skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth bearing in mind, whatever the process failures here may have been, that IARC is not above criticism. Their assessment of glyphosate as a human carcinogen is not well established by the literature, and was made in passing in a report (which covered tens of other herbicides and pesticides) that the WHO, their parent organization, has effectively disavowed.

The same source made hay out of Monsanto's efforts to push back against a study trying to establish a link between cancer and glyphosate. They neglect to mention that the study was Séralini's, and that it was famously criticized and eventually retracted.
Ah gotcha, thanks for letting me know.
Firefox has Reader View. That works well on mobile.
I found this: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/21/bed-of-procrus...

Does he go into detail about these in his book? Some of these are clever but did he write some substance behind these quips? Asking, not accusing.
America has always had terrible internet access, Congress long ago created monopolies for telephony and cable video and the legacy of those policies are still the problem today (two massive and completely different regulatory regimes and two industries that are totally politicized and the largest political donors).

Similarly Amtrak is a government monopoly disaster, there's no opportunity for private investment in U.S. passenger rail. Wikipedia says there are 1,500 private passenger rail companies in Germany. There are none here, outside of a handful of tourist experience lines. Our privately owned freight rail is, however, the finest in the world.
Except telcos in the USA only do the bare minimum. Anything above that will have a huge pricetag or just not be available in many areas.

So people with internet at current minimum will see their speeds lowered.
> There's actually plenty of room for that type of programmer personality

And how do you get into those jobs when even CS students still share the same culture? It goes back to the chart I mentioned:

http://www.randalolson.com/wp-content/uploads/percent-bachel...
The expat pockets around the world have their own culture going on. Suddenly you're hanging out with the embassy staff, some UN people, some interns and backpackers and other random people. I'd say it's very interesting in itself to experience and not the same as meeting people back home.
Some things will not be copied. FB will never implement a decentralised system where they can not leach on user data.
> female neuroticism

While he used the technically correct term, its use without explaining the term was definitely unwise. I explain here: http://blog.metaobject.com/2017/08/the-science-behind-manife...

> accuse other people of silencing you

Considering they fired him, not exactly a baseless accusation.
Yep, agree. My record so far is creating a bunch of crap.
Bitkeeper was proprietary software. git is not. This dependency exists with Github only if you use issues, wiki, etc. But even those are exportable with documented APIs.
Some U.S. coding boot camps stumble in a crowded field
> How hard and enjoyable is for someone like me to write not very complex native iOS/macOS app in Swift starting from scratch?

Your biggest problem won't be the language, but the 30,000 other apps uploaded to the App Store every single day.
Honestly curious, was it slow on your browser? The entire website is ridiculously fast for me.
Not sure why this guy is being downvoted. It's a valid description of what seems to be his own personal experience.
Precisely. They're just saying that the current situation doesn't warrant regulatory intervention. In most metro areas, 100Mbps is pretty readily available due to market forces rather than regulation and competition among fiber providers is pushing speeds into the 1Gbps range in many areas.
To me what was interesting was that even the CEO had to not only denounce it, but also cut his vacation short to hold a staff town-hall.

Most likely because, whether the author intended it that way or not, the memo was draft in a way that was pretty much guaranteed to push people's buttons. And when people -- particularly very smart people who have a lot more important things to do with their time -- feel their buttons being pushed, they tend to react, and get to the root of the matter very quickly.
> IMHO his best book is his first mass market one: "Fooled by Randomness". It contains all the big ideas of his subsequent books and is an east, entertaining read.

Let me second this suggestion. "Fooled by Randomness" is great and I enjoyed it a lot. I've read it multiple times. I read the "The Black Swan" once and thought it was good. I did not finish "Antifragile".
Why are all posts regarding the google memo getting flagged? This kind of censorship is getting annoying.
It should be a complete non-starter for one of the largest, and most important free software projects to be hosted on a centralized, proprietary service like Github. I can't even consider it as a serious suggestion.
I expect that the data is the same as what is found on the YouTube Artists site, which has music data for different geographic regions.

Go to https://artists.youtube.com/insights/location and click on "How is this calculated?".
It's about the hindsight from your and my perspective, today.

Think about it: in another few decades people may (or may not) look back and wonder how intellectuals could support the system we have today despite of all the bad things happening.
> On the benefits side, when you separate your data into groups this way, you can’t rely on your database to join data from different sources or provide transactions and constraints across data groups.

How is it a benefit that you are no longer able to join data in your separate tables? Is this sentence a mistake?
Is this a joke? Cut your nails with mini scissors?

These suggestions are just replacing dedicated tools with poor substitutes. You shouldn't use a less efficient tool, just because it can technically do multiple things (with more effort).

