skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Calling him a WHITE MAN is an essentialism that reveals the author's bias.

I admit that I guessed the same, it's often when you're not in an apparent minority that you don't seem to take these issues at heart (and that you end up hurting a lot of people in the way). Which is an easy way to conclude that the author is a white male in his thirties working at a decent job.
The most intolerant wins. Society is sinking.
"We can answer these points using the minority rule. Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, as we saw, it will eventually destroy our world."
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Problem with UBI is it's one step from socialism. Why do we need ownership if computers become better resource planners than humans?
I hate to just turn a blind eye to the issue but, man, I'm glad I work at a place where only getting shit done, done right, and done on time matters. My team is about 60% men 40% women and pretty much evenly distributed across Asian, Russian, White American, and Central American races. No one cares in the least about diversity, only the project(s) matter. I feel very fortunate.
>> There's no historical context to the game of chess that has traditionally favored men over women?

See, maybe there was. But you're claiming that this historic context is the sole explanation for all observable difference. This claim is non-falsifiable, so there's nothing to discuss - you will always claim more reasons which are impossible to (dis)prove. But real people have their lives ruined for even suggesting otherwise.

>> s females are the disadvantaged group,

Look. Females are disadvantaged in volleyball, right? Why can't they be disadvantaged in something else (and advantaged in something else still)? And do you realise that this does not say anything about specific individuals? Like, even if you know this 6'3" girl, women are still shorter on average. Before you say "how can you conflate physical and mental" - well, everything is physical, your engineering performance is the neurons doing their chemical jobs.

My claim is that it is _possible_ that biology explains the difference in observed chess performance between men and women. And people should not have their life ruined for trying to discuss this.

You might want to read http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... for more at-depth discussion
Two interesting things:
No systemd but classic init

Well, that's one quick way to win a few people over.

Among future items:
Versions based on ReactOS, Minix3, Plan 9, and GNU/kFreeBSD

Really intriguing, but how many people have you got working on this?
Can you indulge me in a thought experiment. You seem like a reasonable human being but I think your question shows that you may have fallen into a moral trap.

Can you explain to me the point I've made that you're arguing for or against with your question. Show me how your question has any impact on that point.

If you're taking a side and saying "But did you know this person was literally Hitler" then you may have fallen prey to the manufactured outrage surrounding the issue. Take a step back and ask yourself if it matters if the list was called pc-considered-harmful, woodchipping-kittens or fluffy-bunnies? What is the impact on the list's name on the situation?

If you're associating any questioning of the situation with the other side then it's worth spending a moment to see if you might have tied your beliefs to identity. When we tie our beliefs to our identity, we associate questioning of those beliefs with attacks on our identity. This is being exploited at the cost of completely polarizing your view.

The next step would be to see how upset you are. If you're very upset or wound up, or maybe you're not but you've commented a zillion times about this elsewhere, why are you doing so about this matter and not other things? What is it about this issue that gets you so riled up and why? Why would you care about some guy you don't know getting fired more than the President's involvement with Russia, or the killing of innocent civilians in the Yemen? What is it about this subject that gets to you in a way other's don't, and why?

You might find some serious answers, but probably more questions here: https://medium.com/the-mission/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511...
You have an excellent point, but your use of the phrase "diverse candidates" misses the concern that the most important diversity is in thought and culture, not just predetermined demographics. A "diverse candidate" in reality may not look like an official "diversity candidate".
I've noticed that. But it does appear that for a lot of normally rational people this personal investment is at least amplified, if not manufactured almost entirely through the media.
I hope the packages for Apache in mainstream distros will include good defaults settings, I remember somehow hunting for the rules to redirect to https.
http://www.tropic.org.uk/~crispin/quantum/

Upside: it's got a quantum physics game engine, and can teach you quantum mechanics

Downside: HN will continue to tear me apart for making them download a JAR file but you can grab the source and compile it yourself if you like
A few of mine:

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/painting-a-christmas-... - 'painting' the LEDs on my christmas tree.

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/optical-magnetic-stri... - optically decoding data from magnetic stripe cards.

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/zymeter-simple/ - a rather unsuccessful attempt at measuring specific gravity.

https://github.com/anfractuosity/musicplayer - playing .wav files via RF emissions from a laptop.
What we should provide is equality of opportunity (i.e. anyone should be given a fair and equal treatment in an interview) not equality of outcome (someone should be given a job, just because they represent a certain segment of population).
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I don't know how much he was trying to find an answer but he does leave a good amount of qualifiers in there like, 'this may be the cause' or 'this could explain'. I could be wrong, but it seems like he was trying to put forth a argument in good faith that was not divisive, yet he got into dodgy territory with how he constructed and executed his argument.
Happy to see the GNUstep project still alive and kicking. WindowMaker has been the daily driver at my home desktop since 2000 when I first installed Debian and found the KDE & GNOME desktops way too heavy and unstable.

