skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So apparently Symantec Endpoint Protection thinks that the Virtual PC app is some kind of "Fake App Attack", and thus cuts off network communication for 600 seconds.

Curious.
That isn't news to me.

But a problem I face is that when I try to inform and empower women, I am often viciously attacked and accused of "blaming the victim."

I was sexually abused as a child. I have thought long and hard about this problem space. I don't believe we will see real progress until we can stop assuming that women are always the victim in any interaction with men, men are always abusive and men are the only ones who can change this situation.

And I find it baffling that people seem to not see that the position that the onus is entirely on men to change their behavior is an excellent way to make sure women remain disempowered victims.
> I can't see them being able to raise money on founder-friendly terms again after all this turmoil. Indeed this may be the only way to remove TK's grip on the company, or even altogether.

Uber has something working for them though: sunk cost. Even if normally they would not be able to raise money on founder friendly terms - or maybe not even at all - in this case they just might because the investors would not want to write off their huge investment to date. If the alternative is to let the ship go down they will fund it some more.
Honestly you'd be pretty surprised. I can't speak for other coding bootcamps, but App Academy only admits 2-3% of all applicants.
Going through the admissions process requires learning basic coding fundamentals, but nothing prohibitive.
You'd be surprised what taking incredibly intelligent applicants, and teaching them a great curriculum (biased here) could achieve.
> GIMP is an absolute nightmare of UI/UX design, I can't understand how someone hasn't fixed that by now.

Of course you can understand that. Try writing actual code to fix any pet peeve with GIMP's UI/UX (or any app's UI/UX). Then we'll sit down and talk again about the role of volunteers in a free software project :)
Solar farms are an anti-pattern. Solar will be much larger than wind because it makes the grid obsolete, doesn't require employees maintain, and has no moving parts. Solar (both active and passive) is king IMHO.
This was informal survey/spreadsheet passed around specifically between App Academy alums. Somebody got their hands on it and published it. It's also pretty old -- we have a newer version that's in use now.
> "Edit: Ok you guys, point taken, s/insults/flamebait/ above. Late-night misstep!"

Perhaps you should calm down a bit instead of constantly policing HN for thought-crime.

There is a difference between moderating and constantly shutting down everyone that doesn't agree with your strict views of the world (i.e. what you've just did) while giving a stage to the ones that propagate your ideology (i.e. those flags you keep removing from opinionated and non factual posts).
These are production platforms, not drilling platforms. A production platform like the one mentioned in the article gathers oil and gas from dozens of wells connected by a system of piping laid on the sea floor. As such, they'd have no way to plug a well. Operators use mobile rigs to do a "P&A" (Plug and Abandon). There's no way that the permitting authority would allow the well operator to abandon any wellhead without plugging it, no matter who they'd sold the production platform to.
Oddly personal response. "Thanks for getting semantic with me", "People like you", "You seem to have this internal fixation with bars and alcohol", "I don't think you're nearly as level-headed as you think you are"

Again, I don't care if people grab a brew after work. I care if an organization's culture excludes those who don't.

Since the topic seems a bit close to home, imagine this: you work at a start-up and the founder only seeks frank input about how things are going during weekend sailing regattas. The two teams that are led by sailors keep having their roadblocks removed, while the rest aren't. Comparisons between the sailor led teams and the others are driving negative performance reviews for the teams you're a part of. Do you think this is healthy for the company?
Remembering the Murder You Didn't Commit
Impossible to enforce.
Monday Morning Macro – June 12
its incredibly depressing that this is even being argued, or is American society so myopic as to lack societal compassion nowadays?
> The advantage to prescriptive rules for language is that you don't lose the context of a language over time or distance.

Only partially, though, right?

E.g. someone from a hundred years ago wouldn't know the first thing about the meaning of terms like "internet," "smart phone," "google it," etc, even if the grammar was exactly the same.
I just reviewed the wages vs min wage and i dont see how this can be true, unless these are trusted prisoners who work off-prison jobs.

Prison jobs are notoriously low paying such as cook or dishwasher which ranges from $0.10-0.15/hr.

I interviewed several prisoners at a state prison in utah (draper perhaps?) back in 2005 and got the scoop and it was very belittling to see that prisoners were paid that low.

i just dont see how it could've jumped so high in only ten years.

From the info i gathered this is not a utah phenomenon either the prisoners are paid extremeley low wages in other parts of the states as well.
Wait, isn't "peak oil" about running out of oil reserves? Or am I getting my hyperbolic predictions confused?
It's not like they finish the program and walk into a Google interview the next day, you know. App Academy students won't normally even be working on that kind of stuff until after the course proper has ended.
The assumption of survivor bias is fair enough -- you won't see people here who didn't make it through the program, who didn't find a job at all, or who ended up with a lower-than-average salary they'd rather not talk about.

