skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please back up ANY of those points.
From personal experience, I saw girls encouraged to get into STEM...my high school had a STEM program that only took up to 50% males.

Not caring about whether they hire males or females is exactly how is should be. It would be awesome if gender wasn't a factor at all..but I dont believe thats what you want.

What are these terrible problems in the workplace that only women are facing?
At my first job out of school (tech job at a tech company), I sat to eat lunch with 2 females and 1 other male, all fresh out of school. We talked about salaries. Both men had negotiated for a high salary and used competing offers as leverage. Both females said they had other offers but didn't negotiate any of them.
Sounds to me like a common case where the women SHOULD be paid less...simply because they didn't try
Apple seems like the only big company out there which takes an active stance on privacy and doing everything legally possible to protect it:
http://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-requests...
when you think about these sorts of things you come across many interesting numbers that posit unique problems to your theories

when you are looking to develop a theory you can sometimes look to markers for guidance

markers like: first, smallest, largest known, outliers;

ramanujan's language:

the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes
in two different ways.

certainly implies he once asked himself.. what is the smallest number i can express as the sum of two cubes in only two different ways

and its place as the smallest, with postive cubes, means it is elementary and essential to a number of extended applications that use products,cubes and sums

i wish the story went on to have ramanujan explain what he was seeking to uncover by examining which number could be the smallest expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways..

to what end was he using the two different ways, controlled in their only being two, to examine properties of sums of cubes
in greater LA, fried chicken is actually a new trend in higher-end casual dining, because of the east asian influence on local cuisine (korean, japanese, taiwanese).

oftentimes it's served out of coffee shops. or tea houses. go figure.
The fact that there isn't a daily drumbeat about how bloated, how needlessly complex, how ridicuous most of the world's web appliactions of today really are - baffles me

Well there is, or at least there used to be. The reason native apps in mobile became so popular is exactly because web sites are bloated. It might not matter in the PC but in a device running on batteries it matters a lot.

The real problem of web development is JavaScript. It’s a relic of the past that hasn’t caught up with times and we end up with half-assed hacks that don’t address the real problem. We need something faster and way more elegant.
Yeah Hillary brought up the chestnut of seeking whistleblower protections in the most recent debate... nobody called her out on it.
Experience with the eating habits or experience with weight loss being more about what you eat than how you exercise?

Also, my experience with poor individuals includes directly living with them for months and close family who is very poor. I've also known families who don't even qualify for many of the standard welfare benefits due to immigration status.
From their paper: http://tmg-trackr.media.mit.edu/publishedmedia/Papers/527-in...

it appears they use 900 motorized slide potentiometers connected to bowden cables.

Current prices from mouser suggest that the actuators alone cost $23,000. This isn't a cheap toy, but it does show what we could do if actuators got cheap...
> Any exploration of data from negative-results experiments needs to be taken very narrowly, with a deep understanding of exactly what effect is being examined.

I disagree. There's value in data mining previous experiments, just not conclusive value. As long as the results of such data mining are limited to generating new hypotheses (which are then tested by experiments explicitly designed to do so), I think this methodology can have great value. In this particular case, I don't think it's a surprise that perioperative hypertension is associated with worse outcomes, but the hypothesis that controlling BP with medication before surgery and on through recovery might produce better outcomes is worth investigating.
Kind of eerie: http://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj05/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?o...

Quick Google search for the key-term "GILGAMESH"...
I never understood people who proclaim they are thirsty and then grab a coke.
You're right, Bitcoin doesn't natively have a way to query a database, but here's an example of a how to read Blockcast transactions from the blockchain:

https://github.com/blockai/blockcast-state-engine/blob/maste...

The next step would be storing the results in a SQL database as we do with our production servers that maintain a queryable database of Open Publish registrations and transactions (Open Publish uses Blockcast for storing metadata on digital media assets).

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish-state

This is definitely a more piecemeal approach to creating smart contract applications than with Ethereum's one-stop-shop, but there are benefits to building on top of Bitcoin, especially for Open Publish, which uses native Bitcoin transactions for payments and royalties.
Paris catacombs: Airbnb stay in 'world's largest grave'
Book Review: Mastering Python High Performance
With the exception of sports and news, linear TV is dead. It doesn't matter if it comes from the cable company or an antenna. Once users get a taste of watching things on their schedule, they don't want to adhere to the broadcaster's schedule.

Also, I am going to predict that the advertising model used by current cable and broadcast networks won't ever work with on-demand programming. This is probably why Hulu now offers the ad-free option. Getting rid of advertising will improve the quality of the programming by removing the redundant parts.
If you think Americans were being irrational when it came to the gun control debate, just wait until the sentiment catches on that the gub'ment wants to take away their cars. "You can take it when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" will sound quaint.
Fire does all of that too. Is it alive?
Have a look at these examples: http://sass-lang.com/guide
The LinkedIn Hack: How to Turn 1 Penny into $150,000
Critical Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player
Cars may be fashion statements, but also: they are loud; they are expensive; they sit unused most of the time; their emissions are a health hazard; their production and use is a disaster for the environment; they cause terrible city planning; they are unusable by children, the elderly, the disabled, the poor, many tourists, etc.; and most importantly they are killing machines, one of the leading causes of death.

