t-shirt. It is pretty hard to have ANY women or man on a t-shirt who isn't an object.

You can call it "distasteful" (likely true) or "inappropriate" (again, likely true for work) but you didn't, you called it objectification which it objectively is not.
The UK has a rather excellent radio programme devoted to explaining and debunking topical political and media statistics. Available as podcast with all back episodes for download.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd
> I wrote Ansible

I know this doesn't add to the conversation, but: thank you for writing ansible!
Actually it's more to do with air resistance. It increases exponentially at higher speeds. You also don't burn less by driving really slow, since the engine burns some amount of fuel just by running at any speed. 40 mph is the sweet spot, supposedly.

Driving at the speed limit will definitely save you more fuel than speeding.
- asking someone out on dates repeatedly, even if they've already said "no"

There's some kind of weird disconnect in our society here. I've been in the position where I've asked a colleague out to a movie, but she gave a plausible sounding excuse each time. I stopped asking when she finally definitely said "no," but she did so with language that made me feel like she thought me a rapist. No means no, but white lies should not be held equivalent to "no."
... Or they just don't have a lot of drivers in some markets.
> ...people who commit crimes...

While sexual harassment is terrible, it isn't a crime. There are a lot of terrible things that aren't crimes. A push to criminalize it would have the opposite effect of what the proponents desire: the definition would be severely narrowed and companies would likely have a lot less exposure to litigation.
If $2b of costs is almost no expenses, then surely $1b of profit is as well. You can't have it both ways, downplaying their costs and complaining about their profit.
One of the most shameful episodes in recent British political history.

That crook literally killed a strategically viable public transport network just so he could line his own pockets.
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I investigated Vice for over six months for a book. Their media is so bad I regularly call it a liar's cult.

It should be stated that Vice has no fact-checking process. They also rarely issue corrections. Read everything from them with caution.

Here is an article where I fact-checked two documentaries with links to other fact checks.

https://notvice.com/fact-checking-vice-a-fiction-2d482100116...
I think this hits the nail on the head for a lot of "tech" businesses at the moment:

> “You don’t get rewarded for creating great technology, not anymore,” says a friend of mine who has worked in tech since the 1980s, a former investment banker who now advises startups. “It’s all about the business model. The market pays you to have a company that scales quickly. It’s all about getting big fast. Don’t be profitable, just get big.”
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I think in ~10 years of C development, I had seen maybe 1 corruption bug slip through the testing suites to production. The vast majority are caught in unit tests, system tests, or QA.

I think it took 2-3 days of a 2-3 devs, but that's mostly because any production bug was very very expensive (Need to be very careful not to damage production machines).

But the search for the corruption was usually a couple of hours, perhaps a day's project.

If you utilize tools like valgrind, poison data that is released to pools, follow strict coding conventions, heavily test-cover your code, and become gdb-savvy, corruption bugs become not that expensive.
The fact that it would take several man-years to replicate a large GPL project is enough of a deterrence. And the freedom is quite clearly defined by the FSF:

0. The ability to run the program as you wish.

1. The ability to modify the program and run the modified program. This requires source code.

2. The freedom to distribute exact copies of the software and source code.

3. The freedom to distribute modified copies of the software and source code.

The GPL ensures that those freedoms are upheld for any single body of work or any works derived from that work. If someone decides to completely replace your software with an alternative, that's fine. But if it's not worth their time (hint: it usually isn't) they'll begrudgingly grant their users the freedom that you wanted them to have in the first place.

The GPL does do much better than lax licenses like the MIT at both points. With an MIT license, it doesn't take any effort to make the code proprietary and thus violate both of the points you made.
And if you do have them installed? What does it do then - invoke git?
If they're flirting with someone who they can fire, or hit with a damaging performance review? (Or an unjustly flattering one, for that matter.) Absolutely I'd tell them to knock it off. The possibility of things sometimes going right in that sort of situation isn't worth the cost.
A significant part of the genre of satan-fearing or whatever you call it, is the devil is quite lazy, but its still worth banning.

