skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made the grave mistake of trying to express that point on Twitter. Twitter seems to be a poor vehicle for nuanced debate at the best of time, but it's a dumpster fire right now full of raging people who don't understand what you've just said.

I was in SV last year for a couple of months during the election, and everyone I met were all paid up members of the church of political correctness up front, but when you spoke to these people in private there were a lot of people who were secretly conservative, but "It's Silicon Valley and you can't be a Republican out here".

I'm reminded of Chomsky's words in his book, The Common Good:

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum"

Where things have gone drastically wrong here are that the spectrum is now so tiny that any debate within that spectrum is now impossible. It becomes almost impossible to depolarize the situation and widen that spectrum, and that's going to lead to everything you more eloquently put above, if not more.
"Can’t we talk about the scientific differences between the sexes without it being sexist? Well I’m sorry to say the answer is, you probably can’t. You can’t talk about the biological differences between races and sexes without also dipping your toes in some racism or sexism. Why is that? Because racism and sexism are at their core, the systematizing of races and sexes based on supposed biological facts about their personal character"

Wow. It has come to this.

I strongly disagree, you CAN talk about the differences without being sexist, because there ARE differences. We don't need to like it for it to be true. The fact that we find discussing if there are biological reasons why fewer women choose to go into software engineering as immoral - is simply a false premise.

It's vastly different comparing skull geometry to rank people to looking at women's choices in life being influence by their biology.

In fact the former is pseudo-science, the latter, hold on to your pearls, is actual science.
If you insist on judging arguments by appeals to authority, which I agree is much faster than wading through all the research papers themselves, then there are no higher authorities on gender science than actual biologists who study the topic full time. Almost by definition, they are the most qualified. By all means be skeptical but you must have reasons. Otherwise you are no better than people who reject evolution because they really don't want to believe it's true.

With respect to his essay skills and tact - they are just fine. He makes it abundantly clear he doesn't want to offend people and is not describing individuals, but only the statistical preferences of large populations. You are shooting the messenger in another desperate attempt to ignore the message. Could a few words have been tweaked here or there? Sure. Should he have written it? Yes - he alleges that Google is engaged in illegal behaviour. Google, like all large firms, teaches their employees that it's their responsibility to flag illegal and problematic behaviour and writing such a well researched memo in order to do so is more than most companies could expect.
Definitely not good for PCI DSS. Requirement 6.4 reads:

Examine policies and procedures to verify the following are defined:
• Development/test environments are separate from production environments with access control in place to enforce separation.
• A separation of duties between personnel assigned to the development/test environments and those assigned to the production environment.
• Production data (live PANs) are not used for testing or development.
• Test data and accounts are removed before a production system becomes active.
• Change control procedures related to implementing security patches and software modifications are documented.
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Picks+8/10/17:+DraftKings+Top+3+Pitchers
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I've been using uMatrix for over three years and very very few websites don't work with it.

By far the most annoying 'feature' (more of a consequence of the internet) is the way that you can't whitelist HTTPS sub-domains. (Makes AWS Console a pain.)
Since it's allegedly Google internal poll, you probably won't find more information on it beyond screenshot. After what happened to Damore and calls for his supporters to be fired as well, most people are probably clamming up now.
This comment is beyond the pale. If you post like this again, we will ban you.

You've also been uncivil many times on HN. Please fix this as well if you want to keep commenting here.
Password Safe[0] allows you to define a custom symbols list, for each entry. Not that this particular feature is worth switching over for, but just want to point out that it's not a limitation for all password managers.

[0] https://pwsafe.org/
I totally agree, this will add tons of ammunition to all kinds of sexists, racists and extremists. Damore made several well sourced arguments that you are welcome to disagree with. But instead of discussion, counter arguments and "embracing diversity" he was silenced and probably illegally sacked. This will strengthen the position of all kind of haters and populists and if you think it's not a big deal, yes, go and check who is your president.
Launchpad is also incredibly opaque to people who don't use it often. It took me a very long time to find the actual release binaries and how to get the sources + build info for them. It was for some nginx modules in a PPA which depend on a newer nginx than what is stock in Ubuntu Trusty. Took literally half a day to get binary-compatible modules built from source (building dynamic modules and they must match all the configure flags of the nginx you're trying to inject them into).
I'd be trolling if I said the lesson of the article was that when you (only) need $5m, the key is to realize that you already have it; so I'll say the lesson is to leave no stone unturned, especially the stones closest to you.
some cities experiment with
dynamic parking pricing
http://sfpark.org/how-it-works/pricing/
I can't say that inspires confidence that the poll is even legitimate. Do we at least have proof that it actually was an internal Google poll and not someone's 15 minutes in photoshop?
Free Software has not "won", in any sense of the imagination.

