skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentioned in the below comment, the author buried the probable lede: most of the time transmission is a placeholder to discourage others from using the band. During exceptional circumstances (as defined by the station's operator), it will transmit coded messages to global/regional operatives. E.g., to coordinate espionage when conventional communications are offline.
Neat tool and great to see another Torontonian!
> to read one data point of a series you end up reading an array-length of data points you might not care about for this particular query.

But DBs and FSs operate on pages of data and not individual records, so you will be reading that row anyway, and likely much more.
Or use something like Kill Bill. It has plugins for many different billing providers.

http://killbill.io/
> Estimated based on what? Myth?

That's the number of casualties Weatherford (whose work is described in the article) argues against in his book. I compared such estimates with the Roman body count described by Matthew White.

> The Mongol empire was one of the most inclusive and peaceful empires in human history.

It's easy to be called peaceful when you slaughtered all opposition beforehand.
[Discussion] Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O
Dropbear[0] doesn't seem to support "--" either.

[0] https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
Who pays the power bill?
No stats needed. Just go through the bug list for any software. How many of the bugs were introduced by the people who maintain stable packages?
> Should a user be able to purposefully block parts of a page?

I have yet to see a compelling/coherent argument for why they shouldn't.

As a partially sighted user myself, I find it infuriating when web developers try to override browser behaviour/modifications (e.g. blocking pinch to zoom). If we go down a path where users can't modify pages, we are taking a huge step backwards.
You overgeneralize and mischaracterize the memo with your claims, which leads me to suspect you never read it.

>Do you realize how subjective this is and how impossible it is to prove that today there are no other influences at play than biology

He never claims there are no other influences at play -

From the memo; note the works "in part" and "may explain" -
Note, I’m not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these
differences are “just.” I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men
and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why
we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

> And that we've maxed on the number of woman in this field and we're now at an equilibrium determined by biology?

There is no such claim of this whatsoever. Your comment is a great example of the problems with this debate.
It's like a person brand new to the job - you don't know their skills yet. After a few months one's co-workers should see those skills in action enough that the suspicion disappears. And after a few years the worker will hopefully develop enough that they can demonstrate their competency to pretty much anyone.

And ultimately the person will be enjoying their career, which makes most other considerations irrelevant.

It's not as if outsiders to a job have the ability to accurately evaluate the person doing the job. A company can't be held responsible for someone else's Dunning-Kruger effect.
Manjaro (Arch) w/xfce is pretty great, too.

https://manjaro.org/
Programming at work will not be same without SC. 8 hours per day of productivity boost.
That’s what I setup for my siblings whenever I can. I’m starting to get bored of doing full upgrades from scratch for them, but I only do them once or twice a year.

For Archlinux users like myself of course I could care less about Mint, but it cannot be denied that “normal” users appreciate intuitive and good-looking interfaces.
For one of my clients we had to recently choose between Stripe & Braintree. Although I was really pushing Stripe for the reasons outlined in this blog post, management eventually went with Braintree.

The reason for this is that Stripe had no phone number, and no way to contact them other than via their support channels, where I found response times to be very slow (perhaps this has changed in the past years?). With Braintree we have a rep who we can call at anytime who is very responsive.

Really for my boss it just came down to who had a phone number. I'm surprised that Stripe is lacking in this department, you would think that a company who wants you to trust them with all your payments would at least give you a way to talk to an actual human.
> Why are you objecting to getting more people to apply?

I'm not. Gender-biased recruiting is orthogonal to "getting more people to apply".

You can change the gender balance of applicants without increasing the number, and vice-versa.
> Most mountains are the children of lusty continental plates, birthed from scandalous collisions between landmasses too attracted to each other for their own good.

I laughed. That was a fun read.
Some sites still monetize (minimally / part of the time) with impression based schemes.
ooh, this used to work when searching the article in Google but has since stopped. Glad this workaround exists!
Does SC help fledgling artists get "discovered" and get record deals (financing for their art)? Could an integration with something like Patreon help increase the value of using SC: first for creating content, then for allowing others to consume it.

Also, how has BandCamp done so well as an independent music service? Any lessons to learn there and to apply to SC?
I appreciate your comment. Damore's statement made little sense to me and I chalked it up to another example of imprecise wording. Your explanation was thorough and clear. I'm going to reply to that comment here if you don't mind.

You state:

> Because of that and because of Google's standards, let's say that only 25% of all candidates have the skills and qualifications necessary to work at Google, which breaks down to 5 women and 20 men.

