skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A friend was asked out on dates, unsolicited, multiple times by coworkers.

It's a little ambiguous in how this is worded whether the same person asked multiple times, or if it was multiple people each asking once. BUT in the former case especially, if you get turned down for a date please respect the other's wishes and do not keep trying, especially at work. It's not cute or charming, it's just disrespectful.
good point. what constitutes a mistake is very different in each genre. and YES, there are mistakes is jazz.
NB, if you are prone to just reading the headline (which I am often guilty of):

“We also only tested these theories on adults, so more work is needed to understand whether a different effect is evident in children players.”
> they’ve found jobs, met mentors and made friends through the community.

I am interested in finding a mentor and a supportive community. Is there a forum like this for general public.
do you think their lawyers and lobbyists would somehow forget, and miss the opportunities to get in some billable hours?
> Like people just bought in, they wont be selling

Is this a serious argument?
Also in the flow camp for our project, I originally chose it over typescript because it seemed to fit in the react ecosystem better, but I've found that typescript has way more typings in their type repo than flow, and sometimes I wonder if the grass is greener on the other side.

I don't mind the "types on an untyped language" situation, it reminds me of C (the original). Any project that gets big enough eventually picks up a few `void*`s.
Ah yes, "it's different this time". Sure, sure.

The reality is that the nanosecond the zeitgeist changes and people start believing that there is going to be an extended period of decreased value in cryptocurrencies then there will be a massive selloff which will just cascade. This is how markets work, this is how speculative bubbles work. Bitcoin especially has almost no value other than speculative investment, it's just a matter of time until the bubble pops.
I'm sure you can google them. Or, if you're in a tech office right now, just open your eyes and look around you for anecdotal evidence.
Its incredible to me that an ad for prescription drugs can target consumers and pay off. I understand aspirin or over the counter stuff, but "ask your doctor about this drug" pays off? How is that reasonable at all.
Overall I feel that this is a good idea. When it comes to harassment, people tend to keep it quiet for various reasons, among them fear and embarrassment. While things have changed for the better recently, any venue that helps people speak up about their experience is a good thing.

Of course like everything else, there are trade offs, especially when this community is female only... While as a male I was aware of the existence of gender discrimination and harassment, I did not realize how ignorant I was of the subject and how terrible the situation was, until I read Susan Fowler's account at Uber. It was a paradigm change for me. How will Leap mitigate from potentially becoming a closed echo chamber? i.e. will this limit needed but hard discussions between the sexes? How does Leap prevent that?
If it is a setting where asking is potentially problematic -- like work -- it is best to either broach the subject more delicately or don't ask unless you are confident you know the answer is yes.

Just asking cold calling style is not the only option for approaching such things.
I'll outline the argument, and let you decide. (I made a lot of generalizations below regarding developing economies/countries, I'm sure I'm wrong in some cases, this is just what I know largely to be true)

>Remember that in many of these countries, most people don't have smart phones, and there's a lot of people who don't even have phones.

Depending on the country you're talking about, smartphone penetration for a lot of Africa is over 20% by population, increasing with increasing wealth or earnings. Cambodia, from your example, has about 50% smartphone penetration and 98% mobile phone penetration.

>Electricity and internet connections are intermittent at best.

Anecdotally, I can report that 3G coverage is ubiquitous in mid-size or larger population centers in Asia and Africa, even in very poor countries. In the countryside, it is hit or miss.

>Good luck convincing Cambodian street hawkers that your magic internet money is better than a good old fashioned Greenback.

I don't think small scale transactions are the use case for developing economy cryptocurrency utilization. Rather, the argument is that households may prefer an alternative to their local currency which allows them to hold liquid or semi-liquid savings. In developed economies we have bank accounts, stocks, bonds, CDs, and many other vehicles allowing for liquid store of value, and we (mostly) trust the government and banking system. In developing economies, lower and middle class households often have only cash vehicles. Some may have bank accounts, but those are subject to governmental whims (see India's disastrous surprise currency change last year) or currency volatility. When possible, many households will hold long-term savings in USD or EUR cash notes, as those are perceived as safe (wealthy households typically do the same, only by having a USD or EUR denominated bank account with a local or, preferably, international bank). Households save up local currency and then change it out for these high denomination USD/EUR cash notes with a bank or money changer. They would not go use $100 bills at the local market for groceries, they would change their currency back to local fiat if needed. Alternatively, they can sometimes transact large purchases with USD or EUR notes for things like computers, cars, property, and livestock.

