skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say: black people are more suited to be NBA players. This is obvious looking at black players % in the league in comparison to the total population as well as the fact that black people are poorer on average and get less opportunities (or even chances for proper nutrition, let alone training).

Should white NBA players be offended by that statement? The answer is obvious: they shouldn't as that only means they were the ones on the tail of the genetic distribution and made it anyway or maybe even they overcome disadvantages to get there.

Now I say: women are in general less likely to be interested in tech and less likely to become good programmers because they are, on average, less competitive and less likely to devote themselves to solitude practice which is often necessary to become a very good coder.

Should women, who already made it to Google be offended? Of course they shouldn't for the same reasons as above. We can however do something with this information: we can try changing tech world to be more welcoming to women. This way we can avoid sexist hiring practices (gender quotas are clear discrimination) while still achieving more diverse environment.

Those are the points of the manifesto. Being offended by that is the problem of those taking offence as it doesn't speak well about their ability to reason about distributions of traits in a population.
You can still render server-side, an with a REST endpoint it should be easy to do so.
Whether or not that is a negative point for Qt depends on your perspective. I mean, Qt never claimed to have JAWS support and the guy is free to submit a patch. Its unfortunate, for sure, that Qt doesn't support popular accessibility tools, but that's hardly a problem unique to Qt or open source tools. This "If you want to support users with disabilities, you probably should not rely on hippie coders right now" is unfortunately true for most open source tools, but also for many commercial offerings. Does Lazarus/Delphi fare better with accessibility and JAWS support specifically?

Also from your link: "For now, you will need to write a native UI for every platform you want to support." -- is the Lazarus/Delphi story any better in this respect?

The discussion you mentioned is here, btw, and it seems to have mixed views: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14946358
New motorcycles are subject to noise regulations, but there's very little to stop the owner from fitting a noisier aftermarket exhaust system. Many dealers will happily fit a non-road-legal exhaust system, under the pretence that it's for track use only. Changing a motorcycle exhaust or muffler is quick and simple, so it's easy to switch back to the factory exhaust for a mandatory annual inspection.
Hi Andrew! I've used PIA for a few years now. I'm very happy with it.

There's just one thing that's kind of a deal breaker. I recently switched to Mac and the Mac PIA Client is quite far behind the Windows, Android and iOS versions.

I'll list all my issues together here:

Major issues

- slow to start

- slow to connect (often tries forever). This is my biggest issue. On other platforms (or connecting directly with the built in Mac vpn function) it takes like 2-3 seconds. With the Mac client it takes many times longer. There's also no feedback about what stage the connection is in, unlike on every other OS.

- doesn't reconnect if network changes, so internet just stops working

Minor issues

- can't see pings for servers

- not as sexy as Windows client

I switched to using the built in Mac VPN feature to connect which is much faster, but occasionally stops working altogether for 20-30 minutes. So right now I don't have a good reliable VPN solution.

Hope this feedback helps!

Thanks again,
andai
I am sorry for my poor karma. I did not live up to your standards. My account is a failure.
I think it has to do with low knowledge of statistics.

The funny thing is that all the following sentences can be true at the same time:

1. Across the whole population, fewer women than men have the biological/psychological traits needed to become software engineers.

2. Female engineers are underrepresented in Silicon Valley and face many different forms of discrimination.

3. Female engineers at Google are on average better than their male colleagues.

I'm not suggesting any of these sentences are necessarily true, just that they can be. This is not intuitive, unless you know a bit of statistics.
A random HN thread from possibly several weeks ago to which you don't provide a link.

Are you surprised that some (most?) people couldn't make a connection?
>With the figure you have ($11,800) for the money Uber gets, the loss is $11,800 - $21,746=-$9,946. It is near $9,000.
Good, but then almost every car was given back within the "shorter" term of six month.

And the 122 dollar per week might actually been higher for a higher initial amount.

