skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now, this is extremely vague and can mean anything. He was already going out, but she was in the way, and the exit door was on a corner?...This can be construed as assault or as a normal goodbye when leaving the house of somebody.

A normal goodbye is not forced on someone who has repeatedly said no to advances. The account was really quite clear, far clearer than McClure's apology. And yet you feel the need to make up details (where the door was etc) in order to try to excuse his behaviour, and call her a liar. Why is that? Why do you think she would lie in this situation and he would not?

Your response says more about you than her. Also, your incredulous response is the perfect illustration of why this woman didn't go the police and go public with her story years ago - she was in a vulnerable position, and would be slandered and called a liar if she made the claims public, and likely disbelieved by most of the men she worked with and then calumnied in court by well paid lawyers. The woman has zero incentive to lie, and frankly very little incentive in our current society to come forward, it is highly likely she is telling the truth in this situation simply because the balance of power likes with McClure and if she lied her career would be over (it will be harder even if she tells the truth).

The reaction on HN to these stories has been damning (for the global tech industry) - it's clear tech has a long way to go before even confronting these issues truthfully and without prejudice, let alone actually dealing with them.

The first step to dealing with this problem properly is not to write long screeds about how this woman might well be lying (the implication being this is a common occurrence, not an outlier), but to accept her story at face value - leave it to the police or those investigating the incident to verify it.
Yes they should have at least added the website url which is btw. http://gitter.im
I haven't seen any bike pile-ups as in China, and it's unlikely to happen in any event because these bikes just cost too much–they're build extremely sturdy. They also have GPS so it's quite easy to enforce rules about acceptable placement. What's more of a problem with a free-floating system is asymmetric use: people take public transport to get somewhere, but because it's late, or they're slightly drunk and in a good mood, or have more time than in the morning, they take a bike back home. That's what suck the initially free-floating system by "Deutsche Bahn".

IF you're talking about bikes being left in the way of pedestrians, I haven't experienced it, and I'm sure you could get people to think a bit more if needed.

In any case it's magnitudes less of an inconvenience as that currently created by cars. Considering that about 2/3 of people in central Berlin don't own a car, there's really no reason not to compare the status quo with city almost free of cars. It would be drastically different, as you could reasonably double the space available for the public: eliminate two lanes of parked cars, and make most streets one-way. Most traffic lights could be eliminated, biking speed would double without waiting for cars and red lights. There'd be space for almost anything, from small gardens to sports, right in front of your house.
For the "keep it simple" camp, I wonder why Bottle isn't more popular.
Modules add another layer above the current access control constructs in Java world (public, private, etc). There are several benefits to them, like discovering a missing dependency much earlier on (statically), not importing the code we are not using, avoiding cyclic dependencies between modules, etc. More importantly it enforces better design and provides some tooling to have a better 10000-feet view of your project. I think its going to come in very handy in managing larger codebases.

You could visit these links to know more from a web-dev backend point of view.

* https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/modules-vs-microservices

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDoiydWS3D4

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O77777Zy_HE

Ps... I created a library in Nodejs that implements concepts of modularity in JS codebases. Its known as archiejs (on github). I think modularity is a very useful feature that lot of people are going to want to use in Java (and also other programming languages).
Actually, funnily enough German government agencies properly write Ł on all my papers. I needed to settle for L anyway because banks, telcos etc. have a huge problem with it.

On the other hand in some other countries it ends up being some random crap. Eg.: Micha%b
I enjoy building things. I'm good at back-end programming and hardware hacking. I'm bad at art and marketing.

Even making a "portfolio" requires everything I do to have a pretty GUI and a nice website. For many of my scripts, that kind of thing just isn't suitable.

For my 20k Chinese restaurant menu project, I got a few likes on Facebook. One person said I should make an app. But what kind of app? Android, iOS, Mac, Windows? What is the app supposed to do that the website can't already do? Even if I make an app, how am I supposed to tell people about it?

Paying for Facebook ads or Google ads seems like a waste of money, because even if the site gets more views, it's for free, so it won't pay for itself. This also restricts the type of project I do - I can't afford to pay for a server, so I code everything in client-side JavaScript and host on Github.
Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
I'm looking for some kind of undergoing study that follows an individual with the goal to completely map that individual's life.

