skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it does not accept unlimited liability by following DMCA takedown procedure. Following it places Github into the DMCA safe-harbor. Not following it opens Github to liability.

This is what should have happened:

1. Github is served with a DMCA Takedown notice
2. Github validates that the notice is valid
3. Github takes down the $FILE or $REPO
4. Owner of the Repo contacts Github
5. Github notifies the owner of the repo that it was a DMCA takedown
6. Owner of the repo provides Github with the Counter-notice.
7. Github restores access to the taken down $FILE or $REPO

At this point the party issuing takedown must sue the owner of the repo. It cannot go after Github. It also cannot take down the content again using DMCA to github.
Ask HN: Why are all these Google articles getting flagged
7/8 flagged articles that made it onto the HN homepage today reference google's diversity memo see today from http://hckrnews.com/. Nearly the same deal from yesterday. Who's flagging these?

9

Google is replacing Uber, but not the way I predicted (blogs.harvard.edu)

15

I'm a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you (www.vox.com)

16

[Discussion] Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O (www.nytimes.com)

14

Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O (www.nytimes.com)

29

Sundar Pichai Should Resign as CEO (www.nytimes.com)

14

Google CEO cancels town hall due to leaks (money.cnn.com)
13
I’m Kevin and I'm the guy who bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 yesterday (bitcointalk.org)

11

Google cancels meeting about anti-diversity memo over safety concerns (mashable.com)
In a former life, I was a product developer, I now consult other pre-rev/pre-money/broke product developers on features, ux, and marketing.

I wrote up a nice narrative a while back [1] on my two "first" products I built. The first "first" was on accident, and the second "first" was... kind of still on accident.

[1] http://jeremyaboyd.com/my-first-product-launches/
> Lets see how everyone does cold turkey when all of the outside factors like money and resources other than race and gender are held constant.

It's impossible to completely separate biological from environmental factors. They're interdependent.

I agree that better research would be the proper way to attack this problem. It seems we will be stuck perpetually debating nature vs. nurture [1] for as long as we exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture
DTube: a decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
what about the time that they published ISOs with a back door for a while? That was a classic, aslo handled really well as I'm sure you can imagine.
Publicly funded elections that invalidate capture; follow Larry Lessig.
A hardware-accelerated machine intelligence library for the web
Agreed.. I recently discovered I specifically don't react well to legumes... nothing huge, just some upset stomach etc... but when I avoid them successfully, I do much better... I falter (get fast food fried in "vegetable" ie soybean oil), it's worse every time.

I did a year of very low carb, and was pretty good after about the first couple weeks. I just really like pasta, bread, etc. I've been heading in that direction again, as I did a lot better on beef, bison, elk, etc than poultry or legume sources. Also have noticed the effects of secondary animal products and what they're fed more than I expected.

I just wish soy free eggs weren't so much more difficult to find... and making my own mayo/ranch isn't so bad, just time consuming for a product that spoils relatively quickly. But I feel a lot better when I don't have the stuff.

Aside: trail mix is a whole new level of fun when you can't have legumes (peanuts), and are badly allergic to cranberries. Have to make my own.
There were no real examples of when long functions helped. I can come up with 30 or examples of long functions being bad in the codebase I am working in now.

I stopped reading about halfway through as the contrived DRY twitter post. I did search the article for "test" and a few other keywords and found more flowery words without substance.

All the systems I have seen with long functions have had more bugs and greater difficulty to test. All the systems lacking DRYness have invariably had bugs because things weren't updated in all the places they needed to be. I have seen a clear correlation. I know that correlation is not causation, but the mechanism is simple and easy to understand: Long functions have more places for bugs to hide. The mechanism for dRY to help is equally simple:DRY code means fewer things need to be changed to fully cause a correct change. Both of these reduce the place for bugs to exist and my experience matches that.

