skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that I'm writing this 2am because I just returned from Lebowski Fest LA, so my judgement may be warped by both the lateness of the hour and my personal admiration of The Big Lebowski (henceforth abbreviated as "TBL")

I wouldn't use those names in a work environment, although if I came across them already being used, I'd probably see them primarily as references to TBL and not as references to porn. And remember, both LogJammer and Treehorn are both mocked as completely ridiculous in TBL, and not admired in the least.

I guess what I'm saying is that if you're trying to gauge how offended to be, consider that any offensive nature of the names were almost certainly due to tone-deafness rather than maliciousness.

(In a non-work environment, I'll be dropping potentially crude TBL references all the time, because it's a hilarious movie. Say what you like, at least it's an ethos.)
>The whole same clothes thing you have going on is just odd. You don't need it and it just makes you strange rather than cool and interesting.

Seriously? you think /that/ is what makes me strange? I'd be "Cool and interesting" if I just learned to dress a little nicer? Oh man. You Java folks really /are/ different.

>You're not a fictional character.

No... but the popularity of cosplaying[1] in our culture aside, stories and archetypes are how we understand humanity. Marketers try to build the public perception of their company into a sort of archetype that consumers can understand and relate to. It's a model for understanding and predicting behavior. (Personally, I don't know if it's a good model... but it is... poetic?) To the degree that I try to construct a public persona, I keep that in mind. (Not that I have done a very good job of staying within an archetype... I suspect doing so would require changing myself more than I like? But acting more consistently, really, is not a bad thing.)

[1] Seriously, like half my friends go to those anime conventions. I think it's kinda weird. My buddy runs http://i360.com - a cosplay photography website. He assures me it's not pornographic... but personally, I think that makes it more weird, not less.
And this is why I'll never work for a company run by MBA driven bull-crap.

Any properly managed business group will have this covered because they treat their human "resources" like actual humans - not variables in a spreadsheet. A GOOD manager would know an employee was at risk as a result of doing their god damn job properly. You do not need a team of data scientists to figure this out.

Advice for younger engineers: if a company has grown past 100 employees, stay away from it. It's inevitably laden down by morons who would forego talking to you on a personal level in favor of a mechanical system with as little interaction as possible (liability and all).
couldn't care less. if you could care less, well, you can care less and then you might as well remove stating that factoid.
What's the legality of obscuring one's face in public? There's potentially a market in avoiding facial recognition. I'm reminded of the "scamble suit" of A Scanner Darkly.
Being ddossed is not going to affect you. For Heap to kick in, the page needs to be rendered and their javascript snippet processed. A DDos attack is just going to send lots of traffic (eg: a gazillion wget requests made to your domain. Your apache or nginx logs are the ones that are going to explode.)
Google’s Android powered by remarkable new 'Flawgic'
Not to mention that urls to images get posted in-line. Do you know how many funny animated GIFs can be posted on a chat room?

This sounds like me being facetious, but it's a great morale booster for teams.
I always hate it, when companies remove user generated content from the internet. Why doesn't Yahoo just send some Dvds with the content to Archive.org?
You don't need it, but perhaps they do. It's far better for an employer if you're particularly enthusiastic about what you're going to be working on.
Agreed, how can it be "sexual harrassment" to her when they weren't addressing her?
I know this sounds crazy, but hear me out:

The vast majority of talented programmers neither have a github account, nor do they keep a programming blog.
I understand the point you're making, but I see issues with some of the details: i) in order for the factory to remain competitive domestically and internationally, it will need to reduce prices and increase production, otherwise someone else will use these robots to put them out of business (thus profits increase, but not by the amount saved by salaries), ii) if the government taxed this factory more, they would no longer be competitive internationally; further, this innovation would be disincentivized, iii) even if the government reclaimed all of the additional profits in taxes and gave them to the workers, there wouldn't be enough to go around (see first point), iv) perhaps this would accomplish the goal of narrowing the wealth divide, but it only does so by destroying wealth (factory owner ends up with less, workers end up with less).

I really don't believe this strategy will accomplish any of these objectives in the way you intend. I don't mean to pick on your example or opinion; apologies if I come off as harsh.
Correction: D. J. Bernstein, DJB.
Focus is not just about what you choose to work on at a high level. Avoiding distractions day-to-day is a bigger part of it. Many people I have worked with complain that they want to focus on "one thing at a time", but that doesn't mean it has to be the same thing all day, every day. It means being productive, without having switch gears to deal with things that have nothing to do with their goals and tasks. To me, that's what focus really means.
Trying to predict that with data and algorithms is bollocks...

