skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. You seem to be saying that, in order to promote meritocracy, women should be given preferential treatment over men (i.e. hiring, promotions, compensation, etc). You also said that the hypothetical environment I mentioned--in which gender is not a factor whatsoever--would be more meritocratic than current environments.

So you seem to be simultaneously saying that 1) a system in which gender was a non-factor would be more meritocratic than contemporary systems; and 2) that a system in which women are given preferential treatment over men would be more meritocratic than contemporary systems; and 3) that a system in which women are given preferential treatment over men would be still more meritocratic than the hypothetical system.

Point 3 seems a natural conclusion given that you have argued for point 2; if point 3 were not true, it would seem logical to argue for point 1.

Am I misunderstanding you?
> However, systemic sexual harassment

That has yet to be proven with any sort of evidence other than an uncorroborated blog post or two.
I really don't understand what the issue is with tipping. I am American and I love the custom. I feel being able to pay directly the person I have received a service from is very powerful. I think it does incentivise a better work ethic and it's a very social way of affording a middle class income. Now states that reduce the minimum wage for tip workers, that's evil (I live in California).
I have no law education. When I read IAAL it sounds to me as some professional is about to give me some advice. So I don't really get it why anyone would write that on the internets.
So people use Uber because it costs less to ride and because it does not allow tipping idea being that companies should pay more.
This is a sound logic.
Very interesting g.
Yet it was sold as a Muslim ban by the administration, which is a major reason for San Francisco's federal appeal court to suspend it. The fact that it's not an effective Muslim ban is a different question.
Pretty sure that's GNU\Window~1
If users were discerning based on the inner workings of this organization, they should be switching their nameservers away from Cloudflare. Quantifying the number of domainnames CF has in their zones before and after this reported incident would be interesting. Sadly, I doubt there will be much change.
Nonlinear” is not a hypothesis but the lack of a hypothesis
I tried AWS Lambda early on. But I decided to go with the new Azure Logic Apps since I mostly code in C#. And then Lambda added C# support, so I need to find the time to play around with it some more.
You may be right. But what about open-source software projects on the Internet? Many participants in them don't know anything more about their "co-workers" than their username, but they seem to accomplish a lot.
OP is a little abrupt, but it isn't downplaying the system's usefulness to you guys; just warning other readers that this isn't a general solution for, as the post is titled, "dodging S3 downtime". It's a "fluke" precisely because it "just happened" to help with something it wasn't designed for.

It's not uncommon for applications to have MRU access patterns and be able to keep partially functioning during partial data availability. For these applications, a cache will lower costs and mitigate S3 outages. It would have been nice for the article to give the criteria up front.
I think it's still an open question whether Uber has shown that "American companies can be successful." They are losing hundreds of millions per quarter and are only still afloat due to venture capital.
I have no idea what that is
Ask HN: Why technology is not hot about solving real life problems?
I get it that autonomous cars are super cool, but it solves the problem of a human being not wanting to drive.

Autonomous solutions for farm vehicles is far more important and necessary and urgent, but how come driverless cars are more important than the problem of growing food?

I am really struggling with understanding some of the responses/reactions to my queries for farm robots. It all comes down to $$. Some firms won't even give me a quote. They simply tell me to wait till autonomous vehicles becomes mainstream and robotics tech would become more accessible(I don't necessarily agree with this). I don't get it. It's food! Everyone needs it. Like..literally..every single person needs to eat. Not everyone needs to own a driverless car.

I guess I understand the reasoning why farmers are less important than those who can afford 100k cars that drive themselves, but I can't grasp the logic or rationality behind it.

I have some funds but everyone wants to know how much I can spend without giving me a quote. That makes no sense to me. If I were in a farmers market and a customer walks by my stall..and wants to know how much the tomatoes cost, I don't ask them how much they have in their wallet..I tell them how much it costs and they buy if they can..yea?

But let me tell you, this doesn't happen when a farmer approaches an engineering company to design a farm bot.

What am I doing wrong?
How I made six figures coding the year I dropped out of school
The original motivation of Bezie was to build a simple tool to enable finer control over bézier curve automation. It evolved from a MIDI clip generator into a MIDI controller. Bezie opens up new possibilities with cubic and quadratic bézier curves. Bezie runs as a virtual MIDI controller outside of your DAW, not as a VST. This makes MIDI mapping extremely simple and no different than mapping from a hardware controller. Bezie also has several unique features including: vertical & horizontal envelope inversion, copy & paste, grid control and concurrent envelope rendering. Bezie is built with Electron, React and Redux and takes advantage of node-midi for virtual MIDI and SVG for the automation UI.
"See "Intentionally""

Hmmm, interesting. I would have thought a dash cam would be intentional, but I guess you could forget it was on. Now that I read that statute a bit closer, I see it is about the interception of communications. I really don't know what interception of oral communication is? I wonder if I am reading the right statute, lol.

