skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't understand what it would mean for you to "evaluate this for yourself". You have no way of independently verifying what's she's saying, quotes or no quotes.

It is the difference, though, between accepting a conclusion, and seeing the path that led there.

"This guy is incompetent because he writes insecure code"

vs

"He often wrote code that would allow untrusted input, of undetermined size, into a fixed size buffer. This behavior caused me to question his competence."

vs

"<the actual code, dumped here>. He was constantly checking in code like this, or worse. I question his competence."

The first requires you take the author's conclusion at face value. The second and/or third give you a better idea of why they got there, which makes it more credible.

And, while no names were named, there's enough contextual clues that I'm sure many at Apple know who's being talked about. So, it's less about "you're a crazy female" and more about "lots of people are being called sexist here (one supervisor, several coworkers), would be more comfortable with that if there were more detail".
improving common uses cases in the process

The whole reason people switch to Linux in the first place is for uncommon use cases.
> I find this rudeness and pedantry in academia infuriating.

vs all those "I just don't believe in being fake and sugar coating things" folks in every other industry? Not much unique to academia on that front.
"forcibly take others who don't want to give"

To paraphrase most anti-union people's favorite refrain, "Nobody is making you work someplace that requires union dues."
Smartwatches Are Dying Because They Are Worthless
I am 49 and have a CS Degree, ~25 years experience. I run my own mobile/web development company out of my home, making more money than I ever have before. I've been in business for about 3 years and each year my revenue increases by 20-30% I am principle architect and coder.

In order to do this, I have had to learn new languages, frameworks and new ways of thinking about things. Some of those "new" things weren't difficult, they just required tweaking old ways of looking at things.

For example, older mobile devices are resource constrained. Having to think about conservation while coding isn't new. I started my career coding on shitty MS Dos system where if you had 640K of memory, it was a high-end machine. The tweaking comes in with the addition of other constrains such as battery life, coalescing radio usage and the fact that the OS can decide to shut down your app and restart it at any time, but the user's expectation is it should be the way the just left it.

Continually learning and reinventing myself is just the way things are now. If you haven't had to deal with that yet, just wait. It will come.
Thanks for the correction. It's been a while since I used Tcl and my memory of it was incorrect.
There is signalling content associated with being at the number 1 bank (and a top group within that bank for that matter; e.g., the financial institutions group at Goldman Sachs). If you planned on staying at an investment bank for your whole career then this might not be so important. The majority of people who start these jobs hope very much to jump ship as soon as possible to work on the buy side (hedge fund or private equity), and in that regard the signalling content is very important because there are so many good candidates for any available spots.
Neither he nor I ever claimed he was an OOP expert. I was merely defending him from your accusation that he doesn't get OOP at all. I think it's the other way round - maybe you don't get Rich Hickey's innovative contributions. Clojure is a reaction against the OOP approach in general, not limited to the implementations in Java and C++. If you'd followed his work you would have noticed that many times he defines the OOP problem as the conflation of data and functions. Tying up data and methods in classes and objects creates complexity which Clojure was designed to untangle. In that he has succeeded where CL failed. Clojure is arguably the first lisp to gain mainstream adoption and for that alone Rich Hickey deserves the respect of all lisp/scheme advocates.
31.5 here and I have definitely caught on to the "create the future" tack, although I'm taking a mixed approach that isn't purely technology-driven, but more generally "change agent" - so, entrepreneurial, managerial, design, technology, community leadership, any opportunity I spot. I see it as all one rolling snowball that I can find ways to merge together as I push it upwards.
I'm sorry you seem to be under the impression there's such a uniform voice.

I think you're lying. I don't think you're sorry. I think this is childish, passive-aggressive bullshit from someone who knows how to act like an adult but somehow can't resist acting like a child. Here's how a grown man states what you were trying to say; "There's not such a uniform voice as you think across the different nations you mentioned." For God's sake, grow up. You seem to have some actual facts to present, but a childish tone undermines everything.
Spoken like a true, loyal lapdog. Well done!

Meanwhile, he only got into Yale because of legacy, did terribly in school, he got everything handed to him afterwards, and fucked up everything he touched, including the entire world by entering in the Iraq War. Afterwards, the entire Middle East was destabilized, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead.
The ban on political content was just for last week only (and it ended early, in fact). Though arguably, pure politics posts, that have no tech angle, have always been described as "off-topic" in the guidelines.
A short overview is available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/2pj5eivyaoh0az2/Technology%20prese...
The story behind Xiaomi's quest to become MUJI in tech
a direct quote may be useless as much more is said in context and tone which is hard or impossible to convey in a blog. with people who are good at emotional or verbal abuse, they have a sense of how to intimidate and tear down people while usually staying "within the lines" of not being overtly outrageous/illegal/fireable.

