skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in tech industry from ~2003. I worked in UZ, RU, SE, NL (third, second and first worlds!).
And I completely disagree with your statement:

> Let’s talk about an uncomfortable truth, sexual harassment and assault is common in the tech industry

I also disagree that it does make sense officially demonizing men by adding special clause to investment agreement.

If someone did something illegal go to the police.

If it's not directly illegal then it's a common conflict situation as if one male spit on face of another male.

I'm pretty sure you would not add special clause against "spitting on face" although it could happen.

Despite nobody add this special clause, I'm pretty sure it's not allowed and if you do that consequences of this action could be pretty serious.

What you want to add "makes a sexual advance towards" is very dangerous clause. After all, any flirt, any asking for date is exactly "makes a sexual advance towards".
> If each firing requires 25Mw, then 1000 shells would require 25Gw

That's not how power works. Power is energy/second, so if one each firing requires 25Mw, firing every round requires 25Mw.

Edit: Although after doing some calculations, firing 1000 shells would require 22 billion joules of energy, which is about the same as the energy released during nuclear fission of three grams of uranium.
My "super senior" mother gets at least five robocalls a day on her land line. It's getting totally out of control, and I worry that someone will take advantage of her. I really wish someone would come up with something like a spam email black list for phone numbers ...or any technical solution to this problem that is simple and accessible to seniors.
With such conclusions you are not going any further than PDP-11 assembly language.
The companies that run them do.
On the internet, ISPs who host spammers have their IP ranges blocked or have their peering relationships terminated. I presume that the telephone system works on peering relationships as well. The solution to this should be simple. Block VOIP providers who harbor robocallers and do not provide timely abuse handling.
Never heard of this game before. This trailer is pretty awesome and quite emotional too: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ09xdxzIJQ
Isn't the new etiquette to send a text first, then if both people have time, you dial the phone? Most things can be resolved asynchronously anyway.
»Contains [no] GMOs« would totally be based on facts. It should be an informational label, not a warning label.
So this has to assume that it's not a whitelisting setup and put a default allow. Which if you do outbound whitelisting, kinda fucks things up.
I prefer to invest my time in learning a new programming language, if I have to use my time to learn a new text editor (with a very steep learning curve) than it is absolutely wasted time.
Modern IDEs do wonder and, honestly, the important thing in programming is not to minimise the amount of time that it takes you to write code, but to minimise the time that other people need to spend to read it.
What does 'IT' in this case mean? Remote configuring servers and administering user accounts? I have very little experience of Big Orgs so I have no idea if that's the scope or something more.
nomorobo + nonstandard sip port + voip.ms has weporked pretty well here.
I was going to post it feels like the last days of Digg, but thought I'd check the comments first

It's unfortunate Reddit can't leave a working formula alone - HN has barely changed in 7 years - I really respect the control that must have taken - the lack of category filters on HN means I always need some other source

I do hope this and the imgur change last week doesn't mark the start of the end but it's probably time for a new player ... CIX -> Usenet/Dejanews -> Digg -> Reddit -> ??
This is pretty accurate. I'm also very excited about the new (optional) static typing, which should help a whole lot with maintainability. If possible (it probably is possible nowadays), use it, and lint your project with mypy. It will show you lots of potential problems with your code, and your interfaces will be much cleaner.

Trying to make your parts as self-contained as possible is always a good idea.
I was under the impression that energy was a better indicator of damage, or is that more for small stuff like hand guns?
I've used DbVisualizer for my job and that works pretty well
I think it was either Emmanuelle Beart or Beatrice Dalle. Why, does that make a difference?
Best rule to follow, only answer if it's in your area code. Most spammers don't bother to match area codes, but your co-workers do.
Trolling IS fun. Great way to learn multiple sides of any argument AND to discover why people care in the first place. It's a good way to learn about people.
Same exact experience. I had my jawbone, had it replaced for free, now broken again. I still use it for sleep tracking/alarm.

I have a Fitbit brand new still in its package that I will never open and wear, too wide and unaesthetic for my taste.
> a physicist named Travis Hoppe argued only last year that his analysis of Reddit data disproved the law.

What he disproved was the corollary, that whoever mentions Nazis has lost and ended the argument. People mistakenly refer to that corollary as "Godwin's law", but that's as far as the conflict goes. There is no disagreement about the statistics. Nazi references will happen in a supermajority of moderately large discussions.
Can't you just pull that part out into a test driver, and "treat it as a hostile object" ( a hostile witness is one who only answers yes or no questions )?

