skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sports have written rules and unwritten rules. Cycling during the LA era was a cheater's game and the people in charge of it were unwilling to even attempt to clean it up. It's unlikely that any rider in the top 30 of the TdF was clean and the authorities knew it and were complicit. They were getting ratings like never before. Armstrong was bringing the massive US market to the sport and Europeans were watching in record numbers because his success made them angry. There was a game within the game that was all but sanctioned by the unwillingness to address the doping problem. That was the game, one played by the unwritten rules of the sport, that Armstrong played better than anyone else.

> what good has he made to the world of sports if now he is a well known cheater

Beyond the fact that he didn't have to give back any of the money, inspired a ton of cancer patients and cancer donors and had a damned funny cameo in Dodgeball? He brought exposure to an amazing sport to the US. I count myself among the millions of people that would likely never have gotten into cycling without Armstrong. And, cheater or not, my ride up the Tourmalet was a highlight of my trip to France and something I'll remember the rest of my life. If you don't dope, cycling is an amazing exercise that's makes you a healthier person. How many other millions were inspired to get on a bike by Armstrong? Sure, if you take the myopic view that the world of sports is limited to professionals, Armstrong may have destroyed most of what he created. But when you take a wider view, his cheating created a lot of amazing effects that survived the scandal.
This is indeed in their abstract, but it's misleading. Take a look at page 15 of the preprint. Their data shows that gendered profiles have lower acceptance rates for both genders; that is, pull requests from a gender-neutral profile are more likely to be accepted regardless of the gender of the person behind it.

This paper gives the impression that the authors started out hoping to find evidence of discrimination in the form of a lower pull acceptance rate for women than men, they found the opposite, and then they data mined until they could find something they could use to argue there's an anti-woman bias.
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However rare it might be, the devastating affects of false positives make this a terrible idea. Just ask Tim Hunt, Matt Taylor, or the men targeted by "donglegate".
They're overcharging today compared to yesterday, so that tomorrow, on the day of the sale event, they can display a bigger discount. And all of that to "incentivize" (read trick) the buyer to spend his money.

It has nothing to do with free markets at work. It's simply a shady, dubious practice.
Because we don't want a world in which athletes have to destroy their bodies in order to be competitive.

ETA: And let's be clear, that's exactly where it leads. People will feel compelled to start doping younger and younger, when they can do more and more damage to themselves (like giving themselves testicular cancer) -- young people also have poorer judgment about these things.

We've already seen all this happen.
>Our analysis (not in this paper -- we've cut a lot out to keep it crisp) shows that women are harder on other women than they are on men. Men are harder on other men than they are on women.

Did you read the paper? Where does this indicate misogyny?
Have you considered taking into account the customer's skin bacterial composition? Or making a shampoo that is bacterial friendly?
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It is a common expression suggesting one isn't familiar with the ways of the site/community. You know, for humour.
If you are not cheating, you are not trying. That is pretty much motto of all competitive sports.
Remember this is not peered reviewed. Others haven't looked at it to decide if it had proper controls, good enough samples, or even valid data. So take this with a grain of salt until it's properly peered reviewed.

I almost wonder if it's worse to publish non-peered-reviewed research or not. I mean it could be great if it's solid research but if there are flaws (even minor) it could undermine other studies, change people's minds, etc.
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Here is one (IMO) much more complete abstract (not to call it tl:dr) that covers the main hypothesis, and all the variables studied

Our main research question was: to what extent does gender bias exist among people who judge GitHub pull requests?

To answer this question, we approached the problem by examining whether men and women are equally likely to have their pull requests accepted on GitHub, then investigated why differences might exist.

We extract users' email addresses from GHTorrent, look up that email address on the Google+ social network, then, if that user has a profile, extract gender information from these users' profiles. Out of 4,037,953 GitHub user profiles with email addresses, we were able to identify 1,426,121 (35.3%) of them as men or women through their public Google+ profiles.

== Results ==

Are women's pull requests less likely to be accepted?
The hypothesis is not only false, but it is in the opposite direction than expected; women tend to have their pull requests accepted at a higher rate than men!

== Do women's pull request acceptance rates start low and increase over time? ==

[B]etween 1 and 64 pull requests, women's higher acceptance rate remains. Thus, the evidence casts doubt on our hypothesis.

== Are women making pull requests that are more needed? ==

[T]he result suggests that women's increased success rate is not explained by making more immediately needed pull requests.

== Are women making smaller changes? ==

(...) Women make pull requests that add and remove more lines of code, modify more files, and contain more commits.

