skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is my text about the antibiotics not accurate?

I was writing about big farming companies with many cows. To keep a lot of animals healthy in a narrow space you have to inject each cow antibiotics in advance.

Antibiotic in livestock is a real problem already - at least in the Europe. The media and the doctors speak open about the issues, yet some big farming companies don't care.

Everyone is fine if farmer inject antibiotics to ill cows. But giving all cows antibiotics all the time (in advance), just in case, is the problem. People will drink & eat it and if they get ill or are in hospital, the same antibiotics has no good effect anymore. And people already die because the aftermath (hospital bug).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock#Con...
As someone whose sister just died of a heroin overdose, I hope that we will get to the point that all drugs are legal. My sister died alone in a locked bedroom because of the shame and stigma associated with her addiction and related mental illness. I have no doubt that if there was a safe place she could go to use pharmaceutical grade heroin with clean needles that she would be alive today.
Windows 8 Start Menu set to return in August
The drawings are cute and immensely helpful. I will pay money for this once it's in print!
This is a tough one. We have Horvath's allegations, and we have confirmation from Github that at least some of them were true. Clearly, bad things happened and the result is the resignation of a former CEO and founder, so it's not as though there have been no consequences.

I would be interested to know which allegations the Ada Initiative think have not been addressed, and how they would like them to be addressed.
We don't all design type, but we all cope with imperfect and rapidly changing technology. Carter describes what it was to make the best of it. There's much to learn from such an attitude.
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the post, but I understood it to say that what the authors perceived as a "threat of legal action" was a significant factor in their decision. I presume that is a reference to Tom Preston-Werner's comment: "we are prepared to fight any further false claims on this matter to the full extent of the law."[1]

Just to be clear: I'm only stating my interpretation of Ada's comments. I know nothing of what actually transpired at GitHub, thus I have not formed an opinion about it. Nor do I claim to know whether anyone threatened or intended to threaten legal action.

[1] http://tom.preston-werner.com/2014/04/21/farewell-github-hel...

Edit: In case it wasn't clear from the above post, I'm not taking sides with or against Ada, Github, or anyone else. I'm stating what I took to be Ada's reasoning, but not endorsing nor criticizing that reasoning.
The cost of university is "(tuition) + (missed income while in university) - (amount university helps your career prospects vs. 4 extra years of work experience)".

Tuition is skyrocketing, which is the biggest incentive to skip university.

Also, the information is out there. You can learn with books and from the Internet, which wasn't available as much 20 years ago.

It might be a rational choice to skip University and instead use the tuition money to bootstrap a business. However, the TOP universities are probably still worth it, because people will hire and invest in you based solely on where you went to school. Lazy people use the university admissions process as a way to avoid having to think about evaluating you themselves.
> And even in the areas where people are creating safer alternatives (e-cigarettes), there are politicians nearby ready to use their banhammers.

I don't think this ("banhammers") is a fair comparison.

To my knowledge, most if not all of the major regulation regarding e-cigarettes is around restricting the sale to minors or restricting the areas in which they can be used, as opposed to a blanket ban on the sale or possession of e-cigarettes.

All of that is analogous to existing regulation regarding cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana[0]. The only difference from marijuana is that we're starting from the other end of the spectrum (zero regulation) instead of starting from a blanket ban, but the theoretical convergence point is the same: use of marijuana and e-cigarettes are permitted, but regulated in some way around the age of purchaser and location (setting) of use.

You can make the argument that restricting the use of e-cigarettes indoors (or by minors) is incorrect, but people have been arguing that 18-year-olds should be able to drink (like in the rest of the world)[1] or use marijuana, so the details of the regulation regarding those aren't necessarily perfect or justified either.

A better example of "banhammers" would be Salvia divinorum, which was legal in every (or almost every) state ten years ago, and is now prohibited in 8 states (and there were attempts to prohibit it outright, like marijuana, in several more)[2].

[0] in (e.g.) Colorado, where recreational sale and use is permitted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum#US_legality
It sure seems like most tech jobs would only need therapy as a means of last resort. Keeping a mindful eye towards burnout and adjusting your response to it based on the type seems like solid advice.

I see it as:

1. The complainer: sit down and negotiate a way that person can make a bigger impact that's measurable

2. The avoider: simply try to get this person to do something they are excited about

3. The worn-out individual: this person probably just needs a bit of regular recognition (and no overtime)

Personally, I find way more people in categories 1 and 2, though category 3 definitely happens in startup land where people work way too much and only see the mountain in front of them is never getting smaller.

