skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The companies can hire whoever they want however they want within the law. They certainly could not hire this bloke.

However, if they want to hire someone who only has accusations against him, I don't see the problem. Businesses can and do hire full-fledged known criminals (typically after they've paid their legal penalty); and this is better for us all then having them uselessly sitting around. Many of them will still be perfectly good workers. Having done something illegal doesn't mean getting ejected from society; being accused certainly doesn't.
The Case Against Reading Everything
I can say from personal experience that I used to seek out reviews on Amazon even when buying goods from a brick and mortar store.

Now it’s almost the opposite. I’m hesitant to trust any reviews on the site and buy goods from other vendors whenever possible.

It’s unfortunate; I hope they can implement some measures to prevent fraudulent reviews.
I'm pretty sure that is new. When 57 released it was possible to remove it from the address bar but not from the context menu of the address bar.
>A 2009 Pentagon briefing summary of the program prepared by its director at the time asserted that “what was considered science fiction is now science fact,” and that the United States was incapable of defending itself against some of the technologies discovered.

Except that, if said technologies are of man-made origin, then the United States is—given its rich history with regards to black aerospace programs—the most likely operator.

Maybe Nick Cook was more right than I've been willing to admit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957586
I left this comment on the site's comment section (apologies if others have already posted these suggestions - I didn't read through all the comments):

Try using fakespot.com or reviewmeta.com. They're both sites setup to try & check the validity of Amazon comments using different methodology - such as how many times a reviewer has left a review, certain trigger keywords known to be used by bots & how many reviews Amazon has deleted from a review by request of the merchant (yes, Amazon will do this!). This will leave you with a much better sense of whether or not a product has been 'review-bombed' or if the company is up to shady practices.
As often as not — more often than not — her state of intoxication is somehow construed as a mitigating factor. "How do we know she didn't consent, but couldn't remember, because she was so drunk?"

And that happens in places where it's prima facie rape to have sex with someone who's too intoxicated to meaningfully consent. How is that not an impossible double standard?
Erm... no. The trouble with video calls is that it's webrtc these days and melting CPUs with their inefficiency. The messenger apps are built on electron, and a unicorns with rainbows IRC client can eat 4GB of memory (yes, I'm talking about Slack). Everything is forced through HTTP. Those were only examples though.
It seems that you have chosen to ignore upthread accusations of McCarthyism by the same author. That's not constructive criticism over tactical disagreements, it's concern trolling.
Perl 6 Advent Calendar: Deck the Halls with Perf Improvements
>Bluedio

Sorry to be a bit of an asshole.

Do not buy Chinese crap. It's a lottery.

My Sennheisers (made of plastic BTW) have been in use since 2014. My previous Sennheisers broke (just the headband) after a couple of years.

Bought $30 Taiwanese headphones, good Amazon reviews, but the headband is too small. And the microphonics is terrible. Sigh.

Recently bought boots, Made in China. Size is about 1.5 units off.

For a certain class of goods and for reasonable price points, you do get what you pay for.
I found the notion of hard carbon : http://jes.ecsdl.org/content/162/14/A2476.full interesting too.
If they had lost all their money and their companies went bankrupt, the american people would've lost all their savings as well. As much as it sucks to have the banks bailed out, it may have been the only way to relief the people and not cause a depression.
Because anybody can accuse anyone of anything.

Look: aperrien raped my sister today.

Why should anybody hire you or work for you now?
SEC, Harvard Law – Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings
NeoPG is a modern replacement for GnuPG 2
Given all the events happening in society regarding sexual assault, I think I need to point out something.

These men who abuse their positions are repugnant creatures.They are worthless animals incapable of controlling their instincts. Grown ass men, who haven't yet learned to control their mind. Somehow they achieved success without any significant strengthening of their mind. Pathetic.

But I don't think this portrayal of all women as innocent angels who these evil men are out to abuse isn't right. There are pathetic men, just as there are pathetic women. It might not be the case here, but women use these powerful men, give them sexual favors, so that they can accumulate power for themselves.

In the case of Weinstein, so many famous actress, kept quiet and let him do what he wanted, simply for the pursuit of fame, money etc, and now when it became safe to accuse him, after they acquired their fame, they did.

Of-course, these creeps are repugnant, but the women who keep quiet, use them and enable their behavior are pretty immoral too.

So kudos to this women for speaking out.

Some posters where saying, that any scientific progress he makes should be ignored, that is pretty stupid. I think the women should name him, so that their will be atleast a social cost for him, if not legal.
This is a complex philosophical essay, not a specific legal or political argument. What exactly would one be "for" or "against" in your mind?

