skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.who.int/topics/breastfeeding/en/

Because of biology its very hard for the father to be the primary carer to children after being born.

Until men and women share equal parts of child rearing on average you wont see equal averages in other parts of society like income by age and career choices.

Women have shown a tendency to favor work life balance over income on average which means if you want to increase female mobility in male dominated jobs you need to increase working conditions for men, like equal entitlements for paternity and maternity leave.

Birth rates in western countries are already falling below 2.0 which is a reduction in population.

While some would argue this is a good thing for the environment, the west does not have the majority of the world population and a reduction in population could lead to geo political instability. The majority of the worlds population does not live under democratic rule, a reduction in population in democratic countries only is a troubling trend.
Maybe they are more competitive and significant percentage of women might not want enter competitive field because they plan to have families and know they will not be able to devote as much time to the rat race as men would.
basically this is a single-hand decision of Moroccan royalty, they do it because they can, and maybe also they don't want to lose their face while losing half of Morocco territory. If you travel there, you'll clearly see even people look completely different in those regions - Moroccans are arabs, these people are africans. their cultures are worlds apart and they really have little in common. one were conquered by the other, recently, and the world just stood and didn't care (at least it didn't end up in usual african civil war with hundreds of thousands dead and millions driven out).

this place is so far not worth any fight for anybody in the west and morocco is playing nice & easy with europe/us.
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The sky is blue, web developers use Javascript sometimes, and Apple is a profitable company.
How is there any absurdity?

If a person is expected to only choose a high paying field, but has two options open:

1. High paying field they don't really like.

2. Low paying field they'd love to do.

Then if there are social expectations that someone must make a lot of money, they will generally be forced to choose option 1.

The argument that men are forced by social expectations to choose option 1, and women are more freely able to choose option 2 is not 'absurd'. It may be correct or incorrect and would need some evidence to back it up, but please don't go around labeling positions you don't like as 'absurd'.
At this point in time, the overwhelming majority of
evidence indicates that consciousness is deterministic.

The burden of proof for the proving the lack free will would have a prerequisite of knowing all aspects of physics and universal forces, which would allow accurate predictions of the future from any given point in time.

Regardless if we're a brain in vat, can we not enjoy the ride?
I think it's more that, as a software engineer, I'm not at all representative of my age cohort. Non-techie college friends my age seem split on the Chromebook question, but because the working world has not embraced them I suspect that even the young kids who use them every day now will be forced back into a more fat-client computing system if they enter the workforce in the next few years.
But if your a cto, you often are spokeperson and a developer at the same time.

That's what he's saying
No, they don't say that on the page you linked.
To play a devil's advocate, a SPA definitely takes its time to load, but the subsequent requests may be much more fluid, since they only update the existing page, carry only the compressed and necessary information and may be retried, batched, etc.

Maybe it's more like the bias of exaggerated self-importance: people believe that their page will be used much more than once (and optimize for that), whereas most pages get their single view and are closed.
Working harder doesn't necessarily mean more productivity.
> it demonstrates internationally countries wouldn't support defending Taiwan if China did invade.

China does not have any reason to invade Taiwan. Taiwan is a peaceful nation. The people of Taiwan identify as Taiwanese, not Chinese. Taiwan is very different from the other areas you mention.
I'm still trying to figure out how you got to "America deserves to suffer..." from an article about nasa missions to Europa...
You are phrasing this rather politely.

The "Social expectations" are enshrined into law. Just a quick look at the legal rights involving paternity vs maternity leave make that pretty clear [1]. So do the regulations regarding divorce and alimony in most legislations, see eg. [2] for the case of the US.

The best way of thinking about this issue from the social power angle: Work is unpleasant in most cases (hence mostly only done when incentivised by pay or force) and best to be avoided. Those most able to avoid work are those with most social power. Parental leave is a social mechanism to avoid work, since most people prefer spending time with their children to working.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#Variation_in_in...

[2] http://www.realworlddivorce.com/
People on this site will argue that you dont have to "neglect" your children and have a career but that is only because they have money to out source their parental duties to other more poorer families who care for their own kids and yours.
Even if Colin's argument is wrong, it's not "absurd", and it's this kind of toxic rhetoric that invariably makes these discussions fall off a cliff into a cesspool.

