skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only in the US. Everywhere is the same.

Black truffles are not that expensive, and you don't need much. I encourage everyone to try them instead of this ridiculous thing. There is some slight similarity with the real thing, but the word here is slight. It's obscene, gasoline-like, and lacks the very essential complexity and subtleness that make truffles really unique.
> Facebook is for the pleasure and benefit of the whole world

Wait, what? Facebook is more like tobacco: addictive, very bad for you, and very profitable.
New Reader Endpoint for Amazon Aurora – Load Balancing and Higher Availability
Makes sense. Pretty big change conceptually so jotted it down for our next co-founders meeting.
Γερμανία: Ντέρμπι με Σάλκε η Μπάγερν
Someone Set Up a Sweet Co-Working Space on a Bridge Over the 5 Freeway
>bad experiences

This can swing both ways of course. I've had situations where colleagues were interested in me, and got nasty when I made sure they knew it was professional coffee.
That was it. I wish Google would start with the red alerts already so webmaster may start getting their shit together.
In the USN now, it's completely voluntary and there are very strict rules on what can occur during the ceremony. And probably close to 100% of the senior officers in the Navy are (at least privately) completely supportive of the new policy; the old initiation rituals were definitely illegal and were a constant source of concern for Navy leadership.

In a crew of hundreds, there will always be a handful of honest-to-god sadists who would delight in the chance to pour hot sauce on wogs' genitals and make them crawl on hot non-skidded decks. So one trick the ships do now is to have a all-hands call to announce the ground rules, secretly note the names of everybody who complains about it being too lenient and then make sure that those guys are standing watch during the ceremony.

P.S. Shellback since 1998...
Or you could even let them tag content as inappropriate for those who only want to see fluffy bunnies and have an "give me an unfiltered view" option for everyone else.
The default option is to use the bundled typescript compiler, but you can now also point it to a folder that contains a typescript compiler and it will call out to that. It works very well for me so far.
How about this photo of Champ? http://www.csicop.org/si/show/new_information_surfaces_on_wo...
What's really intriguing is the part in their article where they explain the "babbling" of wavenet, when they train the network without the text input.

That sounds just like a small kid imitating a foreign (or their own) language. My kids grow up bilingual and I hear them attempt something similar when they are really small. I guess it's like listening in to their neural network modelling the sound of the new language.
>because an algorithm says that challenging articles cause people to leave FB, reducing page views and ad revenue?

I don't quite get how that is any different from a TV news station or a newspaper coming to the same conclusion?
The problem is that some women who would like to be there basically feel forced out. As you point out, active inclusion does not work. But reducing exclusion can help enormously. However, it isn't an easy thing to make happen.
Have they added the ability for projects to have more than one root folder yet?
Pine trees are even on the flag for New England.
> What does it mean for society when Facebook can demote a challenging but important article (say, of war reporting) in your newsfeed so it can promote your friend's Wedding photos, because an algorithm says that challenging articles cause people to leave FB, reducing page views and ad revenue?

Couldn't a newspaper that uses algorithmic metrics (or any kind of metrics or surveying) end up making a similar editorial decision for similar reasons? Journalists have worried about independence of editorial and advertising for somewhat analogous kinds of reason for a long time, and also about whether their news outlets were doing the most important journalism vs. journalism with the greatest mass appeal.
I'm talking about exactly the same documentation and the same tutorial that's available online (well, obviously it was a much older version of it). Only difference is that the offline version is a directory of local HTML files rather than a website. The user experience is pretty much the same with both. Still pretty handy even in the StackExchange era, though it'd be more useful if Google didn't keep finding the wrong version of the docs (2.x when I'm using 3.x or vice-versa).
I'm short and skinny. (I wouldn't normally describe myself as ugly, but, who knows? I guess that's not up to me to say...).

It seems to me there are a ton of short skinny guys in the software engineering industry, so I rarely feel out of place on those particular grounds. If you have a specific question about that experience, though, I'd happily answer it.

I have noticed that the paucity of women is undeniable and pervasive, and it does at times lead to a dude's club atmosphere. Not every minute of every day in every way, but it's around. Overt sexism isn't generally tolerated, because, well, it's overt, but the environment is definitely experienced differently by many women than for men, in a million small ways, which can add up to big feelings.
Bold question but worth asking for sure.

1) Equal opportunity for everyone regardless of race, gender, age, sexuality etc is just the right thing to do

2) The data suggests diversity matters commercially/financially, even if your interests are selfish.

http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-...

http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/diversity-matters
You're too arrogant. If you want to learn another language, you need to be humble. Fix that and go out and speak with your fellow Germans: poorly at first, but with time you will do better.
Yes. This.

