skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other huge advantage that you almost touched on is tex files are text, so you can source control them. This is particularly important if different people are working on different chunks of a document. You can kind of hack around this in word, but it's a giant pita.
Memo size is: 178 lines, 3339 words, 22264 bytes.

How big part of the memo is focused on differences between the sexes? The section called Personality differences that everyone talks about is:

11 lines, 245 words, 1662 bytes.

Even if we include the only other place in the memo which reference this section (Non-discriminatory ways to reduce the gender gap), we are only adding a total of 7 lines, 222 words and an additional 1402 bytes.

The large focus of the memo was political diversity. About 97 lines, 1671 words and 11071 byes was written on that topic.
"Trusting Trust" in the wild!? Nope. Just some fiction.

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
Don't bother reflecting light when the moon base is in darkness, just beam down power.
Let's be honest though, the Antifa protestors don't seem to have helped the situation greatly.
No, you are excusing white supremacists, first by employing whataboutism and then incorrectly equating movements that are meant to lift up groups of people with ideas that are meant to hold down groups of people.

"Terrorism" is being applied because it has been used on multiple previous occasions to describe the act of driving an automobile through a crowd of people. The only double standard employed here is the one you are utilizing to not apply the definition of "terrorism" because the perpetrator was an overly sensitive white male who is easily triggered by left wing politics.

Trump happened because a culture of spoiled, self-entitled people can't grow up and adjust to a world where not everything revolves around them.

Instead of playing the victim and crying about being called a racist or a bigot, maybe people should stop acting like racists and/or making excuses for them? Just a thought.
Your objections are weak and poorly thought out.

1) An ACLU member who spent thousands of dollars and their free time trying to suppress free speech rights shouldn't have been in the ACLU to begin with.

Free speech didn't cause this violence, a terrorist and assorted thugs and instigators did. Banning free speech doesn't heal those people's brains of the ill they carry.

2) If Strangio can't support free speech for everyone, including people he finds despicable, he doesn't support free speech at all. Who decides which opinions and people are "despicable"? Sooner or later we all risk being viewed as despicable by someone in power, free societies have always degenerated into tyranny over time. Let's not hurry the process in the U.S.

Again, Strangio should resign from the ACLU.

3) And what is the point of the last tweet? The ACLU doesn't have the resources to take every case and fight every battle. Are you arguing they should pick the ones that are less contentious? Or involve less despicable people?

How about they pick the ones that have the most importance in our society?
My own proposal is basically to replace those companies with versioned, modular software or protocols/smart contracts. See my history for the comment I just made prior to this one about Bannon and competition.
It is not bullshit. You are naive.
Full text:

"""
It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us. While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better.

Voting is not under siege in America, but many other rights are. In America, people are imprisoned for using even very mild drugs, tortured by our own government, and forced to bail out reckless financial companies.

I believe that politics is way too intense. That’s why I’m a libertarian. Politics gets people angry, destroys relationships, and polarizes peoples’ vision: the world is us versus them; good people versus the other. Politics is about interfering with other people’s lives without their consent. That’s probably why, in the past, libertarians have made little progress in the political sphere. Thus, I advocate focusing energy elsewhere, onto peaceful projects that some consider utopian.
"""

...in context it doesn't seem so bad to me. Though YMMV, I guess.
I'm not 100% sold on GraphQL but the teams I work with are moving towards it. It does help a bit with micro-service architectures since you'd be writing some API interface to abstract potentially dozens of services anyway. After the pain of writing all of the necessary bindings/schemas/models or whatever they all are it is convenient at least on the calling side. The web GUI for testing out schema's comes in very handy.

The pain I've felt is with API versioning. Someone set a type for a parameter wrong, it was a union between int and string but the original implementation was only typed for int. Since it was sent out to production that becomes too risky to change since the call will fail if the param type is wrong, even though the underlying JS would have handled ints and strings just fine.

Overall it is a pretty neutral technology for me. The benefits and determents seem to balance just enough that I'm not going to pick that battle to fight against it. So while I agree it doesn't add as much value as the hype might suggest, it also doesn't detract enough to worry about.
The Old Machines are still running Perl 5.
Tracking the spread of culture through folktales
I guess people use a shared namespace until it goes wrong, then switch to a hierarchy.

But that's different from the real problem, you want usage rankings, reviews, advice, etc, when looking for a library to use, not just a list of names.
Efficient Immutable Collections [pdf]
After attempting to read that, I'm fairly sure it's not just talking the normal expected effects of watching things on a screen - porn makes you horny, scary things make you shit your pants, PowerPoint puts you to sleep, etc.

