skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only do we not know if the person was fired for discriminatory reasons the poster likely cannot even know for sure why this person was fired. All we see is poster acting very unprofessionally.

Perhaps these accusations will be proven true on a later occasion. More likely even if true nothing will be proved either way and both poster, the person that was fired and the employer all end up looking poorly. Perhaps this could have been thought out better.
No idea, commit messages in https://notabug.org/hp/gogs/commits/master don't help either.

Wow, those commit messages and changes in them are really crap ;/ Does this project have any code/merge review process?
Not sure if I agree with that. Lots of times I catch myself editing my messages again and again thus making them up to the point. You have to be a very good communicator in talking and have very good listeners to get the same amount of accuracy. Communication throughput is less though and what goes missing for sure is context (facial expressions, posture, etc) but for some people that is not a bad thing per se.
Simple Secure Backup for a Consultancy
Even if they didn't, given the number of state-level administrations, I am sure I can get close to the 9999 attempts I need to brute force a code. I wonder how many automated attempts are possible.
Thank you for the correction.
Most people don't run workstation loads, let alone anything remotely resembling "heavy".
Hi Paul,

Sorry 'bout the late answer; I don't get emails on responses.

My browser is Firefox 45.3.0 running on Windows 7. I use Privacy Badger - that blocks sites that do too much cookie tracing but it didn't object to your page.

What may be more significant is that I browse through a corporate firewall - it sometimes fails to connect to the same host I connected through earlier, and sites which rely on consistent conversations sometimes fall victim to this.

All that said, frustratingly, today I see colorful splotches. Whatever the problem was, it seems to have gone away.

I think that your idea to do more server-side rendering is praiseworthy. I'm very tired of the many Web sites whose authors seem to think they own my CPU.
It's sad that something like this happened, but I have to agree with one of the following posts [1]:

"[...] as an FSF volunteer and a GNU maintainer, I'm also sad to see all FSF employees, volunteers, and GNU maintainers being blamed collectively. I don't agree with collective punishment, and don't think that it is ever the right choice."

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg0003...
I'm currently working on a company that could just as easily start in China as the US: anything you can share regarding where and how to find investors? No "Chinese AngelList"?
No, you can already use other vendors chips. What it would say for consumer products is that it isn't the given choice provided you developed and ported your own OS (or -ha- use linux).
If I'm reading the parent post correctly, it is calling for evidence for the sake of everybody else. Libreboot should of course be free to leave GNU/FSF regardless of the reasons behind it, but Leah accused them of extremely inappropriate and potentially illegal behaviour. So yeah, it's normal to ask for evidence.

And I don't know about you, but if events actually went down as described, I'd want to know.
I don't think the author is claiming that more expressive or rewarding friendships form as much as he's claiming that remote really makes you focus on the meat and the content of the colleague's output. That's actually something I LOVE about working remotely. There are far fewer politics because instead of saying "Oh man, Jimmy looked at me cross-eyed last week, I don't want to do anything with him anymore", you just say "Oh, Jimmy needs help on this issue. I'll send him a reply in a minute."

I have literally had colleagues complain that they were offended by the way I sat in my chair (and, I've since learned that at least one of my friends has been subjected to this same criticism at a separate workplace). Remote work strips away all of that inconsequential crap and leaves you to focus on the data.

This is one of the major unsung benefits of remote work: it removes a huge amount of office politics and allows employees to concentrate on working and think less about campaigning.

I've had colleagues resent me for not bringing enough free snacks into the office when I was in a supervisory role. Yes, really. Anything that can help mitigate that kind of thing is great.
Friends with Benefits: Η Νέα Τάση Στο Σεξ – ESCORTS, VIP ESCORT, VIZITES SEX
There were a few like him before, but none as successful or as rich. Previously, we had: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, that president of GM. And more.

