skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello there,

My name is Hien Nguyen and I am a co-founder and the chief scientist at Function of Beauty. Our hair goals are a proprietary blend of selected performance ingredients; each ingredient has been through rigorous clinical testing from reputable cosmetic ingredient suppliers. Black oat is used to "fix split ends", sweet almond extract deep conditions, beet root extract has high performance moisture, and tamarind fruit extract fights frizz. The extracts contain either amino acids, protein, essential fatty acids, or polysaccharides (and more!) which give its beneficial hair goal properties. I hope this helps answer your question and also in choosing your personalized hair care set.
Sorry, I should have been more clear -- I was just commenting on quitter.se specifically, not GNU Social as a whole.
It's federated so they can't just ban you from their public stream on the website. It doesn't ban you from the entire network. It's why they link to the other sites for anyone not interested in being moderated.

In fact, I like this approach regardless of the tone the mods at quitter take since it means I can spin up my own instance and block their crap from my public feed if I'm not interested in Stalinist/Maoist hero worship. :)
I just read that the Tesla Powerwall has a warranty to 5,000 cycles [1], which is 5x what I thought it would be. Without installation costs, that's $0.095/kWh == $3000 / (7kWh * 5000 cycles * 0.9 efficiency).

Which means that consumer storage is already within your $0.11/kWh price; that's completely astounding to me, and means that on the grid scale it will be even cheaper.... I imagine that the days of peaker plants are coming to a close entirely.

This conversation has made me hugely optimistic. Huge swathes of the country are already primed to go completely off grid, economically, then. If solar costs $0.06/kWh, and half of the energy is stored at $0.10/kWh, that's a total price of $0.11/kWh for an off-grid site. That's far cheaper than what I pay for electricity right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Powerwall#cite_note-2015...
I think we have a winner. Most likely difference - corporate vs non-corporate contributors.

The paper's conclusion that "women are more competent overall" doesn't seem very plausible to me. If there was really a significant, consistent boost simply from being female then we'd see software companies that consist mostly of women or which are run by women outcompete opposite companies at least some of the time, and it'd be an effect that'd have been detected before. I'm struggling to think of any examples of this.

Based on my own experience of github and open source, however, the only times I have ever seen women contribute to open source, they were always being paid to do so. I cannot recall a single time that I came across a pull request or even just a regular patch from a hobbyist woman. Not sure why that is, but it has been a constant throughout my career - men do hobby programming and women don't.

Given this difference I'd expect contributions from women to be larger overall, tackling grunge work that volunteers wouldn't want to do, solves some real business problem, and more frequently be code that was tested for a while internally first so is less likely to have quality problems.

The fact that men are also less likely to have pull reqs accepted when their gender is known also seems likely to be a correlation with submitting from personal gmail accounts vs corporate accounts.
Why does FACTA prevent you from moving to Central America?

If you use a local bank account, report it if it exceeds $10k. It isn't necessary to do that, I lived for a years overseas (in countries with similar costs of living to Central America) only using U.S. banks.
I was thinking in terms of language design and tooling. :)

Agree with you.
Yikes, totally missed that bombshell underneath the helpful-vibe phrasing :(

No mention if this applies to lists.
The paper is about GitHub, which has a reputation for the opposite. Can you point out an instance where you think misogyny wasn't called out on GitHub?
Tail Blazer, the log file utility has just got better
That's a really neat way to say "It's alright because everyone is doing it".
I used to be able to create a variety of physiological effects by focusing on them long enough. Especially in terms of heart rate, temperature, or even a mental high. Been out of practice for a long time. I will say that two I really wanted to do nearly on demand were equivalents to caffeine and good sleep. To this day, I can't eliminate the need for or problems following lack of either. ;)
The IDE will always be free for developers. We may add premium services in the future.
As mostly a Windows developer nowadays, many thanks and congratulations.
I'm very excited to try this out. We've built one (very simple) React Native application so far and felt like the build chain could use some improvements.

Do you plan on supporting imports instead of require?
Pretty much what many expected
I know, but why isn't something like this in core? * did function composition a while ago, but it was removed (beats me why) and hasn't been replaced.

Enough Perl6 has left me with <compose>(.) to get ∘ :-)
What your pointing to is a flask deployment not apache2 + mod_wsgi which people use to serve python app on apache2. Two different things.
Sports/games rules are inherently arbitrary. This is like asking why you can move while dribbling but not while just holding the ball in basketball. There is no why. There only is.

Can you move while tossing the ball in the air repeatedly (dribbling against the sky)?

No.

Wait why? It's just like dribbling except upside down.

It's just the rule.