I enjoyed this segment:

Do the fruits of conquest perish by the very completeness of the victory?
I affirm no such thing. As mankind improve, the number of doctrines which are no longer 32
disputed or doubted will be constantly on the increase: and the well-being of mankind may
almost be measured by the number and gravity of the truths which have reached the point
of being uncontested.
Yes, but those tunnels are not as narrow as Musk suggests and have good ventilation and an emergency exit every 100m or so. Source: Swiss that used the said tunnel multiple times.
What if a person has no addiction but just enjoys a joint (or even some cocaine) on occasion, i.e. like other people can enjoy a beer or two at times without being alcoholics? Are they still going to force them through treatment or what?
We seem to have a totalitarian left that wants an intellectual monoculture vs. a totalitarian right that wants an ethnic and cultural monoculture.

I've been rediscovering libertarian ideas lately and realizing in the process just how profoundly and deeply the discourse has shifted toward authoritarianism across the whole political spectrum over the last 15 years. I really blame 9/11. The West lost its collective mind after that event and still has not recovered. Apparently terrorism works.

Economics is probably the other factor. Stocks are up but the street has not recovered. Totalitarian ideas always grow when people feel economically stressed. I think it might even be instinct, sort of like how chimps get aggressive and raid when under stress. Totalitarianism is about preparing to raid the neighboring tribe.
This sounds like the right thing to do. But in practice, a lot is going to depend on how the legal system deals with "dealers".

When you say "drug dealer", most people think of some gangster type who makes a lot of money by exploiting poor addicts. But that's not the reality.

If you use drugs, and you don't have a job, selling a bit of the stuff is the most obvious way to make some money. So a lot of drug users will become drug dealers as well. I think that these people need help as well; putting them in jail doesn't help anyone.

But it can get even worse. Imagine that you are a drug user, and you need some drugs. So you ask a friend, who is also a drug user, if they have any left, and if you can buy it off of them. Boom, they're a dealer now as well.

So in reality, a large part of drug users are going to be drug dealers as well. If you decriminalise drug use, but keep prison sentences for dealing, a lot will hinge on the question what makes someone a dealer.
This gets to the heart of what's so repellent about this grit stuff to me.
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I have some benchmarks of image optimisation tools here at https://foldleft.io/image-tools/
I would say that chart is pretty good proof that decriminalizatiin is NOT the biggest driver of reduced overdose deaths. How do i know? Some of the countries on that list have exceeding low deaths, but have no decriminalized drugs at all.
Perhaps I should have chosen a better example, argument order is just an illustration.

In 1998 the Mars Climate Orbiter[0] failed because of a fairly simple software error - an imperial value was treated as metric causing the spacecraft to calculate an invalid trajectory and burn up on entry to Mars orbit. This bug was not detected in testing.

With opaque types this could never have happened, it would have produced a compiler error long before the bug ever made it into production. They eliminate an entire category of bugs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
My suburban hometown still has $4-5 tickets everyday. ~200k population with quite a few theaters around.
I like nuanced comments and you make cogent arguments. However, I believe that most people in group 1, are in fact aware of the problem of their behaviour and are willingly ignorant of it. This is because if they made any unwanted advances against women, even if the women didn't tell them to stop or publicly humiliate them, they surely ignored or tried to get away from the situation. At the very least the victim did not enjoy it and that is feedback enough. Anywhere in the course of history where there was a stronger party forcing themselves on a weaker party, the pain of the weaker party is visible in plain sight and ignored by the stronger party.

Now the question boils down to whether a perpetrator considers the victim to be a human with a standing equal to his/her own. The answer to that question has been a resounding no, whether it was slavery or war crimes or sexual assault.

To summarize, lack of feedback cannot be the reason, willful ignorance and dehumanization perhaps is and that is something the victim cannot be tasked with rectifying.
>I think it's just a way to funnel taxpayer money

They only spent $22 million on the whole program. Accounting errors in the Pentagon literally amount to trillions of dollars. $22 million is about 20% of the cost of a single F-35. They have much better ways to funnel taxpayer money - $22 million isn't even pocket change for the Pentagon.
True. There’s lots wrong.
Biomolecules are remarkably fast (picosecond timescales) at dissipating excess heat into the solvent, like heat from an excited vibrational mode. In order to cause serious damage through unfolding, I think, you would need much higher intensities than a few milliwatts from a cellphone. Serious local heating requires visible, UV light and above. Sunlight, however, does massive damage to all parts of your skin, including base pair changes in your DNA beyond epigenetics but your body has repair mechanisms, which recover changes and/or destroy damaged cells. Proof of cellphone induced damage would be remarkable.
At least you make sure that they are no monitored by US, in addition to their own government.

TBH, I am so disappointed with US government:

* Cannot take care of its own people

* Initiated wars and instability all over the world

* Cannot find the right leader

* Spying on anyone and everyone

What a fucked-up government...
Not true at all. The amount of goods produced by people in jail is a negligible part of the economy. Prisoners do work, sure, but that's to pass the time.

