skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really sure how that addresses the issues raised.

You're saying it's better overall if more replications are published. I'm talking about the problems that are stopping us from getting to that point. The current incentives do not align well with the desire to have more replications done, and simple changes could easily backfire.

> (not vague crap like "this drug makes that disease happen less")

I simply do not agree that if you think this and find some results that point in that direction you should not publish. I see absolutely no reason to save electrons to improve some average of papers, I'd much rather work isn't re-done repeatedly. Perhaps publishing something vague with some backing (e.g. we think X does Y and the data is at least consistent with this, and we can't think of what else makes sense) gives enough for someone else to build on and do a more rigorous investigation.
> What about Kickstarter? A $500 million+ company that takes a 5% vig on all transacted funds can effectively be replaced with a few lines of code.

No, it can't.

> If total ETH sent to contract address by date X > Amount Y then send the ETH to the fundraiser, else return the ETH.

Somehow missing the tracking of backers and rewards, the mutual identification of the parties, and the enforceable obligations with regard to rewards. Kinda key features of Kickstarter.
I started a podcast with another Hacker News poster. We have no ads, make no money, but it's great fun just talking about big local events in Columbus Ohio, and also big tech news. It's obviously extremely niche and local, but there's always something new happening in urban development, politics, that sort of thing here.

http://columbusthisweek.podbean.com for the RSS feed, or itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/columbus-this-week/id126...
And the people on the wrong side of history want to talk and talk and talk. They want to stall for time. And every individual who doesn't get a shot to talk and shape the culture feels like they've been robbed and their ideas and beliefs suppressed. They're just ignorant of the fact that these issues have been talked about, at length, ad nauseam, for decades, centuries even. And they don't understand that they don't have anything new to offer, they only have their ignorance. There's no particular reason to tolerate it forever.

And when folks who are apparently ignorant of the subject history get pissy because no one has the time to entertain their ignorant BS, that's a personal problem. Rail against it all you want, it's a losing battle.
It's hard to be worse than a VW van but the British gave it their best shot.
In China, common spaces are actually utilized.
>> At least around here, not everyone thinks safety is the most important (and IMHO that's a good thing.)

Could you clarify why you think safety is not the most important characteristic of driving on the road?
Sexism is not free speech.
Η ανατομία μιας τέλειας βελτιστοποιημένης σελίδας προορισμού -
>Don't Take Security Advice from SEO Experts or Psychics

Maybe the "Security" is redundant?
It goes beyond that, Sabine Hossenfelder is better than a "normally rational person", she is seriously very smart it is in her bones to make a decent rational case for whatever she is saying. And here I am talking about her blog posts, not her job -- I have never read any of her papers.

But in this case though, she is does repeat some interweb fallacies about the memo, even though she has certainly read it herself and thought about it for herself.

But she does get the important thing right: which is that even if the memo is as bad as she says it is, it's still no reason for a sacking.

[Disclamer: I am a Googler, but quite obviously I am not speaking for the company here.]
> so I have some way to pop up the login page from captive wifi portals, I'm fine with everyone else going SSL

Isn't this the fault of those deploying the captive portal for not implementing RFC7710 and advertising a secure login URL?
And basically every truck and van.
I was kind of hoping this would be built on top of XNU/Darwin.

Still cool, though.
Driving is awesome, I am way better protected in the event something goes wrong, and I don't have to care about the weather.

This isn't popular here, but I have been indoctrinated by environmental bullshit as a kid and teen and I am done with that. I pay high gas taxes and if that can't more than offset the environmental impact whomever is in charge should be fired for incompetence.
You ensure a fair process (without attempting to overcompensate/correct for other processes out of your control), and whatever comes out is the unbiased state.

You can't escape the fact that (assuming any innate differences whatsoever) equality of opportunity will mean unequal outcomes, and equality of outcomes requires unequal opportunities.
Well, they could automate much of the financial side of a corporation and make many accountants obsolete.

They make up a big part of many corporations that costs much money but doesn't bring any benefits to the products.

They do work that I'd deem difficult, but that would also lend itself to automation with smart contracts very well.
http://getpoe.com - distraction free / focus writing app for Windows, and soon Linux and macOS. It makes me nothing, but I love working on it. I built it to have a focus writer on windows 8 (there were none that played move with metro at the time) but I spend more time coding it than actually writing these days
Lol this site is a joke, how much is TunnelBear paying him for the top spot? They're the only VPN provider I see consistently spending money on marketing and sponsoring YouTube videos. 'Fun to use'..what? I don't care if my VPN is 'fun', I want it to protect my privacy.

He mentions that 2 of the VPNs are 'uninspired'. Sorry, I didn't realize that tunneling traffic to protect privacy was an art project and not a technical one.