It's just the rule, man. The rules are what define the game. Why can't I start the bishop where the queen is? It's just the rule. Why can't I have an under inflated ball? Just the rule. Why can't I use a cricket bat in soccer? Just the rule.
p.s. Hadn't seen this interview before myself and it is on point and directly addresses the '54 oil deal[1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/n-grR1e6dw8
Sorry: I meant that as a response to the notion that the Soviets made a unique error with the Aral (hence the "don't blame us" stated in the parent) rather than being a common symptom of water diversion worldwide. It was not meant as to be a whataboutism, which is an awesome word for bad moral equivalence. I am so stealing that.
Hmm..., this could very well modify the results. Do they present the numbers when they limit it to only people with google+ accounts or to only people using @gmail as their email address?
Measures that benefit a group of people implicitly hinder all the rest.
Their method of identifying genders is to use a data source of Github user emails and cross reference those with a Google+ account. Then they scrape the Google+ account and attempt and try to automatically determine the gender. Using this method, they are able to identify only 35% of the users involved in these PRs.

I find this suspect, because, anecdotally, I can look almost any author of a PR and determine their gender to a high degree of certainty. Probably well over 90% of the time, just from their name + profile picture + handle. Try it for yourself..look at the latest commits on a random project and see how obvious the genders are most of the time.

So the claim that "when a woman is identifiable, PRs are merged less" is totally suspect, because they themselves can only identify the genders of a small percentage relative to what a normal human can identify. If people can identify the genders way more often and accurately, then the claim being made is bogus. Perhaps there is a correlation of strongly signalling your gender (to the point where an inaccurate method of gender-identification has no problem) to being a below average developer.
In this case, he did delete the tweet soon after.
The amalgamation of gender bias against women is misogyny. People like to wax poetic about the obviously misogynistic boogeymen like roosh or redpillers, but ignoring the reality of the situation -- that misogyny us upheld unwittingly by people that most would consider 'normal' -- doesn't really help anyone. It's like saying that racism is what the Klan does, not what normal people do!
Have you looked at Splunk Cloud? Having used both it and the ELK stack, I can say that Splunk lets you easily do way more with your data than ELK does.

http://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/splunk-enterprise/featu...

http://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/splunk-cloud.html
Not in love with MongoDB, DocumentDB is Azure only. Finally a (great) document database option for me (I work in a .NET shop). Kudos to you guys.

But... but... what's with that C# API? It doesn't look like typical C# at all.
I do go to the gym, but I'm no expert. I was not aware of this. Thank you for posting this.

I guess what I was trying to say is if you were in the middle of a set and someone asked you for help I would be more understanding to the person being asked if they were annoyed about being bothered.

On the other hand you have to go out of your way to be an asshole on stack overflow, and yet it happens all the time. No one is demanding your attention or interrupting your code time to respond to a post on SO, and yet so many know it alls cannot help themselves by taking a swipe at the person posting a question. I just hate that attitude.

Maybe I should spend more time reading questions on SO and posting helpful responses.
I'd like to see vs Go 1.6 released.
Interesting. There has been at least one study about him and his techniques:

Healthy volunteers practicing the learned techniques exhibited profound increases in the release of epinephrine, which in turn led to increased production of anti-inflammatory mediators and subsequent dampening of the proinflammatory cytokine response elicited by intravenous administration of bacterial endotoxin. This study could have important implications for the treatment of a variety of conditions associated with excessive or persistent inflammation, especially autoimmune diseases in which therapies that antagonize proinflammatory cytokines have shown great benefit.

Full paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7379.abstract
I find it odd that the baseline used is after the holiday sales period, in the doldrums of retail.Couldn't the lower price after the holiday season be explained by excess stocks due to insufficient demand relative to forecasts during the holiday season?

I think the fact that toys, a product highly prone to fads and trends, are the main culprit would reinforce such an explanation. It would be nice if they had a baseline both before and after or an even average of multiple non-shopping holiday points, rather than one day.
Subspotting NYC – maps of subway lines with cell service
This is very similar to what Wim Hof (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof) is now verifiably able to do. He's made headlines recently with his ability to control his immune response, which was previously thought impossible.

Tim Ferriss has a pretty interesting interview with him, minor language barrier notwithstanding: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/09/07/the-iceman-wim-hof/
I've seen my housecats do this on hardwood floor.
> Currently, as long as people are online, there's a certain guarantee that they will see it. You don't need to reach out for popularity, because they'll see it anyway.

In my experience, as someone who follows a bunch of people but rarely tweets, this is wrong--at least for me.

When I'm online I usually scroll past a bunch of tweets without reading. There are certain accounts I know are noisy, and I just scan the engagement numbers to see which tweets are worth looking at.

