skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do have to say, after joining a small decidedly non-startup company, the culture at most startups is toxic simply due to that fact that they're so informal and mostly full of men. That means there will be certain situations in which the women (if there are any) may feel uncomfortable as their needs and concerns are not being actively considered.
Exactly. If reports on the Linux kernel mailing lists are to be believed for example, it's an incredibly toxic culture. Most normal people would probably want to stay far away from it. Yet Linux has seen unbelievable success.
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I agree. The link I posted is an example of how sometimes there are other mitigating factors, not "bro culture" "literally firebombing women."

The intent was to show how creating your own thing and competing wont necessarily solve the issue.
How Spammers, Superstars, and Tech Giants Gamed Music
Thank you!
I think one of my biggest issue is that I am not very socially active.
It's a bit like a ransom when they load the article at first, you start reading, and then the text disappears asking for payment. Fortunately, The Economist seems to just use cookies so you can still view the articles incognito.
Why constrain your response to the arguments above? Why not try to answer by covering the whole spectrum and the gist of what I tried to convey?

The gist of my argument was about the scalability of today's piracy vs the old time VHS piracy. And that doesn't change just because you could "watch the show you copied" too so "that time wasn't wasted".

The "watched while recording" part only makes sense for a show you already wanted to watch. And you just got one copy out of it. And the "do something else" part still takes a few minutes.

On top of those you still needed the physical giving of the tape to the other person, PLUS to cover the non-insignificant cost of the tape. And lets not even get about how much selection you could produce or store at your home.

In contrast, today you can download and share 10,000s of shows without having watched any of them and without wanting to watch them in the fist place, in just the time it takes to make an upload or share a link. And not just to one person, but to the WHOLE internet.

Only the original pirate needs to do any real-time capture (and that's only for some special cases, like camera captures of movies or VCRed shows -- more often than not, they can just rip something in a few minutes).

And even them, after the capture can immediately share the digital copy with BILLIONS of people, instead of the just one person you got in the VHS days.

There's really no comparison.
The bpf() system call and SOCK_RAW both require root. Is there an example of using bpf that doesn't require root?
If I knew what was the answer, I would be posting on HN on Sunday while watching a long running processes that did not quite work overnight.

We do have empirical evidence that people who think they are going to make gobs of money are willing to put up with a lot more than people who know that they wont make that pile of money.

Scenario #1:

Boring job - $120k/year salary + benefits. HR would send you home if your shirt is untucked. That kind of a company.

Scenario #2:

Same Boring job - $120k/year + benefits. Potential to make > $20MM on exit but one has to deal with "bro culture".

#2 is probably going to be a preferred by anyone who at any point in their life had a crappy job. Remove the > $20MM exit and #1 is a winner. Remove it after it has been implied and that person would be rather mad at the company.
No consensus in exactly-once
Businesses could prevent that by requiring employees to agree to a separate, permanent contract not to release any code as part of the conditions for being hired.
Do you recall when you last read in the newspapers about how someone convicted of murder has their searches used as evidence against them?

What comes to my mind when I read this is what the base rate of suspicious searches is. If 10% of days include at least one suspicious search in the base population, the value of such a search as evidence of malice is greatly reduced. But most people don't consider base rates.

On the topic of the differences in parents' concern for their boys vs their girls, for genius vs overweightedness, there's a simple rationale: for future career and relationship success, a boy's intelligence and a girl's looks are relatively more important than vice versa. It's not right or fair, but it's believed to be true, and that's what makes people search for it.
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Depends very strongly on where, exactly you are looking.

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/interactive-map-price-per-sq...
That does not make it business model protection. Please try to actually understand what people write, it doesn't help discussions if you simply ignore the other's point.
I think you are actually being fed some propaganda about what red pillers are, cause after researching a bit, they are certainly not what you are saying they are.

Check the documentary The Red Pill, it's made by an actual feminist (not 3rd wave) and she actually gives a balanced and honest view of the movement: http://theredpillmovie.com/

Also, the 3rd wave feminist movements tried to shut the documentary down and the director had to resort to a crowdfunding campaign in order to be able to finish filming it.
Yes. It was money well spent. One of the docs was changed.
Flavio discusses what we mean when we say exactly once, breaks down the relationship between FLP, distributed consensus, and exactly once, and debunks the notion that we can't have exactly once (as commonly understood) because of FLP.
I disagree with the characterization of all this media as "culture." They're entertainment products that exist for the sole purpose of generating a profit.
> because it's politically useful for some people to invent this boogieman.

That's a remarkably uncharitable attribution of motive. Sometimes people jump on an idea because it seems novel to them, or because it seems like the most significant - but not only - thing, or because it seems easy. Those might not be perfect strategies, but there's no need to assume malice or conspiracy.

