skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that women composed a very large part of the history of Computer Science, I don't see their influence missing from the foundation layers. It's in more of the recent (30 - 40 years) time period, where we haven't been innovating nearly at all, where the influence of women is particularly lacking.

I think the more interesting thought experiment is if there is a correlation there. A lot of women leave this industry because the people in power tend, on average, to have limited emotional intelligence and lack the nuanced viewpoints of maturity, and that they perpetuate those power structures on to others with those same limitations, so you have stasis.

The bigger question, then is, how would databases and programming languages look if we had more people with complex and nuanced emotional frames, who can collaborate and hold ambiguity? I think the answer is very compelling. These lost years (30 - 40 years) might not have had to be lost at all. Sadly, we'll never know.
I don't think anything is hidden, it's just a different syntax. The only thing that's really changed is that in some of the Elixir modules they've changed the order of parameters to make them consistent.

I use Elixir and I like it, but I wouldn't tell you to use Elixir over Erlang. There's no competition, what's good for one language is good for the other. So use whatever makes more sense to you and hopefully all of us in this Erlang community win.
This conversation might be more helpful if you had it with other faculty, particularly the Director of Graduate Studies, in your department. In general, Departments want their graduate students to graduate (statistics on graduation rate are used to justify training grants), and to be successful in their later careers. And Director's of Graduate Studies have a useful historical perspective; they may know that your advisor has had a history of problems, or that your situation is unusual and bears looking into.

There are almost certainly resources in your Department to support you and help you with your decision. You should explore them.

You should also understand that you can ask for letters from other people in your department, in particular from your thesis committee. While it is not ideal, it is not unheard of for students to provide letters that do not include their advisor. The more you interact with other faculty, the better in your situation.
Isn't Niantic actually affiliated with (part of?) Google in some way? So it would seem natural, if odd, that it doesn't ask for full permissions for the account is actually already has full permissions to. In the same way google docs doesn't ask, but gets, full permissions to your google account, or google+ doesn't ask, but gets, full permissions to your google account.
For what is is worth, I read it in the same way as you. And found it kind of an odd statement, for a guy who has a website with a monospaced font...
Are you quite sure that is the best solution long term? All of those extra drives are using additional power.
Find a different advisor now (possibly at a different school). One that has a proven track record of graduating students (which sounds hollow, but think of it this way, would MIT be a good school if only 50% of their students found jobs after graduation?).

There is a point where your advisor will look at you as a failure and give up on their responsibility of tutelage. Most of the time, this is not the students fault (assuming that you are hardworking and proposing your own ideas). Most likely, the advisor is putting undo burden upon you (does he have a history of pushing out students?). Saying that you have 3 years left is not true, since the advisor can hold you in servitude much longer with little recourse.
> paying employees more means you get better employees, and more productive employees, thus you drive more shareholder value

Except in this case, quite the opposite happened. All of the company's best employees quit and walked away within a few month's time.

This left only the newest hires running the ship - collecting, in some cases, more salary than the seasoned crew that had been there from the start and had to work their way up the pay ladder.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-price-gravity-payments-em...
I recomend using an existing game engine like Unity. You can then add a toolkit to use AR: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/15215/unity-3d-and-augm...
That statistic by itself is a little meaningless, is'n it?

For instance, I could say:

" In 2013, child poverty reached record high levels in the U.S., with 16.7 million children living in food insecure households. Many of the neighborhoods these children live in lack basic produce and nutritious food. 47 million Americans depend on food banks, more than 30% above 2007 levels."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States)

That doesn't sounds like prosperity or happiness..
Former Facebook exec is using AI to build the ultimate chatbot assistant
In the early days of TV people often read newspapers into the camera. Early movies were often essentially vaudeville shows on the screen. Those things fill space for a minute then fade quickly.

I think one can say with confidence that nobody really wants to watch automatically generated title and clip art videos. Which means this trend will soon pass.
Thank you for such a detailed answer, I'll keep that in mind when I'll be writing my next post!
Great video. You you enjoyed the above, you'll likely also appreciate this video of a Rubik's Cube being solved in 0.9 seconds by a robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixTddQQ2Hs4
Reminds me of the food descriptions in the Redwall books :-)
Hint: Programming is not engineering.
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Couldn't the same effect be achieved by setting the camera back several feet (15 - 20? More?) and zoom in over the interviewer's shoulder?

By the way, I'd not heard of "Humans" before. That first interview is captivating.
Do you refer to the phrase: "OPEN SOURCE & CROSS-PLATFORM TOOL FOR SIMPLIFIED MONITORING" or something else?
Good idea. I haven't evolved many of my Pokemon's yet. Just saving the dust and candy for when I want to evolve higher level captures I'll get later. Of course, at some point you need to figure out when it makes sense to just start evolving!

