skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and this is important to understand for those who happen to be browsing by: there is a political faction on the internet who really would like people to believe that there is some Huge Controversy about the Contributor Covenant or about any of the principals involved or this or that.

But there isn't. Sure, there are some mad people. But they are a rounding error of give-a-shit and their political position, for it is a political position--specifically, status quo regressiveness camouflaged as neutrality[0]--depends on manufacturing consent that does not exist.

[0] - I have yet to see someone claim that they're "not being political" who...isn't. Or somebody claim that somebody else is "being political" when that claimant is not advocating for some nasty stuff. The world's political and somebody trying to frame "politics" as a negative is trying to get you over a barrel.
Amazon Alexa outage: Voice-activated devices are down in UK and beyond
For some values of 'good'? That's the whole issue.
I'd avoid changing myself over one random person's opinion.

If a large number of people held the same opinion about me, and that group contained numerous people whose opinions I tend to respect and agree with, I might consider the possibility that I'm not perfect and work to better myself.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6787/2017fa/Lecture11.pd...
Can you give more details of "technically died"? Any after-life experience?
Salesforce dogged by protests, leaked emails, and guerrilla blimps on first day
Study was in Finland. How much time people take off presumably depends heavily on national laws and norms around sick leave. Some countries have very generous laws around paid sick leave; others, like the US, don’t have mandatory paid sick leave at all.

Finland seems to be a special case; 10 days paid sick leave for a given incident, but in practice this is improved on by collective bargaining agreements in many trades.
I have been collaborating with a friend on this for the last few years and we are excited to open-source it.

The software is designed with laser cutting in mind. So you can adjust how much detail is included and easily add more buffer to thicken the overall design.

There are two options for exporting:

--- Export one SVG of the whole canvas.

--- Exports in a modular fashion by writing multiple SVG’s. One SVG is exported for each shape # on the canvas. This option is useful if you want to cut out each shape # individually and then physically assemble them all together after completed. So long as you plan with the max dimensions of your work bed in mind, then you can fill a wall of unlimited size.
Not even if it drops down to 0? I'd say it counts as a loss as it goes down, even if you haven't sold it yet. You can't say that you have 3 billion in assets because "in the future it's hopefully rise in value!"
Years, lifetime. If it is so easy to force people to be polite, societies would already taken that low hanging fruit ages before*

*Actually, they do in some societies, such as for example Japan, or my own native Java. People insult each other with more esoteric means instead.
I haven't been following the LKML too closely but I can't recall personal attacks. I can recall people's code and ideas being called shit.
Fancy Bear still Putin out new modules for VPNFilter malware
About 10 years ago, one study set forth an interesting hypothesis: The appendix is a place where "good" bacteria can safely hide during infection. I'm not sure if there's been any work since then to confirm the hypothesis, but it sure is an interesting idea.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/research/17appe.ht...
Oh, heck, I don't know.

Maybe because he realizes he's been pissing in the pool, that others are also pissing in the pool, that nobody should be pissing in the pool, and the first step to creating a social understanding of "don't piss in the pool" is to put up a sign to that effect.

Or maybe it's the evil, mustachio-twirling social justice warriors, somehow hectoring a project worth billions of dollars to its component contributors into listening to little old them. That is equally as plausible.
A bit of math: $3MM x 5% annual return = 150K. On top of that, you could start spending the principal when you get older. Compare that to median household income of US of $60K.
What offensive rules have you faced?
The "Contributor Covenant" is just the method of covert conquest of open source projects by people who have never contributed to them. It's possible to have a Code of Conduct without giving it the power to be a selectively-used cudgel written and pushed by people who want to do just that.

For example, I think the Ruby Community Conduct Guideline is a great document: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/conduct/
I thing it is the second one. I don't see antibiotic helping with that.
> Because then every time you want to tweak all buttons on the site, you tweak it in one place.

What do you do, when the button markup changes? Let's say you need to make all links open in a new window? Then you still need to change 100 buttons. It's even more common for bigger components, like the ProfileCard example. What if the markup of your ProfileCard changes?

Instead of using CSS to define your components, I suggest using some real reusable components, either using templates or JS frameworks (depending on your use case).
I currently work and no, people don’t leave their politics at work. You’ll hear about people’s partners and they’ll expect to hear the same form you, which is now a political matter because some states let you get fired for being gay (sexuality is now political). People will talk about current events, the latest and greatest hit tweets from the POTUS, so on and so forth. Hell I can hardly have lunch with co workers without them telling me how they feel about younger people , talking ethnicity and immigration...

