skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He probably could have been equally as effective by saying "hey, let's make this icon more generic so it's more inclusive" and ended it at that.
I don't think he is wrong in his request, but the necessity people feel to say "This offends me" over just using other more concrete rationale is what causes these kinds of incidents.

We need to learn to use less divisive and accusatory language when making requests like this.
rather than restricting the software from commercialization by license it explicitly commercializes everything on behalf of the user ..

I'm partially being snarky. By offering opt-in backwards-compatibility 'ye olde establishment. Also intending to offer a path forward for businesses already relying on the business model, for users expecting products relying on the business model. I know I'm playing with a pipe-dream-sci-fi-quantum leap in the relationship between the end-user and the internet ..

... so I'm trying to be snarky and also fair and thus hopefully incentivize existing entities to implement the protocol and use it in order to take bites out of big data in manageable bits without setting everything on immediate fire. The folks who write apps with a bent on data-mining may be open to something more provider independent in order to draw in users.

also .. half-baked early adopter:
.. you are a streaming content author or have an online shop and want your content to be redistributed, and are willing to make some metadata deals in order to do so. you are peered with dozens of indexes and some of them require different participation levels, maybe you have shipping partnerships, you work with some online labels or other profit-sharing outlets and this useful metadata associated with traffic that content has generated in your PO box is requested by these partners. So, the parts of your "forward-proxy-cache" that were relevant in these transactions would want appropriate taxonomy in order to facilitate ongoing partnership. I see users on the internet who like targeted adds, I know people in reality who like shopping.. I dream of a world where they all get better hobbies but I'm not trying to judge. ;)

personal forward-proxy.. a reckless way of putting it, also s'/sold/shared/' where users are hopefully suddenly tuned into the reality that once something is copied out into the public domain..
In the 2016 discussion, the link to the Martin Shkreli video is down. These are some of the videos in that series where you can see him use Excel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fASInVKShnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poyf3Cnb-MQ
It would've been far easier to just ignore it. As the old saying goes, "don't feed the trolls".
> even a single person being offended is one too many

I am offended by snowflakes. Go find something more inclusive, you insensitive clod!
From what I understand, some time sequence databases use some sophisticated compression techniques. Are you there already or is that on the roadmap?

I think it would be kinda cool in a way to go back to dual-machine debugging but I’m not sure everyone else would agree with me.
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Yep. And everyone is feeding the troll. Instead of closing the issue, they bend over backwards and encourage further trolling in the future.
The paradox of tolerance [1] is a PITA. At the end of the day a santa hat is no big deal, but by the logic of "even a single person being offended is one too many", taken to the extreme, all that is left is the lowest common denominator of what all humans tolerate (if there is such a thing).

On a more practical note, I find it hard to reason on how deal with issues like this. It's like if you try to be level headed, avoid conflict, and try to see things from the other side you already lost, because there is no corresponding empathy coming from the other side. The only solution is to give in, or deal with an offended internet mob.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
This was an obvious troll. Looks like they succeeded. A shame.
The jump to simple solutions in hindsight bothers me. Especially with software in complex safety-critical systems it's often incredibly hard to capture all the permutations that can lead to a failure mode.

I wouldn't doubt most programmers could do an failure mode effects analysis on the software and figure out they need to mitigate an event where the timer fails to sync. But how many would also capture how to mitigate that sync failure at the precise time the system lost satellite comm? Probably a heck of a lot less.

Now multiply that by the total number of software failure modes (including those latent ones we just get lucky with) and see how many get captured. There's a reason why software in these types of systems is incredibly hard to test.
Christmas is not a Christian holiday. Christianity is young.

The symbols and traditions surrounding the midwinter feasts (Yule etc) go back way longer. It’s not even called Christmas or anything with “Christ” e.g in Scandinavia. Because no way we’d let the church change also the name. No sir.

The church just had to adopt the festive period. Santa Claus is an even later addition.

And famously the red Santa is thanks to Coca Cola.

So basically the red Santa hat is a symbol that Coca Cola put on top a legend of a saint that was in turn adopted onto pagan winter rites. It’s not exactly bibles all over it.
This is precisely why I left the rdf* mailing list shortly after it was created this year. The list maintainer invited subscribers to introduce themselves and as soon as a particular individual posted, I no longer wanted to be a member of the list.
Lawsuits, for sure. I never give negative feedback to anyone. I never say the truth to strangers because I fear lawsuits.
It's a holiday widely celebrated by non-Christians. People mostly care about the gift giving bit, alcohol, and food, rather than any religious angle.