I am sitting in an office of 500+ Windows machines compared to 2 FreeBSD (and no Linux) machines.

I have to use Outlook otherwise I can't book meetings.

I must use Slack otherwise I can't communicate with my colleagues. (Or, alternatively, Skype For Business, but same issue)

"Free Software" is _not_ winning anywhere that isn't servers. (and they have fierce competition there too).
If there was any evidence as to the utility of these things, then the argument might look rather different. But the memo - as you already know - states that Google management presents no empirical evidence in support of its policies, so it's reasonable to assume the firm doesn't have any evidence in either direction.
What? No, it’s definitely not a problem. If I include all the different weights of a font family in my CSS, but on some pages don’t use the bold weight, for example, how is that a problem? The browser only downloads the fonts that are actually used for exactly this reason.
Please don't break the HN guidelines by commenting like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If 50/50 isn't the target, how will we know when we get there?
It's funny how some companies now literally enforce a "don't ask don't tell" policy when it comes to some points of view. In the academia it is probably even worse than in the industry. Except this time, it's the left that is "promoting" hiding your true self.

You may say that for the army it was the government doing it, which makes it worse. In a sense I agree. However, in the case of private employers it touches on a more consequential right for us as a society: the right to free speech.

Maybe people should be more accepting of somebody's views on controversial topics as diversity, gun rights and abortion, as they are to gay people in the military.
>For instance i know virtually nobody into 80s music, but 90s r&b and hip-hop are reliable favorites.

If you've grown in the 90s then that is probably skewed (from nostalgia etc), but I'm not talking about that (observations between personal friends etc of the same generation).

I'm talking about later generations insisting/obsessing on some previous decades (that they weren't even alive or old enough to experience). So statistically speaking (based on releases that "recreate" that sound, shows, movies and books about the era, re-releases, fashion, etc).
Ah, must be a fan of binary search!
Pretty sure SteamVR has been available out of beta for a while but I can't check because scrolling down on http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=250820 doesn't actually load old news items...

Firefox's OpenVR support on Linux is enabled in nightly, but it doesn't actually work.
Because in the sharded example, only the shard suffers a break down, not the entire network, if the nodes collude. It also allows people to run smaller nodes on cheap hardware, this increasing the potential number of nodes in the network.
Do not forget also the tremendous effort in the Free Pascal other big IDE

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui/

It is a pitty dev pascal didn't catch up or ported to FPC.
You forget the 3rd kind: the ones who think ahead of the time, but use urgency as a way of shielding their decision-making reasoning.

Let's say Employee A comes up to Manager three months before Defcon, saying he'd like to do such and such. Manager doesn't like it, but he doesn't want to upset A at that time because Reasons. He says "sure bud, you go ahead, I'll check with the lawyers just in case and let you know if there is any problem". Then he waits, and half an hour before the talk, through an indirect medium like email or text, he goes "sorry man, I only just got a message back from the lawyers that you can't talk about that. Totally gutted! Oh well, better luck next year, uh?"

30 mins before the presentation, after they've all flown to the conference, is not incompetence; it's malice.
No, it's equally unfinished on all platforms. Hopefully 2.0 will be better.
> Perhaps I've only encountered the good kind of HR.

most certainly. there are nice people everywhere (and not-so-nice too). but HR by principle is always on employer's side, and if it aligns then maybe on your too.

in many multi-national corps including mine, you properly talk to HR people twice - when hired, and fired/leaving.
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Nice! It would be great to have this in Nimble's package list if it's not there already :)
I think it's because it is both hard to understand and hard to explain cryptocurrencies at the moment. It's like discussing email or social networks based on papers and ideas without really ever having seen it in action. We tend to get a bit aggressive or impatient when we find it hard to explain something.

Also, crypto skeptics realise that the crypto fans literally have money at stake so they are not unbiased. Maybe crypto skeptics are also a bit worried that perhaps there is something they didn't get. Perhaps they miss out on the next big thing.
A significant aspect of HR (at least in the UK) is protecting the company from its 'resources', and ensuring that the company has a robust (i.e. legally defensible) paper trail when disputes arise. E.g a process for putting people on an 'improvement plan' in response to poor behaviours / performance, and which can ultimately lead to dismissal.

Back in the day, the term 'anti-personnel department' was often used.

