skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a customer's perspective, it's really hard to prove, so I have rarely done anything when I have gotten ill.

Most of the cases it's been rather mild symptoms and I have suspected the canteen at work for serving leftovers that probably hadn't been chilled fast enough. I've simply stopped eating things that I recognize from the past...

I have also gotten sick from moules marinières where I suspect that they used the same tools for fresh and cooked mussels as it must have been some kind of virus that knocked out both me and my friend with a high fever and rather alarming symptoms for 24 hours. I just decided to never go there again...

However, I once called the health and sanity inspectors when I was served a incorrectly cooked Escolar served as "butterfish" at a lunch restaurant, which led to an interesting night for everyone in the same company. The restaurant offered a free meal but I just wanted them to stop serving shit they didn't know how to cook.
And it invites him to try to make her feel comfortable until she freaks out and goes to HR or NYT. Sometimes it's better to just say no. You don't owe explanation to anyone.
I guess it is the overhead of the heuristic that is too much compared with the saved visited nodes, but this is counter-intuitive for me as well and if I have more time will investigate this again.

> GraphHopper is really nice work by the way.

Thanks!

> I believe you are still working on implementing stall-on-demand?

I've not yet digged into it but others have with less success but would be very interesting: https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/issues/240#issuec...
Dunno, I would recommend asking trusted person, but not hr.
"Joe's taking care of the technical side along with Jessica, Jenny does business, and Jorge handles marketing."

There, no CxO stuff when the company is young. Maybe these people all know their "big" titles, but they don't call themselves that until it sounds appropriate.

Until then, any business cards might as well just have names without titles. Why not? At smaller sizes formalities are unnecessary.

Of course if you're trying to deceive people into thinking you're huge, this won't usually be the way to go. And on the flip side, being honestly humble can signal authenticity and trustworthiness.

This surely isn't the only way and won't always fit -- not very "fake it 'til you make it" -- but at least it does away with ridiculous President of My Garage scenarios.
>Who are these people, were they professional programmers? How hard were they trying? Perhaps they just wanted a better Java?

How hard should they have tried? Should they have burnt the midnight oil?

This Java you talk about, is still in the top 1-3 languages by programmers, is it not?

And supposedly Haskell is easier (according to the parent comment) but at the same time needs people to try harder to get it than Java? It can't be both...

>I've worked on very large codebases in many large organisations with C++, Java and Haskell. Haskell certainly wasn't the horror story.

No, but it was the new novelty on greenfield staff. Easy to start as better. Java wasn't the horror story in 2000 either.
Very cool. That means you could have your webserver grab the URL from sia, and render it into the website (assuming users can download the content via normal http).

Is there documentation on this anywhere yet?
Well, there is that issue.
> ...do yourself a favor and visit some reputable cities in the sun belt.

On an individual level this might make sense, but if everyone does this, it just amplifies existing problems. In the city you're leaving, inequality would just grow worse, there would be a brain drain, and family support structures would weaken. In the city you're going to, housing costs would go up, and pockets of area would be insulated from the wider reality of economic decline. This would cause areas of the country that strongly vote one way, and the rest of the country would vote the other.

Instead of encouraging people to just move, why not encourage people to stay and help those who are experiencing a declining quality of life? It would accomplish more than just leaving to "reputable," aka "rich" cities.
>The merits of the stack are determined by both intrinsic factors and the market

Sure, but isn't Java basically the biggest language in the world? And it can't "limit development velocity" more than C++.
Shouldn't the paradigm shift factor into the calculation of the simplicity?

"It's simple once you've changed how you think about stuff" just hides the complexity in a prerequisite.
702 is still in order, so they unconstitutionally and illegally still do a fulltake of everything electronic without any minimalization or filtering. TB's per day.
This article is just a small distraction from the real problem. Trump should have stopped 702 by long already.
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I have no intent on damaging my career or making others feel uncomfortable, so at this point, keeping my head low, nose to the grindstone, let this pass, is how I will attempt to make these last few months work out. From the comments here, I definitely gained from seeing other's perspectives of the occasional small-talk I was making could be viewed in a way other than what I was intending.

I am happy to provide some more detail. Is there something specific I can provide?
Sort of the opposite, really. I'm one of those old guys who remembers attempts such as Swingweb and GWT to compete with Web UI stacks.
From what I know HR brought us together because they couldn't figure out what actually happened. My coworker was not a very social person and could not coherently explain his accusation. When they finally figured out the whole story... you should've seen the HR director's face. She left not long afterwards to a much more 'conventional' environment. Definitely not related to my case but I'd imagine she never looked back. Anyway, if the accusations were clearer and more coherent, or a female was involved, I don't think HR would organize a confrontation like this.
All of this discussion could be just a rant on a HN comment and that's it. Not worth a serious article in my opinion.
It'd be easier if people would just accept there's two common definitions of sexism going around and define their terms first, rather than beating each other over the head with "well, actually..."

