skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a boss who didn't understand the difference between panic and urgency. Every 'pep talk' he tried to give us turned into a short day and drinks after work because we were so depressed or freaked out.

If your friend falls in the water or is about to be hit by a bus, getting excited about it doesn't help anybody. You have do something, and quickly, but with purpose and reason.
> there are not enough representatives outside of the business stakeholders at the table putting themselves forward for representation

I read a political science study of how lobbying really works. My memory of it is hazy so these details may be off, but they concluded that on the order of 80% of lobbyists, lobbying, and money are for/by big business. The claim of 'special interests', which for some reason includes environmentalists but not big business, having so much influence is wrong; they are badly outgunned by their opponents.

(The book is nowhere near me or I'd share its name.)
I don't know how you came to that conclusion from my statement that such a discussion is off-topic here...
I would argue that you are evil if you do not allow the user to use for any propose, distribute, and modify the software.
Artificial intelligence identifies plant species for science
well you were warned of the idiocy...
Saying someone has racist ideas is a loaded accusation. I think it's fair to ask for elaboration.

> ...jumps into observable personality differences, which are not proven to be biologically driven.

Some personality differences in populations are supported by some studies. He cites studies about personal interests, for example. It's possible that he goes too far (scientifically speaking) with some conjecture, but he was careful to say that properties of large populations don't apply on the level of an individual or selected group.
Well, first of all, blocking a URL is not against the DMCA.

So one argument to do is this is because it is NOT illegal, and the purpose would be to stop frivolous lawsuits.

So yes, it would be trying to creatively skirt frivolous lawsuits.

Another legit reason though, is obfuscation. The company that tried to threaten this frivolous lawsuit may have not even noticed, if it was some weird regex. And they'd either not complain, or have to spend a bunch of money tracking down the problem. Both are wins, in my book.
> To a Statistician, Machine Learning may look like an engineering discipline, rather than science

This must be the best way of looking at it I've ever seen
Seems like the moon would be a good spot. We can build it much bigger than in orbit, and there's no atmosphere to cause interference.
Diversity is having variety, not having any specific degree of variety.
As it seems to be implemented with a quota on hiring and team restructuring, there has to be a good reason behind any given number. As in actual research in the environment. Basing said quota on general population rates is not sound.

It also says something about the company that he couldn't get this done or believed it cannot be solved via internal processes.
Totally. (Disclaimer: Ubuntu user since, forever..)

I see Mint as a well-polished distribution, among a rather - you have to admit - humongous set of competition.

Mint is a good newbie Linux. Its good looking, works for most users I've seen actually put it to use, and is unique that way.

I'm rather inclined (as a Linux user) too boot Mint every now and then, and have a look.
Life itself is a risk which includes everything in it.
> The data seems to show that simply isn't true

Link to these data?

In my experience, the number of times a phone call of mine explaining an obscure policy flipped someone's view, whether a regulator, legislator or, in one case, mayor, is quite numerous. I'm not a prolific donor. I just called. I am almost always the only person who is not either (a) in the industry being considered or (b) retired who bothered to reach out. Same thing for town halls, canvassing, et cetera.

We do have a problem where popular views aren't effectively translating into policy. But I haven't seen that graph adjusted for civic involvement.
I'm not sure if its a matter of forgetting but about not knowing the contours of the boundaries of what's permissible and seeing a straightforward workaround as a proposition which also serves to give feedback regarding why or why not the proposition would be tenable. Evaluating a concrete technical solution in light of some legal matter should do well to illuminate and draw attention to the crux of the problem.

I guess the bottom line is whether one is forced to blacklist/whitelist a site and what means are permissible. If its simply about the site name appearing literally then a workaround would seem easy enough and one couldn't claim uniquely singling out because the filter applies more broadly. Of course the intent is the same in both, but I'm not versed enough on DCMA issues to know how intent plays a role in this field. Your point actually makes me curious about the legal field more generally and just how pervasive intent is and what areas of law it plays a role and which is does not.
That's the problem tho, isn't it? The core value of the service was great for fans, but not for any sort of business and certainly not for the labels (without whom SC cannot exist and hope to make any money whatsoever).
Motherfucking Website is too wide in my browser window. It would be a lot easier to read on desktop with even just one line of CSS:

body { max-width: 60ch; }
Regulatory Capture/Agency Capture is a real problem. On the one hand, it's often the case that people with deep ties to a regulated industry are the ones who understand it best. On the other hand, they're the people most likely to financially benefit from poor regulatory practices.
No one is getting away with the DMCA complaint. The target in this case did not file a counter notification. If they'd done that, then the DMCA complaint would be invalidated.

You can argue that's unfair, but we don't have a justice system. We have a legal system. And these are the rules.