There is someone, called manager. I know, I know, it has a bad reputation. But is supposed to talk from time to time and keep an eye about how things are going. If talk is done properly, can be very useful to know if someone is not happy.

I know that we are engineers, we love data, and talking to someone is awkward and out of the comfort zone. But this is ridiculous...
Anyone seen anything similar for Crossrail?
Shouldh'a used the Google: http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/images/tunnelling/
> Unwilling to Commit to the Provisions of a), b), or c) Above.

That's the evil part. It means they are unwilling to license those patents. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipr-template-09
I disagree. I once tried coding an iOS app in a Windows 7 laptop using a hacked VMWare to run Mac OS X. And I will not do it again. The amount of time beach ball of death shows is greater than the time I saw the normal cursor. It's so damn hard!

So if you want me to code something for you, supply me the required hardware for it.

And no, you can't hack on whatever hardware.
I'd be amazed if we don't start seeing a "Tracking BlockPlus" for this sort of thing, if it doesn't exist already.

edit: Sort of already does it seems: https://www.fanboy.co.nz/
>If the significance is because they are part of a whole, then they need to be addressed in that context.

How are you ever going to get any accountability if you don't address them individually. People need to be taught what a microaggression is and why it's important, and then punished if they continue to make them. Repeated sexual jokes are already considered a form of sexual harassment.

>The argument that something shouldn't be tolerated, even when accepted, doesn't automatically justify every possible response.

This is true, and we seem to disagree what a justified response is in this scenario. I don't think it was that big of a deal actually. The internet made it into a big deal, but that's not adrias fault. I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on this one, because I don't know where to go from this.
you probably mean "Monte Carlo".

those liberal arts places... :-)
hindsight is 20/20, eh?
I'm going to filter this through my skewed outlook on the world and conclude that it's another datapoint in support of travelling the world as much as possible.

We uprooted our 10 month old son last winter and set up shop in a little fishing village in Nicaragua for a few months. He spent his time eating the local dirt while we surfed. And now we have conclusive proof that this was the Best Thing We Could Have Possibly Done for him.

Glad to hear I'm such a great parent.

This article also rings true for me from a personal perspective. I spend a lot of time in the developing world, and make a point of brushing my teeth in the local tap water and eating those poisonous lettuce leaves and local cheese that the Lonely Planet warns you so strongly against. I find that over the years I've gradually stopped getting sick at all while on the road.

I think there's something to be said for training your immune system.
This is a very interesting approach, I really like it. I use Adblock and DuckDuckGo but really like making these changes for my blog visitors as well.
Maybe someone will write one someday ;).

And, as I have the chance, I want to thank you and whole GitLab team for a really great work! I'm using GL localy and I'm very pleased with it.
I think we'll see a totally different way of using watches. It'll start with services suitable for a small device. For e.g. automatic transfer of body signals such as bp, heart rate; calendar notifications, location based information, calling services with a bluetooth earphone, etc.
Building 'smartness' is the key here - provide a powerful platform and let developers think about ways of making it useful - you don't really need to be able to see all the possibilities.
hahaha ok

I suppose you are against affirmative action too.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Features Leaked
did you seriously shamelessly plug your blog?
There are many EU countries there as well and the EU allows no software patents either. However there are many loopholes in the system which can still lead to patents being granted if the patent is formulated differently.

That's why international patent lawyers earn so much money. They rewrite the patent to fit national law.

The patent system is broken and has to be removed.
More to the point, if you are paying someone six figures to write code, trying to save a few hundred bucks a year by giving them hardware they don't like is just plain stupid.

I mean, as an employee, I don't care that much 'cause i'll bring in my own stuff if you don't provide me with hardware I like... but my experience? employers get itchy if you do this with more than, say, a keyboard. Most places don't want me supplying my own workstation/laptop, which is fine, so long as they buy me reasonable hardware to work on.

I'm reminded of one place I contracted at where they gave me a P3 windows box (this was in the mid-oughts) - I mean, they were paying me like $70/hr. They wouldn't let me bring my own hardware, either. I go to put linux on the thing, you know, make it usable; and the IT guy finds out (well, I ask him for a blank DVD) Anyhow, he goes all 'Mordak' on me and tells me that I should just sit there in front of my useless computer and "think about what I did" or something like that.

