skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way here to "Win" is not to play the game.

Catering to minorities = good until its not. And that fine line for some is blatant racism/sexism/ageism for others.

Going on merit and projects also has its own downside - the claim there is the disadvantaged don't have a way to prove themselves due to inherent barriers against them. Seems accurate, but again, we have to discuss and not discuss....

Edit: I've seen these arguments and discussions at least a dozen of times on HN, in varying ways. And it all amounts to "Well, we shouldn't do bad, but bad's already being done and we can't fix it alone." Every time, I see very little constructive discussion how to make things better for all - it usually devolves down to low-grade flamewars and simmers up until dang and other mods do something.

So, are there actual, constructive things we employees can do, to make these situations better? I know I try to watch my language, and try to treat everyone with respect and dignity. What else is there to do?
'to a hostile foreign power'? You mean the public? The US government is why Snowden is in Russia, not Snowden. He didn't go to Russia. His flight was forced to land there when the US revoked his passport mid-flight.
I agree it's complex. I see I also made a mistake - my calculations were for "fish and fish wastes", not "fish".

I still don't see how the numbers work out. You need about 7 tons of fish+waste per year to keep CO2 levels as they are. Only a few tens of kilos of those will be extracted via fishing.

The numbers I see are something like 1.5 kg feed for 1kg of salmon, so there's not that much waste.

You're going to have to cover huge amounts of ocean, as otherwise you're limited by the diffusion rate.

And what's the supply curve for fish? If twice as many fish are harvested, would the prices be the same? What about 10x as many fish?

How much fish are needed to reverse the current CO2 rise?

Then there are other questions like, will it induce algal blooms? if there's a surplus of phosphate then what becomes the limiting nutrient?
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All of those lost against better tech, because they were but gimmicks. Cheap and efficient flight is better than supersonic, exclusive flight. High resolution, high contrast, high colorspace TV is better than 3D TV (IMHO VR is also better than 3D TV). And advanced text messaging is more convenient than video calls.
Tasker on Android is probably comes closest ( http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/change-your-android-phones-set... ).
> 1. teachers not adapting to new times. In ye olde days, teachers had the attention of the students basically guaranteed (as the only thing students could do instead of paying attention to the teacher was drawing messages on papers and passing them around). That frontal instruction is bullshit and should be a thing of the past could be ignored. Now, however, teachers have to compete with the Internet for the attention of the students - but instead of embracing the change and throw some rotten traditions over board, they ban phones. LOL.

What? We had Gameboys. Electronic football, before that. Guess what? You couldn't take them to school, or you'd (at least temporarily) lose them, if anyone saw you.
Weaponised microwave may be behind alleged sonic attacks in Cuba
In america we draw dicks.
> girls that like coding aren't usually very interested in girly stuff

You might have a causality problem here. For example, my daughter, who is definitely at the girly girl end of the spectrum sees no problem with being a lawyer or a medical doctor. That probably wouldn't have been the case a generation or so ago (at least here in the UK).

> All of this is just demeaning the profession

As the father of said girl, and being acquainted with a lot of her peers, I can reliably say that if our profession became more attractive to them it would not be demeaning the profession in any way whatsoever.
Pinkifying to appeal to women...sure, it's probably patronizing and wrong-headed.

Pinkifying to appeal to young girls...absolutely need more of this. Almost every engineer I've ever spoken to on the topic had Legos or some other toy that involves combining building blocks of some sort into a larger whole when they were a child. We absolutely need to pinkify these toys to build engineering instincts in young girls if we want to see them gravitate towards engineering careers in later life.
Did not know this. Is there a technical reason it works like this? In Ethereum, for example, if you're sending 0.1 ETH, you will just send that amount (no change address).
But is the collective experience of matter a subjective experience?

This including any kind of scientific hardware we use to measure it?

How many people believing otherwise would it take to change the experience of matter in general public, if it is subjective? (Because if it is subjective, it must be malleable.)
Thank you very much for your feedback and your advice.

Thank you, it is very good advice to position myself in an industry rather than technology.

Is there a way to find a good consulting firm or compare some?
To some extent, you can influence GitHub's classification via gitattributes:

https://github.com/github/linguist
The article talks about IO, but then benchmarks sha256. The node program doesn't work well because he's synchronously doing this:

for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { sha256(data); }

He should be using crypto and the async versions. This benchmark actually is just measuring the speed of your sha256 implementation, which I would guess is equal on all 4 platforms if you actually do them correctly.
I’m switching my cellphone from Verizon to Credo. (Due to Verizon’s successful lobbying campaign for this and other, related moves by the FCC).

Credo uses Verizon as its underlying network, for better, or worse. I know exactly what coverage to expect, and I’ll be feeding less money to the beast.

