skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article!

One note. Under point 4:

"It is striking to me that the manifesto author repeatedly lists race alongside gender when listing programs and preferences he thinks should be done away with, but, unlike gender, he never purports to have any scientific backing for this. The omission is telling. Would defenders of the memo still be comfortable if the author had casually summarized race and IQ studies to argue that purported biological differences — not discrimination or unequal access to education — explained Google’s shortage of African-American programmers?"

I reacted to the one mention of IQ in the memo, which seems extremely suspect:

"Just as some on the Right deny science that runs counter to the “God > humans > environment” hierarchy (e.g., evolution and climate change) the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ and sex differences)"
UBI isn't a lefty idea at all actually. It's probably most popular with right-leaning Libertarians.
From Admiral's responding blogpost:

> 5. We asked them 24 days ago to remove functionalclam[.]com on the original commit.

> Transparent engagement between publishers and visitors is a critical piece of that.

Umm, no? Admiral created an account that they hoped would be mistaken as an official github bot or something. And then, instead of asking, they threatened disruption of the repository.

So, in summary, they:

* Tried to hide their identity
* Tried to trick people into thinking they were Github
* Threatened, not asked, to remove the site from the list

Look, I'm okay with them wanting to remove a server that helps inform users that they'd like to show ads on their customers sites. At the very least, though, be honest about it.

Also, bless the EFF, man. Heading over there to donate right now.
I don't have time to reply to this with the level of detail required, but I'll just say that you underestimate the level of tech needed to deploy a mirror this good, and you overestimate how much we understand the instrument design issues. That is, we don't know what to build.

The trade studies are highly complex (how big the aperture is, how long the mission is, how much propellant is needed to slew the spacecraft, what the yield will be in terms of number of spectral characterizations, whether you need an external star shade). The star shade, if needed, would be a separate spacecraft.

General comparisons to "how fast technology moves in the valley" are not specific enough to benchmark what's needed for this rather unique mission.
What was that saying about design again. That it is done not when nothing more can be added, but when nothing more can be taken away?
As I understand it (and I could be wrong), next year's budget uses last years budget as a baseline. If you spent $20K less on school books for example, you'd probably get $20K less for books next year. If instead you spent the same, but got 20% more books for the same money, that might work.

There is also this practice in organizations where money is allocated in "pots"[1]. For example, there is probably a pot for hardware/computers and a different pot for software. If you save them money on hardware, they don't automatically get to spend the savings on software.

(I thought you were unfairly down-voted so I up-voted you.)

[1] The correct term escapes me at the moment.
Based on my electricity costs it looked like it should be a little over 8 cents an hour for a ~$500 GPU, but I could've had something wrong there.
Yes I believe so. They employ hundreds of the top journalists in the country who sincerely want to do a good job. They are like the Google of the journalism world in that the very best journalists want to work there. I'm sure some bias creeps in but for the most part they will try harder than most other organizations to play it straight.
"Freelance" in the sense that she's written 383 articles for The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/juliebindel
Danish rocket and submarine builder charged with murder after submarine sinks
I often fall back to Google as well, but I love that 80% of my questions/searches never touch Google. DDG is well worth it for me.
Yep, not legacy, but "not compatible with multiprocess" is what it should show for offending addons.
You said "his point was poorly delivered precisely because it leaves open such radical room for misrepresenting it," and then contrasted how "mobs of liberals" are reading it with "MRA/goreans." Maybe I'm misinterpreting you, but your original post was explicitly about irrational misinterpretations.

If you want to talk about how the memo was poorly written, talk about how the memo was poorly written. The readings of others certainly can supplement your analysis, but you haven't provided that analysis.

The memo begins with it's intent, and even has a TLDR after the opening three paragraphs.

Also, while the memo was mostly trying to assess the current state and factors of the gender imbalance in tech and Google particularly, it does provide several, literal, conclusions. Here are just a few:

>We can make software engineering more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration.

>Women on average are more cooperative [...] Allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive. Recent updates to Perf may be doing this to an extent, but maybe there's more we can do.

>Make tech and leadership less stressful. Google already partly does this with its many stress reduction courses and benefits.

If you actually read the memo, and have actual problems with what was actually written, then talk about that. There's certainly plenty to discuss and to rationally disagree about, but you have yet to say anything substantial about the thing you're criticizing.
That's a cool trick. Thank you.
The point of these policies isn't to make things look good in a picture but to reduce the effect of existing biases in hiring woman. And to give people a chance after some questionable history. Diversity of thought is an admirable thing and can often be amplified when people from different backgrounds and perspectives gather.
Ah, the mythical budget vector.
Regarding British in India, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_I..., there are estimates of 20-50 million people died to famines which happened because of British looting.