> Once again assuming a normal distribution with neither men nor women over or underrepresented in skill level, then without any sort of correcting for diversity, candidates would need to be in the top 10% of all candidates to receive a job offer (10 / 100). , this is 2 women and 8 men, leaving us with a false negative rate (i.e. people skilled enough to work at Google but who get declined) of 3 women and 12 men.

So if there 25 candidates who technically meet the requirements. But Google has a sorting process that is able to pick the best 10 of those 25. Why are those 15 considered a "false negative"? I would've thought a false negative would be when Google's evaluation puts someone who should be in the top 10 somewhere in the lower 25. Maybe it's semantics (and the generally complex problem of defining job qualifications and evaluating candidates). But I also wonder if such ambiguous/unoptimal hiring results are the fault of the job requirements. That is, could these requirements be tightened so that there's just 20, not 25 possible candidates to filter from.

(None of the above questions likely has anything to do with Damore's memo).

But back to Damore's memo. You think he isn't slandering colleagues because he's just stating how the mathematical distribution works out. Whether it involves decreasing false negatives or increasing false positives, isn't the real-life result the same? Given female Google employee hired in the same cohort, the likelihood that the female was let in because of lower standards (i.e. the top 3 of the bottom 15) are substantially higher than that she was hired for being among the 2 women of the top 10.

In a standard cohort, there are 3 women who have been hired who wouldn't been hired if Google hadn't stuck to non-diversity-prioritized system. That doesn't imply that at least a few women lucked out for being women, and not because of merit?
NATS Streaming with fault tolerance on Kubernetes
Generally web ui and web api are completely different techs. Even when you are talking node.js on your backend(which is only 1 out of many languages used), you still are likely dealing with databases and all kinds of things that aren't relevant in 99% of frontend cases. And when I'm doing backend dev work, which is most of what I do, I never deal with DOM and such. There are HUGE differences.
What happens if you do the -- fix and then use PuTTY? If it just fails then I'd argue that's OK, PuTTY will get updated as a result of the failure, no?
The title seems needlessly editorialized. (I have no problem with the word 'fuck', but the title of the page is "Why did we switch from Braintree to Stripe?")
There is very little difference between Mint and straight Debian. I prefer Debian because it's more stable and has a continuous rolling release cycle.

Ubuntu pissed a lot of people of when they forced Unity down our throats. This is why many moved to Mint in the first place.
You start by saying something is not "supported by the facts" and then go on by talking about how it's "highly offensive" (i.e.: hurts your feelings). I just want you to meditate on this for a bit.
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I am not a lawyer. I'm just a guy who takes my employment rights seriously and has always tried to be up-to-date and understand them.

From my understanding, a hostile work environment is created when a reasonable person would interpret actions or speech as hostile, offensive, or intimidating, and such actions are not a one-time event, but frequent, severe, and pervasive, and they must be so serious as to change the conditions of your employment. Keeping in mind that terms like "reasonable person" are legal terms and we're not dealing in colloquialisms, it's hard to see how this memo could be interpreted by a judge as creating a hostile work environment.

Again, that's not to say people can't try to sue anyway, but in that case, there are plenty of people on the other side of the story Google should be worried about suing as well, since there appears to be some minority of (white, male) Google employees who believe (rightly or wrongly) that they are persecuted due to their gender and race, and they also claim there are written communications at Google they interpret as denigrating them. I don't think they have much of a chance either.
If your paywall can be circumvented by not making a single http request then the problem lies in bad software engineering, not the law. What happens if I'm on a slow connection and that request fails? Do they get to send the FBI after me since I'm suddenly a criminal?
This is the second article, the first was by the Economist, arguing - coherently - that firing Damore was not the right thing to do. The problem of course is that what Damore wrote - assuming its actually scientifically accurate - is very easy to mischaracterise.
Braintree stripe and PayPal all have similar reserve policies.

You don't hear about people getting upset with Braintree (or Stripe) because when someone integrates with Braintree they're aware they're making a business decision and they read the contract, and have probably looked into getting their own merchant account and have an idea of the lay of the land.

You do hear about people getting upset with PayPal because it's "laymen" who click through everything without reading, and they don't often understand the concept of a reserve at all, let alone the idea that a product delivered in the future increases the risk to the payment processor. Or the myriad other product/circumstance combinations that increase processor risk
Seems to me this can be handled the way the open-source community always handles such drama: fork the repo a bunch of times. I'll probably start keeping local copies of filter lists as well.
It's a shame how going through the hassle and politics of getting PhD (from a reputable school) is now almost a requirement for the cutting edge.

