skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually Great GP "mocking" comment would have fit perfectly in a parody of HNers posts/comments. We keep seeing them from time to time, and LOL at them. But not as a top comment on a sensitive article about the problems of gifted children (a minority of a kind).

For that matter, even on posts of mental health issues, people comment and proclaim "me too", do you and GGP think, even there people are just trying to carve out an image out of vanity.

Simple fact is this, GGP's comment angered a lot of people - I too wrote few draft replies earlier and deleted them. But you comment, made me say, what the heck?

Actually, to such low value comments as that of the GGP. May be we should allow reddit like replies. You reap what you sow.
I think it is that you get far more power in who you surround yourself with and you learn better how to navigate social issues. Also, people are great at faking at being nice... I live in the South (USA) and lots of people seem really nice until they switch to a topic like homosexuality, at which point you find their beliefs are really quite harmful (things like seizing children and force conversion camps). You learn to avoid the topic and keep pretending everything is nice, but when the person things you or perhaps a friend should be in prison because of who they find attractive, I find it hard to describe them as nice. And heaven help you if you are part of an interracial couple.

In short, it is us vs them mentality all the same, and while it is really nice when you are part of the us, it is horrendous when you realize you are actually part of the them.
Do you think that if Mozilla ran a similar campaign it would see more success? Somehow I don't think so.
> Before NASA sent their first drone to Mars they made a lot of predictions, a lot of tests, guessed a lot of things that may get wrong, etc. Do some of their missions still fail? Sure. But the amount of success is much much larger because they didn't just sent a drone there and watched what happened.

How much effort went into estimating Opportunity's lifetime at 90 days? How useful has that estimate proven to be?
Sorry this is a bit of an un-HN comment

> A few months later I ran into Tanya. We had a lot of fun together and she eventually told me that she was sorry she didn’t get back to me that time. Apparently at the time she was questioning her entire sexual identity and was trying to figure out if she was a lesbian.

I had this, but slightly different, from the other side recently. Met this great girl, got on really well, talked on Facebook for weeks, there was definitely some of this "How long should I wait?" going on. But, unfortunately for her this coincided with me questioning my gender. As time was going on things were progressing well with her, but it felt more and more like I was lying to her and leading her on. I didn't know how to go about telling her, it's not the kind of thing you can tell someone you don't know that well, let alone someone you are flirting with... In the end I noobed out and stopped talking to her. I felt so guilty, I'm sure she was wondering what she did or said. I have since apologised and told her why.

> Well, that was definitely not a theory that crossed my mind.

I think that was pretty much exactly what she said.
I'd like to know what the distribution of men:women in their data is. Possibly women garner a higher approval rate by way of having a smaller population on github, with a higher rate of skilled developers due to less skilled developers, by way of social pressure and similar, being funneled in other directions first.

Edit: Oh hey, they actually have a link to the full study. Turns out it's 2,923,523 : 141,117. With the merge rates being 74.6% : 78.6%.

Note: This does not mean that i reject the hypothesis that men are more likely to distrust female coders. I do suspect that is quite true.

And indeed the study itself concludes as a likely possibility:

"One explanation is survivorship bias: [...] Another explanation is self-selection bias: [...] Yet another explanation is that women are held to higher performance standards than men [...]"

The most probably conclusion here is not, as the title claims, that women write better code; but that the women who stay long enough to end up submitting PRs submit higher quality code, while the much bigger population of men, under much less social pressure, has a more well-distributed quality curve; and that even women who get this far are biased against if their gender is known.
> That might sound like the ravings of an addict, but look at the headlines in every morning’s newspaper and the obsessions of every evening’s cable news broadcast.

The reason for that is simple. Twitter is a tremendous resource for (hate to use this phrase) lazy journalists. It gives them content and material and does their work for them. What's there not to like? It's important for journalists, bloggers, tv newspeople really anyone in the media. Of course they like it and see it as essential.
Why is Social Security a tax? It's a separately funded program that pays out based on what the person paid into it. It's also capped.
This iOS date trick will brick any device
Yes it should be something like a mastermind group, I'll check out the link later do you have any experience with the service?
This is why I do not believe people when they say "I hire people solely on the basis of ability" as an argument against making any efforts towards equality or equal representation.

I don't think (many) people are willfully biased, but every study bears out that bias exists. Make selection blind to race, sex, etc., and the results are different. Orchestras switched to blind interviews and hiring profiles changed dramatically. Suddenly females and minorities were rated higher and got more job offers.