This is also from arguably the best bootcamp in the business. I can attest to all of my classmates in this program knowing the difference between an object and an array. This isn't representative of the whole indusry.
Sure but the second problem isn't the general level of salaries its that most countries dont have a city like the Bay Area or NYC. If you compare similar types of cities: Portland/Vancouver and Chicago/Toronto I dont think the salaries are 3x.

(Though I get the point that this isn't consistent with my first comment)
Are there any industrial feedstocks that aren't easily generated with the same processes (e.g. pyrolitic cracking) on natural products (e.g. heavy plant resins/oils) instead of crude oil/coal?
I just feel bad about this "my intuition is that you'll need more layers than 10 in the NN, and much much more data."

I still find current AI as basically a filter. Image to text, speech to text e.tc

A smart AI would be able to figure out sudoku rules from a very small sample of games, it would then figure out a rudimentary backtracking algorithm. It would then sleep over it and figure out more patterns like naked singlets e.t.c and build a really fast sudoku solver with 100% accuracy. All this happening in a matter of seconds.
The C spec does specify minimum sizes: at least 16 bits for int, 32 for long, and 64 for long long.

Best to use the stdint types, just in case.
Do you mean an online database like freedb, MusicBrainz, and such?

Yes, as well as the Library of Congress and doi.org.
Ladder accidents are actually far more fatal, because hardly anyone falls from a plane, if I am not mistaken.
I can see both sides of this.

I've had managers who wanted to go to every. single. fucking. meeting. And not just direct managers. We told them no, you're not invited. Why? Because candor is an important part of the development process (some things have to be off the record first).

Strictly speaking, I shouldn't have to say that to anybody. Practically speaking, there are a hundred things that have to go right for a project or team to work and nobody knows all of them. But some people are willfully ignorant because what they really want is a fiefdom and not a team.
Yes, if you use Github but don't use PRs you're not putting all your eggs in one basket.

As soon as you start using PRs, you almost certainly have part of your project's version control history (the reasons for changes) in the PR discussions, and now if Github ever shuts down you have dataloss.
insightful, earned the upvote
Why all programmers should earn their master’s
Doesn't this apply to all sorts of professions in every industry? It's not a particularly unique insight.
Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory
Sorry, let me clarify.

My primary point was "The motivation to pay more for talent is to make more money" (quoting myself). Companies won't pay top dollar if they don't think they will make more money by hiring top talent (#2 above), or they don't have the money to afford the top talent (#1 above), or...let me add #3:

Companies won't pay more for top talent if they can acquire that talent for cheaper (which happens when there is no competition for that talent). Tho #3 is kind of a metafeature - the ecosystem needed for #3 to be satisfied requires many companies that all satisfy #1 and #2.
Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Power to the pupils:Internet of Eyes fueling a race to dominate next-gen cameras
"well explained" why it's the website owners job and not the teachers job to police content?

he explained what he wants, not why it ought to work that way.

Your post doesn't contain an argument, just a bunch of ranting; make an effort.
In an economy the size and importance of China, what happens is protracted stagnation due to the debt, rather than a Venezuela style meltdown. China is repeating, almost perfectly, the Japan-scenario, with a similarly predictable outcome.
I always imagine the facebook network team is the most diverse team on the planet: They have CIA agents, MI5 agents, Mossad agents, whatever-KGB-is-named-today agents, ... And they all work in perfect harmony.
For anyone who wants to select and copy text, this is a nuisance as well. (I wanted to quote something from the page in a comment here, for instance.)
It's about morality, but it's not about guilt. You don't have to feel guilty to break your own sense of entitlement. The whole theme of the article is 'stop pretending you're not rich', not 'you're rich and should feel guilty about it'.
Designing Microservices: Automations
flatuicolors.com is in my bookmark bar for good, quick colours.
A New Theory of How the Moon Formed
That's actually a really good question. But think about what it would mean for any one single individual to be able to answer you. How could they possibly know? And I don't mean how could the _possibly_ know, I mean _how_ could they possibly know. What would you have to learn, assimilate, and understand before you could be reasonably expected to be able to answer your question? Granted, I could reply like this to any highly complex question but as so many macro-economic questions reduce to this position from what you're asking I think it's justified.

