skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You talked about incentives to do shady things, but only provided examples of theoretical abuse (there is no indication any of which ever happened).
Of course there is a danger of abuse, but I fail to see how shadiness is being incentivized by the structure of wikileaks and the work they do.

All your examples apply to traditional journalists as well, by the way.

Wikileaks has their own code of conduct and ethics. I fail to see how their self-imposed code is any less valid than the self-imposed code of traditional journalists.

wikileaks claims it evaluates and scrutinizes their sources. So far it seems they actually did that, and did not fall for any hoax.
Traditional journalists also claim they evaluate their sources, and most of them did not fall for any hoax.
Both don't do so transparently, in fact journalists went to jail for not being transparent and disclosing their sources, so I fail to see how traditional journalists are any better or worse than wikileaks. The lack of transparency when it comes to sources is a feature and not a failure, protecting said sources, for both wikileaks and traditional journalism.

It's a bold claim to state that traditional journalists are more open and trustworthy simply because they have been around longer (the organizations, not the individuals of course).

Regular news organizations reported the Iraq had WMDs because the government sources said so, without any actual evidence. Or published fake Hitler Diaries. Meaning it's not all that rosy and checked and ethical as you make it out to be.

I don't see the "contrast" you claim exists. If anything, wikileaks has a better track record than a lot of traditional media organizations when it comes to publishing verified information, so far.

PS: The likes of Murdoch and Bezos prove outside influence in journalism is a real thing to worry about.
"Election Day" is now just the last day you can vote. "Early Voting" has been available for the past 2 weeks in most places. Polls are open on the weekends.
How to build a responsive grid system
Not really an API, but they do have a GutHub account, and they make their collection listings available as a CSV last time I checked:

https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/
I enjoyed the conciseness of the article, but I don't have a big stake in this field so I can't comment on the content itself. I wanted to make a small formatting note: having key parts of the article only as images (not reproduced or described in the text) is bad for accessibility, search engines, etc. an article should still make sense if you take out all the images
"Many requests to the registry as the entire nation of India" per what time unit?
> Looking more broadly, it wasn't that long ago that you could easily find American software developers treating internationalisation as a frill or people talking about accessibility as a niche concern. (Now a growing percentage of people recognize that in addition to being the right thing to do, it also benefits more people than they thought due to temporary limits due to environment - ever see how many people use subtitles on the subway/bus?, illness/injury, distraction, etc.)

Is there any evidence that better support for internationalization and accessibility was driven by a more diverse workforce? It seems more likely that these were driven by market forces (increased demand as well as lower costs as i8n/accessibility tools/practices evolved).

> how well the standards community works or how the language is designed will charge based on who's involved.

There's even some evidence that some diversity helps groups make better decisions, but there's no reason to believe that the effect is large nor that the optimal diversity is above the current level. In other words, there's no reason to believe that more diversity will be beneficial.
I think basically every thinking person comes to see democracy as deeply flawed in one way or another. The problem is I don't think anyone is aware of a better (non pie-in-the-sky) solution.
You're talking about and assuming only a PoW blockchain but there are other consensus technologies such as Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance which are actually older than Satoshi's PoW.
there are 13 states that don't permit it or require a valid excuse:

https://ballotpedia.org/Early_voting
That's because consciousness - at least in the way it's being used here - is not a scientific term at all. What people think it might be isn't reason enough to postulate a hugely fantastical cosmological mechanism where so far none has been shown to exist.

I don't really protest against your belief per se, but since you're making claims about reality that are designed to sound scientific when they really aren't, I feel compelled to voice disagreement, unpopular as it might be in this environment.
> Mind you, this is in the more liberal Australia.

My boss here in Brisbane keeps seriously considering getting into online adult services of some description. He also wants to build a weed dispensary web app, so we can launch the moment they legalise it!
Notes on Working with the NSTouchBar APIs
Mapped History of Population in America
From the article:

"After drawing on data from thousands of technical interviews, it’s become clear to us that technical interviewing is a process whose results are nondeterministic and often arbitrary. We believe that technical interviewing is a broken process for everyone but that the flaws within the system hit underrepresented groups the hardest… because they haven’t had the chance to internalize just how much of technical interviewing is a numbers game"
Sure, but if those efforts are directed towards a goal of 50/50 equality of outcome then they are doomed to fail barring a totalitarian takeover of our society. A cursory perusal of western countries reveals that the more egalitarian a society is -- with Scandinavia at the top -- the more lopsided the gender differences are across many industries.