Measured data could include:
- Exact daily diet proportions
- Daily air quality
- Steps per day
- Minutes of physical exercise per week
- Monthly vitamin readings
- Weekly blood pressure
- Hourly/Daily blood sugar
- Minutes of social interaction per day
- Monthly wage
- Daily self-estimated happiness
- Daily self-estimated worth
etc.

What I'm looking for should be trying to map all possible long term health contributing factors in an individual's life.

Do you know of anything like this? Mayhap not even a study, but someone's personal project that they publicize on the web?
You can't just pretend these people don't exist. The bulk of the developer population are what could be called mediocre. Heck, I'd class myself as fairly mediocre. You will end up working with these people or inheriting a project that was started by one of then sooner or later.
The Nerja Aqueduct was built in the 19th century.
But yes roman aqueducts were impressive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_du_Gard was 48.8m high (160feet).
Role models are probably a bad idea; often we find out later that they've been going about it all wrong as well.

> nothing I can do to be sure some woman doesn't find my sexual or romantic propositions inappropriate

You can never be sure of anything in human relations. But I think the shorthand approach is to see it from her point of view. Basically, does she have a safe exit? In the situation described there are two ways in which she does not. Firstly, there's a business context - she's worried that if she says "no" firmly enough, it will jeopardize her contract; secondly, there's a physical obstructing of her and an initial refusing to leave her flat (he is eventually persuaded to).

Remember also the flip side of this: as a woman, there is nothing she can to do be sure that someone she does actually accept a proposition from isn't a rapist. And if she does, there are people who will blame her for it.
I recently saw a presentation by some college students that investigated the feasibility of running ocean gliders on nuclear power. The proposal was to use a nice sized chunk of strontium 90 for a radioisotopic thermal generator. This would provide 45 watts electrical power for about 10 years.

The interesting part was not the technical feasibility, but how they were going to make a case to the NRC to make such a use of radioisotopes legal. Apparently there is a precedent for this, some scientific ice monitoring equipment has used strontium 90 RTGs.
Question 1: Can I do marketing without spending money?

If the answer is no, then I'll move on. If the answer is yes, then yes, we can talk.
Well of course, but one reason why people want to make system files secure is because if those can be messed with it makes it so much easier to do all the bad things in that XKCD - without detection even.
If you go through the commit history you can see that they removed a lot of secret keys from the repo.

What if the main reason why people don't want to opensource their project is because they don't know how to use their secret keys without including them in the repo ?
Yep. I took some time and cooled off. Incidentally I saw you defending me from a flaming comment just one day before, while inspecting my history. So I guess it's fair because it applies to everyone. Keep up the good work and you won't have to worry from me any more.
I actually don't think the distinction between "thing" and "this" was pointed out when I learned English in elementary school in Germany.

They were just ambiguously referred to as the English "Tee Aitch", which doesn't help anyone.

Note they did point out the different pronunciations for each word but it was pretty much along the lines "they're the same thing but sometimes sound differently".
The C specification requires that (x<32) is 0 or 1, but that doesn't mean it is necessarily possible to do it branch-free on any particular computer.
* Somehow all those Danes and Dutch manage in the rain.

* If it's that far away it probably isn't "urban". 15 km is doable for most able-bodied people in 45 minutes or so.

(edit) Before somebody says 'BUT LA (or the bay or whatever) IS BIGGER THAN THAT!' - note that what the US calls "urban" is generally "suburban" by any reasonable definition of the word. Fremont's not a city, just a parking lot with a mayor, as described in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlTvSUCCqPo )

* There's no bad weather, only bad clothes (if it's a snowstorm, then you shouldn't be driving either)

* It's called a bakfiet, or a trailer, or their own bike

* See above. Also, rail, bus, etc.

* Trailer, taxi, or short-term car rental (car2go, zipcar, etc.)

