skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting question this article brings up is -- is there a legitimate place for gender-segregated institutions in our society?

It's a bit ironic that people will justify women-only spaces (e.g. a train car[1] or taxi[2]) as creating a safe space for women, but in the same breath deny the legitimacy of traditionally male spaces as being sexist and degrading to women, e.g. the push to make fraternities and sororities co-ed [3][4].

IMO, men have their own insecurities and worries, often with respect to their relationship with women, and having a 'safe space' to work out those issues is not only useful, but symmetrically fair.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/04/47299760...

[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/09/16/should-colle...

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-harvard-shouldnt...
That's the reporters writing.

The whole point of these people is that they couldn't give a toss about what womankind does or does not owe them.

They've chosen not to play the game.
So, as far as I understand what they describe, they are just preaching for men what feminists have been preaching for women: do what you want, and what makes you happy. You owe nothing to anybody.

At least, it seems consistent to me.
One more thing: As these comments demonstrate, there is almost exclusive focus on performance, but nobody considers the drawbacks (cost) of denormalization. Practitioners are oblivious to them.
Would you put George bush in that comparison? Or we already forgot how hundreds of thousand people died during invasion of Iraq for clear political reasons?
I've actually had really good luck with Ebay recently. Also Ebay seems to stock some much more obscure stuff which Amazon wouldn't touch, and even when both have it Ebay has exactly the same thing for cheaper.
Sensory Synesthesia and Human Perception
Context: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/hillary-clinton-lin...

Prelude: https://archive.fo/2J4uG
I think this is true. Anecdotally, I've looked up the usage of semicolons a few times now, and I think I know how to use them, but every time I'm about to I just rephrase what I'm saying so I don't have to. They are used so rarely in English it's hard to feel confident through exposure.
If you're talking about the built-in wifi on the TWC given box then I would try using a third party access point. I was having the same problems as you and that solved it for me.
I already posted some below, but here are two links that you can work through and corroborate on your own:

https://i.sli.mg/rcDu8m.jpg

https://archive.fo/VApsq

The short version is that someone appears to be trying to frame Julian for pedophilia with a tall tale of a cam girl who just happened to let her little sister go on camera and a porn site that nobody has ever heard of that started operation that partners with the UN for reasons I cannot even fathom.
One of the most unfortunate things about baby formula is that it is expensive. And as a former pharmacy employee, it is more expensive at those outlets. There isn't much the pharmacist can do except perhaps order a specialty formula that isn't on the shelf.

Additionally, having a trusted source to send formula as a helpful gift so someone far away doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Very unlikely. Websites run by small companies will not implement something unless they must do so to accept a payment.

An example of this was the ICRA/PICS labeling system. Super easy to implement and self-regulate and hardly anyone implemented it.
To me, that sounds a whole lot like, "shooting a zombie in the head will stop it from getting up again".
Why Empirical?
Can You Hear It, Mr. Skeletal? It's the Call of Dooty
This is true; before it was bait for clicks, it was bait to get you to pull the magazine off the rack.

Different technology, same user-hostile purpose.
18:53 CEST: The ExoMars/TGO spacecraft completed its critical orbit-insertion manoeuvre at Mars today and its signals were received by ground stations at 18:34 CEST, just as expected. The timely re-acquisition indicates the engine burn went as planned, and mission controllers are waiting for a detailed assessment from the flight dynamics specialists at ESOC to confirm it.

Teams monitoring the Schiaparelli lander continue waiting for indication of the lander’s progress. Engineers are waiting for the next signal receipt slot, which will be provided by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will overfly the Schiaparelli landing site between about 18:49 and 19:03 CEST, and downlink any received signals at around 20:00 CEST.
> Building something in Rust would be much more painful.

Go may have more of those things and it may be easier to find copy-pastable examples for them, but rust has them too, and its not painfull. The things you mentioned are there and are working fine.
Thanks I wasn't aware of this. I signed up for Final, but now i'm not going to continue.
Signal acquired!
https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/788780512089432064
They seem to think that happiness will be found in selfishness. Long term, I don't think that works very well.
Seems sketchy given that you seem to have been taking money, now the website 404s...
I got the impression this article added more inflammatory rhetoric to the point of view than it should have.
> Yes, indexing is actually a significant challenge at our scale, as it can take a long time to add and currently, it is a blocking operation.

What do you do during index creation: Do you drop write requests on the floor? Do you store them in a persistent queue somewhere? Or do you remove a node from the cluster, create the index, re-add the node to the cluster, and repeat this on every other nodes?

I'm asking because at some point I thought of using SQLite, embedded in a process containing the business logic and the network layer, but I abandoned this idea specifically because of blocking operations like index creation, and decided to use PostgreSQL instead.

