skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 25 times messages likely means there were 25 times more males than females in that particular room.

It's somewhat disingenuous to say "messages" when the study is specifically counting only "malicious messages" (and makes no mention of how many non-malicious messages were received.)
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> If you cherry-pick different studies you might actually find that consuming large amount of plants stresses our digestive system way more than a fatty steak with potatoes.

You really, REALLY, believe with all information being out there nowadays that a diet of only "fatty steak with potatoes" will be healthier for humans that the "balanced WFPB diet" that is nutritionfacts.org claims is scientifically proven to be the healthiest?

I think you have nothing to back that up. Please cherry pick how you please and present your evidence.

Dr Greger, who started the non-profit nutritionfacts.org, is often attacked for being an ethical vegan. Since people reason that would impair his ability to present unbiased evidence. Though no-one has ever gotten beyond claiming he's cherry picking. I wish someone would describe a different diet that is as well supported by scientific evidence, as what nutritionfacts is doing for WFPB.

There is some scientific evidence building up in for the Keto diet. But that is --as far as I know-- not a diet for life.

On the other hand there is the raw diet movement (basically an uncooked WFPB diet), but that has little scientific and mostly anecdotal evidence.
> Bezos cheerleaders and their ilk never seem to be willing to acknowledge that creating wealth is much harder than extracting it

I am utterly confused by this statement. Are you implying that Bezos isn't one of the largest creators of wealth in the history of the world?

When I think of all the time and money hundreds of millions of people have saved by the revolution in online shopping and shipping, not to mention AWS, my mind boggles.

As you say, you can also generate wealth my extracting it (e.g., mining) but Amazon has not done that at all. The entirety of the wealth they've generated comes from increasing efficiency and productivity. That is, to go from trees and dyes to a book in my hand used to cost $Y and now costs $X. $Y - $X is the wealth created by the efficiency gains in those processes.
Yeah internet shopping is decimating physical retail. The old multi story bookstores were you could find all kinds of stuff are dead. What's left is stores selling only the best sellers.
Most power systems in space are far from cutting edge technology. If you're going to spend many dollars to put hardware into space, your priority shifts away from peak performance and towards steady, proven reliability. Lots of old tech is robust and well-understood.

Also, work on robonaut was initiated 20 years ago.
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No, because they will be sued into oblivion.

Also, you will be sued if you hire one of those companies, as you will be breaking the many NDA's you had to sign to be allowed to use the hardware in the first place.

I've seen this happen, more than once.
> There is no good reason for Schufa to demand stricter documents than the state.

There is - they are nosy, invasive, predatory fuckers.
>The only counter is for an adversary to own your box, which is far more expensive.

or require your clients to run your software, like in AOL days
Also a more realistic setting/plot.

"hey, let's suppress rebellion in our outlying provinces by drafting their children and making them fight each other."

"wouldn't that cause rebellion?"

"Yep"
It would be interesting if the cure for/long delay of cancers was in an early and vigorous exercising of our immune system with respect to viruses---if the solution was a kind of continual vaccine for colds and viruses that needed to be updated regularly. Like an immune system gym/daily workout. I wonder if there is any research being done on that end of things.
Me neither. I know people who didn't go to the doctor because of this, or because "if you go to the doctor they will always find something wrong". Some of these people died leaving sons and daughters without parents, grandkids without grandparents. I not only don't understand the attitude, I find it borderline irresponsible/selfish. And I'm saying this from the pain of being one such son left without a father far too soon and in avoidable circumstances.
> what would they be winning?

Money from a successful lawsuit?
Men generally don't catcall or fondle strangers' bodies either. It's a general projection, "why would anyone do that?".
Ask HN: Good sites where you learn by building a project?
I can attest to this. I've just done a project in F# -- my first experience using a statically typed functional language beyond messing around in a REPL -- and the expressive power of this combination is intoxicating. I may have gone overboard; I found it hard to write procedural code in F#, so I split up my procedures into steps, with a type to model each step and a sum type to model the whole procedure. Coming from C / Python, where I was used to procedural code mostly working most of the time and then failing in hilarious ways, this was a revelation. A language where I can make the compiler check my procedural logic for me! Liberating!
One way in which horses shaped the world is precisely that they only existed in certain places: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOmjnioNulo Absence vs. presence is an effect too!
> What you would loose is the ability to configure the appearance of the decorations because the WM might do it differently.

WM is the place where I want to configure the appearance and behavior of window decorations. So that's expected and positive. Point to me.

> With CSD this is done by Gtk+ regardless of the WM.

No, it's done by every toolkit separately regardless of the WM. You have one WM, and you have many toolkits. This is how the user looses the ability to configure the appearance of window decorations. Point to me.

