skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I agree his suggestions to stop those initiatives is a bad idea. And that it doesn't follow we should stop those because of that study.

But regarding

> and there's also no rationale to entirely discount cultural factors

He doesn't do that. First, the section's very title is

> Possible non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech

and

> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes

(emphasis mine in both). Proposing that biology may play a role is not the same as saying that biology is everything.
Perhaps clarification is needed. The glory days of RDAD (rapid database application development). While there is probably something that approaches the simplicity and speed of Delphi's glory days, I haven't found it.

I can think of at least one Delphi developer who went in to management rather than deal with the scaffolding nightmares of current systems. A lot of us followed Anders Hejlsberg when he left Delphi behind and started working on C#. It's very nice, but it's just not the same when working with databases.
"When you add buffer overflow vulnerabilities, it is possible to craft input that causes a buffer overflow"

I was also really disappointed by this article. I had a suspicion it would be to do with overly trusting input, but I was hoping at least it would be vulnerabilities already out there and widespread, not something they specifically manufactured from the ground up.
> Freedom in America is always about government NOT doing something, while in Europe government is defined as a protector of these freedoms.

Not to be adversarial, but this isn't true. Some positive rights, like contract enforcement, are implied/expressed in the US Constitution. Other positive rights (the right to public education, for example) are varyingly guaranteed by individual states in the union, in their constitutions and otherwise.
Ah, sorry, my bad, got the codenames mixed up. Presto, i.e. 12.15.
A couple of years ago I was given a project that was essentially "Evaluate Watson APIs to see if there's anything there we could make use of", and came away with the distinct impression that it was largely smoke and mirrors, and there was very little that was either effective or interesting there.
D.I.Y. Artificial Intelligence Comes to a Japanese Family Farm
I think you may have mis-read my reply. I was talking about operating costs, not emissions.

The 3.0L ecodiesel was built last year and yeah, it's much cleaner than our '81 1.2L which is pre-emissions.

The thing is the new engine is full synthetic(only approved oil) so combined with the ~$30 Wix filter an oil change runs ~$110 every 4k. The only maintenance item on our EV was a coolant change at 50k, something you'd have to do on a diesel as well.
> Does anyone with high performance requirements writes JS?

It's possible to call into C from Node. So there's nothing stopping you from implementing performance-critical parts of a system with native code, and then invoking it from JavaScript.
> The idea you can put a number on how many guesses/second you can make on a keepass database at least is silly - that number is _configurable_!

I understand this.

I was asking because the article says "[lastpass and 1password] are still nearly an order of magnitude less secure than, say, Microsoft Office 2016 documents, but even this level of security is much better than nothing.".

That, to me, implied that Office (and Rar5) were using some different - and much better! - algorithm that made guesses more expensive.

If indeed it is just a matter of more hashing rounds, then that sentence and the graph are very misleading and borderline FUD.
The really negative news was the issues they are having bringing the new facility in Lindon online and at peak efficiency. This is causing issues with rolling out new products they see vital to their business. Because of this they will likely post a decline in revenues y/y for Q3.

In light of that news I can see why Matt Wadiak, their previous COO, recently "stepped down".
For the most part I've moved away, but everynow and then the default browser setup is configured to use Google.
Do you mean this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D50XULVZaYY ? Looks nice!
Two teens cold-called Sam Altman, became the youngest founders in Y Combinator
Does soliciting employees' opinions on a matter absolve the employees from continuing to follow the code of conduct?
>in this little two-stroke boggles the mind.

Actually four-stroke (but two cyinders and air cooled, later a different water cooled version with a bigger and different engine was made in Poland).

The FIAT 126 is the "evolution" of the more famous (and older) FIAT 500 and uses almost exactly the same engine, with capacity increased from 500 cm3 to 600 or 650 cm3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_500

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_126
Some aspects of finance are secretive (trading, HFT) so I assume the people behind then are as well.
https://www.debuggex.com/ is a neat one for showing
a syntax chart (or railroad chart) visualization.

I generally use https://regex101.com for its display of matched groups (when I'm dealing with complex groups and/or replacement backreferences), and http://regexstorm.net/tester when I specifically need to check a regex that will be running in .NET or Powershell.
What does "it's science" mean? Do you mean to say it's fact based? Because that's not the same thing. Science is a careful application of the scientific method. Damore did not do that. Instead, it seems this author is using the term science instead of factual because a) it sounds more credible and b) alliteration.
This one I can reply:

I am someone that don't like feminism (but I won't discuss that now).

My political position is kinda anti-authoritarian, and I don't trust corporations, early on my life it was considered left, people would call me anarquist or socialist.

