skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's most probably a placed piece.

It's unlikely that it's coincidental that the article is a diversity story about someone who runs a company in the diversity field in a news outlet that is currently running a diversity campaign. Also, sexism in SV is topical so her coming from the Bay area probably helped.

I might be being too cynical but I doubt it. I mean, it's the BBC. They hardly needed to cross the Atlantic to find blonde women who dye their hair to avoid unwarranted attention. In fact, I know a Swedish lady, who worked for the BBC for a while, who does this regularly.
Most of my family members (ie. >70yo. non tech folks) skip all update altogether, security or not. The argument is that updates introduce features changes which bother their experience and force them to figure out where everything is.

In layman terms, security updates are seen as trojan horse for larger updates they don't want.
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Ask HN: How to promote to web developers?
I've got a new product idea but it depends on getting the attention of web developers en masse.

How would you do that?
Active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15215787
>Based on what objective measurement

Happiness is subjective, not objective.

>Happiness does not change much as long you can meet the basic needs for food / water / safety.

See Maslow's Hierarchy.

>On the other hand primitive lifestyles have significantly shorter lifespans which is objectively an issue.

What do you mean "objectively an issue"? One does not need to live a long life to live a fullfilling life. Many of these tribal socities have survived far longer than other civilized societies because they live in equilibrium with their environment.
Yes! As a twenty something single I was shocked that people saw paying $200 out of pocket each month as a privilege that comes with working. Clearly, for me it was a pure waste because I used exactly zero dollars worth of health care myself. Of course, people with infants absolutely need it. I had a coworker who had basically the same story as Jimmy Kimmel (newborn with heart defect). I can't imagine how much quality care would cost if he didn't have health insurance through work. I mean at some point there were apparently dozens of specialists involved with the case... I'm sure each of them are billed at hundreds of dollars each hour.

I just want to say that at the end of the day there is no solution other than reducing the cost: be it healthcare or education or retirement...
>The whole point of a plea deal is to give a more lenient sentence in exchange for admitting guilt.

Which is the same thing as giving a more extreme sentence to someone insisting on their right to a trial.
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Isn't the problem partly the global economy, where the US benefits from having those behemoths within their borders? If the US government would take regulatory measures against those companies, some other government would gladly take their position.
Require the police to prove their point, make it take some actual work, and perhaps departments will stop using them as a revenue source and focus on more dangerous driving issues than someone going 5 over.
The Church and the State often work together in these atrocities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_children_of_Francoism
I guess evolutionary change is gradual so it's hard to have a cut off date for when pre homo sapien ancestors had kids that counted as homo sapiens. The origins of cooking going back 1.9 million years implies the ancestors must have been a bit human like. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/aug/22/cooking-orig...
I would call it "A messenger" at all only if it had history search that spanned services.

I often remember I got a message from X about Y but to find it I have to look independently in whatsapp, iMessage, email and 2 bulletin board style systems.
I would be suspicous of accuracy fromemployee-driving data collect of compensation. Companies go to great lengths to keep that private.

Of course, I am suspicous of company reported compensation data as well.

So suspicous data + suspicous data != accurate data, automatically.
Research disagrees, you can measure happiness of other people. Much like you can test for depression even if the difference is not subjectively obvious.
> Neoliberal reforms (deregulation, private capital, sale of nationalized industries, etc) that were instituted in central america, south america, Russia, and others basically destroyed them.

What exactly was destroyed in Russia? I don't know about other places, but in Russia reforms destroyed only big war machine. My grandfather till 90's (USSR collapse) had to work on 2 jobs and maintain three dachas[1] to get food for my family. That days everybody had dachas to get fresh food. Casual food like potatoes or tomatoes.

Now we even have something that looks like an education, not just ideological brainwashing and today's graduates not believing in magic and extrasensory[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha

[2]: http://goo.gl/jczKsG
This is the case in many european countries. European VAT IDs are usually recorded in some kind of publicly accessible registry and usually build by prefixing ID of tax payer with country code.

For example in czech republic:

- everyboby has "birth number", which is more or less equivalent of SSN except it in clearly encodes gender and for most people also DOB.

- corporations and any entity that is licensed for trade (including sole proprietorships) have "ICO" (which somewhat funilly translates into "personal identification number"), in essence it is equivalent to US's EIN.

- any entity which directly deals with tax office has DIC (tax identification number), which for natural persons is "CZ" + birth number and for other entities is "CZ" + ICO, same string is also an EU-wide VAT ID.

