skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, your statement could technically be true, but what are you suggesting?

I'm suggesting an analogy to the privilege afforded to communication with lawyers or priests. It is widely accepted that there is a value to people being able to seek advice without worrying that what you say is going to be used against you.

To take a concrete example, suppose the government is considering implementing Policy X. They know that Policy X could be politically problematic, but think it might be good policy anyway -- imagine something like raising taxes or shutting down a military procurement program which creates manufacturing jobs in key swing districts.

In an ideal world, the government would go to the civil service and ask for research -- What would be the macroeconomic implications of this policy? Would it in fact be good for the country? Are there ways the adverse impacts of the policy could be mitigated? -- and bring forward the best possible version of the policy (or not bring it forward at all, based on what the experts say).

In a world where the civil service is perceived as actively working against the government, those questions will never get asked, because there will be a fear that even suggesting that the mere suggestion that Policy X is being considered would be immediately leaked for maximum political damage. The problem isn't the answers -- rather, it's the risk of stifling questions.
Even back 15 years ago, EAGLE's autorouter was pretty decent if you used it right. Lay out power traces, ground planes and anything high speed or sensitive (analogue signals etc.) yourself, then let it do the busywork of hooking up all your blinkenlights and push buttons.

There are certainly things you shouldn't delegate to an autorouter, but in the same way, the trend towards hair-shirt-wearing insistence that everything be done manually is a productivity cost.

It's no different to programmers who insist on hand-optimizing assembler: Rarely necessarily any more and usually done more out of ego.
You could get fibre put in, if your budget is big enough, but I get what you mean.
I have to laugh (in good humor) at your post, as Reader's Digest provided/provides excerpts of longer pieces.
The website looks wonderful, and considering just how much text you need to use to get ideas across, the font money seems well spent. The entire page looks... delicious.
I'm glad to no longer be in the ISP business (I did my years in the trenches, '95-02), but I sure enjoy trading "war stories" with other folks who started out their careers in a similar manner.

Makes me wonder just how many people are still using dialup these days, due to a lack of any other options (or lack of desire to change..)
No argument that this isn't an option available to everyone, but a large number of technologists have the financial klout to make this work.
On most modern platforms, the cost of each operation, from smallest to largest, is roughly something like this[0]:

1. Bit shifting

2. Integer multiplication

3. Integer division

4. Floating point multiplication

The trick in the article works because the cost of 1 + 2 is still smaller than 3.

Multiplying with the inverse of 19, a floating point number, wouldn't work because 4 is more costly than 3.

[0] http://nicolas.limare.net/pro/notes/2014/12/12_arit_speed/
Instead of using Yubikey through GPG to replace the SSH key one can also use the PKCS#11 module they provide: https://developers.yubico.com/PIV/Guides/SSH_user_certificat... This requires replacing GNOME keyring with SSH agents, though.

One can also use one of the 20 additional slots (82-95) the Yubikey 4 provides over the Yubikey NEO by replacing the '9c' with '82'.
> easily litigated

Nothing in the US is "easily" litigated, especially not when you're up against a multimedia conglomerate and a portion of the government itself.
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Because it may have initially been optimized for Wii U and hastily adapted to Switch. Something like this happened to Twilight Princess, for which the GameCube version is widely considered superior. Nintendo didn't even bother having a
"Wii mode" for the HD remake on Wii U.

Rodea the Sky Soldier is another example: Yuji Naka specifically recommended on Twitter to play the Wii version rather than the Wii U version, and accordingly the first run of the US release comes with both discs and a reversible cover insert with Wii layout/iconography.
> If I had a generic, non-Google Android phone

Yeah, that's me. So I have started experimenting with the Yubikey 4. (For those who don't already know: the Y4 keeps the private key somewhere in hardware, and never lets it out; the Y4 itself does the TOTP calculation onboard). The Windows desktop Yubico Authenticator (which talks to the Y4) is not too painful.
Can you define 'painlessly'? I'd also read your detailed opinion / chart if you think similar results can be achieved with alternatives - especially because OP is being 100% transparent on what & why they need to spend.
They could just try not having jacked prices and offering good packages. Their customer-base would skyrocket and revenue would more than cover costs.
The complaint specifically says that human resources not only ignored the problems but lied to and sabotaged those doing the reporting. I can't imagine having them on board will be helpful.
What's Uber trying to message with this? Why Holder? Isn't he the guy behind the "fast and furious" debacle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal?
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> That's a red herring. The diversity I referred to came from compiler transformations that provably enhance security

No. The work to get to a state where packages build reproducibly, in general, consists of removing timestamps, providing stable sort order for inputs, and similar cases. In the vast majority of cases the only diversity in a distro's package set comes from these sorts of differences. If addressing these cases results in a reproducible build, there was no meaningful diversity to begin with.
widget rendering in forms now uses the templating system instead of python

I haven't looked at how it's implemented yet, but that sounds like a real godsend.
I started a family-owned retail business with my father and have been growing it for 13 years. I get it.

