skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That completely dodges my question, but yeah I do. I think the OP makes the mistake of assuming that once a journalist receives a source of information then their job is done, but good reporting takes a lot of hours of corroborating information with multiple sources and doing background.

The Intercept is definitely a leftist publication but to say that they are partisan Democrat just isn't true. They were one of the few publications that consistently reported on the outrageous drone bombing campaigns during the Obama administration. Glenn Greenwald was even accused of being a Trump supporter by people in the Hillary camp for about as long as they were running against each other.
I've been the source of junk news before, and I agree that plagiarism could be a decent metric for identifying quality.
"You"? It seems you didn't understand my previous comment. Fine. I really don't know how to explain the concept much better. It's something about not putting absolute ideas over people, including oneself. That's not to say despising common interest, but just having a little common sense.

Let me share an old story of my hometown. Public water supply pipes are a disaster in the area. I saw an official report that showed that the waste was between 20% and 40%. So, even if this is the spanish province with the most rain, we suffered from restrictions most summers. No current water from 10 PM to 10 AM.

Now two infuriating (for me, at least) cases: one nearby village spent a hefty sum repairing the pipes, so no more leaks, and a family here that installed a reservoir in the roof to have water after 10 PM. Please notice that cutting the supply is not intended to make people consume less (they do more since water is kept in buckets for the night), but to reduce the leaks to half (half time pressurized pipes).

The family was fined because they were not "solidary" with their neighbours. The rest of councils of the area made a big noise and demanded the village that had invested in infrastructure, and thus attacked the root problem, to put restrictions in place.

You might think that these stories have nothing to do with the current conversation. Maybe I should have written about the fines for not recycling while there were not recycling facilities, so everything ended in the same dumpster, or the golf fields that sucked tons of water, I don't know.

My point is what I wrote above: beware of this kind of absolute idea when they stomp over people or common sense. Do what you reasonably can to make the world a little better, but don't put the responsability to save the world on your shoulders, that's not healthy.
It is a part of the phenomenon of being "surprised by a Trump win". Listening to the news from just one bubble and interpreting everything through it, it does seem like it should have been some extraordinary Russian interference, extreme statistical fluke, a secret cabal of white supremacists, FBI coups or something like that. It is unimaginable that people simply voted for him.
Bobby Tables in action
I don't think you made it past the first table of numbers, which the author wasn't satisified with.

Later in the article, Matthew Prestifilippo accounts for the factors you mention (except salary negotiation) and lists various occupations in which women or men have pay advantages in the aggregate.
ZeniMax awarded $500M in Oculus lawsuit
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg told CNBC's Julia Boorstin that she was "disappointed in certain elements of the decision." Sandberg added she was "considering our options to appeal," and the verdict was "not material to our financials."

Sure, FB has a lot of money. But still -- $500M is "not material" to their finances?
I hope so as well. I love F# but using it in a corporate environment is hard due to its second tier status.
Fake News is just Culture Jamming done by media insiders.
But the whole argument in "casual calculus" is based on the assumption that you have a situation where controlled, randomized experiments are impossible. So why/how is that route not possible to design into recommender engines, churn prediction, or contextual bandits?
Do you use the cover of a book to judge it's contents? Design wasn't that bad (at least it's not red background with blue texts).

OP don't get discouraged by one off comments like this on HN. They rarely add any real value and most of the time just personal preferences.

Your content was very informative and valuable.
Even when it isn't what the lab guys were expecting:

http://www.startrek.com/article/trouble-keeping-her-green
Would you lose respect for someone if they joined an organization to influence it in a way to prevent it from doing evil?

Not saying this is what Thiel is doing, but there's no way to know so far what his intentions are and people seem to be disinclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
The key input for demonstrating causality is statistical independence, not human involvement. If there is an independent (exogenous) variable influencing the system, these can function fine ("natural experiment").
The entire establishment really, and foreign countries like China, that continues to buy US companies (yahoo, riotgames, and plenty of others)
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I made & deleted a profile on Facebook ysterday for branding a product. Yelp and google biz as well.

In my experience, it provides little value for startups except in narrow arenas (cause or nprofit/physical consumer product) and is a time sink.

It reminded me of what a pain it was and it was worth having an hour as a sunk cost. If you are raising, it provides a minimal amount of validation and credibility, but time is much better spent elsewhere
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It is difficult to take a binary program and establish intent. I'd rather call these "interesting and unusual programming tricks" than "anti-emulation measures" until more evidence is presented.

Mirrored memory is a side effect of unconnected lines on the address bus thus making the content of those bits irrelevant. Code can take advantage of this to run faster or put tag values into addresses.

On a GBA, VRAM is faster than ordinary RAM. Programs can do well to use it for tight inner loops.

Using STM (store multiple) to DMA registers? Again, go faster.

Save type masquerading might be code that helps when running on a development kit, but I admit that I can't think of what use it might have.

