skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, not sure where this perception of "nobody's using it" comes from but I have been using it in 2 different companies in the last 3 years as well with nothing but love. In fact, if it were the case that "nobody's using it for good reasons", maybe we should ought to know the reasons?
As with similar NASA vision statements about space, this is heavy on the what "Send people to Mars" and weak on the why, "What do we gain by being space faring?"

As a result it will be constantly under pressure from earthly issues that need money now. For example if you are a congress critter and asked to choose between funding a $1B for Zika virus research/abatement and using that $1B for 1/5 the cost of developing a new space booster system, people always choose the 'today' problem and delay the 'future' opportunity. No one wants to say "Sorry, you're unborn child was killed by a virus we could have stopped but we spent that money on a rocket."

This is why I am a huge fan of the Commercial Crew and other 'private' industry programs. Let private industry develop the tools and techniques for space and unshackle from them the cold war restrictions.

And yes, that is the elephant in this particular room. While the "west" wrings its hands over the PRK developing an operational missile capability, have you ever thought what a Falcon 9 looks like through that lens? As a military weapon it could be considered the first Intercontinental Ballistic Bomber. Think about that capability, a Falcon 9 with a payload capable of some re-entry steering, launches from a base in the US, lets fly the payload, and then flys back to base for the next payload. Ten of these sitting on pads in the Dakotas could put 100 tons of conventional explosive on to any target in the eastern hemisphere in about 45 minutes.

That is the kind capability that SpaceX could "market" to third parties. And it isn't something nation states like private companies to have.
I generally agree, but what I can't explain is: if it really is because they are better because of this stricter filter, I would expect the stricter filter to apply to the promotion process too.

So, why isn't it?

Edit: maybe it's a sign of things getting "better". Women already working are on average better at what they do, and as people become more aware of the problem it's easier for them to become promoted because the filter isn't as strict when compared to X years ago.
Try being a male who wants to go into education for young children. I have a friend who went through the process as the only male member of his entire graduating class, and he says the level of suspicion he had to face from his professors and fellow students was overwhelming at times.

It was consistently implied that a young male would only want to teach young children for puerile reasons.

Even when he was given the benefit of the doubt, it'd only be to say "oh, so you'll take your education degree and enter administration?"
The problem does happen in JavaScript. But since its unityped, there is a strategy to deal with it

* Figure out early on (before 1.0) what your base interface will be.

For example, for a promise library, that would be `then` as specified by Promises/A+

* Check if the argument is an instance of the exact same version.

This works well enough if you use `instanceof`, since classes defined in a different copy of the module will have their own class value - a different unique object.

* If instanceof returns true, use the fast path code (no conversion)
* Otherwise, perform a conversion (e.g. "thenable" assimilation) that
only relies on the base interface

Its not easy, but its not always necessary either. Most JS libraries don't need to interoperate with objects from previous versions of themselves.
> There's no excuse for putting ads on a nearly 5k dollar tv.

there is no excuse for putting ads on any tv without explicitly state it.
I would really, really appreciate if you would elaborate on this. Security seems to have the most unspoken community knowledge of anything I need to know.
> NONE of my daughter's female friends in high school thought it was cool to take on any of the math/physics/programming classes. They were all interested in environment, film/acting, fashion, literature (my daughter got interested into life sciences)

Popular culture in the US massively lionizes professional sports, and shames younger people who are into programming and other non-social hobbies like nobody's business.

In my opinion, if "women in tech" programs put half of their resources into solving these problems, they'd be hugely more successful. Unfortunately, that involves taking on fields other than professional programming (like television, media, and such), which they are either not ready or equipped to do.
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No one claimed "most men _______." The claim is that your average woman who is employed in this sector faced more adversity than your average man who is employed in this sector. Therefore, you'd expect the average woman employed to have more grit than the average man employed, since the women with less determination were filtered by various filters that don't exist for men.

You could argue that it's not a filter against women but a magnet towards men, but that doesn't actually change the crux of the argument. There is clearly something that causes only 18% of AP CS exams being taken by women.
> This is a problem. I want a desktop, not a job with "feeling good" salary.

That's why I said you can do it, the days when you had to do it are long gone.

Seriously, I think two of the biggest problems facing desktop Linux are:

- people having outdated experiences
- equating Ubuntu, (not that great), with Linux and thinking that Ubuntu problems are Linux problems.
Does anyone have a security@ contact address for stackoverflow that they know is monitored?

Unfortunately there is no way to opt out of this service right now. (edit: I don't want to email security to ask for an opt-out, it would just be nice to opt out until they fix the actual security issue.)

