skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A much stronger theory is that Japanese were sacrificed in order to flex muscle against the Soviet Union.

I've seen that theory floated but it never made sense to me, and I haven't seen any documentary evidence to support it.

I prefer to apply Occam's Razor... which to me suggests the simplest conclusion is that the US bombed Japan hoping to spare American soldiers from the worse fate of an invasion, not the Japanese.
I think a good analogy to teach recursion are humans, or really any living thing, since they too are functions that call themselves. That is, each time you create a new human, it's function is to create a new human, and so on ad infinitum.
We haven't been arguing that programming can't benefit from math.

> ignoring math as a programmer, feels like ignoring music theory as a musician or linear algebra as a structural engineer.

We're not ignoring math.
OTOY is contributing the ORBX container and render graph system to MPEG I part 2 at MPEG 120 as a'tier 1'license (equivalent to MIT license). Paid licenses and patents IMO should not be in the baseline minimal schema/scene graph system, or we will never get to a truly open metaverse. I made as strong a case as I could that plenty of value and IP can still be implemented as services or modules on top of such open framework whenever this issue came up at MPEG 119 last month.

Here is one of the two ORBX docs from MPEG 119, the other (which has the full container schema) I'll post shortly.

https://home.otoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/m41018-An-i...
I'll source -- http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/05/07/childlessness/

15% of women ages 40-44 in the USA have never given birth, from which we can pull 85% of women ages 40-44 have given birth, as of 2014.
On the flip side, having just spent a year traveling to 18 countries - including most of SE Asia - the internet has made travel a hell of a lot easier (I've done it pre-internet, too). My wife is vegetarian, so rather than wandering around trying to find something she can eat in Vietnam (one of the least veggie-friendly countries we went to) we can do a little research on TripAdvisor and know where we're going for lunch and dinner. Likewise, with a few hours working on the laptop we can book several weeks worth of flights and accommodations, and not have to worry about that anymore. I think you end up with a lot more free time because you can take care of the necessities so easily.

Why take a tuk-tuk to a waterfall that might not be there (that sounds like what you'd call a scam, to me) when you can take a tuk-tuk to a waterfall that definitely is there?
How do you identify superstars? Do you look at their code or do you simply see the UI when its done? I've seen a couple superstars/JS ninjas that produced unmaintainable crap, but a lot of it, and it took actually looking at their code to see why. They didn't last.
Agreed, discover weekly is great, I have a couple of different tastes in music depending on what I'm doing, and each discover weekly/daily is separated into genre. It's great.
So, the "just let it burn" strategy when fires start might
lead to a lot more property damage than a strategy of
proactive burning.

The U.S. is _huge_. There's too much land to do controlled burning. And an intentionally set fire is morally perilous, so there are strong incentives to avoid burning except where it's easy and obvious; that is, _away_ from housing or in only very small patches to create fire breaks.

Also, from a carbon footprint point of view, it seems
advantageous to mix burning and logging, so that not all the
carbon returns straight into the atmosphere.

But loggers are gonna take the good trees and leave behind the young ones, precisely the opposite of what a fire would do. I know this isn't how it's supposed to work on paper, but the incentives aren't well aligned. A natural fire isn't going to lobby Congress to increase its quota of high-value trees.

I think any practical land management plan that has a shot at restoring forest health requires letting many more natural fires burn, and to burn more widely. The dilemma is that things are so bad that these fires are much more dangerous than they'd normally be. But I don't see how you ever get over that hump unless you can send out an armada of autonomous, self-replicating robots to cut down the underbrush. Perhaps we'll just have to wait for that solution.
These guys are known as whackers [1]. They aren't suited for public service.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whacker
I agree as long as your ideas are equally mocked. Otherwise your position boils down to "No one should be able to disagree with me as long as I say the topic is sensitive"
Oh wow! I didn't ask for the last one, but this is insanely interesting also!
One side is free to express its views at an institutional, public level. Entire corporations can express support for ill-founded political views to much praise. The other side is condemned for doing the same.
It makes me think of one of our Slack channel at work that is full of jokes about Trump, the GOP, stupid republican voters, etc.

To make it clear, I personally don't give a damn F about politics, I don't vote, don't follow any political "drama". But the fact that people feel that it is appropriate to do that at work is pretty mind blowing to me.
> I don't think it's fair to lump YC culture in with SV culture. YC is based in SV, but it seems to be an island of reasonableness.

