skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I had one opportunity to speak up when my female teammate was being discriminated against

>He's a massive jackass too, but you can't fire people on the spot for being a massive jackass without a lot of evidence to back it up.

The implication of this is that you also have experience at Uber working with somebody who is unfireable despite being a "massive jackass" and engaging in sex discrimination against at least one female employee there, while you were around as a witness. It's good that you spoke up when he acted like that, I don't mean this as a personal attack on you or your coworkers specifically. But your anecdote here reads like one more story confirming issues with Uber's management/HR, even though you've intended it otherwise.
Post your 3D engine's GitHub.
Uber Executive Resigns After Failing to Disclose Prior Sexual Harassment Claim
Thanks for sharing that -- I think it's a good reminder to not stereotype an entire company. Also, it's also a reminder that this scandal is unfortunate for all of those at Uber who aren't like this and still have to deal with the barrage of bad press and accusations from everyone from the media to those around them (friends, neighbors).
Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview? From my book
I will after my primary project ceases to be developing an iPhone app. Should be sometime this summer.
Meet the Guys: The Jerks of Computer Science
> TP was a lot faster

Not surprising. As far as I know, Pascal doesn't have anything remotely as hostile to efficient compilation as the C preprocessor (oh look, changing that one constant in a header file rendered your entire project out-of-date because the compiler can't prove that it doesn't make arbitrary memory layout and AST changes in every file that indirectly #includes it).
I've been thinking: you know what would be a beneficial use of image recognition? Trash dumps. Find out what brands aren't recycled when they should be, and penalize them.
> still asking the question?

Yes, because the question isn't "how is this useful", it's "how is it in Mozilla's best interest to invest in this?" Mozilla came up with XUL because they wanted a cross-platform way to develop a large graphical application, and given that they're an open source organization they figured they might as well try to popularize the framework to hopefully get some volunteer contributions to the codebase. But XUL was never an end, only a means to an end, and the technology itself no longer has any strategic advantage.

As for "failing to execute" on taking over the world of desktop apps with XUL, I don't think Mozilla will lose any sleep over it. The secret sauce to Electron isn't Chromium, it's Node.js. We can say that Mozilla failed to execute the opportunity to popularize server-side Javascript first... but that's Rhino was for, and really, nobody in 2005 would have foreseen that developers would eventually want to write their backends in Javascript. :P
Just like recruiters track interesting people, so does the NSA. If you are doing advanced R&D and discuss it on a public forum, the NSA and Big Corps will notice, and if the technology is of interest to them, they will probably contact you to discuss. Have you ever received a random call from a company or some unknown party that wants to learn more about one of the projects you are working on?

NB: I know of at least one instance where a Big Social Network company contacted someone less than 24 hours after the person wrote a long technical private message to a collaborator. This doesn't mean the Big Social Network was directly reading their private messages -- the BSN may have just been mining messages for keywords -- but the net effect is the same, they notice and will contact you if what you are working on piques their interest. Not all Big Corps mine private messages in this manner -- Google does not do this AFAIK, beyond the algo that displays Gmail ads.
For anyone who hasn't studied a foreign language extensively, you might be surprised to learn that numbers are much more difficult than your intuition would suggest.

You might think, what's the big deal? You need memorize around 40 words (i.e., the words for 0-9, 10-19, 20, 30, ..., 90, 100, 1000, million, etc.), plus a few rules, and then practice until you're fast.

I want to point out some difficulties that people learning English encounter. Every foreign language will have its own anomalies.

- In English, a year like 1776 is spoken as 17-76, not as one thousand seven hundred seventy six. And if you say it the long way, a native English speaker might even get a little thrown off.

- As an exception to the above, a year like 2001, is spoken as two thousand and one, not as 20-01.

- As an exception to the exception above, a year like 1701 is spoken as 17-oh-1, and not the long way.

- Times like 3:45 are spoken in numerous ways, like 3-45, quarter to 4, 15-45 if afternoon, or possibly even 15 to 4.

