skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need to run a mid or late startup to know that in this kind of endeavour, the minute labels jump in to get money waving copyright around, it's over.
> when she refers to the scientific claims she mostly seems to agree that they are well founded.

What part of this answer makes you say that? She is quoting directly from the paper a bunch of times, offering refutations, and providing sources. I agree that she is reading into the memo. I don't agree that she is agreeing with the science -- she's spent thousands of words doing the exact opposite.
>The population of China dropped drastically in only 50 years of Mongol rule, down to 50% by some accounts.

Actually, the population of china rose during mongol rule. The population of some parts of northern china declined since many chinese fled to southern. But that got conquered too.

> Iranians were plagued with famine due to the Mongols, and millions died.

No they weren't and no they didn't.

> They killed half a million people invading Rus - this argument that they left the rural people alone, therefore 'peaceful' is nonsense.

Really half a million? Why did russia's population grow so much during the mongol rule then? Russia went from nothing to one of the greatest empire during mongol rule. Wonder how that happened?

Also, most of the deaths occurred in kiev and other "rus" urban areas. Not in the countryside. Russia is a vast territory. A few thousands mongols would have died of exhaustion hunting down and murdering 500K russians over thousands of miles at the very least.

> Saying "oh, they only destroyed cities" is hardly a testament to them being peacable.

I didn't say they were peaceful. I said the mongol empire was peaceful ( pax mongolica ) and the mongols brought stability and rule of law into a wide region.

> They pressed captured men into service as soldiers, on pain of death.

They did? You mean like every empire in human history?

> How is this different to most other empires?

That's my point. They weren't different. But they are "caricatured" as bloody thirsty savages.

> The British Empire happily accepted all races, religions, and ideologies,

Except for the aborigines and the natives the british exterminated. The british are a poor example since theirs was a race based empire.

Anyways, my point is that the mongols were just another empire like any other more or less. Just bigger than most and far more inclusive.

The nonsense about the mongols exterminate this and that and were bloodthirsty is just historically incorrect.

Just like the ludicrous assertion that half of china died under the mongol rule. Feel free to study the Yuan Dynasty. Nothing of the sort happened.

It would have been biologically impossible. As I said, the mongol armies were a few thousand to maybe 20 to 30 thousand strong. Claiming they killed tens of millions of people over the vast territory of asia is ridiculous.
Responding to specific take down requests is enough to activate the safe harbor provisions in the DMCA. Legally they don't have to do anything else.
Project Gutenberg also has some tools and process for crowdsourcing text fixing that could be adapted. (If copyright issues could be dealt with.)

https://www.pgdp.net
I was just explaining the general concept. I don't claim to have in depth knowledge on the subject.

I think blocking a hash can already be a victory, since it basically makes all the metadata that was associated with the hash useless and forces reseeding under a new hash and publicizing that hash. As long as you make it inconvenient enough, very few people will bother, which is the best the copyright holders can hope for.

Reseeding might be pretty easy though in IPFS since there is a block layer below the object layer, and I guess you can't really block block-hashes.
This is just plain bad. I think it is a great idea. It is a shame it's so badly done.
>Lists are for humans to read and therefore should use the natural numbers

Depending on who you ask, the natural numbers do contain zero. Notably ISO 80000-2 is of that opinion. In university, half my professors included 0 in the natural numbers, half excluded it.

For lists, starting them at 1 makes sense, but I would argue that's purely because that way the words "first", "second", "fiftieth" etc. line up with the numbering. It has nothing to do with human consumption.

For example floor numbers are made for humans too, but the European scheme of labeling floors -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 makes much more sense than leaving out 0, leading to awkward -2, -1, 1, 2, 3, 4. Years are made for humans too, but most people are confused about the ordering of years because having the year -1 followed by year 1 just seems weird and makes date math difficult (for humans).
GitHub is just the platform. If they get a DMCA complaint, procedure says they should contact the repository owner. The repository owner receiving a fraudulent notice sends a one-line email stating "consider this my DMCA counter notice". The content stays online, the DMCA notice does nothing and the only avenue now is for Admiral to sue, which of course they are not prepared to do.

You post an entry on your blog ridiculing them and their VC funded shenanigans and HN gets a good laugh out of it.
"for learning any language you want", as long as that language is Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Swift, PHP, C# and C++.
> When I think of what I'd want my daughter to do, I can't help but think she'd have an easier time maximizing her potential in the latter field, where she doesn't have to deal with the awkwardness of being the only woman on her team, or working only for men team leaders.

Women lawyers only make up 18% of the law partners.

http://www.ibtimes.com/gender-gap-female-lawyers-progress-sl...

And women make 44% less than the men.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/business/dealbook/female-...

> The legal profession fixed the problem of historic discrimination in the field by not being gender blind.