You see similar things going on for Valentine's day, Easter, Saint Patricks day, etc. Sure, there is a religious aspect, but the non-religious celebration is dominant.
Also he appears to be someone that doesn't know the difference between what people wearing red bobble-hats have done compared to people wearing swastikas.
You possibly have one installed. Mine comes with my desktop (Xfce), and gives me a GUI and a CLI to take screenshots of the full desktop, any window, or a particular area defined by crosshairs.

There's a very popular and minimalist CLI called scrot that I think would be ideal... well scratch that, I made a search and our question has already been asked and answered:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/280475/how-can-instantaneous...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21497447/ocr-on-a-screen...
Industry fumes as California takes measure of charging stations
This is not a divisive issue, the account that raised the issue is most likely fake, the person behind it intended to trigger and divide people and they succeeded at that. The world is no paradise, you will never satisfy everyone nor should you try to. Microsoft's response is cringeworthy.
> There's still no certainty. For an airline, your prices have to be competitive. If you've locked in an oil price, and it turns out to be a high one, then your fares will be more expensive than your competitors (assuming that they didn't hedge in the same way). So the only certainty there is failure.

A huge chunk of airline tickets are sold in advance. The oil futures can literally lock in the prices for only sold airfare if you're that paranoid.

Also (probably more important), the cost of oil on a given ticket is quite low and it would take a drastic change in oil prices for it to be obvious to customers comparison shopping.
It's usually driven by system safety analysis criteria. E.g., if a timer failure is categorized as "catastrophic" it may be required to have X amount of redundancy. The amount of redundancy defined by 'X' may be driven by customer (i.e. NASA) requirements.
> When the math tells me something very wrong, can't the context and meaning show where the math model is wrong?

The point is that when learning a new part of physics, it is far more likely that your intuition was wrong as the math was right, even if it's surprising.

Sure, the mathematical model is not a perfect model, but it can still be _very_ good, so if you disagree with it, you're very likely to be wrong.
I can see this being a naïve but realistic take given what we knew in ~2008. In 2012 it should have been clear that this model could be gamed. And it's on Facebook that their culture wouldn't allow them to see that.
That's incredibly lame
It's entirely unnecessary to make the problem (Santa hat) go away.

The complaining person is displaying abusive behavior and should be treated as such. Warn them. Then ban them if they persist. You stand up to bullies or you drown in them.

Mods can trivially and entirely disregard the non-problem (as it actually is). They're choosing not to and are making a community handling mistake in the process.

The only proper response is to ignore the complaint as not meaningful enough to warrant action. Otherwise you'll eventually have to remove every possible symbol. Somewhere, someone's mother was murdered by a cog and they feel very, very sensitive about the matter.

Abusive behavior in communities occurs at both extremes. You can be too sensitive in social situations in fact, to such a degree that you abuse other people with your need to control your environment specifically to your aggressively selfish satisfaction.
> why should the reviewers be obligated to give you the benefit of the doubt?

because that's what they are supposed to be doing? and beside, i wonder if those reviews are actually free...
I, Pencil isn't even an argument that needs rebuttal. It lulls the mind to sleep with a pleasant story of cooperation, hoping the reader will forget that government intervention didn't happen because supply chains are too complex for the market to handle, but because of various market failures and collusion that happened in practice.

Food safety regulation, worker and environmental protections, antitrust laws - they did not come from theory.
I did stay a member of the IEEE Computer Society because my feeling is that the IEEE is more responsive to the working engineer.

For instance I like the position of the IEEE on H-1B visas because it is nuanced, and it represents the position of working engineers (U.S. born or not) and not that of their employers. The ACM has been "all-in" on "H-1B is great!"

Unfortunately the ACM shows little concern for the practitioner, even though it was founded to be a bridge between computer science academia and industry. The problem that is carped about in CACM the most over time is the roller-coaster enrollment of CS undergraduate programs.

Part of that roller-coastering is that many people enter the field because they think it is in demand, but after a few years their careers hit a kind of "glass ceiling". If the ACM was more attentive to the problems people have after they graduate, they might solve their own problems, but that would involve breaking with the large employers, which they won't do.
Protestants in Germany introduced the tradition of "Kristkind" (Baby Jesus) bringing gifts at Christmas because the tradition of Saint Nicholas was problematic for protestants.
Though he was a saint the symbology has been non-religious for some time. It's not just Christians that celebrate with Santa. In fact, most of the non-religious people I know celebrate with Santa. Even when you tie it to a saint the overall meaning of Santa has nothing to do with God or Christians.

