skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no reason classic gold watches couldn't be machined by CNC - the hand finishing / handmaking process is just part of the cachet of high end watches.
> None of Vic's compliments, which by the way happened outside the office, constitute sexual harassment.

In or out of the office doesn't matter if it's a work event – and off-site retreats, conferences, etc. certainly qualify. Even if it's not, a manager still has to be responsible for what they say to a subordinate and make it clear that this is unofficial and not connected to their job.

> By vilifying innocent remarks, you're only further making men not want to work with women, while promoting a culture of oversensitivity and political correctness. Who wants to work in an environment where they can't make a simple compliment without being publicly ousted as a mysogynist offender? I sure as hell don't.

I'm a man and I don't have a problem working with women. The difference is that I know my job isn't a singles bar and in no case would I want someone to think that there would be professional consequences for not reacting favorably to something they didn't like. That doesn't mean that you can't be friendly with people you work with, only that you have to pay more attention to what you say than you might with a group of close friends, because your friends have already given you more of an idea for what's okay or not and, critically, if it ceases to be fun they can leave with no professional or financial consequences.

Finally, you're very quick to use loaded language which implies knowledge that Vic's actual intention was completely innocent. Using terms like “simple compliment”, “innocent remarks” says that you know more about what he meant than someone who was actually there or the coworkers who've voiced support for her interpretation. Given that the most common reaction seems to be “That sounds bad – Google better do something” and not “Off with his head”, I'm not sure you should be criticizing anyone for oversensitivity.
Getting someone with domain expertise on the matter to provide escrow is non-trivial. Escrow trust accounts are heavily regulated in most parts of the world, and require licensing, bonds and lawyers. I highly doubt they would find someone willing to go through all this. The cost for (legally) operating an escrow is probably higher than the entire bet... (he could also do this without licensing, and take on the legal risk, I guess. this might go under the radar for small things like that, but doesn't really work at scale.)

Bitcoin improves on that by not requiring a trust account - their trusted third party would simply hold one key in a 2-of-3 multi-signature scheme, giving him the authority to resolve disputes and adjudicate between them, but without holding any funds under his full control.

I find the legal implications of Bitcoin smart contracts very exciting - this significantly lowers the entry barriers for providing many kinds of financial services and opens up these markets for competition in a way that was simply impossible before. There's lots of room for innovation and disruption with that.

Disclaimer: standard IANAL/TINLA apply, but I'm the founder at a startup that facilitates exactly that (https://www.bitrated.com/) and received extensive legal guidance on the matter.
Ceramics typically have a higher melting point than metals. Perhaps you could just heat to gold's melting temp and then separate out the ceramic particles--it should help that they are so much less dense than gold.
My money is on Hooli winning this one.
Protecting the company can also include firing the person who is opening the company up to lawsuits. Firing someone after they report sexual harassment would also open the company to wrongful termination suits, especially since the communications will be recorded. Copying a personal lawyer on those communications would help as well.

What is most likely to happen in cases of harassment is making the accuser happy, since that provides the company with the most protection. And since so many companies have zero tolerance policies against harassment, it becomes very simple to terminate an employee who is a liability for that company.
This looks like not as Dropbox. A service for storing govt "issued" digital documents.
Self-taught person here. This is surely a minefield of downvotes, but I've noticed several differences in CS students:

1. While CS students have a broader array of programming knowledge, they have narrower perspective about it. By this I mean they have difficulty distinguishing their own programming experience and knowledge from that of the world as a whole. They assume everyone learned Java in CSE101 so they can't fathom how some one could program Ruby without being able to explain it using Java-esque CSE101 terminology.

2. CS students participate in open source more. Self-taughters usually do so in order to complete a direct objective (i.e. make a site, sell some widgets), they weren't exposed to the culture or peer recognition around programming that comes from years of academia. CS students are often encouraged or required to participate in open source projects. This sometimes leads to the false insular belief among the educated that all "good" programs work on open source projects. This pops up on HN every now and then.

3. CS students like libraries more. My guesses for why this is might be: (1) the academic exercise of writing your own libraries; (2) libraries are a generally more academic approach to programming where you write code "by the book" and work on many what-if possibilities; (3) it's 11:00pm and you need to submit your code in an hour - you don't care about maintainability - so shove a library in there to eek it out as fast as you can. Self-taughters don't have such academic exercises or deadlines in their learning; and they'll usually be maintaining their code for a long time, which discourages libraries in my experience.

These are my observations from the coders I've worked with. Of course, there are exceptions, I know there are many self-taughters who use libraries and work on open source, but just not as many CS students.
Definitely true, but these things are of a different "kind" (in my opinion). Often such a proof implies, for instance, a really inefficient algorithm, such as "try all the random possibilities and with positive probability such an example exists.
They also tend to have a flavor of a somewhat complicated object whose existence you are proving, and they don't tend to be phrased as algorithms (especially not efficient ones).

