skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> through the initial phrasing of the statement, a good portion of people will be alienated

There are plenty of people out there teaching us about feminism. Trolling Twitter to find straw men to burn is not constructive. It's not every woman's responsibility to teach us about feminism. They get to be angry and frustrated; they don't have to be perfect ambassadors at all times.

> I'm curious about the intent and goals behind these tactics.

These aren't tactics. These are just people fed up with the patriarchy.

> If you don't think I'm being earnest then why bother responding?

Mostly because I find it hard to believe anyone's actually worried about male genocide, and false outrage is like the #1 tactic in discussions like this. You can see it in other responses like "well well well, who's SEXIST now?!"
Eastern European and Western European countries' past history and experience is very different from one another. And events that happened 600 years ago influence that world-view to this day.

The way an "enlightened" Frenchman or Italian might view Turkey is very, very different from how a Bulgarian (such as myself) or Serb would view them. As to who's more "correct" in their view, well - that's a whole different subject.

These are complex issues and calling Hungary a bunch of racist twats is exactly the same as what Hungarians are doing to "refugees", who, interestingly enough, are disproportionately young men, in good physical condition, running away from countries that are not Syria or otherwise in a state of war. Some of the photographs I've seen of the border crossing show a distinct and very noticeable lack of women and children. And that in itself is also a very interesting subject we could debate for hours.
> EDIT: "Graphicraft" is even present in the images in the article..."

But how did they know that before they were able to view the images?
bummer... I grew up watching ski movies and listening to my grandfathers stories about hanging out and filming with Warren and other pioneers of skiing way back in the day up at Cannon mtn and elsewhere.

Definitely a legend who adapted right alongside with the sport!
You just said it, for the history. It's just interesting to read about people who think so differently and their culture. Sort of like historical science-fiction.
Same business day? What year is this??

Many places in the rest of the world, have realtime money transfers.
You can archive your email by using something like this: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault
Creating a simple extension to block websites
Hexaflexagons are great and Vi Hart is great. Nice share.
Yup, my coin is safe.
For the Tether to exist, someone's supposed to give Tether USD in exchange to USDT. If these exchanges are trying to avoid USD, where's the USD to buy the Tether coming from?
Ariane 5 had two failures and 3 partial failures, I'm only referring the the most recent streak of successes which Ariane just broke, and comparing with the same from SpaceX.
You can request early access here: https://posts.google.com/bulletin/share

I think the potential for this is huge. Though it's a bit different, I've been using the Citizen[1] app for a few months now, and it changed how I look at my neighborhood.

Not too long ago I was walking around and Citizen told me a pharmacy had been robbed a couple blocks away. After waiting a while to be sure it was safe, I walked over, hoping I could say hello and offer some support to the owner. I like making friends with local businesses.

Alas, it turned out to be a Rite Aid, so I didn't go in.

But still, it's amazing that my phone connects me to so many things--Donald Trump, Meltdown and Spectre, popular movies, my upcoming flights--and so rarely connects me to my own neighborhood.

I think I'll love this, if they do it right.

[1] https://medium.com/@Citizen_App/introducing-citizen-a8d2f3fa...
They are not competing against Google, they live mainly from their funding.

With the rise a Chrome and the fall of Firefox, I wounder why Google is still giving them money. Maybe the PR loss from pulling the plug would still be too big?
AI Algorithm Can Read Your Mind
Is your sandwich bad for the environment?
The two books I've read that have shaped my worldview the most:

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein - A classic SciFi novel that digs deep on relationships, politics, and religion. Like a lot of old SciFi, it's filled with blatant sexism. If you can look past that, it has a lot of great lessons.

Island by Aldous Huxley - a beautiful look at alternative societal structures, psychedelics, and the cruelty of the western world overcoming sacred places.
Sure, but you need a large seed number at some point for functions like this. ex: Rayo's used 10^100.

So, they are all going to be take large value and use it to boost some other function m(x). I just happen to pick a large f(x).
Unfortunately, there are hundreds of words that pose this kind of problem!

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faux-ami
I thought this was going to be something interesting like them encoding your private data into the dictionary set to obfuscate the communication. Apparently it's nothing at all.

Also worth noting iPhone sends a lot of information in the HTTP headers about your phone - like model number. Android does the same thing. Also simply plugging your phone in to USB (not accepting any on-screen dialogs) will save the IEMI and other device IDs into your system log. If you ever have a device stolen I suggest you run $(zgrep -i iphone /var/log/*.gz)
I agree with you that this statement, on its own, does not imply all men are like that.

However, the following concerns apply

1) I as a (non-bigoted) white man do not trust the good faith of the person speaking (in context, at Google)

2) I have seen analogous comments about eg. black people be auto-interpreted as bad faith when context made it clear that it was not bad-faith.