Encoding it forces the DMCA filer to more comprehensively explain what is being violated. Basically it just raises the bar to a point where frivilous complaints can't clear it.

I think the crux of the disagreement is that I've seen how tenacious DMCA trolls are. They're smart. We like to think of them as dumb, but that's just flattery.

If you're trying to apply technical tricks to get around the legal system, you generally lose. The way to win in this case is to meet force with force on the same terms: file a counter-notification.

I think you're underestimating how valuable it is to have the content un-encoded on github. Anyone can see it. Flip through their commit logs. They have dozens of contributors that add or remove URLs almost daily. That wouldn't happen if it were encoded.
I thought you were insinuating that ICO was a technology in search a problem and that all super successful technologies starts this way.

Not insinuating, that's my claim - nearly every big technology was too early (eg. a solution looking for a problem - whether in form or scale) before it blew up years or decades later. I don't think that's controversial. It's also true that a lot of trash that never makes it are also solutions in search of problems.
So being a dick about it will? It hasn't worked so far for me. I still block, and almost without exception still get the content.
By "you are part of the problem", and the article and I are saying the debate is too extreme.

I'm not saying he's "wrong"; I'm saying the "because science" people are just as naively contributing to the debate as the "James Damore says women are inferior" people. As I mentioned (and you didn't address), the argument that there shouldn't be any training programs directed toward women leaves out any science about discrimination against women.

It's possible that everything he said is 100% true, but that there should still be programs at Google directed toward women (as he argued against). That's what I meant by "reducing workplace policy to science is a fallacy".

The problem is the "100%, facts that are completely true" mindset. Certainly you may use nutritional science to guide what you eat, but it's not 100%. Nutritional science is a great example because many of those studies have been overturned -- some would argue MOST such studies are false. You should read a little about the philosophy of science.

I think what he said should have been said, although he could have done it in a more constructive way.

And I think it's likely that someone on the opposing side leaked the memo on purpose, to get him fired. I saw a lot of these types of internal manifestos in my time at Google. Usually they don't leak, and a logical motive here would have been to force Google's hand and get him fired.
e.g. http://radio.spodeli.org/kanal103/chetvrtok/2000-2200.html

Brutalist on-demand radio streaming platform that I've build.
>discrimination, both against men and conservatives.

while men is [at least nominally] protected class, being a conservative isn't.

>Google is extremely hostile to conservatives.

can't applaud enough to Google here. According to the well known court decisions, a corporation is, like a person, entitled to have its own political opinion and actions, and it is the time somebody would answer to conservatives in kind. Conservatives whine so much every time they get a taste of their own medicine.

Shareholders who don't like Google's opinion can just sell their stock, as nobody forces them to own it.
I can't locate any opinion articles in the NY Times calling for the resignation of Uber's CEO. I agree the bar was much higher in his case too.
> There's plenty of diversity of opinion within a workplace.

Then why didn't Pichai predict the blowback from firing Damore?

> People get fired for dumber reasons.

Is that a defense of Pichai and tech monoculture? People get fired for dumber reasons?
> The new CEO is a Harvard Business School grad

Yeah, they're toast.
This looks promising. I've been annoyed by "Bufferbloat" for over a decade and find different solutions to the problem pretty fascinating.

The nice part about this solution is that it doesn't require making changes to the individual nodes on the network (e.g. cable modem) in the way that other solutions have required (small and fair queues).

It also appears to be able to avoid the usual packet-drops of regular TCP congestion control.
This company is killing the need of having a QA dept
All-electric autonomous aircraft with 27km range and speed of 100km/h
>In the 22 years since GIMP started, it hasn't caught Photoshop.

I think it's important to look in that quadrant, though. Why does that quadrant exist? In my judgement, it's beacuse such software requires a large amount of research and time to be devoted to it, and while certain free software projects are able to catch up to it, they are few and far between.

The next question to ask is why such development-intensive software is proprietary. In my judgement, the answer to that is because the development must be funded somehow, primarily in the case of programming that funding is wages. Open source/free software business models, while existing, do not have the same return, especially for these sorts of programs (though they do for Red Hat for instance.)

So presumably, such software could exist being free software if its developers were already accounted for in terms of wages, so they can spend more time making it.

This is where alternatives to capitalism enter - Socialist systems do not have wages, and people have much more free time to pursue their interests, while being sustained by communal production, to which they also participate in part. As such, such development may be possible under Socialism, but not capitalism. There is much less incentive to have proprietary software under Socialism.
Which is why corporate Boards and regulatory commissions should have a mix of insiders and outsiders.
>Saying someone has racist ideas is a loaded accusation. I think it's fair to ask for elaboration.

Except I didn't accuse James of having racist ideas, I pointed out that his opinions are toxic to his coworkers. I'm not sure what you're getting at.