The reason people like cars is mostly that they are currently economically necessary tools in many parts of the world. Once that is no longer true, there will be many people happy to ditch their cars.
JavaScript+vs+jQuery:+Which+One+Should+You+Use?+|+Codementor
Sadly I believe this matters alot for the startup industry.

A few of the issues that happened today.

1) The IPO broke, meaning its traded under its opening price. Some people will look at this and think, good the company got full value, but the fact of the matter is that if tech IPO's start to trend like this then opening day valuations will start to tumble and its entirely possible that we'll see a unicorn IPO below its last valuation.

2) The offering wasn't fully subscribed. This means that there were shares to be had and people just said, "No thanks, we don't want to own this company." This is a pretty rare event for IPO's and its not at all a positive one.
There are days when I feel bad about myself. Most people here in HN are smarter, generally more successful then myself. And then when they start talking about women in tech, and I feel much better about myself. : )

If >90% of women in tech claim there are issues with women's involvement in tech, perhaps it's a good idea to consider the possibility that they may be right, instead of assuming they're all sour grapes artsy complainers who missed out on the money boat and are now complaining. Someone's posted an image of how all women sign up for gender studies courses, and no one signs up for CS etc. Yeah, you forgot something in that image. Add a bunch of dudes hanging around the CS stall, talking loudly about 'ts', making jokes about their bodies, etcetera etcetera etcetera. The portrayal is accurate, but it shows the symptoms, not the cause.

For those who claim to be objective Vulcans who won't agree with an issue 'just because it's politically correct to', look at it this way: assume for a moment, this issue is real. Compare it to a fever. Whereas others are saying the causes of the fever need to be looked at, you're arguing people get a lot of other diseases, and people get fever all the time, and looking at the causes is just going to waste your time from making cooler awesome apps. You cannot shut your eyes and ears to what women have to say, and argue they're just a bunch of complainers, which seems to be the general theme of comments in posts like these.

Admins: Posts such as these WILL start flame wars. I feel quite strongly about this issue, and so do a lot of people from the other side. If you want to save the community from flame wars, I suggest heavily penalizing these.
Was this in the US? Which model/year Range Rover?

I am unable to find any info on the Range Rover site about capability to auto steer (just Auto Cruise Control). There are also no Youtube videos showing this functionality.

Can you provide more details?
Again, another not super cheap option is Tablo[0].

It's different than most since it doesn't actually have an HDMI plug, but rather it's basically just a back-end box than records off an antenna and then can play back on its app on most of the standard devices, Roku, Chromecast, Apple/Android/Fire TV as well as Android/iOS mobile devices and desktops via Chrome.

You'll likely want a subscription at $5/mo or $150/life, but you can do basic live recordings/pausing and such without it [1].

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/Tablo-HDTV-Antennas-2-Tuner-Wi-Fi/dp/B...

[1] - https://www.tablotv.com/tablo-products/tablo-guide-data-subs...
Yup. No one cares until its their kid or the neighbor's kid getting shipped off to some far away warzone. While I disagree with the draft on moral terms, I think pragmatically it is the only way to properly align the incentives of the populace against wars that don't matter. Otherwise, the government can wage whatever wars they want and no one will be that bothered (as we've seen).
Racquetball sized would be perfect.
Also: even if fuel cells won't be needed for most vehicles, i could see how it would fit heavy equipment, trucks, etc . And maybe that all that will be left from their industry and they're just preparing for that?
Reading stories like this makes me always wonder what's wrong with NNTP? Can be decentralized and federated, just run your own server.
See Sussman's talk at Strange Loop 2011: "We Really Don't Know How To Compute!" (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T...)

Thomas Kristensen is working on implementing the propagator in Clojure (https://github.com/tgk/propaganda) -- you can see his ClojureConj talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXOOO9MLvhs
because unless you are an established business, nobody legitimate is going to wire you a large sum of money overseas without some kind of delivery assurance.
I did a quick google but didn't find anything. Mind giving me a link or at least a summary?
True, but that was still a biased sample, in that the non-responding 25% probably differs from the other 75% (motivation, wealth/monetary sensitivity). Estimating a mean depends only on sample size, not population size, which is how a random sampling of 600 people always trumps a biased sample of 6000. E.g., "Dewey defeats Truman".
I'm working on the Go compiler support. A small hitch in cgo compilation and then it'll be done. Have to work with the Guix maintainers to get the package up to snuff as well.
Yeah, when the language isn't flexible enough to let me get rid of boilerplate using its own primitives, I like doing that too. AST classes are a good example of something where a simple script can pound them out.

