skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly concerning about cries of "witch hunts" in the media is that the term originated when a powerful group assaulted individuals with little power to distract from their own shortcomings, injuring or killing them in the process.

That metaphor is problematic in the case of the founder of a company facing charges of employee sexual harassment. At worst, let's use "sensationalist" or "disingenuous" coverage.
No. When you transform your work into physical objects and leave them on the side of the street then tell people they can't take them without giving you money ... Both cases depend on property rights and law enforcement to function at all. Property rights, both physical and IP are arbitrary human inventions.
Two things i do not get:

- Why can't Google figure out what the conditions which trigger this issue are and add a caveat to the documentation? "Bad things will happen if you use more than 500,000 files on a 32 bit client." This would save both their support organization and their customers a lot of pain.

- Why does this particular user not give up on Google Drive if it does not work for him, or at least try to figure out what is making it choke and avoid that edge case? It is not like it is the only cloud storage solution out there and finding a new one cannot be more painful than this endless BDSM dance with support.
It seems to me that you are trying to achieve equality of outcome, or you assume that all people are fundamentally the same so that any disparity in outcome must be a result of a fundamental inequality in society.

One of the GP comments mentions Asians. I don't think Asians in North America (or anywhere else for that matter) have a hard time obtaining enough material wealth to live comfortable lives and raise families.
If anyone was left that wanted to work with Jonathan Teo and Binary, this email certainly took care of that. What makes this particularly astounding is he knew it would be leaked, so he wrote this nonsense knowing full-well the public would read it.
That's one of the attachment types referenced in the original article. "I am uncomfortable being without close relationships, but I sometimes worry that others don't value me as much as I value them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_in_adults#Anxious.E...
I agree with that. Seeing more of this thread, I would clarify that I agree that interest rewards people for accepting risk in addition to temporarily losing the use of their money, and I support that.

I just want to point out that the phenomenon of interest-free lending as charity is a real one.
Well, going to a place where you feel you'll find like-minded folks is a totally different scenario than going to a bar with a script. At my coworking space we're next door to a total sales guy that asks, seemingly earnestly, the same damned questions about whomever's life on the other end on every call. I literally cannot believe he actually cares that much though he really puts on a show.

I won't lie, I wish I had that talent...
It won't work. How many other companies are you sabotaging or boycotting based on offences they committed years ago? You'll quickly forget about this when the next shocking news story takes your outrage. So will just about everyone else and it won't affect them at all.
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"My comment is entirely focused on the hypocrisy of the _current_ media, pretending to stand on the moral pedestal of society, but really just trying to incite outrage to generate pageviews, which generates ad revenue and keeps them in business.
Second, has anybody ever taken a look at the editors, bloggers, and writers at media outlets? I'd predict they as a group are not as diverse as you'd expect. Liberal arts college educated, making middle class salaries. Probably not the group of deep thinkers and intellectuals we'd like to believe."

As ad hominems go, this is one of the poorest attempts I've seen on HN recently. Not only it is an ad hominem, but you didn't even bother to provide anything but hypothetical accusations. Especially this part:

"I'd predict they as a group are not as diverse as you'd expect".

I'm actually surprised that you didn't use a burner account to post this.
You seem to exist in a fictional universe where pulseaudio "got good" and doesn't suck. All these years later I have never seen that be the case. I think a much more likely explanation is that desktop Linux is less common since the rise of OS X in the "Unix-like developer machine" market so there are now fewer people noticing it sucks.
The lessons here aren't terrible, but the notion that he "lost everything" as a 22 year old with $50k in savings is frankly laughable. This kind of hyperbole is what keeps a lot of people from starting a business of any kind, when in fact they'd be ok taking a saner approach.
> http://hsperson.com/

So I went there, and read the 8 bullet points under "Is this you?" and then I thought, well yeah, that applies to everyone!

Here's one: "Do you get rattled when you have a lot to do in a short amount of time?"

That's a "Barnum Statement" [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect#.22Barnum_statem...
In English, spelling is so seemingly arbitrary at times that I just gave up and quit caring so much. Judgment? Judgement? Who cares?! I won't budge on my thoughts on the importance of proper grammar though.
That would be readme.io doing that, unfortunately I can't control that :(
I use to work for a major nonprofit centered around natural health, supplements, etc. It is, absolutely, without question, a scam. The supplement companies, wealthy individuals who own those companies, and sell those products and services, support and prop up, not to mention being a huge tax write off.
Like what happened to git in the past, will Linus write a new init himself this time?
Are you saying that being allowed to stay alive is a privilege, not a right because the death penalty is used to take that away from people? I can't think of a more fundamental right than life, so it sounds like your statement contradicts itself - you have no rights in your country.
Textbook Narcissism.
> here hadn't been any hard evidence discovered to support an exodus of Israelites from Egypt to Palestine (Canaan),

Indeed not. This is a subject that I am beginning to investigate myself, but a couple of things to note:

1. The region the Israelites stayed, Goshen, was in the Nile delta and hence a much wetter climate than the southern parts of Egypt where, as I understand it, we tend to get better preserved artifacts. The wet climate facilitates decomposition and so we have to calibrate our expectations as to what we can find.

