skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking it would be fun to capture real video while emulating the jerky camera of an FPS game.
This.

If you aren't doing client-side encryption and keeping the keys private, the server has access one way or another.
Thanks for the paper link! I'll check it out. (The histogram legend seems to indicate two distributions of observed GRBs, the larger centered around 8 degree cones.)
Yes, I'm disagreeing. I guess my phrasing was unclear, my apologies. Again, if you can link to people of any significance who openly state opposition to equal opportunity for individuals, it would be fairly convincing.
Having spent the past six or so months working with React and Flux, I sure hope so. For the first time in my technical career, I've actually enjoyed working in Javascript.

The real power of React isn't just the virtual DOM -- it's being able to leverage Flux and an immutable, single-source-of-truth app state. Pretty much every time I turn around to build something, this combination has made what used to be an exercise in hair-pulling into an absolute joy.
These guys just did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g91xkISmp2g

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGDOE-zDVZc
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It's a repost for us maybe - because this is an issue that's finally being talked about within the industry. Keep in mind that Newsweek is a mainstream publication, so for many readers this is the first they'll have heard of tech industry sexism.

The significance of this article isn't that it makes any revolutionary advancement in thought or argument (it doesn't), but that it is one of few high-profile accounts of the problem accessible to mainstream non-tech audiences.

And this is IMO important - maybe unmasking the festering sores that blight this industry to the wider world would be a motivation to address them.

I agree with you in spirit though - in fact I take issue with them quoting Wadhwa so liberally, the guy's promotion of women in tech reeks of opportunism and chauvinistic paternalism - just read his quotes in this article where he paints women founders as a bunch of lost lamb who are too dumb to know when a VC is hitting on them, who are then saved by his sagely advice.
Do you actually rate the things you watch on Netflix? Or go back and rate a bunch of popular movies you loved and hated? Because if you don't, you will just keep getting the same mainstream recommendations.
You do see also occasional diversity attacks against the really high earners (managers, sales, finance, corp. law, certain posh local FD/PD, maybe some doctors?) but since they don't seem to flinch much, they're pretty much left alone.

I posted a question elsewhere in this thread asking why the tech industry has been getting the brunt of the diversity shakedown. I think this is part of the puzzle.

The type of mind that lends itself well to tech tends to have less political acumen and social intelligence. We're prone to taking things too literally and sometimes miss the bullshit below the surface.

Are we really expected to believe that people who write software are any more sexist than lawyers or the population in general?

Let's call the diversity hounding of tech exactly what it is: the playground bully picking on the kid who they know wont fight back.
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You misunderstand the enemy. The enemy isn't the other sex. The enemy is the culture itself that reinforces and perpetuates traditionalist gender roles.

In short, the enemy is the patriarchy, and if you think for a minute that that only negatively affects girls and women, well, then you've never been a shy nerd asking out that cute girl from your math class who's also a cheerleader. Spoiler alert, P(that goes well) < 0.01.
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I program in WPF in C# with absolutely no XAML. I used to use dependency properties/data binding a lot, I even made a wrapper [1] so you could write things like:

w0.Right.Bind = w1.Left + w2.Width;

And that would automatically generate a one way data binding in WPF (so if w1's left property, w2's width property, or w0's width property changes, w0's left property is automatically recomputed).

I've since moved on to my own dependency management (rebranded hence forth as managed time) system called Glitch [2], but that's because I'm trying to invent what's next.

I'm an MS employee but I have no idea what what is being done in this area. I do have lots of respect for WPF, it was weird that the other platforms couldn't put forward a decent UI platform for so long (well, JavaFX, but it didn't go anywhere).

[1] http://bling.codeplex.com/

[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/managedti...
I work on React. We're not abandoning the web.
So is our primary goal increased representation of women, or treating women well? (Put more directly, if we find that mistreating women makes more of them enter technology, what should we do?)

It's certainly possible that not as many women are interested in technology careers as men. (Seems overwhelmingly unlikely to me based on both anecdotal and rigorous evidence, but as a good scientist, I should say it's possible.) But why does that justify mistreating those women who are interested? And why should we be satisfied with our behavior based on merely being not as bad as a religion or another industry?
Perhaps seeing the constant stream of do-nothing protests in the Bay has made me cynical. So take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt.

I have exactly zero faith in the power of "awareness" or similar to affect much of anything. Beyond clogging up BART because someone has chained themselves to something again to raise awareness for something-or-other.