People like to be offended and will ruin things for other people. It's sad that we're in such a sensitive society but tolerance isn't what is practiced, sensitivity is.

As a Christian I find the idea of Santa offensive, honestly. Santa and his powers (as presented in media) are a replacement for God. I'm not going to go crying to anybody because they have Santa as an icon.
A single troll has managed to create an insanely huge drama and loss of tons of people time.

I'm not optimistic about the future of Free Software. Especially with the new tendency of some projects to consider that people can be offended about pretty much anything, especially if it is completely trivial, and that the utmost priority is to attempt to not offend anybody on Earth.

Because like we saw here, attempting to not offend by modifying trivialities is actually going to offend way more people.

And this is exploited by trolls.
Now the VS community knows how to get new features added to the product. Simly say "I'm offended that you are not adding this feature" and they will promptly add it, as not to "offend".

Slippery slope, VS team.
It’s actually two Krasznahorkays on this paper. I know one of them, and he’s very thorough.
Why is someone being offended such a big deal nowadays? It seems everyone is always trying to make sure no one can ever be the slightest bit offended. Doesn’t necessarily feel like the most important metric we should be optimizing for as a society.
>American's 35+?

You're probably right, but until recently that was also the people most likely to vote. [1] So going after your core demographic who can be found on one site makes sense. You said it yourself: younger people are spread across many different social media platforms. I assume that means reaching them as a whole requires more time, effort and expense than buying ads on Facebook.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/29/gen-z-mille...
> I also had to deal with a few correctional officers who thought inmates did not deserve to have this chance and refused to treat them like students.

What a depressing outlook to have for someone who has authority over these people.
For those in the SF Bay Area, you can have significant impact by sharing your time:
https://prisonuniversityproject.org/get-involved/volunteer/
http://asi.sfsu.edu/asprograms/project-rebound/
>American's 35+?

I.e., the demo majority[0] and the only ones who actually vote.

Seems pretty solid.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...
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ACM signs anti Open Access letter
your last sentence says it all - it is the same age old, classic, in-your-face, thinly-veiled-threat management style attitude that is behind this micro management era.

Frankly, among white collar jobs, not sure how exactly you are calling IT related profession cushy. If you are talking about free coffee, catered lunches and beer fridge tech startups, these ‘perks’ usually equally ungodly amount of work hours and employees taking even less of break during regular business hours.

And yes, rewind back 15 years and I would definitely pursue another line of work.
This isn't that difficult to deal with, though. Instead of linking a CEO to their company with a simple object property, explicitly reify the relationship as a class in the model that represents something like "employment". Then you can hang as many contextually relevant properties from the class instance as you need -- start date, end date, role, etc...

This is why much of the hubbub over property graphs puzzles me. If you need a relationship to have its own properties in an RDF graph, just turn it into a class. What's the big deal?
Such a classic, and great to give to first-year analysts
Making deepfake tools doesn’t have to be irresponsible. Here’s how
One of the people on the paper works at cern actually.
I look forward to this block of fake accounts registering to vote and voting by mail. Will any accounts go rogue and defy their creators? How does a candidate appeal to this influential group?
> we reverted the gear to something (hopefully) less controversial (a snowflake)

I’m too sensible to get offended by things like this (cynical amusement is more my style), but as a southern hemispherian—

People from the north hemisphere regularly seem to describe things in terms of seasons (e.g. “coming this summer”), completely disregarding the fact that such seasons don’t hold in most of the world: in the southern hemisphere they’re back to front, and nearer the equator seasons are just all-round different. Southern hemispherians don’t seem to describe scheduled things with seasons much, and only ever in local matters, not global.

(Then you get things like Microsoft’s use of “Fall” in a Windows 10 release which makes it not just northern-hemisphericentric, if I may coin a term, but downright American by virtue of not using the word “autumn” that everyone else uses.)

Back to the snowflakes. Australia’s on fire now, from the heat. (And a town near me was under direct threat of burning down from a bushfire last night.) Even if we ever got snow where I live (we don’t), this would not be the season for it!
The OP Issue Filer _has_ to be trolling...
Yes, they are popular. But on-premises ones also exist, are popular too, and mostly do not have this one problem.

It's a relevant distinction on this context.
US road infrastructure in in terrible shape as measured by commute times, gridlock, and even the direct state of the existing infrastructure.
Ah, that is slightly harder. You have to hear the car's challenge and then have a decent antenna pointed at the fob, repeat the challenge, then quickly switch to rx to hear the response, them replay the response. Even with the antenna pointed at the fob you should be loud enough for the car because it is close.

