skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Game developers get torrents of abuse

I don't believe this is an excuse to treat things as abusive even when they aren't. The person was polite.
Also I have previously looked at these holes and wondered how they manufactured it, and the holes are clearly made in 6 groups with the same angle of hole in each group. This is how you'd do it with injection moulding - a load of pins attached together.

If you were CNC drilling them you'd use a CNC lathe and the hole axes would all be normal to the surface which isn't the case.
They aren’t exactly competing. I suppose Amazon is pretty fine with them using Alexa as they bring it to more homes that way.
> I have to publish my full address on my website according to German law.

Wherever there's potential for legal conflict, there's obviously a need to be able to find out who to sue. Same issue that worries the intellectual property rights lobbyists behind ICANN.

> As a German

Germany, additionally, is keen on knowing who to prosecute over free speech. Probably now an indispensable democracy management tool after having opted to give up on the "German" part of Germany in 2015, I don't see this going away any time soon.
I'm always fascinated by the racial phylogenies created/invented by some people purporting they are fighting racism.
You don't have to have an exit if you're a bit more creative with how you extract money out of a corporation you've set up for that purpose. The most ethical is through getting a solid salary paid out to you. Least is outright embezzlement - find a front who doesn't actually have your real name, convince them that the VCs can't know that this is actually your idea so they have to hide your involvement, and disappear with the cash leaving them holding the bag.
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... and no Italian dish had tomatoes, so the Romans did not eat spaghetti bolognese.

... and no potatoes in Ireland, so no potatoes in Irish stew.

... and no chocolate in Belgium.

... and only marijuana to smoke.
Is it racist and sexist to use private funds in order to counterbalance what is clearly a long history of racism and sexism in preferring white males in VC capital? You might have a point if the gender/racial makeup of founders were anywhere close to that of the population.
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I’ve had success with AirPort Express plus the Airfoil software and playing movies on VLC which less you manually sync the sound. Fiddly though.
That is near impossible, and still gives folks little to no choice in an emergency.

"to keep your child from possibly dying, you'll wind up paying at least $15,000, depending on the diagnosis"

Of course, that last bit was completely unknown upfront. It is hard enough to shop around for non-emergency gall bladder surgery, let alone actual emergencies.
Well it started out as a joke, but then I'm afraid it's starting to making sense.

The blink attribute could be a control structure! Blinking text would only execute when you could see it, so you could write a blinking word "BEEP," and you'd hear it beeping on and off as it blinked!

Or you could change a "DO" loop into a "DON'T" loop by making it transparent.

And you could extend IF ELSE THEN to support a partially transparent MAYBE clause, whose probability of executing was proportional to its alpha channel.

When looking at the FORTH code in Github that Mitch linked to, I realized that Github supports colored syntax highlighting for FORTH! (Or at least it tries.)

https://github.com/MitchBradley/cforth/blob/master/src/cfort...

But it colored the "Primitive control flow words" like if/do/while/etc red by mistake, because it didn't realize that particular code was actually defining those words instead of just using them.

It's pretty hard to write a code syntax colorizer for a language that does't actually have any syntax.
Sounds reasonable as long as you are not lying about what the company does.
If white males were systemically discriminated by their gender and their skin color, a fund like that would be a good idea yes.
Hopefully Elon Musk followers don't insult groups of people based on their shared passion, like you do.
I had that discussion several times. Last time I was told that apple juice is less healthy than apples because of the fibres (missing in the juice).

After I have done some "research" on my own I found out that 100g Apple only contains 1g of fiber, so I guess the difference can't be that huge.

In animal testing it was found that mice who ate a diet that included apples had up to 50 percent less tumors. Now the exact same effect was achieved by giving them apple juice, with non-filtered apple juice being more effective, supposedly due to a higher concentration of Procyanidins.
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Agreed. And I find that not applaudable as well.
I have had at least 3 pairs replaced for free due to them physically falling apart. Sure you could argue I am rough with them but the reality is I don't treat them any worse than other earbuds I have that have lasted years. I still have the ones that came with Galaxy S2 or S3 so I feel Apple's are a bit too fragile.
Wow, this story leaves quite an impression on me on what it means to be a celebrated expert who is quite uncontested. You can basically meddle with the knowledge we humans have on that front and it will take quite a while for people to uncover it. I feel immediately more critical on our scientific and academic leaders and more responsible myself -- despite having no position in academia.
The slowest common lisp I'm aware of is CLISP (used in the Land of Lisp book). I don't even think it is nearly as slow as Python. In fact, even Picolisp (weird, but cool interpreted Lisp outside the Common Lisp and Scheme families) is probably faster than Python, but I've never checked.
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Once we realized he got everything wrong, we went back to the material he used, the specimens he used, the thin sections he used, the maps he used. And we could see that time and time again, he slightly changed this — or let's say he forgot," Ixer told Live Science.

