skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can come to an understanding as to why the state of things are the way they are through careful research and positing. You cannot, however, use said research to draw an absolute conclusion on any group of people, as to say that X won't ever show any interest in Y because studies show X, on average, will pursue Z.

Additionally, after reading so many comments from the past few days and generally in the past on HN, it seems to me that everyone is desperate to prove either 1 or 0 of any given argument or problem in life, with any number of studies or figures. I feel people here really miss the mark when it comes to social issues, such as those faced by minorities and other groups that have historically felt marginalized by society. It really is not about 50/50 gender ratios or balanced races in the workplace, nor is it about marginalizing "The White Man", its about getting people to understand that there are issues that people face that you may not ever face in your life, but they do exist, whether you want to believe it or not, and it does not help when people dismiss those issues by pointing to studies or personal anecdotes, the world really does not revolve around any one person or group or thought perception.
There were some datapoints on /r/cscareerquestions of $320k of RSUs for new grads starting last year. Although the vesting schedule was 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%.
I created a site as a poetry project that generates random poems from sentences in Craigslist Missed Connections. Some of the poems are actually really poignant and funny.

https://craigslistpoetry.com

https://twitter.com/craigslistpoems
I think you dropped a 0.

0.13*31BN = ~$4BN, still a 10X return if they've invested $400M.
What makes this a kernel? It appears to be not much more than a wrapper around gcc.
Kamelåse så fedt. Sykelkugle!
The internet could really use a non-profit lobbying for the _open_ web.

We already have actors locking browsers down for (according to party line) the user's own good. Yet it seems Firefox is on the path to becoming Chrome, and not even extensions functionality will be a differentiation point. So what even is the "why" of Firefox?
In pastery's FAQ it says

> Everything goes over an encrypted TLS connection, so nobody other than the intended recipient can see what you're pasting.

It should say "nobody other than the intended recipient and the developers of this website".
Great news, the key comment there was that Go supports calling from other languages: https://dev.to/vladimirvivien/calling-go-functions-from-othe...
Bollocks. If I was a woman in tech, having to hear the endless tirade of neckbeard know-it-alls who think a summation of scientific articles, as interpreted by laymen with little knowledge of the topic at hand, would not only be tiring, but would lead me to question, unequivocally, the intentions of a person feeling so touched by this topic that he needs to write a "manifesto" on the topic.
$320k/4 years sounds doesn't sound ridiculous -- probably on par with Google or FB.
This is having a pretty extreme impact if their numbers are correct:

"Truthout, a not-for-profit news website that focuses on political, social, and ecological developments from a left progressive standpoint, had its readership plunge by 35 percent since April. The Real News , a nonprofit video news and documentary service, has had its search traffic fall by 37 percent. Another site, Common Dreams , last week told the WSWS that its search traffic had fallen by up to 50 percent."

"As extreme as these sudden drops in search traffic are, they do not equal the nearly 70 percent drop in traffic from Google seen by the WSWS."

It would be nice to have some independent verification of these numbers, if only because some will doubt their veracity due to the source(s) being considered part of the political "fringe."
Yeesh, this guy seems to lack a sense of proportion.

I watched part of his interview with Jordan Peterson [0] and I was struck by how naive and reactionary he seemed to be. For example, he talks about how he was inspired to write his memo after going to one of Google's "diversity summits". He tells Peterson that the summit was "unrecorded and super-secret", which made him uncomfortable because other meetings/discussions at Google are open and recorded [1].

I worked at a past company in which we were mandated (I believe it might have been part of complying with to California law [2]) to do training that involved talking about diversity. It was also unrecorded, and for good reason. Part of the session included a group discussion about stereotypes and beliefs about diversity and other cultures, and the moderator asked us to be honest. Some people said things that would be considered very offensive (both with and without context) in airing their reservations about diversity and harassment. They would never have been open and honest and said those things in a session that was recorded.

I've never worked at Google so I don't know how their diversity summits are recorded. But it's possible that what Damore sees as a secretive conspiracy was actually meant to be good practice when fostering honest internal discussions. The fact that he sees what he allegedly suffered as even remotely analogous to a Soviet gulag makes me give him less benefit of the doubt.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU&feature=youtu.be...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU&feature=youtu.be...

[2] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...
Thank you for your kind words!

And agreed on the trickiness of starting a business in healthcare. Many factors that drive economics/incentives/needs, and requires a lot of thought toward thinking how to best align many different interests. Definitely helps to be mission driven!
There's a replacement tab groups addon already: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups Its not quiet as powerful, but provides the basics.

There are other replacements for common tab management addons too:

- Tree Tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/

- Tab Center Redux: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tab-center-re...