If I was his manager, "it just has to be this way" wouldn't work, but obviously different strokes.
By economic downturn, you're talking about the Great War. I mean, there are plenty of people terribly afflicted in the current western world, but it's hard to argue that the scale of the horror even approaches what was lived in those years, for soldiers and civilians alike.
This seems to be happening to me more often lately too. Until recently, the robocalls I'd get came from seemingly random numbers, but now the majority come from at least the same area code as my number, and sometimes as you say, the first 6 digits. I guess they figure you're more likely to pick up if you think it's someone local? That actually worked the first time for me, but after that, it's done the opposite - I don't live in the same state as my cell number's area code, and I don't know anyone with the same first 3 digits, so it's obvious these are spam calls.
People use regular funds because they want their capital to grow without having to think or work.
Some organizations have that tendency no matter what is done. It's perceived as more efficient.
There is also quite an interesting geographical variation in swearing in Norway. In the northern parts, swearing is sufficiently common that it's legal to call a policeman "you horse cock".
The affiliate tracking payloads are a disgrace - someone like Google really needs to build an affiliate tracking proxy where the host can opt-in to what client information is passed to affiliates and all affiliates use that source only

So many big brands are running multiple tags taking down more client info than Google Analytics - and then asking why pages are taking 5s+ to render
I agree! I have been hunting for years the newest technical effects, learning one programming language and graphics library after another, trying to push things with technology just to realise at some point that this expansion of skills can sometimes even get in the way of my creativity.
so that can be an option instead of crippling everyone else.
> large Python projects are much more manageable than C++ projects, even without any tools

I'd probably agree, but I would love to have more mature static typing, and especially an accurate "find all usages" function. Refactoring has been major hell because you pretty much have to grep for names if you want to find all usages of a variable (or, more specifically and problematically, a model property in Django).
Actually, I get a lot of robocalls from my area code - sometimes even from my own phone number! I assume these are spoofed though.

Edit: Oh neat! Apparently it's illegal in the US, but legal in Canada (where I am currently located). So it's not the robocall not bothering, it's it being flat-out illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing
Yea speed is key with incremental prs. Which is on me most of the time as a lead SA on the project. I encourage the devs to slack me directly or drop an @here note in one of the relevant channels. I do the same when submitting prs myself too.
I was astounded at the low number of shots per barrel. As the other replies to this comment show, it's actually quite good. Surprising!
That's fine advice unless you live in a major city with over 2 million people.
I get robocalls that call for one second, hang up, and then call again. I believe that this is to intentionally bypass the Do Not Disturb feature on iOS -- the default setting is to allow Repeated Calls to ring through.

Life will find a way.
I followed that rule religiously until my father's boss called saying he'd collapsed on a business trip and nobody would answer their phones. Now I just put up with the junk calls. :/

(He ended up surviving ventricular fibrillation with no organ or brain damage because they got an AED on him within a minute.)
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Having gone through a bed-bug fiasco (it's long past now, thankfully), I'm surprised that category didn't make up a larger percentage of cries.

I don't think I cried during my episode, but it was an incredibly stressful and uncomfortable period.
there is no consistent way of defining the meaning of "all domains of a company". Who pays for the registration? Which email is listed as technical contact? Who has the authority to change DNS-records? Which email listed in the DNS SOA-record?
I take the same approach. If the number isn't in my address book it goes straight to voice mail and my voice mail message explains to the caller that I don't listen the messages and directs them to text or email.

If it's important enough that someone needs to get a hold of me they should be having a human calling that can follow through with that simple request.
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These days, with everyone using a cell number they got where they lived 5-15 years ago an area code is only about as useful as IDing friend from far away places.
Who says that these DIDs are even assigned to the caller? Virtually all wholesale termination (the fancy word for handling outbound calls) allows for the caller to set the calling party ID to whatever the caller desires. The reason for this (among a few) basically boils down to multihoming (so, example, I use a different provider for termination than for origination (receiving calls)). This is a perfectly legitimate and very common to effect least cost routing.

In any event, if you are able to determine that the number is actually in use by the caller, you would determine the responsible LEC via LRN lookup (this handles portability issues). DID blocks are tied to a particular LEC, but the DID is then handled for portability via LRN (so, this is how you determine which LEC the number got ported to).
Read the article. They are illegal, but callers get around it by setting up shop outside the US.
This plus I have a Google Voice number for things that I know I'll never want to answer. I give out my actual cell to as few parties as possible.

