skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything you don't like will seem to be controversial. To other people - like me - the idea that males and females like different things is so obvious it is insane this debate is even being had at all. Even 10 year olds will tell you that girls like dollhouses and boys like trucks and toy guns and things. It's only after people fall into the grip of bizarre extreme feminist ideology that they start to believe that pointing out differences between men and women is offensive and controversial.

The memo in question would not have affected you, would it? Unless you're saying you were hired to fit a diversity quota and shouldn't be there at all. Even if management had agreed 100% it could only have led to changes in hiring processes, and maybe men turning up to classes and events where they were previously banned. I assume you're OK with that.
Are US ham bands really symbol rate (rather than bandwidth)limited?

Here in LA (Norway, for the ham prefix challenged), we can modulate in whatever way we feel like on 2M, as long as the signal bandwidth does not exceed 18kHz.

(So, using a clever modulation scheme, you could get very close to the Shannon limit for the given channel bandwidth and noise level - assuming a very healthy 30dB S/N, one should be able to wring approx. 180kbps from an 18kHz channel. (Granted, in the real world with filters without infinitely steep skirts we'd get nowhere near this - but, let's say you could get 1/3 or so without trying too hard.)
Oh really? How about these statements that I had to "endure":

"Before you attempt to reason from basic principals to a defense of the status quo, you should attempt to fully understand those principles."

"This is armchair-pundit-bullshit akin to climate change denial."

Aren't they worth personal warnings? If so, I'd really like it if you could give them out, just so that there isn't any injustice here.
The monospaced serifed fonts used in these sites strike me as very not brutal. From a typographic perspective, something like Arial is a lot more raw/basic/clean/simple than Courier New.
You conveniently left out that he mentioned the CEO also had experience at Vimeo, a media company with a somewhat similar business model.
There is only 1 metric I believe we all need to test during ideation. Will people use this? If so, why?
This may involve various ways of answering that question. Things like, figuring out your target audience, asking around, taking surveys, asking people to sign-up for updates etc.

I happen to hate searching for such answers, and end up creating MVPs only to realize not enough people want to use it. But I think even before MVP, one must pursue getting some early adopters excited to try it (even if it is for free). For my next project I plan to be thorough (hopefully).
This whole situation has to be impeding Uber's CEO search. Finding someone willing to step into this kind of circus, particularly when the circus is over there heads, is going to be very hard.
Yes, this is an adversarial machine learning problem. I highly doubt those kind of measures would be implemented by file coin though, considering the cost of scanning files for such at scale. I'm sure, at least in the short term, it will likely be some time of hash or edit distance measure (or an equally naive and easy to fool approach).
Fahrenheit 451: Not About Censorship, But People “Turned Into Morons by TV”
From Dan Rua's LinkedIn:

>The power of the internet to inform, entertain and liberate mankind is at a crossroads. The future of ad-supported content is in peril, and with it, free access for citizens to critical news, education, discourse and resources the world over. The shorthand name for this looming catastrophe is "adblocking"

It's like a pimp claiming the human race is going to stop reproducing and die out because people don't want to pay for their prostitutes
What an odd situation, I mean of he is lying it will be quickly found out when they toe the submarine to shore and open it up. Further it would be in his interests to tell them if she is on board so that appropriate rescue attempt could be made. If he is not lying it is very odd that the journalist has not made herself known to the authorities. I guess it is possible she doesn't know she is being sought by authorities or perhaps everyone involved is just looking to raise their profiles (am I becoming to cynical??).
Why don't we increase taxes on the food that make us sick?
> The book was a crystalization of views he had developed over the preceding decades, when he had done the most to develop postmodernism.

Key point is that his readings of Marxism weren't central to his core tools of Postmodernism, nor is that reading indicative of any fervent Marxism from "before". Wrong on all counts.

> its progenitors were inspired by and attempted to build on top of Marxism to different degrees.

> and was formulated mostly by intellectuals that accepted several of the basic suppositions of Marxism.

