skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the mutual fund and the ETF. For Vanguard 500, the VOO ETF and the VFIAX index fund are effectively the same, they even have the same expense ratio. The latter you need $10k upfront though. (VFINX, if you only have between $3k and $10k, has a higher expense ratio.)
So you're saying the next [website doing illegal things] will be forced to go underground? Well, duh.
The problem with elected politicians is that politics is a career path. By the time you get to the position of being electable, you're likely knee-deep in shady deals, and when you get elected, the pressure only increases.

While there may be other downsides of sortition to consider[0], it at least seems to avoid this problem - since each issue is considered by people in isolation, there's no point in trying to make deals, since the next time around someone else will be chosen to vote.

That said, we have XXI century now - why not try and let everyone vote on everything? I think the idea is sometimes called "liquid democracy".

[0] - one downside that comes to mind is a lack of context and inability to form a coherent strategy; it's already one of the biggest problems with democracy, and that would only deepen it
Thankfully lately Ars has been a little bit less biased than say Wired or Verge. One of the founders is a conservative, his piece on the open source nature of the AR-15 made hacker news the other day. Though I have detected some bias with Ars, It hasn't been near enough to dump them like I have wired and Verge. I'll keep my eye on it. Lately a lot of these now-biased news tech sites seem to justify publishing an agenda-driven political hit piece JUST because the candidate used twitter to make a point. Or by branding themsevles "Tech and 'Lifestyle'" they justify having biased political writers / editors on staff who parrot the progressive narrative like that on the actual political sites.
The difference is that juries don't usually have any "skin in the game". It doesn't make any difference to a jury member if the defendant is convicted or not (and when it DOES make a difference, we have a word for it -- jury tampering).
I had a demo from Aline on this last week after seeing it on Twitter and reaching out. It was a really interesting experience - it masks the voice pitch but leaves the person's characteristic of speaking (is there a word for that?) intact.

You can also access the recordings after-the-fact to hear how you did. I think this is valuable for candidates who want to improve their interviewing skills.

FWIW, I heard it both ways - my voice as female and her voice as male. The pitch shifting was very convincing both ways.
So it masks gender by making everyone sound "like a dude" according to the videos. That's not masking gender. Make everyone sound like a robot and the blog post title will be more accurate.
FYI: Existing train (Amtrak) service in the Central Valley is being expanded currently and they are looking to expand it further. The expansion, from 6 trips to 7, went into effect June 20th. Fresno is the same city where ground is being broken on the nation's first high speed rail.

This sort of contradicts this editorial claiming high speed rail makes no sense and will not fly.

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article84917817.html
This is a massively important release, and is basically a complete reboot of the SNS SMS product. Before it was limited to something for your backend services to send messages to service administrators, but now it's a fully featured Twilio-like SMS gateway.

Anybody sending 2FA or other SMS messages should give this a look.
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Let's hope Github will find a way for users to be able to 'tip' maintainers. I concede it is very hard to find the solution (Who? When? How much?)
I wonder if a referendum constructed in that way would actually make decision making worse.

As I see it, the public have voted to Leave, but some of the options for Leave are actually quite appealing, and would even appeal to some pragmatic Remainers (Norway-style EFTA agreement, join Schengen, negotiate trade agreements with the EU from the outside on a common basis with other EFTA countries, allow Eurozone to integrate closer).

By allowing the public to decide not only the decision but the details of the implementation (although I'm sure you weren't 100% serious with the "destroy chunnel" option) you increase the scope for voters to choose the worst one out of sheer spite.
Great news? Uh huh....
In the case of a js/css framework, the users are js/css developers.
Good point, will edit.
Amazing how the author believes they have proved that there is 'no systematic bias' with This One Simple Trick!

Edit: sorry for the tone, but I just find this whole article bait. The headline is bait. The writer acknowledges the limitations of their study (basically that it doesn't prove much) but then makes a whole bunch of extrapolations anyway, and makes those guesses the meat of the article rather than investigating why their methods didn't work or how they could be improved or what would be required to produce conclusive evidence.
> I don't believe mainstream media ever worked in a neutral, non-biased, fact based way. ... they are "free" - which means they actually serve Moloch[0], by writing what sells. That is, the most outrage-inducing, biased misrepresentations (and often outright lies) they can get away with. ... media isn't "a place to go for trusted information" ...

I think painting all news media with the same brush is significantly misconstrues the situation.

