skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the flip side of that, I was living in Munich many years ago and got a letter for a referendum on some local issue. What struck me was that:

1. They'd been organized enough to translate it into English for me (which shouldn't have been surprising, because Germans), and

2. It started with "Dear male voter, dear female voter", which I found hilarious.

There's a lot to be said for gender-neutral language.
Well of course we can! We can also buffer arbitrarily long sentences with only one verb at the very end without any signs of impatience ;-)
I don't think Yahoo could ever make that transition without losing billions in market cap. I know that's what is happening right now but it is a tough call - make a last ditch try to be "genuine" tech company or kill everything to make business of whatever is possible. Considering that Yahoo still has tech talent and a tech executive as it's CEO, I can guess it will try to gamble on the former.
It's entirely reasonable to argue that some of these arguments apply to encryption, but not to guns, as the actual arguments that are usually used are more complex.

Applying an argument to something physical vs. something digital or something that directly kills people vs. something that prevents access to information makes a lot of difference.
If it wasn't shocking, they wouldn't get so many clicks.
Unconditional basic income would be my choice. Its advantages unify the Left and Right.
Historical sake, back in the early days Yahoo was king, it was Google before Google, the Google IPO wasn't until 2004, Yahoo went public in 1996. They were the biggest internet company for a decade.
"Independent video games (commonly referred to as indie games) are video games created by individuals or small teams generally without video game publisher financial support." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_game

That was always my understanding. Wikipedia could be wrong too, of course.
I was also providing a thought experiment and a possible end game solution so that drone strikes would be unnecessary.

Maybe think about the collateral murder tape and get back to me as to that thought experiment, or what about this one:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-...

41 people murdered without trial or war and 1147 people killed who weren't targets and tens of thousands who now hate the United States, perpetuating a never ending cycle of violence.

So yeah, people do drive by and say stuff to make opposing points on discussion forums, the point was to ridicule your argument of "If Obama didn't have to murder loads of people he wouldn't". Maybe he thinks there is no alternative to 2800%+ collateral damage, do you?
How could 3D printers lower the cost of guns or ammunition?
Well that's what I'm saying: We can't know if it's being evil unless we know everything about it, and if we knew that, we'd be the supraintelligent beings in the equation. Thinking that it'll go off and dominate the world is thinking about the worst case. So why bother since it's not likely we'd be able to do much about it anyway?

Maybe there's a second AI on the same level as the first and thinks the first AI is evil. We're still dumb as rocks compared to them, but something certainly has that opinion.
Seriously: are you trying to start a flame war?
That is nonsense.

Yahoo is one of the oldest and most important web companies around. It's always going to be newsworthy. And people are a bit critical of Mayer because she promised a lot and really hasn't delivered anything.
For me, several years ago when the ISP technician finally setup my modem after spending hours doing do, the first site I visited in my life was www.yahoo.com :)
HN likes it when overpaid, over-hyped leaders fail in general, especially after doing massively unpopular and short-sighted things like killing work from home policies. If Mayer had actually done a good job at Yahoo and turned things around, HN would be propping her up as a hero. Instead, she proved her inexperience, inflexibility, and narrow focus make her a poor CEO for a company like Yahoo, and the board and media should never have propped her up as the harbinger of amazing female CEOs.
One of their most valuable assets is Android Yahoo Mail app, that they are methodically killing: my mom (a loyal Yahoo user of 18+ years) says it has become too complicated (grouping conversations), with an unpredictable spam filter. Until recently it suffered from a serious memory leak (which was not fixed for years).

They already successfully killed the Android Yahoo Messenger app (remember when Yahoo Messenger was huge on desktop?). Ironically, WhatsApp founders are from Yahoo...
wrongfully punished

More like rightfully influenced.
I couldn't agree more with your assessment.

