skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, despite the mind-bogglingly clueless questions you asked in your previous post, I'm the one whose knowledge is lacking. Yes, women like form fitting clothes, you know, as in tailored clothes? Perhaps the women you work with are all sexless drones who wear hoodies and sweatpants and expect the same from men, but at my workplace the women are fit, attractive, and dress well. And they always appreciate a compliment.

Why do you think male attention deserves jail time? Did you try to pay a woman a compliment once and did it so clumsily that she called security? Memories like that can be hard to get over, I imagine.

> Women flaunting sexual characteristics in a professional environment is neither common today

Of course not, like hula-hooping at an office party, or wearing a nice suit or dress, or high heels. But again, perhaps you've only ever worked with aforementioned sweatpant- and sneaker-wearers.

> nor has it been common in the West throughout the ages

Right... no man in the West ever seduced (or got seduced by) his secretary or female co-worker. You must live a remarkably sheltered life.

> You clearly confuse sexual desire with when and how people pursue it

You clearly have no clue that people pursue sex whenever they can, as much as they can get away with despite your "social pressures." I wonder why... could it be that you are remarkably unattractive?

> you are completely blind to social pressure

I'm not the "completely blind" one here....

> I fear that if you don't get that long due spanking soon you have some serious lawsuits awaiting you in the future, and possibly some jail time

Don't worry "pron," unlike you, I'm always aware of when my attention and advances are desired or not. Your mother clearly knew you were hopeless and just told you to not even try, ever.

> especially if you keep taking sexual cues from insects.

Really? You're going to just make stuff up now? Saying that insects display sexual behaviour === taking sexual cues from insects?

> Perhaps it may seem baffling to your juvenile mind, but I adopted my screen name over twenty years ago, well before the internet, and back when it was just my acronym and had no other uses whatsoever.

Well, good for you! It's strangely prophetic and very apt, if that's true.

If you're old enough to have chosen your username 20 years ago there's no hope for you and I've really been wasting my time. I did in fact think you were a clueless younger guy. Bye now.
Or just use 2to3 which automates most of those simply changes and nose for unit tests :)
Those might have been crushed by a skyscraper falling on top of them. A fire and a crash won't come close to destroying a black box.
Intelligence seems orthogonal to the separate Big 5 factor of neuroticism, ie, prototypical security-industry hacker may not trust most people a priori (it seems it's usually very trusting || very untrusting). Perhaps they are a minority in aggregate, but being played for a fool seems like a deselectable vulnerability. Then again it's a soft science paper.
Would commercial aviation be safer without human pilots?
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Thank you for your precious feedback! I'll try to work standing up ~4/5 hours a day, for a month. I'll see if it makes me either more productive or feel better.
a) you can't fix the problems of the past by giving her a job now
b) being a significant investor doesn't make you 'relatively high-ranking in the company.' You are either an employee with a high ranking job, or an investor. If you have no executive functions and are just an investor you are not entitled to intervene in day to day affairs unbidden.
c) It matters morally because even if she had the paper that would not entitle her to talk and harass an employee with the tacit support and protection of a senior member of the company.
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wait wait wait, a billion means two different things in Europe and America? I'm from Europe and I always used 1 billion to say 10^9. I hardly see how I would not have noticed figures being so different in say, news articles from America and Britain.
Excellent point. If you find yourself at a job where they discourage programmers from reading tech blogs once in a while then RUN. FOR. YOUR. FKING. LIFE.
No, previous experience with fires has taught the best policy is to land as quickly as possible. Standard procedure would be to put out all available drag and descend for the nearest aerodrome with all possible haste. Ditching is preferable to cruise in the case of a serious fire.
The turning maneuvers west of the peninsula are not consistent with a rational fire response by the crew.
Quite true in terms of my work habits. At the end of the day, you want to learn something new, but you've given it 110% during the day that you can't get yourself to start a new hobby project.

In my case, I always seemed stuck back at the same mindset and mental "data structure" in my head, so it would be difficult to push it aside to make room for something new.

It might sound stupid, but it could also be the fear that I would lose said structure, and the next day would go entirely into rebuilding it.
This is the funniest one yet.
I thought it would be terrible and that by combining in Doge that it would sully the whole thing and be the straw that broke the camel's back. But really, it adds something to the game that wasn't there.

There's a new sense of whimsy that wasn't there in the original, and the messages when combining Doges adds a sense of accomplishment.
You missed his point. His ideal job would give you enough diversity that you wouldn't feel you had to get that from outside work.
I was on the wroc_love.rb conference this weekend and either people were playing 2048 on their notebooks or hacking on it - with other board layouts, other numbers or similar mods.