What other issue do you think people should focus on instead? Wait, don't answer that. First, why do you think you should have a say? One of the beautiful things about a democratic society is that a million people can have a million different ideas and priorities, many of them seeming "wrong" to someone else, but all tolerating each others' "screwed up" ideas anyway. How does concern trolling fit into that model?
While we are talking about C skills, recently I got hit by this gotcha. I never knew a simple comparision could be this complex.

Question: Whats ru, rs ?

unsigned int u0 = 0;
unsigned int u1 = 1;
int s0 = 0;
int s1 = 1;
int ru = 0 > u0 - u1;
int rs = 0 > s0 - s1;

Answer: ru is 0. rs is 1.
nice way to promote your repo
It's interesting to think about how this differs from Craigslist going after scrapers. Linkedin is objecting on the basis of DMCA (copyrights) and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (alleging unlawful access of their public website).

>Nate Cardozo, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, said copyright law doesn’t apply to this case because information from LinkedIn profiles, like when someone worked at a particular company, are facts, not creative works like music or films.

I wonder if copyright applied to Craigslist posts or if the fact that a house is for rent is just a fact.
The biggest difference is how much car you buy rather than new vs used. Commonly I see people buying used to 'save money'. But the car they buy to commute to work is a three row luxury SUV. Much higher cost than a new hatchback. Still signing 60 month paper at much worse interest rates than new. Constantly eating up gas, tires and brakes.

'Buying used to save money' in this case is like getting the diet soda to go with your big mac and fries.
Note that Apple recently acquired this technology. Lattice Data is the commercialization of DeepDive.
Bear in mind that he had a look behind the curtain - working at Google and talking to the relevant people about the results does give reason to believe that he knows more about what he's talking about than a dilettante on Google Trends. And if there's anything that economics PhD does you for, it's a large dose of statistics.
Strictly speaking, you don't have the right to do that under the licensing agreement for digital media. You're perfectly within your rights to lend your friend a DVD.
German has also irregular demonyms. People in Zürich aren't called Züricher, but Zürcher. Same for Basler in Basel. Near Innsbruck in Austria, there is a small village, Igls. I discovered the last holiday there that people are called Igler there. And so on.
It's not so much that software does what the lenses do, it's that software would configure the hardware to perform the same transfer function on the incoming photons. It's more a reconfiguration of the input than a processing of the output.

On edit: I should also point out that you don't get to escape fundamental optical limits with this stuff. You're still diffraction limited, so "lens" size still matters.
LLVM-based JIT Compiler for Ruby
I guess these people never worked with Wall St masters of the universe.
Why the little story at the beginning? Annoying and silly.
But therein lies the problem. The CULTURE of a startup is that of a lean, mean, industry-shaking machine.

You need a warrior's mentality to bite the bullet / grin and bear it / do what needs to be done for the company to be successful, or it will fail. Long hours, insurmountable goals, head-to-head teams, killing the bad ideas early. If women can roll with that, GREAT, they can join the ranks and be one of the guys. But women don't have that testosterone flowing in their veins to operate on that level. Startups are like an extreme sport, yes there are some extreme women but it's MOSTLY men, because our testosterone fuels our desire to outperform, over-excel and become #1. This is why the top elite bankers and day traders are also men.

At some point we need to step away from the "58 genders everyone can identify as an apache helicopter" mentality plaguing our society and accept the physical, emotional, and mental differences in our biochemistry as a divider in our abilities as male or female. There's feminine men, and there's masculine women. Their existence does not mean all men can do what women are good at, and vice versa. WE ARE DIFFERENT.
> America gave away its leadership in the world

More specifically, CEO's of American corporations with a time horizon of at most 5 years.
> So what makes some business models (selling physical stuff) more protectable?

Food is a scarce[1] resource. Concepts like "property" and "theft" relate specifically to managing scarcity. Taking food deprives the owner of their meal, because we cannot make perfect copies of baryonic matter. After Shannon introduced the idea of "digital communication" that allowed information to be copied indefinitely without errors, the bit was no longer scarce.

Note: I didn't say anything about how the information was created in the first place. The creation of data - which requires work/energy - should not be conflated with copying existing data. The method used by the restaurant to create or acquire a recipe doesn't create the scarcity that is inherent to the food that implements that recipe.
Contract laws and laws forbidding theft (and establishing the private ownership of physical objects) are literally cornerstones of almost all human societies that ever existed. Protecting retail is incidental.

Consider this thought experiment: we invented Star Trek replicators and made them as expensive as computers or microwave ovens. Retail business would, and IMO rightfully should, literally stop existing that very moment. Trying to restrict replicating everyday object would be wrong, and would go against the very nature of replicator-enabled reality.