I'm just amazed that the Yahoo board hasn't fired her yet with her overall performance in the past four years. She's been paid handsomely and delivered very little.
My impression is that Sedol was psychologically defeated at 1-0. Computational machines don't crack under pressure - at most they get exhausted.
Memory allocation feature asked is not a language feature. It has to be baked into web assembly if you want to use portable byte masking with pointers.

It's very low level implementation level detail that enables fast execution of dynamically typed languages. Boxing has high cost and it consumes memory. Type tags embedded in pointers can be very fast. For that to work, you need objects that are aligned with power-of-two byte boundaries.

Adding this feature enables efficient execution strategy for scripting and dynamic languages.
I personally think FinTech is the the best.

The examples mentioned are focused on a specific sector of the market where there are players to compare against for similar products or products that at the end of the day, do the same thing.

A disruptive business has its own market that can't be compared against another before it such as Bloomberg. The examples offered are just variations of existing business models and are bad examples of the potential of FinTech businesses.

Even with the businesses mentioned it ought to be mentioned about the ROI. The operating costs of Merrill can't even remotely be compared to the upstarts.

There are a couple of really good examples such as TransferWise, CrowdCube, Bloomberg, Square, Stripe, Xero, MPESA and loads more that are at the top of their categories either immediately or in terms of growth.

Fintech businesses do scale quickly, very quickly. Most of the examples I've given have done this already. MPESA transacts in multiples more than the entire banking system itself in Kenya.
> It also pre-dates the era of gender hysteria and other assorted identity politics brought to tech by social justice warriors.

Sorry but this pretty much only exists in the minds of a niche group of disaffected, geeky men. The rest of the world has found more constructive ways to deal with the opposite sex and would find the idea we are living in an "era" of it frankly bizarre.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay
Better TouchPad, namely because of the amazing ThinkPad buttons. And better yet, a trackpoint (although only for those that are used to the input method)
The same statement holds for humans too. I don't think you can teach a person how to play Go and expect him/her to learn anything else than how to play Go.
> This project is the sixth attempt to implement the model:

Finally, the sixth attempt is written in the right language! Now it will succeed for sure.
Why doesn't a cheapest Android smartphone with a 3G modem (say Alcatel 4009D) fit?

Because it's not 4G? Well, here's the real tradeoff: security, comfort, cheapness. Pick two.
More like the board should ask for cash money and stock options back just to give her a chance, but the opportunity cost of leaving her on far exceeds anything she even has the capacity to pay back.
I had no faith at all in Mayer. Not because she isn't a good product manager.

Mainly because for a turnaround situation I would hire someone who was there before with a successful turnaround under h-- belt. Not someone without any turnaround knowledge (what to cut, high investor pressure, ...)
would you recommend it over docker-compose? Because I'm really searching for an alternative and it's in go, that's even better for me
JavaScript for C# developers
I'm one of those strange people that finds mac touchpads maddeningly annoying. I used to carry a mouse with me when I had a macbook for work. So non-crap is the opposite direction from that for me. But hey, to each their own. That's why it's nice to have the choice of a wide range of machines, everyone gets what they want.
Similar success with my TP-Link TL-WDR3600. Had a 20$ netgear before that needed resetting several times a week.
Most of the project is empty right now. From their README:

This is not yet a full implementation of AlphaGo. Development is being carried out on the develop branch.

We are still in early development stages. We hope to have a functional training pipeline complete by mid March, and following that we will focus on optimizations.
Twins who really are identical
Yes - I think this comment sums it up well.

Remember how the media celebrated her appointment, focussing on her gender, as if the silver bullet of "gender diversity" will resolve the many problems we have in tech management. The media did this before she'd demonstrated any leadership or success.

For some who hold more interest in identity politics than technology, the mere appointment of a female CEO was success enough.

Yet, ironically, it is this politically-fueled attention to her gender that now resonates as we observe her failure. Let's hope it doesn't create damaging prejudices against other female leaders. If it does, I hope the real culprits are as obvious to other readers as they are to me.

