skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally was turned off by the use of "f^ck" (/s/^/star/ as hn italicizes) here:

> There are so many reasons, but it really all comes down to… don’t let the future get f*cked.

Using a curse word can be effective - but in some places it's just unprofessional, awkward, or comes off as trying-hard to be authentic which always has the opposite effect. It's even worse when not spelling it out as "fuck" and instead half censoring it with $,&,-,@, etc. Either use bad language or don't. Everyone is reading it in their head as "fuck", half-censoring it with stars or doesn't make it any different or less 'naughty'. Be adults about it.
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People have been talking about the terribleness of tech interviewing for years. If a company isn't able/willing to improve important processes, that's definitely a sign to me.
Getting really into the weeds here...

While I agree with everything you just said, I also know there's only two sure-fire ways to increase participation:

#1 Peer pressure

Things like vote.org will help if they close the loop by showing to your peers (bragging rights) that you've voted.

#2 Competitive races

Competitive races require fixes to our gerrymandering and incumbency protection. Maximally competitive districts (totally doable), public financing (will happen sooner or later), proportional voting (tough sell).
Statistically, people hate the candidates more than any other election so far: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-distaste-for-b...
I have most frequently seen this option called "None of the Above". A special election consisting of all new candidates seems like the best practice for when NOTA wins an election.
If you live in Hayward, do you happen to know how much the insurance costs?

Hard to get a quote without providing an address. And I don't want to someone to get spammed by an insurance seller because they listed their home for sale and I used it to get an insurance quote.
I had you and then I lost you? I don't think I ever had you, Mr. Great Candidate. I'm glad you feel so comfortable in your own skin that, despite your obvious superiority, the rejection of the little twerps doesn't keep you down.

Clearly I never had you.
I make the same association. A door is part of a building, and is put there during construction (initial release) or in owner-planned renovations (software updates).

I've never heard of someone breaking into a building by cutting a hole into a wall to install their own entry door that they have a key to, but that's the scenario this "OS X backdoor" is describing.
I think Airbnb would argue that it's not their place to enforce these laws; and that if individual hosts are violating them, the government should go after them.

There's a world of difference between a single family letting their guest room, the runner of a "Hacker Hostel" with 12 bunks, and someone who rents 4 different properties on AirBnB but lives in another house. The laws should be formulated such that the rules for hotels also apply to the 3rd case. Such laws should definitely not apply to the 1st case. A "Hacker Hostel" is also something of an interest group, so I'm not sure what applies there.
Additionally, if you look at "real" numbers, unemployment has only gotten worse since 2008: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...

Funnily enough, it was the HW Bush years when unemployment trend was improving (aside from 2001 bubble).
Imagine a list of RNN resources curated by a RNN.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703148/
Apple’s AirPods aren’t just wireless earbuds. They’re the future of computing
Materia server is fully open source. We are in the process of commenting it better for people to contribute and customize it.

Materia Designer is not fully open source, we use this repository as issue tracker and to keep a trace of everything.

We’re still considering open-sourcing it too to engage the community for building addons.
The problem is that now it's going to be sent with every request. So it'll make the first page faster for the initial request, but slower in the long run.
> It gives people who don't discriminate a chance to step in and gain market share.

The next step is that the discriminating companies are out-competed and go out of business, leaving only non-discriminating companies. Conclusion: that's why there are no discriminating companies left!

This is a nice thought, but it barely works in theory and I've never seen it work in practice. That the consequent isn't observed regularly should tell you something about the assumptions we started with.
There have been many claimed sightings since then, though, including one in 1995 by a wildlife official:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine#Unconfirmed_sighting...

It's not out of the realm of possibility that there's still a very small population out there...
“Harmless Cigarette'
Or the author could just add that information to the text. This way there's no need to "understand" it.
Ah - well you're directly tapped into the problems they all have, even if they see you as just a tool. You're working with so many different businesses that you have a bigger sample size. What's a recurring problem? How can you solve it at scale? Not saying it's easy at all, but you probably have an advantage over someone who just works for a single company.
For some reason I can't reply to the child comment...

I tried using rubymine for a bit as well, but I could never get it to not be slow as hell (I'm on a 2015 mbp with 16gb of ram). Tried tuning the settings a bit, turned on the fast typing config thing, still really laggy.