(Credo is a politically-active progressive company, with a good privacy policy and warrant transparency. Verizon has historically been none of these things, other than “politically active”).

Also, I don’t have decent sonic.net or unwired ltd coverage at the house, but if you are in the SF Bay Area, it’s worth taking a look at them (instead of comcast/at&t).
I see it as a kind of upscale clickbait. Pose a question that's at least superficially intriguing to smart people, and then deliver an underwhelming article. Also they have an odd fixation on multiple universe theories. I stopped reading Nautilus articles about a year ago and I've felt none the poorer for it.

Edit: spelling
Nautilus started well, but now it's just another clickbaity content mill. Fancy-looking, polished and with more intricate language, but still clickbait.
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It appears emailing security@linksys.com does absolutely nothing. Do they just pick and choose what to ignore maybe?

This is such a simple hack that anyone could exploit it, and the public weren't even aware of it because ZDI was following responsible disclosure, only to be ignored.
Nvidia, Komatsu to use AI, VR to fuse humans, autonomous steam shovels (no joke)
My daughter is six. I never wanted her to be interested in things that were traditionally gendered - but she just is. I would buy neutral toys, but her eyes would light up when she saw the babies and pink princesses. So, is she wrong to like those things? We have done the minecraft hour of code together, (she likes minecraft too) but if there was an even more 'girly' version I an guarantee that she would be more engaged by it. Of course she is interested in coding because it's interesting, but if it takes some marketing to get her in the door, so what?

Furthermore, I love to buy her books etc such as "Suzy shier engineer", but I wonder why all the books where girls are engineers or inventors or programmers they have to be wearing jumpsuits and glasses and rarely anything pink. I suspect it's because the books are sold based on the biases of the parents. I feel like my daughter gets the message that "You can be a pretty princess girl, or you can be a smart girl". So I say the opposite. Give my daughter some princess engineers in pink dresses please. She recently saw a barbie movie at a friends house (i know) and barbie was coding and it palpably raised her interest in the whole endeavor.
I may be an oddball, but in over 15 years I have yet to work with such a person (as a team member at least; middle management is a different story). That includes almost ten years at ablarge defense contractor. I worked with plenty who provided little positive value, but everyone I worked with provided some.
>Having every student disable all push notifications during class time would have solved nearly all the problems I witnessed.

Back in highschool IT would heavily rate-limit sites that were doing real time updates (basically just Facebook) because our pipe was small enough that 50% of people having Facebook open in a tab was a big enough amount of traffic to care about. We also implemented network level ad-block and really aggressive caching.

I'm sure there's similar things being done on a piecemeal basis in schools located where cell service is terrible enough that you want to be connected to wifi at all times. Most kids don't text much anymore so traffic goes through resources the school control. Dropping some arbitrary amount (say 95%) of facebook messanger, snapchat, etc. traffic on the student subnet/vlan except during the time slots between classes would be easy and everyone would just assume that the wifi sucks.
Nobody is attacking your daughter, stop it.
Agreed. The whole thing reminds me of the old pink ponies slashdot April fools theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#2000s
I think that's more a misunderstanding about what they're trying to do with the name. Perhaps the misunderstanding they're trying to address with the name.
Show HN: If Airbnb and crypto had a baby this is what it would look like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_China
In practice, it ends up being too powerful. The expression tree stuff tends to mostly be useful when you're using the IQueryable<T> interface. If there's a way to use IQueryable<T> to much effect without breaking encapsulation and creating tight coupling, I haven't seen it.
Could someone explain what the word "transpired" means in the context of the README ?
Some of these questions strike me as bizzare. Do I live in a bubble? Do people actually care if their workplace has good beer, or whether everyone eats together? And how can "Bonded by Love for Product" mean anything but drinking the corporate koolaid?
I read this as T-Mobile agrees to buy Level3... imagine the shock that had
How many places in the world havecthe same laws as current US law about NN? I don't think many are. Does EU have it?
The life skill is the responsible and appropriate use of technology. The worst thing the school can do is come up with constraints so narrow that the kids get through school without having to exercise judgement or restraint.
I started using target.com instead of amazon, at least for certain things. It looks like they did a lot work and got their shit together. The website works well and shipping is fast. I recommend trying it out if you haven't used them in a few years.

They are clearly copying amazon, but doing a good job in my opinion. The site is much better than walmart's.
What's the point of using a blockchain then?
How about:

- apply the same financial disclosure rules we use for public exchanges?

- or require insurance against failures to properly report risk
Out-of-the-loop: what products are using TP-Link?

Aside: maybe there should be a governing body for comm protocol behavior? (Semi sarcastic)
I'm curious, which Java servers are creating a new Thread per request?

Tomcat uses acceptors threads and a request executor pool. And, if available on your platform (which it probably is), it defaults to using non-blocking IO instead of polling.

