skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know either. Thoughts/questions:

- Can we compare the case of legal/medical to software? Especially, have the legal/medical fields been so unbalanced as software is right now? (Not implying it was, honestly asking). And if it was, as you ask yourself, what mechanisms helped bringing balance?

- Regarding the specific case of sexism in software, early research suggests that the unbalance may have emerged in the 1970s as "the idea that computers are for boys became a narrative", maybe due to ads: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-... . Admitting this idea, what about now? Yes, unlike in the 1970s, software is part of everyone's daily lives. However, the "computers (and STEM) are for boys" myth isn't dead.
Hacker releases cell phone numbers, personal emails of House Democrats
Its interesting to see such a 180, when his argument was supported by convincing principles of privacy and the limits of implied consent.

Well maybe not a 180, more like 90.
> When the scientist fails and gets the language wrong

I think you mean, when a scientist writes technically precise jargon that is misinterpreted? If you mean that the scientist did bad science, science self-corrects for that (at least in theory, and it has worked pretty well in practice).
I wonder if the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to image it since it's so close.
> they have no programming experience

What?

Intro Systems: demonstrate working knowledge of Assembly. Write C to exploit spatial and temporal locality. Learn to cope with concurrency.

Operating Systems: write process scheduling, virtual memory management, system calls, and filesystem caching into Pintos [0].

Networks: write an IRC server, user-land TCP implementation, and IP router in C from the relevant RFCs.

Advanced Networks: write Byzantine Generals, Raft, and Paxos from the papers.

Programming Languages: write several interpreters.

Parallel Programming: write efficient concurrent algorithms, implementing concurrency primitives yourself.

Software Construction/Engineering: learn to collaborate with a team. Lose your fear of merge conflicts by immersion therapy. Experience the pain of people not pulling their weight.

Intro Security: given a pseudorandom function, write your way up to a PRNG, stream cipher, RSA, Diffie-Helman, and an authenticated encrypted channel.

Databases: write most of a database engine.

If graduates are passing these classes but can't write code, or find it remotely difficult to get to a passable level on any of the tools you listed in a matter of hours/days, then the CS program at the schools they come from are not nearly rigorous enough and should lose reputation in favor of those that are.

A graduate of a decent CS program should have a decent idea of how to create these tools, and be capable of doing so, though with considerable difficulty. Consuming them should be pretty easy.

[0] http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/pintos_1...
You seem very certain that all users have noticeable behavior changes. How would you correctly count users who do not have noticeable behavior changes?
I think there's something to be said for breaking perseveration. I frequently find myself repeating the same wrong solution to a problem, then breaking for the day and solving it in 5 minutes when I start the next day. I don't think a timer is necessarily helpful. Rubber Ducking, pair programming or the venerated technique of asking for help work pretty well too.
Some relevant things:

Solid on Github: https://github.com/solid/

Solid server on top of the file-system in NodeJS: https://github.com/solid/node-solid-server

Plume[1]: https://github.com/deiu/solid-plume

[1] Plume is a 100% client-side blogging platform, built using Solid standards, in which data is decoupled from the application itself. This means that you can host the application on any Web server, without having to install anything -- no database, no messing around with Node.js, it has 0 dependencies! It also means that other similar applications will be able to reuse the data resulting from your posts, without having to go through a complicated API.
I personally found it too informal; I found the numerous non-technical remarks about how "boring" TCP off putting, tbh.

That said, I understand that the author added these in an attempt to make the article more enjoyable. I also appreciate the fact that some readers will indeed find these additions enjoyable. To each his own.
How exactly do you know which of your tenants are using cannabis? Do you drug test your tenants?

> You should not need to live in an altered state, intoxication, and if you are frequently choosing intoxication from pot as 'recreation', something is wrong.

Your comment is ironic evidence for insobriety. Anger, stress and frustration are all palpable, and you may need some help to unwind. Hell, I could use a beer after reading it.
Here's the Davis study with the specific brand names and what specific chemical or taste tests they failed.

http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/files/oliveoilfinal0...

Glad to see the cheap WalMart generic oil I buy was one of the few that passed. Interesting to see so many of the high end brands were fakes.
This is extremely exciting! The million dollar question is of course "how Earth-like?". If the answer is "very" we might actually have found a viable place for an off-world colony!

Getting a probe there in a reasonable time is entirely feasible if can figure out how to keep the darned thing accelerating without stupendous fuel requirements. I'm confident we'll figure that out sooner or later.
Just build your own binary if you don't want to pay. You can't really complain when they're giving the source code to you for free.
I don't think there are electronic or software components today that can withstand interstellar space travel for thousands of years, even at the distance of proxima centauri.