> A toolkit is still needed for buttons, text, etc.

Some compositors don't need it. But yeah, most do. Point to me anyway.

> Both come with Gtk+.

Yeah, Gtk+2, which doesn't do CSD at all. And in both Openmoko 2008 and Maemo 6, GTK+ apps were already looking out of place, superseded by Qt and/or EFL. I'm not even sure if it was installed by default anymore.

With CSD-only, stuff like Illume in Openmoko wouldn't be possible at all. It was already horrible to make it work well on X, don't make it even harder on Wayland!

> Have a look at Windows and you'll see that most apps will do it if they are able to. All web browsers, the file manager, Office, ...

Taking a look at Windows apps is the best point against CSD :) GNOME is following the example and starts to look awful and inconsistent as well, and let's not even speak about UX. Thankfully, I don't have to use it.

> Chrome and Firefox

Both configurable. For a reason. Even though they are actually in the minority of apps where CSD totally makes sense. Go figure.

Anyway, this discussion went far off topic now. If you want to, use CSD in your app or your toolkit. I don't care. It will look ugly, have bad UX and it will add to the configuration mess, but I don't have to use it, so it will be problem of your users, not me. CSD works under X already, with a few caveats, but under Wayland it's already fixed, there's no issue with it at all.

However, when you make a compositor for the desktop and you make it require CSD from every app out there, that's just evil, mean and creates problems. Don't do it.
> So I wonder if you could tell a similar story from some other website with a primary female user base. I supposed it would be very different.

It is not, I have worked on an app with many female users and they are just as mean and snarky as anyone.

"Fire the developers", "piece of shit xxx" etc was common.
Terrific, I am now using your Chrome extension.

Please also add the "search by this image" link, which Google also removed.
I noticed yesterday that you will get image results from YouTube but there’s no way to get the actual image it presents you. If you click on the search result it just takes you to the video.

So I guess they need to start by enforcing the rules on their own sites.
Google Speech API GaxError
I am using Google Speech API for transcribing an audio file using the following Python script https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples/blob/master/speech/cloud-client/transcribe_async.py and the following command :

python transcribe_async.py 1503489730.193982.flac

and the response I get is this one :

Waiting for operation to complete...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "transcribe_async.py", line 102, in <module>
transcribe_file(args.path)
File "transcribe_async.py", line 52, in transcribe_file
response = operation.result(timeout=200)
File "/home/toto/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google/gax/__init__.py", line 596, in result
raise GaxError(self._operation.error.message)
google.gax.errors.GaxError

I can't figure out what the error is. I might have configured the audio parameters wrong, I really don't know.

Thanks
Did some googling and based on this legal judgment it seems like his relationship with the woman at Citibank really helped in making withdrawals from the Dubai Islamic Bank https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2504755/dubai-islamic-...

Also found this article from '98 where a coworker asks the same thing and gets the same answer Ayyoub gave other people: "I asked how he had transferred so much money without approval or authorization," Salim later recalled. "Ayyoub said he had been under the influence of, or pressured by, the rich man to transfer the money." http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/babas-big-bucks-6359873

Also, this 2001 article suggests the transfers "were disguised in falsified bank ledgers" http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/general/jail-sentences-dropped-...
Too bad those algorithms don't know when I'm yelling at my computer because it's fucking up
I feel it would have been less condescending to say "that is a mistranslation", without posing it as a question. What do you think the translation should be? Wikipedia suggests it could be "We shall be present at your funeral" or "We shall outlive you", neither of which seem to be hugely different in meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you
That’s an intersting source that appears to have an agenda. The opposite side of the equation is probably something like this
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
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yes I agree, sometimes you really want that information. I recommend you turn it off (it's a one click in the toolbar) if you want to information or use the bookmarklet recommended here.
8GB seems like a lot until you try to run Eclipse and chrome with 3 tabs open.

Add in a time machine backup at the same time as a slack video call and it's game over.
transference
Great read, highly recommend!
Probably the best one I've found (for Rails, you build a Twitter like app):

https://www.railstutorial.org/book
so once all desktop is in the browser, can we then make the browser the sole interface, and all in one stroke have desktop apps again? Ouroboros eh?
> harass those doing the latter and accuse them of sexism day in, day out

I’m a man. I feel neither harassed nor accused by this post simply because I don’t harass woman. If you feel accused though, maybe it’s worth taking a closer look at yourself and ask why.
Playing G-d for no reason.
It used to be said that a drunk person would tell you exactly what he or she thinks about you or about any topic.

