skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there is significant willing suspension of disbelief. However, there are two additional factors that make it difficult to completely pin the tail on the donkey that is the hapless consumer: 1) Sugar in unexpected ingredients (I still can't believe McDonalds hamburger buns have HFCS and I learnt this in 2010), and 2) Terminology and presentation games to ensure the consumer is less likely to read the ingredients list and nutrition facts.

EDIT: syntax. Also, forgot to mention food deserts and availability of fresh produce in various neighborhoods.
"They don't need or even want your help"

There was in fact a talk given by Greg Kroah-Hartman, one Linux's lead maintainers, about development for the Linux kernel which he titled "I Don't Want Your Code".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMeH7wqOwXA
Money is the most flexible thing in the world because you can use it to buy what you want, not what others want you to have. Thus $100 of cash is actually worth more than $100 worth of food, for example.
I wouldn't say he is unreasonable.

He is firm, strongly opinionated, and doesn't waste time catering to irrelevant feelings. That isn't "unreasonable", more "difficult" in my mind as far as personal interaction goes.

His actual opinions are usually very reasonable, just not communicated in ways that come across as such. At least in my opinion
He's an engineer for Google (with a purported PhD from Harvard - likely to only be a MS) that wrote a 10 page article critiquing his company - specifically - for ignoring the science when making decisions about company culture. From someone with his credentials making these claims I expect 15+ peer reviewed sources with at least 1 review article from each field that studies the topic (sociology, economics, anthropology, psychology, biology).

Someone with his credentials should not expect to be spoon fed justifications for company hiring practices. If he had opened discussion on the validity of specific findings and which experiments contain the most valuable information for predicting benefits of policy changes, I don't think there would have been this outcry.

But if he wants to discuss the science he first needs to make it clear that he's read it.
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Antipattern 0: hijacking a term from something popular, but only vaguely
related, redefining it as something else
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interf...).
This is so true. I think it was Dr. Robert Lustig that said something like "it has never been proven that exercise alone can make you loose weight".

You allways need to combine better diet with exercise. Think about how much you would have to do to burn off 1000 calories through exercise vs reduce your food consumption with the same ammount.

I find that light exercise is really good for my brain.

For some realted information regarding diet and exercise you should look up some of the presentations done by Dr. Robert Lustig. "Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0" is a good one for example.
My friend, engineering's primary purpose is empathic in nature.

Have a quick look at new pursuits such as:

http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/magazine/features/empathy...

https://phys.org/news/2015-11-empathy-faculty.html

I could discuss this at length because it's a subject that really interests me, and I'm severely biased because I started out in the humanities with my main pursuit being an understanding of the human condition. I've brought those learnings with me into my current software engineering career and it's serving me well.

Simple being able to place yourself in the shoes of an end user, rather than dictating to them what they necessarily have to learn (and even better, when you know they should learn something with improved understanding of how to implement such a feature) saves everybody a lot of time and frustration. Your estimates will improve in accuracy as well. You'll see less scope-creep.

It's especially important in critical-systems work.

Plus I consider it a bit of a boon to someones character if they care about what they're putting into the world. Most people do. Hint: it won't inhibit your technical understanding.
That's great, but I imagine that any computer can solve thousands of sudoku boards in a few seconds, so anyone can claim all the sudokoins easily using that.
> 1) Sugar in unexpected ingredients (I still can't believe McDonalds hamburger buns have HFCS and I learnt this in 2010),

Sugar (often either table sugar or honey) is a traditional bread ingredient; HFCS isn't the form the average home baker would use, but sugar in bread should not be surprising to anyone.
>And you don't have to be "easily offended" to dislike interacting with Linus.

If you don't do something because of a personal dislike, and expect others to cater to your culture and personal preferences, then the problem is you.

I've yet to work for a company where there wasn't some people I personally disliked working with. part of being professional is putting aside things like dislike and focusing on the core mission/goals and finding ways to work together despite how you feel.

Those that CANNOT work with linux I would say are those that are easily offended. Some may choose not to, but that is their own personal choice.
Clickbait headline.

FCC expresses possibility that in the near-future wireless connectivity may be more important to consumer internet users.

Admitting "we don't know which way this industry is going to go" is probably a healthy thing for government to do.
> When conditions are set that reduce or control for these social factors (including implicit bias) the differences in performance that James Demore attributes to "biological" factors disappear.

That's a bold prediction supported by no real-world evidence whatsoever. Where's your control group? Where's the retort society that has all this bias removed or even quantified?

