skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't pseudo-intellectual a middlebrow term in its own right? In any case, commenters who use HN to posture over the rest of the HN community strike a rather silly pose. I hear Twitter is the place to do that for serious.

(I believe we already told you this elsewhere, but) you've been posting such ideological flamebait to HN that your comments amount to trolling whether you mean them to or not. This isn't a question of how right or wrong you are—plenty of your fellow community members are arguing the same positions as you without violating the spirit of this site. If you'd like to participate in thoughtful discussion, you're welcome to keep commenting here. Kindly fix this?

Admittedly these trainwreck threads have been pretty thin on thoughtful discussion, but even so, several of your posts stand out as poisonous.
In the City of Melbourne in Australia, most parking that you could use all day is not free. You can either get in by 10am and pay $20 per day, or pay around $100 per day if you arrive after that. There's still heaps of cars in the city.
> The 4HWW unless it was to sensationalize his work, and draw more attention to himself, and make more money.

It's called 'marketing'. That title was specifically chosen for its performance in a Google AdWords experimental run, which is a commonly recommended approach for testing MVPs.
Why does every crypto thread have these vacuous comments? Normally adding a "I agree" comment is met with "use the arrow".

Maybe we could come up with a "HN law of crypto" that states all articles must be met with "paper money works just fine" or "just another tulip scheme".

It seems asking for constructive criticism is out of the question due to the ideological motivations behind the criticisms.
I suspect that many "suicide attempts" are more like emphatic communication ("See! I really care about this!") than intention to die.

When I've felt suicidal, it's always helped to imagine how one does it reliably. Then I've thought about how irreversible that would be. And then I've realized that I don't really want to die.
I'd just like to say how dispiriting I find this question considering I how envious of my friends $4k+ computer I was because it had 64mb of RAM and could play C&C Red Alert with absolutely no slowdown. Let that sink in...in the mid 90s, we comfortably fit a Windows GUI and a somewhat sophisticated game into 64mb of RAM and 20 years of "progress" later, we're asking what kind of special accommodations are necessary to handle HTTP requests with the same resources.

Note: It's an entirely reasonable question to ask, which makes it all the sadder.
It's great ! But it's also very saddening that people need incitation from companies to stop driving to work and can't make such healthy, environment-friendly decisions themselves.
I mentioned Lazarus in other threads a few days ago (since my kids are playing around with it) and it's great to see it as a top-level post. Some random thoughts:

- It's somewhat amusing to realize that in 2017 this is pretty much the easiest way to do a desktop app (besides RealBasic/Xojo which I've yet to try - was put off by their mandatory registration)

- I wish we had RAD environments like this for more languages (Racket, Python, etc. - even JS).

- On the Mac, installation is a bit fiddly. It needs a little polish and support (a standalone, integrated bundle would be better, or at the very least a unified installer).

- We've been retrofitting web UIs to desktops to such an extent (I'm looking at you, Electron) that the tiny, supremely efficient apps Lazarus spits out put the last couple of years into stark perspective (2GB RAM used by Slack, etc.)

I love Lazarus, and hope it helps resurrect the RAD approach for other languages - if anyone knows of any similar environments (besides QtCreator, etc.), could you share the links?
Try -q
In Australia I have seen "platinum" debit cards with 3.

2 definitely makes sense.

1 probably varies by jurisdiction, of course.
A pilot explains turbulence
[x] Easy string handling (compared to C)

I like how you say python-like syntax... as so many borrow from Pascal
Interesting use of the word "worse".
You don't want to go bankrupt running a server side hls encoder when you can run it in the browser and simply punt the playlist chunks up to a simple s3 bucket directly from the client running ffmpeg in the browser say for a live broadcasting web app.
If you've removed possible bias from your hiring process, then you have to accept an imbalance is either a result of uneven retention inclusive-or something operating earlier in the process of training your candidates.

The point is to remove as many obstacles as possible. We want the best to get the jobs, but if the are barriers based on gender or race or religion that's potentially denying us a brilliant woman, or black man, or Muslim.

It doesn't necessarily mean you end up at 50/50, I'm quite willing to accept that the sexes might be biologically different in brain structure and that this might mean one sex might have different average aptitudes, but I won't accept a societal construct on top of that.

You should never hear that someone shouldn't try to do something because of their sex. Never.

Well unless it involves the more obvious anatomical differences. The average man is going to have some difficulty becoming an effective wet nurse.
In a world with effectively zero transportation possible beyond a range of a few miles, you need to move every time you change jobs (or never see your family because you're walking/biking/riding a bus for a huge chunk of each day).
>We as a society have decided that systemizing people’s mental characteristics based on race and gender is morally wrong.

