skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not easy to defend yourself against sexist accusations, except that I have proof that I'm an activist and I've rallied for women rights and LGBT rights. Does it exclude the possibility of me being sexist? No, but it sure as hell keeps it at bay.

I do consider the possibility that I made a bad impression. In fact I'm well aware that was a mistake and I tried to fix it by making up for it in any way possible. But it has been 2 months now and it's not getting better so I'm running out of ideas but I appreciate your perspective and I agree with you in part.

Thanks for your input.

Edit: From your perspective how can I solve it?
No, it's definitely the other way around: people gain experience working for big firms, then use their domain expertise to start their own businesses. Software is no different.
Oooh, this makes sense now.

He skimped hard on the details.
Edit: Turns out the headline is completely made up. This was in the comment section:

> So was “Sciview” actually some sort of analytics app for Silk Road, with the “sensors” representing some other Silk Road metrics? Or was BB truly freelancing for SpaceX while administering Silk Road?

> AUTHOR: Excellent question, I don’t know.

So he has no idea if he was just a subcontractor or if he was doing work for Silk Road. If I had to bet on this, I'd guess the friend subcontracted a project to him for easy cash (or because he was in over his head) and the Silk Road stuff was completely unrelated.

What would Silk Road do with such an application anyway?
That's ridiculous. There are vast chunks of land in the US that are perfectly fine to live on, it's just that nobody wants to because the good jobs aren't there (i.e. nearly everything between the coasts).
Smile and wave. As the Brits say, keep calm and carry on.
Don't mix emotions with business. Apply for other jobs in Europe. http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/23804747.jpg
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I'd be happy not to be hired by such a manager. Crunch time happens sometimes, and you gotta do what you gotta do. But 60 hour weeks as a matter of course are a dealbreaker for me.
Smalltalk just like Lisp has very little syntax, almost everything is built on messages, including data type creation, conditionals and loops, among other things.

Also you can at any time just completely replace one object by other via the becomes: message.

There are also some cool tricks when metaclasses are used, many of each one can see in Python as well.
They surely do not. Malloc is specified in such a way such that the request for memory can fail (which leads to returning NULL).
>This is just rude.

It's also true. "It was useful to me" doesn't settle the matter of whether it was actually useful or not.

>No matter what you think of that feature, you can't just condescend people because you are not accepting reasonable and logical arguments.

"It was useful for me" is not a logical argument.

A logical argument would start by checking whether the time estimate matched the remaining time under different usage scenarios.
To add to what tptacek has said, this everyone-is-lying position is not compatible with the discussions that this site is for. So if you'd like to have those kinds of conversations, they'll have to take place elsewhere.
Really? I actually like it this way. Journalist tries to make it intriguing and longer. But that doesn't change the events or make them more interesting. I guess I just like simple and straightforward.
I'd add : why do you need to tease in the first place ? There's no reason to do that.
The article says "88 percent of Indians can’t speak English (let alone read it)"

I'm not a native English speaker, but that sentence implies that reading English is more difficult than speaking it. But in my experience, most people who learn English as a second language learn to read first, especially if they specifically learn it to use the Internet.

For native English speakers: Is my interpretation of that phrase correct?

For non-native English speakers: Did you learn to read English first or did you start by learning to speak it? Does it vary on first language, literacy level, motivation?
> There's never a simple thing in geopolitics. We can only look to history, to policies and treaties and to potential outcomes to explain and predict.

So doesn't this bring us to "it's news that China has started treating these waters differently" for objective reasons vs it only being an "American media bubble" thing?
Forks are 99% of the time visual pollution to me, regardless of whether or not you can filter it down to sources. The more forks I see on someone's page, the more likely I've found that they probably never create anything of their own that's meaningful to share.

I really only ever care about seeing what someone has created. I don't wanna see their vast collection of forks with no contributions.
> The Chinese have a "face saving is the most important thing" culture, and the US does not. Think of it more like the tribal regions of the -stans: China is metaphorically ready to do some honor killing over this in a way we can't grok.

Please, can we ditch the outdated stereotypes? The Chinese govt uses the parallel tropes to the US ("we've suffered under years of foreign domination" "Here we're on an anti-corruption campaign so you don't have to suffer under unnecessary taxes" etc. And funding local SoEs to keep the jobs flowing).

Is make America Great Again any different? "Other countries are laughing at us." "We never win any more""We're going to bring back coal"

I just picked MAGA because it was a recent successful platform. But consider dispassionately: 15 years ago a small bunch of bandits killed 3000 people and cause a few billion in property damage. IN return the US has spent trillions killing people who had nothing to do with it in order to to restore its honor. Movies from Rambo to Shooter to anything by Chuck Norris are simply ways to pander to loss of face.

