skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder, and this me genuinely wondering without an assumed answer, if some of the issues we're seeing with gender inequality in 'traditionally male dominated' lines of study and work might be due to the type of people drawn to those fields.

I'm not going all men's rights or saying anything is acceptable but if you took a (painfully?) stereotypical set of physicists, technologists, etc. they would probably be male, on the autism spectrum/socially awkward in general, and likely have spent the majority of their time around the same types of people (smart, socially awkward men/boys). Could part of it be from social cues they may not have learned along the way since they likely spent a good portion of their time out of the 'normal' stream of socialization?

Another thought, and anecdotally, I played multiple sports in high school and aspired to play college football. When I walked into a CS or advanced physics class in high school and college I was the something is not like the rest; sauntering in at 6'4", in a cutoff t-shirt and sweats having just come from practice or lifting weights. There were multiple times where when I screwed up I was called a dumb jock, or something like that. If I was instead a woman, might they have just called me a dumb girl? Now they are being misogynistic for sure, but couldn't you attribute it to the fact that they pick out the difference between you and them and attack on that? Isn't that what most groups do in a "you don't belong, you're not our kind" kind of mentality? I shook most of it off pretty casually because I could look into myself and a) be sure I was just as good, if not better than the majority of 'them', and b) I knew I could physically destroy them and it made 17-22 year old me smile inside.

As a Type A, incredibly outgoing and social individual, I've been reminded many times of how annoying I get to a lot of the people who studied with me and work with me because they are very typically not. Growing up with one foot in nerd life and another in jock life (taking the non-pejorative easy to describe route with nerd and jock) it was very clear the group social difference between both sides of my friends. I, frankly, had a much easier time fitting in with the sports oriented/popular crowd and felt almost, hesitant, maybe, in larger groups in my CS/Physics studies. It was a weird, unnerving feeling for someone who spent most of his life dropping into social situations and just rolling with it. It was almost as if I was communicating at a _just_ different enough baud rate that we could work together, but it was taxing for a long time.

I could imagine if I was a woman who maybe couldn't draw on their physical dominance to provide a sense of safety, how much more stressful those years would have been.
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I am stuck with this ISP because I have paid them in advance and there was no written agreement saying its 50 GB. I have just 3 more months left. I would then switch to something else.
That's actually the view academics such as philosopher Martha Nussbaum bring to the world.

See their definition of objectification here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectification#Definitions

As you can see, doesn't apply. A static t-shirt image of any sort is always an object but never objectification, because it lacks the context it would need to be more.

Objectification was never about naked Vs. clothed. It was about how women are treated and viewed as individuals. It is about autonomy and being more than a 2D prop for male character's use.

You can be naked and still have a great deal of personality, story importance, and be respected by both male characters within the medium and the writers. See Game of Thrones. There is an absolute ton of nudity in that, and yes, there is objectification (e.g. background sex) but the show gets a pass because female leads are given a great deal of importance, autonomy, and respect. They're nobody's props or objects.
It's spelled 'spelled'.
Today I want to know what women think (and maybe sympathize), not the law.
i would have to say "not javascript" and a more high-level language for a beginner would be better to get one started off.

And then just start building stuff
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No, that's pretty much the definition of standup.
HN Link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11518502
See also http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
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Linus would chew you out for saying that son.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
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Is every part of the electric "sustainable" cars renewable? Is lithium or whatever they make these batteries out of "green"? Are we trading gas for some other limited resource?
Travel between Oxford and Cambridge is a great example of how busted the UK transport network is outside big cities. They're about 80 miles apart, as the crow flies. By road, there's no decent east-west connections so it's a good 2 hour drive. By train, it's even worse - the shortest route is typically going to involve travelling into London, changing stations via tube, then heading back out on another line - probably a three hour train journey with two connections.

Reopening the Oxford/Cambridge trainline (and by extension Cambridge/Oxford/Reading) would be a huge boost to the development of the UK tech industry, connecting academic centers to tech hubs.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bigstories is the best place to find their longform stuff without having to wade through the quizzes and clickbait.
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In general you are right. Start-up should be the word for any new business. But in recent years the venture capital driven fast growing new-tech business type was mostly associated with that word, especially on HN (since Y-Combinator is a school for exactly that kind of business). That's why I gave an example that is pretty much on the opposite scale. It's also a new business but not what people think about when they hear the word "start-up".
I feel like some people will find a way to be shallow and performative about how they live their lives no matter what technology exists.
Does efficiency also matter for roads? Has anyone ever produced a list of all the unprofitable roads in the country?
> What do you think is a reasonable approach to this?

