skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incidentally, which pew studies? In my anecdotal experience, harassment is a pervasive issue e.g. I personally dont know of any urban woman not adversely affected by street harassment. Like a lot of things, it is a couple of men doing a whole lot of damage.

I keep feeling like the whole alt-right anti-PC movement seems to be born of things people said online or corner case behavior in insulated Universities. Like, who cares? Most men I know who love the anti-PC movement would, in the moment, gladly intervene if a woman is getting verbally harassed and is visibly shaken up. Mention Valenti to the same person and they fly into a rage. Like wut?!

Most feminist and LGBT activists groups aren't talked about by Jezebel and are doing great work.

tl;dr: Message to alt-right activists everywhere: Talk to minority rights activists in person outside of emotionally charged protests. You'll find you don't disagree by much.
The best reasons I can think of are:

1. Combating e-waste. Pack-in cables are convenient but not always needed.

2. It encourages people to buy and use the appropriate length cable for their needs. With USB-C it's a lot harder to include a 'good for most people' length because the cable connected to the laptop for charging doesn't have to connect directly to the DC adapter.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12924340
The irony here is also the idea that all of this so-called propaganda comes from the right.

The left is constantly selecting it's own set of "facts" and tactfully leaves out whatever doesn't agree with their agenda.

Simply look at all the disingenuous pro-Clinton fact checking throughout the election. Just look at the number of rape, assault, race-baity bullshit that is circulated by liberals every day. There articles may not fly in the face of science, but they are usually equally misleading.

Is this a veiled attempt at trying to silence wikileaks? Infowars? There is a reason they are being called the regressive left. They want some articles to be banned from social media because they believe they aren't true. They believe, yet again, that people should not be allowed to make their own decisions in life.
I rented Airbnb apartments in each city I visited (Tokyo a couple times, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima and Kyoto), which was pretty painless and not too expensive. Definitely better value for money outside of Tokyo -- probably Osaka or Kobe was the best in that case.

I mostly worked from cafes, but I'm a bit of a coffee snob so I spent a fair bit of time and energy finding the perfect combination of coffee, wifi, and comfort. I've definitely got some suggestions if it's something you're interested in.
RIP. The voice will be here for the rest of generation and becomes legacy for the next.
This is cool, thanks for posting. I especially like how there are several styles of coastlines.

I'm really interested in algorithmic generation of topography, probably by first creating fractal stream networks (either from the coast/ low elevation boundary or from watersheds/drainage divides). I'm a geologist so most game-oriented topography generators look super unrealistic to me, but making stream networks and working from there would be helpful with quantitative landscape analysis and simulations. Anyone heard of anything like this? If nothing else, then some way of filling in a polygon with branch-like fractals?
I guess that makes YC complicit of extrajudicial murders w/ Obama's drone program as well? Somehow actual mass murders didn't matter at the time, but now that a non-progressive candidate has won the general election... YC has to do something about the mean things that candidate said.

Wew lad, are you OK? I genuinely feel like it's been a rough ride for you
Quite revealing. Thanks for the data point.
The day when gui applications have anywhere near the composability of cli applications, I'll think about it.

> I'm a developer

> useless regex

I don't know what kind of developing you do but regexes are massively useful if you do any sort of string handling or input checking.

> CLIs you'll use once every 3 months

Funny, I spend 90% of my time in a CLI. I don't spend my time memorizing stuff, the commands I use frequently are committed to muscle memory, the rest I look up. If you spend time with the CLI you learn to look stuff up not too inefficiently. Looking for a menu entry in a GUI is more painful to me than reading/grepping a man page.

Sounds like you really hate CLIs, I hope you don't have to use them too often, there's no reason why everyone has to use them, but I promise you, there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of productive CLI users out there.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-pens-fi...

Back in July he wrote to a dying Marianne Ihlen, "Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine."
You can't. But not everyone deserves my bandwidth. Empathy and intellectual curiosity are my only prerequisites. If a person can't meet those, I don't have the headspace for anything they have to say.

The less energy I spend being my own gatekeeper, the more I have for things that truly enrich my life.
Perhaps California's exit from the union will hep YC re-establish its moral integrty. Sam Altman, you wanted to radically change the word (in a positive way)? Well now is your chance!
What is "the right thing"?
Don't agree!

I'd blame the democrats alone (the party, leadership, delegates, superdelegates and a section of voters + ~~liar~~ media) for giving away the presidency to Trump. For free, literally.

How is Peter Thiel or anyone else (Trump's supporters) responsible for what comes out of the man's mouth when at the same time the other party is clearly doing what's downright corruption/stifling a democratic nomination?

