skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a lot about Australia. The raids on families in the Northern territories (and else where) are taking children hundreds (thousands) of miles from their homes.

Children are being taken from their mothers in Aboriginal communities at a faster rate since the apology for the "stolen generation" than before.

Australian society is unfathomably racist. On my visits there and conversations with Ozzies here (Aotearoa) I am constantly reminded just how thoughtlessly and thoroughly racist to its core is Australian society.

The "apartheid" laws are gon. Since 1967 (?) indigenous Australians are counted in the census, are no longer classified as fauna and can vote. But their settlements do not get anywhere near the same services as white settlements and in the guise of "child saftey" children are abducted at a great rate by the state.

2 minutes of searching on the net (aboriginal children Australia abductions racism) gets this article by John Pilger:

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22659-australia-is-again-...
>I'm under the impression that the research on lifestyle risk factors is quite inconclusive

Alzheimer's Disease Is Type 3 Diabetes–Evidence Reviewed:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769828/

Conclusions:
"Altogether, the results from these studies provide strong evidence in support of the hypothesis that AD represents a form of diabetes mellitus that selectively afflicts the brain."
Not trying to create a positive feedback loop here, but I concur. My personal experience could point to as much as 95% of "programming" time being entirely independent once taken into account: reading articles/guides/tutorials, debugging, "playing around with" new tools/languages/frameworks.
Yes. E.g. removing unnecessary newlines/spaces, refactoring JavaScript to short variable names, ... to reduce the file sizes.
Ok so I'm a girl who codes/programs and I'm my take on the issues she raised:

Stereotypes about STEM fields putting girls off

I can only talk about my own experience but I saw very few negative stereotypes about STEM fields growing up. Definitely not enough to put off girls.

However, while I did start coding at a young age, I didn't apply my skill to a work/business purpose until my twenties.

Why? I think this issue affects both genders actually. I was simply never exposed to people or situations that showed me you could built really cool projects/businesses with code. I never encountered anyone/anything until ~20 that inspired me to take it seriously.

Maybe it has something to do with my gender but I think a lot of people these days are being forced way too early to commit to an education/work track without being given to chance to explore what their options are.

It's hard to discover you like a topic by learning it a classroom. I think co-ed / internship programs at a much younger age will help a lot. It definitely would have helped me discovered my true passions younger.

About being feminine

I don't feel un-feminine in any environment where there are more guys than girls. Rather, I think the problem is, the professional/business world as a whole rewards and values masculine traits (competitiveness, talking highly of yourself and accomplishments, etc.) much more than feminine ones.

Even in dress, women are encouraged to dress like a man (power suits, solid colors, etc.) in professional settings to be taken seriously.

Thus as a girl, you're forced to act more masculine to achieve business goals. But it's hard to suppress your natural state of being. Additionally girls are still expected to (and want to) act feminine in their personal relationships so women "who want to have it all" have to toggle back and forth between being masculine and feminine. It can be exhausting.
I wish these next-gen website designs didn't have to completely sacrifice actual information.

What does the "BitTorrent-powered" tagline mean? Does your app stream music? Does it allow local collections to be streamed elsewhere? Is it just another player that aggregates and plays static files? Can it record radio?

Some real information about your app would really be useful.
> Over and over, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues have found that female students are more interested in enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom (whether virtual or real) decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-fiction books, computer parts and tech magazines, but with a more neutral décor — art and nature posters, coffee makers, plants and general-interest magazines.

Sans the "general interest magazines" (so vanilla, it makes me want to barf), this sounds like a rather pleasant work environment. I'm so used to working in a dark cave with Boba Fett stand-ups everywhere, it'd be nice to work in a place with more greenery, natural tones and airiness. Nest's offices were a lot like this, and were one of the factors I liked about working there.
If I were responsible for counting in such circumstances as they were, I'd bump up the figures to make myself look good. For the same reason communist gov in Poland diminished casualties caused by Soviet actions. Self reporting is rarely accurate.
I use slack everyday. I didn't know it did any of the stuff mentioned in this article. That's the problem command line.
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It's all part of the apple bullshit marketing:

"Chipworks found that the M7 most likely is a NXP LPC1800 based microcontroller called LPC18A1. It uses an ARM Cortex-M3 core with a customised packaging and naming scheme indicating that it is for an Apple customized part"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_motion_coprocessors
>because any success will (I think) result in complete insanity.

Why's that?
That still means you are using gender stereotypes to not have to bother to state that you are male. You assume we will assume a man is not interested. It is still using gender stereotypes as a basis of your communication. This is something privileged people are prone to. It something women and minorities are less able to do. You can fail to state that you are male and just expect us to infer it because men very often have a dominant cultural position that actively fosters such behavior.

