skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll bite.

The Department of Defense has a much larger purview than propping up the value of currency. Cryptocurrency doesn't fight terrorism (at best, it's agnostic to terrorism, at worst, it aids it). It won't fight back against the next Pearl Harbor or 9/11. And if your reasoning reduces everything about society to the economic output/currency value of that society, it might be time to get some fresh air.

Additionally, regardless of whether the DoD and all governments of all nations spend more energy or warm the planet faster than global cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency is superfluous—the global financial system was working without it, and could work without it again. Everything cryptocurrency "fixes" about the global financial system could be fixed more surgically, and without a system that exerts so much stress on the planet.
That's another way of looking at it. I do agree that the balance could shift either way but I suspect that the self selected group has a lower incidence of harassment because they already joined a support structure of sorts, which would allow them to keep each other posted about who to avoid. Of course that is just my belief.
And this is a bad article as well

> The company is massively outselling its competitors in North America

How can you compare Tesla models to BMW 7? It should be compared to BMW5. What is more, SUVs rule the market and that's where they main focus is (Audi e-tron, Mercedes EQ etc.)
Hey nyxtom, we found the bug and fixed it. Go ahead and download it again ;)
Thanks for helping us find this issue!
I agree "Let's just switch off the light" is the opposite direction in which we should be going.

How do we get from having men avoid these urges and situations at work (which is what is sort of the standard sexual harassment education) to having men want to better themselves and create a work space free of sexual context.

A lot of men I know already do this, but not all of them. And for the ones that somehow missed the "don't give in to your sexual urges because it will make you less than what you can be" part of becoming an adult, looking back at my own education there was very little to actually teach that other than life itself.
Of course it's reductive, but on this story's thread, almost the only time you see the A-word is when bleak walking simulators with downer endings are brought up.

I'm forced to conclude that "art", like "hacker", has shifted in meaning: roughly, art is anti-kitsch. It's not art unless it rebels against popular standards of aesthetics (which are popular for a reason; humans inherently respond emotionally to certain things), because once an aesthetic becomes popular it is subject to commercial exploitation and therefore it dilutes true, authentic self-expression. And, much like kitsch is a low-effort (therefore easily producible, reproducible, and marketable) affirmation of popular aesthetics, the repudiation of such may be almost arbitrarily low-effort and still be considered high art. The repudiation itself is what matters, and all that matters, because the job of the artist is to struggle against the commercialization of society and of human experience -- not necessarily to achieve technical prowess or to innovate.

I'm an amateur artist myself. I taught myself visual arts so I could make my own assets for games. I know art is, in reality, much more than this. But in order to wear the art badge in today's wider society, and thus be considered Worthy of Serious Consideration, message is both necessary and sufficient -- and it has to be the right message or it doesn't count.
Steve Wozniak Joins a Crypto Powered Fund as a Co-Founder
But mah short stocks :{
pet peeve #1 right here.

I really don't like the mandatory use of eslint (used as style enforcement), prettier, etc. When used as a bat to hit developers over the head, all this tells me is that the organization has too many anti-social developers that can't check their ego at the door.

Often someone will recommend a tool or technology in place of simple social common sense. If a developer can't follow the existing code style, they should be shunned. It's their problem. It's not a problem to solve with a fancy tool. You solve this particular problem by telling that person that they are an asshole. Using technology to solve social problems just exacerbates the problem.

All of that leads to a situation where we can't have nice things. You go into a codebase and see hundreds of exceptions to turn off eslint or whatever. Instead of just working around one-off style exceptions with common sense (who really gives a damn if a line needs broken/indented a certain way for a specific function) you have to plead with the style cops to let you off each and every time.

Developers really hate each other. Small organizations or teams tend to be a bit better in my experience. There is more camaraderie. But I often feel like I'm in a group of mercenaries, each ready to stab you in the back.
Urinate on the compost heap to save the planet says the National Trust
All of this, yes. The problems with ascribing value to ideas based on how controversial they are should be obvious. This is possibly the by-product of investment mentality: investing in bad companies is punished financially, but does not appear to pose any societal risk.
I've firmly started believing in the phrase Bitcoin not Blockchain and dismissing anyone who thinks we should be storing database data in a blockchain.

Its 2018, we found its expensive and slow to use blockchain, don't store stuff that doesnt need to be trustless.
You can’t get a full undergrad or masters at either school based on your ability.

You can get a “certificate” or some asterisked form of diploma, or you can enter the traditional applicant lotto where a significant number are rejected yet go on to do great work.

The old lotto model is based on the legacy of having enough seats to put students into.

Some newer programs, including one from MIT are experimenting with a scalable online model.

You want a degree from us? Take some classes for a while, prove your ability, you could get in.

The lotto application process besides being limited is imperfect in so many ways. The GMAT if I recall correctly correlates to success only around 65% of the time.

