skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm likely channeling Jason Scott here, but this rhetoric is not helping. Yes of course people should back things up, but responding to "I just lost things of sentimental value to me" with "well you should've backed things up" doesn't come off as helpful advice.

Really, the problem is that online services (startups that are shutting down are the worst offenders[1]) are allowed to destroy user data with reckless abandon. You may argue "hey, it's their cloud" but it's also your data -- and that's kinda like arguing that a library that accepts book donations and then goes on to shreds book that nobody is borrowing anymore is justified in their actions.

[1]: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Oh what a dream. If only.
By that standard, the only way to never do anything inappropriate is to never do anything.
Elizabeth Yin (500 startups partner) just quit:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/03/employee-email-claims-500-...
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Maybe the CA legislature (or proposition system) can step in.

I doubt the feds will do anything these days, but the state government has repeatedly shown a willingness to fill the gap.
So I can't send a contract in your language some signatures as byte arrays and have it validate them in its logic? Any program that signs things also needs to be able to produce block chain transactions? Just an initial question, I'll read more on your site.
Maybe this is where Apple's AI efforts have been directed all along. Who needs a good assistant when you can piss of music execs even more?
this is a ridiculous claim. I worked in London and with 5 years experience I was earning about 75k contracting, 10 years ago. And that was a pretty standard contract, nothing special. Your claim that I would have been better off with a blue collar job outside the capital is laughable.
'Censorship' has become more pejorative than informative, but you're right that users are downvoting and flagging comments; I think pretty fairly. Wherever moderators have intervened (in any way that affects comment visibility), we've posted comments saying so. That goes for the previous threads too.

Not every kind of comment is welcome here. HN is trying for higher-quality discussion. (Trying and failing, of course. But we can always fail better.) Comments that destroy the possibility of higher-quality discussion should certainly be flagged—otherwise the community is hostage to every kind of trolling.
Probably - as long as it didn't have to adhere to the unit of work pattern that Alchemy uses. I've considered trying to implement the Django ORM frontend on an Alchemy backend but.. time.
Only headless support did. So if you want to play games - no dice. That's why I said proper above.
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That's one more reason to make sure they are. If there is ambiguity it is safer to err on the side of caution. Note that anybody that you were in a room with could make up such a story, so you're always going to have to rely on good faith to some extent and false accusations really do happen.
Do we know enough yet to have some good guesses about

(1) the purpose of the universe,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570170

(2) the end of the universe, (A) big expansion and cool down to nothing, (B) no more expansion and cool down to nothing, (C) contraction back to another big bang, (D) something else very different?
Don't ever stop doing exactly what you're doing. You've created a marvelous portfolio demonstrating your skills, and employers can look at those projects and understand the caliber of developer they're about to give lots of money to make cool things for them.

Also, sometimes the joy of a project is just bringing it to completion, for personal satisfaction. Passion projects can be just that! They don't have to make money. If you are going to make money though, and you're pretty sure you have a solid idea, perhaps reach out to someone with marketing skills to help you get the word out. If it's not your strong suit that's okay! You keep doing what you're good at, and let someone else shine at the tough stuff.
HN badly needs a waiting period for new accounts, between these threads and political ones after the election. Like, even an hour.
What about Java makes you like it more, or about Node.js that made you particularly frustrated?

I wish JavaScript were statically typed, but I'm not convinced about switching to TypeScript yet. I can see other ways Node.js could be frustrating.
The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum has a large collection of high resolution pictures available for download https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio without cost.

If you make a collection that fit a screen or with proper cropping and have each individual user create it's own account it would save you the bandwidth :-)
I strongly believe this is a societal problem, not a 'women in tech' problem, though it is quite probably a fact that women in tech have it somewhat harder than women in society on average but judging by who run the worlds corporations and who make the worlds laws it's probably a safe bet that that gap is smaller than it seems just because we happen to look at the world through a filter shaped by technology.
I didn't even notice the changes in spelling until really far in. Blew my mind!
> The problem may have originated with data services providing Google and Yahoo their financial information

I'm sure Google and Yahoo pay a small fortune for this data so I'm wondering if they are aware of the situation and holding these data services companies accountable or not.I'm also sure these data companies sell their data beyond information sites to investment firms & others that make buy/sell decisions based on this data. Yahoo does disclose[1] that they get some data 'direct from exchange' though.

