skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely agree that 'rockstarism' is hugely problematic (I agree with tptacek's sibling post on the topic).

That said, some of this post feels worryingly like it's pushing 'truth by association' to me. I'd love to hear each of the recommendations herein discussed on their own merit and with clear reasons given for each one.

That is, I wouldn't encourage anyone to conflate fighting narcissism and arrogance with quashing openness, confidence and self-respect in a demographic (engineers) which arguably already has trouble with those - irrespective of the gender of the engineer.
Peter Thiel Creates Pitch Deck Template for Entrepreneurs
"None of this has led to criminal charges. I dunno."

Can you just come right out and say whatever it is you're implying with those last two sentences? Thanks!
Meatball wiki has something they call "Vested Contributor" which is similar.

http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/VestedContributor

https://web.archive.org/web/20160318184830/http://meatballwi...

> The vested contributor is someone who believes they are entitled to a degree of indulgence or bending of the rules because of the duration and extent of their past contributions. In some cases, this view may be shared by other community members. The indulgence of vested contributors undermines FairProcess and the WikiNow. It is demoralizing to those who have made less widely recognized contributions, and to recent arrivals. An inside club or "cabal" can arise where there are a number of vested contributors who mutually reinforce.
I think this post is way off base because it equates being a difficult employee with being a sexual predator and full blown criminal. It then outlines how to "fix" the problem with some decent solutions combined with very specific politically motivated initiatives (many links to feminist sites...). It also has a tone of absolute authority that is mirrored in the flagging and downvoting of comments happening in this very thread.

There can and should be discussion and debate around this issue especially when it casually calls for things like tossing due process and burden of proof out the window.
They store "minutiae" (sort of like keypoints) of the scanned fingerprints. As far as I know, there are no known methods of reliably hashing fingerprint/iris data.

The problem is the scanner/input-device. Unlike a password, the "input" is not always constant in what it gives you. So the resulted "hashed" value is not something you can "hit" again in order to do matching.
ha, i moved from chef to ansible for much of the same reasons. at the end of the day, it doesn't matter.

(however, from my experience salt and ansible stay readable because they're yaml and not arbitrary code/DSL, whereas chef "recipes" are ruby and usually devolve into complex programs if you're not careful)
The first statement is not true. Web developers use debuggers for front and back-end work just as much as anyone else. It's probably why Chrome and its developer tools are so popular among that group.
Should:

'n', Moves.Nort

Actually be:

'n', Moves.North

?
In the list describing "a few signs that help you identify when you have a rock star instead of a plumber", it seems like you could replace every occurrence of "rock star" with "jerk".
What exactly are you trying to do? The data will be transferred anyway when you click 'Submit'.
It seems like they are redefining rock star in the "A rock star likes to be the center of attention." paragraph. I am getting a little sick of the trend[1] of redefining a word to mean something else. Given this, a genuine complement of calling someone a "rock star" should probably be met with a hostility.

The line "A rock star appears in dozens of magazine profiles – and never, ever tells the journalist to talk to the people actually doing the practical everyday work." is particularly galling. If you are not doing the work, how the heck would you legitimately be called a rock star?

I think the love of tearing down people is echoed in the love of taking words that meant exceptional and making them mean destructive things. Hero and hero words die far too often.

1) its been going on a long time and sometimes I think its an insider trick to know who to award grants to (e.g. "empowerment" was my personal favorite).
To be fair, that's more like "started 25 years ago". Very little of the original Python 1.0 code exists (especially given the great renaming when the "Py"/"PY"-prefix occurred.)

I like to think of the thousands of developers involved. ;)

For example, assuming Instagram uses gcc to build Python or any of the other components, gcc started in 1987.

Parts of glibc have copyrights dating from the 1980s, like netinet/tcp.h Copyright (c) 1982, The Regents of the University of California .
What about composing in the editor of your choice, then pasting the final version?

There are even extensions to automate that. You'll have to trust the extension, however.
USB charging for the backup camera? How?
This one:

Avoid organizations becoming too central to people’s lives

Seems at odds with this one:

Enforce strict policies around sexual or romantic relationships within power structures

Due to the use of the terms "organization" and "community" instead of "company" or an equivalent, it's unclear if they are referring entirely to employment (where such a prohibition would be pretty common and mundane), or if they are also including open-source projects, where it would seem like a huge intrusion. Submitting an issue or pull request shouldn't have any effect on your ability to date someone.
That is an extremely long bow to draw...

the author seems to have picked up on a case of a narcissistic possibly deviant and then tarnished all people who excel / lead with the same brush.

this reeks of tall poppy syndrome, i can't even believe what i'm reading.
It is a real issue and there are people out there looking to use people's webcams for spying:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/rat-breeders-meet...
I am from and live in Cincinnati. As some others have stated, this article greatly overstates the changes that's occurred in OTR. Yes, parts of Vine and Race street have been cleaned up a great deal, but go just a street over, or even a little further on said streets and you are right back in an area that is anything but the "good" part of town.

