skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how censoring content to minors only conflicts with freedom of speech. For example, You can't vote until you are 18 even if you are a us citizen.
Here's a classic from when Silicon Valley made actual silicon: the Widlar Hassler

http://www.analogzoo.com/2015/01/building-the-widlar-hassler...
Being a graduate of Georgia Southern University, which many UGA people view as a second tier school, I find it funny. Because if I learned anything at Georgia Southern, it was Relational Database Management systems do not care about my stress level.
Luckily VS Code just as awesome on Windows, a Mac or Linux for my .NET Core MVC app.
Several years back the company I worked for ended up picking up some work for a client. Every quarter we'd download a huge trove of TIFFs from some source, and then do some image conversion work before shipping transferring them to the customer's infrastructure.

There was a java application that powered the logic side of things, calling out to ImageMagick to do the actual processing and conversion. For whatever reason, after careful benchmarking we settled on a java thread count that happened to get us the peak throughput, but also caused system load average to hit around 400 and keep steady at around that level.

The day that happened, and I could show that no application on the server took a performance hit, was the day that I finally persuaded my boss that load average is an interesting stat, but it's not the be-all and end-all, and that a high load average doesn't necessarily correlate to an actual problem.
I should have clarified: there's no sampling bias. These are incredibly popular movies. Here are some movies not on Netflix streaming that I've wanted to watch this year: Gladiator. Star Wars IV. Shawshank Redemption. The Wizard of Oz. When Harry Met Sally. The Princess Bride. All Star Trek movies. Goodfellas. Lord of the Rings. Gone with the Wind. All Godfather movies. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Airplane. American Graffiti. The Usual Suspects. All Jim Carrey movies except a bad one (the Grinch) and one I've never heard of (the Number 23). Toy Story. There's Something About Mary. All Austin Powers movies.

The last time I tried searching for a good movie to watch on Netflix streaming, I gave up after 10 minutes. I'd think of one movie after another after another. Nothing was there. All it could suggest was "related titles," as if that's what I would want.
meta - can we avoid linking through to sites with autoplay video?
Agree, these are awesome cars. I have the 2014 Mazda 3 2.5l (SkyActiv) Astina, in a manual sedan. I do lots of commuting peak hour traffic, so my economy is seriously affected - I get about 9l / 100km on those days. On a proper open highway 100-110km/h drive I'll be on around 5-6l / 100km however.

Acceleration is very zippy indeed, and the manual whilst not inviting the most efficient driving is an easy changing, short throw type. Tech level in the car is amazing: Radar cruise, AEB, blind spot monitoring, rear cross alert, Adaptive Front Lights (inside lights looks into the corner), etc etc.

It's very exciting to see normal petrol engines becoming so much efficient. Kudos to Mazda here. I'm hoping they'll have a hybrid or even all electric out by the time it's time for me to upgrade the current one.
Agreed, but there is also incentive to install solar panels on your home/garage to charge your car. Too bad most of us are at work (car out of garage) during peak sun hours, so it gets more complicated. Maybe this is the reason Tesla also wants to sell a 10 kWh battery along with a solar roof.
Reminder: Disney has Star Wars...
Enforce the basic right to freedom of speech? You mean the right to hate speech, incitement to violence, bullying, slander, and the freedom to to abuse protected groups like children? I don't believe in ignorantly pursuing what has become a slogan for the unthinking.
How to Setup and Arrange Household Things? (Part 1) Important Vastu Tips
Cal Poly SLO shouldn't be used as an example of the CSU system; it is technically considered a CSU but is exempt from the admissions process that every other CSU campus is required to use. Cal Poly SLO can indeed be described as more or less an excellent university; no other CSU can.
I guess usage might have gone up after the trial finished, but it seems unlikely to me. I could be wrong though - they were willing to part with cash.

I cycle almost every day, I just feel this piece is over stating the effect.
I don't know about you but the last time I saw a class take on extra teaching load to help students "catch up" and not sacrifice on other teaching goals was... never. You seem unrealistically hopeful that things are going to work out the way they claim.
"The right way to fix the imbalance is to increase the supply of white onions. "

I agree with your point but economist will say that increasing the demand will be a better technique. Supply side will take care of itself. Affirmative actions are usually intended to create an artificial spike in demand for the purpose of greater good. How effective they are is a different matter altogether.
When was the first "rebellion against an office plan"? Can anybody link a report from the early 1900s? The 80s?
It's definitely true. Google and Facebook do not care about their users in any way other than a venue for making more $. Advertising is a toxic business model that is built around exploiting customers.

I think it will take time, but maybe eventually users will learn and begin voting with their $ towards non-ad funded platforms.