Look, I'm not saying that many industries don't feature heavy discrimination against minority populations. We definitely do need to address that in a variety of ways. I just don't think it can be accomplished by fiat. Forcing people to do things against their will does not make them more tolerant; if anything, it makes them bitterly resentful.
It's in the context of hiring though, "the best" means "the best available".
Or enforce preconceived views about who belonged in the field and discourage others — you don't have to go back very far to find those groups setting quotas on the number of Jewish doctors, for example:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26quot.html
ITS ALL ABOUT CONTENT
Can't second that ;). While my Freerunner was indeed able to do phone calls on day zero, it also turned in hands-free talking automagically without any possibility to turn it off. This was a lot "fun" especially in public places. So maybe we are talking about the definition of "making phone calls" here.

I then flashed a fully featured Debian on it which was able to do everything except making phone calls. I was so excited about that while all my non-techie friends were like "Well, lucky you but now you have a so called Smartphone which isn't even a phone."

Dropped it as a daily driver after two weeks or so to leave it on my desk for a long time until someone on the Freerunner mailing list asked if someone is willing to sell theirs. 20 people offered theirs for free so I couldn't get rid of mine. Gave it to an Open Device Lab then, they still own it but never listed it in their device list.

But somehow I don't regret buying it in the first place.
This would be hard. But kids certainly manage to find products, when they love them. e.g. flash games ~10 yrs ago, certain iPhone games that everyone loves now, Snapchat now, etc.

Word of mouth. Making a product that 100 kids are obsessed with, and go from there.
It's part of the problem, but not all of the problem.

There are plenty of women who want to be in STEM fields, and have pushed for that in spite of everything. It's hard to actually get into a STEM job as a woman, regardless of education or experience, because of various biases in hiring. Once in, there are so many ways that the workplace is hostile to women, and the industry even more so. That leads to a high rate of just giving up, and changing career. There's only so much bullshit you can take before just deciding that, even though you love the work, it just isn't worth your sanity.

Working in a technical role in a non-tech company is often orders of magnitude better. Just like it is in many other respects, because tech companies are just horrifically broken in so many ways.
This is literally protobuffs.
Do you feel anything that's new is an improvement, like present storage technology is over floppy drives? Idiot.
No one is hiring from the population at large, they're hiring from the population of software developers.
Approximately 3 new JS frameworks per hour.
FBI Sources Believe Clinton Foundation Case Moving Towards Likely an Indictment
Every day I use OneNote on windows, Mac, and on my iPhone and iPad. One Note is truly a first class citizen on all of those platforms, and it was on Android, too, last I checked a year ago before I switched to iPhone.

OneNote is great on the Mac! Your experience is so different from mine that I'm guessing you used it long before I did. Try it again because it's beeen great for at least a year.
>How do you account for your amazing stamina and energy level at age 87?

>The bicycle theory. As long as you keep riding, you don’t fall.
I mean, it's been a big couple weeks of releases. Between Surface Studio, the new speech recognition results, Teams, and this VSCode update (barring the npm issue) they seem to be really hitting their stride, in a way that hasn't been seen in years. Just in time to start clawing back tons of market share from Apple, too.

But I'm sure 2017 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.
> "I love writing web apps in Ruby on Rails with a ClojureScript front end" adds nothing to the application

I agree with this point. Writing that sort of sentence is meaningless fluff.

That being said, you need to think of things from the position of the people hiring you. The manager is going to give the tech lead a bunch of resumes and cover letters and ask them to read through them and make a short list of 5 (or whatever) to interview.

If they are looking to hire someone to build RoR web apps with a ClojureScript front end, then you make the tech lead's job easier if your resume and cover letter highlight your experience building RoR web apps with a ClojureScript front end - or if you don't have that, at least point out how your other experience means you can still solve their problem.

While it is possible that a generic resume contains all the information needed to make a determination of whether you are qualified for the job, you should be emphasizing the parts relevant to the current job so the person putting together a short list doesn't have to study your resume, instead, they can look at your application for 30 seconds and go:

Yep, yep, yep, wow this person has everything we're looking for, onto the short list they go.

Because here's the thing. The tech lead is usually a busy person and they've got better things to do than spend and hour or two sifting through resumes.

When I've had to do it, I'd take a quick first pass through all the resumes and put them in one of three piles: easy yes, easy no and maybe.

If all the relevant information is in your resume but I have to hunt around for it, then you'll likely end up on the maybe pile.

If I get through the stack of resumes and my easy yes pile has enough candidates, then the maybe pile doesn't get a further look, because I'm trying to minimize the time I have to spend looking at resumes.
I assume the chrome extension is as well. Uninstalled.
I doubt they will. The universe just isn't about you, solipsism.
I think the n900 was a great device but you have a case of rose tinted nostalgia. Today's android phones can do everything you described and more and better. For example, my phone can go from deep sleep to perfectly focused photo snapped in half a second.