We need to rein in the social justice warriors and stop tech being used as a vehicle for gender identity politics and virtue-signalling.
I wish too that fixing those bugs last week had the same impact as turning around a struggling multi billion dollar business.
Sorry, fanboys, but anything Android is always "as bad as you'd think"
How one woman's name caused massive issues at a large telecom operator
Docker... it's wrappers all the way down...
https://github.com/servo/html5ever seems to also have a (not yet complete) C API
By "publishing to the web" I mean an easy and automated way to show the world what you have accomplished, so for instance if you are getting hired, one can look at your page and have a feeling of your work process, what you care about, what you have accomplished, what kind of experiments have you done...

I agree that micro notes are the way to start this, but give the users ways to be able to extend these notes in oder to be able to further document their work or whatever they have accomplished.
4 Insights for Identifying Exceptional Team Members
One advantage to the shareware era is there were fewer choices even with indies. During that time I began working at Babbage's when only 25% of the store was games. Now there are so many mainstream games a store cannot fit them all.
No, that sounds awful, and precisely the kind of thing I quit working at BigCorps to avoid.

Your core assumption seems to be that changing the ownership model is enough to counter the lack of autonomy that comes from spending all day in a hierarchical business with other people. I'm actually struggling to imagine how you arrived at this point of view.
You know that the majority of stuff you see on CSI is total crap... There are three identifying marks on spent shell casings:

Fingerprints: easily avoided.

Production facility/year: not really useful for criminal investigations.

Toolmarks from firing pin and extractor: oversold television crap, toolmark analysis is quickly sinking to the same level of reputation as bitemark analysis in the real world.

None of that matters for anything that doesn't eject spent shells, but nobody would choose to print a more easily produced revolver, derringer, liberator, muzzle loader - right? Right?!
That's just for the training phase. In play mode it only uses 40. And the top supercomputer has 3 million cores, so, AlphaGo is not such a big computer either.
As a club level go player (4 kyu AGA) I disagree. When you play against a much stronger human, you very quickly see moves that frustrate your plans, and find yourself struggling to find moves that work.

It's common for the opening to pass by without feeling behind--Go doesn't have set openings to the same extent as chess, but if you play joseki, you might have an opening where the weaker player feels ok. Even that is not guaranteed, but once you start fighting, you will quickly feel the strength difference.

Of course you can play a move that looks good when you play it, but against a much stronger player, it doesn't take long for it to look bad.
Amnesty International and AdBlock Have Joined Forces for One Day
Where's the EU version?
Just got the xps 15 (9550) yesterday which had windows on it. Installed ubuntu 16.04 beta and works very well. I had huge problems trying to install any lower version of ubuntu & variants.
This is absurd, who would join a company or organization with this kind of reputation?
I have a bad experience with X1, in 6 months of _very_ lightweight use the motherboard broke and a key detached itself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11271492
I don't think you understand my point.

This isn't about eras of men or women. It's nothing to do with how men and women interact. My point was about eras of identity politics around gender.
the hamburger menu is one of those things I use
Yahoo reminds me a lot of Apple before Steve Jobs rejoined.

They don't need a turnaround artist like Gil Amelio they need an insanely great product person to bring back some innovation, creativity and attention to detail. Based on her experience and from what everyone says about her she should have been perfect. And I'm quite baffled why she's not managing to get any runs on the board.
It was one of the first for me as well. They used to have a section where users could post their favorite sites. I would go through, just clicking and exploring, and eventually learning.
Wintergarten Marble Machine (Programmable Instrument Using Marbles)
Animated Data Visualization of World War 2 Fatalities
Basically good brand and not cheap as chips? Won't need resets.

Also many come with decent warranties
Instacart cutting wages for shoppers starting March 14
So it's just about size of the team and the amount of money? Why should that be a consideration? I personally just care that the application works and does what I expect it to do. I don't care if it's done by big team or small team or a single chimpanzee from the local zoo.
Encryption, Privacy, and Security
I use https://github.com/michaelsauter/crane.