I think that machines / software we interact with via natural language voice interfaces is probably a good first step. Maybe as we get more used to them—and thus are more used to distinguishing between talking to software and talking to people, we could drop such social niceties.
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Why couldn't you just let the back button be for god's sake? It makes no sense to override it like that.
We didn't have DST in most of Indiana until about 10 years ago. When we switched, most of us were wondering why the hell we were even doing it. It's really not necessary, it confuses people, leads to screwed up schedules when the switch happens, and the fact that there are still a few counties that don't observe it screws things up even more.
I've been lucky enough to visit both the Sistine Chapel and the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa. I've been to the Sistine Chapel twice (2003 and 2011) and both times it was very crowded and remarkably quiet. Even while waiting on line to get in it was very quiet. I was surprised.

The crowd in front of the Mona Lisa was a bit louder but still very quiet. Many people were taking photos but there were signs up, and people around to remind you, that flash photography was prohibited.

Neither experience was as tranquil as I would have liked to take in such awesome works of art but it didn't bother me much because it honestly felt like everyone there was doing their best to not disturb everyone else's experience. I guess that's just the nature of visiting two of the most famous works of art on the planet.
Correct code link:

https://github.com/chuanli11/MGANs

Collection of other implementations of this feedforward neural style transfer approach:

https://tensortalk.com/?cat=feedforward-neural-style-transfe...

Or, regular neural style transfer:

https://tensortalk.com/?cat=neural-style-transfer
As a bootstrapped founder, exciting to see communities like this forming and rising. It's such a non-traditional way to start, build and grow a business in Silicon Valley that it can be baffling for new founders or those that want to try something "different". I've been encouraged by the recent success of the Tugboat Institute and its Evergreen movement, too, FWIW: http://www.thetugboatgroup.com/
"Casual" racism and other forms of regressive bigotry are still quite permissible. In the Bay Area, there are people who think it's okay to ascribe an inherent inferiority to someone stemming from age, race, cultural background, religion, or even to what hat they wear. This is done both in the name of fighting political correctness and in the name of "social justice."

It's even considered the height of sophistication of many here to jump to conclusions about your politics and morality based on subcultural markers. I find this shockingly anti-intellectual and the whole atmosphere disingenuously hateful on both sides.
Why not? First tier college football is incompatible with the mission of public universities, and fees are mostly regressive taxation. You are assuming the status quo is good and right.
When I first heard about it, the amount was in thousands. Then it went up to $100k. Now it's $175k and counting.

I'm just going with the notion that no one knows and most of it is made up for sensational titles.
Like what? What costs more if the road has a single additional car?
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Article blocked me for using adblock. I don't use adblock. So I don't read wired and I'm confident I'm missing nothing.
It's a fuzzy definition like any other social category, but I'm not sure a restaurant is a startup unless it aims for significant growth via some novel approach to running and scaling restaurants.

What's "significant growth?" That's one fuzzy area. I'm not sure you have to be aiming to become Fortune 500 in less than 10 years, but the aim should be for at least one or two standard deviations above normal for the sector.

The best definition I can think of is that a startup aims to deviate significantly from the industry norm through the application of technology or higher order conceptual reasoning about process.
I re-ran SLOC using the sloccount-clojure tool, we sit at about 34k lines using that tool. Instead of my jenky find/egrep/wc.
Indeed, this is a complete straw-man argument. Obviously, the longer a business has been around, the less likely it is to fail -- which is exactly what the article itself points out on slide 9.
> People may not always feel comfortable checking into a local bar or sharing an anecdote from their lives, knowing these updates may not be relevant to all their connections.

Google Plus solved this exact problem 5 years ago with "circles", letting you choose what to share with which groups of "friends". Why hasn't Facebook implemented this?
And interestingly enough, it now seems to be slowly creeping back the other way:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tfls-london-o...