Its sad, but true, that we have this unconscious bias and we need to fix it. I don't discount the conscious biases that clearly exist, I'm just saying a claim of "I'm not biased, my hiring is fair" needs to be backed up with data, not assertions.
yeah, and oxidation is how we're supposed to die, how stuff works or not and their effect being beneficial or not are orthogonal.
They don't care "how" it works. They know there is _a_ responsible subject (VISA, Mastercard, ...) behind the curtains, and they know such responsible subject to be have obtained clearing from the local government. When you invest money into bitcoins, who is your guarantee?
>is accepting the moral responsibility for fixing security issues for those users. They are now abandoning those users.

Google is a business. They decided to stop supporting a platform they don't think is relevant to their business anymore. There is no "moral" responsibility there besides looking at what's good for Google.

If users (customers) decided back then that they'd rather have free browsers and didn't support commercial (paid) alternatives they are now the only ones to blame for this happening. At this point the user can't even vote with their wallet now. They willingly gave away all their power for free stuff.

Clinging onto some "moral responsibility" is delusional. Now I get the allure of free stuff. But I also think many people blissfully ignore the fact that everything they do will have some form of consequences down the road and that there is no "free" stuff in life.
Are you saying science suggests Trish slept with the cop because she was afraid of him?
That's why they wrap it in a steel sandwich -- to protect the lead, not principally for radiation protection.
Show HN: A work motivation simulator for a management video game
Because we can't get a good .com! And .io is especially nerdy for the whole input/output thing.
My current startups are both .io and it's strictly because good .com names are harder and harder to come by but .io fits the technical nature of the startups.
I'm not saying the theory is right or wrong, only that people seem to have a much harder time understanding a theory based off of same means but different standard deviations than a theory based off of different means.
Well, I was wrong.

I suppose when you see so many scams, you rely on instinct. But had I read more of the site, I would have realized that Zcash really is something different.

So what did I do? I relied on Cunningham's Law: "the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer." I rarely notice my karma score going up, but I certainly notice it when it goes down. That caused me to look at the comments and figure out why.

So I learned something :)
About a third of Germans have a credit card. As a comparison, it's 75% in the US.

http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/konjunktur/nachrichten/z...

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/FinancialSecurity/story?id=129664
I guess that's why, in youth orchestra contests, the judges sit behind a barrier when auditioning and making their notes.
I don't see why we have to separate the two. It sounds like Vancouver faces both increasingly high rent and abnormally low salary for tech jobs (although I recognize that we might not expect Silicon Valley level pay).
DSCOVR is doing the same thing from L1
(http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR)
"Score" is a term for successfully attracting a mate. It is not a power struggle per se but dating is a negotiation of sorts in order to reach a consensus about the nature of an interpersonal relationship between two individuals.

In that sense, a girl can "score" a guy too, it isn't sexist per se.
> The vibe I'm getting from Sweden (I lived there for a while, learned the language and still follow the news), is that it's moving to a more and more class-segregated country. Sure, everybody can look for the best school for their children, but only parents from higher socioeconomic classes will do that.

Hear, hear.

The school system decline is also a political "hot potato" because of the connection to increasing immigration. Since free immigration is considered a holy sacrament by many Swedes, it is a political no-no to connect school problems to immigration (just wait and see if I get any comments to this statement on here)

For the ten worst performing schools in Sweden, where students have the lowest grades in 2015, these are the stats:

Rågsveds skola, Stockholm (90 percent immigrants)
Ryaskolan, Göteborg (93 percent immigrants)
Vättleskolan, Göteborg (84 percent immigrants)
Västra Engelbrektsskolan, Örebro (82 percent immigrants)
Hjällboskolan, Göteborg (99 percent immigrants)
Kronan, Trollhättan (98 percent immigrants)
Sandeklevsskolan, Göteborg (98 percent immigrants)
Apelgårdsskolan, Malmö (99 percent immigrants)
Nivrenaskolan, Sundsvall (22 percent immigrants)
Rinkebyskolan, Stockholm (98 percent immigrants)

It would appear that the Swedish school system is not able to properly educate immigrants.

And as you say, Sweden is "moving to a more and more class-segregated country." It very clear from the above list.

The 32-year old minister of education, Mr Fridolin, recently went on record saying the government will NOT implement further restrictions on immigration. He also said he would fix the school system in 100 days.

Source of statistics: http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/vast/skolsituationen-aku...

Asbestos suit ready. Flame on.
Which only makes me more curious about piping things over udp, tcp included.
This. I worked at a golf course for a summer and all of the other employees were attractive young women and literally every other guy who came into the pro shop attempted to flirt with them. And most of them were older and married and probably didn't intend to seem sleazy, but it didn't take very long for the sheer volume of it to gross me out.
> she could be a normal person and try to understand what I've been doing my whole life until now

A date is not a normal situation. Just like job interviews, there are all kinds of objectives people can have that influence their behavior that don't really involve you that you're not going to know about going in.

