skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that it is a particularly cruel fate to be unattractive, low status, while being intelligent enough to not only fully comprehend what they are missing but also to know the implacable foes of probability and physics that put them there. Geeks have the rawest quadrant of the distribution.

We finally carved out an enclave around the 80s where we could have a stable equilibrium with the rest of society, trading our specialized skills for goods at an arms length. But the normies greed and avrice knows no bounds. They burst into our very halls to throw us back out into the cold night. They demand we tithe all the fruits of our labours in recognition of the "natural order". They would make us beggars in our own kingdom.

Geeks are not aggressors in any us vs them sorting match. The hostility flows endlessly in one direction -- downhill -- from the haves to all the have-nots.

Meet us at the river fork every fall to trade, but do not harvest our gardens, hunt our animals, or cut down our homes for your firewood. Stay in your domain normie and we will stay in ours.
This effect is accelerating. After a certain point, everyone will have so much dirt to dig up that a few out-of-context comments from years past won't prejudice anyone much at all. In fact, the absence of dirt might become a little suspicious.
iPhone 8 will launch with iPhone 7s, limited to three colors and short supply
The author took great pain to distinguish between traits having a tendency to exist at higher rates within a group, and traits being exhibited by an individual. You don't seem to have comprehended his point. Barring diversity programs allowing members of select groups to pass a lower hiring/performance bar, a person sitting at the desk next to me at work is just as likely to be a competent engineer as anyone else, regardless of their gender. But if you were to take 1,000 women and 1,000 men from a young age and treat them precisely equally, there are strong scientific arguments that we should expect to see a larger number of the men go into tech than women.

To reiterate, this says precisely nothing about the qualifications and competency of individuals who actually enter tech, it only speaks to the relative number of men and women we ought to expect our workforce to be composed of. It could be that the natural result of equal opportunity for all men and women to enter tech is for there to be more than 50% men, possibly quite a bit more. Again, there is a lot of research that indicates this (for citations, see the "manifesto").
Interesting... if you make a chromium derivative, you need to pay for user's google API access. Or replace them with something else.
Sweeden and Norway, where battery performance is impaired by the colder climate. The next absurd thing would be Alaska announcing a ban of ICE vehicles after 2030.
And it's such a privilege to participate in the dialog between architecture and society.

(MIT dean of architecture on why inflicting a Frank Gehry building on CSAIL was worthwhile.)
AI Superstar Andrew Ng Is Democratizing Deep Learning with a New Online Course
Yes, I think a lot of that is attributed to not having a sense of purpose. Philanthropy is a good cure in that situation.

I believe the media's interpretation is that over $70,000 people cease to become happier, which is obviously false. Of course managers are trying to use that as a reason to stop paying people more.

Anyway, if you make more than $70K now, and you suddenly were reverted to making $70K, you wouldn't retain the same level of happiness (obviously), unless you were already wealthy. It makes for an juicy headline though.
> Africa on the other hand is a few dozen sovereign countries, without a common culture or language between them.They are constantly at war with each other and within each other.

I am on the ground in West Africa right now. I have been to 15 countries from Morocco to Gabon in 12 months, and will visit another ~22 in the next 12-18 months.

Your statement makes it clear you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Maybe what you said was correct in 1980, but things are changing faster than you can imagine.

There are 54 countries (not a few dozen), over 1.2 billion people in "Africa".

Your statement about war is so far from the truth it's laughable and absurd.

If you get your information from CNN and Fox, you need to stop. It is not giving you an accurate picture of how the world functions
This depends on a number of factors, including where you live and how long your commute is.

In California electricity is increasingly generated by renewables (~25% in 2016) with the goal of hitting 50% by 2030, which looks achievable. We actually have a surplus of renewables during the late afternoon that can cause power prices to go negative. Between this and conservation measures like insulation the impact of home energy use does not look that high. It's also getting better over time.

The big problem in California is transportation, which is still petroleum-based autos. You don't commute by car but many people do. Knocking that out is one of the best things you can do to combat global warming. For example my commute, which is about 50 miles generates between 60 and 80 pounds of C02 daily assuming 3-4 gallons. That's assuming a fuel-efficient car. (Fortunately I only do it a couple of days a week.) At some point the car will be electric but mass replacement of the fleet is still a long way off.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California
> You Waited Until The Exit Interview To Ask What’s Wrong

Also: You Fired The Employee When He Told You What's Wrong
CircleCI 2.0
You must be Mr.Spock. Incase you missed it, being human is being flawed.
Person sees an ad while browsing the internet

Person clicks ad

Person potentially buys something

Repeat
The FABRIK system is more stable and easier to implement. Check here for my review on FABRIK, plus pseudo-code: https://medium.com/unity3danimation/create-your-own-ik-in-un...
If net neutrality goes away, wouldn't it make sense for content providers like Netflix, Disney, and Amazon, to buy Comcast and other cable providers, or vice versa?
Wouldn't we see consolidation?