Here the primality test algorithm is an efficient algorithm, and doesn't seem natural to view as an existence/nonexistence proof of an object, in the same way. Instead it's exploiting the number-theoretic properties of primality in a weird way. Hope that makes sense, but anyway just trying to explain my intuition for why this is very different from the phenomenon you mentioned.
But Amazon offered expensive phone, right? I gather with features that didn't really live up to the price even if you don't count Google Services.
I think you are wrong here.

It is empirically possible for a CEO to take a stand. Consider the recent case where Tim Cook told an activist shareholder to "get out of the stock" if he didn't recognize certain imperatives beyond ROI (http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-versus-a-conservativ...).
Super-realistic ocean waves rendered in any modern web browser, at 60 frames/sec
Karat is by mass not volume.
No, Asperger's doesn't make you more likely to behave like an asshole or a misogynist. Please read up on the subject of autism spectrum disorders before making such prejudiced and completely false remarks!

That said, in my experience, the biggest jerks and assholes have also had excellent social skills. Therefore training people to become more socially capable to reduce the number of jerks completely misses the point.
The greeks could have kickstarted the industrial revolution early if they'd used hero's engine. They just didn't think about the world in that way at that time.
I posted something similar about Xiaomi about a week back. For me, Xiaomi is a fantastic company, but I think they are still unavailable to most Westerns... perhaps this is why we might not "care" about them? Having never lived in China, I'm not sure how difficult is it to buy a Western-produced good (e.g. iPhone), but I know from trying to buy an Xiaomi product in the past, it's rather difficult.

There is no "direct" avenue of purchase, and the only reputable suppliers seem to tack on huge premiums that all but negate the usual price advantage that Xiaomi provides. Have you ever tried to explain to someone non-tech who Xiaomi is?

Same goes when people ask if my OnePlus One is an HTC product.
I'm a man who happens to not participate in that culture.

You think I have any responsibility with regards to this issue? You think that, despite me not making lewd comments, encouraging lewd comments or behaviour, I am partly responsible for the fact that this happens? No. You don't get to put a collective blame on me just because I happen to have a penis.
This is the most overwrought controversy ever.

How many people go to Starbucks, the gas station, McDonald's or any other store and buy a cup of any beverage? How many wax cups get recycled? How many compressed polystyrene cups for soda?

If you feel particularly guilty, you can trivially tear off the foil top, empty the coffee and filter into your compost, and recycle the cup. Total waste is a few grams of foil.
Actually even that is not feasible:

Assume that you split a m byte string into k byte decompressor and l byte input data. If k+l < m, that is you actually compress, then there are only 2^(k+l) possible output strings. And since

sum_{i=0}^{m-1} 2^i = 2^m -1

there exists at least one string in the space of m character strings which can not be compressed by any algorithm.
As I said above, libel is a form of defamation; that's on the libel page. And if you click through to defamation, it says a defamation case (such as libel or slander) must prove four elements:

1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation

The comments about malice on the libel page relate to punitive damages. That has nothing to do with the elements of libel itself.
It was well formulated; the whole point is that you can do whatever you want to the decompresser.
15 Key Takeaways Every Start Up Founder Needs to Know to Avoid Failure
Hey Everyone,

I will be posting a 5000-word biography / essay on my life and what I have learned over the past 6 months developing my startup. I thought I would give you a sneak peak of the Medium post before it's live. Here are the 15 Key Take Away's that I go over throughout the post. The post was written to focus new startup founders on the only things they are suppose to concentrate on in order to ensure they don't fail. If you follow these take away's your chances of success will increase dramatically. If there are any other points you think I left out please leave a comment and I might add them to the post.

I will make sure to add the full post once it is live on Monday March 9, 2015

15 Key Take Away's from my Medium post "If You're Crazy Start a Startup."
• Find amazing co-founders that are just as passionate as you.
• Prepare to give up your social life and if you are in a relationship make sure they are extremely supportive of your idea.
• Create daily, weekly, and monthly goals and don't let the due date slip.
• Grow as fast as you humanly can.
• Focus on building an amazing product first before anything else.
• Money doesn't grow on tree’s you gotta work hard for it. (I know this is cheesy, but it’s so true)
• Build things that don't scale.
• Create an amazing user experience and differentiate yourself from others.
• Talk to users, talk to users, talk to users.
• Never stop learning.
• Don’t start a startup until you have a problem you are facing and are passionate enough to dedicate your life to solving that problem.
• Be unique / memorable and seperate your brand from your competitors.
• Write down your core values right away and only hire people that breathe your mission.
• Forget about competitors. If your product is better, than your competitors should be worried about you.
• Eat healthy and exercise regularly.
Everybody is judged on the basis of their looks. Men too.
It's worth noting that the music that was deleted was "protected" by a reverse-engineered version of Apple's DRM, and the "deletion" was Apple dropping support for old, broken versions of FairPlay. iPods always played everyone's DRM free music and never tried not to, as far as I know.
Beta testers needed for new social network. Reward based on feedback
It's casual conversation with a close friend or intimate partner. It's not a "group discussion" topic for coworkers with varied backgrounds. I come from a very liberal, non-christian European background and the experience of discussing what kind of pornos I watch in my private time with a boss is getting frighteningly close to a circle jerk.

