skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An internal document leaked that listed the Conservative party's internal investigations into their members' potential scandals.

Micheal Fallon had several items listed, none of which were about kissing a journalist.

Now, I can't guarantee the veracity of that document but Fallon could just be seizing on a relatively harmless accusation to make his exit and hoping that reduces the chances of other things blowing up.

Similar to that Congressman who quit because he'd discussed surrogacy with his staff. But not being clear he'd offered them money to have sex with him.
> When it comes to searching for a job, best to not waste cumulative hours of your life writing material that won't be appreciated.

Cover letters aside, this includes take home assignments in particular.
That's not the whole story. Litecoin has about the same theoretical capacity as Bitcoin Cash and one huge advantage for BitPay's business model: generating blocks at 4x the speed means it's more likely that transactions will confirm within the window they're willing to lock in a price for. (It's also on more exchanges, as I recall.) There's obviously some other reason besides transaction capacity for Bitcoin Cash to being chosen here.

Also, Bitcoin Cash had the annoying antifeature of using the same address format as Bitcoin, probably because it pretends to be Bitcoin, which means it's easy to accidentally send Bitcoins to a Cash address and vice-versa. Even experienced users seem to screw this up occasionally. (This certainly wasn't for reasons of wallet software compatibility; changing the address version number is trivial compared to the other changes required to port even a lightweight wallet.)

BitPay's workaround for this is apparently to use their own address format for Bitcoin Cash which is incompatible with most existing wallet software ("the BitPay and Copay wallets' BCH address format"). Non-BitPay wallet software seems to have backed a different, incompatible new address format as the solution to this problem. Of course, all of the wallet software is still going to happily let you accidentally send Bitcoin Cash to the Bitcoin payment address... it's only sending it to the correct address that may not be supported.
There's some in-between behavior as well. Like where Uber finds a way to programmatically identify drivers that are also working for Lyft via API calls.
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I keep reading that there is an issue with sodium ion batteries in that the sodium ions are larger and tend to change size as they are absorbed by the anode. Which tends to degrade the anode quickly.

Answer might turn out to be never, as with a bunch of replacement candidates for silicon in semiconductors. Most have failed except for niche applications. GAS for radio front ends, etc, others for LED's.
How about asking before kissing? It is not "embarrassing faux-pas" to kiss a woman who doesn't want it, it is violating their personal space.
Australian probe into child abuse attacks Catholic celibacy
I love the idea of disaggregating content production from moderation, they are very different competencies, and these annotate everything approaches are a great way to follow that philosophy. Google Sidewiki was one of my favorite shut down projects, this one looks even cleaner.

I think moderation and community are hard to tack on, though those might be necessary to make these projects as popular and usable as social networks, to get the network effects rolling. Without them this risks becoming either "4chan everywhere," or "your one comment no one ever reads everywhere."

Genius had an annotate everywhere feature that ran into the moderation issue:
observer.com/2016/03/genius-web-annotator-emma-dawson-alana-massey

Probably out of scope for you, just think those are interesting untackled problems in this space.
Two patterns emerge which can be found in many of the stories that one hears about these days.

1. A certain type of man who has developed highly problematic habits in regards to repeated, if not very frequent inappropriate (sexual) harassment, and who essentially has been rewarded for this for a long time.

2. A type of person (mostly women, but as far as my observation goes, this general trait is common regardless of gender) who has failed to speak up and push back, often for many many years - who only now that everyone does it, feels "comfortable" enough to speak up.

As a man I am frustrated about group 1) because they are a pain in the ass to women and fuck it up for all other men, and I am frustrated about persons from group 2) who selectively deny their personal ethical/moral responsibility as adults and their ability to use free will ("I was too feared to speak up")- which they of course in all other scenarios would insist in - when it suits them - but still now, that they finally tell their stories, ask for full retribution.

Fear of losing a job/allies/opportunities for not having spoken up over long amounts of time is not a valid excuse, in my eyes. It's more a sign of lack of integrity. And lack of integrity seems to be the big problem here anyway, for everyone involved.

How many of those misbehaving men could have been stopped from doing what they have done over decades if they'd have received clear, unambiguous feedback on the inappropriateness of their actions, instead of "rewards" for their bad actions? Many of these might be better men today (as long as you don't think they are born that way), and there would not be a need to publicly shame all those men (which will probably come at a cost to society in some form of backlash, making everybody worse off).

Julia Galef just did a podcast interview with Timur Kuran about "preference falsification" which touches on this topic . http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-198-timur-kuran...

