skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a narrow view that only looks at the amount of money. It's perfectly valid to choose investment opportunities based on other factors. One can choose to invest in a local enterprise because it'll help the local community. You might have somewhat less money on your bank account, but you'll raise the wellbeing of the people around you. The same goes for any other non-monetary gain. If it makes you sleep better knowing that your money is used to teach kids how to sing instead of building rifle ammunition, then this shouldn't be ignored when choosing where to invest.

There's more to life than money. A lot more. Investment choices can have profound effects on plenty of other things besides your bank account. So, think about that instead -- make sure that you aren't missing out on wonderful non-monetary gains when choosing your investment.
One of the things that always gets to me when I try to stop drinking coffee/tea is that I end up feeling tired all day and then can't get to sleep at night. Apparently sleeplessness is a side effect of caffeine withdrawal, it's almost comical. Then again I have never tried slowly reducing my intake over a month, might be worth a try.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=teej

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Yes, was referring to a HN comment. The original comment [0] had an id of 15011549.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15011549
The urgency is never quite explained. If Benchmark needs to wind down a fund, they can just distribute shares directly to LPs.
Then tough shit. They can say what they like but be it them or ISIS nobody but nobody should help them peddle their hate.
> the concept of ride sharing is great...Uber's execution of it has been a complete travesty

Most cities would have no ride sharing industry to speak of had it not been for Uber de-fanging the taxi industry.
> t's ridiculous because most countries have one or two at most and the US has eleven.

+10 assault carrier ships with vtol aircrafts on them (harriers, F-35).
Do you accept or plan on accepting international students?
Probably a bad example there. If I recall correctly, sexual orientation is considered a protected class.
Truck full of bananas
The non-alcoholic "evening out" drinks market is actually one of the fastest growing at the moment. Even to the extent that Diageo's investment arm recently ran a competition to find the best up and coming non-alc drinks.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ciscos-founders-were-oust...
Google is orders of magnitude better than their competition in search. Apple's customers will be sure to complain if they default to any other search engine.
I think he means if you're breathing/have a pulse (breathing onto a mirror - could be wrong though!)
> especially when the term "privilege" is used, it turns downright hostile

Part of the reason that word is such a hot button is that anybody even has to explain why. It simultaneously dismisses a lifetime of effort of people on both sides of the word based solely on racial and gender stereotypes that nobody can personally validate for any single individual.
The American Climbing the Ranks of ISIS (March 2017)
Whether or not this proof stands, this author, a tenured professor whose professional research is in this area, seems exceedingly likely to know this very standard material.
They have very clear circular lighting animations that play when they are recording - more noticeable than a red light actually.
> Imagining your philosophical "opponents" as some sort of one dimensional monsters isn't doing yourself or your movement any favors.

That would have been a valid claim until the unfortunate incidents in Charlottesville (and Bloomington before that, and Seattle before that...) People threatening to expose liberal Googlers to the same kind of ecochamber that celebrates someone driving a car into a crowd is beyond the pale. Anyone who takes so lightly potentially having blood in their hands is a monster.

This is my last comment regarding this topic.
Giving Nazis hell is never a waste of time.
Your parent comment gives good advice, because the GIL is probably here to stay and so there's no use complaining about it. But the idea that multiprocessing gives better results than multithreading is ridiculous.

In languages which don't have a GIL, threads are almost as capable as processes, but lighter weight. Threads are almost always preferable to processes in most languages.

I understand why the GIL is still around, and don't necessarily support removing it, but it's definitely not there because it produces "better, more stable [Python] code".
I don't get it. Are they crying because they have a ton of unsecured PII or because all their data is worthless?
> it would free up half his monthly outgoings.

What does that mean? Half his fixed monthly costs are for buying porn?
For staying awake I can also recommend ice cream OR chewing gum.

edit: not at the same time
That depends of course.

All of the ARM chips I'm playing with these days have a serial boot loader in ROM that you can get to by setting a pin on the CPU and powering it up that way. In such a scenario it would take no extra parts.

I believe they emulate or copy the system used by FPGAs to read a configuration from a dedicated SPI chip. Its well understood and a lot of tools can program the SPI chip to have the right sequence of bits in it to do the right thing.

If I were designing a system with OTA updates, then I would design something like this with it for this very reason.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989347 and marked it off-topic.
The moments are extremely meaningful when I use my spectacles, because I experienced the moment too the fullest while I took the snap. It's so effortless that it never feels like spam when I upload the clips.
I hate just posting because I have an axe to grind here but wifi locks for airbnb are an incredibly stupid thing to have for all sorts of reasons.