EDIT: then again circle jerks are more common in some places than others.
What Buyers Should Look for at an Open House
Don't get your hopes up. There has been discussion of variants of this setup for almost 40 years now. None has made it to market, as far as I am aware.
50 Shades of silver
> (and I'm 100% sure there is one even tho it's not the "civilized union of socialists states" AKA Europe).

Go 'Murica!!
You mean "SOLITUDE"? ;-)
"Catena" is also a password hashing function: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/525.pdf
That's the point of experiments - implementing them to find out which are useful and which are annoying.
WHY BUZZFEED IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD
My comment might not have been clear. I didn't mean to infer ads. In my mind there's a clear and distinct delineation between advertising and marketing.

I guess the point I was trying to make is that the kinds of marketing that companies want these days is going to be far more immersive than your run of the mill ads. This, I think, was one of the main points of the parent comment. As such, I would postulate that the skillset necessary to write a good article, or in-depth (eg. investigative journalism) story, is very similar to the skillset necessary to create (or find?) the stories a company wants people to know about it.

Now, the tricky part would be to engage in both journalism and marketing so as not to uproot the integrity (or give people reason to think your integrity as a news organization has been compromised, or that you are engaging in business with clients who clearly create a conflict of interest.

For example, suppose you are a newspaper / magazine who has a reputation as being a "watchdog" publication for the oil industry. Now suppose that while that branch of your business has established a reputation as a "watchdog" publication for the oil industry, the marketing arm of your business has clients like Exxon or Shell. To maintain the integrity of your journalism branch perhaps you should be working with clients seeking marketing services from other (eg. retail) industries.

The only reason this synergy sounds reasonable and even plausible to me is the well documented "crisis" news organizations worldwide are facing these days.
Fuzzy Scoring Regex Mayhem
Bi-polar disorder seems to be common in the renaissance man. I'm sure there's a list of notable people who are bi-polar. I often wonder if the break throughs from these individuals are enabled by the manic periods of genius.
Yeah, the current cert has CN mismatch and is issued by an unknown CA [1].

[1] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=digilocker.go...
Not sure why anyone would think it was a bad thing to make a watch lighter and stronger.
Valid ssl cert would help
I don't disagree with you, but, it is going to take a lot work to convince the US public that convicted felons are a minority group worth protecting.
EFI Shell is the new (built-in) MS-DOS. I'm waiting for someone to make doom.efi :-)

The the entire OS to BIOS API changed with UEFI. I've seen bugs where the BIOS int 15 ax=E820 memory map does not match the EFI memory map passed to Linux.

All of this to support > 2TB drives.
Did you skip the part where Mike agreed to new terms that would allow multiple files?
If you travel close enough to c it wouldn't take very long to the astronaut to get to Proxima Centauri. It's very far from our capability but you're saying it won't happen in the next thousand years? It sounds like someone in 1200 A.D saying it's impossible for humanity calculate PI to the 100,000th digit within the next 1000 years.

I'm forward time travelling, and have traveled over twenty years in my life time, at a rate of 1 second per second and that's significant enough for me. :)
>> And bootstrapping trust into the blockchain is basicially by trusting the ca-cert/github documentation?

>Sorry, not sure I understand what you're asking there.

How do I know what the "correct" blockchain is? That I'm not dealing with a fork?

Many thanks for all the various answers, I now have a much clearer picture of what dnschain is, and isn't.

Some of my confusion was related to how/if dnschain is different from just running one's own dns infrastructure (and ca infrastructure, and ripe...). That data is anchored in the blockchain is all well and good, but that only gives some kind of consensus.

It's also interesting to know what that consensus actually tells you. Like does it imply any kind of vetting, or just first-come, first-serve.
Or insisted it was a single file, tar files allowed.
> find a seemingly unrelated reason to terminate you (or
> make you leave).

That doesn't make sense. The guy who is going around harassing people is creating the liability, not the victim, and will probably create more liability in the future.