Throwing out possessions is a means to clarifying your thoughts and intentions. If you use it, then keep using it.
I'd be fascinated to learn more of the backstory here, because the story as reported so far is baffling.
>I expect that lots new Salesforce vulnerabilities will be discovered and disclosed.

Oh even worse no new vulnerability discovery and disclosure which in turn decreases the security of Saleforce products.
No, progress often relies on both those things-- people working reasonably together on ideas brought forward by people who might be deemed "unreasonable."
It doesn't cover everything, but libdispatch is available on both Darwin and Linux, with a "Swift-ified" API.
It is interesting to me that this major claim is the one that has no citations supporting it. The other references detailing multivariate distinctions in gender morphology all go to pains to point out that most univariate measures have huge amounts of overlap, and pull the distinctions out of groupings of variables.

So why did Debrah Soh neglect to provide supporting citations for the claim that societies with greater gender equity have greater gender career gaps, given that it's the one most central to supporting the Anti-Diversity Manifesto?

Is Debrah going to dispute the claim that Engineers — having to deal with people — need "soft" skills? Is she going to claim that all STEM work is necessarily playing with wheeled toys?

How does Debrah explain that "Gender equality closes the math gap[1]"?

"For science literacy, while the USA showed the largest gender difference across all OECD nations, d = .14, gender differences across OECD nations were non-significant, and a small female advantage was found in non-OECD nations, d=-.09."[2]

It's one thing to be "good at mathematics", quite another to be "a good engineer."

Nobody who participates in quota systems or diversity hiring believes that what they are doing is sustainable in the long term. The point of attempting to hire more people from under-represented portions of the populace is to counter-balance institutionalised sexism.

Debrah Soh does raise one important point: sexism doesn't come from knowledge of a subject, but what we do with that knowledge.

1: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gender-equality-closes-m...
2: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Bitcoins apparently mean something to someone. Including the exchanges that exchange them to fiat. So stop using this circular argument.
I'm aware of this, and I can respect differences attributable to different cultural norms. But firstly, I have spoken to a Finnish developer who has said that he also considers Linus more frustrating than average; secondly, acknowledging cultural differences creates a foundation for effective communication, but does not infallibly forgive any and all transgressions (context still matters); and thirdly, most other developers will not have the excuse of being Finnish, and so my suggestion to other developers to consider alternative approaches stands (i.e. blindly emulating Linus as an attempt to lead a software project makes as much sense as blindly emulating Steve Jobs in an attempt to lead a company).
And yet, so many small and large organizations choose to use Linux and git over BSD and Mercurial, 'despite' Linus' management style.
I use Edge and looks like is blocking everything w/o problems.
I wonder if he turned instead to the alt-right echo chambers.
The thing is that 5TB of company data cannot reasonably be kept in JBOD on the cheapest drives you could find on Amazon.
While your imagination may be interesting, I was asking about actual, not theoretical examples.

May I assume that you also don't know of any?
Some similar data for many different countries is displayed on the YouTube Artists site, though there doesn't appear to be an API.

https://artists.youtube.com/insights/location
That's fine, but without calling it anything it becomes a puzzle to even know what you're talking about.
Oh, I didn't remember the lead. I liked Elite Squad, but it emphasized more the "action movie" and less the "harrowing portrayal of a real social quagmire". Then again, Bus 174 is a documentary, even if it has plenty of tension, so that's to be expected.
OH MY GOD you got it on the first try ... months of frustration ended. Thank you so much.
Personally I'm a fan (and user) of gitlab since GitHub's recent policies and that GitHub takes forever to implement simple things that all users would love (like free private repos)
And yet we already see SEC taking steps to consider Bitcoins as formal investments. So yes... even the world's most powerful blah blah blah is taking notice and wants piece of the pie.
There is a difference, yes. But neither of those is what Douhat says, so why are you bringing it up?

From TFA: "Women bear children; men do not". There is no other mention of this gender difference.

Why on earth would you bring up "Women are childbearers" and this interpretation of "defining them by that role"?
Positioning matters in basically every decision in Starcraft and humans are incredibly good at precisely that.
> I am not aware of any anti-fingerprinting initiative taken up with Chromium

Brave is Chromium-based and has anti-fingerprinting tech (which it was the first to include IIRC):
https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/wiki/Fingerprinting-...

It also works on Brave for Android.
> I do think it will come to pass that Google will lose a unlawful termination lawsuit (or settle)

It'll be hard to convince anyone that it'd be viable for him to continue his work after ostracizing a sizable part of Google's workforce by implying they are undeserving of their jobs.

