skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe. I don't think Sundar Pichai or Danielle Brown did though, they just said "this is not OK" and "code of conduct". Perhaps they felt they didn't need to engage with this kind of argument, but that mentality is exactly what has a lot of people upset.
As I pointed out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14721416 , the claim of "doubling the DNS lookups" simply does not hold water if actually analysed.
Reddit wants to look more like Facebook, and now it has the cash to do it
There are solutions. Things like Patreon:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/how-patreon-is-disrupting-yout...

Patreon is interesting because they host no (well very little) content, and can help some creators with a tip jar (some make $10/month) and others with a sustainable wage. It's a more well though out Flattr.

..and the thing is, everyone gets the end creation. Supporters get some extras or behind the scenes or rewards, but a small subset of fans can essentially support big projects that are often made available to everyone. Some youtubers use only Patreon and have removed all sponsored content/ads.

Support via ads is really not the way to go. To quite David Firth: "...Advertising is dog shit anyway. I don’t like all that subliminal suggesting; it’s poison..."
Interesting hypothesis.

>But the FCC didn’t choose Carter — or almost any of the other city or state government officials who applied. Sixty-four city and state officials were nominated for the panel, but the agency initially chose only two: Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose, California, and Kelleigh Cole from the Utah Governor’s Office, according to documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity through a Freedom of Information Act request. Pai later appointed another city official, Andy Huckaba, a member of the Lenexa, Kansas, city council.
We love the alternative http://tachyons.io/

Functional CSS helps us maintaining large scale component-based project fairly easily. You have to know CSS though.
As I added after you replied, I agree that this is an improper use of the takedown procedures. However, your reward for successfully armchair-lawyering that may be a full-on Federal lawsuit.

Also, I agree that Easylist itself may still not be a lawsuit target. It simply makes a claim about a certain domain, it doesn't do any access circumvention itself based on that claim. But if Easylist isn't, the ad blockers using it certainly would be. And that alone would change the dynamics of the situation quite a bit.

I hate to say it because I like adblockers too, but it is frankly very likely that when the advertising industry finally makes the push against them that by current law, it will indeed turn out that it is illegal to use ad blockers on sites that take active measures to ensure you view ads [1]. Again, don't mistake me saying this for endorsing it, but I think it's a very plain and obvious reading of not just the DMCA, but even something as fundamental to our legal system as common-law contracts... if a website wishes to make viewing their content conditional on viewing an ad, they can do that, just as they can make viewing their content conditional on paying them money, joining a club, or anything else that qualifies as "consideration" [2]. They can also place further restrictions on that content as part of that content. Any argument in favor of ad blocking that would also explain why either Netflix customers have the legal right to retain copies of the movies, or in the most extreme cases, explain why everybody has the legal right to retain copies of Netflix movies, should be discarded as an argument that proves too much [3].

I'd suggest the ad blocking community and the interested tech community at least wargame out the plan for if they lose the legal cases, because I would personally put that at somewhere around 90% probability if any of them ever go to court. Even with the EFF supporting it, I fear the EFF would pretty much be reduced to making very handwavy arguments about fundamental rights and basically pounding on the table, because in my considered opinion they really won't have much else. And even if they are correct, courts tend not to take much account of those arguments.

[1]: If the judgment goes really bad, it could even be illegal to bypass sites that don't try anything explicit. However there is a very good argument here that there is a history on the internet of assuming more rights rather than fewer if you don't assert yourself, such as the fact that browsers generally render things differently anyhow, the long history of search engines, the needs for accessibility software to render pages fundamentally differently anyhow, etc. I think there's a good chance no judge would want to overturn that consensus as it's now around 25 years old.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration

[3]: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/13/proving-too-much/
The 15-million-member Southern Baptist Convention voted 'to condemn "alt-right white supremacy."'. http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2017/06/southern_baptists...

The SBC is to the right of Bernie Sanders. For example, it prohibits male pastors and says the husband is the head of the family and the wife subservient to him.

They define 'alt-right' as a synonym for white supremacy, thusly: Racism and white supremacy are, sadly, not extinct but present all over the world in various white supremacist movements, sometimes known as "white nationalism" or "alt-right" - http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/2283/on-the-antigospel-of-alt...

Therefore, your description about this being a tactic of the left doesn't hold water.
I was repeating a claim I saw on HN earlier and went looking for references. It turns out the person who asked the question wrote a whole article about it:

http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/i-confronted-go...