It’s time for these elite schools to decide how important an issue brand dilution (maybe) is for them, and come out and be straight about how much they factor it into their strategy vs. limiting how many diplomas they grant based purely on scalability while maintaining quality.

Ones a logistical problem. One is profit (endownmenrm prestige) motivated.

Pick a side for the future.
The study (linked at the bottom): https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/infographics/e-s...
The scale at which this happens and yet I feel like I've never seen it is pretty shocking to me. To be clear I'm not denying it, it's just amazing to me that this behavior is that frequent or common and presumably because I'm a guy, i'm not exposed to it.
I'm not sure what this means for Apache Harmony.

According to https://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletterfaq.html , the main issue was a "field of use" restriction. This exact term does not appear in http://openjdk.java.net/legal/OCTLA-JDK9+.pdf but section 2.1b still severely limits what you can do with the TCK.

You can use the TCK to test your JDK, but I'm not sure if you are allowed to publish the result of these tests. You can't create a JDK from scratch, except licensed as GPL.

Wjile IANAL, I don't think this license resolves the Apache Harmony situation
AFAIK nobody has ever redeemed any Tether.
> [...]I’ve forgiven her[...]

So you were sexually assaulted by a female?
Am I missing something?
"Notes" hyperlink at bottom of article links to this: http://www.paulgraham.com/saynotes.html
My experience has been watch recorded videos, participate in forums & do assignments. The collaborating part needs to improve in my opinion.
I’m not sure this is entirely true. The hack was reported to have exploited a flaw in the View As feature to retrieve user access tokens. With an access token, a user can view their own location history. This isn’t internal-only data, but it is supposed to be private to the user.
He did resign.

Specifically, he resigned due to protest/pressure relating to his 1000 dollar donation in support of prop 8 (which would have banned gay marriage in CA).

It seems inconceivable to me that his resignation was unrelated to this. An excerpt from his resignation announcement:

> I have decided to resign as CEO effective today, and leave Mozilla. Our mission is bigger than any one of u, and under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader.
Ah, that classic list of countries that only contains USA and Eritrea.
> In 1989 some clever researchers tracked the eye movements of radiologists as they scanned chest images for signs of lung cancer. [3] They found that even when the radiologists missed a cancerous lesion, their eyes had usually paused at the site of it. Part of their brain knew there was something there; it just didn't percolate all the way up into conscious knowledge.

Or perhaps they thought there might be something there, considered it for a bit, and decided probably not. How often did their eyes pause at sites that turned out to be totally benign?
Also agree with this!!
This sounds good until you realize you bought a first generation vehicle(unreliable parts) and a company that is no longer producing them.
If it is only one or two incidents per person, and only 20% of women experience it, I don't think it is very surprising that you wouldn't see it.
Fair feedback, intentionally went a little extra but you're right in that its probably a little too extra :) Here is another video I shot in the Himalayas with more traditional transitions (bare cuts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NYwewKYHB4
Sure, but I don't see that as an argument against doing them. Even with an imperfect process I expect at least some people with a history of harassment would be deterred from even applying. If the potential penalties for lying about your past or committing harassment are sufficiently significant (i.e. exclusion from future YC events) it would incentivize VC firms to police their own employees and partners, and send only their best behaved to founder events.
> congress doesn't and shouldn't care about such a meaninglessly small number of people.

Aren't there millions of expats abroad?
Uh, not my intent. I'm trying to illustrate that Canada has command and control regulations regarding telecommunication providers that operate in the country, and there are requirements for Canadian control. If equipment were factored into such decisions, that could go a way into resolving this problem. Though it'd probably create others. And for completeness, it's still Canada's decision to make, the rhetoric the US has been sending our way has left many of us feeling like the once good friend and neighbour, has decided that we're a threat to their national security.

EDIT: Clicked too soon.
Its extremly unrealistic that this would happen.

First of all, with the Model 3 sails they now have a huge revenue stream.

Secondly, I think its pretty unquestionalble that they could easly raise more money. If they were willing to issue more stock.
Ask HN: What kind of jobs are best suited for people with ADHD?
"Catcalling, harassment, sexual demands for career advancement, rape" - those are not nearly in the same category. And it is presumably offers of career advancement in exchange for sex, not sexual demands.

I'm sorry - I don't approve of sexual harassment, but with all the hysteria, I am still not sure how often women simply consider sexual interest to be harassment. It seems to me sexual interest is a normal aspect of human life. And being attractive also has advantages, that the #metoo crowd never mentions. We don't really know how many women actually benefited from being attractive. Weinstein claimed many women took him up on his offer, after all.
Tesla aims for a 25% profit margin on the Model 3 and is not there yet: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/21/tesla-shares-to-soar-on-stro...

