skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, you could let the market dictate their salaries, but then you run into the issue of paying one gender more money for the same amount of work, a practice outlawed under the Equality Pay Act of 1963.
Is Mono ready for the prime time? Because it's most certainly already in Debian. It's just that MS doesn't give a shit about adoption on the "cancer" platform. They'd much rather we all wore the Windows ball and chain.
Tell that to EOTO[0]! Two of the guys from String Cheese Incident have a pretty killer EDM band that I've seen melt the face off 20 year olds.

[0] - http://eotomusic.com/
You say that as if being the target is desirable.
Sure thing. The whole thing was getting way out of hand anyway. Next time the topic comes out, I'll try to steer away from it (I've been flagging the posts regarding this trainwreck of a story already.)
> KYC laws apply to national currencies

Assuming federal laws don't apply because you sprinkled some magic around you is a pretty awful way to end up in jail. KYC violations are criminally punishable. Anyone operating a non-compliant exchange is subject to investigation, arrest and asset freezes.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This comment does not constitute legal nor investment advice.
Once (or a few times) in 5 years puts this problem into the "not worth(ROI) solving" bucket for me.

Those few times, put down the hammer and use some other tool for those not naillike jobs.
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Even if Snap closes you in to use the Snapchat app with the glasses, you don't have to upload the snaps anywhere. You can just save it to your phone like an ordinary camera app.
And Evercoin's fees are even higher.
I think it will be soon because there is a huge number of markets to test in. You have every state in the US, every country in the world, and a dozen players all working on it. In an n*n space, you just need one technology+municipality pair that says "ok, we'll risk it" and you have a very public, newsworthy demonstration.

If there are real benefits to the tech, it will be impossible to keep them off Instagram. From there, it will spread to opportunist governments... Places who will try anything if it draws interest to their municipality.

At some point after that it becomes a liability to not allow it.

Now, how long before each of these stages? I don't know, but there's pressure there.
I mean, I definitely would, but whoever they switched to (probably Bing) would just have to recognize that the request came from an iPhone and style it to look minimally different from what people are used to seeing. I think a lot of people wouldn't notice or care.
I'm running it on FreeBSD. I am happy.
Reason doesn't seem to be hurt badly by it. The editors of the Holocaust Denial issue (not some OpEd!) are still running political campaigns, and the foundation funding Reason Magazine. Does that seem like a double standard?

https://pando.com/2014/07/24/as-reasons-editor-defends-its-r...
I’m suprised that info isn't built into Google Maps since Google owns Waze.
Short of an elaborate test apparatus, there is actually no way for a consumer to independently confirm they have safe glasses.

It's easy to make fakes that look exactly like the real thing. So a printed ISO code or brand name is only sufficient if the supply chain is secure.

And unfortunately, there have been plenty of stories lately about seeming lax stock management at Amazon that makes it hard to know exactly what you're going to get.
That's really neat, thanks for the link!
About what I would have expected.

> What exactly is this supposed to mean? What exactly does it mean to "lack energy" and to "drain energy" from other people? How on EARTH did she come to this conclusion? And WHY would this be a problem inherent to women?

Absolutely mystified.

> This tells me more about her management style than it does about any woman at her company.

Suddenly, no longer mystified at all.

Not that I particularly care, but this is why I have very little respect for hardcore advocates, they see themselves as completely objective while in reality their bias is obvious. The confidence of youth I guess, but this energy would be better expended on actually doing something towards achieving success rather than complaining that someone hasn't delivered it to your doorstep.

In the medium/long term, this is all the distractions of a childish culture. While we bicker dishonestly among ourselves like self-entitled children, China is quietly working its ass off and will soon eat all of our lunches.
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That paragraph is out of date, for example Yahoo! Search BOSS was discontinued a year and a half ago. The DuckDuckBot is hardly seen.

I suspect that they initially attempted to do this, but as far as I know these days it's basically Bing. Maybe with a small amount of other sources mixed in.
Tbh, I doubt Google knows they're the Stormers' registrar yet; you can transfer domains automatically.

CloudFlare doesn't provide hosting, it's a reverse proxy. But, if you believe http://www.crimeflare.com/cfs.html, the actual web server sitting behind dailystormer.com is hosted by online.net, of France.
It really depends on a lot of things.

-- Amount that you drive

-- Availability of Uber when/where you need it

-- Whether you have to pay for parking

-- Whether you also take a lot of weekend trips

-- etc.

$100 per month is actually not very much. That suggests you're only traveling 100 miles per month or so on Ubers which is nothing. By contrast, that would basically take me to the nearest large city and back once or get me back and forth to my office a couple of times.

