skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Total war, if you reduce the US population from 300 million to 10 million we are a vastly smaller threat mid term. Consider, if you removed everything but 1,000,000 infantry they would need to go make food, bullets, boats etc. On the other hand if you have 100 million civilians they can quickly train a few % how to shoot and will be very angry while producing a surplus to keep a war going.

The general assumption is an ICBMs counter attack happens when your attack is in the air. So, you would mostly be hitting empty silos thus your country has little military or economic strength left. Worse, it's much cheaper to fake some silos in the middle of nowhere than a suburb. 'Wasting' nukes on corn fields is very costly.
Agree, i wonder why this has so many upvotes...

Anyway, for a better VPN comparison with actual objective facts, check https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/ and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L72gHJ5bTq0Djljz0P-N...
I wonder if the apartment-dwellers around central park are similarly despondent about their worst-of-all-worlds habitat.
As somebody who uses a lot of NVMe storage it is nice to see expanded PCIe lane options. I can really a put one more drive into my current Intel box.

NVMe SSD drives feel like the only _large_ performance change this decade.
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Intel 7900X with an X299 board can do that too, with UEFI-level RAID on top of that (might be important for Windows users, not important at all for Linux users).
Personality tests are bogus. You can have completely different results on different days based on your mood, what you've read recently, etc. They should just go ahead and use psychics. It's probably just as good at predicting who is going to work out for them.
Jesus christ...
Some Apple Park Employees Said to Be Dissatisfied with Open Office Design
Typically it seems to poll window height/width vars in js.
https://github.com/sindresorhus/devtools-detect

Another variant: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7798748/find-out-whether...
In that those rulings by the district court dismissed Akin's claims that his rights were violated by police retaliating for his filming.
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> current hiring policies

And he made it clear that he didn't think they were producing "false positives", so every woman hired was qualified.

> There are so many potential sources of preference

Yes. Biology is one.

> gender stereotypes

http://www.spsp.org/blog/stereotype-accuracy-response

[Stereotype Accuracy Is One Of The Largest And Most Replicable Effects In All Of Social Psychology]

> [verbal/math scores correlate for women] Sources

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh...

> the only way you're going to be competitive

> and not drag down the standard of my organization

> is by pairing up with another person

Huh??? Where did you get that from? Pleaaze.
> Shenzen

*Shenzhen
Yep. The "oracle problem" is the crippling flaw (the main crippling flaw amongst a pile of others) in smart contracts.

As Matt Levine from Bloomberg put it:"My immutable unforgeable cryptographically secure blockchain record proving that I have 10,000 pounds of aluminum in a warehouse is not much use to a bank if I then smuggle the aluminum out of the warehouse through the back door."

Technology and business journalists writing about non-
cryptocurrency use cases for smart contracts never seem to mention that their "trustless" system will still involve trusting humans wherever it touches the physical world. You may have a tamperproof system for running contract code, but the inputs have to come from outside this secure space.
I really want to move but my money is stuck in CoinBase :(
Statistically, a lot of items from the test could be very highly correlated with demographics.

And it doesn't have to be intentional. Goldman MD with yacht and golf club membership signs off on test that selects for people like him. "Hey, I like me, and I succeeded here, right?"
Influential though he may be, Stockhausen still comes across as a self-aggrandizing asshole:

> I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work Song Of The Youth, which is electronic music, and a young boy’s voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it were varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations.

Reich, Glass et al. might disagree.

And course the reply:

> "I thought he should listen to a couple of tracks of mine: 'Didgeridoo,' then he'd stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to".

For what it's worth, any student of "classical" (highbrow, not limited to Classical period) music will have concepts such as ostinato, fugue, motif, theme/variation, Don't Rush, etc. drilled into them. Periodicity is what differentiates music from noise and a tension between periodicity and aperiodicity is one criterion that separates good music from bad.
Oh I see, I didn't realize that difference. Well if they can build 2CPU Epyc CPUs for 150% of the price, I'll stay hoping they'll do the same for Threadrippers :) Although at that point you're right, the price would be the same as a single Epyc (1k * 1.5 * 2).
What language is this?

I can barely understand what point you are trying to make; why don't you just come out and say it?
Something that really bothers me about the DDG interface is how it hijacks the up/down arrow keys I use for scrolling. After searching, press down, and the page won't scroll down, it'll just highlight the first search result. Keep pressing down, and the page still won't scroll until the last visible result is highlighted. Press down one more time, and the page scrolls erratically, highlighting the next result in the center of the window. At this point, pressing up/down will scroll exactly as far as needed to keep the prev/next result highlighted in the center.

