skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there literally any conceivable evidence that could convince you that you are wrong?

Oh, for sure, if it was proven beyond reasonable doubt culture is not a factor in decision making.

> That there are biological differences between men and women?

This is not what I am arguing. There's a huge difference between "there are differences between men and women" and "they comprehensibly explain the current gender ratio in the Tech industry".

> That seems pretty damning for your theory to me.

Not really, because for the fifth time: my "theory" (call it: my anti-theory) is we don't know the extent of how potential gender differences might affect career selection, as long as we have a culture that has embedded strong gender identities even before the first career decision is made. Even if you think girls should play with toy ovens while boys play with toy guns, you can just discount the effect such boxing will have long term.

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For the rest of your post, let me draw an analogy:

Let's say that we are working out of the same office. At some point you are trying to load a website (say, Hacker News) and it doesn't load. You ask me if I know what might be going on:

Me: "Yeah, the WiFi has been terrible today, we called the management company to come and fix it".

You after trying to ping google.com, and getting about 50% packet loss: "I know what it is, it's the database they use to store the articles, it's broken and that's why Hacker News won't load".

Me: "Wait, but the internet is really bad"

You: "Yeah, but there's some connectivity, so it must be the database"

Me: "Have you tried pinging the host?"

You: "No, but I pinged google.com"

Me: "Have you tried loading google.com?"

You: "No, because I know it's the database"

Me: "But... how? Nobody else can't connect to anything because the internet sucks. Even if the internet worked perfectly, there's a bunch of other stuff besides the database that could be broken."

You: "Is there any piece of evidence that will convince you it's the database? Why are you so against it being the database? I know it's the database!"

That's pretty much the conversation we've been having over the last few days. If a coworker of yours did that, you'd think twice before asking for their next time you have to debug something, wouldn't you?
It's not a nightmare, it's a responsibility towards the people who use your product, and the society that allows you to gain wealth from such usage.

If you want to simplify the system, lobby for multiple nations to adopt a good standard, or move on.
This isn't even a law, it's an order.

Don't want to comply? Don't accept users from that country. That's the reality of a multi-national...
Boo lang. httpshttps://github.com/boo-lang/boo/blob/master/docs/BooManifest...
cheap jabs at the venerable printf(...) notwithstanding, this article is ok. however, i must confess, string formatting still sucks in plain C++, and snprintf(...) is not too shabby.
This is, of course, a response to the "paperless" movement. The trouble is that the movement away from paper and toward digital can be about more than the capitalist drive for efficiency.

One of the words the author used was "universality". For me, that has a moral component as well. Consider that information stored in a digital textual encoding is universally accessible. For example, blind people can read it through text-to-speech or a refreshable Braille display. Text-to-speech is also useful for people who have trouble reading due to cognitive disabilities.

So, print things out for your own consumption if you like, but please don't require others to consume information in that form. And, insofar as "the _________ office" refers to a group environment, I think the best word to fill in that blank is "universal" or "inclusive".

BTW, when I heard "screenless", I imagined an office full of people using speech synthesizers as blind people do. In the blind community, "screenless" refers to a talking device with no screen (very often a device made specifically for blind people that lags behind the mainstream, but that's another story).
“Life is not a sprint, creatives don’t win by squeezing out [small] advantages.”
Facebook’s facial recognition now finds photos you’re untagged in
You do realize that ``these "chemicals used to keep the salt from absorbing water and caking", which dilute the mineral content`` are most likely contained in Himalayan salt? All their elements appear in the list.

On top of that, not even your [0] claims that most of those elements are necessary nutrients for humans.
it covers like 80% of my use-cases (which I use 99% of the time), and weirdly magit gets me the other 20% if I can remember which trail of breadcrumbs I follow through helm to make it happen. For the easier stuff I just drop down into the cli though.
Bad news friend. You have to comply with GDPR if any of your users are in the EU, even if they were originally not in the EU when they signed up. Your user merely needs to be a EU resident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

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The regulation applies if the data controller (an organization that collects data from EU residents) or processor (an organization that processes data on behalf of data controller e.g. cloud service providers) or the data subject (person) is based in the EU. Furthermore the regulation also applies to organizations based outside the European Union if they collect or process personal data of EU residents. According to the European Commission "personal data is any information relating to an individual, whether it relates to his or her private, professional or public life. It can be anything from a name, a home address, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer’s IP address."

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Fair point.

I generally assume this is just growing pains, their are over 1/2 million Tesla model 3 reservations. The end point is going to be most parking spaces having a charging station operated at a slight profit. Or possibly even in road charging for absolutely unlimited range.
Front-end is a mess, now what can we do? How do you do in large IT companies?
A little background on me, I work as an intermediate front-end developer in Yellow Pages. I like my job and I want to improve myself constantly. I have a bachelor, and master in electrical engineering, however, I found job market with my academic background not much promising, so I started and developed my career in web development.