You can even start the car this way. The car will keep running even out of range of the fob for safety reasons.

PSA: Don't rob from or steal cars. That is wrong. Don't be a bad guy. They might have worked hard for what they have and be really nice people.
Can we just start ignoring people whose sense of reality is so out of touch? I'm offended they took someone seriously with this BS. Millions dead versus a myth of someone delivering gifts, wtf?

I think some folks need to watch some Steve Hughes comedy on being offended.
It's disorienting when I visit family back in Texas each year after living in Germany for the past 15, and especially now that I've given up our second car because I realize I wasn't driving enough for it to make sense, it really irritates me that I have to have a rental car the whole time I'm visiting.

Since I'm a respectable-looking, middle-aged white lady, I just get stopped and politely asked if I need a ride or to borrow their phone when I'm walking between shopping centers. It's not as universally pleasant for people who do not look like me. My sister-in-law thinks I'm nuts for wanting to walk a couple hundred yards to the other side of a large shopping center rather than get back in the car and drive there.
Or just raw fear. That causes people to close up on its own.
A quick search of Google Doodles that included santa:

* https://www.google.com/doodles/happy-holidays-2011

* https://www.google.com/doodles/holidays-2018-northern-hemisp...

* https://www.google.com/doodles/holidays-2018-northern-hemisp...

* https://www.google.com/doodles/holidays-2018-northern-hemisp...

* https://www.google.com/doodles/holidays-2018-southern-hemisp...
Yes, the Bloomberg Terminal app is basically an Electron app, but built with Bloomberg's equivalent of Electron.

Bloomberg is one of the biggest users of JavaScript in the world, many millions line of code, but most of it used in a desktop app.
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> Most Americans care more about roads than public transportation.

And the roads are garbage. I brought some friends over from Australia and driving on the US interstates they said "wow.. it's like everything is half finished".

> You'd want to compare murder/suicide rates with other countries for any meaningful comparisons.

And it's way, way higher than any other developed country.

For what it's worth, the The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: infant mortality, child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, income inequality, wealth inequality, and economic mobility.
This is a professional reaction to a shitty situation they created mostly themselves.

The proper even more professional thing to do would have been to not react to the initial troll in the first place.
My advice would be the same. These units are mostly built on the same parts, the big difference is build quality (metal dongle vs plastic) and what antenna comes bundled (antenna quality/size matters a lot for anything beyond just tinkering).
I used dotPeek to decompile the source (it wasn't obfuscated), and Unity Asset Bundle Extractor to browse the game objects.

A lot of the game logic was written in coroutines, which dotPeek exposes as state machines, so I had to do some manual work to figure out what the control flow originally was. Otoh, coroutines record the names of local variables, unlike normal methods, so it wasn't all bad.

I didn't decompile the game into a working Unity project, if that's what you were thinking.
Require manual profile validation for new Facebook accounts?

Probably would get downvoted if I said SSN + a credit check.

Phone number required + needs to be validated + can not be reused + can not be Twilio.

Prove your address? Prove your ISP cable bill? I don't know. Everything I guess, people here are going to tell me it's an invasion of privacy and they don't trust Facebook to do it.

But they'll let CreditKarma have every bit of financial information related to them possible.

People will apply for a credit card online (employer, address, social, income)... make a universal login process for that.

Maybe like blue Twitter verified checkmarks next to all profile names. "Verified human"
Concrete strategies to improve D&I in software engineering hiring today
Equally, the swastika is a common religious symbol in East Asia.
Yeah, his awkward-array and uproot most of all let me do a lot of my analysis in python and Jupyter. That was almost impossible before.
I also have a different goal of trying to interpret structure of a PDF that has visual structure (headers, sections and subsections all numbered). But that seems to lend itself to some sort of text parsing.

Some reading here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53219016/detecting-secti...
I'm not sure it makes sense to ask if Santa Claus is "the same" as Saint Nicholas. It is a mythic figure which have developed over time. It is like asking if Dracula is "the same" as Vlad Tepes.
It's harsh language, but honestly: yes. Microsoft had to lock down the repository because it was being flooded with comments like this. For removing a santa hat.

I saw this story about it being removed as well, and I thought to myself "well, that's pretty silly, but whatever" and then five seconds later I had moved on with my life. The very idea that an grown person could be so upset about it that they would actually expend the mental energy to go to the github issues page and voice their opinion with an angry comment is mind-boggling to me. It is, in my opinion, an even more absurd reaction than the original complaint.