skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In any fast-growing field, the distribution of expertise is pyramid shaped, with a broad base of inexperienced folks, and comparably fewer senior people.

Outsiders calling on the expertise of relatively junior people is a seems to be a pretty natural consequence of this distribution, though maybe not to the extent described in this blog post.
youtube-dl can pull the m4a files, vanilla music on android plays them without re-encoding and my desktops which are all Linux support m4a just fine.

It's almost embarrassingly easy to pull a 400 song playlist of the genres I like (outruns and synthwave).
It seems like you've got everything needed for a thriving marketplace without the market.

Why is your content all free? Have you tried to directly monetize the content? Why not have the first x,xxx downloads free, then monetize the content and split revenue with the author & publisher? Or have a graduated cost based on popularity, similar to what pinboard did? Something like this may have the side benefit of creating a sense of urgency and anticipation for your newsletter.
What's funny about that link is that when she refers to the scientific claims she mostly seems to agree that they are well founded. Apart from that she seems to reading a lot of stuff into the memo that Damore probably wouldn't agree is there, and getting offended. I.e. he is a racist/sexist/alt-right bigot.
Which group is which? What's the group that doesn't tend to escalate things irrationally?
You've noticed where I've been getting many of the stacks from, then! (The old AOL HyperCard pages).
Umm no. Listen, I love SoundCloud, but government tax dollars should not be in the business of providing electronic music. At least US tax dollars, Germany can do what it pleases.
Could this comment alone be considered infringement and be subject itself to a DMCA takedown? You are instructing someone how to potentially bypass security measures for copyrighted works? /s
US firm reveals gun-toting drone that can fire in mid-air
Not a similar project, but also on the geodata front, someone converted and georeferenced the canon maps for the Pathfinder campaign setting into Shapefiles and KML: http://dungeonetics.com/golarion-geography/index.html

And someone else used that data with Leaflet to make a tiled map and a globe: http://oznogon.com/golarion-tile/#6/35.642/0.000
You're not saying anything that couldn't be said about houses in the US Midwest.
Central banks actually will lend (or take deposits) at their rate. So in that sense it's not made-up.
Well, now you can do the same in the Internet Archive... all of the ones that were saved from the AOL HyperCard section before it closed are online.
It is, but you can usually count on getting that money back if you sell, or that it's already done when you move in.

I got it installed in my dads old house, but even before that you could get 100/100 through cable for ~$45.
Tarn Adams has a pretty interesting talk about procedural myth generation (starts at about 9:00): http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023372/Practices-in-Procedural
Okay, you know exactly what is meant when people in this forum talk about tech. Being pedantic about the word technology isn't helping this discussion.
My comment was in reply to another comment which wasn't directly related to the letter that Damore wrote. I think you really need to read the comment I'm replying to before asserting anything else because I think you're confused. Try from the beginning and read.
Would he have been fired if his position (similarly political) were for a stronger, more liberal diversity policy?

Of course not. That's the difference here. It was a work-provided place soliciting feedback on the company's diversity and hiring policies. Politics are already present in the existing policy.
I never understood why people wanted their tabs on the top instead of on the side. I'm using [Tree Style Tab][1] on Firefox and whenever I need to use any browser I feel limited by screen real estate. With modern widescreen displays I can have my tabs on the side and the titles are still readable while the website content is readable, too. What's not to like?

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
Just wanted to say I appreciate this post so much. I didn't know tempura was originally Portuguese, and it was also a huge surprise to me that vindaloo, what I think of as a quintessentially Indian dish, was too. A delightfully informative post!
Yes please do! The more stacks the better.
No he didn't. He said that one group of people had less desire to work there, and trying for 50/50 might not make sense. I went to a relatively small school, but there were 0 women who majored in computer science in the 4 years I was there. We certainly didn't reject anyone, there just wasn't 1 single person interested in making that their major. It's not unreasonable to suggest that computer science is a field that may not be exactly 50/50 in the type of people who want to do it.

Coal miners, fire(persons?), nurses, elementary school teachers and many many other fields are nowhere near 50/50. There are clear differences in genders and what they want out of life. He didn't in any way say the there are no women that can be good at this job. He simply pointed out that it's possible it might not be 50/50. maybe it's 60/40 or 70/30 and if you just try to hit a certain number you might not always be getting the best candidate for the position.

As a whole, if the tech industry was forced to be 50/50 tomorrow, we'd have to fire like 80% of the workforce. There simply aren't enough women interested in the field and qualified to do it right now. If you want to work towards having more women in tech, you have to start much sooner, at say the elementary and junior high age. Promote STEM more to them at those ages and maybe in 20-30 years we can be closer to 50/50. But it isn't happening tomorrow just because people want to change hiring practices. I hope that my daughter is interested in it when she grows up, and I certainly don't want her to be discriminated against, but saying it might not be 50/50 because different genders enjoy different things isn't in fact discrimination.
Retail and transactional banking have built-in incentives for honesty, at least with other banks. Banks are repeat players in a millennia old game. The banks primarily profit by charging their clients for their services. There's little upside and tremendous downside for being dishonest.

