skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who is willing to bet their job on a controversial posting about company policy to a broad company mailing list staying internal either doesn't mind being fired or is an idiot.
> Exactly. No one's worried that we have too few female coal miners

> Hell, no one's worried that we have too few female oil rig workers

There are programmes to increase the numbers of women in both those industries.

There's news media coverage of it:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellevate/2016/12/07/the-energy-...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/11620315/Bu...

There's research on it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4279861/
Yet another example of a great service that was killed by all the wrong kinds of licensing issues. Artists always saw the discovery potential in SoundCloud but bean counters just saw an opportunity to put the squeeze on.
How much funding did they get and how much runway does hat provide?

I don't see it listed in either the TC article or any of the top level links.
Google cancels staff meeting after Gamergate-style attack on employees
What about the environmental waste of running World of Warcraft servers? Playing video games? Watching Netflix? Imagine how much electricity we'd save if everyone shut off their gaming PC/console, we could put it toward something useful.
HN Censors “Google CEO Should Resign” Post. (Over 200 Upvotes in 30min)
Steve Jobs didn't pretend to be a nice guy / white knight, so it wasn't hypocritical.
please show me on the doll where easylist caused copyright infringement.

admiral provides some service. some people do not want it. the list is not owned by admiral and easylist does not go into the functionalclam website, nor is it a list of results to copyright material. what exactly does a text file do to violate the dmca? this is setting a dangerous precedent.
The memo appears to be based on actual real science that seems to be the consensus.

However, the author appears to be completely tone deaf and extremely socially awkward - he has very poor communication skills. And lacking the understanding that there is a current culture war going on - to allow himself to be taken as a champion of some of those groups seems to show he is oblivious to the greater social/political discussion out there.

It does not help his argument to be the white knight for the _actual_ misogynists and racists.
Show HN: Theywish.io – What famous people wish they knew when they were younger
Programmers have been doing UI/UX and design for decades.
It's not posh, but definitely nice, quiet and family-friendly I think. And the air seemed fresher compared to the city. Probably the rent will be bit higher, but the mortgage was ~600 (several months ago) for a nice two-bedroom apartment.
I don't think it was written in Google's voice. It was written in the voice of a young likely somewhat autistic engineer talking to his colleagues on an message board designed for discussing the topic of his memo. Then the media/Pichai sacrificed him on the alter of political correctness/profit.
Everyone should contact their investors.

"Your portfolio company @getadmiral is committing fraud by filing false DMCA requests. Can you fix this?"

Birchmere Ventures

Florida Gulfshore Capital

Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research

Mosley Ventures

New World Angels

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/admiral-2#/entity

If they are made aware a portfolio company is committing fraud, hopefully they have enough ethics to help sort out the situation. Not a lawyer, but if the investors are aware of the fraud and do nothing, they may have some liability themselves.
Yes, James isn't owed a charitable reading. He is owed a rational reading.

addendum: Irrational people misinterpreting a text is precisely that. Surely you can't be saying that a text having a fairly high bar for intelligent interpretation and discussion is reason for that text to not exist?
One of his main points in the memo is at the top:"Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. "

What am I missing? This is the topic he explores the most in his memo and I don't see anything analyzing social effects.

While his paper is nuanced, he basically only focuses on the biological argument and seeks to change company policy as a result of this.

One of these being... to end the diversity goals. Yes I did read the memo.
The disingenuous debunkings?

> The article perniciously misrepresents the nature and significance of known sex differences to advance what appears to be a covert alt-right agenda.

He must be a sneaky alt-righter! How else could he disagree with me?
>I don't see how this would work when the URL lists are full of regexps etc.

I guess you could distribute a compiled finite automaton instead of a list of hashed values. It would make searching GitHub for "infringing lists" much harder (even harder than hashes).

Nevertheless, I agree with "We shouldn't have to pursue a technical solution". There's no point in trying to act like a Mr. smarty-pants in legal situations, as most technical solutions might not work out as expected in court.
What does it remove from ubuntu?
In which countries could you host, where the DMCA isn't applicable or enforced?
Unless we have another housing bubble burst and your 1 million $ asset falls down to 400k
I thought the OPer name looked familiar. On our second point though, the OP seems to suggest that this was the mechanism GitHub recommended using and the DMCA does seem to include language for tooling that circumvents access controls, but if I remember the DVD situation correctly it wasn't upheld at least in that situation, at least in some jurisdictions -- fair use.
> conversely, does the (sometimes aggressive) privileging of ww2 wrongs not "dilute" what others have faced? even in modern or near-modern times?

Yes. I guess it was special. I think that it touches something we fear deeply - that seemingly rational/intelligent/scientific people can do evil things.