- When giving an address, 386 Maple is said as 3-86 Maple, not as 3-8-6 nor the long the way.

- You need to learn fractions and ordinal numbers: half, one-third, an-eighth, etc. You eat a third of a cake on the third floor, but half a cake on the second floor; i.e., different words in the case of number 2 (half vs second).

- When speaking a series of digits, 0 can be said as oh or zero; in many contexts, oh is much more common.

- Other exceptions and special cases with dates, prices, decimal points, measurements, ...
Human Errors and Their Solutions in Product Design
Isn't uber known for this? I remember them responding to a lawsuit or something by hiring PIs to get dirt on people - stuff beyond the merits of the case.

They've always ended up looking
In a society that would function to minimize waste rather than maximize it as a route to increased consumption, that would be a brilliant way to enforce sanity.
As others have pointed on, on top of all that, even if you win, you're going to have a very hard time getting a job in the same field because of the law suit.
It's amusing how much "Civil Rights and Race Relations" ballooned after Obama took office.
Top 20 MCQ Questions on HTML5 Presentational Markup – InfoTechSite
Unless an aware public is the problem. The first step in defining a new reality is destroying any current reality. Not everyone wants truth and facts. People, paticularly the US public, enjoy myths. They want to live the fantasy. They really dont see disconnection with reality as a problem. It is a necessary step towards a more universal acceptance of thier construct. The myth is simple and comforting. It is far easier to accept than gritty reality. But you first have to disconnect. Those who knowingly push disconnection upon others feel they are a force for good.
Just use a AirPort Time Capsule. Great piece of mind and just works.
It may be that we are at significant risk of a big disaster.
So, we want to be correct.

For one, we can conclude that there is little or no danger, that we need do nothing, do nothing, be wrong, and have a big disaster.

For another, we
can put on big time carbon taxes, cobber the economy for ourselves and our children, but again might be wrong, that is, have clobbered the economy for no good reason.

So we want a good answer.

Finally, just applying my judgment and what I can smell with my nose, I come down on the side that the crucial part of this issue is not science but politics and money.

E.g., today it did finally sink in to me that, with all the different model results in the graph I linked to, at least one of the results had to be close to reality and, thus, an accurate prediction. Luck would have it that the model with the most accurate prediction was the one predicting essentially no change -- whew, that was a close one! A lot of people could have been fooled with that one!
I think it's insane that "allegations" of harassment are enough to get you fired. That sets the bar far too low, below any standard of evidence.

Replace google with some shit company that didn't want you to leave and you'll see what I mean. I warned my boss at my current job that my last one ain't gonna be too happy about me leaving since I was nearly irreplaceable. I'm still betting they said terrible things about me, but what kind of bullshit evidence is that?
Switched to one actually. My System 76 was aging and work bought me a new MBP. It's nice. Definitely has the processing power to do everything that I would want to when I'm away from my desktop. Good battery. My desktop (Ubuntu) is still where I do most my work.
> If you're using your company's network, then they have every right to monitor all of the activity on it.

It isn't a question of whether they're allowed to do it, it's a question of whether they should do it.

It's ineffective against insider exfiltration of data unless you're also doing body cavity searches for USB sticks, and if you're at that point then the sensitive network should not be connected to the internet at all.

And it's similarly ineffective against malware because TLS is not the only form of encryption. What difference does it make if someone uploads a file using opaque TLS vs. uploading an opaque encrypted file using MITM'd TLS? Banning encrypted files, even if you could actually detect them, doesn't work because they're often required for regulatory compliance.

It isn't worth the security cost. The situation in the article is bad enough, but consider what happens if the MITM appliance itself gets compromised when it has a root private key trusted by all your devices and modify access to all the traffic.
Do women's bathrooms have more sit down toilets than men's?
You, with the rest of us, have been treated to more than enough coverage of the issues at Uber to know that this isn't a series of isolated incidents.