She may have been on a bunch of dates with guys where there were these long, boring discussions on stuff that the guy found interesting but she didn't. That happens a lot from what I've been told. So she forms a strategy for making her dates better.

> I was listening to her about her own stories.

You weren't just listening, you were listening and forming judgments. You need to be aware that these judgments you are forming aren't necessarily correct and that you should allow her to correct them before you let them take control of your date.

You need to participate in the telling of the stories, not just sit there like a cold fish.

> If I say I only want a programmer woman (since I'm a programmer), but who is even better than me.

I would say you're being needlessly and destructively dismissive of potential mates. You don't pick the woman you want, you pick among the women you have available to you.

If you really want a programmer, then you should be taking positive steps to meet more of them. Same with any of these criteria. If that's really what you want, yet you're limiting yourself to just what comes along, than your desires are just wishful thinking. It's like marketing, you need to have a way to target your audience.
I'm coming up on 8 months since I last had any physical intimacy, and it's making it a lot harder to be okay with being single. I pretty much assume "as long as you're getting occasional physical intimacy" is implied whenever anyone says "you should learn to be okay with being single."
SEO Doesn’t Have to Be a Shot in the Dark
The difference for me is Facebook is how I communicate with people I know, and Twitter with people I don't. To me they are different things. Of course not for everyone.
I would love to know what the reasonable approach would be ideal from the people talking bad things about GitHub.

Treat their software development savvy usebase as stakeholders in their ongoing project rather than unwashed masses consuming a loss leader?

A mutually-agreeable reasonable approach probably doesn't exist. Limited visibility into the project may be considered exposing too much of the business for GitHub's tastes. So it will continue to be a one-way relationship, with all the baggage that comes with a one-way relationship (incl "talking bad things").
I 100% believe everything you said, but it's shocking to read. Bullying of the gifted kids wasn't really a thing in my public school in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I'm not sure if this was despite or because of the fact that while we had some gifted classes, we weren't totally segregated from the rest of the kids nor were we extolled as the "elites."

More importantly, I'm sorry that happened to you. Nobody should have to deal with the toxic environment you suffered through.
Websites are still accessible if Google delists them.
I'd like to tell you about my most gifted friend. He is my classic definition of genius. He is a particularly lovely human being, handsome, tall and can do most intellectual tasks exceptionally well (eg. Chemistry, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering, etc). He matches the best I've seen in any of those fields (and I've been involved in complex systems and software for decades).

So, what does he do for a living? Odd jobs. He has held one steady job in the decades I've known him. This is because he has poor social skills (although I've tried to help him learn the ropes of understanding people) and because he finds accepting other people's mediocrity frustrating as he politely tells them their errors - and conversely, they resent his cleverness.

I was lucky enough to work with someone similar to my friend about 10 years ago. As his boss, I sat down with him and basically said "you are very clever but you are also ignorant. You change external interfaces that drive significant changes to the rest of the system. You must stop it for the sake of the project". He exploded and told me to "f* myself" in front of the project team of ~100 to hear. Two hours later, he apologised and thanked me for my honesty and wisdom (translation: courage to tackle the wild brumby). When I saw him a few years ago, he was a different person. He thanked me for my kindness and patience back then, which meant a lot to me.

To wrap it all up: some people truly March to the beat of their own drum. I thrive on these people.

Good luck. I hope you find your groove. No one else will find it for you, unfortunately.
The "1/36 chance" and the "negligible" aren't the corresponding/analogous probabilities. 1/36 is P(detector "yes" | not nova). The "negligible" is P(nova).

What we want to calculate is P(nova | detector "yes"). Using Bayes' rule it's

P(nova | detector "yes") = P(detector "yes" | nova) P(nova) / (P(detector "yes" | nova) P(nova) + P(detector "yes" | not nova) P(not nova)) = 35/36 * P_nova / (35/36 * P_nova + 1/36 * (1-P_nova))

P(nova | detector "yes") > 0.5 if P_nova > 1/36.

This is also quite intuitive. Unless going nova is more likely than malfunctioning, you should bet on malfunctioning. This is very much like David Hume's quote:

"no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish." (test: would you say the same amount of "holy crap! WTF!!" if it turned out that the testimony was false, compared to if it turned out that the miraculous thing actually happened).

So: no detector "yes" is sufficient to establish the sun going nova, unless the detector saying "yes" be such, that it lying (1/36) would be more miraculous, than the sun going nova.