Once you start a bussiness or even own part of non-tradeable public company (which includes things like homeowners association) all three of these numbers are readily available in various open access government registries, together with first and last name and usually with registered address and thus nobody uses knowledge of one of these numbers as serious authenticator (but from time to time it is used as kind of filter for who given bussiness is willing to deal with).
> main maintainer was getting tired

Would the project have had much development at all without the "helpful guy"? If the maintainer was too tired to even keep an eye on him/her, then it sounds like the project would have stalled without that help.
I have been teaching CS classes for 20+ years ... everybody can learn to code, it's just that it takes a different amount of effort for everybody (in a way the same argument as 'offer more pay', in this case, give them more time :)
Using something like https://flow.org goes a long way too.
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I'm not sure I get the relevance, but I don't see it as self-evident that simply by banning the use of SSNs you will end up with a coherent national identification system (and if you do I'm not sure why that'd be preferable to one run by the government).
Here's my evolution:

2008 - Eureka LX350HD
Really buggy, crashed often, no MKV support, but played most of my library from back in the day

2010 - WDTV Gen 1
Great upgrade from the Eureka, MKV support

2012 - WDTV Live Streaming Gen 3
I still consider this the best media player I've owned, but it got slower over the years as apps improved (got bloated). Supported all video formats, supported all major online services, ability to mount over network, lots of advanced config options, and native playback from local drives via multiple USB ports.

2013 - Apple TV Gen 3
Having to transcode all MKVs / stream them from my Mac Mini was a non-starter, very slow, but I thought I'd give it a try (The WDTV Live could play all formats natively).

2014 - Roku 3 (+ Plex)
Eventually the WDTV Live got too slow and firmware updates didn't help. Roku was a huge upgrade for online services, and Roku + Plex made transcoding tolerable (more-so than the Apple TV). Headphone jack in remote was a nice touch, and hidden private channels were fun.

2016 - Xiaomi Mi Box (Official Android TV + Kodi)
This is the best media player I've owned since the WDTV.
Kodi / SPMC does everything the WDTV could do and so much more. Ability to mount over the network and native playback from local drives means NO MORE TRANSCODING or remote media servers. Although Roku + Plex made transcoding tolerable, native playback (smooth seek / fast forward etc.) can't be beat.

The only negative with official Android TV is limited apps, compared to Android + Chromecast or the older Android boxes. Android TV desperately needs a native Chrome web browser without side loading. The CBC app is great, for anyone in Canada! And Netflix / YouTube runs faster compared to the Roku 3.

Android TV via the Xiaomi Mi Box or NVidia Shield with Kodi currently provides the best overall experience, and most options in terms of playback, apps, and advanced setup options.
For the most part, I agree with your post. Interestingly, most of my favorite whiskeys are around $400ish too. That said, my absolute favorite (35yr Hibiki) I can absolutely tell the difference with and it's much more expensive than that.
>> Registrar data showed that the hall’s graduation rate was lower than any dorm on campus—21.1 percent of Senior House students were failing to graduate, versus the campus average of 7.7 percent. In addition, the email cited data that suggested higher-than-average drug use in the house.

So perhaps these kinds of people have a lower graduation rate. By spreading them around campus, they will probably be less happy. So the questions are: what if any effect will that have on their graduation rate? On their happiness?
> How would this even be remotely viable? Why would you expect people to be honest about their credit histories in cases where they had late payments or some sort of default?

Why would you expect people to not just give someone else's social security number?
The EFF could get involved if it made sense
This looks great, I'll try it out!
Pretty interesting. I would have agreed with you a couple years ago. And I wanted to do a follow up on what I think was the most damaging issue with Ember back in 2012-2013. But you're hitting on a common topic I've heard quite frequently.

More than happy to hear more about it and get your general thoughts on the subject. Feel free to reach out.
too bad it's not open-source, unlike http://rambox.pro/
Well you can't say lobbying doesn't have great ROI.
It's outsized for a single organization that tends to attach its own package of values to everything. If a Muslim organization were to provide similar charity at similar scale, I'm pretty sure it would be interpreted as failure of the state.

I'm not opposed to religious charity per se, but when it goes to church-run organizations, there tends to be a bit of missionaryizing on the side.
> For all it's faults with prima-donnas, football is one of the most engaging team sports with much less risk of injury than rugby or ball-in-the-face field hockey.

It's heading the ball that's apparently the biggest source of concussive damage in football.
Depends, turning a hobby into work can be either wonderful or horrible.
> If it is recognized that Facebook is a media company, it will be legally liable for its content.

Yes, and to add to that: Facebook is also a telecommunications company (their WhatsApp provides a messaging and voice platform). As such, they should open their network for competition. And they should not be allowed to harvest private information about users.
> In America this would be impossible though. People would cry about state's rights, sign of the beast, privacy, etc.

