skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ORMs I've used have always tried to map tables to classes (or whatever similar language structure is available). That works well almost all the time, but I get tripped up when the queries get to be more complex or specialized to a particular use.

I haven't used SQLAlchemy's expression language, but glancing over it now it looks like it might be just what I was looking for (at least for python), so thanks for the pointer.
What evidence do you have that the tech industry is less sexist than other places? Are you arguing that women like working with sexist people through your finance experience? Are you arguing that women who talk about rape don't have the respect of their peers and must be bad coders? I don't understand any of what you said.
Oh yes, the company that will take on Cisco

http://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-is-ready-to-take-o...

When you execs are clueless ...
Agreed. It's strange. It doesn't take into account merit of the selections nor the additional way of measuring progressiveness in racial diversity which, as I outline in another post, it has at least some. It's just blindly assumes the worst based on one metric.
both are wrong.
When I say 'honest complement' I really mean one that is offered as a way to build rapport, camaraderie, friendship.... That means first, you need to know the person, and it must be accepted in the same vein it was offered. It's a way to be nice to someone, to show them that you care about them, or brighten their day just to spread good karma. It is nothing at all like the pattern of of behavior alleged in TFA, and in the context of those allegations, Vic's comments certainly are not honest by my measure.

But what I thought was really interesting in that quote @marczellm linked to, and more specifically in the Twitter replies discussing it (they're now private, so I can't go back and quote them)... someone asked something like "how can this be harassment?" followed by some nasty personal attacks and then statements like "this is always harassment" and "you can never say anything like this". And so I'm looking at the statement completely outside the context of TFA (because that's just tweeted allegations after all).

It would be terribly disheartening to learn that I can't actually do/say those things because women are so overcome by constant harassment it becomes too likely that a complement or nice gesture would actually be harassing. I'm not quite convinced this is true, but I am certainly more attune to the possibility than I was previously.
Interesting. Way back when in one of my classes someone was using one of these to take notes. Now I know what it was, thanks.
You're probably one of the outliers, then.
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You can get a similar syntax with format() by nesting format() calls such as:

EXECUTE format('SELECT * FROM tab %s', format('WHERE %I IS NOT NULL', 'id'));
How exactly are you reading this as "damning and credible"? Whether or not Lane was suggesting that she would be the one who would have to leave instead of Nazre hinges on Pao's reading of the situation being correct: "Pao said this implied that Lane was suggesting that she would have to leave Kleiner, too." Apparently Lane did not think so: "Lane said in his testimony last week that he only relayed this story to show how he understood how complicated workplace relationships could be."
I think the idea is if say you know John and Paul, who don't know each other. John is hiring, Paul is looking you can bring them together.

However I can't see it taking off for the reason than yes you can just email your friends. I mean if you know someone who is hiring and someone who is looking you are going to just phone or email them both if you are a nice friend anyway :-)
::adds "publicly spanked by Brendan Eich" to resumé::

But seriously, that article is insanely ahead of its time. Or we're progressing reeeaaally slowly. Or both.
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It's true in the sense that what makes technology and culture interesting is invention, not endless recycling.

You're pretty much suggesting that using strong feedback to force culture to stay within a tiny area of the total possible cultural phase space is just as interesting as allowing chaotic exploration of the entire space.

It's not just an argument against creativity, it's an argument against invention in general.

>My issue is that none of those examples are backed by any evidence that they are not doing a decent job of finding a global maximum.

That's the thing about global maxima - you only know that you've found a global maximum if you've explored the entire space.

Otherwise you've just stumbled across a local attractor, and you're stuck in a loop around it.

This isn't even a good analogy, because cultural attractors are contingent, and they vary over time. They're also unpredictable.

The reason they capture attention isn't because they're maxima in some analytic sense. They become found maxima because they summarise some aspect of human experience, so they appeal to a lot of people at once.

The spectrum of possible maxima is mysterious and not understood, which is how you get - say - Harry Potter coming out of nowhere and captivating a generation.

Culture is music, not a sine wave. You don't just want a single signal - you want a mix of related-but-different signals running all the time.
You should try your best. If you fail, and you make someone uncomfortable, then everything that happens after that is based on your reaction to being informed of it.

Do you think the other person is full of shit? that they're out to get you? That there's far too much coddling of women and minorities in the world today?

Or are you honestly trying to do the right thing?

Here's two examples. Wadhwa met his criticism by saying that over sensitive feminists are hurting themselves and other women, that they're out to get him and stuff about slander.

