skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For mid-term elections, yes, they usually swing against the party in power. The extent to which they swing varies wildly, though, so all we know is that there likes will be a traditional anti-establishment swing, but the magnitude of it is unknown.

However, a special election within the months after a Presidential election should follow the same results, since there hasn't been the time to build the resentment necessary for a significant change in voting patterns. That, however, has not been the case with the Trump presidency.
> Twitter seems to be a poor vehicle for nuanced debate at the best of time

Understatement of the century. How on earth can you expect to have "nuanced debate" with only 140 characters?
I think that everybody should be a developer and that programing should be far more easier. Why programming languages are so tricky ?
8:2? That's super decent for Dutch standard. In Utrecht we are at 11%! It's totally insane. In the track I am following there are literally no women. Not a single one.

http://universitairemasters.nl/aantal-studenten/natuur/
Demo: http://tboox.org/static/img/xmake/build_demo.gif

Docs: http://xmake.io/#/home

Become a backer: https://opencollective.com/xmake#backer
Last time I checked stylish seemed to insert a link tag in the head linking to the css file.

Edit: on Chrome Stylish inserts a <style> tag at the end with the css, it seems stylish insert the css via javascript in Firefox though.
July in the mobile industry: what happened?
We have a middle class in this country because it's reasonable to participate in productive economic activity while living in housing whose price doesn't completely swallow your productivity. Parking is what makes that possible. It's a fucking great use of land.

(I say this as a carfree renter in an urban high-rise. This is fun, but in no way sustainable - I have no hope of owning an analogous condo, let alone one big enough for a family, and that's as a well-compensated professional. When it comes time for stability and child-raising, it will be imperative to chose a city with enough parking that I can commute from an outer suburb where prices are accessible to mere upper-income salary workers. Far as I can tell, cities with your view of land use only work for longtime incumbents, international oligarchs, and twentysomethings living together like they're still in college).
I've not used Lazarus or Delphi, so I can't really compare properly. Perhaps I'm missing something. But:

> if anyone knows of any similar environments (besides QtCreator, etc.)

Why "besides QtCreator, etc"? It sounds to me almost like "do you know any X besides all of the popular X". Is there any particular reason you discount QtCreator? Does it not work for your purposes? Or is it just a case of you already know about it and want to hear about more obscure tools?

> It's somewhat amusing to realize that in 2017 this is pretty much the easiest way to do a desktop app

I've found Qt with QtCreator to be an incredibly productive way to develop desktop applications. Both old-school QWidgets-based Qt with QtDesigner (the RAD portion of QtCreator for pre-QtQuick) and QtQuick/QML with and without its RAD interface.

> I wish we had RAD environments like this for more languages (Racket, Python, etc. - even JS).

I've used the Python version of Qt with QWidgets in the past and it was a pretty nice workflow. I've never done it personally, but I know of people who use Python + QtQuick/QML and seem pretty happy with it. There's also various "app builder" tools for JS, but I don't know how good they are.
I am not sure I get your objection. It's like saying that Clinton couldn't win the election because she had far-left/communist sympathisers. I am sure she did. And I am also sure these were a marginal portion of her electoral base. I don't see how these extremists would stand in the way of a broader movement.

I am not bullish on Trump long term, but not because some extremists also support him, but because of his own randomness and inability to get things done in Washington.
Show HN: AwesomeDigest – a personalized tech newsletter for developers
It's most certainly integers on a very small grid.
Swedish Government in Crisis After Citizen's Data Protection Leak
Not according to the SEC.
>The tool was expected to be released later as an open-source project, allowing other red teams to use the project in their own companies.

>But in another text message seen by Schwartz and Cramb an hour before their talk, the same Salesforce executive told the speakers that they should not announce the public release of the code, despite a publicized and widely anticipated release.

If the executive told them not to announce the open-sourcing, then he was expecting them to speak, just not that they would announce the open-sourcing. My guess is that they did not acknowledge that first request, and thus the executive told them half an hour later to cancel all. So the original issue of confrontation was about the open-sourcing, not about the speech itself.
Stripe's John Collison on his tips for startup success
Laws are, when related to restricting companies, generally intended to address the difference between the interests of citizens/the state and the interests of corporates.

Many corporations would love to pay staff less money, provide fewer benefits, not worry about pollution, not pay any taxes or other things which cost them money but don't make them money.

Laws which restrict corporations or require them to do certain things are designed to change behaviour that would not occur in a free market, for the good of the country and it's citizens.

In this case allowing corporations to choose younger people, who can generally be acquired more cheaply, has been considered not to be in the interests of the USA or its citizens, so there is legislation to require companies not to discriminate in this fashion.

