skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HQ Trivia hits 1M players milestone as app soars in popularity
Do you think any of those would have had him on?
That's an orthogonal feature, it writes output after each line as opposed to every 4096 bytes, when the output is a pipe instead of a terminal. Useful when the other end of the pipe still goes to the terminal and you want to see it immediately. If `some-util-with-output` echoes stdin then without the option the following would not show you the latest grepped lines until the 4096 buffer fills.

tail -F output.log | grep --line-buffered TEXT | some-util-with-output
>In which case, why not use Bitcoin

Is there anyone using bitcoin for transactions anymore? Fees are absurdly prohibitive.
To quote you,

>> It's the title of the job: Engineer.

From the dictionary: "Engineer: a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines"

Hopefully you see the point I'm making? Just because you think a job title means something, and just because that's an accurate historical meaning, doesn't mean that the job title retains the same meaning today.
one shot are easy, it's the semblance of regularity that is important
Pay as much as we can sustainably demand, given the political realities of this time and place.

And you are right, that is exactly what all tax authorities do. It's important to get those political realities right.
In any discussion of a social problem there are apologists. There are only so many ways to signal that you’re not a shill. It’s not a great solution, but we don’t have better.

I agree on the data thing. I think when you get down to the bottom of things, lumping people under a label and treating them as a cohesive unit is part of the problem. If that’s true, getting permission from a small cohort of that group is still bad, because you’re assuming if these three people are okay with it then it’s okay.

It’s that incident with Chevy Chase and the n-word that started this line of thought for me. I don’t care if Richard Pryor said it was okay. He is one voice. Don’t act surprised if other people don’t agree. Being surprised means you’ve already decided all black people are the same and a sample size of one means you’re okay to do something.
In California, by state law, companies are in fact not allowed to discriminate based on political views in hiring and firing. See http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...

> Should I be forced to hire a neo-nazi or a terrorist sympathiser so long as they're up to the job?

Just like you should be "forced" to hire a Greenpeace member, or a union organizer, or someone outspokenly pro-choice, or someone outspokenly pro-life, or someone running on the libertarian ticket, or someone running on the Communist ticket.

How this would play out in practice if someone "brought their politics to work" and the case went to court, I can't tell you; I'm not an expert in California labor law. But if people aren't bringing their politics to work, firing people for political views would be an even more concerning precedent, to me.

(In Damore's case, the politics was very much brought to work, and not just by him. I make absolutely no claims about what that means in terms of the above-cited law, or morality, for that matter.)
"2020: China Fragments"?
very freaky!!!

Was reading this right as the song came on in an episode of Black Mirror
> Rent Control surely just prevents local families from being muscled out by the tech employees?

Correct. And in the process of doing so, further contributes to the lack of inventory of market-rate rental units available to the influx of newcomers/tech employees.

As mentioned elsewhere in the comments here, this causes huge disparities for rents of similar units within a given building as landlords attempt to compensate for all the market-rate rent being missed from longtime tenants. E.g. I've known folks paying $4,000 while their neighbors pay $400. While I don't have numbers or a study to point to, my experience over the years with the SF housing market suggests the impact of this effect is nontrivial.
What fraction of cities in the US that Southwest services would you call a hub or minihub? Or the fraction of flights that go to spokes? By playing around with this map[1] I would say that southwest has 90-95% of flights going hub to (mini)hub. While delta is very different[2]. Looks like the hub model lets an airline service many smaller cities while the Southwest model services only larger cities but makes most of them a (mini)hub. If I live in North Dakota and can afford to fly, I sure would want the hub system to exist, but for a large number of mid sized cities the Southwest model works much better.

[1]https://www.southwest.com/flight/routemap_dyn.html
[2]http://dl.fltmaps.com/en
I once wondered what states have laws against headphones/earbuds and was astonished not only by how many places don't have laws, but how many that do have laws that specifically say its okay (or okay with one ear uncovered). Going in I expected to find near universal laws against it.
You're buying into the media narrative which paints Russia as the devil.
Russia is not a dictatorship, Putin has overwhelming support from the population but could be ousted by elections quite easily.
The Ukraine conflict is far more complex than you see on the news. I have family in Ukraine and know that Russia actually had some good reasons to take Krimea back (it was Russia for hundreds of years and most people living there are ethnic Russians), most of the population there is happy about it (not comparable to Finland at all).
The link clearly states multiple times that poly unsaturated fats are preferred to saturated fats when looking at various health factors. It just says that we dont know if it because saturated fats are bad for you or poly unsaturated fats are good food you.