Again, citation needed on the majority of the tenuous connections. You are being a tad too obsessive here.

Sorry, but being a green account to respond to my single post screams another J account. "The lady doth protest too much." The rest of your post? Equally misguided with nothing to do with Postmodernism, and less relating to the Foucaultian aspect I referenced.
I'll take "Things that make Uber look even more dysfunctional" for $800 please Alex.
It's shortwave (1.6MHz - 30MHz) and not "shorter wave". Radio and TV commonly use FM or UHF (300MHz upwards). So the explanation is technically correct: more waves pass a given point in space.
Just out of curiosity, where would you recommend starting for those outdated people? Machine Learning, Deep Learning, AI (for lack of a more specific acronym), NLP - these things are kind of daunting for newcomers, if only due to the acronym du jour changing constantly.
> The memo begins with it's intent, and even has a TLDR after the opening three paragraphs.

Which does little to excuse the subsequent content. Why would it? Impact matters far more than intent. Asking for someone to read a paragraph in a light quite opposed to it's content in this era of Poe Principle Supremacy is essentially asking for an act of faith.

I possess no such faith. And why should I? The implicit suggestion here is that James's memo had value or novel input. Even if I fastidiously follow his intent statement, it appears misinformed and to misinterpret some findings, offering a solution I have discussed as inadequate and insulting many times on this website.

> If you actually read the memo, and have actual problems with what was actually written, then talk about that.

I have at length. I am now talking about the discourse at hand. Please find someone else to make demands of. I'm not your conversational sparring partner and even this reply is only a courtesy. Please do not exhaust my good will.
> concept of a reserve

Can you please explain what it is?
It's more like a personal thing to keep notes to yourself, but also a way of making some notes public and have a public book journal like this one https://www.candlapp.com/ianis
Reminds me of a website that seems in this aesthetic, though I would categorize it as more "David Lynch-esque": http://northernground.com/
>Well, first of all, blocking a URL is not against the DMCA.

But you'd significantly help the legal case of those claiming it is by trying to obfuscate that you're doing so; they would argue in court it's an implicit admission you "knew it was illegal."
$100M in BTC is... ~29,000BTC. Let's call it 30,000BTC.

GDAX seems to handle 5k-10kBTC on a normal day. So liquidating in a month would be 10-20% of the trading volume on GDAX, every day for a month. Even pushing it out to 3 months liquidating, it would be a sizable portion of the sales. (This would be 0.250BTC/min for 90 days.)

I, too, would like to see what happened if someone liquidated a position that quickly.

(Of course, if you had $100M in BTC, you'd probably want to liquidate over the course of a year -- where you'd still be sizable traffic, but perhaps not completely crash the price. This would be 0.06BTC/min for a year.)

Edit:

Looking closer, GDAX seems to have a volume of about 6BTC/min. So the volume estimates for clearing 30kBTC in X days:

30 days - 11.5%
90 days - 3.8%
365 days - 0.95%

GDAX is about 10% of the BTC volume globally, so you're talking 0.1%-1.2% of BTC volume being that clearing, for between a month and a year.
It would be interesting if SoundCloud implemented a Patreon model, where you can pledge $1-$100/month to an artist you like, and SC takes a small cut.
> is identical to SoundCloud's

I haven't seen any hard numbers, but from my subjective experience and anecdotal data I'd say Soundcloud is closer to Youtube than Vimeo for a number of reasons.

Vimeo isn't focused on the social aspect. It's a platform for pros to share their content in hi quality which is the only reason these pros aren't using Youtube in the first place.

Soundcloud doesn't pretend to be a service for pros. Otherwise why stream at 128kpbs and offer such meager and ridiculously priced plans? Also no pro tools for distribution or even selling music like Bandcamp does.

Soundcloud is focused on the community and social experience much like Youtube or even IMGUR. This is why I believe it hasn't been able to monetize its efforts.

Either Soundcloud starts monetizing with ads or it becomes a real platform for pros.
> You are missing the fact that private workplace is not a free speech forum

I am? I never claimed any such thing.