We imprison far too many people in the US for minor drug offences, but it's definitely not in order to reintroduce slavery...
I was going to switch from Chrome back to Firefox after the Quantum update, but seeing this I've changed my mind.

Firefox is a good browser, but pulling stunts like this make me loose faith in it.

Sticking with Chrome for now.
Creating an API with Golang Gin Framework
Search #metoo on any social media platform and you'll find thousands of complaints about coworkers and bosses. HR departments are in a tough position right now attempting to determine what course of action they should take. Should they take all of these allegations seriously? Maybe they should.

Edit: Since I can't reply to your comment, I'll just say: You're asking for something impossible to provide. I can't post formal HR complaints on the internet. But HR should be taking social media complaints about coworkers or managers seriously and just as valid as any formal complaint. If you disagree with that, you should consider reflecting on just how serious this matter is to anyone that has felt harassed by "locker room talk", comments on their looks, and other crass speech in the workplace.
Will they prevent sensors reporting a single person on the sensor? If not, you can track a person at night, walking alone back home (or NOT going home).

This could be achieved if they wouldn't track exact number, but ranges like: 0-50 people, 51-150 etc.
I think the website is a bad example, but the above characterization of Stallman being a fanatic who is blind to other's needs is not incorrect. There have been multiple cases with him recommending people forgo having working software and hardware if it isn't 100% free. That might be the ideologically pure stance, but it's also massively impractical. As a true believer he just does not understand that the vast majority of the users just want to do work with their equipment, and that choosing to forgo working drivers for some abstract right to modify that 99.9999% of users will never exercise is just utter nonsense.

Also, Stallman is a grade A asshole. I've met him, and he is a deeply unpleasant man to be around.
False rape accusations are a crime. Specious examples of false accusations are a cheap debating tactic. Literally, that is a textbook straw-man.
Regarding 1), certainly it reduces other costs. But the article points out that each additional TBM drive, including those extra costs, adds only about 10% to the overall cost of the tunnel. "The rest is dominated by labor and materials that are insensitive to tunnel width, such as interior lighting and cables."

It then points out that "the actual cost is even less sensitive to tunnel width. The VLHC study only looks at the cost of tunneling itself. In addition, there must be substantial engineering. This is especially true in the places where transportation tunnels are most likely to arise: mountain crossings (for intercity rail), and urban areas (for urban rail and road tunnels)." While on the other hand, the smaller tunnels means more complex junctions, including "forcing underground four-level interchanges".

This helps explain why one small tunnel might cost more than 1/2 the price of a large one.

2) "increased efficiency and automation" are technological solutions. One of the costs is union featherbedding, which is a political problem not easily solved by such a technology solution.

3) "The Barcelona Line 9 doesn’t use the 12m diameter stacked tunnel along its whole route".

The same reference also says "The metro line is almost completely contained in this single tunnel". Certainly if you can get away with cut-and-cover then there's no need for an expensive TBM.

Regarding "why they even digging tunnels, not like there's a mountain between Fremont and SJ", I don't know about that project but I know that in other projects the main options are either surface or elevated trains. Surface means at-level crossings, which are dangerous and stop road traffic. Elevated is safer, though more expensive. Both require condemning expensive land, and people will object to the sound and visual impact, and file lawsuits.

Also, underground routes can usually go straighter.

You asked "actually, why are we even arguing over how some rich dude choses to spend his money?"

We do this all the time.

People complain when the Koch brothers use their billions to help push politics in a direction they favor.

People complain when Bill Gates uses his billions to help push education policy in a direction he favors.

In both cases one of the objections is that money amplifies influence, to the point where one rich person's whims can have more political influence than the serious concerns of tens of thousands of other citizens. Including experts.

It's also a problem should public institutions start to fund projects which are fundamentally flawed.

And finally, I'll argue that your question is misdirected. The article is not about "how some rich dude choses to spend his money" but rather an argument directed to people who have already decided to listen to a rich dude, in order to dissuade them of their enthusiasm.
Great stuff, too bad it doesn’t work on the iPad :-(
I'm really happy to see that Perl 6 has finally gotten to a speed that's usable for applications, not just toy code for personal use. And the improvements are still continuing every week. Along with a reactive distributed service engine (http://mi.cro.services/), it looks like there's enough of a base here to build some really interesting software in Perl 6.
Software development IS a creative process, especially when focusing on code craftsmanship.
Rape is a difficult crime to investigate because by definition it is a he said, she said affair. It’s doubly difficult when the perpetrator is a date or acquaintance.

For the victim it’s particularly difficult as she will generally get branded a slut by the defense. On cross examination, the defense attorney can pretty easily rip the victim up.

