skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really not sure, and was hoping someone had some good insight. I don't know if there's a specific medical definition, or if sitting for 21 hours but being very active for 3 cancels out.

I just took the meaning to be "sitting/non-moving," which I do for nearly my entire 24h lately. (I used to be very active, before programming, but I have work and side projects and...youtube...lately keeping me in a chair).

Anyway, to specifically answer your question, I would describe the athlete's day as "largely sedentary." Again, I'm not making medical judgments or saying that person is harming their body. I'm in this thread gain insight into how badly I'm damaging my body and how likely it is I can mitigate that damage.
> I have remarked here multiple times that I regard "the end justifies the means" as the perfect definition of evil

I personally disagree with this definition; for me "end justifies the means" sounds like a perfectly rational conclusion, but not for humans - it's too common a failure mode for a man to follow this maxim, and it almost always ends bad; hence we have that saying.

> Unfortunately, we seem to have a generation of people that cannot take the hint that their code needs work or they just don't seem to pay attention to what is going on.

I agree. Moreover, I think we have a generation of people who like to take offense at anything and everything, mostly for signalling reasons. "I am offended by what you wrote, therefore I am a better person and you are wrong".
Original article:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campa...
Tried clearing the Cache, etc. Still extremely distorted. Have had to revert back to Soda Dark until I can see why this is happening.
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Yes, this is the major problem with OP: daily miles logged and a gait problem are some basic preliminaries, but ultimately are irrelevant to the question of whether one should use a treadmill desk and don't really mean anything.

If one doesn't have that specific problem, should one use a treadmill desk? Dunno. He presents several graphs of daily mileage, is that evidence for or against usage of treadmill desks? Dunno. The calorie count is small (compared to what?) when he calculates out, does that mean treadmill desks are not helpful? Dunno.

More relevant would be stuff like: how many emails did he send each day correlated against mileage? How many words did he write in his novel, or how many words did he edit? Did he at least lose some weight? Was his mood better on treadmill days? Did he consider running a simple randomized test (just flip a coin for each day whether to use a treadmill) for anything? Heck, what was his subjective experience, even, about the effects of treadmill - did he feel unable, as many people do (not just you), to do anything requiring real concentration?

OP reminds me a lot of Stephen Wolfram's big fancy QS post about metrics like typing: he had measured an impressive number of things, but nothing that ever mattered.
We wanted to make an open database that was free to use and could let you find relevant journalists (instead of paying a fee to current media databases that encourage mass-spamming).

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Ah yes. This is very nice.

Thanks!

Edit: BTW, thanks for ruining my productivity for the whole day :)
I agree, bunch of whiners and victim enablers.
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Thanks for the tip .. looks like I've got something not quite right with my busted install, posting the details here in case any other HN users run up against it:

Scanning dependencies of target stable-busted-deps
[ 93%] Generating usr/lib/luarocks/rocks/stable-busted-deps
PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (.../rust/neovim/.deps/usr/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/fs/lua.lua:3 68: cannot open /Users/fit2rule/.cache/luarocks/https___rocks.moonscript.org/manifest-5.1: No such file or directory)
make[3]: *** [usr/lib/luarocks/rocks/stable-busted-deps] Error

.. seems like a conflict resulting from having lua5.2 installed alongside lua5.1 .. if I figure it out, I'll update.

Update: for reasons I don't understand, the manifest-5.1 file is .zip'ed up .. so:

$ cd /Users/fit2rule/.cache/luarocks/https___rocks.moonscript.org/
$ unzip manifest-5.1.zip

.. fixed the issue, and now libnvim can be built properly. Seems like there are issues with having lua5.2 and lua5.1 side by side as maintained by homebrew on OSX .. so if others run into this issue, there's the facts.

Update2: SolidOak still refuses to build, this time getting further but still reporting build failure:

Compiling glib-sys v0.1.0 (https://github.com/oakes/rgtk#01b611cf)
Build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...

EDIT: Never mind, I neglected to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH again in a new shell session, as per the README .. I'm now running SolidOak just fine and proceeding to use it to learn me some rust ... So .. leaving all the above for historical purposes ..
The way I personally solve this problem is by organizing my code and my tests in a similar structure. Split application code up into reasonable files, and split the tests up the same way. Depending on your language/test framework, it also helps to put the test right next to the code... i.e. in Go, you can have component.go and component_test.go in the same directory.

