skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nokia 1100 - World's best selling mobile phone
Berate whoever was wrong mercilessly, of course
I'm confused why they didn't even try to export any of the 1000s of parts to a neutral format to try anything else in the 35 years since...
It's part of the advertising industry who's clients include the media industry.
It is my opinion that no one should accept an automated DMCA notice. Without human review, how can one attest to anything, especially since it is possible that fair use might apply.
Sorry, their job is to protect the management.
The use bing
> Do SW devs just not realize how much power and choice they have? Or do people really just choose to work for unethical businesses because they expect a good paycheck?

I used to work for a company that mistreated me (no, they didn't pay me well either). Getting out felt like getting out of an abusive relationship, and I stayed as long as I did for the same reasons people stay in abusive relationships: I thought I was worthless and that no other company would hire me.

Before that company, I had been unemployed for two years thanks to the combination of the financial crisis and my own lack of experience. When I interviewed with them, I was ready to end it if I didn't get an offer because my extended unemployment had just run out. Thankfully, I got the offer, and I wound up working there for 2.75 years before I got out.

I believed that I had to stick with them because they gave me an offer when I was broke, desperate, and suicidal. As the problems kept piling up and piling up, I stayed because I was too afraid to put myself out there because I felt like I was a worthless person and deserved a company that would treat me like the worthless person I am.

Eventually, things got so bad that I applied to several companies at once in a fit of rage, and one of them got back to me with a coding test, then a phone interview, then an in-person interview, and finally an offer, at which point I had the pleasure of putting my notice on my boss's desk.

It's been over two years since I got out, and I'm glad for it. The company I jumped ship to ended up not working out in the long run -- a little over a year in, I got caught up in a layoff that took out 1/3 of the company -- but I eventually landed at my current job, which is by far and above the best company I've worked for, and I'm really glad I'm here and not still stuck at that abusive place.
We are an equal opportunity employer, we hide behind the market and external factors to discriminate salaries.
Is it perjury if you were never sworn to not perjure yourself?
I've worked with a lot of small business people and the HN group just doesn't culturally get what the guy is saying...

Say you're not going for billion dollar unicorn or broke, but for a life long small business. You always have non-main line of business systems that are technically obsolete but it doesn't matter to 99.9% of day to day operations because it works and when it doesn't work its only 0.1% of the time you spend anyway. To replace it when it completely breaks, its fully depreciated so to speak, you could pay $5K today or $5K next year, you certainly have $5K, but how exactly do you benefit by throwing down the cash today? I guess you get the tax deduction today rather than in 5 years but who cares? There's no way 0.1% of your day to day operation can have a significant bottom line effect no matter how much the new technology improves things in its little 0.1% corner of operations.

Even worse, when you forklift upgrade its going to be a hit to your productivity for "awhile" and you're busy today so you simply can't afford it. But sometime in the next five years there is certain to be a recession and then you already have the money and then you'll have the spare time to convert. Just not today. Its only 0.1% of your business and you don't want to turn away paying customers today to min/max that last 0.1% today. Play games with new toys when there's 10% unemployment and you have nothing to do for a week. In fact during that future recession you'll get newer technology than today plus it'll probably be cheaper if they're hurting for customers.

When its technology, 100% tech people are blinded by technophillia, but if it was an obscure metalworking tool that only gets used once a year for a few minutes, even tech people understand that when you're a busy one man shop, once that tool is completely depreciated and obsolete, waiting for it to break is the wisest possible choice.
Crisis PR 101. Announce an investigation, "discipline" a few anonymous people or fire the most egregious offender, announce a new code of conduct, and then hope the furor blows over in a week or two.

But nothing will really change if this is part of the ingrained culture at Uber. Fish rots from the head, as someone noted in yesterday's thread.
Not even just system programming. It's a fundamental data structure and concept. I don't think it's unreasonable for a company to say: we expect this role to understand what goes on behind this abstraction.
Just run one after the other.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Im addicted to soda!!! When I fast I only drink water.
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Imagine if China force google from showing any sites that mention "Tiananmen Square", because that is the law in China.
And now no one in the world would have a way to find it in google, because one country didn't want it to be found.

Is that censorship to you?
Plug-and-play module to start accepting Bitcoins (Node.js)
WireShark and OllyDbg are the usual starting places for me, both have tutorials around for them. OllyDbg in particular has guides around for by passing serial numbers, etc.
I've learned in the past few years that, if the interviewers gripe about anything in the interview (especially management), it's best to stay away from that company. In an interview, the company is trying to put it's best face on to sell themselves to you, and if the employees can't hold it in for 30 minutes, that's a bad sign.
Let's face it, that's not a problem with the watch per se :)
The p-value is defined as p=P(evidence seen | null hypothesis). The standard deviation is only relevant if it is required to compute that number. You can run NHST on distributions without a p-value, e.g. a Cauchy distribution.

