skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, thank you for posting for that link! I just finished watching "An Open Secret" for the first time, and it chillingly corroborates most of what Fucked Company humorously presented in that South-Park style documentary, which is how I first heard about the story when Fucked Company covered it contemporaneously.

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

https://youtu.be/4eeGX4SlF1s?t=1h8m8s

I only learned about about Steve Bannon's connection to Brock Pierce (who recently posted a Facebook photo of himself wearing a red "MAKE BITCOIN GREAT AGAIN" trucker's cap at Trump's Inaugural Lounge) when Mother Jones and Wired covered it during the last election. It looks like the "First Kid" is trying to work his way back into the White House.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155736654012782&se...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t7ubr0jBII

Here's a fascinating article I just found about how SAG AFTRA tried to censor and suppress "An Open Secret":

http://deadline.com/2015/06/sag-aftra-threatening-sue-an-ope...

And here's a a map of the rabbit warren: a timeline of the scandals that started at DEN, including Brock's attempts to whitewash his past and ongoing lawsuits around his online gold trading company IGE, which Steve Bannon was involved with, up to his election to the board of the Bitcoin Foundation and the resulting resignations:

DEN Sources:
A document-in-progress compiling firsthand reporting on DEN, Bitcoin, Brock Pierce and the Mike Egan / Bryan Singer lawsuit

https://medium.com/@cuttlefish_btc/den-sources-af289efd690b

What do you mean by "If you didnt believe in #PG prior"?
Robots who make mistakes do better when collaborating with people
That's awesome. Can we expect a blog post from you about Nim in the near future? :)
Do you think tech doesn't have these problems? I suspect you're going to say that you've never personally seen it, but culture can vary a lot from desk to desk in finance.

Stereotypically, you have cash equities at one extreme and exotic derivatives at the other. Outside of banks, the culture at an HFT firm or quant hedge fund will be completely different from the culture on a "bro-y" bank desk.
Not sure what reality you're inhabiting, but in mine, state is coterminous with identity, and mutation of state therefore creates a new entity.

That is, we are all value objects, all matter is information, all information is functional, and perception is therefore the lazy evaluation of the universe.

Note: this is especially important when you are the banana.
October 1, 2011
Android-MVP – clean, dagger, mockito
Just Launched a New Go Community Site
Masterful spin from Chris Sacca

https://medium.com/@sacca/i-have-more-work-to-do-c775c5d56ca...

I wonder if his non stop virtue signalling on twitter will get him out of this one
Do you know what amazes me about comments like yours? You don't have to agree with a course of action to accept the reality that certain things will happen.

> I expect smart VCs that are interested in making money ... will continue to take lots of meetings with women.

OK, so ON NET what do you expect to happen? Lets say I agree and the smart ones take the meetings, what about the dumb ones? Or the average ones? What is the net result of all those different levels of VCs? Less or more meetings for women?

Again, "You don't have to agree with a course of action to accept the reality that certain things will happen".
>Either the user controls the program or the program controls the user. It's time already for a truly FOSS phone

And McDonald's is an instrument of oppression because you can't order pancakes after 10:30am. Either the customer controls the restaurant or the restaurant controls the customer!

If you want root on a device, buy a device that allows root. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on smartphones. Meanwhile people who want a reliable device with billions of dollars worth of investment in industry leading security and standout features like first class accessibility can have them. And yes, it turns out there's a trade off between platform security and user system access. We're all better off because there are a range of platforms available to us that provide different choices between those trade offs.

Nobody is stopping the FOSS community break by my out first class phones with industry leading features. The fact that it hasn't isn't a failing of Apple and smashing Apple wouldn't make it happen anyway.
A nice, interesting idea, and experiment, thanks.

Not so casually the blue lines remind me of the one in the graph for the birthday problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
No it doesn't?

> You may submit your responses electronically to <e-mail address> or by utilizing the Safe Access File Exchange

It in no way calls the second way out as the "only" or even just the more safe one.
Ask HN: Which SaaS for simple plain-text newsletters?
I have ~200 subscribers and I want to send plain-text newsletters to them. No link/open-email tracking, no advanced features. Back to basics. I want to pay at most 5$/m for this.

Also, I'd like a trivially simple approach to sending a newsletter. Ideally, just send the main body of a newsletter to a dedicated email. A newsletter service would listen on this address, fill in my predefined email template with this body and send it to the subscribers.

I'm looking at MailChimp, Grip, SendGrid, but they are either expensive, cumbersome to use or doesn't support my use-case with free tiers.

Please tell me that something like this exists.
Dynamic verification (of anything) in one picture
> You can check the whois and look up the owners.