The one thing I was thinking was that I was also developing in a docker setup, so maybe file access was interfering or something? I haven't run a test outside of docker, so can't really verify and have moved past rubymine for now.
Polarize People
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8186407 (~2 years ago, 63 comments)

(probably out of date, looks like it was rewritten in Swift and switched from MacVim to Neovim as backend)
I am not an American, so it's only tangentially related to my life (in a way that my part of the world is going to experience it 10 years later), or that I have to be more careful not to accidentally trigger anyone on my next Hawaiian vacation (like last time I visited Old Lahaina Luau and some black woman from NYC wanted to kick me out of the place I paid for because she wanted to sit there - is being a "black woman" the secret superpower to do crazy irresponsible things with no penalty nowadays?).

Anyway, possible interesting stats for your further research:

- average/median earning of single women in their 20s comparing to the same group of men in officially recognized fields (no sugar daddy incomes etc.)

- ratio of female/male university graduates

- number of male-only clubs forced to close or allow female participation comparing to the number of female-only clubs

Frankly, I couldn't care less about men-/women-only clubs, I just don't understand why former are scorned upon and latter are celebrated. I come from a part of Europe that was pretty equal for a long time so seeing this happening seems extreme to me.
All of the docs on that site are from the early 2000's
No, the conversion from digital to analogue can and should happen in the device itself to be able to use the analogue signal with the plethora of peripherals intended for this purpose, without any additional restrictions above those already in place. For those who want or need digital output this possibility already exists in more than one way - through USB and Bluetooth to give some examples - so this is not a valid argument to promote the omission of an analogue output. Nor is Apple's claim of interference from the camera or other on-board hardware valid, given the abundance of camera-equipped devices which have no problems with interference.

It does not take that much thought to see through the rhetoric and discern the true reason for omitting an analogue output, I'd even go so far as to claim that it takes more thought to remain wilfully ignorant of the fact that Apple simply wants more control over how, when and where to 'allow' the device to produce output.
To put it another way, I'm saying "The captain of the ship is as different from the guy swabbing the deck, as the executive is from the average employee". The captain's calling the shots on where the ship goes, the captain is aware of what the whole crew is doing, etc, etc.
Sorry for the honesty folks. This is what happens when you give up control to a central authority that has absolutely no requirement for consistency or even a requirement to allow anything.
Nope.

Your criminal record may be sealed / expunged on government systems, but private 3rd party background checkers will continue to keep you on the books. (Depending on the state: IIRC Florida and Rhode Island make it illegal for background checks to show data that has been expunged)

Since so much of the background-check industry is private, there's no real laws that govern their behavior. Frankly, in this day and age of "big data", its safer to just assume that you're permanently on record.

Even if you do seal or expunge your names officially... 3rd party websites are under no obligation to follow the seal / expunge.

https://www.truthfinder.com/
Alt-right is basically a fancy label for 'outside of the mainstream, doesn't like political correctness and isn't in favour of Clinton' by this point.

It's basically used like the 'Bernie Bros' thing was when he was still running for president. A near meaningless buzzword to insult people the user disagreed with.
There's a guy in Tennessee that's spent decades trying to grow black truffles (melanosporum) commercially. It sounds like he's having some ups and downs: http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/living/domestic-truffles-eatoc...

Here's his website http://tennesseetruffle.com/
The author of the article is asking whether or not it is good that one of the world's main channels of information is controlled by a large company that can and does do whatever it wants with the information. Once a company becomes large enough and controls enough of our lives, the fact that it technically can do whatever it wants becomes "immaterial" as you say. That makes this story more significant than just "water is wet." Like it or not, we don't live in a libertarian society.
I think it was brave to say, and a valuable addition to the discussion.
If you would talk with some actual women in tech, you would learn that many women choose not to become software engineers (and choose to leave at 2x the rate of men) because it is often a shitty environment for them.

You would also learn that plenty of people are working on making a more inclusive industry for reasons that have nothing to do with pushing down their own wages. I'm one of them.
You're a serf on the content farm, begging your lord for a favor.
I should have asked: if its public, which of your groups is working on universal, automatic registration?

I know Brennan Center, Pew Trusts, ACLU and others have been working this for a while now.
Facebook - context oblivious censorship on the other hand - reality-bubble forming curator algorithms on the other. Somehow the term "negative feedback loop" comes to mind every time Facebooks mechanisms to filter and market content is brought forth.

I don't think internet search engines should try to be helpful. Guessing what the recipient would like to see removes chance for serendipity and creates and information bubble with a radius given by the algorithms parameters... and then, for what is brought out, they remove the too-saucy bits. This is worse than censorship.
But then, apparently, there are virtually no good companies to work for. So most people shouldn't bother worrying about it.
AOO IS NOT MAINTAINED. It can't do builds, it can't make releases. It can't apply a security bug fix and build a release within 9 months. For an office suite, that's not OK.

LO is where all the active OpenOffice developers went to, LO is the continuation of OO.o.