If you really wouldn't stand for this sort of thing, then quit your job.
Do you know of a summary of the phenomenons we cannot explain without resorting to "dark matter"?
I'm really surprised healthcare isn't an bigger concern for people. Even while having good employer provided health benefits, I'm still worried about the costs --to employer or to out of pocket payers. The more money as a percentage spent on healthcare, the less available for other things, including compensation.

It's really something which needs to be brought under control. Without healthcare we don't have a healthy American workforce.
As a shareholder, curious what Apple said and did as a response. Did they offer a brand new MacBook free of charge?
So it's not just programmers that have a hard time with dates/times, it's the entire human race.
Seems like a lot of the problems for Feb. 2017 are a lot more varied and existential ("Dissatisfaction with government", "Immigration") versus Feb. 2009, where "Economy in general" and "Unemployment" and other material economic metrics are by far the main worries of America.

As ugly as politics have gotten today, at least the presiding concern for most Americans isn't "can I afford my mortgage/rent next month?".
It's about 50/50 by moles, but one mole of CO2 masses 44/18th = 2.44x as much as one mole of water.

The atomic makeup of RP-1 is about CH1.97[1], so at stoichiometric ratio[2] that would yield 71.3% CO2 and 28.7% H2O by mass.

[1] http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/propulsion...

[2] in reality Falcon 9 burns fuel-rich
Perhaps, but I would argue that they are wrong about that.
I installed tc and built wolf3d from source following the instructions. The whole process is surprisingly smooth.
This is Susan Fowler, who's very well known in the community. ~zero chance it's fake.
Incognito mode.

Or Archive.is
> "... according to a new survey from the nonprofit Solar Foundation."

You should take this with a pretty big grain of salt, because I'm pretty sure something called the Solar Foundation isn't an unbiased source.
You are so wrong. I am a hong king "chinese". I would say your way of thinking is what causing a lot of trouble.

You says chinese is one race. You mean Hans. If not we are not of one race. You cannot have your culture hans and fighting Mongolian, tibetian, manuchuain ... all your thousand of years literally. Then suddenly they are chinese because in the last 100 years someone decided to occupy these people's land then they are chinese.

What is china? Heard of Great Wall. Why is there a Great Wall. Has the Qing emperor thought the Hans are not enemy to be killed and contained.

We may say you are European. But let us not kid ourselves when thing boiled down you are english, French, ...

We may say we are Soviet Union. Brotherhood ...

And these we are chinese under communism is shameful.

There are more than politics. But killing culture, suppressing people, ... I am ashame to be associated with this gang.

I know more than you, I love my poems from tong down to mao. I share my many dreams that one day we will kick this communist ass out and we will ....

But who are we. That is a question.

As to chinese minge with their own. Do you know all chinese education now has a foregein language and also most top guys descendent run. They do not feel comfortable with each other over there. Or here.

Btw, Korea and japan may get a bit from us. But like china people copy apple to make little rice does not mean they are American. A lot of our vocabulary is coming from japan. Chinese do not have the word for society.

We are all human. At least for now (well we are in the hacker group). We do not deny our heritage. But not recognise who you are ... you love nazi because you are germany, do you?

Let us be human first. And do not look at a black face and then say he is africn American. He is human first. He may come from a part of Africa you do not know. But do not think first he is an African.

I am not chinese. You are not as well.
The ability to blacklist sources would be fucking awesome.

