skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought a data-centered programming language that compiles to an Excel spreadsheet would be a Fun Challenge™ and possibly even useful. Spreadsheets are an amazing tool. This is an amazing demonstration.
Since about 2003 or so world forest cover has been growing - not decreasing. So the answer is we've already decided.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/glo...
Upvoted gray. I’ve observed at least one of my comments removed from HN. I was a liberal when I came to SF, but people shut me down constantly since coming here... I determined I am being bullied for the first time; as a 30+ yo man it is an interesting thing to learn to combat. Talking to homeless guys, I’ve no doubt what happened to some of them. Today I put out a substantial demo to address this in the way I know how, tweeted on same twitter handle.
See GP's comment. The lose out on companies that have now chosen not to operate there. Like small companies that don't want to risk being fined €20 million. It's not that they are companies that track you, it's that for many smaller/early companies that don't need EU customers yet, why even risk a mistake? And why risk the amount of that mistake on non-codified promises and subjective enforcement levels (i.e. "we promise only to use that number on the big players)?

If I were a VC, I'd tell my companies that didn't need EU customers yet not to sell to them until they are large enough to make sure they won't fall afoul of rules. Regulations almost always benefit the larger companies, even if they are well-intended. Smaller, more nimble companies almost always thrive in more open environments. Citizens of more open and less restriction/regulation encumbered environments often get a larger variety of businesses to use (sometimes to a fault, like tracking).
> Why is being "complicit" in same sex marriage any worse than being "complicit" in a marriage for someone who has sinned, possibly grievously, in other ways?

It isn't worse. I know pastors who would refuse to marry a couple that included someone how was divorced or a couple that was having pre-marital sex. They cannot get in legal trouble for refusing that but they might get in legal trouble for refusing to marry two women.

> that legality should merely reflect a particular snapshot of a particular group's morality

Part of the Christian push back is that same-sex marriage was a none issue until around 2000. It was still unpopular enough in 2008 that Proposition 8 passed, in California! We are just saying that what has been considered immoral and illegal should stay that way.
The Multiverse Is Real, but It Won’t Fix Physics
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Don’t be silly, there’s no point in making absolute statements like that. Everything needs to be qualified.

If you could become an imaginary micro unit more happier but it would cost 14 orangutans their lives, does it still hold? And for people on the opposite side, if saving one orangutan was guaranteed to cost a human their life - or perhaps their eyesight or a limb - would it still be worth it?

We’re not living in a 20s silent film, there are shades of gray in this world.
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Except that'd probably fall into the CFPB remit, which has just been significantly reduced in scope and veracity due to the current administration... :(
> not universally accepted moral code on others isn't exactly the nicest thing to do after all.

There is no such thing as a "universally accepted moral code."
(2017) (At least the study itself: "Published on 10 December 2017.")

Previous article: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/05/radical-diet...

And discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15873389
Of course your work benefits the bottom line, but being able to publish is often a perk that companies have to give to be able to attract and keep people who care about those things. It's actually incredibly insulting that you would assume you know the motivations of individual employees.

The world isn't as black and white as you'd like it to be.
I'm not sure which part of my comment you think you're responding to.

Seems like a generic rant against someone who might have said "anyone who doesn't exercise is a failure."
> How can they be both?

Best place to work if you fit the culture. Toxic environment if you don't.
Although it's hard to sympathize with an anonymous fake picture most likely chat bot, I'm not defending it's abuse. Only stating that it can be annoying for users.
I agree on physics, less on Calc.

However, the explanation behind such a program is probably the distinction between vocational training and academic training.
At least, here in the Netherlands, academic CS taught in academic institutions lies on the theoretical side.
In such an academic CS program there are some practical courses.
Stuff on databases, networking and computer architecture. But those are high level, and quite theoretical.
Were they not, there would be a lot of push-back because they are almost considered demeaning.

Meanwhile, with the vocational instituion, things are very practical as far as I know.
Much of those courses are actually building practical software. In large projects aimed at real uses.
Meanwhile, in the academic institutions, you'll have multiple projects that boil down to 'implement gradient descent in MATLAB'.

I've heard it said that even though the academic institution is much harder and prestigious, when it comes to making practical software you are better of taking someone from the vocational instituion.
Or at the very least, if you take someone from the academic institution you'll need to invest more time into training.

