skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they going to issue DMCA takedown requests to the other (currently) 76 forks?
I guess there is also an inductive problem with not accepting any skew whatsoever. For example, the field of medicine has minimal skew, but if you drill into specialties, there is massive skew. At what level of granularity does skew stop mattering? It has to become noisy at some point, but good luck deciding on a concrete and consistent metric for determining where that is.
Do you have source on Tesla using AMD chips?
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It happens when either major party is in control, but you're right: the Democrats lean toward more active regulation to shape outcomes in ways that often don't benefit dominant players, while the GOP aims to erase regulation, often bluntly, and leave outcomes to the markets. As a practical matter, "markets" means "dominant players in the market". The GOP view on regulatory agencies is that they should look more like chambers of commerce, and as such, they end up stocked with representatives of those dominant players.
You can tell a young person wrote that copy from the use of "on accident" instead of "by accident" on the DMCA image.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5947035/29184514-2...
That's not news at all, they've been penalizing sites manually for years.
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Hi!

Yeah, we're able to send to a subset based on recent interests (downloads) and we have many categories. I've just added my email to my profile - please feel free to get in touch.
> It would have been insanely easy for them in the last decade to implement: one-click .mp3 purchases for individual songs, artist merchandise stores, ticket sales, etc. You name it.

Exactly.

SC was too focused on the social aspect instead of trying to be a useful tool for music/audio pros.

> Honestly I think the service needs to make a graceful exit

Couldn't agree more.
Way to divert attention from the regulatory capture highlighted in the article. When a monopolist says that consumers are doing SOOOO great under their regime the standard response should always be "then you have nothing to fear from some competition".
Sure, and to this point, there have been at least a handful of times when the 51% attack could have happened, as well-known, related mining pools could have combined their power to achieve the majority. It has been plausible before, and I'd imagine what you mention is the reason it still hasn't happened. It would destroy the coin, because who knows what happened while they had majority. There would probably be some kind of fork, and I'm sure the value would diminish. It would be messy for everybody.
>For the true capitalist

What percentage of the US population do you believe falls into this category?
I'm struggling to understand how preventing access to a tracking pixel circumvents copyright.

Does this make sense to anyone? It sounds like they're "crying DMCA" because someone turned off their analytics? Can analytics be a "right" under copyright?
Can you explain why you need 16/16/16? Wikipedia tells me that one x16 PCIe 4.0 connection has a capacity of 32GB/sec (x8 is 16GB/sec). A quick search shows NVMe drives with a sustained read or write speed of ~2-4 GB/sec. Equally for the GPU - you need to move a lot of data in/out of the GPU to saturate a x8 connection.
Thanks for summarizing.

I suggest you reread #3 and note the use of language like "suggest", "consistent with" and "perceived". Authors use language like this because its really hard to make definitive statements in this area. In addition, its really hard to quantify the size of the effect and how much is due to nature vs. nurture.

Furthermore, I'm relatively certain the authors are not experts on software engineering. As you have likely seen at this point, you could also claim that higher empathy actually should incline people to the job (see, e.g. https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...)
Beautifully done! Affine transformations! Gotta love that Jacobian, baby.
I get the point you're making, there's always some human resistance to new systems but it's something you manage through. It's not a show stopper.
>"Obviously some of the specifics are going to be a bit different for Soundcloud, but it still explains the general concept a bit."

However both Bill Gates and Steve Case moved into into an exclusive chairman role after steering their respective companies to great heights and giving investors good returns.

This individual is doing so as part of an agreement that's necessary in order keep the company alive. I don't think the specifics could be more different.
This seems like fight between two fractions in the Uber. On the one side, it is Benchmark capital while the other side there is Travis and investors aligned with him.

What is uber ownership breakdown? What do you think who will win?
Re the Gates quote: Unless you're Ray Kurzweil, in which case you always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and wildly, ludicrously overestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.

I'm old enough to have lived through the Drexlerian nanotechnology mania, and the Kurzweilian exponentialism mania, so I've learned to be extremely skeptical about anyone predicting earth-shattering advances in any field of technology in a mere decade's time. (The Singularity is not just over the horizon. Stop. You're not going to live for a thousand years or upload your mind to a computer. Just stop.)