Personally, I haven't a clue. What I see is this though. People keep predicting that China's growth is going to hit a wall. But China keeps posting figures (if you can believe them) that point to the inevitable fact that that nation will be by far the largest economy in about a decade. What happens then is anybody's guess. My _feeling_ is that there will be a swing of political power that trails economic power. What we have to figure out is whether this political transition happens relatively peacefully or not. That's the _real_ question I think.
The Toronto skyline is filled with high rise apartments and cranes building more. The city has added over 200,000 condo units since 2000.

And, regardless of the impact on housing prices, it is certainly within the role of civic government to determine that they reject short term renters from imposing externalized costs on neighbors.

(And yes, more cities need to get out of the way of housing being built. Would that other cities had half the construction that one sees in Toronto)
From this it appears as though a full stack developer makes about the same or just a little more than a front end or back end developer. Wonder why this is. I would expect a full stack developer to make at least 1.5x of a FE or BE being that they are working in both among other things.
This is why you don't wait to go public.
The supplement industry is very different, in many different ways, a gigantic one being source of ingredients.

The point is, we have uncertainty being printed as confirmed danger, in a billion dollar industry (with a very well documented history of deceit) selling a product known to kill, at risk of being completely disrupted. Pardon me if I'm a little skeptical of misleading claims.
This is coming from the perspective of someone who is an expert in software already, all this stuff looks like a trivial side project, right?

Imagine this in different contexts though. Why go to IKEA for furniture when you can just build your own of higher quality in your garage shop? Or why bother going to a mechanic when you can just rebuild your car's engine yourself at home?

The fact is, of these three examples the software one is actually the most unrealistic. Having someone on staff with software expertise is a hard problem, and an expensive one too. If you don't already have a group of folks with software expertise on staff then hiring for it becomes a massively difficult problem. This is why there's still so much business in the build-for-hire software biz. Most companies in the world who need software based solutions are not themselves software companies. They need to use objective measures to determine the quality of the companies they farm out these projects to as well as the software that results.

Additionally, software built on commodity systems (like Windows XP) is often a better choice for these companies because it means there's a much larger group of folks they can hire if they need to make changes or perform service on the system in the future (which is inevitable). As much as a custom solution built on a microcontroller or small linux based embedded system might be technically superior, cheaper, and more robust, it might not be a sustainable solution for a given company.
Bikeshedding, we can also start discussing why `println` doesn't print anything on the printer, apple doesn't sell any fruits and their ipad is not really targeted to women during period, microsoft has no double glazed windows offers, oracle without cloud based prophecy api and why ml lang and machine learning are stealing established, widely deployed in most kitchens millilitres measure - nobody gives a crap.
Use prettier and rubocop in Rails applications for JavaScript,CSS and Ruby files
It's about the halfway mark where half of all the fossil oil that will (presumably) ever be produced has been produced.

The problem is that as the oil price goes up oil that was not economically viable in the past suddenly becomes viable and so peak oil will shift a little bit into the future.

Eventually it will run out though, it is a finite resource after all.
Generally CEOs and low level employees have different perks. You'll also find many companies have different policies.

The best course of action is to ask your employer!
That's obnoxiously short and probably intended to discourage people from using that as a distribution channel for developer-focused apps.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14540417 and marked it off-topic.
Free Arduino
Search AirBnB listings in Toronto that offer "full house" rental. It's a pretty strong clue. But obviously it's not the whole picture, as you may be renting your entire house or apartment while you're on vacation.
I assume aetherson is effectively leasing, not buying. So after 3 years you don't own the battery, or in fact the car.

Which is why the relevant comparison point is how much a car you actually buy would drop in price.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
Plants. Or given sufficient energy just rip the atoms out of the atmosphere.
Sure, but the excuse is then, "I had everything stolen! My phone, my wallet, etc. I just need to get my phone back so I can pay my rent and get an Uber to the DMV to get my new license." Then if the clerk says, "Sorry can't help you until you have an ID," you freak out and start yelling and the manager comes over and says, "I'm so sorry sir, let's get this worked out," and does whatever you ask him to.
It's not. It's barely more verbose than JSON and a hell of a lot more readable. JSON is appropriate for machines to talk with. XML is appropriate for writing documentation or API specs.
What is the validity for paid developer accounts?
It looks like up to four people are interested. Send an email (address in profile), and we'll proceed from there.
Not convenient, you'll have to define a route for every single file instead of having a folder serving static content.
> Plus the mainland is always within reach

If you have a fleet of helicopters or suppliers.

The North Sea can be pretty rough, there are times when the mainland might as well be on the moon.
As a former Y2K project manager, I had one thing go BOOM. But it didn't go boom on 1/1/2000, rather on 2/29/2000. Our Y2k program had, IIRC, some 9 likely fail dates including the 1/1/2000 date. The component in question was provided globally and untestable locally, so I the best I could do is acquire a copy of the remote complete test script and call it good.