Wait until you get hellbanned.
> They'll be even ready to contradict themselves multiple times in the space of a few sentences

> Climate change (irrespective of its scientific validity) is another of those.
Well, it's refuting a lazy argument. Why would computer science be so different from other STEM fields that have radically higher proportions of women? [0] In particular, why is math so much better? [1] If biological differences are so important, why has it varied so much over time, including a big decline since the 80s? [0] I mean, we know that gender roles play a big role in what jobs people do and that sexism is a problem in tech, so it's honestly kind of weird to think "actually, it's mostly caused by some hitherto unobserved large biological difference."

Nonetheless, there is research indicating gender differences in math vary greatly between countries and appear to be correlated to other measures of gender equity [2]. Even in countries with relatively large discrepancies, there's not a big difference. I couldn't find any meta analysis of specifically programming skill, but an analysis of one CS department didn't find gender differences due to ability [3]. An older study showed women and men scored similarly on an introductory class, but women were less likely to get an A or A+ [4]. A small study of elementary students showed that girls and boys did equally well on easy problems, but boys did better on hard problems [5].

[0]: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

[1]: Compare these tables for math and computer science: https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/pdf/tab34.pdf and https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/pdf/tab33.pdf

[2]: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/136/1/103/; PDF https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole_Else-Quest/publi...

[3]: http://www.pd.infn.it/~lacaprar/ProgettoScuola/Biblio/gender...

[4]: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED384389.pdf

[5]: http://ase.tufts.edu/DevTech/publications/Sullivan_Gender%20...
> I believe the majority of people working on open source projects are like me: they work on things someone pays them for but do not have the time to do anything for someone else.

To be fair, I've also occasionally had people pay me to add features to my project. However, most of the work I've done has been volunteer, at no charge.

Also, I'm not sure I agree that the majority of people working on open source projects are like you. Perhaps the more popular projects have one or two individuals working like you, but even then, there are a lot of commits coming in from volunteers. At least, that's my impression from the frontend community (JavaScript) and functional programming communities (Scala, Haskell, etc.).
Why it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer over his now viral memo
One time I was debugging a problem for a user of our desktop software (I work on https://expo.io) by sharing his screen and taking over his computer. And it turned out the reason the user was having problems was that in his /etc/hosts file, he had an entry pointing localhost at the IP address of some other computer on his network. Crazy. I have no idea how anything worked on his machine.

Took a while to track that was down. Was both bewildering and sort of satisfying to figure it out in the end.
The parent’s comment, which you claim is “abhorrent” and ignoring science, states:

> There's nothing in his evidence about women's personality traits that can lead you to the conclusion that they're necessarily underrepresented in STEM and in computer science.

Please explain where in either of your sources it says that women should be underrepresented in STEM and computer science - at all (why not the other way around?), let alone to anywhere near the extent seen today.

Hint: nowhere. Getting to there from personality quizzes is the unsubstantiated logical leap the parent was talking about.
I'm not so sure deciding things based on a hard coded list of models is such a clever idea. It smells like the UserAgent header on the web.
Depends. Is it a subject or an object?
A fair number of current active large fires aren't expected to be contained for weeks:

https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/

(clicking the markers brings up an info window with expected containment dates)
I think most people I know in my friend circle also think this way. It's when people change later in life that the old reasons you had for wanting to be together need to change as well. The more well rounded the friendship, the longer it can last, and its why a relationship based mostly on sexual chemistry end the fastest.

I also don't think romantic relationships NEED to be lifelong. I definitely know some people who are hardwired to only last a certain amount of time in a relationship no matter what. shrug
Reading a sqlite database using client-side JavaScript
Fair enough, I should have read your comment more charitably — as perhaps you could have of your parent's.

They were being somewhat hyperbolic but the sentiment was more along the lines of "Euclid is approachable for anyone, not just maths people" than "if you haven't read Euclid, you won't understand proofs."

Like your parent, I also took a Euclidean geometry course during undergrad and still cite it as one of my favourites. There's something beautiful about striping mathematics back its foundations and building it back up with just a ruler and a compass.
"While the author used dubious rhetorical tactics (e.g. stating scientific "facts" without citation), he was never hostile towards any one person or group of people."

Most of the members of those groups would highly disagree with you. Most of the female Google employees who have expressed opinions about it on twitter are quite angry over it. And, regardless of how it was meant, saying that a third of the people at the company don't deserve to be there is hostile.
I don't think this is actually how hiring works at Google.
For one thing, it assumes that a small alleged "biological difference" is sufficient to explain a gigantic observed effect. If we were to suppose that this difference translated directly into a difference of precisely the same magnitude in programming competence, it still would not be enough to account for the amount of skew observed in actual gender ratios in programming.

The supposedly rational author and his supposedly rational fans apparently are happy to overlook this, however. Running the numbers and figuring out what the expected skew would be seemingly has not crossed their minds.

