skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original comment was flagged to oblivion, but I'm assuming it quoted one of the ones on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_..., in which case - unless you feel inclined to start yet another Wikipedia edit war - it will probably not "be forgotten with the rest of the mental trash".

I too hope that nobody actually uses such a mnemonic in this day and age, but for such a mnemonic to be forgotten entirely would be a massive loss. Whitewashing the past of its blatant racism and sexism will only serve to erase the reminders we as a society have of why the present is an improvement on the past. Every artifact of such archaic and abhorrent beliefs serves as yet another datapoint demonstrating the whole concept of "Mak[ing] America Great Again™" to be misguided at best and abhorrent at worst.

In other words: we absolutely shouldn't be teaching such a mnemonic in classrooms, but we absolutely should continue to document their existence as evidence of exactly how fucked up the past really was.
The current plan has U2F shipping as soon as Firefox 57.
Purely aesthetics. I'm a weirdo, but a pretty UI really enhances my development experience. I'll use a less functional product if it pleases my pupils, like Hyper over iTerm2. (Not saying insomnia is less functional, it's just very pretty :)
Completely right. I hope this is not banned because it is worth the read.
U2F and Yubikeys if you're serious about it.
GVFS has been working for years, but it's not even used related to the linux kernel at all. It's actually a GNOME-thing.
I don't see the problem in having more women than what one would find in a natural distribution. There is no reason a natural distribution should be followed.
I'm more concerned about the fat more than the app.

How will you install a webapp version of Adobe Photoshop? Will you download multi-GB every time you use it?
Nope, people that choose the $300 are now earning an extra 3600 per year. Explain to me how that's just a psychological difference.
Pay attention to this project and volunteer if you wish - https://voice.mozilla.org/ - it may be a big thing for Mozilla
No matter which side of the argument you're on, I think we can agree that this guy is naive to think he can turn the general opinion about his actions around by appearing in a live interview.

I'm glad he did it though.
A successful lawsuit isn't the point. alt-right celebrity is the point, and he's got that in spades now.
If we wait that long there will be rioting in the streets around the world. Better to consider things ahead of time
You need about $250 minimum in credits to make a $12/day commute viable via lyft line. If they gave everyone $250/month in credits, I bet the parking issue would of reduced itself significantly.
No, that's in a comment.
Statement and Questions Regarding an Indian Court’s Order to Block Archive.org
I agree that there is a value discussion to be had; but, practically speaking, we might be able to push it off for a while. If the pro diversity camp would actually engage with the science, I believe they will find that most of the disparity we see between the genders is due to societal influences. Further, we would likely find that portions of our society are unnecessarily optimized for males [0]. If the pro diversity camp would spend there efforts dealing with those issues, we could kick the value discussion decades (or possibly generations) down the road. In the mean time, we will get relatively uncontroversial social progress faster.

[0] Or, almost equivalently, there exists additional optimizations to better accommodate females that we have not done, giving males an unnecessary advantage.
> Money prevents it. Of course datacenter could toggle logging for particular server, but logging everything is very expensive.

They'll absolutely log a particular server if a law enforcement agency requires that they do so, and they'll bill the agency for it, so money isn't a factor.
He mentioned there is scientific evidence that males tend to like "things" while females tend to like "people". I've heard this before on HN...can someone point me to this research?
Which nations? The only country which would be even comparable to US in terms of connectivity, healthcare and education quality, UK is still lagging behind US in all these matters. Good luck trying to get decent LTE or even 3G in London, or a proper timely healthcare for anything relatively complicated.

Are the other nations which are ahead in US in these areas which I am missing?
Smart contracts are being suggested as the building block of "autonomous corporations" (implying "do anything!") yet nearly anything meaningful basically has to interact with the real world through agents external to the contract for most business cases. Given this severe limitation, could someone clarify what the whole shebang is supposed to be about?

I actually saw Vitalik speak last week or so here in Shenzhen came away less convinced than ever of their theoretical utility for anything but a tiny fraction of users.

In short, adding a decentralized network of paid/incentivized actors to any existing potential cryptographic problem space (a fair rough summary of the smart contract notion?), in particular the subset relevant for most businesses, doesn't seem to solve anything particularly well and typically decreases critical measures of engineering elegance such as simplicity, comprehensibility, predictability, etc. while increasing negative measures such as technical lock-in to piles of rapidly evolving technologies for which hiring and building is expensive and error-prone.
what now we're claiming google is some champion for PC culture? they're in the middle of a massive investigation by the department of labor for systemic wage discrimination against their female employees, I don't see how that's exactly championing the kind of PC culture you're talking about.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/dol-goo...
Interesting that sharding by customer for a sass business is the example of the best use of sharding. That can also go very wrong - what if you get a huge customer that's as big as everyone else combined? You're effectively maxed out at 2 shards.

