skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really didn't want to comment on this topic, but who can pass up a chance at self-immolation ?

Being left-leaning, I've been doing a lot of looking into some of the ideas floating around amongst the right-leaning crowd since the election. Based upon that, I would say that yes, that is an unreasonable reading.

My understanding (subject to being completely off-base, of course) is that the argument is about biological differences related to interests and aspirations, not intelligence and capabilities. In other words, the early developmental stages cause differences in the brain among men and women that affect, in very general terms, what both may end up aspiring to in terms of career choices and hobbies/interests.

Women (again, speaking generally) could easily do any knowledge-based job performed by men, but you're going to have problems finding the numbers that you need if you want to hit a solid 50/50 distribution in certain types of fields. I think this is why certain fields have had very little trouble reaching either parity or female dominance after the women's equality movement started, while other fields struggle to this day. For example, I've read that SV has no problem with the distribution amongst the non-tech fields and that they slightly favor women, but in terms of engineering and tech, the distribution still lags by quite a bit. This would imply that SV is doing everything in its power to hire and promote women, and that there is something else going on that is the cause of what we're seeing. However, it could also imply that tech and engineering are all filled with men that are actively hostile to women to such a degree that women, even women extremely interested in such fields, simply avoid them. I suspect that, like all things in life, it's a mix of both.
Fog Creek Software does iirc
Where are you going to get a real return of 4%?
> I know quite a few people my age that notwithstanding having worked (often with some financial/personal success) for many years, learned nothing, i.e. are nowhere "wiser" than they were when young.

That's a pretty big deal.

Someone straight out of school has expectations matching someone straight out of school.

Someone with 20 years of experience has expectations matching someone with 20 years of experience.

However, someone straight out of school is, usually, straight out of school.

Someone with 20 years of experience..might have done nothing of value for 10 of those 20 years. Might not have kept up with technology. Might have poor quality experience. Might be bored with the profession, etc.

So very few people straight out of school are unfit for the job. A much higher percentage of people with a lot of experience would be unfit for a job (unless they're willing to take a few step back, at which point, why not take someone of the same level who is going forward instead of backward?)
The article is a little tough on Protocol Labs. I'm pretty sure it's the same team behind IPFS so they have a pretty good track record of delivery. The idea of Filecoin has been floating around for years and the dev team is a serious one. Of all the ICO's, this is one I'm not too skeptical of.
The issue is 1080 is 1.5 years old.
Doesn't google care about TLS for rankings? Why would any SEO advise against what google wants?
Wait what? “Code with security bugs is subject to malware” is not news. The only interesting bit of this headline would be an existing bug in DNA-reading code.
I work in a team. The team of 5-10 people sit in the same office. That way we can talk to each other when needed. Some say that's disturbance, I call it collaborating.

I'm not a code monkey. I don't sit alone in an office all day hammering out code. If that was what expected of me, I would change job.

So, not exactly open floor plan, but not separate offices either. I think that's perfect.
How does JavaScript actually work: Part 1
Seems you will charge for usage in the future ? No mentioning of a free tier ? No pricing ? I generally do not sign up for anything that is not clear on that.
At Garmin in Salem, OR, they have four-person quads. These are enclosed spaces with an additional central table, storage, ceiling and door. Though not my own office, I liked it. Quiet, everyone had a corner with ample space, and a nice group dynamic formed. Devs would move occasionally and you'd get to know other people pretty well.
Cadillac Evoq from 1999 not only went into production as XLR, but it is also defined Cadillac's design for the next ~20 years.
I had a positive experience with a Blue Apron, but had similar quality issue with Purple Carrot. Most of the produce would arrive in a partially rotten state and sometimes ingredients were missing or the bottle of some liquid hadn't been fully closed and leaked over everything. I switched to Sun Basket and so far, so good.
Definitely depends on the group, but I think mostly just whatever building you happen to be in. The building I'm in is newly remodeled. Meaning entirely open-office.