"The court case would be interesting"

Yes indeed.

Edit: Here is some more relevant info, if you are in Wisconsin and want to know more; https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/995/50

http://wislawjournal.com/2010/06/21/commentary-laws-vary-on-...
It is not that rigorous in Russian, though. "First name + patronymic" combination is often used among equals (supposedly equally qualifed/approx. same age group) as a matter of style or tradition, which engineering or research bureaus are especially known for. I've personally encountered such usage in university and in a factory IT departments; my friend, working as mechanical engineer in a big industrial complex, has the same observation. However, despite the inclusion of patronymic, personal pronouns tend to be singular in that case. Such style of referencing perhaps lies between full-blown formal interaction and a joking context as in a casual speech.

Another subtlety is an explicit and implicit addressing style unification among unequal participants.

I. [explicit] When you are referring to superior, using the aforementioned "f.n.+patronymic", he is expected to return you in the same way, even (or especially...) in the case of student-professor interaction.

II. [implicit] You are still expected to use formal addressing, when addressed informally by superior - but when that expectation holds, it is actually considered unacceptable, or bad style at least, for superior to use such addressing; unless you're in the student-professor relationship with the superior, or you're working in some shitty-unwitty paperstocking dogfood reselling organization, or you're unskilled/simple-skilled labour in a government institution.
Rephrasing, superior should make sure that you both use the same addressing style (ie. as in I.).
> their main competitor demonstrated that American companies can be successful without bowing to stupid customs.

And then Uber bent in May 2016.
can I get a referral for the internship? From what I have seen applying directly almost always doesn't work. I just want an interview.
I believe AI (and automation) are just special cases of growing income inequality (between labor and capital), so it's a little unfair, perhaps, as many economists are worried about that.

You can get surplus of labor (and so decreasing its value relative to capital) in two ways - by having too much automation, or by having too much people. The first is the current scenario (of automation), the second is the classic Malthusian one, which I am sure happened many times in history.
In volume perhaps.

One of the most influential open source projects of recent times is Docker. Docker is written in go. MS has gotten behind docker.

Another, kubernetes.

I'm not saying this influenced Visual Studio code. But to say Go devs are insignificant is a little out of touch.
You can think of it as something similar to price discrimination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
So, let's just assume for a second that the author's comments are all completely correct. Then it's still not a good analysis, since it doesn't say at all how these rules came to be and what they try to achieve. I don't think Github's management is so broken that they would F up their core users' businesses for no reason.

