skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right that a number of scientists have come out to say his post was science. I'm saying that they are not the conclusive authority on the posters' intent.

He is of course entitled to feel and think whatever he wants, but maybe a little old-fashioned advice would help here: measure twice, cut once. He clearly didn't think through the effects of posting a stern essay to a company-wide board on a subject that is really quite touchy in the midst of one of the more socially-turbulent periods in the past 20 years.

If he wants to prove it's that desperate, he probably should have worked harder on his essay or social skills, and found a better way to introduce discussion.

And we haven't even confronted his perceptions yet. I have to wonder who exactly feels afraid and intimidated by the conditions. Him, and who else? Instead of resigning to anxiety that he might be confronted for such a strongly-pointed diatribe, maybe he should have considered that his understanding of the situation might be skewed?

I can't speak for anybody else, but his facts didn't support his conclusions for me. His timing was even worse. If it's a discussion he wanted, then maybe he should have researched tact first.
I disagree. I think Carbon Black's disclaimer is more than sufficient:

The screenshot in Carbon Black's response clearly says that VirusTotal "makes the binaries available for download to their partners".

And here's the relevant text in the disclaimer:

> You are hereby advised (i) VirusTotal makes the metadata publicly available along with scan results from dozens of anti-virus products and (ii) VirusTotal also makes the files available to VirusTotal partners. You must determine whether to elect to enable this feature at your sole discretion.

And the warning also has this text in bold:

> If you have custom business applications with confidential business information on your network, sharing binaries with VirusTotal may not be appropriate for you.

With this being optional and off by default, I think it's on the customer to read the clear warning presented and make the call that's right for them.
Yeah, I was fiddling with the caching. Should be back now! Thanks! :)
You say that as if not being a leftist is somehow immoral, illegal or wrong.
Why We Focus on Design Just as Much as Functionality
Very good point. I saw some research that suggested that once you control for income and SAT scores, where you applied to school (Signaling ambition) was as much a predictor of success as where you actually attended.
This is why I love HN.

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If you look up how many people died in Tel Aviv from terrorism (any kind) in the last 20 years, you will see it is a tiny fraction of all non-natural deaths - far from offsetting the relatively low crime rate.
Taking away the job does solve the problem though, because the cobalt must come from somewhere, so the mine will increase prices to pay for the new labour they need. And the tax from this will pay for the schools.

The ultimate reason it doesn't happen is because people in the west don't want to pay more for their smartphone (they are not to blame though, as they won't see this picture, our politicians, corporations and planners are the groups that maintain this picture deliberately).
Wow, according to this, HN is hard at work at suppressing the Google Memo news story.
Campaigns Targeting North Korea Show Link Between KONNI and DarkHotel
- If they talk about how great it was to do their laundry during work hours, thumbs down

- we don't care if you work at night, on weekends, in your
pajamas, after class, in another timezone, etc. We do
ask that you are available by Skype during regular 9-5 CST

- Cool things about working for us:
Potential to earn bonuses for projects. Very *LOW*
salary but since we are ROWE (Results Only Work
Environment), bonuses are part of the deal!

As someone who successfully works remotely full time: nope, nope, nope. These guys have offloaded their office space costs to their employees homes under the guise of a flexible work schedule.
> At the time of the invasion, Russian and German firms had extensive oil extraction and refinement contracts with Saddam's government, but the Bush administration redistributed the spoils to US and coalition firms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Iraq#Ser... seems to contradict you. US companies only control two oil fields, and in terms of gross revenue China actually receives more than any other country. Russia, Malaysia, and China have more service contracts than any coalition nation.
With GPG's symmetric encryption ($ gpg -c <filename>) you just need a passphrase (no keys involved)
Semantics. He said that the women Google was hiring were not as good as the men that Google is hiring. The point of his thesis was that Google was hiring too many women (and minorities, since the programs he was attacking target both, though he avoided getting into specifics on this one).

That's, yeah, rather controversial. How would you feel if your coworker and all his friends (c.f. all you guys posting here) felt that you were sub-par? Would you tell your female coworkers this to their face? "I don't think your gender is not good at tech per se, but you personally were hired from a too-large pool of candidates and that makes you not as good at your job as I am. You probably shouldn't have been hired".
Fair point, yeah. I took the article here to be talking about society more broadly, but I could be wrong.
Same here. I can access http://web.archive.org/ on ACT and on my university campus internet which peers directly with the National Internet Backbone (NIB).
I work as lead dev on a 5 year old web app I took over from a previous dev and his team of subcontractors about a year ago. It's very helpful to see into the past when there's no way to just ask the previous dev.
Or maybe people that have the same short term goals, actually have the same short term goals and should be treated as though they have the same short term goals.

