skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good biz monkey is worth at least as much as a decent code monkey but a bad biz monkey and a decent code monkey won't do any good. Two sides of the same coin. I recently met a true hustler who I would totally do a completely secure, air tight partnership with as long as it had a shotgun clause.

Yes, you can't trust the good biz monkeys.
For corruption on this scale, we don't need causation. We want people to not only be above board, but we also want the appearances of being above board (so if something even looks bad, our public figures should avoid it).

For this, correlation is a much better standard because it forces office holders to stay away from the smoke too.

If we had them say, well sure there's smoke but no fire, we'd have Nixon's missing 18 minutes all over the place.
The Most Surefire Way I’ve Found to Win Enterprise Deals
Flagged for bait-y title. This is one of those articles that contradicts its title in the first few sentences.

Better titles: "Purely functional programming doesn't work" or "sometimes functional programming doesn't work, but I'm still a functional programming advocate".
Like someone else mentioned, how it makes sense out of words is much more important than a zero error rate.

Understanding rate is less than 10%. If you don't match a keyword it gives a useless web search.

Personally I don't think understanding rate is the whole issue as much as reaction to error (which is partly understanding). You can't say "no that's not what I said" and Siri et al never keep enough context to say "huh? What did you say? Or "I didn't get that last part. can you repeat it?"

It's that errors in understanding or accuracy turn the whole thing into a complete shitshow.

One failure and you might as well pull over and type what you want.
GitHub does not give you the freedom to control your privacy settings. Every click you do is tracked and published. That is not ok and illegal in many countries, especially if you are using it in a professional work environment.

The main selling point of github is that companies can track what their developers are doing in great detail.

And all you people are hooraying them - "YES, we want to obey! We love to live in chains! We do not care for the crazy guys that talk about that stupid freedom thing!"

Maybe in a company project that kind of extreme privacy destruction is ok, when a well paid developer agrees to be monitored in such an extreme way.

But it is definitely not ok to make this the default and to not give you control over it.

Totally absurd that people made that site the new opensource mekka.

This could be only topped by something that would be really crazy, like e.g. if they had not an actual issue tracker for the product itself. Or, even more bizarr, if the product was not open source itself... oh, wait...

We lost a whole generation of develpers that do not even think about these kind of things and are completely ok with that extreme level of tracking and do not mind that they are hurting people that care.

Post-Snowden reality is almost surreal. Too many sheepminded followers.
The alt-right is apparently everyone's favorite new boogeyman for use in thought-free dismissal

It's always disappointing to see a self-described intellectual community give over so heavily to such an obviously broken thought process, but humans being the emotionally manipulable creatures they are, it makes sense.
Bangladesh.
That is producible in huge quantities on demand (for the cost of sugar, sunlight and water). That is defined with atomic specificity. And can have appendages and payloads of arbitrary (genetic) sequence attached to it (again with atomic specificity).
Apple Watch Series 2 Review: Still Not a ‘Need,’ Finally a ‘Want’
WADA Data on Three USA Athletes Leaked – Russia Blamed Immediately
Yeah! What a bunch of boobs!
Avoid Using COUNTin SQL When You Could Use EXISTS
I can't even get permission to read from private repos without also requesting write access to the user's entire codebase on GitHub. I don't want that power.
> Maybe I'm in the minority but I prefer keeping my GNU/Linux and Windows installations separate, with each OS on its own drive.

That's essentially how the windows subsystem works. It might not technically be a VM, but practically it is.
e.g. with Xen (and probably ESXi/KVM?), it is possible to run FreeNAS in a VM with PCI passthrough of the storage controller, pfSense in a VM with PCI passthrough of physical NICs (or bridge to virtual NICs), Windows in a VM with a dedicated GPU, and Linux or OpenBSD in yet other VMs, all on one "desktop" that consolidates clients/firewall/NAS. If you get the right hardware, BIOS and PCI devices.
The important thing here, IMO, is going to be how the system asks for clarification. Hearing the same canned "I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that, can you repeat?" phrase 20 times in a row is annoying. Having the computer say "I'm sorry, what was that last word?" or "I didn't quite catch that, did you want me to call Benny or Betty?" would be far more acceptable.
Thanks for putting that answer together. It's generally how I feel.

"come up with a whole other business in order to make income from it"

You really hit the nerve there.

And is not that I'm naive enough not to think that marketing function and all the rest shouldn't exist. It's just sheer frustration.

Cheers
Slack. Less Bad Than the Rest
If you actually use the thing regularly it more than makes up for itself. You say it's "necessary" but what you mean is that it's the best available option by such a large amount that no other option is worth considering.

You could hire a chauffeur and make him take the car for MOT and everything else but that's so much more expensive that you don't consider it an option. You could get a bike and put some milk crates on the back but that's so much less effective you don't consider it an option.