There is a bit of tension here where 'really smart people' who want to just become really good at a job are still expected to go to the academic institution for the prestige.
Then, those people get less practical knowledge than they want because they are at an academic institution.
Intel faces 33 lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre flaws
It's pretty clear when you read the docs behind it. It's only designed for people you know and trust. Presumably the banks agreed to this model as a way to cut costs while seemingly provide a beneficial service to customers.
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To be entirely fair, the option (at least on my Play store) gives options of "Do not auto-update apps. // Auto-update apps at any time. Data charges may apply. // Auto-update apps over Wi-Fi only."

It could easily and even possibly be fairly argued that there's a massive difference between updating 3rd party apps and updating the operating system itself.

The Play services were originally an immutable part of the core OS, but it meant that security updates relied on the manufacturer to push updates, which were useless useless at doing.

I am minded that everyone would laugh at me if I took an un-patched Windows XP system on the internet, yet using ancient Android 4 is still common place. A PC can function offline where as most people can't isolate a phone (from multiple networks) without loosing the core functionality. The PC can be blank; phones usually contain all sorts of personal and private information.

Personally I want OS's to leave me the hell alone, but actually, I can't really blame them for trying to protect their users.
Which confirms the first half of what I said - Trump Jr. was promised some dirt on Clinton, and not just dirt like "she said a bad word in private conversation", but dirt like "she committed actual federal crime and we have proof". The second part - that it all was a lie and trick to get Trump in the room to lobby against Magnitsky Act - has been confirmed by multiple sources present in the meeting and by otherwise knowledge of Veselnitskaya's activities. Of course, no mention of any hacking whatsoever or any actual information that ever existed.
...or you could not starve yourself on <900 calories a day and instead be a sane person and just eat low carb:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13300-018-0373-...
"Insulin therapy was reduced or eliminated in 94% of users; sulfonylureas were entirely eliminated in the CCI. No adverse events were attributed to the CCI."
Wow, that's pretty extraordinary, isn't it? Every single person in the non-control group eliminated the need for sulfonylureatic compounds and a massive 94% reduced their insulin level or completely got off insulin altogether. All with no adverse affects being recorded.

You don't need to starve yourself or go on some ridiculous diet. You just need to eat low carb and eat clean (a.k.a. "real" food) and your body will begin to heal in nearly every case. I suspect the few test cases that didn't improve were so far gone they were too metabolically impaired to achieve any positive results. The damage was likely too extensive and age possibly played a factor. For everyone else, it appears they can get rid of diabetes...if they actually care enough to do so.
He was terminated at Google's discretion under at-will employment, the same standard that might allow you to be fired for coming to work with blue hair. He sought relief under an exception to at-will, the NLRA, which protects concerted action to improve working conditions. The NLRB determined that because the substance of his action involved requests that Google might reasonably determine would be problematic under EEO law, that whether or not Damore's actions were unlawful, Google was within its rights as a US employer to terminate him.

It might help to pivot away from EEO law and to some other regulatory regime we work under. For instance, you could attempt to organize around reworking the way your company complies with the HITECH laws. What you'd be doing would certainly not be unlawful! Nevertheless, despite that fact and the fact that the NLRA generally protects employee organization, the fact that your employer has a legal obligation to comply with HITECH would mean that the NLRB gives them substantial extra deference in whether or not they can fire you for doing that.

On the other hand, if you were to organize around, I don't know, closed-door offices instead of open-offices, no such extra deference would apply.

(Re: my beliefs: I provided them as a cards-on-the-table disclaimer, not an invitation to litigate them; they're the least interesting part of this story).
That would be a narrow and incomplete reading of Damore's memo based on prejudice. Damore's description that on average men and women are different is not itself discriminatory or harmful since it's backed up by quite a lot of biological and psychometric science.

The question should have been "What is Damore advocating?".

And if they read the entire document then it would be clear that Damore was suggesting methods to bring Google's gender balance to 50/50 by making Google (and tech in general) more attractive to women by altering the software engineering culture to leverage inherent strengths that women (on average) possess.
The point is that if we haven't had all the opposition we would have been further with our development in this area.
This is a poor title choice. You should call it "Twitter for Mac is discontinued".

edit: nvm another post made it to the front page.
> and who believes strongly in the absolute innate equivalence in aptitude for our profession between men and women

Do you also believe in the absolute innate equivalence in motivation for our profession between men and women, so that in a perfectly fair society, we would end up with a 50/50 ratio?

Would this also be the case with other professions, such as nursing, psychologists, or social workers?
This is a reasonable assessment, but you still misrepresent Damore's memo - as virtually all who disagree with him have done since the controversy started.

> [...] that men are better suited to software development at Google than women

When you use generic "men" and "women", you imply he talked about a categorical difference. Damore explicitly talked about population distributions, even illustrated with a Bell curve. He said for example "Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions."

