skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For there to be a media to express their ideas, you need to force some people - private actors, not government - to provide them with such a media. For most people, this is highly unacceptable, because it makes them complicit in spreading this kind of speech. It's one thing to accept that the speech itself should be legal and not prosecuted, and quite another to assist (even if involuntarily) in spreading it.

So, what's more important: the right of Nazis to free speech, or the right of everyone else to freedom of association?
Very happy to see this, as I use f.lux less often than I'd like because of some shortcomings (slowdown when transitioning, and lack of customization). What I'd really like to see is direct and unbounded control over brightness and red-shift separately. At night flux just doesn't go dim enough for me, and the 1200k loses more contrast than I think it ought to.
Discrediting Travis (read: vendetta) is the means through which Benchmark seeks to protect their investment.

In order to liquidate their investment, Uber needs to IPO or Benchmark needs to find another investor to buy them out.

Travis is a staunch opponent to an IPO. And, replacing Travis as CEO is a likely pre-condition to finding another investor who will buy Benchmark out. Either way, discrediting and removing Travis and protecting their money is more or less one in the same.
Awesome!!! It works with my display adapter finally!
Perfect example of a strong technology that has really been hurt by strategic errors.

Whatever success .NET did have, it was still largely pigeonholed as just something for Microsoft stack devotees.

There was no technical reason the essence of the new core version couldn't have been a priority 20 years ago. Not only cross platform and open source, but acting earlier and more aggressively to dispel patent trap mistrust. It cost precious momentum.

No doubt hindsight makes it easy to say all this now, but there was still an issue of entrenched thinking about the way things had always been before, combined with a circle the wagons mentality.

One part of it I think was easy to see, was that free high quality development tools should have been widely available day one. How does it make any sense for a company to try and make $5000 off of a copy of visual studio, at the expense of platform momentum that is driving $200 billion a year in revenue?
Yeah, baseball participation seems WAAAAY down. Kids play in leagues (I don't know if participation is increasing or decreasing) but almost never play pickup (ie, informal, unorganized) baseball "for fun" anymore which I think is a leading indicator of a sport's future.

I saw some kids playing a pickup game a few months ago and it blew my mind. Hadn't seen that in years, or since.

When I was a kid in the 1980s it was not uncommon to play baseball or whiffleball on a pickup basis with one's friends.

When my dad was a kid in a major US city in the 40s and 50s he said you didn't even need to gather friends; there was pretty much always a baseball game or three being play amongst kids at the park that you could get into.

It's sad, in a way, but (as much as I love it) baseball's kind of an awkward sport because you need so many people to play anything resembling an actual game.

(I know you can have a lot of fun playing catch with two people, or just pitching and hitting with two or three people... spent hundreds of hours doing these things myself)
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Makes me wonder if Google is working on a programming language for machine learning...
- Is LE worth contributing for, given it's a joint Google initiative?

- FOSS really need to send out proper invoices, donations are a corporate risk and I have to spend time to my accountant to justify the necessity of donations, every year.
Boost me up :)
I didn't notice yesterday, I have been trained when using turn-by-turn to not look for street names anymore and just estimate from the highlighted route. Apple Maps appears to do a better job than Google but its still not what I would call good.
Also interesting is that Ryan Dahl, Node.js creator, is also now working on TensorFlow.
Thanks for the answer, I have edited my post and I have basically the same solution. (Only instead of removing the edges I increase their weight to infinity because I think the TSP problem is defined only on complete graphs) But as I have mentioned in my comment I feel like this solution is flawed.
> It's an entirely different thing to claim that these biological differences are the reason why there are so few women in the tech and leadership

As it is to claim that the reason for so few women in the tech and leadership is due to sexism, no? Oops, I guess not, there I go with my old fashioned misogynistic presumption of innocence. Silly me thinking the onus should be on the person demanding special treatment to prove the need, when of course the onus should be on the person providing that special treatment to prove why it isn't needed. Guilty until proven innocent, it's a brave and confident new world.
Um, pretty sure that's why they have masks.
Think kids that don't have role models of their gender/ethnicity

It's funny, because I am an ethnic minority. I mean that almost literally; outside of my family I have met exactly one person of my same ethnicity. If I had been waiting for a role model I would still be waiting. So my lived experience means I am pretty skeptical of the need for one's role model to match one's skin colour (or anything else).

