skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what if it's true? tptacek can be irascible at times, true, but for folks who can bill a lot by the hour or are in similar management positions, simplicity is more important than saving a few pennies or dimes. Put another way: even if I felt it was ethically OK to pirate videos, an hour of my time is worth much more now than it was when I was a relatively impoverished student. So I wouldn't.

BTW, I suspect that HN is recreation for many of us, and not work.
They deserved a better storytelling: https://github.com/inkel/ruster/blob/90f7da1c281bfc1a5fe01cc...
@LeaVerou's points all seem pretty spot on to me. It may be that @nrrdcore was harassed, but again, we don't have too much solid information in front of us. Jumping to conclusions, both about @nrrrdcore and Github does not make any sense, yet here we are doing it, why? Because one of the parties involved is a female. I don't mean to sound insensitive here, but isn't that what sexism is? Basing our judgement based on gender? We should be waiting for the facts and evidence here.

EDIT: And I just want to say, if @nrrdcore is right which she very well may be, then I agree that she should speak out. But we shouldn't be judging the situation until we have hard facts.
Uh. They generally fucking are, bruv.
Upvoted as well. We ultimately agree. I'm sure you understand my contention.

> "It also means submitting to the authorities when you break the law; MLK spent a lot of time in jail."

I interpreted that phrase as exclusive although you probably implied it as inclusive. I simply don't want anyone to be mistaken. Civil disobedience doesn't require submission to authority. Enough people as it is make irrelevant equivocations about Snowden and others having to flee the [United States | {or insert regime}] out of fearing for their lives. Civil disobedience feeds on strategy. MLK had his legions and knew some fleeting jail time would actually work in his favor. I appreciate Thoreau. :) I wish more people would take his thoughts (and the thoughts of other like-minds) to heart. Peace!
OpenStreetMap, Nokia, Microsoft, MapQuest, off the top of my head.

Frankly, the claim that Apple Maps was the best possible mapping product Apple could have made requires far more support than the claim that Apple could have done better.
You can't use Netflix natively on Linux, but the pipelight[1] project runs the Silverlight plugin through Wine and allows Firefox users on Linux to use Netflix in a native-feeling way. My mother, father, and siblings use Linux almost exclusively and I have installed Silverlight through the pipelight project on their computers. They have no idea that Netflix isn't running natively and no idea that Netflix doesn't support Linux because pipelight integrates it so seamlessly.

1: http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html
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Why is floating point math faster than integer? (Seems like integer should be simpler)
Very nice job. Have you thought about an enclosure for it yet? This has always been the hardest part of PCB designs for me. PCBs are easy and cheap and there are lots of standard box-type enclosures but you either end up hacking holes in the sides with a Dremel or forgoing the enclosure entirely.
Can the old engine be open sourced at least so it can be implemented in the new version? A lot of the syntax is missing in the Algolio thing.
UI feedback on the image page: it's not immediately clear that the image itself is clickable (putting you into full-size view). Perhaps you could set `cursor: pointer` on that element.
According to their blog post (https://netguru.co/blog/posts/code-ping-pong-with-dhh) DHH is in.
Also, static magnetic fields are conservative. You can't get energy out of them. The only way to get energy out of a magnetic field is by letting it change, which necessarily creates an electric field.

I sympathize with the need to find a way to explain how this could be safe, but they're stretching the truth. I hope it doesn't come back to bite them when somebody puts up a youtube video of cooking eggs on copper foil or something.
Most web developers are not writing servers or browsers in C, but within the web ecosystem open source is really the only choice (to build with). There could be more people open sourcing their whole startups, but in terms of building blocks, open source reigns supreme in the world of web.

I mean, look at the HN frontpage on any given day. A good half of the posts will be about some new open source module or framework that someone has put hundreds of hours into. Closed frameworks are regularly scoffed at and treated with great suspicion. In the Node community, it is a common practice to open-source modules without giving it a second thought, just part of a day's work.

I'm not sure I really understand your point, could you explain?
Perhaps you should consider that most of those who have not rushed to judgement and are waiting on facts are not nonexistent but are merely saying nothing on Twitter nor anywhere else about it.

It is very easy to think that the Internet makes everyone worse sometimes, instead of what it actually does: expose us to our worst more than ever before.
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Which of those are you claiming are better than Apple's maps? Only Microsoft and Nokia seem like they might be contenders, and given that at the time they were just as competitive towards Apple as Google, what makes you think they offered a more credible deal?

