skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really chrome's fault. Blame it on increased screen resolution, copious amounts of available ram and a requirement to prefer using less cpu than less ram. Which also has the nice effect of using less energy.

If you have ram and it is not being used, it is completely wasted, if you have cpu cycles and it is not being used you are just saving on battery and not over heating the laptop.
Just a heads-up, I signed up for the mailing list a few weeks ago and didn't receive the notice. I suppose there could be some kind of filter on my end blocking it, but just wanted you to be aware! Tried a different email address yesterday and didn't get a confirmation email, so not sure if it worked.
>I do trust you aren't an Ebay security team? ;)

Luckily, not my kind of a gig.

>http://www.wired.com/2011/10/iphone-keylogger-spying/ etc.

This attack depends on being able to identify individual keys so it's not really applicable here. However, a similar attack might be possible here if not for the very small sample size.
If that's what you do, then yes. If you choose instead to only advertise your positions at women-focused conferences and programs, the legality changes. You haven't prevented men from applying and being accepted, you've instead changed the audience of your advertising, which will change who applies.
It's just an Electron application. Electron contains Chromium.
Text Analysis, Markov Chains and Bible Quotes Generator in Python
Sometimes it's discouraging to think about how RAM requirements keep going up. The laptop I bought in 1999 had 64 MB of RAM, and that was enough for a comfortable multitasking system (dual-booting between Windows 9x and Linux with a GUI) for about two years.

Now, we have this, paraphrased from the 2012 novel _Off to Be the Wizard_ by Scott Meyer. Phillip, a time traveler from 1984, asks, "What on earth can a person do with 4 gigabytes of RAM?" Martin, from 2012, answers, "Upgrade it immediately."

Of course, things do get better over time, and some of those improvements require more RAM. Still, I wonder how much of the increases in minimum RAM requirements are actual progress, and how much are just waste. Is there even a way to answer that question? If I were to set up a machine (even a VM) running Windows 98 and Red Hat Linux 6.0 today, it probably couldn't do much on the current Internet, so I wouldn't be able to fairly evaluate how much the operating systems have actually improved.
Explore 100,000 nearby stars in WebGL (2012)
The humble safety pin makes an anti-racism point
> What if it works perfectly and you still end up hiring more men than women? I think exercises like this may end up giving people answers they don't want to hear.

In fact, that will happen — still hiring more men than women — for lots of systemic reasons, but at least you'll have eliminated one vector of bias. Seems better to end up imbalanced in a more impartial way.
Affirmative action is not only legal, it's required in academia if a university wants federal funding. I'm not sure if minority genderbased- affirmative action is required, but minority race is definitely a requirement.
Lynx

http://lynx.invisible-island.net/
I have to admit it was snarky. Thank you for explaining.
You hear this sort of thing about the "Disney-fication" of Times Square in NYC all the time. Not that I'm a fan of Times Square for a variety of reasons but anyone who looks nostalgically back to the 42nd Street on 1985 has some seriously rose-colored glasses.
And also regression to the mean (a constant factor in any of these attempts to predict the fall of a big company). When will a company want to, or need to, build a big headquarters? When things have been going very well and the sky seems like the limit.
While I agree that not all projects need to be on github (or in git), it is useful to have a centralized hub for finding open source projects your interested in and want to follow the development of said projects.
This would be a good SO question.
And if there were, they wouldn't be compliant with Microsoft's requirements either.
> "Implicit valuation" is not the same as the "actual value"

SV accounting.
lol. you edited your original comment to say you actually agree w/ the piece but flagged it because you said you've seen it elsewhere (but don't provide links).

I guess it was stupid to expect Hacker News to have a discussion about this argument (instead of, once again, evading it) but that's how it goes.

