skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine after World War 3, the aliens sift through the remnants of humanity, find this archive of digitized 78rpm records, and turn into mustachioed corduroy-wearing hipsters.
Why Mentoring and Teaching Is Also Learning
How to Manage, Visualize and track all your Private and Public cloud spend?
Or 'reverse engineer' it to make your own server side software.
What do you think about headless CMS and microservices?
What is the use of metadata of an image while rendering an image on a webpage?
Global war on smoking fired up by US proposal to cut nicotine
The usefulness of the info may age poorly.. but the historical context won't

Else we end up in a tech situation far in the future where the world looks in the mirror on acid and says "how the fuck did we get here?" - and the tapes provide no answers

Btw, just last weekend I was harvesting 100 year old railroad spikes from a western timber company rail in Sonora because of the context of historical significance - not because I plan to lay a new track...
It costs money to host video. The volume of advertising you sell supports your costs, with a fraction going to the content creators. Using information you gather increases how much advertising you can sell. The more advertising you sell the more money everyone gets.

Having a low cost infrastructure for video streaming and good advertising deals is not a monopoly, it's an investment.
I've been told this has been addressed.

If you want to test POSITION_UNAVAILABLE, IE 11 always fails after the first request.

For anyone interested, the location emulation in Chrome Dev Tools is also buggy, Chrome also fires two callbacks on failure, TIMEOUT and POSITION_UNAVAILABLE
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=542923
Right, I meant underdeveloped nations. But third world is understood as long hand for the same --but now without the hegemonic context. (calling them one way or the other does not magically improve their lot or make it worse)

Cobalt is available in other countries (US, Mexico, among others) but starting up a mine is not cheap and takes years --I think Idaho has/had one?. We could mine more and then those people would lose the little they have.

As someone else said, their best bet as a society is to follow in China's footsteps to ramp up quickly --though note they have paid a pretty heavy price (pollution). Still, on the whole, I don't think it can be argued sincerely that they have not come out way ahead.
That's the dream compelling the filecoin ico.
offtopic, but i get a tv station that broadcasts, afaict, nothing but Roseanne, Night Court, and Empty Nest. Roseanne was just as good as I remember... until it wasn't.
It sounds like we're agreeing? Low interest rates == more monetary supply == inflation.
WOW, Holy Shit! Nothing about that office space looks remotely warm or inviting. Was this really the plan for that new campus all along???

Where are the white boards to write notes on?

I guarantee in a matter of months engineers will cover all those clear glass walls with posters and other things to block out all the obnoxious sunlight that will be coming in to blind them on their screens.

Other nit-picks, will Apple no longer all engineers the option to pick their own chairs? Those in the photos look like generic shitty conference room chairs and not ones I'd want to spend all day on.

Also, are those not sit/stand desks?
A scientific approach to discussing something is not about upholding your view with select studies that back your viewpoint. It's about proposing a hypothesis, then collecting and presenting unbiased studies, observations and data for all sides, and then supporting final inferences and conclusions.

The last part is "the message" of a scientific publication (the "why I worked on/wrote this").

Why was his memo unscientific?
1. His choice of data presentation was almost exclusively for his side of the hypothesis, of the form "women are biologically inclined to X" without including any of the (vast corpus of) counter-studies* that directly offset many of his core supporting arguments.

2. Even if his arguments were sufficiently sound (which is unlikely as per 1.), his conclusions were a bit of a quantum leap from his "sourced" claims to "this is unfair, divisive, bad for business" (as per the TLDR). He pretty much just decided that for himself. There were few or no studies/data/observations to support that crucial step.

*going to piggyback off the sources linked in this slate article:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/08/07/the_google_a...
Some companies have a hard limit on developer salaries. Many will never pay a developer over $200k, even if the developer is that good.

This can come from two reasons:

1. The company doesn't have sufficiently valuable projects to capture the developer's potential. There are a lot of companies which simply don't need very senior developers and hence cannot match the price for a senior developer on the open market.

2. The company perceives developers as second-class relative to management or their core business leaders. Thus, they can never have developers paid more than those core people.