I do agree though that it would be nice to see an IDE have some smarts about tests...
Not trying to cause a stir, but where does it say he pressured her? I read it as "he asked me out on a date," not "he told me if I didn't go on a date with him he wouldn't hire me and he'd kill my firstborn."

She had already not gotten the job. Not saying this is ok, but it doesn't sound like much pressure was applied.
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"Be Our Guest, here's your food tray". They spent all this time, effort and money on technology but give people a tray to eat off. Why not just put bowls on the floor FFS.
Could someone provide a simple comparison with how other language runtimes (e.g. Java) implement GC?
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It's' simple love. .m
Your opening is a logical fallacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman).

Anyway, she was already told she wouldn't be hired there. The OP also doesn't mention that it was an exchange of favors (i.e. Go on a date with me and I'll get you this job).
That's when you pull the plug out of the socket.

OP is talking about the failure mode when you pull the cable out of the plug - the live and neutral cables are shorter and tighter and will fail first, leaving the earth wire to fail last.
If they raised over $100M, why do they need Bitcoin? I'd assume they intend to have their own coin. Fewer headaches.
It would, but < 20% of public projects on GitHub have a license apparently:

https://github.com/blog/1964-open-source-license-usage-on-gi...
Actually in this case he seems to be past his personal TDD hype peak: "... a proponent of the selective use of Test-Driven Development."

Hopefully this will become a mainstream thought. Then maybe we will fix the legacy browser languages problem. Man can dream...
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>Ad blockers are also mostly run by corporations that make money and most allow companies to buy exceptions

Wasn't this only ABP and maybe Adblock? That's certainly not 'most' adblockers.
This is a known issue -- be advised:

https://github.com/YabataDesign/afterglow-theme/issues/23
Wait, they fingerprint you?! Wow. Is that part opt-out at all?
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Thanks, at the moment we've only got tech news as we originally built it to use for ourselves. We will be adding in more publications though - were there any specifically that you would want?
Regardless of whether it was done creepily or innocently it's not something I would do or tolerate.

Without any context I thought this seemed like an innocent scenario (guy is not a creep)... but it doesn't matter. It's inappropriate regardless.
And herein lies a key part of the Node/io.js issue.
You know, I'm all about being laid back and rejecting traditional corporate culture, because you can be serious without a suit. But you still need the "be serious" part, which somehow got lost between all the ping pong tables and beer on tap. I actually think a big chunk of the industry encourages unprofessionalism, because professionals do really obnoxious things like negotiate compensation. I really hope that the tech scene can hold on to the fun parts of what makes it special, while getting rid of terrible things like this. But, in my opinion, culture and professionalism starts at the top, even if it's easy to go after the low-status, low-political-power programmers at the bottom. The typical company will give you sexual harassment training and fire people who do inappropriate things, but the same companies encourage their 20-somethings to get wasted at Friday happy hours and have few to no women on their board of directors or executive management positions, and that culture of men-in-charge inevitably trickles down.
Small company, he's a programmer - primary interviewer is busy (something came up) - asks another technical person to cover for him. Happens all the time in startups / small companies.
Last time I used Neo4j in production with NodeJS we had only a few thousand nodes, and our heaviest query, which equated to a 2-table-join sql query, took up to 3 seconds to complete. We abandoned it and went with postgres...
Thanks, that's encouraging!
>Fraudulent purchases are another issue, but the risk of fraud is lower with bitcoin versus credit cards

The CC companies have full control over the transactions. They can stop and/or reverse charges. As far as the consumer is concerned, there is very little risk of fraud.
It occurs to me that my other reply avoids answering your question while simultaneously making me less employable, so I apologize.

To respond directly, I don't know. I can't find anything in her Twitter feed to answer your question and personally, I am fine with the code of conduct as written. My argument is that I have been involved in a situation where she rightfully criticized something that I was working on. She was reasonable, highly intelligent and absolutely always constructive. Therefore, I would prefer to wait to see if she comes out with edits, or if she explains herself further before I take either side. I know there is no logic for that other than my own experience and as such, this is all nearly non sequitur. I don't mean to insult, but I have nothing of substance...other than my respect for Hypatia.
Because Stallman food habits are just ugly, not something one can point at and say "I'm offended!". There's a difference between saying "Yuck! I don't feel comfortable around that person." and "I am offended, you need to change yourself!". People are defending Torvalds from people with second attitude.
You are scared because you are being tracked in a theme park that Disney controls... Odd type of paranoia.