I think there have been plenty of things since then which have similar levels of horrificness (albeit usually on a smaller scale). I just don't think they proc the "there but for the grace of god go I" reaction
HN certainly isn't a utopia, and a lot of the problems mentioned are just inherent to online forums.

The only real addictive bit is the points system on HN. I'd be fine with that just going away. It wouldn't be the first time I've refreshed posts I've made repeatedly to see the tally go up.
As would I! Unfortunately, it seems the Realist sect of International Relations seems to be en vouge these last few decades. That said, there is an existential threat to 'science' in general with these large and impossible to replicate engineering experiments. They kinda get subsumed into the 'Big Science' camp where the budgets mean more than anything else and then incentives get muddied. In the physics field, there is still enough animosity and ego between the researchers to keep it all in 'science' and the results don't get massaged like in bio where it's all 'Big Science' now and the results get tweaked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(international_relatio...
If there's one thing this year has established, it's that we're all centrists, from the "create a white ethnostate" to "blackbloc anarchy forever" people.

Not that you could ever take people at their word for their beliefs and politics, but its seems especially disingenuous in this case.
Yeah, he slipped in a huge assumption there as if it's established fact.

Of course Asians in the US are smart. There is a high bar for foreigners entering the US.

This is the genius behind "Give me your tired, your poor". We actually end up taking the hard working, wealthy ones who've gotten into college by passing tests in their second language at the same age as we go to school.
Okay, maybe Ubuntu stopped being stupid and only Debian is still guilty of this?

This used to be a huge problem. I've since convinced [most PHP devs I talk to] to stop using distro-provided packages, in favor of deb.sury.org.
I lock my computer habitually even if I'm just walking over to a co-workers desk. I find it funny though, because I was forced into this habit from my days in school where leaving your computer open/unlocked meant coming back to all sorts of pranks.
What's with the "they would only take action if GitHub agreed." ? I'm confused, what's the link between GitHub and EasyLink (except code hosting)?
For an internal discussion? Someone who sees a pattern and can put a summary on it. It's just saying "This is how things seem to me to go here".
Very well written and fair article. But Pichai shouldn't resign.

>"We are at a moment when mobs on the left and the right ignore evidence and destroy scapegoats. That’s when we need good leaders most."

Completely agree. Modern thought about societies focuses so much on the tremendous force of general trends on our lives that we forget how influential singular figures at critical moments in history are.
I think they desserve a pass on this one, media made it sound like they were on the brink of imploding in the past few weeks.
"While there may be scientific evidence of differences between men and women, using these differences to conclude that women are biologically less inclined to engineering is a gross leap in reasoning that is not at all supported by the facts."

That is not true. The facts support the exact opposite conclusion: that prenatal exposure to androgens orients a person toward things/systems rather than people. [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/
That sounds familiar. I think I was also getting something from somewhere near Scottsdale, AZ.
Probably worthwhile to link this HN post of SC's own announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14991071
Judge Gives the Green Light to Third-Party Cookies
> not at human level yet

Not even at insect level yet. There's no doubt things will improve, and there's already great value, but I hate calling ML "AI". It's been over 70 years of ML research (specifically neural networks) and I don't know how long it's going to take to reach insect-level behavior (which is still far from basic intelligence) let alone so-called AGI (which, BTW, people in the '50s were certain is just around the corner), even though I think we'll get there eventually. We'd better stop using the term "AI" to mean anything other than a field of research or an aspiration, and definitely stop using it to describe existing software.
On most mouses that's not an issue (assuming no motoric problems). Ctrl-click, on the other hand, requires the use of both hands in most cases.
In this case, it's not the shell that's the problem, it's ssh's command line argument parsing that you need to be careful with.
170M. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/soundcloud-saved-by-170-million...

As for runway, hard to guess b/c the new CEO will presumably make some changes.
Related question to ask HN:

Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer hatred?
I think Khosla is actually right on the Constitutional point--if the State does make him keep the existing beach access (parking and all) that's a taking. That said, Khosla had full notice of what the State wanted before he bought the property.

I'm curious as to how you stand behind both of these statements.

Being as the second clearly contradicts the first.
Soundcloud and Spotify fill very different niches in the music streaming market. Spotify is slightly more difficult to break into, you have to either be signed to a label or start your own label and get set up with a distributor to put your music on it (just like Tidal or any of the download stores). With Soundcloud, you can upload anything you want, and the barrier to entry is very low. It's important to those of us who are discovering new artists for whatever reason (DJ, record label, promoter, management, etc.), because artists can put their music on Soundcloud for the world to hear without already being involved in the industry.

