skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of something I was taught by one of the best execs I've worked for: 1 round of layoffs, if it has to happen, is a good thing. Better to do it when needed than not do it and the whole company dies soon afterward. Multiple rounds of layoffs means they still haven't addressed the problem and probably don't even know what it is. Hiring right up until the last minute sounds like a similar situation. It's an emergency move - if they don't make their hiring smarter it's going to repeat itself.
you can't replay mixes you like.
That's a pretty good selection of tracks.
You forgot Pwrficient, and he worked on some of the DEC Alpha processors as well.
Because I'm leaving open --- or, really, stipulating --- the argument that "the alt right" doesn't have a clear enough definition to make those comparisons. I'm content to make comparisons with more specific subgroups.

What I see here is me going out of my way to accommodate your concerns about this discussion, and you trying to use those concessions as ammunition. I understand why that happens (it's a message board), but I'm not trying to score points off you.
Nine days ago we were talking about how seed funding had slowed in Silicon Valley https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14908581.

It's almost as if taking a small number of data points and extrapolating them you can make the case for any narrative you'd like.
What is "cheap" though exactly? In my area, costs vary a lot, between 3.5 and 10.5 cents per KWh
Yeah, I've been saying that removing accidental similarity isn't improving code but compressing it. "Huffman coding", if you will...
Sidenote to all these youtube red comments - probably you're paying for youtube red through your google play music subscription. Just a FYI, you can just use google play music as a youtube music video browser. Helps when for example you're chrome casting to something and don't want to change back and forth between GPM and youtube apps.
We can't make things as smart as bees.
If you just want to upgrade git, brew update && brew upgrade git
Wow. impressive. would have thought there would have been more overhead.
As far as I can tell, Admiral's code detects use of ad blockers, and puts a wall around the content in response. If you're not using an ad blocker, there's no wall, and the content is freely accessible.

So in a roundabout way, they're effectively claiming that the ads themselves are the paywall. It's a clever argument, to be sure, but I'm not sure it's a reasonable one.
The article opens with one city-official with relevant credentials who was discarded, but also says:

> Sixty-four city and state officials were nominated for the panel, but the agency initially chose only two: Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose, California, and Kelleigh Cole from the Utah Governor’s Office, according to documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity through a Freedom of Information Act request. Pai later appointed another city official, Andy Huckaba, a member of the Lenexa, Kansas, city council.

3 (initially 2) out of 30 panel positions are people that aren't currently working for the telecom industry.
Which display and which dock?
From my perspective, you just contradicted yourself, can you help me understand why it's not a contradiction?

The IQ distribution of men and women is slightly different, and this is essentially settled science (it really is, however much we might pontificate -- our genetic past rolls the dice more with males). The male curve is slightly fatter, yielding larger numbers of exceptionally high and exceptionally low members. This means absolutely nothing if you have a male with an IQ of 140 and a female with an IQ of 140, however. Nor does it mean a 100 IQ male should be working at Google because there are slightly more high IQ males born.

We are smart enough to understand the difference between set probabilities and individual traits. Right?

because the distribution of women in tech has changed drastically in the last 50 years faster than evolution's say in the matter

Obviously there are social factors. That is indisputable. But at a point the gains in leveling the sexes for some domains become harder to get because there are confounding factors. Women in engineering has stayed virtually constant for several decades now.
As somebody who has been diving into Elixir and Phoenix this year I have to say that the Phoenix way into Elixir isn't as exciting as a backend application written in Elixir in regards to the power of the language and the platform. A lot of Phoenix is hidden and is "magic". You don't need to utilize the OTP at all when using Phoenix and you don't interact directly with what makes Elixir (and Erlang) so special.

I started using Phoenix and Elixir and while I liked Elixir's syntax better than other languages I just didn't see what was so great about it. Then I started doing non-web things with Elixir and it became clear how awesome Elixir is. I heard the same thing with Ruby back when I looked at Rails 5 or so years ago. Elixir seems like just another language when you aren't really digging into the OTP.
Scala Rationale [pdf]
Also Americans on average are more overweight than Japanese. This does not mean there are no overweight Japanese or thin Americans, or that either are less capable of a specific sport.
It is not even a direct insult (general statement that recruitment bar was lowered) and is a relatively verifiable statement within Google in many ways.

It is telling if a company does not want this looked into. It is a PR disaster if true. Shareholders could see that as mismanagement by hiring inferior employees.
If it is false, then it will probably bring no extra glory.
Now you're really stretching. The political leanings of one architect mean the whole project is Marxist?
And HR, instead of addressing those points, refuting what would be wrong, and leading him to apologize if so, thus sending a powerful message about the existence of debate and rationale, recommended his firing, making him a martyr, and validating the part about the lack of dissent.
Funny thing is that the original Xerox UI would tile by default (but the windows were floating). Similarly Windows 1.0 were all tiles.