From what I can see, the margins on the other models are similar. And the company still loses money overall.
Using masculine nouns/pronouns in the generic sense is a long-standing tradition in English: "man", "men", "he".

In fact, German (the primary origin of English grammar) uses "Mann" for "male person" and "man" for "you/one/a person".

Sadly, it seems English is unacceptable to a vocal part of the population.

I wonder if it is related English's general _lack_ of gender. In languages where everything has a "gender", people learn that grammar does not have to have a perfect match. German "Mädchen" ("girl") is neuter, and "Bikini" (loan word) is masculine, but those are simply odd parts of the language and everyone gets over it.
Why is the Tesla stock illiquid? It's publicly traded.

I'm sure he could sell SpaceX stock on the secondary market quite easily. SpaceX has never lacked in interest from investors.
They say data scientist salaries are the highest but I’ve also found the most noise in data science applicants. I have found a lot of candidates who can do something absolutely amazing with Tensorflow. I have found zero, and thus hired none, who can answer my real question: “I collect every conceivable bit of data on my customers and their actions. I lose 6% every month, using this data tell me why and what might fix it.”
> Bitcoin's daily transaction volume is moving to second layer so the metric used is not very useful.

No it hasn't.
> This is such an absurdly straw-many straw man.

Never heard or Ray Kurzweil before? The article mentions a couple other techno-utopians.
Asshole next door: "Hey, your house is on fire."

You: "Mind your business!"

Stopping the use of Chinese telecon for core infrastructure is a matter of national security, not a trade war.
It is a job where your goal is to try disappoint people most slowly. You are pretty much rigged to disappoint everyone. Gotta spread that around though. Marketing, sales, and the business end all have expectation of perfect execution, on-time delivery, bug free, and the development, testing, support teams all just want realistic requirements and timelines. Somewhere in the middle is the island of slight disappointment that makes everyone only slightly sad. I enjoy the challenge, but it is not for everyone.
"How to Spot a Spook": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335310
My understanding is that the majority of his personal net worth is from Tesla (+Solar City) and SpaceX. Would that limit his ability to personally fund Tesla?
But what's the point of writing callbacks if you're not going to endlessly nest them?

E.g., I can tell the nested math example[1] is good code because of how deeply indented it becomes.

1. https://github.com/scf4/callbaxx/blob/master/examples/nested...
Woman finds uncle's SOS in satellite image of Michael's wrath, calls for help
How about a world in which you reconsider showing up to troll on a thread about a serious topic and someone's serious effort to assess a real problem? Women are generally not running around 'eliminating you from the corporate ladder'. I'm not even going to touch the whole 'escort/sugar daddy' pile of ick because that's already an unreasonably charitable way to describe it.
but copying GC can be easily implemented with sbrk, or on the bare metal if no MMU is present. mpirstitz's GC uses mmap but could easily be replaced with sbrk. the main challenge of dynamic memory management is fragmentation, which is completely handled by using a copying GC. an implementation on top of malloc is not leaning on malloc's fragmentation handling at all.
One option is to dive in with Peter Shirley's ray tracing intros linked at the top of http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracing.html

These will get you a quick overview and get something rendering. PBRT is a great follow up to really understand the physical underpinnings and get more into the theory of how to do things correctly and efficiently.
I am surprised that it is only 300 times - but this is probably because these devices are now bought by wealthy people who don't commit too many crimes or felonies.
We couldn't function if we had the account of every personal experience that, for instance, is in favor of democracy.

Ideas are told and spread by unsourced summary outputs.
Best case, they can be justified by some archetypal experience.
I prefer a San serif myself.

Mono space allows you to do manual alignment, eg if you want ascii art in your code or non standard formatting. Doing this with a proportional font means other people can’t read your code without using the same font.
I play Dota 2 against bots because playing against actual humans is cause to weep in despair.
I think they might mean nailing specific people down to a tech company specifically. I could be wrong, though.
The sad thing is that the renouncers often don't mind paying tax, they just can't deal with the crazy amount of paperwork and costs involved, especially if they have investment income.
Uber's research economics team is its secret weapon
> I think it's also important to note that exactly one of the two "sides" of this movement has historically been a marginalized group

According to social justice ideology.
I'm curious why they're not all in the same category, what categorization system are we using?
No Drone, No Problem
In pursuit of the elusive stem cell
> ...Telus, Bell, Rogers - the 3 monopolies here on internet...

You're missing Cogeco, Beanfield, Vidéotron, and loads of others. The market for integrated telcos in Canada is reasonably competitive, at least where costs are justified.

P.S. by definition three competitors (even if only, say, two are usually active in a given area) does not a monopoly make.
> I have found zero, and thus hired none, who can answer my real question

That's because it isn't the job of a data scientist to answer that question. Their task is getting you the numbers. You need an "MBA type" to figure out what to do with it (analyst, business development/strategy, product manager etc.)
thank you for WindowBlinds
Last number I heard, 6 million. I'm one of them. State department last said there was an estimated 9 million. I've also heard 3 million. So, 6. lol.

