skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there has been crime in your neighborhood, then your local, state, etc. police, the FBI, DoJ, etc. should handle it. We're awash in law enforcement resources at every level.

We should NOT settle the issue by fights in the streets.

No political leader should single out one group or person with accusations of violence because: (A) It would tend to further divide the country. (B) It could stimulate opponents to feel that violence was acceptable and to be violent. (C) Even bad people are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. More people could be killed. Then you really WOULD have something to blame Trump for.

The newsies try to get politicians to say stupid things. Wisely, Trump declined to do that.

Recall that Obama would never say "radical Islamic terrorism", and that is really bad stuff back to the two attacks on the WTC and many attacks since then.

You've been talked into believing that a politician SHOULD condemn specific groups and people. In this way, you have been manipulated, fooled, led around by your nose, taken advantage of by newsies who want your eyeballs, clicks, and ad revenue and by some special interest groups who paid money to the newsies to get them to push their propaganda.

We are a free country, and you get to have any opinions you want. We have freedom of the press, and they get to say or write nearly anything at all including rivers of total BS, and they take big advantage of it.

But as a citizen, you need to filter out the newsie BS.

By the way, is there something illegal about torches, free assembly, freedom of speech, petitioning government, "blood and soil"? Actually illegal? Violations of specific, actual, written down laws? Uh, maybe there's something in the Constitution along those lines?

What about when BLM shouted "fry'm like bacon"? That was offensive to lots of people, but I can't see that it was illegal. IIRC no one got arrested for shouting such. I don't think they should have been arrested for exercising freedom of speech. Maybe they could be prosecuted for inciting violence, that is, killing police, but I doubt it.

Welcome to a free country with freedom of speech, right to petition the government, freedom of the press, and innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Did some newsies get you all sweaty and up on your hind legs about torches? Did they get your attention, eyeballs, clicks, ad revenue? Did they get you to hate Trump? Did you let them manipulate you?

Offensive to lots of people? No doubt. Illegal?

So, you want a politician to urge violence against people who say things that offend you? You want to let the newsies trick you into such feelings?
us-east-1/global iam

12:36 PM PDT We continue to investigate increased error rates and latencies when accessing the IAM Management Console and IAM APIs. Creation and listing of new IAM users, groups and roles are experiencing increased error rates, latencies and propagation times. Authentication for existing IAM users, groups and roles is not affected.
Yes. It was a joke.
John Gruber perceptively pointed out that Page/Brin/Schmidt have been taking the backseat for this ordeal, putting Pichai solely responsible. I assume this is intentional to ensure Pichai's opinion on the matter is clearly that of Google.

However, aside from Damore himself, the only Googlers I've seen make comments are:

* Sundar Pichai

* Danielle Brown, VP of Diversity, Integrity & Governance

* Susan Wojcicki, YouTube CEO

To be very honest, it would be helpful if white male Googlers spoke out for diversity. I know this is a sensitive and heated topic right now, but especially after seeing the (unrelated, but very fresh, and the video is really worth 1000 words):

https://news.vice.com/story/vice-news-tonight-full-episode-c...

it would be really nice to see actual individuals standing up for the beliefs their company purports to have.
> The biggest hurdle preventing me from going multiple times per week is the cost of the ticket + concessions

For me, the biggest hurdle is that the nearest theatre is one of the ones that shows absolutely awful ads for 30 minutes straight before the trailers. They have some company that produces an Entertainment Tonight-like show where they talk about upcoming films (possibly relevant, but not usually), and mostly show ads for video games, Coca Cola, and cars. They're super loud, super repetitive, and super annoying. The theater is otherwise nice, but the ads are so obnoxious that I go out of my way to avoid it. Some shows you can get assigned seats, which makes showing up at the last minute feasible, but for some reason, not all of their screenings allow that.
I agree--I think that design is wonderful.

The credits link & page are pretty bad, otherwise no complaints.

And hey, it still works well on small screens. Not flawless, but close.
Oregon State has an online CS post-bacc program, but it's not cheap: http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/online-cs-students
As always, general benchmarks only give you limited insights, but this might be interesting:

Rust vs Go
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

Rust vs C
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/rust.html
<Quote>
with the recognition that gender and sex aren’t binary.
</Quote>

Is there a biological basis for this? I do not want "Gender Studies" references. I want real BIOLOGICAL, you know code mother nature put in you.
Stupid question probably, but have any cancers been cured so far?
> Sniff test and exposition are style.

Peer review journals and conferences have (typically explicit) style guides. The argument that peer review arbitrarily rejects papers unsubstantively is a strawman; peer review councils do not maintain that meritocratic results-driven analysis are the only barriers to entry.

>Ding it for not analyzing her primitives but don't then call that security analysis. Do the security analysis.