Other than the fact they have the same short term goals, they're totally different.
Requiem for the iPod Shuffle
> it seems increasingly evident his motivations were less than virtuous.

You mean he wanted to change an extreme leftist policy he disagreed with?

Oh noes. What a monster!
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I personally do not have kids yet, but some of our employees have kids and even newborn babies. One of them just came back from a trip to Norway. It's all doable and probably less of a problem than people think :-)
Well since we're all being pedantic, OP means "Original Poster" which is the person who started the thread (page, not this particular thread, which you did start).
I can assure you, I didn't misunderstand what it means.
Interesting, I played a lot of PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds last weekend and this does bring a few things to mind: some FPSes are highly reliant upon twitch reactions and that sort of deep reptile brain panic response. It improves your reflexes and precision, but likely punishes higher order thinking.

Other games encourage you to plan long term and work within systems.

I think these exercise very different parts of your brain - is it possible there's simply a trade off here?

On the other hand, single player in call of duty is about the most mind numbing thing it's possible to play, there's no competition, it's just kill guys and advance in a straight line. Would be interesting to compare with more competitive or open world games.
As a continent yes. With brexit following through and historically anyway I think any singular state should not be categorized into the whole so easily. Similar to how I do not think Minnesota equals the USA
What is the Go way to implement a generic data structure that can't be trivially realised by wrapping a couple maps and arrays into a struct (without using interface{} and throwing away the safety Go's type system, such as it is, provides)?
Some of his claims are supported by the linked documents, some are not. Again, there are so many, any conclusion of "100% are supported" or "100% are not" is going to be false.
I remember reading a study about different navigation strategies. In one strategy you developed a mental map of the area and you mentally navigated that map as a means to navigate the real world. Another strategy was the landmark strategy where you would learn procedural directions between landmarks and so navigation relied much less on mental maps and much more on procedural memory. I suspect these different strategies are at play in the responses noted in the study.
> it's actually a summary of replications and duplicate studies on some topic. ... they are specifically designed to detect potential publication bias and other effects that would imply non-reproducibility.

Not quite right: Meta-analyses combine several studies to improve the statistical power of a given topic. They do not address reproducibility, because the individual papers forming the basis for the meta-analyses make no attempt at reproducing prior results before introducing new ones. I'd go so far as to say part of the necessity for the original reproducibility study of 100 seminal psychology papers was because meta-analyses fail to address reproducibility.

The repercussions of 61/100 papers failing to reproduce are still not as widely understood as they should be.
If you consider Bitcoin a pyramid scheme I would love to hear your treatise on fiat currency, fractional reserve banking, and capitalism in general.
I didn't even make it that far in the posting. Here's another gem that is very close to the top

> You would be part of our underpaid production team
Maybe Americans don’t need fast home Internet service, FCC suggests
What would you need to do to limit doxxing potential?
It's not only the math involved in the creation of a bitcoin, there's also economics and networking and psychology involved. Granted, most people don't understand how money really works, but grasping a dollar bill in your wallet is easier than the a virtual something on some virtual place.

See? I even feel dumb trying to explain why people feel dumb.
The New Copycats: How Facebook Squashes Competition From Startups
"Strict Enforcement of the Google Code Guidelines ... According to my opinion, a programming language should let a developer use his or her style."

This is one of the better language features, IMO. No more maintaining massively complex inherited eslint rulesets. One style and you're done.
On creating a single-cycle permutation from a shuffle:

Take 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and shuffle it.
4, 3, 0, 5, 1, 2

Now you can read out a permutation:

4 → 3

3 → 0

0 → 5

5 → 1

1 → 2

2 → 4

It will only have one cycle.
The author mentions "sub-prime" borrowers several times but I don't see any indication that borrower quality had anything at all to do with Uber's problem.

I always thought sub-prime borrowers were unfairly blamed for the mortgage crisis. There were a lot of average & prime borrowers walking away from ridiculous "nothing down, 1%" mortgages.
If his desire is to spark reasoned debate, then Jordan "gender neutral pronouns are Evil Marxism" Peterson and Stefan Molyneux probably aren't the best choices of interviewers to help him with that, unfortunately

It's entirely possible that as he said, he wanted to spark some reasoned debate and he's just made a few mistakes (and got particularly unlucky with Gizmodo cutting his charted caveats) but it's equally possible that he knew exactly what reaction he was likely to provoke and aimed for just beyond the line of what would be considered acceptable.

(I have no insight into what he thinks or how he's been treated, but if I wanted an open discussion on the merits and shortcomings of Google's diversity policies, I'd probably start by suggesting that quotas are nearly always bad and male/female inequalities in STEM start long before people apply to Google, not with an essay insisting that men are more suited to software roles because biology and that Google's promotion of the view that attitudes contribute towards gender imbalances is left wing bias that threatens my psychological safety.)
The Importance of Startup Culture
No, it can't. This is a fundamental limit of language, because language itself - which you're using to accomplish your research - requires using imperfect symbols.

