skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what should one expect from people dedicating high percentages of their life in front of a computer in an activity that does not enrich your personality in any conceivable way. Killing digital zombies is just that. Do you expect empathy? Self-control? Being ideological about it, as in threat women equally, is a far fetch. Gaming industry is a smaller sister of a bigger one, and there, I assume, no one expects their clients to stay away for sexism. Yes, porn. Teenagers, in age or spirit, have a combination of hobbies.

My point. As a woman that works in an industry that cultivates a-social behaviour, lack of empathy, egotism, and so on, don't expect utopia like social orders. It's just unrealistic. Same goes for porn, movies, fashion, gaming. It's like fighting the symptoms but ignoring the causes. It's like trying to cool down the air around your town to fight global warming.
Nope. I'm saying no one is free from this sort of behaviour when they put themselves in the public eye. Look at sports-related tweets after a big loss.
These days you go to your state exchange (for the putative ex-MS person, that's likely to be https://www.wahealthplanfinder.org/), search for a plan, click on it and sign up.

It used to be worse, of course. But even then it wasn't a disaster for the case at hand: the COBRA act allowed you to continue to buy your existing plan at the same premiums for a year and a half until you found a new job.
The premise of DRM is the same as police state ideas, that doesn't require convincing, it's the very definition of it. Whether you find it acceptable or unethical is another question however.

See also updates above about other points.
Shake build system:Alternative for Make, Ant etc.
I looked into this and the price is now $472. (HN traffic is stress-testing our pricing engine) For this item, we relied on Amazon's trade-in price, which we want to get away from very soon. (because the prices are too low, imho)
How to Use Empathic Listening to Create a Blog
I was wondering about this myself. Hope OP can give some idea of what's going on here.
Bye, Nokia, nice knowing you
Which encoding does Python use now?
It would make more sense to host it as a cloud API, or perhaps use it as a backend for Datastore: https://developers.google.com/datastore/
however according to this page:
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/05/get-started-wit...

it seems like it uses Megastore http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2011/Papers/CIDR11_Paper32.pdf
get over yourself. you should see the things people say to me in facebook chess let alone playing starcraft. its not because im a male or female, its because people are assholes but we dont need some sort of mind police to 'solve the problem'.
A very reasonable thing to do is ask for a higher salary and no company insurance. You end up paying a premium (because the extra salary gets hit by income tax, while if the company had used it to buy insurance it would not have been subject to income tax), but you get to choose your own insurance and it doesn't stop when you leave.
Serious questions for you mcosta:
If you don't believe in objective reality then what do you think made you?
Where did the rules (i.e. chemistry, DNA, neural layout) of your mind come from that allow you to function and have subjective experiences?
Yup! We use Dockerfiles to set up the environment for the web app. We're also working on a Dockerfile generator to make this process automatic.
Visualizing Substratum
You can define functions within the scope of another function in Python as well. It's up to the developer to keep it organized.
After giving this a try, I got an email from Amazon saying they've reset my password because I "may have been subject to a 'phishing' scam".
Try to extract your credit card from your account

I am not foolish enough to believe that my attackers are no more clever than myself. So whether I can extract my credit card from my account is not useful.
RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines
First Commercial Web Games Launch Leveraging Mozilla-Pioneered Technology
Clearly my downvoters have never been insulted while suicidal
Amazon already has an OAuth solution: http://login.amazon.com
... and then you'd spin it off as a feature (or design review) request for better handling of accidental quit actions, right?
+1 for Github Pages and Jekyll. I used a Bootstrap theme that I tweaked a bit.
Crowdskout is Hiring a Back End Developer
It's in progress: http://login.amazon.com
Can anyone explain what this would mean for the day-to-day programmer?
COBRA is impossibly expensive for many people. When you simultaneously have your salary drop to $0 and your portions of your insurance premiums triple (say, if you have a spouse and kids covered by the plan), that's a rough situation to be in.

About the only good thing about COBRA is that it covers preexisting conditions.
You'll forgive me for regarding your implication that "Log in to play your games" is somehow equivalent to a police state, as utter nonsense.
>>In the area of competitive sports, it is pretty common to receive death threats for athletes who do not perform well.

You are making this comparison because you haven't fully thought things through. In your mind, death is worse than rape, therefore receiving death threats is worse than receiving rape threats. But it's not so simple.

Rape threats are significantly worse than death threats, for a similar reason that killing children is worse than killing adults. Women are a vulnerable group in society -- they are smaller and physically weaker than men on average, and are socially oppressed on top of that. If both rape threats and death threats are an attempt at exerting power (with no intention of actually carrying through with the threat), then rape threat is a lot worse because it exploits a vulnerable group in the most mentally damaging way possible.
> DRM is fundamentally and inherently bad, not as a moral proposition (though it may be that, too), but simply at what it is nominally intended to do.