[1] https://help.yahoo.com/kb/finance-for-desktop/SLN2310.html?i...
This is an oversimplification of the issue.

Some videos to illustrate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn46t8NksX0 - h3h3 "We're at an Important Crossroad"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03dTJ4nXkXw - 2veritasium "Why YouTube Used to Prefer Quality"

In particular, consider the thought experiment presented in the second video: If YouTube's algorithm solely promoted car videos, then car videos would be all that are uploaded to YouTube. The algorithm is the content.

Even though it happens to align with what you like right now, the bias should be concerning.
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No. If you think that is the only way - to interact without a shred of empathy or self-awareness of your own actions - then you may be part of the problem.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14692671 and marked it off-topic.
"Haunted me to this day."

He pushed her in to a corner and kissed her. She kicked him out.

His behavior is totally inexcusable. No question.

But seriously? Do I live in an alternate reality where drunk people do all sorts of borderline illegal inappropriate stuff on a regular basis?

Because in my world people do that. And it sucks. And no one likes it. And it can and should be called out. But I can't imagine it haunting anyone for years, especially not someone who has the strength of will to start a company.

It may seem insensitive, but I am being pragmatic: whether or not something "haunts" you has as much to do with your way of framing an event and your attitude towards trauma as the actual event.

Just because someone else did something wrong is no reason to carry it with you for years.

This is no commentary on whether or not this guy's pattern of behavior is reprehensible. I am literally talking about that one incident in isolation and its effect on the author's psyche.
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Thanks for the info. I rarely had need of Skype credits and it would make me mad when they disappeared. Now I know how to get them back. It doesn't seem like it would be worth the PR hit to take them from people after only 180 days and, if there was some strange accounting/legal reason they really wanted to inactivate them, they should display a small a link under your $0 balance to go to the re-activate page.
Possibly related to that most of the people that go do that are young (20s usually) and with western attitudes to sex and party culture.

It’s likely more a culture clash than an agenda
Oh dear. Uber is looking unpopular.
I don't see "Product Designer" among the list of openings on knack.com.

Is there anything other than this HN post to link to if I want to sends the opening to a friend?
I think the book you are referencing is The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid.
The version I have is from the Mac App Store
All it takes is one incident to indicate the possibility that something can occur. It can profoundly change your outlook on the world. Depending on the event this can be irreversibly negative.
They don't expire in California either, but they can in other states.
Replace "MDMA" with "alcohol" and it's not that hard to imagine... Most normal people, when presented with the question "would you try X drug", wouldn't have the experience to know about ego death and things, so it's probably not a concern for them.
So what's another way to do it?

I don't know of any way to reliably predict other people's reactions to what I do.
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TDD is dead. Get up with the times!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericgu/2017/06/22/notdd/
While awk is indeed under-appreciated, there are many instances where using grep to pre-filter your input is helpful because the grep family (GNU grep, agrep, etc.) can match strings much much faster than awk's regex engine.

For example: GNU grep uses a heavily optimized implementation of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm [1] which (it is claimed) requires just 3 (x86) cycles per byte of input. Boyer-Moore only searches for literal strings, but grep will extract the longest literal from the search regex (e.g. the string "foo" from the regex /foo(bar|baz)+/) and use Boyer-Moore to find candidate matches that are then verified using the regex engine.

So if you have a large corpus of text to search, grep is your friend. It can easily saturate your I/O bandwidth and perform an order of magnitude faster than typical "big data" platforms. [2]

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...

[2] https://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-th...
I've been assaulted at gunpoint. It does not haunt me. Would it haunt someone else, depending on the person, probably, yes.

Things affect different people differently.
Me too, the only thing missing from Discord apart from video for me is its spell checking...
To address one of the benefits, `egrep ^[^#]` is shorter than `awk '/^[^#]/'`.
> that's kinda like arguing that a library that accepts book donations and then goes on to shreds book that nobody is borrowing anymore is justified in their actions.

