skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a major disruption in your security department can mean an upcoming disaster for a company offering cloud based services. From what this sounds, they not only got rid of 2 very competent employees, the manager doesn't seem to have acted especially brilliant, and they might have discouraged competent security people from applying at the company. What could possibly go wrong with this?
> the trickiest bit with |H-bombs isn't so much building big bombs but building small enough weapons that are easy to deliver by a missile.

It's the opposite. Medium warheads (100~500kT) are more efficient[0] and more flexible, the original systems were huge because they were bomber-delivered, there was therefore an assumption that few bombs would reach the target and you wanted every one of them to pack as much punch as possible (no point in putting lots of small ones in a bomber as they'd all be dropped onto the same place anyway, when your explosion has an effect diameter in kilometres multiple bombs are just going to interfere with one another).

The advent of ICBM and later MIRV allowed splitting reducing the size of individual warheads as the delivery mechanism is both cheaper and more effective, thus you can have more of them and a larger fraction will reach the objective.

[0] ground effects grow sub-linearly with yield, if you increase yield from 20kT to 1MT (50x) the blast range grows by ~4x (changing burst height to optimise ground effects) and the affected area grows by ~15x
Wouldn't Privacy Badger block this domain anyway?
The term "neuroticism" stems from the five factor model of psychological traits. The memo author doesn't really mention this too much, but if you know about the model, he uses the other factors throughout his work, which means he has read and understood the model.

There have been several studies showing that women scores higher in the agreeableness and neuroticism factors, on average (and with a quite large variance and a rather small effect I might add). The memo author makes it clear by writing "in part" in multiple places: a moderate effect can't explain the whole story: either there is another factor which truly dominates, or we are just looking at one piece of the puzzle as a whole.

Neuroticism has a very specific meaning in this case and it pertains to "negative emotion" in the sense that extremely high scores make you more likely to be stressed, anxious and so on. Likewise, extremely low scores make you overconfident and so stable you are unlikely to venture out into new ideas.

From an evolutionary phsych. standpoint, any score which exist tend to serve a purpose some way or the other. There are no desirable or undesirable traits, because too much or too little of a trait will be challenging in some situations, but a great advantage in others. So the question to ask is: if women scores higher in neuroticism, what advantage does that buy them in what situations? More anxiety could for instance have you second-guessing yourself in more situations, and that could lead to you finding more bugs in programs up front, which is an excellent trait to have in software development.

The other factor where there is a measurable gender difference, agreeableness, is a two-edged sword: High agreeableness scores are highly desirable for building coherent and working team/group structures. Low agreeableness allows people to pick an individualist/isolationist path when needed and make something great by ignoring the group consensus. Good group dynamic requires both traits to some extent.

My hunch is that if you scored the women at Google on the five factor model, they'd be likely to fall somewhat outside the gender norms. There is a considerable selection bias if you only consider tech people who work for Google. You are easily looking at a small fraction of the population as a whole, and the hiring selection process is likely to skew the scores quite a lot from the average norm.
First and more important things: nobody is suggesting judging individuals by their gender. Damore's post was explicitly about not doing that.

Of course an individual's suitability for a job should not be affected by anything irrelevant. However individual choices may be relevant: for example, you might not be suitable to work in the fitness industry if you're shy about showing your body. Hence distinguishing choices from innate characteristics.

This is a bit of a side track though. Basically just saying that gender and political persuasion aren't as interchangeable with each other as gender and other innate characteristics would be.
Is it debateable? It's a political document that starts by characterising differences between the political left and right. It states that Google's policies are explicitly discrimination, and not only illegal but motivated by "left ideology".

How it could be more political or about discrimination concerns?
You could pretty much have the lifestyle you want wherever you are. You don't need to go anywhere really, unless you want to be snorkelling or scuba diving everyday

Most days you just want to eat well, exercise, meditate, do a good job, try'n make some money, spend time with family, and sleep well. The odd day you do feel adventurous just take off on your motorcycle or hop on a plane.

No great scenic view will make your life automatically better. The scenic view in itself is only benefit there is. That I have to agree!
The UI part of a database frontend is trivial and the code is very minimal in Qt (but there still code involved, for sure).

An image manipulation program, what does Delphi provide out of the box for this? I would assume that if you have anything non-trivial, you'd have some custom code to write? 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?
Anyone have an idea what's the project raising funds mentioned at 5:32?
The "new computer that will be manufactured specifically for free software".
Ah, the beauty of version control.
There is also the study where they changed peoples voices in phone interviews, and the women with male voice were suddenly less likely to be hired (although the effect was small, iirc).
Will Artificial Intelligence be illegal in Europe next year?
You're misrepresenting what I said
Some 'enterprises' love doing that sort of thing. One project gets behind or fails and there are so many cascading problems.
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> Don't sites also salt (and pepper?) passwords though?

