skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like AOL, many facebook users think facebook is the internet.
Why would you go to the police?! This is an employment matter, not a criminal matter. And she needs to tell the boss, because she wants to head off retaliation in the workplace.

I get tired of hearing these excuses about age, background, I didn't know what the word meant, in my old workplace I got to harass ladies all the time and it was fine. Just act like a professional. I'd even give the guy a pass if he said, "Look, I'm interested in you and I'd like to go on a date. If you're not interested, just say so and I won't mention it again." At least that's polite, instead of all this textbook boundary testing.
I've seen this question answered before and the explanation was that small flaccid penises imply a proportionally large change when they become erect. While an already large but flaccid penis would proportionally not change so much.

Greeks considered the difference between the size of a flaccid vs erect penis a sign of masculinity, and therefore tended to use small penises.

What's more glorious than knowing that the flaccid retracted penis of an amazing athlete will grow 4x when required (which is plausible). A larger non retracted penis wouldn't grow so much proportionally.
Those issues seem so trivial with the benefit of hindsight and a memory of what it was like to deploy an application to multiple UNIX variants. Having one standard (we can call that standard "it ain't quite POSIX, but it runs great on Linux") is so superior to the mine field that was all of the UNIXen in 199x, that I don't even register it as a problem. Shoot, until you've had to use autotools or custom build a makefile for a half dozen different C compilers, kernels, libc, and so on, you don't know from POSIX "standards" pain.

But now my beard is showing and I'm ranting. My point is this: it took something from completely outside of the commercial UNIX ecosystem, so far out in left field that none of the UNIX bosses (or Microsoft) saw it as a threat until it was far too late...and it took something that was good, really good in at least some regards, that it would have passionate fans even very early in. Linux did that. And, compared to everything else (pretty much everything else that's ever existed, IMHO), it's great.

And, I'm on board the retro computing bandwagon. I have a real live Commodore 64 and an Atari 130xe. I'd like to one day find an Amiga 1200 in good shape, but because I live in an RV and travel fulltime, I don't have a lot of room to spare. But I do like to tinker and reminisce.
Read the book "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport. It's not about web dev or entrepreneurship, but it's well worth the read. (I'm a web dev turned entrepreneur, so I know it suits your situation). I'm finally reading it and it is eye-opening.
In short: Become really good at what you do through deliberate practice. This will open doors and get you where you want to go.
You're right. If she was already on a dated and documented PIP before the report, then you're probably OK. It would be worse if you were just about to put her on a PIP.
It is an Electron app from what I can see on OSX (Electron/React Native/Mantle/Squirrel). No voice calls though.
I think Aaronson's Q&A w/ MIT News is the most accessible explanation of why this isn't an "it works!" moment. It's a complex, nuanced argument so it's easier to just read than try to summarize here [1]

I think basically if you grasp why Selby's algorithm is able to beat D-Wave, you'll understand why D-Wave isn't a useful quantum computer, whatever terminology you want to use to describe it.

N.B. Even Aaronson admits D-Wave may have useful technology[2], it's just that the present "dirty qbit" approach doesn't give you a machine useful for anything more than basic science research, which is not at all how D-Wave have hyped it.

[1] http://news.mit.edu/2015/3q-scott-aaronson-google-quantum-co...

[2] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2555#comment-967324
I could not agree more. It started out by copying myspace which copied friendster which copied...
You have no absolutely idea, who started the tinder-esque technique. For all you know, she could have been calling him a dirty stud, a day earlier.

If this true? Would you then fire her?

This is why, you need both sides of the story before you can do a "with cause" firing.
I'm confused. Are corporations only entitled to 2nd amendment protection when we're conflating money with speech or does it also count when it's actually speech?
Stop paying them?

I imagine most lawyers tend to go away pretty quickly if you stop giving them money.
Yes. There is no reason we can't work to make government less wasteful and keep people from cheating the system.

While a lot of tax money is wasted a lot of it does a lot of good. They are skipping out on paying their fair share of those too.
Major Outage at Salesforce
The DNA of that person relates to a time when he called the users of fb "dumb f*cks"
>and for them the problem of programming comes down to finding the right magic piece of code online to copy and paste.

This seems like a particularly uncharitable thing to say about people who write code in a 'high level' programming language. You're alleging not just that they don't understand the fundamental low level workings of a computer, but that they don't even understand how to write new programs in their language?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess "memory model"; both consistency and coherence issues.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
> are leeches on society

The societies that have gotten rid of the capitalists haven't made life better for the rest.
I share your sentiment that there are way too many copy-paste "devops" people in the industry these days; I always thought the idea was to hire people with both sysadmin and coding skills, yet a perplexingly high proportion of people I interact with these days have neither. I'd never choose to hire somebody who can't describe a tcp handshake, explain what epoll_wait() does or whiteboard a hashtable, but that's the state of our industry (and, probably, why those of us who can are in such high demand...)

