skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct me as well; but if memory serves right the issue was that google news did not display just a link, but also a two liner bit or so, giving a glimpse of the article and driving away people who were content just with reading that couple of lines.
HN just gives you a link, it does not disclose any article content before you click the link.
ProtonMail's response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18492982
I'm wondering actually, is there any browser extension that would get rid of these popups (as well as all these "we use cookies" useless banners)?
I think both are equally important in this type of scenario. It's also like climate change. We should absolutely prevent climate change, but we shouldn't stop relief and support for those affected by it.

The reality is, it's a hard problem to fix, so any option is better than no option.
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A cursory google search that took 30 seconds.

FT: Diversity bring boost to profitability: https://www.ft.com/content/1bc22040-1302-11e7-80f4-13e067d50...

McKinsey: Why Diversity Matters https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our...

Academic paper based on multiple case studies: https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/SHR-10-2017-...

It is head-smackingly obvious that a wide variety of experiences at senior management level leads to broader market fit, which leads to better products, which leads to larger number of sales targets which leads to greater profitability and growth and has the side effect of reducing HR complaints, increasing inclusivity and making work more enjoyable for everyone.
The service in this case is facilitating a trade. Liquidity is important, but I think it was oversold to pull some of the PR heat off of HFT. Especially since a lot of retail investing advice has turned to index funds, liquidity for individual stocks matters less for them -- it also means they don't have to understand as much financial info before investing (just read the index's prospectus every year vs. reading a whole bunch of company financial filings every quarter).
No. This means less click bait. Ad revenue is a zero sum game mostly. The shit news site are no longer able to clickbait in Google news. More share of money goes to publishers despite less traffic. Clicbaiters lose.
Isn't that pretty much tautological? Yes, if you impose gender quota, then you're obviously going to get more women. The empirical question is whether the organization is better off as a result.
And it consumed 8.7Gb :)
I wonder if the editor itself is of the same quality :/
Quotas are the definition of discrimination
For anybody, (like myself), who cannot stand Google's amp version of popular website's, try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/
Nice straw man. He got 500k during 9 month in 2017, as you probably know if you've read the WaPo article... and I'd kind of expect that considering how active you comment on that topic.

And yes, if you want a significant public office, you should disclose mayor conflicts of interests. That definitively includes large share of recent income.
Optiver, I presume? I was almost lured into working for them too, being blinded by the high tech playground that it seemed to be. Regarding the adding value, they defend their right to exist as "because of us, instruments are priced properly everywhere and that's good for everyone", isn't it?
don't they mean not providing European sourced news globally, for example if they provide something from Der Spiegel to US users wouldn't that be hit with the link tax?
> https://aicd.companydirectors.com.au/membership/the-boardroo...

Since introduction of quotas, Italy saw women's representation soar from 8% to 32%, France from 21% to 38% and on average the world saw a growth of 5% from 2012 to 2015.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_government#Quotas

Of the top-ranked 20 countries in terms of female representation in government, 17 of these countries utilize some sort of quota system to ensure female inclusion.
I've got to say - I found it REALLY difficult to find an authoritative or trustworthy source on what the link tax is.

From my understanding here's the rub: there are two definitions. One definition is you'd have to pay a publisher if you link to their article whilst quoting it. That's what the opponents are saying. This seems disingenuous, since it's the quoting the article that triggers the tax - no the link.

The supporters characterize it as: If you rip off a significant part of a copyright work the publisher can charge you since you're taking their copyrighted work (whether you link to them or not).

Now people are saying sites link Google News would be affected because they list lots of news sites quotes with links to the source. I would've thought it was pretty obvious however, if the aggregater quotes enough then there's no point to click through and therefore the revenue accrues to Google rather than the publisher. This seems fine to me -- there should be a charge for that behaviour. What's more it actually seems self-levelling. If Google doesn't quote too much and people click through then there's no incentive for the publisher to charge Google for the content since they're generating demand and charging Google would cause them to be de-listed.

So let's move on, why is Google complaining? Well it seems to me that it's actually in Google's interests to be able to leech off these publishers by stealing their content wholesale and this would prevent that, and apparently they think whining publicly is a reasonable strategy. It's not.
Go and do some! I find it scratches exactly that itch. Best part is: When the game jam is over, the project is finished!
Headlines are exempted from link tax. Any part of body text is not.
Each individual publisher can choose to not have Google "leech" their content [1]. The EU government forcing this on the market/population isn't very good governance.

[1] https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9397...
Pycharm, Webstorm, Goland and Intellij, are some of the most used IDEs, all Java based.
> what is the point of reinventing the wheel?