And a larger problem is that this is not the first time someone has made such an argument. It's been made before, many times, in other fields, and was eventually demonstrated to be false: massive disparity turned out to be more a function of bias in hiring and performance evaluations than anything else. The classic example, once again, is classical music, where the very same "women just are naturally less inclined" and "biological differences mean men are just on average better" arguments used to be trotted out to explain gender disparity. Then the classical-music world started using blind auditions (where evaluators could hear a candidate's performance, but not see the candidate or know the candidate's gender until after completing their evaluation). And suddenly... the gender ratio shifted significantly.

Music was one of the first fields to undergo this shift, but wasn't the last. And yet the author of this manifesto seems blissfully unaware of the precedent from other fields where similar arguments were trotted out. Or, to be as charitable as possible, fails to explain why programming deserves to be a special singular exception to the trend of fields arguing "biological differences" and getting served with proof that it was actually bias all along.

And largest of all is the problem that this alleged biological difference, if it were an explanation, would earn a Nobel prize for anyone who could prove it, because within living memory programming had a very different gender ratio (both for programming jobs, and university computer-science enrollment). So this biological difference would have had to have evolved extremely recently, and spread through the human population with incredible rapidity, including likely being CRISPR'd into women who already were working as programmers or studying CS, in order to un-qualify them for it.

In other words, it falls apart on even the most superficial examination of its claims. There is no "taboo" or "facts nobody's allowed to talk about" or "politically incorrect but everybody knows it's true" here. There's just an incredibly shoddy argument which has been debunked more times than anyone cares to count, and yet somehow is still accepted blindly by people who desperately want a justification for tech's gender ratio that doesn't include "this industry discriminates against women".
See my post above. ORBX schema and formats submitted to mpeg must be usable by anyone and everywhere with only an MIT license (same as lua which we use script nodes in the graph). I was told this is fine, but that they need it as a tier 1 MPEG license (their equivalent as I understand it).
Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S
I find music by choose a word from the dictionary and listening to the top dozen results, or for searching for a song i really like then listening to the dozen or so results that come after it.
Beard vs. Taleb: Scientism and the Nature of Historical Inquiry
>Also, if I remember correctly, seamlessly integrating search and address bar was the thing that really made Chrome take off.

That was part of it. What's weird is that the Mozilla suite had the same thing before firefox even existed, in many ways firefox was a step backward. I believe opera did this years earlier too.
I am sure that laymen like it - because it seems to offer an "intuitive" picture of the wave-particle dualism.

Problem is, neither QFT nor modern deeper theories such as strings gain anything from this kind of metaphysical image.
So now you're telling me that the Rolex watch I bought for $30 a few years ago on Times Square could be counterfeit? :)

Exactly! I bought it as a novelty. It kept pretty good time for at least a few months.

And it was so silly easy to buy. There were people on the sidewalk with a bunch of watches. I said I wanted to pay $20 for nice Rolex. They produced one within seconds. I let them haggle me into paying a few dollars more.

I didn't cost Rolex any money because I wasn't about to pay $1,000 (or more, much more?) for a watch. I suppose Rolex would have a better case in the situation where someone is paying 50% of the genuine price and thinking he's getting a "deal" and not understanding that he's buying a fake.
Most people never install any extension from third-party sites. As long as Firefox keeps the search features as they are, very few will ever venture outside addons.mozilla.org.
I would want to kill myself over not knowing if my underwear were clean should I survive and had to be medically treated.
The guy has just alienated over a third of the company. Likely any of the women on his team don't trust him anymore.
I really don't think there are many people at all who are in a position to make use of the advice in the book, and of those who are I really don't think there are any who would actually benefit from it.

Gotta milk that survivorship bias though!
But why would the bank use the chain, the financial web of trust is already there and doesn't need to use a chain to facilitate internal or external transfers of monies. It would be a huge time sink with no real benefit to the consumer or the shareholders.
I'm having trouble understanding what you mean to imply here, or how it relates to likely crimes and GPS tagging. Could you elaborate?

Additionally, I am not sure how TREASUREMAP relates to the rest of your comment, as TREASUREMAP is essentially Shodan with more datasets included based on publicly available, commercially available, and collected data.

EDIT: Watching video now and I understand your interpretation of TREASUREMAP...this is bizarre...he appears to believe it is something else entirely. Here is the full presentation he referenced for context though (Warning: TS/SI): https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1301057/tm-m-402....
If you mean I'm contradicting myself, not sure: one thing is something being true or false, another is how you defend it and how capable you are of even taking in consideration that you might be wrong.
This update to the spec is a modest change that's largely a preemptive reaction to SHA1 being broken; large portions of BitTorrent are designed around the 20-byte length of a SHA1 checksum. They've decided to move forward with SHA256 truncated to 20 bytes to avoid incompatibilities with existing infrastructure such as the Mainline DHT.