Just get normal locks and hire a damn property manager. When I used to work for an ISP in a resort town, our support desk would get tons of calls when power went out (a frequent issue there) or our service went out.

It was always property owners who lived multiple states away who couldn't get their renters access to their property. Always furious. Always without someone local who could let someone on to the property.
that is why 'forkserver' start method exists. https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html#conte...
I remember the Functional Programming course you guys taught. Any chance of putting that course in the "Free Course Archives" :)
I've found that going cold-turkey is actually way easier than trying to ween yourself off of it. Reducing my intake only makes me want it more and more because I already have a little bit of it in my system. While going cold-turkey sucks for a 2-3 days, after you're off of it you have almost no urge what-so-ever to drink it.
Hey Austen - we should meet!

We have a 4 term sequence of CS courses that cover most if not all the topics listed on your curriculum page. These topics are also touched upon and put to practice in our mobile, web, and to some extent our data science courses.

It's only our Summer Academy which caters to students enrolled at others schools on summer vacation which focuses on app or VR development.
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Chief Physicist Says Quantum Computers Are “Tools of Destruction, Not Creation”
The women who get hired at Google only do so if they pass a stringent interview. So how is this different from what you're saying?
I drink coffee because I enjoy it, not to give me a "boost" in the morning. I limit myself to 1 large mug per day, with the (very) occasional afternoon cup. I don't notice any difference between my energy levels before / after my morning coffee, nor on days I skip it. I get a headache in the early afternoon when I skip it, though, so I'm definitely addicted.

I wonder if the author's energy level issues were due to his "ever-increasing consumption".
Was easy to get prescription lenses for mine. Lenses cutter in Rochester cuts all kinds of strange lenses types.
‘Magic mushroom’ enzyme mystery solved
The piece came off to me as somebody looking for a way to be offended. She criticizes Damore and Google but doesn't point out what is lacking in Damore argument and instead of showing why google is wrong, her argument makes me realize how bad of a PR position google really is in. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
What a jumbled illogical mess of an argument. The author confuses free speech, monopolistic tendencies, and censorship but doesn't make a solid point about any of them. Instead, they skip from one topic to another without real evidence or thought.
I consume caffeine pretty rarely, so when I do, it has a nice kick!

In the morning, I usually eat some fruit to help me wake up. I generally just drink water throughout the day.
Every hotel has on-prem staff for dealing with faulty locks and keys.

Many Airbnb owners do not.
In terms of arbitrary exclusionary practices, I mean simply refusing to hire people based on race, gender, religion etc. This could be based on name or gender on an application or failing that, post-interview and it would be amazingly stupid if the company communicated the reason honestly to the applicant since the 50's.

Do you think discrimination just ended immediately after the civil rights act[1]? Personally I don't think peoples mentality changed at all just because certain practices became illegal, it just got less overt. Saying "women aren't cut out for our line of work" became "not a culture fit" or something else.

Its not my goal to try to prove discrimination exists and existed, I could search and try to put together a comprehensive list of first-hand stories about discrimination in tech but my guess is that would not be an effective use of my time and that isn't the goal of my post anyways.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/herman/reports/fu...
I prefer OS X's nighttime mode. Except that it always forgets to turn off when on Sunset to Sunrise mode.
Poor google, no matter what they do - they cannot win now, can they.

http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/mad/
One big cluster, or many small ones?
The mac version is still the old one look like.
> fighting the battle far earlier and getting girls interested young

I can think of two major obstacles towards that. First, boys from average age of 15 enter a society where their attractiveness and social status is directly correlated to how much wealth they have. As such there is a strong incentive towards getting a job as early as possible or focusing studying towards specific high paying professions like tech. In order to girls to get the same incentive society would need to put similar pressure on them or stop putting the pressure on men to get wealth.

The second obstacles is a gender neutral phenomenon that I have seen several studies reflect on. When a student fail a exam at a university level, the risk that they will switch program is several time higher if their gender is a minority in their class. This factor also don't seem to go away as they advances in the course, but rather seems to grow stronger. One study also included data from when the graduates enter the work force (which share similar gender segregation), and based on the data they speculated that the first few years has the exact same effect, and the phenomenon only seems to go away after people been in the profession for many years.

