skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment doesn't provide a substantive basis to any of its claims, and unfortunately, whether the author means it that way or not, it reads like a lot of racial propaganda. Spreading that kind of idea has historically led to very bad results, with many people getting hurt, killed, and oppressed. I hope we can be very careful and apply scrutiny to what we write on the issue; words have serious impact.

Nobody should be disadvantaged; it doesn't matter what the color of your skin is. If you look around society, such as SV companies, Congress, on TV, in college, on Wall Street, or any other measure, you'll see a lot of white guys doing very well; it's been that way for hundreds of years. No research I know of shows white men having trouble getting Airbnb rooms, I've never seen it mentioned, and I'd be pretty surprised. Factually, it's obvious, very well-established, and there is a long history regarding what groups are disadvantaged. We should do something about it.

Finally, I hope that in a free society I can disagree with your comment without being preemptively attacked and my behavior criticized.
Last accident, Falcon Heavy had a big delay. Apparently SpaceX pulled engineering resources off of FH to work on F9. Given that the 2018 launch window is narrow, it's quite likely that Red Dragon won't launch until the 2020 launch window.

p.s. are you involved with Metaculus in some way? All of your recent postings appear to mention metaculus.com.
My current employer has a great way of giving feedback about this. If you like the candidate her something along the lines of, "I really enjoyed our conversation." It's not a commitment to anything, but as you move through the process you know that you are doing well.

For candidates who don't do well? Thank them for the time and move on.
You're young and single I'm guessing. What you say seems logical. However, saving enough money for yourself to retire (I have) is one thing, but then when the kids come and need braces, school stuff, extracurriculars, college, health insurance, etc., they're pretty well screwed if their parents can't find a job.

Especially these days with people waiting longer to have kids, the 40-year-old employability cutoff is a problem.
Airbnb skirts regulations by pretending its not a hotel service; you can't have it both ways.
> Armed with a network trained on Trump, deepmind's feature transform from text->network inputs, you should be able to make him say whatever you want, right?

Yes, that should work, and by tweaking the WaveNet input appropriately, you could also get him to say it in a particular way.
The Enduring Lessons of “Star Trek”
CRuby/MRI supports C-extension which can use TLS (thread-local-storage). So that each Ruby threads runs on one OS thread.
Fight over internet handover to ICANN goes right down to the wire
> Except for Googles and Facebooks, the average tech startup is not making Finance industry level profits.

And they don't have finance/Google/Facebook level needs for data engineers. They can't reasonably claim to need top-level skills and then beggar out on the cost.
The world would be a better place without him.

#fuckfacebook
Hypervisor security ero-Xen: How guest VMs can hijack host servers
> The same goes for "Ask a Female Engineer"

non-sequitur. it's a q&a with a particular segment of individuals. if you're not interested in the experiences and insights of a segment of the workforce, you don't have to ask anything.

however, asking about "the importance of sex in relations to engineering" requires explanation of what you mean by "importance" and "engineering". otherwise it's a bit of a weaselly question.

> Its not a strawman

you said: "explain why the following characteristics are irrelevant". nobody said they were.

> why did she only decide to single out her sex

did you not even look at the link? even the first paragraph? there isn't a "she" who "decided to single out her sex". it's a content publisher/blog (?) that took questions and then posited them to a group of female engineers.
Thanks for a great write-up. I agree with most of the business tips but one thing you omitted is possible conflicts with your existing job over intellectual property and solicitation of either customers or employees. Most employment agreements include things like assignment of inventions and non-solicitation as standard terms.

Conflicts of this kind would be a good reason to quit before you get too deeply into research, which goes against the title of the post.
You're exactly right. The developers were mad at the project governance, and it hit a peak when Oracle bought out Sun. They created Go-OO, where they had more freedom to do their work without being stifled by the project's management, and this became LO.

And yes, forks are an effective defense mechanism against governance problems in FOSS projects. We saw it here, and we saw it years before with XFree86. Forks are an expression of democracy, where the people who actually do most of the work decide their leaders are ineffective or bad, and leave and make their own project, but thanks to FOSS licensing, they don't have to start from scratch, and are able to "fork" the code and continue their work largely without interruption.
For Consumer SaaS, a Question of Profits
Well, all it really shows is that the "market" in this instance is incredibly inefficient. People need jobs, and if the vast majority of companies have a poor interview process, and 1% have a good one, assuming that this is the only thing that people care about (it's not), all that's going to happen is the 1% get the employees they want, and the other 99% still get some employees.