Most of my career was in electrical engineering and electronics design. Until one month ago, after finally transitioning into a 100% software role with a 100% software shop after 15 years in tech, I work with a female engineer. 15 years, a dozen companies. One, lone female engineer. It is this experience that helps inform me to the problems of inequity in tech. It also has exposed me to many, many defensive colleagues who are all good people...but cannot divorce their own personal worth from the topic. They are hypersensitive to perceived criticisms.
The company I work at has a good solution to this. We fly candidates out for an onsite interview and at the end of the day, if we decide we want to hire them, we give them an offer in person. Our goal is to get them to verbally accept before they head back home.
The idea that you should discard your integrity in the pursuit of money, or even that that is to be expected, is quite damaging.
I think much of the problem is that these toxic effects aren't being created by overt bigotry, but rather by cognitive biases. The people rescinding reservations are doing so out of loss aversion, which is a very powerful human impulse. We're also powerfully geared to think differently about outgroups than we do about ingroups, which makes it easy for us to believe that there's a higher degree of risk in allowing a black family to stay in our house than a white one.

Social stigma might blunt these effects but it's unlikely to eliminate them any time soon. I bet a lot of the people who (effectively) refuse to rent to black people don't think they're the slightest bit biased against black people. They're not keeping track of their individual decisions about rental applicants, and they can easily let their brains fill in the blanks to tell them there were all sorts of negative signals they picked up on when declining reservations.
Previously Usenet. Which died under, ironically, trolls, antipornography drives, and copyright enforcement.

There was the WWW itself, at least for a time, though there are elements which tend toward centralisation, largely discovery, discussion, authentication, and directory.

Tim Berners-Lee and others have recently announce Solid.

https://solid.mit.edu
just like tv, radio and newspapers. perhaps even churches, temples and mosques... though that might be more controversial to say.
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go

I believe you just search extensions for Go, and you're solid.
They mean the file name is the same and you end up with several files in the download folder without knowing what's the one you need.
The standard recommendation seems to be to use PropTypes. And also in general, to use Babel with React programs. Would be interested to hear experiences of using Typescript with React.
>the horrible outcome is that she mentioned her boyfriend a few times.

You're missing the point. The horrible outcome is that she will forever hold the irrational concern that you're hitting on her. It will colour everything you say or do.
To be honest, to setup vim to provide the features VS Code provides out of the box takes a long time and dedication.
I don't see why it was unreasonable to ask why only state sexuality over other equal characteristics that get discriminated against on the topic.
Came here to say "Narnia." I never felt like I was reading about religion--maybe that's a connection kids don't make. I read this series at 8-9 years old. (I think it's kind-of nuts that we read the first book as a group in first grade--it seems like it'd be too difficult!)

I also loved an old book called The Forest Runners. I guess it's part of a series, but I can never find the rest. It's about the old frontier days. Sparked, or at least helped fuel, a lifelong fascination with the outdoors & related activity.

Someday I'll own the whole series and have my kid read them.
Uh, no? In schools you get taught to sit still and do your exercises. And don't you dare bother anyone or speak up.

Communication is something you learn on the job and when you go out.
Until of course you get similar vulnerabilities (Heardbleed etc) in the TLS implementation itself...
> "I would think the real competitor is Google Docs"

If you're happy with GD, that's cool, but I personally don't see much reason to switch.

As for bringing open-source office suites online, it is happening:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_...
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And that answer is what is wrong with capitalism.

Why can a drug maker jack their prices up 100x? Because it's profitable.

Why do gas companies raise their prices when there's an impending disaster (hurricane, blizzards, etc.)? Because they can.

Capitalism is great in a different aspect: it provides a form of unaccountable eugenics. Your parents were poor, and went to a public school that wasn't funded well. That travels along with life, leading to a harder life for you. Less money for the essentials, and perhaps health insurance.

There's nobody out there with a knife going to kill you; it's more of ling-chi or death by a thousand cuts. And the culmination amounts to moralizations like "You should have went to better school", or "Its your fault not getting a better job", or insults of "Lazy".

But your lifespan is shortened; there's less everything for you. And society has no one to blame except you. Well, other than every other actor who causes tiny bits of pain and suffering... but not enough to quantify. Not like they could sue, anyways.
Honestly, AirBnB is bidding you good riddance. They obviously want to be some big corporation competing with Marriott, Holiday Inn, etc. They aren't going to get there with people like you. They're going to get there by clearing the way for the professional "hosts" who are, in reality, setting up unlicensed hotels in apartment buildings.

If AirBnB is going to get big, they need to have anti-discrimination policies. Without such policies, the states and federal government will sue them into oblivion--whether any laws were actually broken or not. Civil rights groups will boycott AirBnB and any TV network that carries their advertising. The list of hurts goes on and on.