It's not at all uncommon to go into these areas and see sights such as drug deals and prostitution occurring right out in the open. When I worked for Kroger (which, granted, has been several years now), they used to have to keep a police presence at the Vine street store because it was so common to have problems there. Sadly, much of OTR is still what I would consider urban plight.
Experience is a red flag? That's ageist, and absurd.
I don't know why people who don't do the real work get the magazine articles and conference talks, but if we're talking about security --- the community being criticized (from the inside) in this post --- it seems like a spot-on observation.
Deep sea mining and more importantly thermal vents mining is probably the next frontier in terrestrial resource exploitation and its considerably more likely to happen within the next 5 decades than asteroid mining even if we limit ourselves to near earth objects.

The environment aside China is really making smart moves.
Perhaps a better way to ask my question: do you write a test to make sure your type signature was correct?
What do you mean by usually? What do the "bad" cases look like and how often do they happen? How are you measuring that key access and is it happening across cores? Are you setting any OS level settings around isolation?
Some programmers are dramatically better than others......some of those top programmers are jerks, some aren't (just like every segment of society).

I always called those top programmers rockstars, but apparently that's the wrong term.....what should they be called then?
I can see it now. The workaround will be they will ask you to draw nonexistent facial features with a Sharpie.
Here's my very rough attempt in Gradle:

https://bitbucket.org/twic/ensure

Turned out to be more than 20 lines, but then i did it in Java rather than Groovy.

I do the downloads from the Maven repo (which should be your internal Maven repo!), so there's no need for an upload step. Deployment is done with a shell script with a few undemanding dependencies - unzip, curl, and openssl to verify the digests. I use a TSV file rather than JSON because it's easier for the shell script to read!

My next trick will be to figure out how to get this into a Cloud Foundry buildpack ...

Oh, the name: https://ensure.com/nutrition-products
In a court of law we should all be innocent until proven guilty. Outside of court if I behave like an asshole you have the right to not hang out with me or even suffer my presense. In fact, you even have the right to say: snassar is an asshole and I won't hang out on Hacker News if you tolerate him. It's up to the rest of Hacker News to decide if you are right or not.
Don't sleep with people you work with. Don't drink if you can't control yourself or can't trust the people you are with. Don't do drugs if you can't control yourself or trust the people you are with. Problem solved!
Ask HN: Has anyone ever worked at Microsoft and Apple?
It's somewhat true that lead singers and guitarists are lionized over drummers and bassists, but they're still doing relatively equal work (and in many cases the singer is also the writer).

There's also the sound/lights/crew/merch people, but they wouldn't have a reason to be there without the rock stars.
The Soft-Skills Gap You Haven’t Heard Of
Nope I'm not randall from Melbourne and I didn't follow all.fan.elite, sorry! I was playing elite on the zx spectrum around let's see, 1986? And then frontier and first encounters after that. In 96 that was the golden age of space sims, xwing and tie fighter...IWar, freespace, starlancer
I'm really glad that someone is raising this issue. This 'rock star worship' culture is rampant in Open Source communities. What's worse is that many of these 'rock stars' don't do anything except blog and give talks at conferences - Their main goal is self-promotion. They don't give a shit about the actual project or the community.

You rarely hear about open source developers who focus on one project and produce amazing work over many years - These developers are too busy actually writing code and promoting the project to care about promoting themselves - Because they understand that their project is more important. A good open source developer sees themselves as a servant to the project, not the master.

I think a big problem in the tech industry in general is that there is too much focus on people - I'm sick of hearing investors say "We invest in people, not products" - I think this sends the wrong message and attracts the wrong people.

The product should always be more important than the people who built it - People who agree with this statement are the ones we should invest in because they're the ones who will actually create value for society (as opposed to merely capturing value which others have created).
When I saw the headline I immediately thought of http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TopMind
Ethereum: DAO White Hack Attack
Let's hope it's a lot harder than you think to reach step three. If we ever reach a point where a lone actor can destroy humanity, we're pretty well screwed. You would have to ensure that 100% of the people with that ability didn't want to use it 100% of the time.
Ask HN: What was the name of this contact app?
HN, my google-fu has failed me. Someone posted long ago about a command line contact app that recommended people you hadn't recently contacted. Does anyone remember what this was?
A professional programmer isn't likely to work for whatever Apple is willing to pay to teach classes it isn't charging money for. Programmers who want to teach are probably charging a lot of money for it, or volunteering to teach through nonprofits rather than through Apple.
Yep, with the coming regulatory requirement on manufacturers to equip new cars sold in the USA with builtin backup cameras, the potential addressable market in the USA will shrink steadily as time goes on, and as newer cars replace older ones. Even so there are (guessing) ~100MM cars on US roads that do not have backup cameras and might want one. And also commercial trucks - where a camera is sorely needed.

