skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fairly certain this material was designed more as a prep-work for completion prior to A-School.
All I Possess
There are reasons for hiding this.
There are also reasons for lying.
When you purport to have a slam dunk case of harassment and retaliation, but wait until you want to get press for your book — you lose some (but not all) credibility. Just know that having investigated a lot of these stories, very few turn up credible.
> I can see why he gets very few applicants that aren't high... anyone who's sober enough to do the math can figure out his pay is literally unsurvivable yet his competitors pay quite a bit more making them, if not survivable, at least less unsurvivable.

This is a problem with a variety of manufacturing gigs. I've seen it before, it's not a pretty situation, specially when margins are low. :-(
I've been doing alternate day fasting (eat for 16 hours, fast for 32) for about 4 or 5 months. I've lost 32 pounds so far, ~225 to ~193. I am shooting for 175 ("normal" BMI) and/or being able to comfortably fit into my size 32 pants & shorts.

1. Coffee or half a bouillon cube in hot water.

2. The longest I've gone is probably 48+ hours with no calories. It gets easier the farther into the fast I am.

3. 31

4. On my fasting day I use an elliptical for 30 min, upper-middle(?) intensity. Like 140-150 BPM?

5. 5'11" 192 pounds.

6. To lose weight. Inadvertently, I learned that eating is not required for my body to function, pyschologically. Like, I thought "How can I work out or hike if I haven't eaten?!". I know food is required over time, but my pyschological need for food has lessened.

My big, stupid cheat is that I use nicotine (Juul), which makes fasting practically easy for me. I would drink more coffee but more than 1 or 2 cups a day makes me feel unwell. My plan is to stop using nicotine when I'm done fasting... we'll see how that works out. I did stop smoking cigarettes cold turkey.
Virtual phone numbers are flagged as such and all of the major providers will refuse to use them for verification purposes. Social media companies already thought of this.
its not a great statement for humanity whatever truth does come out.
Why people focus on HR when if this is true then the issue is a failed company culture. No amount of great HR can fix bad culture - thats sits with the founder, board and management - and every other employee who turns a blind eye.
if it is true, is the company worth or even possible to save? Changing their name wont fix the culture.
You are defining evidence as "legal evidence", and you're the only one using that definition here.
This makes a couple assumptions:

1) There's not much legitimate value in the textbooks we have now. Those who did that work don't really deserve to make money from it, and their labor would be easy to replace.

2) It'd be free or essentially free to "expand and adapt" military documents and make them into textbooks that are accurate, current, and suitable for educating non-military folks.
If you mean trademark, it must be registered under one or more of the many[1] categories of business in which a trademark can be registered, which means the same mark can be registered by different companies as long as there's no "substantial likelihood of confusion," so whatever you mean by "owning the Cushion word," it's going to have to be something else. It's not as easy as registering in all possible classes, which in itself is quite expensive.

1. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/trademark-classes.htm...
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-47.h...

Take a look. :-(
The Art of War – Sun Tzu – An Animated Explainer Video
I'm taking an introductory course to CS, and a week before the midterm they introduced linked lists -- which to me at first just seemed to be lists within lists with extra rules. What applications do they have in the real world?
I used 380 G6 and G7s. Loved them too.
He isn't in trouble for ostentatious spending, he's in trouble for crossing American copyright owners who want to go nuclear to protect their rents.
Getting a ride about the Bayesian vs. frequentist discussion also on the front page...

I'd say people use confidence as evidence for competence. Yet, that only make them adjust their priors, and biased people have some extreme priors.
Fair point :P. I think I might have seen someone mean it like that as well in the past.
Ask HN: What're the worst-designed things you've ever used?
Can I agree with and appreciate the actual moderation step you took here while calling out a concern about the justification you just wrote?

Twice in this comment you managed --- I think unintentionally --- to suggest that DHH wrote an unsubstantive rage-trolling post. I think it's very easy for people on HN to forget that all writing on the Internet is not in fact intended for HN. For DHH's own audience, an angry post about Uber might be totally appropriate.

