skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, medium is now modal-overlaying a sign-in/up screen on load; they are really doubling down on those A/B tests.
Does anyone else notice that there is enough of a delay for you to switch your choice after the computers choice is displayed allowing you to get a 100% win rate.
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I've yet to see a non emotional explanation for why diversity hiring is good over meritocracy, yet that is thrust upon shareholders.
And how is revealing where you work and that they have offices privileged enough that you aren't prepared to name them?
Doesn't quite work that way. He's locking a public right of access (that's been used that way for 100 years).

At that point it's a legal public byway. Kind of how easements etc are.

He's allowed to have a gate, but he can't actually block access. He also knew this when he bought the place.
If/when the limit of 21 million is reached, the miners would/will increase the limit. Over time the incentives of BTC holders and BTC miners diverge. One of the many reasons a viable PoS is important, as it merges these two groups into one.
Agree with the exception of mainland China where processed food is even more race to the bottom than in the US. Recommend that you assume food served on internal flights is inedible and plan accordingly.
yep, but a wind turbine is churning way less money than an oil rig, you get the chopper only for extreme cases (and it's a pain because of the rotor, sometime they just use the emergency lift to get into the water with a life raft).

So now we are talking high sea docking to a moving structure in the North Sea, not going to happen in the winter. So any incident and you lose your entire season, and now you're in a downward spiral. I'm not saying this won't work, I'm saying it's a very complicated situation.
> Neither users nor developers wanted this.

That's a very broad statement to make, and I don't think you're in a position to say something like that.

For any extension that can be written with WebEx, this move is unambiguously a good thing. The developer can now just write their extension once and deploy it to multiple browsers. And for their users this is also a good thing, not just because reducing maintenance burden on the developer is more likely to lead to faster development, but also because AIUI WebEx has a much better permissions model than the old extensions.

The only real problem is the subset of extensions that cannot be rewritten with WebEx. Losing these extensions sucks, to be sure, but it's a tradeoff. You just can't claim that this move is strictly negative.
Not to mention slipping in race ever so subtly in only the conclusions after the arguments have been made against gender diversity. Nope. Can't take those weasel words junk seriously.
That's what we've all been using for the last year. Legacy extensions were marked as "legacy," and no one cared. They're tagged as "deprecated", and "incompatible with Firefox <57", and still no one cares. Developers are only now switching because the deadline is fast approaching. That's just human nature, unfortunately.

Though I kind of wish Mozilla had gone all the way to labeling them "for fucks sake stahp"
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Yeah, they did the same with their IoT products. My former roommate had to use one for an university project and he was seriously pissed because it was of not a very high quality, so there may be a connection...
I recall that Snapchat uses backloaded vesting (10/20/30/40), unlike most startups, so perhaps that explains why this figure seems unusually large. I don't necessarily understand the details of Black–Scholes but I think it allocates the expense according to the vesting schedule. So if I'm right, we're seeing the lion's share of those early grants (around 2012-2013).

Anyone want to chime in on how exactly this expense is calculated? I feel silly in that I don't even know if it's supposed to include the gain in value in the current reporting period, as opposed to just the FMV at grant date spread over the vesting period.
> 64-bit Windows builds - Use your computer's full address space with the 64-bit builds.

Now if only they could get the real visual studio to go 64-bit so it stops crashing when you load too many symbols.
I guess it depends on the person. For example, flour is currently allowed 150 insect filth/fragments per 100 grams [1]. Your reaction will vary to this information but mine is to try to forget this information as soon as possible because I love bread and I am not ready to get a wheat grinder (though I have seen a nice portable one in a Mormon household that I will probably purchase one day). Similarly, in Montreal, it was recently discovered that turkey sausages were mostly chicken and 'pure beef' sausages were made of horse meat [2]. A certain fish that looks like mackerel (edit: served as albacore) and is served as such in some places causes significant gastric discomfort if consumed in a large portion [3].

Food adulteration is a big deal and was much worse when regulation was loose/non-existent. My point was that whole ingredients (such as wheat berries) are a reasonable approach to self empowerment in terms of controlling what you put in your body. It is in my opinion more doable than running one's own farm or some such.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Food_Defect_Action_Levels

[2]: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sausage-science-1.4234568

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escolar
What was once an open place is now very, very constrained. The acceptable range of viewpoints has ratcheted into a narrower and narrower consensus, to the point where the discussions are boring and you have to be careful to not make them interesting. The viewpoint racheting alienated a lot of people from the site who used to feel like they were part of the community.
> He shouldn't have to pay taxes on money he hasn't received

No one should have to pay taxes ideally, but the government needs money to provide basic services, keep us safe, etc. I don't think it is better to tax salaried people some of who can barely make ends meet before taxing someone who is sitting on $70 on unrealized capital gains just because he chooses not to sell.
You are joking right?

