skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another significant reason for the (non-manufactured) outrage is that the man who ordered the murder, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman (a.k.a. MBS) is much, much too close with Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of the current President of the U.S and a senior White House official. There are questions about Kushner's connection to this killing, whether he and Trump could have stopped it but chose not to (because they have been in possession of intelligence that warned them it was going to happen), or worse, whether, in fact, they deliberately allowed the killing to happen. These questions are still unanswered.

This isn't about America's selective attention or double standards. Dictators and despots in foreign countries feel free to murder journalists from the US media because Trump has given them, either implicitly or worse, permission to do so.
Given that Apple just reported a .4% unit sales increase I find the sheer volume of gloom and doom interesting.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13540/apple-announces-q4-fy-2...

IDC just reported that during the same period the overall smartphone market shrank by 6%.

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS44425818

Samsung just reported a 33% year on year smartphone sales drop.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/31/samsung-re...

Growing unit sales while the market is contracting doesn't really scream "doom" to me.
Well known fact: no downvote. Transphobic dog-whistle: downvote.
No, it doesn't. It's the most advertised scenario, but a software application could act as an Authenticator too. The spec explicitly mentions platform authenticators that just require a PIN as a possibility.
I wonder what the AI (in the sense 'the true artificial super-intelligence') would have to say about philosophy.
Given the recent embrace of open source -- especially linux -- by Microsoft, I can't help but wonder if something like "WinX" could actually happen, as is being mused about over on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18378332
> If its biological, forcing them outside of their biological comfort zone seems particularly cruel.

Gender-based biological differences are subtle enough to not really matter in a summer camp scenario.
The idea of freedoms being mutually exclusive is quite well established. To the point of being trite; imposing on individuals' freedom to reduce other people's freedoms, improves individual freedom. Hence laws against murder, etc.
Which is precisely the speculation of the Vision Fund: http://fortune.com/2018/10/10/softbank-visionfund-wework-maj... (and why I mentioned it)
You don't need equality of outcomes -- you just need neither group, and in fact, no person (even if they do not fit the group norm) to have objectively bad outcomes. For example, in an hypothetical world where women have a massive preference for raising children, and men have a massive preference for looking at spreadsheets entering boring numbers into them, you would want women to look after children, and men to look after spreadsheets, and neither to be more likely than the other to live in poverty, not have enough to eat, commit suicide, be killed by an intimate partner, or die at 50 of alcohol abuse. (I intentionally chose a variety of gender-linked outcomes in our world -- they're not all cases where women have the bad outcome.)

Yes, in order to not get some people to be massively likelier to live in poverty or suffer from depression than some others, you need to treat people unequally. I don't think that's a bad thing.

If (and I reckon that's a big if) the main reason women are more likely to live in poverty is them making less money than men, and the main reason they make less money is they choose different careers, then it follows that the moral thing to do is to get them to choose masculine careers, by essentially any means possible.
I think there's a lot of room for debate at all points of that argument, though. (On the reasons for the inequality -- but also on what the best way to address those reasons is)
I would never claim there is no legitimacy to enforcing 2FA. At my last job we ran into a situation like that. I always lacked things other people and services took for granted for financial and political reasons (like a smartphone). When we were required to use 2FA for some services at work it caused some friction for me. We found a workable solution, but it was less than ideal.

They were right to turn on 2FA but it does come at a cost, and that cost isn't always worth it.

>But it's possible that in the future we will put the bar higher. Then these arguments might be considered as silly as "with HTTPS I can no longer telnet into a web site and issue HTTP commands by hand!" (and don't tell me people didn't do that, I did it myself).

I'm actually going to make the opposite counter-argument. I do think https is a great achievement but I also think we lost something with the additional complexity introduced in, what used to be, a fairly simple protocol with wide adoption. I don't think those were silly arguments to have had.
I think so, they were definitely doing this first before anything Google did. Seems like they're just expanding it further logically.
Even if Microsoft wished it still had the power to EEE Linux, everybody crying "Embrace, extend, extinguish!!" seem to not realize that the Linux ownership of the data center ship sailed a very long time ago and it's not coming back. Regardless of whether the perception of the Microsoft's current leadership is more forward thinking with a desire to be good corporate citizens, the reality is Microsoft is making these kind of moves towards OSS because it's good business.
>but a 10% average difference in primary education among young men is a crisis

I don't know how a PragerU video convinced you that this is considered a crisis outside the right-leaning think tanks but I haven't heard a single soul talk about it outside that sphere. It's easy to prop up what a political opponent labels important as something a lot of people care about but I certainly don't see this issue come up in entertainment or the public sphere at all yet the wage gap shows up everywhere.
I think it would be fair to say that the goal science aspires to is "not obviously wrong". It is indeed a moving target and a tough one.
Ask HN: Presenting Software Engineering as a Career to HS Students?
A brief background: I'm a Senior Software Engineer for a large company. I've been in the industry for 5 1/2 years and been out of high school for 9 years. I recently got asked to give a presentation at my alma mater during their Career Day next week. This is a small high school (maybe 150 students total for grades 9-12) and I'm 99% sure that they do not offer any programming classes. They certainly didn't when I was there. So I'm guessing a majority of the students don't have any programming experience at all.