And then, (more) rent-seeking.
> This guy told a very large amount of his co-workers that they're inferior to him, and he posted it all over the Internet for everyone to see.

It was an internal memo, which someone else leaked.

Whoever leaked that memo was not fired though.
Mining protects all transactions that have occured not only those in the current block. But yes, long term the block size will need to increase or transactions will need to pay much higher fees (probably as a result of transaction aggregation, e.g. Lightning channels).
idlewords or not, that’s not true. Verbal sarcasm is usually 'marked' by its delivery. (Can you hear Homer Simpson's sarcastic voice in your head?) In my experience, seeing an explicit (sarcasm) at the end of a post has never ruined the post for me. Certainly I spotted the sarcasm here myself, but clearly many didn’t.
What is merit at work, though? How do you measure it? There aren't many employees (outside salespeople) who have revenue explicitly tied to their performance.

What if you have an employee who works in your data center and averts 3 days of downtime? Maybe that person provided $100,000 of value and no one will ever know except for her.
I haven't heard this perspective before. Can you elaborate?
What if the exchange rate were 1 BTC to 0.0000001 USD, wouldn't that effectively be a collapse?
I don’t understand. If nodes do not accept whatever the witnesses say is the true transaction history, why are the witnesses needed in the first place?

I know that it’s not possible for a witness to fake some users signature, and send these funds to themselves, but that’s not the attack we need to worry about. The attack we need to worry about is witnesses colluding to present a false history of transactions, such that the user’s funds (that the miners want) were never sent to that user in the first place, thus remaining the property of the coinbase owner. Since all coins originate as a coinbase, if witnesses go far enough back in time, all coins are theirs.
It's funny, reading this column, I can't help thinking of this as a new form of McCarthyism, where if you were seen to be a communist sympathiser, you would be fired and prevented from finding another job in the industry.
Right. And just look at Trump. He adamantly denied Obama's U.S. citizenship, joked about grabbing women by the genitals, made fun of a war vet for being captured, mocked a disabled person, etc. His wife has nude pictures. They're president and first lady. People are fed up with political correctness, and the bubble is starting to burst.
I think it might be relevant, this seems to indicate that google is hardcoding their API keys in the shipped chrome binaries. These exceeded, and broke functionality in the app. This seems like a bad security practice and it is very relevant to call it out here.
I feel the need to make a top level comment here.

I am in West Africa right now, have been to 15 countries in 12 months, and will visit another ~22 over the next 12-18.

CNN, Fox, the whole western media are not telling you the truth about life here. They are showing you the sensational stuff that makes headlines, nothing more. Because of that, anyone that has never been has very little information about the realities.

The comments in this thread are so far from the truth they are a disgrace. People are commenting here that clearly have no actual experience, and are just parroting what the media said about africa in the 1980s.
It is not the 1980s now.

Comments about constant war, "most African countries already have huge problems to provide even basic needs to already existing population", etc. just show how ignorant about the realities here people in the developed world are.

There is a massive, massive amount of development here, and hundreds of millions of extremely happy, friendly and kind people pulling themselves up into the middle class and beyond.

If you "think" otherwise I challenge you to come here and see for yourself. You will be utterly shocked (I was, after years and years of research and talking to >50 people who have done what I am doing now)
You know, that's a really hard one.

On the one hand I don't want a bunch of hateful thugs running about rallying actual hate normally. I just have to imagine if I were in a non western country and they had hate rallies against westerners, for example.

On the other hand, say in Venezuela or Cuba where politicians rally (or rallied) around hate for the US and US citizens, I mean, hateful as it is, should I want that suppressed forcefully?

Maybe more worrying is who gets classified, do they go by the Dept of Justice tally? Or do they make their own assessment?
Colleges have "Schools of Engineering," and they are typically 5 year degrees. Engineers also have requirements such as professional required certifications and ongoing learning requirements, similar to CPA's, MD's and JD's. You have a reasonable guarantee that the person who is an actual engineer knows what they are talking about. "Software Engineers" have none of that.

To become licensed, engineers must complete a four-year college degree, work under a Professional Engineer for at least four years, pass two intensive competency exams and earn a license from their state's licensure board. Then, to retain their licenses, PEs must continually maintain and improve their skills throughout their careers.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe

>The only people that get pissed off by the use of the word are people that think people who write software are intellectually beneath them.

Great theory presented as a fact, but I write software for a living, so I guess that theory just flew out the window.

>If you have a PhD, that would certainly be fine.

Just like calling yourself an engineer if you actually had a degree from a school of engineering would be fine too ...

