skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a very non-uniform culture where you haven't seen the blatant sexism personally and the corporate policy of ignoring complaints against high performers (i.e. the CTO who should have been fired a long time ago for being complicit in other scandals) but somehow you do believe Susan Fowler.. how exactly are you intent on holding management accountable? Should everyone involved be let go, including the CTO and CEO? Do you really believe stuff like this bypasses them?
Haiku: Instant Heroku Deploys from GitHub Branches
As a followup:

I checked the milk in my apartment's fridge. My room mate's only lists a pull date and has no other handling instructions (not even to refrigerate). The milk I am buying /now/ happens to mention, in otherwise completely ignoble and normal looking text in an out of the way area, to refrigerate and use within 7 days of opening, but not past the printed date.

I would hazard that most consumers have read the directions on milk /maybe/ once, if at all, and have been operating on prior behavior since then.
“This is the dumbest publishing platform on the web.”
> the only way to move forward is to get rid of Travis Kalanick ... do they really even need him?

My opinions aside on whether Travis is a healthy CEO for Uber, there are real costs to employee turnover. And that is true at the CEO level just as anywhere else.

And there are actually some benefits to a post-crisis employee. Sure, a new person they hire probably won't have Travis's specific flaws. But the same can be said of a post-crisis Kalanick. He's actually pretty likely to not make a similar mistake again.

Unless, of course, it becomes a pattern. Certainly Kalanick has demonstrated a pattern of ethical lapses, so if that's the thing you're trying to optimize against he should go. Is there a more specific pattern of ignoring sexual misconduct? Well, probably also yes in Kalanick's case.

But my point is he needs to go because he's demonstrating a pattern of poor performance, not because there needs to be a head on a spike for people to trust Uber again.
> You have to understand that one of LLVM goal is to provide a full toolchain, through reusable library components

Fair enough, that makes sense. If you are aiming to be a full toolchain, it's useful to have it in-project.

Edit: Whoops! s/fool/full/
THIS.

The WHAT is driving me nuts. I get the WHY and HOWs of numerous marketing channels and methods.

Pretty much what happens when I start blogging. I put a lot of effort but even the blog post itself must now be marketed.

Put it in on HN, Reddit and it feels like playing lottery...
Snapchat is based on a lie. You can't give someone information and also control what they do with it, to make sure they delete it. It's the very definition of a passing fad, it doesn't do anything unique or special not done many times better by any other instant messaging program. It makes sense then that its growth would slow, because after you realize you can't rely on its singular selling point (the ephemerality of messages you send to other people), what's left is a crappy version of any other program that lets you share pictures with people.
Great write-up. As a marketer (independent consultant for years and now founder of a digital agency), I cannot tell you how many times I have had to tell clients, "If you build it, they will not come" if they do not know your product even exists. Even so, many technical startup founders still place marketing low on the list of things to focus on early on. And I'm saying this as someone who started out on the tech side and moved to the business and marketing side later.
Great product guys, we have saved many many months of developer time since we started using Bitrise for our iOS and Android app release. Congratulations!
or bikes
There are plenty of companies that they can work for besides Uber or Wall Street firms that aren't morally bankrupt.
If you want to understand the student debt bubble, you need to understand financial bubbles. Take any commodity that "everyone knows is valuable", figure out how to turn it into a financial instrument and re-sell it to a third party investor who has no relationship with either consumer or lender and knows nothing about the product, and then you can create a speculative bubble because everyone starts trading in derivatives of the commodity without knowing anything about it, the level of risk involved, or even who ows them money. This happened with Tulips, it happened with Mortgages, and now its happening with Education. There are a lot of good books on bubbles if you dig for them. All the Devils are Here is a good one. The Big Short is good too - once you realize some of those people who got rich betting against housing bubble, are now betting against the education bubble, and have been for 8 years but nobody listened to them (again).
> Good luck getting the game industry to make their AAA games open source, especially before release, when hundreds of people are chomping at the bit to have a dirt easy time of cloning whatever game out there and tossing it on the app stores to make a few bucks off their broken, half-stolen mess of a game. It's a rampant problem right now (for example, 2048 and Flappy Bird both had open source versions, possibly unofficial... look how many clones of those games hit the app stores).

Your examples of AAA games with open-source versions are Flappy Bird and 2048? We have different ideas of what makes a AAA game...
This account has been abusing HN by using it exclusively for political arguments. It has also been posting personal attacks. Neither of those are allowed here, so we've banned it.
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It's a chromium fork, yeah.
I'd like to see how this correlates to a decline in financial security. Obviously speaking to the wrong crowd here, as software engineers it's likely that most of us are relatively well off, but my generation (80's 90's) are mostly unable to afford a comfortable relocation.

