skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A left-wing liberal wouldn't describe themselves as a 'conservative'. What are his positions on the State, extraction of surplus value, capital accumulation and democratic management of organisations that makes you so sure he or his manifesto is left wing?
The end result of Filecoin will be extreme centralization just like Bitcoin mining unless there are extreme legal issues that makes everyone scared of being part of the network (e.g. child porn.)

Thus there will be a few ultra large cost optimized providers probably similar to BackBlaze that handle 90% of all storage on the network.

Does that extreme centralization fulfill the vision of Filecoin?
Is it a thing with with Californians that they prefer to not to plaster over bricks?
UnityScript’s long ride off into the sunset
> The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring

If anyone seriously thinks sexist hiring is the main reason, they can't have thought about this for a very long time.

The horrible work-life balance in early phase academia, at the exact point when you are usually trying to start a family, is a much bigger issue. Especially since women in academia are often in relationships with men in academia, the question of "whose career do we down-prioritize" is answered as much by biology as by the wishes of the couple in question.

Another one that is also a much bigger issue than sexist hiring is that many of the "gender affirmative actions" that universities usually have are actually quite damaging to women scientists. E.g. we have one at my local university that says all PhD defense committees must include one woman. Typically what happens is that the easiest way to achieve this is to ask a local female professor to be the committee administrator.

That is just one example of how female scientists get handed a lot more non-research tasks, in the name of "gender equality", than their male counterparts. Other examples include project management and outreach activities, where departments are typically falling head-over-heels with an implicit but unintended "Look, we actually have a woman working here! Doing actual real work!" vibe.
I once did napkin math on how much forest should match carbon emissions. The number was large but it seemed very doable by a large land mass wealthy (who could that be?) state with sufficient commitment. Seriously feel like mass reforestation is under-discussed from my armchair studies.
Postpostmaterial and the death of the web designer.
Can you share any of the techniques you use to avoid being blocked for scraping?

Interesting to hear that storage was too expensive. I'm sure you could find personal sponsors here who would help with funding in exchange for access to the data - even with a 'no commercial use' type of restriction!
It really depends on what you do, what you work on. System administration is very different, as is GUI development. Other things aren't that different and a lot of back-end, devops-ish, trendy stuff is cross-platform.
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...which is kind of why people are upset. Things that were possible, i.e. total control over when PC's install updates and how they do them, are now not unless you pony up for a more expensive license. We're not talking Bitlocker or anything here, we're talking control over the system.

I agree it's not a typical use case, but it was an understood use case for a very long time. My only real beef with Windows 10 is the overly aggressive update system.
Git isn't the problem, per se. It's a barebones tool that, on Unix systems, gets paired with a very powerful terminal. The command prompt on Windows is useless garbage by comparison. You pretty much need to use a GUI with Git on windows because command prompt is so bad.

Aside from that, window management is awful on Windows (ironic?). Alt tab is kinda stupid, you can't scroll windows behind the active window, the taskbar and start menu are generally a mess, and god help you if you have multiple monitors.
> Socialist and Communist parties

And how many votes did they get? While I agree it's a stretch to call the Democrats 'left', at least on economic issues, things like worker's rights have been neglected by the voters and the national conversation as well.
If there was no current UI, you wouldn't have the Settings app. Sure you want Control Panel back?
I like the idea of worker co-ops.. but if what if we had..worker/consumer co-ops where not only did the worker receive ownership in the company, and payouts as a result--but the more you as a consumer used/supported a product, you ALSO receive payouts/stock in a company..
You're assuming that it is even possible to objectively determine one's suitability for any given job. It is not and never has been.

Many, many jobs are filled simply by virtue of the candidate's professional contacts, half-baked interview processes, and gut-instinct. Given this, it won't hurt to make an effort to hire more women and minorities in roles where they've been underrepresented.
I'll probably get down voted for this but nonetheless it needs to be said, partly tongue in cheek; ha ha, only serious.

Gambling is not a sin /

Provided that you always win.

-- Roald Dahl
Over the past few decades the Left has used this technique a lot. Take a term like 'racism' or 'white supremacy' and expand its definition to cover many more people than the original definitions did. The problem is that the terms then dilute and becomes less effective as a shaming label. Does the Right ever use this strategy? I can't remember a case where it does.
Because when the cops measure your speed they can do so in an arbitrarily small time period of their choosing, and inertia and power requirements mean you can't be going 1000 MPH one milliseconds and 10 MPH the next.

You could decide to measure APM by saying that the time difference between any two actions extrapolated to sustaining that rate over a minute or seconds couldn't exceed the APM or APS, but as I've explained such a measurement would unfairly give the human player an advantage because humans are capable of bursts they couldn't sustain over longer periods.
I get around this by having my machine back up to our NAS each night and shutting down when finished. Cuts down on the power bill too.
I'm a senior developer 20+ years of experience, but due to whatever reason most people tend to assume I'm between 25 and 30, which is more than a decade off.

