skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in order to fully generate the observed ratio of male/female employment at Google using only the "general techiness factor", one needs to hypothesise implausibly large differences in the underlying distributions of techiness.

Except it's only implausible if you assume the conclusion. The implausibility is literally summoned from the aether, because it's certainly not based on any empirical facts.
Most things that the federal government wants to do these days (healthcare, education, food assistance, etc.) can be done just as effectively at the state level (and possibly at the county or city level). In general, if things are done at lower levels of government, people in a particular area get more of what they do want and less of what they don't (for example Californians could have super-high taxes and single-payer, and Texans could have no income tax and a totally unregulated healthcare market). When you start pushing lots things up to the federal level, you get a group of voters on one end of the country forcing people on the other end of the country to do things in ways that they'd rather not do them. Therefore, everyone generally walks away happier if their local governments are left to do as many things as they reasonably can, the state governments take on the next layer of somewhat 'bigger' tasks, and the federal government sticks to things that only it can do - national defense, regulation of interstate commerce, issuance of currency, international treaties, etc. Most of the 'extra' stuff that the federal government does these days is done under a twisted interpretation of the interstate commerce clause, but wasn't actually intended to be the domain of the federal government by the founders, who had recently experienced similar problems in their relationship to England and wanted to avoid them within the USA. This is why the constitution is written the way it is.

EDIT: And if you're interested in learning about the constitution, I strongly recommend starting with Hillsdale College's free 'constitution minute' series ( https://constitutionminute.hillsdale.edu/home ), and if you like that, trying out their free 'constitution 101' series ( https://online.hillsdale.edu/course/con101/schedule )
"Note that all compiled Swift binaries are only executable within Bash on Windows and are Ubuntu, not Windows, executables."
> As you click in, scroll around, you polyfill data as you need it

polyfill definitely doesn't mean what you think it does.
Effective communication is more than just transferring a simple list of facts. You're correct that communication takes two people. If my goal is have someone accept my point of view (and while it may seem counter-intuitive, that includes facts), I have to take into account how it will be received by my audience.

If they don't take it in the way I'm presenting it, it's my responsibility to evaluate if there's a better way I can present it. Upon reflection (and that can be short or long, depending on how important it is to me), I can reasonably decide it's not worth the effort or time to do so. I can also come to the conclusion that perhaps the audience isn't really open to listening to what I have to say. That said, laying all of that on the audience without reflection in my experience is a recipe for failure and frustration.
Can you please indicate exactly when the change from contextual to behavioral targeting was made and when it was communicated to existing advertisers? For example, in the initial announcement post (Mar 30) there is no indication that changes to the targeting methodology had been made already:

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/62fake/weve_laun...
Wasn't this about the same price-point as eMachines (sans Linux)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMachines
>>How much public policy, medical treatment, and follow-on science is seriously suboptimal due to this house of cards?

This you do not want to know.

Here is a good question, the politics and bad science of which were uncovered by the documentary "Bigger, Faster, Stronger: The Side Effects of Being American" - why are exogenous testosterone and anabolic steroids strictly controlled and essentially banned?

What is your first reaction to this question? That they are unhealthy, that they have gross and terrible side effects? Likely this is what you have heard. Nearly 100% of what is popularly "known" about anabolic steroids and use of testosterone is absolutely false.

Exogenous testosterone was banned because a father of a boy who committed suicide (who was taking steroids [0]) rode a publicity wave all the way to Congress, despite the recommendation against the ban by the AMA and other medical experts.

Now, think of what else this may be true of?

[0]: The son was taking steroids, yes. He was also on benzos, drinking alcohol, and doing other recreational drugs.
Ive had a bit to drink but hear me out, I never comment on sites.

You have essentially three companies, Google, Facebook, Microsoft. At this point they now dictate what roughly 2-4 billion people see everyday. If they begin censoring content they disagree with (and that can come from a small cadre of roughly 20-200 people per group, whether we are talking about google search, bing, youtube, etc) then they need to be regulated. Honestly, I believe that most people would agree that these entities need to be broken up via trust acts. BELL couldnt even imagine this level of propagandistic control over so many people. And they were broken up. I could blather on, but this is an untenable situation.
One of the most distinguishing features of the phone is the vertical orientation of the backside cameras --- anyone else realize this is likely because their forward facing sensor bar is likely in the way if the backside cameras were horizontal?

A few other quick notes:

1) Those short x-ray shots of the iPhone camera assembly look impressive. I wonder how many components and extremely-fine-scale positioning have to go into the lens system (especially since they have to move! =) )

2) The lack of TouchID seems like a hardware regression to me, but I'd feel more or less confident in that based on the actual experience of FaceID vs TouchID. On a separate note: the engineers working on that must be paid boatloads given how valuable they must be to the company, combining both machine learning + security knowledge. (Not easy to find people like that.)