With this background you, I started learning, working since three years ago; basically anything from online tutorials to blogs, and sometimes reference books. BUT everything is changing at very very fast pace e.g in the past three years JavaScript has gone into 5, 6, 7, etc. AngularJS has come from version 1 to 5.

and I am getting really tired of following up. Sometimes, when I look back, I ask myself why? Why I selected front-end? why? Well, it looked easy at the beginning. Even a high school kid can start it.

I like to know about you guys, so-called hackers community. How do you deal with these changes? At some point, I want to say, I know everything on front-end and I want to move on to back-end. but I am stoped by tons of changes, and updates that are coming out every six months.

Also, for those who work for large, and famous companies(Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Morgan Stanley, Groupon, Airbnb, Uber). How do you learn new techs? Do you spend your spare time to learn new things or there are tools or programs inside the company that make you progress? or let's say this way:
How do large IT organizations help their engineer employees to improve their technical skills (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Morgan Stanley, Groupon, Airbnb, Uber, etc.)?
Oh man, I feel like Dune Messiah (dune 2) is such a fantastic compliment to the original. It is about half the length and has such a different tone that makes the original even better.
Developing RESTful APIs with Hapi
Can we get a (2006) added to the title?

Surprised nobody has yet mentioned Mark Kurlansky's truly excellent book Salt. It's a fascinating read, and really clues you in to just how central salt was to human life for most of our history.
Why is personal branding so scary?
How much capital would one need to start a VPN Service of his own?
I am looking for the cost of how much money would someone ideally need to start his own VPN service?
Back when I held bitcoin this is what I did. I had two ledger nanos holding a private key and one private key managed by an online wallet, that shut down since. It was a really comfortable way of accessing my coins and it felt quite secure.
Magento 1.x Migration to Magento 2 a checklist
Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire “Hyper Reality” Experience
It's okay if you also develop the skill of constructing a duplicate mental picture from a sufficiently detailed description of it.

Build up your picture-mirroring skill on 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional pictures, and you can eventually imagine pictures with more dimensions. Maybe you could even manage an animation in 4-dimensions. About the only thing I can reliably imagine in 6 or more dimensions is a hypersphere, and even that might be incorrect if one of the dimensions is not mutually perpendicular to all the others or if its basis vector doesn't square to itself.
terraforming is pure scifi, the least hospitable place on earth is vastly more hospitable than the best place on mars, even after almost every conceivable planet scale disaster. Pretty much every technique that could be used to make mars more hospitable could be used on earth instead. We dont have to spend 20 million dollars a kilogram to get there either.

Its part of a futurist escapist fantasy where we have somewhere safe to go when we ruin the earth, so why worry about it right?
It's pretty much like this for every country, Whatsapp can always set app to be not available for some countries if they are not happy with the local laws.
You're right that "studies" is designed for distributing/testing experimental features, among other development and debugging uses.

I'd dispute any characterization of LookingGlass as a FireFox feature though, and feel very strongly that using Studies to distribute marketing software (inert or not) was an entirely inappropriate use of the tool.

Mozilla being willing to use Studies (or having a process that allows for it to be used) in this way means that, although I was fine with the extra telemetry, debugging, a/b testing, etc., I cannot trust Studies to be used strictly for development related things.
Ah that makes sense. Thanks.
> civil libertarians demand a right to choose plain salt, with the result that the iodized kind rarely reaches the poor

How is it minorities of extremists keep holding back progress in health, education and transportation around the world?
I feel like you wrote this in jest, but just happened to be 100%
correct.
I'm sure I have an unpopular opinion on this, I have read How To Win Friends And Influence People a few times and I can't get over the fact that the skills taught feel very disingenuous and superficial. "act interested, use the person's name, etc". It's extremely cringe inducing when you see somebody blatantly using the tactics.

If there's a reason that everyone should read this book, it's more so that they are aware of these tactics.
FWIW, I agree with you, but

> But let's pretend your point were valid: would it remain valid with WebASM?

Yes (pretending GP's point were valid), because WASM has a text format[1], which is how "View Source" on the web is meant to be used for viewing WASM running in your browser. The text version can be derived from any WASM file (i.e. you can do the equivalent of beautifying JS to any arbitrary WASM).

[1] http://webassembly.org/docs/text-format/
Well here this is the CNIL threatening to fine Facebook. The CNIL does not have much power though, and the worst that may happens for Facebook will be to be fine a few thousands euros.
Confirmed fake. Actually looks like a phishing attempt.

https://jzeferino.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/apple-spoofed-ema...
> These are not routinely offered and usually occur when the ship itself needs to sail between continents.