Seems logical to me.

As a citizen of a country I don't want to allow corporations to do whatever they want, given that their interests may not align with mine or those of the country I live in.
Were there any consequences for the leader? If not, it sounds like those above him are just as bad.
> what scientists think

> one scientist's opinion

We're reaching "both sides of the climate change debate" levels of spinning here.
When I'm providing security advice to a general audience, I can't expect people to reliably follow detailed instructions. "Oh, use VyperVPN, except you have to use OpenVPN, except on iOS where you're forced to use IPsec, and <detailed description of crypto settings follows>."

I can tell them one thing: use Cloak. And I know that, no matter how they do so, they won't be less safe than they would have been without it.

For more on this, see my followup to the VPN post: https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2017/04/public-heal...
There are rules of thumb like the 7:10 rule:

https://emilms.fema.gov/IS3/FEMA_IS/is03/REM0504050.htm

Long term effects are tricky because of biological processes concentrating some elements (I think mainly calcium, iodine).

Of course, if you want to get really nasty you can salt your bombs with appropriate elements (notably cobalt) that have long lived nasty isotopes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb
> I know I'm not going to get any spyware if I download something.

You mean aside from that intended by the project maintainers?
Kind of funny you're all in here posting youtube links, I didn't know they were GNU friendly and I can only imagine how RMS feels given his zealotry.
I'm pretty sure there might be a bug for this in the Chromium bug tracker that is hidden from the common folk, just like they hide their bug where websites can detect if you're in private mode(!):

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9082#issuecom...
I wonder, though, how companies' hiring processes alone are supposed to fix the societal biases. Isn't it a false choice when given only the two explanations: A) We fix biases in the workplace/hiring process and get a 50/50 distribution in the workplace or B) There must be biological differences.

I'm personally rather convinced of a third alternative: There is some bias and even outright discrimination in some workplaces, but gender norms in society as a whole create such a big difference in the distribution of applicants/talent pool that it becomes impossible to correct as late in life as the hiring process. I think the gender norms are very deeply rooted and entwined through most aspects of life and that if we truly want to fix the problem, as opposed to get good PR and pay lip service, we need to change gender roles drastically. And that starts pretty much from pregnancy and goes way beyond recruiting.
Avoiding common confusions with modules in Angular
Hi, impressed by the specs of your service. You seem to top both this list and this one (https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/). And I don't care if I have to pay a little bit more for such high standards.

But are you planning to add more servers in other countries (than the 5 you already offer)?
What’s the effect of a single shard breaking down? How many shards need to break down before it causes a problem?
FYI 5.6 drivers work on 5.7. not extensively checked but my database application worked fine after mysql was updated..
My biggest issue with regular expressions is remembering the exact syntax of each of the different common regex engines. Javascript, Perl, `grep`, `grep -E`, vim, `awk`, `sed`, etc...

Each one seems to have slightly different syntax, require different characters to be escaped, has different defaults (is global search enabled by default? Multiline? What about case sensitivity?), some don't support certain lookarounds, how does grouping work, and so on.
No, we don’t have that proof.

However, the design matches the defaults of google forms, exact colors and their sequence, too: http://imgur.com/WPC0ogZ

Also the header says "gd-jpeg v1.0", it’s a cross platform open source C library with bindings for all modern programming languages including Go and Python: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GD_Graphics_Library

Even if that’s a fake, it’s a good one.
'More right' Clinton is a neo-liberal and Trump is a lunatic.

It's pretty hard to put that into a left-right economic spectrum.
That's why Kenn only recommends using services with per-user PSK for geo-shifting video streams.

For all other uses, Kenn recommends Algo, and I recommend Cloak, neither of which uses PPTP/l2tp.
Which is just an implementation of precisely the oracle scheme I talked about. Introducing precisely the problems I mentioned: blockchain bloat, additional trust anchor which can never be 100% validated and thus destroys the idea of requiring zero trust in any particular individual person or system.
Android Security Bulletin–August 2017
Danon Jewelry – Wear Your Style in the UK
Are you referring to how I described it in this post, or how it's described on the GitHub site or the main jerakia.io site? I admit coming from a heavy Puppet background I've been guilty of explaining things as if my entire audience understands Puppet, and thats something I've been trying to stop doing :-) - There are docs on http://jerakia.io/basics/lookups/ that try to explain the concepts a little more generically. If they are hard to understand, the doc site can be contributed to directly :-).

As for Ruby DSL / Ruby - I guess you're maybe right, "DSL" is kind of an improperly used term these days... although it's debatable IMO
> Now everyone at Google (and everyone in large tech companies, and everyone in academy) knows that they can be fired for expressing opinions that dissent from the party line.

