skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, if it's there and not being used, yes, that's a problem.

If we were using a better platform, dead code elimination and tree shaking would have handled those types of issues for us before clients see it.

Like, fuck me, we solved this problem what, 50 years ago? Yet we still haven't solved it? WHY IS THIS STILL AN ISSUE! </rant>

Anyways, it's a problem, yes. A few programming languages wouldn't even allow you to compile equivalent code.
"Because your argument for getting things is basically luck."

Luck is really what drives a successful career and life:

- Lucky to have been born in the right place

- Lucky to have the right skin color

- Lucky to have the right sex/gender/orientation (and for those to match up in the "right" way)

- Lucky to have the right family

- Lucky to have an outgoing and/or extroverted personality

- Lucky to have an interest in a skill that's in demand

- Lucky to be in the workforce during a time when that skill is in demand

- Lucky to be in a location where that skill is in demand

- Lucky to have been hired amid the dozens or even hundreds of other candidates applying for your desired position (this is less of a problem now, but was a huge problem just a few years ago when labor demand was nowhere close to being higher than labor supply)

- Lucky to have been hired by a company that actually wants to give out raises

- Lucky to not have been laid off or otherwise terminated for circumstances beyond your control

The list goes on and on and on. I certainly think we should care about the implications of personal success and well-being being driven heavily by luck rather than actual merit. The case where someone is starving in Africa is indeed a case of "wrong place and/or time", and we as a species really ought to be cognizant of that and try to work toward "wrong place and/or time" being less severe of a problem.
I didn't say inactive, I just said retired. I agree than people who 'stop' will tend to die of boredom. I've got a prime example in my family at the moment. I've also got the other side of the coin where that chap is nearly 90, is on several councils, charities and never seem to sit around for 2 minutes. He's as strong as an ox!
Solving the Problem of Problem Solving
In C design and problem/solution recognition is everything. That takes years of experimentation and working through test cases. Otherwise you can assign C to the minefield category and you will jump on another bandwagon.

My dream team composition is 3 15 year C programmers and a core lisper.
I have an 8 (and am involved in sports car things as a hobby) and I find the back seats to be superior to almost all sports cars and most mid-sized normal cars for seating adults.
I fail to understand how a memo calling for MORE diversity can get headlined as "anti-diversity memo" on all big media outlets. Do journalists even do independent research anymore or are they just regurgitating whatever reuters send their way without scrutiny?

Debate me instead of downvoting please. Downvoting is like forfeiting a discussion and shows that you question your own narrative.
Just use Hushme and look like Bane /s

http://gethushme.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2wF8LOV5kw
Buy every retiree a high-performance motor cycle. They'll have some fun, and when they die you won't need expensive end-of-life care; you'll just need a mop and a body-bag. It'll save billions.
Understanding Docker Adoption Patterns
"On a serious note though - Does anyone know a mass manufactured product (based on a uController) that actually uses anything other than C/C++?"

None that I know of, but ESP8266 and similar MCUs are so widespread that probably there are lots of products using say nodemcu (ESP+Lua scripting) under the hood.
http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html

Wifimcu is a similar product but uses a STM32F4 MCU.
http://www.wifimcu.com/

I would personally love to see more use of Nim in this field; it just seem the right tool for the job for being easy to learn, small, fast and powerful.
He's conservative and almost invariably disagrees with social justice activists.
Wish a country had both polygamy and polyandry to allow for those situations. Although the tax code might become a tad complicated.
7 Tips on Following the Triple Bottom Line to Success
No. You only know whether you have it correct or incorrect.
So he went out of his way to make it clear that he's not referring to individuals when he talks about averages and you still take it personally. What would be good enough for you, short of killing the entire discussion?
TOTP, the algorithm used by github, google, and many others to provide two-factor auth is basically that, except your phone is the little device. IMHO this is "good enough" security for normal people. I haven't read of cases where people's second factor got hacked, just where it got bypassed (e.g. by using social engineering to skip passwords entirely).
But the data is worthless if you cannot trust the way is has been acquired.
Agreed. The reaction is the real story here as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, look at me, I’m American, I sound just like Homer Simpson! /s
The only winner in that scenario is the company manufacturing the NFC devices. That system is too complex.
> Looking upwards and seeing people like yourself would be encouraging...

Is it? You presume male employees see themselves in their bosses. If a male employee is gay, Zoroastrian, or a little person, does he look at all the male CEOs and say, "Hey, all those males are just like me! I can do it too!"
> and "Y implies X"

That's what you are asserting, not the author. Isn't that a textbook definition of a straw man?
Well - I would try to omit the image at all and use border style properties to do it. This way I would omit an request totally.

But maybe someone with real experience (not some hobbyist when it comes to front end work) should chime in.
> However, that applies for a more general population who work at middle tier roles at middle tier companies.

