skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody advocates creating policy based on racial capacity, though.

There absolutely are people advocating creating policy to the specific benefit of some race(s) over others based on the underlying premise that racism/oppression must be the only significant cause of inequal statistical outcomes. This inherently rejects the possibility of different (generalized) capacities between races, among other potential contributors (culture, individuals' decisions).

Do you feel like that, too, cannot end in a moral place?
Yahoo Japan to launch cryptocurrency exchange in 2018
Ex-Pivot here. The kool-aid was amazing. Would drink again.

Best communicators I have ever worked with.
Technically, it's not death rates that matter, but occurrence rates. Death rates could decline because of better treatment outcomes.
John Bolton Was Early Beneficiary of Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook Data
>> facebook has very successfully created an ecosystem which makes it very very hard for you to escape and remain sane.

Really? Ok granted, I'm probably "old" for an HN user, but to me Facebook is a system that creates an artificial sense of connectedness. I don't consider that an essential service.

Do we all need to be connected to everyone and know what they're doing at all times? I've drifted away from friends I had 20, 30, 40 years ago, and that's perfectly OK. If people are important to you, you will find a way to stay connected. It's not the end of the world if you lose touch. It was a perfectly normal phenomena before social media, and it will be after social media as well.

As I've gotten older, I've noticed that I prefer fewer, deeper relationships than having a large number of shallow relationships. That's why I tend to use email/instant messaging with only my close friends/family. I have a Facebook presence, but it's only there to maintain weaker connections to people outside of my core social circle.
No it isn't. It's a feature of what Muz.li added and isn't as bad on other medium articles.
Why is Obama considered black? The very fact that some races bind harder than others should indicate that our racial labels are not tied strongly to genetics.
If we trace an idea (like abolition or gender equality) back to its beginnings, we'd expect to find that the idea was controversial. It must take time for an idea to persuade people, even others of the same movement (who might be primarily focused on other aspects of the movement).

So I think it can make sense to praise Enlightenment-era anti-slavery thinkers and attribute their anti-slavery to their ideals (especially if that's their explicit reasoning), even if not every Enlightenment thinker was anti-slavery. Wikipedia's article on the Age of Enlightenment lists eight major figures[1]. Of those, four are notable for their opposition to slavery[2].

That method shows less support for gender equality being traceable to the Enlightenment. As far as I can tell, none of the eight major figures supported gender equality. A few of Wikipedia's longer list of Enlightenment intellectuals[3] did (e.g. Marquis de Condorcet, John Locke and Mary Wollstonecraft). If they were the first-ever feminists on the path that led to modern feminism, that's evidence that Enlightenment ideals sparked that. But if the base rate of feminist thinkers was similar in the period before the Enlightenment, then it wouldn't appear that the Enlightenment helped. I don't know the answer to that, though for what it's worth, the Wikipedia article on the history of feminism[4] has a whole section called 18th century: the Age of Enlightenment, so it seems that the writers of that article thought the Enlightenment was relevant.

[1] Beccaria, Diderot, Hume, Kant, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Voltaire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment

[2] Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Voltaire

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intellectuals_of_the_E...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_feminism#18th_centu...
"the morning was too short" = "we need butts in seats 9-5 because reasons"
Ask HN: Do you miss the headphone jack?
Apple removed the headphone jack almost 1.5 years ago. Google followed suit, among others. In my personal experience, this has held me back on upgrading phones (I was set to go Android until Google released the Pixel 2 without a headphone jack). Recently, I am using an iPhone 8 for work, and I get annoyed with having to use a dongle to use my favorite headphones. I have a Bluetooth headset but hate that it is unusable unless charged.

Thoughts on your experience so far? Do you miss the headphone jack as much as I do?
> Today Blender is one of the industry leaders, but it started quite small, three decades ago.

Which of the major shops are using Blender?

Edit: This question isn't a dig against Blender, y'all, I'm genuinely interested in where Blender is seeing industrial use, as the article doesn't touch on this!
I’m working on a technical analysis alert site for cryptocurrencies. There are a few out now, but they are limited to a few TA algorithm’s and a handful of intervals.

I’m aiming to offer as many algorithms/candle intervals as I can and make them fully customizable. Also implementing a screener and the ability to test your alerts through papertrading with historical data.
Interestingly enough, Google's initial share price wasn't set by the banks, where they took the Dutch auction route.
I did, including the comments to the article where they clarify that the follow up videos were taken with high-beams on, i.e., in dissimilar circumstances. And the picture in the comments showing the location of the crash, where there were no streetlights in the immediate vicinity, and a large bush shielding the median, from which the victim is alleged to have come from.

