skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Committing homicide is an irrational and maladaptive (i.e. stupid) thing to do in a peaceful 21st century society. Committing suicide is an irrational and maladaptive thing to do in almost all situations in history.
There's shockingly little evidence it does, which is something AA opponents want to avoid talking about.

There's a perception it does, based on anecdotal evidence.
Money, the answer is always money.

The speed standard is used to funnel money to the incumbents. The incumbents are supposed to improve and/or upgrade their speeds or coverage to match these standards in return for these subsidies, but reality has a way to get in the way. In practice the incumbents pocket the money and deliver whatever they feel like.
I was thinking the same thing.

But then I realized that the advantage of multiple repos is that it is decentralized: anyone can start their own fork, and collaboration works similar to the official forks, and you don’t need any centralized administration.

Having everyone share a single giant monorepo sounds like you’ll need a lot of people to support the infrastructure. Microsoft can do that. Can the Linux community?

With a huge monorepo, you can easily archive everyones contributions. That’s probably important for Microsoft. It’s not important for Linus — he only cares about the stuff he merges.

Finally, multiple repos allow people to work on stuff privately, and only contribute back to the public when they are ready.
34, cloud security architect, also getting 2-3 cold calls from recruiters daily from LinkedIn. Salaries ranging from ~$160-200k/year to act as a subject matter expert/consultant to the rest of the org (from my experience).

Maybe some startup is going to throw a fit about age because they can't work you to death (or larger established SV orgs like Google, Facebook, or Amazon), but proper compensation and work/life balance is alive and well in the rest of larger US enterprises.
IIRC Gitlab has some issue on implementing federated Pull Requests, which would allow users to run their own Gitlab instances but still interact with Gitlab-proper repositories as normal.
TUTORIAL: Web Scraping in Python [IN ONE VIDEO]
Not even when the employer has asked?

I understand this was written in response to a request from someone else, probably HR.
Ask HN: What are few lifeHacks for hackers?
Well, some would argue that many CEOs ought to be in prison ;)
> Claim bearers are burdened with proof.

I think that was her point...
I generally reserve my donations to people whom are struck by tradegy, not the eminently employable and well educated who fail to think through their actions.
Everything developed by big companies that deals with our data on their premises is evil.

We should simply not allow that, and let big companies just develop the hardware.
He'll likely argue that he was whistleblowing on discriminatory hiring practices and was fired in retaliation. He may even have proof that Google won't want aired out in court and they'll settle.
Three Stages of AWS Cloud Cost Optimization
The city center of San Francisco (for public transit purposes) is a small, eastern portion of the Market St corridor, several miles from the site being discussed.
I don't think you're correct. However I do not have a lot of experience hiring people, so I can only argue over the philosophy of the subject.
Knowing how to program is most of the battle. Being a good communicator helps. If your predominant skill was dealing with people you would be working as a BA, PM, or other similar role. Most businesses aren't stupid enough to pay a developer salary to somebody not actually doing development.
Then why has nobody done that then?

It blows my mind how so many people proliferate how useful blockchain companies can be yet despite all of the different blockchains, ICO's..., practically none [1] have taken off because they are technologically and economically worse than current market products and services.

[1]: Illegal markets are the only market I have seen that do like it because companies/governments have specifically made it harder for illegal transactions to take place over traditional currencies.
Ask HN: How to publish work to journals with free software
Many journals require Times New Roman and Microsoft Word formats for acceptance. How does a young academic go about getting their work published in these cases. Liberation Serif is a close match, but not accepted. Of course one can use LibreOffice but export as docx but at times the formatting changes and it doesn't solve the root problem.

How do you gals do it?
This comment is not constructive. When you see someone who is tired of responding to offensive and completely baseless accusations, why do you think it's appropriate to insult them?
Right. I read your footnote, but if indeed the disagreement is based on "misunderstanding", it is a willful misunderstanding. Damore's opponents appear to me to not even have tried to understand his argument. They are not even attempting to engage the argument and failing; they're just not trying. The conclusion is heretical, therefore the reasoning must be wrong...somewhere. I say this as one who doesn't know and doesn't care about this argument, I just worry very much about the free speech implications.

> but we need science to inform are politics. Otherwise, we just get more of the raw ideology that is the very reason you don't like politics.

Well, I do like politics, in the sense that I think it is a fascinating window into the most irrational sides of human behavior. But politics is far more powerful as a cultural force than science is. Politics appeals to the most tribal instincts in humans.

Yes, it would be wonderful for science to inform politics. To have a president and Congress who would look at the facts and make decisions based on those facts, which neither a Democratic or Republican administration would really do. So the best we can hope for is for politics not to infect science while we wait for science to make these silly arguments irrelevant, if indeed it does.

