skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a company in the health-care space. Everything we store has at least one and usually multiple timelines associated with it (for example, a piece of medical data would have at minimum a "when did this happen" and a "when did we know that this had happened"). Being able to rewind/replay history from a certain point and identify everything that happened and why is a fundamentally important thing for the kinds of audits and compliance checks we're required to do.
I'm pretty sympathetic to the cause of feminism especially in technology and I cringe hard at a lot of the casual sexism that gets thrown around, but this is truly baffling. Assuming this is all they actually have on him this is nothing more than very clever word play with zero gender inferences to be made.
I use my own library extensively (which has been on HN few times), mainly because since I made it I know every bit of it. But I use it as a base to grow the style and have decent ground such as buttons/inputs/etc.

So I only need to take care of the bigger things like colors and shapes, while the library makes sure the small bits are consistent (widths and heights, box-sizing, :hover and :active, etc).

I've tried not using it but the amount of work required to make CSS work and look nicely with all those quirks just doesn't make sense. It's much easier to overwrite a background and border-radius than to write a proper button from scratch.

Next step, I'm thinking about making it all abstract with scss then I can just @extend those %placeholders.
I wish he was in Hollywood.
depend on what hw skill that you try to acquire, things like fabrication/device level design, antenna RF design/measurement etc, you have to go to university, because many of these topic require some very expensive equipments to gain the hand on exp, but not necessary truth for like something like digital circuit design
I'm guessing because there was a period of time where joe's maintainer worked on something else besides joe, and it looked like the project got abandoned already.
Why is crybullying so rampant in the tech community?
I'd be ok with paying twice what I'm currently paying if they could solve this problem. We're with Linode because it would cost us about 10x as much to run on AWS, and we can't justify that.
Usually it is and according to linode it is so in this case too.

Edit: Not sure what alternate reality the downvoter lives in, but vast majority of the attacks these days are just "dumb" packet floods or even easier to filter reflection attacks. (Linode clarified this to be a mix of dns and ntp traffic on IRC)

But hey, go on and find me a layer 7 attack that'll take down entire datacenters :)
I think he's trying to show that the speech API is smart enough to understand the context of the phrase and is not just blindly replacing words based on spelling.
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> It's a private company with a share structure.

Sure, it has private shares, but it was created by an act of Congress, its charter explicitly states its public mission, it doesn't run a profit, its head and a majority of its board is appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress, and its basic functions are interbank clearing and payments.

At this point, it looks so little like any other private entity that treating as such seems silly. If it looks like a central bank, quacks like a central bank, ...

> They set interest rates that suit their interest, not necessarily the interest of the general public.

I call BS. Low rates are almost always punitive to banks' bottom lines, because they make the spread between deposit rates and lending rates; when rates are low, that spread gets compressed to zero. If they only served their bank 'shareholders', how do you explain monetary policy since 2008. Or going further back, the fact that the Fed tried to pop the stock market bubble in '29, even though all the big banks were clearly benefiting from it?

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/may/banks-mor...

> Listen - I'm not a conspiracy theorist

With all due respect, you are if you make these sort of claims without a shred of evidence. The Fed chair + board basically decides the rate policy, and he/she is always a career economist, not from industry. You think really Janet Yellen is secretly taking kickbacks to screw around with rates?

And for your reference: http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/federal-reserve-bank-owners...

"Those decisions are made by the Federal Open Market Committee, which has a dozen voting members, only five of whom come from the banks. The remaining seven, a voting majority, are the Fed’s Board of Governors who, as mentioned, are appointed by the president."
From your own link: "Because the etymological sense of one-tenth remains to some extent, decimate is not ordinarily used with exact fractions or percentages: Drought has destroyed (not decimated) nearly 80 percent of the cattle."
I'm a woman with an EE degree. I hate non-tech "women" who go to conferences that have no real interest in (like Pycon, Ms. Richards) just to push some wacky agenda.

These "women" aren't making it easier for real girls in real engineering programs.
The neurology of baseball as discussed on NPR on 9-3-2016 identified successful pitchers and batters as those who did not allow thinking to interfere with their instantaneous physical actions. Reaction times measured were less than 500 milliseconds.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/09/does-decimate-mea...

Decimate may have had an archaic definition like that (even then, the jury's still out), but the modern definition of "destruction of a substantial portion of" has been well accepted even in academia.