I think there are serious questions about why the Uber car didn't detect the victim, given all the sensors it was supposed to be using, but "came from the shadows" is an accurate description based on the Google Street View and overhead views of the crash site.

It helps to read the entire article before commenting.
That sounds to me like it was probably submitted twice, one got upvoted and then flagged.

As I understand it, you can't downvote posts. So a post should not drop from 48 points to 20.
Divided We Lead – CEO activism has entered the mainstream
Yeah, I'm sure they're keeping A LOT of data. Metadata, search history, profiles browsing, app usage times and dates... Unfortunately there's no way to know exactly what data are they hiding, unless you're Zucks or something like that.

As far as I know, living in the EU does help: my understanding is that within the EU, all your data belongs to you even if it's stored by Facebook; as opposed as the US, where Facebook is the rightful owner of the data you provide.
If you travel south from Scandinavia to sub-saharan Africa, you will encounter every shade of skin colour from really really white to extremely dark brown. It's a continuous spectrum, and drawing some arbitrary lines delineating different "races" makes about as much sense as all the other borders the colonial powers loved to think up.

But the real problem is obviously how rather useless it is to sort humans into some set of boxes. Any individual should be treated as such, and judged by their behaviour. Differences in behaviour between "races" are either non-existent or so small it takes extremely high-powered empirical studies to find extremely small effects.

To use an example: say some statistics showed that race A is 2% more intelligent than race B, on average. Using such a data point for decision-making is statistical malpractice. Because the variability of intelligence within each group will mean that any single individual from A only has an advantage of maybe 0.5 percentage points of being smarter than an individual from B.

Now that's not strictly a problem with the science, and more about its misuse. But there really aren't any compelling uses for such research. And even if your work is done with the best intentions, you can't just ignore its possible misuse.

With the world's history of racial animus, the least one should do is not to use the term. The science will actually be better for it, because for any genetic phenomenon you might want to study, the likelihood of it neatly following the "race" borders of the 19th century is no different than random chance–unless you're studying skin colour.

Look at the distribution of the "sickle-cell trait", a mutation that protects against malaria at the cost of increased risk of sickle-cell anaemia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease#/media/Fil...

You'll find that its prevalence neatly corresponds to historical regions with malaria. It does not, however, follow any racial borders. I assure it's the same for anything but skin colour, which follows an almost exact gradient of solar intensity.
Your comment stated that going from Python to Rust while struggling with SQL is something "you just should not do". That implies that the struggles they describe are the result of trying to learn Rust before they're ready—an attitude I disagree with, even if it were true that the author was struggling with SQL.
He didn't indicate there was.

He's just asking. Strikes me that he somehow recognizes you from there. "OT" = Off Topic, so the question wasn't about "the man".
I wonder how this applies to SESTA/FOSTA, as many escort listing sites are apparently already operating from overseas.
Show HN: Made a personal web page
Wrong. Both In Greece and Rome black people were referred to as “Aethiopian,” regardless of their actual ancestry in Africa.

Black people were not excluded from any profession, and there was no stigma or bias against mixed race relationships in Antiquity.
Sounds like a product I'd like.

I used to like WhatsApp, another app with an old-fashioned business model ...
https://token.beteleported.com - It's a cryptocurrency token for a VR marketplace. Store 360 degree videos and photos on the blockchain, for 50 years, just $1. It's cool because you never have to worry about losing or deleting your memories.
Customers can meet with professionals virtually, without having to travel anywhere. Professionals can bill their clients, with the cryptocurrency token.

It's also an interactive map, to view published 360 photos and videos, called moments. Use the token for storing moments, viewing moments, giving tips to moment creators, and paying for professional services in VR.

https://get3dtours.com - a SaaS product that makes it super easy to add virtual tour experiences to any site.

https://vrinrealestate.com - a comparison site of existing VR virtual tour products.
This is unnecessarily cynical.

I did a couple consulting stints at Pivotal, working on the CF team. They have a very particular methodology that evolved from the earliest days of agile (Rob Mee was a friend of Kent Beck back when XP was being worked out). I walked in there as a very experienced engineer and a healthy amount of skepticism... and it turned out to be a fantastic learning experience. I've since taken the Pivotal process (yeah, even the weird stuff like pair programming) and used it effectively to manage subsequent companies.

I don't love everything about Pivotal (neither Ruby nor Go make my favorite-languages list) but then, not everyone at Pivotal does either. But overall they do agile right, and they have a lot to show for it. You can mock 9:06 but also note that people go home at 6pm and have lives. The schedule has its upsides.
Honestly, if you have a billion dollars and you don't build a bunker, I'd question your knowledge of history and world events.
You invest your money, you get to decide, it's that simple.
This is incorrect. The US government has no interest in turning over their citizens to the UK government. The UK government is unlikely to sue a US citizen in US court to assert their jurisdiction.