== Are women's pull requests more successful when contributing code? ==

(For instance, changes to HTML could be more likely to be accepted than changes to C code, and if women are more likely to change HTML)

[W]omen's acceptance rates dominate over men's for every programming language in the top ten, to various degrees

== Is a woman’s pull request accepted more often because she appears to be a woman? ==

For insiders, we observe little evidence of bias when we compare women with gender neutral profiles and women with gendered profiles, since both have about equivalent acceptance rates.

For outsiders, we see evidence for gender bias: women’s acceptance rates are 71.8% when they use gender neutral profiles, but drop to 62.5% when their gender is identifiable. There is a similar drop for men, but the effect is not as strong.

Women have a higher acceptance rate of pull requests overall (as we reported earlier), but when they’re outsiders and their gender is identifiable, they have a lower acceptance rate than men.

I hope that helps those who won't read the whole paper but feel the need to comment on it.
I think that's where the need for balance comes in. Lead them to how to find the answer, and provide guidance on how to interpret it...but if they want to be spoon-fed, tell them to go somewhere else.

I start out by showing them how to describe their problem in a way that's easily understood by a more experienced programmer. Next would be to tell them some search terms likely to answer their question. If they're still stuck, ask which part is the most confusing and work through that a bit at a time.

Of course...this all can get very frustrating. After answering the same questions a dozen times, I often let someone else answer.
How is security dealt with? I tried to find it in the documentation, but without luck so far.
You're absolutely right...it's important to clarify the vision. Our vision is to do analytics in the future. Today it's aggregate/search/tail/alerting. I think the beauty of this is that our future is still somewhat unknown and we'll listen to our customers on where we ought to be headed.
I honestly wish them good luck, I used to like the service back in the day. Lost trust, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab... won't be easy to get back on track.
Of course it's important to recognize when it's actual misogyny and not just disagreement with the code.
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Hi HN,

I'll join an awesome small company later next week. I'm really impressed by the developers at that company, they are fun, outgoing and really smart. I can't wait to get to know them and learn from them.

My problem is that I usually have difficulties building relationships when I'm in a new environment. I need a lot of time to make 1 or 2 friends.

I really like this company and I don't want to screw up this opportunity. How can I quickly build a friendly relationship with my coworkers in a relatively short amount of time (2-3 weeks)?

I don't know if this is relevant but I'm just recovering for a very long period of social anxiety.

Thanks.
How can anyone think Twitter is appropriate for this?

Marc chose to do us a favor, and show us his true colors last night. And Twitter was the perfect vehicle for that.
I made this app to help me understand the tempo/beat transitions that the masters of the musical craft achieve. I wanted to see exactly (not just a vague feeling) of the rate of acceleration, the easing-curve, etc of the accelerando or ritardando. I wanted to know exactly how long they took on a little pregnant pause or a subtle inflection of the beat. Perhaps it's most useful in classical music, but I think everyone in music can benefit from this. I made the tool as abstract/simple as possible so that as many people can benefit from it.

Please let me know what you think, and what it needs for it to be useful/worth it to you!
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How to Acquire Knowledge
I missed technology and science in my list of things, but yeah that too.

If we use Nobel prizes as a metric, then US beats other countries by a wide margin in everything except Literature. (Surprisingly Germany and UK, the old world leaders still come close second, but then we ARE considering nobel prizes awarded between 1901-2014). In terms of per capita, US is ranked 19th, and UK, the only large country in terms of population ranks higher.

It's true that USA is world's third largest populous country, so in terms of absolute numbers it beats other nations hands down, but there are two things which need to be considered. If EU was a single nation with single language and no immigration restrictions, then you will get the same benefit of being in EU(400+ Nobel prizes) as much as you'd get of being in America(350+ nobel prizes), that is, more integrated intellectual networks. But EU is fragmented into different nations, and despite of being an open border, the linguistic and cultural disparities do fragment the number of people you could have been connected to.

Second point is, almost all major figures in art and literature in America have lived in NYC at some point or the other. This usually means that if you lived in NYC, there are future nobel laureates living here with whom you might be interacting. So I think that not only you need to be in America in order to access the biggest network effect of anything, you need to be in one of the larger cities like NYC or SF.
> He hit on strawberry milk mixed with green food colouring and essential oil. Its bright colour and overwhelming lavender flavour creates a bewildering mix of sensory cues, like drinking a violent, bittersweet battle between green and purple.

> So far, Schedlowski has shown that after being associated with CsA, the drink reliably induces immunosuppression in healthy volunteers, creating on average 60–80 per cent of the effect of the drug.