The question about fraud was in the context of the misappropriation of capital from investors for a purpose different from what was initially agreed to, and not as a general catch-all term for posturing or affectation either by politicians or the general populace.
there is no shortage of space on roofs for solar panels. Wind turbines need a special place, far from houses, and have an acceptance by the population problem.
Do you mean the model is inaccurate, or that modeling this problem itself is unhelpful?
There are a set of questions about when human life starts. Is it when the sperm touches the egg? When the zygote forms?

There is no firm answer, and the choice depends on one's philosophy. The US Supreme Court - and in this case I am suggesting that the courts are a sort of applied philosophy - took input from biology in deciding Roe v. Wade.

Medical ethics, again a form of philosophy, says that human embryo experimentation must not continue past two weeks, based on input from biology. That's when the central nervous system starts to form, and marks the end of when the embryo can split into twins. It was also not believed possible to keep an embryo alive outside the womb that long, but now it's possible. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/02/51628089...

If the definition of human is related to DNA, then is cancer human? What about immortal cell lines? Parasitic cancers like Canine transmissible venereal tumor?

Were Neanderthals human? Denisovans?
Such a programme was recently tried here in the UK.

I don't know the details but friends effected mentioned:

* Being required to attend an office full time where they were monitored job searching and required to do soft skills courses, which they perceived as not useful.

* After an extended period of joblessness, being required to work for free (while recieving normal out of work benefit), for instance at a supermarket

This was critisised because:

* 'Jobless' people working for 1/4 the minimum wage displaced normal workers

* The programme encouraged people to make a high volume of inappropriate job applications. These make it harder for employers to sift candidates who actually want a job (I notice - do you want 100 angry highschool dropouts applying for your developer roles?), and reduce time and energy available to chase real leads.

* People who landed interviews for real jobs risked catastrophic penalties if they attended the interview, because the bureaucracy often failed to accept that this is what they were doing.

You could argue that this was a badly executed programme. Or that it was more focused on reducing public spending by discouraging people using their social insurance than on rehabilitating anyone. Or you could argue that aspects were good and got a bad rap.

For me, I think the nanny state can be terrifying, and that that no workplace needs people who'd rather be at home.
I feel like the examples shows are a little disingenuous. He's ignoring the entire fact that CSS rules cascade and that design has hierarchy. I don't see a functional different between
.media-card .media-card__image
and
.media-card img
yet the 2nd is actually semantic and not reliant on specific markup. The biggest difference to me is that .media-card__image doesn't have to be an <img> element and I don't see how that's a benefit.
Check out their whitepaper https://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf

It includes two proofs, proof-of-replication and proof-of-spacetime which help prove someone is storing the file multiple times in independent locations.
>like a few WNBA players might be able to give NBA players a tough challenge

this is not true at all. Maybe a WNBA could score a few points here and there. But even the worst NBA player is better than the best WNBA because of the biological difference between men and women. The women's national hockey team and soccer team scrimmage regularly against 16 boys and get beat by those boys. The difference is magnitude when a full grown man actually did scrimmage against them.

But to relate to the central topic, the biological difference between men and women in programming is insignificant.
> Unicode support and new style classes were in Python 2.7.

Unicode support is tremendously easier in Python 3. You don't have to deal with the confusing encode and decode stuff, and Python 3 strings have the right behavior in a lot of weird cases where Python 2.7 unicode objects do not.

Unicode support was my biggest reason for switching to Python 3, because I was dealing with natural language data with a lot of emojis and Python 2.7 was just an endless headache.
A bit OT:
If i want to propose a webextension, what is the correct procedure, it seem i do have to open a bug in bugzilla, but in the documentation i did not find the instruction on how to open a feature request, only bugreport.

I read this document: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writ...

Does anybody have some suggestion on how to open a feature request for a webextension, it is better to first hop on an irc channel and ask there?
Sorry to be a party pooper again, but https://esdiscuss.org/topic/es8-proposal-optional-static-typ... and https://ecmascript-daily.github.io/pages/status-of-static-ty... ...
I'd like to see that myself, but what can you do... I'm learning Rust instead to use this in wasm. With new webpack initiative https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-awarded-125-000-from-moss... it's looking good.
I'm inlove with primes... Great work!!
Questions about the data aside, I really like the Data visualization UI and UX, its very nice-to-use and you play around with it without thinking.

