skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I vehemently disagree with that. While I do not know your gender or sexual orientation, I can assume that at some point you've looked at another person and been attracted to them. This can't be controlled because our species' success (before the modern medicine era) is due to our ability to reproduce. I don't see a problem with looking at someone. If it gets to the point of creepily staring for long periods of time, or wanting to act on his thoughts, then he has good reason to see a therapist, but being able to see that someone is attractive while also not wanting to have sex with them is completely normal. I'm a guy and I acknowledge that many of my platonic female friends are very attractive, but I don't want to have sex with them in the same way that I would a wife or girlfriend.
Have worked on Wall Street. It's not worse.
The fact that you use the term "skin-flashing" here is a little concerning. Perhaps it was just meant as a shorthand for attractive woman, because otherwise you've taken a woman's choice of dress and behaviour and made them part of your neurosis. Unless of course she is giving you the Basic Instinct treatment (is that too old a reference for this site?), in which case I'm entirely out of advice for you.
What evidence is there of judges being bribed here? That's a hell of an accusation.
Yeah I was thinking each appointment had a start time and end time.
I am in the same position as you. I constantly and graphically think about sex with my female colleagues. However it has actually helped my career because I don't interrupt my female colleagues at the whiteboard or in meetings, rather I nod and affirm them while I fantasize about sex with them. As an ironic consequence I have gotten a reputation for being respectful of women's ideas and encouraging of their career development. Shows how low the bar is in Silicon Valley -- simply not interrupting/berating women makes you a well-regarded manager.

While this has led to some technically poor decisions because they don't benefit from engaged debate, the women who have worked for me have been basically very competent so the errors have not hurt me as much as my personal reputation has helped me.
Acknowledge that reptilian instinct and then check it. Also, spend more time around women outside work. As friends, e.g. friends' wives, girlfriends or even just interesting women you meet.
I haven't gotten any spammy messages (or gmail has caught them). I've only gotten emails from theSkimm, which is not in my interests but it looks like they put a decent amount of effort in their email. This one guy's terrible terrible experience is not necessarily indicative of anything.
I know these projections would have big problems if they were static, but it seems to me that the whole game changes when it's dynamic. The fact that half the globe is hidden from view is much less important when a flick of a finger can bring it into view.

I admit I don't quite get that bit about not just being a stand-in for a globe. I thought the main reasons maps aren't globes is just because maps are much easier to store, and because maps can be zoomed in to an arbitrary degree. Computer displays eliminate both of those reasons.
PSA: If you are an honest man who manages or works with women in any capacity, please keep complete audio records of your time at work. File storage is cheap, a false charge will cost you your livelihood and damage the reputation of your entire industry. If you live in a jurisdiction which requires more than one present party to consent to recording, run for your life.

P.S. not at all insinuating that the accusations here are necessarily false.
>Are you saying they're false accusations?

Of course there are false accusations out there. It's not the majority of them or even a significant number. But it's not zero.
That primate is sense is just that - namely, primitive.
That hits close to home, thanks.
There is a legal, and ethical difference between meeting and dating a co-worker, and hitting on someone who you have power over.

The former is, assuming everyone is OK with it, fine. The latter is illegal as hell, and even if everyone is OK with it at the time, will expose you to litigation. Don't do it.

This is sexual harassment training 101.
There's always DEN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaRTZpJgPA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Entertainment_Network

Isn't that guy still running the Bitcoin Foundation?

https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/05/some-in-bitcoin-gro...

He has a history of doing business with other creepy people, too.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/stephen-bannon-w...

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/trumps-campaign-ceos-little-kn...

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/ff-ige/

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155736654012782&se...
The one person that I would have never suspected is Dave McClure. Here's a guy who didn't fit the investment world and he was smart and hustled his way in.

He started 500 startups with a female co-founder and said he chose her because she was smarter. He saw an opening for himself and talked about playing Moneyball for venture capital. He spoke often in interviews about chasing investments among founders who didn't fit the profile but were eminently backable and that included women. He blogged publicly about his insecurities and campaigned for diversity.

https://500hats.com/commitment-to-diversity-d8a4ac8b1c12

Guess it proves you can't really know a person through their writings and interviews. He was someone that I admired and I'm more than a little disappointed.
I remember a commercial from the 80's for an emergency number described as "dial 800 then keep dialing 9".
firefox reading mode (i believe it's the same devs as that chrome extension? icbw) is the first button i press on most sites. i couldn't do without it.
A full backpacking pack at 60L+ will not. But a stuffed 35L pack will most likely fit.
With force touch or just a regular swipe?
No. I'll take a look, thanks.
Avoiding this situation is why I never meet women 1:1 outside of conference rooms, yet Mike Pence was roundly mocked for doing this.
"It started as a group of teenagers writing NSA-grade exploits intended to spread software freedom," said a former Apple employee

It wasn't them who were sloppy programmers, it was the teenagers who were writing NSA-grade exploits... SMH
Apple employees need a reality check...
There really isn't. Some of the old stuff still applies. But my approach to understanding this is very all over the place and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone besides myself. But I've found trying to understand electromagnetism and basic quantum theory (photon-matter interactions) to be quite helpful.

