skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey staticautomatic, could you add an email in your profile or shoot me an email? Would like to talk to you about OCR.
Yes, I would still do it if it was guaranteed to not make much money.

I don't think I could live if I didn't have personal projects. They are integral to who I am.
As with a doctor dating patients or a lawyer dating clients, I'd say a VC should probably look outside the entrepreneurship realm for dates. Too much potential for the power dynamic to impact consent.
tbh talk therapy has never worked for me aside from a slight bump in confidence (knowing someone / even paid / is on my side)
32TB of Windows 10 internal builds, core source code leak online
It's funny, I read the piece because of your comment, wanting to see what you meant. The tension between the way she acts and the way her father acts is fascinating, grotesque, and kind of beautiful. For me, the story would be really boring if not for that central dynamic of discomfort you picked up on, which is ostensibly caused in part by her father's absence from her life, but not stated in such direct terms. Seems like the author has come to terms with her neuroses, and that she can now write about them frankly and candidly. I'd love to talk with the author at a party.
I don't think there are any concrete rules, which is why the sensible thing to do, if you're in a position of power, is simply not chase any members of the opposite gender that you have a compromising interest in.

It's not as if there aren't plenty of other dating prospects out there.
Yes, perhaps not grabbing someone's thigh under a table at a bar would be a good place to start.

I also think you simply shouldn't pursue subordinates, or those in a similar position like founders that need your money, as a matter of principle. I'm not saying it can't be done but there is so much more risk than reward in doing so. Consider also that there are thousands of very smart and successful women (or men or whatever) out there that aren't your subordinates.
Over-the-air updates have been very small since iOS 9. Last one was about 32MB or so.
If all you need is compute and RAM, then OVH dedicated machines are a great choice; I used them for a long time myself and would again for personal stuff. That said, it's important to remember that focusing on that to the exclusion of turn-key services (RDS has saved clients of mine tens of thousands of dollars in billable hours just by itself) doesn't do you so well once you need more than that.
How can you join a startup (idea stage) on an H1B? Cause make sure you can actually work legally for that startup before doing anything. Technically, you can't unless the startup is already established.
Don't worry, this has already been flagged as a dupe. Sigh.
Given that the depth of his apologies was proportional to the amount of evidence that his accusers were presenting, I'd say that they got him dead to rights.

More evidence that he's really not sorry about any of the shit he did - just that he got caught:

https://www.axios.com/silicon-valleys-sexist-swamp-244683763...

The other reporters pursuing this story would have certainly reached out to him for comment.
Text messages' authenticity can be verified. I think he knew that he was screwed.
> but of course I don't have any evidence for that.

I concur with your hypothesis; there're often comments on these links that would serve as evidence.

I'm sure some people are just being contrarian for fun and karma, and some would just prefer to see more links specific to technologies and not 'Silicon Valley "culture"'... but some of the comments REALLY make me scratch my head.
I mean, given their logic I think the Mister Rogers example would work too. The idea is having a consistent presence, I believe.
Twilio is great and all but an SMS or other notification doesn't actually guarantee you a class that's available to all students.

A class was sniped from me one time while I was still on the confirmation screen. So unlike OP I fully automated the process.

EDIT: A notification & response is good for solving a captcha if they have one, if you don't want to outsource that to mechanical turk (or trust their timing / accuracy).
I'm pretty sure this is it. I heard once that if a story has more comments then votes it starts falling, though I don't know if that's accurate.
I'm sad that Sturgeon's Law doesn't get talked about much anymore: "ninety percent of everything is crap".

The vast majority of all media created is terrible. The only reason that mass media (AAA games, blockbuster movies, etc) are less bad is that they've passed through many layers of quality filters before reaching the public.

Those filters are imperfect, which is a real downside. It's all too easy to reject risky ventures in favor of safe ones, or simply misjudge a great work as something bad, or something "the public won't get". It happens all the time, and it's one of the reasons indie works in any domain are so valuable. The lowered barriers to entry bring us brilliant products that would never have seen the light of day in mass media.

But they also bring us an enormous amount of crap. That's predictable, and not a problem with the market or the domain. Even after you take out shovelware that the developers know is terrible, the odds of success are still slow. We can talk about making discovery better (and with Steam we absolutely should talk about that), but the low win rate is not inherently bad.
I see your points about false accusations, but how many false accusations cases involve multiple accusers spanning back years?
WhatsApp also had a session at F8 about e2ee spam filtering...

https://developers.facebook.com/videos/f8-2017/how-whatsapp-...
especially married, "family" men with kids - a daughter nonetheless

You had me up until this point. There are plenty of married-with-children men and women in consenting open/poly/swinger/etc relationships; we don't know enough to judge their marriage.

