skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Showing that women have great technical aptitude by giving a legitimately interesting tech talk is much better for the cause of promoting diversity than just talking about being a woman or minority in tech, IMO.

I worked at a large online retailer that catered primarily to women, and internally there was a large push to hire more women. We hired two women on my team. One was fantastic, one was horrible. The fantastic one passed the interview loop without reservation, and would have been hired regardless of her gender. The other did not do as well and multiple people had reservations, but she was hired anyway. She was an immediate burden and terminated after three months.

The first one didn't need any sort of handicap for being a woman -- she was qualified and competent. The other one just didn't belong in this role. But management aimed for diversity over competence, and ended up hurting morale.

Treating people like equals is the best way to achieve equality. Don't insult them, and don't let those who legitimately don't have the skills necessary through because of their identity. Seems pretty common sense to me.
It's wildly unintuitive, so don't feel bad. When I was first learning to ride a motorcycle with the MSF, I damn neared dumped the practice bike a few times trying to manhandle it. You'll really quickly internalize push-left-go-left. And it turns out to work great on regular bikes, too. (But it's terrifyingly more responsive - I actually can't relax pedaling a bicycle because of the fear of how easy it is to flip the things and capsize them from countersteering.)

EDIT: There's a neat heuristic that was brought up in the course: the center of mass of the bike is above the bottom of the wheels, and a turning bike must lean into the turn (weird road geometries excepted), therefore to turn the stuff under the center of mass must counter the top leaning in. Thus to go left, you push left, causing the front wheel to pull out from under the bike right-wards, which starts to capsize the bike leftwards! Like I said before, a bicycle reacts really really hard to this, but a hefty motorcyle has a far lower center of mass and leans into it more gracefully.
> It's also gotten extremely buggy.

No kidding. If I get a skype message while my iphone is locked, when I swipe to unlock and open the app, those messages (all of them if there were several on the lock screen) are lost forever.
Good to know, thanks! I'm a bit skeptical of the words "their own, unique algorithms", given the quality and pace of research in machine learning and deep learning, but that may just be my open-source bias...
Yes, you're doing it subconsciously. Countersteering is only possible on two-wheeled vehicles, which means that tricycles handle very differently to bikes, and that learning to ride with stabilisers (training wheels) can be counterproductive.
The "first page of the AT&T site" is a rather arbitrary criteria for finding what phones are on offer. The only Android phones there are high end ($600-700) Samsung and LG phones.

Its definitely not hard to find Android phones with 8 or 16GB of storage, especially on the cheaper end. Saavy consumers can get a pretty solid Android phone for around $200, though. I'm specifically thinking of the Moto G, now on its 4th iteration, and all of them have been fairly well spec'd and reviewed for that price point.
I'm confused. Who is this mysterious stranger who doesn't sell light fixtures?
They spent billions on both of them and they're both consumer apps. They had better have a billion people using them.
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Any chance GitLab will add Mercurial support?
Some quick tips for someone interested in using a safety razor (you should!): Get a stainless steel razor so it lasts, and buy a variety pack of blades to determine your preference. I personally find the Feathers to be too sharp, but I don't have tons of coarse facial hair.
One problem is that people often misuse the term "disruption" to mean different things.
Ever thought about why you can't "steer away" from a curb, how it appears to "suck you in" when you try? It's because that first, subconscious turn in the wrong direction takes you into the curb edge.
> What percentage of the user base uses that functionality?

Tables or PowerPivot? I'd say a substantial share of the institutions purchasing Office Professional Plus are using at least one of the two in important processes, even if only a small number of users are directly aware of it.

> Especially considering that at the point you require the ability to "import millions of rows of data from multiple data sources into a single Excel workbook" you should probably be using a proper database and stop playing around.

PowerPivot is (built on, at least, the feature includes more than just the database) a proper column-oriented OLAP database.
I'm personally of the opinion that many languages is a good thing. I don't like monocultures much, so on that level, I want dart to succeed.

I agree that having a robust dart-first framework (and widget library) is a necessary condition for making dart popular. Here's hoping it is also sufficient. I feel like Dart lost its biggest edge when google moved away from the dart runtime. If everything is just compiled down to js anyway, dart can't do much more than put syntactic sugar over what's already there, instead of providing a real new language experience.

Then again, clojure, scala, and java are really different experiences. Maybe google's backing keeps the language running long enough to gain real traction.
Apple releases second public betas for iOS 10 and macOS Sierra
This points to a fascinating underlying difference between the operating systems. In general, UNIX attempts to be completely non-character-set aware and is built with the philosophy that how to render characters is strictly the terminal's problem. Windows, on the other hand, has a notion of a system character encoding and will try to keep everything compliant with it (with mixed success).