Academic sexism: pervasive attitudes that tend to favor masculine-coded genders over feminine-coded genders. People who adhere to this definition with religious fervor tend to ignore or explain away sexisms against masculine-coded genders (perceived or self-identified).

Colloquial sexism: being a jerk to someone because of their gender. People who adhere to this definition with religious fervor tend to ignore or explain away sexisms against feminine-coded genders (perceived or self-identified).

Both are valid, but they're focusing on different things. Sometimes assholes are just assholes. Sometimes they know they can get away with it because of pervasive attitudes. It's hard to say who has it worse because no one believes anyone when they report, so statistics are notoriously unreliable.
That will come across as passive aggressive or manipulative at best. You need considerable charisma to be able to pull something like that off. It is nice as vengeance dream, but in practice would turn against him. It is therefore bad advice.
> This is people being assholes because they know they can get away with it.

The sentiment among many men working in the tech industry is that you can get crucified for making even a small compliment to a female. This idea of invulnerability would only be common among top executives and others who wield high amounts of power.
It's sarcasm I know, but:

1) Detailed specs by the manufacturer (that have to be valid or get large fines -- e.g. regarding speaker frequency response, or drug side effects, or cosmetics effectiveness, etc.).

2) Reviews by the media

3) Reviews by laymen

4) Word of mouth
But not really, though. Yeah, Android apps have a lot of power and how they do is poorly documented (imo), but they still can't break out of their sandbox. Unknown sources is not a replacement for root.
For what it's worth I'm also European but have lived all over. While I can see your point re Russia I'm not sure it's a geographic thing entirely.
I have a lot of sympathy for this view. But the results are that a good-looking Web UI is better accepted than a consistent and full-featured Swing-based UI, in no small part because it's more difficult for Web designers to make Swing apps look good.
Sorry, on it's own the sentence you cited can be read both ways and I was afraid you stopped reading there. My bad.
Sure, if you completely ignore the cultural context.

Rape and sexual assault (of women) is seen as one of the worst possible crimes[0] a man can commit in most Western societies[1]. These crimes are so heinous that even accusations are enough to destroy someone's career and social status, even if the accusations are dropped or proven false.

This is further complicated by these crimes generally being very difficult to prove without recorded evidence and eyewitnesses, creating a dilemma of either treating the accusation as fact (foregoing "innocent until proven guilty") or risking that a criminal can avoid consequences and may go on to repeat his crime. The media often favors the former, people close to the accused often prefer the latter, although even a disproven allegation can sow permanent doubt.

There aren't many crimes a VC could be falsely accused of that have the possibility of such dire consequences and such a low burden of proof.

[0]: The only crime I can think of that society treats as worse than sexual abuse of women is sexual abuse of children.

[1]: This isn't about the relative severity of legal punishments, or in any way a judgement on what crime is "less bad" than another, just how people (and the media) generally react to people being charged with these crimes.
Oh, father be with us in our hour of need, for we are going gold. Please forgive us our soon released Alpha, for we forgive our brethrens early Alphas released at full price.
Amen.
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That’s a very important aspect. If the difference between inappropriate harassment and the start of a sweet, romantic Pam-and-Jim-like story is the question of whether she‘s interested or not, we are in for a lot of grey area and uncertainty.
> who received knighthood at a birthday celebration for the Queen

The Birthday Honours aren't given at a birthday celebration for the Queen. You make it sound like they're handed out at her birthday party!

The 'birthday' part of the name just means that they are the summer version of the bi-annual honours ceremonies, the other being the new year. The Queen's official birthday is a general set of official events held in the summer. It's not even anywhere near her actual birthday.
I would still think it sounds a bit weird to describe myself as 'the guy who handles the technical side' in a conversation, but I can see that it's an option if you're happy to be less formal!

I guess I don't generally treat CxO titles as heavy-sounding as some other people do. I wouldn't consider it at all unusual to meet a 'CTO' at a moderately small tech company, and it makes it immediately clear to me what the person does. 'Technical director' is pretty good too; I suppose 'Managing director', 'Marketing director' etc. would all fit into the same general group. Maybe that's a good middle-ground.
Thanks for your comment. I have a male coworker on my immediate team who I feel comfortable confiding in. I am a little confused though: what sort of honest feedback should I be asking for? How I may be coming across to other people? Something else?
> What isn't luck?

