skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a wonderful book by David Hockney called "Secret knowledge: recovering the lost techniques of the Old masters" where he lays out some pretty compelling evidence for this idea. It's also beautifully designed, as you might expect from Hockney. I keep meaning to try out some of the techniques mentioned to see how well they work but haven't got round to it yet.
Telecom equipment is actually -48v. It's done that way to reduce galvanic corrosion. The system has been in place since the original Bell system was based on 12v batteries.
I specifically had multiple women both on my Twitter timeline and in private communications tell me how alienated they feel by gendered language, and this reaction to fixing it in general.
You're trying to paint a reality that doesn't really exist. In practice the employer competition you mention comes down to competing who can pay the least, not who can pay the most. Income statistics show this trend very well, real income for workers is steadily declining. There is a fundamental imbalance of power, which can only be corrected with workers organizing into unions (and only somewhat if we're talking about conventional bureaucratic unions).

I don't know where and in what social circles you live in, but most people on this planet can not simply choose to get an education that can significantly change one's material status. It costs money. Lots of money.

Mind you, I'm in no way a supporter of state or taxes, but saying people who face real existential risks tied to not having a job or having only access to low paying jobs have more choice than people who don't like paying taxes is ultra cynical. It is not my intention to offend you, but it simply is. Get some perspective please.
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When you ask how much time doctors 'have' to spend with each patient, I assume you are using have as in 'how much time do they possess' and not 'are required to spend'. Assuming you are using the former (mainly because there does not seem to be a mandated minimum), doctors have as much time as they want to spend with each patient. The problem is that it's less profitable to spend more than a few minutes, and it's even more profitable to pass off the responsibility of seeing patients to those that lack a doctor's credential (who earn less).

The tight deadline you refer to is entirely self-imposed due to profit models.
Thanks! So I see that the concept exists and is considered a sign of maturity, not rudeness. Good! I think I'll do it.

As to whether it is through my network or not -- I'll try my network, but a well-phrased email that shows I am a serious professional is usually enough to get a foot in the door, even with someone who doesn't know me.
I think there's a misunderstanding. The author doesn't mean actual postcards – like holiday greetings and the like – those are actually sent in the public and nobody cares. The author means sending letters without envelopes.
These interviews being in the first two weeks, though. Is that 'regularly'?
People who are downvoting dgquintas, can you explain why? Or explain why this doesn't work? It seems to fulfill the problem?
The fact that it's confusing should clue you in to the fact that needlessly gender-specific pronouns are treacherous: you're not even actively aware of the gender assignment you make at the first pronoun, but are instantly aware when the assignment is violated.
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Two high-profile lawyers and three others for 40 billable hours per week comes to a about $350/hr on average. Assuming the the two top lawyers are billed at at around $500/hr, it's probably less than 40 billable hours/week, and the rest of the team is fairly priced.

Apple seems to be posturing.
Is there a source for that? Someone in this thread mentioned things like egg allergies as a source for vaccine complications, and it isn't hard to imagine that increased consultation time (over no consultation at all) would result in better outcomes and fewer injuries.
Yes, it's just feel. A peppy intelligent response will give me a more positive feel than no response or a cold, guarded response.

That is far from a good indicator, but it is a start.

And if the communication goes well, I can schedule a call or continue the email correspondence.
What makes you think the rates are "extortionate?" I don't really know if they are or not, but I'm wondering if you have some information that supports your position?
That is a mighty slippery slope you're positing, sir, but good luck with your alternatives.
You should read the complaint. The hourly rate is explicitly $1100/hr for Bromwich, and $1025/hr for his staff. Apple's legal team uses the number from the bill for two weeks in order to compare it to a judge's typical annual salary.
Well, if you just balance TCP connections across physical connections, you could then combine this with a multi-connection HTTP download client and get the effect without any one piece having knowledge of it all (aside from the human). But yes, it's not going to be useful in general for everything.
You are assuming 50 hours per week each, all for this one case, not supported by the article
Forget political correctness. Using needlessly gender-bound pronouns is simply bad writing, as is ostentatiously randomizing pronouns. You are not a better writer than Conrad, or Jane Austen. Both would tell you: English has a singular gender-neutral pronoun; it's "they".
Huh. I posted this same article about two days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6810685

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/san-francis...
I recently did my first job search (about to graduate). I emailed one company cold and this resulted in a useful informational interview. I tried it a few other places and got no reply.

Note: I was not emailing a specific developer, but instead the main company contact info. Like you, I asked to talk to determine fit.

