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> If there is no (major) wrongdoing, you cannot just tear them down. The organization needs to be corrupt in the first place.

I'm not so sure that's true. As the size of an organization grows, the probability that someone in it will write an e-mail that looks incredibly damning when leaked approaches 1. That's true regardless of whether there is any actual corrupt behavior, but the political damage is done regardless. IMO, the public is generally not great at teasing apart real misconduct from stupid private e-mails, because the public either lacks or chooses to ignore context.

I know in this day and age it's not very popular to say that things should be kept from the public, but I'd like to point out the example of the legal system. Judge often decide that evidence should not be shown to juries because the evidence is inflammatory and will cause bias. Sometimes showing more evidence leads to less truth, not more. Obviously, Wikileaks is not a court, but it does choose who gets to see what, and they have some idea of how the public will react to what is revealed. But we have no real idea how they internally make that decision.

> I don't see anything suggesting strong incentives to do shady things, can you elaborate please?

Sure -- this is an organization that often gets illegally obtained information from perhaps anonymous sources. Because the sources are by definition secret or inaccessible, and yet the information can be very damaging, there's always the temptation for illicit dealings. Here are some possibilities:

- Someone in Wikileaks uses the information to blackmail the target of a leak

- The target of a leak gets wind of it and tries to buy off Wikileaks

- Outside actors (e.g. the Russian government) effectively use Wikileaks as a 'neutral' channel to cloak their interference in the political affairs of another country. This may in fact be what is happening today, but we can't be sure because again -- Wikileaks is not transparent.

- A Wikileaks staffer is arrested or otherwise threatened by a government to do their bidding

Contrast this how major news organizations handle sources and leaks: journalists form a professional body with their own journalistic code of ethics and conduct. Leaks are evaluated for their newsworthiness and sources are scrutinized.

Obviously, traditional media organizations aren't perfect either, but they are far more open and transparent than Wikileaks is, because there are institutional norms developed over decades that constrain their behavior.

In a perfect world, Wikileaks would be open and transparent in their process of how they evaluate and pass on leaks, so we can be sure that they're not being unduly influenced or using it to advance a hidden agenda.
How would you go about finding the kids and signing them up?
You're right, what we really need is a gamified religion app with prayer congestion pricing, exciting confessional tellalls, and micro-indulgences.
I think voter turnout is low for 2 reasons:

1. Tuesday voting. It's a work day. People have to work. They aren't going to skip work (and maybe jeopardizing their food and shelter) just to go vote.

2. They're angry and apathetic. People vote for change candidates and people that promise to disrupt Washington. What does that tell you?

People don't like their choices. They feel like the candidates barely (if at all) represent them or their interests. They disapprove of Congress and they have little confidence in government (and have on both points for quite a while).

So some of them decide to stay home instead.

For 1, we have mail-in ballots and early voting. And for 2, it really doesn't matter how easy you make it to vote. That's not the problem.
Actually it's almost entirely white space, which does give a sense of the actual KDE ui.
I would have to see proof of this statement in teaching. Daycare is openly hostile towards men particularly where insurance is concerned and it doesn't look like the stats in elementary school are changing.
i'm looking at this but for tablets. wonder if it'll run on older tablets.

i have the nexus 7 original. i've tried running custom roms of the latest android os and it's just too laggy. would love something that is custom.
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I can't say I ever get quizzed on it. But avoiding On*n solutions is something we have to do everyday.
Spectacular. The quality of the water, sand, and their interplay is a little mind-bending. Storytelling drives technology drives storytelling.

I'm reminded, once again, why Pixar is in a league of its own.
I've used the Giphy integration, and unless I was using it wrong it is horrendous. You can just write /giphy <word> and it will pick a random gif for you, and most of the time they are completely irrelevant.
Well, at least it work well with HN.
http://i.imgur.com/wg9r4DM.png :)
I'm pretty sure the psychological research would say the latter. Failure is a lot less scary when your ego isn't tied up in it.
If you opt to vote by mail, California's process is similar! The voter booklet was actually very helpful to me because it contained some candidate statement that weren't online (for local municipal positions).
Do you at least utilize the Google contributor network, which is just such a micro payment system?
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In my industry bonuses are as reliable as public company RSUs. To my knowledge, there is less public information on RSU grants and bonuses so I am puzzled by your last sentence.
Smutefy?
TIL Russian women are not white.
They do provide you with unique reach at the adset level, which will tell you how many users in your audience have been reached.
I'm well aware of what the term order of magnitude means.