ICYMI, Peter Thiel did mention that he'd have preferred a race between Sanders and Trump instead (watch his interview to the press club) -- where he quotes: "because they get it" -- and that Trump gets the big things right even though his behavior isn't acceptable.

I don't see any reason for YC or any other organization to follow through with your advice. It is also mind numbing that a portion of democrats who made a joke of Trump when he said "he will accept the results only if he wins" are unable to accept the result of the election themselves.

Move on folks, open your ears and do your job.

On downvotes: I'm pretty sure downvoting over here is symptomatic behavior of a community that doesn't like to listen. Thank you for proving the point. I am happy that Trump is leading us and he is the elected premier for this country despite his weaknesses.
There's a conflict of interest in each of his secretary picks, too. It's disgusting.

I don't write often, or even blog, but I felt the need to vent on some of the issues of the picks here: https://medium.com/@joshbrody_36224/dear-president-elect-tru...
Trump, Failure of Prediction, and Lessons for Data Scientists
Weird, as far as I can tell this result was essentially achieved in February; at least that's when the register reported on it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/06/china_shows_how_fusi...

EAST seems to be connected to ITER, and is testing confinement methods like those planned for ITER. Here is an ITER press release about EAST hitting that 32 s H-mode confinement: https://www.iter.org/newsline/291/1783

And here is a later article about EAST receiving an upgrade and shooting for those 100 seconds in 2014: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/1916
I don't deny quantum randomness per say, I just deeply hope that it isn't true for some reason.
Regrettably, Donald Trump doesn't have the monopoly on rash ultimatums and subsequent contradiction.

> I absolutely reject the nationalist, anti-immigrant and hateful politics of Donald Trump...If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here.

Later...

> Grubhub welcomes and accepts employees with all political beliefs...We do not discriminate on the basis of someone’s principles, or political or other beliefs.

Nationalism and anti-immigration are principals and political beliefs, and rather mainstream ones at that. (Hate, however, is an emotion...can be applied to many things and even people).

Matt, how can you rationally blame others for "misconstruing" your statements instead of apologizing for your communication?

Apparently, absurdity knows no political persuasion.
This was obvious from the RNC speech and further reinforced when Thiel donated $1M to Trump. A contrarian bet, sure, but $1M is a pretty small price to pay to have a 50/50 shot at CTO of the USA. I'm sure he'll see a very significant ROI on his $1M once the government starts awarding contracts very conveniently to companies of which he owns a portion.

I had very negative feelings about Thiel, and those were magnified 10x after his endorsement of Trump, but I'll at least concede he's a very shrewd individual.
“I absolutely reject the nationalist, anti-immigrant and hateful politics of Donald Trump and will work to shield our community from this movement as best as I can,” wrote Matt Maloney, who co-founded the company. “If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here."

It's easy to agree with that statement regardless of what you personally believe. The statement simply describes what the CEO believes. For example, I agree that Matt Maloney rejects those policies.
Lol. My pleasure.
This is obviously foolish and unacceptable behavior from a senior leader. But I'm genuinely curious, is this kind of thing violating any laws?
I'm just on the other side of 40 and have similar developer vs manager pains as you. Had my own bootstrapped company for several years, sold it, and lately have been working as an engineering manager at a startup.

Its nice not having the normal worries of a founder but I already have the itch to do something again. Problem is, I never have luck when I go out looking for an idea. The idea usually finds you. You just need to make more opportunities for serendipity.

Also, don't think you have to found a company AND raise money.
It's a widely held sentiment that 2016 has killed more long-running celebrities than any other year. Is there any factual basis to this, or is it just confirmation bias?
Seems like an important and expected increase in capability. Bit late though, original plan seems to have been 2014: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/1916
That's what happens when you try to control other's speech. You will be blamed for bias, and the worst thing the accusations would be completely correct, because humans are biased. Humans have opinions, humans have cognitive biases, humans are prone to groupthink and a long list of fallacies. It is extremely hard work to get even close to objectivity, let alone achieve it - professional scientists who are trained and have tons of tools to avoid biases still regularly fail and produce irreproducible results and wishful thinking papers that are then debunked - for somebody involved in politics where there's no such tools it's doubly hard. Hoping Facebook somehow magically solves this problem for us is naive at best.
Oddly, both the title and the article skip over the fact that Thiel was a founder of Palantir Technologies (which has plenty of government contracts). Conflicts of interest be damned
Fortunately, you don't really have to solve that problem. It would be sufficient to assess claims of actual fact about the actual world. I think the first step in writing the classifier would be to write something like

float IsStatementAboutFacts(string statement); // Returns confidence estimate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12926684
Very informative article. Use of the block chain is genius and shows how the cyber criminals continue to evolve their techniques stay a step ahead of law enforcement trying to shut them down.
The article says, "Less DRAM also increases battery life." Can anyone give a rough guess about the difference in battery life between a new Mac Book Pro with the base 8 GB and one upgraded to 16 GB?
More succinctly, homeowners do not riot.

