skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sources you linked are rather weak evidence for your claims. This type of observational research is difficult, and in the social sciences, especially about political topics, you should be very skeptical. The majority of published papers in this field are wrong. Diversity may or may not be good for companies bottom lines, but there is no conclusive evidence (at least from what you linked) - and it also matters the magnitude of the effect.

Some of these articles are implying a size of an effect that is completely ridiculous, there is just no way that diversity "could increase revenue by 41%" - we'd see way more diversity in work places if this was true. Here is an article with a different conclusion - and here the "educational diversity" only had a more reasonable 2% effect, while "demographic diversity" is allegedly harmful [1]. But you have to be careful, all of these studies appear to suffer from testing multiple hypothesis - breaking diversity down into sub-categories and looking at each one independently should decrease confidence in the conclusions of these studies.

[1] http://ftp.iza.org/dp6973.pdf
Question from overseas: what's a "protected class"?
Yea x)
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
This project use the server side encryption, therefore there is a moment where the file isn't encrypted on the server.

Contrary to this project, Muonium use the client-side encryption.

Also, French laws do not authorize this kind of initiative, maybe the passphrase is just hashed in MD5 xD

And privacy haven't to cost.
Wind levels on earth
At every moment in your life, you are older than you have ever been before. If you compare your life when you are 19 to 25, that is a much greater difference than your life from 50 to 56.
Of course if you ask most developers to estimate writing 20 standard CRUD services they will decide it's much more efficient to write a CRUD service generator instead of wasting time manually coding 20 services. Only to realize months later that creating the domain-specific language and code generator is 30 times harder than they anticipated, and they still haven't delivered even one working CRUD service.
Might be that engineers prefer candidates who demonstrate logic and reason, vs enticing followers into an emotional frenzy. I was hoping for more intellectual debates, and analysis of the issues.
Thiel might have ulterior motives, but his support of Trump is not too surprising if you've listened to his other ideas. He feels that the political agenda has been overrun by distractions, like "who can use which bathroom", at the expense of real problems, like the stagnation of median wages over the last forty years. He prefers the days when the national conversation was about how to beat the Soviets, and sees the lack of substance in our political agenda today as tied to a slowdown in progress. So he probably prefers Trump's speeches about China and decaying inner cities to Clinton's about fairness and diversity.

He believes that most of Silicon Valley is naive politically, and that the popularity of social liberalism there is just a moral fashion. He is a liberarian, and believes that the Valley's instincts are libertarian, not liberal. He has a slightly pessimistic outlook on the future, and believes that America has been falling behind since 1969, "when Woodstock started... and the hippies took over the country". That aligns well with the central point of Trump's campaign - America has started losing and we need to "make it great again".

He's often said that one of his favorite interview questions is, "tell me something you believe to be true but which nobody agrees with you on". His support of Trump falls into that category. 40% of the population agrees with him, but the people closest to him see his opinion as unthinkable. He seems to take pleasure in having opinions like that. He has said that he believes climate change is "more pseudoscience than science", roughly agreeing with Trump. Thiel backed up his position by saying "whenever you can't have a debate, I often think that's evidence that there's a problem".

He likely sees the stories that have come out against Trump recently as worth ignoring when the future of the country is at stake, and Trump is the only candidate who can focus the national agenda on the right issues.
This is why in agile development we don't even attempt to make precise, committed estimates beyond the first horizon.
Wow! That's almost 50 years. I have a question — the story narrates how output of the computer was driven to chain printers. But VDT / CRT monitors were invented long before and were even used by pioneers like Doug Engelbert in 1960s. So why didn't monitors come into play to receive the output?
There's a lot of "doing things the Ops way" stuff that's clearly super-helpful, if not essential, if you're seriously shooting for "five nines". On the other hand, I've seen it go wrong: for example, redundant servers behind a load balancer yielding dramatically worse real-world reliability than a single instance of the backend service managed on its own (while the load balanced setup was also a nightmare to debug...).

Are there any good guides that focus less on "best practices" and more on trade-offs (especially from the point of view of someone who's more interested in a simple route to 4-nines than going much beyond that)?
'… base everything off of capitalism which by definition means you can't do whatever you want unless you're rich. '

Capitalism is of course not an -ism at all. No one invented it. It's that freedom in the context of democratically agreed regulation whereby we can all trade goods and our labor with others and thereby generate value, usually monetary but by no means exclusively. We can even trade kind words and actions - they too contribute value.

