skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a case where Facebook will do poorly. I'm not sure if there are studies done on this, but it does feel nicer when I get a preroll ad or something unobtrusive on YouTube (and of course no ads on Netflix) when compared to the midroll ads on traditional tv or on certain YouTube videos (it's so rare for me though that I thought I had accidentally clicked a different video when a mid roll ad appeared on my phone). Doing 'ad breaks' seems like it is a worse way to handle advertisement, because a user can just go to a different tab and wait, and easily rewind if they accidentally miss some content unlike on traditional tv where you can't just rewind and the incentive to change the channel is less because you can't switch to something like Hacker News on the tv and read a quick article or couple comments during the ads.
Seems like it was formerly right-hand drive and the guys who moved it to the left switched the pedals for some reason. I don't believe it came from the factory like this.
Oh, they will be discovered and disclosed, just not to Salesforce or the public but to "interested third parties".
So the challenge for the AI would be to figure out which action to do with the limited supply of actions and time.
As someone who uses WebRTC to deliver real value (I'm an engineer @ Peer5 YC W17) - this abuse of WebRTC is awful.

I think WebRTC related tooling should get a lot better - and extensions should be able to hook into WebRTC calls just as easily as they do to regular functions.

Websites can just grab a fresh copy of RTCPeerConnection from a different realm anyway (an iFrame in this case) - it looks like uBlock is mostly stuck (unless it prevents sites from opening said realms).
The thing is, should CS ever become a shrinking field, it will suddenly be skewed by older people because of the same dynamic, and then all these natural talent arguments will go out the window.

This is primarily a queueing problem for the industry as a whole. In the U.S., the median worker age is about 43, but the median age of software developers is 40, or 3 years younger than average. (https://www.bls.gov/cps/demographics.htm)

I really think this 3 year discrepancy is because of the queueing dynamics.

Now, in silicon valley, it's a bit of a different story -- maybe. But a lot of silicon valley developers live a bubble and are shocked to discover that 1) Almost all programmers in the U.S. live outside the valley, and 2) The median programmer age is not 29.

So then you have to ask yourself what is it about the valley that makes it skew younger. Then you look and see that it's not the entire valley that skews younger, but companies like Google skew much younger than firms like Oracle or HP. One might almost say that these companies have a younger "culture". Now all of a sudden, the natural abilities argument start to seem weaker.

Now, for gender, if the national skew of women/men software developers was 50/50, but at google it was 80/20, I'd be asking questions about what is going on with google. But Google has a similar skew to the national average. Therefore talking about large group differences is at least plausible.

So once the median age at google for developers is more in line with the median age of developers at other companies -- e.g. closer to 40 -- then we can start discussing whether the difference between 40 and 43 (median age of all workers vs. programmers) is due to group differences (which I don't believe) or just queueing effects.

Again, I don't want to say that Google is intentionally discriminating. Maybe developers stay in the same company, so older companies have older developers and younger companies have younger developers. I think there is some truth to that. There are many possible reasons. But whatever reason you give, the national median age of software engineers is a full 10 years older than the median age of software engineers at Google, and that's something that bears looking into.
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I would definitely agree that A was to the left of B. I would also concede that B is to the right of A. But since the only label on the graph is an unidentified "Trait", I couldn't really comment any further.

What point are you trying to make?
If you look at the actual numbers of men and women in CS rather than just the percentage of women, you'll find that whatever happened in the early '80s affected both men and women. Before that, the numbers for both men and women were growing, with the women growing faster (hence the rising percentage of women). Then the numbers of both men and women started falling for several years, with women falling faster (hence the declining percentage of women).
Considering he was present at Defcon and could've simply talked to his employees he def. is a moron.
So, this is science too:

Inmate Gender - Male: 93.3% Female: 6.7% [1]

"In view of these overwhelming results measures must be taken to remove men from jobs where their predisposition to crime may have negative repercussions on society."

[1] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gende...
I'm trying to understand his motivations, maybe it is just naivety, but that he wanted to talk about something that was bothering him, and didn't understand why he couldn't (or shouldn't) talk about it publicly seems fairly typical of a condition like aspergers, is it possible he simply has something like that?

Either way the witch hunt needs to cease immediately.
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> By the way, in science and technology, conservatism is a minority ideology (he says so himself in his letter). How would he feel if we start saying that conservative people aren't apt for science and technology?