By making it gender blind, only 18% of the women made partner.
It really isn't, human brains are clever enough to deal with that quite well.
Without a label licensing deal, soundcloud is not worth buying due the risk of a lawsuit.
OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships
'Discourage', obviously, is distinct from 'prevent'. But those checks were enhanced in the wake of the scandal, and it is based in large part on the strength of those enhanced checks that this conclusion about the underpinning validity of LIBOR has been drawn.

We can all agree, though, that the next iteration could do more to stop manipulation and fraud.
I must say, I never understood kids not liking vegetables as a meme. When my brothers and I were kids, we'd quickly demolish a casserole dish full of shanghai-style bok choi, broccoli, yellow and/or pink onions, and potatoes baked with some oil, salt, and pepper. You can also fry them with some seasoned soy sauce and a savoury fermented sauce like fish sauce or oyster sauce.

I think maybe many parents do a disservice to vegetables by being a bit too sparing with the oil and salt, but that's just been my guess. What's your intuition about this phenomenon?
The intent of all smart contracts is to be exactly what the code says. That is why they exist. For any case where you want to consider intent you should not use smart contracts.

People using smart contracts when that's not what they really want are going to cause damage to the ecosystem that will take years to undo.
As a transgender woman who literally changed her name to include “teapot”, in part because of this status code, seeing this issue come up in the same week as the James Damore manifesto is a deep disappointment.

Why is it so hard for some technologists to have a basic level of respect for their colleagues? What motivates them to take actions that demonstrably harm their colleagues, whether it be asserting their biological inferiority or removing their trivial-but-meaningful whimsy?

When I was a closeted teenager, tech was a respite from the pointless cruelty of the rest of the world - or at least it felt that way. What happened?
> When a DJ is spinning in a club or venue however using someone else's content is covered by the venue in the form of fees paid to ASCAP, BMI or some other such publishing rights society.

This is not true in many parts of the world.
The most substantial change was reducing the number of currencies and tenors Libor is quoted in. Gone are the Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, New Zealand dollar, Danish krone, Swedish krona, 2 week, 4 month, 5 month, 7 month, 8 month, 9 month, 10 month and 11 month Libors [1]. That's an 80% reduction in the number of currency-tenors Libor is quoted in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor#Currency
It gets even more complicated. If the plane suffers and inversion, as during barrel rolls and loops, you have to coordinate pushes and pulls with the orientation of the plane. Otherwise, the maneuver may suffer a distortion and fail to recove properly!
What makes a Product Manager?
> They're topics the world doesn't do well. It's a feature of the site, not a bug.

That's the standard justification, but it leaves a lot to be desired. For one, IIRC, even brand new topics have been moderated away because the mods judged discussion might not go in the "correct" direct (for lack of a better word). Two, avoiding disagreement to the degree Metafilter does is a recipe for tension and dysfunction.
What side is Google picking again?
Those who didn't leave soundcloud in 2014, left after the 2015 purge. Many went to mixcloud.
Hours go 0:00 to 23:59

Elevators use 0 for ground floor, negative for basements, and positive for upper floors.

Just two examples of zero indexed lists in real life.
Are you a designer? If not thumbs up. It's pretty good.
>My bias is finding a CEO with relevant prior experience.

Should've stuck to just 'CEO of Vimeo' then. In most tech companies an MBA exec is seen as a negative (at least by the engineers). What you did matters more than whether you have a degree or not.
More web based receivers are also available on http://sdr.hu and http://websdr.org
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I think there must be a large disconnect in the UK between people who cycle and people who design road infrastructure. It's especially evident here in Cardiff, a city which by all accounts should be an amazing cycling city; largely flat, open, low-ish traffic, nice parks etc. But it's surprisingly terrible, either due to budget constraints or incompetence. I don't ride here any more, as I've found the risk just isn't worthwhile.

One of the most entertaining examples might well be this road, which is perfectly straight and about a mile long. It is perfect for cycling, and to any reasonably sensible person, an easy road to build a cycle lane on: https://goo.gl/maps/8FjYE67SCfM2

But see if you can spy where they actually built it. Not on the side of the road next to the railway, which is 1 mile of unbroken flat land with no junctions. That's where I'd build it (and you probably would too).

No, instead they built it outside the front entrance of the apartments that line the other side of the road, broken every 100 yards by a junction, with a fence directly across the cycle lane. So cyclists have to merge in and out of pedestrians, wait at junctions, and they're directly outside the front entrance of buildings, making residents cross the cycle path to get to the pavement.

And don't even get me started on this magnificent idiocy: https://goo.gl/maps/8EBCSXXJHcP2
What's the chance of Julia ever reaching 1.0 realistically? It seems to be turning into another Perl6.
By and large, I do think that college students do need to be able to deal with viewpoints that hurt or offend them. That doesn't include signs on their dorm doors or people getting in their faces but it does include speakers who they may not like.
You know, I think I just decided never to use Steam again. Thanks.
Yes, I still don't get it.
What if Bill Gates bought the entire coastline? How does that help society?