And to some degree Windows 10 has gone back to tiling.

You can drag windows top corners and the left and right edges to have the take up a fixed part of the screen. Sadly only when using the left/right split will Windows try to auto-resize the opposite window in response to you actions.
That's a typical corporate stance to copyright: The rules should apply to everybody else but not me. Both Disney and Nintendo fought for looser interpretations of copyright law for themselves than they litigated against others, to name two examples.
Yeah, since that's just another length unit and works for all length values I didn't go into it.
China cleans up their air and Shenzhen disrupts Silicon Valley, creating a semi-totalitarian, technocratic city that is somehow more free and libertarian than Silicon Valley has become.
> So, a personal attack. I'm glad we now agree.

You've been thoroughly corrected already. If you insist on receiving every attack on your argument as a personal slight, then that is your prerogative. But please, leave the rest of us out of your nonsense.
Why the withering nuclear power industry threatens US national security
> That Damore has only heard of Molyneux, but Molyneux happened to be the first to successfully reach out to Damore?

What's wrong with that explanation?

Perhaps Damore, like most of us, doesn't watch any of Molyneux/Cernvoich/Peterson and thus simply accepted an interview from whoever contacted him first.
Oh no, now I'm confused again... :-/
No, there's something wrong with your reading comprehension.

>things he mentions have a large enough effect to measurably affect the gender distribution among Google's employees,

That's not one of the points of the memo. One of (the primary) point is to potentially explain a gap instead of relying solely on the assumption that the sole cause is discrimination, or "bro culture" or whatever trash rags like Model View Culture are calling it.

The memo is not about the ability, nor the preferences, of Google employees, specifically. It's about the ability, and/or preferences, of a potential hiring pool. And, if you actually read it, you'd know that the author used a qualifier: "may." As in:
"Women are more likely to have these personality types and these interests, and this may explain the gap." As opposed to "all women have these personality types, abilities, and interests."

If women are coming out of university with a related degree or solid references for a software engineering career, at rates approximate to their original distribution (half of the population), we could say that there's obviously some sort of discrimination going on. But they are not. If they were, I would be prominent among the many who are outraged about the distribution of women in these particular careers. I believe the author of the memo would, as well.

But, again, they are not. And it is unhealthy to blame it solely on sexism, if at all.

I'm not surprised at the outrage, really. You get that when telling faux-progressives, who worship at the alter of tabula rasa social science models, that the mind is not a blank slate.

You see it in the Scandinavian countries, where certain "gendered" career choices are more clear than ever. But if we listened to the outraged mob, you'd think that these countries were some patriarchal backwater. But that's obviously not the case.

Another thing you'd have to ask yourself, if you were being honest, is: why "engineering"? The gap is bordering on nonexistent, if at all, in fields like law or medicine. So why is that this deficit exists in these vaguely related (if only by name) "engineering" careers. That's another thing the author decided to ask, and was shit on for it.
It is indeed. It finally made a Debian defector out of me.
Technical solutions to get around the legal system can work quite well. Just go ask all the not-in-jail users of The Pirate Bay.

Github is a very above the table solution for distributing a list of things. But if it gets to expensive to host it there, due to frivolous lawsuit threats, I expect other solutions to distributing these lists start to pop up.

The best advantage of encoding or even encrypting this stuff would be obfuscation. It would make is much more difficult for someone to even become AWARE that they are being blocked, if the info is hidden.

Not everybody has the resources to fight off trolls, even if what they are doing is completely legal (as in this case). Sometimes technical solutions are your only option.
If you have mpv with youtube-dl installed then you can watch the video without using anything non-free.
Sure, I guess I was trying to comment specifically on gravel. You will need accurate maps for this to work, but I think that is basically a given. A human route planner will also need to have accurate maps.
Ah yes, the "yeah one person has done many things that are bad, but this other person is just as bad because I am able to cherrypick a bad thing they did". As someone with no horse in the political game, this line of debate is very bad.
PTP?
The Republicans control congress and the presidency. With some exceptions, Republicans don't need a single Democratic vote to pass legislation.
or the one linked in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcv_cGLjxCY
I always wonder what Twitter would be like if it went this route.

I mean, maybe I'm hanging my ignorance on the clothesline here, but the product is built, yea? Do they really need that massive warehouse in the Tenderloin, AND their global offices?
Seriously?

While aerodynamic teardrops are most efficient that means nothing if the up front cost is prohibitive.

Also, efficiency and a box that's strong enough to appease the "think of the children" types are very much at odds with each other.

For a bus with low mile requirements some boxes to hold batteries and a big DC motor where the engine goes would work fine.

The "scaled up golf cart" architecture works well if the route does not change and is very cheap to implement.
We already have the possibility to change genes, CRISPR is just making it easier.

