skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite nice answer. - Googled for some background and stumbled upon the following:

[Danilo Campos, has been known to tweet similarly strong views about diversity. Campos joined in August]:
"don't think we'll succeed teaching white, male middle managers empathie and compassion anytime soon so let's limit their scope of damage"

Such a rubbish. I think GitHub has their priorities / focus wrong. - Glad I'm using Gitlab.
Just because you call a tax an insurance fund or a pogostick, does not mean it's somehow not a tax. Government collects money from X, and hands it out to Y that's a tax.
I think the true effect is that female coders get discouraged and are weeded out at a much higher rate than males, combined with the independent effect that poor coders get discouraged and weeded out at a higher rate than good coders.

When you combine these two independent effects, you end up with the female coders that remain are better coders than the men that remain.
I think it's more generally "what you can't see doesn't exist".

If there is a dodgy-looking guy staring at you when you go home, you get frightened. If he watching you through the CCTV then it's all fine. A bit like if you have a video of a guy getting killed on youtube it's horrible, but if it's a one liner in a newspaper about a drone bombing a house then it's ok. If there is a video of a guy killing someone with a knife in the street of London, it will be remembered for years as a horrendous terrorist attack. But if the police publishes statistics about knife attacks in your neighborhood then it's just a bunch of boring numbers.
To be fair, she did say "no more games."

She's sending mixed signals, which is human. Unfortunately, the author weighted the two disproportionally.
Maybe people are just frustrated with what corporate America has to offer with regards to employment opportunities. At some point the burdens of being an employee in a corporate environment exceed the point where it is advantageous to run your own business or be a freelancer.
From the link I didn't understand why hardware didn't do check-sum checking. Or in fact it does and only if one using a) veth and b) nic without hardware check-summing is affected?
The people who dogfood Github, by using it every day, know how to get around places.

The people who is it once every week or two, like me, get lost each time. It's always a hunt when I want to figure out how to do something, even if I know I've done it before.
>I believe bullies target what is different.

Fully agree. I think the problem is how people react to different differences. Kid who has clear physical disability getting bullied is seen immediately as a problem and dealt with.* Special education children getting bullied aren't quite as well responded to (lots of justification by adults that the children are treating them differently because society treats them differently), but any overt bullying is still squished. But being bullied for being different in just social skills but not other means... many adults will look at the bullying as a natural reaction to the victim being socially awkward instead of as bullying. And there is a bit of truth in that, because the difference between ostracizing someone who is socially awkward because you just don't want to be around them and ostracizing someone who is socially awkward as a way to bully them is not that clear cut. At the end of the day, the kid ends up ostracized either way.

*If they recognize it. Many forms of treating someone differently are hard to recognize if you haven't experienced them. A classical example is people asking extra questions to gay people that they would never ask to straight people, even though the questions themselves are mostly benign. Regardless of how harmless the questions themselves are, it is still treating them differently, which has subconscious effects.
I'm currently in a group matched by the service and its working fine for me.

There was a significant delay between signing up and being matched but i am fairly certain that was due to massive demand when it first opened.

The others in my group had no such delay.

If you know other people who might be interested in doing a mastermind group with you it might be better to group with people you know.

In my case it was worth it to use the service, YMMV

Edit: dammit, double spacing
I think he's talking about "assault weapon" bans. I don't think whether or not a rifle has a pistol grip is going to b the determining factor in preventing a mass shooting.
Maybe build in some system for followers to sponsor the accounts they like.
You should also be able to switch to digest emails from GitHub. Do they support that?
> You have one variable which stands for p (distributed according to some prior, like a Beta distribution perhaps)

This prior sounds like the A_p distribution.

The point is it's a distribution, not a number. You can't just say "I think the probability of seeing heads is p". But if you say "I think the probability of seeing heads is distributed like this, which has a mean of p", then that captures everything you need to know about the coin to update your expectations when you see the results.

(In case it was unclear, A_p isn't a specific shape of distribution, or class of shapes of distributions, like beta or gaussian. It's a distribution over hypothesis-space, where the hypotheses are probabilities, and can have any valid distribution shape.)
Yeah.. it is a subtle difference between

zpool create home mirror a b c d cache e

and

zpool create home mirror a b mirror c d cache e
An anecdote:

The gifted program at my school was genuinely fun and interesting. They spent the year on a theme, say astronomy, and explored that theme through a variety of projects. For example, they designed a game about space travel, they built a model of the solar system, etc.

I was not in it until the 6th grade, the last year before "gifted" meant "do more homework" in my school system. I got in because the previous year I built a fairly impressive lego castle for my entry project and maybe they thought that because they were doing architecture as the theme that I would do well. I really did enjoy it and looked forward to it every week.

