skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I value political neutrality in the workplace, so I have a lot of in-principle issues with what is being shown here right from the get-go. I didn't wind the video back to find the exact quote, but we now have publicised evidence of senior leadership at Google who stood up and said 'obviously our values are not the same as a big chunk of Americans'. Clearly a lot of them are specific Hillary supporters, a candidate so unelectable she lost to Trump.

There is a practical difference between pagerank, which is a transparent algorithm, and a non-transparent magic algorithm that is controlled by a group who are clearly not engaged with the idea of corporate political neutrality. Taking the views expressed here as a starting point, logically why shouldn't they try to tilt the election result using their power?

EDIT I'm just going to add this in because it just doesn't sit well. It shouldn't acceptable for leadership in a workplace to stand up and express pain and dismay at the outcome of a democratic process.
One reason I moved to iPhone SE from a 5.5 inch Android one and a half years ago was its size and form factor which among all the options available at the time seemed perfect to me. (The other reason was of course being invested in Mac ecosystem all over)

I would want to go back to stock Android after I retire this SE, but when I look around I don't really see a decent 4 inch stock Android phone either.
It would really suck to have the global language of science change to Chinese though. And Beijing strikes me as the sort of place to suddenly require all their scientists to publish in Chinese one day, once they felt they had sufficient leverage.
Lots of thinking when debugging software also result in seemingly trivial line changes.
The Most Dangerous Muse: Parkinson’s disease gave her the gift of creativity
Which is exactly why Valve pours so much money in making Linux a palatable gaming platform. They want an exit strategy when something like this happens. Or when MS decides that the Windows Store is not only the safest, but now also the only way to buy Windows software.
Bambi Meets Godzilla – “I watched Smalltalk die.”
The real world is hardly binary. Both the complaint may be valid, and part of a PR strategy.
I'm curious as to what the job title and pay range for the, what I assume to be EE's, designing chipsets make at an Intel/Apple?
I find `git show-branch --topics origin/master` (optionally adding branches) to be more useful.
Scientists discover a 'tuneable' novel quantum state of matter
NullSafe: Kotlin/Groovy flavored null-safe? operator is now available in Scala
Thanks for that perspective, Jeremy. But I think hidden in that question was an underlying question: does changing the brand in non-radical ways change perception in people's minds?

The answer might be yes for Dara, but it seems unintuitive to me.
Ads honest? And their intent is clear? What is honest or clear about an ad that says "doctors dont want you to know this"?
Aha max that's a good data point.
A "functional NOOP" for people with a particular privilege.

Rosa Parks would have risked much less and still have gotten home if she'd given up her bus seat. Would that have been a "functional NOOP" too?

(Edit: In rereading this I can see it might be taken as accusative or aggressive. It's not intended in that way, and certainly not intended to accuse you personally of overprivilege or racism...)
The first amendment does not prevent Google (or any other company) from restricting speech. That is a very low bar.

The distinction between government and private groups is not a clean as you might think. At a large enough scale, private groups can start to take on a role in society that resembles that of a government, should we not then expect them to be held to a standard that resembles that we expect of governments?

The FCC cannot revoke your spectrum license for saying Obama shot JFK. Should ISPs be able to revoke your internet license for saying that?

Google is a much harder case, because the core service they provide is filtering; and that filtering is an immensely valuable public service. But given the role that filtering plays in society, is is not an area that should be left unregulated.
Makes more sense. Thank you!
For the first time ever, today I saw a message in Gmail that my email was snoozed.

Is it possible they are just incorporating these features into Gmail? That it was like a safe sandbox for working this stuff out before making at least some of it standard?
> Requiring rewriting titles is a bad idea as you are never in an automated fashion going to make a better title.

Depends on how you define "better".