Soundcloud Go turned them into a competitor with Spotify, but that was never their forte in the first place. They just saw it as a way to possibly make money. I think they need to focus on the community aspect of things, and see themselves as more of a social networking tool centered around music rather than yet another music store/streaming service.
mosh layers this sort of thing over UDP, to provide client roaming capability.
There are plenty of reasons to discredit Stephen Miller on the things he says.

That other people make fun of him for his looks is pretty boring and I'll leave them to their antics - hardly like this type of behavior doesn't happen with _any_ large group.
First, you have to accept that the debate isn't about all about scientific facts; it's about their implication in workplace policies. Reducing workplace interaction to science is a fallacy.

When deciding how to act in the world, you have to use your judgement. When planning your diet, do you read a bunch of nutrition papers and decide what to eat 100% on what they say, or did you apply some cultural knowledge?

Second, "facts that are completely true" does not gibe with most cognitive scientists seem to agree.

Which is it? Did you check every fact yourself, or did you just accept what he had to say uncritically?

From the article: Similarly, if you can read this guy's entire memo and find yourself blindly nodding, then you probably aren't using your brain either.

The phrase facts that are completely true sounds young and naive. Just like the left can cite studies about unconscious bias, the right can cite studies about biological differences. That doesn't mean they're all true.

Even if you accept that "scientific facts" are the way to decide the workplace policy, his article isn't complete. Where is the scientific fact that says how much discrimination against women there is? He said "I'm not denying discrimination exists" but didn't address it further.

BTW I largely defended Damore, because many people I talked with have extreme "left wing" views. His points were completely mischaracterized in the media. It became a political circus. But I will also argue against extreme "right wing" views. That was the point of the quote.

FWIW I worked at Google for 11 years, and both my parents and sister have Ph.D.'s and are in the sciences, two in biological sciences. I know how "studies" work. Both people on the left and right (at least in this debate) have a naive view of science.
Pattern matching is the one thing DL is good for. Which is why it's a good match for CV. Calling DL AI in the first place was a mistake or at least over zealous marketing.

Playing go or chess or matching patterns are all things intelligent begins can do but that does not imply that doing those thing means you are intelligent.
> they could have landed $10M on Damore and never noticed it.

Word would get around. Followed by many manifestos worth $10M.
Start a gofundme for raising money for a counterclaim? I'd throw some in.
At my company we use Stripe, and we have a rep that (I believe?) we have a direct line to. We started using them ~ 18 months ago, so maybe something has changed recently, but from my PM's perspective I think they have been quite responsive.
What do you mean by mainstream?
That feels like a backwards argument to me. There are many free software companies (RedHat, SUSE, Canonical, etc) that create plenty of innovative software. I'm sure you know the difference between "free as in beer" and "free as in speech", but your argument appears to be conflating proprietary and commercial. Especially when you start discussing academic settings (which, by the way, uses a lot of proprietary software).

But more importantly, a discussion of "what could've been" is not really helpful to a discussion of what we should do today. I could equally argue that if users were more empowered than they are now, that you would see much higher levels of technical literacy and much more innovation. Do I have evidence to back that up? No, but neither do you.

I can give you more examples of free software that didn't have a proprietary counterpart, but I don't think that you really want such examples. You want to discuss an alternate universe where proprietary software doesn't exist.

> Would there be a Microsoft, Google or Apple or Facebook? No.

How on Earth could you possibly know that? You're possibly right that they wouldn't be identical to their current counterparts (they probably wouldn't be able to mistreat their users to the same extent), but those companies and those products might still exist.

Social networks existed before Facebook. Hand-held computers existed before Apple. Search engines existed before Google. Operating systems existed before Microsoft.
Here's the branch for it:

https://code.launchpad.net/~andfagiani/terminator/tmux

And here's the discussion of it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1301605

You can see in comment 18 how to use it.
By advancing the hypothesis that it might be a factor, without a need to do so, it's always going to be seen as advocating for it, even if he says he's not.

For example, a host on certain news channel might say, "Is Obama secretly a Muslim? I'm not saying that he is, but why can't we ask the question?"

It's easy to see why people would get upset by that comment (for multiple reasons). The fact that he says he isn't saying that doesn't matter, because he effectively just did.

If he had just limited the paper to inclusiveness as a conservative in a left leaning culture, without dragging the whole women inequality thing into the matter, it probably wouldn't have been meet with such a backlash.
considering how hard Zuck is pushing for this, then sure, let him put his money where his mouth is... oh, you want other people to pay for your lefty ideas? I see.
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> this is not legal advice

Funny how this disclaimer is only found besides legal advice. Really, you should not have to write this. ("I am not a lawyer" is more reasonable, though.)
IANAL, but is it really a "taking" if the state wants him to maintain the existing level of access that the previous owner provided?