Over the last century, billions of people have had the repertoire of 'things they can do' dramatically extended by the extension of an environment which allows people at all levels of income to take part in this productive exchange of items (abstract or physical) of value.
I'm french, and I speak fluently english thanks to video games and community forums. But I also started learning norwegian and I'm doing pretty well, talking woth norwegian friends
focus your eye on the word TOY and think about it for a while
This is the app I've used in the past: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scottyab.s...

Also I was under the impression that SafetyNet would only pass on stock ROMs (to include official CyanogenMod builds lacking root). Is that not true? Will it also pass on any custom ROM lacking root?

Edit: According to http://androiding.how/use-android-pay-cm14-cm13/, SafetyNet (the tamper detection API in use by Android Pay and Pokemon Go) will only pass on official stable (non-nightly) releases of CM13/CM14 that have root disabled in the Developer options. It will not pass on debug releases of firmwares/ROMs, including Android 7.0 Nougat based CM14 and Android 6.0 Marshmallow based CM13 ROMs.
Really not a big fan of some of Go's std libraries that come with heavy use of global states, baked into packages like http and flag.

I know one can use other functions in the same packages to create instances of HTTP servers or flag parsers. But the default approach coming as a part of the std libs will more or less make Go newbies to take it for granted as a programming idiom, which is not the best as the project grows
Large BGP Communities beacon in the wild
sadly I find his opponent to be more dangerous as the press and Congress will likely never call her out regardless of what she chooses to do. already a proven welfare warfare queen we can expect simply more of the same. At least with Trump we know the press will nip his heels everyday and misstep and Congress will not be friendly.

we haven't had an adversarial press in eight years and only one adversarial party in the same
Good. The media needs to burn for the bullshit they've been pulling.
Future of Banking Looks Dark–Why That’s a Problem
> 06 Oct 2015

So… did they alter the constitution?
I know, but the credit card information for stripe.js lives in an unprotected DOM.
> It's not something that can be both summarized and understood.

Ah, so it's not real then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion
Imagine you've lost your keys. You've already looked everywhere for them. Now how long will it take you to find them? This what software estimation feels like to me. Simple tasks regularly turn into "find out why this simple code doesn't work". From there, you have no idea whether the solution will come in minutes, weeks, months or never.

It is still usually necessary to at least try to estimate as well as we can. And the higher level the task, the more the "detailed crap" averages out. But it is still not easy. And delivering software on time is usually as much about changing the spec as it is about doing the coding.
Sorry, your hiring speech short-circuited some of my wires regarding something else. Yes, im okay. Have a nice day.
"The speed of software halves every 18 months."

So true.

Few anecdotal experiences.

Visual Studio 2008 (express), installation space required was few hundred megs. You clicked on a .cpp file and the IDE would launch immediately.

Today you have Visual Studio 2015, which requires +10gb of space and takes so fricken long time to launch that if you double click on that same .cpp file now, by the time the IDE launches you're already 10 minutes into some other task and have already forgotten why that IDE opens up now.

Another example, Windows XP. Heck, you can just install it in a VM today for example, give it half a gig of ram and boot it. And observe, it's blitzing fast! From boot to login takes no time!

Try the same with Win10. "Preparing to login in, please wait", "please wait this", "please wait that", "preparing to configure this/that", etc. blah blah and for what?

Is there something that I couldn't do in WinXP that I can now do in Win10? How about VS? Honestly I don't know, I'm doing all the same computational tasks now that I was doing back in the WinXP era.

And the Open Source Linux community is not redeemed either. Anyone tried any recent Ubuntu with Unity. The master of sluggishness.

Thank god you can always still install ArchLinux + Fluxbox and not deal with the bloat.
This recent exchange with DHH may give you some insights: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/787561745686618113
I think wordlists and learning tons of vocabulary through deliberate study are generally underrated. However, I do agree that once you've got a good foundation, pulling words from texts is a great idea.

I think the ideal thing to do is to get a list of words from a text before you read it, then prime yourself on them, and then really solidify them by reading the text. I think it makes the text a lot more enjoyable.

I actually just put together a prototype of a tool for doing this and wanted to polish it more before posting it, but I'd love any feedback / ideas from people who are into language learning here: https://langtools.curtis.io/

You can test it out with a guest account: guest@example.com, password "guest". Or just sign up, I don't validate your email or anything.

It's pretty rough but I think the basic idea of uploading a text, and seeing which lemmas are unknown to you so that you can pre-learn them is a good one.

btw here's some german if you want something to paste into it: http://lpaste.net/267332
It's like a video game:
If you encounter ennemies, that means you're going in the right direction
Has Trump provided a credible plan to help these people?
From what I've read, that's not true - esa doesn't have a suitable supply of plutonium 238, and is developing equipment using an alternative radioactive source (americium).

https://www.quora.com/How-does-ESA-plan-to-power-its-future-...

http://www.space.com/692-esa-chief-europe-space-nuclear-powe...
SafetyNet passes on my Nexus 4 running an unrooted currentish CyanogenMod nightly build.

