skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't going to say anything, but since you brought it up:

There is evidence that autistic girls tend to go underdiagnosed and tend to be more required than boys to simply figure out the social stuff. So there are some confounding social elements there.

Having said that, I think there are gender differences and we do ourselves no favors to try to pretend they don't exist at all. Granted, it's a minefield in terms of gender politics and the like. However, I don't think "La La La not listening!" gets us safely and effectively to the other side. That minefield seems to exist anyway, whether we discuss it or not.
> stifle 2 decades worth of search engine innovation with their patents

Did that company use those patents offensively?

> patent novel compression techniques belonging to others

Same question. Also https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/84214.html

> completely wipe out a rich and varied mobile telephone industry

Huh?

Your examples aren't very good. The biggest evil thing Google has done is join Jobs's no-poach agreement. It remains to be seen whether their China project will surpass that. On patents in particular, Google has thus far been very reasonable.
MP got reworked extensively, they did keep their colorscheme.
Microsoft WindowsCodecs.dll SniffAndConvertToWideString Vulnerability
Music for most people is something to consume, not something to see once and maybe neither again. If you "own" the music, in the sense that you have the "physical" control whether you have access to it, then you can be sure to consum it whenever you want.
If you consider analyzing an RL/RC circuit as a "toy problem" then I guess you're right.
How would this proposed mechanism allow that, and what about the current workings of virtual memory disallow it?

One can already do this with realloc() (https://linux.die.net/man/3/realloc). And if you don't want to use the malloc family, but instead want to manage your virtual memory yourself, you can easily allocate large sections of virtual memory and then manage it yourself - which would include enabling behavior such as growing arrays. (Even though you're really just re-implementing realloc-like behavior yourself.)

And to make sure we're on the same page (ha), I want to reiterate that there is a big difference between virtual and physical memory. You can allocate virtual memory without allocating physical memory.
Quite the contrary. The facade was required until the clock ran out on Title 11's two year fraudulent conveyance presumption.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_State_Railways

We had rails sooner yet we did not get stuck. Do you think that the size of US is limiting here?
1. Sorry, I gave you the wrong link. Here's the info in a PDF: https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/fed_individual_r....

2. We certainly have historically low rates. It's not the case that the Fed has refused to raise them--they've cautiously raised them. One contributing factor is that wages haven't been increasing, and inflation is very very low. The early 80s were an outlier in another way: Paul Volker shot interest rates incredibly high to deal with historically high inflation numbers. So the relevant comparison is arguably 4-10% (late 80s/90s/2000s) vs. 2.25% today.
I'm uncertain about OIN's membership and its benefits to the larger public. Is it just an exclusive club that benefits its members, or a means to provide everyone with IP safety regarding Linux and maybe other FOSS? One sentence in the press release suggests that only members benefit:

> The OIN patent license and member cross-licenses are available royalty-free to any party that joins the OIN community.

Still, their About page says membership is free:[0]

> Any company, project or developer that is working on Linux, GNU, Android or any other Linux-related software is welcome to join OIN, free of charge or royalties.

On the other hand, there are only ~2,600 members [1] - that sounds like a big number, but I would expect almost everyone to join. Are you protected if you are not a member? Why haven't more joined? I suspect that the answer may have something to do with the IP needs of software developers compared to those of users, and the latter don't need membership for some reason; but even then, 2,600 seems like a small portion of FOSS developers.

[0] https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about-us/

[1] https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/community-of-licensees/
The "game footage captured on device" is super misleading, same thing that Hololens did. The field of view is actually a small portion of your entire display, it doesn't cover the entire lens.
Making the Most of Your API Specification
Because it allows you to get out of paying things like pension liabilities, or suppliers.
Discrete difference equations show up everywhere, and are basically the same stuff. Knuth-Oren-Patashnik's Concrete Mathematics is great
I think treating it as vital infrastructure is one way to get it to work properly (assuming federal, state, and local gov't can get their act together enough to do a good job of it), I don't know much about the historical precedent but I would imagine a lot of public systems in Europe work that way.

But private companies seem to have done a good job of making Tokyo's system work well (see my comments above about how since they own the land on stations, they have a huge incentive to make it painless to get to them and derive profit from that); I wonder if given the general ineffectiveness of American bureaucracy right now, if a private approach with the right incentives would be more politically feasible.