It is important to understand it from a progressive point of view, since any compromise would also require Github's needs to be fulfilled at least to some degree. It would also help understand that the author may actually be wrong in his assessment. And last but not least you're just painting half a picture if you just mention your own arguments. Makes your arguments way less convincing.
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Our 20% commission is great because the other company with more funding and first mover advantage takes more commission.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, "and people don't like that."

~~~execution~~~
What happens when multiple regions on AWS are down? Would it be a good idea to also have a complete backup infrastructure on another cloud service?
The best way to convince a large number of people is to write an emotionally powerful novel or screenplay. Fictional characters are by far the most powerful role models in society, so tell that story.
If they're using Imagination and other's IP I'm not sure they could really verify it... but they could definitely insert their own "issues".
I've never understood why tipping, specifically when it is completely optional, threatens people or turns them off. If you don't tip a Lyft driver, they aren't going to give you a dirty look or treat you any differently, especially since you get to rate them on their service.

You can complain that people should be paid a fair wage, but they aren't. I wish for many things, such as the end of warfare, but I accept the current reality that I live in and that I don't care enough about tipping to dedicate time and energy to affect its change. I'm not going to go out of my way to change some business's wage policy. It's sub-optimal, but what isn't? Humans are terrible at setting the correct prices for goods and services. The market does not provide either for a number of reasons (eg we don't take externalities into account, love to socialize losses and privatize gains without getting caught, etc.) It's been this way for longer than I've been alive and has shown no signs of abating.

If it bothers you that there is an OPTION to tip in an app, there's some insecurity there for a reason. Honestly, I like the system. I tip well at bars. As a result, bartenders will occasionally give me free drinks, engage in meaningful conversations, or just really go out of their way for me.
Muslims from Algeria (99% of the population) can enter. Christians from Syria cannot.

That's the weirdest Muslim ban I've ever heard of.
I really wanted to love Scala, and for the first few days I did. But it was a never ending story learning this language. It is so complicated and feature rich that there's just too much to learn. I couldn't just read someone's code without stumbling on some special syntax or language feature that handles a once in a lifetime use case that I didn't know about. Eventually I gave up on Scala.
I usually hava Scala/Java debate before new project (or refactoring) is started. And here is Kotlin relevant.

Kotlin is bundled with Intellij Idea. And Kotlin has smaller adoption barrier.
Good config, but if you're not defining the proxy in an upstream {} block, you can't make use of the keepalive parameter, which keeps a number of connections to the backend alive at any time, reducing the RTT for an actual request.
You need to install the guest addition tools or whatever they are called. Then under Views there is seamless mode.

Were you not able to use it at all or just not with Gala WM?
I agree. I have a job I love (after numerous jobs which sucked), but I'd still vote for less working hours/days so I could actually, you know, LIVE: spend time with family and friends, enjoy nature, have hobbies, etc. The way I see it half the week should be for work, and half for life. So we should all work Monday through Wednesday, and half a day on Thursday.
That's a fair assessment.
There are many issues with tipping

This article and the research behind it

http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a23132/why-tip...

3. The percentage basis makes no sense.

4. Better service doesn't actually beget better tips.

5. It perpetuates racism and sexism.
Exactly! Charge me what you're going to charge. None of this tipping nonsense. It's really a vestige of former times when if someone felt nice enough they'd offer you a tip --not that you deserved it, but it was to show they had heart, a kind of virtue signal.

Why would Lyft want to continue this anachronistic idea which puts the burden on a fare? It's the number one reason I do not use Lyft.
What speed connection do you have, and what speed connection did that tool report?

If your connection is fast enough that that tool is unable to max it out for whatever reason (say you're on a poor WiFi connection), you will experience no bufferbloat.
Yes the .Net Core tooling with the Nuget integration on non-windows platforms would be the main reason Code exists.

As for go, GoSublime is pretty good, I'm hesitant to go to a javascript based editor when Sublime offers such good go support.
Of course speaking to them isn't illegal.

Lying about it during a confirmation hearing? Now that's illegal.
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People are cheapskates and get uncomfortable when confronting that reality so they want to blame the system instead of looking at themselves
Of course! Knack is a no-code platform that makes it easy to build business and workflow apps.

We're looking for full-stack JavaScript engineers, Dev Ops, AWS Systems engineers, and front-end dev/designers.
Yes... I do... not sure where you are going? Are you suggesting regulatory contracts are always positive? Or randomly pointing out how the tax code has exceptions to encourage investment?
I ran VS Code for over a year on Ubuntu. Granted downloading and installing a deb is not as smooth as the OSX click to upgrade, however I've very curious as to what caused 15-20 minute upgrade times for you.
“It’s a common language,” says Buchman. “You have images of the ocean, sand, and pretty people smiling and laughing, and that’s universal.”

Yep, as everyone knows, California invented beaches. There were no "beach kids" before California, and everyone who grows up elsewhere on any coast is emulating southern California.
"American" Intel - Designed in Israel manufactured in Ireland assembled in the Philippines.
It's easy for me to say, but I won't ride in an Uber vehicle. I've disagreed with their practices for quite some time, and these more recent events have only solidified my resolve.

I'm sure I'm the tiny minority, but $3 a day is a pittance vs knowing I'm supporting such a toxic culture.

Plus, if you can't afford an "extra" $3 a day to get to work, then use neither Uber nor Lyft and get on a bus.
I think it's best to keep your critical infrastructure portable. It usually doesn't make financial sense to have a hot backup on another cloud service but having a plan to quickly switch it over in case of emergency is a good idea.

For example, using something like Terraform could spin up infrastructure on AWS, but in a pinch you could make your templates work for Google, Azure, etc.

