skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a deep and excellent compilation of global population demographics. I'd add a few additional observations:

1. Population doesn't always follow a logistic curve. See Ireland, particularly before and after 1850.
http://www.mapspictures.com/ireland/history/ireland_populati...

2. The land area per capita plot is a very interesting direction to take the discussion. The more so if you consider solar flux and things derived from solar flux, such as food. For humans, and non-humans. Recent trends become all the more fascinating. https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/_bi5uhywbdyukhfy-eayjw

3. There's looking not only at population but total biomass. Paul Chefurka has plotted out how human and nonhuman vertabrate biomass compare over time. Another fascinating insight: http://peakoilbarrel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Terrestr...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152825071748824
"I'm all for equality, as long as everyone has equal chances, which we currently don't have."

Yes clearly overall women have much lower chances to rise to the top. You are complaining that a tiny section of the pipeline from birth to CEO potentially favours women while obviously the vast majority of parts of the pipeline favour men. Cumulatively they do so heavily.

What you experienced is a tiny fraction of what women experienced to get to the point where you felt blocked.
Yo dawg, I heard you liked being flagged, so I flagged your flag so you can flag while you flag.

The chans are a mess right now. It's working.
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i seriously want npm to stop warning me of outdated deps 3 levels down my hierarchy. so what if some shitty old unmaintained lib we started relying on a few years back use lodash v3.x? i'm not going to worry about it as long as it works.
Please feel free to also join the discussion on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/cluvio
If it was written "If there does not exist any selected file descriptor where a defined event has occurred", then I'd agree with you. But the way it's actually written presupposes that there are selected file descriptors.
> Do you? I don't.

Last time there was an AMA on Reddit from an antarctic manual worker there were lots and lots of people just asking how they could sign up for it.
Ah, that's what I mean!
That's not how it works. There will be two copies of x in the require cache. They don't know of each other's existence.
Sounds like an interesting story, you were working with Van Jacobsen, and made the suggestion to him? (since he's usually credited with that form of congestion control, folks might appreciate a little more explanation).

Was there an unstated assumption that packet sizes might scale up with network speeds? (and not get trapped at the original 10mbit ethernet frame size as it turned out). Today we send teeny micropackets relative to link speeds, and increasing by one packet at a time is (in retrospect) a weird outcome. But like Chesterton's fence, it's nice to know how it got there.
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Ditto. Running Ubuntu 14.04 and using 1password via Wine. The extension works under both Firefox and Chrome. I followed the install process they have documented here: https://support.1password.com/1password-in-wine/
5 Real-World Big Data and IoT Scenarios to Test, for Free
Yes but it's not clear that the life expectancy is shortened by disease rather than accident (interactions with cars, coyotes or unpleasant people, for example).

That indoor cats live longer seems reasonably well attested. However here's some anecdata: sum of my parents' 8 indoor/outdoor cats + my 3 indoor/outdoor cats: none have lived less than 13 years (two made it to 18). My parents two indoor-only cats both died before reaching 13. I have assumed the cats that go outside survived due to the low number of vehicles and predators they had to deal with.
Only thing keeping me with Atom is Hydrogen[0], which lets me have all the things I like about jupyter notebooks without some of the things I don't like about jupyter notebooks.

I've tried VS Code and liked it - if anyone knows of an equivalent/replacement for Hydrogen in VS Code I'll make the switch.

[0] https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen
> Who makes high school students' schedules? Parents and teachers, at least in the US.

As you were blasting "anecdotes", please note that this isn't even anecdote, just blind assertion, so: "Citation needed". In my experience, high school students largely decide their own schedules according to their interests and abilities.

Ahh, speaking of interests, and facts/data:

https://scientificfemanomaly.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/fem...

Interest by high school students in STEM fields. Girls 15% and falling, boys 45% and rising.

More facts/data:

http://mjperry.blogspot.de/2009/08/2009-math-sat-scores-are-...

Gender gap in SAT scores persists.

Yes, let's look at the facts!
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I buy a gun. Lend [0] it to friend. Friend goes on a killer spree.

Can I claim zero responsibility? No.

[0] The friend didn't steal the gun.
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People said V8 is power hungry and drain the battery so much. A few days ago I forgot to bring the power adaptor, so I have no choice but run on battery. Then, I try again today. And here is the result:

Day 1: Atom and Google Chrome: https://mobile.twitter.com/Edditoria/status/7858488116043776...

Day 2: Sublime Text and Safari: https://mobile.twitter.com/Edditoria/status/7858488116043776...

I didn't disable any packages and extensions, because I need them for daily work. So the result represent what I actually need. I also intended to avoid activities other than coding and checking email.

In short, Sublime Text and Safari survive longer. But Atom and Chrome are usable, at least.