I would be very surprised if there was any jurisdiction in the world where terminating an employment contract terminates employer liability for harassment; a terminated former employee who has been harassed is a much bigger threat to company profits than a current one.

The only reason any reasonably competent HR department would fire someone for making a valid complaint of harassment would be if they were ordered to by their superiors to protect themselves or their management colleagues (which is, sadly, a risk in some companies).

Obviously, going to HR should not be someone's first move for a one off comment. The person probably doesn't realise that they are being offensive, so a reasonable escalation is to tell them you are offended (and why) first, and if it continues, then go to HR. If it still continues, and HR doesn't do anything meaningful to address the problem (or fires you wrongfully in retribution), then escalate by hiring an employment lawyer to bring a lawsuit against the company, or depending on your jurisdiction, complaining to the relevant government body. This is fair to the person making the remark (they have a chance to learn that their conduct is offensive), the company (they have a chance to know about and address the problem before facing any external action), and the person who was offended (the problem is fixed one way or the other).

In this case, both sides were potentially in the wrong - throwing your drink on someone could be viewed as an assault and more serious than a single offensive remark. I think that had Kelly Ellis followed a reasonable pattern of escalation, there would be less harassment at Google now, all three parties (i.e. the two people and the corporation) involved would be better off, and we wouldn't be hearing about this now. Obviously it would be even better if the remark had never been made in the first place.

It makes me wonder if Google HR does not give employees training about not harassing people and how to respond to harassment - that is pretty much standard at most big companies of their size, and probably pays for itself in reduced liability (if they get sued out of the blue, they can point to the training to try to shift the blame to the person doing the harassing rather than the company - obviously that won't work if the plaintiff complained to them and they did nothing).
If I may, I'd like to add one to your great 15. Don't build until you've interviewed a ton of people about whether they'd use the product you plan to create. If most do, build. If most don't...don't build.
They lowered the price to 200$ with no contract only a couple of months after it came out. That is extremely cheap for the hardware.
Nonetheless I don't know anyone with a Firephone, and it didn't really pick up steam afterwards either.
Can't you get their products with minimal markup on AliExpress?
But the one advantage this system can rely on is that the legal system is slow and you can resist by simply clogging up the system to such an extent that the canary expires.
Source: https://speakerdeck.com/roundedbygravity/5-interface-laws-ev...
Be too social kill
Most likely Apple announcements on Monday
> Calling someone an asshole doesn't help you diagnose the problem, it just lets you vent and confirms your personal biases.

In order to diagnose the problem you also need to have the relevant qualifications.

Do you?
Try reddit and google. Wonder if there's a list somewhere ...
Fuck off. "Men" is not a hive mind. I'm not responsible for what another man does. I might be complicit if I encourage it and join in in a sexist culture. But by simply existing as another man? Fuck no. I am an individual, and you have no idea who I engage with, what cultures or attitudes or promote, or what kind of company I keep.

Stop looking at people as being spokespeople for their group - gender, religion, nationality. We are individuals.
Gold has an additional bonus in being very resistant to oxidation or, well, pretty much anything it can be expected to encounter. A not insignificant property I would think.

It's interesting to note that before modern manufacturing processes, Aluminum was also a very valuable metal. It had all sorts of desirable properties and manufacturing costs were so high that it was effectively rare. Cheap hydroelectricity and process scaling have taken care of that however.
Thanks for trying it out! I haven't had time to run any benchmarks, so I really appreciate you taking the time to do this (especially since it took so long!).

I'm not sure what the best batch size is at the moment. Timestamps are int64s, and it's up to the user to interpret them as they wish. Partition sizes are in terms of the number of timestamps. If you had timestamps which correspond to seconds, and you wanted each partition to be 1 day, you'd choose 86400. This isn't configurable yet unless you modify the source.

I'm not surprised it's that slow. I'm not a storage engine expert, still a college student, and this has my first lock-free list implementation :). There is a lot of silliness going on with inserts, like launching a goroutine for each metric on inserts[0], using lock-free O(n) lists for sources and metrics[1] when I could have used a map, there's still a lock left that should be removed[2], and a bunch of others.

On an unrelated note, I see that someone from Prometheus will be at Monitorama. I'll be there too, so I'd love to you guys some more.

Thanks again!

[0] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/catena/blob/8e068b1b95ce1a10...

[1] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/catena/blob/8e068b1b95ce1a10...

[2] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/catena/blob/8e068b1b95ce1a10...
If you read that, it wasn't just plagiarism, he actually made up stories, whole cloth.

That said, I've worked for a factory. Many of the hires on the floor were for people with records of various kinds. It did help the higher-functioning people turn their lives around, which was quite encouraging. But we also had people who did stupid things and got arrested for things like domestic violence charges, which were related to their drug use.