2. The Exodus story was written several hundred years after the event. Something notable is that the story refers to the construction of the city of Pi-Ramesses, a city which did exist but had long been dismantled before the Exodus story had been written (the stones were used to build the city of Tanis). It seems strange that the writers would have gotten the detail right if the Israelites had not been there (though not impossible).
What were your problems exactly? In my case I used Linux full time from late 2012 to early 2014 and during that time I haven't had a single problem related to it, all while running bleeding edge Archlinux. The only issue was with bluetooth headphones but I'm pretty sure it was more with BlueZ being a pile of garbage than Pulseaudio being bad, given that BlueZ was giving me problems with all sorts of other (non sound) peripherals as well.
The tests are happening in another branch, but you're right, they do not exist on the main develop branch yet. I've seen people run this in containers as well, and theres no reason it wouldn't. But if you don't like PHP, then unfortunately theres nothing I can really do about that. :)
Wow thanks, these were great. Can't wait for the next video in that series about the theory of systems collapse. Watching and reading about this stuff, I can't help but think about how prophetic these lessons may turn out to be for the world as we come to grips with the global effects of climate change.
with the following parameters:

NUM_PEOPLE = 45
INITIAL_BANK = 45 # everyone gets 45 dollars
INTEREST_RATE = 0.1 # 10% per turn that you didn't pay
ROUNDS = 5000
RENT = 1 # how much to pay each round

everybody's cash goes to zero on step 1008. From that point on all trades are debt manipulations only

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But... your analogy is even worse, I think. Apple doesn't "kidnap" people. You willingly opt-in to the "walled garden" ecosystem. It isn't forced on you in any way at all.

It's more like contracting a security firm to keep your stuff safe. They promise they'll do their best, and in exchange you give them some money and acknowledge that they don't have to explain to you how it works. If you find a flaw in their security system, you can either (a) sell it to somebody, thus compromising all of the firm's clients (including yourself), (b) report it to the company so they can fix it, or (c) keep it secret for some reason. I would always choose (b). I find (c) to be in poor taste, but not appalling by any means. (a) is, in my opinion, never an acceptable option.
>The syntactic-sugar form isn't there with the @..

But those things are differences, right? Certain languages makes certain things easy and idiomatic. The differences in languages are all about that...
The UI is easier? I'm gonna need you to explain this.
We're getting lost in the weeds. What exactly are you proposing?
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You can still listen to the radio for free music, can't you? That's what poor people always used to do and somehow CD buyers didn't feel unfairly privileged.

If you really care about what poor people are missing out on, buy it for them. Don't expect someone else to do your charity for you to ease your conscience.
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I am well aware of how finding these bugs work (I recommend looking at who I am, if you don't know, as your response kind of tells me you don't ;P). I believe the article is not actually focusing on the same problem as Apple's bug bounty program.
You're right. It is much easier to repair a car.
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I remember from a class I took once at Berkeley that after the Roman Emperor Nero had been deposed, he was running away and a centurion who saw him quoted Virgil:

Is death so hard to bear?

Really, 20 years of failure? I am not understanding this.
Happy to take on the challenge. Two recent investments involve a "Mindfulness" app and an even better coffee machine. Guess who made those investments, while I wouldn't have touched them with a 10 foot pole? They're sophomoric ideas that offer little in the way of fundamentals.

Where's the compelling drive to grow an industry? Where's the compelling argument for making money with a real capitalizeable asset? How do these projects fundamentally grow an area of the economy, put people to work, so they will want to buy these things. make life better and make investors more money?

This kid is what we should be investing in: https://qz.com/909614/a-cameroonian-17-year-old-won-the-goog...

Putting this kid to work is what we should be doing, not goofing around with some stupid ass Mindfulness app in SF. This is exactly the plan I'm working on. If somebody doesn't scoop this kid up, I will at some point.

Africa and South America each represent 6% of the world's app revenue. You want to make some money? Help these continents compete. Help the governments involved learn how to manage their information and build out their IT infrastructure. Help bright kids like the one I linked to use their talents to help you make money and grow their local economies at the same time. That's what I'm interested in.

