skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by 'the way population is growing'? The global population growth rate has been slowing significantly over the past century (it's roughly half of what it was in the 60's). The growth rate in developed countries is pretty much universally <1% (and in many cases, negative).

Yeah, we're going to see continued growth in developing nations, but those rates will slow as well as those nations... develop.
TL;DR - Among other methods, Facebook farms app usage data from a mobile VPN app that it acquired to ascertain which popular features should be copied into Facebook properties.

My take: The Big Four have simply reached a point where it's better to copy than acquihire in some cases. That should be good for advancing the leading edge of (consumer tech) innovation except that parts of the ecosystem are still enamored with "Social feature for X" ("SFFX") startups.

VC-types usually argue against or ignore feature-like apps because they aren't defensible. So it seems incredulous if any are claiming Facebook-copying kills innovation.

More likely IMHO, is that the rate at which they can flip the SFFX startups into quickly won acquihires is bottoming out. So innovation in this context will remain under assault until better investment theses around consumer tech (e.g. blockchain apps) are solidified.
> That's not how the word is usually used online, though, except to suggest that anyone to right of Bernie Sanders is a white supremacist.

The world alt-right was a) coined by its members, not by its detractors and b) stands for "alternative right," that is, it implies that there exists a mainstream right wing that is not the alt-right.

(It's also a term used in the real world and not just "online debate"; for instance, the alt-right is marching in Charlottesville this weekend, which is located in Virginia and not on the internet.)
You can add it to "My filters" within uO. Host file has no wildcard support which you need for full coverage.
Here's the fiber prices for Telia in Sweden: https://www.telia.se/privat/bredband/jamfor-bredband?intcmp=.... $123/month for "500-1000 mbps," and $50/month for "50-100 mbps." YouSee charges $111 for 1000/100 in Denmark: https://yousee.dk/bredbaand/overblik.aspx. Hiper is an upstart service in Denmark charging $50 for gigabit: https://www.hiper.dk. AT&T/Google/Verizon charge roughly $70-100 for gigabit, which seems to be in the same range.

Moreover, the FCC actually has little to do with broadband deployment, whether or not it is "captured." It's the local governments that are in charge of almost all the relevant roadblocks to deployment: franchising, pole attachments, etc.
Reddit now has 230 employees and their latest (for me) user visible change in a year has been super aggressive broken caching where you post a comment and it doesn't appear until a complete reload.
Way to cherry-pick the sentence that shared a line with the discussion you wanted to have.
Or hashes.

Which will make administration rather more complex.
The colloquial "Asian" means East Asian/Far Eastern.

This includes Japanese, Chinese, both Koreans, Taiwanese, and Mongolians. Commonly, anyone with epicanthic folds.

In this case, I don't think the OP was talking about biological differences. It's widely known that the aforementioned cultures (especially Japan and China) are very big on having their careers and studies at the center of their lives.

In this case, it would be nurture giving these groups an advantage over their Western counterparts. Who, ignoring the top-tiers, on average are not known for their industry.
Aside: I always hated the romanization "tempura". The nasal is clearly an n in this word, and I have no idea how they got to an m.
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"as there is no liquidity for the volume of ETH raised"

Volume is over $80 million in the ETH-USD pair over the past 24 hours, on just two exchanges (Coinbase/GDAX, Bitfinex).

Add in CNY, KRW, EUR and the true liquidity is much higher than that.

Edit: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/#USD
Over 17 years, so that's two per month.

Again, what is your point? Do you think opinion pieces must be in lock-step with the newspaper as a whole?

All you've shown is that The Guardian publishes pieces from people with views that typically lie on the left (though are not reflective of everyone on the left). Which is, you know, the "left" in "center left".
Actually Andrej Karpathy showed human level error on imagenet is around 5% while the winning model from 2017 had an error rate of just 2.25%.
Yes and no.

I agree the effects on number of jobs will be smaller than people are predicting. It won't be mass unemployment.

On the other hand, people need to realize how sensitive the job market really is. Typical unemployment in the US is 4-5% in the last 10 years. If 1% of the workforce is put out of work by new technology, something I feel is very likely, that's a 20% increase in unemployment. If it gets much larger, even maybe 8-9%, there could absolutely be mass riots and outrage.

The point is, job markets are like marriage/dating markets. They aren't smooth, they're something almost everyone wants, so even tiny little changes (like NYC's surplus of women) have dramatic, nonlinear effects. I don't think people appreciate what a "butterfly effect" this will have if, say, 10-20% of truckers (the most popular occupation in many states) are put out of work. That's an instant, large-scale political event.