There is a very important takeaway of this: case-sensitivity. UNIX cannot be case-insensitive for file names because the mapping of lowercase to uppercase characters is dependent on the character encoding used, which it doesn't know. Windows can (and does) coalesce case for file names because it knows the character set in use and can consult the relevant mapping.

This difference in behavior produces all sorts of frustrating behavior when interacting between the two platforms, e.g. the classic case of Windows SMB mounting a share from a nix server that contains two files differentiated only by case. It'll show both entries but think they both point to the same thing. On the other hand, it's easy to create file names on a Windows device that are near impossible to name on nix. These are important things to be aware of if you ever implement a cross-platform network user environment.
Take Care of Your Stuff (Song about how your stuff is affected by your choices)
Programmers who defined the technology industry: Where are they now?
Google Play Music, mildly annoyingly, has adapted HTML5 for pieces of the player interface, but (last I checked) can only deliver the actual audio stream itself with Flash. It's weird.
Some points from a cynical aerospace engineering/web developer friend:

* Everyone who has been above low earth orbit was born before 1936.

* Everyone who has been above LEO was put there by Nazis.
I don't think that necessarily has to be the case. The public conversation could conceivably shift to a cost/benefit analysis of varying levels of enforcement vs. fraud, if only the media would cooperate.
Nope - that does not do what you think it does.
I'm not Danish, but...

1. Denmark does not have a private health insurance market.

2. Any company even considering about doing this would be in a huge pot of boiling water, if the public, or the police got wind of it.

Any above-board business would not want to touch lost/stolen health data with a ten-foot pole. In addition to the legalities of this, this opens a huge liability hole, in terms of keeping it secure.
Shameless plug: Why not talk the gRPC protocol? :)
Looking at your last sentence, I don't think you've developed a real project using hot reloading.

When you're debugging an action that is behind several other steps (eg: scroll, click something, fill something, click something), hot reloading feels amazing compared to reloading and performing those steps over and over again (or emulating them by changing the code or pre-filling forms and having to cleanup after).

It might not be impressive in terms of absolute time saved, but I know that for me the "wow this feels amazing" feeling of it makes me much more motivated, focused and productive.
Except that millions of developers routinely make use of file permissions; as evidenced by this discussion, many - perhaps even a majority - haven't heard of alternate data streams.
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> Decreased regulation

Unless he gets annoyed and calls up bill gates to shut off the internet.

> meritocratic systems

Except for Muslims.
By any reasonable definition where either #1 or #2 is a "main" group, #3 is a main group.
Well, yeah, but lighening up on the boilerplate and shortening your import path a bit never hurt anybody.

My point is that often adopting patterns/tools/conventions from other languages results in cruft like that.
I find it's a really convenient indicator that it's time to excuse yourself from a conversation.
> "a predatory animal we intrinsically find cute -- ourselves"

I wouldn't describe our predatory instincts as cute.

Furthermore, there are tons of animals that are not seen as predatory and are still cute. To me they're completely separate traits. For example, which one is cuter to you...

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LgINvKhd2wc/hqdefault.jpg

https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2014/10/01/10/44/he...
I'm glad there actually is a competent woman who can say this out loud. Nowadays it's impossible to say anything against "We need more women in tech" without being called a sexist.

I do realize it is harder for women but the world is not a fair place. Poor people who were born to poor parents are born into an unfair world. A white guy or asian guy who really wants to play basketball in NBA finds himself in an unfair situation. But that's what powers these people. A lot of successful people came from bad background because they grew up being sick of this unfairness and they tried hard to get there.

To use the NBA example, you never see Jeremy Lin or Yaoming giving talks about how "We need more asian basketball players in NBA". They are well aware of how that's how it is, but still managed to succeed by pushing themselves hard.

Again, I do realize it's unfair, but if I were someone in an unfair situation I would spend 100% of my time working hard to overcome it, instead of using my precious time thinking and talking about how my group needs to be more well represented.
Introducing Google Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API Open Beta and More
A lot of stuff can end up running in the background, though. Its less an issue of storage space, and more an issue of battery life. Performance and data consumption may also be issues for some people.
The mods are working hard to make the dupe detector better, for some definition of "better." Many very good submissions fall through the cracks, so re-submissions are tolerated if the previous submission didn't get any attention. Unfortunately, this doesn't take into account that the submission may have got no visible attention because it's really not interesting, or it's of no real value.