Nice find. As someone who doesn't identify as either liberal or conservative, if my ideology made me unsuited for tech, that should definitely be acknowledged. Pretending isn't helpful to anyone.

And I bet the author of the memo would agree with me in terms of his ideology (classical liberalism).
Not at all, it's completely open source, you can use any text editor you like, and develop on Windows/Mac OS/Linux.
When individual liberty isn't your prime directive, slippery slope collective behaviors that trample over the rights of individuals are inevitable.
> So I think unless there's someone who can point to greater evidence that this is an internal graph, there's just no reason to believe it is.

So I think unless there's someone who can point to the actual internal graph, there's just no reason to believe this is fake.

The distribution this poll shows is not so outlandish as to be unbelievable, and importantly it does not lend itself to overwhelmingly support one side over the other. Why would anyone spend time and effort to fake it?
I tend to think of it as "the blockchain is a mostly read-only database, smart contracts are stored procedures that can read & write a small part of it".

The benefit over a regular database is that everyone gets to see what the data and stored procedures are, so you don't have to take someone elses word for that part.

Also, there's a built-in payment system, which is handy sometimes.

It doesn't solve interacting with the rest of the world, you still need an external system for that, just like with most databases.
> What's interesting about these concept cars, is that they sometimes get built if they generate enough interest. I believe this is how the new VW Beetle came about, and I suspect what nudged BMW to bring out the new mini.

Audi TT, Peugeot 206 CC, Chevy Volt, Ford's new GT40, the New Beetle (Concept One), BMW's i8 (EfficientDynamics), the Boxster, the Model S was originally a concept/show car.

These are usually the tamer concept cars though.
The memo wasn't published. It was leaked. Whoever leaked it is the one who damaged Google's reputation. They then damaged it more when they claimed they respect diversity and then fired the guy in response to mob outrage.

The damage to Google's reputation here is on them. Almost by definition.
To me, the best feature of Firefox compared to Chromium (both out of the box, no extensions. not sure if there are extensions that could help) is the address bar. Firefox does a fuzzy search into your browsing history and if you visit the same sites often, the suggestions are quite good.

Contrast this with Chrome, where the idea behind address bar user experience seems to be maximizing the number of Google searches done.

But the one that really keeps me on Firefox is Vimperator. It's the best keyboard oriented browser UI in mainstream browsers. The extensions available for Chrome are nowhere near as good (last time I tried).

The worst part of Firefox is the terribly long startup time. It can take up to 10 seconds after a reboot and takes quite a long time even with warm caches. Chromium startup is near instantaneous.
>Your experience is irrelevant, because we're talking about a particular case, not a hypothetical website.

It's also true in this case. WSWS is a political and a ideological advocacy site with a non-mainstream interpretation of world history. If you want an objective view of the Russian Revolution, this is not the site you would go to - so I have no issues with Google tuning their search engine to suppress them in the search results for those kinds of queries.
Off topic (apologies in advance, I know it's usually poor form for HN threads) but are there any tools out there to analyse text and identify redundancies? This sentence could have been omitted and I'd be just as well informed about "Watch":

> Shows are made up of episodes - live or recorded - and follow a theme or storyline.
I use Firefox "awesomebar" keywords so "w" for Wikipedia, etc. (I think Chrome has this too), so I don't gain anything really with DDG's keywords on most searches.
Someone needs to make physical Shenzhen I/O components, maybe powered by arduino. Then we can have fun putting them together like Legos.
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after watching his hour long interview with jordan peterson, it's almost certain. he was painfully awkward. if not aspergers, he must have zero social iq.
It's probably going to depend on the Supreme Court now, since other circuit courts have issued opposing decisions. Here's one from the last time I remember it being discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13672482

IANAL, but one interesting consequence of this ruling might be that it will embolden police since they can point to it as evidence that the right to film police is not clearly established and, even if the Supreme Court rules it's unconstitutional for police to prevent filming, the officers are still deserving of qualified immunity when preventing that constitutional right.
I don't see it as so black and white. Sure, zero trust is the ideal, but there are potentially benefits even there's some trust involved. For example, I saw a headline indicating that Unicef was going to experiment with block chain technology and asset management. Charity strikes me as particularly suitable domain since benefactors are understandably concerned about how their donations are being used and there's little need or even desire for secrecy. Block chain could provide an unparalleled degree of transparency and accountability even if the humans in control of the private keys ultimately need to be trusted. "Trust but verify" as Reagan said, and it would help a great deal with the latter if not the former.
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I have no doubt about that, but I totally sure nobody logging every running server at all times. On other side commercial VPN services...
It seems to mostly come down to differences in how things are defined. DNS itself can handle almost arbitrary data https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2181#section-11, while an Internet Hostname was defined to be more strict https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#section-2. The same issue also exists with dashes at the end of domain components.