If you live in a city, you'd probably pay a pretty decent chunk of that amount just in auto insurance.
I tried in digital forensics. Depends on the project. May get up to 5x speedup in the software that runs, after a lot (a loooooooooot) of complaining by it. Many proejcts didn't manage to run though. In the end, not truly significant speedup (the bottleneck tends to lie somewhere else) for the effort that is required to get everything to work.

PS: I do realize "digital forensics" is probably not the kind of "production environment" you were thinking. Just a small datapoint about a particular branch of software that, while getting good speedups, may not benefit as much as the "X times faster" line would suggest.
This is pretty exciting!

Here we tested TaiNi, a novel ultra-lightweight (<2 g) low power wireless system allowing 72-hours of recording from 16 channels sampled at ~19.5 KHz (9.7 KHz bandwidth). We captured local field potentials and action-potentials while mice engaged in unrestricted behaviour in a variety of environments and while performing tasks.

I'm used to dealing with sampling rates above 40 kHz, so the temporal resolution has a way to go, but it looks like the recorder is fairly flexible about what kind of electrode arrays it can use, which is a real positive:

Mice were implanted with either a single shank 16 channel probe attached to a microdrive (Cambridge Neurotech, GB) targeting the CA1 region of the hippocampus (n = 14 mice; AP: +1.7 mm, ML: −0.3 mm relative to Bregma), or a static dual shank silicon probe (n = 2 mice; 8 sites per shank (Neuronexus, USA)) targeting the medial prefrontal cortex (AP: +1.7 mm, ML: −0.3 mm relative to Bregma & DV: −2.0 mm from brain surface) & dorsal hippocampus (AP: −1.9 mm, ML: −2.0 mm relative to Bregma & DV: −2.0 mm from brain surface).

+5 cool kid points for using Klusta-based spike sorting -- though because this group is at ICL that's not too surprising.
Right, but like I said, I'd be fine with a read-only shared data structure. I have a problem that has a hefty data model. The problem can be decomposed and attacked in parallel, but the decomposition doesn't cut across the data. Right now I run n instances on n cores, but that means making n copies of a large data structure. This requires a lot of system memory, ruins any chance I have of not wrecking the cache (not that I have high hopes there, but still), and forces me into certain patterns, like using long-lived processes because it's expensive to set up the model, that I'd prefer to avoid.
> No, the core of the article was pointing out that setting arbitrary quotas for female hires and then sacrificing your standards in order to meet those quotas does more harm than good.

Is this actually occurring at Google due to the existence of their diversity programs? If so, that is quite a strong claim and needs to be backed by evidence. But she doesn't appear to be actually making that claim.

> Fundamentally there are two issues that need addressing, firstly trying to get more qualified female applicants which is why she recommends focusing on early education and college STEM programs.

Isn't this literally what Google's diversity programs do? The ones that James Damore advocates eliminating? I thought they were internship programs designed to encourage more minority groups to get into computer science?

For example:

BOLD - https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/bold.html

CSSI - https://edu.google.com/resources/programs/computer-science-s...

Engineering Practicum - https://careers.google.com/jobs#!t=jo&jid=/google/engineerin...
Frankly, this is why OTA updates for critical infrastructure (locks, heating, phones, vehicles) always scares me. It's too frequent an issue that someone's device gets bricked as a result, leaving folks with no practical remedy in many cases.
But you're proving the parent poster's point here. Normies never hear of SMTP except when they copy and paste some incantation from their email provider's website. It's email, it works, and they have no idea how.
Ahhhhh. PERFECT. It looks like the counterargument here is that easylist itself isn't used to circumvent admiral, it's only a list. Other things, like ublock, are the ones that use the list, and are actually blocking admiral.
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Yeah. I think the genius of Scratch is it's basically an advanced IDE for an ordinary programming language, rather than trying to create some alien “visual” thing.
But we don’t always have a camera on our heads, particularly not from our POV. Imagine you’re doing something actively - you probably don’t have hands available. It’s a diff product / use case, albeit not as generalizable.
Yes, you can get the video files and don't need to upload them to snapchat.
> I'd say just buy a new Squier (by Fender).

I second this, a buddy of mine ended up selling his American Strat because he was playing his custom vibe so much.
Could you list some of the "tech genius" characters you have in mind?

I don't watch that much TV, but Abby (sp?) from NCIS springs to mind, slightly quirky, but v. intelligent, commanding.

The equivalent character in Alias, f.e., was (in early series at least) a one-dimensional dork.
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> And so hiring decisions are done by interviewers without knowing the gender or how the candidate looks.

It might make the situation worse: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tria...
> Multiprocess parallelism isn't always appropriate

Using Python isn't always appropriate.
I can't remember who said it, but there is a great quote that applies to management in general that seems to apply here.

"As soon as a good measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
And yet pumped storage has been on line for decades. According to this brief reference [1] Castaic Lake in the LA DWP system has been doing pumped storage since 1972.