I mean, I understand that some places want me to use their hardware, and let their IT people handle it... which is fine, if they are wiling to do a competent job of it.
One (big) benefit of running a custom solution with just links rather than the official buttons is that loading links is fast. I've been trying to find some social buttons that don't have a significant impact on load time. I think I might ask my business partner to write a wordpress plugin that loads custom links/buttons.
Furthermore, correlation in a feature != correlation != causation
Buried inside, is a reminder that diversifying risk is good.
If I remember correctly they went the way they did to alleviate the threat of trademark litigation.
The way we think about charity is dead wrong
Apologies if you have seen this but I saw this Ted Talk on this site (http://www.getinspired365.com/21501270) last on Non for Profit's. I thought it was excellent and given Y Combinator have taken on their first 'non for profit' in Watsi (http://ycombinator.com/watsi.html) I thought the audience may find the talk interesting.

The talk is from the Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta, he calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend -- not for what they get done. Instead of equating frugality with morality, he asks us to start rewarding charities for their big goals and big accomplishments (even if that comes with big expenses). In this bold talk, he says: Let's change the way we think about changing the world.
The basic stumbling block as I understood it was that there were no consensus on how to build a good migrations system. Instead of just picking one system and bundling it into Django the decision was to do iteration in third party libraries. We got dmigrations, django-evolution, and south, and over time south won the race...
Clicky http://www.getinspired365.com/21501270
>edw519's questions provoke conversation, where yours provoke sales talk.

This... is actually kindof interesting. See, I would see it the other way around. Working conditions are real things that effect me day-to-day.

My experience? usually when you go work somewhere, your /actual/ job has absolutely nothing to do with what you got interviewed for. All this talk about 'the problem the company is trying to solve' is, well, marketing bullshit.

Hell, if you are hired on early, the people running the company don't (actually) know the answer to that question beyond "make enough money to cover payroll."

If you are hired on late, usually, your job is to do what your managers want, not to try to do what the company needs. Usually, if you do the latter, you will spend all your time in conflict with existing management structures.

I mean, part of that is that people are stupid, sure, and everyone wants to protect and grow their little kingdoms.

But part of that is that even if you really are as good as you think you are at your role (and most people aren't) you don't know everything.

I know that as a young sysadmin I got into a bunch of fights with my boss about how to do things. Now that I have my own company? my employees sometimes get into fights with me over the exact same things. I mean, now that I've gotta look at it from the business perspective as well as the technical perspective, I can see where my boss was coming from way back when.
I really like this comment for its honesty and ability to reflect on yourself with such brutal honesty too.

I'm not that confident and get really nervous before interviews, even for jobs that I'm not sure I even want. However, once I pass my nervousness, I can come across as "Excited, engaged, confident, interested in your problems" as you said, and also most times funny and fun to work with! However, I believe that in truth, whilst I can be funny, I'm not that much fun to work with. I can be argumentative, picky, stubborn and not easy to compromise.

I try to work on these attitude issues, but it's not something so easy for me to fix. However, in the interview context, like going on a date, I obviously won't expose those faults.

So there's definitely a disparity between the first impression a person can give, even over 5 hour pair programming sessions, and working day after day with them...
That's a great point, but it's only a definition. Being a definition in an economics text (in this case, just a website) doesn't make it automatically correct. It needs to be proven by research.
A Truly Devastating Graph on State Higher Education Spending
something like this http://www.pushmon.com/
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One small thing I was wondering about - how comfortably can you drive in a pair programming session on someone else's computer?

I mean, I don't mind being in the back seat on whichever editor the driver is using, but if I'm driving, I really feel awkward without vim and my plugins and key bindings etc...
I really recommend NOT going with edis. I have sent my Raspberry Pi there and had constant trouble with it. It’s unreachable via IPv6 and/or IPv4 for long periods of time (days) and good luck contacting anyone about it. I will request to have it sent back soon.

All in all, this is not even usable for any toy projects.
Links to US, European and Canadian patents
http://mdpaste.appspot.com/p/agdtZHBhc3Rlcg0LEgVQYXN0ZRjJoxY...
At home, i have one room just for myself, this is my working room and is temporary in the phase of renovation. I want this room to be great for working, nice and calm and without too many distractions.
My main concern are clients and how to find them. I have few clients now, but this is not too much job for now (which, on the other side is not bad because I have more time for my personal projects) and not too much money, which isn't that great :D.
When I say that I think we need to be more inclusive of women, the last thing I'm saying is that we need to turn every company into an HR police state (trust me, I've worked in those places before and they're hellish).

However, I think I can touch on one of your points to help explain why these seemingly petty word choices are more important than most people think.

> I understand there are lines however. The CouchDB porn star talk was way over the line. That is something I don't even understand how most guys would be comfortable with.

Your response to the CouchDB talk was similar to many people in the tech community, which (correct me if I'm wrong) was, "how did they even think that that would be a good idea?"