Getting a PhD is honestly such a bad deal financially and socially. I'm sure the prospect of sinking ~5yrs into some laser focused sub-field for garbage pay scares away a lot of potential--not including academia's useless bureaucracy cough GRE.
Bandwidth is key. Transmitting digital signals at high rate would eat up most of the spectrum.
There are many cases of DMCA abuse, and it'd be nice if someone had the resources to go after these, get them fined and help set a precedent to prevent further abuse. Unfortunately, that probably cost more than it's worth.
Fair enough, I think I understand where you are coming from; people should still be judged on their merit, rather than lowering standards in order to meet an artificial goal like a certain percentage of women software engineers.

I don't think anyone is arguing for lower standards and that this idea, in itself, is sexist. It's not that standards need to be lowered in order to get a larger amount of women into the field. It's that the sexism in the field, which is pretty well documented, needs to be eliminated. I think that is the goal that Google is working towards and I think it's a valuable goal. For sure, it will not be achieved overnight. If there aren't enough women software engineers, well, they'll have to wait for them to appear. The demonstrated need for these software engineers may encourage women to enter a field they might have deliberately chosen to avoid.

The tone of this memo, to me, is poor; my first thoughts were condescending and smug as well as unabashedly sexist. In my opinion this poor tone could be one of the reasons people are so upset, or angry, at the author. This effect is directly working against Google's goal of trying to hire a more diverse group of software engineers and maybe that's why the memo's author was let go.
That could be, cite to the law or description of it? I'm interested in learning more. What I see in the law (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512) is that a "notification of claimed infringement" must include "Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site."

Github's own guidelines to DMCA takedown notices say "Identify the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed." https://help.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-...

If the notice did not identify a work believed to have been infringed, then why did Github respond to it? Why don't they follow their own process? If the notice did identify a work being infringed, then they are probably wrong because you can't infringe a copyrighted work by listing a URL in a list. I guess actually getting damages might require proving they _knew_ that, and be generally infeasible/cost prohibitive.

There are some problems with the DMCA regime.
There are no safe spaces in the real world
Yahoo Games' Demise Shows What the Death of Flash Could Feel Like
Install Debian instead and you will never have to do a "full upgrade" again.
I'm surprised they're only pricing each mile at $5. The opportunity cost of time on the bus would be a lot more than that too.
Is this necessarily a bad strategy? How much extra time investment in understanding the auto market and checking various different options is required to guarantee you'll make a better choice?

Then compare the cost saving, and time spent on the above, to the marginal cost of your free time. Have you saved anything?
Granted I'm not running a business so what do I know, but their reasons for making the decisions they made seem very flighty and not well considered.
That is amazing. Also now I've learned about NaNoGenMo.
The ghosts.
The way this typically works is that they were told from on high that their budget was getting cut, so they had to figure out a way to do so. Not sure if that happened here, or if these are just folks who are really interested in governing well, but that's been my experience.
It ends the news cycle. Most people outside the bubble haven't even heard of this and those who have will forget about it by next week. Right or wrong, it was the path of least resistance for Google going forward.
> We use our own merchant account with Braintree's API, something that not many people know is even possible.

Could you elaborate on this?
Click throughs aren't necessary for advertising to work. A lot of it is to prime your subconscious, or strengthen associations. This is why Coca Cola doesn't care if you click through. Same with car companies. When most Americans think of soda, they think of coke. If you prime their subconscious to associate soda positively with thirst, and soda is similarly associated with Coke, you've got them.
It is; the question is, can you put the 24-core chips from IBM in the same socket? For that matter, what on earth is the socket name for POWER9 (or POWER8)?
Just installed my second Mint machine for desktop work yesterday. Really cannot complain. The difference in desktop responsiveness between this 7 year old Mint machine versus a brand new PC or Mac is night and day.

Every modern OS needs a major GUI refactoring, I swear. It takes a full minute for my Mac to open control panels. Mint can do it in microseconds... Silly that this is the case.
Do’s and Don’ts of Web Design
Why even bother mentioning biology then if there are other influences more important and relevant? It seemed very emphasized.

They did not fire him because they didn't believe in the studies he linked. Obviously that's very much mischaracterizing things. This is a complicated issue with ample studies to link to from both sides. And anyway, I truly question studies on such broad topics.
No doubt, but on the other hand, look at his resume. Every project he has led has been a huge success, and when he left AMD for a time, they floundered. Lots of people work hard and contribute, but the value of a top leader is undeniable.
> The most powerful signals were Christian broadcasts that had a kind of doomsday feeling about them.

Perhaps WMLK? Weird stuff coming from Berks County PA!

Here's the antenna:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4793923,-76.279183,3a,44y,28...
Show HN: Tool to backup SoundCloud account meta-info
uMatrix rocks. It can take a few minutes of fiddling to get a complex site working, but it's totally worthwhile.
> From all the current summaries on this, DMCA does not apply to a line entry in easylist. A domain can be trademarked.