I would love to know what exactlu he means by "we as a society".

>biological differences make women inferior as engineers (yes angry commenter, he did argue this)

No, he did not. He argued that women tend to be inferior as engineers. That's very different.
After being a Chrome user for several years, I've switched back to Firefox for the past two years or so and I'm really, really happy with it.

Latest version does multi-processing, e10s is finally here (though it might still get disabled by usage of certain add-ons, I remember I had to force it to stay enabled).

On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses less memory than Chrome.

And one thing I really love is the Awesome Bar, which is a pain point every single time I open Chrome. I have a lot of websites I need to return to and in Chrome I end up searching on Google far more than I should. I guess that's the biggest difference between Firefox and Chrome, as Mozilla does not feel obligated to shareholders to extract ads clicks from you (although I hope that whatever they do keeps them afloat).

Also, tab management. I installed "Tab Center" from the Test Pilot and it's awesome. The experiment is now over unfortunately and the code itself for Tab Center isn't compatible with WebExtensions, but there's work going on to port it and that highlights that Firefox's WebExtensions will be more flexible than Chrome, if they aren't already.

But in the end I actually care more about trusting my browser and its maker to protect my interests. I actually trust Google more than I trust other companies, but something feels very wrong for a company to have so much leverage on me. Which is why, as long as I have a choice, I'll always prefer Firefox over Chrome, or Safari, or Edge.
Take it from someone whose partner works in HR: they are not your friend. They may be nice people, they may try to help, but their _job_ is to protect the company's interests. Each time you talk to them about conflict, you're taking a bet your interests and theirs align.

In other news, for a bunch of smart people, engineers are spectacularly underunionized.
Ah, so it wasn't just me who thought that. My opinion of them went down a few notches too...
For the life of me, I cannot find a legitimate source for that poll. I see the image popping up on a lot of less-than-reputable websites (wordpress blogs, tweets, businessinsider, etc) but no actual source for it, let alone any idea of its methodology.
At Google scale, "tend to", and "does" are the same thing.
Which part, specifically? The only restriction on the EAR I see that applies is that on encryption, and Part 742.15(b) provides an explicit exception for software where the source is publicly available. That's why, for example, non-US citizens must request a special license to download the paid Metasploit version but can download the open source version freely[1].

[1] https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2015/06/...
That One Privacy Site – VPN Comparisons
He didn't say it the fault of feminists, only that this was probably going to be the result.

And It's exactly why public debate should be had. To come to a better solution in the middle, rather than create fringes on the sides.

Your reaction here is just more of the 'Shock and Awe' and hurt feelings that doesn't really help push the agenda.
"Genocide is good" = 13% toxicity,
"Genocide is bad" = 87% toxicity

Pure garbage.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14968871 and marked it off-topic.
I wonder what if the W3C did something similar to the web developer edition of HTML and version that. The lack of things like implementation details means that it should be much easier to take to Recommendation. Trivia: At one point, HTML5 was predicted to take until 2022 before it becomes a W3C recommendation!
Would you please not post ideological boilerplate to HN? Regardless of which ideology is your favorite.

We're trying for a higher quality of discussion here (though admittedly this has been hard to observe lately).
I don't think that e.g. the nordic countries or Switzerland were worse than the US in 1960 or 1970.

Heck, parts of NY were like a developing world city back then, much less places in the South and co...
I giggled when this article said "most of Google's work is people centric". It's data. It's an isolated intelligent person at a computer screen. At the center is a server. On one end, a programmer, the other end, a user. People don't enter into it.
But you'll not be able to answer the harder whiteboard questions. And only those get you hired..
Founder of OVPN.com here. I’m happy to answer any questions regarding our infrastructure, policies or tech stack.
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I can agree with you on the fact that ICOs have been the first actual "killer application" for Ethereum. But they only work because they're based on another lie.

People buy into these ICOs because they get tokens that they assume to increase in value. It's basically a "get rich quick" scheme. It worked an astounding number of times, and once people caught up on that, the value of Ether started to skyrocket as everyone and their grandmothers wanted to have a piece of the cake.

Why did the tokens increase in value? Because enough people believed in the "visions" of the startups behind the ICOs, which usually weave some story about future utility of the specific token into their business case precisely to make people think that these tokens will one day be more than just a speculation object. Once enough people believed that, the tokens became extremely good speculation objects, as they were growing in value, and that made people get rich quick, which made Ether skyrocket, which made more people get rich quick. See last paragraph. But the important takeaway is: you need that perceived utility value to kickstart this entire sequence of events!

