skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same with lie detectors. There's little evidence that they work all that well, but they're great for bluffing.

I read about one suspect who confessed after cops hooked him up to a "lie detector" that was actually a photocopier. They pushed the button and it printed "LIE," and he broke down.
TabIt – NewTab
I agree with your main point that OSS is underfunded, but Babel also collects donations through Open Collective[1] and Henry Zhu withdraws a monthly maintenance fee (recently $8k/mo).

[1]: https://opencollective.com/babel
> I forget the exact case but one counter-example was: you have proprietary library A. Someone makes a GPL implementation B with a compatible interface. You ship software C with instructions that users can use either library A or B.

Are you referring to the discussion between the author of CLisp and Stallman about GNU Readline, by chance?

https://github.com/JoshCheek/clisp/blob/master/doc/Why-CLISP...
just like `rake notes` in my rails apps which also lists FIXME and OPTIMIZE.

https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#rails-n...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/income-inequality-continues-...

https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-is-deepening-us-e...

Will that do, or do you need more elaboration?
Maybe you're right, but I'm doubtful. I wonder how it would hold up in a big supreme court challenge (or maybe it has already ... I'm not an expert)
Was that large junior wage due to the 2000's cyber boom and was later readjusted to the new reality? Or has your wage actually remained stagnant / rose slower than inflation since that time?
Right, because dead people pay such awesome tax rates.

Clearly this is the fault of those nameless multi-national corporations who are gleefully clasping their hands while laughing madly.

Obviously these drug addicts having major problems and injecting themselves with illegally acquired, addictive drugs is exactly the same as bombing innocent people, and we should retaliate by having the marines storm the lobby of Pfizer.
You're basically trolling now. Please stop.
This document give me tinglings. Something about how the hooks just click with me and I can see how the web changes with WebAssembly and multiple compile targets (native, desktop, etc.), this will make our lives easier.
Wait, isn’t this list a ripoff from freeCodeCamp?
Google's app redesigns are really bumming me out
No, this isn't what I meant to imply (though I understand your confusion). I didn't realize (or understand) that the syntax is meant to facilitate interoperability between different versions of Rust.
MySQL was very upfront about it, though. They always said that if you wanted that stuff, there are real RDBMS for that.
Very cool. Go already has the notion of custom notations in comments for handling todos and bugs. I wrote about it here: http://pokstad.com/2018/07/26/gonotes.html
I'm hoping this is broader than it appears. For example, a mobile phone is assumed to receive updates to its software for, let's say, security purposes, and the customer may well consider that to be a real factor in deciding to buy the phone. If the manufacturer stops issuing security updates, I would read this exemption as protecting work to ensure that phone can continue being secured, even if that's by community patches that are backported, or even by installing another OS that is still supported. I have no idea if this interpretation would fly legally, but it passes the common sense test: just because a manufacturer decided to stop issuing patches for your phone doesn't mean you should have to choose between spending hundreds more for a new phone and being totally exposed to security vulnerabilities, all in the name of a copyright law that designed to prevent piracy (presumably).
"Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car"

https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1
Twitter introduces badges that confirm political candidates
Thanks for the explanation! That makes sense.

So... why does the blog post argue that it's unenforceable?

My understanding is that they are saying "you can't use copyright to enforce something that isn't part of a creative work".

If that's an accurate version of their argument, then why not? The agreement is a contract with copyright as one side of the equation, and some behavior on the other side. Why wouldn't you be able offer a license for a creative work contingent upon things unrelated to a derivative work?
Context is a great example. Right now, each `<MyContext.Consumer>` instance shows up as another level of wrapping in the devtools, _and_ requires indentation/hierarchy in the render methods. With `const someValue = useContext(MyContext)`, there's no actual component being used, so both the component hierarchy and the render code itself is flatter.
Yeah I cannot imagine how uncomfortable of a position that would be, wanting such a prestigious job and being taken advantage of.
The ultimate diversity is individuality. Stop looking at sex, age and skin color and start looking at the competence alone.
Chance and Necessity – An Essay on Natural Philosophy of Biology (1970) [pdf]
Cant see the video now but is Bernie Sanders in favor of the wall then?
Facebook's political ad tool let us buy ads “paid for” by Mike Pence and ISIS
This is pretty interesting but it's not immediately obvious whether it's an improvement over the current system.

Looks like one of those things you have to use for a couple of days before coming to a conclusion.
> w-ah-ry

I've always heard it pronounced way-ree.
If something rarely happens, it's just another way to say that it happens. So I'm not sure why you're arguing like the above poster is saying it never happens.

Not to mention even in the case you're posting it's probably not the same as if you get fired from a job, where maybe security escorts you out immediately and you pick up your last paycheck next week.