FWIW I've used PIA for 2 years now with no issues. A TON of torrenting has gone through them and they don't care in the least. In addition when their Russian servers were seized I received an email immediately letting me know their current situation and about their key changes due to the event. Plus they no longer do business in that location due to it. Pretty top notch company in my eyes even if their site does look 15 years old.
That is odd, you should try to use for longer periods of time. I personally use it with hundreds of tabs open and I haven't found anything else that can compare.

> Honestly, this kind of statement is nothing but a superstition that you usually hear from people that think that it's impossible to be productive using different approaches.

Maybe, but I'm pretty sure I'm more productive than you. We should compare each other browsing reddit some day.
There's a nice Tumblr blog about cars like this:

https://wehickles.tumblr.com/
Easy and instant recognition is often a sign of triviality, accepted. But, like in written poetry, a command of the pop idiom is not enough to create a hit: there's got to be something convincing (and generally hard-to-pin-down) about the music or lyrics. There's an art to that which survives in any genre.

Even your demanding "genius" criterion can arguably be met by techno work like Autechre, in the same way that an exceptional architect might be encountered in any style or idiom of building. So I'm back-pedaling a bit on my previous remark (against genius) to suggest that any genre can be elevated by great practitioners. It's even a common mark of greatness to appreciate or at least not to be a snob about "lower" genres. The social conservatism of pop doesn't stop Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" from being culturally important, any more than the avant-garde chin-stroking of The Wire magazine guarantees artistic significance.
You might not get anyone to sign on this because they may feel threatened for even starting this poll, especially after results like this. Links to the original idea of people hiding their thoughts, leading to problems with discussing what is and what is not a fact.
As a man in tech I still had the same reaction. At best it just screams amature hour. At worst it is downright misogynistic. Frankly, to me it comes off a little of both.

The only redeeming thing here is that quote wasn't made by the GNUstep maintainers but from the comments section on the blog. However the GNUstep maintainers should have known better than to include said quote on their homepage.
Interesting but outdated, block reward is now 12.5 bitcoins and price is ~$3400 per coin. I imagine both of these figures have a significant impact on the economies of mining, this is without even looking at the hashtags and more efficient miners ( <28nm ASIC devices are now available). Probably worth updating the figures to keep the analysis current.
What Happens If We Throw an Elephant from a Skyscraper?
If interested about Shenzhen, I'd highly recommend watching this mesmerizing feature on Wired UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
> to dare to invade the territory of the Angles.

They travelled further than I thought.

Hell of a balloon ride all the way to northern Europe.
They link https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/get-ready-a-new-v8...

I'm mostly glad it'll come with an updated WebAssembly, hopefully fixing this bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=6204 which blocks Luwa from working in node (handwritten wasm has a tendency to run into things emscripten would not.. I expect the same vice versa)

Will also enjoy not having to use a TextEncoder/TextDecoder shim. Kind of weird that they went full out with Unicode there, last I recall browsers were moving towards only supporting utf8
Regulating Google is a knee jerk reaction to a knee jerk reaction.
> How do we correct for the bias if we don't know what the unbiased state would look like?

The goal isn't to choose some specific gender balance and then take whatever steps necessary to produce it, it's to eliminate unfair bias. The way to do that is to find it, not indirectly by looking at ratios, but directly by actually finding it.

High school teachers who say things like "women are no good at computers" to young women should be reprimanded etc. Poll women who didn't go into tech and ask them why not, and if any of the reasons are unjust then change them.

If no one can find anything like that then the gender balance at that point is what it's supposed to be. We're obviously not there yet, but the way we know is because we keep finding things like that, not because the gender balance is uneven.
Do you have kill-switch functionality on iOS ?
It looks like a feature to me : this way when you copy the address it links directly to the right comment. Of course this comes at the expense of a working back button.
> the average person maybe would prefer a more normal female

So there's two categories here, "person" and "female"? What are we, Ferengi?
Kickstarter outcompetes other competitors and individuals trying to raise their own money due to network effect and native distribution you get for your project.
My next plex server for sure.
What We Learned About Bureaucracy from 7,000 HBR Readers
Aparently, Bollywood is to blame
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/VxFtRh0qs6H9I3rUWdtKWL/Inte...
There was also this one for which I had involvement: http://www.falseconnect.com/ which while impacting nearly every major technology vendor was particularly bad for Apple. Pretty much anyone who'd been using a proxy service (which includes some VPN providers like TorGuard) for privacy with iOS or macOS opened themselves up to full compromise of the cryptographic channel. The thing is, Apple recognized it was a big problem and got it patched and that patch distributed to all impacted devices in under 45 days from the first report. A similar flaw I reported to Samsung a few years earlier is still not patched on every Android phone impacted because some carriers didn't push the patch.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/geolocation/ "How do I turn off Location-Aware Browsing permanently?"

Just set geo.enabled to false.

