skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Europa sounds like a valid and important target for a lander. Just imagine if evidence of life is detected; it would drastically change our perception of our role in the universe. Suddenly we're not the only game in town. Religionists would have to adapt, conspiracists would spin their theories, and money for new expeditions would magically appear.

The question in my mind is, why is this initiative coming from the Congress rather than from the President or from NASA itself? What's happened to our national sense of adventure and exploration?

I remember the space fever of the 1960s and 1970s, and how it faded in the late 70s into a dull pride that we'd built a space bus, albeit a very expensive and compromised design that could take a team to low orbit and not much farther.

I guess we should celebrate the fact that someone with the power to fund new missions into deep space is making it happen, for whatever reason. But I'd like it better if Nasa were getting the kind of funding it really needs and the bold leadership it deserves to accelerate these sorts of spectacular missions that will advance our technologies and inspire more young people to go into the sciences.
They're not going to need support for themselves with either STEM degree - but they're not going to be able to support a husband and children on a low paying STEM. And nobody would expect them to support a husband. Meanwhile a man would be expected to support a wife and children off his salary. This is the expectations difference you are calling absurd.
The fact that you were able to take time off to care for your children suggests that you are most probably middle class or better, this social standing in society is much more likely to be a contributing factor to childrens long term success than breast feeding.
> Unless the mother continuously pumps her milk during the day her production will prematurely stop

That's true. Most jobs in the U.S. allow women to do this, and those that don't are unfortunate and should be shunned if possible.

> Additionally the world health organisation recommends breast feeding for two years.

Yes, but the APA in the US recommends 6 months exclusive/at least 1 year. In our case, it was a bit over 1 year for the first child (she wanted to stop), and almost 2 years for the second (had to be weaned, imagine he would have kept going until adolescence had we permitted /s).

A major reason the WHO recommends breast-feeding for two years is because of water quality issues in developing countries. We are fortunate (for the most part) to have water here in the US free of those pathogens that cause early childhood mortality.

EDIT: I'm rate-limited at the moment, but after carefully reading your reply below, I'd say we probably agree on most parts of the issue posed in TFA. However, unless I'm misreading your position, we appear to disagree on the relative fitness of men and women to raise young children (My position: thanks to technology, both men and women in the West are equally capable of raising infants and young children. In my opinion, their fitness for that task depends on the person).
It's funny actually. I recently heard a GCHQ radio ad for a software development role. The entire pitch was the nature of work preventing it from being taken home and as a result enjoying family time.
Maybe then it would have been successful! ;-)
Among the many charming details, do also note the author's choice of words in "social serfdom number".
> The majority of women could have a more nurturing personality despite your anecdotal evidence

And your evidence is?
I can see where you're coming from, and I suppose it's our different life experiences that cause us to have different perspectives.

I grew up extremely poor and despite being upper-middle class now, I know my past influences how I see things.

Also, my experience working in China and with other Mainland Chinese just paint a different picture than what people tend to see in the Western media. (I'll add that I made it a point to avoid the expat bubble, so perhaps my perspective there is different from other expats as well.)

> I would also point out that the prison (government) created the great famine (that made you hungry).

Just to clarify, the government that created the great famine (Mao) is very different than the one that started to feed the people (Deng)

In fact, the Mao tried to have Deng assassinated several times.

So yeah, I would say it's an improvement since the CCP is now saying the Cultural Revolution was wrong.

I guess I see it as progress. If you take a look at countries like South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, all three were dictatorships until the 90s, when their quality of life improved enough for them to turn to democracies.

So I guess we'll just have to see where the Chinese people take themselves.
Amazing, and what a talented and tenacious person. Well worth his efforts from my view!
> It says that being a married woman with offspring leads to a lower expected salary.

No, it doesn't.

It says that there is a correlation between being a married woman with offspring and a lower expected salary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...

Furthermore, if you even had read the article you would've noticed the bit where it says "Weinberg says that the data cannot identify or tease apart factors that might explain why married women with children earn less — among the possibilities"
Our virtual neighbourhood polarises us further
There is no such thing as "if you build it, they will come". I mean, the movie "Field of Dreams" was about a literal miracle, after all. Open source software takes just as much marketing and "sales" to convince people to use--say nothing about contribute to it--as proprietary software.
Github pages seem to be a very suboptimal way to publish for professional purposes unless you decide to design them, since the credit for whatever you publish there goes to Github rather than to you. (Not an exaggeration, either: I got quoted in the BBC recently as "this page on Github.")