With the new calculations (your higher cost but also the higher resell value JshWright suggested at the end) the full cycle would be (adding also the "basic maintenance" 20x100):
130x122=15,860+6,000+2000=23,860

The "normal" cycle is still short of US$ 2,114 per car, which means, that given that there are ONLY "full cycles" and "short cycles" 2014 Corolla's in the "fleet", that you need 7 "short cycles" every 1 "full cycle" to get a US$ 9,000 average.

7x9,946= 69,622

1x2,114= 2,114

69,622+2,114=71,136 / 8= 8,967

So if 7 out of 8 cars/financing went bad, then the theory that it is suicide to finance people with no or bad credit (or maybe that the income from Uber service had been grossly overestimated) seems like a valid one.

Resell value=
Standard accessory with those was a stick to poke the starter relay under the car :)
The freedom to make other people slaves creates a paradox because such freedom can not be applied to all humans at the same time. We can not logically be each others slaves, now can we? I find this metaphor (or thought experiment... is this actually a metaphor?) to be very poor personally.
Surely you meant strong people skills?
Some people use the term "DMCA" for informal takedown requests. We need to see the actual form or at least get a definitive "yes, it was an actual DMCA" before speculating.
So now sociability is a negative trait? I for one would be delighted to find an efficient way to make coding more social. Many a reason why software design is so hard is exactly because most programmers are autistic nerds that tend to produce opinionated, hard to maintain code. Pair programming with someone that tends to think more in breadth than in depth sounds like one way of improving that situation.
I tried this:

1. With uBlock Origin running, I don't go above 11% CPU

2. I turned uBlock Origin off: reloading immediately sent my CPU to 80%, and it *stabilised* at a constant 30%.
do you have any services running on the address to which you point such names or do you let the request time out?
The tail-recursive form is more efficient, but requires a lot more understanding of the problem to follow how one gets from the mathematical definition to the code.

If you're teaching a language that emphasizes tail-call optimization, it's valuable to cover an even simpler case like factorial in detail. A function like "fib2" above is then a further demonstration of how to transform code into tail-call form.
Peugeot was in a similar situation a while before that and they 206 saved the company, it really could have worked. But I don't know if their quality control was up to it, BMW seems to have made a big difference there.
Market share has nothing to do with features/functionality. Google has the ability to promote their products to the big audience.
Human reaction times haven't increased, that's probably the main issue with speed. It's also not generally very eco-friendly to drive faster, so I doubt limits are going to increase regardless of safety.
There was the leaf spring suspension: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/36259/from-when-...
What I meant was that once they worked out staging building arbitrarily large weapons was actually fairly easy - AFAIR the team building the Tsar Bomba were criticized by their colleagues because what they were doing wasn't actually useful technically and that the real challenge was building smaller easier to deliver designs - the US W88 currently being the most advanced design that has been described in public.
It's aggressive towards its own people, not towards neighbors. And it's a dictatorship, so it can change in a moment. These facts make it a possible threat.
> Good luck trying to get decent LTE or even 3G in London, or a proper timely healthcare for anything relatively complicated.

> The time to schedule an appointment has jumped 30% in 15 U.S. metropolitan areas from 18.5 days in 2014 amid a national doctor shortage fueled by aging baby boomers, population growth and millions of Americans with health insurance.

It's easy to shorten wait times for healthcare by removing/keeping millions of people from having coverage.
Yep, that's the guy. Below is a good example of his more combative ideas. He's far off from Milo, but that was kind of my point, because he's definitely on that side of the aisle.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/antiracism-our-flawed-new-relig...
Somewhat reminiscent of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_DMC-12 which actually made it into (limited) production.
> Therefore each verdict could potentially mean that new law is created.

Not potentially - each new verdict is law. All lower courts are bound by law to follow the precedent established by higher courts; in other words, this now applies to all public-camera-bla-bla-bla cases in the 8th circuit.

