skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, had extremely greasy hair. I'm talking shower and shampoo in the morning and it would start becoming visibly greasy by the end of work that day. I stopped using shampoo about a year ago.

It was bad for about a week. After that, my hair has been more manageable and better looking than it ever has in my life before (I'm not quite 30). It takes a couple of days without cleaning for my hair to get as bad as it'd get after only hours in the past.

I still use body soap, but I don't do anything to my hair other than rinse thoroughly with water. It's been a seriously life-changing thing for me.
It wasn't really the graphics that I was referring to as much as being in a video game arcade. I wanted to see adventure games break out into the mainstream.
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Two important adjustments when using this:

"Investment return rate" -- Only 4%? An index fund will return higher than that.

"Monthly common fees" -- Required if you are considering buying a condo. This changes the per month rent comparison dollar-for-dollar.
Anyone from the project here care to elaborate on the niceties of this dedicated chip? I'm currently putting finishing touches on a project with a swipe-based (touch, not hover) interface built around the (surely rough-and-dirty, but surprisingly capable) CapacitiveSensor Arduino library.

I'm sure the timing issues one sidesteps by using a dedicated controller ic are critical for projects more complicated than mine, but I'm curious if you know more about the limitations of trying to implement something similar onboard with the AVR. Is there something fundamentally different in the sensing method here compared to low-threshold capacitive sensing?
Do all European bank cards have the associated bank account number printed on them? Mine has, the full IBAN.
If choice 1 is to supposedly be good and suffer and choice 2 is to be an asshole - there's always choice 3: walk away.
I would guess it has to do with liability.

I can't run commercial stuff on my line either, according to my contract. I think it is pretty standard to have that in the contract.

However I am way more concerned about other stuff in my contract.
People slam Microsoft culture, and while I haven't been at the company long enough to really be a good judge, one of the qualities I love about it is the tenacity that people have here. We don't just give up on things immediately. In fact, if you look at a lot of the successful products of today...they weren't initial successes.

I think we're lucky to have the resources/money to continue trying and trying and trying at something until we do well. Yes, eventually you might want to cut your losses and give up. But Microsoft doesn't give up on the first try. Or second. Or third.

And you have to admire that.
I use the square app daily to settle up lunch tabs with friends and whatnot. Totally free and 1-day turnaround. This seems not as good.
I'm getting a MITM warning from Chrome. At least that's what I think it is? http://i.rxt.gd/9Car

EDIT: Oh, clicking more reveals the error appears because the certificate has been revoked.
Did anyone else laugh when they read this headline?
>a few days without shampoo, (even if I rinse) and my hair becomes extremely greasy and nasty looking

Ideally you need to go a week or two without shampooing to allow your hair to adjust. The thinking on this (and I don't know if it's based in science) is that your scalp is producing excess oil because you keep washing it away. When you stop using shampoo your scalp will, over time, slow down its oil production.

I have very dry skin, so I can't comment definitely on whether those theories about oil production are based in truth. I can detail my own experience, though.

I used to shampoo daily and had terrible issues with dandruff. A couple of years ago I decided to stop using shampoo as an experiment. After about 3 weeks my dandruff cleared up completely. These days, the only time my hair gets shampooed is when I get it cut - around once every 6-8 weeks. For a few days afterwards my hair feels very limp and my scalp is very dry and flaky.

I do make sure to rinse thoroughly with warm water on a daily basis.
From the stories that have come out it sounds that avoiding this behaviour is practically impossible to avoid if you are woman. That's a terrible working env.

This also appears to be an American problem. I find this difficult to imagine happening as pervasively ( not saying it doesn't happen at all) in London or Berlin or any of the other European tech hubs. The problem may be more evident in America because it has the largest and most successful tech community presenting more opportunities for alienating behaviour around women to be amplified. The reasons are likely to be more multi-faceted and complex.
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Amazing to see this feature roll out at Balanced and now Stripe. The main reason many of my friends don't like using Venmo and related apps is the burden of putting in your bank account and routing numbers (not even the security worry, just the effort it takes!).
Similar experiences for me in terms of shampoo use (or lack thereof).
Same here. I've probably applied soap to my body a handful of times in the last 40 years, apart from handwashing or after camping trips when I'm caked in mud. Shampoo needs depend very much on the environment. I worked ina rainforest reserve for a year and experimented successfully not using shampoo. Back in London my hair needed shampooing again.