After a while people started to call me liberal, libertarian and minarquist, and call me "right"

And now with the popularity of the term alt-right, I get called alt-right too.

-----

That was one way to 'become' alt-right, I know another one, sadly a really bad way...

I visit sometimes some anti-feminist forums and whatnot, and I see there LOTS of seething rage, people that have a deep raging hatred against feminism and women. (and if you visit 8chan for example, or voat, you see open racism, anti-religion, etc...)

One day someone made the brilliant decision to create in one such forum a thread where people ended discussing their personal lives... Every single "raging" person were deeply screwed in the past, for example one guy that hated all women were raped when he was a teenager, and when he sought help, people refused, when he sought help from a women shelter, he got raped again. Another guy was being forced to pay for child support for a child that wasn't his, another one had the opposite problem: his ex-wife was a drug addict that cheated on him with a lawyer, the couple took custody of his kids, and made a motion prohibiting both visits and child support, all that he wanted was pay for child support and for his kids to know he cares about them, so that they don't believe he was the one that fled the marriage. Another guy there was in prison for several years due to a false rape accusation, when people found out the accusation was false, he was released, but he still can't find any jobs, and the accuser wasn't punished. And the list goes and goes and goes on... lots of extremely sad stories, it became clear why you can't reason with those people, they had traumas that in a way 'prove' that moderate points of view were wrong, and that only their extremist views (for example raped guy defended that all women should be literally enslaved and used by the state only for breeding and nothing else), can protect them and others from the same fate.
Unfortunately for me, the fact that rr can't run on Ryzen CPUs is a dealbreaker. :(

https://github.com/mozilla/rr/issues/2034
The only m.2 with PCIe x4 is the 'M' key.

Everything else is max 2.
The name "grep" is unrelated to GNU. According to The Jargon File, the etymology is:

from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p, where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it

In fact, grep predates the GNU project by almost a decade.

Also, it's the first time I hear about "GNU" regexps.
Both git and this git web view allow you to view all the commits that have modified just that file. Eg. https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=history;f=resolv/r.... So it's a simple matter of looking at the diffs between commits.

Of course that's assuming you know the right file, which is often the harder problem.
Netflix doesn’t want to be a better streaming service – it wants to be Disney
US diplomats mysteriously go deaf, Cuba suspected of using sonic weapons
Meanwhile, I'm STILL waiting for someone to build Gordon Murray's T.25 / T.27 3-seater cars.
Last I checked, Shell bought the idea & rebranded it to "Project M" http://shell.com/projectm
Surviving Lifelong Learning as a Programmer
>more easily gamed

That's interesting. Please go on.
Well I guess he wrote his post after his FB comment was deleted, so according that this Patel guy is not respecting him, why would he ?
Fascinating. I wonder if it's possible to control for improved car safety when looking at the decreasing risk of driving over time; did speed limits make highways/motorways safer or more dangerous? I recall reading that (counter-intuitively), removing stop signs from a residential area made it safer, and I wonder if the same is true for speed limits. Maybe if people weren't given a suggestion of how fast to drive, they would be more likely to drive within their personal safety limit (whether that be faster or slower).
Barring a major technical problem being uncovered (hopefully the segfault thing won't be an issue) or nefarious action by Intel I cannot see how this thing can fail. So much power at the price point. As soon as the price drops a bit I'll be replacing my FX-8350 setup with one of these. Go competition! Go AMD!
I'm quite confused too...
its precursor is http://www.telescopeapp.org/, which says "react+meteor platform".

And I remember meteor members having discussions on using React...
If you want to know how long it will possibly take in actual time, I did all the math for you(with python code):
https://gist.github.com/birlorg/cbde00767403f0ac554ea9d28178...

For instance:
commonChars of 1password of password length 20 will take 255,421,331,666,477,399,723,386 years, 3 months, 18 hours, 38 minutes, 39 seconds time

Well, this is the maximum amount of time, it could take considerably less than this, unless your password happens to be the very last one it tries to crack.
Or they'll get you while you're in the security line at the airport on your way home.
Leaving the "free" part aside for a moment, since this sometimes gets confusing for people and may go in different directions on licensing, why have more proprietary software companies started open sourcing their efforts in the last several years? Is it purely a marketing tactic alone? Isn't there a lot of benefit they derive from giving something to the community and also having the community participate and accelerate the development a lot more than they themselves could do it? Of course, not all projects are the same, and community interest and involvement would wary. But on average, if there is no advantage except for marketing, I doubt for-profit companies even wanting to do it (the process of open sourcing itself adds some overheads, plus the overheads of getting feedback, coordinating and maintaining it - it's almost like expanding a team of 10 people to a team of a hundred).