Compared to them, Musk is taking a much harder, potentially more important cause.
I'll wait for a competing product that has flour in it.
Dhaka - Blood River
The Unclaimed Baggage Center
Aha, but even if you accept no support from GNU or FSF, they can continue to promote, support, and maintain this project, including any future work you do on it. Maybe with a different name or slightly diverged feature set, but the same project.

Imagine the agony of knowing every time you publish new work on the project, it will be quickly slurped up by the machine and distributed by the villains you so despise.

There's no escape.
Isn't RMS himself gay?
Here is one more very important feature of GraphicsJS - Accessibility (508 Section) http://docs.anychart.com/7.11.1/Common_Settings/Accessibilit...

Disclaimer: I work at AnyChart.
Is their list of contributors small enough that they can actually change licenses without a fork? I was under the impression it could take a ton of finding people and getting their sign off to move a project like this.
Assuming the story is accurate, the problem was not just with the people who bullied the transgendered person, the problem was also that nobody with authority in the GNU project backed her (or at least, not enough people). Therefore it is fair to also blame those with authority that did nothing/not enough to avoid this outcome. The fact that it's taken somebody quitting the GNU project over it to highlight the problem shows that the GNU leadership did not do enough to denounce this type of behaviour.

Perhaps there is more to this story than we know so far, but as it stands I can understand Leah's reaction.
Whatsapp changed their emoji styles: added gloss
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg0003...
In most all Tesla product unveilings, Elon will make a directed thank-you to the 'Tesla Team'.

The blog posts are mostly made by the Tesla Team.

In the gigafactory unveiling, some speeches in Norway and the Netherlands, and other press events, a top engineer JT speaks alongside him. He brought his chief designer on stage at the gigafactory unveiling, as well as another engineer aside from JT.

Companies like this need a BDFL. It's crucial that Elon stays in complete control to ensure focus, not to flounder it.
LinkNYC disables their kiosks web browser due to misuse
I have so much admiration for the people who keep old platforms alive. I tinker with a Commodore 64 (a real one) now and then, and I'm just blown away by the community that still exists around it. People still write new software, build new hardware (I have a MSSIAH synth/MIDI interface cartridge and it's a blast to play with), make new demos and intros, discover new graphics modes and sound techniques, etc. The landscape is pretty well mapped out, but people still manage to find new ways to look at it every now and then.

I've always wanted an Apple IIgs, because it had a built-in FM synth that was really powerful for the time (I have a fascination with electronic music and equipment from that era, which is why I have the C64 and MSSIAH, as well as a Gameboy with LSDJ). Maybe now is a good time to start looking around for one.

This is a fantastic story...I want to play with it, just because.
Everything Old Is New Again, and a Compiler Bug
Are you sure that glycerin prevents remineralization? Dr. Schau[1] thinks it's unfounded.

[1] http://www.myfamilydentist.ca/glycerin-and-remineralization-...
I empathize with your frustration but please consider that changes in RR were not done "for fun". They were done to solve plenty of use cases that few (any?) routers in JS ecosystem ever had to deal with (universal rendering, avoiding waterfall of requests, animations).

Solving each of these problem introduced some awkward APIs, but the community demanded them with a passion just like in this thread. We all built and learned.

This rewrite is motivated by: (a) knowing the spectrum of use cases, (b) throwing out non-composable APIs that made it hard for everyone to extend the router, (c) eliminating a class of bugs caused by router trying to "orchestrate" everything instead of letting React do it.

It was not obvious to the authors how to do it from day one. It was not obvious to me or anyone else. Everything is easy in hindsight ;-) It's sure rewarding to solve these problems for the authors, but this has nothing to do with "fun" and everything with creating something future users won't hate.