And from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/india-britain-...,

In 1600, when the East India Company was established, Britain was producing just 1.8% of the world’s GDP, while India was generating some 23% (27% by 1700). By 1940, after nearly two centuries of the Raj, Britain accounted for nearly 10% of world GDP, while India had been reduced to a poor “third-world” country, destitute and starving, a global poster child of poverty and famine. The British left a society with 16% literacy, a life expectancy of 27, practically no domestic industry and over 90% living below what today we would call the poverty line.

Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4
Missing Cosmos? There Are Parts of Our Solar System We've yet to Discover
This is precisely the pattern of past winters. The technical achievements don't go anywhere. But the hype dwindles, and funding and public interest accordingly, as disappointment and skepticism grows. It doesn't permanently stop progress, just as a burst economic bubble doesn't necessarily kill an economy. Just dramatically slows it, at great cost.
There is an international system of finance, banking, and money. There are rules: If some person, company, or country doesn't play by the rules, then they are not in the system, and that means that they are limited to at most very small things.

We know a lot about this system because it got a lot stronger trying to stop the money flows for terrorism, drugs, and tax evasion.

Well, for the "regulations", one can be that the system will not exchange with crypto and will not work with people who do. There are already, call it reviews, of any relatively large transactions. If something smells like drug money, terrorism, large scale tax evasion, etc., then law enforcement can get involved, crash into a house or office a 3 AM, grab all the papers and computers, grab phone tap data, grab Internet traffic data, etc. and put together a case of violation of crypto laws and regulations.

There's a fundamental point here: Sure, on a small scale, the regulations are tough to enforce, e.g., cost more to enforce than get from the enforcement. BUT the fundamental point is, for any illegal activity to make or spend much money, a LOT of people need to know about it and, then, sure, law enforcement also knows about it and can take action.
Morally, advertisers know what they're doing, too.
The right abstraction means it has to be changed in one place. The wrong abstraction means the change cuts across abstraction boundries, which means changes all over the place, or having to de-abstract and duplicate before making the change anyways. Of that happens frequently, it is a smell that you are abstracting too early and thus building bad abstractions.
TL;DR Code at https://github.com/719Ben/chrome-spyware
I think he's wrong with Step 2, but the beginning of the talk is fine.
Ah, fair enough. As a matter of curiosity, OpenSSH did start an implementation of J-PAKE, but it was abandoned before ever becoming stable :|
I am making the same decision right now. Unfortunately Stripe is not an option because they don't support Poland :(
Linux adds TCP BBR congestion control (2016)
This looks promising. I've been annoyed by "Bufferbloat" for over a decade and find different solutions to the problem pretty fascinating.

The nice part about this solution is that it doesn't require making changes to the individual nodes on the network (e.g. cable modem) in the way that other solutions have required (small and fair queues). In fact, it only requires changes on the sender (client) side.

It also appears to be able to avoid the usual packet-drops of regular TCP congestion control.
I also like that I'm indicating to DDG that I'm unhappy with my search results. They get a clear feedback model of what I can, and cannot find.

I imagine that is very helpful to developers.
You just need different relative reproduction rates or different levels of assortative mating. For example, the Khmer Rouge may have affected Cambodia's IQ distribution (negatively) but Cambodians don't now have "biological differences" per se.
It's less about facts, and more about presenting facts without the context of what is personal interpretation vs broader group interpretations.

Some have argued that treating others as individuals is what's already happening, resulting in people hiring people like them?

Damore spoke more about gender, than skin color as well. This part of the conversation isn't getting enough review too.

Diversity isn't just gender diversity. Gender diversity may just be the diversity that the majority can relate to.

With that being said, Many types of diversity require many types of approaches.

The lean startup conference has some laudable dialogue and track record hurling themselves into all sorts of diversity innovation discomfort: https://hbr.org/2014/01/theres-no-excuse-for-all-white-male-...
NOAA climate report: Hottest year, other records – CNN
Here's one of their problems: Check out their advertising page (https://advertising.soundcloud.com/). You have to contact them if you want to advertise on their platform. You ought to be able to upload your 15-second ad, provide your credit card info, and starting running advertisements... $$$
It's because nowadays people live in bubbles. They interact mostly with people who think and behave alike, and for some people using this kind of language has become so natural they'd be offended to hear you have an issue with it.
That is not the takeaway I am getting from reading the whole piece. Cynthia Lee does a fantastic job digging into the content of that memo.
Google is in the process of allowing some adblocking in Android Chrome.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/report-google-will-a...
Is there a blocklist that contains domains like this? Would want to add that into rotation.
Helping 4-H equip students with skills they’ll need for the future
Well, I guess because it's not off topic?

