skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So being a poor representation of the company sponsoring the project is relegated to being merely a thoughtcrime?

Even if the company espoused your wild viewpoint, not responding as such has toxic consequences for the company itself, which ultimately has negative consequences for all the people employed by Joyent. At the very least, it was a business move.
Brushing your teeth: no longer the best thing for your teeth?
This is the case with every insurer (unless one operated blind and didn't know what it was cutting checks for?) but government at least answers to anti-discrimination standards. If this became normal practice among insurers, then you'd be entirely screwed.
During my University coursework this year I had the same idea during one of my assignments, I wrote something similar without using jQuery as a hack for a entry level web development paper.
> why a username when you know I am going to need to use my SSN

The fewer times you have to enter an SSN, the better. Especially as username-type data is usually shown in text on the screen, might need to be read out over the phone, is vulnerable to phishing, etc.
Interesting article (if a bit clumsily written) but I don't understand why it's so controversial. It should be pretty easy to tell if a photorealistic painting was made with mechanical or optical aids. There will be small positional errors in the image either way -- places where the perspective is almost but not quite perfect. The magnitude and direction of the errors (and how they accumulate) will be very different compared to those in a freehand painting, and shouldn't be too hard to analyze.
Washington Irving Beholds The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of
There's a simple SecureContent (or something like that) flag that can be set by developers; this disables the screen recording.
Whoa- there's no need for you to have name dropped U Chicago. We could have parsed your post just fine without knowing that you attended the world's most elite university.
Usually in these situations, lawyers give high rates expecting the judge to knock it down. Judges always (rightly or wrongly) think lawyers are being paid too much, and often just halve the rate or whatever. This is often true regardless of what number is given.

So if you don't want to end up being ordered by a court to work at 25% of your actual market rate, you often have to give exorbitant numbers.
How are you sure about that? For example I don't know if the people involved ever communicated before and how they relate to each other.
Stories cannot be downvoted.
> I should have said successful communist nations. China isn't communist; it's been capitalist since Deng Xiaopeng opened it up to foreign direct investment in the early 80's.

If you take an equally narrow view of "capitalism" as you necessarily must of "communism" to make this even arguably true (well, and still it wouldn't be true to say China is "capitalist", but at least "not communist"), there aren't any "successful" capitalist nations today either, they all became "socialist" sometime between the late 19th and mid-20th century.

Realistically, most of the worlds major economies are mixed economies, and certainly one can make that case with regard to China -- though its a lot closer to communism than it is to capitalism.

> Finally, Cuba is socialist, not communist, and even they are trending towards capitalism, not communism, as all nations inevitably do.

The Communist Party of Cuba would be as surprised to learn that they aren't Communist (they'd agree that they are socialist, but they'd be baffled at the idea that the two were incompatible.)

At any rate, the idea that all nations eventually trend towards capitalism is ludicrous, especially given that the advanced nations whose systems in the 19th century were the defining exemplars of the term "capitalism" have since all trended toward socialism.
My point still stands that Apple initially removed it when they released Apple Maps. Since messaging is part of Apple's core experience, it's very likely that they'll eventually update their iMessage app.

Snapchat is not unique. In fact, there are far bigger and more popular messaging apps around the world. They just dont get the attention that SnapChat does because it happens to be in California and in the US.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/10/18/best-mobile-messaging-...
> People have presumably been waiting for health insurance for decades, what is one more month?

If you're going to have to go outside the exchange for coverage, the open enrollment period is probably closing very soon. My work ones have traditionally needed a decision made by mid November. By now, I'd have had to tell my employer yes/no on his healthcare - regardless of whether I'd been able to log in to shop around.
Pointing out a complete overreaction is now woman-hating, it seems.

It's almost as if being a misogynist doesn't take any effort whatsoever anymore. It just becomes another mundane everyday action. It shouldn't be, but you're redefining it to be.
Read the issue and the revert in particular. Once committed, it took deliberate desire to be provocative to remove it and threaten someone else's commuter status.
7 hackathons back to back?
This. Talk is cheap. Pull his committer status at least before all the bluster.
Can you be tracked monitoring your phone updates?
Again, something you wouldn't want in a potential employee.
OMG LOL WTF
What the fuck does that have to do with paying the people who pack my orders? 1/200 of what I spend on "eligible purchases" (whatever those are) goes to some other organization.
Isn't using "them/they" in the singular to avoid gendered pronouns still considered grammatically incorrect?

If gendered pronouns are such a big issue why is there no effort to make a lasting official solution by updating the standards of English? I know most of my school teachers would not have let me written "they/them" in this situation. Have things changed and "they" is now acceptable?

