skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I've found the "what I've tried that didn't work" section to be useful quite often when I land on SO from a google search. Sometimes the questioner lists something that I didn't think of that does work for my specific problem, or it's what makes me realize that the answer given won't actually apply to my problem before I waste a bunch of time on it. Sometimes it's the only part that actually matches what I searched for, so I wouldn't have even found the question with a useful answer without it.
Shit is shit wherever shit may be.

I think the linked photo is a clear example of the spirit of the euphemism.
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Here is something I want: Marc Andreessen wrote something about colonialism and India last night, and today he apologized for it. I didn't see the original tweet so how about using all the Twitter data scientists to help me figure out context? Assuming that he didn't delete it already.

I guess what I want is when someone subtweets, to have a link to the tweet it's subtweeting about. Twitter's website is a functional mess and having to scroll timelines for context is a huge time sink.
I should take notes. My city is dirty and I am ashamed.
it looks like the criteria for determining gender is to pull it from a google+ profile that shares an email address with the github account, and is not using any information from the github profile.

It seems likely to me that the bias here is gmail users versus non-gmail (corporate domain?) users.
This is only if you are self-employed or a small business owner, correct? If you are an American living abroad and working for a company does FBAR apply to you?
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See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11075110

In short, you can do that. But in real life, you typically won't get the data. That's why police and prosecutor bust down your door instead of mailing you a subpoena asking you to bring incriminating evidence to the police station.
There is a distinction made by those sold and fulfilled by Amazon.com vs sellers on Amazon. Both have inflated prices.
The first game was designed so that cheating was impossible.
The main reason we emphasized storage is because we built it with scaling that in mind, that's all. We've also built it with live tail in mind too. It's an okay differentiator since we believe we can handle the volume with our infrastructure. We also followed up with UI/UX which at the end of the day should make us a platform you can goto, get what you need and go back to work.

Give us a try, even if you don't think you'll use the GBs. We have alerting, field parsing and live tail. Analytics is the only piece we don't have today, but we're working towards it.
This is exactly the sweet spot we're focusing on at Scalyr: quick, easy, and powerful parsing, analyzing, and alerting on unstructured logs, including realtime alerts and live tail. We have customers who are infinitely happier after migrating from Sumo Logic.

Congratulations to the LogDNA team on the launch. There are a lot of use cases in this field and it could use some more shaking up.

(Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Scalyr.)
My opinion on the paper is that the abstract doesn't reflect adequately the content of the paper.

The last assertion, that the "results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless" seems to indicate that the paper results didn't confirmed the desired hypothesis but that there was need to highlight any incidence of gender bias anyway.

The conclusion that there is gender bias on the acceptance of pull requests by women while outsiders (as opposed on women as insiders or men in general) seems to be excessive sub-categorization in order to find a supporting result as the hypothesis doesn't hold for women as whole nor for the subcategory of identifiable women.

It is a very good result, demonstrating that, at least for something so unrelated to the average workplace as Github repositories can be (being in general remote, voluntary and more likely than not to liberal in tendencies due to the FLOSS philosophy), that an useful line of code is an useful line of code, regardless of who wrote it.
> Women’s acceptance rates are 71.8% when
they use gender neutral profiles, but drop to 62.5% when their gender is identifiable

What is also true from the graphs, but the author does not emphasize is this: Men's acceptance rates are 69%, but drop to 64% when the gender is identifiable.

This is taken from figure 5. So in general, it seems the acceptance rate drops in both cases, as soon as the gender is identifyable. I do wonder why this is? The two just don't add up. It seems that the type of PRs that the authors have maanged to have the gender identified, simply have much lower acceptance rates.
Cool story, bro. Cryonics as it currently exists being profitable is 1) irrelevant to whether it works or not, and 2) a persistent myth.
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We came up with it b/c we did the same thing – spend hours researching and asking friends (who were experts in a specific field) to find the right product.

We want Suto to be that friend you have that just know about all the best products in the world.
Be careful implying causation here. We would want to investigate who identifies themselves as any sex vs who remains unidentified (or less obviously identified) and the skill levels represented in each group. Since GitHub does not request your gender for your profile, they used Google+ profiles, which I think would significantly slew the results; they did not sample from all pull requests, but from those that were linked to a G+ account AND whose owners decided to post their gender.

