skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you don't see to realize is that what you describe will be only a momentary and fleeing improvement. The problem is the irrational and unnecessary concentration of opportunities in that area.

So you build more buildings, create a housing glut even ... so now even more people move to the area because it's the only place where opportunities exist because it's where the wealthy sprinkle crumbs to their pest scurrying underfoot. All the sudden housing doubles from what it was before the glut and maybe you make 80% more, but all the asset owners are really the only ones who benefit and the wealth concentration cycle simply continues to distort.

What really needs to happen is that the whole area and other urban areas with similar concentrations need to be cut off from things like government funding, any tax advantages, etc. and put those and additional support into areas all around the country. That's really the only way that the cycle is broken, because what you are experiencing is a systemic cycle that no remedial action will have any kid of even mid term impact on without changing the system.
If the vast majority of HN participants are male, the leaderboard composition is a function of demographics, not some kind of "man filter" you've had to overcome. If your username is so generic that people frequently misgender you, how can it also be the case that you're simultaneously held to a higher standard on account of being a woman?

(Well, you might imagine that commentators here are _deliberately_ misgendering you, which is a suggestion so preposterous that I can't entertain it. It might also conceivably be the case that you've gained so much karma _because_ you have an androgynous username, but see below.)

As a man, I find it extremely frustrating when advocates for women in technology look at a phenomenon where men and women are imbalanced and immediately jump to sexism as the explanation. I've had a long career in technology. Not once have I seen a woman discriminated against or her ideas held to a higher standard than the ideas of men. I've seen plenty of mentoring, encouragement, and outreach however. I've personally worked to mentor women in computer science. The idea that there is some systemic bias against women on Hacker News or in the workplace is inconsistent with my experience and with the professed views of my colleagues.

I think we need additional empathy here. Maybe it's the case that _everyone's_ ideas are dismissed too quickly. Numerous times in my career, I've proposed $FOO, been told $FOO is impossible, and only been believed after actually _implementing_ $FOO, often on my own time after tending to my official responsibilities. When some women get this treatment, they call it sexism. When I get it, I call it the reality of working in a world that combines empiricism and huge egos. I think a lot of women in technology are genuinely unaware that men get this treatment too. Maybe it's shitty for everyone and not just women.
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If a business is not growing, but you're paying all the bills and still making money, why is that such a terrifying situation?

There are two reasons I can see for this fear. First, investors who are afraid to lose a lot of money that they put into the company. Second, leaders who are afraid to have to lay off a whole bunch of people because that's very painful. Are there other reasons that I'm missing?

Seems if you're bootstrapped and hire slowly, it's easier to keep balance in this situation.
I doubt very many people on this site need to be told how to study effectively.
xdg-app by GNOME solves this problem

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps

It's already in a working state - you can try running GIMP nightlies
If you exit as a $10 billion unicorn, does it matter if the wheels fall off immediately after?
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It does - https://sculpin.io/getstarted/

The `curl -O https://download.sculpin.io/sculpin.phar` is what you are looking for - call that phar file instead of calling the composer.phar. That's where composer is "embedded"
I think that's an overwrought reading of the article, for two reasons: first, the article isn't prescriptive about Star Wars, and second, it's reporting simple facts; whether you feel comfortable about it or not, nerd culture's coupling with software development does alienate potential entrants to the field.

But let's not bother deploying dueling readings from the article, and instead see how much you and I actually disagree:

I do not in fact think it's reasonable to suggest that individual software developers should avoid nerd signifiers to avoid alienating people. I feel safe presuming we agree about that.

Do you feel like it's reasonable for companies to avoid aggressive identification with nerd culture? To not ask candidates what their favorite Star Wars movie is, or to try to balance out outings and fringe benefits so they only appeal to sci-fi fandom?
Given enough data and a good model (recurrent neural network can model arbitrary algorithms, for example) you can learn algorithmic regularities in data, including learning itself. There is a paper just about that: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-44668-0_13#...

If this can be scaled to human-like learning remains to be seen, but training a conversation RNN model that remembers some details of past conversations and acts on them should be possible.
I thought it was mutually agreed that consciousness is a while loop that needs to be paused every once in a while for garbage collection. ;)
No, they actually picked up that course and moved it somewhere else.
Sure, the state is what allows you to be alive at all, because without it you'd probably have been killed by or enslaved by roving Mad Max style marauders.

Therefore you owe your life to the State and they can demand anything at all from you and you shouldn't complain. Right?
it's not irrational to be opposed to density. Racism aside, density changes the character of the neighborhood and potentially lowers property values of existing homeowners. So, it's not surprising people are apprehensive
> I stopped taking this article seriously when they cited a 37-hour work-week as an indicator that the state is "undermining the work ethic.

