skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be a slow (but very efficient information-wise - only have to send text which itself can be compressed!) decompression process with current models / hardware due to sequential relationships in generation.

I am sure people will start trying to speed this up, as it could be a game changer in that space with a fast enough implementation. Google also has a lot of great engineers with direct motivation to get it working on phones, and a history of porting recent research in to the Android speech pipeline.

The results speak for themselves - step 1 is almost always "make it work" after all, and this works amazingly well! Step 2 or 3 is "make it fast", depending who you ask.
> For those that are down voting, care to expand on why?

Because you're challenging the feminist manifesto.
Heh, just read it! Very useful, will have to go through in detail
I was about to try one of these fancy new browser based editors again, but now I'm confused. Shouldn't opening a directory be O(1)? I just opened the chromium trunk in sublime and it took 0.2 seconds, regardless of whether it was currently running or not.

Why would one ever use a text editor that has perceptible latency when doing everyday tasks?

3 seconds isn't even latency, it's a freeze tbh.
No. Just imagine the encryption we'd have in IPv4 -- none, and for multiple reasons: too expensive, public crypto was considered a "munition" when IPv4 was developed, etc.

How about IPv6? We'd most likely have 40-bit export ciphers, if anything, but crypto was still considered a "munition" by the US govt when IPv6 work began in the 1990s. Perhaps IPv6 would have taken longer due to that fight, and later adopted 40-bit export if we were "lucky." IPv6 carries a measurable percentage of Internet traffic now, but when it was developed, in the 1990s, public crypto sucked. And so that's what would be baked into IPv6 now, for all time.

I totally get the appeal of having all traffic automatically encrypted, it's just that A) IETF would screw it up somehow and B) it would take too long to deploy through "official" channels. It would turn into an unwanted Christmas present, 20 years too late.

The alternative offers much stronger crypto and a much faster deployment timetable: let the public build encrypted protocols based on UDP. If they work, maybe people will use them. There's actually been some success here, like with QUIC, Noise, etc.

I think we need to get beyond the idea of waiting for standards bodies to give us state-of-the-art. They have a terrible track record. We can do better ourselves, and already are.
I have five privacy tools on this browser: uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, and a free VPN. It was quite tedious to go through each of them before I figured out it was an HTTPS issue.
We don't pressure them, just give them the offer and continue to sell the company. It isn't like we hold the door shut until they accept :)
Incremental Compilation
No wonder rockets blow up
I second this. Grace's advice to include women is good. Going to HR is risky. My strategy is to just treat everyone about the same as well as I can. Make sure the pattern is clear in people's minds. Helps if any disputes, esp false claims, make it to HR. I hang out with them, too, if they're alright. I learn from the good ones. Anyway, it has side benefit that they mentally compare their experiences around me with what they hear. Should match.
You're yelling ("ILLEGAL") and getting into personal comments ("get off your high horse"). I'm not interested in discussing any further.
I'm so mind-bendingly sick of these two terms (Dunning-Kruger and Imposter Syndrome). They're very much in-vouge as of late and it seems like an overwhelming number of /r/programming and HN posts have at least some reference to it.

Pulling some piece of psychology jargon out of thin air doesn't make it immediately applicable or accurate. Presumably, the terms get used so frequently for the "look how smart I sound" effect, which serves only to piss me off.

I would categorize these two groups as "overconfident" and "under-confident", at most. They're not suffering from some genuine long term psychological condition just because you think it sounds cool to use the terms.

/rant
> A rootkit may require a root permission to install...

This sort of phrasing is misleading. If your OS restricts security sensitive kernel functions to the root user (hint: 99% of OSes do), then it isn't "may" - it is "must". Are there wrapper scripts that run privilege escalation exploits before installing the rootkit? Yes. Doesn't that make the exploit part of the rootkit? No, they are two very different things performing two different functions and are capable of operating independent of one-another.

> ...the purpose is the same: To provide the attacker with root permissions.

No, it is to allow code to run at the same privilege level as the kernel itself. Unrestricted loadable kernel modules. Think that is a distinction without a difference? OSX disagrees, as does Windows.
Re-implementation will be hard, several people (including me) have been working on related architectures, but they have a few extra tricks in WaveNet that seem to make all the difference, on top of what I assume is "monster scale training, tons of data".

The core ideas from this can be seen in PixelRNN and PixelCNN, and there are discussions and implementations for the basic concepts of those out there [0][1]. Not to mention the fact that conditioning is very interesting / tricky in this model, at least as I read it. I am sure there are many ways to do it wrong, and getting it right is crucial to having high quality results in conditional synthesis.

[0] https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta/blob/master/magenta/re...