This is to show that laws should align with the reality they exist in, instead of making lives of the many worse to make lives of the few a bit easier.
Website that let you search by your intuition
This is a well understood phenomenon in the world of Garbology [1] called the Lean-Cuisine Syndrome [2]

In one study garbologists found that people uniformly underreported the quantity of junk food they eat, and overreport the amount of fruit and diet soda they consume. Most people also underreport their consumption of alcohol by 40 to 60 percent; on the other hand, heads of households regularly exaggerate the amount of food their families consume. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbology

[2] http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Lean+Cuisine...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/05/books/we-are-what-we-throw...
That's an oddly defensive response to a claim no one made.
This is why we can't have nice things :(
> It's amusing how a simple statement like this can provoke so much defensive responses. Bro culture keeps talented people out, sometimes men, mostly women. It's _bad_ for business!

Name a unicorn that does not have it.
My car seems to eat the little motors too. Also taking off the door sucks!
So first off, I want to question the premises that this is a widespread thing, and that it is an effective business practice. The whole point of credit cards is it allows the bar to be out of this business, and most of them gladly accept credit cards so they can do that.

Second of all, especially in smaller communities where this practice is more likely to occur, there is a social capital gained by doing it which is not necessarily directly monetary, but I think it's pretty easy to see the rational self interest argument for "being part of a community" outside of just purely monetary gain.

> It is very rational to lend money with zero risk if that gets you more business.

Well it's definitely not zero risk, and when credit cards exist, which deal with all the risk, it's not rational to lend money without credit cards.
The CR reliability score I saw recently lumped together the power train reliability with the entertainment system jankiness. I think this makes it not as useful
The JD powers rating still rates Honda highly.
Hi,

Since you have mentioned freelance, I do actually have an account at Upwork. But I did not complete my full application yet. I just keep thinking, I do not have an actual job, and I have not delivered a project. Summing up these two issues, how possibly people would "believe" me?
There are so many high profiles in there.. what are the chances I might be asked to do a job?
I am considering to be a freelancer after I get an actual jobs, and have a couple years of experience to proof I can do it.
Me Favorite is Geordie for people from Newcastle even it's a fairly recent demonym.
Some background: I developed a software binary sandbox, in the 90's; patent cited 500+ times ... mostly by developers of DRM. Now, I am working on an open source project.

IMO, DRM extends a presumption of scarcity. Hunters share their meat, whereas farmers guard their harvest. For the hunter, the kill is a short term abundance of value; if it isn't shared, it will spoil. For the farmer, the harvest is a long term store of value. Scavengers exploit the asymmetry of effort in which to obtain that value.

Once value became easy to copy, the symmetry of effort has shifted. As a result, culture is shifting with it. Freely copied recorded music shifted the value back to live concerts. Back to a short term abundance of value. When was the last time you posted on Twitter or FB? These are freshly hunted moments. Wait too long and that muse will spoil.
It was once the defacto exchange and wallet manager for bitcoin. I believe the statistics were that 90% of all transactions happened on the exchange. In fact, once they pulled the server for maintenance, the price of bitcoin plummeted.

After it's collapse, a void was created for other exchanges to rise. A more balanced system ensued.
Couple things.

One of the points of Bitcoin is that you become your own bank. But a lot of people ignored that and stored their coins on exchanges like Mt. Gox. The loss of funds to the collapse of Mt. Gox is a constant reminder not to do that.

(NOTE: Yes, storing coins on your own was certainly not easy. It's a tad easier now with hardware wallets, but there's a lot more to do. But everyone managing their own funds with their own private keys is still ultimately goal of Bitcoin.)

The collapse of Mt. Gox was one of the first, huge financial scandals in the Bitcoin ecosystem. It has made users more critical of trading platforms, which is always a good thing.

It was also a nice shock to the system for naive investors who weren't aware of the true risks of investing in volatile assets like Bitcoin.

Of course, Mt. Gox was also incredibly destructive to the Bitcoin ecosystem. So it's a bit like arguing that the Great Depression was the greatest thing to happen to the American economy.
Yeah, sure ... but the weird part is that they use that in their propaganda, and successfully so, it seems. Totally would make sense in their internal communication on the matter of course.
True, but see elsewhere in this thread: there's documentation of fairly extensive piping systems, though specific quantitative assessments are hard to find. I've been looking off-and-on for a few years.

thaumasiotes's comment above was worse than useless.
There are loans without interest. An extra cost/profit is calculated up front (that's e.g. how Murabaha works in islamic banking which prohibits interest). The law still enforces the person to pay back the original amount (or face the repercussions).

(Plus people lend money and tools and whatever all the time with neither interest nor legal guarantees).
It's awesome that these tools exist, but the verification codebase for Raft is 10s of thousands of lines of specification & proof files. Just installing verdi on linux nearly bested me (some interaction btwn ocaml package management, coq, and native code). I tried running the verification suite and gave up after 10 or 20 minutes of full CPU.

