skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a non-sequitur. The point is that AirBnB landlords are being singled out as though their apartments "belong" in some sense on the market, when nobody cares much about the million other ways real estate is re-purposed away from rentals. AirBnB is an easy target under the current legal framework, but it would be nice if we thought about the broader dynamics before going for the easy target. Hotels are a great example of an alternative: most NY hotels are actually converted apartment buildings. Every new hotel could be an apartment building instead. So... why don't those spaces "belong" in the rental market too?

Ultimately, if market forces make it more profitable for rooms to be used for short-term stays than as homes, it will be very hard to stop that from happening and not at all clear that we should stop it from happening. There are arguments the other way, but it is depressing to hear only the glib assumption that the free market must be stopped. For example, it's not ultra-obvious that policy should favor those who choose to live in Manhattan over those who choose to visit. Among other things, I think it's likely that the average income of the visitors is lower than that of whoever would be renting.
I'm really surprised that neither KPCB or Pao has settled this out of court. It's going to be a nasty airing of dirty laundry across the board by the time this thing is over...
Maybe it's just me but the article seemed pretty clear.

Women reach a glass ceiling within the IT industry and decide to leave. Some, like Ana, are lucky enough to startup their own business. But this would be the minority. Most middle aged people have mortgages, families etc that they need to provide for. "Hostile" male culture, a sense of isolation and lack of a clear career path seem like a pretty sad indictment on our industry.
But you want to go two steps ahead and hold investors responsible for Spiegel's behavior? That's laughably naive.

Oh, it probably is. Someone has to propose radical ideas or moderate changes never happen. Radicalism is the role I've had to take on these issues, for a variety of reasons not worth getting into.

To be honest, I'm nearly burnt out on the anti-VC radicalism. And my actual views are fairly moderate, not that I can express nuance in a world full of corporate apologists (Valley libertarians) who worship money/success regardless of its origin, and who have to have their idols crushed. See, I have a good job, a good life, and I find that I care less about VC and stupid techie tricks by the year. I prefer to learn about Haskell or new machine learning techniques; that's a lot more intellectually stimulating than "VC-istan". That said, a replacement for me on the anti-VC radicalism front hasn't emerged. I'd love to find one so I can play the moderate.

There's a value in being a screaming maniac, which is that your words echo in your adversaries' minds in their moments of doubt and darkness, which means that you have a chance at planting in them the seeds that take them down for good... but I prefer the moderate stance when possible. We just need a really effective screaming maniac because, even if they aren't much for nuance, they have important morale effects in terms of galvanizing the good and shaking the bad. Right now, I haven't met anyone who can and will do what I do on HN.

Consider, for example, that one of Reddit's big investors is a pimp. No, that's not a fucking joke. He was straight up selling women's bodies to be used sexually. We're not holding people who sell women's bodies for sex accountable...

Whoa. Can you say who? I've never heard of this. That is... disgusting and horrifying.

I think we probably agree that such people should be held accountable.
Yes, linking to older versions would be better than blocking new posts, as the discussion is often different, plus the chance of a post reaching the front page depends on many variables beyond post quality.
Maybe true in pre to early 1980s.

With SS7, widely deployed in Europe and then the rest of the world, probing (tapping) was quite straight forward when the SP complied with local lawful intercept regulations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS7_probe
Most discussions of FC and BEV miss the most important factor that will determine which one succeeds in the marketplace. Comparing engine efficiency, pollution, none of that matters compared to this single factor. And that factor is infrastructure.

BEV supporters often assume that everyone lives in a nice suburban home with a garage. But the reality is far from this. Millions live in apartments/condos with parking structures that contain hundreds or even thousands of cars. And there may be a trend of the younger generations favoring denser urban living instead of the suburban living of past generations. Installing a few charging ports in a parking structure that has hundreds of parking spots is not a realistic solution. Will the owners of apartments and condos be willing to install hundreds of electric plugs into parking structures? I think the answer is either no, or they would do it too slowly to determine the FC vs BEV fight.

So for the millions in this situation, there are only these options for the future. BEV battery swapping stations vs Hydrogen stations. Supercharger is too slow compared to hydrogen filling. Only battery swapping is comparable. Which infrastructure is built more quickly will determine if FC or BEV wins. Energy efficiency, pollution, none of that matters compared to this.
_k, did you try to raise an issue? Did you ask Twitter what happened?

Also, this is why Telegram's policy towards "desired username"[1] worries me:

If your desired username is already taken, we will be happy to help you acquire it, provided that you have that same username on at least two of these services: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

No, you don't do that! If someone has taken "tom" and that also happens to be the ID of Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise - everywhere else, they should have come first, or you should have reserved all those famous uesernames hoping these celebrities will come to your service.