My question is clear, no? Is there any practical difference between employers (supposedly) not being able to restrict your speech at work, but being able to fire you for whatever they want?
Then I think you misunderstood the memo. The memo is making a biological correlation. It suggests that the current distributions might accurately reflect differences in biology.

Nature vs nurture is completely the point here, Damore argued that nature is the primary force, not nurture, and therefore we should stop nurturing women in tech.
Disagree.

Discovery and 'play related' are totally broken on Soundcloud compared to Spotify.

On SC, you can follow hundreds of users and get inspiration from them but for me this never worked or matched my taste in a consistent manner.

So either you listen always to the same tracks the eight hours or listen to some unrelated tracks or must fiddle around with SC's also broken UI.
They would use commercially avaliable radios in the place they live to deter suspicion.
Discrete tomography and Z3 SMT-solver
We're building the basic building blocks of autonomous software. If Ethereum is universal compute, Filecoin will provide the storage backing for it.

The beneficiary will be AIs, not humans.

Right now, we're just now thinking of clouds, containers, and "serverless" (functions-as-a-service). If we take those ideas and iterate them forward, we converge closer to a real "serverless" paradigm -- what Ethereum already provides today in principle, if not at scale. This will require storage that can keep up with it, and that is where FileCoin comes in. While human consumers may benefit from this, it enables autonomous software that can live on its own and manage its own matabolism (resources accounted for through the blockchain). What those autonomous software will do? I don't really know.
What term would you use the more hip genocide. Do you feel that the Jewish genocide of 1940s is special in some way.
Is using that term to describe the annihilation of a people in a systematic way somehow diminishing to those that lived thought the holocaust.

I'm just wondering there have been genocides of peoples throughout history right up to today. See Rwanda east timore/ south Sudan. I think in each case it was a holocaust for the targeted group.

In my view a genocide is a description of an event. The Jewish Holocaust articulates the target and effectively re-frames the conversation to group who was targeted. It also conveys that the genocide was general enough to affect the overall survival of the people. There are many conquests in history Rome defeated Carthage 3 times but only the third Punic war resulted in the cartagenian holocaust.
I think with automated cars we don't even need that much improvement in Batteries. We simply could use self driving battery packs that wait at the street corner and follow you and dock on, if you need extended Battery-Mileage. Also since Electric Energy is very expensive for private Consumers in Germany. Why not order Batteries that can be delivered per self driving car. Garbage disposal is also very expensive and you can not opt out but you can order a smaller Bin and maybe order and self driving car to get rid of the rest cheaper. I actually wonder if this is why the Investor/Trade Agreements (TTIP) where pushed that hard. Because with these, Investors would have to be paid compensation if regulation would outlaw these Businesses.
The complaint alleges that text file is used to configure software in such a way that it the software circumvents their copyrights, thus the text file itself is a tool for circumventing copyright and violates DMCA.

It's just super dumb, really.
Coinbase/GDAX will do exactly this, and your ~$3m of trade volume per day will be <10% of their book, and a drop in the bucket compared to the global markets. Your trades will be arb'd to every other exchange in seconds.

There are a ton of complaints about Coinbase support, but they cater to the largest clients like every other financial company.
RSA-2048 FACTORIZATION
I am not sure if "not opting out" is a good indicator for "being a newsletter member". Be careful with trying to monetize this. You could damage your email delivery rate and thereby your core business while trying to squeeze those additional pennies.
Neato - it's picking up the buzzer station right now!
"center left" != centrist != far left. You claim The Guardian is far left. All you've demonstrated is that they are somewhere on the left, and I (and Wikipedia) claim they are center-left.