[1] https://github.com/igul222/pixel_rnn/blob/master/pixel_rnn.p...
Doubling the cost and difficulty of CA management for a once in a... well.. we haven't yet had a major CA killed in the decades that CAs have been around.

If CAs were being killed every few months then that would be a reasonable thing to do - but not for such a rare occurrence.
A similar worthy project I'd like to mention is the E. coli LTEE, or Long Term Evolution Experiment. By freezing samples of every generation, they can go back and genetically sequence ancestors (or near-ancestors) to determine what succession of random mutations eventually resulted in an obvious phenotypic trait.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex...
Does morality matter?

It sounds dumb, but in this context I'm actually not sure.
"but the environment is definitely experienced differently by many women than for men, in a million small ways, which can add up to big feelings."

absolutely agree, but that goes both ways and can be both positive and negative for both sexes.

A fat, ugly, short male or female engineer will likely have a different experience than a skinny,attractive, male or female engineer.

personally I think looks has more of an impact than sex or even color when it comes to discrimination and no I dont consider myself ugly or fat.
Simple answer... people of all races and genders are smart and creative, so why limit the pool of talent to a small subset of all people?
SiVa is deeply zero-sum. Its ... mental heritage is that of the old New England style of progressivism, which had its agenda carved from ... (presumably New Hampshire) granite 200+ years ago.

I think the elephant in the room is that a lot of "current hip tech" is bloated[1], overwrought and doesn't work very well. HTTP is a terrible protocol. Heck, TCP itself has some real problems. I'm perpetually having to explain to people what "reliable" means. It's akin to "no, having life insurance doesn't mean you can't die."

[1] this is rapidly getting better, though. Too bad you'll be too old to participate in it :)

The rhino in the room is that it'll take almost everyone at least 20 years to be any good at this. And no amount of social engineering will overcome this.

Work longer hours? Please. It's only harder if you don't know what you're doing. And that's a thing; I respect that but let's not kid ourselves. That's not what this is usually. I've drawn to a few inside straights in my time.

This is lazy management because absolutely nobody has time to learn both technology and management before they're sent to Carousel ( from "Logan's Run" ) to be "renewed".

The way I work is: I very carefully describe the problem. I solve the problem ( or determine that it can't be solved given present constraints ), usually in about 40% of the alloted time. If you don't like the representation of the solution, I have plenty of time to make it look any way you want after the fact. Once I get a prototype working, it's pretty easy to morph it into another shape, on another platform, in a different language, whatever you want.

Nobody even understands this approach. Frequently, they're offended by it. It's like doctors dependent on Aristotlean medicine. Well, I've been through the French Revolution and I know what works.
Aside from wives, other elephant in the room: accusations of harassment, sexual or otherwise. So easy to make. I'd be curious to quantify the chilling effect this has on office relations.
Australia has very strict false advertising laws.

If you advertise it, there are severe penalties if it's not true.

Two examples come to mind:

General Motors (Holden) had a sale called "Employee pricing for all", after which it was discovered that customers were not getting quite the same deal as employees. GM had to either take the car back at full refund, or refund the price difference plus some other stuff, along with paying a huge fine.

A glitch on a website offered laptops for something like $300 instead of $3000 and a ton of people ordered them... the company was not allowed to back out (I think it was HP..)
Same here. Malicious backdoor or rootkit backdoor would have been more appropriate
I'm not certain, but I think the C API can avoid that. I've learned to say "almost" because every time I say Python can't X, someone shows me it can.
Well to do people could also much more readily flee the city to their country houses and escape infection, while poorer people had nowhere else to go.
"Mainly, most women have an easier way out by getting married so they don't have to do any hard work, physically or mentally. How do you think they survive otherwise?"

I'm not sure you actually have spoken to that many women, have you?
hmmmm.. I would be worried about carbon monoxide, tire & brake dust, etc.
> I think the hundreds of billions of tax dollars we've spent on privatizing the expansion of internet hardware/fiber is a iron-clad evidence to this being flat out wrong.

Well, it would be evidence it it had actually happened, but the claim of hundreds of billions of tax dollars on this is very questionable [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556
> Just in case you're not simply being facetious

Of course. I generally don't bother to indicate when I am. I just don't like explained jokes.

Of course I do try not to be subtle about it. :)
> hey spend a lot of time working with ISPs to maintain the reputation of their IPs to make sure their mail ends up in the inbox and not the spam box.

This is the first time I hear Mailchimp (or any other company) has some special deal or treatment from ISPs in regarding to their sending emails reputation.

This is like saying lawyers of company X spends lot of time working with judges to make sure they are winning their cases. OR like suggesting to host your website with GoDaddy because they spend lot of time working with Google so that your keywords will show up on their first SERP.