If StackOverflow did actually register stackoverflow.feedback I would understand the WHOIS data, but then I don't understand the purpose of the following disclaimer:

"Disclaimer: This site is provided to facilitate free speech regarding Stack Overflow. No direct endorsement or association should be conferred."

That disclaimer seems to imply that StackOverflow didn't register the domain. Care to explain why the WHOIS data says otherwise?
I'm reading it as they want the transformed output, not the algorithms themselves.
Those items are likely only of use versus AGI in distributed form that isn't much beyond human capability.

In the face of a hard takeoff superintelligence—one that's developed a mean streak—we'd be lucky if death was even an option, let alone an escape.
Ask HN: Will you put a production website on native ES6?
I think .co is too similar to .com. I would just go with the +app version. Or, a lot of startups are using .io these days. That's what I did and I'm happy with it.
Or credit card fees.

Pay by debit: 0

Pay by credit: 5 to 10%
Someone else here mentioned that Bill Gates met Melinda (his wife) while she was working at Microsoft. Wouldn't this mean their relationship shouldn't have happened/is wrong?
Here's pt. 2 of the screencast: https://youtu.be/LrBAWL6bYa4
Ask HN: How do you approach reading a book with many new words?
It's frustrating reading a book containing many new words.

I was thinking of a script that extract words from file -> rank for most common -> get definition using an API dictionary service -> saves them with definition.

This way I can be familiar with the new words before reading a book and without having to lookup each new word.

What do you use or recommend?
Manufacturers have to get rid of faulty products some how.. best if you can reimagine it into something else and flog it off cheap. Sub standard bearings and batteries
If you look through the flow source code then you'll find many facebook-specific features. Search for 'Facebookism'! I don't know about Dart. But TypeScript is written primarily for the community, not for Microsoft.
I suppose there's more to this story than you're telling, because on the face of it - all I can say is people ask other people such questions over drinks, regardless of gender.
In Haskell you can also explicitly cast to any type a using "error", "undefined" and "throw". But that's just what exceptions are in Haskell. This is fine, as long as it's only used in exceptional cases.
Different pundits had different odds on that race. No matter which one you go with, what makes you think those odds weren’t true facts?

Remember, n=1 in this scenario.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premium-fare-deals-740/

Set-up alerts by carrier or preferred outbound airport.
Wizzair in Europe.

Even Ryanair doesn't charge for carry-ons.
With any people, ever?
AWS Rekognition vs. Microsoft Cognitive Services vs. VisageCloud
Yes seriously.

Are you implying that tremendously rich men (barring mental illnesses / crippling social anxiety) are disadvantaged with respect to dating? Or even that being tremendously rich is not a factor at all? If so, I'll have some of what you are smoking.

The people under discussion are men(if you are objecting to the use of 'men' vs 'people'. I specifically used Kalanick and McClure as examples).

This also applies to rich vs poor women. It also applies irrespective of whether you are hetero, homo, bi, or * sexual.

Being tremendously rich makes success in all kinds of apparently unrelated fields easier. Yes, you'll probably attract a good number of gold diggers, but excluding those explicitly targeting your money, in every society in the world, being rich(/powerful/famous) makes you more desirable in the mating game.

Perhaps in an ideal world, it shouldn't work like that, but that is a different point.
More details on https://visagecloud.com
I wonder how the tech will handle false accusations, though. The culture of "guilty until proven innocent" opens up avenues of abuse, which were, are, and will be used.
Why is her age relevant? It's not an appropriate question for a colleague anyway, but I'm curious why that would make it worse.
> Most of it stems from society's lack of planning for the future of the young people.

Doesn't this mean that it's actually NOT the result of poor choices, or at least the type of choices people generally accuse people of like being lazy or spending beyond their means? This seems more like a societal problem.

I suppose it's true that it's the result of someone's choices but it seems unfair to pin it on the people who don't know better. Then again, I studied CS because it was practical and work at a great company but I always find myself wanting to do something else.

Maybe the problem is that everyone keeps listening to the people who say follow your passion when the reality is that not everyone's passion will lead to something that can pay the bills. Frankly, it should totally be okay to not be in love with your job and do it because you need to.
The Unix shell operates on binary streams, not on text.
> At no point. That's how science works. Those who are opposed will bring up the best arguments available, even if those arguments aren't new. They'll get evaluated, rebuffed, accepted, etc. That's how it's supposed to work.

No, this is not how Science works.

Repeating ad nauseaum the same debunked arguments is not how science works.

Or perhaps you think that is still valid to bring the Thomson atomic model today? Or the flogistum hypothesis?