Picked it up from a talk by David Harvey, but not sure where he got it from.
Very cool! I'm a keen surfer, and the imagination runs wild seeing each newly generated island.
As usual, the media distorts what Trump actually said.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/nov/24/...
I always post this but if anyone wants to know why this is remarkable news, Mr Thiel wrote his “manifesto” and made it public.

It’s short and to the point. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
Nobody is forcing them to sell. They just have to pay an "I'm filthy rich and can afford an empty house in Vancouver" tax.

Private property is not some sovereign nation. It's still subject to law.
My issue with Razer: As far as I can tell, they only ship laptops with the country's keyboard layout. I move around a lot and always buy laptops with US keyboard layout. At the moment, I'm in Germany and can only order Razer Blades with the awful German layout :( I know, pretty niche, but both Apple and Dell allow you to do this.
"The right thing". Tolerance means recognizing that people have different world views than your own.

Sometimes the people you do business with have political opinions you don't agree with. The melodrama over Thiel's political opinions is pointless. If you demand Thiel steps down, are you personally just going to stop doing business with 49% of the country that voted differently?

Personally I lean liberal, but I'm pretty disgusted with all the theatrics I've seen in this election from the left. The Trump phenomenon arguably occurred because half the country felt ostracized and decided to lob a brick through the window of washington in the form of donald trump. Maybe we should all get to understand our neighbors instead of doubling down on us-vs-them tribalism.
Edit: Flagged? Wow. This conversation seems extremely relevant to Thiel being in government. Genuinely disappointing that the people in charge of HN do not consider Thiel's extreme views to be worthy of discussion, and instead a "pudding".
And Trump in private may be in favor of TP'ing the TPP. Or not. Or check back tomorrow.
Mmhmmm, whatever makes you feel better at the end of the day.
I always hear about these people, but I've had a hard time tracking down any data on who they are or how many properties they have bought.

I'm sure there are some wealthy Chinese people who have bought property in major cities as a way to park money. I'm just a little skeptical that it's in any way a significant driver of higher housing prices. I would be willing to bet that there are far more Canadians looking to buy housing in Vancouver than there are foreigners looking to do so.

The fundamental problem seems to be that there are more people who want to move to Vancouver than there are people who want to leave. It would be incredible if there were so many foreigners looking to buy places to park money that reducing their numbers would somehow change this fact.
Demo-, trial-, hobbyist- and home-editions of software have always been intentionally gimped. From a pure engineering point of view, there's no inherent reason to not give everyone the "best" bits.
I read someplace that the phenomenon of modern celebrities and the communication networks / styles necessary to develop those celebrities started to take off at a time that coincides with those ever-increasing numbers of celebrities to reach their terminal years now. Unfortunately I cannot find the original source, but perhaps somebody else knows what it was.
> Why can't you just click a button and be done

Because there isn't a button to just do everything I want to do and if there was I'd have to find it amongst a million buttons.
That is not the concept of private property. You have never been able to do whatever you want with your property. You can't, for example, build a factory in a residential neighborhood. You can't make your property a fire, health, or safety hazard. You can't partake in activities that significantly disturb your neighbors. You can't build illegal or unpermitted construction. Your construction must follow fire and safety codes. You must follow ordinances about how tall your building can be, how big your lot has to be, and how far back from the street it can be placed. If you live in a historic neighborhood you can't decide on the materials, style, and color your house is. Your house can't be too big or too small. You can't be a slumlord. You can't build a dumpster fire in the backyard. You have to keep your house "up to code." If your property stays blighted for long enough the town will bulldoze it. (This happened to the house next door to my old house). You even may not even be able to water your lawn unless it's a Tuesday. You probably can't even let 8 of your college buddies move into your mansion[1]. If the government decides they want a courthouse or a highway where your house sits it will literally just take it away from you without asking.

About the only thing the government can't force you to do (in the United States) is quarter soldiers during peacetime.

Like the sibling comment said, you live in a society so we all have to play nice with each other.

[1] most cities forbid a large number of unrelated people from living together.
This is kind of frightening, our wages won't survive a world in which where there's a surplus of talent coming from developing countries.
Looks like the 100,000 requests free plan is good enough for me.
If you have ~40 minutes to spare, Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History did a really interesting story on Hallelujah in July:

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/07-hallelujah
>>blame the democrats

Don't blame me for Trump. I voted for Hillary.