Nobody is in position to just convince ISPs to deliver your mail better than any other competitor, because that would be a special treatment that would cry for gov oversight, investigation and/or prosecution. And besides, it would be totally worthless in terms of oversight. So let's say you do have special privilege -- then some Mailchimp client gets hacked and their account used to spew spam and before its shut down there are millions of malware installed. What would Yahoo say to their customers?? Simply put, no ISP would want to waste their time giving anyone special treatment when it comes to delivery...

The truth is if you are properly configured with all belts and whistles and are using feedback loops and your IP does not have dark history, then eventually building up your reputation (continuing to send emails that are most likely not spam) you will end up at the same delivery levels as Mailchimp & co. Again, because noone at Yahoo sits down by a monitor and browse billion messages a day and decide which one came from Mailchimp (good) which one didnt (bad). But I don't blame Mailchimp that they don't want you to know about it...

One of my colleagues is currently running $25 DigitalOcean machine with Postfix and sends opted-in ~5MM messages per day with stable ~85% delivery rate. Custom scripts and no Mailchimp required.
Does it work to outright say "It's not a date, I just want to talk to you"? Or does it have the opposite effect and make the askee more wary that the asker may, in fact, take it as a date?
I can't remember the last time I've used either headphones jack or the speaker on my phone. Maybe they should've removed both...
I think it also depends on where you work. In my company it is very common to get coffee. Team's and groups regularly take coffee breaks or meet for coffee to touch base. I do agree generally though it could be misconstrued.
I want to work with the best people. Many of the best people are female. Some of these women don't want to work an an environment where they are the only woman and since they are excellent, they choose to work in places that already have female engineers.

Also, I generally prefer to work in places with a diverse mix of people as well. Given two job opportunities that are roughly equal, I'll choose the more diverse one because it's more interesting.

A while ago, I got an MBA. MBA classes are extremely collaborative and a lot of the learning comes from the other students, rather than the lecturer. Most good schools very deliberately to ensure that the student body is as diverse as possible because otherwise learning is stifled: if ALL the students are investment bankers, then the class doesn't really learn much about other businesses. I see work environments similarly.
How advanced is the segmentation in mailtrain? Can it segment lists like (ListA + ListB) - ListC

We're currently using Interspire Email Marketer and the segmentation feature is quite limited.
I've once had the displeasure of clicking on a misleading facebook group title and seeing one of the worst pictures I've ever seen, an atrocity that I couldn't get out of my head for days. I reported it. Some idiots just want to shock others, I don't get it.

I know that there are companies in Europe that only do the verification of the reported content, and the employees cannot say that they work for facebook, but in a way they do.
I'd be surprised if so. Most of those tools rely on the built-in parser, which treats all string literals similarly.
click on the december 11 lecture.
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True.

HN never seems more like Reddit than when we're discussing diversity (gender, race, economic). All the bad habits (mansplaining, straw man arguments etc.) you find elsewhere seem to suddenly rise to the surface.

Distressing indeed.
You shouldn't really try to sum up Facebook in a single sentence any more than you would do the same with the internet as a whole. The truth, of course, is much more nuanced than a short sentence permits.

For instance Facebook allows me to communicate with friends and family I wouldn't otherwise be able to communicate with (at least not as efficiently). I can't see that being bad. As a matter of fact it's something I derive a great sense of satisfaction and wellbeing from.
Ooooh thanks. I've been reading a lot of Spolsky's blog posts from 2005-2006... I was thinking, what's happened to this guy in the last 10 years? Everyone hates him? Securities fraud? What?
Huh. That's actually fairly interesting! Myself I have noticed the following. I am someone who meddles around with both "artistic" stuff (3d modelling etc) and programming as a hobby/projects.

I have noticed that when I do the 3d stuff, I can usually tolerate music with lyrics, or for that matter even listening to documentaries, TED talks etc just fine. Everything slows down but progress is actually being made.

On the other hand when I do something programmy or for that matter even simple text based stuff such as "writing descriptions" I have noticed that I find music with lyrics utterly distracting.

Although the left/right brain thing is a bit of a myth, frankly it has been extremely clear to me that language neurons get to be dual-purpose components when it comes to logic stuff of a particular kind.
Newspapers can and do.

When there were two reasonably good newspapers in virtually any city (or 3, or 9, or in some cases 30 or 40), there was a readily available local alternative to the editorial decisions of any one paper, though other factors (political machine, major advertiser, mob) might have similarly restricted what was covered.

But those days are gone -- many cities in the US have only one major daily, and it's often stopped trying. Local radio and television, as well as national broadcasts, are abysmal.

What I'm noticing today, at least in print media, is a staggeringly widespread mediocrity and lack of relevance. Actually, that goes beyond print to broadcast (radio and television), and many mainstream online sources.