The only thing those are doing is mudding the waters to stop the actions, nothing more.
I don't know if it is appropriate to say, but I think overt preference in hiring females is one of the biggest cause. Almost every tech company hire women with less qualifications to improve the the diversity. I know it is for the best, but in personal experience, it is very spoken thing between some males. Few interpret inside their head that the females are for them. I think it is evident even in snippets of this article: "I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you." It kind of means that she is not qualified to be hired, according to him, but.. I don't know, it is a complex relationship.
> Basically they say that the only reason so many scientists claim climate change is a problem is because their funding (and thus jobs and livelihood) depend on there being a climate problem for them to research.

Thing that is false, if there is no climate change thwy still we be studying the climate
> 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.

It's not so easy. Bullshit accusations leaking on Twitter will be halfway to destroying your career before you even dig up the original recordings, and I doubt anyone will want to listen to your case anyway (if anything, they'll comb over your recordings with a tootbrush to prove you were guilty of this, and a bunch of other things). I too expect VCs to be less willing to expose themselves to such danger.
I have witnessed at least 3 people that were in a manager position and had unacceptable behavior. What lawnchair_larry described matches almost perfectly my perception of them.

One of them would casually explain in conversations the software he had written to crawl dating website. We was very open with things such as the mirror above his bed, sharing pictures of it. Before leaving the company at last, he had received multiple sanctions including an interdiction to get too close to some women who had worked with him.

Had I not met those people, I would be unable to believe that they exist.

My theory is that they are bold, assertive and have no shame. They don't "play" with people; people like them. They seduce managers and investors. They try to do the same with coworkers.
These articles also sell it without a solution. "It isn't X, it is Y. I have no idea how to fix Y, or a single policy idea to suggest, but, yeh, definitely Y."

We are all obsessed with what policy makes us feel, rather than its impact. Example: Seattle minimum wage laws https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.meer/posts/101031868860665... let me quote here:

> This is the official study that was commissioned several years ago by the city of Seattle to study the impacts of raising the minimum wage, in a move that I applauded at the time as an honest and transparent attempt towards self-examination of a bold policy.
> The losses were so dramatic that this increase "reduced income paid to low-wage employees of single-location Seattle businesses by roughly $120 million on an annual basis." On average, low-wage workers lost $125 per month.

So the official government study found this to be an horrific law for the poor. So we'll accept this, roll it back and move on yeh? Of course not!

> This paper not only makes numerous valuable contributions to the economics literature, but should give serious pause to minimum wage advocates. Of course, that's not what's happening, to the extent that the mayor of Seattle commissioned another study, by an advocacy group at Berkeley whose previous work on the minimum wage is so consistently one-sided that you can set your watch by it, that unsurprisingly finds no effect. They deliberately timed its release for several days before this paper came out, and I find that whole affair abhorrent. Seattle politicians are so unwilling to accept reality that they'll undermine their own researchers and waste taxpayer dollars on what is barely a cut above propoganda (sic).

Now, here's a policy aimed directly at the poor, that we are researching well, and the findings are being thrown out because, well why if not because "my feelings". Maybe it is because the political climate won;t accept the decision, but how is that better than climate deniers on the right? It seems to me both sides of politics are deniers of inconvenient truths.

So I am done with articles that aim to explain, raise awareness, shine a light on etc. I want tangible, actionable policy with a measurement framework in place that we as a society both believe and accept. If society tries a UBI, and it proves bad for society for what ever pre-decided reason, we should ditch it. Policy -> measurement -> keep or drop -> repeat. That's what I want.

Sadly, that is a bridge way too far these days.
The tweet image in the article didn't show the "or" clause at the end of the line. Now I understand.
The SIGBOVIK group is really full of comedy genius.

I am really laughing with their publications:
http://sigbovik.org/2017/proceedings.pdf

For example skip to page 114, "Automated Distributed Execution of LLVM code using SQL JIT Compilation" with such gems as:

"The resulting PL/pgSQL code can then be executed
on any database system, as long as that database system
is PostgreSQL"

"Another solution to distributed programming has been
proposed by Microsoft with their innovative Excel system. In large companies, distributed execution can be achieved using Microsoft Excel by having hundreds of people all sitting on their own machine working with Excel spreadsheets. These hundreds of people combined can easily do the work of a single database server"

"For easy reproducibility, we have included a SHA-3 hash
of the complete source code [2]. If you want to reproduce the experiments, simply reverse this hash and run the provided source code. "

I'm not putting more quotes because they would be spoilers.
Communications that are subtle and ambiguous are highly likely to be misinterpreted, and it is not reasonable to assume that the recipient reached the intended conclusion. Depending on what the above poster meant by escalating to "This situation is making me uncomfortable" I may or may not agree with the above commenter's statement that the person being approached acted irrationally.

If the person being approached followed up the ambiguous rejection with something along the lines of, "I don't want to go out with you, please do not approach me again" then that's a totally reasonable response; it's escalating from a soft "no" to a hard "no".