But, I'll certainly use this idea when that time comes!
Sure, but the real talent at the company surely wouldn't have much trouble finding work somewhere else, especially given the amount of stories out there saying that they've been kept in the dark the whole time. The question is why would these people stay on this sinking ship
How do you process a million jobs in parallel across many machines? How do you schedule a job to run in a week?

I'm the author of Sidekiq and not trying to debate; I'm simply ignorant of how Erlang, BEAM and the ecosystem solve these common problems, which usually persist no matter which language you use.
Let's throw in a time factor here, and change the way we define our machine: "Assuming that a superintelligence [SI] will contain a program that can efficiently infer/deduce all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world". This seems much more reasonable in terms of how thinking gets done.

We see links to the Halting Problem pop up at times when discussing compilers. Now, compilers try to interpret code in the most perfect way possible. But of course, finding the optimal solution is just the Halting Problem in disguise, and instead they opt for a more pragmatic solution. While none are perfect, some of them are also really, really good, though (http://lemire.me/blog/2016/05/23/the-surprising-cleverness-o...).

Now this is just an analogy, but I think the parallel can be drawn back to the SI scenario. We might not have SIs that never cause harm perfectly, but this does not preclude them from being really, really good at it. Because if you admit the definition above, you're also implying that it will efficiently infer/deduce its harm function.
Former newspaper editor here.

One thing that strikes me is that these auto-generated videos add no additional information to news reports; they merely present the content in a different way.

While that may be a way to broaden consumption of the content -- the auto-playing videos on Facebook feeds is a good example -- I don't think it does much to change readers'/viewers' perception of the quality of that content. If anything, it has the potential to cause them to perceive it as of lower quality than if they'd just read the article it was based on.

I see this as the next version of slideshows. News orgs used to like them because each new slide could be treated as a new page view. But readers found them to be, at best, of little additional value, and at worst, really frustrating to get through.

What news orgs really need is to invest resources to automate things that increase readers' perception of quality, and then figure out a way to monetize them, rather than looking at ways to monetize and then figuring out how to package content to fit the monetization strategy.

One initiative that can do that -- and this is where I think more resources should be invested -- is data science. Sifting through large public datasets and identifying trends, aberrations, etc. is something a computer can do as well or better than a human, and I would imagine that the fruits of those investments would be ripe for monetization.

Just one example: We have become conditioned to expect news content to be free, but we're more willing to pay for services. So imagine a news org that said, "Hey, we'll let you view all of our articles for free ... but then for a dollar a pop, you can sign up to receive an instant email notification when we publish a follow-up to a story you are interested in." I'd pay $1 to get notifications of follow-up stories to a particularly enthralling court case, or some local news of significant relevance to me. Best part is, news orgs already largely have the metadata that would make such a service work. They just need to invest in making computers do the work.
Sheetsu looks amazing! This looks like the Parse replacement everyone has been looking for.

I built my own version of this, API for a Google Sheet, but it never occurred to me that anyone else would want it!
Ask HN: What's an app/service that doesn't exist that you're willing to pay for?
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http://www.xkcd.com/1700/
Depends on what everybody loves most. If it's money, forget about it. If it's something higher (other people, God, etc.) then I think it can really work well. I previously worked at a startup with my brother. We both had roughly 10% equity stakes and it never jeopardized our relationship, even when the company went through some tough times.
That was an interesting read, thanks for posting this. I guess that the moral of the story is to keep trying and don't give up with contributing whether it's submitting PR, opening new issues or running your own project.
Well, it's a newspaper article written by who would be a source, of sorts:

>The FIS - the government agency responsible for toxic oil syndrome - refused to release details of the fieldwork carried out or any background information. However, the families described in the reports were given code numbers and these could be matched against the official list of victims which then became part of the trial documentation. Eventually we identified the families supposedly interviewed for the key epidemiological reports and went to see them.

I'd be interested if they have any full detailed notes about interviews published anywhere, other than the documentary.
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I've only dabbled with both, but the reasons often given is that (apart from surface syntax) the advantages of Elixir over erlang is a powerful macro system, a more cohesive standard library (with some nice things like the pipeline operator), and some very nice tooling (mix is great). With all that being said, erlang is a great language as well, so just pick whatever you like the most.