I'm not enough of a history boffin to know how Microsoft came to support it differently (perhaps something from the Netbios and NT era). At this point in time though, I don't see either party changing their default validations to agree on a single definition.

Edit:
If you're curious, this is the first commit that appears to be the first glibc commit limiting dashes at the end of URLS https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=fa0bc.... I don't know about BSD libc, or windows however.
This claim is entirely unsubstantiated. In fact it is pretty much the opposite of the theses in Fred Brooks' "Mythical man month".

I'm not saying Brooks is 100% correct, but his observations are close to what I am seeing in the field.
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I would love to use Firefox for it's privacy credibility, the Awesome Bar and to prevent monopolization of the Web.

Unfortunately 2017 is the year of the CPU usage apocalypse on the Web. Go to this insane Guardian page, scroll down a page, and observe what happens for a minute or two perhaps scrolling down some more: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/10/adele-vocal-cor...

The numbers keep jumping around a lot, but very roughly what I'm seeing is this:

Safari: 2% - 8%
Chrome 50% - 150%
Firefox 150% - 250%

(100% is one CPU core. I'm not using any ad-blockers)

Obviously, these numbers are non-deterministic and depend on the individual ads that are being displayed. But the numbers are roughly representative of what I've been seeing over the last couple of months.
Unfortunately it needs a huge amount of work to be production ready. I'd love to see it wrapped up in python though and I'll be continuing to work on it. The main issue you will run into is that the number of triangles computed from the keypoints is n^3 (where n is the number of keypoints), So currently it will take far too long to match large images. I have a few ideas on how to solve this but none of them have lead to quick and easy solutions...yet

I'm currently working on an improved method for getting 2D affine invariant keypoints because the current one just barely works. After that I will be working on handling the scaling issue.
WSWS? Oh yeah. It's an extreme left site that makes no attempt at any objectivity.
> The Finnish language lacks a specific word for "please"

Now I see where the Klingon language drew some of its inspiration. :D
Ask HN: Does per-second billing make sense for GPU Instance?
Assume that you can provision a GPU instance in EC2 in 10 seconds, and they charge you by seconds, not hours.

Does this make sense to your AI/ML project? If the job takes hours or days to finish?
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Say hello to Fiat 126, still a semi-common sight on Polish roads. When I was a kid my parents had one and I remember it fitting 5 people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_126
I'm sorry but "scientific" is a pretty big exaggeration here even from a purely methodological standpoint. the dude does start out trying to support some of his assertions (albeit seriously misrepresenting at least one of his sources and using others that are literally Experimental Design 101 textbook examples of how not to run experiments) which I guess could be construed that way, but he then supplies no evidence for his conclusions. Note the almost complete lack of citations or experimental support in the "Suggestions" section pointing to studies showing his ideas would positively impact the problems he claims to care about, the lack of any sort of failure-analysis or exploration of alternatives or discussion outside of the thesis of his argument. he just states some premises and jumps to a list of unsupported
and barely related conclusions. this can hardly be read as anything other than a list of political grievances and I don't understand why people keep describing this as if it were some sort of scientific endeavor.
Let's not pretend he didn't know what he was doing. There are textbook examples about people who blast off a rant to the entire company and then are somehow surprised when it becomes public (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...).
There was an original Mini parked outside my house for the last few days, it really strikes you how small it is compared to modern cars.

My sister had a Mini, it was really bare-metal. The modern Mini I drove last year felt like an armchair, a very very different experience for me.
I find it disturbing that somebody would even consider switching to the alt-right over this. Do people not have deeply-held beliefs anymore? Personally, that is a line that I would never, under any circumstance, cross, even if I was the one who got fired and blacklisted. It is a non-negotiable position.
> He even stated 'Neuroticism' as a trait women are predisposed to, which could've been pulled right out of an argument for why women shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Did you read this article? Or references linked by the original memo? Even this article clearly points out that "neuroticism" thing is pretty much established, accepted, and uncontroversial science.
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So you're saying that he stated some science, which you're not disputing, and then made an argument from those grounds that moved from science into politics, and you don't agree with the argument he made.

