skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might have been a more productive discussion if you had started with that anecdote and then tried to assert or ask whatever it is you are trying to assert or ask. It looks to me like you are saying "Well, I was able to handle it myself, so she is just a loser that she couldn't."

I frequently try to talk about what women and other oppressed groups can do differently. I am routinely accused of victim blaming because of it, so I am aware that this is a hard thing to talk about effectively. But some of the problems here are:

1) If you are male and she is female, she may do the exact same things you did and not the get the results you got.

2) It sounds like you were probably an adult when you ran into this issue. She was just 12 when she met Danny.

3) She had known him a lot of years before it became apparent that he was a problem.

There are no doubt other problems with it. If you want to talk about better approaches and what targets of stalkers can do differently, I am up for that. But I am not really interested in "agreeing" that because you solved it yourself, she just must not have tried hard enough or something.

The reality is that while some responses to such people or situations tend to be more effective than others, if someone decides to target you, you may be unable to dissuade them from continuing to do so. In many cases, stalkers do not stop until they are dead. To take that to its logical conclusion, if you are being harassed by a serious nutcase, it may be a situation where killing them is the only real way to put a stop to their behavior. And if you do so, the odds are really high you will go to jail. Most people would rather just keep trying to avoid the lunatic than go to jail.

Furthermore, abusive husbands who finally beat their wife to death do less prison time on average than abused wives who finally defended themselves with lethal force. Part of the reason for this is that men tend to have both a size and strength advantage over women, and it is also not uncommon for them to have an advantage of skill from having taken martial arts or served in the military. So, women very often need to pick up an equalizer and preplan it to have any hope of successively winning the battle. Thus, abusive men are very often charged with manslaughter and their victims are very often charged with premeditated murder in cold blood.

Thus, if you are a woman and some man decides to victimize you, you may find yourself in a situation that is simply shitty as hell no matter how you choose to handle it.

That fact needs to be acknowledged up front before talking about "well, what can the victim do to try to de-escalate such things before they become so entrenched?" And you seem to be in a head space where you think the victim can just do a thing and magically make it go away. This is often not the case at all, even if they are really savvy about handling shitty social situations.
Absolutely DO say hello (or whatever intro, like a firstname) and DO wait for the other party to respond.

Why? Because I would hate to get "update: our quaterely results will be bad, we expect a 20% loss on our shares" popping up during a meeting just because I forgot to switch off the messaging app on my desktop.

I may be someone who is expected to see that but possibly not the other 20 participants.

A "ready for lunch?" can work without an introduction, though.
No idea but that would make sense.
I loved the 6th get iPod Nano so much. Small, clips on you, has a screen and all of the goodies. Favorite iPod of all time.

This product change makes me wonder if they're considering a small player based on the Apple Watch. Similar form factor to the 6th get nano, clips on you, has most of the goodies of the Watch.

I can dream, I guess.
The only way to really get over the fear is through regular exposure. Finding a local public speaking meetup or Toastmasters group is a great way to practice and build up your confidence.
Basically Medium for developers.

Also, you can write your posts in Markdown, which is kinda nice, I think.
And pigs would fly. Their squat powerful bodies would have developed wings!
"Initially we assumed this endeavor could be housed by a single Excel file...."

What?! Are you sure dev.to is a community of developers?

I can understand the part about character encoding (it has happen to all of us...) but seems like a lot of the issues they had could have been avoided by applying some software development skills...

Still, it is very nice that you decided to give away stickers for free, being on the recipient side is a nice feeling, I remember from the time Canonical shipped free Ubuntu disks!
You know what, I'm not sure. I just a did a quick google, and Amazon is hiring a lot of architects and consultants but no open SDE positions. Google has SDE positions open.