Society has relatively little to gain from letting the super rich buy up fundamentally scarce bits of land like this. Meanwhile making it public access means way more people can appreciate the beach. Not like this VC is on the beach most of the time anyways.
Contact USPS immediately.

Using the US mail system to commit fraud is a crime, and the post office has postal inspectors that investigate exactly these kinds of cases.
DVD, MPEG-2, Flash, MP3 (at least, until all of its patents expire by the end of the year).
One important catch, however, is using a proper (P)RNG. Not all of them stay perfectly uniform if you scale and round them over all ranges of 2..n.

Since you usually get a stream of random bits, afaik the only fair way is to mask bits to get a uniform number 0 <= R < the next power of two. Then toss the result and reroll if it's outside the desired range.
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I have shifted all my budget and used buying from Amazon Marketplace to eBay.

At this point it seems like there are new stories about Amazon Marketplace scams almost daily. Does anyone think Marketplace is a priority for Amazon leadership these days? Does Bezos even know it is still operating? It's not getting the A team, obviously.

Meanwhile connecting sellers and buyers is all eBay does. They don't make devices, produce TV shows, run cloud services, etc. etc. Of course their support is good. It has to be.
I use a 4k monitor and my browser window is usually 1280x2160.
Chasing more users makes sense if your objective is to increase the price tag and be bought.

Foster relationships with users makes sense if you want to build a long lasting community and service. But the record industry will attempt to destroy you if you grow too much.
1.0 is the next major version (there'll be an 0.7 to give us an extra deprecation cycle and start 1.0 without any depwarns, but 0.7 will essentially be identical to 1.0 otherwise). You can follow the 1.0-blocking issues here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/4.
That's weird, as issuing a CC refund is cheaper for everyone than a chargeback.
> there is literally nothing you can do temper someone's fear of the situation (short of sedatives). Definitely not as fun.

It's so weird. I know consciously that turbulence isn't a safety risk. I know that next to zero planes have gone down due to turbulence, and that specs for modern wings allow for like 15 vertical feet of flex. I've watched shows on the hurricane researchers that voluntarily fly into worse turbulence than any commercial flights have ever seen. It feels physiological, because my body just doesn't seem to care what my head thinks. I wish for sedatives or beta blockers, or something. I can't temper my own fear. Average heavy turbulence is no worse that riding a jeep on a dirt road, and nobody in a jeep fears the vehicle is going to fly apart. (And by nobody, I mean me and imagine it's true of everyone)

> I've still yet to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, but it's definitely on my bucket list.

It's way crazy fun. Dangerous but I don't regret my time skydiving even though I don't do it anymore. If you spend some time in a wind tunnel first, you may be able to get more out of your skydiving experience. Those weren't really a thing when I was jumping, but now they're all over.

This is neither here nor there, but I never jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. They were all crappers. One time I jumped out of a plane than crash landed on it's return (pilot was fine). It might have run out of gas because the DZ people are stingy, and not because the plane had a problem, but still it was a dumpy ride, and most planes I jumped out of I'd rather have jumped than stayed in for the landing. :P
This is not "birth control"—it's "coerced sterilization."
yeah - imagine what physical commodities traders can do in the physical market that can have huge financial derivative impacts for them...
I also find the Aviation StackExchange site [1] interesting. The weekly newsletter [2] contains just enough interesting stuff for a mildly interested occasional flier like myself.

[1] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/

[2] https://stackexchange.com/newsletters/newsletter?site=aviati...
I've never been served wrong by constantly asking these questions:

1. How hard is this code to change?

2. How hard is this code to delete?

3. How hard is this code to test?

Code that is hard to change, delete, and test is bad. Code that is easy to change, easy to delete, and easy to test is good.

(Note: you can't easily change code if you can't understand it)

Long vs short functions don't really matter. Objects vs functions don't really matter. It doesn't matter if you use or don't use a ton of abstractions if they are easy to delete and change.
> The description of the used lens indicated the lens is in excellent condition and the price seemed very good… maybe too good

If the lens sell for $1,500, and he got it for $1,490, why does he say he thinks the price may have been too good? It seems like it would be an accurate price for it.
Its not about "good and moral" vs "bad and immoral", but "legal" vs "illegal". Blacklists are not currently implemented in IPFS but one imagined a solution, where people opt-in to their e.g. state-supplied blacklist to prevent run-ins with the government, which could say "if you aid criminals by providing them with illegal content, we will hold you accountable for it". In the end, it is probably nothing more than a facade to appease governments that in the end will come up with something similar ineffective.
That was the original setup for the stretch of coast in question; free access, but you had to pay a small fee for parking.
I think a similar effect is at work with Costco memberships.
Women swept nearly every category at the 2017 Hugo Awards
Business dashboard design: The fundamentals of data visualization
> "When a man complains about a gender issue issue [sic] affecting men"
>
> In no way is that referring to "complaining that gender issues are taken too seriously?"