So there is no future for hosts like you who want to vet people. Vetting allows too much room for all sorts of unsavory discrimination. More importantly for AirBnB though, vetting gets in the way of AirBnB making money and competing with hotel chains.

This company dreams of being the "Uber of hotels." You're in their way. You're like the old-timey Lyft driver who wanted people riding in front and doing the fist bump. That's over.

The sort of hosting you want to do is going to have to route through some informal mechanism, like an email list or word of mouth or some web forum, or maybe a random Facebook group. It's incompatible with a Bigcorp that wants to make money, lots of money.
Paying for good tools supports developers who make good tools.

I've tried VS Code, but prefer WebStorm.
It's funny you should mention EVE Online, because it's the only MMORPG I've ever played seriously and the only game I've played for longer than a year that kept my interest. It was also pretty revolutionary for 2003 when it came out.

The highest level of gameplay involved very little spreadsheet hell and a lot more skill, leadership and coordination that one might think originally if they did not have a strong corporation to align with. It's true that there a LOT of numbers behind the gameplay that you had to consider, but spreadsheet hell was a result of poor UI/UX choices and not necessarily of game design.

If Star Citizen can replicate that, but with better graphics, and personal ship control (instead of EVE's point and click) - they will already be a success in my book.
Priceline kills its “name-your-price” feature
I suggest they do a bait and switch make the headline be about a lipstick or a boy band then hit the reader with the horrors of bombing 12 year old little girls with Napalm.
Off topic, but can you fix that bug that makes your site create a popup when a user highlights text. I have trouble tracking text and use the highlight to read faster. Your site is completely unreadable to me.
Is this not part of the problem? How will anything get solved if we all shy away from difficult problems?
Love the music part! Mmmh ... infinite jazz.
I think the outrage is perfectly fine. The only thing that's going to sway them is public opinion and outrage that can have an impact on their revenue stream.
5300 Wells Fargo employees fired for creating phony accounts
> What does it mean for society when Facebook can demote a challenging but important article (say, of war reporting) in your newsfeed so it can promote your friend's Wedding photos

That Facebook is a social networking platform that some people incidentally use to try to relay news of general public concern, not an online public affairs platform with an incidental social networking function?
I think there's quite a bit of self-awareness and honesty in questioning these types of initiatives.

So many of these "women in tech" discussions are thiny veiled power plays to take economic and decision making power away from developers. In the past few years we've seen feminists call for Linus Torvalds' head, attacks on the _concept_ of meritocracy, codes of conduct forced down many open source project's throats, masses of women only networking and hiring events, diversity drives that favor hiring women over men, many social media witch hunts against engineers of all levels...

At some point you have to step back and question the narrative that's being pushed. There is not, and never has been anything stopping women from learning to code. All you need is a computer, an internet connection and self motivation.
imo they essentially did those algorithms. tabloids are the outcome
Mine is firstinitialmiddleinitialfamilyname.

There are an amazing number of C. R. Conrad's in the world -- mostly the USA -- who seem to think they own that address.
SRI is meaningless on an insecure page.
Kind of high pressure, no?
Elephant in the room. Nobody seems to want to discuss the very real chilling effect of spousal mate-guarding behavior on workplace camaraderie. Thank you sir.
If you don't moderate what the users post your service becomes a child porn host in a surprisingly short ammount of time is the common fear, and I think its also what generally happens. Though behadings and general gore from shitposters is probably what triggers most censorship programs.
>I personally think the heavy PR push towards women in code over the last couple of years

It's not been 'the last few years' It's been about 30, now. I can remember them pushing when I was in elementary school.

Also, it's a misnomer to call it '[gender] dominated'. Tech is largely female rejected. Just as most men reject teaching, nursing, or the social sciences. Those aren't female dominated either, but male rejected.

I'm perfectly happy working with competent people of either gender. I don't give a shit what's in their pants. Just don't be an idiot and we're all good.
There is a project out there called freeboard-server it turns out boats NMEA data into html and json. Another project, kplex, multiplexes the boat data, NMEA, into something usable.

Most of this was done while we were on sabbatical. And we didn't have a lot of Internet access. But I'll try and compile my project into something presentable.
Is it possible to detect and warn about the left recursion?
Assuming a data structure representing the grammar is built at runtime to be interpreted.

Won't it be possible to detect the left recursion instead of going into an infinite loop?
Be sure to generate a different one for each connection attempt.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-up/issues/5
I think a comparing intellij platform to eclipse makes more sense. Why is eclipse so unintuitive?