I think she made a convincing case, but maybe you dont think so. But adding a direct quote would hardly do much.

I personally wonder if using a voice recorder would be appropriate in these cases. It's legally complex, because I dont think you can always legally record someone without their permission. But just having that kind of evidence, to play back to HR, to an attorney, a court, or even youtube, could be quite powerful.
So she should have to be the one to leave, and potentially have to take a lower paying/lower status job? How on earth is that fair?
There's not much more, it was a very general lecture touching on many topics, it was merely an anecdote.
Hudson too...
The one thing that truly matters is how they determine if your use is "embedded" or not. And they left the answer out of the FAQ:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/faqs-jsp-1...

>Frequently Asked Questions

>Is Java still free?

>The current version of Java - Java SE 8 - is free and available for redistribution for general purpose computing. Java SE continues to be available under the Oracle Binary Code License (BCL) free of charge. JRE use for embedded devices and other computing environments may require a license fee from Oracle. Read more about embedded use of Java SE or contact your local Oracle sales representative to obtain a license.

Also, this link has more info on specific features that cost money, aside from the embedded vs general purpose issue:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/products...
Have you considered getting rid of your mobile telephone? People's ability to prioritize is shattered with these devices or perhaps their ability to use them.
We need a term for the opposite of net neutrality.
Clipboard does work, but I wanted to point out that all of these things are specific to the Wayland session, which is very new, you can still switch to Xorg in GDM and everything will work as expected.
HBS didn't increase their caliber until after the 70s, when they were shamed by Stanford's Business school Until then, it was more of an easy street and not as rigorous as it is today.
Clipboard managers are needed at least on some desktop environments to make copy/paste functional between applications.

On my XFCE 4.12, with clipboard managers, if I copy from, say, Firefox, then close it, the content of the clipboard disappears.

If it's the same with Wayland, then having a functional clipboard manager is a big deal (at least, as much as such copy/paste operations are).
Absolutely. I'd also pay for a service that generates a business idea, has 100 paying users, and is willing to sell the idea and list.
I'm aware of how OSX implements scaling. It's still rendering at a resolution that is a non-integer multiple of the screen's native resolution and then scaling it to the native resolution. How is this not fractional scaling?
I wouldn't start with it. It has its charms, but they're mostly evident after you've been burned by the breakneck pace of change in other ecosystems. MJD's "Why I like Java" is probably the best article about it:

http://blog.plover.com/prog/Java.html

I'm a little more affirmative of it than he is. But yeah, I definitely would not begin my journey with this. Start with Python. Javascript, maybe.
Awesome, just watched a couple of these, that will help. Thanks for sharing
Ask HN: Would you buy a more user friendly version of signal?
I recently just cringed at a thread model where a mother was going through their adult children messages with their partners. As one can expect, these are some private messages. I'm cringing at the thought that this was through Signal.

Signal isn't going to implement passcode protection anytime soon for their app. Nor are they going to use fingerprinting.

Signals iOS and Android applications could use some work. The desktop application is a bit painful since it's a Chrome extension.

If I make an open-source EmberJS wrapper around the Open Whisper API would you use it? What features/additions would you want? Would you be OK with paying a $1 fee on the App Store to help the cause or would you prefer to download and build from Github?

Thinking of adding password protection and both figerprinting to a convo. This way your mother who knows your passcode doesn't get past the fingerprint. If the government comes with a court order, they can force you to use fingerpinting, but they can't force you to input a passcode.

There'll also be a second passcode you can set that will, when used, return "invalid passcode", but will behind-the-scenes, delete all of your data and wipe everything. Perfect for hostile situations.
This article is rhetorical slight of hand, written by a man who directly benefits if history takes a kinder view of the GW Bush administration.

The author asserts that GW Bush is smarter than [the typical reader]. Howard Gardner describes nine different types of intelligence. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenc... ) Is GW Bush smarter than me in every metric? I am skeptical. Is he smarter in only some out of nine categories? If so, the the statement "is smarter than you" is missing a dependent clause.

The article relies on anecdotal evidence from biased sources. People who were invited into the administration based on loyalty and ideology all think that GW Bush is super smart? That is both unsurprising and unconvincing.

The author slams the cultural biases of the coastal elites, while indulging in his own.

"He is an intense, competitive athlete and a “guy’s guy.” His hobbies and habits reinforce a caricature of a dumb jock, in contrast to cultural sophisticates who enjoy antiquing and opera. This reinforces the other biases against him."

Bush 41 was an athlete. GW was a cheerleader. I understand that the whole point of this essay is to rewrite history but know your limits, man.

