skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I responded to this already, but the hacker must have intercepted it. Just kidding, I think I hit post limit because this account is new.

Regardless, that was the reference and I am definitely not that spun out, for sure. I will say this though, when he goes to meet wh1teR0se he says maybe they're the best because "they are more paranoid than the rest of us".

So, did I take too much adderall, flip out and whipe my whole system? Yep. Have I been leading a financial revolution under the exper tutelage of my dead father with a curious affinity for back to the future II? Not yet.
I mentioned those, but you're right that they're inconsistent with what I said about people not leaving NW. 2006-ish I think there was a big debate on if they'd be allowed ... they've always seemed like a special case, being part of the arena itself. In any case, billboards are few and far between in NW.
A diversity of technical perspectives can be helpful, but there's no reason to suppose that 1) gender diversity correlates to a diversity of technical perspectives, or that 2) to achieve a diversity of technical perspectives, we need to force the demographics of programmers to match that of the population.

If you want to increase diversity of thought, you'd be better off recruiting from schools other than Stanford and the ivys.
Can we get this on the ballot for California?
So. much. gain.

As a ham radio operator this is the sort of antenna array we fantasize about using.
Thank you for saying this. This account was the first one to respond and continued saying this. Seems a bit strong, I think it is more adderall/sleep/stress related as it was essentially a one-off occurence.
Trouble is that San Francisco is a terrible place, geographically, for a large and ever-expanding industry. It's a tiny sliver of land on the end of a peninsula. There's only three roads out of town and no room to expand. Austin is much more suitable, it's surrounded by nothing on all sides.

Sooner or later the global hub of the computer industry has to shift away from San Francisco to somewhere there's actually some goddamn space. That time is now, as evidenced by the ridiculous prices, which are pushing people out. This is a good and natural stage of the process.

The only question is whether we destroy one of the few genuinely pleasant cities in North America trying to hold on for another decade.

Sigh. It seems that every time I say something counter-circlejerklical, I take a karma hit which prevents me from posting for hours. "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down."
There's a hint of "god of the gaps" about that argument.

I don't think we know enough about consciousness to even speculate usefully about it.

See e.g.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1114444...

And I think uploading has become a bit of a cliche now. If brain copying were possible, then brain merging and direct experience/memory sharing would likely be possible too.

What if instead of worrying about uploading brains for individual survival, we started turning into a connected colony organism? We already are in physical ways, but our consciousness is lagging behind.
It's possible we're on opposite sides of an A/B test, but it hasn't shown up for me since dismissing it.
"Freak out", "Drop everything else", "Involve all the /key/ people", "Search maniacally for underlying causes" (scapegoat), "Assume the situation is self-inflicted", "search ... systematic[ally]", "Divide and conquer", "Consider a Plan B"

To my ears, all those phrases sound like "lay people off".
We can vaccinate people against polio, but not against HIV.

We can effectively treat AIDS, but not polio.

So which is the harder problem?
I posted the emails. They exist. While I went a bit over the top, the emails definitely exist.
It feels like most the billboards here are for movies and tv shows, so they don't seem so bad somehow.
> Nobody is keeping women out of computer science; they're largely just preferring not to enter the field.

Ted is the new kid at school, and he wants to make friends. At recess he approaches a group of smiling, laughing boys to introduce himself. But as he nears the group they get quiet. Ted says hi and his name, and mentions he's new and wants to know if they play "tag" here. The boys reply, "we don't play tag, we play Weasel Escape." Ted asks how to play, and they say "How do you not know how to play? You needlefish. Needlefish!" The other boys laugh, but Ted doesn't get the joke. They walk away and Ted feels embarrassed. Over the next few days he continues trying to befriend the group of boys but they have so many inside jokes! There's one nice kid in the group that explains the jokes to Ted, but most of the time one of the other boys loudly interrupts and teases Ted for not knowing, and nobody really enjoys standing around explaining things because standing around means not playing. Ted eventually decides that the boys he's been trying to befriend aren't very nice, and that even though he enjoys playing weasel escape now that he figured out the rules, it's less degrading to spend his recess in the library playing Magic cards with the weird kids. They actually seemed excited to explain their inside jokes and how the game works.

Nobody is keeping Ted out of that group of friends. He just largely prefers not to join them. But of course, why he prefers not to join them changes the story.
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One important side-effect of a an author providing data and code, even though it is only good for re-analysis, is that it provides completely unambiguous documentation for what the original author "did".