But I was not, and am not, an exceptionally hard worker or particularly motivated to excel. I probably have an above average memory and was thus able to do well in school despite my laziness (I graduated high school with a 3.3 GPA). Even if I was "gifted", you wouldn't know it from my work. But given the opportunity to engage in something, I took that chance and looked forward to it.

I'm not sure that this addresses the children in the article, but I feel it's sort of a pity that the weekly "explore your interests" classes are no longer part of the gifted program in my child's school district. Not because she's necessarily gifted, but because I think she'd find it fun.
When Mummies Were the Life of the Party (2015)
This is a great development experience for distributed software. I'm really looking forward to Ubuntu 16.10 -- a lot of things seem to be coming together there.
> The chauvinism in this comment is insane. Women aren't points on a scoreboard

This commenter, the type that is OUTRAGED by speech that hasn't been mangled to be politically correct, is responsible for muffling open and honest communication among people. Specific to this example, there is nothing wrong with the OP's use of scoring - the outraged expressed by the commenter above is basically trolling for a response by feigning outrage.
Obviously my comment only refers to the part of the article talking about the better grading of female coders, not the part about the bias.
Since the Great Recession, employers have gotten away with this because they could. That may be about to change...
A behavioral health diagnosis doesn't mean you're damaged or disabled or even that you're a special snowflake that needs special accommodations.

A behavioral health diagnosis, just like any health diagnosis, just recognizes that you have some thing that is negatively impacting you.

Just as the diagnosis of an ingrown toenail doesn't mean you need special treatment, neither does a mental health diagnosis.
Happily for me, I don't have depression (at least, I think I don't).

But when I was a kid, the school begged my parents many times to take me to some kind of doctor, and this only offended my parents, that always refused, the exception is that they once too me to see if I was deaf or not.

After I reached adulthood, and flunked hard at life in general, that I went to seek medical help.

The results were:

1) the first few medics I went, believed I was a junkie wanting fake prescription, I have no idea why (I never used any illegal substance, never had used controlled meds before, and never got drunk, and never smoked).

2) My parents had a few nasty fights with me, claiming that I was normal and only doing what I was doing to hurt them or something.

3) As I went learning about my conditions, and started to be open about it, people instead started to interpret that I wanted pity and attention, or that I was humblebragging, and had invariably negative reactions.

4) Eventually I found a good medic, that prescribed me Ritalin, it is helping a little, but very little.

Among my issues is that I never learned how to work "hard", I only work in bursts, and only when I am interested or close to a deadline, school was extremely easy to me, I don't even know my teacher faces of the last school years because I just slept in the classes (and still aced the tests), I never learned to sit down quiet and study, this is now biting me in the ass (I don't had Calculus classes on university, and now that I need it I am trying to learn by myself, but I keep getting distracted...)

I never learned hwo to pretend that I am working, like people do in their workplaces, even when I was the highest performing person in the workplace I still got fired because I was not "serious" or I wasn't "wearing the company shirt", because while all my co-workers just sat staring at their code 8 hours, I coded all that I had to code in 1 hour and then spent the rest goofing around on youtube and reddit.

When I DO want to code 8 hours, I still end goofing around too easily (example: Xcode crashes... while I wait for it to launch I decide to read e-mail, one e-mail has a link to wikipedia... and here we go wasting 4 hours reading wikipedia).

Plus lots of other issues irrelevant to work performance (like needing stuff cut-off from t-shirts, moving all the time to the point of losing a girlfriend over it, puking when eating certain foods, inability to communicate with "normal" people, because no matter what phrase I construct, it keeps getting way over their heads, and the list goooooes on).

The best I found I can do is rant on internet sometimes.

And keep taking Ritalin properly, and going to the psychologist... still very slow progress, I am 28, live with my parents, have no girlfriend, I am unemployed, and don't own any property (but have debts, my total net worth is negative).
>To me, there seems to be a pretty obvious public policy response. Institute a very high property tax, which is abated on some kind of curve according to the amount of time the owner or tenants spend living in a property, with no tax being due if the property is legitimately occupied for more than, say, ten months.

This punishes newcomers and rewards staying in the same property, just like California Prop 13. Have a kid and need a new place with more space? Prepare to pay punishing property taxes for that luxury. You grew up in the area and it's time to move out? Enjoy your tax! Moving from the countryside for better employment opportunities? Tax please!

Because of the strong disincentive to move, there's now going to be fewer units on the market than would otherwise be expected. House prices go up, not down, and the moving tax is likely to be regressive.

>It might not solve the problem entirely, but at least you would reduce the effect of a diminution of housing supply that is driven by these kinds of absentee owners, and that must be driving up rents, at least.