Here's what happened on this thread (all paraphrased):

1. "This firing was so dumb that it's going to drive lots of people into the arms of the alt-right".

2. "That's useful for the left because it allows them to call people Nazis without invoking Godwin's law".

3. "That's not what Godwin's law says, and regardless, the Nazi/alt-right comparison isn't frivolous.

And here we are.

My stake in this discussion isn't about Damore, who, for the third time, I don't believe is an alt-right figure (much as the alt-right would love to claim him as one). Rather, it's in challenging the trope that some accusations --- racism, Naziism, maybe communism? --- are so outré that they can't be made. That creates a safe space for people to actually be Nazis.
NASA supercomputer simulation reveals ocean current motion – Daily Mail Online
Nothing can beat Excel for checking initial financial assumptions
Gou's Coup
> Why are those 15 considered a "false negative"?

My understanding is that if you take positive as being offered a position and negative as being denied a position, and true or false as whether that was a correct decision then you have:

True Positive - Someone who was offered a position (positive) and who was suited for the position (the positive assessment turned out true).

True Negative - Someone who was not offered a position (negative) because they were not suited to for it (the negative assessment turned out true).

False Positive - Someone who was offered a position (positive), but who was not suited for the position (the positive assessment turned out false).

False Negative - Someone who was not offered a position (negative), but who would have been suited to the position (the negative assessment was false).

So those 15 are considered false negatives because they were not offered a position despite being qualified for it - e.g. perhaps there were only a limited number of positions, and the cut had to be made somewhere.

> isn't the real-life result the same?

Not quite. Increasing false positives is saying those people were given offers but they were not qualified for the job. Decreasing false negatives is saying they were qualified for the job and were picked ahead of other also qualified candidates.

> That doesn't imply that at least a few women lucked out for being women, and not because of merit?

When put like that, then relative to other applicants in the cohort yes, but not because they lack the merit to work at Google - and the latter is what many people were claiming he had stated, and what I was trying to refute.

I can see how the former could also upset people, but if the claims he makes about priority queues for diversity hires, and reconsidering sets of candidates if they are not diverse enough (but not the other way around) are true, then it's not so much that he's claiming people are unqualified, rather he's pointing out a mathematical consequence of those hiring decisions. Insensitive? Perhaps, but to the level worthy of all the internet drama it has caused and to the level of being fired in such a public fashion? I'm not so sure, especially considering many people seem to have misinterpreted what he was saying - both in this and his other statements.
Deploying Elixir with Docker Part 1
got it, thanks.
Request: someone please make a code-hosting site that's only accessible via TOR.
Your Node.js authentication tutorial is (probably) wrong
I like that it's Debian/Ubuntu based so I can follow instructions for almost anything on the internet. For example, the other day I was looking into VPN solutions and ended up going with IPVanish (I may try out a different one next month)... good luck finding OpenSuse instructions. It's just Ubuntu and if you're lucky, there's an RPM for Fedora/CentOS.

I like Cinnamon. Going forward with GTK3 but not with Gnome3. Nice easy to use interface.
The OP assimilates raw aesthetics with neglecting design.

Brutalism is as careful as design can be, only with as little aesthetic tricks as possible.
How many bad situations have been prevented though? I've seen many situations where someone did try to remove something pointless that really wasn't pointless.
Language is a funny abstraction to describe these, or any, types of experiences :P But basically what maxxxxx said, one can aim to be equanimous and yet also be committed emotionally. It would be challenging (impossible?) to cultivate equanimity while also not cultivating compassion since one is trying to find peace with whatever they're dealing with.

I had an opportunity to attend a talk where a meditation teacher described his experience dealing with cancer. Prior to being diagnosed he said he had a mindfulness practice outside of formal practice where he would set the intention to be aware of mild discomfort throughout the day and try not to react to it immediately. He provided an example of becoming aware of an itch. Instead of reaching for it and scratching he would try to bring heightened attention to the sensations, discern their qualities (if they were manifesting over a large surface area or small, increasing in intensity or fading, etc.), and try to entertain mind states that had a "if this was going to be my experience for the rest of my life would I be able to make peace with it?" quality. After three breath cycles if the sensation persisted and if he wasn't able to let it just be then he would mindfully scratch an itch. He claimed that working this way, with trivial things like itches or mild joint pain, provided a reservoir of equanimity that he was able to draw from when experiencing chemotherapy and the rest.
Cryptocurrencies may be decentralized, but their key people are not.

