skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing to say on the culture issue, but what are your experiences of continental Europe?

This sounds more of a question how the bureaucracy works and its traditions.

Doctors putting fancy papers with ceremonial seals on their walls sounds like a US popular TV thing, for example. Do they really do that?
I think its reasonable to think that your content will only be used in a way the platform supports - retweets on twitter, embeds on instagram. The use of those "re-gramming" apps has always seemed a bit wrong to me and ripping the image from the context of the app and using it on your website is a step even further in to wrong.
Gee, this would all go away if they would let the browser render the damn website instead of layering everything behind Javascript.

You can load all the garbage you want with Javscript after the content is rendered and nobody will care.
Ah, okay. That’s much more straightforward. The answer, though, remains that regular expressions that are actually regular cannot parse HTML that is actually HTML. Regular expressions can parse HTML up to a certain depth specified in advance – which is not the definition of HTML.
The people that do these things have this thought in common: "won't happen to me and not in my lifetime"
Yes it is ignorance. The mentally I'll are not violent at a greater rate than the general populace.
"Y.T.’s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00pm, she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this memo, and her reaction, based on the time spent, will go something like this:

Less than 10 min.: Time for an employee conference and possible attitude counseling.

10-14 min.: Keep an eye on this employee; may be developing slipshod attitude.

14-15.61 min.: Employee is an efficient worker, may sometimes miss important details.

Exactly 15.62 min.: Smartass. Needs attitude counseling.

15.63-16 min.: Asswipe. Not to be trusted.

16-18 min.: Employee is a methodical worker, may sometimes get hung up on minor details.

More than 18 min.: Check the security videotape, see just what this employee was up to (e.g., possible unauthorized restroom break).

Y.T.’s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It’s better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they’re careful, not cocky. It’s better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She’s pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It’s a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary."

--Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Comments in Node.js can slow you down
Elixir conf 2015 videos are not yet on ConFreaks. Keep your eyes peeled.
I walked to kindergarten alone at age 5, in the US. In the 1970s, when there was much more crime than there is today.

I mostly blame cable news for helicopter parenting. The data shows that there is much less violent crime than there was 40 years ago, but when something bad does happen and cable news jumps all over the story, it creates a false impression of the world being a very dangerous place.
This is starting to go way too far.

What next they get rid of the "man" command in Unix because of gender issues? People find the "kill" command to be a trigger word so it too gets changed?
I guess I wouldn't define a silent perspective, whether majority or minority, as present in the conversation.

It is one phenomenon when everyone agrees. Probably everyone is right. When everyone who speaks agrees, and everyone who doesn't agree doesn't speak, that's quite a different pattern.

As I noted above, I agree: I think the problem is the tone. In combination with this pattern, of course.

(I should have just noted that it seems possible that the reason American parents find their children less safe in public is that they're right. Parents are worried about assaults and kidnapping. I couldn't find statistics on child assault and/or kidnapping, but the Japanese rape rate is roughly 27x (not 27%) lower than the American [1]. Given this fact, it's not immediately obvious why one should search for an additional cause of the disparity.)

Wherever our moderator is from, his perspective is an American perspective. This is an objective factual statement, like the fact that English is an Indo-European language. Probably in the same geographic region 100 years ago, there was a living pre-American intellectual tradition. But it hasn't existed since 1945 at the latest.

(The most concentrated remaining geographic locus of pre-American ideology is -- by no coincidence -- the subject of this article. Nippon Kaigi anyone? But I don't believe Dan is Japanese. And even Japan isn't exactly what it once was.)

[1] http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Japan/Unite...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Kaigi
It looks like the latest version does: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-2227

The problem with MongoDB is that teams think they can get away by just setting it and forgetting it. Real companies have DBAs that monitor it and understand it and make a living through it. They're just trying to automate it using fancy ui's. That's what you get for trying to automate your DBAs.
How many of the people pursuing any career would do it if it weren't for the salary?

(If it bothers you that salaries play a role in how people choose their majors, advocate for an economic system that allows people to pursue their ideal passions without financial worry, whether those passions are in computer science or poetry or "underwater basket weaving" or what have you. Until such a system is in place, though, it's only reasonable that people, in deciding how they'd like the rest of their life to play out, go where the opportunities are...)
To many clever people it will probably seem that in the case of this young gentleman, and in cases of many similar people all across the nation, the battle picks them.

Your advice basically boils down to: "If I could go to a bank with a saner management, surely you can go to a country with a saner government." That may be the case, but some people would prefer the government to do the going.
Fifth: a browser done right
Ah got it, when I looked at the Ask HN compared to new, Ask HN appeared to also be ordered by submission time. Mine was the only one missing in that context.