That ESA engineer with the South Park t-shirt made an honest apology and probably made a lot of new friends.
> no concerns about maintaining backwards compatibility

Actually, one of the reasons old IE versions persisted forever is because the enterprise rarely updates. Although I doubt there are many out there that use Chrome at all, they would most certainly block auto-updating, much as they used to block Windows Service Packs until they could be tested in-house - no matter how severe the vulnerabilities they patched.
Bill Maris looks like a white Tyler the Creator.
I'm surprised and happy to see this in the Times. It's a good idea to avoid ethanol gas, on principle if for no other reason. Processing edible food to burn in your car (with all the implied market consequences) is kinda crazy. Here's a good resource if you're looking for ethanol-free gas in the US and Canada: http://pure-gas.org
Well, that would only work for straight people. Everyone else would have to work on a team with a maximum size of two, which seems like a rather unfair way for the world to work.

No, I think we're just going to have to figure out how to get along.
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I understand the general argument, and I don't disagree in general. My intuition is that showing 50 inch TVs to someone who just bought one is not ideal [0]. My point is that the specific examples provided (Hollywood blockbusters, etc.) are not accompanied by any evidence or reasoning to convince me that these industries are not doing a good job of satisfying the market.

[0] That said, I've seen lots of counterintuitive but very real phenomena regarding user behavior, so I won't claim to be that confident about this being ineffective. Perhaps people return TVs a lot and buy other ones. I don't have the data.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/stuartsierra/status/571386786238369796
I would like to say lets step back and not conflate SQL and relational databases together. Clearly SQL as the language the primary way most people interact with relational database.

In my my mind SQL as a language is a huge PITA. First, parsing of complex statements is expensive (there's workloads where SQL parsing takes more time then processing the results).

Second, as SQL exists today (SQL2011) it's a large, complex language that's not implemented uniformly. So I understand why people want to build programmable interfaces for generating queries versus writing giant string statements that expand to SQL.

I personally would wish that there was an alternative language for interacting with relational databases that isn't SQL. Just expose the whole relational expression tree to users say ala S expressions. It's not like the relational engine is going to optimize / re-order it anyways.

I mean something along the lines of:

[ GROUP_AGGREGATE,
[ "name" ],
[ [ SUM, "COUNT(*)" ],
[ SUM, "cost" ]],
[ JOIN, [ ==, "user_id", "customer_id"],
[ FILTER, [
[ &&,
[ >=, "age", "30" ],
[ IN, "state", "NY", "CT", "NJ"]],
[ TABLE, "customer" ]
[ TABLE, "orders" ]]]]]

Is it more verbose, yes. But much easier to compose, parse and machine transform by software (code is data). Also, makes you think in terms of relational operations/expressions versus SQL the language.
We are special though. How many species can simply alter an environment so that it can live somewhere that would otherwise be uninhabitable by it?

Now seeing that we're already altering our environment however we want, why not alter it back? Especially if you consider humans to be playing by the same rules. In that light, who cares about the rats? We out competed them, we'll alter things in ways that please us.
The fact that he chose to work with Katsuyama is pretty interesting.
Of all the things to complain about HTML and modern web development, this ranks pretty low on my list.
Jails also have resource limits, so you can have a group of processes that are related, but not started from the same executable, be held to a certain amount of CPU, memory, etc usage. They're also useful in testing/debug situations; coupled with ZFS' copy on write features, they let you quickly create identical environments which can be real helpful in trouble isolation.
What makes you think the existing partners aren't libertarians?
How on earth did this make it to trial? Is Kleiner Perkins crazy, or is Ellen Pao making a point?
There are some existing examples of using a pure functional language as an HDL; Bluespec is Haskell-like, and the Lava family of languages is embedded in Haskell. I'm just a hobbyist when it comes to HDLs, but I've had success with the latter (Kansas Lava specifically).
It works on my iPhone - it's letting me pull in any calendar I have on my device, incl. Exchange, Facebook, and iCloud.

Try under Settings-->Manage Accounts, and throw the toggle switches for the device calendars you want
The person I replied to was stating that 10-20 channels are "worth".

The rest of your comment is just "I don't want to be wrong" nonsense.
Also, and this is perhaps weird to non-users, but true, FreeBSD has a well supported base AMI in AWS EC2. It's an edge case, but it's a big reason I rely on FreeBSD over OpenBSD.
This reminds me of Warren Buffet's approach to investing. It's better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. I fear that all we are doing with data is figuring out a precise way to fail instead of focusing on being right.

"But fail often and fast" the cliche goes, but what about the opposite, it should be true by simple negation of logic right?

"Win seldomly and slow", then suddenly collecting data on every useless piece of data becomes futile. You are not focused on winning and without the burden of speed and pressure to screw things up. You are absolutely calm and able to think things through.
Your argument is that writing an article doesn't stop rape. I find it true that writing an article won't fix my rape seeing as writing an article is not magic a time machine. However, I find it hard to believe that writing an article would not help reduce rape. Writing this article helps people understand rape is common and hopefully make people be more likely to believe the next person who comes forward and is ready to press charges.