Doubly so when it plays neatly into a larger cultural narrative about nerds as The Other, in need of forcible correction by right-thinking people.
Can you compare that to Scala? Scala also has non-pure constructs built in, but most people tend to opt in to its purity. And I don't know much about OCaml, but it seems like Scala may have better type system parity with Haskell's type level features.
It's not about DOM. UIKit is pretty sofisticated to build layer to translate JS to native code. It needs years of work and constant update.
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Incredibly valuable point of view. Your frustration demonstrates how a PTO policy can hurt an employer more than it protects.

I work on employee leave policies with companies, and we constantly struggle to balance these needs. While companies have different needs, I think that all companies need to listen to their employees.

If I may pick your brain, what would a reasonable policy look like at your company?

I can gladly play the role of the worry wart employer and see if we could flesh out a policy that would work.
> The reshuffling of life could even increase the chances of a civilization occurring.

Bumping life out of a local maxima, lol.
Looks like React is reaching critical mass.
Since you are in native you could decode in native in a different thread and pass the decoded data into the Webview, but not sure if thats really better since you would still have to create an image object from the raw bitmap data.
Would like to actually see these CNN's first hand but if I'm not missing something on a first quick pass, the amazing results of 2013-2014 are continuing. Major gating barriers that have stymied AGI's are disappearing. This result is cool on its own. But, what really excites is how this provides a key foundational building block for even cooler ideas. When you have sentence structure, it naturally lends itself to many unsupervised NLP and learning tasks. Just wow!
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What led you to believe that the linked page was targeted towards technical users?
Yeah, they pretty much all require calculus, and most require 2 semesters of physics. Some let you take another science class instead physics.

Mine required 2 semesters of physics + labs and then a semester of any other science class.

But yours required physics and chemistry? I can't imagine why chemistry is required for CS.
Artifact of organization. My degree came through the college of engineering, which required physics and chemistry for all grads. And some technical breadth electives, too.
iPads are great consumption devices. But one place I've seen them that shocked me was as point of sale devices. They seem to be taking over the cash register market.
I'm curious, what do you mean they compose better and allow for analysis [better than monads]?
I think it's a bit far to say that most counties are deliberately obfuscating data. That said, many counties, such as the one I live in, run on a shoestring budget and can't keep up with the current request load - the overhead for modernization or even corrections doesn't seem to exist, and the whole situation is made worse by the standard "pace of government." There's nothing like local politics to delay any kind of large-scale project.

The end result is that I wouldn't be surprised if, nationally, enormous binders are more common than GIS. The property records in my county are in the form of yellowing pages in 20-pound leather post binders on those rolling high-density shelves. People complaining about 2 minute query times? Here you drive to the county clerk's office, ask them your question, and they might be able to tell you which of the giant binders to look in first. The upside is that if you ask nicely they'll let you use their photocopier.

Perhaps we're unusually backwards, this is New Mexico after all, but we're not the smallest county in this state by far - and certainly not in the nation.
Name one right men have that women don't have.
I wonder if the creators where fans of 'Suits'
My understanding is that the smart way to sell real estate in California is to simply not sell it, and rather to sell control of the company that owns the real estate.

There are non-tax benefits, such as bypassing probate, but as the value of a property increases the 1% property tax becomes increasingly worrying. I suspect this is part of the reason why it's more common with commercial real estate.

The goal is to avoid tax reassessment when a property is sold, which is a big deal since the average price of a house in CA in 1940 was $36,700 and is now $211,500 (and much, much higher in places like Los Angeles and San Francisco). Even at the average house price, it's the difference between a $367/yr bill versus a $2,115/yr bill. Presumably commercial real estate has seen an equivalent rise over time.

http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/leopexclusions.htm
Absolutely. Such good memories from those days.
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Can you provide a single example of these systems stopping an act of terrorism?
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The enemy isn't the patriarchy, it's feminism. They create straw men to attack because they want power. There is no global gender war. It's being fabricated in real time to justify the ridiculous laws that arbitrarily make criminals out of men. And if you don't believe me, ask Byron Banks.

you've never been a shy nerd asking out that cute girl from your math class who's also a cheerleader.

Feminism is designed to make sure it's illegal for the shy nerd to ask out the prom queen. Spoiler alert: feminists are not the friends you may think they are.
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Great price! Way more affordable than Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing
I hope I see the day when computers can actually represent people in court.
Define equal. Then tell me what legal rights women have that men don't have. Because I can name about five legal rights that women have that men don't.
So I imported some contacts. How the hell do I remove some of them? Why wasn't I given a choice of which contacts to import?
Looks amazing. Is React Native supposed to be just a View lib for XCode project or it will be the platform like Titanium?
I think that's the point. The reason you see articles lamenting the lack of women in tech is because tech is currently a sexy career, while electrician isn't.

