skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I think the sleeper bus is an interesting niche offering, I can't help but wonder: why would anyone in their right mind want to travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles? The other way round, I can totally understand. But intentionally going to one of the world's least appealing cities is beyond my ken.
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Godwin's law was triggered the moment someone brought Nazis into this discussion of James Damore.

I'm not sorry if you find pointing out this obvious, common smear tactic tedious. I find the people using the tactic tedious.
There's something similar in Russia with trains. Minsk, Moscow and St Petersburg form a triangle with about 8 hours of train time between each.
A colleague based in Minsk used to do week long trips with with only a night or two in a hotel. I seem to recall that there were many trains to Moscow from St Petersburg leaving between 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM.
There are a couple of services which collect analyst ratings and at least in the US and Europe, they have gone to great lengths to be nice to analysts so analysts will enter their ratings into their systems or banks will integrate with them. One of the things that have been built into most systems is the ability to "correct" so called data-entry errors. This functionality is heavily abused with analysts revising bad calls to make themselves look better than they actually are.

One will find fairly large differences between data sets that collect analyst ratings and "corrections" as they happen (which you are going to have to collect yourself) and analyst ratings as reported by the various services and the differences almost always make the analysts seem more accurate.

It is possible things are different in Canada, but if you look at bias-free data for the US or Europe, analyst recommendations are mostly random. Analyst recommendation data is mostly useful so you can bet against the short term spike or drop caused by people reacting to a change in analyst recommendation. This was very effective up to the 2000s but doing this with a reasonable Sharpe Ratio today is very hard (otherwise I wouldn't write about it) though it may be useful as an add on to an otherwise profitable strategy.
I was on BART a few weeks ago and had two tech dudes strike up a conversation about JIRA directly across me, shouting over the din of rail noise. It can get obnoxious.
>I now fully support breaking up Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft; may be Apple.

OTOH, only their shitloads of money allow them to resist government demands to hack a user's phone or hand over users' data in their cloud.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
I didn't learn finance in Germany in school but we all knew that taking on massive debt is stupid. It's the advertising and easy access to consumer credit. Wage increases have been replaced by easier access to credit.
Probably because the trains never fill up.
It would be a great business between Sydney and Melbourne or Sydney and Brisbane.
When I was on secondment from London in Sydney I would often drive to Melbourne. By the time I added up arising early, 45 minute taco ride to airport, check in, clearing security, having brekkie then the flight, and massive taxi queue plus 45 min ride into Melbourne it was less than 1hr difference.
I was comfortable, could stop and eat, see countryside on roads with little traffic it was a joy!
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They're losing money because that's a ridiculously expensive price and people looking to just get from point A to B would not pay that.
I'm afraid we disagree entirely. Before the existence of any computer language, humans talked, and thought: at various levels of rigor. Mathematical books were published for millennia. People thought, interpreted their world, argued with each other, and so forth.

With the advent of computer languages, some of these have captured more of this independent thinking and abstraction, others capture less of it, while still others require their users to learn abstractions they were not used to.

The idea that all of this falls in the last category, with no capturing of the way "people think independent of the use of that language" is totally false to me. Sorry.
Douglas adam's 'Peril sensitive sunglasses' are nearly here.
Here is where the tech startup fundings are happening, new report

https://www.fundz.net/startup-funding
Is it really outlandish, for example, to have claimed the Arctic ice would disappear? It has been happening and the disappearance is almost complete. I have seen glaciers break and fall into the see in my front of my very eyes.

Also, need I remind you of the planet Venus. It once had liquid water. It later became a victim of runaway climate change.
The time comparison is larger than you think - you still have to get to the boarding point of the bus and get to your final destination when you arrive on the other side. Given that you arrive at your destination just in time for rush hour traffic, this may be significant
It's not quite free, in my experience, but yes, it is more cross-platform than bash.

The price you still have to pay for cross-platform is the different paths, different output formats for system commands, etc. This is particularly pronounced for the stuff most of my lines of shell scripts are used for, where it's interacting almost entirely with system utilities to figure out where it's running and to do things to make sure the system is able to run the software my scripts are installing (which also interacts with the system in intimate and intrusive ways). But, you'd pay this with just about any programming language.

