skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a good idea, but it doesn't address what I'm looking for. You said "Racism is inherently wrong" and currently what we have seems to be a mix of racism and systemic racism. The vast majority of VC funding goes towards white males, very little goes to females, and even less goes towards black females. Notice that 76% of venture capitalists are white males[0]. Unless you'd like to argue that there's some inherent reason why that's just how it is and always will be, I think we can all agree that clearly there is some artificially created imbalance at play. Sure, black women aren't the majority of the population, but they are 6%, and they are funded 0.2%[1]

How do you fix this artificial imbalance? Because all I hear time and time again is either "Throw money at the problem to tip the scales in the other direction" or "Ignore the problem". If you're gonna say "ignore it" and not provide any reason beyond, then you're leaving the world in its already racist state. Even if nobody says anything racist, the scales are unbalanced and somehow they ought to get tipped a little to fix that. You can't tip those scales without doing something you'd call racist, but not doing anything leaves you in a racist society, so are you just saying that allowing racism is ok but adding racism to diminish other racism is not? Sounds like we'll never really improve with that mindset

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidteten/2014/04/29/why-are-v...

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3060169/one-of-the-biggest-chall...
> Let’s go back to the plumbing example. Imagine you owned a small restaurant with one bathroom and 10 employees. You get a few hundred customers per week and maybe 10% of them use your bathroom. Obviously, you’ve got to have a working bathroom, but does it need to be anything fancier or more advanced than your home toilet? Do you need 10 stalls, motion-activated faucets, Dyson hand dryers, and marble counters? Probably not, unless you’re just trying to project some facade of success.

This gave me the impression he hasn't really thought through what he is saying.

> Just as a good small business owner should hire a humble plumber who knows the standard tools required for small bathrooms, and will pay him market rate, a good engineering manager should hire humble team players who use industry-standard tools to build reliable software, and pay them market rate.

This furthered my sense he hadn't thought through what he was saying.

> Part of the problem is that we over-engineer the software we work on. I am guilty of this as well.

I have no idea what he's getting at here.

> “Oh, so you’re building an app? Does it use AI? Blockchain? ? Take my money and do it!"

Unfortunately investors these days love to hear that. Devs who bring these skills are most definitely adding value, even if the author deems it largely superficial.

> Finally, don’t get comfortable. This isn’t a popular opinion among software engineers, but I believe that many in the field are overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do. Sometimes it’s because they are the only people who know some obscure corner of their field, sometimes it’s because their company’s gatekeepers are preventing full access to the talent market, and sometimes it’s because other engineers insisted they overbuild things such that junior devs will take a long time to understand it.

Should plumbers not get comfortable too? At this point I think the author forgot what he was writing about.

I'm not trying to be mean. I was just trying to add value to an analogy I had trouble distilling value from. I am speaking from frustration at seeing comparison here and there lately in developer communities.

To answer your question, I've never been asked in detail about complex algorithms for either plumbing or software work. Maybe I've been lucky or maybe I just exude an unnatural amount of competence (I'm guessing it's the former, I have resting dumb face).

Anyway, I don't think gauging someone's level of understanding is unheard of in the plumbing world. It probably depends if you're going for a junior or senior plumbing position.

Edit: some clarification
I know nothing about NLP but would a run where it predicts the authorship of the known texts be useful to get some idea of the level of accuracy?
I checked it out, but I didn't see any way that it helps. It actually seemed worse than Nova in that there is a feed screen (read: endless scrolling distraction) if you swipe right.
This is a good question, definitely worth thinking about. Also: you only get to live any particular second of your life only once, wouldn't you want to be able to experience it fully?
Because squares are much easier to draw than circles.
In Alaska, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota, it's legal to land on rural roads.

Even in places where you can't land on roads, there are WAY more airports than you probably think in the US. It's about 19K, with a little over 5K of those being public use. (Even the private ones are often accessible with just a coordinating phone call.)

Of those, fewer than 400 are "Primary" airports (defined as having scheduled commercial service and more than 10K enplanements [commercial passengers outbound] per year).
OsmAnd has a counterintuive UI, it have been the case that you didn't have the right map layers enabled.
'Private Equity' and 'Founder' are terms that shouldn't really even cross.

PE wants to incentivize leadership, but the concept of 'founder' and all that means, is somewhat beyond.

That said - KKR etc. definitely want to incentivize company leaders to make money, and might likely put in significant bonuses for CEO's in the event of an acquisition.

But yes ... PE entities may care less about this.

But note that it will also be a 'hit' to KKR's reputation in this area. You can be dam sure that future mid-stage entities are going to think twice about the terms of the deal.
Thanks, it's interesting to learn what is a practical problem when growing a discussion website.

Is it possible to deter troll behavior by using a reputation system and investigating bad behavior? Reputation that takes a long time of good behavior to build but a single act of malice to destroy.