> But at some point in the food chain, software developers need to put food on the table and send their kids to school. How does that happen if all software is free?

Support, sponsorships by proprietary software makers, donations from people who want to make a better world. Not even the technical folks have the time or would want to get the source code for software and maintain it all the time. So some dedicated person would still be working on the maintenance and improvement of the software. Free software doesn't mean one cannot sell it either. It's just that others will also have the same freedom to sell it if they invest the time and money to compile/build/distribute it.

Before anyone asks how a lone developer would find the market, that problem exists even for developers of proprietary software (mobile app stores are great examples of the huge skew in the distribution of total earnings from app sales across developers/companies).
Is the Gallup test proprietary or is there some info on the types of questions asked?
>Still disappointed that Node has backed out of optimized tailcalls, which is part of the ES6 spec. I think it's the only part they haven't implemented.

Node doesn't implement JS features. V8 does and Node gets updated to newer V8 releases every while. Node doesn't have much say in whats gets to v8.

>I think a lot of the pushback I'm seeing against TCO comes from traditional programmers who don't like functional programming and who think that recursion shouldn't play any role in production software. I get that there are also some who have legitimate implementation concerns, but the reflexive pushback TCO gets from a lot of the V8 maintainers compared to any other new ES6 feature seems telling to me (correct me if I'm wrong here).

You're overthinking this. There is no masterplan and no pushback. Just some issues with the old standard -- v8 has even implemented the feature in initial form (but not enabled):

https://v8project.blogspot.gr/2016/04/es6-es7-and-beyond.htm...
The word 'spirit' is vague but the older idea is more accurate than the modern assumption that geniuses are merely 'smart' above a certain threshold. In reality creative genius expresses itself through those who love truth to their core and who follow only their inner motivations. These qualities are sometimes abandoned which results in a fall and a loss of former abilities.

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/the-endoge...
A thing that seems to be missing from the discussion: this has been done before.

The early days of Meyers-Briggs saw it used at offices nationwide - getting the right result was a strict requirement for employment. But the test/retest reliability is terrible, most people exist near the boundaries of the categories, and the four sections are largely arbitrary. It appears to have created single-personality workspaces without achieving anything meaningful at all in corporate terms.
The most ridiculous thing is that Intel never planned for 14-18 core models. They were planning on the 7900x to be the 6950x replacement at the same price, with 2 more cores. Funny how even though the MSRP dropped by over $700 its still not competitive in the slightest compared to Zen. That's how much Intel has been screwing people the last 6-7 years.
> If he got a pass, a lot of other people will too.

1. I think presidents tend to get a lot of passes other people don't. It comes with the level of influence they have.

2. Presidents are selected by the typical American voter. Smoking a joint is cool these days with plenty of people (esp. younger), but employers are typically older and more traditional. He didn't get a pass with these people, they just weren't going to vote for him already for other reasons.

Not to say I disagree with your overall point - America is generally becoming more progressive.
Does anybody else find it hilarious that not one, but two comments present suburbia as the eminent example of cheap rubber-stamp housing in the US?
For some people Regex Golf [1] might be an interesting way to learn. You are actually building increasingly complex regex as you go, and can just look up bits of syntax you don't know as needed.

[1] https://alf.nu/RegexGolf
Here's an interesting thought experiment. What groups count as minority? When we reach 50% women, what if there aren't enough black women? Once we reach precisely 16% black women of the 50% women, what if there aren't enough short black women? Continue this and eventually you realize that the only real way to have perfect diversity is to go down to the individual level: Black Woman, age 35, Jamaican heritage, bachelor degree, 10 years experience, middle class, democrat, etc.

Is the optimal system of representation at an individual level? Each person is a demographic of one. Saying that you lack diversity because most employees are "white male" is the same as claiming that all black women are the same (and would be better off with more white male "diverse" perspectives) -- sure you are missing one type of diversity, but you have infinite diversity along other axes (Heritage, Southern/Northern, Conservative/Liberal, Height, Weight, Family life, College, Religion, Hobbies, Interests, Health Issues, Strengths/Weaknesses, Experience).

If you want to refute this point, then please start by demonstrating that all black women think alike, and how they might benefit from the diversity of more white men.
You can't fix inequality by discriminating; discrimination is part of the problem, not the solution.

