skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's strange to me that people don't recognize the disconnect within the memo itself: Basically, it starts off by saying 'Statistics of the general population don't have anything to say about individuals.' Then turns around and says 'Here's a bunch of statistics on the general population that show why there are fewer individuals in various sought after positions.'

It's like a spouse saying "I know being poor doesn't make you a bad person but here's a bunch of statistics showing otherwise which might make you change your mind about your poor friends."
I'm sure that's true, but what is the actual cap comparison between (say) Xfinity and Virgin Media? Virgin is definitely capped --- or at least, they definitely say it is.
Australians Turn in 12,500 Guns in National Amnesty’s First Weeks
Let's pretend this is a journal article, if he pointed out flaws but didn't really do much else, does he end up in the list of authors at the beginning of the paper or does he end up as a thank you at the end?

It seems in this case people like Jobs end up as first author.

The rest is irrelevant. There might be several scientists far better than me, all that matters is that I got there first. My manager could also be irrelevant as I've had technically capable managers that didn't truly do anything except put me on a project, that they hadn't known beforehand if it was even possible to do, and tell me to do it with next to zero feedback throughout the entire process.
We're going far off into a tangent but to answer your question:

- the code in question constantly produced production bugs

- the code in question was extremely hard to debug when said production bugs surfaced

- everyone complained about that code being problematic, including other more senior engineers with 300k+ salaries

- all the above problems went away and everyone was pleased when I broke it up into smaller pieces
Yes, flags have quite strong impact on ranking.
This is what really gets me and confuses me.

Google is accused of a "left wing bias" by many defenders of the manifesto and the writer himself. And yet, they don't want to turn over information that they're fairly hiring, firing and paying wages fairly?

How is being sly and secretive about your hiring practices and wage information "left wing"? Hardly seems consistent with the idea of supporting worker rights.

So how does Google (not to mention, it is a capitalist organisation) have a "left wing bias", as they say?

I see no evidence for it.
I have never ignored your requests. I would like to point out that you do have it out for several people, and very unfairly issue warnings and bans to those people while ignoring far more grievous violations of your TOS, including ones against me.

The out of context snippet you quoted is no more a violation than most other things on this site. For you to go after certain viewpoints like you do, not out of any notion of preserving civility, but to silence certain viewpoints, smacks of censorship.
You did, in fact, make the original extraordinary claim, which was that there are so few high-IQ women that their scarcity significantly explains the 82/18 gender cap in computer science. Obviously, the underlying science does not agree with this argument, and you've presented no other argument backing it up. I don't think you can legitimately retreat to "burden of proof" rebuttals.
In the Seattle area, we have many railroad corridors still there. But in the push to create light rail, they've been completely ignored, creating new right-of-ways nearby at incredible cost.

Some of them still have (unused) rusting tracks still sitting on them.

It's especially baffling as the area has horrific traffic gridlock that is expected to get much, much worse due to the city's prosperity.
Personally, I would never buy anything on Amazon with a price tag more than a couple hundred dollars. They can't even confirm what carrier they will ship through; I'm not about to trust them for high-value items.
Enjoy it while it lasts—as of Firefox 57 (November) such functionality will be dead in the water. The sidebar panel is able to be used for things like vertical tabs, but there’s nothing which would allow the browser tab bar to wrap onto multiple lines (and I don’t expect it to ever happen).

(I run Nightly and have successfully migrated all my extensions to WebExtensions alternatives with only very minor loss or change of functionality.)
Sure.

And I think what you're bringing up here is the debate I'd like to see.

I was lamenting that I'm not seeing that debate, but rather a blanket dismissal which seems disingenuous -- which I can only attribute to misguided, but well-meaning intentions.
Neither am I, but you can easily interpolate from Fx rates and from other tenors plus the liquidity informations and create synthetic instruments from others that you already own.
Everyone that trades in Fixed Income does (or should do) this.
And as I read in another comment for sure everyone has been migrating to alternative benchmark like OIS for a while to get their official risk numbers.
The "he didn't do anything wrong!" narrative is pretty misleading, to me. He very clearly did. He exploited a loophole, taking things that were very clearly not meant to go to him.

And these defenses of what that person did are doing nothing but undermining faith and credibility in these things. I don't care if you want to call what he did a hack or not a hack; at the end of the day, he exploited a loophole to take things from other people. Things that they were never intended to receive, or even be a party to. By hearing more and more of the community just shrug their shoulders and go, "oh well, he sure got us," while defending those actions, it shows that this is not a safe place to store value, or to move it. Think about it: Do you want to entrust your business's important payments to a system where it could be intercepted like that, and it's treated as if it's no big deal?
yyyea.... NO. KISS
Where do you find the phone numbers?