Then again, I also use shell scripts for building/deploying things where a makefile would be overkill (and of course makefiles interact with the shell, too, so building your makefiles for POSIX shell rather than bash is also a good practice), and I make those with POSIX, as well. And, in those cases, it would definitely be OK on damned near any platform. I even worked on Windows for a few months when I got my current laptop because HiDPI support and the graphics drives on Linux just weren't working well enough, and most of my stuff worked fine there...both in the WSL and from a git bash prompt.
Rail sleepers (eg London-Edinburgh) offer lounge cars and cabins you can stand in and are far superior to air travel.
Except that same wikipedia article has a whole huge section titled Researchers in favor of no sex differences or inconclusive consensus and also includes this sentence: "The current literature on sex differences produced inconsistent results depending on the type of testing used." It sorta seems like you read until you found a sentence you liked and then didn't go any further... It's not a settled issue at all AND the ASVAB study you're picking doesn't actually connect anything to a biological basis. This is why Damore's paper is bad and why I'm sad that the community is taking it seriously as a scientific source. Some of his statements are cited but plenty aren't and because a fair amount of the people reading it already agree with him, Damore's leaps of logic don't pop out to them. It's not a good paper and it's not very scientific.
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Google's Diversity Controversy Mocked in Street Art Near Office
It would be appropriate to compare this service to the under-construction California High-Speed Rail. A more real comparison than the hyperloop.
>We're still over-emphasizing passing grades over effectively growing new American citizens...

2/3rds of state legislatures are actively hostile to basic tenets of science, let alone the government teaching "effective American citizenship".

We just recently legalized malpractice for financial advisors. The rules preventing them from screwing their clients out of their retirement savings were spun as hurting consumer choice. Imagine how it'd be spun if there was a movement for public schools to teach "effective citizenship".
The book Addiction by Design is really good for understanding the science of casinos and how social media may or may not be using those tactics. Not hard to spot the coincidences
http://developer.lightbend.com/blog/2017-08-11-sbt-1-0-0/
The Crypto J-Curve
My dad had a penchant for fruit slices [0]. When we were kids he used to wave them in front of our faces and told us he was eating a "flies graveyard". More or less put me off any cake or patisserie that contained currants, sultanas and raisins, or in fact all fruits for life; even now at the tender age of 50 I'm only just beginning to appreciate apple and cherry pies.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/fKbWb
If that were true would there still be a need for amber alert?
When you find something Apple has a monopoly on, you might have a point there.

The only monopoly they've ever had is on taste, and for a short period of time I suppose you could argue MP3 players.
paid for by their time and watching ads

The ads pay for the content you watch at the time. It doesn't pay for your right to dictate the terms of their service in perpetuity. Thus, this whole line of thinking is a non-starter. Further, YT is not required to support whatever business model you build on top of theirs unless they've agreed to a contract of some sort. Do you know of such a contract?

destroying shareholder value

Maybe so, but their rationale at the moment is that extremist videos create a hostile environment for their users. They would rather not perpetually expose their preferred users to the toxicity of extremism. It's arguably a move to increase shareholder value. If you think they're wrong, don't be a shareholder.
> With Android 6 (Marshmallow) and beyond, one can control specific permissions post app install

There are a lot of apps that will simply refuse to open if you do not grant them permission for a list of unrelated permission.
I view it not as a denial of difference but outlining that regardless of physiological differences of male and female human bodies, most brains are a composite of traits/features associated with males and females.

"Neuroscientist Daphna Joel and her team examined the brains of 1,400 individuals ... They repeatedly find that some individual, small sections of the brain indeed show patterns that are more typical of males or more typical of females (although millions of sections show no difference at all). However, when they look at all the sections together instead of just a small snapshot, they find only about 3% of people have a brain that is fully “male” or fully “female.” In other words, it is extremely rare to find a consistently pink brain or blue brain. The other 97% of people have brains that are a mosaic of pink and blue. Almost all of us have features common in men and features common in women. Even neuroscientists can’t tell if an individual brain belongs to a man or woman."

If possible, it would have been so interesting to see whether/how cultural conditioning (around gender, etc) affects pattern of brain growth, since such conditioning starts from birth.
Youtube's setup, where anyone can claim any video, and the first line of defense creators have is to plead innocent to the same party making the claim, is the most user hostile (creator hostile?) thing I've ever seen.
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More likely your other recent online activity pointed to that product as something you might be interested in. An awful lot of what we talk about these days are things we've seen or heard about online, either by searching or just browsing the news, etc.
This seems a little odd.

I fall asleep in vehicles as a passenger sometimes, but have that peace of mind of being in a safety belt and with some air bags around me.

On a plane, an accident is unlikely to occur... same with a train.

I don't think I'd want to fully trust my life to a bus driver (and all of the third parties out on the road that could trigger an incident on the road) without some means to mitigate that risk.

But nothing on their site or literature seems to provide information on personal safety were an incident to occur.