I really only communicate via phone if it's scheduled in the calendar.
But aren't there better ways to learn about people and why they care about an issue in the first place?
How do we know it's the phone companies handing out numbers, rather than simple wardialing?
Ask HN: What open source projects are you contributing to?
Or the opposite: She was already feeling those things and could not go to sleep because of them.
The solution in that scenario is to text message if possible. People will read texts from unknown numbers.
What do you even tell them, though? The Caller ID number is fake, and it's difficult to get any information from the caller. (I've tried; they hang up if you ask them to identify themselves.)
You can't separate those things.
yeah my grandma gets the same calls, the same individual would call her everyday, 4 times within a span of like 30-60min. It was super stressful for her because shes expecting calls from her family. Ended up complaining to the FCC, then having to go into the Vonage account and blocking the numbers from in there.
I wonder how many people that fell for the IRS scam were seniors?
Commercial speech is not protected under the 1st amendment. However, political and religious speech, which makes up most of the robocalls during the election season isn't covered.
I can also attest to the poor quality of the UP bands. I'm currently on my 5th band in 3 years. One lost band and 4 replacements later, I'm really only using them to continue with the sleep tracking.

I discovered early on that the step counting wasn't really that great of a feature or selling point. I made it a habit to inform people around me that really the best feature and the only reason why I continued to use the UP was for sleep tracking.
My phone (LG G3) finally has a built in block list that works. Any time I get a call from a number I don't recognize, I first Google the number to see if it's legit - like my mechanic, or a company that I recently bought something from, or someone offering me a job interview. If it's not, it goes straight on the block list. I would be very happy to open-source my block list and get access to everyone elses's blocked numbers as well.
Vive le Québec Tabarnak!!! If only we could get better politicians and move forward instead of being stuck in infinite corruption.
Cool, but also something that makes war even more scary. You'd use to have all sorts of things to protect you; there isn't anything that can protect you from this once aimed at you (except a pre-emptive EMP; providing they have no shielding for it). Feels weird knowing there is nothing that can protect you from it.
Code reviews do not have to block checkins. See also "continuous integration". It's a way.
Just so you know, I got this:

Your connection is not secure

The owner of baatilo.io has configured their web
site improperly. To protect your information from
being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this
web site.

baatilo.io uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is only valid for the following
names:

*.squarespace.com, squarespace.com

Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

I would have sent this to you personally and directly, but there is no contact information in your profile.
That, in my view, is exactly the sort of bad-faith sneaky leverage that the anti-smoking hard core used to force the issue.

No one was "forced" to work in a smoke-filled environment, this part of issue was framed as discrimination against non-smokers working in places where smoking would be allowed.

It makes a kind of sense, right? OSHA violations for workplace exposure to cancerous agents is a thing for a reason. But I never liked the abridgement of personal freedom. It would be possible (even now) to permit exceptions for some businesses, but that wasn't what the anti-smoking lobby was interested in, was it?

In any event, I see a weak parallel between the two situations: We accept a (temporary and excessive) restriction for a time to correct a large and otherwise-intractable social issue.

In the one case it was addictive poison, in the other inappropriate sexual advances in formal business relationships.
I wouldn't describe myself as a dang fan, but egotistic? Sure, he's just a low-ranking enforcer used to shield YC from criticism, but he's just doing his job. It's not exactly his fault, as a pawn, if the overall system is poisoned.

But as to the rest of it, yeah, the HN hivemind is insane in exactly the same way Startup Culture is a sick, greedy mess.
So awesome. Facebook: Server not found
Thank you, your experience is very encouraging.
Sure it is! What else would it be? It was conceived by immaculate conception?
I realized that it was going to take me 5+ years to get to the point with consulting where I had any control over my own destiny. Jumping to a startup let me accelerate that timetable and build far more experience far faster than would be possible within the Capgemini behemoth.
The no vote bias looks like a serious flaw in the DAO. As the authors say, it is safe for an informed investor to split than to vote "no" on a proposal (for reference, users who split are still entitled to the proceeds of any proposal they funded so far). So passive investors would either be in danger of an attack from a bad proposal, or would find a way to automatically split if the investor wasn't available, defeating the purpose of the DAO.

Put another way, the stock market rewards passive investors with exactly the same rewards as active investors (which has its own problems - shareholder control over management is notoriously lax), but the DAO goes to the opposite extreme.

I personally think that calling for a moratorium is presumptuous - I'm certainly glad there was no moratorium of the stock market when it was introduced because some economists identified some real flaws. But it is a well researched critique.
Thank you! Thank you for linking the study.
Whoa. Getting pretty well shared around the web.

I want to be clear that it seems there is an attempt at accurate data: https://twitter.com/rikschennink/status/736618354098737152?s... but the implementation is a completely failure.
This!

Access to the collective knowledge of humanity equates with uncountable paths not taken!

I know someone with 4TB of textbooks and course lectures.