That all said, I think the article brings up plenty of good points about how transit has been hobbled in the USA, that aren't entirely attributable to the business vs infrastructure mindset.
You need to learn the math before applying it. You don't apply things that you don't understand.
The problem with that is that other people will listen to their bullshit and, chances are, nobody will contradict them. So the bullshit spreads.
opportunities, ICOs, money;
flowers, bees, and honey.

just because you're callin' that pollen dust --
don't mean your allergic nose won't sneeze bust.
Some American cities get it, but even those are struggling because their systems are full of legacy problems that are expensive to fix yet don't provide any visible benefits.

Changing the wiring on your subway so it doesn't catch on fire is really expensive, but nobody's going to notice if the subway doesn't catch on fire.

London and New York have subway systems that are extremely complex and on the verge of self-destruction most of the time due to budget constraints. Other, newer systems have decades to go before they face the same crunch.
Microsoft tries to claim they love and support open source for the greater good, but what they really love is money. If they offer you a job, try running Linux as the primary OS on your work computer and see what they say (even if you want to run Windows using KVM). It's a broken toxic culture there. If you have good intentions, you'll likely be fired.
When two parties cannot effectively communicate, that’s true. Most of the time when a real conversation can be had these issues quickly dissolve, but having a conversation like that in a political environment or large corporate environment can be super tough to make happen. It’s sad we struggle to find common ground with others and resort to war and second guessing our “competition”.
In the article:

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Had Andrew Jackson not overturned the original reconstruction proposal for freed slaves to be given 40 acres and a mule as reparation, instead of simply allowing them to earn wage labor on former slaveowners’ lands, we might be looking at a vastly less divided America today.

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Andrew Jackson was long dead. It was Andrew Johnson who rejected 40 acres and a mule. I guess those Tennessee presidents all sound alike.
Yes, it is definitely true, commuter rail is a different story from interstate freight.
This is why all staff, whether at a corporation, nonprofit or government that handle money should be put through a two hour anti-phishing training course. There's lots of good free training material out there.

There are also services which you can hire. You give them a list of staff emails, and they send test phishes to everyone. Those who respond or click on links (there's a GUID in each phish) can be sent for further remedial training.

As a person that's been seeing and analyzing spurious SMTP traffic since 1993, this stuff seems obvious, but there's a lot of blithely ignorant people out there in administrative roles.
The Internet is 24x7. Carbon-free energy should be too
I was thinking about this with Edward Bernays recently. He is considered the 'father of Public Relations', and comes up in a lot of pseudo-sciency conversations, like Adam Curtis's documentary, "The Century of the Self." *

Bernays comes up a lot in counter-cultural circles, but it's always bugged me that I've never seen any validating evidence that his techniques were actually effective, beyond "he came up with the idea of 'freedom torches' and smoking went up among women."

His techniques sound interesting, and they feel like they'd be effective, but I had trouble finding any solid research that validated the idea that his techniques were effective at anything other than making himself famous.

(* Don't get me wrong – I love Curtis's films, as art. But it bugs me how they usually present a flood of information presented as fact, with little to know citation or corroboration. If they were just art, it wouldn't bug me, but a lot of people seem to swallow the films' conclusions wholesale.)
Cannot Measure Productivity (2003)
https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/

This specifically talks about "the Linux System".
World's largest CCTV maker leaves at least 9M cameras open to public viewing
It never was fraudulent, first planned obsolesence and now they're trying to control who can repair. Honestly disgusting.
Conflating piracy with copying music is fragrantly disingenuous. Pirating is the theft of someone else's goods by force. Music "piracy" is the circumvention of artificial scarcity to duplicate information and it leaves the original property intact. It was a clever con getting us to use the same word.
What are Go modules and how do I use them?
I'd love to fund a startup fixing this problem.

It's a clear space where technology has the edge over humans and there's huge network advantages (e.g. you see a new account # for a known entity, especially at a different bank it's a big red flag).
Attorney Generals from 35 States Call on FCC to Stop Illegal Robocalls
Google “mandatory” news spam
To my G Suite basic account:

"Important updates to Google News & Weather

Google News & Weather is being replaced with the new Google News, available to download on iOS and Android."

and then bla bla details bla. With 2 "call to action" buttons to install the new app.

At the bottom, "You received this mandatory email service announcement to let you know about important changes to Google News & Weather."

It's authentically from Google.

I have never once installed or used the Google News and/or Weather apps. Google should infer this since they've never seen a login cookie from me. Even if I had, certainly the normal app upgrade process should be sufficient, yes?

Why does Google need to push this so hard that they send unwanted spam to their paying customers? Reminds me of when they broke their own rule of home page advertising to push chromebooks.