One of these is a far more serious charge than the other. Scientists don’t fabricate data. At least, not if their work matters. And even then, the fabrications are usually discovered.

I guess the article feels strange because it’s stopping short of saying he was an outright fraud, but strongly hints at it. And that kind of conclusion seems to require more substantive evidence than they showed.

Old work is mistaken and superseded constantly. In physics, it’s only possible to falsify a theory, not to prove it’s true. So scientists can only be sure they’re wrong (or approximately correct, if you’re feeling glass-half-full about it).

But creating fake data reduces science to nothing more than an efficient method of converting money into mistaken ideas. It undermines everything science stands for.

Could anyone dig into the paper to find out whether he did in fact make changes to any data? Either he did and was lying, or didn’t and was mistaken. It’d be interesting to know precisely which.
Yep. I used to work for an Apple reseller. We had a good relationship with Apple, but selling a £150 iPod and a £15 case, we made more on the case.

Apple margins are non existent. Companies sell Apple stuff because they have to.
That's not how it works. Supply and demand is a bit more complicated.

To simplify though, services and goods aren't priced purely according to what they cost to produce. You're thinking "the cost of production is the same, but a source of secondary profit is gone, so they have to raise the price of domains to compensate".

But actually the price also depends on what people are willing to pay. And that hasn't changed.
You can't fight discrimination with discrimination. You fight it with equality. Equal rights and access for everyone. Base it on merit, not the color of skin or the shape of the genitals.
It's easy to build one of something. Especially when the engineers building on of something usually build several of 1,500,000kg rockets.
> with left-aligned black text

ugh, please justify !
What about the difference between Fructose, Sucrose and Glucose? Fruit usually has a quite high ratio of Fructose as far as I know. Does it matter? It doesn't even get mentioned in the article.
Thr original Portuguese carne de vinha d'alhos has been modified with local ingredients (e.g. palm vinegar instead of red wine, and local spices) so while the dish is indeed derived from a Portuguese recipe, it's no longer just a Portuguese dish, like everybody will recognize Pizza as bring a typical Italian dish even if you can show that it has deep roots in the Mediterranean cuisine
You could also say:

"If you posted about your nation's situation on a public forum, and the disagreement was with regard to that, I believe it's fair if the government feels your behavior, good or bad, reflects on them. Citizenship is more of a relationship than a right."

Yet, in the West at least, we disagree with this view, that people should be punished if they talk badly about their nation (and the government). It didn't come naturally to this point; it was a huge effort of many activists over centuries to get to that point. And I think the same should be true about employees, and that it's time we have a debate about that.
Yes, it is racist and sexist.
I wish folks would use the taint mode they might already have. At some point taint checking bugs stopped being release blockers in core ruby & perl, but having worked through moving a couple of large codebases to surviving strict taint checking in prod, it's one of the most memorable systematic things we have to avoid (I think most?) of the bugs in the class that this is trying to solve.

Obviously, we want solutions that will remediate existing code unmodified, and I guess enabling taint mode isn't in that category.

I wonder what bugs taint checking wouldn't catch, that this would.
>Also check out private schools.

My understanding is that private (k-12) schools pay dramatically less than (unionized) public schools. I've had family and friends who taught even at very expensive secular private schools, who then moved over to public school because the pay, pension and benefits were dramatically better.

I don't have hard numbers, but my impression from talking with family and friends is that you are much better off as an adjunct at a public college than as a k-12 teacher at even a prestigious private school or non-union charter school, though a union teaching job at a public k-12 school pays better and is much more stable than both.
Upvoted, but citation needed for "the fabrications are usually discovered." Basically the state of any research that nobody has tried to replicate yet is unknown.
... and the -aloo does not imply it contains potato (Hindi).
"figure something out, or die"

The Republican party salutes you, you speak their disgusting and morally bereft "truth" with extreme accuracy.
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I can't help repeat this quote from a previous thread. It's from an interview of a lecturer at the London Business School who appeared on a BBC TV programme about technology:

"...Expert systems are really slightly dumb systems that exploit the speed and cheapness of computer chips...There are many expert systems in the literature which are nothing more than a series of fast if-then-else rules...you do that a couple of hundred thousand times it can look remarkably intelligent"

The interview above was broadcast in...1984. There have been advances since then of course, but at the same time this 30-year-old quote still has a certain ring of truth to it.

