skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I got started in electronics, I imagine exactly a little LED lighting up when a bit is flip in a memory chip. The on in the post is a great illustration! well done!
Its not clear to me what this means to Powershell SDK? (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff458115.aspx). Will I be able to write applications (not scripts) in say C++ to communicate to say SCVMM?
The problem is you can't solve it from there. If men are 90% of the qualified applicant pool, all you get by hiring 50% women in one company is that four other companies that size then have to be 100% men. How is that better?
it always struck me as funny watching this issue unfold in my industry, that the people on the "frontlines" belong to another highly gendered career path - human resource workers seem to be overwhelmingly female.

first of all, does anyone know whether i'm right about this?

and then, does anyone else think we might have to address the gendering of all careers in order to get at addressing those careers which attract all of the concern?
Engineering at Quora: Faster Paint Times
Otherwise known as affirmative action? My guess is that the recruiters realized that selecting for people who could actually pass the interview process and stand a chance at getting hired is a better strategy to getting good performance reviews. It's gravy if its a minority, but you can't count on it.

That's not to say there aren't extremely talented women and racial minorities, but I'd imagine they have their pick of the litter right now as everyone is clamoring to have that perfectly homogenous workforce so their director of HR can post their "diversity numbers" and get a big raise. That's the real reason driving this nonsense.

The problem is in the supply of the candidates, which starts long before they make it to the recruiter, so it's of no surprise the recruiter can't do anything. It's not like by giving these points we suddenly opened up a hidden cache of women engineers somewhere.

If big tech companies really cared about minorities, they would offer minority scholarships, complete with an offer of employment afterwards, sponsor after school programs and help find those kids that have been left behind in the institutional education system. Take that extra budget allocated for this banal and hopeless program and give it to the local Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization and mandate the recruiters attend and mentor someone there. Of course, those results will not be visible in the HR Director's next OKR meeting. Some problems cannot be fixed easily or quickly and that's just how it is. They could be doing these things....but they won't.

Instead, we get recruiter "point systems".

Bravo, Facebook!
Paraplegics learn to walk with the help of virtual reality and exoskeletons
The first person profiled in this article is 31.
The default behavior in firefox on linux is to go to a page when you middle-click anywhere that isn't a text box. This took me a while to figure out when I was trying to paste and missed the text-box. I never noticed until I got a linux laptop because missing textboxes on my desktop is a rare occurrence, but with a trackpad I miss all the time.
Since Chinese people are not the users of Facebook he should not hire any Chinese :D.
You're predicting broad trends. You're not determining the actual outcome of individual dates. A "sickly, scrawny, impoverished idiot" can have successful dates, and you've just failed to predict that.

When you go on a date, whether the average person would like you means nothing. Whether the person actually sitting in front of you likes you means everything. And you can't predict that. You are talking about the middle of a bell curve, and you're failing to understand how wide that curve is and how strong the tails are. Which is why I said you're failing to understand human diversity.
The obvious conclusion is that math is racist.
It is nice here (as a visitor anyway) but I checked house prices and it is not that bad depending where you want to live. Personally I like visiting cities but would not want to live in them: for Melbourne, if I had to live here, I would buy in Olinda and drive to the office. Then again I would never go 5 days a week to the office, more likely I would plan all meetings in one day and work from home the rest.
All true, except you're really just hiding the problem behind an abstraction. If you want to have a reliable server instead of just a server, then you want more than one server. And now you're back to your massively complicated problem, if you insist that all servers are equal.

Of course, you don't have to make that assumption, neither on the server side nor in the peer model. Just say that the peer who created the document is the "server" (or use any other reasonable way to determine this), and when other peers have a copy that disagrees, then they update their copy. Now it's just like talking to a real server, except it happens to be another peer. Go ahead and use If-Match, 412, etc. (...or the equivalents in whatever protocol makes sense, of course)

Such an immediate jump to a massive-scale solution for a few to at most a dozen hosts talking amongst themselves is a classic YAGNI.
The "Ladies and gentlemen, we are being held momentarily" is not the dispatcher, it's an automated message and is the voice of Charlie Pellett (http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-most-recog...).
Use this.

Expand-Archive file.zip
Risk of war with Russia.
You can always use Namecoin.
Alas, Unequal Love
> It was a problem that there weren't more women mining coal when mining coal was an up and coming industry and one of the best ways for people to get ahead economically.

At which point you're seen as only caring about equality when it disadvantages women, which isn't how equality works.

It's just as important that we have a gender balance in coal miners (and nurses and teachers and prison inmates) as it is for software developers.
Read the rustbyexample book: http://rustbyexample.com/hello.html

If you ask me it's better. Assuming you are not new to programming.
> That said, they may be reporting on Millennials anxiety but not endorsing it as justified. Just informing us this is how they're thinking.