A lot of the tech folks here work for financial companies.
Is it just me or does anyone else think this will be a lame project just because it of GNU stewardship?
What "scarce parts" are you going to use to build a phone?
Duly noted. I'm pretty proud of our team in general though. At the time there were two devs working on the whole app and I think we got a lot of good work done.
It can be actually pretty subtle since they tend to present themselves as standalone executable games and don't advertise the fact they used pygame, and this was the time before unity was much of anything. Nowadays everyone just uses unity.

One game I remember was a 2D space game that had pretty good graphics, digging into it's folders and being surprised at seeing pygame and python everywhere. But it's probably been 10 years since I've played it so I can't remember the name. The rest is google.
Neither Buck nor Bazel have mature support for Windows. And I very much dislike them for the enormous amount of dependency.
There is a good documentary by the name Poverty, Inc that explores the west's approach to foreign aid. It is currently on USA Netflix if you have that. It convinces me that our current approach to foreign aid is flawed. In most cases it hurts more than it helps.

I do wonder if not having anything on the line contributes to our blind spots in this area. If something doesn't affect us, it takes much longer to realize when things have gone very wrong.

Sure, someone who says "Do as I say, not as I do" can have good advice, but at the end of a day, a doctor who wont take his own medicine is suspect in my mind.
I would argue that you're eschewing Lisp and Scheme in terms of independent, active implementations, however in a more general sense I agree.

Moving fast (and breaking things) is just not what the standardization committee does, and that's fine. They can move faster since C++11/14, but sometimes you really don't want a giant moving target with new features all the time. I think their approach works for the kind of environment you find C++ used in.
> Apple still sell them.

That doesn't mean they're working on the next version.

I used to love my Airports, but the most recent version dropped SNMP support, and the Airport Utility has been dropping features as well. No Quality-of-Service capabilities since its inception, either - my wife's Flickr uploads kill my connection while they run.
A practical issue for Naive Bayes that also infects linear models is bias w.r.t. document length. Typically when you are detecting a rare, relatively compact class such as sports articles (or spam) you will tend to have a strongly negative prior, many positive features, and few negative ones. As a consequence, as the length of your text increases, not only does the variance of your prediction increase, but the mean tends to as well. This leads to all very long documents being classified as positive, regardless of their text. You can observe this by training your model and then classifying /usr/dict/words.

This is the most common mistake I've seen in production use of linear models on document text. Invariably, they'll misfire on any unusually long document.
They spent a lot of time and effort building a high-quality web application. I doubt any traditional broker would have the wherewithal to match it, otherwise they would have put Zillow and Trulia out of business years ago.
It's pretty funny because I got lucky and got paid to game development with people who made some big hits and the very first thing we did after getting a block to draw on the screen was try to make a fun game mechanic. Even for a multiplayer online game - we made or simulated something that could be done on a developer's machine to find something fun first and then worked on the multiplayer details that this blogger spent a large amount of time on - in at least two of the three parts of the blog postings on this project - we had difficulties to overcome in exactly the same manner in adding multiplayer to a game but that was after we had something fun.
GigaSpaces spins off open-source Cloudify cloud orchestration program
There's also B2 (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html), which is I think the cheapest of them all.

UPDATE: Well, egress is cheaper. B2 is $0.005/GB storage with $0.02/GB egress. But one thing to consider is that B2 storage is located within one single datacenter.

(Disclaimer: I am not affiliated, but am in the process of deciding to use B2.)
Stitch Fix has confidentially filed for an IPO
Exactly. Roomba has left themselves a lot of latitude by simply saying they they will never "sell" the data. What they should say is, they will never transfer the unencrypted data to a third party, and will never enable a third party with the encrypted data to decrypt it.
Thanks for the correction (doh!).

> Pretending America's founders were consistent and genuine in declaring "all men are created equal" is cringeworthy, disrespectful, and woefully out of line.

You're attacking a strawman here. I think you missed the salient point.
Holy shit, I had no idea there's a 6th gen, AND it came out in 2014.