Essentially, the argument for cryptocurrency as a store of wealth in developing countries is: 1)households would prefer not to hold notes, as they are more easily lost or destroyed than a backup key would be 2)there are fewer transactions to deal with in exchanging currencies 3)remittances are easier and lower cost 4)holding high value notes only works for households of a certain wealth class, cryptocurrencies will allow lower income/wealth households to do what middle-lower income/wealth households are already doing
Is This the Beginning of the End of the Bitcoin Bubble?
2-3 row header in the list of all inbox messages is all Thunderbird needs UI-wise to be accepted.
Ford has already pointed out that some of her claims are verifiably false, specifically the allegation about Argo.AI, which she claims she overhead, but which didn't have that name at the time of the conversation.

While I don't doubt that Levandowski is capable of some of the things he is alleged to have done, and may have done some of the things alleged, the complaint bears strongly similarities to shakedown lawsuits, especially the statement about the BDSM gear. If she truly had factual support for the allegations she made in the lawsuit (i.e., selling chips overseas, fleeing to Canada to escape charges, etc.), she wouldn't need to include embarrassing details like the BDSM stuff. That's the kind of detail you only include to try to force a settlement before discovery/trial.

Given that it's a she said/he said over the phone, it's a trivial matter to match up phone records to prove whether these alleged calls took place. The third parties named in the lawsuit can be subpoenaed (but as non-parties can likely charge the plaintiff and/or defendants for their costs incurred in responding).
These [0] are examples of chord progressions. In other words, progression means nothing more than a series of chords. A "harmonically unexpected chord" would be if the chord progression was playing out and a chord you wouldn't normally hear was inserted. That's it.

Musicians, especially those focused on classical music, are so used to the standard chords that it feels really weird to play a "wrong" chord progression.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YS3YvtY8-E
It doesn't have to even be "underhanded". Libraries like SQLAlchemy overload `==` to return a piece of a query predicate (e.g., `foo == 0` => `WHERE foo = 0`), similarly, if I recall correctly, there's an overloaded `and` operator, which performs a similar function. Because Python is truthy and these operators return objects, I think this may evaluate to `True` without being deliberately underhanded. Granted, building a query predicate `WHERE a = 1 AND a = 2 AND a = 3` isn't a useful thing to do in the first place, but still not underhanded.
It doesn't read like an ad.

It reads like the often repeated (and ignored) experience of women in tech.
He didn't equate them though, that was his whole point.
(gross oversimplification of music theory follows:)

You've probably heard of complementary colors and the color wheel in the context of art. The idea there is (afaik) that some colors are thought to go "better" together and they're used more often together to create certain effects that seem more naturally fitting. If nothing else, there are color pairs used often together, by convention.

Music has a similar construct in chord progressions. Chords (combination of pitches played simultaneously) sound as if they "naturally progress" from one to another when played in certain orders. For example, lots of pop songs will use a I-vi-IV-V progression over and over again, because 1) it's conventional and popular and 2) it sounds "natural" i.e. like it belongs together, the same way some colors might to an artist.

What they mean here by _harmonically unexpected chord within a standard chord progress_ is that they started with a standard, conventionally popular progression of chords, then (I assume) replaced one (or more) of the chords that follow that progression with one that doesn't, which creates a feeling of dissonance since they aren't supposed to belong together, classically speaking.

Hopefully this is an adequate portrayal -- not trained in theory, just a casual songwriter.
Depends on the specific situation. Sometimes it is a damn good idea.
I believe so, if 'a' resolves to a getter. To optimize, it would have to prove that 'a' is a locally bound variable with no escapes or else no functions are called in the comparison.

See https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/09/disabling-escape-anal... for a related bug.
Dropbox's original YC application
I am suffering trough, Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars (currently reading)
Disagree. If you're a web developer, knowing these subtleties could prevent major and time-consuming bugs. The best engineers I've worked with know a ridiculous amount of these kinds of "tricks"--that's a big part of what makes them the best.
> "No new cases of the wild poliovirus were reported in 2017 and there were only four cases reported in 2016, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative."

Other than verified infections, is any health organization able to sample this virus out in the wild as a discrete virus? Even in the US is polio just circulating impotently about us unable to hook-on from all the vaccinated individuals?
Arguably C++ is worse:

class Equal {
public:
template <typename T>
bool operator==(const T& eq) { return true; };

All kinds of equality are possible.
This really sucks. Time for an open source search engine a la wikipedia.
The final paragraph caught my eye also with the "disclosure at this time". Understandably Mill presentations have followed the team securing patents so we may see more details on this later. Not sure if anyone from the Mill team may be able to allude as to when we may hear more about this? I know willvarfar browses HN.
Governments outlawing of numbers has been going on for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
How sustainable is Lyft's pricing in comparison to Uber? I've been getting absolutely dirt cheap Uber Pool fares in the Bay Area. From my apartment to work the fare is often less than two dollars (which is around what BART would cost me), and I've even had fares less than dollar. I would be amazed if this is making anyone a profit, but if the price even doubled I would be way less likely to use Uber/Lyft on a whim.
Oh! A moderator! How nice of you to arrive. No need to worry, I won't be coming back.
Much cheaper than a day's supply of food, not just a bit cheaper. Synthetic stimulants and opioids are about as costly to synthesize at scale as those vitamins or OTC drugs that currently retail for $20 in a big bottle at supermarkets.

