skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I get that folks in the states feel like they want to get bent out of shape over this, however this isn't the US, and applying our cultural ideals to another country don't make sense.

But lets not pretend it doesn't happen here:
http://firstwefeast.com/drink/secret-lives-of-los-angeles-bo...

If you follow the link to the source article ( https://www.facebook.com/trendinginchina/posts/6034617964239... ) there is this statement:

"According to the HR manager of an Internet company that hired three such cheerleaders, its programmers are mostly male and terrible at socializing, and the presence of these girls have greatly improved their job efficiency and motivation."

"mostly male" and "terrible at socializing" well this sounds a LOT like a good number of the engineers that I know. But even among those who DONT have these issues, were putting a LOT of them into conditions that DONT make a lot of sense.

Take a team of people, mostly men, force them to be in the same room for 60 hours a week, add liquor and beer. How long before it starts looking like the Stanford prison experiment, or lord of the flies? How long before you get weird, emergent, monolithic culture from a self contained team? How long before people start acting outside cultural norms because they lack a social or sexual outlet? How much of our current issues around women and tech and the experience they have is the result of the hours we put in, and the lack of outside experience it creates?

If the reality was "hire some women to hang out with your engineers" or "Reduce productivity so they can have a life" what course of action do you THINK companies will take?
> Are you trying to open up a massive security hole?

Firefox extensions run in a privileged context. They essentially are not really different from components of firefox itself.

Firefox components can obviously access the filesystem.
So can extensions.

An extension in itself is not any more a security hole than firefox itself.

> Seriously, stop treating the browser as the OS+desktop.

While I agree with you there, what's needed to get to that point would be browsers actually talking to the native environment more. Pipes, sockets, filesystem access (chroot-style) even limited process launch capabilities.

If web or extension APIs allowed that it would be far easier to integrate with native instead of having to build it straight into the browser.

But that just addresses the "app" kind of extension.

Other extensions instead customize the web browsing experience. For example if you have a file form and want to do automation (filling in the right files?) then you already need access to the file system. This has nothing to do with native apps and yet needs access to native resources.
I understand that, but is it just a neat mathematical model to treat particles as excitations of fields because it makes calculations especially easy or is there really a field out there?
Gizmodo's ad video player for a text article is atrocious if anything.
By definition member states don't have oversight over the UN, though they can refuse or delay funding (as the US has done in the past). Technically, the UN Secretary General and the Office of Internal Oversight Services are responsible for ensuring effective, efficient and transparent operations. In reality, much of the UN evades oversight due to the highly-politicized bureaucracy.

There are plenty of good efforts coming out of the UN -- I've seen the results of UNHCR's work in the developing world, and UNICEF does much good work, even if some of their policies have been, to put it mildly, controversial in intent and implementation -- but much, perhaps most, of the UN's work is of dubious cash value to the international system.
VMware vCloud Air Outperforms Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
One option I have found is surf (http://surf.suckless.org/), but it seems too limited for me to use it on a regular basis. Really, what I'd like is a browser in which almost all components (tabs, bookmarks, etc.) are just extensions around a simple (Servo-based?) core.

Servo is awesome, by the way -- I look forward to seeing what comes next!
This is my favorite anti-drug PSA of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8FLbwjyTo8

"I'm not a chicken, you're a turkey!"
Producing poetry with recurrent neural networks
Yes, but you should not count on performance of Google stock as a proxy of Uber.
What do you expect? There's no down-vote option.
I think Google maps has some top-notch turn-by-turn navigations. One thing I particularly like is how detailed the voiceover is, i.e. recommends you a lane to stay in, etc
This is one thing i wish Waze would be better at, because overall it seems like it's able to find faster routes than Google, although sometimes I wonder if it's only perceived, due to the way they gasify it.

Apple maps are absolutely horrible in turn-by-turn. Either I'm driving too fast, or the turn announcement is way too close.
It's journalism. It's not about accuracy or clarity, but the impression it makes on the reader. All those zeroes make a bigger impression.
I am not sure that I buy this story. A second source would be good.

I was really enjoying Windows 10 and got beat up on HN after defending it last week. That said a few days ago I switched from having 3 linux laptops and 1 windows 10 laptop to having 4 linux laptops.

I think that Microsoft, after fixing some privacy issues, has a winner in Windows 10 but I decided to just make my life simpler.
But to be honest your actually training technicians - I would bet labelling some one with lower status is not helping.
Google Brings Tweets to Desktop Search Results
I've ran Nightly and Aurora (which is now Developer Edition) for a while but extensions/themes broke more often than I'd have liked because there was too little time for extension devs to update their extensions in case incompatible changes were introduced.
The trouble is that they aren't planning to wait to switch to browser.html. They're deprecating XUL extensions now, without switching to an HTML-based UI first.
> You might want to read: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182557/

Read. The article's results confirm what I said. They found that 60% of the variability in crystallized IQ and 49% of variability in fluid IQ are due to environmental factors.