I think the only correct solution available today which sounds decent at all is to say "the user".
This was hardly a glamor piece. A detailed history of Spiegel's personal life was presented to paint his $3bn decision as hubris.
Well, that's nothing more like the most basic case of string usage. Of course that works.

For a rather complex multithreaded client/server program that reads and writes difference sources (http, webdav, ldap, file, terminal) with a lot of dependencies it really was a nightmare, trust me. Maybe i didn't get some obvious global "do that unicode stuff right" switch and i am just too dumb. But even then, i've never had such problems in _any_ other language.

Interestingly i did need to write a very similar tool one year later in python and i had much less problems. And that was python 2.x which is always said to have bad unicode support. Maybe it's just because in python (afaik) you only have to take care of some str() or unicode() semantics and not about a gazillion of use statements, open() parameters and whatnot.

Maybe Perl5 has perfect unicode support but how to use and achieve that is a freaking nightmare in a non-trivial program.
I teach classes for assholes to integrate with the rest of society and this a perfect case study in what not to do.

Guy shoulda just let it blow over. Esp when project lead accepts the patch, he doesn't even have a canine level of sociability. Woof.
I actually agree with you; my point was more driving towards the need for a basic income as productivity continues to improve.
I don't think so, I use Mint in part because it removes some of Canonical's garbage- and I really like Cinnamon.
He's not getting "fired" for behavior, he's explicitly getting fired because the decision maker believes that the behavior must be motivated by an attitude the decision maker disapproves of. That's the thoughtcrime. This is not the subtext of the post. It is the explicit text. Also in the explicit text is the decision maker praising an actual employee for probably being free of the thoughtcrime that is a firing offense at his employer. Does that ping your Ominous Sentences radar just a little bit?

Let me try a different tact. Suppose for the moment that you and I have the same politics with regsrds to the underlying issues. It is very very dangerous to endorse employers doing this. Think whose ox is going to get gored more often. It is probably not well-paid cisgendered white men who hold opinions which are widely representative of those in the tech community.
Beautiful, Greenspun's Tenth Rule comes to the hardware department!
> the real story is that she gave them the printout.

That's not what the story says. What's the source of your claims?
The use of railways for transporting petroleum products is booming thanks to the backlash against pipelines such as keystone and gateway. Oil companies who are fearful of incurring public outrage due to pipeline spills are only too happy to hand tanker cars over to the care of railway workers. When statistically inevitable accidents happen the oil producers can escape the blame!

The Lac-Mégantic disaster shows why we should be building more pipelines. Pipelines spill less per unit of volume shipped and usually avoid populated centers to a much greater degree than railways. They're better for the environment and safer for humans. Fossil fuels can be nasty stuff, but we currently still need them and we require the ability to move them around safely. The next time you see environmentalists protesting pipeline construction, ask them why they're not chaining themselves to their local railway tracks instead. We should do our best to avoid rolling bomb's through beautiful towns like Lac-Mégantic on a daily basis.
Function application has high precedence in Haskell, so it would be (collatzLen(a0), a0).
>Is there a source for that?

What? No. Please explain how "increased consultation time (over no consultation at all) would result in better outcomes and fewer injuries."
You're reading too much into his statement.
Yeah, delete your account @ now... just some friendly advice.
"Let's build a compiler" in Rust
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You might want to read up on the term "thoughtcrime."

Ben was an ass and very poorly represented the Node.js community. A "thoughtcrime" is a crime that is a crime because of the thoughts of the perpetrator.
I get the chastising, but this is out of bounds I think.

Just because someone used a commonly abused expression doesn't mean we need to trash on them. It doesn't really teach anyone anything good.

Beat stupid people with intellectual conversation, not "fuck you"s.
I know plenty of quality female engineers who would be greatly offended or disturbed, not to mention female employees overall - it isn't about the he/she controversy itself necessarily (although using male gendered pronouns exclusively has a long history of intimidating women & making them feel less welcome). It may also offend quality male engineers, who feel like the culture at the company is not as rosy as they expected. As a male engineer myself, if I saw such signs, I'd think about jumping ship simply because leadership isn't thinking at a high level about the effects of their actions (or inactions), and word has a habit of getting around (and in this case, it is visible enough as is). Just as companies don't want to associate with something less desirable most of the time, there is a lot of quality employees that feel that way about employers.

Tech companies like to bill themselves as great places to work for all prospective employees they court - this is the type of issue that is exactly an instant dealbreaker for many out there if it is not handled decisively.
Digital Passivity
Your question was discussed at length in the post above. Part of your ability to function on a team requires empathy – deliberately choosing to be antagonistic over an admittedly small effort to be more inclusive shows lurking problems in that area
>The tight deadline you refer to is entirely self-imposed due to profit models.