The most significant missing feature is the ability to hide the native, horizontal tab strip. That's being tracked in https://bugzil.la/1332447.
It's referred to as 'compound chocolate' [1]. It's done because to make paletable chocolate you need to add a greater porportion of cocoa butter than is in cocoa beans themselves. This makes the cocoa butter more expensive than the cocoa solids/powder. To save money low end chocolate replaces some or all of the cocoa butter with other oils, and uses chemicals to doctor up the chocolate to create something with roughly the same experience.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_chocolate
Wario Forums and absolutely anything else associated with it:

https://warioforums.com

Yeah, I know it's not particularly fancy, nor does it involve any clever coding tricks or interesting features. However, it's literally the only community on the internet dedicated to the series, and one I've decided to run for a minimum of two decades to make sure said franchise finally builds a decent fanbase.

Is it going to make money?

Probably not, given how the franchise it's based on sells about 2 million copies worldwide at most, and hasn't gotten a new game since either 2013 (WarioWare) or 2008 (Wario Land).

But it's one with a passionate audience that up until recently had nowhere online to discuss the series nor anywhere specifically dedicated to their favourite franchise. So I decided to change that by setting up and promoting a community based on it, with the guarantee I'd keep it open for decades in the hope that eventually a community at least the size of the Earthbound one comes about here. With the hope that eventually I won't need to run the forum because there'll be enough sites about it to sustain a decent fandom.
Coinbase uses the term 'digital currency' to -- I believe -- placate NY regulators & to support their regulation moat.

You're correct: if crypto currencies were digital currencies there would be no advantage. However, crypto assets are decentralised & resistant to censorship. The power shifts away from the nation state (& Trump), & toward individuals.
Seriously. Of the ones whose media habits I've found, it's always like that.

That doesn't apply to HN. I rarely if ever figure out what the commenters here are watching or listening to. But I would be surprised if they were much different.
Has any terminal emulator had a formal security audit done for it as I'm not aware of any that have. If there has let me know, would love to read the report and recommendations as I imagine some of them would be broadly applicable.
An autoscaling group has a max spend of '"a server" x n', where you set what n is. Autoscaling groups don't keep adding servers forever.
You're missing my point. "Serverless" just means "Applications built on cloud services rather than server(s) I have to administer".

The OP said I should run my own infrastructure. I -could- host my blog by running a web server atop a server I administer, sure. I'd have to take on all the infrastructural tasks of doing that, securing it, ensuring any availability/scalability concerns I may have are taken care of, etc, but I -could- do that.

Instead, S3 + Cloudfront (or, sure, any flavor of hosting and edge caching options you care for; I was not implying "Just AWS") means I don't have to worry about any of that. For me, the reduced level of control, increased availability, scalability, and easy "it just works", is worth the tradeoff. As is the pennies per month it costs me given the low utilization and pay-as-you-go model. It's hardly a scam.
Yeah, we pretty sure it's not a RAM, PSU, or SATA disk problem (because we had multiples of different kinds to swap around), and we also know that the problem gets much much worse when using an M2 NVMe PCIE SSD (as in hard freezes occur way more frequently, regardless of M2 model). (And it's also possible that the M2 issue is a different problem entirely.) But it could still easily be some kind of motherboard issue. And with it only happening around every 9 days on average... We could contact AMD, but how the heck do we ever narrow down what's going on if we can't trigger replication more frequently? And that's time that my actual job isn't getting done...
(I'm personally inclined to think Mobo is at fault.)
I run a newsletter all about APIs called GET PUT POST (https://tinyletter.com/getputpost).

Each edition features a Q&A with a company about their API and killer app ideas for developers. Here's a recent example with a YC S16 company called Nova: https://getputpost.co/an-api-that-unlocks-global-credit-data...

A few people have reached out about sponsoring it, but just for fun right now :)
There are chances that degradation or unavailability are not free as in beer.

If the degraded or offline system is used by people, and these people cannot work, the cost can be a lot higher. For example, 10 people not able to work could cost something in the range of $250-$750 per hour.

Moreover, if customers are lost due to this degradation of service and CAC is high, then clearly the cheapest thing is a high bill by AWS, which probably is also capped by Amazon (and handled as an alert by Amazon).
Boost::filesystem also does this with its path class. Needless to say I was amazed to see that the + operator wasn't chosen for path concatenation.
“Uncle bob's” talk on SOLID principles
Open Source Tools in Systems Neuroscience
Correct - you can increase the units in circulation without destroying the purchasing power of those who currently hold the asset, which is a huge advantage over traditional fiat currency.
Authorities going after “illegal” KODI streaming media boxes
How the Internet got the ‘Google memo’ wrong
Related discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14975338
This is a really cool idea. Nice job!
I don't understand your comment.