Unless we want to start using words only in their original, millenia-old definitions can we drop this thing every time someone uses decimation in the "wrong" way?
Switzerland, France, Germany, ....
ehhh No. Every election cycle sees both sides compared to hitler. Hitler hyperbole is immature. And if you look at enough speeches or statements from anyone you can compare to a dictator. Not that hard. You're also blatantly excluding the things he's said about legal immigrants and muslims that are overwhelmingly positive. You've made that choice to ignore positive statements.

> "Trumps policy is...."

No. Trump has said time and again, we have immigration laws and we need to follow them. That includes having more reinforced border fences or walls. Already law. The end of sanctuary cities, which are basically localized laws breaking federal law.
What's the norm if you need a desktop and mobile version of a webpage, to have one separate code base for each one(can be on the same repo) or all the code together with the appropriate screen size detections?
You're right, the evidence for this kind of corruption is clear. It's time to stop being surprised and start being more constructively disappointed.
Geeze Louis! What the heck? Gosh darn it!

Is there a southern grandma setting?
Mate from Darwin calls it "suicide season".
I'm pretty vigilant about calling out sexism and trans/homophobia in the tech community but I'm having a hard time seeing Crockford's comments as offensive enough to un-invite him to speak. I expected TFA to be typical apologist fare but it's really more puzzlement over a perplexing situation, a puzzlement I share.
Don't forget change.org which is basically a crybully clearinghouse
It means they can provide evidence of offers and claims made at any point in time. I'm working at a big financial services firm that already has a proprietary setup that goes beyond this. Actively logging every request and response (bodies, not just metadata) so they can provide evidence of every transaction made should they ever be required.
Google Finds That Successful Teams Are About Norms Not Just Smarts
I think crimes like this should definitely be punished with hefty fines and some years in prison, so even the super rich care about them.

But it is just money. Money is not lifetime. Money is just a number central banks can control. You can insure yourself against losing it. It cannot even be lost, it is just somewhere else. The criminal can repay it. Time working for money is not lost. Time being dead, because you got murdered, is lost. Your mother or your children will not cry, because somebody took some money from you.

I would even go further: Yeah, making $3,2M will take me a while, but I guess I would prefer to have to regain $3,2M than to cope with psychological or physiological damages of a really violent crime. If I were to lose $3,2M, it would partially be my fault, because clearly my business was lacking some control mechanisms. If two guys come after you from behind, there is really nothing you could have done.

Edit: This is another submission currently at the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12421687
There are not countably many real numbers. How can you claim your definition is correct?
Brazilian competition paying $150 for the best idea about “How to colonize Mars”
I’d really like to know how a decision like that is made. In Nodevember's statement on the matter[0] (which the parent link doesn’t mention, a rather glaring omission), they quite openly admit that they “...aren't professional organizers or PR people. We are still learning, and will make mistakes.” So why not admit a mistake?

I certainly don’t want to see sexist speakers at conferences, but this decision seems to have been made with almost no evidence and almost purely based on unsubstantiated rumours.

[0] http://nodevember.org/statement.html
> isn't evolution as we currently understand it computationally too expensive?

What? This question doesn't even really make sense to me in the first place.

Natural selection isn't a computational process. It's the consistent but basically coincidental result of constant subtle mutations and genetic inheritance.

> Now making a big jump from e.g. fish to a bird seems to me impossible in polynomial time (even in billion years)

It obviously isn't impossible, since it happened. If you believe otherwise, your perceptions and/or assumptions are wrong.
It's lightweight: my point is there are reasons for using nano beyond "d'oh, I don't know what I'm doing." You don't bring up emacs to edit fstab, or your hosts file. As a result, it's popular among newbies. But that doesn't mean it's without merit, as is all too often implied.
The Future of Insider Threats
It's a great point, but consider that most of the shows for kids are just ads for the toys they'll see in the toy shop.
It was (and in many ways still is) an extremely sexist community, but over the last few years it has gotten better. My worry is that continuing to agitate when there's been obvious improvement is only setting things up for a backlash, which would be counterproductive -- however, I'm not sure many of the "activists" care (they're activists first, after all, so it's in their nature to keep pushing the envelope even when it's no longer profitable to the cause they're championing)
I know this will sound cold, but why is this story here? Does it really fit the guideline of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"?

I've shoehorned it into my rationalization for being here as advice on how to have an extremely difficult conversation, but it still feel a bit macabre to have this here.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/02/to_end_mas...
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It could be because people who immigrate here are significantly more motivated than people in general.

