skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought that complaint was kind of odd. It's essentially the same as their Search input. Google/Yahoo/etc. are proprietary but Firefox lets you talk to them directly from their browser. Similarly, the code for the Pocket button (component) for where it handles the user clicking the button, along with what it does to talk to the Pocket server, was all in the open and if you build from source you could just remove that entirely. I was more against it for the same reasons I'm against any UI 'upgrades' when I upgrade the browser. The "share this page" button that suddenly appeared annoys me equally as much. Fortunately I can just remove it from the menu but I'd rather Mozilla didn't mess with my UI customization. (I don't know what I'm going to do when I can't use treestyle tabs anymore. I guess move to Pale Moon.)
>Says the three minute old throwaway account.

Are you trying to be ironic by dismissing the critic's anonymity while accepting the author's?
The Depopulation Problem (2004, Audio)
And in many cases it doesn't matter, those 2x, 4x longer are still in the accepted expectation time frame.
I recently spent a bit of time playing with the idea of making an IoT doodad, so this is pretty cool to see.

I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how to mass produce this, but looking at the Kickstarter it looks like you've doubled your goal with only 500 backers, so maybe that's not a useful question to ask.

One of the things that was unexpected for me when I was investigating was that I would need to get some kind of certification done by UL or someone else; have you gone through that process/what was it like?

Also, did you find a PCBA house that would also flash your microcontrollers, or do you need to do that manually?
I think it's disingenuous to conflate Uber with "not do good". I say this as someone who deleted the Uber app after Susan Fowler's story. .
Useable only from a desktop computer, but I appreciate that the developers made the effort to check if the user was in mobile and then let them know that a mobile version is not yet available.

Thanks!
How is this different than domcomp.com?
No one knows if this was truly a defective battery before overheating.

The way I read it: CPU gets hot, battery damage from overheating begins, computer shuts off. User turns it on again not knowing the state of the electronics inside. Possibly weakened or damaged electronics cause the battery to blow up.

Bad ventilation weakens electronics and continued use causes catastrophic failure. This is not new.
The ability to work independently. E.g.:

* Being able to design a small project from scratch and execute it to completion.

* Knowing when to ask for help and related time management skills: (https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/03/02/asking-for-help/).
His statement implied he would do something along the lines of philanthropy, not Making the World a Better Place™.
"In essence, the HR department blackmailed me that if I make noise, I’d be fired. I was distraught by the HR department’s response especially considering that most of the HR folks I dealt with were women."

Say it over and over, say it loud, and say it to every single person entering the US workforce from day one:

H/R ACTS AND WILL ALWAYS ACT IN THE COMPANY'S BEST INTERESTS. NOT YOURS.

Amy's situation was grave, and kudos to her for getting out. But everyone should read these stories and burn this line into their heads permanently.
Give me a break. When a successful tech executive says, "It has always been a priority for me to give back to people who are less fortunate," the Gates Foundation or the US Digital Service come to mind. Getting another highly paid job is not at all in the same class.
I use Instapaper on a daily basis, how does Pocket compare?
I wonder why Bloomberg didn't try to put this drop into perspective, somehow. Surely there are traditional measures of volatility, and they could have presented those. Why didn't they?

The simple answer is that bold statements grab more eyeballs, I suppose. But is that all there is to it?
It's honestly part of such a good quote, I feel compelled to post the rest.

"I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means. You would hang a man of no position, like Ravaillac; but if what one hears is true, then Elizabeth asked the gaoler to murder Mary, and William III ordered his Scots minister to extirpate a clan. Here are the greater names coupled with the greater crimes. You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them, higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science."

How right has he been proven, before and after his time? From athletes to politicians, from Steve Jobs to Winston Churchill.
Wait, you mean my 1500+ endorsements, mostly by people I don't know, are worthless?! https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregghoush/

I am pretty sure I already knew this.
> Of course, if you can find an investment that's guaranteed to go up, of course you should leverage yourself to the hilt.

It's worth pointing out that the post I'm replying to stated that housing prices generally track inflation, which is upward. My point is simply that leverage permits a return higher than inflation under those circumstances. I wouldn't claim that housing prices are some sort of "sure thing," and I don't think I did.

> And also by you

Yes, but the difference is I know I'm speculating.