For the standard HN car analogy, driving while drunk is perhaps only 10 times more dangerous than driving sober. So ten times practically nothing is still close to zero. So when the ball game lets out and 40K fans drive home and at least half are legally drunk, there are no bodies stacked like cordwood, because its just not that dangerous. However, virtually everyone agrees the cost/benefit ratio, especially in the long term, is such that drunk driving should be illegal. A standard HN golf analogy would be holding up your golf club during a lightning storm, where the odds of getting lit up are extremely low because a spark that jumped 10 kft isn't going to care about a primate waving a stick, yet only an idiot would intentionally do it.
We needed a way to support templates, because we really write any kind of documents in Markdown. AFAIK StackEdit does not support templates like we implemented. I did not know Dillinger, which seems to be close to StackEdit.

So if I had to quickly benchmark, I'd say: Monod has this notion of templates, speaks CommonMark (no hackish markdown), and is offline-first. Yet, the main reason we wrote it was to learn React.js.

We are working on open sourcing it this week!
It was from Colbert's White House Correspondents dinner speech in 2006. Not quite standup.
I was almost kicked out of my catholic high school in 2006 because I was running a DnD group after school and the administration found out. I had to have several parent teacher conferences which mostly consisted of my mom and I trying to stifle laughter as the principal drew a path of my moral degeneracy (in terms of severity) from playing DnD, to cutting myself, to Wicca and finally, yes, to Islam. I think they saw one of the characters in my campaign was D'jinn or something.
Reminds me of the reverse engineering of the dropbox client: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot13/woot13...
> that if we feign interest in other people's works, they'll have legitimate interest in ours.

As a counter point, my wife and I both genuinely enjoy seeing other people's posts, esp. from friends who live far away or are on vacation. As much as the world is at your fingertips on the internet, there's something special in seeing a friends photo at or of some beautiful place I"ve never heard of. As much as it seems to annoy others, I've always enjoyed it (and unlike Facebook, I don't get updates from the 90% of poeple I'm not interested in hearing from).
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You are allowed to criticize the rules. Rules can be stupid. And if no one complains, then they will never change.

I don't agree with many of HN's policies, but they are nowhere near as bad as stack overflow. At least on censoring actually useful discussions, whereas HN mostly censors flame wars and political stuff.
I second this. I recently made a simple command line tool for my coworkers using several of the same libraries used here, but this is so much cleaner and better organized than what I threw together. Definitely will be reviewing this codebase for inspiration when I get a chance to refactor.
45% of Americans Pay No Federal Income Tax
Will they compel landlords to install chargers in all parking spots? What about street parking? Or are people who don't own garages simply screwed, as in the US?
Thanks - those are good points...
I agree with a lot of the other responses, but also keep in mind that academia has a very different structure than what you're used to. Individuals tend to be less able to move around, particularly when they are grad students. That tends to give others more power over them.
Only about 11 currently operating, apparently [1].

As for London, Wimbledon is one of four termini. The vast majority of the system is in Croydon, including loops through the town centre. There's regularly proposals for new extensions, but at the moment it looks like all of them are on ice down to lack of funding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_town_tramway_systems_i...
I expect there are a number of observable events or non-events that can be used to infer the use of an ad blocker. They don't necessarily work well ...

I've been presented with a "We see you're using an ad blocker ... please turn it off" message (I can't recall where, perhaps Bloomberg or the WSJ?) when I've just had a Hosts file in play.
This is a common service offered by SEO and marketing firms. Some are centered entirely around the need to "polish" search results, like Reputation.com.
That is also one kind of lawsuit where your personal assets will be on the line if you lose.

Regardless of what you think of Puritanism, don't sexualize the workplace.
bash is for bitcoin and android is for pirates?
That title... I think I heard a manager somewhere have a 10 minute orgasm.
If we don't need them, why are they still being used?

You may think peer review is over-rated. The response should be to convince others of that and get them to stop using it, not complain about the high cost of peer review/journals/etc.
Have you read the article? He accesses the Details tab and it's not there either.
Exactly. The open access problem is very tied to the « publish or perish » one. Interestingly, the biggest publishers are the ones who lobby in favor of bibliometrics, and even sell off-the-shelf bibliometrics solutions (e.g., SciVal by Elsevier).

One of the major problem is that bibliometrics criteria are necessarily impacted by inertia of prestige, and publishers own the title of the most prestigious journals.

