skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please note that I also talked about being less warm and friendly -- i.e. behavioral changes, not just clothing -- and the piece is primarily about workplace or professional issues between the sexes, not sexual assault. My rant was inspired by a discussion of a workplace issue where it was not clear cut if the man was "behaving badly" or not but it was clear that the woman wanted him to behave differently towards her. I was roundly criticized for suggesting that dressing more conservatively for a time in response to the issue might help convey a lack of romantic interest in the man without being confrontational. I was told how she dressed at work had absolutely nothing to do with how men at work treated her, the man was merely a creep, etc. We only knew her side of the story. Perhaps he was a creep. Perhaps not.

Saying "it's all his fault, he is merely a creep!" is a) jumping to conclusions without knowing both sides of the story and b) pretty disempowering for the woman. If he is merely a creep and the things the woman does are irrelevant, that leaves you with what? Quit your job or put up with unwanted attentions? Not a great set of choices if, like most people, you need your paycheck. I am proposing that dress and behavior can influence how men treat a woman and if you are a woman who is serious about having a career, you should take some responsibility for your half of it and not just bitch about how all men are led around by their pecker and there is nothing a woman can do about it.

I did work for a Fortune 500 company for over 5 years. I did deal (very diplomatically) with unwanted male attention on the job. I have also dealt with that in other professional situations. This is not just someone blowing smoke based on zero experience or research.

As a woman who (somewhat to my bafflement) comes across as a LOT more aggressive than I wish I did, I assure you that a woman who reads as super aggressive on the job is doing herself no favors. Female passivity is pretty expected in most social settings. Being too aggressive gets you all kinds of attention of the wrong sort and does not help your career.

I have also been sexually assaulted (as a child) and have read a lot about the topic. This is not really the place to argue that issue but I will suggest that a woman can dress conservatively and not read as submissive or passive. I tend to dress conservatively. I also tend to be mistaken for someone in charge, sometimes in situations where I am at the bottom of the ladder, not the top.
Wow.

I kind of agree - but really let's say we listen to our inner doubts, we mutiny and throw Ahab overboard, we are still on a whaler in the middle of the ocean. Now what?

Our (global?) society is on course for destruction on the ocean - but that course is also sailing use closer to the promised land. Every innovation, every step closer to the singularity requires us to move faster, land more sure-footedly. Yes we could balls it all up, start a mindless war that tips the balance, refuse to cooperate in trade or keep the next Einstein in a poverty stricken barro to die of diseases we cure with a single needle.

but then we could not - we could survive on the knife edge - learn how to sail better, close to the wind.

Destruction is not inevitable - it is just somewhere between likely and probable. All the more reason not to give into dsspair - not let Ahabs obsessions distract him from the survival of the ship, but for us to watch and honestly discuss the ships course - and find a way for the whole world to choose together our next course.

(yeah a little too flowery language - sorry. it's late)
ASTROIDS – Stayin' Alive [video]
Language learning, gamified.
NBC On Richard Engel's Hacking Report
+1

AngelList is awesome.

network for intros, preferably warm.
failing that, just email the CEO directly. write a kickass email pitching yourself and detailing your skills. tactfully follow-up.

network some more.

founders have (and want to see) passion and hustle. show them you have these qualities and you shouldn't have trouble landing a paid internship if not an entry-level role.

last resort: get a few unpaid internships at startups you love. if one doesn't turn into a full time offer, you'll have some awesome experience you can use to get the attention of other startups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime

> Besides, the majority of immigration within Switzerland are Europeans (because this law is for quotas about EU immigrants), the majority of which are French and Germans with a good level of qualifications, a frankly not so different culture, and the same language as the Swiss.

Ok, that's a good point.
Great text by Susan on very important issue. I'm a male software engineer and the predominance of male pears has been the only major downside of being in the business for me ever since i started studying CS almost 20 yrs ago. It should be understood and fixed for the sake of future generations.
what joke? You really need to chill out and stop lecturing people. What are you, 12?
I did something semi-related with beatpaths.com when it was active. I created a cyclic graph of NFL team wins. There would obviously be loops (such as two teams in a division splitting the series). So I'd simply remove the loops from the graph; smallest loops first. Eventually you'd end up with a DAG (perhaps with multiple roots), and I'd run a modified tsort (with various tiebreakers) to come up with a power ranking. It was kind of a silly website but I wanted to see how accurate NFL picks could be using only wins and losses. (Answer: somewhat competitive with other methods, but not very - but still, fun, and with pretty pictures!)

Anyway, yes - you can come up with a full ranking of candidates in a Condorcet method by finding the condorcet winner (or schwartz set), removing, and running again, and keep going until you've fully ranked all candidates.
The swiss enjoy the many benefits of the European Free Trade Association and want to be as integrated into the EU economy as possible without actually having to pay the price that comes with full membership. Not everybody is happy about this and I expect the EU to retaliate by putting more pressure on the freedoms of Swiss banks.