My point is that if people really cared about improving women's lives, they'd be pushing for more women in skilled trades in addition to pushing for more women in tech.

Unlike software development, being an electrician require an apprenticeship instead of college. Apprenticeships are paid and therefore more accessible to people with lower incomes.

I'd argue that trying to improve the lives of less educated lower income women specifically is more beneficial than focusing on the smart, ambitious, college graduates (and future college graduates) who we are trying to entice into software development--women who would probably go on to high paying jobs in other fields anyway.
Clearly all dedicated terrorists start by watching videos on the internet. Kind of a stupid notion to ground your whole argument on.
Waiting for patio11 to show up here :)
IIUC Mars will never be terraformed because it is not heavy enough to hold on to atmosphere.
This is absolutely a great point, and honestly, I used this exact argument early on in the development of React Native to convince folks that cared a ton about craft and were super worried about performance, that it's more important to make sure you have a reliable application that adds value to peoples' lives, before you even earn the right to start thinking about craft.

My phrasing was somewhat hyperbolic, but I basically said: "Do you honestly think that a person, in the middle of a natural disaster, trying to determine whether or not their family and friends are okay, gives a sh about 60fps animations?"

The real value of React Native is that it allows engineers who know React (and React is really, really easy to learn btw), to build great feeling applications without putting in a ton of effort. Sure, it's possible to get close enough on web, but it's really, really hard to do so.

One of the things we tout in product infrastructure at Facebook is that when building frameworks, you need to enable engineers to fall into the "pit of success". The asynchronous nature of this implementation allows application logic to be run off the main thread by default, which we think is a huge advantage over a traditional web model.
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I posted a question elsewhere in this thread asking why the tech industry has been getting the brunt of the diversity shakedown.

That's easy: it's influential. They started with the schools, then moved on to the universities. Next was hollywood, then the media. Every avenue of public debate in this country has fallen in line with the diversity shakedown. The internet is next precisely because it's the last influential arena where you can say what you want without fear of reprisal (for the most part). It's part of why the feminists have launched such an aggressive campaign against gamergate and gamers in general. They won't be bullied.
How do they keep all girls away from this place? I'm kidding of course.
Sounds excellent. I need it today.
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I don't see active fights over the gender war happening in those fronts. It's certainly true that those aren't territories that we control firmly, but it's also not territory that we're disputing very hard. Gender is what it is in the Bible Belt, and most of the pushback is from a younger generation who grew up on the Internet. Gender is what it is in film, but the Bechdel test entered popular consciousness on the Internet. Gender is what it is in the minds of the old advertising firms, but the new ones are often technology companies, their clients are often technology companies, and when you say "Super Bowl ads" and "what they think of women" I can't help but think "GoDaddy". Gender is what it is in the minds of the current elected officials, but Obama's election has been credited, in part, to his ability to use technology more effectively than his opponents (and, therefore, to effective technologists wanting to work for him). Silicon Valley is the trench and the fortification; if it falls, we can then march on the cities.

Now, of course, there's a question as to whether the gender biases of the makers of the Internet impact the gender biases of the things that happen on the Internet. But I think they do. At the least, for fora like Reddit and HN where the platform and editorial direction are linked, it seems obvious that they must. For platforms like Twitter or G+, policies such as harassment response and tradeoffs, whether real names are common or uncommon[0], what speech is considered appropriate or inappropriate, etc. can all impact what voices are heard and who is empowered by the platform.

[0] I don't mean by this to imply that there's a standard feminist answer on whether real-name policies are good or not. There are feminist arguments on both sides.
Yeah, I can understand that.

When I was in journalism school, I had several classes that were basically "do reporting." Deadline was 5pm and we had to produce radio, TV or newspaper stories by then—whatever the news of the day happened to be. During those semesters I was stupendously well-informed. I'd be monitoring the news wires all day, updating or reshuffling stories to keep up with events, writing and rewriting stories on the stuff that I thought was most important. Sure, we were just students, but I got a taste of the whole "fast-paced newsroom" thing.

Right after graduation, I completely unplugged and went on a 3-month bicycle trip. I rode all day and camped near the road each night. Sometimes I'd make detours to go hiking or canoeing at a particular spot. That summer I hardly spent any time indoors, let alone looking at screens or connected to the internet.

The effect on my mind was stunning. I had a completely different perception of time, distance, the weather, food, my own body, other people... everything! Afterwards I joined an internet startup, and went back to the connected lifestyle, but wow, I'll never forget it.

