skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, good intentions don't lessen impact on victims.

I fundamentally disagree with you on this, but I've noticed that people seem very divided on this issue.

Personally, if I'm offended by something and I learn that it was a fundamental misunderstanding and no harm was intended, then the anger/hurt/whatever emotion just goes away naturally, without me having to even consciously think about it or calm myself down.

My ex-wife was the opposite—once the anger happened it didn't go away no matter how much of a misunderstanding it was that triggered it.

I've come to think of it in terms of "Humpty Dumpty" from Alice In Wonderland[1]: "'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

IE, if you are taking more from my words than I put in them (including offense), then that is on you and is not my problem, especially after I've explained myself.

I've since learned to just remove the other type of people from my life as much as possible—they just aren't worth the trouble.

[1] Technically "Through the Looking Glass": http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12/12-h/12-h.htm#link2HCH0006
This one is just code that the author didn't understand. He probably wrote it, but didn't understand it. Actually

call _
jr z,_
xor a
ret
_

takes 4 bytes on a z80. Should have done something like

call _
ret z

which saves three bytes (ret z is a one byte instruction).
I guess he may have forgotten about the conditional return instructions.

And, key debounce is important. In future, when the key switches become (when, not if) marginal, there will be a lot of make/break contact events. Software debounce was very common for this class of system. Missing that, and the
effect this had on the kernel being written? Very sloppy work.

3 weeks to track this down? Back in the 70's when the z80 was new we typically HAD NO DEBUGGER (unless you wrote it yourself), And, the hardware being developed may have been flaky. Hell, even the KIM-1 needed software debounce.
Lumail, a scriptable console-based mail-client

http://lumail.org/

There is a (small) issue list here: https://github.com/skx/lumail/issues

A simple(?) issue I cannot resolve relates to compiling under Mac OS X - Using readline from the ports system, and that issue is tracked here - https://github.com/skx/lumail/issues/179

Any update from a Mac user would be most welcome.
Yes. In an employment setting, it's an unlawful question. The reason it's unlawful to ask a job candidate the question is the same reason that it's unethical to ask a prospective investment target: the premise of the question is bogus, and rebutting it requires the candidate to explain and defend private child care and home life arrangements.

Offering a candidate an "opportunity to explain" a question that shouldn't have been asked in the first place isn't a positive thing.
I took votech electronics in HS; 4 hrs/day for junior and senior years. It was the opposite experience though. 1st year was analog, second was digital. Learned small signal response, Karnaugh mapping, 6502 assembly. I'm an EE now of course.
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Key areas: Systems and application programming, 11+ years of experience. Worked on high availability and server management areas. Keen learner - highly proficient in C++ / C++11. Can work fluently in Java / Python / NodeJS. Contracted author for an upcoming title on C++ using Boost libraries.

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Seeking employers preferably in the Bay Area. Open to working in EU as well. Looking to build and use cloud-enabling technologies. Want to work in fast-moving, dynamic teams with freedom to choose tools and techniques and challenging problems to solve.
Nice! Thanks :) But anyways. Interesting project. I can't help but think how all this will work when 3D printing can achieve amazing things. Backing up your car / computer / anything physical will be like backing up your eBooks (I hope!).
Google a Winner in Apple-Samsung Verdict
Seems obvious to me that black has negative connotations for all the things it's directly associated with due to the physical fact it's the absence of light. Darkness, death, etc. Humans are hard-wired to fear these things because without light we can't see and if we can't see we can't avoid danger, etc.
I have to disagree. The first 150 pages were quite a slog and the payoff wasn't worth it.
The paths ridden do not line up with the actual roads. I am not sure what the OP is actually trying to tell us about that though.
You mean like an internally hosted version of trystash.com?
Can I run my own server? Is the server part open-source too, or just the client?
This immediately reminded me of a quote from Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (4th in the trilogy of 5):

"The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it. There was not a lot of demand for his services."
I don't think the big takeaway is about how women should act/think.
My Dad died from metastatic stage-IV melanoma. The gene therapies (which were extremely expensive) weren't effective beyond adding maybe an extra 6-8 weeks.

I'm interested if the tuberculosis actually "killed" the melanoma or if it caused an unusually aggressive autoimmune response that happened to knock out the melanoma. I'd like to see if there's a case study available on that treatment method.
It is criminal behavior. In Illinois, the relevant criminal statute is Criminal Sexual Abuse, which is a class-1 felony. Coercing the victim into touching the accused is specifically included.
Brilliant! Are there any other tools from the command line that I can use from my web server to make my life easier like this?
Not yet, just the client.
Didn't he eventually open the most popular sandwich shop in the universe? Or at least on that particular planet ...
Google decay: Custom search engines
"Breakout directly influenced Wozniak's design for the Apple II computer. He said, 'A lot of features of the Apple II went in because I had designed Breakout for Atari. I had designed it in hardware. I wanted to write it in software now.'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)
One of the most irritating ones I found was in an FPGA. There was a bug in the FPGA code with an initial state which would only fail to initiate an ADC converter correctly if the temperature was somewhere around 75F.

