skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's incredibly frustrating because if you look at something like their messaging strategy, it makes no sense. They come out with a new way to message people seemingly every year and then abandon it instead of building on their base and giving consumers the things they actually want.
In this case, it's a welcome consolidation of different existing wallet/payment products.

All large companies seem to have trouble with branding as politics take over and each group wants to have its own spotlight. Apple arguably had better luck due to strong centralized leadership, although that's also become undone in recent years.
Why did Google cut Android Pay out of Wallet if they were just going to do this? It's as if Google's consumer product teams all turn over every 2 years and each one reverses the vision of unity vs fragmented, specialized, self-competing products, executes their vision, and then leaves...
No it's not. It's on the basis that wealth has little to do with social class, especially if you make everyone equally wealthy. People will find new ways to distinguish between one another. It's intrinsic to humanity.
But out of the things he could have learned, which ones would make for a good public apology? If he goes public, and says - "I honestly apologize for my mistake, I never realized you people could so violently overreact to what's essentially politely expressed feasibility comment backed by scientific consensus, and that in the process you'll so maliciously misrepresent me and lie about my intentions and the contents of my memo" - how will that sound to the crowd? Because that's what his mistake really was - not realizing he's not dealing with rational people.
No. People went to Bars (or horse racing tracks) and didn't go home for that.
I see, as I only used Smalltalk during university for project assignments (Digitalk Smalltalk/V), I never got to experience that.
In this instance I really do not trust media sources, there is too much disparity between the reporting and primary source. I'll accept your having seen that, but, with the same caveat you point out. Indeed that is indelicate.
Huh. I use apple pay for probably half of purchases around Phoenix.
I don't really use wake up alarms so I'm not sure; I get up pretty regularly at 6AM (even if I went to bed at 1, it's pretty awful.
> Then, we measured customer satisfaction scores and compared them across control and treatment groups. In general, we found that customer satisfaction often increased by a few percentage points. This finding indicates that COTA delivers the same or slightly higher quality of customer service.
I’d wager they’re talking about the whole “The Secret” abundance mentality thing. “Believe and you shall receive... somehow”. That sort of interesting New Age stuff. I put no credence in it myself in terms of their stronger claims, but hey, CBT reminds me of it in a lot of ways and helped cure my depression.
The problem is that they completely botched the user experience a decade ago and since it's yet another orphaned product it's never been improved.

How it should work following a “build your first web app” tutorial:

1. User opens page

2. You detect an old login cookie and discretely ask if they want to login

3. If they do so, you see the previous page with more UI (e.g. subscribe, reply, etc.)

How it works now:

1. Users opens page

2. Instead of looking at the content they wanted to see, the user is automatically redirected over to a login page with a mandatory full two-factor check even if you've recently logged in to other Google properties

3. After completing that process, you're dumped on the groups.google.com homepage
4. Since there were a bunch of redirects, you have to know how to use your browser's history to go back 3-4 pages because simply hitting back will just redirect you to the homepage again.
As with prior posts on this topic, the comments from all sides are mostly cantankerous, polarised, and entirely unedifying. Suggest you don't waste your time & energy reading, let alone posting an opinion. Flagged.
The HomePod would be launched “in 4 or 6 weeks” according to the first estimates
IANAL, but as I understand it, it depends on what causes the discomfort. If your discomfort comes from the existence of other protected classes, like a baptist in a den of atheists then it's tough beans. If however you can evidence that they've created a hostile environment for you outside of your relation to other protected classes then yes that makes sense.
> you write him off as an idiot and forget him

Not really. I have a lot of faith in our engineering staff so I wonder how he got hired and how he avoids getting fired. The uncomfortable truth is that if he was an employee that "looked good" I would know the answer to those questions.
This is a big misconception regarding what professors do at research-oriented institutions.

Teaching is why people get professorships at teaching universities, where the main part of your job is to teach (typically 6-8 courses per year).

If you are getting a job at a research-oriented university, you typically teach 1-3 courses per year, and the focus of your activity is on running a world-class research program (doing research, training PhD students, and raising money to pay those students / buy equipment, etc.). Teaching is still important and takes time, but you have a lot of other responsibilities. There are an enormous amount of pulls on a professor's time, though, and most work very long hours (my colleagues and I probably work 60-80 hours per week and we aren't at Harvard).

I don't think it is appropriate to delegate teaching to TAs (I delegate much grading and help with homework assignments). Regarding pay for research assistants, there simply isn't a way to change this in the US. There just isn't enough government funding. To pay a single PhD student a stipend of around $30K per year for 20 hours of work per week* costs a budget around $60-80K with overhead and other factors per year. Many US agencies (e.g., NSF) only fund around $100-150K per year if you win a grant (7% success rate for many of them), so you can only fund 1-2 PhD students with that and you fought really hard to get that award to pay your students (lots of rejections). Most universities also won't let you pay them higher salaries, even if you want to as a professor.

