skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s a sliiiight difference between “no factual basis” and “ongoing investigation whose results have of course not yet been made public.”

Yes there is. But given the way it has been conducted so far - where any information against Trump has been leaked very promptly - and yet in the whole time absolutely nothing confirming the "collusion" theory has been found, and everything that came out - e.g. Flynn, Manafort, Papadopulos & now Russian trolls' indictments - show nothing of the sort, it's pretty safe to conclude it won't be ever found, because there's nothing to find. Of course, one is free to believe otherwise, as one is free to believe we are yet to discover the lost city of Atlantis, the Yeti and the UFOs hidden in Area 51, we just didn't look well enough. Hope dies last.

> There’s also no shortage of publicly available information supporting it;

Yep, there is. If fact, there's none.

> I could reel off the long list of meetings and shady-looking emails and trump tweets

Yes, there were meetings and emails and tweets, none of them has any evidence of Trump colluding with anybody to do anything, let alone anything criminal or even out of the course of routine politics. They may be evidence of thousands of things, but not that particular one.

> I really, genuinely, honestly have no idea what that lunatic raving is

> you’ve chosen to fall back to playground-level argumentation.

It is a fascinating level of lack of self-awareness - telling me I'm on "playground-level" in the same sentence as as subjecting me to a playground-level insults!

OK, I will indulge your pretense. I was referring to the prosecution of Russian individuals under the theory that participating in US politics, by publicly expressing your opinion on social media, or other venues, while not being US citizen, can be criminal. Of course, there are also some instances of actual fraud in the indictment, like identity theft, which are different matter, but conduct like "tweeting about US politics", or even "tweeting about US politics while having a profile on Twitter falsely claiming you are an American" should not be part of any criminal prosecution or criminal indictment.
Most of us who went through the program regard it defiantly. I don't think I've seen anyone wear a DARE shirt in a way that wasn't ironic
Why couldn't you just call a cab?
Robot Mind Meld
Maybe it is sometimes? Maybe not? Nobody does a great job of quantifying this stuff. Sometimes a lot of lines where each line is very simple and clear is net easier to deal with than a few very short lines that are cryptic and whose details are hidden from you. Sometimes it doesn't matter either way, because once the code is done, it works forever and you never have to touch it again. Sometimes the languages that save you lines of code cost you at runtime, or compile time, which is a loss.

So I don't think it is always a big win, but maybe sometimes it is.
No, repeated studies have shown that -any diet- leads to weight loss. Drawing anyone’s attention to what they’re eating in a detail-oriented way helps lose weight.

When someone says “carb restriction is the ticket,” they’re attributing the effectiveness -to the carb restriction-, explicitly, as having an effect on weight loss notably above and beyond that of calorie restriction.

Pretty much no decently structured studies have supported that. A couple animal studies suggest shit like HFCS has a much more severe short term effect on insulin than other foods, but they’re small, animal based, and “don’t eat junk food” is world away from “carb restrict.”
no ads is one of the many good features. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Working mathematician does derive his ideas from axioms, it is ridiculous perception of mathematical process. And axioms are not logical consequences of sensible assumptions, it is try and fail process, long historical process. Intuition in mathematics has nothing to do with common sense intuition. Respectfully.
Most of the article was pretty good up until the close:

And as word gets around that Zelle and the banks are not helping people who were scammed, it will ultimately damage Zelle’s reputation and send users back to PayPal, where buyer protections exist.

This isn't "damaging" Zelle's reputation - you should never use Zelle (or Venmo) for this type of transaction. Asking your bank to "help" is like asking the US government for a refund when you mail an envelope full of cash to some anonymous person.
You couldn’t have said it better, I had the same kind of learning path as you did and I believe it makes everything a lot easier to understand since you can clearly see the full spectrum of what you are dealing with while programming and usually it helps open new doors so you can explore a problem from a different angle since you have a deep knowledge of your stack available to you from the start.
I think you would be familiar with what it takes to become a doctor v/s a software engineer, education wise, but let me reiterate:

For a doctor:
1. 4-5 years Bachelors degree
2. A Masters Degree (at least 2 years)
3. Residency (at least 2 years? And this is working weird shift at hospitals and whatnot)

For a SE:
Degrees are optional. Perhaps a Bachelors.

So if you require the same amount of rigor from SE's, that's probably gonna scare off many who don't want to spend the better part of their youth buried in books.

And since there is such a huge demand for SE's who don't need to know OS fundamentals, there is no push for having more rigor in the curriculum.

