skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use homebrew with this command:

brew install steeve/delve/delve [--HEAD]
A Woman’s Life in Search Queries (2006)
Spot prices can spike above on-demand prices for some instance types (e.g. g2.2xl). If you wanted to maintain a certain capacity of homogeneous machines, you'd have to notice the failed spot instance request & increase the size of your on-demand ASG to compensate.
> At the same time, they see the technical alpha dogs barking up a storm and think, "I don't want to get anywhere near that person".

I was going to write something about self-selection in the field, but I think you have made a more important point there. The technically competent loudmouths attract attention, as well as a disproportionately large audience. For pretty much anyone looking from the outside it appears as a kind of cheerleader-driven mob mentality. And we are surprised that the industry actively repels people who do not fit into this mold?

This also has become a perverse selective trait. The women in the industry are those who entered and remained despite of the atmosphere. Some ignored it, some adapted to it, some even encouraged it. But all of them have had their reasons to continue working in the field. And due to the otherwise repelling selection bias, they are generally way above the mean as far as skills and competence go.[+] As much as dread to quote from Ender's Game, I think Card nailed it: "Your only option is to be so good that nobody can ignore you."

Our engineering is currently 30-odd strong, and we are lucky to have attracted six women so far. We must be doing something (or likely many somethings) right.

+: Of the 5 best systems engineers I have met over the past ~20 years, two have been women. They hold the spots #1 and #3, respectively.

EDIT: turned footnote-asterisk into a plus sign to prevent unintentional italics.
Responding to your edit:

Notary, the underlying project that implements Docker's Content Trust feature, is an implementation of The Update Framework (TUF). Generally, you want a software update system to deal with a whole host of issues. Just solving "is this content signed" actually achieves very little. Survivable key compromise, freshness guarantees, resilience against mix-and-match attacks are all critical to building a system that actually meets real-world use cases and attacks. Threshold signing and signing delegation are additional features that you get when using TUF, which help with splitting the ability to sign across multiple individuals or systems.

You seem to be interested in this topic. I recommend you read a couple of papers to get some more background on why TUF exists and what problems it solves. A key point would be to understand why TUF deals with signed collections of software instead of just individual signed objects.

Start here to get an overview of The Update Framework:

1. Overview: https://theupdateframework.github.io/

2. Specification: https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/blob/develop/docs/...

Existing package managers and their shortcomings are covered in these two papers:

1. https://isis.poly.edu/~jcappos/papers/cappos_pmsec_tr08-02.p...

2. https://isis.poly.edu/~jcappos/papers/cappos_mirror_ccs_08.p...
Yeah, I meant to write intersection. My mistake.
Yeah, but they've been saying that about tech since the late 90s, and about California in general since at least the early 80s, where my history begins. Supposedly they've been saying it since the 50s or 60s.
Well Shelby GT350 is not particularly cheap at 70K yet can't touch those numbers either :). The point of serious supercar is to demonstrate the status of the owner :). If it was track performance then GTR Nismo is making majority of super cars look very bad and at 1/4 to 1/20 of the cost.
Parse: I don't want to migrate my database now... So...?
Wonder how the bundling of ZFS will play out legally.

Anyone know if the FSF is in a position (and of a willingness) to take legal action?
And sell it for a huge fortune to people you decry as "ruining the place"
Various vulnerabilities in nodejs unexpectedly released
Totally anecdotal, but I seem to meet disproportionately many woman engineers from Russia and Iran.
Ask HN: I am writing a book. What would you want to see in it?
ASK HN: I am writing a book on Serverless Architectures (https://www.manning.com/books/serverless-architectures-on-aws?a_aid=serverless-architectures-on-aws&a_bid=145280de). It's going well but I want it to be the best book of its kind.

I need your collective wisdom HN. What kind of topics should it cover? What do you want to see in this book? And, what would make you recommend it to a friend?
Really. The, "it's not like ma'Ford!!" addition at the end is classic. Spoken like a true hillbilly even though you didn't mean to my friend. I don't think I'd take a $2,500 Ford over a Tesla, myself. Even if the Tesla went into the shop once.

I had a large number of family members work at and retire from Ford, but I wouldn't buy their cars. Still one there today, F150 engineer.

I'm a Kia + Tesla man. The Koreans and New Americans are taking over. Kia for the cars that require oil changes, quality seems as good as anything else, amazing 10-year 100K mile warranty, great prices. Just the best-of-breed pick today. I definitely tip my hat to the Koreans. And Tesla for the future.
On the Road to Recap
Okay, I'd buy that the targets of the survey may very well be pre-selected to align politically with a particular set of positions.

What do you mean by aggregated data? I'm fairly well trained in mathematics and statistics but I'm not sure what that phrase means -- does it not just mean the statistics derived from the sample?