My experience is that the kind of extrovert personalities we more often see in management or sales tend to undervalue both competency and experience unless I either prove myself spectacularly, or use a much more assertive, and to my sensibilities almost aggressive, style of communication.

Only rarely does this kind of problem occur with more introvert and/or majorly creative personalities commonly found on the tech side.

My belief is that while there obviously are straight up gender discrimination of a more structural nature, there also exist multiple trait dependent discrimination/biases which affects anyone regardless of gender, but sometimes to different extent.

A mild mannered 6' giant will still be listened to, a similarly mild mannered rail thin 120 pound brute will be ignored to some extent, I can only imagine that a similarly mild mannered petite woman will face quite brutal ignorance.
It's pretty transparently a lie.

If they intend to increase the percentage of women, they intend to hire women. Hiring "the best people for the job" might increase the percentage of women, or decrease it, and would not be a reliable strategy to achieve the stated goal.
Ask HN: I'm late to the crypto currencies boom, what are my options?
Hi,

5+ years ago I started working for a Life sciences company, and I was pretty stuck in that landscape, doing basically nothing but that.

In retrospect, it was foolish of me not to get some BTC since they were $1 per coin (!!) last time I checked.

I read about new stuff that happened, ETH, and now Filecoin, and i was wondering: what are my options comming this late into the game??

As I understand, small scale mining is dead for years now, so, what is the best investment I could do now?

Thanks for your answers!!
> I dunno, I'm pretty sure defense would easily be able to paint the picture that employee spent hours researching and writing an article because he cared about the culture.

Something like half the citations are to Wikipedia. There are five actual scientific papers there, three or four of which don't even support his thesis, and, if I recall correctly, many of which are in the Wikipedia citations, the classic trick of a rushed undergrad who needs trustworthy citations but has no idea how to find them.
i put it into instapaper and was actually able to read it.
I'd argue that most of our current economy is gambling (stock markets).
I don't think conservatism or populism share much ideologically. Conservatives certainly don't share much with early 20th century communists. Or even left wing presidents.
Broken Rubyforge URLs
Not sure if that would be useful but you could use similar approach to recently posted https://send.firefox.com/ that encrypts content before sending it to server using key that is in # param and is never send to server by browser.
I tend to ignore people who call something a Holocaust that wasn't the actual Holocaust.
Agree. Monsarrat wrote a horribly graphic description of the aftermath of a torpedo strike on an oil tanker in "The Cruel Sea" [1]. Not only do the crew have to survive the sinking, they then have to (try to) outswim the burning oil. In the same book Monsarrat also has a very angry dig at the home population who then casually waste petrol and other convoyed products, which he brings to life by describing the reaction of the convoy escort crews when they get home.

I re-read the "The Cruel Sea" a few weeks ago (a very old battered copy that I inherited from my dad). It didn't move me to tears, but is still a very moving piece of literature describing a horrendously gruelling theatre of war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruel_Sea_(novel)
It's a valid question, but Singer gets the answer wrong.

This is politics, not science.

1) Biology is a red herring. There's a huge chasm between any supposed biological difference, and an actual model that can predict what proportion of employees should 'naturally' be male or female.

Then there are culture issues (which are likely much larger than any biological ones, after all countries like India have roughly 50/50 representation without needing special intervention).

Then there are bias issues.

To leap all the way from some small (debated) physiological differences to suggested HR policy in a single bound speaks more to politics than science.

This requires primary research, not memos and hyperlinks.

2) Damore takes his selection of gender research and then generalises to all forms of diversity... even accusing diversity programs of "lowering the bar", which is incorrect and damaging to his colleagues hired through those programs.
I have deactivated the auto update restart logic by gpo policy (locally) and just hit escape on the update summary when it's done downloading.

Now they just blue screen it every month and it does the update when you're forced to restart it.

Really pathetic considering I had windows 8.1 pro on it before with 3+ months uptime and no need to restart beyond 3rd party software requiring it or drivers/hardware.
Nah you don't need to renew it. You pay $1200 upfront and it comes with a bunch of license keys, each allowing multiple activations, that you get to keep even if you do not renew the subscription. Renewal is only if you want a key for future versions of windows (Windows 11?), which there won't be according to Microsoft. The catch is that the license prevents you from using it as a main/production machine, it's for dev, testing and demo only.
Space X's Falcon Heavy is supposed to launch in november with a 57 ton payload. I'm not sure how big the payload can be.

