skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. In taking a new role several years ago, I had selected a woman to be part of my new leadership team. I was counseled by a peer (of sorts) to never take a closed-door 1:1 meeting with her; that it was simply too risky.

How the hell am I supposed to run a department without ever having a closed-door 1:1 meeting with 1/4 of my leadership team? I ignored the warning and things of course played out just fine, but it did give me some pause that people would think that simply having a meeting would be too risky to consider.
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Time is not the most important thing. Dialing the correct number is more important.
Palantir generally runs on-prem because in many environments it is in a SCIF.
The previous comment didn't allude to illegal recording of conversations without consent. The suggestion was to ensure there was a record of all interactions.

If I'm a VC and I've scheduled a meeting at my office it is as simple as letting the party I'm meeting with know that I had planned on recording for my archives.

Nothing unusual or sketchy about the request, especially in a business setting.
I found the axe/yxa image that is/was used. See the link to the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673668
The problem with quotas is that it isn't that kind of problem.

It isn't predominantly that qualified women are applying and being turned away because of gender discrimination, it's that industry-wide the number of qualified women necessary for an even gender balance do not exist.

They went to school for teaching or medicine or real estate and the 17 year old girls deciding which college program to apply to are still doing the same thing.
> Inheritance is presented everywhere as the go-to method for structuring everything in languages supporting inheritance. The whole java class library consists of huge class hierarchies.

That conclusion holds if your primary experience is Java: the Java class library is widely believed to have abused inheritance.

However other languages have avoided that trap. Apple's Cocoa frameworks in ObjC do use inheritance but also delegation, notifications, etc. Also Swift supports inheritance, but here we see Lattner describing inheritance as a "tool in our toolbox," not as the "go-to method for structuring everything."

> Inheritance is everything else but safe: you have to check if you broke the behavior of all methods and public fields you are inheriting.

Designing a class interface intended to be inherited is like any other API design exercise. Your API commits to invariants, and it's the client programmer's responsibility to follow them; if they do the class should not be broken.

If you find yourself checking "all methods and public fields," either the API is bad or you've misunderstood it.

Again, it's just one API design tool. Sometimes the alternative to inheritance is just an ad-hoc, bug-ridden re-implementation of inheritance.
The system is down
I don't understand what distinction you're trying to raise.

My point is that a message-queue allows you decouple systems, whereas having two systems share the same database tables has its own kind of peril.
Recently the cases that have hit the news, have rarely been borderline grey areas.

If someone comes forward it is because they are being serially harassed, have documentation to back it up, and there are multiple other people who have also been victims.

He said she said situations will likely result in a warning or no action at all.
Women reported it, right? The Times article describes it. Women seeking jobs were propositioned and then denied jobs after rebuffing, sexist comments were made while they were fund raising and suggestive texts were sent. It doesn't seem like rape level stuff but it's still bad and unacceptable.

It's never a good idea to approach someone romantically if there is some kind of superior/subordinate relationship. it just seems really messy with some sort of VC type relationship too, maybe almost a worst case scenarios.
Seriously, I think "Always Sunny" explains it best (i.e., because of "the implication")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUafzOXHPE
What are apps centralized that need to decentralized on eth btc Blockchain?
We are currently in the midst of centralized services such as Facebook Uber and Google that would ideally be decentralized to serve the users and the web better

What are nonobvious centralized services that need to be decentralized on the eth Blockchain for anonymity safety and the health of the web

What are apps currently centralized that need to decentralized on eth btc Blockchain ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656945
> How is it that the old money industries of Wall Street and Hollywood, no vanguards of gender egalitarianism themselves, seem to have less flagrant sexual harassment issues? Do they keep them under wraps or are they just more mature by now?

Not quite Hollywood, but look e.g. to what's recently happening at Fox News for an industry where that's also pretty extreme...
Uhmmm.....

"In 2014, Sarah Kunst, 31, an entrepreneur, said she discussed a potential job at 500 Startups, a start-up incubator in San Francisco. During the recruiting process, Mr. McClure, a founder of 500 Startups and an investor, sent her a Facebook message that read in part, “I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you.”"
Buy why are you redesigning the site? It looks fine as it is. Let me guess some designer told you to redesign it in order to justify his paycheck.
If I want you to email me, I will give you my address. If I haven't done that, there's no legitimate reason to pay a third party for it. 100% of your partners are spammers.
no it isnt. stfu
Of course, the alternative before that may have been "any network error or machine error brings everything down".

When it's asychronous, it's easier to tolerate random errors or downtime, but the cost is that you have to store the message somewhere...
Why do you seem to be under the impression that BPD is a good proxy for whether someone will make false accusations of sexual harassment?
This is good, interesting work. I wonder what the difference between stemming and lemmatization shows?

