skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her natural english is actually pretty bad if you check out her reddit comments (which are not as edited):

https://www.reddit.com/user/SexyCyborg/comments/?sort=top.

She admits to getting help with english editing here:

> *As always when my English gets native I had help proofreading and editing. This applies and yes I get frustrated sometimes. Words are still mine. Lots and lots of people have met me in person and verified I am me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cosplaygirls/comments/4ufyy0/sexycy...

She also admits to needing a lot of technical help from other people:

> You know how overseas Chinese students in America all copy each others work to get answers? This workflow scale. How we work when older too. So if I have a question I open up QQ and have a few hundred friends. We all help each other with whatever. Many are engineers or work in factories here in Shenzhen. Most of the electronics in the world are made here and a lot of them designed and engineered here also. So easy to get very very professional help. This network has been called gongkai. Also why so many hardware startup here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/3c9l2m/my_diy_underlit...

But I think it's just an interesting cultural difference. It's not really "cheating" to ask for help. I don't know if we want to start calling everyone using stackoverflow merely "mascots" or "ghost writers".

It's interesting how people would rather dream up a conspiracy theory rather than believe that a woman can accomplish something technical.
Since we're all "That Idiot" to somebody anyways, might as well not worry about it.

Leaves the HR firewall. You undermine that by having somebody on the inside refer you. Or by having a work history that gets you in the door (which, of course, has a bootstrap problem). Or by working on OSS in that field. In other words: Anything that makes you stand out positively from all the other average programmers.
While you're at it, minify all the symbols. That will make it much faster.
That was a good one :D , system didn't even realize its trying to fake too much.
Maybe not enough for Juicero, but sugar is addictive. Their 'juices' had a lot of sugar (via fruit) in them.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210090819.h...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/05/is-sugar-wor...
> "Google is also changing from a corporation to a limited liability company, or LLC."

> "The change helps keep potential challenges in one business from spreading to another, according to Dana Hobart, a litigator with the Buchalter law firm in Los Angeles."

Effectively, I take it this means Google isn't responsible if a self-driving car goes on a Skynet-esque murder spree, nor can their self-driving car property be sold off by the government to pay all of Google's antitrust fines coming down the pipe?
In addition to complaints from disgruntled investors, Morgan pointed
out that the SEC’s whistleblower program could be another source of
an investigation. Through this program, whistleblowers are awarded a
percentage of monetary remedies that are imposed and collected by the
SEC if and when enforcement action takes place.

According to Morgan, some bounties in the SEC’s whistleblower program
have been worth tens of millions of dollars.

“I wouldn’t be surprised, particularly given the difficult nature of
enforcing the securities laws in this context, if an ICO case comes
out of a whistleblower seeking a bounty,” said Morgan.

OH YEAH!
"It worked great for local transportation services, so why could it not be applicable across all types of industries?"

Dit it really work that great for Uber? Are the drivers doing all right? Did the company make the world progress? Is it even profitable? Are the clients happy about Uber's service? These are important questions to consider before trying to replicate their model, and I'm pretty sure not everybody feel the same way about this success.
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Probably worth pointing out that the author of this article has a fairly controversial reputation in the crypto community:

https://eindhoven.cr.yp.to/false-statements-by-henry-de-vale...

Also, I feel obliged to point out two things: firstly, lattice based cryptosystems, SIDH, etc are only conjectured to be quantum resistant; there is no actual work showing that they are any better than traditional cryptosystems at foiling quantum attacks. Secondly, the kind of industrial grade quantum hardware necessary to be useful for breaking our current crypto (using currently known algorithms) is at least 20+ years away. So worrying about quantum attacks is fairly premature, especially in light of the very dangerous classical security problems we've encountered in the past few years (Heartbleed, Cloudbleed, etc).
I'm happy to add any links if anyone has suggestions
I do indent my code, but I very rarely insert syntactically irrelevant spaces. I don't mind if clang-format (etc.) puts them in for me, but I don't add them by pressing keys myself and I don't have a problem reading code that leaves them out (since that code looks just like the code I write myself before I run it through clang-format).

This has long been my habit, since I started out on a computer with 32K RAM, where putting in extra spaces just meant you'd need to use shorter variable names to balance things out.

