skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right! The issue is management sweeping the allegations under the rug.

A lot of the hate towards Uber in these threads seems to be about the number of allegations, not that they were swept under the rug (in my opinion at least–I don't read HN religiously).

That, I think, leads us to where we are right now: a comment thread that's basically about "what's the minimum number of sexual harassments can occur before a company has a 'problem'?"

I'm not trying to pick on you, so I apologize if I come across that way.
That's a mighty big assumption that they're doing it for free. It's very possible they have enterprise customers who paid, and now they're releasing for everybody.

Dunno for sure because I'm not familiar with their practices here. But it's a thing.
Um no.

> '...to conduct a thorough and objective
review regarding “the specific issues relating to the work place environment raised by Susan
Fowler, as well as diversity and inclusion at Uber more broadly.”'

Note the bit about "diversity and inclusion at Uber more broadly." So you are derailing and it is you who is missing the focus. The report is clearly not just about sexual harassment. You would know that if you read the report.
When I was growing up, rifles and shotguns were used to put meat on the table all winter. No, I'm not that old. Getting a deer or two for the cost of ammunition and butchering is a lot cheaper than getting a side of beef for the freezer. It's also a generations-long shared hobby and ritual that members of the family go hunting and fishing together.

That's a far cry from ending human life. It's sustaining human life and culture. Speaking of culture, how dare you judge mine so harshly from yours?
John Osterhout is a creator of Tcl, which embraces event-driven model for programming. I think it gives more perspective into his opinion.

That said, Tcl was one of the first scripting languages which got very nice thread model - see AOLServer [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver

We used Tcl threads in one of our programs to control various hardware things while main UI responded to events sent from the threads. Everything worked very well, especially for a program in scripting language like Tcl.
The shadow is pretty circular near the center of the eclipse. If you look at the map, the bumpiest parts are far from the center where the shadow is elongated due to it hitting more to the side of the Earth's sphere. You'd see an oval if the Earth and moon were perfect spheres. But any irregularity on the moon gets stretched out, and irregularities of the Earth's surface add to it even more.
I think OP's point was that Microsoft and HP have purchased a bunch of not-so-great companies.
No time to write it up.
You raise some really interesting points, and it's something I've never really considered befoer. I'm curious as to how you think it should work, though - a universal non-commercial license that people can use personally?

Do you think there's much scope for abuse in terms of people using the licenses commercially without funding the company behind the product, though? As an example I'm considering JetBrains' IDEs, but I think the same concerns could be applied to a wide variety of products.
Appreciate your feedback. I'm not at all married to the current pricing, and I believe there's room for a smaller plan so that I can support developers who aren't making a lot with their app or are in the process of building it. I'll look into it. :)
If he believes that he's an idiot.
Could be related to the The Shadow Brokers threatening to release a new stash of exploits in June, this time targeting Windows 10.

From their announcement on 2017-05-15 [1]:

> In February Microsoft is missing patch Tuesday. TheShadowBrokers is knowing, Microsoft is missing to be making patches for Eternal exploits.

[..]

In March Microsoft is releasing patch for SMB vulnerabilities. TheShadowBrokers is knowing this is being for Eternal exploits. TheShadowBrokers is still waiting and not releasing.

[..]

In April, 90 days from theequationgroup show and tell, 30 days from Microsoft patch, theshadowbrokers dumps old Linux (auction file) and windows ops disks.

[..]

Eternal exploits is not being ZeroDays. [..] patch was being available for 30 days before theshadowbrokers is releasing dump to public.

[..]

TheShadowBrokers Monthly Data Dump could be being:

web browser, router, handset exploits and tools

select items from newer Ops Disks, including newer exploits for Windows 10

compromised network data from more SWIFT providers and Central banks

compromised network data from Russian, Chinese, Iranian, or North Korean nukes and missile programs

More details in June.

Their latest message is from 2017-05-29 [2]:

> Q: What is going to be in the next dump?

> TheShadowBrokers is not deciding yet. Something of value to someone. See theshadowbrokers’ previous posts. The time for “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours first” is being over. Peoples is seeing what happenings when theshadowbrokers is showing theshadowbrokers’ first. This is being wrong question. Question to be asking “Can my organization afford not to be first to get access to theshadowbrokers dumps?”

[1] https://steemit.com/shadowbrokers/@theshadowbrokers/oh-lordy...

[2] https://steemit.com/shadowbrokers/@theshadowbrokers/theshado...
Most likely, the driver is fake or complicit. The ride is just a way to "launder" the money out from Uber. Get access to an account, fake a long ride, get that money.
XboX one X => XXX => Sex Box

Confirmed
I interpreted it as the dinner they provide for people working late.
>Should they get scrapped?