[1] https://telegram.org/faq#q-what-do-i-do-if-my-username-is-ta...
But I am I'm saying your attempt to assign a dollar value is indeed nonsensical, in particular for early stage startups. That's why most people simply use percentages as their measurement of the "going rate" for early stage startups.

Your complaint is that you can't get data using a different method of your preference. If you want to use your own metric it's up to you to deal with it.

Not everything can be captured simply by measuring it in dollars.
My first thought to this is: How is it going to scale? This requires human labor to be behind every service requests!

And then I was reminded of Uber. Isn't Uber in the same sort of service model that requires a human driver for every request, but is doing super successful? (let's not talk about regulation.)

The more I think about it, the more it appears a good business model. It definitely helps users save time and worry, and as demand is growing, it can simply hire more trained service men, and creates huge job opportunities.

This is a platform that enables/accelerates service to people by people. I'm optimistic of its future.
Did you read the article ? It clearly highlighted the problem. According to the Harvard study, they include a "hostile" male culture, a sense of isolation and lack of a clear career path.

Examples include: Redmond, now 40, didn't want to leave her tech career. But she felt stuck, with no way to advance ; Chou, "The continuous pattern of all these people treating me like I didn't know what was going on, or excluding me from conversations and not trusting my assertions, all these things added up and it felt like there was an undercurrent of sexism"

Frankly this dismissive "misogyny is everywhere" attitude is pretty unhelpful. It isn't everywhere and even if it were it implies that it is somehow endemic to our culture which it isn't. Many industries actively support and encourage women especially in senior management positions.
If you need to do an indexing step anyways, why not simply import the data into a SQL database, or build this as a wrapper that introspects the CSV file, builds a database schema, and does the import for you? Is the issue limited scratch space?
I am.

I am explicitly arguing that not only that there is little to no misogyny it tech but even further, that the tech industry goes above and beyond to no be any of your favorite "- ists"
Physical switches can easily be bypassed in the code.
And you're therefore part of the problem. Congratulations.
Not if the physical switch is directly controlling the NAND's !WP pin. If that's possible it's beyond my knowledge.

eg: http://www.hynix.com/datasheet/pdf/flash/HY27UF084G2M%20Seri...
This is pretty much the worst possible way to respond to an opinion you seemingly disagree with.

Where is the misogyny you see? I, like many others, see where we work as equal opportunity environments and note that the same opinion is shared by those considered minorities. If you've been exposed to something different, that's fine and can be a relevant addition to a discussion that you're flat out refusing to have because you consider your views as objective.
The facts of article don't support the headline, since the numbers they reference are for total female percentages, not attrition numbers. Sounds to me that it's not that they're leaving, but they didn't get there in the first place.

What got me was the last quote from Garann Means - "The main thing would be professionalism. Just being able to treat each other with respect would be huge."

Those words echo exactly what my wife says almost daily, and she is a non-tech manager at a non-tech company.
Firstly, JS isn't just about browsers anymore. Developers using node.js and io.js can use new syntax as soon as their platform of choice supports it.

For browsers, yes, compatibility means we have to transpile. But the day you need not isn't necessarily so far-flung. Like you say, browsers largely auto-update and, after a slow start, they are implementing ES6 features at a good pace. The ES6 compatibility table[1] shows the progress already made. Only WebKit is really lagging. IE.next/Spartan is actually leading the pack, and coupled with Microsoft's plan to give away Windows 10 free to Windows 7 and 8 users, it gives good hope for the future.

Also, transpilation can be a gradual strategy for converting code. The Babel (née 6to5) authors have stated their intention to keep supporting new JS features as they are added to future versions of the EcmaScript standard. I think we'll soon see Babel able to be used like Autoprefixer, which selectively adds vendor prefixes to CSS based on browser support statistics and a developer-specified target configuration like "last 2 versions" or "> 5%".

[1] http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
This. It requires time and effort but not more then could be accomplished by a single motivated hacker without being paid.
I use keepassx (https://www.keepassx.org/). Works well and I am able to sync it with ownCloud I have on a VPS.

Also, I only use my machines to log on to services, can't bring myself to trust anyone else's machine.

For android use, I have Keepass2Droid (https://keepass2android.codeplex.com/)
re: So... why don't those spaces "belong" in the rental market too?

That's a good discussion to have I think. But we are talking about Airbnb here.

re:
Ultimately, if market forces make it more profitable for rooms to be used for short-term stays than as homes, it will be very hard to stop that from happening and not at all clear that we should stop it from happening.