How is writing an article counterproductive though? What am I hurting?
> It's true in the sense that what makes technology and culture interesting is invention, not endless recycling.

That may very well be what makes technology and culture interesting to you. It's not necessarily what makes technology and culture interesting to everyone, or even a large portion of people.

> You're pretty much suggesting that using strong feedback to force culture to stay within a tiny area of the total possible cultural phase space is just as interesting as allowing chaotic exploration of the entire space.

I made no remarks even remotely suggesting any of those claims.

> That's the thing about global maxima - you only know that you've found a global maximum if you've explored the entire space.

That may be a useful statement for extremely small problem spaces. It's not useful for the problem space of films. There are a lot of different possible 90 minute long 1080p 24FPS 24-bit color films. Good luck performing a search over that problem space.
I hate reading articles like this.

Seems like people like this live in a different world. I'm just grinding everyday at my 9-5... then I go to a coworking space for my "5-9" to code my startup. Reading stuff like this makes it seem like everyone else just puts FizzBuzz in an iPhone app and gets $100k funding.
Well, I think asking people to refrain from passing harsh judgments is too much to ask even of the educated and erudite set.

If a Michael Arrington - a major power broker in the Valley , by any measure of the use of the term - was not immune to this rush to judgment in the Jenn Allen case [1], I guess expecting the innocent-until-proven-otherwise rationale to be applied to some small-fry immigrant is too much to ask.

[1]

Fifteen Months Later

http://uncrunched.com/2014/06/24/fifteen-months-later/

Letter To Jennifer Allen Regarding False and Defamatory Statements

http://uncrunched.com/2013/04/11/jennifer-allen-false-defama...
i'm sorry, but i think this is BS. why is it that men are allowed to do this and women not? equal rights and opportunities only work to solve this problem if exercised.

men have negative consequences from confrontation too... its just unfortunate that they are often raised in a way that makes them more comfortable to make that trade off and deal with the consequences than women ('being a man about it')

few things are more universally supported in today's world than a woman asking for a man to not sexually harass her. if she loses her job over this there will be a queue of lawyers waiting to take the case to tribunal for an easy paycheque...

telling men not to stare at boobs does make them feel bad, and it should, its how they learn their lesson. if nobody tells them, nothing changes.

should men have to champion this cause? isn't that just even more belittling to women, as if they are somehow ill equipped to assert their rights?

if its some important customer its different. in those cases /everyone/ has to put up with all kinds of crap to do their job. this is professionalism in its original sense (not to be confused with wearing smart clothes to work), again, we shouldn't lower the bar for women... that's demeaning too imo.

one last thing. why is it the male perspective to stand up for yourself and hold your own? i.e. to tell them to stop? isn't this sexism? even more so, isn't this one of those little things that allows the outrageous to happen?
I wouldn't say that Musk is joining forces with Google Ventures.

Musk has no involvement with GV and SpaceX raised from Google Inc., not Google Ventures.
A chemist told me that ethanol is actually cheaper to produce directly from petroleum, than via corn. I'm not sure he meant oil or natural gas. The ethanol subsidies are strictly for corn based.
If women are wearing hijabs, it looks like society consider all males as wild beasts unable to restrain their pulsions.

If women in the workplace, on ads, everywhere, are all looking like (or trying to look like) 16yo half-naked barbies, it looks like society is placing sexual desire above everything else. If, moreover, males are forbidden to look at them, you have the US, a kind of kafkaian nightmare.

Thankfully in most other parts of the world, women dress normally, and usually the way they want to dress. They can be attractive without being punished. They can also walk alone in the streets, do their stuff in their usual outfit, without fearing of being assaulted or being ashamed. Men can be attracted by women without being punished, but men who have a wife do not have to look at or try to not look at big-tits-in-a-cleavage all day. Just the normal way. The two countries I know the most (France and China) are like that.

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That's rather going to extremes with what I said.
So, no, I don't think like that at all.
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V8 folks promise to work with TC39 on semantics and open source the code, which helps. You're right that, worst case, this turns into another Chrome-only power play. But all signs suggest otherwise, so far.

/be
I remember reading some fictional story where the hacker designed a easily-detectable virus, whose true payload was the signature the AV system generated from it. The carefully-crafted signature would exploit a buffer-overflow in the anti-virus clients as soon they got their regular updates from the central server.

Far-fetched but not impossible. I wish I could remember the source.
What happened to me happened years ago. I wasn't ready to talk about it then. Now I am.

The window for prosecution has closed, so it is not possible to take it to court anymore.