It's not just possible but likely that a lot of Internet writing is toxic to HN, but valid and important in its own intended context. I think it's important that we work to avoid confusing these concepts.
Unfortunately, it does a whole bunch of things other than microwave (it's got a full, electric, convection oven and a hybrid convection oven/microwave capability). It does all three of it's major functions very nearly as poorly as they could be done.

This was also purchased in 2005 or so, and was a relatively new idea at the time that, thankfully, didn't take off terribly well.
Ah, yes, if only being in Princeton and then working for Wall street for 8 years was available to everyone.

Wonder why doesn't everyone just do it? It's so easy, right?
At least in the 80's when I was in, it helped a lot. Many civilian nuke operators trained in the Navy. I have two shipmates (enlisted men) who went into operations at civilian plants. I found I like programming better and thought after 3 mile island that nuclear didn't have a bright future. We may have come full circle with global warming and the need to produce less carbon.
Bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks
Anything I left out that you love?
What's the rule for rules that get named multiple times because nobody knows about them?
Because the skill to become a leader in this world has nothing to do with being competent.

Some of the characteristics you need to become a leader are: be an excellent lyer, have a good pair of elbows, a desire for power and/or money, fit in the world of wealthy people that are in power, etc..

What do you expect from people with these characteristics? Competence?
> This reminds me of a text editor I've seen linked here a while ago; it was written by one guy, and he'd been selling it and maintaining it for something like 30 years (and he still got new customers!). I don't remember the name of the program or the website.

Here's one.

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html
Maybe it was more politically palatable to order a raid on Dotcom, because he flaunts his wealth?
But why though? It seems really silly. Even in a hyper competitive market like the UK, the incumbent telco still makes a fortune off home broadband service.

In the US AT&T and Verizon seem to have given up and want to just do cellular to make money and let their copper plant rot. They are gifting the entire market to Comcast et al.
I mean, can just anyone go there? And is it free cuz Im kind of broke?
> I think the judgement of Mozilla in this matter is better than that of the commenters on this website, who have less data, represent a minority of users, and are prone to complaining.

This is the same as saying, "The judgment of the company is better than the judgment of their customers who say they will stop using their product if the company follows through on their plans."
> Here's the thing: If you had ever taken even a few minutes to sit down with women who work in our industry and asked them if anything like this has ever happened to them you would learn it is extremely common.

This type of argument is extremely dangerous. Not only isn't it true for many (I've done this), it's conflating claims with evidence.

If one is being honest, it's clear that the vast majority of news outlets that routinely cover activities in the tech industry are ideologically left-leaning and progressive towards ideas like those in feminism. It's regularly claimed that sexism in the tech industry is a major issue as fact, including in the linked article:

> Ms. Fowler’s account is another sign of Silicon Valley’s struggle with women’s issues and diversity in a male-dominated engineering environment.

This is a factual claim, and no evidence is ever given for claims like these from left-leaning media.

Now, given that we have an established media that leans this way, and has a long history of sensationalizing the hell out of anything that they find validates their position, why is it then that stories like these are so infrequent? Why must we suspend disbelief and not require evidence a few times a year when these stories get published and talked about? And further, why then must we conclude that because we get a few sensationalized cases per year that this is a pervasive issue which many women face, as you claim?

Given the context that these same outlets routinely print other stories that overhype exaggerated or outright false claims in this same vein (earnings mismatch, college "rape" statistics, etc), why is this suddenly the issue where second guessing what's printed is not okay? Surely merely believing what anyone tells you uncritically is dangerous.