If you don't mind 100% spoilers for Davey Wreden's game "The Beginner's Guide", I highly recommend watching "The Artist is Absent"[1]. It's a surprisingly good introduction to semiotics, death of the author, and enunciation theory, which together explain why you can interpret the narrator of a work, which should never be confused with the author.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N6y6LEwsKc
Always nice to see a perverse incentive. But thankfully, in America we work for corporations, not the other way around.
Coming sooner: dying reduces grey matter. What? Zombies?
While it is a bit of time invested initially it can be very handy to keep a Windows VM around for this purpose. Make sure to keep a baseline snapshot after patching. This way you can install questionable software with full confidence it won't impact your main system. You can simply revert to the baseline snapshot at any time to uninstall the software.
Mocking REST endpoints in web apps, easy way
LSTM Networks
> It's simply false that the memo makes no connection between supposed preference and aptitude, as it builds to a section about the "harms of diversity" that includes a direct claim that women in Google's workforce are less capable than men.

I have been confused why you and others have been repeating this, but after re-reading the section "The Harm of Google’s biases", I think I see your point now.

Damore does not say that all women who work at Google are unqualified, but he does imply that there are fewer women who are qualified, and that by trying to mine that population too heavily, Google is hiring women who are, on average, less qualified than the men are, on average. Do I have that right?
I studied mathematical logic quite extensively, and I'm pretty sure this person doesn't know what he's talking about. Godel's incompleteness theorem is about facts which are unprovable in a certain logical framework. Any sufficiently complex consistent system A has a statement G which cannot be either proven or disproven in that system. That by itself is not a paradox, there are plenty of unsolved mathematical problems that might not be solvable using the axioms we have. For example "A is/is not consistent" is such a statement.

On the contrary, any statement that can be derived within the framework A cannot contradict A because that would prove that A is inconsistent! Of course with a real sufficiently complex logical system we cannot know whether it is consistent or not, but that doesn't mean it is possible to prove a paradox in it.
Yes. So the question is, "Are schools giving up their academic rigor, or just facing up to the reality that students aren't learning anything anyway?"

My soft anecdotal observation is...

- At my large public undergrad, very little classroom learning happened for 80+% of the students outside the hard subjects. (Physics, Computer Science, etc) 80+% of the students in the hard subjects learned a lot in the class. Many students learned a lot outside of the classroom.

- At my private research focused professional grad school, there was a lot more learning, but even then more of the learning was outside the classroom. It was also possible to treat the experience as a multi-year job interview, and do fine skating by with low grades.
I guess it means whatever is important to you: for some it means going surfing in the morning, for others skiing in the afternoon and for some it is as simple as spending more time with your friends and family.
PgHero 2.0 Has Arrived
Amazing. Thank you. I've been looking for something like this for years.
Tesla drivers claim Model S distance record of 670 miles on one charge
On the Importance of Packaging
I'm not sure there's a way that a skeptical person can ever trust that data, short of physically handling each piece of paper and manually summing up the totals. People are as much of a black box as any software.

I suppose the only benefit of people is that they are more difficult to coordinate.
Source? I believe Aztec sacrifices were almost always prisoners of war from conquered tribes.
Corporatiosn are dictatorships without freedom of speech. In the case of Academics what you say is true. But not really in the case of Google employees.
There's no point to making college compulsory if the banks can't get rich off student loans.
Optimum age for taking Medicare and SS also play a factor. Even if I had enough money in my 401K to retire at 45, medical insurance would eat it up. Need to wait to get on Medicare.
Not necessarily increasing work speed, but saving your hand and wrist in the long run is the vertical mouse from Evoluent. Really helped my hand. Also multiple customizable buttons for shortcuts. Worth the money in my opinion.
https://evoluent.com/
Or you'll spend it all on rent?
> which allows an attacker to confirm whether a visitor to a web page is logged in to any one of a list of specific Google accounts

I actually reported a similar problem to Google that would allow you to do the same thing back in 2013 (and like you, I used the load and onerror methods for detection). I didn't get a reward either :/.

However, Facebook paid me $1,000 for finding this problem for a particular area of their website (http://patorjk.com/blog/2013/03/01/facebook-user-identificat...). So I wouldn't write off this kind of security issue. It seems to depend on who's giving out the bounty.
All About Husky Hair
> before WebAssembly can completely obliterate JS and I can switch to whatever language I like.