I'm mostly limited to firewalling domains at my router. Doesn't stop them from turning up on, e.g., Web search.
Make sense. For starters, the economy was in such a crisis that economic concerns took priority over everything else when Obama entered office. Second, his office made dealing with civil rights a priority, which meant that the costs of prioritizing civil rights suddenly drew more attention than when it was a backburner issue.
tuhdo, can you say more about how the process works to convert your book from lyx text source to pdf? Since the current pdf seems to have particular formatting added to the source text (eg, terms not emphasized in remaining.txt are italicized in the pdf), it's a little tricky to tell. Is the raw lyx file where the formatting rules live? Does the lyx file store its text source in text files, but its formatting rules in binary?
Problem is, the rest of the developed world ain't so hot on this front either. And the developing world is usually worse if they have the resources to implement it.
I'm not arguing against that idea (employees receive a paycheck only, not shares). And you appear to be conflating company influence with product influence (was I not talking about company shares?). Shareholders, employees or otherwise, don't force those marble bathrooms; the product designer or customer does.
Imagine this thing coming at you at full speed.
Turns out I'll be the contrarian voice in an overwhelmingly Apple-positive thread about switching away from the Mac:

OS X has been my primary productivity OS for more than ten years now, but I'm in the process of switching. I'll keep using my 2012 MBP until it physically falls apart, but make no mistake: this will be my last MacBook. Not sure what I'll replace it with when the time comes, performant laptops with a long battery life and 2TB+ storage are amazingly hard to come by these days.

My iPhone has a broken screen that can't be fixed without permanently losing the finger print scanner, so that's going to be my last iPhone as well.

On the desktop side, I'm using an iMac/PC dual setup (with Synergy), so I'm still dragging my heels a bit because honestly it hurts to let OS X go. Windows and I will never be friends, but there is no question that the PC platform is going to be the future for me.

To be clear, switching sucks royally for me, but staying would suck more. macOS hasn't deteriorated to the point where I want to leave it behind yet, although the writing is on the wall. But Apple's hardware philosophy and practice makes it so I'd really hate giving them even more money for yet another even more hilariously overpriced, closed-down, underperforming, outdated, unrepairable, not-upgradeable appliance that they think is going to be the future of computing.
> If you can't tell it just feels wrong to me. Just something's off about this concept.

It's your representative's job to represent you. Marc has no obligation to answer your question.
I'm not so certain what they're speaking of is racism as Americans know it. It may be a form of "culturism" (where a group believes "My culture is the best.")

I have a friend who was raised in Vietnam of pure mainland Chinese parents (from the diaspora). Educated in Chinese schools (there was a huge Chinese community in Saigon where the Chinese dominated business), he spoke primarily Chinese until the age of 14. In his 14th year, Chinese schools were forced by the Vietnamese government to use the Vietnamese language in all classes, so he had to learn formal Vietnamese, and to read, write and speak Vietnamese in, say, geography class.

In summary we have an individual who

- culturally is classical Chinese,

- was born in Vietnam,

- is a naturalized US citizen,

- whose Chinese cultural habits and language date from the time of his parents' migration (circa 1920's) and are classical (non-Mandarin) Chinese,

- whose Vietnamese language and cultural skills are weaker, dating from middle school on,

- who also took English as a foreign language beginning in middle school,

- who also learned Mandarin so he could speak to his brother's new wife, a mainland Chinese woman.

Anyway, he worked in an office in the USA with mainland Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, and the usual mishmash of other Americans. Astonishingly, each of the Chinese groups, and the Vietnamese group, treated him as an outsider. With the exception of the Vietnamese, these groups tended to promote from within and to prefer their own group in inter-office politics. He went so far as, at one point, to specifically inquire into people's beliefs and was surprised to find that there was _no_ group that accepted him as a member, except the Americans! This despite the fact that everyone liked him.

Recently, for reasons unknown to me, he has become a flaming pro-mainland Chinese proponent vis-a-vis the USA, despite having no direct ties to the current Chinese culture or government. Many times I've had to point out to him that the only thing he truly is, and the only culture that truly accepts him, is "American".

I really got his goat by pointing out that he has little in common with mainland Chinese, certainly neither language nor culture, and that he is to them, culturally the equivalent of their grandfather or even great-grandfather.
Apple will have to screw macOS up a lot for me to stop using it, especially if work keeps buying my MBP.

