skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The burden of proof is on the person making the claim.

Who properly bears the burden of proof is a question of your policy objective. For example, we place the burden of proof on the prosecutor in criminal proceedings because we have a policy objective of rather having guilty people go free than innocent people imprisoned. But nothing intrinsically says the burden of proof has to be with the prosecutor. If our goal was to prioritize making sure guilty people are held accountable, we could shift the burden of proof to the defendant.

Placing the burden of proof it on the person making the claim simply prioritizes the status quo, which may or may not be what you want. Given our status quo is the product of proven, vicious discrimination against women, protecting the status quo through allocation of the burden of proof is the opposite of what we want.

So instead, we have chosen to place the burden of proof on the party citing intrinsic differences as an explanation/excuse for evidenced disproportionate representation.

> Achieving this by enforcing an artificial prioritization of women over men in tech jobs seems to me a last resort approach

It has the strong advantage of being an approach that has actually worked in the past.
They are first, and foremost, the worlds largest advertising company.

This is how they make their bottom line and it will come at the detriment of anything else.

however, they value reputation too- so it's likely this will be fixed in future. But let's not throw exaggerations around. Google are not "for the people" but they're not against them either. Google are the new lawnmower[0] except they generally do things we like right now.

[0] https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2084
You are correct that it is dependent upon whether your motherboard has IOMMU [1]. Nevertheless, given the following paragraph, then it seems to be the reverse: it is generally unwise to willy-nilly give out PCI pass-through, unless you have confirmed that your hardware has IOMMU.

Xen documentation explicitly states how to determine whether you have IOMMU on your hardware.[2] The hardware listed here [3], while out of date, conspicuously notes, for example, that "Core i7...most "K" versions don't support VT-d", which, according to Intel [4], means that the i7-4770K, for example, does not support IOMMU (VT-d). This tells me that if you are concerned about this issue, then you must check your hardware, even if it is new hardware.

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOMMU

[2] = http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_PCI_Passthrough#How_can_...

[3] = http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/VTdHowTo

[4] the i7-4770K probably lacks IOMMU because it would negatively affect performance on a CPU that is sold as a near top-of-the-line CPU for gaming, which generally excludes most virtualization use cases.

edit: formatting
React-Native v0.10.0 released and published to CocoaPods and npm
Actually, no, it's not. Google is, in fact suggesting that developers who use their ads SDK should disable App Transport Security, by allowing all arbitrary loads for all domains. The title is quite accurate.
I would rather a realistic and functional reference for developers. Being a clean and modern charade is almost certainly part of the problem with most reference material.
4-stripe white belt here, train 3-4x per week and completely hooked. If anyone trains in Montreal, you're free to come visit our startup's office, we have mats!
Plus it takes 1+GB of RAM to run properly.
> Ads on my desktop, in an operating system I paid money for.

I am guessing you are talking about free apps on the store. Do you think that paying for an OS give you rights over third parties apps?

It's not like MS is paying each developer on the store each time you download a free app. How would that be sustainable?

> In particular Toyota car ads in the music app.

Which music app? Xbox music and Groove Music don't include ads.
To be fair, it's a common business practice now to shill your products. In order to keep one's beliefs consistent with reality, one has to assume that some Internet comments are made by shills. To assume that shills don't exist is self-deception.

Not saying that it's valid to assume a shill in this case, but my point is that American consumers don't have enough information to determine whether a product review is genuine.
If you read the article you would see that it's not a whitelist for specific 3rd party domains. Without knowing every possible 3rd party domain ahead of compilation such a white list is not possible.
The recommendation is a white list for connection types. Which removes App Transport Security checks from all outbound URL requests.
I'm going to copy my comment from below verbatim because that one is being downvoted and this one isn't despite saying the same thing.