Could we once do without it?
Altough I'm not sure it counts as programming language but Excell's functions are definitely localized. While I can see the benefit for a less computer literate audience, I always find myself struggling when switching from an english Office installation to a localized one. I would strongly recommend against does this.
> You almost certainly know one topic well enough to post something which clears that bar of utility on any given day

I'm only 27, but I don't believe this. I know just enough to know I don't know anything deeply. Does the internet need another github page regurgitating the same stuff as everyone else?
I'm not sure why this is a big deal especially when it has such scientistific value
So what do we do with the waste that takes 10,000+ years to become safe, given that the average corporation has a lifespan of less than a hundred years?
Good luck writing anything that requires all the performance you can get, inside a browser.
I don't think this is a case of the contract containing "something in the fine print that is clearly against the intent behind the contract" though. The underwriters may not have correctly calculated the exposure of the contract, but they knew what they were selling.

From the article:

> But Max-Hervé George didn't mess with any expectations. Aviva had to expect exactly this. This is nuts independent of actuarial assumptions. Aviva knew it was offering an arbitrage at its expense. The name of the thing is "Fixed Price Arbitrage Life Insurance Contract." That just means, "We have made a horrible mistake, would you like to buy it?" The answer is yes, all day long.
that won't work for my mobile safari :(
"4 different apps" doesn't have to equate "4 separate codebases" obviously. Behold the wizardry of #ifdefs! Just the old idea of graceful degradation. What is done at the GUI level can be done at the feature/functionality level. But you're still right in that it's a lot of extra effort and must be budgeted for.
In my book a "graphical shell and a widget toolkit" (and its associated ecosystem) is what makes a "desktop" different from e.g. a video game system. ChromeOS wouldn't de facto be very different for users nor applications developers with a windows kernel and windowing system.
you could think of them as a "client" and "server"
The tragedy is that the blog post, and the resulting commentary here, are about identity, when the heart of the topic the author is _really_ talking about (if you actually RTFA) is class/capital. This tragic misdirection is the defining problem of our time.

The people who are working, be it white collar "tech" employee or manufacturing/service worker are those either who are forced to do so because they will starve if they don't, or, in our industry (and perhaps social/medial work), the monastic types who write Free Software (or similar) because it is the morally correct thing to do. To say that it's because they are white or young or male (or even that this kind or service is a privilege and not a moral imperative) is the kind of misguided, thinly-veiled class erasure that the predominant strain of big-C Capitalism is currently benefiting from.

Don't let people stereotype you. If you want improve your standing in the labour market, ORGANIZE, don't stereotype. Neoliberal capitalists are taking advantage of young people and poor people. Don't let them! If we play our cards right, they won't for much longer anyway! But please keep in mind that this kind of "ingroup/outgroup" mentality is a divisive thought pattern that deliberately works to their advantage! It has become common and tedious for a deliberate reason!

Your heart is in the right place. All workplaces mistreat you. Blame your bosses, not your co-workers!
I believe somewhere at the core of the issue lies inadequate recognition of the critical importance and difficulty of parenthood. It's crazy expensive, eats up half of your life, and sometimes gets very unrewarding. But it's so obvious that being a parent is crucial to the society! A civilization that sacrifices reproduction over GDP is bound to disappear. Contrast with f. eg. the Muslim culture, where children are the main source of pride of the mother.

At the risk of sounding condescending (I'm not) let's thank our mothers for bringing us into this world. Well done job moms, you really are the best.
"expecting employees to keep up with new technologies, frameworks and languages entirely on their own"

You're looking at this entirely the wrong way. You shouldn't expect your employer to spend thousands paying to train you. If you need those skills, or if they'd be useful to you, then it's in your best interests to learn them. Perhaps things are different if you're digging holes for a living but IT is currently about constant change and if you don't keep up then you're not as much use as people who do.

Your employer doesn't care how you earn your living, and they don't care who does their work for them. They just want it done. If someone else can do it better than you, you're out.

Frankly, though, you should want to keep up. If I were interviewing I'd be more interested in someone who was interested in development, not someone who's going to want to just sit there and wait for a personal, pre-paid invite to an overpriced training course.
You ignored my explicit spelling out of the absurdity: that it assumes women pursuing certain advanced STEM degrees do so expecting to be financially supported by a man.
The flag link is a sassy little thing, it sometimes shows up and sometimes doesn't. In this case it didn't.
Ceuta and Melilla were part of Spain lomg before Morocco even existed, so no. There is nothing to return to Morocco.
Ok, the buffer seems tob be copied it in the queuing code if it needs to be queued. That's fine.