Microsoft’s position is unconscionable in my opinion. This wasn’t a frivolous accusation — the victim made a police report and got a rape kit done. The intern is an at-will hire... he could be fired for any reason or no reason. Microsoft HR would probably had fired him if he stole her purse, but instead forced this woman to work in proximity to her rapist and hires the guy. Give me a break.
Reminds me of this (old) issue I recently came across wrt factorial in Julia (just googling to figure out promotion to handle 52! - the trick is using a bigint).

Point being, you're spot on about mixing types and even "simple" functions need not be trivial (for various reasons, eg: factorial of a negative number - might be defined as negative infinity):

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6579
For the most part, they can't, because a new standards body will spin up. The history of WHATWG [1] is illuminating; WHATWG being the community -- of largely browser-makers -- behind HTML5 and other specs that moved the web forward from 2004 to now; notwithstanding how you feel about W3C or WHATWG, it's impossible to deny that once a standards-setting group no longer meets the goals of its members, those same members are likely to go start something else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG#History
> The structure of these posts is usually the same.

> Step one: identify some ill in society.

> Step two: admit that people think technology, and Facebook, might be contributing to that ill.

> Step three: assert that more Facebook, not less, is the cure for said ill.

Genius marketing. Looks like their MAU (Monthly Active Users) number has been declining...

Facebook is fast becoming the MySpace of this generation.
Because then every site would need to include a CSS + HTML rendering library to be executed in this VM - it would be like every site needing to include their JS framework of choice except much heavier.
"It's kind of a bummer to me that the one of the top comments here is about the syntax.

"I get that people have syntax preferences and that there's a certain level of "sniff" test that goes along with these things, but as a fan of programming languages I am always interested in the semantics."

Well, as the syntax commenter, perhaps I'm a bit defensive but I feel like syntax is inherently an important part of what makes a language appealing - features aren't enough. To take it further, I'm pretty sure if you only absolutely only wanted features for manipulating things, you could find those features in some C++ or Java library. Just the Boost library is vast beyond my ability to encompass it but I'd prefer not to be manipulating hundred-line spews of angle-brackets and stuff.

And I, too, like programming language and I feel what makes a language as such cool/useful/etc is that you express a computer's action in a compact, elegant and clear fashion for one's fellow human beings. I remember Steve McConnell said something like "the compiler only has to read source code once but your fellow programmers will need to read it thousands of times".

...it suggests that the designer was interested in the semantics too and that the syntax was a secondary concern

Well, the problem is semantics is part of the user experience regardless of the developers intent. If anything, whenever X is important but X is not a concern of the developers, the chances of X biting you go up, not down.
I hope what China does give people a hint on how they were suffering for so many years already, and can start doing something to prevent their own government one day make those suffering mandatory...
How to Develop Extraverted Sensing
Right, but after 3-4 months of full time use (and it's not hard to use these full-time, since models can take days to train), you've spent more than if you just bought one outright.
I like the idea of having the web just being a static document format with hyperlinks and embeddable objects. No DOM just a tag for some narrowly defined supported formats (eg. .form, .game, .social, .store)
Most of us are on flights today, hence the slow response, but I want to clarify two things:

1. The study is not "still active and ongoing." It was pulled yesterday after the backlash, though that may take up to 24 hours to propagate: https://gizmodo.com/after-blowback-firefox-will-move-mr-robo...

2. Even when "enabled" in the add-on manager, the add-on was completely inert unless a user also manually dove into about:config and specifically enabled a flag related to the add-on. Without taking that deliberate action, it didn't do anything but watch that flag. No headers, no word inversions, etc.

If you'd like to verify my claims, the source lives at https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr, and initialization is controlled by addon/bootstrap.js.

This doesn't excuse our actions, but I hope it adds some context.
We've banned this account for violating the site guidelines with personal attack. When people do this we eventually ban their main account as well, so please take https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html to heart and please don't post like this again.
I see.

I guess I'm just kind of disappointed that never seem to be a good-quality video to look at when we're talking about UFOs.
The funnny thing is that there's no proof that SGD converges to the local minima either.
To be clear, Amazon will remove reviews at merchant request when the review is about FBA shipping. Generally, these are bad reviews. A merchant would not want to remove a good review when the subject is shipping.

"This came really fast!" 5 Stars is not a product review, however a merchant would not want to remove it.
"The box was completely damaged and destroyed the product!!" 1 Star - will be removed by request if shipped via FBA.
As with anything for selling on Amazon, they are not exactly consistent with this policy.
> Cmdr. Dave Fravor was one of the most squared away F/A-18 pilots in the Navy. He is not some conspiracy "nut"...

I see no correlation, implication, or relevance between these 2 statements.