I don't understand this logic, so perhaps someone can help me out. Nearly all US citizens has a SSN or tax ID number that is tied to them at the federal level. The first is a pseudo-random (I use that term loosely) group of digits that is basically required for you to get anything accomplished in the US. There are no safeguards built in to the SSN, yet it is the most ubiquitous form of unique identification used in the US with no easy way to escape it. If yours gets compromised, you're screwed, and no one is willing to help you.

A driver's license is a step down from that. Most Americans will have a state drivers license or state issued ID. No, it's not federal, but you're still entered into a government database where the information can be shared nationally if needed.

On the other hand, a bonafide identification system with real safeguards to protect your identity would alleviate so many headaches, and it would be no more invasive than an SSN. What is the actual drawback to a national ID?
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All these things work just fine on these older devices. The pauses the original message mentioned are mostly encountered when starting or switching between applications. Once the application is running things work as intended. I use Telegram on that Motorola Defy I mentioned, no problems. It runs navigation apps (Navigon, OsmAnd~) without problems. It takes photo's of reasonable quality, those photo's can be edited on the device. I use it to play music on the device itself using Dsub (a Subsonic client) or Apollo, to control remote players using MPDroid (which controls mpd (music player daemon) on remote devices). It plays video from the likes of Youtube and Vimeo just fine. I use it to read books and publications, no problems. I even use it as a telephone every now and then...

It can take a few seconds to switch between any of these apps, especially when there are several of them running in the background. Would a new device be faster? Sure it would. Will I buy a new device sometime in the future? Sure, when this device kicks the bucket or another device shows up which offers the same feature set (good performance (compared to current devices), good battery, waterproof and sorta-shockproof yet still looks like a normal device instead of some prop from a B-movie). Do I feel like I'm missing out on something by using a 6 year old phone? No, I do not.
Did anyone manage to distill his alternative plan for control immigration?
The two church leaders mentioned in the article Oyedepo and Adeboye had a functioning career.

Adeboye was a lecturer. Oyedepo was an architect.

Check out a picture or video of the Faith Terbanacle building. A 50,000 capacity with no visible support pillar. Guess who designed it.
But in their absence, what will creditors do? Outright discrimination?
As a Senior House alum and former instructor at MIT, what bothers me the most is how MIT is teaching horrible standards of ethical behavior through their actions.

Improper use of metadata to track down individuals in a confidential survey about mental health and substance abuse would end a scientist's career. MIT did it.

Collective punishment of a group for the actions of a few is an educational and social antipattern. MIT did it.

An "end justifies means" mentality is a classic tool used by the strong against the powerless. MIT embraced it.

Removing completely innocent people from their homes and their supportive social structure, while MIT's right, would face justified outrage in any public context.

Using these tools on anyone, let alone the students you thought brilliant and worthy enough to admit, teaches a mindset abusive of power and lacking in humanity. A mindset that is all too common in our society.

MIT has plenty of honorable and fair people. If they didn't know enough to stand up for Senior House specifically, why didn't they stand up against the tools that the administration used that they know are wrong?

I have found "we teach as we live, we live as we teach" a pretty powerful and positive philosophy.
When you consider the cost of having to re-merge all your work on every update, I'd be more than happy to pay some reasonable sum to have it merged into master and maintained there. Could save me a lot of work.
I find computer magazines and programming books more relevant, and those aren't going away.
That argument makes sense as they mailed the kids parents; when universities are all about recognizing the students as adults.
Personally I'm kind of burned out on the topic.

If someone wants to propose a method of leveling the field similar to blind orchestra auditions more power to them and I'll interview however you like, but that's not what these articles are about.

These sorts of articles tend to stop short of providing any recommendations and instead focus on the workplace gender equivalent of white guilt.
If the companies are merely facilitators and marketplaces, they should treat everything and everyone using them exactly the same.

That's a really interesting proposition and one that I think bears looking at.

Facebook and Google are effectively trying to become privately owned utilities, aka natural monopolies, for access to the internet. Facebook with their internet.org and google with googlefiber. So there is a case to make there for those companies being looked at like utilities.

However I'm not sure how Amazon fits that narrative. Amazon Marketplace is a tiny chunk of their sales revenue, despite it becoming the largest part of their fulfillment. AWS isn't infrastructure in the same way as facebook and google are trying to do.

I think it's too far a reach politically - they can't even get ISP's classified as utilities.