I would argue that a rewritten title you can read is "better" than an un-rewritten title you can't read because the site couldn't "link" it without risking a lawsuit or signing an agreement.
Saves more than half your phone's battery life too. And content creators get paid.
Something weird is happening at a solar observatory in New Mexico
Ironical in this particular case, as inbox was the first mail client that helped my ADHD-PI brain keep a reasonably clean inbox, while still actually responding to people.
It's interesting to weight these numbers by population. They seem to be more or less the number of papers in select venues with an author of a particular nationality. As with sports, it's easy to say that the country X gets a lot of medals because they have a large talent pool.

The US has a pop. of 325M and a score of 26k so a weighted score of 0.080 publications (per thousand people). Germany scores 0.094, the UK 0.10, Australia 0.097.

These "academic" countries hover around 1 publication per ten thousand people. A lot of small countries punch slightly above their weight, mostly those with a long history of academia.

Adjusted for population (1.37B), China would score 0.0095 - an order of magnitude less. That's not necessarily an indication of lack of quality, but it does suggest that they're not at capacity yet.

Using national population is naive. There are probably a lot of interesting metrics you could dig out of this to get an idea of the resaerch efficiency of a country. For example China has more researchers than the US[1,2] (1.69M vs 1.38M), but not in proportion to its increased population size. The US has, proportionally, four times as many researchers than China, but doesn't spend four times as much on R&D (2.7% US, 2.1% China).

Israel is a good disproportionate example, spending 4% of GDP on research to get a pop-weighted publication score of 0.12. They also have a lot of researchers - second only to Scandinvaia at around 7k per million inhabitants. So their publication success is probabily attributable to having an above-average number of scientists coupled with a huge research budget.

[1] http://uis.unesco.org/en/news/rd-data-release
[2] http://data.uis.unesco.org/

EDIT: Most of this data is 2016-2017, might be some muddling of years. It's also 3AM so maths maybe squiffy.

If you use the number of researchers instead of population, the US publishes 14.2 "good" papers per thousand researchers, China publishes around 5.3. Maybe that's a better basis for quantity vs quality.

You could phrase this as "Given a researcher in a particular country, what are the odds of them publishing a top tier paper in a year?" and following on, "Do we expect that, given how much this country spends on research (per scientist)?"

Using GDP from Google (11.2t and 18.57t) and figures from [2], the US spends about $365k on R&D per scientist. China spends $140k per scientist. That fits rather well - the US spends 2.6x more and gets 2.7x more top publications per scientist.
Actually I did this as well. I learned to code in HTML and was forced to use Dreamweaver in school because it was "faster". I could use a template and code most of what I needed to by hand faster than most other students could with the tool. I also made very clean, super fast loading sites because I tried to do everything as simple as possible. On of my final projects fell through despite me building them an entire, completely custom, hand written website that was accessible, clean, and loaded super fast. I've never thought I've had a keen eye for designing new things but I've definitely got an eye for the classics and got a lot of accolades in my class for that work.
> Communism in 20 years was a slogan put forth by Nikita Khrushchev at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1961.

> In his speech, Khrushchev promised that communism will be built "in the main" by 1980. His phrase "The current generation of Soviet people will live under communism" was the final phrase of the new Program of the CPSU adopted at the congress.

> The latter political slogan is attributed to Kremlin speechwriter Elizar Kuskov, who allegedly quipped "this slogan will survive centuries".
Why, this is a great news! Facing the prospect of losing the primacy, and the face, on the world stage the US Congress is a lot more likely to pony up some cash.
"Insider build", afaik, is MS's term for "nightly build". Like a permanent beta-test program that you can opt into in the Windows Update settings dialog.
The quality debate about scientific merit aside, if the U.S. wants to remain "the best", then we need to incentivize the best scientists and researchers in other countries to come here and become U.S. citizens. A lot of famous physicists, mathematicians, and logicians have done this over the past 100 years.