I'll gladly wait until actual evidence is presented, or a group that is actually informed by the facts of the case (and not overly sensationalized clickbait articles) makes a decision regarding the merits. That's for the judge and any jury to decide, and the rest of us can opine when actual evidence is provided. A blog post truly is insufficient.
Bread and Circuses
I missed the part where the author reveals he is a billionaire.
Neal Stephenson put it something like: "The world had finally settled on an average comfort of living approximately equivalent to an Indian goat-farmer," in his book "Snow Crash."

I guess a country would want to prevent that from happening, but on the other hand, wouldn't the human race strive to increase productivity and reduce scarcity to the point where the average lifestyle was a bit higher than an Indian goat-farmer? Because right now the average is I expect more along the lines of an untouchable.
It's entirely possible to enjoy some drinks without having drug or alcohol related offenses on your record, though.
There is no real timeline for me to do it, it mostly depends if I feel bloated or not. So for example I hadn't done one in about 3 months, but I rather coincidently started one yesterday...
It's always a mix of thinking I could 'use' one, and having nothing in the calendar that might interfere (social eating and stuff) AND having nothing spectacular in the fridge needing eating.

So, I'd say I'd do one every two months. I don't /workout/ these days, not as a workout might be seen anyway, I do some weights and so on, but more for tone than 'work'. And I don't do heavy cardio or anything like that. I do a lot of walking, and yeah -- shooting is surprisingly exerting: Lifting/shifting a ~4Kg gun around about 200 times with enough speed and precision is a bit of a workout! On a 'training day' I'll do that more like ~450 times. Thats a few repetitions :-)

I /used/ to workout a lot, and for a little while I did fast AND workout, but ultimately the workout seemed a little bit pointless, especially if you work out for controlling weight. It's a LOT harder to burn energy than to take it in, so my conclusion was to fast, instead.

The workout regime over the years has lead to quite a few injuries as well, and as I get older, I'm now paying for that. I'm built more like a rugbyman than a ballet dancer, so all the years of squash, running, weighted abs and so on leads to weak kneejoints, hips starting to play up a bit etc.
German supermarket chain draws attention for extreme weight loss commercial
I don't think that's true with the massive switch to cord cutting - cable TV revenues are collapsing.

Was FiOS much cheaper/better than Comcast (apart from the underlying tech)?
> Secondly, are you only talking about the US because you're American?

yep.
JIRA and a very close second is Confluence.
This guy explains how to add that to a Rails application https://gist.github.com/will/05cb64dc343296dec4d58b1abbab7aa...
Exactly, they can still make requests to your back end by hijacking your session with your cookie; even if you use the httpOnly flag.

The only advantage of the cookie (with httpOnly) in this scenario is that the malicious code can't access your session ID and use it for later (but they can still hijack the session in-place without knowing what your session id is)...

Since sessions expire anyway, there is a sense of urgency; because of this, an effective XSS attack would typically be carried out in-place on the page (while the session is active). So in practice, there is very little added security value in the cookie approach.

In my opinion, XSS mitigation is the last barrier of defence.
> If you look at it strictly from a game theoretic viewpoint, there's definitely value in having a contracted cost of separation.

...explicitly for the woman.
Lots of military handbooks out there available to the public...612 records to be exact: do a Document ID search for MIL-HDBK using DLA's dot-mil-official search tool[1]. Roughly half are still active.

[1] http://quicksearch.dla.mil/
Challenges for Brain Emulation: Why Is It So Difficult? [pdf]
>The principle of sexual inequality (and male superiority) appears to be a relatively recent phenomenon

Recent? Even gorilla have males bigger (and thus leading the pack) than females and so far prehistoric humans are known to have been that way too.

It is exactly the rise of civilization(agriculture, technology, complex social structure, etc) which allowed for situations with female leadership.
That's fantastic. How can such a sentence be so dated, yet SO RELEVANT at the same time.
Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks with High Stakes
Intellectual Disability Copy Number Variants Associated with Schizophrenia [pdf]
> "Everything happens for a reason."