Haven’t tried any other Android custom roms.
>How long did it take you?

Depends on the language and were you're coming from but to get C2 proficiency it takes anywhere from 900 to 4400 hours of immersion according to various sources.

In my experience that's quite accurate.
Direct link to the Energy Wire article which this post is largely based on:

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060043920
There are two short-cuts to growing up: losing both your parents or having children.
During the primaries, did the RNC want Trump in their tent? Or did he force himself in?
Here is an interesting take on this matter:

> Famously, the only reason he went to seek fortune in the Silicon Valley was because he was denied a highly prestigious clerk position for a Supreme Court justice.

> It seems to me that Thiel originally wished to become a politician, and only stopped pursuing that path to seek his fortune in the Silicon Valley when he hit his first setback when applying to clerk for the Supreme Court.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Peter-Thiel-supporting-Donald-T...
You're down-voted because you're right.
Shitposting, billionaire style.
1000W LED on a Drone [video]
Boy makes skateboard to fit inside of locker
Firefox has built in screen shots through dev tools for ages.

But as a developer I don't like the new tool.

Users always manage to crop out the pertinent information. As a dev I want to see body, not a cut of a visible part of it.

That's why the gcli tool was great, capturing the whole render even stuff below the fold is useful.

However it wasnt easy for users so people never used it. They had a chance to change that but haven't really.
This is sad.

We are going to end up with something very much like what cable TV is - paying an aggregator service for a collection of different providers and premium channel subscriptions.

How different is that grid of ten different streaming apps in your device from a cable channel guide?
The Mirai botnet is targeting also Sierra Wireless cellular data gear products
Neoreactionary(NRx). Dark Enlightenment.
“China has now eclipsed us in AI research”
The monitors were there, you just couldn't easily make your way around the text until interactive text editing came along. It was far easier to keep an overview of the program on paper than it was on the screen.

I hacked a primitive full text editor on a Sperry Univac mainframe but it was dis-allowed on account of eating up too much machine time. After each keypress it would hit 'submit screen' rather than at the end of a round of editing in the on-screen text buffer. It worked but the resource consumption was off the scale. So this kind of editing had to wait until we all had machines powerful enough on our desks to run an editor directly.
Not yet. Altering the constitution is a slow process - fortunately.

The draft/proposal is dated to Jan 2015 [1] (it's in Swedish, sorry), and it was in the works, and came up again today on the newspapers after the Minister of Justice called for a debate on this. Here's an up to date article on this: http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/working_group_tables_const...

EDIT: add sources.

[1]: http://www.defmin.fi/sv/uppgifter_och_verksamhet/lagstiftnin...
Map out your music taste on Spotify
Mark Zuckerberg and philanthropy: it’s not like it was in Rockefeller’s day
HN users have lots to disclaim.

http://mbrock.github.io/disclaimer.html
When I was a kid, adults were boring people that kept saying no and used all those formal clothes all the time.

Now that I'm in my 40s, I'm so cool, it's just a coincidence that I have to watch out my little girl and tell her to not do this out that every 15 minutes.

[/sarcasm]
It does sound like Radiohead lyrics though. +1
Not really. It doesn't matter if the phone is rooted or not, what matters is whether it is feeding false gps data or not. Bots will soon find a way around this (non-rooted) restriction anyway.

That said, proper protection against cheating would involve using markers (other phones?) in vicinity, so it should be possible too.
Two years on... No one wants to be the first.

This is depressing - because it has the exact flexibility that so many people want.

For example, one of the first questions I get asked when introducing an older person to Netflix is, "Can I play it on X?"

Sure, if it can run the app. Oh, just a TV? Let me get you Y hardware so it will.
How to Build a Tiny Compiler
The K language is industry-wise not important enough to learn it.
Tab Center looks a lot like Tree Style Tab or other extensions to show tabs in a sidebar.
It's very closely correlated to reality.

If you work through the data, you'll find things like women, children and first class passengers had a higher survival rate than men with lower class tickets[1].

This matches exactly the stories of what happened: Staff took first class passengers to the lifeboats first, then women and children. Then they ran out of lifeboats.

So the data shows correlation, and eye-witness accounts shows causation. That's close to the ideal combination: eyewitness accounts can be unreliable because we can't know how widespread they are, and correlation doesn't show causation.

But the combination of them both is pretty much the best case for studying something which can't be replicated.