Edit: Found a web form they use on security.stackexchange.
Let's not kid ourselves. The technology will be used by PR firms, advertising companies, political campaigns and governments to pretend, at scale, that there is public consensus on certain issues and to drown social media conversation in particular narratives.

Anyone have any good defensive technology ideas?
I've tried it as well, during one of the team's visits to the Seattle area. It was nice, but I'm pretty sure it will take getting used to.

I was struck by how motivated the two founders are. They're keyboard geeks of the first water; it was fun to hear them speak.
I'm in LA and work at SpaceX as an engineer. You mentioned you had two aerospace companies already, not sure if SpaceX is one of them.

I would be happy to talk to you/your students. I only am where I am because of other people that helped me out where I was a kid, especially my mom who like you would, and actually still does, to find really cool opportunities like this to help me learn more about the world.

What part of LA are you located in? Maybe we can set something up
It's unfortunate if you don't have a white man's name...
In contrast, I prefer to work on a problem that can be solved by technical achievements in math, science, and engineering within my lifetime.

Don't get me wrong. I think utopian fantasy is cool and fun, but that's what Star Trek television series are for, and the history channel/books, if you want non-fiction.

Sociological problems are at least an order of magnitude more difficult than space problems. When you send a robot to Mars, you don't have to worry about how much power it will embezzle from the communications array, or whether it will refuse to take its meds, or whether the value of the work it is doing is enough to pay its mortgage. You could quite easily spend 100 times the cost of a Mars colony on the people problems here on Earth, and achieve absolutely zero visible results from it.

Besides that, unless you're going to force students into social work education rather than aerospace engineering, there would be a lot of skilled laborers leaving university with no useful jobs to do. You would be spending your money on them sitting at home, uselessly dreaming about space, rather than spending just a bit more for them to be actually working to advance technology.
hahaha, I can't believe you actually got "not all men"!

http://www.listen-tome.com/save-me/

I too find these HN threads really troubling. I'm very glad to hear you speak up.
Very recently, a close friend was looking for a job (as a junior dev - focused on web). After applying and getting rejected, we decided to try a different approach - he basically gave up and decided to the following:

1) added buzz keywords in his resume

2) hosted an instance of gitlab and took various open source projects (stuff that was not popular, but had enough polish), modified them and uploaded them.

After a week, he was able to land multiple interviews. While he did get called out once, almost all engineers/non-tech hr didn't bother calling his bluff.

I am not suggesting that you should lie on your resume or steal open source projects, just that depending on one factor (like github, or resume, or white boards) is futile and that tech hiring in general is broken.
The hypriot guys are doing great work, and we share a common mission in spreading containers to embedded development. ResinOS is built with production deployments as a first goal, and so has a read-only rootFS, supports atomic host OS updates, is ported (and portable) to a lot of device types (via Yocto) and in general has many more "embedded" characteristics than Debian, on which hypriotOS is based. I do however want to reiterate that we know the Hypriot guys decently well and appreciate the work they're doing to make Docker accessible to embedded hackers.
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The person mentioned as receiving a fine in the article (Vladimir Luzgin) wasn't fined for pointing out factual errors in a movie; but for something else (more akin to "slandering the national character", in reference to a blogpost he forwarded).

Meanwhile in the U.S. you can very well be sued into submission and silence if your opponent is sufficiently deep-pocketed. Not exactly congruent to top-down repression of unruly bloggers as happens occasionally in Russia. But still, we in the U.S. aren't always as free to "tell truth to power" as we might like to think we are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
What advice do you give to startups who are early and are looking to get to profitability as quick as possible (~12 months)? What should they be doing and focusing on?
I would use it as a tool in a very convincing and powerful propaganda toolbox.
Well I thought Viet Nam was a more clear cut example of America being barbarous but yeah, Iraq works as well, let's not forget Abu Ghraib.

Anyway, as far as I know, although my country has committed its share of horrible massacres around the world, none of it has happened in my lifetime... I just hope it'll last.
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When its all released there will be plenty of open ends left ;)
It appears that yarn.lock resolves exactly one hash version of a package for one semvar version of it. What happens when your project depends on packages A and B, which both depend on the same semvar version, but due to manipulation by the author, rely on different hash versions?
Have you gone through residency training? While we both consider the conditions inhumane, my wife is absolutely clear on the fact that even at the end of a shift she's still learning a ton. Surgical residents commonly stay beyond their shifts to scrub in and assist or observe especially interesting cases. Based on my conversations with my wife and other residents, you would absolutely need to extend residency to get the same training with fewer hours.
Nice to see this getting attention :)

So here's something rather unusual (or not?): While HN says I submitted this story 6 hours ago, actually I submitted it 2 days ago.