Thx for, atleast, sharing some of your thoughts on this. Usually arguments HN wants to avoid are voted down w/ no reason given.
Each tab is a separate process. A separating operating system, you could say. Would you complain that your OS needs that much RAM? I wouldn't.
You're not wrong ;)

But in a discussion where you have an upvote button, there are basically only two follow-ups to an assertion which remain on topic: "you're wrong", or "you're right, and also". Anyone who wants to +1 will just click the upvote button.
Bitcoin mining is done with clusters of specially designed ASICs these days. GPU mining, let alone CPU mining, isn't viable by a long shot. I'd be shocked if you got any payout at all from a mining pool with it.
The tech companies are a good scapegoat for their own city planning failures.
Wow, the other team members aren't slouches either, Arch D. Robison and Steven Skiena are pretty neat!

Steve's book, The Algorithm Design Manual, was pretty inspirational to me in high school.
Arch did a compiler, KAI C++, and designed Intel's TBB library (Thread Building Blocks).
One challenge is the most earnest writers usually make the most boring stories. This is also why the imperfect narrator is used so often in great literature.
Yes, this. As a practical matter, they generally look for the top 15% to 20% of the field, and you have a lot of scope in defining your "field of endeavor."

A successful petition tells the adjudicator the STORY of your rise to success. It's basically a narrated guide to the high-quality evidence you've provided in at least 3, preferably 4 or 5, categories: contributions, awards, media coverage, judging, authorship, etc.

The adjudication is subjective, but there's definitely a formula you can follow to maximize your chances of approval.
Thank you for joining and opening yourself up to the trolls, gadflies and haters. :-)
The study you linked doesn't absolutely say what you are trying to make it say (that there aren't fundamental differences in psychology between men and women). It seems to say that male and female brains and cognitive abilities aren't as dimorphic as their genitalia, but instead there is a continuum and overlaps for many distinct cognitive traits.
In other words: (almost) all men have normally formed penises, (almost) all women have normally formed vaginas. Mixed situations are rare. Brains are another matter, genders mix and overlap. That doesn't mean that there are NO genders though.
For anyone interested, here are some web browsers that are very lightweight and don't bother with HTML at all:

https://www.google.com/search?q=spiders&espv=2&biw=1439&bih=...
I've read that the Bell Labs offices were designed in order to promote collaboration. It was laid out such that there'd be long hallways between the offices and things like restrooms and stairs, so that there'd be greater chances of colleagues bumping into each other and talking about work.

I don't have a copy of The Idea Factory[1], where I recall reading this handy, but that's my best recollection.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovatio...
The FTSE is now trading above its pre-brexit levels.
I've lived here for most of my life and I love the weather. Never too hot, never too cold, for just one aspect.
Sadly not
I wouldn't put my whole portfolio in it but I'm not really worried about being too tied to the industry I work in. That might also be because it's mining. Mining is a large portion of the world's GDP (estimated to be in the range of 45-60% either directly or as a supplier to others). If mining as an industry suffers, we're all probably in a bit of trouble.
I think that really depends on what you are asking your browser to do.
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> ...it's the gigabytes of RAM they consume

We'd need a sandboxing and module system for Javascript to solve this. A problem that is both technically complex and not 'sexy', so don't hold your breath.
This is a satirical blog. Please take a second to look at the rest of its content.
A crystal ball.

Seriously now, this is like asking: What methods do you propose for building a perpetuum mobile? This Universe does not allow for the future to be predicted, like it doesn't allow for the laws of TD to be broken. All the predictions of growth/decline you read/hear from people are just educated guesses, nothing else. Some of them might get lucky with their predictions, some of them might not, but let's not foul ourselves into thinking that we can predict the future only because we can make nice-looking charts about what happened in the past
Humana has more than 15% of the commercial inventory in downtown Louisville, KY, and maybe even still more than 15% of the entire Louisville metro area as a whole. I don't recall the exact numbers and searches aren't turning them up right now.

I'm not sure it's that unusual, statistically. If anything, one large company per city is maybe closer to the historic norm (especially if you count old fashioned company towns and more modern might as well be company campus towns like Redmond, WA) and something of the median or mode of city existence, at least in the US.
This page is a good example of what's wrong with HN.