I got much better results when I already knew someone at the company.
Saturdays are probably the low-traffic day on HN. I remember pg saying once that Wednesday was the peak day. It's possible the algo compensates for a lack of traffic. Fewer submissions might affect the decay of popular items.
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For those who haven't seen it, this is what the fire looked like, taken from an amateur cam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRb3JHsiqfA. Horrifying...
> "He" or "She" removes any ambiguity that you are referring to a singular person. Whereas "they" could mean a single person, a group of people or some inanimate object.

You can't just drop a pronoun like "they" or "he" in without a previously-named referent (the way you could with "one" or "many"), so the kind of ambiguity you refer to here is almost never a problem in practice. Its only an issue which creates a difference between the two pronouns in the case where there a multiple named referents already to which the pronoun could be referring, and some are in the broader class that "they" can refer to but not in the class that "he" can refer to.
The power to strike is no help when you depend on your paycheck to survive

Well managed unions maintain a strike fund so that their members can survive the economic hardship of a strike.

After googling a little I think you are talking about Graduate Students United - their dues are only $5/year, which means they aren't even in the same league as the serious blue collar labor unions.

http://uchicagogsu.org/faq/
Perhaps Amazon could add a checkbox to the shopping cart: [] pay 10% more that will go directly into the pockets of the packers.

I wouldn't even mind a picture gallery of everybody who handled my package.
Radius.com seems to be all about lead generation?

Plus they're kind of interviewing potential customers - I was rejected to get access because I worked for not their target segment at a time.
Assessing a fine, paid to govt or restitution is one thing. Mandating an extorntionate contract , payable to the judge's buddy, is another.
excessive meeting requests interfere with top executives interfere with the company's ability to conduct everyday business, which isn't the purpose of a "compliance monitor".

If anything, the percentage of the executive's time should be limited to the percentage of their profits derived from said antitrust violation. Apple has about $30B in revenue; depending on the source, Apple at most had about $300M in revenue a year from eBook sales (probably much lower than that). So 1% of each executive's time, or about 20 minutes per week, seems about right.
Strong AI is one of those hand-wavey things that makes you sound like you're talking about something well defined, when you actually aren't. Has always struck me as counter-productive.

Frustrating stuff.
I agree. This was the spirit of my original hypothetical question -- to ascertain the sincere belief from the practitioner. I apologize that my idea was so confrontational, when your suggestion does the same thing.

The sum of the studies and education (I assume they are both untainted and unbiased) is expressed in their application to their own kin.
Android (Google) did not rebrand the kernel, they just don't mention it.
To all the people and law enforcement officials that live by the "if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't worry about your privacy", I say that's your very own and primitive explanation. I hide/encrypt/lock my stuff because I DO NOT TRUST you in handling my private info and therefore my life. Most government org cannot keep their own stuff private, not to mention my personal info. Same applies to a lock on my house: I do not lock my door because I sit at home and build an atomic bomb and do not wont officials to know about it; I lock my door because you (LE) do a pathetic job at keeping my house safe from burglars.

As I keep repeating, next 911 will not come in form of six people stealing our planes, on our airports hitting our buildings; it will come from Chinese/other government hackers stealing our own data, neatly stored and organized in our NSA's locker-rooms. And that's why its a horror idea for anyone to have all information on entire nation, within one database (I know its bit more complicated than that).

As the nation and most others based its order on organized information, you can imagine entire country on a full economical lockdown, once all your credit card, all your social security info and all your data leaks out to third parties/pirates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
They don't work. "Verbatim", which claims to be what "" used to be, does not work either. Nothing to be done about it.
Can anyone explain the "Paul Graham won't let me" part of this post?
Actually, I'm nowhere "ideologically pure" as you think I am.

I'm still using my google-sanctioned stock android, and I routinely use some sort of closed source software...

My point was more like: I'm using google-android now, out of convenience, but I stopped strictly seeing Android releases[1] as improvements (and thus I _might_ refrain to use KitKat... if I'll move to a google-less cyanogenmod or to Ubuntu or Jolla I still don't know)

Also, My intention was not to be rhetoric: I just found Stallman definitions of freedom useful in this context to understand what some people are complaining about

[1] as in "Android used on Nexus", compared to AOSP
chas explained it very well already, I'd just like to add that this is called a "lambda function" (or lambda expression) or an anonymous function, just in case you want to look it up. There's more on it here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Anonymous_function
Other than the principle that the user shouldn't have to wage war on his own phone, rooted phones are usually also blocked from corporate networks.
Ah, got confused as you said terminal.
This doesn't have to be all or nothing, you can use mobile devices to supplement social interaction.

At some of our dinners, conversation will flow, and people will wonder about some fact, one of us will find it on wikipedia, conversation will ebb, and someone will check a feed for an interesting recent story to add to the discussion.