> the sqlite team is amazing and has all sorts of write-concurrency tricks up their sleeve to allow for creating indexes in a parallel thread

I'd be very interested in any link related to this new feature of SQLite.

> However, we have 6 of them (and honestly, any one of which has enough read capacity to satisfy about all our traffic) so a minute of downtime to upgrade for each independently isn't a problem.

So, basically, you're doing a rolling upgrade? Have you evaluated compiling your stored procedures to dynamically loaded libraries, or using an interpreted language like Lua/Python/JavaScript?
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I'm not saying kids can't handle it. My point was not that it's not entirely reasonable to expect parents of today to act in the same ways as their parents did when when they were growing up, because the world now looks a lot different from what they experienced as children. The danger could be real or perceived, but the end result is the same.

I wouldn't be surprised if our parents' generation were also considered over-protective by previous standards. This just feels like a "when I was your age" type of thing.
As archaic as it sounds on paper, it's the best functioning upper house in the world. It provides actual substantive research into government policy, and a temporary restraint on changing long-time status quo, being able to delay legislation but not stop it altogether. I really hope you guys don't change it any more.
I consider "complexity" to refer to both the quantity of language features and the number of significant or surprising interactions that exist between every language feature. Rust and Python are both medium-complexity languages, but the difference is that in Python you can totally ignore e.g. generators or decorators or (oh god) metaclasses and still get work done. In Rust you really can't get work done until you understand references and move semantics. The total height of each learning curve is the same, but Rust's is more like a cliff than a gentle slope, which is why it's crucial that we put so much focus on documentation.
Whatever happened to learning something to broaden your view? I doubt I'll get a job in Clojure anytime soon - but learning it has been the biggest eye opener to me as a programmer in the last 5 years.

> The answer to all these questions seems to be "no".

In conclusion you shouldn't be learning it and good luck to the company trying to hire people for Rust positions?

You're saying you should only learn what the industry is pushing towards. The thing is that the industry is pushing towards what sort of talent they can acquire - this is a vicious cycle.
Yeah, these things you mention have always annoyed me. In particular, every relation should have a primary key, possibly consisting of zero attributes. If the primary key consists of zero attributes, the relation must have at most one element, because the primary key (the empty tuple!) determines every other attribute.
Must be a translation issue, a frisbee could be classified as a projectile, but not as a ball.
Can empathy do more harm than good? (DR Podcast Ep. 45)
And ironically those same people believe their silly little political games on earth are what's really important.
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Because you can't capacity plan when your provider says "unlimited" and then there is actually a limit, except because they don't tell you what it is, you don't know what it is until you hit it.

I understand that the word unlimited makes people feel good, but it shouldn't. Nothing is unlimited, ever. Just because they're not telling you what it is doesn't mean it isn't there.

Unmetered bandwidth that is capped at a gigabit or is physically incapable of going faster is not unlimited either. It's been throttled to only allow you to download a certain amount each month. It is also not unlimited, unless you consider a throttle to not be a limit.

Most cable modems, by the way, can go 3-5 times faster without the artificial throttles put on them by the providers. So even before Comcast started doing their stupid 1TB cap, they were already throttling your internet connection way below the possible speeds of the device.
I have an increasingly growing list of things that I'll never buy on Amazon because all of the listings are through 3rd-party vendors participating in Prime. The risk of receiving counterfeit and/or defective product is too great.

- any peripheral for Apple not directly sold by Apple or Amazon

- Gilette razor blades (yes, I've tried straight razors, my skin and hair are awful)

- SD/MicroSD cards

- Condoms

I know Amazon will instantly refund me and pay for return shipping if I do get a fake, but I'd rather just spend a bit extra and buy it somewhere else where I know it won't be an issue.
Allen the Geek
They are a fantasy only because users do not grasp the advantages of the RDM and confuse them with SQL, thus robbing vendors from any incentive to produce true RDBMSs.

If users are so accepting of denormalization as a solution to performance and are unaware of all its costs, why should vendors bother to come up with true RDBMSs that obviate the need to denormalize?

As long as users do not understand the RDM and its benefits true RDBMSs will remain a fantasy. Ignorance has never been conducive to progress.
I find this hard to believe.

I'm willing to believe somebody would try to smear Wikileaks.

I find it hard to believe they would reuse the same business address for both their overt and covert actions. Surely nobody is this dumb.
> My particular hobbyhorse in that regard is _nix desktop environments.

Oh yes, that reminds me: GNOME now pops up a message bar informing one that one has no messages every time one's mouse hits the bottom of the screen, and steals focus from the currently-running app. Why? I never used to worry about messages, I still have none, and I keep on dying while I'm playing computer games because suddenly the game no longer responds to my input.

