skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an internet forum. We're all expressing our own moral and general opinions. It's toxic to assume these opinions are not honestly held and write them off simply with another buzz word. The other poster didn't hold Shkreli's head under the water, his comments will not affect Martin at all. Plenty of people in this thread think he is a terrible person, you don't - that's fine, but it is still just an opinion. I don't see how that (or almost any) opinion is "dangerous" just because you disagree.

I don't know why you feel you're "in the crosshairs". You had no problem criticising the other poster, you should be able to take some criticism of your own.
>baseless accusation

He literally says this is "affirmative action" in regards to an African nation and calls the competency of a space program into question for no reason. That's not baseless, it's quite blatant really.

I don't want to discuss the ideas of morons. There needs to be a bar set if you want to have reasonable, meaningful conversations. Not every opinion or thought is worthy of discourse and some are actively harmful. I see more and more racist and otherwise trollish comments on HN everyday and frankly I'm sick of it.
Ask HN: Beside Bitcoin, what has offered a 1 000 000× ROI over 7 years?
$1 invested in Bitcoin in April 2010 turned into $1 million. What else has offered a 1 000 000× ROI over 7 years?
That's not punishment, it's problem-solving. It's about protecting the company, not what the manifesto author deserves. Yonatan Zunger didn't promote any kind of retribution or vengeance for writing the manifesto, just that they would have to stop the employee from further degrading the workplace environment with the most reliably effective response, termination.
Army orders troops to stop using DJI drones due to cybersecurity fears
Billy Nungesser by far being the worst example of this at a state level (I say this as someone who turned down a tech job in SF to go to grad school at Tulane)
I've been on SDF for a number of years and have never had any problems, it's very stable and secure. The only issue has been a bit of spam with the e-mail system, a couple of years back but they tightened the filtering up after a bit and that solved that problem.
A free subscription service with infinite nodes.I named it after my son Sören
> involves lots of math, which I suck at

How I got over this was actually through learning applied math. I thought I sucked at it, too, but really I just never tried hard before.

What I liked about programming was formulating and solving problems. Not normally the act of writing code in and of itself (though that can be fun, too, every now and then). Learning more math lets you tackle more interesting problems, and there are more applications of fancy math than ML!
> That works reasonably well, but does it have any UX to speak of?

Err...there's some reasonably complex setup there that they've smoothed out. The onboarding for a new Chromecast is flawless; you plug it in, type in your Wi-fi password and off it goes. Good design doesn't get in your way; it lets you do what you need to do, fast. The affordances for casting anything from your phone or tablet are obvious, and everything "just works". That's pretty darn good design, backed up by monstrously talented engineering to execute it well.

> This one gained popularity when promising a whopping for free 1Gb was crazy good offer.

I did point this out in my post. Other email providers quickly caught up though; Yahoo mail started offering 100MB that same year (2004) then soon increased it to 1GB[1]. So it wasn't the storage that made people stay. It was (as other people have pointed out) a more responsive interface, fast searching, conversation threads, and (IMO) integrated Google Chat.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Mail#2004_Updates
How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
There is a fantastic British film along those lines:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341167/
> That said, if programming is losing its luster, but you still enjoy software -- try product/project management. Good pay, and it's a very social job where your tech skills will be valued.

Do you have an opinion on how much of product management is politics and posturing, and how much is actually building good products? For example, one doesn't have to look very far to find substandard software and features on hundreds of highly trafficked sites or commercial products, yet I'm under the impression that getting a job where one would have the authority to fix these things would be next to impossible. (And yes, I absolutely understand that decisions are, or at least should be, first and foremost economic decisions, and subject to competing priorities. For example, just look at the positive cultural change Microsoft has undergone relatively recently, they are a good example of a company who has changed in respect to what I'm talking about.)
you can't keep a good man down
DARVIZ:A Deep learning IDE
Inbox Pause
Google is sounding more like IBM every year.
As a very inexperienced manager (i.e. startup founder) I found some of the stuff quite helpful, which is doubtless obvious to the more experienced (although, in fairness, I also stopped reading about 3/4 of the way through, but my cofounder swears by it).
I joined because it offered server access similar to what I received at University and I've moved a bit and this allows me to keep my internet presence stable. It's a great set-up and community. These days it is less necessary due to the rise of cloud based VPS providers, but it offers more of a community compared to those. the other thing is commercial operators come and go. SDF has been around for a long time and because it is community driven it is likely to stay. The fact that it has been around longer than any other alternative also attracted me to it.
> "They are really good engineers, really indispensable. And then they start to pull 9-5 days"

Worthless slackers.
Wouldn't police arresting those before they have committed violent acts be considered thought crime? Shouldn't we arrest those that do things not those who talk about things?
Pilot (YC W17) is looking for a full-stack engineer (WRO/LON/SFO/remote)
Also worthy of note from the article:

While Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo applauded the launch and congratulated the team directly, the project did not receive official Ghanaian government support, according to Damoah. Instead, Japan’s national space agency, JAXA, provided the bulk of the resources and training to develop the satellite.

