skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feeling female and actually being one are two very different things. I do not deny that gender dysphoria is a clinical diagnosis, but that does not mean we should enable an unhealthy behavior. Rather, it is something that should be treated, and I do not think that self-mutilation is the answer (especially when funded by tax payers).

Furthermore, all of this because of his "feelings"?? Are you kidding me? The west is sliding backwards into a adolescent world of feelings and identity crises.

Facts be damned, satire be damned, and rational thought be damned.
Disney Proves Every Pixar Film Is Linked with Amazing Video
I think synaesthesia is the wrong interpretation of this phenomenon.

I hear flashes like that as a soft rush of blood around my eardrum. I'm pretty sure it's just the "acoustic reflex" (the muscles in my middle ear tightening in case there's a loud sound incoming). Obviously there isn't a loud noise here but like an involuntary blink, my body doesn't know that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex
You're right that individuals do have to interpret the law, and choose their behaviour accordingly. AFAIK, it's only in the last hundred years or so that we've started to recognise human rights having precedence over a single nation's law, which makes it "legal" for individuals to act contrary to their nation's laws.

That recognition does make it easier (than it was) to counter, but there are still challenges, and they're unlikely to disappear soon.
HTM – Dissecting the Three Main Components
I think you might enjoy E.T. Jaynes

http://bayes.wustl.edu/

https://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-E-T-Jaynes/dp/0521...
With a lot of notes and lists in Google Keep, I always wonder when Google will kill it like Reader. So, I'm really behind projects like this focusing on openness and durability. I hope it's a success!

I do academic research as a grad student and it's very reassuring to know that if my office doesn't burn down or get ransacked, that my pen-and-paper research notebooks will be there for reference to see what I did on a past project. It was an exceptionally cool experience when visiting the NRAO[1] Archives[2] to pick up and read 70+ year old research notebooks from pioneering astronomers. It seems like it would take a great deal of vigilance to make digital notes endure for that long.

However, digital notes are useful, especially for brain dumping something quickly, so I've settled on vimwiki[3] in a git repository. They're just markdown utf-8 textfiles in a folder hierarchy, and I figure vim and vimscript extensions are pretty darn future proof. It's also useful when traveling and being given a guest Linux work station to use that it doesn't require admin privileges to get working: just git clone the vimwiki repo into ~/.vim and clone the notes repo.

[1] https://www.nrao.edu

[2] https://www.nrao.edu/archives/

[3] https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
there is more devices that can show on your network.. did you have any tv video box? or wireless device on the tv?
I don't really have much to add to this discussion, but I absolutely love what you are doing. Swoon! ;)
I'm always amazed at the employee counts for Twitter, Snapchat, etc. 1,500 people just seems astounding for a chat application; understandably, there will be other departments than engineering, but I'm still left amazed.
I'd like to propose a feature.

Would it be possible to make the left panel collapsable?

I found the need when trying full screen. I really wanted to see the design bigger but the panel wouldn't let me zoom more without loosing visibility.
Well it's the political origin of the term that is bothersome. The Russians came up with the perfectly sensible and accurate term 'cosmonaut' and the USA refused to use it.
Ask HN: Can we use bankruptcy records to reveal RSU compensation information?
My hypothesis is yes.

Surely some engineers overleveraged on mortgages, extravagances, and general misfortune in the last 5-10 years. (or just wanted to block creditors)

But it depends on the disclosures made in the bankruptcy proceedings.

I'd really like to. California PACER is free, unlike the Federal one. Know anybody that would already index this stuff?
It looks like extensions essentially fire off your note data to third parties. Is there a method for extensions to add Javascript to the running application instead?
Great summary/history lesson, but the title is a bit misleading. The author spends very little time discussing the nature of logic per se.
I'm a big fan of localForage. It handles the fallbacks on various devices. There's a few things it doesn't do super-well (multiple get/set operations in a batch, notably), but it's a great polyfill, especially if you don't want to mess around with the intricacies of indexedDB.
Sounds like your manager didn't do his or her job. As a manager of people, you have to own these kinds of metrics and be prepared to wield them whenever the "value of an employee" question comes up.
Didn't Pixar invent the alpha channel? Being the 'a' in rgba is pretty rad!
so i can replicate my production environment as much as i can locally.
At some basic level, it depends on what you want to optimize for in society.

If you want to optimize for "someone can own everything" then wealth disparity is not and will never be bad.

If you want to optimize for a wide host of other things, such as the health of the people in a society, crime rates in a society, class mobility or personal freedom, or other stuff, then you're already motivated to keep wealth disparity in check, because enough of it negatively affects all the rest.

