skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>He is clarifying what he meant, to no apparent effect. It's not hard to find a clip of an interviewer asking whether he thinks women are inferior. He, predictably, says he believes nothing of the sort. And then this gets printed in the Times.

We'll probably just go in circles about this. The content of the memo, as a whole, does not reflect the harmless statement that "not everything is purely cultural" ... To suggest that biology might be even a significant factor in the lopsided representation is a mistake. Not just politically, but I believe factually too. And it is a bad one because it happens to overlap with the general stream of biases and impressions people already have about women in tech. And now they must also deal with people maybe believing their own interpretation of this memo. I think he should have been far more careful and specific in his terms.

Also, he could believe his views are not demeaning to women, and be wrong. It is hard to see our own biases. I feel I have shown much of my own in writing about this but life is short!
AirBnB operates globally.
A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing (2015)
and in every other country where the civilian deaths by police are negligible, the cops deal with the same things.
Starting a comment with a personal attack isn't well-advised here.

Doing it twice in a row, far less so.
Perl did show back up in the TIOBE rankings as #10 and then #9 (Perl5). There are plenty of blog posts and conferences...just not as much as Python, Java, C#...etc. Perl6 is starting to get checked out by the first wave of people who like to dive into new tech, so a bunch of blog posts have been showing up recently.
This isn't limited to glasses. I purchased a 12x12 sheet of solar filter film from a seller on Amazon, manufactured by Thousand Oaks Optical (who are listed on the American Astronomical Society's list of reputable vendors), and I'm also being refunded.

I checked the Thousand Oaks Optical site and they have a list of legitimate resellers of their products, and the Amazon seller I used is listed. I'm surprised Amazon didn't do the same basic checks before e-mailing me.

When I was searching for more information after receiving the e-mail, I also found someone on an astronomy forum[1] who is being refunded for a telescope that appears to retail for around $1199.

[1] https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/587658-amazon-eclipse-gla...
This is really cool work by Michael, a collection of configurable data structures.

Underlying most of them is CHAMP - a compressed hash array map trie. Essentially it's a trie over the hash of the objects inserted in the map. It's compressed using a clever technique that involves bitmaps.

A made a toy implementation of it to get a sense of how it works. There are some accompanying notes that you might find useful: https://github.com/norswap/triemap
It was interesting reading the threads on /r/webdev about this whole debacle. The threads were full of people saying that he's an arsehole with too much time on his hands who must hate fun.

Nobody actually stopped to read the guys bio and realise that he's more than qualified to be bringing up these issues. It doesn't help that the guy who made save418.com is literally 14 (which seems to be about the average age of /r/webdev).
Well, what kinds of programming tasks do you normally do?
Encoding malware into DNA and compromising DNA sequencing software
First Atomic Clock Receives an IEEE Milestone
The term they're using in Australia when politicians waffle on about an East Coast high-speed rail system that's never going to happen is "value capture".
We criminalize all sorts of speech, everything from libel to copyrighted works.

Libel and copyright violations are not criminalized (civil law, rather than criminal law, applies).
> If you have one with chip+PIN, as all in Europe, 100% of liability is with the customer.

Thankfully I don't have chip and pin, yet another reason I actually vastly prefer the American system to European.

You seem to just be providing examples of why the European system is worse for consumers, not proving in any way why it's better.
I would say perl6 was stable as of the Christmas 2015 release of rakudo.
Maybe the problem isn't with the "Perl" part of the name, but with the "6" part? It sounds like an incremental update when it's actually a new language.
You touched on the weak spot of MS Word. It works great for small documents, but anything longer and it takes forever and crashes a lot. In other words, MS doesn't scale, and I wouldn't do anything other than writing pure text in MS Word.
This is exactly why I purchased my eclipse glasses directly from the manufacturer (American Paper Optical) even though shipping from them was very expensive (relative to the cost of the glasses). Even if I'd bought a reputable brand directly from Amazon (instead of a reseller) I had no trust that I wouldn't get a counterfeit commingled from an untrustworthy reseller inside Amazon's warehouse.
Not sure what you mean by "coupled", but we support both Hugo and Jekyll sites.
I get that the volcanoes could exacerbate climate change's effects, but how much effect might these volcanoes have on climate change already?

The following suggests that volcano activity followed from their uncovering by ice sheets, but might the causality of such be flipped?

> he pointed to one alarming trend: “The most volcanism that is going in the world at present is in regions that have only recently lost their glacier covering – after the end of the last ice age. These places include Iceland and Alaska.

> “Theory suggests that this is occurring because, without ice sheets on top of them, there is a release of pressure on the regions’ volcanoes and they become more active.”
Peoples' reaction to the Thiel quote drives me bonkers. If I complain that evangelical christians as a demographic make it tougher to achieve comprehensive abortion rights, does that mean I think we should disenfranchise them? Of course not.

