skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more to do with the those claiming things in the name of science that puts many people off.

Science is a process, a method by which we can answer certain types of questions. To often people hear things like settled science, or the science is crystal clear, not up for debate.. These are political posturing and have little to do with actual science. It's absurd, and some people realize this.

As with any science, data comes in late, or sometimes not at all. There are quite a few FDA prescription drugs that were approved and later recalled, some with devastating effects on their consumers.

The truth is, science is done by people, people who are infallible. People who make mistakes, who see things from a certain point of view, or who don't have all the data yet. Additionally, prediction models can be tweaked to say exactly what you want to, with devastating effect on our community.

You can't say anything though. Even in grad school labs, to make certain statements or even hint about things can lead to problems with your advisor, or research, or worse yet, peers.. Academia is a great place, at least it has been for me, as long as you keep your head down and focus on research.. i dont think it's the best place now if you truly want to question everything. I wouldn't even venture where you could go for that now.

I think this has led to a generalized mistrust, and it falls on all of us. The reality is that data is always changing, models change, etc.. People who put policies into legislation need to balance not only the aspect of the science, but the overall big picture; cultural, societal, expectations, desires etc. as well. That's politics. I think it was Russ Roberts who said you can engineer a bridge, but you can't engineer society in the same way. And i think that's right, too Often we miss that.
FWIW I think the parent was over reacting and you both agree more than disagree.

It is a fact that the abused are more likely to abuse. We all have to be cognizant of why we are where we are.
> Americans seem very very concerned with terrorism

American government seems very concerned with terrorism. It also generates a lot of revenue which in turn produces political campaign contributions.

Do you really have less worries in Australia? I’d argue since it’s your homeland, you are simply used to the things that non-Australians would find worrisome. I don’t worry about medical bills (I have health insurance,) not concerned about ever being homeless, don’t consider tipping to be something worthy of worrying, etc.

And despite growing up in a rough neighborhood, I’ve never really worried about being shot.
Inequality will by itself fuel resentment even if the number of people in absolute poverty is low. And resentment causes people to disengage from the political process or to be more extreme in their politics.
Note that the underlying problem isn't that "tech" is good or bad, the problem is that tech workers over the past many years have evaded their responsibility to ensure that the work they do is beneficial rather than harmful by pretending that this responsibility didn't exist. That the responsibility lay elsewhere (on users, for example) or that the technology they were creating was somehow orthogonal to the issue of morality. And, further, you can see this influencing behavior at all levels, including behavior in the office and between coworkers.

People see software like a bridge or a highway and imagine that simply building such things is morally neutral. But if you build a highway by destroying a neighborhood full of black businesses that has implications on society and racial equality. If you build a highway in a way that excludes the addition of a rail line along it or that has unusually low overpasses which limit where buses can take people then you are deepening socio-economic divisions and exclusions. (These aren't just hypotheticals, look up the history of Robert Moses for a prime example.)

Stop thinking of tech workers as being part of some scrappy, underdog counter-culture. Geek culture is mainstream culture. The tech industry is the establishment. Tech workers are elites who are working to maintain the establishment. If you're a coder working at Facebook or Apple in 2017 you are little different from the people working at General Electric, Exxon, Union Carbide, Raytheon, Dow Chemical, or Phillip Morris back in the 1960s. You may wear a t-shirt, jeans, sneakers, and a hoodie while they wore business suits, but that's a superficial difference.

What we build and what we do affects the world in profound ways. We must develop the skills to wrestle with the morality and the social consequences of what we build as well as take on the responsibility to build things that make the world a better place. We are not simply cogs in a machine, when we decide to go to work at amazon, or uber, or facebook we are making a choice in how our talents will change the world and affect people's lives. We need to be mindful of that. Every day.
And then everyone stops being an employee to become a tax free one person contracting company, with car, home office, and anything else they can think of, considered business expenses.
From the article:

Frankly, whoever was in charge should be fired over this

They won’t be. But do you know who was forced out there? Its former CEO, Brendan Eich, for making a $1,000 donation to a conservative political cause years before he became CEO. Yet this kind of thing, which actually has an impact on their user base and their market prospects, was allowed to happen and it is likely nobody will pay for it.

If priorities are this out of whack at all Silicon Valley companies, the world that relies on them is in serious trouble.
I do actually sympathise with Microsoft here, and they don't have a lot of good options, but I still don't think they picked an acceptable option.

> Couldn't Microsoft also get into trouble by hiring just one of them (the other one could have a good case for being treated unfairly)?

MS has no obligation to hire any interns, and ultimately they have to make a judgement call about the interns honesty, integrity, and suitability. If you think one of your interns is a liar or a rapist (or even just lazy or incompetent!), then you have an obligation not to hire them (and no, that doesn't open you up to legal risk). If you have two interns, and you can't figure out which one is the liar (or rapist), the obvious choice would be to hire neither.