There's very few true necessities. A lot of resources can be saved if you manage to identify a "necessity" that you can work around by leveraging specific aspects of your situation.
No this is not that. The idea is some frameworks/platforms have become nix first, ex. Ruby, Python to an extent Java etc. OCaml to only name some. Windows Subsytem for Linux is about bringing these nix first developer plats to Windows and help developers like me to remain on Windows.
This stuff happens at almost every tech company. Seems like they're focusing on Apple to draw pageviews.
Have you ever actually been to the US? For something like that to happen you'd have to be breaking the law. Saying the wrong thing to a cop won't do it - local police don't have the power to deport you. The most they can do is refer you to CIS, and if there's no crime CIS will say "Why are you bothering us?"

It should be common sense you don't go to a foreign country and break the laws, no matter where you're from or where you're going.
Chemicals Linked to Health Hazards Are Common in Household Dust
Yes but people know to ask for clarification based on context. You know that they didn't just say they were off to wok their log.
Was wondering the same thing.
Cheers.
Compression as in zlib works well on 1-dimensional data such as text. Fonts are vectors, described by geometric generator functions, i.e. : render "O" as: Circle with center at 50%x50%, line strength 1.2%.

That description is already a (excellent) compression: A bitmap for the 1000px x 1000px "O" for your poster would be 1MB.

Whereas before fonts only had rules to change with size changes, this standard defines weight as another dimension.

It's quite similar to how jpeg, mpeg, and mp3 are better compression methods for their respective domains than WinZip could ever be by incorporating knowledge about data being encoded.
Big Problems Big Thinkers Top Minds Hope to Tackle Our Biggest Challenges
1. is a solved problem, at least at Project Chauffeur (Google's autonomous driving effort).

I live in Mountain View and see self driving cars every day, often driving next to or past each other.

2. Long term, it's not clear to me that taxi laws would apply to cars that drive themselves. Short term, re this pilot project w Uber employees in the driver seat: taxi laws are local. Maybe they got permission from the city.
US government to kill 45,000 wild horses to make room for cattle
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
Building nests - is it a use of tools?
Why are you so focused on "all of .COM's TLS keys" when, under the current CA system, all TLS keys for all domains go straight to NSA and any government that controls a CA (e.g. Turkey and China, etc.)?

A situation where people can avoid the governments they don't trust is strictly better than this, but you seem to be arguing that it is strictly worse.
I do take cover during storms.
I love their vertical mouse. I used the $160 one that people like to get and the $20 one is just as good for what I need it to do. It fits my hand perfectly too.

I also love their $15 wireless mini keyboard too. Super light and nice, responsive keys that are comfortable to type on.

Anker makes awesome stuff!
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Irony that you did cost benefit on a much broader scale (merchants and consumers as a whole) instead of a personal finance level. And you are right about merchants paying more. Didn't make sense when I was running a store until I read a paper on reward points and transaction fees.

This type of subsidizing happens around us, one that comes to mind is taxes. 401k and other tax shelters. People that are taking the greatest advantage of these have money to spare, and read up on the advantages (or hired someone that has).

Also, since you pay off your statement every month, reward cards make a lot of sense. Haven't seen one that requires a revolving balance. For me it's about optimizing returns on spend I already have.
"I have a right to self-defense."

No you do not have the right of self defense against a Police Officer. If you try to assault an Officer you will more then likely be shot and killed. The Officer will be completely within the bounds of the law.
Because:

(a) They do not (go ahead and try to get a Google Mail cert).

(b) They need not (CA's can be --- and have been --- and will probably within a few weeks be again --- untrusted by browsers)

(c) It is insane --- as in, "definition of insanity" insane --- to double down on a hierarchical PKI controlled by governments as a response to problems with the CA system. It is literally the opposite of the direction we should (and are!) going in.

I note: in no exchange we have ever had about this issue have you ever so much as rebutted my contention that adopting DNSSEC+DANE would escrow .COM TLS keys with the US government. That's unsurprising, because my contention is true. But I'd like to point it out anyways.
There is a goldmine of unique historical discussion on free software business models on the "Free Software Business" mailing list archives, going back to 1994. Includes industry luminaries including Cygnus/RedHat founders. Content is hard to navigate but priceless, needs to be rescued and imported into a modern mailing list archiver.

http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?ddn:0:0#b
In that case the jokes made at Apple could be in the same class.
I don't see how your comment is relevant to the topic. This isn't a public vs private debate. If anything it's a debate between federal loans and state appropriations, or an issue of administrative mismanagement.