No, of course not. And that's the whole point that's been finally upheld by the Court.
So... you don't like equal protection laws? I'm like really struggling to figure out the alternative interpretation here.
Obama appointed Wheeler. It's not exactly a tactic that only the current administration uses.
The desktop that has the maximum number of core developers - including kernel, desktop, ux and userland is Fedora. And it shows.
I'm not sure what you are arguing, can you be more explicit? You're saying that you agree with the fundamental point of the memo?
And I get modded down, why? Because these comments do not reflect a purely progressive viewpoint? You should reconsider whom are allowed to moderate these forums.
ah, but you might be. This gets into a crazy area where we're talking about some entity offering up information via HTTP and you choosing how to represent that data. You could use Lynx, Firefox, Chrome, IE or even just browse everything with Python/BeautifulSoup in a console. Does the provider get to chose how you represent that data?

Well it turns out they kinda do. Sites have terms of service people supposedly agree to, all the time, without reading, because it's fucking impossible.

I posted this argument before and got the following comments which make a good argument:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14095147

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14095410

However the comments get into implementations like Netflix and rendering that data, but it's a bit different because in that case you are paying for access.

Will we be in a world one day where sites can require specific web browsers, by law?
Here's the thing - if blocking the loading of your protection script from a third-party server is all it takes to bypass your paywall, haven't you really, really screwed up?

Surely it should be the other way around - the paywall doesn't let you through unless the code is accessible and gets run?

I'm not going to try and claim people wouldn't be so stupid as to try to implement it this way...
> pro-rata pricing wasn’t a thing

That's not true. We use Braintree for almost the same per-seat model described in the article and we pro-rate changes to the subscription mid-cycle using Braintree's "pro-rate on upgrades/downgrades" options.

Ref docs: https://articles.braintreepayments.com/guides/recurring-bill...
And in more than one way too : 1) he didn't discuss "performance" but "affinity" 2) there was supporting evidence linked, before Gizmodo conveniently stripped it away.
How were they able to pack so many digital radio stations on FM? Is it because it's higher frequency?
I don't understand how you could have one without the other?
Ooooh boy. This feels like the kiss of death for SC. So many startups hit this point and then get rescued at the 11th hour with more funding... on the condition of ushering in a new CEO and COO to try and pivot the company's direction. They completely change up the product and drive away the users, and the entire thing collapses like a house of cards.
Correct, it seems to be something like http://www.ssl.co.uk/indexplus

Removing the parameters in the url gives a descriptive error page. (Error from Index+ Web Server (hixclient.exe)

I've found many museum sites running this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

It most certainly does apply to anti-circumvention in many cases.
Genetic / biotech stuff, driven by CRISPR. All the ones you mentioned, except nanotech maybe, are pretty locked in to create massive changes. I think the bio stuff will be the most "surprising", not least because it's harder to to write believable breathless hype about it. Not to say there won't be plenty of attempts, but I feel like the public is a little more inoculated against wild health/medical claims than "killer AI" or "$100k bitcoin", which is both a good thing and more likely to create surprise when a few of them turn out to be true.

AR a really close second, but I think people will be a little bit more ready for it given prevalence in sci-fi and experience of rapid computer & graphics progress in our lifetime. So it's easier to "expect" a world of Pokemon Go on steroids in your AR glasses than it is, say, one where a boutique offshore firm is offering to give your baby the ability to see into the infrared spectrum or something.
I'm confused. We've been Braintree customers for 6+ years now and they provide both "pro-rata pricing" and "discount model" based on more than time. I can provide screenshots that show both features for subscriptions and transactions. So confused right now.
Brian Kernighan on Associative Arrays
RunKit is awesome, highly recommend it.
Most surprising? I'm thinking AR, mostly because it's much less discussed today than similarly positioned tech, but no less viable.

Also, it seems about time for another psychedelic revival / breakthrough, so don't count out research on psychoactive plants and compounds (if that counts as tech per your metric).
This is crazy, how can a link be a violation of the DMCA?
If we're defining expertise in such a way that it can only be gained through work experience at the corporations you'll later be in charge of regulating then that's a problem with what we consider expertise to be.
I think he should resign, but mainly because he is a shitty CEO. Google can really use their version of Nadella.
Most of the numbers in the link are the bodycounts of soldiers, not civilians. And the count for 'slavery' is laughably small and only deals with slaves executed as punishment; far, far more slaves were worked to death in the fields and mines. You really, really didn't want to be a Roman slave, unless you were an educated Greek.
Depends on what you define as “to break”. Of all the sites I use most remain very much usable even without scripting support, but certainly some functionality is often lost (whilst performance, on the other hand...)
they will need contact each node..i.e. device that has the blockchain and file a dmca directly w/ each one... maybe? lol