skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the fact that the women also worked less hours than men

Why is that? Could it be that women are still subject to traditional roles, even in advanced countries like Germany? http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/files/epo_campai...

Or maybe that women of a certain age are discriminated against during the hiring process because of maternity leave? https://books.google.com/books?id=26FB_ny0tVsC&pg=PA114&lpg=...

Or any of those many other reasons that people talk about that explain the statistic?
The issue isn't as black and white as you want to make it.

I know it's also due to socialization, but do we really want to change the entire society just to shoehorn exactly 50% in our employee statistics?

Diversity increases performance. So yes, yes we do.

Most women I know don't want to go into tech-jobs because they think it's fucking boring. Live with it, people!

I guess all those programmers who were originally women back when men saw it is as "secretary" work and there wasn't a lot of money in it just absolutely found technology boring. Or all those game-designers/programmers who were women, before it became popular and the market crashed? No, you're right, there can be no other explanations.

If a woman is passionate about something, and pursues it, it will work out for her.

Just have to navigate all that there discrimination and sexual harassment and it'll be totally fine.

Oh, and why don't people go berserk because we have like 96% women as educators

Perhaps we can discuss why men aren't seeking those positions.
How Regular Expressions Brought about Deep Learning
His later tweets seemed to suggest that he was going for the latter, so it might have been a wrong choice of words for him BUT his partner in crime Benedict Evans said something even worse and then seemed to be justifying his comments for the rest of the evening
Do you have independent, scientific references supporting your reasoning about the role each ingredient is intended to perform?
Do you have anything to back that statement up, other than 20/20 hindsight? I'll admit that few economists get timing right on big macro events, but please don't tar us all with the same brush: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10166958

If you want to see some decent economic commentary, look here: http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/ . These guys have been screaming bloody murder for at least the past year.
That's actually a really interesting angle.

I didn't start programming when I was 10 because there are Jews in tech. I never associated my race or ethnicity with any sort of permission to do anything. The thought never crossed my mind. I didn't grow up in a racialized community even though, yes, I was one of few Jews in the town I grew up in.

I appreciate this question because it gives further evidence that identity politics is detrimental to minorities and society at large.
Stop pretending you know what you're talking about. Do you know how much money is saved by not keeping those pictures? Snapchat handles more pictures per day than facebook[0], which gets almost half a billion per day. I know a few snapchat engineers that concur that Snapchat really does not keep any pictures, which allows them to make interesting optimizations that Facebook (and similar) can't.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/19/snapchat-reportedly-sees-mo...
Y'all have a Texas accent? Siri (and the world) might be slowly killing it
Why Scala is Not Very Good (a knee jerk reaction)
>No, it was, in fact, not prevented from being published. The first two sentences of the article are "I launched a book this week and I went Indie with it. Indie means I released it on Amazon via Kindle Direct Publishing."

Prevented from being published via established channels, then. The analogy still holds, because in the 1950s you could still publish content considered communist in photocopied zines.
Bitcoin has already seen some unfortunate consequences of running on an open network.

Chinese mining syndicates hold a significant share of control over the Bitcoin network, and are therefore able to control the destiny of Bitcoin. They decided against the Bitcoin XT fork, for example and stand in the way of its adoption.

All democratic, naturally. Possibly a good thing for Bitcoin stability.

But can you imagine American banks ceding control of their settlement infrastructure to a network / protocol whose rules could be dictated by China?
Feminist economics
Share buyback. What a racket for executives.
I've been looking for something just like VSCO anyway, so I'm glad to learn about it.
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> If you see someone say "slut" or "bitch" in hipchat or whatever, I would try to ignore it and get to a point in your career where you can set the culture if you disagree with it.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. If you can't get through to someone that that language is not acceptable in a company workspace, at least try to get across to them that the screenshots wouldn't look good splashed across the front page of TechCrunch.
I think you're both right.

Commodity money and fiat money are both forms of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#Types

But it's fairly simple to see which money holds its value better over time. Gold/silver have held value over millennia while fiat moneys live and die with the states that oversee them.
The Basics of Mobile Web Testing Using Selenium
The thing that stuck out to me was the girl that used 60GB of mobile data, and that even the girl he was interviewing said that bandwidth was a major issue. Depending on her friend's parents' data plan, 60GB could easily result in a bill of over $1,000. It makes me wonder a) if Snapchat is compressing as aggressively as they should, and b) if an in-app mobile bandwidth meter might make simiar apps more competitive.
Also, I just googled Treller. It doesn't exist. Either that or I'm not even cool enough to know about it. What is Treller??????
> I also presumed that a dedicated power user could preserve said photos forever, so I immediately wrote the whole thing off.

