skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a point. From the article,

“One member, Erica Stanley, had a Masters in Computer Science but felt held back because she wasn’t confident in her skills as a public speaker. WWCode presented her with the opportunity to step up and lead WWCode Atlanta’s programs, including technical events and hackathons.”

I know this sounds a bit glib – but I'm aware of several men (including myself, an Asian person of color) with higher degrees who feel held back because of a lack of confidence as a public speaker. Where are our support groups and opportunities? (Seriously, if you have any, my email is in my profile).
There is nothing to "get". It's all the same. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat. People want a free way to broadcast to their friends. Someone invents a service that does that. Slowly ads take over. Now the stream needs to be "curated". It's no longer a timeline. It's no longer sensible. Now you can no longer reliably broadcast to your friends. People search for a new service that did what the old service used to do. They don't even realize that's what they are doing, but that's what they are doing. I've done this myself now what, a half dozen times? Every 2 years you have to do it again.

It's the same damn model. It's all the same thing. Sometimes I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Does no one see this?

Snapchat will rule until he ads take over. Your stories will slowly be interrupted by ads. Then your stories will fall out of time sync and you'll only get some updates or a "Featured Updates" or some other features that's really just a way to prioritize and guarantee ad delivery. And while this is happening someone will put out something new, that essentially does what Snapchat originally did in a slightly different format. Maybe square instead of portrait or GIF or Live Photo or whatever. But it's all the same thing. This game will continue forever.

All people want is a way to broadcast into a stream of content, and view other people's content in a timeline. That's it. It works for a while until you get too big. Then you can't pay for it and you have to start inject ads and resorting the timeline until it's no longer a timeline or it's a timeline full of all this stuff no one ever wanted or asked for.

When I was 15 I'd get home from school and run to my computer to check my favorite message board. I'd hit "New Posts" and see all the content from my friends. Cool new video game discussion, new video card benchmarks, some photos someone uploaded, some rant. Honestly, nothing has really changed in 15 years except the format of the content has been continuously updated to be technically (and culturally) relevant. But a post is still a post.
Android is more popular in emerging markets. In most of these markets cash or mobile money payments are common. Most banks locally charge a monthly fee to have your card enabled to do online payments which is a pain in itself. Oflate things have started to change as most retail giants have started offering branded prepaid cards for both online payments and loyalty points.
Not trying to be mean here, but I'm having quite the time watching you try to grok Snapchat. To me your argument reads like "why would I send someone a text message when I can call them?" when text messaging was first becoming popular.

When you have more than a handful of friends that you're trying to keep in touch with, are you really going to ask every single one of them what they're up to each day? Snapchat solves this in a fun way.
You completely ignored the first part of my comment.

It's convenient, too, that a ruling against the people you disagree with is considered just, but you'll withhold judgment if it's overturned.
The mock objects trap
Reminds me of a comment included in code that I wrote a couple weeks back:

// ... Function strcmp() returns 0 on match, therefore, !strcmp() is TRUE on match.

I deliberated with my inner voice for a minute on whether to include a comment or not. Ended up including the above thinking 18 !strcmp() statements looked strangely illogical in context even after just writing it.
>how the company is doing is not and has not been public since the deal closed

This is untrue. Dell has released financials at least once since they went private, when they were bidding for EMC.
Ensuring fair pair wouldn't allow either partner to be the home support. Why? Because woman desire their partner to make more money than them.

Even if she makes the same salary as her peers she will statistically be married to a man who makes more money and so the economic pressure will be on her to be the stay at home partner.
141592653589793238462643383279502884197969399375105... that 9 should be a 1, right?
I was a happy user of the Pebble Time. However, I recently decided to switch to the Fitbit Blaze to participate in some physical activity challenges with friends and family. So far the experience with the Fitbit Blaze has been bad.

* Music control intergration with Android is flaky and rarely work
* Face of the watch is hard to see outdoors
* Minimal Android phone notification integrations / settings
* Watch face selection is minimal
* No third party app market

My Pebble felt like a very well crafted device, with solid software backing it. It wasn't perfect but when compared to the Fitbit Blaze it is far superior.

I am really looking forward to coming back to Pebble Time 2 at this point.
You can put things in the timeline from an external place, so I can push something to many timelines (e.g. sports scores) using pebbles API. That definitely requires going through pebbles servers.
Cause you know <laugh /> is just a gulp shortcut for <chuckle>&nbsp;</chuckle> (which is fully IE6 compatible)
uh... why would they add you on snapchat, go into the app, click on stories and play your videos, all without being notified, if they didn't want to view them?