(Here's a photo of some representative code I wrote for a reddit contest a couple of years ago: http://ffe3.com/pics/.beeb/IMG_1373.JPG - not much different from what I wrote in the early 1990s as a teenager. But I did typically use longer variable names back then, because unlike this case I wasn't concerned about fitting the whole listing on one 40x25 screen...)

Even today, doing this still means fewer L1 cache misses in the scanner.
Soylent? No normal person I have ever met in my life has ever heard of the stuff. Slim Fast — everyone has heard of that, but Soylent? That’s an ultra niche product with little mass market appeal. Is it successful? Sure, but about as successful as a company that produces kits for growing orchids. The whole concept of Soylent is essentually Ensure for Hipsters. Even the name sounds like some kind of cyberpunk cliché.
The counterfeit pair probably had a more reasonable frequency response than the genuine product it was trying to imitate, so much for Beat's famous distorted bass.
I'm no crypto expert, but why is this sort of defense-in-depth not more widely deployed? It seems that standard practice is to choose a single cipher for a message, rather than multiply enveloping the message in different ciphers, perhaps employing different fundamental crypto ideas, so that some future compromise of one of them may not necessarily reveal the plaintext of the present message.

Obviously performance considerations may answer this in many, or even most cases, but this seems to be the practice nearly always.
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The hardware is where the magic is not the software.
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That's completely dependent on the format of your infrastructure. There is no answer that will fit everybody, and asking around for advice of strangers may even bias you in a damaging way.
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I agree Blue Apron is equally ridiculous and I totally agree that Juicero marketed to the wrong crowd.

Juicero was too visible in high-standard markets and thus became an easy target. Whereas Blue Apron flew under the critic radar (mostly in Facebook mom feeds) before gaining enough market share for consumers to shrug off ridicule
Yup. My first textbooks I sold on half.com. My last textbooks I sold on Amazon marketplace.
Why is it strange that "cost" and "trade offs" aren't mentioned?

Personally, I never even expect to find these words in any text unless the author is either an economist or writing about something ostensibly associated with economics.
> Worst was, um, a "non-feminist" Wordpress blog to support his claim of men being labeled as "misogynist and whiners" when men complain about gender issues. (https://becauseits2015.wordpress.com/) I can't even find who the author is here.

Iffy log aside, aren't men who "complain about gender issues" typically "labeled as 'misogynist and whiners'"? Admittedly, that's just how sexist men have typically labeled women who complain about gender issues as haters and whiners. But still, polarization is not helpful.

Also, I'm not, by the way, endorsing any of Damore's references. I'm pointing to the tone typically seen in responses to such arguments. It's too bad that these issues can't be discussed without all of the polarization.
> If you have trouble understanding this point, look at another country besides the US when thinking about it.

More than a little patronising, and also: really??
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Having been in professional sports: You always work at the edge of your range. You compete relying on the work you've done all those times before.

You cannot develop when you're within your comfort zone.

And the same goes for programming. You must go outside your comfort zone, or you'll stagnate. One of the poor souls who have 20 years experience, but alas the same year 20 times over. You grow because you failed. Over, and over, and over.

If you code at the edge of your range? More senior people will help you get things into a better shape. You don't have more senior people? Don't worry, you'll learn to refactor what you created. You'll curse your past self, but you'll learn :)

If you play it safe, you'll burn out from pure boredom.
Err, if this is not clear to you. You can setup a charity and get a tax deduction in the year you set it up without actually allocating the money.

Now that it's in the charity it's not your money in that you can't legally use it on a night out.

So, there is a very big difference in donation = tax deduction, allocation = no additional tax deduction.
I wonder if you could "blow a hole" through the atmosphere (very briefly) and send your real payload after. Sounds absurd, but then so did Orion. I expect you could only manage a transient rarefication behind a rapidly-slowing "rabbit", alas.
> It would make more sense to create intermediate governments with power over metro areas

California has both counties and regional Councils of Governments (ABAG in the Bay Area for example.)
Many of the latter of which are also (federally mandated) regional Metropolitan Planning Organizations.

So regional governments already exist, though they aren't directly elected.

