skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a cop-out, it's simply acknowledging reality. My individual choices don't matter. What matters is convincing billions of people to all make those individual choices. Changing my own behavior does nothing to convince those others. It seems paradoxical on the surface, but that's how it is.

Someone who spends his time flying around the world while successfully convincing the masses to be environmentally conscious will have a much greater positive impact than someone who reduces his own carbon emissions to zero but does nothing else.

Flying to see the Eiffel Tower, or not, doesn't do squat.
Nah, they don't seem to, and it's not. Isn't intellectual debate fun?

Also, what do they disagree on - that an Iraqi bombed to death is worse off than even a poor albino woman in the US? That starving to death in Africa as a male is worse than being a female engineer wherever? Technically, you just called "most female engineers" very ignorant and selfish.
Both "foo@bar" and "foot@bar." are valid email addresses. "bar" can be a host name or a top-level domain name. "bar." is a top-level domain name.

That said, "foot@bar." may be valid, but ICANN says it should not be functional. They prohibit dotless domain names (that is, top-level domain names may not have A, AAA, or MX records).
Thank goodness I am too sophisticated to rely Facebook for my news.

I get all my news from Twitter.
The assumption is that the scammers parents would react in a way that would make a meaningful difference and the very fact that the scammer is a scammer to me calls this into question.

Best way to express your opinion about something with someone is directly, not by asking their parents to do so for you.
Thanks, I read that. Perhaps I should have said Chomsky usually gets it right. Middle east, encroaching corporatism, etc.
They can issue statements, as the ranking Democrat did here, contesting the findings of the report:

http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/cum...
After 28 years of DoD service, civilian engineer, I just called it quits. I got tired of the retaliation for turning in security violations. The last one: sharing of passwords on a secured network. One violator's response: Where is it written we cannot share passwords?
Why the retaliation? It portrays a bad image. Nice!
> Nobody seems to be in charge.

That's indeed the problem. There was a strong push for a while to put NSA in charge of civilian infosec infrastructure. But Congress didn't really want to put a combat support agency in that role. So DHS is technically in charge of that. But we still have the majority of federal agencies stuck fending for themselves when it comes to securing their networks. Without stronger action from Congress, this may never change.
I don't agree with point 2, but we're just arguing opinions currently without data.

As soon as you start actively seeking candidates based on underrepresented classes, you're practicing reverse discrimination in the name of "diversity".
Or maybe you can't justify the value of simply stating female in the topic heading.

Or are you saying that all females have the same experience?

if not perhaps you can explain what is the value of stating they are female when not all females are the same , nor do they automatically have the same experiences simply because of their sex.

surely a fat , short , ugly , female engineer would not have the same experience or struggles as a skinny,tall, pretty female engineer. Perhaps one finds it as a positive experience while the other has the exact opposite experience.

Not all women and men are created equal and other factors such as looks,weight,height,color can make all the differences when it comes to experiences.Even among the same sex.
Thanks for the and kind comment.

The whole issue is very complex, that's for sure. The extent to which these kinds of "illnesses" or "sensitivities", in myself or others, are "all in the mind" or "imaginary" is something I've considered and researched very heavily, and found it to be applicable to a significant degree.

But to someone who is in distress/pain/fatigue, the retort - whether from a doctor, a well-intentioned layperson or an insensitive asshole - that "it's all in your mind" or a "placebo/nocebo", is unhelpful and simplistic, particularly if you accept that the mind and body are all one entity anyway.

And then there is the reality, that you acknowledge, that certain effects are too subtle to be observed with current measurement technologies and diagnostic methods, inevitably leading to both false positives and false negatives.

In my case, the key to getting well has been to address all aspects, including diet, environment, and mind/emotions - the latter of which has had the most significant effect. Which puts me in a position to say "yes, in fact it probably really is the placebo effect, and I've used it to recover from having really terrible health to having great health", to which the next standard response from curmudgeonly skeptics is "the placebo effect doesn't actually change anything about your health, it only makes you feel better" - as if feeling well and being well are independent phenomena.

So, in my case you chuckle to yourself as you realise you're having an unwinnable argument with people who are more interested in feeling smart that achieving any good, and get on with doing what works for you.

As for the "femtocell", thanks for the tip, I hadn't heard of it. But really, as I said in the previous comment, EMF in my environment is really not an issue I worry about, I only take care to avoid having a transmitting phone right next to my head as I sleep - given that good sleep is the most critical factor in overcoming fatigue.

