skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone else using the terminology, perhaps the first line of the Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas), or Collins (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/america)?

"USAmerican" - like U.S.A but with American replacing the A. Variations expected.

>America tends to have indicated a shortening of The United States of America //

To people who assume that it's the only place in America that anyone would talk about.

>Do you believe citizens of this country can't name themselves? //

How many current citizens chose that name; I'll go with none. If you asked the question "what should we name our union of states, one of several unions of states in America" I'd hope most intelligent people would think something other than USA was best.

I'm from the UK (which has a lot of stupid naming too, but that doesn't make USA a sensible name, bad naming elsewhere doesn't make this naming better). But for the purposes of this conversation that probably just counts as "not America" by which will be meant "not USA". /s

/rant
If ride availability has anything to say about it, there are plenty of Lyft drivers in San Antonio. I say "take a Lyft" or "Lyft there" when I talk rideshare. I don't preach it or say "Uber sucks" but when I am asked, I mention that Uber had a crummy internal HR program, has committed multiple shady business practices, none of which I can remember, but I can remember disliking.
Vectors and Beyond: Geometric Algebra and Its Philosophical Meaning [pdf](2010)
I'm currently in the Triangle area in North Carolina, there seems to be plenty of lyft users here.
Exactly, thank you. I wasn't FWIW one of the folks on HN who responded to Dropbox with "but rsync...". (And I was on HN when it debuted!) I did express concern about the privacy and security implications of storing sensitive information with them, and if I remember right, they did have a partial breach early on.

But, they handled it well and they've never screwed over their users and they have partially resolved the long-standing file transfer problem (https://xkcd.com/949/).

So I still have those concerns, but overall it's a great service and I've recommended it to a few folks over the years.

It helps also that there are some open alternatives on the scene now, so if you make Dropbox some critical part of your infrastructure, it's feasible to switch to something else if Dropbox suddenly decides they want to focus only on the smartphone market.

Slack had the ease-of-use and feature advantages -- which I acknowledged -- but it was too young and there were no open alternatives that matched it feature-for-feature. That made it dangerous to rely on too much. i.e., I'd still use it, but I wouldn't make it the de facto communication system for a company.
How to Design a Better Pitch Deck (2015)
The secret behind Instagram watch brands
It's definitely not splitting hairs; steganography and cryptography are quite different things.
Even If the Troll Factory Abused Our Openness Against Us, We Shouldn't Close Up
I believe that heavy moderation is necessary to weed out toxic stuffs.

HN seems to be doing a great job in that regard (in my opinion) and it is a model with which other websites can learn from.
Yeah, I have not found anything that would suggest they are hiring. I would never responded to "Whether it's to say hello or start a brand new project with us. We'd love to hear from you!", I just don't expect that to be serious. I would also feel stupid or looking desperate to answer that, so I would not. I am more comfortable with more formal job descriptions, expectations and such. And male job seekers would not be harmed by clarity either.

I don't know whether I am norm or not nor whether that has anything to do with them. They are small company, there is a lot of randomness in these things, rolling dice and all that. My probably biased observation is that unlike what stereotypes say, men in tech are more likely to be attracted to personally "just fun" feeling ads then women who more likely work in "soulless" medium to large sized companies. May be wrong ...

Also pro-tip: the title is flamebaity. I know that especially on this topic almost everything feels flamebaity, but this one makes people emotional and biased before they even read it.
I don't understand how you can make theories like that from thin air. Have you ever even been involved in hiring in a tech company? I have, and I'll tell you right now after interviewing well over 50 candidates, we only ever had 1 female applicant and she wasn't a good fit for the role due to lack of experience (we were looking for a senior and got a junior). That being said I work with some insanely talented female developers but they're mostly freelance and happy in that role.

The article makes a really solid point - invest in education and get women and minorities excited for the field instead of giving these groups a free pass to a job (see: Google) if you want to foster a healthy community and ensure a better future for everyone.
Note that if you've got options, in 12 months you'll have to pay money to get your stocks. When considering to stay, think also if you'll be willing to invest your money to purchase the stocks in the next 12 months (it might be the case you won't or couldn't buy.)
The other factor is not being shy about banning people. Heavy moderation.
Anyone know why Twitter blocks any attempt to tweet this URL?
Reality is that it would drastically reduce comment trolling, if your real identify was viewable and searchable by all you know.

I don't think it would. Lots of people post horribly objectionable material under their own names on a regular basis, depending on their level of financial security, peer group, and social milieu.

What makes a "normal" person take an alter-ego/view/counter view, solely based on lack of face to face interaction...

