skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've known Marc Canter for a long time, but I don't know anything about Ms. Dent or her interactions with Marc.

However, he has so many other highly effective behavioral techniques for making people go away, that it sounds pretty fishy that he would just happen to deploy that particular technique in that particular situation for that particular person.

If he dislikes your ideas, he'll usually simply tell you directly and loudly, not hit on you to make you go away.

So I have a hard time buying his explanation.

But I would not describe him as a rich powerful VC holding money and power over the women he harasses.

If what she says is true (which I don't know and he denies), he may be a sexist pig contributing to the toxic environment for women (which is wrong and should be called out and condemned), but he's certainly not in the same category as Dave McClure and Justin Caldbeck.
Apple and LaTeX
Seriously, yes. And indeed, I've sometimes enjoyed talking with them.
Witness testimony is the weakest form of evidence. It's foundationally unempirical.
What isn't luck? I only am who I am today because of a combination of nature and nurture. My genes and my environment defined who I am. I had no control over either of those things.

I mean, if I was born on Steve Job's birthday, with Steve Job's genes, to Steve Job's parents, presumably I would be Steve Jobs. From that perspective, it's pure luck I'm not a billionaire. And, similarly, pure luck that I'm not literally Hitler.
Operator Mono

https://www.typography.com/fonts/operator/
Ah yes I had forgotten about the source map issues. My point is there is almost always something wrong with it depending on the project. The source maps issues are pretty serious.
He's not saying his parents are lucky, he's saying that he is lucky.
You'll just looove his inane tantrum about Trump then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTVf7ffShg

If one wishes to virtue-signal it helps to at least be virtuous.
That looks very interesting, though I actually think that standardising on the command-line/env variable API is more important than an implementation. It's the moment you can "automagically" "upgrade" a pipe to contain structured data for apps that support it that you get the most value.

But given that it's there, I'll certainly consider it when writing tools, and consider supporting the command-line option/env var even if/when I don't use the implementation...
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Picks+7/1/17:+Top+3+Pitchers
Ah, I thought this was about structured text (like JSON) vs. plain text -- binary content is a bigger issue!
>chopping up humanity according to notions of supposed ethnicity is barbaric, and we're in the process of getting over it, even if some people will have to be dragged along.

I find your comment offensive and unsettling. My people were discriminated and persecuted because of their ethnicity. If things have gone worse we could have been wiped out of existence.

What you're basically saying is that it wouldn't be a big deal, because all people are interchangeable. Who cares if some ethnic group goes extinct, just replace them with someone else, because a human is a human, right?
Dissecting objc_msgSend on ARM64
You don't specify whether you are talking about literary or technical books.

For literary works, I prefer to use Kindle and it's built-in dictionary to lookup words in-situ. The reason being that the context in which a new word is used if often important to understanding why the author chose that word instead of the alternatives. English is a rather rich language and you only need to peruse a thesaurus to realise the numerous alternatives we might use depending on context, mood, etc.

For technical works, I tend to go for a glossary, if the book has one, or make my own. For any given domain, certain technical terms come up frequently and it is important for thorough understanding to know exactly what any given technical term refers to.
I've read a lot of books in languages I didn't know well at the time. I often got the gist of the story. Mostly unknown adjectives describing possibly unknown objects to set the mood. Of course the story is not as good without, but it works.
O'Reilly's Decision and Its DRM Implication
Hi there, I just noticed that I had a new reply. I've sent you an email.
It was submitted as a text post, instead of link.
Every time I see something like this, I stop and consider just how saner Lua is, even though in many ways it adopted similar approaches (e.g. associative arrays doubling as regular ones).
It's true I would never personally have seen it in tech, but I'll say that my wife has recounted this story to a number of my female friends with 10+ years of experience in tech, and their response is "Seriously? Wow."
I think some developers have had a grudge with Javascript since the dawn of time and just cannot move past it. They'd rather move mountains than try to adapt to the environment.

Definitelytyped is frustrating; sometimes they have the type definitions sometimes not. Often the definitions are out of date and new ones are not available. Sometimes I feel that it's better not to use it at all... That way I don't have to think about it.
The other pathology is relevant because it contributes to the first one. It's not about equal exposure for the sake of equality, but relevant to understanding how shit works and how to deal with it.
Can it work with bold db?
And then it turned out if you have chinese, inidian, white eastern european and white american employees it's still not diverse enough!
I would suggest a lawyer. Even though it looks like no charges have been filed, it could be the company's fault for not investigating properly.

IANAL
There's also this project:

https://github.com/redox-os/ion

It's intially build with RedoxOS (in Rust as well) underneath, but now also runs on Linux. Seems to be a bit more mature.