So at room (lab) temperature, it was fine. Out in the "field", which was 1000 feet away from the lab, nothing would work.
It is unclear to me whether Google is skewing or Strava. I would tend to assume the latter, but I'm a little biased in that regard.
This is the greatest resource on animation I've found

By Richard Williams

http://www.theanimatorssurvivalkit.com/
20 Rules of Software Consulting (2013)
And/or they simply want to avoid a direct confrontation, which might happen when a man is present, but not when the woman is alone. This just happened to me today, biking and of course i heard some rude comments. Really wanted to tell them to fuck off but then I would engage, they might respond, etc, and my biking zen would be even more disturbed.
One of the worst embedded bugs I ever had the displeasure of looking into was on a data streaming device developed by a contractor. One of the I/O processes would lockup after something like 6 or 7 days of continuously running without error. My boss and I (the only programmers) scoured the codebase for any possible condition that looked like it might maybe somehow could cause a lockup and added debugging outputs. We ran multiple devices in parallel in an attempt to increase the likely hood of the bug occurring.

The weeks kept rolling by without progress and there was more and more pressure to ship the thing. We ended up writing code that would detect the lockup and perform a soft reset. Luckily there were only a few instances where resetting would cause a perceivable problem but it still hurts to know that you shipped incorrect software.
Something about this topic makes the Internet creepers come out of the woodwork. It seems to be much easier for them to get a charge out of gender-based stories than, say, Java type system debates.

What I can tell you as someone who has spent altogether too much time on HN is that for the most part, the people writing the worst comments on these threads are drive-by anonymous trolls, and not serious members of the community. Further, people who have a serious HN presence who contribute to the muck on these threads are, as you can see from the grey cast their comments take, driving themselves into pariah status. You'll notice that even when a creepy comment is written by someone with a lot of karma... they're gonna tend not to have their real names on their profile.

There's probably not a whole lot HN can do in the near term to keep hostile, offensive noise off threads like these. Anyone can make an account, and some people keep a whole battery of sockpuppet accounts handy so they can stir shit up on the threads. All I can tell you is that if you feel like you need to stand up for yourself on a thread like this, there are lots of long-time serious people on HN who will have your back. If you don't want to do that, nobody can blame you.

Welcome to HN, by the way. Stick around.
Animal vs machine funny video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNMwKCEdnKI
That is not necessarily a contradiction. The reason that liars add detail is to mimick truth tellers, so it makes sense that truth tellers add details as well. The important difference is that truth tellers do not need to remember the details, because they already remember them, whereas the liar needs to remember the new details.

Having said that, as a lay person, I would be concerned about false positives. Memory is associative, so even with a truth teller, I would expect more detailed and accurate recollection when told in chronological order then reverse-chronological order.
I guess Kickstarter is a store now.
> A second iron law of startups might be

Iron law "might be"?

I don't think I'd ever invest in Box, but I see Square much differently. I think the author arbitrarily pooled them into the same category, and then stumbled over his own argument throughout the article.

Square is in a market where once you have a customer, you have the customer. There's not really a reason to switch your payment processor unless your experience with them is particularly terrible, or processing fees dramatically change in the market (not likely at all). They're building a solid revenue stream, and their numbers back it up. Unlike Box, they're hovering around profitability, not hemorrhaging money. They certainly have some stiff competition, mainly Paypal, entering the market, but Square is offering a more comprehensive experience for business owners, not to mention a much smoother product. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a whole line of customers stumble over how to complete a transaction on Paypal's offering.
The retailer featured (Diamond Candles) had an interview on Mixergy: http://mixergy.com/justin-winter-diamond-candles-interview/
Speaking up is required and necessary. You have to bring terrible situations to light.

Wrecking people's reputations and careers with mob justice is unacceptable. You must not burn situations with fire.
The server is called "redis"
Thanks, but no thanks.

I would suggest adding a privacy policy to your website.
Box does have "network effects," even if they're not as strong as Facebook's or AirBnB's, because once you get thousands of employees at a company using your product, it's hard to tear that out and replace it with a competitor's product.

