skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read 90% of my content in emacs-w3m, in the terminal, where no images load unless I deliberately want them to. It also has the advantage of getting rid of javascript and most page design nonsense, flash, non-text ads, and various "Web 2.0" annoyances.

The result is beautiful, consistently formatted, lightweight, and perfectly readable plain text (fully integrated with my editor/OS, incidentally).
Yeah, but it will come with a lot of embedded CSS.
They can. Check on coding sweatshops in Russia partially or, some times, fully staffed with highschoolers
I was working for a start up some years ago where we were sending a lot of transactional messages over email, sms and mobile push to our customers. There were lots of great solutions around that solved the infrastructure problem (i.e, the problem of sending and email, sms or mobile push) but nothing that helped us with the content part of the message, rather then having transactional email templates in Mailchimp or something.

So I built Postways [1]. In a nutshell, it's basically a message management system with a unified API for sending email, sms and mobile push were you have to bring your own AWS account or SMTP server.

[1] https://www.postways.com/
Regardless of this episode, the true spirit of tehcnological companies lays written in that 10 page memo. Successful techies are individualists, egoists, cold and full of testosterone. Firing that guy is just a PR stunt, specially to put a discipline of silence around the issue, and the result of a few hysterical women that do not matter anyway.
Cloudflare adds Load Balancing
Where did you read the memo? Gizmodo lied and claimed to present the whole memo, when they didn't.
Companies commissioning stories has gone on for a long time.

For example, the Isaac Asimov story "My Son, The Physicist" was commissioned by an electronics company to run in an ad in "Scientific American".

Another Asimov example. "Think", IBM's in-house magazine, commissioned Asimov to write a story based on this quote from J. B. Priestly:

> Between midnight and dawn, when sleep will not come and all the old wounds begin to ache, I often have a nightmare vision of a future world in which there are billions of people, all numbered and registered, with not a gleam of genius anywhere, not an original mind, a rich personality, on the whole packed globe

Asimov write the story "2430 A.D." about a world where Priestly's nightmare had come true. (The title comes from his estimate of when human population at its current growth rate would reach the point where the Earth had so many people that there were no resources left for non-human animals).

The funny thing about this story is that "Think" rejected it, because they wanted a story that refuted the quotation. So Asimov wrote another story, "The Greatest Asset", that refuted Priestly, and sent that to "Think".

"Think" then decided they liked the first story better and ran "2430 A.D."!

I'm pretty sure that there was at least one other similar case with Asimov.
- over 40% thermal efficiency

- significant reduction in CO2

CO2 production is directly inverse-linearly related to thermal eficiency. It is silly to list both.
- You get asked if you want cash back

- You get asked if you want to donate to (charity/cause)

...
Question to everyone.
1: Do you think forced diversity is a good thing? Is it an attack on those with ability?
2: Is this a variant of the PC movement? Do you consider this an attack on free speech?
I attended a meetup and was inspired to solve a problem I and many others experience with code. You can read about the details at https://medium.com/@CodeforFTL/the-story-of-oh-snap-civictec...
I'm going to suggest neutering the younger developers at the next standup...
I just signed in and sync with spotify
I'm about 50/50 soundcloud / spotify

Are you planning on adding soundcloud integration?
Given the recent soundcloud layoffs and financial trouble I would understand if you were hesitant about putting in that time
I don't think I get what you mean exactly. How is this different from wrapping all the dependencies in a single promise and starting the dependent one when they're all finished?
Quote from another article:
"All of these traits which the manifesto described as “female” are the core traits which make someone successful at engineering. Anyone can learn how to write code; hell, by the time someone reaches L7 or so, it’s expected that they have an essentially complete mastery of technique. The truly hard parts about this job are knowing which code to write, building the clear plan of what has to be done in order to achieve which goal, and building the consensus required to make that happen."

There are some good points in the memo - like having training and support for men, but it was largely an exercise in casting doubt on the ability of certain subset of your co-workers to do their job.
It could not be much more unclear and I can assure you that this has nothing to do with some googlerian "cleverness".

Science is not an ideology or opinion; in a diverse environment, reasonable positions are disputed by arguments, not power play.

Exercising an executive bias to intimidate the employees into subscribing to a specific ideology is nothing this code of conduct were able to prevent. The coc could not perform worse measured by it's own goal.

It's no service to any code of conduct intention if a code of conduct is treated as some chilling orthodoxy that is used to prevent a communities open dialogue and self awareness.
> The east side of the city today has factory after factory, owned by domestic companies and global powerhouses such as Samsung, Honda, Harley-Davidson, and Procter & Gamble.