We used to have petty bar arguments, but now we're all able to quickly identify what's simply a research question, and we get far less invested. We now have debates or probing discussions about issues and values that are deeper and more personal than "who was that guy in that movie from the 80s."

I'd avoid guidance that tells you to always set some technology aside in some situations, and instead ask, "How can I use this tool to make what I'm doing better?"

Just keep in mind that you're involved in a group project, and the goal is increasing the total group's enjoyment, not solely increasing your personal enjoyment.

If you get that, then setting tech aside isn't necessary. If you don't get that, then setting tech aside isn't sufficient.
Timings on my machine (2.67ghz Xeon W3520):

$time ./c_compiled_with_O2 1000000
real	0m0.362s
user	0m0.360s

$time ./c_compiled_with_O3 1000000
real	0m0.189s
user	0m0.184s

I also tried dropping all the cdefs from the Cython code and running the Python version in Parakeet (http://www.parakeetpython.com) and it took 0.57s (whereas CPython without the @jit decorator took 19.57s).
It's not really about the They VS. He issue. No one got worked up about the original commits/documentation. What people are strongly objecting to, correctly in my opinion, is the divisive and condescending way in which the commits were reverted and the reason why they were reverted. Simply put he said that making the project feel more welcoming for women was a trivial and unimportant. It's basically the same as actively promoting the myth that open source is a white male only thing, not cool IMO.
Actually I was talking about the organization that represents low-paid university workers, like janitors and cafeteria workers. I reworded my post to clarify.

Graduate students are a whole 'nother basket of beans.
I know that DRM isn't explicitly defined as encryption, but encryption is usually the apparatus that achieves the goal of DRM. In most modern situations DRM schemes involve carefully implemented encryption.

But ultimately, the content is being defended with encryption.

If there's a dossier in an office somewhere, because I visited a doctor, I would want the clerks charged with handling that dossier to exert control over it. If they're saving it to disk on a server in a basement IT closet, I'd want it encrypted.

Meanwhile, if I was an employee at a production company, producing a television episode, I'd probably be expected to exert the same degree of control over the fragments of unfinished content, as they trickle in from the soundstage and are finished up in post production, but then, they undergo a different type of encryption, when locked up in DRM for release to paying subscribers.

The question is more an ethical one, not a technical one.

If we have encryption as a tool we might use, when is its use respectable, and when is its defeat admirable, and why? Why is it cool when we crack DVDCSS, but awful when the NSA breaks into Google and bypasses their SSL firewall? Are we just hypocrites who want to have their cake and eat it too, or is there an appreciable measure of difference between the two?
That's ludicrous.

Ive is an industrial designer, recently tasked with some UI work. His relevance to anything ebook related is less than zero.

Cook is in charge, so he has to show up sometimes, sign off on SOX paperwork, etc. The entirety of Apple's compliance effort is managed by someone else, but every project needs a Responsible Individual.
Yeah I have no idea why pg is mentioned.
If the interacting entities are not persons, we have "it" as a neuter pronoun. If they are persons, we can use "he" and "she" alternately, "he/she" (somewhat cumbersome and stilted), or "they".
now i can use dispatch proxy on application bases like firefox or aria2c, simply by adding the proxy "localhost:8080" to the proxy section on these applications

but how to use it system wide ? so apps that don't support the use of proxies will be able to benefit from all this ?

edit: I'm using Mac
It looks like his comments are dead in the original post and maybe he is suggesting PG did it.
There's also this recent Kickstarter, the NeoLucida, that was all about remaking similar lens / optic devices artists and painters used in the past: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neolucida/neolucida-a-po...
I wasn't the commenter, but as to vaccines being 'rushed', I'd imagine that most people feel a Hep vaccine for a 1 day old is probably not necessary due to the exposure a newborn simply wouldn't have to the virus. The CDC lists the common ways it is spread, and none are likely other than contracting from the mother (who can be tested before birth).

How likely are any of these events for a newborn? Would waiting a week, a month, etc put an infant at risk?

From CDC site:
"Babies and children can get hepatitis B in the following ways:

At birth from their infected mother.
From bites from an infected person.
By touching open cuts or sores of an infected person.
Through sharing toothbrushes or other personal items used by an infected person.
From food that was chewed (for a baby) by an infected person.
From ear piercing needles that were not cleaned well."

Source - http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/hepb/fs-parents.html
Edit - added CDC info
linkbait.
"By the mid-20th century, large rectifiers installed at two downtown substations supplied the current, pushing 250-V DC onto a rectangular loop of 3.6-centimeter-diameter cable."

OK, can anyone explain why each of the drum-wind elevator motors does not have its own small rectifier and be run from local AC mains (possibly cross-phase for 1.4x voltage)?

