skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nice and all, but now that the hardware has caught up, where are the collaborative multi-user 3d hyperspaces à la Croquet Project/Open Cobalt?
Yes, except this is trivial to normalize for - just track arrests per cop. I feel like I constantly see criticisms like this, that use extremely naive metrics as straw men to argue against the idea of measuring things. It's extremely misguided (I know you're just explaining what he meant and not necessarily promulgating that idea yourself).
Could not agree more. Everyone who works for or have worked for Google in the last years knows that an excellent code search does not have to be fancy.
> turning a profit (which has never ever happened)

"Never ever" as in two profitable quarters?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/tesla-still-isnt-profitable-...
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Here are the murder offender data from the FBI [1]. Your job is to bring down murder rates. You have limited resources. How would you now allocate them using "evidence based policies"?

[1] - https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
I'm glad there are Warhols doing their thing but I think the world would be worse off without Michelangelo.

awk, vim, whatever Dos 3.1 GUI the guys at B&H use to fulfill my orders, why shouldn't I expect to be using these programs in 50 years? They solve a problem and work every time.
Do you have any data to back up this claim?
Programming was a women's job, almost exclusively, until the last half century when it became a hobby and a lucrative profession. Men pushed the women out on both fronts.

You are no Grace Hopper, and you are in no position to tell women what they can't do.
This is what bugs me most about GnuPG - there's no real API, just an executable program with sometimes unreliable output. I mean, there is the GPGME library which wraps the executable calls in a C API (plus few other language bindings on the side), but it doesn't handle all the features the executable offers, often leaving you with a mix of GPGME API calls and "manual" calls to the gpg executable.

I'd welcome some full-fledged libgpg that would reliably implement gpg the executable's functionality, similar to e.g. libcurl vs. the curl executable.
"The IP laws have been written by the US, for the US, and its terms keep on changing to continue protecting US interests."

What?

The US has only written IP laws in it's own jurisdiction. Europe, and other nations definitely write their own laws.

Nations make agreements with each other for their own benefit, for example, there is an IP section within the WTO.

If China, or anyone else, thinks they are better of without having IP laws - that's fine. Then nobody should respect their IP either.

The other problem is that China is part of the WTO and they are supposed to actually be doing one thing, but they are actually doing another ... i.e. they are out-of-bounds of their own treaties.

It was perfectly rational, in 1980's and 1990's for China to ignore IP laws, and interestingly - it was rational for the rest of us to allow them to do it.

But if you want a 'seat at the table' of major economies, that needs to change.

And it's in China's best interest to do so as well.
101, not rt 1. They’ve had a massive sign on a building on 101 that always struck me as a zeitgeist for SV — a note taking app with its logo on a building...
What have you won?

China running out of things to tax, doesn’t mean America has actually gained anything. America was stronger, but that doesn’t create jobs.
this comment provides very little data to back what you’re saying. The WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), negotiated during the 1986-94 Uruguay Round, introduced intellectual property rules into the multilateral trading system for the first time. This was before China entered the WTO. It made the choice to join nonetheless.
For the wine part, I don't know if you are aware but foreign wine still have a very bad reputation in France, foreign wine account for 5% of the total sales in France, so you have 5% for Spain + Italy + Portugal + the new world all together, that's pretty much nothing. The only common foreign wine I've ever seen is maybe Porto, that's the only exception and probably a good part of these 5%. They are an absolute niche and a tough sell even without any regulation. I know a lot of people who would not trust foreign wine at all. Additionally, France has not adopted the English way to categorise wine and still uses the French way, which does not help to sell foreign wines there.

And for the pharmacists, I'm living now in Asia and I appreciate the French system even more because at least in France you can trust pharmacists without any doubt.
If you compare the demand for websites vs mobile apps, we have about a total of 5 million downloadable apps and about 644 million active websites according to netcraft, which can be interpreted as 131 web devs for every 1 app dev. The pool for webdevs should therefore be much larger.

As for quality, correctly accessing a devs level of competence can be very tricky, regardless of the required skill-set. With web devs, its even more tricky because an "over-qualified" desktop/app devs can do just as much damage in terms of technical debt as a poor quality web dev. A webdev is also a specialized developer, but due to the low entry barrier, many don't realize this.
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IANAL Yes, there are protections to prevent you doing things which are a proxy for redundancy. Being made redundant is different to being fired for the employee (severance, in my country at least they have to actually eliminate the role, right to unemployment benefits).
I'm sure there's a team of lawyers that pored over the exact language used and made sure it skirts the laws; they say "we strongly encourage", not "we prefer".
> is disenfranchising compared to our current electoral college system.