They should salt. They should do many things. But we know some sites don't, we suspect many sites don't. Unless you know otherwise never assume a site is handling your data, including your login credentials, securely.
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Er, the one this entire thread is about. Click the link to the Globe and Mail. It's written by a neuro-scientist.
It's interesting to see the right wing interest and faith in scientific papers here, I look forward to similar enthusiasm for climate science.
> Diet: Your brain runs on glucose.

... or ketones, which are preferred and boost mental performance.
> The idea that the XUL extension model is necessary for a browser to be useful is obviously false. The majority of Web users use browsers that do not have a XUL extension model.

I explicitly preferred Firefox over every other browser I ever tried because its extensions were more powerful and more abundant, and it appears likely that this was due to XUL providing deep access to extensions. You can't just say that others didn't have a feature if that feature was a key differentiator!
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If they don't test cryptostorm this review is pretty worthless. They are one of the best options out there.
That's odd, from SSD a cold firefox start takes a few seconds on my debian testing (using firefox 54 from apt). Maybe you're using a slow HDD?
"Getting fired" is a bit of an euphemism though, there is a lot more going on here than just that. Just start with Gizmodo leaving out some stuff at first and so on. The claim is that he is being treated unfairly, at the least.

> It shouldn't radicalize your position.

In some fantasy world, where marijuana being illegal didn't make a single person try harder drugs because shady types were the only ones they could get weed from, and so on. Where a person is somehow separate from a position they hold.

I think people shouldn't steal. Reasonable, yes? Hacking off the hand of someone who stole some bubble gum is not so reasonable and much more radical. If you can somehow treat someone so badly for suggesting stealing is not okay that they harbor murderous thoughts about thieves, does that now mean the original idea of stealing being bad is not reasonable? I don't know who is to judge a person for their reaction to mistreatment, but never the ones doing or excusing the mistreatment, that is for super fucking sure.

But even granting that this is no excuse to go off the deep end, which I did; to focus on that, instead of the original action without which the debate about the reaction to it would be completely moot is not okay, and that is my point. There can be only bad results from this, that is the takeaway. If people downstream from this could alleviate this a bit by being saints is besides the point.
The pro ideological diversity manifesto, which reviewed the state of the art of average differences between men and women and the unproven efficacy of "sensitivity training" in an IMO very reasonable manner.

Jordan B. Peterson did an interview on YT with the writer, I'd recommend it. The memo itself isn't that long as well and provides the clearest picture (obviously), make sure you get the copy with the diagrams and references intact instead of the version where someone removed them.
Can the list be host fully somewhere else?
They aren't your friends. They protect the company first. Definitely think twice before going to HR for anything not related to the normal benefits/vacation type issues. If you have an issue with another employee, you may very well be the problem that gets eliminated, not the other employee.
Impressive. We live in 80s secret concepts ...
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Only for restoring lots of tabs.
No idea. I stopped going to Target a long time ago. I know they got rid of the specially designed pill bottles everyone liked and people are annoyed about that.
Formality aside, it's about deterministic GC vs nondeterministic GC.
> I don't think anyone would object to WebExtensions if it didn't cripple or make existing extensions impossible to exist in the future.

Actually there have been some complaints about API churn; rewriting is no fun. But I agree with the rest of your post.
Isn't a minority person who decides against some career because few people "like him" are in it racist against themselves? Why do they consider their skin color their defining feature (the "like me" feature)? Most professions have a lot of humans in them. Most minority people are human - hence there are a lot of people "like them" in those professions.

It's a lie that feminist and SJWs reinforce that gender or skin color are supposedly the most defining features of a person. I'd maintain that for example a woman and a man from an affluent part of town have often more in common than an affluent man and a working class man.

Don't be racist against yourself!
> Just because someone attacks you doesn't mean your hypothesis or arguments should change

In practice that is just not true.

Many of my positions are self-moderated by the understanding that smart, kind, and reasonable people have opposing views.
"But since they’ve gotten settled, Ghodsi and Stokic live pretty low-key lives. Their combined four parents rotate visits, and the two boys rarely leave the house. “We all live upstairs, then we go into the basement every day to work,” Stokic said.

And their work schedule is punishing. “On a typical day, we wake up, get dressed, do email (my morning ritual is to get to inbox zero), answer work requests, eat, work, then go to bed,” Ghodsi said. “Sometimes we might have dinner with someone or go to a YC event, but we’re not in San Francisco to socialize. We want to take advantage of this time to focus everything on the business. We don’t have a personal life.”