Nonetheless, it seems silly to complain about a lack of knowledge and then complain about somebody trying to share knowledge. I've definitely wanted to lock coworkers in a room with a copy of _The_Linux_Programming_Interface_ before, but maybe a video series on similar topics would be better-received.
Amen. Everyone knows; it's just a kid getting out of punishment to say otherwise. Readers might be impressed at just how resistant some people are to learning what's offensive: they can learn calculus, botanical names, database management, but miraculously just never figure out that hitting on colleagues is problematic.
pony is worth a look: http://www.ponylang.org/
Millions, or so it feels that way.
BK and Monotone begat Git
So many people confuse encryption with authentication...
Suppose you're a whistleblower trying to contact a reporter using WhatsApp. You've never met in person, so you send a message over WhatsApp, "Hello!" The reporter replies, "Hi!"
You now have a big problem -- you don't KNOW that it was the reporter who replied to you, it might've been a nefarious 3rd party who already intercepted your original message and is now replying.
WhatsApp's only mechanism for checking if that's the case is comparing some numbers out-of-band (e.g. in person, with QR codes).
What's even more tragic is that WhatsApp doesn't track/show which contacts you may have already authenticated.. good luck remembering which of your 100 contacts are verified
Your broker or the wholesaler both have a choice:

1) match the order with the NBBO.
2) send the order to the exchange.

If your limit is better than the NBBO, then they are required by the law to price improve it. Further, the nature of their agreements with your broker are such that they are required to maintain a price improvement level (that should be better than NBBO compliance). That is, incidentally also largely the requirement the exchanges operate under as well.

A limit order doesn't have anything to do with the existence or non-existence of market orders, it has to do with your limit and the NBBO. The way they make money is not by changing the market against your interests, but instead booking the spread (and in fact the reason they like retail order flow is that it is naturally uncorrelated so the spread is more even).

The customer does in fact know that this is happening as it is a regulatory requirement that they disclose it.

I suspect that lots of whole sellers would be happy to kick back profits, if the retail customer was also on the hook to back the losses. Instead, they aren't and they get heavily discounted (to the point that it is now free to trade) trading costs instead.
That's a good point. We might also question why we have so many things that turn on the classification in the first place.
This just seems to be exactly like the Whatsapp Web running in the browser. I don't understand what benefit comes from the native client.
> First off Acceptance Rates' imply an employee relationship.

Ah, I can see that. On one hand though, Uber needs to avoid the "ghost driver" situation where riders open the app and see cars that they cannot actually "hail" so-to-speak. I could see how this would create a negative market experience for riders...but perhaps acceptance rates aren't the best/most unbiased metric for quantifying this?

> Star ratings are again a black mark.

I don't know about this. Driver quality/rider experience are part of creating a marketplace attractive to potential riders. If drivers are giving riders bad experiences, their return to the market becomes circumspect. Quality control also isn't a new thing for market places, to further your Amazon parallel: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID...

> If Uber let other company's onto their platform and users could pick one of several 'Joe's Cabs' which all share star ratings that would be a marketplace.

Now that is an interesting concept! Allowing drivers to band together and present themselves as a collective would be an interesting Quality Control mechanism. But I don't know if this is malicious on Uber's part so much as the market vision they have is limited (e.g. individual drivers to fares). This might be because of the historical origin of Uber which was targeted towards facilitating "jobs" for private drivers.

I think you have some really good points, but I, personally, am still not sure I 100% agree when you say Uber is not creating a marketplace...somewhat because I see a lot of parallels to Amazon's marketplace where you see a lot of differences :)

I don't really want to defend Uber, I have a moral distaste for Walmart type wage avoidance...I just am not sure if I consider Uber NOT a marketplace. I also have a very incomplete picture so I will keep an eye out for more details about this particular line of reasoning.

Thanks for the clarification!
A contemporary x86, RISC, mixed (ISA + accelerators), or what other CPU? I think CPU is a broad term. :) Anyway, Wikipedia has a detailed write-up that assembly experts can base a comparison on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11_architecture

It wasn't that PDP-11 made C implementations more efficient. It's that C was a BCPL specifically designed to compile easily and run fast on their PDP-11. That's why I can't overemphasize C's actual history vs the lore that people repeat. It's literally an ALGOL language with every feature that couldn't compile on 60's and 70's era hardware chopped off with some extensions added latter.

http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG

Worked fine for a PDP-11. Yet, forcing its memory model or tradeoffs into a language used on different hardware can cause unnecessary problems. In contrast, Hansen's Edison language deployed on PDP-11 had only five statements (extreme simplicity haha) but would map efficiently to most architectures. As would Pascal and Modula-2 that inspired it & were safer.

http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/1981b.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2
No, the newspaper or magazine has clear editorial. It's very clear that this is what Fox News or The New York Times or Wall Street Journal is saying.