No... you aren't right. you are just too stupid to know you're wrong, lady.
MP3 seems to be one of the cases where patents seem to have not hindered the spread of information. The inventor made a small amount of money, and decodes and encoders proliferated. MP3 dominated music. And there's no shortage of open source (which, I know, is not what RMS wants) code available.

This is not the catastrophic situation that I was told to expect from patentable file formats.
Equating liking children with the suicidal urge to be killed and eaten is on the overdramatic side.

What's so "detrimental" about women's choices? Is becoming doctors and lawyers so much worse than becoming programmers?

Think about this: How do you know socialization is responsible for these differences, and not inherited personality and interest (average) differences?

What would be observably different in a world where our species worked that way?
>but wouldn’t it be wonderful if they could provide more time for parents to spend with their children, therefore, making every home a happier one?

Wouldn't that be wonderful, instead we just have introverts who don't even want to leave their LOL game to eat dinner.
The abstract is phrased in the way that it's most sensationalist to the neuroscience community, unfortunately. The authors said that they found effects in a follow up study, but in the initial study that replicated [2] they found no significant results. Leeb and Rejskind's analysis suggests that the expectations of the experimenters influenced the study in the previous example.

The thing is, talk to girls -- they don't actually like to play with dolls. Many of them envied the lego sets and toy cars of their male peers.

I'm losing steam. I might flesh this out tomorrow. I've been arguing with people far less reasonable than you all day.
Thank you, Gilfoyle.

I'm with you though.
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I'd prefer you'd phrase it "were laid off" or "fired" instead of "let go". The later is an euphemism that implies some kind of free decision.
I only ever worked down in the basement, and visited via the corporate sponsorship avenues, so I'm just repeating what I've heard. Have never worked with him directly.
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> you are either not intelligent or actively trying to distort

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines.
Well, you're right that the ad problem drives people away, but you're wrong in saying that they deliver the same information in a functionally different but essentially similar method.

I broadcast and ingest very different information on Snapchat than I ever did on facebook. The ephemeral nature of Snapchat, combined with the lack of public "likes" makes it a much more positive experience to post, and thus I in turn see more interesting posts from friends.

edit: you all are starting to use the downvote button like a bunch of redditors
You're terminating the command at ; so bash is looking for the fox command, which it can't find. Quote the text.
For a couple of reasons, its not really an issue.

My dosage is pretty low (see my other reply), and I'll usually only take another 1x5mg which seems to 'top up' the previous dose for around 6 hours.
EDIT: I believe they are considered 'quick release', described as active for 4 hours, though I seem to wind down after 5. (then I get a bit fuzzy for an hour, cant hold a conversation easily, focus gets locked on tasks I'm working on, etc...)

The general effect definitely makes me more alert, but doesn't keep me awake. On weekends, I'll often have a nap after my second dose, its like my mind clears enough to settle and without purposefully taking in new stimulus, it relaxes and I drift off. Some people describe the same with Caffeine.

As a side note, I drink coffee if I want to wake up / stay up late. Caffeine seems to turn off the part of my brain that says "fall asleep", increases my heart rate a little, but thats about it.
My dex on the other hand, seems to raise everything a lot more evenly. It doesn't affect any one thing more than the others.

I'd describe Caffeine as a "dirty" feeling stimulant, and Dex as very "clean", as an anecdotal, personal comparison.
Bash is a go to scripting language for most. It would be great to see it on here.
Yep, Threshold was Halo, Redstone is Minecraft.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/08/windows-10-update-redston...
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I suppose that is because it keeps the camera running even if you are at the stories or PM panel.
Thats a really great point in cal8fornia even 6 figures is poverty the cost of living is incredible. Taxes on singles in california are sky high as well
I'm aware of such things, and in fact I work on a system that supports something very similar. (Paper to be published by my colleagues in the industry track of VLDB.) But that is a logical snapshot. Through a clever protocol, and assuming some characteristics of your transport, you can save a state across your system that is logically consistent. That is, if you restored to this logical state, the distributed application can resume from that point, and maintain integrity. You may, however, lose information from your system that was computed after you took your snapshot. The state is logically consistent, but unlikely to be representative of any actual point in time.
What are some neighborhoods that have all of things that you mentioned?
> I've been coding in C for about 20 years, and about five years ago I spent an hour chasing a case where I'd done if (strcmp(arg, "foo")) instead of if (!strcmp(arg, "foo")).