You probably still can't get cheap cocaine, since it doesn't have a cheap synthesis route yet, but every major class of recreational drugs at least has potent, cheap-to-manufacture synthetic or semi-synthetic members. In the case of weed it's probably not even worth pursuing synthetic analogs to THC given how easy it is to grow.

IMO choosing to indulge in some of these drugs, without medical need, may be akin to a slow-motion suicide. But I'm not in favor of outlawing suicide either.
> For example they can use it to argue that sending an opt-out mails indicates that you have read the clause. It also indicates that you have read the TOS in general. It also indicates that you agreed to the rest of the TOS. Etc etc.

You could point to this thread, and say "I read a NY Times article a few years ago that said arbitration was shitty Then I saw people saying 'email this address to opt out,' so I did." That statement could also be entirely accurate.
Thankfully, critical and hard is not the same, so I can give them hard tasks that are low risk. And I can code review them and check on them while they are working.

There are interesting tasks for juniors, even easier to find that interesting tasks for seniors, they just don't tend to be large like "re-architecture everything" which should not be task for single person at all. And which is also largely political task (meaning it is as much if not more about negotiating and convincing people).

My experience with younger people is different than yours, clearly, but that might be influenced by how your and my company chooses people and how management behaves. My experience is really that they are very likely to underestimate difficulty and size of task.

The advice that most of them needed to hear were usually brainless easy to me - mostly concerning organization of work and code, when to ask customer, how to refactor safely, that sort of thing. Algorithmic or read-up-on-it technical or math or anything else requiring deeper thinking were things they were good at.
Yup, this is definitely the right mindset to have. I've been involved in crypto since 2013 and I've found the key to making money is not drinking the kool-aid. Sell when you're happy with the return you've made. Investing in crypto is a little like playing poker.
Keep Moving Forward
There isn't a universal authentication platform. Facebook is closer than most. And Facebook is strong for this in the interest of getting something out the door, to be improved later.
Here's a nice example from jazz bassist Ray Brown & guitarist Laurindo Almeida:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUzknDfC_eQ

They created a beautiful medley of Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven and the jazz standard, Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk
I don't work for them, I've been a member for many months now and I'm in lots of other women only communities I would speak highly of, too.
should not your business login be in the database where it will runfaster as SPROCS
Since you mentioned F# above, have you seen Fable?

http://fable.io/
Don't be such a cynic. If you think the differentiator between 1G broadband and a 56k dial-up is ad bloat you're crazy. Significant bandwidth increases enable applications that weren't possible before.

I want that bandwidth to do cool things. And there's nothing stopping you from doing cool things with it either.
Quite simply, if you fail to opt out, you will have almost no chance at all of successfully fighting the arbitration agreement. Period. The Supreme Court precedent leaves little room for dispute on this point. So yes, everyone should follow the instructions and opt out.
It wouldn't be a CDS, it would just be a swap (like a currency swap). A bitcoin isn't a credit instrument, so there's no possibility of default. (Although it's also true that swaps usually anticipate a currency's local interest rate -- what's that for bitcoins?)

And, you probably wouldn't use a swap for hedging bitcoin currency exchange risk, unless you were doing an actual useful transaction where the sources and uses were in different currencies. People with bitcoins are either speculating or taking duration risk approximately equal to the delivery delay of a Priority Mail envelope full of heroin, as I understand it.
>The CPUs that offered string manipulation instructions—for example, Z-80 and DEC VAX—did so in terms of the far more widespread adr+len model.

Hold up, the z80 offered string maniuplation instructions? Using adr+len, no less? You miiiight call LDIR a string manipulation function using adr+len but in practice almost all z80 machines I've seen use NUL terminated strings and something like CPIR to find it.
Because you just read it from a file and don't want to corrupt it?
Thanks for sharing this. As someone who grew up in the 90's I definitely recall the resurgence of WWII nostaglia after Saving Private Ryan was released.
An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor with a Rust backend
Mmm, yeah. And it only took two decades.
I just glanced at the price on a whim today (I don't have any) and am struck by the fact that it's lost ~40% of its value over the last month. I'm no market or financial expert, but that's a big enough loss for those who suffered it to be the only ones still bidding it up, IYSWIM.
Let me tell you a story.