I read somewhere that many of the most successful entrepreneurs in the US are foreign born. That doesn't necessarily mean that foreign born people are better than American born people (which would be unlikely). It probably just means that people who have tenacity to immigrate also have tenacity to do bigger things than average.
As the other poster mentioned, I'm very sympathetic to the cause of egalitarianism and pre-third-wave feminism. However, hopefully we will see more and more pushback against this kind of senseless crying wolf. If you're in favor of social justice, THIS is the thing you're fighting against?

If this even shows up on your radar and is a priority, then I'd say the mission you're fighting for has been accomplished a long time ago. Time to go home.

I don't know who really benefits from policing every word that public tech figures say. There's no monetary value to this unless this is a PR stunt to make the conference get social justice brownie points in some kind of a twisted form of social posturing. Who's to gain from this? Sociopaths wanting to exert control over others? I'm not quite ready to believe that.
just because somebody wants laws enforced doesn't make them 'xenophobic' And to say having immigration laws with consequences means the U.S. is like the Nazi's? I mean at this point there's really no point to consider you as thinking rationally.
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This is ridiculous. How in the world can those statements amount to sexism/slut-shaming?
There are a bunch of EEs in here complaining about the software they have to use. I took a few EE courses in school and the only thing I remember is having to use horrible software.

Why hasn't someone made good software for EEs to use? And if the have, why do no EEs use it?
I think the issue I have is one of measurements. We use things like deci, mega, kilo, etc. In this case, decimetre means 10 centimetres.
I think the question is who is your target customer. If you are building a website that focus on mobile user, it's no need to design and test for desktop.

In this case Mobi.css is a choice. You can show a QRCode to guide people to mobile.
Why the downvotes, folks? Don't judge, s/he's allowed to enjoy the automobile lifestyle.
Manuals should be cheaper because they're cheaper for manufacturers to make. Unfortunately, in the US they've become a niche product that doesn't move very well, so you're going to get a lot more resistance on price when you're haggling with the dealer.

My girlfriend's car got stolen a few years back. When I asked the cop how much this happens locally he asked me what I drive, and when he found out my car had a manual transmission he laughed and said nobody would steal my car - the kinds of people who steal mass market cars don't know how to drive a manual any more.
So, I have no idea what's going on, but just because this guy could only find these two examples, doesn't mean those are the actual reasons for him being dismissed. In fact, I'd be very surprised if that was the case.

For the record, I've seen Crockford talk... It wasn't offensive, it just wasn't very good. He seemed more interested in calling out business decisions which companies have made that he felt were stupid, than actually talking about anything related to JavaScript. Maybe that's just how his talks go and I didn't realize, but it wasn't what I was expecting.
>What about a search engine that combines facts from two pages or more to answer my question.

Interesting concept, but why would I (as a site owner) want my content mixed with my competitor's? I can see value to th en user, but what would the value add be for indexed sites?
That reinforces beurocracy. My experience is that kind of chain of command does slow down progress. I had many fruitful and actionable discussions with product. That might maybe be unique to my situation, but i have seen how others got slowed down due to lack of direct communication.
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Ignoring the fact this discussion about this, and this culture as a whole, is a minefield to navigate, it's important to note that Douglas Crockford can definitely be abrasive [1]. The issue at hand is that whether this abrasiveness is a bad thing, when compared to the contributions he's made and whether it leads to constructive discussions.

The javascript developer who took offense (Kas?) definitely seems to have taken it too far, automatically associating Douglas's personality with being a jerk.

The other issue at hand is how this influences tech conferences, because I've always attended conferences with the implicit assumption that I was there to learn first and foremost. Discourse and disagreement with speakers is natural and should be encouraged, as it oftentimes leads to enlightening discussions for bystanders and conference attendees, which was the entire point of the conference in the first place. By allowing certain viewpoints to dominate and silence a subset of speakers, we're ultimately limiting our views and building an echo chamber, which is not what conferences are meant to be. If we're going to dismiss speakers, it should be on merit of their talk and previous talks, not their speaking style.

[1]: https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSLint/issues/17
I wonder if they focus grouped the signage ? To me it seemed clear, but now that you point it out... I see where the confusion could happen!
There's something funny about a compiler being able to ignore something called "force inline"
This thread rapidly devolves in to people name-checking favourite airlines.