Unless you've got some actual data to bring, I'm not interested in a guessing contest.
This is one of the most heavily flagged submissions I've seen in a while - hit #2 with 70 points, and now is at #6 with 174 points in 40 min, while the new #2 is 124 points in 2 hours.
Why would someone write an anonymous blog post but then declare that they are:

1) A woman in her late 20s
2) Who used to work at Uber in Engineering working on
database and networking scalability
3) Went to a top private college
4) has a Masters in Information Systems
5) previous to Uber worked as a Data Analyst in a tech
company in the Midwest and left when it was acquired
by a Chinese firm
6) Is 5 foot 7 Caucasian with dark hair
Except I doubt these are "the nerds". These are likely the fratboys who studied business and are continuing their hazing and misogyny as managers after college.
I don't have mini-ITX yet in the database, but I plan to add them later, when having sorted out the API intergration. microATX is there, I'll add a filter for the size.
We live in a world of fake news, but anyone who questions an anonymous blog post during a media hype-cycle surrounding Uber's sexual harassment allegations is flagged? It's important to be more diligent in these times, not less.
Is this a wise comment to make, given that your profile displays your personal details and work history?
If all the OS does is provide a minimal surface for running containers, I'd focus on whatever gives me the best security, manageability and updates.

The Container Optimised OS is what GKE uses on Google Cloud Platform https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/

It's conceptually very similar to CoreOS' Container Linux, so I might try that if I were looking at Kubernetes elsewhere and wanted a container-only OS.

If I am running an environment with multiple purposes - some container hosts, some regular machines - I'd err on the side of "who is my current vendor/what does my ops team support and know best".
Its sad to see what this private company, BlockStream Core-Coin has been doing, buying up all the Bitcoin talent or running them out of the project if they can't afford them.

They are filing several patents for any stupid little "feature" they can manage to shove into the Bitcoin code base. They are doing this as fast as their $76 million in VC will allow them to. This is 100% the roadmap of this despicable company trying to dismantle Bitcoin piece by piece so they can then sell themselves as experts and sell their vaporware "Lightening Network" to the next round of investors.

A pure money grab, plain and simple. There original CEO was a well know (openly admitted) scammer.

Their funding is from the legacy banking industry, the CTO is a joke, on Reddit 24/7 pushing his propaganda/marketing tag lines. Their new CEO is a 3rd rate cryptographer but has a PhD and their user base seems to be completely unaware of any of it due to their control of the main discussion platform, reddit/r/bitcoin.
It's unfortunate that the Silicon Valley work culture is being tarnished by companies like Uber. There are many companies that respect women and have HR departments that actually fulfill the purpose of being helpful Resources to Humans. I hope the anti-Uber sentiment grows so other companies can learn from this example.

I'm glad the author is sharing her story.
It's not just _one_ guy being talked about.
It would be remarkably easy for the author to validate the authenticity of her post by adding a picture of a pay-stub with blacked out identifying information / names / amounts.

Or alternatively publish the story with a news agency as a protected source under a pseudonym.

Uber deserves what they have coming to them at the moment, but an anonymized post that fits perfectly into the Uber / sexism / hostile work place with no evidence should be treated as suspect.
sigh just trying to lighten the mood with a joke. -2 for that. Thanks HN. He did use the present tense :-P

serious comment: I think it's great these stories are getting out. Now women know what they will face at Uber. And perhaps someone will have the strength to sue them for discrimination.
Kinetise now lets download the source code
Most Americans don't even know what an H1-B is (or how visas work in general). They think foreigners can just show up in the US and "apply for citizenship".
I don't necessarily agree, but I don't think this comment should be downvoted to oblivion. It is worth keeping in mind that these allegations are being made anonymously.

That said, given the level of detail and the consistency with other reports we've heard, I think this report sounds pretty credible.
batteries + car will always be >>> gas + car which will always be >>> steam + car ...do you see where this is going? There is no other alternative. Gas guzzling days are numbered. The pioneer of batteries+car will be rewarded for scores if not a century or more.
I am arguing that if there is no clear danger one should not go overboard, proportionality is what matters.

The USA and Canada are to all intents and purposes one when it comes to this kind of control. There are some borders that have been constructed with a biological air-gap in mind but that's not one of them.

This is one of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap

And it is effective because it is both deep and there are no easy ways around it.

I've visited places where there was definite risk of contamination and there are plenty of historic examples (of whole continents, for that matter, such as Australia) where eco-systems were upset by bringing in pests, diseases, new predators or animals without local predators so I'm well aware of the risk.

But border guards going overboard because of an apple makes zero sense to me, it is an over-reaction to something that is not a threat.

Yes, hypothetically you might be able to find a path through which a new disease might spread from one country to another because of a single apple. But since we allow animals to freely roam the Canadian/US border at will, since all the diseases that might affect your apple orchard as far as I'm aware are spread on both sides of the border since as long as we can remember in most cases and since that apple could have easily been inspected on carrying some kind of scary insect (which likely wasn't present or the owner would not have brought it) and everything else it might carry (some kind of blight) would likely not be carried past the point where it would survive normal indigestion and disposal the risk is so vanishingly small that it becomes a display of power rather than something useful.