Why do I do this? Because Twitter puts all the tweets in my feed. So to find the good stuff, I have to filter at high speed.

Often what I end up valuing, I find after the fact. It works like this--someone posts a great tweet. Over the next x hours, a bunch of other people reply, RT, MT, or quote tweet it. The original poster retweets some of those. I see that retweet. Now, to get the context, I need to do a bit of hunting to find the original tweet. My feeling is, well, maybe software could do that hunting for me.
I would tend to agree with you. When you use public data you get all the implied imperfections of public data. You can make some vague inferences but since the controls aren't in laboratory conditions the potential for biased results is too high.

If they showed individuals with already high acceptance rates received lower acceptance rates on the same code when submitted from a gender identifiable account then I'd find it to be more compelling.
Not the best feedback but not sure it's downvote-worthy
Terrestrial Photoshoot SDK for iOS Localization
Porting SSA Detailed Calculator to Xcode/Intel: Intro
Does it make any sense from licensing point of view to host database on windows if there is a Linux version available? As far as I understand each user hitting that database directly or indirectly via an app needs a CAL for that Windows Server. Outside of an enterprise (ie. Cloud) it gets veery expensive quickly.

Enterprises embraced Linux long ago so not sure if rethinkdb will have much ROI on this effort.
I think the proper idiom is "pouring gasoline on the fire". Especially considering the authors say they intentionally cut the analysis "to keep it crisp" when the analysis actually disagreed with the spirit of the abstract.
We're all humans, and we're all responsible for the Earth.
The performance cost is crazy when format string is parsed at runtime.

Implementing all that subtle functionality correctly takes up a lot of CPU time.

According to my quick test, on Visual Studio 2012, even simplest sprintf with just one parameter seemed to take about 1 microsecond to execute.

Of course clang and gcc seem to sometimes compile whole format parser away. At least...

printf ("Hello World!\n");

... is optimized into a simple "puts("Hello World!");".

Of course iostream << operator runtime performance is also pretty horrible. Each << invocation seem to call streambuf::sputn (or sputc) separately. On VS2012, simplest stringstream test...

ss << "value: " << intVal << endl;

... outputting one variable into it and turning the result into a std::string took about 3 microseconds. (Although it was a very quick test, a number of things might be suboptimal in the test code.)
For _you_ the unknown future may be exciting, but as a customer it isn't. I'm trusting you with a critical part of my infrastructure and betting that you're the future of logging. If I'm going to make that bet, I have to believe that you have a clear vision and that I'm on board with that.

Obviously internally (as a fellow founder), things are always crazy and you adapt and grow. But your customers need more than the faith that you'll figure it out as you go.
The majority of people that I've read about who are complaining about the situation are not complaining about having to pay taxes, because they don't have to pay taxes. I don't have to pay taxes to the US because I don't make enough in Sweden.

But I do have to spent the time and money to have someone to fill out the forms.

I also have to worry that my bank might decide to cut me off, because they also have to "fill out forms", that is they also have "expensive reporting requirements". Even if you paid no taxes and had no problems with the tax treaty, you still might not be able to get a bank account in Singapore.

Yes, there are a lot of people who also don't like the taxes. It's an important point. But not the primary point, which is the expensive reporting requirements for both American citizens and banks which do business in the US and which have American citizens as clients.
There are natural ingredients that help with bacteria on scalp which usually causes odor and dandruff, but we haven't included them (yet) since they are considered an OTC drug. We have included essential oils in our formulas that may help, but the claims are not allowed to be made according to the FDA.
Nasa's earth observatory has good very high res images/ some analysis of the lake Poopó , with and without water.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=...

they have some images hand shot from the space station too (2005 lower res):

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6494

"Water levels in Lake Poopó are important because the lake is one of South America’s largest salt-water lakes, making it a prime stop for migratory birds, including flamingoes. "

There has been a drought in the Western US too. Snowpack in sierra nevada.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85632

I really like the earth observatory.
I am wondering if the data had been the reverse would they have ever made that claim, or would the difference had been explained as the result of some other process?
I am not defending Lance here, I have no opinion on athletes in general.

But you are missing the point: their point of view becomes quite reasonable when you are considering naturally occurring differences like oxygen levels or what not.
It might even be more accurate to say that google works like academic "weight" -- it's my understanding that PageRank was originally intended to rank research papers.
What exactly constitutes the Deco package registry?

Will I need to submit my React Native libraries to a new registry? Or are you working with something like http://js.coach (formerly react.parts)?
I guess what I was trying to say is if you were in the middle of a set and someone asked you for help I would be more understanding to the person being asked if they were annoyed about being bothered.