Of course societal effects affect the outcome of a person's career, but the idea that there is absolutely zero influence of biological differences is pure dogma. However, it's convenient (if not imperative) to believe, if you're a strong social constructivist.
You cannot please all of the people, all of the time. Trying will make you crazy.
This explains nothing about the fork, what changed, and why it happened.
Netflix's catalog shrunk when they stopped buying fewer large bundles of dross and focused more on exclusivity, both of those efforts cost more per title and thus fewer titles for the same budget.
And how does that get me better internet access?
I hate to sound like I'm advertising, but I've found blackvpn quite good. It's based in Hong Kong.
do you know what UI kit is used on Linux?
There is a Win64 compiler and it's working great!
I don't know anything about the database drivers.
Yeah, though also the other two tunnels seem to be shown with much wider colored strips. The L looks here more like a walkway between them.
I couldn't agree more. It used to seem like the left was more scrupulous but as I get older I wonder whether that was just youthful naivety. Certainly they seem to have abandoned their scruples these days.
Regardless if you put in one hour or eight (or unhealthy 16) hours per day into your project/startup a disciplined programmer works on the most important task. That might be the one leading to most growth, profit or just avoiding damage to the business. That task might be utterly boring, and there's 100 other task that are easier, faster to implement or more fun. Discipline in my opinion means you choose that boring task.
I thought so, but at the same time I've seen not sarcastic approaches to open office plans that aren't that far off.
I'd rather see how the top touring bands are distributed.
I once applied for a job at a university to develop backend systems. They rejected me immediately because I didn't have higher education, then they called me 2 months later, when someone actually read my resume and saw my skills.

I will tell everyone that skills, recent projects, and cool hobbies will prove you are qualified way more than a degree!
Well, I just woke up. Monsanto has done something pretty screwy here as far as scientific ethics because people within the organisation were angry with the IARC. I can understand being angry with the IARC. Its decision was extremely stupid and a PR nightmare. Pretty dumb of Monsanto to fight stupidity with stupidity. They should know better.

On the other hand, the editing does appear to be cosmetic, with Monsanto wanting to skewer the IARC, and there are plenty of truly independent investigations into the effects of glyphosate. All of the science still says glyphosate is safe in the concentrations we encounter it in.

http://www.who.int/foodsafety/jmprsummary2016.pdf?ua=1
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I have no idea about SF's processes specifically but it's certainly not universal practice to have conference presentations signed off by PR or anyone else within an organization. Doesn't mean there can't be repercussions if you say something inappropriate or disclose information you shouldn't, but not all companies require signoff from presentations.
>If you still voted for him, you either liked that sort of blatant Nixon southern strategy 2.0 type of bigotry; or you're dismissive of it as a problematic attribute in a leader for this country.

Ok, but neither of those are irrational, they are judgements based around premises that are different than yours. You can argue whether those premises are rational, or ill informed or whatever, but then you're basically just wading into the usual swamp of political discourse - these issues haven't been definitively resolved and just dismissing the whole stance out of hand by calling it irrational doesn't get you anywhere. You're effectively just venting.
You know, I for one maintain that he shouldn't have to do any of these things to avoid getting fired and getting branded a sexist by the dishonest media. But that's exactly what happened. Being more scientific wouldn't have helped him one iota. Keeping his mouth shut would've helped.
Hmm, interesting—from my perspective, i have similarly strong intuition for love of decades, but mapped differently. For instance i know virtually nobody into 80s music, but 90s r&b and hip-hop are reliable favorites.

My point being: give me a good band, and i can list three at the same time that people don't bring up anymore because they suck. I firmly believe this is nostalgic bias at work, although i dislike taylor swift and justin beiber as much as the next person. Or likely much more. I don't believe it means anything about the decade, just what labels decided people want to hear.

Or to put it another way, my beloved music from the past wasn't even "mainstream popular" then.
First of all, over a quarter of oil is used for things other than transport; second, it's gonna take quite a bit longer than this article predicts for oil used in transport to ramp down.
I thought NBA access gave you everything BUT your local team?
Xcode is a RAD tool at heart so we're in the glory decade of RAD. We just don't call it that.
Right, i guess that was my point as well. The java factor probably doesn't play into the core speed. I would imagine the rendering is what screws the performance for the js based editors.
Is that because of the number of requests or a different reason though?
No. This both-sidesism is laughably wrong. There are extremely clear distinctions between the two parties. Anyone claiming they are the same is either intellectually lazy or corrupt.
Good for you. You made the right move for your team and yourselves.
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+1. I lost most of the passion to hack on new things except doing the job and learn on the job (that's fun). I only hack/write code outside of work when I have a reason to or whenever I feel like to. I rather spend time outdoor or read a book or go to a show/museum whatever or spend time with my baby niece.