The most the UK government would probably do is issue a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request with the US government, who would then go get a warrant and serve that on you, which you would have to respond to.
Might be, but I've only seen my submission + I'm 100% sure I saw this precise post in the frontpage with 40+ upvotes :/
If you owned land, and did not experience natural disasters, you could eat very well. Chickens are easy to take care of and growing enough vegetables is not that hard. The biggest worry was catastrophic crop failure of staples like wheat or potatoes due to weather, or disease or pests. The other worry was stored food spoiling over winter in cellars. Beans and pickled fruits/vegetables like cabbage is what got you through. Harvest time was busiest season. Winter you more or less bundled up and stayed indoors as much as you could, venturing out to take care of your animals. I spent my childhood at my grandmas farm. Due to communism, life was very primitive.
>Does your online activity lead you to sell goods or services in the European Union?

HN is not selling anything
Also 26 is not quite a teenager.

He was 19.

A normal person's prefrontal cortex (rational brain) is underdeveloped at that age, and is only fully developed at about 25 or even 30 [1].

So your point may be valid if he actually had been 26, but misses badly given the fact that he was 19.

[1] https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-...
> "undefined behavior" mainly limits portability

I had the impression that some things are UB because they can't specify a single behavior that would be efficient across all platforms C targets.
The ownership breakdown is so unusual compared to typical VC-backed startup IPOs. Pivotal has had an interesting run with their history of acquisition and spinoff. Also the Pivotal (cloud infrastructure software) vs Pivotal Labs (consulting) split.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1574135/000104746918...
> the qualities of the individual matter far more than whatever statistical distribution...

I'm making zero judgement on any individuals. Can we separate the science from the possible implications, please? Otherwise it's hard to have reasoned debate.

> All of the interaction surface with 'race' in our society is absolutely a social construct

That may well be, but it doesn't lessen the fact that 'race' - i.e "differences in genetic ancestry" - is real.
[video] Amateurs in space
Secure Scuttlebutt is pretty amazing. I've seen a few demos of people who run a private social network app, Patchwork. Definitely something to look out for.
If helping the US government refine their drone strike capabilities didn’t make them realize, I think it’s fair to say they’re totally self-interested. If you want to get their attention, go after their personal bottom line.
You could argue that the existing shareholders, who own 90% of the stock are better served in the long run if the stock has positive momentum.

The calculation for if it's better to sell the other 90% into a hot market would be: 40% of 10% is only 4%. So if the initial pop has a long term positive impact of 4.4% on the price, then the existing shareholders come out ahead.

It's debatable, but I think there are two sides.
Why are the two things opposed or incompatible?
My companies don't buy advertising or pay famous people to fake endorse-ElonMusk
There is a search function at the bottom of the page. I will suggest you double check.
I believe submissions from Twitter are down-weighted by default. As for changes in the number of votes, I suggest you email the mods via the Contact link in the footer for a definitive answer.
exceptions because in embedded contexts they may not always be a good idea (and C targets such contexts). overloading because it is too easy to abuse and as such it gets abused a lot by those who do not know better. The rest of us are then stuck decoding what the hell "operator +" means when applied to a "serial port driver" object
I have no idea whether the overall pendulum is swinging back from "race is a purely social construct". I hope so, because it has always seemed absurd to me, for the very reasons the author cites, just as absurd as the idea that race is a hard determinant of anything.

But what I can say is that in molecular biology, working scientists have completely ignored this politically charged debate and continued to use the concept this whole time. In one example I am directly familiar with, researchers have continued to use and stratify genome-wide association studies by self-reported race/ethnicity in the search for variants causal for lupus. This is important not only because as with many diseases, there is a difference in likelihood of getting the disease between "races" not attributable to lifestyle, but also because it is entirely possible, even probable, that the mechanisms causing the disease are somewhat different between ethnicities.

Actually, therefore, the understanding that there are real differences between "races" in the context of disease is actually helpful for the smaller groups because it means that special attention is paid to the etiology of their disease apart from the general etiology. In the same way that, for many years, most biology research was done on males and it was just assumed that the findings would always apply to females. That was incorrect, and now studies are done to determine gender differences in treatment and disease etiology.

IMO this whole debate has dragged on as long as it has because too many in the public are seemingly incapable -- or unwilling -- to understand basic concepts about population means and variances, and in particular that in a situation like this where population means are very real but usually small, and the variance is high, knowing what "race" you are usually conveys little information about some other attribute of interest. Usually, but not always, as is particularly the case with many diseases.