I wonder what sets these two projects apart, and/or if the devs of Casada know of Ion's existence.
Though I have no specific advice for you, I want to mention that the current hypersensitive no-accusation-is-too-frivolous always-believe-the-accuser climate will result in many cases like yours unfortunately.
It's context. The scenario plays out differently in most peoples' heads if said to a 40-year old veteran of the industry vs. a 25-year-old new hire vs. a 19-year-old intern. I'd agree that it's inappropriate for all of them, but it's inappropriate in different ways.
Arris SB8200: The DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Modem which can support link aggregation
And until you have gone back and forth a couple of times, building moderately complex systems; it's difficult to appreciate the advantages that static checking bring to the table. Sure, it's possible to achieve the same effect with unit tests; but having half of those tests written and rewritten for you by the compiler definitely helps. Back in the days, I wanted to buy into the Python/Ruby hype as much as anyone; but having implemented several complex systems in Python/Ruby, I'm not that excited about the idea anymore; once they pass a certain point, agile begins to feel more like Jello.
I know nothing of Chinese, but in western languages, like English, a number of words may be "unique" when counted by a simple algorithm, (even if - as the author did - words were reduced to their "basic form" thus deduplicating a lot of slightly different forms) but often you can get the meaning of the word by the context and by similarities with other knwown words, so the 90% percentage while actually meaning that you don't know 1 word every 10, does not directly mean that you cannot understand 1 word every 10 or that your reading experience is so horrible.

Every reader attempting to learn a new language goes through that odd phase where he/she can manage to understand the overall meaning of a sentence even if there is one or two "holes" in it, and actually it is part of the learning process.
>Then why does their behavior disproportionately affect women

I'm sure they use their positions of power in many different ways that affect both men and women, but their sexual advances obviously target women because most of them are straight.
Everyone is focusing on Palantir. As someone who knows how much IBM has thrown at this over the past 2 years, it's really IBM and their historically strong relationship with the NYPD that is the real (but far more mundane) story.

Ultimately, if you piss off the IBM execs enough (which is what Palantir is exceptionally good at), then IBM will mobilize a significant chunk of the company to obliterate anything in its wake. Even if that means making a huge loss.

They then try to use that win as a template for future success. Unfortunately IBM is incapable at that since the harsh reality is its software division is just a bunch of incoherent acquisitions who can't generally collaborate.
Just a different perspective to answer this (and I am open to being wrong): competition b/w societies is decreasing. We live in an increasingly bureaucratic, interconnected, globalized world, and I think it is an undiscussed reason for this.

The incentives and disincentives to care for your neighbour or not, or to care for your group, decreased, and it will keep decreasing if this trend continues.
This is Analyst's Notebook, plus other things (some of them maybe branded as Watson)
Was the victim(s) identified?

Yes, in the other coverage.
>dropping connections would cause the application to lock up / crash

plenty of programs/libraries do that, for example ffmpeg, and by extension MPlayer. It so happens Google/YT has anti resource starvation measures in place on their content servers in case someone opens TCP session and keeps it paused with ZeroWindow packets for over 3 minutes. Guess how MPlayer handles/signals pausing a stream :(
Cracking the GBA BIOS
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14531960
surely anyone's reaction to "you don't expect to be able to draw on a screen" will be "I really do though"

regardless of what they mean, what they say is ridiculous
What's most striking is that there is not a lot of differences between the languages. C and Python are somewhat denser and php tends to be more spread out. But that's about it.

I guess that reflects that humans break code in a way that looks the way they're used to.

Purely functional languages probably diverge significantly from these shapes.
> The word harassment does not even appear in parent comment. Neither is HR. You added it to shift the topic which is an open and easy to see lie. "You are making me uncomfortable" and "fire him hr please" are not nearly the same.

Please re-read my original comment in this chain, I'm dealing with two hypotheticals depending on what exactly is said.

> In this story she unambiguously informed him that he is making her uncomfortable. That is not even as open rejection as can be

If that's what occurred then this is the situation I describe in the 2nd paragraph, which I explicitly write is a reasonable thing to do.

> but also feedback on what the reason for not continuing conversation is.

Depending on what exactly is phrased it may also be feedback conveying "there is a good chance I am telling HR you're harassing me." Again, as per my original comment I'm describing my opinion of the situation depending on what exactly is said.

> You are extrapolating her rejection to entirely different things as words says. That is expecting her to walk the fine line, guess in advance how you re-interpret words and come up with answer perfectly tailored to your personality. She tried nice as overwhelming majority of dudes would understand correctly, did not worked, she started to be direct. But she apparently should not be too direct.