I've shipped things twice, in the shipping-company provided boxes. An overnight "medium box" between NYC and LA is on the order of $10. (Hence my "not quite" remark, it was technically more than $6 and for a smaller box. But shockingly cheap nonetheless.)
It's absurd that voting day isn't a national holiday.
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I didn't see anything in the article or other things on polynesian navigation that indicated they used mathematics. To determine longitude by the sun and stars, an accurate chronometer was still necessary.
The Broadcom wireless card my XPS 13 (9343) Developer Edition shipped with absolutely does not play well with Linux. Including the Ubuntu 14.04 version it shipped with.

It's a known issue, and that's not all. When the machine originally launched there were huge problems with the audio, the trackpad, the bluetooth, and the screen brightness control.

You don't have to buy it. I did... for $1100, and now it mostly sits on a shelf. I had to go back to my MacBook Air to get multi-modal work done. I can use Linux as a primary machine if the only thing I ever use is Emacs. The instant I have to venture across different applications and different modes of content creation (docs, code, slide decks, etc.) it's a very bespoke and inefficient experience.
In 2014 I abstained from voting as a political statement: https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2014/12/why-i-didnt-vote.html

(Albeit a juvenile one.)
Google made a huge mistake choosing to base Android on Java, IMHO. I know they did it because they felt it would be easier to get developers on board but it's the main reason Android is slow and memory hungry. OSes like Plasma prove that compiling binaries for ARM processors is not a big problem and that compiled code runs much faster. Java byte code may have the potential to run close to native speed but in practice it carries with it a lot of bloat.
This explains in more detail how it works: https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/friends/Technology_of_Oceania.pdf
I do cave exploration, and it can be an even more insidious version of that: in a vertical cave you rappel down to the bottom - a task that can require almost no exertion at all in some caves. Then once you turn around its vertical climbing all the way to the top, occasionally in very cold and wet conditions where stopping for any significant length of time can lead to hypothermia and death faster then you'd be rescued.

Of course, good cavers know all this and take their limits into account! So it doesn't have to be as dangerous as it sounds, but God help you if you go in without knowing this.

And sure enough, I usually find the most mentally hard part of caving to be going in, rather than coming out.
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You interpreted my comment backwards. The point is to analyze Democracy in traditional terms, not to port its techniques to older religions.
His theory was this. He like everyone else wants the top 5%. Some of those people graduated from standford and have a clean job history. Those people don't spend much time looking for work. While smaller in number, great people with odd backgrounds are likely to spend longer looking for work. So, if you actually want the best look for them in the rejection pile.

Clearly this is not going to scale, but it really depends more on other companies being defective not a poor culture at your company.

PS: I am more of the opinion that focusing on great people is a mistake. Most competent people can be great, when in a role and team that fits them.
"Diversity" and "inclusiveness" isn't about adding more randomness to a selection, it's about introducing an explicit and deliberate bias. Special outreach programs favor candidates with lower _distribution_ in the available populace. Not only is it discrimination by itself, against the current majority, but it's self-defeating measure, in that every diversity hire skews the remaining pool of candidates more towards the biased majority it's trying to eliminate. This is usually combined with a concerted effort to ignore the actual sources of skew in the first place, because the implications go against ideas of blank-slatism and politically correct thought.

If you want to bring moral imperatives into it, one would think a basic commitment to truth and statistical literacy would be included, but it very rarely is. You'd also imagine diversity of thought would be included as a point of intellectual honesty, but in practice, it is the exact opposite.

As for software projects routinely failing, that has numerous possible explanations. One is that it's one of the most abstract forms of engineering around, in the sense that the material we manipulate and the arrangements we construct cannot be seen or touched, and hence are invisible to outsiders. It must rely entirely on explicit and deliberate communication, unlike more practical fields. The onus is entirely on the engineer to make himself understandable, and it is rare to find people gifted both in abstraction and verbal thinking.

Another is the recurring observation that schools are particularly bad at teaching the practical skills required to deliver software projects, being taught by people with little to no industry experience. It goes beyond basic project and code management skills and goes into product design and usability: people learn to build code when they should be learning to craft tools. But just because currently applications focus more on theory than practice, doesn't mean we'd get better results by turning to people who lack the theory entirely.
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>I think your argument would be stronger if you used examples where physical strength is seldom an important factor in job-performance.

Why is there such a push for female police, soldiers, and fire fighters?

I don't want a woman trying to pull me out of a fire if she was only accepted because of lower standards.
What a crazy idea! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_Canada
You're right, it is such a problem that someone just hasn't mused up a solution for it yet.

