skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study is not primarily comparing genders, it's comparing gender-integrated squads with all-male squads.

Accepting or denying people based on individual performance does not necessarily account for whatever psychological differences might be at play in those types of squads. For example, the article mentions that male marines tended to be the ones who fireman's-carried an "evacuee" in gender-integrated squads. Maybe the women are capable of doing it, but the men feel some psychological pressure to do it instead of them (e.g., chivalry), or the women expect the men to do it (e.g., chivalry), affecting the way the squad operates. The squad also mentions higher rates of injury among women marines.

That said, maybe there are some individual performance standards that cause these squad differences disappear. For example, perhaps both male and female marines who can run an 8 minute mile get injured less in training, but fewer women than men can run the 8 minute mile. Setting that as the time standard might eliminate the discrepancy at the squad level. The study appears to call out considerable performance differences however (1):

> The well documented comparative disadvantage in
upper and lower-body strength resulted in higher fatigue levels of most women, which contributed
to greater incidents of overuse injuries such as stress fractures.

> Anaerobic Power: Females possessed 15% less power than males; the female top 25th percentile
overlaps with the bottom 25th percentile for males. Anaerobic Capacity: Females possessed 15% less capacity; the female top 10th percentile overlaps with the bottom 50th percentile of males. Aerobic Capacity (VO2Max): Females had 10% lower capacity; the female top 10th percentile overlaps with bottom 50th percentile of males

> Within the research at the Infantry Training Battalion, females undergoing that entry-level training were injured at more than six-times the rate of their male counterparts. 27% of female injuries were attributed to the task of movement under load, compared to 13% for their male counterparts, carrying a similar load.

The military is right to study these things and try to do so objectively. And I don't see why it's wrong to compare genders or races - it sometimes leads to useful advances like studies of disease that affect certain parts of the population and not others (breast cancer, sarcoidosis, etc.) The point is that we're speculating and more data will lead to better decisions.

(1) https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2394531/marine-co...
It's just so unbelievably sad.
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Yep, a lot of it is "plain English" for the values of "plain English" that include "entirely inaccurate" and "explained in terms of other, just as obtusely named services you may or may not be familiar with".

The idea, though, is great - provide some overview of Amazon's zillions of services that doesn't read like it's been generated by a markovbot. Perhaps the authors will improve the implementation.
Pascal and C compilers produced similar code quality back then.

Everyone praises C compiler quality nowadays. On those home computers, C, Pascal and Modula-2 were good enough for general purpose applications, if one wanted real speed, Assembly was the only way to go.

Turbo Pascal, as well as any other Pascal dialects, had the same capabilities to access hardware as C offered.

Also the MS-DOS game development scene and the demo scene tools were heavily based in Turbo Pascal, besides the usual Assembly stuff.
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Not really. If you write SQL statements for a living, the former is more readable, if you sysadmin for a living, then the latter wins. A sysadmin will use tools like find, sort and head very frequently, whilst SQL statements will be fairly rare.
They didn't compare the two genders. The mixed group they tested was exactly what you described- accepting anyone who meets exceeds the minimum standards. The result of which, as it turns out, is a unit that is weaker, slower, less effective, and more likely to be injured than one comprised of only men.
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Hello all,

Today is a great day since I have a strong and clear YES from a small company (23 persons) to become their CTO.

They are on the edge of a strong growth period (just raised funds, doubling people every year, going abroad, ...) and need to industrialize amny processes.

I will be in charge of designing the information system and to lower the pressure of this strong growth by making the company scalable.

I am an experienced web developper, have a business master and I have been working with them for two years as a contractor.

In the coming weeks, I will need to learn a lot about system design, piloting big projects, settings priorities and that kind of stuff.

Do you know any good resources (eyes opening books, articles, videos, blogs) and advices about this new mission.

Thank you very much.

Paul
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Crank is generous.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Henry_Makow
First thing I tried was a fork-bomb. Funny how the browser didn't crash but the simulator isn't responding. I feel evil. :D
They've been rotating at high speed for the better part of the last two decades. Starting around the time of Philippe Khan's departure.
> Or you know, he's just crazy.

Yeah, a women who devotes her life to her family is just a crazy, crazy idea man.
>> Which of the other 24 special forms is suitable?

> LAMBDA.

I am nitpicking, but LAMBDA is not a special form, FUNCTION/FLET/LABELS are:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_aba...

> It's a pretty elementary exercise to fix ->altboolean so that this invariant is maintained.

And how do you map generalized booleans to your functions?