Bingo!
In America as globalization and large multinational corporations have taken root, workers have lost leverage. The idea that poor people have the strength and stability to not be pushed around or controlled by the rich simply is not possible at the moment. Union-busting, globalization, student loan debt, rising cost of living, and stagnant wages mean poor Americans can do less and less with each passing year.
Yeah, that's not actually a bad idea. Also 'Marketing director' etc.; there are reasonable equivalents for other roles.
> Try to first believe what they said instead of getting paranoid.

If he wouldn't believe it then he wouldn't be paranoid, the whole paranoia angle only exists because of the complete vagueness of the accusation.

It's literally telling somebody "You did somebody wrong, we won't tell you what you did or to whom, but consider yourself on notice", how is anybody supposed to react to that except with complete paranoia?

> If the other people in the office start doing small talk to you, then you answer, don't engage the other way around.

Sorry for putting this frankly, but why? It's either the same rules for everybody or no rules at all. Why are other coworkers allowed to initiate private small talk while he is not?

What are you basing this difference of rulesets for different people on? On the mere existence of an anonymous accusation that doesn't even detail what exactly he did wrong? Or maybe even superficialities?

Don't you think that whole setup is quite one-sided and could just as well be considered as bullying?

> Just accept what they said and try to take this a learning a experience that your behavior does not come out as professional where you are working at the moment.

Again: How is he supposed to learn anything from this when he isn't even told what he did wrong or to whom? What part of his behavior? In what exact situations? As is, it's such a generalizing statement that it might as well just be a personal insult.

> Try to pay attention to that on your next job.

Remember that thing you did wrong and nobody ever told you about? Don't do that wrong the next time!
Much has been learned, very educational.

> That sometimes you might think you are being friendly and people see you as creepy.

And what you might think is creepy I might consider funny in a friendly odd way. There are always two parts to communication of any kind: A sender and a receiver. Getting the right context across, and preventing misunderstandings, involves effort on both ends, not just the sender.

The only thing anybody learned here is that he's considered a horrible creepy person, with exactly zero context or reasons given as to why he's supposedly such a bad person.
I would be wary of that one though; I've been 'technical director' in the past without being 'director'.
For XML there are xml-coreutils[1].

[1] http://www.lbreyer.com/xml-coreutils.html
You wouldn't need to stop an asteroid, just divert it a bit so it misses.
Develop your own smart attendance register
That's not the main point of the article though. I assume everyone in the industry knows what a best boy grip is; the problem is when the position for best boy grip is advertised as Lightning-and-Thunder Master Ninja or Rockstar Illumination Guru.
The pattern is in a different dimension than the noise (time vs spatial). A pattern by definition isn't noise.
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> I was ranked 10th in a graduating class of 900 students and did well on the SATs except for the English section.

Being born one or two standard deviations away from median on the intelligence scale is a whole lot of luck and privilege.

> The problem is not money, but culture. Privilege has _nothing_ to do with it since tons of people in much much poorer countries with schools that have a lot fewer funds do a lot better.

My dad was born in a village in Bangladesh, but raised my brother and I in an upper middle class household in the US. He's the first to admit that he got lucky. Had he been born as someone of average intelligence, or not had parents who made education a priority, or he hadn't had extremely fortuitous timing in his career, he'd still be in Bangladesh. I'm pretty successful myself and I'd count myself doubly lucky. Had I been born in a village in Bangladesh, I'd have failed out of the rigid unforgiving school system. (I skated by in US K-12 based purely on test-taking ability.) Hell I'd probably be doing manual labor there instead of being a white collar professional in the US.
I consider them both to be sociopathic. Asking random women for sex is arguably also coercive.

Edit: I note that smart robbers and rapists scope potential victims by making innocent requests. Then escalating.
Abstract:

"The design and implementation of cryptographic systems offer many subtle pitfalls. One such pitfall is that cryptography may create unique identifiers potentially usable to repeatedly and precisely re-identify and hence track users. This work investigates TLS Client Certificate Authentication (CCA), which currently transmits certificates in plain text. We demonstrate CCA’s impact on client traceability using Apple’s Apple Push Notification service (APNs) as an example. APNs is used by all Apple products, employs plain-text CCA, and aims to be constantly connected to its backend. Its novel combination of large device count, constant connections, device proximity to users and unique client certificates provides for precise client traceability. We show that passive eavesdropping allows to pre- cisely re-identify and track users and that only ten interception points are required to track more than 80 percent of APNs users due to global routing characteristics. We conduct our work under strong ethical guidelines, responsibly disclose our findings, and can confirm a working patch by Apple for the highlighted issue. We aim for this work to provide the necessary factual and quantified evidence about negative implications of plain-text CCA to boost deployment of encrypted CCA as in TLS 1.3."
It's more like ”JIRA wrangler“ at most places I've worked. We just tools so heavy that managing them is a full-time job. Bugzilla never had this problem.
Not by definition. There is such a thing as structured noise.
My wife was an advocate's devil while training to go to the bar - the advocates that trained her being her devil masters.