That said, if your infrastructure is at all complex it can be very difficult to keep it portable.
I don't use Snap products, but from my totally uninformed, unengaged vantage point it seems to me that Snap is valuable because they present a different set of values to their users then Facebook, Google, etc.

Their first product wanted to challenge the permanence of our digital stuff. (Forget the underlying technology.)

The glasses are about challenging this kind of Google/Apple model of the person as some elegant cyborg from the Jetsons. They offered a toy for, like, just goofing off.

I imagine users like it because it's not crammed with ads and spam yet.

$24B is about half of what it costs to build high speed rail from LA to SF, or a third of what it might cost for a manned mission to Mars.

Compared to what it probably costs to operate and develop, $24B sounds redonkulous. Compared to those other projects, it's hard to see what Snap has that's so rare.

Maybe the better comparisons are Nike (market cap $95B) and Coca-Cola ($182B). Snap is using near-commodity economic inputs and outputs to express a point of view and build a brand.

All of this is speculation from my deep crater of ignorance.
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Thanks, good suggestion. It's actually on the front page that our free offering is a spin-off of something commercial. But a FAQ to clarify this particular point would be sensible.
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People ordering using voice based commands to an AI which adds those items to basket and places an order. Similar to what Amazon is doing with Alexa.
wow the author is retarded. Scala is definitely a better Java
I guess I can live with that... but only if they're not at random places in the overworld, like Morrowind or Oblivion on consoles had.
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Quick 'back of the envelope' (literally) calculations:

Toyota Camry [0] Dual VVT-i engine gets 7.9L/100km and 183gm/km emissions. That roughly works out as 2.3kg CO2 per 1L petrol.

Therefore, a tonne of CO2 is produced for every ~430L petrol. Petrol is around AUD $1.40/L, so about AUD $600 of petrol.

Carbon credits [1] are worth about $14 euros per tonne of CO2, which is say AUD $19.

Therefore 'carbon neutral' petrol adds about AUD$20 to AUD$600 worth of fuel, or about 3-4%.

Sound about right? I could stomach that, considering the fuels price goes up and down all the time anyway...

[0] http://www.toyota.com.au/camry/features/economy-and-environm...

[1] http://www.goldstandard.org/blog-item/carbon-pricing-what-ca...

EDIT: formatting...
What's passive about it? ;)

If we can spark a connection with a potential fit we're fine turning off everyone else.
> Did Trump really get elected because of an over-abundance of ... writing about whiteness and cultural identity?

Yes, most emphatically. The white bread bowl of the Midwest is sick of driving 15 year old rusted out trucks and being told they need to support affirmative action, hearing all about how blacks were enslaved, Indians were driven off their lands and slaughtered. That guy driving to the Ford plant in his 15 year old rusted pick-up didn't do any of that. He doesn't see the connection between what happened then and why he should give more today. He's just sick of being told he's privileged.

Because he sure doesn't feel privileged. I know, I know, he probably got out of a speeding ticket somewhere, got the last chicken nuggets, the family practice doc hooked him up with another month of oxycontin, didn't have to pay sales tax at the gun store, whatever, yes, I'm sure he enjoyed moments of white privilege and didn't notice, but that's the nature of white privilege, isn't it? "Whitewashing" is quite pejorative, isn't it?

That subtext in all these 'we whitewashed X' articles, baked into magazines, newspapers, textbooks, has become a core unifying principle of the voters who elected Trump. Nationalism is cultural. Bannon is first and foremost a nationalist and speaks often of culture. Sessions was denied a federal court bench because of his history of racist statements. But he sure loves his country. Both of which probably helped him get elected to the Senate in Alabama. Do you suggest that Trump would have made it without Sessions, Miller (Sessions' former aide), and Bannon spoon feeding him a semi-coherent agenda?

The ugly currents of racism in America aren't going away any time soon. Racism's staying power comes from its paleolithic, evolutionary roots: other is danger. The concept of racism is about as close to the limbic system as civilization gets. And Trump and crew leveraged it to gain power and will continue to leverage it for at least the next 4 years.

Look, I'm a white guy in SoCal, I actually surf, but I grew up in Kansas and Nebraska, and I've lived all over. Man, there are a huge differences between life there and life here. And I'd argue that a lot of the East Coast, especially south of the Mason-Dixon line, is even worse.

But if anyone thinks another lashing is what the penitent need right now, just take a freaking pause. The 63% of America that's white is getting a little weary of it and the lesser minds in that 63% are voting en bloc for raving lunatics. It's not just Trump. It's the whole Republican ticket.

I grew up with this people. The left needs to find an agenda that includes the white guys in pickups who have been eating a baloney sandwiches and potato chips for lunch every day for the last 20 years and, if they're lucky, hope to continue eating baloney sandwiches for the next 30 years. They dream of sending their kids to college too.
I was discussing this with a driver who drives for both Lyft and Uber. His basic stance was that tipping was a difference in kind for tipping, rather than amount, so the living wage argument may not hold. Uber tips tend to be in cash, which is appealing, and may be larger because drunks just hand over twenties, but are rarer, while Lyft tips are more reliable.
To add to it.

I think where we are going is this: early days:

Twenty first level, ten second level, maybe five third level.

Future with AI and smart bots: maybe one first,none second, one extreme highly paid third level.

What do you do with the rest?
Web and Mobile App Development for Education and Tutoring Industry
it's "hear, hear". The expression Comes from the English Parliament back in the 17th century.
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Are we stupid?

Who even uses Drive? Let alone share anything using it.
I'm not American; I have been embittered by the influence the USA has on our world and the relative lack of agency in influencing American actions that the rest of the world exhibits.

I'm ready for another two terms; from the outside looking in I expected continuance of the bombs dropping, the climate talks to continue to end in toothless agreements, the off-shoring of abysmal labour conditions to continue unabated, and so forth, regardless of whether your executive wore red or blue.

Please give me reason for hope, because we need it.