skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oona may have put 'hacker' in scare quotes as a tongue-in-cheek nod to the spec that she quotes in the article, but browse around her page a bit and you'll see that she is easily deserving of the title.
I was talking to someone recently that had worked there and they said the first step for integrating with any client is to convert their data into a proprietary format called PXML, which I assume is XML with the added feature of vendor lock-in.
They aren't interested in yet another way to not profit.
When I saw Wolf of Wall Street I couldn't believe the in office orgies shown. I was like "How don't people get sued". I brought that up with friends in finance and they basically said "oh the stories I could tell" and they were referring to their current jobs.

So apparently that does happen on Wall Street as well?
I grew up in a small town in the Midwest and one thing I've noticed is income stratification has had an impact. It used to be more prevalent for your police officer, postman, waitress, or hairdresser to be able to afford to live in your town. Their kids would go to school with your kids, or you might go to the same church. But a lot more families struggle while others have done very well. I see a huge disparity in incomes (even within my extended family). This is amplified by the perception that many achieved this by luck or without hard work.
Unfortunately, I think that makes people much less likely to empathize with each other.
Good points. While less common, it's probably important to highlight that this applies to all gender combinations and orientations. If you're in a position of power over someone, it's not ok to express or act on interest.
I am a HUGE coffeescript fan. What I liked about flow was seemingly unobtrusive typing/type hinting. I am not a fan of type-strict languages because I spend more time thinking about types and contracts around them than milestones/design goals.

Anyway, to each their own. I want "Unobtrusive Typing" to be a thing.
My girlfriend had to deal with it everyday, from our former tyrant boss. He was this big fat Greek guy who knew it all and he had to be the alpha male, which meant that everyone else was inferior. This also gave him the right to harass the females, for whatever reason.

He harassed the males by making them feel stupid and insignificant. He would ask me to come up with ideas for his business and I'd draw out plans and all that; he'd tell me how terrible they were, than he'd add his own "spin" to it, which all he really ever did was change the name of whatever project.. and then all of a sudden, it became this great idea, but it was now his idea.

It definitely sucks, because he was the owner of his own company, so who do you report it to? Many women over the years went beyond and complained to whatever federal agencies there were, but not every woman will do that.

Anyways, he would stand behind her, breathe heavy, and just watch her, as if he was getting excited doing that. He would make comments her way like "you know how you could earn more money here, right?" One time, my co-worker caught him.. doing something that can never be unseen in his office (if you care to read.. mature audiences only: http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/to-his-head-liter... )

He once invited her on a business trip, claiming he needed her because she was a great saleswoman. He attempted to only pay for a single motel room with a single bed. Luckily, the show was down in Florida, where she had plenty of family, so she invited her Uncle to spend time with her, and he ended up just paying for a motel room for her and he spent time with her to make sure she wasn't alone with the boss.

Me and her were in his office once in a meeting, discussing promotional offerings and things like that, and he used a derogatory term, and called her a b*tch, and proceeded to call me weak, because he thought I'd follow along and gang on her, but I refused to follow in his footsteps and call her such a name. I couldn't even tell you everything, but you can definitely read more about the rest of what we went through here: http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/the-opportunity/

I spent a year and a half putting up with him. She had about 2 years in... before we both finally moved on, first getting separate jobs, and then finally, we somehow managed to get another job together.

There is certainly no excuse for any man, boss or co-worker, to think that sexual harassment in any form, verbal or physical, is acceptable. It is most definitely not. Women, just like men, have every right to go to work and deserve to feel comfortable in their place of work free from all forms of harassment. Women deserve to be treated as professionals who have as much influence and inspiration as any man. She was like my better half, even when we weren't dating, and she always seemed to compliment my ideas, or I complimented hers. We definitely brought that guy in so many new customers, but he just refused to respect anyone. And so... it was an experience, but I'm happy to say we've both moved on, and never had to deal with anything like that again.
I suspect the reaction would be more like bewilderment, because the geographical reach of Cantonese stops pretty far short of Beijing and it's rather unlikely you'll run into people who speak it. Now if you try speaking to them in Japanese they might be offended. But I have limited experience in the Sinosphere compared to Korea and Japan.
> "other solutions left me wanting and so did React Native"

Could you please give specific examples of where you felt RN let you down? (Also, did you use Expo or vanilla RN?)

Thanks
A person who does this being "otherwise good" doesn't lessen the harm to women looking for jobs or investment. But it does go to the person's intent and overall desert of punishment.
I'm pretty curious about the "outdated tech stack" part of this. I have used some of their open source software, such as blueprint (a React UI toolkit) and pkg (some Go libraries.) Both of which seem quite modern. That's TypeScript + React and Go.