This doesn't make sexual harassment ok, but maybe sharpen your pitchforks with a little less glee?
Neat, it's 12kB now:

convert -colors 16 Ilker_fast.png Ilker_tiny.png
pngcrush Ilker_tiny.png Ilker_out.png

Total page weight is now 15kB, 0.2% the size of the original page. Incidentally, that ratio is about the same as the ratio between the original page and the entirety of the game Overwatch.
"It would be more impressive to not harass women founders."

That's not possible at this point without a time machine.

The apology doesn't undo any harm, but it's a good start for changing course. (Assuming the apology isn't solely for PR purposes.)
Anything that isn't scientific or technical in nature gets downvoted, including posts from the other end of the spectrum like false rape accusations and gamergate.

The exception is news from the large tech companies and unicorns.

I appreciate this community driven filter after being bombarded by inflammatory headlines, ideologies and news all day. It filters out "political" and "controversial" topics very well.
In this case, we don't have to judge. Caldbeck already admitted to it. Case closed, time for sentencing.
You will be able to use the upcoming ProtonMail IMAP/SMTP bridge to do fulltext search locally.
I'm not saying he didn't write this himself. But I am saying that if I were in his position and knew that I had no way of getting out of something like this, I would have no trouble at all (technically, not morally) faking sincerity and admitting all my actions while tying them into a larger framework such as sexism in the startup industry.

It's an admission of guilt. It's not brave, it's just an unconditional surrender.
> Does there exist an acceptable manner for someone in a position like his to pursue such an interest?

No. The power dynamic always makes it a problem. Someone in a position like his needs to look elsewhere for relationships.
I thought they were just using their new method for selecting different bitrates on the fly. The application polls you hardware and bitrate and changes the codec .
Until he is removed from positions of power over women, and steps are taken towards making sure that it won't happen again?

Serial drunk drivers lose their license, and get sent to AA. Serial harassment... I'm not sure what institution exists to deal with that problem. A shrink? Welfare?
Relevant ad is euphemism for "ad that makes you buy stuff you would happily not own otherwise". Since ads in general work (they make people buy more or different stuff) and you can not objectively evaluate whether you was influenced by ads, it is rational to avoid them.

Practically, once add service knows I am women, it insist on showing me ads for menstruation cups everywhere I browse. I also find juxtaposition of baby accessories and relaxation bullshit on metal, programming or games site mood killing. When they know less about me, I actually get less weird more neutral less crappy ads.
> The bigger thread has already been downvoted off the front page and this one is falling quickly. Disgusting.

The main thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621397) is back on the front page. The software had applied a mild ranking penalty which we've overridden, but it hasn't been flagged off by users.
So this never really bugged me. It is a damn good free service. I also love how it picks up on plane tickets, hotel reservations, etc and puts them in the calendar. Makes life simpler.

If ad companies fix something please fix the I searched for something and bought it but I get adds for it for the next 4 weeks. That bugs me.
It's just a little terrifying how young she was and also the fact that the 3 women who both spoke on record happened to be asian.

Note: I'm an asian male.
Um what? We are talking about eating. You know, just food expenses. No one eats real estate unless you are Godzilla.
> if you were simply to collect that data yourself, sell it on the open market, and spend a portion of the proceeds on the tax prep service, you would end up with profit

Hmm. Could you sell it on the open market? If so--if the margins for the ad-supported model like Google's are in fact as big as they appear--why isn't there a Google competitor who provides exactly the service you describe: some kind of opt-in system where they collect data (via, say, a browser extension), sell it to advertisers, and pay you a cut?

One generic answer to "why does the market not offer [some seemingly reasonable thing]" is inefficiency: maybe there's some cartel system at work where all major advertisers are hoarding the revenue for themselves. But I find that pretty unconvincing, since the whole market _seems_ to be otherwise quite competitive, and with low barriers to entry.

Perhaps a more likely theory is that if you were to offer a "we pay you for personal data" competitor, you'd face massive fraud--a la click fraud--in which attackers would pretend to be real users in order to get paid for searching (or whatever), and that the subsequent need for identity verification would become so burdensome as to eat away any profits.

Anyway, an interesting thought exercise, but I think one can broadly conclude that either:

1. There are real obstacles to paying people the "fair" price for their data, such that the current system is in fact fairer than it appears.
2. The entire market is unfair due to a cartel or similar (though like I said, I find this fairly unconvincing).
3. This is a great idea and you're the first to have it, so you should start a company that does exactly this. ;)

No?
I think parent comment was referring to "Sybil" or something similar (it isn't the only story about DID like this), which was based on a real person, except there's indication her psychiatrist was tricking her into thinking she had multiple personalities and then helping resolve those personalities in order to make money off the story. Pretty much everything about the case is unclear at this point, other than that shady biz was going on everywhere once people realized there was big money to be made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(Schreiber_book)
> The problem here is that you will never know exactly what information is stored about you, and how personal it is, and you have zero control over it.