Here's the clip from the TV programme featuring the quote above:
https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....
Really caught by surprise by some of the answers here, I don’t mean to offend anyone, just trying to explain why I came to the conclusion I came to.

I think the article is fairly well balanced, giving the fired devs ample space to tell their side of the story, expanding on the dangerous implications of allowing reddit/social media influence the company’s hiring and firing decisions and a short formal statement from the co-founder.

There seems to have been a mixture of bad HR guidelines and naïveté.

I’m frankly appalled that a politely explained, disagreeing opinion, was met with such a toxic response.

As I read the responses I understood the dev to be:

Calling a customer sexist and an “asshat” then explaining that she is free to demonstrate dislike for her customers while speaking about the company and its products and services because she is not doing it during work hours and is using a personal social media account.

I can only imagine what kind of anonymous adolescent vitriol she must have to endure but as a representative of the company she must remain above it.

Should they have been fired?

Not if it’s the 1st occurrence but seriously reprimanded and explained the social media code of conduct carefully.

On the other hand the company has a duty of care for its employees.

Can it not facilitate automatic reporting of abusive messages back to Twitter/Reddit? Hold workshops on how to deal with online harassment?

It seems like it’s a huge issue in the game industry.
Can you elaborate on what you do?
Google Cloud says it is reviewing its abuse-prevention process
Why the downvote ? Posting something 6 times is certainly an information that I, as a reader, would want to be aware of, so that I can have an insight on the motivation of the poster.

Given that HN is more and more the target of subtil PR teams for big players, I wish this kind of thing would be taken more seriously.

It's getting harder and harder to trust anything online, and HN is one of the last place where I get decent content. But the quality is dropping, diluted in well disguised advertisements.

So when a reader says : hum, this is suspicious, instead of downvoting, I wish for the mods to investigate.

If it's genuine, good.
I'm not sure we should be forgetting about the Show; I can't imagine that Amazon wants different kinds of Echo to have different operating systems, and once you've got the screen, it makes more and more sense to reuse your existing systems.
Another common mistake (I'm sure I make it) is to sidetrack and then get lost in a critique of a side track. I often remind myself that first order effects and second order effects do not have equal weight.

I do think many first comment are snark or one uppers but sometimes it's the quick path to a bullshit detecting outcome. Any cryptos deserve a big cluestick whack, many machine learning and AI more so!
Ok, so you confirm that while the standards theoretically exist, OpenID Connect doesn't provide those features from OpenID in practice (where they did make sense for some reason?)

You don't need trust to the domain if you just want "an identity" to recognize a user, which is the use case for many services: basically as soon as you allow e-mail + password sign-up, that's the only thing you get. OpenID did the same.

Delegation is helpful exactly because it is somewhat difficult to implement OAuth nicely. OpenID did the same.

Which I guess answers the original question of "why not OpenID Connect" with "because nobody in that ecosystem cares about those features, even if someone at some point wrote down how they can work".
This will be flag killed, and most people flagging wont read the article.
Only in a historical and societal vacuum is it racist and sexist.
I don't think that's an argument that it is not sexist and racist. It is expressly so. The argument you are making is that it is justified to be expressly sexist and racist to counterbalance past sexism and racism.
Old mate’s been dead for 85 years.

You’d think if someone had a better idea they’d have come forward with it earlier.

I find it hard to believe no one spoke up because old dead guy is so renown.
Technically yes. But since GMail became widespread, there’s a tacit agreement that my data won’t be looked at by random humans.
I live in a city, so it's more convenient. I use it in my small garden so I have the wind and some of the smell
Notice of course that that little stunt resulted in them being removed from everybody's trust stores. And it's not like you can just get away with it these days, since certificates are all publicly logged now.
I disagree. To say something is sexist or racist would imply that the intent is to favor these groups due to a belief that they are superior, or due to a hatred toward the other groups rather than as a strategy to counter the effects of historical racism/sexism. You could argue they are discriminatory, though.
Stating what's obvious by simple definition is something of a waste of time. Or is there a more nuanced difference between racism/sexism and discrimination on grounds of race/sex? Do you have anything to add beyond a simple statement of fact according to your definition? Perhaps a view on whether or not that's axiomatically always a bad thing?
> A quick "Hey, please don't feed these trolls, it makes us look bad" email

I work in games. We get these once a month or so. I don't know if Arenanet sends these kinds of emails regularly, but I suspect they do. Even if you do respond to people online, you always have to take the high road.
But they are discriminated systemically by being rejected for funds set up specifically to exclude them.