3) The screen is nice. I don't understand why people are complaining about the screen extending "behind" the front-facing sensorbar, to be honest --- seems like a tiny, fixable detail in the scheme of things

4) I really think people will buy this phone for the camera, and not for many of the other features that were advertised. (not AR, not awesome graphics, not amazing aluminum and glass, etc.)

5) Anyone know what usage has been like for Force Touch? I always was under the impression that it wasn't that popular, but kudos to Apple for not dropping it and still believing in it.
Why Reddit site looks so ugly?
and it looks like a old old old website though it does.
It wasn't that it failed to recognize, it was that it had restarted, and all iPhones require the passcode to unlock the very first time after restarting. (You can tell by the small text over the PIN pad in the video.)

My guess is that he didn't want to dwell on the issue, or didn't know the passcode.
> Biometrics can't be rotated. But they also can't be phished.

Sure they can. Haven't you ever seen a cop show where the detective tricks the suspect into drinking from a cup of coffee so they can lift the suspect's fingerprint from the cup?

"Hi John, nice to meet you! * shakes hand *"
I now have John's fingerprints from where he touched me when he shook my hand.

"Hey John, can you send me a selfie?"
I now have a picture of John's face and possibly his iris.

Hell, I bet it won't be long at all until someone finds a way to use the iPhone X's own "TrueDepth" camera to record a 3D scan of the user's face which can then be used to fool FaceID.
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Couldn't read whole article because of paywall but I agree, Snapchat has done certain things to not become Instagram, it will be harder to monetize but it doesn't disrupt the Snapchat personal feel as compared to Instagram's "Social Media" feel where your life is always on display.

Moreover, I've started an app, did some questioning and first-year university students don't even add new friends on Facebook anymore when they come to university as compared to those who did this the year before. However, they add each other on Snapchat and follow occasionally on Instagram.
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No, look at the PR!
But a twin wouldn't be able to unlock my iPhone 7 with their finerprint.
I met Google's chief censor years ago. That department used to be proudly pushing the boundaries of minimum compliance (censor nothing, and work with foreign governments until that's legal).

It is sad to see how far they have fallen.
Yep, younger generations are being brain washed, unfortunately, to believe in an un-American authoritarian view on speech.

I agree with you. If you dont believe in free speech for those you disagree with, then you don't believe in free speech at all.
I’m not sure what the surprise was. This was an election question to a lot of reps of both parties. There is a lot of resentment and fear out in the country. Sessions is at odds with a lot of his own party. The Democrats have a similar split between reps and mayors.
Ask HN: How can I go about designing and implementing a non-trivial project?
Are there any tutorial that describes how to go about designing and implementing a non-trivial project from scratch? I am feeling like I am getting stuck at the planning stage of technical things and have no idea how to start a project. So any thing that shows how to go about implementing a web-based project from start to finish including db, backend and frontend in any language would do. Thanks.
Is this broken on IOS? I just see a picture carousel and a list of events. What is it supposed to be a link to?
Are both of those US-only figures? Google is a multinational company. If the "all cs majors" figure is US and the Google 17% is global, then they are not comparable. If you want a global conclusion you should include weighted CS grads % from Google campus countries, if you want a US-only conclusion you need some way to exclude devs from non-US Google campuses.
Might get something helpful from:

http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/
Streaming music from cloud, to your bluetooth headphones, while jogging using GPS -- what is the battery life such activity? I am guessing somewhere around 1 hour?
Does it matter all that much if they are incompetent or if they are maliciously censoring?

I'm actually not sure what is worse.

Indiscriminately punishing a small number of people for legitimate speech is at least as chilling as going after specific viewpoints -- any speech can get you banned, apparently.
a play, in two parts:

https://imgur.com/a/krXIz

additionally, the twitter account claiming responsibility (@real_1x0123, on friday, sep 08) for the webshell/compromise just protected their tweets. this will turn out to be much more interesting than it has been thus far.
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What's your combination of Sublime and Vim?

I've recently switched from VSCode to Vim and have really started to like it. I try to use Vim keybindings in everything I do, including browsing on Chrome with the plethora of Vim-like extensions.

I still use Sublime, mainly for its multi-cursor editing power. I don't there's an editor that can really match Sublime's multi-cursor feature. I know there's a way of doing in in Vim, but I'm still learning this language, and it seems like a difficult concept for me to grasp right now
That sounds like the bus factor of your data is 1. With the impending demise of Crashplan's free service their convenient way of backing up to encrypted storage at friends/family is going away but there are other options that may be worth considering - perhaps something based on ownCloud and hosted at a trusted location?
I just don't know how you go from the axiom
"Some people act sometimes"

To the proof
"The Fed always makes everybody worse off, so we should use the gold standard"
I think it's a dig at the US Republican Christian Right, whom are "Pro-life" but anti-"taking care of that, or the mother's, life." Considering Republicans control the majority of all three branches of government, they have an opportunity to ram through their unpopular ideological agenda.