These companies see a very consistent talent pool of mediocre developers (who have been mediocre for a long time) and junior developers who come in and leave after 1-2 years once they realize they can get more elsewhere.
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Get out of here with that segwit crap :P
'peopleware' by demarco and lister, goes over this and lot of other issues in great detail. imho, it should be required reading for s/w managers at the very least.

edit-001 : added author info for the book.
Why to mlock() the page? And since the code is already specific to linux/gcc/clang, why not to assign the flag to a read-write section (__attribute__((section(name))) -- should allow to get rid of mprotect()?
Professionalism itself is an evolving standard and a moving target. It varies wildly between companies, industries, cultures, and even regions within the United States. Professionalism used to mean 9-6PM M-F work with suit and tie or formal dress and strong hierarchical organizations. In some industries it still means that. The startup tech industry was sort of founded on a rebellious disregard for old standards of professionalism with flatter hierarchies.

At a company like Google, it appears that discussion on internal forums is actually an internal cultural virtue. Google's innovation and evolution as a company has probably depended on that very openness that we the general public are getting a peek into through these leaks.

An article I read on Wired showed images of these discussions. Apparently very progressive viewpoints are welcomed on the internal channels there. It would seem that any viewpoints that run counter to that worldview, however, are gradually being eradicated by shaming and firing those with alternative views.

What's unfortunate is that with the actions that have been taken...I think everyone loses. Fuel has only been added to this fire on both sides.
Nice! Im impressed by how many aspects of a traditional story it covers.
The thing is, Africa is also a huge continent. So, if something bad happens in Somalia people in the west assume that all Africa is in big trouble. In the west we have no sense of how big Africa is and work under insufficient information, e.g. I know someone who has a travel company in Uganda and when ebola broke out in West Africa, people canceled their trips and business plunged. There were no ebola cases in Uganda. The US or Europe were effected more by the ebola outbreak than Uganda [1]. The vast majority of people in western countries, don't understand Africa.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Ebola_virus_epide...
There's very little Linux love from firefox and mozilla. 10 years later and still no QT build[1], drops alsa because their implementation is broken and instead of fixing their own mess forces everybody to use pulseaudio[2] and quite a few in between.

It seems there's a reccuring "you do not represent a big enough portion of our users for us to care" attitude over time that made several not big enough portion of their users to stop caring and supporting firefox accelerating its demise caused by trying to be a chrome-like browser (among other mismanagement).

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451129
[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661
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Unreasonable Effectiveness of Profilers
> If you are actually in the UK, you have some amazing benefits that US-based folks don't get in the form of healthcare.

So? That's pretty irrelevant since any good developer job in the US comes with excellent health coverage.
Boycotts are speech. Refusing to associate with people is speech. Holding people accountable for what they say is speech

Are you in favor of censoring such speech?

I ask because the only way to get rid of the "consequences" you deride is to introduce large-scale censorship designed to privilege the person who speaks first. Which then turns any debate into nothing more than a race to be first to say something, after which one can censor one's critics under the guise of preventing boycotts, etc.
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I pointed out #4 to illustrate that his claim of a pervasive trend of Conservative persecution wasn't consistent with the state of affairs in the United States.

I disagree with your premise; termination for political activity on-the-job is easily justifiable. I doubt you want to hear non-stop tirades from a PETA activist coworker.

I think your criticism of #2 is facile; which policies in particular are vague? Every corporate anti-discrimination policy I've ever encountered was essentially "don't discriminate against people in a way that will get us in trouble with the Feds."
Twitter is now testing out Night Mode on its desktop website
Curious. Why do you prefer Apple Music? Has something changed recently? I had both for a while but found the UI, playlist building capacity, the generated playlists, and the ability to share music on Spotify to be superior so I dropped Apple.
This comes close, but I think there was one where one user talked about how they use Spacemacs (Emacs with Vim style editing), and use Org files[1] to bascially plan their life. Meetings, Calendar events, reminders, notes, TODOs, you name it.

[1]: http://orgmode.org/
Its not uncommon to download images from a website in general, however more specifically I know my mother - an avid photographer - uses a plugin to inspect metadata to find how and where a photo was taken.
I should start a kickstarter to buy every one of you people a copy of The Mismeasure of Man and force you all to read it.
Even if you do need that data, you can probably dedupe the large sites fairly easily. Save one copy, then just record the ID of the video watched/downloaded.
Depends on your perspective, but it doesn't matter as it's not the unlimited they advertised.