A HN Algolia search confirms

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=kattis
or
http://imgur.com/a/O0pws

At the time, I was a little surprised to see it not get upvoted more. OTOH it was kind of a slow period (Sunday evening IIRC). The original submission stayed for a few hours, then dropped off the frontpage with only a vote or two.

Which does make one curious, in what way could this occur? Had I bungled a planned HN launch? (and then maybe a mod helped out to resubmit). Or is there some other mechanism at work.
There has not been a draft in 50 years.

There are plenty of countries with draft. And in virtually all of them it's men that have to go, while women can relax.
As someone who reads and writes thousands of developer resumes a year, the major problem I see is that people have a difficult time separating what is important from what isn't, and separating day-to-day responsibilities (which are typically understood from a job title) from unique and novel achievements. I don't know if this kind of tool solves that problem.

Much of my work with resume clients is extracting what they do from them and then putting it into efficient words. Many people struggle with just explaining what they do.

The other problem is that you have to understand that your reader often isn't someone with a highly technical background (or even a recruiting background), so you have to define yourself quickly in order to prevent the reader from misinterpreting who you are. If a reader is looking for a "Python Developer", it's best to refer to yourself that way on the resume.

For senior level people length is often the issue - it's a highlight reel - not a biography. Anyone can get to 1-2 pages max.
Because there are less women in tech, the best companies should be all women? That logic makes no sense. If only the best women are hired, while average men also get hired, that means there's discrimination against women, while the few women that do stay in the industry will tend to be of above average ability, and therefore rise faster.

As long as the vast majority of programmers are men, it's ludicrous to complain that men are being discriminated against. There are dozens of studies showing that men have it way easier in a multitude of ways. But it's good that there are more visible women in tech, and hopefully that will lead to even out the balance in the future.
Oh that sucks..How about "yarnish"? It's available on npm, sticks to your roots, and you can play on varnish if you like. Or you can always go the thesaurus route and use fleece, wool, cotton fiber, flaxen thread...
I haven't sent a resume in a while. Usually I just give a "cover letter" of sorts that says a) why I'm interested in the job b) what I can offer/why they "need" me, c) why I think so (usually just talk about experience).

I have a website that lists my workplaces and my main projects and of course my GitHub, both of which I link. I guess that's my "resume".
> I see both sides of the argument, and I see why protecting the convenience of reproduction is important from a practical genetic/memetic standpoint, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it "ethical".

Hey I appreciate the alternative perspective.

However, at least from what you just said, I'm not convinced you do see both sides. Or maybe there's a third side..?

I actually personally do not care whatsoever about the cost of reproduction. If anything I would be happy if we reproduced less. Still, I support not being able to discriminate against women because doing otherwise supports gender inequality. It's unethical to punish a person just because they are female.
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I scheduled it for 6 PM since that time block shows empty on your calendar.
Equating Ubuntu with Linux is pretty inaccurate.

I would recommend giving something with GNOME 3.22, like Arch or Gentoo a serious try instead.
Meanwhile, a billion or so actual Muslims living in their own countries included, apparently don't think the quotes you have cherry-picked from this Fiqh amount to a communal obligation upon them to go to war each year.

But I'm sure you know their religion much better than they do.

As I've pointed out Fiqh literally is the interpretation of which passages are applicable to which situations and so your request makes about as much sense as "show me a legal ruling that Common Law is a law". (If what you actually want is an example of Islamic scholars not considering passages of the Quran relevant to contemporary life, I refer you to the Wikipedia link you just posted...). As for the different schools' perspectives on what can constitute jihad, every school of Islam acknowledges that jihad can take several non-violent forms, including jihad al-nafs ("literally jihad against oneself") and every school acknowledges that military action can be a form of jihad, though since jihad literally translates as "struggle" that's pretty much a tautology, and Islamic scholarship is rather more concerned with debating which circumstances dictate that war is just or unjust. This is Islam 101 stuff.

I suspect you're under the impression that a bit of Google-fu and a few straw man requests makes you look like you're well informed on this subject and have a point. It doesn't. It makes you look like a troll.

Even if this was the place to discuss comparative theology, I wouldn't feel inclined to do it with somebody inclined to start discussions by suggesting that violence is unique to the Quran by implying Biblical exhortations and narratives never got any bloodier than the Ten Commandments.
That’s 260 gigabyte, that’s actually a tiny dataset, you can query and index that on a normal workstation in seconds.