The claim that Apple could have done better absolutely requires qualification otherwise it's just more empty bashing. Without qualification it is a claim that can be made against anyone about anything. Knowing that someone could have done better requires understanding the options available to them.
I just put some little rubber feet on the bottom of the PCB and called it a day. It's small, cheap, and cool looking.

On the back side of the circuit board, there are 6 thermally isolated solder pads. I put them there so that I could potentially solder nuts to each of the pads, and then bolt the PCB to a case.
OK, I'll bite. In what linguistic context can a white person call a black person "nigger" in the country that once put free-speech at the center of its propaganda?
Modern graphics hardware is tuned for floating point math, and may actually have less capacity for integer arithmetic.
I don't understand you. Are you saying nobody has merit?

That somebody wrote a parody about it doesn't prove anything.

It's also not obvious that it would cement a status quo: people can still strive to have merit? And does the concept forbid helping people to acquire skills? You can perhaps say Meritocracy is not the whole story (because of the self-sustaining elites problem), but it could be part of the solution, together with the usual efforts to give everybody a chance.
This isn't new. A "crysal" radio works the same way.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-an-antique-style-cryst...

You can use a Crystal radio to power an LED, or a lot of things, the stronger the RF source, the more power you can extract. The problem is they aren't efficient if you are using them as a power source. When you are pulling "free" energy out of the airwaves they are cool, all that wasted AM band, but if you are broadcasting just to power your cell phone they are about .1% efficient. That's not a very eco-friendly.
Ok. But that doesn't make her a "prominent" engineer. She makes touchy-feely speeches.

Usually, when this happens, someone got a bad performance review because they were effectively useless, and then they raise some canard. She didn't contribute in any real meaningful way, got a bad review and decided she would drag her former employer's name through the mud.
Who made that chart? Where's Node.js? Just kidding, Node fan here ;)
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Influential developer leaves GitHub alleging gender harassment
> Racial slurs aren't acceptable anymore.

You mean, the yesterday's value-neutral racial descriptors that became today's racial slurs when used in the mouth of people with racial hate are no longer acceptable to people who don't share that hate -- but, of course, as has happened many times in the past, that just means that today's value-neutral descriptors will get used as slurs and become tomorrow's verbotten terms, and nothing will have changed.

Making words taboo that are used along with an unwelcome attitude is a particularly ineffective manner of eradicating the unwelcome attitude.
Somehow I was imagining something entirely different. That company should have been sued out of existence for allowing that to go on.
Apart from the bit about the nonremovable carrier apps, the rest of what you said is FUD. I've got a Galaxy S3 and there's no latency like you talk of; typing with Swype (not available on iOS) is amazingly easy, and is actually the only app I've ever used which has left someone slack-jawed with amazement; the battery will last a weekend on standby, but only 3-4 hours of constant screen-lit use; most of the apps aren't buggy; you can tune what alerts you; so on and so forth.

Did you pay a premium price for your low-battery-life, high-latency phone? Or was it at the cheap end of the spectrum?
Foxit Phantom?
Sorry, I'm new to this.
Apple trusts Microsoft enough to run a bunch of their infrastructure on Azure. I don't see why their maps couldn't be trusted too.

OSM is also good. Better than what Apple got, anyway.

Of course, my experience was that a blank sheet of paper would be better than Apple Maps when it was introduced. While a blank sheet of paper contains no information, it also won't steer you wrong, and that means it comes out ahead.

What kind of qualification are you looking for?
ps3 does too. on GT5 amount of pressure controls amount of throttle.
I applaud those reserving judgment while simultaneously realizing that they do not matter, either. The only voices on this topic will be the ones that have made up their mind, for better or worse. That's the real shame.
The height of 45K is estimated with fairly large error bands. That aircraft couldn't get to 45K with the cargo and fuel it had at the time of the report.
Huh, yes, they appear to have coincidentally fixed it since I wrote that comment. Maybe I need to start reporting all GitHub bugs as Hacker News comments...
We are closer to the actual truth than ever before. Pre-Internet we had the news and gossip. Now at least people can share their perspectives directly without censorship.
No comment on Joomla or Drupal, but I am currently building out a large marketing and documentation site for a client, and Wordpress is extremely well-suited for the job.

I do laugh at its hacked together nature, inconsistent naming conventions and multiple functions that do almost the same thing. Still, at the end of the day, I'm able to crank out pages very fast, and the writers are able to easily customize and populate them with content.