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic. I would certainly like there to be more generalists. But that would require the same kind of attention to credentials that doctors are put through. And I think a vast majority of current engineers are opposed to more formal education.
Would it be possible to rename the thread "Fired Google Engineer Who Authored Diversity Memo Withdraws NLRA Challenge."? I think that's quite a bit more accurate.
That's a poor professor of calculus. They should have been teaching real analysis instead. (In pure math, "Real" means "divorced from reality")
Maybe a fine mathematician.
I started with autohotkey. Still think it's the best gateway from user to programmer. keyboard and mouse macros. It's the first thing you learn on emacs and vim also.
Unfortunately. Personally I much prefer apps that provide a native experience.
> What's the doctrinal reasoning here?

Many religions view marriage as a sacred sacrament, instituted by God to join men and women. Under this view, same-sex marriage is easily viewed as mocking God and debasing the sacrament.
> non-aluminum based deodorant/anti-perspirant

Are there any non-aluminium based antiperspirants known?
If you take the time to read the studies you would see the diet leads to weight loss, carbs are not specific.
The null hypothesis would be to accept the state of things as they are.

If there are very few women in computer science, you wouldn't assume it was due to some conspiracy or "systematic discrimination" without any proof. You wouldn't enact policies of reverse discrimination (affirmative action) to correct some supposed imbalance of the system.

You'd simply admit you don't know why, and search for proof of the reason.
Here's how it works.

`go build` on a pure Go code only executes the compiler and linker of the go toolchain.

If you add cgo to the mix, `go build` might invoke system C++ compiler (gcc, clang, mingw) to compile the C part of the code and system C++ linker.

The issue was that gcc allows arbitrary plugins and if the right cgo flags were provided, gcc would load and execute such plugin, leading to executing whatever code was in the plugin.

That hole was plugged in 1.10.

This is the whole story. There are no other vectors of executing code that is not part of Go toolchain.

Then again, what is your threat model?

If you worry that blindly compiling my evil package will execute my evil code during build, you should also worry that linking my evil package will execute my evil code when you run your compiled executable.
Huh? where did you get "zealous rebels bent on burning the world" ?
Better battery life? Lower memory usage? Integration with the platform conventions?

I don’t want to use Twitter in a tab.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Websites, wrapped web views, react native, et al solve a developer’s problem. They do not solve any problem I as a user have. They make things worse, the only question is how much worse. How much better are you forcing me to pay? How much cognitive tax am I paying?
in summary: a bunch of MBA types who belong in the sales department at Oracle have drunk the koolaid.
Not all of them. He also misinterpreted several, and stretched the conclusions beyond what was reasonable.
The Mess at Meetup
This is false. It’s scientific fact that different selective pressures result in different evolutionary outcomes.

The null hypothesis, unless you discount evolutionary theory, is that all things are different and almost nothing is equal.

The burden falls to the leftist to prove equality depsite differing evolutionary pressure.

Many make the claim that humanity was created relatively recently by a deity. “God made us all the same”, while being a statement I don’t subscribe to, is at least a consistent belief.

What’s bizarre is this piece of moral archeology is still firmly implanted in secular beliefs, absent scientific backing.
There are lots of things on my list you could do that were simple & effective that would provide me more value than this.

Historically the argument against them have been about adding needless complexity. I wonder who was asking for this and how they got it prioritized.
? Ant and Maven work fine in my IDE
> This is one of those things where there is no compromise that satisfies both sides

Agree completely on that point.

As much as I don't like the outcome, I think you are right on what the legal outcome should be based on the cultural viewpoint that homosexuality is innate.

A) Interracial Marriage is immoral.
B) Homosexual Marriage is immoral.
C) Remarriage (after divorce) is immoral.

Part of my disagreement is that I see B and C as related while you (and most of America) see A and B related. Alas, it seems like there is no way to convince the country of my viewpoint so I am stuck putting up with it.
We don't have solid evidence that amylin is killing islet cells, just circumstantial and in vivo work.
Although I've had similar experiences, have you tried it recently? It seems to be much better. And the F-Droid version is nag-free. I've not found a more flexible mapping program. Unusally for an OSM program, it even supports online tiles - I have mine configured with offline maps overlaid on Bing satellite imagery if data is available.
The phrase human nature invokes thoughts of an unstoppable, universal force; a truism of homo sapiens. And perhaps if I was brought up within the appropriate environments, and with unparalleled amounts of power potential, I too would, in a matter most unstoppable, embody the nature we are talking about.

But a vast majority of humans are never in such a position.
And a vast majority of humans suffer under the oppression of such people.
Adaptability under oppression might be human nature - it is, in fact, a widely experienced piece of the larger 'human condition.'

I just do not think that the coercive nature of the few, which becomes enshrined within Western institutions, bring about absolutism to human nature.

Are these natures embodied in Western society? Yes.
Are these natures the status quo of the West? Yes.
Are these natures within all of us? Maybe.