It also has the statistical beauty of adding a prior probability estimate to the likelihood estimate that sorts Reddit comments.
Elon Musk built a “submarine” to rescue Thailand kids–here’s what it looks like
Accounting for
We don't do anything with the data. We'll probably provide the public discussion corpus anonymized to researchers. It's all too sensitive and some users cannot be dissuaded from using real names. :(
I did a similar exercise, and then applied it to the Titor posts. Turns out Alexander Hamilton is John Titor.
7% is a bad return when you risk-adjust this kind of deal.

So many ways it could go wrong. There are less risky ways to make . 7%, with a lot less work.
Hmm, a while ago I was looking into medical research nonprofits accepting donations and one of them I gave to was Alzheimer's Association. No family history here, was just feeling altruistic about helping out for various causes. Seeing your comment makes me feel good that this is one of the ones I chose.

https://alz.org if anyone else is so inclined.
Don't dumb this down. A fighter jet is an incredibly complex machine. It's not easy to make. Comparing this to the Obamacare site is ridiculous.
I started something like this a couple years ago, but it allowed hierarchy in the argument for either side, so that particular points could have 'justifications,' and the justifications could have their own, recursively—but a particular reader just dives as deep as they need to satisfy their personal curiosity. (There are shared justifications that you can link into your argument so you people aren't always wasting time justifying the same things; or you can share from just your own arguments you've written in the past). The debate format required that one proposition be addressed at a time, and the result of a debate is a reconciled hierarchy of claims/justifications. You could ask for critique on personal beliefs, have private debates, or public debates.

This looks like the closest thing I've come across since, and I like it, though I'm still curious about the format I was tinkering with...

(Also: funny side story: I e-mailed Leslie Lamport about the idea when I was still working on it [because of how I saw it relating to some ideas of his about writing proofs]. Out of respect for his privacy I won't say much about his reply other than that he was... not optimistic that folks would actually use it. I was also surprised by his generosity in reading about my idea and replying to me.)
There have been quite a few cases where "science" was used for "willful and deceitful spreading of lies".

See for example how now we find out that the whole "fats are bad for you, carbs are good" scientific "fact" was manufactured by the sugar industry.

This has infested the highest level of the scientific establishment (the american dietary recomandations), so you can't say that it was only the uninformed who were deceived.
David Cope used lisp for his 'Experiments in Musical Intelligence'. Lisp is very suited to this problem, and it's through his books that I first 'got' lisp (at the time, I was trying to do something similar in Java). Anyone interested in algorithmic composition should absolutely check out his work.

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/algorithmic-music-david...

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/cmmc.html
This seems unlikely right now. Most major manufacturers of bicycles are in Taiwan and China (all brands around the world use them), but this is for bicycles built for a single person. Most of the frames are carbon fiber, a mold is built for various sizes and is used 1000's of times. For some reason cargo bikes are a different story and welded together from steel or aluminum (there might be a few carbon fiber ones, but I assume cost of r&d/manufacturing to be prohibitive to be competitive with metal for small lots). Alibaba has lots of generic bicycle frames but no cargo bikes.
This. Science is about sharing knowledge. Any such “dark age” is the opposite of that and thus antithetical to scientific progress.
What do CSS linters have to say about it?
This takes into account -- all H1B workers --. For Tech H1B's, which I clarified, this is a different story.

>By contrast, there are many examples of jobs where H1B workers usually earn less than U.S. workers — despite legal requirements that employers pay “prevailing wages” to H1B workers. Four examples of these types of jobs are shown in the table below: data scientist, financial analyst, programmer analyst, and software engineer. In these cases, H1B workers usually earn less than otherwise similar U.S. workers.

>For example, among software engineers, H1B workers earned less than or equal to U.S. workers in every city we examined, ranging from equal median salaries in Seattle to -17 percent less in Chicago. Similarly, H1B salaries for programmer analysts were lower in nine of the 10 cities we examined, ranging from -1 percent in Atlanta to -28 percent in Chicago and Washington, D.C. (H1B pay for programmer analysts was 7 percent higher in one city: Philadelphia).

It doesn't seem to list any tech jobs that are paid above US workers either, only below & at average. I am not saying all H1B workers are paid less than US citizens.
If you’re on the receiving end of a system that, systematically, hurts/kills you, your family, your community, and culture, storming the bastille or marching on washington or whatever for equality probably will suddenly make a lot of sense.
I'll be a point in your anecdata.
This describes me perfectly.
I think this would make a cool augmented reality app for your phone.

I’d also suggest showing a clock that slows down relative to real time.
Not to justify the price, but attiny85 is a much smaller micro - it's a little 8-bit AVR, where the yubikey is using a 32-bit ARM M0+.
This is sunk cost reasoning.