And doesn't it matter mostly how /the journalists/ feel about how much press freedom they have? Journalists may very well not be effected by overreaching hate crime legislation (journalism rarely involves writing hate speech) though laypeople see it as a violation of freedom of speech. Organized crime may feel more oppressive than certain oppressive governments. And the survey only purports to express the opinions of journalists in many countries about how free they feel they are, it doesn't pretend to solve a centuries old open problem in philosophy and accurately define 'freedom' and then measure it.
I'm all for wiping them out totally and forever, but I doubt it's possible. Probably we'll have to settle for 90% and maybe less in the tougher environments like the wet tropics.
I have a very critical app to migrate.. Do you think Parse open source is already ready?
Workly
Sounds reasonable... but how am I going to write an inciteful blog article about that?
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Your assessment would be more convincing if you had actually read the article, or even had any evidence at all to back up your point.

Who are people going to believe? An article in Nature about the history of peer review, or you, who has no evidence?
There was an episode of Top Gear where the 3 presenters drove 3 supercars to a drag race. They've lost to everything there including a truck. I believe a used Civic and a few hundred/thousand dollars in parts will give you a car, which will also beat any BMW/Mercedess/Audi in acceleration.
Yes, the community is engaged and the solution is working fine. #MakeTheParseGreatAgain
> You are either willfully ignorant or just a real dope.

Was that really neccesary?
The best is the last
Maybe they don't select for high GPA but students with high GPAs in high school presumably have a higher chance of getting into a top 10 college and I imagine Google prefers students from top schools
Really? How so? (Not attacking ... sincere question).

Seems to me that good second-world sanitation might alleviate it. But third world countries lack the sanitation and hence suffer Malaria. Seems the problem is political/social.
Apple isn't selling technology, though, they're selling a brand. There are different dynamics in play.
Clementine was originally created as a fork of Amarok 1.4 series and this very layout was my absolute favorite feature of it. I've never felt comfortable in a media player without it. It also has dynamic playlist for people who are more into that. That library and playlist system is the entire purpose of Clementine and the reason it was created.
Waaaaay back when I worked at Intel it was pretty clear they didn't stop doing things that worked. And when the going got tough they stuck with what worked. In the 80's Intel had a really remarkable set of of computing products, from high integration "soc" type x86 chips (80186), high end graphics chips, (8276x), embedded chips (8051), and "server" chips (431 series). Plus a memory business and a whole passel of support chips.

But the chips in the PC had the best margin by far. So the more of those they made, the more profitable they became, and when the chip recession was in full swing in the late 80's and early 90's that is what they kept, shedding all the rest.

In the early 2000's when Moore's law ran right smack into the power wall, Intel was betting they could have an "enterprise" line (Itanium) and a "desktop" line (Pentium), and an embedded line (8051). They guessed wrong and for a brief time AMD's Opteron was kicking their butt. But once they realized the writing on the wall they realigned around 64 bit in the Pentium line and got back on track.

The problem with the ARM assault is that unlike AMD, which could be killed by messing with other users of the chipset and patent attacks and contract shennanigans, killing off someone making an ARM chip does nothing but make the other ARM chip vendors stronger. And they can't kill all of them at once. And worse, to compete with them they have to sacrifice margin on their x86 line and that is something they have never done, it breaks their business model.

Its a real conundrum for them, they don't have a low power, reasonable performance SOC architecture to compete with these guys. And that is driving volumes these days. Further, the A53 (ARM 64 bit) killed off the chance of trying to use 32 bit only ATOM microarchitecture chips in that niche without impacting the value of the higher end Pentiums.

One of the things Web2.0 taught us was that it doesn't matter how "big" the implementation of a node is if your going to put 50,000 of them in a data center to run your "cloud." Ethernet as an interconnect is fast enough for a lot of things.

It definitely makes for an interesting future.
Disruption theory predicts that mobile SoCs will be more profitable than PC processors at some point in the future and by that point it will be too late for Intel/AMD to start the transition. But it's hard to predict when that point will be and it may never happen because disruption theory isn't always right.
I stopped buying technology books years ago because—too often—they focused on the latest and greatest ("covers the latest .NET Framework, updated for v1.1!"), and therefore are rendered obsolete within months.

Write about the "why's" instead. In other words, try to answer the big picture questions about serverless architectures without getting bogged down in the minutiae of what is state of the art in early 2016. Try to picture what someone in the year 2018 or 2020 would want to know about them, and write about that.
> Can you do the same (or even provide a coherent definition of) systemic bias?