However, whenever it shows "Physics Teachers and Business Teachers" and says they are for postsecondary, I think they mean professors for college or other postsecondary education because teachers tend to mislead and bring up images of highschool teachers instead.
If you protect it appropriately, you've basically re-implemented exec.
My library is like that as well, except that there is a good "reserve a computer" system that means you just have to wait a bit to get one, and lots of people (including me!) are still regularly checking out books.
For Dvorak, aren’t the frequently used keys (for English) under the fingers on the home row? You can measure travel distance of the fingers, for example, on a novel, etc

http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/#/main

Xah Lee has a heat map:

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_dvorak_layout.html
He is going to have quite the tax bill this year :-)
"Code review seems pointless at a company with defined code conventions."

I don't mean to disrespect you, but either you are you are very green or are living in a completely different universe of software engineering than I am. It's interesting to hear this viewpoint.
Overwhelmingly Large.

No, seriously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope
Of course normal computer headphones or speakers aren't a great test for this, since their frequency response rarely goes that high. Especially the samples >20kHz, since that's beyond the normal range of human hearing. Even high-quality headphones won't play high-frequency sounds, the -3dB (half power) cutoff is generally about 20kHz. Having it higher can allow the headphones/speakers to produce unpleasant harmonics, so good devices are built to damp out such high-frequency resonances.
This is great! I've looked for exactly this in the past.
Google cancels meeting on gender controversy due to employee fears of harassment
Hedge maze? Rock wall? Lion chained to a post? Big fans to blow sand on beachgoers? Or maybe he floods it and builds a long deck over it?
Sorry, I wasn't very specific with my phrasing and I think I misrepresented my opinions. Of course I'm aware that hormones play a role in this stuff — that's basic science, and it was my fault for not addressing that more carefully.

But hormones are only a part of the story, and I think they're less important than maybe you do. I don't think the defense of "but testosterone!" is a valid explanation for the incredible disparity in representation we see in the upper echelons of society. Yes, it plays a role, but it isn't everything.

Most leadership positions are held by men, and I think that the way younger people (or people "lower in the hierarchy" I suppose) perceive this is more important than the natural inclinations due to hormonal differences. And that's what I meant by my use of the word "significantly" in my original comment. Not that the biological imperatives don't exist, but that they are not significant when compared to the societal imperatives.
> Where you are required to do some labour work for the community (cleaning wild areas, swiping side walks, planting trees etc.) in exchange for some better than average benefits.

All of the things you listed are geared towards improving the looks and desirability of communities, which will not work to benefit the people receiving the benefits in the current US housing system because of gentrification. Forcing poor people to work to receive the equivalent of less-than-minimum-wage in benefits to drive gentrification and real estate speculation will price those people out of housing in their own neighborhoods and make their plight worse.

This is not hyperbole or hypothetical, it actually happens today in many places in the United States. There was an article in the Guardian yesterday about homeless people in Portland being jailed and then forced to work for $1 a day to destroy the homeless camps that they had lived in:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/09/portland-hom...
Mozilla Joins George Soros's Efforts in Launching a Strike Against “Fake News”
LaterPay brings its media payment technology to the US
If that's the case why did Evan Spiegel keep turning down buyout offers, including potentially a $30B one from google last year?
I am running a Burning Man camp with 200 people on the side.

We have developed our own modular solar electric grid...that powers the whole camp...trying to prototype carbon neutral living...it's a lot of work...and a lot of fun :)
What's not really mentioned so much. The real application is collision avoidance. There is the potential to reduce property damage, injury, and death substantially. The internet says the average annual insurance cost per driver is $900 a year. So over twenty years, $18000.

If a $3000 self-driving but really actually collision avoidance system can save you 2/3 on insurance then you win, saving $18000 - ($6000 + $3000) --> $9000/20 years total or $450 a year ($37/mo)

If you don't think those numbers are meaningful, multiply by 17 million cars sold per year and 218 million licensed drivers in the united states.
I actually went a little bit down the nvim route as well, since it has nice built-in shell support.

What I think you're missing with just nvim is the tmux scripting capabilities and of course the session management.

It's pretty easy to script up a tailored set of tmux sessions/windows/panes. I do this on initial login. Other solutions like tmuxinator/tmux-resurrect exist to automate this setup, if you don't want to script it.
I meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_trans-Neptunia... where they're colonizing those spaces as a place to live -- supposing civilization has already spread through the solar system, we're not talking about needing some kind of super Manhattan project to spread a little farther out. You just need people who feel crowded in the already-full habitats.

