skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could it be to manipulate buyer reviews such as in this case?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/02/06/these-people...
This generally sounds resonable, but I'm somewhat concerned about that part:

> Apport would be configured to automatically send anonymous crash reports without user interruption.

Crash reports could easily contain sensible and private data (e.g. file names/paths or usernames) and I wouldn't be comfortable sending them to an unknown group of people by default. Canonical would have to convince the user that anonymization is working really reliable for me to activate that feature.

Right now I'm always drawn between fear of private data leaking and my will to support them in fixing annoying crashes (nemo crashes almost daily for me).
How is designing controller around breasts sexist? And the game gotcha isn't inherently bad. At worst, it's about a guy playing a sexual game of tag with a woman. Even with today's standards, calling Nolan a sexist for the game or even sexist is a gross misrepresentation of what went on there.
Show HN: KeepSolid Sign 1.0 – a new Docusign competitor
Hi everyone, my name is Julia and I work with KeepSolid Sign - a new eSignature app for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and browsers. It is an alternative to other big guys our there, like Docusign, Adobe Sign and actually allows you to manage and work with your documents when there is low or no internet connection.

We just released out v1.0 version before a successful beta of the product and now are trending on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/keepsolid-sign

Posting here I am hoping to get some feedback on this version from people who actually need to sign documents from time to time or have used one of the competitor's apps.
We offer a 14-day free trial and 20% discount now on Product Hunt.
Let me know what you think, if you like it.

Thank you.
Casual lay observer here (i.e., don't treat this as coming from a position of being deeply informed). The phenomenon you describe sounds similar to the 'Nordic gender paradox' (or variations of the term). It's been a while since I last touched on it and I can't easily find a source worth pointing to - at least, one that hasn't been presented through a political lens - and academic names on the subject don't come to mind just now.

Essentially, despite various attempts to get to 'equal' gender outcomes in the most 'equitable' societies in the world, participation in jobs and industries associated with men and women remains stubbornly unmoved towards 50:50 (or whatever proportion is considered desirable). The suggestion is that it's precisely the relatively equitable and liberal norms of those societies that have provided the conditions for women to make use of their agency and choose roles according to their preferences. Whereas women in societies less predisposed towards liberal norms may be motivated by other considerations, such as the need to maximise their earning potential, familial expectations of success or a stronger sense of needing to prove one's potential and achievement (including perceptions of gender in their own societies). In the instance of the anecdote about your Greek colleagues, I wondered if the financial crisis was a catalyst for greater participation, along with the current trend of Greeks' tendency towards staying in HE for longer?

I've probably made mistakes or mischaracterised aspects of this idea, but that's broadly how I understand it. It doesn't answer the why of 'systems/things' vs 'people' (which has more accessible academic discourse than this does), although I think it offers a different perspective on biases that may be in play.
Honestly fine with this, mostly given how bad 17.10 is. These folks are basically flying blind — a mess of a release.
> actually jewish-marxists plots

Where did you see the word "Jewish". I didn't see it when I read the text, it's not in the relevant footnote, and I did a search and didn't find it.

Regarding the Marxist part: I'm not an expert on this but I believe it's called "critical theory" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory.
"Equality" is the sticking point.

Equality of opportunity (meritocracy) or equality of outcome (sounds like a nasty place where people are selected on things like race, or gender)?
Opt-in by GDPR means that you have to specifically click on checkbox, button, url and say "I consent on collection of this data(list of things that will be collected) on behalf Canonical LTD."
It seems like the way they made things appear to have substance in AR then is to drop down visual light to 15%.
I believe GDPR specifically disallows "checked by default" for consent.
This is a very poor article, masquerading as a scientific paper, but published in a political publication. The authors pick a few jargon-heavy effects, claim there's no evidence for those effects, and dismiss the entire argument, and fall back on the lazy "boys like things, girls like people" explanation, and is laced throughout with accusations of politically based dishonesty in opposing views. In other words, it's no scientific paper, but a political polemic.

Whether or not these few specific effects they claim to have debunked are real or not, to explain the gaps, you have to go far beyond a few narrow sociological effects. There's a self-reinforcing culture of same-hiring-same that glorifies algorithmic intuition as the end-all be-all of software development. There are cultural and fashion trends in the social media landscape that reinforce what's appropriate to be interested in based on your self-identity. The authors claim that gendered interest in CS and the like has remained "stubbornly low" because "women prefer working with people", ignoring huge evidence that even as CS has become far more human-centered and collaborative since the 80s, the numbers of women declaring it as a major have plummeted.
I have seen also a number of mis-diagnosis, the issue is that a number of characteristics of ADHD are common with other forms of psychological or neurological disturbs, and it is easy to put the actual issue under the (IMHO largish) umbrella of ADHD.

