skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how any of this supports the point you're making (I believe the point you're making is "mentioning a traumatic event is as bad as causing the traumatic event" and/or "[these people are] authoritarians who want to remove all wrong think from the world").

If the point you're making is "I don't believe the concept of LGBTQIA+ and allies should exist," then yes, there would appear to be authoritarians who want to remove all wrong think from the world....
Thank you for the follow up. I have a better sense of what you mean now.

Part of me still thinks "professional" means "don't upset the status quo", but I will continue to think about it.

You mentioned "irrelevant commentary". That made me think of what US employment law refers to as "bona fide occupational qualifications" where employers are allowed to discriminate based on gender, race, religion, etc. It is not workplace harassment to see pornography in the workplace if one works as a video editor in a pornography studio. Pornography at the workplace, therefore, is not an unambiguous sign of unprofessional activity.

Now, some software is designed such that the humor will offend some people. The first one that came to mind is Leisure Suit Larry, which is a mild example.

Can something like Leisure Suit Larry be developed as a public FOSS project, in a professional sense? Absolutely.

But in that case I think there is a bona fide requirement that participants understand that certain jokes are acceptable.

My view is that since 'professional' seems so contextual, it seems better to explain the specific context (as you did - thanks again!) than to say something isn't professional.
Happens with the better ones as well, it's just a matter of setting the torque limiter of your screwdriver/coordless drill to match the job. Sometimes takes a few mistakes, but it's safer to start with a low setting and adjust up until you have the right torque for the screw.
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The article itself uses the word “science” only once: it concludes with “[…] there’s no science behind the secret sauce.”
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See "The Psychology of Espionage and Leaking in the Digital Age" [0] from the CIA for more on this. From the paper:

> What Causes Someone to Spy or Leak?

> "Crises and vulnerability together intensify emotions, undermine already compromised judgment, and galvanize impulses to seize opportunities to obtain escape or relief through ill-judged negative conduct. People in this state are ready targets for manipulation and recruitment for espionage. They are also primed for behavior such as leaking, if they believe it will bring them respite and reward."

[0] [PDF] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
> No new car should enter the intersection when the lights turn to yellow.

Cars will obviously enter the intersection under a yellow. It's why we have a yellow.

Even if everyone wanted to stop for every yellow, at 35 mph with average reaction time, cars will travel a minimum of 100 feet after the yellow phase starts. Some of those cars will enter the intersection.

With a typical 4 second yellow, some drivers don't even choose to stop for the first half of the yellow, of course.
I see the results of these consultant-driven places everywhere and, everywhere it’s like they all used the same consultant in a dire bid for relevance. It’s poke-this, quinoa that, avocado toast with a side of “authentic” matcha.

The hell with it. Give me a “voice” — do something with your food. Don’t Kardashianize every damned item.

An example of someone I feel that is doing it right is a guy in Houston named Russell Ybarra. He just started his latest place called Burger Libre — and it wasn’t consultant driven, it was driven by his decades of success with his Gringo’s chain in Houston. The “consultants” are his friends and employees along with actually knowing how to make a restaurant succeed.

Tillman Fertitta is another guy who uses years of experience to create great chain experiences.

The restaurant business is filled with people that have more money than sense. It’s obviously about the food, but it’s about having something to say with the food and experience — and that voice rarely comes from consultants that travel to 20 restaurants in 2 days looking for insight.

The same could be said about startups. Want to make money? Don’t chase yoga pants. Yoga pants follow, they rarely lead. If you are duplicating what’s working with the yoga pants crowd, you are already 5 steps behind.

“Don’t skate to where the puck is, but where it’s going. — Wayne Gretzky” — Michael Scott.
I'm generally very sceptical of "start-ups" and I see most of them as bound to fail, but this actually fills a hole. I think this has great potential to make both money and grandparents everywhere very very happy.
Based on imhoguy's comment, it looks like only corporations (legal persons) count as businesses.
I never said it didn’t exist. I asked for data. In a marketplace as large as Amazon’s finding a single example isn’t indicative of a wide spread problem.
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Original source: https://xkcd.com/1389/
For those that support net neutrality though, the whole point is to keep private companies from being able to control which sites have access to the internet. Shouldn't it apply as much to DNS companies as it does to ISPs?
I stronly recommend the article Equality [1] in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It's a great overview article that maps out the different approaches to equality, how they are incompatible with each other, and gives great links for further reading.