The problem is a lot of “sjw” stuff is basic identity that is considered political. Wanting to be seen as a woman is political to a lot of people, but it’s not seen as political to ignore someone’s requested pronouns. Being gay can be a firable offense with no repercussions in many states, but it’s not considered political to talk about your hetereosexual marriage at work. The definition of “bringing politics to work” is inconsistent except to consistently inform minorities that trying to achieve equal treatment is political, but continuing to contribute to systematic erasure of minorities is not.
Unbelievable that a man who has given as much to the industry as Torvalds, for relatively little reward, is forced to take part in this self-abasement.
Yeah, time will tell, although to be fair the same was said incessantly by the likes of GamerGate and they’ve just been folded into the larger alt-right and forgotten by most. In a sense, time has already told, and at the end of the day nobody has time for the petulant who frame everything in terms of “sjw’s” and basic human decency as “PC culture.” Tragically that group (having a surfeit of free time) is excellent at amplifying their own noise online, but inevitably it’s recognized as the same old noise, utterly lacking signal, and people move on until the alt-right concocts a new-sounding nontroversy.
In some countries domestic bank to bank payments are instant and either free or very cheap. South Korea where I am is one. Bank transfers take perhaps one second.
International bank-to-bank payments are more of a hassle.
There is no Stripe in Korea yet, though they seem to have success in Japan, the land of cash-only.
yeah right, as if this is real. Much like all the other rubbish produced by NASA.
It takes a special kind of motivated stupidity to project from Linus' statement to Theranos. Stop trolling.
No, it serves a purpose of driving Stallman's point more. Good enough.
I agree that once you start adding features like images and videos that it tips the balance more toward centralization.

> Or only allow sending text when the other person is offline?

I think that is an excellent idea.

Also I'd propose a vector-based image format with a maximum file size and fixed resolution (for online and offline messages). That way you could send drawings and diagrams without increasing the data requirements. It would also give the app a unique look and feel and would make it more difficult but not impossible for people to send hideous photographic content.

The real question to me is how many people are willing to have less features for more decentralization. I suspect that is a small number of users.
I have absolutely no idea how you can draw this conclusion.

There is a pretty obvious difference between "giving feedback in a respectful, polite and constructive manner" and "giving feedback in an aggressive, disrespectful and unhelpful manner". The former isn't "coddling" – it's "being a decent human being".

The problem I see is that too many people seem to confuse "having strong views and standing by them" with "being an unnecessary dick about it". You don't have to do the latter to achieve the former, and I'd argue that it is almost universally harmful.
What are some crazy things you've seen?
That is a complex rather than simple LEA instruction. There's a difference for Haswell and above.

Being complex (3 operands), it takes 3 cycles rather than 1 cycle for fast LEAs (1 or 2 operands).

It is also restricted to only the slow path port, port 1, instead of using ports 1 or 5 for fast path LEAs. ADD has 4 ports.

So Intel says in Section 3.5.1.2 of the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual:

Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 33. (ML impact, L generality) If an LEA instruction using the scaled index is on the critical path, a sequence with ADDs may be better. If code density and bandwidth out of the trace cache are the critical factor, then use the LEA instruction.
I said escape because at least I personally understand the target to be to free myself from any influence the market has on me.
Four years without leave sounds really overboard. In Europe the law mandates every worker to have a one-month leave each year. Not granting the leave is illegal by the employer. Just keep in mind that in a capitalist society the work is never your everything as an employee. You're exploited one way or another and should detach yourself from the company in some way. There might be different circumstances where the employees' interests align better with the employers', but in general this fact always holds.
Depends on the system. Most hospital doctors here (Ireland) are just employees of public hospitals; beyond overtime (and they tend to be right on the legal limits provided by the working time directive for that; the system is understaffed at the moment) they don’t get paid more for doing more procedures. Similar in the UK.
Yes. Morbid obesity (as a disease, not self-inflicted) qualifies as a disability for social security.

Transsexuality falls under gender dysphoria (as a hormonal disease, not psychological).

If you have reasonable recourse it is not a disability, and only you can help alleviate any (perceived) discrimination.

The question then remains: Does Linus have reasonable recourse to change his harsh behavior, or is this who he is by nature? If it is who he is by nature, then this CoC is bullying him for something he can't change.
Sounds a lot like the array-of-structs vs struct-of-arrays design decision for game engines. One of the features Jonathan Blow put into the programming language he has been working on (JAI) is better support for this dichotomy. IMO most programming languages have optimized the language only for array of structs and historically all but ignored the struct of arrays case.
You own your opinions and decisions, right? Can those be removed from you? Your influence in the community?

You're correct on the stamps issue. I broadened the scope a bit just to drive the point home in a reasonable amount of text. If you own no physical objects, you can't accumulate or barter them.