There is clear and established precedent for how courts can issue rulings that affect only a single case. Evidently that's not the case here.

Disclaimer, IANAL.
The intended audience is whoever will click the affiliate links.

Garbage like this is why I wish there was no affiliate business on the internet. You can never assume good faith if someone tries to earn money from you.
And by god is it fast now. I have in excess of 200 tabs open in various groups (RIP Tab groups), and didn't remember that my Firefox had updated. I open Firefox, see it startup instantly and my first reaction was that Firefox somehow forgot all the tabs that I had loaded and had just started a new window. Imagine my surprise when everything was just as I wanted!
does this site block US access, I can see Dolan Trump using this to plan his next move.
Lunduke has also done another interview with Stallman recently as well on his own channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0y0oXU8YNk
If I understood it correctly, that article is about anti-adblock, which denies access if you have an adblock. That is, the DMCA wouldn't apply to adblock, but would apply to anti-anti-adblock.

Yes, it does seem like a bizarre legal theory, since a simpler way to bypass the anti-adblock would be to disable the adblock. That is, it would be a DMCA violation to not block ads, since by not blocking ads you're bypassing the anti-adblock and watching the content!
As cynical as I am, I still expect the supreme court to take up this case, and issue a 9:0 ruling in favour of filming officials. SCOTUS has a strong free-speech track record: https://www.popehat.com/2017/06/21/free-speech-triumphant-or...
The show must go on. No, the show must take over everything else we plan to do with our lives so we can sit and Watch it. Hail, Watch. On a serious note, I think any number of platforms for creators to create and promote their content is great. I only hope they put out a good revenue sharing model in place once the wheel starts to spin.
Facebook is essentially hoping to keep all users well within it's platform for anything video/photo/chat. But I'm afraid, all it's efforts would wind up like the Messenger app. Not that it's bad, but it'll never be a WhatsApp.
> Why "besides QtCreator, etc"? It sounds to me almost like "do you know any X besides all of the popular X". Is there any particular reason you discount QtCreator?

I know Lazarus (almost) inside out and i've tried several times to use QtCreator, mainly because C++ would allow me to reuse some of my C code. However i could never get used to how QtCreator expects from me to do more stuff, how unweildy the laying out widgets is (this is natural since Qt's layout management was made expecting programmers to do layouts via code but compared to Lazarus' alignment and anchor based layouts they feel like taking a step back - although the same can be told with Lazarus' layout if you try to do it via code) and other not necessarily big issues but still annoying enough for me to always drop it.
Affordable alternative to pagerduty/victorops/opsgenie
For those who don't know what EasyList is:

The EasyList filter lists are sets of rules originally designed for Adblock that automatically remove unwanted content from the internet, including annoying adverts, bothersome banners and troublesome tracking.

https://easylist.to/
Kelvin is not expressed in degrees; it's just "Kelvin". Now to really throw people for a loop, tell them to do it in degrees Rankine (even less people know what that is).
Not apples to apples, but its a pretty good tradeoff for C++ IMO: you get super high turnaround times because the bulk of the UI tweaking cycle is in QML or the RAD tools and you only need slow-compiling-C++ where native performance is required.

For me, while I like fast compile times as much as the next person, its not a deal breaker -- the workflow/environment and library features are. Ie can they easily deliver the required value to my customers. QML gives me a good middle ground between productivity & quick turnaround time, native integration and native performance. If you're unwilling to make that tradeoff, well... then you're limiting yourself to the tools that don't make that tradeoff (which may be perfectly fine, of course).
Does that explain how Trump won the Republican primary?

The alternative explanation of large parts of the population being heavily divorced from reality seems to fit better.

That is the respectable right-wing position on the memo, correct? That it's just science facts that the left can't handle?