You might need a standard deviation if you want to do some naive Z-test based on the CLT approximation (since the normal distribution requires a standard deviation), but that's not what XKCD was describing. XKCD was describing an exact test using the true distribution.
No. It's called Fraud instead.
Butterfly keyboard demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLj3aCfqzOM
Nexus 5. Marvelous beauty of a phone. Red panda is especially beautiful. Screen size was just about right at the time, the way the screen blent into the bezels was amazing, the ergonomics were awesome.
I wouldn't worry for them. As the op says, cutting corners is integral to the culture of SV.
Also, at the start of the week's news cycle... I don't know if she has any malice, but if one wants to metaphorically burn a company down, it's good timing. Also it's President's Day, so Dolan Trump will probably be want his day off instead of making headlines.
I'm sorry math has brought you frustration and shame. I agree that it seems much easier for some people than others, though there's so much room for improvement in how it's taught.

About the cry-for-help part: I recently started reading Visual Group Theory http://web.bentley.edu/empl/c/ncarter/vgt/ which looks to be gentle and illuminating. The style so far is quite different from a typical math textbook. Another book I've read more of was Turtle Geometry by Abelson and diSessa (the same Abelson who cowrote SICP). It can get difficult, but it's also very unusual: it's about exploring mathematical ideas for yourself by programming, and includes both hints and solutions to its suggested problems.
I'd be curious how similar the results of being in nutritional ketosis would be. I've been studies in the past looking at rigorous caloric restriction benefits that demonstrated that people in isocaloric nutritional ketosis got most of the benefits of the restriction group (while not having the misery long term caloric restriction).
Love the wobblies, and from what I understand they've organized one of the few existing tech workers unions, the IWW 560. Definitely very interested in organizing with them.
Maybe that's "chummy", maybe it's just overly optimistic.

It's obviously not the same world as Thiel, who overtly supported Trump since the primaries, gave the keynote at the RNC, and contributed a bunch of money to the campaign. Lumping the two together is disingenuous and absurd.
You could use Google Alerts, which will send you an email every time the author name appears in a news item.
The US government has been increasingly dysfunctional for several years now. I'd like to remind you that Congress has actually shut down the government's operations on more than one occasion, tried to blackmail the Executive with a government default, has passed a record low number of laws and refused to review Obama's appointment for the vacant SC position. Congress, for practical purposes, went on strike to attempt to ensure that Obama would not be able to accomplish most of his goals - in effect punishing the US people for political purposes.

This isn't getting any better with the change of POTUS - now the Democrats are determined to stalemate the new Executive in any way possible. This isn't healthy, this is destructive, and it's certainly not functional. It's disgraceful!

You're wondering whom I'm calling "borderline mentally challenged?" That would be Donald Trump, about whom many professional psychologists have voiced concerns of mental competency. He hasn't yet given the US public any indication that he's even as smart as George W. Bush or more knowledgeable of world politics than the average 5th grader.

The rest of the team is a mixed bag with regard to competence. Certainly Nancy DeVos has shown no indication of capability for her position, and the rest of the team has definitely been selected for ideological proximity to D. Trump rather than capability. Disturbingly, the EPA appointee is a declared enemy of the EPA, the energy guy is a global warming denier, and the national security guy is someone who has publicly announced his intention to overthrow the state. His pick for AG was previously disqualified for being an outspoken racist. Similar (dis)qualifications apply to numerous other of his picks.

I'd say, au contraire, that a considerable amount of delusion is required to believe that a team this poorly matched to their jobs will be effective improvers of the nation's status.
Each of us has the unfortunate case of being a population sample size of n=1. I think each of us, on some deep level , have met and recognized our own learning rates- and not only the linear rate, but derivative- and I agree with you that this rate of change is deeply linked to fluid intelligence
I didn't mean to imply that the company did something illegal. Supporting Trumps of this world isn't, and the CEO's response to harassment allegations was positive.