As a comparison, no software developer is perfect and can be absolutely trusted, and some devs are toxic. But I would be wrong to say: Therefore all software developers are toxic.

Similarly, there is better and worse news media. Can we absolutely trust any? Of course not; these are human institutions. But there's a long way from The Sun and The National Inquirer to The Financial Times and NY Times.
When you refer to style what sorts of aspects are you looking at? Simple things like bracket placement, naming conventions?
Yeah, I cringed when they said they thought of "giving all females a bane mask". How does that do anything? Anyone getting a person wearing a bane mask would automatically realize they were female.
I feel sad when the website of a security company (especially websec) makes browsers block parts of their web pages due to cross-origin issues.
> Bluetooth is already there, and if the same chip can be used in a phone or a button cell powered telemetry sensor, economies of scale

Actually, for industrial applications, it's more likely to be Zigbee that is already there, and the economies of scale will favour it over BTLE (particularly when you consider Zigbee allows thousands of devices in a network, while BTLE can't even get to double digits). There's a ton of other advantages to Zigbee for industrial applications (not the least of which is resiliency).

Maybe you want a bluetooth bridge (though WiFi is probably very tempting for that purpose), but bluetooth is bad enough at doing its own job, let alone something else.
Somewhat interesting for those who missed it - another rust/brotli project was a target for afl-rust. IIRC it didn't find any memory safety issues, but it definitely exposed a few panic crashes:

https://github.com/frewsxcv/afl.rs (discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11936983)

I don't think they mentioned fuzzing their Brotli decompressor in this article, but I hope they try afl-rust.
The point of the experiment was for the interviewer to think the interviewer was a particular gender to see if they as it based on that impression. Making everyone sound like a robot does not accomplish that goal, so I don't see how it makes the title more accurate.
Not only that - ten years from now people will probably assign positive and negative effects of Brexit to other, more recent causes. The idea of people voting based on the perceived outcome for themselves is limited by their memory / attention span. A lot of important decisions, like those related to infrastructure, have immediate costs but bring benefits only years later.
Yes. I think this is a common misunderstanding about democracy. Democracy is not good because it provides the best government, or even competent government; much of the time it manifestly doesn't. Democracy is good because it provides for stable succession; if a discontented group is strong enough to stage a successful coup or revolution, then in a democracy it's probably strong enough to achieve its ends at far lower cost and risk by waiting a couple of years until the next election.

The EU was founded in large part to prevent yet another European war; that's a noble goal and for all its flaws I think the EU can claim a lot of credit for 70 years of peace. Warnings against complacency that "it could never happen again these days" are well-made and well-taken.

But we haven't had a violent revolution or civil war in western Europe for a fair while either - anything since Franco? - and I think that's largely thanks to functional democracy. Messing with that is not to be taken lightly either. You don't have to go back very far to find everyone collectively soiling their breeches every time a monarch started getting on a bit without a solid heir in sight.
Normally the person showing off something with Show HN also comes into the comments but I haven't seen anything. Is this yours, hkr_mag? Even one of your competitors showed up in the comments...

Some feedback (edited to add stuff twice):

- The pricing is confusing. The front page shows me how to install it and run but then another page mentions a free trial? Is that's what I'm doing when I install via apt-get or run via docker?

- What's Wallarm Cloud? It appears to me Wallarm is an nginx module that "protects" stuff, somehow, and for some (maybe all) things it sends them to the Wallarm cloud for analysis. What is the Wallarm Cloud and how does that protect all of my data that it's receiving? What if it's receiving HIPPA data? Is it stored / cached and if so for how long?

- When attempting to register I think it's best to provide a verify option for the password.

- When attempting to register I keep getting errors stating my password is too simple. Even after 50 characters. I assume this is doing a check for symbols or something but allowing any character and then me putting in 50 characters I think it's safe to say it's no longer "too simple"

- You're using CORS but it's a subdomain; you don't need to do anything with CORS at all unless you really want to (but who wants to preflight every single request if you don't have to?). Just set the document.domain to the same domain and you're done.

- I think you can make your registration services flow a little better. Since it makes a request to get a token from the backend and it provides nothing with the request (minus the session id cookie) then that means you're managing session state on the backend so why are you also managing state on the front end? I get the idea behind the token but you have a token and a session id and you're using token more like a session id as it doesn't appear to change when I make calls to it.