I guess my point is we can enfranchise significantly more people than today without moving away from the electoral college.

Yet no state is seriously considering assigning their electoral votes proportionally.

I think that shows the people calling for the removal of the electoral college are playing politics and are only interested in it if it helps their side.
Men’s health and FB operates at very different scales. FB ads can influence at the global scale and their discriminatory nature can bring potentially much more harm.
This record is fastest speed on a bicycle while drafting. I don't think wind assistance matters.
I advise you to reflect on the bias of your own view points.

China has been pulling the same bullying tactics towards EU and S.Korea/Japan as well. IP transfer, forced partnership, etc. Notice how EU, South Korea and Japan haven't really been opposing this ordeal between China and US? They would also like to see China start playing fair, unfortunately there is very few economies can standup to China right now.

China has been quite the bully towards EU nations (though not EU as whole yet). Here in Sweden, China went on full on propaganda mode over some Chinese tourists being kicked out of a hostel, and this made it to the Chinese national news yesterday.
>Sometimes you don't want to be politically correct, and you go along with what things actually are, what people want and what is already working. A company is not there to solve stereotypes.

And that is why we have anti-descriminatory legislation.
Sure, but the whole thing depends on there being world-class public transportation. Fortunately, Tokyo has that.
So the argument, as I see it here, is that companies should be forced to spend additional resources advertising to demographics that they have identified as not strong leads in their campaigns, so that overly virtuous people can feel happy about them spending money on something that likely won't concern them in the slightest.

Righto.

If the article's title was "Facebook is letting job advertisers target only women" or "Facebook is letting job advertisers target only people in their ideal demographic", I wonder if the discussion would be any different here.
Recording yourself and reviewing the recordings is a technique I've used. I am uncomfortable doing it (do not like hearing / watching myself!), but it's definitely helped me analyze how I come across and then adjust accordingly.

Also a good strategy to use when preparing for interviews.
There's a video describing the attempt from 5 days ago: https://youtu.be/cZhrqKrljig (WIRED)
International shipping bumps this up to 40 USD, which is a ridiculous shipping fee for a letter.
This change breaks working applications, is difficult to notice and has no clear benefits. The same occurs when compilers use standard's undefined behaviour for micro optimizations.
"but are you suggesting that it's unfair to not be able to copy IP and just manufacture without paying?"

It's a perfectly legitimate approach for some situations. In the 1980's , 1990's it was actually a positive strategy for China to pay no mind to IP. And it was better for us as well because it was the easiest way to move them along at a quick pace. It's better for the 'rest of the world' to have a prosperous China, than a 'broke on it's back' China.

But at some point, it comes home to roost though - you can't 'catch up' to the big players without some kind of basic IP, so by becoming too entrenched in that kind of culture, they might limit themselves.
> So the zone where there is clear unambiguous science is very small, and it's generally not the zone of contention in politics. Stuff like "don't swallow arsenic" -- it doesn't really help us to govern or solve any of our political questions.

So, what, we should just make things up? Do you have some other decision procedure aside from the scientific method you would like to employ?

> What we need is a better functioning public policy discourse that supports more course corrections, allows more people to air their views, and eliminates certain known distortions, like the influence of big money groups on campaigns. That's a hell of a lot more useful than pretending that scientists can be politicians or that politicians should be scientists.

And what is going to inform that public policy discourse? Are we just going to talk at each other about our prior beliefs and implicit biases until one side gets tired? Or should we use the scientific method to answer empirical questions about the impacts of policy, and then debate which values we should use the knowledge gleaned therefrom to optimize? I know which one i'd prefer.
This is not a problem. It would be illegal if it was not served in the beginning.
A tip is to talk in slow motion, because if you talk super slow and think of it during your talk, you will probably talk normally.

Your mind and heart races and so does your speech, so that trick is good for when you're nervous and have helped me several times when giving presentations. You will think that you're talking in slow, but in reality you are talking normally.
fairly common. team builds a product that other teams use, so you do a demo.

it's obviously better for the engineer to demo their own product. not only does it feel like you have control over your own product but it also gives a face to the project.
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> almost exclusively male, because most females don't want to do it.

Needless generalization; in the less violent Netherlands, there's plenty of women in law enforcement, and you often see both men and women together patrolling. They are actively hired because they bring different traits to the table to de-escalate a situation.