My parents, before I was born, worked as teachers in Africa. They were sent via an agreement of our (communist) state with the Belgian government and were paid "expat" money. Only problem is, they knew that when they came back the government would take all their money (coerce them to exchange it at shit exchange rate, for a currency that was basically worthless). So they invested - they bought stuff. What did they buy? Well, they figured that ivory can only increase in value. So they bought ivory carvings - african art. We're sitting on a bunch of it - except for the artistic/decorative value... the monetary value is zero. Nobody touches ivory. Unless I'm willing to deal with some very shady persons and risk jailtime - I can't turn it to cash.

You think it's unlikely that governments worldwide would ban any given crypto - including BTC? Just watch what happened recently in a few countries....
It's still a very compelling option as a second computer that you'd want to take around with you. I bought one few months back and its powerful enough for common development tasks. Considering that Macbook Pro RAM has been capped at 16GB for some time now it makes sense to buy a powerful PC for running stuff plus a Macbook Air for portability.
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I've studied jazz for many years, and my experience supports your points in your third paragraph. I've heard a lot of questions about the 'wrong notes' when introducing someone to a recording or something. I've also heard a lot of people express the sentiment that they aren't sure a jazz pianist isn't just playing random notes, which I think is in line with the way of thinking you mentioned.
Maybe someone could start a service that automatically opts them out from arbitration clauses. Extra nice if it will send snail mail for the TOSes that require snail mail opt out.
I've worked at quite a few companies in my time, and almost all of them have complete garbage for their internal tools. It's always perceived as "something we need, but it doesn't matter what it looks like" -- but this shows exactly why it _does_ matter. I actually prefer working on internal tools if given the opportunity, because I get to talk directly with most of, if not all, of the users and get real, continuous feedback.
Fortunately there are very few corporations with an interest in fighting an expensive lobbying battle over works from 1923. There's substantial opposition to an extension, something lacking 20 years ago (when there was scant opposition, and the opposition that existed had few financial resources).

Google for example is against continuing to extend it. They have more financial resources than everyone on the other side combined. There is also meaningful public awareness, something almost entirely lacking just 20 years ago.

It's no longer a fight Disney can easily win.
A Thermometer Just Broke at -62°C in the World’s Coldest Village
yes
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/702obx/bitc...
The Design of Software is a Thing Apart
C++ being a dialect of C, you can simply make a a preprocessor macro expanding to i++.

The expression uses the && operator, which is properly sequenced so no undefined behavior occurs in that case.

Though you might think that it's an incredibly bad idea, in fact the C standard library allows the getc and getchar functions to be defined as macros, and in fact they historically have been. Thus something like getc(stream) << 8 + getc(stream) stuffs multiple side effects into the same expression without a sequence point (not to mention neglecting to check the return values for EOF).

Each getc call wants to inspect and increment some buffer pointer, like

#define getc(s) ((s)->in < (s)->in_filled \
? (s)->buf[(s)->in++] \
: __real_getc(s))

We're not okay on account of the ?: sequencing, because the expression (A?B:C)+(X?Y:Z) doesn't sequence A relative to Z; there no sequence point between them. The two branches of the + can evaluate in parallel/interleaved fashion.
> The base model shipped with a 4,200-RPM hard drive straight out of an iPod...A 64 GB SSD option was available for a whopping $999.

$1k is not expensive for a high-quality Ultrabook...In fact, I'm pretty sure the Macbook Air is still around that price. Have laptops really gone up in price since 2008?

...oh wait. A little research [1] suggests that the optional SSD added $1k to the price, bringing the total to $3100. That is and was expensive.

[1]: https://gizmodo.com/345101/adding-a-64gb-ssd-to-the-macbook-...
There's tons of them.

Facebook groups, linked-in groups and subreddits for any discipline already exist and are waiting for you to join them.
At this point, either all of the allegations she made about him are true or he has a very good defamation lawsuit against her. Whether or not the BDSM claim is true, he has an invasion of privacy claim he can pursue.

Time will tell. Most likely, they'll settle for much less than $6 million.
The type of game I think it would be most valuable to test is the realistic driver's-point-of-view car-racing game.

The risk of someone effectively training themself to drive more dangerously seems much more direct than the "priming aggressive thoughts" stuff.
> Whose going to be first to make the 'I always browse the Web with CSS disabled' post?

Is it time for a gopher[0] revival?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
You've never met a "naive" investor.
you will have to add support for the vim/emacs guys, there are dozens of unix zealots still developing like in the ancient days.
Haven't the courts put extra limits on the terms that are enforceable in click-through EULAs? E.g. a court would strike a click-through term where you "contractually agreed" to pledge Facebook all your current and future income in exchange for the ability to post photos of your cat.
Well, all I know it looks like an unstyled web page. We can just guess indeed.

Oh, and their display mode is set incorrectly. It's clearly non-native resolution (blurry text, bilinear "zooming" performed by the display, while individual pixels are in sharp focus) and wrong aspect ratio (the font appears too wide).

Perhaps 1024x768 on a display with 1920x1080 native resolution. Or something similar.