skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will preface this comment by saying that I think this may be a true allegation just as much be a false allegation; I, like any other Internet commenter, do not know enough to be able to judge.

What I do want to say, however, is that in the United States there is, in fact, currently a culture that not only favors women making accusations of sexism and harassment, but also one that makes it taboo to express the normal standard of "innocent until proven guilty" in cases when the accuser is a woman.

To be clear, I am not saying that this accusation must be necessarily false or with some sort of ulterior motive. As far as I can tell, there are more than a few places in the US where this sort of thing not only exists but is considered normal, and that is a legitimate issue that needs correction ASAP.

But we still have the concept of "innocent until proven guilty", and we do have the effect I mentioned above in cases where the accuser is female. In this case, we have a blog post and nothing more, and so I think it is not only premature but also morally and ethically wrong to bring the pitchforks out immediately.
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That's incredibly sexist.
I don't know if its possible to contradict a... lack of sympathy or empathy. Its like the comment just fails to recognize how humans... feel... about being approached by their direct superior who controls their performance reviews and work tasks on the first day of work.

If only there was some feedback mechanism to let this socially-clueless person know they'd stepped over the line most people feel is relatively sacrosanct. ohwait
TeX by Topic was a much clearer resource to me than the TeXBook although one eventually has to go back and read that. TeX seems like a reasonable approximation of it, but it's definitely slanted towards text-heavy and mathematical stuff, which is pretty far from what something like InDesign is mostly about. I'm just an appreciator, not an implementer, but this is my overview of typesetting text:

First, you have to build words from letters; this is where kerning comes into it.

Second, you have to build lines. TeX calls this "horizontal mode" and this is where inter-word spacing and justification matter. TeX uses a "boxes-and-glue" model, so during line building it's essentially putting stretchable glue between each word, and then when the line is built, it spreads the space evenly between all the pieces of glue to achieve justification. Glue has a natural size as well as minimum and maximum values; this along with hyphenation has to do with calculating the line "badness."

Third, you have to build paragraphs. This is what TeX calls "vertical mode." Between each line of text, it inserts vertical glue that works similarly to the horizontal glue mentioned above. Another glue is used between paragraphs. TeX worries about widow and orphan lines here; other calculations are made to prevent or allow them. This is like badness but I think it has another name.

Finally, you have to build pages. With TeX, this happens periodically as it notices it has enough material (or you force it by calling the right kind of eject). By default, this invokes a page building macro which you can customize. This part of TeX feels pretty 1970s and hackish, but essentially, there is a variable that contains a box with the supposed contents of the page, your job is to assign a box to a certain location and remove some of the contents of the input box. LaTeX's "float" mechanism is actually built on top of this mechanism, but as it's pretty procedural, you can certainly achieve other effects here.

So that's the birds-eye-view I acquired a few years ago when I did some in depth playing with TeX. First you build words, then lines, then paragraphs, then pages. There are different considerations at each stage of that but TeX attempts to subsume everything in that overall flow.

I think that process probably generalizes nicely for some things and is almost inadequate for others. I'm not sure how ConTeXt achieves the grid layout; I imagine they are relying on some complicated Lua code to pull it off, because TeX really doesn't care unless you make it.
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If nobody has time to rewrite old C++ code then it's not going to be rewritten in rust
Because, in several years at a highly-regarded physics program, I've met very few people who understood QFT after their first (or second...) brushes with it.

She may not have been "a physics person" for a long time, but she certainly became one!
Monotony could kill your team.  why you need to shake it up
Do you believe that the administration is doing so much worse of a job than the previous ones? I suspect it has more to do with 20 years of backdoor deals suddenly meaning diddly because they couldn't predict the outcome this time.

20 years of predictable status-quo presidency will set up some deep ties, which should be obviously unhealthy for a nation that believes they elected a leader and not a rent-a-puppy. Having agencies which are actively sabotaging the majority elected party is obviously antidemocratic. The agencies ultimately carry out the work of the government, so if elected representatives don't hold authority over the agencies, you get an autocracy.
(Not a dev, but these are things I get positive feedback on from my team.)

Ask a lot of questions. If you don't understand something, don't just pass the buck on to the next person who opens the GitHub / JIRA ticket. Do all you can to make sure it's clear and documented. A general rule, the ticket needs to have enough information for a new hire to grab it and work on it independent of any other information -- you never know when a new person on the team will have to look at the issue. You want to make sure you are very kind to your future self so that 6 months from now when you've long forgotten what the original intent was, you can go back and read things that make sense.

