skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but the definition of "embedded" has changed, with things like the Pi Zero being a full computer the size of a stick of gum.
> It is really that hard to just serve PDF instead of stupid javascript filled browsers.

Well, the entire point of the site is a collaboratively annotated journal article. You may not think that's interesting, or that it's feasibly implementable with current tools, but I think the folks do a pretty good job with their stated goal. So I think this is something to be left up to the HN voting.
Since when are there "way too many" IT people from poor immigrant backgrounds? As far as I can tell, programmers are more likely to be from the educated middle class.
The whole equality story was, at the beginning, "If there's more men passing one stage (IQ tests, high school diploma or promotion), then it's biased against women.

Then suddenly when women are promoted more often than men, your story becomes "Women are just smarter than men, it's normal". Can't you just have a little compassion for men who didn't have the skills and deserve to be pushed and taught a little bit? And the prejudice about "men are stupid" is repeated in many innocent settings:

- https://snag.gy/qDceHS.jpg

- https://pics.onsizzle.com/i-wish-i-was-strong-like-him-i-wis...

- Everyone can cite 10 qualities of women, especially smartness [1].

- You can't quote any quality attributed to men. There's none, no quality attributed to men in any newspaper, in any document, in any culture. "What about muscles?" The thing about muscles is, women reckon we have strength because it would be hard to deny it and it helps construct the idea that we're violent. But muscles also help build the image of men being stupid, and it doesn't give us a skill.

This prejudice does have real-world effects:

- Men are twice more likely to be homeless or to fail their studies,

- Men are 30 times more likely to land in prison.

THIRTY times! But somehow, women succeed to capture all the work we do for equality.

The fact you're unconscious about male difficulties shows how much work there's left to do about male equality. The progress we've made for women about equality of chances and freedom of pursuing good jobs, we now need to make it for men too. Since you're talking about politics, the fact that the only way to "vote for men equality" is to vote for Trump is a horrible abomination: I want equality, I'm keen to vote for a woman, but if that means that she'll do even more to accentuate the "privileged path" for women and accentuate messages breeding hate between women and men, then you're asking a voter to make... a dangerous choice.

[1] Qualities that are generally attributed to women: "Women are better at multitasking" – where scientific studies are much more gray-area than that; "Women are better at communication" – where in fact it's males who are handicapped about communication and who deserve some equality budget for "education to communication" and "education to feelings"; "Women are better at tastes and decoration" which harms the participation of many interested men in decoration topics; "Women are more mature, earlier" when in fact this maturity is judged on a biased set of responsabilities; "Women are better at raising children" which creates unprecedented disadvantages for men who want the custody of their child, and finally, "Women are better at school" when in fact it's teacher bias which gives them better marks ( http://www.bbc.com/news/education-32302022 ) – As you can see I'm very well documented on every quality which is theoretically attributed to women and where, in fact, it's just that many papers are unfairly condescending towards men.
As a response to the linked article.

Firstly, it the openner is rather more focused on prostitution which is commonly illegal, rather than pornography which is legal.

To summarize, it maintains that due to the fact that you are handling bodily fluids during sex work, to get up to OSHA minimums you would need:

1. No oral sex

2. Gloves to be worn at all times

3. Masks and face shields must be worn at all times

4. Full-length aprons, and protective bodywear to be worn at all times

In the whole... the entire article is silly and real laws concerning sex-work would have to take into account to actually accomplish the act someone is going to have to take their clothes off.

Additionally, due to harassment laws concerning workplaces:

1. All clients of sex workers must no longer solicit because solicitation of sex is sexual harassment in the workplace

2. As an interesting converse to this, all sex workers must now accept all kinds of clients in order to not be seen as refusing service to a protected class

So the article proposes that solicitation should be illegal (it already is for prostitutes) and that even asking a pornographic actor or actress to perform a specific act should be illegal. Rather all pornography should happen naturally, without any direction at all.

Certainly an ... interesting ... article, but not a very useful one.
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what parent doesn't want their child to program?

In a weird sort of coincidence, I was recently talking to all of my couple friends at a large party. Of the 5 couples there, only 1 person had any desire to see their child(ren) go into programming. That particular child was a boy.

So there's some more anecdata, but basically I've never heard a non-programmer parent say they want their child to go into programming. It's always been something along the lines of "I want my child to do the same thing I do" or "I want my child to be a doctor/lawyer/engineer"
Modern Fortran is an awesome power tool and I love it. But it's hardly a pure functional programming language!
> Already possible. Even Mythbusters sets up "life size" RC cars for some of their crash-related myths.

It's already possible, but it takes a lot of work, and (AFAIK), you don't end up with a vehicle that can be programmed with destination coordinates tens or hundreds of kilometers away and then left to its own devices.

