skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first few paragraphs of this article read exactly like spam email. It gets better as it goes, but I still wouldn't trust any links in it.
I don't believe this is going on. I believe most sexism posts get flagged by users, not downmodded by moderators.

I strongly suspect that many users flag based on the title, without reading further. Most of the sexism focused pieces are pretty bad. I'm a woman and I tend to hate most of them.

Once or twice, I emailed the mods when I felt a post on the subject was poorly titled, but had worthwhile content. On at least one occasion, they changed the title and, I think, turned off flags for the piece so it could be seen.

I am careful to have a light hand. I seem to be the most prominent female member here and I can get accused of having an agenda for saying anything at all on the topic of sexism. *

I have tried to write more evenhanded pieces on one of my blogs. Some of those have gone okay, but they never really get all that much traffic or response on HN. But, as I see it, some of the problems with this topic include:

1) It has a long track record of ugliness on both sides, so some people kneejerk flag anything that sounds like it touches on the topic because they are tired of these toxic, pointless discussions.

2) Most pieces are pretty man-bashing. The audience here is predominantly male. They get tired of being hated on for having been born male. (I am also tired of the misandry, so I don't think that is unreasonable.)

3) Most pieces on the topic aren't really all that good. They are typically histrionic and blamey.

4) If you don't use the usual catch phrases in the title, people won't recognize that it is pertinent to a topic they are interested in. If you do, you can't sidestep all the baggage it involves. So trying to do something better faces a huge uphill battle in terms of even being recognized as both relevant and not guilty of the usual issues.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15486833
I used to do Google Storage + Cloudflare before.

Switched to Netlify for a couple of projects and loving it.
Stitch Fix Files for IPO
Notably this is the same person behind InterimOS[0], which is a from-scratch OS targeted at the raspberry PI.

0: http://interim-os.com/
Uninstalled the Facebook app a while ago — constant geolocation is too high a price. Also, file access could allow Facebook to read photo geotags when location was turned off. Constant clipboard access from the FB app was excessively invasive as well. Still use Facebook, but from a browser, making this sort of tracking only possible when I'm actually using Facebook.
Sengrid files for IPO
or FB bought Whatsapp as insurance against competition. If an independent Whatsapp can make $1 for ever $10 they make Facebook lose, FB would value Whatsapp 10x what investors would, but not because of "vision"
The funny thing is PG will outperform most NoSQL solutions as NoSQL store for vast majority of use cases.
> Perhaps we should be teaching scientists that staking their identities on particular results is to be resisted as much as possible.

But does this make sense? Can a scientist survive without doing this? Can a scientist get very far without results right now?

Is this a problem of the scientist, or perhaps the social/economic expectation?
Running certainly started out painful and boring for me. But after a year, things changed. I started to look forward to it, and it ceased being boring.

I do my best thinking while running, and make use of it to solve problems, write articles, etc.

Lifting weights, however, remains painful and boring :-( and I think that is because it requires mental focus. Running does not, you can just drift off into something that interests you.
Almost all my karma comes from simple name recognition. None of it is merit.

Now this gave me my best laugh of the day!
We don't specifically cater to cats at Rover, but we do have people who use Rover for drop-in and other cat care. There's a lot of folks with both dogs and cats, and we have plenty of sitters who are happy to look after both.

And yes! We're hiring!
> increasing automation is by default a transfer of wealth from labor to capital owners

Things are more complex than that. Whether labor gains or loses depends it productivity saves labor faster or slower than lower prices increase consumption.
I'm happy to start a support group on the crypto slack, and also glad to hear I'm not the only person working seriously on the problem.
"Yalp Store" allows you to install apps from google store without google account.
Emacs does what i3wm does... When I have to use Windows I used emacs as much as I can and just switch between other full screen windows like web browser etc. Obviously not as good, but not too far away.
My bears are just silly little critters. They are the Maine black bear. They might hit 400 pounds. The last time they killed someone was in the 1880s, but they like to lay still after you shoot them wait until you are close, and then kick the snot out of you for doing so.

Which is how we do end up with the bear attacks.

They eat my blueberries. I don't mind.
The "MDMA Therapy" subreddit has some decent info: https://www.reddit.com/r/mdmatherapy/
I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover that they seeded the hackathons with ringers too: Devs on payroll that turned up & implemented a website/app in a weekend that naturally 'just happened' to use MongoDB.

Makes you wonder what other meetup/hackathon visible tech is really covert marketing...
Ask HN: Office Hours Dos and Don'ts
Have an Office Hour session coming up with a YC Partner. What can we do to make it easy for the partner to dive deep and engage with us? What are common mistakes to avoid wasting time? All advice welcome.
Tasklets: a more ergonomic solution to WebWorkers
Thanks, this definitely bas been a well-played gambit on their part - I had no idea how extensive their lobbying had grown.
Oh, hey, I have a way to make private smart contracts as well.