Of course this is speculation, but it's one chink in the case for the cost of travel stopping life from spreading. Personally I expect fancier higher-tech faster means in the actual future, like Forward's Star Wisp scheme.
Hi, a software developer here. I also feel like you. Started coding very young, then uni, first job, first team leader position, then moved to Europe for 5 years working in big companies ( and saving as much as I could). Now I'm back home in Latin America. Built a couple of houses cash with savings, got married.
But I'm bored so I spend my time playing with my 3d printer and home automation little projects in my spare time. I don't think I will last much longer working on something I don't enjoy.

Every month I save enough for living at least 3 months (4.5k USD ) without working which is quite good, but on the other hand, I don't like what I do. It's tough to quit when you know other people are struggling to pay for basic needs in other areas.

I guess my plan is to keep saving and at some point next year ( when I get around 2-3 years worth of expenses) do something about it.

Anyways, at the moment my hobbies keep me going. That's my advice, a hobbie.
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Ask HN: What non PHP framework resembles the structure/deployment of Laravel/Yii
PHP has been my main language for years, but I want to learn other languages to create web apps. The thing I like the most of PHP is how easy it is to deploy and develop an application. When deploying your app, you only have to update the files with a file transfer or a deployment script, because a PHP interpreter is always running.

Furthermore, all PHP frameworks like Yii, Laravel and CodeIgniter follow the same conventions for structuring a project.

I've tried to learn Django and like the syntax. However, I don't like the idea that a project contains multiple apps. I prefer to have large applications that do multiple things. Also, the whole template/view part is a bit confusing for me.

I'm curious what other platforms/languages are the most similar to the structure and deployment of Yii and Laravel projects.

The Java play framework seems like an interesting option.
The future of work is medically enhanced elite super-workers
> Does anyone have a reliable source on this?

Initially, he submitted the document as a feedback for a “diversity summit” he attended. Here's the source:

https://youtu.be/agU-mHFcXdw?t=9m15s
Untill you actually have a viable, testable plan to implement it almost allege money you throw at it is pretty much certain to be wasted.

The Manhattan project is often given as an example, but that project was based on solid theoretical models and repeatable experiments. They knew exactly what they were doing and how they were going to do it.

The problem in AI at the moment is mainly developing talent and expertise, not capital funding. I'm all for advanced research into technologies. However we need to advance that research on as many different fronts as possible in a flexible way simply because we don't know how we are going to solve the problem of general AI. Guessing on an approach and spending billions on it would be a complete waste. We're simply not at a point where that would do any good.
Washington state does this on the lanes that are otherwise HOV on I-405, which runs N/S through Bellevue (Expedia, Microsoft) and meets up with 520 E/W to Redmond (Microsoft). The tolls are proportional to demand, and they often hit the upper max of $10 each way. [1]

It's astonishing how much some people are willing to pay for the pleasure of driving free of traffic... We should charge them as much as they are willing to pay...

[1] http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/the-...
https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/tunnelbear_public_security_a...

They just got audited
I work on the PureScript (http://purescript.org) compiler, tools, libraries and book in my spare time (along with many other unpaid contributors), because it's the programming language I wished had existed when I started creating it. It's still the closest thing to a perfect environment for web development, at least as far as I'm concerned :)
Massively-Parallel Vector Graphics Samples
There's no trading windows for insiders?
Shoe leather wasn't cheap in the middle ages, and leather soles used to wear out all of the time. Transport is something people are willing to pay for.
I created a layout based on similar assumptions a few years ago. Blog post: https://kozikow.com/2013/11/15/the-only-alternative-keyboard... (including OSX implementation). I also created Linux implementation: https://github.com/kozikow/keyremaplinux .

It's also targeting "special" keys rather than letters.
The difference is not using modality, but utilizing the right cmd (or the right alt on linux) to activate a layer with all special characters. Conflicts with qwerty are minimal, so you can install it on top of qwerty.
Yep, I think they fairly strongly agree that biological differences are not huge and that interest (which can be strongly swayed by culture) is that main contributing factor in the studies the memo cited.

I think Scott Alexander makes one rather poor argument towards the end of his debate with Grant.

> I agree this is surprising. But let’s also not claim it supports the sexism theory, unless you think people in computer science became more sexist between 1980 and today for some reason.

Attitudes change precisely that quickly. Look at the massive change in attitudes towards homosexuality.

Then look at the way computers were marketed directly at boys in exactly that period https://qz.com/911737/silicon-valleys-gender-gap-is-the-resu...
"Google should create an environment where you feel safe to openly discuss these opinions & beliefs."

Why? Google is a workplace. Since when has the workplace become a place for open discussion of all ideas? There's a ton of ideas that will get one fired if discussed in the workplace. Just because an idea is related to one's company does not mean it can be discussed there. That's what blogs and other media are for.