I don't know why people believe this; like there is some grand universal plan. This way of thinking also unnecessarily brings emotion into the events of life which does nothing other than complicate the situation since one may question the universal 'reason' why some event like a business closure happens. Things happen because they happen and it's best to view these events logically so that one can learn from them rather than try to figure-out some metaphysical 'reason'.
iOS mail app. New threading is just... confusing.
Use of behavioral data in fintech
Yea I saw that was recently updated. I'm excited to see tooling be updated for Mercurial. I was hoping the recent updates and re-release as open source of RhodeCode would spur some updates from the Kallithea project.
On the general subject of the Arctic, I would recommend the book Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez.
I've been wondering lately if it's possible to have an Uber-style fiber service where people sign up to serve as nodes and then users pay a nearby node to connect. This would skirt what seems to be the major roadblock to installing fiber -- city regulations -- by having too many people running improvised fiber lines to enforce the rules. Is this just not possible?
I don't channel Reddit very often but... username checks out.
Sure, there would be some migration towards the high-end, but at some point you either hire experienced people, or your reputation will suffer and you'll no longer be high-end. This migration leads to hooters, not to a place with sommeliers.
I would like to see the WPA redone - we have a lot of infrastructure to work on - the American Civil Engineering Society gives the US a D+ grade on our infrastructure (http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/). Since it's a public benefit, having people in public service to do that would be pretty grand.
I don't know why they reverted to the 4 same-sized buttons on the Wii classic pro controller and the WiiU controllers.
If I had to guess, I'd say that on the Wii, the wiimote + nunchuck were the primary focus and the 'pro' controllers were an afterthought. You could use the legendary gamecube (GCN) controller for some games anyway.

In this super-long (and interesting) article about the GCN, under the heading "The Pressures To Create The Perfect Controller", there's a write-up of the design and decision process for the creation of the controller.

https://dromble.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/dolphin-tale-story-...
"Self service" checkouts at grocery stores. I get the idea that the bagging area is also a scale, and that's supposed to keep customers honest. But it leads to so many darn problems, the devices aren't really "self service". And moreover, every time it malfunctions you're reminded by the store that we don't trust you which seems like a terrible way to treat good customers.

Still, I don't know if it's fair to pick on a technology that's so new. In a way, they're still learning, and they're following the advice that many in the design thinking movement would give: make a prototype, even if it's not perfect, and try it out with real customers.
MS Team Foundation Server (SVC)
I said struggle. I meant that to mean a challenge that can be overcome.
And if it isn't?
Counterexample: the lack of regulations around pharmaceutical prices in the US leads to illegal imports of identical pharmaceuticals from Canada.
Obviously it varies, but in my experience it's "Here's a list of lawyers we have vetted and consider to be qualified in matters relating to employment". Sometimes it's "We'll also pay for an hour of their time for an initial consultation".
That assumes a lot about making-sure-you-have-a-paper-trail skills and how effectively management dodges that. Suppose you're a forward-thinking manager in a quickly growing company - do you promote the HR person who asks for a paper trail, or the one that is okay with getting told to do sketchy stuff in a deniable way?
I second Chocolatey. There's also a (supported by Choco) puppet plugin which makes client installations as simple as

package { 'notepadplusplus':
ensure => '6.7.5',
provider => 'chocolatey',
}

I've used it on a few client machines with no issues.
One of my Twitter accounts is a Friends Only twitter account that has only been used via twitter + bitlbee connected to the internet via a tor proxy, plus IRC client

https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoTwitter

https://github.com/nillab/dotfiles/blob/master/bitlbee.conf#...

https://irssi.org/

It's always worked, I've never been prompted for verification. I'm not sure how twitter would prompt me for verification!
I think the difference is that somebody with a true eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa will still see themselves as overweight regardless of how much weight they lose. To the point they look like someone who just walked out of a prison/war camp and they still see fat in the mirror where it just doesn't exist.

The parent comment sounds as though he his happy with his lifestyle and weight. What really defines it being a disorder is that the person is never happy and always feels they need to lose more regardless of what anyone around them says.