But that doesn't mean you don't own anything. Or that scarcity goes anywhere. Or that you and other people can't pool/coordinate these non-tangible things you control to create and influence real, live, physical things. It's just easier to reason about when it's stamps. That's all. The beauty of money was that it allowed all of that pooling and coordination to happen in the abstract.
I can agree with you.
He's making it an issue for himself and contributors to the Linux kernel. If you're none of those, then it shouldn't affect you. Everyone else is making a mountain out of a molehill, however.

As far as why... I suppose you can read his words yourself.
Meritocracy underlines the very system of capitalism, though.

It's not ideal, but it is what it is. Capitalism rewards meritocracy in the local maxima.
Showing off our fancy new K-sortable IDs
Ignore CBS' unwillingness to cooperate. Remove copyrighted elements like anything you didn't create by hand, remove references to 1701-D and Enterprise and any character. Take it to court.

I'll help with the GoFundMe.
People going after antirez recently. Dude's italian. Stop projecting your American racial baggage on him.

Now, some people have gone after the terms 'whitelist' and 'blacklist'. Also extremely silly. Nobody confuses black people for literal chromatic black. "Wait, you're actually a shade of brown! That guy too!".

And, sure, maybe I should just be reasonable and go along with this stuff. It's not hurting anyone, right?

But how come the loudest and dumbest get to dominate the discourse? We all must obey them, or else we're racist or at best unreasonable?
the question of the status quo is itself politicised. One side (progressive sphere) says people who don't belong to the normed group (cis-white-hetero-male in US/EUR) are inherently treated worse, either consciously or unconsciously (bias), and conscious effort has to be made to overcome this. Another (classical liberal sphere) says that exclusionary behaviour are the exception and most people abide by the golden rule, and that bias is small or insignificant enough to be inconsequential. There are other interpretations but I understand these are the two canonical ones. If you belong to the former you may feel the need to be conscious of your behaviours to make sure you don't perpetrate feelings of "othering". If you belong to the latter you likely feel that you don't need to treat people differently based on intrinsic characteristics. This is really the defining ideological split of current politics, IMO.
Imagine you are Linux and you receive a messy patch so poorly structured that you can't follow the logic of the code. As Tony Hoare used to put it, the kind of code that doesn't have obvious bugs, but isn't obviously free of bugs.

What do you tell the submitter? You can't really point at specific problems, merely at a gut feeling that the mess must be hiding problems. Then the submitter shoots back: "You rejected my code just because I'm a paraplegic transsexual gay man of color!"

Now what? How do you "express how [you] feel in a constructive and helpful manner?"
If yours was an original work, how would you know it's the same? It's absurdly unlikely that you could write "It" but I'm sure people co-invent blocks of text every day.

I wonder what the longest block of text is on the internet that two people independently wrote.
Ask HN: How to choose projects for undergraduate courses
I often face a difficult time choosing a project for my undergraduate courses. Sometimes I go through Google Scholar or ACM Digitial Library for latest works related to the course while other times going through past projects by students of similar courses at other universities to get ideas. Would like to know how you choose a project to undertake for a coursework, considering there also are time limitations of 2 or 3 months.
How is C++ doing so great then?
Nor illegitimate
"The Idea Factory" while focused on Bell Labs, gives a pretty broad history of the birth of digital electronics and the start of everything from digital encoding of data to cellular networks and satellite communication.
I had the non-invasive version a year or so ago. That matches my experience pretty much exactly.
I don't get it as well, I just looked at Tailwind which is mentioned and it just seem to be a collection of css soup which don't mean anything, I think I would be lost quickly in a codebase with only this css soup.
You must be insufferable to be around.

Here's a novel idea, how about instead of directly resorting to "Your code sucks." we instead say something like "I think there's still some work to do here. Here's the way I would have done this." It's really not that hard to give constructive criticism.
While I would love to transfer my 9 domains to cloudflare , here's my concern: transferring domains involves temporarily disabling whois guard, making my info public. It remains one of those wierd problems that no one bothers solving. I was hoping cloudflare included a transfer system which did not require disabling whois guard.
Fillings. For people who have reasonably well aligned wisdom teeth (not impacted, functional teeth), some dentists are inclined to remove them anyway; others to treat any decay which shows up but otherwise leave them alone. Again, this is something where norms differ by country.

Edit: Wait, you’ve had all your _second_ molars removed? That seems very unusual. I’m a little surprised the dentis was willing to do it, unless there was a big problem that couldn’t be dealt with otherwise.
The Norman Mailer anecdote seems strange. I think I read more than average; I finish about 30 books a year, most of which are literary fiction or history books. Still, I haven't read a Norman Mailer book anytime recently. There's literally thousands of years' worth of literature from all over the world; why him, in particular?

