skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hereby accuse you of sexually assaulting me. I know it happened. I was there, and from that perspective you should be getting wrecked. I am making my accusations anonymously on the internet so it must be true.

by your logic we should now scream your name from the mountain tops and conduct a witch hunt and destroy your reputation and livelihood simply because you have been accused.

the truth is that Women are people and people often lie. True equality means recognizing that everyone, male, female, and everywhere in between, have the capacity for lying.
"Always listening" is meaningless marketing drivel.

Anything with a microphone might always be listening, and you probably can't (easily) verify whether it's on-demand or not ;-)
But the fraud algo's + the support are absolute crap. I am known to Google + Paypal, I am logged on as a user, I have credit cards and bank accounts attached, I am with both about since they came online. I made money for both; I am not talking as a consumer, i'm talking as a business owner. Which is not the 6b people on earth; it's far less.

The problem is that companies actually, legally steal money like that; I did not fraud anyone ever and yet I have to provide proof (which I already did 100 times; they have my passport copy, bank statements, where I live, know me for 15+ years etc (and have data on me for that time)) and then still smug (...) canned responses that 'this is the way it is'. But I have no recourse besides legal action which is usually not worth it. So I just have to suck it up. It's theft; I did not do anything. That is my gripe; outside internet, it would not stand. But luckily I left that all behind many years ago; this just brought it back in my head :) Sorry for ranting.

I'm all for automation, but not for bad automation. Google is still party to that in many ways; I am logged into Google / Gmail / Plus / Drive / Photos and do a search; I get a captcha request because I 'might be a bot', then I fill it correctly and it says my computer might be sending automated queries. IT IS NOT and it's just a disgrace to the company, when I am logged on as a very long term paying loyal user, that they cannot simply see 'oh, that's Tycho, let's not annoy him with stuff that he never does/did/will (and he uses Linux, is a programmer, uses Noscript so his laptop is very much not compromised) do and oh yeah he is logged in via 2-factor auth so it's him'. Boggles the mind. Not sure how you can defend it.
2. Is how search is implemented in the ActionBar on android. Every android users knows that pressing the search icon will open the search input field in the ActionBar.
Well life is about compromise, so there's that. A 100% pro-worker, anti-employer solution would not work, just like a 100% pro-employer, anti-worker rights solution wouldn't either.
To be honest, I'm not so sure. Especially in the tech scene, enough people are anti ads/sponsorship that I'd generally avoid reaching out unless I saw they were already doing it or were keen to monetize. Even having a sample unit or "hello bar" mentioning you're taking on sponsorships would increase the likelihood of someone reaching out, all IMHO of course.
That will be perfectly fine just as soon as I can buy more than one at a time.

As long as the sales are one offs, its not a $10 device yet. I hope it will be. There was something decidedly fishy about the "$5" Zero that has never ever been available more than one at a time.

I'm not saying that there was a secret conspiracy, but if you happen to be a distributer who makes his margin on each transaction, not each unit, and your source is chronically short, a de facto Zero situation emerges where you make far more on the limited supply available by forcing extra transactions. Sadly this largely negates the purpose of offering an ultra-cheap item in the first place.
Manufacturing can be a pretty rough environment. The factory where I used to work drew the line at porn, more or less, but casual racism, sexism, and all the 'phobias were rampant. Our director of HR was let go for sexual harassment.

Edit: Should clarify that the fact that this is normal for manufacturing in no way excuses it, and I support this lawsuit.
It's hard to convince us because it's not true. As a matter of fact, the opposite is true - hardware certainly doesn't "just work" in Apple's ecosystem and it does just work with Windows.

I use Mac and Windows every day at work. Rarely, if ever, do I have any issues with my Windows hardware but my Mac hardware constantly causes me problems. Just last week I had to take steps to "zap the PRAM" on my 2012 Mac Pro since every USB port died for no reason.