The situation is unfair to MS, and to at least one (and maybe both) of the interns, but even so, hiring them both and then putting them on the same team seems like the worst possible way to handle it. How could the team possibly function given that history, regardless of who's telling the truth?
Eh. Plenty of underfunded, plucky startups are the same sort of garbage. No particular lens can encapsulate our woes on its own. Reality is too complex to summarize in a few sentences.
Still doesn't matter. For FBA stuff, they mix items in their warehouses. So even if you buy from Amazon, you can receive an item out of the FBA program. Thus you have no idea if it's the real deal or a knockoff sent from who-knows.

edit: That wasn't clear. Try two: Inventory submitted by FBA vendors is commingled with Amazon inventory in Amazon's warehouses. When you, a sucker, buys it, you have zero control over whether the widget you get was purchased by Amazon from the manufacturer or sent to Amazon by Billy Bob's Sellin' Totally Not Fake Shit Shack, which definitely got it from the manufacturer, not the bottom price on Alibaba. This is true even if you buy from Amazon and not an FBA vendor.
This is what happens when you mix SJWism with technology. I hardly ever use Firefox, but I am uninstalling it pronto anyway.
I once wanted to correct a simple error in Google Maps (a library in my city was mixed up with a stadium, they were on the wrong sides of a road, facing each other).

I sent via Google Maps a correction which was rejected "after review". WTF, I told myself and fought back. They said then that it was "personnaly reviewed by someone", to what I replied that I "personally bike there everyday". I then sent a screenshot of their own Streetview and selfies of mine.

After a few months they magically approved the change.

It is sad to see such reactions when they (also) rely on user-provided information.

OpenStreetMap took me a few moments to update (and actually put these entities there, the canvas was already available)
It doesn't last. The divisions remain and are simply put on ice for the duration of the greater threat.
I miss JSONRPC, and have no idea why it didn't take off the way REST did. It seems RPC and Lambda would play nicely together.
Honestly I feel like adding social sharing features and randomization sort of misses the point of the art piece (or at least what I got out of it). The takeaways I got were: literally anyone can create or arrange beautiful music, music doesn't have to be made by traditional means or a process, music doesn't have to be predetermined, and improvisation can be a part of any stage of the creation process. The actual soundscape a user creates is entirely secondary to the experimentation they do to get there. With no instruction besides 'play these in literally whatever way you want,' I think those additional features might change the focus to 'randomization as a musical tool' and 'how can I create the coolest soundscape?" If I was linked to the project via someone else's premade composition I would have had an entirely different experiment.
I don't understand what is Microsoft's role here. This is a complaint between employees about a potential crime that happened outside of Microsoft's walls, outside of business hours, and between employees that have no position of hierarchy over one another. This seems to me as a simple police matter. I don't think employers should become an out-of-court justice system as long as they are not involved directly. All they can do is to separate the employees in a way that neither is negatively impacted until the legal proceedings are settled which from what I can tell from the article is what they did.

The other thing about tech companies is that it would be interesting to compare their statistics of sexual harassment to other industries. Putting at the front page some stories about sexual harassment don't mean anything. Microsoft has 125,000 employees, google 75,000, apple 125,000, etc. At this scale, and unless they have a special hiring technique that enables to spot criminal behavior that I am not aware of, they are bound to hire some future criminals: rapists, thieves, stalkers, etc. It's just statistically impossible for it not to happen. Is there any evidence that there is more sexual harassment in the tech industry than other industries?
The Antikernel operating system project
Bob Bigalow actually is a hard core ufologist for the record. No need for cynicism here I think. He just wanted access to DoD information on the subject.
Eventually they build a spaceship and hire a hotshot ex-NASA guy to drive it forward and backward in time.
Too bad, I just switched back to Firefox and now they are delivering this crap... Oh well, I guess it's Chromium time.
I don't think the parent here is talking about whether the language is static/dynamic.
The point is that most REST calls are wrapped in a statically 'dispatched' function call.

So in most cases you'd do something like:

let foo = () => http.GET('/foo');
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foo() //foo is statically dispatched in the source code here
Churchill, however, was voted the Greatest Briton of 20th century for some reason.

Well, Britain didn't get taken over by the Nazis. That's kind of a good accomplishment
> like Netflix and its creepy disclosures that it knows of people's predilections.