On the contrary. I know what emails are stored in my inbox just as well as Google does. I can also search through that information and delete it if I so choose, so I do have control over it.
By "debunked", the parent meant, "there is little clinical evidence for existence."

The burden of proof for the diagnosis is on the assertion; people can act as though they have multiple personalities, and that's why there is controversy on the disease itself.
> If current trends continue, nearly two-thirds of marriages will never involve a divorce, according to data from Justin Wolfers, a University of Michigan economist (who also contributes to The Upshot).

"Nearly two-thirds" is, let's say, 60% success rate. Which means 40% failure rate. Which is exactly in the middle of the 30-50% window I mentioned (the fact that it's a window speaks to the effect that all these other variables can have on it).
Yes, Minecraft and dozens of other indie games have been very very successful. But how many indie games were created in just the year Minecraft was released that didn't make much money at all?

For every one moderate to major success, you've got hundreds of games, maybe thousands, that didn't make it. One can always believe their game is going to be the next big thing, eventually someone is bound to be right. But pretending like that sort of success is regular and common thing isn't realistic.
I'm not an expert at parsing, but one main issue I can imagine with having the same syntax for declaring functions and variables is that you need to look at six tokens to understand if it's a function declaration or a variable declaration. I say six because you have the name, colon, type, equal, parentheses (certainly you can't use this because then I couldn't declare a variable using parentheses, e.g., foo: int = (4 + 5) * 3;), and finally a pair of curly braces. And even then, I don't know Jai at all so it may be legal to use them in variable declarations.

With the name := () -> return_type {} syntax, you know whether it's a variable declaration or function declaration after two tokens: name (for either), then colon or colon-equal to differentiate the two.
Clearbit vs. FullContact vs. Rapportive: API Roundup
>"I'd feel wrong putting names, situations, etc. out there"

Isn't that what you just did with Jonathon Teo though?
BFD he did nothing wrong. Oversensitive crybabies
I still can't approve of the article because of all the allusions and unwarranted generalizations it makes ("this is why there are so few female founders" and the like). A favorite is cases like Ellen Pao who lose in court but in certain circles her claims continue to be believed.

Obviously, men will always be attracted to women (and sometimes vice versa), and not all men know how to deal with it in an appropriate way. But as in this case, if called out, the bad apples also get eliminated. Also YMMV - for some an unwanted SMS in the middle of the night is a nightmare, others simply shrug it off.

Even assuming women avoid becoming founders because of sleazy VCs - what do they do instead? Men are everywhere, making advances.
That's Steam's "Indie Games" category, sorted by "top selling". It's not a list of top sellers.

The difference is that if you click to the bottom, you get games with 20 reviews all reading "crashes on load, money back". If your game doesn't crash on 50% of startups, you're already not at the same 'median' as this article.
Musk tweeted that the rocket booster used "almost all of the emergency crush core" which, according to the article, "helps soften the landing".

Can someone explain what this means? What is an emergency crush core?
This is my impression of templates as a tool. I dislike Vue for the same reasons I dislike Angular and Marionette.
Most large companies have and have been in business for decades. The key very much is driven by making what you can sell and understanding that well. Every bet is not necessarily a success but there are enough that are not only to sustain these companies but grow them.

Building what you want in the hope it's a crazy viral success is not a very good or sustainable business model. Pretending that these behemoths that employ well paid staff don't know what they are doing is just myopic. It's a long standing myth that you cannot know reasonably well what sort of game will succeed or work in such a way as to find it. But it's "selling out" to many, me included and I wish more people could find success on their own terms. That's just not the commercial reality though.
What you should do:

-Ask a woman out for dinner

-Exchange contact information, and ask to connect outside of work.

-Reach out via social media and express interest.

------------------

What you should not do:

-Grab a woman's leg under the table.

-Suggest that you move to a hotel room in the middle of a meeting.

-Suggest an open sexual relationship with multiple women from one company.

-Continue with romantic and sexual advances after already being rejected once.
... what is that VT510 connected to?

Is that tmux, with some ip config on the left, and an empty shell (with a fortune) on the right?