Regardless, choosing to cook with coconut oil instead of olive or avocado oil clearly falls under that.

I have friends that now cook with coconut oil as one of their main oils replacing poly unsaturated oils. I think it is going to be like soy and in 20 years the nutrition community is going to do yet another 180 on it.
There is probably a lack of executive tlc to go around for all their stuff. I don't get it either, they break things that work already -- I simply cannot trust anything they put out that isn't search/Android/Google AI stuff anymore. Wasn't there some heuristic that a large company can only have 3 strategic priorities? Guess these 3 are it.
I bought a black iPod Shuffle from a physical Apple Store the day they announced its discontinuation. It’s still in its box. I don’t know what it is about the demented functionality of the thing, but they’re adorable, dependable, and tough as rocks. I’ve got probably half a dozen iPods of various kinds in working condition strewn around the place, even though I don’t use them regularly (including an iPod Video with an aftermarket SSD and fresh battery, a first generation iPod Touch from 2007, an elongated iPod Shuffle with a mirror finish, and a few incarnations of iPod Nano). I’ve got a friend that has a strip of different coloured iPod Shuffles assembled on a nylon strap (in chromatic order, no less) all linked simultaneously to a audio jack muxer, so she can select an iPod shuffle based on her mood.

There’s a lot of nostalgia involved in these things. They’re not bad devices. They could have gone on selling them for almost forever.
Your faith in your engineering staff is beside the point. Bias is human nature. Unless you're actively structuring your processes to exclude or minimise it then you're certainly suffering from it, the only question is how.

It's not specifically gender or racial bias either. We ran a study of 700 candidates for a role, running regular hiring against blind assessment and found that the major difference for that role in that organisation was socio-economic... they'd been excluding great candidates who went to less prestigious universities.
Rent control is nothing but a populist political measure. It makes no economic sense what so ever.

If rent control worked why not set prices of everything else to low values ?

Any intervention in a free market system will benefit some people at the expense of others and that losing party would then be less willing to participate. What incentive will people have to maintain and increase housing when they might end up broke because of rent control ?

California needs high rises and denser dwelling units for that the zoning laws needs to change.
Hi there, I built this library after reading up some InfoSec SE posts about what sensitive files (and information) that should be gitignored or not included at all in a git repo.

The following article was also a motivation for me to start the project, “Dev put AWS keys on Github. Then BAD THINGS happened”: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/06/dev_blunder_shows_g...

How this library works: sniffgit starts from the root of your git working directory, and check if there are any sensitive files (id_rsa, *.cert, etc) that are exposed, i.e. files that haven't been gitignored or files that shouldn’t be in a repo at all.

This library also checks textfiles for sensitive information, such as AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, email, password, etc. Some files and directories are not going to be read at all, though (e.g. binary file, .git, yarn.lock).

Currently, the “sensitive info / line analysis” will have a lot of false positive result for larger projects. The reason is that it only checks for keyword such as “password, API_KEY, email, etc” for each line in a text file.

This is my first ever open-source project. Feedbacks are truly appreciated, particularly about OSS best practices :).
I meant for my question to be directed specifically towards the person making the claim about her specific coworkers at a specific company. This company has hiring practices that are not necessarily reflected across all of corporate America, and the claims being made are about those specific hiring practices and the effects that they have.
Deaf people don't need extra training before getting their license in most countries.
This is where architecture is important and there are several techniques you can use to make things faster.

You could look at pre-calculation, subsetting the data, in-memory databases, dedicated servers, non-blocking requests, etc.
Actually the opposite, by taxing land in high demand urban cores it would incentivize more efficient use of the land - i.e. building up to support more occupants or higher value economic activity. [1]

Deregulating the zoning restrictions would allow more buildings to be built. [2]

Here is a startling fact: in 2014 there were 142,417
housing starts in the city of Tokyo (population 13.3m, no
empty land), more than the 83,657 housing permits issued
in the state of California (population 38.7m), or the
137,010 houses started in the entire country of England
(population 54.3m).

Tokyo’s steady construction is linked to a still more
startling fact. In contrast to the enormous house price
booms that have distorted western cities — setting young
against old, redistributing wealth to the already wealthy,
and denying others the chance to move to where the good
jobs are — the cost of property in Japan’s capital has
hardly budged.