I realised long ago that the GNOME developers neither like, nor respect, nor indeed care for their users (c.f. the fact that after a decade it still hasn't added the ability to properly configure the screensaver), but even this seems a little much.
Chip layout/floorplan isn't like laying tiles. Not everything is gridded and fits together perfectly.
If you don't use a tool like this, entropy will take care of taking your machines down for you. Only then, it won't be a regularly rehearsed part of "normal operations" so you might find yourself up creek without a paddle.
Every problem in this article is solved by things people simply don't know about or don't want to use (PGP etc). Hopefully this may mark the start of a slow turning point in the public consciousness...
What is voice-enabled media?
The map makes it look like it was supposed to land right on top of Opportunity. Seeing as how Opportunity is (last I checked) still operational, would it be possible to send it out to investigate what might've happened if Schiaparelli did indeed fail?
It's not just capabilities, but reliability that matters.

If I've got a system that takes a bit of consistent prodding to happen, or can do A & B reliably but not C, and it is consistent about that, it's almost always far more acceptable than a system which works most of the time without prodding but then falls down copletely, or a system that does A, B, & C, but fails to work right 10% of the time.

That little bit of uncertainty pokes an sticks at you. It's always at the back of your consciousness. A football coach's job is to coach the game. It's not to to try to figure out what's wrong with his comms equipment or even if it's working correctly or incorrectly.

Closely related: the paradox of automation.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/crash-how...
> Plus most instruments on ESA nmissions are sponsored by their implementing institutions e.g. Universities, not ESA.

This is true. Regrettably. The instruments are often built using public money and the platforms they sit on are almost always launched using public money, but the affiliated universities get to restrict everyone else's access to the data for years.

I personally know people working at ESA who were denied the right to publish their work and whose conference talks (in the area of interplanetary navigation) were censored by their managers because it was feared that they would reveal too much information which could conceivably be used by scientists from unaffiliated institutions in their research.

Open access is not big in ESA at all. This is a complete opposite of NASA's commitment to keep all data acquired with public money open to the public.
As soon as they are within the boundaries of our laws, they are covered.
I don't think that's a very sound viewpoint to take on this. The facts that Belichick happens to be the coach of a major NFL team and appears to have a very calm demeanor don't make his opinions on this matter any more valid than the next guy.

It's also not a stretch to say that NFL coaches are mostly from older generations and have never had a lot of incentive to embrace computer technology. Furthermore, they head up highly competitive teams of large male athletes in a culture which prizes assertiveness and displays of aggression.

Put all these things together and you get one guy who's uniquely poised to get frustrated with technology. You also get someone who's uniquely ill-equipped to speak of that technology's actual shortcomings. For instance, the way these issues are described makes it sound like they're having network connectivity issues which are not related to the particular device they're trying to connect to the network. But did he throw the wireless AP at the wall? Nope, he threw the tablet at the wall.
There is absolutely such a thing as unlimited total bytes transferred.
The irony is that they "fixed" the credit card but you can't cancel online, just like with any other card. In fact, searching their support, there is literally no instruction on how to cancel. Classic.
SpaceX has said that they expect a space tourism market to develop. That sounds like rational economic behavior, even if the tourists are doing it for the prestige.
I think the intent is to say that Facebook should not choose its board members by political affilications. For example, FB should not cut ties Thiel because he supports Trump, also should not fire others if they support Clinton / conservation / second amendment / whatever else unrelated to the work they do for the company. This seems perfectly reasonable for me.
Let the down votes fall as they may, but that was quite well played.
Hit piece on fact gathering tools with meme drops.

Nice one NYT. Flagged.
Ecuador says it cut WikiLeaks founder's internet for interference in US election
> This is about self-expression and it's a small price to pay

Is that a small price to pay for worsening the experience of anyone older than maybe 26? I can't even imagine trying to walk my elderly neighbour through installing her own stylesheet, nor trying to explain why none of her sites look right now, even if they are more legible.
why are depressed ppl always shown to be hanging out with cats. Maybe cats are depressing them [1]

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/02/20/cat-bites-depression...
The problem is that a technical interviewer can ask literally anything technical. That means you have to be able to answer literally anything. That means that you have to know (or be able to figure out) everything. That's really hard to prepare for.

The best way to prepare is to actually learn as much as you can - not as "interview preparation", but as actual knowledge. Then, as specific interview skills, you also need to learn to think under pressure, to communicate what you're thinking well, and to gracefully and smoothly say that you don't know, but you could figure it out with a bit of time and Google.
As long as it's voluntary and the other genders can just as easily make their own spaces then I don't see there being a problem with it. But I fear that this won't be the case. I can't imagine male-only organizations/services/etc being take lightly. There is a lot of historical baggage that gets lumped onto these ideas when you reframe it to be for a non-historically oppressed group.