People I know outside of tech are nowhere NEAR being able to buy a house, they barely even have a financial buffer to speak of. I'd wager this has a huge correlation to whether or not people are comfortable moving.
Your comment has me fondly remembering a backpacking trip in Wyoming. We'd go to sleep around 8 or 9 since it would get dark before then and wake up at about 7, and the sleep was indeed the best of my life, like coming out of a coma.
They are trying to justify why they are still working for the company. Excusing the inexcusable because it's convenient for them.
The demo immediately preceding was even more impressive to me: https://youtu.be/fATsm_k_d0I?t=658
Yeah, that's not really what it's intended for so that makes sense.

Lambdas are great for anything you can wire them up to in AWS, but using them with API Gateway is a pain.

For things like processing files or images as they appear in an S3 bucket, feeding or eating from a queue, replacing CRON jobs or small ETLs, and about a dozen other uses I have found them to be amazing.
Hmmm... when I click on the Horses link, I see its 3 notebooks, with a blue clone & run button. When clicked, I get prompted to sign in (requires any msft account like outlook, xbox, hotmail, ...). Once you sign in (or create an account), you'll end up in Docker/Jupyter instance with the 3 notebooks. Clicking on the first one and doing a Run All, should give you:

http://imgur.com/a/JgcqP

What happens when you click the Intro to F# sample on the front page? It should render the notebook and if you clone, it should prompt to sign in as above. Hope this helps.
51.0.1 32bit. Don't ask me why I'm running 32bit FF, this is news to me as well.
You can also use python to run the program.
Do any of these API guides have good guidance around batch endpoints like handling a PATCH on multiple resources as a single request?
I so much prefer promise syntax to this, I do not understand why people favor this at all.
I really think ambiguity is the source of all HR problems.

There should be a clear list for each employee of which specific things will get them fired. And which things need to be done for them to otherwise not be fired. And which things need to be done for them to be promoted.

Anything else you're basically saying: "If there is ever a lawsuit between this individual and the company, we will have to assemble the employment agreement in court from a variety of obscure emails and text messages."

What amazes me is that even with that risk, it still seems to benefit the company to keep these things vague in order to keep promotions down, and to make it easier to fire people who are doing their jobs. But I guess the numbers add up.
For starters this is enough and less confusing IMHO:

open System.IO

for line in File.ReadLines("/path/to/file") do
printfn "%s" line
How do you just move to the US with no job?
yeah the fowler thing wasn't really a factor for me. but i talked to some interns there this summer and they said the employees were expected to work until 10pm at least. I also was told that the pay is subpar and they expect you to get paid mostly in stocks.
Experienced thru hikers have packs with base weight of 6-7kg in summer. The total with food and water 9-12kg.
A Cookie Dough Bubble?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707547
Kafka – Manager any takers to make this project active
A note: it's usually against labor laws in the USA for the back of house to be tipped employees or to be apart of a tip pool.
I can pretty much get that and more with Notepad++ or Sublime, though. I've moved back to vim for simple text editing, N++ for casual writing and organizing my thoughts. Is there any specific feature that makes it better than other editors in your book?
By far the best shape I've ever been in was after hiking the 270-mile Long Trail in high school. It's the only time on my life—before or after—that I've ever been not overweight. The amazing thing about thru-hiking is that you can start in any shape and come out healthier.

For a while last year I toyed with the idea of hiking the Appalachian Trail. I even did a few practice hikes of a week or two, but ultimately realized that even if I completed the trail I'd gain all the weight I loss right back, the same way I did after the LT (by continuing a high-carb diet).

Now I'm on keto and cutting carbs was by far the best health choice I've made in my life. It's still a dream of mine to hike the AT though (probably not for a long time though, as my startup wouldn't survive absence).
I think I did mention that bias was unconscious; we all know brains are association machines, therefore associating more colors with computing achievements is obviously a good thing. If you know of a perverse effect, I'd be glad to hear of it.
While I understand the audience isn't supposed to be technical, implying that encryption confers integrity is a common misconception we shouldn't be enforcing. Encryption and authentication are two separate concepts, even though there are algorithms that provide both.
Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707547
Ill see you that and raise you "And now i have something i can blackmail this person with, since i have all the records and evidence. I can control this person now, and count them on my team, so there is no point in firing them".

Woohoo welcome to the Meritocracy of American Capitalism
I agree with all of that. I think it's all well known. Which is why I said I'm not saying that someone overtaking Google is likely - just more possible now.
> I vividly recall one of their dinners: Dried ramen noodle, straight from the bag.