Normally I'd be against nationalisation, but having been a 'SouthEastern' commuter for over 20 years, I can only hope this will result in an improved service.
This is the unintended consequence of a lifetime of hearing that men are dangerous and might kill you. Threats are everywhere, says the media, constantly.
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Sure. I'm in the US. Iowa's DOT has constantly reevaluated the use of roads as land-use and rural residences change. Bridges de-commissioned; road maintenance turned to 'class B' which means no maintenance. In fact they recently re-committed their budget 100% to maintenance and 0% to new roads. Mostly because global weather instability has been really rough on our huge, vulnerable road network. Agriculture is important to us; every field has to have access to roads and markets.
I said she hadn't experienced sexual harassment. You are correct that the bullying constituted harassment. I was not trying to say that it doesn't exist; I was just trying to offer my thoughts on the article. The title says, "For Female Astronomers, Sexual Harassment Is a Constant Nightmare." I have worked in Astronomy my entire career, but I have not seen it at all (perhaps, because I am male). My wife works in a different STEM field, and while she has experienced harassment, possibly due to her gender, it was not sexual harassment. For the record, I believe the stories in the article, and I am very saddened by them.
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Came here to say this. The README.md alone is one of the most amazing piece of documentation I've ever been given to read. Kudos for this!
Presumably it should have been "over nearly a decade".
this happened in a lot of major US cities too, such a shame.
This is an under-recognized point. Women can definitely undermine women's interests.
I mean, smartphone cameras basically ruined everything; I remember grousing over people pulling out their phones at concerts - and at any other momentous event, basically.

My problem with the trend is that there's a growing trend for people to experience things through a medium - or filter - rather than directly, and they miss out on a lot by doing so. With photographs (and Instagram), you can have your cake and eat it too, of course, but I'm bummed about the camera phone as a permament intermediary between us and the real world.

I'm not going to blame Instagram for it, though.
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>> Do you understand the difference between women making sexual jokes and men making them?

No, I don't think in sexist terms.
TBH the other 14 arent much better :)
Electric vehicles are many many times simpler than their gas-powered cousins. This simplicity is passed onto the self-driving computer as fewer variables.

Also, the primary downsides to electric vehicles -- longer refuel times, reduced range -- are mostly irrelevant when a computer is doing it by itself. Nobody cares if their self-driving taxi spends 10 minutes recharging itself between every pickup.
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Hanging your head in shame is a useless gesture. Human beings have a dark side when external threat, political or territorial ambitions get involved.

The implication to this hand-wringing that appears here and in literature is that "we" as a human race is somehow "better" or "reformed" now vs. then. That's absolutely false, and given the right situation, we always demonstrate that we're capable of any form of depravity that you can imagine (and many that you probably cannot imagine).
I very seriously looked at React Native when developing my cross-platform app Countism ( http://countism.com/ ), but ultimately decided against using it due to the sheer number of features I would have to either write on my own or use 3rd party modules for (TableView, SQLite, etc.).

React is awesome and I love the promise of using the same concepts for native apps, but there is still a large commitment required to hand write a lot of extra code for full support on multiple platforms.

For now, Appcelerator Titanium is my tool of choice for cross-platform apps. It has much more stable cross-platform APIs and support, but even it has several quirks here and there, and doesn't support some more modern JavaScript features (ES2015, fetch, Promise) like React Native does out of the box.
I don't understand what you mean by "sick". There are a few different ways a genetic algorithm can "fail to converge" though (or converges on a solution that is not a global maxima).

This could be caused by having too high of a diversity, causing the algorithm to give up on promising avenues of evolution too early.

Another risk is having too high of selective pressure, causing the algorithm to get stuck on a "good" solution, but not a global maxima (best solution). A high selective pressure will reduce the total breadth of the search and create a deeper, more focused search on a smaller area (in general).

There are other factors to consider, such as bloating (esp. in genetic programming, where syntax trees can become unmanageably large) and the need for an accurate "fitness" function, less you select for something other than the actual solution.
Like I said, the numbers are impressive, but they don't really provide much information. Look at the way that sentence is structured: those "identified", were they previously unknown? I think the 21 convictions is the only real meaningful part of that story - because the meaning is unambiguous. While it is a shame that a rapist can run around free while evidence is in hand, (21 / 11341) x 100 = 0.19%. Not nearly as impressive as "11,341 examples of why cops don't care!".
Yeah, cycles of moral panic that were fuelled by the media when they had nothing better to do. Nowadays though, it's fuelled by outrage culture on social media, so the result is more schizophrenic.
Sorry, but what does "$800-00" mean? I get $800, but what does "-00" represent?
Reputation and Credential-ism, right or wrong are the pillars of Academic Science. Unless we address some of these aspects, it will provide you with copious amounts of "recreational outrage".
As would Science, in fact. You learn this if you study philosophy.
A pretty major part is of course how the electricity is being generated. If it's coming from coal plants, electric is not going to be a big improvement (though still a slight one, because as dirty as coal plants are, they're still more efficient that your own personal internal combustion engine). But if it's part of a move towards all wind, solar and other clean energy production, then that's going to have a huge impact.
With iOS and other mobile platforms at least the GPU and CPU generally share the same memory, so it is possible to create buffers that are accessible by both (in the case of iOS you would use CVOpenGLESTextureRef or CVMetalTextureRef)
I edited to address this a little more specifically and you likely missed it.