I just wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on how best to 'sell' computer science to these students? I actually participated in their Career Day two years ago but I just found the old Keynote I gave and I'm not that impressed. I think I can do better. It's a 30 minute timeslot (leaving maybe 5-10 minutes for questions). Anyone have any ideas for how to approach a presentation like this?

Thank you!
What Future Does AI Have in Content Creation?
> > They've lost some of the key risk-takers and creatives

> Who are those?

Well, there was this guy Steve, for one...
Makes me wonder if the story Wired did in 2005 about Linus Torvalds joining Microsoft and making a Linux-based version of Windows could actually happen. Link to that story is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18383909
Moreover, github.io is in the public suffix list, so it is effectively a TLD (foo.github.io is a different site from bar.github.io; they can't become same origin by means of document.domain).

The risk of eval() is giving control of the site data of foo.github.io to the author of a stackoverflow comment.

The warning is part of the fun, though.
> use the phone as a trackpad

Heh, I remember an app like that in the Apple world from back when the iPhone 4 was new.

Does it pause any D-Bus MPRIS compatible player? How deeply KDE-specific is it, in general?
Why we don't sell ads – WhatsApp
Exiftool might be able to do this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExifTool
Apple doesn't need to be the bank, just control what the banks have access to. Apple could parse out what it means to actually be a bank. Working Capital (or day to day bill paying) is different than long term savings, lending, investment accounts, and all the other retail products they are trying to invent. Each is a commodity service, but billing has a significant streamlining/comptroller opportunity that could be helpful to Apple's profitability.
McDonalds is primarily a franchise operation, with the actual restaurants being owned by what could (if you squint) be considered "small businesses".

The financial resources required to buy and run an McD franchise are pretty hefty, so it's not exactly going to first timers, or people who don't already know how to run a franchise.
This article is straight up propaganda. It wants to limit ideas and is whining about the spread of free thought. The second it mentioned Iran the whole article fell apart. Using the internet in this way is no different than the thousands of 'Vote YES on 1631' ads placed everywhere on Washington State soil right now by big oil companies and their PACs.

Want to stop this in USA? Take money out of politics and ban political advertisements in print and on the internet. Bolsonaro was not elected for the reasons they say. Glen Greenwald claims it was Desperation and Hopelessness [1]. The ruling class was their enemy, they failed them too much, and the lower classes ran into the arms of anyone who promised change from the establishment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq2pvabDN7c
I think medical insurance has a component like this. The doctor's office has people in it whose job is to make sure that the doctor gets paid, and the insurance company's office has people in it who try to find ways to not pay.
I believe this SMBC provides an easy to understand explanation of the concept:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/compatibilism
It's well-defined mathematically but ill-defined philosophically. There is no agreement on what an "observation" is -- that is what is ill-defined:

> The Copenhagen interpretation is the oldest and probably still the most widely held interpretation of quantum mechanics. Most generally it posits something in the act of observation which results in the collapse of the wave function. According to the von Neumann–Wigner interpretation the causative agent in this collapse is consciousness. How this could happen is widely disputed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_problem
templates are lazily evaluated
Calm down. I only meant it in the sense that the sound of the word itself seems pretentious. All about the sound. It wasn't a character judgment.
Pointing out a single fallacy in the context of the whole argument seems pretty facile to me.
I understand this but it doesn't really counteract my point: it pays for stuff. It (helps) pay for your bus stop (or at least it does in the states), it's on paid television because you'd have to pay EVEN MORE for it, and movies on top of that.

Now, if you made an argument that the entire structure is screwed up and the people at the top deserve to make less and therefore not needing as much cash flow and therefore we should be able to cut the ads, THEN I might agree...
Ask HN: What framework for a cross-platform menu-bar app?
Guys I want to create a menu-bar app, what framework does one use nowadays? It's pretty simple so I want it to run under Linux, Mac, and Windows. Any recommendations? I'm not a good coder of c++, something high-level would fit better, so I think QT is out of my scope right now...
I run a Flatpak'd browser with limited privileges, so the worst that can happen is my `~/Downloads` folder gets messed up.
MS version of Fuchsia is far more likely.
Biggest day as a bootstrap maker. Launched Studiotime 2.0 today
Security researchers have busted encryption in popular Crucial and Samsung SSDs
This is probably a point in which state should step in, at least if private greed starts getting out of hand.

