skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And now you know how it feels to be the only woman engineer on a team of 20 engineers. It's awkward and sometimes hard for women engineers like me to focus on our jobs because of the awkwardness contributing to hostile work environments. And this is why it's awesome that YC is supporting Women Who Code.
My opinion: in a perfect world, no one would be forced to settle for less than they are legally entitled to simply because they can't afford to pursue the case to its conclusion in court.
The question is - how explicitly? You, for example, can take a course in movie criticism and change how you see movies by applying patterns you are given there.

It's a question of are there meta-patterns and meta-meta patterns.

I've done things where a minimal set of rules in a filter led to very mildly emergent phenomena in control systems. I didn't tell it what the answers were; I told it how to find the answer ( this is much less impressive than it sounds - think of a filter into basically a running average ) .

I joked that this was AI, but I'm not sure I was really joking because it's a difficult question. In the end, it was just a (perhaps unnecessarily complex) feedback leg. But it worked when nothing else would - but once you find the thing you're looking for, you tend to stop looking.
I use google.com/save and the corresponding extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-google/meo...
It's a solid starting off point for a range of other roles. Basically the Upwind section of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

I find a lot of professionals used to be programmers.
It's kind of interesting how being the purchasing agent for an Amazon seller account gives you visibility on Amazon's health. After getting my 9am sales report, I panicked and had our tech team check if our seller software was working properly. Conversely, I knew Bezos was laughing all the way to the bank when people ragged on Prime Day last year before the official numbers came out. We didn't even have a featured deal and could see the insane difference.
I wish that too, but in the meantime, if everyone is doing something wrong, then let's give some praise to those who are doing it less wrong - this way we can create an incentive for others to follow.
I think the right people to ask are the users of comitfy.com. If there are not users, there's little point in adding features. It would be better to find users and iterate based on their feedback.
Isn't Facebook the typical example of this? Many people aren't very good with legalese and really should consult an attorney for review of contracts, but when you're new to this and excited to get funding, you're dealing with a much more experienced party and are excited to get funding.

I would think this not only happens, but is common.
I hate that pixels made a comeback. They are a total pain in the era of multiple resolution sizes, aspect ratios, orientations, and densities.
Are you asking how to identify such a target protein? Well, you could sequence cancer peptides using mass spectrometry, or sequence the cancer cells' genome, and look for proteins that are sufficiently mutated relative to the wild type copy. However, we already have pretty good knowledge of which genes tend to be mutated most often in cancer cells, so you could do targeted sequencing on those genes first to look for low-hanging fruit. In general, it's still a hard problem, though.
> distributed

And even the Xen example is rough; the new copy of the system will be mostly functionally identical, but any reliance on the state of external things (like remote storage or IO or the state of unfair nondeterministic locks) will rapidly cause state to diverge.

Which only begs the question about how high-fidelity a copy has to be to be a "copy", even in the case of a hypothetical consciousness copy, and leads into the even more subtle question of the time evolution of a person and whether the me of now and the me of twenty seconds ago can be said to represent the same singular "consciousness" at all.
Why Security Is No Longer Just the Domain of Security Experts
I built my own with an off-the -shelf CMS (Textpattern) and a bookmarklet. Works great, almost 3000 links in there, searchable, etc. I wrote a tutorial on it for txptips.com.
Apple reporting outages for many of its services
I'm not Kenyan, but South African, but have been to Kenya to look at mobile payments there. Are you sure about this?

My understanding was that M-Pesa started as a domestic remittance solution. Kenya doesn't have a well developed ATM network, so there was a great need for simple and secure domestic remittances (send money home to your family every week type use-cases).

The remittance solution replaced existing methods like sending physical cash with an "agent" (e.g. taxi driver) at high cost/risk or driving/walking very far to a bank branch.

Once the remittance use-case was established, payments was an easy addition, as there was already value flowing through the system.
I play vanilla, and have since a short time pre-beta. I like the simplicity; it's kind of like playing a creative version of Solitaire with a giant Lego set.

Then again, I also don't play on a server, watch people on Youtube, or really have a connection to any kind of community, so I don't really have the chance to get envious of what other players have available.
Interesting and worrying. Could you give more details on the "low status" and the "small shelf life"? Especially as it relates to gender (if indeed it does - forgive my ignorance).
It's time for a new form factor to shake up the industry. Mobile devices are getting far too bulky.