Such fun. Very success.
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Exactly, and that is why I first used cardboard to find the best dimensions.
I say "hi", I ask about the meds he's on, I ask about his time in hospital.

Maybe it's because I've seen inside different forensic units (medium secure and low secure) and a variety of different mental health wards that I can appreciate the difference between people who make threats of violence (which are not acceptable) and people who have been violent.
For anything I see as really important these days, I avoid anything that is not open source. It used to be idealism, but now I see it as practicality. If something happens to Atlassian, I am up a creek. I will call this the Perforce Scenario (for the resulting problem, not the originating issue), because Perforce revoked its exception to its proprietary SCM when a Linux contributor reverse engineered it for an open source client he wanted to use with it, violating the terms.

So Atlassian might be free for open source projects (they say for Stash at least after Googling), but that can always change with any app or service you use. RMS free should not change, and you should be able to understand the most current copy you have of source to find alternatives or build your own. Fortunately, this rarely happens for the core FOSS items I use. I have been lucky.

Also, Atlassian can be pretty hefty for small weekend projects in my opinion. But I have only used Confluence at work, it seems like it would require much more resources than a server or VPS for weekend projects would require. I could be wrong.
Yep, they are pretty much the same. I just don't have an IKEA close to my place (yet)...
If you're trying to get one individual or even a group, STEALING A PLANE out of the air and drawing international scrutiny seems like a terrifically inefficient way of doing it.
OP here. I wanted to comment on the discussion around ".NET vs. other things" coversation that has started brewing here. I'm not one to hate on any environment or ecosystem. I do make fun of PHP or Java at times, but it's all good-natured. Not to be too PC, but yes, every thing has its pros and cons.

Personally, however, I think C# as a language strikes the right balance in terms of power, ease-of-use, learnability and code readability. Even if you have a problem with Microsoft, I think it is wrong to let your "MS-hate" translate into "C#-hate". It is a beautiful language and the open-source community around it is growing rapidly. The progress made by platform-independent endeavors (case in point Xamarin) is admirable.

In the unlikely scenario that all of programming were to converge into one language, I would want it to be an open-source, platform-independent version of C# (with maybe just a tad more constructs borrowed from the functional programming world).

P.S. I also think it is a mistake to lump C# and Java in the same bucket. Ten or more years ago, maybe. Today, they are VERY different.
This is true above and beyond just science. I get the need for research. I get the idea of pushing the boundary of knowledge, checked by peer review. The current system just seems very broken. People respond well to incentives, and they're incented to publish novel results no matter what. All this on the back of a lot of grad students, most of which whom will struggle to get jobs.
I know, I ordered a keyboard :-)
Fun with the Oyster books API
Its "comment folding" feature is so useful.
I've been looking for the perfect standing desk for years now. These are great examples, thank you!
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Excellent post and links, thank you very much for commenting!
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To Dare is to Do
The project lead explained that he didn't accept unsolicited commits. My code ended up getting merged with some other guys refactored code which eventually made it into the code base.
> It's unfortunate TechCrunch and Valley Wag posted the story without first corroborating at least some piece of it.

I think we have to be careful with statements like this. Yes, they could have tried to find a Github employee who would corroborate part of it, perhaps the assertion that the wife was in the office periodically. But the problem with that is that it is perfectly reasonable to think they would have failed to find anyone willing to talk about it. Then what? Should they not publish? If they hadn't, would Github be investigating now? Would anyone be on leave? Probably not.

Asking for corroboration is fine, but we should be mindful that some things that are true can't be corroborated and demanding corroboration just gives the accused party the de facto ability to suppress the information or the debate.

Her story passes a basic smell test, it very well could be true, and there is no specific reason to doubt her. While this doesn't mean it is true, it isn't necessarily irresponsible to publish it either.
Obama Administration Cites Security More to Censor, Deny Records
Can you recommend some online communities where they discuss trips like these?
Tesla Keeps Poaching Prius Buyers, and It’s Not Slowing Down
I've been using the MS stack since '05. I didn't say it wasn't ready for prime-time. Just that MS, like any other team, makes missteps - their libraries tend to be a bit overcomplicated and messy, but understandably so since they try to be all things to all people. Sometimes they hit on the wrong design.

But where other libraries would have to compete in the open market-place of ideas, Microsoft's failures are still "blessed" by MS and so we still use them.

But the bigger frustration is that they don't seem to really properly iterate on the libraries. They get fired out as part of a .NET major version release and get at most minimal bug-fixes beyond that. If there's a major flaw in the lib, it will not get fixed. Instead, a completely new library with its own flaws and a whole new learning curve will appear, and the old lib will remain and languish in its "functional but still fundamentally frustrating" state.