It doesn't mean that it's easy to live or to find a job there: many of those plants are just for integration, i.e., goods come pre-manufactured and pieces are just assembled there. So, many companies but not labor-intensive, with much automation taking care of everything.
Richard Feynman on observations not matching strong theories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9F8Wn4vf5Y&t=4m44s
https://insites.com/ crawls your website in a cloud-based Chrome for both mobile and desktop, so you can check spelling, broken links, JS errors, layout etc.

Or if you prefer something free and lightweight: http://nibbler.silktide.com/

Disclaimer: I work here.
Because the gravitational pull from these unobservable matter is so huge that little planets, rocks, and dusts cannot account for it.
This sounds awesome. Excited to check it out!

Me and my wife were working on a way to take game wikis and make them mobile friendly for when we play games like Starbound / Stardew Valley. These types of projects are fun because you're feeling the pain of it while trying to have fun so it's a lot of motivation.
I don't know why you're getting downvotes.

Does anyone know off-hand, how much testing have autonomous vehicles had at night (as in, full dark/need to use headlights).
allowing you to connect via FB and sign up for 3rd party services is essentially that. it's questionable how much integration with FB is valuable, considering people are justifiably wary about what they want to do publicly and privately, and FB privacy settings can change and are confusing to many.
> My point is, there is no such thing as freedom of speech in our society, it's not an absolute freedom, and I'm OK with that.

I'm ok with that, but I'd rephrase as "there is no absolute freedom of speech", or even better, "there is no absolute freedom" in our society, and I'm ok with that.

> Our society will take a long time before we can truly accept freedom of speech and all its consequences.

Do you mean

(1) (freedom of speech) and (freedom of the consequences of speech)

or

(2) accept (freedom of speech) and (consequences of speech)?

> What we have always seen in our society is if you think differently than the main stream thought you should be aware that will be consequences.

IMHO, there is no mainstream, only the immediate surroundings. Saying "women are less capable of doing CS jobs" next to that engineer who got fired will probably help you make a friend. Saying that in front of a woman will probably help you make an enemy.

Both are consequences of speech. You make, and lose, friends based on your speech. Why would someone find the positive consequences of your speech acceptable, but not the negative ones?

In life, there are always consequences. IMHO, the key part of being an adult is recognizing that your acts will have consequences, and being willing to face those consequences, positive or negative.
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Is any organization of meaningful size (# of employees, revenue, market cap - pick your metric) handling diversity issues in a way that completely satisfies the "proportional representation of the population" metric? Are there any success stories that one could use as case studies?
https://omg.omise.co/
OMG holders can use OMG to validate the network. If they validate a block correctly, they get paid the tx fees from that block

https://blog.golemproject.net/golem-network-token-gnt-sale-2...
All transactions in the Golem network will be subject to a fee, approximately 5% of the transaction value. This will include both transactions between the users — payments for computing power — and transactions between users and software developers. The latter will consist of payments for the software used on the Golem network in a SaaS model. Where applicable, a blend of both open source and proprietary software will be used.
The New Skeuomorphism Is in Your Voice Assistant
Firms face up to £17m fines if they fail to protect against hackers
Disney will pull its movies from Netflix and start its own streaming services
Will I not have to restart in safe mode if I open a 5MB JS payload?
(It crashes the tabs and the editor, but I can still use the file menu and such)
Highlighting Ada with Libadalang
Cultural steering?

Try some science.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-pr...
>> targets the .NET Standard

It was mentioned.
Yeah you hit the nail on the head. I'm nervous about the time investment given their current status. Maybe once chance's check clears...[1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/chance-the-rapper-soundcloud/
Probably true, but at the same time, some electric cars are pretty darn fun to drive.
Wow, looks like a full rework: https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/13880
Apologies for the late reply, I was driving.

> "Is a language only a language if it is spoken?"
--Certainly not, like you point out.

> "Sanskrit has a lot of cultural significance to Indians and it forms the basis of the vocabulary of the modern Indian languages (even the Dravidian ones.)"

Why do you measure the significance of a language by the effect it has as the basis of current languages, or even by the effect it has on the culture of those people? I find it quite the opposite.

I would argue the significance of the language has been lost due to its evolution into different, better versions of itself.

"Thy truth, then, be thy dower" -- nobody speaks like that anymore, because it's more tedious to do so, and I have no time to express my thoughts in such a vague manner. It's evolved, its significance has been lost to its more friendlier, quicker and (controversially) easier version.

I would argue that the culture shapes language, rather than the other way round. Texting on my phone doesn't look like full sentences, for instance. I speak better here than I do on Reddit, where my chats can be reduced to "lol" and bad puns.

If I followed your [language -->(leads to)-->culture] statement,

I would have to ask the question, who's culture?I know, it's quite well woven into the culture of the practising Hindu's (I cannot find any numbers on practising vs non-practising to argue further into it), I know that the most Muslims in India have literate knowledge Arabic/Urdu that extends as a tangent to their culture(none into Sanskrit for sure)... I don't know enough about the roots of Christianity in India to speak about it publicly (I suspect the British certainly had some hand in it).