In a word, disgusting.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear — “gender politics” is the discussion of the societal role of gender, it doesn’t imply politics in the sense of government and leadership.

What I’m getting at is that there’s a perfectly interesting article which my have revealed a tiny croute about study inaccuracies — a pretty big discussion for the last few years — and for some reason almost all the comments so far are about the comparatively uninteresting realm of gender politics.
Is South Africa's situation really that unique when most of the world isn't at war with a neighbour?

If anything, the situation in Pakistan, North Korea, India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel etc. are the unique cases - that is essentially a whose-who of regional conflicts
Biking to work is one of the best habits I've ever developed. In the beginning I could handle a couple of days a week. I've gotten to a point where I prefer it over driving, even on days I feel a little under the weather.
Why are pharmaceuticals an exception? What makes them different?
It is possible but it would mean everyone should agree to dismantle them. It would have to mean citizentry stopping this military madness. The US as global military hegemon would have to be part of that.
Do you really think white men care so much about keeping down other groups of people that they would prioritize it over making more money and having more access to good workers? That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.
At top companies, there's very little chance you are getting through without being convincingly good at CS heavy topics (DataStructures, efficient algorithms, etc.)

Case in point: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en
It motivated some people to switch to Linux. Those people may be sceptical when Microsoft offers to help them with Linux.
None of these businesses take their PKI seriously. They ought to be taught a lesson the hard way.
Meaning changes over time. Most of us have accepted a new, alternate definition of "piracy" in regards to digital media. Whether or not you (or I, because I don't either) like it is irrelevant.
"Why all the wasteful discussion about gender politics? Read the last sentence of the abstract"

Other comenters seem to be making wild statements about gender differences, extrapolating from a small result, and using this to support their other unsubstaiated biases.

It's interesting. Take all new results with a grain of salt. Replication needs to happen before trusting this result, let alone understanding what it means.
Electric bicycles and boards have absurdly low energy consumption.
"Such a teacher will be successful if at the end of the course every one of his or her students feels they have taken “a good course,” even though they may not quite be able to pin down anything specific they have learned in the course."

Basically the equivalent of, if the course makes you feel good, then the course is good. Not something that I'd advocate.

By the way, a differential equation is simply an equation with a derivative in it. If you can't recognize that, then you didn't go far enough in math.
The solution is to fix bad conclusions (preferably by showing them to be bad, with data), not to restrict inquiry to subjects that could be interpreted in ideologically unfavorable ways.
Partially due to legal/liability concerns and the FAA regulatory process, bringing an entirely new aircraft to the market in the US is very long process. Just the various manufacturers that have been developing diesel engines for small single engined aircraft have gone through very long testing processes.
Bingo.

To add more information to my previous point, a lot of the Lake Oswego residents lobbied against the train because they were afraid of homeless folks being in their neighborhood. The light rail in the Portland, OR area does not have turnstiles and fare enforcement is pretty lax, so its not uncommon to see a homeless person on the train.

The train however hasn't caused the homeless issue, that's a completely different story. The train just allows this issue to become more of a metropolitan area issue instead of a city center issue.
... Germany in the 30's wasn't particularly different from any other European country at the time. It's more disturbing that you think there's anything wrong with visiting what was at the time one of the cultural and scientific centers of the world.
I think his position can be better paraphrased as: There are preference differences between the sexes which we might want to take account of when we are organizing and designing technical workplaces. Oddly enough, this was the same position taken by YouTube and Google executives speaking in public shortly afterwards.
Come on. What is the point of exaggerating his argument so? There are some holes in it without having to resort to an utter strawman.
This is actually a brilliant idea
> Why haven't more joined?

My guess:

1. Most devs don't know about it.

2. Most devs don't need it, if they contribute to projects that are themselves members.
In that example we should take issue with the conclusion that it justifies the prevalence of male founders rather than taking issue with the study in the first place.
Yes, a few American cities have good public transit, probably rivaling Europe. Chicago and NYC are at least two, there may be others. But once you get outside of those kinds of major metropolis areas, it's pretty bleak.

My town (pop. about 80,000) has a bus system. It's a college town, and a few routes that run between campus and student apartment neighborhoods are heavily used. But otherwise most of the buses drive around empty especially mid-day and at night.

It's not anywhere close to self-sufficient.

It contributes to a lot of people who don't use the bus themselves to think the whole system is a waste of money. Especially when you see a large diesel bus driving around with zero, one, or two people on board.

