skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work for a non-US company's US Bay Area office during the dot com boom. I recognize a lot of this, especially the parts about our own company. And about myself and my coworkers at the time - worrying a lot about status and superficial issues, a lot more than about our product and what we were actually doing there (nobody really had a clue). That startup didn't even tank but was sold for a few hundred million - because the "market" carried us and at least some people, especially the developers, did some work, and because the Dilbert world is everywhere.

The good thing: I learned that there is no magic in either SV and/or venture capital, they muddle through like everybody else. I learned that I suck at anything "business" (I'm a good techie and communicator, that must suffice).

I also learned that while an American business may be really horrible in many of the details - but on the executive level I experienced (as a techie "guest listener") that when it comes down to business the 0.1% they get right blows most everybody else out of the water. It was so embarrassing for my own executives. At those high-level meetings I gained a huge respect for some of the guys at the top of American firms. It seems they figured out what's important and what is only "nice to have" and concentrate on the former. They also managed to ask exactly the right questions - we didn't have an answer for a single one of them. But we still felt very, very important...

It's not just Silicon Valley though. I remember that my 2nd job after university was with that (foreign) startup (at first in their country). The very first conversation getting a coffee in the kitchen when I came in Monday morning for my first day was a guy heavily complaining about perceived injustices and "office politics": Will I get the (big) office I deserve? I should get the group leader position, that other guy is a leader then so should I be, etc. It was all about status. My 1st job had been with a major multinational company, and while politics certainly existed it wasn't that... childish. Most of the time we thought about and cared about what we were doing, not about status. That's a side effect of joining a huge organization where there isn't nearly as much dynamics, so much less fear of missing out on opportunities of quick advancement. In that startup you have people go from barely-graduated to department head in a very short time (and this was a several hundred people "startup" by that time becoming a "leader" wasn't just an empty title on business cards). Personal connections to the founders mattered a lot!

I think there's a lesson in this. High growth and opportunity for advancing quickly can be quite dangerous for what people are focused on.
Having a job vs not having a job + savings is pretty close to 'causal' when it comes to determining the ability to pay back a loan :)

Far, far more so than skin colour :) which is absolutely not causal.

I agree with your point theoretically, but pragmatically ... not so much :)
>adult, and one whose mind is still sharp as a razor at age 70.

I have never met sharp as a razor person at 70 who is not showing signs of reduced learning in new situations. They learn new stuff faster than most of other people in their age, but they still do it slower than younger people.

What they have is large crystallized intelligence (Gc-factor) they can apply successfully to learn new things. This makes them usually great people to learn from and hang around.

I suspect that if we didn't expire the gravity of this accumulated cognitive perspective – habits of thinking, tough patterns, overfitting – would become intellectual disability even for the best of us.
The following sentence from the essay is what I found very concerning:

"If people relied on their stereotypes more or less rationally, they would rely on them to inform judgments when they had little or no definitive information, but ignore them when they had definitive information."

The implication seems to be that as a rational person, in the absence of definitive information, you should discriminate against people on the basis of stereotypes.
Konqueror has man: and info: IOslaves (KIO plugins) allowing it to natively handle local man and info pages.
that's a great question. I cant test it because as it stands it isn't showing up for me (just showing that I'm still "registered" for it) but since it connects using a phone number (like whatsapp) I wonder how they authenticate the phone number on desktops/laptops? surely it'd be some kind of 2 factor auth, so it should be possible.. but I wonder whether it ships ready to do it.
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there is an account and you do need to be signed into it in settings. if you don't sign in when you setup the phone, you separately need to sign into: app store, icloud, imessage, facetime, etc
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No, (s)he is saying that women are socially incompetent boring dorks and thus refuses to date engineers of both genders.
Snowden worked at the NSA and took a bunch of stuff. These leaks are from that time period. This isn't crazy.

Edit: His "it's time" tweet happened less than 48 hours after the first TheShadowBrokers account (reddit) was created, prior to activity. Those accounts were dormant until the drop.

It's also possible the timestamps on the files match up to Snowden's leaks because the NSA stopped using that server / etc.

But the "it's time" tweet seems to imply Snowden may have known this was coming. It could also be a conincidence, of course.
How could I know?
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"Defamiliarization or ostranenie (остранение) is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization
I would argue yes, in the sense that all of us do (both in our professional and personal lives). The US likes to promote itself as the "good guys", and if they want that reputation, they have to earn it. NSA's activities are in direct conflict with that ideal.