I do see some Java stuff here. But it would appear at least they have talent in very bleeding-edge technology stacks. Is this all for show?
>Companies should prohibit all internal fraternizing and fire anyone who is caught breaking the rules.

If you did that, you would have a difficult time hiring people. There are reasons that most large tech companies don't place an outright ban on it. People don't like being told what to do, and people that spend lots of time working with one another sometimes fall for each other. Tech employees aren't (yet) robots.
In PR speak, that can just be some big data reports/structures they visually built in Cognos
friends' wives,

Bad advice or this gentleman, for now.
Install the app! It solves these usability problems. No? ... waits 5 seconds... HEY INSTALL THE APP. HEY, HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE APP?
Free internet facility
While true, my codebase regrettably needs to run in Python 2.7.
Why the hell is this flagged? I wish could flag the flagging...
Absolutely, and I believe it's why they're so hated by male feminists: they're supposed to be as sexually frustrated as they are, so they try to use shaming to achieve this even though it won't work.

Society might change, but biology takes longer. It's a successful mating strategy today, and it will be successful a thousand years from now, regardless of the kicking and screaming.
They are all mindlessly ambitious dicks. That includes the women. These stories are just resume building tools.
That's just far too simplistic to be accurate. Poverty is a complex issue and avoiding it requires substantial luck that those who have managed to do so often don't seem to realize they've benefitted from.
How can Filecoin compete with Amazon?
The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians – Lawfare
Anyone know existing open source projects written in Flow?
I interpreted the original comment and direct parent as not defending McClure, but being shocked and surprised that his private behavior was so contrary to his public persona.
Hmm. I wasn't aware of that; still, it seems to not work for Decimal objects.
Normally people have to do some penance before forgiveness, especially as the crimes grow more heinous. Continuing to live the rich and privileged life you were leading before, more or less untouched by the hand of justice, does not count for much in this dimension.
I agree. Although to be fair, I think there is somewhat of a difference between saying "your experience is valid, though it may be an outlier" vs discounting the experience altogether.
Fake accusations are not possible? You're absolutely insane!
I think it's important to distinguish that these aren't people who are necessarily assholes to everyone. They have plenty of friends and acquaintances who would never believe they'd do something like this. And others who upon hearing it, would've assumed it was a harmless misunderstanding.

I think one of the larger problems that society is struggling with is the idea that two different people can be in very similar proximity, interact with the same people and yet one can have to suffer through radically different (and horrible) treatment.

The reason I believe this is so difficult, is the other person legitimately think "I know that person, I know that place, I've gone through that and I've never seen anything remotely close to that." And reasonably conclude that it didn't happen. It's difficult to accept that there is an entire world that they don't ever experience.

But we all need a find a way to account for this, because too many people go through beimg mistreated and their concerns are simply dismissed.
Made me think of this NYT article from 2010 which mentions the fundraising experience of a female CEO/Founder. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/technology/18women.html

Some gross anecdotes about Bay Area VCs showing naked pictures of themselves, asking about her husband's sexual performance, etc.

(For the record, the company she was trying to fund has been quite successful.)
"their male problem"?
You're absolutely correct about being "marked" on Wall Street.

Unlike tech, most professional services (banking/consulting/law), don't require particularly skill, but rather the right pedigree, connections, and social background.

Getting a job in IBD at a bulge bracket means years of striving: the right schools, the right social networks, the right way of "talking", the right "look". The rewards are massive: $100-200-300K bonuses even as a young analyst is the the norm. Loyalty, being able to "eat shit", etc are the traits most admired on the street. Being a "troublemaker" and speaking out against harassment (not even just sexual in nature, but just plain bullying/hazing) earns you the label as "weak" and out of a job. If you've been striving all your life for one of these coveted jobs, you can imagine the immense pressure to grit it out, collect your fat bonus, and drink, snort, and purchase-expensive-toys your stresses away.
>2012 ACS data indicates there are 30,057 vacant homes in San Francisco.

Census data

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data.html
The correlated remainder is only in the vicinity of the signal event.

The 2nd team is arguing the presence of residual correlations after the signal is removed means the total correlation isn't well described by a gravity wave signature.

This is experimental data, so there's clearly going to be noise and there's clearly going to be complexities in the detector response to the event. The question boils down to whether the residuals are significant enough and distinct enough from expected detector response behaviors to call the detection into question or suggest something unexpected is contained inside the detected signal.
They act that way because the other person is in a vulnerable position. Most of them will shrink pretty fast when confronted by someone who is not. So they are "selective assholes" so to speak.
Dji osmo camera shoot preview
Self Driving Psychopaths
This dig at Palantir’s stack is outright false. A ton of their “products” are modern TypeScript + React UIs over reasonable open-source datastores, and they open-source plenty of stuff from that stack.