There's always the possibility of a lone-wolf, obsessed Unabomber-style terrorist who has their own machine shop and whatnot, but that's an edge case. The potential danger here (IMO) is the terrorist who can steal a few autonomous cars from parking lots (or call up a few autonomous taxis), load them up with cellphone-detonated explosives, and be all set. That scenario doesn't require anything really technically-challenging, and IMO is very likely to occur.

The random "crash a bunch of cars on the freeway" scenario is not as likely, IMO, because the number of people who are interested in killing tens or hundreds of random people is lower than the number who are interested in killing a few very specific people, or destroying a very specific building/piece of infrastructure.

I don't think this is a reason to disallow autonomous vehicles, but I don't have a good answer for how to address it, either.
It could be; in any case, that is neither here nor there since the article seems to be taking that for granted as the basis of its "despite".
I wouldn't assume there are no wind gusts on Venus.
Are you thinking dynamo for a backend, RDS, or other?
> there aren't a lot of people who want to do it.

Where do you get that? Tourism is back near pre-bust 40,000, mostly American, a year. The expensive hotel is fully booked 2 of its 4 weeks. With near 40 treaty countries almost no binding changes are agreed, and regular plans to limit numbers remain just that.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30709924
https://www.yahoo.com/news/antarctica-concerns-grow-tourism-... (2013)
> Are. You. Friggin. Kidding me? People were talking about stability when such things happened? Linux stability compared to Windows 7 - zero.

I personally haven't had the video driver crash on me, but even so, I think a video driver is not the OS, so not sure what you're talking about.

Kernel panics would be more understandable comparison.
StackOverflow as a company may have grown a little too quickly; I wonder how much $$ they make from this and whether they should just focus on their core which is community and maintaining a decent community rather than these marketing-led stunts.
Those .vscode files are where it stores the per-project settings that the poster you replied to said they really liked.
First of all, the internet has changed in the past 10 years.

Second, it's best practice here to put the date in the title for old articles.
I find that the multi monitor support greatly improved when going from ElCap to Sierra.
It is one step worse than that: The evil prime numbers can be undetectable. That's what's new in the paper the article is based on.
Great news - the various contractor firms maintaining Antarctic bases are hiring. (And have extremely high turnover.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12687602 (no comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12687128 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12686634 (46 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944 (20 comments)
So your comment says that women are currently being promoted due to skill? If so, I don't see it, and apparently neither does anyone else.
Videos are stored in S3, and then syndicated to our CDNs around the world. The player is HTML5, with a flash fallback, so users shouldn't need anything special to watch.
If the iot devices are on your same subnet they could easily be scanned and compromise by any compromised device with Internet access. This stuff is bundled up in toolkits that require little to no interaction by your attacker
Some IoT and IoT-like things are simply completely non-functional without some sort of network connection. A physical switch is great for light bulbs, but it turns my child's crib-cam into a decorative art piece.

And when you would flip that switch, anyway? Wouldn't it make more sense to control this from your router? Something like changing the wifi password or network name would work even better (assuming you control the router.)
I haven't been using Windows significantly in some time. Is Paint.NET still around? It is what I would point a user to, if they aren't going to e.g. need/pay for Adobe or the like.
Hi Guys,

Are you planing to offer sophisticated seller,buyer,transaction feedback system to attract repeat sellers and buyers?

P.S Similar to http://pages.ebay.com/help/feedback/scores-reputation.html

Thank you!
What do you mean? You can definitely install them on both.
For a long time, I struggled with a similar view. The lines for this are blurring very fast though. Example - Amazon's kindle is more or less a single purpose system - but runs linux, lasts for days on battery, has good RAM and a relatively powerful processor.
Equally pointless and uneconomical. If there's one thing we're not short of, it's living space in inhospitable environments.
There are enough camps/programs targeted at young girls, that's not the problem.

There is no institutional conspiracy to suppress women, the problem is strictly cultural:

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...

This self-selection came predominantly from mass-media/pop-culture, and also, to some extent, from their mothers, none of whom works in tech (we are talking a wealthy suburb in the northeast US here). They never encouraged their daughters to go into tech. The fathers did, but not too convincingly, either.
Well, it's less of a conundrum in the case of the die because it's easier to estimate the priors.

I agree, but in the case of a die, "estimating the priors" is the same thing as "knowing the probability of a 6". So you are saying (correctly) that once we have a model that we believe in, we can assign a probability because we believe we know the probability in advance.

I was pointing more to the author's emphasis on "either it does or it doesn't". One view is that probability requires replication, and we can only speak of probabilities in the long run of many trials. The other view (Bayesian to my limited understanding) is that probability can also be used to measure appropriate degree of belief in a proposition.