Each of us are responsible for their own vote. Nobody made you vote for Trump. I blame the people who voted for Trump for making him President. After all, we are all adults here, and although Trump never accepts any responsibility for his actions I think that the Trump supporters accept that they voted for him.

So yeah, blaming the Democrats for the Trump presidency is an oxymoron.
Alright, why don't you tell me all the proof you have that Apple was not a participant in the programme?

The NSA talks about them in internal documents, that they have absolutely zero incentive to lie on, that Apple is a part of PRISM. Why would the NSA lie about that on an internal document.

Don't you think there would be documents saying "We tried to get Apple to cooperate, but they didn't. Until they do, these are the steps, techniques, and hacks we will use against their technology." I don't remember seeing any such documents.
I am 100000% behind this - I point blank refuse to do code tests because they are asinine and I probably have the exact same one in a private GH repository from one of the million other unimaginative tech hirers.

You want me to prove my worth? Fine, you can pay me for it and get something useful out of it at the end, as a senior developer I really shouldn't have to "Write a palindrome detector" to prove that I can code, I have a degree, we did that shit repeatedly!

Nice to see other people are coming around to this way of thinking
Imagine, you are taking exam.

If you found incorrect question in exam, then it is a bug.

If you answered all questions but wrongly, then it is a failure.

If you answered correctly to all answers but examiner said that you failed, then it is an error.

In case of bug, code must panic.

In case of failure, code must return a result, which clearly says that this is the failure. Try next time.

In case of error, code must print informative description of error, bunch of data, and maybe some hints to operator, so he will be able to fix it.

We are talking about errors, right? Why I need conversions to display bunch of strings with descriptions and variables to an operator? Just let me collect strings and print them to a log.
Probably not.

If I said supporters of gay marriage should resign, that would be fodder for a discrimination lawsuit. (Even if my speech wasnt illegal, it would open me up for a lawsuit.)

But his statement doesn't touch on any protected classes, so I doubt you could pin something on him.
It's program specific. The vast majority of linux distros come with GNU cp, which takes either. BSD's version of cp only takes -R, Mac's too I suppose since it's BSD-based.

The annoying ones on linux are chmod/chown, they take -R only.

EDIT: it's OS specific in the sense that these programs follow the OS's convention, I expect BusyBox cp, a lightweight Linux version of cp, has the same options as GNU cp
Nah, tolerance means that you gotta be ok with people from different religions, ethnic groups, w/e. The opinion thing isn't as important.
It's only tolerance when I agree with you /s

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poor wording indeed, however I don't believe your interpretation is what he meant to communicate or how most reasonable people would interpret his email.

His email is clearly a political stance that's intolerant of Trump's politics which he characterizes as hateful.
A default position of skepticism works in both cases.
Wouldn't the point where it becomes morally obligatory to do that be once Trump actually starts doing things that are comparable?

Right now we don't really know which of his promises he plans on actually keeping.
World’s smallest magnifying glass makes it possible to see bonds between atoms
This article was posted here about a month ago:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-makes-it-darker

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12700141

Interestingly, I was thinking about him on the subway just before surfacing to see above thread pop up. Very glad that I got to catch up on his bio (and to see him live a few years back) before his departure.

2016 - what a year.
Humans tend to underestimate rare events. http://shiny.statwonk.com/birthday-problem/
It might be the morally correct choice (I reserve judgment on that) for California to secede from the US, but it's certainly not a good idea pragmatically.

Trump doesn't really have any consistent ideology about most things, but the one thing he never wavers on is his commitment to protectionist trade policy.

If California seceded from the US to spite Trump, Trump will do everything in his power to block commerce between California and the United States. California's economy will tank, and all the tech companies there will be practically worthless.
That's not cause to suspect the analysis. Yes, the sampled population may not be congruent with the nationwide population. There's a reason for that: these are exit polls at the primaries. Only those who showed up to vote in those primaries can be polled.

The article links to its source data: http://www.cbsnews.com/elections/2016/primaries/republican/v...

The VA results there, for example, also show that the majority of respondents for both Republican and Democratic primaries are over the median state (and national) _age_.
No he didn't. He suggested, correctly, that women getting the vote was bad for libertarians, because women vote against it. If you read the quote in context, that is very clearly what he's saying.
How is it similar? The tax Vancouver is introducing applies if the house is empty, and the tax you describe is concerned with differentially taxing non-empty houses.
Extraordinary breakthroughs require extraordinary evidence.

I am waiting for such evidence now.