For example, I will note that the Obama administration, despite all its lip service to climate change, never did realize the simple fact that modern civilization requires energy, and it will consume the cheapest form of that energy available, and therefore green energy will only win if and when it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels. When researchers make green energy cheaper, I predict Republicans will, as if by magic, lose all their skepticism and reservations about climate change, and the left will abandon their unrealistic talk about emissions caps, and it will all become a non-issue.
The name of the animal has a silent g. In software that would be a bit too confusing, though. "Do you use <nu> make?" "N-E-W or G-N-U?"
That does doesn't make any sense.

If the problem exists due to an imbalance, an offset can improve it.
here you go: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16...
yours as in ... you as an artist?
these are the top channels in Malaysia:
https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-channels?c...
> what I have observed is that the majority of people with that kind of "experience" are basically doing the same job in the past 10 years. So their minds have become stagnant and inelastic.

10 years experience with, say, C brings:

You write far fewer bugs, and when there is a bug, you find it much faster.

You know what best practices are. This only comes with experience.

You know better than to code up another bubble sort. You can recognize quadratic performance long before it blindsides you in production.

You can identify the "stink" of bad code just by glancing at it.

You're no longer tempted to show off by writing clever code that nobody can maintain.

You do the boring stuff like documentation and tests.

All this means quicker development, better code, fewer costly bugs in production, and someone to coach the newbies and into writing better code.
I HAD a trauma attack over Nokia phone  (guess if the tea is true or false)
Exactly. Your title was clickbait and dishonest.

We don't accept that here.
You're missing my point. If women would naturally have more representation and were disadvantaged by this policy, and the policy was 100% effective (unheard of), their representation would drop from >50% to 50% - it wouldn't somehow switch to women being significantly underrepresented. This assertion doesn't make sense based on the actual situation we have today.
* institutionalized discrimination: Policies that explicitly favor one group over another based on phenotype differences. For example, Jim Crow laws or "diversity" hiring policies.

* "institutionalized discrimination": The hypothesis that society is skewed by the vast conspiracy of "bias". For example, for the past 10 years, computer science graduation rates skew under 20% / 80% for female / male graduates [0]. Presumably females are kept down by "bias".

[0] http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor....
Does anyone have more recent data than 2012? I've remember skimming a link recently...
I'm glad we haven't been forced to stop using ritardando in music settings yet.
How much of a bump there should be will depend on how elite a slice you are carving. If you're carving a large slightly above average slice, then the mean matters more. If you're slicing off a thin slice from the very top, then variation matters more.

An example of a large slice is recent college graduates. Women in fact dominate this slice. But CEOs are presumably a thin slice of very capable people. So it would be no surprise for their ranks to be dominated by men.
Certainly under the prevailing moralistic view on HN that life is too comfortable and people ought to suffer more & have less free time, there is too much parking.
Andrew Ng Interviews Deep Learning Researchers
Just checked, by a little bit of googling, I did find it in a gov document.
Great video!

However, I would like to point out that the name "Richard Stallman" is incorrect. Who you're referring to here should actually be called "GNU/Richard Stallman"
They have per-second billing. Use it as serverless.
>Anything meaningful basically has to interact with the real world through agents external to the contract

This is where people are betting to take a risk that the law will change to legalize and maybe even incorporate these contracts. Take a prenuptial agreement for example. Instead of having a lawyer, a smart contract could automatically split ether from an account into two addresses.

https://www.coindesk.com/prenup-ethereum-marriage-obligation...
According to Google, the leak is working as intended, so I think your problem should be with Google if you don't like their features. Who wants to guess how long until advertisers use this to confirm their guesses for people's identities.
The Google thing is a medium splash in a big pond. This is a small splash, but arguably in a much smaller and more concentrated pond. Within the community of red teams and DEFCON regulars I wouldn't be surprised if this is much better known than the (now) ex Googler is within the more general tech community.
Surely he takes care of his own parrots.
What this review really lacks is the additional features VPN's can provide, such as malware and fishing protection, location diversity, scale, jurisdiction, protocols supported, etc etc.

I am a happy user of NordVPN with all of the above points adressed by them really well. BTW the latest feature, CyberSEC also blocks ads which is a major plus for me, making the VPN that much faster.

[1] https://nordvpn.com/blog/security-feature-cybersec/
The psychological difference is that people react differently depending on whether the fee is seen as "not receiving a bonus that other people got", or "taking a pay cut when others didn't." If that doesn't make sense to you, I highly recommend that you pick up a copy of "The Paradox of Choice," a book that lays out neatly how the human brain can be manipulated by simple restatements like this.
I know people always want to discuss the merits of the memo -- whether he was right, wrong, or somewhere in between -- but I'd like to have a meta-discussion.