It has held up really well for me.
The answer to this question is why the US must resist the mass invasion of government into our private lives. For many other issues, people from around the world still answer the question "where would you go" with the US.

In the US we actually have a chance to push back on our rights and enshrine them constitutionally. For the US this must be the end goal of the discussion on the privacy and encryption discussion. Protecting and clarifying existing rights, 1st, 4th, 5th all apply here and the courts should uphold them in the face of the executive branch and commercial interests pushing invasion into normalcy.

If we fail to protect those rights and clarify their meaning in the 21st century the answer to the question "But where will you go" will be "there is no place to go".
Is it weaker or just more difficult to apply the strength? I can crush things between middle-finger and thumb more easily than between little-finger and thumb suggesting that the grip is stronger in the first case. Not trying to be pedantic; just interested in body mechanics.
As a friend of mine said: "I'm done with pixels"
Not sure why all the hate. When she joined Yahoo in 2012, stock was ~$18 for a good 6 years. Since then, it's doubled
The creator (and musician) also made two videos explaining the inner workings (which is really cool from an engineering standpoint IMO):

* Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uog48viZUbM

* Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Guq7vZb_E
You can do much less than 20% down; you can get away with 5% down (with mortgage insurance).

In my experience, lenders will actually lend you past what is a good idea for you. It's possible to purchase the house on that income....if you spend all your money on it and nothing else.
Gathering system information in Swift with sysctl
> under _his_ belt

Social justice warriors coming to correct you in 3.. 2.. 1..
With proper palm rejection the trackpad should not interfere with the keyboard. From personal experience, Macbooks trackpads rarely register spurious touches while typing.
>> The generally accepted definition seems to be "having better than human performance"

I don't think there's a generally accepted definition and I don't agree that
performance on its own is a good measure. Humans are certainly not as good at
mechanical tasks as machines are -duh. But how can you call "superhuman"
something that doesn't even know what it's doing, even as it's doing it faster
and more accurately than us?

Take arithmetic again. We know that cat's can't do arithmetic, because they
don't understand numbers, so it's safe to say humans have super-feline
arithmetic ability. But then, how is a pocket calculator super-human, if it
doesn't know what numbers are for, any more than a cat does? There's something missing from the
definition and therefore the measurement of the task.

I don't claim to have this missing something, mind you.

>> Why would an intelligence built by humans not be able to be superhuman?

Ah. Apologies, I got carried away a bit there. I meant to discuss how I doubt we
can create superhuman intelligence using machine learing specifically. My thinking goes like
this: we train machine learning algorithms using examples; to train an algorithm
to exhibit superhuman intelligence we'd need examples of superhuman
intelligence; we can't produce such examples because our intelligence is merely
human; therefore we can't train a superhuman intelligence.

I also doubt that we can create a superhuman intelligence in any other way, at
least intentionally, or that we would be able to recognise one if we created it
by chance, but I'm not prepared to argue this. Again, sorry about that.
Another (of what must now be well into the thousands) App Store piece that basically boils down to : The App Store is a maturing market and if you expect to make money from developing apps then you need an actual business plan including sustainable revenue models and marketing strategies. Just like any other business.

For some reason this makes the author sad.
No Yahoo is way beyond that. Sure Jobs is one way to turn a company around, sadly the supply of Jobs is limited. But there have been many successful turnarounds of - e.g. traditional - companies, which got profitable and growing again in the long run. Not every turnaround needs to end with the most valuable company on the planet. If you aim for a second Steve Jobs experience, this is lottery play and wishful thinking.

"Based on her experience and from what everyone says about her she should have been perfect."