Big events like this take years to heal from. I don't understand why so many people seem to believe that people are incapable of healing any more than they do in the first few days after the event. Like the passing of a loved one, with time, you can come to terms with even very unhappy things.
I didn't find it a waste of time.
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> Chrome autoupdates so there's only Chrome stable, Chrome beta, Chrome dev and Chrome canary.

I still see old versions of Chrome in my access logs fairly regularly. Don't kid yourself that everyone updates all the time.

> - IE is closed source; Chrome is more open source.

Chrome is not F/OSS, Chromium is.
If only LinkedIn had a radiobutton for that, or show an option to 'endorse' someone as an asshole...

But, seriously, how do you, or anyone, actually do it? Humans are NP-hard in that regard. You will most likely only know a potato is hot once you are holding it in your hand. By then, it's already too late.
Andreessen Horowitz should shake things up and launch an accelerator of their own.

99% joking, but they have a big enough brand that it would be interesting, at least.

Not that they'd necessarily want to - they get to pick the best YC graduates and take bigger stakes in them, anyway.
tl;dr: Oregon poker machines advise players to make moves that favour the house, and couple those with an autoplay feature that accepts house recommendations - recommendations that are inherently unfair to the player. At least, this is what the lawsuit alleges....
The ol' "once is an accident, twice is a pattern" principle.
Ajit Nazre does not have a PhD from Michigan Tech, only a Masters.

He has a PhD from Technische Universität Hannover and an MBA from Harvard.

Ellen Pao has a JD from Harvard Law School in addition to her MBA.
Which could take anywhere from 7-10 years! Easier said than done!
It still surprises me that shareholders still think they know best when it has been shown time and time again that they have no clue.

If Apple had done what the shareholders wanted in the past, I am pretty sure the company would no longer exist.
Yep, it's already happened; CoffeeScript just implemented support for generators with v1.9.0.
Different people have likes and dislikes about how they turn ideas into paragraphs. For some, it's a visceral thing; keyboard feel sucks. For some, it's a ritual thing. Sitting down, setting everything up just right, and working. Workflow is, and should be, a personal thing.
if apple is "just as guilty", why is it their OS X AND iOS built in calendar apps support exactly what you asked for.

On iOS just toggle the auto scroll option (icon with a square and two lines next to search icon)
Not really. Sam Altman and Thiel have been friends for a while, and share a significant amount of startup philosophy.

And YC is roughly a representation of Sam Altman's philosophy.
> Why is the number of vaginas in a room the measure of how progressive a firm is?

It isn't. However, when the count is 0, it is a pretty good indication of a _lack_ of progressiveness.
Killing the rats is also evolution in action. In fact, anything that happen to the island, done by people or not, good or not is evolution in action.
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I've only been playing CTFs for 2 years (iCTF 2013), but I don't think I've seen FreeBSD there once. In my experience, it's 99% Linux, with some occasional Windows and Android. Then there was last ruCTFe making a point of using some more obscure systems - Minix, OpenIndiana, etc.
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TS doesn't support ES6 today. It doesn't support generators, it doesn't support ES6 modules , quasis ... For that you need to wait For Microsoft to implement those features.
I'm proud to have the audience working with me at the end. That's what a good speaker does. That doesn't mean they were with me in the beginning. Most of them probably didn't know me before I went up on stage.

I can probably dig up some witnesses if it really would change your mind, or you can ask the DEFCON officials.
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After years of working with C++ GUI (Borland VCL's version) I'm loving HTML5 and how the controls layout so nicely.
Or you could just use Sequel and not have to build up your own library.
multi-redirect nonsense.
Saying we should write HTML using the following syntax?:

(div class="red"

(p

(Hello, World!)

)

)

I'm not sure what problem this solves. It eliminates the tiny bit of work that is typing the extra characters in a closing tag, and in doing so you lose all of the other information as to what exactly you're trying to close. The end of most HTML douments would be ))))))) (plus a mess of indenting).

I can see this causing many more problems than it would solve; I'm okay with typing three extra characters to avoid lack of confusion.

The current syntax may not be ideal, but I don't think removing the object type from a closing tab is a good way to make it better.
Agreed. It's become too distracting and polarizing.

What really screws up this tale is -- it's not a case of "unwanted advances."

The fact that she says 'he made repeated unwanted advances' is simply NOT TRUE.

I'm not even going to elucidate WHY what she said is patently not true. If you're aware of the history of what transpired for the entire length of time that Pao and Nazre you already know she's a liar.

If I was on the KPCB legal team, I'd have to point out this fallacious claim she's made.

Once you can show that a complainant is a liar -- it will destroy the rest of their case. If the complainant is willing to go on record and make a false statement to the court -- it's game over.