[1] See examples like https://www.kaggle.com/omarelgabry/titanic/a-journey-through...
The worst part is that OSX does have native support for always on top windows, but just does not expose an API to set them so. Before I was using Afloat which injected to applications and gave you the control. Nowadays there is Helium browser and picture in picture. Still not ideal though.
That's all well and good, but Trump is still a terrible option. He never held office, he doesn't know how the system works, and doesn't have the temperament to be commander-in-chief.

His tax plan will add trillions in debt over the next decade, and will only benefit the rich in the long run.

So excuse me if I think Thiel just wants to pay less tax and sue people that piss him off. It's the rich coming to power in a more matter-of-fact way.
I think the guy from fluentforever has the general pattern down correctly:

1) learn phonetics and pronunciation

2) learn a base of of the most common words (he has a list of 625 words, I think wikipedias "simple english" word requirements would be another good source). Do this with anki.

3) start studying grammar

4) move onto native materials (while continuing with anki)

I also think that most people massively underrate vocabulary study. With consistency, at only 15 words a day you could deeply learn ~5400 words a year with anki. I think it would be pretty easy to do more if you were dedicated, but 15 is pretty sustainable. The rate you tend to be taught vocabulary in college level courses is crazy low.

[0]: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2014/07/16/how-to-learn-any-lang... I swear this guy isn't the type of charlatan you'd expect to be associated with Ferris.

I hope this doesn't feel too spammy but I'd love if people had any feedback on the basic idea behind the tool I posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=12717657
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>abhorrent morally as Trump

>you're on the wrong side of history.

Let me guess, reality has a left wing bias? Get out of this industry if you place politics above code.
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." (generally attributed to Mark Twain)
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Except Bernie's rallies were full of young people, who are always up for a rally but who can seldom be bothered to vote. Meanwhile, Trump's rallies are full of old people who have nothing else to do but vote.
Hello had browser sharing built in for awhile, but nobody used it, so we took out the feature in 49.

Test Pilot is, at least in part, a program intended to let us develop ideas in the open without the cost and complexity of shipping to millions of Firefox users. Whether or not you choose to install these experiments is entirely discretionary.
Native in Kirundi, I've learnt English, and French at school and by watching movies in those languages. No need to go in a foreign country. And now I work for a NGO, using them in my professional life.

The key is not only to read, understand, practice but also not to fear to make mistakes and get corrected. That's my experience. I've lived in Tanzania for 4 years, when I was young but with a fear of speaking Swahili the wrong way. Now I can understand and read Swahili, but responding back is so painfull. I'm waiting someone who can correct me while I speak it.
There was a good documentary on polling on BBC Radio 4 in light of their very weak performance in IndyRef and the UK General Election. One pollster said that he actually has a high regard for outliers which statistical aggregations do not capture. In cases where the majority of pollsters got it horribly wrong, there have been outliers at some significant distance from the herd that have been on the money but ridiculed at the time.

The reasoning is that pollsters have herd behaviours - they believe publishing an outlier they will lose them credibility so they suppress inconvenient results and will rework methodologies and weightings to avoid it. For many, election polling is a loss leader - its publicity to get their name out there for commercial services. The credibility of the outlier is increased because it has escaped the herd pressure despite the incentives.
I've actually just started http://valleyhunt.com with the hopes of reaching $1K/month. It's basically a curated list of domain names for startups, so if anyone has any - feel free to submit yours.
A quick plug for Pushover, which has completely changed how I deal with alerts like that. I used to have them sent to me via email, but now the critical / urgent stuff actually buzzes my phone & their API is really easy to use:

https://pushover.net
What does "Tracking Protection" technically do? Unless it completely prevents browser fingerprinting, I consider it completely useless (browser fingerprinting being standard procedure nowadays, at least at the giant internet/tech corporations).

Besides that, Firefox rocks, go Mozilla!
" According to Jessica Roy of Time Magazine Molyneux argued that violence in the world is the result of how women treat their children, and that "If we could just get people to be nice to their babies for five years straight, that would be it for war, drug abuse, addiction, promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, ... Almost all would be completely eliminated, because they all arise from dysfunctional early childhood experiences, which are all run by women."

I fear for the future of society when 40% of the population are on that level.

I would have never thought I'd miss GWB. Now, it seems only a matter of time until all pockets of civilization are overrun by those peddling comspiracy-theories on youtube.
None of what you wrote answers "why Trump?", though. If Thiel thinks he can somehow control Trump and get him to pursue a Libertarian agenda (which Trump's platform bares no resemblance to) then he's an idiot.

If he wants Libertarianism he should donate to Gary Johnson. Anything else is just opportunism.
Its basically adblock-lite. Prevents HTTP requests to domains that are known to be used for tracking.