You mean, all libraries?
Author here. Happy to discuss or answer questions.
I just found out mine deactivated in April and I didn't get an email about it. In the iOS app it just showed £0 and suggested I top up.

When following the link through this page I was able to reactivate it:

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/fa10378/how-do-i-reactivate...
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Read more closely. McClure was the one pouring. This is a classic abuser tactic.
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Well put. "Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
Only the 'senior ops engineer' positions are remote?
Can you give a more concrete example? I have a fairly complex app in Django and it is in no way limited. What magic does flask let you do that you cant in django?
I think there's more to it than that. When peers proposition each other or express desire to have more than a professional working relationship (and a polite rejection ends the discussion), that's one thing. But a person in a superior position has a different and greater duty, as rejection can have a negative consequence for the other more vulnerable party. That's why many companies' ethics rules forbid, for example, romantic relationships between a supervisor and his/her direct reports.
Oh, right, subfield of the complex numbers. Now sigma is supposed to be an automorphism on that subfield. Which means sigma does take scalar values as arguments, contrary to what stablemap said...
If I had to guess, it looks like google and yahoo track by time. Each nth second it plots a point, so it's likely to miss graphing the actual high or low of the day.
I am in Cambodia. I'm not sure about what the written law is here, but it doesn't matter so much because as with most laws they are not enforced. Although it's an impoverished country with a dictator, it feels less oppressive to live here than in the US. The people are more grounded and not so wrapped up in their outward identity. I don't get nervous being around police. I can work extremely minimally as I only live on about 400$ a month for the past 4 years. The city is zoned leniently and I live near a market, so I have 100s of food options in my immediate neighborhood. I ride a bicycle or walk everywhere. I intentionally moved close to the Olympic Stadium here, which is quite beautiful and has a track, free weights, badminton / basketball / tennis courts, olympic swimming pool and diving board, etc.

Living in one of the poorer countries on earth is obviously not all roses though, even if you're a relatively wealthy expat. It's very hard seeing people I care about in my neighborhood go through so many difficult ordeals. Almost everyone you meet here, unless they're very young, will have a background of extreme hardship.

Phnom Penh is more developed than you might expect though. Every other car is a Lexus and there are skyscrapers going up all over the city. Open space is lacking and the city is mostly ugly now, especially so in comparison to the stunning, pristine beauty of Phnom Penh in the 1950s and 1960s.
The problem is C++ brings in many extra pointers. For example, the vtable pointer used in virtual functions. All the pointers not converted to offset can be invalid in next process that deserializes the object.
In some companies you need to keep up appearances and look like you're busy all the time.
I recently worked on a project that attempted to find harmonizing chord progressions for pop songs, given a melody. Since pop music has such predictable structure, I think AI generation is well within possibility.

https://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/ai-project-harm...
> How'd you cross the Darien gap?

I put it in a shipping container in Panama and flew to Colombia to meet it and continue the trip.

Details & price here:

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Me too. I never got CBV. I usually use more than one model in a view.
Can you do that with Windows? I also imagine you'd want ram. The public access machines I manage are not exactly powerful.
To an untrained eye, this looks more like an "MO". Maybe it's insecurity, maybe it's inability to relate, maybe he needs something to "relax" him [and target], maybe it's what's worked in the past for him. I don't know him. But it appears that his MO involves getting people to drink alcohol and him laying it down thick [in parlance, "put his moves on"].
Another point - back in the 80's, when New Age was getting popular, there was a New Age radio station that featured a format without radio personalities - it was really to my knowledge the first totally programmed station.

One music instructor got together with a couple friends and did assembly line New Age - they recorded a bunch of A sections, a bunch of B sections, and pasted them together A-B-A, A-A-B-A, that kind of thing, and turned around and got radio play on these compositions.