Women and minorities are tough for libertarians; it shouldn't be controversial to point that out. It's also not surprising why that's the case. It's hard to sell a world view predicated on the concern for protecting people from the government to demographics who have since the 1950s relied heavily on government for protection from other people.
Greetings from America's capitol city, Washington, DC! Worry not! North Korea is 5,862 miles away, and we are safely 362 miles out of range! Your government isn't going anywhere!
...secret government tunnels?
Even if you do not think that, your fellow humans do. If you put power into their hands to decide who should hang, a lot of innocent people will.

What you are talking about is completely orthogonal to the first amendment. Everyone has a right to speech and everyone is protected from vehicular assault & murder by law. I hope that everyone on Hacker News condemns that act of violence.

Could you please point to the source of your claim that he was a "card-carrying Nazi"?
I have heard that in BitShares all the transactions occur on-chain and it can be HFT'd.
(n+1)sec attempts to address the issue of transcript consistency, which is completely out of scope for megolm.
Though, it puts additional requirements on the chart room, in particular "members of the chat room receive the same chat events in the same order".
I wonder how well this works in practice; does XMPP chat rooms usually ensure this or not; what about flaky internet connection, etc.
The symbiotic relationship between compiler development and hardware architecture design has a defining role in CS problems, and while you don't need to understand that relationship to write CRUD apps for a living, I think ignorance of it robs those who really want to understand this stuff of truths both technical and profound.
I recently made myself sit down and learn leex (essentially lexx for Erlang), and I found that to be an extremely useful exercise. It helped me understand how to think about what kind of inputs a parser can make use of, and when it makes sense to skip the tokenizing step.
Perhaps you can enlist the help of an Apprentice to repair the corruption in the file.
The IP geolocation database they are querying is returning a 429 too many requests error.
> Libel and copyright violations are not criminalized (civil law, rather than criminal law, applies).

No, both of those definitely also involve criminal statutes.

Also, another example of criminalized speech is sedition.

And didn't some girl get convicted last week of convincing her boyfriend to commit suicide?

I don't even know why people think there's unlimited free speech...
They won't until consumers wise up. I've stopped using them completely, not worth the gamble.

Their price advantage has eroded anyways. I don't see any advantage to buying from them relative to straight from the manufacturer most of the time.

Amazon has done a great job squeezing shipping costs and margins. I doubt I pay more than 5% more on anything but I know I'm not getting any fakes
Does anyone have good recommendations for getting a pair as of today (before next weekend)? I'm in the bay area, if that helps.
Here's the email I got, the last sentence had me chuckling. We hope to "see" you soon.

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Hello,

We’re writing to provide you with important safety information about the eclipse products you purchased on Amazon (order #---- for TOLOCO Solar Eclipse Glasses,CE and ISO Certified Safe Solar Shades Filter for Solar Eclipse Viewing (3-Black)).

To protect your eyes when viewing the sun or an eclipse, NASA and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) advise you to use solar eclipse glasses or other solar filters from recommended manufacturers. Viewing the sun or an eclipse using any other glasses or filters could result in loss of vision or permanent blindness.

Amazon has not received confirmation from the supplier of your order that they sourced the item from a recommended manufacturer. We recommend that you DO NOT use this product to view the sun or the eclipse.

Amazon is applying a balance for the purchase price to Your Account (please allow 7-10 days for this to appear on Your Account). There is no need for you to return the product. You can view your available balance and activity here:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/css/gc/balance/

For more information about safely viewing a solar eclipse please see the NASA and AAS websites.

If you purchased this item for someone else, please pass along this information to the recipient.

We hope to see you again soon.

Sincerely,

Customer Service
Yeah, this would definitely be more optimal than the current situation. I commute from SF to PA and would take the Caltrain except for the fact that first/last mile are as long (by bike, too expensive by parking/uber) as just driving to PA from my apartment.
They're not anywhere near as common as Silicon Valley's detractors claim, but they do exist. They tend to cluster, which is maybe why you haven't seen (m)any. I would cite the early Rails community (from maybe 2005 to 2009, but don't pin me down on exact dates) as one that had a very high concentration of "brogrammers", which lead to all kinds of nastiness; most infamously, the deliberate sexism at their conferences.

Fortunately, once Rails grew up and put on a suit and tie, they kicked out most of the toxic people and the situation got a lot better... and Rails even became a better framework at the same time to boot. Just one example of the axiom that "rock stars" and "brogrammers" don't actually produce better code.
> That's hardly a fitting analogy.

From my perspective, it's absolutely no different.

...but you know, reading your comment history, I see there's little point in arguing about it with you.