The net result is that currently there are many, many, many duplicates, sometimes exact, and sometimes just of the same story submitted over and over again. I've stopped marked them, even though I find them more annoying than any well balanced person would, or should.

I'm sure the current situation won't continue, and that something will be done. However, you can assume that to some extent there now really is no "dupe detector."
The comment you pointed to seems very reasonable to me, I am assuming from the rest of your comment that you don't think it is.

We all have such realities, and typically few if any other people realise what's going on. Just be kind. To everyone (note to self: be better at this).

It's not specific to any particular group (though: apparently short men have it quite a bit worse than other "protected" groups: http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/height_discrimi... )
Polymail.io out of Private Beta
How shocking, people who aren't set for life aren't in favor of idiotic "I got mine" libertarian style policies.
It seems that they are saying you have to steer right in order to initiate a left lean. But how do they account for steering with no hands?

I can steer pretty well without hands. It seems as if I must be able to initiate the left lean without pushing the handlebars right.

So why couldn't I also do this when not riding without hands?
Twitter Permanently Suspends Milo Yiannopoulos for Targeted Abuse
Completley wet and lacking oxygen is one way, or in clay.
Add me to that list.

All I want from a workplace is a good computer, somewhere quiet to work (preferably with a door but I don't want to spark that debate, it's tiresome), an efficient manager who ensures a) everyone knows what they should be doing b) communicates a) effectively c) clears obstacles.

I never found it so I started a company (of which I'm one of two employees), it's not without challenges but it largely beats working for other people.
Elpis is a fantastic Pandora Windows desktop client.

https://github.com/adammhaile/Elpis
The article makes a great point that just being a woman doesn't make you a good speaker about [the sociological problems] of women in tech. Rather than have her out of her skillset, hire her to talk about databases, or other parts of her expertise, and hire academics, HR and others (of both genders, according to skill relevance) qualified to talk about social-tech challenges.
Modesty in Simplicity: CockroachDB's JOIN
The auto-dupe detector was changed so that it only applies for submissions within the last few hours. The other submissions was 3 days old in your case.
It's not about having a given view.

Doing what you believe when most your peers agree with you is easy. It's about having a view, knowing it's unpopular and still having the courage to publicly state it and face the mob that is extraordinary.

People who do that sometimes change the world (and other times get burnt at the stake).
Actually, if everybody knew that a channel is insecure, it would make it a lot less dangerous. The problem is: most of people need it to be safer, and there is no real option.
OK - this is probably my ignorance talking, but why is it surprising that bike are balanced? The pedals are basically shoulder width and staggered, which is a very natural position for people to balance in as bipedal creatures? in addition, while the bike is moving, won't the inertia tend to keep things moving in the same direction?

This is all coupled by the fact that the rider is actively piloting and adjusting the bike to keep it under control at all times. The bike seems like it would balance to me because the control mechanisms are designed to keep things balanced easily.
You create value by creating something people want.

If doing something people want creates a market, value went up. If doing something people want destroyed a market, value went up.

If you destroy a market by bribing a government and prohibiting a product people want, value went down.
I'm by no means asserting it isn't reasonable, In fact I'm using it to bolster my point in suggesting an opposite side to the same coin of "card carrying member of x" in a manner that demands attention to perhaps what informs and enforces the perception of "identifying as a card carrying member of %group%" with a dash more nuance than what exists on the surface.

For some people, their identity and association as a member of %group% is something they outwardly display to be observed and consumed by others, and they have their reasons for it. For others, it's something they keep to themselves and prefer to carry on and be judged on the merits of their contributions to work and family, and they have their reasons for that. These things don't invalidate one another.

For others still, their association with %group% isn't something they choose, and is prominent and obvious by merely walking into a room and for good or ill, a person often finds themselves navigating all sorts of assumptions, guesses and biases about that association whether or not they can control it. That was the thrust of my comment.
See Murata's Robots:
http://www.murata.com/en-us/about/mboymgirl
You can have a similar epiphany with regard to corporate taxes, which are ultimately paid by the consumer.
Gitlab is great stuff, but as a business model for open source, I always considered open core as somewhat toxic. When your community is trying to add features in your commercial implementation, you're "competing with yourself", which in this context, is actually a bad thing. I saw it wreck havoc in the ZenOSS community years ago.

David Neary does a most excellent post on why:
https://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/07/19/rotten-to-the-open-...
Dart and Go each serve different platforms.
If you Google 'top facebook games', and you browse to each one, you will find a majority of them use Flash. Here are a few of them:

- Candy Crush (50,000,000+ monthly users)

- Dragon City (10,000,000+ monthly users)

- Criminal Case (10,000,000+ monthly users)

- Angry Bird Friends (1,000,000+ monthly users)

I'm currently working on a Flash game with a large player base. Firefox's suggestion of adopting HTML technologies is not simple when the game is 9 years old! I think many Facebook games are going to run into a similar issue.