I thought they were still using a handicapped A5.
This was one of the things I liked about my fitbit, the vibrate alarm was more than enough for me since I'm a super light sleeper, and I can get woken up without waking up my gf. In fact, her fitbit vibrate would wake me up but not her but she's the one wearing it.
Chinese group hacks a Tesla for the second year in a row
I might try moving my blog over to the Gigalixir free tier. Currently it's running on a Heroku hobby instance.
Apple Watch + Bluetooth headphones is the replacement.
So yes the phone failed, but how about the 50 services they offer on AWS? Failures on their part are heavily publicized, but successes move along silently.
The iPod Touch never made sense to me.

It is the same form factor as a phone.
So why would anyone carry it instead of,
or in addition to, their actual phone?
What did they use before? GNU make? (on Windows?)

It seems like CMake is quite popular now, with LLVM having moved to it a few years ago.
Yep, I had an iPod Touch as a kid for this reason. Though nowadays you could get an unlocked smartphone for a reasonable price and not put a SIM card in it.
Yes, I like Cook and the strategy is "Wall Street" rational, but it's a shame to see best of market products neglected and dropped.
The scientific process is all about doubting what you "know"...obviously to be pragmatic, it's useful to assume certain things such as gravity, time, that a chemical reaction yesterday will do the same today under the same conditions, etc. But the whole purpose of testing and retesting (which is the scientific process) is because you're always doubting.

That's why data should be free, in order to let this testing happen. Of course we have limited resources to do testing, so there must be some triage involved somehow, but that has nothing to do with the scientific process.
On a different note, somebody has to traffic dump those Xiaomi Mi Robots. They are very good at what they are supposed to do, but what if they have to comply with Chinese agencies by sharing image or other meaningful data?
> How many people don't have a smartphone with a music service on it?

More than six billion?
It seems so obvious reading his post that he went at this backwards. The basic idea of developing and iterating on a lightweight MVP is completely absent.

I'm genuinely curious - because I see this error replicated all the time when engineers try to take a side project to market - why otherwise rational people do this. This approach is obviously doomed to failure. I understand that as programmers we enjoy solving technical problems, but that should be second to actually building something that people enjoy (if that's your stated aim). Why do developers so often seem to lack this foresight? Are we just too absorbed in our craft to see the forest for the trees, and we mis-prioritize as a result? Shouldn't there be some moment of self realization, akin to "oh fuck, I just spent the last 3 months fixing the lag on a game that doesn't actually exist?" The psychology of this error bewilders me.
This really isn't up to iRobot Corporation or Colin if the company gets acquired. They are publicly traded, hostile take overs are possible. The promise is meaningless.
What to expect from Tesla as the Model 3 hits the road
EFF says new gTLDs Suck
b2 / bjam, a custom build tool that was bootstrapped via a script that just builds.
What are the main toolsets in use / in demand on the software side?

I'm in the Bay Area and I'm feeling underpaid. Please tell me what to learn.

Off-topic: try a five day water fast for your migraines. You need neuronal autophagy.
Yeah, indeed, I often made this remark myself. This doesn't mean it won't change (core developers could decide to change the rules about limited supply), but this is unlikely. What is more likely is that something like the USDTether crypto, or an other crypto tethered to a fiat, will take the lead.

What I often say, too, is that it's probably the only way it could have work. When bitcoin was very young and it was considered a currency, people didn't care. It's only when exchanges appeared and bitcoin started to get very volatile that it gained traction. Maybe having speculators getting rich and broke with bitcoin was the only way to bring cryptocurrencies to mainstream focus : during those frenetic times, everybody has heard about cryptos, and there's not a single day now without a news about a big actor (either administrations or corporate) trying something around cryptos or blockchains. Maybe we needed all of that to get the yet to be born crypto that can be used by everyone. Should bitcoin have stayed that weird internet currency nobody used, it would have died long time ago.
Hiring people without remote work experience
Disagree.. A book could easily show you some basics for project/directory structure, basic code organization, documentation, simple defaults that can really make life easier for a noob. With that he can get used to it and compare code he has to work, or is reading, with what he has already been taught.
> What they should say is, they will never transfer the unencrypted data to a third party, and will never enable a third party with the encrypted data to decrypt it.