Authors introducing novel results with cryptographic considerations typically perform their own analysis and publish that in the paper with the result. I was not referring to my observation of her own insufficient analysis as if it is a formal analysis on my part, I was observing (correctly) that she didn't do enough of her own formal analysis. There is a modicum of author-provided proof-based assurance that 1) is considered in the peer review process and 2) forms the foundation for formal cryptanalysis by peers in the community. In other words, there isn't yet enough for cryptanalysts to attack (or more precisely, the author has put the onus of analysis on other researchers, instead of providing specific, rigorous claims which they can empirically refute).

It comes down to respecting time. In attempting to be accessible, the author is not being respectful of other researchers' time. We don't need to have the birthday paradox explained to us, we've understood that since Intro to Statistics. The paper is 58 pages because, "think of the unwashed masses who can't understand our work!", but in attempting to appeal to those beyond the ivory tower, it's just become circuitous and over-indulgent. She didn't have to write in this style to make it more accessible (and the relevant mathematics has a lower bound on how accessible it can be, anyway).

It is not respectful of qualified cryptanalysts to not even provide a precise set of proofs for your claims. She uses phrases like, "PCG is a middle ground between security and performance." We cannot analyze that, and it's not for cryptanalysts to review every single claim that comes across their desks. This is why the author of xorshift+ didn't even provide a cryptanalysis in his scathing review.

If you're not going to sufficiently specify your claims, don't be surprised when the academic community ignores them (even if they're valid!). You are arguing your point from a first principles approach to meritocracy and the fairness of style-based assessment; I am arguing that as a practical matter in the research community, there is a reason this is not how novel cryptographic primitives are introduced.
I have noticed that my searches on certain wrongthink topics bring up a slew of supposed 'rebuttals' to the information I was searching for. I did look at the rebuttals, but they were all non-sequiturs coupled with fury and not, well, reason.

A little while ago a Socialist website argued they were being demoted in the search results and only typing their explicit domain name alongside the search terms brought up their arguments.

I know this is a complex topic far beyond my tiny snippet of text here, but I do not think this is good.

I also think this website (its owners and management) has a bias, towards Liberalism. I do not mean 'Democrats'. I mean the political thought of the upper middle class. This isn't a Red Team vs Blue Team thing the way most people seem to assume, there's a third actor. It believes itself correct, rationally and morally but naturally has its own vices.

Remember Orwell's discussion of class in 1984!
I'm finding good tips about this in this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Performance-Elevate-Burnout-Scie...
But that has nothing to do with Rust; this post and others is more or less claiming between the lines that the only thing that can save us from buggy software is the Rust way, which is bullshit. It didn't work for Java, or Erlang or Haskell; and it won't work for Rust; simply because the solution is experience, not more rules.
Knoxville! Knoxville! Knoxville!
Oh, man. Dole/Kemp was definitely designed in the "Make sure everything fits on a 640 × 480 display, and downloads reasonably fast on a 14.4k modem" era.
Where should I go in Silicon Valley?
I'm a startup founder in Colombia who's going for an event in SF. I'm really excited to meeting Silicon Valley and it's people mindset but I know I can't just go into a random company and start talking to people.

What do you recommend? Thanks for helping out
That article comment is from 2011, is cgo still slower than JNI?
really strong eng team and industrial leading streaming solutions!
Ask HN: What are your favorite entrepreneurship resources
Hey everyone,
I'm teaching an undergraduate class in the fall at a local university here in Miami (FIU) and would love your recommendations on what books or articles or frameworks you think the students should read. My goal for the class is to teach them how to identify problems and prototype solutions for those problems. Hopefully, they make some money from them to help pay for books, etc.
Musk has said on a few occassions that he can achieve full automony on a Tesla with no LIDAR setup. I think instead they use a front-facing radar and a bunch of cameras. Maybe IR?. Levandowski strongly disagrees and sees LIDAR as critical to reliably mapping the environment. This all came up when that guy drove into the side of a trailer in a Tesla.
> The best way to approach people who agree with Damore and will shut down at the mention of anything like "sexism" or "discrimination" is to just explain that software engineering is really not a particularly stressful job.

Except Damore didn't claim that stress was the overriding factor in the gender gap. Your rebuttal assumes that's his position.
I would interview at Facebook as well. You can live across the bridge in the East Bay where it is cheaper and some have good schools. But with such a big population boom and concerned parents, schools in general will get better even in bad areas since everything is gentrifying. Interview at Google as well but if you do you should try to live in Mountain View since that commute really sucks.

And since your daughter is young you can afford to spend a few years finding the right place. Like I said, commuting sucks. If you pick an SF startup but you are in San Jose, expect a 1hr minimum train ride each way that will be very crowded. Traffic is also bad. Some places have rent control which is nice.

