skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I expected greatness from a website called womenwanttobeontop.com but this article is just bad. Not in the sense that the issue isn't important, but that the authors points are flimsy which does more to harm her message more than help it.

> women still make 79 cents to a man’s dollar

If you're opening your article with this line you're already pandering to your base. Nobody who would read this article critically would take that line seriously. Especially since the cited link isn't a study or any kind of evidence, it's another uncited article which simply parrots her statement.

Taking aggregate values is useful in the sense that it signifies that something is probably wrong, but then she assumes that the aggregate data is meaningful on the individual level.

If men and women were paid exactly the same for the same work it's still possible to wind up with a wage gap in aggregate. That doesn't mean that there isn't a problem, but it would mean that the problem isn't wage discrimination.

> For women of color, this gap is even higher.

She linked the exact same useless 'article' for this statement that she did for the previous one. Worse, the linked article doesn't even mention the gap between different races.

The question that's actually interesting is if there's a wage gap between whites and blacks (yes) and if the gap for black women is larger than the combined gap between men and women and whites and blacks. One outcome is more significant than the other.

> Numerous studies have shown that equal pay for women would significantly boost the American economy—in one year, the U.S. would have produced $447.6 billion more income

The "study" (not a study, singular) cited in the paragraph is from the Institute for Women's Policy Research which provides no evidence for her claims and seems to be founded on the completely fallacious economic reasoning that the money required to fill the gap doesn't come from anywhere and will have no other economic effects.

Well no shit the economy will improve if you just magically create 21% more wealth from nowhere.

> The income women bring in is also increasingly critical to the financial security of family units, and when women make less that means less money for groceries, gas, rent, college tuition and other things families need.

This has nothing to do with women. This has to do with the current state of the middle class, job security, and having a functioning social safety net.

> Women in senior leadership positions need to mentor younger women and advocate for their advancement in companies.

The hypocrisy is staggering. Women should be using their positions of power and influence to advantage other women simply because of their sex.
>Is the need to bench then add an actor the only way you "allow" transfer of children between parent actors?

Currently, yes. Since this is sort of an entity component system and that actors can always create more children anytime they want, I suppose I just always assumed that actors could be "spun-up" with any sort of functionality and then deleted when not used.

Benching/Joining an actor is more for handling errors at runtime or for debugging ("If I temporarily remove this actor will it solve my issue?").
Mostly in the SF Bay Area, of all places. I moved to north Texas and while it still happens, it happens way less often. But the Tinder landscape is definitely different.
> That was the moment that I realized that some of these people live in a reality distortion zone where it really wasn't their fault.

To be fair, the public isn't 100% blameless as a large number of people made poor choices to create the situation. Supply without demand is largely useless, after all. Similarly, the public hasn't shutdown the routes after the fact but rather accepted a smokescreen of a solution.

The blame primarily rests on the shoulders of the banks and credit rating agencies because they provided the supply. They also were the best informed side of the transaction and engaged in a certain degree of deception that they should be punished severely for.

The best lies, or distortions of reality, do have a kernel or two of truth.
Can you give an example? Your question seems too abstract for me to see if I have any experience with what you're talking about.
> ads opening Google play automatically from Adsense

Are you sure they are ads, and not the site redirecting you based on your useragent? I've had some sites that have apps do that, but I've never had an add automatically direct me to the Play store before.
howto-c has a bunch of problematic opinions which aren't liked by the community. The crap about never using ints, longs, etc has been debunked over and over.
and the penalty is ..... ?
Severance Clash in Microchip/Atmel Merger
I disagree. If you make credit loose some idiot will borrow and then everyone else is forced to bid against them.

Similar for lending to all students for degrees. You know you don't need a degree to do a regular office job but because everyone else has one you know the recruiter will immediately bin your CV.

Control is counter-intuitive. Most people would restrict credit. The establishment understand you hand it out like confetti. After all it's free.
I can't even think of how someone could prevent this type of thing. Even if you kept your own access logs it's doubtful a judge would allow you to use it as evidence.
But the point remains that their tax liability shouldn't decrease because of a fine due to wrongdoing.

This is money that would have gone to the taxpayer in the form of benefits like security, education, infrastructure.

Contrast the corporation with the individual: any fines you may get from convictions don't reduce your own income tax liability…
I'm firmly on the no-semicolon camp, but I agree with the general sentiment of your comment.

>Half of this article is a strawman argument under the heading: "You can’t minify JavaScript code without semicolons"
I've never heard that argument in my life for using semicolons.

This does unfortunately still happen. Even in this HN discussion, it's been brought up. Nowadays, every minifier follows proper ASI semantics. Concatenation is something you need to be careful of, but that's more of a general thing that has nothing to do with whether or not semicolons are used. Joining files with ";\n" and wrapping contents in IIFEs work well.