Doesn't really work... they can send the encrypted data to Y and the encryption key to Z so that Y and Z can make their own agreements.
That makes incredible sense. What tool do you use to back up your books?
I would say it's the other way around, that people who are fascinated by the occult are liable to get sucked in by the alt-right. Same category of extreme paranoia.
Cannot beat the iPod shuffle for activities that include water, such as winter sports. RIP an amazing product.
For Apple, nearly anything new is scarce at their scale. There's a lot of speculation that a new high-end phone will be added to the lineup to allow them to introduce technology that can't be scaled as fast as Apple would need.

See http://www.macworld.com/article/3207552/iphone-ipad/apples-r...
iPod touch: $249CDN
iPhone SE: $579CDN

If dropped or lost, it's not the end of the world as a parent of two kids. Same reason why they both have $100 Android phones to carry around. For $350CDN, they have a phone/SMS device and a reasonably fast iOS device and decent camera.
Though, like many things, it used to be better. Over the years they have made obviously manipulative design choices that I can't imagine have anything to do with facilitating purchases, and what I assume were/are driven by their relationships with MLSes and the real estate profession in general.

But I agree with your implication that Zillow et al are worse.
The iPod Touch is a cheap alternative to the iPhone for in-house/enterprise apps which don't require a cellular connection.
I'm the guy that made Agar.io, and I personally hate that term, but I don't think we'll ever win the war of getting people to stop calling those browser MMO games "io games"
Meg Whitman Rejects Uber CEO Job, Staying at HPE
As a past customer, I would say they're somewhere in between; perhaps leaning towards software. The process is highly automated, with 90% of the transaction handled via the apps/web and most hand holding in the beginning and the end of the transaction. While you are assigned an "agent", you will also work with other random agents as you make requests and your requests are sent through some kind of queue workflow. Further, their staff is paid a salary, not commission as the traditional agent/broker. As a result, Redfin splits the traditional buyers commission with you and you may use those funds towards your closings, etc. I am a happy customer and would use them again.
Your ear drums are not the specific part of your ear that translates vibration into brain signals.
A couple of great products have now come to pass.

That said, the Nano and Shuffle no longer belong in the Apple ecosystem. An Apple Watch and a pair of AirPods replace them. Both totaling $428 USD minimum.

It's no wonder they discontinued the shuffle and nano. They're have a larger margin, and can boost sales of the apple watch in one fell swoop. Kind of a bummer but an interesting move.
> In all but the most serious crashes your face will not hit anything if the seat-belt fits well.

Great, then there's nothing to worry about... but if it is a serious crash, you'll wish you had an airbag to bounce off of rather than a hard steering column, dashboard and windshield.
Great listing experience + great buying experience.
What do you mean by "arbitrary agreements"? Denigrating their policy as "arbitrary" sure makes it sound like you're biased.

I'm sure that once Amazon started reaching out to sellers to buy Birkenstocks, they were told about Birkenstock policy. If they continue reaching out to sellers after learning that (and it appears as though they did) then I would think you can make a good case that Amazon is deliberately interfering with the sellers' relationships with Birkenstock, because Amazon knows that if they're successful in convincing a seller to sell their stock to Amazon then the seller will be blacklisted by Birkenstock.

That said, IANAL, so I have no idea if this case would actually be successful if brought to suit. But it looks to me as though it has a chance.
I completely disagree. Other companies do provide excellent support for CMake right now. Take for example android new cmake toolchain support for compiling for android. Compiling your project for Android is as easy as adding a command line parameter.

Neither Buck and Bazel are nowhere near as Cmake.