Well, chances are the CouchDB guys wanted to be funny and push the envelope a little to generate buzz about their product. But when we're constantly surrounded by this subtle sexualized environment in tech, our perspective changes as we become desensitized to it. So, what may have seemed to be a slightly risque presentation to the CouchDB presenters becomes a much bigger deal to people on the outside looking in.

While it might not seem like a man saying "and look at that cute little hat" about one of the most respected women in our field is a big deal, consider it in the context of what women see or hear at that conference on the same day:

* booth babes

* "dude, I fuckin raped that shit" (related to any job 'done well')

* being groped in an elevator

* scantily-clad women on every desktop background for entire rows of machines

* constant unsolicited flirtation and getting 'checked-out' (and being called a bitch after you say no)

* Guy 1: "I swear to God, this bitch that works with me never does anything right." Guy 2: "Well, I saw on Reddit that a lot of women's brains just aren't designed to program. They're designed for raising children and..." Guy 1: "Making sandwiches" [Both share a laugh]

* "Wow, I'd totally fork his repo."

It's just like...enough already, you know?

Also, I just want to point out that, no matter what the severity of the offense is in the tech community, there are always people that try to diffuse the conversation by saying,"Now, I consider myself to be a die-hard feminist, but we need to learn to pick our battles..." yada yada.

Here's part of Matt Aimonetti's infamous response to the criticism of his CouchDB presentation: "The topic of my talk was obvious, and I would have hoped that people who were likely to be offended would have simply chosen not to attend my talk or read my slides on the internet."
> Extra ways to do the same thing is the enemy of simplicity and orthogonality.

Adding support for moving the cursor with the arrow keys would not involve a very high amount of complexity. I found that Acme required me too much to just let Rob Pike dictate how I should work rather than providing a tool that I can customize to my habits and my needs.
I think you probably need a compelling reason if you're not unemployed and they didn't come to you first.
You're assuming that with less government he wouldn't get screwed as much. However, you've provided no reason to assume that with less government, he wouldn't get massively, massively, massively screwed++ by what remains of the government.
I don't know. I took a random pick of one of the US Patents and took a look at it.

Take US6735249 as an example. "Apparatus, and associated method, for forming a compressed motion vector field utilizing predictive motion coding".

I'm by no means an expert in video codecs, but to me it seems at least plausible that this patent would cover parts of VP8.
You're rather egregiously conflating distinct issues here. You're also committing petitio principii--i.e., begging the question. You assume your premise(s) is/are true and, therefore, your conclusion is true.

Laying out your initial logic, in order:

p1: A has power

p2: B has !power

p3: A exerts power

p4: B exerts !power

c: if p1 and p2, given p3 and p4: asymmetrical situation

Of course it is! And yet nothing is proven.

It sounds an awful lot like you're either intentionally or unwittingly advancing the logically and philosophically weak argument that [undesiredThing]ism = Prejudice + Power--formulated by Bidol, spread by Katz, cornerstone of Bell's Critical Race Theory, and subsumed by Crenshaw's middle-class-feminism+CRT intersectionality fusion--as if it is inherently true and proven. There are myriad problems with that equation.

This maxim has seen a surge in the last couple years as online blogging has massively repeated it ad infinitum. People encounter it and walk away, impressed that they just reduced [undesiredThing]ism to a neat equation proving racism/sexism/Xism only exists at the intersection of prejudice X and [some kind of problematically defined] power.

And yet this has been repeatedly and adequately contested, while the CRT/intersectionality adherents keep moving the goal posts from one form of power to another over the last few decades (they appear to have, for the time being, settled on institutional power).

Again, your logic, as offered (filling in the latent assumptions):

x: ethnic+sexual group

y: involuntary genetic membership in x

z: x historically exerted most institutional/structural power

p1: power is y + z

p2: if p1, sexism is prejudice/bigotry/discrimination against a person based on sex + offender possessing p1

p3: A committed action X against B because of B's gender

p4: B committed action X against A because of A's gender

c1: given p3 and p4, instance-level act is same

p5: if p1, and A has y + z, A has power

p6: if p1, and B has y + !z, B has !power

p7: 'structural level' sexism is caused/reinforced by p2

c2: if p2 and p5, given p3, A is guilty of p2

c3: if p2 and p6, given p4, B is not guilty of p2

c4: if p7, given c2, A causes/proves p7

Does that make things clearer? There are only about a half-dozen premises there that need actual proving.

Oh, also, fwiw, and I'm being pedantic here: saying sexism is sexism--especially after the lengths to which I've gone to actually define sexism--is in no way an equivocation. I do not use ambiguous language; nor do I prevaricate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy
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