3) The inclusion of "white" and "man" in that statement are unnecessary, so them being included in spite of that is a signal of bad faith.

I would like to work in a place where everyone is intelligent and good-faith enough to interpret this sentence in its reasonable sense. But the reality is that such a place doesn't exist. At best I can get a place where statements against white men as a group get this treatment, but statements against other groups will always be interpreted as bad-faith, regardless of context.

I would like for all ambiguous statements like this to be interpreted on the same standard, but as long as they will not be, the next best step is to err on the side of caution and have a blanket ban of things like this
AR system lets doctors see under patients’ skin without the scalpel
This reads like the "Carnage" speech that Trump gave at his inauguration.
The Irony of the Pope Decrying Fake News
Yeah, I was thinking of a C++ implementation. The nested for loops get optimized very well for the 3-opt case. There's also a couple of tricks one can do with preloading (simd) of distances for evaluating 2,3-opt simultaneously. That all fits into 200 lines of code. There's also the fact that after executing the best moves there's a lot of previously evaluated moves that are still valid. This also fits into those 200 lines.

Not trivial, but IMO less trivial than self-organizing maps.
Thanks for the info! Like I said, I'm not an expert, and I live in the NE US so my prospect of ever seeing stars is pretty much nil regardless. :P
Conservatives want political correctness to die but not if you are referring to white supremacists.
This is very cool:

> Extensions can now override the proxy settings in the browser which has been another highly requested feature

I see that there's an opportunity here to improve the experience of using SOCKS in the browser. Pretty cool.
Saildrone: autonomous sailing craft with instruments for collecting data
The users of democracy?
This could best be described as a "Ketamine Timeline"
Show HN: Stylepill – Share your project's UI components with your coworkers
Company shoots shiny orb into orbit and angers astronomers over ‘space graffiti’
Godal Escher Bach - I think influenced myself and a lot of people who think about AI.
Evolution doesn't give a damn what you think a brain region is called
Not going to lie - first thought from headline was "how does a blood thinner target the wrong customer segment?? Have you ever been to a coumadin clinic?"
And then I realized the issue.
Cold or flu? This useful CDC symptoms test may help you tell the difference
I'm not sure if you're legitimately confused on this subject, or are deliberately misinforming people.

Just because an exchange trades tether doesn't mean their reputation is staked on it. Exchanges do not vouch for the instruments that are being traded on them.

Tether is issued by Tether Limited, which is a shell corporation wholly owned and controlled by one exchange - Bitfinex. Not 'dozens of exchanges.'

Allegedly, when someone gives Tether Limited $1 USD, they give that person 1 USDT. In reality, Tether has never actually been audited, and for all we know, they just give themselves 1 USDT, and sell it on the market... Without keeping a 1:1 reserve.
I wonder what kind of organisation other people are working in.

We do 30~60 minute meetings that are reasonably done well, people are impacted by what is discussed.

But honestly it’s nothing so difficult or riveting that needs everyone to focus like crazy for an hour straight.

Then people talk slowly, have to explain details that half of the room knows but not the other one. People ask questions that you might not care about but the rest of the people do, and you won’t stand up and go away just for a 5 min question.

Then focusing 100% of our intention doesn’t shorten the meeting. We tried, and it wasn’t more efficient in any significant way (who cares for 10min gained for 50 min of full focus?). Instead people would just skip meetings altogether, because the balance between the info to share and one hour of their time was almost always in favor of their time, and dreaded to no end mandatory meetings.
ROTI scores were horrible while never improving.

We just had to stop.
it was a slow-ish 6 months, but I'm cash flow positive, but in the last 2 months after the launch of my second product it's gone crazy - both Hydra and Signalbox

this month I've 4x revenue, next month is 20x already booked, I turned down an acquisition offer 2 weeks ago from one of our customers, and next week I had to cancel speaking at an AI pitch conference thingie because I'm going to discuss acquisition from a different customer, wish me luck

I would like to tell my story, but frankly, my todo list is mental. I've just been interviewed by the telegraph, a UK newspaper, so there'll be an article there

https://ramm.science/ for those interested
> there's no law to prevent me from drinking bleach if I want to, but that doesn't make it a good idea

you sure? https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2005/05/20/why-i-cant-tinker-m...
OnePlus is owned by the same company that owns Oppo and Vivo, so they aren't really a small manufacturer.
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> The "slightly different variation" has a huge impact on how you write code.

From my years of experience with a language that has both variations (Perl) - it doesn't have much impact on how you write code at all, except making the language a bit more flexible and expressive in rare situations.