Which often reflects the fact that DRM is used for completely other purposes. None of them good.
So what's special about this database? What properties does it have that are superior to the currently available alternatives? This article is all hype and no substance.

EDIT: GitHub has more information. It's a scalable ordered key-value store (think a distributed version of Berkeley db.) Storage is based on RocksDB (a variant of LevelDB) and consensus is achieved using Raft. The database is written in Go. It's meant to "tolerate disk, machine, rack, and even datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention."

What's not clear at all is where it sits CAP wise. It says it's available and strongly consistent. Which would be CA, which is not an option (especially for something claiming to be failure tolerant.) It must either sacrifice write availability or consistency in the event of a partition. No idea which way it leans.
Should be noted that in most cases your employer would cover most of that premium. My insurance went from $10/month (with my employer covering $580) to $590/month on COBRA when I was laid off.
I didn't know about this. Hopefully it's stable.

EDIT: looks fairly stable. Back to Firefox.
There is no ceiling in place (I need to look into why different books show similar results). For the mentioned book, there's a difference between for how much it is offered and for how much it is bought (if someone wants $100, it doesn't mean that anyone is buying it for that price)

Scanning 44 other book-buying sites, only 3 are buying that book and the price is between $0.12 and $3.97
The making of a Microsoft CEO: Layoffs and lip service
I love the idea, but to me bitmessage is a better fit for the control interface. Doesn't help with the marketing part tho.
Here's a basic plunker I threw together. It has no loops or timers so it's all click based... but is this on the right track? http://plnkr.co/edit/7kEhr0fYIMNbL40Uedwn?p=preview
Build an android instant messaging app in less than 2 hours
Well, that's the thing, isn't it? It's not about whether you're cool with it -- it's about whether everyone is cool with it. Just because you like dick jokes doesn't mean that your female coworkers (or any of them, really) are comfortable with it. Since you can't speak for everyone, and some people can't speak up for themselves without making themselves targets, then it's your responsibility as a member of the team to make a judgment call: is this appropriate or not?

If you decide it's inappropriate, you should say something.

If you decide it's appropriate, don't.

I'm not advocating censorship, but I am advocating that you should push back if someone's doing something offensive. Your female coworkers are probably more likely to go to HR or the CEO to complain (in a relatively safe manner) than to speak up in "public", especially amongst a bunch of men who think "it's just a joke" or "it's just banter." And I'm pretty sure we both agree that talking to HR can make the whole thing way worse.
what is openstack and how does it differ from digitalocean?
SDET in Windows.
Also highly risky is AWS. Maybe an attacker can't order diamond rings for themselves, but they certainly could spin up a million EC2 instances to mine bitcoin.

The cost efficiency is terrible of course, but what do they care.
How is that better than COBRA?
@jmarrapodi, great to hear!. Every server on an average generates about 5 alerts per month and if they are not handled properly, they will cause outages. In fact, amazon (AWS) and facebook (https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150275248698920) built internal tools to handle this exact problem. Our mission is to democratize it for everyone!
The linked article gives men actionable advice on how to support women. It does not tell men what their experience is.
This is a really good idea! I'd say Amazon isn't the only place I buy stuff, so adding places like Target, IKEA, etc. would be great!
you can also host ghost statically on github pages
> I think the best thing to do as far as internal harassment goes is to basically have a no tolerance policy from the higher-ups. Not so much a "you'll get fired" thing but having everyone step up and say "Hey, that's not cool" when someone makes a sexist joke.

What you describe is not a zero tolerance policy. A zero tolerance policy requires punishment and "Hey, that's not cool" is not punishment.

If an employee is harassing another employee, he or she should be punished. Depending on the nature of the harassment and the employee's prior violations of company policy, the offending employee should absolutely understand that termination may result.

> At my job, we had a guy for awhile who would post funny pictures in chat. Every once in awhile, he'd post something NSFW (not necessarily nudity) and all the guys would just say "lol" and the women wouldn't respond at all. What should have happened (and I'm guilty of not doing this) is that all of the other men should have stepped in and said "Hey, you know, that's not cool."

This is precisely why your approach to the problem doesn't work: the first response of the people you're asking to say "Hey, that's not cool" is to "lol" when presented with a NSFW picture at work. This is simply a reflection of the fact that some percentage of employees are not mature and professional enough to have developed an awareness of the environment they're in.