I'll give you the keyboard though. Nothing beats a full keyboard.
> If we look at nature, we see the opposite: almost all animals seem to experience some sort of emotional reaction to stimulus, even if they don't seem capable of complex rational thinking.

Well, my (personal) par for "sufficiently complex thinking" is pretty low. I would say any animal we can perceive emotion in has far more complex thinking than the theoretical lower bar. I would take the perspective that emotions are probably present in some animals that are so non-human we don't assume they have consciousness.
Even if they are initiatives to have inclusiveness into other fields, I think the throwaway account has a point about how in computers it's a bit more about money but more importantly also about influence.

The software we create can be used by millions of people. If all that is dominated by white men, then there are limitations to that. I would advocate that a diverse workforce allows for that more than anything else.
You can't make conclusion just from second argument alone. It's not hazing ritual because my first point. But I also think knowing them is useful, but I see a lot of people arguing it not needed at all. So what I tried to say in second, that regardless of what one thinks on usefulness of Algo knowledge,there's no excuse to ignore algorithm and expect to pass interviews.
Your installed base is quite large indeed! Your testing load was a drop in the bucket of our daily usage, but once you released to VS users we noticed. Should be straightforward to design something that works for this access pattern and load, now we know what you need. Typeahead package name completion would be a neat feature.
Often companies with lots of employees [1] can provide insurance at a lower cost than the individual market, but not always for small companies. Assuming the costs are the same, wouldn't you prefer to pick your own healthcare? (I understand there may be some differences in tax)

[1] including "coemployers" where lots of small employers pool together for a large company plan.
Why is this article even on the front page of hackernews?
Did YC Company Vote.org Just Admit to Being for Hillary?
After using the website, I received a phone call from the Hillary campaign regarding my registration. It does not say on the website that my information was provided to the Hillary campaign.
Then there's these social media screenshost which seems to show the organization's Founder receiving recognition for helping get out the Hillary vote:

* http://imgur.com/a/OVtRq

* http://imgur.com/0XTJuWN

* http://imgur.com/HJYC3Et
Do you see anything incongruous in the way you are comfortable casually rejecting InclinedPlane's experience but using your personal experience to conclude that it's not a widespread problem?
> because they haven’t had the chance to internalize just how much of technical interviewing is a numbers game

Which means the barrier is themselves, not discrimination.
Not in the context of drugs, but I find I am at my best when my mind is calm. I find it hard to be happy or productive when my mind is racing.
Did YC Company Vote.org Just Admit to Being for Hillary?
After using the website, I received a phone call from the Hillary campaign regarding my registration. It does not say on the website that my information was provided to the Hillary campaign. Then there's these social media screenshost which seems to show the organization's Founder receiving recognition for helping get out the Hillary vote:
* http://imgur.com/a/OVtRq

* http://imgur.com/0XTJuWN

* http://imgur.com/HJYC3Et
AT&T IoT Starter Kit
I use the quality of writing as a side channel to help me assess how valid a story is. Having to use google translate negates that possibility for me, as it obscures this information. Since I know nothing about the site, can someone vouch for the quality of the site, reporting, and evidence, and possibly provide a summary (or point towards one)?
Because just like with lotteries, there are a lot of blanks, few small wins and a tiny amount of never-work-again wins: Many startups don't net the investor much, some make quite a bit after being acquired, and very few - such as facebook - turn out to be really successfull.

Your phrasing suggests that you compare Facebook (now) with lottery as a system. You should rather see Facebook as a lottery ticket that turned out to be the jackpot.
Anatomy of a College Football Prediction Model
I'd love both (paper receipts from an electronic system, that goes into ballot boxes; count the ballots and return the electronic records). But if I had to pick one, I'd pick paper. We know what to look for to spot fraud with paper ballots.
Throwaway accounts allow people to express views that aren't politically correct. If all your views are politically correct this may seem like a bad thing, but for people with views that aren't politically correct throw away accounts allow participation.
> It's hard to actually get into a STEM job as a woman, regardless of education or experience, because of various biases in hiring.

Absolutely false. They even have their own hiring fairs and events that men aren't invited to. I'll give you the rest of the points in your comment but getting an entry level job is very easy for men and even easier for equally qualified women.
You can: Assuming that Powerball simply collects all earnings and pays them to the winner (they don't and keep a share), simply regard your lottery ticket as your share and deposit the price you pay in your savings account.
Our society is evolving in such a way that our laws are slowly degrading...

This may be an inevitable response to the ongoing proliferation of unnecessary laws?
No, it means "the best we're willing to hire".