Can't have your lunch and eat it.
Reactive legislature. Preferably backed by visionaries.
I do blame Dell for my blown speakers. I also do like VLC's feature to boost audio in quiet movies. What I don't like is is the sound of digital clipping, how VLC makes it easy to clip, and how VLC remembers these terrible settings.
It seems like that's the fundamental split between Ian and Everyone Else. Russ, Bdale, Steve, and Colin all want to make sure that people don't start creating unreasonable dependency chains ("I want the functionality provided by logind for my DE, therefore I will require systemd as the init system") when alternatives are available ("I need the functionality provided by logind so I require that and let systemd or the Canonical fork of logind provide it").

Ian is speccing it out so that nothing may ever rely on capabilities provided by a init implementation unless the Debian developers add that functionality to every possible init system in the archive. That is a very odd position, to put it mildly (you couldn't e.g. ship a GUI tool to manage upstart. You'd have to rewrite it to support systemd, as well).
Yes, and it's just as true in that case.

>attempting to create something worthwhile from it

You say that as though the sample itself is not worthwhile or valuable. There are plenty of modern songs for which the only reason they are popular or sound good is that they sample older tunes. And it's simply not easy to create a good-sounding, catchy sample. So whoever owns it deserves to get paid, and it's no one's fault but the original artist if he or she sold off the rights to it for a pittance.
Broken by design: systemd
Good to see this article getting the attention it deserves, after it was unfairly overlooked the first time.
They have not rolled out IPv6 en-masse. I have Comcast and I do not have IPv6. They have only rolled it out to certain states, what amounts to about 25% of their customers[0] (as of December, might be much higher by now but still not 100%).

[0]: http://www.comcast6.net/index.php/8-ipv6-trial-news-and-info...
The headline is a lie. There is no form, only an elaborate captcha that mocks my love for both Nintendo and Police. It's not even an effective captcha since you can just send a click and then hold down the 'up' arrow for a bit over a minute to beat it. Obviously, I missed the point.

[edit] Headline since changed from "Best contact form ever". [/edit]
What's The Point If We Can't Have Fun?
Failure to think critically about how to value life results in harmful abortion and euthanasia laws and is contributing to the high cost/benefit ratios of our healthcare system. We have quite enough people thinking only emotionally about these issues.
Wordpress has zillion of tests.WP real problem is its architecture but since its authors want to support legacy PHP versions it's not going to change.
It's an impressive software demo, but actually the worst contact form I've ever seen.

The "win screen" is rather tasteless as well. It tells me I probably don't want to contact them after all.
Interesting; however the "E" keybinding doesn't seem to work for me on Chrome @ OSX. No JS errors though.
"F" and "T" worked fine.
Because range voting embraces the property of valuing votes differently per voter. Implicitly, range voting gives more weight to voters who are aware of the top two candidates and can strategically rate one much lower than the other, even if their opinions of them are approximately the same.

Valuing one voter over the others like that is a dangerous road to travel down.
A friend said: cofounders are the biggest driver before getting funded and the biggest obstacle after.
1.4MB file. I don't think it worked lol
What's interesting about a by-the-numbers account of Flappy Bird's success is how starkly apparent the weaknesses of the app store model of surfacing and distributing apps seem to be in retrospect. Think about it: the app store organizes apps almost exactly like web directories organized websites in the 90's -- there are human-curated catalogs, and a single store acts as a directory for essentially all known apps. It's like Yahoo! was in 1994.

Considering that Flappy Bird was made popular by power users on other platforms (particularly YouTube), I think that this point is really important: the app store is probably not the best platform to surface new apps.

A good exercise for entrepreneurs is to think of a better model. If anything, the success of Flappy Bird is one hell of an incentive to find out.

(Also: if you have ideas about this, like me, we should have a chat.)
I wonder if there's any particularly good way to gamify learning grammar, though— you can't really quantify it in the same way as you can vocabulary.

My favorite suggestion for online language learning, whose source I've long since forgotten, is to have a story / article / other piece of writing that gradually transitions from English grammar to language-being-learned's grammar, then performs a similar transition over vocabulary (like http://dotsies.org/stories/the-lamplighter.html , but with an alternate language instead of alphabet).

I haven't seen any implementations of this, and it'd probably be practically impossible to automate, but feel like it has some potential.
>I would love it if a Haskell-like language ended up becoming as widely used as Ruby is today, but I don't think it's going to happen. I've met one or two developers in my life whose eyes don't glaze over when I talk about lambda calculus, algebraic data types, or higher order functions that go beyond mapping over an array-like data structure. Trying to explain monads prompts most people to say they left their oven on and flee the room.