Really think hard on startups you think will be acquired or IPO. You really need the lottery ticket of options to be able to fund a downpayment in the housing lottery. It's almost impossible to pick the right early stage startup.. YC is a good filter but also go find the ones with the super smart people. The type that succeed no matter what. Or find a startup with veteran or ex-industry types. This is where networking in crucial.

It will be a shock. Then again the Bay area is beautiful with great things to do but my guess is you'll be working all the time!!! :)
Here's the thing: for men being decent requires effort - especially online where the risk/reward ration of being a douchebag seems so tantalizingly < 1. That's obviously changing because doing stuff like this outside the confines of dating sites is becoming much riskier. IMO that's a good thing.

I think men will always have to fight the urge to not "go for it" with women they find attractive. In a way, we're kinda hard-wired to do that. That doesn't mean that we can't or shouldn't fight the urge and be decent to women - especially now that women everywhere are speaking up and letting us know how this kind of behavior makes them feel.

Addendum:

The first reactions to my post are pretty negative. I can see why (over-generalization) but on-balance I don't feel like my post is negative. The core message is - be decent. If the volume of women's complaints are a measure, I'd venture to say there are a lot of men out there that struggle to do so. If you're not one of those guys- awesome . But a lot of dudes are and the first step to getting them to treat women well is to vocalize the expectation that they do so and maybe while we're at it, not trying to shame them into decency by pointing out how awesome you are and, by contrast, what horrible human beings they are for having unacceptable feelings.
Yup. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/marriage.html
Unable without incurring costs that make Bonds/Loans vastly more economical.

The US situation with repatriation is silly. I’m all for some level of taxation but right now it provides a negative incentive due to interest rates.
Love it. Thanks for writing up your story.
Thanks! Will fix that up :)
The best explanation you will get is from a medical doctor. They will explain to you how there are multiple sexes. Gender is not biological so there is no biological explanation.

For people who are downvoting me and are either too lazy to talk to a doctor or use Google: Fine, here are some links. Please educate yourselves about simple biology you should have learned in school.

https://www.quora.com/Scientifically-how-many-sexes-genders-...

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/12/opinion/how-many-sexes-are...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

http://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_gender_distinction
> I don't understand why one would need an agreement between Uber and the FTC explicitly mentioning this. Is it not illegal if a company misrepresents its compliance to the regulator?

Breach of a consent order is a fast track into the court supervising the order, and the terms are usually more specific (and thus easier to demonstrate) than the underlying law, and violating the consent order can risk basically reopening the original litigation with it full potential consequences (not just those for the narrow violation the provision of the order at issue would involve under the bare law), so often consent orders will have restrictions that are special cases of restrictions that already exist in law.
"hate groups and extremists"

Have you got any evidence of this, because it sounds like bullshit?
> To be very honest, it would be helpful if white male Googlers spoke out for diversity.

Do you mean spoke out against Damore? Damore lauded diversity himself. Being "for diversity" doesn't carry much water, it seems.

EDIT: Just watched (enough of) the video. Are you equating Damore with skinheads?
The Milky Way in this context is the band of light visible on moonless nights, with no point sources.

The article also addresses the question of light pollution.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant, thanks for clarifying. I'm not sure where I picked up using reckon as a noun, I think it might have been from an Australian. In my mind, a reckon is a quick opinion given without much rigor behind it, coming from "the gut" or experience.
I'm not sure you can cede certain rights and, even if so, I'm still not okay with it. Just because something isn't against the law does not mean I'm okay with it.

If this is how it works, it is broken. Require an injunction from a court of law, perhaps? It's broken. Please fix it.
Wefunder (YC W13) is hiring engineers
Ya, we could, that just gets complicated really fast
> Are you serious? This is almost too goofy to merit a response.

Unfortunately, I suspect the poster is dead serious. This is why I don't recommend trying to appease socialists. It is never enough and they'll never be happy until we're all 'equal'.

The first time I came across this phenomenon was while listening to Thomas Piketty on YouTube and he went on and on about how the philanthropic approach Gates and people like him (the wealthy) were taking to solve the world's problems was flawed. I couldn't believe it! Piketty disapproved of Gates' donations and his philanthropy on the basis that one cannot donate to a charity that one still controls. To him that was ridiculous despite the fact that Gates' foundation has done a remarkable job thus far; more than Piketty - with all his socialist nonsense - will ever do in a million lifetimes.

The irony is that, the first time I heard of Piketty was via Gates' reading list on his website.

