skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why does arbitration even exist in your opinion?

It's a scam that was invented to keep the inventor out of the trouble they knew their shitty actions would cause for them.

You don't need a contract for voluntary arbitration, you only need it to force someone into it when it's not in their best interests.

> people are taking "arbitration" to mean "whatever the company wants."

The company is the party with the lawyers, and which forces the clause into the contracts. Of course they feel it benefits them.

I highly doubt they're wrong...
This dig operation is likely very profitable. I'd be unsurprised if those profits get donated to something.
Just started consulting and got a better offer
Hello,

I just started in consulting with axway and websphere so I'm still just a junior consultant. ( 6 months into job) now i got another offer from another firm. They offer around 10 thousand more (in euro) in VMware and nsx consulting.

I'm tempted to switch. 10k is a lot. But i guess i won't be a junior any more and might still be inexperienced.

Maybe even VMware and nsx isn't a good odea anymore?

What are your thoughts?
Writing has developed independently between two and five times (Mesoamerica and Sumer for sure, maybe China, Egypt, India in decreasing order of likeliness). All of these start with a logographic script, which then gets filtered into a syllabalic component. Egypt dropped the vowels from its representation, having its characters represent only consonants--this was adapted by the Phoenicians. The Greeks took the Phoenician script, repurposed some of the characters representing consonants they didn't have into vowels, and created the first true alphabet (whence Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian, and Armenian, basically every true alphabet in the world). The Arabics and Hebrews adapted the script into their modern abjads (where vowels are marked, if ever, by diacritics), while the abugidas developed (where vowels are indicated by systematic manipulation of consonants) in India by debatable means.

Alphabets, abjads, and abugidas were effectively independently invented only once (it's debatable to what degree the creators of Hangul were aware of other alphabets). Syllabries appear to be the very natural development of writing.
dictators and dictatorships are failures to avoid, period.
On a side note (!), I stumbled across that: http://qz.com/488701/humans-are-confusing-music-composed-by-...
Which in turn made me wonder if we couldn't create a program that would translate code into music...
This piece literally begins with a person screaming a racial insult in the middle of Broadway.

No logical person would conclude that outburst was free of gender or racial bias.
I tried doing this, but I found it hard to maintain as it needed more slaves to cope with the load of the complex functions. Also, it was harder to tweak the algorithm for things like "increment the score by x in case y, otherwise increment by z". I guess it's possible, but I just found it too hard to work with.

For me, it was easier to use Redis to keep a sorted set of article IDs. I updated the scores in my application code using Redis native functions, and then got a slice of IDs for a `SELECT ... WHERE IN (ids, from, redis)`.

It's probably because I'm a rubbish database engineer, so stick with my strengths.
That's a terrible slogan.
How is that possibly cognitive dissonance?

Are you implying that intellectual honesty requires that one must never accept consensus in any form, or else always accept it?
> There are some difficulties with moving arbitrary values between phases: it's easy to move an int or a list, but what about a mutable reference or a closure?

Wasn't this already answered by "Closing the Stage" [1]?

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2575
Chrome plugin idea
When I google something on a familiar topic, I usually click the first 3-5 entries all in a new tab.

Now how could would it be if I just had to press the number of the search result I want to open in a new tab?
I would love this feature or Chrome plugin.

So, you google, say "infection".
You want to open tabs 1, 3, 4 and 5. To do so, you just press the numbers 1 3 4 5 on your MacBook.
I thought it was a truism that because of all the rampant monkeypatching, many ruby developers don't know how to use ruby without rails?
(or ALT+[NUM] instead or just [NUM])
amd banked on multi core and hsa, both way too ahead of their time when the software is still heavy reliant on fat cores, and apus while better than intel+igpu today are simply regarded as good choice for portable devices or hpcs with good cpu and gpu with low tdp...but i seem to remember that was not the point! the point was to take advantage of the fact that the gpu and cpu are closer...

amd bought ati right before the release of the r600 lineup which totally lost against nvidia 88xx cards and marked nvidia for gpu domination for years to come, so they acquired a company right before their biggest product failure, and after that they released phenom 1 which was a failure in its own right, after these 2 consecutive big lost they had to go fabless because couldn't afford to keep up the pace with technology and because of low demand they were not running full time ...this brought a lot of other complications for amd, because of missed deadlines of pp and in general not competitive to intel...

after having modestly recovered from the phenom fiasco with phenom2, and with r700 gpus, it tanked again with bulldozer after lots of delays...then released a decent version with vishera which was a good enough contender to intel ivy-bridge, except for power/efficiency because they were already behind in the pp, after that to regain margin with intel an entire pp was skipped and amd stalled in the high highpower market focusing only on low power pp with apus, going for zen, thank god GCN was good enough to make them keep a sizable market in the gpus...
Whilst I agree to a degree that the pendulum sometimes swings too far in the other direction in German political discourse, the attitude of "us versus them" is rarely useful.