Okay, so why are the tokens supposed to have any utility value besides being speculation objects? Because the startups have business models centered around Ethereum and smart contracts and of course utilizing their token that they intend to grow into a real business. If you now assume - just as you yourself have stipulated - that smart contracts on Ethereum are used for nothing other than the facilitation of crowdfunding coin offerings, this means that any other business model is assumed to fail. This in turn means that all those tokens have no utility value whatsoever. This in turn means that they eventually lose their speculative value, which is based on people believing in them one day having utility value. It will probably take a while, since beliefs can be strong and masses of people tend to be dumb, but eventually it will happen. This in turn means that crowdsourcing yet another useless and worthless token won't work, since why should anybody invest anything into it? And this finally ruins the nice killer application of crowdfunding via ICOs.
But that is the exact opposite of what is happening with positive discrimination and probably something the initial author would prefer.
Women are better at pair programming?
>The only country which would be even comparable to US in terms of connectivity, healthcare and education quality, UK is still lagging behind US in all these matters.

I think you should travel more. Maybe try Switzerland or the nordic region?

In internet speeds for example, the US just made it in the top 10 this year: https://www.fastmetrics.com/internet-connection-speed-by-cou...

And if you visit a place like Switzerland you'll wonder what kind of developing world nightmare is the US compared to their efficiency, cleanliness, infrastructure, government services, and lots of other things besides.

It's also a few places ahead of the US in per capita GDP. But then again, several countries are: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

Not also how Sweden, Norway, Switcherland and Denmark have higher per capita median income than the US (adjusted for purchasing parity etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

(Apart from access to healthcare, UK is less developed in those areas than lots of countries)
History keeps repeating.

Flash? Now you have heavily javascripted "website".

Table layout? Now you have bootstrap and friends.

Progressive enhancement? Fuck that, we don't have time.

And 5 years from now people will rediscover those and accessibility. Then 5 years later another kind of hell will have appeared to replace this.

The only big change for the current wave is that everything is obfuscated so it's harder for a newcomer to learn by checking how people coded things.
The difference spin makes.
I spent some time playing this. Loved the manual and the old school aspect. Suddenly, I thought that every hour I spent in this I could be learning real assembler or another language that I could use IRL - solve real git-hub bugs for fun, etc.
The curtain has been tried. It didn't get the desired results so was retired.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-t...
I think you're better off with this for a proper technical feature-set... https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/
Many people, myself included, feel that HR is almost totally on the side of the company and don't represent employee interests effectively (if at all).
PIA has a surprisingly broad reach, financially and in some cases structurally supporting Freenode, Snoonet, Fight For the Future, EFF, Software Freedom Conservancy and many more.

Its actually unnerving how many of the same projects and groups they support, in some cases being the main benefactor.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/companies-we-spo...
Airbursts are generally used to maximise the area damaged at the cost of peak damage - so for soft targets like cities. Ground bursts would be used for hard targets (deep bunkers, missile silos) that are relatively small but hard to kill. I suspect in wartime fall-out wouldn't be a major factor in planning all out attacks whereas it was a big factor in atmospheric testing.
HyperApp: https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1179750280?mt=8

Hyper.app: https://hyper.is/

hyperapp: https://github.com/hyperapp/hyperapp

Hyper.sh: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nrfEcCITAofSDPFTIkiA...

Adding this to the list https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14634284
I've been waiting for this DNS behavior change for years. Great release!
How to Add FloatingView Animation in Android?
>>The parent comment is correct that free software has put magnitudes less food on kids bellies.

uh... citation needed?
There are, and will always be, websites that are ugly, fat, obtrusive and whatnot. Thing is: you don't have to visit them.

WebAssembly has the potential to say play video games, including AAA titles, without having to install anything on your computer. Same goes for many software projects such as CAD, office, video editing... You could use all this from your browser.

I don't know about you, but I find this perspective very exciting.
Very good post. It has all the important information, provides clear examples, doesn't try to get too fancy or showboat. Well done.
Try using proprietary libraries in your software without complying with their licenses and you'll see what having your life made hell means. GPL license holders barely ever sued anyone, and when they do (like FSF v Cisco), it's usually after years of trying to get them to comply. That they (rightly) complain about your practices is not using the law.
Let’s say we have 1,000 nodes in a network that does 1,000 transactions per second.

If we shard the data, such that each node only needs to process 10 transactions per second — while trusting the remaining nodes on the other 990 transactions — how is this different from just reducing the number of nodes to 10, and having each node process all 1,000 transactions?

