skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having seen some of the media reaction I'm not surprised! The acidity of the reaction to the memo has been quite breath-taking.

Guardian have a piece I was reading this morning saying is was a 'sexist diatribe against women in tech'. Maybe I am reading the wrong memo?
One word: blockchain
"no poaching" is illegal but it doesn't go against free market principles. It's just companies willingly agreeing not to poach, as long as there is no coercion, it doesn't go against free market principles. Now, the question of whether it is unethical or not is a whole other topic. I think that "no poaching" is not very efficient anyway as it usually happens between incumbent companies only whose stock isn't growing as much as it used to. There's always an Uber or a Facebook around to poach your best employees anyway with generous stock options offers, and they do.
They don't need to see these movies every week for their development, and you're the parent, it's your decision to make. I'm really flabbergasted at how much every parent seem to value disney movies here (not only your comment), I (naively ?) thought that the people who read Hacker News were more anti-TV than this.
Why is it that electronic voting is so vehemently opposed here on HN and by many technologists in general when virtually every other existentially vital system they rely on is run electronically?
Indeed. I was shopping recently and the 2017 Sport was going for under $18k with current Mazda incentives ($2k cash.)

(I ended up with a 2015 S GT for $20k - only 8k miles on the odometer :)!)

Also - that's an i (2.0L) which gets 30/40 mpg (about 34-35 overall) so not quite the stark difference in fuel economy compared to a Prius that the 2.5L has.

(gallons per 100 mile difference between 35 mpg and 44 mpg is 2.86 vs 2.27)
I think you can thank/blame former Wired Editor in Chief, Scott Dadich for that.
>You don't seem to be too familiar with this topic.

No, you're just repeating this stupidity without thinking.

America didn't attack North Korea for 60 years after the Korean War because North Korea's conventional forces were a deterrent. NK doesn't need nuclear weapons to devastate the South. This has been true for decades, and is still true. Yet morons still repeat this fallacy that North Korea must have nukes or it will be attacked.

The idea that having or not having nukes is what's preventing an invasion is idiotic. Please try just thinking before responding.
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With AMD GPUs the "direct mode" implementation is not quite ready, so when doing stuff with SteamVR it's a very good idea to disable compositing.

Except then with firefox 55 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377950 happens and you have to close all tabs and reopen them.

I don't want to bash mozilla for this bug. Bugs happen. But this has been known for over a month and firefox 55 released with it...
The terrorists with their e2e need 2 b stopped!
But you can't tell the liberals what they don't want to hear - their Ostrich Syndrome is getting annoying!
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I miss the old days when companies interviewed you, asked some technical questions, some personal questions, then hired you. It took 30 minutes to an hour. If you didn't work out, they just fired you and started again.
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I find them better than TV, pound for pound. For example, _Backstrom_ is a shitty House clone in many senses, but is a much better detective show than _Elementary_.

They have more feedback data and often great "production values" (i.e. they spent the extra money to make it nice). It doesn't always pay off (how stupid was _Marseille_, with Gerard Depardieu at his best acting chops in years and a political story that melts into family drama in three episodes flat?).

But having 100 Netflix shows and a random assortment of failed indie movies is not better than having 10 Netflix shows and a decent film catalog. Netflix pretty much snuck up on the less attentive of us by giving us more shows (hey, I basically stayed for Bojack Horseman) and taking away feature-length studio-produced movies.

I mean, who has the time to watch a full-length movie most days.

So I kind of feel cheated, but not enough to leave yet.
> I'm setting up the premise for a logical argument

Nope. You're arguing a straw man. You're lying about the contents of the memo.

> I could work my way through the tedious document again and point out the compendium of ever increasing logical fallacies and plain dumb non-scientific assertions

You're lying. You cannot do that. You can only argue against straw man of your own creation.

> the people at Google are generally smart and saw through all the bullshit and rightfully fired the guy in spite of knee jerk protestations from what appears to be mainly conservatives with a bruised ego

Nope. The people at Google are mainly leftists whose egos were bruised by having the truth presented to them. Instead of refute anything in the memo, they made knee jerk protestations (and often violent threats, as leftists tend to be bullies).

> science and reason are not on your side here.

Oh yes they are. The claims made by the memo are absolutely correct. You cannot even begin to address them, which is why you prefer to lie through straw men.
If its for geeks, your design won't matter, content will matter. Unless you plan on covering news about design, in which case you will get feedback from designers :)

What will differentiate you from other web/geek news sources? Maybe your name can be discovered in figuring that out.