Of course I'm being a bit of an armchair manager, but it seems like a fairly decent starting point.
Came here to say this is what I have been wanting to build. I did some research a while back but I was trying to find a USB thermistor that would work with high temps. All I could find was devices that were probably meant for measure outside temp or ambient air temp.
> PRISM devices on Google's network can potentially see everything behind the SSL layer

Is there evidence of this, or is this your assumption?

I'm aware that NSA monitored unencrypted data transfers between data centers on Google's dedicated fiber circuits, but as far as I know that was accomplished through telcos and not Google.

Google said they've now encrypted the circuits between data centers, and they've strenuously denied allowing monitoring devices to reside on their network.

Is there another exploit I'm not aware of?
I "pay" for cable TV simply because it's more expensive with Comcast get Internet without TV. The cable box is unopened in the corner of my apartment, and we watch Netflix and Hulu. The numbers the cable industry are showing are a mirage created to deceive their shareholders. Viewers 30 and under want nothing to do with Big Cable.

AT&T did a similar thing when people were going DSL-only. I had AT&T DSL + phone line and called to cancel the phone line, they gave me the phone line for 12 months at $5 a month simply so they could show their shareholders that people weren't cutting the cord. That was cheaper than the VOIP provider I was planning on going with, so I stuck with it another year, didn't really use it though.

Cable's user experience is horrible, it's terribly expensive, it's price grows many times the rate of inflation, users feel screwed because they are forced to buy packages of channels they have no interest in, and feel forced to "bundle" to feel less screwed.

Comcast regularly wins the "Worse Company of the Year" award, and has terrible customer experiences.

None of Cable's deficiencies have anything to do with Netflix or Hulu. In the end, the thing that kills Cable won't be Netflix or Hulu, it will be Cable that kills Cable. The Cable industry are pigs which will soon get slaughtered by their own greedy hands.

Netflix and Hulu are just there to pick up the pieces.
Patenting your idea when you are a startup
Yes on Time Warner and was having issues. Seems to be resolved now.
You can never please SJWs, no matter how much you bend backwards. They'll always find something to complain about. That's the meaning of their entire existence. That's what you're missing.
> "It is also contrary to our principles to be silent when our existing sponsors and collaborators' actions consistently do not support our mission."

This seems verifiably false since Github did in fact sponsor conferences, efforts and perks.

So one bad story, that the details aren't entirely clear on, that resulted in the ousting of a founder, means Github, despite going out of their way to put money on the table to support the cause, isn't worthy?

"With friends like these..." seems apt.
Seems to be back for me now.
Sure I have, even on HN. But, here at least, they're much more the exception than the rule, and I've never before encountered such an egregious example of the type. Even growing up in rural Mississippi, no one ever accused me of betraying my country because I talked fancy.
My whole office is in RTP and we're all down. Our website is stuck on loading "googletagservices" so... walp.
Exports should work from now on. Still in beta however... ;)
Are you a Netflix subscriber? Their interface is pretty good. It's about as good as you can ask for given the technology we have and the selection that Netflix has.

Things are broken up by genre or new releases just like they used to be in video stores because it's pretty intuitive way to browse movies. "I feel like watching something funny, show me all comedies". Netflix also takes it 1 step further and tries to sort it by relevance based on previous watches.

Their interface for DVD players is quite good too. The search is smart and it only takes seconds to go from the DVD player being off to watching a stream from Netflix.

I rarely load up Netflix knowing exactly what I want to watch. I have ideas based on genre what I want and Netflix lets me browse reasonably. I've been a sub for almost as long as they've been around and I still find good stuff. The only thing that lacks is newer releases on stream but you can blame the media providers for that.

My cable provider sometimes offers free access for a month to their on demand/pay per month movie service and it's a joke. Things are listed alphabetically with 90 pages to go through or it's by genre but you're stuck going through 28 pages of alphabetical results where you see nothing but the movie title and a 1 sentence plot. It's an awful user experience.
> so there is no research on creating safer alternatives to existent drugs

That's not entirely true, MDAI was created as a safer alternative to MDMA, however reports say it's somewhat lacking in the experience.
Tomorrow's Social Products
It's worth taking a look at Portugal. You don't need to allow the sale of drugs, you just need to decriminalise them for recreational users. I'll link to the report (that was on HN a while back) once I'm not on a mobile.
Github as a corporate entity and Github as a cultural place to work are different things. You can still have misogyny in your organization while the company promotes the opposite.
Why should such a threat (if you were to interpret it that way), from the very person who was ousted reflect poorly on Github?

What does AI expect Github to even do about that? It seems completely irrational.
I think that what is different now is the cost of trying out a new idea. A biotech team is able to try something out without buy-in from academia or the big bio-tech firms. They need some money, but much less than they would have needed 10 years ago.
Curious- do you know if Cyanogen-based phones have access to all the Google services like the Play Store, Maps, etc.?
The Geek Feminism Wiki has a wide range of resources such as an explanation of why sexualized environments are harmful to women.