Check out this React component, which is pretty cool: https://palantir.github.io/react-mosaic/

Plenty more examples here: https://palantir.github.io
A 34 year old CEO asking a newly hired 23 year old college grad out on a date sounds like sexual harassment to me even if it was just a one time thing.
BloomAPI (YC W17) Is Hiring to Build the Repository of Health Data in Seattle
Are there? Please explain them to me. I'm serious and want to learn
Aren't you glad though. That was very quick way to learn about the company. And you have an awesome story to tell.

Same kind of thing happened when I interviewing for AWS. Forgot to call for phone screen. Manager didn't show up on day of interview. Forgot about me during lunch. Had to parrot back the leadership principles while doing even sillier whiteboard puzzles. Then "we'll call you next day" as I had a few offers in hand was more like 2 weeks later.
Would this work for a digital map, or just paper? Is there a way to handle the problem of North not always pointing up?
The conflation of values (which exist in the language's semantics on paper) with physical representations (which exist in computer memory) plagues most imperative languages that try to do value semantics.
> The whole family depended on him and at the time had no social security. He complained to me about his sister's boyfriend stealing food from his fridge. Now, how the fuck do you blame him for being poor because of making poor choices? What choices could he make?

I respect what he's trying to do to support his family, but at some point, you have to put on your own oxygen mask first before helping others.

IMO, he can choose to support his family to the extent that he's doing (and many people would), but recognize that that's a choice.
Android Kotlin – Realm RealmObject
> ML modules with abstract members

So true! Sadly, most programmers' idea of an “abstract data type” is a class. :-p
That's not true universally. While there is a hot market for startups based on Angular ( or is React these days?) and microservices or other such things the market for enterprise desktop software is still there.

Try writing a serious CAD application in HTML5/JS for example.
You must be told to fuck off a lot
I talked with Robert Halft Technologies and I searched other big consulting HR companies like monster, indeed, dice etc.. It's impossible to compete against them but they are not in the entry level job area. So I wanna fill this gap with my app idea.
Thanks for your comment by the way, wish I could get more comments here.
You think that the women you've worked with have been promoted . . . because you were fantasizing about them instead of engaging with them? Not, for e.g., maybe because they were more capable than average?

IMO, you should seek therapy. You sound like you need it more than most.
There are always other vulnerabilities that might not have been noticed that Apple fixes in later versions, though; like: jailbreaks that fixed their own exploit behind them and the handful of other known bugs weren't really sufficient. What really needs to happen to make this viable is for Apple to just let people do this kind of stuff without the need for them to have made a mistake in their security. They think they are smarter than everyone else, though, and if you are building something great that would run on their hardware that can't be done as an "app" you should just be working for Apple and be part of the smart club, so with that attitude they have this strategy to just coddle the user base so that they can't do anything dumb (as, to be very clear: I absolutely do not consider "user downloaded something evil from someone random and explicitly gave it permission to do something horrible" a security problem any more than a user can pick up a knife and stab themselves with it: that doesn't mean that all knives everywhere should be designed with a DRM that makes their sharp edges only work on certain kinds of branded food).
If I'm in front of a computer, I can find out information like whether Bill Murray is running for President. What I need to know if I am away from my computer -- which basically means I am walking somewhere or going somewhere in a car -- is not about what objects I can see from space, but whether a certain store is still open and what time will it close.

That is, the things you need from a digital assistant -- you really need, and you need them right now. Otherwise you wouldn't be using a digital assistant to look them up, you'd look them up on your laptop like everyone else. I know, I know, in Africa no one has a laptop and their only computing device is a phone, etc, but in the first world, access to fully powered machines with full keyboard interfaces are ubiquitous, people prefer to use these types of interfaces for general research rather then their phones, and we turn to voice assistants when we are in the middle of doing some task and need specific information to assist us in completing that task. Therefore the expectations are pretty high. The frustration level of say, getting bad information about a store being open that you are on your way to is way higher than getting bad information about the height of the Eiffel tower.

