skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a funny kind of contradiction going on here.

On the one hand, men in the tech community have been told it's never OK to use/share/endorse images of attractive women with "lots of skin", in any work or tech-community context, because it objectifies women, makes them uncomfortable, and pushes them away from the tech industry.

On the other hand, men should respect how women present themselves, and welcome them into the tech community. Still, this doesn't save you if a moral busybody walks behind you when you're looking at this twitter profile - it's very conceivable that a guy could get in trouble or ostracized for "ogling scantily-clad women".

Hell, surely you remember the two guys at pycon 4 years ago, some woman behind them heard one tell a (rather tame) "dongle" joke to the other, generated outrage on twitter, got them fired, etc.

In this modern era where moral outrage is more in fashion than ever (in recent memory anyway), the only winning move is not to play.
Awesome thanks for the info! I guess I have never really thought about the case where my supervisor would go down before the workers would. But you're right the processes are "linked" in Elixir as well.
Are e-mail providers "multiple companies which must of necessity coordinate all their activities with each other"? Sure, but when you put it that way it sounds nefarious. The underlying idea here, if I understand it correctly, is to force Facebook into defining protocols for what they do - something closer to e-mail than the current Facebook model.
I love this essay. Thinking about people who've damaged their lives on addictive gaming.... those people behind the four-figure numbers on the spreadsheet of Whales. That's sad as hell.

But... it's a clicker game. A hilarious-looking clicker game... but a clicker game. Would anybody spend $30 on a clicker game?
This is how I learned most of my mathematics before highschool. I just made up a problem such as calculating the angle which minimizes the time to intercept a slowing
rocket which taught me a lot about differentiation.

However, I didn't become amazingly successful in life.
It's weird that search so often requires a "secret word" that you likely wouldn't or didn't guess would apply, or would be needed, in order to discard all the irrelevant results. Here, the word seems to be "sue." Rather than "charge," say. Happens to me all the time.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=EU+sue+Google+Android&ia=web
it concerns me how many of my friends in free to play game dev are okay with exploting whales for profit.
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Wu's major in college was English so it's not unexpected. I work with many Chinese engineers, my wife's Chinese. She spoke pretty good English when she arrived in the US 20 years ago, and her dad, who lived in China most of his life, also speaks good English, but was trained as an engineer.

I think the OP is correct that it is far more likely to find white collar mainland Chinese with a good command of English than it is to find a Westerner with a good command of Mandarin.

The reasons are really simple:

1) English is taught in school from a early age. In US schools, Mandarin usually wasn't an option until very recently, mostly Spanish, French, German, and Japanese were the standard choices.

2) English is the defacto international lingua franca. English speakers can live their whole life and not really have to learn another language to consume most of the world's published information and trade. However, Chinese speakers often need to know English to consume the output of other countries. If you need to need read an AI paper, it's most likely published in English, and unless the original authors were Chinese, they're not likely to have published a good translation.

Given the importance of the Chinese economy, I expect the next generation will change this asymmetry somewhat. Already many schools in California offer Mandarin immersion, and it seems even more common these days to see Australians who can speak good Mandarin.
Thank you! I called it reddit-style because it litterally aggregates all social shares it received on fb, linked and reddit and sorts it with the similar algo reddit uses. I hope you like it.
no sorry i don't, but point noted. I'll add the support soon.
He's not getting personal. You're being a bit unreasonable.

Why are you pointing the finger at Qubes for not solving every problem there is? It's doing a much better job than ~every other Linux distro.
Yes. It has been for over a century. That's why they have editors, ombudsmen, etc.
Fair enough. This is why I would not ever be able to keep a silicon valley job.

Sure language is made up,but isn't an obstacle to clear communication bad language?

I find it hard to accept unreasonable logic(even the popular and trendy kind).
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I am a woman. I think she ought to tone it down a bit. I blogged about that.

Edit: ironically this comment was being ignored as long as I had the disclaimer in it that I am routinely accused of victim blaming for trying to empower women. I removed it because I also get constantly accused of making things about me. The second it was removed,
a personal attack in violation of the guidelines was posted as a reply and now my comment has been downvoted.

Here is the blogpost in question in case anyone wants to read it instead of knee-jerk assuming I am just some sexually uptight prude:

http://michelerebooted.blogspot.com/2017/11/how-i-try-to-dir...
I am not sure what view you referring to. I am not talking about what is realistic I am answering the parent.
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1. Many women want the option to stay home and raise their own children, at least for a few years. If a woman marries an otherwise-wonderful man who earns half her salary, she will not be able to easily stay home with her own child while maintaining their former standard of living. So there are some logistical concerns here that just aren't there for men. Perhaps in a country with a lot of paid maternity leave, these issues would not be as pronounced.