I have grown particularly tired of the argument that, because a taxonomy, like any clustering, is fuzzy and the number of clusters is somewhat arbitrary, the whole thing conveys no useful information. It is patently false.
HN is selling HN, their associated startups, job postings, and so on.

Edit: who are they selling to? Would-be founders... you understand how the VC model works, right?
For the languages I've used (Node and Python), I'm just comparing the ease of finding documentation on the language homepage. A typical flow is: Homepage > docs > reference/api

Node is very straightforward:

https://nodejs.org/api/index.html

Python has a library reference and a language reference:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/index.html

All 3 of these pages are blatantly obvious index pages. For Rust, this is where I assume you're supposed to end up (there are way too many links on the "Documentation" page, I'll address this at the end):

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/index.html

You have to navigate/scroll to see the actual list of modules/types/macros or minimize the "about" section. The first thing that I think I should see on an API docs page is an index with maybe a very short blurb/link in regards to the prelude. If the API reference needs a "How to read this documentation" that is long enough to block you from seeing the index itself, something is wrong. Any user that clicks into an API specification either knows how to read it or knows how to click a link that says "about these docs". If they didn't, they would likely be in the "learning" section. Beyond that, the section has a list of 4 links, 3 of which are anchors (that are both out of order and already listed on the left nav) while the prelude link goes to a completely separate page.

To address the Documentation landing page, you have "Learning Rust" and "References". Learning Rust > The Rust Programming Language and References > Syntax Index effectively both go to the same page. At the bottom you have a "Project Policies". Are those really part of "Documentation"? I generally think of "language" documentation, not "organization" documentation when I see the header. I would expect a documentation landing page to be a lot more minimal and easier on the eyes, similar to:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/

What that page has in common with almost every other language documentation page that I just visited: Bullet points and/or indentation.

EDIT: I should add that I browsed around various language pages while writing this. To add some context for my opinions, I found the Elm docs to be far and away the easiest to navigate excluding the fact that they don't have links to the source code per method. I made it to their API docs without ever hitting an incorrect link. Julia was similar, but I mis-clicked on the manual rather than the standard library because everything is on the same page and neither section collapses.
Reader View in Safari makes it left aligned, right ragged, which I personally find most pleasant (unless it's professionally typeset justified).
that's actually a pretty well executed IPO, and most banks shoot for a decent double-digit percentage gain on day 1.

its in the company's interest to have IPO investors (their first public mkt investors) rewarded, as it keeps them from selling too much, and it attracts other investors to the stock. dropbox is still unprofitable, so it will probably need to raise more equity in the future, and it helps to reward your early investors

it also makes the investment banks happy -- their clients made money on the deal. if dropbox's banks are happy, that helps dropbox, bc as mentioned above, it will need their services again

the happier public market investors are, the higher the stock price will go. most employees cant sell stock for at least a few months, and if outside public investors are happy, then by the time employees can sell, the stock will be worth much more

if you price too high and all the proceeds accrue to the company rather than investors, you get a debacle like facebooks IPO, where the stocked dropped and didnt recover for over a year
Google News notes 21,000+ news stories. A few minutes' work, huge talk about Tesla & SpaceX. Very cost-effective marketing.
Not that hard; Just get elected to public office and you can have your antics and wacky hijinks published every day.
Microsoft does not have any trouble keeping up with C, C++ and .NET Native are the future of systems programming on Windows.

C compatibility is kept to the extent of ANSI C++ requirements.

ANSI C++14 requires C99 library compatibility and ANSI C++17 was updated for C11 library compatibility.

http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2016/p0063r2....
I've always been far more neutral regarding this US Administration than the most people, but I was happy when John Bolton originally didn't get that cabinet position back in early 2017.

Mostly after reading his background into "selling" the Iraq war to the public and his involvement in passing phony documents the CIA discredited as fact to the Bush administration. He seems like a classic neocon war hawk, which I hoped we would have left behind in the past era.

There's nothing fiscally conservative or America-first about hawking wars and world policing.
> It it might be that I'm just racially/sexually disposed to being evil.

No, I believe your failings are on the other side of the nature/nurture divide.
As if this rocket blowing up was just peachy for Elon Musk? He was probably as disappointed in the launch failure as Zuckerberg was, if not moreso because it's his entire business. The satellite was a side project for Facebook.
Yes. I'm not sure why you seem to think I don't.

There are times when you need to do something conceptually like having a list of things of similar, but different kind. There are different ways to go about this. Briefly mentioned in my original post: object pointers; or breaking up the data according to DDD (just because something is conceptually one item, does not mean it cannot be spread into different data structures. after all, if you have an array full of things, there's likely one property in common between those things of different kind that is similar and germane to their being in the collection).
> Is the GDPR that far reaching?

No.
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