Many thanks for the discussion.
Wont GCC fail, includes a patch for GCC, I tested on my system before posting. Running great!
That reminds me of John Stewart telling people not to consider the "Daily Show" a real news show.
For what it is worth, my comment is, in essence, that the "power" of governance flows from the governed and that the Open Office project provides us with an excellent example of how the governed can express their disagreement with the governance. The example works because the "official" lineage of the project is dying, while the "forked" lineage of the project is not. It also keeps a lot of variables such as opportunity cost, market size, Etc., the same which helps it as tool for learning.

I did NOT mean to imply that it was the Apache foundation that killed (or at least mortally wounded) Open Office. What I was trying to state was that a series of governance choices killed it, the breaking point can be identified in time as the moment LO forked itself. Then from that point forward, you can compare the governance choices made by the OO lineage, and the governance choices made by the LO lineage, and see what worked and what did not. And that is what makes it such a great example (in my opinion).

For people reading and following along, and who might be considering being the steward of an open source project, they might take a moment and look at both paths thoughtfully to understand the limitations of being "the boss" on a project and how those limitations are manifested.

I get where you are coming from Cam, I screwed up by not pointing out it was Oracle in charge of Open Office when LO forked, but as that screw up changes nothing about how governance is perceived by the governed or rejected by the governed, I expect that is why your point might be considered a quibble.
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Do you have kids? My experience of kids is that they are greatly influenced by how their parents see their behaviour.

Unless of course the parents have not built good relationship with their children, in which case the kids might not care a hoot what the parents think.
"clever trick" is something we explicitly avoid asking these days.
I always thought of them as a way to gain root. As in privilege escalation.
I'm delighted with the slides for "String Theory". For some reason, my web searches have never found how the UTF-8 coding works, but their explanation is crystal clear. I'm going to have to buy the mug.
Bad as it is, Apple's unwillingness to deal with it is even worse.
What you say isn't the same as my admittedly extreme "Mother Nature sheds a tear." But a phrase like "the ecosystem collapses out from under us" implies that climate change is a total and unambiguous attack on "the ecosystem." This is the assumption that I often feel is inadequately justified.

For example, CO2 is used for photosynthesis in plants. This Nature article concludes:

> Under elevated CO2 most plant species show higher rates of photosynthesis, increased growth, decreased water use and lowered tissue concentrations of nitrogen and protein. Rising CO2 over the next century is likely to affect both agricultural production and food quality. The effects of elevated CO2 are not uniform; some species, particularly those that utilize the C4 variant of photosynthesis, show less of a response to elevated CO2 than do other types of plants. Rising CO2 is therefore likely to have complex effects on the growth and composition of natural plant communities.

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/effects-of-...

When articles and arguments acknowledge both positive and negative effects of something, I trust them more.
What is KX KDB?
I actually didn't mean the time it took for them to start contributing, I meant the time it would take for them to complete the same task.

Someone who knows the ins and outs of their language won't have to look up or learn new stuff as they go for example. This isn't even necessarily restricted to languages or frameworks, if you've done something similar to an assigned task, you would likely have already encountered certain pitfalls and know the best way to complete the task.
Classic case of someone who's more interested in feeling smart than listening to someone who's actually experiencing illness.

You could take a cue from joncrocks' last comment for civility and kindness. See my reply to that comment for discussion of placebo/nocebo effects.
It's just a way to do whatever you want to do 'because it doesn't make a difference anyway'.

But it does make a difference: because you chose not to fly and by telling others that you chose not to fly and why you are setting an example. That act, multiplied by thousands does have an effect.

So your individual choices do matter, because you are not only affecting yourself but also those around you, who in turn may affect those around them and so on. Virality is at every scale made up of small connections.

I could easily afford a new car. Instead, I've bought an old one which will last me at least another 5 years at a very small fraction of the price and the environmental impact of buying a new one. Anybody that challenges me on why I drive an old boat like that is a primary candidate for a lesson on what the environmental impact of a new vehicle - even one that is more energy efficient than this old one - is.

And so on, hopefully with a replication factor > 1.
Does anyone know of tools like this except that are for building a UI that I could wire my own backend to?
As luck would have it, that's what the Oversight committee is talking about today: https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/examining-foia-complianc...

Note: Sure, politicians move very quickly when politics are involved.
It does seem to me that calling it female-rejected is a more accurate way of framing this topic.

Addressing it this way doesn't diminish or invalidate the issues people have with this state of affairs. And it still allows people to constructively ask the question, when a desire to increase the diversity within tech workplaces is present: How do we make tech more attractive to females?

"Male dominated" is, yes, technically the current state of the tech industry, but it's not accurate to ascribe male domination as a self-fulfilling cause when female rejection consists of many other reasons too.
Because when I think of technical sophistication, I think of DHS.
It's basically a prime sieve done on a string encoding.
> Current research shows this is not something you can just change your mind about because you want to, sadly.

