skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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- Electron doesn't support mobile so I don't understand this comment. Their are lib for python on mobile good, bad, or evil I don't know. It isn't just a lack of DOM related performance issues it is also V8 performance issues, chromium performance issues, and electron performance issues. When you stack a engine on top of a engine on top of another engine you can't expect to achieve awesome speeds. And if you are making a desktop app why would you even care about making a website of that app?

>Java
Again if you are making a desktop app why would you also need a website performing the same task? React Native is for mobile apps electron is for desktop apps so I don't understand why you are bring this up as well.

Electron exist same reason nodejs exist webbies to scare to learn another language. JS isn't bad, but how people use it makes it bad. I should actually say programmers are to scare or lazy to learn alternative solutions to a problem. It is simpler to use what you already know then to try something else. What does electron bring to the table? A way for someone that know JS, css, and html to produce a cross platform desktop app that is it. You don't gain performance, security, and it isn't the only cross platform solution like Java once was. People use to use Java only because it was the only cross platform solution. It had horrible memory leaks and all sorts of issues that still plague it to today. Yet it was the only cross platform desktop solution of its time. That is why electron is seen as useless to me I know how to program in c, c++, c#, JS, and elixir. I would probably learn python stack if I wanted a cross platform solution to a desktop app.
Out of the loop: Why would someone want to disable Intel AMT? I gather that there was an exploit?
What are the best resources for cyber security training?
They've are spending $20B to design an obsolete disposable heavy launch system that maximizes political pork.
I understand the behavioral part of the article. The part that gets me is "...call for acting and self-presentational skills that favour people who change their deeds to fit the situation." The part about changing your deeds to fit the situation looks to me like lying and manipulating to get what you want.
This may be the minimum.

I would think that building planes, as expensive as they are, would mean that you would want to sell them to everyone. In order to sell in a country, you probably have to commit to building (or assembling) some parts of it in that country. Breaking it up the way they did probably is as efficient as they can make it now. I guess we'll see in some years how that turns out financially for them.
Stanford Tests Swapping Java for JavaScript
Semi-related, in case you haven't seen it:

http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/cppyy.html
The Japanese real-estate market is also very different, houses depreciate in value and are generally not seen as an investment. A 15-year old house is likely to be bulldozed and rebuilt from the group up by a new owner [0]. This also means the housing stock has rapid turnover and newer models can accommodate EV charging much quicker than in the US.

[0] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-japanese-homes-dispo...
Does the app say out loud the colour name? If not - it would be a good feature for partially sighted users also.
Care to elaborate on how the cobra effect relates here?
And that was quite obviously a reason many developers chose tcl/tk at the time, in spite of tk not being a "reasonably complete" GUI toolkit.
Etsy alternative: https://www.thegrommet.com/
I've entered the US dozens of times. Visa waiver, 6 month visa, multi year visa.

Never been asked to show electronics. Never been to a special room. Most of the time they ask one or two questions, take my fingerprints, and welcome me to the country.

Now that my passport has a US address in it, even though I'm technically not a resident, they politely say "Welcome Back".

Last time I entered was on Monday. The lady was extremely polite, even smalltalked a bit while the computer was giving her trouble because my visa is in an old passport and my new passport is 7 days old. Guess she had to sync up the system.

Time from entering the queue to being in the country was 24 minutes. I ran a stopwatch.

That said, my visa process did involve checking my social accounts and internet activity because I explicitly listed it as an argument for why I qualify for an O-1.

Anecdata, I know. But that's my experience. I'm white and from eastern-ish europe.
If you look under 25, IIRC, you're supposed to be "challenged" (asked for ID) in the UK for alcohol sales.

Also, under 18s probably still want to be served. I was 14 when I first tried to get served in a bar (barman sold a 16yo the drinks, then came and confiscated them; canny barman).
EV West seems to be doing a good job of building up a catalog of conversion kits. Model S running gear in a tri-5 Chevy won't be as efficient as the original package, but it is good enough (except for that V8 rumble)
Obama droppee 26,000 bombs on Muslims last year

Strange, for someone who received Nobel Peace Prize. To be fair, he received it just for being black, nothing else (it was just after he won his first term, he hadn't even had time to accomplish anything of significance).
Being a well-off 19yo engineer in Poland I can't even imagine being treated unequally in everyday life, so that's yet another reason to not visit US for me, other than almost certainly being questioned at a border (although 90% of my income comes from startups in California).
This is just ugly. We have become a mirror image of what we claim to be against. No one in human history has woken up one day suddenly to totalitarianism but the process in undeniably well under way here.

The posturing and denial may continue for now but it is only a matter of time before the edifice of pretension falls on the weight of its own contradictions.