This is not the result of a falling population. Japan has
experienced the same “return to the city” wave as other
nations. In Minato ward — a desirable 20 sq km slice of
central Tokyo — the population is up 66 per cent over the
past 20 years, from 145,000 to 241,000, an increase of
about 100,000 residents.[3]

With artificially constrained supply from Prop 13, there's dozens of empty lots and empty units just doing nothing of value. It's surreal to hear about stories from baby boomers about moving across the country to NYC/SF/LA/etc and being able to easily find a job and affordable housing in a major city, often while attending school at the same time. The same generation has now pulled the ladder up behind them to spit down on future generations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Efficiency

[2] http://urbankchoze.blogspot.ca/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3...
What if we banned advertisements?

How long would google, facebook or amazon last after that?

All this tech is great. But we are kidding ourselves if we say we liked advertising or if it benefits anybody except the people putting them up.

advertising is a literal cancer on society. If it was gone even in the simplest of forms so you aren't able to legally see advertising until you turn 21 years old. Or have our kids be able to grow up until they turn 18 without seeing a single advertisement.

Especially big pharma ads!
> And let's be serious here he has zero chance of winning against Google.

Don't be so sure of that. Federal law prohibits firing an employee who is trying to improve working conditions. And that's what he is claiming he was doing with his memo.

And there are a number female SJW Google employees who have made really vicious, public, anti-male statements and no one batted an eyelash. So I think his claim of gender-based discrimination is quite supportable.
Thanks for the info.

> Damore went with anti-feminist youtubers for a more friendly reception

Maybe understandable, but disappointing.
I'm not sure I would characterize it as optimistic. The subtitle is "Fifth Times A Charm!" and the bulk of it is talking about how many times Google has (mostly unsuccessfully) tried to make a product in this space.

I find Ron Amadeo's articles are often much more critical of Google than others writing about them. If I were to summarize his attitude in much of his writing it'd be "Come on, you need to do better than this, Google." It's refreshing because normally writers who cover a particular company almost always view them through rose colored glasses and minimize all the mistakes.
> diversity of what exactly is the target? Life experience?

Clearly not when every company recruits from the same 10 schools.
If you spend a lot of time railing on "SJWs", and comparatively little time advocating for an alternative path to a more egalitarian social order, I think you can be considered right wing. Supporting pot legalization doesn't erase that.
> Also just going to say, if you had taken away my smartphone/internet in highschool

"Smartphone" and "internet" are two separate categories, and the former is strongly associated variously low-value, deliberately-addicting behaviors. The internet still has valuable corners, but the action is now where the monitization's at.

High school (and younger!) kids (generally) using their smartphones for stuff like getting streaks on Snapchat, not turning themselves into autodidacts.
DJI has miles and miles to go on the support, quality, and remediation side, though. I've owned three DJI drones, starting with a Vision 2 Plus, and I've never once had a positive support or defect experience. Not one. The software is clunky, but getting better, and they badly want to lock you into their ecosystem -- as in, you must sign in to their cloud system now to use their controllers, and it tracks all your flights.

The ability to say "yes, I know, DJI, the tiny grass strip 1km from my house is an airport, but I'm fully FAA compliant with this flight" requires a multitude of steps, involving both their app and a Web browser and copying and pasting serial numbers from fields that do not permit copying, then the authorization you get only lasts for 72 hours, so you have to do it again. Otherwise you have to pay to be a "big pants" customer, but even then the experience is less-than-ideal, with a lot of pros turning to Russian software that doesn't perform the legal validation checks, etc. You literally cannot obtain this authorization without an Internet connection, because they store your attestations for liability insulation. So if you're in the field, and you forgot to convince DJI that you're legal before you went out, you're driving back to cellular range.

DJI's interaction with regulation, in particular, is a very broad example of protecting themselves from liability by shunting a lot of work to users of the equipment.

They also assume you have an Internet connection by deferring to Google Maps, with no offline ability that I can find. Google Maps does support offline now, but the way they embed it in the controller software, if I'm out of cellular range (which is a lot), my map box is a giant grid that moves around with the drone and nothing else.

I wouldn't remotely consider them for professional work, the way they're going, and I say that having dabbled in cartography, farming applications, and aerial photography. Sure, they can get gear out, which is where you're coming from, but there's a lifecycle of gear ownership that they pretty much entirely ignore.
I can tell you my experience. I see a lot of foreign code, since I work almost exclusively on legacy code (not necessarily old, just not supported by the original developers). Some I would call low quality, most not that bad. I have to spend time and effort understanding the code, even the code I would call high quality.