It's silly to expect self-policing from folks who don't understand that a NSFW photo that might genuinely be amusing when shared outside of work can be incredibly awkward or offensive when shared at work.
Good news: Bitcoin can't go Clippy because you can't get > X compute for X compute's cost in BTC, at virtually any margin, to say nothing of the scales required to e.g. meaningfully impact availability at any major cloud provider. Ask if you care about the economic or engineering details, but typically, people running Bitcoin mining on public clouds are doing so to exfiltrate value from accounts or payment methods which they have stolen, in a way which is fairly difficult for law enforcement to combat. (That or they're enthusiasts who either don't particularly care about monetary incentives or should have spent a wee bit more time reading about currently successful mining strategies.)
I find it surprising that the exact key he fat fingered wasn't burned into his long term memory. Not that it would of been helpful to him down the line, actually the level of obsessing which would of taken place after the fact to remember it this many years later would of been quite counter productive.

It is simply that given the simplicity and consequences of the error, it is the type of thing I generally see people beating them selves up over until they can not forget it.

(In case you are saying to yourself but he did remember the key, look at the two versions in one he says F6 machine reboot F7 all reboot, and in the other he says F7 machine reboot F8 all reboot, indicating that while I hope he knew the keys functions then, he has since forgotten the exact key, or is substituting F keys for story telling purposes)
> Applying filters hides the symptoms without treating the underlying illness, which is a society that is infested with sexism.

This doesn't follow from the symptoms being cited, which is that a small subset of people say incredibly offensive and inappropriate things online.

If a million people see a video, and 1% of the people respond, and 3% of the people responding are crazy, that's 300 crazy people responding. If each crazy person sends 15 emails before finding a new thing to obsess about, that's 4,500 threatening or otherwise crazy emails in response - which certainly seems like a flood to the person being responded to - but doesn't actually tell us anything about the population watching the video, at large, except that it has a similar percentage of crazy people to society at large.

Continuing the hypothetical: if you assume a normal person only sends 2 emails, then you only have 19000 normal emails to 4500 crazy ones, because crazy people are more talkative. At 1.2 emails for a normal person, It's 11000 to 4500, which makes crazy emails over a quarter of all messages received in response - a vastly disproportionate number considering they were 3% of respondents.

One thing that automated filters can provide is sentiment analysis and looking at related messages, to pull out the underlying distribution of people responding (and hence seeing it's just people being people), rather than just seeing the surface level "We have 25% crazy emails!"

I would have to see a much more detailed analysis of the emails, responses, and distribution of them to conclude that it's a widespread problem, rather than a small crazy contingent being amplified above their importance by just posting a lot.
GoG was never a back catalog, does anyone else find it annoying how these "authors" decide they want to write about something and choose something as stupid as talking about how GoG is no longer something it never was?
I am really sorry to hear that. We've experienced that once or twice before. This happens when the phone number associated with the account doesn't match the one you entered. Unfortunately, Amazon sometimes asks for an old phone number, as long as that number has at one point been associated with your account. ShelfFlip definitely doesn't do anything scammy.
Neither of those are realistic problems. (How and why would an advertising firm use your data against you, anyway?)

Servers go down every day, and data centers go down every month. This project solves a real problem.
All stereotypes and stigmas, or only those that fall disproportionately on the White and male? Are women hysterical, Blacks lazy, and gays promiscuous as well?
Too late, the telemarketers already (effectively) doing this.

VoIP# -> unpublished home line (+ Mobile)

Home line 'protected' from autodialers by old fax machine, 4 rings then silence. Only political calls seem undeterred.
The people who do this type of harassment aren't alphas. By definition, alphas are renowned for their prowess. The people described in the article would be omegas, most likely. Your hate is misguided.

At least be alpha enough to spell out the word "fuck".
> I really have no preference as far as kids go, it's just that when I read articles like this, the idea of having a daughter seems terrifying.

This is like the tech equivalent of suburbanites who never go to the city because of all the news reports of murders they see on the nightly news. These outlets take a serious but infrequent problem and exaggerate it into an epidemic for the eyeballs (and hence, ad revenue).
I'm a male in the software industry, and I never really know what to make of these sorts of articles. It's terrible that someone should have to go through this. The anonymity of the internet is a great and terrible thing -- some people really get off on being horrible to people, and unfortunately when that person is a male, and they know they're talking to a woman, the low-hanging fruit is base sexism. But what is supposed to be done about it? More specifically, what am I supposed to do about it? I know that I find that kind of behavior abhorrent. I would never think that stuff, let alone say it. Knowing my coworkers as I do, I'm 99% sure that the same can be said of them. So, I just don't know how to respond to this. Should I feel guilty? For what? I didn't do this stuff. The issue that I have with this is that I feel like I'm supposed to feel like a bad person because of my gender. Quotes like "men tend to inherently [insert stereotype here]" are apparently great enough to be made inspirational posters out of. Is the author oblivious to this sexism? Or is it OK, because it's targeting men?