EDIT Source: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/unemployment-rate-and-u-6-...
Adams' books (and, as far as I can tell, his life) tended to be almost entirely lengthy digressions--they're practically his raison d'être. There's an anecdote in The Salmon of Doubt from his publishing editor:

> There was a scene early in one book where he talked about some plates with, very definitely, one banana on each. This was obviously significant, so I asked him to explain. But he liked to tease his audience and said he'd tell me later. We eventually got to the end of the book and I asked him again, 'Okay, Douglas, what's with the bananas?' He looked at me completely blankly. He had forgotten all about the bananas. I still ask occasionally ask him if he has remembered yet, but apparently he hasn't.
Eh, I don't know. I like Arch but it can be a lot of work. For my main dev machine, I use Ubuntu to just get shit done, particularly given the fact that many open source projects have a Debian package if not an Ubuntu PPA.

Arch did make me a bit more open-minded about systemd. I still think it's a bad move architecturally, but it does make a lot of things more convenient.
You are losing this argument because you aren't being consistent with yourself.

Originally you said, "using these differences to conclude that women are biologically less inclined to engineering is a gross leap in reasoning"

So you were talking about inclination and interest. You then claimed the facts were on your side, that it was offensive to claim otherwise, and the existence of anyone who doesn't already agree is "unfortunate".

After chongli pointed out that you're wrong about the facts, you have moved the goalposts. Now you're pretending you said "biologically ill-suited". This is not true. You said "less inclined".

As the memo in question didn't claim women are biologically ill-suited to be software engineers, only less inclined, your original statement was contradicted by science and your second try is not what anyone tried to argue.
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> So it's a concentration of investment in likely winners.

It's not clear that's what is occurring now. I think you're confused by the outsized deals reference about last Summer - they're not saying that's what is causing the index to spike now; they're saying it's what caused the spike last Summer, such that comparing today vs a year ago should come with a flag about that data.
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Somehow it's always old network guys, who write the best articles.
It's not clear how trademarks would apply here. I can write "General Motors". I can write about General Motors. I just can't impersonate General Motors or their products. That's trademark.
let me guess, you didn't actually watch the talk...

because everyone is an idiot by his definition.
nobody knows a new programming language before they actually learned to work with it, and making notes does help everyone to remember things. and yes, writing unintuitive code to save a few lines is always a bad idea, unless you're the sole developer and aren't planning on actually maintaining the product.

you could argue that his definition is wrong though. not sure what you'd want to achieve by that though, considering that its clearly meant for people with imposter syndrome.
Wow, these posts are great. Follow the links at the top and you'll see the go all the way back to at least 4.3. It's a bit of a rabbit hole; be careful if you're in the middle of something important before starting to read.
> The author isn't saying that biological differences are the _only_ factor; only that that they are _a_ factor...

This is true, but as /u/taysic pointed out elsewhere, Damore dedicates the majority of his memo on this this one factor and wishes to change corporate policy because of it.

> ... and that Google has been completely neglecting that factor with the current implementation of their efforts to improve diversity within the company

Perhaps Google is evaluating more factors than Damore? Perhaps Google concluded that social issues and gender bias play a larger role in workforce disparity than biological issues, and therefore decided to prioritize attacking the larger problem over the smaller problem?
> SC does not help getting discovered

Maybe you're speaking statistically here, but every time I find an artist's music on SC, I end up finding 3-5 more artists like them that I really like. So, maybe it's anecdotal, but I certainly enjoy SC for its discovery aspects.
The intrinsic value of bitcoin is that I can transfer money to anyone in the world, very quickly, for a couple cents of transaction fees, in a way that can't be censored.
I chuckled at that one as well. [1]

You'd be surprised at the number of graduates doing simply ordinary or mediocre things. Not that there is anything wrong with that - not my point. Just that the halo is often the best thing that someone is left with years after graduating.

Now if someone were to say that a Harvard Business School grad came back home to try and help their small family business I might think the statement is more appropriate. But at the level where you get a job like this not as much so.

[1] And I went to one of those 'good schools' (Not that one but in the same category let's say).
How about don't host the code at a location which has such hostile laws?
Yes there are other links/comments from other people that give a better criticism. That is not what was discussed but although it is not as obvious, I think the same agenda shines through in your links.

First quote doesn't say anything concrete. Someone thinks it is "easier" to attribute to culture without really linking it to the nature of Google recruiting from a small part of the population. The statement can be true without the memo being wrong. I understand the quote sounds like its critical of the memo, but really what does it say? That its hard to tell and that culture might (or even is) be a bigger factor? That would not be contrary to anything in the memo

The second comment is the "least bad" critique that I have seen. However, to me its quite obviously written with an agenda. Read the comments under her post. Especially the ones from Jeremy Arnold. Note particularly his tone compared to hers and how he even points out her quite obvious agenda. Also notice how the conversation shifts to Julie Taylor and how the climate of discussion changed. My point is that I am not competent enough and dont have enough time to read through and understand all sources, find my own sources to balance her agenda etcetc. Lets hope more honest and competent people, who have the ability to see both sides, jump into the debate.
DI.fm has an iPhone app.