Yeah, you might be right. The cost of this is lack of affordable rent in cities like NYC. Some of us believe that we have a responsibility to ensure this. Now, the debate is about how big of a role Airbnb is playing in this.
Not if the physical switch physically disconnects the write enable pin on the flash chip.
"All Systems will be Gamed: Exploitive Behavior in Economic and Social Systems"

http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~wbarthur/Papers/All%20Systems%20G...

He has a new book with all his papers: Complexity and the Economy (http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Economy-W-Brian-Arthur/dp/0...). I have not bought it yet. The preface is free to download here: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~wbarthur/Papers/Complexity%20&%20...
I think acceptance by the community is essential for their business. If ones decides to shame Airbnb hosts in their buildings, it will present significant risk to Airbnb's business.
Exactly. And this would be faster with a team.

If anyone here has done reasonably well at https://microcorruption.com/ and has experience with IDA, I'd say they were qualified to do something like this (experience with ARM and JTAG a bonus!).
I wish I knew how unimportant material things were.

Live in the now.

You are not your job.

Don't take things personally.

Ask for what you want.

Would you rather be right, or loved?
It's a good database in its own right. Use a write-ahead log, and you can get one writer and as many readers as your local disk can support.

The common thinking is that it's more of a replacement for fopen than it is for Oracle.
Something to keep in mind:

I turned 40 in the year 2005, but my life experience was someone different than my father who turned 40 in the year 1982, and I suspect that if someone was 20 today that their life experience looking back will be a bit different in the year 2035.

Yes I can give you all of the cliches from "enjoy your hair while you have it" to "i wish i put aside more in my IRA". But aside from that the lessons in your life could be different than mine.

For my father's generation (the silent generation) the path to success was a steady union job or say becoming a professional like a lawyer. However for my generation (gen x) union jobs didn't exist and many of my friends who became lawyers are doing quite badly.

So I would say that to take the advice of anyone over 40 with a grain of salt as your results may not be the same. Common assumptions of the path of success of today could be badly placed bets.

For example even though I was a hardcore Apple fanboy if you told me to load up on Apple stock in 1996 I would have thought that you were crazy. Also if you told me in the 80s that Japan would face a lost decade in the 90s followed by being in the shadow of China i would have thought that you were crazy.
Hey Peter!

Sorry about that, we had to pull Pencil support at the last minute due to bugs.

The trial only records days actually used, so if you resume when we have Pencil support you'll still have time left.
It was offensive and dismissive, so I responded in kind.

Anyone who is so ignorant as to deny the rampant misogyny in tech -- in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary -- is not someone who is going to be swayed by any appeal to reason and so I'm not going to waste my time in vain.
Is methadone safer due to potency vs dose size, or unreliability of heroin supply?

Would quality-controlled heroin be as safe?
I don't know what "it" you mean here.

The developers of ProjectA hold a license to that code. If ProjectB is under teamhappy license, then those parts of ProjectB which are unchanged from ProjectA are still only under the MIT license, because copyright requires creative input. As ProjectB made no changes, there was no creative input, so they cannot use copyright law to enforce difference license terms.

The portions from ProjectA are under the MIT license. The portions from the ProjectB developers are under the teamhappy license. If I use ProjectB then I am a licensee for both MIT and teamhappy licenses.

This co-mingling of software from multiple copyright holders with multiple licenses is why the licenses have to be "compatible."
Don't be passive in your life, or you might wake up one day on the wrong side of 40 and realize that you haven't been in control of your life.
The NSA's Trojanized HDD firmware is indeed “an astonishing technical accomplishment”. But I'm wondering whether their firmware reprogramming modules are especially capable, or are merely customized to add requisite APIs. Maybe Kaspersky will release them. Or not.

In particular, I'm wondering whether host machines' HDDs can be flashed from VMs. And further, which hypervisors and emulators are least vulnerable in that way.
As opposed to an engine crane?
Well it was written by a woman...
Bankruptcy laws don't help you leave the ghetto.
Why do police and prosecutors continually push the boundaries of civil liberties? If some technique or equipment is arguably unconstitutional, why are they even bothering - they're sworn to uphold and protect the Constitution, not to shave away civil rights until they're non-existent. That shaving away or pushing boundaries is crap. US society doesn't set correct incentives for prosecutors and policemen.
and have home chargers

This is an incredibly significant point that continuously gets glossed over in these pro v con lists. I park my car on the street, and that's not particularly uncommon. Should I run an extension cable over the footpath? What if I have to park further away than my cable reaches?
Floss
It seems unlikely that any PC manufacturer (Apple, Dell, HP etc) would force their users to open up their machines and flick the WP switch on the hard drive controller to install a firmware update.
Isn't the idea that there's a "wrong" side of 40 a bit silly?