Some names:

* GET News

* The /index

* Blinking Lights (looked at my router - there's always something being transmitted)

Try writing 30 days of content first before doing it, circulate it to friends that would be interested. Writing daily content will take a lot of work.
Yes, you can alter the way tracebacks are printed (or not printed) for test failures:

https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/usage.html#modifying-pytho...
> a professor of social psychology, a PhD in personality psychology, a professor in evolutionary psychology, and a PhD in sexual neuroscience

Only one of these is qualified to comment on biological claims.
ID is only necessary if you haven't already established the right to vote in a particular location. After that, you're on the list and it's remarkably difficult to get you off of it; as it should be.

ID requirements are frequently used in order to deny voting to people who are poor or otherwise find it difficult to get particular documents.
Same here. I've started a prototype using firebase, however, I'm concerned about issues like this and the fact that sometime in the future I get a shutdown notice and I will have to migrate.

I can roll my own using Rails but I'm trying to avoid that.
I still find sites that only allow 20 chars of a-zA-Z0-9. It should be criminal.
People learn in different ways. Some prefer text, others prefer videos.

Just look at the all the big sites for learning how to code: Pluralsight, Udemy, Lynda, Coursera, Udacity. They're all based around video. So there's definitely a need for audio visual explanations.

Totally agree that a lot of people prefer text. But not all.
"the professors would have to dumb down the material taught in their classes to their less bright colleagues."

A fascinating side effect of open courseware and online lecture videos is the elimination of that peculiar historical belief. For example, per video evidence, the kids in Professor Strang's linear algebra classes are definitely not observably smarter than the kids I met in my linear algebra class. There is a small measurable quantitative difference, but in practice there is no observable qualitative difference. The much maligned concept of human biological differences observationally do not extend to mere ivy-attendance.
Because I'm still working on the Android / Android Wear version, I haven't done a ton of marketing yet. I did have business cards printed up with the URL, logo and some screenshots, and have been handing them out to random people :) For monetization, I offer a subscription that costs $11.49/year; with that you get an account enabling your data to be stored on my servers and thus accessible to all your devices, including the web. Without an account, the app itself is free (with all features included), but the data is only available on your device (unless you manually export/import to other devices, which you can using the app).
I would never ask you to debate here. If my points are wrong, show the HN community why. Please exclude any ad-hominem rhetorical maneuvers that are useful to no one. EDIT: re the first sentence: I do not participate here to get value via winning a speaking contest.
Particularly of interest for history of science folks, like myself, and journalists. An unusual history and an up-close look a mysterious journalist — one who was given exclusive access to covering the atomic bomb — historian Alex Wellerstein called “part huckster, part journalist, all wild card … a real-life character with more strangeness than would seem tolerable in pure fiction.”
That was meant as a positive point. The debugger in VSCode is phenomenal, while there isn't one for Atom.

VSCode ranges closer and closer to a full-fledged IDE, which is awesome.
Exactly. And sticking them in a 101 level class when they really should be in remedial can end up having taking the same amount of time if that student now needs to take the class twice (or more) to pass.
Sounds like a better world to me.

Anyway, it seems I hit a nerve. I used to be one of those piracy is not stealing people, back when I pirated content. Now that I pay for content I can look back at that person and understand that cognitive dissonance between my notion of myself as a good person and the fact that I was pirating content led me to consider piracy a good thing, or at the least not a bad thing.

Because really, what is being said with the semantics argument "piracy != stealing"? It is about how harmful piracy is, whether it really is as bad as stealing, and fundamentally whether or not we should have copyright at all. If we should have copyright, then we must have legal tools to enforce it, and piracy must be illegal and wrong. If we shouldn't have copyright, then piracy is a form of freedom fighting and should be encouraged.

My opinion on the matter is that we should have copyright, but that it should be more limited in duration, with stronger fair use exceptions (like the right to decrypt for the purpose of backup and archival). I don't care for the semantics argument. Call it piracy or call it stealing, it does not change what is being done: taking things without permission.
Ok, I didn't know that, thanks for the context.

It's very hard for an outsider to judge what is appropriate for a forum called "skeptics". In principle I would assume that same rules of conduct apply there as elsewhere in the company, but I wouldn't know.
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... followed by "correct horse battery stable 1", "correct horse battery stable 11", "correct horse battery stable 111"
>Yes, I suspect that the real reason the students "don't need" remedial programs to complete their degrees is that the specific degrees are actually vocational rather than academic.

x2. The more academic requirements of a 4yr degree are not strict necessities of those fields. If college is going to stand in for vocational school then it's a waste of time/effort/money to make those students take what amounts to academic fluff.