Interesting.
TLDR;

The lake evaporated in span of 2 years. It's a shallow lake only 3m deep and this has happened multiple times, most recently in 1990s. The article looks more like an ad for satellite data exploration.
Additionally, the instruction set is not virtualized because of compatibility. Compatibility is a nice side effect though, so software from even five years ago works just as expected (not all software can be recompiled, and could you imagine commercially supporting that many variants--this way Intel shoulders that burden). And, backward compatibility is a tiny fraction of the control unit silicon area. It has zero performance cost. Zero. Intel is scraping for more (not less) things to add to silicon to improve performance (video encode/decode, GPU, memory controller, PCI).

The virtualized instruction set enables the performance gains by executing portions of instructions in parallel, re-ordering to avoid pipeline stalls, better branch prediction, execution shortcuts depending on operanda, etc. without compiler support. RISC architectures like ARM do this as well. On a modern Cortex part with multiple execution units, the processor is not a textbook pipelined RISC processor like this community seems to yearn for. So if you look at machine code for some reason, yes the instruction set is simple, but it's still a facade over complexity.

I don't understand the constant cry that processors are complex. To gain performance against the frequency limit, complexity increased. This happens with software all the time.

Also, for those that want direct control over all the elements of the processor, go buy an Itanium... oh wait... no one did.
And the US eliminated the largest freshwater lake West of the Mississippi [1].

[1] (largest by area) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake
I will never get such articles?
Why does somebody need to know of which gender is somebody?

People should ALWYAYS be measured by their performance not by their gender.
your mascot is adorable.
Big cats don't have cushions?
Your Typing Style Might Not Be So Bad
So to someone in the same boat as you you'd say just file the tax return and be done with it? I looked at the FBAR online form and could not imagine ever filling that out when I permanently live overseas, it actually infuriates me.
Patreon also has an $X/update model (which you can cap at $Y/mo as a patron if you want), which fits rather nicely for niche products as long as the creator can avoid the perception of padding out updates.
haha, I would say touche except for the fact that we never advertised a sale and then elevated our prices.
I strongly recommend acquiring a Steam Link and Steam Controller, in that case. I have them, and they're incredibly useful to play PC games - yes, even RTSes and other mouse-heavy games - in a console way.
There's a large drop for both men and women between project outsiders who do not identify a gender on GitHub and those that do. So that's one very clear effect. If you want to have your contributions accepted on GitHub, male or female, and you are an outsider, do not identify yourself.

However, it was only possible to identify the gender of about a third of people overall from publicly available information.

So for the conclusions of the study to be valid, one must eliminate the possibility that there is a gender imbalance in those whose gender is able to be identified by publicly available information (which would not represent discrimination, since that information is self-reported). Until one can eliminate this, one may not be measuring discrimination, but effectively just a correlation between availability of public information on programmers and their skill level.

Moreover, it looks like the gender information was entirely constructed from Google+. Yet there is no information on what percentage of users' of each gender actually had Google+ pages. This is extremely relevant to the conclusions as there could also be correlations with the usage of Google+ by programmers of a certain skill and gender.
Will help with the language, or with the bureacracy? I'd be surprised about the latter, but I'd also be surprised if they gave much trouble to an educated productive individual. Hodně štěstí!
TLDR: 1) Acquire chunks of knowledge and apply them in different settings. 2) Take breaks to improve your memory and your ability to solve problems. 3) Structure your learning. Map out prerequisites, and start with concepts that you need 80% of the time. Prioritize knowledge that adds genuine, direct value. 4) Learn in differing environments, work with knowledge in differing ways and use multiple senses. 5) Read other’s learning journeys, have mentors, and gain feedback. Work on your ability to be vulnerable in order to do all of this effectively. 6) Leverage your emotions by making information and problems more engaging.
I also wonder how they actually verified the public G+ profiles. I know that a significant number of women in my circle of acquaintances deliberately flag themselves as male.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Hitchhiker's Guide: “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

It applies to cheating and, more generally, to the fact that political candidates—especially ones that are legitimately "electable"—tend to be incredibly self-selected, in ways that aren't necessarily great for our actual leadership.
You are mixing up government borrowing with private borrowing.
I happen to think that there are meaningful things you can express by saying "Strong Typing" or "Weak Typing" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9256695), though "well defined" might be stretching it. However, I don't like this definition at all.

Both JavaScript and Python prohibit operations on types that don't support them. They both have TypeErrors (or something similar) that are thrown at runtime for certain operations, while others produce a result.

The difference is just that JavaScript allows a bunch of operations that Python prohibits, including several that serve almost no purpose.

Is allowing 1 + "1" allowing an operation on a type that doesn't support it, or does your language just allow adding numbers and strings? There is no principled way to answer that question.
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Actually, if you look at their numbers (or the summary numbers provided by the top-voted comment), the statement "women on github are more competent than men" seems to be a result of selection bias rather than "one sex is better than the other".

