skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not expect to have to open the app. I can set my podcast manager to download episodes automatically -- I don't need to remember to open the app while I'm on data.
What if I own a company and don't want my employees to have a voice in how things are done? Why shouldn't that be allowed?

And what if I hire workers to build me a house - should they be entitled to parts of the house after they build it? Or what if they absolute want to put marble into the bathroom, but I don't? Should they be entitled to put marble, because after all they are doing the work?

Meaning what is wrong with making a contract and fulfilling it? You do work x for me, I give you money y in return? Why make things more complicated?
> The power differential involved makes it automatically wrong.

To be fair, though, that's a relatively recent perception (one I hasten to add that I agree with!). Up until fairly recently no-one saw anything particularly wrong with a man marrying his secretary (or a professor his student, or similar situations), or just found it a bit off-colour rather than 'automatically wrong.'

As a product of our generation, I have a knee-jerk, 'no no no heck no!' reaction to subordinate-superior relationships, but that's just my culture; there are others in both space & time.
Yes! This! Same with dealing with racists, call it out when you see it. And stand up with those who are brave enough to act on it.
bosie, so far there aren't any guides/helpful messaging or placeholders, so my apologies it's not clear.

the functionality as it stands is, pasting a link and hitting ENTER will add the link.

it needs to be pre-pended with http in order for it to add a link, otherwise it will perform a search.

this will be changed to add a link (http prefixed or not) in any case when there are no search results
Of course there is, but that doesn't suit everyone.
> With a class action you have far more people to fight on your side, making cross X a lot less scary, if it ever gets to the trial stage.

That's not how class action lawsuits work. It's highly unlikely that 'women and LGBT persons of all genders who were abused by shitty bosses at Uber' will be found, by a court, to be a class. The class-action will be dismissed before it even gets to determining wrong-doing.

You can have a class action lawsuit over your employer, say, stealing wages from 10,000 employees.

You cannot have a class action lawsuit if 12 people have been harassed and abused by their managers. (The fact that the practice is widespread will impact judgements, but it does not mean that 12 people form a 'class action'.) [1]

Even more importantly, sexual harassment cases by their nature, require each case to be evaluated on its merits. Just because Claire, Adam, and Barbara have been abused by their bosses, doesn't mean that Donna can piggyback onto the lawsuit, and claim damages, without having her case examined as thoroughly as theirs.

> This is FUD.

No, it's not - not if you lose. If they win the case, Uber can, and almost certainly will countersue. (For PR reasons, they would prefer to avoid suing you if you just complain on your blog.) The first Google hit for your name will be about how you sued your employer, and lost.

Yes, there is the social benefit of these cases going to trial (Preventing future abuse in other companies), but not everyone wants to be a martyr.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action#Class_certificati...
It has a terrible time with an ordinary right-angled corner.

Put some of those in the training set and try again.
Lunar landing is harder in many ways than a Martian landing. Without an atmosphere, you cannot aerobrake.
Did you skip the part about Google finding the allegations credible enough to fire him?

Also, standards are higher for executives.
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Well it could be argued that the author's intention is no more correct than the audience's interpretation.
Because news agencies make money from attention not accurate and usable information. Also, financial market movement has so many factors that govern their movement, that in the short term it looks random but, peoples' daily need for news forces them to put a narrative to almost random short term moves.

Now this movement seems clear but, I can't know and verify for sure unless I have a representative sample of trader sentiments to know why they chose to buy or sell the stock that day.
Probably not them, but it made me think of these two... https://story.californiasunday.com/mars-madness
One way would be to use "known suspicious persons" as training material. Build the system used by the agent so that it does not immediately notify when the passport for such person is scanned, but instead let the border guard do the chatting and only indicate a bit later in the process this person should not be let through.

A bit similar method is (or was) used to keep the X-ray machine operators at airport awake. Software superimposes images of prohibited items on the X-ray image [1] and operator is supposed to notice them.

The other case (false positives) would be harder to tackle on the case or border agent. Maybe it would help if the same agent was actually involved in the detailed investigation and not just responsible of flagging suspicious people.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040116/full/news040112-15.ht...
I'm not playing identity politics. And I didn't mention racism and homophobia because that's not the perspective the author wrote from.

Look, I'm not trying to be argumentative, and I understand your doubts about the story. Really. I'm just calling attention to the way you chose to raise them. Claiming they're "absurd" as a way to present your argument that we should be skeptical is hard to take to seriously unless you're willing to say you worked on her team, or were another female engineering at Uber.

And yes, I probably escalated things talking about privilege, but I think this is a good example of how we don't always realize the ways our viewpoints affect our opinions. I personally have no basis with which to offer an opinion about the validity of the story. I welcome someone that reminds us to be skeptical because everything written was written anonymously.