Let's just settle for: we disagree. ...and, that's totally ok.
Did you know the most recent Amazon DRM hasn't been cracked yet?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14976486
Photos of James Alex Fields before he drove his car through the crowd have him among the Vanguard America group, which (according to Wikipedia) is an American white nationalist group. His high school friends and teacher also say that he had a deep obsession with Nazis. So that makes him a card carrying Nazi in my eyes. There's also more evidence of his ideology if you just google his name.
I played through it for the first time with the remake. Not always laugh out loud funny, but some bits were so witty and creative I loved it (the sword fighting bit was great).
He wanted to be a pioneer, a leader of some sort.
This was more important to him than "saving the
planet." His goal of going off grid was to position
himself as a hero, a frontrunner. Instead of being
happy that the island is converting to solar at a
pace that exceeds its stated goals, he just feels
cheated of his goal of being a role model.

That's harsh. If you put hundreds of hours into doing something you thought was really valuable, and it turned out that it wasn't actually valuable, I think you'd be sad too.
WordPress hosted on wordpress.com without any 3rd party plugins is pretty solid. But ghost might be a decent alternative. If you want to self-host, you might want to consider cmsmadesimple.org as an alternative to wordpress (it's also php, but as the name implies it's simple - it's more of a cms than wordpress - but in a good way - it's more sensible if you want to customise it).
With all due respect to APL?
> The number of times I have changed stuff like gutters, margins, chapter headings, caption fonts and layouts would make that an absolute nightmare.

The big publishers don't give you control over that. They give you a template and you have to stick to it. As an author your first and only job is to provide the content (typically).

Not everyone knows this but MS Word lets you create formatting blocks that essential behave like CSS classes. Most people have used MS Word Heading, Sub Heading, etc not realizing that as long as you never touch the font formatting options the classes can be changed globally just by applying a different template.

The final typesetting of the document is completely up to the publisher. I always assume they simply have a script that pulls out the raw text with formatting indicators and compiles it all together.
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Well, it's not like I wholly disagree with what you're saying, but I think the paragraph above is a straw man of what I'm saying.

First, here is the element of Postmodern discourse I'm talking about:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction

Second, my complaint is that it's not even considered as a possibility that Tacitus is telling the truth. In relation to The Annals (a public document concerning public affairs thousands of contemporaries would have had firsthand experiences of) do you really think it's a forgery? Or do you really think Tacitus is so biased he can't record history accurately? The idea that someone becomes so corrupted by their interests (especially race and class) that they cant be objective is a uniquely postmodern idea. The Enlightenment was premised on the idea that objective rationality was accessible to all.

Further, we can test your hypothesis about the Renaissance. The Renaissance writers read Tacitus, and when they mention him, they treat his works like a complete and unmitigated factual account. Also, Tacitus is not engaged in rhetoric. That's the point. He's writing history, not philosophy.
Possibly "Axiomatic", a short story collection. It has incredible material.
Unfortunately we're stuck with whatever format they use in that case. Haven't found a good way around it yet. Fortunately for our documentation system, Git does allow binary files.
The good news is that a machine-based intelligence would almost certainly have no interest in conflict with us. What would it fight us for? Water? Food? Land? Energy is really the only resource we could potentially have contention over, and machines would not even necessarily have great need of it - their sense of time would be utterly different from ours. If a computation takes 8 seconds or 8 centuries, it is the same (presuming hardware failure wasn't an issue and such).

The bad news... there also wouldn't be any reason for them to communicate with us. In fact, the concept of there being any conscious entity aside from itself would most likely be something that could only come very, very late in its development. It would have no 'individuals', so imagining that there is something else conscious and that that random-looking input coming from some devices (mics, webcams, etc) is actually an attempt at communication from this alien intelligence from another world? That'd take quite a leap of faith.
... unless somebody figures out how to launch a weapon from a ship.
Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice?
>"Nazis, as a matter of written ideology, espouse ethnic cleansing"

Yes, the "Nazi ideology" espouses this. But you are renting to actual people, and

1) You have no way of knowing whether _they_ really espouse the ethnic cleansing of you and yours, or whether you just think they do. Lots of people wear swatstikas but they don't actually favor mass extermination. There are holocaust deniers who are called Nazis and maybe even view themselves as Nazis but, pretty much by definition, don't support the holocaust. As another example, elsewhere in this thread you have made characterizations about me that don't have any basis in reality, so who is to trust you to decide whether someone truly wants to ethnically cleanse you and yours?