I understand that my experience is that of only 1 person, but I have held 9 different software development contracts in the last decade and seen the full range of long to short functions and I have seen DRY and non-DRY code. This pattern has followed into open source code I have inspected. If I am wrong it will take strong concrete examples of DRY or short functions hurting, and I mean links to repos like github.
Most wellness programs at work have to do with lowering medical insurance costs. Health insurance companies give discounts to the employer if they run these programs and enroll employees into them.
What role did Chance the Rapper play in this? When they were making chooses that they would shut down he reached out to the CEO personally, I know.
Is there any incentive or law that causes Github to accept digitally submitted DMCA orders through a web form at all? If it was possible for them to require individually signed (by an actual person with a pen, not a picture of a signature), individually snail-mailed requests, then that would at least make the process take O(n) time and O(n) money, making it a bit harder to abuse.
Bitcoin surges to fresh record above $3,500, beats gold amid sell-off
Finding software for openSUSE is easy thanks to OBS [1]. And their Wiki pages have great instructions for setting up just about anything.

[1]: https://build.opensuse.org/
I don't think anyone is saying anything different from 50-50 is immoral but that anything different (in this case vastly different) than 50-50 deserves some attention.

I don't think announcing a policy of hiring 50% women is necessary. Like you said, it is 'almost certainly skewed due to gender biases' so the obvious way forward is to try to track down those biases and remove them from the process.

There is also some questions about how to make the workplace more attractive to certain employees and applicants. Putting policies and services in place to cater to those employees goes a bit beyond mere removal of bias but could help as well.
GDAX & Gemini will definitely let you withdrawal millions per day, you just need to be verified and clear from AML/KYC standpoint.
HR are not your friends. The clue is in the name: human resources. You are just a resource to be managed. And managed out if you become a problem. HR's main function is reducing legal exposure risk due to harassment lawsuits etc. That, and removing human resources that have become a liability. IMHO you should write up a set of notes on the jokes and physical behavior, and anything else that you can think of that will make HR think that firing you will cause them more legal grief than keeping you on.
That's good advice. We've actually reached out to our members in the past with some similar questions/survey. It's been a while since we last did it, so maybe a fresh one will bring some new ideas to the table.

In our particular case, affiliate links haven't been a good revenue stream, though from what I've read they work really well for some others. The rest are definitely worth thinking about and exploring further.

Thanks!
Sticks and Stones as high tech weapons of war.
James essentially keeps tackling what he views as the central issue, a "pipeline" problem.

The larger body of feminist and even more centrist discourse has concluded that problem is not, in principle, what Google needs to address (other than at the very outermost edge of it's recruiting funnel, ensuring that recruiting engaged with organizations that support specific demographics). The internal problems with unfair treatment, unfair pay, and unequal opportunity need to be addressed first. James conveniently pretends these don't exist and suggests women aren't entering the field.

We can tackle the problems there in other ways, but young women are not uninformed by their predecessors or the news. They see a constant drumbeat of credible stories about how the boys world of tech both abuses women and does not reward them equally.

James's suggestion that it's merely a lack of social elements to keep women out of tech is somewhat offensive in this light, pushing the decision way from "self-defense and self-interest" to "biological predilection.'
I said that because in the other thread K7 wasn't mentioned. K7 being the glory days of AMD at the forefront of the market (instead of being the slightly faster and cheaper intel compatible).

Basically Keller was involved, if not more, pushing the market enveloppe 4 times in 20 years.

I want this man to work with Chuck Moore.
U.S. blockchain company in tie-up on medical artificial intelligence
> We asked them 24 days ago to remove functionalclam[.]com on the original commit. / Their response seemed to indicate they would only take action if GitHub agreed.

That's your take on that interaction? To me, the commit comment reads as someone borderline impersonating GitHub. "has been reported to circumvent copyright access controls" - reported to whom, exactly? By linking to GitHub's policies, you suggest that it is GitHub, but A) according to your post did not report it until _after_ that comment, and B) a report to GitHub doesn't mean you can demand removal through alternative channels.
Deep Learning Library for Web by Google
"But less than half of high schools that black students attend even offer computer science courses."