The soft power and moral credibility is gone. No one can take any US position on human rights seriously. What's left is force and brazen hypocrisy as we become more brazen building totalitarian infrastructure, go about destroying entire countries and putting millions of lives in disarray to pursue 'strategic objectives' or to put it simply make more money.

Internally it seems citizens don't care about privacy, spying, human rights or the destruction of other countries as long as the money is flowing. It keeps on becoming more and more egregious as more boundaries are crossed yet there is no citizen response. If there is a value system its certainly not visible. The government can do whatever it wants.

In the end we seem to have succeeded in building a commercial hub, not a country. Humanity and all that makes it wonderful beyond the practicality of making money will rest elsewhere.
Is the US sliding down a slippery slope of censorship? If so, what examples would you give?
So, racism against Whites is norm in the IT industry.
Random Walk of the Penguins – Predicting Populations with Data Science
I think there is a "no lock in" problem, depending on what their customers are using them for. One of Twilio's upstream providers, bandwidth.com, released their own api, and is undercutting them on pricing: https://www.bandwidth.com/pricing/
I think the problem there is one of scale (same as here, actually). Hardly any small planes get built. Cirrus is the largest builder of small airplanes and they sold 276 new aircraft in 2013. These planes cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but even if you slashed it so that new planes only cost $50k, you still have two huge hurdles:

1. There aren't very many certificated pilots in the US (600k?), and a small fraction who fly regularly enough for owning a plane to make sense. Not a huge market.

2. This does nothing for operating costs. Fuel, maintenance, insurance, storage all mean that even for a small airplane, you should expect to spend $100 - 300 / hr for operating costs, depending on details of the plane and how often you fly. This means that the market really can't expand that much.

The best hope for putting lots of new airplanes in the air every year is a viable self-piloting VTOL electric aircraft. I don't see anything else doing it, and energy density of batteries means that we're probably decades away from that.
Taking radiation-hardened electronics to new heights – Intelligent Aerospace
Right now, only a little bit. In the future, very likely.

Systemd will eventually be functionally overloaded with network requests much like svchost.exe is (over)used on Microsoft Windows. That is just one example.

This is also useful for folks to catch browser exploits that escape the sandboxes and make arbitrary connections to bypass privacy mechanisms such as Tor or other forms of proxies. i.e. dns leakage, tcp leakage via websockets, etc..

There are many other examples I could provide, but I have limited time right now to respond.
>workplaces are successfully encouraged to shift their starting hours away from the usual 9-5 (or 9-5:30 as it seems to be).

This could only possibly work for internationally-focused firms, firms that operate around-the-clock, or firms that do not need contact with other firms and contact customers outside business hours. That is a very small subset.

Business hours are excellent for everyone involved in terms of work-life balance and coordinating business. They are not a good thing to sacrifice and it would only be a stopgap measure anyway. If you need to move a ton of people all at once, you need public transportation. BUILD MORE TRAINS

/swiss
Exactly. Maybe the code needed to be rejected. Many developers have no problem pointing out issues in code. Anyone's code. You can see it daily on stackoverflow. Just because it happens to be a female from time to time makes it newsworthy.
"American workers expect things to go wrong and then they fix it"

I found this this interesting, also that it was said by a 25 year old manager.
Call me when it does something a normal terminal doesn't. In the examples I don't see ANYTHING new.
> Facebook, alarmed by this data, commissioned a second study by Jay Parikh, its head of infrastructure, to investigate any potential issues. Parikh’s findings suggested that the code rejections were due to engineering rank, not gender. However, Facebook employees now speculate that Parikh’s findings mean female engineers might not be rising in the ranks as fast as male counterparts who joined the company at the same time, or perhaps that female engineers are leaving the company more often before being promoted.
Ask HN: What do you think of cold email approaches from CEOs and Recruiters?
I'm interested in how the Cobra Effect applies to an analysis.
How neural networks are making for more lifelike video game animation
About 5 years ago I went to a getaway-type bachelor party. Along with us were the groom's future brother-in-law and two state police officers (friends of the groom, it wasn't that exciting a trip). At one point in the night, the brother-in-law (18) hands his fake ID over to the cops, they both stare at it and go, "Nope, no way I could tell that was fake."

Ever since I've been waiting for the US to suck it up and drop the drinking age back to 18, highway funds be damned.
Not sure how many people this affects but clicking on the download button from the website on Chrome (iOS) takes you to an iTunes page that doesn't contain the app. Clicking on it via Safari (iOS) sends you to the app store to the app proper.