At this point, I am just too accustomed to WM to try anything different. It's a great window manager and has all the bells & whistles I ever need, yet it's blazingly fast. Though lately some KDE software has been misbehaving under my present-day Arch Linux install (small rendering issues, probably a theme configuration error), but as long as GTK + Firefox + xterm work, I am happy enough.
Not exactly nootropics but... microdosing LSD/shrooms
I don't understand why Microsoft went to so much effort to use two instructions to load a 32 bit value instead of placing it in RAM and loading it.

Was the RAM load so much of a delay in the pipeline that this hack was worthwhile?
You sure got me, I said I would be upset if a document like this started circulating at my workplace because of what it would indicate about the author's priorities, and because it would be grossly inappropriate.

So, you sent me a link! Like a toddler, you saw the words "I would be livid if I got a link to a doc like this," and you finger painted that daggone wall.

That one smarts, and you are a force to be reckoned with. Never underestimate the quote-for-quote reply that discards all context with each quote.
I've been watching the foundation since it's creation (I think it's over one year ago), I don't think it has done any significant help to the FPC/Lazarus development so far. Anyhow, such effort is plausible.
On the other hand, open source projects like this (http://newpascal.org/) is what actually driving open source going forward.
>Am I the only one who is afraid we are just going to turn the browser into a delivery mechanism for a bunch of fat-apps

If by "just" you mean "exclusively," then no.

I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of content on the web even today isn't "webapps" but basic HTML, maybe with some JQuery or Google analytics somewhere, but more or less still just documents. Webassembly augments what can be done in the browser, but it still serves a niche set of use-cases when the whole web is considered.

Until the day comes when you can't publish anything to the web without a compiler toolchain then I wouldn't worry.
What we need is a systems model that allows us to assess the overall health of a server in a single metric. Indicators of something under strain will reflect itself in the metric and draw our attention for further drilldown and analysis. "Load Average" is the metric we (the systems community) have generally been using for this. Unfortunately it appears that the model it is based on may be rather dated and may have flaws which mean we will miss, or misinterpret system health status by relying on that number. So the million dollar question is - starting from scratch, how can we design a model of our system that yields an reliable system health indicator metric?
Its called HR and its dominated by women
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That's not really a win-win for all. The low paid cafeteria worker who has to be at work at 5am before transit runs can't afford to outbid the executive that can pay $500/month for a space.... and he doesn't even get a share of the profit from the auction. So he ends up paying $200/month at a nearby garage out of his own pocket... at least if the profits were shared, it would help offset some of his parking costs.
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I agree the title could be better. I don't think (or at least I hope) the author isn't speaking in absolutes though. Obviously, there are places for both styles of business.
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551 points, 23 hours, and this is already not on the first 5 pages of HN.

Can someone please tell me, why?
See, that's exactly what I expect as a rebuttal (the claim sounded fishy to me as well). The bad way to address it would be to say "that's a very racist thing to say, you white supremacist!".
I did without even having read that particular thread. But I know all too well the types of arguments getting thrown around.

I think it is a question of awareness and beliefs. If you firmly don't think there is an issue then you simply don't notice. I've been at the other side of the fence so I know what it is like ;-)
Link to your tracks?
Unfortunately, Windows is not supported. It relies on systeminformation* package and it does not cover all resources for Windows. PRs are welcome to fix the issues for Windows.

https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation
Well, could you turn on the web cam and attach a picture of the person voting while they are voting?
A largely independent analysis of the implications of the study, putting to rest some of the hype:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-10/what-the-news-about-b3...

A key quote: "most miscarriages are caused by chromosomal abnormalities, which cannot be modified by the use of supplements"
I have been developing side projects for fun since my Engineering days(from past 6 years). Below are the ones worth showing:

1. Track Courier - This was developed to learn the tech-stack Node.js + Backbone.js + PostgreSQL (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/track-courier)

2. Form Filler - This was developed to solve my own problem of having to type common fields like email id, username etc again and again on different web pages (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/form-filler)

3. Subtitle Corrector - This is a linux command line utility to correct subtitle files. Using this one can adjust the entire file by +x or -x seconds (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/subtitle-corrector)

4. 100 - This is a project I started to learn to solve Algorithms and DS problems for my interview preparations. The plan was to solve at least 1 problem everyday for 100 days. But I couldn't do it everyday. Still whenever I solve a problem I put it in this repository (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/100)

5. Desktop Commentary - This is again a linux utility which shows Cricket scores every 10 seconds on your desktop as a Notification Bubble. The problem I was trying to solve here was to avoid going to Espncricinfo website every now and then to check scores when a match is going on (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/desktop-commentary)

6. Alarm Manager - This is one more linux utility to set multiple alarms (up to 5) on your linux machine (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/alarm-manager)
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Are you referring to Magit? All code that is part of Emacs requires copyright assignment to the FSF; it's that simple. If Jonas Bernoulli can make that happen, then the issue is resolved.