Could you link to this research? I'm curious to see what studies have to say.
Thanks for this. I will be trying it for a few hours tomorrow morning.
Exactly, they simply have never had the institutional knowledge required to secure government networks.
Ideas of "Shareholder primacy" and the that the sole role of directors of corporations is to "maximise shareholder value" are coming under fire lately, but they're still a pretty good rule-of-thumb for a Company Director about how to avoid investor lawsuits. There "may" be other desires and motivations the shareholders have which would influence the decision making philosophy of the company leadership, But if you had a decision to make where you could choose to "make Zuckerberg richer" or to "have Facebook assist in that humanitarian cause Mark once talked about while high at Burningman", which do you suppose you'd have an easier time defending if anybody ever called you on it?

You're right - it's often extremely damaging. But we've ingrained it into capitalist society in the same sort of ways as casual racism and everyday sexism. Pretty much completely socially acceptable, and often easy to participate in unintentionally even when you're trying not to...
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Yes the minority members of a committee can issue their own reports, e.g. [0]. It probably won't happen in this case because the "other" party just wants this issue to go away. Arguing in public would only draw attention.

[0] http://democrats-benghazi.house.gov/sites/democrats.benghazi...
Honestly, I'm incredibly skeptical that you need 4 pages.

Almost anyone can fit their entire experience onto a single page. You don't need to write an essay for each position—just highlight a few bullet points.
There is a cultural element, and I've worked with candidates using longer form CVs to shorten them to the preferred US length. It's part formatting, part redundancy, and usually just sharing more information than is necessary.

The resume doesn't need to include everything you did. It's a highlight reel, not a bio. You don't need to list every responsibility or even every accomplishment.

If I forced you to tell me your background in one page, you'd be able to do it if you have any sense as to what is most impressive, what is important, and what isn't. The reason your resume is four pages is that it's acceptable where you are.

I once reduced a 26 page resume to a couple pages for a non-US client. It's usually just triage and deleting, some sentence "refactoring", and formatting. Not too tough, as long as my client doesn't have too much emotional attachment to every detail from their career.
awesome, thanks for the tip
All you would have to do is change the RPM speed of the motor. It could be quite simple.
Out of curiosity, I have some questions about the "luxury communism" idea (I've heard of it a few times, sometimes maybe worded differently - I picture something like the ship on Wall-E):

What leverage will people (leftists?) use to ensure access to "fully automated luxury communism"?

For instance, what if those who claim ownership of the means say "no"? Will those people use force? If so, what weapons will they use? I'm having trouble understanding how this scenario will play out exactly.

If the answer is that they will simply create the luxury communism on their own, then why haven't they done that already (it would be so cool to see something like the ship from Wall-E)? I mean, what will have changed, and through what means would such a change be forced?
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Yes, the parent post is oddly off topic. Continued invocation of the unrelated windows platform (despite an explicit reminder that this is a Tu quoque fallacy), as well as a strange focus on OS X, as if iOS doesn't even exist.

Obviously apple will gladly lock down, control, restrict, and regulate their users (and even their devs) when it serves their purpose. Just look at iOS. The entire platform is restricted from top to bottom.
But people who want to vote shouldn't have anything standing in their way.

I agree in principle, but in practice for the white millennials this site seems aimed at, there's not much in their way. And then there's a whole section of the page trying to convince people to vote in the first place, to vote for the down-ballot, etc.

In that context, sbuttgereit's question seems valid.
> I've been working on an initiative to encourage more of my male peers to do more to make their organisations more diverse and was recently criticised by a female software engineer who told me that I shouldn't "come into a feminist space" where "women are already organising, telling stories and advocating for themselves".

I think that is the silliest thing. It sucks but men follow men. I hate that reality, but a key element of my happiness at my current position is that I DON'T have to be the advocate for change or the enforcer. I had to at the very beginning, but once it became clear what my standards were (pretty basic things like don't call people 'bitch') the co-founders began to enforce it. That was fucking awesome. It made me feel supported and as if I wasn't being 'that women', but rather we all were acknowledging it was inappropriate. Not inappropriate because I was there, but simply not okay in a professional environment.

I often think the feminist movement would be doing a heck of a lot better if we had some Navy Seal as the figurehead giving most of the speeches. The point of sexism is that people don't respect women, so broadcasting "women are people and deserve the following" from a woman is clearly not going to do as much as having it broadcast by some alpha male.