While it's hard to quantify, and dependent on one's assumptions, I do think it's possible to speak of "the probability that the earth revolves around the sun", much as I think it's meaningful to talk about "the probability of anthropogenic warming" even though we only have a single Earth to study.

I don't really understand how classical statistics disallows discussion of the first while allowing discussion of the second. Maybe it doesn't?
I get NPM for backend development but I don't understand why frontend developers require NodeJS just to utilize it's package management. It really does not make any sense to me considering that NodeJS is server side javascript. If my backend is Python or Go or .NET or Java or whatever, now I'll need NodeJS for the frontend and only for NPM (and now this). It's a reason why I don't enjoy dealing with "modern" frontend technologies.
I think I see where you fit in - deeply embedded systems with real-time constraints tend to use a certified hypervisor solution to separate runtimes. Traditional IT solutions can use Linux KVM or a full Docker implementation. ResinOS fits in the middle.

Familiarity with Docker will allow makers to get multiple runtimes up and running on higher-end (but small) SoCs...but for what type of applications?
You can find many bug reports referencing OS X kqueue brokenness - however if you want to get to the details of what's wrong with kqueue impl on OS X - you will have to do that yourself - test out various use cases, look at libev source code and try to get it to use kqueue on various OS X versions, get it to pass all tests - iow lot of work. It seems to be acquired wisdom to ignore kqueue on OS X for many OSS projects. As this thread also shows it (poll which use kq) worked on previous version but broke on Sierra which alone seems to be enough to ignore it.

Here is a thread with sample code having kqueue issues - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4783301?tstart=0 (Note: I haven't seen that code myself - it might as well be buggy itself but you can use it for your tests as a starting point I suppose.)

Edit: User DerekL also reports running code that illustrates the bug on latest iOS version - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12687527
Facebook workplace released
I stopped reading at “dwont”.
I still don't get why Opsworks is not getting more love?

I guess people don't like Chef? Opsworks has enabled hassle free deployments for us over the past three years or so at no additional cost. :)
Show HN: Hooktheory, Music theory for songwriting
Hooktheory is a pretty unique approach to music theory and songwriting. Most books in this area tend to use examples from classical music, while all our examples draw from popular songs you hear on the radio. The book also uses the Theorytab format we developed to let you see the chords/melody in sync with the music while it plays. Theorytabs associate colors with musical function and are more accessible to folks who don't know conventional sheet music.

We skip a lot of the basics (scales, key signatures, notation, etc.) that most people associate with music theory (and find rather dull) and go directly into looking at which chords go together best and why (no prior music theory knowledge is required)

The first book covered mostly songs in major. The sequel we are releasing today covers minor harmony and a whole lot more.

http://www.hooktheory.com/music-theory-for-songwriting

Our article series "I analyzed the chords to 1300 songs for patterns, this is what I found" was #1 on hackernews a few years back and is very much in the spirit of the book (though the book goes a lot farther, of course).

http://www.hooktheory.com/blog/i-analyzed-the-chords-of-1300-popular-songs-for-patterns-this-is-what-i-found/

Hope you like it!
This is super helpful. Thanks.
>Maybe it will teach them to not rush phones or listen to engineering

Why do you assume that it wasn't an engineering screw up to begin with? They had two chances and didn't get it right. Not all technical problems are the fault of MBA's.

And I get down voted... Stay happy in your silos HN
To be fair, "5 whys" is more of a feel-good rule of thumb way to determine the root cause of errors, but it's rarely as effective as you'd think[1].

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys#Criticism
> It's not some feminist conspiracy that women are being promoted, it's just that the women who go into tech are usually already pretty gritty people.

Interesting that when men statistically seem to have an advantage in any area, it's a "problem" that "needs to be corrected", but if women start to statistically dominate, it's clearly because "women are just better".
That's correct in that we get what we pay for. Right now we are paying tens of billions for pervasive surveillance and tens of millions to enhance security.
So it's not "Wimmin' are takin' our jerbs!" it's "Women are taking our jobs." Seriously, I don't see the distinction being made here.
Please don't comment like this here.

Obviously it wasn't a good topic for HN, but please don't make the thread still worse.
> That's an industry where women absolutely dominate earnings.

On average, 2x to 4x as much per scene.

Male porn stars are typically props. Emphatically objectifying them in some cases, given that the camera never shows their faces.
I've bought a gift to someone almost every month for the past 40 years, and, eh, I'm responsible for that?
Woah! I thought they pretty much already have passed it? Remember Ashley Madison? You had ~12 million heterosexual men (that were cheaters, 6 million 'active' users) trying to talk to ~12k heterosexual women (also cheaters, 10k 'active' accounts). It ends up being about a 1:13,000 ratio. Not only that but MANY of these men had paid actual real money to the site in order to do so, and then continued to do so. The only real conclusion was that most of the men were talking to bots that the site had made up.