I work in an office full of people who kick ass but wouldn't make it past the phone screen at most "hire the best" places. Their loss is our gain.
Beauty is created by the conniving artist. It is 'absorbed' by the user. Not necessarily all beautiful things are useful.

Beautiful software, looks good, is intuitive, doesn't complain and complements the user. Hence software is different from art.
Does this extend to all ad targeting in general? For example, targeted advertiseing for tampons, African hair products, Spanish language stuff etc.
Think German BBC.
> we were discussing construction, which, at least in my experience, has a lot less OSHA oversight

ok. obviously you have never worked construction.

https://www.osha.gov/doc/index.html
>Chris Knight explores “the Chomsky problem” — the paradox of a thinker who belongs to the “professional and scientific elite” even as he espouses populist political ideas.

Ok, this work is not the substance of the interview, but what is the paradox? Should I believe that it is strange that scientists studying fluid dynamics use conventional toilets and sinks outside of the lab?
We've been communicating with them pretty closely actually! We're aiming to use the same polyfills so that the community can share the benefits of that.

With the imports it's a slightly different paradigm – in the way that you put it, Skate is more similar to React's approach where the template is embedded in the source.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norddeutscher_Rundfunk
Chomsky has interesting ideas whether you fully agree or not.

On language, human language has intricate rules that we can't fully explain in terms of the underlying neurobiology. But Chomsky's assertion that this implies some sort of underlying mechanism in the brain strikes me as excessively reductionist. Maybe neural networks are inherently capable of learning arbitrary rules, and the kinds of rules that comprise natural languages are constrained not by the brain, but by something else, e.g. maybe only some kinds of grammatical rules are stable over time as languages are subject to random drift.

On politics, Chomsky gives a very thorough critique of US foreign policy, but it is excessively materialist, i.e. it assumes the main driving force in politics is money and power, not ideology. Often this seems far fetched, e.g. US politicians are clearly very eager to please the Jewish lobby (e.g. AIPAC) but according to Chomsky it's the Jewish lobby that has been co-opted by the US in order to use Israel as a tool for US foreign policy. And yet in all the private discussions of all US presidents, all we hear is them being pushed to the right by the Jewish lobby. We never hear them saying "the Middle East is too stable, Jews and Arabs are starting to form solidarity and oppose US imperialism. Quick, pressure Israel to take a harder line".
Uninstalled from Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Sick to my stomach. Now I have to let my contact network know, as I've endorsed WOT to many of them.
I couldn't agree more. Bureaucracy creates silos and stymies sharing and agility. Balance is needed.
Microsoft Office doesn't have a moat but they had better product and engineers than the competition and turned that into phenomenally successful business.

I think you are overly discounting the advantage for Slack having done this for 4 years already.
The problem is Chomsky claims that the "professional and scientific elite" are compromised by their role in society, and end up taking up self-serving political views that seek to preserve this role. So the natural question is what make Chomsky different.
Yeah, I'm jealous of my friends from other states that get to vote early. Seems much less stressful to sit by your computer so you can Google whoever you want before voting for them.

Sadly there seems to be zero information about judges on the ballot. Except one guy in my district who was added to the ballot by mistake; he doesn't want to be a judge, and isn't qualified. He was nominated accidentally because he has the same name as a prominent lawyer, who also doesn't want to be a judge.

Worst form of government except for all the others...
The apparent contradiction here should not make you doubt the statement that an isolated quantum system can't gain entropy. It should make you doubt the statement that the universe, or at least the "universe" that appears to us to be gaining entropy, is an isolated quantum mechanical system. In other words, it should make you consider the possibility that we observe an apparent entropy gain because we can only observe a portion of the universe, and that portion is entangled with portions that we can't observe (and might never observe given that the expansion of the universe is accelerating). We never actually observe the pure state of the universe as a whole.
I liked VS Code when I tried it. But...

It irked me when I found out you had to disable telemetry per project/file. That really should be a global setting. Obtaining telemetry data through attrition is not something that will spur my adoption.

I'd rather stay with Atom, vim, or even Eclipse.
Wew, is WOT still alive?
In a similar vein, I had a negative experience with a chrome add-on regarding injected ads.

One day out of nowhere I started seeing obvious non Google ads in my Google searches. Took me forever to realize some QR generator I downloaded years ago was injected them after the page load.

Tried looking up the add-on within the chrome marketplace and the plugin was no longer listed.

Turns out the developers executed a common path of creating a legit plugin then after a large userbase has been established, push an update containing ad injecting code and de-list themselves from the marketplace. Very shady.
Maybe one could raise VC money at a ridiculous valuation to distribute cocaine using the airbnb/uber model...
Is this magazine "The Fish Wrapper"? It's one of the free ones around me.