Someone publishes their open source experiment in minimal browser UI design, and everyone shits on it for not being a built-from-scratch web browser with low memory usage.
Hello,

I haven't read the book but I am planning to.

I caught the last few minutes of your interview on NPR the other day. You said you built the FB Exchange. I made a mental note to look that up later and now serendipitously, it shows up here. Anyhow, not familiar with it but it sounded like some sort of an interface to Amazon. Would you care to elaborate?
I would very much like to see an example of a major company publishing its desired specific ratios of races and genders.
How to upgrade Node packages without breaking absolutely everything
I have good gear but definitely not the latest and greatest of everything. My laptop is a macbook pro from 3 years ago. My desktop has an Intel 2600k and 16gb of ram. Both run on SSDs. I use my laptop for work. Rarely have less than 20 tabs open in chrome, which stays open for days/weeks at a time. I've got VMs running and xCode, sublime, ios simulator, bunch of terminals, bunch of node apps, couple corporate sec products and incremental backup software, etc, etc.... Not a single thing is slow about anything. And I'm anal about things being slow. I hate waiting for anything. Its the same on my older desktop, which I also game on. I don't shut down my browser before playing games to free up ram, or kill photoshop, etc.

Unused ram is useless ram. Its a problem when you're always out of ram. But get an SSD for the odd times you swap. You won't notice it. But either way, the only time my browser is slow is if I restart it and it loads my previous 20-30 tabs all at once. It'll do its thing for 10-20 seconds then done.

I get its a lot of ram but what I don't get is why this is impacting people so much? In this day and age most of what people do is in a browser. And if you only have a tab or two and you're working outside of your browser, and you think your browser is killing your computer? Maybe its time to upgrade or add some ram.

You can get 16gb of ram for $50/$60... I abuse my machines with multitasking all day and none of them feel slow because my browser uses too much ram. Both have 16gb.
Amazon didn't build headquarters before the SLU move. Before that they rented pre-existing structures. That difference is the point of the predictive signal.
In the simple sense, I understand symbolic computation as transformation of text. In more general sense, all information is based on symbols ("letters"), so transforming one information into another is a symbolic computation.
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#regions, huh What are they good for?
Looking Beyond Meteor 1.4
Hadean Lands Will Teach You Alchemy
New Yorkers and Californians really want driverless cars, Volvo says
That sounds like a recipe for disaster. Coding skills that can be measured in this way are a small part of what it means to be a good employee.

I feel like this is kinda like choosing who to draft in the NBA solely on free throw percentage.
And now we put everyone in open-floorplan barns to "promote colllaboration", with nowhere for people to go back and work at when they are done collaborating.

"Hallway conversations" have become "constant conversations"
I'm curious to know how the Urbit team went about choosing the stars to distribute, it seems the 1020 stars amount to almost the address space of 4 galaxies. Have 4 galaxies been picked or are said stars distributed across various galaxies. If the galaxies have been hand picked, could we know their names?
Likewise, are there bigger potential crashes for Mainstreet Investors in store as more and more of the populace shift to index funds? If there's a critical mass of people on index funds, what sorts of changes are there to overall risk and liquidity in the market?
Thank you for the links. I am, admittedly, not well informed.
Meh, it's a new VM and a dumb network topology. I don't know sandstorm so I'm not sure which of these you think is the horse in this analogy.
Density and size are different dimensions.
Between physics at Berkeley, derivatives at Goldman Sachs, and analytics at Facebook, could you summarize their pros and cons in terms of intellectual challenge and work/life balance?
All the open source code in GitHub now shared in BigQuery: Analyze all the code
I'm not sure about that. Chrome's Task Manager says this HN post is taking 255mb and the front page 101mb.
The question was how to write better code.
I moved from a pretty dry state to the Potomac valley, and noticed that if I happened to mention Seattle people would say, But it rains there all the time. The ground that we were standing on might be soft from recent storms, mushrooms might be sprouting around our feet, but Hey it rains in Seattle.
There are plenty of enculturation reasons too. Doesn't need to have an evolutionary or biological basis.
One that I use regularly that seems to be missing is
'set <N> <hour/minute> timer'. Also and amusing request from my father (who uses voice commands far more than I do): 'is there some way to print all of these out?'
Most Americans Think the Housing Crisis Never Ended
I work on a product that required testing of all these AVs in real life scenarios and also requires to improve upon them.