In my opinion, my building/group/whatever does it wrong by jamming so many bodies in the same room together. There's 26 desks here in a room that looks as though it could comfortable fit about half that many. I've since adopted big sound-proof headphones and a wall of monitors that eliminate most distractions. But the biggest annoyance to me is that there's constantly a line for the bathrooms. Too many people for what the building was originally designed for, I think. Assuming we better limited the room capacity, I could likely tolerate this just fine.
>and that's mostly because the engineer shot himself in the foot.

No, it was shared outside of his control to a wider audience from the initial recipients, then to the press by an anonymous source, who then culled references, notes, and charts from the document which were important points.

The publicity was distinctly out of his control, and I think that publicity had a major part in his firing (if it didn't, Google should also be firing the people who agree with him and participated in discussions with him)
> I love open source

Stallman doesn't.
I have been using this since it came out. Highly recommended. Great way to watch many different servers at the same time.
Different for three reasons:

-Central Park is a desirable place to spend time, unlike the artificial, pseudopublic spaces that separate highrise complexes.

-Population density is _much_ higher in those neighborhoods than you get with multi-building highrise complexes.

-There are shops nearby that, along with the park, provide a reason for people to spend time there throughout the day. People don't like spending time in deserted plazas.
> Writing your code in a safe language makes buffer overflows obsolete

Most languages can be safe with a safe implementation and most languages can be unsafe with an unsafe implementation.

Just use a safe implementation next time, or go all-in and formally verify your programs.
Diebold was sued successfully many years ago for DMCA abuse under 512f. See OPG v Diebold. EFF prosecuted and did a great job. Use this precedent!

Disclaimer: I was the plaintiff.
There were four others too. They published their views on a website (Quillette) that was immediately DDoSd off the internet - presumably by the sort of extremists who now control Google and who did not want anyone to see the evidence that Damore might have a point.

Damore is not an idiot. The people who are attacking him in these ways are though: it's pure anti-intellectualism.

And by the way, counting experts is not a valid way to decide things, it's just a heuristic.

Damore has 5 who point out that he isn't making the science up, but what actually matters is that there are hundreds of studies and papers that support his basic position. Dr Soh points that out. It's not just her opinion vs other people's opinions. It's the opinion of thousands of scientists who have published research that shows all sorts of preference differences between gender.
Writing laws such that fines are distributed back to the population uniformly would make the impact easier to understand.

Pooling all revenue, from both taxes and fines, would make budgeting more complex as the tax rate would need to fluctuate with the expectation of fines, including the ones from new legislation. Any new fine legislation would thus be a tax bill by side-effect.
Docs and tests are good one. Lots of people like the fun part of coding, which is getting some new thing to work. I've taught myself to like docs and tests, to the point that when I'm reviewing a changeset I look to see if there are docs and tests and just push back right away if there are not.

If you get into that groove, write the docs first. When you have to explain your feature, write out the command line options, all of that, you have to sort of imagine it all in your head, you start to think about is this the way other commands work, am I being consistent, etc. I find that when I do the docs first I do a better job on the code, especially the UI parts or where it fits with other code.

And tests, regression tests. When I started BitKeeper we did regression tests with every command. So frigging pleasant. It got to a point where you basically couldn't break BK if you passed the tests, or at least you had to be really sneaky.

I agree with twobyfour that it's different for different people, his/her comment that you need to be self aware is a really good point.
Why the tech industry doesn't need more female software engineers
Two places that allow you (actually they prefer) to work remotely are Avaaz (avaaz.org) and Canonical. Both may share the cost of a rented office. I can't speak highly enough of either - awesome teams, awesome missions.
Why is heroku not addressed?
Great. Another way for companies to send me an automated response that doesn't answer my question.
Flashback to Flashbangs
What a clever domain name.
An hour focused on one thing? Lucky you!
The Cuban regime is despicable, but I don't see what they have to gain by targeting diplomats -- particularly US diplomats.