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[Google] are first, and foremost, the worlds largest advertising company.
This is how they make their bottom line and it will come at the detriment of anything else.
however, they value reputation too- so it's likely this will be fixed in future. But let's not throw exaggerations around. Google are not "for the people" but they're not against them either. Google are the new lawnmower[0] except they generally do things we like right now.
[0] https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2084
Evolvr.io – IMDb for Products and Companies
I wonder if the impression that others are acting irrationally is really a symptom of the local knowledge problem on the observer's part. Or even the part of the actor. To the extent this is true, is acting on incomplete information "irrational" or is it "rational" but flawed.
Exactly my thought when reading the article. They even state that it can't go past it "by definition". Well, apparently it did. I can only imagine marketing and sales departments being involved as I cannot imagine a person who did the math part agreeing his scale could be extended to 103.

This is a big red flag for me to not take this review, and the other reviews of tesla mobiles seriously. Some happy greenwheels is upping the ratings I guess. It is like browsing imdb for movies which score 8/10 or up and finding a movie which scores 10/10 with 5 reviews...

Oh, and 1 for your spinal tap reference.
I am not sure that 1% per month is small enough to claim that "probably won't have an effect on US economy". If it were a one off event, sure. But at the end of day the question is: for how long can these advances can be sustained?

At the very least, this will prevent US to capitalize on world wide instability by taking on more debt. I wonder if that is the purpose of the Chinese.
Sadly, that's true. I'm wondering how many feel that this is not a good direction where things are going -or if it's just me being "old".

Why would someone want to use javascript on the client-side for things where it's not necessary?

Year after year, the browser and the web are turning into "something else", and while the possibilities are exciting, it seems the use cases where javascript is used for things that actually make a positive difference, are vastly outnumbered by the cases where it is used to re-implement in a more flashy, complex and resource-intensive way things that have been usable, performant and functional, 10 years ago.

IMO displaying content should be done just by HTML, using javascript if it's not to provide useful functionality, is wrong.

Whether it is browser HTML/CSS incompatibilities, flash atrocities or complex script bloat, it seems the popular web always manages to fix one problem and create another.
We use the MILCOT (Silverado) here in Canada, though the G-wagen serves a similar role b.c its so lightly armored.
Looks pretty interesting. Was the domain for the content a Khan Academy decision, or was that just personal prerogative?
Exporting Clothes, Importing Safety
Do you have an idea of how much these datasets are?
If you have regenerative braking most of the time that's electric, so you've got a motor/generator and some kind of energy storage. To me hybrid means that you have a gas/electric hybrid drivetrain not that it runs off of batteries for an amount of time that you feel is long enough.

Good regenerative brakes probably have to be at least 50-100HP otherwise they don't offer very much braking effect. And that would mean that they can offer a substantial boost during acceleration too. And that can substantially alter the fuel economy of a vehicle.

Since you don't like my definition of hybrid, and you think it devalues the word (despite being completely in line with the Wikipedia definition) why don't you at least offer your definition. This isn't a conversation at the moment, just you shitting on things that you don't like and complaining.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle
Another question: how do you plan to deal with SEO?
Does anyone know how that compares to other services?
Google is not asking for an exception. They are asking developers to disable the security feature entirely.

Google can guarantee all third party ads will be TLS enabled simply by not making this request.

Edit: true statements of fact downvoted again
Love this. So important to show kids that there really are applications for the stuff they are learning in math classes, and computer graphics are such a direct way to see that connection. As a kid, I think the main reasons I cared about things like equations of motion or trigonometric functions were because I was using them to do stuff like animate bouncing balls.
Are you asking about china's economy as a whole or the impact on the us/oecd? i think that makes a difference in how best to answer the question.
Not all new hardware provides IOMMU. For instance, the i7-4770K does not have the VT-d extension, which is Intel's version of IOMMU. [1]

[1] = http://ark.intel.com/products/75123/Intel-Core-i7-4770K-Proc...
I think it's slightly more subtle than that.