EDIT: It looks like he does acknowledge the executor threads are pooled. His main criticism is that "too many blocked threads are bad for a scheduler". But if Tomcat is using the NIO connector this doesn't apply, because your executor threads won't block on IO. And typically the pool size is limited to something manageable by a modern CPU (200 or so)
It's still possible to use Sci-Hub, it's just that DNS queries for it tend to fail. Even knowing the IP address isn't enough, because although that gets you to the familiar Sci-Hub home page, search results always time out.

The trick is to find out the IP address of a DNS server or two that knows about Sci-Hub, and put those in your /etc/resolv.conf file.

Note: They have to come first in the file, before any 'compromised' DNS servers like Google's or your ISP's, that will always report 'sorry, I don't know how to find this "Sci-Hub" you speak of'.

If you're on a Windows machine, do it in Control Panel instead; dig down in Network settings, TCP/IP, Advanced, DNS to find the place to type in new DNS server IP addresses.

Do that, and Sci-Hub works fine. Twitter is a good place to find the latest working IP addresses for their DNS server. Last time I looked, they were 80.82.77.83 and 80.82.77.84.
The real way we're going to see equity in girls going into computer science/tech is for it to be an academic requirement, or at least an honors-level course in all high schools. In my high school in the 90's, computer science was practically a vo-tech class so none of the smart girls took it - hobbyist boys were the ones with the most experience going into college. I had an engineer dad, was super into computers, and I didn't even think of taking it.

Another approach is for it to become a more acceptable hobby for girls, but the social pressure is strong still for girls in the opposite direction. I think that one's a harder battle in a lot of ways.
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How accurate is that article?
Some do that as well. Generally though, I support teachers pushing a little bit more responsibility onto the kids.
The break thing is a reference to the ban. The second sentence of the article is "Children will be allowed to bring their phones to school, but not allowed to get them out at any time until they leave, even during breaks." So the ban sounds like your current situation, plus a ban on using phones during breaks.
“Our numbers span many time zones, from London to New York, Colorado, Utah, California and Alaska.”

Aren’t Colorado and Utah in the same time zone? This is a minor bug, but it stuck in my mind and I thought about it through the whole piece.
Yes, and after you say that to all 30 students you've wasted 1/3rd of your class time.
This ban doesn't protect them from regular in-person bullying.

Just crowd-sourced, Internet scale bullying.

Ever had your photo released mockingly, and been laughed at by an entire school? Or even millions?
I can see that, and I think I get what they were going for. But you simply can't choose to complain about using colors to attract women to tech (vs. letting the actual tech stuff be the draw) and then choose to utilize all the "Like a girl" stuff they've gone with. I see so many of these events that are branded "like a girl" "be a girl boss", etc. and it stinks of selective bias.
I'm getting the loading error, "An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details."

Not sure if there is a mirror, a write-up, or another example anyone might be able to pass along.

edit: this google cache version is working[0].

[0] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gXiqzW...
I think they have to get in a certain amount of mileage, time and different movements. Flight testing is probably something we don't want bean counters trying to skimp money on.
Transpiled.
I found IRC through an online game many years ago in my teens. There are times I am amazed how much could be done with none of the bell and whistles chat platforms have today.

I'd agree with most of the rules, though I wonder how many more people will ever need to learn them. Unfortunately, IRC is a fading medium. There will be those who always stick with it, but they will be growing fewer in number every day.
I'd suppose both flows exist.

* Chinese energy producers and miners get cash into China from bitcoins they create and sell.

* Chinese (early) buyers of bitcoin sell their coins in the West for cash stored in Western banks, or turned into other Western assets.

I suppose the second stream is wider, but the first is not to be neglected, too.
Repeating truths usually does get someone upset.
I visited the post fully expecting the author would benchmark the latest PHP 7.2. To my surprise, he wasn't even benchmarking 7.0, but the old 5.6. I can't take this test seriously.
You might be surprised to learn that girls aren't attracted only to toys that are pink and flowery or related to traditionally feminine pursuits. I find that assumption damaging.

As a girl, my favorite toys were legos, blocks, and the toy cars that sadly were more often gifts to my brother than to me or to us both. Ideally all three together (racing cars down the hallway on ramps built from blocks and lego? Win!)

None of them were pink. None of them were dolls. None of them involved families or housekeeping or kitchens or flowers.

But then, I was one of the lucky ones who didn't have pink things and "pink is for girls" and "girls should play with dolls" pushed on her from a young age.