See Cicret's wristband.[1] This is a revolutionary concept. The video is fake. But there are people plugging away to make it real.

They're going to have the battery life problem from hell, projecting that image in daylight. As it gets closer to reality, it's getting bulkier. But they claim they need to raise $500K, and are 94% of the way there.

This might be the next Pebble. Or the next uBeam. It may be a hoax. But it's a good concept.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J7GpVQCfms
[2] https://cicret.com
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Ben, I'd've thought you'd known me long enough to know that I'm familiar with RSA and the history of number theory. (Maybe I misremember; you seem to have started doing Perl after I left clpm.) I read A Mathematician's Apology last year (most of it, anyway), and my friend Nadia keeps publishing papers that factor large numbers of RSA keys in practice, the latest being CacheBleed. Your understanding of cryptography is surely deeper than mine — the most I've ever done myself is write an implementation of SRP — but it's not as if I haven't heard of the field.

I had thought that it was common knowledge that (small) prime numbers had a lot of practical uses (mental arithmetic in general, arithmetic with fractions, including with vulgar fractions, gear train design, that kind of thing) but apparently I was wrong. It turns out that lots of people don't know about this. So my inference, that only a complete idiot would not know this, he did not know this, and therefore he was a complete idiot, was ill-founded.

And so I came out looking like some kind of ignorant, arrogant know-it-all. I really appreciate the feedback, Ben. Natanael_L, I'm sorry I was such a dick to you.
The only question remains - does it feel like something to be a computer? If the computer has the ability to sense like us, to reason like us, to form concepts, to imagine and to judge and act according to its goals, is this enough to consider it conscious?
The Fading Truth [a scifi short story]
not a few Apple shills on here I see.
I didn't press anything because it was a free will test. The instructions tried to get me to press buttons and I refused. Free will established.
He was the main recognizer of it's value to build products which were easy to sell.

It's hard to find many other CEO's who were so articulate as to why they believed what they did would work and turned out to be right.

He was wrong about many things too, but if it wasn't for him apples wouldn't have made the product choices they did despite what everyone else was doing.
"I can do whatever I want! See, I do exactly what the n-th digit of pi says to!"
From a physical point of view, what are experiences?
"accidentally" - please... Most Canadians don't even know it exists or what it does, but the CSE is Canada's version of the NSA. It is the five eyes partner. The origin of the CSE and its SIGINT role in siphoning up everything it can is directly related to the post-WW2 creation of the five eyes agreement / UKUSA and collaboration between English language nations' SIGINT apparatus.
failed finding list comprehension in Python
Well put, then there's historical facts of countries using protectionism to make themselves developed.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1843310279
Undefined behavior has a purpose: Not specifying implementation details makes it easier to write new implementations and for a wider variety of platforms. "De facto standards" take away this freedom, so ideally you'd want to reject reliance on UD, but I see your (second) point about that not always being practical. I guess "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others". Just make sure that your foundations are strong (pun) or the whole house will be an EcmaScript.
We do, but we also get pushed to move to places where making a six-figure salary in USD still means you need to have a roommate. Where I am (Dallas) that isn't true. Not coincidentally, the gender ratios in this industry are much better here than they are in the Valley.
I thought Facebook was kind of an example of the opposite of this? Isn't Facebook somewhat unique in that Zuck still has so much control?
Declaring ownership and provenance with complete certainty is very hard, which is why we don't profess to do it. Our approach is to nondestructively aggregate potentially conflicting claims and allow for more nuanced resolution at read time, as appropriate for a given situation. In your particular example, we would have a chain of derivative works.

