skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A safe space is a safe free from criticism. Conservatives don't want or need safe spaces. They need spaces free from literal violence and from social violence (calls to firing, disruption of free assemblies, ostrichsization, etc.).

No, they don't want a safe space. They want something much more than that, they want a platform to be given to them. Conservatives are free to sit in private in a frat house or country club and talk about how women are dumb all they want (they do, in fact, all around the country!). But of course they want more. They want to be able to say whatever they damn please, no matter how nasty or non-intellectual, and have people listen to them. They want universities to pay for their security and host them in huge lecture halls, giving a tacit endorsement of them as intellectual figures. They want to be able to publish a manifesto at their work describing how they think their coworkers of a certain gender are too stupid to be here and before you call me sexist look at these statistics I am citing while having no qualifications to talk with any expertise about any of these issues.

I actually don't particularly agree with his firing, because I fundamentally disagree with allowing for the tyranny that is the non-unionized American workplace. Imagine if he were poor and couldn't immediately sprint into the alt-right women-hating neo nazi youtube circuit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN1vEfqHGro) and immediately apply for another tech job. In that case, speaking his mind politically would be suicide (perhaps literally, as he'd lose his health insurance).

So yes, I too disagree with allowing business to fire their employees without cause -- google shouldn't be able to fire its workers for their political positions, and this should be solidified explicitly in a union agreement or government regulation. Google also shouldn't be allowed to force their employees to submit to drug tests, for example. Or to fire their employees for not working weekends. Or for "not stepping up enough" or for a lack of "culture fit".
If you or others have links to resources on board politics and how that world works, I'd love to learn more. Having never held a board seat, it is a fascinating, yet still mysterious world to me, and it seems like the truthful accounts of what happens in that world are kept as private as possible.
It is perfectly reasonable to distribute illiquid shares of a private company at the end of the fund lifetime.
Ha! Just yesterday I had the narcisstic idea of gifting someone I've been chatting regularly with for years a chatbot that answers his messages like I would. This is just what I needed, thanks!
And still the numbers are in order. I mean, how often do you write the number 6? Does it really deserve to be right in the middle, while 1 is the hardest to reach?

I am only half joking. I've yet to see a keyboard layout that puts the numbers in a different order.
Laracasts.
the call is coming from inside the uber
I've been doing this for years - it's my favorite.

www.cheeseand.beer
Interested to know what folks think - if there are any obvious mistakes, if you have any requests for strings to map, or any cool ideas we could try with the data.
Tips and Tricks for Migrating from Swift 2 to Swift 3
Mobile maybe? I think Arkit is going to be big. I'm thinking of moving to iOS just because of that..
4 years since last commit and at version 0.0 - not likely to be relevant to that many.
Programmmer Dvorak is in a different order http://xahlee.info/kbd/dvorak_and_all_keyboard_layouts.html

In fact Dvorak originally had the numbers in a different order https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
That looks very nifty.

I sometimes browse untappd to find people reviewing beers in pubs to see what's probably on tap, but that seems to require going to each specific pubs page on the app to check what might be on.

So your site looks very handy! (I'm in the UK though alas so I assume I can't use your app?)
Even in the bitcoin community, I think many people don't realize just how big Coinbase is. I have a paid Alexa account, so I can grab traffic data to for any website. Let me show you how Coinbase compares to several other sites you guys might be familiar with:

coinbase.com - 4.8 million monthly unique visitors from the US
4chan.org - 5.3 million
chase.com - 47 million

So Coinbase is almost as big as 4chan, and is 1/10 the site of Chase.

Let me repeat that again: The largest bitcoin exchange has 1/10 of the traffic of the biggest general banking site in the world.

That is huge.
Bitcoin transactions in which the payee retains the currency instead of immediately exchanging it for USD, EUR, GBP, or another usual currency are largely done for illicit purchases, especially those involving narcotics.

