skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even better to use Umatrix for browsing i think. You can enable several or all elements on a site and so on.
Use it with a hosts file like the one from:

someonewhocares.org

and you are even better off. imo.
Why was it downvoted?
I imagine after the Bitkeeper fiasco, Linus and others are disinclined to become dependent on a proprietary service.
I wonder if good a VR headset would some day change this.
I work on the fork I think is most likely to succeed.
An American biscuit is actually a Scottish scone.
(Note, not what most people in the US or England know as a scone but a specific item historically made in Scotland that is identical to the US biscuit).

Source: my grandfather made them.

As to gravy: yes. Odd.
Anything on the roadmap for supporting server-side (api, db, etc.) in the same way?
> You should familiarise yourself with the philosophical basis of the is/ought distinction.

don't assume I am not. You could be making a mistake

> there is no good reason to assume that scientific inquiry, which tells us a fact about the world in any way tells us what we should want or should do.

actually the scientific community has this into their theories. There are two factors: biological factors and the environment. At they beginning they weren't sure about the biological factors so they make test in one day old infants. And there is a high correlation between genre and interest even with one day old.
> It makes a statistical observation that refutes the notion that sexism is the cause of gender disparity in the STEM fields.

It does no such thing, because:

(1) STEM fields, especially applied rather than theoretical ones, involve people as much as things

(2) While in some STEM fields gender disparities are apparent from fairly early in career progression, that's not true of all STEM fields; in some (many of them around biosciences) women are overrepresented in education and entry-level work, but still lag men in pay and advancement (problematically for the “it's about men wanting to deal with things and women wanting to deal with people” explanation of STEM gender disparities, this leaves women dealing more with things while the men move to higher levels where they deal with people.)
So fraud seems to be the biggest reason why?

Hasn't blockchain technology shown itself to be more reliable at preventing fraud than the old fashioned way of simply trusting that someone is keeping the books in perfect order?
I thought I had read everything I wanted to read about this topic, but that was actually a really interesting take on it.

I have no problem putting a couple of stopgaps on my behavior to make sure I'm accommodating to the women in my office. I just don't like (hate in fact) the infusion of leftist politics.
PcapPlusPlus: a multiplatform C++ network sniffing and packet crafting library
He solved the problem with git, he's upset that the company trying to make money off it broke it again.

Most of the times Linus is an asshole are completely justified. Being rude to groups like Nvidia isn't hindering progress.
The first time I heard about this game someone mentioned another assembly language game called Human Resource Machine. I was so captivated by the design of HRM (I'm a fan of the publisher, Tomorrow Corporation, thanks to Little Inferno), I forgot all about TIS-100. I'm happy to be reminded.

Seems that the Internet likes to compare these two games. Here they are compared on Slant.io: https://www.slant.co/versus/6230/6231/~tis-100_vs_human-reso...
No but writing HTML directly in your class is soooo late 90s like when we used to write Java Servlets!

All this has happened before. It will happen again
Bill Murray Relives a Role, Seeing Broadway’s ‘Groundhog Day’
Brilliantly apt!
> half of Damore's manifesto revolved around it

And, Damore is now interviewing with YouTube personalities claiming Google silenced him.

Meanwhile, every day are 4 new articles about his manifesto, which everyone can find fully linked up and formatted. There's nothing left to complain about. He's got the debate he wanted.

I feel like the strategy of denouncing media began with Trump. It's earned him tons of attention, and others have begun doing the same because they think it's true. They think their ideas are being drowned out.

I don't see that. I see tons of online discussions. From time to time, someone asks me to frame my point in a way that is more to their liking, and I'm baffled. That isn't how open debate works.
Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube Responds to Google Memo
Right, but it's the default state of the database.
The biggest issue that I see and mentioned before is that the APIs are not versioned and instead rely on 'feature detection' which seems to be due to poor support for/understanding of modern style versioned modules in C++.
Encourage children to spend more time online, says former GCHQ head
I'm annoyed that you came in, advertised your product, took up front page space, and didn't bother to answer any of the interesting questions. I feel as if you are taking from the community and not giving back.
Here is another overview of how the kernel uses git and why no emails is simply not possible (or sensible). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyenmLqJQjs
The Android framework is honestly a huge pain to develop with. I switched over to iOS development a year ago and am much happier. It feels almost impossible to get Activity/Fragment life cycles correct for simple things. And anything View related has to pass around a God Context object.
I think they have exactly the same obligation to be respectful. I'm religious, but if this had been a thread about an atheist dating site I wouldn't have commented like you did, and if another religious person did I'd have been just as critical of them.
Not exactly.

The browser, instead of downloading javascript, downloads WASM bytecode, and this bytecode gets compiled ahead-of-time to machine language and ran by the browser.