I will have flown ~100 sectors by the end of this year, to ~45 airports, about 2/3rds long-haul, and all but a handful in J or F. It's not an especially unusual year.

Service varies much more on flights with any one carrier much more than it varies between carriers. Seats vary depending on plane deployed by carrier as much as they vary between airlines. About the only constant is the amenity kits, food, and crew uniforms.

The best service I've had this year was on China Airlines (an ROC carrier, not a PRC carrier), and the worst by far was Asiana (out of South Korea). I have no trouble believing next year I'd have the complete opposite experience.

Service in any industry can be such a variable. I've sat in a restaurant and had outstanding service while watching the couple next to me get terrible service from the same server, culminating in that server accidentally crushing the reading glasses of one of the other diners. I got lucky, they didn't.

In short, in my experience: when booking flights, it's generally worth just ignoring any claims of service excellence or otherwise, and looking at the food and seats you'll get on the specific airplane you'll be flying on. I'd take the Vietnam Airlines 787 Dreamliner with the Zodiac Cirrus seats any day over a Singapore Airlines A330 with the 7811 seats, and if I was flying in Y, I'd be basing my decision purely on a combination of seat dimensions and how new the airframe was.
Are hackers not human, sir? Have we no hearts? May we not cry?

We make a world not only for ourselves. In so doing we must above all else be kind. We must not lose sight of what and who we are, lest we invent cruelties beyond any yet known to history. May God forgive us if we fail in our charge - for no one else will. Nor should they.
Why AWS Lambda could be the worst thing to happen to open source
Have you ever heard someone at Google complain about the policy? I haven't.
The other thing is that in the long run nobody cares how you did in college. No employer is going to dig up whether you failed some classes. Doors do not permanently close.

Only you care that you failed some classes, and most of that is probably fearing what others might think of you. Your parents might be having a cow.

But I'm telling you, none of that matters. You are not a bad person for failing. You didn't lose anything by failing. You have a long life ahead of you to make something of yourself, so don't worry about rushing it. You can either take another shot at CS, study something else, or keep going with apps. That's a pretty good situation to be in as far as the world goes.

Like the Beatles song goes, let it be. If it wasn't meant to be, let it be. You didn't lose anything. Actually, you gained a whole lot by trying, because you gained information on where else to start focusing your energy.

It's like asking a girl out. It doesn't matter if she says no; you learn and next time you're closer to getting yes. It's the people who never ask that struggle. You tried and are getting stronger.

Like I said, I wish I failed earlier. Now I have to fail 10 years later.
Why hiding my phone’s battery percentage made my life better
Are you sure it's not in Boston?
In my opinion,

1) Barrier to entry is way too high compared to other software niches. Good luck designing a cycle-accurate CPU simulator, or creating a reliable and robust analog circuit simulator that competes with offerings from EDA giants like Cadence and Synopsys.

2) The adoption process. I learn tool X in school, I start a company that uses tool X, I teach my hires tool X, etc. Once tool X becomes a central part of the design process, it's almost impossible to get rid of it.
> plus I don't have to worry about who is watching my traffic.

Millions of people (myself included) use google and don't worry about this already. Online privacy isn't an issue (or a deal breaking feature) for the overwhelming majority of people.

DuckDuckGo may get niche business because their privacy stance, but it's not going to help them unseat Google.
As someone who doesn't work in power, labeling an energy storage's capacity in megawatts is a bit confusing. What does it mean when a pumped water storage facility has a capacity of 1400 MW? Does this literally mean that the turbines can physically provide 1400 MW when active? Shouldn't the unit of measurement have some indication of how long it can continually source this level of power? A 1400 MW pumped storage facility is not that useful if it can only source this amount of power for a minute before depleting its stores, for example. Or is the power figure always chosen s.t. it can continually source this much during peak demand without depleting?
In my experience, "mildly optimised" code tends to be simpler and more efficient in terms of the effort required to maintain it too. Anyone who has compared a compiler's -O0 to its -O1 will likely come to the same conclusion. It's only at the "-O2" and above where the effort starts becoming significant.

Of course, different programmers will have different ideas of what "mildly optimised" means; what I mean by "mildly optimised" above is actually the code I'd write as a first pass and consider not optimised at all, and not "the first thing that comes to mind even if it's actually horribly stupidly inefficient" which a lot of programmers seem to do. In other words, my idea of unoptimised is probably more like a -O1, and I'd have to spend extra effort "pessimising" to go below that.