skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your underlying premise "there is significant delay in the abatement of the overproduction strategy if it abates at all" is probably not correct

That's the premise of population forecasters at the UN.
> I shouldn’t have had to write this: I’m busy and a little effort on your part would have made it unnecessary

This line seems really over the top. If you're the leader of your company - it's your JOB to write to the team, correct them where they're wrong and steer the conversation in a productive manner.

Not really a fan of this overall post (50% of Googler's still don't think he should have been fired). If you think he should have been fired - that's fine - but I think if you watch his interviews, he was earnestly looking for a discussion. Feel free to write a letter or explain in real terms why he was wrong if you feel like that - but all these pieces about "why we shouldn't even have to have the discussion" - are sort of missing the point he brought up - which was that he didn't feel they could even have a discussion on this topic.
Yeah, I know what due process means.

It seems to me that some sort of property rights must apply. It's not even really a speech issue, at that point. That's what the excuse was, but they're being deprived of their property, however intangible it may be.

Maybe it'll make it to court? If so, it may be an interesting case. They seize domains as assets, so they are already asserting it is property and has value. I think?
Allo allo google, see you in demo. Totally against your political views and policy's to destroy people's accounts!!

Allo allo Google yourself!
> Lol @ the assumption that most of these cities don't have "4 seasons".

I didn't say that. But for sure Boston has much more dramatic seasonal change than many of the cities on the list.

> Also lol @ the assumption that there's only interesting things within 5 hours from the epicenter of Boston (I couldn't even type that with a straight face).

I picked Boston but it applies to the top cities (from the article) as they are more compressed:

1. Boston - has intense seasons

2. Los Angeles - do noes not really have seasons

3. Miami - ditto

4. Chicago - extreme seasons like Boston

5. San Francisco - mild seasons

6. San Diego - no seasons whatsoever

I only picked Boston because I know it well. I don't want to get into the all natural hiking granola see the earth shit. Yes clearly areas like Las Vegas win at that.

The article even sort mentions my point: "Twenty miles might not seem like much, but in tightly packed New England, it’s the difference between being stuck in Massachusetts or escaping to neighboring Rhode Island or New Hampshire."

Otherwise why the hell do you think its so congested? More people and more stuff = more compact. Often this equals more things to see and do.

People in Massachusetts do not have to drive 60 miles to get to their job because stuff is more compact. In Atlanta they do!

I pick Atlanta because I have lived there and let me tell you have to drive quite a bit even to get to a reasonable body of water (Lake Lanier) let alone the ocean.
Consider extreme rural areas. I've lived most of my life in rural Alabama and libraries provide an essential resource for many. Giving these people a laptop and a subscription doesn't help much if they don't have a decent internet connection (or one at all).
Are you referring to the absence of a byline? That's because The Economist generally does not attribute editorials to authors. This one is not special.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist#Editorial_anonym...
Anything you do that's business related could end up on the front page of the NY Times. I would be extremely careful about what you do on corporate provided phones and email.
Statistics are even more insidious. We know empirically on average women are smarter than men, but also men are, from a particular perspective, genetically defective, which causes a wider variation in a non-insignificant set of traits.

You can still get a heavy tailing effect when on average population 1 is worse than population 2. This comes at the expense of the other fat tail:. Men are more likely to be mentally defective, commit suicide, die on the job, choose to go to war, choose to join gangs, etc.
That's a great word to describe how reporting is made and used on the web. Nearly all reporting by partisans on their enemies is fan fiction.
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Except Amazon doesn't do due diligence on anything else they sell. They got scared because they know they sell counterfeit products but this one will have potential lawsuits on August 22nd
When I connect my iPhone 7 to my 2014 Prius via USB, it registers as being connected in iPod mode. This plays the first track, and then shuffles from then on.
When I connect my iPhone 7 to my 2014 Prius via USB, it registers as being connected in Bluetooth mode.

This has less of the legacy cruft associated with iPod mode, and I don't have any of that weird behavior - when I connect in bluetooth mode, my iPhone 7 resumes play in the same way it would resume play if I connected a pair of headphones, swiped up from control center, and pressed play.

Life got a lot less frustrating when I realized there was a difference between the modes - now I use Bluetooth exclusively, and charge the phone with an Anker car charging adapter. Much better not having to hear the first song on my phone every time I plug in my phone while I am driving.
Why would anyone vote for him?

Because your current "business guy with no ethics" president is working out so fucking well?
My question is: why am I paying cloud providers for virtual machines with some imaginary virtual cpu count (or dynos or whatever) when I could be paying for M process running my server executable (capped at N threads per process)? Why can't I just write a server, bundle up the exe and assets, and run it somewhere? Why do I have to futz about with admining, patching, and hardening the OS when that's not what I care about?

