skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right on!

The cross-fader would be an interesting project though; using a slider to adjust volume between sources...
You're absolutely right that there is a lot of nuance in that particular situation, and you did a good job of breaking it down. But that's my point: Brad was taking a very big risk in thinking that Heidi was on the exact same page. And we know that other people, even trusted friends at times, can read situations very differently than we do. If Heidi was even slightly uncomfortable around Brad or, say, had been groped earlier that day -- things unbeknownst to Brad -- her reaction could have been quite different.

I've been in situations where the relationships between coworkers have been misread. In one case, two women reported a male coworker to HR after he sent out an email that many people, including other women in the group, seemed to think was innocuous.

So I'd hate for someone to read Roizen's post and think that that is the typical response to sexual jokes in the workplace. Even if everyone laughs in the moment, someone may walk away feeling ashamed. More to the point, if you're looking for a way to break the tension, you can probably find a way to do it without making a joke that could potentially make some uncomfortable.
The team recorded and analysed the voices of 23 native Californians aged between 18 and 22.

- How is this even news? They're saying they happened to find 23 people.. in the entire state...
You're not entirely powerless. There is exactly one person on the planet that you can force to not be an asshole.

Never apologize for anything that is not your fault, and don't cry about the things you have no power to change.

There is no particular reason to wave someone else's war banner. You won't get any trophies or medals for it. So speak for yourself. And if anyone ever tells you to "check your privilege," translate that as "count your blessings," and let them go about their own business.

And I won't say anything more about it, since these sorts of topics tend to attract "downvote for disagreement" moderation.
Interestingly there is a small and lucrative market that specializes in "closing" and "decommission" of nuclear power plants.

Just like it takes decades to build and start operating them. It takes very very long to close and decommission them.

I knew someone who was in that business, very nice niche market!
>I've shown Shanley's post to quite a few women in technology (including some diversity experts) and they all think her concrete suggestions are excellent. [As do I.] So I strongly suggest any guys who really want to help read it and act on the suggestions even if they would prefer a different framing.

Sorry, but an anecdotal story from a random anonymous person on Hacker News isn't very convincing. Put another way: I know several women in tech who think Shanley's approach is downright hostile and is not helping in the least and I tend to agree, so you should just disregard what she says.
Is the comparison to Python that great? A language like Rust has more things that you have to keep track of yourself, as a programmer. Having English-like syntax might work great in a language with relatively simple semantics, but I don't think that it necessarily follows at all that that kind of design scales to languages where you have to be explicit on the level of pointer types and such.
it was a function of my usage of spreadsheets changing (didn't need to build large financial models anymore) and Google Docs coming up to par on basic functions, combined with collaboration and storing in the cloud. Switching to Mac basically ended my love affair with excel (all the keyboard shortcuts I knew so well didn't work anymore)
I suspect that if you interrogated me about last night and I wasn't attempting to lie to you that I would still fail this test.

I'm addle-brained, I don't get enough sleep, and I honestly don't remember if I got my daughter chocolate milk before or after diddling around on the computer.

I might very well remember events when asked to repeat them in reverse order that I did not remember the first time through, leave details out, or get the order reversed.

And while I can't manage to catch myself in the act while it is occurring, I've noticed myself having malleable memory of the likes that researchers tend to call "false memory". And this is just boring crap, nothing traumatic, stressful, or important.

If your test could fail for me recounting an evening at home for which I know I wouldn't be lying about, how could it possibly succeed for someone who's trying to prove to you that they aren't a killer, especially when they might have something else to hide (hey, I don't want this guy finding out I bought $1000 worth of pot to sell to my trashy neighbors in the trailer park!) ?
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How do you calculate exacly the coloring of the heat map? Is the scaling of it locally adjusted or is it a global/absolute scale?
I only searched for "all rights reserved" because it yielded more code with an actual license in it and not just the text "confidential". I'm sure you could refine the search even further.
Enjoyed the heatmap when it was on raceshape and like it here as well!

Is this now the complete dataset from strava Run/Bike activities?
Facebook hires a number of Stanford people and that's not an Ivy League school.
It hasn't really been a debate for over three decades--otherwise, rationality (and nuclear power or complete decomissioning) would've prevailed a long time ago.
Congrats on launching ! :) #FrenchTech!
Just like Google, I'm sure they only admit the best of the best. However, if the skills, creativity, and out-of-box thinking that they desire are present, it shouldn't matter where you went to school. You either have "it" or you don't.
Well, I have just found it... STFW is better now. ;)
French Canadian keyboards are fairly different from European French keyboards:

French Canadian: http://www3.uakron.edu/modlang/french/images/kbd4.gif

European French: http://www.fentek-ind.com/images/frenchkeytop.gif
Is CSS Turing complete?
I guess it's a language primarily by and for text editor users, and I'm beyond that point these days.