And of course there are international markets. China buys more cars than the US, these days.
Yes, but if they can make you install malware that gives them access to your webcam they can then go on to install software that gives them access to any online banking you do.

Taping over the webcam stops access to the camera, but does nothing about the rootkits and keyloggers that are giving criminal gangs access to all your online accounts.
Atlassian sponsors 50% course fees for CS courses on Coursera
There's a weak undercurrent of condescension in the post (I've seen worse from Model View Culture); you may be picking up on that.

I'm more interested in the un(der)examined assertion that, when it comes to accusations of sexual misconduct, the accused should have a presumption of guilt. Have there been any published arguments in favor of this?
That said, something about the tone of this blog post is utterly repellent to me and I'm struggling to put my finger on the reason why.

To me the dissonance came from an unusual definition of the word "rockstar." In the programming context, I've usually heard it as "someone who is really good at programming," but here they are trying to define it as "someone who pretends to be good at programming and harasses everyone around them."
I am probably the a rare person who has been sexually assaulted by a woman. And I have had 2 women falsely accuse me of rape over a 10-year period. In short, people are irrational and do weird things out of shame, anger or spite.

I put myself in the situation with the girl who assaulted me twice. We had kissed a few times and I stayed over at her place, more out of necessity than a romantic intention.

She got completely naked, groped me, jumped on top of me, and I basically wrestled he away for 15 minutes. She insulted me, said I should just be a man, called me gay and on and on.

The next month she did the same thing; naked, grabbing me, and I pushed her away for 20 minutes or so. Yes I had "led her on", and kissed her but she was a turnoff to me for a variety of reasons, and I didn't want to have sex with her.

Other times, I had a girl mess around with me, get too excited, we had sex, she freaks out, tells her friend I raped her, and then came over the next night.

I only mention this because the above blog seems quite dubious. Obviously when the girl assaulted me, it is a different situation when a guy does it to a girl because of obvious reasons. I wasn't scared for my life or of being forcefully penetrated. The cops didn't get involved in any of the situations.

I have no idea if this guy Jacob is guilty or not. He seems like an insensitive person though. When I read things like in the first link and first accusation of the blog above, that Jacob told people about a girl's sex act, I become skeptical. If they want to include that, do it last, after the actual accusations of rape or sexual assault.

And the original 3 people who accused Jacob misunderstood the situation and were wrong.

Sex is a tricky thing about what is right and what is wrong. Jacob didn't listen to a girl's safe word? He talked openly about sex inappropriately? He raped a girl in front of a group? Man, if I was in that group of people both Jacob and I would be in jail; me for assault.

Today, people have expanded the definition of rape to being drunk and having regrets or being lied to.

For the sake of everyone, if you are accusing Jacob Appelbum of rape or sexual assault, file a police report, or publicly write about it.
Well said, it would seem that anything outside the realm of downright compliance/agreement is met with shutting down the conversation.

Perhaps the piece is too weak to stand on its own merit.

Everyone knows sexual assault is bad, jerks are jerks, not all jerks are sexual predators and Twitter is still the worst source possible, next to Tumblr.
Some fingerprint drivers (like DigitalPersona) allow you to change a preset value that acts as a "salt" for the minutiae.

Obviously this salt must be shared among all installations of the driver for the results to be consistent.

However the end result is that you are not storing raw minutiae but its salted variant.
> many users are aware that different versions of their draft emails are stored on Yahoo’s servers and are available for recovery by law enforcement, even if the user deletes their final draft

That is one hell of a slimy, weasel word definition of "delete". Basically "delete will delete the email except for the copies of the email we keep for the police".
So literally just JSON without the "[" and "]," delimiting rows, and another "[" at the beginning and "]" at the end of the file?

There are already streaming JSON parsers/serializers, why not just use (or write) one of those instead of inventing yet another file format?

There's also http://ndjson.org/ and http://jsonlines.org/
It's not up to open source maintainers to act as a poor mirror of the judicial system. If someone is breaking the law, the authorities should handle it. If the accused is found guilty, then they can be kicked out of the project/fired...
Nitpick c# has value types
Exactly. First step in knowing something like that is putting into words what we don't know. And it's not insurmountable; the data from the Kepler spacecraft is giving us quite a bit of data that may go a long way to building a statistical model for one of the unknown variables.
If people are looking for the full video course list here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-BRtcBm4Yj6ZpOG49cbH...
Surely if you expected someone to open your Yahoo mailbox other side of the world to read your draft email, it would have to be saved on their servers.
i agree with one of the points the article made - in any company where employees are routinely fired/laid off without notice, quitting without notice is implicitly acceptable.
Pulp Friction
New tld by amazon “.YOU”
It's beside the point, but IMO the human species is at almost zero risk of extinction from climate change. Maybe you could find a better example. The worst case would certainly be a calamity, but it would require an immense amount of additional failure for humanity to actually go extinct from it.
Somewhat yes tumors have something dubbed "tumor escape mechanisms" these mechanisms allow it survive our immune system as well as treatments like radio therapy, chemotherapy and surgery.