In this case it will exacerbate it, just like Prop 13. It's really a moving tax disguised as a property tax.

There is, however, a tax that will punish absentee owners but also not create distortions: a land value tax.

It's similar to a normal property tax, except it's on the value of the land only, not land and improvements or improvements only. A single family home on a particular lot is taxed the same as a skyscraper or an empty lot sitting on that same lot.

This punishes land speculators and NIMBY types, cannot be passed on in rent (normally taxes decrease the supply somewhat, so some of the tax can be passed on, but land is fixed in value and a tax cannot reduce its supply), and does not punish building like a standard property tax does. It allows cities to capture value from infrastructure improvements, such as running a new transit line.

The practical concerns are similar to a standard property tax: how do we do assessments? The great thing about it is that land is easier to compare than buildings are.
The Daily Mail (and The Sun for that matter) know the profits come from customers who are least likely to use the internet. That's why the Daily Mail differs so much between the internet and newspaper versions.
This title is very misleading. Flirting connotes a two way interaction. In fact, it isn't flirting until a romantic advance is reciprocated either explicitly or implicitly. This is just hitting on someone.
The known bad is hundreds of thousands of people dying every year. It's pretty hard to conceive of how a laboratory tested solution which kills/slows down mosquitoes could be any worse than that, particularly when all sorts of genetic modifications are occurring by the billions in nature every single day without any testing/verification.

You know what would turn around everyone's attitude in about 7 days flat (probably fewer) - have those hundreds of thousands of people dying a year be white, rich, Americans. Every conceivable solution to wipe out the mosquitos would be developed, and rolled out with zero debate (and I mean zero - there wouldn't be a single naysayer of any merit)
HN has 300k daily uniques. If you filter down to 99th percentile, and again the half of the student population that has a shitty time through school, the article is going to be seen by something like 6000 people that fit the bill. Given that approximately 1% of the viewership will actually post comments, and you should expect to get sixty people who are willing to talk and have relevant experiences to share.

Note that this should be an underestimation - HN filters for the tech crowd, and by proxy, for IQ. Anyhow, my point is that you get less of the woodwork effect than my priors for how many relevant people would want to comment about it. My theory is that they've been traumatized into not talking about their experience as a gifted child, along with a side of imposter syndrome. And you're making that problem worse for that demographic. Congratulations.
I call it The Child and Child. It seems to be doing fine.
Seriously, though: What’s so great about monogamy?
>> Why wouldn't one just call and avoid all this nonsense?

Because it is easier to come up with dozens of arguments for texting than having the balls to ask someone out on the phone.

>> This approach has the added benefit of distinguishing yourself from your texting, cowardly competitors.

True words.
> 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?

I'm fine with that, so long as the corporate tax side of the equation balances...companies use dividends to reduce their income and the taxes they pay. If a dividend is just splitting an asset in two, it shouldn't be deductible.
A good example of no control is addiction. A person can do something that they're addictied to, while their rational brain is yelling "no! no! no!" at the same time, perhaps even vocalizing it, but you still perform the addictive action. The more clever individuals may overcome this by planning their defense way ahead, e.g. by completely changing their environment or using other tricks to manipulate their more automatic brain parts. However most people seem to need external help with overcoming addiction, even if they're aware of the problem and want to solve it.
Income is income, Adjustment is where the lie comes from.

Sure, you can pretend it's meaningful number, but ex: charitable donations are not deductible from payroll taxes so they are clearly not going to reduce income. Or for a more obvious example, donate 1 million in appreciated and you get to deduct the full 1 million from income. (see if you can spot the problem with that.)

PS: Hypothetically, if they said AGI was income - 95% of income over 10 million per year would you still use it? After all that's just an adjustment.
Have they come to a conclusion on the number of days in a week yet?
This seems like a strange and arguably poor decision. One would think it would be in their interest to wait until HTTP/2 had a foothold or at least until servers with support for it were included with common server OSs. I can install nginx without Yum, but I'd rather not.

I think this shows their true colors in a sense. Chrome and SPDY exist purely to save Google bandwidth. They don't care about everyone else.
Chrooting Nginx, php-fpm and mysql using Bitnami
I'm not even sure people differentiate between their banks and the company behind the type of card itself, to them it's just "a credit card".
Rehash of this previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074587

The drop in pull request acceptance from gender-neutral to gendered is worse for men than for women. (Figure 5) Anyone can cherry-pick parts of that preprint to support their argument.
UTorrent now lets you remove ads for $5 per year
Adverse possession is one mechanism to seize property from absentee owners that is already on the books.
#1 on Product Hunt (600+ Votes) with a Badly Designed Product (& No Planning)
Commonplace in Asia. Especially for IM apps to add friends etc.
"Score" is one thing. "Score something" is, to me, much worse. I don't mind if guys want to speak casually among friends about women as conquests. But it strikes me as disconcerting that there are people who find this way of speaking so unobjectionable that they'd use it on a public forum like hacker news where, I had thought, the general expectation is that the discourse will maintain a certain level of quality and, needless to say, women are supposed to feel welcome and appreciated for their intellectual contributions.