Why make the assumption that all millenials think that way? Neither me nor any of my friends think that way. If you are convinced that millenials as a group are more likely to behave that way then do a sociological study with a large enough sample size rather than providing anecdata.
Also, an interesting read related to this would 'the AI effect'[0]. A lot of the stuff Deep Learning/Machine Learning is able to do today would be looked at as something that only 'true' AI (whatever consensus on what that means is; I think of it as AGI) would be able to do.

But as soon as we are able to solve a problem that we think (feel?) only true AI (AGI) would be able to solve, as soon as we know how it was solved, it is no longer a mystery that warrants amazement and we argue that it is not real intelligence, just like the link below states.

But just a decade ago, if you saw that a computer was able to recognize pictures better than humans, you would think there was something fishy going on, or we have achieved true AI.

My opinion is true AI is which is comparable to human intelligence, in that it is sentient and/or capable of abstract thought, not necessarily being able to hold a conversation or solve concrete mathematics problems, or dump out a story by neural networks.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
> That's because those 3 problems I listed up there are easy to solve if you're using /dev/urandom (or the getrandom system call), but extremely tricky otherwise.

Every software developer needs to print out this sentence and stick it above their kanban board (or equivalent).
Do users love your Push Notifications?
But that's picking an example where

a. You can still use the native binary just as well. Especially in this case.

b. There was no PowerShell cmdlet for it at the time. There also isn't one for executing Python code, you still have to call python. Or, if you're so inclined, load up IronPython's assembly, and use an overly verbose .NET method call ...

c. There now is a cmdlet for doing so: Expand-ZipFile.

I'm actually curious as to those complaints: Do you never write a function in bash to abstract away something? A function in other languages? Is everything just a series of crystal-clear one-liners?

Shell scripts in Unix-likes tend to glue together a bunch of other programs and (usually) not do much programming in the shell's language. You can write PowerShell just the same, actually. It is a shell, after all.
It's kinda interestig to read see this type of comparison, but it doesn't really give a good picture for the families living there or someone looking to shift into that city.

According to the footnote in chart, it only measures stablility, infrastructure, education, health care and environment. Is this in the context of a average family with an average income for that city? It's pretty vague.

I grew up in the southern part of suburban Melbourne before shifting to Europe. It was quite a livable city for me, but to get started and to establish yourself in Melbourne is very difficult.
I think it's wise to distinguish between efficiency and fairness.

The SF real estate market right now is quite efficient; houses and condos sell quickly at the going market rate, but you might find the effect on the allocation of housing to be very unfair in that some people have much easier access to housing than others.

Price controls favor fairness over efficiency; e.g. selling bread below market price means everyone waits in line, which is by definition inefficient. It is fair, however, in that both rich and poor wait equally.

> They want the market to clear

That's what I mean by compulsion begetting compulsion -- the market clears just fine right now, but price and/or rent controls will probably make it not clear, at which point you need to add other taxes to force it to clear again.
Based on my own anecdotal experience with hiring developers, the m/f ratio is highly unbalanced before our own biases even come into play. A while ago, we had a recruiting agent helping us to find candidates, based solely on a list of technical criteria. She (yes, she) sent us almost only men, a dozen or two of them. The one exception was a woman who choked on the fizzbuzz test. That was actually really saddening.
>It's just as important that we have a gender balance in coal miners (and nurses and teachers and prison inmates) as it is for software developers.

Or maybe we should stop preoccupying ourselves with this equality of outcome nonsense because in a free market people are allowed to choose their own career paths.
AMD was cheaper (always) not better. You can be cheaper and worse and people will still buy the worse since it's cheaper even if price / quality on intel would've been better.
Hidden message in plain sight
security through obscurity - with a twist

example of hidden message in plain sight...

BACKUP FILES ARE AS FOLLOWS.
LOCATE THE FILES AND YOU WILL FIND THE PATH
SECURITY THROUGH OBSCURITY
WITH A TWIST

localhost/backup/011YT1010001101111.zip
localhost/backup/01110U00000100000.zip
localhost/backup/01110W01101100101.zip
localhost/backup/011000110UU1110010.zip
localhost/backup/011001010111TW0100.zip
localhost/backup/001000WW0001101W101.zip
localhost/backup/0110010101110011.zip
localhost/backup/01110011RA01100001.zip
localhost/backup/0110011101AR100101.zip
localhost/backup/0010000GS001101000.zip
localhost/backup/01101001SS01100100.zip
localhost/backup/0110010QQ001100101.zip
localhost/backup/0110111000SD100000.zip
localhost/backup/011010010110DW1110.zip
localhost/backup/001000000111000DF0.zip
localhost/backup/011AE0110001100001.zip
localhost/backup/01101EE00101101110.zip
localhost/backup/0010000GFD001110011.zip
localhost/backup/01101001011UY00111.zip
localhost/backup/0110100001110RE100.zip
That article has 0 information about Delphi's approach. In fact, the Delphi car has LIDAR too. For all we know they could be taking Google/Uber's approach.
It's not racist as long as you favor the right race. /s
For anyone not writing C/C++ but still needs a CSPRNG: https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/05/how-generate-secure-rando...
I think his statements can be supported by data too. Look at the gender distribution for CS programs in top colleges.