The problem is the lack of understanding and ability to engineer non-trivial things. (Most GMOs are just Glyphosate resistant or have the BT gene).

I guess we will deepen our understanding but still not be able to change big things for the next decades
Do some research on how sketchy some of the big players in the exchange scene are. Look at the "hack" that happened at Bitfinex. Can anyone cash out USD from there? Try and find out who owns Poloniex or where they operate out of. Check out how Bittrex only lists a storefront in a half abandoned strip mall in Las Vegas as their location, and how much the coins traded on that platform have increased in price recently.

How much do you trust a business that won't list a phone number or physical address? And there's no information on who owns or operates the business? And there's no information on how they are licensed to operate? And there's no details on if or how customer funds are held segregated from operating funds?

Don't let greed overcome your better judgement.
Yeh I see what you're saying. HN has a gaming aspect to it, which buries posts if they aren't being accelerated.
The problem is much of the independent content like remixes touches major label copyrights.
Nice! Thanks for making me aware of this research.
If the user tries to text zoom.

Yes, SVG text will not zoom if you text zoom. SVG is fundamentally a absolutely-position image, not a laid out document. The concept of text-only zoom makes sense for documents, but not for images, where the position of the text is far more important.

(This won't affect `<img>` embedded SVG anyway, however it is possible to embed SVG directly within HTML via `<svg>`, which is where this matters.)
What city in Germany could I compare to Chicago to find rates that were significantly cheaper in Europe? From what I've seen in a few minutes of clicking, they seem broadly comparable.
The real question is, what if he is right?
And what would it take to prove him wrong?

Blacklisting someone for "toxic atmosphere" or "spreading bad thinking" is essentially Orwellian or inquisition.
You're curious whether MIT used a well-known algorithm and publicized it as their new invention?
I just wonder what Gnome-isms it will have to adopt as it transitions to GTK3...
The overall way the author frames the discussion is putting the cart before the horse and ultimately Procrustean. The author's argument is a bit like a person with his head in a bucket of water claiming that human beings are "outdated" because we have this "primitive" need to breathe that's preventing us from being able to deal with having our heads stuck in buckets full of water. Maybe we shouldn't be sticking our heads in buckets of water? Maybe breathing is good?

There is a pathological strain of individualism divorced from reality that understands freedom not as freedom from all those things that are opposed to human nature (and especially our own vices), but as the right to arbitrarily will and do anything with no reference to human nature. Indeed, there is a hostility to the very idea of human nature because it is seen as an impediment to freedom.
Git for Windows also ships with ssh-pageant that can use Pageant as key agent. Really useful if someone is using smartcard certificates (PIV, not GPG based).
"Internet of things". It's one of the few things that is already here, economically viable, but not organized or "distributed" as Gibson would say. There's simply no reason not to have connectivity in everything if you do it well with electronics and it provides value. Maybe not surprising as such, so you have to figure out the implications which is usually what tends to be the surprising part.
This not plain old sexist speech. This is a cogent argument that is supposed to be disproven and not shouted down as sexist.

(Like some racist arguments were disproved reasonably well in the past.)
DRY is not a surface metric, although it is often misunderstood as one.

The original formulation of DRY was:

"Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system."

Elimination of syntactic repetition is not an application of DRY, although application of DRY will often incidentally eliminate syntactic repetition.
Or how can I make money from it popping??
No, you just have a hash of the "official" version of the list. And when the list needs to be updated, the person with the private key publishes a new list again.

The advantage of using the bitcoin blockchain, for example, is that it can't be censored. DMCA trolls now have to go after every single bitcoin company in the world, to stop them from "hosting" the copyrighted work.
Essential complexity vs. accidental complexity
Lab hidden inside a famous monument
1) The $186M raised was a mix of Ethereum, Bitcoin and cash. We don't really know how much was of each.

2) They really don't need to sell all at once and who knows, may even have engineers willing to be paid in cryptocurrencies.
Er, why do you put "freelance" in quotes? Being a freelance vs. staff member is not about number of articles you've written, but how and how much you are paid, the benefits you receive, who you report to in the editorial bureaucracy, and your day-to-day obligations to the company.

She seems to write a lot of op-ed type pieces, which are meant to "oppose" the editorial page (in a physical sense, but sometimes in voice/topic). The fact that the freelance editor is OK with working with her, over and over, is not nothing. Just as Bret Stephens being hired as a NYT columnist is not nothing about the NYT's priorities, even as he has no contact or relationship with NYT's news reporters.
My fault there. Noted for next time. :-)
Busses are typically MDT chassis that are spe-d out very lightly and even then they pretty much never run anywhere near their GVW (whereas every other commercial vehicle is near, at or over the GVW basically all the time). A box truck for hauling baked goods is about the only thing that's going to be spec'd out lighter.