Create clear, consistent requirements. Your template for new features / changes should include things like a user story (with personas the team agrees upon), annotated wireframes and / or visual designs, acceptance criteria, steps to reproduce / test, and any dependencies or special needs that have to be taken into consideration. If it's a bug, make sure you are explicit with what the expected resolution is. "A stitch in time saves nine." The more of this stuff you can think through, the more control you'll have on the finished product, and the smoother your team will be with their estimates. Do your best not to skip over the imperfect path stuff... Always have a list of what a form requires, and what every possible error trigger is, what the error message should be. Make sure you include things like if something has to be tested with a specific change in the database, or after a change has been made to a third-party tool. Do what you can to keep everyone using a shared and agreed upon vocabulary.

Aggressively go after scope creep. If someone wants to change or add something mid-sprint... make sure it's a trade-off so the production team doesn't get stuck carrying more than they signed up for when you asked them to estimate the work. Set deadlines for the people upstream in order to set deadlines for the people downstream... (I realize this bleeds more into project management... but often process does play a significant role in the outcome.)
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Man, those two things plus my pressure cooker are like my kitchen holy trinity (except for when I'm making cajun food).
I loved my Mini Cooper: it was surprisingly versatile, had arguably beautiful estetics (me and my wife felt cool while sitting in it at least), was fun to drive in the small alpine roads, etc For us: 2 (at the time) DINKs living in the middle of Europe, it was a thing of beauty. I bought one with 0 fancy gadgets and I loved that about it. By far the best purchase (albeit expensive) I've made.
Some tools I really like to help everyone create better bug reports:

* Marker - Visual Feedback & Bug Reporting Tools for Web Professionals || https://getmarker.io/ (for GitHub)

* Capture for JIRA | Atlassian || https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/capture
In much the same way that Mozilla benefited from open sourcing Netscape's source. If they open source the code, then someone could work towards fixing the problems in this letter, for instance.
Also a slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer and yogurt maker. Works so, so well.
> Doctors, ... might all be overpaid relative to other professions, and yet they... have professional organizations, even unions, representing them

Doctors do not have professional organizations or unions representing them.

The AMA is frequently mis-cited by people not familiar with the industry as a union, but it's not one at all. Only 25% of doctors are members of the AMA (most of them only because they require licenses to CPT codes, which the AMA has a monopoly over) and the AMA does not advocate for physicians' interests.

In no meaningful sense does the AMA "represent" doctors at large.
As I understand it, this is partially the plan. Historically it has just been waiting for a compiler refactor to MIR (which is now complete). I'm not sure why more optimization RFCs haven't been created and prioritized.
> I wonder how much impact this will have.

What were the consequences when Uber management was caught behaving badly in the past?

In November 2014, Uber’s senior vice president Emil Michael suggested Uber hire a team of opposition researchers—equipped with a million-dollar budget—to dig into the personal lives of journalists who reported negatively about the company in order to dox, target and harass them and their families. One of his main targets was Pando founder and editor-in-chief Sarah Lacey, who had reported on the company’s sexist and misogynistic ways. Further proving her point, Mr. Michael said he thought Ms. Lacy should be held “personally responsible” if passengers who head Ms. Lacey’s advice and stop using Uber are sexually assaults by taxi drivers. Mr. Kalanick apologized on behalf of the company, but Mr. Michael didn’t lose his position.

Well, there's your answer.
Frequentist and Bayesian statistics are different tools that answer different questions. Arguing whether one is better than the other is like arguing whether one should drink water or eat bread.

I also think that a lot of the criticism against Frequentist inference comes from people who have experienced trouble applying a clean Frequentist solution in a more complex case and thus switched to Bayesian statistics as a replacement that is easier to handle.
>She just wrote down what happened to her

What she _said_ happened to her. Nobody has corroborated and she has presented no evidence. It may well have happened, and would be rightfully a scandal about deplorable behavior if it did - but there is nothing so far besides just this one person's blog post which she herself says multiple others _can_ corroborate.
The Casio F-91W Digital wrist watch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W

Keeps better time than a Rolex, and is a fraction of the price. Waterproof. Has an alarm, stopwatch, and timer; all things missing from traditional wind ups. Interface is easy to use and discover. The battery last almost forever.

Now, if you're asking if it's aesthetically pleasing, that's a different story. But we were talking about design, right?

EDIT: Wikipedia says they're only splash proof; I used to swim with mine but there you go. And I'm making up the timer function, that must have been on later models only.
They are definitely not limited to Uber, but I'd also surmise that they're just as prevalent (if not more so) outside of tech/startups in the Bay Area.
Since you just graduated, you should list your GPA.
This paper appears to be from 1998 [0]. No judgment on its quality; I'm just trying to provide a reference for other readers of the post.