What's even more disconcerting is that the comment that used this expression has been voted to the top (though it is otherwise a very good comment), and comments taking issue with the sexist language are voted into oblivion (so far).
How Sticker Mule uses Asana to coordinate a remote team
Decorating Backbone Collections
To any githubbers reading this:

A lot of people posting here are being unreasonable, demanding, and childish. Recognize that for what it is, don't let it affect you, and just continue moving forward based on the constructive part of the feedback.
This is the best idea.

While some features like +1s and contributing guidelines should be baked in, other features like extra fields, requiring people to sign a disclosure, etc would be best left to plugins that can hook into issues much like CI services hook into pull requests.
I think it has more to do with subtle variation, not repetition in time. I haven't read the whole paper but just from the intro I got that one shouldn't robotically overtrain doing the same things, but should change the rhythm, syncopation, etc. Neural network overfitting. The same phenomena exist in physiological athletic improvement.
I usually look at the "Pulse" part of the repo page. That tells me how often it has activity and if it is an active repo.
>I think that there's plenty of intelligent kids who are able to devote part of their intelligence to noticing the whole lord of the flies going around and figuring that it's better to not raise you hand when teacher asks question

I think these come from different sorts of intelligence. You can be intelligent in regards to knowing the right answer but be stupid in regards to knowing that you shouldn't be a know-it-all. Or you could lack the ability to evaluate the advice of adults and thus fully believe what they say at face value (which when combined with the peer-pressure is evil message can lead to optimizing social interactions in some of the worst ways possible).

Those who are gifted socially and in other ways are likely to have far less trouble. I think the gifted who have problems are those gifted in some way, but who are below average in terms of social skills, because the ways they are gifted leads to adults missing that the ways they are challenged.
Fundamentally income and capital are fungible. A lot of tax avoidance schemes work by turning income into "unrealized" gains. The general solution would be to tax held capital as well as just income. (The rent on a house must be equal to the cost of the capital it represents, as otherwise there would be an arbitrage opportunity).
> While I mostly agree with you, if someone acts like they don't want a relationship at all (or plays super hard to get), then I'll just move on to someone who does, because I don't have time to waste trying to get someone interested in me.

I didn't say that you should hide your interest in relationship to get it. I only said that pursuing something you imagine word "relationship" means, instead of paying attention to particular person, will not do any good for you.

In my opinion, if you like someone – say so, if you want to engage in some activity with the person – tell them so. If they reciprocate – good for both of you, if not – get over it and move on.
I'm not outraged, just surprised that people would so heartily upvote such a comment.

People should be conscious of the language they use, and create a welcoming community for everyone.

If "scoring" women wasn't intended in the context it is usually used in, "scoring" shouldn't be the choice of words and people shouldn't encourage it by upvoting a comment that uses words so poorly.
Because the "A" variant of Code128 allows you to have control characters in there. Many barcode readers act like keyboards to the computer - so the clerk/user positions their cursor to the item number field, waves the item in front of the scanner, and the scanner hardware inserts what it read into the field. Fast, reliable, and easy.

But if the barcode contains control characters, it acts like a keyboard macro and will send them to the application. So if I embed a Ctrl-S in my hostile barcode, I can tell the software to save the record with data I supplied.
Well tradespeople usually work for multiple clients on smallish projects. For good tradespeople, a significant number of those projects come from repeat customers, which means their optimal strategy is not to serve all customers equally, but to prioritize those that are more likely to bring repeat business down the road. A difficult customer is usually not someone you want to do repeat business with, so they get "managed out" pretty reliably.

Most software engineers, on the other hand, work for one big customer at a time (your employer). And though I agree that a bad employer at the end of day is detrimental to your career, you cannot afford to switch jobs on trivial matters, on risk of getting labeled as a grasshopper. That's why you do not see developers "walking".
I'm not going to bother reading what Wired have written, i'll just assume it's nonsense if the HN comments concur.
In Australia, pretty much every bank account will include a free Visa / Mastercard debit card, built-in to your ATM card. You can also buy them in supermarkets as reloadable gift cards, or post offices as international travel cards. Though they typically won't work in Germany, since most German stores only accept EC Cards and not Visa / Mastercard.
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