And it's not as if the transcription discloses all the details of this event either. Things like severance and whatever contract obligations GE must fulfill that simply don't existing for rank and file employees. Which is kind of the point. Even when the language is the same, being "fired", the actual circumstances and details are usually much much different between executives and low level employees.
Other than the space shuttle, by measuring deaths vs distance traveled per person, the elevator is the safest form of transportation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/2qbjw2/requ... though I recommend reading more into it and doing your own math.
Original title: "Facebook’s political ad tool let us buy ads “paid for” by Mike Pence and ISIS"
Understanding Linux Links: Part 2
I don't know if their product is for me (probably not), but this infographic has given me deep insight into my marketing problem. I am greatful.
You are certainly correct that there is limestone rock and that it derives from skeletons of diatoms etc..

Consider this (caricaturized) argument: suppose most artificial mummies are mummified humans, that does not mean most humans end up mummified!

please check out the sibling comment by philipkglass, the referenced text has a section on calcite compensation, and the previous section detailing the saturation horizon. At high enough pressure calcite prefers being dissolved again.

Consider a calcite diatom cap, close to the beach, since it is above the saturation horizon, it won't dissolve soon, now consider a diatom dropping dead over the mariana trench, so the calcite starts sinking, until it passes the saturation horizon, now the pressure is clearly high enough to prefer being dissolved...
Again? Google already paid out $500 million in 2012 to get Page and Brin off the hook on the Sportsdrug.net thing.[1]

And then there was the conspiracy with Jobs to keep wages down. $324 million paid out. Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe all had to pay on that one.[2]

In progress: the GDPR lawsuit and the Android tracking lawsuit.

Is Google at "ongoing criminal enterprise" yet?

[1] https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/the_journal_takes_us_insi...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-google-lawsuit-excl...
> Just look at any bootcamps for devs this days , it’s basically always JS + MongoDB. Not Postgres or MySQL , Mongo.

The online classes love Firebase. :-D

But yeah, I had to explain to a bootcamp dev a few weeks ago what Postgres was. I felt rather sad.
VGA emulation in qemu: where do we want to go?
I went from skeptical to sold in five minutes. This API is absolutely beautiful. I have quite a few components in each of my projects that do nothing other than call lifecylcle methods (they render `props.children`). Composing them is sometimes easy, and sometimes awkward. Especially when trying to read a value back from a child component.

With the hooks API, that child component can be rewritten as a simple hook, making it much easily composable.

Thing is, hooks are very simple, and some of them (except `useContext()`) are expressable with react's current API. I'm surprised that none of us thought of them earlier.
UPS launches cargo e-bike delivery in Seattle
Extraversion has had proper studies with the Big 5 traits, it's more than just "talkativeness". But some of the seeming conflicts come from the 5 traits being able to be factored further into 10 aspects; for extraversion it splits between "enthusiasm" and "assertiveness". See e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818974/ or http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.513...
And 21 to 70 million of those real people out there are actually slaves, owned by other real people, who are not just role playing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century
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>So what would promoting political diversity look like?

Not ostracizing people for having political opinions that are not the majority but fairly mainstream.

I work at the satellite office of an east coast tech company and how you have to be careful not to say anything that betrays politics that are not officially condoned is a bi-weekly gripe among the group I eat lunch with.

I'm not saying it should be perfectly acceptable to tell your coworkers you went to a KKK chapter (is that their organizational unit?) barbecue when discussing what you did over the weekend but if you went to see NASCAR you shouldn't feel compelled to tell people you stayed home.
"We're not talking about <implication of my position that makes it look bad>, so it doesn't matter. We're talking about <implication of my position that makes it look good>."

Edit: Seriously? Does that count as a valid response now on HN?

A: X is bad. We should prohibit all X. Look at Y, which was a case of X.

B: But Z was a case of X too -- is that an acceptable cost?

A: Irrelevant; we're talking about Y.

There's even a famous joke about this fallacy! ctrl-f "changing the subject": https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2002/12/26/15545311.php?sh...
Yep I completely agree that gender and race have an influence on our thought process, and perhaps the title of "I'm not diversity" is a tad overdramatic, because I _do_ bring in a unique perspective.

My goal with this post is to convince people to not just limit their views of diversity to race and gender, but also look beyond those 2 to care about the other ways each of us bring in diverse perspectives as well.
I have been using https://iredmail.com/ for five and a half years. The only issue I have had, is fail2ban being slightly more aggressive than needed.
I'll point out that Ryan's demo _did_ show using string constants with `useReducer()`.