Obviously, in certain cases (payment routing) a definitive answer is required, but this is already something that PROs and similar organizations deal with on a daily basis, and we can support their arbitration.
Wait, you clicked the link?
Well, I made a GIF that went viral. It was posted on all of the major websites and attributed to someone's twitter who found it on someone else's twitter. I could see how it would be nice to have made a few dollars/cents from that image. Although, is it my content or CSPAN's (the original makers of the video?)
Elon Musk: Chance we are not living in a computer simulation 'one in billions'
Oh sorry for the confusion, I was talking about that other guy who had a lot of his equity diluted.
What is this, and why is this on the front page of HN? Are either Qlik or Thoma Bravo companies that I should know about?
but if that 100B annual sales includes periodic down-time, and this down-time is within the normal annual amount, then you are double counting down-times...
This makes sense. The only reason you'd use Dvorak is if you had no free will!
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EFF Joins Coalition Opposing Dangerous CFAA Bill
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I do something similar too, but I have around 1TB of data, so a full restoration will be painful. Remembering to plug in an external hard drive is irritating so I want to get a NAS that my laptop auto connects to, like time machine. What do you think?
And...they've both left the company. We've been having a lot of layoffs recently, along with significant turnover.
the biggest problem with that last link is the spacing and weight of the text - not the color scheme. I had a hard time with both the light and dark versions
Elon Musk – Full Interview – Code Conference 2016
> many kinds of programming could be unified and also be made safer by always using "old" values (from the previous frame) to make new values, which are installed in a the new frame

John Carmack came across this idea at some point - in 'Functional programming in C++' [1], he writes:

"When you start thinking about running, say, all the characters in a game world in parallel, it starts sinking in that the object-oriented approach of updating objects has some deep difficulties in parallel environments. Maybe if all of the object just referenced a read only version of the world state, and we copied over the updated version at the end of the frame… Hey, wait a minute…"

I don't know if he got this explicitly from the Strachey lineage, or if it's the inevitably approach if you try to use immutability to tackle concurrency.

[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional...
Why is that though?
Seriously, no.

Buying a Honda Civic is buying an asset which has intrinsic value, and can be used to generate value beyond the $ price.

Buying cash gives you no additional value.

So trust me, the amount of cash does not change Enterprise Value.

If you don't believe me, read any valuation materials, such as Damodaran's.
File a bug!

http://bugreporter.apple.com
There are a variety of studies suggesting that "solid support for working moms" - in the form of paid leave, subsidized day care and the general Nordic experience - do not actually help much.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/05/the...

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

In fact, paid leave encourages women to be less attached to the workforce - as paid leave goes up, women leave the workforce for more time.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2348505

the country in the OECD which is most successful at getting women into tech is Saudi Arabia. (Next up are Ireland and Mexico.) Are they known for solid support for working moms? They do a lot better than countries you'd expect to support working moms, like Sweden and Finland.

https://www.oecd.org/gender/data/percentageoftertiaryqualifi...

(Outside the OECD Iran does quite well also, as does India.)
A related issue is the coworker who knows you are working with technology X and provides links to tools to make your technology X toolchain better, particularly in a public forum like stand-ups. Such recommendations are fine when the intent is genuine, but often I feel it's just a case of trying to earn brownie points with management. /rant
I think its just personal taste and preference. It also depends alot on the kind of projects interests you to work on.

Go with what you like.
>A machine could act and respond in a manner indistinguishable from humans but still be unconscious.

There are some types of behaviour that could make it clear a machine was conscious from a practical point of view. Say you had a robot teacher and threw something when it's back was turned and you tried to frame a fellow classmate but the robot saw through it and told you not to do that. It would be fairly clear it was conscious of what was going on from a practical point of view. You could of course say it's not real consciousness because it a robot but how do you know a human teacher is conscious beyond such behaviour?

A statement like "They've figured out what we're up to and are thinking how to stop us, though luckily they are not conscious." doesn't really make sense regardless of what the they is.
We especially shouldn't be surprised if mothers make different decisions with fathers when society judges them, parenting books fearmonger, and parental leave is extremely disparate.

Why don't we set aside the biological differences (all of which we have the means to offset) and tackle the most obvious problems first.
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Seattle's Sound Transit approves faster timeline for next phases of light rail
Apple cloud services outage
A device-global push protocol isn't entirely useless, since the device OS can wake all the clients at once if it needs to, synchronizing network activity. But I agree it's a significant overhead if you're able to just hold open the TCP session, as well as concentrating yet more information into a single entity you don't get to choose.
Oh, I somehow also missed the touch screens with keyboards item. Which I agree with, however keep in mind the original iPad supported bluetooth keyboards. Not to mention they launched it with this guy:
http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/larger/pub...
I don't think that the parent comment is assuming one way or another, just offering a plausible explanation given the very limited perspective of the metrics being quoted.

For example, how does this compare to other trends for female jobs in other sectors? How do the figures compare when you separate the population between those with children and those without?

When someone wants to make a claim like: "These numbers reflect two problems: 1) the percentage of women who work in tech is low, and 2) women are leaving tech jobs in droves."