I believe the memo is irrelevant not because of its content, but rather because it's embarrassingly reductive. In my opinion, anyone that takes it seriously validates Damore's ultra-reductive approach to social policy -- and this is, I think, unequivocally wrong.

I recently wrote a blog post, Confusing Math with Morality[1], in which I touch on a similar subject matter. The problem with smart non-liberal-science people is that they think they are just that -- smart -- when, in fact, the emotional intelligence of STEM majors is barely average[2][3]. Now this doesn't mean that this disqualifies math-y people from having opinions on social policy, but it certainly means I value their opinions much less. In the market of ideas, theirs are simply not worth a whole lot.

For example, you may think you have an educated opinion on abortion, or euthanasia, or nuclear proliferation. But the reality is that you don't. And I've been called an elitist before, but until you take a few semesters on abortion[4] and read some court opinions, your views are simply not worth much of a damn.

And, as far as Damore is concerned, it's a very similar scenario. He's trying to argue for or against some kind of social policy, but he simply has no idea what he's talking about. I doubt he's even heard of Bakke v. UC Regents, never-mind read Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique. Knowing about these is very important in the context of gender/race/etc. policies. My point is only that strong, sweeping opinions and viewpoints need to be properly contextualized. There are, of course, good arguments on both sides. But Damore makes none of them -- or even if he does, it's merely accidental to his "spray and pray" strategy.

And to be frank, I see this at work (and saw this at school) all the time. I've always tried to be broad in my education (both formal and otherwise) -- my grandmother was in charge of a library and I couldn't live without books. If you talk to a programmer and ask them what's the last book that they read, they'll probably mention something programming-related. If you ask them what news they read, they'll probably say slashdot. I had a co-worker recently question why I read fiction -- after all, we can expense any programming book we set our sights on. And don't think I'm ragging on programming books, I even wrote one! My point is only about the type of person attracted to this type of work -- and perhaps how STEM degrees have failed us. It doesn't seem like we are educating a generation of Isaac Newtons, but rather an army of regurgitating robots.

Damore is intellectually lazy in a sea of intellectual laziness. His views might be wrong or might be right, but his intellectual sloth is unforgivable.

[1] https://dvt.name/2017/07/10/confusing-math-with-morality/

[2] http://www.recsam.edu.my/R&D_Journals/YEAR2008/dec2008vol2/e...

[3] http://publisher-connector.core.ac.uk/resourcesync/data/else...

[4] You could also be self-taught, but that's a slippery slope. Ethics is much harder than Calculus.
Nobody needs 4K video conferencing, or any video conferencing at all. It's just nice to have, and 4K is nicer to have than 1080p, which is nicer than 240p.

4k deserves more of a mention than say 16K because that's what the current high-end mainstream screens/recorders use.
Same thing here. From a respectable company / country, and has been working wonderfully for me.
https://clickclickclick.click

Clickable link
Upvoted. Thanks for your honesty. I think this forum could benefit from a larger meta discussion about flagging.

I believe we could have closed this faster and with less problems if we allowed the debate to happen and only flagged comments -on both sides- that broke hn guidelines.

Instead we now have 50 threads and where people are getting increasingly frustrated.
U.S. Rivers as a Subway Map [pdf]
Women have a much higher level of attempted suicide, possibly 3x as often as men. [1] I once heard a theory that women don't die from suicide as often because they tend to use less violent means of suicide. For example, if you swallow a bottle of pills you could survive or change your mind a few minutes later and get your stomach pumped, but this rarely applies to shooting yourself in the head.

1. https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
No Shadow Tower
ISPs don't want faster internet if it means they need to invest. ISPs want to maximize their profit, not the speed of their internets.
Nobody has done it because it's inefficient right now, and the ecosystem is still only trusted by a relatively small minority of nerds like myself and others here. This proposal is a solution to one of those problems.
You do know people can launch a crowdfunding project that is decentralized, They don't need an ICO or blockchain, just a website.

But there is a reason people don't do that, something to do with the value centralized platforms provide.

Plus I'm not entirely sure anyone should trust smart contracts to actually perform such a function, next thing you know someone other than the project created takes all the funds pursuant to the smart contract, but hey that's the beauty of a smart contract it's infallible, so what ever it does it was intended to do, be damned with what people thought and understood it would do.
I played a lot of PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds last weekend [...] It improves your reflexes and precision, but likely punishes higher order thinking.