At the meeting, I asked Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt about the company's actual commitment to diversity and inclusion in light of the company's public policy positions, not to mention the views of top management, that all skew to the extreme political left. I noted conservatives may not feel welcome in such an environment, let alone feel free to express their beliefs. Schmidt and other company executives dismissed my entire question by claiming everyone at the company — and in the tech industry as a whole — was in agreement with them.

After that confrontation, a strange thing happened. I started receiving messages from Google employees thanking me for challenging Alphabet's leadership. Without realizing it, I was apparently speaking for a closeted segment of Google employees with conservative beliefs.

One email read, "I'm working with a few other Googlers to fix the company's political discrimination problem. Really appreciate you shining a light on the matter."

Another said she was working closely with a group of conservatives at Google, and noted, "(t)hey're all very appreciative that you were standing up for their interests at the shareholder's (sic) meeting. The shareholder resolution your organization filed also made a lot of people happy."
Does SC have ads? Would ads completely destroy the appeal? Could they not do the same free tier things as Spotify where you're largely paying to remove ads? Obviously not at $10/month, but maybe a few bucks. Could they license their content to Spotify/etc for ad-free play rolled into your existing subscription service?
> it has become more difficult for artists to break into the industry

I would argue it's easier than ever for artists. Anyone can easily get their music onto a variety of sharing and download sites. You don't need a studio to record and produce your music, you can do it on a laptop. And you don't need to make physical copies of your music anymore.

Sure it's probably hard to break out of the "noise" of all the artists doing the above. And it may be harder to actually make money as a music artist. But that's never been easy. In the old days unless you were a true supergroup the studios ended up with most of the money.
Anybody know the usual amount of time it takes for GitHub to post a DMCA notice?

They should've received Admirals takedown at least 2 days ago, but it still hasn't shown up on https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/master .
Well, I can understand why the author would come to this conclusion. A 3rd-year undergrad being called by companies and VCs for insight? I'm impressed by the author but disdainful of these solicitors. It reflects poorly on them. To me they seem like people who don't understand what's happening but are anxious not to miss out on a new wave of get-rich-quick schemes.

Like other commenters have mentioned, largely due to misbranding and sensational media hype. Fearmongering from people like Elon Musk hasn't helped. But the key impact of machine learning for me is to make better and more efficient decisions that are informed by data - and that is not going to go away.
Honestly they handed their own lunch to spotify and then cried when it got eaten.

They were completely different services for different artists and different audiences, until SC tried to force a premium service. That's when Spotify comparisons started and drew users away.

An anecdote - I won't pay for more than one music subscription on a monthly basis. I won't even choose apple music or tidal or amazon music (if it wasn't included with prime) over Spotify. Why would I pick soundcloud when it has a smaller catalog and a worse UX?
I've never had a mouse where it wasn't a problem. I don't buy uber-quality mouses, so I'm down in the trenches with the vast majority of mouse users with moderate-to-low quality hardware.

I'm also often using a laptop, on linux, and I do the middle-click-simulation (both buttons at once) with two hands, which is really annoying. I suppose I could fix it.

Also I always have my left hand on the keyboard, so for me it's not a problem to ctrl-click.

Ctrl+click doesn't work on a tab, though--have to hit the X.
Font Awesome is mentioned in the migration notes.
You also need to nuke "position: sticky" but otherwise, yeah. I never miss these elements.
Does this happen if you buy windows machines on something like azure?
Granted, I'd start looking into *nix alternatives to that software after the first reboot.. but I understand I live in a different world than a lot of buisiness which are all windows all the time.
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Agreed. I've never personally seen it as a source for music I want to listen to on a daily basis (though clearly a lot of people do use it that way).
Given that sexism is a problem, that seems like the more obvious cause of the gender gap in software engineering leadership.

Sexism was a big problem for women who entered fields such as law and medicine back in the 60s and 70s. In spite of all that, women are now extremely well-represented in those fields. You're making the claim that sexism is the primary reason why women are underrepresented in engineering. That's not enough. You should be able to show how sexism in engineering is fundamentally different from the sexism women faced in those other fields in order to explain the difference in representation.
Decade old glibc issue:

gethostbyname() cant resolve names starting/ending with "-"

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/144431
http://functionalclam.com/

The article links to a copy of the image: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5947035/29184514-2...
I second this!

