skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not the parent, but the discussion is of interest for me. I've quickly run a search query for "affirmative action statistics for computer science". First page result included a report from http://www.civilrights.org/. I am ignorant of veracity or validity of this organization, so I can't verify if its contents are sufficient to be "evidence". But here goes(emphasis mine):

"By 2010, one in four new jobs will be “technically-oriented,” or involving computers. However, women still lag far behind in earning computer technology degrees and working in computer technology-related professions. High school girls represent only 17 percent of computer science AP test takers and college-educated women earn only 27 percent of bachelor’s degrees in computer science (down from 37 percent in 1984) and 16.3 percent of doctorate degrees in computer science. Overall, women comprise roughly 20 percent of IT professionals. (“Tech Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age,” American Association for University Women, 2000)" [1]

Barring the "down from 37 percent" part, it tells me that 17% of female high schoolers take AP computer science, but actually a higher percentage of women end up with a CS diploma. It's very thin connection but that does raise a question that affirmative action lets in more women.

[1] http://www.civilrights.org/equal-opportunity/fact-sheets/fac...
I do believe that, and I think she did a good job of clarifying herself later in the thread – the bit I quoted from.

If you have outside evidence, I'm all for it. But your claim that the company will fire any woman who becomes pregnant isn't backed up by that thread.

*Edited for correct pronouns.
Why not?
I know FTP is not secure, and when I wrote skod I discovered lots of weaknesses in FTP. but still people using it.
Except the text to tweet is not the subject, but rather the object. And English is VO, just like the command line. The suggestion is that we use Japanese's OV order.
Yeah, it wasn't until I read your comment that I realized that 'Kleisli' was documented. I suspect I've been making a similar mistake any time I peruse Rust documentation. (I don't write any Rust myself, or I assume I'd have figured it out by now.)
This sound about as useful as a man page. For me it often goes like this:

"What's the command that shows me file system usage again?"

> man -k file system usage

result = 5 pages of matching commands, often poorly formatted, word wrapping oddly, sometimes without even carriage returns between the commands, so it's all one long list. And this is in Unix which has had something like 45 years to clean up this mess.

I don't hold out hope that this sort of interface will ever be presented usefully, and we already have a better system in a GUI.
Fare collection infrastructure is shockingly expensive (it is municipal government IT, after all) and prolongs bus loading times, requiring more equipment/fuel/labor to deliver the same service. Fare collection usually fails to recapture its own cost, or does so just barely.

By some estimates, eliminating fare collection would actually consume less tax revenue, not more.
This would be a significantly regressive tax, like sales tax. Why is this the best plan exactly? Why have lower taxes on commercial traffic and trucks, which cause a relatively larger amount of road maintenance?
They don't usually match on something as silly as the regexp /ad/, no—but they _do_ frequently contain a regexp like /\bad\b/.

The problem being—and this is painful personal experience speaking—web frameworks will frequently also cater to directory inode limits of caching reverse-proxies in their cache-busting code by doing something like this:

"/#{sha[0..1]}/#{sha}.#{orig_ext}"

...which means that, for a SHA that starts with "ad", you get an "/ad/" in the URL.
Are you replying to me?

I pointed out where the UN says it's a right. You say that it's not about being cut off, it's about provision, so I point to it being provided, and now you say that's not what you mean either.

I dunno what to tell you. Access to the Internet is seen as a right in some regions, and you shouldn't be kicked off the Internet for IP violations, and someone should be providing access to the Internet, and in England that someone is national government (Department of Work and Pensions) and local government (public libraries).
There's no such thing as an "anarcho-capitalist". Anarchy refers to the absence of hierarchy not absence of rules. A competitive dog-eat-dog system such as capitalism is by definition hierarchical.
It pleases me every time my article about how knowledge gets forgotten is innocently reposted here.
Thanks for yet another good interview!
Knowing what I want is hard. Knowing what someone else wants is even harder, and the assumption that it's easy underpins graphic interfaces. Under the traditional model, the menu is only populated with things that a design committee thought I might like to do. I can't compose compound commands or automate multi-step tasks or integrate external tools in front of or after an arbitrary menu pick. Traditional GUI's are usually "See Spot Run" or the entire Oxford English Dictionary. They embody query rather than search. Their static iterative rather than lazy possible.

Words are better than pictures of hamburgers and floopy disks because we think in words not icons.
Structural and semantic deficiencies in the systemd architecture
I learned Japanese while a friend of mine learned Korean. We would talk sometimes and teach each other languages. One thing I grew envious of was hangul. It is such a drastically better writing system than the Japanese system of kana and kanji that it isn't even funny. It really makes writing Japanese feel hacked together.
My position is that contact with a situation doesn't make you more obligated to assist than someone who had no contact. The details of your obligation, or the second boyfriend's obligation, are entirely based on your mutual agreements and understandings.