It's true that he attempts to check himself throughout the paper, but it's contradictory because he then proceeds to take it too far. It's the equivalent of saying, "I'm for diversity, but...." and then demonstrating he's not for diversity by arguing against it.

Which is why this paper is a rambling rant from someone who chose to commit career suicide for his opinion, and it's surprising that the media is still focused on it.
> "If we truly become mindful of our existence then our recurrent anxieties become not just a wave we watch pass through our minds, not something to be mastered in order to be a better servant, but a call to take action in order to be more fully alive."

Agreed. The whole point behind meditation and mindfulness is to create a more well rounded spiritual life/existence. Not to ignore the things that cause you distress or pain, but to identify them clearly and untangle issues to figure out how to get past them.

My current company offers a whole slew of "wellness programs" - yoga, meditation, running clubs, etc. Great in theory, but they all take place during "lunch break", are limited to 20 mins or so, and charge (albeit, a small fee). None of these, I believe, are to benefit the lives of the employees but to create a sense of "forward thinking" in the company to encourage productivity.

Want my stress and anxieties to disappear at work and get me to be more productive? Pay more and ask for less working hours.
My laptop has a middle click button ;)
And i kinda like it for it. Over at Reddit i have seen way too many that pop in, make some kind of comment, and then nuke either the comment or the whole account after a short while.
usable and realistic holography will be the next big step forward in visualization and interactivity.
I didn’t mean to be taken quite so literally.

That said I’ve witnessed plenty of cringeworthy moments watching members of the MIT community deal with guest speakers during Q&A.
Dunno, IPFS?
Re-read what I wrote. To clarify further: I was talking about engineering in general, not software engineering in particular. Women entered the fields of law, medicine, and engineering all at the same time in the 60s and 70s. They faced sexism in all three. They have since come to be extremely well represented in law and medicine and even dominate some sub-fields, such as pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology. At the same time, women's representation in engineering has barely budged from 3% to 13% since 1970. [0]

So what is the difference?

[0] https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-24.pdf
You have a bug in your post. The URL has a bad domain name. Seems like QA is still needed :)
Perhaps some quality over quantity is needed, this answer on quora is the most in depth critique of the bad science in his paper I've been able to find so far:

https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...

Besides it's hardly fair for us to expect academics who are critical of the memo to speak publically about the issue when the alt-right is currently doxxing people for doing just that.
I remember reading (this was around when version 17 launched) about a couple serious issues people had with Mint. Have these been fixed/addressed?:
1) the mixing and/or renaming of Ubuntu and Debian packages - resulting in the maintainers just blacklisting upstream packages when something breaks because of this (even security updates! which, if I remember correctly, were set to 'optional' by default which is just stupid)
2) Mint, at least at the time, didn't publish any CVEs (what the hell is with that? seems nutty)
Didn't centralized storage win long ago as there were a bunch of failed decentralized storage services in the past? With the low price, high speed, CDN, and reliability of centralized storage, what would the decentralized one give me that I don't already have?
When my grandfather passed, we found beer from the 50s and 60s (we guessed at the ages based on the designs -- it was stamped with local sports team memorabilia). We kept some of the Pittsburgh-sports team ones, in fact, and they're at my parents home on display with the rest of my fathers sports memorabilia. I also remember finding very old unopened soda bottles, though I am not sure what happened to those. Point being, I agree with you that it's probably not as rare as one might think on a first pass.
Debian, Nginx, Apache, Postgresql, Mongo, InfluxDB, Grafana, Elasticsearch, PHP, Python, Node, Plain JS, jQuery, React, Polymer, CSS3

I've got heavy experience in all of those.

Plus a bunch of other techs that I've used but wouldn't consider myself strong.
Why does SoundCloud need labels? They just need a way to make money with independent musicians.
Agree 99% on this. My 2012 rMBP (i7 quad core, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and NVidia discrete graphics) still runs like a champ with VMWare running in the background supporting a docker swarm nonetheless). The only upgradable part in this system was the SSD and I upgraded that from the original 256 to the one that's in there now. The keyboard is actually starting to wear out with the 'S' having all but disappeared from the 'S' key.

All I was hoping for was this exact form factor with upgraded internals (faster CPU, faster GPU, 32GB), swapping the two existing Thunderbolt 2 ports for Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports. But no, apparently we all wanted lighter and thinner, no function keys and only poorly supported (so far) USB-C ports. Who knew?

By the way... TB is not useless. I use it everyday. I plug my rMBP into power and then plug a TB cable in from my computer to my LG Thunderbolt display with builtin USB-3 hub and TB passthrough.