In other words, this is also mostly a Japanese-US effort too.
Did IBM pay well back in the day?
When the US launches a satellite they don't write "North America" enters the space race, so why does Ghana represent all Africa?
IANAL. If you have reported the vuln they are required by law to report a "breach" to the authorities and if they do not do it willingly they might be forced to tell all their customers about the breach. There's really no good in telling your 70k followers that said site has vulns, at least not until they have fixed them. If moths have passed, the vulns are still not fixed and you have not heard back from them you could try contacting the authorities yourself. Self publishing your own "hacks" are not a good idea though, you should get a newspaper or other "researcher" to do it for you. You can brag about it later when the vulns have been fixed and you got permission. Only try to hack those who have asked for it, and make sure you join their bounty program for a reward.
I don't want to post about politics either, but people post ideological stuff, ideological replies should be expected, no? When I started using the website it was more focused on what it was meant to be, and I don't think I ever discussed politics then. Then the American elections happened and people started posting politics all the time. Well, political replies ensue. I flag posts that are purely political, I don't just reply to them.
it's going to be fun watching all of this burn to the ground
Also the "space race" is an ancient term referring to the US/Soviet rivalry many decades ago.
> This is a major weakness, or "defect".

While I agree than men are more prone to violent tendencies than women, as a group, I don't know that I agree that this predisposition is a weakness.
All's good when the stock price is inflated. The reckoning (cost cutting) will come.
Speed differential is not the whole story.

What is also important is the nature of the collision. A glancing (side-swipe) collision, is very different from a direct collision. Also in right-hooks, the most common collision of all, you have a cyclist colliding with a slowly turning car while typically braking and turning at the same time.

But even if we're talking about direct collisions, the cyclist often ends up going over the hood or roof of the car simply because of the height of the bike vs the car. This looks awful but is actually better than hard impact.

There are more factors than mass and speed differences.
there's nothing wrong with taking pride in how you spend your time.
I've seen several comments flagged for no reason - what they have in common is that they cogently refute liberal ideology
Americans talk about TV shows way too much ... it's not your fault.
> I agree with you very much, there are many other important safety factors.

The most important safety factor is to ride in a way that minimizes the risk of getting into a crash in the first place, but a lot of articles and accompanying discussions I've come across over the years either concentrate on helmet use or segregated infrastructure rather than how to best ride in the current situation.

> you could link to some of the safety evidence related to bike maintenance & lights & mirrors

I don't have links to any studies for those things, but being able to see approaching traffic from behind, being seen in low light conditions, and being able to trust the equipment to not fail when you need it is something that reassures me when riding. I certainly would not drive a car that didn't have mirrors, lights, or wasn't properly maintained.

> It might also be worth looking into the effectiveness and recommendations of helmets when doing anything else besides bicycling. Helmets are used for many other sports and activities. Maybe ask yourself which other activities besides biking would it make sense to argue that helmets aren't effective.

There has been mention about the fact that helmets in American football haven't prevented concussions and examination of brain tissue of former NFL players have revealed that about 85% (177 out of 202) of them showed signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Bike helmets themselves appear to not do much to mitigate the risk of a concussion in a collision either.

> That web site has been updated much more recently than 1999, so why does the page you linked to not discuss Thompsons's more recent study, or even link to a new critique?

Because I specifically linked to the page referring to the 1989 study. There are other pages on that website that address more recent studies [2] (which has links to numerous pages discussing other, more recent, studies).

[1] http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2645104
[2] http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1052.html
There did seem to be quite a bit of dancing to keep the phrasing and identification of actors as vague and inoffensive as possible.

It's more than a little conspicuous that an article regarding rent-seeking and the growth of unproductive enterprise over the last three decades fails to once mention banking or the stratospheric growth of financial engineering over that same period.
Tried it and I have a few questions about how to use it:

Am I supposed to visit the url I want to start from, even after entering the base url? I was expecting it to open a tab with the base url.

How do I take the JSON export and run it with selenium?