There are some good thoughts here: https://www.quora.com/Is-wealth-inequality-bad

But really, a google search for "why is wealth inequality bad" will give you a lot of stuff.

Please, if you're genuinely curious, read some of that and decide what you think society should be optimized for.
In my opinion the solution to not being embarrassed is to not do embarrassing things. The person exposeing those things isn't in the wrong, you are.

Keep in mind all of the recent leaks have been from individuals and organizations that have supported domestic spying under the rationale "if you've got nothing to hide". Yet they hide in shadows and evidently misbehave when the public isn't looking.
They had an analogue front end to reduce much of the load.
You are correct: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/231510068-External...

Don't use medium for this purpose then, would be my answer. I also had an issue getting to the homepage. Obviously I managed to get there, but I almost didn't bother.
It's becoming increasingly common.

Personally I think esoteric pronouns like "ve" are a silly idea that won't catch on, but I like the idea of using "they" as a gender neutral way to refer to one or more people.

It's a straightforward expansion of the current usage: as a gender neutral way to refer to two or more people.
I am not on board with categorically downvoting incivility, even on that last bastion of civil discourse we call HN. While we may feel uncomfortable hearing from someone who is upset, it's hard to deny that we notice them more - and that can be very important for those whose voice isn't very loud in the community otherwise. To the empathetic, an uncivil outcry can serve as a stinging reminder that their behavior has deeply offended someone else.

I'm reminded of an MLK Jr. quote about the tendency of moderates to oppose the loudness of minorities whose views aren't yet well-accepted.

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

We should strive to be an orderly community, but we should also strive to be an accepting one.
Exercise, sleep, meditation, diet, hobbies.
Also I think you should hide the console.log() messages from production.
My favorite thing about Brave on Android is that it is basically Chrome with ad blocking. Firefox with uBlock on Android becomes unbearably slow and chugs after using it for a bit on my brand new Pixel. Opera crashed on me twice in the span of two days. And I don't particularly trust any of the other third party browsers out there.

I just want the speed and quality of Chrome but no obnoxious ads while I surf. Brave gives me exactly that. The only thing missing from my total joy is some sort of 1password integration. Hopefully extensions can give us that.
I noticed that too. I don't want to gainsay the author's experiences, but it sounds like the author is describing the job of a data analyst who happens to dabble with various software. I don't get the sense the author has in-depth knowledge about the tools he lists.

Also, I don't know about putting Mongo and Cassandra under "Tools for working with unusual datasets".
My current company employs the OKR method. The following points related to my experience with them.

There are definitely some good points to them. OKRs manage to delegate company-wide tasks down to their appropriate departments and individuals/groups that will tackle them.

They also can be a pain. We set our OKRs every quarter, having to base our work for the next 3 months off from predictions–what we (our boss and board) want to accomplish, what [we] think will be important in the future–and are locked into working based on those predictions for a whole quarter.

They also don't account for your individual tasks, but your "company vision" goals. So if your job mainly deals with day-to-day tasks, and you are given OKRs from management, then you are now burdened with the work of 2 people.

The article also states
> OKRs are not synonymous with employee evaluations.

The unfortunate thing is, OKRs make a great shortcut to grading employee performance. For example, in lieu of an annual bonus, our company sets a max-cap bonus amount and divides it by 4 (one for each quarter). If you hit 1.0 (100%) every quarter, you get all of your bonus. But then there is the threshold certain companies put on an OKR, where if you don't make a certain grade, you don't receive anything. So if you hit .75 you squeak by and get 75% of your 1/4 of the bonus. But if you hit .74 then you receive nothing. And if this happens during Q4, then your version of a Christmas bonus has evaporated (along with that employee's morale).

I do think OKRs are a handy tool. But I also think it depends on the kind of company (or more importantly, the kind of leadership) you work for. If your company has clear goals, and your CEO and board have a good vision for what the company is, and where it wants to be, then it definitely will help steer everybody forward together.
Exactly, it wasn't until I got to the 7th paragraph--which mentioned Santa Monica--that I realized that the article was in the LA Times and was not talking about Italy. I'll admit I was confused by a Rastafarian storefront owner being interviewed, but I've never been to Italy so for as much as I know it may be plausible...
I've learned that (like many projects) it's easy to get sidetracked on:

* What's the best microphone to use? (There goes at least 20 hours of research and reading and listening to comparisons, etc.)

* What should I use to record the podcast? Audacity? Logic Pro X? Reaper (which I haven't upgraded to 5.43 yet)?

* What about intro music? (More weeks pass as I reinstall and upgrade my digital audio workstation, the synth and drum plugins, my guitar interface, which oh, needs a driver upgrade...)