I get my customers after their original developers have gone, and after multiple other programmers have deemed the code unreadable and unmaintainable. My value proposition comes down to putting in the effort to understand and work with code that every programmer who looked at it before me wanted to rewrite. In ten years doing this kind of work I've only told one customer to start over from scratch.

Fred Brooks talks about "conceptual integrity" and the detrimental effect of too many designers and programmers in The Mythical Man-Month. If you read about the development of Unix and C at Bell Labs you come away with the same impression: a small group of like-minded programmers who achieved conceptual integrity. When only one programmer writes code that integrity usually shows. The more programmers involved the harder maintaining conceptual integrity becomes.
I haven't read the article (I'm part of the problem!) but headlines like these strike me as hyperbole. I recall some hubbub about excessive reading damaging kids minds. I heard some other stories about luddites lamenting the increased usage of pens for note-taking, claiming it hurt memory.

I also recall reading that we have changed because of reading and note taking. Yet here we are.

So while it may be fair to say "changing" it is harder for me to accept "damaging". Our species adapts to new circumstances and if the new circumstance is a distracting world then calling adaptation "damaging" seems unhelpful.
Autism is not an excuse. Damore has openly sympathized with white supremacist groups. The common practice of diagnosing and pathologizing white men that have been radicalized by white supremacy and seek to shape institutional policies around white supremacy, prevents us from fully engaging with the harm they cause.

Autism does not cause you to be a bigot.

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/931599879238967296
Sure and the planning at A Basin depends on the situation. If everyone is leaving from the same car, its easy. But if you have 3-4 car loads of people leaving and arriving at different times, you want to make sure a plan is in place before people have started arriving.
Would you go on the Young Turks if you were him? It'd be like walking before a firing squad.
This also applies to the radio. I typically have my radio cranked up. Any time I turn it off, I'm astonished at the noises my car is making. It always occurs to me that I would probably notice mechanical problems earlier if I was used to just listening to the car so I could detect changes in what it sounds like. Then I say, "screw that" and crank the tunes back up.
"If you change what he said it sounds worse" lol, is that seriously your argument?
That's exactly my point. I can't imagine any way of him saying the truth about the memo situation that wouldn't also sound passive-aggressive at best.
Both OnLive and Gaikai were absorved by Sony to form PlayStation Now, a cloud stream gaming services.

One would need a very low latency internet connection and the cloud hosted near by. In reality in 2018 you will never be able to win a Quake 3 Arena tournament (fastest known old school 3D ego shooter where only skills matters and low latency TFT screens with 2ms latency and special computer mouses with high DPI are required) over such a thing, but playing slower paced game genres work okayish to fine, often with quite low resolution. And the monthly payment is quite high.

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

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

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

And "GeForce Now is a brand used by two cloud gaming services offered by Nvidia. The Nvidia Shield version of GeForce Now, formerly known as Nvidia GRID, launched in beta in 2013, with Nvidia officially unveiling its official name on September 30, 2015":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_Now
You seem to be talking about algorithmic differences. Most of the time, when I see someone talking about code readability, they're not talking about the algorithm. The same exact algorithm can be implemented with varying degrees of readability.
The reproduction angle is interesting, to me, anyway. The article only really talks about worms and then draws a vague link to Eunuchs - given social factors etc. neither is that meaningful.

What's more interesting is how my health/lifespan is impacted as a transwoman... Fertility is pretty badly hit by hormone therapy for both trans men and women, and in a few decades you should start having enough people to see how that actually affects outcomes. Of course... the social realities of being trans could confound that data. (E.g., being socially isolated is not good for your health)
But then the question becomes 'literally anti-gravity', or more likely, 'personal flying devices'. Certainly not the same thing but, for the most part, the same effect.
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This is a false analogy, as presumably the schools will have computers for the kids to use. And at some schools, the kids themselves may even bring laptops! ;)
I've been paying attention to what economists say fairly rigorously for the last ten years and they have some huge blind spots. One of them is they completely and utterly ignore the importance of income and social stability. Which is they see any expenditures needed to provide those as a unacceptable drag on society.
Irrational analogy.

The problem is not the answers but the having of thema t fingertips. There is value in the slow process of looking things up in dictionaries or stepping through exercises. The downside of instant fulfillment of curiosity is arguably a shallow approach to knowledge; as soon as something become difficult or obscure, there's the urge to summon the answer from the internet, and if it's not immediately forthcoming either lose interest or expend energy rationalizing the default answer.