Quoting again from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian:

"Then Guardian features editor Ian Katz asserted in 2004 that "it is no secret we are a centre-left newspaper".[120] In 2008, Guardian columnist Jackie Ashley said that editorial contributors were a mix of "right-of-centre libertarians, greens, Blairites, Brownites, Labourite but less enthusiastic Brownites, etc," and that the newspaper was "clearly left of centre and vaguely progressive". She also said that "you can be absolutely certain that come the next general election, The Guardian's stance will not be dictated by the editor, still less any foreign proprietor (it helps that there isn't one) but will be the result of vigorous debate within the paper".[121] The paper's comment and opinion pages, though often written by centre-left contributors such as Polly Toynbee, have allowed some space for right-of-centre voices such as Sir Max Hastings and Michael Gove. "

One of the opinion pieces by Gove is https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/29/hero-c... titled "My hero: Lord Harris, the Conservative millionaire who is saving schools". If it is an attack then it is an attack on the Labour Party.

"Julie Bindel is about as far-left as possible".

Are you really that oblivious as to what the real far-left looks like?

Typically it applies to someone to the left of social democracy, like a Communist, Trotskyist, democratic socialist, or Maoist.

While https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Bindel describes her as: While focusing on male violence against women, Bindel also writes about gender inequality in general, as well as stalking, religious fundamentalism, lesbian rights, opposition to the sex industry and human trafficking.[8] She refers to herself as a political lesbian feminist.

This is mainstream feminist left, not far-left.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon is further to the left. Here are some of his policies, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_M%C3%A9lenchon#Politi...: He is a proponent of increased labour rights and the expansion of French welfare programmes.[33] Mélenchon has also called for the mass redistribution of wealth to rectify existing socioeconomic inequalities.[33] Domestic policies proposed by Mélenchon include a 100 per cent income tax on all French citizens earning more than 360,000 Euros a year, full state reimbursement for health care costs, a reduction in presidential powers in favour of the legislature, and the easing of immigration laws.[34] Mélenchon supports women's right to abortion and same-sex marriage. He also supports the legalisation of cannabis.[35]

He founded La France Insoumise, a democratic socialist political party. He started as a member of the Internationalist Communist Organisation.
I tried Sia and it worked. I was able to use it. The tech seems solid and the plan seems straightforward and logical. If there is a good niche for decentralized storage then it already exists and they have it.

No wonder nobody has heard of them. /cynicism

Edit: Cynicism is not wholly unjustified. A while back I was taking to a big marketing guy about how marketing teams in big companies often get less excited about products once they hit prototype. Something that doesn't exist is just so much more exciting than something that does. Real things have caveats, limitations, and costs.
That same paper says women's graduation rates are much higher than men's, both in engineering and university-wide. Why aren't you protesting that inequality?
Reading Woz's book, it seemed like he knew what every gate on every chip on the first Apple computer... if not gate, at least every chip.
The problem with Soundcloud is that grew too big and as a result aren't building a site for their core customer: indie artists. Take a look at the front page, all it shows is tracks and artists that are already hugely popular. The features they are focusing on seem to be a hodgepodge of things taken from Spotify and Last.fm, but without any real value-adds for someone who's just uploading music. I recently made an account for a new project I'm working on and all the organic traffic I'm getting is just spam. Bandcamp is now the place for unsigned artists to go to promote/sell indie music.
The term "next-generation" seems pretty overblown for this. It's just "the next version, with some nice incremental improvements."
Haha. I think it would be too many examples per case for one post :)
Feedback from others is absolutely critical. I'm just one person and I usually have some sort of abnormal preference even if I don't know it.

So I'll implement a quick version of the idea that gets the point across to others and roll it out to generate feedback. People will likely utilize it in ways you didn't expect or point out flaws in concept or execution- this is good because even if it doesn't validate your idea it could point you towards developing something else.

This works for smaller features within a project as well. Just roll out a rough cut of it, get feedback, and refine. The product I'm working on (https://www.jqbx.fm) has a live chat feature so it's easy for me to roll out a feature to a subsection of users and ask them about it directly. But even if it's as basic as sitting behind someone at your laptop it's almost always worth your time.
Wow, this really stinks. They (Admiral) supposedly figured out how to use DMCA-1201 to prevent ad blockers from adding their domains. That's a glaring example which shows why this anti-circumvention garbage needs to be completely repealed.