Making a wheel is pretty much the "Hello, world!" of engineering. It ensures that you know how to operate the equipment, procure materials, safely work them, and retrieve the finished product from the machinery.

Just getting started with a lathe? Go make a wheel. Just got a 3D printer? Go make a wheel. Just getting started with a whittling knife? Go make a wheel.
People are pointing out that Google doesn't serve ads on Google news, and that they drive clicks to news sites, like this is some kind of huge favor. Its not, its strategy. Google wants to be the choke-point for every page lookup on the web. They have the stats on what people search and news is obviously a big one, so they provide services like this to put a moat around that sweet sweet ad revenue that might leak away if users were to ever use anything other than Google as the first thing they open in a browser.
> leech "free" content

Google News doesn't (in itself) have revenue. No ads.

If you'd said Google Search or Youtube, then that's a completely different thing. Those are multi-billion dollar products, and I suppose your argument is that Google doesn't add any value between site/youtuber and customer?

But Google News? It's one thing to have a service for free. It's another to force someone to pay to run a free service.

"Playing the hurt"? I have seen zero indication of that. All I've seen is "Shrug, if that's the rules you make then a product like this cannot exist. We'll shut it, then".

I don't use Google News, myself.

> Well, good bye and good riddance.

People who like this kind of product (that now cannot exist) and news sites, would disagree. E.g. see what happened in Germany when the link tax was introduced.

You may not like it, but users (clearly… I mean they used it) and news sites do.

And now it's a thing that can't exist in the EU.
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LeanBoard, create a whiteboard with sticky notes that connects with GitHub issue
One thing just occurred to me: the most successful estimation exercise I've gone through so far actually involved me pair-estimating a project with my manager. I think this is generalizable: If you aren't sure how to do an estimate, the steps are:

0) Stand up straight and chamber your courage in order to be honest responding to the person who just asked you for an estimate.

1) Say: "I don't know how to produce estimates. I'm going to get a more senior engineer to pair with me on breaking down a project and producing an estimate for you."

2) Email your team lead about who would be a good person to sit down with you and go through the process of estimating the task.

Tell her that you are going to do #3
Say you are looking to both answers the question you were asked and to talk you through the thought process so that you can learn to be good at producing useful estimates. Book like 30 minutes in the senior engineer's calendar.

3) Write your own draft where you first take the definition-of-done and make sure it is clear, then you turn the task into bullet points of what you can think of are the subcomponents of it. Don't produce times yet.

4) When you have the meeting with the senior engineer, be clear that you want to learn the thought process. If they say "I just go with my gut and multiply by 3" then say something about how their years of experience with estimates allows their intuition to be highly trained, but you need a more rigorous process to follow until your gut is similarly well-trained. (tip: read Thinking Fast and Slow) Ask if they can use their experience to help you think through your breakdown, spot missing subtasks, and put numbers on things.

I've not actually tried steps #1 and #2, but I have done steps #3 then #4 together and they worked well.

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If you think you'll get pushback on the idea of taking some time to go away and do the estimate, imagine yourself calling up an auto mechanic and saying "Hey, my 2010 Peugeot Ion is making a noise like a coffee grinder when I accelerate. Can you give me a quote for how much that costs to fix?" Then imagine refusing to let them take a look at it before they give you a quote.
There is no 'link tax'. You can paste a target URL anywhere you like along with descriptive words.

What there is: a restriction on quoting from the article.
So it is a quote tax. That's really not any less stupid.

Almost every thread on HN has somebody quote part of the article inline.
You are so right, it is Oath
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Taking the title 1:1 is the policy, unless the title is bad. Also, what about those tl;dr comments people often post? Would that mean HN should pay?
Julia 1.0 was released a couple of months ago, and I decided to run a benchmark of my own to get to know it better, acquire an understanding of its performance, and also explicitly test if it really can meet that legendary C performance.

I was quite well impressed, Julia really seems to be able to deliver a great performance. I wrote this blog to share my impressed findings with the community, and I would love to hear comments. Are there any omissions in this experiment, especially regarding the non-fastmath C compilations? I would also be curious to hear reports from other people reproducing this experiment in their machines.
How do we know that? Consider that if there's a pattern of 'financial industry becomes the most powerful | financial industry arranges society to serve its interests | society collapses | end of history, not even records remain of the catastrophe (hey, keeping records detracted from profit-taking)' then we'd observe similar results.