There's also a preference to permanently disable pdf.js there. Or you can change the default PDF reader: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-built-pdf-viewe...
I'm fairly certain the implication here is that he was not, in fact, checking with Legal or anyone, but simply holding off to make it seem as if he was and it was too late to question.
"Why would we use this new technology when the current stuff works just fine?"

I feel like this song and dance precedes all major shifts in technology.
These are part of the same apartment complexes, which are like gated planned communities in the states, except with apartment buildings rather than houses. In Beijing, most housing outside of the 3rd ring is like that...heck, even inside the 3rd ring, you'll see a lot of communities, just with lower height buildings because they were built much earlier.
I have no idea what the cultures of other fields are like. I work in technology, so I can only speak for that.
The cause and effect is hard to tell, but this is exactly why large corporations should try to be diverse. How do you get from 8:2 to 7:3 in 5 or 10 years?

Little girls don't want to be programmers or scientists - why is that?

My gut feeling is that it's ti very a small part biological and to a large extent just momentum. With more female role models (moms not least!) in tech, things will change. Thats why I think it's very reasonable to hire for diversity (that is - hire someone on the basis of being a woman)
So it's a myth.

"I saw the topic a week ago, I will not link to it, I didn't even read it, but I'm sure of what was in it"

insert snarky wink face
Against the Stream: The Future of the Federal Clean Water Rule
I don't see a lot of Columbus, OH on HN so here's a shout out. I'll definitely try the podcast.
I have a PHP based crawler scripts that range from 30 to 55 MB
6 Key Questions to Ask Before Using Deep Learning
By exercising your freedom to negotiate and threatening to use your freedom to leave, you can attempt to cause changes in the corporation.

Please don't attempt to tell me that I know my argument is bad.
Yes, but we have to work around crappy software all the time. I've used portals that only trigger on google.com
> The views weren't suppressed, they were spread, and then criticised.

I didn't say they were suppressed. I said "try and suppress". Big difference. Also, what you say is equating "suppress" with "silence". They're not the same thing. I have read literally hundreds of comments, across HN and other forums, where people have made comments designed to suppress views they don't like (I've already given examples of the kinds of things I'm talking about, so won't repeat them here). Lots have literally said that people should not be allowed or should be punished for daring to even talk about such topics.

> Also that he doesn't understand the need for diversity in modern companies

If you've been reading these threads on HN, you'd know that many people would dispute that. Lots of people have argued that the memo is pro-diversity.
Fascinating. Did you watch the entire linked video on this story? In the video description, there are quite a few scientific studies linked that back up Damore's views. But I'm sure you've got some FUD for me on that video as well.

I can do FUD, too. Watch this! Hey 46775335788, what's got you running damage control so hard on this story that you'd reply to some schmoe who top posted on a page 3 (doomed) New story? A paycheck perhaps?

What an interesting comment history your throwaway account has - first post on this New story, eh throwaway?
People are making way too big a deal of genetic predisposition. Yes, there are genetic predispositions, like how musical talent may run through some families, but what matters way more is how we are brought up, and how we choose to act. If someone is a musical virtuoso, they became that way not because of the talent they were born with, but because of the encouragement of their parents and environment and long hours of practice they chose to put in.

Young minds are impressionable, and if you tell a young person they're probably less capable of something, they probably will be. Even as the stereotypical nerdy white male programmer I can see how people look differently at a young girl who is interested in computers. It is considered odd, if not improper. Boys never have to contend with this bias (although they have similar yet opposite biases in different fields, like child care). Inevitably this societal pressure will cause fewer girls to go into programming, and in turn fewer women to end up at google. That's not a consequence of some genetic predisposition, it is a consequence of being brought up in a world where not everyone is treated equally.

How do you flip that around? You stop thinking in terms of averages and you start thinking in terms of individual opportunity. We treat every child as deserving of the same chances as any other child, and we stop trying to steer them into directions based on their birth. That requires a modal shift in thinking where gender is just not a factor anymore, for any profession or any talent.

The diversity memo's failing is not the statistics it cites, it is that it furthers the notion that diversity is a set of statistics to control for. True diversity is about ignoring statistics and instead giving every single person the same chances, regardless of where they came from. I want my daughter to have the same chance of becoming a programmer as my son, and my son to have the same chance of becoming a kindergarten teacher as my daughter, and for no one to tell them either choice is odd or improper.
To an incredible degree. We moved apartment complexes in Beijing because one had a better central area than the other (both were used, but the latter one was used much more).
Mullvad is the best. If you are comparing VPNs and don't mention Mullvad, you have not done your research. Or, ya know, you're writing a paid review and need to intentionally leave out better VPNs :)
Certificate pinning won't stop that either. Most browsers e.g. Chrome ignore pinning rules if the certificate is installed on the device by the user (or their employer).
Why does it matter which trait this describes? Surely this demonstrates that averages don't matter for how a trait is expressed in individuals, no matter how it's distributed in different groups?
People have been doing EV conversions since forever.