Yeah absolutely, wtf? Sounds like someone who is trying to apply Industrial Revolution-era economics to today's world and pissed that it isn't quite working out.
Hi! My seuggestion is to start with the simplex mode, and then go forward testing with half-duplex (see readme). In any case I would be happy to see you testing it in a complex set up like the one you described!

For the antenna in the readme I suggest a dipole antenna, there you can find all the data. If you would add something or you experienced some problems open a issue or contact me :). Good experimentations.
Can you be more specific about how to make kids immune to this phenomenon? It's not clear to me which notion in the article you're responding to.
Do you think you caught a good representation of Egyptian entrepreneurial society?

Most Egyptians I know have given up on Egyptian society and politics following the Sisi led coup and now see their future either outside of Egypt or within the 'internet culture'.

In many ways, Sisi indicates to the youth that the democratic system doesn't work in Egypt and that the only way to survive is to leave.

Disrupting society online carries it's own risks under the military government (i.e. disappearing.)

What are your thoughts?
Kiddicraft was infact a variant of Minibrix[1]. None of these were "big-bang" inventions but rather a series of iterations that resulted in the bricks we have now.

[1] http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=108...
We have a meetup group that gets together at 6:00 pm on the second Tuesday of every month at The Creamery in which members lament their inability to afford private islands, jets, etc. You're welcome to join us on the 13th and vent over a latte.

It's not all sadness though. I believe a representative from the local Maserati dealership will be there this week to tell us about a special lease deal available to well-qualified lessees.
I just darned some slacks and fixed a button yesterday. It's a good skill to have.
What about Barbie doll ownership makes it harder to understand pointer math?

Exactly how are Barbie dolls in conflict with chemistry sets?

Even boys who own chemistry sets play with them far less often than they do with action figures. Is there some connection between chemistry sets and action figures that advantage them over Barbie dolls?

Is it just Barbie dolls? I hope my 14 year old daughter's American Girl dolls haven't ruined her for STEM; that's her current planned field. The boy, 16, played with legos and video games. I'm guessing he's going to be history major, or a writer. Did we do something else right? Or are we doomed and just don't know it yet?
Thank you for your feedback. I agree with you that it has lower overhead. I also have really great results in terms of range (200 meters through walls and buildings) and data rate compared to VirtualWire!
What is the benefit of something like disabling on Tuesdays?

Isn't it simpler and just as effective to put the feature behind a configuration flag that is off by default and the user must manually turn on in the browser preferences? Both Chrome and Firefox already use this mechanism.
I'm trying to integrate your linked paper (thank you for that) to a discussion about philosophical zombies and parallel yet alternate behavioral heuristics but I'm afraid I don't quite have the energy.

Thank you for your response.
I think it was some companies in Sweden that had done that, not the whole country.
Freelancer Tip: This is a really good option for that professional who just wants a business card site & thinks they need WP so they can "update the content" on their $10,000+ professional design.

Explain they are a doctor/lawyer/trader/etc & they don't want to spend hours getting their site just right & keeping it updated & hacked-free. Put them on a monthly retainer for $X and now you're building up repeat business.

WP is over-used in our industry and I like to see people looking at other options & explaining these to non-tech clients.
Sweden isn't adopting a 6-hr workday. That was some bogus news item that went viral. There are some small-scale experiments, but there is no prospect of it becoming law, or even common.
If you have a fixed mindset – you believe that people are either smart or they’re not, and they can’t really change that – then you also tend to believe that if you’re good at something, it should be easy for you, and if something is hard for you than you must not be good at it. That’s a fixed-mindset view. People who have a growth mindset believe that you need to exert effort and work hard at something to become better at it.

I fully agree with this, and I think the problem is schools too easily trap people into fixed mindsets. There are so many exams in school that if you constantly get medium to low scores it's easy to think you just aren't smart.

I learnt programming as a hobby outside of school and fast forward to today and I am a software developer with a 1st degree in compsci. When I look back and wonder why I found programming so much easier than school subjects like math/geography I realise I hated the system more than the subject. The constant dull drills, working through equation after equation. All to pass the next exam and then forget. As I wasn't good at them I just decided that I never would be.

Now that I am older I realise that mindset is ridiculous. So as a test, about a year ago, I started practicing memorising all the countries in the world (using Anki[1] flash cards, which I flick through at work whenever I am waiting for a build to finish!), and these days I can literally zoom over the world in my mind and name 90% of the countries. I also started using an abacus to see if I could get my brain to instantly solve math equations just by looking at them [2] and am having some success. I sometimes wish I could go and tell my younger self to skip school but there you go hindsight is 20/20.