I don't know a good solution to either of those, and for what I know, there isn't that much research into it.
Do you plan on accepting students from outside the US, and if so how does that change your model?
> Sure, I'd be good with that. I also think that if there are some things that are non-profitable but still valuable to society (and no doubt, there are), then the problem is really that the agent isn't capturing enough of the value they are creating for society

more likely (and IMO obviously, when you make this more concrete), educational institutions are overproducing the unprofitable degrees.

for instance, if some degree X is "unprofitable", do we really need to produce new PhDs in it at well above the replacement rate + population growth? that'd be maybe a handful of new PhDs per professor's _lifetime_. then maybe enough undergrads to ensure there's some competition for the PhD pipeline, and that should be about it.
First, use binary search to find answer.
Then, remove edges one-by-one if removing this edge will not destroy all remaining path with shortest length, until your graph is reduced to a single cycle.
I don't think that's the case anymore these days
I would think that the whole Siri fiasco would keep anybody in AI/ML the hell away from Apple.
Not a lawyer, but you can have a contract to sign a contract. In fact this is normal in, for example, merger dealings and even smaller issues like buying a house: you first sign an agreement that says, after certain due diligence, you'll sign another agreement. The original agreement may or may not specify penalties for defaulting on it and not signing the second agreement, and if sued for breaching the first agreement, a court might not hold you to signing the second agreement.

In this case, the first agreement definitely isn't enough to modify the company's articles of incorporation.
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Reminder: You Can’t Be Both a Service Member and an Extremist
I order water with my meals, because I want to taste the food. About the only food that is good with a soda (or beer) is pizza.
> either all speech is free or no speech is free.

That simply not true, it's the slippery-slope fallacy. Observe: "When you let them take away any weapons, they'll take away all the weapons. Therefore, it should be my right to own nuclear weapons".

> We have now 2 internet service providers ....

Domain registrars are not ISPs in any sense of the word, least of all the net neutrality sense of the word.

> Nazi's didn't rise in germany because they were allowed a platform to speak from, they've risen because they've silenced anyone who opposed them.

The two parts of that sentence directly contradict each other. The second part is (Not allowed free speech -> Inability to gain power).
There are lock brands that have service keys that will allow you to pull and change a cylinder, from the outside, without having to take the door/lock apart. A property management company and a set of cylinders to rotate through solves this problem easily.
Why is my neighbor or my community intrinsically better than the neighbor or community of someone on the other side of the globe?
My understanding of quota is the higher ups saying "We can't micromanage every aspect of your hiring process, but we see there are about 20% qualified women for these tech jobs. So as long as you generally hit this amount, pick the best people and that's a generally good way to tell no discrimination was in the mix."
That's an interesting question and I think the big point here is to differentiate merit from meritocracy. There's nothing wrong, and a lot right, by trying to base payment/encouragement upon perceived merit. The disconnect is trying to make it systemic (meritocratic) and forgetting the subjective nature of merit, and that the only merit you reward/punish is that which you perceive.

It's very easy to build a culture based on merit metrics and tautologize that numbers are objective, this merit system is based on numbers, therefore this merit system is objective and thus this is objectively a "meritocracy". There's a number of logical fallacies wound up in that thought process, but that's how a lot of bureaucracies get formed, and a how a lot of them rationalize themselves as objective/benign.

I guess the underlying problem is that merit is great, but the illusion that "merit" scales to form benign meritocracies is something that we need to question a lot more than we do.
I think the key was that the gleaning you mention was collection of unharvested _leftovers_, whereas the article talks about waltzing into someone else's yard and taking things off of their trees. I didn't notice the author implying that it was limited only to trees/plants that they knew were in a post-harvest state - it seemed rather the opposite.
By constructing the mechanism by which one may deny a bad guy any platform, you now have a mechanism that may be used to deny any other kind of person a platform. Such a thing is more dangerous than any individual bad guy, and will--very ironically--eventually fall into the hands of a person as bad or worse than that bad guy you were trying to stifle in the first place.

Censorship cannot triumph over evil, because it is evil in itself. The only reasonable counter is constant vigilance and tireless opposition. Furtive, deceitful whispers in the shadows call for floodlights and truth. Open demonstrations call for larger counter-demonstrations. The effective counter to objectionable speech is not censorship, but speaking the objection.
I have a lot of problems trying to quit caffeine. Ever since I was a young child, they gave me really powerful amphetamines to get me to focus. Then when I turned 18 it became much more difficult to obtain.

In the US, Ritalin/dexadrine/adderall are all class II controlled substances with similar restrictions to cocaine or fentynal, so in order to get it I would need to have a doctor's appointment every month, which wasn't only inconvenient but super expensive once I lost my mom's insurance.

So, dipshit that I am, I replaced it with megadoses of caffeine. At my peak, I was consuming 1g (yes, gram) of the stuff every day in the form of energy drinks. I am now down to 280-560mg per day on average. I have tried not drinking any, but the inability to focus and headaches mean that trying to cutback seriously puts my job at risk.