Self-modifying code that depends on the pre-fetch queue might be the best place to look for intent. Might be easy to tell if the program is doing it for some larger purpose or simply to fail subtly or overtly if it sees unrealistic processor behavior.

Any why would a program do extra work writing to an audio FIFO than need be?
As someone who hasn't had the opportunity to use Gitlab, could you expand on why you "think Gitlab is the best thing happened to OSS"?
I feel like this was addressed a bit in the linked blog post: the support is getting better and it's now "in the family" as opposed to a primarily community and research-supported "toy".

I'm looking for the nearing releases where F# starts to share much more of the same Roslyn platform that C# and VB have been using for a while now. That should be some very interesting tooling to have at F#'s disposal.

C# is always going to be the flagship for the same reason that C/C++/Java/et al are still some of the most common programming languages in the world. That doesn't mean that we can't expect good things from F#, though.
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/deplo...

Not only is it a short hop, it already exists :P
TechCrunch says "Oculus pays $200M for NDA [breach of contract], $50M for false des[ignation], $50M for copyright [infringement], Luckey pays $50M false des, Iribe pays $150M false des" [1]

So it's more like FB/Oculus pay 300m, Luckey 50m, Iribe (former CEO) 150m. It looks like the judgement is against Oculus and their execs, which misrepresented what was sold to FB. It seems like they were found innocent of theft, which would have been more the more damaging charge going forward IMHO.

As it is, it's a big cash penalty and that's it; which could mean FB might choose to cut their losses and just pay, rather than risk going through an appeal.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/01/jury-awards-zenimax-500-mi...
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It feels like PostgreSQL is at the center of every terrible story about data loss[1] or poor performance[2].

I think companies prefer other databases like MySQL because they "just work."

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-...

[2]: https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/
Forgot: Matsuri is here: https://github.com/matsuri-rb/matsuri

It's largely undocumented. I've heard some interest in places to use it. Time constraints is such that creating examples for it is low on my priority list. Frankly, if you don't know Ruby, you're probably better off looking at Helm.
Or: discrimination is baked into the assignment of job titles.
The United States traditionally has enjoyed a wide variety of opinions in its various regional daily newspapers, and some studies in the past have shown very little bias overall (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2000....). Obviously there was individual bias, but not in the meta.

Maybe something has happened of late (would love to see data, aside from cable news which I think has obtained strong bias of late). But personally, I believe that if there is a problem, it is more the consolidation of media outlets into very large corporations.

This is a lack of diversity problem, not a bias problem. If "mainstream media" is defined by Big Corporations, you have to include Fox News (News Corporation) and AM talk radio (largely Clear Channel) with the liberal side of MSNBC (Comcast), Time Warner (CNN), Disney (ABC), and CBS. I can easily buy that the fact we have much fewer voices than we used to driving the narrative might lead more to monolithic opinions and groupthink.

Incidentally, I personally find the charges you are making about media actively helping campaigns a bit weird as well, given Steve Bannon's role in the Trump campaign.
> massive loss in the popular vote

Can we stop talking about the popular vote? As long as people know the electoral college is what matters, the popular vote is tainted. People who live in states that are not going to swing either a) don't vote or b) vote their ideal candidate.

HN is a place where we are typically critical of any studies methodology yet we hang on to a number as skewed as the popular vote. Imagine if you were polled and told "No matter what you vote your state is going red/blue. How do you plan to vote?" That is basically the question and it means the popular vote means very little in the end.
from what I know that's what wage gap refers to, not gaps in payment for the same job. From your reasoning it seems like you're part of the problem
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I'm all for maintaining backwards compatibility but I've coded in both and VB is just an inferior language. Sorry :)
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Link doesn't work for me on iOS Chrome. This one does: https://medium.com/@lewispants/i-was-fired-from-my-journalis...
This looks like a good read for tonight with a cup of Starbucks !
I'm willing to forgive a lot, but that site is atrocious. I could care less about 'well designed' - I'm fine with black and white with boring fonts - but gifs bouncing around all over the place combined with a difficult color scheme is too much.
No, he wrote:

> Since 1920 the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

If you read the original essay[1] you will see that he is making a descriptive and not a proscriptive point. He is not saying "we should not let women vote, because then we could have capitalist democracy". He is saying "women are not attracted to libertarian politics, and they have the franchise, therefore capitalist democracy is not going to happen. Therefore, we should go beyond politics to make it happen". He suggests three ways of making it happen: Cyberspace, outerspace, seasteading.

[1] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
That would still be a strong correlation, but not causation. One could add a weight to each observable state and select for the biggest weight so far, but it would have nothing to do with the actual causes. Would a dead dog bark when kicked?

There are some principles which cannot be undone by any amount of hipsterism and sophisticated sectarian bullshitting. There is no way to jump from observation to causality without knowing the implementation. At least in this particular universe.

In the realm of models (or ideas) it could be seem doable, but a map is not a territory, model does not represent reality until proven experimentally.
Don't refuse outright. That'll just set up a primate dominance game with the people tasked with getting you to sign.