I know men who have an extremely hard time to speak up when things happen that they disagree with, and I know women who are very good at clearly, ambiguously showing boundaries as soon as someone attempts to overstep them (note: I am writing here about these sexual harassment cases related professional environments, not about physical attempts of rape). So as far as I can tell, the root of this mess is not a gender-related problem, but a general problem of learned social behavior and compulsive conflict aversion.
'In a statement, a spokeswoman for the DCCC, Meredith Kelly, "Members and candidates must all be held to the highest standard. If anyone is guilty of sexual harassment or sexual assault, that person should not hold public office.'

Their position is clear here: being accused is being guilty.
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Based on the parent url and content I think it's 2005:

http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/20_spring_05/
GET / POST RPC is just as easy to debug, IMO, and with less righteous orthodoxy.
> A financial settlement means that there was some basis to the allegations.

Absolutely not true. Being accused of misconduct can ruin a person's life and it can be better to settle rather than fight it. There are plenty of innocent people who have accepted plea bargains as well.
Having co-participants is not the same thing as having direct opponents.
Most people with reasoned interactions around here want to sell something...
You can either audit something fully or not at all. Your secure enclaves cannot be audited, it would be a pointless task, if you find nothing it just means it could be in the area you cannot audit. if you do find something then it almost guarantees that something else exists in the secure enclaves.
The distill.pub explanation is pretty good https://distill.pub/2016/augmented-rnns/
> For the same reason Islamic extremists shouldn't make you fear all Muslims

Indeed. And by that same reasoning the fact that a small minority of men behave atrociously shouldn't cast suspicion on all men or empower people to overgeneralize about toxic masculinity or rape culture. Nor should being accused of an offense be considered equivalent to being guilty of an offense (as in this case)
Mist crashed only once for me when I run out of memory, "swarm" consumed 15GB of RAM and was killed by kernel. Otherwise it never crashed for me. Mist is on all the time, bitcoin once day for a few hours (3-5hrs), litecoin is on for weekends.
It's progress. Heretofore those who are subject to sexual abuse have been forced to accept countless injustices. Now accused abusers are subject to the occasional injustice.

For an example of worse-than-rough-justice, consider the monumental backlog of unprocessed rape kits in this country.
F-Droid and the Janus Vulnerability
Why does the chilling effect work only against women? Why don't the decision makers at those countless startups, corps and research groups say: "We should probably not hire any men from now on because so many of them are sexual predators."

If you think that would be a completely unreasonable response to #metoo, maybe reconsider your position against working with women in the same light?
If your implicit model for the brain is that "it's a computer", it's moderately unsurprising when your results show computer like behavior.

I think this is useful and groundbreaking research, but when articles use words like "neural circuit" it frustrates me. Circuit is a word with a specific meaning, and to talk about neural circuits seems to be projecting an implicit model that we don't really have justification for. Also the imprecision of the term "memory", in the sense of "this is where a memory is stored" seems also to overstate what is being measured, which is of course, behavior in response to stimuli. That is related to memory in the broad sense, but is it a memory? Is it even reasonable to think of memories as distinct and discrete things?
Couldn’t agree more. I guess this is one of these insights that come with experience ;-)
a raytracer in JS: ~407.3 ms and in WASM: ~87.4 ms and in GLSL: ~0.17 ms

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7k4v5t/a_raytr...
Foobar2k on Windows and Deadbeef on Linux seems to do much the same job of playing music while staying minimal.
Imposters seems to be really old technique - see Trespasser 1998:

"The engine also used two other big tricks to lower the poly count: The most famous was "object caching": While rendering objects, the distant ones would be rendered to a cache and drawn as sprite on a quad. This trick originally resulted in mixed results since the mesh would remain a sprite too close from the player and changed from 2D to 3D in a very noticeable way as see in the two next images" (http://fabiensanglard.net/trespasser/index.php)
Hey, let's be fair. Sometimes they're resentful books about the upper class, by the middle class.
If that's true, you must be blessed with a fantastic group of politicians.
Yup. It's the mechanism behind programming as a pop culture. Kids without a lot of experience are sick of the old way because it's too hairy and complicated, they come out with a fresh new approach that isn't nearly as broadly applicable, then it gets improved until it's fit for general purpose, at which point it's hairy and complicated and the cycle starts again.

I don't think that everything is standing still, though. Usually each successive generation has an edge on the previous one; either the previous generation was constrained by memory or CPU or bandwidth and had self-limiting architecture because of it, or the next generation needs to solve a problem involving an order of magnitude more data or compute and it needs a different approach.