Incase it matters my role models were Avon and Scotty.
> but doesn't point out what is lacking in Damore argument

I think it's because this article is about Google, not Damore. I;m sure if she really wanted to talk about Damore's arguments, the article would have to be far longer and her main argument watered down.
Out of curiosity, I signed up for the JavaScript Mini Code Bootcamp - Archive to evaluate the quality of the lectures. I've been watching/listening to the first 20+ min and so far, I'm quite skeptical of the quality of the instruction. Are the archives some sort of practice run or are they reminiscent of the actual lectures?
> There is no sane way of forking a multithreaded program

The sane way of forking a multithreaded process is to exec immediately after.
Americans feel entitled for a quick cure for any ailment that befalls them. They demand pain killers for cough and antibiotics. Norco 5/325 is the most dispensed drug in the pharmacy and is now commonly prescribed for cough here. BigPharma works because there is an open market eagerly to abuse and consume as much as possible.
Counterpoint: Threads in JRuby work as threads should work. No GIL. No grinding of gears.

Multi-process is just one form of concurrency, and it's not always the best one.
Basically, I think he's saying that Google and Youtube have altered their search algorithms to bias towards progressive values and demote (rank lower) non-progressive posts.

Also, he's saying people have had their accounts cancelled because their accounts were flagged as "hate speech" (even if it wasn't) and that doing so, was biased.

Also, some companies are aggressively forcing their employees to subscribe and support certain political ideas. I won't name names, but I've also felt this at one place I worked. Here's how it works. Managers engage their subordinates on political matters, asking them "what they think". And if you don't agree with their views, you may be negatively sanctioned, in the future (this is implied, not specifically spelled out).
That's better than my flight 18 years ago where the onboard computers all died mid-takeoff, we had to abort takeoff and sat on the tarmac for about 3 hours while they sourced alternate computers and did the replacement.
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This type of "spying" has been going on for a long long time [1]. It's just that people have conveniently ignored it, and the companies that use this data have not been outed. See SimilarWeb, Jumpshot and other clickstream companies that buy Google extensions and keep track of every single URL you visit.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/180175/warning-your-browser-extens...
What does a tech startup do after raising $232M? Set up a VC fund
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15012746
I've tried to have that discussion here and ended up at the point where it seems like its the word itself that causes the problem, but after asking "well what if we just changed the word to be something that evokes the lack of barriers" and the usual response is essentially "fuck you I deserve what I have.", which may be 100% true but straight white men (like me) who think that everyone is on a totally level playing field and we have all the same barriers in life as everyone else I think is nuts. No two people are the same and nobody knows what challenges people have faced (that don't depend on race or gender) but on average it seems pretty clear that being of the majority race and religion and being male avoids a lot of potential problems.

I feel like in any particular situation, what I get out of something is a product of what I put into it. I've never felt at any point in my life like I've not been given the benefit of the doubt and I wish that was the case for everyone.
Spambots on HN posting in cryptocurrency discussion
I recently stumbled upon a Ripple article submitted on HN [1] [2]. The discussion itself seems to be dominated by spambots. This got me thinking, how much of the comments on HN are submitted by bots? If the article got more attention, the spambots would be virtually indistinguishable from regular chatter. Who benefits from "inventing" these bots?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922965
[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170814204950/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922965
Well, it wouldn't be a goal of your post, since you take it as a given that the tech industry employs arbitrary exclusionary practices against women and minorities. Surely, in the 53 years since the Civil Rights Act, someone has already compiled comprehensive evidence of these practices. It shouldn't be too hard to find.
Yeah and Kleenex is a brand of facial tissue but when you sneeze what do you ask for? I'm not aware of a "prine" tree and neither is Google so I think the intention was to type "prune" since u and i are neighbors on the keyboard.
https://youtu.be/OwtxWL0P9wA?t=1m54s
You do not need to pay to host a PDF article, there are platforms such as arxiv.org or zenodo.org that do this for free for you.
Pro tip: Club soda with a lime looks just like a vodka soda.

Works great when you're trying to keep a clear head at a party full of heavy drinkers too. Just make sure to take slow sips so that people don't catch you with an empty glass.
Let me just leave this here:

"We [UrbanAMA] try hard, but again find ourselves with a 98% male candidate pool. You should know that we are an early stage startup that cannot afford market salaries. Despite that, we paid premium salaries to bring a few women who did well in our interviews. But, they lacked the energy to put us into overdrive. Worse, they were starting to drain the energy from the rest of the team. Eventually, we had to do the right thing for the company and let them go. I’m now back to being the only woman on the (tech) team."

