skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not as black and white as you try and portray it. Sure, if the other person says "sorry, I'm busy", that's a definite no. But what if they say is "sorry I'm busy, perhaps some other time"? Are they actually busy and do they actually mean that? Or is it a polite rejection?

At this point, you need to figure out based on body language which one they mean. If you guess wrong and ask again, you're a sexual harasser. If the original conversation was over text and you have no body language other than emojis you're more likely to guess wrong. Nice going, sexual harasser.

And I think it's safe to say that many women will refuse to even consider asking a man out. It's entirely on the guy to initiate everything. Now put yourself in the shoes of someone who spends most of their time at work. In this thread I've seen jibes about how such people should get a life, but let's admit for a second that that's not easy. Such people have a choice - ask out a coworker or remain alone for a long while. In a situation like that, I can understand how they'd be strongly inclined towards interpreting "some other time" as an opportunity rather than a rejection.
An interesting game theory observation.

Moving past the judgements regarding the sincerity of his apology, it'd be interesting to learn the various constiuences' ideas of acceptable outcomes at this point.
Why are Californian solar firms paying to give away power?
> One would think having the phrases "hire you" and "hit on you" in the same sentence when communicating with someone undergoing recruitment at your company would be reason enough to take pause for a moment

I don't know the exact situation here, but to be fair, if you were mostly flirting with someone and it was not a hiring situation, this would not be an unflattering thing to say - "hey, I like you and I think you are smart and capable". If in his mind they met as social acquaintances and in hers they met as business acquaintances, it's easy to see how it would seem reasonable to him and horrifying to her.
no one is talking about the audience you are interacting with. Not everyone has an email and that does not mean they have to remain excluded.

Mobile phones are becoming a universal device, be it a rich or a poor, each one is going to have one. Hence the easiest and unique identifier is their phone number.

Now phone number is personal and could be easily tracked but the kind of audience that engages with phone number as a username is not much privy about their information when it comes to solving their problem or making their lives easier. The onus is on the system to make it entirely secure. With every data point, comes more responsibility.
For an expanded real-life demonstration of this scenario, read up on the Oakland Police interactions with the woman who called herself "Celeste Guap".
Gotta watch out for them kangaroos: http://www.snopes.com/humor/nonsense/kangaroo.asp
>Don't give me the free speech argument, it's completely off the table ...

Well, that is the context in which my comment was made. I also beg to differ that it's completely off the table. On the contrary, give these comments a read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14679941

You can what-if using such leverage in other scenarios all day long as a counterpoint, but obviously companies wouldn't get away with pulling such stunts without overwhelming public support. Free speech issues tend to engender such support. The vast majority of your examples would not.
Wait a second, if there is no power inbalance, how is it inappropriate? Are we merely arguing about social mores without any reason?
One solution to the any typing problem is to use tslint with no-any. It's a bandaid, but it's better than nothing.
There's a FB group for those who might be interested in mobilizing: https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofmartinsbeach/
Clever (mis)use of the word "reproduced" in this context. I'm sure a lawyer is patting himself on the back right now.
Been waiting for this game for over a year ... Think it'll make a big splash. Best of luck to the team. They're trying something new and injecting some actual art into the art form.
I'd rather someone have theory gaps, than toolchain gaps where the person googles how to do every other feature asked of them and ends up copy-pasting from stack-overflow in the interest of time.

If a project calls for knowledge in theory - hire one person who knows that aspect, and can either handle it, or teach it to others.

The rest should be people who know their craft. Finding those is hard enough.
The Facebook group dedicated to the beach is full of surfers and others who regularly visit the beach.

San Mateo Sheriff in late 2015: no citations for trespassing will be issued at Martins Beach.

http://www.montarafog.com/2015/01/sheriff-we-wont-cite-anyon...
The entire purpose of HN is to be a YC hiring funnel. They don't monetize for that reason. They own it and pay for it, so the idea that the community owns it is absurd.

Anyway, you never have to see those jobs if you don't want to.
Common law (still a thing in America) has the concept of an implied easement. If people have been relying on this path for the past century to gain access to the beach, then you can't just discontinue access.