Jonas' original response: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-07/msg00...
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Or look at the NBA, coal miners, oil rig workers, chess teams, math clubs, computer gaming tournaments, etc.

There are gender disparities all over the place. There are racial disparities all over the place.

As long as these disparities aren't enforced intentionally by sexist/racist laws, I fail to see what the problem is.

If truly there is discrimination against talented women in the tech industry, then another company would hire all of these underpaid talented women and take over the tech industry.

Why did Larry Page, Jerry Yang, Bill Gate, Zuckerburg, etc all hire mostly males in their startups? Because they wanted to overpay underqualified males because they were sexist against women?

The argument doesn't make sense. If they did that, then another startup would have taken those underpaid overqualified women and destroyed their competitors.
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Yes, after reading the article I immediately searched the 8th circuits opinions, and the only case regarding Akins is on if the district judge should have recused themselves (which they said no). And the reason I immediately searched was the 8th district is very conservative and much more likely to agree with what is obviously Constitutional and in line with over 100 years of commonly understood law, than to cowboy up and say public photography is illegal.

But fake news sadly FTW.
Not even... Falklands are just right there..
> I mean, yeah, everything lives in a sandbox and there's potentially less security issues.

Precisely. It's sandboxed. I very much like the idea that I could run any proprietary software inside a sandbox, and reserve "hard install" to FOSS.

Also, I just can't ignore the convenience factor.
Looks to me like you're primarily advertising Cloaks, owned by a US-based company. There are tons of reasons why privacy-minded users would want to avoid a company under US jurisdiction, but you mention none of them.
This is often the case, especially with a hot-button topic. I suspect this might be the case here as well -- I have not read the judgement yet. However, to have an informative discussion, can you provide a TL; DR summary.

The main question I personally have is if can I still film anything and everyone on public property or has this been curtailed in some way shape or form.
Haha, yes definitely. There is something to be said about allowing people to get a full view of the structure vs letting them prettify the bundle however.
Trans woman sues Amazon over alleged discrimination at Kentucky warehouse
Yeah, there's a retro-future optimism in that car that's very attractive and playful but ultimately sad. It represents a future that "could have been".

Reminds me a little of the work by the designer Luigi Colani (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Colani).
> But aren't you restricting freedom when you would keep a creator from sharing his software under his own terms?

Nobody is stopping anyone. If you create some software, you're free to share it (or not) under whatever terms you like. RMS would not stop you, and would not want to stop you (although he may try to persuade you to favour FOSS terms if you were to discuss it). What RMS would do is avoid your software if your terms aren't FOSS, and perhaps he'd encourage others to make a FOSS alternative if it looks like that might be useful.

Of course, this is assuming that the software in question really was made by that "creator". If it actually contains a bunch of other people's work (e.g. FOSS components) then it's not "his" to dictate the terms of. It's this latter situation where the GPL/BSD debate takes place, and it would be a strawman to claim that the GPL restricts a "creator" from doing what they want with "their own work" (since it's precisely the bits which they didn't create and aren't theirs that are the point of the discussion).

> I'm afraid, but correct me if I'm wrong, that if RMS would be dictator of the world, he would rob people of the freedom to offer their products under their conditions. To me, the RMS world is less free.

No, in RMS's ideal world everyone is free to use whatever terms they like, but most users would shun anything that denies them the '4 freedoms' they've come to expect from everything else.

Whilst "freedom of speech" is important, it doesn't imply we should have "freedom of having-people-agree-with-you". Likewise, "freedom to license however you want" doesn't imply "freedom to have-people-use-your-stuff".
> The one thing I didn't like was that P2P/torrenting is blocked. They claim that to enable torrenting, they would have had to enable logging.

Wait, if Tunnelbear are throttling P2P connections, where is the red flag?

Regarding NordVPN: I’ve used them a few years ago and their service was terrible. Disconnects upon disconnects, servers not working for days — I gave up eventually.