I find this very annoying. After years (decades!) of training, my eyes know exactly how far one keypress should scroll. Stop messing with the default scrolling mechanism!
Has local access plus has a weak master password.
> Have you read the memo? By saying "stop saying that women are worse at coding" you are putting words in his mouth, as the memo states a very, very different thing i.e. that women are less likely to choose coding for various reasons, including biological ones. There's a world of difference between these two arguments.

I wasn't replying to the memo, I was replying to bluecalm, and bluecalm said this:

> Now I say: women are in general less likely to be interested in tech and less likely to become good programmers because they are, on average, less competitive and less likely to devote themselves to solitude practice which is often necessary to become a very good coder.

Note "less likely to become good programmers". I feel pretty comfortable with my response given that.

> and expressing all kinds of possible viewpoints should be facilitated.

I disagree. Many kinds of possible viewpoints construct hostile work environments, and should be forbidden. It is simply not necessary to allow a workplace to tolerate all views. We don't allow people to cover their cube in swastikas, walk around greeting all their colleagues with "heil hitler", and to push for the dismissal of all their Jewish colleagues in an attempt to reduce the influence of the hidden Jewish conspiracy running the world.

If Mr Google had wanted to write this on his personal blog I wouldn't have cared at all. But he didn't do that: he wrote it at work, in his professional capacity, and posted it for his co-workers to see. Guess what: speech at work is something that can get you fired. See Colin Kaepernick for evidence.
I think it's coming. Part of the String Manifesto Apple has is that they want to give both worlds.
Citation needed that software industries are dominated by proprietary offerings? It's very hard to measure when there are so few public open source companies.

How many open source companies are there? By open source company I mean companies whose each software product is open source. How many are public companies? Maybe, even just compare those to companies who's products are "open core", which seems to include most (all?) of the open source SaaS offerings.

Or look just at the largest public software companies and estimate their commoditization through open source and community participation through open source.
Isn't this being selected for already guised under "culture fit?"
Intel will most likely have no advantage in usable performance on the The 12, 14, 16, and, 18 chips they use too much power and run way to hot so they will need lower clocks. The Ryzen 1950X will most likely clock around 4 Ghz on air on all cores, The 12, 14, 16, and, 18 core intel chips, will need a custom loop, or really low clocks, intel like's to do fuckery and, the only way i can see them making the The 12, 14, 16, and, 18 chips have good performance is too turbo up 4 or 6 cores for gaming etc.
>Who's going to quit their job over parking?

Maybe not over just parking but because it's really inconvenient/expensive to go into the office--and you need to do so on a daily basis--absolutely. Which not being able to easily park at any time can be a component of.
> npm link is weird right now

This has been broken for almost 2 years now.

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10343

It's unacceptable that the NPM team is moving so fast without looking back considering so many projects depend on it.
Cool. Is much tweaking needed to get it to work smoothly?
There will always be outliers, but people with the same personality tend to have the same background/experiences. If you're using a test to determine the type of personality you want, don't be surprised if you get a lot of "similar" people.
What? A brand name which is just a word meaning "IBM Enterprise Products and Services" doesn't really live up to the marketing hype? I can't imagine such a thing.
I got excited and thought at first glance this was referencing the film about Arthur Rimbaud before I saw the date. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Eclipse_(film))

Confusion aside, I'll definitely give this a read!
The language is English. The point is pretty clear. Why don't you elaborate on what you're confused by?
This is absolutely not true, all such apps are still live.
For what do you lack evidence? The value of diversity, the value of programs designed to increase diversity, or the value of the specific programs at Google?
>Does anyone with high performance requirements writes JS? Isn't that setting yourself up for failure on the first step?

You assume that "high performance" is the only requirement, so that it dictates everything.

People also have other requirements like "it has to run on a browser/on the web" etc AND high performance.

It's not like HPC people suddenly rush to use JS. But there are people targeting the web/node etc that DO want as high performance as they can get away with (e.g. web games).
> Side question: does anyone know of a SSH "loadbalancer", working like HTTPS SNI so that multiple domains can have ssh on the same IP and port?