Read the link cited with that sentence and you might understand it better. That also is a complete misreading of that sentence.

It is saying that gender issues which affect men are not taken seriously and are discarded. To quote the associated sources TL;DR

Both genders have issues

Also:

> The thrust of his argument is that the gender gap can be entirely explained by personal choices or innate qualities.

Let me emphasize the TL;DR from the memo for you, since you have seemed to miss it.

Differences in distributions of traits between men and women ***may in part explain*** why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership.

Honest question, why is it so hard to accept that his position might be nuanced?
Nonsense. And even if true, that's irrelevant to whether they're well suited for the job. Engineers aren't oracles, they have stupid ideas and weird biases too.
A local human bus driver doesn't need the map, they know the route and the bad road areas.
The user experience once you have many tabs open in Chrome just completely falls apart. The tabs shrink so tiny you can hardly see them, and there's no way to reorganize them other than to one-by-one pull them out into a new window.

Safari, on the other hand, has Tab Exposé and also horizontally scrolls the tab bar once there are too many. It's such a simple thing that makes a huge difference.
I bet the feds even have an api.
Julia macros are one of it's best features. They are every bit as powerful list macros. Something very few non lisp languages can say.
Most of the websites labeled as "brutalist" are actually extremely over designed and are made by very good graphic designers. They are "elite" bored/over with mainstream view of what is currently considered pretty and they try to push it further. It's about destroying conservative views.

It's like some sort of experimental technology. Design like this is needed because thats how inovation and new ideas come back to mainstream design. So it is not exactly for mainstream audience but for the second wave of designers liking those unusual ideas, taking pieces of it and putting it back into mainstream.

I guess it's same process as in music or in computer sciences.

The fact that for past few years this kind of design started to be popular among the "elite" means that in next few years we might start to see more websites like reddit and craigslist :)
sounds like a browser extension to me... hmm....
Counter-anecdote from ~20 third-party used CD purchases—I've had to dispute counterfeit, falsely advertised condition, and wrong items.
So, where are the Conservatives deploring this government involvement in health care?

Or, viewed from another angle, this is the future of health care in America.

(For those who are unaware, note that other aspects of health care in U.S. incarceration are often poor or outright unavailable. As a simple exercise, just say to yourself "private prison" -- which many jurisdictions have increasingly moved to -- and imagine the corresponding pressure for cost savings (i.e. profit).

But, "spay and neuter" them? [Yes, an intentionally harsh and polemic phrasing on my part.] Sure, we can pay for that.)
The amount of music that has been lost because soundcloud deleted it to try to get a licensing deal with the industry is already enough.

Such a centralized and proprietary service fate is to disappear eventually taking down everything with it.

You want this 'art' to stay around, post it directly on archive.org
I didn't see that clause about productivity, can you quote that piece of the memo? https://diversitymemo.com/

Yonatan's response was an emotional tirade, refusing to debate any of the cited research and using a different context of empathy. Nobody is debating the value of empathy in engineering (and it's good to have for any job and life in general, nothing specific to tech), but empathy in setting policy is completely different.

Rules should be set based on rational analysis instead of feelings. We argue for science/math-based policies in government so asking for the same in such a large corporation with regards to such a sensitive subject seems perfectly logical.
He did suggest that the natural percentage of women in tech would be below 50%, and it would take "authoritarian" measures to reach 50% or greater.
> It was more likely because of his repetition of gender stereotypes

I keep hearing this line parroted, but that's not how the situation played out, and you either are inadvertently or maliciously being disingenuous.

You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but there are facts, and those facts aren't congruent with the narrative.
I thought this article was going to be about Slack and it wasn't even mentioned.
As the GP implies, either defending or denouncing it will get you sorted into one or the other camp.
Is it taking in raw pixels or reading from game memory? How did they gather data to train for this? (Did Valve give them an API?)
The question becomes, under what circumstances would you EVER want to use a smart contract for a non-trivial amount of money?

Since smart contracts are software, and all software has bugs, and to a first approximation nobody is interested in having a significant amount of their money, time, or goods erased by a software bug, of what use are these things other than as a curiosity?
You would probably enjoy checking out http://pcg-random.org/ it's got all that (tldr: powerful PRNG using very clever combination of simple permutation families), and a bunch of other useful properties. Also, no glossing over what exactly it does not (provably) do. It's not claiming to be cryptographically secure, for instance.
What Google Engineer James Damore Got Wrong
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