The really weird thing about the Copenhagen Interpretation is that it imposes an "uncanny valley" of moral virtue. If I ignore a situation and provide 0 help, I'm virtuous. If I help to the tune of K or more, I'm virtuous. But if I provide 0 < R < K help, I'm suddenly a villain. This is just a really weird idea and I can't see any reasonable justification for it.
"The startups have managed to underbid the giants in certain markets by keeping expenses relatively low, either by writing their own versions of the software needed to run a cloud or by handcrafting the hardware needed to house one."

It's funny to see a description of the exact opposite of your own strategy put to print.

We[1] are overbidding "the giants" by providing personal support and allowing people to use their own tools and writing nothing that's non-standard or provider-specific.

Yes, we do build and own our own infrastructure (of course) so perhaps that's a commonality. Honestly, we never even referred to what we do as "cloud storage" or "cloud anything" until two years ago...

[1] You know who we are.
I have no advice for you (sorry!). I'm just interested in hearing what you like about HCI and why you are moving from dev to HCI research?

I had one class in it. I didn't mind it but I didn't love it either.
>Having a public defender represent you when they have hundreds of other cases concurrently is useless.

This could turn into a good thing (for the defendant). Simply argue that the state provided you with incompetent representation and therefore any continued proceedings by the court are unconstitutional.
Thanks for the response.

1. I post worse. I quote the Qur'an directly (verses on violence, sexism, slavery) and receive death threats in return!

2. If it means little, why even make the trip to my home?

3. Good to know that too.

4. I don't know anything about anyone, so how can I even be an informant?

5. Not even sure what "house bulbs" or "ephedrine" are... so I guess I'm safe?
Property taxes could be progressive. The more your dwelling costs, the more (percentage-wise) you could pay.
It's not like "unfit" people are being left to die. They are just encouraged to live normal real lives instead of young-adult-novel lives.
At least in one domain, life expectancy, progress hasn't stopped. It just might not anymore have the extreme momentum of earlier times: https://thaddeusktsim.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/were-there-no...

Same for GDP. Would be interested in median income over the last 100 years though. http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr...
Groom gets a year in jail for staging a bomb hoax cause he hadn't booked a venue
I think the best thing is to see a doctor. However, your behavior is too paranoid and may indicate a certain mental condition. To be sure though, just see a physician.
Well, now that you think about it, my old Java book had suspiciously many metaphors of ovens, and cakes, and "consumptions"...
> This proves that the name “bro” actually has significant meaning for many people, some of which find it a bad thing.

No doubt the same people who snickered at the name of the Nintento Wii and Apple iPad.
Max Payne 360 view of death
I think you're dismissing this idea prematurely.

>Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs?

It wasn't hard for the decades before GUIs. Why is it hard now? Are you conflating not knowing with being hard?

>It's because they don't know what the options are. They don't even know what they don't know.

The same criticism applies for voice interfaces. If the users can expect the command line interface to be similarly intuitive, then it becomes easy.

>This isn't going to change anytime soon. At least not until terminal commands are taught in school alongside the alphabet and multiplication tables.

Why do they need to be taught commands? Maybe the command processors need to be taught different ways commands can be expressed and composed.
All the best!! Update with results.
Mother Theresa was more interested in continuing and exploiting the sick than she ever was in treating their illness or helping anyone. She ran a death cult.

The myth that sprung up around her has isolated her from criticism because of this principle: "Well you've done nothing, but she did something, therefore, because whatever she did is automatically preferable."
The shortcomings of natural language interfaces are obvious, and I cannot understand why so many people believe it to be the future.

Humanity needs a formal language, which requires formal thinking. Ambiguity is not a problem when a language is used to browse, explore and clarify thoughts, but this kind of interaction needs to be feedback-driven.

You can't just input an ambiguous natural language query and expects accurate results. However, you can start with an ambiguous natural language query, and quickly make it into a formal one thanks to smart auto-completion. Only when the query reach a formal threshold should it be executed.
Trucks don't come to your house either.

But more to the point, actual trucking costs would increase the appeal of trains for long haul, while keeping trucks (possibly smaller) for shorter hops between train depots and distribution centers (aka stores).
The Polish Question was a very ugly, messy bit of the war and the peace that followed. Somewhat similar to Yugoslavia, there were divisions within the Polish Resistance organizations between those supporting the government-in-exile in London, and the pro-Soviet faction. One reason that the Red Army sat on its hands during the Warsaw Uprising was that the Polish forces involved were primarily drawn from the London-leaning Home Army. In other cases, members of the Home Army were offered the "choice" of joining the Red Army or being sent to labor camps.