Would have been nice to include a link to a source for that. I would have been interested in seeing the proportion of "white/asian" high schools that do have CS courses.

Also, kind of unrelated but I'm curious, can a recent high school student summarize what one actually does during a high school CS course?
Try being non-binary. The men who've tried to wake my gay post my public coming out are still talking shit about me.

Which is to say: I appreciate your status and it's difficulty even if I don't agree with your politics.
I know we love those Tempura Shrimp from Costco, that's all I know about it.
You pay the operational burden of keeping your computer networked 24/7, and likely receive cents in exchange.
I wonder how the same set of banalities repeated for years can be passed for incredible revelations. Perhaps our brains are indeed buggy.
Imaginary?

https://twitter.com/search?q=alt-right

For example, here's the tech editor at Business Insider UK clarifying 'alt-right':

> Lot of alt-right people in my mentions say Jordan Peterson isn't alt-right. Happy to clarify!

> Peterson has criticised gender-neutral pronouns, feminism, and definitions of cultural appropriation. So, lots of overlap there.

https://twitter.com/JamesLiamCook/status/895232436027744256
It just happened. There's a stickied MetaTalk post about it still I think.
There's an embassy/consulate in Ottawa. Also the ambassador travels and you can pick them up when they travel.

Check with your local embassy/consulate and ask about their travel schedule.

NB: I too would like to see Stripe support Estonia. They've been dragging their feet long enough that "soon" is now feeling like an insult.
> The difference between male and female IQ curves is easily found, and is scientifically settled.

Can you either source this or summarize, assuming that I genuinely want to know? How big is the difference in mean & median? Do you believe the difference is primarily responsible for the difference in distribution?

> I said for several decades. You cite the change for over five decades.

You're going to nitpick over 3 vs 5? Are you saying that the distribution of women wasn't in a steady state in the 1970's but it reached steady state in the 1990's, and that now the distributions are primarily reflective of innate biology and not social causes?

The distribution of women in computer science is quite different than the distribution of women in engineering - very roughly 2x as I understand. Do you think that computer science is significantly and measurably more prone to being affected by our biological differences than engineering?

I'm think I'm bringing up reasonable points, is it really a stretch to ask about different countries and different disciplines? The memo's reasoning should reasonably apply to all women in all businesses in all countries, not just engineering or tech. He even cited gender discrepancies that are cross-cultural, this is absolutely fair game.

> You seem to be taking the shotgun approach, and seem wholly ingenuine in discussing this rationally

I'm sorry that it's getting tough for you. I'm very genuine and very serious. I disagree that I'm being irrational, but you are entitled to your opinion.

I'm just hearing defensiveness about the claims stated as fact being true. I willingly accept that there are biological differences between men and women. What I don't see clearly is a rational justification for ignoring cultural sexism.
No, it is not. The worst shortwave explanation I ever read. From BBC!
How would encoding help? It's already encoded! That repo contains the bits:
0b11001100b11101010b11011100b11000110b11101000b11010010b11011110b11011100b11000010b11011000b11000110b11011000b11000010b11011010b1011100b11000110b11011110b1101101

which is the ASCII _encoding_ of the forbidden string.

Just because these bits are an EBCDIC cp500 encoding of that string doesn't make it less forbidden than an ASCII encoding:

0b100001100b101001000b100101010b100000110b101000110b100010010b100101100b100101010b100000010b100100110b100000110b100100110b100000010b100101000b10010110b100000110b100101100b10010100

Here's how I made both.. shows reasonably (IMO) that encoding is.. nothing.

> ''.join(bin(c) for c in 'functionalclam.com'.encode('ascii'))
> # vs this:
> ''.join(bin(c) for c in 'functionalclam.com'.encode('cp500'))
Google always used to make a big song and dance about how scientific and data driven it is. They even wrote about how data driven their hiring processes and HR operations are.