I used to complain about these things as a graduate student, but once you get the job (and have made a ton of budgets) you see the world differently. I'd love to change things, but don't blame the professors for things way out of their control.

* 20 hours of work per week that's not related to their thesis, etc. Most of the time we are trying to get students funded on projects where that 20 hours of work does apply to their thesis, so that they get more out of it. They of course must work much more than 20 hours per week on their thesis project(s) to do cutting-edge work and graduate on time.
If you have a cellular equipped Apple Watch that you just want to use for music and a subscription to Apple Music, is storage a big deal?

On the other hand, my next phone will probably be the next generation 4 inch iPhone SE with the most storage I can get when Apple introduces it.

I'm really starting to like the idea of a small phone + an iPad over a slightly larger phone that really doesn't enhance usability for me.
I really doubt it is with his own money. Google pays pretty well, but he was only employed for a couple of years outside of school, so I doubt he has millions just sitting around. Almost certainly this case is taken on a contingency basis or they are using crowdsourced funds.
Argument by assertion, bold.
I believe it’s mostly single slit and diffraction, light can pass through holes smaller than its wavelength but even that isn’t needed just yet, nanophotonics will be the next step tho.

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jaynewu/Teaching/resolution.pdf
The parts of the defense industry you listed are the parts that benefit most from arms races between well funded nation states and proxy wars.

Basic hardware is cheap. Anyone can make it and that drives down price. The Mexican police can buy cheap guns and bullets from whoever they want. Stuff like radar systems and guided missiles are what makes it into the highlights list of the quarterly all hands.
> Are we still in the 1990's with a social equality facade?

No, things have gotten worse since the 90's. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/27/women-in-tech_n_69... Women have a >40% quit rate, so it's not just the hiring practices which need work. https://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/resources/womenint... (PDF)
Every morning at breakfast. Maybe other places during the day.
It's a very well researched issue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intellige...

There are more dumber men and more smarter men than women.
Ask HN: Who is hiring and sponsoring visas in US?
I'm a non-US citizen. I completed bachelor in Computer Science in US. I'm currently a Senior Software Developer in a multinational company in Eastern Europe. However, whenever I apply to US startups no one wants to even consider me. Any US companies (with US salaries) interested in hiring non-US citizen or Green Card holder without existing H1B visa?
the is supposed to show you how stupid i sometimes can be :P
Thanks for the comment. Replacing "artistic" with "creative" really helps. Gives the whole thing a different perspective.
> You're sneaking in your "prefer" with your "generally". Damore didn't speak just to preference, he also spoke to ability.

Ability follows as a result of preference. I am a terrible architect because I chose to become a software engineer. That does not mean that if I had chosen to become an architect, I would be terrible at it. If most of the people from my hometown made the same choice, then most of us would be less good at architecting due to that preference.

> So now let me ask you, do you think women prefer salads because of biology, or do you think that women prefer salads because of culture? You can say both but if so maybe you could say which one you think is the larger influence and by how much.

Personally I think it's almost entirely culture. I couldn't say how much is what, but it makes no difference. The point is that it undermines the incumbent narrative, which is that sexism and oppression are the only significant causes.

> Also, do you think that men are biologically better at eating burgers? Is this the reason they are more likely to order a burger?

No, but I do think if you're running a burger place and refuse to acknowledge the possibility that different groups of customers prefer different things, you're going to be out of business soon. Fortunately restaurant menu choices haven't been politically charged--yet.
Written by a former Android Police writer, yes. It's unsurprising it comes with an optimistic bent.
I'm like you pretty skinny. I started IF and also going to the gym to try and put on weight. I never liked eating breakfast but did it because I thought it was something I had to do.

It took me maybe a week or two of not eating breakfast until it felt normal - but now I could never go back. I feel much more in control. Before if I missed breakfast i'd be a mess and my stomach would be making all kinds of noises in meetings. Another plus I can eat massive lunches and dinners to make up for what I didn't eat at breakfast. I've still been able to gain weight this way!
Something I've gotten into the habit of doing actually involves writing on my arm in sharpie. I notate what I took, how much, and at what time.