One interesting what-if? to consider is what might have happened had Roosevelt lived to see the end of the war, and the various treaties and conference (notably the Potsdam Conference), instead of the inexperienced Truman.

One of the better treatments of the final days of WW2, and the tensions between the western Allies and the Soviets over Poland is http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-100-Days-Controversial/dp/081...
Can you brake this?
While at peak current, the efficiency of a voltage divider is the same as a linear regulator, at lower currents a voltage regulator has significant benefits.
This is because the quiescent current used by an unloaded voltage regulator can be very low (500nA for the TPS783!), while for a voltage divider to be sufficiently "stiff" its quiescent current should be about 10X the max load current.
As a lot of microcontroller applications alternate between a low sleep current (several uA) and bursts of high run current (several mA), a voltage divider is significantly (>10000X!) more power hungry then a linear regulator in practice, even if the worst case efficiency for both is closer.
I've been designing and coding interfaces for 30 years. Text is still the #1 easiest and most efficient way to train a user on how to use your app.

Go ahead, do something productive without using text.
This article really stuck in my craw. Making homeless people into wireless hotspots is such a bad example. It's patronizing at best and dehumanizing at worst. So just because someone gave them $20 doesn't mean it's automatically better than doing nothing.
Yep. Slack is a pretty poor re-implementation of IRC, and I'm pretty bummed both my previous and my current company forced me to use it.

If we're going to go this route, let's at least use something not so patronizing and infantile, like HipChat.

And I'm pretty sick of all these "Slack is going to change/has changed THE WORLD!!!" articles in general.
The left wingers already lost because they don't have the money and power. There's never been a lot to gain in making things better for the people who need help (the goal of left wing ideology), and a lot to gain in making things better for people who have money and power (the goal of right wing/libertarian ideology). Large corporate interests are largely right wing and extremely politically active. There's nothing comparable on the left (possibly the copyright lobby which has aligned themselves with the democratic party generally but is orthogonal to the whole debate really)

Corporate interests shape the political spectrum so we steadily move to a more and more pro-corporate political scene.

The country has shifted so far over to the right that right-wingers from 20 30 years ago look like radical leftists of today, and the leftists from 20 or 30 years ago are laughed out of the political arena.

We are entering a new gilded age, which will be followed by a new great depression (we narrowly dodged one recently), which will be followed by the resurgence of progressive ideas until corporate interests wrest back control of the political process and the cycle begins again. But given how internationalized things are I suspect if we enter a great depression and liberals take hold the rich will simply leave and move to a country willing to bow to their interests.
It took me a bit longer than 15 minutes (maybe a hour or so), but this guide really worked for me when I visited Korea for a week last year. I couldn't really believe it was that simple!
https://github.com/gioblu/Cape
This is an encryption library I wrote. I think this is the best place to try to find someone able to find some vulnerability in my encryption algorithm. So good luck :)
Or they could fire a gun towards the driver seat when he gets back in the car. Not supposed to be there, right? Do you see how stupid that reasoning is? Just because someone is out of place is not free reign to break the law.

Also, blocking someone's ride is not damaging property AND this lady is equally at fault for making her path home depend on on charger. What if a car was plugged into that spot? She would have nobody else to blame for her poor planning.
I would say that the reason I'm passionate about HCI is that I want to work toward better ways for people to interact with the digital tools they use. If I can research, design, or implement something that makes the "digital experience" better, I would be happy.
AutoWIG: An automatic wrapper generator of large C/C++ libraries in Python
The Lost Art of Getting Lost
In the early days doing basic arithmetic to count up data was woman’s work because it was a low skill job that only required a person to sit down and know basic 4th grade math.

Female programmers where just people who would rewire the computers do to arithmetic that the mathematicians "programmed". They did not write the algorithms nor did they know anything more than the basics of "this plug does this". their job was taking a work sheet and making the machine do what the work sheet instructed them to do.
as computers automated this the female "programmers" where no longer needed to do this low skill job
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Two_wome...

Another example of females doing low skill work that seems technical are phone workers in the 50s
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Telephon...

Due to modern programming jobs being simple maintenance work women are being pushed into the job to get them to lower the wages of male workers.

If you are a male who is a programmer or female with a husband who is a programmer you are cheering for lower wages
Yeah, your snark is getting down voted but the OP is not, probably because something about it 'resonates', and by resonate I mean 'has mass appeal', and by mass appeal, on this particular subject, I mean 'probably adopted the snark from someone they heard in a coffeeshop', i.e. San Francisco. Have an up vote.
A bit off topic, but what are some good resources for studying graph theory?
> If you give away parking (already a scarce resource) and charging for free, rational people will use as much as they can get.

