skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really would love to learn how to crack an old piece of software like this. Any ideas on where to start if you don't know much about the software side of things? I know JS and a little bit of C#, but I've never found a great path to learn stuff like this.
That keyboard took me 3 months to use (to be fair I was also switching to Dvorak). Luckily (?) this was while I was sidelined in a bike to car a collision. I have struggled with RSI and it really changed my life. But I agree it's not for everyone. For starters you definitely need large hands!
You may have given up prematurely. It took me a month or so to get used to it. I used the Kinesis Freestyle before, still expensive, but lasted me for years and years.
Because I turn on my car, and without changing anything, the radio comes on. No batteries or data plans to worry about, and there's a decent interface that's integrated into my car.

I can get the same stations through IHeartRadio. I could get a phone dock, a bluetooth device to connect to the aux input (car doesn't have BT), an adapter for power (cigarette adapter), and all that. And I'd spend 20 seconds each car trip turning on BT, opening the streaming app and navigating to the station, fiddling with volume. I could stream stations from outside of my area, but I pick up worldwide news all day anyhow. My commute's for more local stuff.

I'm just not a fan of using my phone for streaming in general.
She was not advertising her book. She used her book as an example to substantiate her claim that her transfer was blocked for bullshit reasons. Seems perfectly appropriate to me.
I work at Lyft, and although I'm in different shoes (SW male), I really can't see this happening and HR/management stonewalling the complaints. We don't tolerate harassment, and we stand up for each other. I know I try to. [1]

I honestly don't understand how Uber attracts talent. Lyft and Uber both work on really interesting problems. [2] The difference is that Uber are, well, the sort of people Travis Kalanick would hire. [3] Lyft is smaller, sure, but we're growing at a very rapid tick (and smaller means there's more for each engineer to do). And though people generally view Lyft as being undifferentiated from Uber, I think we can positively say that we provide a better user experience in many ways, in spite of being a much smaller outfit. And again: we're growing. Fast.

Bottom line: if you're looking at a job at Uber, consider applying to Lyft :) It'll be worth your time.

[1] "Uplift others" and "Be yourself" are two of our four core values.
[2] I joined Lyft after leaving a job at Google and rejecting offers from AirBnB and Dropbox, and I'm 100% confident I would do the same thing over again. Working at Lyft is fun—and impactful.
[3] Not to say that they're all bad people; I have lots of friends that work there. But there's a dramatic cultural difference between the two companies, and that culture is driven by the leadership. So the "median" employee at Lyft will be very different from the median at Uber.

P.S. So clearly I'm a little biased on this subject :) Take with a grain of salt.
I miss him from when I used to read Jalopnik more regularly, I didn't follow him to his new site so thanks for pointing out that this was him. He really is a good, balanced, and knowledgeable source of military analysis.
great answer--had think think about it for a moment to realize this.

and still it seems it's potential is largely unrealized--eg, i wonder what would be happen to the incidence of leading chronic disease (obesity, diabetes) if the fraction of bicycle riders went up by let's say 10%.
My response: That comment displays such a blinding lack of empathy that my response only draws attention back to the words of the original post.

Those points are poorly constructed, sociopathic, and worthy of scorn.

:)
That monthly would have been lower with a down payment and interest; that said, your plan is good
I really enjoy my aeropress (https://aerobie.com/product/aeropress/) coffee press. The modern take on a French press, price, and availability on Amazon made me realize anybody can have a great idea, print it in plastic, and sell it to people - arriving two days later.

Plus the coffee that comes out is dope.
A properly designed kettlebell. The one below is what I use, but other companies also make good ones. The weight transfers around your arm naturally, it's very hard to injure yourself using it. Two indications of a good one are: handle is not flat, and pounds are in 18 pound increments (this comes from an old Russian unit of measure called a "pood".)
https://christiansfitnessfactory.com/cff-black-monster-russi...
> Also I can't figure out what pgrap is. Do you mean pgrep?

Sorry meant pgrep.