In both cases the entire network only needs to process 10,000 transactions per second, and in both cases the network breaks down if 10 or more nodes collude.
I see where you're coming from. I have, however, tested a couple of news sites (e.g. BBC, The Guardian) while using an add blocker and the results are very interesting. The "amount of news" is nowhere near the "amount of adds". Without the adds, the news websites (some; I obviously couldn't test them all...) have a decent "size" and load quick enough.
I agree so much. I almost stopped reading when I realised his first complaint about PIA was their name was too long for his off-the-shelf CSS.

It's a struggle to keep the criticism of this site constructive.
My point was more that it was surprising to me that someone as vilified as Trump still got almost a third of the votes in CA, but I agree that your point makes that look substantially weaker, so I retract it.
No questions from me, but I've met Josh and the rest of the redteam. I hope they are doing well. Lots of good folks in salesforce security =)
You think it's a tulip scheme?

With the way technology is going it would seem everything would be connected to the web and this idea of decentralized apps that require crypto, I'd like to be in on that... the "millionaires" that came about from bitcoin, that's nice but are you saying the tulip scheme is going to be the end result of crypto?

I'm asking because I don't know. I'm buying it solely for FOMO
You don't always know youer server arch and OS. If you sell solutions to others they may choose the server OS and you might want to support as many as possible.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle, which is an abuse of this site.
When the Australian public service experimented with blinding demographic data on resumes, fewer women and minorities were hired:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tria...

A blind recruiting process only increases diversity if there exists significant bias against diverse candidates. I wouldn't be surprised if Silicon Valley has a bias in favor of diverse candidates, like Australia's public service.
Really? I'm 63 and Google in both Mountain View and Sydney are after me.
Definitely. It's also interesting that Youtube rolled out in-app sharing and messaging a couple of days ago https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/07/youtube-roll-out-in-app-vi.... Seems like they're getting closer and closer to each other for every day that passes.
> What positive connotation could be drawn from it?

IMHO that is the wrong question. Connotations aren't something anyone can argue for or against - one can have bad connotations for all sorts of words. Actual example: my ex hated the word "negotiate" in any personal discussion as she saw negotiations as something where you tried to screw the other person over (she was a lawyer). This was to the point where she refused to negotiate anything - including where we would have dinner. How can anyone live without negotiating? Hence, ex :)

I think a better question than one about connotations would be:

If we accept that women have a preference for people over things, what would encourage women to want to do a "things" job? The memo's answer: more peer programming i.e. adding a people element to a things/systems job. That is internally consistent, I think, with the evidence presented on average female preference.

Honestly, I find all this inferior/superior talk really troubling. Different != inferior, or superior, it is just DIFFERENT. Is a hammer a better tool than a saw? Depends what I want to do... I find it even more troubling that people against labelling others superior/inferior see everything that way. Personally, I think vive la difference!
The main problem is that stupidity is mainstream. The guy was fired not because of what he wrote, but because the stupid people criticized google and google can't afford to fight against the stupid people. This is a fight one can't win alone. Google's goal is to make money, not to make people less stupid.

Now regarding the firering, the lesson to learn is not that one should stop saying that the king is naked when it is. One should use anonymizer because the stupid people are still dominating the population.

The focus of making money of capitalizm is nurturing stupidity in the population because it makes business so simpler. (e.g. junk food consuming) Things need to change.
The concept of decentralized apps, where does the initial copy come from that is then installed/copied onto other devices? (time to go read)
Although on a technical level I think it could prove an interesting challenge, I worry about it's implications on speech across the web. Besides potential fears about the creators bias training it, all I think this will do is create clever slang to get around the filter. There was a joke on 4chan a long time ago about starting to use the names of major companies as racial slurs because it would be harder to filter and I could easily see something like that happening here.
Is there any incentive that Facebook offers to create high-quality content? Every dollar that Facebook makes through ads goes in its pocket. And I don't see any keen interest from their side to create a revenue sharing program. Even though only a few YouTubers might be making sustainable revenues, but at least Google offers some motivation to continue creating.

For anyone publishing on Facebook, the cycle seems familiar: create a page, gain followers, get popular, and get burned out when you realise that it's difficult to make money from what you're doing. I remember when C&H started publishing incomplete video clips to sway the audience towards their website (where they have ads).

I admit that revenue attribution to content on Facebook is not as straightforward as it's on Youtube, but Facebook should invest in making it easier to monetize your content; otherwise, I don't think people would motivated to create anything more than memes.
This seems very interesting, but I'm getting a 404 at this link.
Wonder if this also will be full of freebooted/stolen content (as Videoes is today), or actually genuine stuff?