Society only functions properly when people act ethically. We have laws in place for punishing those who harm others in various ways (financially, physically, etc.), as a means to discourage bad behaviour. In theory there's supposed to be international law, but sadly no-one seems to pay much attention to it.
I highly doubt Flash did anything to significantly change this. After images and audio, the web was screaming for video. If it weren't for flash, perhaps we'd instead have links that opened up native video players, or whatever, and we'd be better off for it.

In short: YouTube would have been a success even in the alternate universe where Flash never existed.
But the "right" answer is A, indeed.
I use vim to get colorized pages and drill down to other referenced man pages. Search for MANPAGER in:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/settings/.bashrc
http://pastebin.com/JBcipKBL
However like big brother, Google stores everything and runs machine learning algos on top. That's a big no no for privacy.
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what?? no threema?

but seriously I have the same problem. I liked that hangouts was bringing it all together and had live hangouts, and collaborative document editing and everything.. it feels like they just really didn't work on making hangouts lag free and high throughput and bringing the people there with superior quality calling.
I'm not convinced of AMP. I've written before on HN about my own webpage[0] were the average page weighs in at around ~10kb. At one point I was working on integrating AMP and some of the constraints from AMP has made it into the site. Ultimately though the 170kb weight of AMP(17x my average page) is a no go. I think imposing the same constraint AMP imposes on you without actually using their JS is a good idea if you aren't after the special treatment from google. Another downside of AMP is that it just display a completely blank page if the user doesn't have JS enable or blocks 3rd-party JS.

0: https://hugotunius.se
This is an important point and echoes my experience as well. After shuffling around all the Google chat apps, almost my entire network is now just using Facebook.

Great job Google.
Technically, the requirements are a little stricter: "You must register with Ofsted or a childminder agency if you want to be paid to look after children under 8 for more than 2 hours a day in England"[1]

In the example of leaving your children with a friend, the exemption is for a maximum of 3 hours (per day), if the friend is being paid. Any longer and the friend is obliged to register with Ofsted (with a penalty of an unlimited fine and/or jail for not being registered).

I doubt many people would think to check the legal requirements though.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/register-childminder-childcare-provider/o...
You are 100% correct, but there should be an option, which the vast majority of people will never both to look for, for power users to switch back to individual updates.
The vendors "should" be shipping open source drivers. That's why there's no stable ABI. They're quite at liberty to submit drivers - and then kernel devs can maintain them!

(Obviously not everyone agrees with this, but that's the point of GPL/copyleft licensing)
This makes sense, as the increasing capability of tablets and phones has made portability a lot less of a priority in a laptop for me, at least. It's almost hard for me to imagine why a MacBook Air was an appealing buy for me in 2011 - I think that a decent laptop was superior for a lot of general use tasks that any recent iPhone can now do just as comfortably/quickly. When I have to use a full system at home, I expect some sort of a major advantage in terms of capability and I care a lot less about form factor.

I wonder if Apple even has a response in these areas where svelteness has much less of a premium.
I love spending time with my kids for this. They see this detail and bring it to my attention. Often when they do I resolve to try to see as they do, but it's hard when you have seen most of "it" before. I envy them.

This is also my theory on why "time flys by when you get older". We lack original experiences and so one day melds into the next. When each day is an adventure then of course it seems long.
In my entire post tech life and post tech environment I have never seen anyone use, talk or desire to have a video call. (Save 1 when a patron tested FaceTime on their new iPhone.)

What will make video calling desireable for the average Joe?
Also pathology samples, although I believe there's now some interest in robots doing similar things.
I'm a driver developer at IBM. We're the hardware vendor. We maintain the drivers. Simple.
Stable API nonsense! :)

> I'm getting the impression that a lot of dev power is wasted just to maintain drivers

No. Maintenance of in-tree drivers is done mostly by subsystems maintainers, in automated fashion (see http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/). Including API/ABI-breaking changes. But nobody notices, because it all goes at once, in sync.

> that should be produced by hardware vendors

Yep, vendors should. But only few of them do it properly. Most of vendors fall into such shameful categories:

- who don't publish drivers sources at all, violating GPL;
- who don't care about quality and just feel fine with their utter crap of code, based on ages-old kernel and buggy drivers full of braindead things; also, no updates and no forward-ports;
- who, in addition to above, distribute only obfuscated sources.

Stable ABI would help only to those bad actors who are enemies of user freedom and don't share sources. Nobody else is having a problem with unstable ABI.

> I don't like the concept of pluggable /stackable security mechanisms (selinux, apparmor, etc) where one consistent system would do. It just feels cluttered.

There was, and still is, lack of coherence in community views on what is best. I believe pluggable security modules is the best possible way to give freedom to everybody.
He doesn't say that you should discriminate, just that you probably shouldn't buy a dildo to a guy.
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> 5) Knowing this, NSA's hackers (TAO) are told not to leave their hack tools ("binaries") on the server after an op. But people get lazy.