I readily concede that a group comprised entirely of smart individuals can make bad plans, or execute a good plan so badly that the outcome is the opposite of what they intended. If your best intentions regularly have calamitous results, does that matter when judging your intelligence? I would argue that it does. If you declare Iraq, Iran, and North Korea to be existential threats; let North Korea get The Bomb; dramatically strengthen the regional influence of Iran; and turn Iraq into a hellscape whose only export is terrorism, does your alleged intellectual superiority provide any solace?

The author mentions an anti-Texas bias. Having spent decades in close proximity to Texans, I would like to make an observation. There are Texans, and there are Texan Secessionists. I have found the former group to be open, generous, hospitable people more often than not, and frequent contributors to art and culture. The latter group never miss an opportunity to remind you, "Texas can secede if we want. It's in our constitution. We were a Republic before we were a state."

Want to understand the term "Ugly American?" Spend a couple of years listening to Texans act like they're doing you a favor by not seceding.
It is an entirely new compositor, after 30+ years of X, so there will be things to work out yes, but the fact that Wayland is finally here is huge.
Is moratorium on politics on HN over now?
The phrase "resulting in" does an awful lot of work in that claim. Who actually killed hundreds of thousands of civilians?

Who's to say the hundreds of thousands of civilians who have died in Syria over the past few years might not have been saved if the Western powers had taken more action? Does that make their leaders "profoundly stupid"?
> I find this rudeness and pedantry in academia infuriating.

So you'd rather people quietly knife you in review? Because that's what happens if you penalize people for public rudeness. Personally, I'd rather have a loud critique to my face than a polite one behind my back or, even worse, no engagement at all.

I don't need your politeness or friendship when I'm putting forth some new theory. I need accurate, engaged criticism and the number of people who will do that is vanishingly small. And a lot of the ones who will do that have social issues almost by definition.
I think the best starting point is to create landing page with 1 main benefit and a couple supporting features. then go about finding people to click on "start here" button or something which lets me know there at least a little interested. check out leadpages.com or unbounce.com

Although I built my own landing page template.
Like food critics, some have taken the art of shitting on things to absurd heights.

"I find this theory highly disagreeable, it contradicts findings by X and Y et al."

Compared with:

"I once asked my dog for a theory on the nature of the universe, whereupon which he vomited violently on the floor. This explanation has more truth to it than the one presented in this paper, which I can only presume was written by students who, in their youth, were savagely beaten upside the head by their parents much to the detriment of their intellect."
Return to the Edge and The End of Cloud Computing
Curious nautical legal question: How does recovery (salvage / claims) work for an unmanned drone in international waters -- couldn't you draw analogies to any 'ole piece of salvageable junk? In which case, couldn't anyone lay claim to it...?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Peter_Deutsch

He worked on both the Lisp and Smalltalk low-level implementations at Xerox PARC.
The problem of consistency is related to supporting multi-key, read-write transactions of any sort, and has nothing to do with support for joins, or relations. You're not escaping from it somehow by using a NoSQL database.
Do Not Apologize! That is a recipe for censure, failure, and a permanent record. It is also a way to guarantee the problem will only get worse. Your apology will be used as an admission of guilt, and she will use this against you.

Ignore the advice which others give here to approach her directly. That too is a recipe for disaster. She will use this "one-on-one" time to drum up additional charges against you. You cannot reconcile with her. There is nothing you can say to change her behavior.

You need to go on the offensive, hard and fast. Document everything. Go over her head. Do not back down. Do not let yourself be intimidated. Stay calm, cool, and collected, and then, when you have everything you need, file charges against her with management.

The goal here is to make her toxic behavior rebound back on her. Do not feel sorry for her. She can end this at any time by changing her behavior. Remember: she is her own worst enemy. You are not the problem. She is creating the environment. She should bear the consequences.

If at all possible, foster an "I don't care what you think about me" attitude when it comes to whatever garbage she invents about you. This is to insulate yourself from your own emotional reaction, which will only damage your case.

Remember: Your goal here is not to reconcile with her. Your goal here is to serve your company and their clients with your best work. She is standing in the way of doing that and is attempting to damage your career in the process.
There is no defensible set of priorities and principles by which invading Iraq can be supported as not "stupid", other than perhaps, "It is our priority for the Pentagon to spend more money." (not sure if that's really defensible though...)

That wasn't the most annoying thing about GWB, however. Even though that invasion was misguided, it was misguided in a particular way that reflects a particular flawed mindset, which wouldn't surprise observant voters. The most annoying thing was that he waited until the end of his term to shit the bed in completely different fashion, with the "bailouts". I can understand a President who is owned by the military-industrial complex. I can understand a President who is owned by the two or three most influential investment banks. A President who is owned by both of those, however, has no ethical core whatsoever, and he will be cursed by all when the "Even Greater Recession" rolls around and is easily attributed to his abdication of leadership to the cronies.
Or steal them from the CIA like the Iranians did:

https://www.wired.com/2011/12/iran-did-capture-a-secret-u-s-...