Right now, I can think of two possible ways. You can map NIL to #'_false in a hash-table, and use (gethash nil table #'_true) to provide a default value.
Or you can also write a generic function:

(defgeneric ->altboolean (x)
(:method ((x null)) #'_false)
(:method (x) #'_true))

There could be other ways, but as far as I know, none of them are portable, because even though it is allowed for all defined CL operators to be implemented as built-ins, you generally cannot expect or assume that it is done so (see gethash in CCL and SBCL). As far as you know, and even though it would be terribly inefficient, they could all be implemented only by combining special forms.

If you discard IF, can you perform the elementary exercise using only special forms? I cannot imagine how, but I honestly would like to be shown a working approach.
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Where are rubyists currently hosting their applications?

So far I mostly hosted at OVH/Hetzner. But I am looking forward to moving to PaaS service or so.

What are you doing right now?

Thanks,
-hendrik
>"Nobody should bother developing an alternative to SQLite because 1% of SQLite's users won't be able to run it"

...and a 80% or more of the rest 99% wont bother to run it, because all it buys them is hassle, as SQLite is present everywhere, well maintained by the guy who wrote it, with lots of books on it, interfaces for all their favorites languages and environments, tested thoroughly by its dev, and battle proven.

Of course somebody can write it in Rust, and do whatever they like. It might even catch on eventually.

But merely "it will be more secure because of advanced compiler technology" is not that enticing an argument -- especially if people don't have many security issues with it in the first place.

Now if it was a Rust-based Sendmail...
I wonder if this means they will stop autocorrecting to the word "ducking" as well.
The only thing they should be concerned about is running an exit node, which they were not.
I know farms of unused servers that provide plenty of heat !
Has AWS deprecated any of the services they've launched? If not, isn't that almost unprecedented in the worlds of either enterprise software and SaaS?
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I have had two pouring incidents in the last ~20 years or so. They both happened within a week and in both times it was tea. Still laughing, especially for the second time ;D

At the time I was a student so probably had really, really bad sleep-deprivation (=really jumpy or something) from too much of anime and hobby coding. Oh those were the times :D
To be fair AWS is much, much better than your average 'corporate crap'
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My startup is a fashion magazine. If you look at a monthly fashion magazine's masthead, you'll see a list of 100 people. But I've done everything myself- from sleeping on the floor of the print shop for a week during printing, to photographing runway looks during fashion weeks, to casting, to selling ads, to creating web back ends & JQuery plugins, to art directing & designing fonts, to finding things (clothes/movies/creatives) that are going to be trending in 2 years, to writing and interviewing, everything really..

Currently I'm building individual relationships with hundreds/thousands of top fashion brands - brands most startups would kill to work with.

I had "co-founders" when I started, but they weren't cut out for the brutality and nihilism of the fashion world, and quickly left. It really is a different world, of wealthy old-world people with no commonality with the middle-class. Some of the major luxe fashion brands still avoids the Internet. I don't know of any successful fashion-tech startup.

The whole thing is a fun experience doing it myself... some tasks take longer because of the work involved, but some are quicker because you directly make decisions yourself.

See:

http://www.issuu.com/futureclawmag/docs/issue_6 (with Helena Christensen)

http://www.issuu.com/futureclawmag/docs/issue_5 (with Cindy Crawford)

http://www.futureclaw.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureClaw
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For one, you're still making breaking changes to it. Then there's issues like a full blown debugger, the compiler is slow, etc. Maturity. I'm not even going into IDE terittory which Windows guys will want.

SQLite is used in tons of software. Why add a Rust compiler dependency on its build stage, if SQLite already serves them well and they already work in C/C++ land for the rest of the code of their project?
Your brain is not you. If you resurrected an entire body, whether virtually or otherwise, with all the the myriad microorganisms, etc that implies, it should behave like the person behaved when it was alive.
That's also not completely acurate:

postgres=> SELECT now(), now(), clock_timestamp(), clock_timestamp();
now | now | clock_timestamp | clock_timestamp

-------------------------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+------------------------------

2015-09-11 09:57:00.414422+00 | 2015-09-11 09:57:00.414422+00 | 2015-09-11 09:57:00.419087+00 | 2015-09-11 09:57:00.41909+00

Now() stays the same for the entire statement as well. clock_timestamp() doesn't.
As someone seriously into weight lifting, though it's a bit of an exaggeration, I found the description quite apt, and I know plenty of people seriously into weight lifting who agree with that. It's a different feeling, and not the rapid, massive rush, but it also last far longer. I had to choose, I'm not so sure I'd choose the orgasm.
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In addition to that it fails to point out another conclusion: maybe the current training is not adequate for mix-gender team.