What do you mean?

EDIT: Imagine a programming language designed around an IDE. Fun thought. Not sure whether it's a useful thought, but it's fun to think about.
No, that's not true.

Scala does true specialization of primitives by means of the @specialized annotation: http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.10.3/index.html#scala.specia...

This functionality is old and because it tends to generate many class files, there's also a newer project that fixes that and that should replace the @specialized annotation soon: http://scala-miniboxing.org/

But wait, there's more - Scala 2.10 also brought with it "value classes", as in zero-overhead wrappers: http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/value-classes.html

Speaking of the JVM and overhead, the JVM also does escape analysis and it can choose to allocate values on the stack in case they don't escape their context: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/vm/per...
Wasn't there a t-shirt with a list of how to make something from scratch??
agreed. i'd love to be able to see what routes people run near my home so i can get new ideas.
+1 for Zenbooks. I have a UX32VD, with 12 GB RAM and an i7 and it runs all of the distros I've tried with minimal problems and setup. I've run different versions of Ubuntu and Arch on it with no real issues, and the battery life is decent for its weight and thickness as well. The 1080p screen in the small form factor is also really nice.
Fair enough.

Just to be clear, I don't want to give the impression that I don't think spelling/grammar matter (even for blog posts). I just think it is easy to get so pedantic about it that you place far too much weight on them.

I have my own set of pet peeves, and am probably guilty of allowing the violation of one of them to taint my view of an article too quickly and too often.

And of course, there are always those articles that are so bad grammatically that it looks like a first-grader wrote them (but I don't think that's the kind of article we were discussing).
Because they're not people too?
Well, the official pointer tutorial, which I wrote, says right up front that you should prefer stack allocation: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/guide-pointers.html

Unique pointers are one of Rust's newest, shiniest features, so they do get talked about a lot. Probably disproportionally so.

Honestly, it's probably that the docs are still coming together. The tutorial is notoriously poor, Mozilla has hired someone to work on it, but the fixes haven't surfaced yet.
They're not making law, they're facilitating contractual obligations between the creator and the backer. Backer gives creator money, creator agrees to a contractual obligation to fulfill that promise.

Nothing new here.
hint at a Lionel Hutz quote?
Text Editor vs IDE.
Years in the business of technology definitely mean something in relation to both IP and lawsuits. The former being a key ingredient to tech businesses, and the latter being a a risk you must consider any time you sign a contract.

The fellow clearly says that, having been through a couple of lawsuits, that it's tempting to react to the initial wave of emotion. So he's not questioning Carmack's knowledge, he's using Carmack's situation as a handy illustration of his point.

Also, his advice isn't to shut up until trial. It is to wait out the initial wave of emotion, to talk to your lawyer, and think things through until you are truly ready to speak on the permanent record. Which is indeed bog-standard advice.
I think there's a difference between being in breach of a legal contract which opens your company up to civil suit versus being criminally culpable.
Actually type-erasure is one of Java's best features, because it didn't cripple the runtime for other languages. For example Scala's type system is too expressive to be built on top of .NET's generics.

...

People keep repeating this stuff and they're totally wrong. F* is dependently typed and is a CLR language.

bad_user, have you ever actually attempted to write a type unsoundness proof for your claim or are you just repeating something you heard somewhere?
I think another important thing to consider is that not everyone who takes offense to another's use of language is always a victim, but they'll gladly play the role of victim if we allow it.

Sometimes people are actively looking to be offended. Take this one for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1zGRUPztc
I'm not sure you'd want to be a Westerner in the deserts of Egypt right now, either. It's not exactly a safe place.
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"Lack of diversity in the tech industry truly saddens me."

Eh. I work in tech in the Bay Area, alongside people from Europe, Asia, South America, and North America. I would say the amount of diversity is far more than what I see working at other industries. Is there a gender imbalance? Sure, but I don't see it as a bad thing considering that not every industry has equal representation of both races and gender. For example, I rarely see public initiatives to get more Asian men to be hollywood stars, models, politicians, teachers, etc. and that doesn't bother me.
NOBODY should be saying "lighten up." I don't think you understand the context in which "lighten up" is being used here. "lighten up" here is when you say that after a serious offense has been made.

And it's not a straight white male that is always saying it.
Would you have a problem with someone naming those responsible?

It is obviously wrong to demand of victims to take specific actions (or not). Telling a victim (especially one you do not know personally) what to do is definitely never ok. At most you might recommend a certain action, but depending on how that is framed such a recommendation might already be problematic.