But when investment and retail banking merged, the stable system of incentives disintegrated. Before the merger, retail banking was more expensive, but it was incredibly stable; that premium was more than worth the cost. I don't see why investment banking needs to merge with retailing banking anymore than VC firms need to merge with retail banking. It just results in a chaotic system.

In an increasingly electronic age where the technical transactional costs are quickly eroding to nothing, you don't gain much efficiency by merging these roles. The remaining transactional costs are functional and specifically serve to ensure that incentives are well-aligned internally and externally. Removing those barriers merely permits people to extract all that value, diminishing the overall value of the systems and the economy in general.

Likewise, the global value of assets is so tremendous that investment firms don't need direct access to the capital within the retail banking sector. We're quickly approaching something like $100 trillion in highly liquid investments globally.
Similar, you are correct. Except getting exiled from your home country isn't remotely similar to being fired. Also, Snowden blew the whistle, this guy from google was voicing an opinion.
Words mean nothing.

Here's a parallell: https://theintercept.com/2017/06/04/paris-accord-trump-lobby...

What matters is the effect of what you're doing.
Design is also about self-expression of the designer, and solving problems by way of manufacturing experiences. Sometimes the two conflict at the cost of the other though.
I buy from third-party sellers all the time for hobby equipment/parts. Yes, they mostly resell bulk container-ship-specials from East Asia. But that's fine for hobbying around - sometimes you don't want to pay a lot for a bunch of M3 screws/nuts and you don't mind a poor shear strength and heads that easily strip. You know what you're getting, and the two-day shipping is very nice when you don't want to wait for an agent to collect your RMB orders, chuck as much extra weight as they can, and drop it in the international post. Things like:

- Small screwdrivers/hex keys

- Breadboards

- Hookup/jumper wires

- Perfboards and copper-clad FR4.

- Bulk discretes like resistors/capacitors/buttons/potentiometers/LEDs. Especially buttons.

- Springs

- Bolts, nuts, spacers, etc.

- Common microchips (a bit risky, but these days at the IC level, knock-offs are often sold as their own similarly-named brand at a steep discount. You're usually fine if you pay the prevailing price and don't scrounge for a suspiciously-good price. Issues like the famous FTDI bricks are rare, so again, okay for hobby work.)

- Active elements (ceramic heating elements, piezos, peltier modules, small DC/stepper motors, pumps, etc.)

These are fairly specialty items, but there is still enough of a demand for several players to take advantage of arbitrage with shipping and bulk discounts. The quality is bland and rarely outstanding, but it is fairly consistent. While I wouldn't use most of the stuff in a critical product, I still have a lot of hobbying to do and frankly I can't afford high-quality parts/equipment for all of my projects.

If Amazon banned third-party sellers, they would not bother stocking most of these niche items. I would have to go somewhere else; ebay, or making strategically-timed Taobao orders to minimize international shipping costs and the weeks of waiting. Companies like Adafruit, Seeed, Shapeways, Tindie, Etsy, and Sparkfun would probably step in with their own centralized 'hobby marketplace' offerings that Amazon's current customers would hop to.

That said, I do agree that they should at least make a search option to filter them out.
For anyone willing to get a little experimental (it requires mySIMBL), Github user anakinsk's fork of SafariStand can enable tab favicons.

It's a total hack though.... every time a new version of Safari is released it tends to break. But kudos to him for trying.

https://github.com/anakinsk/SafariStand

Here's a (long) thread with some of the backstory about why this is so difficult:

https://github.com/anakinsk/SafariStand/issues/38
If someone ever says that to me, I'll still keep using it to the day I die. And I'll maintain it if need be. Because Django is awesome.
Next up, 512 lanes should be enough for anybody ;).
HR, bosses, co-workers are not friends .... when it comes down to it: they will save their own asses over yours, no matter what. I had run into a bunch of problems at work.. when other people joked, it was fine, but when I'd joke.. very similar to everyone else.. nothing that was sexual or would be deemed inappropriate, yet it somehow turned into a big deal always. It got so bad that I was called into a meeting by my supervisor and boss and I almost got fired.

So I pretty much stopped joking around, stopped joking with everyone, no longer trust anyone, and now I just show up to work, put on my headphones, do my job, and go home when my shift is done. At company parties, I go for the free food, talk to whoever talks to me, and then I leave. It's safer this way. I'm not sure what it is about me, but I feel I was targeted. So they've shaped me into exactly what they wanted me to be: a coding machine who does his job without question, without emotion, and that's pretty much it.