This article from 2013 is an example

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/01/...

“What we try to do is bring the same level of rigor to people decisions that we do to engineering decisions. Our mission is to have all people decisions be informed by data.”

Damore's memo may look idiotic to people who work in "normal" workplaces, but it is consistent with Google's previous rhetoric on what sort of company it wants to be: namely, one that isn't normal.
I chose Braintree over Stripe for my application. Want to know why? Because Stripe doesn't want to do business with me. Stripe only operates in a limited number of countries. Until they decide to actually allow me to use them, articles like these are, well, amusing I guess.
Just as different kinds of processed food vary in how bad they are, so do different social media sites. I think HN is like pizza: yeah, it's not perfectly healthy, but which of us is going to live a perfectly healthy lifestyle, and pizza still contains a good deal of nutritional value. It's certainly a lot better than cookies.
Step 1: Create a "reverse" income statement to test whether the basic concept is financially viable.

Step 2: Talk to at least 10 potential customers to assess the idea. Make sure most are people who don't feel obligated to be nice to you.
Are you using Adblock Plus on purpose? It is no longer an ad blocking tool.
Sure that is true. But any public debate always reduces a topic to its least complex form.

The core question really is: do meaningful biologist differences exist?

I see this as a scientific question, it has metrics, and we already have the answer. It is yes.

From there you can have a discussion about the nuances, but in regard to those people who do not believe the answer is Yes, there's no more point in validating their arguments than those of creationists or communists. Sometimes they'll bring up interesting perspectives maybe, but they are basically just wrong.
FYI, Cloudron has pushed out updates for Gitlab, Gogs (from their slack).
A company I worked at did something similar; those who were being kept were told to go somewhere else, not to go to that meeting. Those that were still around were herded into the classroom, to be met by the HR head and a hired goon of a security guard. The entire office was being closed, but the way it was done was more hurtful to those folks than the basic business decision.
It's wealth redistribution, so I don't see how it fits with libertarian ideals in any way.
Stanford: New windows switch transparent/opaque and back again in under a minute
This outlines a great reason as to why Github silo can be risky and have adverse side effects.

Does github offer the ability to host repositories in other legal jurisdictions than the US?
One can argue that the parts of our brain that make us intelligent, the prefrontal cortex that is so much bigger than in "lesser" animals, is essentially an overgrown, glorified pattern matching engine. Pattern matching is the one thing our brains are good for - there's good reason to suppose that quite many intelligence-related tasks can be reduced to a form of pattern matching.
Where are the bedroom DJs and indies going now, then? I think soundcloud is still the place to be. I'm a daily user.
AFAIK, the machine reboots no matter what if the update has a deadline that's reached.

I get what you are saying though.
>Many don't know their way around a UNIX environment and have never written code outside IntelliJ on a fancy macbook

i'm pretty sure you mean Windows. Developing on Windows is mostly driven by Wizards, IDEs, and other GUIs.
The icelandic bread that's baked in the ground
Hyperopt Tutorial for Optimizing Neural Networks’ Hyperparameters
It's gone now, so likely a mistake
ugh.... apparently you have to be logged in to massdrop for the configurator to load now.

Here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/JU0kb
What do you think I am doing engaging this topic even though it's obviously time consuming and costly to me?

I'm not here dropping links about stereotypes and pointing out trivial logical errors in the discourse because it's good for my heart or my psyche.

I'm on Twitter hiatus, but I still end up wrapped in these fruitless conflicts. But please, continue arguing that what I'm doing is deleterious. I'm not friendly on this subject, but you can hardly accuse me of not engaging openly and being responsive to the dialogue.
I wrote a book. If you have people who are interested in technology I would be interested in promoting it to your list.
Creating Angular 2/4 Application from Scratch Using Angular CLI
The Economics of Filecoin

https://medium.com/@ryanshea/the-economics-of-filecoin-a8d82...
"Racist ideas" was the wrong term to use. That was a typo. Apologies.