Of course there are differences between the two but let's stick to facts.
http://imgur.com/a/cMGzV
Or, you know, we've been burned by BS "2 hours remaining" only to have the laptop re-adjust that behind our back and disrupt our work way before.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13194523
This is for how much bandwidth usage per month?
Considerable discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13194523
Exactly. An externally visible indicator of the software running on the hardware. The glowing apple on Macbooks, a sticker in your case, or the windows icon detail on the Surface line of devices. I've seen a number of people who have a Tux sticker for the same effect.
Is MS still contributing money to this lawsuit? It was on my poorly written wishlist, but I was not sure about it at the time.
Sizeable discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13194523
>More correct but less useful isn't actually better.

I'd argue that more correct is by definition more useful.
Not OP, fyi

If I only had more time... I'd love to write a guide on that. That really is a great idea!

I recently copied the entire state management part (done with redux) to a react native app and it just worked. Was a really cool thing to see. If I had RN in mind when I first made the site, it could have even more reuse.
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Specially since Lisp was once upon a time, also a systems programming language.
I love that tools like BitBake support integrity, but I also feel it's not enough to merely support it. We must incentivize it, if not outright require it.

Integrity is a property of the whole ecosystem. Our toolchains are complex, and call other tools, and those call yet more tools. Optional "support" at any layer means even though the user might ask for integrity at one level, their security and integrity may be unverified by another layer of tool. If we want integrity from the whole ecosystem, we must demand it from every part.

Integrity should be a mandate, not an option.
If he is hired, doesn't Google make you sign a contract that says all your work is now owned by Google?
Thanks for bringing up this perspective.

What you're describing is a good career path for a self-taught programmer without the necessary network/luck to get into a Fancy Software Company.

Building one's own company to the point where it sustains you is two levels above that.

Here is my model to fit your perspective:

Self-taught programmer/moderately-ranked state school ->
Junior developer at unknown startup ->
Intermediate/senior developer at that startup or another one ->
Software Dev at Fancy Company ->
Start company with colleagues OR high-paid, remote consulting gigs
Wait for the next season of... Mr. Robot!
> Unfortunately, I feel there's a particular faction in the country that actively aims at the undoing of the union in favor of a weak federation of states or several regional confederacies.

This is off-topic, but I don't think that the number of people who genuinely want to do what you describe is effectively none. I suspect that you're actually referring to people who want the government of the United States and the governments of the several states to actually obey the federal and state constitutions. They (and — full disclosure — I) would argue that things for which there's no constitutional provision (e.g. drug prohibition) simply shouldn't exist, or amendments should be passed to permit them.
That doesn't work for me (I still get just the snippet). Ah well, let's find something else.
The Dubious Quick Kill
Okay, good to know I'm not the only one who thinks that. Normally the fiction is the first thing I read when I get the New Yorker but I did not enjoy this one.
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And many of us don't really want to go back. :)
What's the conclusion? Pretax incomes have stopped growing for anyone except the top 1–10%. (It's been forty years of income stagnation for the bottom 50% and twenty years for the next 40%.)

It's actually not so bad when you add back the huge increase in entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Maybe we should start getting used to the idea of a welfare state supporting the vast majority of its citizens.
Dafuq did I just read?
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> Implementing Lisp properly in machine code is not easy; you have to write a garbage collector.

That's not actually true: you could, instead, just fill up memory and crash when you're out. It's not ideal, but it does work.
> "Do something truly innovative with all your billions Microsoft"

What exactly are you looking for? Are devices like HoloLens and Kinect and Surface Studio not innovative enough for you? What would you class as 'truly innovative'?
A Yip, Yap, Ya-HOOO!
I agree with both of these and would only add a #3.

"No matter how much you try, you can’t stop people from sticking beans up their nose." https://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/07/08/beans-and-noses/

The earlier you accept this, the farther ahead you'll be.
Professional Engineer. It's an anointed position from an association of engineers, like an old-time guild. There's a duty to mentor youngsters, and a requirement for youngsters to spend time being mentored before getting PE status themselves.
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It almost doesn't matter how smart the AGI is on it's own, if it can't participate in our social conversation and get it's information from the same sources humans do it's going to be stone dumb in practice. An individual human is far less intelligent than we generally give ourselves credit for: if it can't stand on the shoulders of our giants then it doesn't matter if it's ten times as tall as us individually.
He studied C++, Unix, algorithms, data structures, and system design. Is learning that stuff a "silly process"?
I'm skeptical of the claim and suspect it might be (yet another) case of an older developer blaming young people for things.