Same here. One of the girls also describes how to screenshot the app without the other user being notified. It's doubtful that most teens sexting using the app are unaware of this.
I do love stow. My only hurdle (and it's not unique to stow is the chicken-and-egg of a 'setup.sh' that builds out my Mac the way I like (creating directories, installing packages etc), when my SSH keys are in stow's SSH folder.
Yep. I was the same way.
The community feel definetely got lost along the way.
Against Generations (2015)
Diversity isn't about telling white males to step back. It's about encouraging other types of person to step forward, and creating an environment that welcomes and values them.
Ah, OK. That's a relief. Thanks for the clarification. Given the kinds of to-me-awful marketing/ad copy I've seen praised before I really wasn't sure.
You could encode assets using "base64" and put everything in a single JS file. There may be a file size issue though, but I did that a few times (actually I did that with html files using data uris)
Speakers of English think it is easier than Swahili, but we know from language acquisition studies that Swahili is easier to learn in the large.

Your use of "subjective" is imprecise and overly relativistic. Just because something has to do with the human mind, or human experience, doesn't make that thing a priori subjective.
i look forward to playing around with this. i scratched my head at devd initially but now it is an indispensable piece of my development workflow
Originally - derogatory term that implies that India, a majority Hindu country, is full of people who are too content with their standards of living and are too lazy to work towards a higher standard of growth. Often used as a contrasting term with South Korea's "Miracle on the Han River"
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Menger provides an evolutionary theory of money's emergence and does devote a chapter to the precious metals, but historically all sorts of commodities have served as media of exchange in various circumstances.

The primary standards of international trade during the mercantilist and merchant capitalist eras were silver bullion coins like the Spanish dollar.

Formal gold specie standards arose during the 19th century by royal fiat and soon displaced other currencies.

It is likely that free currencies would settle on precious metal convertibility because of prior art, but there's no reason to presume it has to be gold in particular, or to single out gold as being "special".
Google does ads?

Honestly, it has been a very long while since I've seen ads. Adblock aside, my phone is so old that any significant ads effectively causes a crash, total non-responsive phone. So I still don't see them.
I'm going to say this. This is fucking dumb, and a huge waste of time. It's orders of magnitude dumber than watching funny cat pictures for hours.

There are so many interesting things around us. If you want to be creative, you have options. If you want to connect with people and have a meaningful conversation, you have options. If you want something funny, you have options. Etc, etc, etc.

These teenagers are literally wasting their life on bullshit.

/rant over
I think a deeper integration with periscope and timelines will help Twitter. The real time direct global conversation is important.
My mental model jumped from significant to large too easily, sorry about that.

What notifications were you seeing? I'm trying to think what I would receive that wasn't another user interacting with me and all I can recall is something along the lines of 'User1, User2, ..., all liked User3's Tweet' where User1 and User2 were people I followed. But it was very strange because every now and then I get those notifications for high profile accounts and other times it would be like two friends liked a third friends tweet. Those notifications were quite sporadic though and don't bother me in the least.
Let me also give you a modern example so it makes sense. China didn't invent the smartphone; IBM did. But there's a transfer of technology that allows chinese manufacturers to import/figure out how to make smartphones. Now they start manufacturing smartphones but are low in the value chain. Xiaomi comes about a few years later, climbs the value chain and takes the low end of the market in Asia. Awesome!

Now imagine an alternate scenario where America comes along and says, no China, you can only make plastic and metal parts. I have the machines that can make components. You have to sell these parts to me at fixed artificially low prices. I will then finish them in my factories and sell them to you. No other country can sell in your market. Suddenly you have 1BN people you can practically shoot smartphones at and make money.

70 years later Brazil starts making tons of smartphones. Great. They still can't sell in China. Brazil wins, America wins, China loses.
The snark would be more believable if you hadn't initiated a conversation with a huge straw man, and then proceed to repeat it.

Once again, I'm not claiming that British colonialism was great for India or that Britain didn't subjugate India or that British capitalists didn't treat India as a captured market or any other number of doubtless terribly evil things that I am sure you can tell me about all day.

I'm merely taking issue with the curious notion that India would have inevitably kept up with the West despite that none of the features that were giving the West and Britain in particular such advantages were to be found in India, which then supports the idea that it is utterly asinine to claim that if only it wasn't for Britain India would be a superpower with 25% of world trade.

India had fallen behind long before Britain colonised it, and there's no reason at all therefore to believe that it being behind now can be 100% blamed on Britain.

If you are really claiming that India was on the verge of the industrial revolution and Britain thwarted it, then I don't think I have the time to argue with you, because your belief flies in the face of near any widely accepted understanding of history.
re: dropping [flash] from Chrome -

NOOOOO this is what Chrome is for! The only flash I have is the built in to chrome flash.
Strange name, it refers to the way a camera lens blurs out-of-focus objects (especially highlights) into a disc shape [1]. I was expecting an image processing library.