The notion software engineers spend weekend making new electronic gadgets or come up with a new awesome library is so stereotype, regardless of gender (there are many talented women enjoy hacking outside of their work hours). This culture manifests in startups, almost always. I come on HN and I find some peer pressure: why can't I be cool like these people make new app and get recognition and have a shiny resume?

Nah. Stop that thought.

I am still burnt out (for 6-7 years since college I didn't sleep much, used to code every night, tried to fix every problems threw at me), so pardon me. Will I ever recover? No, because I don't want that life anymore. For me, home is where I should relax, and my relaxation technique is not coding every night.
> I rarely see doctors, lawyers, or most professions engaging in their practice outside work as a hobby

That's more because it's hard to engage in medicine or law outside of an institution, which makes it hard to hobby with on the weekends. Plenty of auto mechanics fix cars on the weekend, plenty of graphic designers do personal art projects on the weekends. There are also plenty who don't.
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That hasn't been my experience in all of the recipes I have made and for the loaves that I typically purchase (I am an ingredient list reader), but I concede that my knowledge in this matter is miniscule.
Your post is long enough that I had enough context (at least as someone in that culture :) to figure it out. It was just annoying to puzzle through the first while without knowing what you were talking about.
There's a lot of things you can wonder, but they're not all worth mentioning.
Part of the problem, I suspect, is that most startups only target cities, and those who live in them.
Ah! Sounds like a great idea, a cinema followed by some cocktail party for people to talk about the movie. I'd go to that sort of event.
10Mbps is more than I've had at home up until very recently.

It's fine for me; I work mostly in plain text and prefer it whenver there's an option. But undertand many people want more. Don't understand the FCC weighing in one way or the other. Should be up to private enterprise to provide what customers want to pay for. Get rid of the local monopolies, get out of the way, and watch what happens.
Last I check (which admittedly was a long time ago), the US will continue to tax you for 10 years after you give up your citizenship, if it thinks you're doing so to avoid taxes or if your net-worth is over $100k.
Whoah. I'm not saying that people who write code for fun all do this. I write code for fun and so does my wife. I'm saying that people who claim that writing code for fun makes them superior developers do this.
It depends on why you're checking emails. If it's just for password recovery, for example, then it's the user's loss if they intentionally use an invalid email.
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yes how do we get admins to allow discussion on damores peterson interview.

He deserves a chance to speak without others twisting his words.
It's pretty insane how much your browser knows about you:

http://webkay.robinlinus.com/

There's another one I can't find, but it writes out things like "user moved mouse to x,y. User has been idle for 10 seconds, page lost focus, page gained focus" .. kinda creepy how much is available to the Javascript engine.
Awesome! Given the somewhat excessive egress prices charged by AWS/S3 and GCP/Cloud Storage for sites hosted on those services, I've always considered Netlify (and others with similar services) as the companion piece to Lambda/Cloud Functions in the "how to go serverless and save money" playbook. It's great to see them getting some VC love since it will make them an easier sell in corporate environments.
Take a look at other artistic work, like say people involved in making movies? Do they too practice outside work as a hobby?

Take someone like Adam Savage. Talking about being in front of the camera, behind it, being producer, or just being a consumer of other peoples work. Talking about the script, the camera technology, the set, the props, the making of props. About side projects, personal project, about other from of artistic endeavors.

I don't know personally that industry, but from everything I hear, it seems common behavior that people in the TV and movie industry often have a personal connection to the work they do. Maybe it just that when people create things and are allowed to be artistic, then the work tend to melt into the personality of those that are passionate about it.
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Indeed! Speaking of stereotypes it seems :) Most nights I am pretty burnt out from work that I rarely want to hack on anything. But when I've had enough sleep and an article/project or coursera class peaks my interest I'll take a look. But in general, I would say that's pretty par for the course for me as well. These days with the kid and everything I try and plan for those nights.
Private Internet Access

> A pretty boring company. Extremely transactional. You get in and get out. It delivers its experience the way a utility company would. Sometimes, that may be a good thing. But in this case, since I have choice, I'd rather give my money to a company who would appreciate it a little more — perhaps put it to better use.