I don't know what you know, but I bet it is a lot more than what you think you know. I was 27 once, too. My day job at the time involved scintillating subjects like dealing with edge cases in parsing the CSV file format used to encode the results of the central Japanese university examination. (センター試験) A fun edge case, which you absolutely have to handle correctly, is how to calculate the English subscore for someone who has a medical waiver from the speaking comprehension portion on account of being deaf.

I assert without fear of contradiction that if I had published on that topic, in Japanese or English, I'd be the world's leading publicly accessible authority on that question. How many posts in that genre would it take to totally own that file format, which is only documented in a single out-of-print booklet whose copies are guarded like cherished relics of an ancient civilization the likes of which we'll never see again? My over-under is ten.

There are higher saliency problems in the world than that CSV file -- oh goodness, are there -- but there are hundreds of people with hiring authority who care about that CSV file very keenly indeed. (I'd not particularly recommend working for any of them, but one problem at a time right.)

What's the weirdest problem you've solved in the last year?
Why did they name it Europa anyway? Seems like it will cause all sorts of confusion amidst hilarious typos. "Scientists speculate about Europe's ability to support intelligent life." Perhaps we should rename it "Vulcan" or "Krypton" or some recognizably alien name to reduce the chances for misunderstanding.
Most parents have a deep emotional bond with the children, especially
when they they are vulnerable babies. It's probably the strongest emotional bond humans can form. Due to this bond, the relationship between
children and their parents is completely different than the
relationship between a corporation and its employees. There are no
performance goals, there are no annual reviews, there is no stack
ranking. Most parents would die for their children, who would die for
their boss?

If the relationship between you and your children is like that between
you and your employer, you are probably not doing it right ...

You can also look at this from a power angle: what do feminist
typically campaign for? Do they typically campaign for mandatory
patertal leave to match or exceed maternal leave? This would be the
case if looking after one's children was such a drag. Nope, they are
typically quite happy with women getting the biggest chunk of parental
leave, but they want society to view maternal leave as work on par
with working in a company.
The most interesting aspect about all these articles is it appears the market is efficient. If there was a true gap in pay and productivity for women then it would make sense for companies to favor women over men when hiring. That there does not appear to be any gap is both reason for celebration (if an employee) and dispair (if an employer).
It worked great for me with one kid, but with a baby and 2.5 year-old it's impossible. Sometimes caring for both together as one person is impossible (i.e. if both are ill).

My son was amazing, he slept 16 hours, giving me 5-6 hours during the day and 2-3 in the evenings to work. Working at the same time was great.

My daughter however sleeps very erratically alone, however she sleeps OK on a person. So you have a baby in your arms for 9 hours of the day and a toddler running around causing mayhem (and demanding attention).

So, yeah, if you're lucky then it works.

Those sleeps will stop though, with my son he was sleeping 4hrs / day up until he was 26 months. Which is about as long as I lasted having a work-at-home day :)
That's not necessarily true. It could just be that a woman's expectations are a potential husband earns above a certain amount of money, while men don't place the same value on a woman's earnings.
> There's a little thing called opportunity cost, and whether we like it or not, how far you can walk down a particular skill-set is DIRECTLY RELATED to how much time and work you put into it.

Not sure about painters and musicians, but professional sportsmen burn pretty rapidly, both physically and mentally. You can be the best coder in the world at 25-30-35, but if you devote your time to coding and coding alone you will eventually burn out. It's not a matter of if it's only a matter of when.

I'd rather be an average-to-mediocre coder who codes well into his 40s and 50s then having to deal with depression and end-of-world scenarios brought about by burn out and the feeling that it's no use in you writing code.
Is there any reason why liquid water would not be possible below the surface of planets? Planets with active cores should radiate heat.
Java applets could have been provided with a good binding to the DOM of the containing page, I don't remember anyone asking for this at the time.
They still need to maintain fitness and dietary standards during that time though?
Why Big Data Is the Next Gold Mine?
> only because they have money to out source their parental duties

Holy jumping to assumptions, batman.
OneCore to rule them all
Celebrities Who Are Hardcore Gamers
Can we fork Unicode into a version that has none of these… things?
Imagine selling bottled Europan water. Fiji, move over. That would help fund the mission, and no more battles with environmentalists over Nestle taking too much out of the aquifer etc. of course, that's assuming the Europans won't object.
> That's true. Most jobs in the U.S. allow women to do this, and those that don't are unfortunate and should be shunned if possible.

If only the majority of the US population had that kind of choice.