* How should I clean up the noise? (More time passes installing and upgrading my compression plugins. Do I need to buy the latest Waves plugins? Didn't I buy that set years ago, maybe I can upgrade? Check out KVR Audio for freeware plugins...)

* Where should I store the podcast? Which service? Is libsyn still good? What about podbean?

* Oh, now I need a website. Spend time resurrecting an old blog. Think: maybe I should convert over to one of those newer static sites (Hugo, et al)? Hey, maybe I'll write something in Go, which I've been trying to learn! (Weeks later...)

So, it's months later and I've clearly shaved far too many yaks. I don't have a podcast, but I've learned that I should just record one with whatever mic I've got, using Audacity, or whatever, and just publish the darned thing.
There's about as much public benefit in knowing how exactly Gaddafi was corrupt as there is in known just how many women Tom Cruise has slept with.

This is, quite frankly, a bizarre equivalence to make.
I love the idea of this, but I'm not a big fan of Electron apps. Simplenote has worked amazingly for me for a few years now and has a nice native application (yes, I know you can't host your own server)
Reminds me of camlistore
I've just experienced this issue today with Instagram, and I entered their support page, and there was nowhere to get to the homepage.
How does Brave make money? Whitelisting ads?
It's also worth noting that the only reason Snowden is currently in Russia is due to actions by the US State Department. Snowden left Hong Kong with a plane ticket to Cuba by way of Moscow. While he was on the plane, the US State Department revoked his passport, forcing him to miss his connecting flight. To make it seem like it was in any way a deliberate choice on his part is rewriting history.
This is good for storing data across sessions, whereas Redux/MobX lose data once the user closes the tab.
Maybe add a feature to import your linkedin profile & skills or maybe allow users to submit their pdf or word cv to pre-populate their profile.
Self-study students can find someone online to study together.

I like the amount of projects SICP inspires. That's one of the best things about it. I wouldn't want to discourage writing a test suite, but I wouldn't suggest studying it by using one.

SICP questions are designed to have elegant solutions, which may be missed, this is one reason why a study group is better than a test suite.
I liked clicking down the locking arm. It made a satisfying click, after an equally-satisfying increase in tension. A lot of the LGA ones now make a sickly-sounding "crinkle" that I've never liked much.
They do that and have some bitcoin based microtranaction system for content producers.
> It's not a 400k award, it's a 400k settlement, which means that the owner clearly thinks that the actual award that survived all appeals plus the cost of litigation (including the cost in the owners time) would be at least that much.

Why did you nitpick a point instead of addressing the egregiously high seeming cost? Your point merely buttresses my point, which is that 400k is far more than can and should be reasonably expected.
anybody knows why Microsoft joined in with the data gathering? this move might alienate their corporate customers and that's the real cash cow, don't they make enough money out of licensing? They say that Mr. Nadella is such a smart guy, but this really looks like a way to loose existing business.
That tends to get you a reputation, which makes it harder to find more freelancers.
It will eventually, but the master process monitors and restarts it when the RSS reaches certain threshold. So it's indeed a trade-off.
> Feeling female and actually being one are two very different things.

Feeling female can be an early indication that you are a woman.

> I do not deny that gender dysphoria is a clinical diagnosis, but that does not mean we should enable an unhealthy behavior.

On the off chance you actually care about Chelsea Manning's health, please stop referring to her as "he."
Evernote clipper (or "save this page as a note") is the only thing keeping me on that platform.
If only it was that easy
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> hard news values, subscription-only, online.

In Italy, the leftist newspaper il manifesto basically rebooted around this concept, although they still have a printed edition. They dramatically lowered costs (also shedding quite a bit of personnel) and now survive relatively well, but the numbers are far from replacement - they still sell 7 physical copies for each digital one, digital subscriptions are pretty stable, and their paper numbers are crashing in the same way as all other newspapers.

Digital models have higher margins but clearly they cannot reach the same amount of people as traditional models yet, and don't fully compensate the inevitable death of paper.
What are the main features and new things about this?
I lived completely cashless for 50 days
I got to the point where I had a microphone (got it from amazon after a couple days of research), I had my software (I didn't think much about it, I had Garage Band preinstalled) and I recorded one audio.

After hearing it, I found it so bad I never did more.

I used the microphone for recording other stuff though.

What I learned is that you should first record yourself somewhere and listen to yourself before committing.
>Firing for mistakes can make sense in the context of a small company that has to pay enough to rectify the mistake that it significantly impacts the budget. If this cost needs to be recouped, it is only fair that it be recouped from the salary preserved by terminating the responsible party.

What was the fired person doing? Presumably they were performing required work otherwise the company wouldn't have been paying them in the first place.