Beyond the hashing algorithm, some important additions that were previously proposals without widespread use (e.g. merkle tree for hashing pieces) are becoming required. The focus has mostly been on optimizing latency for the P2P protocol and making sane improvements to the file spec. I feel like trackers were largely overlooked in this update, but I'm biased because I work on a popular tracker.

Ideally, BitTorrent would be broken down into separate specifications that could be used together or in separate systems: one for the file format and piece representation for sharing files, one for the P2P protocol, and one for discovery (trackers, DHTs). I want to believe that there would be far more interesting P2P projects if you could just lift robust primitives from BitTorrent.
That's what little parts boxes with lots of separate compartments are for.[1] That's one of my projects.

[1] http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,43672.25.htm...
Hey, Firefox's still alive and kicking. It's quite ancient, comparatively speaking. :-)

Old wisemen may refer to it as a fire-breathing reptile, others a bird clad in flames. And despite suffering from declining market share in recent years, prophecy foretold that it will one day rise from the red ashes, stronger and more resilient than ever!

(Apologies for running away with the joke)
"He gave it to Eliot and me," is correct.

"Eliot and me gave it to him," is not.

"He gave it to Eliot and I," would be an example of hypercorrection.
I don't think that changes the previous statement. It just changes the value of truth. Maybe not self correcting, but certainly self regulating towards the new normal as set out by regulatory constraints.
1. I could not find the source stating that gender ratios were identical before the 80's in engineering. I do know that there used be a more even ratio of male/female programmers but I think the field has changed enough from those times that I would be wary of anyone claiming to make an apples to apples comparison.

2.His points about what makes a good engineering manager skips over the fact that to get good at engineering you have to practice it a lot. You have to spend a significant amount of time alone coding/engineering to grasp well enough that understanding the customer starts mattering a lot more. The guy that wrote the post seems to come from a perspective of so much experience and talent that he forgot or perhaps doesn't even know how hard it is go get started in the field.

3. I think the part about alienating women comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of the manifesto and probability in general. Saying that women in general are less interested or less capable to be a google enginner says essentially nothing about the individuals before you. Trying to infer qualities of an individual from a distribution is racism but making statements about distributions shouldn't be. You can only talk about the whole distribution of google employees and perhaps justify(or fail to justify) the imbalance. Obviously, being a google employee is a much more informative prior than the gender of an individual.
Seems like a cool project if you already know Clojure and hate the start up time, but also seems like it sidesteps one of the main benefits of Clojure which is Java interop obviously... Which Clojure has to do a fair number of handsprings to accomplish. Begs the question, why pick Clojure as the lisp to compile to C++? Why not Racket or Common Lisp etc?
A huge problem in Australia as you probably know where we do get quite a few bush-fires is down to the huge build up in combustible materials. This'd be a fairly modern problem in that the indigenous peoples used to do a lot of the house-keeping by actually setting controlled fires and managing the bush in a sustainable way for themselves. Would that also have been the case for your own indigenous population? It's so bloody dry and the bush is like a tinderbox, lightning strikes certain times of year now cause incredible destruction where years ago they'd have burnt out a few hundred acres and been done with, creating sort of natural corridors and that. I can certainly attest to the speed at which fires move having watched them leaping gorges and seeing sparks dance like sprites across the highway in front and back of my car from a fire a half mile away, fair near shat my pants I can tell you. The fire itself creates its own great wind - you can feel the heat in it. It drives itself along as fast as a car. Far as I know, native animals run towards the fire rather than away from it, and many if not most do escape out the back.
Is that the official reason though? "The service cannot be stopped even for planned maintenance" doesn't sound like a reasonable constraint.
What a pleasure it is to have this forum where people can zero in on loose language and logical fallacies. I do not mean this sarcastically in the least.
Finding the right life partner requires a series of filters. For me, those filters were: 1) quality of conversation; 2) ability to share work; 3) trust and reliability; 4) physical attraction. Not necessarily in that order, but long-term, the conversation and ability to collaborate with someone on the joint project of a household or family are way up there in what to look for. You definitely talk and work with each other a lot more than you moon and snuggle, so you should find someone you like to talk and work with if you want to like your life. It's really hard, though, because when you're attracted to someone physically or just desperate for sex it's a lot easier to fool yourself into thinking that their conversation is really interesting, when in fact you're just high on pheromones.