Make me have a subscription for $7 a month, but that money goes directly to an artist I choose and then take a cut.
I've been in this position before. My strong suggestion is to fire him and hire someone who has experience (and demonstrated success) with this exact type of role. It's difficult and expensive to try to change someone, and they don't always end up changing.
> Bauhaus did emphasise function at all costs

That is not true. They went for a new blend of usefulness, looks and manufacturability. The look was just new and different (although similar to some precursors: De Stijl and some Russian constructivism), it wasn't ignored at all.
Today, many things seem to be cargo-culted Bauhaus designs with many of the good aspects removed. Not all buildings with "simple" shapes look good.
>The memo appears to be based on actual real science that seems to be the consensus.

No. See this wired article, his view is not consensus. I do agree that it was pretty poorly made though!

Professor Gina Rippon, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at Aston University in Birmingham, said it was surprising how much of the research Damore misinterpreted or got wrong. She added that sex differences backed-up by proper research scrutiny were so tiny they couldn't explain the kind of gender imbalance at Google.

"They're assuming a divide that doesn't really exist," Rippon said. "Either its biological or its social and if its biological you can't change it so Google shouldn't be wasting its time with all these high minded equal opportunity initiatives.

"But the key thing is it can be changed – we know that if women have poor spatial skills, which has been demonstrated in the past, then its easy enough to change that by appropriate training – very often its associated with video game experience for example. He seems to be saying there are fixed differences and we're wasting our time trying to gain equality," Rippon said.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-fires-engineer-over-an...
Many of the ICOs flat out stated that the tokens you're receiving entitle you to absolutely nothing, and hold no value, but somehow people have convinced themselves that the people behind these ICOs are going to give them something in return out of the goodness of their hearts anyway.
Honestly, and with due respect, how tough is it? Thanks
Good info, thanks.

We are a decent sized company now, so maybe that's why we have a rep. I'd be surprised if Braintree offers reps to every 1 man start up though. From a scale perspective doesn't really make sense, and yeah you'd get plenty of 'web devs' that are stitching together some code they don't understand and then asking stripe why it doesn't work...
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I'm not sure what your counter argument is exactly.

He argued to change their diversity goals and implementation, with an intention to do a better job of getting a _more_ not less diverse company, including more woman and minorities. He did not argue to end all diversity goals outright, again that appears to be a mischaracterization.
It wasn't too big too fast. It was the wrong direction entirely. They misunderstood their market and their product, and thought they could become Spotify.

It's like Etsy deciding they want to be the next Amazon.
"pirate transmissions" I am surprised. Only a month ago I met a guy who (as an "art project") has actually started to transmit on the shortwave. Bought an old army radio and was now jumping all over the country with the installation and transmitting... well, arty stuff. He claimed he got responses every now and then, now I think he might be right.
Is that a thing? I bailed out of the radio waves 30 years ago when I got access to data links...
This is nicely formatted. Makes it easy to toss in a hosts file.
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>No one owes James a charitable reading.

A charitable reading isn't something that's owed. It's something that almost universally helps discourse. Communication is hard.

We're always willing to give Us a charitable reading, and it's a damned shame people are so unwilling to afford that to Them, regardless which side of anything you're on.
I block all ads because my safety is a higher priority than the site's profitability. Internet ads are a malware vector, with no accountability. Also, advertising companies have made an art out of psychological manipulation; I protect my mind by filtering their input from my senses.

Just saw your subscription update. Why would I subscribe to something that I am unlikely to return to?

The only solution that I can think of, are micropayments. Perhaps this financial pressure will motivate the powers that be to eliminate roadblocks to its implementation.
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A different group of people is running with the money this time.
So, only about 7800 people is all?
As someone starting out (and still learning) what may be the recommended way of going about this?

I can't seem to find a payment processor that I trust to send payments to Central America (from the few I have seen - Braintree and stripe don't). There are a few caveats to this, unfortunately. My plan is to do all the legal work through the e-Estonia program but can't get started since I would need to fly out to pick up the identification card. Cash which will need to be generated through the business first.

Once that is set up it will be easier to get a payment processor (stripe, please add Estonia to your list first chance you get).

I'm wondering if it is sensible to accept payments online, generate some cash, start the e-Estonia process to have a legal business. But, I'm still stuck as to which processor to use to send the payments to to a personal account in Central America. Last I checked, I can't use paypal since that is a U.S only option. In either case, besides wondering which processor I could use, is this a sensible plan?
Our brains are wired to make irrational investments
> ...is illustrating that corporations have too much power?

Compared to employees and consumers? Yes. There aren't enough options out there to let competition correct for these kinds of cultural problems.