We have a bunch of selenium tests at work that are extremely fragile and generated by coding instead of something that records actions like this. It takes a long time to write tests and no one does it as a result. I would love to get to a system where the tests are created like this and saved to a folder where CI can run them.
Ok, thanks for sharing this. I made this observation for the last 3 years myself, not as an employee even, but as a contractor. I had three positions at two companies, all paying quite high (150k$/year). I changed the positions because the workload was so low that I had an hour of work a day, then pretending I was doing work for the rest of the day which I can't stand for more than a few months. Now I changed again in the hopes of having real work to do, comes out that they contracted me only for "if there will be work in a few months". Interviewing several people on what I can do for them: essentially nothing. "Maybe you could google if using docker would make sense". On the one hand this kind of "work" feeds my family and hives me lots of freedom, but on the other hand it leads to nothing. And I am usually not the only one who has no idea why they are going to work.
I just want to make the syllogism you're operating with clear here:

1. If two groups have statistical differences in IQ across the population, then the group with the higher average is superior to the other

2. Person A believes that Group 1 has a higher average IQ than Group 2

3. Therefore, Person A is a Group 1 supremecist

I would want to very strongly and categorically denounce point #1 in this list.

Point #2 is just a matter of scientific observation. I don't have strong opinions on it one way or the other. But point #2 only implies #3 if you believe #1.
Incredibly yellow writing from a journo not competent in both cryptocurrencies and Russian politics (LDPR is a far right party? LOL)
Sorry for the wall of text, i could talk for hours on the subject.

We are all sitting on the edge of our seats, waiting for you to launch your blog.
If you believe in that sort of stuff, I suppose, but so much of the evidence was "found" on his laptop with forensic professionalism that would have made the OJ prosecution look competent.
Because all major browsers support creating `onscroll` event handlers and some people offer money to javascript developers if they will do annoying and mildly evil stuff and a large number of those javascript developers say "Sure boss, whatever you want".

The browser creators, people paying for websites, and (many) javascript developers all seem happy with this, unfortunately.
> More or less inhumane than forcing a gay employee to work alongside someone that has publicly stated he thinks gay people should be killed?

Since the original manifesto author has advocated nothing remotely analogous to that, I would say that your attempted comparison is intellectually dishonest and places you on far more morally shaky ground than him.

Moreover, if "...someone has to bear a cost when opinions like this are made public...", as you say, are you in turn willing to pay the the same cost if public opinion turns against your political views? Any behavior you legitimize to attack your political enemies becomes equally legitimate to use against you when the public mood shifts! You'd have to be bonkers to think this sort of thing is a good idea to normalize.
> When it says you're wrong is when you show how pro science you really are!

That's key. It's perhaps one of the main barriers to exploring this topic. I think it expresses itself mostly unconsciously. It can be terrifying to scrutinize differences and know whatever sub-type you happen to be (man, woman, black, white, etc.) could "come up short" according to some cultural ideal. It's even more terrifying knowing that the measurements and measurers sometimes rig the outcomes of said scrutinizations. I'd hope we'd just try to control and address these terrors rather than stop trying to objectively characterize our differences altogether.
Having diversity goals/quotas isn't equal opportunity (see medical admissions being way more strict on Asians than blacks). Plus, as the original doc points out, it's one sided. Underrepresentation of whites/males is fine. No one says hey, there's too many minorities. Just like no one cares that police almost exclusively kill men, with only a handful of women.

Why do they aim for a 50/50 gender balance? What if women are actually better in some roles, and it should be 40/60? Why can't this even be questioned?

The funny thing is, I dunno if I believe the original doc author, but I find the response so abhorrent I end up against it.

Google's response should have been "good but flawed questions. Here are studies, here's how we're going about determining diversity's impact etc".

Instead we get people who are gonna quit if he isn't fired, think he should be escorted off premise immediately, write pages misconstruing what was written, and are physically "shaking" at the thought someone might question their beliefs.

It sucks because there are systemic issues, and the current diversity nonsense does nothing about it and won't even try to make it's main case.

I'm hoping some groups will publish serious research on the issue. (Rust has a huge diversity push, iirc. They should also run some non diverse programs then compare results.)
> if you get a death threat, the remedy is not that easy, because you won't get 24x7 police protection, now what?

Buy a gun, learn how to use it, and carry it.

I don't mean to bring gun (control|rights) into this conversation lightly. I'm the father of two young daughters and I'm extremely cognizant of the fact that they will likely always be physically weaker than the men in their lives. Firearms make physical size almost completely irrelevant.
TL;DR: No

(personally, 'no' as well. I sometimes work places where electronic devices aren't allowed)
Allegedly.
Try this one from the article:

Sure, it has been studied to death. Here's a good summary:

http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x

Check out the Table 1 on page 1104, for summary of different studies. Of particular interest is the people-things orientation the parent poster mentions, with mean effect size across multiple studies so large (d = 1.18) that it almost never occurs for non-tautological research questions.
It's his company (literally, he owns the majority of stock), so I think the answer is "as many chances as he damn well pleases."
Wow, this is the worst comment I've read on this so far. You're saying that differences in extrinsic incentives (tennant vs. resident) should be treated the same as biological differences when discriminating between good and bad neighbors. Are you kidding?