My wife would certainly tell me if I ponged.
Click on the OP's link and use your browser to find "PDFium is an open-source PDF rendering engine." Read the next line.
Surface Pro 3 is only good for one target market: designers.

For everyone else a laptop is better, and a more unified product without moving parts. Surface is also too expensive if you want a decent amount of storage. 40GB of free storage for $930 as a "laptop replacement" is unacceptable. Most people would be much better served than say a $900 Macbook Air.

So from this point of view, the author is right. Surface has been and continues to be a big failure for Microsoft, no matter how well it is designed and made. It doesn't win Microsoft anything other than a very small niche of people who like to design with styluses.
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Most if it is in Java, which is pretty verbose in comparison to many languages.
Thus the answer. If you live in a super clean environment devoid of most smells, you don't get used to them and they stand out. If you are used to the smells, then the smells become norm and nobody bats an eye.

The point is to keep the smells in reasonable control to a point where its not overpowering. Like dogs do smell. After a month or so they get pretty filthy and stinky. However the fist week/2 they are perfectly fine.
Smart sellers would require you to sign your message with the bitcoin address that paid.
Systems refers to the system as a whole, not just software.
I have no interest in watching to video either, but I can clue you in on the mirror's purpose at least. Normally the camera looks straight out at the user. They need the camera to look down at the table/floor/play surface. The on screen games depend on the app being able to see where you place each piece. Without the mirror the camera wouldn't be pointing at the pieces.
I appreciate the authors taking the time to write this (unfortunately this HN comment page emphasizes the uphill climb ahead). But there's one thing in particular I, selfishly, appreciated them addressing:

"Does this mean we’re going to get angry at you if you try to help and get it wrong?"

This fear was something that kept me from speaking out for many years. I'm a guy in tech and I want to see change occur but I'm ignorant about these things. I don't truly understand the challenges that women face in our industry. And because I'm relatively ignorant, I worry that I might say something that was intended as supportive but winds up contributing to the problem: white-knighting, disempowering, calling attention to something that the person affected wanted to leave alone.

Personally, I've come to terms that I'm going to try my best and risk screwing up occasionally. It's scary but I think it's better than the alternative of sitting by and doing nothing. But it makes me feel a lot better to hear that I'm not alone in worrying about this.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7772278

Other versions of the same story or similar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7780385

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7779418

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7777759

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7772825

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7771994

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7771117
Just a side note this site is run by a person who thinks

"This is NOT unrelated to the fact that YCombinator built Hacker News, a platform that has consistently terrorized women in tech for years."

https://twitter.com/shanley/status/460566412226883584
Stripe does that, too.
Or worse, Coldfusion
Pretty brilliant move on Google's part.

By launching Google Fiber, they have a huge wedge for any "Fast Lane" negotiations with the ISPs. If ISPs try to charge content providers too much, and start to impact Google's bottom line, Google can simply start expanding Fiber to bite into the ISP's business.

It effectively sets a ceiling for how much the ISPs can charge Google or it's customers, since Google can simply emphasize Fiber if it becomes more cost effective vs. paying the Fast Lane tolls.
While I agree with most of these points, I wish it were this simple.

The biggest problems are the VERY important issues people strongly disagree on.

These are the ones people end up leaving the company over.

It's usually not "You forgot to make coffee everyday." It's "You think we should price our product at $10 and I think it should be $100"

That is major problem that doesn't get resolved.

I think conflict resolution should be about making sure you are on the same page for the big stuff and then being able to laugh about the little stuff.

Still, it was a good post, something founders should think about.
I actually find the shorter keywords aid readability. Code, just like prose, has a maximum line length after which readability starts decline. Given that we only have so much horizontal space to work with, shorter keywords allow one to use more descriptive variable and function names. Given that the number of keywords is fixed and the number of variables and functions is unlimited, I'd rather be terse in the former and verbose in the latter.