Do you have a sample conversation you can share with us? Seems kind of weird to cold call and ask what their problems are?
Honestly this is hair splitting.

Ultimately the point remains: there isn't sufficient market activity to build a real value for Libor so it's basically made up from whole cloth

Your nuance, while interesting if you care to dig deeply, doesn't change the conclusion. It's a distinction without a material difference.
Thanks for pointing out. I need to test responsiveness. It's just 2 days of work, so it's still WIP.
What common audio/video codecs/formats require non-free software to play?
Sheesh, Daring Fireball whips up another tempest in a teapot. If he isn't more careful, Gruber could lose his "most favored blogger" status at Apple.
Why do people persist in assuming that anyone who disagrees with their particular interpretation of the manifesto didn't read it? It's incredibly uncivil, and does nothing except try to shut down conversation.
Google, to some extent, sanitizes the web of comments they do not feel should be on the web.

I have no clue how much this is done, but the best example is Glassdoor. I've had multiple friends post their Google interview reviews, some posting multiple times and getting in (to Google that is) on their 3rd try.

Those reviews have vanished from Glassdoor (for both people not hired and also the people hired). It is the most bizarre thing, and I tried so hard to find them after being challenged once to do so because I did not believe Google would delete them.

At first I thought it was Glassdoor deleting them, but that's not the case at all. Look up reviews for Amazon Web Services, you'll see they blatantly give answers to questions, list terms, and summarize how the interview cycles go, and those are all up for anyone in the world to see.
I was on a cruise ship once where they announced they were changing course to avoid a storm (not a hurricane by any stretch). I was pretty disappointed. :-)
This article is not about the DAO hack.
I think there's a kind of 1.5 as well - Sold by Amazon, supplied by god knows who (co-mingled stock of varying authenticity - could by Amazon, could be Chinese knock off), fulfilled by Amazon.
So there's no way I can "vouch" for it to not be buried somewhere off the front page? That's too bad.

I understand the intent of the algorithm, but personally I feel these are some of the great conversations of our age being held by some very smart people and it seems like the discussions keep disappearing once they get good.
Ron Burkle is a billionaire based in LA who made most of his initial money from grocery stores (A&P). Yucaipa is his personal investing vehicle and has a fairly high profile in the relatively rarified world of private-equity-funds-that-invest-one-very-wealthy-person's-money.

That world is sort of the dark matter flip side of Venture Capital. A firm like Yucaipa doesn't need to blog or tweet -- doesn't need to market itself -- because it never needs to raise money from limited partners, and it's super flexible and agnostic about the kinds of investments it's looking for, time horizons, and how exactly it structures deals.
Happy to share some learnings - will reach out to the email in your profile. Don't want to derail the thread :)
I got hit with the same-zip-code scam for a $6000 VNA on eaby and the response was completely different. Customer service immediately shuffled me off to a special claims department that investigated and got my money back within about a week.

At no point did I encounter anything resembling the Kafkaesque web of strategic incompetence that I half expected. They followed up every step of the way with courtesy and professionalism even though the seller had woven a substantially more convincing lie than in OP's case -- they had a many year history of selling equipment and radio astronomy books along with two previous successful VNA sales. Evidently it was an account hijack. In this price bracket, even a solid account history isn't a guarantee.

I no longer resent the 10% cut eBay takes. They saved my bacon on this one. It sounds like Amazon's team could learn a thing or two from eBay.
Bing or DDG, at this point you can't go wrong, as long as it isn't google.
Deep Voice 2 – almost-human-level text to speech generated by Deep Learning AI
beeeeeeeeee-youtiful stuff. Keep doing it!
In what way did that memo make the environment 'more hostile to... his female coworkers'? I read the thing from start to finish and back again, checked the references and did not find anything which would serve to create a 'hostile environment'. Yes, he does question some of the programs at Google which discriminate against men (by refusing them access to resources solely based on their gender) but that criticism does not create a hostile environment in itself. Actual discrimination (against any group) can create a hostile environment. I do not see where he discriminates against women - or any other group for that matter.
A friend of mine was on a flight that hit turbulence and suddenly dropped a few hundred feet. People were basically panicky until some texan towards the front waved his hat in the air yelling "yee-haw", which sucked all the tension out of the air.
Why besides?
So, how do we make sure that he never tries to pull this stunt again? The level of fines the law allows doesn't seem to be doing anything.
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In the north east of England, the old railway tracks were pulled up and turned into footpaths, I use one of these to cycle into work every day.
I hear this complaint a lot, so perhaps it's inevitable that HN moderation comes across to ideologically committed users as a secret censorship of their views, and/or that it feels like we must be lying when we say it's about your conduct on the site, and/or that we have it in for you personally.