Tumor traits are likely to undergo similar natural selection processes like every other bilogical constructs.
That's a separate issue from saying that rockstar syndrome leads to sexual abuse though. It's not really fair to use a boogieman like that to make the case against rockstar worship. If it's a bad idea, it can be argued against without the rhetorical leap made here.
To keep out bad actors, it's very important to have an accurate model of what those bad actors are like and how to recognize them. The correct word for this is not "rock star", it's "psychopath". Equating the term "rock star" with bad actors is not going to accurately guide people's attention where it needs to go; instead, it'll lead to attacks on honest people who happen to have accumulated prestige. Those are the very people who have the ability to spot and push out the psychopaths. But if they're forced into conflict with feminists, they won't be doing that.
Amusingly it was Elon's other other company that was buying SolarCity's bonds--SpaceX. I love Elon, but man he gets creative with financing. Makes me nervous that it could all blow up.
VLC for android updated to v2.0
With the exception of the "assume guilt" recommendation (which seems ripe for abuse), I think these guidelines are mostly fine. But calling abusive people "rock stars" seems unnecessarily controversial. Better to use the accurate and unambiguous "abuser". That describes Jacob Applebaum far more clearly than "rock star".

Also, I think a term like "rock star" (in the benevolent sense) is a useful one. There are people who are really talented (and know it), who love the limelight, who sometimes say controversial things, and who have contributed more to our industry than any of us could hope to. I'm talking about people like Daniel J. Bernstein, David Heinemeier Hansson, Theo de Raadt, and (of course) Linus Torvalds. If we're going to give "rock star" purely negative connotations, I'm not sure what what to call these people. "Badass" would work, except some social circles frown upon profanity.
"Searching" on fingerprints is difficult to scale as users move from tens to thousands.

The best system is:

1. User inputs username.

2. Fingerprint is used to confirm username.

3. User inputs password.
Fuck.you ?
New Radio App in Google Store
I think in your first example, I can name a lot more bands that have been able to replace drummers and bassists than lead singers and guitarists, but all of them are considered rock stars. With a bit of unequal fame (well except for the obvious such as Santana).

The crew is important, but so is the electric company that provides the power. They are, as you say, only there because of the rock stars.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11812337
> What you mean is that you want a _less expressive_ language than full turing-completeness.

Why don't you restrict yourself to a more simple subset that you understand instead of throwing away the Turing completeness (I'm sure for the latter there are good use cases)?
Do you have a source for selling off the car manufacturing part of Tesla?

Its worth noting that JB Straubel is just as passionate about electric vehicles as Elon is. JB actually worked on electric aircraft at his previous company, Volacom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JB_Straubel
Utilities are under constant pressure to provision capacity to meet rising electric demand. If the on-premises Solar City model (front the cost of the system and installation in exchange for being able to sell the electricity produced) was proven they would be doing it. Building new generating capacity is hugely expensive and almost always a major political battle to get approved.

Many utilities are investing heavily in utility-scale solar and wind installations. But the reality is that on-premises solar is still a gamble. Nobody is yet making money at it, quite the contrary.
Many of the sites I build are constantly sending and receiving state updates between the client and server. I'm sure you could make such an alert widget but it would drive you nuts on most modern websites.
Good to know. Reminds me of my favorite expression. "Inside the U.S., a hundred years is a long time. Outside the U.S., a hundred miles is a long distance".
If you use fingerprint to confirm username, you have to have an alternate means to do that, because fingerprints can be destroyed.
Bands, Brands, and Technology: How One Agency Stands at the Center of It All
I agree.

And right in the article itself it says that even AirBnB stands opposed to the kind of illegal move these landlords made:

>"... we strongly oppose real estate speculators who illegally evict tenants and abuse platforms like ours in search of a quick buck,” Airbnb says in a statement.
I was pretty unimpressed with the perf of my first gen Xeon Phi. The performance of the scalar operations became a huge bottleneck. Its really hard to keep the AVX512 units busy enough to make it faster than a normal Xeon E5.
I can't agree with you. Open-source communities have both the right and the responsibility to protect themselves from toxic people. If I showed up in, say, the Firefox issue tracker and started trolling people and insulting their contributors, they'd ban me without thinking twice. I wouldn't have broken any laws, but they'd still be well within their rights to get rid of me.