> I don't see what pgrep has to do with priority inversion.

Grepping processes doesn't have anything to do with priority inversions and locking your system. But grepping processes then setting them to realtime priority sched_fifo 99 or could wreck havok

> I don't do real-time work, but I've always been curious to know more about it. And priority inversion seems like an interesting and challenging problem.

It can be fun. It is kind of a separate world on its own. Interestingly most of the popular OS-es by default are tuned for throughput not low latency. So configuring and getting everything just right is an interesting challenge (sometimes involving applying kernel patches, although lately that might not be necessary as some have been mainlined).
Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like medicine close to ideal once you're in your late 30s and have paid off med school debt. You've got insane job security (due to the extremely high barriers to entry), high pay, location independence (in the sense that you can find employment in whichever city you'd like to move to without taking a significant pay cut), and you don't need to worry about ageism unless you're in surgery. I'd also think there's probably less pressure to stay up to date with new developments or risk irrelevance than there is in tech.

Honestly, seems pretty ideal. Anything I'm missing, other than the debt? And that might not be that much of an issue for someone transitioning from having spent some time in tech, as they'd probably have built up enough savings to not have to incur significant med school debt?
I'm not the main user of ours, and every time I need to empty it I'm confused. And what's up with that filter in the top that just falls out?
That is an awesome read! Thanks for the link. A bit long but it articulates the notions of structural control much more clearly than I did.
Healthy Skepticism is well... healthy, but I think at this point there is enough evidence out there to confirm the story.

Case in point, a quick look at glassdoor reviews seems to confirm the story. (there's even one that says it's "Not Great for Women" - Sep 2016 although it's not as devastating as this article but the info from that and other reviews seem to support what she's saying)

It's disturbing when it seems people are jumping react before all the facts are there, but it seems the story is verifiably true. If there is still doubt, I think the discussion is better served by bringing up specific items than a whole cloth rejection of the story.
I had to "load unsafe scripts" on Chrome to get this to work (OS X). Just a heads up in case it's not working initially for anyone.
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So, if i'm standing outside your property speaking, am I trespassing by vibrating the air over your property?
Sooner or later, the truth is going to come out. Fowler knows this. There's no room for ambiguity here: either Uber has broken the law extravagantly, or she's lying. If the latter is true, she will be crucified for it. The defamation suit alone would be monumental.

And again, there's no ambiguity. She says she has extensive records of this behavior. That's not something she can really walk back. In a situation where one person's word is pitted against another's, the most reliable way to buy credibility is precommitment. By writing the article that she wrote, she made a massive precommitment. She will be screwed if Uber takes her to court and she can't back up her claims. Uber, meanwhile, has said "We're looking into it." Precommitment is about cutting off your options. Uber has done the opposite.

So we have one side that just cashed out options for credibility, and one side that wants to wait and see. If you're trying to assess the situation rationally, there's only one correct play here.
Look around for mirrors of the old Fravia content - that was the place for reversing and cracking back in the day.

For example:

http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/
There's indeed a lot to hang on upper management, but HR has responsibilities delegated to them for a reason. I'm sure heads will roll, but presumably they've been cruising without an HR reboot for years, so a lot of habits and perspectives are going to be entrenched.
From what I understand, LLVM still doesn't take as much advantage of that information as it could, given Rust input. It's too geared toward the C family of languages. (But as sibling comment says, the problem was partially the Rust compiler's fault.)
This is a wonderful concept.

To my eyes however, there's much better stuff on the rest of that repository:

http://yiwenl.github.io/Sketches/
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She linked to it in her original blog post.

Edit: I went to the original post to provide a link and she has removed the link. I don't have a screenshot of the old post because it did not occur to me to take one. However, at least one other commenter has mentioned it.
The wok. A good 13 or 14" pao wok costs about $15. Add another $20 for a spoon, a cover, an wok ring and a steaming grill and you can make almost anything. The thing looks so simple, but it is part of a whole system and way of cooking that is amazingly fun and effective.
I've always wondered if this kind of art style for 3d were possible without the use of shaders, just with a custom 3d engine in place...