And don't get me started on the use of the term 'human resources'

[Edit] - more detail. I'm a techie but have occasionally had line management (in addition to tech lead) responsibilities. The first time I took on these duties, I had to do the relevant HR training and was amazed at the attitude: a little bit of 'duty-of-care' and a lot of 'follow-this-process-to-make-sure-the-law-is-on-our-side'
Most of the skills that you listed only start to really matter if you try to move into a management position.

No company or project wants rank and file programmers (which is the vast majority of any project) who think there also managers and act as such. Even if you have those skill your job is to focus on your tasks and solve your very specific problems, not the big picture and what everyone else is doing.
That is sexist! Are you suggesting that women are less skilled than men ??!!??

(/s, obviously. Sorry I have to point it out.)
>Its like saying, oh you like your power steering, and automatic transmissions? Well then you couldn't drive a Model-T.

No, I think it's more like saying "most of those efficiencies are probably cargo cult" especially since programmers with just a 12" laptop and Vim can (and do) run circles around people with double and triple monitor setups and fancy IDEs.

So nothing especially efficiency improving that wouldn't be trumped by simply more skills.

(Not saying that you don't have skills. You might be better than Linus. Saying that multiple monitors are not the reason for that).

Yes, it's nice to have a big screen, but not really essential. As for the second screen, it gets all marginal returns from there.
I'm trying to understand what this comment means.
Unfortunately for you, nobody cares what books you've read/written, and everybody gets the same amount of votes that you do. You aren't going to ever shame anybody into reading court cases on abortion before they'll allow themselves to have an opinion, so your views are also not worth a damn.

Btw, you catch more flies with honey...
The most-used operating system in the world has a Linux kernel. But, it might not be in front of you...except when you're checking email, waiting in line, playing Angry Birds, making a photograph, or checking up on Facebook.
There exist expected inundation maps for the Washington coast I believe, due to the threat of that mega tsunami earthquake.
The relatively good affordability of SF compared to Berlin lets me doubt the methodology for that part of the score. Seoul and Hamburg are also not similarly affordable, but significantly more expensive than Berlin.
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How do I get in touch with user pavil_lishin? I can't seem to add to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14520390
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No they aren't. Unless you think that all men at Google are stronger than all women.
The dream of the open web is long gone. IMO it started to fade when google ditched their reader (rss/atom) in prol of g+ :(
the context of that suggestion was to make the activity more appealing in order to entice more candidates, not to compensate for a skill deficiency.

My interpretation of this point should not be taken as an endorsement of it or the document as a whole
You mention tab management. One of the main reasons I like Firefox is due to one, exemplary addon: Tab Mix Plus. It's the kind of tinker-y addon that lets you do almost anything that is typical for Firefox.

With ad-blocking especially, I just can't trust Google to be fully supportive. I mean, who are we kidding? It's literally their business model.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959680 and marked it off-topic.
TLDR; manifesto guy was egregiously wrong in basically all assertions.
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To me it means only pick fights that you have a chance of winning. You don't learn to fight better by getting yourself killed.
It is all user driven. The map is based on what people enter at http://www.gnoosic.com.
Those issues make https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec... essential.
I hope Mozilla will continue to improve the feature.
"When you argue: But aren't you restricting freedom when you would keep a creator from sharing his software under his own terms?"

I hope you're aware that this is the oldest argument in the book.

It literally goes back to Plato and arguments about how you can be free if you're not free to make other people slaves.
"Now, if you can figure out a way to decentralize a service while maintaining the same level or less friction from the centralized version then you have a real winner and things can start happening."

Ethereum
Indeed. Launchpad has an incredibly bespoke feeling -- it is very much intended for Canonical's particular use case and it's clear they don't intend to spend much time making the on-ramp terribly shallow for new users/admins. That said it certainly represents a massive amount of work and it has a number of compelling features.
Buzzword Bingo.
As a non-FB user, I fear the day when they have finally motivated real and meaningful content that people might expect me to view and that requires one to log in to facebook. So far, I think mostly their greed has kept them in a position of non-mandatory. Keep up the good work FB!
My favorite comparison is the Apollo guidance computer's memory (though completely different comparison from your GUI and game description). But the AGC is absolutely fascinating.

> 16-bit wordlength,
2048 words RAM (magnetic core memory), 36,864 words ROM (core rope memory)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
I emphatically disagree. All of those skills are necessary to be a strong team member, and thinking that only management requires them is to move into territory where programming as a trade is in need of micro-management and social babysitting by a managerial class.

I've been in plenty of teams that were extremely flat exactly because the programmers in those teams were all highly skilled in those areas.
You probably need a symbol to satisfy a lot of them too.
Here is a chart of the gender balance of over a hundred different professions. Few of them are near a 50/50 balance. Could you tell me which ones are suffering from institutionalized discrimination?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/06/chart-the-perce...
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>even if you made a point that you cant find evidence.