For me, I will continue to use Atom and Chrome. Because Atom is more direct and user-friendly to me, and I feel much better on Chrome Dev Tool (sorry but feel better than Firefox). Another reason is that I can show others who want to learn programming. The licence for ST is not cheap for them.

I know 2-days testing is not enough, so would try again if I can.

First time to comment here. Sorry for bad English.
Any comparison on the cost to run those systems?

Disclosure: Reason why I ask is because we're a competitor, however currently less focused on timeseries (we don't nearly have all those interesting features yet), but our latest load testing saved 100M+ records for $10/day[1] which is a pretty disruptive price, for over 100GB of data. Next up is TB scale! So it would be useful to see price comparisons of other systems.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_WqBuEA7s8
That would be a hell of a big rat, no matter what grade in school we're talking about.
That can cause some serious problems in at least some portion of times. I've dealt with the subtle errors that have been caused by this problem in c++, and don't really know javascript libraries that well so I can't give a more concrete example. But imagine that there are the following libraries:

* LA: handles linear algebra and defines a matrix object.

* A: reads in a csv file and generates a matrix object using LA

* B: takes in a matrix object from LA, and does some operations on it

In this case, if B depends on version 5 of LA and the new version of A depends on version 6 of LA, then there's going to be a problem passing an object that A generated from version 6 and passing it to B which depends on version 5.
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Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain.
And? It's still a very good paper. Age doesn't change that.
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Nope, I think it's much more likely the best features from F# will continue to be ported to C# instead
I have the same issue with not writing stuff down and there are plenty of gotchas. I finally got round to starting a 3 part blog series on AWS vs Azure, vendor lock-in and pricing confusion [^0], but I'll see if I can contribute to this too.

[^0]: https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...
> Arch is a great distro for people who want a bleeding edge, but it's strength is not stability.

This is an often repeated myth that just isn't true, (unless you have [testing] enabled).
I had a single Arch install survive for 3 years without any problems and that involved switching over to a new init system.

I only had to install Windows back on the machine because I went on to sell it and get a new one.
quick question...would the images have to be specifically built for arm? (we were looking to build a cluster of RPis that we could orchestrate containers on.)
Many of these problems could have been avoided by using containers
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Sometimes, I miss Steve Jobs.

(In case my oblique comment isn't clear enough: Time for someone with real authority to cut through the crap on Apple's end.)
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He already has a legacy - remember when he promised to close gitmo if he gets elected?
The fact that there are way too many IT people from poor immigrant backgrounds (no opportunities for anything you mention) discredits your first point.

> it's GENERALLY because it is something that you very much care about and want to do.

Given that there is a higher demand for IT jobs than supply makes this impossible. You just have to be good at it.
... generalizations tend to imply all or most as a matter of course. It's why they're generalizations.
They should update the getting started section. I get a warning when trying to install it:

C:\Users\******>npm install -g yarnpkg
npm WARN deprecated yarnpkg@0.15.1: Please use the `yarn` package instead of `yarnpkg`
I'm totally OK with this.

Am I the only person who dated a senior analyst and is now married to an IT Director?
How about this for a fix? Just thinking out loud here...

Let's make a protocol that allows a server to specify to its upstream ISP to cut off all traffic from a particular IP address. The ISP can either soak up the traffic, or go further up to its own upstream ISP and relay the request, and so on until the source of the attack is reached. Now it's between an IoT device owner and his residential ISP, it's up to them to sort it out.

To motivate all ISPs to play along let's make a law for each ISP to be financially responsible for failure to honor such requests, enough for a victim to pay for defense plus some %% in penalties.

Sort of an automated "Ceases and Desist" letter, and a failure to abide is an automatic tort.

Hm?
It's less likely because professionals have a. different options when job pressures arise, b. usually opt for civil options to address shortcomings. So, by the nature of the demographics, the reaction to jobs pressures will be different.

But... regardless, we should always proceed civilly and petition the gov't rather than lash out on a population, legal or not.

For example, in England /UK we witness outlash toward Poles, despite their not being outwardly different, but for language. Again, lower classes feel undue labor pressure and take it out on working class immigrants.
When you're game changer, it's hard to make current projects maintainers nod their head for you!!! I think io.js was a good example.
Wish there was more information about Elastic beanstalk - it always confuses me about how it works..
Instead of the Reddit corpus you may just as well use a picture library of human footprints. It would be no more optimistic.

Human speech is produced from the conscious experience of being a human being. If your dataset contains just the speech, without the experience, there's simply not enough there. Any machine trained on this data is doomed to talk hollow rubbish.
Except you can't fully disable ads unless they've patched it in the last 6 or so months. I had a very long back and forth with them about it and they kept denying it until finally admitting that it was impossible to disable. Worse, they were using the notification bar to advertise gamefly. Not cool. Keep in mind the TV I had was their flagship first gen 4k tv. There's no excuse for putting ads on a nearly 5k dollar tv.
One thing I love about Atom (could apply to other Electron editor) that I admit is very niche is that I can override color schemes using CSS. I just open it in dev mode, find the class of the syntax I want to color it myself, and fix it with CSS.