I think people who insist that 50% of developers should be women are nothing but sexist of high order who objectify as some number that needs to be bumped up. Women have different priorities than men. They prefer jobs that provide more security and more immune to gaps than jobs that require more attention. I don't understand why it is so hard for people to accept the simple fact that women have their own mind and preferences and it can be different than men ?

P.S. This is not to say there aren't gender issues in any industry. But I dont think it is as black and white as people make it out to be.
Haha I thought we were talking about Fannie Mae, not USA itself. Although, the latter might be a better comparison to the South Sea Company...
Yes, and it's a word with other meanings as well. That's the one I thought you meant, but I wasn't sure.
Ha this is timely for me ... last night I laid out an ALU in eagle using 7400 logic and was going to document the build of a 7400-based programmable processor.
That and as I notice 'non collectors' are seeing online this is worth something and asking serious $. 5-6 years ago I picked up brilliant 70-80s stuff for next to nothing, now all that shot up to amounts I even do not think it is worth it. This is a good deal but the bidding is not over.
You forgot old people. I'm positively ancient :)

I've used it for 30+ years. It's not the only thing I've used. But I've used it a lot, for deployed systems that Just Work(ed)(tm). They don't have a lot of UI, usually.

You don't get "cross-platform assembly" in a complete 100% sense and get the enjoy the fruits of hardware diversity. An escape to inline assembly is PERFECTLY FINE.

The Linux kernel doesn't use that much assembly. But yeah - "just write inline assembly" is exactly how it's done. And as someone who's done a few Board Support Packages for Linux and other O/S-es, it's not a huge risk - there's generally a port for a processor, so a small number of people write the inline assembly and it gets distributed widely.

I don't think people who don't like 'C' should use 'C'. I don't like Java too much, so I pretty much refuse to work in it. I don't touch Web stuff at all, beyond a few weeks here and there.

You have to use a pretty weird process to write robust and reliable systems in 'C' but it's not exactly difficult. It just takes... six months of knuckle busting most people don't have. Maybe three months. You have to smooth over learning some arcane rules.

I think that the emphasis we see online on 'C' comes from open source, in particular the Linux kernel, and it causes this weird ...status rift to open and people fall into it.

I'd been programming professionally for twelve or so years prior to even seeing Linux. In 'C', Pascal for a couple years before 'C'. I FIRMLY believe that 'C' is the mechanism to get the most reliable and deterministic solution to problems. Note I didn't say "fastest". But that's when I do it; after the last few years, there's enough whining about how bad 'C' is that I kinds shrug and say "hey, if it hurts you're doing it wrong. Make yourself happy."

but I'm on teams with people who use all the fancy high level stuff and ... frankly, it's not my stuff that doesn't work. Because I've done this for 30+ years.
IF YOU GET IT, POST IT HERE!
You're not only mis-using appeal to authority, but you're now using argumentum ad nauseum to boot. You're wrong, and you're not advancing the discussion.

It also helps to keep in mind the distinction between logical fallacies, used in a strict logical sense, and strength of argument. The case here is one of "what is the evidence to support a belief?", not "are the argument's predicates and conclusions logically valid in a strict sense?".

The original argument was that the article was "too quick to proclaim". The rejoinder was that this wasn't the article's conclusion, but that of an expert on the subject.

The discussion has been advanced, the initial claim invalidated, and additional relevant information provided.

To reject the conclusions of the article simply because of an appeal to authority, without also presenting a stronger claim that the authority is invalid, doesn't advance the argument.

To persist in that is tiresome.

A key question is whether or not the authority in question is credible. I've engaged in any number of discussions where showing credibility is at issue, and showing a particular source's good faith or record of admitting error (or not relitigating falsehoods) is crucial to qualifying or impeaching a witness. Again, you've not done this.

Paul Graham's "How to Disagree" is popular around here for various reasons. The derived graphic on hierarchy of disagreement is also strongly recommended.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarc...

You might also want to catch up on your logical fallacies and how/when they're appropriate or not.

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/authorit.html
http://www.skepdic.com/authorty.html
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-authority...

Note that key to these is the question of expertise.
If the human drivers become painpoint this innovation is going to go a lot faster. I think driver of the world can untie and pressurize the government to stop this innovation in infancy :P
Empress's new ears – Fuzzy Tales Ep. 5
Being from Harare, it's good to know that 1) We were worth a survey 2) We have overtaken Lagos, Algiers and Tripoli.