They've been tracking people for years (I grew up going to Disneyland and my sister worked there), with cameras, so this is nothing new -- it's just updated technology.

Personally, I think it's cool and interesting.
kukuruku sounds like the waffles brand that they used to sell in Russia..
I will go out on my limb here. It was a mistake on his part. See if you are willing to let him go with a caution. I know everyone is crying for blood and it is justified. Going to HR will likely ruin his resume for life (possibly).
Forking isn't worth much when the code is too difficult to change. Innovation depends also on extensibility.
Not planning on buying Gen I. Perhaps Gen II. I have a Pebble currently and have been scorned on the smart watch thing by it not living up to their promises.
"Facts the web unanimously agrees on are considered a reasonable proxy for truth"

Mob rule has never been a proxy for 'truth'. I'm not an anti-science advocate, but I think this is a bad idea. Almost every day, I see pictures on Facebook re-posted as truth by hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of people, when a quick submit to Google images shows me it's complete BS.

Even the mainstream news pushes false and politicized stories as fact. Enough people see this as fact and will continue to believe so. Who decides what is the actual truth?

It's strange how open and free Google (and the tech community) claims to be, but will jump at the chance to block and silence dissenting opinions. It's actually not strange, it's scary.

"meaning anti-vaxx propaganda will not appear in the top results for a “measles” search, for instance"

I'm curious to see what kind of information will be seen as "propaganda", because this right here tells me this will be mostly politically based. Scientists also disagree on facts all the time. Which ones will be raised as "truth" and how can we stop corruption?

In other areas, how do we determine who is am "expert"?
It's awesome for simple color theme, but for big themes with icons and other stuff it just doesn't work.
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What the fuck? How does this shit happen? How on earth does someone, male or female, get into such a state that they think it is appropriate to do something like this in a professional setting?

Can someone explain to me how this works? I'm male in a male-dominated industry, and of course I don't give a damn what people look like and treat everyone with respect. The problem is, I don't believe a single one of my male friends (or female friends) would be capable of doing something like this.

Where the hell do these people come from, and how can this be stopped? I hate it when shit like this happens because I worry people will associate this behavior with me.
link needs to end with html not htm
I understand people's distaste for Angular, but it often really is the best solution.
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This is the best advice I've seen.
Also I'd like to add,if you can don't escalate to a lawsuit prematurely.
A lot of companies avoid hiring a person who files lawsuits against corporations.
Its unfair, but its how the real world works. HR exists to protect the company not its people.

I know I mention this a lot on HN, but also read Corporate Confidential to understand how American Corporations and HR really works.
I believe the original is the Etherkiller:

http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/
Nil is pretty cool https://github.com/nilium/st2-nil-theme
Is it OK to 'fire' sub-par contributors?
Yes. I too feel the same.
Wasn't there some recent ruling that indicated interns and the like are not protected from sexual harassment because they're not technically employees? I feel like a prospective interviewee would fall under that same umbrella, and hence a legal case would ultimately go nowhere. Not to mention that, as has previously been mentioned on HN, HR is designed to protect the company from you, not the other way around.

I'd bypass the legal system altogether (which increasingly seems designed to protect this kind of atrocious behavior) and go straight to the media with it. Public shaming unfortunately seems to be the only way to combat this.
Yes, you can opt out of going to Disneyworld.
Oh so a bit like f.lux but for Sublime :) nice
It's implicit in the very fact of asking in that situation. Your response, and the neighboring one from ddoolin, is the equivalent of "I wasn't threatening her, I just always hold a knife in my hand like that."

The proper thing to do here if you really wanted to ask her out on a date is not to do it. There's plenty of other women out there you can meet in a more appropriate setting. There is no acceptable reason to turn a job interview into a date request.
Given that she was already turned down for the job, I see this more as an absurd lack of professional propriety than an abuse of power. It would also be extremely inappropriate for a candidate to ask an interviewer out on a date.

Of course, if the job rejection is in any way related to the subsequent date-asking (or anything other than her alleged lack of experience), then the situation is different (and even more messed up).
The way interview went or asking someone you rejected for a job for a date ... or both taken together?
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Whenever I see "kukuruku", I start hearing this song in my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuYKOx834Pw&t=149
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Seems to me like people are equivocating the GitHub definition of forking with the conventional definition of a software fork - which directly follows from the right to redistribute modified copies of a program, though usually also implies some form of rebranding and schism.