Here is a short article that outlines some advantages. http://theerlangelist.com/article/why_elixir
How about taking into account how consumption of this content has changed? This kind of stuff is great for mobile consumption, which, as far as I understand, is growing at a rapid pace.
> I really wish I could play, it looks like great fun, but there’s no way it’s worth the risk.

Why not just create a separate google account if one's so eager to play?
I also don't see any access granted to Pokemon Go, I signed in on my nexus 5x and was also in the field test.
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Eatwild is a great resource, we know them well.

You absolutely need a deep freezer if you want to buy local meat. Most producers, us included, sell frozen cuts only -- managing inventory of non-frozen meat would be way too hectic.

Deep freezers are only like 200 bucks at Costco. Assuming you have space for one in your home, they're also great for making sauces and whatnot in bulk. Also highly recommend a cryovac kit. Cryovac'ed frozen veggies keep more or less forever, and you can also prepare foods (eg, meatballs) at scale on a Sunday afternoon and then just defrost stuff for the rest of the week.
Here I thought the article was going to be on how Pokemon Go encourages people to wonder into dangerous or restricted areas while paying attention to their phone. The odds of someone getting attacked in a rough area would seem to go up with such an app given how critical situational awareness is. I don't know enough about how the app works to assess that, though.

One app that got me thinking about these things was Google Maps. I noticed it directed me through The Hood of a murder capital to save 3 minutes on a route. An area where people are known to surround cars or level guns on their owners. I had to wonder how much more risk like this is in any GPS-enabled app that sends you from point A to B.
The assumption on my part is hat there aren't enough American workers to fill those roles
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Yep, though they also soon after made a further investment in Niantic. It may sound bizarre at first, but there might be good reasons why they did that. For instance, Nintendo might've been less likely to team up with a wholly Google-owned Niantic. (purely speculation on my part)

https://nianticlabs.com/blog/niantic-tpc-nintendo/
Although it's a bit unfair to judge an entire software system by the actions of a handful of people. Although many people may have bought into The DAO, it's still software made and marketed by a small group of individuals.
The other factors seem quite mysterious. This is the only page in which I've seen downvote arrows in ages.
This could make traffic worse. The only thing keeping bad traffic from getting worse is that past a certain degree of badness, some people start choosing to cancel or defer driving trips because they are not willing to drive with that degree of delay and/or annoyance. Making traffic easier to put up with, will have the same effect as reducing the price of any good would have -- increase the amount "consumed"

Self driving cars will lead to worse traffic unless tolls go up enough to make up for it
I'm enjoying the article, but the dancing dollar signs and other animations in the gutters are killing me. Not only distracting, but slowing down my machine. Why oh why? And sadly the page also breaks Safari Reader View with only the first page visible in that view.
You cannot learn to work a physical piece of equipment on the internet no matter how amazing the quality of video. Some things just take physical practice. I don't want a phlebotomist that has an online degree...
A great comment (which I'd upvote more than once if able). There are many underpinning problems that lead to business inefficiencies - none of which are solved by choosing to hire remote vs. local (or by "using the right tool", which is another decision folks make to try and put out management fires). If you have "human problems" you need to solve them the hard way; or as was said: there is no silver bullet.
That may be so, but I'll take The Lancet over thefreethoughtproject.com, natural news and random conspiracy internet websites any day.
I'm not entirely sure it really had anything to do with money between the brothers. The details seem to be nebulous but I think it was a matter of "you made a massive decision with out me" process. Growing up with a brother I can attest to brotherly competition.
You need to shop around the outside of the store - that's where the vegetables, fish, milk, yogurt (unsweetened greek/skyr), and eggs typically are, with a stop-by in the flour/sugar/etc. aisle when you run out of those.

Alternatively, speciality stores - vegetable markets or farmer's markets, Asian/Mexican markets, etc., buy bread from a bakery, not a supermarket aisle.
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> I think Pokemon has more to do with success of it than the AR stuff. I see most people playing without AR on. Pokemon appeals to the nostalgia factor.

I think it's both. The game isn't great on it's own, and I bet the AR will feel tiring after a while like it did with Ingress. But this is amazingly close to the real-world idea of Pokemon so many of us have wanted since childhood.

Last night I went for a walk in the middle of the night to a nearby park. I encountered a few other "pokemon trainers" on the way (it's really obvious when someone is playing), and at the park were at least 30-40 other people, spread out in small groups, some hanging out in spots, some wandering around the grass tracking a Pokemon...