It's not long, maybe 15 minutes, and worth pondering deeply, and repeatedly.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equality/
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Now I'm thinking about schemes where you iterate through lots of different permutations of visualizations, in at least two and three dimensions, and then somehow calculate a score for how interesting the pattern is.

Maybe using a sort of contrast algorithm like autofocus for a camera. If it looks noisy and random, then that's not an interesting visualizations.
They use a lot of AWS services - not just virtual machines

- First they use Ubuntu Linux

- SES (Email)

- ElasticSearch (AWS has their own managed version)

- SQS (queueing system)

- S3 (storage)

-auto scaling

Most of the optimization's they do are standard things at scale where they are tuning by measuring performance.

https://youtu.be/89fYOo1V2pA

and the slide deck from the presentation.

https://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/how-netflix-tunes-ec...

But that's even more of a reason to choose AWS, Netflix has open sourced dozens of tools specifically related to AWS. You get to take advantage of their tools and knowledge.
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The proper term for the first variant is "kill all children", which is equally loaded. Next would be to change kill child to something worse, and go away with master slave.
I'm particularly irritated by the talk of "guests". It's a huge insult to charge guests money for food. If I have to pay then I'm a customer.
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> I exercise my authority over Glibc very rarely -- and when I have done so, I have talked with the official maintainers. So rarely that some of you thought that you are entirely autonomous.

'I'm sorry, did you think you were free?'

Really, the only response to this is to fork the project and start flibc: Free libc.
The other mistake is a menu the size of a phone book. Choice breeds paralysis. And it also drives up food costs.
I did not write this module, but I know the author and we’ve discussed this concept. His goal is to make programming more accessible and translating documentation is just one step towards this. I also know that the current implementation, using Google Translate, is more or less a proof of concept. The ideal scenario would be a help system for Python packages that supports localisation, i.e., provides ways in which people can document their modules in multiple languages, and perhaps optionally defaults to automatic translation for missing languages.

I’d be curious to know what other people think.
Feature for me! Here's a great article about pepperoni curl:
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Perl has decades worth of high quality libraries to do heavy lifting. https://metacpan.org
You can get away with easy scripting for creating significant programs.

UNIX commandline and Perl is a match made in heaven.

Using Golang will demand significantly more effort when doing more complex stuff but will give you concurrency, easier deploys/multi-platform support and better performance if doing CPU intensive stuff.
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That doesn't change the fact that pedestrians are still far more agile than cars.

(Anyone else want to explain the downvotes?)
> The main justification for why it shouldn't be there is that it was offensive.

This is simply untrue; you can look at the patch's commit message and the review thread. The primary justification was that it wasn't appropriate, and the secondary one is that it wasn't actually funny and was tasteless. Nobody said "offensive". You can read the thread yourself.

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00595.html

(The April history shows the conversation between maintainers regarding the patch itself; if you want to see RMS' reply, go to the May index. RMS and Alexandre Oliva, the two people defending the joke, brought up the concept of "offense", and people repeatedly say in reply that they're not offended. Oliva later says he's offended by other people in the discussion.)

Of course, you're also welcome to believe that everyone who disagrees with you must be offended; you're entitled to your opinions.
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I did?
You'll note I didn't talk about the substance of Stallman's arguments. I am not saying he is wrong or right.
I am saying he is probably not a net positive though and that is because of form, not content. His arguments may not be invalidated, they're still not useful if nobody except a few cultish followers listen to them.
Current US poitical debates run in the other direction. Some states like Hawaii and California are mandating that anti-abortion preganacy counseling centers post prominent instructions on where their clients can get abortions.

So there is concern about free speech and abortion but the government is compelling pro-abortion (or at least anti-anti-abortion) speech this time.
For what it's worth, at least one member of the glibc steering committee appears to agree:

"I agree with removing this joke. A bit of humor is fine - indeed, the manual could use a bit more than it has - but this attempt at humor does not work. The manual should be high-quality, and that includes high-quality jokes."

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00604.html
I use Go for what I previously maybe used C for.

Thanks to the quick compile time and good tooling Go almost feels like a scripting language when developing but especially for UNIXy stuff it can't replace Perl for me.
Max Tegmark has put these ideas into a hierarchy of multiverses, where universes outside of the boundary of the observable Universe are a Type I multiverse, and the many-worlds of the relative-state formulation form a Type III multiverse.

http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html
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I understand you must be in USA, but I'm from Canada, and this trend is certainly very popular in most parts of Ontario. In the USA it's also catching on, have a look at Webpass. The Canadian equivalent would be Cloudwifi who offers gigabit service most condos and apartments built after 2005. http://cloudwifi.ca

Oh, on average these next generation networks have much lower latency than traditional cable and DSL lines.
It all depends on who you hang out with.