I think the term you're looking for is "bastion host" or "jump host". Basically you SSH into the bastion server and then run another SSH command to get to the destination server; newer versions of the SSH client apparently support a -J option to do this automatically.
There's a book called Superintelligence that answers this question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...
> Given that Threadripper is a consumer focused product – and interestingly, not really a workstation focused product

Huh. Will AMD workstations be built around similar Epyc products, then? But those would have worse power consumption, right? (4 dies versus 2)
Title (disappointingly) suggests they have evidence that the Nazca did use hot air balloons. No such evidence is presented. This describes the creation of a proof-of-concept hot air balloon using period technology. That’s neat, but it’s pretty different from finding historical evidence.
I remember a time where AMD and ATI were not one company and the latter was always head-to-head with NVidia. At which point did mediocrity spread from AMD?
"Thought Police" is alt-right for "Nazi"
WindowMaker was released in 1997. GnuStep in 1998 (yes, it had been announced years earlier). While it may have been the author's intent all along to support GNUStep, the reason why it doesn't rely on any GNUStep libraries is that they didn't exist at the time.
Wait, how are you doing Skype?
Nothing except of it being messy and you ending up with two problems (to paraphrase JWZ).
I've been here at Articulate for 5 years and prior to that I worked at several butts-in-seats companies. I hated working at those places where my value was measured by the amount of time spent in the office or with co-workers. This is not that kind of company. Sure I have folded laundry and done other low brain power tasks while thinking through a tough problem before. Putting my hands on auto pilot helps me find creative solutions to problems. That works for me. May not work for everyone. What excites me about working here is the freedom and autonomy I have to get shit done and the opportunity to work with a stellar group of humans to build something great. I have never felt like my butt had to be in a seat while working here. Not once. My time is my own and I'm responsible for making things happen. That's it.
> But when you start wading into the, 'Women are biologically less well-suited for this work...' is where you get into problems.

But women ARE biologically less suited for certain types of work. Women, for instance, are weaker than men (yes, there are exceptions. . .). Which would make them less efficient for, say, construction work.

From what I understand, the guy used scientifically valid sources to make his claim. I'm not saying that what he's saying is true, but it's sourced well enough for it should be discussed without him getting fired.
Did you read that story to the end? There’s a bunch of editorializing not backed up by the actual details.

Who do you think knew more about compensation at Apple, Steve Jobs, or the random employee? Or perhaps your argument is Steve Jobs was just lying?
> But the one that really keeps me on Firefox is Vimperator. It's the best keyboard oriented browser UI in mainstream browsers. The extensions available for Chrome are nowhere near as good (last time I tried).

Did you ever use vimium on chrome? It's part of what keeps me on Chrome, I remember I had a quick glance at Vimperator a fair while ago, but switched back to chrome as it was what I was used to. I keep wondering about trying again.

Can you talk about the trade-offs between them?
Heavily promoted by the Ethereum Foundation principals, and by, oh look, Stephen Tual of slock.it. It's an idea that's been around a long time in the airy-fairy world of smart contract hypothesising.
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all engines except Safari's JavaScriptCore seem to have decided that implicit tailcalls optimization wasn't a good idea after all and as far I can see are not planning to enable it.
That's assuming you ONLY need performance.

How about you needing performance AND web compatibility?
It is exactly the same as what App Annie does with VPN Defender.
It's clearly not true. Hiring a Slavic man would, in abstract, be an increase in diversity in a lot of shops. They're likely Caucasian, though. One response is that it's important to officially value historically disadvantaged groups, but many Slavic groups are historically disadvantaged.

So, in a weird way, diversity initiatives come from a very ethnocentric (American) perspective.
I'm not really pushing any specific notion of genius, but was challenging the
claim that B. would be making techno today.

I agree, "there's got to be something convincing", but it's unlikely to
be musical. Most musicians who have a hit at all have but one hit, and
then fade away. Most of the few musicians who persist (eg Rolling
Stones) have a massive and well-capitalised marketing department
behind them. To a pretty good approximation no
musician without major backing (which is expensive) has ever been
widely and/or long-term successful. To understand the nature of hits,
you need to understand the music industry.

Coincidentally, the music
industry follows the SV VC model: fund 100, expect 99 to fail and the
one unicorn who makes it big recoups (more than) the cost of the 99
failures.
Just recently I was pondering exactly what kind of information classification schemes give you. I ran around in Gödelian circles until I gave up.
That is indeed another perspective, yet not that different after all, if we'd look at what programming _is_. At its core, it is problem solving and mashing keys on the keyboard.

I don't think that keyboard part is really meaningful to anyone who claims to love programming, so it must be problem solving coupled with complex interactions between abstract idea how to solve it with concrete pecularities of programming languages, platforms, libraries, etc. The second part doesn't go anywhere whether you solve problems for Business Folks or scratch your own itch.