Easily! But just as your reasoning is completely dependent on an axiomatic value (death is bad), so is mine: That many people's freedom to cultivate, explore and express their talents is hindered by those in power (positive claim) is bad because freedom is good (normative claim), therefore we should study how those restrictions work so we can remove them.

But don't get me wrong: the distribution of power will change (it always does), yet inequality will grow again (it always does; a dynamic system that is not perfectly balanced and that includes positive feedback loops will always go out of balance) and this process will be repeated. I know this because pretty much all of history has been this way: inequality grows; social strife grows; people demand change; others first politely and then less so explain to them that that is scientifically/theologically impossible or that things are best as the are; after a lot of struggle things change and power shifts; inequality grows and so on and so forth.

> Im unconvinced it is even well defined, since I've never seen a definition that advocates of it consistently apply.

You are right in the sense that "systemic bias" is a term invented to explain to laymen what "bias" is. To social researchers, it's clear that all social bias (where "social" means "not exploding volcano in one town and not in another") is "systemic" (whatever that means). It really means nothing more than "a result of social dynamics disproportionately directed by those with power", and even that is a definition for laymen because obviously, that's what power is, so it really means "a result of social dynamics". But even that is redundant because every social phenomenon is a result of social dynamics (that's what a social phenomenon means), so it really just means "bias". Personally, I hate the term "systemic bias" because "systemic" may suggest either a bureaucratic bias or something dictated by law or decree.
As an example of your point: I love 60s brutalist concrete.
Do you think that Parse will really reduce the performance of its Db after April 28?
In normal cars, when you're on the freeway, it doesn't really matter if the door opens, because the air pressure will keep it tightly shut. It takes some considerable effort to push open a car door at 80 km/h.

Gull wing doors are different though, not to mention rear-hinged doors (aka suicide doors).
UK spy agencies have collected bulk personal data since 1990s
If you can bribe certain actors to corrupt a system, the system is not decentralized enough.

I guess this is the consequence of mining centralization (but I have faith that this problem will be solved).
This seems like a misconception to me. Scientists have always tried to apply their energies toward the most promising lines of research. The supply of research capacity is finite.
Have you looked at T-coffee? They have this new feature called expresso which might do what you want.
> The article isn't necessarily truthful.

Speak plainly. If you're going to assert the article is false, assert that it is false.
Shut Up: Imposter Syndrome
You should go read about MRSA, which shouldn't exist according to your logic. You also are misunderstanding how independent assortment of alleles work.

Because plasmodium is a eukaryotic species which reproduces sexually, on-target resistance mutations to any number of mechanisms can arise independently in a bunch of different organisms and accumulate through selection + allele segregation. It's also very easy to produce these sorts of mutations, since it is trivial to change an amino acid to disrupt antibody binding/recognition without altering the function of the protein.

>Which can be targeted to eliminate the mosquitos themselves.

This is incorrect; the whole point of a gene drive is that it causes increased propagation of a trait in the mosquito population. What you're describing is a very different strategy, since a trait that kills the mosquito obviously cannot propagate. It can also be achieved much more simply by using sterile males to outcompete fertile males and reduce the population ('sterile insect' technique); however, this technique only works on small populations and almost certainly wouldn't work in Anopheles or some such.
Down to Lunch Founders Pursue Less-Traveled Path to App Success
Disclaimer: I work at Docker.

Most of your points are a criticism of TUF, of which Notary and Docker Content Trust are an implementation. Based on your comments I believe you're not familiar with TUF and the scope of problems it solves. Here's a good resource to learn more about it: https://theupdateframework.github.io

You clearly are not a fan of Docker and I respect your opinion, I don't really want to engage in that aspect of the discussion. Now, on the specific topic of secure content distribution, I hope you won't let your bias against Docker get in the way of understanding the benefits of TUF. It does improve the state of the art in secure content distribution, and you should really take the time to understand it and perhaps revisit some of your opinions. We're leveraging it in Docker and sharing our implementation, but you don't have to use Docker to use Notary or TUF.

If after reading about TUF you have specific criticism of it, I would be interested to hear about it.
Hardly a nitpick -- I referenced the wrong concept entirely. It's been a long day. Good catch.
The Waldos interview (Lagunitas, 2014). There are lots of purported origins of 4:20 (usually about as well-explained as "oh, I heard that some people in some place..." or "I heard there was a police code.."

Not that I've put much research into it, but this seems like the most believable I've seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hIC7F-qe9Q
Catastrophic negligence by bureaucrats is being prosecuted as we speak http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/20/health/flint-water-crisis-char...

You did say it goes unpunished but having charges filed is a step forward.
Why? erikpukinskis didn't say the Internet helped journalism, merely that it didn't kill journalism.
Not sure why you are putting down menstrual cup users. I use one and it really is great. I also told my sister about it and she got one too and likes it. I also use cloth pads on light days. Both beat disposables by a wide margin in comfort.