Of course medications may work if the diagnosis is correct, but medicatons are as well broad-reaching, i.e. I believe they work nonetheless in a number of cases even if the affection is not properly ADHD.
IIRC, which is a poor bet, I probably choose NVidia over 3dfx because of the OpenGL drivers. I was doing CAD, VRML, OpenGL stuff thru the 90s.
Oh what wouldn't I give to write triggers for AoE2 in Javascript instead of that atrocious UI.
I thought Apple OSX was Windows 10 Ultimate performance mode for professionals.. What other than dentist office xray and Auto-cad has anyone used it for professional reasons beyond word? I mean dont you set up a linux box or use a Mac to do stuff that wrings out your pc?
True, because removal of _all_ existing sessions and tokens should be automatic when 2FA is enabled (you're saying to FB: I only want to be using FB if I've completed 2FA). Under what circumstances would the user want existing sessions to live forever on old devices? (I can answer that : they would want that when they were making their money from advertising "engagement").
Once again: compared to other STEM fields, women participate less in CS than any other field except physics. By double digits percentage more in mathematics PhDs. Statistics is almost 50/50. Several rigorous earth sciences fields --- chem and biochem, for instance --- have 50% or greater female participation.

One thing all these fields have in common is that they are more intellectually rigorous and harder to succeed in than the computer software industry.

Clearly, they have something else in common. We just need to figure out what it is.

This essay, which invokes the "Google Memo", is subtly attacking a straw man. Even those almost the entire rest of STEM is better than CS, it's true that it's not balanced; it remains deeply imperfect. Physics and mechanical engineering, clustered with CS, remain the province of men. There's a expanse of STEM fields with female participation between 25-40% that you'd want to explain or correct. Is it stereotype threat? Implicit bias? Who knows? Probably not?

But that has nothing to do with why Google has so few women engineers. The work that a commercial software engineer does --- even at the lofty heights in which the profession is practiced in such a cathedral of software design as the Alphabet Corporation --- is simply not that hard; most of it is just wiring form fields to databases in new and exciting ways.

Whatever is holding women's participation in our field at or below twenty percent is artificial, and a travesty.
The GPDR asks for a deliberate action to opt-in (“silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity” should not constitute consent). So they should make it a very prominent choice to opt-in. No more opt-out in Europe.
Or, give them something as nice as Unreal's Blueprints.

The thing is, unless you're experienced engine development team that has a good track record of creating one of the best engines on the planet, don't expect to create something as good as Blueprints.
Background info: I'm a CTO for a US startup.

I completely agree that father's should also take leave.

I took two weeks paternity leave. It was one of the toughest but best things I've done. My wife absolutely needed some extra support and help around the house. As I is, even with my help I don't know how she did what she did. She's amazing (as are many mothers).

I wanted to take four weeks but I couldn't get it approved. Even though I have 4 weeks a year vacation (in theory). As it is, the two weeks was really tough to swing. No matter how many times a startup CEO says "take all the time you need"... they usually don't mean it. And with good reason; capital is very limited.

She worked for a large company and she worked until 1 week before the baby and went back 4 weeks later. She wanted six but we couldn't afford it.

As it is my current company does consulting to pay the bills and our president is already freaking out about one of our employees who is pregnant, expecting people work overtime to fill the gap.

Edit:

To add a little bit more detail. I find the 7 weeks in this article insane (awesome but insane). I could have never pulled that off.

Also, my wife's experience by different than that graph. She makes more now than when she had our daughter. With that said, she also finished her master's degree in Biomedical Engineering (part time, took her years) right before the kid so the degree offset the earnings drop she would have probably had.
Disregard my last comment, it turns out you're just an idiot lol
> Let’s start with the magnitude of stereotype threat on girls’ and women’s mathematics achievement. [...] It should be noted, though, that the largest study to date included nearly 1000 children (9-14 years old) and found no effects. This latter study is of particular interest, because it included adolescents, whereas most other stereotype threat studies were carried out with university students.

Well, what was actually tested was if showing girls and boys a video declaring that girls are bad at math would make them perform worse at a math test right after[0]:

> Students in the two groups were brought to separate classrooms and watched the video that either activated stereotype threat or nullified the stereotype and then completed the mathematics test. The testing session took approximately 40 min.

> The video shown to the stereotype threat group depicted a scientist telling students that recent research “shows that math intelligence levels among students do not change as students get older. Students are born with a certain amount of natural math ability which does not change.” Students were then shown brain imagery and were given a detailed explanation regarding how some students are born with better mathematics skills (as indicated by more brain activity). In this condition, the students were also told that “females have lower levels of this kind of brain activity than males. This makes sense because girls often get lower scores on standardized tests compared to boys.” These students were also told that the “test that you will take today is a very good measure of your natural math ability.”