I would expect more analysis than simply: "In 2014, 26% of computing jobs were held by women – and that’s down from 36% in 1991"

I think there are a lot of bogus statistics/conclusions being drawn when it comes to many social issues, female equality being one of them (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oqyrflOQFc).

I am a libertarian so ultimately I believe that everyone should be free to make their own decisions even if there are gender preferences at play. Not saying there aren't issues, but simply saying, "X is anti-women, because only Y% are female," is academically dishonest.
Facebook it shutting down its Notify app
Or maybe their autosuggest algorithms aren't picking it up because of low search volume, low conversion, or whatever factors they use for model training? That's not much proof of a censorship conspiracy.
Yes, and AFAIK it's a known business advice - if you want to build a sustainable company and get rich off it, the most valuable thing for you is ownership. Taking VC money is signing off some degree of ownership - you get some cash now, but seriously limit your potential value later.

But most startups are not built with sustainability in mind. They're a get-rich-quick scheme.
I'm not at all saying that I don't believe you, but we're at the point where we need to leave anecdotes out of this and start gathering good data. As much as I've seen your examples, I've also seen all of the counter examples (except to point 3 because that's just how it is in the States).

I spent the first few years of my working-life in female-dominated industries/workplaces and almost the entirety of my tech career in female-dominated or equal workplaces. I've yet to work somewhere without pay-parity (actually the hedge fund I worked for paid women more). From my anecdotal perspective, the world out there is wonderful.

But I know that's not true. I have a strong filter against toxic work environments - I simply would never end up at a company like that.

I'm just asking for good data that can speak for itself. This is what our industry does.

Aside: frequent surveys/studies show that more than 50% of participants have engaged in an office romance, equally across genders. I've never done this, but it's a big stretch to say that asking out a coworker is asshole behavior at this point. It's much more about the how.
> that it benefits the buyer and seller?

You would have to prove that assertion. Or at-least make a case beyond the superficial level.

Like the parent poster said, India doesn't want to turn itself into a e-waste dump for the world. Such a situation would be bad for its citizens as the older phones need to be recycled/processed.
you are taking the 'thinking about thinking' too litteraly (that would be 'thinking about thinking about thinking'). For your HN example, reading itself would be an unconscious process, you becoming aware of the words as they get processed on your mind and acquiring meaning and triggering recollections and additional side thoughts is the conscious meta process.
I personally feel fairly clear on that though I may be wrong.

That's the thing. Many people feel clear about their particular explanation of consciousness. These explanations build on some simple intuitions, may resonate as true to others. But often don't agree with the other explanations other people make (or are fairly trivial).

It's fine for vague social consensus but very far from an engineering spec. Yet this consciousness thing seen as being shared between people like Penrose or new agers who give pure vitalist/fluffy-cloud explanations and those who attempt to logically coherent explanation.

It is I think awareness in the central part of the brain that [bring] in data from other parts and can think about it.

- Data that reflects data? Of course computers have that.
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Three rather simple queries I ran that turned up with nothing:

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If you plan on linking money to content, you better have a really definitive answer. That movement of money is essentially the purchase of a license. If a business or individual relies on your answer as to who that license should be purchased from, they do not want to be hit with a copyright complaint should the real owner appear. And if people end up abusing your system to monetize content that they should not, expect all sorts of legal docs in the mail.
You can generate a sequence like this if you can see what the program thinks your next input will be, and choosing different.

It's fairly easy to debug/modify the javascript to do this
thanks, I will check it.
Time Machine would work. Backblaze.com is an option as well ($5/month for unlimited storage, they'll backup an external drive) if you're looking for offsite backups.
> How quickly did the starfish return?

From wikipedia:

> Most starfish cannot move quickly, a typical speed being that of the leather star (Dermasterias imbricata), which can manage just 15 cm (6 in) in a minute.

So if they managed to spend all their time moving, none of their time feeding, and moved only in a straight line, and never fatigued, they'd move 1.5km in a week. But even if his intervention wasn't completely successful, how do you propose to explain the variation between experimental and control treatments?
Nope, previous block versions get GC'd. I don't see how LBAs have any relevance here... you're talking about a much lower layer than what Torus is operating on.
Qlik is one of the major data visualization tools like Tableau.

This is part of a trend of activist investors and/or private equity taking companies private because the Street has unrealistic expectations.