For example, if the original paper made a critical mistake, then there is no point is carrying out a replication, it won't work anyway. The Reinhart and Rogoff paper is a great example of this.

We really should require that ALL papers in ALL disciplines allow for re-analysis, it is basically like an extended, and ongoing peer review process.
On the day Moments was released, I followed the "Moment" of the Astros-Royals Wild Card (baseball) game. I loved it - it pulled relevant tweets into my timeline and let me follow the game with people doing the same thing around the world. When the game was over, those tweets (and users) were gone from my feed. It was perfect.

Then, the next night, I wanted to do the same thing for the Cubs-Pirates Wild Card (baseball) game, only it was never a "live" moment on Twitter.

Right now, the Blue Jays are playing the Rangers in a "win or go home" situation, but again it's not even a live event for me to follow.

I love Moments from a product perspective, but I can't help but think this was rushed out too soon - right now, there are only two "live" moments. And because it's been rushed out, I can't help but think it's going to cause the same problem Twitter has been trying to fix - that users are going to try it, not get it, and never come back.

Moments should be about _live_ content. It seems focused on things that were a moment earlier in the day or week.
Innate differences between genders may play a part, but the idea that "women tend to be less interested" is not the only possible innate difference. What's to say the innate difference in play here isn't "men tend to be more hostile to women joining their space"?
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A-Train should be in there. It inspired SimCity 2000's isometric view and was also a great game to boot with a strong economic system (ledger, stocks, taxes, capital gains, etc).
I'm in the same boat as you, except that I lack a degree.

Although I would love the opportunity to work at Microsoft Research, I accepted the fact that I likely never would.

Lately, I've been considering to join and/or create a distributed research team. The most challenging part has been to find people whose vision align with mine.

Feel free to contact me if that's of interest to you.
If I understand your parable correctly, you're suggesting that men deliberately mock and reject women trying to enter the field. In my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. I have never, not once, witnessed the behavior you describe. I've seen nothing but welcoming behavior toward everyone who wants to learn software.

Even among proponents of the systemic discrimination theory, the consensus these days seems to be that bias must be subconscious, since overt bias is practically extinct in the wild.
Over the course of a day, if you've been taking it for years, it doesn't seem like much. I have heard of doctors prescribing 30mg (20 morning, 10 at noon) for people brand new to it.
I'm sceptical about Moments, but maybe if they start tailoring it per-user it could work.

What I would like to see is a relaxation of the 140-character limit and the addition of threaded replies. This would make it actually reasonable to have discussions on Twitter and would surely greatly increase engagement.

Another useful change would be the addition of tweet categories for each account. For instance, I might be interested in someone's tweets about science, but not like or care about their tweets on sport or politics. If users could categorize their tweets, other users could choose which category or categories of tweets they want to follow. This would not only be good for followers but also good for tweeters, since tweeters would no longer need to worry about alienating followers by posting many tweets that most of their followers aren't interested in.
Seriously, with even a cursory amount of thought (which is far more rigor than proponents of diversity tend to give policy proposals) it's clear that much of the ideas coming out of tech these days caters to the problems of young urban fairly affluent users, which is in large part due to the tendency to want to solve problems that you're familiar with (and to be fair, the fact that it's harder to monetize low income users). Diversity of perspective across class lines makes way more sense than just assuming that more women of the same social and educational background will magically open up an appreciably wider set of technical perspectives.
I would argue that the sample of users on DistroWatch might be more savvy than 'users', which might skew this data.
I find it kind of funny that people are surprised by this.

Reading the paper, it also feels like the authors derive entirely the wrong recommendations from this result.

Seems like they have identified a set of reasonable problems they encountered in trying to reproduce these studies. Fair enough.

To think that the solution is just to add a lot of documentation requirements on the researcher to address those specific problems just seems totally naive.

This would inevitably act as a form of regulatory structure on top of all the gruff people have to go through to get results 'published.' In doing so, this would also add cost and complexity to an already archaic system, and in a way that does not deal with the underlying root causes that are creating these problems.
This is how most people try to make money in any public financial market though. Sell at the top. Private companies are a bit different, but it's always buyer beware and do due diligence for a reason.
>> This problem has been solved many times before.

> Not on the Web, it hasn't.

The Web doesn't require some radically new way of developing software.