But thank you for replying.
I don't think PHP does bad on any of the aspects you listed there.
> Yet I wonder how many young men would choose to major in computer science if they suspected they might need to carry out their coding while sitting in a pink cubicle decorated with posters of “Sex and the City,” with copies of Vogue and Cosmo scattered around the lunchroom.

Vogue and Cosmo!? As a 'feminine' counterpoint to the supposedly masculine 'computer parts' and 'tech magazines'!?

This is "Science. It's a Girl Thing"[1] all over again: "To get women into STEM, you have to show makeup and fashion". Fuck this view of fashion being a fundamental part of the female psyche. The article has some good points in it, but I think it overplays "women like fashion" and underplays "my computer time was gatekept by sexist arseholes".

[1]https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Science+it%27s+...
It's very sad how many people (both male and female) I knew growing up were "extremely good at math and science" until they ran headlong into anti-intellectual American high school culture. I saw people who loved science fiction spiral into useless party culture and end up with unfulfilling low-value service jobs. That's a tremendous waste of talent, and I don't think it's very much a gender issue.

I favor an approach where we separate kids who've shown some aptitude for the sciences and concentrate them in schools full of their peers. We can't do anything for the anti-intellectual types, but we can at least stop their ruining perfectly good raw talent.
What you think about it?
I wonder if the person who wrote this article understand patents, at all. I don't see any indication of that. He seems to be implying something untoward happened.

EDIT: I didn't see the comments before (they take a while to load) - the first comment on the article sums things up pretty well I think.
The Queen of Punt:

http://judithweingarten.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/eti-eritrean-...
We spent a few weeks researching for this piece, happy to answer any questions you might have!
Sounds to me like you haven't looked at PHP in a long time.

Also, the speed of the language is completely irrelevant for a static site generator.
It depends what you are developing. If you are doing programming for web applications, then possibly not (although, there probably are exceptions). If you are writing something like circuit simulation program, or a DSP-based control system then you will need math skills.
I love sculpin! I'm biased (I wrote the original getting started guide).

Modern PHP is one of the best places to be doing web development in 2015.

PHP has a huge external perception bias from how awful it was up to 2011, and it doesn't help that 80% of PHP programmers you will run into are woefully unaware of modern PHP tools and techniques so they keep writing mangled messes.

Sculpin wraps the really nice templating engine Twig and you basically get all the features it provides, and the extensibility is really powerful. Sculpin let's you leverage all the components and packages for templates, i18n and perhaps more complex use cases.

I'm not sure why you want speed for generation of static content but if that is a constraint... I doubt that you will find better performance in node or ruby over PHP5.6 or PHP7.

So... PHP has the features, speed, and packages. What's the reason not to pick it? The syntax?
How I Teach Gerrymandering
> The most common reason we are unable to replicate the remaining 45 papers is that the authors do not provide data and code replication files.

> We define a successful replication as when the authors or journal provide data and code files that allow us to qualitatively reproduce the key results of the paper.

Well this is underwhelming. I mean, sure, they're talking about papers in journals for which sharing data and code is required when asked for, and so they have definitely exposed widespread ignorance of the rules, maybe even a refusal to adhere to them... but the replication that is being talked about is "can we download the data, press a button and get the same results the original authors did?" and not "can we run the experiment again or run the analysis independently and get similar or the same results?"

Personally I like the the distinction between replication (a new experiment but with the same setup), reproduction (corroborate using different methods) and re-analysis (download the data, run the code, maybe do some additional analysis). This paper is entirely about re-analysis, not about replication or reproduction. (Cf. http://sequoia.cs.byu.edu/lab/files/reser2010/proceedings/Go...)

In one sense, failed re-analysis means research cannot even clear the lowest possible bar: you can't even check if the analysis produces the numbers that are mentioned in the research. But in another sense, whether or not researchers manage to release their code or not is only very weakly associated with how good that research is. Research might "fail" re-analysis because no code was provided, but survive both replication and reproduction.

The authors compare their work with the Open Science Collaboration which recently pointed out so many unreplicable studies in psychology, but this is not a fair comparison at all. The Open Science Collaboration was a huge endeavor and redid a bunch of experiments from scratch. This is just asking authors "give me your data" and checking a mark "did not replicate" if they didn't.
Static site generators don't have server side processing.

They are best when building landing pages, corporate sites, or simple blogs. It's cleaner, lighter and more maintainable than solutions like wordpress, drupal or most cms
Motivated to use the interaction for self-promotion.
Let's suppose I worked at a desk next to yours, and one day, I brought in an elaborate lego Millennium Falcon to put next to my monitor. Would you support a policy that required me to remove this icon of geekdom in the name of making the workspace more welcoming for women?
There is evidence of the neuroprotective effects of a ketogenic diet (low carb, moderate protein, very high fat) [1][2]. The original formulation of the ketogenic diet was for epilepsy, after all [3].