The platform strategy makes a lot of sense, because that's how you can turn weak product inertia like they have now into strong product inertia: once you have a big ecosystem spring up around your product, you have Microsoft-level staying power. I don't know how realistic that outcome actually is for Box in particular, though.
Yeah, mechanical switches are complicated in a microprocessor context, and sometimes debouncing causes more problems than it solves

And debugging things in embedded contexts is very complicated
Box is kind of a nightmare, but I would really like to see square succeed. It's kind of interesting since I see it being used everywhere (Minneapolis), but the margins are so thin I just feel like they have a hard time making money. They should potentially think about raising fees, but I don't know what the potential backlash might be.
Wikipedia. Put onto a device with a nonmechanical hard drive using technology that will last for at least 1,000 years. Said device would have to be powered with kinetic energy so that someone could press a pump with their hand or foot to give it power. I would imagine that the hardware could be made less complex and more durable by stripping it down to perform only the purpose of displaying text on a screen. We should develop and perfect this technology and scatter it around the world.

I can't think of anything that's more useful than all of the world's knowledge in a small box. The science, research and technology articles alone could turn men into gods of their time, imparting the knowledge necessary to wage war or enthrall most people. Can you imagine if modern wikipedia were dropped off anywhere in the world 1,000 years ago? The world would be completely different. Plus we'd be able to transmit so much of global culture, in different languages no less. If society was completely reset they would still have a knowledge of breaking bad and mash, plus all of the classics of today. Preserving wikipedia for centuries has to be one of the most beneficial things we can do for future societies, no matter what happens.

Specifically about this book, I heard a radio interview where the author said that the technology he felt was most important is the lathe. It's like the ycombinator of tools, you can use a partially completed lathe to make another lathe. He mentioned a story about a machinist who was able to start with one lathe and raw materials, and end up with an entire shop full of different tools. I almost went out and bought a cheap lathe, just the zombie apocalypse starts anytime soon.
This is specifically not one of the Kickstarter backers suing for breach of contract, though. This is the state attorney general bringing a prosecution for violation of consumer-protection laws, which is a different legal situation.
It depends what type of random number you need. Having one interface isn't sufficient to describe the types of random applications need. A load balancing system probably doesn't have the same requirements as the RSA private key generation algorithm.
Are backers consumers or investors?
You might want to check out James Burke's "Connections" series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
It's not democracy, the top comment isn't the "only" comment as if the will of the majority chose it and that's all that exists in this thread, effectively suppressing minority influence. You have options to view other comments or start your own discussion if you please.

I think your point of contention is that other people, reading this very same article, approve of a comment that did the exact same thing you did: made a point about a "meta"-topic by forking the conversation into some other concept that was assumed when both of you were compelled to comment. Now we have three (your parent, you, and me) off-topic forks of a conversation that is superfluous to the so-called ubiquitous topic of the thread.

I see where you are coming from, but I find these "meta"-topics at times more interesting than the topic itself, hence why I'm commenting.

Interests are interests, your response is just as much justified IMO as your parent commenter.
That just tells me that you've never lived in a city with truly atrocious public schools like Detroit, Newark, or New Orleans.

In those cities, any caring family who can beg, scrape or borrow the funds sends their kids to private schools, including most middle class families, and many poor families (off a combination of scholarship money and extended family contributions).
Petition: Ask Fed to go 100% renewable
Yes, it is strange the aricle does not mention Dropbox. Perhaps they are not planning an IPO?
I'm surprised it doesn't have a feature for intermittent breakpoints, like every 5th or 10th interval. I find that very useful for small size grid-lined paper.

Still, this is very nice, it's easy to see the potential for other features.
I'd guess this is especially true if you're drunk or speaking in front of a large audience.
I hate to let my pessimist flag fly but this seems like one of those articles/infographics we will look back on in twenty years time and laugh. "Where is my flying car", etc.
I for one would very much appreciate a self hosted version.
If you hit someone with a frying pan it's considered assault with a deadly weapon so it's not considered 'safe' just stationary without direct attention. You basically have to have to attack someone for frying pan's or Pencils to hurt someone, where all it takes is intention or any number of mechanical / software failures to cause harm with a drone which is a vary different situation. It's the difference between a car and a gun and you need a licence to drive a car on the public roads.
I'm sure you're hurting and upset, and I do sympathize, but I don't think you have a leg to stand on. At multiple junctures, you sold assets related to your app, which suggests to me that it was a half-hearted effort, even though you had a coming soon page. There are no unwritten codes in business; only written ones, and sometimes a bigger dog comes in and steals the show.
The original article is, clearly, very high-quality and based on a lot of experience.