Also, our new `redux-starter-kit` library auto-generates action types and action creators for you, _and_ modifies the action creators so they can be used for the `case someAction` comparisons: https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-starter-kit .
Of course the overdose deaths are falling: you can die only once.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010024/

Quoting:

> The debate over the safety and efficacy of amalgam has raged since time immemorial. In recent times, it has reached such a feverish pitch that it seems to drown out all sounds of reason. Amalgam has served the dental profession for more than 165 years. Incidents of true allergy to mercury have been rare and attempts to link its usage with diseases like multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease have not been significantly proven, although there may be some association between amalgam restorations and oral lichenoid lesions.

> Marshall, in his review on dental amalgam, summed it up appropriately: “if some reported values of Hg release are extrapolated to clinical life times, the entire restoration could lose its Hg in short time. For example, a 500 mg amalgam restoration contains approximately 200–250 mg of Hg, and the entire quantity of Hg would be lost in 10,000 days if the Hg was released at the rate of 25 ?g/day. This estimate of release is of the order of magnitude reported in some studies of vapour release”.
I know I may be in the minority here, but I can't say that I'm a fan of this feature. I can't envision a scenario where this would be my preferred solution to any of the problems that they detail. Templates should remain stateless, as they are far easier to reason about that way. My gut reaction is that this is a giant step backward.
For most companies it probably doesn't matter, but if you're trying to market a product to a diverse group, it'll help to have diverse input when creating the product. An example is facial recognition software developed by a US company not recognizing black people, or cameras saying "woops, looks like someone blinked" after taking pictures of an asian person. If they had a more diverse development or testing team, they probably would have noticed it before being publicly embarrased.
Or perhaps they use a different metric of diversity and just hire regardless of popular physical groupings.
It's all economics. As soon as the breakeven point of a space-based datacenter goes below a certain threshold, you'd better believe AWS will start building them.
In a word: ClassicPress.. The community is already migrating
Sounds interesting and contrarian but in fact there are lots of carbon emissions from the manufacturing process of said paper.
Articles all state "from air" but half the system uses pyrolysis (high heat to gasify without flame) to extract water from biomass.

See also comments on slashdot from someone claiming to be from All Power Labs, the gasifier supplier:

https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/10/22/079250/a-device-...
Is it really impossible to prevent people from dating within the workplace? I've worked for many years at large and small companies and I've never done it, nor have the majority of my co-workers.

The HN demographic is skewed by a lot of young people who work for companies that are managed more like college dorms than real businesses. I think this gives some people a distorted perspective about what's realistic.

To be clear I'm not proposing a blanket ban on all workplace relationships everywhere. But if some employers choose to go that route it's not necessarily bad or unrealistic.
1. I don't think this is true in any meaningful capacity; it just means we need to find ways to keep a critical mass of people involved in productivity.

2. This is a different argument than the one to which I was responding (which seemed to be something like, "it's mean to have the opinion that economic systems reward productivity").
This video talks a little bit about the EC2 team in Cape Town (a team that I’ve always enjoyed working with). It was made at the 10 yr anniversary of EC2.

https://youtu.be/9Gk_I_0eMDA
It's also the most incompatible point of view. They do not want to be around diversity.
Thank you. I just read it in one sitting. Amazing story.
This was such a total balls up that I wonder a little bit wether they did it on purpose so people wouldn't take them so seriously in the future.
Maybe we could train the insects to raise the children for us too!
There is no restriction, only the requirement that the systems that make your service run be made available under the SSPL.
She doesn't know what is it to suffer from diversity. Elizabeth Warren has 0.0001% things to say about that.
I remembered this popped up a while ago:

https://github.com/naholyr/github-todos

Not used it myself
Talk about dedication - not planning on going to burning man, then going with a week's notice, in conservative clothing no less? Ms. Simpson is willing to go to far greater lengths than I to increase offer prospects...

I would have read it differently if she had gone "burning-man" mode, as I'd be tempted to do if invited on a whim like this. I'd always intended to try anyway, so having a guaranteed champion there (and maybe a camp? Unclear if crashing at the camp was implied in the invitation), would make it a fun thing to do. But the conservative clothes makes it seem like she was treating this as a step in the interview process.

Why was DeVaul talking about his personal romantic/sexual life in an interview? How stupid of him. What a dumb gamble, even if he was trying to get laid, the risk/reward just doesn't make sense in the context.
> Many public health experts point to campaigns in Rhode Island, Vermont, and Massachusetts as models for addressing addiction, and all three states reported decreases in overdose deaths from March 2017 to March 2018 — declines that many of their neighbors did not see.

> “The states that have been comprehensive and have gone after evidence-based methods are seeing the declines,” said Brandon Marshall, a Brown University epidemiologist.