It's about time we started considering other, more constructive ways of cleaning up our collective mess.
Honest question, do you really think that their opinions weren't already extreme in light of the fact that the science on the differences between the sexes (and the races, tangentially) aren't significant enough to define hiring practices? I ask because I think we're seeing not a backlash from corporations because they're anti-science but because they're anti-scientism. We've had two centuries of science being misused to excuse unscientific policies in law and even corporate policy (and to some extent we still do this). Google, in my opinion, is right to ignore the science on the differences between groups of people because the science at this point speaks very broad terms and worse still it doesn't define social and moral goods. Science is good at describing a thing but not describing what should be done with the thing it describes, that's for philosophers, law makers, and preachers to do. And folks like Damore fall into the tar pit of scientism where they try to describe concepts of morality and philosophy in disguise when they claim they describe things in terms of a science. There's nothing scientific about fairness. It's just something we feel is fair in a given era. A century ago giving women an equal say in society whether by vote or employment would've been seen as unfair. Today? It's totally fair and expected. How that changed I won't go into but the fact is the change occurred independent of science (as it should). Science works best when it attempts to be as value free as possible. But hiring practices aren't in the sphere of science and Damore should have known this well before he wrote his letter. He should've focused on fairness and defined fairness in scope of being an employee (potential and actual). That way his point might've been accepted because at the end of his letter he spells it out as a matter of judging people on individual ability. So the rest of his letter is actually useless and hides that important point he made. All because he got caught in the trap of scientism.
It's a lot more than a few Youtubers. Youtube is a creator ecosystem Facebook could never live up to be. Facebook is for brands only.
I had to scroll down too far to find this comment. Diversity hiring is treating the symptom, not the disease of segregation at birth into distinct gender roles.
All you describe here is your laziness.

> Common abstractions like

Look at https://cocoacontrols.com

> Even the async APIs are inconsistent

The APIs are consistent conceptually with what the frameworks are doing. Obtaining contacts or calendar events is something you usually want to do on a background queue, while photos you want on a main queue. Besides, I don't understand what the problem is. Is it so difficult cognitively for you to call `dispatch_async` to the main queue?

> Swift doesn't have async/await

Lord have mercy, no async await. How will we ever overcome that, it's soo hard to use GCD. Come on.

> Otherwise, you'll get a prompt for Camera, and before you respond, it disappears and is replaced by a prompt for Photos

This is the worst practice of all. If you bombard your user with permission requests, your app is automatically bad in my book.

> My app would crash

Next time read the documentation, and use the provided API to check for availability of features and permission status.

> In summary, you waste months of your time working around insufficiently-documented iOS issues, or debugging things, or reimplementing common things in every app.

Everything you wrote here is very well documented in Apple doc and headers.
Anyone else notice how bloggers and the media emphasize 'white man' or 'white male' to transform it into a perjorative term?
I will look for a source - but I live in the Midwest and have always heard that after the Clean Air/Clean Water Acts came into force our two largest sources of environmental pollution are 1. Agricultural run off (which is a real concern: see Iowa city troubles keeping drinking water uncontaminated) and 2. Discharge from aging waste treatment plants build in the 1940s/1950s that have never been updated.

I would love to see clean water regulations strengthened to make our Midwest lake and rivers more healthy and available for recreation (even my favorite rivers to paddle and fish have obvious pollution) - but I understand that agriculture and industry have a place at this table as well.
People's qualifications are not all the same. Imagine that Google wants to hire 1,000 people, but 10,000 people apply for a job. Then Google logically ought to take the best 1,000 people that apply.

With diversity quota's, the company may decide to hire a less able woman in favor of a more able man.
I don't dispute your conclusion, but for the sake of argument, how can you be sure nobody was "terrified", given the claim from GP that people would hide their opinions on the matter very carefully?
In Less Than Five Years, 44 Trillion Cameras Will Be Watching Us
Straight, white male online commenter here. Studied philosophy and humanities earlier in my adult life, and still do privately. Just so that's cleared up.
Lol they're HTTPS on the login form but plain HTTP immediately after... what a joke? That invites people to do cred fishing on bigger LAN parties or conferences...
I am :)

Right now I'm working on setting up the company.
If you believe women and/or minorities are biologically predisposed to underperform white males in tech, then it makes sense to offer them more help. That offer only increases "tension" if you don't believe the biological premise. So which is it? You can't have it both ways.
It's fascinating to me that Google even has places to express opinions. When I was in my 20s and 30s, the workplace was just the place where you did work. There was no room for self-expression. You worked, you got paid, you went home. Seems like it opens the door for trouble - a false sense of individual rights when there are very few.
Google Warns Publishers Serving Annoying Ads
Blue Apron is having a really bad day
Thanks. Backups are, of course, essential, but it would be a bit of a pain trying to identify and clean up any substitutions.
What do the words "man", "woman", "male", "female" really even mean these days?
It took me a minute of browsing around the site and then coming back here to ask, before I realized that you're saying they're redirecting httpS to PLAIN http. Wow.