But it would have been helpful to point to that code lines instead of only "assuring".
Some journals will publish a separate file in XML, specially if they are open access. As for why PDFs, I think the answers are:

1. P (portable): you can access it offline, store it locally and annotate (something that researchers do extensively for key articles)
2. design: despite all possibilities with html, including html5, flex, interactive graphics and apps, pdf still allows you to have a much more granular control over design, and looks matter
3. tradition - old habits die hard

Specifically in relation to markdown, although some of its flavors are semantic, and that it also allows for absolutely awesome things such as R markdown (Rmd), tagging specific article sections is still complicated and cumbersome. Including div tags inside markdown has a number of issues. This is all to say that although there is a lot of people writing articles in Rmd, it is not an ideal solution.
Design by committee, legacy UI pattern support, browser support and accessibility fallbacks, excess frameworks, and do on... Designers on big projects share a lot of the same challenges with programmers.

Edit: I'm not saying it's right. I'm saying I understand.
Give a system-wide ad-blocker (AdAway) and Opera Mobile a try. You can zoom in and it will reflow the text to make it nicely readable. I wish I could switch to Firefox but the lack of reflow is an incredibly weird anti-feature.
> Would you tell someone they can be a "top sports player", if they have a life outside of playing that sport?

I've been living at a tennis academy for the past two months, and I've seen firsthand what's expected of the top players. To keep up the necessary training intensity, regular recovery periods away from tennis are built into their schedule.

In other words, having a life outside the sport is not only possible, but necessary for top performance.
All hours? Sometimes I code with a baby on my lap. They are in next room when I take break. And little baby sleeps like 16 hours a day.

It has some trade-offs, we dont have a car or macbooks, but it works just fine.
invariably makes these discussions fall off a cliff

That is of course the political purpose of such remarks. Demonise the other side, brand them as beyond the pale, as not even worthy a reply. This is a well-known rhetorical device to protect one's own position from criticism.

Alas it's difficult to defend against.
I wouldn't say "neglect". Working hard to provide for your family is the very opposite of neglect.
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It would be interesting to see whether or not one could show that exercise is tied to higher risk for some types of cancer if they would use the same methodology analogously.
But you can use WIPR to get rid of ads, at least if you are on a 64-bit iOS device.

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what a hyperbole. he picks pics of few flails made for hanging on the wall (like many swords were made, some of them as pure decorations and would break in real fight) and hence all in the world are probably fake.

I've visited countless museums/castles in western, central and eastern europe, most of them if not all had some flails shown. no decorations on them, just varied length of spikes and size of the head ball. chains looked rigid enough to last many battles, probably much longer than bearer would survive.

somewhere I read that flail was very hard to block if used by skilled warrior - the chain would go around any blades, axes and shields and just hit the body. of course in unskilled hands, I can imagine it can easily harm/kill the bearer, compared to say a plain good old sword.
> Parental leave is a social mechanism to avoid work

And there's the sexism: the idea that raising children is not "work".

Anyone who believes caring for a newborn is not hard work is welcome to try it and report back.
You've jumped to a conclusion the study does not appear to draw. It does not state that being a married primary caregiver correlates with a lower expected salary. It says that being a married woman with offspring correlates with a lower expected salary.

In other words that there is systematic bias against married women with children, not against all married caregivers with children.

The idea that men can be a primary caregiver still blows minds.

edit: s/leads to/correlates with/ which I agree is an important nuance but doesn't change my point.
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What a surprise!
While water is not uncommon in space, liquid water is a very rare. This is due to the fact that liquids in general can only exist in a relatively narrow range of temperatures and pressures (see phase diagram [1]).

Europa is one of the few places in the Solar system where we expect to find liquid water. One of the others is Mars, but most water there is solid - only small amounts of it occur in liquid form and only briefly. By contrast, Europa has a freaking underground ocean! Moreover, by some estimates it is larger in volume than all oceans on Earth combined [2].

Should we go check it out? Hell yeah!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_diagram
[2] http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120524.html
Pressure is a good thing. Pressure does affect quality. We never have enough time to ship things. There are always improvements that we can make.

Pressure is always there. It's one of those things which expands to take up whatever space which we are given. More time (shipping less) doesn't necessarily mean better quality. There are days when I can get twice as much done just because my task list has twice as much things. Then there are days when simple things on a short task list seems to take me forever. I feel I have more time so maybe I'm more susceptible to going down rabbit holes. Or maybe I procrastinate until I have enough time that I know the task will really take.

I wonder if people would really improve the quality if given the time to do so. Maybe the issue is that they don't have the tools to improve the quality in the first place. At a certain point your brain calls the task done and you aren't going to do anything more to it. Give more time to a developer writing spaghetti code and you'll probably just get more spaghetti code. To really improve, the developer would have to go through some big personal change (a steady diet of code reviews, reading good code and using other resources for improvement).