There is another kind of ideology, however, which may be at play here: an automatic reaction to pour public money on problems. Public institutions can be irrational actors that cator to narrow interests just as private ones can. The public sector needs to be regulated as well, and it largely is not.
> Fed up, the woman quit her job at Apple, trading her position at one of the world's most iconic companies in favor of a job riding a bicycle.

At least it has a happy ending.
I agree with the article not because I've drunk the kool-aid but because I have seen the math work out on numerous occasions.

Say you average $x per year for 3 years, then your startup fails, so you join bigcorp at $y.
So at the end of 4 years you have 3x+y.

Your conservative classmate joins a bigcorp and stays there 4 years averaging $z per year.
So he now has 4z.

It's a simple exercise to enumerate tuples (x,y,z) where
3x + y > 4z.

Literally in every case I have seen up close and personal, the LHS exceeded the RHS. And I'm not going to argue with math.
Seems very likely to be true, since it is part of the wider culture.
You can't calculate inflation over the long run without changing the components of the basket, and it goes both ways:

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/article/one-hundred-years-o...

For example, the average household no longer purchases coal or firewood to heat their home, and we no longer buy straw hats. That seems completely reasonable to me. People's preferences change.

On the other hand, we've added radios, TVs, cars, etc. to the basket.
The people who act like students have an easy life are the students who partied their way through a psych degree and are stuck cleaning up the mess after the fact.

The people who work their butt off in college (by some combination of working while going to school and going all out in a difficult major) usually have an increase in free time once they're only working 40 or 50hr per week and not bringing their work home every day.
> Have you posted you content online?

The video should go up soon. I haven't posted the slides anywhere, but I should fix that.

Ideally, I'd love to see all the slides posted on rustconf.com linked from the talks.

> It was an excellent talk. Nice job!

Thanks!
>>> "But this rape joke was the final straw: The next day, Danielle escalated her complaint about the offense to the very top: Apple CEO Tim Cook."

That isn't the route. In such a large organization, even a very very good and proper one, such issues are not to be accelerated to the CEO. If you have thousands, tens of thousands of employees, then complaints like this will and should be a daily issue (not always a rape joke, but similarly serious complaints). That's why you have HR and legal departments.

And the next day? Workplace complaints take days or weeks to evaluate. Do not ever expect answers on the order of a day. In a really horrific situation you can ask your immediate supervisors for help, such as by transferring the alleged offenders elsewhere temporary, but do not ever expect heads to roll by next business day. The more serious the complaint, the more time one must expect before action is taken.
I have the same problem. Oddly, even using archive.org sends me php code.
I'm having a hard time finding any information about that. Anything you can point me to?

Ideally, I'd like to use 2x1080 (sli) with Windows KVM guest and then use the integrated graphics for Linux host.
You'd be surprised what people are willing to put up with, even when they're not literal slaves. Ben Farrell was just the tip of the iceberg. AAPL is just AMZN with better press and intra-organizational warfare that puts Ballmer-era MSFT to shame.
On the bright side, at least you didn't spend 3+ years on it like some people do before realizing their idea or model is fundamentally flawed.

That fear is one of a few reasons why I don't think I'll start a startup any time soon.
Scientists reveal most accurate depiction of a dinosaur ever created
nailed it.

i appreciate the parent's frank concern regarding signing this Petition "God, I hate how quickly you can get paranoid these days. A mode of thought I would expect in socialist countries, not the US..."

your response is the body punch that reminds us who is the person at the heart of this petition and that whatever the risks referred to in the parent, they are minuscule by comparison

as you said "the least we can do"
maybe you might want to start here :- https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/

around ch9 ( https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/... ) they start mentioning fantasy-land and you should also have a good background in what FL is trying to achieve.
OPENDIME
Thanks for the clarification, good to know.
It was easy when sentience was considered binary. There were just 2 groups, man and animals. If not man then not sentient.

Once sentience is considered a continuum, you can say things that we kind of felt all along like "its less morally bad to eat a chicken than a dolphin".

The reason that this meets resistance is because it forces the question "is it morally bad to eat the chicken at all?" and then we have to pick a spot on the continuum as a dividing point. There may be some small disagreement as to where to draw this line...
No, it's providing further information that Quanergy is in a position to ship and has given a very near timeline to deliver.
Telling someone to smile feels closer to trying to cheer them up than any harassment.
Maybe, but Apple CEOs have always given out their email addresses since the days of Steve. What is it for, if not for greater accountability?
The interesting part for me is this:

> The captive adults all did so spontaneously and exactingly. Rutz even tested seven recently hatched chicks, which had never used sticks before and had no chances to observe tool-proficient adults. Their human keepers had been briefed to never use tools in front of them.

> And yet, when confronted with a weekly baited log, all the chicks picked up nearby objects and tried their luck at probing.