I actually looked into this a few weeks ago, and it turns out there are HUNDREDS of trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific sailings each year. Most of the major cruise lines offer them. I was surprised.
Tesla has already started incorporating stationary storage into some of its supercharger stations to help cut down on peak load. This is not just an act of goodwill, it actually makes economic sense for them, since it cuts down on demand charges from the utilities for high peak loads, as well as reducing the need for bigger transformers and such leading up to the station.

The electrical grid is already sized for peak usage, not average usage. Supercharger stations are also being sized for peak usage, and most of the stalls usually remain empty. Incorporating stationary storage cuts down on the costs incurred by both of these inefficiencies.
Yes. It is a good one.

For me India: A Wounded Civilization by Naipaul was even better.

It is also from his India trilogy. I have read it a couple of times and even today I read a few pages. Highly recommended if you are open minded. A few people to whom I recommended it were quite offended. I guess that is because Naipaul has sharp eyes and blunt way of putting his observations.
Well if the sponsor company is having a "tough year" as you said, and that means they can no longer support full-time development of Crystal anymore, it makes sense to put together a structure so that your core team can work on it full time. In the future you're going to need more than an internet tip jar to get access to the better sources of funding you'll need, which are largely institutional.

It's going to be the most depressing news ever if we're doomed to a hundred years of toilet dumpster programming languages because Crystal loses steam due to one company's tough year. Let's make sure that dark future never happens.
Chrome arrives to MS Store, sort of. Rant ahead
> WhatsApp has basically replaced SMS and other messaging infrastructure

That's especially true here in Spain where SMS prices dropped long after 3G appeared. There's even road/trafic signs showing Whatsapp's dominance.

http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/sociedad/noticias/6600084/0...

http://www.stateofdigital.com/marketer-understand-acquisitio...
I feel like you are using anecdotal evidence to reinforce a belief that you never proved.
It does, but having used it, it's a real nuisance to clean up on a Kindle reader. You have to go through Amazon's web page to clean up the used articles, and its a bit of a pain.

A very cool feature, but ultimately not very practical.
> I would prefer if the intellectual class in the west recognized and reflected on the costs that the middle and lower classes in the west, in particular, have paid for it.

No, they should reflect on the fact that rich and powerful has united across the globe to enslave all innocent people without even giving them a chance to express their opposition.
>> the superchargers take AC from the grid

> the charger delivers exactly what the car needs

You're both right. A Level 3 charger does deliver the right DC voltage the car needs, and it does so using power electronics that convert regular old grid AC into DC.

Level 1 & Level 2 charging: AC grid -> cable -> onboard charger converts to 400V DC -> battery

Level 3 charging: AC grid -> offboard charger converts to 400V DC -> cable -> battery

Same number of steps, same conversion efficiency. Tesla even goes a step further and uses the same hardware, building out the (low volume) Superchargers "simply" by ganging together a dozen (high volume) on-board charger modules and stacking them inside a weatherized outdoor cabinet. This commonality maximizes their economies of scale.
> but you can at least afford to upgrade your house and work parking

1) with $2k you can barely have the trench from your house to the core cable in the street digged. Better calculate 10k.

2) Why the fuck should I pay my employer to put in a charger in the garage? This will, alone for the electric work, add another 1-2k on the bill.
You raise some good points. What's a better measure, in your opinion?
> Also is there a reason why it is a maximum of x and 2% of revenue? Shouldn't 2% of revenue big enough for a company to be scared?

Nah, if it was 2% of our revenue, I'd be much more likely to take the gamble. I'd be willing to invest a little in our staffing & infrastructure to take that risk.

I want to do the right thing - but that multi-million-euro penalty means the risk/reward equation just doesn't make sense. We'd never bring in enough revenue to pay off the hit from one angry judge determined to make an example out of us.
Google crawler can already index client side rendered react apps
What about adding lithium to water? I remember of a statistics claiming that in regions of very low natural lithium occurence, suicide rate to be significantly higher
First US gene therapy approved
Actually, why not just put the solar cells on the car and do away with the batteries

Because you might squeeze 200W worth of panels up there at best. On a sunny day you’ll get about 4 extra miles at the end of your workday. And now you can’t drive home with the sunroof open on that sunny day.
You're treading close to nihilism here, which is a dangerous way to live. The article has a good quote:

"The great prophylactic against loneliness is feeling that you are part of something bigger than yourself – a family, a friendship group, a community, a benign universe, whatever. Even a community with little in the way of material resources finds some contentment in being in a group of people who are all in it together."