Distance is irrelevant when it comes to space travel. Unless an object is within the vicinity of the Oort cloud, we stand very little chance of actually leaving this solar system in a controlled fashion.
I understand the principles and found the low-carb diets sound scientifically but I can't understand how eating a lot of fruits and potatoes would be bad for you from an evolutionary perspective.
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom by Richard P. Feynman (1959) [pdf]
To be fair to the study, all of the participants were in a metabolic ward. They traded off generality for control, which is a reasonable choice.

It doesn't really speak to the long-term effects (I think the OP pushed that study too much in the article).
I spent years making a website/webapp similar to metacritic, which aggregated new releases of new movies, games, apps etc, except the data was crowd-sourced, like wikipedia. It worked great and looked good. However, it never made more than a blip on the internet. It stuck around page 10 of google and I couldn't get any visiblity for it. And without being able to build a community it would never work so I had to pull the plug, which was very depressing. I wasted a large amount of my life working on that.
Sure, there are benign habits, like caffeine which is arguably beneficial even though it forms a physical dependency. There are also a lot of very harmful habits which are based around "addictive" substances. Personally I had to delete my Reddit account. I started using Reddit as a crutch for boredom and browsing became a default activity for me, something that sucked up every spare moment even if I wasn't actually enjoying it. That was monumentally self-destructive in exactly the same way that people describe their experiences with "addictive" substances. Even now I consciously limit my use of this site. I think that addiction is a purely psychological phenomenon, distinct from (though often paired with) the physical process of dependency and withdrawal. I might even go as far as to say that addiction is a symptom of larger problems, rather than a problem in itself. Anyway, cannabis does not form a dependency any stronger than caffeine, so in that regard I would argue it is even safer than alcohol. As for becoming addicted to cannabis, I don't think that any particular substance is more or less "addictive" than any other. Just my two cents.
The cosmological constant problem (1989) [pdf]
I'm surprised they didn't mention making your own olive oil as a way to be sure it's authentic. I assume if you have access to fresh olives it shouldn't be too hard?
Moore law != progress
SF Ranks 13th for Tech Salary Value
Come over to India. Forget olive oil (where motivation to fake is higher given the higher price), even cheaper oils like mustard oil are almost certainly fake.
The most dangerous person in Silicon Valley
This is why ephemeral identities and vanishing content shines; for example, on 4chan your post is only online for a few weeks maximum (as it's stored in a board's particular archive after it gets pushed off the end of the board). Only 4chan knows what your IP is. Archive websites collect posts from 4chan but can't see your IP.

So eventually, if you make a post with the name "Anonymous" on 4chan, the only record of your post will be on an archive website where they don't have your IP (so they can't semi-uniquely identify you) and your name is "Anonymous". That's virtually untraceable except with prior knowledge of posting habits (time of day and what board) and text analysis (which has shown to be quite effective in revealing authors behind pseudonyms).

When someone only has the content of your post, where you posted it, and at what time (the minimum amount of information 4chan lets you submit), we can express ourselves but quite effectively avoid employer snooping or otherwise.
Physics: What We Do and Don’t Know – Steven Weinberg
It takes a press and ~10-15 lb of olives to make a liter of olive oil. If your buying them retail that could easily run 100$. I don't know if you consider that reasonable, but unless you have olive trees I would just pay a premium and buy local from somewhere you trust.

However, if your going to do this kind of thing making grape juice is a similar process and much easier. It also produces something that's almost completely different than what you buy in the store.
Not sure about that - there are many many acres of olive trees in Spain and in Italy where I visit many of the olives in the mountains go unpicked because it's too much effort to go and get them.
I wish they had picked libweston instead because it's less buggy and Xwayland integrations has less problems as well. You can get libweston the 1.12 release (aka current git master or the new release in probably two weeks). There's also libweston-desktop that provides more abstractions and helpers for writing desktop compositors which should land in weston.git soon.

But since wlc 0.0.5 is out there, I can understand why they'd base it on that despite the deficiencies.

It's good to see more Wayland compositors and I hope that means someone will port urxvt or xterm to Wayland for those of us who miss too much in vte-based emulators or want something more stable than EFL-based Terminology.
I guess what I'm trying to relay, is that it doesn't appear to be more dangerous than other crutches. There is some evidence from research to support both sides, but in general it's agreed marijuana is less dangerous than say cocaine or heroine.

I'd be careful not to say it's bad, until that research is overwhelming. I say this because a large number of people I know who smoke(d) regularly end up in prison for it - which of course makes them way less productive.

It's just hard without a ton of evidence whether or not it is more dangerous inherently or if we make it more dangerous with our society.
Olympics Research – Explore and Visualise the Science Behind Human Performance
http://blog.colwiz.com/2016/08/12/olympics-research-trends-e...
Once I figured there would be lots of clicking, I went into the console and typed the following to automate the Kinetigen:

var ki = setInterval(function() { kinetigenClick(); kinetigenRelease(); }, 10);

Then later on at a certain point in the game, I had to stop it:

clearInterval(ki);
One thing that is not commonly mentioned is that olive oil freezes very well.