That means you know need to pay to replace which costs more than keeping an existing employee. Or you could divide their responsibilities among the remaining employees but if you thought you could do that you would have already laid them off without waiting for them to mess something up.
Are there any implementations of the language server protocol for vim or emacs?
Show HN: A telegram bot to send messages from the command line
I use my own notepad app - ScratchPad[1] - to solve a similar problem with a slightly different emphasis.

I wasn't concerned with privacy, but very concerned with longevity, portability, and history. My app auto-saves every few seconds, and records a log of the diff. The log tracks the entire edit history of the file, so you can follow the evolution of the document, undo changes, whatever.

Logged revisions also effectively ends up as a text collapsing function - just keep the first line or so of a block of text and delete the remainder, and then when you want to open up that block of text again, just scroll back in the history.

I've been using it for years on Windows and Linux. I haven't yet had a need to port it to OS X. I keep my notes in Dropbox for distribution and so I can access them on my phone. If the text file is edited out of sync with the log, the next time the file is opened inside scratchpad, it simply records a diff between the new state and the expected state from the log.

The format is just plain text. No fancy formatting. It's set up to use Dina, as that's my default font on all my systems.

[1] https://github.com/barrkel/scratch
Dropbox Paper has a decent web UI but its iOS app was 116 MB. By comparison, the actual Dropbox iOS client is at 88 MB.
Everything has moved to ES2015.
@fspear, thanks for the feedback :)

Yep, I've looked at importing from LinkedIn and it's something I'm still considering. The only problem with LinkedIn is that it only pulls in your current roles, not all your roles (unless you pay).

Agree re. importing CV too. It's on my long list.
How to Trade by Design (And Not by Default)
"Chelsea Manning acted on her conscience"

Acting on her conscience does not make what she did the right thing to do.

For example, the 2 men behind the boston marathon bombing, did what they did based on their conscience. Did that make what they did right?
> A Java dev with 7 years experience and a Java dev with 12 years of experience are "utterly the same" in my book

Most people will hire the 7, as he is generally about 10-20k cheaper... (see ageism problems)
Couldn't agree more with the: just publish the darned thing.

That's it.
Standard File
It is surprisingly slow.
Nobody is suggesting complete rewrite, but theoretically - yes, in terms of security rewriting in rust would be better investment than whack-a-mole game of chasing bugs in C.
If people are downvoting me for incivilty, they should also be downvoting all the misgendering, which is fundamentally uncivil no matter how calm and even the tone in which it is done.
Opera has a similar plugin:

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/download-chro...

The fact that these browsers share similar bones is really nice from a functionality perspective.
Any improvements coming for faster hoy module reloading? I get 2s + most of the time
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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines disinformation as "false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth."

By this definition, editorializing cannot be equated to fake news. The former is the process by which editorial teams introduce bias into the news reports by inserting their own interpretation of the facts. Fake news is the process by which outright lies are fabricated. The former is about adding flavor to food - you may not like the flavor, but you can usually still taste the food underneath. The latter is about serving shit as food - if you eat it, it will make you sick.
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I don't think I agree; I think that your examples show that it's important to know your employees' accomplishments, and to praise people accurately. Public praise matters; I like it when my managers and coworkers acknowledge good work I do, and it's nice hearing that my coworkers are doing good work, too. Why should we all labor in the shadow? Why should we be afraid of praise?
Maybe for backend development, but definitely not for frontend, which is what the majority of web developers do anyway.
What UI? Using git on the command line is exactly the same as using SVN on the command line. At least for basic, every day things like status, add, commit etc.
That is an unanswerable question, given the current lack of data.
Assange Statement on the First Day of Manning Trial(2013)
"Man, I really need to watch what I say to the Americans."

Given the degree of subterfuge the US has facilitated in many of these countries, over the years -- most of these folks already knew that.
The AI revolution will wake up the west to the realities of capitalism. Trump's spat with China over trade barriers is just one example of America coming to terms with the fact that capitalism has no sense of patriotism or morality. If the price (of labour) is right capitalists will do business with anyone. The capitalist philosophy, based on Adam Smith's "invisible hand" which mysteriously takes care of the common good, is a fallacy behind which the greed of the 1% masquerades as success. Capitalism's goal is to drive down the price of labour which it can only see as a cost. AI is the capitalist's dream, presenting for the first time the possibility of eliminating human labour altogether. There is only one question we must ask as a society - to whom will the capitalists of the AI age be accountable? Marx wrote about this endgame 150 years ago and of all the economists since then I'd say his analysis has been the most accurate.
Yeah, it's a huge huge market for sure. It's why pretty much every Web APP provides an API to integrate with. They don't do it because it's worthless :)

API Marketplace might help discovery. Not sure about that though.