This felt completely intuitive to me the first time I saw it: a comparison of characters can result in "less", "greater", or "equal" much like a subtraction would, and if this is expressed as an integer, < 0, > 0, and == 0 are a very sensible set of possible alternatives, and of those the only one that makes most sense as "equality" is the == 0, which is idiomatically expressed as !. I think if(strcmp(...)), if(!strcmp(...)), and ditto for memcmp() and related "3-value" comparison idioms might be one of those things that divide programmers into two groups: one that instantly sees the elegance of this design and thinks it's so natural and obvious, and one that gets eternally confused by it.
It is. Not sure if the other guy has ever used Go.
This stuff is becoming more and more maddening to hear after my recent FOIA adventures.

I requested this from Chicago's Mayor's office last week:

Please provide to me all communications or records of communication (phone, email, receipts of phone/email, etc) from those in the mayor's office for the below companies. Please limit the search to Oct, Nov, Dec of 2014.

Aura - Prestige Club (of verycoolrooms.com)

Kennealy & O Callaghan

Statewide Investigative Services

Azura Investigations

Their response, which reeks of complete bullshit:

In order to run an email search, the Mayor’s Office needs the names or email accounts that you wish searched. The email system’s tool set cannot identify the department where an email user works, and therefore, a search cannot be based on a department. Parameters that would assist the Mayor’s Office in conducting an email search include: (1) the e-mail address of the account you wish searched; and (2) the e-mail address of each individual’s mailbox, if you seek e-mail correspondence to and from two individuals.

Without email addresses, search terms, or a time frame, the Mayor’s Office would have to retrieve each and every email for every employee from October – December, 2014, which is both unduly burdensome and costly. After retrieving these e-mails, each and every e-mail message a Mayor’s Office employee received or sent would have to be downloaded and reviewed to determine if it is responsive to your request or is exempt from disclosure. If any exemptions were to apply, the Mayor’s Office would need to redact such information. The entire process of retrieval of the emails, finding responsive records, reviewing for exempt information, and then redacting the materials would be onerous.
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I spent a few years teaching math and I think that made public speaking rather easy for me. If you're looking for a supportive group to help improve your public speaking skills then I recommend you checkout your local toastmasters group. I've not attended myself, but I've heard from several members that it was life changing for them. Just like most every other group, they don't discriminate based on race or gender - so you should be very welcome.

If there's a technology you really like working with, then you might want to look on meetup.com to see if you can find some like minded people and look for an opportunity to present something. Some of the meetup.com groups discriminate based on gender or race, but the vast majority do not and are very welcoming :)
> but knowing that there isn't a person behind those words, feeling what I'm feeling, definitely detracts from the experience of the whole.

It would be very interesting to create a secret fake person profile and publish AI generated music under that fake name and see if humans feel identified with the lyrics and music. See how far it goes, who knows, maybe create the next super star. Then to later reveal the secret.
The expiration date is wrong. Even before 1995, it was 17 years after publication or 20 years after priority date.
Why do you assume this? How much do you think the industry collectively pays to consultancies each year?
I downloaded snapchat a few years ago. Didn't know enough people on it and uninstalled after a month or two.

About a year ago I reinstalled as a way to share a trip I was on. It was perfect for that.

You'll post one perfect, curated photo to insta of your day, but you'll snap the random guy in the street, a funny sign in another language or just some bullshit you're up to.

Instagram feels a bit past its prime these days. I follow more commercial accounts on insta than I do on snapchat.

Snapchat it's like 40 close friends and fam. People who have my phone number.

Plus if you want to meet girls (sub 30 I should add) snap is the easiest way to connect lately.
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Those statutes didn't exist in 1985 when Peter King, their biggest cheerleader, was marching down Fifth Avenue with Nassau County's finest behind him.
That's now what that person meant. The way I look at it, Snapchat is like conversations—you don't remember most of them. Does that mean you never talk unless you have some way of knowing you will remember them forever? That's basically what Snapchat is for (unless it is important, then you screenshot!).

With Snapchat you aren't "creating" anything, just having casual conversations.
It's just, calling language emergent sounds close to the view that you have to whisper furtively when you get too close to MIT: that maybe there was no evolutionary event that created language at all, it's just a really good meme[1] that makes use of other faculties that already existed in the human brain.

Maybe universal grammar isn't a physical fact about the possible ways the human brain can communicate, it's just that if we observe 6,000 variations on an idea with the same[2] origin and try hard enough to sum them up, we'll succeed.