This is done because Bitcoin is extremely easy to launder through "tumblers". Unlike, say, paper currency, an individual 'unit' of Bitcoin (insofar as that exists) is not tracked with a serial number.

Additionally, in the US, the IRS is underfunded and prolific sellers are smart. Unlike banks, Bitcoin does not inherently have names attached to accounts/wallets, and so it is much easier to evade taxes than with typical currencies.
This is random but I saw you on reddit, great product!
I meant a challenge, relative to the general population, though that's a pretty meaningless assertion. But yes, my larger point was to say that presuming the gender gap in programming to be based on biological differences seems premature, given that computer science actually has female equivalents to Jerry West and Steph Curry.
> We are no longer accepting contributions to Documentation. Please see our post on meta. -> https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...
Couldn't you just compartmentalize? Make an outer AI that has to defer to an inner AI, and nest them in such a way that the only interface between the layers is a 'explaining' communication channel?
> Cortex has been a member since 2001 and a mod since 2007. You mean it's been going downhill for a decade because cortex? C'mon, don't be silly now.

That's a lot like trying to dispute the effect of Donald Trump's presidency on the US by noting that he has been an American since he was born.
Shouldn't this be "Glassy Metal Gears", instead of the opposite? They say they heat it up to get rid of the crystals, then somehow cool it without allowing them to form, leading to a metal in an amorphous solid form like that glass takes on when it cools.
Angry mobs are something that cannot be controlled. There's been a lot of talk about emboldening but it seems many believe that it's ok to normalize mobs since it will be their mob that wins. That... is not guaranteed.
Making a robot. It's fun, I look forward to making it every day and log my progress. So far it has depth perception and I have a goal in mind for it. It's an expensive side project though, I underestimated the price but you learn a lot about electronics in the process.
$10,800 for a family of 3 here. :-/ And that doesn't count the generous employer-paid portion.
I feel MeFi is a bit allergic to the politics of HN. For example, the recent Google discussion would have gone over very differently there. (I say this without passing judgement, since I tend to ping-pong back and forth between both sites.)
I'd disagree with this. Entertainment is one of the basic human needs. Many games also require a certain amount of time to complete, and some games have severe penalties associated with leaving because it ruins the experience for all the other players.

One way to deal with this situation is to disallow entertainment on certain computers. That way there are always computers available. Still, in the era of everybody having an internet-capable mobile phone, the original premise seems suspect. In fact, the people using library computers to play games seem more likely to be the ones who need it most. Many kids don't have a home PC capable of running the games, whereas pretty much everybody has the internet.
The standard PC-104 keyboard is indeed bad layout. I think the biggest benefit of such a small layout is the size, but a 60% keyboard is readily available and yields this advantage right away. For people that can't live without arrow keys, a 65%. I'd buy a hard version of this keyboard though, I am curious about using a 40% layout...
100-Year-Old Fruitcake Found in Antarctica Is ‘Almost’ Edible
It is a multifaceted problem, but one aspect is having better answers to treating chronic pain, whether that be physical therapy, pharmaceuticals, psychotherapy, etc.

It very much is a mind-body thing because ultimately the brain gets signals from the body and it is the mind that determines if those signals are pain or just noise.

I think also situations of social inequality are feeding the opioid crisis. Black people in America were early adopters of trends such as the breakdown of the family and believing that "there ain't no making it" and now we are seeing that rural whites are experiencing these.
Jeopardy, TrueNorth?
Not even close. Also, machine learning is a subfield of AI.

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/37618/who-coined-the-...
Even a negative finding holds important implications: if we successfully survey all of the exoplanets within 100 to 1000 light years and find no life or anything even close being habitable for humans, then it would gravely inform us of the ways in which we must preserve the Earth that we have.
Bad, nausea.
This is a civil matter, not criminal. Yet.

The fund alleges that they were the injured party, because Kalanick lied about and/or didn't disclose facts which were material to their decision.