And to be clear, I'm not talking about allowing anyone an opinion. I'm talking about how we discuss these things productively in public forums.
Ask HN: What's the minimum I should do to legally-protect my side project?
What are the minimum (i.e. cheapest) legal actions that I should really do if my side-project is already up and running and people are using it ?

* I'm not charging any money from users but I've got ads on the site.
* I don't want to incorporate - this is a side project and I hope it can be sustained that way.

Thanks !
I had used the xpdf [1] package, a C library and a set of CLI tools (mentioned by others in this thread too, and which the pdftotext command-line utility and xppdf/pdftotext library are a part of), in a consulting project for a client some years ago. (Client had asked me to evaluate some libraries for PDF text extraction, and then recommend one, which I did (I chose xpdf), and I then consulted to them on their product, using xtpdf for part of the work. Also did some post-processing of the extracted text in Python. Interesting project, overall.)

As part of this work, I communicated over a period, with one of the key technical people at the company behind xpdf, Glyph and Cog. Got to know from him about some of the issues with text extraction from PDF, one of the key points being that in some or many cases, the extraction can be imperfect or incomplete, due to factors inherent in the PDF format itself, and its differences from text format. PDFTextStream (for Java) is another one which I had heard of, from someone I know personally, who said it was quite good. But those inherent issues of text extraction do exist.

So wherever possible, a good option is to go to the source from which the PDF was originally generated, instead of trying to reverse-engineer it, and get the text you want from there. Not always possible, of course, but a preferred approach, particularly for cases where maximum accuracy of text extraction is desired.

[1] Not to be confused with xtopdf, my PDF toolkit for PDF generation from other formats.
The problem with a "unit" of risk like this is that probabilities don't simply sum like this.

Assuming the probability of dying in each activity is independent, planning to do a 7000-micromort activity A and then (after appropriate recovery time) an 8000-micromort activity B is not an overall activity with 15000 micromorts of risk. (The math is close enough when talking about single-digit micromorts, but it doesn't work in general.)

Pr(dying when doing A followed by B) = Pr({doing A and dying} or {doing A and surviving and then doing B and dying}) = Pr(doing A and dying) + PR(doing A and surviving and then doing B and dying) = 7000 / 1000000 + (1 - 7000 / 1000000) * 8000 / 1000000 = 14944 / 1000000

The larger the risks or the longer the series of events, the less accurate the assumption of linearity. This also doesn't take into account the fact that dying in extreme activities is not independent; by failing to die in A, you've demonstrated some small amount of survival fitness.
Dragon is only capable of crash-landing using its engines? I.e. there is not enough propellant, legs, etc... to do a soft landing? (not even considering take-off right now)
I am trying to verify its legitimacy, how can you silently accept such a critical post on face-value, no I don't work there. Giving voice to false claims intensifies their illegitimate power and in societies that this prevails that same power can be used by propagandists to advance their goal, so it's not about Uber it's about giving homage to truth, as every person's responsibility should be.
Discussion was in lat 2015 when they both confirmed. I dunno how they kept that under wraps, I guess since she didn't want to go public Recode let it go.
Have you worked at more than one company in the valley? There are vast differences in general happiness in different places.

Churn rate has a ton of other reasons, unless you want to pack so many different variables under 'happiness' that the term is meaningless.

But I guess if you're right, we have a test case: Uber will soon be perceived as Disneyland, because they have a massive hairball of a company happiness problem to deal with.
It is far from unheard of for someone to kill themselves in these situations. Also, still working in the industry could be considered surviving and someone who left the industry due to this treatment could be considered someone who didn't survive.

So i'd say survivor fits perfectly.
Which sort of amounts to treating oranges as apples in the case.

I always find it super silly when people apply population data to themselves. There's always much better data to go on if you know a bit about the individual.
The "S" in IoT stands for Security.
Internally, she's almost definitely identifiable. I think the parent was talking about public identifiability, seeing how the public doesn't have access to Uber's employee records.

And yes, unethicality/illegality doesn't appear to be an impediment for Uber. In fact, they seem to revel in skirting the law.
Ouch, those caps.

Yes, normally, HR acts in the company's interests.

But for many companies, its in their best interests to identify and fire creeps who work there and abuse women (or others generally).

What HR will do for you depends on what type of company you work in.

If you work in a company that cares about its culture, that values diversity and respects its employees, then HR is very likely to help you if you experience problems like these.

If you work for Uber - well I guess that's what all the heat and light is about. Is Uber such a shithole that these kinds of behaviour are actually condoned by the CEO?

Maybe we'll find out.
That part confused me. It is suggesting that flying around the world is safer than sitting in a chair to watch tv.