The problem is that until colleges acknowledge their vocational role every department will be pushing for every other department to require students to take a few of their classes on the basis that it is a requirement of a well rounded education (which is not the kind of education students in the more vocational programs are seeking).
Most of the database concerns have been addressed in other blog posts etc. If you need relational data, don't use firebase. Period. Where you need "anything beside a simple key lookup" for the majority of your queries, go elsewhere. That's the first rule of Firebase.

The second rule of Firebase is structure your data and populate it in a way that makes it simple to fetch with a simple key lookup.
It would be nice if the US allocated some house seats to expats like many European counties.
Thanks. Honestly, I didn't even know that Garmin offered an SDK to build apps. Will have to build a Riker app for the Garmin's too :)
Hi. I'm a Russian citizen living in Sweden. I have a work visa.

The income tax is progressive and hits the ceiling of 60% pretty fast. I don't remember exactly but I think it does if your salary is more than 60000 Swedish kronas (around 6000 euros). Universal Health Care is available to everyone who has Swedish ID (I do) and includes higher cost protection for dental services.

Without diving in I can tell Sweden is definitely not friendly to the wealthy but it's very friendly to a lot of people with everyday common jobs with lower and middle level salaries.
I know someone who churns credit cards systematically (you know, follows a regimen like suggested in the article) and has been traveling with his family around the world for years, taking trips every 4 to 6 weeks.

That doesn't sound too "boring".

In fact, we churned cards a few years ago to pay for our trip to Europe. We took our toddler.

I would like to know where this "boring" life is that parents have. At times, I could use some of that.
>I can reasonably infer they don't much care about them.

No, you can't. You can infer that there are other factors that you are, bizarrely, ignoring.

>Given that the North Korean probably fare better under military intervention, I suspect that military intervention is a better option than most people think.

It's possible that military intervention may be better for the people of North Korea. But you're not thinking of the total costs of such intervention: the devastation of South Korea, possibly even nuclear attacks on major Japanese cities.

This is why the situation is so difficult: all of the options have titanic costs.
OK, well I'm glad you're just inquiring genuinely. It's hard not to get defensive when you trot out some pretty horrible characters.

I'm in strong agreement that discrimination against gays, minorities and women is bad. I think most reasonable people are. My issue with the progressive movement is how it doesn't seem to want to stop in the middle by just stopping racism, but instead wants to flip it over by making discrimination in the opposite direction the social norm. For example, diversity quotas explicitly stating that e.g. the engineering department's demographics must closely align with the general population's demographics. It refuses to account for different groups' inherent different tastes and interests by pushing forward the idea of tabula rasa (the human being is a blank slate and all differentiation is socially learned) which doesn't seem to be a foregone conclusion by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm not sure how the idea of a link between Marxism and progressivism has anything to do with Jews aside from that fact that there are a lot of Jewish intellectuals. If cultural marxism is some kind of anti-semitic dogwhistle now, that's a new one on me.
May be related to this article?

Airtel is sniffing and censoring CloudFlare’s traffic in India and CloudFlare doesn’t even know it. - https://medium.com/@karthikb351/airtel-is-sniffing-and-censo...
My favorite is sites that allow you to use any number of special characters when you sign up or change your password, but their login forms break when you try to use them. If there are rules, please enforce them on your sign-up form!
those passwords would probably be safe to use because the correct word is "staple"
People either hate javascript with a passion or they love it with religious zeal.

Maybe it has to do with the fact that it's used mostly for web programming? But geez, there seems to be no middle ground when it comes to javascript.

But it doesn't come close the division over Perl. Yikes.
If true, the the whole claim that nonlinear histories break git-bisect is bunk.
According to the article that is indeed the case because they almost targeted with people who had subprime/no credit.

And... Surprise! There was a reason they didn't have good credit ratings.
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Mithril. Much simpler than anything else and batteries included. It's a great way to get beginners into front-end frameworks and gain knowledge that transfers easily.
Thanks, looks cool and makes sense!
hint: they're not all hashing the passwords
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What do you do? I was a Windows application and back-end developer for a long time, with only occasional forays into web. Took a job at a consultancy about 8 years ago, and it's been all web-dev ever since.
Indian left wing has been calling the current ruling party and the government "Fascist"[1] for a while now. So there is quite a bit of fear mongering regarding Adhar, as left suspects that govt. will eventually use this to crack down on the dissenting voices. But for those who don't share that opinion, this is part that needs attention,
"The guidelines could have come earlier, and given large data leaks in the past may also be redundant. Nevertheless, it is reassuring to see practices for keeping information safe and the idea of positive informed consent being reinforced for government departments."ie, Though delayed, corrective measures are being taken.

1.http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/sita...
> They can set it to be

Who decides? Politicians romanced by industry lobbyists? Why should the government/public bear the costs for legislating such things?

> So, isn't that to their discretion?