Unfortunately, the attractiveness of becoming a U.S. citizen is waning because (1) current U.S. policies on science are extremely unfavorable to foreign researchers and (2) other countries are making it much more desirable to remain a citizen there than to become a U.S. citizen (this is a net win for humanity though)

I think (1) is in part due to a culture in the U.S. that really just doesn't care about science anymore. When I was in grad school a few years ago, most of my peers were from other countries despite the fact that the majority of undergrads at the same school were born in state. So in effect, the grad students would get advanced degrees in the hard sciences and take that knowledge back home with them, whereas the U.S. students would get a B.S. in literature, advertising, or business (generalizing of course).
It turns out that having a theocratic ethnostate is a bad idea. Gee, who would’ve thought.
Have you tried tabbing the home button lightly twice?
Gecko these days is pretty good, but that's only half of the story unfortunately. This is a web runtime with no successful product to power anymore. Firefox Desktop is still declining despite the Quantum work, and on Mobile Mozilla products are not registering on any chart.

Ironically, the only successfully growing Gecko-based product is KaiOS (see http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/india) but the current MoCo+MoFo leadership killed the upstream support a while ago to focus on Desktop. Maybe they will see the light...
As a Chinese I don't get offended by this, depending on the people they he interacted with this may largely be true.
Because most submissions have been off-topic or otherwise against the site guidelines. Same reason why we'd ban any site.
It would parse as [common gateway interface], i.e. it is a singular thing, not really at all grammatically similar to the aforementioned "Desktop UI" issue.
Have you ever played the game telephone?
Please everyone don't underestimate China. Sure we can find 100 criticisms, but you can't deny their massive efforts in education, research, technology and manufacturing.

Steady progress builds results over time. I really encourage doubters to go visit China and see for yourself.
> The only thing this will do is entrench massive players like Google and Facebook

Incorrect.

It will also speed up development of a new web which is impossible to regulate. So I rejoice. When they block entire services for days, I cry in joy. A 10 days blackout is what we need...
Uber has since then abandoned a lot of those markets that don't use Latin scripts.
Quick guesses:

- window title

- certificate that signed the executable

- the "downloaded from the internet" flag that IE and Edge set on downloaded files on the NTFS level (the one that causes the "Do you really want to run this program downloaded from the internet?" one-time confirmation modal)
I'm from Wisconsin.... I reallly wish someone would get on the ball legalizing it here.
The base phone price is now $999. The announcement and marketing effectively position the XS as the default model (with the messaging around the XR casting it as a downgrade, more like the iPhone 5C). They also eliminated the regular Plus so users who want a larger phone are forced to the even more expensive Max.

It looks like they pulled this off pretty well too, although sales numbers in the coming months will tell the true story. In one generation they went from, "pay $999 to upgrade to the higher end option (the X)," to, "pay $999 for our regular phone or downgrade to the XR."
Definitively not. The MOS 6502 lacks speculative execution functionality, it also lacks any sort of instruction or data cache whatsoever.
I'm switching to protonmail because of this.
It has a nice UI and as a bonus I'll get encryption.
Well, let's see what Wikipedia has to say about Breitbart's history...

'Breitbart News Network (known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart or Breitbart.com) is a far-right[6] syndicated American news, opinion and commentary[7][8] website founded in mid-2007 by conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart, who conceived it as "the Huffington Post of the right."[4][9][10] Its journalists are widely considered to be ideologically driven, and some of its content has been called misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist by liberals and many traditional conservatives alike.[11] The site has published a number of falsehoods, conspiracy theories,[12][13][14][15][16] and intentionally misleading stories.[17][18]

'Breitbart News aligned with the alt-right under the management of former executive chairman Steve Bannon,[19] who declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016.[20] In 2016, Breitbart News became a virtual rallying spot for supporters of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.[11] The company's management, together with former staff member Milo Yiannopoulos, solicited ideas for stories from, and worked to advance and market ideas of, neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups and individuals.[21][22] After the election, more than 2,000 organizations removed Breitbart News from ad buys following Internet activism campaigns denouncing the site's controversial positions.[23][24][25][26]'