No one takes on more debt / raises more funds unless they have to. If your company needs to raise more capital your stock options are worth exactly 0 dollars. You already lost that bet, because your company isn’t solvent without external funds.

The new investors may give you a new bet, but don’t think your original bet still stands - you lost that when you had to do another round of founding. You should also expect the new bet to be significantly worse than the old bet, because you have no leg to stand on in the bargaining of the terms of the new bet.
what we all know now about extracting information from cache miss and TLB timings sort of makes all this a bit moot now doesn't it
Sorry, Power-Lunchers. These Tables Are Reserved for Drop-In Workers
Shan gao, huangdi yuan

The mountains are no longer high, nor the emperor far away. How long until your sesame credit is docked for walking into the wrong bookshop?
Why Agile and especially Scrum are terrible
> government projects of hardware like this usually have all sorts of cost inflation due to the fact they use companies/contractors that have made it their business to extract every last cent out of taxpayers

Clearly you are not familiar with the government contractor world. It's actually the opposite. Government contracts are regularly audited and contractor's profit margins are tightly capped.

The major money leakage is when the government buys products from companies where the majority of revenues are not from government contracting. Those companies don't have to follow the same laws about profit margins.
I think you're right that that has led to people's thinking of rectangles as 'default' (and because they're more traditional, probably for the same reason)—but it's an irrelevant fact now. However you're drawing button these days, it's generally a choice between drawRect(...) or drawRoundRect(...); or of course in CSS you just add one line to define the border-radius.
I think he meant QWERTY yeah... Maybe not aware of the reach of AZERTY in the world, and other keyboards.
You know it would be really great if Christians support all of the things you mentioned without resorting to conversions. There shouldn't be any ulterior motive attached to goodwill. Else it can no longer be called charity and should be labelled trade. What Christians really need to do (especially those in the West) is check if the money and clothes that they donate to Missionaries are actually being used honourably. The end goal should not be soul harvesting at the expense of someone's misery. Genuine goodwill will never go unappreciated; mix in religion and the Act loses it's benevolence. Sorry to put it so bluntly.

Read more about this menace here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/missionaries-...
Does anyone have a good free software solution for backups on Android they'd like to tell about?

Personally I really go too long between off-device backups. Something for automated backups to a PC would be valuable, and I suspect I'm not the only person who should be using it.
Just to be clear, I'm speaking about deals where no money falls on common, which includes the common shares and options held by all of the executives and employees needed to make the deal close.
Yeah I wasn't sure if I was meant to even read the regular text... And if I was missing things by skipping it.
So what about the Russian Avantgarde hypersonic warhead that should fly covered in a plasma fireball? Do you guys care about this stuff? Is it even feasible?
Hidden conflicts? Pharma payments to FDA advisers
If it shows you linking, then link it. (that means you should have permissions to do so)

In discussions where you do not have editor rights, click "view in new tab" copy the url and suggest a claim with text "suggest linking this(link) as a pro (or con)"

We are building suggest linking in a couple of weeks for discussions that you haven't been invited to yet.
Can you share compensation info and work life balance? Ive always wanted to break in on this industry? Also, what types of skill set they are looking for?
Just waiting for synthetic foods. Science Fiction always likes to paint a picture that such things aren't as good as the "real thing". Sure that might be true in the earlier days, but I suspect that in the end they'll be superior. Though that'll be a long way away yet. Maybe around 2150 :P

Food preparation is one of those "adult" things I still struggle with, leading me to consume a lot of convenience things. Maybe if the world wants to move more towards veganism, we need more (pre-)processed food, just not from animal sources. Veganism is too tied to whole food and slow food movements for it to gain traction. The corporate world still sees it as niche, first-world and hipster enough to charge a premium where it does get involved.
> Sounds like Google Facebook and Amazon

Except Google, Facebook, and Amazon don't control your right to travel, can't use violence against you, can't seize your assets, don't have armies, and aren't states.

(edit for missing word and apostrophe)
Roi? And risk of ruin? Sharpe ratio?
What was it called? We are building this since 2011.
He only seemed slightly overweight. I think this is only to be considered when a patient is significantly overweight or obese. Dementia rates are certainly higher in the Obese population.

In any event--this man had a confirmed genetic condition that was the definite cause of his dementia. He was going to get it, no matter what actions he took.

While it may be true that some dementia in obese people may not have manifested if that person did not overeat, that is not the case here.

I recommend you read the article.
Disclaimer: I don’t consider myself prochinese government, if you think the below statements state otherwise, don’t call me a 50cents party. There are freedom in expressing ones thoughts on solid facts. It’s an insult to people’s rights by labeling them and automatically disregard their opinions.

I think our collective consciousness should be to show the world that a free and open nation is the best form of national structure.