Edit: I see you are doing lemmatization now. Did you try just stemming?
most likely this has nothing to do with tech, simply IBM sales guys are better at NYPD politics
That's why I'd recommend people make recordings. The tough thing is, in California, it is illegal to record unless you have their permission, or if it is a felony in progress. (which it was in my case)
That's not a very useful statistic. It refers to whether the person was living in San Francisco when they most recently became homeless. But plenty of scenarios are captured in it that don't at all line up with the impression that the statistic is intended to give.

E.g. a homeless man comes to San Francisco and lives on the streets. He gets temporary assistive housing but is kicked out for criminal activities after a month, and is back on the streets. Do you think that statistic captures him as an outsider homeless, or an insider?

There's a big continuum here, but it's rare for someone to have been living here and paying their bills for a couple years and then become homeless because they're kicked out by an evil landlord or whatever. And even when it happens, San Francisco is pretty dang effective at getting and keeping them off the streets.

That's sort of all besides the point, because the actual homeless people that people get angry at--that homeless woman setting up a tent to block my fire escape, and that homeless man who punched me in the head in broad daylight on Market Street--don't respond differently to interventions regardless of whether they are an insider or an outsider.
As it should be. But I know for a fact that this is not always the case.
The NYT adds some tracking crap at the end of the URL that confuses the automatic dupe detector, so they must be marked manually.
Can you post it again? That link just leads to a comment which says "[dead]". I'm new to HN. I may be doing something wrong.
This article says Kaiser "failed" in 1951, yet they were making Jeeps through the 1960s (until being acquired by AMC in 1970). My dad had a 1968 Kaiser Jeep.

One of his favorite stories was that it had the original, unopened owner's manual in the glove compartment, and there was an order form for the full factory technical manual for $5 that was never redeemed. On a lark, he sent it in (this is in the early 1980s) and received a brand-new full factory service manual a few weeks later.
For some context, it appears the law in question is the German Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal Code) section 86a. Wikipedia believes the use of a swastika (as a representation of the Nazi party) is banned in all contexts except "art or science, research or teaching".

This mostly agrees with the text of the law, which appears to include a provision translating to "... shall not be applicable if the means of propaganda or the act serves to further civil enlightenment, to avert unconstitutional aims, to promote art or science, research or teaching, reporting about current historical events or similar purposes."

Reporting on the law suggests that the purpose is much stronger than simply avoiding its political use, but also to "avert social habitation". In particular, it appears that its use in, say, a video game would in fact be illegal, as Ubisoft assumed with its 2014 release "South Park: The Stick of Truth".
Why in gods name is RAPE the bar we hold ourselves to regarding how we treat others????? I'm actually sick to my stomach reading HN this evening.
Have any of these storage coins figured out how to deal with the fact that it's easy to collude with yourself and efficiently pull off a Sybil attack to make it look like you're hosting lots of data?
I'm very satisfied with the new typing [0][1] module. It's part of the standard library since Python 3.5 and it provides type annotations similar to those of Typescript. It's still missing some features (IMO), but it's also under active development, so I guess more useful features will come.

from typing import List

Vector = List[float]

def scale(scalar: float, vector: Vector) -> Vector:
return [scalar * num for num in vector]

def greeting(name: str) -> str:
return 'Hello ' + name

[0] https://github.com/python/typing
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
QED for what?

Don't you need to know how many people became homeless in ST and moved somewhere else in order to even attempt to draw some form of conclusion?

In general do homeless people continue living in the suburbs or do they move to cities?

What exactly to do you feel was QED'ed here?
Of course I have. I've also found waitresses or bartenders or other people attractive. If there wasn't a drive for sex programmed into us (as a species), we (as a species) probably would have been out-competed in evolution.

How you deal with it is by ignoring it when it would be inappropriate to act on it (or at most, treat as a pleasant-but-valueless part of your day).

Now (being married and holding very strict views on monogamy) it's perhaps even more clear/easier than when I was single, but even then it was clear that you don't hit on your waitress as an example. That easily extends to interviewees and subordinates at work or anywhere else where someone can't freely and without consequence say "Hey, maybe I'm flattered, but I'm definitely not interested."

(For full disclosure, I have dated colleagues before and know of and support intra-company romances where there is no supervisory relationship. You don't have to close your eyes and pretend you will never find anyone at work to be subjectively attractive. You just have to not ever be an asshole about it, and that's not that hard a goal.)
I felt like he was reframing things to the point where it was no longer true. I think he knows that the new version is an extended release injection (I mean, it was mentioned explicitly in the article), but he said "repackaged" for rhetorical reasons.
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The article says NYPD did the development.

"group of IBM products tied together with NYPD-created software"
I don't think of myself as being _that_ old (will be turning 35 soon) but my first LAN party was done with 10BASE2 and I remember working a summer/intern job at a factory that used a token ring network...