Considering that IQ variability between African American's and American's of European descent has closed to 0.33 standard deviations and one standard deviation on the Stanford-Binet is 15 points the variation we see can be accounted for entirely by variability due to environment.

> You are also flirting with Lewontin's Fallacy

The wikipedia article you link provides quite a bevy of publications, professional groups/committees, and journals that do not agree with Edward's interpretation of the data while there is little to none to be found that do agree.

Further, Edward's is arguing against a data set and assertion made 40 years ago while all the aforementioned critics in that wikipedia article and the articles I linked are using current data, methods, and techniques.

Far from an old, untested hypothesis the negation of race as a clearly demarcated, global, and distinct genetic classification is the current well researched position of all fields touching on the topic and the overwhelming majority of researchers within those fields.

Something is not a fallacy just because one guy calls it such.
I agree with Sam's message, but I sympathize with founders who make mistakes here.

Founders are told to hustle, to aggressively push themselves and their visions in order to build momentum for their businesses. Founders are encouraged to bend - if not break - the rules in order to get things done.

First-time founders are thrown into the world of finance with a good deal of ignorance about the meanings and conventions of specific financial terms, combined with a culturally ingrained bias towards spinning things as positively as possible. Broadly speaking, this seems like a recipe for disaster.
You have no basis for that statement.
Interesting that page 29 has an article saying flexible displays may be just around the corner. And all the laptops cost $7500, and a digital camera was $10,995.
You have almost exactly described high school for me. Everything before, say, grade 10 was a cakewalk. When things started to require actual, you know, work, I crashed and burned. And I was in Ontario, which had dedicated gifted classrooms (at least in grades 5 through 8). As a result, my performance suffered in the last years of high school, which resulted in my going to a community college because I couldn't meet the entrance requirements for Computer Science University degree programs.

It took me a while to figure out how to consistently apply real effort to hard projects. There was always this nagging sense that things should be easier since they were in the past.
Note the comment of "Stephen Smoogen" to the apparent systemoverlord's "check" of the claims (which was on VM, and using pre-release Windows):

"There is also a difference if your network link is detected as being 'metered' (in that if the system thinks the network is metered it will not send as much data). I have noticed that for other windows what a system sends if it is on 'real' hardware or virtual machine are also different. My guess is that Microsoft assumes a 'guest' machine isn't real and worth checking.

To test the article, I would expect that I would need to set up a hub, put the box and the capture system on it and run it on a live hardware with a 'real' account. Without doing that then 'results will vary' is going to be the norm."
Ah I see, pretty good. Thanks for answering.
Maybe I should just switch to Lynx :)
BIS (the Czech intelligence agency)

http://www.respekt.cz/z-noveho-cisla/putinuv-hlas-v-cesku
"Learn X in Y minutes" is an awesome concept! Let me know if you ever decide to run with it. I guess I don't fit the CoffeeScript is a hipster language profile very well but I still enjoy writing code in it ;)

I basically agree with everything you've said (in both posts) ... you can be successful while wasting cycles. And if you're working on a low-volume and/or internal only application, you'll probably never face the limits of a modern server.

If you need to operate "at web scale" [1], or run into an uncommon (or common) bug, you'll need to know more about the frameworks and systems you're code relies on (e.g. MongoDB configuration for systems over 2GB [2]). Blog posts like the one referenced are completely unfair to those that developed MongoDB - read the manual and understand how MongoDB works OR use it at your own risk.

So I'll switch arguments and help you make your point. We have an application written in Oracle's Application Express - while we have extensive expertise in Oracle's database software, we have this one system which was completed for expediency's sake. It's kind of horrific but (mostly) works at the scale required. It would be financially foolish to dig into more deeply into ApEx for this one dead-end application. Everyone is happy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs (audio NSFW)

[2] http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never...
I think the URL needs to be updated to reflect the actual blog post, rather than the blog's homepage; otherwise, it will be invalid after the next post is made.

Current URL:

https://desertqueensarah.wordpress.com

Correct URL:

https://desertqueensarah.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/dont-be-a-un-intern/
This came up the last time this article was posted on HN (that time, it was a Google Translate of the aeronet source).

It was discussed in the top comment and the replies to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053420
Here's another well-researched article suggested by this highly credible news source:

http://www.disclose.tv/news/The_Russian_Sleep_Experiment_dur...

(creepypasta if you don't recognize it)
There are different facets to the UN. I agree that the General Assembly is mostly a talking shop, and to a lesser extent the Security Council is too (though occasionally it is a coordinating mechanism for the major world powers).