More importantly, he never said men are "better suited" to software development. You mention aptitude, when Damore focussed on preference and interest, based on a well-established literature of personality differences between men and women.
> Weight loss of 15kg or more was achieved by 24% of the intervention group compared to none of the usual care group.

> Diabetes remission occurred in 46% of the intervention group compared to 4% of the usual care group. It only occurred in people who had lost weight.

Unless the people with type 2 diabetes were fit and going underweight for the experiment, instead of implying overweightness is normal, could we say that a high calorie diet can maintain or accelerate diabetes?

This rephrasing suggests prevention.
I'm from New Zealand. Definitely no shooting drills. I think this is the first time I've even heard of the idea.

I just looked it up, and apparently the only school shooting ever in New Zealand was in 1923, by a Canadian... http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8112416/Murder-in-a-small-Ki...
> Since Zelle is all cozy with the banks

Zelle is owned by the banks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelle_(payment_service)
He did cite evidence for his claims, but the most widely circulated copies of the memo removed his citations.
How is a company that gives you a locked-down device that they drastically control, and refuse to provide source for "putting the user first" ?
No, in fact he argued the opposite: that Google should cease its policies that discriminate based on sex.
Any time I hear a very socially useful truth proposed, I get very wary. History is littered with ideas that were proclaimed to be true mostly only because it would be very useful if it were true. It's certainly no guarantee of illegitimacy, but if an idea comes along that basically says "hey, you know how your society likes to do X? Turns out that's the best!" I immediately enter high-skepticism mode. Everything from leaded gasoline to eugenics to the Industrial Revolutions views on the dangers of masturbation can be laid at the feet of people who so desperately wanted something to be true that they skimped on rigor and ended up leaving unimaginable suffering in their wake. When the doctor (I can never recall his name!) suggested other doctors wash their hands between performing autopsies and delivering babies, he was insulted and rejected, as the idea that doctors who wanted desperately to help their patients were responsible for the astronomically high rate of death of both mothers and infants was offensive. This is the opposite side of that coin.
There's a unity of the set.

The qualities of good horsemanship are essentially moral and physically cultivated qualities, and among those is the ability to be recognized as a leader and followed willingly by another creature in nature.

I am saying the qualities that people recognize as leadership and follow willingly, are moral qualities that can be developed and taught, and there is a history of those being taught through horsemanship.
PayPal takes 2.9% and change off the top. Banks do not charge for person to person transfers. There is no skim for expensive fraud prevention to come out of.
Flynn, a very high ranking administration member, plead guilty to lying to the FBI about his communication with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislak. This crime happened while Trump was in office (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/01/flyn...).

Why would Flynn lie to the FBI about this if it was innocuous? Certainly, he knows the consequences. You would like us to assume a 4-star General lied to the FBI about communicating with a high-ranking Russian official, because reasons. The rest of us are combining this with information on Kushner trying to set up a Russian back-channel, Sessions lying about contacts with Kislyak, Manafort offering Deripaska campaign briefings, Trump literally asking the Russians to hack for him, Don Jr. meeting in Trump Tower, etc.

People are speculating because the Mueller investigation is not leaking any information. The flip side is people acting like he has "nothing", meanwhile surprise indictments are flying and people are cutting deals.

==And now we have indictments for Russians doing the things we already knew they were doing==

So, yesterday this "assumption" was valid, but any other assumptions based on the information we have are just wishful thinking. Logical pretzel.
I think that's a side-effect of degrees that focus only on coding or applied math, whereas before the computing industry was as developed as it is now and there was less specialization within it, a CS degree would have covered the basic data structures and algorithms that were common knowledge then and still had plenty of time to cover systems things. My degree wasn't in CS - it included basically a CS minor, but it also focused on network protocols and hardware architectures that most CS students had never heard of. So when I was interviewing for jobs around graduation and was asked to explain everything that happens after someone types "google.com" in their browser, I could explain all the network protocols in detail right down to how binary was encoded into specific 5V fluctations on certain lines, DNS resolution, routing algorithms, the server's filesystem, etc. But when I was doing a coding problem and they asked me what the invariant was in my loop, I had to ask what an invariant was. And yet I had been coding full time for 4 years by that point and never needed to know that term. I knew stuff CS majors didn't, and they knew stuff I didn't. It was different specialities, each of which really filled 4 years of heavy, heavy semesters.
Being accused of being a racist on an internal company form happen to me.
The app is built to cut through the noise and find what's the most influential crypto news for the day. There are some other news aggregators out there but they mostly just ingest RSS feed and without a really good way to rank it. We are actively crawling and aggregating news from the web.