Seeing Pokemon in the real world is neat and all, but meeting lots of other "Pokemon Trainers"?! Wow, that really made me feel like a little kid again. I hope the population stays active until they add battling. It seems like it would be incredibly dull playing this game by yourself without running into others.
"God said 640x480 16 color"

[Citation needed]
I detected that immediately when I signed up with google at first. No double-checking what I was ok with sharing with the company. Had to remove their permission from my account settings right away. Signed up with their email/password system, much better.
It will surely be appealed. The 'feel good' story aside, this seems problematic. The brother owns 40% of the company and as such he can contest that the price (wages) that the majority shareholder is paying is greater than what the market commands.
It's not a myth, per se, that managers have a fiduciary duty to shareholders. They clearly do have such a duty.

The myth comes in where people believe that means the burden of proof is such that they have to blindly serve short term financial interests of shareholders. There is no such rule at all, in fact it's quite the opposite:

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

The business judgment rule is a case law-derived doctrine in corporations law that courts defer to the business judgment of corporate executives. It is rooted in the principle that the "directors of a corporation... are clothed with [the] presumption, which the law accords to them, of being [motivated] in their conduct by a bona fide regard for the interests of the corporation whose affairs the stockholders have committed to their charge".[1] The rule exists in some form in most common law countries, including the United States,[1] Canada,[2] England and Wales,[3] and Australia.[4]

To challenge the actions of a corporation's board of directors, a plaintiff assumes "the burden of providing evidence that directors, in reaching their challenged decision, breached any one of the triads of their fiduciary duty — good faith, loyalty, or due care".[5] Failing to do so, a plaintiff "is not entitled to any remedy unless the transaction constitutes waste... [that is,] the exchange was so one-sided that no business person of ordinary, sound judgment could conclude that the corporation has received adequate consideration".
Will try, thanks!
That's the point?
>The value added by the real estate agent is not selling the property, but selling it quickly at the highest possible price.

No one's disputing that they added more value, only that it shouldn't be directly proportional to the property. (See the "edit" remark.)

>Those being? The real estate industry is incredibly competitive, especially now with Redfin, etc.

I don't have insider knowledge, but "inertia" is a big one in real estate -- no one wants to be the one that starts doing things differently. And I don't think that counts as "competitive"; in a competitive industry, you can't rest on your laurels, but the top home REAs basically live off the monopoly returns from having already sold properties, whether or not they actually pass rigorous tests of their value contribution.

>Of course, if you think you can sell the property in the same time frame with a less-qualified agent, nothing is stopping you from negotiating a lower percentage fee.

It's not like everyone wanted to invest in every venture that ever proposed a better way of doing things, or that all value opportunities are immediately obvious to everyone and they come beating down your door to take advantage of them, even and especially when there are numerous st(ake|ock)holders with veto power.

Edit: Toned down.
You don't mention (a) your reason for pursuing a PhD / what you plan to do after grad school, (b) what you've achieved so far in the past 3 years, or (c) your field of study. Without at least that information, it would be very difficult for anybody to advise you here.

> I don't have many references because, I'm in graduate school.

That's not a valid reason. Networking takes work, and you should start now. I can't stress that enough.

> he won't leave a good word in for me for anyone who contacts him as a reference

If he's as bad as you say, his reference might not carry a lot of weight anyway. If you're set on pursuing an academic career, moving to a professor who does good science and has a good reputation might be worth another couple years in the long run.

> it's too late to switch groups without wasting an additional 3 years

In my experience, this isn't necessarily true. You may find an advisor who won't completely ignore the work you've already done (unless you have nothing to show for the last three years). Some people here advise you to meet with other professors and "explain the situation." Be extremely careful how you explain the situation, and don't disparage your current advisor.
Seriously; I created one just to avoid entering 2fa every time servers go down.
These are easily fixed by dove tailing through the programs and using an increasing-over-time cutoff. Not fixed in the "made practical" sense, but in the "made non-contradictory" sense.
Thanks for sharing that link, as I've never seen this Manifesto before. This puts into words so much better than the explanations I give people for why I prefer remote. It's interesting to see some of these on the list -
-written down processes over verbal
-async communication
-formal communication over informal

We often hear alot about enlarging your net of potential talent (#1) and flexible work hours, but there's much more to it than that.

At this point, I can't imagine _not_ working remotely anymore. I'm just sooo much more productive and happy this way.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nianticlabs-google#/...
Would you be the CEO that decides to pay your employees 2-3x market rate? I'd love to watch that experiment from the sidelines.
The main thing I got out of the article was that I should ignore results from the fields of psychology or sociology for the foreseeable future. The standard of proof seems very low.

I never fell for Tony Robbins-type pop psychology, but I loved books like "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini and "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell.

I thought I was getting useful, non-obvious, actionable information. I'm disappointed that the lessons from those books might be BS as well.