Internet anonymity ( or semi-anonymity ) does not affect the character. It exposes the character.
My ISP provides an online user interface where I can remotely change my Wi-Fi password even if I haven't explicitly enabled port forwarding. If they have access to that, I don't see why they can't easily see my network shares and its contents (I don't password protect the directories for convenience reasons).

I've long ago lost the PPPoE password and this same router gets it automatically somehow. When I install another router, it won't do that.
Dem legs! So disturbing to see them bend that way. Why did this thing need to be humanoid? Seems sub-optimal and uncanny.
And Scala (via Dotty) is being re-worked to have sum types with a cleaner "enum" syntax soon too: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/1970 (merged)
I had no issue signing up for internet with 1&1 for two years, and got a free SIM card in the process.

As for credit cards, that's pretty common, traditional banks want to see your salary landing on your checking account for a few months before they issue you a credit card. Comdirect gave me a prepaid VISA in the meantime.

Anyway I ended up using a debit card (the MasterCard from N26) for almost everything, and later on I got a Gold credit card from Advanzia (I believe they do get information from the Schufa, but you also start with a pretty low monthly limit and need to prove them you pay your bills before they raise it).
I never said that you should _only_ eat steaks and potatoes, did I?

This diet recommends a pound of fatty meat per day:
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/the-diet/

The book that describes the diet cites over 1000 studies and empirical evidence to prove that the diet is healthy. Now who am I to believe?
When I bought my fist house a few years ago here in the Bay. Comcast tried to give me one of their new routers wifi and everything built in. I let them but I wasn't happy. I hooked up my own router and ended up double natting it. After a few hours of frustration I went out bought my own cable modem. Installed that and returned the one comcast had provided. When asked why I sighted security and privacy concerns. Working for a fortune 500 means they could easily do some sneaking and see a lot of stuff that I worked on. Either way I use Ubiquity hardware throughout my house. Its a bit expensive but god is it good.
The GM badge should have been the clue, really.
I assume if she was a teller and saw, say $100MM, in an account assigned to him, it wouldn't be unimaginable for her to believe whatever story he conjures up.
Are any of these executives ex Walmart executives? I'm thinking a Elop -> Nokia sort of operation...
It likely will only take you an hour at most with LetsEncrypt. Why wait that long?
Why side projects are so damn important
His influence on robotics has been mostly negative, although the mechanism has been mostly journalistic stupidity. The "three laws" could never be implemented in hardware, they were just rules about how to make stories. "Suppose robots followed these. What would happen?" His answer was that they would quietly take over the world and keep us as pets. Because nothing like them could be implemented, there was no predictive value.

The actual outcome, without laws and with corporations standing in for the robots, is that we are livestock and vermin, according to individual usefulness and accidents of birth.
I saw this while riding the train to Boston with my daughter who is a volunteer educator at New England Aquarium. They have dwarf cuttlefish on display there now.
The books he is talking about were not originally about instruction in a language. They were great reference books in the days before Stack Overflow, or even before the web had so much info on it. Now, if you want to argue that they are outdated, I may buy that... but saying that the entire series is unhelpful just because it doesn't match their/a better learning style.... seems like a big misunderstanding.
With respect to accessing information, the big "fail" in a lot of science fiction of that general era is this assumption that the information source would be this curated centralized repository--Encyclopedia Galactica in Asimov's case but also see Niven/Pournelle Oath of Fealty, etc. Instead we have Wikipedia, the web more broadly, etc. You see this assumption of centralization, world government, etc. in a lot of other SF contexts as well.
Product and intersection are different things in TypeScript, as well. The product of string and number would be a type like { first: string; second: number }, which combines two different values into one; whereas the intersection string & number is the type of all values that are both strings and numbers.
VPN providers keep logs even when they say they don't, your browser transmits an often unique fingerprint, vulnerabilities allow disclosing real ip, and so on. Even darknet market operators with all the reasons for trying to be anonymous and paranoid get outed. It's just a matter of how much resources it takes.
Ok so what happens if I contribute to a open source project with my default fmt configuration if that project doesn't use the default configuration? Will people yell at me to "fix" the formatting?
Yes, I had a love affair with DDG for years but switched for good about 6 months ago. The only thing I went to Google for was a better image search with non-specific search terms. This move will prevent me from doing that any longer.
The data and credit scores are sent from the credit score agencies to each person directly (via snail-mail). After that they can decide to upload their "anonymized" data or not.
In order to develop a privacy focused uploading process we started the crowdfunding campaign.
Disagree strongly. And HN is proof that this isn't (entirely) true.

In fact HN is a lot nicer than a number of verified name forums.
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Yes, it is ad hominem, in the same way it's ad hominem when you are positively prejudiced towards the medical opinions of doctors, or how may be bigoted and discriminatory towards the medical opinions on Yahoo answers.