Bit offtopic, but people keep saying this and it turns out to 'not be true for my friends and me' ; we might not be the norm, but if they know the predilections of the norm, they know nothing of value, so what exactly does it mean /or/ what's creepy about it? Google & Facebook (the latter I stopped using because it became rather useless of late) know everything about my life, and, as a human, I can predict what my profile likes or wants at mostly any given time, and yet they are always(!) wrong. And so is Netflix. For all of these; I am an avid reviewer and I rate; I usually rate binary; 1 or 5. And yet, they cannot predict anything I would want and routinely give me things to buy/watch that I would never even consider using or buying. So where is this creepy thing that knows so much about me? Is it not used to advertise to me? Or does this mean; 'we get it right for 80% so it's really great?'? Because that really means nothing; it is really easy to predict for the masses.

I would say the 'evil' in the industry is more around homogenizing everything; taste, friendships, contact, dating, looks, feels; trying to make them the same as what you are selling and actually have people falling for it. Which turns 'predicting taste' upside down; mold people, then predict they will like the mold. Not many tv shows, movies and music I see/hear that fall outside of the mold.
Where was the "why" question and answer?
GDPR compliance: Challenges
All our traffic is analysed by unknown third parties but not all of us have reasonable expectation to get shot. I would have this expectation at least in places with decent regulation.
Good point, but I do wonder—is "full fidelity" really best defined as matching the sound profile of good speakers? Or is it better defined by e.g. whatever the sound engineer was hearing on their studio monitors when they finished the mastering process?

That is: in most digital artistic media, the goal of the reproduction process is to faithfully carry across the art (and engineering) that "went in" on the other side. Listeners can tweak to their preference from there, but the baseline should be to replicate the work as the artist experiences it, rather than as the artist expects their audience to experience it. (An analogy: the "default", pre-choice-of-audience way to reproduce a painting shouldn't involve a frame and gallery wall, but rather should involve the painting standing alone as a canvas on an easel in a room in the same lighting conditions it was painted in.)
Why your business needs SEO
That's a great description of the mobile market around 2011, with Verizon and AT&T splitting the lion's share. But since then they have hemorrhaged subscribers to T-Mobile, in part thanks to T-Mobile's zero-rated streaming services (which other carriers have now copied).

These services make the EFF's skin crawl, but it turns out customers actually like them.

So entrenched incumbent ISPs in fact can be rapidly unseated, and in a competitive market ISPs may violate NN by offering free services rather than raising prices. I don't know if it's possible, but this seems like a better outcome than giving up and declaring home internet to be a natural monopoly like utilities.
I would like to read more about this. Do you have some references? Thanks.
most amateur prepping is probably more on the scale of 72 hours-1 week

there probably isn't anyone alive today in the US who is ready to be entirely self-sustaining for six months...if civil society disintegrates for six months, it likely isn't returning
What are the best options for building JSON RPC client/server in javascript ?

Essentially I am looking at a Node.js based server and Browser based client as of now but cross language compatibility would be nice to have.

gRPC pure javascript client [3] is labelled as "incomplete and experimental".

axon [4] looks interesting but seems to have received no activity in almost a year. I am also slightly skeptical of adopting a tj project given his departure from Node community.

Jayson [1] was the only one I could find in the search results [2] which is actively maintained and well documented.

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[1] https://github.com/tedeh/jayson

[2] https://npms.io/search?q=rpc

[3] https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node#pure-javascript-client

[4] https://github.com/tj/axon
>the group a person identifies with?!

I'm glad she said she's a woman first up, it made me much more interested in what she had to say in response.

I would take what males said seriously. But a group of males discussing rape etc isn't quite... Anyway - is this hard to understand? Women have a 'different' point of view on the subject, and on a mostly-male site like this, it's useful to know. I'm puzzled by your confusion. Maybe you are female; then it would be easier to understand what you say. I wish you had said up front :-) It just helps understand where people are coming from, their perspective. A man writing about what feminism should be has a different effect to a woman doing it, and naturally/rightly so.
> Taking rumours and innuendo at face value, on the other hand, is guaranteed to hand more power to abusive people.

There are people who are very good at detecting these kind of weaknesses and exploiting them. Whenever a system of power or control is overreacting or is irrational about something, let's say terrorism, there will be people who will report their neighbors for "bomb making" or anti-government propaganda knowing the government will overreact and ruin that person's life. Instead of terrorism and government it could be a company's HR and this sexual harassment rumor network, or reporting someone for neglecting their children (playing on the "think of the children" irrationality) to the police if they cut the lawn too close to the your fence and so on.
What you want is weight divided by the LD50 dose of that toxin.

Less toxic stuff will have a lower rating per pound, while more toxic stuff would kill more people per unit of weight.
In what ways does it differ from the commonly held notions of what "anarchism" is as a political (or anti-political) ideology?
The top post in this thread said "many". Not "most". Not even "all".

I have no idea where you're getting the notion that it was an indictment of technologists, writ large. It observed that many of us — myself included — were very much on the outside, socially, as young people. I mean, how do you know that 'matte_black wasn't bullied, too?