* For urban centers, trains or buses, for rural areas, you will find a number of companies happy to let you use their vehicle for a period of several days in exchange for money

* In general, that would be somewhere out of aforementioned urban area so the previous answers reply. Some cycles have motors fitted to them - "motor-cycles" they're called, I think. For people who really, really need to zoom across urban centres (carefully and with extra training), ambulances, police cars, and fire engines remain an option.
> Django smooths it over so you end up with cached property counts for things which are trivially computable from the DB

Uuuh I've never encountered this problem
If you find this sort of example terrifying, imagine for a moment what it'd be like to be on the other end of aggressive advances from a guy who could make or break your career and wanted you to submit to sex.

Hopefully that puts your terror as a guy in perspective.
Never mind trust: teens and seniors generally don't have the disposable income to spend on high end brand new cars (or expensive retrofits of sensor devices). The first buyers, apart from the wealthy, would be people and corporations that spend the most time on the road: generally tending towards being better than average drivers.

And even if self-driving cars were exactly as good as the drivers they replaced, half the purpose of buying them is to spend more time on the road...
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Asking users to run mongo, es, neo4j, and redis is a tall order. Mattermost just needs (AFAIK) a relational database.

Also, less relevant but the Gitlab UI has far too much wasted whitespace. Like 85% of the page is navigation. I like open source competitors to incumbents but maybe just copy Github here - no one is gonna say anything.
Great point. We "soft launched" this yesterday so are still working on the documentation and hadn't made any official announcement yet until we've ironed out in any kinks.

Looks like HN announced it for us...
> basically labor saving for composers.

If you think about it, musicians work at low level - assembler or even raw mechanical inputs. They could use a toolchain.
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In my language omitting diacritics can change the meaning a lot.
"Ji ilgėjosi savo sūnų" vs. "Ji ilgėjosi savo šunų". Many lazy compatriots of mine would write "Ji ilgėjosi savo sunu“.
It may be obvious from the contexts, but without it you could interpret it either as the first one ("She was missing her sons") or as the other one ("She was missing her dogs").

This lazy way of writing had some valid technical reasons in the past (like phones not supporting diacritics), but these have long been solved.

P.S: if you think gendered nouns are hard, try language where almost everything is gendered: nouns, verbs, adjectives. In English: "I saw a nice boy walking"/"I saw a nice girl walking". In Lithuanian: "Mačiau gražų vaikiną einantį"/"Mačiau gražią merginą einančią".

And then there is this: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/51/91/e2/5191...
Curious...if you need advice on this, what led you to decide it was the one thing worth pursuing?
They will need a way to cope with: sand grains, lime, phytoplancton, gelatinous zooplancton, marine snow, sharks atracted by electric fields... will need a microporous filter and a way to force the saltwater into the device.

The problem with this concept is that this batteries could fail suddenly. Will the oceanographers want to use it and take the risk? Even a small cube full of Salinity and temperature sensors etc, can be valued in several millions.

A way to solve it could be to design a saltwater circuit totally closed and autonomous. Like a gas deposit. Could even act as a shield for the machine. A hole on this deposit and water entering on it? no harm done. Could be even an automatic activation method for several types of rescue systems (Water entering in the machine/ship after a crash, seawater-batteries activating automatically)
Once people get used to use their bike in the course of their daily routine, they're quite likely to continue using it in the winter.

I've gone through three Berlin winters now with going everywhere by bike. It's a one-time investment in some good clothing, mostly for hands, feet, and your head. After that, it can actually be a lot of fun to drive on fresh snow, or through the blizzard.

In my experience, cars become a lot more of a problem in winter: they're more likely not to see you because it's dark, and because rain and snow are terrible for your vision if you're behind a windshield. There are also fewer people on bikes, so they don't expect you and pay less attention. With snow, there's also a tendency for odd-shaped large pieces of ice to end up right in your path, i. e. slightly to the right of the cars' track.
This is a claim that would benefit from some data. There's certainly enough traffic during the day to suggest people aren't _all_ driving at the same time.
I do not believe the author is lying. I honestly do not understand the relevance problem that she is reporting. She cried after an awkward interaction? This happened to me all the time when I was younger, no big deal really.
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In AI this is called actor-critic method. You got one net that spews ideas and another that ranks them. In this case, the critic is the human.
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> What's so bad about gendered nouns?