I consider usability of programming languages to be rather important and would like wrong ideas not to be claimed as terminology there nor conventions. Wrong people shouldn't be pushing wrong terms into the field they have no understanding of.
To me its not the quality of the maps, but trying to extend their walled garden to my car
Perhaps sea-lioning should be known as "petersoning" henceforth.
I liked Google Maps on my iPhone right up until they started nagging me to sign in before I could get directions. The minute I saw that screen, the app was gone.
It was probably an Iridium satellite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTGVuPr9Epg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare
It never hurts to ask but you likely have no leverage. After all the company by definition doesn't plan to have a future relationship with you.

The best opp'y is if you have a good relationship with someone higher up in the organization who's still around and might be willing to do you a favor -- possibly (though unlikely) a bit more cash, but possibly a job referral, especially useful in your industry.

What leverage? Well remember I said the company "doesn't plan to have a future relationship with you." The only leverage you really have is that they might have a future relationship with you: i.e. you don't take the severance and (lowest risk for them) you may no longer be bound by NDAs etc or (highest risk for them) you might sue them, so they're paying in exchange for you agreeing that there are no open issues between you, possibly among other things.

Also, straight cash is unlikely to appear (among other things why you? What about that other person of ${ethnicity}/${gender}/${age} different from you? That's a lawsuit waiting to happen and HR will likely quash such a suggestion.

BUT: you could offer to help "tidy up loose ends, document anything, etc" in exchange for them covering your COBRA until you get a new job / six months go by, which might be a suitable fig leaf if you know a higher up.

And the company can't extend your normal health insurance except via (taxably) paying COBRA premiums as the health plans require that eligible employees work a minimum number of hours/week, typically 32.
How Whitney Wolfe Herd Changed the Dating Game
To draw what I see as a parallel in my mind. What you are saying is equivalent to saying that the point of the #MeToo movement is something like

>Because harassment against men is a sideshow, a minor issue. It is a joke to elevate it to same problem level as harassment by men. Now, to your point, any SPECIFIC incident may be treated equally and should be, but taken on the whole, it's ridiculous to treat them equally and to expect people to use language that treats them equally.

It seems like doublespeak, bigotry against whites cannot be both treated equally individually but not treated equally on a whole. That might work in the ideal but it will for sure not work in practice because you will end up creating resentment among whites who have been mistreated and are told "Your problems are not as important." This resentment will fester and end up radicalizing some and on a whole result in a net increase of racists.

It also causes a problem when in the future you have accomplished what you are aiming for, say in 2050 there is no longer any bigotry by whites. Yet, there will still be bigotry against whites. Does it the become a major issue? Will we then elevate it to the same importance as the current issue?

Do you see where I am coming from? How I can see this attitude is not the right one to take if the end goal is equality for all? You don't have to agree with me, I just want to know if you see what I am seeing.
How the Data That Internet Companies Collect Can Be Used for the Public Good
We will probably see less acquisitions of product-oriented startups (e.g. Nextdoor) from Google unless the startup has some core tech/market Google needs.
You can also run NSD as an authoratative frontend to your BIND servers, and unbound as a caching resolver with forward-zone entries to your BIND server for your domains.

This is what I do, which allows me the full gamut of BIND features without exposing those servers directly to any networks (there is a non-routed vlan that nsd/unbound/bind servers use). This is using split-horizon, DDNS from ISC DHCP and DNSSEC, so not a non-trivial setup, but it is also my home network setup so not so heavy duty as to be particularly hard to set up and automate.

I also have a round-robin DNSCRYPT setup hooked into the whole thing for semi-anonymity of queries.
Use this to get rid of the obnoxiously large sticky header https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
Jobs post are not allowed. From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Can I post a job ad?

> Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

> A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there. [...]

> The other kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. [...]

But IMHO this is an special case that deserve an exception. (Usually following the rules the 100% of the time blindly is not optimal.)

This is a very big/popular project, and it is the first hire, so the are changing the internal organization of the developers. (The #87 hire will not be interesting.)
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From what I can tell, that assessment is unfair. I do not find him to be like the typical knee-jerk, reactionary talking-heads you see on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc. His analysis has a broader, philosophical and historical perspective. Case in point:

Postmodernism and Cultural Marxism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoG9zBvvLQ
Revenge of the CLI: A transformation through voice and AI
> It's all part of understanding the culture of the time.

Fortunately it's not all that -- there are quite a few techniques inside that one can employ (e.g., meditation) to achieve, with practice, certain mystical results
You’re nuts — The Wire, by acclamation, is to TV as Shakespeare is to literature.
> Because bigotry against whites is a sideshow, a minor issue.