All the churn in previous versions was caused by router fighting with React. Now it works together with React. Let's see how it pans out. And if you're pessimistic, keep using RR3, it's going to be maintained for a long time (you're not the only one using it ;-).
5 Factors to look over to make your mobile app Super-Perform
I self-aggrandizingly call this tome's law:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077549
I like to snort lines of caffeine off my vanity in the morning; can anyone else with this habit who has tried Power Toothpaste comment on whether it's worth the switch?
Is it? I used to happily make very complex sites using Apache Wicket on top of Java. It lets you make composable, extensible components (including inherited markup). It is type safe (the cools kids are finally rediscovering how important this is for maintainability with Flow & TypeScript). It supports replacing components using AJAX. Sure, it's not great for client-side SVG rendering or the various other cool things you can do with React and co, but hand on heart, I can't honestly say I find doing all this stuff in JavaScript to be "so much better". Quite the opposite for the majority of intranet-type sites, in fact.
Caffeinated toothpaste is so 2016 Q2. I heard there's a stealth startup doing caffeinated toilet paper that will disrupt this market by hitting the customer with a dose of caffeine earlier on in the morning pipeline.
Caffeinated gum is also a big thing. Same idea I think: passive caffeine consumption with the implication that you'll be saving tons of money that would've been spent in coffee shops. But don't most people want to limit their caffeine consumption?

I feel like caffeine has an identical mindshare as cigarettes in the '60s: Haha we know it's not great for you but everybody does it, especially business people!'.

Not trying to nock your product, it's just whatever I think of when people try to push more caffeine on me. I need more sleep, not more caffeine.
This is probably a personal thing. I'm definitely an e-mail editor, but plenty of people prefer real-time or near-real-time communication to the precision of a carefully considered e-mail.

At least Slack allows editing of messages...
In TNG the built a whole new continent int the Indian ocean.
It's getting there, with the evolution of sharesheets + iCloud Drive.

I've been meaning to play around with a 4g iPad + cloud boxes for webdev and analytics workflow.
In the Netherlands there is a lot of reclaimed land that needs a lot of water pumped out regularly (though not 24/7, during normal weather).

I know there have been pilots with some of the larger pumping stations to incorporate the current real time price of electricity, as well as the forecast rain within the next few hours to decide when to turn on. Not sure if it's actually used in production now.

That sort of thing is a great fit for that problem.
I think there have been one such campaign at least in the past few years. But I totally agree, there should be continuous campaigns till he gets one, and by then if he is not pardoned, it will be a big embarrassment to the US government.
Please please please do a nicotine toothpaste! I want to get my ciggy in as soon as I step out of bed.
Actually it seems a friend of his/her was fired not the maintainer. Now, how do we know the facts? I don't think blind support is a good thing.
Without full disclosure I hope GNU will just fork the libreboot project and take further measures to protect itself from such situations.
No, geeks eat the heads from live chickens. I think he meant poindexter.
Yep Zen is great! That's where I got my /29 from. They also fix issues very quickly - when netalyzr complained that my ISP couldn't handle fragmented udp packets, I let them know and they fixed it within a few days.
That is mostly because those "types" as you call them didn't take math courses or slept through them, or don't use the math tools in everyday work - because it's not needed.

In other words, they're not Computer Scientists. They are Computer Programmers instead. (or maybe Computer System Engineers)
I have a former friend who developed a drug habit and exploded nearly violently at his neighbors with no provocation in the lobby of his apartment building making a huge scene which resulted in the gentlemen in blue having a talk with him. He turned his reaction to too much meth into a wholly fictitious trans hate scenario in which he was victimized. None of this actually happened.

People lie and the presumption of innocence isn't just the law its a reasonable reaction to the imperfect, screwy world around you.

Expecting people to back up accusations with proof isn't hate.
It would be difficult because the project appears to have accepted contributions from many authors under the GNU General Public License. One of the terms of the license is that any derivative work must be released under the same license terms. I'm not an expert, but I believe changing the license would require a sign-off from all copyright holders within the project.
The email strikes me as strange within itself, it doesn't appear to be a calm and collected decision. Forgetting whether it's the right or wrong decision, never write angry - you always make yourself a fool.

That said, I would like to know more about what actually happened. If somebody was singled out for whatever reason, that's unacceptable. I'm not LGBT, but my position on that stands regardless. It is possible for somebody from the LGBT community to not be a good person to work with, so that should also be considered.