I move countries a lot, and so my group of friends changes with every move. So something I've realized is that if I have a group of friends who are into getting shit done, such as active enterpreneurs, then I tend to put a lot more time into my free-time projects as well. Conversely, when I have friends who like to spend time watching movies and drinking beer (nothing wrong with that, in moderation), then I tend to get a lot less done.

So the answer really depends on the circumstances.
Trustless gastronomy? :)
let her know what you've done. If she leaves you, then face the consequences. if she still accepts you after what you've done, then make up for that.
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In the states, there's often a 1-second all red cycle to let the intersection clear, because drivers treat a yellow light as a green that's about to expire. Even with this, I often see 2 or 3 cars enter the intersection after I already have a green signal.
He certainly is. He tries to protect the project from morons, which invaded most bigger projects which are not cultured in technical discussions anymore.

Compare that to the education of doctors. They need to persist on proper terminology and are hardened in a long process. PC is absolutely counterproductive there.

Many obviously did not get the reference in this paragraph, but it still relevant, as this episode showed. Abort vs kill is loaded by a long fight, hence the reference about future censorship attempts.
AvaloniaUI is essentially cross-platform WPF for .NET Core. It recently entered its beta phase.

http://avaloniaui.net/

To be clear:

* On top of Win32 and Direct2D for Windows.

* On top of GTK3 and Skia for Linux.

* On top of MonoMac (and Skia?) for macOS.

* Experimental support for Android.

* Experimental support for iOS.

One can see Avalon Studio as a sort of proof of concept, an Avalonia-based IDE for C#, C++, and Core2D development. https://github.com/VitalElement/AvalonStudio
No, but the top guideline for commenting on this site is to be civil. Engage with the views rather than damning the man. Otherwise we end up with an entirely fractured politics and community.
> “Yes,” the strategist answered. “That’s an operational solve.”

I recall several years ago 'ask' being used as a noun (which struck me as very odd, given that 'request' exists and suffices); the use of 'solve' instead of 'solution' seems equally gratuitous.

Has anyone spotted any other similar oddities in the wild? I wonder if it's a trend. One wonders if 'food' will someday just be called 'eat' (yes, there's already 'eats,' which is subtly different) or 'article' 'read.'

Reading the article itself, it's a little amusing how much of this is trend-chasing (European blazers, odd habits of speech, 'lighter, brighter, fresher') rather than trend-setting. It's a bit like a middle-aged dad trying to seem 'hip' and 'with-it.'

Incidentally, the restaurant in question appears to be Pei Wei.
This revolution should have started with mundane tasks, such as city street sweepers and perhaps garbage trucks.

It has. The EasyMile EZ10 (a passenger shuttle) has already been deployed in a lot of places, for example.
> Except that under some theories the net energy in our universe is actually zero. Antimatter+matter = nothing. So the concept of unlimited energy can be acceptable under the rubric that energy in one area is mirrored by anti-energy in another.

No, anti-matter still has positive energy. It's the gravitational potential energy that balances out all of the other energy to leave a total of zero - every particle's energy is cancelled by its negative potential energy of its gravitational field.
> Systems of logic and mathematics have more sharply delimited values for truth or falsity.

Within them sure, but they don't actually exist in a vacuum. It's like saying Sim City is better than the messy real world because it follows very simple rules 100% -- without that messy real world, there would be no Sim City either, the simulation is not really closed off from the physical world surrounding it.

> From a philosophical viewpoint, the danger inherent in the new reality of mankind seems to be that this unity, based on the technical means of communication and violence, destroys all national traditions and buries the authentic origins of all human existence. This destructive process can even be considered a necessary prerequisite for ultimate understanding between men of all cultures, civilizations, races, and nations. Its result would be a shallowness that would transform man, as we have known him in five thousand years of recorded history, beyond recognition. It would be more than mere superficiality; it would be as though the whole dimension of depth, without which human thought, even on the mere level of technical invention, could not exist, would simply disappear. This leveling down would be much more radical than the leveling to the lowest common denominator; it would ultimately arrive at a denominator of which we have hardly any notion today.