2. I have trouble with the blanket statement that women "want established males" "biologically and evolutionarily speaking." We live in a society. Peoples' behavior in a society is not some mystery that can only be deciphered by looking at chimpanzees. Our society has some very messed up rules about who gets to have the most power. People respond to and strategize around their current reality. If that reality were to change -- like, if we had free childcare or 4 years paid maternity leave, or some other radical shift -- many of these calculations would "magically" fall away.
That's incorrect. Allowing internal flashing just requires setting certain parameters in the flash to being read-write, and doesn't require any of the flash modification necessary to disable IME.

Disabling IME can have other impacts, and Purism even has a blog post explaining what the issues were and how they resolved them -- once they figured out what IME modules were needed for their laptop to work properly they could disable IME with a software update.

I don't know if that's how they did it, but you're misunderstanding the difference between disabling IME and enabling internal flashing.
+1 for Zenni. With a prescription in hand (make sure to get the pupillary distance measured), you can get great glasses with Trivex material (the Cadillac of lens materials, if you will) with the top end coatings for $80 shipped. I've been using them for years and at this point it feels like a lifehack.
Been thinking about this very question since having this conversation with a friend last week.

How about making Facebook give all its data back to users? All the data, photos, metadata, social graph - all of it.

Open source the social graph and give the users their data... would that make sense? Or just create a security nightmare?
Why does it need to be regulated? What ever happened to 'don't believe everything you read' and 'do your research'? No one has ever said Facebook holds anything remotely truthful, it's a social network. Your friends are not 100% honest or accurate. Same goes for Twitter, Reddit, Quora,...etc... It's always been a YMMV scenario, but for entertainment.
For splitting Facebook into face babies, look at p&l lines, geographic lines, what could become api boundaries,different apps, and different apps within fb wall.

So one and more of

WhatsApp vs Instagram vs fb vs messenger

FB video vs FB ads vs fb news

FB EU vs US vs India vs...

FB identity vs fb communication vs fb ads

There was no precursor to regulating standard oil in the last century, and no precursor to regulating Google, FB, Amazon, this century.

Doesn't mean it's not warranted.
What issues exactly are you dealing with? You only provided a very vague
description of this "operational stuff" you do and are disturbed with.
China really isn’t like the DPRK. It’s not like you are under surveillance, or anyone cares what you say or think as long as you don’t have a big audience. Well, it used to be like that, but things changed in the 80s, progress has been made.

It is just frustrating that there are so many regressions. The opening up of the mid-late 80s was of course crushed after 6/4, but then there was the opening up that happened before the Olympics that was then throttled back really quickly (and indeed, internet censorship became much more harsh than it ever was). Annoying to say the least.
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Indeed. This is an imaginary crisis invented by people who just want to whine instead of finding solutions for themselves. Travel and online dating are (relatively) cheap. If someone can't find an educated husband in Manhattan then take a trip to Shenzhen or Houston or wherever.
I don't think European universities tend to have large funds that they could evade taxes on, since they are usually funded by taxes.
Many countries have no-tipping cultures. Generally, more eateries are takeout or otherwise self-serve outside of the USA - not because of the tipping, but because of the hellishly low wage servers are paid before tips, allowing American restaurants to effectively pay servers peanuts when business is slow.

Other first world countries' servers are more expensive, and so less plentiful.
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I worked at FB during the same time, and while I admire Sandy's sentiment in principle, this article is conflating what 3rd party Developers were doing with user data.... not FB.

In fact, Zynga, and many other social gaming Developers, practically went out of business as FB started to enforce data usage policies.
tl;dr: it's wage theft.

I don't have experience doing it, but both of these cases are highly, highly frowned upon and likely to get quick resolution if a complaint is made to the Department of Labor.

http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2013/05/legal-for-your...

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/should-supervisor-sh...
On that same idea, I would love to see private buses replace the subway. There is a large van that takes 15-20 people from Queens to Chinatown that runs everyday 12 hours a day and it costs under $5.

Would love to see similar systems for Queens -> Times Square or Brooklyn -> wall street.
That would just end up like the Marshall Islands where they did the H-Bomb tests. They are still too contaminated to live on.
Tough to raise a family on in SF -- it's an absurdly livable wage if you're willing to rent a room.
> Would the CEO's voice be any less effective if it was from an equally positioned black, African female?