Stupid US tax laws and FATCA are a major pain in the ass. FATCA made it all more ridiculous. I'm considering renouncing. Guess what, though? That costs like $3k.
There is a wall of names on the Washington Mall that provides a poignant counterexample.
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You should ask your wife how she feels about your presumption that women are exaggerating benign sexual interest into sexual harassment, and how you actually think Weinstein's casting couch was a good thing for women.
Trump specifically says he’s in it just for America. The old order of the friendly superpower is dead. NAFTA renegotians were evidence of that.

In his own words, "At least Canada knows where I stand,". The message has been received loud and clear up North.

So I’d say they’re probably equal. At least China hasn’t tried overtly to collapse our auto sector.
I suspect it's meant for people that oppose the "current war" versus "any and all war".
Yeah I guess the number of total "events" can be pretty small.

Just amazing that to me something that would seem totally out of place at work or seem "crazy" to have happen... a lot of people experience in the same workplaces I'm in.
Being a computer power user in order to be able to effectively set environments.
I would argue that it's thinking programmatically and applying that mindset to a computer.

When humans interact with each other there is a lot of subtlety and nuance that is embedded in that communication. I can say something to you but you can infer that I really mean the opposite by the tone of my communication.

All that is lost with computers, when communicating with a computer you need to be especially precise in what you want the computer to do and when you want the computer to do it. I'd argue that most bugs are a result of improper communication between the programmer and the computer. Either the actual intent was not communicated properly or there is context lacking in the communication (server status, load, etc.) that is not being accounted for.
If you're worried apply for another job and tell the hiring manager on the other end what you're expecting for a salary. Don't be ludicrous, but maybe ask for 20% more than you're making. See what they say.

If they don't blink and want you to come in, you're right: you're not making enough.

I've gotten, "Well, we should probably stop this call soon because my cap is X and you're asking for more than that." It was reassuring.
Language inconsistencies within documentation.

Half of all documentation is meant to be read literally. "Follow these exact steps for this exact reason and this exact thing will happen."

Then the other half is written as if you're supposed to have some secret knowledge. "Just run this, do the usual thing people do, and then you'll probably end up with something like this."

Those halves aren't mutually exclusive by document, and it took me a long time to get a feel for what the documentation author's intended.
I would guess that low-paying employers also hire fewer PMs because, so a larger fraction of PMs end up working at large, well-paying companies.
The renderer accurately simulates a good chunk of geometric optics -- light propagation along rays, multiple scattering, specular reflection, refraction, and surface roughness due to random microstructure using state-of-the-art models.

It does not simulate wave-optical effects, polarization, fluorescence, and phosphorescence. Some of them are easy to add (e.g. polarization), others such as wave optics are very challenging to solve in a fully general setting and would make the resulting system impractical to use.

However, that's not the whole story: even when simulating the underlying optics meticulously, a rendering of plane is not going to look photorealistic. Some detail must also go into modeling of the input, which is beyond the scope of the book (though Section 10.6 talks a bit about creating detail with noise functions).
The manufacturing of a car still consumes a lot of resources and lets out a lot of CO2 though, right?
Lead made people more likely to commit crimes, so why wouldnt other pollutants affect us in different ways? And to think the GOP still want to make the air dirtier, and have legislated for it so.
> It makes me wonder how the men who have the focus and discipline to get in to those positions of power have not learned the discipline of controlling their sexual urges.

I have nothing to back this up, but I think it's one of two things.

1.) It's the culture of their day. This is applicable to older CEOs where it was the norm. They never grew out of it, because they never needed to grow out of it.

2.) They're powerful enough that it doesn't matter. Of course, if tens or hundreds of women come forward accusing a CEO of sexual misconduct, then it's going to be a problem. But in the day-to-day, it's only going to be a problem if the culture in the company allows it to be a problem.

Either of those cases has nothing to do with the inability to control urges. The problem is that those men are being overly aggressive with their sexual misconduct because they can.
You should hear the "patriots" who try to justify the stupid US laws in any online discussion. I've been called a traitor for living in Canada.
And...

* Porn

* Donations to wikileaks

* Pot

* Sending money to Venezuela

* Leaving Venezuela with your wealth intact

* Payments without giving all transaction info to the credit card companies

* Digital payments for the unbanked

All legal usage that makes sense.
I don't disagree.

I believe that there are a few universities whose education is by far superior. If you can increase the amount of people receiving top education, you can increase those that can then go on to do research.

Getting into MIT is not easy. I imagine it is especially hard for those outside the US. The gatekeeper effect lowers the amount of people who can go on to become graduate students & researchers.