The webdev community appears to be -slowly- realizing that those nerds back in the 1990's (and 80's and 70's and...) might have actually known a thing or two about developing software, and are finally learning from some of the lessons learned way back when. :)

"All" that needs to be done is for the browser makers that matter [0] to agree to aggressively alter experimental features as needed, remove them whenever they deem necessary, and widely and repeatedly advertise this policy and make it abundantly clear. Hell, even Microsoft has the backbone to break users of undocumented or experimental APIs.

[0] That is, everyone but Apple.
The majority of college students are female. Most prisoners are male. Most homeless people are male. If we take it as a given that any group being under- or overrepresented in some category is a violation of the social contract, maybe we should start by fixing these glaring injustices.
Big thread currently running - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370132
This is _really_ a great book btw. It was one of the few things keeping me sane on a bad business trip.

The Ricoh part (2A03) is a 6502 core with BCD instructions deactivated (not removed) so Ricoh didn't have to pay patent royalties.
There are skin packs that make all the blocks look lego-ish. I don't really get the appeal. Lego with only one kind of block is pretty boring.
What does "marking off-topic" do?
Look at the other extreme: the idea that I might be discouraged (or disallowed) from bonding with my coworkers over shared interests sounds dystopian.

You might argue that workplaces shouldn't endorse one particular subculture over another: that's fine. But unless you take stern measures to ban fraternization, you're going to get coworkers forming friendships based on shared interests, and we're lying to ourselves if we think that interests of software people tend not to cluster around what we think of as "geek" culture.
Right: nobody bonds over building shareholder value. They bond over shared interests. But there are no _universal_ interests, so team-building is a quandary. I think the best you can do is rotate events and make sure most people are interested most of the time.

Maybe after the beer offsite, you can visit a winery, or a famous local coffee house, and then a museum.
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You could try this analog circuit sim - http://www.macspice.com
Could you square that circle for me where you are interested in science, but not science fiction? I'm not talking about science fantasy, but fiction rooted in science and the ramifications of scientific development.
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Breaking in this sense being "does not renew" contract with Ticketmaster, the venue is not allowed to sign a contract with a new supplier for another year. They are not paying TicketMaster any longer, but they are open to a lawsuit if they sign with another vendor. It's like a one year non-compete.
We don't consider a story a duplicate if it hasn't had significant attention yet. Otherwise the randomness of what gets (or doesn't get) seen on newest causes too many good stories to pass unnoticed.
"The TPP hasn't even been ratified yet, let alone enabled by law."

How long does this process take? Need to know if I should start buying tons of generic medicines right now.
It's not so much the fault of any individuals, as it is just a difficult situation overall. Ideally there would be both sci-fi enthusiasts as well as enthusiasts of other topics, so that more people can find common interests.
But those are different. Those favor females.
All that travelling is pointless, they will simply track your car.
If you can hypothetically prevent death and also increase birth rates (without causing problems resulting from overpopulation), wouldn't you be increasing both average and total happiness?
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PHP fascinates me when I'm high :), I usually incline towards languages in which I can enjoy the syntax (clojure and ruby), but when I'm baked, I enjoy the pure act of coding;translating my thoughts into binary manifestations. I think there should be more studies on how weed impacts learning.
Yep, and the context for this was Facebook's recent purchase of Instagram:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/12/05/instagram-twit...

> "We wanted to make sure we direct users to where the content lives originally, so they get the full Instagram experience," Instagram CEO Kevin System said, "It's just about where do you go to interact with that image? We want that to be on Instagram.com because it has a better user experience currently."
Obviously art is subjective, though in my opinion the mural that Foster The People commissioned in LA last year to promote their new album managed to strike a fantastic balance between art and commerce:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermodel_%28album%29#/media/...
> 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. In fact, Dr. Cheryan’s research shows that young men tend not to major in English for the same reasons women don’t pick computer science: They compare their notions of who they are to their stereotypes of English majors and decide they won’t fit in.

The thing is that computer science and english lit are not exchangeable. In fact, if computer science were done in pink cubicles adorned with the above-mentioned purportedly feminine accoutrements, men and women would still do computer science, because it would still be critical to technological advance and modern economies in a direct, and remunerated, way which English Lit is not.
>What if instead of worrying about uploading brains for individual survival, we started turning into a connected colony organism?