Thank you!
Very interesting that this decision is made at the text level and not later...
>Reliable computing technology is as revealing of an objectively existing physical reality as I need.

What do you mean by this?

All you need is Boolean algebra to derive every reliable aspect of our computing technology.

01~&

Yes, you need a machine that can "execute it", but every reliable thing that a current computing machine will do is predicted by consecutive and parallel applications of the truth table:

a|b|a~&b
-|-|----
0|0| 1
0|1| 1
1|0| 1
1|1| 0

Do you mean that Boolean algebra is the objectively existing physical reality; is a part of the objectively existing physical reality; or, is only evidence of an objectively existing physical reality? If it is only evidence, in what way is it evidence?
Well I haven't done any research on the current state of affairs in this particular matter but it's been shown time and time again that the people that make the laws are pretty far from being an expert in the things they are making laws for. There is also no incentive to have subject matter experts weigh in on things when it would probably go against your major donors. I hope Lawrence Lessig or someone can actually change the finance laws for the better.
You can do it yourself as well -- EasyList and some others have patterns that they check for on the page path and individual elements, not only known hosts.
Hashtags can be vague as well -- what if it was a picture of a child at the zoo in front of crocodiles? Who says that particular hashtag gives that particular party permission to use the photo?
OT, but from the title I expected this would be about people who treat Twitter as if it were a discussion forum and expect a debate from someone who uses a hashtag. It's an obnoxious behaviour, #gamergate is the most famous example.
Squadron 42: Facial Animation Technology
His comment was accurate in that you are constraining many vectors of diversity by only hiring from a specific location, even if gender likely isn't one of those vectors.

Also, the gender of a company's management team doesn't necessarily reflect the gender distribution of all their employees. And I don't believe Discourse is owned by Stack Exchange.
I would seriously take a look at Eset (www.eset.com) and while I know Symantec had a really poor reputation their stuff seems a bit more solid these days. Check out av-test.org or av-comparatives for more info.
Presumably we have entropy measures for some "standard" videos. Presumably the coding efficiency falls below those measures.

Isn't this fairly easy to disprove?
I've been spending a ton of time researching how startups build a diverse team with an inclusive culture and honestly have struggled to find much literature on it.

Though I don't agree with everything in the Clef handbook, it was an extremely informative read. It's hard to spell out inclusion in words, but this seems like a solid start.
I run a crowdsourced content site that is a kind of Wikipedia for news (see my profile for link). When we first started we wanted to attract Wikipedia writers, who write for free. Those writers are mainly young, white Americans, like the Mechanical Turk writers mentioned in the article. But they wouldn't come over, because they like fighting on Wikipedia for free.

So I offered $1 per post to write 50-100 words summaries of the news. Depending on the content a writer could add four to eight posts an hour, getting faster at it as they improved their skills. We had about 50 writers on the program, but could easily have had many more. We were overwhelmed with people wanting to join the program and had over 1000 people on our waiting list.

At first, But the $1-per-post program attracted a whole different community: mainly women, many of them minorities, who like to work-at-home. We actually saw this as a big plus because they were no-nonsense about doing the work, and gave diversity to the content, something Wikipedia struggles with. We paid out in Paypal and some people would literally do some work so they could get some food for that day.

I think too many companies think of crowdsourcing as a way to get cheap work, but it's really good to get diverse workers.

After paying out $20,000 for 20,000 posts we changed to a revenue-share system, where writers earn more as the site grows. That presents a different challenge: finding writers who will put in work now, with the hope of a bigger payout later.
Jeff, I didn't know this about SO or Discourse! I follow coding horror, is this something you've written about extensively? We need more voices. The value-leverage remote work has is so huge. Makes it really frustrating that there aren't more people really talking about it (slash doing it).

I recently noticed that Slack also doesn't appear to support remote work. Kind of an ultimate irony :(
Not to discourage the female of the species from having fun hacking away like the rest of us do ... but you do make a good point.

Where were the "women in tech" back when computer programming was some "weird" hobby of the outcast nerds? What has always bothered me was that feminists have conveniently painted this lack of interest (prior to the financial incentives of current times) as some evil intent on the men. Sexist industry? Give me a fsck'ing break! All of their perceived sexism is in their own minds.