We are arguing on the same side on this one just quibbling over semantics, "the pay gap" is in my opinion a reflection of the asymmetric nature of raising children between employees and companies, this manifests by women choosing careers on average that are more flexible and have better non monetary benefits, these benefits dont have a positive effect on profitability of the companies/industries that offer them, therefore they have lower average incomes than others. until that burden is equally placed on all companies we wont see any change in the choices females and males make because they will be constrained by their situation (family etc) and that will influence their decisions. To suggest this situation is because of sexism and not capitalism is intellectual fraud the statistics just dont back it up.
Right, because some rando on HN knows better than them what works best for their situation, based on a one sentence comment by-proxy.
It is a very small minority, but we're discussing "top developers", which is an even smaller minority. They shouldn't have problems finding remote jobs.
Life outside Earth is not a binary question. Its a matter of probabilities, and with the vastness of the cosmos it would actually be very surprising if life did not exist anywhere else at all. But inside the solar system, its a different matter altogether. If we find life on Europa then it increases the chance that life is in many more places than we thought.
There's a certain sense of irony that we're all here disagreeing on a Saturday.
But like Allo, they were never hesitant to say that was the reason for having Google voice and making it free. They needed those millions of hours of voice so that they had the broad diverse base of voices and accents to work with. This is just Google's way of doing things and always have been. Always a little uproar and a week later everyone has forgotten. And two years from now Google can say "but we TOLD you so!"

Honestly, as a developer I don't know if I agree with it or not. If I was in their shoes, it seems like the way to do it. They are honest in what they are doing, but I think its because they know people will forget sooner rather than later.
> ("tab" handling is abysmal, at least with Chrome on Android)

this can be fixed by going to the settings via the chrome menu and turning 'merge tabs and apps' off, if that's the behavior you're referring to
True, but that reading 4 bullet points takes ~5 seconds and you might have a new feature which really helps you and you might miss it otherwise.
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Assumptions? it is just simple math, if your not working your not earning, so you have a choice, make less money and look after your kids or pay someone else too.
Some projects are pet projects. What people do when they want to polish their skills. Other people do it as a day job. Other people do it in combination with a paper... Then, companies might open source software if that software doesn't represent a competitive advantage. Other do it to improve their chances to be hired (github as resume)....
>>If that's the case, they're growing up to be remarkably well-adjusted, happy, and (quite) intelligent children despite that supposed deficiency.

It's one of the factors. There are others which you are likely to take care of very well.

As to breast-feeding and immune system:
http://emph.oxfordjournals.org/content/2015/1/21.short

This requires contact between mother and child when breastfeeding for mother's body to produce compounds in milk in response to infection in a child.

>>It sounds like you've been exposed to a very certain, very traditional, kind of family situation.

Definitely not. I was raised in a very liberal family with mother having dominant personality. I am an atheists and I hold (and still do) very liberal views on most issues.
My views on parenthood are shaped by my experiences and what I observe but obviously that is biased because of my environment and people I've met during my life.
It's true that the happiest people with families I know are all at least a bit conservative when it comes to the role of mother and a father (even if very liberal otherwise).
Uhuh. Because the author didn't list half a dozen examples you cast them as sexist and racist. Bravo. We need more people like you in society!
Depends who he means with "we". Being a Google Design Ethicist, you'd expect he means Google - which isn't exactly well-known for protecting privacy.
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A manual refresh button apparently doesn't help, because now you stumble from the "constant interruptions" trap into the "slot machine" trap...
Lol wut? How us that racist? Or, how is that stopping 20 year old white guys from living their life? There's no system in place to crush young white males from doing what they want. But for women and other non binary genders and POC, yes, there is.
The fluid simulations, like [1], could and should enable so many cool games.

I can't wait to see a revival of Lemmings, or Worms, with this kind of physics.

[1] https://benedikt-bitterli.me/bbw.html
You have provided zero evidence for either of these statements. The second is particularly problematic, as without regulation charities trend toward spending all of their revenues on overhead.
And which part exactly is disconnected from reality?

Developers have it pretty well with family time even in 9-5 job.
My friend works on boat and is away from home 6 months every year. My other friend works is truck driver and is home on weekends, if he is lucky.

I did my math and I decided to value family time over income. Part of that was moving to cheaper area to reduce expenses and to be with grandparents. Finding remote work is quite easy if you made some tradeoffs.

I said article is disconnected from reality, because it does not handle basic math. Somehow it expects everything without any sacrifices or trade-offs. Part about not sacrificing your hobbies on top of job and family is best example.