In China (probably elsewhere too, but China is the relevant place here), apparently yes. https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5046 touches on some of the dynamic there; the "Western" bit is definitely key.
They definitely have some exposure, NYU shanghai for example is a huge effort from both shanghai municipal sources and NYU proper. The government does provide subsidies in the form of land, but the venture typically books land appreciation right away which they are loathe to lose (the same thing happened with Microsoft’s Beijing campus). So perhaps it is more accurate to say they have something to lose even if their initial investment wasn’t that large.
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Thanks. I was looking on the linked site and the README in the repo.
If you think a restaurant is a low-skill job, you're wrong. It takes an assload of memorization, dealing with highly specialized systems, and its hell on the body as well. You have an incredibly high expected output, and you're not given much guidance either. The pay isn't worth the effort in the least, because its seen as "low-skill" or similar.
True I’d forgotten how old Fukushima was.
> Also, we like games with mods and we want mods. Real-money shops make little sense with mods, when you can just download a mod to quadruple the number of rubies you get. Also, it is simply too easy to cheat.

I think this touches on an important aspect of microtransactions that to my knowledge remains largely unexamined (but maybe I'm just not reading the right critics). Specifically, games are traditionally built as tools that players use to have fun. From house rules in tabletop games to Game Genie/Action Replay to Automatic Mario rom hacks to Minecraft texture packs, players changing games is something that's been part of gaming culture for a long time. When publishers turn a game into a marketing venue for microtransactions, however, they're essentially laying claim to that entire space, turning it into a dictated, manufactured product rather than a self-directed process in the player community.
It's still rare enough that 老外 speaking good Chinese gains you attention in Chinese media. Lots of Chinese TV contains foreign guests whose only skill is speaking Chinese, and if you travel to a tier-3 city or other area, speaking any level of Chinese can produce visible surprise and compliment in people. Imagine a US TV show that invited on Chinese natives for no other reason than they could speak passable English.

I'm pretty sure you know this. Yes, in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, it is not uncommon. But go to a smaller city, and some people will treat you like a rare Panda. I was in 九寨沟 one time during 清明节 and a lot of out of town people were there on vacation, some of who had never met a 外国人 in person before, but after they heard me speaking, a lot of people kept coming up and asking to have a photo with me, offering too much praise for my terrible Mandarin, and intensely curious how I learned.

I'm glad to see so many people following in the footsteps of 大山， but we have a ways to go before the asymmetry is more balanced and a Westerner speaking Chinese is no longer surprising enough to be on a talent show.
This is very upsetting, and contradicting with their FAQ: http://dasherhelp.doordash.com/new-dasher-pay-model-faq/

In the case of Instacart, I already gave up on them. They make too many shopping decisions on your behalf. Like ring your phone, and claim "they called you", and pick replacements themselves.

I would like to know if GrubHub steals from the tip jar as well.
What point are you trying to prove here? It's not like English is some magical language that no one can possibly learn well if they didn't grow up speaking it. Go to Europe and you'll find millions of people who aren't native English speakers but nevertheless speak it excellently.

In the grand scheme of things, being able to learn another language well does not beggar belief. In the context of this discussion, your comments are leaving a sour taste in my mouth. She's been questioned enough already.
Pretty much! I haven't played with that feature myself, but Erlang's telecom origins help explain this feature. If you're upgrading a telephone switch with N live calls, it'd be optimal to not have to kill those calls just to upgrade some software. There's more nuance to it than that, but "little-to-no downtime", or hot swappable code, is a language feature. Pretty neat idea in an era of "throw away the whole VM/container" to push a config update.
Isn't that the same as attributed to burning coal in undera year world wide?

Those were also tests where the escape of massive amounts of radiation into the environment was a planned, even if indirectly, effect.

Also, as a sibling comment said, that numb is probably overstated by a large amount.
http://content.tfl.gov.uk/tfl-mayors-budget-2017-18.pdf (page 10) versus http://web.mta.info/mta/budget/pdf/MTA%202017%20Adopted%20Bu... (page II-A). I’m just comparing the Underground versus the subway + the Staten Island Railroad.
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>Young adults leave high school unable to do their own taxes, unknowing of what laws are, with no usable skills in any industry.

Exactly so. There are some who glide into the industries in our school systems but it may be that either they are "truly exceptional," were under the tutelage of a knowledgeable adult who could steer them towards certain success, or lucked into happiness.

You may also consider social stratification around Ivy Leagues and Public Research Universities as a side-effect of a lack of a Useful School. People cannot rely upon the reputation of a school and instead resort to a set of predatory heuristics about tuition and the age of the institution.

In a world where the public school system prepares, by grade 12, a legally-literate scholar with a set of vocational skills, the University (It helps to think of it as One University, from which emanates the total knowledge of humankind) assumes a role of governance over the high schools (colleges) and grade schools, which are the true preparatory apparatus of the adult mind.
I know one who left to become a chocolatier.
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The DC metro was mostly built in the 80s and 90s (early construction started in the 70s), and the Portland MAX started construction in the mid 80s and has been expanding regularly since then. Atlanta's MARTA rail network was built mostly in the 80s. There are examples if you look for them, though I'm not sure what all counts as "impressive" here.