You're describing sociopaths here not just rational people. Rational people can use a higher-level reasoning framework than their short-term personal convenience.
Yep I'm wrong sorry.
Candle and Pine Cones is a great HD wallpaper for your desktop
In my experience, and I suppose depending on the data, I've found that grep is often the bottleneck for data pipeline tasks like you describe. The silver searcher (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) is, in my experience, about 10x faster than grep for tasks like pulling out fields from json files. It's changed my life.

pv (pipe viewer, http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml) and top are pretty handy to measure this kind of thing. You should be able to see exactly which process is using how much CPU, and what your throughput is.
This mission was also interesting from onboard computing side. NASA history page has some cool info about that: http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch5-6.html
And it's only been relatively recently considered as an option. You don't have to go back far to learn that the stated objective was cultural assimilation. The situation seems to have changed for the better in the last 50-60 years. Quebec separatism didn't just sprout out of nowhere.
I think it's unfair of you to take specific people and put an uncharitable spin on an internet thread to impugn them. There isn't nearly enough information there to justify a categorical statement like "when a woman becomes pregnant Markhor will fire her".

If you want to debate abstract ethics, fine, but if you bring up factual people you should have some factual evidence. Those comments aren't evidence of firing anybody for being pregnant—they're evidence of how easy it is to get embroiled in the gotcha thread du jour on an internet message board. I seem to recall that you like the Principle of Charity; it's pretty straightforward to come up with a more charitable interpretation of what happened there.

(Edit: lest anyone wonders, I don't know the Markhor founders and yes I would defend anyone the same way if they were being treated unfairly on HN.)
If you think Korean's bad, you should try English! It has fourteen or fifteen vowels!
> A lot of money has been going into fusion for many, many years now.

Maybe the ~$29 billion [1] spent by the US on fusion total since 1953 to date seems like a lot from a personal perspective, but consider the modern cost of $3.5 billion for building 1 Giga Watt of generation capacity [2] for a coal power plant, the claim that fusion is unreasonably expensive and impracticable doesn't hold water. Compare fusion research to other broad spectrum research projects that benefit broad swaths of mankind, you see a remarkably different attitude and perception. This one cancer research foundation in the UK raised 460 million pounds in 2012/13 [3], more than twice the total international spending on ITER in 2014 [4]. There is clearly a double standard when it comes to comparing the results of fusion R&D with other long term efforts that still fail to offer satisfactory solutions after decades of concerted effort.

[1] http://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/reframe/wasteful/
[2] http://schlissel-technical.com/docs/reports_35.pdf
[3] http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/prod_consump/groups/cr_commo...
[4] (page 20) https://www.iter.org/doc/all/content/com/Lists/depts/Attachm...
Or consider how shitty music would be if musicians did not have access to pot, psychedelics, and various other currently illegal drugs.

If you like virtually any 20th or 21st century popular music, you are greatly indebted to drugs.
Hi qwertyFish thank you so much for reaching out.

I have a close family member, and close friend who both suffer from Schizophrenia. Although I'd hate to make any type of diagnosis over a medium like this, I feel you've been descriptive enough for me to make an educated guess.

Schizophrenia is a fairly complex disorder with varying levels of severity. What you described sounds very close to what a lot of people describe as their first 'episode', which commonly comes between the ages of 18-30. It includes what you've described, a long period of being awake, with intense thoughts, paranoia, and a inescapable need to 'do something' (such as wipe your devices).

One of the greatest challenges of dealing with this is finding treatment fast enough before the disease progresses. Often once it progresses, the person no longer is able to realize something is wrong. As you've described it, you still have that sinking feeling that something isn't right. Often at this stage general practitioners will not understand the disease enough to make a diagnosis, so it's important you see a trained psychiatrist as soon as possible.

For your question about evaluating your condition objectively, this is part of the core treatment of Schizophrenia and it's related disorders, so it would be best a doctor helps you with this. Adderral is a known to aggravate Schizophrenia as it interferes with Dopamine, I'd advise to cut down or stop taking it until you can speak to a doctor. There is also a very small chance you are experiencing a reaction to long term Adderall use it's self, experiencing a Amphetamine psychosis which has very symptoms to Schizophrenia but is temporary. Do not risk it though, for a lot of people if Schizophrenia advances, they are unable, or refuse to seek treatment.
> […] contact with a situation doesn't make you more obligated to assist than someone who had no contact.

This sounds like an answer of all three mentioned people having equal obligation. That is, the second boyfriend could ethically claim, "I have no obligation to take you in – after all, literally anyone else with equal capability could do it instead."

If I understand this correctly, then thank you for the clarification.