People think that Facebook is a place where their friends, and family post things. By extension, they think that Facebook trends are just "what's popular" not, what Facebook as a company is saying or endorsing.

No one holds Facebook responsible for a topic that is trending. Actually, I take that back, a bunch of people do but, they are dismissed out of hand as idiots.

Facebook really doesn't want to be in the publishing of ideas business. Their responsibility would be higher.

The air shouldn't have an opinion on the sound traveling through it.

Facebook has the means to manipulate ideas at scale. They have researched it. We are just supposed to blindly trust them because of a vaguely worded Facebook post? A post where to respond, I have to log in and identify myself?

I mean, it's hard to not to see this as Orwellian or just plain stupid. Other than choosing (and then doubling down on) PHP, I don't see Facebook as run by stupid people.

Either they think this thing will just blow over and no one will care. This much trust in something that isn't transparent is just bad for democracy. Facebook isn't the TV station, it's the airwaves. They have to be held to different standards.
Come on. You've still got a lot to learn about women if you think that. Where appropriate, calling a woman a MILF is actually perfectly acceptable. Here are specific comments I've made to women: "Ummm. MILFY.", to "That is nice, milfy look." The receivers include romantic prospects, girlfriends, my wife, and female friends. It is not something I use everyday, but it is very much within acceptable bounds. No one has ever been offended by my use of the word MILF. Why? Because I understand proper social etiquette. Example: my wife is dressed to the nines before we're about to out. MILF. In my past, woman at bar is receptive to my advances, I comment on her "milfy" shoes.

What is not acceptable is jumping to "MILF" or "DTF?" within a professional setting. Workplace courtship requires careful advancement with an ability to permanently halt at the drop of a hat. The recipient of an advance must always have full power. This new employee failed at corporate worker bee 101. He cannot be trusted with employees, customers, or clients. He should be terminated.
Eeek, please tell me you've anonymised the key details... HN isn't really a great place for discussing sensitive/confidential information.
She explicitly said that she didn't want him (the boss) to do anything about it. So (in her mind), there was nothing she couldn't handle.

In addition, the event took place outside of work. You are not responsible for the social/sexual relationship of your employees in their private life.
Congrats, you just invented Reactive Extensions...
Telegram forever ahead...
This is not an independent app. It is still tethered to the phone, and can't work without it :(
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669954 and marked it off-topic.
SMS verification really sucks. It's hugely helpful because it is an 'open social graph' to use a Zuckerbergism. However, it's not at all designed to do this. It's like the problem with SSL verifying ownership via email - ok at first sight, but then say you run a webmail service and you can register webmaster@, game over without any crypto bother. Or just trojan the webmaster@ mailbox and get control over the guy that runs it and issue a valid cert. Insta-MITM.

Mobile numbers are easy to spoof and easy to port away from people. In most countries telco regulators look at how easy it is to port cell numbers as a badge of honour on how efficient their mobile regulation is. Just like everything, attackers will rush to the easiest point of failure. In this it's SMS and using phone numbers as a trusted identifier.

In the UK you need to get a "PAC code" to change provider, but it's not hard to social engineer that if you went through someones trash and grabbed an old cell bill. The number will be ported in a day or less and even worse, there's no way for you to port it back quickly since you'll have no idea who it's got to. And with it your WhatsApp, etc will all be gone security wise.

All this talk of "oh just enable these super warnings and scan QR codes" is nonsense. People port phone numbers and move phones all the time, these warnings can't be this strong otherwise half your phonebook would false positive.
With a desktop app you can easily and quickly command-tab to it if you want to use it. In contrast with a web app it's often awkward and time consuming to find the window/tab of the web app you're running amongst your other browser windows/tabs.
> You are still as free as before to make your own websites and share your content the way it was done before Facebook.

And nobody will read them if you don't integrate with Facebook and other social media--where you will be censored.

> But it's the people that are at fault here, they are the ones that let themselves get hoodwinked.

Did you really claim that scam victims are to blame when they get scammed, and not the scammers? I'm all for avoiding naiveté, but that doesn't excuse the actions of manipulative people and organizations.
In that case, I'm not really aware of any language that exposes this to the user, outside of assembly.
Do you share you honey with your neighbors as a way of encouraging them to not use chemicals on their lawns and yards?
I feel "everyone" being afraid of words has destroyed the open web. Edit this, censor that, surpress this, etc etc.