A lot of color schemes are imperfect and I'm weird so it bothers me a lot. With Atom I can fix them in a very short time and I don't need to learn anytihng new.
I'm running 8.1 Pro here at work and the exact same thing happened to me. We generally run the computers disconnected from the Internet.

I had connected to the Internet, came back to my desk to see a countdown dialog, rushed to click "Cancel." About 10 minutes later the computer was forcibly shut down to install updates. I figured, "might as well get all these updates out of the way." So after that round of updates installed it said it needed to restart in order to install updates. After that I checked for updates and it needed to restart a third time. I hadn't used Windows since XP and forgot how many times you need to reboot and how often updates get released (I'm used to Linux and MacOS). The aggressiveness is also very annoying--bordering on making things unreliable.
I was curious and hadn't heard about PowerBI before, so I checked the site just now.

Some obvious differences: PowerBI is priced per user, so it can get expensive fast (assuming you need the pro features). Also, there doesn't appear to be a cloud version of PowerBI so you'd be managing it yourself. PowerBI doesn't support AWS Redshift or Aurora. And unless I'm mistaken, PowerBI desktop is Windows-only.
I don't think acquihires would count as R&D, acquisitions are booked differently.

My guess is that a large part of Twitter's R&D costs involve initiatives that don't relate to the main site's user experience at all: ads, live streams and mobile apps. Improvements on the sales/admin side for advertisers and content producers can be vital for revenue, but you don't see that if you're a Twitter user rather than a paying customer.

Same with apps: Twitter has Vine, Periscope, and who knows what else in development... But these don't improve the tweeting/timeline UX.
Got it. I can see where the confusion comes from.

Thank you for your comment :-)
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Congrats on launching! Testing & deployment of stable configs is arguably even more of an issue in embedded development than in web, so I'm sure this will make a lot of people very giddy! Are y'all 100% happy with the technical design assumptions & requirements of Docker, or did you mainly pick it so you could bridge with the existing community (or a bit of both?)
That's what's so amusing about this. The incredibly thin phones have to be put in incredibly bulky cases. A super-thin iPhone in a case is as bulky as my Cat B15 ruggedized smartphone, which will survive being run over by a truck and has a bigger battery.
No, the function rewards staying in the middle of the track.
funny (and great!) how cargo became a gold standard for package management without any advertising. well done, rustaceans.
The moon is only more practical in terms of distance/travel time. In every other way, the moon is drastically more inhospitable than even the worst day on Mars, so anything gained by the shorter distance is quickly nullified by the difficulty of existing there.

If the issues surrounding transit can be addressed, Mars is by far a superior target for colonization.
I always have trouble calling platforms that can run a system of this magnitude "embedded." For some reason I always had the term "single-purpose" linked with the idea of an embedded system. Once you add tons of RAM, a relatively powerful processor, and can only last a couple of hours on a battery--I feel like then it's just a small general purpose computer.
I have recently started out on AWS (I initially used AWS like I used to use Digital Ocean, however after trying out Serverless, I'm of a different mind and changing my ways to do it the AWS way), So this is pretty awesome!
> the various Linux distributions let the ticket wait for a few years, then mass close them with "applies to old version".

How recent is your experience, I have found this not to be really true anymore, at least for the past few years.
Glitchy in Firefox 47, Ubuntu 15.10

https://snag.gy/1ELC2A.jpg
How is this different from HypriotOS?

http://blog.hypriot.com
They may have short memories but many consumers will switch and try something different now because they don't want to wait for whatever's next.

Since the flagships are all pretty close these days, it will be more challenging to get them back due to the upgrade cycle.

40% of Android users upgrade as soon as provider allows (usually every 2 years) while 58% wait until their current phone dies or becomes obsolete. [1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/07/09/how-oft...
I remember I made the same argument about women in chess (those already playing competitively should be better on average than men because it's harder to get into chess when you are a woman so only the most talented/driven ones make it). I was called sexist in that discussion though as chess is way more meritocratic than corporate career so the implications are that it's likely biological afterall.