Disclaimer: Neither party is currently relevant to the average US citizen. People ought to seek post-partisanship and post-identity to side-step divide-and-conquer polarization and unify to attack the corruption.
Down Eastern tonic pronunciation, as used in a sentence, for those who are curious.

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1Se7U44m2c7

(I was going to go with Bostonian, Southie, but decided this one was better.)
They said "lots of," not "all" or even "most."

It's a big company, and they are not 100% evil because no company is 100% anything.

And honestly, I believe any company with a stranglehold on any market will behave badly. Rather than being salty at Microsoft in particular, let's make sure no company ever has such a stranglehold on computing again.
T-Mobile does have roaming agreements with regional carriers such as Union Wireless, so in spots where they don't have coverage, there is occasionally roaming coverage as well, but they have basically every major metropolitan area covered.
Microsoft had this on Windows Phone -- sort of. It was for the most likely scenario: parents who hand their phone to their kids. They called it Kids' Corner, IIRC... Yes, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=475jxWQ955c
2 - I agree. That's why it's so damn infuriating that Apple won't let you remove the Photos app from the Watch without also removing it from your iPhone (where it's actually useful)!
I am still happy after 15 years of paying for Fastmail.
The part that's both sad and extremely enlightening is the ONLY reason it's competitive is the FCC blocking AT&Ts attempt to acquire T-Mobile. As a result they were forced to give up a ton of spectrum which T-Mobile used to become extremely competitive. Without that action, T-Mobile would still be the red-headed stepchild of the wireless industry.

The "lesson learned" should be that the FCC should force any bidder on an auction to use-it or lose-it on spectrum within 18 months. Additionally they should require companies to provide FACTUAL DATA on their spectrum shortages before even allowing them to participate in an auction. This spectrum hoarding was on the verge of destroying any competition in the US.
I'll watch all of Bryan's talks, he is just such an engaging and interesting speaker.

Very good insights there, the idea that when you buy into a platform you buy into the values of its community.

Interestingly enough it's why I didn't buy into the node.js's community. From interviewing people and talking to them at conferences and meetups somehow nodejs fans were both the most excited yet didn't really know what they talked about. Either one of those characteristics are ok, but both at the same time are hard to stomach. Then all the public scandals that seem to have node, also makes it hard to buy into - that pronoun scandal, io.js fork, another fork (ayo?), left-pad-gate.
Because there is no established common carrier equivalent for a 1:many content service. So we are given the false choice of categorizing content platforms as either "common carrier" or "publisher", when they are actually in their own category and deserve their own legislation.

It is in the public interest to prohibit moderation by 1:1 common carriers. It is not in the public interest to prohibit moderation by '1:many common carriers'. But by virtue of being 'simple' carriers, they should both be free from liability for the content.

Note, however, I don't think it is very good to have these companies moderating themselves, but it's better than nothing at the moment. I'd propose legislating the scope of the moderation according to standards set by some internationally recognized ethics committee (not a government decreed scope, they are likely just as biased as a company).

Alternatively, platforms could offer something like a complex filter system that allows users to implement their own moderation policies. But this would increase the burden (costs) of the provider.
Equifax has taught us that you'll be perfectly safe if you regularly change your address, date of birth and SSN.

Apple is just following suit with the trend.
Celana hernia
There's got to be a middle-ground between not going after the money as hard as Facebook, and their customers having no idea whether their spending is achieving anything. They're living in la-la land if they think they can keep the latter up, especially with the bad rap a lot of online advertising has been getting over the last few years. Advertisers need to have some idea of what's going on in the system, and with Snapchat's novelty fading they're not going to get away with "trust-us" much longer.
For me, I'm surprised that the house was able to do something good for a change.
I didn't claim that Microsoft was unique in anything but the 3E strategy itself.

Actually, what with Google duplicating more and more of Android's core open-source functionality into their proprietary apps and then leaving the open-source code to rot ... Microsoft isn't unique in that way, either.

But more importantly...

> let's make sure no company ever has such a stranglehold on computing again.