> Sweet! Something extra to remember because I chose not to use semicolons.

A linter can catch this for you, so you don't actually have to remember anything. Regardless, it's a simple rule: Prepend a semi-colon to lines that start with '[' or '('. This is much simpler and less noisy than "Put a semi-colon in most places that terminate a statement".

More importantly though, I'd say that ASI rules are something everyone should be aware of, regardless of whether or not one chooses to use semicolons.

> Are you kidding me? This has to be trolling. Our goal as programmers is to automate tasks and save people time. What kind of garbage is this?

Agreed. JSLint in particular is quite rigid, so I'd avoid using it, but ESLint is a fine alternative that can be configured to check for both semicolon and semicolon-free styles.
There's a few smart TVs that will complain if they haven't been connected recently, so I don't think it's that far-fetched.

That's before considering that the newest version of the BluRay spec mandates network connetivity to authenticate the disk you're playing. Which is a more special case of stupid.
There's no excuse for obvious mistakes. This wasn't something tricky. There are hundreds of years old stone markers in that area documenting the level which previous Tsunmis have reached - well above the level of the power plant.

The level of paternalism and corruption needed to pull off such an act of planning is actually pretty high - Japan's culture is particularly vulnerable to this. It's the sort of thing which would be very unlikely to happen in other parts of the world, where regulation and oversight is rigorously enforced.

Taking a single incident out of context and generalising about very different cultures and different plant designs is guaranteed to lead you to the wrong conclusion.
It would be nice to pay parking tickets etc. out of pre-tax income rather than post-tax, wouldn't it?

This logic essentially categorizes government fines as a cost of business, rather than a punishment; as an input to the sausage, as it were, rather than a reduction in profits.
A succinct explanation of why that's true and irrelevant: https://qntm.org/number

tl;dr: Abstract "existence", as numbers have, is not the same thing legally or practically as concrete "existence", as files have.
We are going to do something. We don't know what. Not very interesting.
>The planet outputs (or reflects) vastly more total light than the laser, but the laser is pointed directly at the receiver and can output more light in that specific direction than the planet does.

So then the problem is that you need a laser than can hit a 1 km^2 target from 40 trillion km away?
Again, I have tried this and fail to see any more benefit than, say, changing the indent size in my editor. Personally, I prefer

let states = require('../data/states.json'),
cloneDeep = require('lodash/cloneDeep');

to

let states = require('../data/states.json')
, cloneDeep = require('lodash/cloneDeep')

but that's an unimportant aesthetic preference. The structure of the code is the same and my experience working with it is fundamentally unchanged. In either case we're talking about a fraction of a percentage of the time it takes to understand what the application is or should be doing.

Now compare that to something which actually matters: arrow functions, classes, modules and imports, the newer data structures, generators, etc. In that case, the time spent adopting a new style actually changes the structure of the code you're writing and, hopefully, makes it easier to clearly convey your intention to the next person who works on it.
That's because C tosses out all of that array state information at the drop of a hat once you start passing them around to functions.

Worse, it's an easy way to get burned on the sizeof() function, especially if you at some point refactor the code and put that chunk in a function separate from the original declaration.

This is why C programmers get gunshy about relying on that information and instead just treat strings like pointers all of the time.
Cute.

I know little about IoT -- explain how the language is abstracted? (last I worked on Arduino it was Processing/C++ I think). Does Favor compile down to the languages that are used, or how does this work?

To get users, instinct is to get your stuff in the hands of hardware bloggers / stores like sparkfun and hope that they start using it. Is that your plan?
Hum, I think I do interpret it in a positive way most of the time, though there are other times, esp when I see otherwise fine people struggling to get this badge or that validation(plus comparing it to other people's), and beating themselves over it. Its less me having difficulties embracing nihilism but more wishing that it was a more accessible and talked about idea, so that you wouldn't see these amazing people killing themselves over a failed exam and falling into depression comparing themselves to others who seemingly have 'made something of their life', good for them. It's like the race has become the existing reality that we forget it's just that. I was inspired to write the article just after this conversation with a friend, who is an insanely talented coder, who has decided that since he was already 25, it was too late for him to 'accomplish' anything, and he was thereby a 'loser'. I find my brother in a similar situation of angst for not 'accomplishing' something (he's 22). Countless otehr very close friends echoing similar sentiments (maybe it's a 20's thing?). I understand wanting to discover cool stuff, getting closer to the absolute truth, but I don't understand beating yourself up because you did not meet a randomly assigned deadline, and assuming that some-one is a loser by default unless they can prove otherwise (Remonds me of how religion works, you are a sinner now do these things and give us all this money). That's what takes me down in the end.
I'm starting to think I need to look at advertising theory some more. Ugh.

Thanks for the comment though, pretty much as I'd suspected.