[1] http://globalenergyobservatory.org/geoid/282
> What annoys me most is that Firefox refuses to show you the certificate if it fails to validate, which makes figuring out validation errors more painful.

You can view it in Firefox as well: Advanced -> Add exception -> View

Or, as I just noticed, when you click on the error code (SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE for example) it'll show you the raw certificate.
From what I've read, it seems that the performance benefits disappear when compound data structures/objects are used as keys. Is this true?

Let's say that I were to use a vector of coordinates as the key to something in a map. Would CHAMP still vastly outperform HAMT?
I think it was possible, but I'm not sure how usable that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsJIrzRVTrw
This is definitely one of those "I'm going to wait for the peer review" claims, but it is pretty exciting.

Pros: The author is not a dilettante, and is actively researching in the area (http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/blum/Forschung/forsch.var)

Cons: It's not my area, but I was expecting something a little more novel for a solution to P?NP. This almost seems too simple (it might almost fit in a margin...).

Could be pro or con: Single author. It's becoming rare for important new work to not have multiple authors, especially from professional academics. However, Andrew Wiles...
Isn't it easier to get a POV shot by using glasses though? It definitely makes easier and quicker to get shots that you wouldn't normally be able to get. E.g. you see someone doing some cool bike trick on the street. If you take out your phone in an attempt to capture the moment, you might miss it, while if you're using the Spectacles, you might not.
> I doubt that.

Let me clarify: Nobody appeared to be interested in funding a graduate student to prove P != NP.
I'm just a welder, but...

DNS can't log your activity on a website, can it? All DNS does is resolve hosts, right?

DNS service can log that you resolved a host, but doesn't know what you did with the IP address it returned.
42K is low but the product appeals to a very small segment of consumers: Snapchat users, who don't wear prescription eyeglasses, who happen to have a face shape complimented by the single size/style of Spectacles.
Definitely! They are really well done and actually worked better for me than videos. Unfortunately they only cover the first half of the course.
Ooh! So that's where they stashed it. But aren't regular non-devs supposed to verify certificate name and the name of the website they are on? Earlier, you could click on the https part of the address bar and it would show you the certificate details.
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By starting with icons first, you intuitively teach the idea of tokenization of the program code.

This idea is important, but trivially simple to an experienced programmer so easily dismissed. It is not that obvious to a beginner tho.
Shaming people is an exercise of political power. If a group truly lacks political power, they're not capable of effectively shaming anyone.
Last I checked, the Synapse homeserver was heavy on resource consumption and therefore tough to run at home on, say, a RPi. How much progress has been made towards more usable homeservers?
For the desktop, electron has mostly won really, the web browser becoming the primary most widely used platform for delivering applications made shipping a desktop application with an embedded browser the next obvious choice.
There are no rules against submitting your own blog posts. As we know, it's quite common on HN. Though I have noticed personally that my blog posts get more activity here when submitted by others.

There are also no rules against plugging a product in a post. Again, it's extremely common on HN.

OP's user account was created 1339 days ago. I don't think his intention is suddenly to spam at all nor do I believe the post is "just a spam piece to advertise his app".
I get it, but for what? I mean, it's such a niche thing. I have to wear these ugly glasses that do ONE thing. Or just use my phone. People have their phones out CONSTANTLY. They spend more time in hands than they do pockets.
I think this wearable from Snap had multiple objectives.

1. Allow more people to be tied in directly to snapchat and make users more loyal and provide a better experience.

2. Create a new revenue stream based on wearables.

3. A PR vehicle to drive more users into the platform.

I think it accomplished #3. It may be able to accomplish 1-2 but we should wait and see. Also, something like Spectacles probably need a price drop to drive more people to buy it and the fact that this wearable doesn't drive people to upgrade to new spectacles would be an issue also.
Are you sure of that? I get considerably different results for queries on Bing vs DDG.
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Linguist here. It's doesn't seem very similar to speaking another language at all. Hockett's Design Features is a set of features that is commonly used to distinguish natural human languages from other systems of communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockett%27s_design_features

Not that those features are requirements or anything, but they serve as a good guideline. As you can see, programming languages lack many of these features. For one, lack productivity — you can't suddenly switch up the syntax in some novel way or make up a new keyword to achieve some effect and expect the compiler/interpreter to just understand it.

Programming is probably more akin to a jargon + some technical knowledge to go with it, but it's still a bad comparison because a jargon is still a part of a natural language — programming languages are not.
By "it is infeasible", I meant, "removing the GIL is infeasible"; not "rewriting is infeasible".
Thanks for sharing this! Loved playing it.
Programming is a "class of language" ... latin/romance, germanic, slavik, etc.

"I speak programming. Specifically I speak C++."

Furthermore, within programming there are classes of languages (imperative, functional, oo, pattern matching, etc).