Sexualized environments harmful? Color me curious! So I read the referenced page:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexualized_environment

Those are all cogent points! If any hetero identifying male wants to dispute them, I challenge him to spending a weekend in The Castro neighborhood of SF and write a completely truthful essay chronicling his comfort level. He's either going to end up supporting the above points about sexualized environments by documenting reduced emotional comfort levels, or he's going to demonstrate that he's a paragon of not-giving-a-# -- which while admirable, being one should not be a requirement for working someplace in an office. Keep in mind that going to The Castro is a leisure activity and such a situation is a whole lot more voluntary than going to work.

It turns out that many of our ancestors were smart and wise people and not all of them were merely grunting superstitious simpletons. A sublimated sexuality hidden behind a facade of polite society can be a powerful tool for facilitating consensuality. The point being that such social norms can allow one to opt out of activities they don't care to be a part of. Granted, there are also ways in which sublimated sexuality can be used to reduce consensuality though the use of social pressure. Again, the key is consensuality, and whether or not power relationships support or undermine individual freedom, not sexuality in its entirety.

It strikes me as odd that sexuality should be wholly removed from such huge swathes of human experience. Not only is this notion odd, but as history demonstrates, it's starkly unrealistic. The kind of polite society that promotes "live and let live" as a communal good arose for good reasons. As always, things that naturally evolve have flaws, but the project of social reform, most feminism included, rests on the underlying assumption that such things can be fixed.
As they said, someone else is perfectly free (it's a BSD license) to use their work to build a libfips.
I mean in the sense that Github found no wrong doing. Regardless of the fact that she quit, and the co-founder left. If you really believe Github investigation was lackluster, that's probably another discussion. My point is simply that the post is inherently sexist, favoring the assumption of wrongdoing rather then a discussion or argument against Github's reasoning/investigation.
I made basically the same argument when the original report this article is based on hit HN.

I'm sure the cable companies do it on purpose to skew subscriber numbers in their favor.
Oh sweet baby Jesus it's back.
Where there is arbitration, there is seldom justice.
Etsy acquires Grand St.
I suppose it depends on the particular prejudice in question.
I might be biased to the meaning of significant because I had a course of statistics once, but isn't the person in question stepping down a significant change? It is a significant change in his life. These seem to be pretty vague demands. What do they think would be a significant change?
You first need a computer, a high speed Internet connection, torrent software, a good/reliable/safe torrent site and then the knowledge to install said software and initiate a download. You then may need the proper codec/video player to watch the video and of course the wherewithal to stop seeding so you don't get caught by the piracy police. While these hurdles are easy (obvious) for geeks like me (and most HNers) they are not for the majority of the population.
I have a much more succinct description of burnout:

Burnout is a broken narrative.

Everyone has ups and downs, and everyone expects that. We persevere, however, because we believe, however irrationally, that it will work out in the end.

Burnout is believing that no, it probably won't.

The way that someone stops believing this is very reasonable---they take risks with the assurance that it will work out ("low salary, but look at the equity! Keep working!"), and then it doesn't (company shuts down). Or perhaps "we promise this is the last crunch" --- and it never is.

Don't confuse this with a lack of trust. Healthy people who don't trust their employers leave and start a company/work for someone else. Burnout is when you don't see a happy ending anywhere.
> The Ada Initiative supports women in open technology and culture through activities like producing codes of conduct and anti-harassment policies, advocating for gender diversity, teaching allies, and hosting conferences for women in open tech/culture.

If there is a sense that Github doesn't have a proper anti-harassment policy in place, distancing certainly doesn't hurt the initiative's goals
The thing that frustrates me is that the only reason we can even sit here and discuss this properly is that Github is such an open company. If someone comes out of Microsoft and Google (low and behold there have been multiple cases), the best you can expect is a response of "We've handled the situation internally, and those involved have been disciplined in a way <company> deems proper".
If they want adoption they will have to bring the price of entry level power pc systems down.

Also wonder if its a year or two too late. AMD seems to have picked ARM as their plan B strategy realising that competing with Intel on x86 is hard to do with reasonable margins. Wonder if AMD would have picked POWER if it was available as an alternative a couple of years back.
Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner?
Correct. According to SJWs, straight white men are guilty until they're proven innocent, and even afterwards, they're still guilty somehow.
That is not my position. I gladly pay for many season tickets of shows through Amazon, but HBO does not provide this option (or on any competing service).
Before Git
who just want it to keep going without involvement.