It's still unverified that even high-growth tech startups fail 80% in the first year. How many "Facebooks for {foo} and Uber for {bar}" actually fail in the first year? If you define a high-growth tech startup from the time it takes investment or the time it incorporates, I bet you still don't hit 80% failure rate in the first year. (If you count abandoned ideas that were never meaningfully pursued, then sure, but in that case I've got a dozen failed startups under my belt and a similar number of failed restaurants.)
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I think brudgers's advice is excellent, and I would encourage you again to take it. I hope this doesn't sound too pushy, it's just a suggestion.
Ahhh! You just sparked a memory of an old graphics application on the computer that let you use smudge and liquify like tools on Mona Lisa's face to distort it in all sorts of ways. I remember playing with that constantly, thinking the technology was soo futuristic, being able to make the Mona Lisa look evil and cartoonish. You could do it with your own pictures too, but the default image was Mona Lisa. I wish I could remember what that software was called.

But anyway, some of this stuff predates social media and smartphones. And it was more of a novelty than anything. It might have even given me greater appreciation for the painting, since it is such a great painting for distorting human features.
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Do you have an example of when this occurred?
> because most left-leaning publications base their arguments on statistics, whereas most right-wing arguments are based on emotion. But in fact most of the statistics that used to support left wing policy are either completely made up

The claim you make in the first sentence above seems equally completely made up to me.
One thing to watch in this space: Thomson Reuters created the Impact Factor, which is a mechanism for ranking journals based on the citation count of a journal's published papers. This is the de facto way academics are judged and compared. The cynical view of a tenure application is that it basically boils down to adding up points for how many high-IF journals you've published in.

They are now selling the IP division that owns the Impact Factor. No news just yet (as far as I am aware) on who will end up buying it, but depending on who it is I could potentially see some backlash (finally) within academia if there's an unavoidable conflict of interest (ie if Elsevier buys it). That said, inertia is stronger than anyone wants to admit in academia, so I wouldn't be surprised if IF stays the dominant force in academic reputation for a long time to come. But maybe, just maybe, the time is right for the fall of Impact Factor.
Aha: it's "(getting started with swift) on android", not "getting started with (swift on android)".
I actually ended up asking her what was going on, specifically, "Am I bad at taking hints?" At that point, I should think a simple yes would have done fine. Making someone feel like a rapist for believing what is said or failing to correctly second guess is just weird and oppressive in itself.
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When Beeching wrote the report the stations, carriages, services, and rail were publicly owned and centralised under one public company: British Rail.

In the mid-90s the services, carriages, and the stations were sold off as 14-year franchises to the private firms (most of which are actually public rail companies from other countries such as Germany and France), but the rail itself kept in a weird thing called National Rail that has an odd public/private structure that I don't understand. Ownership and responsibility for the network is somewhat unclear in many cases. I think at this point there is a political consensus that its been a complete mess and a botched privatisation that either need to be redone or just be re-nationalised, though Conservatives try to not talk about it if they can (they implemented it).

There was an awkward period in recent years in which one of the private companies abandoned a major line as unprofitable and it was temporarily nationalised - it ended up becoming the most popular and profitable line while under public management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_(train_operating_co...
Not very strictly, in my experience.
I would not call it a "weird disconnect". It's just very awkward to give a flat-out "No" when asked out, even when the two people are not coworkers. When it comes to asking someone out, there are three answers: Yes; Yes in principle, but I'm not available then, how about next Tuesday?; all other answers are No. She was probably frustrated that you weren't picking up on this, and probably did feel uncomfortable that she had to keep rejecting you.
In cases where network effect is important and the cost of being a follower is high, yeah, just get big. How soon do you think Amazon should do otherwise?