skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wish I had this professor in college. I had one final exam where due to undiagnosed ADHD I wasn't listening when they announced they had moved the location of the final, so when I showed up to take it, nobody was there. I was not allowed to take the test later. So I flunked out of school and blamed myself, felt like a useless loser, suicidal, for years.
I'm guessing they'll still allow automatic posting from Instagram
> I agree it's unprofessional

No, professionalism is something else. Not harassing people is basic human decency.
It's a problem with how almost every company is run.
The seagulls eat the refuse then comtaminate the water supply with their feces.
It’s more that you shouldn’t use that word in the first place — it doesn’t matter if your friends are gay or not; the fact it’s a hateful insult that tells gay men they are lesser is enough. Imagine the young little gay kid who hears “f\t” screamed 20 times an hour — how will that make him feel for the rest of his life? Are you just cementing in his head that it’s wrong to be gay?

I hate to say it, but the days of absolute freedom of speech may be over. Everything these days is done through a commercial platform, and we’re now saying those platforms have editorial responsibility to monitor that speech (outside of any government mandate so it doesn’t fall afoul of 1st amendment).
Ouch Telegraph?

Remember that the telegraph posted this advertisement

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10210327/McDouble-i...

Google Efficiency Is Everything.

Thats actually data and not some tabloid click bait.
No brown M&Ms
> I am simply surprised they manage to produce anything at all in such a culture, let alone a hit game.

they are lucky, largely. there are enough people who put in just enough work to keep all things happening and there is roughly (my estimate, dont hold me accountable) 50% who are just there doing nothing. you could not do this at amazon or other performance focused companies because it would be obvious after very little time that you are not pulling your weight, but since Riot does not have the same level of management, tooling and insights into employee performance they don't care. the money is flowing in, all good.
AFTER the fbi imaged the drive, so nothing was lost. Unlike Hillary’s email server.
> "A place of work", that's another matter; I agree it's unprofessional. I'm talking purely about videogames and those who play them at home.

At a gaming company where people play the game they make at work, what happens to this boundary?
You have some very very wrong ideas about how the world actually works.
Julia 1.0
And by "electrical outage" you mean more of a end of the world scenario? Because a normal electrical outage is not going to make your Monero worthless. It will have the exact same value before, during and after the outage. You need electricity to use Monero, but that can be also said about any credit or debit card.
No it hasn't, Londinium was abandoned when the Romans vacated Great Britian.
Missing from article:

> The molecule is also highly soluble, meaning it can store more energy in a smaller space. It operates in a weak alkaline electrolyte, reducing the cost of the battery by allowing the use of inexpensive containment materials and an inexpensive polymer membrane to separate the positive and negative terminals.

How much power does it output - it's a new electrolyte for a flow battery, so this means for large systems measured in kW and hundreds of kWh storage.
"You can add your just one little resource, but unfortunately the loading time goes over the limit - you need to identify other resource(s) that can be removed first."
I would suggest reading Sapiens by Yuval Harari to get some more perspective on what the agricultural revolution has done to this planet, and to humans. And for Native Americans just "up and changing their lifestyle"--nothing could be further from the truth. They initially died by the millions from diseases brought by westerns and were then harassed, betrayed, murdered, warred upon, and pushed territory by terrority away from their lands and eventually corralled into reservations.
Just curious - is such toxic culture more common in game-dev companies? Some of us would remember the EA Spouse story [1] - one of the first such public disclosures. Have there been any studies done of the prevalence of such culture across different software dev teams?

[1] https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
I wonder whether designer proteins could one day serve as a battery.

Imagine a species of bacteria producing a self-organizing battery.
if you ban them they stop spending.
> Corporations' main motivation is profit, not improving human rights.

You're not a corporation. Talk like the person you are, not like a corporation you are not, and which has no mouth and nothing to say.
I was exposed to that kind of culture in school/uni, and while I got used to it at the time, I much prefer the slightly more civil relationships I now have with colleagues. getting rid of the toxicity is one of the greatest advantages of professional work life compared to my days studying imho.

I mean the pay is nice too, but it was less important to me before I got used to it. Now it would be hard to give up though ;P
The borders are not really borders, but a slightly larger element (scaled by a relative percentage) layered under the element we want to add a border to. That way, as the device scales up or down, the "border" also appears to scale!
I always phrase this badly the first time around. I don't mind not using cash. I mind when I don't even have the option to use cash.
No, I assure you it’s uncontrollable. There are millions of games played per day on Dota. How do you propose to fairly evaluate each of them?
Funny you mention this, the actual unit would be

Calories squared/(dollar*second).