Another note: if the frequency is too high in any one period of time, I suspect there's burnout. Political advertising seems to hit this point -- a friend in a heavily campaigned state a few years back used to respond to candidate spots with "F--- you <name>" when yet another of the multiple-times-an-hour ads would sound.

You need repetitions, but also spacing.

There's also ... I forget the name, but "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy", a 1930s / 1940s Texas politician. Ended up governor, before getting caught up in a corruption scandal. Early name recognition came from his fame as a bluegrass / popular music performer.
Something not discussed often enough is the rank incompetence of, well, humans. People everywhere, at every level, are simply not very good at their jobs, including experienced "experts".

This is just one reason why it's insane to trust the government to carry out extrajudicial killings on people who, at the very least, pose no immediate threat. Both the selection of targets and the actual killing are prone to errors which have horrific consequences.
I am surprised no one comparing that to Telegram.
It is useful to look at the comparison between countries:

- just static graphics: http://static.gapminder.org/files/vector-graphics/gapminder-...

- interactive, new data: http://www.gapminder.org/tools/bubbles#_state_marker_size%2F...

- text: http://www.gapminder.org/posters/gapminder-world-2013/

To be honest, since there is variation between countries (for Russia vs Japan it is ~20 years!) it would be really surprising if there were no variation within countries (especially as uneven economically as US).
Has anyone done any research on how much 'energy' is stored in wind currents? How many wind turbines can we erect before we affect the climate by disrupting air currents?
looks like you just reinvent wheel called kubernetes (secrets, mounted volumes). Also when following http://12factor.net/ there shouldn't be issues with production/testing
Messenger and WhatsApp are popular in different regions but combine both and you have the lions share of worldwide mobile chat users. For example, Messenger is much more dominant in the US, while WhatsApp is crazy popular in places like Brazil or Germany. So i guess they are just starting with the US market (Messenger) and will eventually offer similar stuff on WhatsApp.
There is strong reason to believe the lack of flexibility would hit women much stronger than men.

Census that shows 82.6% of custodial single parents are female in the United States.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-237.pdf

Article summarizing studies that show that even in marriages that attempt to be egalitarian both spouses agree the female ends up taking on more of the household responsibilities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/upshot/millennial-men-find...
The name is misleading (I'd like to use a stronger word here). The electricity is not "free", the person that pedals has to eat and the food cost money. If they are going to install this in a gym, perhaps we can count that as "free". If they are going to install this in a developing country during a famine, then it's not "free" at all.

Two very bad paragraphs:

> “A person pedals the hybrid bicycle,” explains Bhargava. “The bicycle wheel drives a flywheel, which turns a generator, which charges a battery. Pedaling for one hour yields electricity for 24 hours with no utility bill, and no exhaust - no waste.”

Ignoring that you have to pay for the food, a person on a bike at full speed burns about 700 kcalories/hour, i.e. 800 watts. Just assume that all the energy burned by the person is stored in the battery, this is very very very optimistic. If you want to use the electricity for the whole day, you can use only 1/24 of the power, i.e 30W, that is only enough for one or two new low consume lamps.

> That’s right so many people – over half of the world’s population – don’t have heat, lights, air conditioning, cell phones, computers or televisions. Yes, this invention will help give more people access to energy that is free and clean.

An air conditioner uses 1000W. So with 1 hour of biking at full speed and assuming perfect efficiency, you can turn on the air conditioner for 50 minutes. (Are you biking inside the room with the air conditioner?) Perhaps someone can charge a cell phone with this, but the other applications are not possible.
As something like a solo pianist, I would say you might be able to scratch out a living using all the various outlets you described -- teaching being primary among them as far as ways to generate income.
Rails with Ruby 2.0, PostgreSQL, Webpack, Bootstrap, and (optionally) only one of the following: JQuery, React, Backbone or Angular (depending on your tastes).

Make all your designs responsive and mobile-first.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=learn+c%2B%2B+online
> No, that's what it was for, and still is for, for the 18-25 crowd. When the older crowd started using it, their interest was different.

That's an assumption you're presenting as if it's a fact.

> No, it was the 25+ and especially 30+ crowd flooding onto it that changed things.

Again, an assumption. I'm not wrong in what I said.

> I have no idea what you're complaining about here.

I'm not complaining about anything. What I'm saying is that for every man or woman you see complaining about things in profile photos, there's another man or woman that loves it. I've seen plenty of female profiles on Tinder complaining about pics of guys with animals.

That's one of the things about online dating, though - people are clearly having different experiences. Neither of us are wrong.
New Hired study shows women in tech ask for less – and receive it
Initiative Launched to Send Microrobots to Alpha Centauri at Near Light Speed
What's notable about this announcement is that it claims to be 360 degree _3D_ video. The article talks about this. That means it's like a 180 degree 3D video in every direction.