[0]: An examination of stereotype threat effects on girls’ mathematics performance. Developmental Psychology Vol. 49, Iss. 10, (Oct 2013): 1886-1897.
Re social trends, it depends on the issue. LGBQ issues, sure. But on climate, safety, many environmental issues, gender gap and income inequality, Germany is out ahead.
I'm certainly not reducing the advancement to dollar values. In contrast, the expenditure necessarily must be evaluated in money and time, and it's an age old problem: who gets the research allocations?

The advancements are often unknown, but even if the genome project hadn't had the side effect of spinning off a massive amount of technology, the end product would be a significant advancement that would have accelerated all manner of biological research. This was biology's biggest project ever, and it is massively dwarfed by the boondoggles of physics.

In contrast, what can we learn form ITER? The opportunity for learning seems awfully minimal, and if it does complete its goal, as the article points out, it's not terribly desirable. And if the end goal isn't desirable, where's the side-effects of tech development? There appears to be none. However many contractors get rich.

Potential for advancements can be difficult to judge, and the biggest advancements are almost never expected. But when judging must be done about potential, it's typically best done by those close to the field rather than by political means. ITER seems to be more of a political beast [1] than a scientific one. A political beast that has now robbed the field of fusion of $20B of dollars that could have gone to other research projects. (There's significant intra-science politics of course, that greatly steer the course of research as much as scientific goals. However I'd much rather go with those political winds than the politics of nations when deciding research.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16380390
I think the parent new all this and was saying that when using flexbox with grid, each for their intended purpos, there are bugs in various browsers for them.
The only potentially dangerous step I see is:

> Apport would be configured to automatically send anonymous crash reports without user interruption.

I'm unfamiliar with apport, but crash reports may contain partial memory dumps with information you don't want collected.

Also,

> Popcon would be installed. This will allow us to spot trends in package usage and help us to focus on the packages which are of most value to our users.

Far less worrying, but I can see some people cringing on that one.

Barring those two this is the kind of checkbox presented on install I'd definitely encourage people to leave checked.
You are right with your juxtaposition of belief and truth.

Two minor points:

1) What is truth? How do you know whether something is true? By perceiving it? Is your perception not influenced by belief?

I'm not saying that we cannot know truth, ever. But we have to keep in mind we might be wrong, too...

2) Believing in something might _make_ it become true. Or, to put it differently: Belief may lead to actions which change reality - essentially a self-fulfilling prophecy.
One thing in Ubuntu's favour, they are upfront and clear about their intentions. So long as switching the data collection off actually does switch it off, I am fine with them going ahead with this.

Other OSes have much to learn...
I strongly disagree.

First, you assume that AI will remain less proficient than humans, and therefore suitable only for grunt work. Artificial intelligence has many advantages over us, and this is often overlooked.

- How much time does it take to train one software engineer? decades worth of time. Once you have one, what does it get another? about the same amount of time and money. In contrast, once you train one AI based engineer, the time to get the second one is about the time of serializing the state of one and deploying it multiple times. You could recruit and discard AI engineers on demand for whatever you need.

- They won't sleep, take breaks for lunch or coffee, get distracted, waste time talking about their car, vacations, wine tasting and other stupid things. They will just work. 24 hours a day. No breaks.

- They won't consume information at a rate of 200 to 1000 words per minute, they won't be limited by their visual field, or how fast can they type. They may not even communicate using words, just transfer thoughts directly among them, or even entire trained neural ensembles. Plus, once they learn something that may affect they collectively rather than individually.

- They will be aggressively supervised, ranked. Then, since their generations are shorter, this will cause them to continuously improve at a much faster pace than humans.

If this happens, the need for having the same amount of human engineers will be lower if not zero.

Some people may argue that the human brain has billions of neurons and synaptic connections. Sure. But which portion of that is actively used in developing software? remove motor functions, autonomous functions like regulating heart rate, respiration and such and you are left with much less.
How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion?
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I was mostly poking my head in to answer the question of why you're being down voted, IMO. I'm on the opposite side of your understanding of this research based on a cursory glance (nothing says 'unbiased' like including the phrase 'feminist campaigners' in the conclusion of a scientific publication).

This week's Weeds podcast has some interesting alternative theories based on the results from various Scandinavian countries where they legislated some gender equality stuff and it neither worked out as well as people on the left would like, nor as much of a disaster as people on the right predicted.