As someone who works with C++ and cross compiles code to arm. I really appreciate and enjoyed with recent trends in porting codes to cmake build(prebuild?) system .
>An iPod Touch with 128GB of storage is $299.

But a comparable Android phone with 4G would cost around $100 these days. The iPod touch was a great product and it made sense when they released it in 2007. Smart phones were still extremely expensive and you had to have an additional expensive data contract to go with it, so it made sense to have a cheaper option. Now you can get superior functionality from a cheap Android phone with an SD card, so I can't imagine they are selling many anymore.
and therefore.... ?
Find your MapRoulette Challenge
Isn't this fundamentally the same as asking why PayPal isn't a bank and Uber isn't a taxi company? I'm all for tech skepticism, but I think it's pretty naive to suggest that the platform is not a major part of a business at this point in the game.
Being the richest man in the world shows some level of success ;-) Also allows him room for a lot of failures.
The first rule in these cases is not to collect data you don't want to get leaked.
As someone not in the field, but curious of getting in, could you explain why not?
how on earth does anyone now think that's a positive website experience? autoplaying videos are awful. ads are bad enough. but the ridiculous amount of data they're just soaking up is unbelievable. Almost 90 MB!?
In a very small way, it always bothers me as a Brit (now living in the US) to see address information ask for (and even require) a ZIP code for int'l customers for two reasons:

1. ZIP is a US-only term. Sure, it's easy to figure out, but it's postal code everywhere else in the world. If an address form has a country field, the form should at least change the label accordingly. If not, even just writing "ZIP/postal code" makes at least some attempt to avoid US-centric terminology.

2. Some countries don't use a postal code system at all. I've seen services make this a required field, regardless of country.
Are there any F# APIs? I tried to introduce F# to a project but between all needed APIs written in C#/OOP style and only mild interest from a lot of developers and managers I couldn't really justify the added friction.

If there were a ton of F# libraries that showed how to create functional APIs people could learn from them by using them the same way a lot people learn OOP by using APIs.

As it is now the only way to get into F# is to have a group who really wants to do it and learn. Otherwise it's just an uphill battle.
> Savoir-faire Linux

Love these guys! They're based in Montreal, definitely the biggest Linux-only player I know around here.

> Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

That's a really bad name for a release. I speak French natively but... Nah.

The criticisms about missing features seem pretty reasonable as well, BUT I'm not afraid of this project being more ideological than practical. For one thing, SFL is in the money business, they are not a charity. For another, sometimes it takes someone to take the extreme "free" approach for someone else to approach the middle ground of "maybe not that free but still distributed".
It also validates their student loan payments.
If the goal is price reduction:

https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ (S3-comparable performance)

$40/year minimum

Outgoing traffic: $0.011/GB
Storage: $0.0112/month/GB

https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/cloud-archive/ (archival storage)

Incoming/Outgoing traffic: $0.011/GB
Storage: $0.0023/month/GB

https://www.online.net/en/c14#pricing
Storage: €0.005/Month

No traffic costs (because its archival storage)

The main downside is they are located in 1 physical area even tho they are labeled as multiple DCs.

But for high traffic uses, honestly, you can just double the storage costs (i.e. OVH CA and OVH France) to get redundancy while saving _massively_ on traffic costs.
Great advice.

> Learn how to trick your brain into thinking that fear is excitement. You don't have to be able to do it very long, just the ten seconds before you're about to start, but it makes all the difference.

I would say that fear and excitement are actually the same underlying emotion, just interpreted differently. So it's less about tricking yourself than it is just making a cognitive decision.
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 28, 2017
It’s an electric Land Rover Defender clone. Still cool, though. But definitely not original in design at all.
Well that and paying/forcing vendors not to place AMD chips in laptops. A practice Intel lost a lawsuit for and owes AMD billions that are still unpaid.
could anybody who downvoted this please explain why?