Firefox is transitioning to an extensions model that is cross-browser and defined as a W3C draft. Their old extensions were Firefox-specific and could not be used by anyone else. This change seems very much in spirit with the open web.
These guys should not have gone public.

I apologize if I am wrong and they went public because they really had no other option, but my impression at this point is that they got impatient and wanted to cash out.

I say this because I think it's ridiculous how much money the founders took off the table when they IPOd, despite how bad they were doing objectively.

Now they're saying they won't sell their shares "for the rest of this year" (which is like 4 months away) as if that's some sort of noble thing to do, but if you already have hundreds of millions of dollars in your bank account that's nothing.

I am glad to be wrong, so if anyone knows more about this (that they had no other choice than to go public) please enlighten me.
Not sure the gigantic telescope could deliver on its promise to answer "Why we are here".
The left: "Google is trying to ban us"
The right: "Google is trying to ban us"

And nobody stops to think maybe the problem is advertiser funding trends to sensationalist yet substantively bland content, it's gotta be political bias against us, the righteous underdogs.
The article leaves open the possibility that left and progressive readers are switching to other search engines.

We cannot draw our own conclusions unless we also know about changes in total traffic to the sites, in addition to change in number of visitors referred by Google search.
So my bona-fides as one of HN's loud mostly-left-leaning people are pretty good, and--seriously, guys? Truthout? Like, at times they've historically had some alright commentary--I originally wanted to say "mostly by mistake"--but it is one of the more obvious crank magnets I know of on the left. It's like a poor man's Alternet (and that's saying something).

If Google's dinging stuff like Truthout at the same time they're getting the right wing all aflutter at their epistemic closures being pushed down Google's SERPs, I don't really have a problem with that. The amount of information warfare directed at average citizens from all sides is titanic and Truthout/WorldNetDaily etc. have no inherent right to credibility among people literally unable (through many factors, not all of which are ignorance or stupidity--this stuff also just requires an investment of time to really understand and be able to critically evaluate, and time is at a premium when you are getting paid fifteen bucks an hour or less) to ascertain the prudence of that credibility for themselves.
I didn't see any evidence in this, it is heresay with numbers.

Even if the numbers are accurate maybe there was just an algorithm update in Google's search.

They have no evidence there was malice and the numbers they have aren't that strong.
I'd recommend Qutebrowser as a replacement: https://qutebrowser.org/

I switched over from Pentadactyl to Qutebrowser last year and it's way snappier. And with the experimental WebEngine backend, I haven't run into any rendering or performance issues at all. It also has a vertical tab mode, although it isn't possible to have sub-tabs like Tree Style Tabs.
If you're out of credit, what happens to your data-at-rest? You know, the stuff you're storing in their block storage, where they charge just for storing it? Should they just purge your data?
I think the problem is: maybe this is what the memo intended to say, but what it actually said is slightly different. In order to support this position, the post authors had to...

* throw away the biology argument, because it is impossible to prove

* throw away the claims about leadership, because they are poorly defined

* make an explicit contrast between abilities and interests, a point the memo didn't clarify

Had the author made only that point, it would have been much better received, I think.

The problem is everything else.
I often wish we in the US would separate out long-term medicine from insurance. It really violates any rational for insurance to have a continuous, known cost be part of that. Also, it ups the insurance cost for everyone else.

I wish we had a separate drug assistance program. Something like if you are making less than 200 or 300% poverty[1] the government will pay the full cost[2] and then just pro-rate it from there. Since we are talking long term drugs, its by definition something that would be applicable to preexisting conditions. I worry that it will not take the steps necessary to control fraud or run out of money like IHS.

1) http://familiesusa.org/product/federal-poverty-guidelines

2) obviously some upper limits apply https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/prescription-drugs/pharmac...
Show HN: YouTube; develop a back end service in less than 8 minutes
Yes even most people in Pakistan/India have access to those, plus broadband internet. Yes I've been there.
They like the distraction so they don't have to do actual future-proof improvements, like going all-electric with their cars. They'd much rather buy a component from Nvidia and claim their car now has a self-driving mode, than transition all future cars to being electric. That's why you also see them talk much more about the self-driving aspect.
They do that for their benefit, & for the benefit of their regulator bedfellows (I think). The SEC, for example, dare not mutter the word 'crypto', confirming that Bitcoin et al do actually exist!
The Best Burger Place Is a Lab
> If someone spread a document that said, 'we shouldn't hire muslims because we can't trust their loyalties'

That escalated quickly!

I think a closer example is someone saying "I support the trump immigration ban".

With the far left crowd who have been hyped up by the media this causes the same feelings as saying "I want to ban Muslims" and "I hate Muslims".

> And there's also the question of how opinions are expressed.

That's true. I'm not suprised he was fired.

From reading some of the leaked internal posts it looks like there is significant bullying of conservatives.