I'm embarrassed to admit how many times I've eaten that on hikes. For my next long hike I'm probably going to ditch my stove completely: it's not so much the weight, but personally the last thing I want to do after a day of hiking is cook.
DHH on Hiring
It seems the rest of HN disagrees with me, but when I hear "trillions" I think in plurality of trillions, a handful maybe, but afaik these things don't really live past 2 trillion years
It's fairly simple - zero tolerance when it comes to harassment is a great place to start, offenders are sent packing.

Leadership sets an example of what behavior is acceptable and what isn't and management enforces it.

You also look out for culture fit when hiring - you don't just hire on technical competency, you also actively check that someone isn't an asshole, no matter how well they perform.

Edit: The question is, what will you do with the above advice? Will you take action and make improvements? Because otherwise this discussion was for nothing.
Agreed but don't waste your time with the film
Indeed. One of my favorite things about thru-hiking is that you get a ton of sleep: it's not unusual go to bed shortly after sunset and wake up at sunrise.
It's brilliant. Thanks.
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What problems did you run into with Clojure? I haven't missed JVM/Java experience. The Clojure standard library provides nearly everything and third party Clojure libraries wrap Java libs. Off the top of my head, the only Java thing normal code sometimes references is numerics, so you might glimpse Long/MAX_VALUE or Math/sqrt.
Assuming this is talking about Trump and politicians in general (since it's the Guardian and brought up Reagan), repetition is key in politics (or business) to drive home a point. How many times have we seen a product release that repeats ad nauseum, but it's deliberate. Also, being imprecise avoids having to stick to a promise. While I wouldn't say it's a great trait, it's probably still preferable to a politician who makes explicit promises and breaks them.

Anyhow, I have no doubt that it could be a precursor to Alzheimer's, but long-windedness can also be a conscious decision; it convinces enough people that you must know what you're talking about, since you're spending so much time talking about it.

Concise speech using appropriate vocabulary is overrated - it just flies over most people's heads, and if you don't pad your speeches with fluff, they'll mistake conciseness with having nothing to say. Skirting around issues whilst saying nothing using many words is usually a conscious choice among politicians and businessmen.
You are assuming it was lost in the same time period. Instead, there was ever refined stone construction techniques through medieval Cathedral's. So, sure 4500 years ago making a giant stone hill was hard, but the 1311 Lincoln Cathedral @ 524 ft was actually significantly taller structure and far more difficult.
Ahh basically yes you are. They built their entire business on destroying the employee-employer relationship so that they could avoid responsibility for employee behavior. That is their true business model - not ride sharing.

Responsibility Arbitrage. Carl Icahn would be so proud.
> but i talked to some interns there this summer and they said the employees were expected to work until 10pm at least.

I don't know of any team where that's true. My team is usually out of the office by 6, often earlier. I sometimes have trouble leaving work at the office, but a big part of that is that I'm excited about my project - others do better on that count.

> I also was told that the pay is subpar and they expect you to get paid mostly in stocks.

I might be able to do better elsewhere if I were better at selling myself, but moving to Uber was a step up for me in cash before considering equity.
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One of my scale numbers is, everything between Jupiter and the Sun masses less than 2 Earths -- Venus, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, and all the asteroids mass less than the Earth.

And only just barely! You get to around 99% of the Earth's mass with the rest of the inner solar system.

All of the other rocky bodies in the solar system give you another 10% of Earth's mass out to Pluto and another 10% beyond.
Testing "drantest"
This isn't realistic for most people. How many foresters/ mineral surveyors are there?
> No prior background on encryption or data security is assumed

Second sentence under "encrypted storage": "Alice generates a secret key that only she knows, and she uses the secret key to encrypt the data".

Both people I showed this to, each highly intelligent and accomplished in their fields, gave up at that point. "Secret keys" are defined on the next page, but a brief should define concepts before deploying them.
If you're in NYC, there are several hiking clubs which are very friendly to beginners which you could join.
I did El Camino de Santiago 3 years ago weighing at 220 pounds. 600 miles and 35 days later i was 160 pounds and had new perspective on life. As someone who always struggled with extra weight I've been able to keep the weight off ever since. Never felt better physically and mentally.

By the way, I've met a lot of folks who started with the Camino as their first thru-hike and went on to do AT and Continental Divide. I highly recommend it as a trial thru hike. It's not very difficult, but not easy either. But it'll definitely whip your legs into shape and get your prepared for something bigger and better.
So it's like pastebin, but without all the ads? And more geared towards writers? Looks good! I like how simple it is. Sometimes less is more.
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The reason so many people think Tesla is expensive is because some are valuing the company relative to Ford and GM, but others are looking at Tesla Energy and valuing the company not just in automotive but in GE's business, and even in Exxon's business.