My point is that this kind of thing has been going on for a while. Now we're learning how to make computers do it.
I invite you to read:

https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/236666.pdf

"Rape and Domestic Violence: Rape, including marital rape, is a criminal offense,
as are most forms of domestic violence. The penal code states that rape is
punishable by a prison term of up to 20 years and whipping. Marital rape does not
have a minimum penalty, but the maximum penalty is five years’ imprisonment.
According to women’s groups, an average of 10 women were raped each day;
more than half of these women were under 16. A study by All Women’s Action
Society found only one in 10 reported rape cases came to court. A report by the
Women’s Centre for Change showed that perpetrators were convicted in only 4 to
6 percent of cases. The latest police statistics available showed 2,718 rapes were
reported in 2013, of which 52 percent involved girls age 16 and below.
Cultural attitudes and a reported lack of sympathy from the largely male police
force resulted in many victims not reporting rapes. Many government hospitals
had crisis centers where victims of rape and domestic abuse could make reports
without going to a police station. NGOs and political parties also cooperated to
provide counseling for rape victims. Women’s groups asserted that courts were
inconsistent in punishing rapists."

So, how much do you think would happen if a foreigner reported a forced kiss by another foreigner?
Thats what i call myself precrastiation, the act of doing now to laze later.
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I share your sentiment about python in large code bases. I used to think dynamic languages like python/ruby provide superior expressiveness and therefor should be excellent choices no matter what kind of project one is working on.

Now I believe they should only be used for small projects or quick prototypes. Anything beyond that and everything starts getting very confusing.
Some would say "perpetually busy management is bad management", and I'd agree.
Thanks! I've made a note to dive deeper into the difference between the two, although I think the confusion might be more common:

"Historically, battery and assault were considered separate crimes, with battery requiring that the aggressor physically strike or offensively touch the victim. In that way, a battery was a “completed” assault. Many modern statutes don't bother to distinguish between the two crimes, as evidenced by the fact that the phrase "assault and battery" has become as common as "salt and pepper." These days, statutes often refer to crimes of actual physical violence as assaults.
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I would go with Swift, actually.

Another option would be D, although the lack of "batteries" (libraries and tools) is rather concerning.
One of the most eye opening experiences I have ever had in the workplace was in a sexual harassment class which was required for a big corp. The instructor laid out the rules, but people in the class had a hard time grasping the logical structure. Two different scenarios which clearly had the same structure would trip people up by swapping out variables. I was never good with math, but I picked up on these structures right way. Maybe the class should have been taught as a philosophy class from the start. It was amazing to me how difficult such an important subject was for people to pick up.

As difficult as sexual harassment is to learn and teach, I imagine most smaller businesses / start-ups don't make much of an attempt, if at all. Obviously HR is lacking. This might be a good place for improvement for a start-up to tackle.
I don't have a good answer to this question yet. For now I only create the heap in swap, write it to disk, and then use it as read only mmap. To ensure the written file is valid, one can write it to a temporal file first, once confirmed the file is written, then mv the file to desired file name and location. This works for immutable data, but is a big blocker for me to make OPIC work on mutable back store.

This problem is generally hard. See [Ensuring data reaches disk](https://lwn.net/Articles/457667/)
> tics or dots that are unique or very unusual

It's almost like a lot of languages have a shared ancestry.
Differences may be unusual to you. Are ș, î, or ț unusual because they don't exist in English? Those phonemes aren't common in English which is why we don't have distinctions for them, but they're important in Romanian. Not unusual at all if you're Romanian.

By your logic, 대한민국 characters are weird and unusual also, and so on...
OT, but I wonder why Poettering chose Kay Sievers to work on systemd in the first place.
I stopped reading as soon as I got to the Bilderberg part. For all I know Sam Altman really has behaved horribly, but it's obvious I can't trust this author.
https://www.digitalintelligence.com/products/usb3_write_bloc... exists, but they're not priced for consumers.
Yes, but its still worth being intentional about which ones you allow/support and which ones you don't.
OTOH, Binging with Babish is making $9000 a month with a million subscribers. In general, monetizing off nerds is tough. Once you move outside of nerddom, people tend to be more willing to fork out money for goods.
Do you think Dave kept pouring scotch into her glass on accident? He knows society has a tendency to excuse behavior from a drunk person that they'd never accept from someone sober. You're not excusing his behavior directly, but by suggesting that alcohol is relevant to this situation, you're promoting a narrative that abusers love to exploit.