Say we took a culture legitimizing rape, how about Saudi Arabia due to persecution of Women reporting rape under extra-marital sex laws. We could brand them as "the enemy" and sit there in righteous indignation, but this accomplishes precisely nothing in changing the culture. Worse yet, due to our adversarial stance, we risk alienating Arabs that agree with out views on the issue, ones that could help us shape attitudes and laws in their home country.

The lack of tolerance of the opinions of "the other side" permeates far further than that. What does one accomplish when one calls a Republican who is worried about immigration a racist? At best you upset him, at worst you elect Trump. Or you sit down with him, listen to his worries, and work together to step closer to the truth.

Now the last thing you mention, ostracizing people that lean further right in Germany, I agree with you, that is a knee jerk reaction, and harmful. Again, if someone has an extreme opinion, we should try to understand how they arrived at said opinion, weigh its merits and suss out its holes. That is in a sense, also an issue of lack of tolerance.
So would Taa be helpful or not for noisy restaurants? It's hard to whisper, but the click sounds are also very distinctive so maybe you would need to be loud. Though can you even shout a click?
"I offended everyone" is not defacto evidence that you're doing something right.
Sometimes I'll read books which argue some point I already agree with, where the first half of the book tries to convince the reader the point is valid, and the second half spends time debunking counter-arguments. In such cases, jumping to the end can be the best use of time.

It all depends really. In fact, there's a whole science-of-sorts behind reading non-fiction: http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf
People being assholes, dicks, or just plain evil is probably the most exceptional of exceptions. It's considerably more likely that there's a much more complicated explanation that deserves understanding and compassion.
High Performance Browser Networking by Gregorik is necessary if you're doing web dev.
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. In general, books about the ups and downs of a particular business are better than books about business in general. That said, The Personal MBA is a good primer on the basic concepts of microeconomics. Just in case anyone reading this thread could use that!
I've read a few of these books and can definitely recommend the following:

- Working effectively with legacy code

- The design of everyday things

- Don't make me think

In the mean time, it seems it's time to put in a new amazon order :)
Thanks, that was very informative! They explained their reasoning very clearly, and it's sad that these policies will never see the light of day.

I would be interested to hear their thoughts on a universal healthcare system. It seems like the benefits outweigh the drawbacks in countries such as Canada and New Zealand. But maybe there is an economic reason why it wouldn't work in the US.
Which nation a person belongs to does not decide his or her worth.
If you move horizontally, you're getting closer to one satellite and further away from another -- the changes in GPS signals add, just like if something you're looking at moves from side to side. If you move vertically, you're getting closer to or further away from all the satellites at once; but since GPS relies on the differences between signal arrival times, that's much harder to pick up.
If you aren't bored of writing CRUD apps, you haven't worked as a Web developer very long.
Got any examples?

If we're talking about supply and demand, price elasticity, and things like that, I can't think of any loopholes. Knowing how these things work only makes people make more informed decisions.
I don't really see how they could achieve such a bad result given that German Law is subject to the Privacy Protection Directive and to the newly adopted Privacy Protection Regulation. And both are strongly in favor of the users, including their right to access, modify or suppress any information about them.
They cannot. The US is not a direct democracy Swiss style
Ok, now I know why! There are a lot of ignorant people here, wow!
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If this skeeves you out, wait until you see the verification process that (US) aerospace and industrial programs have to go through. talk to one in a bar and they'll bluff and bluster about the "verification" and "intense testing" their systems go through but as far as the software goes, at the end of the day, it comes down to basically this.
Ah neat, thanks, it is amazing how prescient that Kraftwerk line is.

I am curious what was the general public response to the Malte Spitz's visualization?
Have started reading GEB so a few times.
A use tax is basically sales tax, and the problem with them is they are regressive by nature (people with less income spend proportionally more of it on taxable goods).

This is basically Gary Johnson's "Fair Tax" proposal, and it ultimately hurts the poor and allows the millionaires to pay less.
Thank you so much for the kind words :)
Why You Need Your First Customer Before Building a Product
People are downvoting I think because this is a rather pedantic point to be annoyed by. The tone is one of superiority, rather than pointing out the simple mistake.

Calling a rails function a ruby function is unlikely to invalidate the entirety of the article.
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Wow this is almost Beatboxing. Someone should create a music out of this.
The last line of the article links to the email the poster sent to microsoft security report email.
Judgmental characterizations aren't necessarily inconsistent with empathy and compassion. Especially in the context of an LEO.