The saving grace, at least for now, are competing, largely non-mainstream sources, which carry information that is less likely to be carried. Yes, some sites cater to eyeball-attracting, outrage-inducing bogosities, but others actually contain solid content.

My local paper has had little if any coverage of international trade pacts which treaten to rewrite major elements of laws across multiple countries, but I can find detailed information at, of all places, Buzzfeed. Or The Intercept. Or The Guardian. Or Pro Publica. Or your EFF article -- one of the best explainers I've found, and some colourful infographics to boot (they've been in heavy play, and largely my only content, at Google+, as Google are among the sadly far-too-many tech companies promoting the TPP, TTIP, BITS, and TiSA).

Something is badly wrong with media, though, and globally. It's not a whole lot that's not been warned about for a long, long time -- Eric Blair (George Orwell), Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Neal Postman, Jerry Mander, I.F. Stone, and others cautioned about it. Oh, and Walter Lippman and Noam Chomsky. But is it ever getting flagrant.

I'd even be modestly satisfied with algorithmic placements, so long as they were different algorithms, possibly rotated, and with some sortition blended in for random perterbations.

Facebook's a problem, and a large problem, but not the only problem.
We tried this but with less success than what wavenet did. https://wp.nyu.edu/ismir2016/wp-content/uploads/sites/2294/2...
It's as correct as writing a Kernel and call it an OS.

If you use that kind of deception too often, people won't take you seriously any more very quickly.
These "shortage" stories always make me roll my eyes, because they're usually about money more than anything. And money is usually about cost of living more than anything.

If you choose to locate your company in one of the highest cost of living regions in the world, then you are complicit in the "shortage". Supply and demand - pay up. Or don't.
> If you aren't sure if it's HR appropriate to talk to women at your workplace please check with your HR team.

In what workplace is it not appropriate to speak to someone else?
> Wait. They think they didn't do well, got an offer, but turned it down because they think they didn't do well on the interview?

Yup. Happened to me: I felt like I did poorly in one of the interviews and had to ask myself whether I'd be happy in the job if the day-to-day was like the interview.

It probably wouldn't have been, but I had another offer on the table and the negative experience swayed me in the direction of the other offer.
Great writeup. Very informative, speaking as someone new to the realm.

It seems it's only applicable to business models that rely on getting revenue directly from customers (i.e. buying subscriptions or widgets).
Do you have any thoughts about how you might test an idea where your service is free, but you get revenue through advertising to your users? It would still be very valuable to get some sense of how useful users would find your site, how often they'd visit, etc..., but you don't really have a strong test (i.e. will they pay?)
Are you really sure about that?

Back then, most would have roots in some farm. Heck, that's true for many many people today, my parents, for example, my mother's home is still a working farm....

Now, if you had to become a serf again to go back to the farm....
I first read this as "Google to acquire Apple" and I found myself wondering if today was in the month of April.
This is actually false. Most states require you to either mail-in your registration form (which requires access to a printer, knowledge of how to use the postal service/where to get stamps [which, let's be honest, a lot of young people have never had to do], and a state-issued photo ID [which costs money, and requires you to have time to go to a government building anyways to get one issued to you]) or go fill out a form in-person (which means you need the free time to do so [government buildings operate 9-5, which is, inconveniently, generally the same timeframe people are at work. And people with hourly jobs cough young people and low-income people cough would literally lose money taking time off to do this).

And that doesn't even touch on the fact that a lot of states make you show up in-person to vote (need a "legitimate" excuse for requesting absentee) and don't require employers to give you paid time-off to vote.
Ha! Workers over 35 tend to have dependents who spend the money regardless and in fact may spend more the less time you spend with them.
Chrome will start marking HTTP connections as insecure
I meant those both fail on the format check, when they are legal formats. You are correct that they should fail the MX portion.
If you want people to take your opinions on gender issues seriously, it's probably best not to use sexist terms like "mansplaining".

Edit (for some reason, locked from commenting further):

> It describes a specific behavior almost entirely practiced by men

Um no it doesn't. Possibly the word your looking for is condescending (that's usually what people mean when they say "mansplaining"). I don't see that here though. This is just a thread with men and women voicing their opinions (very respectfully I might add).

Men are allowed to have thoughts and feelings. It's not right to shame them for it and it's not right to gender an attack of any kind. If someone is being a jerk, call out that individual, don't blame a whole gender.
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I'm sure if you look, you'll find someone that has a differing opinion. This doesn't make one opinion more valid than the other.
IMO "9 simple steps" looks better than "9 steps"
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I'm going to side with GP's motivation. While it would be great if people didn't rumor-monger when they see two coworkers spending time alone, wishing it were different doesn't make it so.

There's a lot at stake. A simple your word against theirs or miscommunication can land you in serious HR trouble. This issue is incredibly sensitive and very charged. Why risk it?