[0]: A.C.C. Coolen, in ‘Concepts for Neural Networks - A Survey’ (Springer 1998; eds. L.J. Landau and J.G. Taylor), 13-70
‘A Beginner’s Guide to the Mathematics of Neural Networks’
I bought a pair of wireless Logitech trackballs for home and work. Both died at about the same time, and when the warranty replacements died (for a total of 4) I switched to Clear Superior Technology.
Let's hope this release doesn't contain "buggy crap" :)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/05/linus_torvalds_admit...
The main reason for the many electric cars are the tax incentives. It would certainly been a lot fewer Teslas and more Nissan Leafs or similar cars if it had not been for the oil. The tax incentive came when the Think City line of cars was produced in Norway (starting in the late 90s) and was introduced to establish a market for electric cars. Since very few electric cars was sold, this was not very expensive, and few took electric cars seriously at the time.

Nobody had anticipated Tesla and similar cars, but now a lot of people had electric cars, and then it was politically difficult to remove the tax incentives.
Was going to say the same here ;)
> The preliminary report states it was first found during week 2 of January 2017 in northern Norway.

http://www.irsn.fr/EN/newsroom/News/Pages/20170213_Detection...
A little spelunking may help:

$ lsof -d 0,1,2 -a -p $$

That will show you what files correspond to what file descriptors for your current shell process. You can then experiment with redirects. To see how a pipe works we can do something similar:

$ sleep 1 | lsof -d 0,1,2 -a -p $(sh -c 'echo $PPID')

Anyway, thinking of `>` and `<` as just FD setters made things a lot clearer for me personally. They just set the file descriptor on the left to file on the right and `&n` can be used to "dereference" a FD to its corresponding file. The only real difference between `>` and `<` is that the former opens the file with write permission while the latter opens it with read. Well, and the default FDs are different.

Incidentally, this makes it clear why the following doesn't work as expected:

$ curl 'https://kernel.org/' >/dev/null 2>&1 | tee curl.errs

Since FDs get set in the order they are specified, 1 gets set to /dev/null and then 2 gets set to whatever 1 is, i.e /dev/null. So it's clear that we probably intended the following:

$ curl 'https://kernel.org/' 2>&1 >/dev/null | tee curl.errs

Which lets us ignore stdin and maybe pipe stdout to some other command.

Now I hope Linus doesn't hate on me for abusing kernel.org :P
> I have a hard time believing HR really behaved the way they are portrayed in that article.

It's easily believable. I've seen worse. The author has a lot to lose by putting something like that out there.

> only last in jobs for a median of 6 months

Why would this be suspicious?
I've got a great book about the Boeing 747, it talks about how the design department went out and found out what the physics said, took that back to what was practical and designed "the best" compromise available at the time - but fundamentally based on physics. And thanks to them, 50 years later airport runway lengths and air traffic control approach speeds and 37,000 foot cruise altitudes and a whole bunch of other standards and infrastructure - is the way it is due to the speed of sound (and the lack of early/mid '60s aerodynamics ability to know how to exceed it), the temperature/airdensity efficiency curves of jet engines, and the 60's vintage structural limitations of wingspans.
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If you have this tight finance why not go with opencad or freecad?

because it is not about the finance.

I am still using it some 35 years later, because, once you learn one CAD system and create 1000's of library parts, why switch?
Sure, whatever, because of one mid-level manager being a perv?
It takes time to understand a new topic, and sometimes more than one try. However, that is the expected difficulty level for someone with an undergraduate degree in a related field. Going from middle school algebra to QFT in 1.5 years is technically possible, I suppose, but it sounds like a big load of bullshit to me.
Sitting on one now. What makes you enjoy its design? I have bought the remastered one a week ago and find myself difficult to fit into it properly (the sizing is right). I feel like the lower back support requires you to fit very rigidly in and one of the reasons I got it was it was advertised in one of promo videos as the chair that moves with the body. I am quite average height and a bit below average on weight but wondering what prevents me from really loving it. It's one of the most beautifully built, though that's for sure.
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huyg...

"Indicating a surface containing distinct locations iron-bearing minerals, bound water, trapped carbon dioxide, silicates, organics, nitriles and cyanide compounds. Phoebe is one of the most compositionally diverse objects yet observed in our Solar System. The only body imaged to date that is more diverse is Earth!"

So... there's a chance!
Best not to refer to professional women as "girl," especially in the context of harassment.
It's really not though. The problem only exists because our society has an unhealthy attitude about sex. If we all had a perfectly healthy attitude about sex, the mere admission of the fact that someone feels sexually attracted to someone else would be a nonissue. But the world isn't ideal, and there's a whole host of misogyny, fear, taboos, antiquated traditions, and stupid people. So we have a problem.

Your boss stating that he wants to have sex with you is stupid, unethical, and unprofessional. It's not clear that it's sexual harassment, unless he was told to stop yet continued anyway.
Walther PPQ M2 9mm. We're in the midst of a small arms golden age right now and this pistol is the closest to a local optimum as currently exists.