Everyone has their own preferences.
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> Crapware is only a valid complaint if you choose to use Windows and are incapable of taking an hour to install a clean copy when you unbox it.

Isn't this most people?
The Road to Sinatra 2.0
I don't think you can take something which was once meant to be erotic pornography and add time to make it an 'artsy nude.' But if you can point to an example from the history of art, that would make your claim more reasonable.
Everyone's entitled to their own crackpots, but not their own facts.
I don't know how much cocaine, heroin, or cannabis use is non-harmful, but the amount is certainly larger than none for all three drugs.
Monkmed is a source of live.

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> And figure out where a piece of plastic that popped off a chair is supposed to go.

This has happened in every car my family has owned for the past 20 years. Some piece of plastic appears on the floor one day and not even the dealer knows where it's supposed to go. We always keep them in the glovebox in case we figure it out some day.
The local network feature is really interesting! Just a random thought - I think you could set up a raspberry pi that automatically locally hosts any URL you shorten, so there would be no technical implementation besides plugging in a raspberry pi in your office. It would be incredibly convenient to tell a coworker to go to http://DocName
I've been an Android user, but currently using an iPhone 6s received as gift.

You can get Google's apps, but isn't the same thing. Their apps are a lot more polished on Android. In particular for Gmail the difference has been night and day. On iPhone I don't even bother with Gmail, I just use the default email app.
I'm a menstrual cup user. It's not gross cause you're gonna be dealing with those body fluids one way or another.
> I guess that lingering smell of urine keeps people coming back to SF?

That's true. Seattle has the frequent rain to wash smells like that away.
Shouldn't that drop the price until someone can buy it outright? You know, supply and demand? What's keeping the price up? Is the previous owner unwilling to sell so low?
> If they told their customers it would be super for them to bring old iDevices back to the Apple store for recycling

They do - http://www.apple.com/recycling/
>If anything Google needs more different minorities if anything, for instance Latinos and Blacks.

Why?

I think equal opportunity is a better goal than equal representation. Forced equal representation can quickly deteriorate to racism/sexism.

Inequality in the name of equality.
I haven't read any previous studies of telepathy, so I have no informed opinion on it. Which seems to be a minority position: the majority position seems to be to assume that not only is telepathy "not real" but also anyone studying it is clearly a "not real" scientist.

Is there any data to support your theory that people who are willing to study telepathy are less mathematically able than those who are not?

Because it seems to me that people who are willing to rule out an entire area of study for social reasons are less able scientists than those who are willing to go where the data leads regardless of reputational consequences.

This EM drive is a case in point. Studies seem to suggest there is a real thing happening here, but scientists are not willing to study it because of the reputational risk. Which is clearly bad science.
It's not impossible. Just harder.
So many mysteries of the modern world become quite understandable when you allow yourself the luxury of understanding the relevance of intelligence.

It varies among races, knowledge of this is scientifically sound, it is the consensus of everyone who studies it seriously.

The modern tendency is to feverishly avert one's eyes from this fact, but it must be reckoned with eventually.

I believe we'll all be better off when we can stop the hand wringing of why isn't group X doing activity Y.

The sooner we can get on with building a society that is better for everyone while taking everyone's capabilities into account the better.

Not to say there are strict limits on capabilities, but groups with higher average intelligence are obviously going to win more Physics Nobels.
One thing to note though I'd that the theory of the OP could actually explain that sign shift.
We do provide a signature. But of course if you're going to check the signature, you need to get our public key from somewhere. You can't just get it from our server, because then you have the same problem: if someone hacked our server then they could replace the key file with their own. We publish instructions to actually verify the key here: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/install/#option-3-pgp-ve... But as you can see, it's complicated, and most people aren't going to do it. If you're not going to go through the whole process, then checking a signature at all is pointless.

Note that distributing Sandstorm as .debs or .rpms wouldn't solve this, because we'd still be distributing them from our own server, and you'd still need to get our key from somewhere to check the signature.
Interestingly, I've heard that Facebook will pay 25% more to work in the Seattle office over the Menlo Park office (say when relocating from Menlo Park).

There are some people who will live cheaper by commuting from the East Bay and pocket more of the money while spending less on rent. It's not all cut and dry.
The Bay Area has lots of companies that view engineers as code monkeys that are easily replaceable too.

It's probably just a common thing with startups in general.
I think amazon has lots of turnover because they treat people like shit and overwork them. 25% of seattle programmers are recovering ex-amazon people. another 1/4 are angry or depressed ex-microsoft people.
Not sure if you noticed, but all alternative search engines, like Bing and DDG, are absolutely terrible in Europe. And this isn't an overstatement.