Sorry for the snipe/snark, but... I mean, there's no right or wrong to chronological age. It's not something we have any control over.
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Is there a good app to encrypt and store all my photos in Dropbox or Google Drive?
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I'm very familiar with other viewpoints. You are the one who is unable to really engage with my arguments, because you prefer cheap shots and personal insults. Your whole post is dripping with condescension, but you haven't addressed anything I've actually said in any detail.

You want to be able to browbeat me with you rude style, but it just doesn't work online.
> my first response would be to find some other place to have a drink

Which is why the comparison to slavery is indeed overblown.

That said, I'm totally with you on this. At best, it's soliciting ballot stuffing.
Does that actually work well with 1Password? In my (years-ago) experience with WINE it was hit or miss whether a given app would reliably work in it.
Looks like Shanley has respawned as DiversityWorks.
They could wire it to a key on the keyboard, so you have to hold down 'Esc' to flash a firmware update, for example.
You're pretty successful already. I'm turning 45 this year and and am uncomfortably aware that I need to accomplish certain career goals within the next few years or see the chances of ever doing so diminish dramatically.
How often have you honestly installed a firmware update on an HDD ever? I think I've done it maybe twice in my lifetime. Both times required jumping through crazy hoops creating boot floppies.

Apple would likely just ask you to bring it into the Apple store.
You are a solider looking for an enemy. Congratulations.
Start exercising when you're young and make it a life long habit.
This is from the post I was responding to:

>Would we be hunting for a root cause in social pressure or discrimination if we found women were a much higher chunk of the audience for Twilight and men were a higher percent of Avengers viewers?

What is this question suggesting? Is it saying that media preferences and employment differences are similar in such a way that the fact that we do not investigate media preferences means we should not investigate employment differences?

What you are saying is different: that investigating one will give you information about the other. I don't really disagree with that. I disagree with the implication that employment differences are to be trivialized as 'matters of preference,' and thus not worth investigating.
* No tombstone ever said, "He wrote great code." Ponder the implications of that.

* Don't let anybody else define success. You are not in high school anymore--chart your own path.

* Count your blessings. Be grateful, if not to God then to your parents or somebody besides yourself.
> "The continuous pattern of all these people treating me like I didn't know what was going on, or excluding me from conversations and not trusting my assertions, all these things added up and it felt like there was an undercurrent of sexism"

Well, this happens to men as well. I'm a male engineer and not being asked, not being trusted is just how it works at my current job. YMMV

The reason why we are seeing negative reactions here might be that some people are seriously tired of everything being sexism.[1]

[1]: e.g. "Donglegate" Adria Richards, who cost two people their jobs because she 1.) most likely misunderstood a joke that was not meant for her 2.) misused female privilege (yes, they exist as well)
Physical switches are no impediment to people who already gain physical access in transit.
They'll either be ready or they'll learn a valuable lesson.
Hacking around with something in a lab is not quite the same as weaponizing an exploit. And, while your thresholds for technical accomplishment might be higher than Kaspersky's, regardless whether we knew this was "feasible" before, it's the first documented case of completely taking over the hard drive. That I know of.
Unless you've got a direct electrical connection between the Esc key and that pin, you've unfortunately introduced a way for software to do the same thing as holding Esc.
I'm sorry, but I don't see the issue. I continue to see article after article about women not being in the tech space, but being in corp. tech for over 10 years - outside of larger conservative tech companies such as IBM, the issue isn't that women cannot obtain advancement but more so of the ratio of woman/men in the tech sector.
Should I be upset that when I go for my checkup, that I see primarily Asian doctors? Are they getting greater advancement because they are Asian? Or it is the fact that 1 segment of the population has a larger number entering that space?

"Her male bosses told her she'd built it without permission. Then they said only architects within the company could pitch features — and all the architects were male."

^^ As a white male, I had recently done this in my job and was told the same. Our protocol as that we are required to request permission prior to developing new features. This is not uncommon.

"It's why the industry is so eager to hire women and minorities. For decades tech companies have relied on a workforce of whites and Asians, most of them men."

facepalm
Really? Where are the women who are crying out for equal rights? As a white male, I would assume companies would seek the best that they could find, rather than seek to locate a segment of the population that is less inclined to enter the tech space.

This is just a poorly written article to draw in readers, and a few instances of people that had bad experiences in their own workplace rather than industry facts.
We are have bad experiences in life and work, regardless of our sex, age, race, or religion. While I am not saying that it does not happen, I am saying that this is a "junk" piece created for readership that is pro woman man slapping.
Don't listen to people who say that you are "job hopping" or unreliable if you change jobs earlier than 5 years in the same role.