[1] In the original sense.

[2] Or similar origins. Maybe language is a good enough idea to arise multiple times and converge, much like eyes. And I'm not sure whether to count things like Nicaraguan Sign Language as a separate origin of language.
Promoting university enrollment for disadvantaged students really, like fucking really, is not the same as enslaving them. Likewise segregation was bad for a host of reasons among which was social isolation and misappropriation of resources (i.e. whites-only schools were well-funded while blacks-only schools were left to languish), both of which affirmative action is designed to remedy (and objectively does remedy based on fifty years studying the effects of these policies).

Clarence Thomas is a pretty shitty Justice tbh. Recommendation rejected.
I don't know about that. The whole idea of "having a soul" is so nebulous that it's hard to build a view on top of it. Do we have souls? If yes, is it possible to mechanically replicate a soul? If not, why not? What's a soul?

If instead you define art as the communication of things that can't be fully expressed by direct sterile language, that's something I can get behind. Going that route, I think that getting AI to create real art has some pretty clear challenges, but there are also ways whers I could see it being better than humans.

Depending on how the AI learns and analyzes it has a chance to have a unique perspective on human communication. From there, it can find new and innovative ways of identifying gaps between primal human experiences and sterile human communication - and with a unique understanding of human communication could come up with fascinating ways of bridging those gaps.

This is all spitballing, but I think AI could eventually be the main new frontier in art.
My main issue with doing anything voice related was the last time I looked into using Pocketsphinx I needed to define terms/dictionaries to parse from.

I'd love to mix and match NPL libraries, voice synthesis, voice identification, and speech recognition to make a comfortable "User Interface" to some systems in my house.

I think it'd be a fun project, but nothing seems to be able to take arbitrary audio streams and give me a "User identification" based on voice patterns and also arbitrary spoken text.

I know, yes, this is a VERY tall order, but it something that should be possible. At the very least, the identification part isn't needed. It's just important that it works offline and provides a text stream.
What is the new becomes the old in no time at all. Something will, and realistically has to, fill the void of high level domestic security. And unless the people that make up it are fundamentally different, or unless the structure itself and its system of rewards and punishments are different, we will only repeat history.

Laws and education are our only hope. Right now these two things are time consuming and are full of hardship so much so that the average person has a hard time taking on responsibility in these domains in their daily lives. If we could lesson these burdens for the average person in these areas then I think, I know, that we are really on to something.
A lot of people forget that VCs are salesmen trying to sell a financing product. These come with the usual risks.
America's grunt infantry heroes have always been poor white rednecks. See Alvin York[1] and Audie Murphy[2] (both decent movies, btw). It's still that way[3].

Quite frankly, as a resident of one of the disproportionately represented states in the the US military, if you're a none-too-bright young man or woman in Maine, you might as well enlist out of high school, see a little bit of the world and hopefully get slotted into something that will teach you a trade. Plus, you get some benefits later on if you do want to go to college.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-demographics-2014...
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The worst thing about snapchat when traveling however, is battery life.

That app literally sucks the juice out of your phone in 10 minutes.

Too much gps trying to load all their filters or something I don't know. I have to turn off cellular data when roaming or my phone will dead 20 minutes after I left the house.
This is 100% true. I worked on Longhorn at Microsoft.
>from a fairness standpoint, you shouldn't be forced to sell

This is absurd. If you don't wish to be outvoted in the sale of a public company, then don't buy shares in a public company. This is the deal you agreed to when you bought in. As a minority shareholder, you don't get veto power. You cannot unilaterally block a sale any more than you can unilaterally evict the board.

Nor should you be able to. As unfair as it may seem that someone else can force you to sell[1], it's just as unfair for you to be able to destroy other shareholders' value by blocking a sale.

[1] It's actually not true that you are forced to sale. Just as if you own part of a house and the other party wants to sell, you have the option to buy instead. You can pony up the cash to buy the house at market value, and your can do the same and buy the whole company. Can't afford that? Tough. You don't get to deprive other stockholders by torpedoing the same.
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Its actually the other way around. Men face more pressure to earn a higher income than women, so more men enter higher paying careers.

1. Women prefer to marry a guy who makes more money than her. So there is significant sexual pressure to become a high status ($) man.

2. Men (statistically) can't marry up large income gaps. So they know that what ever lifestyle they want, they have to be solely responsible for it.

Women on the other hand have more freedom to do what they desire since men care far less about their partners income, and women have the economic security of being able to marry a higher income partner.