Video of the issue in Chrome (iOS) - http://imgur.com/ntTmynl
Also, check out our benchmark blog post which gives an overview of working with penguin data!

http://blog.drivendata.org/2017/04/28/penguins-benchmark/
They probably only need to maintain the perception to keep most of the profits though, so look like your trying but don't do all you can.
Am I just too stupid to see the grander idea of this app or why does it get so much attention and top position on HN? It's just a color picker on camera images or what did I miss? It's very well done I agree but still seems remarkably trivial. Why all the fuzz?
Shipping distance isn't the only factor in shipping costs, and reducing shipping distances can sometimes have the effect of increasing other costs...and thus cannot be compared in isolation of those other costs.

For example, reducing shipping distances increases the number of locations where inventory must be kept, which increases safety stock, which reduces inventory turns. Also, as inventory becomes more fragmented, you can increase split shipments which can have a huge upwards pressure on total shipping costs because of the marginal cost savings of adding an item to a box (ex. a shipment of a small item may cost $3 but you can add a large item to the shipment for only $0.50 more).

And at the end of the day, there are marginal returns to reduced shipping distances, because the majority of shipping costs are borne by the last mile. Much of this is obscured by carrier retail pricing, which commands a premium for distance. But as negotiating power increases, realized carrier pricing much more closely aligns with carrier cost structures. And those costs are driven heavily by the last mile, which isn't going away even with the most feasibly localized inventory you can imagine.
The death of interactive infographics
Then what's your definition of "public"?
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Improving Microsoft’s team collaboration (and Outlook) with design sprints
I think your assumption on Buffett is wrong. Buffett finds companies that have a significant competitive advantage (moat) and prefers stable, blue chip, traditional brand names, preferably with dividends, that are most likely to just keep growing. And then from that group, he finds the best pricing in industries he understands to be good businesses. Buffett wouldn't touch a company like AMD, punished or not. When Buffett does it right, he's specifically mitigated the risk of a stock getting punished well ahead of earnings.

I'm interested to learn what you've found on oversold stocks though - have anything written up?
There were two studies, one that was unofficial (just an engineer looking at commits) that found the quoted result. It looked at gender adjusted by tenure. This study didn't have the resources to do that.

Then there was a second cover-your-ass study by Facebook HR that found that if you adjust gender by seniority/rank the bias went away. This raised the question of why female engineers were at lower ranks after the same amount of time on staff. It might be explained by prior work experience, or starting rank, but it might not be. From the articles on this it looks like they (fb) don't actually want to answer this question.
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NASA seeks industry help with lunar landings, potentially sample return
In Greece, we don't check IDs for alcohol use (in practice. I think we're supposed to be doing it, nowadays). There are also no on-premises laws for alcohol. I think that's mostly because the culture is different, as people don't generally drink to get drunk like in other countries. You won't see the round-after-round drinking that you see in the UK or US, people will generally buy one or two drinks, and will rarely get drunk unless it's a big night out (or if they're reckless kids).
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It means it's worth looking into... which is what they're doing. They also discovered the code is more often from more junior developers, which leads to an investigation of whether or not women are having a harder time being promoted or are leaving the company more often.
What is SIP?
How the Air Gap Got Its Groove Back:  a Cybersecurity Short Story
tldr This article is terrible.

Maybe this is a "Facebook rejects..." story. Maybe it's a story about how bad Facebook is.

But if you keep reading past the introduction it sure sounds a lot more like a "male engineers reject..." story.

And then if you keep reading some more it sure sounds like a "code is rejected proportionally to engineer seniority..." story, which is not a story.

And then at the very very end, you finally get to the only part of this terrible article that makes any sense:

> the current representation of senior female engineers both at Facebook and across the industry is nowhere near where it needs to be.

Facebook talking about itself is the only honestly presented thing on the page.
Ionic 2 vs. ReactNative vs. NativeScript
Seems XKCD was on point this week: https://www.xkcd.com/1831/
Who maintains the robots? Precision equipment needs to maintain calibration, so who does that work? More robots? Is it robots all the way down?
No it's not. Just the widespread knowledge of it. Happened to a friend of mine >5 years ago.
Have fun! They are really nice tbh.
Cartoonists and Journalists Jailed in Turkey
It's not just that the quoted expert doesn't really flesh out their assertion, it's that the premise "" comes from nowhere in the first place:

> There's no lack of male disrespect toward women already, and those might be the men who are most drawn to sex robots.

He's suggesting that men may be drawn to robots in order to abuse them, like a kind of self-initiated sexual abuse training. Here's a thought: most most that use the brothels will just have sex with the things!
Women are more likely to get hired to solve the unequal distribution of female/male engineers. This makes it more likely to have less qualified female engineers, and more qualified male engineers, since hiring requirements for men are more strict. A higher average of under qualified females compared to under qualified male engineers will lead to more code getting reject from the female counterpart.
Another option: maybe stop the loop after 1 cycle? Or add a pause between cycles? :)
On the other hand we never had Asbos which were indicative of some of the issues which can irritate adults.
Windows 10 S Permanently Forces Edge as Your Default Browser and Bing for Search
Looks like it chooses from one of 1383 names.