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2011/1207/US-considere...
Well, and look at all the free press they got out of this.
For anyone interested, here is a complete list of the scenarios tried in that sequence:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/24ujzq/for_fans_of_...

Alternatively, with links to screenshots:

https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/WarGames_strategem...
> The official US position...

The termination of the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty ("SAMSG") and the passage of the Taiwan Relations Act ("TRA"). In the "SAMDT" it was the policy of the United States that the Republic of China (ROC - Taiwan) was the sole legitimate sovereignty of mainland China.

President Carter terminated SAMDT, passing instead the TRA. The Taiwan Relations Act promotes a "One China Policy" - that of there being only one China. Under this policy, the US government recognizes the PRC (mainland) government, and no longer recognizes Taiwan (ROC) as a sovereignty. In this, there is no formal recognition, state-to-state diplomacy at high levels, present embassy, etc. The TRA makes provisions for the defense of the island in the case of military activity from the mainland. The TRA has been consistently reaffirmed by the United States government for 40 years.

> The settlement on that issue is that Taiwan will be fully and formally enveloped into the mainland, along with Hong Kong, the 2040s.

I have overspoken and confused the Hong Kong case with the Taiwan case. To be very clear: I am and was wrong about the timeline on a formal date for the mainland to envelop Taiwan.

The "Basic Law" of the Constitution of Hong Kong that establishes it as a separate autonomous region expires in (I had to look this up) 1947. This arrangement had been agreed to by the British and the mainland Chinese government, with the understanding the independence would cede after this time.

I had been under the impression that Taiwan had a similar provision in their constitution. However, looking this up I found that it is not the case. ROC and PRC both agree that there is "One China" as does the United States, but there remains disagreement about where the sovereignty resides. A good example of this is that ROC sided entirely with PRC with regard to the South China Sea and the international disputes and findings.

There does not appear to be a deadline on the federalization of the relationship, and I sincerely apologize that I stated this incorrectly.

Now, I do swear to have heard US diplomats and academics discussing the Hong Kong and Taiwan timeframe as a single event: "One Country, Three Systems." I have nothing formal or official to point to in this regard.

> Think Puerto Rico

There are many differences between the two cases and it was not intended to to be taken beyond the most immediate analogy. The US, as by the TRA, does not recognize the sovereignty of Taiwan as an independent sovereignty. I was trying to come up with something American readers might be able to compare that to. PR probably came to mind because it too is an island, and it too is not recognized as a sovereign state. Of course the analogy is not perfect and I would never claim it is.

Thank you for clarifying that to other readers.

There is not a strong constituency of Puerto Rico that claims independent sovereignty. I don't know if they are actively seeking political representation of any sort (as a US state?). There isn't actually much news/information (that I get anyway) about the political climate on PR.
Any chance you can share more info? I'm very curious.

It's certainly true that almost all finance software jobs pay much less than the big tech companies, and I've yet to personally run into one that clearly paid more (at best, similar or slightly more for some but not all algo trading). So I never exactly know what these comments mean.

Which are the big payers -- just algo trading? -- and does everyone get paid that much or just the high performers, or even just the high performers at the high performing firms? How does high performer compensation compare to high performer compensation at tech companies (who start at, say, $400K-$500k for what I'll call "entry-level high performer")?
I would say that Go is designed for small teams. Minimal compiler safety and generally weak code reuse (outside of code generation, which...no) under the guise of "just microservice all the things."

It is an okay analogue to Java 1.4. But the state of the art is significantly further along, and OpenJDK+Kotlin (or Scala, if you're adventurous) is a significantly more well-considered alternative that fits much better into a Java workflow (not that those Java workflows are in danger in the first place, given that they don't use any version of Java that is outside the license).
That sounds pretty rad. Do you know what the status is of dependent types in Racket? I have always been interested in that.
What's so bad about stippled lines? They sound useful for so-called "real work" applications for drawing grids and graphs and marching ants.
Amazfit Pace is an affordable GPS running watch with heart rate tracking
The HBS alumni of that era I knew were smart. There could be selection bias, as I generally know ones who worked in finance or tech, but leaving bias concerns aside, the pattern was consistent.

I also had a small amount of more direct exposure in the late 70s, and it fit the pattern.

Now, these "smarts" were more in the way of getting to a quick, non-stupid analysis of a situation than they were about really deep thinking or about having a nose for additional facts to seek out ... but that pattern fits Bush.
Not sure about on Fedora but I cannot get Hangouts screen sharing working under Wayland/Weston on Arch, though it worked fine under X11.