I also have multiple wireless USB mice that work fine on my Macs until I go to the Updates tab of the App Store...at which point they simply stop working. Another problem I have with my Macs is that there is no built-in way to disable an external monitor without unplugging it or powering it down.

Honestly, I've been using Macs since the 90's, I've always had hardware problems with them and when I look around I see others having the same problems - so I know it's not just me. If you search the web you can see millions of others having Mac hardware issues - so I'm not really sure where Apple fans are getting the idea that Mac hardware "just works" because it quite obviously does not.
Removing well-defined restrictions on work usually results in an explicit or implicit negotiation for working conditions, which usually results in less favorable conditions for the party with the weaker negotiating position (workers).
> So, essentially the same way SSH works?

Not if you are doing SSH right... That "fingerprint validation" message you get the first time you connection to a SSH host: you should be verifying that against a copy received through another (preferably secure of course) channel, not just blindly trusting the first fingerprint you are shown.
Site's down. Text-only cached version at least lets you read some of the content: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kJ5Zk-7...
Obviously I thought it was substantive (I still do), as another example of the traditional media getting sloppier & sloppier as its margins have eroded due to Internet competition (which, to be fair, started out sloppier and isn't necessarily getting better). I think it's relevant, because we're at a point where the profession of journalism is severely resource-starved.

No, it's not relevant to the topic of a pueblo burial, any more than a Bloomberg article's broken JavaScript or autoplaying video is relevant to the article's topic, but I contend that it's relevant to HN, and I had hoped it might spark some discussion on how to improve online journalism (unfortunately all it sparked was some folks defending the error, but that's life).
Kay and Jared Jewelry Company Accused of Widespread Sexual Harassment
Cloud-Based Services Every Tech Department Should Be Using
Regarding the ADC issue specifically, when programming at the hardware level never discount the simple possibility that it's just that the microcontroller pin is fried (e.g. due to ESD). Also consider the opposite: the ADC is telling the truth, and there really is 0 volts. (In other words connect a multimeter or scope to the pin while changing applied voltage.)

There's also often mask/state/flag bits that can affect these things. Maybe the ADC is in differential mode whne you expected absolute, etc.

If I eliminated the easy possibilities and was stumped more than an hour, I'd go all the way back to a new/blank chip and whatever "My First ADC Demo" program Microchip supplied, possibly building it on a breadboard instead of the circuit board. If your real board can't start up without the rest of the project code, I would just frankenstein the breadboarded microcontroller on top of the soldered-in one. (E.g. connect ground and ADC lines only and see what the demo program reads there.)

Whether we're talking about mocks and unit tests for a web service, or hardware hacking, the process is the same: iteratively asking "How can I ensure I'm testing only one variable?"
I find the DF UI, while minimal, to be great.

Do you use Dwarf Therapist?
A crash course in just-in-time (JIT) compilers
As someone who has wasted far too many hours in games, i believe that DF to be simply the best game ever made. The UI is rather horrific but something you can get used to. Admitedly it took so many efforts to figure out the game but that becomes half the 'fun'.
Anyone wanting to play, find a lets play video (for the current version) and just follow along. Sounds silly, but thats how i finally got it.
Palantir is not a tentacle of the NSA. Not even close.
Better archive link: http://archive.is/mt4mq (the site works fine for me, though)
They have not written off blockchain, it was just announced yesterday that they are founding members of the new "Ethereum Enterprise Alliance".

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-intel-banks-form-ente...
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I somehow missed the earlier version of this when it was posted >1 year ago. I was creating some landing pages for a non-profit today, and hadn't done it for a while, so searched online to find a (hopefully free) tool that would output reasonably clean HTML, but provide a bit of help with drag/drop components.