That's a long road ahead, since Google has a monopoly on the average user's very mind. And don't forget that Microsoft hasn't lost their stranglehold either, except among programmers and similar personnel. They may be behind on mobile, but they've held onto largely the same markets+marketshares that they had in the late 90's (plus more, though not at monopoly scale, thanks to Azure), and desktops+laptops won't be dying anytime soon.
Sqitch is a pretty useful migration tool:

http://sqitch.org
It's worth noting that despite the prosecutors saying "its a foregone conclusion", they have not actually even charged Reynolds with possession of child pornography. It seems to me that while their words say they already have proof, their actions say they don't have any.
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They're not configured to do that by default, most of them ask prompt you if a file changes.

This one is on VSCode for having unsafe default behaviour which is also different to pretty much all the other editors.
That's what we did with our TI86 calculators in the 90s. Fake memory Clear was the name of one app. Teacher looks and sees what looks like a formatted calculator, clears the calculator if they want, then you exit the app and access your notes, games, and apps.
Ask HN: Is monero good crypto?
How much am I kicking myself for not having any bitcoin?

I mean, last week I had out all my old IDE drives, scanning for wallet.dat. I know I had coins from the faucet, now they are literally worth millions, but gone.

How many coins are just lost? The feeling is so hard to shake. Especially as I wrote significant code for managing bitcoin, the first micropayment channel, HD wallet implementation, etc. So to not have significant holdings is truly embarrassing.

I doubt very much you get a second shot at these sort of things, but it's always amazing to realize, how late in the game, you might still be early. Bitcoin is oh so tiny.

People forget that Bitcoin is not just a currency, it's a protocol. And the protocol absolutely matters. Bitcoin some day soon will be legacy and a new protocol will emerge. This is as true today is it will be always for the next one.

Is there faith monero is solid? I haven't dug into the crypto at all. I don't hear people screaming against it if that's worth anything. Has anyone done a side-by-side with Bitcoin? Sorry if these questions are too basic!
Not sure why people keep comparing these apps.

Snapchat is a much more person to person app whereas Instagram is a person to world app.

Not a surprise that money would go into instagram.
All features in a single App
There are numerous anecdotal reports online of heroin users using kratom to kick the habit. At the very least, one can be functional on kratom, contribute to society, and withdrawal shouldn't be terrible enough to motivate violent crime.
This is a business extinction event for Equifax, right?
> Gives both power users

Oh really? No package manager included (need brew for that), removal of most GNU tools, nothing open sourced about the OS, "good software" is hardly relevant when you see the breakage they cause when moving users to the newest version... Additionally the desktop style is hideous and if you don't like it, you can't change it. Nothing to do with a proper "Linux desktop".

And Macs are expensive. That's not what most users want.
Not to toot my own horn too much, but I have also written a tutorial[0] aimed at building a Lisp in OCaml. I wrote it to teach as much as learn how to go about it.

[0](https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/lisp/)
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And also to take good ideas and never implement them because somebody already did it before them.

Even if that idea was good.
Spring + tomcat is built on J2EE, or at least it was 5 years ago when I worked on that stuff. The servlets API is part of J2EE.
Brendan himself says he resigned.

The company should've given more support given it was a ridiculous situation, but it's understandable why he'd resign given how much noise was being made.
Yes, if the Payara guys manage to take over the project, do more frequent releases and pull off some major refactorings. I am not sure they have the resources.
Multiple users are not a common use-case. Everyone* over the age of 12 has their own phone. I doubt Apple will add that feature anytime soon.

*By everyone I mean the majority of people in first world countries, some second, and third.
No Paywall: https://outline.com/6h6cuJ
and a 3rd party git repository: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/git-to-s3-usi...
Are Bosses Dictators?
it goes further, though. I think folks in the states wind up working and doing other things well before they are healed enough to do so because of lack of job security and lack of paid sick leave. This puts folks in more pain, furthering the cycle.
An Akka based solution to server overload breakdown
Wow you sound like a real joy to work with. I don't think you've learned to step out of the shoes of an engineer and put yourself in the shoes of an average consumer or the company selling a new phone. The average consumer does not give a shit about the technical definition of a password.
Nope, this is Oracle stop caring about Java EE. They are not doing this for Java SE as long as they are caring about Java SE.

I also doubt IBM still cares about Java EE. Their last JSR (Batch/JSR-352) was particularly disgusting and seems to be abandoned already.
Yes, not everything was (is?) a crime as defined by the very same state that commits the 'non-crime'.

In history there have been many instances were horrible actions were not defined as crime.
If the government did that I could sue them and win.

If Google started censoring certain political ideas or certain people, there is zero recourse. There are zero ramifications, unless I am already someone important and powerful.

A whole lot of our lives is controlled by unaccountable, powerful entities that could legally ruin your life because it is their platform. But apparently nobody cares about that because "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences".
Not interested in the currency speculation aspect, but there has definitely been cryptographic screaming about Monero. For example:

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@anonymint/is-monero-s-or...

http://monerolink.com/monerolink.pdf