Older, tenured scientists could just go and stop publishing in those journals to build up the prestige of new (really) open access ones, but the fact is that most often they co-authors papers with their students or at least younger, un-tenured scientists, and they understandably don't want to sacrifice the careers of the new generation.

Some funding agencies now requires that work they fund are made open access, but sadly, publishers lobby in the US and in Bruxelles weight a lot in favor of "authors pay" model, and many funding agencies includes publishing budget in research grant for this reason. That is very frustrating because people mix up real open access with open access paid by authors, while 1- other economical models are possible (see my other comments on this page), and 2- countries and funding agencies could legally enforce that every papers published in a non-open access journal must be made available immediately in an open repository such as arXiv, overruling the decision of publishers who often put an embargo of e.g. 2 years before this can be done.
If the US had a EU style "right to be forgotten", could Chancellor Katehi use it to make google forget about this?
I always wonder at what point does bullying and the like become genuine illegal harassment? I have worked with assholes who bullied and acted like children, but I dealt with it and moved on. If my wife had worked with the same person does that make the bully's actions now something that is illegal?

I've done some reading on this and it is never quite clear. It seems like if the asshole is an asshole to everyone it is fine. Only if they pick a protected class to be an asshole to does it become a problem.
But they may be unique to you, making you more identifiable/trackable. The TOR browser warns you when resizing the window that it reduces privacy.

Personally I don't care either, just thought you might want to know!
How a marketing piece gets to the top of HN?
I wouldn't take it too seriously, as it is a commercial for the publisher, encouraging taking buisiness loans, telling people it is quite safe.
Google this "divorce lawyer for men," granted it is marketing ploy.
I wonder where I can read about frank male experiences in a female-dominated field, such as nursing, or teaching elementary school.
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Should be interesting to see what webassembly does to this existing ecosystem.
Hi Sajeev, good that you are finally releasing the product. I've been waiting for a long time to try it.

What are the supported cloud storages during your launch?
You might want to track down the primary source of that saying.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert
OK, so:

a) Phoronix. Grain of salt, please.

b) Motivating ideation is not a plan. It was never the case that 10x10, GNOME 4.0, 20x20, GNOME OS (proposed more than a decade earlier btw) were widely accepted goals of the project. They were thought experiments.

Judge open source projects on their activity and output, not the claims of non-participating bloggers.
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Buddy, if you have to ask then I can't explain it to you. I know a ghost sound when I hear it.
The connection is that they are both tourist attractions that were negatively impacted by photography during my visits.

Regarding the Sistine Chapel - you're right, photography is not allowed and I overrepresented the flashes when grouping it in with the Mona Lisa. But during my 5 minute visit I saw 3 different flashes and heard 3 different exclamations from Vatican staff "No pictures!", which was plenty disruptive.
Here's a deeper discussion of the technical design differences between NeWS and Display PostScript, from a discussion with Robin Schaufler and James Gosling:

From: James Gosling <jag@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Display PS vs NeWS
Date: 22 December 1988 at 19:35:08 GMT+1
To: Robin Schaufler <robin@Sun.COM>
Cc: don@brillig.umd.edu (Don Hopkins), sevans%norquay@Sun.COM

Robin: Don, I'm replying just to you, not to NeWS-makers (trying to stay out of
trouble). The one major area where NeWS cannot emulate Display PS is that of
memory management. Display PS introduces the notion of spaces; effectively,
each process group gets its own heap. Kill the process group - the memory gets
cleaned up whether it has cycles in it or not. Very nice, actually. But a
major project for us if we decide to adopt it. Fortunately, we already started
on a new memory management system for data localization that will help some
with implementation.

James: The thing that we don't have is a thousand caveats on what can be
assigned to what. You can't have pointers that cross spaces in Adobe's
scheme, so as you read through their documentation you find zillions of
restrictions that make life very difficult. Also, the "kill the
process group..." doesn't really apply: they don't have process
groups. Each process is alone. If you want to share, you have to
stick stuff in the "shared" space or be forked from a common parent.
save/restore has bizarre semantics in this memory model: eg. if a
process executes "save" then any other process that shares the same
storage pool is blocked (honest, I'm not making this up!)