> 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. 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.
Crony capitalism at its best. JP Morgan makes bets on central bankers moving lower, then publishes a study saying that they could. If they can shift opinion, then their bets just paid off.

Better yet if cronies of theirs in central banks buy the reasoning, the banks are likely to actually move lower, making for an even larger transfer of real wealth to the financial sector. Thereby paying off JP Morgan's bets even more AND giving it a shot at more free money from central bankers trying to "improve the economy".

The result is a very large wealth transfer to the financial sector. Who will then say that they, "deserve it for being so smart." And then try to figure out how to top what they did the last time.
Honestly, I think there's no hope.

No one running for any office cares one bit about Americans overseas.

It's very easy to get support for 'sticking it to those tax dodgers overseas' and very hard to get people to care about the tax situation of people they don't know and feel they can't relate to.
You can find a G+ profile for anyone by searching an email in your Gmail search. Unsure if that's the route they'd taken.
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This is one of those databases I wanted to eventually arrive on Windows, I really enjoyed the look of it and wanted to try it out, and although I have used from time to time Linux as my main OS I just don't feel comfortable using a database I can't run on multiple platforms, it seems like a barrier not being able to use it locally from Windows, although Vagrant and vagrant boxes like Scotch Box are making this "issue" a little less relevant these days, it's still nice to be able to run a database without installing an entire OS. Thanks for the work and time invested in bringing Rethink into Windows, it is truly appreciated.
I am not making the point that he didn't literally say what people are choosing to assume he meant. I am making the point that the assumption people are making about what he meant is wildly unfounded, and is mainly useful for justifying their already-held opinions about him.

And I am making the point that employing this misinterpretation to criticize him undermines the important, substantive reasons to criticize him.

(It is somewhat ironic that you make your point by rewriting my words in a way that significantly changes their tone, and likely changes how readers would interpret them.)
I second lists. I can view lists easily with TweetDeck, but organizing lists is a chore. How about themed lists & channels based on category? Make a channel called Fashion or a channel called Movies and it would more or less operate like a subreddit with moderators. I think it would be more engaging.

There's too much self managing and noise right now with Twitter. I pretty much have to have a separate account in order to efficiently dive into the different networks.

Let me give two use cases.

Say there's a basketball player and he tweets another basketball player and as a user it's fun to retweet/share/follow these conversations.

Then let's say I'm also into indie games and this one indie developer tweets a sneak peek to a new release, and some game blogger talks about it. As a user, again, it's fun to retweet/share/follow this.

I can't easily do this. Content is slapped together in a shitty form of lists and I continue to miss important things and I get jealous of other people's serendipitous luck in enjoying these conversations I would love to be a part of.

If Twitter can figure this out, they would do well.
I can't say I much care. "Loyalty" should not even come into the conversation when talking about work.
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> I have not seen any legal authority for the defense getting a search warrant.

I wouldn't expect so, since I proposed creating statutory authority for them as a solution to the problem you described that would seem to be well within the parameters of the Constitution, so that we don't have to sacrifice protection against warrantless searches and seizures by government in order to preserve the rights of defendants to secure evidence for their defense.

I'm quite aware that defense-initiated warrants are not an existing thing.
His criticism bad (as ever), since he assumes all information needed for nervous system function is the same as all information needed to replicate a given nervous system. Most of the information needed for function in any system is generic across similar systems. We are only interested in the information that is specific to the individual.
Intel disabled TSX on all Haswell and some early Broadwell parts (not just i3 processors!) because it was irreparably broken:

http://techreport.com/news/26911/errata-prompts-intel-to-dis...