[1] http://ankisrs.net/

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numbe...
Once you've given these entrepreneurs their money, what incentive do they have to actually let you in? If the shit hits the fan, you have nothing additional you can offer them and the rule of law has already broken down. Seems like the best course for them would be to shut the door behind them and lock you out.
And you're going to pay for it? Because there's a big difference in simply not having a latte, and having paid for one only to have to knocked all over your shirt...
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I think it's hard to argue about specific Jewish mindset when it comes to the Holocaust.

While some six million Jews were massacred, there were another five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders.

Any thesis that depends on the mindset and culture of Jews must necessarily fail to explain the millions of non-Jewish Ukrainians that were murdered.
Weird article.

That said, the NOK, a petrocurrency, has been hit hard relative to other petrocurrencies. Over the LTM, USD's up 24%, 18% and 15% v. NOK, AUD, and CAD, respectively[1].

[1]https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
I would expect a hybrid meat-computer personality to notice that at some point in the transition. If not -- if consciousness is so profoundly ethereal that a person's own consciousness can be gradually replaced with a simulated one without the person themselves even noticing -- then what's the difference between the "real" consciousness and the simulation?
> These are government-backed loans. If they go into default, the government pays the loan in full, automatically. And the lender can still go after the borrower!

Please cite something that explains this fully. The government does back and will pay the loan on default, but then it is the government that attempts to collect. The lender is not getting paid twice.

My problem with all the complainers of student debt is that everyone who took that loan knew what they were signing. I'm tired of hearing the sob stories of people who go to an out of state school, do not work, live completely on loans in order to have the 'college experience' and end up 100k in debt. No private lender would ever lend an 18 year old money for that and it is only possible because of government backing to start with. The government wants to recover at least of portion of that money, hence the rules.
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What would I do with an uploadable version of my brain? I'd send it off to an accelerated university where it can learn at a rate far faster than I ever could. Plus, if we could upload a brain, then there's a good chance that we understand how to manipulate the state of an existing brain. So after my brain has graduated, we'll simply upload that virtual brain's state back into my skull! All this would take about 2-3 min tops? But somehow I imagine this will still cause university enrollment prices to climb. It's student loans all the way down.
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Why is the face of these stories always someone who majored in something like "media arts"? Can the reporters not do better? Are they just mining their social circle? Does making it intentionally representative of the kind of person who makes poor life choices to begin with generate extra hate-links?
One of the things that I like about various proposals for a Basic Income is that it would shift opportunities away from concentrations of wealth and toward concentrations of people (where those differ). That should reduce the pressure somewhat.
Ugh, the act isn't difficult. I mean passing the law in the first place.
I don't think moving back to actual film is whats required to save this industry. For years they've treated customers with contempt, with obscenely expensive tickets, even more expensive food, ridiculous policies regarding bringing in your own, over-crowded theatres, uncomfortable seats and at the end a mediocre viewing experience. For them to truly recover they will need a complete change of tactics regarding what they offer customers, starting with a better in-theatre experience.
Why would a unicorn have wheels? I am so confused
The patent cooperation treaty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Cooperation_Treaty

But just for fun...
Having a patent doesn't protect how my invention works, just how my invention is used. If someone lives in Pineland and wants to use a patent I filed for nothing is really stopping him. Regardless if my patent is free to use or not.
Aren’t these called decacorns these days :)

It only matters if you have any morality since selling a company to investors for $10 billion when you know the wheels are about to fall off is not exactly the right thing to do.
Saying "just N300s" is like saying "just dual-core CPUs" without even specifying if you're talking about Intel or AMD.

The vulnerability was reported for the WNR1000v4, and it does not appear that anyone has systematically searched for other afflicted models.
I sense this will be one of those articles that will be a perfect example of someone who had a very firm position against progress is clearly proven wrong. I wonder if we could automatically flag articles like these based on the number of tautologically negative arguments that appear...
I don't know about NYC, but in Paris most of the graffity are ugly, uninspired scribblings like this:

http://iyftc1oqf704bytwz45ub151.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...

http://www.theworldisnotflat.com/files/includes/images/112-2... (at least this one is mildly colorful)

Similar things are scratched on subway windows. It's hard not to wish them gone.
> Well, you might imagine that commentators here are _deliberately_ misgendering you, which is a suggestion so preposterous that I can't entertain it.