I'm inclined to believe the theory that the damage is inadvertent.
Redux-to-URL state management
What's the advantage over Terminator [0] ?

[0] https://gnometerminator.blogspot.nl/p/introduction.html?
The New Hybrid Social Reach Strategy: Organic and Paid
Most of my usages are Typescript type assertions:

;(thing as Type).methodINeed()

If it weren't for these I mostly wouldn't need semicolons at all, sometimes I refactor to:

const thingType = thing as Type
thingType.methodINeed()
"bio-DRM", there's a scary thought. Kind of like replicants.
Can someone who's a better cook than this author tell us their opinion of the taste?
Tweets makes your problem public. Multiple times I couldn't get reach to customer service or I would be lost in a Labyrinth of various agents who would simply transfer me over and over.
It is correct. Not all banks in Muslim-majority countries are sharia-compliant.
I agree. But if you consider having a personal office a smart thing, this isn't going to easy or even possible.
Please excuse the delay. I'll get to breaking your links down shortly. You're asking me to source papers during my commute hour and on mobile it's difficult to grab and source the resources I'll cite.
With that many nuclear weapons existing... Who cares?
The use of BOLD TEXT is also a bit annoying.

I wonder if it has to to with the fact that this is the BBC Future section.
It could be worse, I seen far more clickbaity articles about this topic

>This flavour is so good its illegal

>If your food tastes this good it could kill you

>This flavour caused a drug raid
Yeah but with 64 pcie lanes and vulkan, that 1080i, and even 2 in SLI, is starting to look a bit old fashion. I think amd is actually ahead of the paradigm shift
We use helpscout. Great product that keeps it simple.

We used groovehq.com before as well, but helpscout is more polished and have a better mobile app
The only reason to go public with a complaint on Twitter is lack of faith in the dispute resolution process - which is usually justified.

I once had an insurance company reach out to me after I posted about them on Livejournal. They connected me to someone with the ability to fix problems! Must have found me through search as well.
Let me ask you this - what ideology is he pushing?

Damore's piece can be read as supporting one of two policies, depending on how you interpret it:

1. Adopt alternative approaches to increasing the number of women at Google.

or

2. Leave things alone and don't try to interfere with the outcome of the standard hiring process.

I think he argued more for (1), in which case his "ideology" would if anything be rather close to Google's standard ideology and it's only a debate about means rather than ends.

But if you read it as (2), e.g. because he says he doesn't support socially engineering tech to get a particular outcome, that's still not an ideology. Doing nothing is not an ideology, it's an absence of ideology.

So I find myself disagreeing with you on this basic point. It's Google and Damore's opponents who are pushing an ideology here. Not him.
Irish vet seeking visa fails to convince robot she can speak English fluently
Vertu Is Auctioning Off Its Gold Phones for Pennies on the Dollar
It uses a handful of built-in system commands on the respective platforms to set up the ad hoc network, and then writes the file in encrypted chunks over a TCP socket. It's totally possible to extend this to Linux, I just haven't looked into doing so yet. Not sure whether I'll tackle that or a GUI first.

As for mobile, I'd love to do that as well, but I'm not sure how possible it is. I believe it would have to use Wi-Fi Direct on Android, and I'm not sure how much control you have over the network stack on iOS. I don't think either supports ad hoc networking so it would be a pretty different program at that point. But I don't have much experience with mobile development yet.
Is just adding the line:

||functionalclam.com^$third-party

to "My Filters" the right way to do it?
Not an i3 user, but xmonad should be close enough. I'm using termite nowadays. It's configured by editing a plain text file in your editor of choice (as opposed to a GUI), it does not have buttons that take away space, and the vim-like visual mode is a game changer for me. The only annoying thing is that it sets TERM=xterm-termite, which machines you log in via ssh usually don't recognize because termite is not installed there. Easily fixed in your .bashrc.
No such thing as "intellectual property". And it's not like the original program would disappear anyway so I can't see the issue in that specific case.
> all you really need to do is turn off wi-fi, which is already fairly paranoid given that no one is realistically going to burn a serious chipset zero-day on random people at a conferenc