I think it's deplorable what the author and the women she describes have gone through. I think that we all should re-examine our behavior to ensure that we aren't perpetrating this sort of thing. But I wish that the article, and others like it, weren't couched in terms of demonizing half of humanity.
I just visited a Bitcoin ATM at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. It did not require any sort of identification whatsoever - it just took cash and gave you bitcoin, either on a paper wallet or a provided address.
Your previous submission of this was killed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8068952
Yeah, I'm about to start a job search pretty soon. Not so nice that the market is being flooded with ex-MS people at the moment.
Show HN: Interactive lessons for SQL SELECT
If that wasn't clear, here is a simple explanation.

DRM is built on the presumption of guilt and overreaching preemptive policing. These are quite standard features of some abusive police state ideology. It was well spelled out by one Sony exec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit#Background

> "The industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams... It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what... Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source - we will block it at your cable company. We will block it at your phone company. We will block it at your ISP. We will firewall it at your PC... These strategies are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake."

Concise and to the point. That's what DRM is about. I.e. assuming everyone potentially criminal, and policing everyone preemptively in abusive fashion which violates one's privacy (because DRM is found in your private digital space). This core idea applies to any DRM by its definition.

I hope this makes the analogy with police state approach more clear.
I literally have been looking for this for months. Thanks!
The Bitcoin blockchain/DNA metaphor
correlation does not equal causation.
Protobuf - static schema, non self describing
Avro - not self describing
MsgPack - limited data types (no URLs, Dates, etc)
etc.

Go find a format that offers everything transit does, and when you don't find a perfect match for all the goals, you'll understand why this library was created.

Cross-platform (without writing in C), self describing, schema-less, extensible, support for caching, etc.
Unfortunately, this only works as a login mechanism comparable to facebook, but doesn't give a site access to your past purchases.
That's not quite true. Women are much more likely to receive threats because they are more vulnerable. Just like bullies pick on those they perceive to be weak, abusers target those they perceive to be easy targets.
I think the most interesting thing from this was his hint that he personally might be working on software built to maintain the users privacy. He also referred to SpiderOak (Dropbox competitor) and the "zero-knowledge" method.
I use this same exact setup and for the same exact reasons. Jekyll + GitHub pages is a godsend.
I have a similar (albeit modified) theory. Let me clarify that stupid and smart don't necessary mean the same as regular usage, but they're close enough.

If you are 'stupid' (not necessarily intellectually, but in some ways), the neurosis (psychosis is a strong word, no?) is less, you don't think about things you shouldn't (bothersome, existentially) and you have a healthy and comfortable intellectual-emotional life.

If you are very smart/smart, you can get beyond the temporary plateau of 'thoughtfulness' that also brings neurosis. You think about things that are bothersome, but you have enough mental strength to overcome and suppress them. You're high-functioning intellectually, and it doesn't take a toll on your psychosis.

If you're in the 'middle', you tend to think about things, and keep thinking till you've found reasonable solution. It is bothersome, depressing, and often not pleasant. But you have the gift of 'thinking', and you like using it. It's a stimulating albeit mentally tiring existence.

When you say you're 'dumber', I interpret it as you saying you've trained yourself not to ponder upon things that will lead to no obvious outlet. Maybe you've genuinely trained yourself to never think about certain things, maybe you've trained to control your bothersome thoughts on command. Either way, you've trained your thoughts to a 'different level'.

/armchairAnalysis
Why is this getting flagged to hell?
TIL we are all now mature and educated in the perils of the Not Invented Here syndrome so nobody will be telling you to go write your own.

(and this makes me sad)
Doesn't Ghost use a database though? It was using SQLite last time I looked at it.
Have you tried https://pricenoia.com/ ?
I disagree - maybe because I only perceive speech as "offensive" if it's directly insulting to a targeted person - which impersonal jokes (whether "dick jokes" or any other jokes) are not. In any case, I would rather err on the side of freedom, allow most communications (except insults, secrets, and whatever is illegal, such as hate speech), and rely on people to proactively say they are uncomfortable with something. I understand that not everyone wants that, but then again, I would prefer to not have to wear a suit to work, while others might. We just won't work together.
As a mid 20's single male, I had the same experience. My premiums were fully paid by my employer, so it was quite a shock when the COBRA paperwork came stating the monthly cost would be almost $600/month.