It should not be that someone is doing something not free and open, and then all statements are pinned to say those are bad. That does not help the cause of convincing others to do the good.

I think the sin is on both sides:

The western nations seemingly enjoying freedom and openness should understand why there is a tendency to move to police state. Not to label everything as the givernment is run by evils communists, or some other easy reasoning that deliberately frame the problem outside of its inherent complexity.

The people inside, however, should do the same, understand why people outside are worried about the direction they are heading to.

I totally get the point that this article falls victim of the first sin, where they automatically label what China is doing as bad, and use a title that obviously state that mental judgement.

And what you are saying actually is more correct to identify that what happening in USA is not showing free and open nation is the best national political structure.

But in the end, this probably will be treated as another piece of nonsensical rambling, might even get downvoted.

I have lost faith in mankind’s long term viability on earth for quite some time. And that’s why I fully support Elon and Bezoss endeavor. Not that they are kind or trustworthy human being, but I agree with them, and I believe space is the only space to help humans not explode on this planet.
>> M. Poettering
> What does the 'M' stand for? His first name is Lennart.

In French, "M." is short for Monsieur.
Thanks for the link. I'll throw in a recommendation for McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/
A button closes (or opens) a circuit for a short while and then goes back. This is not the expected behavior.
Various components of the SGX system (launch approval, remote attestation quote signing, etc) are implemented as Intel provided enclaves. AESM manages those enclaves and provides an untrusted API to communicate with them.
Fun fact: this problem is why grep was created by Ken Thompson [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/NTfOnGZUZDk
The Democrats are a party of liberalism, not leftism. Try again.
I don't agree with Amazon selling Rekognition to law enforcement, and I don't agree with their warehouse conditions. I do know many folks who are at Amazon who work on hardware and software for Alexa. The Amazon bit isn't true. There isn't anything nefarious going on. It's really easy to jump on this bandwagon and crap all over these companies. You don't really know what you're talking about. I think Amazon is legit wrong on some things, and people who work there agree with me actually. But again, your claims about Alexa are conspiracy crap like you hear on Alex Jones.
You're missing that writing TypeScript, for a lot of people (myself included these days, if we're being honest), is a lot faster than writing Ruby. My productivity has spiked a ton by moving almost exclusively over to Swagger APIs in TypeScript and continuing that by writing a (relatively easy, relatively quick, not-magic-Rails-junk) React frontend is just the path of least resistance.

And I like Ruby.
I don't know why you got downvoted, that was one of the best quote I've heard about design... I learnt the gestalt and that's basically the gist of it all.
I always add https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo to the repos in F-Droid - adds a lot of apps that aren't on the main repo for various reasons.
This Woman Threw Ink On A Photo Of China's President On A Livestream And Now She's Disappeared:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kassycho/chinese-woman-ink-xi-jinpi...
Google+ blocks post mentioning Dawn Sturgess Novichok death
Light behind is red-shifted. It would not be black, that is an error in this video, but rather you would begin to see UV and higher wavelengths that are now shifted into visible. And a spacecraft would presumably have multi-spectral cameras that can see in more than just the visible anyway.
How hard is it to destroy things? If people wanted to they could start breaking shit and then there would be no cameras watching them.

Can you manufacture devices faster than people can break them? I think some sort of mass uprising could still work.
It was never launched—still sitting on my computer with along with a pile of other ideas/projects I haven't had time for ;) I don't have a version hosted at the moment, but here's a blog post I wrote on it: http://westoncb.blogspot.com/2015/06/improving-idea-represen...

Edit: it was tentatively named 'Hypothesis Crucible'. And I have no concrete plans to do anything with it anymore—I wish you guys good luck.
Agreed.

We have a "reputation system" it's the thank count next to usernames. We have not handed out any privileges based on those yet, but will probably soon take all with a certain thank count, look at their contributions and grant them some poweruser rights, e.g. commenting into all public debates and see how that goes.
> If someone has $20k/yr of benefits from Medicaid what are they going to do on $10k/yr of UBI?

Buy health insurance, which costs less than $20k/year (because the average person receives less than that amount in benefits).
Health Insurers Warn of Market Turmoil as Trump Suspends Billions in Payments
I fear that's too easy to game at our scale, given the horde out there.
Most people choose marriage partners based on emotional connection (with some component of physical attraction). Surviving leukemia doesn't preclude being physically attractive. And how the hell would it preclude emotional attachment?
This is a tricky line of thinking. Once surveillance is there you can always hide behind the “now we’re safer”, the issue is that you can always survey more and always claim that going back would be less safe and so on and so forth. A good example for this is airport security. As far as I’m aware it’s quite unclear how effective all the security apparatus is yet it piled up over the years since 9/11, full body scans are now the norm etc. The question left to ask is: when is it too much? How much intrusion are we ready to bear for how much marginal safety gains?