I believe you can trademark a domain, but trademarks are irrelevant to this discussion. The DMCA is a copyright law. The key questions are:

a) Can you have copyright over a domain? (According to https://copyright.gov, no)

b) If you could, would having a list of them constitute fair use? (Almost certainly, otherwise all search engines would be illegal.)
There are selection effects in place when immigration enters the picture.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh...
Can you give a source, or was this personal testing?
I'm a bit surprised by this given the IPOs of Snap and Blue Apron. Interest rates are going up and QE is about to start reversing.

Can anyone confirm lots of funding is still around?
I keep developing LiveStickies, a UWP for simple notes, because all the existing ones were crap (for me).

https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh4wm0q

In the meantime, I've grown to 20k downloads and 200 daily users.

I regularly receive e-mails and reviews from people telling they love the app and use it everyday, including someone's grandma, which is very encouraging. :)
I think he was being facetious. That is a remarkable list of accomplishments.
Yes because DMCAs work so well at stopping content distribution. It's not like the lists can't be hosted on other sites, dare I say a bay where many pirates roam.
How else could you plan beyond one year, other than in reference to expected increases/decreases in subsequent years? Those expected increases can't be ignored in "the budget", so they are planned for and probably allocated before that fiscal year ever starts. If you reduce that increase, you absolutely cut the budget.
Tldr: diet, exercise, sleep, meditation, relationships, and self reflection will improve your life because that's how humans have always thrived. It's a little wordy but on point. Since I stared focusing on these things, I have felt better, been less depressed, much more energetic, etc.
If demonstrable expertise is being offered and ignored, then that's a completely different story...
It's not an XSS vulnerability in Bootstrap for the same reasons

<div class="row"> UNESCAPED USER INPUT </div>

or

<img src="UNESCAPED USER INPUT">

aren't - escaping user input is up to the developer, not Bootstrap. Being essentially a static HTML/CSS framework with a bit of well-tested optional JS, Bootstrap's attack surface is minimal, making future vulnerabilities a pretty unlikely situation. A quick perusal of Github's issues search for "security" finds nothing significant in the past.
How Angular Protects Us from XSS Attacks?
Update: it works partially in WSL Machine!

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/407485/29222307-33...
This is by far the best reply to the memo I have seen. I wish more replies were like this.

I fear some people in the left and center don't want to honor the memo with a serious reply, and that this gets picked up by the right as inability to do so.
Yep, just how antidepressant manufactures co-opted research on social dominance to reverse some of the biochemical changes that happen when you are "ground down like a minion".
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It depends but my ballpark estimate would be around 70k but it depends on many factors. I'd surprised if those skills go for less than 50k.
Awesome!

Thanks for sharing.

PS. Sorry for the duplicated post. I was on my phone and for some reason I thought the first post wasn't sent correctly.
The role of experience is often overestimated in software shops. It's a management crutch intended to overcome their own ignorance. They don't understand software, but they (think they) understand experience.

The reality is a really experienced dev is not really going to be all that much more productive than a well-managed and mentored junior dev. Sure, there are 10x devs, but really, sheer coding productivity isn't worth as much as it used to be. The 10x dev is going to quickly run out of things to do in most shops.

So what you have here is that sure, a junior dev can be a full-stack dev. He's dividing all his attention between all areas of the stack. He's not massively productive in any of those areas, but he's a hammer you can throw at software issues and be able to expect resolution.

That's what businesses need. Developers that can work on teams. You need just enough experience on the team to where problems one dev can't fix efficiently can be escalated to a senior dev, but there's no need for anyone to 'master' anything. Technology just doesn't work that way. You build your experience as you progress through your career, and you're always learning something new.

In fact, junior guys can be way more productive than senior devs. While the senior devs are thinking heavily about architecture, (while playing ping pong) the juniors are knocking out tickets.
Kim should have chosen a different country. One that isn't so keen on letting the US raid their citizens.
I'm all for people arguing against it, but your 'one sentence' doesn't argue the point at all, it just asserts it. It literally just asserts that it "is a gross leap in reasoning that is not at all supported by the facts". I'm all for someone arguing for the points in that quoted fragment, but you can't claim that they're true just because you've said them.
>>If we are still emitting carbon in 2100, the planet will become uninhabitable.

Do you have any sources for this claim? From what I understand, the science does not support this claim. I've seen models predicting 200ft sea level rises, a drastic increase in deserts, and a possible failure of our current agricultural system, among other things. These are undoubtedly bad, but are far from rendering Earth "uninhabitable".

An echo from a previous comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14710571