But the language is somewhat impenetrable, so I'm not completely sure.
Doesn't seem like there's any shortage of white men in any of those roles.
I will throw money in his direction to make any version of monkey island he pleases. I loved monkey island 2 so much. I'm old now and actually got monkey island free with our first Creative sound blaster 2 Soundcard. The games after that just didn't have the same humour and the graphics were overdone. I'm guessing if he hasn't made it by now though then it isn't going to happen :(
There have been less than 600 people to go into space. I'd agree readily that there are at least that many full stack developers. Talking about the extreme ends of the skill distribution isn't productive.
There's a spectrum between not-protesting and being part of Antifa.
We draw the line where reprehensible speech turns into actual reprehensible actions. "I hate <ethnic group> and wish they were all dead" is far different from "There are <ethnic group> living a 333 Evergreen Terrace, please join me at 7 pm so we can kill them".
Stormfront would be an extreme strawman example (neo-Nazi / white supremacist in this case.) Anyone, be it the NYT or Joe Random Blogger, will find themselves associated with controversial opinions if they publish editorials from Stormfront. It's not enough to say, "Just saying, is all."

IMO it's fine for them to publish an editorial by Vladimir Putin, as long as he's not laying out a case for subverting elections in Ukraine (or here) or murdering unfriendly journalists. They caught some heat for letting him publish anything at all, if I remember correctly. But I think their decision was defensible, in part because he was writing on a matter of broad public interest, and because no reasonable person would assume the NYT supports Putin's more criminal-leaning behavior.
Well, relying on tech companies is even less sustainable since they work for whatever makes them more profit. A govt in contrast is for the people.

Also, Trump is a president of the people and not some dictator. The congress has to pass laws and people on congress are voted for by the people. Trump cannot just ban random things on his own.
Cease your investigation
> Instead somebody, unclear who, rammed a car into a woman who is now dead

"A man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of activists here — killing one person and injuring 19 — long sympathized with Nazi views and had stood with a group of white supremacists hours before Saturday’s bloody crash." (Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/one-dead-as-car-strikes...)
Number one thing I do-- titles need to be scannable:

Admin :: Roles :: Multiple Roles)

And the "story" part goes in the body:

"As an adminstrator I assign multiple roles to users so they have access to all the parts (and only those parts) of the application they need to do their job."

..with additional context, exceptions, rules, examples, etc, in the body.
I think the are 2 main reasons: TF is backed by Google and you can use for research and production (server & mobile) with minor changes. You can also train your TF models in the cloud without having to setup anything (as in Google Cloud[1] or TensorPort[2])

[1] https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/

[2] https://tensorport.com/
'very cool local dev evangelist', pass the sick bucket..
Look, I don't pretend to be an expert here but I've dabbled in learning some other languages, most recently
spanish.

One thing that keeps coming up is how economical English seems to be compared to at least the other languages I've encountered. By "economical" I mean in terms of syllables. This seems to be a particularly useful property when it comes rhyming and lyrics and the like.

A few examples from Spanish:

nosotros/nosotras = we

demasiado = too

bastante = quite

primavera = spring

verano = summer

invierno = winter

bebemos = (we) drink

Also, as seems to be common in western European languages (other than English) is that more articles are required. Also, English fits the German pattern (being of that family linguistically speaking, this is unsurprising) of appending nouns together to form new words. In English these are separated by spaces still. In German they are not but it is the same construct/idea.

So English: Independence Day

Spanish: El dia de la independencia

Now this is more complicated because the verb forms in Spanish tend to be so distinct you can drop the subject eg (Yo) estoy tarde (I am late). But still "estoy" is two syllables compared to one in English ("am"). Also, some pronouns are so indistinct that they need to be qualified (eg with "a usted" or "a ella").

I'm by no means a linguistics expert so can't say what affect this has on, say, the speed of information transfer (which I expect is _roughly_ the same across languages but variances probably exist) or on poetry, songs or even puns. But I find it interesting.

Another point: what people find funny, even with those that have the same native tongue, varies culturally. There have been studies on this. For example, Americans tend to prefer humour where people get hurt (ostensibly) and just slapstick in general. This seems to explain things like The Three Stooges. Speaking as an Australian, I've never understood the appeal. But as an Australian, our humour is much closer to English humour.

Again, I make no claims about English compared to other languages.
Laws like those have been created and courts have struck them down based on the Constitution.
Oh sorry, we should burn our computers and destroy all books about AI, that would stop it from appearing. Because we can outlaw matrix multiplication.
It's not "unclear who": It's James Alex Fields, Jr., a registered Republican from Ohio who owned the car doing the ramming, who told his mother he was going to a rally for Trump, and was photographed in the line of unite-the-right protestors carrying a shield with a well-known fascist symbol on it. All this was known and undisputed 24 hours ago. Police have arrested him and charged him with 2nd degree murder.

And it's not just "into a woman", it was into a densely packed crowd of counter-protestors. 1 woman, Heather Heyer, was killed, and 19 were injured.
You're ignoring closed's point that "a priori favors neither group A or B".