Lastly, it doesn't seem right from the outset that the entire GNU project suffers from the actions of one individual. This seems like an ill thought out demonstration who's intentions aren't completely transparent.
Updated thoughts regarding Geekbench 4, the newer version.
http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=159853&curposti...

TLDR: Much better.
As a mere programmer, they look identical to me.
> you'll probably find at least one thing you didn't explicitly opt into

Didn't you explicitly agree to Google's privacy policy [1] when you created an account? Are you saying Google is using your data in a way that is not described in their privacy policy?

[1] https://www.google.com.au/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Interesting read, but no mention at all of what this thing is, or will be, used for. Anyone?
we know it's not great for you

[citation needed]
I don't think there's enough "free" space we could flood. 2.16 mm does not even offset the sea level rise of any single year in the past 25 years, much less the rest.
Can't really go into details, but I've got plenty of servers at OVH. It's cheap and works, when it works. When it doesn't it doesn't. Don't expect issues to be resolved swiftly or them reacting to your trouble at all. Latest ticket opened today. Average disk I/O is under 1 MB/s for sequential disk read and disk I/O flat lines for tens of seconds every now and then.

If you find this acceptable, no problem. But for some use cases this just won't do. - Disk I/O IOPS & latency really does make difference between many vendors. UpCloud got free trial, try it. You might like it or not. You won't lose anything. - I've gotta be honest. Some of the OVH instances are performing great for the price. But others are as described above.
They don't need to sell them to enterprise. They can be their own customer. They have some of the bigger datacenters after all.

ARM for data storage pools seems like a good fit.
This is a totally valid artistic choice, and they are welcome to do that. I certainly enjoy it myself when it's well done.

But... it's not pixel art anymore, it's square art. And if people want to create neo-pointilist/neo-divisionist artwork based upon a grid of coloured squares that's fine. But it's not pixels.
Developing a REST-Powered AJAX Table with the Slim Microframework and AngularJS
When I'm coding it's 9 out of 10 with ambient soundscapes. Couple of example cd's I put on;

Vestigial – Vestigial "Solar/Aeon"
Apocryphos – Onyx
Atrium Carceri – Cellblock
Desiderii Marginis – Hypnosis
False Mirror – Derelict World

And other likeminded music. And the other 1 / 10th is hardcore metal / beatdown. Bands like; nasty, enemy ground, I am revenge, no turning back, spawn of disgust and other bands like it.
Datacenter-on-chip: Researchers target a new paradigm for big data computing
Another heroic effort was the posthumous release of Star Fox II.
A community took the Japanese alpha of Star Fox II, patched all the bugs, made it fully playable, and translated it into English. I finished it and I can tell you it was better than Star Fox 64.
> "If you have a reliable natural gas distribution network, like the rest of the world, batteries don't make any financial sense versus gas power plants."

"The rest of the world" also has measurably more expensive gas. ($10/mmBTU for large scale users around here).
The 'cultural appropriation' brigade can't even handle fiction
Optimizely targets developers with its new testing platform, Optimizely X
Maybe this is an actual problem for "Internet of Things" to solve -- appliances that can time when they turn on until the price of electricity dips.

Of course there should be some mechanism involved to prevent all washing machines to turn on at exactly the same moment the moment it dips...
NET: Translating an enum in C# using the Description attribute
Yes, and it always has had - one would expect that during the human evolution, the human body developed to expect and utilize variable levels of fluoride in drinking water.