I'm glad this is getting the attention this issue deserves.
I wonder if any warning was given to npm that they would be getting this potentially huge new source of traffic. It doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere.
I'm not sure making it a national holiday helps. If you have a heart attack or your house catches on fire, what do you do? Deal with it until Wednesday? No, those people will be working.

In New York, your employer has to pay you for two hours to go vote. http://www.elections.ny.gov/nysboe/elections/attentionemploy...
Google Contributer lets you do that given they handle the micro payments on your behalf to publishers. I would definitely subscribe to it and at least not block double click': network if you are annoyed by ads like I am.
Not to mention the throwaway account. I wish HN would fix that problem already. It brings the level of discourse way down.
If your CDN supports stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error, you should consider enabling them -- it will take the load on your servers from O(users * packages) to O(POPs * packages)
The Business Insider article is sourced from http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/11/01/Disturbing-...

And to answer your question, no, other than using a click-baity title.
This sounds like an opportunity, maybe? Stripe for Porn
The TypeScript team will do feature work to minimize npm requests via a well-known cached list of packages.
The main reason is that integrating web-components into a server-side rendered language (such as PHP, Java, et al) that generates HTML is much simpler than setting a V8 context to do SSR of React components.

React is brilliant and my favourite library and architecture, but without things like react-standalone[0] integrating singular components within an existing application, especially one that isn't completely client-side, is rather painful at times!

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-standalone
That's a pretty good question. https://github.com/skatejs/skatejs#vs-react covers it in a bit of detail.

Depending on standards will be great in the long run, as over time the need to deliver polyfills will evaporate.

In addition, writing a web component allows integration with any framework (even React! https://github.com/webcomponents/react-integration ).
Pornhub doesn't generate most of their money from subscriptions. It was never their primary business model to do that. It's mostly ad and referral revenue. I also think most tube sites run on thin margins or even at a loss. And like a commenter below mentioned, you can't do recurring payments with bitcoin. It's strictly a push payment, and even if there were a third party or service that could effect a recurring payment model, it would be too risky.

A good chunk of porn site revenue comes from rebills to people who forget to cancel their subscription after they've joined at 2am Saturday morning, drunk/high, needing to pound one out before passing out. (This is literally the description of a typical customer a porn studio manager gave me.)
My big dumb #MozFest fail
ditto.

For a while google displayed real estate for sale on google maps. I can't quite put my finger on exactly why (maybe that it was google maps), but it was much more useful than the standard real-estate sites. Was sad to see it go.
As to B, I would say the biggest problem tech faces is the education specifically daycare and elementary school do not have equal gender representation or qualified, enthusiastic STEM instructors. We need to fix that and not only demonstrate in classrooms professionals working together regardless of sex and make STEM something to dream with instead of being dreaded.

Until we fix the classroom that forms early childhood loves and hates, nothing is really going to work with software developers. We will get mostly outsiders that found their love outside of the system.

Also, why would you want your daughters to go into a career that exhibits all the ageism of being an actress?
Do you propose to ignore/lowball compelling candidates who've put down roots in high cost of living areas and intend to stay in them?

Or pay rural/developing world employees more than they demand?

IMO, both are at least a little bit irresponsible.
Yeah, 404 generation needs to be efficient for cases like this. Sounds like npm simply hadn’t encountered a situation where this mattered.
Women have a lower distribution in the populace?
True, but when I say "3rd party code" I was specifically referring to code coming from a 3rd party server and therefore not under the control of the 1st party. If the site I visit hosts the code then I trust it because I trust the 1st party (not saying that's necessarily a good idea, but it's my current philosophy).

I have uBlock Origin set to block any 3rd party requests, so I do have to explicitly "invite" any such code/resources. And you can tell uBlock to remember those invites. This feature has made the web bearable again.
> Let's see if there's any intellectual honesty here

Have you tried looking, before just assuming that such things don't already exist?

I mean, a simple Google search will find plenty of industry groups, in multiple countries, dedicated to supporting women in all of those industries. They encourage women to pursue careers in those industries, do advocacy and education, and work with the industry to try to fix the problems that cause the lack of women in those industries. This is true for pretty much every industry that was traditionally male-dominated.

Same goes for men in traditionally female-dominated industries.

None of these efforts are as high profile as business or tech. Doesn't mean they don't exist.
Just because you minify and obfuscate this code doesn't somehow make it better or let you win the "contest".