I typically buy a large 5-liter tin can of olio nuovo in the fall from a known producer and then freeze all but one liter of it in mason jars, unfreezing throughout the year as needed.

It works really well.

EDIT: It's mentioned in passing in the article but there's only one olive harvest per year (per hemisphere), so there's an advantage to buying all your oil for the year immediately after harvest if you think you can store it better than the store/wholesaler, which is the point of throwing it in the freezer.
We don't buy olive oil, fortunately. I live on the Mediterranean and my mother produces it.

Olive oil is about 7x more expensive than regular/industrial/cooking oil, but even on the Mediterranean, there's massive fraud. People are always looking for reliable and trusted sources to buy their olive oil. They also won't shy away from asking you to give them some if they know you have an olive grove or something. It's something I didn't understand until recently because good quality olive oil was always available and I took it for granted to just pour it (we use quite a lot of it. And no, I'm not overweight).

People who have small groves will produce for their own consumption and that of their close relatives and friends. They might sell some but it's not for the money, and they do so with reluctance buyers don't understand.

From the buyer's perspective: I'm paying you 7x what cooking oil costs!

From the seller's perspective: For the effort that goes into it? I'd rather eat it or give it for free. It's not something to make money off of.

The supplier will sell it because they're embarrassed to say no to that person and that person has refused to take it for free. So they pay and think the supplier is happy. When they come for more, they'll probably hear that the supplier has no olive oil left even if it's a lie because even at that price, in their mind they gave it for free (it's precious that way).

Olives are great. You can also use the solid byproducts of the pressing process as combustible. It makes a great fire. The process also produces a dark substance that is heavier than oil and has a divine taste with salt and bread.
How did I miss that "Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu" was released?

If you've never played it, the standard "Pandemic" is an engaging, clever puzzle of a cooperative game with random elements.
A couple a years ago I did keto for 8 months. During that time I lost 31 kg. While this diet was amazing for losing weight it really affected my concentration negatively, to the point where I was forced to drop the diet because it was simply interfering with my performance at work. It's a real shame though, as I've never been able to find a diet as easy and effective since.
Ask HN: Is there any software that breaks slideshow into thumbnails?
I am looking for any paid or free software that can take a pitch deck / presentation / slideshow and break it down into thumbnails in an orderly fashion. Any leads would be appreciated. Thank you
Was in Costco the other day and was looking at the Oils. If you look at a bottle of Bertolli and read the label, it says Olive Oil Flavor. Costco carries the Kirkland Brand that's average. They also have a brand from Tunisia I think (has a yellow label) that is pretty good.

Most Italian Olive Oil for export is from Greek Olives. The Greeks export a lot of Olives because they can't process it themselves. Most Italian Olives go for domestic consumption I would imagine.

California from what I understand has some great Olive Oil. Might be a little pricey.

Balancing cost and quality is the problem with most consumers.
Hemp smoking can let you not feel bad about your apathy while you're high, and if you don't have much in your life that you can't do while you're high, there's nothing stopping you from being high all day. Once you're high all day, you can be apathetic about everything all day.

This is just like alcoholism, except it won't kill you and it won't make you do stupid/dangerous things and it's not physiologically addictive. And like alcoholism, it's only really attractive to people who meet certain preconditions. If you feel a lot better about your life while smoking hemp, and you don't have to give up anything you care about to smoke it all day, consider setting restrictions for yourself on when you smoke it. I think there's a place for escapism, but maybe restrict it to after 9pm, for instance.
java.util.List is ordered by definition (first sentence in Javadoc, if you want to verify).
just don't smoke it
The cost is quite possibly less than giving ~10 technical interviews for every offer extended.
smoking has indeed no positive effects
Largest companies by market cap are not largest by revenue, why?
expensive cost for the body
Lol bacon is associated with weight loss by 32%
Here's a blog entry on doing that: http://ohhshop.com/blog/greenies/our-own-olive-oil-and-the-c...

As far as I can tell, they valued their labor at zero, and they don't get a break-even point until they produce at least 50 quarts from free olives.
Use Generic Names for 3rd Party Services
There is a simulator (implemented in in Common Lisp) available at http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/starlisp/s...
(and a few other documents at
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/starlisp )
Maybe you haven't tried awesome [0]. The wiki [1] provides more information. Some screenshots here [2].