It's fascinating how precisely this can be formulated and how clear it is with probability theory.
No, it's a sign of respect. In these days of Tinder, girls are used to guys hitting on them all the time. By not contacting them, you are actually sending a message.
Training the Brain to Heal the Body
You have to lie and say you're a systems analyst to get a TN visa. (Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.)
My theory is it seems like lots of people want to live in Vancouver, which makes salaries and housing much more competitive. Whereas where I live, people have to be enticed to move here.
And the first response to their letter was a:

:+1:
You're right :) Thanks for the constructive rebuke.
Governments have established that by creating rules and an environment where commerce can take place, they can collect taxes on that commerce.

This implies that things like dividends should not be taxed, since no commerce occurs. All that happened is a piece of property split into two. Would you favor this outcome? If not, why not?

Now personally, I'm in favor of eliminating all taxes on capital income (and capital, e.g. property taxes). Economically, the best tax is a consumption tax; you live in a home, you pay taxes on the value of living in it. No property tax, no income tax, etc.

Potentially such taxes could also be levied at the time of purchase, as they would be with a pair of skis.

But that's a political non-starter; our western systems of taxation are built around the lie that the rich benefit disproportionately from our society. A consumption tax, which taxes people based on the benefits they receive rather than the value they create for others, would automagically reveal that lie.
"Likelihoods"
I am from the UK.
very cool. It would be interesting to see this built into a (maybe raspberryPI) router and have a more central point/policy for configuration maybe together with caching (dnsmasq).
"Sixty cycles has ever since been the standard for alternating current"

That's incomplete. Los Angeles, for example, had 50 Hz power until the late 1940s.

(For references: http://www.oldradio.com/archives/stations/LA/mtwilson3.htm says "It is interesting to note that until early 1949 the Southern California Edison Company supplied 50 Hertz power to Mt. Wilson." and http://www.earlytelevision.org/national_schools_camera.html "It should be noted that Los Angeles used 50 Hz power at that time.")
I can't see the holders of $10bn in equity in Twitter agreeing to that.
Singapore has been able to solve it to a certain extend. 90%+ of land is owned by the government and leased/purchased back to its residents at an affordable rate. This generates revenue the government can re-invest into the economy. It also reduces the impact of a small group of rent seekers siphoning billions out of the local economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore
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In Chinese, the common words for medical doctor (大夫 and 医生) are totally different from the other type (博士).
Meet the quant hedge fund manager who's killing it this year
What's the point of "we're going to reply next week" post on a Friday? Just make a statement next week.
Is there a similar one for numpy/pandas?
They certainly do know how to handle high intelligence. But it's for the benefit of everyone else, other than the intelligent students.

I recall in Kurt Vonnegut's _Sirens of Titan_ how people on Earth were handicapped, to counter their strengths. The most intelligent people had to wear earphones that constantly emitted annoying sounds so that it was harder for them to think clearly. That's very much like the way GLaDOS was handicapped in the Portal 2 backstory by attaching Wheatley to her--a personality core that was designed by the best scientists to be the worst possible idiot, to constantly feed her bad ideas.

The US educational system piles gratuitous additional work on the smartest students. Rather than just graduating, how about graduating while taking a bunch of AP or IB classes? The system accommodates them by digging additional official channels, rather than allowing them to become self-directed autodidacts or entrepreneurs.

I know that when I was a kid, I would have totally wasted any additional free time I may have had outside of classes, but it's very possible that some of my classmates in all the various "X" sections might have taken part-time jobs, or started low-capital businesses, or educated themselves on topics the school could never teach.
>even if it saves one person its worth it
did you explain that encryption saves people too?
Obama threw a bone to the software companies by creating HIPAA AND the electronic medical record law. HIPAA prevents people from sharing data on a platform that is not CCHIT compliant. The law mandating EMR (or else doctors and hospitals get paid less if they cannot show they are using it) is a big profit center for software companies. It’s not the medical industry driving this data jail, it’s the software companies. It goes all the way back to Microsoft who showed that you can become a trillionaire if you create a product that requires ‘licensed specialists’ to service and maintain.
The title should read "more women get pull requests accepted than men, but only when gender is not identifiable."
> More people are leaving their jobs, and disloyal young people may have something to do with that.

And how did we get those disloyal employees? Maybe it's a product of companies
not providing with a meaningful career development, not investing in their
employees, and hiring/firing people at company's discretion? Loyalty is a two
way bond.
The results seem reasonable to me: with 90-95% of coders being male, that means that this group has probably a wide distribution curve in terms of skills. The group of female coders probably has a narrower curve and likely skewed towards "good" (i.e. gifted and truly passionate about coding).
This a interesting thing to try on the AppleStore...
Just a tip from a person who's interacted with cranky people for a long time....

When I get feedback, especially negative, I like to think about it before I respond. And I may take a month to respond.

But I always immediately respond with something like

"Thank you for providing feedback, and thanks for your patience while I think about your feedback, discuss it, and respond appropriately."

At least you then know I'm not ignoring it.