Often people have the information they need to make a rational decision, but they choose to discount, ignore, or misinterpret it. No decision based on this choice can meaningfully be called "rational" without stretching the definition of rationality to the useless.

This is quite different that making a rational decision based on incomplete or imperfect information.

Modeling human beings as rational actors, even in aggregate, is often a deeply flawed approximation for this reason.
Yep that looks like it. Thanks!

Looks like they're built by a company in SC so it's weird they were heading out of Oshkosh.
Still, it's only for developers using their mobile ads SDK. It's not for all developers, which the title implies.
Blame TechCrunch for the blogspammy headline. The original Consumer Reports review states clearly that it scored a 103 based on their existing framework, which they adjusted in lieu of that fact.

| In rating it, however, we faced a quandary: The Tesla initially scored 103 in the Consumer Reports' Ratings system, which by definition doesn’t go past 100. The car set a new benchmark, so we had to make changes to our scoring to account for it. Those changes didn’t affect the scores of other cars.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/tesla-model-s-p85d-b...
Wordpress, drupal, magento, phabricator, mediawiki, sugarcrm...

These are vastly popular, feature rich out of the box tools in PHP, aka the "killer apps".

As I don't follow the node community, what are the killer apps on the node side? Im talking about a complete piece of software, where I would want to set up an environment not for development but for running an application.
Looks like this hasn't been updated for the changes in the Swift language (since June 2014). That doesn't take away from the content, just be aware that tweaks will be necessary before the Swift will run in more recent versions of Swift.
oh, you wanted seats and a steering wheel? What about the underbody coating....
A Field Guide to Naming Your Startup
Very cool I just added https://ivyleads.co and now browsing around. It has some rough spot on the UI but not bad. Where are you looking to take this?
The initial idea for this content came from Pixar (Tony DeRose had given talks in the past showing connections between math and the movies - see here a video he did with numberphile a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzTAaYgk4Q). The goal was to turn that sort of thing into a series of interactive lessons.
whoa. why are we able to see these stats?
Lately, Meteor has been the de-facto choice for all our side projects. It is really simple and powerful.
A mandatory smart-ass Haskell response

import System.Environment (getArgs)
main = do
[str] <- getArgs
putStrLn $ take 12 str
Karpeles re-arrested
Note the title is opposite of what they recently did.

Selling treasuries has large ramifications for the US. and a warning that we should think about getting our
financial house in order (congress will not heed this, only the bond traders will force "austerity" as they did during the Carter administration)
China's 2% devaluation of the renminbi a couple weeks ago was the trigger for the current market turmoil.

Chinese financial tactics are probably aligned with the goal of inclusion into the IMF SDR:
<IMF Executive Board Approves Extension of Current SDR Currency Basket Until September 30, 2016>
http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2015/pr15384.htm
(Was it retribution for not being immediately included? Maybe not, but they still are the major holder of US treasuries.)

Then they wouldn't need as many dollars to buy their trade goods.
Chinese rise is inevitable and we need to do serious things to prepare for living beyond our means.
Well this is awesome, thanks for the link.
I'm not the creator unfortunately.. I just thought it was pretty awesome!
Not a comment about this specifically, but I'm a big fan of your other courses on Khan Academy. They changed the way I think about the world. I can't overstate how grateful I am that you created them.

Everyone should check out these lessons:

Journey into cryptography: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/crypt...

Journey into information theory: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/infor...
I've used a similar construct in dealing with some JSON data recently, using Either String a:

(?) :: Maybe a -> String -> Either String a
Nothing ? s = Left s
Just a ? _ = Right a

foo :: Value -> Either String Int
foo val = do
nested <- val ^? key "foo" . key "bar" ? "Could not find foo.bar"
mid <- nested ^? nth 2 . _Integral ? "Second element of foo.bar was not an Integral value"
return mid

which has really helped deal with the stringly typed nature of JSON. I should also mention I stole the idea (and operator name) from one of the Haskell parser combinator libraries which allowed you to name a whole parser expression, so errors would say "could not find ident" instead of "Expected on of a,b,c,d,e,d,f,g,h...., found X"
The title is ambiguous on this point and it's irrelevant to the fact that it's an ugly choice of priorities.
On the other hand (without commenting on specifics of Haskell) the parts do represent the whole. People in a community learn tropes from each other. If many of the community's tropes are toxic, the community is toxic in a way that survives the departure of individuals because those individuals really weren't that special.
They relied on ignorance that simply doesn't exist today.