Sure, businesses in principle don't value employees that are parents, it's a pure cost for them. But from a higher vantage point, life is not just about commerce. Parenthood may be a problem for business, but it is a critical function for both nations and societies. Unless you propose that the primary driver for society should be accumulation of wealth by whatever means necessary, this is one aspect where capitalism should not be allowed to reach its natural endgame.
Netflix hired me in a similar fashion. I would also characterize it as the "best interview ever".

I had a two-hour session with senior tech leads solely about solving a specific severe scalability issue in one of their database systems that they had not made much progress on. I showed them how I'd solve it using a technique unfamiliar to them. Next day, I get a "when do you want to start?" call -- they tried my proposed solution in a test environment and it had worked as advertised.

Two hours solving one real-world design problem in my area of expertise. Simple and on point, without any trace of culture fit, leet code, random whiteboarding puzzles, etc.
>passwords are terrible, but everything else is worse

I mean, isn't that a decent summary of a lot of things we rely on in the real world? Too late to stop, already out running in the wild, and everyone hates it but are used to using it, but what's the alternative?

NJTRANSIT, I'm looking at you.
Python 3.7.0 (default, Jul 23 2018, 20:22:55)
>>> bool("This sentence is true, but cannot be proven true by any human nor any human-crafted device.")
True
I just don't check e-mail more than once per a couple of days, same as my physical mail box. Why would anybody need any additional tool for this?
This, addressed at the macro level, probably calls for the societies to function in ways that incorporate exercise of sufficient sense of solidarity and empathy.

A relevant argument is made strongly here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBSUkDXekMM
Give that feedback to your recruiter. Committees can tell interviewers to get more training.
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Principles of e-commerce personalization
Not as much fun/traffic enhancing :-/
It’s kind of funny that Apple-land now gets to see the same uninformed hysteria that the PC world has been rolling its eyes at for the past decade or so. Every year like clockwork I see alarmist articles about how “SecureBoot/EFI/Windows/TPM/whatever is going to block installing Linux!” and it never happens. Just tune it out; eventually you realize it’s just a way to get clicks and boost your nerd cred on Linux-centered forums.
Is it because journalists are bad at doing their jobs, or is it because they do what their employers tell them to?
Good work figuring this out for yourself. Part of me wants to say “use your voice to tell your story so others like you don’t feel alone” but having experienced some similar things in my own life, I understand how it’s usually not worth going to battle.

I still wish folks would stay over more often, though.
When the Russians "botch" a job they do so with a reason. If you want to quietly disappear someone you don't do it with chemical weapons or radioactive material. You use such things when you want people to know about it, when the goal is remind everyone exactly who they are dealing with.
Dig into things and you will find lots of Russian agitators disappearing under suspicious circumstances. They know how to do things properly when they want to. They don't dress up in the dead man's clothes and do a little dance for the cameras.

Whether any killings have happened on US soil is an open question. But, without mentioning the T word, I think not much would happen. Both chemical and a nuclear weapon were deployed in Britain ... and Russian operatives still move in and out of the UK freely. Russian money still invests in London real estate. I don't see why anything different would happen in the US.
The Four Hour workweek is a dream reached either by working really really really hard to build a business, or by basically strong-arming your employer into letting you work while you're relaxing on a beach.

It's all right there in his book, but like anything that inspires people, most people read what they want to read and not the actual words on the page.
> If you want to live in a libertarian fantasy world with no safety net, you are free to create one, and try to attract citizens to your country.

For better or worse, you just described the early industrial United States. And people flocked from all over the world to come to it.
It does pause and it's not KDE specific at all.
There are Gnome parts to it and if I recall it also works in Windows.
I think this is them being forward looking, realizing that 3.5" drives are quickly becoming a relic of the past.
You don't. The exercise is in estimation. This is specifically not a case of the interviewer looking for you to get the "right" answer. The interviewer likely doesn't even know what the right answer is. They want to see if you can make back-of-the-envelope calculations and if you're capable of making sane (if inaccurate) assumptions.

Make a guess at total cost for an hour of compute time and how long it might take to transcode the average video. Guess at how many videos are uploaded on a typical day. Guess at how much the typical SRE costs Google and how many SREs YouTube employs. Do the same for software engineers, or explicitly exclude R&D. Guess at networking, storage, etc. Then roll all that together with some hours of video * (cost to transcode + cost to storage + cost to upload + cost to playback * average viewers) + sre cost +.... Bonus points if you can account for elasticity and peak load instead of just averages.