And when that does not work, blame is on people who did not even started their own family yet.
The point is that the author should have elaborated on the circumstances that are required to be able to do that, rather than generalizing based on gender or race.
> I propose the Daenerys Targaryen test.
If you know who Daenerys Targaryen is, you do not have "no time." You have priorities which included "I wish to know who Daenerys Targaryen is." No judgement! I do, too! But if you know who Daenerys Targaryen is and you're dissatisfied with your career growth, you should attempt to consciously be aware of the fact that you can choose different things in the future.

I don't agree. I watch Game of Thrones in the late evening hours where I'm reduced to a vegetable by a whole day of working/coding. I doubt I could squeeze more effective work hours into my schedule (maybe for a couple weeks, but not over a long term).
> a 500-page executive summary

That page count is a horror in itself.
where is the link to pdf?
I'm prepared to be impressed by someone from the right who is interested in science.

Be honest, socially conservative and/or fiscally conservative and/or government conservative does not induce science.

Who is this congressman and what's his motivation?

I mean he is even from Texas no less.

Is Texas going to get any of that money? Looks like only California.

Maybe he should be in charge of the climate change committee.
>I don't know why he keeps saying different things on about every occasion.

Only he doesn't (say different things) here. He's talking about the Chromebook as a computer -- he couldn't care less about the Chromebook concept itself and the underlying OS for himself. But he likes the hardware. He himself runs a Chromebook now (used to have a Macbook Air 2-3 years ago), but with the OS wiped and regular Linux installed.

But when it comes to Linux adoption in general, he sees Chromebooks as a positive development.
Benchling (YC S12) is hiring engineers to build rich design tools for biotech
Windows doesn't actually support Unicode, not really (for backwards compatibility reasons): it's just UCS-2 at the OS level, and hence you can't represent OS level strings as UTF-8 without data loss, because in practice you need to handle lone UTF-16 surrogate code units. This is why WTF-8 exists.

https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
Well you should be able to style them differently. Problem is, outside of basic text fields, textareas and buttons (which can be styled completely through standard CSS), many form elements like select menus, sliders, radio buttons, checkboxes and others can only be styled through browser specific prefixed code, ugly hacks and the not quite official and not quite obsolete appearance property.

If all these fields had nice clean ways to style them so they looked the same cross browser (even with different defaults and behaviour), then there would be less people using these giant scripts and frameworks.
Is it possible to translate this to layman terms?
This is so awesome product, i can clean my phone in just few minutes :)
This is examined in some detail by the Youtube creator "Lindybeige".

He talks about: the name of the weapon; how the weapon may have worked; the veracity of the historical evidence for its existence; and its effectiveness, based on historical evidence, speculation and live action role-playing experience.

In particular, from his communications with the Metropolitan Museum it appears the examples in their collection are likely forgeries from a later era.

His general conclusion is that it may have existed, but if it did it wasn't very popular and almost certainly not very good.

Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-y6oirEsZA

Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjzE8YMkC5s
I'm not sure who's being a hypocrite? New Republic for reporting the situation?
Local industry and culture? What are you even talking about?

Colonialism is probably one of the best things to happen to a lot of territories, like for example most of Africa.
Maybe racist by the dictionary definition (judging by skin color) but it holds no force against actually preventing a white male from doing anything. I as a white male can underachieve my way into anything while other genders and people of color must work much harder for the same.
Oh. If there's a paper, that settles it.
I am a recruiter and always ask this question - "Is programming just a job for you to get the bills paid, or do you have a broader interest?"

The thing to understand, and what the author of this post has wrong, is that I am not looking to hear about how much TIME a developer spends on programming. I am wanting to hear the STORY of their personal interest. Because the truth is that if software development is a personal interest to you, then you will find a way to pursue that interest, within the time that you have. You'll find a nook or a cranny in which to dig about learning things and finding out new stuff - maybe for 30 minutes before you go to sleep, or on the train, or somewhere.

The point is that employers want people who are INTERESTED - they are not necessarily looking for people who spend all available personal time pursuing an interest in software development.

And I can tell you with certainty that if you claim to have a person interest in software development but you cannot find any time outside work to pursue that interest, then you are lying. Perhaps to both yourself and the recruiter, but certainly you are lying. If you have a personal interest then you are DRIVEN to pursue that interest. If you claim a personal interest but also say "I'm just too busy these days to do anything.", then you have failed to admit that in fact you do not have a personl interest, you just go to work to do your job and go home.

So no, recruiters - at least this recruiter - are not looking for people who spend all non work time pursuing an interest in software, but are looking for people who can effectively articulate their passion and can explain how they DO fit it into their life.

Talk to me, engage me in a conversation, explain in some depth the things that you do find interesting. This has nothing to do with spending hour up endless hour writing code, it has to do with connecting directly to your personal interest, to the thinking that you have done.