I wonder if you could make one with a few bits of lens that fold out? They'd have to be positioned more accurately that one wavelength of light (to ~100nm say or a 10,000th of a mm) which is tricky on earth but might be doable in space where you don't have gravity making things flop?
One thing I think is that AMD has even more room to shine as software gets better at parallelization. I saw this trend back during my days managing 250gb+ data generation/day at a genetics company, and eventually got to build a 4 cpu, 64 core AMD Opteron system for physics computation. I am super-excited about the new server line of CPU's, because the Opteron line wasn't perfect and I expect they learned a lot from it. Also, I only need to get 2 cpu's to get that 64 core count again! I dream about supermicro or someone doing a 4 cpu board for the new line... 128 cores... (hey, I can dream!)
LTSB actually comes with the settings app, though I don't want to use the settings app anyway. For the record, I am using LTSB, I just wish there was an easier way of getting it.
news.ycombinator.com is in the examples, ha!
Lawsuits like this are more about second-order effects than the primary effects. If he wins, and it becomes established that firing people for some reason related to this matter [1] is illegal and will carry large fines, then even if that one lawsuit's resulting fine is trivial to Google, the sum total of complaints that could be made if they don't change their policies is not, nor is it to all the other employers (as this isn't even an IT case at this point, this is an employment law case that will be relevant to all employers).

If a case goes through and has a concrete result (as opposed to a settlement + gag order) it has a high potential of being a landmark case of one sort or another. It's difficult to say what that will be, though, because the details matter a lot and it will certainly be more complicated than any simple sentence will accurately capture. The findings and final judicial opinion matter too, not just the binary outcome of the case. I mark the "some reason related to this matter" with [1] above because the case itself will also be deciding what that reason ultimately was; none of us currently are capable of guessing what that is and I guarantee you your knee jerk will prove an inaccurate indication of the final judgment's logic.

(And let me emphasize explicitly I've written this post generic to the outcome of the case. Either major outcome could be a landmark case depending on the reasoning given by the court.)
> I have Windows only software that can take two weeks to complete a dataset

What kind of sadistic monster wrote this?
Assuming you're using windows (i don't remember *nix having this problem):

- open cmd (Win+R, type cmd, press enter)

- navigate to the folder containing the file: cd c:\Movies

- type move filename.mp4 c:\newfilename.mp4

now the filename is short
true, but that's not the point the OP was making, I think :)
> If regardless of what you do you lose a bit of PR here and there, you get kicked out of cities here and there, [...]

...which is because the company was built on ignoring laws and regulations to
the detriment of both employees (not called employees by the company) and
outsiders (competitors) from the very start, so no wonder that nobody is
sympathetic to the company.
Cake, instant. Type two.
Nice.

https://youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA
I literally only have windows for games now. The OS is pushing my patience to the point where I'm considering giving up half my steam library and sticking to MacOS / Linux.

A couple nights ago my PC woke up in the middle of the night and started an update. I had to get up and force shut it down. I don't think there's anything Microsoft can do to reverse the damage now.
They backport patches and lie about the version number, to maintain the illusion of stability. It really pisses off the PHP community.

https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat/issues/90
Would you mind expanding a little on what simple tasks are locking up the UI for you? This is something I haven't experienced before.
I was about the post about how Brutalism originated about it being raw material and not brutal appearance.

How would the raw concrete metaphor relate to UX / Web design?

I think possibly by not using CSS for layout, only basic styling. Having tables with exposed default cell borders, having headers being browser default sizes, only using system fonts.
And maintained :)
jondubois said understand, not do.
A "ssh://..." URL can result in a "ssh" command line with a hostname that begins with a dash "-", which would cause the "ssh" command to instead (mis)treat it as an option.

It's a shame, because the Git dispatching code ought to be able to invoke the ssh command via

ssh -p 22 -etc -etc -- <hostname>

to prevent interpreting options in <hostname>, thus defusing the in-band signalling causing this. But I suppose it can't depend on every ssh implementation understanding this "--" POSIX utility syntax guideline.
Google cancels all-staff diversity meeting
Where is a good site to calculate worth? I've been using Glassdoor, but this article and thread make me feel skeptical.

I thought I've done well in my negotiating (in D.C.): 80k -> 90k (9m) -> 95k (12m) -> 105k base (1y7m, new job) -> present 2y2m later.

I now feel as if Ive shorted myself. I guess I shouldn't compare to Glassdoor? My salary is above the median listed at Glassdoor. The article makes me feel under-valued. The numbers I see just seem crazy. At the same time, I know my talent is greater than that of most "seniors" I work with, have led teams, and my product engineering has been fast and "impressive".

My boss assured me that Im on the fast track to promotion, but now I feel as if after 1y at my new company, I must request a significant raise, like 20%, or move on again.
Bet you $5 it's an R script.
Come to Sofia. No, I'm serious.
Of course Bulgaria is not the best country in Europe but it's pretty great for software devs.
Salaries for Sr. Devs are around 3000-3500 euro band -which is more than the president here- and cost of living is the half of the Berlin. Also, the city has a vibrant software scene.
It's interesting how the site really reminds me of the GUI design of late 80s early 90s professional software.