Tell them you'll check with your lawyer. It's always considered a basic right in developed nations to ask lawyers questions and it usually takes unpredictable amounts of time and it implies that someone with connections is employed to be on your side of any disagreement. That should be the last you hear about it. There's very seldom any need actually to hire a lawyer after saying it.
The fact that they were upfront and honest about it and that they even live streamed themselves fixing the problems makes me want to use gitlab even more. If anything I have even more confidence in them. You didn't hear a peep from Microsoft when the forced windows 10 upgrade bricked thousands of laptops. Perhaps that's why such a huge portion of developers prefer OSX/Linux to Windows? I've run six businesses over the past decade and when windows 10 started rolling out I was in a Houston office that lost nearly a hundred terabytes of client data. We did everything by the books, paid for the business and enterprise editions of Windows, used their servers, used their proprietary software stack, used their support service, and they still fucked us and didn't really seem to care or think they did anything wrong.

I have another company that runs on a completely open stack, where pretty much nothing is integrated by a specific vendor. We have hiccups, but we've never had the OS get hijacked and upgraded.

I've noticed most start-ups run by devs run on a more open stack and hack their way through problems on the cheap, and the ones run by corporate executives try to keep things as closed as possible, but end up spending millions to solve problems that they could have had some people solve for fun on the internet.

I prefer to use the right tool for the right job, but I wish companies like Microsoft would be more open when they cause huge issues that end up causing monetary loss. I make sure all my critical infrastructure is open source these days.
> Do you use the cover of a book to judge it's contents?

This is more like judging a book by its poor type-setting.
No way, not everyone in tech is a leftist.
This wasn't something I knew, but it appears that Carmack used to indirectly work for Zenimax, who became the parent company of id.
First, many of the media outlets that obsessively covered Clinton's emails were explicitly pro-Clinton. That story was, like it or not, actual news on some level. As exaggerated and politicized as it got, people were interested in it because Clinton was a presidential candidate, regardless of her views and party.

Second, I absolutely think right-leaning media that harps on non-issues solely because they paint the left in a negative light deserves the same criticism I made above. This just happens to be a case of the reverse.
>John Carmack, Oculus chief technology officer and founder of a company owned by ZeniMax, improved on the device using his knowledge from his previous work as a ZeniMax employee.

That's a scary precedent...
It's interesting how it does tend to be the second of two, because you never see it occur on thirds even where it "works", such as sequoïa, aqueöus, Hawaiiän, or Louïe.
So like, you presume to have access to a set of countervailing facts about reality that any given NYT or WaPo article is dishonest about, whereas Fox or Breitbart gives you the straight take on these facts. But why are you so certain that you are the one with access to those true facts? What are you cross-referencing the Breitbart articles against to ensure their trustworthiness?
I must admit my experience is a few years old, but one thing that the whole text doesn't mention and that has contributed a lot to the negativity I feel towards the java ecosystem: It seemed not well integrated in the Linux ecosystem.

What do I mean? I often experienced that Java dependencies were not readily available in Linux distros. Packaging Java stuff was - weird and complicated, not sure how to better phrase it.

For Python/Ruby/PHP you usually can rely on the fact that major libraries are properly packaged. For Java not so much.
You might need an income not all investing is for 100% capital growth
Yeah, not everything branded as progress is, but archaism goes against every kind of progress.
Avian [0] is an embeddable VM in the way you suggest, I haven't used it though.

In the future, we'll hopefully have the Substrate VM [1] for Java and other Truffle-supported languages. It's embeddable and also does reachability analysis to exclude unused library code. For now, it seems to be closed source.

[0] http://readytalk.github.io/avian/

[1] http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/papers/2015_CGO_Graal.pdf
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There's a concept called "grid parity", where solar PV can deliver energy for the same cost as your utility would charge you for it's provision. This is considered a tipping point, where the economics starts pushing things along harder rather than relying on idealism. It got talked about for years as a goal, but now we've passed it in various parts of the world (starting in those with the combination of lots of sun and high priced utilities).

There's another concept that builds on this called "god parity", which points out that simply distributing energy via a grid has a cost (sometimes more than half of the cost you pay), so if you imagine that you had a tame god that could generate infinite energy for free, but you still had to pay the distribution costs, then if current trends continue, then PV plus batteries would still be cheaper than paying for a grid to deliver "free" energy to your home. It's perhaps not a coincidence that Tesla provides both of the items needed to make this happen, PV and home energy storage.

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Related: I believe you can take offset such a settlement from profits to reduce taxes. Never really understood the rationale for this. Seems pretty arbitrary and another example of how corporations are often favored over humans.
Personally I have no interest in Oculus and it's equal parts Facebook and the vendor lock-in BS.
If you're installing a compiler on your production server, you're doing it wrong.
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Good to hear that the jury made the right decision on the ridiculous charges against Carmack. Sad to hear that they think a bunch of litigious assholes deserve $500 million for getting a signature on an NDA.