Pingendo seems to do what I need for the moment, and was easy to install with brew cask.
Dynatrace Innovation: In 2016 we drew a line in the sand
> You can get a programming job that pays you $200k/year for 40 hours

I'm going to assume this is including any stock options and other benefits? Because IIRC the software engineering profession caps out at around $200k... and that's only for the best of the best in places like SV. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'd love to be honestly haha.
Ripped it out implies that at one point they used it.
Qt has more restrictive (or expensive) licensing for proprietary usage. Electron can freely be used in proprietary projects without buying a license.
The myth of “mission-critical”: Irrational thinking in modern IT management
I had a similar experience while trying to devise an algorithm to fill up n spots having n-1 soldiers available in the military. So after losing few hours, not being able to come up with any combination that satisfied all conditions I run to the sergeant, explained the problem and he just erased a spot for 24h, changing spec. Suddenly everything fell in to place.

Alexander the Great did the same thing in order to solve the Gordian Knot[1], he changed the spec by removing the complexity (in one stroke).

I was not in a position to even think about proposing the removal of any spot that had to be guarded at all times. Doing so, might have resulted in someone (including myself) doing double-shifts for a few days. Only he who has the power can do it (e.g. Larry Wall for Perl, Alexander the Great for the Gordian Knot and the sergeant for the military camp).

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Gordian_Knot
Runnable Environments for JIRA
I think you missed something.

There is a HUGE communication overhead in writing code with multiple developers. HUGE. If you have Bob writing a program all by himself, he writes at speed X. Now you add Jim. Jim is just as smart as Bob. But he doesn't know the way the object model works. He doesn't know about the glitch where sending null to some method causes a really weird stacktrace that is hard to debug. He doesn't know that the reason Bob did something else was to cover a real but rare network event. So Jim makes mistakes. Jim and Bob have to discuss decisions. Jim and Bob need to have meetings, and design reviews, and repeat mistakes. So I bet the total code delivered by Bob + Jim is something in the range of .9X to 1.1X. NOWHERE near 2x like linear scaling would deliver. You can argue something like the total code quality improves with more eyes, fine. But Bob is held back a lot and able to write a lot less code because of the newly added teammate.

This is why some of the most influential pieces of software ever written were done by 1 man teams. A decent 1 man can be much much more efficient than a 2 man team.

So back to your example. Bob goes halftime, and you are right - his productivity drops from X to .6X (not a full 50% loss, because his brain is more rested). But adding in Jim, you don't get .6X + .6X.. you get more like .5x-.7X total productivity. Adding a third Billy, and you end up with maybe .8X the original Bob speed. Remember you now have 4 people. So you need 4 way meetings. Each person picks different parts of the codebase to specialize in. People now write code that will conflict with other people, maybe not even knowing it for months. Maybe a forth programmer Jen can get your total productivity back to the original X of just Bob. So you know took 4 half time employees to replace 1 full time employee.

All of this is why I think a team of 2 is almost always a mistake. A team of 1 can go pretty far, and when it hits a wall - it may be time for a team of 3 or 4. Team of 2 has all the downsides of a team (communication overhead, etc), with not enough bodies to rocket the project.
Anti First Amendment. They don't like being questioned.
Semi-related: Don't Starve is a great indie game with a different theme but IMO similarly complex world simulation. [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Starve

[2] http://store.steampowered.com/app/322330/
This is exactly what I was saying.
This article is really thin on details about the system featured in the headline
Inside the black box – Generated code
>Buying insurance as an individual means the insurance company is worried you are a soon to be expense.

Really worth noting that this is a non-issue in many (most?) countries with healthcare systems that function differently from that in the US.
I mean Taxis themselves have been known to take people for a ride. One reason there are local government regulations is to protect people from being ripped off. Lyft it is! And if lyft is just as bad then maybe someone will start the Fair Trade Transportation App.
Inside the Black Box Part 2 – Python
This is great. Also wanted to toss out its asynchronous nature is not great for beginners either in my opinion.
Well according to this Wikipedia piece[0] about the NSA and Palantir:

A document leaked to TechCrunch revealed that
Palantir's clients as of 2013 included at least
twelve groups within the U.S. government,
including the CIA, DHS, NSA, FBI, CDC