Then why all the resistance to addressing it? If it's such a small problem, it should be a simple and harmless thing to tackle it along with all the other kinds of bigotry. Carefully policing what kinds of bigotry are to be addressed or not sends the implicit message that some kinds of bigotry are OK. It also makes the overall anti-bigotry project harder because it turns what could be a universal moral appeal into a targeted condemnation that elicits defensiveness and justified accusations of hypocrisy.
> "nationalism is racism" and the corralary "strong states are fascist"

Which is entirely backed up by the history of ultra-nationalist states.
Just thought about this game when I read the first comment, scrolled and here I was! But I concur.
CTRL-A is the default for GNU Screen, and when you're developing a terminal multiplexor, you sometimes want to work on it inside the terminal multiplexor you're hoping to improve upon. :)

See the tmux FAQ: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/FAQ
I actually touched on this in my recent article "Is Search Solved?": https://austingwalters.com/is-search-solved/

Fact is, I'm fairly confident with the greater and greater pull of social media and walled gardens, indie writers are simply fading away.

I know I stopped writing because it's hard as hell to both rank and share content.
Why not using a web site built on postgres or mysql database to track balances then, instead of using blockchain and call the thing "cryptocurrency"?
Nothing so fantastical as that. There were sects of Christianity that followed more ancient traditions alongside their Christian beliefs. One popular set of knowledge (Christianity) and one arcane (Gnostic/Hermetic). You had to be initiated into the knowledge by a mixture of ancient and adapted rites. There were a number of disparate groups working from a similar or similar range of corpora.

The mystical timeline is parallel. There's a layer and then another layer. So what your common Catholic would have believed in 1500 was childish elementary mystical understanding to the arcane society member who knew the "real" or Gnostic truth.

I'm doing a terrible job at actually explaining this well. I'm giving you the very-diluted roundabout explanation of what I meant.

For a better understanding have a quick read through some Wikipedia articles. If your history of Christianity is not very thorough, then I recommend brushing up on that as well for a more rounded understanding. If you get into some of the reading, you'll understand 100% of those wacky conspiracy videos on YouTube and why people should read more, and how important context is.

My references are generally western-centric, though some of these topics make inroads to China and India (which has its own gnostic traditions IIRC).

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Down the rabbit hole you go:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus (read many of the links)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism (read many of the links)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries

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

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

And down the Judeo-Abhrahamic-Christianity path:

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

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

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

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

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

and just keep going.
But that isn't how tech currently operates. If I have a gay coworker on my team, we get along fine, I have never said an ill word or done an ill deed to them I can still get labeled homophobic for speaking in favor of traditional marriage. I can still be disciplined just for words.
The best way to control your opposition is to organize it.
I'd see them in Atlanta.
They are. I’ve seen this bus stop ad. They are targeting SF entrepreneurs who need help with video production / logos / design / etc.
It's the same in the UK with RSGB. Very easy.
I'd guess his position is more that nobody can buy or control changes to Facebook's ranking system, other than Facebook.

Which, even if Facebook decides to forgo profits in favor of "good", doesn't preclude a government passing a law that "All social media sites much prefer regime news stories over anything else."
Well good thing your personal experience translates to all other 25 million people using Thunderbird.
As snowboarding grew in popularity it just wasn't feasible for the vast majority of ski areas to continue disallowing them even if many skiers would have preferred they did so. The situation was actually worse as just the percentage of snowboarders; a mixed family or group of friends aren't going to go somewhere that one of their folks couldn't board at.

Interestingly the percentage of boarders is down a bit though still significant.

>Sad statistic: of people who put on skis for the first time (and remember first timers get free tickets and equipment at most locations in the US): only 25% of them ever put skis on a second time!

Not really surprising. Equipment is much better than it was when I learned but I nonetheless remember skiing having a fairly painful learning curve for me. I'm sure a lot of people go out, they don't really have the right clothing, and they fall a lot, get cold, get wet, and really just don't have a good time. I'm sure it's true for a lot of other sports as well.
This Amazon-Backed Startup’s Microphones Could Become Ubiquitous
Most people use personal email for newsletters and when they forgot their password.

In the professional world, you either use some form of webmail or Outlook.
> The most important thing here is that there's now a serious plan in place to move Thunderbird off of XUL and XPCOM.

Well it is only a six month contract for a single developer.
You link it with your facebook id, anything you share in addition about your personal preferences is always of great interest.
You make some great points here. However, isn't 27 vehicles small potatoes? Tesla has almost 500,000 cars on the road and it also has 5 billion miles driven. That's a lot of training data. The approach to self-driving cars is largely training a model, so the data from 27 cars is actually extremely underwhelming.
Fetchmail?

https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail
It's a way to be cheap. And honestly hiring through Upwork is a terrible idea.
> Some of the photographs I've seen of the border crossing

and you trust those photos?