Fair enough. There is an etiquette to things at the gym as well, and it may take a while to pick up on some of that stuff. Which is, I guess, the same as the Internet in some ways.
I randomly lie about my gender, age, and anything that could be used to identify me. I learned this from others, and have also encourage my spouse/children/etc. to do the same (which they seem to do).

There is no compelling reason for me to provide any real information about myself online.
>Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

If gender isn't identifiable, why is it surprising at all that women have a higher acceptance rate? This is really annoying me, anyone else notice this?
Does phoenix's / elixir channels compare with this well?
Announcing Ionic Framework 2 Beta
I guess it depends on how you look at it. When I see phrases like "boy's club" (not in this paper), it implies to me that there's a group of men who work (consciously or unconsciously) to keep women out. I'm aware that it's not at all an uncommon finding that women are pretty hard on other women, yet I think that receives very little play in the popular media.

Perhaps I do take it too personally - I do my very best to be fair and reasonable with all my fellows, whatever their various deviations (or not) from the industry norm might be. It's upsetting to me to be tarred with this guilt-by-association. I find it particularly disheartening in the venue of OSS: I've always viewed it as a truly fantastic collective charitable effort, yet lately it seems to be getting depicted more and more as some kind of refuge for white men to exclude everyone else.
We automatically detect common formats using regex during ingestion. Many are based on logstash patterns and we have several of our own (including one that just tries to strip out timestamp + log level). If you use a common format, we can usually add it. If you have a custom format that your app defines, we don't have a way for you to add it yet but it'll likely be a regex as you said. (We can always help you create it if you don't want to).
If I were you, I would put a little emphasis on the security of your service. Logs can definitely contain sensitive data and companies rely on you to store that data in a "proper" way.

At least, as a possible customer, that is one of my biggest concern.

But maybe I'm just too focused on security given that our clients ask us about it pretty much every day. So as a possible vendor (for us or other SaaS businesses) and being part of our chain of trust, I'd expect some words on how you handle security and how much it is important for you. That is lacking on the website if I'm correct.

Anyway, congrats on the service! I think that there is room for LogDNA in the logging-warehousing market
Using Python for High-Performance Frameworks
I disagree. I worked in a few different government departments that depended on funding.

We always had a surplus at the end of the year and the boss would tell us to spend it on anything and everything because if we didn't, there would be less money in funding the next year.

The amount of waste was incredible and it made me angry. It's why I went into the private sector/started my own company.

You also almost could never get fired. We had so many bad employees that basically sat to get a paycheck and take up space. If you are really lazy, it's great.

Because of this game that is played, it's very difficult to tell if a department 'ran out of money' or just spent it to meet next year's budget.
Vault 0.5 released with keybase.io support
This is old, I willing to bet Elixir and Pheonix are better then Go now. It isn't all about performance though. I find Elixir easier to read and maintain over Go as well.
My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”
Absolutely! Everyone has their own preferred style for the new ES6 syntax, and we want to support it all.
The fact that this was reported by "Starman" was enough for me to question its veracity. That is one tall book, written in a conspiratorial tone, telling Soviet tales with no questioning or radar for right and wrong. It is impossible to trust right from the preface.
If you need to copy big strings, memcpy is worth checking out, too.
Unlocking the Motorola Bootloader with a TrustZone Exploit
HTC Sense 6 browser still implements it pretty well. I still use it despite it being somewhat slow and annoying in other ways, because at least I can read with it.
Ex-Googler Jeff Huber Named CEO of Medical Firm Grail
I think we should be very careful how we choose to interpret the results here. There are a lot of unknowns and variables presented in the paper (how they're determining gender, for example.)

I'm not sure there's enough data here to create an understanding about the relationship between merge rate and gender. Various external issues could be the cause of the difference (I don't believe either gender is more capable) - for example (not sure if this is true, but it portrays how these stats could be skewed): In India, there's a higher incentive to be recognized in the community because competition is stiffer, so more people submit PRs. In this case, people who generally wouldn't submit a PR because of their lack of expertise are now submitting PRs on the chance that it may get accepted. The result is a greater number of PRs with lower quality.

These are the effects of having a global community. There are so many external factors I don't really think we can determine much of anything from these results. It's an interesting analysis regardless though.
I work in a big company (20k+ employees) and we are MS from top to bottom relying as least as possible on the cloud.
That's the real problem with the IRS. I've made mistakes on my taxes before and got a "Oops, you owe us $2000 more, pay by XXX to avoid interest and penalties" from the CRA. The IRS jumps straight to large fines and penalties, especially for ex-pats.
Driving Uber; its pretty predictable that wealthier people are less likely to rate you well.
This is awesome. Combined with Chrome Developer Tools' "Copy request as cURL" feature, you can reverse engineer some service and turn it into Go code so easily.