That said, I’m not sure I see the problem with naming those who are responsible. Had she done that I really don’t see what would be wrong about that.
Around MIT, the route around the river is pretty popular as the map shows. Except at one point you have to choose between a fork in the road -- do you take a right and run right next to the river and enjoy the water, or do you keep running straight and enjoy the rush of cars on Storrow drive as you run. Im more of a car person, but my girlfriend likes to run by the river. Strava shows me that the Storrow alternative is indeed less popular :(

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#17/-71.07863/42.35498/gray/b...
Sure. That's explaining what to do, which was already established. I asked about how to do that. "Do not do ANYTHING" is easy advice to give, but very hard to implement.
I started researching this when I noticed it was highly prevalent in my company. Furthermore, new people would join (from other parts of the country) and would pick up this speech pattern within days.
confidential

adjective

intended to be kept secret.
Windows 2000. Faster in every way I could come up with, particularly local file and SMB network access, and not crippled to not support raw sockets like XPSP2 is.
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I actually use a Swedish keyboard and I've never found these dead keys to be a problem myself.

Vertical bar/pipe isn't shown on most European Macbook keyboards, nor is backslash in fact, so I guess backslash has to be removed too.

I'm just saying it's not a great argument.
If you have ever played an instrument in a symphonic band and/or symphony, it's very easy to understand the fundamental role of the conductor (I played trumpet in one for years). I guess for others, not so much...

Possible parallel would be to that of a CEO at a big corporation. The CEO (conductor) guides the business (symphony), sets the tempo of business (song), knows when to slow down or speed up and when to adjust dynamics in association to the market (the audience).
Each pixel has a count. Each tile gets a 90 percentile value. Every corner gets the average of its 4 tiles. Every pixel in the currently requested tile gets a value [0, 1] based on the bi-linearly interpolated "max". It's then colored based on that final value.

Maybe unnecessarily complicated, but it does provide really good local normalization. You also get cool looking shading like in this location http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#16/-121.76487/38.49134/gray/...
In the middle of Tokyo I see a lot of laptops in Starbucks but that isn't really the case in most of the cafes I visit elsewhere. Not a great idea to extrapolate from a metropolis of 20 million to an entire country. If laptops are doing so great in Japan why is Sony selling off their VAIO business?
No, but the point is that a lot of people will quite happily insist "I'm not really hurting anyone", immediately after being pointed out to that their behaviour patterns do in fact hurt people. That's almost exactly what happened upthread. In many people's books, that's really not on.
I can't believe people actually have this understanding of kickstarter. Maybe I've been living in a bubble, but my understanding has always been that you are basically preordering something, insofar as you're entering a contract with the party running the kickstarter involving their obligation to deliver the backer rewards. I don't think something like that needs a TOS to rewrite the law.

Sure, there is a risk that the project fails and doesn't deliver, just like there's a risk that whatever company goes bankrupt between you preordering something and them finishing and shipping it.
This map is cool, but it doesnt help me use it for what I imagine is a pretty common use-case, finding a popular route from Place A to B. Would it be possible to drop placemarkers between two places and do routing based on Strava popularity? Right now Google bike directions are pretty bad where I live, and it would be nice to know what route the "insiders" are taking to do a popular route (MIT to Concord is one Im thinking of, but I can imagine other alternatives)
It has every public ride and run with activity id < 120,000,000

It's not updated on every upload, but pretty much the complete dataset.
Hmm... I don't understand why it has to be Text Editor vs IDE. The two concepts are orthogonal. One is for editing text; the other is for understanding and autocompleting text. If their concern is that there aren't any good tools for Rust yet, that'll be solved with time.
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Great map! Fantastic work. Two questions/points:

- Where's the source data from?

- You should think about producing an overlay with bike and run in different colours to see where these differ.
Looks like 17721 Bruce Ave. (or neighbor) might be a good place to steal a nice bike (Los Gatos Strava users tend to ride CF race bikes).

Turn on & off recording right at your house & you're advertising:

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#17/-121.98018/37.23843/gray/...
Reminds me of the "Moties" in The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye#Motie_cul...
Makes sense. But they should wait for a better case.

This seems like a founder that underestimated the amount of time and resources required to start a company and produce a product. It sucks, but it happens.

Maybe a better case would be the guy that lit the backer rewards on fire because he got tired of their pestering. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-f...)
>And the more time I spend with rich and powerful SV men, the more I see a "women as toys" culture perpetuated. //

Isn't this "just" the distasteful behaviour of rich and powerful people. Don't rich and powerful people who engage in all types of sexual behaviours, of both sexes, objectify people.