Definitely depends on the workload, but often the "micro service" approach (whether or not it's a true micro service in its own runtime) of sharding just one type of data/small set of related tables that you can shard by a primary key or user id or something seems like the only reasonable option for sharding. If your data is becoming unwieldy there's often a bottleneck data set that's bigger than everything else so you don't necessarily have to share everything all at once.
HTTPS or HTTP; archive.org is not blocked across india,misleading & incorrect post title.
Nextdoor gets into real estate listings for monetization
I live in an Eastern European country and most software companies, web development agencies etc. assume that because I'm "old" (32 years old), I can only use Spring, non-object-oriented PHP and other old technologies and that I don't know what React, Angular, Rails etc. are. I have a GitHub account with some projects but nobody looks at it, my date of birth is more important for everyone.
vBulletin and their ilk do this almost as a rule. The corner logo is always to the board index and no company link anywhere.
I don't think the disagreement in the case of the memo is about facts. Few outlets that reported on this controversy even seem to have read the memo, nor are the criticisms of it I have read based on facts (or on words).

They seem to be based on the idea that the writer has drawn the wrong conclusion. The facts or lack thereof seem to be irrelevant: if he had cited the same papers but made the opposite argument, he would have been fine.

The idea of scientists being some kind of arbiters of truth makes me very uncomfortable. The process of science is really messy. People want to publish surprising and extraordinary findings (which often turn out to be false, and the more extraordinary, the more likely this is). We have to publish or perish. And many other problems.

Over the long term, science finds truth. In the short term, it is quite unreliable. Scientists are tired of having their work used to support agendas, when in reality we only observe, and usually the observations don't even support the agendas they're being used for.

At this point, I think more and more scientists would prefer that science just be left out of politics. Politics appears to be a lost cause, far beyond any ability for facts or reason to be useful, and we have always done our best to leave politics out of science. To the left and right, I would just plead: leave us out of your petty squabbles and let us get on with advancing humanity's future. But I must admit there are some publicity-seeking members of this profession who undercut this hope.

To more directly respond to your post, there is an awful lot of confusion between what science says, and the value judgments derived from a combination of scientific observations and some ideology. I do not think the public, left or right, is generally capable of disentangling facts from their interpretations of the consequences of those facts.
Yeah I actually took a small interest but good god, this is getting a thousand times more attention than it warrants.
You forgot the coda: "Takes advantage of controversy to enjoy fifteen minutes of fame. Arguments ensue. Nothing of value comes of it."
>There's nothing left to complain about

He just needs to get his job back, get people in his industry not threatening him any more etc... Galileo also got the discussion he wanted, eventually.

>the strategy of denouncing media began with Trump

Wasn't the media accusing Trump of being openly racist and antisemitic etc, with headlines like "If Trump wins, say goodbye to your black friends"[1]? The least I can say is that the media had a part in making this too easy for Trump.

> From time to time, someone asks me to frame my point in a way that is more to their liking

I think what Damore could reasonably be asking for is to not get fired, and not get threatened by higher ups, if he voices an opinion that would have been fine (and probably supported) had it been an equivalent left-wing position.

[1] http://www.salon.com/2016/11/08/if-trump-wins-say-goodbye-to...
If I had a connection anywhere near that fast I'd do (and have done) many of the things listed. The problem for me and many others is that many ISPs don't allow those activities. I work from home and value a solid connection, but I'm on the slowest fiber offered, 20Mb both ways.

I don't need more speed, I need more freedom to use what I have.
Even though it seemed to work out overall for the company, it seems like employee carpooling via Lyft Line would be a less risky solution, especially at the end of the day when you all can be picked up at the same location.
I did a google search: "Men and things, women and people: a meta-analysis of sex differences in interests."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19883140
Okay, slipping into my bomb-squad EOD suit to comment on this topic. But, seriously, the more I read about Damore, the more it seems like this was a cunning plan to get fired and then sue the roller-hockey pants off Sergey Brin and Co.

While much has been made of a Harvard education being no substitute for social intelligence, Damore is no slouch and really does just seem like a disgruntled employee who devised an almost surgical peace-out that would ensure he was compensated for life. This will be one interesting lawsuit.
yeah, so's the fact that they're under investigation by the DoL for wage discrimination against their female employees but I'm pretty sure everyone who agrees with that rant probably thinks it's just because of some supposed biological reason.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/dol-goo...
> Are those places happier without me?