So either I'm in denial or you're being too hard on yourself!

[ though all bets are off if you were at PARC when they were lighting it up, in that case... you definitely are old :) ]
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It's entirely possible he is being set up. Anyone who doesn't see this angle is foolish, and honestly shouldn't say anything publicly about it due to their naïveté.
People like me will just publish directly to gitbook
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ok yes.

i see a lot of homeless encampments in sf. by my home, right next to my shop, and all the way in-between (down chavez, the strip written about in this article). at least 50 people in that 1 mile stretch.

homelessness has been an issue in sf for quite a while. but i think there has been a qualitative turn. the homeless used to try to find a place out of the way, where they could stay unmolested as long as possible. camps got bigger, were busted up, and everyone moved on.

today, they are going out of their way to put themselves front and center. yesterday, when trying to chase away three tents that suddenly appeared on the sidewalk right outside my front door, i was told that this was public property, and that i can call the police all i want. which of course i did to no effect.

suddenly the encampment down the block, with the concomitant human waste, snaring dogs, asphalt fires, and all manner of detritus needs to be crossed to get into my shop and there is apparently nothing to be done about it. public works comes out a couple times a week to collect trash and spray down the street.

i was already used to dealing with hugo, whose been living on the our street for a couple years - passed out in the doorway from huffing paint. he's really an ok guy. he steals power from us and sells bikes assembled from stolen parts. and old crazy bill that parks in front of the shop and yells and threatens people. all the tweaked out scrappers. that used to be what you put up with for light industrial space. but it was stable.

today, its pretty hard to even drive down the street with all the tents and dogs and stolen bikes lying around.

there are easily 3 acres underneath the highway where people can live, and have for decades. but now its some kind of occupation, a ticketless burning man. a giant middle finger to anyone that can afford to have a home.
The same NYPD that uses typewriters?

http://gizmodo.com/its-completely-absurd-that-the-police-sti...

I wonder if Palantir ran screaming from this deal. It seems more like an IBM deal when you start talking typewriters.
But that's not the definition that was given:

> These people are assholes because they know they can get away with it.

So yes, openly bigoted people are assholes. But if they knew their bigotry wouldn't fly, they would at least not be open about it and not be assholes to people.
Interesting! As much as I loathe the woo around the audiophile industry, I need to learn more about this.
There are also some JavaScript functions like isNaN that also do type coercion and of course +. How is this handled in typescript?
Hipmunk can do that.
> Valid technical reasons and crappy design are not mutually exclusive.

'Valid', in this context, means that they do in fact at least diminish the arguments against the chosen solution. If you want to argue that the specific reasons given by others here do not trump your preferred solution, you should make that specific argument, instead of falling back on generalities, especially when they are not so general.
That's correct, it's lemmatization. Stemming does not reduce "went" to "go"
I don't understand your question. What do you mean by proxy?

Are you asking if I think that someone with BPD is more likely to make false accusations of sexual harassment than someone without it (or any of the other Cluster B disorders)?
The one sexual harassment case I saw on Wall Street in the decade I worked there was dealt with viciously by HR, in favor of the victim.

My network informs me that similar efficiency exists across the Street. I'd encourage any women skeezed out by SV to apply for Wall Street jobs: more cash, less groping.
He touched someone's face once like eight years ago "in a way that made her feel uncomfortable". A stupid, asshole, casually sexist move? Yup. Worthy of being raked over the coals despite bending over backwards to make amends in the years since? Uhhh... no, not really.

Don't get me wrong. The other stories are really, really bad. Insanely evil, even. But the idea that Sacca's extremely minor dick move almost a decade ago deserves to be lumped in with the monstrous stories of serial stalking and sexual battery is pretty ludicrous. Makes me think the writer just wanted to shoehorn in a TV star to inflate the piece's reach.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if their secret sauce analysis turns out to be a secret backchannel to the CIA/NSA and not some fancy algorithm.
On the contra side of this is Trevor Fitzgibbon, who was accused of sexual assault, had the investigation dropped, and yet is nonetheless blackballed by the PR industry.

Again, those whose minds are stuck on repeat -- whose own minds trap them into believing women over men -- are fools who should not be heeded. Like Nazis who sing hymns while Jews are marched to the gas chambers.

The idiocy is real, and the effects on society are damning.
I'm not sure what McClure actually did, but in the current hypersensitive, politically correct environment, simply asking a woman out that you happen to meet while both of you are involved with a startup seems to be considered "harassment" worthy of destroying careers and businesses. Some of the stories that have surfaced recently clearly step over the line, but many others are vague and lack any clear intent on the part of the accused to make the woman uncomfortable, let alone harass or assault them.