The farm example is trotted out all the time because it is an emotional example. But it isn't really a meaningful one.

The 2016 estimates from the USDA states that 98.3% of family farms would not need to file a estate-tax return at all. Of the 1.7% that do need to file a return, the vast majority of those would owe no taxes.

Only 0.4% of family farms will owe any estate tax for 2016.

It only affects a very small percentage of family farms. And yet it is the go-to example of how the estate tax isn't fair.
Passes a basic test for me. Search for a computer language and get back a good book: https://booknshelf.com/books/search?q=haskell Worked for Eric Carle: https://booknshelf.com/books/search?q=eric+carle not enough Asimov: https://booknshelf.com/books/search?q=azimov
IME Windows 7 and above are judicious about the elevation prompts, at least compared to Vista. Sadly too many legacy apps still need those privileges. And those users who don't understand the risks may be more likely to be using that kind of older software.
Have you tried probabilistic roadmaps? Depending on how fast the map changes, you might be able to incrementally update a roadmap as you go.
It's a real detriment to UI, it costs you battery life, it's a distracting gimmick, and it adds $200 to the cost of your machine.

And Apple will never give up on it. Every Mac is going to be worse for years and years because of it.

Enjoy.
So they chose an Uber lobbyist, an Uber director, and the head of the department under investigation to lead their "independent investigation"? This company really has some audacity.
Have you looked at https://bench.co?

They're provide a tech + manual bookkeeping service, where you have an actual accountant to talk to, aided by technology.

I use them for my LLC, and it's been pretty paperless so far. They can link directly to all my accounts (Chase, US Bank, Citi) for ongoing accounting work. For historical or one-off statements, I upload a pdf statement with highlighted items and notes (fairly simple to do in Mac Preview).

Any questions they or I have is communicated through their dashboard, including assumptions they're making and categorizing outstanding charges.
If they hired me, I'd be talking to all the ground workers personally about company culture in general, any abusive behavior at all, any sexism on top of that, and effects on business achieving its goals. I'd probably visit or survey them a few times to re-question based on extra information I got over time. I'd anonymize the source material in final report to executives and investors. I'd highlight any damage to business objectives that I found along with changes that amount to new top-down agenda plus house cleaning at middle & lower management levels. If no response, I'd give the report and anonymized data to the media instead.

Scheming politicians talking to scheming executives and management rarely results in good things. Hopefully this does but I'm not optimistic.
Unfortunately I have no idea. I just hard to learn it from doing my own books. It is something that was very opaque until all of the sudden it clicked. Kinda like learning object oriented programming for the first time.
Indeed.

From her profile:

> Megan Rose Dickey is a reporter at TechCrunch focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice.

One of her latest articles:

> Dear White People, You Suck At Diversity

Most of her articles come with a huge SJW slant. The second title is directly racist. Also, it's odd that her article comes out the day after the Uber allegations.

Her use of anonymous sources and clearly biased views predisposes me to discount her vetting, especially with her profile and background.
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Qt is an awesome framework, but I feel like most of their promo material really makes you work to figure out what is going on... I still see people get confused at QWidgets vs. QtQuick and the various tradeoffs.
I think this question comes up a lot and answers for this are usually a Google query away. However, Intercom does a lot of things. destroytoday even mentioned above that one primary use is email marketing, so it's probably only fair to consider what the combined costs are. In most cases, you'd need to pay for both a helpdesk + an email marketing app.

In that light, the grandparent's post might not be a fair comparison, since he/she might be only talking about customer support functionality. In that case, there are far cheaper alternatives. Even heavy weight companies like Zendesk will likely be cheaper by comparison, but you won't get the marketing part built in.

On the other hand alternatives like Drift have been mentioned above which seem more like a fair direct one-for-one comparison with Intercom, and will usually come out cheaper.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Reamaze, which competes in the helpdesk (not marketing) space.
Indeed. So one must conclude that privacy isn't the top priority.
Well, I clicked around for a while. And now? There don't seem to be any recommendations?

The basic "click the books you read & liked" workflow is also annoyingly flawed. There are like 20 collections that each require a page load, and some of them only contain a single book.

Having tried similar things in the past, they seemed to be much better at quickly zeroing in on what I probably had in my bookshelf. After 10 to 15 books in my library, they had about a 50% hit rate with suggestions. I. e. if someone likes Douglas Adams, chances are really high they've also read Feynman's more humorous books.