I'd love to recreate something like this in a 2d canvas.
>Which is why I corrected the poster who made it sound like credit cards "always" protect you, when it's not true. "Often" and "mostly", but not "always".

This is a distinction irrelevant in the real world where the status quo (at least in the US) is that companies protect you. Bitcoin has to compete with what exists, not a potential strawman based on what the laws say.

>Hardware wallets solve the theft problem. To date there have been no verifiable incidents of Bitcoins stolen from hardware wallets.

Can hardware wallets be stolen? If so, you just lost $50k regardless of the attacker gaining access to it. If not, it means you have keys backed up somewhere that can be stolen.

>>"Almost nobody gives two shits about how long it takes"

>Listen, I was just pointing out people who say "CCs transactions are quicker than Bitcoin transactions" are wrong.

Don't quote out of context. The rest of my sentence clearly shows I'm referring to the speed for the consumer. From a consumer perspective, the transaction is done right when the credit card machine returns (a.k.a within seconds).

>Accepting a zero-conf Bitcoin transaction is similar ("as risky as") accepting a CC transaction after swiping/chip-and-pin.

No it's not. A zero-conf transaction someone can double-spend against and the merchant has no recourse and the consumer has no risk. Merchants will be forced to wait for confirmation unless they have other leverage against the consumer to use on bad behavior.

In CC transactions, the risk to the merchant is a chargeback. A consumer can only lie about these a few times in their life before they get caught by a combination of the credit card company and a merchant and they will be arrested for credit card fraud.

Until the government steps in and writes laws making double-spending fraud, CC will be safe than zero-conf transactions.
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I decided to be pedantic and check.

1 - Language agnostic

2 - Agnostic - Java doesn't have memcmp but the same issue returning (-1, or < 0) could happen

3 - Agnostic (with the exception that java would throw for out of bounds)

4 - Agnostic

5 - Agnostic - Its a windows complication (you can write C++ without DllMain even in windows)

6 - C++

7 - C++

8 - C++

9 - C++

10 - C++

11 - C++

12 - Agnostic

13 - Agnostic

14 - Agnostic

15 - C++

16 - Agnostic

17 - Agnostic (java has similar optimizations)

18 - Agnostic (inefficient code happens in any language)

19 - C++

20 - C++ (maybe java would throw instead?)

... This is longer than I thought.

9 of the first 20 are C++ only.
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The only thing that review says in reference to women is "Emotionally unintelligent male managers (all the way up to the CEO) make it hard for women to feel heard and valued." This has nothing to do with sexual harassment.

There is also talk of long hours, but it is not clear if the reviewer meant that is a negative specific to women or not.
Thoughts on the switch? I decided to become a PM full-time after a couple of dev internships, thinking that given the pace of change in tech, it would be a better idea to spend time building people skills instead as those seemed to be more 'durable'.

After a couple of years, I've completely changed my mind. Though I've done well in my role, I find that it's hard to point to a concrete skill set (such as deep domain knowledge in some field), and the fact that the PM role varies so much across companies makes it difficult to transition.
Furthermore, she says she has evidence in the form of emails. I'm not suggesting she will, or even should, make them public, but it would be a hell of a gamble to claim publicly to have them if she didn't, as she will need them if she finds herself in court.
Which keys? I didn't find that to be the case -- but even if it were, one of the features of this keyboard is you can remap any of the keys to your liking.

I had to train on it with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead for about 2 weeks before I was beating my usual typing speed. But after that, there's no going back.

No more wrist pain, ever.