Bokeh is widely discussed by photography equipment aficionados as one of the main distinguishing traits of different lens designs besides sharpness, distortion, etc.

edit: maybe it is an allusion to bubble plots?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=bokeh&tbm=isch
Thanks for the feedback! Updated it!
"The Wayback Machine now indexes over 435 billion webpages going back nearly 20 years, the largest archive of the web."

In years to come, people will read these pages at the Internet Archive and thank Brewster Kahle [0] rather than the likes of Steve, Larry and Mark.

[0] http://brewster.kahle.org/about/
Notifications and emails are completely configurable in about 30 seconds. You can get as little or as much as you want.
Great to hear. :) Modd was born because because I was trying to figure out how to add the ability to do a build step before livereload in devd. It soon became clear that quite a different type of tool was needed to do this well, and after a few iterations I settled on the current design for modd.
I stare off into space while I'm coding.
Yup - which may have been where my problems started, as I inadvertently radically modified my intestinal flora with a brutal and strict diet - for a long time put it down to having fundamentally screwed up my digestion, but towards the point when I decided to think of it differently, I had been wondering if I'd screwed up neurotransmitter levels via microbiota genocide, and was trapped in a vicious cycle - hence the decision to go "no, you don't feel nauseous, you're hungry".
On a private network, you can decide who is allowed to mine new blocks (and also their hashrate).

This keeps mining costs low, and means your data stays private. And it means you don't rely on Bitcoin (which I guess might be a big plus for banks).
Thank you for the feedback. What would you recommend?
If I may... http://i.imgur.com/6e50Kwl.jpg
This formula (the Gordon growth model), doesn't really apply here, cause the g is for perpetual growth. For example, if you plugged in FB's current growth rate, it would blow up to something ridiculously large. The rule of thumb is that it should never be larger than GDP (since that company would quickly come to dominate the national economy). Tracking inflation is safe if the company can at least raise prices to match inflation.

If you don't want to set up a full DCF, the Benjamin Graham formula gives a quick intrinsic value estimate:

V = E * (8.5 + 2g) * 1.1,

E is earnings (FCF, or a modified form like owner's earnings would work also), but here, g is the growth rate for the next 7-10 years.

This still wouldn't work for TWTR, since negative earnings always give you a negative value, so you would have to project out the next few years until twitter has positive earnings (or positive FCF), then you could use the Graham formula and discount it back to present value. But at that point you might as well just do a full DCF.
Neat! The idea of putting the build commands into the code as a comment is very interesting.
But it is actually fed by lake Titicaca
Yes, for sure, a lot of the awesomeness is built into React Native. That's why we love it. Some developers will prefer an IDE, some will prefer the workflow you mentioned, and some will make their own. :)
Lost often does include people on trails. Lost simple means they did not return, which might include they died or where injured on the trail, are lost of a trail, change they plans and didn't let someone know, etc. Beyond that, this would be very useful for not getting lost; think Google maps for trails.
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uBlock Origin works well on Firefox IIRC. Alternatively, you could block apps system-wide.
uBlock Origin is nice on Firefox for Android
Does this mean that, conversely, we can solve integer programming problems by doing chemical experiments?
The only Google ads that I still get is on the Youtube app on Android... which is one reason why I don't like to install any Google binaries on my computers...
Mm. Such a fun game. Gotta get all the cats...
If you get caught, you're fired. You also are unemployable, and for good reason.

And that good reason should tell you, don't do it. Instead, knock off the Machiavellian spy games, and try to change whatever inside you makes you think this is even a remotely acceptable course of action.

Even if you wind up losing this job, don't do it. There are other jobs. But what you're proposing is a career-destroying move.
I have a modular family of git repos with a 'dotfiles' one that pulls in the dependencies via bower and handles various bootstrapping and install steps. I also have one for my system config which works similarly. Vim, zsh, and tmux have their own standalone repos with one step install and updating scripts. They are written as normal plugins that load other plugins.

I want to avoid vendor lock-in to something like chef for this. The idea is that everything is either defined in a tool-agnostic config file, and bootstrapping / installing / updating the dependencies is handled by simple shell scripts. Down the road I can always swap out the tooling (bower, config_curator, archutil) without updating code in my repos since state is defined as data.

I don't like syslinks or putting ~/ under git as I don't want my working tree to affect my dotfiles until I run an "install" command.

https://github.com/rxrc

https://github.com/rxrc/dotfiles
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Then their API keys would be revoked.
Does this work on windows? Rapydscript does not IIRC
> > many things would work exactly the same if people agreed to pretend that gold was moved from one vault to another instead of actually physically moving gold around.