Are these natures 'Human Nature?' Certainly no. How can they be when they are entirely inhumane?
If the Celts themselves pronounced it with a hard C and so did Romans, then why should we not?
This is a nice writeup but my own personal modification of this model is to host an MDA at home where I've got plenty of space and it costs nothing. But then forward all mail to a proxy on a VPS that only does spam filtering and never saves mails on disk.
Maybe a stupid question, but shall we enter Twitter/LinkedIn/GitHub handles or full URIs?
step 1) collect underpants
I use onebusaway almost every day in Seattle, thanks for your work. Edit - i see you have a donation page.
Personal responsibility for what? One's own choices? I choose not to exercise. I've tried it plenty of times at the nagging of busybodies like you. I don't like it, and I don't want to do it. Why do YOU care about MY choice in this matter?
Your complaint doesn't make much sense. These apps are pretty front ends for cloud databases, just like websites. You don't demand that websites serve you one version of javascript and then never update it again. These are not standalone local apps. They are client-server networked apps that need the client and server to stay in sync for them to work. Uber and Apple/Google have solved the problem you experienced by having the apps only be auto-updated while they're being charged so they don't chew up your battery. You decided to break that feature and then complain that your magical cab hailing device was slightly inconvenient.
Its much easier to manage multiple accounts. I think on the website you can only be logged in as one account at a time. The twitter app has a vertical 'tab' for each account.
Where do I go to add my "this is a dumb decision, Twitter should fix its botting/fake account problem" take?
It used to be much nicer to use, back when Twitter acquired it. (It was called Tweetie then.) The notifications were better, the mechanics of doing things like following conversations or refreshing a conversation were simpler, filtering options were better, etc.

And I don't think it had a prominent spot in the dock... IIRC its icon was mainly in the menu bar.

It's been a while since I used tweetie or twitter, though, for very much at all. I'm really sorry to see it go away more because it used to be a nice UI playground for a talented developer than because of any recent experience with it.
Funny... I didn't even know that book existed until I was a few years into learning how to program my C64. I honestly thought you were supposed to figure things out by randomly PEEKing and POKEing addresses to see what they did. I had complete tech illiterate parents and no mentors existed to point me in the right direction.

I remember visiting some other kid who had a C64, and his dad had given him the Programmer's Reference Manual. He never opened it and didn't care about programming at all (he just used the thing to play games). I cracked that book open and my mind was blown!
No, he tried to use unrelated data on the biological differences between men and women to justify why Google shouldn't try to reach out more to women to diversify their workforce.
Correct me if I'm wrong - I haven't tried it - but it looks like you should be able to run OpenBSD on ARM https://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html

I'll check what the energy consumption on my router is. I'm using an AMD chip which I had lying around. You're probably right that it uses a bit more power than necessary.

I was thinking about getting something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Firewall-Micro-Appliance-Gigabit-Bare... which uses 10W. It should be easy to install *BSD on something similar.
I assumed they meant “natural” (I.e. ineffective) solutions.
If his memo had been exclusively about discrimination against conservatives, he wouldn't have been fired in the first place. The obvious reason Google fired him is that he was now poison in terms of working with others, especially women, because he was saying that women as a whole were either less suited or less inclined to be engineers.
They should be faster: https://golang.org/doc/go1.10#performance
IMHO, the Advice Memo's conclusion is summarized by this sentence:

> Damore's statements about immutable traits linked to sex — such as women’s heightened neuroticism and men’s prevalence at the top of the IQ distribution — were discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment, notwithstanding his effort to cloak his comments with “scientific” references and analysis and notwithstanding “not all women” disclaimers.

I find this disturbing.

I don't know whether Damore's assertions are scientifically accurate, but the NLRB appears to be saying that it doesn't matter. Stating an unpleasant truth would constitute discrimination "notwithstanding scientific references and analysis".
If you actually read the lawsuit, you’ll see Google cultivated an openly hostile workplace towards a significant portion of their employees and insulated the attackers from HR reprimands.
A technology change in the 1730s made horses viable viable plow animals. It was a lighter metal plow (name escapes me), and ploughmen switched from oxen to horses.

Horses were previously used mainly for military and business transportation via carriage and carts, but this change made them economical for farmers and ploughmen.

Thing is, the temperament and intelligence of horses were different, and the non-military horseman as a profession was born. That was the origin of a lot of the so-called "gypsy," mysticism about "whispering," as there were tricks of the trade that ploughmen used to protect their business.

The history is fascinating, and not unlike the way crypto is today. Where a former exclusively military technology proliferated to a trade class, who organized to "professionalize," it to preserve the integrity and value of its secrets.

They formed something called "the society of the horseman's word," which was a pseudo-masonic group modeled after what Millers had done in their own trade. There is a bunch of hocus pocus around their history, but viewed as a trade association or guild, it makes economic sense.
Well programming is one piece of the puzzle. I also miss the days when qbasic was preinstalled and easily accessible.