Our app has multiple millions of users and we wanted to add a small feature which we were going to use Firebase to back. We ended up having to go back to the drawing board when we started a gradual roll out and hit that limit pretty quickly.
I'm pretty sure that was the position of the "manifesto" as well.
Managers.

Open office for regular employees, offices for managers.
Wow.

Running a query takes down the db?

That sounds like a major problem. How can that happen?

Maybe returning incorrect or incomplete results due to sharding... But taking the db down? That's very... Unexpected.
I affirmed that the Yale incident was egregious.
Besides the flagging, I really like hckrnews as a daily reader. The ability to see immediately what is new since my last visit (and to tune the number of posts I want to see) is a huge timesaver.
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>It's controversy is in the assertion that there is a class of people at Google who hold positions that they are not deserving of.

But that's not what the "manifesto" is asserting, at all.

The memo is questioning the wisdom of equal sex representation in a particular career choice, considering biological predispositions. At no point does the manifesto assert that genders, races, or classes of people are holding positions that they do not deserve at Google.

What it does assert is that there are biological predispositions, personality types are brought up, and questions the wisdom of an even split of representation, just by considering the rate of women coming out of uni with a related degree.

Again: at no point does the author assert your claims. What it does talk about is preferences, and biological predispositions. It also talks in generalities, but mentions individuals. It does not say "all women have these personality types and these interests therefore this explains the gap". It simply says that women are biologically predisposed to certain personality types, and interests, and it MAY explain the gap.

If this were true, and even it were not (allowing for other explanations), it would be unwise to operate solely on the assumption that there's some sort of early or late discrimination going on which causes women to avoid entering this particular career.
> But there's just no way insurance companies aren't using this kind of invasive data already.

I declined an offer for a role exactly like this. Disgusting stuff.
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If you are a developer who has to check in code, then you need a quiet place for focused work. You can try to argue that some developers don't need that, but those who can achieve peak concentration while context switching and talking to others are biological curiosities, if they exist at all. I haven't met anyone like that.

Now most employees working in tech companies are not developers. There is a whole "developer abstraction layer" (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab...) but tech companies should at least have a place for all of their engineers to do quiet, focused work that is free of distraction.

I would also say that many people who are managers and do marketing also need a quiet place for focused work. So do QA people, infrastructure engineers, etc.

A larger point is that there are so many easy ways to communicate and collaborate now that to fix the physical plant to optimize for communication is just plain nuts. Why not use something that is very expensive to change, like the architecture, to meet needs that can't be met with software. Software can let you talk to someone easily, but it can't give you a quiet space. Only the architecture can do that. So I would err on the side of giving everyone an office with a door and then creating some common meeting spaces for them rather than building the office to have open offices and then adding a few multi-use closed door areas.
Wow, those are amazing!

I've commuted through / worked near Shinjuku station (the first image) for 10 years or so.
I'm still finding new places to get lost in. The fact that it seems to be perpetually under construction doesn't help things.
They have for a while now. If you've played for less than two hours, and aren't requesting multiple refunds in a short period, it's automated now AFAIK.
They don't have WebGL on linux, they have a "webgl if available" thing which is mostly not available.

I've heard that when available (never was on any linux machine I've had in my hands and tested since firefox introduced webgl, after a while I started disabling it to protect from the webgl vulnerabilities), it performs poorly compared to other browsers.
That is one way to wash our hands of the problem.
even before watching, I can say: it doesn't get better than this
Only one person involved showed demonstrable stupidity, though.
Capital controls are real dude, they're not a figment of my imagination. Try operating an online business while you can't transfer funds abroad and then we can talk about sentimentalism.
Nowhere in the article was it even suggested that graduation standards would change; given only 19% of students graduate within 4 years, the system is clearly willing to hold the line on graduation standards. Instead, it's discussed at length how to help those students require remedial work to get through in 4 rather than 5 years.
> The thing is, Africa is also a huge continent. The vast majority of people in western countries, don't understand Africa.

I agree 100%.

Said in another way, the Western Media is doing a terrible job of informing people in Western countries about Africa.