Like I said, I'm ecstatic to see that MS has moved away from this methodology with Entity Framework - they've de-coupled it from the .NET core and are iterating on it faster than Once Every Major Language Release.
Again, merely wild speculation.

I'd be ok with people not upvoting submissions that do nothing more than fear mongering.
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I've seen many complaints about the charge cables, but never had an issue myself. Are there just some bad batches running around, or is it a particular model that's had issues?
Yep, I've noticed more of them. For me at least, it's because I'm beginning to throw out whatever political ideologies are stopping me from being open to using whatever technologies suit my problems best. In this case, it means I'm now open to writing GUI programs for Windows (and I'm even considering using Windows as my new development platform) if it proves to be technologically more innovative and fruitful than its competitors. Same with Windows phones. And since C# with .NET happens to be the language of the platform, I've been toying with that with an open mind. I don't know if other people have the same reason.
This is cool and all, but it's another Chrome only site. You might as well have another desktop app that I have to download. Why isn't there support for other major, Modern browsers such as FF, Opera and IE11?
a reasonable person can convert 2 tons of gold to cash without undue risk?

Given that 2 tons of stolen gold can't be legally sold, I'd suspect that anyone with that kind of cash on hand might be the kind it would be risky to do business with...
This prompted me to go to Newegg and see if they still sell scanners. Yep, they do.
Fair point, but if you believe that tablets are a gateway to cheap education and interactive learning for children (I do), I wouldn't say that poor communicates don't need tablets. I know it might seem like a luxury, an excess, or something you _want_ but do not _need_, but I'm not sure that's the case. I think it's easy and more impactful to get a cheap tablet in the hands of someone in need to help them learn, than a big computer. Particularly in urban communities, there might be something pretty profound about getting more tablets in front of young kids. It's up to them what they search for and what they learn, and it's up to us to nudge them in the right direction in terms of pre-loaded apps and websites - but I do believe there's something there. I don't care ONE BIT if the aluminum bevel is more beautiful or less beautiful, in that case.

Anyway, I think you and I generally agree. I would just say you don't have to go to a third world country to find someone who wants to save $200 on a tablet. You can find communities right here in America where their children have limited access to quality education, or bad temptations outside of classroom hours, and I would argue a cheap tablet _with the right content and direction_ might have a real impact.

Not that we should be outsourcing parenting to computers............

:-)
I worked at a shop where one developer committed suicide, 2 other developers had mental breakdowns, and another tech manager developed serious medical issues. Some other suffered silently from alcohol and drug addiction. I can't tell you home many marriages went under.

To say we have to consider and appreciate the lives and well being of technical professionals is an understatement.
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Yep, it is just that there is no IKEA close to my place (yet), and I wanted something quite robust :-)
Throwing your gender under a bus is a primitive way of signalling that you're an enlightened bro. I find it rather sleazy.
Your comment seems at odd with the site itself, according to which the commissionner's text, while definitely falling short, was not that far from a binding NN legislation before being significantly worsened in committees (that is, outside the commission you rant about):

> While we welcome the intention to enshrine net neutrality into law across the EU, the proposal fails to deliver the promise of net neutrality as it contains several problematic loopholes. However, the text itself is not far off the mark. With the right improvements, the European Union could have binding net neutrality legislation. The proposal is now in hands of the Parliament and will be reviewed by several committees, with the Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) committee as the lead in charge of this dossier. The modifications introduced in some committees have regrettably worsened the problems in the Commission proposal.

(http://www.savetheinternet.eu/#regulation, emphasis mine)

Also not sure what the relation is between your basic assertion that the EU commission is bad and the EU itself needing to end.
Please. Don't PATCH Like An Idiot.
The book itself is amazing, yet I found it had the same effect as other books that hold similar messages - it just doesn't translate well into my day to day thoughts. After reading it I felt the sort of profound enlightenment one might expect when discovering what was written in the book, but woke up the next morning feeling the same as before I had read the book.

"Learning to deal with this fact, to accept and and even rely on this fundamental truth, is the first step towards developing a real purpose in life."

Perhaps I'll get there at some point, but I just haven't figured this out yet. I see the fact there, I understand it, but incorporating it into my daily thinking is just something I can't seem to grasp.
I do not care about support via Text. Web-based chat on the other hand is awesome and I use it everywhere it is available. I often need support during working hours and using web chat means I do not have to yak over the phone about my problems and disturb co-workers around me. Oftentimes I need to type something into the computer and it is much more convenient to Alt-Tab between things and copy paste something instead of typing by one hand (yes, I know head set would solve the problem).
I've known a couple people who have gone insane to varying degrees. All were hard workers.

One was a grad student with schizophrenic tendencies, who just lost it after Phd quals.