It seems bizarre to me that people would get into a vehicle for a long overnight drive, and not demand a minimum degree of safety.

For a bus, maybe this would be something like airline style seats that fully recline and offer comfortable belts and a single airbag.

This is all probably good for the US, but would be a non-starter in Europe.
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Suicide is the result of bullying, workplace mobbing, community harassment, being hacked and fucked with over and over again for decades. The tigers and wolves in this case are replaced by the act of suicide -- this is the goal now whether people are conscious of it, or not.

Humans are primitive creatures in possession of a global stalking/harassment network that leaks over into "Real Life".
You don't have to maintain the air you fly through, but you must maintain the track you travel by. Unless there is a lot of freight traffic, the maintenance will be more expensive than your income from tickets.

Europe is just much denser than US Midwest, so both passenger and freight traffic is more intense for a unit of track length, thus more economical.
>should have the video raws immediately turned over to a human rights organization for preservation

You're saying like every human rights organization have some magical means of preservation other than uploading to YouTube.
I so do not envy the engineer who is pressured into hooking what is essentially two procedural generators, with the possibility for a alteration overlay together. If one mad guy alters a whole solar system into planet lava smileys..., how do you pack and transfer that information history on top of that, in real time...
The irony is that many classic dystopian stories are actually written about today, the time and place where they were written, and not about some hypothetical future. 1984 was based on Orwell's experiences as a propaganda writer for Britain in WW2. Animal Farm was about the Soviet Union.
Fahrenheit 451 was inspired by McCarthyism. Saruman's orcs and trollocs in Lord of the Rings were supposed to represent industry, the factories and smelters that were destroying the English countryside in the 30s. The Hunger Games was about the Iraq war and how we numb ourselves on reality TV.

If you believe Jared Diamond (and I think he at least has a point), the point where we entered dystopia was when we invented agriculture 10,000 years ago. That was when humans began to accumulate surpluses that they could use to lord over other humans, and men began to serve men (and women to serve men too). Humans have a remarkable ability to adapt, though. Most of us don't think of agriculture as an evil soul-crushing machine, even though it was the beginning of large-scale repression, because it's so ingrained in our experience of how we live.
I think the allegation is that she died because the sub drowned. He isn't alleged to have killed her any other way yet, and speculation of another way is just speculation.
It does seem popular partly because of an anti-OO bias that bubbles under the surface here at HN.

But, it is reasonably hard data, and data has value, even if the interpretation is up for debate. I think if everyone had read the article, that'd be the more common theme of the discussion here: Are the conclusions valid based on the data seen, and either way, is it useful to know...is there something actionable in this data?
Respectfully, that's exactly how things go wrong.

Who cares if I'm a minority or conservative? Who cares what speech I'm upset by? That's the point, being upset is not something we need to defend against.

Speech is speech, if you don't like it then ignore it. And yes, there are consequences. Most of the time it's the other side yelling back which is fine. Only when it turns into (harmful) action should be people be defended but until then it's paramount that anyone can say what they want.

I understand that only the government has protected speech. Private groups and institutions are free to invite or exclude at will and I support that as well, however public spaces and institutions should absolutely not be closed to anyone who wants to speak their mind and protecting people's feelings will never end well.
It seems pretty conventional to say that "taking over" is the culmination of a gradual "expansion", no?
Yes, exactly. The @ trick is being removed from browsers because what the author refers to as interesting trick has been used for phishing and other scams.
They need an Obelisk Gate.
It's not a choice: demographics is always an input of the recruitment process. I agree the phrasing is unfortunate, it says "it's a variable under Google control" as Google had a target value on it, and then it says it is "an input rather than an output", which is quite a contradiction. I'd paraphrase it as: male/female output ratio is a function of male/female input ratio, and of Google hiring policies. If there were actual discrimination, the quality of (low-end, as per the article argument) male hirings is bound to be (better/worse) than the quality of low-end female hirings.

Please someone correct me if I'm missing the point.
Even if there were, such contracts have been tried before and the courts simply ignore them.

A contract can't override criminal law.
I just want to observe that these prompts are in broken typo-riddled English, with misformatted code.
(Yes, I misread the line you quoted as saying something different.)

You also made your point very well, and all the facts you highlight support you and are good reason for me to doubt my conclusion regarding object oriented programming. I thought it's a terrible match for how people think about the world yet you give very strong reasons why I was wrong. (In other words you've convinced me.) Thank you.
How did you get on with the machine learning part of it?
The opacity is by design. It's notable that such behavior by an individual would typically be considered psychologically abusive. It's one reason I talk about power relations frequently; we are in the throes of automating them, and given the impact of technology on other spheres of human activity we should be wary of what sort of social relations were are baking in.