From: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/11/leaked-palantir-doc-reveals...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#cite_not...
This assumes sea level change is the largest hazard of climate change. An increase in severe weather and changes in the climate of arable regions seems like a much larger hazard. Adaptation isn't necessarily the hardest part either - our world order is already in flux with migrants leaving the Middle East and Northern Africa - if people start leaving other regions it's going to be a challenge to maintain order. If people start fleeing countries like India, Pakistan, Indonesia, or Bangladesh en mass due to climate change there will be massive implications for the stability of the region.
The rise and fall of Amit Singhal, the former Google star just fired by Uber
that's inspirational, so you're basically saying to try to put some text saying sponsors welcome, show blog stats and wait for someone to show up and offer something and just take offer?
The benchmarks http://www.peachpie.io/benchmarks show peachpie outperforming PHP7 easily by 100x.
>> I'm pretty sure Borland used to separate out the IDE executables from the compilers

Turbo C was like that, but not the first few versions of Turbo Pascal.

The whole goal with Turbo Pascal was to have everything in one small program so you could code/compile/test as fast as possible. It used a one-pass compiler and didn't have a heavy linker. It was fast even on a 8088. Anders Hejlsberg was the original author of Turbo Pascal (yes, the same guy from MFC, J++, C#, TypeScript...)

The original TURBO.COM file was very small. This was great because you could fit the whole thing on one floppy disk including your own code. No swapping floppies. Plus it was only $49.95 USD!

Pascal compiled way faster than C because there was less to do. No #includes to chew through. But Turbo C was even a fast compiler back then. A hundred thousands of lines per minute according to the ads. Imagine how slow I found DJGPP and other compilers when I finally moved to 32-bit programming.
I wonder what would happen if there were a world-wide campaign to plant fast-growing weeds such as hemp? If literally everyone who had access to sunlight and water did it, you might be able to collect enough carbon to make a dent. then you'd have to put them somewhere. I imagine the dried plants could be baled and stored underground. They would still release some CO2 from oxidation but perhaps theres a way to stop that ?
Yes you do. But you can turn off your machine after you are done with your calculations. You probably end up with not more than $20 a month.
Shell made a film about climate change in 1991
The reason this issue is so hotly contested is because there is no way (probably) for the fossil fuel industry to solve this problem, other than to cease existing, or completely convert themselves to another business. Yes I am aware of geo-engineering ideas and sequestering ideas, but nobody has a practical plan that can really work. If it was as simple as using a new refrigerant or putting catalytic converters on cars, the industry would have done that, as they did with carbon monoxide and ozone layer issues. This problem's solution is much much much more painful. I think our only hope is for solar/wind/nuclear to get so good nobody wants fossil fuels any more. That isn't easy either, but it could happen, and we should be trying really really hard.
I'd love to hear what you think of Anvil (https://anvil.works) - it sounds like exactly what you're asking for.

It's a very Delphi-like (or VB-like) tool for building web apps: Drag and drop for visual layout, then write code with a simple object model behind it. (It's 2017, so Python rather than Pascal - but more similar than it is different. Also built-in git repo, a built-in database, code completion, integration with services like Google Drive/auth/mail, etc.) I'm a cofounder, so I'm interested to know whether it scratches your itch.
AMD Researchers Eye APUs for Exascale
How is someone not an imbecile if they are old enough to own and operate a device that weighs 4 or 5 lbs, moves at a high rate of speed, and has sharp blades that spin at a high rate of speed as well and doesn't make the connection that they are dangerous? If your "average" drone owner doesn't understand that, your average drone owner is an idiot. Since you asked!
Probably not any time soon. The issue is that when push comes to shove, a contract is something that gets interpreted by a court. Judges are okay calling in expert witnesses to look at various kinds of evidence, but contract interpretation is a core part of their responsibility and they aren't going to willingly pass that off to computers.

You might see automated arbitration and evolution of contract language to facilitate that, but even given the strong laws regarding the enforceability of arbitration agreements the courts are still are the ultimate backstop and have to be able to read and understand a contract.
Working four tens is the best, if you can swing it. Even better if you can get a schedule where you alternate Fridays and Mondays so that you get four-day weekends half the time.