Never tested any other VPN he reviewed, however, I’ve written a guide[1] how to pick a VPN provider without throwing numbers and reviews around me, if anyone wants to give it a read.

[1] https://lifesimply.rocks/vpn-for-digital-nomads/
A few of mine.

https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbobrus

https://github.com/ivanceras/spongedown

https://github.com/ivanceras/curtain

https://github.com/ivanceras/rustorm

I've spin up some semi-polish desktop app, but never get some revenue.
I'm sure you're trolling, but...

Her credentials worked against her. She was as establishment as you can be, with no perspective on any major change from the viewpoint of the average person, just continuing on down the existing path.

The reason Trump got elected is the same reason Obama got elected, and it is the same reason Bush Jr. got elected, and Clinton before him: people want change.
> For example, the move from legacy add-ons to WebExtensions is surely one less maintenance burden for Mozilla.

On the other hand it is an annoyance for many extension developers and users of those extensions. Half of the extensions i use (like DownThemAll, FireFTP and MAFF) are not WebExtensions compatible and there aren't any alternatives.
There's a lot of questions here

- did he create the group?

- how long had the group existed before he posted the memo?

- was Google as an organisation ok with that group existing?

- is there anything wrong with there being discussion surrounding the value of PC viewpoints?

- What other sorts of lists exist at Google, and what sorts of viewpoints to they cover?
There's not just one.

You can run Qt apps in the browser, for instance.
Part of the problem with diversity culture is that, depending on the circumstance, Russians and Central Americans, especially fair skinned and Americanized ones, may not count as "diverse". And in most workplaces there is an obvious "Asian" presence (scare quotes because Filipino and Chinese go in the same category), so the Asian men aren't counted as "diverse" either.

Companies can't come out with official taxonomies of diversity, so it's all vague and based on unspoken intuitions about which candidates count as more diverse.

It's not a system someone would design from scratch.

To me, it seems like hiring the first Mormon, albino, or Thai employee would be an obvious win from a diversity perspective, but it's not that simple.
Yeah, the ruling wasn't at all about his filming of police officers, it was about whether or not the judge should have recused themself..(?) I'm very confused as to how you could say "Eighth Circuit: Citizens do not have a right to film public officials in public" after the only sentence having to do with filming public officials in public was "Akins also alleged that the defendants violated his rights by removing videos he had posted on the CPD Facebook page, by ordering him to stop filming the filing of acitizen complaint in the CPD lobby, and by posting in the police department a flyer with information about him"

But again, the judgement wasn't at all about him filming public officials, only about whether or not the judge should've presided over the case.
Currently, there aren't even the APIs needed by Tree Style Tabs in WebExtensions. That's likely to change, but not until after Firefox 57.
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I scanned through the dockets a bit; scroll down to see my post.

As far as I see it, the author of the article leads you to believe that 'public' means 'any public space' when in fact the court was ruling about filming in 'public proceedings', which is completely different.
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broadcom disagrees.
It's literally linked in the article in full. It's only like 5 pages long. Very clear and obvious that this case had nothing to do with whether you could or couldn't film a public official in public...
For better or worse, when I notice an HN item that looks interesting, I find myself reading the HN comments first, and skipping the article half the time because of exactly this kind of thing.
* understand the basic directory structure (/, /boot/, /var, /usr, /opt, /etc)
* file management (commands: tail, head, cat, awk, sed)
* process management (commands: ps, top, kill)
* package management (yum, dpkg)
* one configuration manager (puppet, chef, ansible)
* basics of tcp/ip
network management (ifconfig/ip, netstata/ss, ping, trace)
addiontal commands if you want to be more than a junior (strace, lsof, iostat, vmstat)

I'd like to point out that some sysadmins are focused on linux internals while others focus on application in production. So, of course, the list may vary according to the position you're looking to be hired.
> judges are federal appointments

True

> ...and not local people

Generally false.
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There is a difference between challenging someone by exposing the flaws in their argument and challenging them by campaigning to have them fired.
Curious how no one mentioned kids yet.
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NaCl is the library, secretbox is one of the methods. It's been implemented into libraries for several languages, I'm currently using the Ruby one to make an encrypted backup app that suits my needs. It makes using encryption straightforward.

http://nacl.cr.yp.to/
I've thought about it, and no, not really. I mean, try reading the source of http://elm-lang.org/.
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Keep asserting that buddy. But I'm telling you now, each essay I write is intended to change something in the world. If I didn't intend it as an action, I wouldn't bother writing it.
Wait, where do you see anywhere in the ruling a decision about anything other than whether the judge should've been recused or not...?