You are probably working in the wrong company. I know dozens of colleagues who know what lambda calculus and moands are.
I think the Hyperion cantos would be a single book rather than 4, or a closely joined 2-part novel/sequel, if not for market forces demanding books in the <700-800 page range for popular consumption. There are series that are loosely connected, and then there are series that are practically a single work, like the LotR trilogy. The Hyperion cantos is similar to LotR that way.

It sounds like you heard the Endymion pair are rubbish and avoided reading them. Wherever you heard that, they're not. Look at the ratings on goodreads[1], for instance. You're talking about them as if the Endymion volumes fell off a cliff like Vinge did with Children of the Sky[2]. Not so. The amazon ratings distribution for Endymion is a bit lackluster compared to the other volumes, but still nothing that could be called "rubbish".

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=hyperi...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=zones+...
> The point is that sample-based music can (and should) still be an original work.

No it shouldn't. Or at least it should still require consent of the original sample owners (and any compensation that would entail).

If it were so easy to make samples and they were so disposable that anyone could come up with them, then there would be no need to sample older work and no one would do it. But in actual fact it's difficult to create catchy samples, and they are therefore valuable, and their owners deserve to have rights over them.
After browsing their site, I still have no idea what this company does.
So you're arguing that inflood of immigrants is not a benefit, but rather a "price" you have to "pay"?

That's an interesting twist to our discourse.
Along with the point you've just made, I thought about this after my last post, related to the difference between a tablet and the cloud. If a company changes the Linux kernel or an open-source application and includes it in their mobile device, they have to release the source on demand. As intended. (And there have been a number of high-profile cases in which companies tried to avoid releasing source.)

But if they change the Linux kernel or an open-source server utility and put it on their cloud server, they don't. An unintended outcome, and one that makes the cloud different than what came before it.

So I concede that the cloud is different, and it does affect the idea of open-source.

The line is drawn if and when a client machine downloads an open-source app from the cloud. If that never happens, then there's no requirement to release source.
Same for Chrome on Windows.
On my devices doing the first causes apps using the Google Play Services to report that you've disabled the location service completely, while the direct GPS based apps continue just fine.

The broader point here is wanting to be able to remove Google's service software from the equation, and run only code you can actually inspect the contents of for this kind of data. To be honest those apps having direct GPS access isn't ideal either and this should all be proxied through a standardised open source app on the device.
When I became a teenager, I got wind that it wasn't something "cool" and got spooked. For someone as insecure as I was, having a hobby that I couldn't really "explain" to normal people was embarrassing.

When I was a teenager, coding or being technical in general wasn't cool either, and most of the people who were involved were or at least seemed insecure and embarrassed. Perhaps the climate in middle / high schools has changed since, but if not, we could also ask: what makes many boys persist in their uncool, embarrassing, low-ish status activity?
No it isn't. The fact that the original authors sold off the rights for (perhaps) a pittance is regrettable, and depending on the circumstances possibly illegal. But that's a separate issue.

Samples are still valuable and whoever their rightful owners are, they deserve to be in control of their use.
I think you are right, letting them run into that knife is probably the best way. However, the counterargument also holds some sway: Switzerland is free-riding already, having many of the common market benefits of the EU without giving he loss of sovereignty that EU membership entails.

The whole EFTA agreement only works because Swizerland etc. are relatively small compared to the rest of the EU. If everybody had the EFTA deal and there was no EU, the whole thing would go to shambles within a few decades.
I don't know if I agree with this. I was just talking to my friend about Flappy Bird reviews.
When I first got Flappy Bird in early February, the button to rate the game was in the same place where I usually tapped to make the bird fly. Since the "Rate this App" button appeared so quickly after losing the game, I almost rated the app like 5 times in just a couple of minutes. I would like to see the different versions of the app and when this feature / bug was introduced.
HARDWARE HANGOUT with James “Laen” Neal from OSH Park
It's exactly as easy to decrease VLC's audio level back to normal as it is to increase it.

Anyway if you don't like it remembering the last audio level, go to Tools > Preferences > Audio, check the "Always reset audio start level to" box, and set it to 100%. Voila!
Arrow's Theorem has to be one of the most over-celebrated yet uninteresting bits of math out there. I myself even thought it was a cool way of challenging alternative voting systems when I first started studying them.

But, as you say, Arrow's Theorem is simply too broad with it's definition of "fair". It's entirely reasonable for the voters to have a list of candidates they hate and a list of 3 candidates they would prefer, and for there to be a rock-paper-scissors situation among those top three candidates. It's entirely possible to have a voting system that only chooses from among the rock-paper-scissors options, and indeed every Condorcet system will make such a choice. Those options are the Smith set.