Too much of the community here is unable to have either an intelligent, or empathetic, response to articles like this. Many comments are not even trying to learn something from the OP, which should be the baseline approach. Even a small proportion of these comments can completely derail the thread.

They employ a variety of diversionary tactics (probably unconscious!). Like hyper-rational "what if"/"did they consider"/"yes, but" reactions, objections to language in the original post, objections to hypothetical language or attitudes in other places on the internet.

I assume that it's a maturity issue, although I've known immature people who have healthier reactions to issues regarding equal treatment in the workplace than the ones here.

(Incidentally, before taking these opinions too seriously, it might be funny to peruse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511)
Zoom into Beijing in Google Maps; switch between the default and satellite view and you'll see that they don't line up.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/maps/ambcCIPTQi... says that the satellite images are correct and that the street maps are misaligned.
fn is my favorite keyword for function definition. "function" is too long. "def" doesn't say anything about functions (unless you read it as DEfine Function). "func" sounds too funny. "defun" always reads "defunct" to me.

And just out of curiosity, where did the rust designers get the inspiration for "fn"? I know plan 9 rc and clojure have "fn". Or maybe it's independent invention?
Revealing Hidden Services by their Clock Skew (2006)
> In a setting like, say, "did you forget to call me last night?" it pays to remember that everyone lies instinctively

Everyone? My first reaction to that question would be "Apparently.", followed by trying to find out more detail (such as what I was supposed to have called about).
SF Bay Area, Local, Full-Time

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Stack: Python (+numpy/scipy/etc), Django, SQL, Git, JS

Contact: calcsam at gmail dot com

Overview: Currently Python backend engineer. Building out reporting, simulation, and algorithmic selection for an ad server. I'm a Stanford econ grad & quant who taught myself to program (bit.ly/1hlw5IO).

I'm optimizing for learning, so bonus points if there are lots smart people around. Love playing with numbers & getting to do something useful.
Yeah, this is clearly designed to sit on coffee tables as an oblique expression of the owner's cynicism rather than function as an actual field guide.
I think it's the estrogen mimickers in the plastics and the female hormones in the drinking water due to flushed birth control pills.
Yes- the society he found himself in had never thought to put meat on bread, so as Sandwich Maker he took on a kind of master craftsman/minor deity role.
I had an idea once to make something like this, but on a much more (ridiculously) grand scale. The basic concept was "Society from First Principles", sort of a cross between Boy Scout Handbook, Wikipedia and Robert's Rules of Order.

Just as an example of the scale I'm talking about: I wanted the book itself to be useful / durable, printed on something like Tyvek so it would last through more than the average paperback. The first thing I was thinking of trying to figure out is establishing a measurement system under the assumption that all existing weights & measures disappeared and you would have to recreate them. Even ignoring the fact that $BOOK would have some fixed size/weight that could be used a a reference. Really, really first-principles stuff, like with only wilderness / stone-age type tools available.

I know I wanted to have different volumes, from basic (individual) survival through communities to nations. Volume titles were something like "Survive", "Thrive", "Rebuild", "Expand".
That works against a remarkably stupid questioner who repeats the same question. More efficiently, so does this:

Did you steal it?

>> No

Did you steal it?

>> What makes you think asking the same question again will
get a different answer?

Did you steal it?

(Silence)

And in a court, the second question would prompt an objection of "asked and answered" for the same reason.

On the other hand, a better questioner would ask questions around the same area and try to find a question they can get a response to. In particular, they'd ask questions for which it would be more unusual for someone to refuse to respond:

Did you see anyone or anything suspicious in the area?

Do you know Bob?

Where were you at the time?

Do you know anyone who might have reason to ...?
I think it would be particularly useful to include change history and discussion pages. The struggle of how we arrived at this apparent consensus, and the evidence that it was just a snapshot of a (mysteriously and suddenly stilled?) roiling river of debate, could be nearly as valuable as the facts themselves.
Based on what the map says about my local area, the results seem quite er... surprising... in that they don't really match what one sees on the ground (especially for cycling). And when I say "don't really match" I mean "are completely out of wack"...

I suppose it's because the results only reflect users of this app, and there's a correlation between app users and certain types of usage.
Visualisation of traffic over Western Europe, 24hours
#3: She files suit, and wins, because the legal climate surrounding harassment cases is overwhelmingly in her favor and she knows it.

I can't take claims of the above seriously in the US, because women are 100% legally protected from professional retribution when declining said "deals". I can't speak to outside the US, but here, the protections are vast and absolute.

It's not 1913 anymore, any anybody who claims otherwise needs to wake up to the current legal reality.