1 micromort for 10K km of air travel, and 1.3 micromorts for sitting in a chair in your own home.

Considering all the standing, sitting, stairs, ramps, overheads, etc. we do while traveling, this must be referring ONLY the the flying portion of flying... very misleading.
There's gravity and a rock. Ignoring all the differences these still two extremely hard things to solve first before you start thinking of anything else.
> They want to use the same identification techniques at entry and exit and match them.

The US doesn't even try to have general exit controls, though, and the routes of egress that DHS has the kind of presence at to implement facial recognition ar already have supposedly positive identification procedures for what is theoretically more critical and immediate security purposes in place, making facial recognition at those locations a very low value in improving ability to narrow down potential visa overstays.

Which isn't to say this isn't the reason, just that it's a very poor reason.
>>SpaceX announced Monday...

I'm pretty sure Monday already existed
Good point. I always have to set whatever GPS I am trying to use to fixed scale (no auto-zoom) map view with "north is up" before things feel right.
Do you mean that you fit a simple linear model, of the form below?

ability = b0 + b1*endorsements + error

And when you say t-test, are you saying you did a t-test for the parameter b1?

Usually when people refer to a t-test, without more information, they are saying they tested the difference of means between two groups. (or one mean against a number).

See, for example, the Wikipedia article on t-tests: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student's_t-test
It puts you in the category of people who don't follow basic instructions.
Ok, let's put it like this: how much are you willing to bet that they'll be sending two passengers around the Moon on board of Falcon Heavy/ Dragon 2 next year?
Trump and Putin on a one-way trip? please?
> I think that after some time people will forget about this.

Except that it seems to come up every 8 months or so with Uber, so there's a constant reminder of what kind of company it is.
This makes me think of Peter Watts' experiences regarding making one of his books 'classroom-friendly' [1]. Briefly, a high-school teacher wanted to use his Blindsight in her English class, and got his reluctant permission to produce a censored version. It never got off the ground, because there was parental protest at teaching from a book that at one point had profanity in it.

[1] http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6879
From the Nature paper:

"Here we use an archaeogenomic approach to identify an elite matriline that persisted between 800 and 1130 CE in Chaco Canyon, the centre of an expansive prehistoric complex society in the Southwestern United States."

TRWTF is translating the original CE into A.D.
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It could also have been eg the person Amit allegedly harassed, who may not have been entirely stoked about (1) google giving him his grants, (2) letting Amit write a "happy days, I'm retiring" letter, and (3) him going on to a similar job at a new company.

This is a lot more than idle gossip. If that's how you view this matter, I hear Uber is hiring!
Or worse, they could train a neural network to mimic the child's voice and create a fake message to send to the police alleging child abuse, with a ransom note at the end - in the child's voice.
> Women have campaigned hard to be allowed to go into "front line combat"

That's rather a separate issue, though. That's not just alleged bias, it's categorically blocking them based on evidence suggesting lower effectiveness of mixed-gender teams in combat roles.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but what's being campaigned against is very different from 'technical companies are not hiring enough women'.
I have some comments and thoughts, sorry for the long read!

> Did Apple look for unfair advantages or did they design products that people loved and bought in preference to others?

They made cool products, but they're the most valuable company in the world, at least in part, thanks to the unfair advantages too. The most blatant of them being the $14.5 billion in unpaid taxes in Ireland. And this is Ireland! Imagine if they paid the taxes proportionally in each of the countries where their operate, or in the US at least.

> Traders (capitalists) should indeed look for monopolies if they don't want a race to the bottom but that monopoly can be based on unique value to the customer if crony capitalism isn't involved although sadly it's all too prevalent.

Never have I heard of an industry that benefited from having a monopoly by a for-profit company more than not. Precisely because they are for-profit. These companies work to increase revenue; as much as they market otherwise, the "value to the customer" is but a means to grow this revenue. If they can grow this revenue without providing as much "value to the customer", or in fact, if they can increase revenue by providing less "value to the customer", they will.

And this is not me vilifying them, it's sadly the way things work. Otherwise, we'd have super cool stuff but companies would go out of business. Take every example of a monopoly though, and since they don't need to provide as much value, they all end up decreasing it.

> Markets are dynamic. Conditions change. People's needs and desires change. The monopoly of today will eventually dissolve and at best become one of many equivalent options, tomorrow.

Except when they don't. I think you're thinking of this only from the tech lens, right after a period of rapid growth and lots of marketing, and he staple child for this claim is probably Microsoft, and how Apple went from the underdog to the beamoth. I have two comments on this;

1. What really broke Microsoft's monopoly? I don't think it was new companies innovating, or people's demands changing. It was a change in the system and ideology. Tech went from being your standard capitalist industry to an interesting beast thanks to the emergence of the Free Software Movement, which shares many ideologies with socialism/marxism.