Besides, it's common practice at that level to inform law enforcement when crimes are suspected. See, for example, Pepsi calling the FBI when they were offered CocaCola's recipe.
Great to see what you all are doing.

Are there any plans to move timescale to be an extension as opposed to a fork? We've found ourselves at Citus that maintaining an extension lets us more easily stay up to date with current releases. Would love to see the same applied to timescale.

Edit: Looks like it is already one, just was unclear in the docs on the setup steps to me. Well done all.
That is nice of them to release a sanitized version of the audit report. I would still prefer openvpn or some other open source client that has been more battle tested for something I intend to use as a privacy tool. I don't think it changes my basic position on a closed source client. Audits are always point in time.
I also would not be surprised, given what I perceived to be Microsoft's roundabout passive aggressive PR complaints about the Atom family, if Microsoft might make a play for the HoloLens 2.0 to run on ARM instead of x86.
What would your target be for government funding of space as a percentage of all government spending?
It is a statistics renaissance, you answers your own question. The AI needs to explain in easily understandable ways how the stats arrived at a conclusion. Eg, "We discovered there is a correlation that on sunny days, people drink more icemochas when you play the music louder. That's why we're telling you right now to increase the volume in your stores."
If you think Trump winning had anything to do with safe spaces or whatever gamergate alt-right concerns the 18-34 tech male demographic cares about instead of blatant abject failures of the Democratic party (nominating a horrible candidate and running a horrible campaign), well I've got a bridge to sell you.

Nobody should let Trump winning convince them "well, maybe we should have been more racist".

Safe spaces are not contemptible at all; people who deny them are. Who are you to say I cannot organize with my friends in a place where I let people talk about their problems free of criticism and hate for a moment? Maybe a rape survivor wants to spend a while talking about her experiences with people who are willing to be supportive without having alt-right protesters screaming at her calling her a slut and telling her she deserved it? You can pretend this is about intellectualism, but we all know it isn't; they are about hate and harassment and vile people spewing vile vitriol at others.

And I don't advocate excluding ideas, rather refusing to give ideas that don't deserve respect or attention respect or attention.
Cats seem to be the main threat to birds.
On the bright side, hopefully the amount of millionaires minted by Snap will improve the angel investing scene in Venice Beach
> anybody smart and self-motivated can get that online for free

Yeah, "smart and self-motivated" describes such a huge percentage of humanity that I'm amazed colleges and universities haven't gone the way of the dodo.
Interesting, but it looks like that depends on running gnome-shell? The instructions there for triggering the inspector doesn't seem to work for gnome-terminal for me for example (not that I tried very hard to debug why), running under i3wm. Running gnome-shell itself just isn't something I'd consider - I want my tiling wm.
I started working on iparklikeadumbass.com. The idea is for me to upload pictures of people parking like idiots, blur the license plate and just have it out there. I know I wont make any money of it but it is a good way of preventing road/parking raging.
Some people enjoy it, but the vast majority of trip reports I’ve read are essentially “do not bother to try this, it’s not worth it”. Like DXM, it seems to have different “plateaus”, and the line between a pleasant dose and a multi-day hell of delirious anxiety is rather small.
Sure, that's very true about it being to the left. But there was more dissent in the past and perhaps with fewer people who actually knew and respected each other there was better discussion.

Diversity of opinion is important. Having people present their arguments well is important. But that goes down when it's just a festival of agreement.

Oddly, it's better at HN. Perhaps because there is less politics and more stuff where people actually have useful expertise.
Two points: First, beware these results. This is a self-selected online survey, not a scientific sampling. Two categories of people might not respond - those who didn't want to be identified of wrongthink, and those whose reactions to the firing were "meh" rather than strong opinions.

Second, it would be interesting to see what the reaction was among specifically female Google employees.
The sun is in space, luckily. And there is quality sunlight in Norway too. But there is not much sunlight during winter. And winter is coming.
omg i see. That makes a lot of sense. Will test this out. Thanks a lot :)
Clipboard manager for macOS
Is there support is OS X for changing normal letter keys into properly functioning modifier keys?