Of cause not, but the hospital knew that the Windows XP running their multi-million dollar scanners would be end-of-life before the scanner it self. They should have required that the software be placed in escrow for the life time of the scanner, so that other parties could do any needed updates, if the supplier failed to do so.

I'm sorry, I get that you can't throw away expensive hardware, just because Microsoft no longer patch that version of Windows required to run the software but: EVERYONE knew that the hardware would be in use beyond end of life date for the operating system. So why isn't that included in contracts and support plans? Do banks and hospitals even care enough to ask how the supplier plans to deal with an EOL operating system?
Those coins would be sold at auction, not dumped onto exchanges.

The Silk Road coin auctions didn't affect the price too much. Parties buying large lots at auction probably aren't doing so to dump the coins on exchanges right away.

Yes, it creates some selling pressure, but the larger significance is as an event. And events in Bitcoin that 'should' be bearish have a way of affecting price in unexpected ways. Busting the Silk Road started the November 2013 bubble, a 30,000 coin market sell finished off the subsequent bear market, etc.
They must have trouble recruiting volunteers.
No, this is a dinner they provide every day for people who are still in the office, presumably because they're working.
I switched to Bear Note for this reason, among others.

Bear is built on CloudKit. I'm not versed enough to know if it's the best out there, but it's better than plain text for sure.
It is much easier to compare companies that sell identical commodities.
> The rights of minority shareholders in public companies, like you and me, needs to be protected/regulated by law.

They are - the law requires the board to act in the fiduciary interests of shareholders of public companies. If the board didn't act as such, then you would have legal standing and be within your rights to sue.

It's not so much that the law needs to do a better job protecting shareholders, and more that the legal system needs to make it easier/cheaper/more accessible for common people to assert their rights.
Accidents and domestic violence can be attributed to ~6% of gun deaths. Looking at just the former, there are at least 500 fatal accidents/year.[1] These are just clear accidents - there are also accidents which are prosecuted, and convicted as homicides - and accidents which are categorized as homicides, but are not prosecuted.

The number of justifiable gun homicides (Self-defense) is closer to ~250/year. [2]

So, your gun is indeed twice as likely to kill someone in an accident, then a bad guy in self-defense. (Never mind that not all of those justifiable homicides prevented violence against your physical person. Killing a burglar who wanted your stereo is lumped in the same category as killing someone who wanted to murder you.)

I don't have much of a horse in the legislature of gun control, but for most people, planning on using their gun for self-defense is a bit like becoming an alcoholic to reduce your risk of heart disease.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/

[2] http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable15.pdf
This was a good read when it had come out. I can say I know more than a couple of (experienced very bright) 10x developers and they commonly annoy lots of people around them because they're so effective between their technical chops are so high they can focus on using them in the right amount.
Some great questions (and some other really exciting projects m!)

It's early days for us at reconfigure.io, we're just working with a few core early users at the moment and we'll be bringing more examples, benchmarks and increased access over time.
bind is useful as a curry that's built-in, but I always pass `null` as the first argument.

not a huge fan of the `new` keyword in js; it's difficult to mock and there are better options (Object.create/freeze e.g.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL5-9ZxamXc&t=16m52s
Insulin = obesity
25g of carbs or less.

Fasting with just water - After 3-4 days of putting up with Ghrelin the hunger hormone which also increases spatial intelligence arguably a survival mechanism in its own right, the body goes into Ketosis which is fat burning. At the same time the body will start repairing itself as seen in one extreme study carried out in 1971 at the University of Dundee on a 27yr old obese male who fasted on just water with periodic intakes of vitamins & minerals for 382days.
Its what Christian Lent is about, its what the ancient Greeks call the "physician within", Ramamdan fasting which includes no fluids during daylight hours has the effect of causing a spike in blood sugar levels but is not quite as beneficial as plain old water fasting.

Water fasting before chemo also increases the survival rates of some cancer patients, if you read the studies or even the summaries of the studies.

Highest peak seen in Human Growth Hormone was 1250% which is more than you see in puberty, it also increases your metabolism so you lose weight properly, and under extreme conditions grey hair will turn back to its original colour, moles and skin inperfections shrivel up and dissappea. The liver is the only organ that is rejuvenated from the food you consume.

Fasting basically rejuvenates the body, so much so it was reported in one encyclopedia printed in 1836, that Arabs used to live to be over 200 years old, not bad if you have a nice pension plan in place to retire soon!
Let me suggest you read some good negotiating books. "Getting to Yes" is research-based and a quick read. "The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator" is also research-based, but meatier.

There was an episode of some kid's show where there were two women who saw the future. The one who saw only bad outcomes was very happy because any time things went better than that, it was a pleasant surprise. The one who saw only good outcomes was miserable. She was constantly disappointed by life. It never lived up to her expectations.