The article was studied literally yesterday and the conclusion for under 3 minute (prep) meals was that Ramen was number 1. However, I'm considering putting this recipe on the list since its a slow cooker http://www.kidsinkitchens.org/
> Text for those who got Facebook blocked at work

As if his death was not depressing enough, there are still places that do this...
Interesting that this one is doing well compared to the longer in-depth kotaku article a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17710188 - fwiw that piece has since been corroborated by a ton of former riot employees on twitter.

At the risk of sounding overly cynical, this is all true and everyone knows about it, people feign disgust at these articles but we're all complicit and understanding that this is way things are. If people are truly shocked by this I would contend they are either young and inexperienced or incredibly naive. This article will get some discussion going for a few days then we'll quietly return to the status quo. Nothing will change.
You'd complain to HR?

(yes, I know you were originally implying that you'd commit violence, but in a lot of dysfunctional workplaces reporting a manager for something they did will have almost the same negative consequences to the reporter as if they'd just punched them)
One item that has changed how I travel– for the ladies ONLY lol
The best teaching skills are important for each teacher
Seed companies would love it assuming they can get it. Fertilizer companies would hate it. A company that produces both might suffer some kind of breakdown.
Not all people did.
I honestly don't know what the "solution" is. But it is clear from our current trajectory and the willful blindness of the vast majority of humanity, not to mention the politically motivated disinformation campaigns, that we're looking at inevitable, drastic climate change that will almost certainly destroy modern society, yeah...unfortunately.
Just like every other issue in every company ever.
Anatomy of Tik Tok, the Viral Video App from China's Bytedance
The problem is that although regulation may be necessary, the regulators incentives are different than the users. Regulators are rewarded for being overly conservative. If they are making an assessment best on the riskiness of a device versus the benefits to its users, they should say what their criteria are.

Different users are willing to accept different amounts of risk for a given quality of life improvement. Besides differing between users, the tradeoff is almost certainly in favor of accepting more risk than a regulator would approve.
The problem is that your appliance/container will not be allowed to access the AISP-only APIs provided by the banks, unless your client themselves become an AISP.

Not an issue if you're doing screen-scraping though, I agree (although in that case, do you even care about AISP certifications? You can so scraping-as-a-service and in fact there is an entire industry around this already).
I haven't tried to, but I think you'll need a software that can interpret js to interact with FB. Like webdriver, or headless chrome.
Do you think we'd even get to the point where it's being discussed if the tweets were about black people?

Why does the supposed context claimed by the person making the statements only matter when someone goes too far on the left, but not on the right?

Surely there are other potential editors to hire. Are they truly so low on candidates that this is the best person they could find for the job? What does it say about their competence as an organization?
The Jeong controversy blow my mind. Do you really think that she was being serious when she said "white people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins"? No part of you thinks she was joking? Not even as you read the words "groveling goblins"? In reality, she was making a (bad) joke criticising another media figure's perspective that everything is open to debate:

https://www.twitter.com/awprokop/status/1025484876278112261

It's yet another manufactured controversy by the right, and it's disappointing to see so many people parrot it unquestioningly. She agrees that her previous jokes were in bad taste and regrets them. She doesn't actually think white people should live in caves, as ought to be obvious to everyone.
I mean, you would appear to be right. I wont argue the contrary. still, I had not expected it.
Some discussion from yesterdays (slightly premature) HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17719489
But it's apparent that the culture doesn't prevent success even in other industries
The current CEO of S2, Marc DeForest, has said incredibly racist things in the chat of HoN.
> I wonder whether designer proteins could one day serve as a battery.

It occured to the Wachowskis too.
How to study better in your study life
Thanks - I did rather mess things up by omitting that.
Maybe not a battery, but there was research at producing supercapacitors from virus capsids. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4782152.stm
When we run out of oil and natural gas, or at least start having substantial shocks to the supply lines, it will be an absolute Armageddon!

Just in time grocery store inventories and trucks with empty fuel tanks will starve as many people as Haberless crops.

Humanity is much more likely to suffer a huge calamity from lack of fossil fuels than it is to overcome the problem with technology.
I get your point; GO is a low hanging fruit from the marketing point of view: it is a smart business move; because as we all know markets as well as societies have a strong inertia in regard of consumed products. But that doesn't change the technical opinion of the topic and the fact that we are still undeveloped using "C+" (aka go).