And/or a scarcity of doctors.
You're making some pretty big assumptions there. I don't think there is any evidence that MySQL databases set up via cPanel (or any other control panel) have default passwords or are inherently insecure. If this was the case, we would be seeing websites being hacked left and right, and not just by intelligence services.
I turn on showdead and I found a comment about Vic Gundotra by a throwaway and posted a link to it in another thread.
I think the article's tone is breathless and find the problems with the website predictable and boring (it also helps that I have insurance and barely need it).

But lots of people are angry about the new health care laws and are linking the laws with the excecutive branch's ineptness at website building, and trying to imply the two are related.

Others just like reading about conflict and struggling against a problem, and getting "insider" information.

The way this article is written helps both groups get that entertainment.

I can't see anything useful about the article though. It's not clear what the website is trying to do, how it interacts with the insurance companies, or to get anything else out of the set of metaphors the author is using to try to describe a website.

Has anyone found any good articles detailing the problems or, better yet, any description of how governments can create or have created successful websites, or how future administrations might approach creating a highly visible website?
moneyrich4, who is hellbanned, has a good question for you:

i have a question for you.
i have a software product, and its so informative it would almost assist someone who copies it. any advice on planning 10 years out for a software product with this problem? planning x years out is not my strong suit.

i've thought a bit about removing stuff that would help competitors but that would hurt my customers. i will probably do this though anyway.
Lesson I took away:

The ++ operator should be deprecated except when it's the only operation on that line.
Cross-Compiling Android Applications to HTML5 Using XMLVM and Emscripten
So have you been using "they" in you comments from the very beginning, or have you used "she", or "he"?
Oh yes there is. He and She can only refer to people while They can refer to things, too. Take for example: "if a person wishes to rungle the querts, they need to configure them such so that they will be in the state indicated by the widget manager". A sentence like that, while ultimately understandable, does cause me mild confusion at first read, and I'm sure I can come up with a more natural-sounding, but more confusing example, if I weren't so tired.

From my point of view, English is basically fucked. You've ended up with third person pronouns that are irredeemably connected with the gender of the person they describe. They is really a cludge that sort of works, but isn't quite a drop-in replacement for good old She and He.

I'd use They when the text can flow naturally with it, but drop to She/He when it starts sounding ambiguous or use any other kind of description. If writing instruction manuals, I'd use You to refer to the user at all times, or just drop to passive form and not mention people's genders at all.
Thoughtcrime is the criminalization of thinking or speaking one's thoughts. Ben acted.
Not a motivation for non-native speakers to contribute to English dominated open-source.
After working with Angular, it pretty much became my only choice for javascript + form combination
Link without a paywall?
There are no women involved in this story, though. People are complaining about the words and actions of men.
"an FAQ" -> "a FAQ"
(I thought jellicle was talking about his own post.)
How does this spill over into our trust of digital currencies like bitcoin, litecoin, and others?
Not at all true. My girlfriend, a Stanford graduate in mechanical engineering, used MOOCs to do a career transition from product design to computational disease research. She would never have been hired without the skills she learned online.
You need authoritative, external real name because without it, all you can conclude is that if you are being MITMed, it's by the same entity MITMed all your other connections with that person.

The alternative would be to confirm the fingerprint of the public key out of band, but lots of entities aren't already authenticated to each other (i.e. I can authenticate my best friend but not Amazon) and don't have a safe/practical way to check each other's public keys.
I don't see a big issue here.

It's not the fault of the industry that certain kinds of labor are cheap. In fact it's nobody's fault, it's just the nature of the market.

The only kinds of response to this situation that make sense are to increase welfare (and reduce the barriers/conditions to obtaining it) and decrease taxes for people on low incomes. Anything else misses the essence of the problem, which is that a large number of people, for whatever reasons, do not produce enough value to earn a decent wage.

Enforcing various laws might help too, but given that all manual work is by nature dangerous, it's not clear that this industry is especially bad.
Snapchat has achieved the kind of user acceptance that only a handful of tech companies ever do. Kudos to them. However, it is a feature, not a product. The next great thing will come along and claim its notoriously fickle user base as fast or faster than Snapchat itself arrived on the scene. The barriers to entry are so low as to effectively be nonexistent.

Evan grew up rich and has family money to fall back on if he fails, so perhaps he can afford to gamble for a bigger payday. The problem is that he is gambling with the financial futures of his investors and employees as well. In my opinion, a bet that Snapchat will ever be valued at more than $3 billion is a long shot, and there is a greater-than-zero chance that the company will be worth nothing two years from now.
The quest to turn computers into creative artists
You might want to repost as Ask HN: etc
I can't find any examples of a pronoun in my personal repository or work repository, but in a few bug submissions I say "she".