That's not anti-science, attempting to root your discourse in science is absolutely pro-science. At best you can say that the parts which led on from the science were "non=science" - well yeah, by definition.
I concur completely. It's a ridiculous thing to drive in this day and age.

Then again my Land Rover series 3 wasn't much safer. If you rolled it, you would lose everything above your stomach :)

Trying not to crash it was the only safety feature.
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> Isn't that obvious...

Not immediately obvious to me. An agent could calculate the entangled state of themselves (including brain particles), the system and the measuring apparatus. This overall entangled state would in principle be pure, although the agent's own reduced state would be in a superposition which could be written in one of an infinite number of ways. What the agent should expect to experience in this situation is not at all clear, to me.

> Don't you get that same problem with other interpretations...

Most other interpretations have an explicit postulate relating physical probabilities to parts of the mathematical formalism. The agent can use this to make predictions about future observations.
We use ZFS (on Linux) clones to instantly fork a read-only replica of our production database, to create r/w copies. We also currently have these upgraded in-place to 9.6 (we're still on 9.5) for testing.

Docker-compose and a makefile make it all very straightforward.
A bit off topic, but I've especially wondered this about large motorcycles (both superbikes and choppers). Many of those models are so incredibly loud in everyday traffic, I can't believe they passed those tests.

I mean, supercars are rare enough and usually not that loud unless you push them (I guess this could be a way to stay within regulations), but some of those bikes can drown out other noise even when accelerating normally from a stop.
In a capitalist world where food could not be sold or traded for consideration, I believe we would obviously not have restaurants/supermarkets and it seems very likely either more people would need to be farmers and/or more people would starve.

Is that also a problem with capitalism, or a problem with "not capitalism"?
> Photoshop frees a lot of people from the inability to express themselves in the exact way they want.

It's not quite as binary.

Creative urges and most other human endeavours do not exist in a vacuum.

If you are at a friend's house--say a fellow artist, and he shows you how to effortlessly create new art with Photoshop. You might be impressed and enthused and say: "This is great! I want to be part of this," but your artist-friend would have to say: "I'm sorry, but I can't give you a copy, I promised I wouldn't do that" or, more likely, he would have to break laws to support you in your enthusiasm.

Now, had your friend be using GIMP he would gladly have given you a copy. Not only because he's your friend and wants to support you creatively, but also because more users generally leads to more development and a better program. He's not just helping you, he's helping himself as part of a greater creative community.

So no, Photoshop doesn't completely free you. Someone would have to break the law, or you would have to submit yourself to an arbiter to ask them if you can be part of their community. Usually they just ask for money and a promise not to let anyone else be part of that community without referring those people to them.

Free Software lets you share your ambitions without breaking laws or referring to an arbiter. It's a decision you have to make for yourself, but one choice does not free more people to express themselves by default, even if it might feel more free towards your own person at a particular time, but that freedom is not transitive.
I really don't like how you characterize younger people able to work longer hours as something to do with motivation or drive. That's not the deciding factor, as many founders, including technical ones, of startups are well into their 30s. The reason older people can't work as long hours is simply because they often have families and other responsibilities when compared to someone in their early 20s.

I also disagree that they're less costly due to their age. It's due to the lack of experience that commands a higher salary. I also think creativity is not related to age, again because many startup founders are 30s or older.

As far as company culture, do you mean outings? You don't have to have a family to not want to participate in outings. Also for 'bonding': why do you think many younger professionals can have mentors well older than them?

The only thing I could think of that might be a factor is that as you age, it is somewhat more difficult to learn new things as your brain is less malleable, so you may be slightly slower at picking up something completely new if you're 40 compared to 20. I would argue this isn't a factor though because most programming languages and systems are pretty similar, especially at startups.
That the value on the y axis, for those two points taken from presented distributions, is the fucking same...

It's hard to make that point even more obvious.
The Espace was conceived of a bit earlier, in the mid-70s.

PSA (Peugeot Citroën) could actually have owned it: the project was a partnership between Matra and Simca (originally concepted by Chrysler UK), PSA acquired Simca in '78 but found the Espace project too risky and expensive so they left it to Matra, which brought it up with Renault.
5 seconds boot + per-second billing is the killer feature.
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