skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TunnelBear - 5 stars, because "it's just so much fun to use."

I hate being a cynical ass (I really do) but this guy has no business at all running this website.

I'll not preach the long form of my usual VPN rant (briefly: they introduce another man-in-the-middle - who is probably anonymous to you, one who is very likely not subject to and utterly unaware of data protection laws, which makes you less safe rather than more).

People will read this site, think he knows what he's talking about, and get themselves into a lot of bother because of the bad advice this dude is giving out. He really needs to read up on what he's advocating here, as he clearly has no knowledge of the critical security factors behind these services.

You might think to yourself:

"Easy on, maybe he's writing for folks that don't care about security and just want US Netflix unblocked in their country."

And you would be right if not for the bottom of the page saying this:

"If you've found this site useful, please share it with a friend who you think would benefit from safer, private browsing."

So yeah, actively encouraging the spread of this terrible security advice is probably worth calling out.
This year, GitHub did that for a conference, letting people submit talks and compete for selection completely stripped of identifying info.

The only people selected were men.

That conference was canceled because it didn’t stand with Github’s stance on diversity, etc.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868

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Companies actively do the exact opposite because they need/want more diversity. It’s absolutely not like the music world where a large amount of women play instruments... the number of women in CS professionally is low. The number of female CS graduates is and has been low.

Simply stripping info doesn’t mean anything if at the end of the day a diversity agenda has to be met.
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I don't think so. To survive web development I have just accepted that I am standing on one toe on a ship of abstractions upon abstractions trying my best not to fall off.
One of the main points that makes me happy about Pascal syntax compared to some C-family langs like Java is that types are placed AFTER the variable names, making it much easier to scan the left border of the editor for meaningful info.

Happy that recent languages like Go and Kotlin have learned the lesson and are going the Pascal way again.
Discovering Browser Extensions via Web Accessible Resources [pdf]
It's too soon to worry about. Currently you still need to keep your UI in JavaScript / HTML / CSS so Web Assembly isn't going to be replacing that to deliver "fat apps" just yet.

Regardless, when there does come a time that WASM has full DOM access you'll just be replacing a ton of JavaScript and other code with WASM bytecode. Today you can already transpile many languages to JavaScript and some frameworks even allow you to never even touch JavaScript and still create web applications. I don't see this being much different with the exception that you'll no longer be required to used or transpile to JavaScript and this could end up faster (that's a big COULD and will probably depending on what you're doing and how).
Ok. You throw around terms like "ignorant", "massive error" etc; but I don't think your own assertions are not founded.

What "basic facts and history" are you alluding to, and how do you think they are relevant?

Why do you feel justified saying the author is "ruled by his emotions"? You made blank assertions without explicitly backing them up ("Only someone ignorant..", "only someone ruled by his emotions..")

You say his premises are not "coherent in their arrangement" but can you give an demonstrate this? Just saying "clearly he's ignorant" etc isn't enough to convince me you are right about the quoted snippet, let alone the whole memo.

As was stated in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14974650 you are nit-picking a memo intended to invite discussion, but name calling ("ignorant") without providing at least a similar level of citation, or explanation, yourself is not constructive.
> Instead of having a lawyer, a smart contract could automatically split ether from an account into two addresses.

Ignoring the oracle problem, all this would take to work is the couple storing all their wealth in an asset that has an unknown (possibly negative) rate of return and unknown (possibly very low) liquidity.
Better than a Trabant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S8idecb8Ek
Tests apply in "default" configuration. So I drive a Mercedes AMG which has a button to open the exhaust which makes it way louder. But the test is conducted in the state in which the car starts in by default - so with the exhaust closed and quiet. Same with emissions - if the car starts by default with Start/Stop system on, it's tested with it on. But obviously you can switch the system off which increases the emissions.
This poll only had about 400 self-selected participants. That doesn't make for reliable numbers at all.
I love the sound of a Ferrari. I wish in France there were more Ferraris and less of those obnoxiously loud motor scooters. Scooters are louder than most cars.
Go back another 100 years, and think about the vehicles and their suspension (probably leather bands?), and then realize that there were no asphalt roads, only dirt roads with holes and rocks. Then go back several hundred years, when carriages had no suspension at all.

How did people handle that? Speed was probably the big difference. Plus what else was there? The only alternative was walking or maybe travel by horse or mule.