CMD with my thumbs, and Shift, are the only modifiers I can comfortably type. RSI pain in my pinkies really limits Option and Ctrl.

It would be interesting to have a chording setup with keys on the home row. Hold "D" + type a key with your Right hand, and vice versa for "K" and the Left hand.
We already have more modifier key names, meta/super/hyper. Although I'm not sure that's enough.
I think the answer to that is, not if they want to be part of the S&P 500.
I built MockREST - http://mockrest.com/ - to create REST APIs from JSON content.

I've only spent 9€ to buy the domain as the application (django application) is on a shared server. I'm making 0 €$ from it, as it was made to solve a problem that I had while teaching mobile development where I teach.
Whoa, personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't post like this again.
There is a branch of Terminator which supports tmux integration.
If he was sincere in his defense of free expression at Google, James Damore should take this opportunity to speak out in defense of his former colleagues. Doxxing is a pure intimidation tactic.
It does seem like a pretext. My guess is that the execs realized that they have a bigger sh*tstorm--both internally and externally--than they realized on their hands, and want some more time to think and to let things die down. Probably smart, actually.
It looks like it is indeed an extension: http://docs.timescale.com/getting-started/installation?OS=li...
A Biologist's Take on the Google Diversity Memo
that's not the game mentioned in the article. The game should be Sonic Mania.
I could not live without my 60% keyboards anymore. I have one for at home and one for at work, and I'll never use a full-sized keyboard anymore. They feel so clunky and take up unnecessary space.

The next board I'll be building will be a 40% board (Hopefully the minivan [0) though I don't think I will use it for coding. My main use for it will be just typing tests and recreational use.

[0]: https://f3a98a5aca88d28ed629-2f664c0697d743fb9a738111ab4002b...
Regarding your second paragraph, a joke I saw recently is "We won't act until it's too late. Luckily, it's too late now!".

The last 2 summers have had heatwaves that killed Indians, Europe just had a big one the last few weeks. Meanwhile, German automakers were caught in a conspiracy about diesel. Their government actually argued to keep lax testing methods a few years ago (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-franc...)!
It's as simple as shared host FTP drop (for static content), or a cheap VPS on DO, Linode, or what-have-you. Takes all of an hour to configure (with some practice), and if you are running a flavor of linux with APT and ufw, that includes setting up a firewall and unattended-upgrades.

And Cloudflare is still an option, since everyone needs their precious caching.
> I think it's stupid, but that's the way it is

I hope it's not their line when Last Judgement comes.
http://botoform.com | Architect infrastructure on AWS using YAML
I wrote a children's picture book "The ABCs of Programming" to explain what I do to my toddler. Previously I was telling him "Daddy talks to robots". Hasn't made much money yet, but I launched only this week.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074FVWDYJ/
How'd you name that?
You can nitpick the exceptions, but his general point about affluent living standards existing for 100 years in the West for most people is true.
It uses MCTS, but that's not the same thing as the claim, now is it? If you look at the win rates in the AG paper for the NN vs MCTS+NN and then consider the performance curve, use of a single TPU, crushing superiority of Master's flawless 60 blitz matches and Ke Jie matches despite very fast moves, the released self-play matches, and comparing with FB's Dark Forest, it's clear that the AG NN all on its own, without any MCTS, is a truly formidable player that would likely crush many pros, although I don't know if it would reach Sedol or Ke Jie levels of play.
This is true, but the board allegedly pressured him into resigning the week after. Here's the NYT article with details - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/technology/uber-ceo-travi... - although, given the lawsuit, it's not clear if the reporting was completely correct.
It seems llike the proper response to this controversy would be to use some of their cash to fund a internal group to research and replicate some of the studies mentioned in the original google memo, to refute and possibly further the understanding for some kind of practical knowledge gain, instead of A) firing the employee bringing up some concerns and b) holding meetings about why the issue needed to be a point of contention (doubling down) in the organization
As others have mentioned, a tiling wm solves a lot of this. I still use tabs in Chrome, but mostly because it fits my use better when I occasionally want to open other windows next to a bunch of tabs for example (I'll freely admit that getting used to how quickly arranging i3wm tiles hierarchically is hard).