So, I basically try to be the person who sees the bad outcomes in advance and then gets to be pleasantly surprised when it goes better than that. That isn't entirely accurate. I don't mean that I assume that all people are dreadful, but I do assume that people will tend to act in their own self interest, even if that means hurting me.

But I do try allow for the possibility of being pleasantly surprised. There are ways you can ruin the whole thing by hanging your crap on other people and signaling to them what rat bastards you assume them to be. So, don't go around TELLING everyone you expect them to be awful, but do be aware it is a possible outcome and account for it, to the best of your ability.

Also, trust is earned. People need to prove their trustworthiness. That is nothing you should give away too cheaply. You can observe how they act and make some inferences about how they are likely to act in the future based on past behavior. You can also "test" people by entrusting smaller things to them and see what they do with that before putting larger things on the table. It needs to be something genuine. You need to have some real skin in the game. But make sure to limit how much of your hide they can take if it goes south, until their actions show you they will protect your hide, even under difficult circumstances.
> for the average user who just wants their computer to be a tool to get work done, the choices are Windows or Mac

And yet Chromebook and iPad sales are booming at the expense of the PC. My sample size is ~20 family members. Those with Chromebooks love them and those with Windows 8/10 despise them. From a support perspective, it's considerably less for Chromebooks vs multiple issues with malware on the Windows devices.

Caveat emptor, YMMV etc.
All of that increase is due to the increase in value of the Alibaba stock - which was pushed through by Yang long before she got there. If she hadn't sold half of their Alibaba holdings when she got there, the value of the company would have been about double.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/09/30/how-jerry...
Because of ML and neural networks hype. No one wants to learn VDHL or Verilog, they want OpenCL or something similar.
seems like a false choice. why couldn't i understand what functions these machines exactly needed and then put a small linux box between them and the network which monitors all incoming/outgoing traffic and only allows allow-list items to pass on to the ancient XP device.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542938
> They should have required that the software be placed in escrow for the life time of the scanner, so that other parties could do any needed updates, if the supplier failed to do so.

People do that?
Awesome, did write ups appear anywhere of what you learned? I would enjoy reading them.

> 1. Availability: what happens when a node goes down ?

Pretty typically you fail. One of the things we noted was that making a "shelf" that could get 5 9's (99.999% uptime) was a lot easier than a system that got five 9's. In the NAM design the RAM was ECC (bit protection), the individual cards were RAIDed across (card failure protection), dual power supplies and controller (no state that isn't in the memory so you could have active passive controllers with no synchronization protocol) and a very basic optimistic locking protocol (cost free on success, resync on collision which for this use case was pretty reasonable (not a lot of write contention)).

> 2. Page sharing: how should / can multiple writers
be supported ?

The architecture was single writer, multiple readers. It was not designed (although could probably be adapted) to prevent other network nodes from reading data or snooping data reads across the network. We talked briefly about using multi-cast in a shoot down protocol to allow machines to invalidate their lock state. The idea was that nobody 'cached' these blocks so invalidating caches wasn't an issue. That said, looking at the way AMD and Intel manage the Layer1 (per core)/Layer2 (across cores) cache layers for their chips had me wondering if that would have been useful here. Generally if you write and your nonce is invalid you re-read the current nonce and re-write with the updated nonce. Also important to note that in our case it was a 'data' cache not an execution cache.

> 3. Kernel overhead: how do you hook in the paging
subsystem without significant overhead ?

We were using Ethernet, which had lower latency and overhead than using the (SATA/IDE) layer in Linux. Not IP, Ethernet. So to fetch a 'block' (8K bytes) you'd drop the address of that block on the network pipe and the packet would go out, and the response would come back pretty much instantly. (1 - 2uS).

> 4. Cost/performance: rare are the companies that
would blindly jump into an IB network investment;
and RoCE is not as fast as IB (although it may
be catching up with 25/40/100 Gb cards).

Our thought was you got a benefit just using the existing Ethernet network you had. (after all you were mostly getting rid of disk seeks which were milliseconds for Ethernet packets (microseconds) who doesn't like a 1000:1 reduction in latency :-). In our case it was 'add this box to your storage stack and get a xx% boost in throughput or yy% decrease in latency.' Where the numbers could be calculated based on your workload and your read/write mix. If the sale price had 55 points of margin then we had successfully done our job :-).
If you can't write 13 pages of bullet pointed recommendations to any client, you aren't going to be successful consultant.

Move the catered dinners to earlier times? Now that's padding.
My observation is not pointless, it is literally the point of the argument, namely that crypto projects blast out tons of hype but never pan out into anything useful. Your rebuttal was "well, other things that people said were overhyped turned out to be paradigm shifts", but what I'm telling you is that your rebuttal does not tell us anything meaningful because it is equally true of all the failures as well.
It's great that the Moore Foundation provided funding for open source data science tools in Python. Good for them!