It appears there are more than 150k men on github but less than 10k women. But if you look at real life, men don't out-number women 15-to-1, which seems to suggest programming on github draws in more men than women. I suggest that, whereas in addition to professional men, tons of boys will make a hobbyist account on github to leave inane comments on open-source projects, there are very few hobbyist girls that fall into this category; that is, a woman only makes an account on github if she is a professional in the industry.

Naturally, if you compare a group of professionals against a group of professionals + college-rockstar-ninja-guru-hackathon-"yeah, but is it optimized?" amateurs, the group of professionals without the baggage would be "better".

Anyway, that's my take on what the numbers say; maybe I'm wrong, in which case, I for one welcome our new female overlords; if they must put us all to death, may they do so with snu-snu
About subpoenaing the person who the data belongs to, I agree. However, realistically speaking, this is not an effective way to get the data. In my experience, someone who is about to be exposed and subjected to criminal liability would simply delete the video or remove their access to it.

Note that under 18 U.S. Code § 2704, a related problem is that only governmental entities can require preservation of data.

I have not seen any legal authority for the defense getting a search warrant. If you can find any authority or precedent for that, I would love to see it. It's an awesome idea.
Yea it's ExDoc, think this should be helpful:
http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/docs-tests-an...

On mobile and on the run so can't confirm.
Part of their shadiness is also elevating prices on days that are dedicated to being major "sales" so as to jump on that bandwagon.
The issue with the FBAR is the transfer of the money from the house into a bank account.

If the money was in an account with the US citizen's name on it for any amount of time, such that the sum of all accounts with the citizen's name was over $10,000, all accounts must be reported.
Not paying back what you owe is default, and the countries in that position aren't the countries being talked about.
Most (>95% for sure) small planes use leaded fuels. Many (probably three-quarters of the fleet, but probably less than a quarter of the gallons of avgas burned) of those planes could readily use ethanol-free unleaded avgas without significant modification.

The high powered planes are the ones that also fly the most hours and burn the most per hour, which is why the bias is so different by gallons rather than fleet size. Many of those perform critical functions (mail/parcel delivery, food delivery, remote people transport, pipeline patrol, traffic reporting, pilot training) and there is no certified replacement fuel available. The logistics are such that if an airport business has to carry leaded fuel for 75% of your avgas sales and the other 25% can also burn 100LL, there's little incentive to install duplicate tanks, fuel trucks, etc for zero additional sales of fuel.

There are promising unleaded fuels in testing (not derived from unleaded autogas) that the high-compression and turbo-charged aircraft can run without modification. The approval process via the FAA is very slow-moving, expensive, and risk-averse. (in many cases for very good reason, but it's still a significant barrier in that I cannot legally burn the prototype fuels, nor any unleaded fuels, in my aircraft).

I would switch to the GAMI fuel tomorrow if it was available for sale. For the small amount I burn per year (estimated 1500-2000 gallons), even an increase of $2/gallon would be no barrier for my adoption and the likely increase vs today is lower than that. There are other fuels also under consideration or certification testing, some of which require airframe or engine modifications, others of which are also "drop-in" replacements.

TEL really is fairly magical in terms of improving knock and detonation margins in highly stressed engines, so it's no surprise that its adoption became so widespread after World War II. The transition away from TEL is not a trivial exercise, which is why it's "taking so long" to make progress on this. The world needs a physically and chemically workable fuel, but also needs an economically workable fuel.
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Not too surprising, considering humans are hardwired to be biased in favor of sexually attractive people.

To test that hypothesis, check if homosexuals behave the opposite way.
> Specifically, we extract users’ email addresses from GHTorrent, look up that email address on the Google+ social network, then, if that user has a profile, extract gender information from these users’ profiles.

I was curious so I looked up the Google+ API (https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/) and I do not see an "email lookup" endpoint. You can only search for generic information in public profiles. Searching for my own email, which is public in Google+, using that particular endpoint yielded no results.

I call shennanigans that 1/3 of the accounts in the dataset had discoverable profiles this way, and they were retrieved in a manner that is acceptable by Google.
kim jong un also has a strong Nuclear research team.
> I'm inclined to disbelieve any study that claims one gender is better at programming than other

The paper makes no such claim. It hypothesizes that women on GitHub may be more competent than men on GitHub.

There is a ton of selection pressures involved that determine which set of men and women on Earth end up in the set of people that contribute to open source code on GitHub.

So, even if it turns out that one gender is wildly more competent on GitHub than the other, that may or may not say anything about biology or overall gender. Instead, it may simply point to some gender-asymmetry of those selection pressures.