> As long as one conceives of truth as separate and distinct from its expression, as something which by itself is uncommunicative and neither communicates itself to reason nor appeals to "existential" experience, it is almost impossible not to believe that this destructive process will inevitably be triggered off by the sheer automatism of technology which made the world one and, in a sense, united mankind. It looks as though the historical pasts of the-nations, in their utter diversity and disparity, in their confusing variety and bewildering strangeness for each other, are nothing but obstacles on the road to a horridly shallow unity. This, of course, is a delusion; if the dimension of depth out of which modern science and technology have developed ever were destroyed, the probability is that the new unity of mankind could not even technically survive. Everything then seems to depend upon the possibility of bringing the national pasts, in their original disparateness, into communication with each other as the only way to catch up with the global system of communication which covers the surface of the earth.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Men in Dark Times"
The format used by Microsoft Office differs from the ECMA spec (how much I'm not sure). By default it saves it in a different format. You have to choose a Strict filetype for that format to be used. Meaning, most files out there don't follow the spec. Further, some bits of the spec are quite strange ("follow the behaviour of Word/WordPerfect"). See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML.
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I've also heard of good and bad stories about Upwork. I think it all depends on how you handle it yourself.

One of my good friends started his copywriting career on Upwork. First projects he did were extremely cheap, just getting some experience. However, he made sure he does the absolute best he can, with every project. So clients were happy and recommended him to other clients. My friend would be doubling his hourly rate pretty frequenly, and eventually stopped using Upwork altogether, because clients would contact him directly, by reference from his previous clients.

On the other hand, I know a person who's been copywriting on Upwork for seven years, and still has an hourly rate of 10 USD / hour, which is just ridiculous.
Honestly cannot figure out who “they” are in your comment. Who looks better in your opinion, traditional marketers or growth hackers? Were you shocked by how good they looked or how bad they looked?

Every time I start to assume you meant one of them, I get nervous wondering if your shock was pointed the other way. Lol.
Well, it is pretty meritocratic in the sense that if you have enough traction, everything else will be overlooked. Pitching/networking are also skills that can be learned and improved, so that's somewhat merit-based.

But yeah, if you don't have some combination of traction and pitching skills, you better have something else going for you. If you don't, you're definitely better off focusing on traction (merit) than trying to play the decidedly not merit-based game of pitching VCs on vaporware.
At the agency level things like this happen all the time. It’s an abstraction from the problem that suggests it isn’t one.

Makes me miss LA.
Thanks for this. I admire ModSecurity! But the subtext of my comment is the needs of typical HN people, most of whom manage applications they wrote, for small companies. Overwhelmingly, those people should spend any time they would spend on things like ModSecurity instead shoring up the security of their code.
Counter-example: Cheesecake Factory famously has phone-book menus, but if you look carefully, you'll discover the same thirty-five ingredients* arranged in a thousand* combinations.

*: No, I didn't count.
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Job postings should go on the 'who is hiring' thread on the 1st of every month.
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Has anyone completed their own patent application - without any legal or professional counsel?

Was it reasonably easy - Or a complete nightmare and not worthwhile on your own?
A log file with plain text passwords can be seen by some employees: maybe they are all honest, maybe not.
I guess that a generous amount of money could motivate the right employee to disclose famous (and not) people's passwords.
There definitely are! Your stuff included! Burp is just the industry standard.
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There is an updated set of lectures from fall 2016 [0]. Although I just noted that it's taught by Joachim Breitner rather than Brent Yorgey.

[0]: http://cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall16/
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This, and accepting that some things we cannot undo, but we can always try and move forward.
Don't do it. The language used in patent applications is its very own special form of legalese. And hiring a patent attorney isn't all that expensive compared to your regular lawsuit legal eagles.
Have you ever sent or received an email using that address?

If so the person on the other end may have given access to their address book/contacts.
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Thanks! Tried adding this to dark.css

@viewport {
width: device-width, initial-scale=1;
}

But didn't work in mobile Firefox.

Seems Firefox and Chrome on mobile handle plain text differently. Firefox shows the text quite small (smaller than if it tried to fit it to device width). Chrome on Android, on the other hand, doesn't seem to try to fit the content at all, showing it at fixed scale which causes additional wrapping to the already 70-char wrapped text we output.

Happy to experiment more with CSS, but ultimately this is simply supposed to be plain text output, so optimal readability isn't really the goal here - although would be nice to improve it. :)
I was amused that one of the first responses was to criticize the projection he chose. There's one in every crowd.
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