This is an example of people taking exactly the wrong lesson from this situation. The guy wasn't fired for having a 'dissenting opinion'. He was fired because he basically said women are underrepresented in IT because they are biologically unsuited for it. If someone's 'opinion' is that phrenology explains why black people are underrepresented in tech they'd meet with a similar fate

There are a lot of situations these days where people are expressing opinions at work that are insensitive to or outright disparage another group of people, then getting shocked when they're fired.

The problem is that tolerance in the workplace of bigotry towards any group is rapidly eroding and some people don't know where the line of appropriateness is. They've never had to think much about the impact of their opinions on minorities and women so they're almost blind about what is over the line.

The thing is that many people who get into these situations have at least some idea that what they're gonna say is offensive. They'll preface things with, "I'm not racist but..." but continue right on saying it. Like they know on some level it's offensive but they don't consider that 'hey, maybe I'm in the wrong and I shouldn't go there'. 'No, it must be that liberals are out to censor me and destroy free speech'.

It's funny that some people point to a situation like this and say, "This is why we have Trump." If people voted for someone who routinely espoused racist and misogynist attitudes as a reaction to being criticized, that pretty much means they actually are bigots on some level. If you're not a bigot, the reasons to vote for him would be his policies, not his crude and prejudiced 'political incorrectness'
I once tried to set up OpenConnect on one of my servers as I heard it provided good results in China. Not only was the setup process relatively annoying, it was also relatively quickly throttled by the GFW. Shadowsocks / Lantern / ExpressVPN combo remains the best working option for me ATM.
This includes 10 remote code executions in the media framework for Android 4 up to 7. Jesus!
This phenomenon was described beautifully by Czechoslovakia President Václav Havel in 1991; he called it “power unto death”:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/vl/notes/havel.html
Would be great to meetup if you're in Lagos
That's why you swap 'em out regularly.
The people who live in cities -- as the article points out -- will not need to own a vehicle. Living in a city will become even more attractive as it will be far cheaper to simply hail a fleet vehicle than to own your own car. When this shift happens, watch the urbanization rate across the developed world shoot up, as the price of suburban/rural living will finally begin to reflect its true societal cost.

Suburban and rural dwellers will still need their own car, but even then it makes more sense to have a PHEV than an ICE. And pure EVs with range extenders (parallel diesel/gas generators) make yet more sense, if the aesthetics and modularity problems can be solved. Yes, these solutions are more costly, but them's the brakes. Nobody has a right to live -- cheaply -- far from shared infrastructure.
Given your sense of fatalism about this, I assume you don’t spend your free time building OSS apps for mobile platforms?
Ask HN: Has anyone heard of IKM test?
Wondering if you had any experience with IKM C++ test?

Is it reliable in terms of showing your results against all other competitors?
Of course, Launchpad is also terribly confusing.
Regardless of whether or not you agree with the original manifesto, why couldn't Googlers have a civil discussion like that Quora thread instead of firing him?
> absolutely

You don't know that, and I get little impression of such from his Bloomberg appearance today: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/fired-engin...

Even so you are aware the Quora question is "What do scientists think about the biological claims?", so the ad hominem is not only a distracting annoyance but is also undermining of one's claim to objective impartiality.
It's already close to that cheap, where public transit is relatively expensive and rideshare is relatively widely used and thus cheap. As soon as you take human drivers out of the scenario it gets even cheaper, of course.
Given that I regularly see my Facebook account name and photo on third party websites, without giving them any permission to see those, I find it hard to believe that Facebook cares about this…
There's a counter intuitive effect with high grade bikes. They often have a unique look (frame, colors, tires...). If (IF) the bike is quickly moved far from its original city, other bikers will notice it whenever someone uses it again. Often on bikers board you can read stories of users helping each other out.

A generic bike on the other hand .. less chances to be noticed (by definition).
This is why http://levelnews.org was created. It is a place to find real-time independent, progressive public-interest news.

If you would like to know more about the project, the blog is here: http://blog.levelnews.org

Much of the codebase is open source and can be found on GitHub if you'd like to contribute: https://github.com/levelnewsorg
> "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum"

"What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism."

Amen to that.
Relevant to a lot of people here -

California's Parking Cashout law requires your employer to reimburse you what they would spend on your parking if you don't use it. This applies in the (somewhat narrow) situation where you not parking has a direct impact on what the company spends - i.e. they rent a spot in a garage.