Case in point: The many apples that I've carried from one side of the border to the other without so much as a batted eye. It's either consistent enforcement or you might as well not enforce at all and I highly doubt the US/Canadian border is so well established that it would not be possible to carry truckloads of apples across if one were so inclined.

Not all of the border is patrolled, even though you might believe other wise.

When the pig disease fear was in full swing the measures were laughably inefficient and inconsistent, and that was an actual threat with serious risk of contagion.

West Nile is another nice example: Mosquitoes don't see that imaginary line we call a border. Same with ant species, beetles and other big time destroyers of lives or crops.

Having the border patrol confiscate apples might sell a few more apples South of the border and it might give the official a boner but it isn't going to achieve much to keep a country safer, rather the opposite, it's going to cause people to find creative ways to get their stuff across the border with the chance that someone does smuggle a box with seed potatoes carrying blight across un-noticed.

And that would be a problem. An apple clearly intended for consumption is no more dangerous than any other item intended for consumption including sandwiches, liquids and so on.

If you're going to forbid apples you might as well forbid those otherwise it is inconsistent.
Sure and I suppose we've gotten a bit off topic. I guess my comment should have prepended this (to stay constructive):

>You're assuming that because it missed the traffic light once it will do so every time. The real world is a dynamic environment, something odd may have happened that it just missed the light that one instance.

Whether Uber misses this specific light over and over again or whether it fails in one off incidents across a spectrum of events when "something odd" happens shouldn't change our judgment of the car or company.
Why Messaging Queues Suck
> I am afraid to make my name public. Let’s call me Amy. For reasons only the #ubervictims know, let’s refer to the villain of this story as Mike#2.

My default is "show me the evidence", but I believe Susan Fowler's account because she put her reputation on the line and I was willing to trust that she left, opposed to got fired, due to non-performance reasons based on being able to somewhat approximate/confirm her technical abilities.

This submission is just anonymous accusations. Absurd, unrealistic-sounding accusations. If the culture at Uber was as rampantly ridiculous as described in this blogpost, men and women would be falling over themselves to tell their stories.

> My paycheck is 18% less than my less qualified male colleagues.

If this was true, and the anonymous writer, who claims to be a skilled data analyst, was able to make a case that this was due to gender and not ability, she should be telling this story to a lawyer, not a blog site.
Looks great! I appreciate the new ability to swap parts. A few comments:

1. Most of your swap pages have less than 100 parts, but display 50 by default. I wish this would default to "View All". Unless there's a huge number of components that will crash my browser, I'd rather view them all than paging through. Or, if you can't view all in case you crash a little phone on a bad connection, at least remember my selection across all of these pages so I don't have to reselect it for each component and visit to the site.

2. I wish there were more sort options on the select screen. At the very least, I want to see the performance metric you're using to recommend one over another. Further, I want to be able to sort and group by manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD), brand (MSI/Asus), VRAM, release date, power consumption, efficiency, form factor (ATX/uATX), etc. This is a lot of data, but it's the main reason why I use Newegg over Amazon, and Digikey over Allied. Parametric search tools are just the best way to select technical parts.

3. The Intel/AMD processor selection is a difficult UI problem. You want to simultaneously recommend the right brand for a target price point out of the gate, but also recommend only processors compatible with the selected motherboard. I'm not sure you nailed this one.

4. In the "Advanced" screen, the Intel/AMD/Additional check box hierarchy is confusing. The additional platforms should be under the Intel/AMD hierarchies, perhaps deselected as "Legacy" by default. Also, I know why they're additional, but a tooltip describing that LGA1150 is "for Intel 8x and 9x chipsets used with Core iX-4xxx and -5xxx series processors from 2013 and 2014" would tell me a lot more than I know without Googling. (Also, I can generate a server error by deselecting both Intel and AMD.)

5. I didn't see any M.2 or PCIe SSDs in the storage section.
this is really great news. i like pocket integration on kobo aura one. i hope they keep making that integration improvements further.
Tagging local images in Mac OS X using AWS Rekognition
whoa, that's really interesting, didn't know about that feature! not seeing the "cycles left" anywhere on my end though.
Anything is possible, but gender bias seems a much likelier conclusion than that she was hired as a dev because she has skills other than dev.
The difference between you and your wife and the vast majority of these claims is that you weren't creepy about it, and you approached the entanglement with respect and a certain amount of humility. I'm sure if your wife had said no, you would have backed right off.