Do the sunflowers represent anything? :)
pretty effin' great... this strikes me as a new variation of the Hellschreiber technique:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellschreiber
If you suffer abuse as a child from your parent, you still have a consistent presence in that parent. The idea the article was suggesting was that you need to have an actual relationship with someone.
> Usually when there's unambiguous evidence, people challenge the premise/context/authenticity of the evidence

His earlier statement challenged the context (though only vaguely, stating that there was significant context that was omitted from the reports.)
It's seems more likely that, like me, they flag them because they clearly fall into the Off-Topic category of the HN guidelines.
have a few good options at this point - def a pain tho.
The Ongoing Medicalization of Torture (2007)
If you're using Python, please don't reinvent the wheel and write your own scraper. Use Scrapy (https://scrapy.org/). It's one of the most tested and powerful scrapers out there.
So... the author is using Big Data as a B.S. buzz word?
That's like saying 640K ought to be enough for everyone. Once we have stable 1GBit connections on all landlines and mobile devices, we might eg stop hoarding data on our disks altogether. Apps (if they still exist) could be downloaded on the fly when the user chooses to start them. Lifelike VR/AR communications could be enabled by this. Teleworking could become a no-brainer, from any location imaginable (perhaps with telepresence). I will be able to run a dev machine on some EC2 instance and VNC into it with an unnoticeable lag, so I won't need serious CPU horsepower in my laptop anymore. That's what I could think of off the top of my head..
LMFGTFY: http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2011/study-finds-gender-differe...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/media-spotlight/201505/...

About 20% for men and 50% for women.

Your comment could also be interpreted as most male founders do sexually harass others. I'm not sure that's what you meant.

The reality is that a small percentage of people constitute the majority of bad behavior. Be it harassment, or criminal activity in general. The counter-part is that the majority of people don't really cause trouble....

so saying "men harass" would be wrong. Saying "the bulk of harassers are men" is more correct.
Maybe it is not even that interesting - a guy overstepped his boundaries? Few readers are probably deep enough in Startup Culture to have heard of him or Binary Capital, so why is it relevant?
SONM, STEEM, BAT. You may have to wait a few months for the big growth to materialize though (with its ups and downs).
I was speaking more generally but yes, even in Vue.js it does. It's impossible to escape for any data-binding system.

The reason is that "effects", "data modifications", or whatever you want to call them are now local and appear everywhere. As your application grows it becomes harder and harder to know where and how your data model is updated.

This becomes especially apparent as you introduce more complicated workflows where you can't update a single value of state at a time but instead would like to treat it as a transaction.

It can also appear when dealing with computed/derived state.

Two-way data binding is fine for a simple form of 5 values. But once you start trying to build a larger application the desire for a top-down data flow and isolated state modifications becomes very apparent.

It's not an attack on Vue.js, as you have options like veux. I'm merely stating that there are very large disadvantages to two-way databinding itself.
Who made money on oil drilling rush?
I understand this is a common position, and I totally understand why. In most cases, it seems like the proper default.

However, I wonder if it is really something we can hold up as an absolute. Aren't there many successful relationships where one person is higher up the ladder than the other?
Obviously, such things must be approached with significantly more caution.

But it seems an over generalization to assert that it is _impossible_ for it to happen without an abuse of power occurring.

Please note I'm absolutely NOT trying to defend or diminish Justin's actions here. I'm asking a different question.
Network-based evaluation tool to assess relief operations feasibility
It seems a bit unfair to call the title clickbait when the article is about a course named "Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data".
Yeah, it's just funny how the JavaScript community is all jumping on the types bandwagon right now and acting like it's some new discovery or something.
Ultra-thin camera creates images without lenses – Science Bulletin
I think they were responding to your first statement.
Compare with his firm's statement:

Binary issued a statement that said the notion Mr. Caldbeck had “engaged in improper behavior with female entrepreneurs” was “false.” Binary said that while The Information had “found a few examples which show that Justin has in the past occasionally dated or flirted with women he met in a professional capacity, let’s be clear: there is no evidence that Justin did anything illegal and there is no evidence that any of his investing decisions were affected by his social interest.
Yes, I didn't even click the link.
I'd like to see someone code golf that calculator in javascript.
Maybe using "source of truth" was bad phrasing, the question is about rendering data not the data itself. I am convinced templates are a fundamentally broken technology. In React there's only one place things happen: in the JSX. This is not true for Vue -- you have at least two discrete objects (the template and the view) communicating back and forth.
Here's why I prefer irrelevant ads:

1. Targeted ads catch my attention better. Frequently I don't even notice or remember irrelevant adds.

2. Targeted ads are almost always, SEOed (if you will) to me; that is, they seem relevant, they offer the solution needed to fix the precise problem I'm discussing in the email chain, I click, I read, I would buy, but I realize that the product offered is nothing like what I've been reading about on the landing page.

3. Targeted adds are much more effective at convincing me to spend money on stuff or services that I could have lived without.

Sure, I should toughen up mentally against ads, but until I do, I protect myself from ads that will manipulate me and one way to do that is to prefer irrelevant ads when I need to see them.
There is a really fun fictional novel called Put This House in Order by M. Ruff, it's sort of a road trip story featuring two people with DID. The science of the story is a bit iffy (one of the characters has mastered a sort of internal visualization where his personalities can interact), but from the sound of this article he pretty much nailed the what-it's-like factor (particularly w/r/t the broken development chains of the various personalities).