The equivalent of your statement is saying that a licensed doctor and a stranger who claims to know what he's doing should both be able to perform surgery on you - because we wouldn't want to discriminate.
Edit: Never mind all that, I didn't get the joke. My apologies. In my defense, text doesn't convey emotion very well.

Leaving up the post for my own shame.

What, because they work 40 hours per week?

I have a 4x10 schedule (including a weekend day) and I work exactly my assigned hours. The company is paying me for those hours and nothing more--exceptional circumstances excluded, of course--so I feel no qualms about sticking with that. I get to have a life outside of work, too.
Only working 8 hours? How dare they? /s
> she had been killing herself to make it more successful and protect her people from losing their jobs over it.

> As tired as she was, she couldn't just quit this job. She owed a big chunk of money in taxes thanks to that stock and needed her salary to pay those taxes.

> after getting violently ill at the thought of going to work

Burned out and trapped by debt. Not a great place to be even with the $1mm/year compensation. Most of which is illiquid I assume.
These engineers are worth more to them just sitting around relaxing, being content with their lives instead of taking a high octane job at a competitor or startup that will eventually compete with one of their smaller services (mail, ad analytics, etc).
There is when you feel a need to gloat about it on your blog.
I've been in those jobs before. (Though never paid as much as your examples.) The only way I stayed sane was to basically take Coursera classes and teach myself things while being paid to do so. It felt enough like work and was obviously an incredible opportunity to be paid to learn.

You do start to go insane and there is an effect on your resume/CV as the black hole widens there.
You can't? So you suspect I may be thinking that his purpose was to toast bread in the most efficient manner possible?

Hint: He starts out buying a working toaster.
but to explain the importance of pi because of complex numbers is still not obvious, it seems to hinge on the imaginary number, which to be honest I know next to nothing about so I don't see the connection.
It's famous, funny, and a classic, but the original SO question was about "matching open html tags" with a regex while the answer was about "parsing [X]HTML" with a regex. So the poster made some assumptions about what the original question's author was intending to do. Ultimately the choice between which tool to pick is a tradeoff that has to be made by the author, as hinted in the (much better) second answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1733489
I don't think anything in history has had as good an ROI as bitcoin in the same sort of timeframe.
Oh yes, glorious 80s
> Rockets cannot be a smart space system

It's chemical rockets, nukes or a space elevator. At least given known physics.
> Where Airbnb differs (...) is that Airbnb is a tech company, I guess.

I disagree. IMO it's different simply because it's new and growing extremely large. All your other examples are old-school things that expand slowly, locally, and that we have plenty of experience in handling. They're also all regulated, and actually follow those regulations.

I think "societal strip-mining" is a very apt description of Uber and AirBnB.
Wait... AirBnB hosts can require guests to "refresh" their own bedding before they leave?
Just because he got the party affiliation wrong, doesn't mean that Russia isn't corrupt to the core.

EU screwed them really well during the Cyprus bank crisis, quite a few lost their hard stolen money. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21992745
I don't watch TV series, but to understand what it is about, when I hear about a popular one I check the Wikipedia page, it usually contains all the information I need to know.
I don't know if you'd count this as "not digital" (it's mostly analog) but my kids have a blast with http://www.snapcircuits.net/
If only... I recently had to take a standardized business knowledge test and I had to write a disclaimer (eg: "I hereby certify that...") in CURSIVE.

When I asked if we really had to write in 19th century writing, she replied that this was the "writing of the business world".

No words.
I believe that was sarcasm
Ask HN: Observing , Observe , Observatory
We have Earth on AWS now so where you can observe earth on Amazon Web Services .
But do we have anything for data or information with common crawl ?
Reply back as soon as possible.........
And give lots of info .
I'm imagining a broken circuit that is connected once the lozenge melts and connects two parts?
It's hard to have a serious discussion on merit based employment in a culture of "rest and vest" where employees literally do nothing.

http://www.businessinsider.com/rest-and-vest-millionaire-eng...
WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS CODE ON A HARD DRIVE, I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE. I USED A RAM DISK

I haven't looked at the implementation, but this seems to imply it is very I/O intensive and already takes a very long time in RAM. Yet, nothing about the problem statement suggests it would be such a task --- it sounds like something that could be very straightforwardly done completely in memory.
It's reported in "stilted, academic terms" because it's academic work. The authors might be filled with anger, who knows, but there's value in detached academic research.
Trouble is I can never write proactively, only retroactively to stuff like this on HN or Reddit.