No matter what, that leaves a mark. That some subset of those people developed consequently in a way that manifests a lack of empathy and an "Oh, yeah? I'll show you!" kind of attitude is neither surprising, nor worthy of condemnation for acknowledging aloud.
It's a "she".

But I agree. The article reads as "these guys seem desperate, let me kick them one more time, it's for their own good". It's one thing to be driven by facts, calling out bad things when you see them, this reads like an opinion piece saying "they still haven't learned". And "they" is wildly generalized.

It seem that "entrepreneur" is becoming synonymous to "arrogant, sexist asshole", and if think that, you're actually creating another problem, not solving the existing one.
This is close to home for me, too — although I count myself extremely blessed to have a good job in Redlands, within biking distance. (I used to commute 2 1/2 hours a day from here to school.)
The public at large have shown themselves to have little qualms about trading their privacy for convenience. Knowing this, is it really so egregious to offer decent tools/platforms to said people, to convenience said people, in return for monetizing their formally private data they willingly hand over?

In fact, knowing that people put such a low value on their privacy nowadays, is offering them decent, innovative services in exchange for that data not by definition "doing good things to change the world"?

Snowden risked his life to show the world and public at large that they were being spied on by the US government, facilitated by the big tech companies. The response was at best apathy, at worst a thirst for Snowden's blood. It's very hard to come back now, in 2017, with "muh privacy".
could it have been sea mammals?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlrcbKlW4Tw
i don't understand why folks are upset. opensource + nonprofit can't prevent corruption. it has nothing to do with technology, management, personality, good will or anything. it's about power. given enough power and time, what left is either marketing or corruption.
Cheers; having a go of AwesomeMiner now and numbers are looking good. Pretty sure they'll claim somehow that the money they hadn't paid me is not their responsibility and if that happens there's no way I'm going back to NH.
Thank you so much for sharing. You are awesome.
Some of these ideas aren't "unpopular", they're answered. They're "we had a world war about this"-answered.
Is there any nation in which kids are less independent than in the U.S.?
Trump to propose ending rule allowing spouses of H-1B holders to work in U.S.
So much Mozilla bashing in the comments here. And in general.

Mozilla doesn't improve Firefox: FF is so slow I am using only Chrome now.
Mozilla improves Firefox: why did you break my extensions.
Mozilla add data collection: you are no better than Chrome.
And so on...

Meanwhile Google is doing most of these things with Chrome and nobody complains.

The title is correct, Firefox is on a slippery slope. But this is slippery slope to oblivion. Whatever Mozilla does is wrong. But see now, the game is very different nowadays. The browser is not simply a renderer for Html. The browser has turned into the TV from 1984. And the Web game is very very different. So no need to be angry at Mozilla, they are just a player trying to adapt to this new reality.
I wish you guys would straight-up forbid sarcasm. It would improve discourse a lot.
Sails looks like a great framework otherwise. What is the reason for its bad reputation?
Canada only embraces personal liberties it can tax the shit out of

they have no motivation to embrace personal liberty at all, the government is still a constitutional monarchy...liberties are at her Majesty's discretion
Yes, by action. I think they're fewer in number, but I've met a couple. Women are human and have the exact same range of possible behaviors as men.
Joining this bandwagon. The headband on mine just sort of started to disintegrate into a weird sticky mess after 2-3 years. Then someone pulled them open too hard and cracked the plastic. Mine are from 2004, still working perfectly, but the whole headband area is now pretty much duct tape and glue.
That is bizarre. An HR rep's job is to minimize the company's liabilities, not expand them.

I understand not shifting employee job functions based on an unproven accusation. If there's a restraining order in place, it's not her problem. It's his. He's restrained. He has to go to his HR rep and say "I can't legally work next to this person, what happens?"

That's only one side of the story, though.
Pretty sure they don’t have security cameras pointed at the sky
China. Two strong influences: an idolization of western parenting plus the one child policy. Take your caricature of a dependent US kid and add the pressure and coddling of six parents.
I understand the feeling, but we've learned from experience that HN works better when the focus is on content rather than personalities, especially in titles.

We've also learned that HN can't really have a substantive discussion about ideology. Something about open internet forums causes such discussions to revert to the mean, and from there to the bottom of the barrel, pretty quickly. But at least your submission was off the beaten track!
Here’s the thing, sometimes it seems like the HR department’s job is to weed out exceptional people. If you can avoid going through the front door (HR) it’s often to your advantage.

As an aside, it may seem unfair to the less socially outgoing that others don’t use an existing process that might be in place. Take dating for instance - just because a girl is on a dating site doesn’t mean that the dating site is the only way to ask her out on a date. Finding a job is similar to dating in some ways.