It doesn't look good for Google. Wage fixing, being investigated for pay gap issues, clearly bully conservatives, etc.

Hopefully a court case can reveal the truth.
I thought the urban myth was about Dvorak being faster than qwerty.

For english language Dvorak does increase center row usage vs. top and bottom row. And for programming there is programmers dvorak.

The absolute worst keyboard layout i've seen for programming is the german layout. Using modeswitch/altgr(yeah i know it's not quite the same) is absolutely terrible.
Any chance you might add the ability for manual tags? It's a must have for me.
Which political side gets blacklisted isn't even relevant, what is relevant is the power that companies like Google, Facebook and a few others hold and how media giving airtime can make or break political candidates, swing elections and quietly manipulate public opinion one way or another. This makes them powerplayers in the political arena without any checks on that power.
It's a pricing model and limits issue from AWS. Same as you can't launch 1000 instances by mistake (there are account limits) you should be able to run hundred of thousands of recursive serverless calls by mistake (isn't there an account limit?).
Court orders tech billionaire to open up Martins Beach
http://www.caption.me

I built it 12 years ago and have fostered a small but hugely loyal community of caption writers ever since.

Automatically loads three funny photos every day from a Flickr group, and is an ongoing caption competition.

For fun I wrote a real-time collaborative mind mapping feature (node.js / D3) so people could brainstorm caption ideas for upcoming photos.
It absolutely is. You're ignoring the dozens of other independent records of ice core data, tree rings, visual records of glaciation, and multiple independent data sets. Your pedantism is contributing nothing to this conversation.
I understand why FF is moving this direction, and I actually think they should. But they should have a plan of action for people who want extensions's that flat-out won't work with the new system. By just telling people "lol no", they are really going to get some backlash, and Mozilla absolutely deserves it.

It's frustrating to see the only browser that cares throwing their user's concerns to the wind like that.
A Dust Over India(2011)
Usually when I click a link titled "Evidence of X", I expect to see, well.. evidence. I see some correlations being made of traffic reduction, with no sources, as well as some selective paraphrasing of guidelines to Google evaluators.

At a casual glance, the lack of evidence and sources makes it seem like Google's alleged approach of floating more authoritative content to the top is working, at least in this case.
I know miners will hate me for saying this it will bring up the lightning network but I think the transaction costs are too high. They have to come down (close to zero if not zero) even if it means miners and node operators are working for no gain. I don't understand why it means that Bitcoin is insecure for people to be able to mine in their gpu.

Maybe we need to leave Bitcoin alone and come up with another currency for low value transactions that happen frequently? I'm thinking like buying coffee or groceries.
Europe is building one that's 40m:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope
I can't believe you like the idea of discovering alien life so you can use the discovery to troll religions. Surely there's other reasons why this is exciting?!
TFA suggests Microsoft initiated this EOL. Gonna guess that MS is way ahead of things here and is quite fine.
The engineer’s intention is pretty clear: 1. Get google to drop their illegal diversity quotas, 2. Make sure that the working environment is more suitable so that women want to work there. There’s nothing wrong with that at all...

We’ve already identified that some of the largest tech companies already have toxic cultures that are biased against women, why not like he said find other areas as well that are a barrier to entry and remove them too?
> If Google's dinging stuff like Truthout at the same time they're getting the right wing all aflutter at their epistemic closures being pushed down Google's SERPs, I don't really have a problem with that.

I do, and I'm pretty left leaning as well. What bothers me is that Google is using human judgment rather than their supposedly infallible algorithms to punish certain sites to the advantage of others. There is a good chance that what they're doing to one side of the spectrum today will be done to the other at some point in the future.
So, my 8 and 10yo sons and I just started playing again once we were introduced to Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock from Big Bang Theory.

http://www.samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kov2G0GouBw
When people choose to meet at Central Station it is also in their interest - this is the same mechanism. It is a case where it is beneficial for people to choose the same thing - and people choose something because they believe others will choose it as well.
or just !so
...which will take you directly to stack overflow
It does seem pretty clear that if the 'manifesto' had been about the professional limitations / propensities / etc. of people based on their ethnic origins it would have been obvious it would lead to firing. Not that there are lots of credible, peer-reviewed studies that could be trotted out to support that claim, just in the sense of how it would make your coworkers feel.
That doesn't add up. I'm sure these companies scale customer service staff to demand. Seems more plausible that Twitter's public nature means complaints there are measurably more harmful, so the companies intentionally devote more resources per complaint.
Insight behind the decision to fire Google manifesto author
No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency

The TL;DR version: Every certificate goes into the log. *.example.com going into the log is no problem for hiding a particular subdomain.
*Crypto currencies.

Without cryptography, we may fall into 1984 -- or something like that. Cryptography grants us privacy.