Not sure how seriously I'm arguing that, but it does seem that if the situation was sustainable/survivable there would be records of previous instances of that situation.
"its about promoting the fact that these women exist"

I think the actual message of these promotions is "they make a big deal out of the capability of this woman in field x. It must be very rare that women are capable in field x".
Or maybe what you're talking about is more a confirmation [1] and hindsight [2] bias.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
Gangbeasts.

It's probably the best party game I've played. It plays better with 4 or more people though.
For my own edification, can you point me to where it exempts headlines?
How can search engines exist in a capitalist system, then?

Because you don't propose a world without search engines, right?

Google tried for a long time to not have ads, but could not come up with an alternative revenue model and eventually had to.
Do you even bake, bro? How the Silicon Valley set fell in love with sourdough
Investors also don't produce any value. They get to decide where value should be created. But take all the benefits from it. Other investors however are waiting to eat these investors.
I also love zgen and used to use some parts of OMZ with it. But after debugging weird issues a bunch of times and always finding a funny opinionated config in OMZ I changed everything to Prezto. Zgen supports Prezto natively.

FWIW, here's my .zshrc. https://github.com/dancek/dotfiles/blob/master/.zshrc
Too many small publishers are not good. The small publishers which gain revenue because of Google are too dependent on it. Hence they cannot criticize Google else indirectly their SEO is affected. Larger independent publishers have to compete with smaller clickbaity non professional publishers and also have to serve clickbait. Because Ad revenue is mostly a zero sum game. The smaller publishers who do not have many journalists just make clickbait titles eat into professionals who are also dependent on Ads.

It is in Google's interest to have multiple small publishers instead of few large publishers, because Google can blackmail the smaller ones more easily and multiple publisher speaking against something is more difficult then few grouped publishers.

If the publishers and Google's interest clash, it is a good thing for the readers. If they align, it is a very good thing for Google, a little good for publishers and bad for readers.
Since we're on the topic of really exotic, how about a complex proton arrangement inside a star having all the properties of intelligent life? This wouldn't suffer from light speed constraints. Would it violate other constraints from fundamental physics?
There is no lower limit on what constitutes copyrighted material and what isnt in article 11. A headline would also be copyrighted material, so subject to a license fee. HN would have to pay for a license if it wanted to operate in EU.
If we're talking about news.google.com, then yeh it's ridiculous. That site is just headline links. It's not "content", it's a list of text links.

The foundation of the web is text links. So the EU wants to charge for HTML links. Struggling to see the logic there. Users click those links, read the story content, and end up on the news website. That is the fair transaction right there, no money needed.

Unless I'm missing something? Is this about the web or app? I don't use the google app so not sure if clicking links just opens a web view in app?
The Web list is a good one for beginners
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Problem solving under stress (and will get you fit at the same time).

A disproportionate amount of our members [0] are programmers or software engineers.

[0] http://bjjlab.ch/
I have very much hope that Google shutdowns really big things in Europe eventually, things like YouTube, maybe some parts of Android and stuff.

I'm very curious if it'll cause governments or business to crawl and ask for mercy or if it'll lead to Google replacements emerging in Europe.

In China, Google's exodus provided a way to emerge multitude of local services which make me think that what Google does is not a rocket science and other can do it as well, there is just no incentive. Anyway, that's just random thoughts, it would be really interesting to see what would happen if Google left Europe in a big way.
Ask HN: What is the best GIT workflow that include code reviews?
I want to start using GIT in a small group of developers I am building but I am confused with all the proposed GIT workflows that exists out there.
A lot of that research is just "research", or at the very least jumping to conclusions. Like finding that "women earn less than men on average", but then jumping to the erroneous conclusion that there must be discrimination against women at work. That kind of pattern is visible in almost every feminist paper. Even if the research is legitimate (for example it IS interesting that women earn less than men on average - clearly something is going on), they end up with jumping to some conclusion that they always wanted to prove to begin with.
> What't the point with software support if OS is unusable?

That's something for the users to decide. Imposing artificial restrictions to software, including forced obsolescence, is never a good thing.
> They have extremely high levels of female MPs versus alternative parties.

And having more women MPs instead of men has done what exactly for their countries?

I don’t think anyone has particularly great things to say about either countries Labour parties.
Switch off JS or use uBlock - it can block arbitrary elements in any page, and works in two clicks.
One reason is probably, that it's a small language with a fully specified semantics. Also, despite its age, it is still a modern language. It's had features like lambdas, type inference, algebraic data types, generics, modules, etc. for decades.
As engineers, we should work together against deep reinforcement learning degeneration for industrial applications. In that sense, if you have a blog or website or code repository to share for reference, please enlist it here to help create a critical mass. I am just trying to set up something useful at http://www.reinfle.com , hopefully it is going to help in the coming months.
fd is awesome so I have to check the others out too. Thanks for the tip!
every publisher is "small" at first. This is about not rocking the boat for larger publishers by better, maybe more professional, upstarts.