I agree with your sentiment that people should enter such fasting regimes with immense caution (it could be a slippery slope for some), but I also agree with the parent that he is probably not suffering such a disorder.
Caltrain Petition to restore electrification funds
> - The Uber app (I think that amid the weird culture at least one person there really understands mobile UX)

Really? I'm not a fan of the Uber app at all, particularly with the latest redesign. It is insanely annoying that they no longer show you the wait time until you've put in your destination address. Their suggested destinations are almost always terrible (even though I'm a very predictable user -- there are like 3 destinations I go to on a regular basis, but instead of those, Uber will suggest places I haven't been to in ages), not to mention that you have to close the keyboard to see half of them. There's also a lot of confusing icons without accompanying text, and just a lot of occasional wonkiness and unexpected behavior.

The Lyft app isn't as "pretty" as Uber, but it has everything I want to know where I expect it, makes good suggestions, and just works -- I much prefer it.
I think you're correct, barring significant nonlinearity in the bayer mask or object. Technically you can get 9 linearly independent points - each combination of light channels on with each combination of bayer mask channels. Ideally only 3 of those will be nonzero, but if the bayer mask is imperfect you'll see some illumination on adjacent channels. Environmental background is subtracted out from all since it's unknown, so that doesn't give another point.

There's also no way you're measuring pesticide residue with that - I doubt that would even be possible with a high-end visible hyperspectral camera. Maybe with a raman spectrometer.

I've designed a couple versions of cell phone camera-based spectrometers and spectral imagers, so I'm relatively familiar with the design principles.
Kiln from Fogcreek. Slow on a good day, it just mysteriously stopped noticing my commits in my activity stream some four years ago, you can't have reviews spanning multiple repos, they've blown off pull-requests as a feature for years.

At least we managed to transition from FogBugz.
My understanding is not much as an enlistee (unless you put in 20+ years and bust your ass on your own time), but you will be a nuclear engineer at the end of training if you are an officer.
But I do think a fair number of nuclear engineers and operators are veterans. The training is too expensive for most organizations to train individuals, and the ones that can train you don't have the resources that the navy has for training. Serve 6 years making shit pay, get your training, transition the civilian world making 6 figures.

I had a math professor that spent 20 years as a navy nuclear operator (enlisted). At the end of his career he had 2 masters from MIT, one in Math and one in Nuclear Engineering. My understanding is that is fairly common for the best and brightest in the program.
I would rate them the other way around, barely...
“Unknown, no-name startup” seems a bit unfair. It looks like Cushion has a solid product & paying customers.
I think I've presented some reasonable evidence elsewhere - you said so yourself.

It's possible to believe that US policy on Russia (Esp regarding NATO expansion) is unnecessarily aggressive, that US Intel agencies aren't especially competent, that the CIA was completely wrong on Iraq and yet still believe in Russian interference in the US election.

The thing that convinced me was seeing the campaign on social media. Its pretty easy to find clear pro-Russian bot nets on Twitter that used to be super interested in Turkey and then suddenly became pro-Trump.

The same thing is happening for the French and German elections. Have a look yourself.
Not right now but had the "pleasure" of using and administering it ... "HP Service Center".
Fruit juice is a ton of sugar, it's the same as eating.
ex Navy Submariner here. I know quite a few folks that got out (in the 2005-2010 range) and took jobs in the nuclear field. Some had degrees, some didn't.

The Navy uses Pressurized Water reactors which seem to be a fairly common design in commercial use as well (according to Wikipedia, anyway). Which means a lot of how things work would be similar, and you'd just have to learn the specific systems for how that plant operated (i.e. the designs and how the cooling, electronics, power generation, etc. worked)

I would imagine there would be a lot of overall similarities in core principles and operations, but some specific systems would work differently being on land and likely generating a lot more power + having other requirements for discharges and cooling etc, vs. a seagoing vessel.