AOO is an old and unmaintained snapshot of OpenOffice, with an apparently long-broken release build process.

I don't think there should be just one office suite, or even just one open source office suite, and I don't think everyone should just use the one with the most features. Not at all. But the AOO situation is just tricking people unfamiliar with it, to use the OO.o from 3 years ago instead of the OO.o with security and other fixes, and updates for compatibility with new operating systems (and new features which may or may not be desired).

If you hate LO developers or project, maybe you have some good reasons, and you should be able to work on a competitor based on whatever open-source code base you want. But the right thing to do at this point is abandon the "OpenOffice" name. Random people looking for "OpenOffice" need to be confronted with the fact that there are now two forks, LibreOffice and something else. And, at least for today, they should definitely choose LibreOffice.
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> I'm surprised at how few people use it

I'm not:

> US $ 129.00 /1st year

I don't say it's not worth it, but we have pretty good editors for free (sublime, vscode, atom, etc).
> the USS Enterprise (the aircraft carrier)

Which Enterprise aircraft carrier? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_United_St...

Interesting to see in that list that another Enterprise, CVN-80, is scheduled for service in 2025.

Enterprise rent a cars was named after the earlier CV-6 Enterprise from WWII, on which the founder served. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Rent-A-Car

I was also on the Enterprise (CVN-65), but I crossed the equator on the USS Badger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Badger_(FF-1071)
Yes, and that's the point of the article. So why are you trying to downplay it?
I suggest "sophisticated malware backdoor payload for OSX discovered." Then it's clear it's not a part of the OSX itself and that it's something that has to be somehow installed by some third party (e.g. using any malware installation method or a real spy).
I agree that it's a bad idea to use "janitor" as a disparaging term, and that was very far away from my intention. If that was what you took away from reading it, then that's more evidence that I didn't do a great job with writing the original draft.

Here's the original paragraph for reference:

Data engineers are the janitors who keep your data clean and flowing. Insights are great, and you need them. But to deliver insights at scale, you need data infrastructure. That’s delivered by data engineering. It’s not as fun to talk about as D3 visualizations and business intelligence dashboards, but it’s every bit as important.
> prevent people from making choices that they don't agree with, which was basically the opposite of the point of the US.

I'd stay away from these issues on HN unless we really have something valuable and new to add. I'll just say that there's another side to this and many strongly disagree with this notion. To sum it up and just put both sides out there (hopefully not starting a debate), people facing widespread discrimination, unable to get jobs, housing, health care, and even dinner and hotel rooms are not free, but oppressed. Also, it's long been part of US history, it's not a new trend. Anti-discrimination laws are one example.
> "Facebook is for the pleasure and benefit of the whole world, myself included, on a number of levels."

Wrong. Facebook is for making money. If providing users with pleasure or benefits makes them money, then that's lucky for the users.

> "Facebook has become a world-leading platform for spreading information, for debate and for social contact between persons. You have gained this position because you deserve it."

Also wrong. The second sentence, I mean.

I agree with the intent here. I agree with the outrage at Facebook. The author of this piece, too, seems to understand the futility of this open letter, and I do think it's a good thing that he's making the statement regardless. I just think that maybe he's being too generous to Mark and Facebook.
Because the point of the article is to shame Facebook. I'm making a different point.
That's "pancake syrup" or "Maple-flavoured syrup" or just "syrup." anything labeled maple syrup, by law, must be maple syrup.
Benchmarking build systems for a large C project
Drawing up a flight plan for moonshots
At least he knows who the lord is and in principle the lord can set things straight. A step above complaining to the void or casting a throwaway vote.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Google Docs traditionally but we're slowly transitioning to Confluence. I'm leading by example but it's a work in progress.
The "involved in STEM" can also go too far.
For example more than half the bachelor degrees in biology are earned by women these days[1], which is nice.

But why do we still need special girls/women events to promote biology to women, when in fact we should promote biology to all?

Also, where are the programs to get boys interested in education or psychology, both of which are over three quarters female? This simply does not happen, at least not at scale, because the idea that it is women and women alone who must be "interested" in various things is too prevalent at the moment, for the right reasons but the wrong outcomes, if you ask me.

[1] http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor...
You tell me when I can open a segregated lunch counter, or refuse to bake a gay wedding cake, and I'll consider your argument to have merit. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time until Facebook and company are brought to heel under that "public accommodation" approach.
Yeah I would like to know this.

The DAC sockets on recent iPhone models (5 up) has been pretty good.
The music examples are utterly fascinating. It sounds insanely natural.