So who has silly titles?
Who says his parents were not lucky too? No offense intended to OP, but they could have been two rich dropouts who lived their lives in a squat, lapsed into drug addiction and then found one of their estranged parents had died and left them $10m. The myth that rich people are rich because they worked hard is just that, a myth. The myth that a family is rich because generations worked hard is just ignorant.

Please reference the British aristocracy whose wealth is generally attributable to an ancestor being friends with William the Conqueror, as famously said by the Duke of Westminster (Richest man in Britain, recently dies and passed his estate to his son tax free)

"The Duke of Westminster was acutely aware that his own vast wealth was entirely due to luck. When once asked for the secret of financial success, he replied it was to have an ancestor who had been a close friend of William the Conqueror. It may have been that his inability to know how to make amends for this fluke lay behind his discontent."

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/its-better-to-be-a-lotte...
Not a personal tax residency, therefore Estonia's E-Residency is not more than a marketing stunt.
Donglegate wasn't about false accusations, though. It was about a woman publicly shaming two other attendees for what she considered inappropriate jokes in a public setting and then being caught in the blowback when other people were unhappy with how she handled the situation.

Her accusations were factual, although there was discussion about whether they were valid.

Also, the people who agree that her accusations were valid, are also likely the people who think that their behavior was indicative of them being serial harassers.
What is your estimation of when the titles of Guru, Rockstar and Ninja will work their way in popular culture, and the responsibilities will be well understood at least within the industry?
Both, with some effort i could get good a poker. Some games I will lose no matter what because you can only play the hand you are dealt
Which "study"?
> it's more difficult for Web designers to make Swing apps look good.

Maybe they should bother to learn how to do it in first place?
Amazing trick to make that 5AM morning routine stick
Thanks for your comment! Well said! I am looking forward to working as hard as I can and then moving on in a few months when this internship ends. But becoming "tainted" or worse, convicted of a crime is what I am worried about, especially further down the line, when I have a permanent position, a mortgage to pay, or a family to support. I recall in a Planet Money podcast episode an interview with a Wells Fargo banker, who after being pressured to meet new account quotas by opening extra accounts without their customers express desire, was somehow marked when she left her position, and had trouble finding another job in the banking industry. I wonder if anything like this (or perhaps a social credit system) exists, and if it could be corrected/adjusted as spurious information on one's credit report can be taken off.
Yet another reason to NEVER move to silicon valley.

PROS:

* if you land a job at a Fortune 50 company you could end up making $300k after 5-6 years if you are a badass. These are all big ifs.

* lots of sunshine

* easier access to venture capital

CONS:

* high taxes

* real estate is 10x inflated compared to most of the rest of the country

* actually, everything costs more there. The valley also has the highest gasoline prices in the country. Even food is more expensive there.

* the top employers have, in the past, colluded to illegally not hire each other's developers

* illegal sexual harassment appears to be a cultural norm

* housing shortages

* weird local politics (social justice warriors are actually a thing there)

---

In summary the valley looks like a great place for founders (if male) but horrid for employees.
I am curious too!
Yes because tech is much more culturally diverse, with large amounts of immigrants and second generation children of immigrants. If you've ever worked at a large tech company, you would know that the average team is very quiet because of the cultural barriers. The few Americans on the team are very introverted and again have a slight cultural barrier even with each other because many of them are the children of immigrants. The frat % is undoubtedly much lower in tech (if it's even represented at all) compared to banking.
that's not the point of the quoted paragraph though. this article makes at least two points: non-descriptive titles are ridiculous to people who would apply to them, and descriptive titles are ridiculous to people who would never apply to them
You are placing normative (meaning "you should do") moral judgements on a descriptive (meaning "this will happen") moral statement.

My prediction isn't what SHOULD happen, but what I think WILL happen. My personal opinion on what is morally right? As I'm not a VC, utterly unimportant and redundant.
>Your argument is similar to the argument for having swimsuit models in tabloid newspapers. NYT is a better product.

Not if "sells more" is a measure of product betterness.

(Besides swimsuit models never harmed anybody -- the NYT helped sell war with huge human toll with BS government-fed info).
Well said! I will definitely keep the workplace for working especially during the rest of this internship.
The history of the IBM PC, part one: The deal of the century
>Plonking the word ‘guru’ or ‘rockstar’ into a job description just confuses things, writes Sir Cary Cooper.

If that Sir doesn't see the irony in that sentence..
>I haven't looked into McClure's offenses beyond what the article talks about, but those slides seem totally innocent to me

Not in a puritan country. People have lost their jobs for making a "dongle -> dick" joke speaking to their friend at a conference because someone overheard...