TLA has warts too -- the only way I could interact with it is via a custom java IDE.

It would be great to see lighter-weight, more accessible ways to embed proofs in real-world programs and run them in test suites.
>Not GP but: much less credit would be extended because many stores wouldn't be able to do much with bookings.

Isn't that a good thing? In lots of places, e.g. Germany for one, people almost never buy with credit.
This point of view is absolutely absurd. Women and men are both obviously capable of hard work in the same capacity.
Exactly. Saying that women should seek alternative routes to success is a lot like saying they should cross the street. It's not OK for one route to be cut off, or made even a hair more difficult, just because others also exist.
AFAIK last week's Petya is in C#.
What's the difference with Safari? (not a JS dev, so this is not familiar territory)
Intellij has such a plug-in as well
I really did not want to do it. But after some pressure from people who has a full-time job... they told me just because I am qualified for that job it does not guarantee me a job. And most recruiter would just toss my resume away within 5s for not having experience. Because of all the pressure, I decided to send multiple applications.

In addition to that, I was asked to even apply for jobs that I am not totally qualified for. Like... If I am qualified for 50% of what they ask, I should submit my application. But again, I used to only to apply for position that I met all qualifications
I actually found it a welcome and refreshing change from the excessively verbose and spread-out style that seems to have become popular these days (of which Java and C# are the main examples.)

I'm not sure all the casts are necessary, however, and I'd probably reduce usage of some sizeofs just using the constant (sizeof(i16) should obviously be 2, if the name is any indication.)
China bashers often talk about things like how much abject poverty or wealth inequality there still is, or their demographic problems, or malinvestment. Sure, these are problematic, but if you use a little imagination, initiatives like this maybe don't look so dumb.

I think Chinese political and economic leadership is absolutely world class and may some day be viewed by historians as the best the world has ever seen, especially if you consider both the breadth and speed of their accomplishments.
My feeling is that we don't need fully autonomous cars to get a lot of the safety benefits. About 40,000 people die on US roads every year, along with millions of injuries.

http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safet...

Shouldn't it be possible to cut these numbers in half with advanced "assistance?
... they are funded. (I know of >=1 of the investors) https://empirical.com/
Four accessibility wins
I will have to read this to understand what we can prove with this; or rather, what kinds of wrongs in a program under this theory are usefully proved to be false.

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Ouch; did you see that "overfull hbox" that got rendered out in the first line of paragraph 3 of the Preface? :)
No, because it means much less economic growth. There is obviously a balance: too much lending and the economy collapses the other way. But too little lending is really bad for everyone too, and there are pretty fair reasons to think it might impact the lower class the most. Getting rid of (relatively) easy access to credit would be completely catastrophic for the global economy.
> You can compile your own information of houses that may be for sale that aren't for sale and approach the owner directly and try to buy it. You can also approach people who had their houses listed that took them off the market and approach them after the listing expired.

In some markets it is not possible due to what is known as "pocket listings".
No, Africa can't grow its own food. If they could, they would've, a long time ago.
20 lines of JS top on HN. Slow news day I guess...
What would happen if there was an upper cap?
The article is about VC-backed companies. The "bro culture" is an outgrowth of Silicon Valley VC culture.
Counting is just very difficult. You can easily be off by orders of magnitude and not even recognize it.
I have the same thinking. I'm good at coding but I know I can't do it forever. In some sense I love it, I love to build thing and the logic. But the day in day out pure rationality and disconnection is getting to me.

My cure plan is to switch to a data scientist job and then use that to get into the product side of things.
Yup, but not as many women as men. Thus you won't have a nice 50/50 mix that HR expects.
At a certain point a term is so unfamiliar that you have to accept it's fallen out of usage. I'm from the UK and had never heard of Leodensian, Wulfrunian or Novocastrian.

Can anyone from those places comment on whether the terms are used seriously in normal conversation - and not just to sound clever or erudite?
What borders me, is that you need an valid SSL cert for an service worker, however there is a develop/test cert here: https://github.com/Eun/test.bi
Not implemented. "Under consideration".

https://webkit.org/status/#specification-service-workers
Or to the poor if people are feeling charitable
The risk to a shoplifter is unfathomably larger than the risk to a pirate, and the leakage is infinitely less.

Analogies generally don't serve this debate well. Saying DRM is like physically invasive security to your person is just as ridiculous as Studios' claims that piracy is the same as theft. Both attempt to communicate real issues, but are ridiculously inaccurate.
And as such they are at the very least displacing "culture" to some degree, and the argument thus still applies?
Interesting! I've had Chinese people ask me why they're called "Chinese" in English, with a strong suspicion that it's some kind of racist diminutive. I was able to come up with the analogous "Portuguese" to show that it's not just them, but being able to at least say it's French in origin should help further.