- Why do I have a "permissions":["admin"] in my profile? :)

- Clicking on "Profile" takes me to a profile page, it downloads all of the resources and makes REST calls, and then it redirects back to active. Why not do this server-side so it's immediate and less bandwidth intensive? Alternatively if I haven't activated and I entered the wrong email address or other information now I can't update it at all. I have to create a new account. I'd suggest letting profile information be updated.

- Seems too black-box-y to me. I'd like to see something more to the point. Then again I'm an engineer but typically for products like this I've found you need at least some engineer buy-in to sell it to a company.
Avoiding patents of other protocols seems to have been one of the goals, but then Thomas has patented SRP itself. https://www.google.com/patents/US6539479 which is set to expire in two years minus 15 days (Jul 14, 1998).
Not if everyone wears the same "mask" regardless of gender.
Yes, that's exactly what they say:

> On the subject of sample size, we have no delusions that this is the be-all and end-all of pronouncements on the subject of gender and interview performance.

But let's ignore science to fit our pre-existing biases!
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> Contrary to what we expected (and probably contrary to what you expected as well!), masking gender had no effect on interview performance

The main issue with gender and hiring is unconscious bias on the interviewer's end, which voice modulation does make sense as a tool to avoid bias. Per the grading criteria, they are judging on skill, problem solving, and communication. I'm not sure how voice modulation would affect the interviewee in those three criteria, which makes the results of the experiment not surprising.
One may also want to see NAXSI [0]. NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX.

[0] https://github.com/nbs-system/naxsi
> where is the "wisdom of the crowds" when it comes to decisions that we, "the elites", don't like?

The crowds wisely thought the sun orbited the flat earth, and have voted for many bad decisions throughout history. Democracy is supporting their self-determination - the crowds have the power. That doesn't at all mean that every decision is a good one.

EDIT: As Abe Lincoln is quoted:

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Well, I guess there's a little bit of hope there ...

EDIT2: Can't believe I forgot this part:

Most nations use a republican form of government, where people choose the best of them (or the best person running) to deal with these issues. Direct democracy, where the people decide issues directly, is actually not part of the system. The UK has had 3 nationwide referendums and the US none, AFAIK.

There's a good reason for that: The average person has no idea what they're talking about on most issues. They have other jobs and interests, or no interest. Do I want the wisdom of the crowds deciding how the military should be funded and structured, or do I want elected officials who have hearings, a staff of aids, who study the issue and talk to the generals ... egads, I pay a lot of attention to public affairs, but I wouldn't want that responsibility.
As a general rule yes. But if you are thinking of sticking a large amount of cash in the stock market right now and plan to stay in long term, I would at least give it a shot in terms of trying to time it right in the cycle.

Right now we are quite high in the cycle - 9 years from the last crisis, end of QE, slowing growth - so at least in my view, it's an asymmetric bet to wait and see. But what do I know.
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IANAL and this is not legal advice.

In California, "every contract by which
anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void", except for certain enumerated exceptions (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code, Sec. 16600 [BPC 16600])

Those enumerated exceptions are, in summary form:

(1) Someone selling a business and/or its goodwill may agree not to compete with the business thus sold, if the new owner is carrying on the same kind of business (BPC 16601).

(2) Partners in a partnership may enter an agreement in anticipation of an eventual separation from the partnership, such as they would be able to do when selling their interest as described in 1, as may members of an LLC, mutatis mutandis. (BPC 16602, 16602.5)

Receiving equity in a business doesn't seem to qualify for any exception.
Might be due to the fact that for lots of ESL speakers, the "ine" in "engine" makes little sense when you consider "quine", "spine", "spline", "brine", etc. The cognitive load to recognize that nginx is really engine-x is that much bigger.

As I like to say, "Give someone a ghoti, he can speak English for a day, tell them how to ghoti, and they can speak English for a lifetime".
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Don't waste time trying to learn and develop style. Don't waste time studying other code just for the sake of learning how to write better code. Don't waste time reading generic things on how to write better code.

Put the effort in to learning new concepts, programming languages, methodologies, programming language history, computer science, and even broader subjects dealing with humans and how we think and form ideas. There are countless ways to write code and without having a broad knowledge of them you will only at best reach a local optimum and rarely choose the most effective solutions and designs. The worst thing you can do is stop learning and seeing other perspectives.
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It makes everyone sound the same. Changing only women's voices is a tell-tale sign. If you get a guy who sounds "computery", or "off", it's a girl.
The text of the article clarifies -- they made some women sound processed-male, some men sound processed-female, some sound processed without a gender shift, and some were unprocessed. So if you got a processed-sounding voice, you had no way to know the gender of the person you were talking to.
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Looks like a nice tool. But I didn't understand the requirement.