Like Obama being a secret muslim that wasn't born in America. Like him trying to destroy American industry by going along with a Chinese Hoax about climate change. That trade wars with Canada and Mexico are good for American jobs? That you can't even wish people Merry Christmas anymore. That Hillary Clinton and Obama literally smell of sulphur. That one third of the population doesn't believe in evolution. That there was "no racism before Obama".

To me, that explains Trump far better. Whatever tiny sliver of people were going to vote Democrat but got upset about being called sexists and so actually became fascists is only marginal at best. But apparently everyone is too "Politically Correct" to talk about this large group of people who've abandoned reality and instead we need to listen to their concerns (which apparently translates into giving tax cuts to billionaires and dumping pollution into the air and water). The memo writer was calling for people with these kind of "conservative" viewpoints to be given affirmative action at Google after all.
Welcome to the police state, USA.

Here in Germany it's legal to film police officers but they sometimes arrest you, beat you, damage or search your phone for it. (Source: witnessed all four kinds of events at demonstrations)
To piggyback off the quote you pulled, can anyone explain how she came to that legal ruling? It seems incredibly out of sync with the popular perception of American rights and freedoms. Is there something I'm missing?
> I mean, they can hardly have built-in components for every possible use case so I don't have to write any code. What am I missing here?

The eco-system of companies selling components for every possible use case.

Most VB/Delphi shops would get early licenses from such companies. DevExpress is a surviving company from those days.

https://www.devexpress.com/Products/VCL/ (over 210 controls)

So you had a huge toolbox full with components for the majority of enterprise most common use cases.

As far as I am aware, there aren't any company selling components for Qt.
There are still plenty of people riding motorcycles, which are statistically far more dangerous. At least around here, not everyone thinks safety is the most important (and IMHO that's a good thing.)
please apply the same thinking to microwave ovens - and loose the beep while you're at it
I've been teaching regular expressions for years, and offer a free online e-mail course on the subject (http://RegexpCrashCourse.com/).

This site is a very nice summary of regexp syntax and is written well -- but it's missing two crucial pieces that help people learn: Examples and exercises. Without practice, there's no way that people can remember the syntax.
I think the previous person meant it being possibly a crime for the user, not the developer.
Have you tried QtQuick/QML? It sounds like its anchor/grid/constraints-based layouts work very similarly to Lazarus.
My $0.02 of how dgital marketers can boost productivity
Many digital marketers find it difficult when they have to submit the quarterly report for the lumpsum of articles written, approved & published, social media followers increases, adword budgeting and much more.

I think Orgzit is a scalable solution for this. Essentially, it captures all data at one place from the project beginning with all project members (including your boss) on the same platform. Let me know what you think :)
I'm on a Mac and mostly come from Mail.app, but many of these things would apply on Windows/Linux as well in slightly different forms.

- Speed. It's sluggish compared to the FastMail web UI, and slow compared to Mail.app on my Mac.

- System provided UI editing controls which would bring richer editing and consistent controls

- Consistent hotkeys - I know Gmail has rich hotkeys, but all my other software uses a fairly consistent set which can also access a wider range of keys than a browser can do.

- Automation - I use automation and tools like Alfred (/Quicksilver/Gnome Do/etc) and these can interface with native apps much more effectively through things like AppleScript.

- Drag and drop (you can drag and drop much more than you might think on a Mac, and I use it extensively)

- Centralised notification control in system preferences

- Better (and faster) layout – you're constrained to a web browser so there's less you can do in terms of good use of screen real-estate.

- Prettier – it might sound superficial, but I enjoy using apps that have a nicer design and Gmail, compared with many native clients, looks pretty terrible.

- Real multi-window support - using new tabs doesn't provide the same interface or interaction patterns.

- Real right-click support, with the options I'd expect for any other system app.

That's most of what I'd like to see. Note that an Electron app like Slack doesn't exhibit many of these.
I am fine with it the way it is, as I have seen too many 'ego' and resume-padding projects justified by nebulous claims of benefit. I was looking at a case recently, where the use of a fashionable database engine, sold on making the application more fault-tolerant in ways that did not really matter, instead impaired the exploitation of its innate parallelism.