Some people are horrible, and are just as unpleasant in real life as they are online.
which is exactly the kind of string symbol the US might use :)
I have a PDP/11-23 in my lab right now. It contains the data and code my former advisor used to get his tenure-track job, as well as an interface to an electrophysiology recording rig. Takes up a good part of the room.

I have no idea where to put this thing, but we virtualized the entire thing years ago and spin up the VM when required.
The issue is that a lot of companies are setting diversity targets that are considerably above the share of said diverse groups in tech. How does my company (on the order of thousands of employees) manage to constantly hire women at 1.5-2x proportional representation in tech?

A: we structure our hiring policies such that it's easier for women to get through the interview pipeline. I'd point out that we don't try to hire unqualified women, but we do make it such that a lot of qualified men don't make it. It's more about raising the bar for men - though plenty argue that this is still unfair.

I can understand tech companies' frustration. They're getting flak for not hiring many women, but people and news outlets rarely compare companies' diversity results with the diversity of tech as a whole. So it kicks off a competitive race where all companies are trying to have 40-60% higher than average representation of women. This is, by definition, impossible so companies end up resorting to changing the hiring pipeline.
Only if you didn't read the article since the author straight up says he checked against US embassy numbers.

"Using data from almost 250 government monitors throughout the country, which closely matches monitors maintained by the United States embassy in Beijing and consulates around the country, I found major improvements."
I would love to see the government attempt to defend such a stance in front of the supreme court. I have a sneaking suspicion there'd be a major judicial shitfit on that.

Chief Justice would probably be all: "LOL, you did wut? ಠ_ಠ"
In a way it is ironic that we went full speed into threads, shared memory and plugins, only to go back into processes, messages and sandboxing as a means to tame multi-core programming and safety.
Version control should be chapter 1!
Lunet – The Beauty of Movies is here!
I was a member there for years. There's a community, which is highly normative, but they also resist implementing threading or commenting by reference precisely to keep the focus on submissions.
This is a new thing (not the means testing but the idea behind it) AFAICT.

It was just assumed that if your parents were above the "means" they would help out any way they could because that's what was expected of them as parents.

College was also seen as an enabler and not an expectation for my generation.

Or...if your parents spent all the college fund sending your sister to UCLA you could join the army and emerge as an "adult" so your parents' income wasn't taken into account and get grants and loans on top of the G.I. Bill.
Excellent book; I highly recommend it.
I’ve filed two radars in 2012 about sandbox issues I was able to reproduce (10729027 and 10729035). They were both marked as dupes and closed in 2012 and 2016, respectively.

I haven’t filed radars about the other issues since I was never able to reproduce them (only received customer reports). I haven’t seen any reports since the release of 10.13, though.

I should probably file radars for the poor documentation and the misleading error message.
TSA makes you empty your pockets when going through security.
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If you find it interesting, maybe you'd like to take a look on the Product Hunt page: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/lunet-the-beauty-of-movies

I'm really grateful for all your feedback and suggestions!
Thanks a lot!

If you've got any questions, I'm more than happy to answer them :)

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True. Here in Europe in general, Lyft is uknown, but, at least here in Greece, everyone sings the praises of Uber, in comparison to the terrible service normal taxis provide.

HN is not only a regional but also an ideological bubble, and it seems to hate companies that are doing well for themselves (except Apple and Musk-affiliated gigs).
> Organic food is not higher quality.

That depends. Sometimes European organic veg is preferable to Chinese industrially farmed veg when your local supermarket offers only those two choices. This is definitely true of garlic: Chinese garlic tends to be notoriously bitter and lack juice, but Spanish organic garlic is very sweet, pungent, and juicy. Now, the fact that the European organic choice was made according to the limitations of organic farming may well be irrelevant to its goodness, but there is a strong enough correlation with quality to guide consumers, and it was likely chosen by your supermarket as an alternative to the Chinese imported product precisely because they wanted to cover the organic segment.
I just use JQuery and a few other libraries as needed as I use ASP.NET MVC so that takes care of the backend, no need for ugly, complex JS, keep it as minimal and simple as possible. If things need to be done more intensely in front end I use Knockout which seems to be very good at what it does and doesn't muck it up by offering more than it needs or is meant for.
> can

could.
Mikrotik's good about this, though. I have several Mikrotiks at home (difficult WLAN due to walls etc), purchased by a company that later upgraded to 802.11n-capable APs. Some of what I have is >10 years old. Mikrotik still makes new OS images for them, and they answer support mail without asking me for a customer number, registration or anything.
I find it hard to believe that if you truly sat down and thought about it from first principles for an hour, that you would actually believe that
I think the use case where the per-config-request pricing model could break is with serverless (like Lambda or Cloud Functions or ...). Secret management there is super important, and your solution looks great, except that what makes these platforms great for low-cost deployments is that they "scale to 0" (turn off your instances when there's no traffic), which means that each instance potentially lives just briefly. Since each start of each instance is a config request, that could in some cases become problematic.