Regarding scanning speed for MSE:

On my current Windows installs (2 VMs - one Win7, one Win10) and one installed on bare metal, it takes up to 5 seconds to scan a 5MB file after it is downloading and before it is run. These systems have a lot of software installed on them so such results may not generalize to everyone.

Also, "antimalware service" sometimes goes nuts and would take up 100% disk usage on non-SSD disks after an update for hours on end. I am not sure what the reason for this is.

Regarding which AVs are faster at scanning:

you can try them all here just for static analysis:
https://github.com/joxeankoret/multiav

However, the overhead in many cases doesn't have that much to do with scanning speed but deals with what the AVs choose to scan and what types of files are being scanned.

For example, how do they handle changing files on a live system?
Do they take shortcuts with files at a known location with known initial bytes/hash?

Then there is the annoyance factor - Kaspeprsky for example keeps trying to get you to sign up/use their non-antivirus features within the software package.

Finally - efficacy. The only reason we are using the AVs at all.

In the efficacy dept, the best one by far out of traditional AVs is ESET-NOD32. It detects about 70-75% of new threats when they're in PE32 format.
Symantec detects roughly 40% in my testing, which is on par with 42% that Microsoft MSE detects.
The samples came from a number of sources, but perhaps the best one is virusshare - https://virusshare.com/

Anyone can do their own test if they're so inclined, but nobody should trust the tests where there are claims that the top AVs detect 99.5% of malware. I am not sure where they're getting such numbers but I've never seen more than high 70s on currently circulating recently (within last week) released malware.

I might do a blog post about it later since this is a topic many people disagree on.

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer.
>Blame it on increased screen resolution

Maybe on 3 or 4K laptops. But aren't most 1388x768 or something equally dismal? Which isn't far off 1024x768. Anyways, a 1080p frame at 32bit depth is only 8MB.

Browsers are hardly low CPU, either. I'll see things idling at 10% of an i5. Which is like 200%+ of CPUs used for web browsing of yesteryear.

All this, and web pages are slower to respond. I recently used a page that loaded a grid of images. Changing by battery/throttling had a 2s impact on load time. CPU was pegged during that time.
For some companies who believe an equal workplace should be 50% of each gender then you're right, but that doesn't make the system pointless. The idea of a "gender bias-free" hiring process isn't necessarily to make workplaces more equal or to promote diversity. The point is simply to remove a bias - to eliminate something that pushes you to hire someone who isn't the best candidate. Having a bias drives you to make an irrational decision. If a hiring manager has a strong bias in favour of believing "men are better coders" then you could miss out on some great hires. Removing that bias can only make your process better.
Absolutely, I don't mean to be critical of librarians for stocking O.J. books or Dr. Oz's diet. They're important, now, to the patrons, and they won't be tomorrow. And it's clear from the weeding manual that librarians know this and acquire the books anyway -- I admire the professionalism this requires.
Is it making fun of that though?

The confirmation bias that Facebook has created is indeed scary. Now that they wan't to be your source for news this is really troubling.

There's also another side to this which is is just a strange apathy that FB enables. People seem to think that ranting on FB to their friends of like mindedness somehow constitutes being an aware, informed and active citizen when all it is just a strange and sad malaise. There's a new tragedy? - quick change your profile pic to the flag of the country where said tragedy occurred - social responsibility fulfilled!

Sure all news is biased to some extent that's why its important to get your news from multiple sources. However if I could only choose one I would take a newspaper with an editorial bias which allows me to at least see all the articles over something that chooses and filters that for me based on some mystical weighting.
> Women in general have less confidence than men.