But, of course, not everyone (or, realistically, not many people at all) is constrained by the thing that causes the revolution; people usually just get on the bandwagon because you must, if you don't you won't be as employable, won't be as hip, you'll find it harder to employ engineers to work on your project, etc.
In TypeScript, you can also use an empty const enum to simulate nominal typing for opaque types. It gets inlined/removed during compilation:

const enum _A = {};
type A = number & _A;

This comes in handy for IDs and other primitives shared by multiple complex types.
> If you are a man, treat women just like you would treat men. Most men would not try to kiss another man without asking first.

You realize that most men are heterosexual (or at least consider themselves so), right?

Asking people to treat people of sex that they are sexually interested in as people of sex that they have no interest in is equal to asking people to act as being completely asexual. I sincerely hope that we can end sexual harassment without denying people the right to their sexuality.
Uber used undercover agents, court letter says
left: optimist
right: sceptic
middle: opportunist

Having shitty paradigm is certainly better than having none at all. But at some point we have to evolve.
> A financial settlement means that there was some basis to the allegations.

It means nothing of the sort. It just means that the business decided the cost of fighting the case was likely to outweigh the cost of settling.
No, it's very much not clear. You're reading an implication from a single line quoted from a full email.
Ask HN: What Are HNers thoughts on REST vs. GraphQL?
Do HNers believe GraphQL will become the new REST?

Is GraphQL just a new fad that will come and go?

Are you using GraphQL in production or thinking about it?

If you are using GraphQL in production, what language or framework are you running on? I heard Sangria works well and there's the nodeJS versions.

Is there something better than REST and GraphQL?
I suppose that's a joke comment or political correctness out control.
Asking prior kissing is likely to kill any romance. The question itself may feel awkward (in my anecdotal 4 women survey).
The guy would be considered not confident enough which is good enough reason to be rejected.
Here's a quote from a bestselling non-fiction work, “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.”
Interesting viewpoint. But I am concerned that my mental capabilities can contain every brainfart that a misguided but smart person has.
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Apple vs oranges. Being offered a financial settlement to drop a complaint is the exact opposite of accepting a plea bargain.
You're probably spending too much time reading tech blogs.
Sure, but it erodes confidence anyway. You expect the demo pages for a framework to have been thoughtfully designed.
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I think scraping for personal use (not honorig robots.txt) should always be legal unless you are attempting DOS. You are accessing public information, the server is returning HTTP200 and it doesn't matter if you do so using a browser, phantomjs or curl with -A parameter.

A different situation would be scraping a website to make business. Worst being directly using the data - for example those StackOverflow clones with original data doesn't sound ok to me. I am not sure what to think about bots doing various derived work like stats and analysis. I think that if they are part of a business, making money, it shouldn't be legal unless those request are permitted by robots.txt.
You are defending your discrimination because women are speaking our about sexual abuse? then you call yourself a good guy / ally? lol don't change hacker news

A Cabinet minister is in a huge position of power over a junior journalist and there was a large number of complaints against him including by other MPs
From what I've seen Democrats seem to look at the data and studies on the situation to figure out what works best for the economy and the people. Republicans tend to vote on ideology regardless of who it benefits (turns out it mostly benefits those who sponsor their compaigns, surprise surprise).

As for "voting in lock-step", nope not even close. Good analysis of many major votes here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cantmisslists/comments/7gaq5z/both_... Democrats vote to keep the government transparent, honest and benefiting the people way more than Republicans.
Because the decision makers in those groups are primarily men themselves.

Also: they do not believe the accusations are all genuine.
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You won't learn how to work within a large team or large codebase unless you do it. You won't learn that by doing a CS degree.

I completed a Masters in engineering and at my first job I worked as a tester for 6 months. I gained plenty of domain knowledge which helped me when I transitioned into a Java developer role. I learnt everything on the job. I would think you can too
The core Uber business seems to still be doing well

I wouldn't call a business, which loses billions "doing well".
In this case the author of the article made an incorrect assumption. There was an imbalance of power. Journalists need access to politicians to do their jobs. They need professional relationships, they need to be at meetings and press events.

To an extent they have to humour politicians, and Fallon apparently mistook that for an invitation to kiss her.

The pendulum needs to swing a bit further yet I'm afraid.
BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains
Current events does not make his response unreasonable. Yours neither but if the one doing the hiring is a male, then, guess what.
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Dead people are commenting against Net Neutrality on FCC site
I'm not sure if that is what is happening with teachers. Teaching has been a traditionally female role for many decades now - you guessed it, dominated by females especially at lower levels. I'm not sure that this is a cause of hesitation since there is so much societal baggage that comes along with this.