But if anyone ever challenged me on it, or suggested it was inappropriate, or rejected a pull request, I'd _totally_ understand. Just as if I accidentally said something which was accidentally racist or ethnocentric. It's not about the original "he", it's about the rejection of active inclusion.

edit: Scanned my whole code tree and ticket database, and found 7 "she"'s, 5 "he"'s and 8 "they"'s. The gendered pronouns were all referring to specific people, except for one "she", referring to a hypothetical external API customer. I've just patched it to "they".

Of course, my team works for a female CTO (me) and is ~50/50 m/f, so we are very much not representative. But since this was totally unplanned, this suggests a curious corollary that the absence of default-masculinity seems to be at least be correlated with gender equality in an office.
Make sure to watch the Youtube video posted at the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWeFP06c4XA

Shows a hand-held DRT-made wireless snooping device deployed in a real mission in Afganistan. I find the floating router-style device coming out of the soldiers backpack amusing compared to the others carrying rifles. A good example of modern warfare (similar to drones).

Also, this part is intersting:

> For example, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams and other paramilitary tactical units could effectively control wireless communications by suspects in a building during a raid.

Assuming they have warrantless wiretapping laws which is why so many governments are pushing for it at the police-level.
I think it's intended to be a hit-piece, it's incredibly blatant about it.

Think about it as the natural counterpart to Steve Jobs' biography and other such pieces making myths out of SV entrepreneurship.
Maybe I missed some context in the linked post, I didn't see much explanation of anything Ben did other than reject a pull request.

Personally I don't think the fight over the use of "he" as a gender neutral pronoun is over and done so without additional context it seems rather extremist to declare Ben as the next Hitler, let alone to imagine what Ben's reasoning was.

Edit: I went back and read the comments on the pull request and the revert and I'm not seeing evidence of misogyny or even anything that could be a firing offense. Yeah Ben was a jerk and who knows maybe his reason for rejecting the pull request was actually misogynistic. Getting rid of a contributor seems like the worst possible solution to the problem though. Remonstrate with them and explain that using gender neutral language is a valid change and that they shouldn't be passive aggressive with their VCS actions if they want to continue to be part of the project. Giving them the boot for perceived thought crimes is just horrible in every aspect.
I suggest you look up the definition of "capitalist" and "communist." All successful nations today are, by definition, "capitalist," as in the government respects the right of the people to own property. Yes, there are some successful mixed economies, but they are "mixed" because the government owns some of the means of production alongside the people, not the other way around. And even those few nations have been liberalizing over the last few decades, a trend which continues today.

By the actual definition of "communism" there are no communist nations today, nor were there ever any for the reasons I gave in my initial argument. The definition of communism I've used for this discussion was actually more lenient than how it is defined.

>The Communist Party of Cuba would be as surprised to learn that they aren't Communist

The Communist Party of Cuba would not be surprised at all. They're just playing the game they've been given, and to think that they don't know the score is to assume they are all idiots right off the bat.

>At any rate, the idea that all nations eventually trend towards capitalism is ludicrous

Every formerly communist/socialist nation on the planet save one has moved to liberalize their economy in the last few decades, because communism/socialism is inherently flawed. All nations do, indeed, inevitably trend towards capitalism. If they choose not to, they inevitably fail, and once they pick up the pieces, they inevitably choose the alternative, which has been proven to succeed time and time again.
I'm not a git expert. I wonder didn't the guy who accepted the commit kind of offend the guy who had already publicly said he wouldn't merge it? If so, reverting the commit would much likely be about something entirely different than pronouns.

Suppose the merger had merged the commit before the discussion, would it also have been reverted? I rather doubt it (not knowing any of the people involved, though).
depends if you say F-A-Q in your head or not. Interesting discussion:

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1016/do-you-use-a...
If your previous policy was cancelled due to ACA and you can't get a new one because the enrollment processes for the exchanges are broken, you get to enjoy a gap in coverage. That is never a good thing.
Posted one hour ago; 66 points, 89 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6824685
Corporations and labor unions are not really equivalent.

If you view them purely from the point of view of market power, then yes, they are the same thing. Both create an oligopoly in the market for buying/selling labor.

But corporations also are the way that both capital and labor are organized to produce an actual product. There is no analogous role for unions, except some special unions that play a large role in management.
The issue here is that the order of function argument evaluation is undefined. If the commas weren't inside of a function call, they would result in sequence points. So, this would be well defined:

int a = 0, b, c;
b = a++, c = a++;

But, there is no defined order in which to evaluate function arguments.