What gets me is the poor judgment on display in all of these cases. Yeah, you did Gwen in HR, good job. I hope you guys blew the roof off the house, because now you get to deal with the entanglements that come with sex in a place you spend most of your waking hours. Are these people truly unable to think that far ahead? If their judgment is so poor in this arena, how am I supposed to trust their judgment in professional matters?

It boggles the mind.

(Also, are you btilly from the xkcd forums? If so, long time no see!)
From the article:

> It was normal for guys to refer to other guys as fags when they didn’t participate in private parties where sex and drugs were involved.

This was every douchebag in high school who would laugh at me for being interested in computers back in the early '00s. And now they're programmers 15 years later. Brogrammer culture squicks me out in several ways, but mostly because the same people who laughed at, mocked, and belittled anyone interested in programming are now invading our industry and driving the decent folk out.
Ignoring generalities. For me, there are clearly times vim is the more efficient tool. I find that to be more often the case than not. At a minimum, learning it allows me to think about things differently than the standard wysiwyg editors. These both make me a better dev. But ultimately, using vim makes me happy. That's what matters to me, and should matter to others as they pick their tools.
At 500 remotes, I'm planning to flash them myself. And I just called a bunch of factories to get quotes on box build assembly, wood machining, PCBA, and injection molding. It just took time to work on the manufacturing quotes.
I interviewed a few years ago at a Start up in San Francisco; I live and work in Atlanta. One of the things that worried my girlfriend to death was how we would afford to live there.

One of the guys I interviewed with said he spent $1,800 a month to rent a single room in a house with a few other people. He didn't even have his own bathroom. My friend that tried to get me the job out there was paying over $3,000 a month for a small 1 bed room apartment across the street from Twitter.

In Atlanta I was renting a 2,600 sq ft warehouse loft for $1425 a month.

The weirdest part was they offered me the job of a Lead Android Developer for $135k. I make almost $160k here in Atlanta as an Application Architect, and it costs way less to live here. Glad I turned that down.
There are lots of folk programming like the impact of bounds checking or that all game consoles except for XBox use OpenGL.

Also many younger developers believe that C was always fast, and are unaware that early 8 and 16 bit compilers for home computers were like managed languages. The compilers generated way worse code than hobby Assembly developers.
Is there any chance you know what's happening with delicious now? Their last blog post is dated "April 24, 2016" [1], and they are silent on Facebook since May 2016 too [2] despite loads of comments.

[1] http://blog.del.icio.us/?p=1193

[2] https://www.facebook.com/delicious/posts/10153614657337205
you don't know that the difference is due to the two platforms though

its certainly possible to make slow native apps and fast electron apps. whether yours is fast or slow, and whether you can build it quickly only depends on your skillset

cf: winamp vs windows media player
If this is true, then it's horrifying. I didn't agree with the crowd and delete Uber earlier for the protest stuff, but if this is true, then bye-bye Uber.
just a little mad that Kronos' classic naming scheme 'OpenVR' was already taken.
The author just bared an intensely personal and traumatic experience, that historically, has served as an open door to abuse, doxing, not to mention legal threats and discrimination from future employment, when the post is inevitably connected to her identity.

The three-minute old account making a comment from the peanut gallery did nothing of the sort. The two are not at all equivalent.
Details sell the lie. But if I'm wrong, if this article is grounded in any reality, I hope the author of this piece speaks to an attorney.
> H/R ACTS AND WILL ALWAYS ACT IN THE COMPANY'S BEST INTERESTS. NOT YOURS.

You're right, and here's the thing. It seems both women who've come forward would have open-and-shut cases against Uber for multi-millions in damages. It's surprising to me that neither have pursued Uber in this regard. Similarly, it's surprising to me that Uber HR hasn't done the mental calculus to figure out that these women have a solid case, and just fix the problem. Or, most disturbingly, Uber HR DID do the mental calculus, determined neither woman would sue; and, therefore, made the correct choices as "best for the company."

Either way, I'm taking Lyft.
When they add ML clustering to one's pages, so that I stop using bookmarks, and find useful stuff automatically grouped together, plus recommendations...then perhaps I'll start using it
that's more on the fact that linkedIn asks "does x know y" rather than "here's a list of skills, select which is more applicable".

I also agree though, people randomly endorse stuff. I see D.o.D. all the time or Security Clearance. What does that even mean? That's not a skill as much as, hey I worked there, or hey I have one.
Its one thing for the people who know her to know it was her, its another thing for the world. That is why.