Those are the two parts of the UN that most people think of when they hear UN, but there's a lot more to it. Things like the World Food Programme or the World Health Organization certainly have their issues, including those in the linked article, but they do some good work.
I travel frequently and have tried replacing the usual hotel chain with an airbnb. I totally agree, the hassle of dealing with hosts and being left disappointed a few times, it's not worth it (for me).

Where I found airbnb more useful (and cheaper) is when my family is in town and we're traveling somewhere and we usually book a whole apartment/house with multiple bedrooms. That is usually cheaper than booking 2 or 3 hotel rooms. However, in that space there are lots of alternatives (Homeaway, VRBO, local bed & breakfasts with their owns websites).

My impression is that airbnb, in the end, is just like those other sites. More recently, I've found that more often than not, the place you book (especially in popular areas) is owned or sublet by someone who's making a business out of short term renting and with that, the whole local/experience/sharing charm is gone.
Those are conveniently in a folder labelled "taxes" with sub-directories for each year - I've been pwn'd.
Ug. Article is terrible. I quote: "Considering that Pluto has been around for more than four billion years, the odds are pretty friggin’ slim that humans would meet the dwarf planet during its brief phase of atmosphere-having. No, something is replenishing the supply. Scientists, you got some ‘splaining to do."

What is this, third grade. Here's the actual science: http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/808/2/L50/pdf/2041-8205_...
See, it is illegal to reject or fire someone for this (mostly) – just because you, as a kid, partied hard, doesn’t mean employers can discriminate against you.

A lot of employers started testing the "anonymous job application": They only get a UUID, your qualifications and CV, and only after they decided if they want to hire you or not the employer actually gets the name, age, gender, etc.

VW, for example, is taking part in this. Also makes sure that no one can complain about ageism/sexism/racism/transphobia/otherkinphobia/etc

Mostly: There are cases where some types of background checks are legal.
Couldn't those installers patch Firefox to remove the signing requirement? Or, if they don't get sufficient privileges to modify the executable, patch the user's Firefox process in memory?
The vast majority of Mozilla's funding comes from Google.
In 1991 Daniel J. Singal published "The Other Crisis in American Education" in The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics/educatio/singalf.ht... , which makes the same point but did so 25 years ago.
Well I disagree with him/her there too. What made Firefox good was that it was a lightweight, simple browser, that rendered content exactly the same on three OSes. It's still my main browser, but that's only because I want less Google in my life, and because Safari aspires to be a motion picture instead of a tool. But I haven't considered Firefox actually "good" since probably 2010, or whenever it was that they dumped a bucket of LSD on the interface. Since then it's become a bloated mess.

If someone wants to add toolbars and skins, etc, I suppose the new API would disappoint. But it's hard for me to relate, because I'm not that adventurous. The ones I really care about, generally AdBlock and privacy extensions, just interact with web content, not chrome. That sort of add-on is just as available on Google Chrome.
I get the feeling the Go language creators defined the Go language syntax in many cases so that it explicitly looks different than the corresponding C syntax. Why?

(Yes, I know Rob's and Ken's history with regards to C.)
2 benefits of the UN in New York:

1 - They pay no tax. (And salaries get trued up to cover it)

2 - The kids get access to a great private school.

I don't know anyone who has done great work (besides avoiding wars) at the UN, but I know a few who used the international non-profit experience as launchpads to bigger and better things.
The difference between having ambition and having meaningful goals
Kernighan's Lever (2012)
Current gen GPUs use GDDR5 compared to DDR4 in only handful of new Intel chips that started shipping in the last few weeks. The GDDR4 chips runs at 750Mhz and DDR4-2133 as supported by the fasted shipping Intel CPU runs at 266Mhz. That is an effective transfer rate of 48 GB/s vs 17Gb/s for the DDR4.

The current GPUs effectively have the fastest off core memory of current devices. They need those transfer rates to keep all the stream processors running.
At this point, would it make sense to fork Firefox?
Or as Frank Zappa quipped, "The entertainment branch of the military industrial complex"
It sounds like you might not like JavaScript. You should know that there are good languages that compile to JavaScript.
That and Tree Style Tabs are the reason I left Chrome. The path that firefox has been on for the last few months is sad.
The EU doesn’t want the information deleted.

Imagine I was suspected as criminal once. Then, if someone searches for the case, they should be able to find it.

If someone just searches my name, they shouldn’t.