The argument about click-baity titles is relevant to whether a publisher is small or large. Every large publisher now has a yellow press sub-brand that just pushes out trash with click-baits.
That is really horrible.

It says "Select 'OK' to authorise 'Oath' and our partners to use your data."

Is there a more general, less specific, way to phrase this? It's basically "please let anyone use your data for anything".
That's a little disingenuous because they're all JetBrains IDEs and thus are just variations of IntelliJ
The CS department at my university (back in the stone age when I went there) had a policy to have equal number men and women in tenured positions. As this was the 1980s, it was a fairly progressive move. They had a really hard time finding qualified women willing to take the post, though. As there were so few women in the field, the demand for them was overwhelming and there were much more reputable institutions than the one I went to with available positions.

This led to the situation where one of the candidates insisted that her husband (who was also a CS academic) be given a job as well as her. The university agreed to her demand, but refused to give him a tenure track position. The funny thing was, IMHO she was not particularly good. I can't remember what she was working on, but it was not very compelling research and she had difficulty getting grants, etc. He, on the other hand, was spectacular (and a great teacher to boot). Eventually, because the university steadfastly refused to give the husband a tenure track position (in a fit of pique???), the couple left the university.

That was my first exposure to this kind of politics and since then I've always kept in the back of my mind that it's always waaaay more complicated than you think it is when you try to introduce weird politics in hiring and promotion policies. Much better to simply clear the barriers as best as you can and measure your progress. It might take longer, but you have a better chance of success, I think.
Then again, it is a bad thing that a megacorp can run a news service that has no creation itself (leeching) and decides who is shown and forcing websites to use their awful amp websites.
> It is head-smackingly obvious that a wide variety of experiences at senior management level leads to

Is it? Many of the companies with board level quotas aren’t particularly efficient.
There is no 'link tax'. You can paste a target URL anywhere you like along with descriptive words.

What there is: a restriction on quoting from the article.

That will hurt automated aggregators, certainly. But not hand-curated sites or blogs.
What's the name of the popular Mac app?
This position is further supported by the reality of real estate speculation: in London, in Silicon Valley, you can count the housing units that are owned by extremely wealthy capital holders, and kept empty because the increase in value will exceed any profits taken from filling them (minus the costs of maintaining them).

That's the market actively destroying the fundamental purpose of a good because the dynamics of its value are able to bring more profit than using the good for its existential purpose. If that can happen to housing, it can happen to anything. BurnGpuBurn is absolutely correct here.
It may actually help the large subscription news sites. If all the news aggregators went away, I'd be more likely to pay for news from a reputable publisher to curate my news for me.
That data is only monthly
Very much echo this, specifically that I’ve found it’s always better to take a worse paying project I’m stoked about making happen than a higher date rate on a project I have no interest in. Having intrinsic motivation to work rather than having to _force_ myself to work on something is easily worth a drop of £100-200 p.d. imo. (That amount presumes the lower day rate is still something I can live off.)
The first link is behind a paywall so I couldn't access it.

The second link is some good research, demonstrating a correlation between diversity and profitability. I was hoping to find within it an analysis of possible confounding factors - for example, what if profitable companies can afford to initiate "diversity and inclusion" campaigns and institute quotas, which would turn the causality the other way around(higher profits -> more diversity), rather than the researchers' explanation(more diversity -> higher profits). Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any such analysis in the paper.

Is this the full text of the third link? https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/SHR-10-20...

The link is more of an article on what diversity and inclusion is, and how to measure its benefits, rather than research that shows those benefits.
That's the drawback indeed. That being said overall I'm not sure I'm willing to lament the loss of potential innovation in the profiling industry. Have people compete by offering different monetization schemes.

Furthermore I personally don't use Facebook and only rarely Google so I don't really care about that, everybody is free to decide the first parties they use or don't use. If people find value in these services and use them over the competition is it really unfair that they benefit from it?

Meanwhile third party trackers are on most websites these days so I actually benefit from regulation in that sector because otherwise I simply cannot opt-out of that tracking (unless I manage to block them all with extensions but it's virtually impossible to catch them all).

So IMO this regulation puts the power back into the hands of the users, they decide who gets access to their personal data. That's valuable.
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