Edit, to clarify, it just seems like an os with the capability to host a large number of user processes as here would really allow an order of magnitude reduction in hosting cost. Ie if a machine can host 1,000,000 paying accounts vs 10 vps/containered apps.
I'm beginning to think that there is a niche for a peculiar kind of a search engine. A search engine for static almost-none to none JavaScript pages. It would penalize pages for ad-network usage.

I would really like to not have in search results most sites that try to monetize on my attention. I want raw facts and opinions. No click-bait to grab my attention or feed my internal cave man with rage. No ad-networks or data extraction operations. Just pages put there by people that want to share knowledge and ideas. I mostly find it on pages that lack ads and often are pure HTML - no CSS and no JS. At least in areas that interest me.

Maybe there is a place for a search engine that would index only pages like that? It certainly would be easier than competing with Google on indexing whole of the attention-whoring Internet.
This article neglects to mention one of the biggest shortcomings of SQLite: lack of support for the SQL:2003 standard, especially window functions.
Powerful backdoor found in software used by 100 banks and energy cos
Any chance you can point us to the site? Sounds fun.
I assumed that did not apply in this case, but you are right, there does not seem to be an exception for the case of a registrar terminating the contract one-sided.
There are already psilocybin prodrugs that are legal on the market that are qualitatively identical after metabolizing. Pre-metabolism there may be distinct phenomena and concerns, but it degrades quickly.

Cannabinoids are different entirely; i can't speak to the dangers there, particularly when combustion is involved.
Hmmm... is HN removing ^carets?

Replace 247 with '2^47',
Which is ~'1.28x10^14' or ~36 hours in ns.
Libraries are well aware of their identities, which have not changed as much as you think.

For many people, their public library is their only access to Internet of any speed. And they're using that connection, the same one this community constantly rallies around as a human right, on the only boxes that public library can afford.
Bollocks for 90% of jobs out there as its completely irrelevant.
In the US, the electric utility is required to provide service by the government.

One the Internet, from a US point of view, you are correct that there is no equivalent of a "public square" that first amendment rights apply to. That is a problem, but, it's not GoDaddy's problem.
Could you recommend any software for mirroring websites?

I've been using scdl and ytdl lately to backup some SoundCloud stuff since it looks like their future is very uncertain.
Show HN: Reverse engineering the Chefsteps Joule immersion circulator
Rally could be tipping point for tech's tolerance for hate speech
Assuming you got paper glasses, on the inside of the arms of the glasses should be information about the ISO certifications and who manufactured it. Compare this against NASA's approved manufacturer list. If there's no info or they're not on the list, don't risk using them.

It's weird but I've got a co-worker who bought some cheap Chinese ones and actually block more light from a phone's flash LED than my legit, approved pair. I'd still never use them since my test is very simple and I don't understand enough about the properties that make for good solar filters.
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"You" - 82 counts

"I" - 30 counts (cap letter)

"we" - 44 counts

"pdf" - 0 counts

"http" - 0 counts

"www" - 0 counts

".edu" or ".gov" - 0 counts

I was very excited to read a rebuttal of the memo from the Economist. I've read arguments from both sides extensively and wanted to see The E's take. The original memo was almost naive in its argument; it's not hard to pick its argument chain apart.

Then I got to the mid section of the letter and the whole letter just fall apart.

Shame on the Economist for publishing such an ill-argued letter.

The author listed 6 logical flaws in the original memo (even though the the author said he found 1 + 6 more flaws). The listed flaws overlap too much, and 3 of them can be directly rebutted using lines from the memo.

"First, you ignore many other gender differences, basing your argument only on a few that you think support your conclusion. Second, you’re ignoring everything else that could explain the gender gap. Third, the gender differences you cite differ between countries and over time. Fourth, they don’t even support your argument, because you don’t seem to understand what makes a great software engineer. Fifth, you clearly don’t understand our company, and so fail to understand what we are trying to do when we hire. And sixth, even if you are right that more men than women are well-suited to the job of software engineer at google, you are wrong that taking steps to recruit more women is inherently unfair to men."

The rest of the flaws I agree with (depending on the reading of the text), but there's no citation for anything. So even though the conclusion might be correct, the arguments are weak.

BTW- "Fifth, you clearly don’t understand our company, and so fail to understand what we are trying to do when we hire."

Such a great line. So "inter-dimensional" that I can't put this as mere ironic.
Hah. I used double asterisks, should have seen that coming in hindsight. Muphry's Law.
There is also gccgo, taking advantage of GCC's backend.