I can walk through the submitter's code and understand what's happening clearly. It's fairly well structured and easy enough to read. This is 20x more valuable than any code that is produced using uncommented edge features for a perceived 5% gain. (Note that I'm making up these numbers to illustrate a point.)
I've capped out my income at the moment, when recruiters talk to me I always try to force them into the compensation discussion first. Including risk discounts, expected future growth rates, etc. they quickly stop wasting my time.
I've always thought they should move it to the weekend (both days). I think it would be possible for everyone to get one of those days off.
We have been testing this on insider builds of vscode for a few weeks as well as preview builds of visual studio with no issues. We were just notified today by npm that we are flooding their servers.
GSuite seems to be suggesting that they're in different cities, due to the different buildings in the background. It's also full of things you'd want even when sitting at a table with people--docs, sheets, etc.
I actually did this a while ago. I wanted to try out creating a docker base image from scratch so created one for RHEL 4 and then launched it as a container on RHEL 7. I didn't do too much with it other then prove out that I could run processes in it, but as far as I could tell it was functional. And the weird looks I got from people when I told them about it were great!

Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat.
Thank you so much for the heads up! Have a great day!
looks great. Did you use any frontend framework?
3 person household with 2 drivers. 3 cars, FMV totalling about $5000. I keep an extra car to get to work when one of the others is broken down. One of the vehicles is a compact pickup with a canopy for diversifying utility, if needed.

We're well below median household income; but we must have transportation at all times.

I have found the sweet spot for used cars to be about $4000. Won't need too much work for a couple years, and I refuse to take the depreciation on more expensive cars. Cash-and-carry, I will not have a car loan, either - not paying interest.

My ego is not in my ride.
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SRE, not going to post the name of the company but its a distributed org and former YC alumni company. It's only been a few months but I am very happy there so far, and the process that resulted from reading their post here was one of the more enjoyable interviewing experiences I've had.
Filtering is not even the job that funnels do.
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I posted this mostly in order to probe HN manipulation practices. After posting this link I refreshed rank list every 30s and observed score and position changes.

Few minutes after being posted this story appeared on the second page (~55 position). Then I was slowly accumulating votes and climbing up in the rank list. 30 minutes after it had 12 points and was on ~35 position. Maintaining current upvote rate, it would leap into the first page within the next 5 minutes. Instead, after next refresh of the ranking page, it disappeared completely. I checked the next 10 ranking pages and it isn't visible there either.

It wasn't flagged (if it was, I wouldn't be aple to post this comment). So some other mechanism of elimination of undesirable links must be in use here.
the imply was that some retailers will jack up the cost of an item in order to provide free shipping. I'm just pointing out that doesn't really work unless the buyer is stupid and uniquely drawn to the free shipping offer.
Impressive work perks.
It would be really great to be able to build macOS-only open source apps on Linux.
That's kind of moving the goal-posts; we were discussing construction, which, at least in my experience, has a lot less OSHA oversight. Probably it is different in more unionized sectors as well; my experience is decidedly not - smaller logging, construction and power generation companies, where you often don't have the equipment to really do things correctly, for whatever reason, but it has to get done, and so brute strength and ignorance are resorted to.
That's a grossly ungracious summary, but yes: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You need to show some evidence of specialness first, otherwise it's just wishful thinking.

I suspect the "quantum brain" movement is in part so popular because it tricks people into thinking its claims are not extraordinary. That's why I speculated that its insidiousness comes from the fact it's a New Age pseudoscience which caters to people's pre-existing sense of superiority over the rest of the cosmos. I contend that quantum spirituality holds little appeal for materialists.
Show me baseband source and then I'll believe the claim that this is a "open hacking device."

Language abusers.
If a company is earning revenue day 1, then profit sharing can yield much higher returns than equity.
I put a lot of stock in the power of discourse. When a person publicly expresses their hatred or contempt, they always raise the levels of hatred and contempt in the listeners--those that agree with them are emboldened, and those that disagree are aggravated. Creating a more hateful society is so negative (in my opinion) that it outweighs the benefits of the honesty.

I think the strongest case against my stance is the politicians, since we need to "know" them in order to be informed as voters. Except politicians are actively campaigning, so it's impossible to know whether a politician is expressing those views because they actually believe them or just because they think it's good strategy. Therefore, when it comes to politicians, I judge them more on what they've done in the past, and I consider their public statements mostly on their tone than on their content, because it probably reflects the tone they'll continue to take once they're in office. Hypothetically, if I could instantly detect the truth in a politician's statement, maybe the information benefit would outweigh, but since I need to assume that I don't know the full story no matter what they say, I'd prefer they be kind than mean.
I always think it's funny when people point out that all the ad-driven content would be gone if nobody viewed ads. So what? I'd pay for the few things that were really worth it, and the rest would be provided by people who just wanted to share. That would be amazing.