The bytecode itself is the product of compiling a source code written in the language of your choice, for example Java or something more advanced like INTERCAL.
Great article and hits on what I think is the main difference between men and women: men seem to be far more likely to become obsessive and devote massive amounts of time to hobbies and study. I mean if you're not popular and girls aren't interested in you, what else are you going to do? And spending years being obsessed with computers is naturally going to lead you down a path towards a degree and job in computers, hence more men in computing (as an example).
I understand egalitarianism in real material terms. The ability to shape your own future as your wish, upward mobility, a fundamental sense of optimisim about your future prospects, and so forth.

This is very much present in developing countries, whereas people in large swathes of the developed world seem to be preoccupied lamenting their own insecurities and limitations on all sides of the political spectrum.

I think a good deal of Westerners would do well to spend some of their time in a developing country that is on the economic upswing if they still think that the rest of the world is lacking in political or cultural regards.
I haven't experienced a person who misuses "mansplaining" in the way you're describing. I'm sure it happens, and I don't agree with those who do that, but I have witnessed the situation the word is meant to describe several times too. I'm more inclined to think that it still happens all the time and is accurately pointed out by the word.

I agree that someone willing to condescend to women will be more likely to condescend to a junior employee or a teenager (i.e. they've already shown the propensity for prejudice), but I don't agree that they are probably condescending to everyone (I'd argue that kind of person is very rare).

It's not that there are legions of very sexist and evil people who are not prejudiced in any other way, it's that there's an unfortunately large spectrum of mostly well-meaning people who might harbor conscious or unconscious beliefs about women specifically. They might also harbor similar beliefs about minorities, or have a life experience that justifies their beliefs in their eyes, but nevertheless it's a big enough cross-section of society and a strong enough phenomenon that it's been noticed. That there is some subset of SJWs who think that they can take advantage of this isn't an extreme claim, but that it's a stronger phenomenon is a pretty extreme claim to me.
The prisoner's dilemma example is wrong. It should be globally optimal for both not to confess, but knowing the other player can get a better sentence by confessing, each player will also confess in order to at least get the somewhat reduced sentence.
Understood that especially in front-end work, dual screens are pretty much necessary for testing & debugging and just being able to work efficiently.

FWIW, a 24" monitor in original box will fit in a checked bag-- takes up half of the medium-large hardshell luggage I have-- and yes I've traveled with an extra screen.
Platform for simple explanations (Simplexes). Understand anything in a minute
TIL, New York Times is alt-right
To cauterize the red pill, we must become lighthouses for our communities
> Please support pull requests and issue tracking spanning different repos of a monotree.

Issue tracking you can already file against one or more repos and link them together. It's not ideal, but it'll do the job.

Is "pr against different repos of a monotree" not what submodules let you do? Update whatever things you want in whatever repos, and pull the submodule pointer update(s) as a single change in your monotree repo.
While is does not imply ought, is limits the possible. I want to be a billionaire, but no matter my wish the fact of the matter is otherwise.
It's not subjective when the language dictates that's how it's to be done. Coding style changes based on the language you're writing in, Go just happens to have a very strict style.
Hello WebAssembly
> Because you have cases like Norway, one of the most genre equality countries, where the ratios or men/women in tech are even worse that less genre equality countries. And the most accepted theory for this is based on biology (actually other theories fall apart because they don't have any evidence).

This is nonsense. There is absolutely no scientific theory that explains how exposure to pre-natal testosterone translates into a gender imbalances in software engineering. There's also no "accepted" theory to explain why the percentage of female computer science graduates has fallen drastically since 1980. Women certainly haven't evolved in the last thirty years.

Here's the funny thing: we've all seen this movie before. The script goes like this:

1. An extreme gender imbalance is observed in a field say [science, medecine, law, advertising, banking]. People try to justify that explaining that the imbalance is "natural" because women don't want to be in the field because of X.

2. Corporations work to remove the real barriers -- systemic discrimination.

3. With the discrimination gone women go on to dominate the field.

The same thing is likely going to happen to software engineering. The reality is that we can observe this from a very young age: women are better at collaborative knowledge games. They study harder, they ask more questions, they seek out help, and they work better in groups. In other words, they're better students. And in many jobs where the primary task is collaborative knowledge production we've come to see women quickly become a majority.

When this happens to software engineering (which has only recently become a high-paying, high-status job with big perks in the last ~20 years) women will come and they will do what they do best. When that happens all those insisting on biology will look pretty damn foolish (just like they have in the past) but the real tragedy is the missed opportunity.
Must Have Elements of an On-Demand Mobile App
>Almost makes me want to build a better debating platform.