There is some ongoing work into an LLVM based compiler for Go, and LLVM now has Go as official supported bindings.
are you joking? That is your example of abstruse mathematical notation? Some variables with names?!
His points about stress tolerance and anxiety are clearly ability-related. He didn't say women are less interested in stressful work, he said they are biologically inclined to be less capable of handling stress.

Which might be true, I have no idea, but it's not true that he only talked about interests.

Edit: When I say "might be true", I mean it academically might be true, but it clearly has no practical application to job performance. If women can perform equally well at a job as stressful as surgery, they obviously will not have a problem helping Google sell more ads in one of the most comfortable offices in the world.
Millions is not a problem. For billions is probably too slow or you run into memory issues.
We've also looked at data science to solve the problem but found that a traditional approach still offers the best performance.
Zuckerberg's early days of conversation released didn't seem to hurt him making $40B+ - I always wondered if FB censored/prevented the spread of that information relating to him on FB.
Fitness training is a very personal and individual thing. If you're feeling mentally exhausted after working out, you are definitely doing something wrong. I would recommend working with a qualified physical trainer with actual professional qualifications to get a tailored workout regime (be careful since there are many "personal trainers" who really don't know what they're doing).

Also, consider getting involved with yoga and getting a massage. While working out is great for building muscle and endurance, stress your body too much and it will give away.
I don't know how you can suggest issuing in EUR if you cannot compare the USD interest expense vs what you think they issue under EUR.

I'm not trying to be rude but I don't think you know what you are talking about if you are suggesting that executing a futures transaction that large won't move the market and that rolling USD 16bn equivalent futures is going to somehow come out near free. Amazon merely announcing an EUR deal that large is going to move the market and that's not even considering actually executing these theoretical trades. You don't want to give people the ability to frontrun you on something that large.

Suggesting non-standard sized future contracts completely negates the liquidity argument and also leaves you at the mercy of either your counterparty or someone else who likely has the ability to move the market in order to screw you over.

I'm pretty sure Amazon along with other issuers who issued multi-billion USD deals this year took a look at issuing in EUR and decided it wasn't in their best interests.
>Your memo was a triumph of motivated reasoning

The irony is palpable. "Larry" cites a bunch of well reasoned essays that support his view, but there were plenty of the same supporting James'.

>Teamwork, in particular, is important

At this point I feel they didn't even read James' essay. He points this out, and as a potential solution suggests pair programming should be emphasized.

I don't agree with everything James put forth in his "manifesto," but I don't think he should be demonized for putting forth a well reasoned argument. I think he brings up a great point in this "diversity equals morality" culture stifles real discussion and real solutions. He attempted to put forth a few solutions, which is more than I can say for this article.
In my experience these instances usually are either test/play clusters or just set up by people who don't know their way around Hadoop and its security features.

So: Yes, a Hadoop cluster should always be firewalled (secured or not) and have well defined access points via edge nodes as well as holes in the firewall for specific services that need to be exposed.
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I don't see any negative point of view towards the initiative in your comment's parent, but additional information that helps understand the context of this initiative and challenges you should care about if you think this initiative is a good thing.

It also didn't compare China and Pakistan to the US (negatively nor positively), though I appreciate you adding even more context.
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Saying "in part" is still making a judgement in arguing biology is a factor.

I agree he does say "possible" and "may" in a few places, but he's inconsistent. Overwhelmingly, he makes deterministic statements, including when he gives interviews (for example at 5:32 in one with CNN [1])

As the evolutionary biologist notes,

1. There are conflicting results with the research showing gender differences in personality traits

2. The research doesn't actually show that these trait differences are biological

3. "It is a massive leap to conclude that a slight difference in average personality must undermine women's professional abilities in software engineering"

> And so on and so forth in tedious repetitiveness.

The full response [2] is well worth a read. It is the most comprehensive point-by-point reply by a scientist to Damore to date.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/technology/culture/james-dam...

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...
>It notes "lack of retail sales is also a red flag that a pyramid exist"

If you've ever heard of Coinbase you know there are plenty of sales of Bitcoin.

>What percentage of Bitcoin sales involve actual transactions of goods or services

100% of the sales of Bitcoins involve actual transacting of Bitcoins.
I had a lot of fun with this, and wanted to share/document the process of reverse engineering I went through. If you happen to own a Joule and want to give it a whirl, here's the chrome app store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-joule/lifgg...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15019192 and marked it off-topic.
> I think if you watch his interviews, he was earnestly looking for a discussion.

Would those be the interviews he's already doing with hate groups and extremists, who seem happy to cheer on their latest champion? If there was even the slightest doubt about the ideology motivating the memo before, there really shouldn't be now.
Looks like the event was limited to the Virginia region.
Oh yes, this is the worst part of programming. I do not like being low on empathy.[0]

Metta meditation helps to reset this but sometimes it's so heavy – it's better to take a nap first.