If vc's in the US have been reduced to investing in yet another goddam coffee machine to sell to the US market, then I'd suggest silicon valley has exhausted their strategic thinking, and have been reduced to daddy and friends giving college grad something to do. It's a waste of money that could be so much more strategically spent.
S3 is expensive per byte, and your use of "that scale" confuses me for an amount that's only about 15% of a new hard drive.
Parts of the analogy are certainly correct...

Mechanical parts wear out from use, whether they are animal or machine. Animal parts will heal to an extent and may require a minimum level of use to stay healthy, but they still wear out.
> Which is a more pressing problem: the top paid individuals of group X earns less than the top paid individuals of group Y, or the fact that so many in society are focused on the wrong things when they think about what makes them content and happy?

Great question! I'll risk to assert the latter simply because problem 1 would fix itself in my mind. There were times when no American went without...
How about writing 1000 cubic kilometer and then adding that this is the equivalent of 10 times the Grand canyon? I just would like to see real units. I also don't know how long a football field is.
Protip: identify the news sources you don't like and ban them wholesale under "Manage Sections / Sources" in Google News. Banning just a few improves the experience tremendously. HuffPo and Buzzfeed are prime candidates for the ban hammer.
Many times it happens due to the manager having a track record for getting projects completed on-time.
Are you actually using PulseAudio? Having run Arch (well, Parabola) since 2011, I haven't had any problems with PulseAudio... because I've never installed PulseAudio. Actually, I did have a problem with Wine and lib32-libpulse lagging slightly behind the video (where it's only a fraction of a second off, but enough that it doesn't feel like the words match the faces); and then I figured out how to get Wine to use ALSA, just like everything else.
> wouldn't it be useful if I could just grab my User with ID 23456, and see a tree display of all the data referenced by it, rather than trying to piece this together by looking at various tables? What about its evolution in time? Wouldn't it be useful to just have a slider so that I could watch the data in this tree at previous points in time, or to be able to step through changes that were applied to it?

This! Looking at the data as a tree of references, or the data itself being hierarchical, is usually the most intuitive way I visualise it in my head. Same for the time, looking at the visualisation changing with time should be the way to visualize data evolution.
In my work we deal with a lot of navigation logs, and what I miss the most is the ability to eaily visualize the navigation of a user and all of its attributes in the time, or how he steps from page to page. Or to visualize how the page attributes change with time, or the whole tree of url levels and how it evolves. The most challenging thing about it IMHO is how to correcltly handle not only one instance in the visualization but many, say millions, without forcing the user to pre-aggregate and loose all the interesring details.
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So there are two options:

1. Join the languages (so PHP would get that syntatic sugar too) [or preferably never have so many in the first place]

2. Be where we are now, where we have redundant libraries, frameworks, languages, package-managers, version idiosyncrasies, and IDEs for mere syntactic sugar.
Back in the day, like way back in the day, some programmers at SGI wrote an X application to order burritos by fax from La Castena when it was on Rengstoff. This might have been the first internet (pre-web) ecommerce application.
Twitter + Feedly works great for me.
As a technical manager this article bugs me because it's pointing to issues with hiring that are only being made worse by having a non-technical manager.

You need to hire developers that are professionals capable of being independent, and most important, responsible. If you have developers that aren't accounting for simple things like memory or performance then you have a problem with that employee. It's something you can coach, and if that doesn't work out, then you let them go.

Having a non-technical manager makes this worse because you can't spot the problem early, and the developer doesn't have the strong sense of oversight that comes from the boss being able to read your pull requests.
I think it's easy in situations like this to assume that one party must be right and the other wrong. Chances are for Caldbeck and for his accusers, many signals got mixed up and misread.

Yes it is possible Caldbeck is a cunning predator who knew exactly what he could get away with and used his clout as a VC to grope and harass many women, but it's far more likely that he is not. Far more likely he isn't all that smooth with women and ham-handedly attempted to woo his victims.

He failed to realize how the power dynamic influenced things. This is important for anyone in a position of power to realize. My moment of realization was when I noticed that every single person on a team I led laughed at a joke I made. I realized something was off. The joke simply wasn't that funny. It's easy to see how simple flattery (which is quite normal when dealing with VCs) might have thrown off Caldbeck's compass. Yes I'd expect someone with his level of experience to be aware of it, but some people can go years without realizing they are being flattered.

This is in no way meant to minimize the poor judgment Caldbeck used or to cast any blame at all on his victims. VC is a unique world that is fad-driven and reputation-driven and so the founder of a very hot company has tremendous power over investors, but all other founders are essentially beggars.