Reply to a reply, so I'm out, back to what I'm actually good at, building stuff for other humans to use.
> I am not sure that I agree with the entire article, but this part stood out to me. I never know how to express this in a way that sounds appropriate, but I feel that some of us might be better off if we focused more of our energy on actually developing in our chosen field and less on dwelling on how sexist everyone says the field is.

For some agendas, exarcebating an issue and exposing a divide between groups of people is more desirable than solving the issue itself (which is counter-productive to the agenda )
If the alternative to credentialism is idiots like Damore rabble-rousing other total idiots, sign me up for credentialism.
Assuming your work takes you anywhere outside, or in a vehicle, or in any public area, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy.

You can't reasonably expect someone photographing a public place to announce to everyone they're about to take a photograph, or get a waiver from everyone, or blur the faces of everyone who they can't get to sign.
Consent is just one way to legally process personal data. If their basis for processing it is something other than consent, an opt-out is them going above their responsibility.
Ask HN: Career Advice, should I move to the tech industry?
I have been lost for a few years in my career, and it's getting to the point where this is starting to affect me psychologically, and my relationships as well. My problem might seem silly, or it might seem like a rich person problem, I apologize in advance for that.

I've been working in the financial industry for about 15 years, doing quantitative trading (writing algorithms to trade). I feel at the top of my profession (I am paid very well, 1 MM+ and recognized in the field). However, a couple of years ago, I started to completely disengage. I felt I stopped learning anything. I think the field is very hard, and now I feel completely incompetent.

I feel like I have the following options:

1) Stay in my current job, but I can sense the pressure mounting due to my lack of results. My compensation has gone down a lot recently, and will probably go down much more. I have been trying to reengage, but have been even unable to do the bare minimum.

2) Go to another company, in a similar role. I feel I will be paid only the first year, probably 1 MM (they guarantee the first year payment), and then be fired as I undoubtedly fail (I am now unable to perform)

3) Try to change industries. Go to Google for example.

When I think about options 1 and 2, it makes me very unhappy. I feel like a fraud, and I feel very incompetent. Part of me feels that I should do 2, as I have a responsability to my family to make money. I certainly do not feel rich, as I think I might be unable to work soon, and the money I have saved will not last forever.

Option 3 makes me feel the best, I feel like I could learn something new and have a new challenge. However, I don't know if it's even remotely doable to earn say 500k+, and if Google would be even interested at all by hiring someone like me.

So anyway, that's my situation. I feel lost, and any advice would be higly appreciated!
Also TypeScript Type System: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833
The algebra (and calculus) of algebraic data types
Yeah, agreed on both points.
I have forgotten how to read
Google just wants to take control of publishers. And then dictate to them what they can do or not, when a publisher page is displayed in an email. No, to AMP for email
Adding voice control to your projects
A handful of interesting comments from when this was submitted about 9 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282091
Dont forget War.. we spend a lot of mindshare on murder.. What about Entertainment.. 20B is like how much we spend on movies last year.. so.. ok.. I will say boondoggle yeah..
Particle IoT Bid to Solve the Issue of Incompatibility Between IoT Networks
Windows as a main OS is a horrible experience IMO. I want a normal start menu. I don't want anything to do with the Windows app store which is full of 99% junk. I don't want most of the preinstalled bullcrap like the XBox app, people, Cortana, etc. I don't want automatic updates forced on me (especially when I can't even set reasonable working hours). Yes, I understand most of these things can be mitigated but it takes work. Prior to Windows 8, these things just worked.

I still have Windows installed but it is entirely to boot into Steam/Orgin/BattleNet. I'd rather not mess around with Wine since I already paid for a Windows key. But the Windows user experience has drastically gone down over the years. If you aren't a gamer, you should 100% be using a Mac or a ready out of the box Linux distro like Ubuntu or Mint. I absolutely hate what Windows has become and it is a miserable experience now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampon_tax

It's just normal VAT, the issue is that many "necessary" products don't have VAT on them, but tampons or pads do, even though they are a biological necessity.
It sounds like you are getting bit by something else, possibly fleas. Bed bugs do not bite “occasionally”. You’ll get dozens of bites, they last for weeks, and they are maddeningly more irritating than mosquito bites for longer periods of time. They also often take several hours to appear after waking.
There you go, in spanish:

https://politica.elpais.com/politica/2017/02/22/actualidad/1...

People died because the treatment was delayed for budget causes.
Particle Mesh – New IoT Mesh Nodes Compatible with Adafruit Feather Framework
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that anything that identifies consumer or group of consumers falls under GDPR.

General Data Protection Regulation, it's not only about personal information, but what data is collected by companies, who has access to it and why/how is it processed.