PIA might be very "transactional" but I like them and I've never had any issues with their service. I'm surprised it didn't get a better rating. I don't need a flashy VPN, a utility is exactly what I'm looking for.
Looks like OP deleted the post. The Medium version is still up, as of now: https://medium.com/@ben_sears/how-i-built-meme-as-a-service-...
Hehe, never read through it, enjoyed Linus' info at the end

THE REST

M:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Q:	http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/LKML/list/

T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

S:	Buried alive in reporters
There are options for both GTK and Qt.
> Maybe it's one thing that the more concerning elements of the left are aggregated into certain universities, but it is something else to also exist in the services and companies most everyone relies on (and that has control over their information flow).

Well, where do you suppose all these students go to, once they leave college? Many of them end up in leading positions of HR, management, marketing and media. They are a cultural elite.

Meanwhile, the STEM people end up mostly as cogs in the machine. They generally don't become influencers beyond the confines of their particular field.

Ironically, the same people arguing for freedom of enterprise might be the ones needing worker protection laws for freedom of conscience.
As opposed to what? A game, a music app, an education app, a commerce app? The mobile apps are a mature ecosystem in a fairly saturated market, the days of Yo and others reaching the tops of the app stores are long behind.
I only remember a very early review of string operation speeds that was pretty bad at times indeed. But that was about Swift 1 and the string implementation has been changed a few times. Do you have any recent source?
I'm no expert by any means, but I just opened Lazarus to look at the DB drivers and they seem pretty respectable. The MySQL driver only goes up to 5.6 but works well in my experience. I haven't tried the SQLite, Postgres, ODB or MSSQL drivers though.

Also it does support 64 bit, I have a 64 bit Lazarus installed on my Windows VPS.
Doesn't PrivacyBadger^1 solve the fingerprinting problem?

[1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Most people at Defcon use a "burner phone"*

I highly doubt this. Also, bear in mind that few bug hunters would be dumb enough to burn an iOS RCE 0day on some of the most monitored/logged wireless airspace on the planet.
And then you became unpopular with girls suddenly? Because you became more or less geeky, or what? And what does being "very popular" at 14 have to do with adults being lonely?

I have no clue what your intention was with that post.
To steal (and paraphrase) what is basically the perfect summary of this from @SwiftOnSecurity:

Commercial VPNs: for when you want all the security of Ukrainian coffee-house wifi from the comfort of your own home.

Taylor Swift isn't wrong about this. Use something like Algo to run your own VPN if you have to. If you must use a commercial VPN to get to Netflix or whatever, do it from inside a virtual machine that you use for nothing but that.
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If you claim to be impartial and scientific, but go on to be publicly interviewed by an alt-right media member, you lose your credibility.

If you claim to be impartial and scientific, but use terms like "virtue signaling", which are conservative straw men of liberals ("The only reason anyone would stand up for others is to prove that they are virtuous"), you lose your credibility.
As I understand, you're saying that empathy is vital for assessing requirements. That's precisely why I mentioned management and team-leads as being likely exceptions.

(But each manager or lead usually has more than one report, so there are likely very few managers/leads compared to everyone else. Hence the general sentiment.)
> Of course 'everyone knew' that it was bullshit,

Up until it went viral and everybody with a computer read it, Google was mostly ignoring it. When it leaked outside the company, it could no longer be ignored because it was damaging the company's reputation.
No doubt the US govt has its levers to pull in media and business. And I venture that as regards our use of the term Orwellian Orwell was discursive of power in general, rather than governmental power in the specific.
Because it humanizes James Damore.
I frankly wouldn't want any of my traffic going anywhere that close to China regardless of how well they implement their stuff.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/y-u-no-valida...
> over a quarter of oil is used for things other than transport

But doesn't transport have the biggest need for power density? Once renewable power density is solved for transport, I would expect the same applications will quickly be applied to the other places oil is used
Or... you know, you've actually got a PhD in sociology and have read the research. This is armchair-pundit-bullshit akin to climate change denial. Everyone knows better than the researchers who've actually done the work and are immersed in the field.

How about we accept the consensus of the scientists? Rather than calling it dogma because it doesn't agree with YOUR world view.
If you watch Peterson's video, or more importantly looked at the links in the description, the theory of social constructivism has been disproven through experimentation. The more gender equity there is in a social, the more disparity there is between the interests of men and women and this is universal across all cultures. And what you said about conditions that reduce social factors is false. As Peterson explained there's no reproducible valid science showing that what you say is true.
Hiring people is expensive, a large team of people used to working together is a valuable asset in and of itself.
I can see this playing out, but not as quickly as the author suggests. Cameras and cellphones last a couple years at the most, and are much easier to replace, than a car is. Sure, everyone wants a self driving car, but not everyone can switch just like that.