Probably the most important habit learned during my (first year of) PhD:

1. Make a list of books you want to read

2. Break up each into reasonable blocks (#_pages/#_chapters is a good unit) and write as checkboxes to cross off to keep you motivated

3. After filling up two pages or more, reconsider step 1

Another observation, for those not bored yet: Planning each minute will give you anxiety, planning every decade will not be as effective. Multiple timescales can help.
I don't think any of my coworkers have cell phone area codes from the city where we work. Area codes in my age group (25-40 years old) are usually a prestige indicator of where you're from, rather than where you currently live.
I don't see how this is necessarily a dark pattern.
Define "better." Nicer? Maybe. More effective? Probably not. More amusing? Certainly not.
From my experience, I've found that trolling and Socratic dialogue bring out the key points forthright and also highlight the most severe points of disagreement. That usually doesn't happen so fast when arguing with hard facts (when applicable). You can also hardly say that about a Wikipedia article or a propaganda poster/website/book.
I don't know, are there?
You typed miles per second and not miles per hour.
Yeah, that comment was over-the-top. It's indeed sometimes excellent to see articles out-of-left-field here, because the perspective is different, somewhat deep and, well, new.

If it's a non-IT topic that comes up more often, it feels like a group identity has the ability to form that's a bit agressive towards anything considered different. I notice it with non-technical approaches, people, groups, institutions, customs, or media, such as social sciences, the UN, Politics, The New Yorker (just made up, don't go searching), Religion (and I even agree on the facts), Teacher, Art (expt. DeepDream), Women (in comment-, not voting power, see early vs. late threats).

But even in these, if people didn't have a chance to form a group opinion because it's rare, the discussion is excellent, and your examples are excellent!

I'll just read the threads a day later after everything has settled and stuff like my comment's been sunk to the graveyard :)
Calling regular people nazis make them associate more with nazis.
> There are a lot of things about Plan 9 that really aren't that good in 2016.

Well yeah, that's because Plan 9 wasn't written in 2016 and hasn't been kept up to date. I don't think anyone claimed otherwise.

It doesn't invalidate the point that people do want a simpler OS that isn't as crazy and hodge-podgey as Unix. They just don't want it as much as they want compatibility with old software.

Think how hard a sell Windows 10 would be if it didn't run software written for Windows 7. Literally no-one would use it. That doesn't mean it isn't better.
I'm sure most would agree Reddit is much more pleasant than 4chan.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It is encouraging to read about others in our field coping, and coping well with Parkinson's. Moving to more managerial type positions does seem like a good idea.
As of December 2015 there were 217 flag officers in the Navy [1], meaning 1-star (rear-admiral, lower half, O-7, eq. to a brigadier general) to 4-star (admiral, O-10). You have 162 places for Navy flag officers, but you also have 61 spots for "joint duty" Naval flag officers [2]. There are fewer flag officers than there used to be, but the force is smaller, so the proportion is higher than it was back in the 60s and 70s.

[1]: https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R44389.pdf

[2]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/526
I do the same thing with a little variant.

- Don't answer private numbers ( where i don't see the number)

- Don't answer unknown numbers on landlines ( except Android lookup a business name and says which one -- then i handle it depending the bussiness)

- Pick up depending a mobile or landline. If it's a landline with our city code in front. I pick up. If it's not ( or from a big city), i don't pick up. If it's a mobile phone, chances are to big it's someone who referenced me.

Had no junk calls, except one. Where a telemarketeer seemed to use a mobile number... Which was akward
The destructive power of this gun comes from the energy of its momentum (mass x velocity) -- all the energy expended to accelerate it needs to go somewhere when it reaches its target. Same principle as a handgun. The difference is in how the projectile is accelerated.
Not at all, trolling is just a way to provocate people and make th— waaiit a minute...!
That impact wasn't as large as your remark make it appear to be. The twin towers didn't collapse on impact, they collapsed from the energy released by burning the fuel in the planes and the burnable stuff present in the planes and the towers themselves (in what proportions, I don't dare take a stab at)

On the other hand, as another poster already said, you should compute energy. That goes with velocity squared, so it will be way higher these projectile, compared with a jumbo jet.

Edit: as another poster said, you also should have said miles/hour. That gives you http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=25+pounds%2F2+*+((4500+...), apparently about what a Samsung S3 uses in a year (what am I doing wrong? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=25+pounds%2F2+*+((4500+... gives me 6.374 kWh. Seems a tiny amount)
Of course, since there is such a shortage of programmers, people are reluctant to fire the jerks.

It's also hard for outsiders to tell who is the jerk when two programmers don't get along. It's often both of them.

This profession attracts a lot of people with low social skills, on or off the spectrum, so this stuff is hard...
C'est beau le joual!

http://mononc.com/chanson/le-joual/

A funny thing to observe, as the article notes: the verb "fuck" will be conjugated in French, as attested by "fucké" in the lyrics above, but it's not really a big deal in French. It's not taboo language like "tabarnak" is.

One thing the article says is that the cursing is completely meaningless. It is not. For example, "câlisser" as a verb means to throw something violently:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/c%C3%A2lisser

This isn't interchangeable with other taboo words. I don't think tabarnak even has a verb form.