On the other hand, the legislative system is slow, and the application of law can be subjective. That's why we have civil disobedience and protests.
Some sort of pun involving telegraph and web is lurking out there.
They need that money to keep subsidizing my flat rate rides.
Disagree completely. Used to have a cheap rice cooker and it sucked. Getting the Zojirushi literally changed how we eat -- we used to rarely have rice, but the Zojirushi makes it so much easier to cook and impossible to mess up, so rice became a staple dinner feature.
My hobby involves free-form Internet text, which has similar normalisation problems. I found that for my purposes, character-level models where quite effective partly because they were easy to train on not much data and usually quite robust to minor misspellings[1]. I also developed a part-of-speech tagger[2] which might be useful to you, assuming your corpus has verb and noun tags available. If you've got some more questions, my email's in my profile.

[1] http://dracula.sentimentron.co.uk/sentiment-demo/

[2] https://github.com/Sentimentron/Dracula
Personally everyone knows what Uber (and her manager) ought to have done and ought not to have done, and if there were any confusion, the article covered it in depth. I don't know what would be gained by restating it. OTOH, it seems at worst harmless and at best beneficial to offer advice on how to maximize her case against Uber, or to help others who find themselves in similar circumstances (especially those who may not be surrounded by subject-matter experts).
I was once received a modified version of FizzBuzz (the word is replaced by company name) for my coding interview (via email). I told the HR person that I know the problem already, expected to have another more challenge problem. She asked do it anyway.

I gave them my solution, but, well, my interesting in that company has gone.
It sounds like it was settled before anything went to court, so it's unclear that anything would even come up in a Google search. And yet employers are still finding out somehow.
I used a polite version of "I'd google it" while interviewing with Google. I explained that I didn't think anyone could be reasonably expected to know how to do everything in every language on demand and that virtually every professional programmer I knew consulted Google from time to time.

Maybe I was just ahead of the times or they weren't looking for someone to be as honest as I was but I didn't make it past round 3 of their interviews.
But there's also nothing crazy about a company saying: for this role, we expect the candidate know linked lists. It's not esoteric and I think a lot of us would consider normal programmers who have had to write linked lists (and other data structures) for one reason or another.
All three agencies assessed with high confidence the attribution of the campaign to Russia. The medium confidence assertion was about whether Russia intended to actually get President Trump elected, of which evidence is not clear or strong.

Please read the actual report rather than the distilled version you got from your choice of media.

We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an
influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US
presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine
public faith in the US democratic process,
denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability
and potential presidency. We further assess
Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear
reference for President-elect Trump. We have high
confidence in these judgments.

- We also assess Putin and the Russian Government
aspired to help President-elect Trump’s
election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary
Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.
All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI
have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate
confidence.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
If you think that the current administration is "business as usual" just with different ideas I think it is you who are delusional, or you are not paying attention. The fact that we currently have senators trying to smooth over crumbling relations with foreign allies weeks into the administration should be evidence enough that this administration is something completely different.

The government is only functional at this point because of the "deep state" and the fact that bureaucrats are running most actual functions, even if their superiors have been replaced.

As for mentally challenged, there has been a lot of speculation that his erratic behavior is an indicator of mental illness, but I would agree we need to be careful about simply accepting these diagnoses just because of our personal biases but I think the reason there is so much speculation is because his behavior encourages it.
Well this individual did those first two things. I think damage has been done to the company already even if litigation wasn't involved. Sadly a lot of companies only get the message when they need pay damages. I get the impression that money doesn't seem to much of a concern for this company however.
Why, Kant has been explicit that such kind of knowledge must be there prior to the sensory conditioning of the mind (through which each baby goes), hundreds of years before modern machine learning algorithms, so he is an extraordinary thinker indeed.

He just attributed it to some metaphysical abstractions, perhaps due to being prejudiced by all the religious dogmatic nonsense, and the social consensus which refused to consider a man being mere a machine and everything in the universe as an unfolding of one single process.
OMG...too funny.
Why does it have to fizzle aboard the sub?

Whoops launched the nuclear torpedo instead of the training torpedo good thing the self destruct routine is an intentional near zero yield fizzle. My guess is the board and court martial would so classified we wouldn't hear about it for a century.
I guess I just don't see the harm. If EME standardization did not take place at W3C, I think it would take place at another standards organization, or privately between content distributors and browser developers. Either way, it still happens and nothing is materially different.
I haven't tried it yet, but Spacy has a guide[1] for adding a new languages to their python NLP framework. Maybe it can be of use to you.