That said, at your lowest tier you could have ~20 moments of "booting a new instance" per hour. That's probably plenty for most cases, although you may find users for whom it isn't enough.
The title was worded this way deliberately to bring attention to the issue. It's unfortunate that it gets a barrage of downvotes before people even click and read it.
>Reddit... does it know it's job is to prevent outraged reaction? //

Ha, ha, ha.

Cause that'll increase pageviews.

Outraged reaction is exactly what all news media is going for because people rant and rave and in passing see more adverts. It's just they want to sanitise the topics according to their advertisers wishes.

Reddit doesn't have non-censorship values, it's heavily censored; not all from the top admittedly, but the sanitisation that's gone on in the last few years is huge as Conde Nast have moved to make it a more tempting platform for advertisers.
Your question is very myopically mid/large city centric. Think of it in the context of someone without a smartphone or money - particularly low income neighborhoods.
Also, SA's userbase consists largely of older, tech-savvy people. It's been around for nearly 20 years now and I bet their registration peak was ~2004 (:files:). So it's pretty likely that the median age of a poster there is ~35-40.

I'd totally pay $10 for a less shitty reddit clone.
All of my friends in the states take Lyft. My friends in other countries use Uber.
That’s an ineffective target at best, and you’ve misidentified the objection. Nobody’s “triggered”, they’re just rightly pointing out that it’s a stupid title.
I called it "Super niche" as a nice way of saying "borderline useless for most people"
https://github.com/keith-turner/ecoji/blob/31e543511004597bd...

this is in the standard library as https://golang.org/pkg/io/#ReadFull
Wooga uses Erlang on the server side.
I can't wait for the word "toxic" to drop out of favor. It implies that the person is not just giving a bad opinion, but is in fact fundamentally flawed and dangerous. Arsenic isn't toxic because it had a bad day at work, arsenic is by its nature a deadly poison and you can't change it, only avoid it. The vast majority of people labeled "toxic", though, are just humans with a variety of opinions and beliefs, some you may agree with and some you surely disagree with. They may change these beliefs, but not by being vilified and told they are intrinsically bad.
Must be nice to have the freedom of disposable income.
Making mastodon gummies, Geltor is recreating a truly paleo diet
golang is a great middle ground; it defaults to safe (but might be slow if you do something the wrong way), it can be fast if you avoid costly mistakes (the syntax tends to help you remember what you're actually working with as a data structure so costs are mostly upfront), and if you /need/ to get fancy and know exactly what you're doing you can use the unsafe library to work with pointers (or interface with other libraries; if you're not sure if they're safe to execute concurrently (most state based systems aren't) there's runtime.LockOSThread() to pin that thread's actions).
Because facts can upset some people.
A deist creator explanation is equally untestable, but is probably less parsimonious than a multiverse explanation.
>This is about combining a cryptic shell language with a lousy build system macro syntax and semantics.

Get over the shell part. You don't have to use Unix shells.

>As I wrote many times, I do actually know Make and have read much of the manual. Can't you believe me?

If you think the macro names are somhow cryptic, no I can't believe you. There are only a few of them to remember.

>Now I can't parse this sentence, but I sense that it's not a polite one.

You were complaining that languages other than sh integrate with Make worse than sh does. What integration do you need. The integration with sh is pretty much limited to some predefined macros such as $(CP) and $(RM).

>Oh, come on. I do not want to put in so much work (it's not a one-time thing - you have to do that every time you transfer a list) for such a poor, fragile result.

Then define a function to do it. Surely you know how to do that as a mighty python programmer, right?

>I do not want to mess with Make at all. This should not be news.

Your complaints about make make it seem like you think that when using make you have to do everything with it and shell. If you don't want to mess with make then mess with python.
The transition from CRTs to LCDs didn't happen at the flick of a switch, it happened gradually. The signals between the computer and the display remained the same, based on standards maintaining backward compatibility.

I don't know if gamma was a happy accident or a result of clever engineering, but it has a benefit even today. The eye's response to light is not linear, and a gamma-corrected signal has nearly even steps of brightness between each of the 256 levels. A linear signal does not, and would require more bits for an acceptable display.
The conventional way to look at it would be to call rotation ciphers toy ciphers. They ostensibly depend on a key (the rotation) but fall apart trivially even without them.