>>It's not some feminist conspiracy that women are being promoted

You have to admit though that "diversity" is mentioned a lot and striving for "diversity" in fact makes it easier for women to get into management position. I am not saying it's the only factor but it is one impossible to deny.
Did I say so? Or did I say they should spend more money on things that should have higher priority? Obviously, good people and planning should go with it...
Because it's largely true. Violence is not extinct, but it's a tiny fraction of what it once was.

http://i.imgur.com/sYuPCWP.png

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
Thanks for sharing the lessons that you learned and evolution of AptDeco. Great presentation with sound advice. Typically, a VC will go all in one category with one company. That company in this space seemed to be MoveLoot at the time. What did VCs miss in their analysis of AptDeco vs. MoveLoot? And, what do you think the key differences were between AptDeco and MoveLoot?
I'm arguing for choosing dependency versions that don't require you to break the highlander rule. "a is updated to 2.0" doesn't mean you should start using that version of a right now.
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3 months. It's not really a "real" arb because actually dumping the coins is hard, but it takes advantage of a spread across exchanges. Closer to a financial services company.
As someone who is having to learn AWS very quickly for an urgent project, I thank you.
I would assume that DH typically uses pre-baked primes instead of calculating them for a reason. One possible reason is that pre-baked primes can be designed to avoid certain pitfalls (e.g. primes close to powers of 2, which the article implies can be solved using the much faster algorithm) or otherwise to be resistant against certain cryptographic attacks. I don't know enough about DH to know if that's really the case here or if it's merely done to avoid having to compute fresh large primes, but I'm going to guess there's a good reason for it.
Oh, you meant static typing when you wrote strong typing above? That makes more sense.
Specifically based on Electron, Atom's own framework: http://electron.atom.io/
Could you link to a statistic showing women get hired less? How do you know they are not simply applying less?
Fact: facts are sometimes sexist.
Does Science Fiction Make Your Workplace a Hostile Environment for Women? (2009)
100 days into uber engineering's public bug bounty program
Does anyone here use x1.32xlarge instances? If so what kind of stuff are you doing with it? That thing looks beastly
Agreeing 100% with you.
Survey: in India and Nigeria, 75% have never heard of Wikipedia
> it could be the end of Samsung

There is no scenario under which the failure of one product, particularly the Note (far less popular than the Galaxy), ends the massive conglomerate known as Samsung. It's ~13% of South Korea's GDP and is very diverse. Samsung is so large and diverse it could end their entire lineup of smart phones and would still continue on as a successful technology company.
This shouldn't be surprising to anyone given the stated goal by large companies of hiring more women, and the relatively small pool on which they are drawing from
Reading the article it seems to me that this micro packages approach is what slows down everything.
I never, ever have seen all these problems in even not-so-state-of-the-art dependency managers like maven or nuget.
Seriously up to now it was impossible to have a build server isolated from the internet if you didn't want to check-in all the dependencies???
Simply crazy. I really can't understand how people can even think to use a dependency manager system that doesn't satisfy the essential requirement of having your CI server sandboxed.
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Yes - they would have to be built with ARM base images.
The effects of aging aren't recognized as a disease. I'm all for changing that and treating aging as a disease. That's the distinction I'm making. Barring diseases and injuries, the human lifespan hasn't been extended. The average lifespan has been extended because we can treat diseases and injuries -- that is wonderful. The lifespan of a healthy person -- how long a disease- and injury-free person can live -- hasn't changed, and that's medicine's blind spot I was talking about.
1. any left-pad issue has been "eliminated" with the new rules npm (the company) has enforced.

2. you can already have your own version of thirdparty/left-pad by maintaining your own npm repository. i think what your parent post is referring to is facebook saying we're going to make our own public node/javascript package registry and you should publish to our registry.

doing this at the moment does nothing for the community other causing a lot of pain points. ex) now npm authors will have to publish to both registries so developers don't have to dig to find where it was published to, then they also have to hope that someone else didn't register the module name in one of the registries..

there is just too much splintering if facebook decided to become a competing registry rather than just using npm's registry and building on top of it.
First tests on yarn, a crazy fast npm alternative
So you keep your cameras devoid of the updates that the manufacturer might release? You also restrict your cameras from talking to other fellow cameras.
Audio stuff has been notoriously finicky and late to support updates to the OS since the mid 90's. Most people I know go by,"Once it is set up, don't change a single thing." For quite a few years audio guys stuck to Mac OS Classic (9.x) because of the money invested in audio plugins. Audio hardware companies seem just fine with dropping support for new OSs forcing you to buy the new model.
I know about them. I just prefer the next initiative dealing with major problems with long-term ROI for the country. They can never seem to put money and effort into those things but they can go to Mars. (Rolls eyes)
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It will become even more important to include visuals such as popular company logos or hip cool images.

This is the only reason I created a logo for my open source project, so that it sticks out whenever someone posts about it.
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This is an issue in the kernel. You don't report this to the distro vendor but to the appropriate kernel mailing list. In this case the interface to user space is broken AND it's a regression, so it would be appropriate to cc: Linus. Chances are high it's fixed in the next -rc release (i.e. within a week).