A good friend of mine is a cop in Massachusetts. He carries Narcan.
'victim'? For me this term should be reserved for grave situations; what shall I say, what sometimes unfortunately now happens in Germany with knives maybe? The reward is for building Android. For such a successful platform the sum is more than justified, don't you think? In a way I feel Rubin is also a 'victim', Clinton didn't get fired back then.
I know that y'all feel oppressed, but the most-excluded are those who are homeless, computerless, penniless, and therefore voiceless. They aren't our customers, they aren't our users, they aren't our investors, they aren't our employees, and so it shouldn't be surprising that we pay them no attention.
Enough people talking, such that you can not follow any one conversation, functions like white noise.
Universities are similar, claiming they champion diversity, but (usually) not wanting diverse political thought.
I guess that SCRUM should have not been adopted as a mainstream/default agile process. I think that SCRUM can work for some teams, but it should be a niche in the world of agile development.

The problem is that people take it as a "best agile practice/process for every team". That is IMHO the biggest issue here.

I wrote an article about my experiences with SCRUM which I named "Why SCRUM doesn't work" :-) You can read it here: https://stribny.name/blog/2018/05/why-scrum-doesnt-work

I'd be interested in any opinions about this.
AMD Inches Up Server Share on the Way to Rome
I mean, my day job is supporting an application across Win/Mac/Linux. Even ignoring the graphics, Apple is easily the hardest to support. I don't really care if you haven't read a magazine article on it.

And to pretend like FrostBite doesn't matter is ridiculous.
Further, One might say there's a complex debate that goes between economists, where the arguments are framed as "how do we measure this policy's impact on equity, well-being and etc" but where each debater has their own emphasis and measure of these things. One pole might be a grim state socialism while another pole might be a Nietzsche/Harry-Lime view that "the goal of a society is to produce five great men and if the majority must be destitute for this, so be it". It's easy to say "we should be in the middle" but the reality talk of middles essentially involves where each debater wants to claim the "Overton Window" is located and so incrementally move it.
Yes but "rights" are legally defined, not just 'well I feel like I have a right to this'. Employees dating their subordinates is not a protected class, so "and probably not because they fall in love with each other either" is factually incorrect.
We are literally commenting on a story about David Drummond, so no, that's not a real rebuttal.
I don't know about this project. But I have been using Kong and eventually have to remove it and run with Nginx directly.

Kong add significan overhead, especially when you use statsd plugin. When under high load, say 10kRPM, Kong has 1-2% error request rate. I endedup removing Kong and use Ingress Nginx directly with some Lua script.

It isn't as efficient and conveniene as Kong but it perfoms better.
I agree with her, diversity is more than just race, sex, sexual preference, etc. However I would say that I think these things as a top level attribute DO correlate with different lived experiences that you want in a diverse workforce.

Companies are not going to ask you about your political leanings, they are probably not going to give you some mental test to see how you react to situation A and situation B. If you look at the stats, race and gender do correlate between stark differences in people. For instance, the "wealth gap" between black and white Americans is about 10x, growing in poverty vs. growing up in a stable middle class family causes a different lived experience, you view the world differently because of how you grew up. That's not to say that all black people are poor and all white people are rich, but if you're working with a limited data set and are thinking about how you can get some people in a room with different lived experiences, you could do a lot worse than saying "let's get a mix of different races in here". I think the same thing applies to women and other traits that companies and institutions use for their diversity metrics.
that doesnt mean he was immune to unsuccessful investigations, in which he spent a large part of his later life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%27s_unsuccessful_inve...
I'm not sure I can take it anymore. Websites are just getting too complicated to design and build.

First it was desktop with mouse -- easy. Then responsive design requiring both desktop and mobile layouts, as well as interaction design with both mouse and touch. Now what if users start expecting both light and dark versions of websites? "We show the mobile version of the menu with its own hover on small screens only, but the hover only appears if JavaScript detects a mouse, but wait we need a different hover color when it's in dark mode!"

Not to mention other standard things like making sure it works in all major browsers, or even that interactive things like comments or voting have non-JavaScript fallbacks, or that the order of elements is appropriate for screenreaders.

I love using dark mode at night, and as a user would love for every website to follow it too. But as a developer, there are just too many combinations to design and test for, and it's growing exponentially!
Sleeping Giants Redacted Letter – REDACTED – FINAL
You think maybe employment at will is just waiting to be tested in the Supreme Court?
You'd be very to join as at ClassicPress..
Not so sound snarky (I know that's not welcome here) but that doesn't sound very scientific to me. If ultimately science is a method-based process to find truth, then hiding facts feels hypocritical.

No doubt, I agree with you. We all do. My rub is that I see repeated calls from science that the public bow to its mastery. Unfortunately, a institutional lack of transparency is hardly grounds for trust. Perhaps it's time for science to hold itself up to it's own standards?
Here are a few articles on why diversity is good for business:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/18/diverse-teams-are-still-re...

https://www.inc.com/ian-altman/5-reasons-why-workplace-diver...