I think the point downthread, about cryptograms being designed deliberately so that unrelated readers might eventually have some hope of figuring them out, adds nicely to the definition.
The random sampling algorithms described on the page are very closely related to the technique of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding in data compression.
looks very nice but I have to ask - it says you not live yet but then you have all those logos of known companies in "used by" section... can you elaborate?
Works for me, wait... are you from sophos?
> The government harrasses minorities and progressive groups with this kind of tactic far more than it does white middle class folks

How did progressive/conservative turn into minorities and "middle class white folks"? I'm in no way sure that progressive groups face more scrutiny than conservative groups, especially given some of the really odd and extreme conservative groups out there. I say this as someone that considers themselves a staunch progressive (if moderate liberal).
AFAIK you're correct, a vertical handle is an affordance to that indicates a door should be pulled, but the reason is mechanistic. A crush of people will open the door with a push-release but won't with a pull handle - whilst the handle affords pushing some numpty will try and pull it but the people behind them will soon ensure that they push the door, with their broken ribs if necessary.
Can the demand for bitcoin ever be sated?

Given the CAPEX cost of the GPUs, and the OPEX of the electricity someone has probably worked out the rates of return for each of the crypto currencies.

If there’s an expectation the virtual currencies will soar in value why wouldn’t people buy all they can, perhaps to two or three times the cost to mine.
Which book was that described in? I have read only a few of Banks' books (preferred Surface Detail, though The Player of Games was excellent)
America's junk epidemic
> So you're saying that 10% of time it says there's no bug? ;)

No. Recall the wording:
"They said it catches 60% of bugs and has 30% false alarms. Those are different measurements, the sum of true positives and false positives doesn't need to add up to 100%."

Hence (nitpicking perhaps): 100%-60%=40% of the bugs (their estimation) are not caught (false negatives)
The rate of false positives is 30%, that is if a particular code excerpt has no bugs it might be tagged as buggy.

Thus the final error rate I guess is (actual probability of a bug)60% + (1- (actual probability of a bug))30%.
No one will use it. Anonymous commenting is much more fun.
potentially naive question, but doesn't apple encrypt devices? and will my iphone X be good if i refuse to open it for law enforcement?
Note: that relies on doing proper sRGB -> linear instead of naive gamma conversion, unless I'm completely mistaken:

In [16]: math.log2(1./colour.models.oetf_reverse_sRGB(1.0/256.0))
Out[16]: 11.6915341649192

In [17]: math.log2(1./((1.0/256.0)**2.2))
Out[17]: 17.6

In [18]: math.log2(1./((1.0/256.0)**1.8))
Out[18]: 14.4

Although the stuff you will be losing even if you use 2.2 gamma with 12 bit depth should be fairly minimal if I'm interpreting the numbers correctly
I know somebody too mentally ill to keep up a house. Even if you gave him a million dollars and a free place to live, in just a few years it would not be inhabitable because he doesn't have the mental ability to think about getting anything broken fixed.
Being someone who choses to take offense and get upset about every little thing is their problem. Not everyone elses.
All other things being equal, yes. But therein lies the rub (or the stuffing, if you will).

>Are gray turkeys slimmer on average? Worse? Different distribution? No. They are just harder to find.

Who knows? Anyone who tries to find out are hung out to dry. Now I value my precious bodily fluids so I'll refrain from commenting, but I've heard there's been some science done somewhere, once or twice.
I hate Captchas so much that is the best thing I have seen in ages. Thank you so much for this
Why the world of software is about to experience an extinction event
I think you missed the point. It's fine to disagree, but your comments indicate that you don't understand or appreciate the magnitude of Intel's hubris and the inevitable blunder that followed. Intel literally invented the microprocessor. The fact that they let this opportunity slip through their fingers is astonishing.
You still have sybil attacks.
what is the difference between no bs guide to mathematics and the 3-in-1 book?
experimental media is important, and so is a public-media world it can exist in. support shows your local public stations motives other than profit are necessary for culture.
> reddit is a 1960s Playboy magazine fifty years in the future [...] Just like the old saying about Playboy, I only read it for r/ama not the nekkid ladies.

That's a thought-provoking way of putting it, though I'd add the /r/gonewild subreddit and its variants makes it considerably more meta. A lot of people, particularly females, are posting explicit imagery of themselves - revealing a hidden culture exhibitionism as the vast majority of them do it for little profit beyond comments and upvotes. There are people on Reddit who do actually make money from posting explicit content, but the vast majority of users who do it are in it for a sense of self-worth from the "updoots" and the thrill of exposing themselves relatively anonymously.

Taking your observations about advertising into account, it's a complex ecosystem. The closest thing I've seen to Reddit is Usenet, but in a age where digital cameras are ubiquitous.
To be fair and transparent, I have been completely unable to get rid of sweets - chocolates, brownies, cookies. I have made progress, but nowhere near where I need to be.

Then again, life is short, we have to have our little pleasures. Nobody is gonna live forever anyway..
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