None of my friends (all in their 20s) prefer open offices.
spot on. HR is there to make sure you abide. The funny thing is that they usually don't understand that themselves (some people don't think about why they do their job besides getting money/cars/holidays). Things seem to be different in non-profit/non-compete companies though.
> I don't know if .NET Core will catch up with Node, probably not, but I respect their effort and believe competition drives the best products and technology.

Comments like these always remind me of the vast the software development landscape is and how each stack is sheltered into it's own little cloister. People live and breath their stack and everything is framed against or in comparison to it.
There's a surprising number of people still relying on printf debugging. With distributed systems the slightly more advanced version: log based debugging is getting even more common.
I hope he clarifies, but I think it stands for Principal Engineer.
Thanks for sharing these awesome shortcuts!

Are there any caveats that I should be aware of before just stealing this to use for myself?
> It focuses on how Satya Nadella has respected the leaders of Companies he's bought out and invited them to key meetings. Using their insight not only for product and company direction, but importantly creating culture as well. Very key to Microsoft and any tech company's success.

Sometimes people forget the second part of the Borg's "You will be assimilated" announcement: "We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own." Looks like this is being adopted as well.
These companies exist, they sell a product called life insurance...
You seriously think they doubled or more their engineering team in the last year?
Cisco were not operating a public cloud, so there is no hardware to get rid of. Intercloud was a way for a network of smaller "Cisco Powered" cloud providers to interoperate and allow workload mobility to/from on-prem Cisco / OpenStack deployments.
After I wrote that statement I started thinking that C programs can be formatted so that they don't read very well also. In C, an 'if' is always an 'if' (unless you use the pre-processor to screw it up) but in Lisp an 'if' could be anything. I do like the idea of Lisp macros where you can run a Lisp program at compile time to generate the code that is then compiled inline.

What I should have said was that Lisp has no commands or structure that can't be changed. Some might argue that this is it's strength but I have seen hundreds of samples of Lisp and it looks very confusing. I don't normally program in C# or Java or many other languages but I can normally understand their code. (Lisp and functional languages are the most opaque to me)

My language uses a byte code interpreter and that byte code is in polish prefix notation just like Lisp. I wouldn't want to code in my byte code either (even if the byte codes were replaced with keywords instead of the binary code). Polish prefix notation is great for the compiler but not very good for people.
To be fair to China, you'd simply never see them deploying drones in waters off the coast of Mexico. At least, if I model them correctly.
Thank you. You comment was very valuable and validates most of my own thoughts about how to handle it from now onwards.
> I just find it really interesting that groups in power react this way while they are still in power

Individuals tend to do it when they perceive themselves to be in, or in danger of being in, less of a position of power and privilege than they expect. Members of groups that are, or have recently, in positions of relative power have correspondingly higher expectations as a fairly direct result of membership in such a group.
Looks great. As for React Native, I think React Native Express is cool
Great example of an ideal passive income project - low upfront costs, little maintenance worry, and easily marketable.

I hope you circle back later to talk about your marketing and revenue figures.
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When you argue for the "absence of politics", you're actually arguing for the "default politics we've had for generations", which is heteronormative, euro-centric, etc. The "absence of politics" leads to widespread usage of anti-LGBT, anti-women, and anti-minority slurs and policies that disadvantage those groups by not recognizing their institutional disadvantage.
I'm not entirely sure if you're saying "toughen up" is never the answer, or "firing" is never the answer.

Assuming the former: It is entirely possible to misinterpret friendly ribbing or banter as something far more malicious. To assume the worst of someone who genuinely means no harm, and to suggest they should be punished, censored, and shunned. "Toughen up" is perhaps not quite the right phrasing here: It's asking people to perhaps extend the basic human dignity and respect you request of others, to others. Where, perhaps, simply asking them firmly to knock it off, explaining you are finding their jokes hurtful, and giving them the chance to change their behavior, is perhaps more appropriate than forming an internet lynch mob based on assumptions of malice. Treating the other person as a person capable of mistakes or being misunderstood, instead of a gremlin to simply assume the worst of.

Assuming the latter: Sometimes you simply can't work through the problem. They may be a toxic individual - they may simply be driven to toxic behavior at this job (perhaps they hate it) - perhaps it's simply a matter of deciding who you're going to keep between two people who simply cannot get along with each other, to the point of causing problems for the rest of the team. Assuming you can fix their issues when they can't isn't treating them with dignity or respect. Leaving the situation to fester and drag on isn't treating the rest of your team with dignity and respect. Firing one or both of them might not be treating them with dignity and respect either - but you've only so many options. But just because you're firing someone doesn't mean you can't at least strive to do so. Wish them well on their next venture, and mean it.
Imagine an alternative universe where AT&T was allowed to sell UNIX and charged the same price as other mainframe OSes, instead of a symbolic license price for universities.