The mistake that some wealthy people are making is that they assume that they can appease socialists. You can't. They'll always want more or everything if you let them!
A discussion about support for MP3 on Wikimedia Commons
Isn't diesel also 4 stroke? I know it has no spark plugs for ignition and there are differences but the main principals would be the same.
Apple and Microsoft, for those wondering.
Github also versions their API via headers, but uses the `Accept` header instead: https://developer.github.com/v3/media/
Well yeah, it sucks. I think the problem here is, that an URL was supposed to be a stable, unique identifier for a ressource (like a UUID). But at the same time humans have to enter them and therefore they have to be nice, shiny and up to date with the latest trends, which causes them to change constantly...

Maybe we should built a DHT containing UUIDs for all pages als alternative, stable URIs :D
This is the best explanation I've found:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2010/01/a-tale-of-two-qubits...
Theaters have to pay a nut to the studio doing the distribution. They negotiate how much of a nut based on the perceived popularity of the title. The studios don't give a hoot about per ticket price, they just want XX dollars for a specific time period. The theater can charge $1 or $20 per ticket, they're still paying the studio the nut at then end of the day.
2-3%

You'll hear back within a couple weeks.
Fun throwback. Thanks.
I wonder about this as well. Specifically, how does one define "gender" as distinct from "opinion", without being recursive (as in "a man is someone who feels like a man")?
>Watch your context on that quote. Exposing racial injustice and providing a platform for the promotion of racial injustice (among other things perpetrated by the Daily Stormer) are two very different things.

How can it be exposed if all the public platforms are withheld? The context is clear if you've studied Dr. King's tactics. The media (TV/newspapers, and now the internet) ignored racial injustice, and so Dr. King made a point of creating public agitation that forced the media to give it attention so that everyone could be made aware of its existence and decide how to deal with it.

>Please be specific

If your goal is to defeat your enemies, forcing them out of public view and into the shadows obscures your reconnaissance capabilities and decreases your strategic advantage.

>>Failing to see the problem is the problem.
I really enjoyed the well reasoned discussion. I think a lot more constructive dialog is happening now that people have calmed down.

Of all the sentiments expressed in the article, I mainly disagree with the comment that Damore did the company harm.

He posted his thoughts on an internal discussion board and someone else leaked this internal document to the press. The leaker did harm to Google not Damore. In fact, I think the memo had been posted for a week or two before it was leaked. If your argument for firing Damore is that he did the company harm, you should look at the person who took an internal company document and made it public.

There are many people who believe he should have been fired anyway for offending his female coworkers and perhaps making them feel unsafe, but that is a different argument all together with its own merits and faults depending strongly on your stance on what constitutes tolerable speech.
Does this do it for you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
Assuming that Stripe's userbase grows over time and that their new API versions offer features that are useful to a significant portion of their existing userbase, I would expect the majority of requests at any time to be for a recent API version that needs few (or no) transformations. This is especially likely considering that Stripe provides official client libraries (which are presumably up to date) for a lot of languages.

Stripe probably tracks the relative usage of each API version. If they found a lot of their users were stuck on an old version, that would point to a bigger problem than just some per-request overhead.
This YouTube channel is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/user/EngineeringExplained

It has videos on pretty much every aspect of engines, organized in handy playlists.
350MM hectares is at the point where it really starts to make an impact compared with usage cuts. The US (though add in China and India if you count reductions in projected growth) is probably the only country that has a near-term chance of being able to unilaterally cut worldwide carbon output by 3%, but Pakistan seems to have the ability to increase carbon sequestering by 3% of current worldwide carbon output.
Right click open in a private window works for most of those. Maybe you are expected to know this as an HN reader.
He referenced a paper that noted differences in levels of neuroticism, but he did not defend his point that this affects software engineering performance. Some people will say it's common sense, but I would say it's common sense that this is irrelevant to software engineering (if not every job in the world), so common sense obviously varies a lot and should not be relied on in discussions like this.
> It wasn't until this memo that I realized how many people, when presented with a body of text, immediately start performing motive inference, subtext analysis, dogwhistle detection, etc.

When evaluating a piece of software, do you look for the subtle signs that it's poorly maintained, or that the developer has contempt for decent software engineering practices?

When you see a headline like "P versus NP", do you look at criteria like http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304 to check for signs of credibility?

When you see the latest anti-systemd screed (not thoughtful critique, just random thoughtless reiterated bashing treaded out again and again), do you notice how many of those screeds intentionally misspell it as "SystemD", and display other such warning signs?

People are very good at pattern matching, including social patterns.
Gender is a semantic concept. Biology (and sex) is not.

So no, there isn't a biological basis for this, because gender isn't biological.
Yeah if great leaders are plentiful in your organization I would say that's an outlier in my experience. To be clear, there are often many decent managers in any stable organization...however, if we interpret "leader" to be something more, including the ability to drive change and execute, I think those types are few and far between.