Fortunately, I did fine one or two people at work that I can joke with in private messages, so that keeps me somewhat sane.
Because there aren't modern technically competent socialist governments that value this art.
They’re copying iOS behaviour
I agree, calling Trump a Nazi is both egregious and it also lessens any coherent argument about similarities between the populism of Trump's base and the beginnings of the Nazi party (not to imply too much similarity, but there is some). The Nazi label should not be trotted out without cause, but should be called into intelligent discussion where warranted. It seems we currently vacillate between using it too easily and too conservatively (Godwin's law).

The real problem is that both those extremes contribute to a system in which we believe a similar thing could never happen again by viewing them and their actions as distinct from us and what we are capable of, when there is no distinction. Closely related to the maxim that those that do not know history are doomed to repeat it is that those that view themselves as distinct from history are also doomed to repeat it. :/
You mean she agrees that there are differences between men and women? Sure, most people do. But she doesn't agree that there is a basis for the idea that men would make better programmers than women because of something at the biological or genetic level, which is really the contention around Damore's memo.

>Apart from that she seems to reading a lot of stuff into the memo that Damore probably wouldn't agree is there, i.e. he is a racist/sexist/alt-right bigot.

Well his first interview was with Stefan Molyneux and he's done another with Jordan Peterson. I'm assuming Mike Cernovich and Lauren Southern are next? Come on. The thing about writing a dogwhistling document like his memo is you have to keep your true beliefs secret. By running straight to some of the darlings of the alt-right he's exposed himself a bit and his dogwhistles become clear as exactly that.
> Hiring someone because they conform to a (non work skill based) target is discriminatory. discrimination is the enemy of diversity, be it positive or negative discrimination.

Not sure about this one, companies hire based on whether or not they feel like people will be a cultural fit all the time (in the positive and negative sense). Is it discriminating to avoid hiring someone whom you perhaps could expect will not keep pace with what is required of their job? Or use company hours to stir up political controversy? I realize that some of this is a straw-man argument given the overlap of the discussion, but cultural fits are something companies do whether it is direct or indirect bias. Stirring up controversy is almost by definition the antithesis of a productive work environment; this is evident by all the time now wasted in the totality of Silicon Valley at this point. Is it a bad idea to stir the pot? Absolutely not, but these are definitely causal effects of it (good or bad). That being said, there is probably some evolutionary utility in generating such polarities as I would expect a social group to address the point of controversy where they vehemently disagree.
I wonder what it's like to work in Uber's PR department these days. Hopefully someone is setting aside a year end bonus for them since they don't likely qualify for overtime pay.
> “At the time, the feeling among cycling groups was, ‘We deserve our place on the road. We don't want to be relegated to a secondary system,’”

This matches a lot of my experience in Britain. When there's a cycle lane alongside a road drivers will often get aggressive about you cycling in the main roadway, even when (as is so often the case) the cycle lane is unsafe or unsuitable.

IMO we should focus less on distinct cycling routes, and more on making road junctions safer for cyclists.
If the XCMD comes with a sample stack, that stack will be uploaded. If it's just an XCMD it may be trickier. If you find any stack that isn't working because of a missing XCMD (or any other reason) then let me know - hypercardonline@gmail.com
> Lists are for humans to read and therefore should use the natural numbers, which start at one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms#Formulation

To address the content of your post: I agree, but humans aren't purely logical devices created by Dr. Noonien Soong, and we do enjoy playing with things and joking about.
Less women studied CS than men and less apply. The image used to be merit. Now its all fucked up.
And Matt Levine, who said the exact same thing in an article posted in this comment thread?

But a second problem is that the banks might not even know. Libor surveys asked banks each day what they would have to pay to borrow money unsecured from other big banks, but over time the banks sort of stopped doing that, particularly in some of the more obscure combinations of tenors and currencies that nonetheless reported Libor rates. So the banks' Libor submitters would guesstimate their submissions based on deposit rates and commercial-paper rates and secured-borrowing rates and other tenors and what brokers and their buddies were telling them.

Last I'd checked Mr. Levine was pretty well regarded.

Not that it matters... We're well into ad hominem and argument from authority territory here.
Wait-Free Synchronization (1991) [pdf]
There are other toolkits for bootstrap that don't use the jquery based JS.. you can use anything, as long as the rendering uses the correct classes for a given state, etc.
Everything is situational. Given the set of problems that SC has in terms of business model and financial discipline, the ideal job spec would ideally have academic and work experience in the relevant area.

HBS is probably as good choice as any if you are going to get a general business background. And CEO of Vimeo seems like a great work experience with substantial ability to pattern match.