It's getting scary now tho, it seems like Firefox and Chrome are aggressively trying to get rid of the usage of Flash. We've essentially decided that we're going to convert this 9 year old game to C++ (via Emscripten) in the next year. Good luck to everyone else who is going through the same thing as we are.
Fellow minority and I agree with a toughen up stance as well, as I think we do have to toughen up to actually get ahead.

But that isn't a reason to deny people help, deny people the chance to say "hey, look I'm feeling really alone right now". I wouldn't be as "tough" as I am now if it weren't for a few people who gave me a hand when I truly needed it. I wouldn't be where I am without reading a ton of blogposts by other marginalized people who feel the same way as I did.

There are, no doubt, people who like to wallow in their insecurities, but they aren't any worse than the people who say the marginalized should just suck it up and work harder, or that people who feel marginalized should shut up.
Sprinklr Raises $105M to Grow Social Media Management Software
Your question is kind of nonsensical. The two languages have little, if any, overlap in use cases.
OK look, running a^2 + b^2 = c^2 a few trillion times and calling that a "long proof" is disingenuous - it's really long if you include every single operation, but must you? I just described it here in a few sentences. I guess what's more interesting is a sort of kolmogorov complexity of the proof, perhaps.
> We don't have a "gender parity problem" in nursing, pre-k education, garbage collection, nor boilermaking

Says who? I'm less familiar with the latter two sectors, but I've certainly seen considerable gender issues raised with the first two.
Practicality aside, that was a fascinating and very well-written paper. Thank you for posting it.
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> ...an ambitious effort that would investigate everything from the strength of wheels...

My master touched this. Used AI to find spoke patterns. http://master.matsemann.com

> There were untested geometries out there that could transform bike design.

Better hardware and simulations makes it easier to test thousands of these, possibly with the help of AI. I wonder if any drastically new designs will be found in the feature, or if time will show the current design is the best.
But he lies so much and makes so many factual errors how can you trust him on anything? His pro-torture position seems to show disregard of the 8th amendment is he really going to protect the others and is the 2A that much more important to you than all the others?

I'm no saying that you should like Hillary but congress will probably block gun reform as always and while she spins and dissembles at times it isn't the same outrageous disregard for the truth that I see from Trump.
If you have to ask this question, I'd say you're either not paying attention or being willfully ignorant of the tightrope-walking act men have to perform these days to not get lynched by internet mobs.
Click-the-link is a different usecase from click-address-book, really.

Only one of those furthers the new MS business model of collecting data on you.
I can ride pretty well without hands as well. When I heard about counter-steering a long time back I paid closer attention to what I was doing while riding hands-free. Turns out that I was doing a weird little bodily flick motion in to get the wheel pointing to the opposite direction of the turn before I started leaning into the turn.

Pay attention to yourself next time you ride and you might be surprised.
I've just read the blog post and it seems that they will migrate Mac client to Electron soon. That sucks, since I like native Mac client.
Dart is awesome. Just because currently the community is still small doesn't mean much.
Google is working on so much great stuff that Dart becomes more compelling every month. They are lying low since awhile with public announcements, but if you follow the commits there is so much work being done.
In a few months it will become hard to ignore Dart.

The combined development (TS+Dart) was slowing Angular development down and contribution was painful because one needed knowledge of both languages.
There are notable downsides for the split development but I fully understand the decision. Implementing everything in a way that it can be translated into the other language was a real pain and limited both versions to a common denominator which prevented both versions to benefit from the advantages of their respective language.
Advances in quantum machine learning
>This is why full-stack makes sense now more than ever. It's getting so easy there's almost no excuse anymore.

There's a plenty of good reasons to avoid SPAs.
I would like to order nano & microseconds online somewhere.
8 Things to Do Before Selling Your iPhone
FYI you'll hear every VC say that right before they go off on their 3 week summer vacation.

If Ron Conway wasn't working with his son then you'd mention how he made the classic silicon valley mistake of putting his career in front of his family.

I mean c'mon, this isn't like handing the CEO role of a multi-faceted 2,000 person company to your son over other qualified applicants. Its a 3-person VC firm that Ron Conway founded and built. The guy wants to work with his son. Let it go.
If you look at any list of "most dangerous jobs", it's invariably a list of male-dominated professions.

Are men going into these roles because they all have a death wish, or is it maybe some sort of cultural push to be "manly" and a "provider"?