As for classification, there's some work on this e.g. this
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/MCS86.pdf

I believe it's not non-deterministic, as in some sense, if you can pose the problem in a differentiable way, it's better than non-determinism.

It's like being in a maze. An analog computer like robot can perceive the slight tilt of the floor that goes from the entrance to the exit and just follows that tilt. It takes the robot an optimal number of steps too.

A non-deterministic Turing would kind of split itself into N different robots and start exploring all the turns. It might find the answer eventually but e.g. it will consume that much more energy.

This analogy might be silly but I hope it conveys how very different analog machines are.
I'm not sure it's that they're more "progressive" but that seems to point in the right direction. My own thought is that tech has relatively more "white knights" and also relatively more people willing to look at their actions affecting the world, even if it's sometimes a distorted view of changing it with a milk startup or whatever. Letting these things slide creates an uglier world to live in, whereas in other industries there's probably acceptance of the way things are or just a sense of being able to switch industries.

Currently I wonder which side will end up dominating tech culture or if we'll remain at war. Some companies have to send out memos telling people to cut out the sex in the stairwells. Others just don't hire any women and try to make sure they're not discriminating in a way that's illegal (not that hard with "pipeline" arguments, at least for core tech positions). And then others have some balance, and make it work or result in drama like this story.
Do you turn off IntelliSense/code completion too or any type of feeback in your IDE/text editor?

Perhaps you just use Notepad because you either understand the code or you don't, right?

Visual aids make me a faster programmer in reading code. I have not found my understanding to go down since first discovering it.
Yep, and they've closed down apps like Twitter interfaces and IIRC a camera app because they rolled the use into their own iOS.
I was summarizing the parent. Although, a few other comments here better put my point, that TDD and unit testing in general, freeze your interfaces. Because interfaces define the functionality of modules, this forces your choice of modularity upfront.

This is fine, if your already have a fair idea of how to architect your problem. But if you don't, it makes it harder to refactor your interfaces (in the same way that clients depending on your interfaces does). Of course, you can rewrite the tests, since you have control over them; it's just harder. And you don't have the TDD raison d'etre reassurance of working tests for this refactoring, of interfaces. Higher level function tests, yes; unit tests, no.
Globes are nice for teaching people the relation between a map and a spherical planet. They’re not necessarily the best at quickly answering geography questions, because you need to spin them around to make comparisons, and only the middle part of the globe (from any particular perspective) has low distortion. For e.g. data displays, they’re often quite misleading.

It’s difficult to follow rhumb lines on a globe, and it can also be difficult to follow great circle arcs (depending on how the globe is allowed to spin). Making arbitrary 3-dimensional rotations works pretty well for an unattached ball, but is very annoying to do using existing mouse + multitouch UIs. Comparing shapes, distances, and coordinates of places far apart on the globe is a pain. Globes (and computer displays) are difficult to blow up to very large size, and hard to annotate.

I think spheres are great (to the point that I made myself a spherical chalkboard), but having a sphere (or an interactive orthographic projection) doesn’t replace most uses of other maps.
Are you calling Google Keyboard the stock keyboard?

EDIT: It's an honest question. If you're not going to answer or don't know, shove the downvotes up your ass, OK?
Just literally account sharing but with a log of changes and ownsership of different scenarios.

Plus you can charge $25 a month per additional user and that'd be a very fair price.
> You even introduce a class of bugs doesn’t exist for statically typed languages.

Conversely, you're also able to write equivalent functionality with less code and with idioms you can't use in statically typed languages. It's an engineering trade off, the static typed handcuffs prevent you from making a certain kind of mistake but they also prevent you from writing certain kinds of code that are extremely powerful; many prefer the power over the handcuffs. Type bugs just aren't that painful.
Do you know of specific stories? Have you experienced this yourself?

I am a gay man who has raised money, and networked with various gay VCs. I’ve never seen this kind of behavior from them personally.
Starting and Scaling Your Business – Spark Fest 2017
Also want to reply to #4. The thing that differentiates the sexual harassment in most of these cases is that there's a power imbalance. Being hit on becomes much scarier if declining might jeopardize your job or your startup's funding.
You shouldn't want to actually "get rid" of Mercator entirely. Mercator is pretty great for interactive maps on the Web. Conformal angles, north is always up, splits nicely into tiles.