Binge-watching happens because Netflix autoplays the next episode each time. They could take it one further by making more content decisions for the user, going beyond proffering recommendations, which still require user action.
I don't like this because, as a massive weirdo with an above-average level of control over my own emotions, the golden rule basically gives me a free pass.
I don't know. I know apps requiring login as step zero have a higher rate of "installdeletes" (I myself do that usually). Not sure if the users who actually decide to stay (so, to login) are then "better users". It could be. It actually makes sense. But I have no data about that tbf.
You take the idea and you execute it solo. If you succeed, and they fail, it's not because you stole the idea, it's because of your execution, and you pat yourself on the back for a job well done.

If you want to smooth things over, talk to him and say you like the idea, but see things a little differently, and are going to take a shot at the concept on your own.

The chances of succeeding are extremely slim, so don't lower your odds by carrying 4 people along as dead weight as you do all the work.
I mean for spying tools. The C&C is much easier with IRC, just have keyword triggers. You don't have to have all the hassle of the Twitter API, IRC is just a byte stream.

As for the wider IRC. I've not found it a problem then again I've been in channel for nearly 20 years. My client is in channel 24/7 so you only miss as much as you want to.

OTOH in that time I've gone from icq -> MSN -> googletalk -> facebook chat. As IM support comes and goes from the big players as they get bored with it. The only thing that's changed in IRC in that time is SSL transport.
I have enough faith in women to think that for every radical feminist who jumps ship because of this, two reasonable women will enter IT.

Who knows, actual female developers might be put off by radical feminism using them for their agenda.
What are some compelling use cases of infinite data structures?
The Internet keeps getting faster and more dangerous
The git man page generator
Ah, I think we are responding to two separate issues. I was referring to Rudin as a mathematical treatment of calculus, in the definition-theorem-proof style, to be contrasted with the more popular and easy heuristic approach. I contend that the Rudin style is a qualitatively better way to learn mathematics. It is also undoubtedly harder to read--but that is because it treats the material in a rigorous, correct way, which is inherently more difficult than heuristics.

Your argument is that Rudin is hard for incidental reasons: he skips steps in his proofs. I personally did not feel this way when I read the book. But I am open to the idea that Rudin is imperfect. I personally admire Rudin's concision, but that may just be my personal aesthetic preference.

My point, and perhaps I did not convey it well, is simply that some subjects (in particular mathematics!) are inherently difficult. And if you want to learn them well, you have to face that difficult head on: you have to read hard books. Euclid's old saying comes to mind: "there is no royal road to mathematics!"
Do we really expect that any findings of wrongdoing would be publicized? If their audit publicized that sexual or gender based harassment had occurred, that opens them up to a pretty serious lawsuit. This outcome is pretty much the only one you can expect, regardless of the real events.

Also, the ADA initiative doesn't really have a choice here either. Either draw a hard line, or look like they aren't able set the same standards that they ask from others.

Finally, if the investigation at Github turned up real mistakes of judgement, why weren't they itemized? We are left guessing what the investigator found. Github has that report, yet they are being evasive about it's contents. Air that stuff out. Stating that the allegations are unfounded at the same time as revealing that undisclosed mistakes in judgement occurred, combined with pushing out a founder: doesn't smell right.
Ironically. There wasn't due process. Also your fake quote which marginalizes the situation is in fact sexist itself.
The investigation "did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment. In light of these findings, Tom has submitted his resignation, which the company has accepted."

That seems entirely guilty (if you want to make it into an issue of guilt)to me. github did have "mistakes and errors of judgment" serious enough that Tom resigned.
False. We have absolutely no confirmation that any particular allegation that Horvath made has any merit whatsoever. And we will not have such confirmation unless the matter is brought to (and resolved in) a court of law.
"Open" here seems to mean that other companies can license IBM's core designs to use as part of a larger chip, and also that the instruction set itself will be public (although IBM's implementation will not be).
Vote up other stuff,comment on stories etc
Super interesting, thanks for chiming in.

What is looio.org? The address doesn't resolve for me. [EDIT: it was just a typo]
That's what we really need: An ISA with a GPL-style copyleft licence. Not that being Intel's competitor is all that profitable, but the x86 market would probably be more diverse if everyone could use the ISA.
Often, "arbitration" is used as window-dressing for a severe power imbalance to continue. Arbitration only deserves to be called such if it's entered into voluntarily by two parties with good intentions.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring Clojure Developers?
Rich Hickey compelled me to switch to a Clojure-based tech stack. But how many companies are hiring Clojure developers at this early stage?
Indeed. To borrow a phrase from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons"[1]. If you do have a misogynistic workplace then sponsoring anti-misogynist causes may be a way of covering that up (in environmental circles this is known as "greenwashing").

[1] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/31953/the-louder-...
"We will work to wind down the free private repository partnership in a way that causes minimum harm to the women using them."

Taking away their free private repos seems pretty harmful.