GM + GE + Exxon = $765 billion

Tesla at $45 billion is still just 6% of that market. There's a lot of uncertainty there, so only a small slice of that $765 billion is getting priced into Tesla's stock, but it's enough to make the people comparing to Ford wonder what the heck is going on.
I've only started this particular episode, but the Talk Python to Me podcast is pretty stellar and has contributed a lot to my addiction to technical podcasts.
Ukraine's Drone Army
There are plenty of people hiking the AT who are decidedly not wealthy. Heck, I've met quite a few hikers who hike specifically to save money (living off social security).
By the same 'argument', understanding the laws of thermodynamics (which prohibit perpetual motion) allows us to exploit perpetual motion?
I didn't know about Office Online. Glad to hear Microsoft is doing that.

The problem with Google and Facebook is that I've come to realize our ethics are extremely misaligned.

I'm not interested in building exploitable systems filled with damaging metadata that can be abused by totalitarian states or vengeful employees.

I'm not interested in forcing Africa into a world where Facebook and Google are synonymous with the internet.

I'm not interested in running an echo chamber that 1/4 of the world's population uses, subjecting others to political influence and carefully syndicated information that influences their thoughts and behavior, while providing massive quantities of foreign user data to three-letter agencies interested in squashing social uprisings in third-world countries.

And I'm not interested in shutting down my moral compass by accepting corporate propaganda that tells me what I am doing is right and for the benefit of mankind.

Only reason I ever wanted to work for either was the prestige, the badass lunch buffets, and the feeling that I'm doing something important, positive and ground-breaking. But those are all selfish desires and the last one isn't true.
You're thinking of Earth, where the polar ice builds up perpendicular to the sun, causing tidal effects to wobble our axis a bit.

In this case, the ice is building up in such a way to make the planet even longer in the direction that tidal locking already had elongated it. The effect of which is that tidal locking would get stronger; not weaker.

I don't think it matters too much that it'd be icy on one side and rocky on the other; I think it matters more that it's oblong. But even supposing it does matter, if your intuition is that the more-dense end would want to fall towards the star, then that'd be the rocky end; not the icy end. Yes, the icy end got heavier supposing you measure from the rocky planet's center. But if you shift your frame of reference to be the planet's center of mass, then both halves of course kept exactly 50% of the mass; the densities are what shifted.
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I'm beating a dead horse here but other commenters are correct, your footwear sucks or you've got something else going in. I've done lots of hiking in the military, >20 mile distances, and we don't go light - I'm talking ~100 pounds of gear. I've lost lots of skin, but never a toenail.
Let's Refactor Some of My New, Bad Code: Part 2
I'm actually really surprised by the quality. I expected, as you put it, "non-print-on-demand" quality, but what I got has no obvious flaws or defects and a really high quality feel to it.
What's your score?[1]

[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
Richard Stallman suggest Ekiga, Mumble, or Jitsi
Only if you assume the data have been fiddled do you have to worry about correlation not being causation; otherwise the law of large numbers applies thoroughly - if not coincidence, that leaves causation in this case. Why? Because present inequality can't be causing previous peace; and as for both being a downstream cause of something else ... well that just beggars my imagination - Descarte's Evil Genius or Aliens with a sense of humor are the only such upstream causes I can imagine. But if you can do better, I'm open.

Most eras of history consist of anecdotal evidence; ya gotta examine and play the cards you have, not those you'd prefer. You infer that you've done a lot of reading plump with evidence contradicting this without ever offering bibliography or counterexamples; but my reading, which I mentioned, supports the thesis (for example, in the East as well) (and as it happens, supports Marx in this matter.) Please raise, call, or fold.
""One thing that stuck out with me is that they only hiked for 8 hours/day. That seems like a light day! compared to these races,"

Actually, this is probably true. 8 hours a day, averaging 18 miles per day for 486 miles over 29 days is not that much. I don't see where they say they had 20kg packs, which is quite high weight for a thru-hiker. (EDIT: See now where he says he had 40 pound pack, which is probably at heaviest point with full load of food, still high for thru-hiking and maybe a reason they logged less miles/day.) 18 miles/day is probably right around average for thru-hikers, who are mostly out for enjoyment and sense of accomplishment, not for speed. You have to be in decent shape, but it's not a high-intensity endeavor.

There is a fairly sizeable subset of thru-hikers who do go for speed, though. Many average well over 40 miles per day for several months and over 2000 miles. (They're definitely not carrying 40 pound packs.) They accomplish this mostly by hiking for longer hours each day, not by moving faster, since going faster breaks their bodies down. E.g., see this article:

http://www.adventuresnw.com/heather-anish-anderson-speed-que...
I haven't tried Flow, so I can't say.