It could have been an attempt to start an honest discussion, but it was horrendously articulated, failed miserably to get the point across while offending a ton of people. He has shown appallingly poor judgement in his choice of format and utter disregard for the consequences of openly questioning corporate policies.
Another note on #1 (which I've also done in the past). Don't your pre-rebase commits remain in the reflog?
Not really. I think he's starting to converge on "skin in the game" as a unifying thread for much of the other work. I could be wrong, but having read FBR and TBS, I don't recall seeing it put this simply ("skin in the game") until at least Antifragile, if not later. I view it as more of a progression.

Also, the style of the books is quite different. FBR is closer to a personal essay, whereas TBS is more of a mainstream nonfiction book, and Antifragile is the most philosophical/abstract.
> These companies are never going to learn

They're not trying to learn, they already know. If you continue to think they are optimizing for your happiness you're the one who'll never learn.
Just to clarify, we are actually calling the next version of .NET Core "2.0" so that the name aligns with .NET Standard 2.0, and so their relationship is more clear.
We will find a solution. Don't worry. The point here was that once something is not anymore scarse, it loses apparent value.
What specifically did they fight over? If it can be assumed that your family is rational and reasonable, why does it sound implied that somebody felt they deserved or were owed money from your grandfather, just because they were family?
Tesla's electric semi is reportedly autonomous and can move in 'platoons'
> Suburbs of Texas

I live in (very) central Austin with my wife and kids on one income. I escaped the suburbs of my childhood, too, (and wouldn't recommend them to anyone) but I don't understand how a software engineer income doesn't support a family in an urban area between the coasts.
The difference is that we've agreed for the most part that sexual orientation should be a protected class, and being a white supremacist should not be.

It's so blindingly obvious that I have no idea why you'd ever make that argument.

Nobody cares about sidelining white supremacists.
It is not a proof. Come on! This is a complex thing - there might be many factors involved.

I don't say that nothing happened in 1980s - and your theory about video-games only moves the problem to another area, why women don't like video-games like men?
Home prices have gone WAY up, back towards pre-bubble levels. You bought at a perfect time.
> I have of course listened to plenty of new music in the past 20 years, but at this point I rarely pay attention to anything other than new releases from bands I already enjoy

What??? There is tons of interesting rock music coming out these days. 2017 has been a great (I would say possibly the best since maybe 2009) year for everything from indie pop to metal...
Ever tried to have 60fps on a tableview with constraint-based layout cells ? CALayer is definitely not legacy, it's often the only way to get smooth animation. Spring n struts is also sometimes the best way to get fast position for smooth scrolling.

Ever had to deal with Core Data migration on an app that needs to evolve throughout the year ? Migration is a mess, and so is concurrency.
My personal conclusion after having used Core Data on a pro application for 4 years, is that most of the time i really don't need a database and so i'm back to file-based backups for my app's data. Works well, no magic, and no performance or threading issue.
For a game of go the entire game state is known to each player. That's the diff. For vidya games state is hidden to the player if the player cannot 'see' it. Therefore u wrong fam.
>The PI therefore "voluntarily" decided not to publish the results. I asked her why, and she said that if she published the results she would not be likely to ever receive funding from the company again.

That just sounds awful. Why must we privatize everything?
As a trans woman in tech, who was also raised in a very gender normative environment (i.e. I was expected to conform to gender norms for boys as a child), I certainly see her point. I got into technology a child mostly because that what I could do within the environment's "boy" social role.

Fast forward a couple of decades, and relative to pretty much all cis women of the same age, I have many more years of experience of playing around with technology in my free time, and many fewer years spent doing the "empathising" activities which the author refers to in the article - exactly the kind of activities which girls are often nudged towards. As a consequence I am pretty good with technology.

And yet the more that I grow as a person, connect with who I am, and grow in my options, the more I find playing around with tech less fulfilling than e.g. spending time on relationships. I'd spend evenings tinkering with Linux when I was 13, but I'd be unsatisfied as hell doing that today. And I envy women and girls raised in environments that were more conducive towards them engaging in empathising and self-expressive activities - if that were me, it's unlikely I'd have gone down a tech track.

We need equality and freedom, but men and women are biologically different.

And it's not a coincidence that my first HN comment in years of reading is on an empathising topic, not a technology one... Women can be great engineers, we just rarely care to become them, unless circumstances unnaturally push us towards it - I suspect this is why it is developed countries which have the fewest women in tech, as wealthy people have the most options to choose from. Of course this is all generalisations and averages and there are true exceptions on both sides.
As appealing as I find the idea of building a fibre-channel network at home, the fact that people in computing (like me) routinely do these kind of things is also an aspect of a culture within the field, not an essential characteristic of the field itself. Do surgeons have watercooler conversations along the lines of, "You'll never guess what I dissected at the weekend..." ?
I don't now, but I certainly did in the beginning of my career. I was even pressured to as a junior developer-- I apparently wasn't learning the new framework fast enough and they suggested I study at home.