I know enough to say that this sentence reveals a lot about what snowden knows, and what he doesn't. Mostly the latter. He doesn't seem to understand the context and meaning of acronyms he uses.
Its almost exactly the same as gradle java projects. Each module there has a 'src' directory where all code and whatnot lives. And nothing's stopping you from having a one-liner bash script that sets up the base as the GOPATH and then running `go build`/
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IMHO Twitter is the worst media for this kind of discussion : I would have loved to read something more substantial but being limited to 140 char forces you to omit a lot of details.

Why use something like 10 tweets where a blog post lets you have as many words as necessary. You can still be concise but 140 char is too short, it's just for people that have uninteresting things to say and Snowden is certainly not one of them (unless he starts to comment about the weather in Russia).
Does anyone on earth not have an obligation to be ethical? (Yes, I know there is no universally accepted definition of "ethical".)
Yes, I agree. The pairs Zenvest uses for tax-loss harvesting all track different indexes (another reason why VTI is paired with VOO instead of SCHB - even though the indexes VTI and SCHB track are nominally different, they consist of the same stocks):

VTI (Total US Stock market) / VOO (S&P 500)

VEA (FTSE Developed All Cap ex US, 3735 stocks) / SCHF (FTSE Developed ex-US, 1471 stocks)

VWO (FTSE Emerging Markets All Cap China) / SCHE (FTSE Emerging Index)
The truth is, most people seem firmly in the grip of illusory competence at most times, and it's not a shock that as life progresses that becomes crippling. I'd be shocked if people somehow magically changed in old age, rather than just distilling who they've always been.
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I am leftist and I agree with the last paragraph, and I think many leftists would. And that's the point - the stereotypes are useless in policy and decision making, and studying them is unscientific. They are factoids perhaps good for cocktail parties.

I don't think that existence of correct stereotypes poses a great risk for ideology of the left, unlike global warming, which actually is a risk for completely free market ideology, because there is no way free markets can deal with externalities. It's only if you accept naturalistic fallacy (that stereotyping is natural, therefore ethical) you get these problems.

I think left has ideological problem (and thus bias), but somewhere else. Left cannot very well deal with people who perceive risk differently. Which is actually kinda connected to the existence of stereotypes.
Duo only requires phone number (and that you periodically send your contacts to Google)

Allo I think will be the same - they're transitioning to phone # based auth instead of Google account auth so that using a Google account is not a limiting factor.
The terminfo database records how many colours a terminal supports: if the shell command `tput colors` prints 256, then your terminal is configured to support 256 colours.

Unfortunately, there's no standard database field to record the presence of truecolor support; even if there were, there's terminals (like xterm, for example) that understand the control-sequences but map them to the nearest colour in the 256-colour palette rather than using them as-is.
An exceedingly brief look at his other Medium posts finds a sentence stating that he was born in Santa Clara.
I often use it to call my family and friend abroad. It is quite handy once you get used to it.
You have got it right there! Breaking into a system is easy keeping yours intact is not. That is part that the US GOV still doesn't get the defensive part of the equation. BS (Before Snowden) people suspected but now we know people are listening everywhere. And even the NSA is not immune...that is scary that no matter how good your InfoSec is that your IA is lagging far behind.
I suppose there are systems that run "micropython" on the bare metal. But note that to work on Python itself often means working on or with CPython in C.
does anyone run matrix hosting that you don't need to care about, and is still reasonable about security and privacy?

99% of people will never run their own matrix server, and 98% of people will never pay $5/mo for a chat service.

Basically, where can the general public sign up for a matrix account that's free, offers a good experience, and respects my rights?
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>I can't help you with your chemistry/STEM straw man.

How is this a strawman? Because it is literally the crux of your argument that a masters of chemistry is an expert on structural engineering and fluid dynamics?
I'm actually really excited about external GPUs (eGPUs) that supplement your laptop when you need it. I think this is the perfect compromise.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984716/laptop-computers/how-...
And more details,info and videos can be found here:
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> white male vs. black male or white female vs. black female

These are still groups. I (a male) am much less likely to mug anyone (let's say 1 in a million chance this year) than certain individual women. Within the group of men and within the group of women, the "mugging probability" varies from almost zero to almost one.
Fixed rate loans are only fixed for very short periods like 2-3 years, so how is this relevant? And they then usually turn into really bad interest rates when they expire, and you'd have to remortgage in a bad market.