I know Jonathan and he's an exceptionally gracious person whose behavior is completely reserved and respectful. I imagine he's quite disappointed about being lumped into all this and having his company's brand ruined by it and his name dragged through the mud for Caldbeck's poor judgment.
The issues with Android are not due to the token ways in which it is slightly more permissive for users (while on the whole still being extremely locked down...); they are due to the ecosystem of manufacturers and how devices end up being deployed. Also, the reality is that for the first over well-over five years of iOS existing, it was de facto open: jailbreaks were commonly available and easy to use; the idea that the very existence of an ability to control your own device can thereby be shown by simple demonstration to not be a serious concern. And to be very very clear: of course the issue is not "the piddling revenue" (they break even on the App Store at best)... the business reasons are that they want a strong DRM story in order to be able to pitch content producers and developers on why their platform should get to deploy and vend their media.
Declarative unit files are far easier to manage than fragile ad-hoc scripts.
Many of the phone’s security features don’t only benefit the user - they also make widespread piracy virtually impossible, and they ensure that nobody can set up a rival software ecosystem on Apple’s hardware.
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If you want to see a Buran without hiking through the desert for 3 days, you can go to Technik Museum Speyer [1] - they also have other great air&space related exhibits (notably including an Antonov An-22 and a retired Boeing 747-200).

[1] https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/spaceshuttle-buran
iPhone (not really a startup), NEST off the top of my head.
But only if we break it with the savage might of atomic power!
"The story in the public that you are all trying to buy back shares should be revised. Not for my sake. If that's what any of you want, ok, but know this. I strongly urge you not to be considered part of a group of entrepreneurs that would, at the first sign of trouble or opportunity, choose to renege. It is dishonorable. And it is opportunistic grandstanding. It will hurt the perception of your integrity and it will hurt your ability to raise capital down the line. No investor seeks out that risk. It's not an action of integrity. I would urge you to separate yourself from that narrative if it isn't true of your intentions. If it is, I hope you have a very credible reason to do it besides just doing a shakedown, or to stand outside your integrity for the sake of media perception. I also recommend you speak to each reporter who has quoted that erroneous article and have it corrected."

Nice, a threat that speaking against them/him will hurt your ability to raise money. This seems only barely removed from the retaliation threats and actions Caldbeck did against the former employee (and others he harassed). Seems like a great guy to work with! Also, 'Not for my sake', lol.

Seriously, did one of their lawyers not look this over? They're facing a lawsuit from a former principal alleging extensive retaliation against her throughout the valley, and I suspect this email will wind up being a pretty compelling exhibit in the case.

This does certainly cast yet another shadow on all the public remonstrations of fealty and support shown on various social media channels towards him. In the future, you may want to wait a bit and see how things shake out.
I'll throw a vote out for the New York Times daily briefing:

The sample looks like
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/briefing/north-korea-cnn-...

It is exactly what it sounds like—a quick daily briefing of the most important things that have happened over night—kinda as if you're the President.

There is a URL that you don't need to update each day to hit, but for the life of me I can't remember it at the moment.
The point under discussion was the effect of endurance exercise, not exercise generally.
Apparently airlines also think a banana is a good gluten free meal.

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/banana-g...
"It"? In addition to a specific type of exercise, we're talking about a continuous variable here. Are you so sure it's a linear relationship, with the heaviest exercisers experiencing the greatest benefits? Because that seems like a tenuous position.
I remember reading somewhere that those shuttles were in an old hangar that collapsed on top of them. Looks like that wasn't true, this was definitely shot fairly recently, drones and all.
They are probably the ones responsible. If those charity organisations can change the message to stop sponsoring wars in Africa, there won't be a need to donate to African kids in less than 5 years. Then again they won't have a job because majority of that money ends up in their pockets.
Ironically, pretending to ask intelligent questions when you're clueless about the subject matter is a form of bullshitting.
> Why can't Google figure out what the conditions which trigger this issue are and add a caveat to the documentation?

You can't fix software breakage by adding mentions in random documentation pages.

Bad things shouldn't happen if you have more than 500,000 files. And if such things are unavoidable due to limits that are out of Google's control, like from the operating system or the CPU architecture, then the software should warn the user well in advance before any damage occurs.

Google has all the manpower it needs. But this is again one of those instances where they show how little they care. Which should have been obvious by now, given that with all of their manpower and virtually unlimited resources, they still haven't released a Linux client.

This is why I'm staying on Dropbox btw. My data is too important for me to entrust a company that will sell cloud storage as a complementary to something else.
I'd assume the military would have to pay more than going-rate to hire the professional assassin. It's definitely the wrong time to cheap-out.
Am I missing the part where they explain how they tried really hard to make Airbnb aware of this, before publishing a method to cause physical harm to 1.2M people?