Even training models on that is possible in realistic times on normal systems with that.
Thanks a lot for posting this, I went to a linux conference over the weekend and was talking with some friends about their datacenter jobs. I felt hopelessly lost in trying to understand all its intricacies at routing, storage, and backup levels where this guide gives a good bird's-eye view of the stacks.
Totally agree with you and I implore you to watch the video I linked above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LRdW8xw70

There is growing scientific evidence (discussed in the video) that men and women have preferential differences that are exhibited as early as we are capable of measuring them. (Toys chosen days after birth)

The differences in choice of profession are seen globally across all cultures and are in fact stronger in places like Scandinavia which are arguably world leaders in gender equality and provide women with the most choice.

When you see something that all cultures have in common it hints that it is not a cultural phenomena and that there is something biological going on.

I am speaking by and large here and paraphrasing the evidence laid out by researchers in the video. There are plenty of exceptional outliers which buck the trend and any individual's choice in profession doesn't imply that the group as a whole has a poor aptitude or are incapable of it. It simply states that they prefer to do something else.
If anyone else if bothered by that, paste this in your chrome's console:

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Yes. We build many container base images for all architectures. have a browse and pick what works for you -- https://hub.docker.com/r/resin/ and also http://docs.resin.io/runtime/resin-base-images/
It shouldn't create .vscode folders unless it's storing project-specific launch configs, settings, tasks, or extensions in there.
> But the way it's actually written presupposes that there are selected file descriptors.

How so? It just says "If none of the defined events have occurred on any selected file descriptor, poll() shall wait at least timeout milliseconds for an event to occur on any of the selected file descriptors." "Any selected file descriptor" and "any of the selected file descriptors" make perfect sense for an empty array; nothing written there requires or implies any need for the array to be non-empty.
> The core team all use Macs, maybe?

That's comical and sad at the same time.
It's even bigger than that. Samsung generates 17% of South Korea's GDP.
Texting also became more common with the widespread adoption of smartphones - we'd of course see more accidents as a result, but the medium became massively more useful to a lot more people.
You could add more background on it into the guide. Just submit a PR! :-)
I'm curious about toxoplasmosis. Is it a benign illness? I often am in contact with my two house cats.
Is requiring Node really that bad? I don't write Bash or Ruby or Python or Go, but I have them all installed because various tools need them.
Or interests/passions are in fact highly dependent upon social factors, such as sexism.

How many men do you know who are ballet dancers? Do you think that's because there's actually something present in the DNA of little girls that's not present in the DNA of little boys that makes them interested in ballet?

Or could it be because if you're a little girl who dances it's cute/pretty and if you're a boy it's because you're gay/weak?

This is the problem. If men hold a monopoly on powerful or lucrative roles in society, that monopoly will reign through the establishment of gender-dichotomous "interests and passions." Of course gender doesn't play any intrinsic role in whether you're into ballet. Nor does it play any intrinsic role in whether you're into computer science.
I'd rather not, sorry.
I feel like in modern usage, "embedded" has shifted to refer less to the constraints imposed by size and power and cost (because, increasingly, there aren't any), and more to the extra peripherals present. Basically "working in embedded systems" now means what "robotics" used to mean.

Has your thing got always-on sensors, or actuators, or both? Your job title is probably "embedded software developer."
> As Dan Geer warned[1], embedded devices must not be both unfixable and immortal.

So when do you want me to turn off your colored LED light bulbs you bought? Yeah, thought so.
There's no reason 6 million non-randomly selected men would be likely to have an IQ distribution similar to the general population. You can't make up for non-random selection with a larger sample size.
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Er, Chile and Argentina are original Treaty (1959) signatories, and dispute at least some of Britain and France's claims, and vice versa.

The treaty sets aside territorial claims whilst it's in force. All the claims for all countries are still there, just neutered.
>Bluster: loud, aggressive, or indignant talk with little effect.

Uh, no.
Free speech is not in itself a right-wing position, obviously. But the grandparent poster referenced "Twitter's banning and censorship practices", which is essentially an alt-right code phrase. Combining that starting point with a desire to nationalize a private media company makes for a very strange position.
Very good question. We find that we have to add functionality for the embedded world in quite a few cases, and part of the resinOS roadmap is to package that up for the OS. But the base Docker, other than its recently growing size, is a very strong foundation, and one that keeps improving. We're particularly excited about the new security features and in general our approach is that we can move a lot faster by filling the gap between Docker and embedded devices, rather than starting from scratch and building Yet Another Container Engine.
Well I think a better use of the money is to develop the building robots we need for such an endeavor, test them out, then deploy them to third world locations is desperate need of safe shelter and massive construction efforts.

If we fully automate building residences, small administration buildings, and reclamation plants, on Earth then we can save we have sufficient tech to do it elsewhere all the while making this world a better place for those who are truly in need