When I was a child, my church owned a plot of land across the street from the main building. The land was vacant, and students from a nearby college used to cut across it to get to class. Once a year, church members would stand at the corners of the property to bar access to the pedestrians - so that the church could maintain that it had not ceded access to the path, in the event that the church wanted to make use of the lot at a later date.
Yes, that's part of my point - that's why it's called /asking/, a world where people are not free to ask - I can only imagine would result in a world where people take, and that - I think we've all whitnessed at times.
in my dream-world, these hypothetical fines would be levied on Khosla, collected by the court, and then donated to an account controlled by Surfrider Foundation.

then, in the near future, when the government eminent-domains the land, it would use that same money to make the payment ... not all of it, of course ... maybe 25% of it.

the remaining 75% could go toward building a parking lot and some bathroom facilities for the public.
For them - good enough is good enough. This is extremely common in organizations that are interested in profit over quality - which's why they hire fresh graduates in the first place.
It's really just bothersome in as much as the accusations cross into involuntary territory when in the presence of someone you are attracted to. Lingering eye contact, vibe change, getting in a cheery mood that makes you want to crack a joke (light flirting), is involuntary for most around people they are attracted to. It has nothing in common with overtly hitting on someone, yet such involuntary responses do sometimes get policed in the same way. I could see someone leveling against a man, "Your vibe changes when a pretty girl walks in." or "You make extra eye contact with her." and I have to wonder if people are indeed mixing those types of claims with the serious ones when they call out figures like Chris Sacca or McClure. If so, there should probably be a discussion...
> The biological differences produce different aptitudes and interests in men and women, which causes men and women to select different careers.

[Citation needed].

> However, the main differentiating factors I pointed out were (1) more unknown territory (e.g. building things that don't exist yet) and (2) more risk involved in attempting the types of challenges programmers face (e.g. 50% of software projects fail). In contrast, accounting is a highly regulated field, more deterministic, and provides more job security. I'd say that puts it more in the middle of the spectrum between stereotypically female careers like nursing and stereotypically male careers like engineering.

This is again just handwaving. Most engineering, even computer science, is just keeping things running or making incremental improvements. I was an aerospace major, where the vast majority of jobs are in making 1-2% per decade incremental improvements in fuel efficiency. Very stable, great job security, not a lot of women! Likewise, most programming is CRUD apps or boring websites. (Sure you can point to SpaceX, but you can also point to accountants who work on teams that make billion dollar deals happen, or do forensic analysis of billion dollar disasters; both represent a tiny minority of their respective professions).
We need to legalize prostitution so that an investor or manager who has these fantasies can play them out with professional help. If we viewed prostitutes as a form of health therapist and gave them professional respect rather than keeping them in the black market a lot of these guys could work out their power issues with a trained sex professional instead of creating these nightmares for innocent women who just want to do a great job or run a successful startup.
some of the earlier ones on Indiehackers were really good. The InstaPaint was a great one.
"If you are in a position of power over another person, I would say there isn't an appropriate time."

Is neither illogical nor slippery moral construct. If you disagree with the rule, you should find better argument then just calling it "not hard logic enough".

On related note, if hiring manager asks for dates regularly, any hired women will be assumed less competent and assumed to sleep her way to success - no matter what her response. It is not like these accusations were far away for good looking women, they are pretty much guaranteed in this setup.

That is not cool.
Dude is 50 years old, teeth are not good, body not good at all... and he's trying to hit on 30 year olds who are way out of his league... come on man... have some common sense.

If you want to get that top notch just pay for it.
> No one said they did. You have to write fewer tests with static typing, not zero tests.

Typing is not a substitute for tests, you test for desired functionality in both. Albeit there's a stronger culture for testing in dynamic languages given they're more of a necessity.

> Velocity is subjective

No, Velocity can be measured.

> but I argue that is more because of familiarity and popularity, and less because of dynamic typing.

That's no argument, it's a weak and sheltered assumption showing a lack of first-hand experience. Don't presume to know that of which you don't know.

> For example, developers I work with are just as proficient in both types of languages, and get to market just as fast with static typing,

Of course you can't know that for sure, but it sure fits your thwarted view of them quite nicely. If that were true most Startups whose existence are hinged on their ability to get to market would not be overwhelmingly be in favor of using dynamic languages. Your goals as a technologist should be to adopt an unbiased view, identify strengths and weaknesses of each tool so you're able to make informed decisions about which use-cases are best solved by either. Your unknowledgeable and disparaging remarks on them wreaks that you're more interested in trying to confirm your own biases than you are on from ever being able to benefit from them in any capacity. Learning the idioms and being proficient in multiple languages will make you a better programmer, you'll learn elegant techniques, new perspectives and be able to identify friction that you can apply back in your primary language. You'll also be more productive in the large number of use-cases where they're naturally better suited. Add one to your toolbox today!
They are my main source for PDF DRM free books (I don't care about stamping my name as long as it can be read anywhere).

If they stop selling then they lose 100% of my business which is about $100 a year.

I don't use other formats. They screw technical books too badly. Some other publishers like Apress and MS Press do okay too but if O'Reilly pulls out then it's quite a blow.
I'm not going to congratulate this guy or call him brave or anything, and I'm just going to mention that I consider this proof that speaking up against unfair treatment (in this case, harassment) can have an impact.