That said, I'm a bit skeptical about how well their method works. If you close one eye and rotate your head, you'll notice parallax effects, and I'm not confident that what Facebook has described will be able to reproduce that. But I'd love to be proved wrong.
Fossil fuels are wreaking havoc on the environment that is probably several orders of magnitude higher than nuclear.

Solar and wind will be a key component of the grid power source but they aren't afeasible replacement for baseload coal plants yet.

One Fukashkma every 20-30 years is worth avoiding global warming.
Great question. The answer is ‘it depends’. For example right now in CT the incumbent rate is 9.55 cents per kilowatt hour with Eversource. But you can get 5.99 c/kWh with Public Power for 8 months if you pay $39 enrollment, or 5.98 c/kWh with Sunwave for 6 months with no enrollment fee but a $50 cancellation fee. These are just a couple examples, there are dozens of offerings. As you noticed, the market is confusing, almost by design! But it definitely pays to shop around. Given average household electricity use of around 750 kWh/month we project we will save customers around $100-$300 per year.

We are planning to offer our service for between $30-$50/year, and will offer a money back guarantee if we don't save the customer at least as much as our fee over the incumbent supplier. The idea is to make it no-risk for people to try us. But the value proposition isn’t just saving money, it’s saving time. We handle everything so the customer doesn’t have to spend the time and mental effort to track the market and manually switch suppliers.

The reason we can do this is we are automating the whole switching process; hence it will not cost us much to switch a customer, we'll be able to switch many customers at the same time, and we'll be able to switch customers as frequently as needed to take advantage of short term rates. As we gain a large customer base, we'll also have leverage to negotiate better rates with suppliers, saving customers even more.

Ironically the costs of door to door and telemarketing is part of what creates the opportunity here. NYC may be the exception but outside of the City it's just too cost prohibitive for traditional brokers to do. They focus on the bigger wins (manufacturing and commercial). We will leverage internet / social (facebook ads, promoted tweets, adwords etc.) to reach the individual households. Also we will offer a referral program which will encourage customers to get their friends to sign up. Finally physical events (home shows, street fairs etc.) will help educate potential customers and those who do not use the internet as much.

By the way New York is next on our list after Connecticut (my co-founder Tom is from NY), so if you’re interested please register at utiliz.co!
The actual mortality rate from both Chernobyl and Fukushima are so low, I'm not even sure what are we talking about half the time. Fear? Fear of a fear? People store yellow cake at home just for fun, and it's perfectly legal and OK. Yet at other times, just mentioning the word nuclear gives half of the community brain cancer.
Hm, interesting; I'm excited about Slack based project management but my initial instinct is that this is not it. In particular, it looks like you don't integrate with Slack for the messaging component, instead choosing to build that piece yourself - is that correct? Why not defer to Slack on the messaging side and make it insanely easy to create items from slack, and reminders and so on?
Let's not throw personal attacks at me (and the tongue-in-cheek "congrats for being promoted to executive!" comment). There's plenty of remorse and there's plenty of acknowledgment of mistakes here. That said, as we acknowledged elsewhere, we're responding to the matter across several different platforms and specifically say we're rushed in trying to get out some basic insights behind what happened and transpired. A more well crafted blog response for all to see (this time from the CEO) has been published to https://blog.namecheap.com/social-engineering-issue/
PRE g.n.a.n.t- an EPIC baby announcement
An bicycle powered generator is an expensive way to turn human food calories into electricity.

In the Middle Ages they raised dogs to run on a treadmill for hours, to turn the spit. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_Dog . That would be a more efficient way to power a generator, since dogs will eat things that humans won't.

We don't - because it isn't cost effective.

Buy a solar charger instead. A 100W solar panel is cheaper than this pedal-powered generator, and will produce power all day at no extra cost.

> How many homes would it power up through the efforts of many gym buffs?

Zero.

Here is is worked out - http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/bicyclepower.html .

The human won't even be able to heat the shower used to clean up after cycling.
I hope people will help support matrix.org instead of building on a platform like this.
Watch the movie "The Wrecking Crew". Essentially, the studio fixes the nascent tune penned by the artist, and provides studio musicians to play on the recordings. The band rarely plays, or even sings, on the album. The reason is simple, they don't play that well, or sing that well, and the studio musicians do.

This is one big reason why bands/singers/artists need labels. They're not able to turn the lyrics on the back of a napkin into a credible album on their own. They often don't even write the songs - the label has a stable of songwriters to do that for them. The artist is often just a pretty face autotuned in.

Even if a band can produce a CD on their own, they need promotion, manufacturing, and distribution. Who is going to get their CD in front of DJs, etc.? Who is going to set up concerts? Who is going to handle the financing? Who is going to do all the work needed to run a business?