We’re not in San Francisco to socialize. We don’t have a personal life.”

The pair have made friends — mostly other YC founders 10 to 20 years their senior. They both said that there’s a lot of camaraderie within their class and that it’s helpful to talk to others who can relate to the stress of building a business, no matter what age they are.

Ghodsi said being so young has given them somewhat of a competitive edge.

“A lot of younger people reach out to us and want to work with us,” Ghodsi said. “We have a whole network of young devs and designers [who] want to work with us and will do it for much cheaper than grown-ups doing that job. We had someone do our site that cost a 20th of what it would cost normally, for instance, because the guy was only 14 years old. A lot of teens feel like they’re not being taken seriously, so when they see what we’re doing they want to be part of it.”"

This sounds exactly like peak YC. I'm going to short Paul Graham tonight.

Two 14-year-olds make themselves and other tweens subservient to Samuel Altman in pursuit of success by building a browser extension 24/7 that is supposed to supersede Salesforce? And they're not even adults, so they legally can't even own anything? Does anybody catch a whiff of, I don't know, child slavery?

Yeah, woo, kids! You managed to underpay someone 20x because they're just 14 and offered themselves right up to you! That's sustainable and will teach you about properly paying your workers.

What could realistically be next? Toddlers working grueling hours "hustling" in a factory assembling batteries for Elon?

Does nobody else see this as out of control?

Incidentally, I usually only see articles like this when there's a serious problem with what's being described.
But however imperfect his attempt, he was fired, in short, for thinking on his own.

Why is this surprising? People get fired in America all the time for thinking on their own. It's also called "disagreeing with the boss".
I am not dismissing it because it is "wrongthink" I am dismissing it because it's incredibly boring, uninteresting, and extremely tiring. I went into it expecting to read something worth reading but stopped when I realized it simply wasn't worth my time.
This is probably a good place to plug the fact that Vimperator is going to die with FF57 [1].

If anyone wants to help with making an alternative, look through that thread. I'm particularly invested in Tridactyl [2] but other people are working on others.

[1] https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/705

[2] https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl
I'll just leave it here: https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-anonymous-review-2017-...

The scene guys know their stuff.
Same as Perl
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BTW, ask yourself, if Freedom conflicts, are you really using the correct definition of Freedom? I strongly believe the definition of Freedom should be applicable to all human without creating any paradoxes. Check all your premises, carefully.
No, it was just the memo.

Larry Summers (a leading economist with often controversial opinions) got fired from his position as the president of harvard for effectively making the same point [1] except, you know, well argued unlike in the Google manifesto.

If Larry Summers gets fired for that, a random engineer is definitely getting the boot.

[1] http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber....
Unfortunately not, Google does not bias pass rates towards groups, its diversity programs are about ensuring that more minorities apply, which is what the author was suggesting should be ended.
You are right to find it disturbing. It is disturbing. Once it becomes dangerous to express your ideas, then people with contrary ideas will either be crushed or rebellious.

There is a stupendously thin line between a sane person and an insane one. It is possible to break minds, and the vitriol that can be poured out from the depths of the internet is quite sufficient to break the typical human being. Some people start off closer to the edge than others.

I'm glad I do not know the true extent of the outrage that this subject has unleashed, but I'll wager it includes credible death threats considering the size of the audience that it has reached.

If you pour hate over something long enough, it will bear fruit.
To add a comparison to your point, in the last election in Sweden, 85.8% of the voting-age population voted.

A few key differences:

* Everyone is already registered to vote (through IRS equivalent records)

* It's always on a Sunday

* Everyone gets a letter home in advance telling them where to go to vote (60% usually do this), or how to mail-in vote.

* Identification is handled either through ID/drivers license, OR someone with a valid ID vouching for your identity.

* There are 8+ parties to vote from, and you get parliament representation if your newly created party gets 4% of votes.
So C# works on WebAssembly but not go? :(
After discovering it by accident, 'beat tapes' is the only music I actively listen nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beat+tape

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lofi
The common good is a better prime directive IMO, and this is not a slippery slope to some fascist totalitarian dystopia. A simple example are traffic regulations. Speed limits are a restriction on individual liberty, but necessary for the common good.
This story had 3 points after 2 hours and no comments, which I didn't expect to change. I wanted to leave more than an upvote for the submitter, but didn't have anything worthwhile to say, not being an American and knowing little about the related laws. I know that's not a substantive comment, or too meta and too rash, but still, "heh".
Indeed.