I probably wouldn't blindly trust someone who cycles in and out of addictive or manic shopping with a large line of credit or with carte blanc access to a lot of other people's valuables. Just because their addiction makes them untrustworthy doesn't mean they're a bad person.

Also, using Amazon as a library isn't necessarily indicative of manic shopping. It could just be that the person is acting in their own self interest and not taking into account the effects of their actions on Amazon's other customers.

Canceling valid CC charges has a lot of explanations -- maybe the person is just a habitual liar in way that's best thought of in a medical context.

But in all of these cases, empathy and judgement can go hand-in-hand.
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Fair point :). I guess I need to learn more about Scandinavian history. Any books you can recommend?
But they aren't taxed on the additional tax, that's part of their expenses.
A $60k/yr employee costs more like $100k-$140k/yr, depending on the area. Taxes, Benefits, insurance, office space, equipment, support employment (HR, Legal, etc).
The code is here. It's pretty explicit. https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/vold/+/andr...

Here's an email from Paul Crowley to me. Paul is one of the devs on this code: https://twitter.com/ciphergoth/status/801220048622714880?lan...

Not really sure what else I can offer you.
As usual, The Intercept aggressively hypes and attacks while making valid points. https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgrace...

Intercept article can be distilled into three points:

1. People behind propornot.com hide their own identity.

2. Organizations on its website mentioned as “allied” are not actually allied. This is clear misinformation.

3. They label organizations with very wide and amateurish brush. (IMHO: some sites in the list ofthen use weak non-centrist opinionated and ideological arguments. That does not make them propaganda or fake news)
Just a question - if I think about flexibility, I think about composing harmonic functions directly in the code. I understand that historically synth music was based on analog components, and as people got used to these even virtual analog was born to mimic old analog stuff. Did anyone think about switching to a higher gear and just do pure math by composing functions directly without specials like "oscillator", "LFO", "envelope", "filter" etc.? Main issue/difference between synths is how they enable to compose these operators/components together and that's where we talk about how easy is it to program a synth, with implementation of individual components giving it sonic signature. If I look e.g. at Max4Live, this helps the compositing process, yet it doesn't help much with the use of completely arbitrary functions in your digital synth. So I am feeling we are missing out on a vast ocean of sounds never heard before.
That wasn't the article I was expecting. Which is good. Because I was expecting the, "I am a woman in tech" article. You know the one. What I got instead was a very well written article about something that I can actually identify with.

And it's something that a lot of people in tech complain about. Maybe not your coworkers, or your boss, or your friends on the internet. But the people doing major work. People like Joe Armstrong and Alan Kay.

I don't know if you'll stay with tech. But if you stay, I'm confident you'll find people who think like you do. Eventually.
It is Ruby in that it requires a Ruby interpreter to execute that line of code. It certainly isn't Javascript or Python. Is the article missing the context that these lines of code are being executed along side the Rails framework? Sure. Is it distracting from the main meaning of the article? I would say not.
No, please re-read my post, I meant what I wrote and nothing else.

Whatever the law, some people will always be breaking it. Should we wait for murders to stop happening before we reform the laws regarding it? We'd still have crucifixions and stonings! That doesn't mean one supports murders, just that it's not a justification for inaction.
I know the point is somewhat pedantic, but I just don't really like to learn from people who doesn't even know what is what. Somewhat invalidates the article IMO, but I read it anyway, just with very carefully, trying not to learn anything just understanding the basic idea he/she want to tell.

I think they downvote because they are so ignorant I can't even believe it.
Not a survival kit, a bug-out bag. It had South American currency, a mexican citizenship application, and—my favorite—a golden locket with Obama's picture (among other things).

https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/trump/
Slack.

No, not the chat software.

The best company cultures I've been part of had 5% more people and time available than work that had to be done. That's almost unheard of in this day and age, but it makes all the difference in the world.

The stress and pressures and politics of trying to get 10% or 50% or 300% more done than you really have the resources for make people stressed and turn coworker relationships toxic. Everyone's just struggling to keep their heads above water, and sometimes they have to kick someone else or climb on their back simply in order not to drown.

A little extra time means people have the mental space and the space in their schedules to help one another, to find out what one another are doing (so people and departments can actually coordinate their work) and to get to know one another. People who are under less pressure and less stressed are less likely to snap at one another or resent others' requests and demands. It makes all the difference in the world.

You know what else helps? Walls.
The same can be said of any tax, period, corporation tax included. Money that some person or corporate entity has paid tax on gets taxed again at or after the point it changes hands; estate tax is no different in that respect,
The post you replied to was talking about white supremacists, with no mention of Trump voters.

You are the one who brought up Trump voters at the first mention of alt-right white nationalists, which is ironic since you insist that the former has nothing to do with the latter.
For me it questions that the author is knowledgable enough to teach me any detail about Ruby.
You tax capital gains differently than earned income to incentivise investment over consumption.