2. Would Standard Oil or the Bell Telephone Company have "eventually dissolved"? The problem with this system is that it's easier for the rich to get richer; if you have a monopoly and the conditions are changing, easier for you to buy out competition or R&D into the next thing than for any other company. Even now that Standard Oil and the Bell Telephone Company have been artificially split the companies that came out of them are still the biggest ones around; not some new ones, though the times have changed a lot.

> That's one of the messages of zero to one, Peter Thiel's recent book.

Haven't read the book, but Peter Thiel is a businessman after all. I'd take his views more as opinions, since he's not really a full-time economist researcher.
I think it's pretty obvious that Travis Kalanick should resign. He is the constant in all these stories supporting this nasty company culture. In the past year he has also been linked with Uber's shady business (attacks on press, fake income for drivers, etc) . He is the one pushing on borderline legal tactics. Even their business model is borderline legal (if anything). How he can deny knowing anything like the sexual harassment not happening ?
Used in a science curriculum, you're studying the science, and may as well get rid of distracting elements. Bowdlerizing it in the context of a language arts curriculum would still be "in schools", and I'd go the opposite direction there. In that context, I'd say they're an important part of the book, establishing the character that the author wanted to portray, and that you'd be losing lessons on contextual appropriateness of different registers of language.

The fact that both situations would occur in a school setting is completely irrelevant to me. I don't think that it should play a part in the "abridgement" decision (although I recognize that it would, and that my opinion on the matter is likely to be controversial). It's more important to me how closely it fits the purpose that it's being put to. In the case of my two examples, scientific vs artistic truths.
Just looking up records: the furthest anyone has ever been from Earth is Apollo 13 who passed 158 miles above the lunar surface.

I imagine that would be a pretty easy record to break, if you're doing a translunar flight anyway then getting a bit higher doesn't take much more energy (source: played a lot of Kerbal).

On the other hand the passengers might prefer a close-up view of the Moon to a record.
Is it still a thing, where going to space makes you infertile due to radiation? I feel like I remember basically once you go into space (male or female) kids are off the table afterwards unless you have frozen your sperm or eggs beforehand. Not sure if that was solved at some point or not.
Oh, ok. Gotcha.
The thing that strikes me, is that regardless of if this is 'verified' or not, that this sort of thing is not beyond the imagination or, indeed, the experience of most of us who have female staff/coworkers..

Even if the story is totally fabricated, the bigger point here is that this sort of thing really does go on, and I'm really not sure why. I've had staff who were totally normal and who I actually quite liked whom I've had to let go / perm shitlist for behaving in ways I could never have predicted them to, as soon as I added a female engineer to the team..

What's up with all this? Sad as it is, I always have a sit down with new female staff on my teams and try to let them know that they can come to me with anything like this which goes on and we'll work out how to deal with it together. It's a sad fact, but I've never discussed this topic with a female techie who doesn't have at least one story..

It's on all of us to stop this shit from happening.

Just... Have each others backs, folks!
"tried to trigger me and insulted my intelligence to see if I break under pressure"

I'm much more astounded that this is their interview technique.
> AG is not a political office, and he's not a politician.

AG is a Presidential appointment with Congressional confirmation. While those appointed are not necessarily politicians, it is most certainly a political position.
I actually do have a Mac machine, but I use it so little I didn't include it.

Anyway, there have been other Dropbox issues of a similar nature reported here on HN, and while I haven't been harmed by them personally, it speak to a style of development I don't agree with.

But what finally pushed me over the edge, was this racist initiative at Dropbox. I want no part of that.

https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2016/12/diversity-at-dropb...
The space ship is already being developed for the Commercial Crew program. The rocket is a new rocket but with the same engines and the same upper stage.

This does not seem so impossible. A couple of delays will happen, but all in all, there is no fundamental problem.
You don't need to stream the data from the OPi, that is the wrong way for watching video because it would transcode the data on a light processor then send it unpacked on the network, which would consume a lot more bandwidth.

Once you have the files on the disk attached to the board just set up a NFS and/or SMB server on it and let the clients players mount it as a network drive and suck the data. This way you can for example have all home TV sets playing each one a different movie at the same time.
How to tackle corporate cluelessness about data security
The silliness is even clearer in the finale, the part about "every day you get out of bed...". You're virtually certain to die if you don't get out of bed for enough days.
There's gravity and a rock on Earth too. Just going up into orbit, then landing back on Earth, is a much better way of testing a Mars landing.
thanks for the tip. diigo is definitely a competitor (was noticed by our analysis a long time ago but attention to it has fell by the wayside). pocket seems like the biggest whale, so naturally have pinned it as one of our competitors. i think any save-for-later app that introduces discoverability is a competitor