Really can't blame them for that one. Disabling a feature that causes frequent CPU lockups when used is a good thing.
In the face of overwhelming condemnation, that might be what he now says he initially "meant." But I don't see any particular reason to believe him. He knows he's backed himself into a corner and desperately trying to spin himself out of it. But even so, that very statement you quoted (and which marca said "Exactly") to:

@pmarca referred to the post-colonial anti-colonial mix of nationalism, socialism, abuse/power that afflicted many ex-colonies

is itself pretty obtuse -- it's basically saying that post-colonial societies like India still haven't quite "grown up" yet, and don't really know what's best for them. Hence, their rejection of the wondrous gift to humanity that is Free Basics.
Its unbelievable that they tried to bury that.
Its something that is useful for me to know.
When I was at the consulate looking at prices they had posted on the wall, they charged you that same amount if you wanted any evidence of your citizenship renunciation... So in total more than $5k.

Also from what I remember you are still required to file and pay taxes for five years after you renounce your citizenship...
Great post overall.

A few nits I'd pick. Even though 70% of the fleet could burn 94UL, that represents well under half of the gallons burned. Turbocharged engines (often in twin engine airplanes) fly far more hours than the average 7.5:1 compression piston single. Yes, flight school aircraft on the low end fly a lot, but most piston singles average under 75 hours per year and often at 8-9 gph. Turbo singles, IO550s (Cirrus and Bonanza), and turbo or IO550 twins are typically burning 1.5x that per engine and flying 2-3x the hours.

I think most of the engines that can't be easily modified to run on 94UL are concentrated on the expensive end of the fleet. Most 182s/172s/Cherokees/G-cats, etc can either already run today under the Petersen STC or could be easily modified. It's the Bonanza, Cirrus, Golden Eagle, P-Navajo, etc that need 100LL (or GAMI or similar) and can't run on 94UL. Those tend to be way more expensive than the lower end of the fleet.
This says so much about the dangers of winner-take-all economics.
Colonialism was one factor. It is not clear how India would have imbibed and benefited from the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution in the absence of British presence in the subcontinent. Just a reminder that British presence started in the very late 18th century, but their true hegemony was for 90 years, between 1857 and 1947. Japan had American presence, but no hegemony and is a good counterpoint to those who claim that colonialism has benefits. A few things to note: without the British, there may never have been a coherent whole of "India" as we know today. Counterfactuals are hard, but it is hard to assume that there would necessarily have been an Indian Bismarck or Garibaldi had there been no British hegemony. Different regions and kingdoms in India would have developed differently. You would have had a few Japans, notably in the South, West coast, Northeast, and parts of the Gangetic heartland: regions which were always wealthy and/or politically stable.

Whether the economy would have declined less in the absence of colonialism is really impossible to answer. But to cite colonialism as the only reason is wrong, especially since the decline coincides roughly with the scientific and industrial revolutions that occurred in Western Europe and later, America.
"Office "cultures" that involve inane things like alcoholic drinks, free boutique meals, or dog-friendliness have absolutely nothing to do with getting work done."

Lots of things have nothing to do with getting work done. It's because we're not robots; we're people.

Seriously, if you're that upset with the "fringe benefits", then DON'T WORK THERE. There are lots of places to work that don't have any of these.
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The same conclusion for men, using the same data set (figure 5) is this: Men's acceptance rates are 69%, but drop to 64% when the gender is identifiable.

So to summarize the two: The overall acceptance rate drops from ~70% to ~63.5% when the gender is identifyable. Very interesting.
Kitty parties are a huge thing for women :) It's a women-only kind of thing, mainly. Quite popular in India too (probably inherited from British colonial times), at least among the married women crowd. To try to describe it, I'd say that for women, it is something like "girling out", similar to geeking out or such terms. Meaning doing something you like, possibly intensively (along with others).
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You're absolutely right. This is the result of effective marketing. We're told "buy on these days, you'll get the best value" while the exact opposite is true, yet very few seem to take the time to work it out.

However I do still believe some level on consumer protection is necessary. I do not think we ought to let the less-savvy be taken advantage simply because someone is smarter than them. Where to draw that line? That's always in flux.
It doesn't serve the narrative
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After being a consumer of hn for a long time now (different account), I have come to value the community here for their advice and opinion. It is certainly higher brow than some other comment based news sites ;)

We would love to hear suggestions, critiques, ideas or any feedback you want to give us!