The market is likely inefficient for the same reason that the advertising industry is inefficient - difficulty to show than any given change independently improves outcomes.
It is outlawed. Organized crime controls a shocking proportion of the European olive oil market. For the last several years, I've exclusively bought olive oil grown and produced in America. To my knowledge, it's all real.
Subresource Integrity is better suited for that use case
http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
What's your point here? We shouldn't bother to discuss the activities of large, powerful companies unless we own shares in them?
Sure but in general poor whites are still better off than poor blacks. It's really hard to make the case that white men are systematically disadvantaged in any real world scenarios besides maybe some internet or college social justice activist circles.
I have to avoid things with lyrics.
You're not alone, but you're just reiterating that it's always possible to fill an opening by running the salary up high enough.
"The solution to all gender problems: Actively ignore all topics and articles with "woman" or "female" in the title."

How does that solve any gender problems? I don't see how me not reading certain topics solves gender problems.
Like sub-process, but share many things like bytecodes (ISeq in MRI context), class and module objects (and method tables) and so on. Also we can share immutable objects (deeply frozen objects) like threads.
WebStorm and PyCharm are both (more or less) repackaged versions of IntelliJ with specific plugins. WebStorm is cheaper and just includes the JavaScript support (and other related languages/tools) and PyCharm includes both JavaScript and Python support. So everything in WebStorm is also in PyCharm.
Good point! Are (some of) the chords completely made up, for example, or is it only using chords it has heard before?
This is a touchy point. If a male boss only has coffee with male colleagues, the lack of mentoring is legally discrimination. (I'm not a lawyer, but this is how it was explained to me.)

If you ask once, and get rebuffed, at least you've done your part to not exclude.
Note also that while "protected class" is often treated in discussion as if it was a consistent list across all of the law (at least, within, e.g., federal law), this is not the case: protected classes for particular anti-discrimination laws can be different, and may be different from the Constitutional-law set of suspect and quasi-suspect classes (a concept often conflated with that of "protected classes") that are relevant to equal protection analysis under the 14th Amendment (and, though the list of classes within those categories may be different, under similar state constitutional provisions.)
Any cache effects from using less memory would be represented in encoding speed, which is what matters.

If your video encoder pages into swap, you've lost all hope of being fast. Software HEVC encoding on mobile devices is not a use case most people care about.
That would be great if you could come up with a good way of measuring "reputation".
Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are ‘Terrifying’
So we need to rewrite to support multi-guilds application.
> You tell me when I can open a segregated lunch counter, or refuse to bake a gay wedding cake, and I'll consider your argument to have merit. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time until Facebook and company are brought to heel under that "public accommodation" approach.

And of course, only those who are unpopular are brought to heel. No-one is forcing the UNCF to give scholarships to poor white children …
it does outbound SSH and HTTPS connections to teleconsole.com so if those are allowed, then the answer is yes
Yes and no. I have a large contingent of coworkers from another local firm that is shedding workers. As these are usually referrals, they either get a softball process or a rubber stamp.
They exist. But they need love.
> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools.

Main part of pycharm is free and open source: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2013/10/pycharm-3-0-commu... .

> Sometimes I wonder if Emacs and Vi would be so appreciated if they were commercial as well, without any FOSS version available.

One reason for multitude of emacs extensions is the open source nature. Average IntelliJ user is less likely to write extension than emacs user.
Who besides programmers did they envision using the API? Did they expect my mom to bust out curl and start looking for new friends?
To your first question: yes, for some definitions of "successfully"[1][2][3][4]. It's difficult, and it isn't as though you train your algorithm and watch it make money. It's more that some functions of data analysis become incrementally easier or superior. It's fundamentally similar to applying RNNs to any other signal processing problem.

To your (implied) second question: tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft have a strong incentive to publish their researchers' work. It's good for recruiting and pushing progress forward overall. Financial companies have a strong incentive not to do this, in fact they are incentivized to be secretive. In general this means the only quant finance papers you see are published by academics, not quants. This typically results in fewer papers with stunning results from the financial industry, whereas we're almost getting progress fatigue from the papers published by tech companies (where "stunning" means impressive and maybe immediately useful).

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0304469.pdf

[2]: http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2012/BernalFokPidaparthi-Finan...

[3]: https://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/papers/MLJ-finance.pdf

[4]: http://www.kolegija.lt/dokumentai_img/Maknickiene-3-8-Pages-...
Thank you for being open to the idea of a merger, even if the possibility seems remote, and thank you for your work on open-source office suites (regardless of the project in question), they're a highly important part of the open source software ecosystem.

I'll leave with one more idea, just in case a full on merger doesn't work out, and that's what I'll call a soft merger. If a goal of modularity is pursued, there may be room for collaboration on shared components across projects. For example, the libraries for reading and writing to proprietary formats would be good candidates to be developed as modules, which could have benefits for more than just office suites. Just something to consider.
I would simply recommend to use full solution https://www.gravitational.com/teleport if you want to have proper auth
Cynicism is definitely healthy.

* Very fair point, just added to our Asana.