Complacency and intolerance of other ideas is and always will be the issue.
Surprisingly their Fire TV devices can act as a Chromecast receiver, so you can cast from an Android phone to the Amazon set top box.
Try fluidapp, solves that problem very quickly.
Oculus Wasn’t Prepared for Room Scale
Still tethered to a phone... i'll just keep using this https://github.com/Aluxian/WhatsApp-Desktop
Where did you get repeated from? The whole point was that it is a single incident, try fixing it rather than jumping straight to firing. If it becomes repeated, then do the firing.
hohy
Unless wind farms are shut down on purpose when they could generate or hydro plants spill water then no energy is being wasted. Every watt of electricity has to be produced. There may be excess generation capacity that is shut down for the night but unless the marginal cost of generation is zero then they are not wasting power.

Wasting power would be generating power and just running a giant heater outside. Nobody is doing that.

The price does go negative some times because the nuclear plants don't want to manoeuvre down, in that case the nuclear plants pay people to use the power as that is cheaper than adjusting output. In that extremely rare case you could charge and reduce your power bill.
so are there any em spikes coincident with the transit of each planet? I mean if there was a civilization broadcasting into space with analog, we might hear them. And since they are using radio, we can be pretty sure they would be technologically inferior to us and unlikely to come over and eat us if we said hello.
Thanks for that link. In one of the MD files[0], I found information on the editorial board.

[0] https://github.com/LMFDB/lmfdb/blob/master/Development.md#ba...
You guys have posted this 9 times in the last few weeks. A small number of reposts is ok (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), but this is on the other side of that line, and users have complained, so please stop.
well said. FB just makes it easy for lazy people to use the Internet. It turns out that most people don't want much more of a challenge beyond just reading their feeds.

plus. it's blue. people like blue.
Free/open markets create powerful incumbents that eventually become big enough to turn themselves into a monopoly. There's no reason that the web wouldn't work the same way.
Windows 8 minimum? Is this an UWP app or what's the reasoning here?

Edit: I downloaded and successfully launched this on Windows 7. It seems like a standard Electron app. Now I wonder if the Windows 8 requirement is purely for tech support reasons, or if there's some specific feature that would fail on Windows 7.
I miss common sense.
Wow, I've always wondered what someone like markiplier makes. Even at the absolute low end, that's a crazy amount of money.
I suppose that in Git if you wanted to group a bunch of these commits together you could do so with a merge commit.
> Essentially the only safe thing to say about past employees is nothing.

Yes. Also, even from a non-legal standpoint, such as future interaction with that employee or their contacts, whether that may be social, commercial or legal.

Negative commments can't be unsaid and have a funny way of spreading to unintended parties.
I like Eric's writing style. He made a post before that offered a little more perspective on tech hiring:
https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-recruiter-plague-how...

What I particularly liked about this article is that he made it obvious that instead of recruiters, "tech agents" are really the best way to get hired at great companies. It's analogous to music industry's managers who arrange a gig and the band just have to the venue and play great music.
I find that 'jps' works as a good replacement for pgrep.
I see three "nice to have" benefits: full keyboard, copy and paste text/links when you're browsing the web and sending images taken with a traditional camera. None of these are essential for sure and I for one prefer using my phone but sometimes it can be handy.
> A contemporary x86, RISC, mixed (ISA + accelerators), or what other CPU? I think CPU is a broad term. :) Anyway, Wikipedia has a detailed write-up that assembly experts can base a comparison on:

Contemporary x86 and RISC CPUs are what I was comparing the PDP-11 instruction set to. I don't see any fundamental differences. Painting with very broad strokes, the PDP11 ISA looks reasonably close to x86. And those minor differences in more modern RISC actually map better to C than the PDP 11 does -- for example, status flags being replaced with jumping based on register contents. Implicit widening to words is a weak mismatch for x86, but it's a pretty good match for modern risc (no need to mask out top bits in registers), etc.

I looked at your links, and I'm still not seeing how other C maps better to a PDP-11 than it does to modern CPUs. The only thing I'm seeing in the pastebin rant is that CPUs are fast enough and memories are big enough today to support more expensive features, which I can agree with.

Again:

> Worked fine for a PDP-11. Yet, forcing its memory model or tradeoffs into a language used on different hardware can cause unnecessary problems.

What parts of its memory model or tradeoffs made it into C? I can't find any specifics that you're basing these claims on, only assertions that it's true.

In fact, the usual complaint associated with C is that it left the memory model so loosely specified -- initially to allow it to match any hardware -- that optimizing compilers can use the looseness to do really strange things to your code.
yit
jljh
She explicitly brought it to the boys, which means it is impacting the work environment. You are responsible for the work environment of your employees, including for addressing known low-leveling issues before they become higher-level issues perhaps involving other employees from the ones involved in the earlier issues.

Which is why you need to consult an employment lawyer and/or your internal HR expert.