Just make the toys unisex and be glad when any of your kids play with any of them instead of looking askance at your daughter when she reaches for the legos or your son when he picks up a doll, and they'll be fine. Legos are girls' toys too, regardless of what color they are.
The thing is, it's one thing to have a legal system that can provide for redress and restitution in the case of actual fraud. It's quite another thing to have a legal system that prevents voluntary transactions simply because some of them might be fraud.
A lot of what makes a good manufacturing process is, effectively, oral culture - passed on through apprenticeships and shadowing skilled technicians. Attempts to document it are surprisingly hard (this is why ISO9001 et al are unpopular). So in order to get a good factory startup you have to get experienced staff, which is easier in a cultural location that already has them.

Read Thomas Sowell's Culture and Migrations for more on this and the historical evidence.
Changing the education system to train children for next generation jobs? That's just ridiculous, how could that possibly help /s.
I don’t think DirecTV is deploying these any more in favor of the gen 2 Genie that has wireless built into the main receiver. Not sure how inclined they’ll be to push a fix
TechShop “Memorandum of understanding” – canceled?
You aren't allowed opinions, my friend. Right or wrong, you must be gender biased (unless it's against females) or you mustn't raise points.
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I think both problems are instances of the same ridiculous thought process.

So one side we push the pink obsession by default onto all girls (I can't begin to explain how much I hate the whole boy-blue girl-pink bullshit we do with babies even before they are born)

On the other, we imagine that non-girly things (tech) are so because they do not signal traditional girly things (hence the jumpsuits and large glasses and all), so if only we made them a little more pink...!

If your girl enjoys pink, awesome! Buy her pink stuff. The problem is not in girls liking pink, the problem is in us peddling irrelevant gendered nonsense onto our kids even before they are old enough to express a choice in that matter.
I don't think socialization is a big issue - in fact, I think it can help socialization because it gives kids something to talk about or do. Lunches were excruciatingly boring and often isolating when I was in middle school through high school. Having a phone would have made it so much less miserable.

I'm generally all for the ban, though. I think the bads of the phone outweigh the goods in a school setting.
I don't think attempts to improve the aesthetics of coding in order to attract a more diverse audience is in any way a bad thing. Some people just need to chill.
Update and additional context:

https://undark.org/article/freelance-writers-nautilus-paymen...

full disclosure: I work at Undark. We interviewed John Steele, the publisher of Nautilus, this morning, and there are quotes here — from both Steele and unpaid contributors.
I'm not familiar with libuv but is there a dedicated "watcher" thread in a thread pool that the kernel wakes up when when the disk driver has completed that I/O that it was sleeping on? If so is there a dedicated "watcher" thread for each non-blocking I/O request handled by libuv?
>We need to increase the amount of women in tech.

How about truck drivers? Do we need to increase the amount of women there too?
I wonder how well this will be enforced, I have to assume that some percentage of students will still bring their phones into school.
I subscribed for the same reason 4 months ago and actually have yet to receive anything. Their support advised me they are experiencing "delays" :(

wtf nautilus
Indeed. This becomes more obvious when we consider the fact that any individual can produce an infinite number of cryptotokens that are fundamentally interchangeable and indistinguishable from any other, this makes sense when we think about the fact that the "tokens" are not actually discrete objects but really just the practical manifestation of a gignatic balance sheet recorded in a distributed ledger. The cool technical aspect of a blockchain is that we can trust that the data encoded in the ledger will always follow the consensus rules, but if we extrapolate this idea out and imagine a paper ledger with the same properties, it becomes obvious that there is no fundamental reason why any arbitrary ledger is any more intrinsically valuable than another.
Who said anything about Snowden? There are many different professions that are legal in their country of operation that the US will redirect international flights to US controlled locations to arrest you. It seems like you can't accept that the US is a threat to some people's and nations sovereignty.
I've seen this reaction before and it always puzzles me. I can understand why it's (marginally) more interesting to walk down a street with varied houses than uniform ones, but not why it's better to live in such a street. If you moved to the next house along every few days specifically to get a new environment I could see the problem, but since you're only living in one house in the long term it makes little difference what the others are like when you're inside (or when you're in the hypothetical shared social space), which is almost all of the time.
I know some of the kids just have old phones from their parents or one of those $40 phones that are hanging in a blister-pack at the drugstore. They use them with the school's wifi so there's no data plan to pay for.
There’s tons of answers to this, but one example I’m interested in is as a good shared, accessible audit log for data throughout an organization. Just having a stable history for all data helps with investigation and master data management.

In this case consensus isn’t really necessary because all participants are trusted and should rarely differ (since they all have the same boss at some level).
I saw the writing on the wall when Nautilus had a promotional piece for the multibillion dollar hedge fund Two Sigma as their leading article a couple weeks ago. While at the same time asking for donations to help them remain independent. They apparently are desperate for funds at this point and cant even afford to pay their staff.
I like the APL symbols, but I think we could probably do better today, since we're not as limited by what we can come up with using overstriking.