Robin: We also can't emulate their lock mechanism. I had the distinct impression that
they analysed NeWS monitors completely, figured out exactly what was wrong with
them, and fixed it. I really like this extension, but again, considerable work
for us (tho less than for the memory management extension).

James: Far from considerable work and of dubious value: almost no one has ever
used locks. DPS locks are identical to NeWS monitors (they're even
applied with the same primitive "monitor"). NeWS is missing condition
variables, which are a good idea but not difficult to implement. Events
are the common form of process syncronization in NeWS.

Robin: Another area we would have trouble emulating is their new halftoning operators,
but that seems like less of a problem. The new operators allow for tiling,
which we've implemented for X, but we'd still have to hook it up for NeWS,
and provide their model, which isn't quite the same model. Actually,
NeWS probably can emulate it but it would be beastly slow.

James: Actually, the DPS threshhold are NOT the tiling operators that
PostScript so badly needs. If you read it carefully, for devices with
more than one bit per pixel you can't get the tiling effect. Halftones
continue to only be useful for halftoning.

Robin: In a few cases they picked the same names and operator spec as us, but in
general they didn't try to be compatible. A few incompatibilities seem
gratuitious to me.

James: eg. processes
Nice presentation?
What tool do you use to builded? D3.js from scratch or another one?
Oh boy... post it on HN when you are done with it also :-)

I'd love to see Gopher come back again.
It's pronounced `hax0r`
You mean a drug dog?
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There are expenses involved in using a road even when it's not full.
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That still gives you Lisp, Ada, Go, Haskell, and Java, if you make the (imo incorrect) assumption that "low level" tools can only be written in languages which compile down to bytecode.

Of course, Mercurial gives lie to this assumption.
Facebook tells B2C businesses: I feel your mobile pain
Sexual harassment in the US is usually a civil matter. You don't call the police because it's not a crime in and of itself, so they can't do anything about it.

Sexual harassment can include crimes like sexual assault and stalking, so in those cases you should definitely call the police.
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What other channels?
Stowing away a better term for you? Yeah hoarding is usually a plural reference but you know what the article meant.
The certificate is for heroku, IIRC. Even if were for the right CN and just self-signed, that'd still make it the wrong certificate.
If you don't have a system that takes away your freedom with tivoisation, then yes you can have free software that implements DRM. But there's no purpose to that software because it cannot be used to restrict your users (the whole point of DRM). In addition, the software is actually not effectively free because you cannot exercise any of the freedoms because you might get DMCA'd (especially freedoms #1 and #3 -- where modification involves removing the digital handcuffs).

So, practically speaking, you can't have free DRM software. But you can have "open source" DRM software, because there's no part of the OSI that classifies software that acts like such a trap as being immoral. The GPLv3 essentially ensures that a user is not threatened by legal threats about breaking DRM in a piece of free software. It's the only software license that ensures this AFAIK, so I'm a bit sad more people don't use it for firmware and other places where defence against tivoisation matters.
If she really wanted to see the movie with you, but she actually had to take her dog to the dentist, she would have counter-offered a time and date.

She was trying to brush you off, hoping you'd take the hint, without appearing confrontational. It obviously didn't work. You continued with the unwanted advances, and it made her uncomfortable.
Meaning ?
This has worse problems with credible authority than the Forbes article they're debunking. Forbes is at least a journalistic publication, this is clearly content marketing with an agenda to promote.
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A startup is just a new business. In the first year of existence, every business is by definition a startup unless created by spinning an existing unit out of a business. Some people might say that the term "startup" is only applicable to new tech companies aiming for absurd growth, but those people are defining too narrowly.

The "8 out of 10 startups fail in a year" claim also rings hollow without a citation, even if restricted to "tech startups". Is there some source that demonstrates that 8/10 high-growth startups fail within a year or is this as unsupported as the more general claim?
I find it interesting that NVIDIA has been decreasing the number of CUDA cores per streaming multiprocessor (SM) in each successive architecture, while increasing the number of streaming multiprocessors. It makes each SM look more like a CPU core with a vector unit. I wonder what the reason it might be - it doesn't really change the programming model, it just requires you to tune the size of thread blocks versus number of thread blocks differently.
Right? There are too many valuable bug bounties and interested parties for people to divulge the best exploits. Those are all probably still in the wild and will remain that way until the right buyer appears.