Take ICOs, for example. If ICOs continue on their current path - selling tokens to U.S. citizens that pass the Howey Test [1] - the feds will crack down on the largest and most flagrant violators faster than you can say "Ron Paul 2020"

And, it doesn't matter that these ICOs ban U.S. IP addresses from participating, either. From what I've read, the burden is on those selling the security to verify who they're selling it to.

[1] http://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howey...
"Plastics!"
Well. It's one thing when we think that about ourselves, another thing when we think or say that about others.
Kind of a YouTube model? Is this not currently possible on SoundCloud? (I don’t actually know...)

The problem is how to pay for the commercial licenses for all the songs free users listen to, or that you listen to but don’t support, in addition to their overhead. YouTube eventually figured this out, but it took them a long time and they had the benefit of being part of Google (cash, talent, existing ad network & tech, huge audience, etc). SoundCloud at least has the benefit of hosting audio instead of video, so their bandwidth and storage costs are far lower.
Industry 4.0 and the rise of intelligent manufacturing. A marriage of 3D printing, AI, and IoT technology will change what consumers can order and how quickly it arrives to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_4.0
That's very interesting. Thank you. I had heard the term majority-minority before (around an election cycle, I'm sure) but had never given it much of a read or consideration. I don't have much time to digest the article right now but hope to return to it this evening.
After you delete the div, go to the body tag and delete the relevant class, or add style="overflow: auto !important;" to the body tag.
The unfortunate truth is that there are mostly only much more authoritarian countries to fill any leadership void left by the US. As flawed as it is, and as flawed as Trump is, European countries can only step up so much to keep liberal democratic societies as the global ideal.
Is Adblock Plus Violating the DMCA? (2016)
Adventure Capital
If more sites looked like this we probably wouldn't need amp.
I'm not, the filer of the DMCA is. How else could just a uri being on a page cause a DMCA takedown of a page? That's what happened...they filed a DMCA because the text "http://whatever" was on a github page. Which sounds a lot like meaning trademark, but saying copyright.

That's why I don't consider this underhanded. As you mention, it's not copyrighted in the first place. Obscuring it is just closing the loophole that's being exploited.

I'm not talking about obscuring long passages of copyrighted text. Just obscuring one plaintext url that's on a page with others.
> I once had a co-worker develop the backend to a web CGI in bash

I did that once with Fortran 77 on Linux back in the 90's, but just as a joke. IIRC, there were some issues, like you could never suppress all of the console output it produced or something. In general, though, I think it's good to still have a lowbrow CGI option if you just want to throw something together.
E-Sports Are Being Considered for the 2024 Olympics – MIT Technology Review
North Korea: The View from Guam
What do you mean by insect level here?
That's a feature and reason for using smaller libruaries because if you only need some pieces why include everything.

I find full frameworks like bootstrap or quasar to be nicer to deal with.
>...went through a few generations before other organisms evolved to feed on their carcasses,

You might be understating the time frame here a little bit. Most estimates I have read said it took about 60 million years before evolved the ability to break down lignin.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mushroom-evolutio...
> * In the same spirit, a repository name that begins with a dash "-" is also forbidden now.

This will negatively affect https://github.com/nasser/---
IPFS dev here. We are quite close to having git being hosted directly on IPFS/IPLD. Things like pushing and cloning work. Example workflow:

git push ipld::
<prints out CID of that commit which has 1:1 mapping to hash of the commit>
git pull ipld::$CID
<or>
git clone ipld::$CID

Important fact is: the git objects are stored in native git format. Hashes are the same, but are pretended with CID header (content identifier) which tells IPFS how to understand links and content of this object.

We plan to work on remotes in close future. There is one more issue where our measure of DoS protection causes that repos with files bigger than 1MiB+ (or 2MiB, I can't recall) can't be fetched. It will be a bit harder to fix but I know we can do it.
Oh this is one of those moments where Patio11 would say "phone support is available on our enterprise plan" then charge enterprises many times the same cost on a normal plan.
Yep. That why I wouldn't teach meditation in a corporate setting. It's just window dressing without any real intent of making people's lives better.
So, if blocking domains is illegal, what happens to Parental Controls? Or Open DNS?

I sincerely hope Admiral gets smacked hard for this.