It doesn't solve frames in Emacs, or tmux/screen per se, but for tmux at least iTerm2 on OS X shows that doing a terminal emulator that integrates with it certainly is possible. For my part, my screen usage is very strictly "full screen" (or full terminal, I guess) so it flows relatively smoothly.

Sometimes it is annoying - splitting emacs frame and resizing it the same way as my tiles would be nice. Other times it is nice to be able to treat them on two separate levels. I'm not sure doing entirely away with the two level nature of that would be ideal.
Unless Apple reverses course, it absolutely is true.

They are not being pulled, but none will be able to update and will be de-listed if they don't issue an update to remove the functionality.

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForiOS/issues/445#issu...
Sure, straight from their email:

- Lack of content which is original to your site and beneficial to your visitors

- Pages that are mainly empty when advertisement content is removed

Now does any of that really matter, if the service is moving books? No. But there's no appeal process, and no one to discuss this with.

So I'm not glad it happened, but I'm glad it happened early. I've always been hesitant about affiliate programs because of the lack of control (e.g., I didn't launch with it; only integrated it after many users said they wanted it so I could devote more time to it), and now that my concerns have been verified, I know I need to be more creative.
http://www.arabicreference.com

I've always wanted a good Arabic root-based dictionary with vowelling, plurals, etc (basically Hans Wehr online). I also wanted the structured dataset for some linguistic "research".

It was a fun project - I built out a web interface for reviewing and updating entries and put in a lot of hours of manual correction (just to get all the entries to validate - I still have a lot more corrections/fixes to make...). I'm a little burnt out on it at the moment, but I plan on:

- fixing those mistakes and a few other bugs

- cleaning up the UI/display

- moving onto a "real" server framework

- writing up some blog posts about those short linguistic investigations I'd like to do now that I have the structured data

- making an API?

Notably lacking is any plan to promote it... I posted it on reddit and I'd love it if people stumble upon it and find it useful, but I did it mostly as a labor of love and something that I personally find useful!
Hello

Is this remote worldwide?
If you want a taste of MeFi politics, here's a fun one: http://www.metafilter.com/151267/Wheres-My-Cut-On-Unpaid-Emo...
I dream about the day where the U.S.'s spending on its military, and its spending on science research, are flipped.
For starters, roughly $200 mil was spent on acquisitions.
The realtors don't want stuff like this to devalue properties and make things a harder sell. Farmers and cattlemen don't want people with cameras to have an excuse to walk through their properties. Business property owners don't want the extra liability and upkeep costs associated with it. Lawyers just want to draw the fight out as long as possible since they're being paid.
Hello

What's the salary range ? Thanks
Is there a name for this rhetorical form? If X was a true Y, they would do what I say all Ys should do.
People will downvote a comment that is objectively incorrect. I wouldn't take it personally.

Enacting a coup while the king is absent from the castle is a common tactic.
Why do you need both snap and pop? I use something similar, but get by perfectly well with only one layer for all programming symbols. Seems your life would be a little easier if you didn't have to surrender another two keys for your pop modifiers.
We didn't evolve to eat sterile food products free of all possible foreign organisms and wastes. It's far from clear that it's healthy to create such conditions artificially.
Hi Craig, Timescale person here.

noir-york is correct. TimescaleDB was always an extension, never a fork. So all installations are just a `CREATE EXTENSION` and upgrades between versions just via `ALTER EXTENSION` commands.

But you're absolutely right -- way better than doing a fork!

(Say hello to Ozgun for us.)