GitHub doesn't provide an accurate view into FOSS at large, only certain subcultures.
Since OP mentioned that the company in question is a startup which implies a fair chance that they not yet have a HR department or that even some of the founders took part in this sexist behavior, IMHO OP should not hesitate to call out names (only the company's) as it seems it is the only way to punish this behavior.
Re: "If an intruder gets hurt, you're liable."

IANAL

This is called the Castle doctrine, and in the US it varies on a state-by-state basis. I'm not sure if it would cover "booby-traps" or not, since technically you are protecting yourself from an intruder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine#Practice_in_th...
Solved this by NOT using Colorsublime, but using the Afterglow theme directly available from the Package Manager. I believe the one in Colorsublime is not 1.2.8 or newer.
This is really cool! I'll have to check it out later today.

Although, ahem, I expect that I'll just integrate Racer into emacs. :-)
Dating within the tech industry is tough, especially when most of the people you meet are also in tech, but you also don't want to contribute to the problem of creating an environment where women feel like they're constantly being evaluated not only for their skills but also as potential partners.

As a guy, it's probably best to just put the idea out of your mind altogether unless specifically approached. Meeting romantic partners at work is extremely common in other industries, but most of them don't have the same gender imbalance problems that we do in STEM fields. I think it probably sucks for everyone that dating in the tech industry is such a tricky thing, but I think that's probably just a sacrifice we're going to have to make until we've got a better culture and gender balance.

It's definitely not ok to take advantage of the power relationship between interviewer and interviewee in any case.
Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus.

Well that's not even metaphorical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF4NjbIEbW8#t=64s (should skip to 1 minute in)
Seriously ? All for asking her on a date ? I don't see any harassment or any kind of quid pro quo. Mistakes happen all the time.
Acid Machine is a web based tool for creating Acid Techno. It consists of 2x 303 style synths and a drum machine. I'm currently working on a song mode so you can string patterns together, record automation and save your finished track.

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Perhaps. And, so you know, again I'm sorry for arguing with you like this. My argument approaches non sequitur because my only point is that we should listen because I respect her. Yet seriously, why would you respect me or give an iota of a crap about something that happened to me???? I deeply apologize and swear I am not trying to offend you or be disrespectful.

The problem with disagreeing with a code like this is that arguments stink until you put them into practice. Saying a code is too vague is like saying that a design needs to pop - in the end, it means nothing until it is accompanied by an "I would have written it like this" statement with an example.
It would be very difficult to get another coin to the level of adoption that bitcoin has. Many have tried, and none have come close.
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I really don't imagine that this will ruin him for life, but HR/CEO should be notified of his behavior in order to at the very least reprimand him.

I'm not saying he should be fired but professionalism is required at workplace and this is an abuse of power.
A logical fallacy assumes a logical argument. I was using "real men" as a rhetorical device, echoing OP's use of the term "MAN."

Edit: these downvotes are fascinating. I'm amazed at how many people are apparently upset in the opposite direction from what I'd expect. Are you pissed off that it's inappropriate for an interviewer to ask an interviewee on a date? Are you just pissed off that it's being called out? Do you just disagree with the language being used to call it out? Do tell.
Not that I'm aware of, I didn't try. They haven't requested my daughter scan her fingerprint at ages 2 or 3, don't know what age that starts at though. During the testing phase the finger print wouldn't always work 100% of the time, they'd get someone over with basically a tablet with an RFID scanner to let you in.
Ask HN: Is startup fever still on?
I used to participate a lot of techs and startups meetups, people talked about fund, acquisition for past 6 years. But recent months, I noticed that startup related meetups, participants has been reduced more than half in India. Do you find similar trend elsewhere?
Incredible that the NSA has no qualms about this. Good for Wikipedia for taking a stand. Those who wish to share and exchange information shouldn't have to second guess their every move.
...and historians, and anyone who has ever devoted a moment's thought to the question.
I was able to process about 250M requests a day on a dedicated server (E3) without breaking a sweat.
My understanding is that there will still be pauses, but they'll be in the sub 10ms range rather than the 100ms range.
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He's not trying to pass a law requiring Bill Watterson to make more art.

He wants this guy, with a voice and an audience, to make use of that. Few people in life get both, and it is disappointing to watch someone who's gotten both just walk away from those two things.
You've just misused the no true scotsman fallacy. The no true scotsman fallacy is when someone attempts to apply an unreasonable/unlikely interpretation to a previous claim when presented with a counterexample to the reasonable interpretation of that claim. It is not simply any claim of the form "all/no members of group X have property Y."