It is called having a database and server that runs code!
JavaScript Must Die
Microsoft had no concept of the Internet (and still don't -- all their Internet products are google/amazon knockoffs, except for Skype which was much better before acquisition).
Porting to Entity Framework Core
Yeah, once you hit the $699 price point[0], the specs aren't all that bad - it's just not competitively priced whatsoever.

[0] https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini
Ah, I should not have stuck with the original post's use of the word "pass". I was envisioning each word being announced publicly, and the speaker designating the next person with eye contact or pointing or something.

In this way, everyone does have their own stack and if their hearing and memory are perfect, everyone has the same stack contents. In practice, memory corruption causes the players' stacks to disagree more at the bottom as time goes on, but agree reasonably well toward the top. If a word is misheard, some players might even disagree about the current value at the top of the stack.

Since they used the word "pass" maybe the OP does mean it's private, in which case it's a pretty different game than what I'm guessing at here. In my version, during the second half of the game, the current speaker could designate any player to be the next to pop and announce their top of the stack.

If the passing of words is private, then players need to remember who they interacted with at various points in the first half so they can try to form those same pairings again in reverse. And I guess the signal for the mid-game reversal point would require whispering the word they just got, back into the ear of the same player who just gave it to them.

Edit: Ohhh, I neglected the fact that they "circle up" in the OP. That solves the problem of getting the pairings right. You know exactly who you interacted with if you're all in the same spots in the circle and only interact with your neighbors. Okay, the word passing must be private. Which makes sense if you're hanging out behind the curtain at a theater and you need to be quiet. I wonder if the game that I've imagined would be any good.
I have never witnessed anyone using Bing at all! My father used DuckDuckGo once, although he wasn't aware of it.

In any case, if I say "to google", I mean "search using Google". I try not to say it, though, because I think it sounds silly to use product names like that.
Shimano wants to make your bike as smart as your car
There is a difference between an argument and having a knock down drag out fight.

For example when parents have a disagreement about how to deal with catching their child sneaking in drunk after a party.

This can go many ways but for the purpose of highlighting the difference take Chris and Pat.

(argument)

Chris: Pat, I can understand how you'd feel that way, but considering the family history of alcoholism, maybe we should take a more conservative approach with this.

vs

(flame war)

Chris: Well, Pat... Maybe if your mother had cared half as much about you and your brother growing up as I'm trying to care about our kids and cracked down on you guys a little bit, maybe your brother would have stopped at that red light, and maybe your kids would have an Uncle.
Facebook has direct analytics data due to their position as an indentity provider and other tool companies they own.
> So, of the money we get to direct each year to support American interests, half goes to the military.

Well no, because the portion of the budget that's non-discretionary spending also goes towards supporting American interests, and so does state and local spending.

Also, the relatively high percentage of the budget spent on defense simply reflects the fact that government in the U.S. is more limited in scope. E.g. the U.S. spends about 9.3% of state and federal expenditures on the military, versus about 5.9% in the U.K. But the U.K. has nationalized healthcare, and we do not. If the U.K. privatized their health system, their military expenditures as a percentage of their budget would go up; likewise our percentage would go down if we raised taxes to U.K. levels to fund a nationalized health system. But the appropriate size of each country's military doesn't change depending on whether healthcare is privatized or not. It's an entirely orthogonal issue.
If anyone is wondering how they can help make sure this research happens, the single most helpful thing I'm aware of is helping MAPS find people interested in large (6 or 7 figures) donations. You could reach out to askmaps@maps.org or via another channel if that describes you or a friend
Based on my experience, your use case was simple enough that any database would do just fine.
I use movies a lot for learning a new language. Try using only the subtitles in the language you are learning.

Subtitles in your own language will actually slow you way down. You'll stop hearing the words in the foreign language and just read your native language.

At first it will seem very difficult to have only the foreign language subtitles, but once you start seeing the repeated phrases and see the context in which it happens, you'll pick up new phrases very quickly.

It does take a leap of faith, because at first you'll understand almost nothing and it might be a bit boring or frustrating. If you stick with it, it's pretty powerful.
VPS with nginx and cloudflare in front of it
My experience too, 6 years. Never been a fanboy, but don't understand the hate either. MongoDB never surprised me, the tradeoffs were known in advance (at least the ones that mattered to me).
Thanks for the clarification! I've signed up to be notified when Spanish is added and will give it a shot
Redis makes very different promises than mongodb. Redis has always documented how exactly persistence works and how you could lose data. Redis' benchmarks arent dishonest. Redis isn't marketed as a SQL replacement nor as a primary data store.
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Except it's going to be orders of magnitude slower.
We have have rockets that can go to orbit, and we have submersibles that can visit the ocean floor. That does not mean the rocket-submarine problem is solved, doing both together is not the same problem as doing both separately.
I have heard no one even mention what it might be like. I'm just thinking that I liked the change from Python 2 to Python 3, so I'm hoping for more things to enjoy. :-)
I think most of it was a reaction to the massive marketing push Mongo made. There were so many years of people hyping it as the answer to all of your data storage needs, followed by accounts of users hitting bugs or reimplementing most of a SQL database in code, and the promised performance benefits either didn't materialize or hadn't been necessary in the first place (“web scale” turned out to mean only dozens to hundreds of requests per second for many apps).