I am not expecting any line to be walked. She should not avoid trying to be too direct, but just the opposite. This whole problem likely arose because the first response was interpreted overly optimistically (thinking she wanted to see the movie on a different day, when she just wanted to say "no") and interpreted the second response overly pessimistically (thinking there's a good chance she was going to report him or her to HR, when she just wanted to say "no"). Again, indirect speaking is exactly what I'm attempting to dissuade because it creates situations such as these.
Keep an open mind. I don't know you, nor your coworkers, but you may have done something that feels "normal" to you but is actually inappropriate without even realizing. That's why it is important to raise awareness on misogyny and the rape culture: a lot of the problematic behavior seems perfectly normal and acceptable to the perpetrators, but it's really not. Not saying that's what happened with you, but it could have and the only for you to find out is to get a clear explanation on what the complaint about you was exactly.

I'd recommend approaching HR (or management) keeping this in mind. You could tell them that these are serious accusations and that it makes you sick to even imagine you made someone feel that way. You could show them you genuinely don't understand what was wrong but are willing to improve and to work on yourself so you don't ever make anyone uncomfortable again.

My 2cents, but again: I don't know you, the company you intern in, nor have I ever been in such a situation. So please take my post with a grain of salt.
> Their genius lied in creating "mythical image" and cleverly overselling it to the less proficient government agencies (apparently NSA was smart enough to see through the ruse).

A trick now being repeated by Cambridge Analytica. The press eat up the story of "Big Data stole the election", and they do their part acting a bit dodgy, and presto they have that reputation and are probably getting buried in cash.

Nobody wants to admit working with them so if they fail to fulfill their promise, nobody finds out. If they do end up on the winning side, the collaboration gets "leaked"...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/cambridge-ana...
As long as the number of mixed types is finite, unions/variants give you the same ease of use with static guarantees.
> I never did understand why Facebook and Microsoft ended up competing on this front.

They ended up competing, but they did not start competing. The projects were started in isolation from each other. The fact that they are written in different languages (Flow: OCaml, TS: TS) makes it hard to merge efforts.
Oh I can see what they want to say but my barometer of consumer tech (well, wife) doesn't see any feature her ancient ipad 2 doesn't have
I can see that happening if someone is panicking, especially an older person.
Apparently you have forgotten about Android, smart cards, blue ray players, embedded devices controlling your electric and heating bill, car infotainment systems, IoT gateways, Cisco phones, Ricoh and Xerox laser printers, ....

Also as of 2017 Swift is still quite unusable on Linux beyond a few demo apps and on Windows nowhere to be seen.

Additionally GNU/Linux, BSD and Windows are better served by Rust, SML, OCaml, Haskell and F# than Swift.

In all aspects that matter, they have better compilers to chose from, IDE support, libraries and tooling.

The positive aspect of Swift is being a modern multi-paradigm language being pushed by a company like Apple, which will hopefully improve the adoption of such languages.

However outside Apple's own operating systems, Swift has a very long road to travel before it gets any kind of meaningful adoption, let alone being a threat to programming languages on GNU/Linux, BSD and Windows.
What's even stranger is that your garage door was a manual.

But seriously, I wonder what specifically about the side effects here would cause a garage door opener to not only open the door, but also consequently close it again. Perhaps it completed one full cycle as a result of the blast? Guess we'll never truly know.
Powershell does two things right: it uses structured output, and it separates producing the data from rendering the data.

It also does one thing wrong: it uses objects (i.e. the stuff that carries behavior, not just state). This ties it to a particular object model, and the framework that supports that model.

What's really needed is something simple that's data-centric, like JSON, but with a complete toolchain to define schemas and perform transformations, like XML (but without the warts and overengineering).
Not gonna defend any harassment but this one's just nitpicking. He made a joke. I see him as the real life version of Erlich Bachman or Russ Hanneman from Silicon Valley. He is inappropriate, which is what makes him more likable (to some people).

You could argue that its unprofessional, but then so is wearing t-shirt and shorts to work. Tech culture quite proudly does not care much about appearances.
Ah, thx. It seems to work on Safari for me as well. However, it doesn't seem to work for Firefox and Chrome (which I used to initially test this) using the same settings. Shouldn't the browsers all have the same font lookup behaviour given the same font-family settings?
I wouldn't call our methods very creative, at least on the creativity scale that any species capable of observing us would operate. We pretty much burn or blow up everything we can to generate energy.
I wouldn't call it harassment if the CxO or investor in question desires such behavior.
"I am frankly quite scared of talking to or approaching any women in my office, even for a work-related purpose."