Having been here a year, I now go so far as to say the Media are doing a negligent job. It's disgusting and is causing real harm (as you illustrate).
> biological predispositions
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Except when we let bad actors use that exact same justification, then its ok for a christian baker to not make a cake for a gay wedding.
If you use an Amazon Fire, you can use Alexa to find titles whether they're on Prime, Netflix, or Hulu, at least, and probably others. Unfortunately the Nextflix integration is problematic if you're not in the US, because it still uses the US catalog.
I used to agree with you, then I read sapiens and it introduced me into the importance of religion in human development and society.
I read you are looking for the remote developers for Android and iOS. In fact, we have 2-3 experienced developers at Space-O Technologies(https://www.spaceotechnologies.com/) who are not on any project right now. I guess you can definitely hire them.

Lemme know if you are interested.
> Mozilla has a strong history of getting all their stuff working on all platforms before letting a release drop

I would like to see some substantation of this claim, my experience as linux user for 20 years is that firefox on linux is a second class citizen and mozilla developers often answer linux specific bugs by "wontfix, not a big enough portion of our users, would be a waste of resources".
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Nitpick: shaving 250 grams off your bike weight _can_ get you banned from the Tour de France.

UCI regulations state a minimum weight for a bicycle of 6.8 kilos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_bicycle#UCI_rules)
I hope that he also sues media outlets for slander. To sum things up :

- fairness & lack of prejudice wrt minorities/women : goal
- minorities/women % in the workforce : metric
- diversity hiring : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox .
- without diversity hiring, differences in women vs men applicants pools, which can be explained by differences in *distributions* of interests, have no impact on distribution of skills in the workforce
- women are talented enough so that they just need to be *attracted* (e.g. better work/life balance) rather than pity-hired

This is my takeaway from the "screed". How could it be framed as «anti-diversity», much less «alt-right» ?
How could saying that «women are, on average more people-oriented and men are more thing-oriented» be framed as «women are inferior, biologically incapable of coding» ?
I hope that people get punished for such a dishonest character assassination !
User interfaces are hard to implement and JS is only approaching the complexity of requirements for modern UI. It's no more a single form or a button, so it should not be a surprise.

On the other side, JS indeed is ugly language with trash ecosystem (btw, how long it will take for community to get rid of fsevents warning on non-Mac systems?), but there are patterns forming and best practices being documented. It can be learned, but juniors should not expect learning a huge engineering discipline in a week.
When the only speech that is relevant has been reduced to that which is published or broadcast with mass media; and when nearly all such venues are policed by supporters of the left, in a private context; then the Democratic party only needs to set the narrative in order to discredit or silence their opponents in relevant venues. This to me, is a tactic to circumvent the first amendment, and is very much done so by a major political party. Perhaps it is you who actually does not understand.
> Their server just fails and takes down the DB for 10 or so mins if I do that query.

I don't know if you are aware, but their DB can't handle more than 1000 requests/sec, so if you are iterating through a list of nodes and requesting data for each one you can hit that limit (not a good practice, but sometimes you have to). Additionally, once you hit that limit, the DB slows down but keeps accepting requests meaning, if you keep hitting it, even at a slower rate you make the backlog worse. Seriously, be very very careful not to go over that limit, we found out the hard way.
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Yeah, but they weren't debunked for decades. Nobody thought to check that before demanding he be silenced
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Looks like his blog's down? Guess I'll try again in the morning

Edit: seems to be working now
+ HSTS Preload: https://hstspreload.org

Which makes it practically impossible for your site to be MITMd for the users of many major browsers.
> I don't think there is a natural (i.e. biological) imperative that drives men and women significantly differently in this regard.

Yep, the links between testosterone and hierarchy/drive/dominance have been established for decades. Its effects can be examined between males, and across multiple species, but there's actually no natural imperative which drives men in this regard. Come on man.
While it was obviously better for Netflix to have it all with one low price, as long as each streaming service allows me to sign up for just one month only, and stream shows ad free, on demand, the full seasons, I'm okay with this.
The Gizmodo article omits several of the links to various studies that the actual memo makes. Even though the article actually mentions this, I doubt many people will actually will make the effort to know what those references were. And to be honest I don't think many people read beyond the articles summary, as evident by the discussion of the post.
I work most efficiently when I don't have the stress of having the amount of work I'm doing measured. In my experience the more trust given by the employer that employees are working, the better and greater the output.