* Client's money. We've spent about $20k of our money over the past six months or so. I would argue we're even more on the hook when it's someone else's money (and we do a lot of design / content marketing in house, that you may normally pay for externally), but I definitely take your point.

* Also fair point, but some data is better than no data IMO (otherwise how do you prioritize this massive list?). Open to suggestions though!

* Yeah we do try to; are you talking blog post now or playbook? We see our blog posts as living, dynamic products in their own right; we plan to update this with more useful information (and edit it down to remove unnecessary info) over time.

* We actually get that feedback all the time. "I don't know what you guys do, but it looks cool" is like the main line we get when we talk to leads. However, the site converts at 19% (seriously) and we haven't been able to beat it yet by being more informative. Working on it!

<tips cap> I'm relishing people actually caring enough to take the time to (fairly) criticize us. Much better than languishing in obscurity. :-)
Mailchimp also has pay-as-you-go pricing where you pay per email for lists where you only email subscribers occasionally. I think its around 2c per email (depends on how much credit you purchase at once)
The installation of the rootkit is different from its purpose. A rootkit may require a root permission to install, perhaps piggybacking on another legitimate install such as in the famous Sony BMG rootkit. Or it may use an exploit to gain root access and install.

However, once installed, the purpose is the same: To provide the attacker with root permissions. It will also typically use its access to root permissions to hide itself from detection.
Beware if you think after reading this you know all about starting a startup. This is just 10% of material - mostly surface knowledge. Read a book such as Running Lean to get more in depth knowledge.
If it were a genuine attempt to maturely discuss gender issues in the workplace from a male point of view, the world would probably be okay with it.

If it were a knee-jerk "what about the menz?" fuck-you, then it'd be shouted down.

There are lots of books and magazines out there that maturely examine men's experiences from a man's point of view, and no-one is shrilly protesting them.
I usually try to go in groups to avoid this.

Wanna grab lunch with me and Bob on Friday?
> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools.

Strange logic: if everyone followed that train of thought, we'd all settle for whatever quality tools are available so long as the price is $0. I'd much rather pay for a valuable tool than use a subpar free tool.
>sometimes HTPS is more insecure than HTTP: think of Hearthbleed bug that made servers with HTTPS vulnerable or certs that shouldn't be trusted

HTTP connections are vulnerable to MITM attacks 100% of the time. HTTPS-related vulnerabilities are rare and have rarely been worse than degrading the connection to HTTP security.

Why would Google uniquely profit from HTTPS?
Haha there's a charitable interpretation. Actually my second-favorite amendment is the Fourteenth, precisely because it knocks the states down a few pegs, and gives the federal government the power to enforce that. (In addition to, you know, extending citizenship to everyone...) I doubt old George would have agreed with that.

[EDIT:] to avoid confusion, the First is my favorite.
The First Draft Report on the EDVAC [pdf]
OpenXcom is the original, just with a new engine: http://openxcom.org/about/

It plays exactly as the original, just with less technical limitations, like on resolution: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/42932168557625...
That's a very valid point. One for the lawyers. Anyone have good advice on this front? Happy to add to post.
While your request is a little unreasonable, this is actually important. A younger, attractive male teacher at a primary school likely has a very different experience from an obese, older man.
Someone also mentioned it as a possible tool to use during practical Devops interviews - e.g. "Set up this MySQL instance"
If you're going to take it that way, don't interact with humans ever. You do you, my friend. But that's black-and-white illogical thinking. "Once I asked a woman to discuss a tech thing and then she mentioned her boyfriend forever." Who cares? One person had a hangup or a bad experience, and the horrible outcome is that she mentioned her boyfriend a few times. Try again with someone else, guy or gal. Try asking two people to coffee at once. There won't be any tragedies if you are polite and professional.
> Nazism is in many ways protected. Cities cannot deny permits to neo-Nazi groups to assemble, for instance.

That's not being a protected class (which is a statutory issue), or even being a Con-law suspect or quasi-suspect class, that's simply application of the 1st Amendment (incorporated by the 14th). Its a whole different, unrelated area of protection.

> The experience of the neo-Nazi is roughly the same, except the first time it happens they take the swastika out of their profile picture and from then on everything works peachy for them.

Which pretty much also works for many victims of religious discrimination, but even so religion is (and political affiliation, Nazi or otherwise, is not) a protected class under fair housing law. So, insofar as its a difference between "Nazis" and "blacks", its a difference largely orthogonal to the issue of protected class status under fair housing laws.
Anybody know how well VS Code works for C++?

I really don't like how limited Sublime's linting/static analysis options are.
Secret from whom? Most of the information we're talking about is shared among CDNs and Ad networks. It just gives a false sense of privacy to consider this kind of information private
This is what virtual environments are for, and your solution still uses virtual environments.