Nursing has had much of the same struggle, though I think that used to be male dominated and at some point, switched.
Mathematician in Kyoto cracks formidable brainteaser
Having had to go through public interview processes (i.e. not being approached by the company or referred) recently for the first time in a while I can't agree more. Take home assignments are fine _after_ an interview. Companies that send you a take home assignment before they want to talk to you are a waste of time and quite frankly, it's rude and shows a lack of respect. The ultimate insult being not getting back to you even though you scored the maximum on their silly CS undergrad tests.
This is exact what people don't realize would have happened in the US if net neutrality was kept in place. Classifying ISPs as title II would require them to apply for broadcasting licenses just like television and radio must do. What's the problem with that? Since they can't operate without a broadcasting license, the government can now threaten to revoke their license if they do not comply. The government would be able to strong arm these ISPs to remove anything they deemed as unfavorable content or propaganda (fake news?).

Nationalizing the internet is not what we want here. The FCC's main responsibility is to regulate interstate communication. The FTC's responsibility is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly. The FTC has much greater power to fight for consumer protections if the ISPs begin throttling, creating fast lanes, pricing tiers, etc.

The US's media machine has also consolidated, along with ISPs becoming content producers themselves and bordering monopoly status. The FCC just a few days ago announced they will work with the FTC to "return jurisdiction to the FTC to police the conduct of ISPs, including with respect to their privacy practices." [0]

Basically the FTC has more power to prevent and break up monopolies. By repealing net neutrality the FCC is saying they will hear consumers concerns and work with FTC to prevent ISPs from hurting consumers, because the FCC alone does not have the power to do that. It's also preventing the US government from forcing ISPs to comply by threatening to revoke their broadcasting license.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/12/ftc-f...
Do you really want to ask someone if they want to kiss? What are we becoming?

How close are we "Please sign this contract to initiate physical contact"?
The comparison is mainly of interest to people who believe in silver bullets. REST is going nowhere, and is a highly appropriate choice for lots of situations - e.g document-oriented stores.

GraphQL solves a number of different issues and is particularly good on the front end, but the ability to write/update data is more limited.

RPC is still a very valid technology, and suits event architectures very well. It's incredibly flexible, but that means you need to spend more time designing a good API.

Choose the best approach for the problem at hand.
Usually it is the company that has more resources at its disposal, not the employee
This does seem like a more plausible explanation. Bitcoin Cash is worse for their application than Litecoin in pretty much every way: it has slower blocks so there's more chance of the price shifting before the transaction confirms, it has less exchange support, they had to create their own address format for it that existing Bitcoin Cash wallets don't even support sending to in order to ensure people didn't accidentally send bitcoins there, and so on. However, it does have the major advantage for Bitcoin miners that their existing mining hardware can be used for it.
I posted this because I've never used REST and I've been using GraphQL in the last six months. I've found it be to very powerful and has made the web app development a pleasure.

It helps that I'm using Graph.cool for the backend. It handles most of the CRUD boilderplate operations, database and server. I then layer on permissions and serverless functions.

Thoughts welcome :)
If you are so concerned about romance you don't even have to ask with words. Just lean in slowly, so it's obvious what you want to do, and check their reaction.

Tell us, how do you normally determine if she wants to have sex? Start dry humping her because you are embarrassed to ask?
I recently stood up for a female colleagues harassment by their manager. I am male and a few months after I privately reported what I witnessed I started to get harassed and then was forced out.

That was towards the middle of this summer and Ive been trying to land my next job in the same local industry but anomalously am having trouble finding my next gig.

I'm not sure what avenues I have as I should still be working there & in my field, but since I reported a manager's harassment I am a problem that needs to go & am suffering?
Canadians end up paying the same in taxes if you add healthcare coverage costs in the US, and in the end you get a lot more bang for your tax bucks in Canada than in the US.

On NN, it’s even more important up there precisely since there’s little competition.
we really need an order of magnitude before these become exciting enough for people to change what they do, and once you have an order of magnitude on something like this the whole world changes.
Agreed. To me radio is not for _listening_ to music, which is next to impossible due to constant advertising interruptions, shortened tracks etc (there are online streaming stations for that), so getting very good audio quality instead of good doesn't mean much, while being able to sustain partial loss of signal and switch faster from one station to another is much more important to me.
Japanese Monkeys Are Having 'Sexual Interactions' with Deer
How are they different?

Sorry, but I'm bisexual. I'm attracted to both sexes, and yet I can keep from kissing women or men. I can treat both as friends. I can have respect from both. I can ask either sex if they are interested in forming a non-business relationship and then go back to a business relationship if they say no.

I just don't see what the problem is. Don't expect to meet women in public places and men in private ones, for example. IF you won't go out with women after work, don't go with men. And so on.