When I was working on Magpie, I did just that. This script[1] generates this file[2].

[1]: https://github.com/munificent/magpie/blob/master/script/gene...
[2]: https://github.com/munificent/magpie/blob/master/src/Syntax/...

I got this trick from Jim Hugunin, of Jython and IronPython fame.
To the author (or anyone else with experience): Any insight on why you guys chose Kafka + Secor over Kinesis?
Paper: http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/09/03/scan...

According to the abstract, the researchers "...experimentally decreased both avowed belief in God and out-group derogation by down-regulating pMFC activity via transcranial magnetic stimulation. The results provide the first evidence that group prejudice and religious belief are susceptible to targeted neuromodulation."

If this is replicable, it's kind of scary.
It's racist anywhere.

The vast majority of restaurants serving chicken nuggets, which is what was tracked, are burger joints, not chicken shacks. Author knows exactly what he's doing.
> I was struck by how new and expensive all the cars on the road looked when I lived there this summer.

That has less to do with "we don't need a car so we're only going to buy fancy" but with how affluent SF is. The quality of cars on the road directly correlates to how wealthy a neighbourhood or town or country is.

I was in Luxemburg two years ago. A brand new BMW 3 series was downright pedestrian. I don't think I've ever seen so many fancy cars in one area as I did there. SF by comparison, is a shitshow of crappy cars.

You can see this effect if you drive down the peninsula. SF has normal cars, south SF has old beat up cars, then the fanciness of cars waxes and wanes, until you reach the general Palo Alto area where there's a shitload of Teslas and other fancy cars. Even Maseratis are relatively normal. And then you go further south and the quality of cars starts dropping again.

But what you will see rarely in the Bay Area are supercars like Lamborghini, Ferrari and such. I don't know why, but I would venture it's got to do with the fact that most people use their cars for commuting and supercars are terrible commuters. Or maybe the Bay Area just isn't affluent enough for those kinds of cars.
Your site is quite interesting. I don't understand one thing though - don't you need permission to post photos of someone's office?
It's because less women than men want to be in tech.
Flirting with Elixir
Sounds like hosting on maidsafe would be a secure option, once it's ready anyway.
heh, I'm interested too, what kinda hardware would you use?
Bollywood romance
Americans’ Denial of Climate Change Hits Record Low
That's almost exactly what cows do. Eat 10-20lbs of grass per day and gain a couple of pounds of weight.

Of course, cows are "designed" to do this, while people seemingly are not.
If 1) we are part of the universe, and 2) we generate meaning, then 3) we are the meaning generators of the universe. The universe is meaningless only when we look out and ignore life, and ignore ourselves. But the universe has us, and has life. We are significant, not because we are more important, but simply for being a part of it all. We exist. We're here. That say's it all.

The moment we tied the emergence of what we perceived as metaphysical to something physical, it all became physical and the ghosts disappeared along with the word metaphysics from our sciences. The mind-body duality was non-scientific.

The same can be done with the exceptional view on life. The moment we tie the emergence of what we perceive as special to everything mundane, it all becomes mundane, and life is no longer special. Special is subjective. If we concede to the emergence of life from non-life, then it's either all non-life, or it's all life -- or we could decide to call it something else.

Much of the awe we express through pieces like this can be attributed to the fact that sheer scale still never fails to baffle us. Distance, complexity, time, and probability all become "dramatic" once they become intuitively disproportionate. But the universe as a whole is just as complex as it is, and pointing to two places and comparing their complexity says nothing about the capacity of the universe. The universe is huge, it's old, it's chaotic, and everything in it is rare. But baffled it is not. Or rather, it is, just through us.
The real problem of web development is JavaScript. It’s a relic of the past that hasn’t caught up with times and we end up with half-assed hacks that don’t address the real problem. We need something faster and way more elegant.

I absolutely disagree. JS is plenty fast for >99% of the things being done with it. The DOM, and manipulations of it, is the slow part.
on reddit, censorship via central authority has always been my last concern. Censorship via groupthink is vastly more powerful and damaging.
Not sure about that, I met the dude who makes the tables when we got new ones, and ours had chippings from the install. He flew in just to repair it, was American. Wanna say mid-western? Quality tables
I've posted my response elsewhere in the thread, but here's a tldr. This is accurate, but it's looking at the symptoms, not the cause, and is also not a COMPLETELY accurate description of how things are. CS/Eng as a community is not caring and welcoming as Gender Studies would be. Now you can argue that CS needs cold-hearted OBJECTIVE (that seems to be the theme around here) and efficient coders, with no room for emotions and support and all that liberal crap, and I wouldn't necessarily disagree with you, but that's how the cartoon you posted is misleading.
Video system lets you control another human's expressions in real-time
Maybe along with Kolmogorov complexity we could measure "usefulness" of a bit string, i.e. how much utility an agent would agree to pay for it. The idea is that "complex" things, like life, are likely to contain solutions to many problems we care about. Of course that approach depends on the agent, but maybe you could get a general definition by referring to a general agent, like AIXItl.
Sadly De Benedetti is still around after a whole life of bad industrial/fiscal/political behaviours, he faced law so many times i can't even remember
Try the pork next time. Yes, with the skin and fat on it. Or the beef noodle soup.
Awesome, a Dropbox employee commenting on this thread. Let me ask you some questions that I hope you might answer, but also understand if you aren't willing/able:

1. Will there ever be a zero-knowledge option at Dropbox? I just stopped using Dropbox in favor of SpiderOak because I wanted to start storing medical records in the cloud, and there's no way I'd do that where you (or your coworkers or hackers) could read them.

2. How do Dropbox employees feel about the Drop Dropbox campaign? Is Condoleezza Rice's involvement part of an overall culture or just a small anomaly (or somewhere in between)?
1. I'm not sure what your #1 is supposed to mean.

2. Of course they are and were.
Actually both children survived. But considering their age at that time and the inconceivability of the event I doubt that their testimonials would be worth much.
Never is a long time. Are you really sure that no blockchain could ever offer a compelling enough advantage over Bitcoin to validate a larger investment in security research/mining?
> A better idea would be to write all this code processing in the language that is being byte-code interpreted.

That presumes the language being compiled somehow frees you from the need to use the visitor pattern.

Personally, I really like visitor. It's not a pattern I use often (basically, only for AST visitors), but it's pretty fanstastic in the places where I do need it.
Perhaps your assessment says more about you than it does the actual facts of the case
A regular threaded-rod would be slower, but you could speed it up by using a different thread profile with a longer pitch. If speed was the top goal, though, a belt-driven system could be as effective as pneumatics, but quieter. (But then you can't hold weight when the power is off.) Lots of trade-offs to consider, depending on design goals.
Building I'm in has no cable, phones lines, etc. The ladies above just use their phones for whatever. We get our internet via a microwave link.
Except in this case your build system is configured in such a way that a failed build triggers bundling your /usr/bin as a release. The result is mostly the same everywhere, with slight differences per programmer, and is utterly worthless for anyone.
Isn't this phenomenon getting worse now that responsive design is in vogue? We've collectively decided to shoehorn a website designed for the connectivity and speed of a desktop browser into a lower powered device with slower/spotty connectivity.

Genuinely curious: Why is this better than a mobile-friendly site designed specifically with the constraints of a mobile device in mind?
One quick edit to this description : We (Ayasdi) have generalized the notion of Reeb Graph's - such that it is no longer limited to single scalar functions. While in the single scalar function the mapper algorithm is an (extremely efficient) approximation to the Reeb Graph, in the multiple scalar function case, it has no direct theoretical analogue (although the notion of Reeb Spaces is similar).

We are generally not trying to lay claim to the phrase "Topological Data Analysis" and not going around suing people for using it. In fact we still support research in academia and actively publish in the field. TDA is the basis of what we do so it is the most efficient way of describing it.
Not necessarily, right now it's more economical to reform it out of natural gas or other fossil fuel so it's not like hydrogen fuel would take water in that's turned into hydrogen.

But even if efficient catalyst driven electrolysis were used to generate hydrogen for fuel, it's not likely that the water would be extracted from the air, they'll suck up liquid ground water that wouldn't necessarily have ended up evaporating into the atmosphere. So the water generated by hydrogen burning cars will end up as extra water vapor that wouldn't have otherwise been emitted.

But, gasoline burning cars already emit almost a gallon of water vapor for each gallon of fuel burnt, so depending on the efficiency of the hydrogen cars, there could be a net decrease in water vapor emitted. (I'm not sure how much hydrogen a car would use to travel an equivalent distance as a gasoline powered car)
@longform recommended this to me as well!
I think that's wildly speculative. A physically draining job should keep one somewhat fit and healthy, after all. That's to say nothing of the fact that the poorest people I've seen in the U.S. don't even have jobs. Their children too, are obese - which really suggests that it's more of a culture issue.
> Anyone who eats above their TDEE for an extended period will become obese

Well, they'll gain weight; whether that's muscle or fat -- and thus whether it contributes to obesity by the more significant adiposity-based standards rather than the less-meaningful BMI-based standards -- depends on other factors than whether they are consuming more calories than their TDEE.
Autonomous Vehicles Won’t Happen in a Vacuum
Have you seen Apple's designs, code, and fabrication plants? Why wouldn't Apple capitulate to possible demands to claim privacy, while actually spreading compromised devices?