The point is to show that you can think through the problem. If all you can say is "I don't know what your networking costs are", then you come across as useless.
Gab is back online after being banned by GoDaddy, PayPal, and more
> As for autonomy - that's different.

Different as in separate from meaning? I disagree.
Compared to the amount required to not want to spend most of their time grinding to acquire a decent life.
Why would he publish in academic outlets? Why is that the place of "proper discourse"? No one except academics reads those things. And if he has the ability to reach a far greater number of people through the outlets he has chosen and therefore maximize his reach, why would he ever choose the academic route instead? When you factor in the money from the non-academic route, the case only gets stronger.

And for Peterson in particular, it makes even more sense. He claims academia has been corrupted - particularly the social sciences, like the one in which he is engaged. If you were him, why would you ever write a paper for corrupted academics to denounce you? That's like asking why someone doesn't try to speak at a RNC event and try to convince everyone in the room to switch to the Dem stance on immigration and abortion. It would never happen. Seems to me that Peterson has made rational choices given his set of claims and alleged beliefs. His strategy seems entirely sound as far as I can see. I'd also say that he doesn't shy aware from attending any speaking event or being a guest on any show. He's even said things about how his attendance in potentially adversarial discussions/debates is an important function of the way he does things because there's value in discussing things with people who disagree with him. There's little value, or at least far less, in going on a program that is an echo chamber. I've seen him throw himself into many situations that I would describe as hostile or adversarial. Doesn't seem like he's avoiding any sort of proper discussion and he seems more than willing to defend his statements.

I would be genuinely interested in some details about the alleged misrepresentations you stated. If you are willing to share, I have an open mind and admit to not having studied most of those topics at great length so if Peterson is misrepresenting them, I would love to hear the details. I am particularly interested in how he might be misrepresenting the law, as that is something I do study (although not Canadian law).
I don't see why there can't be a fifth possibility.

Real: technology our own military (USA) has had access to for years, and what we see in the video is a test to see how our own pilots would react.

I'm personally leaning in this direction.

But just wanted to say. Reading through the document. The idea that these things cloak themselves when observed is something that I haven't heard and more mind blowing then anything. And the notion that these are technologically advanced beings from our oceans is under scrutinized.
Ask HN: Problem with research supervisor regarding research interest
What'd you do if your supervisor force you to work on something you aren't interested?

I am a new graduate student in the USA. I came here like 3 months ago from third world country. So the problem is when I was applying all the documentation (cv, cover letter, research interest) of mine, was showing I am interested in doing system software research and I came here with the intent of working on the hardware-software interface. But recently my supervisor pushes me toward stuff which I am not interested (AI, ML, Image Processing), didn't have the intent to work on, and totally wastes my time (I don't have anything against those topics, I am only not interested to work on them as my thesis).

The problem is he trying to define my thesis subject. Which is very important to me and I don't want to stick on a subject which I don't like at all. I was pretty good at what I like (that was the reason they paid me to come here). But the problem is the topic is way different than my research interest.

So, besides that I am from third world country and I am on a student visa. So you can imagine how horrible is the feeling of "what if they couldn't find another supervisor?" or "what if they did cut my funding?".

What would you do if you were in my situation? What is the reasonable thing to do?
> templates are lazily evaluated

At runtime? like Scheme?

http://www.shido.info/lisp/scheme_lazy_e.html
Nothing but a communique that the US government is shocked?

Governments don't care about "their" citizens. Look at what they do, not what they say.
As far as I know the research doesn't say much, and therefor doesn't withstand much either.

They can't tell you why preferences are different. It is all implied. A much more straight forward explanation is that developed countries have long histories. To become developed you need to have developed industries for a long time without too many wars. The idea that the preference of Indian women, were many industries are being developed as they get into job market, is remotely comparable to the preference of Swedish women were industries have already been developed for centuries isn't credible. It simply isn't an equal comparison. Yet, that is exactly what people are drawing these conclusions from.
> Because if it is purely cultural then aiming for 50/50 gender parity across all industries is a reasonable goal.

If that's the case, then I see how it could be an attainable goal, but what is the basis of asserting that differing are something undesirable?
Maybe the journalist knows that transistors don't actually move, but thought that its still a useful analogy for the lay audience they target.
Well maybe if you just tried harder, it would work! /s

I'm right there with you. People are much different than they used to be; it's normal now to not even know your neighbors, let alone talk with them. I've had people decline dinner invitations, and former friends outright ignore my messages. I mean, I hope I'm not the problem but the thought crosses my mind. It sucks, especially if you want those relationships you saw your parents have but no one else around seems to.