When a rich and powerful woman goes to a strip club, or uses a prostitute or engages in drunken fornication do we demand that her industry sector be reformed?

What I mean to say is, is this issue really about men being obnoxious or is it about rich people being obnoxious and those rich people happen to be men?

[It's a question, not a supposition. I find all such behaviour to be abhorrent FWIW]
They are shipping a closed source black box and advertising their own demos and tests for a while. Just like this one. Not sure how much I would trust that more than just having a marketing statement saying "oh yeah we are the most stable, fastest, etc".
>Why does privilege mean that white, male, straight, or non-disabled people are not allowed to say "lighten up"

Obviously every situation is different but in general white, straight males have historically set the bar for "offensiveness" and everyone else just had to deal with it. When people speak up and say they're offended by something, maybe dirty jokes in the office, they're told to lighten up.
That is not the big takeaway.

The big takeaway is that straight white men's privilege gives them an advantage over everybody else since they face fewer obstacles such as having their hands forced onto a penis while closing a business deal.
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.

We ban people for this kind of thing, especially when they don't have a history as a positive contributor here.
upvote only for the question mark at the end of a statement[?]

my new symbol for uptalk --> [?]

/s
It doesn’t, really. It shows a fundamental lack of understanding and empathy, for the most part.
I know that you were downvoted for the first sentence, but the second is a serious problem and this is why in my country, with a referendum, we legislated against the use of any form of production of energy through nuclear fission.

Maybe it does not seem a problem UNTIL you found that some nuclear waste (and with some I mean A LOT) have been buried illegally and without controls not too far from your house [true story -> http://gizmodo.com/the-mob-is-secretly-dumping-nuclear-waste...]
> But did anyone else feel that Brad Feld was very, very lucky that it was Heidi Roizen in the room and not someone less forgiving when he said, "well if you need a dick to hold you can borrow mine anytime"?

She indicates that they knew each other. So I suspect that it had nothing to do with luck that he addressed her; it might have been precisely because it was someone like her, that he said that.
My understanding has always been that you are, in effect, taking a risk on a development project. It's not a crowd purchasing system, it is a crowd funding system. The TOS terms of service seem to allude to this given the "best effort" qualification.
Every time I see linguistics on HN, I break out in a sweat too. Thanks for jumping in quickly with some good sources!
Jesus, the profile pic she is using here is 2000x3008 and just rendered as a 1-inch wide circle.
But nothing in the real world really follows an exponential. In reality, what looks exponential is almost always a logistic curve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function

I'm optimistic about solar too, but even if it looks exponential now, this doesn't tell you much about where it will level off. That will no doubt be determined by how cheap the panels become, and how cost effective storage technologies turn out to be.
Yes. S-Logic is designed to give you a much broader soundstage in a closed headphone. It uses a driver that doesn't hit the ear canal directly, but that is slightly angled to use the ear's outer rim in order to add some depth. Depending on the headphone model it works very well.

Ultrasone sells a lot of different headphones that target different audiences. For instance, the Edition models tend to be very design-oriented and typically get very mixed reviews in terms of sound quality (I can't confirm that from my own experience). Others are for the pro market and tend to sound much more balanced.

I own the Signature Pro, which has the newer generation S-Logic Plus, and I'm extremely happy with it. The soundstage is as wide as that of great open-back headphones (e.g. Sennheiser HD650, which I also have), but you get the isolation and bass punch of closed headphones. I retired all my older headphones (HD650, Grado RS1, Shure SE-535) after getting the Signature Pro. Unfortunately, this model is not exactly cheap ($1300 list price) and quite ugly, but I've never heard better music reproduction.
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What's the probability that we're living in the Matrix?
I got a free ipod shuffle. Any cool hacks I can try?
I joined this society that gives their new members an iPod Shuffle (or the worst textbook ever reviewed on Amazon). I have no use for an ipod shuffle, but it's better than wasting shelf space on a bad book. I might give it to my wife for this therapy thing she does for kids on the autism spectrum, but she already has an 8 GB nano for that project. What can I do with this thing?
Gamers don’t care at all about people stealing IP. They don’t have a problem with it.
The data is from http://www.strava.com

An overlay would be nice, but there is a version for both running and riding.
Awesome idea and data set, however I'm very skeptical about its quality. Random analysis: the city where I live in Brazil (Curitiba/PR) shows major avenues and bus lanes as heavily used by bikes and for running, which is partly true but it's far from as heavy as the map makes it seem; my hometown 500km from here (Praia Grande/SP) has 7x more exclusive bike lanes and running trails and yet its usage is just average while everybody I know there rides a bike (not to say the most used bike/run path the maps shows there is actually a interstate freeway).