If electric becomes a viable alternative to remans and crate engines the OEMs will just offer a "crate engine" electric drive-train that bolts where an LS or SBC would go and the stuff needed to make it plug and play.

You don't need a custom vehicle, just an S10 with a blown motor.
Reading his reviews I felt the author was looking for that warm feeling a toddler feels when being coddled by his mother. Take a look at his comments on PIA, "Extremely transactional. You get in and get out. It delivers its experience the way a utility company would. Sometimes, that may be a good thing. But in this case, I'd rather give my money to a company who might put it to better use."

What? Extremely transactional? You're in and out? When using my VPN I want to click 'connect' to connect, choose US if I want my connection for the US, and 'disconnect' to disconnect... No fancy website or pretty colors needed.
I will admit that I just took pawadu's word for it. I personally had no idea if it is possible to disable pdfjs or not.

That being said, I will also agree that it is convenient sometimes but it is much slower and much less compatible than native viewers, making it useless for me about half the time. Still, I see no reason why it needs to be integrated into firefox instead of being just an addon (even if it is installed by default).
My parents met because my father wanted to do sort of a Grand Tour(well, not so grand given the vehicle) and my mother wanted to get to France, because she landed a job as an au pair, but she wanted to save on transport.

How they managed to get there(through Hungary) in this little two-stroke boggles the mind.
Polkadot – Decentralised home for diverse chains
> there are no higher authorities on gender science than actual biologists who study the topic full time

Only one (Dr Soh) has supported him that I've seen thus far - she seems to have only got her PhD this year and she studies sexual paraphilia via fMRI (which doesn't have a great reputation.) Not exactly "full time gender science study".

By way of contrast, there's PZ Myers - PhD in Biology in 1985, been teaching since 1993 - who thinks Damore is an idiot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/08/06/what-diff...
Size matters: Bangalore sees action at both ends of startup spectrum
> And second, Google, Facebook, and YouTube are obviously not essential, cause those millions get by just fine without them.

What's more, in parts of China where these websites aren't blocked (Hong Kong, Taiwan if we call it a part of China), they become very popular again and the mainland Chinese alternatives fall off the map.
Total rubbish, flagged.
My favorite part is the writer self-implicating they are an "expert" in looking at women.
> Can you do so in a way that I as a funder don't need to trust you the intermediary?

No, and you can't with smart contracts either (the intermediary being the creator of the contract), unless funders are restricted to people with the skill to analyze the contract code. As proven by the DAO.

And even if you could, you've replaced only a small-and-useless-in-isolation piece of Kickstarter by doing so.
Skill is often divided into 3 components: macro-management; micro-management; and mechanics.

Macro refers to decisions regarding economy. It includes finances, build order, counters, etc. Macro is mostly strategic.

Micro refers to decisions regarding battle. It includes troop positioning, focus fire, kiting, etc. Micro is mostly tactical.

Mechanics refers to execution. I.e. do your fingers have the dexterity and APM to accomplish your goals effectively? If not, practice makes perfect.
Help People, Don't Disrupt Them
How did this make the front page? People voting this story up must not have read his actual analysis. Pathetic.
I can see how that that experience would have been poor for you, but I think it's a rather unfair comparison when comparing to GitHub. It's apples to oranges. Launchpad does more than git hosting, merge proposals ("pull requests") and bug tracking; it also manages the build infrastructure of a distribution and the publication of distribution sources and built binary packages. You did get tangled up doing the latter, but the former case is the context of this discussion. GitHub, GitLab and Sourceforge all cannot even do the much more complex tasks for which you had a poor UX on Launchpad.
If it's forbidden to even propose a possible explanation, how can anyone ever seriously discuss the question of why engineering isn't 50/50 male/female?

But then, I suppose that's the point. No competition for the equally unprovable, unquantifiable theory that's currently dominant.
I was really interested in the NeXT machine but couldn't afford one. So when I got my hands on a surplus PC I set it up with Red Hat and WindowMaker. WM was okay as long you used programs intended for it but I never really got used to it.

Then I switched to S.u.S.E and using KDE and never looked back.
There are three types of regex as far as I know: basic (aka GNU), extended and PERL. Grep uses GNU as the name implies.
egrep or grep -E uses extended. PERL is used elsewhere like JavaScript. Typically you'll see pcre which is the library for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions.
> Betting markets are amongst the most accurate indicators of political outcomes

Ahem

https://medium.com/@jdh/betfair-and-the-2016-presidential-el...

http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-trump-odds-pa...
Yaasss! New pipeline of Ignition and Turbofan provides huge performance increases.

Read this article -> https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/05/launching-ignition-an...