It is not difficult for the nominal technical expert to guide a client into choosing the solution he wants, rather than the one the customer needs.
> I imagine that anyone who has been sexually assaulted would feel very uncomfortable working in an organisation..

How far do you take this word-association game?

I note that the US represents itself using the image of an eagle. So did the Roman Empire, and later the Nazi party. Should everyone be uncomfortable with America over that?
>But aren't you restricting freedom when you would keep a creator from sharing his software under his own terms?

That is the Open Source vs Free Software debate in alot of ways

Stallman and the Free Software movement is about the USERS freedom, ensuring that the END USER of software retains the rights to modify, use, and examine the software they use

Where Open Source is mainly focused on the DEVELOPER of the software, most Open Source advocates are developers that want to have their libraries, dev tools, frameworks, languages, compilers, etc all open so they can create closed software for end users, and use code interoperably between projects with out having to worry about Licensing, this is why Open Source favors MIT, BSD, and other non-copy left licenses, where Free Software is GPL

Also you might want to watch the newer interview between Byran Lunduke and Richard Stallman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0y0oXU8YNk
well he's suing so i guess we'll see if he decides to try to use that as a defense
Using just the video feed, the AI would be required to reconstruct an overview of the strategic situation, and then develop a forward strategy on top of that involving individual units. Even for a much simpler game like doom, video-only input is enough for strategies like "see an enemy, target and shoot it as fast as possible".

For an AI to be able to effectively compete in a complex game like SC2, preparing high-level inputs is important. Look at these like shortcuts, heuristic approximations of task that would be hard to represent and train with deep learning. I would guess an implementation would need multiple independent nets for various tasks, combined with heuristics. Then each could be separately trained to do the given task.
That also depends on how many submitted talks.

It would be a farce and ridiculous if 100 talks were submitted, and 99 of them were <gasp> males, and then they shut down and complain because no females were chosen.

It's called statistics.
Sustainability Is a Key to Future Competitiveness
My problem used to be that my right hand would smash into the door whenever I wanted to change gears just after switching LHD to RHD. Highly annoying how ingrained such movements are.
> Eating outdoors is the norm

I'm curious for the reason you mention this. Why would this influence them?
A lot of people did not read this article: It is about mobile.

It is actually about mobile home access. Generally:

- mobile coverage in the home is different from outside of the home. The primary focus of radio planning was outdoor coverage and the networks reflect this. I suspect this is about having a mobile access point at a fixed location which helps a little via antenna and positioning vs. a cell phone.

- mobile networks have been planned with totally different traffic assumptions and those are literally cemented into base-station locations.

- mobile is a shared medium with low constraints. It will be hard to guarantee minimum rates. Much harder than for fixed networks. There is a reason for the data caps - if there were not then competition would have long eliminated them.

- disincentives for scale: Providing data rates for one home may be easy. But if all the neighbors hop on that bandwagon then things get more difficult.

It is possible in principle but the cost for universal mobile access service and these bandwidth guarantees with the current technology may be quite high at this time. Anecdotal evidence of localized solutions also in other countries exist but can anyone point to a place where such a service has been deployed in a large country?
Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator
Again he didn't share it with the entire company.
Why cant i buy this? You can buy a i8 today- but you cant, why?
If I am the only one punishing them out of millions of views it won't have any effect. I haven't bought an IPhone but it hasn't forced Apple to make a device I want to buy.
I was just saying that if capitalism requires proprietary software, then capitalism has a problem. The unstated (yet obvious) assumption was that proprietary software is evil.

I'm not sure food trade is evil. Forbidding it doesn't make much sense to me. Regulating it however makes a whole lot of sense. But we already do.

Isn't the cold war finished by now? Surely there could be viable alternatives to the current corporate capitalism veering cyberpunk?