I’ve thought about this for a long time. I think the trick is to realize that most people DON’T want to have a debate. It takes a lot of self-control, forethought, and careful speaking to actually sit down and rationally argue. Realizing you’re wrong is really hard and painful, and most people don’t intentionally seek it out.

If people wanted to have productive debate, that’s possible on virtually every communication platform (except Twitter due to its word count). Tumblr, Facebook, HN, Reddit — they all have public posts and a reply system. It’s all about the context and goals of the people debating. Do they genuinely want to learn, or are they here just to argue?

The best quality debate can be found in places where people actually want to change their mind (some subsets of the rationality community like LessWrong). My favorite layman’s version is /r/ChangeMyView which does a tolerable job. I think the goal should be to build a debating community, where the technology underlying it is only a small piece of the overall construction.
Be careful about selection bias in your empirical data.

Suppose you're 50. You probably know more people 10 years away from your own age than 40. So no surprise you see more people die at 60 than at 90, because you know more at 60 in the first place.

And of course there's always a survivorship bias in life expectancy numbers. Life expectancy for a currently-living baby-boomer is over 80, because the boomers who die under 70 are already dead and no longer pulling down the average.
Sorry for the OT, but in trying to find out more about the origins of Narcos, I found out it's directed by José Padilha. No wonder it's good. His Bus 174 was one of the films that most shook me.
I haven't used CockroachDB, but it looks like they have a `SQL Dump` command [0] that can work as a backup. It looks like it is a simpler backup command than the command described in the blog post.

[0]:https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/sql-dump.html
How on earth did educated men ever come to this sort of conclusion? Did they simply not come into contact with any women other than, say, a scullery maid or their sassy teenage daughter? I just can't understand it. Did these men have no respect for their wives?
Isn't it easy to raise money when you don't need it and hard to raise money when you do?

Why not just take the $40M if you can negotiate a strong position (which you can if you're willing to say no to it anyway) and just have more runway to protect yourself?
Have you ever looked? Here's what NOW's president said about women and selective service registration back in 1981:

by excluding women even from registration, the government held that “every man, regardless of any disability, must register, but that all women, regardless of competency, cannot,” a distinction which created the “myth that all men are more competent than all women.”

That's the biggest (as far as I know) women's interest group and they support women being a part of the draft. Here's some more resources:

http://www.explorethetrades.org/women-in-trades/

http://chicagowomenintrades2.org/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-women-in-trades-04...

Health-care workers experience the most nonfatal workplace violence compared to other professions by a wide margin, with attacks on them accounting for almost 70 percent of all nonfatal workplace assaults causing days away from work in the U.S., according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

from: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/epidemic-of-viole...
What's interesting is if you read the comment section there is literally 0 comment that agrees with the author. Even the "NYT picks" are the comments bashing on this guy.

It just shows that NYT has turned itself into an opposite of Breitbart, instead of aspiring to become more unbiased news source. I'm actually surprised that they even let this guy write this piece on NYT.
How to Send Ethereum Transactions with Java
yes but if you mine a valid block around the same time someone else mines a random block you can't know until another block is mined (and even then, you might not know)
It also doesn't help that these APIs are rapidly changing, in ways ranging from minor rearrangements that the XCode auto-upgrader can mostly handle, to real porting hassles. I've been working on a project that was started in early 2016, so it was originally in Swift 2, the then-current version. A ton of things changed for Swift 3, which came out 6 months later, in late 2016. And a bunch of things are changing again with Swift 4 (although not as many as in the 2->3 upgrade). I haven't yet looked into Swift 5, but presumably that brings yet more API changes.

A lot of time is spent just on this treadmill of porting previously working things to modified APIs. To make it worse, you have to manage a 4-way compatibility matrix between Swift versions, XCode versions, iOS versions, and macOS versions, where only very specific combinations work.
It is indeed symbolic of the struggle with reality.
Bug 1387254 – Update Firefox Nightly Branding
You're completely right - science can't dictate what should be, only what is. But part of the problem, as I see it, is that there are far too many people who dismiss any science that says things are different from the way they think things should be.

On the flipside, there's far too many people who do the opposite and ignore what "should be" using "what is" as the excuse.
>The nature and source of sex differences are also of practical importance. Most of us agree that there are aspects of the world, including gender disparities, that we want to change. But if we want to change the world we must first understand it, and that includes understanding the sources of sex differences. "

completely agree with Pinker's sentiment but it is very important to note that for him understanding nature is emancipatory.

For him understanding our natural limitations is a means to figure out how to overcome them. For people preoccupied in this debate scientific discovery about differences seems to be used in the way some mad 19th century eugenistics used it, as a quasi religious justification of the status quo.

This is exactly the wrong way to approach the topic, and precisely how the googler attempted to portray the existing evidence. This produced the outlash.
"And the sexual harassment, while annoying, was just that: annoying. I cannot recall that it ever affected my work, nor that I lost any sleep over it."