The only thing I'm going to commend about this post is that it's nice that he's trying not to bring the company (and thus, his colleagues) down with him.
Not sure what universe you live in. But for 99% of the world the "high end" is an i7-7700k with 4 cores/8 threads. Systems with nice parts designed for gaming are in the $1000-$2000 range ($350 for cpu, $150 for motherboard, $100-$200 for ram, $350-$650 for GPU, and a few $100 for the rest (SSD, case, fans, keyboard/mouse, etc) VERY few people spend more.

AMD competes in this space with basically double the cores for the same money. Like say the R7-1700X, same price as the i7-7700k

While 8 core intel's exist they are insanely expensive and don't typically do even 1% better at gaming. The 16-32 core Ryzen chips don't even exist yet.
>it lowers the quality of discussion

disagree. it's impossible to lower the quality of discussion below the article itself and when an article contains the racist bullshit talking about quality is laughable.
Yeah. Also I'd rather not give Google my money. If something goes wrong I don't like my chances of getting it back. At least with O'Reilly you could talk to a human.
I have a few different types of outdoor flowers. I spend enough time on maintaining them and a lawn. I would pay 100 a month to have two 30 minute sessions with a really experienced gardener who would show up and help me with all of the different seasonal issues.

I have heard you could have roses blooming all summer if you care for them right. I have no clue on how to do this.
I'm curious if anyone can provide insight as to what the profits of a moderately successful game would be. Let's say they've spent $600-700k over the past three years. Is there any possibility of them saving their homes without the game becoming a massive success?
It's hard (not to mention highly subjective) to judge development skill. My guess is that it's in the same class of difficulty as the halting problem.
I question the sincerity of their arguments. The same person posted at least one ridiculous nonsequitur (about guns), quoted the same passage several times in several places with demonstrably incorrect explanation of its meaning (even after being corrected about what California law says about the subject, with references), made silly analogies about living rooms, and all around pulled a Gish Gallop spread across a couple dozen comments.

If a "civil" argument is designed to mislead and intended to make the conversation incomprehensible, can it be anything other than a troll? This is a trolling tactic and has been forever. Look up "forum sliding", for another fun explanation of one of the tactics hyperliner is using.
Germany has been criticized by many for their questionable free speech. Snowden is one famous person to do this.

The right to offend is also considered by many to be an important part of free speech-1.

In fact, I'm not so sure why the person responding to me is not at all worried. Even if the law is dropped, and this particular prosecution dropped, the fact remains: "a political artist was prosecuted for a poem insulting a politician."

If his point is simply Germany has better free speech than other countries, naming Thailand; then OK, I agree, but they're still getting close to treading a dangerous line.

1-https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/16/free-s...
I feel that they try, but bootcamps won't always succeed. It depends on the student. For quite a number of students the bootcamp format isn't the right one, in my opinion. This is when I regard training students as good programmers. If it is regarding getting a job, then a coding bootcamp is suited for a lot more students. Not every company needs a programmer. A lot of companies that I've seen come by, need people who are able to do some programming and some web-design.
It seems like the researchers missed a golden opportunity to also slice the data on objective criteria like height, age, etc., and look for other correlations.
Another example of the power and usefulness of continuations comes from pg, who wrote years ago that a key reason why Viaweb was routinely able to launch new features faster than the competition back in the 1990's is because they wrote their code in continuation-passing style -- they were generating closures on the fly that would be called when users clicked on specific links on web pages, whereas the competition was using HTML pages with CGI scripts:

http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt
Wow, it's been a while. Back in the days[1], it was a feat to do even a simple Faux 3-Column layout[2]. I made lots of friends and following on forums and 'mailing lists' helping and getting help with the quirks, and CSS hacks. Those in the know of such CSS hacks and their solutions got their 'guru' moments and treatments.

The ability to fully understand the CSS Box Model, and enlighten someone was the pinnacle of your CSS Ninja tactics.

There were the purists who would not write anything but in "Strict Mode". Debates on why "transitional" should be that - transitional. There were moments of triumph when Tantek[3] himself replied to your email, discussing his tan-hacks.

Then, there was my CSS mentor/superhero - Philippe Wittenbergh[4]. I would email him right away to test my work on the Mac browsers, especially with that nasty Internet Explorer for Mac. This was before I was introduced to the Mac in 2006.

Soon enough, writing up a CSS-Grid system for a project became second-nature and felt like ringing the bell. Hell, I even had a dead-simple CSS Grid that got some traction, which I later added to Github and people liked it, used it for a while.

It is such a good feeling that "Grid" is no longer just a CSS terminology to mean a setup of patterns to build a layout but now a keyword in CSS that the browser understands and do something. We have come a long way.