I went through a WP-hating phase for a while too, but at this point, I've realized that it is THE tool for your standard, somewhat-dynamic, large to medium sized website.
Heh, they both look fine to me. I really couldn't see the difference... I'm a sucker for good design, but it seems my font style is in the incompetent zone.
http://phantomjs.org/
cool! how do I request additional typefaces and/or contribute?
So, it works only in some Linux distros like Debian, not in Windows etc. Had to dig that from the tutorial, between the lines.
I don't think any company believes they have a truly objective system for hiring good people (besides they all want company fit - what does objectively best even mean, is it well defined? Objectively best for what?).

And I severely doubt for example GitHub put the carpet there to justify that they didn't hire some people ("see, we didn't hire you because you were not good enough, ktx bye"). They seem to be more driven by idealism, which would speak for the "we try to hire good people" interpretation.

I suppose they might also refer to open source in general. Again, what other criteria than merit would work in open source? Should sub-par merge requests be accepted out of a sense of fairness?

Sorry, I am really trying to understand...

Btw that carpet article claims women are being kept out of the tech meritocracy. I just want to note that these women probably have perfectly fine other jobs (for example in medicine, law, journalism, whatnot). So they are not really being kept stupid and un-elite.

(Edit: I meant this article http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug#awesm... and this quote: "The tech industry isn’t still predominantly white and male because white men are better at their jobs than everyone else, it’s because many white men have had more opportunities to succeed than their minority and female counterparts." which seems unfounded to me).

Reading the article you linked to (not the carpet article), I have to say one of my criticisms of democracy is also that it exploits the stronger members of society. I guess some middle ground has to be found, but it doesn't seem just to me to demand that people who contribute the most should also be made to pay the most. The issue of incentives is also there (why perform if it only generates more demands?).
And then you spill some water while the car is parked in the garage and bam, 440V right across the heart.
"Bossy" doesn't refer to a person (male or female) who embodies good qualities of leadership.

Instead, it is used to describe someone who takes charge in a rude and disrespectful way. Examples include: giving others orders, shouting, emotional manipulation, tantrums, and so forth. Anybody who behaves this way may be "leading", in some sense, but they are not being a very good leader.

Conversely, a girl who leads her friends and peers in a kind and empowering way is not being bossy.

It would make just as much sense have a campaign to "ban douchebag" or "ban asshole", as these terms are disproportionately applied to men. And those terms don't apply to being a leader, they apply to being a rude, disrespectful leader.
I want to pay for Foursquare
It's very interesting that you used the word "perspective" there, and I'd request that you dwell on why I find that interesting, as it relates to my point. You've actually reinforced my point without even realizing it, given that what we have now across the board are firsthand accounts. Think about what a firsthand account actually is.

Put another way, our bar for truth is now understanding. If you misunderstand something I say to you, what you've interpreted is your truth. The world is experienced subjectively and it is very complicated, and misunderstandings happen far too often in my life (in both directions) to not be queasy about firsthand accounts being the new truth.
Most of the "Unfortunately, X app stopped" messages are not a result of Android itself, but of bad developers who don't thoroughly debug their apps. That's not really an operating system problem. If an applications crashes with an exception or some kind of issue do to a developer, it's not reasonable or fair to blame the operating system. I don't blame iOS when a buggy app crashes.

Also, I easily get about 24+ hours of battery life on my Nexus 5 with 4-5 hours of screen use. If you look on the Nexus 5 subreddit, some people have difficult getting more than 3-4 hours of screen time while others (like me) have no problem getting 4-5 hours.
The iPhone has a screen size of 4" and the Nexus 5 is 5" - does your iPhone battery last proportionately much longer?
so i've been taking a similar tack with my online portfolio, although i haven't followed through completely.

i really despise word processors, so i've been building out a jekyll/github pages site with each of my past jobs/projects as small markdown posts with the necessary metadata.

Then on the theme level I pull in the markdown files into a responsive site that degrades down all the way to mobile, and that has a print stylesheet that will generate a presentable resume from all this content.

I never really seem to get to the point of finishing the print stylesheet, because I seem to always find a job before I get to that point.

Still, at least now I can just update some small text files as I continue my career, and ultimately it just feels more sensible for me to manage that data than something like LinkedIn.

I was also thinking about adding some client side filtering of the past projects/jobs based on the technologies I tag them with, so I can generate a customized resume for each position. Maybe if I abstract it out into a separate project ...
Azure is a standard service offering and is a commodity that competes with AWS which Apple also uses.

Given your general intelligence, it's actually hard for me to believe that you can't see that Microsoft would have leverage when negotiating to be the replacement for Google maps, and the terms might have been unacceptable.

It's also quite reasonable that having been dependent on one hostile supplier for maps, Apple would need want to control it's own destiny with the replacement otherwise it would just be repeating the same mistake that they made with Google.