There also seems to be a problem with deduplication. One of the collections literally contains 15+ editions of "How to Win Friends..." and nothing else.
I used Copilot a few times. It used to be free on weekends, but I'm not sure if that option is still available. https://www.copilot.com/
Yall, I'm down with Uber. I know there's a lot of mudslinging lately, but I am so damn excited about the future. A world where we can do pub transit + big data, freight + big data, air freight + big data, food delivery + big data et al.

Bad shit happens sometimes. There's a lot of shitty assholes in the world, but crucifying a worthy cause and successful business because a couple of morons work there just seems counter productive.

As other comments have noted, this smells like the github situation a while back, and I'm no fan AT ALL of github, but even I concede that they are making a real difference for open source. I think uber is making that difference for moving people/things.

I want to see some justice, I want to know exactly how it went down and how it was able to get to that point ie a dependency resolution as far as who shirked policy and who didn't, AND THEN I want business as usual. Shit happens, fix it, move on.
There's now a get_context() method which returns a dict of useful info. the render() method takes that and applies it to widget.template_name.
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My work recently offered to replace my 2013 retina MBP, at no cost to myself, as it went out of (extended) warranty. I declined. I'd rather wait and see if they improve the offering later this year.

Come on Apple, lift your game.
Disney Parks visits are made considerably better using a smartphone to schedule things. They could give something like this out to all visitors.
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As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't actually matter. There are plenty of republics that have done grave wrongs to their citizens, and such citizens are entitled to rebellion to restore their rights. The state, regardless of its political system, will always make pushing back against itself illegal, but it doesn't automatically make it illegitimate.
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Not quite as common as you think. For instance, Github:

"Rhoma identified the employees she wanted to talk to based on an initial list we provided, the evidence she gathered, employees who asked to speak with her, people Julie asked her to speak with, and anyone else she determined was relevant, including Julie herself."

Sounds like she spoke to 'Julie' (i.e. the woman who made the accusations). As for independence:

"When the allegations against GitHub were raised publicly we took them seriously and within days launched an investigation into what happened. We hired Rhoma Young, an independent, third-party investigator that GitHub had never worked with before. Rhoma has a long history of conducting fair and impartial investigations, with 30+ years of HR experience. She has worked with every type of organization, from Fortune 50 companies to local governments, and frequently testifies as an expert witness for both plaintiffs and defendants in depositions, arbitrations, and in litigation involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disability, and mitigation of damages.

Most importantly, Rhoma does not have a history of siding with companies or otherwise being a partisan, industry spokesperson. Half of her litigation witness work is on the side of employees, half for companies. Her job is to investigate situations and figure out what actually happened, even when the people who hired her don’t want to hear it."

The full report is available here if you want to read it: https://github.com/blog/1826-follow-up-to-the-investigation-...
Wow.

Let's tear your comment down.

> A ridiculously privileged cadre of third worlders

Privileged how? By having a decent job and (up until recently) feeling secure? If that's all it takes to be considered "ridiculously privileged" that is a shocking indictment of the US. Unless it's only ridiculous because they're "third worlders" - implying that "they" don't merit the same privileges as citizens (presumably "first worlders"). And then of course there's the provocative and pejorative use of "cadre" - a group of people trained for a particular purpose (with martial overtones).

> still feel the need to complain

So criticism shall not be brooked. Is that a right also reserved for non-third-worlders?

Criticism is often the engine of progress.

> If you don't like it, why don't you leave permanently?

What if he likes the US but doesn't like this one policy? Should he still leave? Should his American wife and children be forced to leave with him? What if a natural-born citizen doesn't like "it"? Where should they leave to?
I'm not trying to defend Uber here but there are two sides of every story and I'm sure we'll find out more in the coming weeks and months one way or another.

I could see how many people could jump to conclusions about Uber after reading the original blog post. However, by headcount- it is a medium to large company at this point while at the same time has an uncertain future and still taking big bets. I could see how that could cause chaos in some or all areas of the company.

Maybe- the blog post provide one point of view into Silicon Valley culture/gender dynamics. Maybe- this culture often exists within engineering departments of elite companies (vs the business/marketing/sales side).

There are a lot of moving parts in the original post: HR department acting unprofessionally, manufactured performance reviews and awkward IM's.