When you're feeling the way you feel you can retreat from the world and try to treat everything with detachment and equanimity, but I think that's a losing proposition. It puts you in a passive role and makes you feel like you don't have much control of your life. It's better to take a more active role in life and find something that you value and work towards that. What it is doesn't really matter as long as you pick something that has a least some significance to you and that involves other people.
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In the US you can't really count on companies using iodized salt. For example, among fast food companies as of 2010 [1]:

• Burger King usually uses it

• Subway does not

• McDonald's usually does not

• Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Panda Express are in the middle.

There's variability from restaurant to restaurant in a given chain because usually minor items like salt, ketchup, etc., are left up to the local franchise owner to buy from a supplier of their choice.

[1] https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/720930
I'll say! If anyone thinks himalayan salt is a source of valuable nutrients like mercury, lead and (radioactive) plutonium, they lack basic scientific literacy.
There's also skeletal changes with age: the facial skeleton shrinks starting in our 40s-50s.

Got a reference for severity claim? That measured in terms of AHI or significance of the events?
> It's completely believable to me that a random, non-discriminatory processing of rape kits would result in 86% of untested kits coming from people of color on that map.

While you're couching this as hypothetical - this is in direct contradiction to what the prosecutor said as well as her experiences.
I just looked it up and found out that Morton Kosher salt is not iodized, which is what I've been using for a few years now. A health issue has lead me to avoid processed foods and eating out. I wonder if I'm at risk of being deficient?
> Driving was the 12th leading cause of death, and 7th in terms of number of years of life lost, in 2011

Including buses, right? Or do they never crash?

> Is it worth it to kill 36,000 people a year so that they can have the "freedom" of a particular "lifestyle"?

Yes, because it comes with great utility as well.

You could ask the same questions about smoking (in private), drinking alcohol, lack of exercise, flying in airplanes etc. - are you going to forbid all of these?

> Moreover, this lifestyle choice has not only negative health effects, but actually lowers local economic activity, to say nothing of worsening income inequality, upward mobility, and debt.

Yeah, right.

> the technical progress does not stop just because cars are taken off the road.

If you take away a market, you'll hamper progress.
There's a lot of randomness in what makes it to the front page on HN.
Trust.

It is hard to sell a bread or chewing gum in a coin that you can't be sure will cost 10 times more tomorrow or will be worth nothing. This is why Steam and WrapBootstrap (among many others) gave up on Bitcoin. Most current currencies have this volatility and instability because:

a) it is hard for them to technically adapt to scale (e.g: allowing more transactions, changing algorithms,...)

b) the supply of money must respond to price oscillations. This is basic monetary policy and is how Central Banks assure that fiat currencies remain stable and reliable (well, at least is what they should do).
Welcoming the Era of Deep Neuroevolution (Uber Eng Blog)
> WWW solved an entirely different problem, namely distribution and communication.

> JS et. al. solved the problem of responsiveness and interaction ie. latency.

I don't think either of these statements is correct. There wasn't a problem of 'responsiveness' and 'interaction' on http to begin with, in fact what Sun and Netscape did with javascript was to overengineer the web because they saw it as a business opportunity to add client-side code. http was designed (badly) to exchange hypertext documents, not to perform transactions over the server, or render video-games, or play music and videos, and certainly not to transfer files, for the latter ftp was desgined (also badly).
One of the eye openers for me in this was the average ranges, 475 miles vs 190.

ICE cars have 2.5x the range of electric cars. I always assumed it was much more e.g. 800 miles vs 100 miles.

According to this graph [0] the price per kWh of batteries is halving every 5 years, so within ~6-7 years the range of electric cars will be equal to that of ICE cars.

[0]: https://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/15/ev-battery-prices-looki...
After 15 minutes spent trying to decipher this, I simply translated the code into Python and iterated infinitely. Turns out, this is how you perform big-endian addition without actually converting the number to little-endian. An odd way of doing it, but perhaps a compiler optimisation. It turns out they’re actually using AES_CTR, but instead of incrementing the entire counter IV, they’re only using the last 4 bytes. A little strange, but if your encrypted file is 232 16 bytes long, you have other problems to worry about.*

Not all that strange. The "counter block" is normally split into a nonce, which allows you to reuse the same key on multiple messages without generating a duplicate keystream, and a counter; an AES block is 16 bytes wide, so a 64 bit counter is more typical, but I've seen 32.

Doing that can even make sense, if you have bounded message sizes (<64 gigs) --- the larger the space you allocate for the nonce, the safer it is to generate nonces randomly, rather than using a system to remember all previous nonces to avoid collisions.
I asked this question on Quora:
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-do-large-IT-organizatio...
This is a good comment, but see my other post in this thread - at least with me, the cover letter itself gives you a "direct pass" for one of my vacancies. That's not advertised in the posting or anything, but I'm betting I'm not entirely unique in doing that.

At the very least, a cover letter can't hurt, so write one for a position you're really interested in!
It would be a nightmare to comply with the laws of a country I am visiting