The only thing that sucks is the rubber keys, especially ESC, especially for vim users. In contrast, having meta+ctl keys on thumbs for emacs users is huge.
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far down to find mention of AppCode. The ESP edition is even free.
Uh, no it's not. You're the one that mentioned founders. The parent poster just mentioned developers.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
What are the evidence this comes from the Arctic? High levels are only being detected in Poland. A much more likely explanation is that this originates from Ukraine, Krim, or Belarus. That is some 2000km from the Arctic.
hear hear! That is the one thing stopping me from going full-steam ahead with Scala, reeks of java, promises the future yet is abused forever because it cannot decide what it wants to be ... do I want to be Haskell? do I want to be Java?
How does a glassworks review of 'not great for women' confirm her story? It looks bad, and is LIKELY bad, but come on... Just like rubicon says, no matter how much you'd like to believe, wait for confirmation.
U.S. Constitution

Eiffel Tower

Bosendorfer 214CS piano

1986 Fender Performer guitar

1959 Fender Stratocaster

Yamaha YBL 321 trombone

Yamaha Q series alto sax

Any Zojirushi rice cooker

Vitamix

Sony SRF-M37w radio

Golden Gate Bridge (walk it)

Any Porsche 911

Toyota Sienna minivan

Any MacBook Air

Duluth Trading Longtail T shirts

web2py

C89

Visual Basic 3.0

Turbo Pascal 3.0

Visual Pascal

Vim

Eggs, bananas, bell peppers, cocoanuts, water

Fender Precision bass

Motorola StarTac

HN

Almost anything Frank Lloyd Wright
Understood. You should get your lady friends in tech to read the comments you posted on a throwaway. Do you think they'll feel safer around you?
I think it's likely they were just "out of sight, out of mind" about HR details; it's not the most exciting part of running a business. They didn't get to call it "Boober" by bragging about new funds in the 401(k) plan.
I suspect he was being sarcastic. The fact that a 90 amu atom doesn't yield 131 amu atoms when it decays doesn't require you to know about anything beyond conservation of mass.
Maybe it literally phoned home... over a 300 baud modem.
I have a harder time believing that someone would set themselves up to be so royally screwed as she would be if it turned out she was lying. If she were to later claim she "lost" the copies of these emails, or change her story significantly, that would be the time to get skeptical. But people do not generally stake their professional reputations on things lightly.
"technical friends" (which i believe was name given by the man who invented them, Ray Jardine). "Friends" is still the category name used by Wild Country, which i believe was the first shop to sell the devices.

more generically, i believe they are known as spring-loade cam devices (SLCD).

these simple devices transformed granite crack climbing from slow, rock-altering aid climbing that required pitons hammered into cracks to clean "free" (ie, no aid) climbing.

sure nuts and hexes were (and still are) available but they require some sort of constriction in the crack (change in the width) to hold them in place, which granite cracks often lack.
SideFX Houdini (a tool for 3D VFX and animation) is by far the most brilliant software I have ever used, it is like Emacs of computer graphics. It is designed as a system of nodes that gives you a visual interface for visually "programming" 3D scenes and shaders.

It is incredibly well thought out, and every time I learn something new about it - it blows my mind how elegantly and beautifully it is implemented.
We don't have to look very hard to find examples of sexual harassment lawsuits that the four major tech companies have lost.

Anecdotally, I have been organizationally close (same manager, adjacent team) to serious misconduct and was completely oblivious to it, finding out about the wrongdoing years later.

It is likely that Uber is alone with its scope of HR incompetence and wrongdoing. Although their SRE is supposed to have been lifted straight from Google and Facebook, the sexual harassment cases from those organizations didn't involve nearly as much dishonesty and apathy by their Human Resources sections.
Hm why is this getting shilled here every few hours?
Leatherman tools. Refreshingly usable compared to Swiss army knives.
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You know what? You're right. But at the same time I can understand everyone jumping to her side of things. Many of us in HN have worked at start-ups where we've seen almost this exact same behavior. I know I have seen something eerily similar.