So that 1968 Mini was probably very OK for that time, with careful driving, and a tougher ass.
I'm imagining an AI war where the next advancement is the micro of the siege engines to optimise targets and timing of shots to hit large groups after the initial splash avoidance. AI on both sides keep trying to maintain a one-step-ahead strategy which minimises/maximises casualties based on predicting the exact shooting/dodging strategy of the opponents. Will be interesting to follow developments in this area!
Isn't that comparable to going to a restaurant where they don't give away their recipes? If you encounter a problem with one of their meals you are dependent on their good will to change it for you. Isnt it that you are just using a service someone provides? Or are you enslaving yourself the moment you walk in a restaurant where they keep their recipes secret?
If you compare to the "modern" way of building cross-platform apps: Electron ... with its 100s of MBs, I'm definitely regarding Lazarus binaries as small :)
> do they call a third of their coworkers incompetent

the memo doesn't either - If you disagree please quote the part that does.
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> The problem is that his whole argument is based around biological determinism

It's not based on biological determinism, he provides references to the current state of psychological research and simply wants a discussion about the policy

> this manifesto

it's not a manifesto by any means unless you want to call everything a manifesto including your post.

> Women in IT sometimes have to contend with attitudes that 'women are bad at math' or 'women are irrational' or 'women only care about aesthetics'.

There were no such things in his text, not even remotely close

> then he proceeds to discuss that as the only reason the gender gap exists.

He explicitly questions those causes, please stop projecting your ideology on things you read
Completely agree. The point here is that the situation isn't static: many people don't like what is now ok in the workplace, and are trying to shift it back.

Simply calling them "racist" or "sexist" as if that ends the discussion completely misses the point.
AdWords Historical Quality Score Tracker
As most of you already know, we now can see historical Quality Score data to as far back as January 22, 2016, with breakdowns for Ad relevance, Expected CTR and Landing page experience.

That should be sufficient enough, yet I prefer to look at Quality Score together with other metrics since at the end of the day, QS is only a diagnostic tool. Thus, I and some colleagues have developed a reporting template to monitor each keyword’s’ quality score along with other metrics (CPC, Conversion Rate, Cost, etc).

In short, it allows you to: 1. Track how your QS has changed over time for each particular campaign and immediately see campaigns that have low QS and require attention 2. See Quality Score, weighted by Clicks, Impressions and Cost metrics 3. See the scores of Expected CTR, Ad Relevance and Landing Page Experience, each weighted by Impressions 4. Compare QS with metrics, such as CTR, CPC, Average Position, and others 5. Set up automatic refresh and alerts for monitoring your QS

The report can be found at: https://supermetrics.com/blog/adwords-quality-score-analysis-reporting/

Hope to hear your opinions as well as suggestions for the report :)
Thanks!
That was my first thought after reading a small portion of the memo.
Also:

Unreviewed VPNs

The following VPNs were not reviewed due to their website experience being poorly designed. This can mean heavy use of stock photos, utter disregard for detail, difficult navigation, excessive and hard to follow text, non-defaulting to HTTPS, and overall poor usability.

At least he understands what's important in a VPN. Kudos for excluding services that use stock photos in their website design.
Which version of Firefox is that? It recently became much faster, and is set to see yet another improvement with version 57 (due in three months, I believe).
DeepMind open source PySC2 toolset for Starcraft II
I think that in the context of the article having less interest in working with inanimate object means wanting to work with the objects is not a reason one takes the job.

Yes, successful investigative journalists work with documents. But do they become investigative journalists because they want to work with documents? Or do they become investigative journalists because they want to uncover the truth behind stories, and documents are simply tools used as part of that?

Compare documents to cars. There are many people who like cars, and because of that seek out a career where they get to work with cars and don't really car what the cars are being used for.
They may be rare but I live close to a place with many owners of these supercars, and it's a big nuisance. My flat has a very good sound insulation and I can't hear a large truck going through the street, but I hear these supercars (and large bikes) very well.
There are countless examples of overlaps in software naming. I'm sure this isn't even the word with the most duplicates.

Also, the .sh does make this particular example at least slightly distinctive.
I really wish that governments and authorities (UK/EU) would do more to tackle excessively noisy vehicles.

It's a significant problem here in London: Supercars (and regular cars and motorbikes that have been modified to have noisy exhausts) make up a tiny minority of vehicles on the road, but it only takes one to produce incredible noise levels that carry for many blocks and penetrate almost any soundproofing/double glazing.

It's completely unfair to subject so many people in such a dense city to these noises just for the thrills of one driver/rider. Stick to the track if you must drive such a noisy vehicle!