Women are also generally slower than men (I was once faster than the fastest woman on earth, and I am not a particularly fast man). Not winning 100m races against men is not a sign of gender discrimination, it is a sign that men are faster.

So if men are better at being confident, and being confident is important, then that's just that. Women can try to learn to be more confident, but discrimination it ain't.
That paper has little, if anything, to do with aphextron's point. It's a study of brain anatomy.

Here's some directly-relevant literature, which points to a systematic preference for occupations in men vs women: [0]

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38061313_Men_and_Th...
this is fairly trivial to implement conceptually in Ethereum. What's hard is to integrate that system with existing legal and social framework.
Gods – Go Data Structures
Cost of some goods are smaller, but the big chunk goods in the USA have been going up a lot: Healthcare, Education and Housing.
It definitely started out as one but--and this is one of my favorite things about programming-- it's very possible to be an art project and a... not-art project at the same time.
First Science-Backed Anti-Aging Drug to Be Tested in Humans Next Month
This is a terrible idea. It would allow a client to ignore the requirements, and submit an invalid password.
What specifically is the pop-up? I don't see any you can't disable.
Except we're not running an entire operating system in each tab. Everything starts fine, and then quickly consumes memory. How about we just stay fine? I've got entire operating systems running with less resources in VirtualBox.
Like Sourceforge the last darling from FOSS before git and mercurial took off?
Creating a JavaScript object without the new keyword
A lot of the hate here comes from the fact that there are people who are being creative, and you aren't. It's easy to shut people down...try to help them, instead. It's an experiment, made public. What's the purpose of shitting on it?
Version 9.0 of the product and the guy has time to draw pictures but can't be bothered to implement an FIR filter. (Bonus: incorrectly defines an FIR filter.)

Admits his solution is bad, might be buggy. Finds a better replacement, then ships his anyway.

What is it about audio that attracts this curious level of "engineering"?
the UI reminds me of browser.html
Note this doesn't work with VoiceOver at all.
Where did the parent comment imply that?
What Can You Learn from People Who Drew 30,000 Icons?
This is a great question. We haven't yet picked which galaxies to use, but they'll come from Tlon's allocation. You can find the whole list in here: https://github.com/urbit/arvo/blob/master/arvo/ames.hoon.

Since we have buyers in the order they came in, I think it'd be fun to distribute stars sequentially across sequential galaxies. But we really aren't sure yet.
A judge can absolutely jail you for contempt of court. And he pretty much gets to decide what that means. It's unlikely you'd get jailed for this kind of thing, but it's not impossible.
The fascinating 600-year history of the world’s oldest shareholding company
It's not August yet. :)
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Not really maintained recently, but there is:

https://common-lisp.net/project/closure/
That's exactly what my post said. It says women can work on internalizing confidence, but we should also try to figure out why large amounts of women have less confidence compared to men, and work on that too.

Discrimination comes into play when women are frowned upon for being confident. For example when asking for a raise. A man can be seen as a go-getter. But for women, that assertiveness can be seen as bitching or whining.
One of the studies from the article covers this. Here is directly linked: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/cfawis/bowles.pdf
"Sending your password to the server" -- obviously required, that's what passwords are for.

"Sending each character of your password to the server, before you explicitly agree to submit" is quite another.
Mozilla's new game uses emoji to teach you about encryption
That seems like exactly what you are doing. So you want to run a game and a youtube video and browse at the same time, while on a low end PC. Cool. A lot of people don't use their computer like that.

I can do all of that at the same time as is...
Sucks that Amazon doesn't recognize non-VC startups. This is why I love Bizspark- great benefits and easy to join. It was a big factor in me choosing Azure to build my side business on.
> which is probably why it's a better idea to keep those projects in private repositories

Not necessarily. Public dotfiles are easy to link to in conversation, and "users" are likely to be people who just copy and paste some interesting lines. A license is probably irrelevant for, eg, vim configuration options.