So... pretty low credibility. They break substantive stories when they're useful to their agenda, but also break false stories when they're useful to their agenda. I'm curious what you consider to be a 'less credible left leaning site'?
This is likely stemming at least in part from Cynthia Nixon's strong run for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York. She is running to the left of the current governor, Andrew Cuomo (Mario Cuomo's son), and has been making these sorts of outdated drug charges an issue.
A complete miss. The Mayor and Council have been moving in the direction of ceasing to prosecute lesser crimes for several years. But more importantly the DA is an elected position. Nixon and Cuomo's drama is at the state level and pretty far removed. NYS hasn't legalized cannabis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_County_District_Att...
I got forcibly redirected on a baseball statistics site multiple times while not using Adblock (my mobile phone which didn't have it). It happens all the time.
WebRender on in Firefox Nightly for Windows 10 Nvidia
I don't generally like ads, but sometimes they do advertise a product that I needed anyway or is better than what I was using before.
This is a matter of taste. It works better for me. I have used phones, Sony's specifically, that do sport a dedicated button. I never used them because I'm not used to the location of the button I use once in a while. The power button however I use multiple times an hour so I can put the phone into camera mode and take a photo with my eyes closed.
What media organization on this planet doesn't make decisions about what users should and shouldn't see? Breitbart does it, The New York Times does it, your local news channels do it.

Google as a news broker is literally just showing you what Google wants to show you. I don't know why you'd think they wouldn't have a bias, or filter their output based on it. All media does.
No one is arguing for a cap on profitability. People arguing for a change in corporate policy are simply pointing out that a non-negligible component of that profitability comes from a reliance on our shared system of social welfare.

It's a form of labor cost externalization that directly undermines a worker's purchasing power.
My bed. I'm mostly a hermit when left to my own devices and I have absolutely no problem being productive at home... so, in my bed with my laptop and some background noise and I'm all set.
I recommend Github's "Awesome Leading & Managing" repo (https://github.com/LappleApple/awesome-leading-and-managing).

The readme includes a Google Doc summary by Joe Goldberg. It's like a greatest hits of greatest hits.
Balding and grey hair show I'm not in my 20s ;)
I’m in my mid 40s also.
I have a simple solution for that. When I’m interviewing, I’m completely clean shaven - head and all.

Luckily, seeing a Black guy with a bald head by choice is not unusual.

As far as working out everyday, I can’t do it. It’s just not in me. I need down time. I work out hard for about 150 minutes 3 days a week. According to the machines I’m burning around 1600 calories per workout. High resistance on the elliptical, high incline on the treadmill.
In terms of stability, diamonds are practically as stable as gold, for human temperatures, pressures and timescales -or even geologic or galactic timescales. Of course, they are much more manufacturable, as you note.
How does LogDevice differ from Kafka?
> From what I understand, it's actually better to have a mix than to stand only.

Indeed. You will probably get spider veins otherwise. Happened to me. I've been working standing up since 2011 and only noticed it a couple of years ago so it might take a while.
Nope. better them than putin or steve bannon, or anyone who works at breitbart
That’s a good point. You also won’t be able to upgrade your NAND size to 512 GB unless you buy the XS.
Direct link to listings if you are on the run: https://www.airbnb.com/s/homes?collection_id=364253377&disas...
Except the things that a salesman sells don't stop existing once they're promoted, because the company is invested in the products, which Google seems singularly unable to do.

Google is an R&D company really, not a consumer one.
That is a really strange theory. It is also demonstrably false.

Many of the founders of the top unicorns have MBAs (Grab, StitchFix, CloudFlare, etc) [1] Also, I wouldn't categorize building AWS from scratch as a "peacetime CEO" job.