Have you told management this? Can they offer advice?
Exactly right. Don't talk to the person either. And write notes, verbatim if possible, after any meetings with HR/mgt.
Also - seek advice from someone outside the company who understands rape culture. Review with them the interactions you had and seek to learn.
Everyone keeps mistaking my meaning. I'm not trying to excuse the behavior or say that it's okay. I've repeatedly condemned it. But we need to decide what we want as a result of bringing this kind of behavior out into the open. Do we want to punish and ostracize the guilty or do we want to minimize the occurrence of this behavior going forward? If it's the former, then by all means get out your pitchforks and we can condemn these men as fundamentally flawed human beings and women can continue to be subjected to this BS. But if it's the latter, then we really need to approach it from a more empathetic position. We need to understand the thought processes of these men to understand why they thought the behavior was in any way acceptable.

I see a lot of the vilification in these threads, but very little effort towards trying to understand. Chalking it up to "patriarchal society" may be fine from the standpoint of PC talking points, but it is intellectually lazy and just makes the situation more adversarial rather than one where we can come together and figure out the best ways to avoid this happening in the future. We want to make sure that the men who are in a position to abuse women like this learn why the behavior is wrong and not the steps to avoid (sms/fb/etc messages) getting caught.

This is why both pathologies are relevant. I'm not trying to blame the women who try to use their sexuality to their advantage or even those that engage in consensual relationships with men in a position of power. But because those instances exist and these men have likely witnessed them personally, even if they're rare, they create the possibility in the minds of these men. It's an exploration of the thought process that led them to act in this way. Perhaps it's not what these men were thinking...it's just my projection, but no one has presented any argument or any other substantive possibility. They've just, like you, overreacted and sought to distort what I was trying to say because it didn't match the outrage and need for vengeance that they feel.
Women are terrible, you should avoid any professional interactions with them. Unfortunately, this is the reality.
+1 for this.

Our devices, networks, graphs(social-and-contacts and graphs-of-graphs(-of-graphs..)), its click, scrolls, likes, visits, (+ fwe millions variables) are input to a deep-learning neural-network whoose end-goal is we-know-it.

A person's participation on internet is more like theme of movie Inception. Although dream state can be equated being on internet :)
>False accusations are basically not possible though.

Of course they are. There is opportunity, therefore it is possible.
The relation between Americans and depression/anxiety is really bizarre. Their mental health complex/industry seems really dysfunctional from outside. Perhaps like the rest of their healthcare...
Incomprehensible job titles are an elitist affectation
I don't know if "a culture that emphasizes individuality far too strongly" is a 2000 phenomenon - US in general and West Coast specifically has been defined by rugged individualism historically.

But I'd add decline in church attendance to the list of reasons - churches used to be a natural "third space" for people to meet, socialize and have shared experiences leading to some potential societal bonding.

Nowadays nominees for societal "third space" beyond residence and work office are local sports, shopping malls or Starbucks, which, contrary to television portrayals of them, don't quite provide social experiences.

You actually have to go out of your way to have an offline shared collaborative experience with a group of local people, either by volunteering or joining some one-off clubs like reading groups or moms meetups.
> Big data helped New York's cops bust Bobby Shmurda

So glad Palantir helped getting Bobby Shmurda (best known for Shmoney Dance) off the streets.
> "The only thing we're trying to optimize HN for is being interesting (a.k.a. "gratification of intellectual curiosity" as the site guidelines say)"

Care to explain us how removing flags from posts that aren't about technology (like you admittedly did in the past about perceived discrimination) in order to keep them in the front page against the community wishes is a an attempt of gratification of intellectual curiosity from your part?

Care to also explain us how your constant admonitions and flagging against factual comments that challenge your views of discrimination are, yet again, an attempt of gratification of intellectual curiosity from your part?

Thank you.
CLISP has readline support.
This is a good companion to read after Crystal Fire [1] that covers the discovery of the transistor and the backgrounds of Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in a similar fashion. I had hoped that book would cover Noyce, but it did not, and this article fills that void nicely.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Fire-Transistor-Information-T...
I would much rather that because this had nothing to do with sex and everything to do with ego and power trips.

I don't think it is OK what he did but sexual harassment this is not. It is an advise of power, pure and simple.

We talk about the middle east being sexually repressed but look at ourselves in the us: why is everything a sex crime? Come on folks. We can do better.

Personally, I'd feel better with the sexually part removed. Who cares of the harassment is sexual? Harassment is harassment.
It works for them on TV, politics, marches, reddit etc. Why not try it on HN?
With all that public justice today, motorhead's life's a bitch makes a lot of new sense. Take it as an official advice.
Scientists don't say correlation doesn't mean anything. What they do say is that correlation doesn't imply causation.

If the basic model underlying the original LIGO finding would predict no correlation between the recordings, then a significant amount of correlation should lead scientists to revise the model, and reexamine the findings. Very much standard scientific practice.