However, the people holding the opposite views say exactly the same thing (including yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14984601). And there are plenty of users arguing for the same positions as you who respect HN's rules and consequently don't get moderated or banned. So from my perspective, your posts have more in common with those from the opposite extreme (i.e. posts by users whom you would regard as your enemies) than with the majority of community members who share your views.

It's certainly true that moderation gets applied inconsistently but that's not for ideological reasons nor because our principles are inconsistent. It's because we only see a portion of the comments that get posted here (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14977025 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14977025 for more explanation).
Fascinating!

This makes me wonder: has anyone tried using machine learning to generate satellite views of a fictional map like this? It seems like something that could be done -- because we have both the ground truth satellite data from Earth, and also a good representation of Earth's roads/map data from OSM, one should be able to infer, given an input OSM map (and some other data like lat/lon or proximity to coastlines), what a plausible satellite image would look like for that map.
I agree. I took the crux of the article to be, "What's the point of smart contracts?", not "The hacker in this case didn't do anything wrong."
Actually, if you read it closely, this is not true. True, he does suggest a lot of potential actions that could create a more beneficial tech culture for women, but then he goes on to suggest that Google needs to determine if these types of changes would impact Google's productivity in a negative way.

This is a pretty heavy implication that these programs do not in fact have any value and that diversity is not valuable. I can agree that a perfect 50/50 split is unattainable and the wrong goal, but there are studies that show diversity confers an advantage. And as Yonatan points out, I think the author has a misunderstanding of what is valuable from an engineering culture perspective.
> isn't the point that some currencies and tenors are very illiquid

Yes. It's a subtlety bulldozed over in this article because nuance doesn't sell clicks like outrage. Recapitulating an earlier comment, the regulator Taibbi cites speaks competently about this [1]; the least actively-traded currency-tenor traded only about once a month. (Every other currency-tenor traded more often.)

That may be a fine frequency for 6-month wholesale interbank rates in Danish krona (which, until recent reforms, was one of the currencies Libor was quoted for [2]). But turning it into a daily rate with three decimal places of precision is silly.

[1] https://www.fca.org.uk/news/speeches/the-future-of-libor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor#Currency
The Navy's First Female SEAL Applicant Drops Out
That doesn't really address the core of my argument though, which was that poor policy for mitigating explosive population growth led to China and India have such wildly population sizes compared to other nations. To put this in perspective, the world has 7.5 billion people roughly, China and India account for 2.6 billion of that figure. I don't see a hard reason for why other nations should seriously consider per capita emissions a fair metric for designating responsibility when China and India gain such a strong advantage from that metric compared to similarly developed nations. It seems like there's very little reason why any nation besides China and India would consider that economically fair.

I appreciate your point that other nations have also experienced explosive population growth. However, it's hard to find that persuasive when the end result is two countries having over a third of the world's total population. Especially when neither of those countries are ones that you cited as having had their explosive growth before the rest of the world. It's difficult for to see that as something that happens with responsible domestic policy.
How Anime News Network Was Hacked
I agree with most all of that. But I think that the policies I see the memo criticizing are not addressing the problem, they are addressing the symptom. Also, I think there are a lot of subtleties about "which yard line people start on" that makes knowing what the best/right thing to do is hard. People born to wealth didn't steal anything from people born with less. I would hope that people born with more would care to help and lift people with less, but I am less comfortable (not necessarily against) with using authoritarian means to take away by force things from the more fortunate and give to the less fortunate.

It is a hard problem, and I think most people want the same/similar outcome. We just need to acknowledge that we don't all know the best way to get there and be able to talk about it. I think that is what the memo writer was really saying is that these are important issues with lots of things to consider - we can't afford to silence voices - especially relatively rational ones.
It's well known that gripping the armrests provides lift to the airplane - the tighter the grip, the more lift. So next time you experience turbulence, you know what to do!
The story is as old as the world. Part investors are pushing the concern to the chagrin of other part investors. The letter seems pretty reasonable: the under-signers are pursuing what they see as their self-interest in offering their "fraternal" siblings a generous exit. Nothing to see here. If anything this is good news for Uber, some of its major investors still believe in the the company.
Yes, I love having someone who's 270lbs fall into my lap while I'm holding a drink. What's not to love about that. Or smelling vomit or listening to a hysterical woman screaming or a child crying. Sounds awesome.
Yeah that will probably end my use of Firefox or I'll just "never" upgrade.
Apache BookKeeper 4.5.0 released
The ebook versions could use some editing, right now it's just a jumble of OCR'd text without much formatting or chapter headings etc...