Especially if you commute any significant distance. Skipping one commute a week is a big win.
Ask HN: Global warming, what can I really do?
Hi guys, i'm sorry but i'm really depressed after watching Before the Flood last weekend. As far as i understand it's already too late, but even though still nobody really cares. maybe thats the best thing we can do before the really ugly stuff starts. and i'm not taking about weather, snow storms etc. i'm talking about millions of desperate people who start to move and we should be prepared somewhow to help and provide space and stuff. otherwise it gets reeealy ugly... how can u still just work and focus? thanks.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750425 and marked it off-topic.
I agree about the UI, but the performance degradation is still a significant issue.
You may find one of the studies credited with creating the idea of the "10x programmer" interesting to skim: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/645438.pdf
I agree with the general gist of this, but I think you're down playing how much stuff people can buy now.

Furthermore, if everyone's getting paid more, isn't it natural that person intensive activities like construction, infrastructure, health, and schooling will cost more?

But stuff, stuff is ridiculously cheap at the moment.

Perhaps you yanks didn't see it so much as you were already rich in the 80s/90s, but compared to my childhood in the UK, all the children I know get mountains of presents. Literally so many they get bored opening them.

I can get cheap salad any time of year. Cheap fruit, milk, bread, etc. I can buy mounds of rice, pasta, etc. for literally pence.

TVs in every room, not just one per household. People have espresso coffee makers in their kitchens! Everyone has at least one computer, if not one per child, and another in their pocket. Everyone's got at least one console or some such device. Everyone can afford Sky or Virgin or whatever cable channel.
"On days where I put in less than 8 or 10 hours of work, I feel a bit guilty"

You need workaholism consulting. Repeat after me: more hours do not mean higher throughput.
> Many style guides either prefer positioning "A.D." after dates or accept both before and after positions.

Then they're wrong. It's a Latin abbreviation, and correct Latin is written 'anno Domini 2017,' not '2017 anno domini.'

The NYT agreed back in 1997: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/magazine/bc-ad-or-bce-ce.h...
I agree. I've played DF for probably about a decade now, and the UI isn't an issue. I know every keybind so I don't really need to go searching for it. Yes, to begin with, it is a bit of a struggle, but the wiki (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/) is probably the best game wiki out there.

Get past your dislike of the UI and you'll discover a game so rich it will outlast any other.
That is the point. The ratio of people developing and people consuming is, imo, a healthy indicator of the internet. And we are, in the last decade and amid all the efforts to encourage people to code, having less people interested in software development than before. My main guess is that a lot of potential developers became content creators in silloed social networks.
For proof, you can check out the well known book by Archibald MacLeish: https://www.amazon.com/National-Stevenson-Archibald-MacLeish...

or Stewart Alsop on the decline of the WASP elite (early 1970s)
Systemic Implicit Bias
>I also admire the platform but most secure? Comes off a bit too strong.

There aren't a lot of .NET exploits for a variety of reasons. Its pretty much the Java of the MS world so a lot of issues more liberal languages have, it doesn't, especially in regards to buffer overflows. Its attack surface is also pretty low as it only really inter-operates, by default, with a limited number of MS applications and is frequently the most common setup, while PHP supports anything and everything. Http.sys also seems like a more secure product than openssl.

That said, its also the minority platform so it benefits from a lack of effort to target it. I also worry that the closed nature of the platform could lead to someone(s) building up an army of zero days while the more open stuff gets discovered and disclosed faster. I'm not sure how realistic that fear is.

At my job we're always scrambling with our FOSS architecture in regards to emergency patching. The MS stuff is more or less 'do monthly patches and forget.'
So, all three of the LastPass issues have been fixed, and within two weeks of being reported, to boot:

* 2016-08-22 Vulnerability Discovered
* 2016-08-24 Vulnerability Reported
* 2016-09-06 Vulnerability Fixed