The tragedy is that Arrow's Theorem is often used to justify systems (like plurality or range voting) that often won't choose from among those top three, and might even choose the Condorcet loser! I'm not sure what a good definition of "fair" is, but I'd settle for not picking the candidate that would lose to literally every other candidate in a one-on-one election.
Oh, Google as a whole will of course be fine. But it'd be insane to have a huge engineering office in a small country and a bad immigration policy. So they'll grow elsewhere, and Switzerland loses out. (I worked in Google's Zurich office the last time there was a big immigration quota scare, IIRC 2008 or 2009 when they cut various quotas in half with no warning. It definitely wasn't treated internally as casually as you imply.)
I am a recent graduate of CS and completed a year of C after my first year in Java. Then finished the final two years in something of interest and software development courses. I had the ability to do this at a single school and feel I got a full education in terms of covering a large area of study and understanding coding as well as the science behind it. I do however still feel overwhelmed at times and am constantly learning. Lynda for language basics because languages are cool and Two Scoops because Python and Django are awesome.
1) Perhaps it's just the poor and unemployed immigrants that cause criminality. But still, you can say that immigration increases unemployment and therefore criminality.

2) That's why it's important who can immigrate. An uneducated family escaping from a poor country?

3) 4) 5) Ok, good points, these were mostly general arguments against immigration.

As for the unified culture - I would say that their culture is more unified than in the rest of europe. Languages are not that important.
OK will try it at some point...
http://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm is a nice overview as well.
> I've seen poor parts of downtown with empty sidewalks and boarded up storefronts. Must be the parking lots?

The poor parts of town don't have much money because... they are the poor parts of town, maybe? Just maybe?

BTW, sports stadiums would probably benefit from lack of a parking lot in a reduction of the number of drunk driving accidents in the surrounding area.
"Step back a moment, and look at what we really need to bring back from orbit - it's the astronauts. Nothing else."

By saying that you're wilfully ignoring the key reason the Shuttle was designed the way it was; not to bring astronauts back but to return DoD satellites to Earth for servicing. That was only done a few times in practice, but drove the whole design process ( including the cross-range manoeuvring capability that led to wings being added).
Dark Igloo is a company that specializes in branding.

If you don't want to contact them, you probably wouldn't have been a client of theirs anyway.
Mind = Blown Flappy Bird Has Been Removed By The Developer As Promised
Show HN: yourpersonaldotcom.com
A small project I whipped up. I'd like to add features to it gradually, and eventually make it an email hosting/forwarding service for the everyman. Until I get around to making the rest, though, it's still a useful domain search for people (not companies).

http://www.yourpersonaldotcom.com/
What disturbs me most about this is the complete lack of empathy people have for the guy. Just look at the comments on the link explaining that Flappy Bird was removed from the app store.

Our culture is so completely and utterly obsessed with money that everyone says he's an idiot for taking down an app without realizing the chaos one goes through in a situation like that. They hurl insults like "weak" and "fragile" as though someone isn't allowed to be shy ever since the internet happened. The sheer amount of greed on display in debates about this game is deeply unnerving, and it seems as though modern culture has forgotten that there are many things that are more important than money. It seems as though our entire country is hopelessly addicted to accumulating more and more pieces of green paper, only to be puzzled when having a large number in their bank account fails to actually solve any of their problems.
French journalist "hacks" govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+
This article is rather spectacularly missing the point. It suggests that it's the movie equivalent of prosecuting filmmakers for using the standard idea of an establishing shot, as seen in The Magnificient Seven. That's quite obviously not the same thing - no-one prevents filmmakers using an idea. But sampling is the equivalent of a filmmaker using the ACTUAL FOOTAGE from The Magnificent Seven and putting it in their own movie and selling it as if it were their own. That is quite obviously not going to fly.

The article suggests that Jay Z raps over a break from a Madonna song and is then surprised when the bill comes? The reality is that if Madonna released a track with chunks of a Jay Z record in the background, he'd be the first at the door wanting to be paid in full.

The fact that record companies want to be paid when their products are sampled is not remotely new, it has been understood and established since the 1980s. For anyone, even in the dim and distant dark ages of 2006, to be surprised by that state of affairs is baffling.
therobot, I can't reply to your reply. (Except now I can, so I moved it. /HN)

No, I don't think you lack empathy, although I can see how my comment could be taken that way. Apologies.
Hello again! There are actually many, many airliner positioning flights that move around empty. It's a wonder airlines make any money when you see how inefficient they can be.

If you're watching FR24 or similar keep an eye out for callsigns ending in "P" for positioning.
This is bad, and you should feel bad.
If the Danish wanted to give Switzerland the finger they could just offer all Swiss there a deal: Become a Danish citizen if you renounce your Swiss citizenship.

Though I expect a reaction that is both more level-headed and apathetic, especially from the Danish, since they have lately also been keen on the xenophobia front (re-instated border controls a few years back).