An extra few thousand pounds would not be a problem for a full sized school bus.
In general, the covering of the diversity memo issue by NYT is way better than by other popular media outlets. Nevertheless, they didn't use neutral language. One of the first articles started with:

When James Damore, a Google engineer, was fired this week for writing a 10-page manifesto spelling out his grievances with the company’s progressive values and positing that biological differences explained the tech industry’s gender gap, it might have seemed like the end of a bizarre, short-lived morality tale.

The current article uses a completely different language, it really surprised me.
TL;DR "The total amount of money that startups have raised is still down from a year earlier, albeit by less than recent weeks. There were a few outsized deals last summer that caused this sub-index to spike. More worrying is the slump in the number of companies that get acquired or file for initial public offerings."

So it's a concentration of investment in likely winners. Unless you have some unique edge (i.e. you're B2B in an untapped niche with a near-guaranteed path to profitability and an extensive client list waiting in the wings) it might not be the best time to quit your day job.

And I expect better from Bloomberg when it comes to clickbait.
That seems pretty uncharitable, there's more than a few OS projects happening in the Rust space and I know a bunch of people spend time poking at low-level stuff(myself included).
Do I have to take a phone call? If so, never mind.
I agree. I should move to Finland, I gather they are more sanguine.
Insect-sized mini-drones that will create ubiquitous surveillance.
Have you looked at Perl 6 at all? Whitespace in regexen is insignificant if not quoted, so not only can you add a little space between sections, you can split a regex over several lines and add comments throughout.

It also has first-class grammars, so you're less tempted to reach for regex when something more powerful would help.
Creative Commons Announces the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship
The Shadow Peace, Part 1
I tried to create a timeTaco countdown for today, but it didn't let me? AFAICT, it only allows for blast-off dates in the future. Also, a little clarity about time format (12 vs 24) and time zone would be nice. Overall though I love the simple UI.
Yup. It's also open source:

https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
Is the new 'tooltip with HTML' feature SEO-friendly? Wouldn't the HTML markup obscure the text?

<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-toggle="tooltip" data-html="true" title="<em>Tooltip</em> <u>with</u> <b>HTML</b>">Tooltip with HTML</button>

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/tooltips/
My guess is risk is part of the answer. They don't have a huge budget, and it could be pretty financially disastrous to them if the experiment fails. And this has worked for them for 50+ years so there's no pressing need to change it.

Also, school districts are in the business of education, not transportation, so they may not see themselves as the people who should be leading in this area. If someone else (transit agency, airport shuttle company, etc.) tries something and proves that it works long term, they may then feel comfortable following along, but as far as I know, that hasn't happened yet because by definition it takes a long time to prove that.
Haven’t a bunch of VC firms raised new funds recently? I remember the announcements rolling in one by one a couple months ago.

Could this be a result of those fresh new funds eager to deploy their new capital?

I don’t have accurate data on this to be sure if my hypothesis holds up though. Especially at the seed/early stage specifically.
James Damore was summarily fired for honestly writing about the problems he saw with Google's personnel policies, backed with evidence.
That is pretty threatening in my book.
CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition (Stanford, 2017)
Perhaps against the grain, I sometimes like to build an MVP for myself before any significant validation; something I'll use even if others won't. Then if others don't use it, I will. It can be a good opportunity to experiment with certain technologies as well. One such example is a service I made http://EmailMeTweets.com

When I first made it public I submitted it to ProductHunt and tweeted at marketing folks, with large follower numbers on Twitter, to please try it and help promote it. There was traction but not nearly as much as fast as I had hoped. In fact, just the other day I created an Indiegogo campaign to gauge the interest in paying for the service. At this time, there are 3 contributors for $12 each. Without a big surge it obviously doesn't seem poised to stay alive... for the public. However, like I said, I'll continue to use the service privately, freely. So, it's validated and minimally viable for myself; unfortunately not for the public.
Starting reading this I thought that I wasn't an idiot, and then I realized that I internalized most of what's there.

For instance, I've given up trying to avoid off-by-one issues in complex loops, I'm just writing the loop, testing it, and then see if it's off-by-one or not.

Another example is that I know that I get really confused by not-even-complex logic expressions. It takes me ages to get what !(a || !b) means, and then I am not sure at all I'm right.

I totally relate to the author's problem with max(0,min(1,x)), I've screwed that one so many times.
My point was that the word freelance suggests someone is independent of the organization, while writing 383 articles for The Guardian suggests otherwise.

Clearly she likes The Guardian and they like her opinion very much.

More significantly, their opinion writers range from left to extreme left.
I'm not being picky but here's a definition for passion I found quickly: 'strong and barely controllable emotion'

Surely this is at least somewhat at odds with being calm?!