> Sacramento, and then larger ones for the central valley

Sacramento is not only part of the Central Valley, but if you take out Sacramento's metro area, the Central Valley isn't even a contiguous region.
Wasn't there an embedded JS implementation where whitespace slowed down code execution?
They say they did that and it turned out to be a pain.
It doesn't compile though -- I hope.

I'm pretty sure C keywords require a space on either side...
Giving people money they did not earn will have exactly the same effect as giving people paper fans, bottled water, rain ponchos, etc.

The given commodity becomes an oft-wasted resource. (i.e. inflation is a result.)
Interesting project, but I feel like it's asking too many things upfront. I'd rather just put my email, the description of problem I need help with, and hit send.
All of those are pretty much influenced by your stack.
If you need a highly reliable software, you would be stupid to write it in Python.

You are right that nobody will care if you use them as excuses. But that is not what the GP said.
Also itemized deductions are phased out as your income increases.
So many people taking it seriously. I have never attempted to commit anything to the kernel, but it seems like a tough crowd in some areas.
Math: Still Not Everywhere
Nah, the artificial intelligence will rule the world. What use for puny human leaders does an AI have?
Android Oreo's Security Improvements Will Have a Lasting Impact
Semi legal in the UK. They operate as 'escort agencies' where the agency just provides a girl to escort you as it were for a limited fee and then if you want the other services you pay the girl in cash which is legal in the UK. But for the agency to take a money directly for sex services would end up with prison time.

the_stc might consider something like that? It reduces the legal risk.
Arkema backtracks, refuses to provide chemical inventory to the public
Two NYC startups I've worked at have bonuses in the contracts. 10/20% based on performance with modifiers each way.
As a digital nomad, this "dark pattern" has proved very useful for me a lot of times. It is a worse experience to check a place and when you look again it is not available anymore.
Hi! Is this limited to U.S. citizens only, or people with existing work authorization?

Would the USDS consider foreigners who don't have a work visa for the U.S.?
You should qualify what you mean by "artificial sugar" and why you believe those are "bad" and fructose is "good". Sucrose, the most commonly used table sugar and food addictive, is a mix of glucose and fructose, and occurs naturally in plants (like sugar cane).
AI researchers answer 169-year-old chess puzzle: ‘It can’t be done’
Yes, similar to how SpaceX isn't liable for Tesla.
I tried to book a holiday last year and had the feeling basically all booking sites are broken.

No where did anyone show me the real price of what I was buying.
The premise of the story is that you want to deliver an MVP. Your premise is that side-projects are a nice way to geek out on tech. Both are valid, but you have to make sure what you're trying to accomplish before spending quality time with rabbit holes.
Ironically there's a series of Russian dive watches that does approximately the same thing.

Instead of attempting to overengineer a high-depth tolerant system that's still sealed in open air, it's sealed more tightly as pressure increases.

An elegant weapon from a less civilized age.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amfibia#Design
Yikes, it's not often you find a whole order of magnitude in the couch cushions. Good catch!
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There's definitely some interesting math going on. For example, max aerodynamic pressure happens immediately, on launch, with each additional millisecond decreasing stress on the payload.

At high enough speeds, does the atmosphere supercavitate? Could you use a double-shot, with the first projectile basically ablating away and creating a "wake" for the second to fly through?
I see, that makes much more sense. I wasn't entirely sure what was meant by that statement.
Some links on previous discussion that I'm aware of:

- Barany's original post on Scientific American Guest Blog: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mathematicia...

- Thony Christie's responses concerning Barany's interpretation of history of mathematics: https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/some-rather-strange-... and https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/a-spirited-defence/
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> I'm just going to tell you, OP, and everyone who agrees with you right now: fuck off. There's nothing inexplicable about a woman being able to use tools. The fact that your comment was voted up to the top in this Hacker News submission says a lot about Hacker News itself. Go feel shame, because you deserve it.

Regardless of what your opinion is of anyone on this forum, using profanity is inappropriate and uncalled for.
Women in tech: There are 3 times more male engineers to females in India
Sincere props to Michael Dell and other very wealthy individuals who are donating generously, but it raises the question of why this sort of gesture is even necessary in our society.

Making people financially whole and getting them back on their feet in the aftermath of a disaster of these proportions should be handled by insurance, and when that falls short, the government.