The ad was produced with a little under $100 and was the result of a couple of different fiverr providers. There is a lot of talent to be dug out of that site!

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Oh, there's no doubting that ;)
I apologize for my auto-correct.

If you're advocating for a whole new instruction set, good luck with that. May as well go outside and yell at the clouds.
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I don't think Affinity Designer supports things like a path with, for example, three or more edges connecting to the same node.
Maybe, when you reveal things about yourself, people are more likely to find things they dislike about you. Having a recognizable gender on github would often include things like: a picture (your face is ugly!), your name (your ethnicity sucks!), your country (your country sucks!), your place of work (your company sucks!) and maybe your side project blog (your side projects are stupid!).
Anti-sexist reactions are very rare compared to instances of sexist behavior in my experience. If anti-sexist behavior was as rampant and casual as sexist behavior, those kind of blowups wouldn't happen.
When you're contributing to a project, performance is only one important thing. It also matters whether you are furthering the goals of the project, communicating well with the other members, and even if you have the social skills to lead a project.
Not to mention things like logging and metrics overhead if you're logging every request at multiple levels (application, NGINX, HAProxy).
In my experience, the "open layout" is more likely to be near windows than the offices are.
> This is awful - I think it would be good to have some discussion around what we can do as a community to improve this?

I don't agree that the result is as strong as "awful" indicate because the paper concludes that

> Women had higher acceptance of pull request than men

> Identifiable women had higher acceptance of pull request than men

> Insider identifiable women had higher acceptance of pull request than men

> Both outsider identifiable women and outsider identifiable men had lower acceptance rates than their insider counterparts

The study proposes the existence of gender bias because, in this last point, the drop for women was higher than the drop for men, regardless of all the other instances where the opposite was true.

I don't believe the study is representative for the whole industry at all (GitHub being mainly remote, voluntary and due to the FLOSS philosophy mostly liberal) but this seems to be one to be celebrated because of the positive conclusion it showed for women.
Lake Poopo, eh? Did it get flushed?
Most of the even-half-informed criticism I see is about systems for gender bias, and specifically acknowledges that people regardless of gender who have been brought up in a world with biases have internalized those biases.

As a man in technology, I can't say I've ever felt personally attacked for gender bias.
That's a good idea. But had you thought of making it on any topics at all, or for some domain?
A good start is to stop calling things misogyny just because you're bad at reading statistics.
I didn't feel offended; it's my job (I'm a moderator here) to ask people to stay civil.

I'd probably find it insulting too if someone acted like a little girl was making death threats when in reality it was they who didn't understand her/my language. But the comment never said that. I read it that the girl was trying to protect him, and the phrase in broken Spanish was what he heard—which of course would be in broken Spanish, since he doesn't speak the language. In other words, the comment was honoring the little girl, not insulting her.
Conflating gender bias and misogyny is wrong. Gender bias is wrong, but people could have unconscious gender bias, which they need to work on and correct.

However, to call them misogynists is completely wrong and unhelpful and will only cause them to dismiss anything further. Misogyny is when men truly think women are beneath them, like that men's group that recently wanted to legalize rape.

For example, recently someone came into a chat room and announced "Hello gents". I immediately corrected him with "You mean "ladies and gents"" and he apologized profusely. This is unconscious gender bias, it's not misogyny.

Call gender bias what it is, gender bias, but don't overreact and call it misogyny when it's not. There are true misogynists out there, and to put those two people in the same camp is wrong and unhelpful and will only drive people away.
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I doubt this is a performance issue, because it's the same pattern Phoenix uses to respond to an html request. Phoenix is very fast despite passing the much larger Plug.Conn struct through a much larger number of functions that similarly update one thing and return a new copy.

I'd also be curious to know what happens with GC behind the scenes for this pattern to be so performant - I don't know anything about that part.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TALKING ON HACKER NEWS WHEN YOU SHOULD BE WORKING ON PRODUCT AND TALKING TO CUSTOMERS?
But they have penises. You know who else had a penis? Hitler.
What makes you think that removing "backwards compatibility with the 8086" would make "proprietary microcode" unnecessary?