If you are starting from a neutral position, considering two possible alternatives with neither presumed to be more favourable than the other, then any statistical test based on using one outcome as null and the other as alternative hypothesis is fundamentally inappropriate. Any such test inherently favours one outcome over the other, rather than starting from a neutral position.

As closed is trying to explain, if you really do start from neutral then even a tiny number of data points is still better than no data at all. You shouldn't have too much confidence in whether you're really making the right decision, but if you have to make a decision, you are still more likely to make the right one if you go with what the data tells you, even if it's only telling you by a very small margin.
Repost of last comment about this story:

"Well, that took up most of the free time I had this morning before work. It was just too good to stop reading lol. :)

(SPOILER ALERT: STOP READING IF YOU DONT LIKE SPOILERS)

The story shows what people typically do if there’s a Karger/Thompson attack. They freak out in a big way. The attack is beyond simple to counter if you can trust an assembler and linker like them. Just write an interpreter for a simple, subset of C in easily-parsed LISP expressions or Tcl style. Hand-code whatever component, a backend or whole compiler, in that. Use it to do the first compile. Optionally, do that in combination with ancient source working way up to versions without adding the infected one. If one wants whole system, then Moore’s Forth, Hansen’s Edison, and Wirth’s Oberon (best) are available. If a CPU, my current suggestion is NAND2Tetris with resulting knowledge used to implement a tiny CPU on an open, cell library (they exist) that’s hand-checked. Run simulated version of that on diverse or ancient hardware if you can’t fab it.

rain1 and I are collecting all the stuff needed to counter these attacks or just enjoy ground-up building of tools here:

http://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/

The other thing I noticed is them jumping on machines. Occam’s Razor should’ve immediately brought them to idea that a person or group made it for any number of common reasons. A challenge with high of pulling it off unnoticed, a test of an operational capability to be weaponized later, or an epic trolling operation. I’d think the latter the second I got that letter like “probably was these assholes sending the letter trying to mess up our heads after they messed up the compiler.” Matter of fact, the whole thing would just take… aside from the tricky work on the compiler… an unpatched vulnerability in the repo with the compiler source. All this bullshit follows from one person doing one smart thing followed by one system hacked. That’s it. It’s why SCM Security 101 says one must have access controls, integrity protections, and modification logs (esp append-only storage). Paul Karger also endlessly pushed for high-assurance, secure kernels underneath everything to stop both subversion and traditional vulnerabilities. Anything in TCB or clever attackers will run circles around clueless defenders.

So, there’s my observations as perspective of someone who works in this area countering these kinds of things. It was still extremely fun read even as I noticed these things while reading. Wasn’t going to let my mind be petty when the author(s) were doing so well. :)"
A great example of the way in which researchers leap to try to alter downstream consequences of aging. This impulse is why 99% of all efforts to treat aging as a medical condition are doomed to failure.

The research community has an institutional problem in that all the short-term incentives have them studying the biochemistry of the system in a broken (aged) state, and then working backwards towards causes. Each link in the chain takes years of work. The first place they stop is thus a long way removed from any root cause, but then the incentives work to say "prove your work is valuable" and someone tries to commercialize it.

All medicine for age-related disease (so far) is marginal precisely because it attempts to compensate for or tries to improve downstream consequences that are a long way removed from fundamental damage that causes aging.

You can change the oil as much as you like in a car that is failing for mechanical reasons, but the degree to which you gain benefit from that action is much what you'd expect. You can press the accelerator to try to drive a faltering engine faster. Same story. You fix problems by fixing the root causes, not by ignoring those root causes in favor of things that happen to be what is right in front of you.
Not yet. From the home page:

> Avaliable now on Windows, Mac, Xbox One, and Linux. iOS, Android, and other platforms will follow soon after.
I suppose because the event received so much attention the whole "it never happened/fake news" trick from the playbook doesn't work, so it's time to blame the victim and insinuate that it was a false flag event.
Terrorism is "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims".

It doesn't have any specific ethnic label attached to it.
There is a place for boycott and a place for civil rights. Much of the 1964 Civil Rights Act focused on ensuring equal access to public accommodations. Is Airbnb a public accommodation? Absolutely. Is equal access protective of ideology? I'd argue yes, it should be, on the same grounds as speech.
> Diversity doesn't scale.

Well, federalism as it was originally designed was an attempt at that. I don't know if that experiment failed as much as it was abandoned.

It may be time to revisit our interest in it.

We can likewise consider ways to provide free association (vote-with-your-feet options) and compartmentalization (keep bad ideas out of here by giving them room to be at peace over there) in the other organizations we have influence over.
Slightly OT, but Is Wordpress still the only real solution for a professional looking blog for those that want a wysiwyg editor? My wife is starting a blog and wants me to set it up for her.
Xfinity often has a fixed, hard 250GB caps in most markets.