I'm not sure what it says about the situation that 98% of the candidate pool is male or that she had to fire specifically the women for draining energy.
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There's a lot of things to do in TensorFlow that involve a lot of work (and could even be its own project). Namely support for dynamic computation graphs (a-lá PyTorch). TF as it is is great for production, and even for research, but a lot of people in the latter are starting to look at PyTorch more and more for prototyping.
Can you link a few? I feel like I'm missing something here because the only AAA game out with Vulkan support I can recall is Doom.
Every input can be written in 1s and 0s and thus can be considered a number. Every output can be considered the same. There exists a line between every two numbers. That line can be represented by a simple one step linear regression. Now, every problem and algorithm is already an arbitrarily sized subset. If moved to the smallest possible subset, with essentially just the one input and one output, P=NP.
My anecdotal contribution. This past spring my daughter's soccer team moved up in competition level. Instead of playing at the same field each week they now had to travel to different fields around the county each weekend. After the first couple of weeks one group of kids had gotten to each game the 30 minutes prior they were suppose to and a different group of kids arrived just in time with the parents complaining about traffic being worse than expected. After discussion on the sideline we identified that the latter group was using Apple Maps and the former Google Maps. Each time Apple Maps had directed the parents a way that would appear to be faster based upon distance and speed limits but in reality were slower because the roads in question regularly have slower traffic than the posted speed. Google Maps avoided these choke points which tells me that for some areas at least Google still has better information available or utilizes the available information better to calculate routes. The Apple Maps parents switched to using Google Maps.
Unlikely considering the author of the paper. I'm basing that on other comments on the thread which this section seems to be missing, e.g.:

> ...this guy is an established senior researcher at the University of Bonn
> Anyone who takes so lightly potentially having blood in their hands is a monster.

That person being me presumably. Guilty until proven innocent, a recurring theme lately.

> This is my last comment regarding this topic.

What a loss.

EDIT: Seems I'm not being allowed to reply anymore (gee, where do conspiracy theories about censorship of conservative speech come from eh?), so I guess I'll have to reply here...

> No, I was talking about the Googlers who were threatening to leak names to alt-right websites.

You wanted the people that are threatening to leak names to be outraged at themselves? I think I'm losing track of all the parties involved in this vast criminal conspiracy.

Anyways, besides this entire topic being utterly pointless, if the right to speak freely is granted to only one side, I guess I should take the hint and adapt to our new world by keeping my mouth shut.
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http://revcom.us/

There are many, many others.
Lots of Android devices are sold.

The average time each user spends using their Android device(s), and those users' average affluence, is so incredibly low that they still only manage to make up 50% of Google's ad revenue on mobile.

iOS users are way more likely to be (relatively) wealthy, and they tend to use their devices more (if you've suffered through using anything other than a top-end Android device from the last couple of OS versions, you can guess what one of several reasons for this may be).
That's not at all how I read the parent comment. Buying into the product, and into the quality of that product, is how they can get a glove that will last long enough to become a part of their identity. A cheap glove that gets replaced every season does not result in the same identification.

You have the causality reversed.
>they didn't want to work the hours

Sadly, that could still fall under what I said.
Genomics / Bioinformatics.

I was very lucky. Because of my field I got a premium post-doc position and salary and I easily transitioned to a non-academic position due to my comp sci background. Many biologists aren't so lucky...
Anyone can also set up their own DNS server for people to use.
at the same time?!?
Wouldn't it be helpful to look at these in isolation?

Corporations routinely have these disagreements and dissatisfactions regardless of the sector.

"Another Silicon Valley Startup" versus just an article about SoFi?

Implying a pandemic of sexual harassment would seemingly indict corporate America as a whole, and it would be disingenuous to go sector by sector if the intention was to reveal the news.
And only low-quality pizza at that.
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Most of the ones that participated in the march in Charlottesville were genuine new groups: Identity Evropa, Vanguard America, Traditionalist Worker Party etc.

And most of their membership is not a split from KKK etc. It's new people, often with very different backgrounds age- and education-wise. And one distinguishing thing about them is that they put a lot more emphasis on politics and outreach compared to KKK, and they openly reference fascist and Nazi ideas - which is to say, they don't just talk about white supremacy, but they talk about fascist ideals for governance etc.

Make no mistake, this is a new wave of political right-wing authoritarianism in US, not the same old.
Jesus, that's like 10 espressos!

I'm at >= 5. Pretty bad.

I also feels like caffeine doesn't have much effect anymore.

Any way to make quitting easier?
I've quit caffeine on a few occasions for long stretches. Most recently I just reduced consumption to a couple of cups of coffee in the mornings and that was it (a little creamer, no sugar/honey). That worked really well for 2 years.

Then we got a puppy and I haven't slept well in 4 weeks.

Typing this as I consume a Diet Dr. Pepper.
It's really scary the amount of power we free give companies like Facebook and Google.
> I am afraid to walk into a doctors office after not going for years and asking for drugs.

Just do it, it's really not that hard. Lots of patients (especially with ADHD) go off their meds for long periods. If anything, it's a sign that the diagnosis was correct.
What's a good explanation of that?
> One of the more interesting comments in the article is in regards to the social stigma of only consuming water during meals - people who have quit alcohol for various reasons have faced the same stigma when going out with friends.