But what worries me more is the actual deployment of the application you write, which is getting more and more complex quite fast.

It seems, I'm in a rare place, where deployment consists of installing a database and extracting an zip file. There's a script you run and the (intranet) service is ready. Updates work exactly the same.

Sometimes I feel a bit ashamed, when clients watch me extracting a zip file, but then I experience deployments and updates of other so called enterprise systems and am completely baffled by their complexity.

Server provisioning and orchestration. Container managment. In memory caches. Sharded databases with master slave setups. Load balancing with health monitoring and what not... And to manage this mess you need a mix of bash scripts, fiddle with permissions, run terraform which itself runs ansible which deploys some docker containers... And when there's a tiny problem the guys in charge are completely roadblocked for weeks.

I have no idea how some people can live with so many layers of complexity and I fear the day, when I need to dig into this mess, eventually...
The more recent generation of bari surgery approaches are more gentle than the first generation. That said, I agree, it’s not a free pass.

Thing is, we have about half a century of consistent clinical findings saying, without exception, no diet-based approach shows long term weight reduction. The most successful have zero effects by 5-10 years out.

Bari surgery is the first and only intervention we’ve had that has shown sustained weight loss over 10 years.

I don’t mean to in any way understate its dangers or its difficulty. But from a medical standpoint, I have to raise a red flag when someone says “hey, instead of using the only treatment that’s ever been shown to have a sustained effect, you should use a variant of a treatment we’ve spent half a century proving doesn’t generally work.”

The linked article phrased it as being for people for whom bari isn’t an option, but even the Lancet article proper - iirc, as I read it at the beginning of the week - phrased it as, “there aren’t enough bari surgeons to go around, so in the meantime...”
For me at least the killer feature in the twitter app is the global hotkey I can press to hide/show it: when I have 5 seconds of downtime I can press the hotkey, read three tweets, and then send it away. Great for filling short pauses while other things load or I'm waiting for a response from someone.

Fortunately Tweetbot has that same feature now, so I've switched to it.
I think people are more bothered by the stupidity of BN leadership than by their greed. Corporate is defining policy which is actively contributing to significant drops in store sales and then laying off all of their full-time retail employees which will further drive down their revenue. They used to be a very strong brand.
To be fair, Microsoft is still doing it (maintaining several revisions through security and bug fixes) with Windows 10 and Server 2016 and priors, it's just not visible to customers outside enterprise. The change is the expectation for your typical consumer or small business user, who are now used to everything updating and obsolescing periodically.

I don't like this attitude either, though. Developers have gotten fat and lazy not dealing with any sort of variation in deployment, let alone versions.
Everything is all Android or iOS. All Chrome and maybe Firefox. x86 or ... maybe arm. And not be connected to the Internet? That's unpossible!

With hindsight and better tooling we should be able to handle more complexity in how products are used, not less.
But when the press defend themselves, it is obvious where the financing is coming from. Thiel's innovation was the secrecy of his passing ten million dollars to a third-party litigant.

http://fortune.com/2016/05/25/thiel-gawker/
> This is a newer one to me, off the top of my head I'm not aware of from where the marriage act would be considered the sin vs the homosexuality itself.

Sin is normally considered at its core an offence to God because He is the only perfect one thus He is the only one with legal/moral standing to take offence. This is often highlighted as the reason that Joseph, when his master's wife wanted to sleep with him responded "How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"
Even for more advanced web-dev stuff I'd argue that the tooling has made things much easier for getting started. For instance create-react-app does all the heavy lifting in basically a one-click package.
It helps to think of poaching vs preservation not as actions of individuals, but of communities.

In Africa, for example, tourism has become a major economic force in many rural areas, with rare animals being central to the attraction. Since those communities are as tight-knit as they are in small villages anywhere, they have both the incentives and the means to stop individuals from undermining the local economy.
> They do not solve any problem I as a user have. They make things worse

I mean, webapps obviously have a positive value for you over the alternative of not using the service—otherwise you would be doing exactly that (and maybe using a competitor's service.)

At least personally, I appreciate first-class web-app versions of apps (with or without wrappers), since I use a not-very-popular OS and web-apps are basically the only way any company is ever going to give me a version of their software I can use.
In abstract mathematics, one can choose any axioms one wants. To derive all kinds of consequences/theorems.

But respectfully, ZFC came about because of logical paradoxes that couldn't be accepted as consistent.

You can create a new number system and derive all kinds of consequences but the truth is, most mathematicians care more entirely about prime number theory on the naturals that are entirely based on counting.

Most of modern math is based on the natural numbers. You can't remove all intuition. The thread that holds our love for math is also the same one that tells us we are exploring consequences that tell us a dearth about our universe.