Of course, the US is much different, much more violent, much less safe for police, and it's a self-reinforcing system.
Seems like the skill needs a lot of semantic knowledge. This is less coding than a meta game.
In what world would you close a billion dollar income stream to “win”?
>>for many people words like "master" and "slave" do in fact evoke historically-grounded feelings of discomfort, even when that isn't the intent

So what? Most peoples (all?) in history have been enslaved at one time or another. Some people are right now!

I understand that it is easier to protest against word usage in freaking source files/documentation, in a field where most people are very agreeable and soft and want to accomodate everyone, even to their own detriment, than to protest against real existing problems, but come on ...
Great idea. I really like idea of not requiring an internet connection. Self contained projects are more reliable and portable. Also this project is aimed towards students so privacy is a real concern.

The way I built it should be easy to use another voice ai input. The Alexa module of the code just passes the commands to the Core logic. It's all built in node.js.

I built this for Alexa Skills Challenge: Tech for Good. https://devpost.com/software/code-by-voice . More details about how it was built can be found there.
My mother is seventy one and rides a cargo tricycle to the supermarket. She can't drive so in an American city she would have to order her groceries, I guess.
I thought data scientist was closer to doing the work of a statistician than a progrrammer. Visualizing data, and analyzing data. Programming becomes part of it by necessity.

Data science is also a much sexier term than statistics, just like "Machine learning" and "Artificiall intelligence" is a lot sexier than, say, "Regression".

As someone funnier than me put it: "A data scientist is just a statistician with a mac".
I'm really enjoying the content that Julia Evans is releasing these days!
"and as such we will review the specifics of the report and then determine the appropriate next steps. "

- I understand this thing is new and policies are being created as issues are discovered, I think it would be best to be more up front about the coming blocking of things, if you all will post a notice or just make it appear that the whatever-file is not found, and things like this.

That statement is very broad, and I can see a future where lots of niche communities are eventually blocked for varying reasons.

Which countries are going to be able to tell you all what to take down?

There was a time when I had a lot of faith in Cloudflare, and the whole, it's a pipe / telephone line, not a moderated server - but the whole stormfront thing weakened your position with all the powers that be from what I can tell.

So if a bunch of <insert-niche-com-here> start posting links based upon the cloudfalre-ipfs-gateway/controversial-not-mainstream-whatever1 , 2 , 3 etc.. and you all end up nuking all of them, will people know that the files still exist and can be accessed with other means aside from the cloudflare portal?

I would think that cloudflare needs to split up and create US company and an EU company and Cananda one, and a Japan... I mean there are so many conflicting things around the world, when you want to censor the internet you just pick a rule from some place on the planet and file a complaint - I think you could removed just about anything.

I like the things you all are trying to do, but being a central place under whatever authorities with a fickle CEO that can single handedly change everything, along with who knows how many agencies and stick a paper to your head and make you change, I think it's time your company became decentralized itself.

I hope that happens, or some rule is made saying you all are just dumb pips and can't make censor decisions, but I'm not holding my breath for that.
" Trump is doing everything he can to undermine and destroy every vestige of a rules based independently arbitrated global trade system"

I'm sorry but China is flagrantly violating so many of it's own agreements. The IP agreements of the WTO for one.

There would be little fuss if China was sticking to it's own agreements.
I think the fact that he has both domain and engineering knowledge.

We work in a university hospital and he has both medical training as well as software engineering. So we can talk to him with software specific terminology and doctors etc can do the same with medical terminology.

That, combined with having passion about what we are doing and actually caring about the team goes a long way. (Our team occasionally does things outside of work together, like going to the movies or something).

The team (and leadership of said team) are one of the best things about my job.
So they are more interested in being politically correct than in recruiting the best talent available? My respect for them just went down. This is not a way to fight gender discrimination, but rather to perpetuate it.
By execution model I imagine you mean the whole single-request single-response thing? To which I can point you to something like https://reactphp.org/ and https://github.com/php-pm/php-pm, which are great projects that enable a different execution model for PHP.
I think what the grandparent poster meant was that the manager didn’t habitually take credit whereas the developer had to learn to take credit.

Not every demo was done by the developer, but they had to learn how to present their work too. (“Had to demo every product” doesn’t mean “did every demo myself”.)
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surely uber also had the advantage of being able to have more drivers available at peak times.
The usual scenario is that you make a bunch of variants of an ad, do some testing and find out that option A works a bit better on women, option C works a bit better on men, and option B sucks; so then you'd run ad A targeting only women, and ad C targeting only men. You don't want to show ad C to any women since you have reasons to believe that showing ad A would be more effective for the same price.
Unambiguous. Approachable. Genuine desire to help. Clear objectives. Holds you accountable and offers stern feedback. Notices when you grow. Places you with people and problems that challenge you personally and technically. Completely capable of understanding complex tech. Insulates you from noise. Interrupts you when shit hits the fan. Demands answers, but gives you appropriate time to get answers. Makes risky, even costly decisions when time is of the essence and tradeoffs aren't clear.