I think the major problem here is that because these companies don't need to operate from a fixed location in the same way a steel mill, power plant etc... would that there isn't really that many ways that the government can muscle them. They feel the pressure and they just pick up and move (legally first) or shift workers around. So regulators don't have a framework for how to muscle these companies in the same way as old industry.
...or not, according to a follow up in Ars Technica a few days later:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/experts-are-extremel...
My statement is that React builds on > 10 years of ideas from open web frp frameworks and > 20 years of reactive frameworks in general. Companies wanting to bust patents here would certainly get support from early creators like us. Certain ones like Google have been know to do that sort of thing, and I wouldn't hesitate to help them if they identified anything.
Deflation will certainly make fewer people take out loans, but not necessarily because they are living high on the hog without them.
D-Link software. 10 0days. Nothing to say, they are awesome
When you say might...are there any case studies showing how the internals of a CPU can be exposed using this technique?
I hung on a bit longer, but lost any hope of seeing something relevant when he launched into an imaginary case study. Later on, we find him mentioning an actual study (of code reviews), only to dismiss its results as being implausible to him.

The author appears to have drunk so deeply of the dogma that he has no idea of how to make an objective case.
This probably isn't true: students loans exist
> Finding a sensible investment opportunity that provides a risk-adjusted return higher than the interest rate on borrowed money is very rare, because why would the investment company use you as a useless middle man instead of borrowing the money directly from the lender?

I guess this must be news to all the businesses that reguarly operate on credit.
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Would love to learn more about those communities that require a hack of the invite system to get in.
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How do you know the 40MB download wasn't aggressively optimized down from 400MB? Equating larger file size with lower quality is presumptuous. Is there any known correlation? Equating larger file size with lower honesty seems dishonest to me.

Optimizing takes time, sometimes a lot of time. I know because I've spent a lot of time optimizing file sizes to fit on game consoles, taking xbox360 games over to the Wii for example. If you optimize aggressively when there's no strong need to, when consumers like the one you replied to don't really care, and wont' change their buying habits, you are prematurely optimizing. That's a significant waste of precious time (and money) for a developer.

We (humans) waste a lot of things that are much more important than people's data plans. Gasoline and food, for examples. Why haven't we reduced those 10x? It is possible.
Would you know of any alternates? I am searching..
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Fighting tax evastion is a problem. Monopolies are problem. People alywas want to be free, so we'll always have new ways of doing business without conforming to the opressive system. Regulated business will never stand a chance to the free one. If we can do without brick'n'mortar stores and buy directly it will happen anyway.
Not all of them. Many are in grants and scholarships, others on student loans.

If parents are paying the bills, that's between them and their kids. They can demand to see grades/results or cut funding. But if you'd teaching students they are adults-then that responsibility falls to the families in the situations where they are dependent on them for funding.

One of my housemates hated his parents and funded everything himself taking pc support jobs at a print shop and car dealership.
They do because that's how most educated Americans describe their country to Europeans.
Voting is a constitutionally protected right. Accessing a credit line is not. Requiring a national ID to vote potentially discriminates against those too old/poor/immobile to go out and buy the ID card. It's a de facto poll tax, which is illegal.

But, your point is still true. Americans have an irrational fear of a national ID .
I'm aware. You can build two native apps, you know. And it's very wrong to say that there are very few ill side effects to hybrid. Both have their pros and cons. I just think that native wins for all but the simplest or lowest budget apps.
>For example, a person in a nontechnical role may be at the same job level as an engineer, but will be paid significantly less because “there is a premium paid in all markets for highly technical talent.”

Different people doing different jobs get paid different. Not sure how this is news.
Ask HN: How to study computer science online after 5 years of soft. engineering?
I have been studying software engineering for 5 years and work in the industry for a few years. I would like to fix my lack of knowledge in computer science. What are the good resources (online books, MOOC) to do so?
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> Is a $750 iPhone really three times better than that phone? Is it even 5% better?

Yes, it is. Three times better might be an exaggeration, but it has unique features that basically no other phone has currently, and that's worth different things to different people.
>Subjective: based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.

There are no objective biological tests for depression (or happiness), the psychiatric diagnosis relies exclusively on subjective observations (i.e. asking the person about their feelings).

>"psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests."

-Allen Frances

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances

The idea of happiness as a purely material objective phenomenon has been complicit in the exploitation and destruction of the Amazon and its inhabitants over the past centuries.
That's some pretty worthless advice you've got there.
I'm sure this is an amazing project. But the readme and FAQ and such have such an aggressive, almost hostile tone---if you want to communicate with the author at all, even to report a bug, it'll be five thousand bucks a month...
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