These have to be looked at individually with more context than just gender division. Such as why they exist, in the case of female only subway cars for safety in Mexico city. Having experienced the chaos and overcrowding of subways in Mexico city I'm not surprise at all this was done. But I did notice the women's cars were far emptier so these compromises always have trade-offs that need to be considered so they don't add resentment, or further create societal divisions, and end up fueling the problem.

There have been white only organizations at universities that were shut down even though the same schools had black-only and asian-only organizations, but there was more context to this issue than just race as the white groups political positions of white empowerment were seen as masking a racist movement (the founder later joined a white nationalist group after leaving school). So it wasn't a straight forward comparison of race equality as they wanted it to seem.

So I don't think the idea can be easily accepted/dismissed at a high level without context.
There's nothing illegal about data caps as long as they are made clear. T-Mobile got in trouble here because they marked the plan as 'unlimited'. From the article: "'Consumers should not have to guess whether so-called ‘unlimited’ data plans contain key restrictions, like speed constraints, data caps, and other material limitations,' said FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc in a statement."
Thanks. Now I can comment my opinion on the topic without having to read the article!
When people talk about `cargo` being awesome, they're comparing it to the similar tools for, say C++ or C or other systems programming languages. No one is comparing `cargo` to `pip-tools`.
I skimmed the Fietelson's paper you linked and this jumped out at me:

"Students should generally not be used in studies that depend on specific expertise which requires significant experience and a long learning curve to achieve, or in studies of professional practices.
Such studies are best performed by observing and interviewing professionals, not by controlled experiments."

This seems directly relevant to this TDD study. Every one of these contraindications are true in this case.
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I'm sure there are plenty of retired NFL coaches out there who would be willing to advise.
"But if the counterfeit is as good as the genuine Apple product then what is the real difference anymore?"

They never are, so this is a worthless question to ask. And if the person actually wanted a genuine Apple product, then the person is still being defrauded.

You're going to have to do a lot better to explain why some rando on Amazon should be able to sell their product as "genuine Apple" when it is not.
JetBrains products aren't free either...
Google launches suggested answers to questions in Forms
I've gotten early access and have been trying it out. So far it's been incredibly easy to use (one time cards is awesome for ordering food or trying out new merchants/startups) and I enjoy the notifications. I just received the plastic card so it may end up being my primary card replacing a Chase Freedom card I have had forever (also 1% cashback). As for the comments about annual fees, if this becomes your primary card I think it will more than pay for itself over a year.
In my opinion, data caps on wireline service are getting pretty sleazy too.

For e.g: AT&T U-Verse will let you remove the cap[1] using a $30 add-on. However they'll also remove the cap "for no extra charge" if you subscribe to one of their bundles. (Which works out to about the same price, for the 2-year promotional period anyways, after which you'll be renegotiating your bill with retentions.)

I suspect they're doing this so that if you really need the bandwidth: you'll find the basic TV subscription to be a much better use of the $30. That way they get to tell their shareholders they've stopped hemorrhaging pay-TV subscribers.

I flat-out refused the sales guy as soon as I saw the 600GB cap in the fine-print of the contract. He tried to tell me most people don't get anywhere near that figure. Now I don't doubt that statistic, but I have my own statistics. I pulled up my router's bandwidth report[2] and showed him that my network would bump up against that cap nearly every month.

[1]: https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/u-verse-high-spe...

[2]: http://fatalsyntax.com/imshare/bw-report.png
Technology seems to be a huge issue at the Patriots home stadium. Pretty much every visiting team coach that's been there complains about headset failures / communication issues between coaches/on-field captains. Mike Tomlin said "It's always the case" when speaking about them failing. Like countless other people are saying in other comments - this is likely just a huge radio frequency collision issue for all of the wireless operations of any stadium.
All the counterfeit crap on Amazon has another unintended effect: it makes the reviews less accurate. For example, when looking at the review of shirts the other day from Lucky, some of the reviews were normal, then others said things like, 'Stitching came apart, material flimsy, but may have been a knock off. Shame on you Amazon for not preventing that.' Roughly paraphrased, I've been seeing reviews like that of late. It skews the average rating of the product and hurts the manufacturer.
I think culture will do its thing here.

Getting into C++ now is harder then getting into Rust.
> the option of decomposing the table into multiple tables sharing the same primary key

sounds suspiciously like denormalization
When Is It OK to Mine Hacked Emails?
When the government sues for stuff like that, where does the money go? I mean, it's a punishment to have to pay, sure, but why does the government get the money? Shouldn't the people being screwed be the ones getting that?