That is very different than saying that “all Harvard grads make great CEOs” If the biggest challenges were legal, I would probably want a CEO with both theoretical and practical legal background. If the biggest challenges were related to security, I would look for someone with background in security, etc.

My bias is finding a CEO with relevant prior experience. Especially in a turnaround situation, I would not want a CEO who is learning on the job.
If his liberal diversity policy was "white men shouldn't be hired, they are unfit to do the job" then yes he probably would have been fired still.

That would be the actual alt-left equivalent here.
How would this have played out if it was sent to the correct address, signed for but just had baking mats in there instead of the Lens? Would Amazon side with the seller still?

If not, why didn't the buyer just claim the items in the package was not as described?
Also, every stack in the Internet Archive has a downloadable disk image that can be downloaded and run offline in an emulator, or on an old Mac if you still have one.
You do know that is exactly what's going on, right? There are plenty of male only scholarships in nursing school and schools put forth considerable effort to assuage the fears that men have entering the field and provide special accommodations and support for them including campaigns to get their co-workers to stop calling them 'male nurses'.
Offtopic: Did salesforce really pay 'several hundred millions' for metamind? I assumed it was an aquihire of sorts.
Offtopic: Did salesforce really pay 'several hindres millions' for metamind? I assumed it was a aquihire of sorts.
That's what the article stated - that at one point it made sense but banks found cheaper ways to get capital and slowly stopped lending to each other as much.
They might not be back. Here are some options that have made a splash here on HN over the years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14041248

Justin Jackson as mentioned there is about to release an update to his "Marketing for Developers", so he's pitching a 24hr "deal" (meaning make sure the bundle is worth $100 to you; I don't necessarily recommend it) right now: https://justinjackson.withcoach.com/marketing-for-developers...

You can see the stuff he gives away for free on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/justinjackson
I think you just described the Fossil dvcs.
Affirmative action is definitely racist and sexist. Without it, maybe it is in some cases.
Agreed, it's been my preferred way to use BS for a long while, first with less, then scss... You can leave a lot behind, and with react/angular there are ui components that don't require all of jQuery.
Kinda yeah. A big reason Twitter has the ad revenue it does and the celebrities posting that it does is because it throws lots of non technical people at ad agencies and talent management groups to get them on board. Those people need desks.
Uber chaos continues as investors go head to head
For the sake of argument, there's a difference between someone's IP and the wrapper it comes in. I'd be more than happy to pay for an audiobook through Amazon (or just get Audible), but until a recent hardware upgrade, I literally couldn't listen to them on the device I had access to during the period I had time to listen to them because Amazon decided I had to have their software to do so. So I found another place I could get the actual content in a different wrapper that did let me play it on my old Sansa+Rockbox (Downpour, if anyone's wondering). I'm more than happy to see an ad beside or before the main content, but whatever site I'm on did not make the ad and taking it off the page is no more changing their IP than taking a black marker to a physical newspaper.

I do block ads, though, despite actually wanting to see them to support the site. My problem is in the potential for viruses and tracking, and while that's a separate issue a few other threads are already talking about, there's been disappointingly little actual progress in making sure you can browse safely without resorting to nuking everything. I've been following the development on Brave because their proposed methods seem like one of the few ways to actually make it work.
Biology isn't a simple 1-to-1 match. Nor is it merely an n-to-m mach either. Biology is really, really messy. Whether it's secondary and primary sexual traits or the color of your eyes it's mostly a statistically driven result and not one driven by a deterministic engine. DNA for all of its structure doesn't seem to give way to an easily structured expression of genes. I think this is the critical thing lost on folks (it was lost on me for years) because we're always working with something that seems very regular and systematic but when you break it down into smaller components it becomes clear how little of that is regular and systematic. So, to say that biology magically creates our minds as a whole or even in part doesn't work out. I'm not arguing for dualism but I am arguing that biology isn't so easy to model. And that we should, James Damore included, accept that our conclusions are easily overturned when we dig a bit deeper.
The percentage is not that important, the question is which segments are profitable. Try to identify 5 segments that add up to 20% of your readership, try to sell ads/strike partnerships with businesses interested in those segments. After 6 months, look at which of these are not profitable vs. effort/resources spent, and discontinue them. Keep looking for new segments.
Do you think adblocking is the same as removing DRM? How do adblockers technically relate to copyright infringement? I don't see any adblocker do anything about DRM.

If there is an adblocker that allows me to download lossless video from Netflix I'd sure like to hear about it.

Are you perhaps saying that the ads played on Spotify and YouTube are a form of DRM? Or does every TOS violation constitute a DRM violation now?

How is "blocking ads" in any way related to copyright and DRM?
Here, I'll pay buy $1 million worth from you, if you'll buy $1 million worth next week. Sound good?

Likewise, that "$30B USD" is referencing exchange between different crypto-assets, yes?