Though i think both are lies. Things are tough in Harare, but who knows, I haven't been to the other 3.
So, I'm going to grab an FX8350
Maybe I should have phrased it as "to spend 8 hours a day thinking about it." And I'm not suggesting you need to be spending every waking moment on it, either. But you have to be focused on something for some minimum percentage of your time (which does vary for each person) before your subconscious really starts digging into it.
Start of my Journey with git
If you're interested in a non-minimal, production-quality, blazingly fast Apache 2-licensed raytracer, you could do worse than Intel's Embree project: https://embree.github.io
Years ago ISPs may have been less evil than they are now.
Social Media and the job search
Pressure on two sides of a surface don't have to be equal. The overall forces do, but there's an additional component being applied by the surface itself. An alternate way of looking at it : consider how the space station internal pressure differs from space.
Can I measure it in miles?
Since the main audience in HN are techies. I think if we put tech jobs and startups as part of the equation, those rankings will change dramatically.
I think the author forgot that Asians exist and assumed that "not black" equalled "white". It's a common mistake in the US where racial politics is very "black and white".
On the other hand, those countries have very low crime rates and incarceration rates, so ...
This means state actors like three letter agencies already have this capability.
Risk of small stakes in the RussiaVsWestEuropUsia?

You might just be a useful statistic in the global real-politik with that sort of thinking...
The provincial government instituted a real estate tax levied on foreign buyers that went into effect in July. So, no surprise here. There are plenty of people supporting the tax who actually wanted prices to come down, and the tax is having the intended effect.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2846122/b-c-to-bring-in-foreign-bu...
> since all interaction with the outside world is still through the host, it would be hard to prevent the host from grabbing the raw decrypted video data as it leaves

Wasn't this part already paved earlier by Microsoft, when Hollywood wanted to guarantee no unencrypted HD video leaves the PC? It might have weaknesses but the principle is already estabilished.

A secure crypto path from black box VMs to smart TVs also
leaves the door open for all kinds of nasty scenarios involving TV pwnage. You also will have no way of decrypting the data that the VM exfiltrates from your PC.
Previous discussion about forthcoming work in this area:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903356#11905582

But the person who promised to share new work isn't one of these authors (though is cited by them for an older paper), so that must have been a different research project!
The provincial government instituted a 15% real estate tax levied on foreign buyers that went into effect in July. So, no surprise here.

There are plenty of people supporting the tax who actually wanted prices to come down, and the tax is having the intended effect.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2846122/b-c-to-bring-in-foreign-bu...
The worst stable city is usually better than the best of the unstable. All the other 3 there is low level civil war going on.

In Harare - if you do not cross zanu-pf you at least could try to make a living.
How Xiaomi lost $40bn: Where it all went wrong for the 'Apple of the East'
Uhm, the CLR (hence the name) was specifically designed to host different languages that can interoperate with each other and unlike the JVM was not built around the capabilities and limitations of a single language.
> The one saving grace is that these truly bizarre quantum

> behaviours don’t seem to have much of an impact on the

> macroscopic world as we know it, where “classical”

> physics rules the roost.

> Or, at least, that’s what scientists thought until a few years ago.

Yeah, no. You're reading this on something with a semiconductor inside.
Which you might remember from novelties like transistor radio and such.
I'd add time to that, and raw materials. Knowledge is a nonconsumable input, but education, training, and skills maintenance are also factors.

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations has an interesting breakdown of factors contributing to wages, though he also maintains that a wage must always be sufficient to sustain not only the labourer himself (hey, this was 1776), but his wife and children, and their education so as to provide for the next generation of workers.

There are some other points I'll address directly to your parent's question.
Why Are New York's Streets Always Under Construction?
I think it's a skewed view based off looking at the billionaire outliers, not the majority of us mere peons.
So eat while you drive, man :) ( I too hate driving, but live suburban and have been extremely lucky in being able to keep commute times to a minimum - like on the order of five minutes ).

Productive density is constrained by things like how accounting works, how we can't get out of our own way, by other things that are like public choice economics. At each job I've had, I've seen people walk away from millions of dollars, either in increased sales or reduced cost because somebody just didn't understand it ( or rather, did understand it all too well ).

I couldn't agree more - people who live farther out should expect less services unless they're prepared to pay what they actually cost. In cases like California, the Pubic Choice Theory stories about water are ... interesting enough that it's a central plot element from a movie from the 1970s - "Chinatown".

I've lived on well water and septic.

This being said, I don't think real estate development public debt is even on the radar as a threat to anything. They can always raise rates...
PSA reading most popular science reporting considered harmful