I really wish I could just get back on ritalin or something so that I can give my poor heart a rest, but I am afraid to walk into a doctors office after not going for years and asking for drugs.
Going cold turkey while increasing physical activity for a week or two is super effective at resetting my sleep patterns and daytime energy levels.
ZFS-On-Linux encryption feature was just merged into master
This seems conflicting:

>It was at the same time that Travis agreed in
writing to modify the company’s voting agreement to ensure that the board was composed of
independent, diverse, and well qualified directors. Despite agreeing in writing to sign these
amendments, he has still not done so.

then

>A number of people have asked why we took legal action before giving Travis the chance to sign
these amendments.

It doesn't sound like he agreed in writing yet based on their own words. Maybe that's just bad wording though.

They also fail to point to any actual actions taken on his part, just references to vague statements or inferences of inaction.

Not to say I'm on Travis's side of this, but from what I've read its much more likely Benchmark is trying to stabilize leadership under someone who will focus on shareholder value (not company growth/stability) as they need to divest themselves within the next year or two. This obviously stands contrary to what Travis supposedly wants (and has failed to accomplish), and probably much of the rest of the board.
Avoiding alcohol is easy as long as no one pushes you to drink every five minutes when you obviously want to only drinking water. Drinking culture is extremely annoying.
I agree. I'm not a Snapchat user and generally dislike the app. But I have the Spectacles and recently took them to a trip to Six Flags to record point of view videos on a bunch of the rides. It was really fun, and I even installed the app so I could transfer the videos to my phone.

I also agree that the product design is excellent. There is absolutely a polish to the Spectacles that makes them enjoyable to use.
Nothing you said here is a counter argument to either the comment you replied to or the linked post.

> All these women that are being talked about as statistics are real people.

Nobody denies that. However, once you say that there's not enough "equality" of engineers, you invoke statistics.

> I think the human aspect of all this is sorely missing on HN.

Think of those poor talented engineers denied a place of work because of "gender quotas"! These engineers have dreams and passions. They aren't just statistics!

See how this works?

> I've learned that it's not us vs them.

Except that's exactly the tactics used by SJWs.

> I've learned that political correctness and reverse-racism/sexism are definitely not a greater problem than sexism and racism themselves.

Reverse sexism is exactly the same problem as sexism.
Interesting. As far as I can tell (from the outside, of course) Travis is reneging on his deal and he's planning on reinstalling himself as CEO in addition to the extra board seats he just procured. This seems like it would hurt employees more than anything and possibly give Travis even more control over the company.

To me it appears Benchmark is mostly aligned with employees; both want the company to grow and do well. So why do many have bad feelings about Benchmark's actions? What am I missing?
>>Google still wins on the lane awareness but that's their only advantage.

Apparently Apple Maps is getting this in iOS11.
It's unsurprising that discussig what a term means is just semantics ;)

Git is not a blockchain (it's a DAG) but that misses the point: I think the term could perfectly be retrofitted if it was the case. Things predating a term don't invalidate the new term convering them.

Either way I disagree with your opinion and there's nothing to argue further that would change either of our minds.
It must be nice to have Hamilton on your phone
Strange that it's not actively discussed at HN.
I also feel an oncoming headache and dreariness at 3-4pm like clockwork if I hadn't had caffeine.
It has always been interesting to me that (at least in America) this particular drug dependence is something we joke lightly about ("don't talk to me before I've had my coffee"). And of course it's much less serious than other forms of dependence, but it still seems not particularly good to me. I try to refrain from having caffeine often so that it still has an effect when I drink a coffee.
What prevents someone from copying the key?
Frankly: why would you want to follow sunset to sunrise? That's clever and all, but not useful. What matters is your sleep schedule; just because the sun doesn't set until after 10pm doesn't mean you monitor needs to be on it's bluest setting until then; similarly, even when the sun sets at 1630, I really don't need my monitors to start putting me to sleep yet.

And in general, if I need to wake up early, I'd rather the monitors be at their bluest immediately, and not wait until sunrise.

A fixed schedule is better than the fancy sunset times.
...which is true, but doesn't mean you can just ignore it.

Interpreter state is among the most frequently accessed memory in many applications, meaning it's ideal to have it in cache. The difference between two interpreter states and one might not be big compared to the data being processed, but it's big enough to bump a lot of interpreter state out of cache, which for many programs can have drastic performance implications.

If you don't think cache locality is important, look at radix sort versus quicksort. Radix sort has a much lower O, but performs worse in most cases because of its poor cache locality.

Look, I get that there are fairly easy ways to work around these problems, but let's not just blithely pretend they aren't problems.
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