This is exactly what I'm waiting for.
The cryptosystem part is hard, but the rest is not all that complicated. The economics, though, are very strange. Valuing a cryptocoin is really hard. It's like valuing a penny stock with no business activity.
Nice - for those wondering how to do this themselves (like me) - check out https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki
Don't fall for the myth that politics are irrelevant to coders. It is true that they are slightly more insulated from the game, but only because their skill is difficult to find. The bosses plainly resent having to pretend to respect socially/politically inept technicians, and that's not a good position to put yourself in.

You may be able to keep a heads-down position with limited political exposure, but you'll cap out relatively quickly, and easily be beaten by colleagues with better instincts. Your mobility across employers will be limited. Developers, like all groups of people, are subject to psychological forces too.

"Politics" are what happens anytime a group of 5+ people get together and engage. Throw in things like a paycheck and the stakes shoot way up very quickly, and that's never going to change. It is better to accept this perspective and learn to prosper within it than to live in denial and try to cling to a white-collar career maintained by sheer force of intellect (e.g., the inept developer).
Your argument also applies to the global warming 'settled science'.
Inheritance and Generics: How's the discussion for Golang 2 going? Do we get _some_ code reuse mechanism? Macros? Anything?
> Lastly, there is a difference between speaking truth and how you speak truth.

Yes, this seems to be the thing that most people are missing. He didn't release a study in a scientific journal, he shared a document with his coworkers while at work. The things he talks about are what his Women coworkers are living through. He made this about their experience. It doesn't matter how much is true, it was incredibly unprofessional and absolutely something you can be fired for.
I completely agree that they are misinformed. A huge number of them think Africa is one big country.

And that the wars they read or see on the news is happening all across Africa. It really upsets me.

Am from Zambia and we have never experienced any war (yes not even civil war) its a beautiful, peaceful country. The only thing westerns know about Zambia is the Victoria Falls, because it was named after Queen Victoria. The rest is not important.

And FYI am the Co-founder of www.cognifly.com

A search engine for Zambian web searches.
What are you considering old in this situation?
There is a growing gap in life expectancy based on income, and many of the people collecting private pensions qualify as upper income. I doubt that companies will get much of break once that is factored in.
This piece is fatuous. Alexander perpetuates the "women like people, men like things" trope that is common to every message board discussion of CS gender disparity. He then explains away the fact that women excel in science fields by saying "what do women do with math degrees? They become teachers." He ignores that the effect remains in graduate-level math studies (women do not get math PhD's to become high school teachers) and in other STEM fields (women do not get biochem masters to become high school teachers).

He's contrived a just-so story that appeals to his audience. Which is par for his course.
>We've been creating GMOs since the dawn of agriculture. Doing it in a petrie dish changes nothing.

Yeah, if breadth and scale doesn't mean anything.

It's like saying: "We have been blowing things up since the advent of gunpowder by the Chinese a millennium ago. Doing it with atomic bombs changes nothing".

Traditional "GMOs" were already closely related, and the modifications that could emerge were very constrained. Not so much with GMOs that allow for arbitrary outputs.
You first reconsider your need to make a generic data structure and evaluate on a case by case basis.
Expressly Network
In Israel the rocket attacks are a large motivation for collaboration between the military / tech sector and there's plenty of startups that actually focus on providing services around this, there's an app for example that warns people when some rocket attack is supposed to happen.

What you're identifying as cost here is actually a service that a business can provide. The close military connections (also supported by the conscription) are actually an asset for the country in terms of technological progress. Think of it like a messy version of the cold war.
Some of the wording in the article, like "data trove", implies that Palantir has a central repo for all their data. From what I know, this isn't the case; a lot of government contracts mandate on-prem deployments, often on air gapped networks. The Police data might be an exception, though. I'm curious if anyone knows if this is the case?

The rest of the article paints the process in a light that has been mentioned many times: They are a very successful consulting business.
Per https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/img

> A purely decorative image that doesn't add any information
In general, if an image is decorative but isn't especially page-specific, for example an image that forms part of a site-wide design scheme, the image should be specified in the site's CSS, not in the markup of the document.
However, a decorative image that isn't discussed by the surrounding text but still has some relevance can be included in a page using the img element. Such images are decorative, but still form part of the content. In these cases, the alt attribute must be present but its value must be the empty string.

I have always understood that (and earlier spec incarnations) to mean that <img alt=''> is correct for these cases.
If it matters much on the scale, it will be included in all health plans - politicians can't vote for the "Kill grandma" bill.
I don't think anyone is promoting below-average hires as part of diversity programs. If that was the case, they could just hire only women until the desired gender balance is met.

I get the feeling your position is exactly what Google referred to as toxic. Imagine a woman hired in a diversity program hears your position. Do you think she will feel welcomed and understood?