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win203

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/geosapple

http://toastytech.com/guis/gem11.html
> The fn key cannot be remapped with the built in preferences

It looks like you will be able to starting in High Sierra
Have you tried affiliate marketing?
I'd like to read your arguments on that.
The best strategy for small investors would be to purchase bitcoin monthly for a fixed amount of fiat (say 100 USD) and hold it. It'll come in handy when USD goes bust (come april 2018)
Makes sense for the South in summer months, sure. But in the USA as a whole, AC is used and abused even though there are solutions that involve building materials, behaviour and good habits that could make life livable. Temperatures get crazy high in Europe as well (40C or 105F is not uncommon in summer months in Spain or Italy and they do without AC). Using terra cotta, washing your floors, good use of shade, plants and trees, all that goes towards managing heat. Though the humidity in the southern US states does make it way more complicated, I'll give you that.
Rust is my favourite language, I beg to disagree that its Result or Option types are more concise or require less boilerplate. The only real differences are that Rust's are type checked and harder to use.
I agree. The term holocaust is more contemporary. Back in roman times enslavement and extermination seems to have been relatively common.
You're too optimistic. It'll take forever for the browsers to catch up, then the users.
Clean Code can be harmful? Or the person dogmatically applying the advice?

Martin warns against such blind dogmatism. He even goes so far as to explain the thought process behind most of his recommendations so that one may consider whether the rule applies or not.

On balance, Clean Code does far more good than it does bad.

I have yet to see these dogmatic Clean Coders blindly applying Martin's advice. Not in industry and certainly not in open-source. It's painful to work with most OSS.

Eugene Schwartz, one of The Godfather's of advertising, when asked, "How long should an ad be?" liked to say... as long as you can hold the reader's interest.

Much like Martin would say when asked how long a function should be... as long as you're working at the same level of abstraction.
> This is why we can't have nice things. If you misuse the free tiers in this way, they will go away

Imo, we shouldn't have free tiers.

It's like "unlimited" internet. I don't want things to be non-sustainable, it's a myth. Give me scalable solutions. How about instead of free tiers, very cheap tiers with very limited resources to try the product out? etc etc.
Girls Who Code are not forcing girls to code.
16TB of video, actual files, not raw storage, and I need to transcode it, so you're saying just transcode that data and store duplicates? Yeah not a ~$100 hard drive.
You can compile it to include only the components you actually use. I don't use stock semantic myself. I use the react port which is a separate project which uses just the CSS of the semantic library (and again can be compiled to include the css/theme you want).

I've never heard of bulma until this post so I will give it a look.
> A skewed gender ratio that is the product of past discrimination is itself a form of discrimination.

I don't agree. What is your definition of discrimination? My definition is that it is giving different preference to individuals based on some prejudice - that is, believed (regardless whether true or not) average attribute of the group they come from.

But if someone has a different preference, it's not a discrimination, even if the preference is "I don't want to go to a field where there is too few women". In other words, I don't believe "self-discrimination" is a form of discrimination.

> If you want to claim to have leveled the playing field, then you have to actually level it and see if it stays level on its own.

But didn't this already happened in tech? In the 80s U.S., there were more women in tech (computing) than today. Since then, the numbers have decreased.
> what is it that we're worried about? What do we imagine will happen when everybody thinks of themselves as being victimised?

That resources that should be spent growing the pie for everyone will instead be used to fight over how to divide up the then-smaller pie.
Unless that is the primary reason to use Filecoin. You can not prove it is porn, but if Filecoin's primary use case is child porn, then if you have Filecoin, you are likely storing someone's child porn, and you are likely running Filecoin to access your own child porn that is stored on someone else's computer.

Remember that just running a Tor node makes the authorities suspicious about that person. There are few non-suspicious reasons for running Tor unfortunately from a government's perspective, you are either an activist fleeing some government censorship (sometimes, but I think that is rare) or doing something semi-illegal (much more often.)

There is a big risk that is where this is heading.
You get the one that comes with the device you buy. All other cases your company has departments that can figure it out.
Throwing money at a business proposition is neither new nor gambling.
Yes, see my rather extensive edit.

It's only $539, though. The cheaper MSDN tier seems to include LTSB according to the product matrix.
From a bit of inside info from the aggregator side (think app - but let's keep it generic), there are some fraudulent activity in the 'seller' side and the aggregators pay a lot of attention to it.
I made a things while back using IFTT and Reddit very low maintenance but it brings me joy. http://www.putyouinabettermood.com/
Biohackers encoded malware in a strand of DNA
AIXIjs – General Reinforcement Learning in the Browser
and the link is dead..
so you have file storage and a currency. you need a dao to manage the index/search.