There are a bunch of people who chose to misgender others, even when they know the preferred terms.

Whether they get flagged or not seems random.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896908

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896788 etc.
I am assuming that you have done the unit/system testing as the programmer, so your partner should look at the acceptance testing. I have found creating personnas (of your end customers) and testing as though you were one of them a really good starting point.
This is exactly what the speaker seems to be missing. Building homes required significant money in the first place; there's no such thing as a free house.

My point is that if Person A purchases something, and then Person B says that having that thing taken is equivalent to not having it in the first place, then Person B is ignoring the cost that Person A had to incur in the first place.
Private school choice fails because most parents are not rational agents on their children's behalf, but rather on their own behalf - parents prefer convenient logistics to quality education. The end result is that bad schools have no pressure to perform, neither from the government nor from parents.
Colorado is putting a diverging diamond interchange in near where I live in Boulder county. Work will be finishing soon and I was wondering if any HNers have had experience with these types of interchanges. It looks very promising, and hopefully drivers will get used to it quickly!
That's amazing, I live in MD near DC and I never thought about this until now. I frequently drive the Beltway and I-95 north to Baltimore and I can't think of any billboards off the top of my head. On the other hand, back in Arkansas (where I'm from) there are quite a few billboards on interstates, usually clustered near exits.
'character' is just code for 'I don't want to share' or even worse 'I bought in and if we make more housing, my price won't go up as much'
There are hundreds of thousands of boys who excel at math and science until their bodies mature to the point where they become competitive at track or football.

Unlike "hanging out with friends", a universal activity, extracurricular sports actually do conflict with early computer science exploration (they're a huge time sink, as any parent of a kid in a sport will attest).

Meanwhile, sports draws in more boys than girls.

Why are we so quick to accept the notion that after-school activities that girls participate in isolate them from STEM, but after-school activities dominated by boys don't?

As a nerdy teenager, I never had a problem with any girl in any clique or social group at my school. But I sure as shit had problems with the boys in sports.
School privatization (charter schools) has shown a lot of success over traditional public schools. Im not really sure what hospital privatization refers to. Now prison privatization has come under recent scrutiny but that's more of a failure of oversight by the governing bodies employing private administration than of the concept of privatization itself.
Do you have a source for that? It seems far more humorous than probable.
I am assuming that as programmer, you have completed the unit/system testing so your partner should focus on the acceptance testing such as usability. I have found creating personnas and putting yourself into the position of those personnas a good starting point.
While I agree 100% in the general desirability of bootstrapping and building a profitable business over taking investors money to build a growth machine, you do need to worry if you have taken investors money and have stalled. The investors will get rid of you as the CEO if you are not doing what they want you to do. If your company is not growing at the rate they expect they will find someone else who will be willing to do what they expect.
Because it's really hard to type "?" or "help" into a command prompt?

Please. It's not difficult to do at all. No one needs a GUI, it just makes it easier for "mom n pop" to do their thing.
Have an upvote.

I agree with some of your points. It took me a very long time to conclude my gender was a factor on HN. Compared to other male dominated environments I have spent time in, my treatment here has been spectacularly good. It is one of the reasons I worked my ass off to resolve some of the problems I had here.

I went through a period where I was getting a helluva lot of flack, where it was clear to me that men on the leaderboard were closing ranks to shut me out. But my karma was so far below what qualifies one for the leaderboard, I was baffled by social evidence that I was "prominent -- for a woman." After managing to gather objective data that fit with that fact, I handled things differently here.

Here is a summary, with supporting links, to the data I gathered: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/01/some-raw-dat...

I don't think anyone is consciously, intentionally trying to exclude women. I do think the apparent lack of women on the leaderboard is not a mere happenstance of numbers.

It is possible for your experiences and views to have validity and for mine to also. I have written about this issue previously. I think you and I might agree more than it seems had we not gotten off on the wrong foot. I also think you are bringing personal baggage and frustrations to the discussion that biases your interpretation of my position. You "heard" me accusing you of dismissing it as coincidence because of my gender when that wasn't my intent. That kind of thing does wind up being a problem for women. It ends up being a kind of de facto sexism.

I also did not say I was held to a higher standard. That isn't how I would frame the problem space. But, given that you are not sympathetic to my views or testimony concerning my firsthand experience, I see little point at this time in trying to figure out how to communicate more on that piece of what you said.

Edit:

FYI: You can take my continued engagement as evidence that, while I think you are wrong about a lot of things, I don't think you are simply and intentionally being an asshole. I don't debate people that I think are not engaging in good faith to at least some degree. I stop replying when I think it is straight up assholery.