VM in the UK has caps only on the upstream between 6pm-11pm, where it slows your upstream down by 50% if you upload a lot in that time slot.

Hardly comparable?
"The [Apollo 17] rocket, which of course never could have held to so true a course without computers, leapt into the sky, hell-bent for the cosmos like some naming avenger, a Spacewar nightmare... The sight affected Gosper profoundly. Before that night, Gosper had disdained NASA's human-wave approach toward things. He had been adamant in defending the AI lab's more individualistic form of hacker elegance in programming, and in computing style in general. But now he saw how the Real World, when it got its mind made up, could have an astounding effect. NASA had not applied the Hacker Ethic, yet it had done something the lab, for all its pioneering, never could have done. Gosper realized that the ninth-floor hackers were in some sense deluding themselves, working on machines of relatively little power compared to the computers of the future yet still trying to do it all, change the world right there in the lab. And since the state of computing had not yet developed machines with the power to change the world at large certainly nothing to make your chest rumble as did the NASA operation all that the hackers wound up doing was making Tools to Make Tools. It was embarrassing."

- Steven Levy, Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Your old C code and your old C++ code will almost always compile as is with a newer standard.

Depends on the code: Some of it won't compile without providing just the right set of flags.

In case of C, for me the crucial feature is not so much full backwards compatibility, but interoperability (you can link the object code regardless of the language version) and the convenience of using the same frontend executable.

In case of Perl, the former is currently possible to some degree via the Perl5 module Inline::Perl6 and the Perl6 module Inline::Perl5.

Personally, I would like to see the latter become a reality as well - this is the solution I'd perfer over trying to distance Perl6 from Perl5 via rebranding.
This is an advertisement for Glitch. Pure and simple.
I write LaTeX mostly because it works and looks nice, everywhere. Reading the document is easy, because it renders every time I save, which is very frequently. I also use it because it let's me do sweet stuff when I want to, but I fully appreciate that that's just overhead for most people.

I mean look at the title on the screenshot rendered by Writer! It's horrific! I've found things improve when you move to a 15" 4k screen, but on my 1080p desktop monitors at work Writer is barely readable. You seem to be in luck you're using a Mac, since it's even worse on Linux in my experience.

> I know where it is because I put it there, but looking for it is hurting my eyes.

Perchance the fault is with your text editor. It hurts my eyes, too, but the problem disappears when I use my local editor.
> As a consumer, your fraud liability is zero and entirely shifted to the merchant.

If you have one with chip+PIN, as all in Europe, 100% of liability is with the customer.

So you have to check the statement every month, go through a lengthy process to appeal false charges, and end up not getting your money back either. Especially as you have to deal with your bank to get the money back instead of the CC company here, and the bank has a far easier process for reversing debit transfers than CC bills.
It is a drawback of the current implementations of Perl 6, yes.
Punishing thoughtcrime. Are our major tech companies using 1984 as a script now, or did they miss reading that one in high school?

Everyone on the left, repeat after me: We embrace diversity of thought, as long as I agree with it.
Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth
New information to me, thanks for adding instead of insinuating.
If they still call the executable "python" then they’re demonstrating the whole issue with keeping the same name for wildly-incompatible upgrades: it “shouldn’t" matter what version a reasonably-modern OS chooses and yet it does, solely because of the name. No one would complain about having "/usr/bin/python", "/usr/bin/py3k", "/usr/bin/perl" and "/usr/bin/rakudo" all at once on the same OS but being forced to choose two is insane.
Not saying they want to kill Macs, just move them to a new OS so they can share developers with the 10x larger iOS market.

If you have 50% of your OS programmers working on an OS that only 10% of your users use, seems like a waste
Perl 5 is still a great replacement for sed and awk in one-liners. Which is what it was originally envisaged as (although more than just one-liners), and is probably how it should survive - the most powerful one-line tool in existence.
Keynes would be proud!
Citation required? I doubt it is even 5%.
Interactive global internet map
That's the ideal, sure. It doesn't reliably work out that way even for those couples who go into it with exactly the intent you describe, though, and it only takes one to defect - although I agree that both often do.
17-YEAR-OLD HACKS THE AIR FORCE FOR THE BIGGEST BUG BOUNTY
This can't possibly have taken less to write than changing the capitalization of one letter, overriding a default, and reverting a commit (or even better, contributing a config option for the desired behavior!).

And I say this not to flame about the author, but because it's a remarkable trend in the industry to complain (vocally!) about barely breaking changes in Open Source software.

There is of course the angle of "you're getting it for free, for LTS buy a commercial product", but even more interesting to me is how it condemns projects to never moving, until they feel legacy, and we have to move on to something new.