One would do well listening to actual female nerds than wannabe immitator-warriors. https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c
He won't make the same mistake again, that's for sure.
My (obv unsolicited) advice for inclusive+diverse: hire for empathy.
Thanks are due in large part to Dr. Eric Lander. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/opinion/fix-the-flaws-in-f...
Banning data encryption is “moronic”
I think at the point where you have a movie about your life, if you really press, you'll be allowed to get the surgery.
No wonder I'm paying through the nose for maple syrup. Did not know the full history behind it.

Another maple syrup fact I recently learned: there's no quality difference between Grade A and Grade B syrup. It's just based on color. I prefer the darker, stronger flavored Grade B.
Knot: High-performance authoritative-only DNS server
This is bullsht. How about teachers' unions, the worst poison in U.S. education, contribute millions and millions of dollars to the democrats every year.

Sure, it's not a "family". But teachers' unions collect money from public teachers, who get paid by tax payers. How can they contribute to political party?

When will leftists start to talk about this?

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=l1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG8w9PcA-ig
> My house is more than 200M from the road

You expect UPS to have precise cöordinates for your actual dwelling building? They will tie your address's location to the road your driveway departs from.
Well, the other side of it is that, imho, the adblocker has no reason to purposefully expose itself. I was not commenting on the ethics of adblock, just the fact that sloppy checks and sloppy code are a bad thing. I personally don't use an adblocker, I just don't go to sites that I have had bad ad experiences on.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10350809 (159 points, 2 days ago, 112 comments)
The sort of "DNA analysis" discussed in the article is old technology. You just test multiple samples for the occurrence of some set of marker sequences, and then estimate the probability that matching occurrence could be due to chance.

So you're comparing a suspect's DNA with DNA from a crime scene. And you find the same set of marker sequences. But maybe the crime-scene DNA is a mixture. However, with a mixture you'd expect to see additional marker sequences in the crime-scene DNA.

But it depends. Many of the marker sequences are racial. So maybe it's more likely for two people of a given race to look like one person. And maybe there was racial bias in marker selection. It's a mess.

Bottom line, with current technology, people should not be convicted based on the occurrence of marker sequences. Nothing less than complete DNA sequences should be admissible.
I'm seeing this really late, but FWIW:

I'm no FB fan but, here, FB is not "doing" anything to anyone. They offer a service, and a social one at that. If people choose to use it to keep in touch with their entire social circle, then why is FB responsible for ensuring that no one has a violent ex-boyfriend, nosy boss, etc.?

If using FB will endanger your health, then don't use it. That's the missing option in your choice set.

BTW, this is what happens when people outsource their relationships to a profiteering third-party. No one seems to question the wisdom of that "choice". Instead they want to force FB to be something it never was or claimed to be.
This is worse than "by continuing to use this site/software you are agreeing to our terms" and would basically be saying "by mentioning this string of characters, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to your content with or without attribution at our discretion."

Unacceptable. I don't see how this should work out any way except in the favor of the copyright holders.
No, the US Military dealt a huge blow against soldiers being exploited by "abusive, deceptive and aggressive recruiting tactics":

https://www.revealnews.org/article/university-of-phoenix-sid...
Maybe "math is fallible" would have been a better title. Not because math itself is fallible, but because they used math wrong.
Even if you get around all of the other problems, you can't escape latency. There's still going to be significant advantages to co-locating a bunch of computation for some non-trivial percentage of needs.
Agreed - but this is about the number of employees based on their original business model, not what the future holds.
I think this can depend on a few things. The license terms under which UGC is uploaded, how UGC is (re-)distributed, (for example retweet vs a capture vs a DL.) and context (part of a news item, or commercial endeavor).

However, I think parents especially overshare things about their children. Once you let something out of the bag, it's going to be hard to put it back.

And, of course, if you're using something for commercial purpose, you need to seek permission, if you're unsure about the license. However, much of the public's loosey goosey attitude toward copyright can filter into the attitudes of unsophisticated marketing organizations (an intern etc. not familiar with IP thinks they are doing "guerilla" mkting, for example).
That seems like an unreasonable jump to make. Building power plants doesn't work ONLY because of a regulated energy market, though I'm sure it helps. What if the parent commenter hadn't used a utility as an example? If the example of "economies of scale" were ethanol fuel production, would you ask if AWS was ready to classify itself as a corn field?
...which is the problem with all completely-distributed, server-less Internet schemes. Hell, I was working in this space when I was in college in 2002. There were a lot of people interested in it then, probably even moreso than now, and yet it was a complete tarpit that yielded very few long-lived results (BitTorrent, basically - even Kazaa and the rest of the music filesharing apps ended up getting replaced by centralized systems).