I know very little about security or defcon, but I was under the illusion that stuff like running Wifi Pineapple to trick people to connect to their hotspots was common and doesn't require any 0-days.
Thanks, just signed up to try it out.
I use urxvt.
TL;DR with the important stuff bumped (I hate, hate, hate clickbait and burying the lede):

Tonka beans, containing the toxic-to-the-liver chemical Coumarin, are banned for use in food in the US but still used in some high-end restaurants and bakeries, leading to occasional FDA raids. The beans impart flavors akin to vanilla, lavender, cherries, and grass, due to their sharing some chemical components. They're probably safe in small amounts, making the ban controversial. If you have certain rare enzyme disorders or (obviously) existing liver damage, however, the risk of harm is higher. The chemical is present in smaller but still-large amounts in certain other foods and spices, notably common cassia "cinnamon"—the less-common true cinnamon contains only trace amounts. The use of Tonka/Coumarin in non-food products is unregulated, and it is in fact used in cigarettes, e-cigs, and cosmetics. It can be absorbed through the lungs and skin.

Tonka bean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipteryx_odorata

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamomum_verum
Evidence, please.
Were this reddit I'd invite you to take a load off, but that kind of behaviour invites (incites?) downvotes round here. So I shan't!
I was surprised the article didn't mention nutmeg, which is widely used despite its toxicity, so I tried to figure out how their LD50 compares (i.e. how much tonka nut you need to eat to have a 50% chance of death, and how nutmeg stacks up).

I couldn't find any clear answers for tonka beans and the exact dose of course depends on body weight but the lethal doses for nutmeg were an order of magnitude higher: for nutmeg the doses are given in thousands of milligrammes per kg body weight, for tonka beans they're in the hundreds.

So I guess it could be said that tonka beans are 10 times as deadly as nutmeg.

EDIT: g -> mg, sorry about mixing up the units
I use urxvt with xmonad (another tiling WM). I love it, it's so minimalist and basic. I think it supports tabs with a perl extension but by default it has no fancy functionality that your WM can provide for you.
Well no one's forcing a license on you. As a condition of building on software which currently uses that license, you must also use that license if you intend to distribute your derivative work.
But spf and doing still don't prevent mail from being dropped by big providers like Microsoft and Google.

Hosting your own mail is roulette.
Don't blame you a bit. I do dismiss people like this - life is too short for dealing with them, even the ones who are clueless rather than actively hostile.

Suggestion for clueless men who think this makes you look worldly or cool: if you can easily substitute inanimate objects in your metaphor that otherwise involves the dehumanizing half the planet, do so. You might eventually become actually worldly and cool someday if you start practicing now. If, on the other hand, the esteem and praise of 14 year old boys and men who still act like them is all you care about, please, by all means, keep it up. It makes my life easier when people I don't want to be around advertise.
Holy hell. Einstein's quote about World War IV being fought with sticks and rocks wasn't hyperbole.
Me personally? I don't care either way. The meta-debate is more important than gender studies.

Damore and Google? All three that you name.
This is a good one, I forgot that one. How I do it is I type up the notes at the end of my day, I always put them in a file called "STATE" in whatever directory I'm working in.

I document what I was trying to do, how far I had gotten, what I think I need to do next.

I can't tell you the number of times that as I'm writing up the notes I go "ahhhhh, that's it!" and off I go for another few hours and actually finish.

And in the times where I leave it, it's so much faster to get up to speed the next day after reading the STATE file.