A big reason why these companies can take advantage of users, is because of the lack of education around technology. Very few people really know what data can be collected / inferred.
Next steps: Lets make it free!
Awesome, thanks for the answer.

It is a great way to make some money for live and launch ideas.

I already read something about courses to sell (video/ebook) in the book called Launch (Jeff Walker).

I am living in a country from Latin America, so I will try something for here.
Thanks again.
:)
I'm a fairly serious cyclist (currently own 5 bikes) and the two I use most are my cyclocross bike and my electric bike.

Most of the cycling nuts who consider them heresy are weekend warriors who've never ridden a daily 14 mile commute in the winter.
Bonuses. Whoever works on this pile get's an extra $5000 at the end of every quarter. You only have to work on this pile for 6 months unless you volunteer for more.

Companies tend to try everything except the obvious: more money.
Why is that a race? IIRC Promise.then is supposed to invoke the callback immediately (or on next loop) if the promise is already resolved.
> it's core, it was very unscientific

He was very good at sourcing almost every single one of his claims with references to published scientific studies.

Your statement on the other hand has zero quotes to support your claim.

I know which one I will consider "unscientific".
I have had so many issues with Firebase, but the one that really pisses me off the most is that they used to advertise things like "scale worldwide to millions of users" and "Unlimited Connections" but then cap you at 100k concurrent users (10k initially and will gradually bump you up to 100k). When we got in contact with them about this they were nice enough to explain that we could create another database and shard our data manually.

Fuck you Firebase, what a load of bull shit. Implying your database can scale infinitely because we can manually shard our data is like calling McDonalds an all you can eat restaurant because I can keep buying more chicken nuggets.

I've yet to meet anyone who has used Firebase on a large scale project and been happy with it. Firebase is a toy at best, IMO.

I honestly feel a bit bad for the development team at Firebase, they actually built something really cool that has a lot of potential. The problem I have is that someone took this cool project and basically lied to the public about its capabilities.
The actual study writeup, showing bike use before, during, and after: https://rac.com.au/~/media/files/rac-website/pdfs/about-rac/...

Total (bike and ebike use):
Before: 11%
1st week: 55%
5th week: 65% (peak)
10th week: 50%
After: 41% (not everyone bought the ebike)

Car use went from 61% (before) to 46% (after) — bikes decreased walking also.

100% of participants said they were satisfied, with more than half saying they were extremely satisfied with the e-bike.
They appear completely related to what is heresy to discuss at Google. The section starts off with

"Some takeaways from this whole fiasco"

"Here are some of those politically correct assertions that take on almost religious-like qualities..."

And thus appear to be completely linked to the topic of the Google "fiasco". Very confusing way to present the article if they are not relevant.

College is a very different place than a workplace. I am not required to interact with anyone on my college campus. Additionally, a workplace works best without the friction of being a place for the discussion of politics or controversial topics. Let alone "innocuous" jokes.

The author is upset that he is not greeted with hugs and applause for his memo. So what?

I only read the first part - and I'm no expert on these topics but I haven't experienced any exceptionalism within this profession as a woman. To the contrary, my code is out there in the open ready for scrutiny all the time. I truly believe this is a meritocratic profession. My understanding is that companies aim to hire equally qualified workers from more backgrounds of diversity. Even better, they have an economic incentive to do so.

Many of the time the people writing these things are looking for something to complain about. I haven't worked at Google but I haven't experienced this to be imbalanced in the way it's being portrayed.

I guess you can say the memo was put out there, and a discussion was had.
The chaperone feature is coming to both genders in the next major version. Historically it was just for women as we used to refer to it as a "Wali" which Islamically is only for this sex
There's your lycra brigade guys who will always think adding $1,000 worth of electric drive gear to a $500 bike is cheating, but spending $10,000 on an ultra-light carbon fiber frame with ultra-low-rolling-resistance tyres is totally legitimate.

But then there's also people who start off with an electric bike and love how convenient, cheap and easy they are. I have a couple of friends who've got e-bikes and use them as regular transport.
You're correct. The question is what is the cost passed on to consumers. If it is something on the order of the cost of medical malpractice insurance and average settlements, well, wow. That would make AV prohibitively expensive.

More likely the bar for level 4 will just be significantly higher than parity with human error, if only for liability reasons.
I had a plug shoot out of my '96 Cobta. Wasn't just the trucks, apparently.

It's still running, though.
I've never even heard of this problem before. Please could you explain?
We see dating to be non-exclusive where as these 6,000 couples are in committed relationships
So you didn't actually read it, but here you are still spending time defending how its author really should be fired over it.

Crazy.
I thought this was about Tom Cruise.