Also, Rust does care a great deal about readability. You might scoff at this statement, but it's true: Rust's syntax works hard to strike a balance between all of clarity, consistency, regularity, readability, and familiarity. As the language gains wider use, understanding of these constraints improves; modern Rust has removed 95% of the sigils that characterized ancient Rust. There used to be tons of sigils, and many were largely inscrutable: ~, @, +, ++, -, more that I've forgotten. Now there's only two: & (for references, a sigil taken directly from C++) and * (for unsafe pointers, a sigil taken directly from C). And there are even some people who would like to see the * sigil for unsafe pointers go away.
Are you sure it doesn't exist? I've seen a lot of them in a corporate setting, and in increasing numbers. When I ask what people like, the answer is almost universally that an iPad is good for watching movies, but they can actually get work done on their surface so they don't need to bring a laptop along anymore.
I lived in Chattanooga for a summer and was on the EPB gigabit fiber; having a peered YouTube CDN was a gigantic win. The speeds were unreal!
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I am always amazed at the level of snark that creeps up whenever someone has the gall to launch a product that is not sufficiently innovative (as defined by most of the commenters here).

It does not matter that this functionality is trivially available to anyone with a CLI. There are tons of people who do not know what a CLI is and would not know what to do with it if they found one. Sticking a nice UI on a utility is a worthy innovation. I can imagine lots of web designers or non-technical people with blogs would find this very useful.

Having more options to compress your images is a good thing. The fact that other services that accomplish similar things exist does not disqualify you from launching a service. How many Chinese restaurants are in your neighborhood?

Let us choose to be on the side of the builder. It is hard enough to create stuff without having to deal with the snark from bystanders in the peanut gallery.
As another guy in tech I share your experiences. I have never witnessed anything like what was described in that article and I have been working in tech for around 10 years now in a very diverse workplace.

I also know of at least 1 woman who if she was a man would have been fired long ago yet she stays on because managers are basically afraid to fire her.

I'm not saying these problems don't exist, I just find it hard to believe they are as widespread as is claimed. I know many women in tech and not one of them had a problem finding a job which is a good thing. This is my personal experience so make of it what you will.
IIRC, when we were evaluating GPRS modules for potential use in the hiptop, we would consistently find ourselves testing modules that worked well for a minute or two at a time but would fall over flat if you tried to keep a connection going for any length of time.

If all you needed was a few dozens of seconds of connectivity — such as, I'm guessing, to update a sign — that was probably just dandy. However, that's not how the hiptop worked; it generally aimed to open a connection to the "mothership" soon after boot, and it would hold it open, for hours or even days, network willing.
Is there any reason the Wacom pen won't work on the surface 3, just without the new features?
On the other hand, the people who do want to use Bitcoin tend to care very strongly about it.
People did not evolve to politely sit still all day, the thought of medicating children to comply with our current sedentary habits (which are doing a good job of damaging our health) seems perverse to say the least...
The surface pro is the first tablet I have seen that looks like a proper drawing tool. I don't really care about portable media consumption, I want the equivalent of a Wacom Cintiq glued to a high-end laptop, ideally in A3.
Balanced Payments' implementation[0] recently went into private beta. Interesting to note that between Stripe and Balanced, their fees are typically the same, however an important difference here is that Balanced is charging $1.00 versus 25c at Stripe.

[0] https://www.balancedpayments.com/push-to-card
This wonderful article by Julie Pagano might be of interest to you! http://juliepagano.com/blog/2014/05/03/ally-smells-fear-of-s...
Thanks. I kept insisting on thinking that the mirror let it look back, which made no sense as there's already a camera back there.
> the main point of the story was that I didn't trust these people to accurately diagnose or prescribe anything.

Your experience is an indictment of bad psychiatry, which nobody here would defend. But you explicitly say you wouldn't trust them to diagnose you with anything (I wouldn't either), so I'm not sure why you then draw the conclusion you did:

> So I definitely think this whole thing is a huge pharma scam at this point. I'd be highly skeptical of any ADHD diagnoses

(FWIW, your comment is gray as I write this; I didn't downvote you, but I wanted to explain why I think someone might have).
>Microsoft is trying to target a demographic that doesn't exist

Well it does exists, its just a small niche for now and the price does play a huge role into it. I am one of the target because I travel a lot and can't be bothered to carry my 9.5pound laptop with me. Waiting at the airport? Just connect to the nearest Wifi, turn on VPN, start up your regular work environment (x86 apps - VM/Vagrant,VS etc) and get that work completed. When it gets too much, switch to the start screen (tablet mode) and play some video, angry birds or 2048 or whatever silly thing. Once I get back home, its automatically syncs the changes to my regular laptop (using BitSync) and I can continue where I left off. Its the convenience I payed the price for. I am still on my Surface Pro 1 and its going good, although it does irk me to see two new versions even before my original warranty is over.