Politicians probably think of it as an annoyance to be shrugged off, but it does genuine economic harm. It damages property values near busy roads, and it makes our public spaces and parks unpleasant. Even in the middle of huge green areas like Hyde Park, you can still hear them roaring down park lane etc.
Why does anybody need two calculators on the driving wheel?[0]

0. http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/xenia/images/xenia12....
does this site block NK access, I can see Kim Jong Un using this to plan his next move.
This is supposedly a lot better with Firefox 55, released this week :)
Reminiscent of the Countach (https://assets.hemmings.com/blog/wp-content/uploads//2014/08...) and Lotus Elise (http://momentcar.com/images/lotus-esprit-1980-9.jpg).
He said mid 1990. He has a badass mom. Plus, I think driving an older car, at least when your young, makes you a better driver later in life.
I agree with your basic premise, and I definitely use some kind of fuzzy gut feel metric when doing my own evaluations. That said, if someone is claiming to do an unbiased review, we need more than gut feel.

If your goal is no logging and one of your metics is "Do they have humor"? You're in deep trouble.
Firefox 54.0.1 on macOS 10.12.6. Firefox says it's up-to-date.
Keyed archiver doesn't work with structs, and it also probably doesn't work whenevr you start nesting classes. It relies on introspection and dynamic typing for that, which can't work right now with swift.

It's one reason they had to rely on compile-time codegen to implement the swift4 equivalent.
I (also live in Netherlands and) visited Manhattan once on holiday, wondered about that myself. My takeaway from what a friend living there said.. downtown NY is great but expensive. Eating outdoors is the norm. Groceries are expensive as well. Things add up, make sure your income does too. And its very noisy at night.
Contra Grant on Exaggerated Differences
> The worst part of Firefox is the terribly long startup time. It can take up to 10 seconds after a reboot and takes quite a long time even with warm caches.

If you're the type with a lot of tabs open, that should improve a lot in the next few releases.

https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/index.ht...
Yes it’s just an ironic presentation.
Catastrophe?

I doubt it will make even a dent in Salesforce's profits or that anybody of their clients will even blink about it.

As for their PR, that's paid for (and customers might even like the drastic action).

Except if you mean PR to prospective security hacker hires.
In most corporations there's nothing like that.
Does it currently work with Netflix?
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iOS Architecture: From the Shallower to the Deeper
The real reason for which i stopped using them is that it doesn't work well with git. As soon as you've got more than one people in the team, it's over.
Well, the funny thing is that Bryan[0] has since pretty much defected to RMS's side, so clearly it wasn't as bad as you seem to suggest.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/user/BryanLunduke/videos
The point he's making is that, on that graph, it is clear that many women are better at software engineering than many men. The women closer to the tip of their graph will easily beat men at the tail of theirs. Women can be very competent software engineers. That is clear to all (Sandy Metz is a great example).

But if, in general women prefer different roles, is that unimportant to you?
In short: A definition of Freedom is wrong (or at least sub-optimal, bigoted, biased) if it can not pertain to all humans at the same time without creating a paradox.

At the risk of being down-voted (but less so due to this very sentence), the quote below can be true for everyone and I believe it to be very important Interpreting it I would say that a creator is free to choose a license, any attempt to try and force the use of another license upon a creator than that of his choosing will lead to paradoxes in freedom. I.e., such a definition can not be applied to all humans (for example: I can force conditions upon you by which you should share your work, you can do so to me and you can they force me to not share my work or at least under arbitrary conditions):

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

-John Galt (Ayn Rand; Atlas Shrugged, which is a nice book if you like the philosophy of freedom)

With regards to forcing "a mind" I love this piece of literature: [0]

[0] http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/physical_force.html

An excerpt:

Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. When you declare that men are irrational animals and propose to treat them as such, you define thereby your own character and can no longer claim the sanction of reason—as no advocate of contradictions can claim it. There can be no “right” to destroy the source of rights, the only means of judging right and wrong: the mind.
Would he have been fired if he had instead expressed these views to his manager in a room with closed door?

I'm not aware of any executives of large institutions that are perfectly happy with leaks. They just usually aren't dumb enough to pretend that a rant like this wouldn't get leaked.
This is terrific. There have been several situations that I can think of where being able to just transfer files across computers without the help of a network would've made my life a lot easier.