[0]: http://blog.case.edu/think/2012/10/30/empathy_represses_anal...
don't forget placebo
Is it at all possible there are other psychoactive components to shrooms? I suspect not, but that might differentiate strains.
The insight I was meaning to convey was more along the lines of, How much benefit have things like harnessing electricity, or the germ theory of disease brought to the world? Nearly incalculable right?

So if European society suffers mass upheaval and disruption in coming years owing to causes we can plainly see at present, how many more of these monumental, universally beneficial innovations and achievements will die in the crib?
the unbelievable irony of a a fake letter dressing down someone for "motivated reasoning" by explicitly using motivated reasoning.
I didn't read much of the transcript, however these guys must be intelligent enough to keep what they know to likely be illegal as a private in-person conversation without record?
If you don't like it then don't read it or don't publish it. But sniff test and exposition are style. Ding it for not analyzing her primitives but don't then call that security analysis. Do the security analysis.

In patents there's the concept of enablement: did the inventor enable/teach the idea? Yes she did. Did she flesh out every idea? No she didn't.

This was rejected on style grounds. Ignoring it then on 'security analysis' is not improving matters; it certainly isn't helping security. Do the security analysis.
Is anyone else disgusted by these "X should have responded like this" articles?

They are so cringy. It's like asking a kid what he would do if he was president... but actually taking it seriously.

The problem with critics is that they have no skin in the game. If they're wrong, they just shrug their shoulders.

You're a paid (if that) journalist writing for profit. Figure out some other angle for peddling your gossip.
I am assuming you're not taking loans for things you don't want. Even if you're taking loans for operation expenses, it may make sense.

If you can get 90 days at no interest, for example, you might as well take it and get 90 days of growth on your investments.
Or, take PhDs. Working towards, writing, and defending your PhD is more stressful then anything half of Silicon Valley's engineers will ever do.

Yet, more women receive PhDs in the US then men do.
How do you stop hurricanes?

Couple solutions:
-level the mountain flat with enough explosives
-don't live by mountains
-underground cities, mudslides affect those at the surface

I'm sure there's others like collecting all the rain that causes mud slides.
ML flows nicely into RL, although I've heard ML4T is a gentler intro if you have no experience in machine learning at all (I haven't taken it yet)
There is countless literature you can find on any subjects on the internet.
The question is where must the solution be applied ?

Is it at the companies where they taken in under-representes groups ?
Or
Is it at the grassroots level such as by teaching parenting to students in college to be more aware of the bias they may've whilst upbringing their child. ( Similar to Diversity-training)

My point is that instead of giving them a relatively easier seat at the workplace, we must strive to make their paths easier thereby ensuring that the most talent people end up where they want to.

I'm actually quite surprised that the councillor didn't encourage your sister for they're usually trained to be aware of such biases and be neutral in their disposition towards every student albeit it's difficult , they're usually better at it.
Sorry, I may have been too vague. I grew them in a large plastic bin in my bathtub. I got the spores and was able to start the mycelium without any bacteria problems, somehow (My kitchen was no more sanitary than you would expect from a 21 year old bachelor). I really had no idea what I was doing so, based on the stories I hear of other people trying and failing several times before giving up, I assume I was just exceptionally lucky. :)

Edit: Ah, I get your point about selection bias now. Yes, based on self-reporting on drug forums I am surely in a small minority of clueless yet successful psychedelic mushroom farmers. I suppose if I ran through a minefield once and didn't lose any limbs, I would think that was easy too: "just run in a straight line as fast as you can, no problem!"
It's only a possibility at this point. For instance: law libraries. Currently, there is much legal info online but there is plenty that is not (e.g. Rutter Group law guides). Or maybe they're online but only for a hefty fee aimed at law firms (e.g. Lexis-Nexis access). For someone forced into self-representation for a legal matter, a public law library is a HUGE help. While the online resources that are available are very helpful, they are not enough at this point.
That point especially and specifically has made every woman I've talked to about this laugh and laugh.
I wonder how this article would be different had it been written after Medium introduced its new funding model. For one thing, a bunch of those publications, like The Awl are no longer there.
did you not try to do this on the GPU by any chance ? Especially using CUDA libraries. I'm wondering what is the state of art in this field.
Or maybe arm US public libraries with free to checkout Kindles that have no hardware for WiFi or LTE support and simply are cached with the latest videos from Khan Academy and a significant portion of the most read portions of Wikipedia. The cache would be updated over the air weekly at the library.

If the Kindle ever was jailbroken, well then the kid or whoever just learned about jailbreaking/hacking. Without Wifi or LTE support, likely no one would really bother.

I find this one inspiring:
https://www.ted.com/talks/curtis_wall_street_carroll_how_i_l...