But again the population ratios are heavily skewed towards Hindu's so you can argue that their momentum drives the culture. But I think my first point stands, the language has been dragged through the mud to appease convoluted political interests, and this language serves no more modern purpose.

> "perhaps a better analogy for what the Indian nationalists want from it is Hebrew. That was also a language no one except specialists spoke. Until they did."

Ah the Hindu Nationalists, how many remember how they ran through the streets cutting the Muslims up[0]. It instantly normalised all religious thoughts in my head. We're all just disguising our issues into a "My Dad is much stronger than Your Dad" fight. Nobody is better.

It took a world war for the Israeli's to get their own land, and they guard their's almost too fiercely. These Nationalists have their land (Hindustan), and yet they incite violence and stir the pot, under the pretence of being the white blood cells of the country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_riots

PS:
Thank you for bringing up such good points btw, It's been a while since a thread made me stay up late to reply to. It's not often I think about these subjects, it was a good change of thought.
thanks for the heads up. this is just amazing!
Diesels aren't inherently more maintainable than gasoline engines. That impression comes from the fact that diesel engines are used in situations where durability is paramount, thus are designed to be robust. Most passenger car engines have several criteria that are more important than maintainability (emissions, power, fuel economy, size, cost, manufacturing simplicity).

People don't hold up BMW passenger diesels as the hallmark of maintainability. Heck, even the diesel offerings in American trucks are pretty bad from a reliability standpoint. Both Cummins and Navistar faced multiple CALs over reliability and warranty-related issues.
Our drivers always keep their hands on the steering wheel, even while in autonomous mode. There isn't really any way you could tell externally whether the car is engaged or not, other than some of the nuances of our driving behavior.

Source: I work at Cruise
This is correct, or at least was as of 25 years ago when the question came up in conversation with a professor of mine, I asked on Usenet, and got a response from someone who worked for the National Weather Service.

Apparently they had specifically debated about whether to weight it on population density. In other words should they try to make it be so that a 90% chance of rain means that 90% of the people listening to the forecast encounter rain? They decided not to on the principle that people do not care equally about forecasts. Farmers care more than city dwellers, and city dwellers who care about forecasts pay more attention when they are deciding whether to take a trip to the country. Sorting out all of these issues to produce a perfect forecast for the audience was a can of worms that they decided not to dive into, and instead they kept to the simple, unambiguous and easily measured percentage of land area.
Yes, like in Gattaca we will decide the traits of people based on the gender, race and blood samples and assign jobs based on that.
No, you rebutted with interpretations from a single party which are actually referring to governments only, not companies.

So, again, you have provided no argument regarding Google's case.
I think the idea is that right now, MS doesn't have much of a choice. Like it or not (and I doubt MS likes it), the server world runs on UNIX/Linux, and out of the four "mainstream" OSs (Windows/Mac /GNU+Linux/Chromebooks+Linux), it's the only one without a UNIXlike back, so while MS is fine on the desktop, they'll have long term problems if developers move to Mac or Linux and the community will see alternatives to Windows.

But in the end, it's not as if Windows is Open Source, and there's no guarantee that WSL will exist in it's current shape forever.

This is actually the whole EEE strategy. You embrace it, as a monopoly you can push your copy over any other, then you "extend" and improve it (so there'll be code which will only work on WSL) and then ... You won.
> Whether a future token sale chooses to register as a security or is completely exempt from securities frameworks because it is a product

The "many" I refer to are the people get to decide, legally, whether it's a security or a product. The polite thing for the SEC to do would be to announce a new rule. The less polite route, though still completely legal, would be to prosecute under the Acts in an SEC court [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-fights-challenges-to-its-in...
If I didn't care https://archive.org/details/78_if-i-didnt-care_ink-spots-jac...

Andy Dufrense
VS Code is one of the worst apps out there? Every time a VS Code release is posted to HN, the app gets almost universal praise for the rate of development and feature support.

Here's an example of a thread from the April update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14267424

Electron is a resource hog, but is CPU/RAM really at much of a premium? I run VS Code and Slack on a used Macbook Air from 2012 without issue while also running Chrome and other processes.
Nobody's forcing you to be here, Friend. If you're starving for Reddit, you can get some for free right down the street.
SOME PECULIARITIES YOU WANT TO KNow ABOUT LASERS AND LASER ENGRAVERS
Wow I like the idea; this could wel be elongated to very large scales! Nice work!
A few notes on your comment here...keep in mind none of this is intended to be patronizing, in case my tone comes across that way. I just like talking about this.

> So far I have a 4.6% total return on trying to capitalize on the volatility. That's much less than if I had just held at the original buy.

If you compare the returns between those two strategies (buy and hold vs mean reversion), make sure you include comparisons of their beta profiles. Their risk measures are going to be very different.