Switching to the 9560 (from a MBP) wouldn't be as easy as one would hope. WSL is very very slow and awkward to use compared to the macOS terminal. Part of the performance problems are related to forking: on *nix forking is a lightweight operation and used a lot, especially in all of those convenient BASH tools that we use (like RVM) but on Windows it's a very expensive process--I'm rewriting GVM2 to speed it up for Go development on WSL. Then there's the whole deal of having to double up on your installs (e.g. installing ruby dependencies on both Windows and within WSL for code completion support, etc., from within VSCode) and not editing WSL files within Windows or risk corruption.

Then there's that single 2-lane Thunderbolt/USB-C port and the 9560's 130W power requirements...sadness. While an HP Zbook Studio G4 (also quad core i7, all the way up to Xeon) includes two 4-lane TB3 ports, it has older Quadro 1200m graphics and comes with a 150W power adapter (!): way way out of the max 100W USB-C spec. And yet the new rMBP still only draws something like 87W. In short, you can't charge any of these machines over USB-C unless they're idling.

It's like being stuck between a rock and hard place right now: Apple caters only to the mass consumer while everyone else is spread so thinly across all markets that they can't seem to focus and make a truly awesome MBP replacement for power users (engineers, creatives, scientists, gamers, etc). And I look at this 5-year old rMBP with its totally smooth underside, still incredible display, properly placed speakers and webcam, and wonder why Windows notebooks still can't compete with this Jobs-era design.
I recall looking around at the time but didn't see anything. The most recent thread was already done when it happened, and then the convention one was opened with pretty much no mention of it at all. Even now I can't find any substantial discussion of it.[1] It seemed to happen between threads and then the topic was just strangely ignored. I just can't imagine it would be so quiet if the RNC chair had resigned and the R convention was underway. At the time it felt like it came under the same bucket as the mod warning at the top of the convention thread about not "re-litigating the primaries" ... don't talk about it!

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/search.mefi?q=schultz+r...
This is the second time in a few months that I have heared DCMA and github have come up (GadgetBridge). At this point in time I do feel that github's policy on DCMA tale down notices are a little heavy handed am I right in thinking that DCMA is a US only issue?
James Damore claims that Google does not discriminate against women. CEO Sundar Pichai claims that Google does discriminate against women. I'm more inclined to believe the CEO.
In rural areas there are a lot of minimum maintenance roads. Legally they are roads and you can drive on them all you want. However if you don't have 4 wheel drive you shouldn't drive on them, even with 4 wheel drive there are times when you won't make it. A bus should never drive on these roads, and google does not know which these roads are - as I've discovered when I had to rescue someone who blindly followed google maps.
> So why don't you?

I'm not the one going against all of society by holding a fringe opinion.

> See, I can also make up shit out of thin air.

I didn't make shit up. You said any possible statement should be discussed logically, there should be no opinion that we should disregard just based on axioms, as that would silence parts of the political spectrum.

> Yes, such as non-discrimation. Which is what he writes:

And yet he says that having conservatives is something that is a value just in itself, and that Google should strive to have more conservatives.

I'm not making shit up out of thin air, that's specifically what he argued.

Or what purpose does the paragraph praising conservatives so overly awesome mental abilities, and he paragraph saying that having people from all political spectrums is a value in itself, serve, if not as a call to action?

He is specifically calling for more conservative employees at Google.

Hell, he specifically called for registering all democrats and conservatives at Google.

Are you seriously that ideologically blinded that you can't see a political discrimination when it's staring you into the eye?
I dunno, the timeline is not flattering.

What's the innocuous explanation for first speaking out on Stefan Molyneux's channel? That Damore has only heard of Molyneux, but Molyneux happened to be the first to successfully reach out to Damore?

Or if we assume Damore was the initiator in getting his story out, why would Molyneux be the first contact, as opposed to someone like Cernovich, who has a much bigger audience and has been blogging/tweeting in extensive support of Damore? I suppose Damore believes there's a substantive difference in politics/style/production between Molyneux/Cernvoich/Peterson/etc. But that he knows enough about Molyneux to want to give him priority probably means Damore is not just a causal fan.

I get that Damore doesn't trust nor feel obligated to talk to the left-wing-side of media, e.g. CNN/MSNBC/NYT. But literally anyone at FOX News would be just as sympathetic as Molyneux towards Damore, while having a bigger audience and more mainstream credibility (plus, production values that doesn't make Damore look and sound like a basement Twitch streamer).

(I don't watch Molyneux enough to have a strong opinion about his associations. But given his decent-but-not-huge channel, seems unusual that he'd be Damore's first pick by chance, given Damore's many options).
I do a lot of blogging on topics where people need info. All the info I put out is available for free. The most popular page on one of my more heavily trafficked sites has around 40k page views.

A million users are unlikely to just magically know your free editor exists. Things do sometimes go viral, but that isn't the norm for how you get to a million users.

Maybe marketing isn't the best term. But, if the OP does not have some idea of how those million users will be attracted, this is probably not a thing they need to be fretting about.