Which either means: a.) She isn't that good as a product manager b.) Your theory is wrong. c.) Jobs turned Apple not around only on his vision but b/c he was able to kick everyone hard
This would be great. I could see Google and Apple taking a stand, but Amazon hasn't been as outspoken towards government spying as the other's. Quite the opposite:
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/01/amazons_frightening_cia_part...
According to the project lead†, "Europe [is] being readied for launch as we speak, stay tuned for more details."

†: http://bartongeorge.net/2016/03/10/xps-13-developer-edition-...
Man: OK Siri, what's the capital of Peru

AI: First tell me what grade you got at Uni?

Man: A third, I got a third, alright!? Must you always ask that.

AI: Lol.

AI: The capital of Peru is Lima.

TV: Siri, buy me the most expensive car at expensivecars.com.

TV: [playing recording] "A third, I got a third"
Mayer is a prime example of what happens when someone whose career should have peaked at COO becomes CEO. You see it all the time in sports when guys who are brilliant technical coordinators get moved to head coach and subsequently flounder.

There's more to being CEO (and head coach, to continue my analogy) than technical proficiency and strategic capability. There's a mix of requirements that are hard to quantify: human understanding, charm, charisma, empathy...character traits that are as much innate as learned.

I look at Mayer...she has very few of the "head coach" traits. Brilliant operator, excellent technician, all of the things you want in a coordinator. But not someone you want as head coach.

[EDIT] Typos/clarity.
Where exactly is South Bronx on Manhattan island?
There still are some encryption schemes that can be run with nothing more than a pencil and paper. See SMSPP for example: https://gist.github.com/plugnburn/6b50ceee3a89893a9e48

You can also use straddling checkerboards if you can do some very simple math.
Page margins are so small!
> "Why do the children in poor families perform so much worse than in rich families?"

Coping skills and resources. Reminds me of

Privilege and inequality in Silicon Valley
https://medium.com/tech-diversity-files/privilege-and-inequa...
This one is great too! Thanks!
So how's this different from Shareware in the 90's?

I don't think anyone then (i don't know for sure, because I know no one who actually put out shareware, personally) expected to get rich making software that spread like wildfire via floppy disk, but that's somehow changed (replace floppy disk with "social media"). I'd posit that the difference is expectations of grandeur that the startup culture (combined with pop culture) have created.
Interesting to see that. It turns out that around a month ago after seeing the Raspberry Pi project that send a tweet to Comcast when internet connection is slow, it gave me the motivation to use my Raspberry Pi 2 to do the following:

A- every 15 minutes check my internet connection: connectivity (reaching Goodle DNS host),

B- if connectivity fail, execute D-2 below, if not see next step below

C- then use SpeedTest download / upload; if download/upload speed are too slow then attempt a second test 30 seconds later

D- if the second attempt fail again then:

1- send an SMS with Twilio to my cell phone to let me know the modem will reboot, and wait 10 seconds

2- issue a "off" command to my Belkin Wemo (cable modem plugged into it), then wait another 30 seconds and issue a "on" command

On top of that I have installed InfluxDB + Grafana on my Pi so I can log the connection latency to Google DNS, and the download/upload speed. Example:

https://imgur.com/gallery/dgeFR

The Belkin Wemo command do use only my local Wifi, so even if the modem is down since my Pi is on the same LAN it can control the Wemo without problem.

It was a fun little project for my Pi. All written in Python. If anyone interested I can probably post the code somewhere.

[updated for formatting]
There will be a non-touch option (a matte 1080p screen): "The i5 configuration will come with 8GB RAM, a 256GB SSD and FHD NT. The timing of the i5 config is dependent on the depletion of the current inventory on hand." From the project lead's blog: http://bartongeorge.net/2016/03/10/xps-13-developer-edition-...

I'm personally looking forward to this model!
I was destined to become CEO from CTO but decided COO and second in command is the best position for me.
And if the modem is not available?
that second demo has considerable lag
I hope it won't stay that way :) If we can create a being smarter than ourselves, we should by all means do so.