The issue isn’t existence of information, but that this information is connected to your name.
I've seen this done in airports before, only using a plain laminated card that you carry through the line - the low-tech solution. The card was used by the TSA to internally track wait times
http://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/
I wouldn't call it Ether, since that would imply some absolute reference frame.
Boost your app performance with incremental DOM
this is where having an MBA (or undergrad business degree) can be helpful. note, i'm not saying you need a business degree to be a founder, just that it can help if you already have it. =)

in business school, you learn that much of finance & accounting is storytelling with numbers, but with the added twist that there are legal consequences for crossing over (and sometimes, just into) the gray area. that's what sam is pointing out, where the gray area ends and the legal consequences start.

as others have pointed out, quantitative finance & accounting classes can be very helpful:

* financial accounting
* managerial accounting
* financial markets
* investment finance
* corporate valuation
* entrepreneurial finance
Their "investors" are all the countries in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations#Funding

But seriously, how would you measure effectiveness? There is nothing to compare it to, and you can't never know for sure what wars it prevented (because they didn't happen).
but only if the contract period was for less than 1 year, iirc. and also the issue of authority-to-bind comes into play as well..

for protection from a verbal deal going bad, see also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Promissory_estoppel_2
I am not saying the numbers you provide are inaccurate, but they reflect the data of a special interest group who is trying to raise money. Alternatively, we can look at just 9 states that disclosed their funding for gifted programs in 2010-2011 and see an annual budget of >$1B for gifted program funding:

FL: 267M
GA: 301M
TX: 138M
NC: 68M
OH: 65M
VA: 45M
LA: 65M
SC: 26M
AR: 25M

Moreover, examples such as Illinois you highlighted don't tell a full story by saying $0 of funding for gifted programs. Illinois did cut all state funding of the gifted program (mostly citing a $100B pension shortfall) but the gifted programs are still funded by the school districts, this does leave gaps or haves/have-nots but that is one of the issues that vouchers are intended to balance to ensure a free and appropriate education.
When discussing funding of gifted programs we should refrain from comparing it to "the other side of the ESE spectrum", because it is not a give and take from one group to the other, and even if it were it is not an appropriate comparison in terms of overall number of students, and average cost/student for services. Otherwise we would look at non-ESE students and say they don't get any special funding, or kids who qualify for free lunch
London Luton was displaying similar wait times when I traveled through it last week, and I was wondering how they did it. I thought they might be doing some kind of face recognition using the cameras at entry/exit to the hall.
Reminds me of the story about baggage claim at Houston's airport. They kept getting lots of complaints about how long it took for people to wait for their bags after getting off their flights. To fix this they moved the claim area further away from the gate, it took people longer to get there but the same amount of time for the bags to reach the claims area. Complaints went way down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/why-waitin...
Outside of US it seems that the main customers of Airbnb rentals are Americans, and therefore often you see a price tag a few times higher than a price of a hotel in the area. I've never seen an Airbnb cheaper than a hotel. If you want a local price, you got to use local websites, or simply ask around or walk in a hotel/bnb. Nothing beats an offline price negotiation with a hotel manager, especially for long-term stays.

Out of curiosity, where did you find those cheap and convenient airbnbs?
the U.S. has far more children in poverty than pretty much every western nation you'd compare it to

That really depends on definitions of "poverty:" http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/03/how... . Using consistent definitions often deflates the "poverty" rate to under 5%.

One way to increase real income (which poverty often doesn't consider) involves loosening land-use controls in high-income urban areas: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/06/thomas-p... , but such proposals are rarely considered in discussions of poverty / income / etc.
Never heard of it, quick scan of the page seems to indicate that it is windows/linux only though? I did a quick look at the download page and didn't see an osx build.

That is overall fine but I like to keep my browsers portable across all of my primary operating systems.
Sell and outsell your vision, dreams, and potential, not the facts.
Obligatory link for those that want to go a bit deeper into the rabbit hole - The Theoretical Minimum, a collection of physics lecture by Leonard Susskind.

http://theoreticalminimum.com/
http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/186203
Yep, I think the same way. I always prefer to spend a lot of time upfront on something and automate it instead of doing it over and over later. I try to avoid repetitive tasks as much as I possibly can.
When the U.S. Almost Nuked the Moon
Who Is Responsible for “Good Code”?
How many memory corruption / buffer overflow exploits have there been say in the JVM?

Using something like Java does cut out a whole class of memory exploits...
Just to be clear, they're using encrypted in a layman's sense; according to http://www.blipsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BlipTr..., it's hashed with SHA256.
Thanks for providing a source. The translated link you provided doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in their reliability. I'll believe what they're saying once they provide the exact methods they used to get these results in order to corroborate them.
Isn't the whole article pretty much basis for that ? :(

If sam is saying YC founders are using terms wrong, doesn't that imply that YC was fine with those terms?

So confused.

Anyway, the simple fix would be to just have a 1-3 day finance bootcamp to make sure everyone speaks the same language. Rather than getting everyone to try to being kinda-sorta competent.
We did that in svn all the time with few issues.
I still have mine. It was not comfortable to play for very long and they never really produced a great game. The best game that I had was the boxing one.
Dow -350 pts
I don't believe so and I don't know that you have the insight into our program or our results to honestly make that evaluation.