That stigma is entirely self-perception. No one cares or even notices what anyone else drinking.
That's my thought, too. When I order water, it's almost like a declaration of a lifestyle - I choose to be fit, to stay healthy, and not to drink any of the substances that are an obstacle on my way.

I guess it's a question of company. If most of your friends order water, you feel a bit guilty ordering something less healthy.
It would not surprise me if the UK government was using the US justice system as a tool to align Mr. Hutchins' interests more closely with those of its security and intelligence organs. To me, the story has unfolded smelling of a human asset acquisition operation.

The Anglo-US intelligence communities have a young talented individual on a spit over a slow fire. Odds are, he will be easy to turn. The UK isn't expending political capital on extracting him from his predicament. That doesn't mean that its functionaries don't care. It suggests that what they care about is providing Hutchins with future opportunities to serve the state.
Who would volunteer to take his place in the stocks?
Fair question. Perhaps they could just tell the truth a la

"We live in contentious times, we've surveyed our employees and thought about it ourselves, and decided that no matter what we say we can't win. There is a divide in our culture and we don't have 'THE ANSWER (TM).' Only time will tell what balance we as a culture will come to in weighing out the merits of hushing stereotypes versus questioning everything.

So to avoid hasty decisions we'll bow out, and return the Dalmore 6 months from now.

We're honored this great cultural debate could be started at our workplace, but it is not our intent to make this discussion about us. We are about search, email, etc."
Ask HN: How much would Google make if they charged for their products/services?
On the topic of trusting Google with personal data--if Google charged an all-access price (e.g. $10/mo) for access to Gmail, Docs, Sheets, YouTube, Maps etc., how would this business model compare to today's strategy of free services with ads?

Would you pay for the added privacy?
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My mother called me crying once, because some software she installed changed her homepage from google. She was crying because "Google was gone" and she couldn't "search for www dot bankofamerica dot com"
Are you suggesting someone has been actively trying to frame Marcus Hutchins for 7 years? I'm sorry but that sounds a bit too tinfoily for me without any evidence.

Not only that, but the key parts of this dox from 2010 have been confirmed by the media and now the FBI.

What do you consider actual evidence? This is the kind of stuff they use every day in court, and there's lots of it if you bother to take 10 minutes to look on google. Courts aren't videogames, you don't win by outsmarting the computer.

I suppose it's also worth pointing out that the reputation system on that site isn't very useful, when you get banned the staff usually wipes out all of your positive reputation as happened to the poster I screenshotted.
Agreed, but there is a lot of misinformation about the topic. I met developers that thought the GIL prevents you from running your program in multiple instances at the same time on one machine - which is obviously not the case.

Sure, it's a problem for specific workloads, and Python will get there eventually - I just don't think it is a deal breaker.
Google Moves into the Business of Thought Control
I never made that claim, nor do I think such a claim is accurate. But since you seem to be more interested in being snarky rather than engaging the conversation in good faith I think it's time for me to move on here.
It isn't. I just don't think lack of biological diversity is a problem for a corporation.
I guess it really comes down to the ethical framework you accept as valid, deontological or utilitarian...
You may consider contacting a general practitioner or psychiatrist to get a prescription for Vyvanse. From what I've read, it is essentially a harder-to-abuse time-release version of Adderall. Doctors can reduce patient visits to once every 3 months or even 6 months.
When I quit smoking I wore nicotine patches for months. They were actually quite pleasant, providing a nice memory and creativity boost. It's now been a few years without cigarettes or patches, but I'm missing the warm stimulation and considering taking up just the patches.
It does not give traffic enough weight for my commute. Waze is consistently too optimistic in travel time by 10-15 minutes (25% of my commute if I hit rush-hour).

With no traffic, it's spot on. I feel like it doesn't account for traffic that develops during the commute. Given the length of my travel, the roads may be clear when I start, but very congested before I finish.
Has anyone tried the Caffeine + L-Theanine pills?
I've been off coffee for 1 month now. I've drank one or 2 decaff cortado or americanos because I like the taste of coffee, but I feel like decaf doesn't taste as good.

I was a good week with intense headaches, it was scary. I used to drink 1 or 2 a day, nothing more.

As for the link, it doesn't work ... hackernews DoS induced?
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That makes it even more weird. The percentage of women programmers there is higher.

https://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/5/186026-decoding-femi...
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Don't you think though if google had really dived into the science they'd have just opened themselves up to even more criticism than handling it the way they did?
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Is it really you getting them into trouble if you're doing your diligence as a farmer/business owner?

You didn't make them take the product in the first place, and your hope about poverty going away(..area will get rich enough...) strikes me as naive.
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