That would be a lot of work obviously, it's fantastic that the scans are available in the first place.

A related project: http://www.pulpmags.org/index.htm
The xmas tree is great. Good stuff.
Yes, I used to work in this. "If you knew" should say "Because you knew"...

Might actually be a reason for the exchange to fuzz the expiry (eg random time) but that has its own problems. People do have to look at the options as they expire for legitimate hedging reasons.
You are absolutely right. That is literally my definition of a good time on a flight. My experience in smaller planes is rather limited, but the time I've spent on those little prop driven puddle jumpers has always been more enjoyable, as the ride does tend to be a bit bumpier.

I've also been on planes with friends who have an abject fear of flying. Throw in a dash of turbulence to a flight like that, and there is literally nothing you can do temper someone's fear of the situation (short of sedatives). Definitely not as fun.

Random aside, I went hang gliding once (tandem w/experienced pilot) and ended up going on a particularly "bumpy" day, which all the experienced pilots said with a positive attitude. Bumpy days are days with lots of updrafts and therefore more potential flight time per launch. Definitely felt like turbulence in an airplane, minus the walls and windows ;)

I've still yet to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, but it's definitely on my bucket list.
Your plan is to create a centralized list of things "good and moral people" should avoid, that only good and moral people will opt-into? That's a funny strategy for several reasons.. First - do you really want "bad guys" to have a list of all the content they shouldn't have? Might as well call it do-not-read.txt. Secondly, if the system is opt-in for "good and moral people", will that really do anything to stop the distribution of content on do-not-read.txt among "bad and immoral" group?

I'm personally glad that the fathers of the internet had better things to do than moralizing legality.
Thanks! Looking forward to that.
Ever been in an elevator in Europe?
If your facts aligned with my experience, that'd be fine.

But let me tell you a story. Once at an SF unicorn a girl said in a public slack channel "I'd feel unsafe as a woman if my manager ever said Trump isn't a sexist." She was most certainly not fired.

So it's not been my experience that politics in the workplace is the root of the issue, because I seem to see it being really enforced unidirectionally (mind you I'm on the left myself). Hell, I've worked at two places where the CEO very clearly had a strong, personal negative reaction to Trump.

The issue I think I see is the weaponizing of PC to penalize non-left opinions as "offensive/inappropriate" which I think undermines the pursuit of truth (a value I hold higher than any political affiliation)

As a thought-experiment, suppose somebody had posted a writing exactly like what Dalmore posted in tone, but had the exact opposite view. Do you think they would have been fired for bringing up politics at work? Let's be honest with ourselves here.

[Note these two issues keep getting conflated. It may be that sexism exists, as well as asymmetrical regulations on how political speech is punished at work. ]
It seems like it's assuming that you're starting on the freeway already... totally ignoring the 30+ minutes it takes to get onto I-5
No, it's how I and more than a dozen other people I talked to who read the memo, from front to back, in great detail, all interpreted it.

That's the thing about words: if you're not precise, they can be interpreted differently from how you intended them.
This is so cool. Even the cover art is awesome!
It's quite possible that Russian companies will not care about DMCA, but that's not to say Russia doesn't have their own copyright law, which includes a notice and takedown protocol. It's just a question of how much effort you want to go through to take something down.
It seems we have some mismatch between the abstraction layer where we want to talk about cryptocurrencies and how their actual implementation goes.

IMHO, we are venturing to the domain of lawyers; most people are not just going to be saying computer code == what-we-agreed-here because most people are just normal people and they couldn't care about computer code. And let's face it, cryptos are already full of normal people, it's not for the early nerds anymore.

However, always keep in mind that cryptos are not regulated, they are not always too compatible with current regulation regarding normal money and they are extremely valuable when considering the fact that they are not regulated.
Journalism in general seems to be seeing a higher and higher price for entry, especially where 'formal' training is concerned. First you've got stuff like this, then you've got to somehow afford an intership or something in one of the most expensive cities in the world, then you're being paid little enough that actually being able to afford to live near your workplace is probably near impossible.

Add the (also rather ludicrous) prices for journalism related conferences and events and it seems you've got a field where the 'professional' route to entry is only open for rich kids, not the population as a whole.
Thanks for the response. Is this behavior something defined in the spec? Or is it just what Gecko does, and is being carried over to Servo?