The only thing I can hear that sounds unnatural, is the way that the reverberation in the room (the "echo") immediately gets lower when the raw piano sound itself gets lower. In a real room, if you produce a loud sound and immediately after a soft sound, the reverberation of the loud sound remains. But since this network only models "the sound right now", the volume of the reverberation follows the volume of the piano sound.

To my ears, this is most prevalent in the last example, which starts out loud and gradually becomes softer. It sounds a bit like they are cross-fading between multiple recordings.

Regardless, the piano sounds completely natural to me, I don't hear any artifacts or sounds that a real piano wouldn't make. Amazing!

There are also fragments that sounds inspiring and very musical to my ears, such as the melody and chord progression after 00:08 in the first example.
The same. The only reason plausible deniability works is that it's ambiguous.
Oh boy. My HR title would drive you nuts then. It's just director information management. We also have info analysts and info managers. Our department color is gray.
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For neovim users, you can get something almost comparable with deoplete [1], tern_for_vim [2], and ternjs-deoplete [3]. I set this up recently and have been very happy with the results. This also supports ES6 and JSX in case you use either of those.

[1] https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim

[2] https://github.com/ternjs/tern_for_vim

[3] https://github.com/carlitux/deoplete-ternjs
Will you be believed when you clarify, that's then another thing...
> usually there will need to be some discussions among the panels.

The way we've handled that (startup, ~30 devs) is that the VP of Engineering goes last, and will go around getting quick reactions from everyone on the loop. If everyone says "I'm all for hiring", the VP will go ahead and let the candidate know we'll be making an offer. If anyone says "I'd like to discuss", then we don't give feedback until after getting together to discuss the candidate.
I like the advice in the article, actually:

> hang out in the parking lots of places where they’ll be interviewing to see what the people there wear
Respect. Everyone says "Oh, we respect our team members!", but few do when the rubber meets the road.

I've always insisted on going out to lunch with my potential boss, and watch how they treat the servers. I've never regretted working with the ones who treated everyone with courtesy and politeness. I've regretted working with those who weren't.
Hey guys, this app made the front page of reddit 10 months ago: Lazydayapp.com

I'm looking for help taking it to v2 (already have v2 designs) and an iOS app where I feel this really belongs. Pure passion project but hope to monetize it with the right team. Cheers and any feedback / pointers greatly appreciated. Hoping I can connect with some dev talent here.
> There's one component of the web that everybody seem to forget : the proxy.

> HTTPS breaks proxies and breaks caching.

I wonder if RFC 2660 S-HTTP[1] would have helped here.

> Most of our activity on the web is public as in a public space. That's fine and maybe even actually good.

I think what we've discovered is that this isn't actually true: many things do need to be secret, and in order for things to be secret those things need to hide in a cloud of things which don't really matter.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2660
To add some terminology: http://imgur.com/a/hS0yk

You're asking for the left picture, others are asking for the right picture.

As for how the world would respond... some would laugh, some would get mad. But that would be like if you walked into some poor rural town afflicted by unemployment and held up a sign that said "I make over $100k working a tech job in San Francisco. Every spare bit of change helps."

Some would laugh, others would want to punch your face.
On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools.

Sometimes I wonder if Emacs and Vi would be so appreciated if they were commercial as well, without any FOSS version available.
At least some on both sides of the LibreOffice/OpenOffice split hate each other with the heat of 10,000 suns. There will be no reconciliation.
In that case, check out Rams (2016) [1]. An Icelandic film about two estranged, elderly brothers who work as sheep farmers in a remote location, until a crisis occurs. Beautiful little film; great photography and music.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/movies/review-in-rams-brot... (although I recommend not reading anything about it beforehand)
One of the things I've noticed is that scammers (ask for your SSN/birthday/etc, bad sales jobs, etc) are the most attentive with callbacks and 'hiring'. Because it's all they do and they actually optimize their hiring for applicant satisfaction.
Frankly the author comes off like a total dick to me. Obnoxious and self-aggrandizing. Not someone I'd want to work with, felony or no.
I see. I honestly didn't know much about the specifics of protected classes before today.

So, currently, political affiliation is not a protected class, but it is considered a gray area by many.

Many may feel that political affiliation should be considered a protected class, however, if it becomes one, would that mean that Nazism is now protected?

Or coming at it from the other angle, as it stands, a religious extremist who believes that all members of a particular race/religion/orientation/etc should be put to death is currently protected. Why is that protected but Nazism not? Or does the protection become void as soon as you use it negatively towards another protected class? I'm genuinely asking.

Even though Nazism isn’t technically a religion, it seems very similar to religious extremism in many ways.
> Wrong. Facebook is for making money.

I know you're not wrong here, but at what point does social responsibility trump profit? Should it?