And my coworkers at the time knew that I did this and would do stuff like

$ cd /home/bk/lm
$ find . -name STATE -mtime -1

to see what I was working on. Not saying that's a good way to communicate, but it worked for us at the time.
> My interpretation of this point should not be taken as an endorsement of it or the document as a whole

I was hoping not to discuss the document as a whole myself. I largely avoided the last pseudoscientific cesspool of a thread.
Qualcomm
Why do we need to equate a lifestyle business with traveling the world full time? I run a lifestyle business and I go abroad maybe once a year for about a week and I am very happy. I think the point is that the lifestyle business lets you do that if you want to, but at the end of the day you can still do whatever you want.
I consider having an office a smart thing. Shared offices are better than no offices. I don't think shared offices are too much to ask if your employer is a software company.
https://www.amazon.com/Tonka-Beans-Wishes-Ravenz-Special/dp/...

But it's illegal?
The bold text is for links. Confused me at first, too. Really poor choice.
Interesting one. I remember I went to the local One Stop with my son - he was about 15 at the time. He couldn't bear standing outside - he said the noise was unbearable. I said "what noise"?

Apparently they used some kind of sonic device that emits sound that can only be heard by teenagers, and it was incredibly effective - they wouldn't hang around outside the shop more than a moment longer than necessary. I do wonder whether it caused any damage though?

One Stop was later bought by Tesco and they got rid of it.
New Yorkers don't know where North Korea is
Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization
Hi, private bookmarking will always be free. The second phase of Kozmos will have "public collections", for example, we will be able to create a "Best Boutique Hotels in Istanbul" collection, and this will be only available for paid users. This is Kozmos' business model but I haven't explained it in the site, because collections aren't implemented yet.
Interesting article at DefenseOne about the Midwest as "nuclear sponge."

http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/02/welcome-americas-nuc...
> It helps drive to a much quicker resolution and overall provides a much better customer experience.

Are there measurements behind this claim? It could be that you are optimizing for customer support experience rather than customer experience.

I mean, with the resources, a Twitter interaction could look like

Customer: your service sucks.

Support: I'm sorry to hear you have that experience. Is there anything we can do to make up for it?

Customer: don't send me a bill for next month and I'll stay as your customer.

Support: Sure thing. Hope you can enjoy the service more in the future.

This type of exchange is bad for the company only in that it does not provide any valuable feedback, but as long as you have other ways of getting that, I bet you the customer will feel content.
They might not be feeling so free to express themselves since this guy got fired.
Absolutely right. This right here is the killer for me.
I think you're right... thanks.
Better user interface prototyping with Justinmind’s Oracle Alta UI kit
I haven't looked at SC2 specifically, but would be surprised if they were floats; I sometimes read game dev blogs and RTSs on average tend to be implemented using int/fixed-point based positioning, to eliminate floating point imprecision as a source of multiplayer sync issues.
First focus improving Android game
I think that may be the opposite of irony. It's foretelling if he's not 100% sure what's been approved.

Speakers at large companies must get the entire content of their public presentations approved by PR and upper management well in advance. The process can take weeks even for completely innocuous information because accidental disclosure can have serious implications.

1. Disclosure of number of customers, number of transactions, number of anything can be reverse engineered by investors and competitors to derive forward looking information about the company's finances. Or worse, transactions related to specific customers so their financials could be reverse engineered. Good way to lose a client.

2. Disclosures of internal resources, urls, domains, architectures etc can be a treasure trove for competitors and malicious attackers.

Maybe it was a tongue in cheek joke because he was fully aware his content had been vetted 10 times over. Or maybe not and this is part of a pattern.
You can use keepass to benchmark your CPU in how many iterations should be used. I did the one second delay and divided it by ten so that I can use it on my phone without a huge delay. (2 500 000 iterations)
It's a delicious, sweet, nutty aroma that marries extremely well with chocolate. The Swiss chocolate manufacturer Villars makes a delicious "Praliné fève Tonka" that I can't recommend enough :)
Or perhaps the best time, they have IPO'd, the original investors got their money back plus extra, the founders made a tidy sum and if it all falls to pieces it is the institutional investors who will take the hit. Now they are a public company they will be looking at their bottom line so the easiest/fastest way to improve that is to cut costs.