My prediction is 2027 will be almost indistinguishable from 2017, if we're lucky, i.e., barring nuclear war or some CRISPR-crafted super-virus. However, if I had to choose a technology surprise for ten years from now it would involve being unlucky, i.e., the Loss of Everything Good due to an overwhelming tide of cyberterrorists and cybercriminals. I think few people (including me) fully appreciate how much destruction and chaos could be wrought, and how difficult it could be to protect our vital systems, so in that sense it would catch a lot of people by surprise.

The optimistic technology outlook for 2027 is petabyte thumb drives, 16K televisions, 8G wireless, cheaper solar cells, and marginally better medical scanners. It's a pretty uninspiring list, and none of it is surprising.

That's my hope. Please let there be no surprising technology in 10 years. Because the chances of a good surprise are vastly outweighed by the odds of bad ones.
It makes me cringe too. How deaf and gross.
Ask HN: Good examples of well written Rails code?
I'm trying to find some good examples of well written Rails code (CRUD apps, etc.) to review and try to improve my own abilities.

Does anyone have any examples of good/solid Rails apps out there that are open source?
Do we know anything about the group? Is it a group of 2 or of 200? Do they control 1% or 25% of shares?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14979215 and marked it off-topic.
You're again talking about current performance.

The full HTML and CSS spec is large, complicated, and full of corner cases, and thus a lot harder to optimise. The point GP is making is that a simpler framework is much easier to maintain and optimise because it has much less to worry about (again, in principle).

I think the key difference is this part of your earlier reply:

> when native apps support styling

.. when the implicit statement Illnyar was comparing CSS to a framework that doesn't support styling, or at least much simpler styling.

I'm not hating on browsers, HTML or CSS here - they're amazing technologies. But these are two different points being made.
Another point is, CLEAN UP YOUR LIST!!!!

If you don't have 2M engaged readers, why are you paying to email them? They are costing money and don't bring any revenue in.

At an agency I was with a few years ago had an active list of a few hundred thousand, which was really closer to a million when you added the people we purged from our lists monthly. If you haven't opened any email in the last 3 months, purge.
You'd also want to look for an OTC buyer at those levels. Gemini will facilitate those transactions and I think a couple others too. I don't have much experience in that area though.
The personal attack you crossed into here is completely unacceptable on HN. I've banned this account.

All: introducing personal abuse into what is already a divisive and inflammatory topic will get you banned here, so please just don't do it.
Interesting take. I could paraphrase this as a response to this sort of strawman, "It sucks that we have to pay [for xyz necessity], wait [in traffic for abc experience], and accept [toxic influencers on your life], but thats just part of the human experience".

I think its an acceptable strawman, as often we do need to remind ourselves that, "No one but me is actually forcing me to [live here / work here / see these people ]".
> I don't think it will. Level off - maybe.

I mean, the dotcom bubble popped but websites are still here and more profitable than ever. The bubble popping doesn't mean that DL is going to go away. People will just have more reasonable expectations about what it can do.
"I'm just hearing defensiveness"

Claiming defensiveness when you are being intentionally dense in the discussion is a transparent, tired tactic.

"What I don't see clearly is a rational justification for ignoring cultural sexism."

Absolutely no one is promoting "cultural sexism", so you're now contriving canards.
oh there have been quite a few but they have all been scams
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I used to read about 25 or so online news publications each week. A bit more on a monthly basis. I had paid subscriptions to a handful of publications (8-9?), spending more money on these subscriptions than I had ever done for paper newspapers and magazines in the past.

Over the past 3-4 years I have ditched most newspapers and I have dropped most subscriptions. For three main reasons:

- Both advertising content and the newspapers advertising themselves has gotten really annoying. No, I don't appreciate you throwing modal windows at me. No I'm not going to subscribe to your newsletter. No I don't appreciate having to click away a second or third modal window.

- Advertising masquerading as content. Sure, it is marked as "sponsored content", but every effort is made to hide that fact. This is dishonest.

- I don't gain anything from reading most of these publications. They don't make me smarter and I don't remember what I read one week later. The bulk of news articles are written by uninformed people incapable of useful analysis. Important news is widely disseminated anyway so I won't miss anything.

When the ads are more important than the content, I won't burden them with my page views. It isn't for me.