Never blames you for something that isn't your fault.

Edit: by "placing you with people that... challenge you personally", I mean recognizing that your interpersonal skills need to grow. I'm rough around the edges and very direct, and I'm placed with an overly sensitive team member and expected to have a highly functional team, for example. What I definitely don't mean is "come rock climbing bro".
It's one thing to do something because you found that it works. It's another if you know what the rules are, and why breaking them will work in this case, and if you (or someone else) needs to port the code, you know the potential problem spots that need attention.
If you are interested in state-of-the-art voice coding, I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyYIIFKsdU
> Since 1981 (or so) the price of books has been fixed by law. Nobody can sell them lower than that price. If you walk through Paris (or most cities) you'll see a number of small library shops that contribute to local economy and culture. I find that very nice!

How many times have you bought something in one of those shop this year?

I see lot of people trying to defend the postcard way of life. Even if people living there don't want to be part of the postcard and want to enjoy modern things. Like cheap books so you can read a lot for not too much. There's only one kind of shops offering the postcard dream for cheap concerning books: used book stores. You can enjoy trying to find some specific book but you usually end with a dozen books you never heard of and can discover new authors.
I remember going to an Erlang conference where Basho was a sponsor. One of the engineering managers held a presentation on something new in Riak and had a small error in it. One of the other basho guys in the audience corrects him and his reaction to that was the following:

"That's Ryan Zezeski, he's awesome and if he says that, you should listen to him". My immediate reaction was: "wow, I want to work for this guy" (funny sidenote: because this was in DC, I thought everyone wore suits, so I showed up with a jacket. I felt like an MBA and never so out of place as an engineer in my entire life).

I have another one where I was working in a startup that was doing telco stuff. This is about 10 years ago, so I was a bit younger. I'm sitting there next to the founder, listening to my music with my huge Sennheiser headphone and the founder taps me on the shoulder. He says: "Reza, we need to talk". I look at him and say: "What do you want, you don't have a clue about this stuff anyway." He just says: "That's right, I don't, that's why I hired you". So I just shut up and listen. It's also not entirely true, he follows a lot tech, he just lacks the knowledge when it comes to the implementation.

Over the years the handful of really good leaders I saw all had the same quality. They all knew when to get out of the way and making a decision when it counts. It's what I strive to do these days. Seems to me that the best way to build trust is to let a person that's a specialist in his field take the spotlight when needed.
> Duolingo has a policy of only recruiting from schools that have an above-average percent of women in their CS program.

Thats a misleading statement.

IMO, The main reason why they did that is because Carnegie Mellon University has more woman than men in its incoming CS classes, and Duolingo wanted an excuse to exclusively recruit from CMU (Which one of the founders teach at, and is strongly associated with).
Waiting for PS2, one title: Original SSX. So damn much fun!

FF VII might get a replay on this one though.
Having a world record for something that requires so much skill and determination that it takes decades to beat it quite the achievement. Impressive by any measure. Congratulations to her!

> Moments later, Holbrook yelled out into the open air of the Salt Flats, "Beat that, Fred!"

Fred I assume is 72 year old Fred Rompelberg, who set the previous record 23 years ago. This challenge might be more appropriate 23 years from now :).

Makes me think of the contrast with Felix Baumgartner who in his 2012 historic jump intentionally missed the free fall time record by a few seconds to not take every single record away from the previous holder, Joseph Kittinger, who held them for 52 years.
In case it's useful and you're on a Mac, FYI you can use Bear (bear.app) to import EverNote's XML export file; and you can then use Bear to export the whole thing as a bunch of markdown files.
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It has nothing to do with virtue, it's a matter of Facebook and its advertisers violating the written law. EEOC exists due to law, and all employers are required to abide by it. If you violate equal opportunity employment by discriminating for any one of a number of protected classes, you are acting unlawfully. Facebook should not be so openly allowed to violate the law, and for doing so, the individuals in the corporation as well as the corp itself should be charged with their crimes and assessed fines.
The usage of the word "problematic" is very high on my list of trigger words... Followed closely by "toxic".