I'd argue that spatial and temporal considerations are critical in PUBG. Sure, it's not real-time strategy kind of planning, but understanding your exposure to others based on elevation & movement speed, resource management, blue/white perimeter placement and strategy to get to the objective while avoiding enemy LOS does encourage higher order thinking.
Milking the cow as long as it is alive...
> The exploit name certainly has sexually violent connotations to me.

....really? That seems like an incredible stretch.

> I'm not condoning firing as a response - that's as thoughtless and unimaginative as the name. And perhaps the name isn't even if reason for it

The article and the surrounding discussion makes it super, super clear that it's nothing to do with the name at all.
> nobody at the company could come up with a way to bypass the use of that form

Yeah, that's a big red flag. Sounds like the system is programming the people.
Maybe password rules should be represented as an HTML5 attribute in the input field.

1Password and LastPass et. al. could read this rule and then adjust the password generator accordingly.
So early 40s here, hired at Google after I turned 40 into a senior individual contributor role. My team has a healthy mix of greybeards, middle aged and younger team members. There are some teams that definitely lean younger here and there are teams that lean older too. A lot of it seems to depend on the areas they are in and the projects they work on. Your assertions don't match my experiences at all here.
Definitely not better man... There are nazi memes and misoginistic memes on the new link.
I think it is more 'Ruby isn't sexy any more' because people older than 25 use it.

It's just the usual thing of the next generation not wanting to listen to the music the previous generation did.

These things come in cycles. I remember when 'Hot Java' was sexy and cool and only throwbacks wrote C. (And when C was sexy and cool and only throwbacks wrote COBOL, etc) There were lots of other languages and frameworks around at the time too that have long since been consigned to the history books.

I never thought fashion would be a factor in IT engineering, but you realise over time that the two things you cannot escape are fashion and politics. They are fundamentally part of the human condition.

If you want long lasting skills in the IT industry make sure you're good at fashion and politics. They'll take you all the way to a comfortable retirement.
I went there with my iPhone 6S and a Macbook Pro, and was fine. Granted, I spent all of DEFCON holed up in Caesar's doing the CTF, but I didn't encounter any issues.

DEF CON provides conference WiFi with preauthorized certificates (WPA2), so if you remove all other known open networks then you can have secure and sane WiFi at the conference.
American cities are overwhelmingly navigable by car, although depending on definitions I suppose you might not call them cities.
Maybe we need another layer of abstraction, maybe recorded as merge commits, that would present the summarized history.
This sort of baseless speculation is not fruitful IMO. But I'll participate with my own hunch.

I don't think this is the case. The letter comes off as very genuine. It very much feels like what a immature "tech bro" would write. So much so when I first read it, I only skimmed it because it was so drab. You could have been at a bar surrounded by a bunch of drunk tech employees and heard very much the same thing. I only read it in entirety after the buzz got to loud to ignore.

Also I don't think there's a good chance he'll win a discrimination case against Google.
I don't know if I understand you. We have the situation we have today because "biases and unequal opportunities".
I've been thinking the same thing over the last few months...

I see all of these "prediction markets" and "gambling platforms" being launched and claiming that they are "fully autonomous".

Well where do they get the outcome information from? It must be from a person.

You cannot program a smart contract to know who has the most reliable sports scores or political information. AI does not exist yet.

If I bet that Hillary Clinton won the election, and she lost to Trump, what's stopping a hoard of Clinton supporters from voting (or tweeting or however the DAO collects their "data") that Clinton actually won the election and stealing my winnings?
I guess you are only being sarcastic, but it's worth pointing out that the only speech worth defending is speech that you disagree with and or find offensive.

No-one tries to stop you from saying nice things that they already agree with.
Some things need to be gatekept. (One obvious example is OS kernels.)

If you won't submit a kernel patch because you feel that email is unfashionable, then you're kind that should be kept out of the gate. Sorry.
Sure maybe it's not for EVERYBODY, but it's not always that bad. In 6 years of work at 4 companies, I've never had real work pressure, and 15 min a day for standup is not a tall order...
So you want to decentralize your website with IPFS
It's important to know that NoScript does far more than block JavaScript; just look up its ABE component, for example.

For technical users, uMatrix' interface is an amazing achievement in, effectively, managing application firewall rules. It's breathtakingly efficient in both communicating active settings to the user and in configuring new rules. I wish my actual firewalls used that interface.
Yeah NordVPN is the best of the bunch. Got my vote as well.
Something in the real world still has to trigger the divorce condition in the contract. By the time all the legal documents of the divorce are finalized I don't see why a written prenup would be inadequate. Besides nobody is going to store all their assets in etherium. Even if they did how would the contract track future earnings to another account, etc? It's a completely impractical solution to a problem well-served by current means. Like pretty much every other example I've heard. On-chain gambling is the only thing of practical value that I've seen Etherium offer so far.