Ultimately I get the feeling this is going to be one of those tough situations where if the evidence was still on Uber's computers it could have easily been removed by now. So if it was removed and Uber says there is no proof, do we then side with Uber? Or do we stay on her side? There may not be a good way to proof in favor of either party.
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Most river deltas are hugely tidal, with salt water travelling a long way inland up some.
This doesn't at all surprise me. I used to work at Anderson in the Leukemia department, brought on to analyze their "big data." They wanted to know which cells were indicative of relapse but were only able to provide data on two patients who each received different treatments. Despite my best efforts, I could not convince the MDs who run the show to obtain more (and better) data to even begin to apply machine learning. They had this intrenched opinion that math was something that got sprinkled over your data and turned rubbish into Science papers. I wouldn't be surprised if IBM encountered the same problem.

Moreover, this whole story is in line with my sense of the institutional culture. There is a lot of me-too science that goes on there, repeating better work at more prestigious universities. I bet when my bosses heard the pitch from IBM, they thought "this is my chance to compete with Stanford." However, no thought was given to the data that would feed into this system as evidenced by the changes of scope and infrastructure.
When I was younger there was a similar problem with an online game that had the official servers shut down after a few years of operation. The community at the time resorted to using a Kali Net hack to play. Luckily the server software was written by Dan Kegel and was open source http://kegel.com/anet/

After a little coaxing to get it running on 64 bit I managed to get it running and the community could finally play for another few years..until that server died and this time it was me who didn't have the time/interest to fix it again. Then it sort of died for good.

I wonder if there is an opportunity to provide a service/servers for legacy games so that every time the nostalgia hits a gamer he can come play online.
I suppose it could have literally "called home" by using a modem to dial a phone number and connect to a dial-up modem on the authorization server. Since it only does this "every few months", that wouldn't be a prohibitively expensive form of communication.
* Chopsticks. One-handed eating is just convenient.

* Palm Vx. At the time this thing has fantastic functionality (all that freeware!), the OS had great charm, and I still think it looks really handsome.

* Sony Ericsson w580. One of the last really small cell phones before huge screens took over. And the slide mechanism was really satisfying - the ultimate fidget
Suing is a surefire pathway to being made a pariah, case in point Ellen Pao. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pao_v._Kleiner_Perkins
It is commercial software, right? What's the closest open source alternative? (Not that I'm opposed to commercial software, but as a hobbiest I don't want to deal with it.)
Turning to fat doesn't mean mass will come out of nothing
You could get I-131 from a warhead fizzling. I don't know exactly how weak a fizzle it would need to be in order to escape seismic detection and whether that would be large enough to produce the measured amount of I-131 though.
Yes sorry that was badly phrased. Should have been Setting gopath...

I'm confident they will gradually get rid of it. It was a convenient crutch at first but for those outside a mono repo quite limiting.
> Should be able to go

Yes, in theory. But most HRs "protect the org" in the most short sighted way possible
Homeschooling is fairly common in the US. Only the end of year state assessments are required for primary and middle school. Instead of highschool I took the GED, which is typical.
Here is her recommendation for a study plan (2016) https://fledglingphysicist.com/2016/08/14/so-you-want-to-lea...
> This isn't some evil plot, it's just fallout from Chrome removing support for third-party plugins and thus the plugin management UI

So instead it's just a fallout from an earlier plot that is no less evil than this one appears to be.
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good school
Fravia is a name that brings back lots of good memories... him, +ORC, and the +HCU tried to popularise the idea of "cracking tutorials" that were more than "just change these bytes", and were actually quite detailed essays on the various protections around at the time.
Microservices: The Organizational and People Impact
Ok, this corkscrew:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MONOPOL-Bell-Corkscrew-BAROLO-Germa...

(Note this appears to be a later design, slightly less pretty as the original IMO)

My parents bought one of these years maybe 15 years ago and I was always fascinated how he thread was so smooth, well machined and balanced that you could unwind it and it would smoothly wind back up under its own weight. When it hit the bottom the momentum would allow the inner thread to continue winding so it would bounce a couple of times.

Years lately, and we don't get many cork bottles in NZ any more, but I still like to get it out occasionally to check that, yes indeed, it still does it beautifully.

A simple thing, made well.