No, I made a point about the burden of proof. But of course that takes actually reading what has been written to tell.
Reminder: The W3C is no longer a definitive source for HTML standards. The real source is WHATWG, which does not version the HTML specification:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
Right, LN nodes will eventually become big speciallized hubs, with great BTC capacity to attend as many channels as possible. Each channel is a source of revenue for the LN node, so LN nodes will try to become as big as possible (both technically and BTC-wise) to cope with greater audience.

Think that in a LN-node the profit will be proportional to capacity of open channels, so its very probable that we will see very-big-BTC-LN-nodes appear to serve demand

The reputation of LN-nodes will play a very important to the users (as it already happens with BTC exchanges - do you use a unknown-fishy-exchange or do you use a big-known-stable-exchange ?), and so that will incentivize LN-nodes to avoid/solve problems with channels to avoid teardown-to-the-blockchain (which as you mentioned, is abnoxious to the user for its fee and lock-time)
I've seen some Youtubers with high-quality content move away from YT's monetization scheme recently and move exclusively to Patreon and sponsors (eg, Ian's Forgotten Weapons). Still hosting their content on YT but without ads. I think this will just be another channel to reach out.
If they haven't been blacklisted for spreading conspiracy theories, they now probably should be.
It never did - Opera was killed just after Kestrel, and a new Chrome clone was slapped with the logo and name. There is no Opera, and hasn't been for some time.
An "alternative" is is not necessarily a factual alternative. I'd said if a solution has many users, the freedom of the users has priority.
The only complaint about swift programming is: they keep changing the programming interfaces, so if I import a third-party code file written with earlier versions of Swift, I have to go through the errors of 'obsolete APIs', updating the function signatures. The changes are automated by Xcode, but it is still a hassle.

I am totally OK with introducing new features of Swift language. But changing the API function signatures (even multiple times) seems totally unnecessary, and reflects the API designers' obsession of naming conventions.
Thank you for this submission. This is basically the first scientist disagreeing with Demore. The previous ones (five of them I think, submitted to HN and quickly flagged) basically agreed with what he said.
I think we can now start to have a normal discussion with arguments, based on studies and evidence, rather that name calling (although Suzanne's answer is not entirely unemotional, but that's her right).
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Even if they have a corporate structure that seems to make the Fair Work Act not apply (say, making you a contractor of a foreign company), I'm pretty sure that the commission will still generally rule against the employer if you're effectively working as an employee and you take it to the ombudsman. So if, say, they provide office space and a computer, you work regular full-time hours and it's more than a temporary contract then it will usually be considered a sham contracting arrangement and you'll be eligible for all the standard full-time employment protections.
> Doubly sad because if the anonymous survey linked in the post is true

There were multiple revisions of the document (yay online text editors where this is possible). I understand that the leaked/published version is of a somewhat later date.

That might explain both the amount of outrage compared to a text that many think is rather tame (the earlier version supposedly was more strongly worded), and it allows the interpretation that the survey mostly measured at which point in time the respondents (btw: who is represented in the sample?) read the text for their first, and probably last, time.
> except when you're checking email, waiting in line, playing Angry Birds, making a photograph, or checking up on Facebook.

You've just proved his point more than you ever wanted.

> checking email

On the (probably) proprietary Mail or Gmail app.

> waiting in line

On the (probably) proprietary app for whichever thing you're staying in line for.

> playing Angry Birds

...

> making a photograph

...

> or checking up on Facebook

...!

Who care if the kernel, heavily modified and buried 100 layers deep is Open Source if all the apps users actually use are proprietary?
>Browser Plugins

>No plugins detected.

Interesting. I have 6 installed on Firefox.
This is such a cool idea! Looking forward to visit a class somewhere in Europe. Good luck with your venture!
Yes, I read The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile. I read all the way through them, I hail from a non-skimming age.
WASM is designed to implement stuff that are computationally expensive. The typical junk you want to remove is not. If somehow WASM is used to protect this junk from you filtering it, this is probably done deliberately. WebDesigners can always find ways to bother you, but you can always punish them by not visiting their website anymore.
Now that Zuck is planning a Presidency run, I wonder if all his shady stuff will come out
Everybody is going after the living room. Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, Netflix, Disney... People spend 30% more time on youtube when the content is something produced. And they prefer watching this type of shows on TV, with more people. Advertisers love that.
Your argument: Not giving away what you wrote for free under the terms dictated by Richard Stallman is literally slavery.