Or perhaps I'm too cynical.
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sexism is sexist, ladies.

you're all ignorant hypocrites.
I'm pretty sure AWildDHHAppears was being satirical, please don't downvote him/her.
A rootkit might come with tools for that, but the actual rootkit generally requires you having root (or some other privileged role) to deploy it. E.g. a Linux rootkit commonly is a kernel module, which you can only load if you have already obtained root privileges.
> Facebook is for the pleasure and benefit of the whole world

I wish that were true, but Facebook is actually for selling the world's eyeballs to advertisers.
...Because it's a non-profit. This isn't about profits or shareholders, but goals.

These organizations exist to pursue goals. The goals are more important than the organizations.
No, credit cards don't do anything. It's merely one part of a screening process. If you try to charge a credit card for room damage or anything, you will get a chargeback that you will lose because Visa or the issuing bank will simply state that according to the merchant agreement, the card networks are NOT responsible for damage and other charges not specified on the rental agreement.

Hell, if you don't have a chip and signature transaction (good luck getting a signature) and you're trying to charge them for amounts not specified prior to check in (a blanket statement of you're liable for so and so doesn't count). You CAN take them to court, but it's not worth it paying lawyers and the time and they usually don't have money.

By gypsies, I mean the groups of people that roam around trying to steal and take advantage of every facility they can, which is how I've heard the term. They don't work, they live off welfare, it's a specific type of person.

Why don't the vast majority of decent hotels (and some local governments) allow hourly rooms? Is it to prevent prostitutes? No, because if you can afford to pay for a night, you're welcome to stay with whoever you want. But if you start selling hourly rooms, chances are you're going to end up with an unsavory crowd which will drive away your other clientele and you're almost guaranteed to have a bad time. Again, this is also another screening method.

Everyone screens and discriminates people all the time, and I'm not dog whistling anyone except those that cause unreasonable damage. When dealing with lodging, if your aim is to sell a dwelling night after night, then anything that impedes that can be considered damage. If your hotel offers a room with a kitchen, and you're selling to Indians or other groups that traditionally use a lot of spices in their cooking, you should put that room out of order for days after they leave because it will need to be carpet shampooed, it might need to be painted, and you will likely lose revenue when you rent this room to that type of person. Is it wrong for a business owner to take this into account when deciding whether or not to accept them?

As I said before, this is not selling a widget to them and then forgetting about them. In hotels and lodging, the transaction is not complete once the guest has left, it really depends on the state of the room once they have left, and in order to be a viable business, in my experience you have be at least be aware of the odds and plan accordingly.
KX seems to have a story that is very convincing specifically for financial markets applications.

All the other OSS TSDBs seem to have very good stories for storing server statistics and web clicks, or IoT data; but there are few stories, case studies, best practices for using these in financial applications?
It should tell me which streaming service it's available on... for extra points I should be able to select my streaming services then have the app go to work for me.
This kind of stupidity is why I think I can never take a gov't job. I don't think I'd last a week. Sorry you had to put up with it.
> Many however see no problem.

This is true with most problems. How many people saw a problem with the Windows hegemony? That doesn't mean it's not a problem, just that many people are not in a place to see it.

> Women have free will and can choose the career of their liking.

Yes and no, in that order. "Career" is an essentially social concept. Consider, for example, that women got less than 10% of medical and legal degrees as recently as 1972:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/hua_hsu/cohen_do...

What changed between now and then wasn't women's free will, which they have always had. It was the social context.

> Men are not a uniform being. You're painting with some really broad brush strokes

Sure. So are you. I think most people here are smart enough to understand how a generalization works.

> "Men, after all, embody most of the problem;" will not be winning many converts to your point of view.

Sure, there are people who, for the moment, are such delicate flowers that they cannot admit that they might be part of the problem. But if those people "convert", they will not do much good.
Sorry, you are correct! That's exactly what I was referring to.
I usually go for anything that is free of lyrics, but lately, I've been stuck on a playlist:

MCMXC a.D. by Enigma

Music for the Masses by Depeche Mode

Music for Programming Episode 24: RITES (64 plays so far according to iTunes)

Music for Programming Episode 37: Lackluster (33 plays so far)
> It can be stressful and hostel to everyone equally. I believe that is the case.

Eh, none of the men seem particularly perturbed by the term bitch, slut, whore, etc until I point out it makes me uncomfortable. None of them seem particularly disturbed by the subpar maternity leave until, again, I bring it up. None of them seem particularly concerned that they are assumed to be technical, and I am assumed to be administrative.

I wonder why all of these things do not seem to be equally stressful to them? Can you think of any reasons? /s

I literally was turned down from a job I later learned routinely had business meetings at a strip club. I highly doubt any of the men were uncomfortable and I highly doubt you're confused as to why I would have been.