Some other things that strike me: I agree that a phone or iPad isn't much good for reading a novel, but I love reading on my Kindle (and the built-in dictionary makes it easier to approach foreign-language works, although I still don't do this as often as I feel I ought to).

The idea that books have to compete with more stimulating technologies isn't new either: radio, movies, and TV were there first. Is this a wholly new trend or the acceleration of an existing one?

The distraction of always-on Internet is certainly real, though, and exacerbated by smartphones. And it is striking that even journalists and political leaders often don't seem very well-read, particularly when you go back and look at 19th-Century rhetoric rife with allusions to the Bible or Greek myth that are opaque to much of the modern audience.
Uh, all your examples illustrate the core fact that our current theories are pretty close (to within many decimal places, usually) and that anything new isn't going to completely upend our expectations, even if it posits a completely new way of looking at things.
Our market right now is general aviation and business jets. I believe our biggest customer is the Cessna Citation Longitude (max takeoff ~40,000lbs). I noticed the NTSB abstract had some recommendations for inclusion and certification of a system on a broader range of aircraft. Larger aircraft are required to have similar safety-related systems such as terrain, reactive windshear, etc so this could be the next step.
The difference is whether or not Google can see your passwords.

When you use a passphrase, your data will presumably be encrypted with your passphrase and thus only be visible to you with knowledge of the passphrase. Not even Google could see the data while it would be stored on their servers.

Encryption during transit means that no bad actors like hackers, unscrupulous ISP's or overzealous governments can access your data _while_ it travels over the wires towards Google's servers but Google can still do what it wants with your data.
"Oracle recently announced that it would no longer supply free (as in beer) binary downloads for JDK releases after a six-month period, and neither would Oracle engineers write patches for OpenJDK bugs after that period."

Where can I found Oracle's official statement about this issue?
Just as a warning to anyone who might try this, it won't work. (At least not without a massive amount of opsec effort expended on your side.)

I'll give you an example of why it might not work. Since your phone has roaming, you happen to have it with you at work, or at a party, or at the library, or anywhere really. If even a single acquaintance of yours is "nearby", the information is leaked. If acquaintances seem to always be "nearby", children, wives, husbands, siblings, your info is DEFINITELY leaked.

If anyone is going to try to use this strategy for anything which might result in the loss of your livelihood, (eg - porn), please realize there are many, many, many more precautions you will have to take than are listed in oedfmarap's comment. If you just do what you see in that comment, you could find yourself without a job somewhere down the line.
Because people need a scapegoat. For those for whom it is not minorities, it is people who in their mind must hate minorities.
This also seems to imply that they charge too much. Don't get me wrong, I love Stripe, but they're still expensive for what they do with great pizzaz but which is really a utility service: an online credit card payment. Competitors should step up. Isn't 2.9% + 30¢ huge in the scheme of things? Add 1% for international and 1% for FX conversion and an overseas card transaction costs 5%. That's nice for Stripe.
I have an undergraduate degree in economics and a master's degree in finance, I cannot believe someone can go through a whole degree without understanding what economics as a science entails... Regardless, see OP's response and my reply to that.
What do you mean by irrelevant? How does open sourcing it makes it relevant?

If it means privacy, one could just monitor network activity and see if it's making weird connections instead of going through gigantic source repo which most people can't even tell what's going on.
SEC Filings 8-K
The point of capitalism is freedom -- not from capitalism, but freedom - period.

In a capitalist society you are, in general, free to do whatever you want. If what you're doing is something that society deems sufficiently valuable then you tend to be able to make a living doing just that, even if it's something nobody would have ever thought to have made a living doing before. Imagine you hate capitalism. If enough people agree with you you're free to make a living writing and talking all about the evils of capitalism, selling your books, articles, Che t-shirts, and so on. Imagine you think communism is the best economic system. In a capitalist society you're free to buy up thousands of acres of land, invite some people onto your land, and then try to start your communist utopia.

By contrast in other economic systems, what you can or can't do tends to be decided by outside forces and the government in particular. No government is ever going to pay you to speak negatively of their system of governance. And the notion of buying thousands of acres of land to start a capitalist utopia would just be nonsensical in e.g. a communistic society. Your freedom is greatly restricted, and society is directed not by the people within that society but by an elite few -- you end up with the same problems as capitalism, but with none of the benefits. And this reality is almost certainly why all social economic systems seem to converge towards authoritarianism and failure to produce. People want to be the masters of their own destiny. Capitalism isn't perfect there, but it's certainly far better than any alternative.