> This is how commodity money works.

No, its how representative (or commodity-backed money) works, as distinct from commodity money.

> The dollar (as well as almost all paper currencies) originated as commodity money.

The dollar (whether you mean the US dollar or its Spanish predecessor) originated as commodity money -- actual silver coins -- true. But most paper currencies (including the -- later -- paper dollars) originated as representative, commodity-backed, money.

> The paper dollar was backed by and convertible to gold.

The original dollar was silver. The original paper dollar was ... a trickier question. If you count the 1861 demand notes as "paper dollars", then, as they were initially redeemable for gold (as the US had switched from a silver to a gold standard) money, they were convertible to (redeemable for) gold -- but they were not backed by gold (and redemption was soon suspended.)

If you mean the first legal tender paper dollars (U.S. Notes) issued soon after the 1861 demand notes, they were pure fiat currency, not backed by or convertible to anything.
Firefox on Android has full extension support, so you can install things like Self-Destructing Cookies and HTTPS Everywhere as well.
For Google ads specifically? https://contributor.google.com/
This is contentless snark. Here's the data https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCSRESNS
Suppose a company increases their gross revenue by 1MM every year. What do you call that? I'd call it linear, because it will be a straight line on a graph.
In this kind of scenario, I expect the block size to have only a marginal impact.
Indeed if all the CD ISOs are very similar, I would expect that the size of a duplicated chunk to be on average quite big.
The difference between using 128k and 64k for BTRFS is for instance not very big.

But except for the block size, I don't see other explanation for the differences.

Dedup is dedup, so I failed to understand why results between different implementation should lead to such differences at the end (except very incorrect implementation !).
I wasn't talking about which one is right. It's just an interesting feature of American culture. The positive side is that people are proud of their successes, they are encouraged, every kid is told they can one day become President etc (obviously exaggerated, but the Tall Poppy Syndrome is not characteristic of the US).

The stereotypical US things, like no universal health care, no tuition-free education, lax gun laws, mass incarceration, death penalty etc. are also a manifestation of this attitude.

You must take care of yourself, you must protect yourself, if you make it then great! If you become a criminal, you become subhuman and can be executed and treated brutally by the police. If you become dirt poor, that's your fault, you can become homeless, there's no welfare.

Now again, I'm exaggerating somewhat to emphasize what I mean. And yes I also know the historical origins of this mentality, and as I said, there are also positive consequences, like most major innovations and scientific discoveries coming from the US, the huge dynamic market where anyone can start a new company with manageable levels of bureaucracy (compared to most European countries) etc.
Yes, gold and silver have held up over millenia. But, for example, gold fell from $1700 to $1100 over the last three years or so. Meanwhile, the dollar has held its value pretty well over that term.

So gold and silver are more stable over decades to millenia. They're more volatile over the short run (months/a few years), presuming a competent central bank.
> It can be a bit awkward to unfollow people you know

Mute them. It works well, and if they are engaged with others you follow it is all there, uncensored. So it isn't as harsh as a block, and they generally don't know about you putting it in place because you can still interact when your friends do, or when you choose.
How in the world does that work? I'm too old to have caught that wave, but I have a younger sister, and it's not like the snaps her friends send her go poof into the ether if her phone isn't on the network when they are sent. They've got to get queued up in storage on a server somewhere, they've got to get sent to her phone, and I assume, checksummed to make sure they didn't get corrupted in delivery, possibly resent?

I mean, I hope SnapChat isn't keeping photos, or else they'd be sitting on one of the largest collections of child porn in the world...
They've already slid half way down the slippery slope.

They're not actually banning those ISIS accounts, they're just banning people who "harass" (read: interact with) high profile accounts. This is hitting the national consciousness with the "BernieBro" narrative, where high profile journalists are finally being told their shit stinks and are trying to cast such disagreements as ban-worthy harassment.

A good example was a particular account (@swarthyvillian) was receiving literal death threats from a Syria Liberation Army account for, I kid you not, disagreements on MMA rankings. Several weeks later the same guy was banned after linking to tweets by Arthur Chu and Sady Doyle for "pile on harassment" because his followers said mean (and admittedly colorful) things in response.

The SLA account is still active.
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I've used RAML for the past six months, but only to generate documentation. It's pretty easy to learn. A RAML file is a lot cheaper to rewrite, so I write RAML first and figure out if the endpoint makes sense before I write the backend code manually.

I don't know of projects generating the actual server side code from RAML/Swagger/API Blueprint other than the OPs project.

Other than documentation, they are useful for generating mock servers for testing, API client libraries, and collections for postman/paw.
ZFS officially coming to Ubuntu 16.04