I just reclaimed my 2009 MBP after upgrading my wife's MBP. I'd never notice it wasn't current If it wasn't for running a little hot and the non-retina screen.
Their Go services definitely read like a very beginner or prototype project. There are no tests, lots of global state, and little separation of concerns between request/response business logic etc.
Usually, yes, in the space occupied by urinals in the men's toilets. But you can fit more urinals in that space.
This is only seen as a problem if the experts are seen as beneficial.

For instance, even on HN people love to take potshots at nutritional guidelines that resulted in low-fat/high-sugar diets, or boneheaded regulation holding back [new cool disruptive thing]. It's not even relevant why (if the experts were just wrong, or bought off, or what), but the more examples you see, the less you'll just trust what "the establishment" tells you.
Learn the basics of coding - CodeAcademy JavaScript to Unity (major VR support there) I'd recommend.
This 1000 times. It so easy to lie on the internet. It's even easier to get riled up and pick up pitchforks. The things this person wrote about were horrifying, yes, but an anonymous post on the internet should not be immediately accepted as cold hard facts.
I wouldn't call it tanking. I'd say correction. Since Dec 2nd, $TSLA has been up over 40%. Today's action brings it down to up 35%.

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=1&chdv=0&...
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I have maxed MB Pro 15" late 2016 model and cant really imagine switching to anything else for development.
I bought a 2015 MacBook Pro, I would highly recommend one. The 2014 MBP is still great too if you can find one, basically the same as the 2015 model.

I have negative interest in the touch bar or that awful keyboard.
> I see that HR doesn't want to fire people he's fond of

If the the descriptions we've read so far about Uber HR's response to sexual harassment and discrimination claims as well as Travis's role in them are corroborated, the board needs to do a major housecleaning at Uber starting from the CEO, many people in HR and many of these managers who were directly carrying out these actions. Anything short of that sends the signal that women are indeed considered second class citizens in the tech ecosystem.

Anything short of this would leave Uber as a silicon valley pariah. Top engineers and managers would be reluctant to join the company. Those who stay in Uber long term will have their brands tarnished. If we, as a group (silicon valley startup ecosystem) fail to respond in this manner, the entire industry's brand will be tarnished forever.

We claim to be a meritocratic and progressive bunch. It pains me to say this as a guy in this industry, I had never imagined how serious and ugly the sexism in some parts of the industry is. Yes I had known at a surface level that women have more obstacles to overcome to make it in this industry. But still Susan Fowler's blog was shocking to me. This new blogpost has doubled the shock. I hope my actions from this point on will be guided by this knowledge.
The NFL is a nonprofit by any reasonable definition, even without the explicit exception in 501(c)(6). Or rather, it was, until it voluntarily gave up its tax-exempt status in 2015 supposedly over public opinion about their status.

I think people simply aren't aware that all the major revenue associated with the NFL goes through specific teams, which are normal taxable corporations. Humorously, people also aren't aware that they gave up their tax exempt status, so I'm not sure that decision was worth it.
Authoritarianism.
Huh. Lots of car companies do their driverless tech testing in California. Uber just doesn't like following rules that everyone else finds reasonable.
My MBP isn't quite in updating range yet, but I fully expect to buy the next model MBP after the current one.
For some reason, repl.it crashes my FireFox without fail every time I try to open a REPL.

It's a shame; there have been several occasions over the past few months where it would have been extremely useful, but instead brought things crashing down.
Launch Abort is a system that should _never_ have to be activated. If you use Launch Abort, the series of failures preceding it was so catastrophic that you had no alternative to avoid loss of life.
From 2,800,000 BCE to the present.

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The TLS negotiation is mutual. Both endpoints tell each other what they support and they agree on a protocol that's mutually supported.

If merely advertising 1.3 while still advertising older versions causes blue coat to break, it has a bug in TLS version negotiation.

There is no downgrade or whitelist or failing closed. Each end says what they support and BlueCoat blows up the connection if it sees that the other end supports a newer version. It should say "oh we both support 1.2 let's use that" And apparently it's done this before so there's even less an excuse for it.