For example, why must I click ok after pushing a change to a remote git server? Shouldn't it be a toast?
Interesting point which unfortunately got buried in this thread due to being a reply to another comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12457809

> Why does Google profit from HTTPS over HTTP?
Because it removes the ability for ISPs to act as a competitor to Google by injecting ads and profiling customer browsing.
You may not like that ISPs have done that (I don't) but it's competition for Google, and removing it is therefore good for Google's profits.
Maybe you wouldn't. Maybe you just feel some comfort / familiarity with the ASF, who knows? I'll freely admit, all of this is pretty subjective and pretty personal.

My take is, as long as you're contributing to something OSS, you're doing something laudable. I don't care if you contribute to AOO, LO, Calligra, a new fork of KOffice, GNumeric, or something else.

Of course I'd like to see people chip in with AOO, but I can't sit here and tell you there are a lot of objective reasons to decide to do so. I just hope there's some non-zero number of people who do make that choice, regardless of their reasoning.
Just beating a dead horse here, but I really wish Microsoft would add "hot exit" for unsaved files. It's been in Sublime Text since 2011. Nearly all my Mac apps support this feature natively. Why, in 2016, if VS Code crashes, do I lose all my unsaved files. Especially when I want to treat an instance as merely a scratch pad for ideas.

Supposedly it's Under Review. Hopefully, the next release has it.

https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-stud...
> "My mom got sick, and the $200k I had saved over 4 years went down to four-figures..."

He doesn't even have $200k anymore. He may be smart, but he's not rich.
>Bottom line is many women just don't want to do this and for reasons that have nothing to do with it being a male dominated industry. Does that make it more difficult for the minority of women who are drawn to this profession? Yep! But trying to force more women into it is not the answer imo.

Exactly! I know exactly how to achieve gender parity in tech, force more women to do it. But alas, that's even worse!
> i have never been on the negative spectrum of this problem

To the extent that underrepresentation of the group that I identify with is a "problem", I think you and I probably both have. Programming as a profession is dominated by Asians, specifically Indians. When I completed my master's degree in computer science at an American university, I was one of only a half-dozen non-Indian citizens in the entire program (and one of only two white men). There were lots of women, but they were all from India. In my professional work as a developer, I've seen the same massive overrepresentation of Indian programmers.

Of course, I don't see this as a "problem" that my fellow, downtrodden white men need "diversity initiatives" to "overcome": Indian people, for whatever reason, just appear to have more interest and motivation in pursuing programming education and careers. The only time it grates on me is when I see somebody from $APPROVED_OPPRESSED_MINORITY_GROUP insisting that not only their group's representation, but specifically their group's representation in comparison to that of white men, is somehow a problem that I brought about.
Food will cost more overall, since global arable land will reduce. But in some northern areas the growing season could actually lengthen.

I hope that the timescales are such that drastic effects won't happen this century and give humans more time to adjust/come up with technology to mitigate the effects.

2c warming by end of the century would be terrible, 10c disastrous
I encountered this just yesterday. Interviewed a lovely woman with a gender neutral name and a fantastic resume that I assumed was a man before getting on the phone with her. She turned out to be just as good as she looked on paper, and I'm certainly looking forward to hiring her.

I feel like gender only matters to the kind of people that gender matters to (tautologies are cool).
There will always be people who take things you say or do the wrong way. That just comes with the territory. If you want to be good at your tech job, you won't be able to avoid working with other people in some form, so you might as well make the best of it.

Your best move is to play the game with both hands above the table, not to avoid playing the game at all.

Here's a suggestion for what to say: "Sounds like there's some sort of misunderstanding. I'm not interested in you as anything more than a coworker. We're on the same team and I need to know how to work with you. If you don't want coffee how about we just chat sometime in a meeting room?"

If they're still being weird about it, then it's probably worth discussing with your manager because that other person is probably generally difficult to work with. Also to cover your own ass from the specter of future sexual harassment issues if that's what you're worried about.

If you're just worried about the other person making it weird... I don't mean to dismiss the concern, but there are plenty of weird people out there, and it's unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
I'd like to clarify what you mean. Do you believe that the tech sector is actually diverse and there are no underrepresented groups, or are you saying you don't think the lack of diversity is harmful?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12456548
I once had a twitter handle that whose gender wasn't obvious, leading to people thinking I'm a guy. I used that handle to defend the creator of redis when he was being wrongly convicted of being sexist.

As a result, I did get a great many rape threats and violence threats because they thought I was female -- form people whose identities were not hidden at all, in fact (eg: CTOs of startups in SV with more than $40M in venture capital behind them were threatening me with rape).

These were the "feminists" threatening a perceived female for defending a male, who was not being sexist, but who was the current target of 5 minutes of hate.

Given the amount of harassment anti-gamergate people have engaged in, and the fact that every single thing they claim gamer gate does, they are doing (while I've not really seen gamer gate do it) and the rape threats I got... I think the harassers are the SJWs.