1. I think, the early 21st century - 2001/2003-ish.

2. https://alistapart.com/article/fauxcolumns

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantek_%C3%87elik

4. https://l-c-n.com/
"That's when he realised that Palantir was not really selling software, as they originally made out, but consulting, much like Accenture or McKinsey."

I think they do both?
They will do alright because of the art and the amount of press already generating sales ahead of time.

That's what you need as an indie developer. A lot of publicity and great art. It doesn't matter that you essentially reproduce the exact same recipe as any other Nintendo platformer, as long as you have great art and music, people will love your content.

Similar to hollywood movies being a rehash of each other with different actors and a different setting. It's all about the human condition.

So yeah, in the rare case of Cuphead, they will do well. Maybe enough to make the next one, if they didn't over-extend themselves.

For most small indies though, I can tell you first hand, it's tough. Especially since the whole Hello Games and No Man Sky's debacle, every 'gamer' out there is out to hate indie by default. We're scammers in sheep clothing.
My point is the article doesn’t make much sense - comparing a country’s output of anything to a single factory is of little to no point. The entire article is fluff produced so Bloomberg could have a snazzy sounding headline: “China Is About to Bury Elon Musk in Batteries”

The fact hat the headline on HN was changed to be less clickbaity instead of matching the original pretty much says it all...
You can't escape a crowded train station, especially when underground or a skyscraper when you are on a higher floor. This type of situation can't be controlled everywhere without constantly living in fear. There just isn't any point in trying and usually the security is pointless theatre anyways.
The art looks even better in motion, as the trailer shows.[0]

The resemblance to the cartoons of the era is uncanny. I really hope Disney doesn't sue them or something. Hopefully they're on rock-solid legal footing. In a just world all those copyrights would be ancient and long expired, but hey—Mickey Mouse is still Disney's IP until 2023, and they'll probably figure out something to keep it going past that.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5iGwE0XJ1s
My next computer is going to be a Ryzen so I'm glad it's doing this well.
it is indeed astounding how many useless people are trying to attach themselves to the IT. Anecdotally, it's already a useful heuristic that anyone making the 'ethics/social justice/diversity/equality' noise willingly is not worth the money they are being paid.
The only greyed out posts I see aren't worth reading anyway. Mostly just ignoring anyone that makes points to counter their arguments, it's like having a conversation with our President.
Other posters agree with my read on his apology. While apologizing, McClure is also simultaneously trying to water down Sarah's presentation of the story; that the situation was more/less social in nature... specifically he says stuff like:

... years ago over drinks, late one night in a small group ...

... for my inappropriate behavior in a setting I thought was social, but in hindsight was clearly not ...

I mean, sure, the situation wasn't a formal interview, but by his omission, I take it that it also wasn't a dinner or social outing with friends. He also brings up that drinks were involved, but practically every company/vc sponsored event in the valley has alcohol involved. That doesn't make it okay to proposition an attendee you talked to about an open job position afterwards over FACEBOOK and bring up said job as part of your come-on. I mean this is literally the textbook definition of sexual harassment.

McClure of course doesn't bring up this level of detail about all the other instances where he sexually harassed women, probably because those instances were in even more formal settings and make him look like an even bigger creep.

What is truly misanthropic are apologists like yourself who give guys like this a pass because they write a nicely worded apology on medium after getting caught. Oh, he's soooo sincere; and what a good guy he is; and did you know that funded some LGBT initiative!

Half of the posts on this thread keep on bringing up the issue of workplace romance. It's a total red herring and a crock of shit. There are acceptable and appropriate ways to flirt and date in the workplace (if you must). All it takes is judgement and common sense. The vast majority of men deal with this just fine, and if you're one of them, you should be outraged. Assholes like McClure, and yes he is a total asshole -- that's his whole shtick after all -- poisons the well for us all. We must be unequivocal in renouncing this type of shit. If he wants redemption and kudos he has to earn it, an apology on medium is just the first (small) step. Any less, and you provide justification and cover for the next asshole to behave similarly. His success, contributions to the tech community, whatever, does not justify him demeaning and putting another human being in a shit position -- moreso because he has the power, and by his own admission, knowingly abused it to take advantage over someone is a weaker position. Apologies, no matter how sincere, don't make up for the years of anxiety, therapy, etc. that stuff like this can cause.
Here's something for you to read up on. http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/row/landsurveys/Study_material/Cali...

Bottom line, property law derives a lot from English Common Law. It's possible for people to obtain rights that are not documented in any contract through customary use, or via common sense (e.g. If you sell someone a parcel of land completely surrounded by your land, you must grant them access to their property).

The down-side for both parties is that common law is up to even more interpretation than statutory law.