I got the idea from a friend, who likes to experiment with some psychedelic RCs. The idea is, if for some reason he ends up in the ER, unable to communicate what he has taken to the doctor trying to help him, it's on his arm!
This could just be broscience (I have no formal education in these matters) but I've heard that the need to constantly have calories can be mitigated by eating a ketogenic diet, as it prepares your body to be able to run off of your fat reserves efficiently. If you are in ketosis due to diet all the time then it is easier to fast because your body is already in ketosis. Obviously if you are skinny as a rake you will want to make sure to make up for fasting periods by eating a lot of food during your feeding window, as I doubt you are trying to lose weight.
For anyone wondering the longest ETOPS diversion was for a 777 which flew (and landed without incident) for 192 minutes on a single engine.

http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=191343
I use Apple Pay regularly (multiple times per month) at Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Starbucks and Coffee Bean. On more rare occasions when I do end up shopping for cloths in person, I've used it at department stores.
A tag search returned two repos with solutions for ropemporium:

https://github.com/topics/ropemporium

Thank you for challenging me on my choice of wording. I shouldn't have suggested that the repo was interesting without properly exploring the contents myself. I only discovered that git repo after reading the article this morning and since I am at work I have not been able to explore the code myself. I posted the link just to share it with anyone else that might be interested.
I think the hangouts/duo/allo is a one-off, and that was because of Vic Gundotra loosing out?
> Exchanging a single word for another may totally alter the effect of a passage

I think that describes code perfectly.

> but a function that is subjectively easier to read can be shown objectively to produce the same effect as the original function.

I think you lost me here.

I've rarely seen two implementations of an array sort that have the exact same effects. Things like how fast it is, and how much memory it uses is important to me.

How many characters on the screen is also important too, although certainly in more of a subjective way.

> The cliff-notes version of Macbeth can never produce the same effect in the mind of the reader as reading Macbeth

And the bubble sort doesn't produce the same effect as quicksort.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.
I suppose if it's crowd sourced he has no choice but to tilt at windmills.
500 women in age give ~10 birth/year. Probability of birth in a given day is therefore 100 * (1 - (364 / 365.0) ^ 10) ~ 3%
How about the CEO onstage saying "this company is no place for anyone who voted Trump" ?
> The practical range of an electric car isn't great. There's no foreseeable story for a <5 minute charge.

The range of electric cars already meets the weekly average car usage (most people drive ~230 miles in an average week). You don't need <5 minute charge if you only need to charge once per week.

Yes, long trips are a thing, but they are exception, not the rule. Even if they weren't an exception, ~230 miles is nearly four hours of non-stop driving. A ~30 minute break every four hours isn't going to kill anyone, and may even save lives in reduced road rage alone.

> (Compared to fuel cells) Banks of batteries are dangerous in a crash.

Compared to banks of batteries, gasoline is dangerous in a crash (by a huge margin).

Also, while the fuel cells themselves are safer, you still have a risk of hydrogen explosions carting around a hydrogen tank, or refueling at hydrogen stations. Batteries at this point aren't so much more prone to explosion when charging by comparison.
> Except he never even said women on average are worse.

That is literally the whole point of his memo, that women have a different (i.e, worse, in this context) statistical distribution of ability and inclination to the tech field.

> “How dare he question the effectiveness of affirmative action” is also not an argument.

Sure it is. His argument is structured as follows:

1. Negative effect Q is caused by both A and B.
2. We can't do anything about A.
3. Therefore we shouldn't do anything about B.

That's just bad reasoning.
The ability to read a broadsheet newspaper rather than a tabloid 'newspaper' was the old 'class divide'. In the pre-internet days when newspapers were still allegedly important, not everyone could read a full length article in 'The Manchester Guardian'. (Not sure what the U.S. equivalent would be).

Papers like 'The Sun' and 'The Daily Mail' were there to entertain and brainwash. Their headline writers were absolutely excellent at what they did, e.g. 'FREDDIE STARR ATE MY HAMSTER'. Does that not pique your curiosity? There is not a lot that can be added to that story - did the hamster taste nice? Who knows, the hamster was never eaten and the article was a bit of 'fake news' (clickbait) and was there to promote the comedian's up and coming tour.

Most people elected to read something other than 'The Guardian' even if they went broadsheet rather than tabloid. For every Guardian reader there were ten 'Telegraph' readers and maybe three 'Times' readers. Now I was a paperboy back then so I read all the papers extremely quickly. Only 'The Guardian' and 'The Financial Times' interested me enough to not speed read. It amused me to see people waste their attention on the other papers. Why spend a Sunday ploughing through The Sunday Times? It was a good all-day read back then. Yet I felt a lot of people were going through the motions, trying to focus on these stupid papers that rarely had more than one genuine bit of investigative journalism in them, if that.

As a child with every paper free to read every day I gravitated towards the newspaper requiring attention. I could have just stared at Sam Fox's breasts on page 3 of the Sun but preferred the financial pages of the Guardian, followed by the international news. Importantly I decided this for myself, not out of peer pressure. Moving swiftly on to today and here I am reading HN instead of whatever junk appears as 'news' on the Internet Explorer home page or the online version of the Daily Mail. Why am I again in the minority of people seeking more than PR pieces about 'hamsters being eaten'?
In Canada, a lot of credit and debit cards are NFC-enabled. I discovered that the NFC-enabled payment terminals will take a payment via Apple Pay just as though it was a plastic card.