Having someone else run the experiments is also required to get past something we have to deal with a lot in the tech world. The "it works on my machine" result.

You may have run the experiment twice, but can anyone else? Does your setup depend on something not specified in your paper? In the tech world, how many times has the setup documentation you wrote turned out to be missing some detail when a new starter actually tries it?

No setup will ever be perfect, but we can look at reducing common points of error.
Good find. Looks like a good amount of the interior ergonomics did make it to production cars: it reminds me a lot of the early 90s Citroen BX. Very similar steering wheel, wrap around buttons on the driver's binnacle. And the hydropneumatoc suspension of course - a Citroen signature and a brilliant piece of engineering.
I don't care for myself, but the author of one of my favorite extensions has stated that he's not porting to a webextension because he doesn't want to rewrite (again) and because (at the time he looked, at least) the APIs didn't really support it. I don't care about the API directly, but I absolutely care when they're insufficient.
Sure, and I wouldn't want meetings taking place at desks anyway as that would be disruptive, but having the CEO at a 'normal' desk like everyone else, and having them there for any time they are doing tasks alone, I think humanises them more.
> To begin with, even I know most of Google’s work is people-centric. It’s either serving people directly, or analyzing people-data, or imagining the people-future. If you want to spend your life with things and ideas rather than people, then go into engineering or physics, but not into software-development.

That's silly. Every job involves people, at some level, otherwise you wouldn't get paid. By this logic, a lighthouse keeping is a people-centric job, because you maintain a light that other people will look at.

> That coding actually requires “female” skills was spelled out clearly by Yonatan Zunger, a former Google employee. But since I care more about physics than software-development, let me leave this aside.

I believe this is the one that points out that managers deal with people, not software (so why not just get MBAs?). I'd counter that liking people doesn't mean you're good with them, there's even research that introverts make better CEOs.

Similarly, being predisposed to like programming (or any other task) doesn't mean you're naturally good at it (though putting in the hours will help a lot).
For the FPC/Lazarus project as a whole, it is also good news that there is some work going on to build up a foundation (it exists already), with funding and stuff, to support further development:

https://foundation.freepascal.org/

Among founders being Delphi luminaire Boian Mitov (author of Visuino / OpenWire / OpenWireStudio etc).

Hoping the foundation can take off with some good funding.
That would be a very odd interpretation of that phrase --- because when one usually thinks of "access control" and the DMCA, circumvention is about allowing access to copyrighted work. Adblocking is essentially all about disallowing access.

But if that interpretation does hold up in the courts, it could lead to a very slippery slope where it becomes illegal to refuse to consume specific content. The equivalent of not being able to change the channel on the TV or go do something else when the adverts start, or even... just close one's eyes and ears.
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Forgive me for my poor English, - looks like I have misunderstood meaning of "Oh, the irony!" expression. I thought when someone says "oh the irony" they mean what they are saying it about wasn't expected and is kind of crazy to believe. I was wrong. I am sorry.
Reminds me of the good old Matra Murena! http://petrolblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Matra-Muren...
A french three seater although mid-engined and regular lefthand drive instead of center the look quite alike. They were built in the early 80ies as well, looks like sharing of concepts :)
I agree! And I use Gimp for that very reason!

However, my Photoshop inclined friends would experience the absence of the liquify and Refine Edge tool as an inhibition of their desire to reach their goal (the image they have in mind). In that sense, Photoshop is an enabler for their wishes, Photoshop gives them the freedom to make what they want.
You can also just pass the url as an argument to mplayer or one of it's derivatives (all of which use youtube-dl under the hood, I believe). Not even concerned with freedom here. It's just a better user experience when the video is longer, IMO.
I can only think of price-comparison or review-based websites. Is that what you're talking about? How could you monetize something like that without ads, for instance?
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I wonder, would an official interacting with a privately owned vehicle on public rodes be considered on private property for the purpose of this ruling?
I've seen "early employees" do well as PMs. These are employees who started out ostensibly in marketing, or operations, but at a scale where everyone in the company still does a bit of everything. These people naturally grow with the company knowing so much about the internal workings of the company and the product that they are the perfect candidate for a PM role even if they have no formal PM experience.

I've seen 2 people do this at my current company and have heard similar things from other companies where it worked very well.
You misunderstood me again.

Of course there were actions by crazy individuals on both sides. That's not what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about people punished by organized groups and the powerful. I'm talking about Google firing people and the police ignoring mob attacks.

And you still haven't mentioned any such things.

I agree Trump's rhetoric was dangerous but he hasn't acted on it, as far as I know.
That's where I got that impression too. I'm not sure how that changes things, but it does seem to make his firing especially harsh.