You have to pay lawyers fees, surveying fees, taxes, realtor fees, etc. when you buy a house, if you only have it for 2-3 years you have to factor all those into the monthly costs too.
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Windows Pro comes with downgrade rights. Buy 10 Pro, downgrade to 7 yourself.
Your finger is too quick on the trigger with the word "should" and therefore attributing malice to the author without justification. Are you sure you're not _stereotyping_ authors that have written about "stereotypes" as being closet racists instructing all of us to discriminate?!? That would be so meta.

In any case, in the paragraph immediately before your extracted quote, he wrote: "To deal with the complexity, ..."

He's saying that in absence of information we humans conduct a Bayesian prior. It's a cognitive coping mechanism. The excerpt of text that bothered you is just describing how our brains work. He's not prescribing any of the racist actions you listed. The distinction seems very clear.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact%E2%80%93value_distinction
I know enough to say that an anonymous comment on the internet pretending to know about NSA procedures & jargon is not worth much especially when said comment is attacking someone we know for sure had access to the NSA.
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Can't wait to hear how they're going to change it four times then abandon it and announce they're working more on Hangouts.
> And of course there are laptops on sale which are glued shut.

Are there? Even Macbook Airs can be opened with nothing more than the appropriate pentalobe screwdriver. I had to do it a while ago to clean out the fan which had developed an annoying clicking noise.
People talk to their families, girl/boyfriends, team mates, interviewers and so on.
I see a lot of people using it with family members (i.e. parents, grandchildren, etc.). Friends don't really use it with friends.
I like this write up, but it raised a question for me: if Google is serving amp pages directly, how quickly will updates to your page get reflected in Google's cache?

Hardening back to "only two hard problems in programming" and all that.
This is no different than the constant "war" between military offense and defense. "Good guys" and "bad guys" constant try to get the upper hand leading to temporary winners and losers. You build a fatter castle wall, I build a stronger cannon. The NSA and its adversaries are no different.
I agree with your comment, but I have to pick on one thing in the interest of accuracy.

> guilty of doing the same thing as the church did to Galileo

The Church didn't oppress Galileo because of his work in astronomy. He got that for being an ass to the Pope (and a part of a political problem). Also, Galileo was only somewhat right, but for the wrong reasons (i.e. data supporting his statements wasn't there for many years).

http://lesswrong.com/lw/lq6/the_galileo_affair_who_was_on_th...
We tried to use Azure for a new system ~8 months ago (it's hard to pass up that much money). Spinning up a vm with the image we needed and a static ip was not possible with the GUI. The specific image we needed was only accessible on the "new" portal, but a static IP could only be assigned from the "old" portal. It's theoretically possible to set it up with PowerShell, but after spending over a week of poring over outdated and incomplete documentation and opening support tickets, we switched to AWS and had it running in a few hours.

Even if we did get it to work, I'm not sure I would feel comfortable investing in a platform where something as simple as "create a vm with this image and assign a static ip" isn't straightforward. It could be better now, but for us (and most other young startups) the time of our engineers is much more scarce than hosting costs.
My extended family is spread across the globe, so the prospect of seeing them without having to expend considerable resources in travel makes it very desirable.
The stereotypes people usually mean are things like "Asians are good at maths", "Africans are good at running", "Girls likes dolls" and "Boys likes trucks".
From the article: more CUDA cores at a lower clock. Since clock scaling isn't linear on power consumption, doubling the cores and halving the clock (as an example, not the actual ratio they used), leaves you with a net efficiency gain.
Just minor comment: I could not find a way to stop the "autoplay" of the games.

Is there an "advanced" followsup with more technical details and the calculations? I can do them, but I'm slightly lazy.

In case I decide to make the calculations, what are the angles between the polarizers? The graphic shows something like 45° but IIRC it was more interesting to do the experiment with smaller angles.
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PostScript is turing complete, that's a problem.
> 3 - did not destroy evidence.

Like with a cloth?

Let me correct that for you, Clinton attempted to destroy evidence but was incompetent at it.
Stereotypes are a form of information, just so low-grade that it more resembles misinformation.

Most Americans don't have stereotypes about, say, Mongolians, because most Americans have had zero contact with Mongolians. Maybe something about Genghis Khan? But go to, say, Beijing, and people there will probably have all kinds of stereotypes about Mongolians.

Stereotypes may or may not have a basis in reality: they can simply be a unsubstantiated prejudice (group A says goup B is dangerous and criminal; group B is actually very friendly to outsiders). They are frequently rooted in a history of social conflict (slavery, colonialism, &c). They lie within a specific social context/relationship (group A sees group B as lazy, group B sees group A as arrogant and overbearing). They are about social categories that don't have analytical basis outside the social context (national or racial groups).

The bigger problem is that they form an ecological fallacy—the assumption that something that may be true about the group is true about the individual.