I think that goes a little to far. More like they "relied" on the context of a World War that had butchered 75 million people, 1/3 of that in the Pacific. And as I've noted elsewhere, was butchering 250,000 people per month in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, and was looking to kill maybe a million Allied soldiers, with no upper limit for the Japanese population, as had just been demonstrated in Okinawa.
This isn't remotely similar to the OP, which is about editing textual lists. Did you maybe mean to post this to the "nq" thread from yesterday?
> You have junky companies like Amazon, for example, on a decade long binge of expansion, whose plans depend on cheap access to capital. Their only way to deliver profit is by achieving near monopoly status. Why are we subsidizing that behavior?

On the other hand, most companies are having a hard time investing in their own businesses and are instead buying their own shares to boost EPS. Companies that spend a lot to expand their business are good for the economy, so Amazon has a leg up on most firms there.

> We have a government on a spending binge, again fueled by cheap access to capital. How is slowing down that train a bad thing?

The government isn't on a spending binge. We've had a Congress unable to agree on anything so we're stuck under a budget freeze that happened thanks to the 2010 Budget Control Act and its sequester. Soft government spending has actually hurt US GDP and slowed the recovery.
“Spookiness” Confirmed by the First Loophole-Free Quantum Test
Opps looks like divshot.io is down.

https://gist.github.com/istinspring/62e94c1d39f52b90a4fd

i post article to gist
Simulating a Claimed NP=BQP Algorithm
No, its not a bad comparison. Any decent investment vehicle is not putting money out the door unless they are clearing 20% in their base case returns. The point is you expressly RAROC the two portfolios. A retail investor is not going to look at any of this as relevant, so avoiding leverage is pointless. Anyone benchmarking this asset class has access to leverage (and in this market, at low yields).
I downvoted you and will explain why.

Very often there are trade-offs between security, usability, financial gain, and various other factors. If security and customer privacy should always win absolutely, then the easiest way to achieve that would be to disable the internet.

The reality is that Google has decided that the damage to their bottom line (and the bottom line of the publishers who benefit financially from using their ad system) is greater than the likely damage of making this change. I can't say whether or not their right, but it's silly to pretend that Google simply said "Security or profit? Profit every time!".

Saying it's "unarguably true" doesn't make it so.
Of course, major foreign holders only hold a third of the total Treasuries. US Government agencies actually own another third of the debt, and the US public owns the last third.
Watch a timelapse of a wildfire going right over the camera
You mean, Karma wants customers to pay $100, so Karma may use customers' service?
I wonder if the App Store Review team will check that setting? I've had a Mac App rejected because sandbox restrictions weren't narrow enough.

If it was my decision, I'd allow disabling App Transport Security if your app is something like a browser or an RSS client, were you need to connect to servers not under your control.

If you need to disable it to make ads work, I'd reject it.
PRS for Music takes SoundCloud to court
Web scraping / lit search with R
Retweet: simple Twitter bot in Python
New theory leads to radiationless revolution
And how exactly patterns make life easier? Most of the classic OOP patterns are nothing but workarounds for the complexities introduced by using the OOP in the first place. Without OOP these problems would not exist at all.

Why people are so keen on solving problems they just created for no good reason at all?
I like that brand strategy canvas linked to in the article.
Amazing stop motion video
Google rejects EU's search abuse complaint
Virtual desktops have been a free download since the last century. Very few people use them, so there was never much point in shipping them with the OS. Not sure there is now....
https://www.brandwatch.com/2015/08/react-why-thousands-of-pe...