Meanwhile, Postgres was quietly plugging away adding new features and continuing to deliver solid performance for a wider range of workloads, including better performance on JSON document storage.
>just one bullet point

Tell me again how Postgres can seamlessly do horizontal scaling and synchronous replication?
Dropbox is in a special niche because their core feature is cross-plaform compatibility. No single platform can compete with them.
Like a traditional database?
the article discusses that in detail, but the article is not really about the merits, or lack thereof, of that study, its about something else.
Well, no, not quite. It's nowhere near "coherent", as in "all people at
a designated time have exactly the same view of the global state", as this is
what Byzantine generals problem requires. What people in Bitcoin can tell is
which one of the two transactions that share at least one account is earlier.
Bitcoin doesn't solve Byzantine generals problem, it avoids it.
Fighting Misinformation on the Web
HN (and /.) fam, we have a bumpy road of misinformation and web prosperity, all tangled together at the moment. My question is pretty simple, and I'm praying stronger algorithmic minds and nimbler typing keys shall uptake the challenge:
Can we make a service that combats misinformation on the web?

Before people bring up examples of similar services, I'm wondering if we can do something that is immediate [proactive, not reactive] and likely to be accepted by major players as something that A) does not inhibit freedom of speech and B) still ensures that people are not misinformed simply because money can buy wallspace/canvas time.

If not some sort of site/extension/clever logo with numerical "trustiness" ... are there some options out there that I'm not considering?

I love freedom of speech and press, but at the end of the day I want information of the highest quality. How can we ensure we all get high quality info, and can we help that process by making some sort of service that detects and highlights bullshit as it is?
good point. I missed that at first.
Is Go strategy not an emergent property of the rules of Go?
Metal. http://www.metalsmith.io/

For sites which are closer to books, gitbook is an option as well. https://www.gitbook.com/
Tune In, Drop Out: Wealthiest Americans with and Without College Degrees
I've always preferred my own company, not been able to get away from everything for a few hours would drive me nuts.

I stopped riding with the cycling club because it became too much of a social obligation, I like doing 60-70 miles on my own, stopping for a coffee somewhere and just watching world go by.

I don't even record my routes anymore, just distance and speed.
Vote for Middleman.
That still includes a huge number of local plumber/accountant/lawyer/landscaper/restuarant companies that hire a few employees.

In principle they could grow into a Home Depot / McDonalds, but it is still strange to call them startups
I'd rather just follow other users. See HN as you see it. Piggyback off your good taste, curation.

A la the multireddit feature, if I could combine the page views & upvotes, and filter out the flags & downvotes, of you and everyone you recommend in your profile, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't see the trolls, flamewars.

I used to moderate forums. Major chore. The notion of just following people you like, trust would remove a lot of the moderator's make work.
i got downvoted in another thread for saying nosql has a lot of advantages in reducing work like not having to worry about carefully creating indexes when joining billion row tables. someone replied you dont need indexes. i replied I dont know how you plan on running joins on billion row tables in postgress without indexes. got downvoted again.

I bet they are still waiting for that join....
Almost all my karma comes from simple name recognition. None of it is merit.

If that's true, that's disappointing.

I occasionally upvote your comments... when they're good.
I honestly wish we could comment and discuss the merits of the job, the company, and the location.
The planet isn't conscious and can't "treat us" as anything.

You may want to revisit that assumption.

Being as the science on this subject is changing very rapidly, as we speak.
Humble Book Bundle: Win at Work
This isn't true. In many cities that aren't LA, Chicago, NYC, or SF, you can get amazing food for that much or less. Where I live, ethnic food is dirt-cheap and amazing (a benefit of huge immigrant and refugee populations in the burbs).
Just after the upgrade I can say that everything looks crisper. This might be because I just recompiled Emacs for this week (I follow master), or because default fonts changed, or because Gnome 3.24 -> 3.26, or because Wayland, or some of all of these; but there is a noticeable change. And Gnome is way more snappier. I'm really pleased after first reboot.
Apparently this literally happened with much of Google's self driver car department.

They started off paying them ridiculous salaries, and then when the engineers got their "F U" money, they left.
Being a happy i3 user, as promising as sway is, I was disappointed last time I tried it, due to usability concerns to do with very basic functionality.