You asked.
Hopefully he can turn the story around fast enough to get in while public attention is focused here.
I guess that might change in a couple of years if Typescript is still around and WebAssembly is widely available.
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1. Nokia N9, it was the perfect device, hardware was perfectly fitted to the software and vice versa.

2. DasKeyboard Model S Ultimate.
You let the WhoIsGuard lapse, you explicitely write so. It's your responsibility to ensure that your contact information stays updated in this case. I really don't see the problem. ICAAN does many things wrong, but this was not one of them.
Acme, the text editor from Plan 9 has this. Piping, inputing and outputing from commands are some of the most basic operations there.

Check out:

- http://acme.cat-v.org/

- Russ Cox' tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
That 30 seconds thing is horse shit. Never encountered that with any of the 4-5 dysons I've used
Difficult to respond because it's unclear what you're looking for or what excites you. What types of problems? What types of people?

It sounds like you don't have a clear answer to that. If so, your #1 problem is to find out. Talk to lots of people and figure that out. Maybe respond to Hacker News Who's Hiring posts, if only to start conversations and hear what's going on.

This came out recently, I'd take a read: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/18/Geek-Care...
Thank you for the context. I have to admit that this thought did cross my mind. I wish Uber would be forced to pay dearly for their treatment of Ms. Fowler, but I don't want Ms. Fowler to be the one that has to sweat to make that happen.
Yes, I understand that. The issue is that not all disagreements are about what you call "matters of opinion" (and thus faultless [1]). (And even when they are, one can give an approximate answer that filters out a bunch of alternative opinions on the matter: for example, it seems like a waiter in NYC should not be paid less than a certain a amount, let's say, the average it takes for someone in NYC in the person's social strata to pay rent and be able to eat and go to work each day). The issue really comes up when one takes all disagreements to take this form, which is, I think, what this thread was initially about (then the GGP asked why we should care about the facts at all).

[1]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4545405
>I think what the parent is implying is that it would be career suicide for anyone to make such serious accusations unless they have considerable evidence to back them up.

I dunno, remember Ellen Pao? Sued Kleiner Perkins for sex discrimination several times, lost over and over, but still managed to land in a position as "an investment partner at Kapor Capital,[2] the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the Kapor Center for Social Impact,[3] and co-founder of the diversity consulting non-profit organization Project Include". And that's after getting sacked from reddit, too.

The nature of the "women in tech" scene is such that you can make a niche for yourself by complaining even if your complaints are later shown to be bullshit.
Unfortunately more often that not HR, in my limited experience, does not have these responsibilities delegated to them.

This case sounds like either completely inexperienced and untrained HRBPs OR they're being overinfluenced/overrun by management. Possibly both.
It is hard to know if the leaks are honest attempts to reveal bad governance practices, or if they are politically selected to achieve partisan motives.
It looks very old, try something that uses deep learning, like this:

https://github.com/rouseguy/DeepLearningNLP_Py
> The AMA for example, does not engage in collective bargaining with the management of a hospital and has no legal right to compel such a thing under the NLRA. The AMA does however lobby politicians and puts its people on medical boards to limit the supply of doctors.

This is a common misconception.

The AMA does not limit the supply of doctors. The AAMC (used to) limit the supply of doctors, but (a) they have been trying for the last 10+ years to increase that, and (b) the actual number of practicing physicians is bottlenecked by funding for residency positions, which is funded by Medicare, not the AMA or AAMC. The AMA has actually lobbied to increase funding for GME, which would increase the supply of practicing physicians.

The AMA does not represent doctors in any meaningful sense - only 25% of physicians belong to the AMA, and only because membership is required for licensing the CPT codes that those doctors need for billing. The AMA does not consistently advocate for physicians' best interests, and in the last couple of decades, it has actually consistently sided against physicians' best interests.
I compeletely agree, but in this case the OP did not stay on top of the contact information, and it cost him a lot of issues and lost work. ICAAN does many things wrong, but this was not one of them. Keep the contact information updated, it is not that hard.
It's not only a MIR issue, it's also an issue of how many optimizations should be allowed when you also need to be able to make some assumptions about your data in unsafe blocks. For example if you simply added the obvious attributes everywhere, interior mutability (Cell, RefCell, UnsafeCell) would most certainly break. The exact rules around unsafe rules are still being discussed (see https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rust-memory-model), so until that is done some of these optimizations are very unlikely to be implemented because they can make a lot of unsafe code illegal.
Do you run your email server on $5 VPS? That's.. brave. What do you use?
What a great idea, thanks for sharing!

BTW, why using shell scripts to write migrations is so unpopular? We have lots of language/framework specific solutions or some «language agnostic» tools using plain SQL, both ways are rather limiting.
"I turned the face manipulation code into a runnable binary, which I intended to wrap with a Slack bot."

So you turned your Python program into a single, statically linked executable? May I ask how you did that?
Thanks. This is nice!