I was thrilled that we had something to point to as a "see, this is why we put in so much work". Prior to that had received lots of criticism about the amounts spent, people hired, blah blah blah.
It's CSS SVG filters. Hilarious :-D
Seems like a bit of a strange move for the banks. I would have expected them to build the network and partnerships, and then partner with Apple or Google to handle the user interface of it all. Seems like that would result in the highest quality product.
Insect looks like it has a human face when seen very close up
I don't think 'peak' implies half, just that it won't be any higher again. One side of a mountain peak can have a shorter approach than another can't it?
We've been using string enums for about a year now using this:

enum StringEnums {
aStringEnum = <any> "aStringEnum"
}

Works great.
It's the barrier point that we can't haul it out of the ground as fast as demand requires. It's sort of like how people were concerned we were going to hit peak food: we very well could, but we need a lot more people to hit that point.

There is also a finite amount of oil in the ground. It's stupendously useful and rich in chemistry. We still don't know where all the reserves are, and there is a lot of oil still in the ground. But that oil comes at a cost: inconvenient, excessively deep, politically untenable. But we'll be able to get oil for a long time (just at ever increasing costs).
Mathias Duarte, and a hackable system UI due to pervasive use of web technologies.
Think of a mechanical odometer, and how it only has a certain number of digits. Eventually you'll hit 999,999 miles, and on the next mile, everything will roll over to 000,000.

Same deal here. 32-bit numbers are stored as 32 switches, starting from

0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

which is 0, to

1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111

which is 4,294,967,295. Since the 32-bit iOS version of Chess.com apparently uses 32-bit numbers to store each game's unique ID, that means you can have 4,294,967,295 games.

So what happens on game 4,294,967,296? Just like the odometer, everything rolls back to 0, and things start breaking because the program gets confused.

Pretty common problem, really. The fix would be to use a 64-bit number, which doubles the number of binary digits.
Bioplastics have existed for decades and can now be feasible for most plastic usages.

On another note, many things are plastic that should instead be glass, hemp, or other material.
If you are interested, buy a ticket to china. see and feel by yourself.

most of western media are negative about China.

PS: I am Chinese and live in US.
Funny I read the whole thing thinking that this is like The Language Instinct by Pinker and then at the end saw it was by him. That explains why nothing but one point in it was new to me.

The point that did spark my interest was that it's not rules that are important but expressing yourself as a writer (or speaker), which most people are poor at.

Pinker is good, Christopher Hitchens was good, George Orwell was excellent at condensing ideas down into clear, lucid pros. Our own Dijkstra is probably admired mostly for his ability to write so clearly regardless of the topic. Hacker News's Paul Graham's success as an author of articles seems to me to be 80% his writing abilities and 20% actual valuable ideas.

That comes down to the really important point for me. It doesn't matter how good your ideas are if you can't communicate them, they'll just sit in the shed propping up cobwebs. You may get lucky and someone else does it for you. If there's a "one thing" that language teaching efforts should be focused on, it's getting your point across effectively.
There's some concern that people who vape move to cigarettes.

I think there's been a little bit of research showing some young people moving to smoking from vaping.
Thanks for clarifying, that makes sense! Those Sway issues are known, but no one really thinks they're dealbreakers.
I feel like the goal if diversity isn't worth sacrificing so much fun. I love my work because I can relate to so many of my colleagues. We have interesting conversations, we joke and tease each other. It is a great feeling to be looking forward to going to work.

Many software engineers were not socialites at school, many are shy around opposite sex. I suspect most haven't had a great social life prior to work. They were often bullied, neglected and misunderstood. Finally come 20-something and they get to experience... Life as it is taken for granted by normal people. They get to have fun and don't feel bad about it. Well until posts like this show up.

If all of this has to vanish for diversity to take place - then screw the diversity. Diversity on it's own means nothing to me if I can't have a good time. I spend considerable amount of my life at work, and I have also made some financial sacrifice to be where I am, and if all of it is for nothing, if all of it gets converted into this dull and grey workspace - then I am out. Might as well work for a bank and get more money for it if that's the only option.

If having such a culture is genuinely off-putting to women[1], I see no reason why they could not establish their own companies with their counter-culture. Given that all the talented women will want to work there - this company will be destined to succeed, right? And they will be happy doing their jobs there and I get to have fun at work too.

Don't ever forget that diversity is not the terminal value of humanity. We want people to be happy.

[1] big if. Out of 3 billion women there will be some that enjoy such subculture, just like there are some men who don't