If the person being approach said something to the effect of, "you're harassing me with repeated advances after a rejection" then I'd consider that behavior to be irrational. The person who approached communicated denial in a very ambiguous manner that could easily be interpreted as asking for an alternate time to go out. It isn't rational to call a co-worker a harasser for asking somebody out after giving an ambiguous denial. Granted, if they continued to make approaches after giving an unambiguous denial, like the one written in the 2nd paragraph, then by all means this is harassment.
And if your goal is to be productive as a programmer: any faint headache will make you feel as if you are not motivated. These barely noticeable headaches may come from bad water, bad food, no water, no food, you stayed in wind, you are about to get sick, you stayed in hot sun, you didn't rest well (too cold, too hot, not enough sleep) and so on.
It'd be crazy not to pay attention to, I've no doubt they keep an eye on these things to inform their feature development
Trees can be modelled with sum types, the mathematical dual of product types (records). Java doesn't have sum types and so inheritance has to be used to encode them.
How to Present with Impact in the Digital Age
> That's more a proof that the grammar of C++ is absolutely terrible. More modern languages such as rust have been carefully designed to be parsable by non-necronomicon-level code.

I don't believe your comment is fair or correct, and even very naive. Considering GCC's case, what makes a parser complex is not the language grammar itself, but all the requirements set onto the compiler to enable it to churn out intelligible warnings and error messages, which means supporting typical errors as extensions of the language grammar.

Furthermore, GCC's C++ parser support half a dozen different versions of C++ and all the error and warning messages that come with targetting a language standard but using a feature not supported by it. Rust has no such requirement, nor it will have any time soon.

Your comment strikes me as the old and faded tendency to throw baseless complains about tried and true technology by pointing out how green and untested tech is somehow better because it's yet to satisfy real-world requirements.
The risk is that some go-getter will use a harassment thread as leverage over you. No matter how saintly are you, in the current culture nobody is going to believe you if you're a man accused of harassment - so why open yourself up for the possibility?
yeah, interesting that the survey doesn't report the numbers of dissatisfied Mac users who plan on switching to GNU/Linux. I suspect they were never given this as an option.

Anecdata would suggest that the desire to move to something else is more prevalent amongst devs and techies. The MacBook is becoming a consumer device.
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The current contributed ETH: 551,764 , estimated MCAP $760,396,838 USDT.

SEC ...
on https://twitter.com/vanitaguptaCR/status/880479649817649152 in the second image (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDgWEZfXsAELY12.jpg:large) I see https://imgur.com/a/cB89e, as is quoted in the article

EDIT: looking at the thumbnail of the image on twitter, it indeed is cut off badly there
Promoter in failed Bahamas Fyre music festival arrested in New York
conservations?

conversations?
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> I don't know if it is appropriate to say,

don't. don't don't.

> but I think overt preference in hiring females is one of the biggest cause.

nope. inappropriate.

> Almost every tech company hire women with less qualifications to improve the the diversity.

Wrong Wrong Wrong

> I know it is for the best, but in personal experience, it is very spoken thing between some males.

It isn't.

>"I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you." It kind of means that she is not qualified to be hired...

No it fucking doesn't. It only means the guy doing the hiring wasn't qualified to be hired.
> In my experience avoiding unlimited recursion/stackoverflows is one of the most annoying parts of writing a parser

This, x10.

My take is that this is perhaps the main reason why everyone tends to rely on hand-written parsers instead of simply using code churned out by a parser generator. Parser generators are developed with a single use case in mind: pick up a grammar definition, perhaps with pre and post-conditions, and proceed to map it to some programming language. Yet, this fails very basic requirements for real world parser applications.
> These guys (Kalanick, McClure) are multi millionaires, and could probably get any number of women to take interest in them on that basis alone.

General psychology pattern: People run after what can't be easily gained. Entrepreneurs, more so.
Unfortunately, it's not quite that easy. Sometimes it's not clear that you're asking them on a date. Ex. I've asked a professional associate out for drinks. I thought it was a date, she didn't, and she was offended when I tried to flirt a little. (I stopped once I realized she wasn't interested, but it could have been offensive.)

Personally, I've stopped ever pursuing anyone who works in the same industry due to the potential for weird dynamics, but it's sometimes not as cut-and-dry as people make it sound. Like the example with Chris Sacca, is flirting with someone at a conference a form of sexual harassment?
Men need to work hard to jail those assholes, here's why: They are the reason why men are described as generally threatening, discrediting and imposing huge constraints in advance on all men who show proper social restraint and respect for women.
Why is this in Ask?
> we must also be careful of the power in evidence-free accusations and abrogation of "innocent until guilty." Not saying that is necessarily happening here.

But you are strongly implying it. In a case where many of the men admitted their guilt, nonetheless. Your comment is just "men's rights" activist talking points.