I'm very curious how much of the tool use is instinctive, how well they generalize to other situations, and how they learn and pass on concepts.
Ignoring the MOOCs for a second, isn't this essentially how a seminar has traditionally operated? Everyone reads the assigned papers/books/whatever on their own time, and then shows up in a room for a discussion. If so, these were my favorite classes. The class operated as follows. For each class meeting, the syllabus listed 3-5 "core" papers that were "officially required" reading, along with a smattering of background material. One or two students would give a brief overview of the material for ten or fifteen minutes before they (and the profs) led the discussion.

- There needs to be a hook for the discussions. In many cases, the profs baited that hook by choosing papers that contradicted or complemented each other. For example, it's fairly easy to get a self-sustaining discussion going on whether Theory A seems plausible. Papers 1-3 show data that they claim supports it, but the experiments in 4-5 seem to refute it. Hashing this out--and watching others do so--is probably even more useful than whatever the ostensible topic of the class may be.

This works really well when there is a legitimate debate. It can sorta kinda work if there was some debate but the question has been settled pretty conclusively. Some students can be asked to play the losing side (e.g., the pro-luminiferous aether folks in a physics class). It does not work well at all for things like methods papers or situations where the debate is so remote or unfathomable (e.g., I would not teach calculus or programming like this)

You can sometimes get away with "what did you like or dislike about this paper?", but this often veers into a discussion of methodology (which may or may not be the goal).

However, I think a good selection of papers typically led to good discussions, while even the best-prepared list of discussion questions couldn't do much to provoke interesting debates about a random walk through the literature.

- Everyone needs to have a pretty solid background. We tried a similar format with 1st and 2nd year undergrads and it was not a smashing success. The conversation kept bottoming out in places where students did not know enough to ask/answer questions or connect it with other things that weren't explicitly in the reading (This is probably more of an issue with science or social science; I imagine it happens less in literature classes). The undergrads were also very reluctant to question published papers.

One class attempted to circumvent this with a mixed format. The Thursday classes were lectures. A guest professor would lecture for ~90 minutes on their field of research. These served as background material for 3-5 papers that were the assigned reading. On the following Tuesday, students (+ the professors coordinating the course) discussed the papers. The guest lecturer would return for the discussion and act as a sort of 'expert witness' who could answer questions.

- This format works well when the atmosphere is fairly casual and the students are comfortable with each other. This probably imposes an upper limit of 15-20 students/class or so.
Really? I expect there to be huge resistance to driverless cars (at first) as people come up with crazy scenarios in which they're certain that their own elite driving skills could save them but the car could not. Then there'll be a reversal as people start to actually accept that the car is a better driver than they are, and surprisingly quickly they'll start saying anyone who wants to drive manually is a dangerous egotist.
Apple's secrecy and critical darling hides a lot. There's a reason why Tony Fadell's Nest was so toxic when it was incorporated into Google.
how do you want to create geometry? like loading an obj file and change its position? Unreal.js might worth a try.
I just thought about other scenario. Some restricted corporate environment which forbids running Linux natively.
Can you really blame them? The article is a net positive for the industry, and Mic has covered sexism issues at plenty of companies less prestigious than Apple.

In any case, I feel that there's little to be gained by questioning their intentions.
I highly doubt people are frequently being promoted on the basis of gender at Apple. Whoever was quoted as saying they were didn't really provide any evidence other than people being selected directly for the job without it being opened for applications were men, and then used a bunch of buzzwords to make it sound more dramatic than that.
What? If you have a grievance HR or legal is the last place you should turn to as an employee. No matter what your position is it basically starts the process of getting yourself fired.
The web lost to apps, but it can come back with VR
I don't feel like most of that is substantial enough either. Passed up for a promotion is likely when the company is mostly men. Reporting bad jokes, nagging, and "smile" would result in hr pinning you as a problem employee even if they crossed the line, which the rape one obviously did. No one is going to tell you an employee was reprimanded, either way. Going to hr not to mention the Ceo seems more than a bit ticky tacky and outrageous. You're going to quit over this? There has to be more to the story At what level of education and employment do you quit and ride a bycicle? Too many questions about an article way, way too vague.
Practical Programming in an Exception Free World
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Or just something someone would say to someone in a hallway just to say something. People have said things like that to me plenty of times before, and I'm assuming it probably wasn't because they mistook me for a woman.
Me three. Tried it on Chrome/Windows and Safari/Mac, same breakage.
It's there, but any rational person must realize that the CEO cannot possibly act faster than immediate supervisors. CEO will, at most, hand the immediate investigation to an underling who will then contact HR. And corporations have had employee manuals long before CEOs started maintaining a public email address.
Ask HN: Who wants to connect talented high schoolers with internships?
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One of the EasyAcc 5 port chargers looks literally identical to the Anker one. I suspect at least one of them is re-badging?