Honestly, if software engineering were treated like real engineers with licensure, required degrees, etc, we'd make a whole lot more money. Companies like to call us engineers because they can blow flowers up our posterior in lieu of actually paying us for it. Personally, I'd rather make double than feel good about myself.
I hate how all of these tools complain about google fonts. This looks like Google's page speed tool with a nicer UI.
I haven't lived in WA for a while now but I always thought of the RAC as kind of a default roadside assistance and insurance provider.

There are plenty of other providers and with a little effort I can recall some of their names but when thinking about car insurance RAC springs to mind immediately.

Last time I lived in Australia I owned an electric bike and not a car and it was great. I would rent a car maybe once or twice a year for a long road trip but would otherwise just stick to my bike.
It's not quite a la carte. We've gone from 1 provider, with bundles to N providers. I don't mind paying for each content provider. What I personally mind is the content being spread across a bunch of different sites.

I don't want to have an HBO account, and a Disney account, and a Hulu account, and a Netflix account, and an Amazon account, etc etc. I wish they'd play nicely and let one provider bill me, and take care of restricting my access to their HBO portion of their library unless I pay an addition $X/month.
"All of them have removed it again"

Completely false. Occasionally you will read a newsstory about a merchant who stopped accepting BTC. But, as of today 160k+ merchants accept it, and there was never any large scale event where "all" of them stopped accepting it.
What semi accessible books are available on the subject?
PG wrote some essays about it: startups better spend their seed/series money on other things than software licenses.

Then the unthinkable happened: after PG left, HN got MSFT PR-heavy in spring 2015. People should learn from the history.
Yes, the article makes that exact comparison.
I don’t dispute that. Ripple is centralized, there are dozens of centralized payment systems out there, but that’s not what Bitcoin is competing against. Creating performant, centralized payment systems are a solved problem. The question is what Ripple brings to the table that the other payment systems don’t.
Starcraft AI Research Dataset
I picked up my RadRover a year ago for ~$1,300. Considering the price of 'serious' bikes, it's quite cheap. A motor hides the dual sins of fat tires and heavy frames quite well!
According to coinmarketcap.com volumes on gdax for btc and eth and $115mm and $53mm over the past 24hrs. If you didn't want to increase overall volume by more than 10% you could sell out to USD around $12.5mm btc and $5.3mm eth per day.
Apparently you've never lived in a state with censorship like I did (it was USSR). Never again.
canistream.it seems to have better SEO because I've never heard of gowatchit.com and I swear I've googled some variant of "where movies are streaming" multiple times.

Roku and AppleTV seem to do a decent job of aggregating this information, but that UI isn't always handy and I'm usually more flexible about my viewing options than just those devices.
Thanks for the insight, but

> There are 54 countries (not a few dozen)

I’d say 54 is a “few dozen” as much as any number can be described as such.

Sorry if bikeshedding.
Would be interested in your relaunch 2015+ - how have it got traction? Was it rebranding? How have you got the initial traction? Sending emails to closed real world community? Postings on FB?
> is that it crossed a line that you really have to tread with care when it started talking about "biological IQ".

He mentioned this only briefly (a bracketed clause 5 words long) as an example of science that the left ignores, because there does appear to be a difference in IQ between biological sexes [0], with current research suggesting the averages are similar, however there is a higher variation among males, leading to a higher proportion of men at the very high and very low ends of the spectrum.

His comments on this were in no way used to infer one group was superior or more intelligent than the other. He was just pointing out that the left will ignore or deny science when it conflicts with ideology.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc...
I agree with all your points here and I'd like to especially expand on this:

> (E.g. hypothesizing women prefer teaching because it's a "nurturing" profession, while ignoring societies that don't view it as a nurturing profession at all, where teaching is male dominated).

If women don't go into CS because society as a whole views it as a thing-oriented discipline and women are more people-oriented than thing-oriented, this opens up the possibility of reframing CS to be more people-oriented, changing its perception in society, thus causing more women to become interested in CS.

The memo had this to say on that topic:

We can make software engineering more people-oriented with pair programming
and more collaboration. Unfortunately, there may be limits to how
people-oriented certain roles at Google can be and we shouldn't deceive
ourselves or students into thinking otherwise (some of our programs to get
female students into coding might be doing this).

Which actually sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959031
In general, just as a comment on a post that reaches top 30 on HN within the day, its pretty low-key, I don't advertise it, if the comment reaches >10 upvotes, its probably worth it
From what I can tell, he shared his controversial opinion in a forum specifically for controversial opinions, that is not a lack of tact.

I don't know if this is true, but after reading "journalists" summarize the memo random internet comments from purported googlers seem about as reliable.
I don't understand-- what's the significance of an re-implementation of I2P in a memory unsafe language?