Who the hell is "Cruise"? That title is not the way to present the company.
Audit of pharma policies on trial data access finds them internally inconsistent
The New Math Driving NoSQL Analytics
I always thought "programmer-at-arms" was a brilliant job title and well describes what some of us do.
Cat gives a cardiac massage to his injured girlfriend
But then the change contradicts your statment that the purpose "is to reduce the number of classes the students need to graduate" because if a student readiness for Math and English are low, then it doesn't make sense for them to move ahead.

I agree with your final point. I also believe if the current mandate is to ensure students are prepared for upper course load, then at least the entry to admission perhaps need to be increased? Or at least offer a free one-semester remdial class. If someone is not ready to do a "2x+3=6" then high school education failed to do its job and allowing the student going into a college knowing every college requires some math class to graduate (pre-calc, or as calculus+), only do more harm.
I really like this! I wish I had more of the track visible. Possibly with layers.
How have you initially launched it so hat it got traction? Sending mails to your friends? at an event? posting in FB group?
Plug-in
On the contrary. My household is cycling obsessed and we bought a 250W electric commuter this year. It won't displace our carbon fibre / titanium race machines, but it is tremendous fun to ride around casually or to commute on.

They are comparatively expensive, though. I expect to see a drop in price as popularity grows, since bicycle manufacturing is a volume game.
Agreed. A lot of things seem black and white on the surface. A lot of articles seem to imply "think of the children, make cobalt a conflict mineral!" but this would have some insane destabilizing effects.

The story has a lot of parallels to the story of the Harkin Bill. For those that don't know, I've paraphrased the Wikipedia article below:

"Based on the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Labor Force Survey estimated there were about 5.7 million 10- to 14-year-old children engaged in Child labour in Bangladesh. This number may have been as high as 15 million children."

... "In 1993 employers in Bangladesh' ready-made garment (RMG) industry dismissed 50,000 children (c. 75 percent of child workers in the textile industry) out of fear of economic reprisals of the imminent passage of the Child Labor Deterrence Act"

... "The act which banned "importation to the United States of products which are manufactured or mined in whole or in part by children" would have resulted in the loss of lucrative American contracts. Its impact on Bangladesh's economy would have been significant as the export-oriented ready-made garment industry represents most of the country's exports."

... "UNICEF sent a team of investigators into Bangladesh to learn what came of the children who were dismissed from their factory jobs. UNICEF's 1997 State of the World's Children report confirmed that most of the children found themselves in much more deplorable situations, such as crushing stones, scavenging through trash dumps, and begging on the streets. Many of the girls eventually ended up in prostitution."

I highly recommend everyone read the full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Labor_Deterrence_Act

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For anyone who skipped to the bottom for a TL;DR: Bangladesh had millions of child laborers, US Senator Harkin proposed a bill that would ban importing products made with child labor, and Bangladesh's garment industry (which was most of the country's exports) fired 75% of the children. As a result most children found worse work: crushing stones, scavenging trash, and prostitution.
I'm surprised it took them this long to support .NET. I just started using Braintree on one of my projects and it supports .NET.
James Damore is (almost certainly) not a victim of a free-speech violation
But what about Betty Joe with the Unix book in Wayne's World 2?
> I'm not familiar with Cal State but do they just let anyone in who applies?

No, Cal State is the 2nd of three public college tiers defined by California law. (Top is the UC system, bottom is the community college system, which will indeed let in anyone who applies.)

CSUs, except for Cal Poly SLO, admit on a quota-by-major system, scoring all applicants objectively and taking the top $quota who applied in each major with a score above the minimum admittance threshold. Some majors at particular campuses, and some entire campuses, are considered "impacted", which means they get enough applicants that you're unlikely to be admitted with a score near the minimum threshold. The converse of this is that if you're above the minimum threshold, and you apply to a non-impacted campus, you'll be admitted. If your school gave you As, you'll beat the threshold without any inquiry into the quality of your school, or whether it was possible to receive grades lower than A.

Here's CSU San Jose's policy (they're impacted):

> To be considered for admission, graduates of California high schools or residents of California, as defined for tuition purposes, must have a minimum eligibility index of 2950 using the redesigned SAT or 694 using the ACT. The minimum eligibility index for nonresidents of California is 3570 using the redesigned SAT or 842 using the ACT. The CSU eligibility index is calculated by using either the SAT or ACT as follows:

> SAT (sum of scores in mathematics and critical reading) + (800 x high school grade point average)

> -or-

> (10 x ACT composite score without the writing score) + (200 x high school grade point average)

( http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/static/admission/freshma... )

Obviously, this scoring system is massively biased in favor of GPA over test scores (if you were running a college, would you rather admit someone with a 4.0 GPA and an 800 total SAT score, or someone with a 3.0 and a 1600?), which does a lot to explain why the caliber of students in CSUs is so low. I found it interesting, when I was looking into this a few years ago, that CSU San Francisco was impacted in their "social work" "major", but not in computer science.
Show HN: Remove politics from your Twitter timeline
A person who likes biking might get one for friends/SO/family seniors who might join but don't bike regularly. Or to use when you have a kid or 30 kg of groceries in the trailer.