As this interesting article goes on to say the local power company is splitting the DC distribution into smaller isolated networks anyway...
God I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time, but just didn't have the networking chops to get started. Glad someone beat me to it!

I imagine this would work well, not just on networks you own, but with cooperative neighbors as well. What if an entire floor of an apartment building used the same proxy? Would that work?
The non-optional-ness of Google Now if you expect Maps to actually function properly is the single most irritating thing Google have ever done. They're basically saying you have to consent to us slurping all of your info in order to use any of our services. The net result is I'm now always looking for alternatives.

If I was a Shuttleworth type character I would throw my money into creating a Google-free Android with full on replacements for Maps, Gmail, Calendar and the Play Store. Frankly, Microsoft should probably do this - throw away Windows Phone and produce a bundle of Android apps that give you top class maps and Exchange server integration.
So it would be OK if your bank statements came rubberbanded together (or in transparent plastic "patriot envelopes") with your balances showing (for your convenience)? How about credit card statements showing what you owe? The results of that HIV test maybe?
Make sure you have showdead on. In this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6822578 he posted a comment (twice, not sure why) that ended up [dead] (also not sure why). He's not hellbanned, so that particular comment must have been either flagged repeatedly or killed by moderators. In either case, he blames PG personally for the comment being [dead] (which seems to fit his personality).
you are right, but we are working in stealth; only to save the fun for a launch. The problem with showcasing the product too early is someone emails you claiming the troll IP, and it happened.
The user needs to know that some data has already been sent,
to stop [the user] from sending it twice.

[...] is our only way to signal to the user that [the user]
should stop writing [...]

When considering pronouns at all, take recourse to The Zen of Python:

Explicit is better than implicit.

It is not about non-gendered/gendered. Pronouns shouldn't be used at all. This improves documentation.

Using "they", regardless of the "gendered pronoun" debate is incorrect. The "user" might be transgendered, or might identify as Third Gender. Source Code and Documentation should contain no gender leanings what-so-ever, in preference for explicitness.
It looks like his comment posted at the original thread was dead. You can see it if you set "showdead" to on.
No, but as soon as there's enough permanently unemployed workers, the sooner we get our precious guaranteed income, right?
I believe he's being satirical. Obviously a bad job is (usually) better than no job, that's the point. The whole concept of "exploitation" makes no sense. The businesses that do hire are benefiting people way more than those that don't hire any at all or have replaced workers with automation.

Something like a basic income could distribute money from all those industries at the same time to those who need it. It would solve the unemployment problem, or at least make it more bearable, and improve working conditions for these workers.
"They" can be either singular or plural.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Women are not underrepresented in technology because of male-gendered
pronouns in code comments.

I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting that.

As someone in the earlier discussion suggested, if you want to make a
difference, quit complaining about pronouns and go help mentor some girls at
your local school [...]

I believe promoting more inclusive language does make a positive difference. Regardless, can't one do both of these things? I don't see how they're incompatible.
Of course you can't (although I do believe we can and should be free from unwanted, unpleasant labour). But hey, you asked a value based question and got a value based answer. ;)
Because then competitors know how much of Apple's time they have to waste (in court) to produce a certain amount of Apple legal expenses.
At first glance this seems reasonable but if you look at the history of the pull request, he clearly trivializes the issue and rejects it based upon it not being important enough.
The complaint lays out what's being paid and dvanduzer pointed out below the $1100/hr figure is just for Bromwhich, his staff is an additional $1025/hr. I don't think anyone would find that to be reasonable.
I guess if it's actually zero, it's like a accepting a check with a proof that the account ever had the requisite funds.
I'll agree that the original PR was legit, and probably should have been merged.

However, if a rejected pull request can be overridden, then that pretty much rules out having PRs anyways. Perhaps Isaac should be able to merge his own PRs. If that's not the procedure, then it's not procedure.

Again, maybe I'm totally missing something here. I believe people are pissed because of the content of the commit that was rejected/reverted, but you have to separate that from what seems to be a run around the established policy.
On a Mac set it in System Preferences > Network > Advanced... > Proxies > SOCKS Proxy.

Many Mac programs will automatically pick it up.
Formulaic linkbait, almost looks auto-generated [this website]+[well-known figure]+[buzzphrases]+[won't let me write]
Coming Soon, a Night Watchman With Wheels?
Mr. Li envisions a world of K5 security bots patrolling schools and communities, in what would amount to a 21st-century version of a neighborhood watch. The all-seeing mobile robots will eventually be wirelessly connected to a centralized data server, where they will have access to “big data,” making it possible to recognize faces, license plates and other suspicious anomalies.
Any hashing function would do it, but you leave your fingerprints and DNA anywhere. Would be easy to get access to it and copy.