These are all separate orthogonal axis, average traits of men and women still apply even if your non-average on intelligence or some other dimension.
Now I'm imagining our economy like some cruel volcano god, demanding blood in exchange for temporary safety. "People's lives are getting worse, look how much money that's making us!"

It's as if people exist only to make money, actually making people's lives better be damned. I doubt people will tolerate such a vampiric system for much longer, especially if it doesn't feel the need to conceal it's fangs anymore, and what comes afterward keeps me up at night.
I have this theory that in a couple decades or three most of the developed world will enter a health crisis, as everyone will suddenly realize that we've been eating and drinking like shit for a long time. Almost 3/4 of what you can find in your average grocery store today has unnecessary amounts of sugar, salt and/or chemicals added and no one seems to care. Someday we'll look at the food we eat now like the way we see tobacco today.
>>> I also agree with the people who point out that inserting electronic systems destroys that transparency (too easy to hack, too complex for general population to inspect).

Spot on. Democratic process means "owned by people". So the voting system must be able to be run in the hands of the people. Hence the necessity to have it in the form of a simple technology such as pen/paper.

Moreover, having the votes counted in some hours instead of a night doesn't make a big difference, considering the time that is needed for example, to form a government once the vote is closed.

I love computers, but it's not the right tool for this job. It's not much different than free software : the problem here is political rather than technical.
doesn't have to be actually crappy.
good tires, clean chain, horrific looking frame, and its fine.
Please don't flag the article if you simply disagree.

The key to changing minds is understanding the other side. Not shutting them out of the conversation.
> Yes, that is the dominant view. You may have a different opinion (which you haven't substantiated except by assertion), but that's just that, your opinion.

Whether the view is widely held has nothing to do with whether its supported by evidence. You can't claim to be making a scientific argument, when a major link in your chain of reasoning is nothing more than an appeal to preconception.

> Actually, most of the studies that replicated these findings (with large effect sizes and very large sample sizes) were cross cultural.

The studies don't show that occupational preferences are stable across cultures (and in fact they're not). The fact that places like China have much higher representation of women in STEM is a smoldering hole in the theory that these preferences are biological.

> One of the most interesting finding (that's also been replicated), is that gender differences in these traits increase the more egalitarian the society. This is the exact opposite of what you'd expect if the differences were caused by cultural pressure.

That conflates two different things: what gender roles a society imposes on adults, and how the society socializes children. Those two things are not necessarily linked. Take India for example: it's not very egalitarian; women are still strongly encouraged to stay home with kids (and the work force is 70% men). On the other hand, half of STEM majors in India are women. How do you explain that result if you assume that preferences are biological?
That's also correct. In some situations, we can die on our feet or live on our knees. The choice is ours.

I am fortunate that I don't live in a regime that requires me to make this choice.
Because it doesn't work.
if you lay out which viewpoints you think are both objective, true and need to be discarded then I'll tell you. At a guess, I think the idea of tabula rasa has proven to be untrue and there are biological roots to some gender differences.
Several months ago, I tagged a few documents and filled them with fake passwords. I named them juicy names like 'mypasswords.xlsx' and uploaded them to sites like virustotal and malwr. I still get notifications that they are being viewed. The last notification was just a few days ago.
Firing this guy was just a PR move in order to keep things under control. The memo was accurate and I know that Google is going to learn from it even if the guy has been sacrified.
Just curious what made you opt for monero instead of dash or zcash?
So we've reached Peak Human?
Flagged. This is just a shitstorm in a teacup.

EDIT: 2 minutes in and I'm already being downvoted. Stop being sexists, stop oppressing me
I think your examples show that the mob is fickle, and that one's audience has a lot to do with how one is received, not that we enjoy very much practical freedom of speech.
I've genuinely never seen someone write that in my life before.
Mind-Controlled VR Game Really Works
If math vs. engineering is a mystery that can't be
explained by streotypes,

Scott gives an explanation in the article. Interestingly, it's exactly the suggestion commenter peacetreefrog puts forward: relatively many math graduates become teachers. And teaching is a 'person' thing.

As for engineering: the variation within engineering disciplines is much smaller than the variation between engineering and other disciplines and since we already have a hard time explaining the large difference, let's not worry about the small differences. Perhaps chemical engineering is perceived to be about 'people' more often.
My 8 made it to 127k before compression mandated a rebuild, and one of the previous owners is a documented idiot. Been solid ever since.
Out of curiosity what SIPP provider do you use?

Interactive brokers are the only broker I've found to actually advertise as for expats, but the 10k min is a bit much for me.
Ok, don't accept AMEX then (that's common for a lot of shops to not accept in the UK).

It's definitely not 7% though, considering Stripe offers AMEX processing for 1.4% in the EU.