So no, there aren't.

Now, I have a project I'd like to try with per-process mounts of dependencies using unionfs. It'd be a lot of work, and a lot could go wrong, but would solve a lot of problems.
This could actually be quite useful...
caught me, I hadn't read through the article, wasn't sure whether or not WORDS was a set or a dict. Like desdiv points out, this isn't a big deal, you can maintain an equivalent WORDS structure that is a set.
18 papers now (bioinformatics & molecular biology) and I have never seen a single authorship dispute. If you are a middle author, complaining about position is biting the hand that feeds you. Most people know better than that. Also, it doesn't even matter as there are only 3 real positions on papers: first, last, and everything else.

Coauthorship IME has always been extremely amiable. Often, when I am a middle author, I almost feel that I'm being done a favor by being put as a coauthor when I didn't do that much work (but I did make a material contribution). Conversely, as a first or senior author, it costs you nothing to add coauthors and gains you goodwill. It's win-win. It's very easy to get coauthorships if you keep your eyes open.

In my experience, if you want to succeed as a Ph.D. in the sciences you have to find a niche that puts you in the position of being useful to other people rather than in competition with them. If you don't, you will fail. If you do, it is almost comically easy to be at least moderately successful.
Weird. It works for me.
So, basically spite.

Not at all. Where did you get that? It's just a basic human desire to compete and win. The same reason people play football, play chess, arm wrestle, compete in spelling bees, etc. And still, all of that said, for me personally the "competition" factor is one of the least important.

The real competitor is Microsoft Office; that's what all FOSS software is competing against in trying to get people comfortable with using FOSS software and stop being locked-into proprietary software and file formats.

Meh... I could care less about competing with MS Office. I don't even think about them at all these days. As long as free software and file formats are available to those who want them, I'm not all that concerned with trying to change the world and make it so that everybody is using F/OSS. That's a challenge I'm happy to leave to rms or whoever.

You're actually harming the FOSS cause by promoting factionalism and fragmentation over silly issues.

Yeah, yeah... same thing they said 16 years about about Gnome vs KDE. But yet there are still Gnome and KDE, and even more. There's always somebody crying "fragmentation" and pleading for the end to something: AOO, BSD, KDE, whatever it happens to be.

I do appreciate the candor in your response though, but it completely validates all my suspicions about the motivations of the few people still hanging on

Please don't make the mistake of assuming that my motives are the same as anyone else's. I certainly don't claim to speak for anybody else on the AOO team besides myself.
No, he's not.
If you see this as a problem that needs fixing then more power to you. Many however see no problem. Women have free will and can choose the career of their liking.

Also "Men, after all, embody most of the problem;" will not be winning many converts to your point of view. Men are not a uniform being. You're painting with some really broad brush strokes and the only people who are going to hear what you say are those that already fully believe it themselves.
I can't speak for all Europe, but here in Austria truffle oil has small pieces of truffle in it.

Of course, those do nothing, as the chemicals found in truffles are, to a first approximation not soluble in oil. It's just the same chemical crap with some placebo truffle in it.

Friends don't let friends buy truffle oil.
You're welcome to start your own "ask a fat engineer" page. Other people don't have to cater their topics to your personal interests.

Here, you can start an "ask a tall engineer" page with some comments from me: office chairs are too small and I have to shift posture constantly; communal desks are too low; and there's nowhere high enough to try a standing desk.
Mostly it's good for destroying the USB port(s) you plug it into, causing major inconvenience. It might or might not short out the motherboard, costing you time and money. It probably won't destroy the files on your disk drive or SSD. (YMMV)
AOO supporters want to get more developers working on it. But I think whether or not new developers decide to do that is going to depend greatly, for most of them, on whether or not they think AOO is going to succeed in the future.

So let me ask the AOO supporters, where do you predict that AOO will be in a year from now, and two years? And give some specifics, like code clean-up, infrastructure, security fixes, new features, and so on.

And finally, if a year from now, AOO is far behind what you have predicted, will you still keep telling people that AOO is going to be a success? And ditto for two years from now.
That somebody genuinely disagrees with Chomsky's linguistic theories on their own merit doesn't mean that other people don't want to prove his linguistic theories wrong because they disagree with his politics. Both sorts of people can exist.
Before answering those questions you would first have to define "social responsibility" in this context.
That there still needs to be discussions about that topic. On a workplace people should be treated equally.
No matter how many topics will be brought up.
A world with different genders, stereotypes, whatever can only work if both sides won't interpret too much into it and just enjoy their work with their colleagues.

Actually we don't employ a woman (I'm working at a 3 person company). And we actually hire, but the only woman will probably decline on their side, she actually has experience in things we actually not need yet, so I guess we can't provide her a new challenge. way probably the best application.