Nowadays we consume processed water which is clear of many impurities and tends to come just one source. The quality is extremely consistent, so we don't die of poisonings and contaminations. But then, the selection of where our drinking water comes from, and the purification processes may have the impact that the fluoride level is consistently lower than is good. Hence the possible need to add fluoride to water.
Not all game will have collision. Something like a Poker game could really fit into a react app.
The Duct Tape Programmer (2009)
As personal reaction it may be reasonable. As a reaction from maintainer of the software piece, that's childish. Mailing list contains no details, just literally "Fuck GNU, Fuck FSF". She can tweet, post it in facebook, personal blog, it is okay. But when it affects software, this is a sign that she cannot separate conceptions. Your users are never guilty (except when you write extremist-oriented software), why should they trust someone with that fuck-fuck on mailing list reputation? I hope they both will get proper respect in this situation, if her claims are true. But this is another coin into 'don't use gnu if possible' rule.
CCTV FOOTAGE SHOWS MOMENT SAMSUNG S7 EXPLODES IN a BUSY CAFE
Yes. There is a pernicious group of candidate employees lurking outside of every organization all of the time, and if you let these people in, this is the kind of output you get.

People who've made their careers as "non-technical people managers" have no. freaking. idea. what to do when you put them in a "remote office". They've gotten by with their free donuts twice a week, their wry smiles, their nice suit, their good posture, and their firm handshake all of these years and work makes no sense to them if you can't have these things. Reading technical mumbo-jumbo in a Slack channel and having to pretend to know what it means is their worst nightmare.

It seems that every technical organization these types touch quickly begins to adopt nonsense practices and make really dubious overall business decisions. Sometimes the manager/executive's connections can help give the company a kick in the pants, but it usually won't survive the new employees' MBA-informed directives too long before fresh MBAs come in to issue a fresh kick in the pants or someone competent eventually ascends (rarely happens).

The really scary thing about the MBA-types is that once you let one in, they invite their friends, and then they're impossible to extricate. Then you start getting "technical" people (read: management's buddy who fixes his computer on the weekend) getting big titles, pretending they know what they're doing and making technical decisions that are absolutely, criminally disastrous in the medium and long term.

Then they call their friends at the trade mag and get an article written about their new revelation, which starts a trend that a lot of normal tech people inexplicably try to copy. :|
Nope, library authors are trying to create a good product. When they fail, some of them try again. I'm an open source author myself, and comments like this make me think twice before sharing something. Maybe it's better I just keep that code to myself and not bother with the whole community thing. ;-)
How huge are the savings? Do you have any numbers or sources?

Do those power utility savings translate into savings to the people who are cut off? I for one would not want to trade electricity price for reliability.
A whopping 7574 box-shadows.
I don't think caffeine has many negative health implications. Although it has certainly wasted my time by leaving me too jittery to work.

There is a great cgp grey video on caffeine:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVE5iPMKLg
A/C can also freeze water to shift the load very cheaply.
For testing, you can wrap your component in <MemoryRouter> and that will work just fine (including links and redirects, for example).
Maybe should switch to jQuery, then no router was required. lol
Global DNS outage hits Microsoft Azure customers
I started using react-router recently and I felt that some things were missing (like passing props to routes).
I hope this release Will improve the API.

Thanks to all the devs that keep moving forward this wonderful ecosustem.
Leaked Apple emails reveal employees' complaints about sexist work environment
Yes, that is how it works - which is not what I asked, unless that is the sole reason you think it's an abomination?
Be careful when going client-only (Firebase)[2013]
It's also compatible with GPU passthrough using VFIO:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309087-insanely-fast-...

Of course it's must be GPU compatible with OS X.
The guy is pissed and he has a legitimate reason to be so; he doesn't try to embarrass anyone, I guess. The lib authors may be the most friendly guys of the city, it does not have much to do with the issue.

In all fairness, this is a problem that plagues the whole JS ecosystem and not just this lib, but it's no reason not to mention it anyways.
Do you use any kinda algorithm for crawling/fetching content from reddit?
Just to inform the discussion wrt. timescales and magnitudes of power variability, here is a real-time plot of power generation in the UK showing daily/weekly/monthly variations in consumption and in production from nuclear, coal, gas turbines, wind, bio and (pumped) hydroelectric. This is with zero battery storage on the grid (I believe).

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk