skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too be honest despite your reassurance I still expected that there would be affiliate links, purchase cookies or other tracking somewhere (I checked, all good). Thanks for sharing your reviews!
100Mbit? That was a decade ago. I now have 500Mbit, but my ISP can easily deliver 1Gbit if I feel the need.
Assuming you've looked at the actual document (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...) and not redacted/censored versions of it, it does in fact have a lot of links...[0] How many citations would you expect though? He's not publishing for an academic journal. He's not even publishing for an audience outside of coworkers.

[0] Links from the paper in order not counting internal g/ go/ links, whatever those are (not all of them technically citations, but some are; many just to help point out that a technical definition is being used and a common parlance one the reader may have in mind shouldn't be used):

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25098770?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...

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

http://righteousmind.com/largest-study-of-libertarian-psych/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1751-9004....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathizing%E2%80%93systemizin...

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

http://www.bradley.edu/dotAsset/165918.pdf (My favorite in-context just because the link text is "research suggests", a common phrase that all too commonly lacks any sort of citation or link of any kind.)

http://quillette.com/2017/07/15/time-stop-worrying-first-wor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_fatality#Risk_fac...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/05/the-war...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01623095929...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5068300/

https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2011/SPP457/um/23632422/Hakim...

https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/coffee-beans-di...

http://www.businessforum.com/WSJ_Race-on-Campus-05-06-2016.p...

https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.htm...

https://heterodoxacademy.org/problems/

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-psyc...

https://becauseits2015.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/a-non-femini...

http://www.warrenfarrell.net/Summary/

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-per...

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9280.00139

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201209/li...

https://nypost.com/2016/04/17/conservative-professors-must-f...

https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2011/08/18/44...

https://www.google.com/search?q=political+correctness

https://bostonreview.net/forum/paul-bloom-against-empathy

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/07/why-it...

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691616659391...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jjycJDLHc9oixA7FiG3-M2yJ...

http://www.spsp.org/blog/stereotype-accuracy-response
Sorry if it's a stupid question, but how do you tell the difference between an expat and a tourist when looking at people traveling out of the country then?
Firefox has always been unbearably slow on Linux for me. It's the main reason I swapped to Chrome in the first place. I tried switching back to Firefox about 6 months ago, same problem of extremely slow and laggy UI. Interesting to hear 57 is faster now, it may be worth trying again.
Look inside Tesla’s onboard Nvidia supercomputer for self-driving – Electrek
There is no "premine" -- they were created, locked, and distributed.
Generally I think its a good idea to stay out of race, politics, religion, etc in business. I could not list out the reasons the original commenter had but its just very generally poor taste.
Thanks for that explanation... so in short is not ready yet. Go's channels is what makes it seamless. So few choices for solid concurrency today.
NoScript block all three: javascript, java and flash.

Javascript can be used to deliver/encode/decode exploit payload. Usually the exploit itself is java or flash.

At least, that's what I noticed for the zero day RCE that made it up to the first page of Google.
Facebook announce 'Watch' – 'a new platform for shows'
Ask HN: What does a disciplined programmer look like?
Paul Graham says that willfulness and discipline needs to be balanced:

http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html

But what counts as discipline? Morning routines? Or some strict way of working like XP programming?
I've been really disappointed with the direction Firefox has been moving since they decided to make changes that would permanently break some of their most powerful and useful extensions, like Pentadactyl.
The lesson I learned from JS is that you don't (or at least try not to) hardcode a language as a scripting solution. Especially a not-so-fast one as JS (yes, it's been worked on like crazy over the past decades, but writing fast scripts requires black magic (intimate knowledge of runtime), decades of work by the V8 team and hundreds of engineers)
You can prefer it all you want, but your opinion is unreasonable, and there's simply no justification for it.

...see? You can be direct, even uncompromising and arrogant, without being abusive.
What is to ensure that a study which is being "pre-disclosed" has not, in fact, already had the data collected and simply being withheld for the same amount of time that it took to collect?
I've been lucky to find a mentor to work with at every job I've been at. I guess I was just really receptive to learning. I don't know if I can say I had a "greatest" mentor at any of my jobs, because I learned a great deal from each of them - through their good and bad qualities.

1) My first mentor taught me everything I knew about developing good code habits and staying humble. However, I think I learned the most about people management from him. He was extremely polarizing as a person. He would go to the ends of the earth for his people, but the moment that he felt he had been slighted, you'd be on his shit list. I learned how to foster loyalty and good rapport with your coworkers and employees from him - and also how dangerous it was to take everything at work personally. I thought he was a great manager in some ways, but he burned a lot of bridges.

2) My second mentor was one of the best engineers I ever worked with. It wasn't because he was the fastest or the best programmer. It was because he knew how to bridge the gap between engineering and product. He also knew the importance of documentation and moving at a steady pace. He cared a lot about developer sustainability and ensured that sprints were always scored and paced correctly. I really wish I had, had more time to work with him.

3) The third mentor I worked with was actually one of the most brilliant engineers I've ever met. He turned me onto a lot of new technologies and stretched me to my limits, because he moved at such a blindingly fast pace. However, I think I learned from him the most in his negative aspects. He thought planning was a waste of time, and would just dole out work as quickly as he could so he could get back to engineering. Working with him also meant toeing the line to burnout. From him, I learned how important it was to foster good relations with all departments in order to get things done, instead of just relying on one or two rockstars to pull things forward by sheer force of will.
I still don't actually understand what "Instart Logic" is, can anyone explain it?
That's helpful. It wasn't particularly hard for Windows with Cygwin, but only because I'm used to it. If this had been my first language before Python I would be sorely confused lol.
I was amazed to see that Stallman doesn't install his OS himself - hasn't for years. He seemed diminished in my eyes after I learnt this.
Well, if those classes don't require the Math/English level they needed, then that makes sense.
Communism dismisses markets as an economic resource allocation mechanism. Capitalism is based on markets.

Markets provide for economic efficiency. But this can be separated from equity. This is called the first economic welfare theorem or something like that.

Lump sum basic income is more efficient than income taxes in that it does not affect marginal decisions on income.

Milton Friedman (an ardent defendant of capitalism) defended this. I'm surprised he was not mentioned in the article.
This conclusion seemed particularly insightful: "Where men need to prove they are good and caring people who aren't merely using you, I need to prove this is a formal, public sphere relationship, not a private and personal one. "

It reminds me of something one of my professors, a black man, said about how he decides to dress. He felt like he had to start with the assumption that many people would be afraid of him if he were dressed casually, so he compensates by dressing a bit more smartly than even the average professor.
The same argument that would disprove my point would also disprove OP's point that it is biological.
But why is that desirable? Why would we want to emulate the human physical handicaps in our quest to advance AI at a strategy level?
Intollerable – Adactio
On the spot, At defcon, 30k people. Anyone at Salesforce wanna talk about what's going on? Make a throwaway, use opsec. What are your opinions on this? What is your opinion of Jim as your leader?
For me, the video suggests Torvalde's communication style is less a matter of culture than individuality. That he is not proud of it seems missing from the caricaturizations of it used rhetorically.
Why do you think they got approval at Hushcon?
Both Wells Fargo and Chase Manhattan have extended $1 billion plus lines of no equity credit in the last 6 months to two different startups. This is changing.
There are definitely people who string together outdoor guiding, ski instruction, scuba instruction, etc. etc. gigs. I'm not sure if that really constitutes a "lifestyle business" though. More an itinerant lifestyle.

On the other hand, they guy who owns the scuba shop and uses the (hopeful) profits to be a ski bum for the winter probably does have a lifestyle business if that's his thing.
Web/browser Extensions is a terrible standard is it EXTREMELY limiting for power users.

While that my not impact a ad blocker, there are countless extensions that can not work with Web Extensions and will make Chrome err sorry Firefox far less appealing to people.

For me, more than a few of the extensions I use regularly are not compatible with Web Extensions, and a few of them that are critical to my productivity are in limbo still

That is the Source of the "Chrome Clone". The switch to Web Extensions is hated by many many firefox power users.

Sadly they feel the users that have stuck around all of these years, that did not abandoned them for Chrome are worthless, and have chosen to attempt to attract those users that did abandon FF for Chrome back. They are doing this by making a browser that is unappealing to me (and many others actual FF users, not Chrome Users who are the most vocal proponents of Firefox's current direction), a user that has been a FF loyalist since FF version 1.

I am not 100% sure I will switch to another browser, the options are very thin these days but it will be a sad day for me when FF57 is all that is left
Your whole justification is just that some engineers have tried to guard the term by forming schools and associations. However, unlike the stupidity of Canada, it's not legal to just co-opt a common nebulous term and ban everyone else from using it in the US.

Your argument as well as that Atlantic piece is just "they don't do the same things to what previous engineering fields did so it doesn't count." If that kind of stupid logic held, there would be no such thing as petroleum engineers or electrical engineers because neither of those were things for a long time.
This comment in insightful, thanks !

> Not to mention that the search space is massively massively larger

That's what I'm not really convinced about. The build-order space is not that big (compared to Go's positions) and once you got a good micro-management engine I'm affraid this will lead to something like : if protos or zerg pick protoss then 8 gate -> 9 pylon -> scout : if no counter to 4-gates, then 4-gates and win from out-microing.
I don't need my doctor to be thin when he's telling me I need to lose fat, though.

I host my blog with their service, I get thousands of visitors a day and it's always extremely fast. I love the simple deployment and the features they give me, and I evangelize their service to everyone.

Try it out, it's fantastic, despite the large landing page.
So why do young men study CS in college if programmers aren't glorified? Not to mention that being a "nerd" and "computer whiz" has never been a culturally attractive label, no matter what people might say today.
Given how strongly he's had his view misrepresented, I don't think giving references would've helped him. He was very careful to pick his words, to no avail.

It's the science itself that these people don't want to accept, if it doesn't support their idea that people and society are malleable enough to solve all these unequal distributions.

You probably heard of research that shows that the female population clusters towards to the mean in various features, IQ being one:
http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2017/06/why-a...

If we suppose that being successful in STEM correlates strongly with a high IQ, the mere fact that there exist fewer females with a high IQ would be one reason why there would be fewer females in STEM. That's just an objective, logical conclusion. Another logical conclusion would be that no diversity program could change this discrepancy.

The sound way to challenge this would be to challenge the research here, i.e. the foundation of the argument, instead of persecuting a person making such an argument. In other words: "Don't shoot the messenger".
Do you have one example of such extension that won't work with web extensions?
He is talking about a national minimum, not the speed of any one client.
Here's something I've always been confused about. How does employee headcount get factored into an acquisition or public offering? Why is having so many more employees than needed a "good thing" in these situations?
Tesla developing self-driving tech for semi-truck, wants to test in Nevada
17 AskHN questions in 15 days. But in that time no comments from yourself? How much do you charge your clients, what is your biggest business expense, what skill do you wish you had, what 5 websites do you visit daily? And you probably already thought about what hackers/coder can license to companies or even did some research. Please share.
Maybe not a straw man, but rather an attempt to frame the question in a way that is less likely to cause people to be angry or defensive.
It doesn't seem to take a side, but rather encourage further debate.
My comment above had two points for a while, then for some reason was voted down and now has zero points. So here's an appeal to authority: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poo...
Yeah, but the point I'm making is that on the one hand, I know to account for that, and on the other, I expected better of deBoer.

That by me is the really galling part - despite that he's still deeply committed to the progressive ideology, he's struck me as a generally accurate observer and honest reporter until now. I'm both surprised and disappointed to discover he is not reliably so, and that I'll henceforth have to source and backcheck him with the same care I'm accustomed to using everywhere else. Which is fine, but...I don't know. I suppose I have a hope or two pinned on the guy possibly being open to the kind of good-faith-on-both-sides reconciliation that's going to have to start somewhere if there's to be a chance of resolving the current political polarization in a marginally civilized way. In particular, his recent comments on the subject of academic ostracism of political dissent, and how that's a terrible idea both ethically and pragmatically, have given me a strongly favorable impression - and since he's a lecturer at CUNY, that he should say such things seems to me to count for a considerable deal more than when a mouthy unlettered redneck such as myself, for example, does so.

I don't know. Maybe he just slipped, too - he's on vacation this week, so perhaps he just didn't look into the matter as closely as he should've, same as I didn't. But it's a little discouraging all the same.
Is this not a partial explanation of the phenomena we are observing?

Partial? Sure.

But while these tendencies have measurable effects at the population level, at an individual level they're statistically very small, multivariate effects. They cannot, on their own, explain away even a significant portion of the gender imbalance in any of the industries you cite. It particularly makes no sense when you consider that gender balance in many industries have changed dramatically over time, something that shouldn't happen if biology was the primary determinant of career path.

I've commented elsewhere on this topic if you'd like to see a slightly more thorough treatment and some related citations... it's a waste of my time to repeat it here and I'd probably not do the full discussion justice in any case.
There is another Pascal project out there called Oxygen by the folks at RemObjects. Not free, but I've heard good comments about it: http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/oxygene/
Not any reason, wrongful termination lawsuits happen, and companies usually have processes for firing people, reviews to document performance etc..
Plus war.

So much endless mindless war...

Since 2001, America has spent an average of ~$300 billion dollars per year on the nebulous war in the Middle East.

Terrorists are media-hyped paper cuts compared to over 1 million Americans a year dying due to heart disease and cancer ($11B/y federal R&D) - not to mention Alzheimers, diabetes, obesity... and, to be blunt, you and almost everyone you know will probably die from one of those diseases.

For perspective: on average terrorism kills ~79 Americans per year (including 9/11). There are 121 American suicides per day.

The math doesn't make sense on any level. $300B/y killing people thousands of miles away and directly fueling increased hatred towards our nation... and a mere $11B/y invested in heard disease + cancer, which saves millions of citizen's at home.

Even pie-in-the-sky research like fusion is a better investment. Fusion would solve or mitigate large global problems, including terrorism, yet it receives a mere 1/1000th the funding level as our wars.

The real problem is we keep voting for the establishment parties because we believe that "3rd party will never win" dogma both parties roll out.

Remember this: Nobody won the 2016 popular vote.

40% of Americans didn't vote last year, 30% voted Trump, 30% voted Clinton - and many of those 30% were compromise voters that would have preferred a different primary candidate, or simply voted against the opponent's candidate.

This is democracy. If we want something different, we have to vote for someone different.
If Google has a disproportionate share of females coming through the hiring pipelines, then other companies are only going to be even more lopsided.

The problem must be fixed before Google gets into the equation, not at the Google level.
More than puzzle games, Zachtronics create true problem solving games that suck you in like nothing else.
god forbid they make money for their time (and money) spent!
mORMot framework is also a nice example for modern Pascal...
https://synopse.info/fossil/wiki?name=SQLite3+Framework

It has DDD, SOA, MVC, ORM (even for NoSql), REST, caching, logging and security features and works with Lazarus.
>and I'll admit to binge watching HoC, as shallow as it is

Compared to Walking Dead which you mention as a favorite?
And you're gonna cry when the RAID0/JBOD fails and you lose all your data.

Let's not pretend there is anything reasonable in this setup.
It was written some time ago, and was based on a study of spinoffs rather than startups, but The Innovator's Dilemma spoke directly to this point.

One of the consistently common and bad mistakes that they found is to over-invest for a market segment. If you give people $100 million for a market segment with growth potential that can only currently support a $20 million company, they will spend it and then must find a way to justify it. Which means that they will be forced to search for a business opportunity that may not exist, rather than being satisfied with the one which clearly does.

This may be a special case, exactly because the spinoffs were into an inferior (but cheaper) technology for an existing market, and their eventual success is based on the prospect of an existing market switching to a new technology in a way that wipes out established vendors. So it was critically important is that the spinoff successfully embed itself into the marginal current market.

But I still like the way they summarized their observations of many attempts at spinoffs. "Bad money is impatient for growth and patient for profit. Good money is impatient for profit and patient for growth."

Don't over capitalize. Focus on being profitable. Be in the right line of business, and growth will come.
The JVM is also massively more complex than WebAssembly. It defines its own object model, its own memory management system, its own enormous standard library.

WebAssembly is how these things should have been done from the start. Leave the object model, memory management, and libraries to the languages built on top, where they can be changed without affecting the backwards compatibility story of the VM itself.
No offense intended, but in those steps, I'd have probably lifted some of that work into a closure or other higher-level function. Go behaves a lot like a hybrid of functional and objective programming.
Netlify also has HTTP 2 server push https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/07/18/http/2-server-push-o...

And headers in general https://www.netlify.com/docs/headers-and-basic-auth/

Disclaimer: A very happy free customer
Correlation is not causation. Just because Linus managed to become BDFL of a hugely successful project doesn't mean Linus's communication style in any way caused this. And it doesn't mean that he should get a free pass on treating people badly.

A lot of people subscribe to the idea that if you don't have a thick skin you shouldn't be in tech. That's a terrible attitude to take, there's absolutely no reason why that should be true, and it discriminates against a lot of people (including women). This attitude just contributes to the current toxic tech culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instart_Logic
Nobody ever said that the memo was perfectly conceived or written. If you're saying he overstated his case in the passage you quoted I would probably agree. But the standard for inviting a conversation is not a perfectly formed argument from the get-go, a standard like that would make it impossible to have a conversation at all. So I'm still not clear on what exactly he wrote that would earn him exile and banishment in the judgement of a reasonable person open to having a discussion on the topics he raised.
Is is not simply that the best way we have of describing complex systems made out of logic gates is with these languages?
> If Google has a disproportionate share of females coming through the hiring pipelines, then other companies are only going to be even more lopsided.

Not if Google attracts women that would not otherwise be applying at other tech firms.
I thought it was perfectly clear. I quite like the usage of "X" specifically because it doesn't give it a name loaded with irrelevant baggage.