Specifically, the necessary hops for just setting the keymap.
What they do have is a nice marketing team. Gnome should have nice gifs like that.
KIYAMET BİR ANDA GERÇEKLEŞİR
So, basically Objective-C doesn't like the RAII pattern if the resource is a process? Ouch.

I got the gist of his summary but his writing is a bit... awkward. Is English not his first language?
How to Change Google Chrome Theme with Your Own Picture
Oh, it is a horrible experience on mobile but only for that function. Well, and the coloration but I'm partially colorblind and accept that I'm not a priority.

It's like they did the whole site perfectly and then just screwed that up for no good reason. HN is otherwise perfect, as I'm not counting the colors. Those are okay until they use gray (I think, I am never actually sure) text.

Totally off topic:

I wasn't always colorblind. It happened with age, according to the eye doc. It is so strange never being certain you're seeing colors properly. I didn't realize I was colorblind until people kept pointing out that I was wrong. 'No, David. The curtains are blue, not black.' It led to some amusing confrontations.

Anyhow, other than that, HN is pretty much perfect on mobile.
not exactly. A company could be funded by bonds instead of shares. Bonds offer the financial obligation without the control. It's a question of social contract and property law if the modern legal fiction of a "corporation" should exist.

> Mandating transfer of power from the owners to the workers is, very literally, Communism. A description without implying value judgements of the relative systems.

That statement is definitional, void of meaning.
Is there an index of these different views? Today I learned about two more of these seemingly-undocumented URLs. Another being Favorites (which are apparently public): https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=dang
would note that near the end of the article its noted that Cuddy has conceded that the specific cortisol effects touted have not been borne out.

she is "still fighting" for power posing but only as a useful technique which sometimes works for some people in some cases, as even the replicated studies seem to show improvements in subjective measures of "confidence", whatever that means.
The pasta dish you can only find in Sardinia
Cross-platform DirectMusic reproduction
Great app and great team! Congrats!
I was under the impression this site grew by word of mouth and that advertising it to any and everyone was a bit antithetical to then purpose of the site.
Companies aren't public to be nice. They are public because their value is locked up and the early owners want to cash out.
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Yes they are considered to be replications.
If you worked at a successful company, how would you feel if you were legally forced to leave, even though you've done nothing wrong?
> Is there a downside to using a non-mainstream distribution?

There are three things I can think of immediately that would make me skeptical about using a new distro vs one of the more established ones:

1) I would be worried about the maintainers supporting it with timely updates (especially around security)

2) I would be interested in how it is configured out of the box, from a security perspective and if it's a derivative of one of the mainstream distros then what changes are they making?

3) I would be interested in how they plan to work with upstream communities (i.e. that they do NOT follow the Canonical/Ubuntu model).

> The OS is based on Ubuntu

Oh. That's too bad.
We were looking for one too (but nothing came close to Disqus). You can try these
Isso: https://posativ.org/isso/ [Doesn't have any SSO integration]

https://my.remarkbox.com [It didn't appear as clean a Disqus]
I think this is an institution level failure to adapt to what science is like in the modern age.

New results are significantly more difficult and expensive to achieve in modern science, as the easier stuff has already been conquered in centuries and decades past.

The harder problems that science now works on means that distinguishing between actual results and incorrect conclusions is also much more difficult.

The growth of science as a percentage of the population and economy has also finally slowed down a few decades ago, after centuries of rocket-like growth. It is now a maturing enterprise, instead of a high-growth startup.

This means increased competition for resources and mindshare from those wanting to do science. Not surprisingly, all proxy measures and heuristics for evaluating scientific success are thus more likely to be abused.

I don't think we have fully adapted to these fundamental changes.

Disclaimer: I'm not a historian or researcher, but I've heard aspects of the above from a variety of sources, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
The line between the Communist Party and the owners of BAT is... blurry.
This is a pretty ridiculous statement. Implying that software engineers make all the decisions at all the Alphabet companies is misguided. Of course each org hires area experts so that they can build products that actually solve the problems of the respective areas.

> "It’s staffed by both technologists and government alums. Its leader, the former New York City deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff, openly acknowledges the gulf between technologists and city government types. And Sidewalk Labs says it wants to bridge the two."

Unrelated, on the bay area: If the community was open to development in anyway, perhaps there could be some creative solutions to traffic, housing, ect. NIMBYism unfortunately rules all decisions.
Literally any other. I'm unaware of any alternative so unreliable.

But I do think http://www.scylladb.com/ is great.
maybe they should repatriate it and pay their damn taxes.
"A single individual [delayed] San Francisco’s plan to expand its network of bicycle lanes [...] Five years, several million taxpayer dollars and 2,200 pages of environmental review later, the plan finally was approved."

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Califor...