The encryption is a nice side-benefit, but the real value is in the zero-config transmission of files. Something like this ought to be built into every modern OS, especially considering that most computers have wifi cards these days.
Let's hope it's a long time before that comes back in style again.
Leave her alone, she's just 7.
Land value tax is the ideal end state, but it's difficult for one person to work towards that; doing it on a smaller scale by e.g. getting your own employer to introduce a scheme like this seems a lot more plausible. (Also things like letters to one's representative asking them to remove parking minimums from planning criteria)

(My current company has "free" bicycle parking in the basement with a years-long waiting list; meanwhile many of the spots are unused or have a bike sitting their permanently, and I'm paying for a spot 10 minutes' walk away. Maybe I should start asking them to charge)
of course there is no causal relation between website quality and VPN quality. but there is definitely a statistical relationship. setting up a secure and fast VPN is very complex and it's hard to see why somebody would then neglect the entry point to that service. actually I'd assume that this negligence would be likely when the VPN is actually only supposed to serve as a malicious MIM. hence I accept this as a valid heuristic.
I heard somewhere that Firefox's security showing was pretty dismal before they introduces e10s with seccomp-bpf sandboxing. The anecdote I heard was that in "hacking competitions" a Chrome vulnerability was worth a serious hunk of cash, Firefox was worth almost nothing because it was too easy. After sandboxing, Firefox RCEs are worth money again. Does anyone know whether this claim is accurate or misleading? I know I've switched back to Firefox because of it.
One of the things I'm excited about, is using FPC/Lazarus as GUI for computationally heavy Go code (Now with the recent efforts to use Go for datascience ... see http://gopherdata.io), now since Go supports shared object (.so/.dll) files.

I collected my (very early) research on it in this thread:

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=24948.0

... where some users report they tried it already. Seems to work, if not super smooth. Hope it can be improved in the future.
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I have noticed the same thing, even as a "newbie" around Node.js.

It's true that with the use of a transpiler you fix things in a way.

Thank you both for your feedback folks.
It doesn't matter whether a characteristic is innate or not; if it isn't relevant to the job, then nobody should be judged based on it. Even if you disregard that people can choose to change their gender or that politics can be inherited from the parents, gender and politics are interchangeable as far as social treatment is concerned.

If you (dis)agree with the arguments of the memo in the gender/politics-swapped version, then you should also (dis)agree with the original. Of course the cited references won't make sense anymore, but if that is your only remaining sticking point, you might have to reevaluate your opinion.
And this is why Kenya has faster average mobile internet than the USA.
Also replacement (sed, emacs, idea, …), is it $1, is it \1, is it something else, does it support named groups?
I don't think so.

The alt-right is not constantly infighting.

The left are more likely to devolve into infighting.

This google guy was moderate left wing and the hard line social justice response from Google and the media will alienate a lot more of the intellectual left.

Hispanics and African Americans often lean socially conservative.

Gay men are a lot more fiscally conservative than you might think.

None of those groups identify with single white woman.

Etc etc.
> If a coworker of mine started publicly saying that I'm not genetically qualified for the work I do

Why are you changing the meaning of what he wrote? He didn't say that at all. He was very clear that he was talking about the group not any individuals.

If you choose to misunderstand what someone said, when they did a good job of explaining it clearly, then I think you shouldn't spread that misunderstanding around in a way that will hurt people, as it hurt this guy.
it's nice to get free food and lodgings while building a company
Waiting for the additional "Read someone else's Regex the easy way". I'm not holding my breath :)

Agree with others in that RegexBuddy is indispensable for a windows dev learning this magic stuff.

Some useful and interesting regex developments coming in the next version of JavaScript. Support for international text and (bleh) emoji incoming.
Trump is unlike any president we’ve had before and crying is hardly an overreaction. Many government organizations are losing funding and leadership. We might lose our access to healthcare. A number of Trump's new hires were chosen to dismantle or loot their respective branches. There's a non-zero chance we'll get into a nuclear exchange with North Korea. The White House routinely issues statements supporting police overreach and denying domestic terrorism. Climate change is outright mocked. Our traditional alliances are in shambles, even among our neighbors. The only thing tempering Trump's authoritarian impulses is seemingly the fact that the Republican Party is in total disarray. And to top it all off, the man spews abhorrent, childish garbage almost daily on Twitter. Our fucking president!

All this was easily predictable before the election. How is this flaming pile of garbage not worth crying about? Are you seriously suggesting that any of this is normal?
That's a Lotus Espirit, not an Elise.
I love stuff from Japan as well, and from what I’ve seen, there’s a lot of Japanese music on the US Apple Music, and it’s also fairly easy to create a Japanese iTunes account to get a free 3 month trial of the JP Apple Music store.
Careful - your ISP ToS might explicitly forbid you from hosting internet facing services over your connection.
I should have said developing. I'm still drinking my coffee over here, just woke up.
Ale mluvim cesky a to znam dobre. You're actually going to compare Google's hiring policies to the oppression of a eastern bloc state? Do prdel.