[1] https://spacy.io/docs/usage/adding-languages
Any change you make to the schema will be a breaking change.
Really shows the size and capability of U.S.A.F. when they have a plane and team they can casually deploy to what appears to be a highly specific situation. The article says the aircraft is specifically designed to use atmospheric data to determine cause and nature of nuclear incidents. Imagining the manpower and testing and everything that goes into designing and implementing a system like this, and then multiplying it by all of the other teams and special aircraft and systems at their disposal, it really is impressive. All done over a period of 70 years.
There are a few things I've missed (multiple timezone support, bugs when waking up from lockscreen in some cases), so overall it's mostly 'keeping up' - mobile apps that don't co-evolve with the latest versions of the OS's will stop working at some point.
Came here for Instagram.
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They have allegedly repeatedly discriminated on the basis of sex, and caused a hostile work environment. Both are civil complaints, not criminal - this means that in order to pursue it, Susan J. Fowler would have to find a lawyer willing to take it, and likely pay that lawyer. And all she could get out of it would be money.

If she took it to court, here's what would happen: the company's lawyers would go through all her online communications, track down all her exes, and find anything at all to do with sex or relationships, with the intention of finding something to paint her as an untrustworthy slut. Court cases are public, and a court case against Uber would have significant media interest, so some significant amount of people would hear about this and believe them - to the point of harassing her online. Once the court case is over, she'd have significant trouble finding work, since she's proven herself willing to stand up against her employer.

Alternatively, she could move on with her life and write a blog post about it which'll be forgotten in a few months. Companies are willing to give a little more leeway when all that falls out of it is needing to write up some PR, and you don't get your irrelevant dirty laundry dragged up in public. I know which one I'd do.
Paper: http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/SOCS/SOCS12/paper/download...

Previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714774
Fortunately I don't need to think too much about what I am saying on this topic, because this has been an area that's been examined by lawyers, law makers, and researchers for at least 20 years. There is a growing mountain of evidence that can only be ignored by those who are uneducated or unaware of the topic (and no-one in tech other than recent graduates should be at this point). It's time for everyone in tech to stop ignoring the problem, and start publicly and privately calling out any and all bad actors on this even if it destroys the careers of a few "high performers" (even setting aside the fact that said high performers with bad behaviour often drag down the performance of the teams and organizations they are a part of, offsetting any of the gains). Since this is hacker news and not a blog post or paper, I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to find more evidence of that claim - why not start with this http://lmgtfy.com/?q=impact+of+bias+on+team+performance

These are just a short list of samples of articles that are based on surveys, studies, and legal opinions (and that's all I could find in literally the time it took me to pour my espresso this morning).

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1229336?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...

http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias...

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/men-and-women-biased-...

https://www.wired.com/2014/07/gender-gap/

https://theestablishment.co/new-study-finds-60-of-women-in-t...

https://mic.com/articles/132285/most-women-in-tech-say-they-...
I'm on the fence about Object Thinking. Most of OOP books I've read are very anecdotal without any empirical evidence to back up their claims. I've read a couple of research papers that used used (empirical evidence) to see if OOP was better than any of the competing other languages. The paper conclude's there isn't really any significant difference. The only difference they did find is higher languages where less code, but the complexity per line was higher than earlier languages.

One recent paper I read is called (The Confounding Effect of Class Size on the Validity of Object-Oriented Metrics) concluded when you've control for class size all OOM disappeared. In other word's, you can ignore most OOP Metrics and simply run a line count over a single file and it give you a better indication bugs/faults a class may have over running the OOP metrics.

I do think David West is a smart guy, but nothing from what I've seen in `Object Thinking` comes with any significant examples, sample group, or control study that measure his approach of Object Thinking.
I enjoy the Kuru Toga quite a bit! It's the pencil I'm more inclined to travel with because I wouldn't be quite so heartbroken if I lost or damaged it. And it performs so admirably!

Totally understand about the low-quality paper. I'll probably stick to roller-ball pens for the office and save fountain pen shenanigans for home where I can use some nicer paper stock.
When I was younger I used to be able to go a few days without food. I think my record was sunday after dinner to friday sometime.

Starting by skipping the local evening meal made it easy to skip breakfast and once I had skipped those the rest was easy.

I'd cheat a bit by drinking a glass of juice at breakfast and/or lunch but thinking back it might have been easier without.
This is the link to the full email: https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/20...

I was there when it happened. It's funny now, but it goes to show that "radical inclusivity" has its own costs. Put another way, including everyone actually means excluding some. This wasn't initially obvious, though, in retrospect, it should have been.

I'd like to thank the Geek Feminism movement for really evolving the discussion around that. We all had a lot of growing up to do.

Noisebridge has, in the past half-decade, learned from its mistakes and begun a more structured program of welcoming and introduction. Also, we lock the door at night now (that helps a lot).