[0] https://awesomewm.org/

[1] https://awesomewm.org/wiki/Main_Page

[2] https://awesomewm.org/wiki/Screenshots
It's probably Trisolaris
Analog or Digital, Hospitality Is a Team Sport
What Is the Key Best Practice for Collaborating with a Computational Biologist?
Where is the FDA on this one? The problem should be solvable by bans. FDA does random sampling, if your product is found to be adulterated, then you are banned from importing into the US for 5 years.
Ireland. The only country in the world that sucks American dick, harder than Britain does.

Fucking nauseating.
Even commercial producers barely break even so this is hardly a surprise. According to UC Davis whitepapers olive oil production is the surest way to lose money as a grower in California.
That was the Connection Machine 5, a very different (MIMD/fat tree) architecture compared to the ‘classic’ Connection Machine 2-type architecture (SIMD/hypercube) described in this thesis.
jeanne calment has lived 118-ish years, some people said she sometimes smoked, which is likely at that period of history. But how is it a proof of any kind regarding life expectancy, wouldn't she have lived 125/130 years without.. same goes for you

smoking definitely affects brain, all the body, it has no positive effect
Every person is more than just a nerd.
I'm hoping the remark about "real science" was ironic, otherwise I would have to take pretty strong offense now ;-)
If you're looking for a starting point to try real olive oil, someone suggested "Iliada Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1 Litre". I can recommend it, though I'm certainly not a connaisseur. You can get it on Amazon.
Sybil attack to the rescue.
Incorporating old rancid stock is obviously bad. But besides that -- how bad is this if people don't actually care? The danger of saturated fats is being increasingly questioned[1] and evidence for the health benefits of antioxidants is scarce[2]. If it's just a matter of taste and people like the taste just fine then how bad is this really compared to other cost-cutting measures companies use?

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-co...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidant#Relation_to_diet
Front-End Handbook, Cody Lindley
That was the CDC's logic here: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/04/46560714...
California oils can be expensive but if you're intending to use it often the price for a 3L bag is dramatically lower. $40 IIRC.
But if you start marketing one brand as the real one now you introduce doubt into the other higher margin olive oils. A store could end up instead increasing the purchase of lower margin oils like canola at the expense of their current possibly fake olive oils. Remember in market economies the initial advantage goes to the faker.
Keep dreaming. If we cannot even understand or live in accordance with the life support systems of what is literally the most habitable and human-friendly planet in the Universe then there's no way in hell that we will be able to successfully colonize a lifeless planet.

Stop thinking about outer space when we are in the middle of an anthropogenic mass extinction here on planet Earth.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251162

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12236960
It is hard. We have an olive grove so we have access to authentic olive oil, but it's hard. So hard that if you hire people to do it, they won't accept money as payment but will take part of your olive oil. Even the press people will not take money but olive oil.

The reason is simple: "olive oil" is way more valuable than what it's priced at, and it's priced the way it is because fraud caused its inflation. People in the know are aware that the price of a liter won't buy you a liter of authentic olive oil, so they'd much rather get the real stuff.

(That's like those who prefer getting paid in cocaine at the source where they know it's pure, because they know that even with money, you can't buy really pure cocaine elsewhere or it'll be way too expensive).
Any time you have food being labeled as something it is not, I think that's a very serious problem, regardless of any health benefits or taste. Is fraud OK if people don't know (almost everyone) and/or don't care (probably some) they're being deceived?
As long as each group of writers sticks to its ideal audience, there's no problem. The conflict starts when academics are asked to write for a popular audience, or a scientist reads something a non-scientist wrote about his field. Then you get a style/audience mismatch, with the ensuing arguments as detailed in the article.
I brought a pretty minimal set of tools, and I was surprised that I had no additional scrutiny! I think they maybe scanned my bag more than once, but that's about it.

For an idea of what I had, this is off the top of my head: Bus Pirate, Bus Blaster, 2xRTLSDR, extra USB-WiFi, multimeter, screwdriver set, probably 4 ethernet cables, small travel router, several antennas (which showed up pretty cool on the x-ray!), hmmm... I think that's about it. And I was travelling from Canada.
Also check out sway, i3 compatible window manager for Wayland: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway
Is it better than the iPhone game of the same name?
I'm a fan of Awesome, but it's just a WM, it doesn't fulfill everything that a desktop needs.
The effect there was pretty rapid. Did it somehow take hold far more strongly than the earlier narrative (whatever that may have been)? It seems like the marketing has become quite a bit less dude-centric, yet the trend continues in spite of everything. One would hope a similarly sudden shift the other direction could be effected, but that doesn't appear to be happening.

Oddly enough, the two most obvious big drops on that graph appear to correspond pretty closely with drops in the total share of university students majoring in CS[1]. What significance that has, if any, I do not know.

[1] http://core0.staticworld.net/images/idge/imported/article/it...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12271354
Yes, we are all snowflakes. Anyway, you seem to be missing the point. And pithy little comments aren't adding any insight.