I've encountered situations where new employees just didn't fit in well with their coworkers, for a variety of reasons. They typically don't last long as employees. Usually a year or less.
Not sure why anybody is surprised. This is how the company has always been.
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They certainly appear to be taking their own liability in the matter very seriously.
thanks, I prefer the trackball using my thumb. I did try one of the logitech ones that you use your fingers with but it didn't really suit me. I'd guess I'd have the same issue with the CST one, though I am curious to try one now, I'll keep an eye out.
Aren't SQL subqueries pretty much standard across all databases anyways? Why would writing them in Django's ORM be more compatible?
thx for the info!

speaking of bosch: i will recommend https://www.festool.com over anything else. they also offer sortimo-like boxes.
Snap had $400 million in revenue in 2016.
The very first person mentioned in the article is quite clearly NOT a US citizen. They are however married to one. They also appear to have legal residency presumably on the basis of a green card.
Just because he doesn't need the money, doesn't mean that he doesn't want more money.

By all accounts, he's already cashing in on his role as a president big time. The payments to his properties from the government in order to arrange for his security as he travels around already number in the millions. And that's one of the most minor financial conflicts of interest that he is involved in.

And where did I say that it bothers me? I merely pointed out that it's not a democracy if the vote of the majority is disregarded.
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Amos has been doing an incredible work with the itch.io client. It improved not only the user experience, but also the developer experience as well.

The butler client is an incredible way of sending games to itch.io and I sincerely hope that Apple or Google had a good command line client as well.
"This is consistent with the finding that leaderless groups have a natural tendency to elect self-centered, overconfident and narcissistic individuals as leaders"

"It's almost eerie how effectively talking with confidence works."

It may very well be that all other things being equal, a little bit of over confidence is quite a positive indicator of actual success, as opposed to having 'less confidence'.

'Confidence' usually comes along with a bunch of other attributes. If you 'believe you can succeed' - you may be likely to try harder.

A differentiating trait of 'successful people' is that they 'believe they shape the outcomes of their lives' - whereas others don't believe it is so. (Obviously there's a lot just to that).

When you 'believe in yourself' - it's easier to 'have faith' in your own vision - and others take that as a strong signal of authenticity, which is helpful.

Nothing would ever happen were it not for at least a little bit of irrational exuberance.

Not that this justifies blow-hardism.
White ones, very brave.
Luckily go does provide ways to see the compiler's decisions. I'm not sure if it goes far enough here though
I've heard nothing but awful things about Uber since before they tried to recruit me years ago. Everybody I know who's met the CEO specifically used the word 'sociopath' to describe him, along with a litany of other unpleasant terms.
The Great Works of Software  (2014)
But that's really worth $20 some billion dollars?
This is happening across the board in central LA, tech millionaires or no. The crazy thing is that you'll see a lot of turnover or a lot of empty storefronts in some of the hot areas, especially in some of the new, pricey mixed-use developments. I moved to LA in 2010, when things were starting to boom again but I don't think there was ever a rock-bottom hit in '08 (someone that was here then can speak better to that). I honestly can't see how any of this new wealth, or the other wealth, helps out the average person here other than giving us another burger-and-microbrew on the street corner.
Because unless you are on a video card (e.g. doing SIMD) floating point operations are very very expensive.
>our mission is to fix the fake news problem.

Sincere question:
Why is it a problem?
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You keep focusing on this one set of changes you do in the process when it has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm saying about the security argument for doing reproducible builds, diverse compiles, binary checks, etc. The big picture of what you're doing with what attacks are likely to come in.

If the goal is stopping subversion, I identified a bunch of other things you have to do. Some conflict with reproducible binaries where you avoid them or throw them away immediately. Some with strongest security... memory-safe languages, certified compilation, or highly-assured SCM... you aren't doing at all that I'm aware. Your attackers will try to hit all of this, though, rather than just do a compiler-compiler-subversion thing in MITM scenario. Hence the need for strong, holistic stuff instead of tactical hacks.
"Look-ism" this is huge.

The more 'interaction' and 'first impressions' need to be made, the more 'look-ism' is essential.

Lawyers, bankers, execs etc..

Tech is even getting a little bit like this, with some shops getting a little to 'beardy' and 'tuquey' and 'hoody' for me :)
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> Myself and my co-founders have often looked at the comparable easy growth software based startups and wondered what on earth we were doing ...

I've got an answer for that - "You're doing God's work". Sounds silly, sure, but you've decided to tackle a really hard problem that's ultimately much riskier than that which you've mentioned (higher capital, lower profit margins, smaller customer base). But speaking as someone with a lot of experience in communities poorly served for Internet service, it's a life changing thing when broadband suddenly becomes available where it once wasn't (or was so poorly served by one of "The Bigs" that it might as well not have been).

I'm only half-joking about God's work. I wouldn't have the stones to consider trying to solve the problem you and Chris are tackling and I greatly respect you for taking that risk. Many thanks, even though I'm not in your country and can't enjoy the service you provide!
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