Probably. I would guess that paying for parking is a rather good way to filter for people that are there to spend money.
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I'm not sure - you are implying that ISPs don't want faster internet? Why would it be in their interest not to have faster offerings?
> Like pull requests, issues can be relevant for multiple repos, and might need to be moved around

Not sure about the Linux kernel (no enough experience) but same issue across multiple projects looks something necessary...
Here's an interesting filter to apply to this map: all of the innovative music from the last 100 years originated in the triangle between Memphis, New Orleans and Nashville—blues, jazz, R&B, rock and roll, and country. All of those genres were born in that small geographical area. It's the Silicon valley of modern music. You could also argue that hip hop is a permutation of blues/r&b.
There is no shebang. I haven't found a decent use case for smart contracts either. I'm no hawk but "coin" seems less than fiat to me.
Not really, if they're free and you just randomly give them out then it doesn't allow the power of the market to sort out who really wants a spot vs. who doesn't really care.
I like the discussion. I think the point about software being significantly "people centric" is a bit off base and betrays the authors lack of experience in the field. Working with people is certainly part of the job and in some roles maybe a large portion of the work. Being a good communicator is an important part of being a good developer, but it doesn't make you a good developer. Being a talented and experienced programmer is the foundation on which the rest is built.
Thanks. I was careless in my text search.
This guy sounds like a joker with no understanding of information theory.
So which is it? Is the market irrational, or are employers getting away with more "mistreatment" and lower wages if they hire younger people?
Please consider donating to help get James Damore back on his feet and gainfully employed again: https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/james-damore-official-fun...

This could have been any of us.
High-Heel Heaven (2000)
Wait, how do you give ISPs money for service faster than their current offerings? Do you mean they are subsidized by the government, but after receiving subsidies to expand bandwidth they do not? Any source to that?
Allow me to introduce the Thinkpad X61 keyboard:

http://i.imgur.com/JitlIPa.jpg

That's a dedicated "go back" button between up arrow and right ctrl.

My webmail is unusable without Lazarus. I've taken to composing in emacs and pasting the result into forms.
Thanks for posting it. Some interesting questions.
Needs to be updated a bit, looks like it was created 15 years ago.
he's a potential whistleblower about their discriminatory hiring practices. the ceo very publicly condemned him prior to his termination; a possible case for retaliation. if the lawsuit goes to trial, they will compel discovery, which would probably be more expensive than a 7-8 figure payout.
Or, more likely, much of that would turn out to be false if you bothered to check if your assumptions were true with a some research. A few companies like IBM and Google actually have tried to do such research, but most people just make it up like you're doing.

There's an exceptionally long history of companies making terrible assumptions about who to hire. Just look back a few decades ago at all the companies shocked to learn women did just fine.
I am an Australian in Sydney with a Californian contract. Both parties can walk at any time.
I was at this past DEFCON, we had cell sites named "Arnold's Biggest Scam" and "AT&T Totally 1337 Tower".
There are others, but those two were prominent because I could access them in my room lol.
One of the hardest lessons learned at Toyota, according to their management, is that fully automated assembly lines eliminate a crucial opportunity for human ingenuity to intervene. That's why Toyota made a deliberate effort to retain and reintegrate 天才 engineers and mechanics on the line.

From a Quartz article in 2014:

So far, people taking back work done by robots at over 100 workspaces reduced waste in crankshaft production by 10%, and helped shorten the production line. Others improved axel production and cut costs for chassis parts.

“We cannot simply depend on the machines that only repeat the same task over and over again,” project lead Mitsuru Kawai told Bloomberg. “To be the master of the machine, you have to have the knowledge and the skills to teach the machine.”
Facebook is a big pain in the ass to get to other than by car or some other motor vehicle. A lyft office in SOMA has a lot more options.
Just today someone posted that they're about to get U2F in the main browser:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245527
Remember the old websites that displayed all their content entirely within a Flash application? You couldn't email links, bookmark pages, parse page content with automated tools, etc. That's what I'm worried about.

Somebody is going to come up with a CMS that "compiles" websites to monstrosity WASM applications. Hopefully the types of websites I interact with won't be the kinds for whom such a horrible idea has appeal.
I'll take up that challenge with https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10670 which provides quantitative data indicating that male abilities vary more than female ones, and this fact is sufficient to explain why men should be overrepresented in CEO boardrooms and prisons.
> This is not how "affirmative action" works. "Affirmative action" states that if you have two "equally" qualified candidates

If you can quantify candidates' capabilities, please start your money printing press.
"rarely run into driver issues"

My decade's worth of experiences having to transfer over wired (wired!) NIC drivers onto computers that are completely supported by the average Linux distro because Windows doesn't ship with them strongly suggests otherwise.