We'd keep 90% of the benefit and cut a huge amount of cost if we just killed off all the routes that the students don't use. But the system is more political than pragmatic so it doesn't happen.
It leads to that only if your agenda is to go there. If your agenda is to figure out how to make life better for people generally, it can lead to discussions of "Given that women tend to have this trait or circumstance that hinders their performance in our current cultural paradigms, what might work better to help them accomplish X, Y or Z should they so desire it?"
Life among the last Google+ users
Here's a simple user style I wrote:

body {
background-color: black !important;
filter: invert(90%) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;
}
> Yangjiang City Jixie Zhulu Engineering made four payments to the Mas totalling ¥6.7 million, which would have been worth approximately $1.2 million. In August, Hoi Fu Enterprises received three wire transfers totalling $1 million.

Interesting to see that a dollar in Canada is worth 16.7% more than the same dollar in China.

And that was for a deal that was too good to be true. I wonder what the real going rate is for getting large amounts of funds out of China.
No, the problem is that you don’t like my opinion, not that it is low quality. And that’s absolutely fine. I made two serious points in 3 sentences; the remainder was a criticism of the post. My points were about what a fascinating and positive phenomenon open source is. If you’d like I can explain them to you again.
We really need to cut the stockpile to 300 deployed nukes and institute a no first use policy. That level of deterrence is enough to enough to make a nuclear attack madness but drastically reduce the likelihood of a civilization or species ending nuclear winter should they be used. This is, I think, an achievable goal though obviously larger reductions would be better.
Never seen someone "execute C" before. You are never done learning apparently obvious things...
(Disclaimer: MS employee)

Yes and no. Credit to Satya Nadella, the culture really is changing towards openness and collaboration. However, Microsoft has a lot of "lifers," and you don't just roll back two decades of the old Microsoft in a couple years.

At the high level/PR level, I think the business practices and ethics are improving, but it'll take many years and possibly a good number of retirements (because the industry is actually old enough for that now) for the mindset change to propagate throughout management.
UK public transport is a disaster in its own right. It turns out that privatisation doesn't really help that much, especially when it's done in a way that basically gives you the worst parts of state ownership combined with the worst parts of private ownership. If you look to the continent you'll find systems that work a whole hell of a lot better.
Sorry, but you're wrong about the QC20s. They do, in fact, have "active" noise cancelling. I have been using a pair for at least a year, and they are great.

I actually prefer the QC20 noise cancelling to that of the over-ear versions I tried (which were either QC25 or QC35, I don't remember).
Does this have implications for user interfaces in any way? I would guess that for women it could be harder to find fast moving objects (mouse cursor) or make sense of quick transitions on a screen.
> I've read suggestions that he'll make out better in the long run by reselling that valuable real estate than lifting a finger to save Sears' retail operations.

These investment firms saw the huge amount of expensive real estate that these retail stored owned and figured that's where the money is. Unfortunately for them, the reason the real estate was expensive was because of the store and when they slowly ran them into the ground they dramatically decreased the value of the property.

McDonald's has a similar issue; they are both a fast food franchise company and a real estate company that owns and rents out a lot of the property the restaurants sit on. There is a strong group of investors that want to split the company across these lines because the real estate part is much more profitable. But running one without the other is probably a huge mistake.
Disastrous for anyone other than those who jumped in without doing their due dilligence?

My main gripe with the whole "accredited investor" thing is that its literally legalized classism (and I'd argue a violation of the equal protection doctrine, but that's another theory), as the income requirements eliminate a huge swathe of investing for anyone but the 1%.

Nothing is stopping an uninformed investor from loading their net worth into a single reuglar stock (you know, those perfectly safe instruments that never ever lose their value and leave you with nothing), so I really, truly don't see what these requirements are protecting anyone from, or why that protection is necessary.

If it's really about protection, then education and nondiscriminatory licensing based on testable knowledge would fill that goal, but instead we have income minimums.
Virtualized Emacs as an IDE
But if you really liked a particular piece of art, you'd expect to be able to find a high-quality photo somewhere to put as a desktop wallpaper. Also, if you enjoyed a particular piece of art, you might be worried it gets taken down from exhibition and become no longer accessible to you. This could make you consider purchasing a reproduction, or finding that photo.
Your friends shouldn't shed any tears for him, his proprietary entities will make out just fine. Better than just fine.
Let me know when they provider a descent Docker container for GitHub like they do for GitLab:

https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce/

Or a Helm chart:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.h...
Because I want to listen to any song in a library that fits my current mood.

If I can't play a very particular song at a particular time because of DRM - that's a big negative.