As some proposed, they should move the repo out of the jurisdiction with these corrupted anti-circumvention laws.
SomaFM is great. Been listening for over 10 years now. Groove Salad is my personal favorite "channel", but I really like Christmas Lounge during the holiday season.
#PortugalCaralho
> But whether they should or not should be a question about what's in the best interest of the company as a whole.

That reminds me of something I read recently:

For each of these changes, we need
principled reasons for why it helps Google; that is, we should be optimizing for Google—with
Google's diversity being a component of that.

Can you guess where I read that? (Hint: It was written by James Damore).

Now it just so happens that I disagree with that opinion, because it appears to remove the corporation's decision making from any moral considerations, leaving only profit. But it appears to be a point where you agree with the memo author.
You would never code the SomeMethod like that, you would use this instead:

var
LObj: IMyInterface;
begin
LObj := TMyClass.Create;
DoTheFoo(LObj);
LObj.Foo;
end;
Much like the effect of psychedelics at sufficient doses: a useful tool for shining a spotlight on the things we keep hidden from ourselves.

On the flip side (and more commonly), we consume things and have practices that numb us to reality and make it easier to carry on in spite of internal dissonance.
Note to engineers. If you put your employer in a damned if you do damned if you don't legal situation, you will be fired and should be fired. Why is that so hard for everyone to understand? David Brooks should know this as he has worked at a big company for awhile now. No matter what Google did there would be people who were angry.
A lot of people here really don't want to discuss political thingns (no matter how topical they may be). Between that and feeling like it's just discussing the same thing over and over (even if the new article adds quite a bit more) you see the discussions start to vanish.

It happened a lot around Gamer Gate.
I would say that most institutions that exist for moral edification -- religions, Boy Scouts, civic clubs -- do essentially the same thing which is align the attitudes of the weaker to the benefit of the stronger.
South Korea introduces world's first 'robot tax'
In Colorado this has been mapped
https://coloradogravelroads.com/
> a workable age reversing treatment

Is that really a thing though? I keep hearing about it, articles saying that the first human to reach 300 years of age is already born etc. But is all this true? Of all things mentioned so far (AI, VR, AR, fusion power..), this is the one I have the hardest time imagining. Going from ~90 to 300 in 10 years is a huge leap compared to even the ~40 to 90 years leap of 200 years ago and today.

Do you have some trustworthy reading material on the subject?
- An usb-fan: It's quite silent, I can cool my hands and torso and I don't dry out my eyes.

- A 200€ projector. It's all I need to watch on a big "screen" (given the sun has set) and so much better than I expected.

- a battery pack (just so great when you forgot to charge your phone or need to teether internet to your laptop)

- Measuring my room and fine-tuning an equalizer to it (mic + http://www.roomeqwizard.com/ + https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/ ) I'm a nerd, ok, but everybody hears the difference. Base becomes dry instead of being mushy.

- a 30€ bluetooth speaker to listen to articles saved to pocket read by Ivona text-to-speach (you need to find some old apk for that) while doing the household or in the park.

- knifes: an opinel for in the bag and a cheap, but professional big knife for the kitchen (you can sharpen both sufficiently on the base of a ceramic plate, if not glazed there)

The rest is as expected: smartphone, headphones, speakers, laptop and chair. Most in the value sweet-spot of the upper middleclass (speakers above, but they also don't age).

I always did a lot of research before I bought any of these. I can name you the exact models if you ask.
Pool heater? 3 fridges? The world wouldn't support this.
> Which kind of illustrates my point; I hope your filter list is a whitelist, because in 99.9% of cases, absolutely nothing is lost from these sticky elements.

My two cents is to automatically apply, but make sure to have a notice when it actually changed something. The only thing worse than a site not functioning correctly is when it's only not functioning correctly for you, and nobody has any idea why, including you.
Curation is probably a good thing if you want to retain users.
The guy wrote something about TimescaleDB as well: https://grisha.org/blog/2017/07/13/timescaledb/