Windows has thankfully gotten better about this lately (e.g. in the Windows 10 era), but the continued lack of drivers in the default install is really annoying when said drivers are for devices that virtually every free operating system supports out of the box.
Apple iTunes/Apple ID pwd rules is really annoying.

Microsoft online service incl (based still on the decades old 1997's Hotmail login system is archaic) has an upper limit of 8 (or so) chars. (Office365/Outlook.com/etc)
> the 25/3 Mbps standard we propose would not even allow for a single stream of 1080p video conferencing, much less 4K video conferencing.

Could somebody explain to me why one needs 4K for video conferencing? No, I mean it'd be nice to have tons of bandwidth, but why 4K video conference is an absolute necessity? The article kinda makes it sound like not having 4K video conferencing is the state of absolute depravity and without it it can't be even called proper internet service. Can anybody explain it to me?
I think it's referring to this: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcin...
Whichever side you are on this is probably the most important topic discussed in this forum this week.

It is also very interesting to a large number of the audience.

Yet sadly there seems to be a number of people here who think they have a right to overrule everyone who upvote (and no, I'm not talking about the mods but about the flaggers.)
I use !s. Redirects it to Startpage instead. Google results, but it acts as a proxy.

On the homepage, https://www.startpage.com/, at the bottom it lists the security part a bit more.
No. The There are laws against the IRS reporting illegal income to other agencies. If you pay your taxes, the IRS has no problem with you, and any violation you have with another agency is not their problem.
I wonder if nano-relay logic based processors could handle the high heat better.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/mems-switche...
Actually, here's the U2F patch https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1388843
> Instead, we seek to design a system whereby computation can occur off-blockchain but ultimately enforcible on-chain

This seems to be the direction that blockchain and smart contract tech needs to go if it aims to be scalable. Conduct the vast majority of your business off-chain, and resort to the blockchain in the event of a dispute.

Kind of like how two parties in a business relationship will generally act on good faith, but may choose the nuclear option of legally enforcing a contract if the relationship sours.
Well, you can use stock OpenVPN, with firewall rules to prevent leaks. Or you can use pfSense as a VPN gateway VM.
Well, egg on my face then. What's the current choice?
I don't live in California, but I hear that if you do, and if you work in tech or academia, it is quite hard to find anyone in your social network who watches Fox News or listens to right-wing radio unironically. As I said, Damore doesn't need to fear for his life, but the people who have the greatest influence on his day-to-day wellbeing are absolutely willing to start a witch hunt as soon as he tries to argue for something that is not the Obvious Truth.

>I am baffled by the idea that liberals dominate discourse and conservatives have to hide in the shadows

So I guess you are quite surprised to find that the only people who work in tech in SV, and who put themselves on the side of Damore, do so pseudonymously, while the ones who argue against him do so in plain sight on twitter etc., with their professional identities?
I wouldn't consider it busywork. You don't have to sit and wait for the progress bar to move. Start the installation and go for lunch.
Nitpick: You can't /be/ a member of a protected class.

Protected classes are attributes that you can't discriminate against. Being black doesn't make you in a protected class, ethnicity is a protected class.
That's a nice theory, but I fail to see any evidence of it. I see lots of people cap out at senior engineer, cause that's how far you can get without having strong technical skills. Staff engineers, tech leads, and managers all get there because they're good communicators, and tbh, in those roles, their engineering skills are secondary.
On the stability of four legged tables (2006)
I think it's option 4: The media may have just found its next horse to beat, and will continue to do so for as long as people keep clicking on new stories about it, no matter how thoroughly dead and decomposed that horse may become in the meantime.
there's unfortunately not a significant scientific consensus on the issue by the psychology community at large due to the sheer number of confounding factors in these sorts of studies, and pretty much anybody who tells you there's a definitive answer is probably trying to sell you something
What's the intended audience for this? As a tech-savvy person, reading his commentary on TunnelBear completely discredited his site in my eyes. He talks about things that are completely irrelevant and are incredibly silly to even remotely care about from a VPN provider.

Despite his listed criteria at the top, the star ratings and rank order seem to be based on how the provider made him feel, and has nothing to do with actually how secure and privacy-protecting the provider is. (To be fair, though, without inside knowledge, it's hard to evaluate how up-and-up they are.) Based on his own metrics, PIA should be listed as #1, not #8; it's the only one that hits all nine of his "Important" list.

I'm completely baffled as to why this list was constructed as it is.

On a side note:

"First, I'm upset at Private Internet Access because I had to modify this site's CSS just for their needlessly long name."

Are you kidding me? Really?