Also-- why all the comments about Monero? Is it the only altcoin that supports I2P?
If the first adjective is "secure", how to reconcile this with C++?
There are numbers to satisfy you, but some people connect more with concrete stories. That's how they get a sense of the problem, by hearing stories from real people, rather than numbers.

People are different in what makes them care.
Why bring age into the equation? That's quite discriminatory considering the creator of Ethereum is just 19 years old. Aside from that I'm 23 years old and have been developing software professionally in the past 8 years. Age isn't much of a factor anymore.
Netflix's library is pretty weak at this point unless you really like their own productions. It's mostly lionsgate which any studio can add to their service for next to nothing.
sounds like you might like cjdns
I was really hoping to read that he plans to dedicate all the resources he made from the success of these companies to creating the solution. Did I miss that?

Maybe he's just trying to get a bit more attention for himself? (Also, feels like there is some amount of irony in the click-baity title and that he published this in an ad supported media outlet.) "I invested early in Google and Facebook and regret it. I helped create a monster." Original story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/08/my-google-...
Yep exactly this, the job I had a few years ago wasn't the best pay (or work) but I stayed because the guys I worked with were awesome to chat with. Slowly, one by one they all left (for better pay/location), leaving only the lazy, soon after I left too. We often complained about the people doing bad work, but nothing much was ever done. Have yet to come across a similar workplace :(
Open office plans are awful, but I hate remote work. It's nearly impossible for me to concentrate at home, and being able to get facetime with collaborators as and when it's needed is valuable.
Because that is the term for the rubbish that fool was attempting to forward.

https://twitter.com/histoftech/status/894465888694480897
Then the problem lies with the employers, the government, the system. Not with someone who tried to put pressure on the right side.
Really love Firebase for prototypes, really agree with many of these points that it is not for use in production work.
Had two attempts at watching that but the arguments are so bad and the views so biased I just bailed.

Maybe i'll write my open white paper,throw together some thinly veiled arguments, sprinkle some graphs and draw the conclusion that conservatives are total dickheads?

Not all you understand. Just biologically speaking. I'm not saying they are. I'm actually very pro conservative. But they are dicks right? I just want a debate in the open about some the evidence I can't be arsed to write. Maybe?
I am a huge fan of declarative everything, starting with infrastructure. Extending it to database schema and business logic would be absolutely amazing.

I haven't used Java in years, so it's hard to comment on specifics. Do I understand the goal correctly?
This is an incredible analysis! Well done!
FYI anyone reading this, the quote above is from some youtube comment, not the actual interview.
I'd be surprised if there was a lawsuit. It's really easy to argue that this memo is disruptive to the workplace and Google had grounds to fire him. You can have 5 reasons that are illegal to fire someone and 1 reason that is legal and you can just justify it with that one reason.
I'm going to get downvoted to hell by saying this but...

He also implied that women who get into google are there because the bar is lowered. This implication means when he sees a female coworker, he automatically assumes they're less "effective" than a male co-worker and they're only there because the standards were lowered for them. Essentially this makes the workplace hostile. If you're a woman, you know that this guy thinks "less" of you because of the way you were born. He basically put into words his implicit and explicit biases towards women.
> Those who study 14-16 hrs day to get into top universities aren't looking for minimum wage jobs at fast food chains.

Well obviously. They study 14-16 hours/day so that they don't have to be minimum wage workers at fast food chains, because that's the only option they'll have if they go to a "shit" school.

With a UBI, the bottom rung will no longer have to work those humiliating minimum wage jobs. They'll have the freedom to pursue their own interests, whether that be entrepreneurship, the arts, etc. Those corporate wage slaves working 14 hours/day will probably work less, maybe even only part-time. Even if nothing changes, at least the option to walk away without having to stress about money will be there.

That being said, UBI isn't the solution to all of society's problems. I just think its the most urgent policy decision that needs to be implemented due to its simplicity and massive implications.
Unless the point is to have more people in regardless of whether they have any possibility to graduate I don't understand this. How many highly talented kids have already been lost just because they didn't know what they wanted in life at 15 and thus have much lower high school grades and sat scores and whatnot than what they are actually capable of?
Is there a way to stream these indefinitely on shuffle without having to pick each one manually?
I'm a cycling nut and I quite like electric bikes, although I've never tried one.

One of my best rides ever was racing an electric bike up a local 8km climb. I was fitter and my bike was lighter, but he had a motor. Everytime the road got steep I'd catch him up but then on the flatter parts his weight wasn't a hindrance and all I could do was draft. It was awesome.

I don't like seeing eBike times on Strava though.
Link for those interested.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident

There was also an event in EVE that is cool, though I'm not aware of it being studied in the manny of Corrupted Blood. Someone forgot to pay a recurring security fee, opening a system up for capture. War ensues and $300k worth of in-game spacecraft is destroyed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodbath_of_B-R5RB