The README says that if I have a graph.svg and graph.txt in my directory, I can put as many graphs and start the web server. Still not getting the use of it.
The moiré pattern does get rather mangled but I can appreciate an artistic interpretation of the current photograph-of-a-monitor images, which capture the spirit of sitting in an ops control room in the middle of the night looking at the graph more so than a screenshot would.

But I agree they could be executed better, as right now they look low-rent more so than artistic.
The interviewer is the one grading the interviewee.
Emunotes is really cool. A magical word processor. Is there a way to make functions that connect to expanded services?
Yes, HN desperately needs to read yet another journalist threaten the masses with 'worse' for anyone daring to stand up to them.
Love this book, but why is it making the rankings today? It was published like three years ago.
India Supreme Court rejects petition to ban messaging apps like WhatsApp
Everyone has something to say. The achievement of writers is being able to suitably express their thoughts to their audience.

Regarding Bukowski, you should check out his Wikipedia page. I'll snip some highlights, and draw some conclusions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski

> poet, novelist, and short story writer

> Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books

You don't write thousands of poems without understanding language. He may not have had a complete collegiate education, but you can be sure he ended up studying language on his own.
They didn't only change women's voices. They also changed some men to sound like women. And they made some voices sound processed without pitch changes.
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I totally disagree with your points.

"2) The SP 500 adds and subtracts companies as they grow, fold and go bankrupt. So the only way this would be maybe work is if you invested in the ETF."

First of all, it's not the ETF, it's an ETF. And this isn't exactly news - this is the basic method of investing always recommended (alternatively, an index fund, which is similar).

"3) Macro-economic events are notoriously hard to predict and anticipate, and your returns are very much tied to how you time your entry point. If you invested in the beginning of 2008, you would have a 33% return, same for a 2001 entry. In the beginning of 2009, around 100%."

Well, yes, but this is kind of the point of the article. It shows what is the chance of coming out ahead out of any 20 year period in the last 100 years.

"This is the problem that you get when Warren Buffet fools you into "buy and hold". Yes, it has worked for him, but he is an insanely great investor. You can't replicate his returns. You can't even sniff his returns."

Warren Buffet doesn't "buy and hold", but he recommends it for most people exactly because it's relatively easy, and gives you very good returns.
Pair up, review code, you will be amazed how much you can learn from others both novices and experts.
It even has disadvantages compared to the Wankel engine, in that the intake and exhaust airflows are through the sides of the engine, so you can't even stack them along the same crankshaft without seriously compromising the airflow and packaging. Also, while it doesn't have the Wankel rotor tip seals and their associated issues, they don't say much about sealing all their other surfaces.

This is likely why they replaced the 6.5Hp motor in their demo go-kart with a 3Hp version of their own motor (if it was a real Wankel, they would have used a two- or three-rotor stack and gotten almost the same or more power for ~1/4 the weight, which would have been a good demo. Instead, they look like they're driving a go-kart at about 1/4 throttle.

Although they tout weight advantages, their power-weight ratio is actually pretty bad compared to a variety of other engines, including Wankels and two-strokes of similar sizes, e.g., for model airplane power plants.
You're not siding with 'yummyfajitas. You're (almost) doing what he refuses to do: pick an argument in Maciej's post ("techies shouldn't be trying to cure death") and rebutting it. If you fleshed that point out a little more you'd be going, rhetorically, in the opposite direction as him.

I happen to agree with most (maybe all?) of what's in Maciej's post. But my problem isn't that Stucchio disagrees with it; my problem is that he refuses to engage honestly with it, and then writes assumptively that we must, as fellow tech people, feel the same way. The reasoning he's used it embarrassingly weak, and I object to being assumptively affiliated with it.
Work it work best in a work setting or a friends settings?
Be fair. They let Ireland vote on Lisbon, and when Ireland voted wrong they were even nice enough to let Ireland vote again.
Xen has poor security track record compared to which VM or sandbox?
I'm convinced that most companies have the application processes they have because it gives them the candidates they want. The reason the application process at some companies is so one-sided, non-transparent and makes you jump through arbitrary and ever changing hoops is because that's a skill they value. Most likely, that's going to be a daily requirement of the job.

Startup companies want to think they're hiring the best and brightest, so they follow the interview practices of companies or people they think are the best and the brightest. People who can pass those interviews are the candidates they want because, in their minds at least, they're Google quality programmers.