Of course, this might be a problem that solves itself. As expectations for fair compensation trickles through the rest of the job market, maybe transferring to an equivalent job in a medium sized company in Denver would generally be a lateral move.
If you've got Spotify try JQBX: https://www.jqbx.fm basically a tt.fm clone. Great for passive listening.
They need this confident, exuberant tone to reassure their employees, customers, and partners that their investment in SoundCloud is a good idea.
It's important to note that Admiral is making the claim that this domain is used as part of their platform which protects the integrity of paywalls, which in turn guards copyrighted material of their clients. Therefore, this would be a correct application of the DMCA according to 17 U.S. Code § 1201 - Circumvention of copyright protection systems:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

Subsection A specifically states, "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."

So while I do not endorse the mechanism of paywalls: if Admirals narrative and claims hold true, this is in fact a correct application of the DMCA.
Kim was already persona non Grata in different countries, accused of copyright infringement AND other serious crimes

He should have stayed in Honk Kong

Btw nobody could make you take down a link from a list if you host it in EU.

Not even DOJ
It's perfectly legal and it's a protected right
I just started reading this book yesterday, and today I see this thread on HN. What are the odds...

Tim's method is to approach maximum joy in life. Although money is not everything, I don't think joy is either. I tend to think of life as an optimization problem of 2 variables: joy and meaning, sometimes you need to do something unpleasant, yet meaningful.
The advantage here is with your own merchant account the fees can be significantly better. Also you get paid typically much faster with settlements happening daily instead of weekly. Assuming stripe PayPal still hold the funds in their banks longer? Before the PayPal acquisition of Braintree it was much more like authorize.net in that it was just a gateway for processing credit cards. Not being a bank account like PayPal and stripe.

There is an advantage to having your processor be both an account and a gateway in that you need only one relationship and it's much easier to get started.
I don't think it will. Level off - maybe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
When I, the supposed owner of the computer, tell it to.
> What is not obvious that men and women differ in such a way that men are going to be better at programming, or more interested in it, than women are.

What is also not obvious is that they don't. Since men and women differ in pretty substantial ways, I think the burden of proof is on people who claim they're both interested in the same things equally.

It's fine if some demographics just aren't interested in some things, if they're free to choose them. It's not fine to say "no! You must be interested in whatever everyone else is interested in, otherwise the notion of equality I have doesn't make sense!"

To summarize, my entire point is that we should make it so each person can freely choose what they want, rather than trying to make the posterior distributions fit the model that we imagine must be the right one. That means no "boys can't play with dolls", no "engineering isn't for women", but also no gender/demographic quotas.
On your first point, 100% yes. I used to run a relatively popular new music blog, and have several friends who still do. SoundCloud used to make up 98% of my blog post music embeds. And that is absolutely where they went wrong, even from the get go. It would have been insanely easy for them in the last decade to implement: one-click .mp3 purchases for individual songs, artist merchandise stores, ticket sales, etc. You name it.

Instead they made a conscious decision to push ahead with bizarre business strategies and without providing any meaningful functionality updates to their core service (I even think they regressed in this regard, the dumpster fire that was song reposting was the final nail in the coffin for me).

Honestly I think the service needs to make a graceful exit to let another service emerge who actually wants to push things forward for developing new artists.
I wonder if folks could get sneaky and change the design from a literal url to a regular expression tailored to single out that url but would also include additional sites that are just gibberish and could be relaxed if useful sites ever do fall into the URL overlap. This might be a new line of research to craft regExs to filter out a specific string while also throwing out a bunch of sister gibberish strings that would be unlikely to be adopted simply by virtue of language.
That is exactly my point.

And I'm not surprised it hasn't gone well with this crowd, because - after all - "who needs to know what the stack is, amiright?", kids?
Could you link to these research papers you are mentioning?
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There's a lot more there than just search. See http://brenocon.com/watson_special_issue/
There's plenty of diversity of opinion within a workplace. No one is obligated to listen to it. If it's made this public so as to embarrass their own company, well what can you do. People get fired for dumber reasons.
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The goal here appears to be avoiding involving the main CPU, letting the network adapter write directly to arbitrary memory.

Currently, DMA allows network adapters to write to a ring buffer in memory, and the free space remaining is transmitted in TCP packets as the window size. This ring buffer is limited in size, requiring the CPU to copy data to other memory locations.

Will RDMA be giving network adapters the ability to write directly to any memory location, instead of just the ring buffer? Does it include memory-mapped devices - does this technology let you remotely access the memory space mapped to a USB webcam?