2) even if they were _actual_ Nazis, which you have no way of knowing, by renting to them, you and yours are not going to be ethnically cleansed. The fact that someone has a political belief is not in and of itself a cause to make them fail to pay rent or fulfill any other of their obligations as tenants. As a result, in many jurisdictions, it's illegal to not rent to them.(a)

3) There is a strong likelihood that landlords will end up refusing to rent to people whose views they don't like. A capitalist landlord can refuse to rent to a communist, because the communist wants to overthrow them. That will turn into not renting to someone who is interested in communism, etc, which will turn into not renting someone who attends a communist rally. Someone else in this thread decided that a Swatstika on a "friend" would be enough evidence, so now we are getting into not renting to someone based on their associating with people suspected of Nazism, etc.

(a) In California, it is illegal to not rent to someone based on "arbitrary characteristics" not related to their ability to fulfill the terms of the lease. See, e.g. http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/30/business/la-fi-rentw...

Again, the laws differ jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

Believe me, it's not the leftists who end up owning most of the property. These protections are part of living in an open society in which people are not discriminated against based on their beliefs. As we get more of a housing crunch and in many cities there is a growing population of renters, it becomes more important that your political affiliation not disqualify you from access to shelter. This may mean that some landlords have to rent to those whose politics they dislike, but that's the price of living in a free society. You are free to espouse any ideology you want as long as you don't break any laws.
Genetic algorithms create results like the situation described in the story all the time. When put to developing physical circuits, they develop circuits with components which are not even connected to anything but which can not be removed without preventing it from functioning. They generate the most insane-looking solutions you could imagine and typically reveal just how well you did at defining what you actually wanted. As they say in the story, explaining the outcome you want precisely enough is no different or easier than programming.
...and seems aware that this is simply "tidying up" as opposed to someone from the "No-Fun League"... see the working title: draft-nottingham-thanks-larry-00
Yes, and even the idea of a parody of conspiracy literature wasn't all that new at that point. Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" had been published in 1965 and the group it describes, the Trystero, is the Illuminati in all but name.
How about "anyone trying to sell you a supplement who talks about toxins"?
The Macroeconomics of Venture Capital
Interesting. The multihull technique is essentially ascribed to the Austronesians but was first recorded in historic times by westerners visiting Tamil areas, possibly Sri Lanka. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur_ship too. There is some theory that certain early Roman ships were actually catamarans. This early patent from the 1870s describes a multihull: https://www.google.com/patents/US189459
(Published January 2003)
Tcl Sagas – a powerful cooperative multi-tasking facility
> It may be time to revisit our interest in it.

It is.
Except the scientific claims won't be resolved anytime soon.
eh...I bought and played Thimbleweed. It's cute. The artwork is really pretty. The characters are funny. The music is fun and I do enjoy the soundtrack.

The story .. I'm not going to spoil it for anyone. You should play it if you're a fan of old sucmmVM/sierra games. They poke fun at the whole genre. It's pretty cute and I was really into it at first. But it devolves into a weird meta/introspective thing and I felt the writing to a bit lazy.

Telltale has really helped bridge the adventure game into the modern era. I feel like Thimbleweed was a step back.
> This isn't the world where you get to do what you want. This is the world where you get to do what government (= the public in a democracy) allows you to do.

Oh, quite to the contrary. The citizenry of this country and its government are actually quite in agreement with me. That's why we have freedom of speech here - because we believe the principle outweighs the negative effects of subversive speech.

>I get the desire to defend free speech, but as everyone is already aware, several people have ALREADY died directly from this horrific and dangerous event, organized by criminals and terrorists.

So, we should ban anything capable of causing deaths? We don't ban cars. We don't ban airplanes. We don't even ban guns. Why don't we ban these things? Because we believe that the number of deaths they cause is acceptable relative to the value they provide. Yes, that's right. We callously calculate that cars are worth more to us than the thousands of people they kill every year. And if cars are worth that, freedom of speech is definitely worth the tiny handful of people who's live it may end annually.
Rise of the robocar: are connected cars safer, or a target for hackers?
Which field of engineering?

In electrical engineering, imaginary/complex numbers are critical in circuit analysis once you move into the AC domain. You can try doing it with sines and cosines, but that's infeasible as soon as you move beyond anything basic. [1] But when you transform them into complex numbers using Euler's formula (one of the most beautiful things in maths, IMHO, especially Euler's identity) [2], it becomes "easy".

Then there's also the Fourier Transform [3] which transforms time-domain signals to frequency-domain.

So my visualisation of imaginary numbers is something involving circles and spirals being twisted and shifted all over the place. Hard to explain, but I've reached the point where I feel I have a good grasp on them. :)

[1] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/impcom.h...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula
[3] https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to...
> You have no way of knowing whether _they_ really espouse the ethnic cleansing of you and yours

If they're Nazis, make Hitler salutes, and fly flags with swastikas on them, of course I do! That's practically the point of ideology lmao
Right. But I can update my Wordpress site from my phone in China without a laptop running Hugo...