The dogma for decades has been that the brain needs glucose to function. A highly simplified and inaccurate explanation of Alzheimer's is that the brain has diminished capacity to use glucose.

Luckily, the body has an alternate fuel source: ketones. The problem is most people never enter ketosis, where the body is depleted of glycogen and resorts to converting fat to ketone bodies.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367001/

[2]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826507/

[3]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4133288/
How did you draw that conclusion? First of all I do not work in an environment where I do not connect with my peers, secondly I said that I do not like this culture, not that I have a problem if people do.

I just understand if poeple do not like it.
Is it true that there is a "rise of pop-culture portrayals of scientists as white or Asian male geeks"?

I've seen a little bit of TV this year - every hacker I saw was female, and most were goths. Doing a google search of "top TV 2014" and looking up the ones that are likely to have a hacker as a character, I discover "Arrow" (female hacker), NCIS (female hacker), 24 (female hacker), Criminal Minds (female hacker), Person of Interest (male and female hacker), Agents of Shield (female hacker) and The Strain (female hacker).

Why do we believe that pop culture portrays scientists or computer people this way at all?
Andrew Sampson[0] is also the creator of one of the more exciting torrent sites right now, from a tech/design standpoint.[1]

[0]http://blog.andrew.im/
[1]https://torrentfreak.com/strike-public-tracker-dht-searches-...
Also posted via AWS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370814
Notes on a Pulse Generator Circuit
With modern ML techniques it looks feasible to recreate at least online behavior of an individual - facebook likes, comments etc. The datasets are here, in facebook/google datcenters, and DL models are already used to model conversation.
It would be interesting to know just how many megabytes of logs of your online activities is really necessary to extrapolate your behavior into the future.

Facebook AI research is probably playing with such models right now.
Lawyers have their own 'uniforms' - they certainly don't tend to wear the normal day-to-day clothing of the general public.
But would anyone write an article saying that potential law students were put off by walls of law books and big mahogany desks?
It's important to realize that this pushback you are seeing is not because people think girls should not play with chemistry sets. It's because, in point of fact, there _is_ a cultural force out there that exists, that insists that boys and girls are blank slates and if not for antiquated belief systems, all jobs or interests would be split 50/50 across genders.

They are pushing back against the pressure to conform to this new dogma, not that they would deny any particular girl access to a "boy's things".
It's also cool because you can prototype on a static site and think about the design like it is dynamic (eg, not doing a cut and paste of page layout). Then the migration to a proper framework like Symfony, or Silex is much simpler as you can always move the templates over (but you'll still need some tweaking).
Juggling mums and halo dads
> It does, however, make it harder for most women to participate here

I've seen many people make this claim, but I haven't seen anyone back it up with evidence. What do you mean by "harder"? Do you mean "more difficult"? In what way?

Right now, I believe claims that tiny linguistic differences create meaningful barriers to female participation in technology are all specious. I could be convinced otherwise, but have seen no evidence that might move me.

> If you do not know my gender, it takes very little effort to speak in a way that admits you do not know it

English is not structured to be gender-neutral. I'm not going to use awkward circumlocutions to avoid the possibility of offending someone.
Agreed. It looks pretty good, but is it like popcorn time, but for music? The title raises more questions than it answers.
NCIS LA: Female hacker -> cool. Male hacker -> bumbling idiot.
In my city, I've only ever seen billboards mounted directly on building walls (there's probably some local law involved but I have no idea what), which means that they're usually covering up a big, drab windowless expanse of brick or concrete. I rather like the result compared to the alternative.
The Very Great Alexander von Humboldt
It's approaching two decades since I read Neuromancer. I think it's time to revisit, since I barely remember it. Amazingly enough though, I still have very distinct memories of the CGA graphics and some situations from the game. The coffin hotel, the diner, pawning organs. And I played that a decade before I read the book. How has nobody remade this game yet, with the indie resurgence of adventure games?
I don't think any of the things mentioned need to be in a compscie class. At least on my university neither architecture nor math departments were littered with popculture references, yet compsci was. And math and architects dressed better ;)
The Office of the Future (1975)
A couple of quibbles with the article:

>While progress is swift, no one has any realistic estimate of how long it will take to arrive at brain-size connectomes. (My wild guess: centuries.)

It's not so hard to estimate. Just extrapolate progress on scanning, computing etc. About 2050 plus or minus a couple of decades. We had a 20um scan in 2013 and you'd probably want to get that down to 20nm for a connectome so if you assume resolution doubling every couple of years that would be about 2035.