Outside of city subways: Amtrak's Acela service (which is what passes for "high-speed" though I understand this is weak in comparison to Europe and Japan) was built and established in the early 2000s, and boosted Amtrak's share of the air/train travel on the NYC-DC corridor from 37% to 75%. Boston's Big Dig project, which for all its faults was certainly impressive, spanned a couple decades and was finished around 2004 or so.
For reference the broken down numbers for the underground alone are on page 25 of that document. (page 13 or so in the pdf)
But since the government subsidizes both the $3 ain't so bad
actually, that's the point of p2p: it doesn't cost developers anything. I don't have to "win" at market share to make it either, just enough mass to develop a self-sustaining community of users and developers. I don't have to make a ton of money for it to be worth it either. my infrastructure costs are effectively zero, so I'm really paying for my time. I can use liberapay and crypto to take donations/tips, I can sell my expertise in p2p as a contractor, &c.

the most important point is that I can keep going indefinitely as long as I don't get bored, because you can't outspend me if it doesn't cost me anything to keep going.
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The subway used to be controlled by the city which lead to politicians keeping the fairs intentionally low to gain popular support. In 1968 the city could no longer afford fund the subway and it was transferred to newly created Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority, which was renamed to today's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The city retaking control of subway raises the question of who will pay for the operation and capital costs. The MTA derives allot of its funding from tolls through the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority which generated $1.8 Billion in 2016. It's unlikely the state will give TBTA back as well.
>If we overcome all natural impulse (how?) this species is finished and are something else, certainly not "humanity" at that point.

What's wrong with that?
I would assume so. I can't imagine how you could accomplish that otherwise without having a photographic memory.
I admit, I don't have intimate knowledge about their industry. But many top ML/AI practitioners have acknowledged their capabilities in this area. Besides, you seem to be putting a lot of weight on pure "inventions" whereas there is considerable value in "standing on other's shoulders" and move ahead, so to speak.
The point is that with 1000 people working on it, 999 are working for free.
8069.TW. It has more than doubled YTD.
Reminds me of http://www.tinytocs.org, computer science papers whose bodies must be 140 characters or less.
Average new home size in Japan seems about average for western countries; about 90sqm, so bigger than the UK, a little smaller than Germany, and so on. Houses are much bigger specifically in the US (or at elast rural and usburban US; US apartments are more similar to other western ones), but the US is a major outlier.
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It's not necessarily so bad. If the MTA were a private company, it's optimal capital structure would likely have a substantial portion of debt and some equity.

That being said, it isn't a public enterprise, and its not immediately clear (to me) what the cost of capital for a government enterprise is.
So it's simplistic as long as you are capable of programming all these built ins with lower-level primitives... Which is not simple at all from the perspective of a beginner. I would think that once you get that far, `this` is probably not confusing anymore.
Worrying for most of us who saw the first computer at the age of 16, started coding at the age of 19, and still have to make it in the software engineering world.(26 y.o now).
Per another comment, though, it sounds like you're misremembering things, and that he actually wrote no such thing. I'd really love a link to know what the hell we're all talking about here. Hearsay is notoriously unreliable.
Well, Dale Dougherty just saved his career. He was going to lose this one. Naomi Wu has taken on challenges before and built things in front of an audience. Dale Dougherty is a publishing guy from print media. He acts like he's the head of the "maker movement", but he himself isn't a "maker". Unlike Jim Newton, the former head of TechShop, who is really into tools. He could have become a negative-value asset to Make Magazine and the Maker Faire operation.

Make Magazine is dated, anyway. It's a print publication. Instructables is the go-to site for how to make things. That's now run by Autodesk, which encourages hobbyist use of Autodesk software in hopes that some amateurs will become pros and buy more Autodesk software.

Naomi Wu's videos are often funny. She has a wry sense of humor. She converted a 3D printer into a wearable device worn on her back. It runs off batteries and prints as she rides the subway and walks through malls. The manufacturer for which she did that can now show that their unusual device is really robust.

When it doesn't work, she's honest about it. She did an evaluation of a 3D printer / CNC mill / laser printer combo. The thing is an X-Y-Z platform with changeable tool heads. It wouldn't home consistently, and Wu gave it a very negative review.

She has some nice techniques. At one point, she needed to punch a hole through a nylon covered foam pad, so she could put a bolt through. She heated up a screwdriver with a butane torch and pushed it through the pad, leaving a clean hole.