I have a feeling that would have turned out quite different.
Reminds of that time when the US sent a sub to tap a Soviet underwater communication cable off the cost of the then Soviet Union. That was brazen, and bad. It was the kind of stuff that leads to war.

What the Chinese just did is just as bad, and could lead to war.
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We have always been approaching a general solution to AI (Provided one is possible).
On "Getting Distracted By The Tech / Tools", this is why I still design in Photoshop, since Photoshop 7 many many years ago. I've seen so many tools come and go. New workflows, new interfaces and integrations to speed up web development. "Photoshop killers". But I, personally, feel right at home in Photoshop. I know every corner. It doesn't make me amazing but it lets me focus on creating. I don't know if I'll ever switch.
Agreed. More like Wal-Mart putting Sears out of business.
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I think this is a great story to tell buddies when grabbing a drink, but not really good for posting online which will last forever.

Maybe if the project was actually functional and high quality, but it's just a half baked project that doesn't even work.

Furthermore, there's no proof that what he worked on was actually silk road. Even looking at the screenshots it says nothing about silkroad, looks actually like a spacex project.

Like others said, I think his main motivation is to post it for the record, so if one day he disappears, people know where to track him down.
Defcon was always much more hateable than DPR.

There's probably a reason no-one came to his defense the way they did with Ross.

And buying a Tesla with Bitcoin? He was begging to get caught. And he complains about greed.

He should have watched Breaking Bad and learned the basic lesson of not buying a flashy car when you're trying to keep a low profile.
inspiring story :) world is getting smaller day by day
could I dare to say that, the more harassment there is, the more work they get ?
Suppose AI 1 uses that approach but Gmail has AI 2 acting as a spam filter. Suddenly phishing becomes much more difficult.

Further, spinning off other copies requires hardware to run them. If MS has an AI 3 go over windows source code it may be much harder to hack desktops.

Without authorial fiat a world of real world AI's may be much more stable and boring than you might think.
And then they end up hiring domain experts because they're busy running a business.

I think it very much depends on what you actually want to be doing.
The author gets it close to right when he talks about Google Maps as a form of AI, and the notion of raising the bar.

What's missing in this article as well as most reporting on AI is the differentiation between artificial intelligence and artificial consciousness, otherwise known as individuality or self awareness.

To me there's a whole smoke and mirrors phenomenon going on in the AI topic, especially the idea of "emerging AI", and the supposed potential danger that poses, and it's tied to the tendency we have as humans to anthropomorphize inanimate objects, and to believe in supernatural effects.

That tendency allows the idea of artificial self awareness to always float behind the scenes in these conversations, and let's normal reporting on AI be magically conflated with a different topic.

It's important to realize that AI is nowhere near self awareness, or conscious, or "awake" and won't be no matter how far the field and implementation goes. No matter how many Turing Test they pass, intelligent machines will be no more conscious or self-aware than the Mechanical Turk!

That's because solving the problem of self-awareness, or consciousness is a different engineering challenge than solving problems of AI. Consciousness is a more complicated, and specialized a thing.

Were we to build an artificial self-awarene machine we would not expect it to pass a Turing Test. Instead we might expect different things of it and ask different questions to determine if it is self aware: can it adapt and survive without human help, ie can it trap and store energy and reproduce itself, and what purpose does it find for itself is what objective does it pursue ...

These are things machines are capable of as well, but as I said: it's a different engineering challenge than producing information that is organized to be sensible to human mind, which is the AI challenge, and the Turing Test.

That isn't to say machine learning isn't potentially dangerous, on the scale of atomic weapons or greater, especially in conjunction with automation, however the idea of an artificially emergent consciousness wth intelligence greater than our own is hogwash: we would do better to pay attention to our own emergent lack-of-intelligence systems and worry about them taking over first.
Once you're talking about tearing down all existing houses and rebuilding them based on new and alien philosophies, your plan is starting to become a bit impractical.

> Getting rid of oil addiction doesn't solely mean replacing oil with wind and solar; it also means thinking rationally about why we need so much energy.

The prominent people who say this sort of thing usually have enormous mansions with heated pools and fly private jets everywhere.
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I assume you mean about the credibility? We don't know those e-mails are real. A journalist handling the story would contact the relevant parties to confirm the account given.
Odder still is Trump's response:

> Surprisingly to the group, Trump apparently responded favorably, “Let’s fix that,” he said, without a specific promise, and then asked, “What can I do to make it better?”

It's almost as if he doesn't have ideals and is very easily influenced by others who can offer him money and/or power.
Prevention is important but is cancer entirely preventable?