(2013 scan: http://io9.com/see-the-first-ultra-high-resolution-3d-scan-o...

Images showing neural connections: http://book.bionumbers.org/how-big-is-a-synapse/)

Of course as the article points out a connectome misses a lot of chemical detail.

>It will almost certainly be a very long time before we can hope to preserve a brain in sufficient detail and for sufficient time that some civilization much farther in the future, perhaps thousands or even millions of years from now, might have the technological capacity to “upload” and recreate that individual’s mind.

Or quite possibly we can do it just now for $30k or so by sticking the body in liquid nitrogen. (http://www.cryonics.org/membership/ ). Maybe that won't work but maybe it will.
That is the premise of the article.
ccTLDs are the responsibility of "designated managers" for each sovereign country (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1591).
There's an effect I forget the name of. Basically, if you give someone something and then some time later take it away they experience anger.

When you give rights to one group, you have to remove them from another (important: even if the second group had rights that were not rightfully theirs).

Men previously and incorrectly had exclusive access to jobs (and votes, and so forth). By giving women fair chance to those rights, you have to subtract the unjust portion of men's rights. I don't know why some (most? unlikely) of us can accept the truth, that those rights were never only ours, but as for the rest they experience anger. Just another way that equality is a hard fight: we're fighting a documented psychological effect.
Show HN: Pipes –  thin wrapper around PHP SPL iterators and generators
Your Smart Home Knows a Lot About You
I suspect that it varies by environment. I have worked in environments where it is 95% alone and other environments where it is 95% collaboration. Some places actually do "pair programming".
Deleuze for Developers: Will {Smooth Space, Open Source} Suffice? (2013)
DuPont Predicts CRISPR Plants on Dinner Plates in Five Years
This is a ridiculous article. When you talk about a platform's 'advantage', you're talking about features that enable it to dominate its sector.

Apple does no such thing. They make lots of money, but they don't dictate the direction tech is going. They make nice devices for the present, but they offer no additional utility over an Android device.

The fact that Google doesn't make as much money selling phones is a moot point because they're more of a service provider than a hardware manufacturer. They want you to be using Google services, and Android/Nexus products merely enable that.

As for the utility of an iPhone vs. Android, my Android phone (via Google services) keeps track of traffic for my various commutes (work and school), makes appointments for me based on the content of e-mails (reads schedules, meeting times), and does all sorts of other predictive magic. And has been doing this for awhile now. Apparently Apple just started adding these features to iOS 9 (as well as split-screen multitasking, their new Notes app, public transportation on Maps, )? Dunno, based on the feature sheet of iOS 9, seems like Apple is 2-3 years behind Google/Samsung.
Trying to make it a bit easier: https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsmasq-blacklist
Last presidential election, I voted Ron Paul in the Republican primary, then didn't vote in the general. If there's someone I like, I'll make the effort to get registered and mail in my vote. Otherwise, it's not worth the effort of figuring out what paperwork I have to send, and to whom. Having said that, after my state elected the governor I didn't like by a narrow margin, I felt a little guilty not voting. But, the truth is the democrats' strategy of funding a libertarian candidate to hurt the Republican would've worked on me too, so it wouldn't have made a difference.

I also don't think I should have the right to vote, as a pretty young person with minimal skin in the game. The risk is too great that I'd seek just to support the candidate who offers me the policies most beneficial to me, rather than acting as a steward, so it seems like I should be left out.

My non-vote is noticed just as little as my vote for any candidate in a presidential election, so I don't care too much, nor do I feel a need to make a principled stand that will go unnoticed. I'd vote in lesser elections like US Rep, but my congressman is pretty well set for every election. He's been the Rep for my district longer than I've been alive, and I think he mostly does a good job. He's the house sponsor for the bill that required carriers to unlock phones, which I think has been fantastic for me, but in a freedom-increasing, rather than pandering, sort of way.
> 4000 employees is just insane for what they do.

Yes and no. Twitter will make ~$2 Billion in revenue this year (and it's their massive revenue growth that's kept the stock price where it's at). That takes a LOT of sales and marketing people to achieve.
>Over and over, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues have found that female students are more interested in enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom (whether virtual or real) decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-fiction books, computer parts and tech magazines, but with a more neutral décor — art and nature posters, coffee makers, plants and general-interest magazines.

Art and nature posters, plants and general-interest magazines do not sound neutral to me.
Mozilla asks Google engineer to not use .bro extension due to “gender problem”
i find it hard to imagine how to replicate the smaller connections of my brain, and the inter-connections that they all have.
With that being said, i hope that it could be done, because i would be super down, and would want to be uploaded into the net.