In the process I found that I had been spending too much time reading news. Limiting my news intake to just a few news sources (3-4) whose biases I understand, and at least which I can try to adjust for, is enough. The number of books I've consumed per year has had a sharp uptick since I stopped reading as many news websites.
The average broadband speeds seem to have an odd distribution (which would be the most useful for comparision). As the US doesn't break the to 10 for 4 or 10 Mbps connections in Fig 8 & 9 repspectively of that same report. Nor does it break the top 10 in the average peak speed in fig 7. Is there a connection speed equivalent of gini coefficient? If that were calculated, it might seem we have a connection speed inequality might mirror the US income inequality.
So, if the DMCA request turns out to be valid (e.g. hypothetically in court), shouldn't all the ad-serving domains just include a similar anti-adblock measure on their ad servers, thus making it so, that blocking their servers would count as a circumvention?
You should promote interesting blog content to your list, and get them to go to your website to learn more.

I'm looking at https://www.reddit.com/r/books/ and it looks like there's so many different things that 'book people' are interested in.
Nobody argued with the obvious fact that people expressed outrage and took offense at the memo. The argument started with your baseless claim that "women are biologically less inclined to engineering is a gross leap in reasoning that is not at all supported by the facts."
what is uO? I've been using a hosts file. I'd love to up my game.

Ahhh... other comments are saying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
Most legislation needs 60 votes to pass the Senate, which means you need at least 8 Democrats (counting the two independents with them). Legislation which Republicans can pass by themselves is the exception, not the rule. One of the problems they had with their health care bill was that it had to fit into the narrow budget reconciliation rules so that they could pass it with a simple majority.
I didn't call it that so I'm not sure what you're responding to.
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Julie Bindel is a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/31/gender.weekend...

who's opposed to jury trials in rape cases

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/12/juries...

and marriage

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/may/25/...

That may not be the same far left as communism, but that is far left, not mainstream.

Michael Gove only wrote 13 articles for The Guardian over 10 years.

And I don't know why you thought pointing out that another Guardian opinion writer was a communist would help your case.
What in the world. Did not know this existed.

Gonna apply for the patent on two-click purchases...
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For a lot of the stuff I want to listen to, YouTube has it too so there isn't really much difference. However on iOS you can't have YouTube running in the background (there are some tricks to make it play a single video, but not a playlist), so SoundCloud wins for that - and the bandwidth of audio is less than video.
Hey, are you gonna drink that half-empty beer or can I have it?
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I would assume they'll follow up with a single request targeting all forks. You can see in many of GitHub's other listed takedowns that one request can target multiple repositories and forks at once.
Here's a starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc...
Well in this case USD might be the best metric, as Filecoin isn't traded like a typical token on the ethereum blockchain like past ICOs. This ICO was done on Coinlist [1]. Filecoin tokens don't even exist yet and won't even be on the ethereum blockchain. You're purchasing tokens in advance that will be given to you in the genesis block on Filecoin's platform whenever it launches.

I would be curious to see the ratios of the currencies involved in their funding. I.e how much raised was in raw USD vs ETH vs Bitcoin. Maybe most was in fact ETH? I have no idea, I haven't seen those numbers listed anywhere.

[1]. https://coinlist.co/static/media/How-to-Invest.0a9f70b4.pdf
I've only discovered Axios in the past few days but I really like their writing style. It's quick and to the point. Reading their About Us section, it seems like this was the goal "Stories are too long. Or too boring."
Short every AI startup you see.
I meant "hair-splitting" exactly like saying "he technically says he's in favor of diversity," even though his idea of what diversity is diverges wildly from how the term is generally understood.
Great work! I was curious about a few things:

1) Are you planning on using citus for clustering? Or will you have your own clustering implementation separate from Citus?

2) Can you still use barman, wal-e, etc for backups?

3) What are you guys using to generate docs.timescale.com? :)

4) Do you use any sort of custom on disk format?

5) Do you plan on implementing any sort of delta compression?

6) Is there/do you plan to have support for creating roll up/aggregation tables?

Cheers!
It'd be funny if Pichai was like "okay damore supporters, what are you going to do? use bing? good luck avoiding google products on the internet LOL"
What do scientists think about the claims of biological sex differences?
Are we really at the point where we need to link to Wikipedia to explain what CGI is? I'm feeling older than this fruitcake.
Having short-functions and DRYness is indeed prone to abuse, but it still works as a general guideline

The author disagrees. She's saying people tend to use too much abstraction, so the DRY principle (not principal) is actively harmful as it encourages more of a bad thing. The trouble with abstraction is it hides things from view.