As for ads, can't you pay for DI?
As we see on this page, clearly the meaning has expanded far beyond the origins you're familiar with.
Worse. A world where companies just take their stuff off the web and require you use their apps for everything. Much fewer legal questions there.
here is a telescope idea that is theoretically super scalable

http://www.pellegrino.caltech.edu/aarest1/
+ ISG
Even if he hadn't helped in their design, it's a great chip for the massively parallel computing needed for smart cars.

The fact that (vs Intel) using it knocks $500+ off the price of the car (that's a couple percent of the model 3 selling price) and uses less power under typical loads makes it an even better proposition.
In a way that validates the idea, if it was successfully tried out by another company that could mean a lot of potential for SoundCloud simply due to SoundCloud's brandname and mass amount of content contributors.

I haven't heard of Audiomack before and I checked out their website right now but I was inspired for the music management idea after seeing a lot of Youtube music videos from indie music artists linking their SoundCloud in their descriptions so I see SoundCloud more filling in the gaps better because its what musicians are sort of trying to do with SoundCloud but hacking it together in a rough way.

Edit: As well, I had a friend who was producing music and singing with some rap and RnB who heavily relied on SoundCloud and I noticed he basically self-funded his music videos by holding parties and filming it as well as promoting his music by literally going around and playing it. I think young and upcoming musicians struggle with entering the mainstream and SoundCloud can help due to its heavy base of indie or not-yet mainstream musicians and listeners.
> The IQ distribution of men and women is slightly different, and this is essentially settled science

How different? Can you source this claim? Are the means & medians at different places? How far apart are they? Are they far enough part to justify a male/female ratio in the tech workforce of 4x? I'm not arguing with you, but you are contradicting the article at hand.

"the mainstream view is that male and female abilities are the same across the vast majority of domains — I.Q., the ability to do math, etc."

> Women in engineering has stayed virtually constant for several decades now.

Which decades are you talking about? Which countries are you talking about? Please source this wildly inaccurate claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_women_in_engineerin...

"According to studies by the National Science Foundation, the percentage of BA/BS degrees in engineering awarded to women in the U.S. increased steadily from 0.4 percent in 1966 to a peak of 20.9 percent in 2002"

That's a factor of 40x in 40 years. That doesn't sound super constant to me. How fast does evolution work again?

"Only 9.6% of engineers in Australia are women"

Interesting. Does that mean it's likely that Australian women are biologically only half as engineering capable as American women?
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> the Buzzer operates at a relatively low frequency known as “shortwave”. This means that – compared to local radio, mobile phone and television signals – fewer waves pass through a single point every second. It also means they can travel a lot further.

Nice explanation.
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I didn't claim that. Please re-read my comments and point out where I claimed that. I said "every HBS grad isn't a terrible CEO". It does not imply "every Harvard grad is a great CEO".

On SC specifically, I do believe that a company that has had issues with financial management and business model will benefit from someone with business training and experience operating a media business with similar characteristics. Kerry seems like a solid hire for the role. He may still fail.
You're all neglecting the biggest problem of all - the driver. All of this work is moot if Dorthy, who's been driving the same route for 40 years, will not change the route. And you can't get rid of Dorthy because there's nobody to replace her in Dinkysville, Flyoverstate.
In the past 30 days, over 30 Billion dollars worth of Ether has been purchased. 2 million is nothing. Source: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/volume/monthly/
> many men have a sexist bias towards men.

Proof? Gender neutralized experiments find a great variety of results, with sometimes a bias in favor of women and sometimes a bias in favor of men. There is no consistency here that can be seen as proof that men are always biased towards men.

I'm not aware of any scientific studies in the tech field, but this layman experiment in tech with voice masking for phone interviews found that women who were made to sound like men were rated slightly worse and men whose voice was masked to sound more like women were rated better:

http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mas...

They found that the actual reason why women did worse in their interviews is that women handled failure at the interview worse than men. The women often quit after initial failure, while the men persevered and came back to try again. So it was an issue with how men and women were conditioned to handle failure in combination with the way their hiring practices were set up, NOT discrimination by the interviewers against women.

This kind of discovery is exactly why we need less of the kind of 'common sense' that results in people assuming they know the cause (usually by putting all blame on one group) and more actual research into the causes.

> Is this logic flawed?

Your logic is not flawed, but it's nothing more than a theory when you don't have solid evidence to back it up.