Maybe it's best to improve the processes. In software we can ship something with a beta label and expect problems. Then we can iterate on the software to improve it.

And is publishing less a solution to drowning in noise? That seems to be a separate problem to be solved using different tools. There will always be a growing volume and with volume comes noise.
I'm disturbed by this recent development that your career is considered more important than your family. Somehow, that your family is "holding you back", and the underlying message being that the career should be the focus of your life.

The family is the cornerstone of civilization! What's wrong with the traditional system where the mother and father work together to provide for a family? It makes a lot of sense to me that the father and mother specialize in different areas (fathers in workplace, women in childrearing) and that way kids both the material wellbeing and the emotional wellbeing to become well-adjusted people.

With all due respect, if the system has worked well for so long, why change it?
The are two different models for judging someone's actions. Intent and outcome. OP is judging that his intent is bad even if the outcome is good - sometimes that is important to remember.
Somehow I expected an article about a start up doing something with cute animals...
I'm probably the wrong person to ask because I hate most websites which aren't just JavaScript free pages with text and a few relevant, tasteful images, but don't people who "design" websites actually check what they look like on mobile devices, and how they act under the average 3g data speed?
> Because of biology its very hard for the father to be the primary carer to children after being born.

That's not true. Fortunately, we have in our society the technology (breast pumps) that allow women to save their breast milk for anyone capable of caring for the child to use at a later time: fathers, grandparents, and even the mothers themselves.

They're not the most pleasant contraptions in the world to use (so I'm told), but I wouldn't characterize their use as "very hard".

My wife was the primary caregiver for our children the first 2-3 months, and then she went back to work and I raised them as the primary caregiver. For me to provide them breastmilk after was a bit inconvenient at times, but never "very hard" (they continued to be exclusively breastfeed until ~6 months, and breastfeed in combination with other foods until ~1 year).
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>>I believe somewhere at the core of the issue lies inadequate recognition of the critical importance and difficulty of parenthood.

I am not sure that's a problem. I've chosen to remain childless because of it and I've never ever met a person who would downplay how hard it is to raise children and not make their (and your) life miserable in the process.

>>But it's so obvious that being a parent is crucial to the society!

Well, my view is that we have way too many people. We have already taken all the land, we are polluting, cutting down forests and there are so many of us we even make the world a worse place to live for ourselves (let alone other species).

>>A civilization that sacrifices reproduction over GDP is bound to disappear.

There is a middle ground between disappearing and having way less people. Machines are coming, we don't need that many to sustain the civilization.

>>Muslim culture, where children are the main source of pride of the mother.

Yeah, and Muslim countries are overcrowded, poor and unstable (at least vast majority of them).

>>At the risk of sounding condescending (I'm not) let's thank our mothers for bringing us into this world. Well done job moms, you really are the best.

At the risk of sounding nihilist: I am not thankful and I will not bring children myself. Too much risk of them being unhappy, breathing polluted air and getting cancer. They would also use a lot of resources, produce a lot of trash and compete over ever decreasing land to build houses on.

I support people who are fit to have children (which includes resources, a good mate, mental health and ability to make them happy) but I don't think we should incentivize it today environment.
If you dislike talking to someone so much that you wish you could automate it away, why are you talking to them to begin with?

This seems similar or related to the need people seem to have to remain permanently connected even to people who they only met for a few seconds at a bar once, to increase that ever-important "friend count". Some relationships are meant to end. It's not healthy to try to maintain 1000 vaguely familiar people as "friends".

The ridiculous thing is, most of those "friends" are dreading having to pretend to care about the things you, the guy they met for a few seconds once but feel bad deleting, post on the internet as well. Just stop it. Neither side wins in forced out-of-sympathy/fear/loyalty/obligation/etc relationships.
Yes, its all about perspective. Perspective based in reality. Context.

Take your childbirth example: mortality rate may have improved. This statement is great without context – of course thats improvement right?

Now take the context of forced sterilisation and forced abortion by local corrupt government meeting birth quotas. Thats perspective.

What do you base your perspective on?

(In response to your question on N.Korea, I don't know anything about North Korea so of course not!)

>Let's say I consider this prison to be an improvement to me dying of hunger, then would you be able to accept my perspective? Or would you consider me brainwashed?

I would consider you in prison. I would also point out that the prison (government) created the great famine (that made you hungry). Do you really believe that is improvement?
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> Women are better equipped to take care of a child in its first years

If you're talking about a nurturing personality, I think this entirely depends on the person. I've known men that are very good parents of very young children, and women who are very poor parents of very young children. It really depends on the person.

If you're arguing this position from the perspective of breastfeeding, please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744030