1. https://poetsandquants.com/2016/02/24/38-mba-founded-unicorn...
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I think search should be regulated, and part of that regulation should be some standard for political neutrality [0]. However, there is no neutral algorithm to this problem. Any algorithm favors certain sites over others. There is almost definitely going to be some correlation between the sites that are favored and the content of those sites, political or otherwise. There is simply no getting around that. The discussion we need to be having is how to do this in an acceptable way.

[0] I do not have a good idea of what such a standard would even look like, and would err on the side of being too lax in this regard.
The other day, I read on /r/apple that people were getting surveys regarding their iMac Pro purchases. There was speculation that maybe they were using the feedback for the next Mac Pro upgrade. It got me thinking that it's been THREE years since I personally bought an Apple product. I made me wish that I could personally provide feedback through a survey about why I haven't purchased a new Apple product recently (I'm assuming they have some history of my purchases?)

Since I switched from PCs to Macs, I've purchased (not in order):

PowerBook G3 (Pismo) - My first Apple device that started my love affair
PowerBook G4 12"
MacBook Pro 12"
MacBook Pro 15"
Power Mac G5 (with ACD)
Mac Pro (with ACD)
iPod (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th gen)
iPod Mini (1st, 2nd, 3rd gen)
iPod Shuffle (1st, 3nd, 4th gen)
iPod Touch (forget which gen)
iPhone (Original, 3G, 3GS, 4S, 5S, 6S)
iPad (Original, iPad 2, iPad Mini, iPad Pro)
Apple Watch (3)
Apple TV (multiple)

And countless Apple products for family (three or four Mac Minis over the years for parents, iPhones, iPods, etc.)

It's a shame because NOTHING Apple offers is of interest to me. Like you said, I don't want a giant phablet (remember when Apple fans mocked those?? "But I can use my phone with one hand!" we all said mockingly)

I'm not even sure if they're listening to their "pro" customers when it comes to "pro" hardware (or if pro customers are even a demographic Apple wants to cater to?)

Unfortunately, I've started looking at non-Apple devices. (The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 is what I want in a laptop. I'm still not sold on any particular iPhone replacement, yet...) But, nearly 20 years of my life, I've called myself an Apple "fan". So it's tough. I don't know, maybe I'm just not the target demographic =\ I realize I'm just one person (who use to buy Apple products for six other people - all family), so my move from Mac -> PC wouldn't affect Apple's bottom line. But, I'd like to think that there are others out there like us, who are getting fed up with Apple of today.

Sorry for the long rant (that's slightly humblebrag-ish, I don't mean for it to be...)
This is the exact situation alt text is designed for. If you use alt text properly and it still isn't handicap accessible, it's not your fault full stop.
I’m not a Clojure programmer but from the example given, “transducers” would be equivalent to lazy evaluation / stream fusion.

Simple HOFs wouldn’t prevent the elements to be traversed in each subsequent function call.
Off topic, but how is attacking refugee policy “racist?” Are debates of such policy not allowed? Germany had the exact same debates over Serbian and Bosnian refugees during those wars. Syrian refugees were treated better legally than Bosnians and Serbs — Bosnians and Serbs were granted “temporary protection” status and not permitted to stay permanently and they were informed of that policy upon arrival, unlike Syrian refugees which have the opportunity for permenant resettlement.

If it’s “racist” to debate that, then racism as a word has lost all meaning. If anything Syrian refugees have been granted greater privileges than Bosnian-Serbs. It would seem that policy could, be considered racist. Folks have bent over backwards to be as “unracist” as possible and thus, bad policy has happened because any debate on the topic is automatically shut down as racism. You can’t have a legitimate policy debate without being called a racist anymore.
> Furthermore, the user gets 70% of the ad revenue for browser-private ads.

I've installed and tried Brave a few times for this specific reason that I keep reading about, but I've never figured out how to receive these kickbacks from enabling and viewing ads. Was I just not looking close enough, or is this still a beta/planned feature?