To make this concrete consider a codebase with lots of 1-10 line functions spread amongst lots of files, vs one with half the functions in half the files which are 10-20 lines instead. The work has to get done somewhere, and lots of shorter functions of just a few lines and keeping it dry (no repetition) tends to lead to lots of classes/files/modules which don't do much alone calling each other, making it much harder to reason about execution or read the code.

Rather than functions with just a few lines or with hundreds of lines, I imagine she's talking about functions 10-100 lines long on average, with exceptions where reasonable. There is a middle ground here where a function is more readable and crucially doesn't force you to jump around much to find out what work it does.

There's a good quote from Sandi Metz in the article: "duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction"
Yes, and if the evidence he was using was wrong the best thing Google can do is to explain why it is wrong to change the perception. Instead, they are basically telling people that if they look at the evidence and reach a similar conclusion, they stand a chance of being fired for talking about it.

If someone points to the fact that there are many more blacks in the NFL than can be accounted if football talent is randomly distributed in the population and points to some evidence that maybe there are biological differences behind those numbers, the worst thing you can do is try to punish them for thinking. If they are using bad data, address that. If they are making a logical error, address that. But you can't just try to punish them because they looked at the statistics and the evidence and reached a conclusion that you don't like, but don't want to explain why you think it is wrong.
I like to imagine that the product already exists, then attempt to sell it to a customer face to face / in person.

Let's say I'm doing some kind of SaaS for accountants. I would meet with dozens of accounts with a sales pitch for "x software". This will quickly help you figure out if what you're planning on building is actually valuable.

Anybody that takes you up on the sale gets to be an early tester.
"It's like the most universally useful thing since the invention of the wheel."

I'll choose refrigeration, combustion engine, concrete, and probably hundreds of other things before computer vision.
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Not a recent high school student (my HS didn't offer AP CS classes :)), but formerly worked at Code.org on the curriculum frontend. Here's the Code.org AP Computer Science Principles curriculum: https://code.org/educate/csp

& PDF with rundown of what is covered on page 1: https://code.org/files/CSPSyllabusApril2016.pdf
Here's an article from someone who would have a much better grasp on the subject than you or I: http://blog.goldieblox.com/2017/08/open-letter-james-damore-...

Here's another breakdown: https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...

Basically, all of them say that, while men and women are not purely identical, the differences between them are nowhere near as great as the manifesto makes them out to be. The purely biological differences have little to no bearing on coding ability, and the bigger issues are societal. Like the effect of having something like this coming out on young women who hear it as being told that they're not welcome in tech.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree about having to be careful.

We extensively check any/all emails we send out to make sure we keep a great delivery rate even on routine emails. If we were to include an ad for example, we'd work with the advertiser to make sure the copy is good, is not misleading and that it doesn't trigger spam filters etc. Our members can easily unsubscribe or select the type of emails they receive and we avoid dark patterns.
> I don't understand why it's not done more often.

Regardless of what the issue was, the offended people may take further offence to being described as being upset.

> Actually, I _have_ seen great CEO's defuse situations like this

Which CEO? I'd love to see an example of this. Do you have a link or story to tell?
Let's not forget that the commentor is named 'dmcahelper' with a profile description which reads 'Help all parties understand and resolve DMCA issues efficiently and effectively to minimize file and repository impacts.' And as far as I can tell the account's only activity has been to comment on EasyList.

Doesn't seem very borderline to me, looks like a blatant attempt to confuse the issue by pretending to be some sort of authority.
Since the content is encrypted, how would you blacklist any content? The nodes don't know what kind of material they are hosting.
You have nothing to apologize for.

I'm sorry you ran into this on Hacker News. As a moderator of this place who spends much of his life trying to contain the poison, I can't tell you how ashamed I feel to see that here.
Don't they already have those in Boeing 787? They say "... available smart windows are ... expensive, have a blue tint, can take more than 20 minutes to dim ..." but the windows in the 787 dim in a few seconds and are evidently cheap enough to install in every 787 airplane. How is this new technology different?
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