(An obsessed person probably doesn't have non-biking friends/SO...)
cobalt is being phased out of lithium batteries, at least at tesla.
I am taking you seriously, and my point is that arguing about how Google could possibly be breaking a law if the judge decides to interpret anything as a political activity doesn't make much sense.

The argument came down to you saying that almost anything is a political activity, and that Google being regulated by the government makes it equivalent to a government entity. No matter how many sources are provided, only one can actually matter: the judge who will decide that.

That's the problem with legal interpretation, until a judge clears it, all discussion is just speculation.

Look at your own points:

> Google is under government regulation. They cannot discriminate against others for their opinions of what they say.

Yes they can.

> Being fired is a societal sanction, a.k.a a limitation on freedom of expression

No, it isn't, your source only talks about a public entity.

> Societal sanction and interference include the loss of one's job

Again, no, it isn't.

And you keep mixing the law of different countries with opinions from the UN. Pick one. You wanna talk about ethics, let's talk about ethics. You wanna talk about laws, let's talk about laws. But stop switching from one to the other whenever your argument has no ground.

It doesn't matter if there was a legal case in Canada, it is completely irrelevant to the case being discussed here. Or even the UN. None of that matters to this context.

So if you really want to cite sources, a decision by a federal judge, the SCOTUS or the NLBR showing that an action by a company that is exactly like Google's falls into illegality will do. Anything else makes no difference here, either requiring your own interpretation, or being foreign to the laws of this country.
But serious respect for 1) understanding that, and 2) choosing to be well-informed. I'm incredibly disappointed with the number of people these days who denounce people, books, docs, movies, and even whole groups of people without having any direct experience or even caring to become well-informed enough to form an independent opinion.
This is excellent. One of my thoughts while reading it was, it really would have been interesting to see what she could have done as CEO of Yahoo:

>And now, finally, as Head of Google Cloud, I’m learning that it’s possible to build an enterprise startup inside a mega company.
How were you able to make the timing attack work? Each letter takes like a nanosecond to test! And the rest of the time is dominated by random noise.
How much of the money raised actually exists as liquid and accessible? Is this just a big MMO?
I just read that in a Ron Howard voice.
With a lot more engineering and complicated drivetrain mechanics, yes. An EV drivetrain is at least an order of magnitude less complex.
>>You don't shut down the conversation and pretend the issues don't exist.

This generally happens when ideas presented in the conversation are radical and dangerous to a point the target people in the discussion feel an existential threat.

Look at the nature of this discussion. Presented in its simplest form, its a case for a merit based system. The socialist types don't like this, the very fact that merit is being discussed implies their entitlement to free resources at the expense of other hard working people is threatened. They can't allow it to go on.

You don't want people to start thinking about it.
HBO hack update: hackers release cringeworthy video, demanding ransom
DVD's and Blu-Rays are pretty much archival quality, and the minimal copy protection is easily circumvented, at least for the next decade or two https://superuser.com/questions/251369/what-is-the-lifespan-...
I am about to quit my job for every reason in the article, so perhaps you are wrong wrong wrong.
Just use iTunes then to rent TVs and movies ?
I can tell you have never been.

Checkout Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa.

These are powerhouses.
DXC Technology posts $245m EBIT in first quarter since merger
> 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.

You're saying this implies that the author thinks women working at Google perform worse than men at Google?

I just want to make sure I understand exactly what you mean, and for anyone who is reading what was written above, this might clarify.
Besides Japan twice?
Apologies if the presentation was unclear, will see if I can make that clearer.

> Additionally, a workplace works best without the friction of being a place for the discussion of politics or controversial topics. Let alone "innocuous" jokes.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here. I prefer workplaces, or any environment for that matter, where we all respect each other enough to be open to the discussion of any topic and not easily offended over stupid meaningless jokes. That does not mean that one has to share their political beliefs or be pestered to engage in controversial debate - but a culture where everyone has to watch out for every little thing they say because any non-PC mark could be misconstrued and used as grounds for firing simply because someone deemed it offensive is intellectually hostile, unhealthy, and not the type of environment I want to be in.

> The author is upset that he is not greeted with hugs and applause for his memo. So what?

That's not why the author is upset. The author got fired.