This is because consumption today is always more valuable than consumption in the future (the discount rate).
some people do bad stuff, wake the fuck up.
In 2013, the supreme court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act. As a result, "fourteen states had new voting restrictions in place for the first time in 2016. [...] ﻿This was the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act." [0]

For instance, this was the first election in Wisconsin where voters were required to show a photo ID, a measure which barred 300,000 people from voting. Trump's margin of victory in Wisconsin was only 22,525 votes.

In addition to voter suppression, there were also large unexplained discrepancies between exit polls and vote counts. [1]

[0] https://www.thenation.com/article/the-gops-attack-on-voting-...

[1] http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/can-we-count-election-...
I thought the point of using an ORM like Active Record was to decouple the business logic and the database?
Do you have citations, particularly for housing? I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm genuinely interested in the sources because I have a sense that you're right but have never found great evidence to back it up. The raw number of residential-zoned buildings vs the number of homeless people is not as useful as it could be. I'd love to see some deeper analysis.
So, it seems that the attack vector was that Microsoft was running RHUI Log Collector open to the public internet for some reason.

Considering that's from Redhat, and not Microsoft, I do wonder if this is a non sensible default setup issue and there may be many enterprises running this out in the open.
The future is this but backed with super cool FDW for s3 and bigtable
It seems like they settled on a fixed maximum time of hole-digging, and are drastically increasing the cost so as to not exceed it.
And if I were to make a decision based on HN comments, I'd hire @thro32, no joke. I've read all the comments and their author makes an impression of an interesting person with a broad outlook.
>Because otherwise the article has no substance.

Not true. And trust me, I hate substanceless articles as much as the next person. But once you get past the opening, the article is about mindsets, which are much more interesting.

>Imagine code written like that. Just the imagination is the pure horror.

People don't write code the way they write prose. If they did, Steve Yegge and Yossi Kreinin would have been fired years ago (what makes for good prose doesn't make for good code).
This brings me memories https://xkcd.com/463/
Also, I want to clarify that I don't think the weaknesses of Android N's encryption are the fault of Paul or anyone else on the team. I think this is really a question of corporate priorities. If Google wanted to put a lot of energy behind Android's device encryption, my suspicion is that they would be much farther along than they are now.
Do you happen to know how japanese input methods generally work?

I have seen chinese and japanese steno machines before, e.g. chorded strokes that cover one or more sillables. That takes specific hardware and a bunch of training, though, so I'd guess it isn't the primary one.
This feels like Clickhole or The Onion but with real commitment. Excellent.
"Links posted after Oct 2015" could justify more links on search vs the static dataset, not less.

The additional fields may be the answer, but my question stands: is that the reason in this particular case? Which fields besides comment text could produce this result?
I found the repo: https://github.com/jackhmwilliams/jeksy

Sadly, it looks abandoned...
Really it's Ruby with the activesupport gem. Not a huge leap in simply calling it Ruby.
Yes, but you don't sell it directly to Cuba, you sell it to $COUNTRY which might eventually sell it to Cuba (and you don't even know about it)

It's not you selling to Cuba, it's Cuba buying through intermediates.

(Of course if you really want you can sell things directly to Cuba, but you need to find a way of disguising it)

You're (or, were) also forbidden from bringing Cuban cigars to the US, but if you arrive from a flight from Panama with a box of unmarked cigars nobody is going to do anything.
She was only a developer for 6 months. Sounds like an ad hominem, but it is relevant to weigh her longevity in the field when she criticizes the field.
Everyone could be happier doing something else. The main point is: if you want other people to maintain the apartment building where you live, drive you around on the bus, grow your food and deliver it to the supermarket - you need to be prepared to do something useful in return.
Not at all open source, but Intel's ICC is free.
Given that when I donated, the subject of the receipt email was "Donald Trump will be a terrible president who makes your family functionally poorer", I think we can call this case closed
Funny diagram in your source. They compare 1990 dollar with 2013 dollar directly without reference to purchasing power, adjusted to local market indexes. Classy example of propaganda. But you know, people over here generally can understand what they read.
I don't think an i7 without a fan is safe. We're talking 30 watts, or something of the like. That will get burning hot after a while.
Sorry but to me this sounds like "Suits are back!" [1]

Essentially by reading the same book the grandma and grandson had something to talk about. Obviously. Books aren't essential for this and there are any number of things that could have created the same effect. (She could take up playing and understanding, say, video games as only one example.). [2]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[2] I talk with my daughters about "The Bachelor" which I watch with my wife.
I think you meant Amazon instead of Apple?
He's a self-described MRA, that's not compatible with any kind of healthy workplace culture.