To this day, I can't find out the hours of the stores I am going to. The whole experience is really frustrating:

"Siri! When does cup-o-Java close?"
shows directions to random stores
"Siri! What are the hours of cup-o-Java"
shows directions to other random stores
"Siri! Is Cup-o-Java closed or open?"
shows directions to more random stores

On the other hand, I was stunned that I could walk the Byzantine alleys of Venice and get precise information about turning left in 100 feet to get to my favorite campo. These are tiny mazes of backalleys some wide enough for just a single person to walk down, and in which no cars are allowed, but they're all precisely mapped out so that I'm never lost any more. You can drop me pretty much anywhere and google maps will guide me out of there. But it can't tell me whether the museum in my destination is open today, or how much admission costs today, or whether they accept credit cards.
You don't stop. Not if you want the girl. Movies, friends and family have taught us otherwise. You have to fight for the girl, right?

And it works! You know, I have a friend who, when she goes out, she always tell the guys she has a boyfriend. She doesn't really. She just wants to weed out the weak men not willing to fight for her. This is not some stupid bimbo either, she has a PhD. And she's not the only one of my female friends who are like that either.
Either way, I'd kill myself before I worked at Palanatir.

And I've put myself in poverty before by quitting a multi-national pharma that bought my company out and I lived on my 10k savings over 15months while I found a new job.

Palanatir is not harming the world because of 4-5 shitty executives. They are harming the world because of 100's of shitty employees that only want money.

Fuck all of them.
I agree, people always find a way to misinterpret things. It is a really nice thought and speaks greatly of you
The author of this article (William Alden) writes consistently negative headlines about two companies: Palantir and Uber. That’s his beat at Buzzfeed.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden
The Origins of Silicon Valley: How and Why It Happened
How to Leverage the Power of Infographics for Social Media – Buzzlogix
The comment is like in the dictionary next to "sexual harassment." Hell, you can tell how bad the statement is even without any other context. "I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you." The implication is that this woman might have lost out on a job opportunity because the man interviewing her found her attractive.
5 Social Media Marketing Tips for Scaling Startups – Buzzlogix
(I am pretty sure that person was not insulting what people in the jailbreak community do, but instead was poking at the idea of that Apple employee "shifting the blame" from "I can't believe that Apple managed to fix that wrong three times in a row... are they incompetent or something?"--a thought process we have all had about many of the bugs in dyld over the years ;P--to "damn those meddling kids and their stupid decompilers".)
Ask HN: How does "ᜋᜈᜎ|ᜇᜃᜒᜆ᜔‖ᜋᜈᜒᜌ|ᜈᜄ᜔ᜄ‖᜔" (Tagalog) get rendered on OS X/iOS?
The string "ᜋ ᜈ ᜎ| ᜇᜃᜒᜆ᜔‖ ᜋ ᜈᜒᜌ| ᜋᜀᜈᜄ᜔ᜄ‖ ᜇ ᜃᜎᜄ᜔ ᜊᜒᜈᜄᜆ᜔ ᜑ‖" from the Tagalog wikipedia entry renders perfectly fine on OS X and iOS system applications (try copy &pasting it on your device). However, when I tried to get it to render in any browser, it completely failed.

Can anyone figure out what systems font to target in order to render this string correctly?

(Tagalog is a the traditional (non-standardised) script of the Filipino language. I was looking at finding ways to render uncommon scripts in a web browser, but this filipino script seems to resist.)

Any help is appreciated! :)
Love "cash planning tool for startups"

But Runway has a huge "spend other people's money" connotation to me.

This may be great for us bootstrappers, but my initial assumption is that it's not made for me.
Not just the military toys, either.

"I know! We'll make Polonium-filled spark plugs for people's cars!"

https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/consumer%20products/spar...
I have seen questionable material come from him [1]:

Examples: "Money Shot" with kitten spreadings its legs and "Great Products...Get you LAID".

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/how-to-pitch-a-vc-or-a...

edit: link directly to slides and deleted nested comment.
I don't understand the question "how they dealt with it."

You deal with it the same way you deal with being attracted to a married person. You ignore the attraction.

It seems to me that every decent person must have urges/desires which they are better off ignoring on a regular basis. Sexual or romantic attraction needn't be any different.
My beef is with the alarmism based on observations of the last 100 or so years. We are talking about a climate system that has gone through at least four glacial periods in the last half million years. You would think that science would be very careful about making assertions based on such limited evidence, but that's not what's happening.
Ask HN: What do most startups use to build their .com sites?
Do they use one of those static generators (like Jekyll or hugo etc) or do they use some saas providers or some other toolset?
Yes, they managed assistants badly - Google, Apple and Amazon. They could have added more APIs, recognized many more patterns of user requests, and it's just plain old programming, so what's keeping them?

For example, Google Assistant doesn't play nice with YouTube. I guess it isn't in Google's interest to have a free agent software serve a free music site when the same service makes money for Amazon (Alexa). They wanted to make their agent profitable, so didn't let it be extended for free. Just my guess.