I have an idea, let's keep everyone separated by skin tone, gender, and sexual preference. I'm sure this will end well /s.
If the underlying assumption behind the creation of such a fund is correct, the fact that you'd massively decrease your chance of being funded by capital sources outside this one fund.
Maybe they should? Because we currently do not have enough white men who are funded in this area.
When it comes to controversial subjects, I appreciate numbers.

How many women of _all_ races (including white) are even looking for funding?

What if there are 10 white women, 1 black woman and 30 asian women and no other race at all? (Just as a fake dataset to make a point...)

This kind of targeted funding could abjectly affect perfectly qualified candidates just on the basis of race alone.

Isn't that the very definition of racism? Even if it's supposed to fix a past injustice, when does two wrongs make a right?
wow I must have selected an option somewhere to not have reddit's new design because it still loads the old version for me!
It is really not “racist” and “sexist” in the way that GP is claiming. But you’re either someone who thinks all instances of discrimination are morally equivalent or not.
And all the millions of different colors would give people something more aesthetically pleasing to argue about than tabs versus spaces (two other transparently invisible but eternally controversial elements of programming language syntax).
Somewhat related question: I quite enjoy such articles where people take apart consumer electronics, although I don't know the jargon ("an extruded plastic tube with a secondary rotational drilling operation" - wat?). Does someone know accessible resources (as in "no dry textbooks") for mechanical engineering?
Totally aside... I don't really understand why beats gets singled out so often, when it comes to cost of components. IDK, I feel like beats doesn't get enough credit as a company.

First, if you look at a shelf of products (say an airport gadget shop), beats is not the worst value on the shelf. Most beats products are OK. Half the gear (in general) in those shops is crap.

Second, Beats did a good job on "product". They understood what price ranges to target. The understood what each form factor was for, and how to explain this to consumers. Beats' actual competition was earbuds, not alternative "studio headphones." They knew which sound qualities (bass, basically) customers would want, for the music they actually listen to while walking around a mall.

They aren't always the best price performance across categories, but they aren't crap either.

Anyway, the reason I think they deserve credit is not that. They understood the implication of "wearables." They are the ones that managed to build that company, with a foot in fashion and another one in electronics. Part authority on what's cool, part predictor of what's cool.

If you do the bill of materials test on versace it won't go well.

Compare beats as the fashion-tech-wearables brand to all the smartwatch attempts at similar. Beats stands out.
Why is the criteria for determining whether funding is fair centered around a person's sex or ethnicity? Unless the product or service is directed at a relevant demographic, those should be the last considerations on the list.
> MS offers Office 365 Deutschland, which is mostly identical with Office 365 but operated by T-Systems

AWS recently wrote me an email, that because my billing address is in the EU, my contract has been transferred to a newly founded company AWS EU, which in turn has subsidiaries in most EU countries.

I have no significant business with AWS and have not investigated what this all means.

But I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon sees the risk that with the current US administration they don't want to rely on international business anymore. Having only national (or intra-EU) contracts with their EU customers seems just the safer option. Dealing with investments and profits inside a group of fully owned subsidiaries is probably much easier than dealing with two fundamentally different systems in every single customer contract. The EU striving for data-protection and the US insisting that foreigners have no rights and international treaties are bad unless they unilaterally favor the US.
According to the Price in the article, this was her first such offence.

>Price says that prior to being fired, the company had never discussed her social media presence with her or issued a warning for anything she had posted. “If it was covered in orientation, I wouldn’t know. I got pulled out of orientation to jump into rebreaking the story arc for this season of Living World.”
All the lighting in the world won't help you see through mud, silt, and sediment.
I guess we must fundamentally disagree. The decision is based on the sex and race of the founder. That speaks for itself. Justification for it is based on history. All the other dressing up is just an attempt to avoid being labeled a racist/sexist.
What if something else happens during that time?

1k$ surplus income per month on a 18k$ bill means you'd have to forfeit all surplus income for 18 months.

If any other medical emergency happens and you have another 18k bill? Or a car accident (of which there are a lot)? Or car just breaks down? What if you get fired and spend a few months searching a new job?

This isn't exactly financial security with such a bill pending over your head plus numerous other bills being a possibility.
Let's say you write a scheduled job - the auditor is going to ask who gets notified when it fails, how you know they will respond to the notification, etc. Much simpler to just rely on AWS to do it for you.
Good of your country. Many cities in SE Asia have none of three. If you are in upper middle class, you can afford private swimming pool membership. Less then .1% schools have swimming pool. Rivers are polluted enough and have no infrastructure in place for swimmers.
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