That's not difficult to imagine that some conditioning or some pattern may not be as efficient with women, especially since that training is based on decades of all-male combat experience with only theoretical adjustment for including women.
Here it is for those who can't be arsed to look for it (emphasis mine):

> many of of the male study participants had previously served in combat units, whereas female participants, by necessity, came directly from infantry schools or from noncombat jobs.
I like to use ad-hoc linq queries with linqpad to get this type of stuff done.

Ex : Directory.GetFiles(theDirectory).Take(50).GroupBy(a => ...)
That's not what I said. I said a man who claims that this is the only natural way is crazy. Or that forbidding that life is what feminism is about. (also illuminati, freemasonery, bankers, etc) The point of feminism is that everyone has a choice and shouldn't be forced by any stereotypes. It means that everyone can devote their life to their family and it's their own choice, not trying to fulfill the only-valid stereotype.
IANAL, but in the US, if you are a consultant going to a customer, whether or not that is billable is up to your contract. Either way, you definitely CAN claim travel expenses during that period for tax purposes.
Yeah and RationalWiki is about as rational as the Catholic church - http://lesswrong.com/lw/f5b/the_problem_with_rational_wiki/
I've read that the rush you get from "the pump" is a function of steroid use
I haven't done a ton of weight training, but I've never felt this euphoria. I've definitely felt the runner's high - but only once after a very very intense run
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It's not hard at all. I personally memorised "zxvf", and change z accordingly, or remove v if it's a shitload of files and it floods my terminal.
> even if you take the craziness of the UK train system which is much costlier than mainland Europe (London to Newcastle costs more than London to Brussels)

Not if you book in advance; a single journey London -> Newcastle in 3 months will cost £29.10, vs. traveling today which would cost £121.00.
I dunno, I like most of Sorkin's work. However I couldn't watch "The Newsroom" past four or five episodes. You're right, it seems like The West Wing's characters all re-hashed into TV news characters and it was too cloying.

I still go back and re-watch The West Wing every couple of years. Yes some of it is cringe-worthy, but as a non-US citiizen when first broadcast I learned a few things about US politics and it caused me find out more, especially from a historical point of view. He also does some nice things such as dropping in interesting educational nuggets such as the Peters Projection cartography stuff in the second "Big Block of Cheese" episode (S2E16) [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
It's ultimately your call as an employee if you want to work longer/harder/faster, but I don't think there's anything wrong with exercising and 'passion projects'.

I exercise twice weekly, and spend around 2 hours on my own projects - purely so I am stonger, both physically and mentally - which'll lead me to higher paying work in the future (not to mention I love my pet projects!).

My employers know that at 5:30, I down tools and under no circumstances, will respond to any calls/emails until 9am the following morning.

Do what you do for you, not for anyone else.
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It may well do.

HMRC has guidelines about how long you have to work at a customer site before it is considered to be a fixed site like this. They have to do this because it informs tax decisions about travel expense claims.

I think the guideline is that after two years, the site should then not be eligible for travel expenses. Nearby sites are also not eligible - where the definition of nearby relates to how similar are the journeys taken to reach each site.
Whilst HMRC clearly aren't the branch of government that are involved in this ruling, this is a similar structure around which such an argument could be made.
Wake me up when you can give someone a powerful electric shock via emoji. A control character, literally.
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Frankly, the US military isn't exactly known for its de-escalation or cultural sensitivity. My uncle served in a peacekeeping mission where they had the misfortune of coming in after the Americans, who had made it a habit to drive their tanks along the curbs so they'd be welcomed by rather disgruntled locals.
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Why the duck would they? This shut never gets old - almost a clbuttic.
They do, but it runs automatically so no need to name the service.
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It is not an accurate description, however, of the economics or value proposition of Direct Connect. When we're moving TB to an off-cloud location it's almost a no-brainer. Similar when latency sensitive.

The highest barrier, quelle surprise, is dealing with interconnect telcos.
this just looks like a neater LastPass (or am I missing something?)
Can you name one physical activity in which females can compete with males? Are there any gender neutral pro sports leagues?
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After that PHP editor I vowed to never by another product from them, it was truly awful.
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I'm not here to defend the theory, but c'mon - you're inventing a strawman here. The very first sentence says "...many women have lost touch with their natural loving instincts." Nothing in that article says anything about the "only natural way".