Had the Surface Pro been sold for < $399, it be easily become a top selling tabletPC. Well why not its a full fledged i7 PC capable of dual booting to other OS (secure boot can be turned off) and it runs all your favorite x86 apps. However, the processor itself its too expensive to make that happen. Although I am crossing fingers for AMD's skybridge that mashes up both x86 and ARM in one CPU.[1]

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7989/amd-announces-project-sky...
I have no idea but is it not possible to turn off Secure Boot on a surface pro and install Linux on it?

If you can even get that far though, I could see the touch cover not working without some sort of driver that only exists for Windows..?
One of the worst parts of the Authorize.net (and similar) era was not their terrible documentation, it was all of the half-complete library implementations. Most only implemented the small subset of Authorize.net API calls that the engineer required and nothing more. Thus most shops had to roll their own, or fork and add to another library and there was no coherency between libraries.

Now APIs are being treated as first class citizens, rather than an afterthought, and libraries are released alongside product launches rather than being tacked on a decade later.

So much better.
I've downvoted you, because I don't feel that your comment is particularly germane to the submission itself.

(And I've seen enough minority/feminism-related discussions on HN to overwhelmingly agree that the community here is often incredibly hostile to women.)
@coralreef is right. India threatened to ban them from the country. To avoid the ban, they opened up their data.

http://www.itpro.co.uk/mobile/20193/blackberry-gives-indian-...
Care to share the source? I like its simplicity!
People are saying that, but I'm skeptical. Language is pretty versatile. If Wikipedia can explain the concept of an ergosphere to me without video, surely it can be done for somebody's iPad game.
So the user-facing portion of healthcare.gov is written with JSF then?
Hello WebGL
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You won't see most of these incidents, because harassers do it when there are few witnesses. Ask your female colleagues for their stories. They all have them.

So how does this fit with your "Most of the engineers I know in tech are decent, upstanding guys." - it fits perfectly. Clearly you know some who aren't decent. It only takes one to harass, and he can harass a large number of women; in fact the pattern is commonly to try it on with every woman, but in a way that leaves it as he said/she said.

This is why "not all men do this" is such a weak-minded response. Don't let it slide. Your second guessing of women in your first point, and your "too easily" in the last indicate the problem too. Women who report harassment often get laid off or managed out afterwards, even when they have got the harasser fired. It is a very high risk thing for them to do, and your "not all men" attitude is a key way that harassers are sheltered.
Same here. I stopped using shampoo a few years ago after reading an article claiming that it may contribute to acne. I did notice that my hair is now much more manageable when I don't shampoo. I'll wash my hair with soap maybe once a month, and then I notice that my hair feels awful for a day or two after.
I have seen it once, in one of my employees. I fired him.

I still don't like the ultra-feminist movement though. Hate doesn't achieve much good.
Got it, thanks. Nice diagram. I can't help but think that if the connection between the iPad and the stuff in front of it was made a bit more clear on the site, as you have done, that it would be much easier to understand. Or maybe it's just me.
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Ironically I bet they would not consider that statement hateful or hyperbolic. I bet the next tweet was something like "Why don't people want to identify as Feminist?"
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Just to be contrarian...

What if our culture of daily washing with soap contributes to our health in positive ways? If we make our bodies generally inhospitable to bacteria, we are probably inhospitable to many kinds of deadly bacteria as well.

It might be that if we all abandon soapy showers, we'll have a new era of diseases on our hands.
I appreciate the feedback but honestly disagree with you here.

In my experience conflict never escalades because of facts or differences of opinion/approach but almost always because people get too "attached" to their ideas/approach/solution and can't differentiate or argue based on pure facts but get emotional and later "religious" about their side.

One of the Heroku founders once said something to the effect of "We like people that hold their strong opinions loosely"

I loved that quote. It means that you want to have people with strong opinions in startups but not people that hold on to their opinions too strongly and are not open to sometimes trying someone else's approach in the name of progress.
You are responding to a bug report on one platform by saying that you cannot reproduce it on another.