When I worked in Santa Monica it was a couple hundred bucks a month - cycling was nicer anyway, too.

https://www.arb.ca.gov/planning/tsaq/cashout/cashout.htm
Around 5 years ago, amidst widespread outcry over how Facebook profits from freebooting, the company promised a revenue sharing solution for content creators was right around the corner. Did that ever happen?
And I think that this is the bind that Google and others are finding themselves in: the assumption is prejudice so they make honest and effective efforts to combat prejudice and don't get the desired result in terms of outcomes.

See the example of the GitHub-sponsored conference whose trial of blind reviewing resulted in zero women speakers.

So Google is getting hammered from two sides, on the one hand they're getting sued because the outcomes are not what they're supposed to be, on the other hand they are already doing diversity programs that at least skirt or already dip into illegal practices. (In his interviews, James Damore has mentioned secretive diversity session that were not recorded, unlike everything else at Google, and that told of practices such as quotas that to him seemed extremely sketchy or downright illegal)

Of course this goes back to Pinker's comment in his debate with Elizabeth Spelke that we must distinguish the moral proposition that people should not be discriminated against on account of their sex from the empirical claim that males and females are (biologically) indistinguishable, because distinguishing them is actually essential to protecting the core of feminism. Because if you don't distinguish and it turns out that your empirical proposition is false, you must then either (a) discriminate or (b) distort/suppress the truth, or both. And that appears to be exactly what is happening.

https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.htm...

UPDATE: Google's Diversity Efforts Fall Flat -- https://www.axios.com/googles-diversity-efforts-are-making-l...
(You may want to add "Show HN: " to the submission title so that this post appears on https://news.ycombinator.com/show.)
25 Brisbane Startups to Watch
Can someone explain to me why these incredible concept cars never really get built, even in small batches as a limited edition?
Nitpick/Off-topic: typo in the following line for the word 'lightweight'
> Go’s capabilities of utilizing leightweight thread
> He was fired because he basically said women are underrepresented in IT because they are biologically unsuited for it.

I don't understand why people keep repeating that statement. He said that biological differences explain the different ratios of men and women, NOT that women are not suited for tech jobs. He explicitely did not say (nor mean) that a woman can't be a good software engineer. Just that on average, more men than women will show the features needed for software engineers.

That is a huge difference. It doesn't disqualify any woman working at Google. It just means that the goal to reach 50% women could lead to a worse outcome.

Disclaimer: I don't necessarily support his claims, nor do I support his memo as such. I just think that it's worth thinking about and that there should be more scientific studies to explore this. Diversity campaigns should be based on science, not on populism.
Well the breakdown of a share has differing effects depending on the consensus rules, same for the entire network. I can't answer that unless you specify which consensus we are talking about.
Yes - unless there are ground bursts generating fall out, and the wind is blowing in your direction.

The only way to survive fall out is to stay in a shelter with good shielding for an absolute minimum of two weeks. In an all-out war in which most cities are attacked, that could easily extend to months, or even a year.

Unless you have a Geiger counter or dosimeter you won't realise you've been irradiated, and it can take two to four weeks for a fatal dose to kill you.

For the first part of that you may well feel absolutely fine.
Could use some work explaining capture groups
I'm guessing they don't need this to attract more users, rather it's probably
more of a defensive move. Add the functionality to keep other possible platforms
from coming out of nowhere. FB understands (as does Netflix, HBO, etc) that high
quality, exclusive content requires a big investment. I'm sure they'll
eventually go that route. Why not? They have the cash and they would already be
playing catch-up for a next logical step for a video platform. This will
probably be good for content creators. There are only so many superstars that
you can chase after. With Amazon, Google, FB and the old guard going after the
same pool, there may be some massive payouts going to people who can deliver the
hits.

Think of stand-up comedy. Louis CK might take a couple of years to build content
for a one hour show. How much would that be worth when you have each of the tech
giants bidding out for the rights to that show? Sure, he could get writers, but
that wouldn't be Lewis CK (it would be his personality, but not his jokes) and
it would have to be for a different type of show. After Lewis CK, there aren't
many comics who can draw the same numbers he can.
Disagreeing with Damore’s arguments is perfectly ok.

Not liking the style of his memo is perfectly ok.

Calling Damore young and clueless is useless ad hominem. Chances are he is smarter than you and me and the memo is actually well sourced.

Calling him a WHITE MAN is an essentialism that reveals the author's bias.
If you use FOSS only, you still remain dependent on the maintainers of your stack since realistically speaking you don't have the time to understand and hack every piece of software you rely on.
RMS is basically a Pope of free software. He's ideologicaly "pure", he sticks to what he believes in entirely. It's useful for a discussion "Would this pass muster with RMS? Do we want to make this RMS-approved?". We don't have to imagine someone who's completly against propritary software, we can just think of RMS.