Perhaps the Graph should be public domain. Perhaps too we are heading towards a world where reputation and legal identity are subject to casual destruction but there's no real barrier to starting over, much like when you die in a videogame.
I actually misread your question a bit at first - I originally thought you were asking about switching _to_ Immutable.js, not away from it. I realized that before I posted it, and decided my answer was still relevant to the aspect of "why someone might want to switch away from Immutable.js". So, in that sense it's adding context to the reasoning behind your question.

As I said, I'm not aware of specific downsides to using Seamless-Immutable. It seems like a good balance of enforced immutability in development via freezing and replacement of mutation methods, and compatibility with standard JS object/array notation and usage.
German culture has a mass distortion on the perils of consumer credit. The "debt is evil" crowd is just an extreme as the people that irresponsibly use debt.

Maybe you should learn finance.
Well, it is there to help people. It's there to help the people who are paying the tech company. This is often not you, and your interests are often not aligned with your employer.
> use cash

Don't forget that notes have serial numbers so there is potential for tracking there too even though it would be slower and less precise.

Better use coins (real ones not block chain ones).
> only their shitloads of money allow them to resist government demands to hack a user's phone

Their extreme centralization makes it much easier for the government to make those demands. I think you're more right than wrong, though.
I just can't see running the Facebook app. Facebook on the desktop, sure, but why on a phone? Other than checking in once a day or so to see what my friends are doing, Facebook has nothing I want.

I don't use Gmail. I have a Google account, but it's only used for updating browser add-ons. Last login was over a year ago. Mail comes from a IMAP server. Android's standard mail client does IMAP just fine. All my desktops and laptops use the same IMAP server, so it all syncs.

I don't have much Google stuff from my Android phone. When I bought the phone, uninitialized, it asked for a Google login. I clicked "later", and then deleted Google First-Time Login so that wouldn't come up again.
After a while, voice dialing broke due to some update at Google, so I deleted more Google services. Location services come from ZANavi. (That uses unassisted GPS, so it takes a while to get a fix.)
It seems intelligence is more of a 'master key' that unlocks reproductive success in a variety of environments and at large scale. The jury is still out on whether it's a given that intelligence ultimately destroys itself.
Thanks to the rapid adoption of TLS, HTTP/1.1, and CDN services like Cloudflare, it's hard to actually find IP addresses to test some of these tricks on. However, it seems like at least some of this stuff really does still work.

Here's one for example.com. Without the host header, it still misbehaves, but it at least does something.

http://1572395042
I actually thought crusso did a good job of rebutting that argument given the context of a HN comment that presumably can't stretch on for volumes of political theory.
And Earth once was frozen all over, and there were times when concentration of greenhouse gases was much higher than it is today, with no "runaway" effects.
"Notmuch does not index all headers; two missed headers that are of interest to me are 'X-Bogosity' and 'References'."

I wonder why Notmuch doesn't just index all headers?

It seems like it would be useful to do so, as some header might be of interest to some user out there, even if it's not to the authors of the program or to most users. So what's the downside of just indexing everything?

If it's a performance consideration, then there could just be a simple configuration file option that determines whether all headers are index or not, or maybe a user-configurable list of headers to index would work instead.
Here's their budget plan from a few years ago: https://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/458/748/FY14-Budget-Business-Pl...
Science is full of failed predictions. If you're poking around for some nefarious behavior (which seems to be common among climate change deniers), I suggest looking at oil companies.
I really like the premise of notmuch, using a search index as the primary storage mechanism. I just wish it integrated better with distributed email.

I currently use IMAP for my mail, and process it on three different systems: a personal laptop, a work laptop, and a phone. Workflows based on notmuch support syncing between laptops (see the mention of muchsync in the article), but don't really interoperate with standard email protocols, and I'm not willing to give up quick access to email from my phone. And beyond that, I don't really want to have to "sync" email; I'd like to just access it seamlessly.
I only started playing it last night for the first time. Really awesome game and I'm having a blast.
Why not just have one procedural generator for both players and send changes to and from a server where they both pull from?
Found the climate change denialist.
so after reading the article it reveals that it might beat a flight except in time, cost and convenience?
I think companies make the business case simply because it is so much easier to do. If you make it a moral issue then you open yourself up to accusations of not putting your shareholders interest first.

One would think moral arguments would hold much stronger sway but unfortunately when it comes to issues of gender/race/sexual orientation that is not always the case.