As long as Africa and Greenland aren't on the same map, it's got almost everything that you want from a map.

Of course, what's best for an interactive map is if it turns into a globe when you zoom out, like Google Earth. instead of being a shitty global Mercator. That's a lot more graphically complex, though.
Yes, after all these years of looking up to him, how quickly you turn your back. Does he not deserve the benefit of your doubt?
Incredibly creepy.
By applying weight quantization and measuring the resulting loss in accuracy. Predicting which techniques will work or not in deep learning is still much harder than just stumbling on one that works by trial and error.
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Douchebags are always one too many but Silicon Valley, like every other human environment based on ambition and greed, is surely not the safest / shiniest congregation on planet Earth?
Hardcoding isn't a solution
Debts are denominated in money, if that money becomes more scarce, people will spend a lower fraction of their income on consumption articles out of fear of not making ends meet. At any point in time total spending equals total income, so this will reduce total demand inside the economy. If people's income diminishes, their debt-to-income ratio rises. This results in what is called a debt-deflation spiral.
It's like Pizzagate, but true!
Dynamic language proponents sometimes like to say that static types can't catch all errors and are therefore of little use.

Static type proponents sometimes like to say that unsound type systems that leave escape hatches are of little use.

The truth is that both are somewhat wrong.

Types are a tool. They help catch some errors and help code evolve - even when not completely sound, they still help catch some errors and evolve code.

They also don't understand all correct code, so sometimes they get in the way and when that happens, its important to get them out of the way in a manner that doesn't compromise things too much.

Nothing is black and white, there are only shades of grey.
I've heard that the otherwise snakeoil high-res digital audio recordings tend not to be combatants in the loudness wars.
Very disappointing. As a 500 alum I would never have expected this, as the environment was very professional and there were a lot of powerful women in leadership positions. In fact if memory serves, at least at mountain view, the women were more numerous than the men.

Kudos to Christine for being transparent, as expected.
I LOVE Manning! You are amazing and I will keep spending my hard earned money on your books.

I bought your Spring books, and a few others. Next time I want to buy a book, I'll go straight to Manning and not O'Reilly.
So long as there are incentives to make false accusations, there will always be false accusations. Just as there will always be true accusations.
It would be a good start if he came to this realization on his own, instead of right after being contacted by the New York Times going "Hey, we're going to publish a story about your sexual harassment, do you want to dispute this account".
This.

I'm probably an old dude. Most of these seem cringy and unprofessional. If I get a professional email with a picture of a dog, as much as I love dogs, I immediately delete it.

This culture of mixing the professional and personal, of destroying all boundaries between your work persona and your other personas, is killing the work environment.
thanks for the info. for the maze example, a ND robot would be able to find the exit in the optimal number of steps since one of the decision trees will in fact be the optimal path and will terminate first. so i dont see how analog computing can be more efficient.

unless you are saying that in an analog case we can ignore the rules of the maze and can go through walls. but then are we still solving the same problem? seems like the time complexity comparison no longer makes sense if you redefine the constraints of the problem.
I don't see how Dart wins at anything, really.

It's an extremely conservative language, offering little to nothing interesting that would make anyone switch from other solutions.

The ecosystem doesn't help it either:

For the frontend, it's stuck in a middle ground where it requires a JS interop layer (unlike TS, where it's typings are just an extra) but doesn't offer anything significant like Elm, BuckleScript, F#, ClojureScript and so many other great languages do when it comes to expresiveness. It doesn't even have algebraic data types, something TS does.

For the backend, it competes against almost all the frontend languages (due to node or native) as well as the big boys with huge ecosystems, variety of paradigms and amazing performance.

For mobile it has Flutter, which competes with Xamarin, Kivy, Qt and other bring-your-own-widgets solutions (deal-breaker for some apps and teams). In this case, Flutter is something I wanted to try out since those other solutions left me wanting and so did React Native, but Dart being such a lackluster language completely put me off of it, now having to turn to native with Kotlin after all this time looking at (and somewhat helping develop) the x-plat ecosystem.

I don't doubt that Dart will remain healthy for a long time due to Google's investment in it, but honestly, even if Fuchsia ends up being Android's succesor and Flutter ends up as its graphical toolkit, I'd instantly start looking for languages targeting the Dart VM or native interop.
A witness statement is evidence. Evidence isn't only things you can touch. A photograph isn't any more evidence than a witness statement is. A photograph isn't inherently more credible than a witness statement. You should consider the credibility of each piece of evidence regardless of what type of evidence it is.