> When you hold yourself to rules, it also decreases maximum losses too.

Speaking of rules, do you have a maximum tolerable drawdown for the strategy, or a number of consecutive losses at which you stop loss or retire the strategy? In order to add more rigor to your work (and so you know there is an element of empirical strategy here instead of just luck), you should conceive a set of priors for the strategy that allow you to set a hypothetical win rate. If you deviate too far from the win rate, or too far from a drawdown as mandated by your risk management rules, you should shut down the algorithm pending a review of its inputs and retire it if it's no longer working.

> Right now if the volatility and my returns hold for even just two years, it could be going from $500 to over 100K.

There are a few hypotheses implicit to your thought here:

1. Market volatility for the target cryptocurrency will remain functionally stable for the next two years,

2. Your strategy will remain functionally stable for the next two years,

3. There is sufficient liquidity to allow you to continually compound your trading strategy's assets with its returns for the next two years, from an initial outlay of $500 to over $100,000, without hitting capital constraints along the way.

Those are all testable hypotheses (which, technically, you're involved in doing), and I can't tell you if they're realistic. I wouldn't count on all three of them being correct though.
"If the goal was to confirm Damore's thesis, Team Google is doing a great job."

Yes, indeed.

This is something we, as a culture, need to look at more carefully.
Like many others I got the idea because of an itch I had with work.

I run a small SaaS and I found myself constantly creating and updating HTML pages of various types: help and documentation for users, landing pages, product description, in-app content etc... There are myriad solutions for each of these, but none really nailed the use-case to me so I imagined what I really wanted and started building it.

It's taken a long time but Cicerone is getting close to an alpha release. Basically it's the most pleasant way of creating structured HTML content that I could come up with. http://cicerone.co
Oh the irony...
Even the icon is surprised.
Right- what I'm saying is we keep taxing capital gains upon conversion to currency, but tax them the same as any other income.
It literally is a peer-reviewed scientific study. Middlebrow cynical dismissals are boring.
Hotspot Shield VPN accused of violating users privacy, spying on browsing habits
a few scientists chime in:

https://archive.is/z6xxP#selection-391.260-391.683

I for one take their words over Yonatan Zunger in this - as this is after all, their field of expertise. Zunger may be great in many things, but behavioural science, evolutionary psychology and psychology in general are i'm fairly certain not fields where he holds any achievements.
Aside: there seems to be a lot of renewed interest in .Net with the advances of Core and other cross platform support in the open.
You could tax capital gains as income at the time of realization of the gains.

IE, buy all the stock you want. It doesn't matter. The dividends you get, and any payout you get from selling those stocks (even for immediate reinvestment) count as income.
Show HN: Ruby gem for defending against SSRF attacks
Well, I'm really not qualified to answer, but I think it's because regardless of how small each individual piece of "debris" would be, together it should still form a huge amount of matter. All matter gives of electromagnetic radiation. If there was normal matter there, we'd see the electromagnetic radiation, but we don't. So it has to be something else. It's kinda like how we can see those epic cloud nebula formations. Those clouds are basically just dust and gas and other tiny stuff. And it's not as clumped together as you'd think, but we can still detect it lightyears away.
You stated multiple times that he has a PhD from Harvard. That is a falsehood. It's not an "if", it is a fact. Harvard confirmed he didn't earn a PhD to a Wired reporter[1].

You are correct that he wrote two papers.

You now state that he "didn't suggest he had one", when in fact he did: he said "PhD, Systems Biology" on his linkedin[2] profile.

This is shameful behavior on your part, but understandable because your defense of his joke of a memo depends on his authority to speak about the subject as a PhD in Biology, which he doesn't have.

Maybe it's time for you to go back to all the places where you stated he has a PhD and post retractions.

[1] https://twitter.com/nitashatiku/status/894939560391565317

[2] https://twitter.com/NuritBaytch/status/895010602380341248
Researchers Find a Malicious Way to Meddle with Autonomous Cars
The human part is pretty cheap compared to the other parts at least here in Toronto:

Car insurance $220 (20h at minimum wage)

Car payment $780 (70h at minimum wage)

Gas $200 (18h at minimum wage)

Parking $250 (22h at minimum wage)

If I didn't enjoy driving and having a nice car, it would already be cheaper to Uber everywhere.
That would be an interesting read. Where do I subscribe to get notified on release?
Wish I could paste that Michael Scott "Thank You" gif here.
Ask HN: What is your single line Today I Learned?
Don't black holes emit radiation or something?
Note for the European readers:

You can call your bank, get your card switched over to Freedom™ mode and enjoy faster payments.

Might not want to do this with a debit however.
You may be onto something. I for one would welcome such filtering as I would appreciate staying away from leftist echo chambers such as Google.
Innovating in the liberal arts: code as language at Bard College