One-line arguments about ad hominem, bandwagon, or appeal to authority, are all lazy arguments.
Or is uncertain.
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Sublime Text with a few add on packages.
Following the same style guide as your coworkers isn't the same as writing code exactly the same way your coworkers do. I suggest following the style of a bandleader works in the same way. Individuals still have a voice - think of all the great players who made a name in various Big Band orchestras - but the style is still unmistakably that of the band and not exclusively the individual. Unless you're Melkor or something.
Ironically enough, as I type this comment on the internet, it's my general feeling that the internet has made the world a far worse place.
I like how the unstated assumption that unwashed CS nerds are obviously hostile towards women is not further examined.

Namely because that unstated premise is almost exactly the conclusion of the argument you're trying to argue against.
I don't have a precise number, but I need more than one anecdote from one website. Preferably something with data that was rigorously obtained.
> constraining the models enormous capacity for creativity without stifling its ability to learn

If I recall my AI history correctly all the 60s/70s research focused around logic based systems and inference producing things like Prolog. It was thought that one just simply needed to come up with an appropriate rule set to generate powerful AI. The issue of course is writing enough rules to give powerful AI outside some very constrained problem domains (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU) just isn't feasible.

The problem of current machine learning models being too clever for their own good and needing appropriate constraints feels similar. If only you had the correct constraints you could do all kinds of things. History repeating itself?
[...] I'm a 40 year old man who reads voraciously yet "most" books are neither appropriate, nor interesting to me.

There. Just a friendly suggestion: I think you may be a bit over-extrapolating from your personal experience and your sense of "common sense", to make overgeneralized statements about things as arguably complex and idiosyncratic as "appropriateness" or "interest" in books. (Hence, perhaps, the pushback from other readers.)
You don't sound doing something particularly healthy. Aggressive vitamin routine? Taking metformin? No amount of sport will compensate for fed up liver, intestines and whatnot over the years of this.

Working out 7 days a week is properly healthy (if done correctly, I do +-same but with different activities), but for example 100 pullups/week ain't any indication of great fitness, if you do them regularly. I do cca 60 every gym session just in between various other sets to fill up the gaps & during warm up, and I don't even look muscular nor am I any bodybuilder/powerlifter and I do weight >90kg. Now if you add some proper weights on yourself, that's another story.

Looking younger - that's often a function of people you are surrounded with. In France/Switzerland where I live, I think I look for my age and nobody mentions it. When I went home for high school reunion, everybody was asking me how the heck am I doing it to look so young and don't age. Similar for family/friends. Same thing happened to me when I visited Russia. Or LA, where almost everybody was overweight.

Some cultures simply have utterly bad eating & health habits and then even +-normal person stands out.
I'm currently using base16-summerfruit-dark. The light version is good too, but search in vim doesn't have enough contrast for it to be practical.

https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell
He should do an ICO and get back to the game
If you're referring to the comment starting with "It's not a big-O thing," I think that comment says the opposite. "Generics, lifetimes, and type inference" aren't "static checks and optimization passes" (within rustc)—he says the bulk of the work is LLVM dealing with the quantity of IR rustc generates, which is exactly what you'd expect from having heavy source-level abstractions like generics and type-heavy patterns like libstd's approach to iterators that all need to be compiled out.
This is my favourite stack here by far. What are your pain points?
There is such a law:

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

I'm not sure what the terms of these employee's termination actually is. The article leaves the impression that they were essentially tossed onto the street, but it could be that they were all given the required 60-day notice.
Is there a citation for this? I’d be interested in knowing if this is really true.
clang++ is slow, but it certainly feels faster compared to rustc (and I typically use the write everything in one include C++ style). I’m curious, has there been any outreach to the clang community about rustc performance issues?
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> Who the hell uses their baby as an experimental subject for something which isn’t medically necessary for the infant?

People with mental disorders
I don't think it was obvious to Orwell that capitalism would defeat, or even necessarily be superior to, communism. As a socialist he was strongly critical of both systems.
Most people are positively prejudiced towards their doctors because they're trained for 8 years to deal with medical issues. I'm positively prejudiced to the advice of my tax lawyer because he has spent 30 years working with tax forms. Doctors and lawyers make mistakes and give ignorant advice. Just because sometimes I find better information on google than through a doctor doesn't mean the entire professional system is bullshit.

edit: In fact this exact conversation is an interesting example. John Lott is a highly decorated academic and has received praise from notable academics. In this case I used google to discover his history of deception. So in a way I'm using "yahoo answers" to argue against the phd. With John Lott the criticism is coming from enough sources I feel confident trusting they're true.
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