Intent matters. Men who use positions of power to intimidate women into doing things they don't want to do should absolutely be punished. Men who happen to be attracted to women that they work with/around who decide to politely ask them out shouldn't be.
The biggest advantage of dynamically typed languages is the ease of using deeply nested data structures with mixed data types. This is just a pain in languages like Java and Scala where the Any type is often reverted to.
> made a spherical chalkboard

Interesting. How? Chalkboard paint on a globe? Does it ride in/on a globe carriage?
Third party keyboards are still second-class citizens on iOS. They lag on switching, they don't have access to native keyboard settings, they crash debugger, their layers can't be viewed in Xcode, they sometimes break on app update and then users blame developers.
Honestly, I've been down this road a number of times before. With ARM specifically and the Calxeda experiment. Here is what I wrote in 2013 [1]

"2013 was not the year of ARM. It was the year of ARM hype. But for reasons having nothing to do with ARM itself. Basically ARM was the anti-Intel. Everyone was looking for an anti-Intel, in order to maintain pressure on Intel. I can’t tell you how many times I’d heard “Intel is done” or “Intel is in trouble” in meetings with customers, or partners. This wasn’t true, though there was a great deal of wishing it were true on the part of some. We hedged a bit by trying to work with Calxeda. Unfortunately, as we rapidly discovered, the claims about ARM as a viable replacement for Intel were simply not true (specifically talking about Calxeda’s chips) at this time. Calxeda were positioned in customers and partners minds as being “just like Intel’s maybe a little slower and much less power”. Neither of these statements were true. The chips were badly underpowered, and when you aggregated enough of them to do interesting work, they ran … HOT … ."

What we found was a strong misperception in end users minds, what I will say ... willfully ... placed there by interested parties, that 1 ARM core == 1 Intel core. This is most definitely untrue (then, and as far as I can tell, now).

I know that people really want a viable alternative to Intel, and I understand why. But, honestly, ARM isn't it, and doesn't look like it will ever be it.

There are many reasons for this, but it boils down to actual real world application performance, and toolchain issues. The former is the main reason why I am betting against ARM now. The latter is made even more difficult by a fractured ARM market. Which ARM ABI should you write for, and do you have good optimizing compilers for?

So I am very skeptical at this moment. I've seen the song and dance before. Then I did the testing. And it was embarrassingly bad. 200 ARM cores [2] were not as fast as 16 Intel cores. All while the 200 ARM cores consumed the same if not greater power, had a smaller memory address space, and were slower.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this. Though I wouldn't bet on this outcome.

[1] https://scalability.org/2013/12/the-evolving-market-for-hpc-...

[2] https://scalability.org/2013/02/a-lightly-armed-jackrabbit-6...
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SOLVED!!!!!! I spent several hours looking for an axe or a hatchet or an Ubåt
This is NOT what the designer would search as they most likely do NOT speak English (Chinese made from earlier research above of the ball manufactuer)
Me getting into the shoes of the designer: Assumptions: The designer is in a hurry.
They would search in their language which I found via google translate is https://www.dropbox.com/s/h585tt6fwcb0x54/Screenshot%202017-....
斧头
So my next google search is
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=clipart+%E6%96%A7%E5%A4%B4
I looked at the images and in the top right I saw IT... and began to tremble as it was right there....
The Original (bottom right in my screenshot) The Found Ball (top right) And THE IMAGE that was used: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oho6qtlyja7quaq/Screenshot%202017-....
The google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=clipart+斧头&tbm=isch&imgil=ay...:
Thanks for the all the help along the way
Leaking air also isn't as much of a problem, since a pump just pumps more in, as long as the leak isn't too bad.
Well, you have to pay for all this (Facebook stuff) somehow. It's not free.
> transcoding 30,000 multiple page tiffs yesterday

Um, I have to ask. The only thing I've used multipage TIFFs for is turning processed page scans into a PDF. But not nearly that scale. What was the context?
On Chrome on iOS on iPhone 6, posts take too long to load, and having more than 3 gifs expanded at once crashes my browser. Also manual pagination instead of infinite scroll is a little annoying.

Works very well otherwise.
That message was absolutely inappropriate. Women should be able to raise money without being hit on by investors.

My comment was in response to the idea that Dave was secretly different than his outward appearance. I don't know him, I don't know the situation. But I think otherwise good people can do things they should apologize for and stop.
The screenshot in the header is strange. Why would they reimplement arrayToDict function instead of using lodash's _.indexBy
Yeah, was thinking the same for Erlang since it incentivizes terse sections of hoisted functions.
Not having a jailbreak is a deal breaker for me and the lack of jailbreaks available is the reason I won't buy a new iphone (my current iphone 6+ is jailbroken).

I understand that a non jailbroken device is more secure but it also restricts what I can do on my own device which I bought with my money and I can't abide that.