I just finished the MVP very recently, so I'd love to get your feedback. So far the coverage is pretty good and I've been using it constantly to stay tuned, but I'll be adding more news sources and improving the crawler in the coming days.
Hello Autoexec.bat and config.sys. :)
The GDPR is going in the right direction by creating a "bill of rights" for your data, so ownership is firmly delineated and all 3rd party use of data revolves around clear revokable granular consent.

What we need now is a "bill of rights" defining and preserving the notion of ownership for digital devices. Part of that should be that the device should only do what it's explicitly asked to do. Updates should be opt-in in nearly all cases, and mandatory updates should meet stringent requirements similar to vaccines. That is, only to combat major threats that apply to users as a group.
Yeah, typing in LOAD "Blah",8 whatever it was was so much easier and more intuitive than jupyter python notebooks. /sarcasm.
Plus, it's really nice having a REPL.
It would stack up well as a completely separate product for people who think raising animals for slaughter is immoral.
The subjects were under medical supervision ...
In reading the original article, I think this quote is the opening:

> Because companies have a duty to comply with equal employment laws and an interest in promoting diversity, “employers must be permitted to ‘nip in the bud’ the kinds of employee conduct that could lead to a ‘hostile workplace,’ rather than waiting until an actionable hostile workplace has been created before taking action," Sophir wrote.

If that is the case, the employees who create and talk about these blacklists - which appear to be well-documented according to HR - may be creating an ongoing hostile work environment long before this memo existed, which demonstrates Damore's point.
No, the Advice Memo repeatedly notes that much of the memo is not objectionable. The problem Damore faced with the NLRB is that Google was careful to terminate him specifically and exclusively for the parts of the memo that would advocate policies problematic under EEO laws.

They read the whole memo (and indeed summarize a lot of it, not just the prejudicial bits).
I've never found the BO of someone the same gender as me not repulsive. They universally stink. To the point that I know who does not at work and avoid ever walking behind them. Not wearing deperspirant (not just deodorant!) is poor hygiene as it promotes bacterial growth. I will never agree with someone who thinks they don't need to wear it.
Actually, science said:
"The researchers said people should be careful choosing how they clean the surfaces in their homes."
We've known that low-calorie dieting has this effect for some time; unless I'm missing something, this looks like solid confirmation of this point but isn't adding much knew to our understanding of diabetes prevention. The big challenges in this space are adherence, scaling access to treatment and creating long-term lifestyle change that will help the patient maintain the weight that is lost.

There's good evidence that ketogenic diets have an additive metabolic effect beyond pure calorie restriction which is exciting. Virta Health is doing some interesting work here and just published some results that speak to this:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13300-018-0373-...
I don't think its "ridiculous". Cash, Wire-transfers and Checks (especially Cashier's Checks) do not really have a reversal mechanism IIRC.

Once a Cashier's check goes into someone's account, there's basically no way for it to come out.

But the thing is: we all know these details already. When working with Cashier's checks, we know its insanely dangerous and to keep track of those little paper-slips. It seems like the general public doesn't know that about Zelle yet.
James Damore’s labor complaint against Google was completely shut down
> We are just saying that what has been considered immoral and illegal should stay that way.

But that doesn't seem like a reliable guiding principle on its own, e.g. mixed race marriage.

This is one of those things where there is no compromise that satisfies both sides, so from a least-harm perspective, it seems better to, as far as the state goes, pick the people who probably don't have a choice in the matter (I'm inclined to believe that homosexuality is primarily an innate thing, because I never chose to be straight, and can't imagine choosing to be homosexual) versus the beliefs of certain religious groups.

And the history of racial discrimination in the US points the way towards the reasoning behind equal-service type requirements for businesses. Any problems caused seem much smaller than the (proven!) potential for abuse if the laws weren't there.
Also, non-insulin dependent which lowers the risk considerably
Small-scale things like drinking fountains, public toilets, unpaved trails. It's amazing for travelling on foot in new cities.
On the other hand, Python's "batteries included" means you can go a long way without installing anything. Sometimes I think people forget to look in the stdlib:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html
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"Workplace anti-harassment policy". That's the term I was looking for. Thanks.

A good simple summary of what happened:

Your employer can have an EEO-motivated anti-harassment policy. You can organize with coworkers to improve working conditions. If your organization conflicts with the anti-harassment policy, the NLRB is likely to find that the anti-harassment policy trumps your right to organize.