From [0] linked in the footer.

0: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/resenecolours.txt
"(...) However, Facebook employees now speculate that Parikh’s findings mean female engineers might not be rising in the ranks as fast as male counterparts who joined the company at the same time, or perhaps that female engineers are leaving the company more often before being promoted."

> Code rejected due to rank

> Women are of lower rank than men

> We need to promote more women faster

Facebook is about to get a taste of their own medicine.
A friend of mine from the University of Texas was arrested by Federal Agents while eating dinner in the cafeteria at Jester dormitory. He had purchased a card printing machine, a hologram printer, a blue portrait backdrop, etc. and set up shop in his dorm room. He made quite a bit of money before the law caught up to him and, despite being older and wiser, still has that felony charge hanging over him. A disgruntled customer who was turned away from a bar on 6th Street snitched. Nevermind that this kid looked 15 and it wasn't the ID that sold out his true age.

I am confident that these shipments from IDGod are being tracked and recorded, and a bust of the customers and/or IDGod is in the works.
If everyone agreed on this universally, why is nothing being done about it? You would find candidates who do the single-issue thing on reforming the electoral system and you elect them, because you know in advance nothing else matters until you have actual representation.
Though I quite agree with you, I think the quality of engineering work is a different issue than we're discussing here. At least I hope we aren't proposing government enforcement of these sorts of engineering best practices.
Facebook took heat for not having a 50/50 male/female workforce, when that is not the ratio of male to female devs available. They hire more females, based on the fact they are female. The code quality of some of these hires was not good, because they were not hired on merit, and they've created a code quality problem.
Also an old classic that does this is Llama. E.g. you can use it to change ring/silent based on time and location, turn on/off wifi etc.
Deep, Deep Trouble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP
Compared to what? I've seen much simpler driver's licenses from other countries. Up until recently (2013 maybe) the French driver's license was literally a piece of pink paper with a picture glued to it.

http://flawlessfakeids.com/wp-content/uploads/French-Fake-Dr...
Can't a business live without growing any more? The mean of business to survive is to stay positive, not exponentially positive.
If the pull of the cities is good enough wouldn't people just naturally leave the burbs anyway? And if the suburb doesn't have many people living in it, why would we need to mitigate those problems? Why not just let the houses crumble and stand as decaying ruins?

Detroit's been doing that, the biggest expense seems to be having to tear up the roads since gravel/dirt is safer than an unmaintained paved road. For the places that do have growth potential, the cheapness of real estate should just encourage people to redevelop as infill.

Are we worried about crumbling building materials leaching toxins into the surrounding environment or is it more of a concern about blight/eye-sores?
Depends on the state, but Federal law does require you to be 21 or older to purchase a handgun. Ammunition can be sold without any background checks or ID checks in some states.
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It's one of many voter suppression tactics in urban areas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/opinion/long-lines-at-min...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...

Elections are mostly regulated at the state and county level, which causes a lot of disparities in registration law and polling place funding. Invariably every election during the non-stop coverage, you'll see the pictures of the long lines wrapped around blocks in cities throughout the country, but especially in Republican controlled swing states. I think it's an utter failure of our society that we can't hold elections with fair and accessible voting methods.
A couple of standout points from this article:

* the data itself hasn't been released so no one outside of Facebook has in any way analyzed it, we're relying on their analysis and reportage of that analysis to be correct

* the rejection rate is not just higher for female engineers, it's a lot higher: 35%

* Facebook is confident that the effect is not due to gender bias (scrutinizing female workers' code more closely) but that it's due to a confounding effect of engineering rank (females tend to be lower rank, and lower ranks tend to have more rejections through some mechanism)

In other words, we definitely need more study in the area before I would be confident drawing any important conclusions. It is a fascinating step forward though.
Careful not to bite the hand that feeds you
Kind of disheartening to read that (most) of the comments here diverted away from the topic of Basecamp's travel guide, which shows a lot of character from this company.

A company composed of a lot of remote workers outside US that definitely goes out of their way to have their employees come into the US for their business meetings is a keeper.

On a side note, I am a bit confused on a questionnaire asked at the Customs:

Here to do work? Nope! Here on business, meeting with Basecamp.

Wouldn't this be under the discretion of the customs officer to determine whether business meeting qualifies as work? I suppose that being on a business meeting with your company still predisposes the fact that you are technically still paid on those days that you are meeting with your company?
Proper Docker entrypoint to make sure Kubernetes lifecycles work