Another was a coworker who had a nervous breakdown at a client site after too many trips.

Another was a grad student who had false views of grandeur after stopping his medicine.

Another threatened violence on the entire company after being let go.

Other than hoping that I'm not the common link... But - I think it's more than just "Working too hard." Working beyond your capacity isn't good, but there are other things at work too. Many focused geniuses have autistic-like symptoms. The mind has a lot of complex chemistry. "Just work less" doesn't solve it, any more than "Just cheer up" won't help someone that's clinically depressed.

My heart is out to the people on this thread who shared painful stories.
Freestanding stores are in Palo Alto, Los Gatos, and two in San Francisco.

Just the ones I know offhand.
This is brilliant! One feature request though: It'd be cool if the microphone icon toggled the voice recognition, rather than simply enabling it. I couldn't figure out if there was a way to disable it (besides closing the tab and reopening it).
> If you don't have years to spare, an incremental rewrite would be a viable option. But do Objective-C or C++ really look like a good choice nowadays?

Anything that compiles to native modules and has a clean C FFI would work. You could encapsulate the current code into a black-box set of APIs, and then transition those APIs module-by-module from being calls into the old crufty code, to being calls into shiny new rewritten code. (This is the strategy recommended at http://laputan.org/mud/).

Go is pretty perfect for your use-case, though; it produces portable, low-ish level application code, and while it's a bit less performant than C, you don't really need every scrap of C's performance in the way an OS or a 3D game does. Besides all that, it's very easy for grumpy, staid old C developers to learn, in the same way that Plan9 is easy for grumpy, staid old Unix administrators to learn: it's all the same ideas, just streamlined for newer use-cases.
What exactly is "intelligent people" again? It just sums up to an IQ score?

It's naive to treat "intelligence" as a simple number. There are SO MANY skills related to 'human intelligence' and yet these studies fail to give a more closer look of what they mean with "intelligence" and how this affect the outcome.

I hate when, in those studies, they promote a set people as "intelligent" and start to research how these special category performs in simple aspects of everyday life, things like "trust others", "live longer"[1] or "use more drugs"[2].

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/old-and-wise/
[2] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundament...
In the worst case, if he's established the precedent of working weekends and is now expected to do so, a fresh start could still be useful. Transitioning to another company might also help provide him with the clean mental slate necessary to trash this habit of over-working himself.

Also, there is the possibility that the company is somewhat at fault--his post is lacking details, and he may be under legitimate pressure to do extra work.
This study is worthless unless it controls for class. We already know that educated people are more likely to be supportive of the status quo and credulous towards claims from established authorities. We also know that they tend to be healthier and happier, due to the financial rewards resulting from the former behavior.
Amen! I'm the same way - I know that I'll never climb the corporate ladder this way, but it does mean that I have a happy home life - I actually get to spend quality time with my wife, get to travel, tend my garden, and just be, well, happy.

Isn't that the point of life?
It's self development, and very few folks have 8 hours of continuous concentration in them.
But you at least have to allow for the possibility that they are doing the right thing here. Perhaps they respect Julie enough to take her claims seriously and correct the obvious wrongs (gf in the offices) while doing what every other organization does in putting the person under investigation on leave.

Yes, perhaps they are bullshitting. But this is also what the PR release would say if they were trying to do the right things by all parties but don't have the information they need or the time they need to figure out exactly what the repercussions should be.
So it only lets me ask one question on chrome mac, then i have to reload the page.

great idea btw. I wondered instantly if this could be turned into a service.
Yes, try and look for happiness, which means a life you have control over, for a meaning of life much richer than 'the one with the greatest income to be had with my skills.'

One needs a definition of happiness which

a) Is appealing

b) Is a long-term (lifelong) project

c) Is valuable (in the sense of 'personal values')

Usually, this means sharing your 'life' with other people first and foremost.

And yes, burnout should not be a dirty word ever.
That video demonstrates what happens when you try to land in the ocean while you are fighting with hijackers which causes a sudden dip to one side, when you happen to be over a coral reef for the engine on that side to hit. Even with that, the crash was quite survivable. A large number of the fatalities were due to drowning, because people inflated life rafts while still inside, which blocked them in so they drowned when the plane sank.

This is probably not a good crash to use as a baseline for predicting what would be typical for an ocean landing attempt.
That is awesome!!!
Excelent advice. I have a mental list of companies that block the internet from their employees so they don't do that.

I think that is just stupid. If you hire people you have to at least trust them to do their work otherwise fire them and unlock the freaking internet.
I work for a Fortune 500 company as a programmer and I've spent probably 70-80% of my time at work over the last four years reading random tech news.
I've heard this alternately described as "Fake it until you have it"