I've only seen two businesses actually advertise that they take Apple Pay, but I've used it at countless businesses that don't advertise it.
It gets worse: Microsoft’s Spectre-fixer bricks some AMD PCs
>My mother-in-law is a land lord in Los Angeles ... She is a staunch opponent of rent control.

Is this supposed to be surprising...? Regardless of whether it works for tenants, obviously rent control isn't there for the landlord's benefit.
We were talking about defaults and feelings here, I'm aware that it's easy enough to fix (and to be fair, I now often use ripgrep with the inverse alias)…

I'm generally a big fan of smartcase. Most of the time I don't care about case and it's easier to type it that way, and when I care, it's often mixed or upper case, so smartcase Does What I Mean. And for the few times when I explicitly search for all-lowercase, it's easy enough to turn it off (M-c, -s, :set nosmartcase etc.).
I use Apple Pay quite a bit in NYC! From my experience, most contactless NFC readers at payment terminals accept it just fine, but maybe I've been lucky. I even use it in cabs!
This addresses active developers who are looking to profit from renters. There are plenty of speculators in the Bay Area who purchase homes without renters or buy them out only to sit on the home and not rent it (since it decreases the value of the home). This isn't a rare thing, there many pre 1978 residences with nobody living in them owned by overseas investors.
And he made a few suggestions that he thought may improve the situation by taking into account the differences between men and women and their respective motivations.
You're probably looking in the wrong places.
Attacking Network Protocols: book review
Funny that you mention that. One my best friends is a direct descendant of Pascual Orozco and my Grand father was a Captain on Villa's army.

Madero was not topped by Orozco. Abraham Gonzales and Villa were always loyal to Madero.

Madero was topped by Huerta, Feliz Diaz and Bernardo Reyes who conspired with Henry Lane Wilson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoriano_Huerta#Revolution
It's worth noting that while this is true, it has larger effects than those immediate. High cost of living is detracting from the city's ability to attract valuable workers and businesses. I think there are plenty of cities around the country which are primed to take advantage of SF's loss of competitive advantage in real estate.
why do you think that he is necessarily wrong. After I read his memo, I would say it is debatable, not wrong. In fact you're attitude is a very clear sign of the silence culture being pushed.
I'm wondering whether he could fly the plane with a PPL under FAR part 91, general aviation? Then he wouldn't be subject to airline rest restrictions.
I use Apple Pay at least once per day accounting for at least 80% of my card payments. The online experience is way better than typing in card info.
I use Apple pay 3-4 times a week. Here in Canada we have contactless payments at most pay machines. The retailer doesn't need anything special for Apple Pay.
Sounds good! So let's just hire the best candidate regardless of race or sex. Problem solved.
Last time I was on Ubuntu, ctl+alt+F1 through F6 were virtual terminals; F7 was the gui.

Edit: I've usually been on Macs for the last three years, and I miss that functionality almost daily.
I use it every day on the London Underground. Wave my phone near the barrier and it opens.

I used it most days on holiday in Italy, whether paying for groceries or at restaurants.

There are only two things which stop me using it more often - there's a limit of £30(?) for contactless transactions, and one of my credit cards isn't supported.
The problem is, most of these sorts of services work via a network effect. Especially chat: You use the one all your friends are using. Payment is the one that all your accounts and stores you go to support.

Running a bunch of your own competitors is self-defeating when it ensures you don't have the network effect. Google Talk worked mostly because it was in Gmail, and everyone had Gmail. People who never used it had it, because Gmail.
If I see the contactless payment logo I'll usually reach for my phone instead of my credit card because chip readers are agonizingly slow.

Android users: did you know you can add shortcuts to specific cards to your home screen? Pretty neat even though I tend to use my default card for the vast majority of POS purchases.
>They're not stupid

And yet this blog page wastes ~1/3 of the vertical space with a top and bottom bar.
Yes, it is good and valuable for a society to be tolerant of diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. The limit to tolerance is being tolerant of intolerance.

The left has intolerant people as well. "No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."

However, somehow they aren't running the party like they are on the right.
When I had a confirmed deal and knew I would be invoicing in 30 days.
Darwinian Product Strategy?

Quick, someone should register it and publish a book and make a career giving talks about it...
If people "on the left" won't allow him to speak, where exactly do you expect him to go?

It's like the people on the right saying Edward Snowden is obviously a traitor/spy because he went to Russia. Uhhh... something very obvious is being ignored there.

Also, come on ... Joe Rogan is definitely not right-wing. Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin do not self-identify as right-wing. And your [1] just seems a little extreme. "The far right is just a slip away from the reasonable right, therefore the reasonable right is dangerous?" But you don't apply that same idea to the left? Why not?

The real pattern here is that he went to the shows that would have him as a guest for reasonable discussion.