P.S. I am being a bit too hard on Go, but my whole point is that after seeing really complete solutions for this problem, everything else pales next to them and that we still encounter unnecessary problems.
The fact that some people consume less doesn't matter. This is a game theory situation. If one set of people reduces, another can increase.

The OP was right. We need to make using less profitable. A carbon tax would be perfect for that, and we could reduce the income tax to offset. We get less of what we tax, so we'd have more income and less carbon.

I actually think international efforts should be focussed on getting countried to agree to swap existing taxes for carbon taxes.
About Bitcoin Transactions
http://asciidoctor.org
Yes, why only last year 95% of it was dead. This is actually an improvement.
Get paid for helping your community
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Yet it could be impeding success, like throwing darts at a board while blindfolded. I'll still hit the board sometimes. So is the blindfold no impediment?
> I can't effectively model this seemingly byzantine architecture; I can't intuit landmarks or similarities from other systems (although I'll admit I've only used Linux, Windows and DOS).

This sounds kind of like Plan9, but that used filesytems as a unifying principle to simplify things. This sounds more like complexity stacked on top of complexity like a house of cards...
Interesting comparison against electric car battery benchmarks where 15% for 150,000km seems to be achievable (if on average 15k is done annually that would be approx 1.5% capacity loss compared to 3% for the new organic battery).
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1110149_tesla-model-s-b...
The problem is that the value of an API is in the fact that it is open as in open, not "open" like "open banking".

An API that can only be accessed by a few huge players is next to useless. Those guys have already figured out a workaround for the lack of APIs, mainly screen-scraping.

However the real innovation comes from small startups, sometimes originating from a one-man side-project - this "open" banking completely forgets that.

And finally, my problem is that it does not even allow access to your own account. Let's forget about accessing other accounts for a second - I just want to do whatever I want with my own account.
So, I'm trading potentially error-prone if statements that are plainly visible in the code for a potentially buggy library whose code I'm not familiar with just for some syntactic sugar?

Sorry, no thanks.
How does web connect actually work? I've never found any description of the method
Jeong's tweets were very, very obviously jokes. To suggest it's evidence of "hating white people" is just parroting manufactured outrage.

In any case. WSJ isn't more objective that NYT. It's just further to the right, which is why it appears objective to someone on the right.
Here's an idea: the gaming community as a whole needs to come together and think of the most offensive insults possible, that do not refer to race/gender/religion/nationality, but rather refer to player skill or the wider gaming culture.

We can have a non-phobic, egalitarian swear-off!
9 clicks to opt out of tracking cookies. Why do these companies bother adding these banners if they're not going to comply with the law?
A woman writes a post saying she’s offended by typical male jokes. The majority of employees are male, but they have to instead adapt to the vocal minority that can’t take a dick joke.

I understand there are idiots but stories like this encourages me to never hire women, because they’re obviously over-sensitive and will at some point write a “I have been offended and this company is sexist” post and nobody will question it since it was a woman who wrote it.
I agree with you. And the fact that this was posted on Tumblr including a Content Warning only adds icing to this ironic cake.

To those who disagree, lemme put it this way: it's not only videogame culture, it is plain old trash talk. Boxing, basketball, soccer, UFC, tennis, you name it, you have it in most competitive sports.

It shocks pretty much anyone who hasn't taken part in a competitive sport/e-sport community before, and find it backwards, but from my perspective, they haven't been socialized in that environment. It's not LGBT-phobic, though many insults come off as that because they've traditionally been insults, that's all.

If the FIBA or FIFA start having mixed gender leagues, the same would happen: women offended when they stopped being oblivious about how men behave in these environments. Actually even in soccer, many women are turned off when they find out female players spend a significant part of the time calling each other b/c* (in some amateur UK leagues at least).

This is just happening with videogames because it happens to be one of the few competitive fields where men and women's ability differs the least, having them playing together more often than most of all other disciplines.
I exclusively use FB, so I had automated posting of tweets (from my kids schools) to FB so I could stay in the loop.

Also at work we Tweeted Facebook activity.

I'll have to use Twitter now instead of just using Facebook. Is the hope from Facebook that people will just not bother with Twitter?

Why haven't Facebook notified us wrt business use that Tweets will no longer be pulled in?
If you're paying with a credit card, dispute the bill. Card companies can actually be quite pleasant to deal with on this stuff, and if you win you'll get your money back and NYT will owe the card company a fee for the chargeback. If you don't win, you'll at least cause the company a headache for their illegal billing practices.
Thank you for your insightful comment.