Now you are switching from "what is right" to "what is legal". The law is dictated by society, based on common morality.

> they show there's value to what the sellers are trying to sell.

And that value exists under a mandatory layer of DRM. And sometimes enforced by industry-sponsored legislation. Your assumption of value (or the power to boycott) ignore the monopolisation of media formats - When all computers contain a "DRM-chip" then "all I have to do" is boycott it? And what if they are mandatory by law - just oppose it? The general public is susceptible to targeted divide-and-conquer tactics, which doesn't result in a true representation or expression of public opinion at the mercy of industry motives.

> They could have boycotted the whole thing.

They did - they pirated. They didn't just boycott the technology, but the law as well - that shows that the public do not value those laws, and the laws were erected in contradiction to the will of the people. No?
Like I said, studies shown that having an ID didn't change much. Plus, they already can! Commonwealth citizens can vote in UK elections pretty much as soon as they arrive.
Queens Plaza/Queensboro Plaza would also be interesting imho.
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I suspect there is an archived site that was removed/censored by the government.

But this site is still available through archive.org, so as a drastic measure, they block archive.org entirely.
I think 16-bit is fine for basically every "enjoyment of music" use. I do have a hardware player capable of playing 24-bit audio, and I use it, but it's not some breathtaking experience.

When the source is analog (like these old records), I can see the argument for preserving them at the highest reasonable depth. The fundamental purpose of the archive is to preserve, regardless of whether or not people subjectively prefer the sound.

If the subjective experience of 24-bit is unpleasant to some people, you can always go down, but you can't add back bits that were never captured, so it's my opinion that 24 is the appropriate format here.

Of course, from a philosophical perspective, we're still talking about two methods for reaching infinity and which gets "closer"
I left React for Angular 4 this year, because I came to the realization that once I made the decision to leave the loosie-goosie world of default JS, there was no reason to have my framework be loose either.

I'm really loving the confines of a "one way to do it" framework like Angular 4. It makes teamwork much easier, speeds up development once you've gotten over the learning curve, and is damned impressive when it comes to app performance.

I'm really looking forward to the day when TypeScript platforms like Angular 4 compile down to WebAssembly and performance goes through the roof.
Well obviously Assange is an expert on the matter.
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what if someone built a coding farm instead of mines, people would still complain because it's taking advantage of them but isn't progress the best way to elevate them?
It's a bit disingenuous to say that those who agree with the memo focus only on individual merit and not team fit. Regardless of the importance of diversity to a given organization, every good interview process will evaluate how well a candidate will fit with an existing team and try to understand how that person will improve the team's performance.

Also, if I replace the term 'sausage fest' in your last sentence with 'clam bake' (apparently the opposite meaning), then it definitely comes off as sexist in my mind. I've worked with both genders throughout my career, and the only truth I've found is that you can't count on anyone to fit their gender's stereotypes with regards to personality. I've met plenty of men who are shy and quiet and plenty of women who are aggressive or assertive; counting on a person's gender to mix things up in a group setting is, in itself, sexist.
Does this mean there is (or will soon be) a glut of Priuses on the market?
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I can't tell if you're just pretending to be this stupid.

The ability to defeat North Korea isn't the question, the question is what the cost would be. North Korea, before being inevitably defeated, could do enormous damage to South Korea and Japan.

You make smug comments about "plaques at the memorial for the dead"; what will you put on the memorials for the people of Seoul or Tokyo if they're destroyed in the war? "Sorry you had to die in a conventional/nuclear attack, but I'm sure you'll agree your deaths were worth it! Thanks for your sacrifice!"
You are proposing the model:

wage ~ education + experience + error

If the errors are correlated with education or experience, that indicates a confounding variable problem. Most data shows that including race and gender as explanatory factors improves the model:

wage ~ education + experience + gender + race + error

Until the coefficients of gender and race become approximately zero, one can say that the market is discriminatory. The counter-argument is that race and gender are not actually the real explanatory variables, but only proxies for better variables, like "ethic" or "determination". Those kinds of arguments are often viewed as racist and sexist.
If there's one thing I've learned by being around a lot of highly educated people, it's that you should never underestimate the power of pre-conceived notions to live beyond a sane lifespan in a person's mind. I don't find it at all difficult to believe that anyone smart enough to work at Google would find such reasoning convincing. Indeed, I have seen smarter people convinced by sloppier reasoning that happens to align with what the person wants to be true.
Not only that, but software engineering at the very least sits at the intersection of people & things. Very few people build things for the sake of things, and I think it's a fair assumption that "people-oriented" thinking, when building for people, may have business benefits that aren't as simply quantifiable as "Candidate A more assertively diagrammed a binary search tree on a whiteboard than Candidate B".