This says it all. Most women are not like this author. They will loose sleep over it and rightly so.
>But it’s less male, and it suits me better.

That's not maleness, that's autism spectrumness. That's tech's real problem. Most of us are on the spectrum somewhere and are socially a complete and utter mess. More 'normal' people can do this job but they don't want to as its endless workaholism and obsession for the most part and keeping up with obsessives isn't fun nor are they pleasant to be around.

As someone who works hard to break out of the geek/aspergers mold and to be a more rounded person I very much relate with this woman. Weaponized autism, for lack of a better word, is something that is very unpleasant to be on the receiving end of. I don't recommend a tech career to anyone at this point. There are much better and healthier ways to make a living.
Well if you look at the effects that were caused in Vietnam in the population, definitely.

I don’t know what the international law says. I think it’s legal. I know Israel sprayed defoiliants in Gaza recently.
Most of loss prevention is based on fear. There's no real way to 'stop' it physically from happening.
Yep, not dying as young, just not growing life expectancy year over year as fast this past decade.

The title of this article, just like most things in our modern media, are a complete fabrication of the truth.
Announcing Choo v6
Regarding iOS and macOS kits, all of the documentation is in Objective-C. The libraries' Obj-C is imported and usable with Swift-only code, but the Swift documentation lazily links you to examples in the Obj-C docs. You have to perform trial-and-error by manually converting the Obj-C examples into the equivalent Swift (which often entails renamed classes, methods, types, etc.).

If your projects typically do a lot of string parsing, get ready for a world of hell. Swift 4 didn't improve upon the very basic ability to extract a substring from the middle of a string. It takes 3-4 lines of code, with throwaway explicitly defined variables, to do the equivalent of a str.substr(start, end|length). It boggles the mind that you can't do a str.utf8.substr(3, 5) in Swift.
Another very reasonable article on the topic.

I'm sure it will soon be [flagged] just like the other one since it doesn't support the "Damore is an ignorant, sexist pig" narrative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14973059
Overview of Artificial Neural Networks and Its Applications
I think there's a significant difference between identifying a person's unique capability:

"Women are the only part of the human species capable of bearing children"

versus defining them by that role:

"Women are childbearers"

... where the latter construction has a strong connotation that that's all or even primarily what they are. I think that's problematic.

I'm not sure, but I think GP might have perceived that in the writing they're referring to.
Hmmm...don't remember where I got that information from, so I could well be remembering wrong.

I do see that pspdfkit folk are active in the pdfium bug tracker, for example:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/pdfium/issues/detail?id=641

That sounds like a production problem, but it could just as well be them trying it out.
In SC1 it's trivially easy to make a bot that spams so many actions it prevents your units from functioning properly. In fact it's easy to do accidentally. A lot of my early efforts into making a bot have been trying to find ways to reduce its APM without making it harder to code.

"More actions = better" makes sense because we're used to human players who are using all their actions for something relatively effective and because (I'll assert) they're well below the optimal APM. But the optimal APM is probably something like 1000, not the 10k a bot can easily reach.
Yes, well, the US also broadly thinks electronic vote recording is a good idea. Let's not pretend it's any good at designing voting systems.
> Starcraft 2 is a game I could get to masters league in, despite only playing make a few hours a week for a month or two.

Was this in beta? I played from beta to end of WoL and got masters in NA. It was not easy.
It has more moving parts than a normal turntable.

Normal turntable, moving parts:

1. turntable spindle
(2). Motor (sometimes integrated into the spindle assembly)
3. tonearm bearings

ELPJ laser turntable

1. turntable spindle
2. motor
(3). tray loader
4. tangential tonearm positioning motor
5. laser servo mechanism for precise positioning
6. laser focusing servo

Conventional turntables last a long time. In practice they last many generations.
The title tag of Spanner home page reads: Cloud Spanner | Automatic Sharding with Transactional Consistency at Scale
EEK. When speaking in front of a large audience, it's generally a good idea to either mute your phone, or ditch it entirely before you get up onstage.

To get canned for not responding to a text message 30 minutes before a talk - which you were already approved for - seems terribly unfair and a decision probably made in the heat of the moment.
This is Gustaf from YC.

It might be good to think of the Airbnb story here. When Airbnb launched they were called Airbed & Breakfast and where offering airbeds in private rooms and their largest market was New York city. Few understood how big of an opportunity it was at the time.

Most of the very best marketplaces start with a small niche area that works very well and then expand out of that. Cocusocial is currently the largest cooking class provider in New York - the largest city in US.
Yeah! I mentioned the same sentiment in this 2012 post when it was becoming clear that computers were reaching human strength at Go via brute force: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/02/23/computers-are-ver...