Nobody is arguing about the point of feminism either. Everybody knows what feminism is about, but how many people know who funded the first feminist groups and why?
The implementation size breakdown for the 12k compiler was: Compiler - 5.5k, On-Screen editor - 1.5k, Runtime library - 4.5k, and Control program 0.5k.
You're right, in Europe the Amstrad was less expensive than the Commodore and hence far more popular. The CPC 6128 was probably at this time the less expensive computer to run Turbo Pascal.

The Apple II has an optional Z80 card, but the total price was not for everyone, at least in Europe.
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I'd take that map with a huge grain of salt. Saying that Norway has High Speed Rail for example is a bit of a stretch considering that the only high speed rail line in all of Norway is a short stretch between Oslo and the main airport.

Saying Norway has high speed rail is like saying that the US has a monorail system.
> (I'm assuming its similar in EU with the pricier models, who drives a manual 5 series or E class?)

True, but I think we'd value (and use) semi-automatic shifting much more than the average US buyer. I definitely would have loved it if all hybrids had the software semi-automatic shift of the Lexus RX450h.
What's your definition of a good code?
I've been asking this question to many developers and everybody got different point of view about it. I wanted to follow the topic here to see what you think.
There's a lot of luck involved, and just persistence over a long period of time. But I figure you also just have to start doing what you want to do. This is amazingly possible in the developer world in a way that's hard to imagine in any other industry.

I was a music major in university (and planning on an English lit or creative writing minor) -- then I took an intro compsci course halfway through, and had a bit of a shock; it was an entirely new thing for me, but I really had a knack for it, and enjoyed it as well. It was a bit late to change my major... but I just fit in as much compsci as I could, and also just starting building things outside of coursework. I managed to get a software dev job right out of college based on a bunch of interactive online drills I wrote for the music department, plus I had very solid communication skills and academic recognition.

The software dev job was doing custom dev on lots of different kinds of projects (that was good), and in my spare time I turned the interactive music stuff into a site that's still a side income stream. It's languishing somewhat these days, because 5 years ago I started as a developer at a UK-based startup (working remotely from France; long story) and gradually became the CTO -- mostly just from looking for the hardest, riskiest problems we had and chasing them down one at a time, and being easy to work with.

It's hard to abstract any of this to general advice -- maybe just that mastering anything requires a good deal of focus and just time. If you want to do technical work (huge range there) you need to be doing it -- making mistakes, finding your way to solutions (good ones and bad), paying close attention to what's hard and why. It's probably worthwhile building something other people use, and can look at, etc. -- plus (whatever your focus is), mastering the context of working with customers, colleagues, competitors is valuable. If you build and support something all on your own, you're forced to learn a lot about all that.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/google-doesnt-want-people-u...

Companies seem to think different about this.
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I'll put a separate response here since you added some things to your original response...

> Is this some kind of parody?

Is that the best critique that you have? What do you know about banking cartels, Satanism, Freemasonry, Communism or the other topics mentioned? Anything at all or nothing at all? Please be honest.

I'm really not here to defend Henry or his theories, but you are not doing a very good job of criticizing him if that's all you have to say.
It's because those "funny" symbols are needed in concise, informal communication on the internet. Smileys are very useful for conveying extra meaning, such as humor or sarcasm.

Normal people don't use /s :)
One of the reasons is that people were cramming unicode into submission titles.

This is why we can't have nice things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10156894#up_10157836
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I really like the idea of multi-key transactions because it will allow installation of configurations as a whole, rather than a series of piecemeal changes, or some sort of "write a new one piecemeal and then update the current version" manual hack.
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> It's about humans and their language

Particularly relevant because e.g.:

* <OK HAND SIGN> is offensive in Brazil.

* <THUMBS UP> is offensive in the middle-east.

Unicode assigns numbers to the symbols. Humans assign meanings to the symbols.
The whole article goes on and on about how this is the natural way. It goes on to define what the essence of a heterosexual contract is (exchange of power). That women shouldn't challenge men. How now the only thing women can provide is sex. ("Now that love and marriage have been "discredited,"")

Sure it doesn't explicitly say it's the only way. But it's the only way it presents and doesn't leave space for any other way either, so this is the straightforward conclusion. The article doesn't have to present this any clearer.
I'm really curious; where are you from? Use of the "Legos" plural form here in the United States seems to be by far the majority. What areas in the world get it right?
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Women seem especially well-adapted to the trauma spaceflight inflicts, and have better caloric efficiency, at least according to this NASA study:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/men-women-spaceflight-adaptatio...