So go for it. There are ways to escape the screens, for a summer or a lifetime, if you want.
This is a good 80/20 solution. 80% of the value of the attorney for (less than) 20% of the effort/cost.
Very nicely written article, a good PR piece! I'm just curious about how much patio11 was paid by Twilio for that.
You're absolutely right that it is possible to get close. I think my main point here, (though I probably didn't cover this well enough and I was being somewhat hyperbolic, I guess), was that 'damn close' is unfortunately not the default on web, and it's actually really, really hard to get there.

Sorry for coming across as a sales person. Someone tweeted about a previous presentation of mine in the past asking "who the hell is this marketing guy they had do this talk". I assure you I'm not in either marketing, or sales, I just get really excited sometimes.
I see Thomas Mikolov, the creator of Google's Word2Vec (https://www.kaggle.com/c/word2vec-nlp-tutorial/forums/t/1234...) is referenced in the paper.
being so stupid and shortsighted as to be almost unbelievable.

If something seems to good to be true, it usually is. When somebody writes an article alleging something too stupid to be believable, maybe you should be asking what the author has to gain by misrepresenting the truth?
How? If I send an e-mail via Amazon's service, they must at minimum have the standard e-mail headers in order to process it. In which case, it's no different than PGP-encrypted e-mail, available with almost any e-mail provider. This also provides Amazon (and whoever subpoenas Amazon) with significant meta-data on my communications, even if they don't have my actual text.

In order to make e-mail into a system where two people can communicate in a secure fashion, where no data is stored on or passes through a remote system unencrypted, you would have to re-implement e-mail. And of course there goes interoperability.
What does "equal opportunity" mean?

https://inclusiveactioneverydaylives.files.wordpress.com/201...

Is it equal opportunity to see the baseball game, or equal opportunity to pick up a crate?

There are certainly people who state opposition to each of these forms, although they each tend to say they support "equal opportunity," meaning the other.
The point you're still missing is that if an activity is only worth $5 to you, then a $10 penalty will make you stop. It doesn't matter if you're Bill Gates.

Also, the penalty should be as small as possible to get the desired outcome. If the penalty is $100,000, you're more likely to put up a fight than if it's $10, regardless of your income or how much you valued the original activity.
How does that affect anything? Unbundling doesn't depend on changing the compiler. I don't see how the business model is affected by ANSI standardization. How would things have been different if C were standardized in 1984 instead?
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They are again? In this talk they mentioned them to be cheap in 2008
What is this and why is it a big deal?
I don't think Slack is a HTML5 app, at least on Android. The apk contains ~2.5MB of bytecode and half a meg of layouts.
This sort of device is only applicable for very specific areas of "law". It may work for generalized law questions, retrieval of known legal principals, or even for electronic discovery (data mining) but once you get beyond law school there is a human element. I would like to see a machine come up with a novel means of describing a realworld legal situation.

Ask him to determine whether John Stewart's use of media from other networks (ie fox news) constitutes fair use for purposes of copyright law. That very basic question, answerable by any second year law student, requires image recognition, cultural understanding, even a sense of humor. It cannot be answered from legal databases alone.

Or here is one I get all the time: What constitutes "reasonable security" for a law firm handling client information? How about for a hospital? Or a Bank? No two lawyers will ever agree on those standards. They cannot be gleaned from case law and change every day in response to new threats/technology/needs. I doubt the machine would have much to add.

Or, does a CDN violate the principals of net neutrality? Lol. Have at it R2D2.
Yes there is in most jurisdictions. The company can write off the value of the hardware against their taxable profits. However the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit, so I'm not sure that applies.
Wow! If this actually works, firms can reduce the number of junior associates needed on litigation cases.
A combination of airodump-ng and Wireshark can do this: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35702
You're not the only person to give me that feedback. :) Check out my other reply as well.

I agree it's possible to make things that feel good, it's just very, very hard, and it's certainly not the default.
This says more about Silicon Valley than about feminism, though.
Its not meant to replace humans. Its meant to reduce the amount of tedious research work they need to do.

If you reduce the vast tedium of researching stuff in Westlaw/LexisNexis, you can spend more time on your research memo. You can do more actual analysis work. Thus firms can reduce the number of associates they need on staff, because the associates won't be wasting time on wrangling research results.

Yes, you still need a smart human to pose the right questions to Watson.
Sure, there are other things worse than fighting a war. I assumed (mistakenly as it turns out) that the GGP was suggesting war was good for the economy, as opposed to (in the absolute best possible case) the least of all evils.

In the case of WW2, I suppose you could build a case that the war was a net good for the US, though it certainly was a disaster for the global economy.