Ok, lets get this straight: ~6 million real human men paid real money that they earned through their labor or whatever to talk to bots and then paid more real money to do it again. Admittedly, they are 'cheaters', but 6 million men must have an IQ distribution nearly identical to that of the general population, i.e. they represent heterosexual human males in general. And yes, they were trying to get laid, these conversations are likely pretty brief, and mammalian males are not generally known for using their neocortex during mating.

Still, I think that 'counts' as far as passing the Turing Test. Yes, now we can move the goal posts to say that the bot has to teach me something, or guess what I was thinking, or generally be better than a man on tinder. But as a first pass of the TT, I think we have been here for a few years now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach
Why does everything need to be a stream? Is my resume a twitter feed now?
Indeed, that gets back to not sane defaults though I suppose. The filet-of-firewall was particularly troubling, Flash and DNS rebinding is all it takes if UPnP is running on your router. This worth read if anyone is interested:

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361684
> If this were the case, VW would surely have abandoned ship and shuttered their factories. They haven't.

VW has a huge customer base in enterprise and government. As long as trucks are not affected by faked emission tests, both won't dump Volkswagen. And even if: many large corporations and government institutions run their own car/truck repair shops, sometimes even their own parts storage (the most extreme is certainly UPS) in order to save money - and you can't just switch over all that to a new manufacturer.

> Similar situation with BP - they are not in the doldrums.

For gas directly sold by BP to customers: who cares? Consumers only look at the pump price, they're not as politicized as e.g. during Brent Spar 1995. The other branches / customers of bp are all corporate, where there is no incentive except prices to switch suppliers.
Never mind, it may have been effectively nullified by the Space Act of 2015 [1]. It's a bit schizophrenic, however.

One section states "a United States citizen engaged in commercial recovery of an asteroid resource or a space resource under this chapter shall be entitled to any asteroid resource or space resource obtained, including to possess, own, transport, use, and sell the asteroid resource or space resource obtained in accordance with applicable law, including the international obligations of the United States."

Section 403, meanwhile, confirms that "it is the sense of Congress that by the enactment of this Act, the United States does not thereby assert sovereignty or sov- ereign or exclusive rights or jurisdiction over, or the ownership of, any celestial body."

[1] https://www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ90/PLAW-114publ90.pdf See Title IV Space Resource Exploration and Utilization
Lots of this crap gets shipped straight from China by a distributor on Amazon. Try to sue them and I'm sure they'll just disappear and come back with a different name
The core team all use Macs, maybe? Anyway - there's an automated, maintained APT mirror/repo here: https://github.com/alanfranz/atom-text-editor-repository/blo...
And how do high school students get their interests and abilities?
Tech Mogul Justin Kan on What Makes a Good Business
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12687196 and marked it off-topic.
I see some other comments about preferring other ways to tailor your application or have specific approaches when you apply for particular jobs and I definitely agree with both:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12687415

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12686741

But I don't think this is really aimed at supplanting that. It's really just trying to put a better face on the "passive" approach to things and I like it for that.
Because mainstream media's biases are beholden to the companies and government people causing us many problems. They also self-suppress critical stuff that could result in reform if it had people's attention. They also have this weird habit of running and heavily covering shock stories when critical legislation or business events are happening, making citizens miss the chance to act on it.

A media more independent from corporate and government interests would have less of these issues. Especially suppression. Then it's just a matter of gauging accuracy and bias of each.
And the solution to pedophilia is "don't rape kids".
Let's be a hacker and abuse the protocol and shutdown the internet
Huh. Didn't realize this.
I really liked the SUPDUP but that section describing it doesn't really get to the intense crockishness of the protocol. It really was ITS terminal control brought out over the network: the capabilities were the 36-bit terminal descriptors sent over the network in PDP-10 order.

DLW later wrote a different Emacs implementation in Lisp, Zwei, for the Lisp Machine, which was even more deeply intertwined in the system than Multics Emacs was in Multics. Zwei (Zwei was Eine Initially) followed Eine (Eine is not Emacs)

FWIW both programmers mentioned in that section, DLW (Dan Weinreb) and MRC (Mark Crispin), died relatively young.
No, you are misremembering your studies.

"Starr's research incorporates disparities found at those earlier stages, and finds that "more disparity is introduced at each phase of the justice process.""

(my emphasis).

https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_g...
> Do not plug your "things" on the Internet unless there's a serious gain from it!

Why not? It's kind of a tragedy-of-the-commons situation.

I gain a fancy lightbulb that can change colors when I play with my phone. Do I, personally, really care if that lightbulb is part of a botnet that's beating someone's website into submission? Statistically, it's unlikely to affect me, so it's all gain for no cost beyond paying for the bulb.