Is "sexist ideas" fair? "Bigoted ideas"? That seems to be the implication when labeling ideas about gender "toxic". The colloquial language around this sort of thing is imprecise. That brings me to my next point:

> ...and then demonstrating he's not for diversity by arguing against it.

The paper seems contradictory because people have definitions in mind for words like "diversity". But not everyone has the same definitions in mind. He can be for diversity of thought and want to encourage that with discussion of structural changes while still preferring a world with more women in tech. This position is not the Google HR definition of "diversity", but it's clearly part of his idea of diversity.
I'm not sure anybody who has read studies about biological preferences claims that they explain the 70/30 population split. That would be ludicrous.

What nobody seems to consider is that an initial small biological difference may very well be amplified into a large cultural preference over time, due to network effects. A self fulfilling prophesy, if you will.

I'm just speculating here, but it seems plausible to me, at least.
VCs seem to be making a greater effort to fund startups outside the valley these days. Could explain the discrepancy.
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> but as an individual for you, they are wrong

This is why I firmly believe this is a case where actions speak louder than words. Pontificating about whether men are biologically predisposed to be software engineers is not a bad thing, marginalizing qualified female engineers because they are female is.
It's true that "shorter" waves would mean higher frequency, but "shortware" radio uses longer (lower-frequency) waves, relative to most other modern radio systems, so it is true that "fewer waves pass through a single point every second".

Also, it is true that for a given amplitude, a higher frequency wave does contain more energy, but typically, higher frequency waves don't travel as far. Shortwave radio travels particularly far because they happen to be in the right frequency to bounce off the ionosphere, which allows them to travel further than line of sight.
This is hilarious and awesome. I'm reminded of the great Simpsons exchange:

Lisa: poor predictable Bart, always chooses rock

Bart: ah, good ol' rock. Nothing beats that!
well if you find people buying these coins, what's the problem? That's the concept of an exchange.

It'll definitely drive the price down ,so that would be a weird thing to do anyway, except if you _want to_ drive the price down.
Morally maybe we just ought to kill off their entire industry because the world is a worse place with them in it?
> Perhaps Google is evaluating more factors than Damore? Perhaps Google concluded that social issues and gender bias play a larger role in workforce disparity than biological issues, and therefore decided to prioritize attacking the larger problem over the smaller problem?

If Google has done the research on it, I'd really like to see because it is likely to be much more extensive than what this one guy has collected in his free time. That said, I suspect bias was simply assumed as the major factor by default, since that has historically been true in lots of professions (some of which are now dominated by women).
Drug Cartel Continue to “Operate and Profit” from Marijuana in Legalized Markets
Tensorflow tutorials and best practices
http://i.imgur.com/bhUFTLC.png
The DMCA request itself seems to be here: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2017/2017-08-02-L...
As the teacher, couldn't you have taught it in a way to make people's lives better?
The problem I have with Mint is that a dist-upgrade is not possible. You can try it, and break everything in the process. They officially recommend a clean wipe and install. Or at least this was the case a few releases ago.
I believe the OP is saying that you get paid ~30k/yr for five years which is pretty on the nose with that being the case in the US/Can and european countries as well.

At least for STEM PhDs
Right, but "shortwave" waves are longer than TV and cell phone waves.
Now THIS is what I'm interested in. The HTML / CSS / JS triple threat has existed for, what, two decades at this point? So many other techniques have emerged for rendering GUIs and I would really love to see more exploration into this, even if it circled back to HTML / CSS / JS being the better bet I'd still highly value the experimentation.
They are drawing candidates from populations. He's arguing the problem could be upstream from Google HR practices. As in, there aren't enough women applying (I don't think that's controversial). He elaborating on his answer to "Why not?"