Can't see any reason not to accept MC/Visa now though.
From what I understand, the audio and video are simply different streams that you can selectively download from the youtube servers. So it is entirely possible to only download the audio, I've done it many times with youtube-dl.
He's talking about willingness to pay (WTP), which is the right way to value travel imo. A biz flight might be $4k, but the economy option might be $800. If I buy economy but would pay ~$1500 for business, but no more, then the miles are effectively worth that to you. If an airline was selling fares at $1500 you'd buy them, but since they're not, you won't be buying at $4k.

In your hotel example, you should look at the WTP for a room. I might pay $150 for a room, and up to $250 for the high end room. So even if the sticker price is $500, it's value to me is closer to $250, so I'll calculate my CPM that way.
Outcomes on realistic tests of performance, yes.

I think you are thinking of "merit" as some intrinsic property of a person as opposed to measured performance. Some things are hard to measure, but many things are not. Putting people into positions based on the best estimates of how well they would perform is meritocracy.

What is your system for selecting people for positions if not by how well they would perform at the positions? What this typically devolves into patrimonialism or clientelism...where positions are given to related persons, friends, or in exchange for political power.
> Very few companies offer pensions now

All professional jobs offer pensions, I'm sure. Including all the major tech companies.
The link goes "monero-project" on Github, that's why.
This week has really lowered my opinion of this industry and its members (and people in general, once again). From the flimsy and arrogant arguments presented on one side, to the inexcusable hysteria and verbal abuse coming from the other.

I've lost trust and respect for developers I followed and had for some reason assumed were level-headed adults.

This is highschool stuff guys. It's embarrassing.

More generally, if we can't trust our most capable minds to not act like children and blood-thirsty mobs, what hope is there for general discource as a society.
They should be publicly whipped for trying to abuse recent media witch-hunt.
Far though I may be from supporting that counterculture, we lost almost 10X as many troops fighting in Vietnam - many conscripted - than in the middle east, and we hadn't suffered any attack from that part of the world on the scope of 9/11. I was not alive during the Vietnam War, but it's been my distinct impression that its critics saw our involvement there as straight military-industrial complex imperialism, fueled by the same kind of propagandistic nationalism / fear of the "other" the author discusses. I don't see what substantially new perspective the author is raising.

I can't speak to Latin America, but I recall that General Patton upon the 3rd Reich's surrender in Berlin wanted to quickly broker peace with a friendly German government so that he could press on eastward to Moscow and put an end to the Soviet Union while it was in a weakened state from the failed German invasion. Historic counterfactuals sure are interesting to think about.
Where have you been? Where would you recommend the most for a first time visitor and why? Genuinely curious about visiting Africa in the near future.
The Infographic Road Map to Make Your Mobile App Reach and Land Five Stars
Your entire premise is based on there being a long complicated chain, which I think is a bit of a red herring. Voting happens in districts. The totals for those districts are already posted publicly. There's no need to validate the entire chain when the lowest level is already open and free to be audited by anyone. Additionally, for the districts I'm familiar with, polls are staffed by volunteers and anyone is free to stand around and watch the whole process.

A paper ballot system where local volunteers from the district count the votes at the polls in a manner that can be observed would absolutely work for the US. It would be pretty easy to just write down what the volunteers counted and then check later whether that matched up with the nationally posted numbers. No long chain to decipher, no obscure software to worry about. And, as a bonus, there are places where this is already done this way, so really nothing needs to change policy wise (other than eliminating the other methods).
I suspect retirement and age expectancy is a correlation NOT causation type of deal. People who have the privilege of affording to retire early are more likely to be educated and chose a healthy lifestyle, thus living longer.
I love how vanguard.com will redirect to vanguard.co.uk, which will then proceed to inform that they do work with US persons.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but I think many of the people responding to you missed the sarcasm.
US Nearly Detonated Atomic Bomb Over North Carolina (2013)
A ballot design that is prone to getting different results when recounted (hanging chads, etc) is a bad ballot design. Fix your ballot design first.

>Each user gets a new address, and that address is printed on a receipt after you vote. This way you can verify your vote at anytime, and the votes can be counted in public.

Voting receipts like this are bad. They enable people in power (bosses, spouses, etc) to intimidate you into voting the way they want to see and threatening to punish you if you don't because they can force you to prove the way you voted. It also allows vote buying.
My problem with the current Javascript culture (which definitely includes the React infospace) is basically the inverse how I felt about C++ back in the day. Then, in the early years of the second age, I felt that the libraries and frameworks I was using should use more of the then-current standard, like the STL, RTTI or whatever was hip and promosing back then.

These days, it seems that every feature that is semi-supported in at least one transpiler isn't just used (in various ways) but in fact begets a whole slew of libraries. Especially when we're talking about ways to circumvent the async-hole.

Other transpiled languages will either have the equivalent features, use lots of inline JS or ditch large parts of the ecosystem. While the latter would be possible if NewLangs standard library is big and good enough, I'm not feeling particularly optimistic about that.