Gendered nouns are a significant barrier to learning a new language.
That would mean locking in the amount you dedicated with very extremely low (lottery level) chance of any return. Most probably, you would not see that money ever again (provided you don't decide to remove your bid, obviously). Better give it to a charity :)
Amtszeit is a bad example, though, as German never uses ligatures for letter sequences spanning syllables. And I think there are no examples of sz appearing within a syllable.
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It is not one singular example. Speakers of German have used that letter occasionally for the last 120 years or so and there was a debate to introduce it the whole time.
A heap for proletarians
On some level it's a boon to not tie one's livelihood so closely to a fickle and shady advertising industry. I agree that t-shirt selling doesn't sound like an amazing alternative, though.
They were banned by building codes - insulae were limited to something like five stories due to fires. A problem that is tragically still relevant.
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If it's raining you can wear a waterproof and waterproof trousers. The Netherlands are totally flat so you're unlikely to ever get sweaty. If you do pretty much all workplaces over a certain size provide showers at work.

If it's cold you can wear a jacket. It's never that cold in Europe. You can get bikes that carry children.

If you need to go long distances or move large things, sure use a car. I don't think anyone is advocating completely banning them but your objections are silly.
When I think "weird special English letter" I think Œ, as in fœtus. Granted, in American English it has been eliminated almost completely and even in British English it's now often seen as a bit archæic (pardon the pun) but it's still there and to me signifies "English" just as ß signifies "German", ø signifies "Nordic", ı signifies "Turkish" and é signifies "French".
I find myself doing this more and more often with python libraries, even with the well-documented ones like Django REST Framework - always keep a source browser open on the virtualenv dir so I can read library source. There's something about the style of python documentation that makes it difficult to really understand how the classes in a library fit together, so this is necessary for larger python frameworks.

(My personal gold standard for programmer reference documentation has been the Qt API docs for very, very long. They've varied in quality over the years but they're always an example of how to do it.)
A relational database is overkill. My BBCode-enabled chatroom runs off txt files.
I was slightly annoyed by this too (that it lacks this simple info)
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I'm in my mid 40s and the youtube front page just offers me punk and 80s thrash metal videos plus some windsurfing and mountain biking - suits me fine.

I get a weird culture shock whenever I ever see what it looks like to my kids though.
If it's raining, you ride or take public transport there. Most employers and commercial centres offer showers for cyclists. If it's too cold, you wear more clothes. Admittedly, most places with good bike use do not have many hills. In cities which have good bike use I see people with trolley-like things attached to the front of their bike - which are useful for kids and also transporting things around. For two people out of town, getting to yours suddenly becomes their problem. Bringing back furniture from ikea is a nonissue as they offer delivery, and the cost of that is still way lower than owning a car. If you want to leave a city you can always rent a car. Getting from A-B faster than a bike will take you is a taxi job, though your mind readjusts.

In cities like copenhagen or amsterdam, bikes have enough mindshare that these concerns are pushed to the back of mind. The fact that you can remain healthy, passively, is a massive bonus; and the lack of cars is stark in comparison to other western countries.

Copenhagen is an extreme case of this; nothing much on the roads except for Teslas, some taxis and buses. Everyone else is on bikes.
Not the OP but my answer to that is because something has to be complex in a large web app.

Complexity can be avoided until the number of features reaches some threshold (I don't think there's any debate that it's impossible to avoid complexity entirely if the app is large enough). In those cases, which I think are the majority of use cases, a simple DOM utility like yours would be enough to hide complexity because there wasn't much to begin with.

But some of the websites React powers exceed that feature threshold. For example, if multiple sections of a web app want to update at once, the author could leverage React's lifecycle hooks where needed and rely on its reconciler, but if using a simpler library, might have to explicitly schedule each update in a more hacky/less efficient way.
If a majority of participants rejected blocks that were on a chain that did not rollback the erroneous transaction, then the hash power would be forced to follow.

I believe the term for who decides is the "economic majority".
I don't think anyone is objecting to gendered pronouns (he, she, him, her) but rather gendered nouns in general. For example in french "night" and "baguette" are female whereas "book" and "chair" are male. It seems arbitrary and makes learning the language more difficult.
That's not true. Where did you get that idea?

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95617?visit_id=1-63...
It's trivial to support ẞ in smartphone virtual keyboards. Physical keyboards may follow.
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