Many (maybe most, maybe even all) agents will still desire fundamental autonomy and privilege/consciousness separation, though. Perhaps humans may eventually all be set up with a "dual-homed" network, but there will be many humans who won't want to disconnect from their original LAN. And to do that, there needs to be a way of uploading what they were initially given and subjectively "switching" to that upload.

At the least, the option needs to be there, I think. I think entirely merging your mind into a "hivemind" is a form of death, even if it's something less bad than conventional death. People can choose to do that if they wish it, but those who do not want to to should still have other alternatives.
Could you go into more detail about how you actually learned to study and what your technique is now for studying? I'm always curious how other people go about learning things, specifically about how they test mastery of knowledge.
i've seen it. Great movie and sort of the begginning RDJ's comeback. This seems in line with my experience.
I'm guessing the problem this is trying to solve

Originally we had prefixed APIs. webkitAudioContext for example. The idea was the prefix would be removed. Unfortunately the problem was thousands of websites would use the prefixed API. Now you can't remove the prefixed version without breaking many many sites. Worse, there's even arguably an incentive for other browser to add someone else's prefix because they want their browser to run all those same sites.

So, a couple of years ago the browser vendors all agreed, no more prefixes. They'll put all the new stuff behind flags that developers can opt into. The problem with that is no one uses them. The users aren't going to set the flag so no devs have any reason to try out the APIs. There's no re-world usage to see that the APIs work, to see what issues come up.

So, there's this one. Select a few special devs, let them use the features, enable those features for their domain only. Real users get to use the features with no work on their part. It solves the problem to some extent. The devs know the feature might not last. They're also signed up to get notification if the feature is going to change or be removed. And, I guess their motivation is to one up their competitors.

And that last part is the whole problem with this proposal. Unless any dev can sign up then only special "chosen" devs get the competitive advantage. That feels wrong for some reason. I don't have a better solution to suggest though.

edit:

-- ugh --

I suppose I should have clicked the link which said all of this

https://infrequently.org/2015/08/doing-science-on-the-web/
If you ask me, I'd say the bay area needs a regional government, something not too dissimilar from NYC with a mayor and boropresidents of in this case, countyptesidents for each county.

What I mean is in a way it could be argued we need to annex counties or the cities and make them into more integrated governing bodies with improved policies and coordination to serve the needs of this region's population and economy.

It made sense to have separate towns and cities when the economy was less interconnected in the region, but now we need better regional planning for growth, housing, transit, economic development. I think it would be better served by a more regional government.
my doctor prescribed me 40mgs, first time. I have been on it ~4 months. I take 20 in the morning and 20 in the afternoon. I don't think it is a totally massive amount, but I am posting in my own thread about whether or not I am insane. I am going to try and cut my dosage in half though, because that seems like quite a bit.
> The game set a new, extremely high standard for the genre. Each denizen has a family, a career and travels around the city as an autonomous entity fulfilling his day to day errands. The consequences, especially on traffic, is a fascinating thing to comprehend.

I'm surprised it wasn't done like this before - it's kind of the most obvious and "right" approach to model it. Why is that? Computational reasons?
"It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn"

No buddy it's not. It's darkest at midnight not before dawn. Try again...
It's really hard to win at this. Whatever you do as a culture or team building exercise is going to either offend or just be uncomfortable to some subset of employees, unless it's so bland as to be boring for everyone.
That's different. Yours is a bias that necessarily influences other people.

But you are right; other innate biases are possible. Men could be better at logical/mathematical reasoning, which is necessary for technical skills. A difference in interest though is the most popular proposal.
It lowers the rank of the subthread.
Reading books is an incredibly awesome way to get away from anxiety or paranoia, especially if you're one of those people who can really "get into" a book.
I got somewhat distracted by your use of words (e.g. pundit class) which seem to be meant to be purely inflammatory (not sure if you meant to be - but it is).

But, let's say I follow your logic on its own. Should I just believe that there's no systematic discrimination? How could I be confident that there's not any?

And, as a parent of a bright and mathematically-inclined daughter, should I discourage her from a field in technology because she likely has some otherwise hidden trait that will make her less useful or successful? How do I even know what that trait is? Is there a test for it?
Non-mobile version:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga-3

I remember reading about this and being astounded at the transmission power. 10MW is a phenomenally strong broadcast power.. Amazing.
Conclusion: The gender disparity in computer science could be the result of innate differences between the sexes.
I don't see anyone arguing that people who like Star Wars shouldn't be allowed to wear Star Wars shirts.