"I speak programming. I understand imperative and OO from C++, but struggle to understand functional, as I'm not used to composing my thoughts that way."

There are varying degrees of fluency / literacy in each of these classes of languages.

"I'm an expert in C++11, and wouldn't hesitate to write or maintain any C++ code. I can also read and modify many C-like languages (Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, Go) and may play with them on the weekend, but they would not be my first choice in starting a project at work. I can read some lisp code, but I can never understand something written in erlang no matter how many times I try."

So I would say that you can draw comparisons between northern v. southern english (ie: versions of C++) then english (ie: C-like languages) rolling up into germanic / romance (ie: imperative languages).

Regarding "translation", that's reasonable to understand. However, a programming translation has extra requirements to be successful.

1) it must be complete (at least the translated portion)
2) it must be 100% correct
3) regardless of the language, it must cause the same effect

...a partial translation, a translation with errors, or a slightly different meaning can "ruin" the programming translation, whereas minor errors or awkwardness in your normal translation are generally easy to overcome compared to a traditional written text designed for human (not computer) consumption.
OK well .Net has Clojure, F#, C#, VB and Rosyln (compiler as a service). CLR vs JVM wise; both are highly optimized virtual machines with years of man hours behind each of them.
Isn't that a guittaron (fretless guitar/bass combo) in the image at the top of the post. I've been wanting to get one of those but have too many instruments already...
I've pushed dozens of OTA updates to WiFi devices (telepresence robots), and it's always terrifying. We'd test thoroughly, and we'd always start with devices in our office, and wait to see them reboot before pushing to customers. In addition, we had a scheme where we'd push an update, it'd reboot, and if it didn't connect to our server within 20 minutes it'd revert to the previous version and reboot again. WCGW? We never bricked one in the field, but I can think of a million ways it could have happened.

The scariest times were pushing updates that affected WiFi connection for customers with unusual network configurations. In particular, we had one with a multi-campus Cisco WiFi system with WPA-Enterprise, which requires logging into a RADIUS server to get WiFi. We were running on FreeBSD which had a half-assed port of the Linux WPA authenticator. We never managed to replicate their network perfectly for in-house testing, so pushing updates to them was always nerve-wracking.
Beyond crypto, problems like the traveling salesman would also be solvable in polynomial time.
Very strange to hear that. Fretting is far, far harder in my experience, especially the more sophisticated chord formations.

I guess for different people it's different.
Really? Are we gonna complain that 5 years old kids won't learn "coding" because of text?

Let them be kids, at least till like 10 or something when they actually get interested in technology, kids at this age should "master" human interaction, not be deprived about it.That's why they complain about text and love images/audio/etc, because they "started" using their senses and they like having them stimulated.

I'm kind of "hypocritical" here since i kind of did those aswell when i was very young,but it was from personal interest,I wasn't forced/guided to it(more like the contrary really),it sparked in my own mind.

Pushing people in STEM/or tech to be more specific, specially from ages like these ones is very questionable at best, and the best argument against it is the health factor in, let them develop their bodies firstly before they start getting interested with their brains.(if at all)
Isn't there already a journal for every scientific field, or are you speaking of only a part of the industries?
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That's always a good suggestion and provides existence proofs, but you have to remind yourself that apps can take years to become favorites, so favorite apps tend to favor older technologies even when the older technologies might not be better.
Is that really true though? What if someone solves does P equal NP problem by finding a polynomial time algorithm for a problem in NP, but the asymptotic run time is O(n^10^100)?

Sure the race would be on to improve that, but in the meanwhile no difficult problems would become solvable.
More: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1r2s82/lua_fun...
Essentially everyone that lives outside of the range of cable (read anyone not in a city) is still using OTA antennas if not just to supplement their satellite TV. There are add-on packages for local stations through your dish which many people also have but quite a few would rather forgoe the extra charge and get them for free in arguably higher quality.
I've come to the same conclusion. Why do one-time wonders get a free pass on indefinite business?

I believe a business should have to innovate to keep recurring business. Artificially tying it to a subscription is just milking a cow for more than it's worth. Or in this case, charging for access to an unlimited cow that you sometimes augment.
Right. I use CF. I just meant that there has been criticism aimed at CF for 'protecting' (providing service to) unpopular speech (even harmful stuff like IS), and I think I read they were unwilling to refuse service to anybody.

France, hey? I've actually heard France is competitive with US when it comes to internet and free speech. Do you think that's true? I wonder which country most protects speech on the internet?
Setting the truss rod to ensure a properly straight neck, setting the action, cleaning, setting the intonation, setting up the tremolo system if the guitar has one

You grab a guitar off the shelf and you can find it has buzzes, or the action is a bit high, or it sounds right open and with chords near the nut but sounds off as you move up the neck.