Your comments about the blank sheet of paper make it unclear that you are offering a serious opinion here.

I was looking for some actual insight or information about how Apple could have made maps better, but it doesn't seem like you have any to support your claim.

It sounds like it just boils down to 'I wish they'd used OSM'.
Can any one confirm this prize is still alive?
Doesn't this type of vertical integration lead to user lock-in after they've displaced the incumbents? And as the companies rise and fall, the broad range of things they had to get good at ends up being reinvented and stove-piped by other companies.

Is this an issue for the industry at large?
Surviving the highest fall without a parachute 33,330 ft
Nato web sites are under attack
This is a very complicated problem. The length and orientation of the leads, type of pacemaker etc are all factors. And one mistake is one too many. This applies to a growing list of implants. Spinal cord stimulators, sacral nerve stimulators, deep brain stimulators, implantable defibs, cochlear implants, some hearing aids. Its a very long list. The possible complications are not just possible induced currents, but also heating. Many of the problems are covered here (although with MRI in mind) http://www.mrisafety.com. It's a great resource but is absolutely terrible to use and everything takes 20x longer than it should to find.
For now, open up an issue on GitHub.

I plan on extending the contributing page on the wiki with pull request instructions soon.
Nice work - very tidy and professional-looking. Thanks for sharing.
As far as I can see; iOS renders it just fine in both implementations
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> your remark is just part of creating a hostile atmosphere for women

> your remark just sounds really misogynistic and ugly to me.

Pointing out that creating a sexual situation in the workplace is a dumb idea does not mean I hate women, and not does it create a hostile environment for anyone.

You are accusing people of offending you because you want attention.
Anyone who has a .edu email address can get Amazon student, which is free for 6 months and then 50% off forever.

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Man, these are great times to be alive if you're a cynic.
The most noticable differences (apart from the rendering) are the fi ligature in the title ("overfilled") and the Q feature (where the tail is extended past the first letter ("Quisque").
It's faux-open because it's not developed in the open. Google just code-dumps Android after every major release, only OEMs have access to development builds. If you don't get a Google paycheck it's thus very hard to contribute to it as an open project.

It's faux-open because almost every single Android device needs proprietary kernel blobs & firmware to operate almost any non-trivial hardware feature on the device. In practice this pins you to specific kernel versions/APIs, and you're running code you can't change or even audit.
dats victim blaming blah blah blah
That's a really smooth move there, calling me stupid under the guise of calling me smart. I like it! I'll have to remember that.

My experience with Apple Maps was that it steered me wrong more than it steered me right. That made it literally worse than nothing. If you think that implies that I don't have a serious opinion, well, I can't affect what you think.

I honestly don't see why you need anything beyond "they should have gone with anyone, anyone besides TomTom, who has the worst maps in the industry". It would have required some sort of compromise on their part? Well duh. Obviously they went with TomTom because TomTom's position at the bottom of the heap gave Apple lots of power. Apple clearly prioritized power in the relationship over quality of the resulting product. That's their right. But that doesn't make the resulting product better.
I'm having a hard time imagining any software developer being in a position where streaming content charges dominated even their entertainment budget, let alone their whole budget. I think whoever-that-guy-upthread is thought I was somehow bragging about my income, but that's not what I'm suggesting at all.
I didn't mention anything about speaking for them.

And wouldn't a developer evangelist have an opinion on developer culture within the company?
What is that ending?
In my opinion that is a belief, not a fact.
That doesn't make any sense to me. I can't imagine any quasi-realistic situation where irradiation would be proportional to surface area.
> I fail to see how calling a woman a queen reduces her to her gender. Hell, I can't see how calling a man a queen reduces him to any gender.

You may see it that way, and I won't question your integrity about it. However, it is undeniable that there has been a ton of misogyny directed towards women in the workspace in fields that have been classically dominated by men. And, the perpetrators of which, typically have used sexually-charged terms, such as "Queen", to refer negatively to women attempting to elevate their careers within in a organization in no different manner than a man would.

This isn't a semantic argument. It's quite possible to work in a professional setting with members of the other gender, and critique a coworker has having as being pushy and domineering without resulting to gender pronouns. Regardless if you think that the use of them implies that you think the other gender is equal or not, the context described in my previous paragraph makes it hard to escape the perception that if you use them, you don't think the genders are equal.
CM is not Android, it's AOSP-based. Android is closed source but it's very similar to AOSP. Same goes for Chrome/ium and Chrome/ium OS.

You can indeed say that most mobile users are on a proprietary OS and most desktop users are on a proprietary browser.
Ditto dat