That being said, I do wonder if numpy is the most appropriate recipient. In my experience with data science, the tool that would benefit the most is not numpy, but pandas. While data scientists rarely use numpy directly, every data scientist I know who uses pandas says they are constantly having to google how to do things due to a somewhat confusing and inconsistent API. I use pandas at work every day and I'm always looking stuff up, particularly when it comes to confusing multi-indexes. In contrast, I rarely use R's dplyr at work, but the API is so natural that I hardly ever need to look things up. I would love if pandas could make a full-throated commitment to a more dplyr-like API.

Nothing against pandas -- I know the devs are selflessly working very hard hard. It's just that it seems there is more bang for the buck there.
I think part of the denial is people can't imagine something is posisble if they can't see how or do it themselves.

Also the age demographic of hn lately is younger and less experienced and perhaps the next wave are still learning about the reality of developers that are many orders of magnitude more effective and productive than their average peers.

Some people are just more prolific than others at certain skills.
If there where a requirement by the hospital that they have access to the source for everything this would just be a matter of hiring a consultant.
One of the regions in Denmark is migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 and the to Windows 10. They have yet to provide a good reason for not just skipping Windows 7
Tails 3.0 Released
Time to switch to Vectr? It's free, great for students and works on chromebooks.

Autodesk sketchbook is a good quality freemium tool to, though a bit crippled and the lowest tiers are still too much for schools.
This page causes Firefox Nightly to spike in CPU and Energy Impact. I notice it earlier with pages with animated gifs on it. So, I installed some extension to not autoplay animated gifs. Something on this page causes the CPU to spike.
Is he firing himself?

Because he still has absolute voting control and at least another $6B in the bank.
Absolutely.

It's the only way that large institutions will come to properly value the security trade-offs of their decision to buy closed-source, proprietary systems.

Why should the VA get to externalize part of their purchasing decision on to Microsoft?
Same constitution that does not say anything about bullets, so technically could insist people pass a test before they are allowed to own bullets.

Because that is how that particular constitution is worded.

So still doable, and would not impact the gun fans about owning guns, many of which would of already done lessons.

Just protects people from those, accidents with guns, as we do with cars by insisting they own pass a test.
> Uber should establish key metrics to which its leaders will be held accountable in the performance review process. This would include, for example, metrics that are tied to improving diversity, responsiveness to employee complaints, employee satisfaction, and compliance.

Every metric has the power for evil. This will be gamed, simply by measuring these things behaviour will be affected in unpredictable ways. I understand the challenge they're up against but I absolutely cringe at turning some of these subjective items into metrics.
Haha, or they just have a highly unusual track record of delivering entire projects that would take longer or larger teams to complete.

They are forces of nature, prolific creators that deliver when they have to, and lift up entire teams to be better when they work with others.

The right kind of compounding experience goes a long way.
If you want a laugh, mute the audio track of the video on that page and play the Game of Thrones Main Title instead.
When you have a complex system with very specific characteristics you can't upgrade that easily. We have machines with Windows 2000 and XP in the lab that do what they need to very well. Every new Windows version adds new restrictions so an upgrade would most likely require a rewrite of the code. It's not that easy.

I can imagine there are plenty of systems still on DOS.
Sure it is. Replacing the main use cases for Flash with native HTML5 video and Canvas elements is a big win for security. That wasn't fully possible for sites like Yahoo with a lot of legacy users until just the past couple years.
And add to that the machines are very expensive and there are laws that make it very difficult/illegal to make unapproved modifications to this equipment.
Has it? What do they actually have? They are losing money hand over fist. And their autonomous car program is in serious jeopardy.
For most people the liver does deplete throughout the night, which is why early morning "fasted cardio" is popular for burning fat.

But as the food in your stomach processes the liver is continually getting more calories. So if you eat a huge meal right before going to bed its possible to never switch to fat burning.
Ask HN: Would you join YC primarily for publicity?
Say you have a product you have built already and you don't really need money to get your product complete.

Would you join YC just because the publicity might help you grow?
But.. pandas uses numpy under the hood. If numpy is better and can offload some of the core functionality from pandas that will also benefit pandas right ?
Not sure what "the ccc" is (if it's not "corkami") but your comment and parent's led me to finding this treasure-trove of format visualizations:

https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/README.md

Lots of good stuff here!
Apple issues $1B green bond after Trump's Paris climate exit
Not much would happen, trading over the past 24 hrs was almost $2 billion. See here: http://coinmarketcap.com/
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14547559.
Graphene Transistor Could Mean Computers That Are 1,000 Times Faster
There's nothing stopping you from using your own speech recognition software once someone makes an open-source platform/database for it.

It's a step in the right direction.
Isn't it the case that some organizations do have negotiated access to the Windows source code?