For the most part I work rather normal hours now-- but occasionally I branch out and build stuff in my free time. I agree that it's not necessary and I could maintain my normal job in development without it. But I've also been able to parlay my hobby coding into new positions or profitable side work. It has given me more confidence and freedom.

Plenty of my co-workers don't build things on their own time. But as such I'm much more likely to be given the more interesting and challenging projects. I also likely have better job security. There are lots of benefits to being one of the crazy ones building fiber networks in your basement.
> It baffles me that some people thinks Firefox is becoming a “Chrome clone”, it’s just not the case, it’s just plain silly to make such statement.

That's probably the single most reassuring statement about Firefox that I've heard in some time, coming from a serious dev who makes a popular cross-platform addon for both Firefox and Chrome.
> kill competition, then raise the prices

Do I really have to go over econ 101 with you? The past distro channels look to "not work" while there's a better alternative; once the latter have a monopoly - oh fuck it, just sit back and pay attention.
> In fact, if GitHub were a less popular service he wouldn't need to spend nearly as much time dealing with people who don't RTFM and submit GitHub PRs despite Linus' objections to them.

Does he even bother reading them nowadays?

If anything, I would say that if git were less popular, its developers wouldn't have to deal with constant complaints that their UI scares noobs.
I guess the question here is whether we think that the opinions in the memo are more like advocating Haskell or advocating ASP. They seem like the latter to me; if they seemed like the former, I'd agree with you. I don't think it's weird to think that there exist both rare defensible opinions and rare indefensible ones.

Note that the opinion in the memo isn't restricted to different career preferences correlated with gender (at least some of those opinions in the memo, like women wanting better work/life balance and men having rigid gender roles, are so uncontroversial that they're part of the standard feminist position too). The opinion also includes the claim of different abilities correlated with gender, because that's what's relevant to the business practices he's arguing in favor of changing, and in particular abilities relevant to qualification for engineering roles at Google. That's a much more extreme position.
Of course there's more to consider than evolutionary psychology.. No one disputes that.

What many postmodernists, especially feminists, dispute, is that evolutionary psychology has some explanatory power for human behaviour. And the reason is simple: it contradicts the narrative that systemic racism/sexism is the only possible explanation for race and gender based differences in outcomes.
Actually, you're wrong. This doesn't disprove anything, unfortunately, because there also can be a feedback effect from people preferring fields with more people of their own gender (that is for example women will prefer jobs with more women over jobs with less women, ceteris paribus). In the presence of such feedback effects, even if the ratio of men and women who intent to work in some field is the same, you will get a dynamical system where the actual ratio can vary a great deal over time.
I was, in my head, betting against you (regarding your prediction of flagging). You win, though.
The idea that you've got to be some sort of obsessive wretch with no life outside of tech in order to successfully fill a role at a tech company is nothing but a pernicious myth. So is the idea that you've got to be some ridiculous super-genius. All you have to do is be reasonably smart and capable of learning on the job.

When interviewers at tech companies mistakenly believe that every successful candidate has to be building atom smashers in their spare time, and especially when interviewers at tech companies unconsciously favor candidates that match what their 'stereotypical' candidate looks like, well, then you get a situation like the one described in the article. But this isn't natural or normal or a product of biology - it's just bias perpetuating itself.
No, they actively fought the draft for women until it became politically necessary/expedient to change their position.

And of course opposition to the draft for women was the primary reason for the defeat of the ERA.

"Experts agree that Phyllis Schlafly was a key player in the defeat. Political scientist Jane Mansbridge in her history of the ERA argues that the draft issue was the single most powerful argument used by Schlafly and the other opponents to defeat ERA.[93] She concludes, "Many people who followed the struggle over the ERA believed—rightly in my view—that the Amendment would have been ratified by 1975 or 1976 had it not been for Phyllis Schlafly's early and effective effort to organize potential opponents."[94] Legal scholar Joan C. Williams argues, "ERA was defeated when Schlafly turned it into a war among women over gender roles."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment#Opposit...

Oh, and >90% of workplace fatalities are men.
That seems like a tad bit of an overreaction on Salesforce's part. The only mismatch here was the expectation set around the availability of the tool's source? So yeah, it was clear the tool is owned by Salesforce and ultimately something like that is decided by the company, but saying you're going to "fight to have it open sourced" and advocating to have tooling you build be shared outside of your company doesn't seem like a fireable offense to me. Look at what it's done for companies like Facebook and Google.

What the hell, Salesforce? This looks bad. There's either more to the story or this is just extreme knee jerk.
The title is a bit clickbaity but it was a good read.

Edit: He's not doing this for his thesis.

However, here's his 117 page complaint he's filing with the FCC.

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10726214500114/2016-07-26-compl...