It's an area where I really wish someone would succeed, but having worked on some massively-distributed systems at Google in the intervening years, I'm skeptical that it's possible.
The Benefits of Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty
And in my experience, landlords charge extra fees for credit/debit. A cheque is usually the most universal and cheap way to pay in the US.
I didn't even know about the limit until he said something. My University had no limit in their proxy: I pulled over 10,000 papers from it sometimes 50-100 a night. :O Wonder what they pay.

Anyway, might help to get affiliated with a University or enlist the help of a student. ;)
+1. Unless you're a believer in affirmative action, which I'm not, the ultimate way to work for diversity is to not even know what races, colors, or sexes your employees are.
It's also hard to get rid of.
> Where were the "women in tech" back when computer programming was some "weird" hobby of the outcast nerds?

Programming was originally an exclusively female profession because it was seen as lowly-paid "women's work". Later it became a male profession.

But you're talking about the non-professional setting. Well, that started with the home computer revolution. There were few teenage girls programming at home because the means of doing so - home computers - were marketed almost exclusively to boys. Alas, parents seem to avoid buying boys 'girl toys' and vice-versa.
Plenty of old school programmers were not "outcast nerds" at all, but people who happened to stumble on the subject. The whole nerd thing is something that happened mainly at certain universities and then when computing become more popular in high-schools. Women have far more than men been interested in things that doesn't mean money. Just that if you're a book, arts, craft and/or music nerd it doesn't count. By the way, when did computers ever not bring financial incentives? Back when mostly women did it maybe...
I don't see it as a big issue when an ad follows me around the net. Yesterday I searched for a musical instrument on Ebay; now ads for the instrument display on Facebook. They may, in some way, invade my privacy, but they don't invade my reading experience.
In what way do you consider the Discourse and Stack Overflow teams to be diverse?
I agree with this take on it. I either find myself using an Arduino or other cheesy AVR board, or a "serious" FPGA platform. There never seems to be much demand around here for mid-grade controllers or SoCs. If I can't get the job done with an Atmega256, I'll drag out the heavy artillery.
Yes. You can get the house, the lot lines, and my driveway in commercial geospatial data.
I can't believe they're allowed to run a cartel in 2015 Canada.

I wish Quebec would stop talking and separate already; they barely share any common values with the rest of us and are constantly doing embarrassing and (federally) illegal things like this.
Tweets are not Fair Use just because they are short. Happy Birthday was not Fair Use for decades , despite being tweet sized.
Fantastic idea, I'd love to see more of this. Not only does it promote transparency and positive change but it also gives people a leg to stand on if the company doesn't do what they public say they do.
How far?
What's the starting salary for an entry programmer?
Much like when the 1997 government in the UK added targets for everythning people gamed the system in all sorts of ways.
Disable adblocker (and ghostery) and give it another shot. The backgrounds will moves out of the way but you have something blocked which is stopping it from happening.
Mussels Inspire New Flame Retardant
Because men haven't found gender related hostility or exclusion from high paying jobs in those majors.
This article is from 2013, not reflected in the HN title.

I seriously doubt the following statement in the article is still true:

"The users of Mechanical Turk are still early adopters, which explains why so many workers are closer to the median US household income of around $50,000 than to the poverty line."

I did some survey work on MT back then, it was fun for a few days, then became incredibly mind numbing.

A more recent article on MT (probably posted already to HN):

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/22/408680035/mechanical-turk-work...
Nerd elitism in programming needs to stop. The first hackers didn't have computers when they were kids, let me remind you.
When I hear stories like this I strongly feel we all should stop having children altogether.
It's simple, really. Picture an apple orchard, as it operates today. Hundreds or even thousands of migrant labourers employed to tend the orchard and pick the apples at harvest time. Now imagine small aerial drones which have been developed to harvest the apples automatically and bring them to the warehouse.

Extrapolate this idea across a vast array of industries and you begin to see a pattern: huge numbers of jobs which have been replaced by automation. Where will all of these people go? Who will they work for?

Now imagine a time much further into the future. Unemployment has skyrocketed. Millions of people are starving and they can't afford the apples they used to pick for a living. So what? They decide to "invade" the orchard and steal the apples for themselves! Ahh, but drones come to the rescue again! Machine-gun wielding aerial drones patrol the orchard day and night, efficiently defending the property from any and all would-be thieves.

How does this prevent the former apple-pickers from growing their own apples? On whose land do you expect them to grow?
It's very easy for a site to detect if a user is using an ad blocker. There are tons and tons of possible ways to check.

Since it's like playing whack-a-mole, I think most ad blockers simply don't care if their presence is known.
Prophetical.