Specifically your last part sounds like an awesome approach to learn and remember. However, I see a lot of difficulty in sharing the resultant cards and getting comparable outcomes. You probably need to set up the connections first by creating the cards. Simply having access to the cards may lead to people not taking the time and effort to bootstrap the connections by learning about them in a comprehensive manner. Also some organization that works for you may not necessarily work for some other person.

Nevertheless, I am very much intrigued by the potential of sharing knowledge this way. I just think it's not a clear cut and easy problem as one might imagine at first.
>They're only directing their hostility at the ""other"". All this shittiness doesn't affect their straight white male devs (the majority), so they can function just fine.

I don't think that's entirely true. even if they use sexual and racial slurs, it's apparent from the article that they are used as insults directed at each other. I'm a white hetero male developer (not game-dev though) myself, and I'm not sure I'd be able to work in a environment such as the one described for too long. I mean it'd certainly be easier for me, given my biological "fitting in" with the rest of the group. I'd still have a hard time in such a culture.
Why isn’t the “bro culture” being weeded out of tech at the university stage. Bros’ and frat boys don’t make it through electrical engineering; they flunk out, at least from my experience. I don’t work with anyone like that.

What’s wrong with the tech sector when it comes to computer science? Maybe the science is no longer required?
This is not the way things are though. I’m a manager, and I wouldn’t tolerate any of the painted stories for a second. In fact, none of the people in my network, which includes numerous large Scandinavian tech companies would tolerate anything of the sort.

You do see that stuff, of course, but you see it mainly in children aged 10-15, and otherwise only in private, because anyone who keeps it up after that will be unemployable.

If this is commonplace in America workplace, then you truely are an odd country.
Yeah... all I can say is, he doesn’t speak for anyone except himself.
We don’t have to speculate. There was a time before the federal student loan program and tuition prices were roughly 10% of their current price.
I completely agree. Never wanted to say otherwise, just that it doesn't prevent it. I don't think your metaphor is correct, though. Some people actually thrive in this environment (of course most of the time at the cost of others, but let's put that aside - not that it's not a problem), who thrives while blindfolded?
Nice to see this following so soon after the 1.5 release. I'm especially pleased to see the new features around state and timers.
The same way ubisoft moderates rainbow six siege: ban anyone who uses slurs etc very quickly. It's not an unsolvable problem.
A Good Makefile for Go
That syntax is displayed lower down, under "quoted identifier". I think this is an area that "would need more explanation than there is room for". There's also the fact that |white space symbol| and white\ space\ symbol are not actually the same thing.
Well yeah, it's unusual enough to be worth mentioning that a historian is interested in social theory. As an example of the stuff they read that you might not expect.
Looking at this skeptically, given that as she says she put a target on her own back there's not much concrete here about problems she personally faced.

Companies have a culture, it might not be your culture, and it's mental to expect to be able to walk in and attack it in the first six months then everything be sweetness and joy. Joining a gaming company and complaining about female outfits is roughly equivalent to joining the NRA hierarchy and then in your first six months standing up at the AGM shouting about restricting assault rifles.

Asking people about their sex life is dangerous territory but depending on the context people have conversations about that at work. It's probably the worst thing in this article I think and worth a HR complaint.

Other than that it's almost all "I saw men acting the way men do in a very male environment and objectifying/trying to sleep with women." Well yeah, if I joined the NRA they'd be discussing hunting and stuff I don't care about or even find offensive but it's kind of expected.

You can argue that every single company should have an extremely corporate/restricted culture when any talk about the opposing sex is banned, the upside is that people would have less opportunity to be offended, the downside is that you've just substituted a system of state police where people play very Machiavellian games with HR and don't see each-other as humans because the way that they can interact is extremely restricted.

I'm sure if I joined a small enough female-dominated company I could feel really uncomfortable with the conversation topics, and the way that men were talked about. I could then pin my colours to the mast in some way (it's a company making vegan stuff and I stand up and extol meat eating), get quietly ostracised and instead of being horrified by aggression and blunt social nuances, be horrified by gossip and social politicking.

Maybe everything should be completely corporatified but I just find the idea deeply depressing.
You seriously can't think of a single idea for how to ban toxic players at scale?

Start with crowd-sourcing via reports, then pass it over to customer service once a critical mass has been achieved. Make sure one person can't easily create a new account after being banned. This really isn't a new problem, tons of companies of all sizes have tackled it with varying success.
New York City votes to limit ride-hailing cars