The problem is not that the money is private, but that it's donation relies on the compassion of individuals, not on laws.

If that's not the case and these donations are a tiny portion of the funds for the relief effort, then why do we make such a big deal about them, when there are probably a lot of other people who have donated a similar percentage of their (much smaller) net worth?
The Sile PDF says

> There is no shortcut for boldface, because boldface isn’t good typographic practice and so we don’t want to make it easy for you to make bad books.

Where/what is that from? Like is that common "knowledge"?
A writer can have lots of poetry, personal expository essays, journals, unfinished drafts lying around OR s/he can "ship" a best-selling novel, publish a high-traffic blog or something.

There are also writers who can do all of these: my personal favourite is Robert Graves (possibly because once many years ago I got him to autograph his Selected Poems and his memoir Goodbye to all That).
It seems you think we disagree? We are both in agreement. (and, yes, the article asserts that attacks against Kaczynski's credibility arose from hypocritical or idiotic critics having to simultaneously merit his ideas and defend orthodoxy, leading to well-poisoning attacks). I think attempts to discount him as schizophrenic are bullshit, that the paranoia he experienced was clearly rational because it was obvious that he would put himself into the crosshairs of law enforcement/a huge adversary, and that to evaporate his responsibility because of hearsay diagnoses would be like a priest condemning an atheist as an evil witch to be burned at the stake for the reason that there would be no reason for anyone who understood the consequences of religion to willingly put themselves into such a compromised position.. if that makes sense.

But, to him, his actions must have been his magnum opus, his number 1 feat, not the manifesto. If he had believed his manifesto primarily would have made his intended impact on society, then why would he have needed to architect his campaign before its release? I can believe he prized his behavior over his manifesto AND also believe that the manifesto has more gravity than, and will outlast in public memory, his deeds. I admit the possibility that he realized he needed notoriety or a skin-in-the-game (I'm not a Taleb fanboy I swear) reputation so as to be worth being noticed..

but it all gets fed back into the spectacle at large, which is what he detested. His plot to weaken technological society's tight grasp on the direction of humanity's potential .. had the effect of fortifying all of the same levers of control: a state of emergency leads to boosting ordinary controls to desperate, extraordinary levels, like an immune response.

And from my armchair it's easy to say this, but an autoimmune response (where social technological controls would eat away at the survival of those controls themselves) wouldn't have backfired for his plan.. But present-day technology/'the techne' hardly finds itself in situations where it mistakenly combats its own self-maintenance, so it might not really be a possibility.. (yet?)
There's nothing inexplicable about a woman using tools.

The main thing I take issue with is someone literally parading a girl around in less-than-underwear for their own profit.

Low profile in their home country.. like showing your face and naughty bits on camera and attending conventions?

Like I said, this really makes no sense when you add things up.

Tools are cheap in China for the Westerner, but not for the average Chinese person (much less that of a girl). Do you know how much a "good" job makes in China? Someone working in a government position with a pension and all makes maybe less than $1000 USD a month.

And a flat in ShenZhen of that size? Also really expensive for the average Chinese to afford.

Edit: I'd love to be proven wrong on this by the way. Bucking this stereotype of Chinese girls all being face-deep in WeChat and food pictures is what China needs.
Stopped reading when I saw the 3d pie chart atrocity. I'm sure the rest is great.
Your defense of Google hinges on them "giving back", including giving "tons of services for free", etc. You seem to equate charity as a key part of "goodness". My point is merely that donations are PR move, and Google's isn't even that impressive considering their peers.

(Especially when you consider that today Michael Dell offered up $36 million... and Google is still in that $1 million range.)

http://paxlicense.org/ is a great example of how Google uses patents as a latent threat. It's "open to anyone", but requires you be shipping Google's proprietary malware on your Android devices to qualify.

You might also note that things like Samsung moving closer to stock Android was coupled with the announcement of a Google patent agreement. While Google's terms with different companies are strictly confidential as part of the terms (Microsoft's patent extortion only became public because some parties refused to pay), they operate very much in the same space.
It's just branding and packaging. If people like buying stuff from a pretty female face, it's not the engineer's sin to satisfy the bias of the customer.
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