Quite likely that C++ history will repeat itself: Just use the core language and a minimal library and do everything yourself (back then that was e.g. C++/Win32/ATL, not sure what it'll be for my future browser-based projects. Modula-3, I miss thee.).
Things like these don't belong to a corporate forum like HN
> 2) Joins are necessary

> 4) Moving more logic from servers to clients forces you to be more careful [...]

Back to the very old architecture of client-server-database instead of
client-database that was proven dumb long time ago. The client-server-database
architecture was happily ditched by the crowd that builds dynamic websites and
calls them "web applications", so now everybody rediscovers that it actually is
a poor idea for client to talk to database directly.
You have no idea what you are talking about my biased friend.
Will it finally support gtk3 dialogs?
This isn't an admissions criteria. This is just a commitment to helping kids that come in with weaker backgrounds get up to speed faster, without having to spend credits on remedial classes.
Claudia Hill on the Google Discrimination Leak
...consolidate to a $200/mo service? You got exactly what you wished for when you cut the cord.
Why I thought I wasn’t the 'programmer type'
I don't see that as a useful strategy when dealing with political opinions. If you look at how ideas become distributed among large groups of people, it seems clear to me that if someone is being honest, they will likely have something unique to add to the conversation.
Why are you having to bring in libraries to use async/await? What does the native implementation not provide?
Good question. Volunteer to help with your local elections. Learn how it's done.

As for blockchains: Voters sign in before they cast their ballot. If the order in the pollbook matches the order the ballots are recorded, no more secret ballot.

Any crypto- blocko- based system that both protects the secret ballot and ensures the public vote count (aka Australian Ballot) has to create a digital equivalent to the physical secure one-way hash (shuffle) of dropping a ballot into a box.
I do not believe its disingenuous to say that they are $18k in value. That's how much the tickets cost at the time. Could I afford the tickets if I paid cash? No, but isn't that the whole point of churning?

I looked up the cheapest flights on ANA business class in September 2017 and they look to be around $6500 per person. That is still quite a bit of money saved. I potentially could afford that if I was extra frugal for a few years. It also means you can use the money for other things, which we did in the form hot springs ryokan, more gifts and souvenirs.

Figuring out which points to collect really wasn't that hard, it takes 10 minutes to look up that information. There are plenty of sites that catalog that information like reddit.com/r/awardtravel, www.awardace.com, www.awardhacker.com

Figuring out which time of the year to go may change the amount of points you need, that I agree can be annoying.

I will concede that its not a straight forward process, but its also something you can look up and research in a day.

As for the huge sign up bonuses, yes they probably won't come around again for a long time, but you can still get the amount of points needed pretty quick. Since I booked our trips in 2016 (2017 was the vacation), I have accumulated 50k Amex points and 40k Chase points. Amex has quite a few offers that double, triple, or even 10x the normal amount of points received. I bought a TV from Best Buy and got 3000 points. I signed up for "Pay over time" and got 10,000 points. I had to ship a few packages (ebay stuff) on Fedex and got 10x points for 2k points.

With Chase I put all my grocery/dining/travel expenses on it. I get 3x for that.

At the end of the day, I guess it depends on how much you want out of it. I do not do manufactured spending and buy gift cards, but I do look at deals and offers and try to maximize my point earnings. Whether you believe that's a chore and is worth it or not is up to you.
Check out http://hckrnews.com/ - it keeps all stories on HN frontpage, even flagged and downvoted ones (AFAIK).
I'm unfortunately on mobile and can't write much - however, my understanding is that there is still some debate about the benefits of medication vs sanitation in overall mortality in Western countries. While this doesn't necessarily hold true for children, I thought I'd link to a discussion of this debate. (Can't find the reference I wanted...)

Here's a figure for death from infectious disease by the CDC - note that antibiotics don't appreciably change the rate in decline

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4829a1.htm#fig1

just a random find - this paper from 1902 mentions the debate, too, with some descriptions of 'natural experiments'
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2401255/?page=1

Also, I am not saying that antibiotics and medications don't work - just that the story actually is more interesting than one might initially guess.

Lastly, these data discuss Western populations - I've heard the opposite may be true in poor countries.
"People should learn things as they want, and not be required to meet arbitrary standards and degrees to obtain societal benefits."

Then don't ask me to pay for you to do so. Check some books out of the library.

People are paying a lot of money to universities in exchange get a better life for themselves. If it doesn't improve their skills in any measurable way, we should try something else.
Oh yes absolutely.
> You're suggesting he's using "Marxist intellectuals" as a codeword for Jews, and that he's actually a Nazi (or at the very least a conspiracy theorist anti-semite)

Do you genuinely believe that the only anti-Semites in the world are Nazis or conspiracy theorists?