A statement made by a trustworthy employee should be taken seriously, "he said she said" is not a valid excuse to not make hard decisions.
> I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly.
Why? There's a really simple procedure that can solve these problems:
Don't hit on, feel-up, or try to have sex with people you're in a professional business relationship with. That goes double for people you hold power over (managers to employees, VCs to Founders, etc).
If you're really truly worried about false accusations then here's another fix you can have for free: record your meetings, texts, emails, and calls with founders and/or don't meet alone.

You simply expose your naivete.

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-recording-law

Any recordings done without the approval of the other party are illegal (opening you up to legal actions) and are completely inadmissible in court.
Redfin files for IPO
Did you not read the article?
Rendering a 3D globe onto a 2D screen, centered on the current viewing area and with a fixed orientation, essentially gets what you describe. When you're zoomed in you see something that very closely approximates a Mercator projection cropped to that area. You'll get conformal angles and North is always up. Tiling probably isn't as easy, but it's a Simple Matter of Programming. As you zoom out, it gradually and seamlessly transitions from Mercator-like to globe-like.
I mean, security issues are just a class of bug. Just because the sandbox keeps you for causing more damage when you stomp on yourself, doesn't mean there's not value in not stomping on yourself at all.
> If it gets to the point of creepily staring for long periods of time, or wanting to act on his thoughts, then he has good reason to see a therapist,

This is what he said, that's why I suggested a therapist. He constantly thinks about having sex with his female coworkers, and the ones that he feels the most attracted to he will give "eyes" to. Then he feels guilty afterwards. These are abnormal reactions. I wasn't talking about YOU, I was talking about HIM.

If you can't get your work done without thinking about having sex with your coworkers, you need to see a therapist.
Regarding the number of coins: just go for the bigger ones, it's not exactly new strategy (that's why you primarily go for drug lords instead of low-level resellers).

Regarding the prosecution: the US has extradition agreements with a lot of countries, so if ICO resulted in American citizens either buying coins (i.e. securities) or offering them, than it's a fair game for the SEC and (possibly) some real jail time in US prison. It's also pretty easy to freeze assets as soon as they are converted to fiat, and they will be, because you can't buy a Ferrari with BTC.

Even if it's a "logical progression", you got it backwards. We had an unregulated securities marked before 1933; it went really bad for various reasons. It turns out that peddling "securities" on the basis of rosy promises (or blog posts in the case of ICOs) is bad and some regulation forcing companies to open up is good.
Vegas is only fun when you have money to blow. My trip in Vegas all I thought was, why the fuck is this so expensive?

Not my idea of a vacation
I think building a policy based on the possible existence of a vanishingly small group of bad actors is a great way to make excuses for avoiding solving real problems...
I recently moved to a company using Flow from one using TypeScript, and it seems like the tooling ecosystem for TypeScript is way better than flow. The emacs plugin for flow in particular is practically nonexistent, and doesn't even provide proper syntax highlighting. TypeScript's by contrast is amazing.
a.) I've worked elsewhere for ten years prior to moving to Silicon Valley and I've never seen anything like what is described in the NY Times article. Also, every company big enough to have a HR department that I worked at also required employees to watch sexual harassment training (how to recognize what not to do, not a how to) videos.
b.) The companies here in Silicon Valley that I worked for that were not startups also all had HR departments that required me to watch sexual harassment prevention training videos.
There's sex at work, but there's also just many relationships that start or get set up at work and lead to marriage. Put men and women together in an environment that already cements a shared general interest and you're going to see that. People who treat every fellow employee the same as an amorphous blob are operating under a strange way of viewing the world.
National defense is a constitutionally mandated function of the federal government.

"Healthcare" is not.
This is illegal in many states
This username looks to have been intended as trolling. That's not allowed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11433189), so I've banned the account.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674145 and marked it off-topic.
Do you use GNU APL? I talked to the maintainer once, but not aware of its speed and maturity.
Why is this downvoted, let alone so heavily?

Maybe saying something will correct it.
Although it sounds high, recognising 90% of words makes for a pretty horrible reading experience.

That's 1 word in 10 that you don't know (1-2 words per sentence), or assuming as you did in that post a page length of 300 words, then it's 30 new words a page.

I actually recently wrote an article discussing the same phenomenon in Chinese [0]

Where to get a reasonable level of new characters (e.g. no more than 1 a page) you'd need to know 99.8% of the text on any page.

And the level of recognition required to be able to recognise and learn new words completely from context is about 98%. [1]

0: https://www.chinesethehardway.com/article/hsk-6-gets-you-hal...

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbYMZZISPrU
> unless you are saying that in an analog case we can ignore the rules of the maze and can go through walls.

Not ignore, but you have a lot more information about the problem and you have a general direction of the solution.

ND turing can split and like explore multiple corridors at once. But in the end all those robots that don't end up finding exit just wasted energy. I guess you don't care about this in complexity theory but this is a huge gain in practice.