There are equally plausible explanations that you did not consider. For example, we know that men are more willing to take risk, including risk of failing by the Peter principle. So women are often unwilling to take jobs they do not know for sure they cannot do. This latter explanation actually explains the known facts a lot better than the 'men are much less willing to hire women' theory.

> I know exactly why I might have that bias if it is in fact a bias: every single person I've been frustrated at working with has been a man.

That is merely justification for being less willing to work with men, not justification for assuming that men are biased to hiring men AND that this is the main/only cause of the disparity. You have inserted a ton of assumptions to get from A (worse experiences with men) to B (assuming that the cause of the gender disparity is gender discrimination during hiring). The sheer quantity of assumptions necessary should drive a rational person to verify whether these assumptions are true.

I see you as biased for jumping to conclusions and especially for defending retributions against those who question those assumptions. At that point, my charity ends and those who desperately want to blame one group and who are unwilling to consider the possibility that anything they do to that group can be unjust, get lumped in with the other evil groups who desperately wanted to blame one group and were willing to harm that group.
Oh I didn't realise it was something only we did. Here cakes for weddings are always the very dark and dense fruit cake that this thread is talking about. Then covered in very thick marzipan and then icing.

https://usercontent2.hubstatic.com/7576569_f520.jpg

You keep a slice for the first christening.
I don't follow. What do you want exactly? The newest stuff pushed straight to users, or not?
the word ‘tempura’ comes from the Latin word tempora

Maybe it's not a romanization?
If you mean "normal" as similar to Windows 95, then there was a very good reason to experiment with alternatives: the US patent system.
The project maintainer wanted to take it down. He has gone on record saying that the url shouldn't have been there in the first place, regardless of the DMCA.

If you put an encrypted blob on each line instead of a plaintext url, the DMCA notice will contain "My copyrighted work appears at <link to github line number> which decrypts to <my url> when using <decryption method>." It's exactly the same as the original claim. If you feel they're not technically sophisticated enough to file a claim like this, I think we'll have to agree to disagree.
An adblocker is not a tool which can be used to "circumvent technological restrictions" on accessing other, unrelated copyrighted content. It is a tool to restrict access to content.
If that's true, it wouldn't be surprising due to the phenomenon known as place assimilation. Because 'p' happens with lips pursed, closer to the front of the mouth, the 'n' sound adapts to that place of articulation, creating an 'm' sound.
> *for ~$30k/yr for five years

Perhaps that's a US thing. In most european countries (if not all), not only are the costs significantly lower but each state sets up research programs where PhD candidates are actually paid to pursue their studies. Those PhD positions are limited and in some places the pay tends to be somewhat low, but still PhD candidates do get paid for their work.

There are also programs where private companies can participate in PhD programs as part of their R&D investment, and enable their employees to pursuit PhDs while working for them.
The main contribution of a technical leader is calling bullshit on things that are bullshit. Left to their own devices, large teams of people will produce a lot of things, but someone qualified needs to decide which of those things actually need to be produced, and how to make them work when you put them together.

So while you are right, and he is not the only person "behind Zen", it would also be wise to not underestimate how crucial his contribution was. Dude very obviously knows his shit.
This is just a simple heuristic that's good enough for real code on the web. Usually whitespace and comments are stripped out during build step. I imagine this heuristic was implemented as something simple and working and that's that.

Remember that they are not writing a monument of perfect software but something pragmatic that should work good in most cases.
This is payback for everyone else getting Spotify before we did.
Based on what you shared, I'd recommend knowing/learning more about your membership base if you haven't done so already. Your membership list and their feedback is probably the best source for getting monetization ideas that actually work.

1. Figure out how many of the 2M and 1M members are actually engaged (reading emails as opposed to just opted-in).

2. From the engaged audience, who are they and what keeps them interested in the newsletter? What do their lives look like and is there any value that you can bring?

By knowing who your audience is and what they potentially need, you can deliver more personalized content. You could also think about promoting content from partners that go beyond straightforward ads (i.e. discounts, exclusive offers, developer bundles, Amazon AWS credits, affiliate links, etc.)
Holy shit, one of the old stacks I wrote in high school and uploaded to AOL shows up on the first page of that list! Right near all of the eyebrow raising "What exactly are the sex laws in my state, asking for a friend..." type stacks.
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> ...but he was careful to say that properties of large populations don't apply on the level of an individual or selected group.

Then why bring it up if what he says doesn't matter within the context in which they are hiring people. Google isn't hiring people on a population basis. They are hiring people on an individual basis.
This is the legacy of the progressive movement--namely that experts, with domain specific knowledge, should be put in charge of running bureaucracy and creating regulations.