That means that difference between the perspectives is only who's supplying the problems. That reminds me of another distinction, namely, the one between painters and commercial illustrators (not sure if that is proper nomenclature). The path of Painter is hard and lonely, most of the painters we know today did some kind of commercial work or lived off 'grants' from philantropists. Or you can earn your paycheck doing something else and program as a hobbyist, for its own sake. I think that this is also valid programming 'culture' that exists somewhat under the radars of 'tech industry'.
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The irony is that all the things you argue against him for, his small worldview, not willing to come to his senses, are what you are doing yourself.

You are kicking and screaming against anything that upsets your viewpoint on this issue.

And we actually agree on the most important facet (as do most people) that any discrimination based on age, gender, or race is absolutely not tolerated.

But how to achieve this in the real world is not a walk in the park. For example, positive discrimination is not a fair system in my opinion. I would think focusing on making the interview process blind is better. So can we argue on these specifics or am I just a bully and a bigot for holding a different opinion?
In the LinusTechTips review he mentioned only top 5% dies go into Threadripper. So if it's related to quality of Ryzen, then that might make sense. I'd be surprised if Threadripper isn't plagued by this bug, though.
Pair Programming is not a technique to improve social contact in software. It's a technique to improve product reliability and give more practical mentorship opportunities.

We might argue James says women are asking for good mentorship opportunities herr. So why do women benefit from this specifically (and that's okay) but other mentorship program are considered unfair in this rubric?

You say "we need pair programming" when reliability is difficult to gaurantee. Not because you're feeling lonely. It seems an awful lot like he's suggesting that women are especially in need of experienced minders.
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"Capacitive touch steering wheel"

So what features are out of reach when one dons their driving gloves
For advanced users (and those who want to become regex gurus), the most helpful regex site for me is http://www.rexegg.com/. Also the O'Reilly book "Mastering Regular Expressions" is probably worth gold.
I get that it's a catchy title and all, but give the airlines a chance here. This seems like a genuine attempt to provide better customer service and we should applaud companies for actually bothering to try.
Indeed, to focus on certain industries to force "diversity" and to ignore the many, many others that you mentioned that are even less diverse seems wildly hypocritical to me. Why are certain industries cherry picked to be obsessed over and others ignored? If they're going to demand equal representation of skin color and gender across professions, they should be consistent about it.
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Could you elaborate a bit? I'm not affiliated with IBM or anything, just curious what you were looking for and what was missing.
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To be honest, that sounds awesome! I'd love to be able to see and hear supercars without even having to leave my house...
That's a fantastic! I don't mean to insult, but the likelihood of the software being shared freely by a user increases with success. Your situation is an exception. And likely contributing factors are the specific field and sophisticated, like minded customers.
Automattic. But it's remote, you have to supply your own office. They contribute $250 toward co-working space.
>Please don't attempt to tell me that I know my argument is bad.

I didn't attempt to tell you that, I did tell you that.
Elon Musk firing his assistant is a good career and salary lesson
What? He is an engineer, not a social scientist. He lacks the qualifications to perform such a study. Why would Google pay him to do that?

Further, his job was to make more money for the company than he cost it. The negative publicity he generated, right or wrong, means he is no longer doing his job. Firing him meant the managers did theirs.
You can try by yourself. https://alchemy-language-demo.mybluemix.net/

Imagine analyzing product reviews to determine if it was positive or negative.
Type "I like it", and see the inaccurate targeted sentiment (neutral sentiment instead of positive).
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they should have their own movie reviews show, and possibly make it free.
Even AWS admits this now on status.aws.amazon.com ...
Not too far-off from the oft-mocked segment in Bones where a computer is infected by making an MRI scan of a malware fractal pattern embedded in the bones.
I only went for an undergrad degree, but for what it's worth, in my perhaps cynical opinion going to university is mostly just an expensive way to buy a network. Yea, there's an educational aspect, but anybody smart and self-motivated can get that online for free.

My point is, in five or ten years, you're not going to look back and say "man, I wish I'd spent more time studying" - no, so long as you graduate with okay marks what really lasts are the relationships you make while you're there (classmates, schoolmates, professors, locals). Get out of your comfort zone, join (or start) some clubs, live life. My 2 cents.
It's not just that, it is that women have the greater bargaining chip in the relationship. They have the womb for creating babies, so they can make more demands. Also, they make the greater investment into kids (at first, at least, over time it can change), which also warrants "compensation".
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I've had multiple federal government programming jobs with offices. I consider it a requirement at this point.
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