And the idea that Windows is not a developer platform is extremely ill-informed....
Timelapses of the Rocky Fire going right over the camera
It just depends what framework/language you are familiar with. Discourse makes sense if you work with Rails (you'll have an easier time both deploying and customizing the UI). If you work with PHP then Flarum would be a better choice.
> Saying later that "those were the times" does not exonerate you from the sins committed.

Exonerate? Perhaps not. But context does matter, and people make decisions with the information they have available at the time.

One thing I have found helpful in understanding what you describe as "the insanity of war" is Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast. He has an episode on this very topic, which he entitled "Logical Insanity[0]" regarding the build up to the dropping of the atomic bombs, and how the incremental escalation of savagery in WWII might gradually alter people's perspectives on morality.

[0] http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-42-blitz-l...
There actually was a similar tool to this on the front page of HN yesterday - I think the commenter probably had multiple tabs open and accidentally added their comment to the wrong thread.
This is what has happened to me. I start on Monday, and just got this contract yesterday.
At my last job, we did something similar to what iOS 9 is now doing, where we migrated a survey engine to serve all forms over https. There was high fiving and champagne all around the engineers desks, while media was freaking out that their impressions took the sharpest reverse-hockey-stick in the world. Ad networks are seriously the worst when it comes to https traffic. Given the dozens of redirects and pixel injections and iframes slapped into a media page, it's nearly impossible to serve secure traffic since it only takes one network to downgrade the https request to http and then the page is "broken".
Sure. 400 acre-feet could save a farmer. One farmer, maybe two or even three. That's with 300 railcars. That's three trains.

I mean, it's great for that one farmer. But as a solution to the larger problem? It doesn't work.
Will George Soros enter the fray and break the Bank of China? ;)
I understand that. However what I don't understand is how the price of the treasury bond falls when there exists a buyer in the market that has an insatiable appetite for treasuries and a Scrooge McDuck sized wallet(The Fed). In economic jargon it would mean we currently have perfectly elastic demand for short term treasury bonds.
In today's wars, you almost certainly don't ever want a tank. If you want armor, you want a Stryker. I saw several soldiers lose their lives in M1 Abrams tank, and not a single in a Stryker during combat. Due to the extremely large mufflers that run the length of both sides, the Strykers are so quiet and they are fast enough that by the time they are upon you, you don't know it. In Mosul, our unit was known as the Ghost Riders by the locals due to them never knowing we were there until we were right up on them. The only soldiers we lost in a Stryker while I was in country (03-04) was one that flipped off a bridge and went face down in river mud. They were trapped inside :(

On the other hand, the Abrams tanks suffered many casualties as it is very loud and slow moving. Insurgents have time to emplace IEDs or (worse!) EFPs which with enough 120mm artillery shells, will quite trivially take out a tank at close range. The slow moving heavy armor of the cold war doesn't work in today's asymetric warfare. Here is a slightly photoshopped picture of a Stryker I took at the Palace in Mosul: http://www.digitalprognosis.com/album/images/iraqpics/the-st... Note the bird cage armor which stops RPGs cold.

Source: I was US Army and am a vet of OIF II (UAV Platoon D Troop 1-14 Cavalry 4th Brigade 2nd Infantry Division) in country around 2003-2004 (during the Fallujah offensive)
That's the definition of a Turing complete language.

What I dislike the most is that the Haskell execution order in particular isn't hard to reason about[+]. Yet, because it's things don't simply happen in the order you write them, people tell beginners to not think about execution order at all, and wait until laziness bite them.

[+] Really. If you just assume that the only things that gets evaluated is the first argument of the IO monad (>>) operator (not (>>=)), and it pulls evaluation until it gets all the data it needs, you'll have 99.9% of the model done. Read about GHC green threads and the FFI and you'll get everything that does not use unsafePerformIO right.