skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest the root of the "Group X/Y/Z is underrepresented in Tech" is the aforementioned people who couldn't find cheap labor who will work 80 hours a week

Nobody is concerned that the top level baseball players are all men of similar characteristics because the teams themselves aren't making it an issue. The leagues realize that it is those men of similar characteristics that they are selling. Fans latch onto the players, even to the point of buying merchandize with the player's own brand. There is absolutely no worry about paying such a person millions of dollars, because the crowd is there to see David Ortiz, not a random woman who was born in India. There is no drop-in replacement for the brand of (insert your favorite player), and there never will be.

Tech is different. The product is the tech, not the people. In this case, it may have been Linus Torvalds or that random woman born in India who built your product. Assuming they are able to deliver equally, it makes absolutely no difference to the customer. Theoretically, everyone could be a drop-in replacement. As such, driving down wages is a top business priority, and the way to drive down wages is to increase the supply of the product you are buying (i.e. labour).

The stats show that men with certain characteristics are also most likely to be building the tech. "Group X/Y/Z" is the most logical untapped market to go after. If we assume women make up half the population, but make up almost no portion of the tech labour force, that is half the population that has not previously been within your hiring pool and are ripe for the picking. It is in your best business interest to encourage them to join the ranks.

This is also why those who couldn't find cheap labour are pushing learn to code initiative so hard. We don't see the baseball industry pushing for "learn to baseball" initiatives because, again, they are selling specific people and adding more random people nobody cares about does not help them lower labour costs.
It's a bad analogy. Binary and hex are just different formats for representing the same number. Spatial domain and frequency domain are different views of a complex data set. In the spatial domain, you are looking at the intensity of different points of the image. In the frequency domain, you are looking at the frequencies of intensity changes in patterns in the image.

A good way to develop an intuition for the fourier space is to look at simple images and their DFT transforms: http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~emmanuel/courses/cs545/S14/slides/lec... (3/4 of the way through the slide deck).

This analysis of a "bell pepper" image and its transform is also helpful: https://books.google.com/books?id=6TOUgytafmQC&pg=PA116&lpg=....

As for why you want to do this: throwing away bits in the spatial domain eliminates distinctions between similar intensities, making things look blocky. In the frequency domain, however, you can throw away high-frequency information, which tends to soften patterns like the speaker grills in the MBP image that the human eye isn't that sensitive to to begin with.
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Docker SHALL NOT run databases in production, by design."

You need to use external volumes
I'm entirely willing to see business fail until we get to a place where ad-based revenue models are no longer financially viable.
Aspects That May Have Contributed to Coldplay’s Incredible Success
Suppose I have a table of 8-digit numbers that I need to add and subtract for various reasons. Do I A: have a child, train them how to read numbers, add, and subtract, and then have the child do it or B: use a calculator purpose built to add and subtract numbers?

Neural nets are always expensive to train. You'd better be getting something from them that you can't get some other way.
It's a good first step but the app definitively needs improvement!
The ones that differentiated us from cabbage. At least positive for us, not sure if for cabbage ;)

Though if you count only DNA changes in smokers' lungs, probably none. Or we would have found some superhuman abilities in smokers by now.
it was decently accurate at judging whether a random website contained "legal" downloads of books
How about open source code for some makes and models of voting machine?

The US Veterans' Administration health records software system is in the public domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA#Licensing_and_disseminat... But it's not listed here. (It's also kind of complex. "wget; tar x; ./configure ; make" probably won't get you a running instance. Still.
That's not what I'm arguing about.

They're also no worse than the side effects (from depression severe enough to cause suicide to life-threatening complications and yes, permanent infertility) that women on various forms of birth control have put up with for the past several decades. And continue to endure.

Not true at all, literally completely false.

I'm not saying this study should necessarily have continued. Just that there's very good reason for the bitterness.
If you want to understand the female perspective on this news, try the below opinion piece:

There is no good reason for the bitterness, frankly. It's just people complaining, instead of actually solving any problems. A classic trait of modern third wave feminism. These pills give women huge control over their bodies and they think men want to poison them or force it on them or something...
Why do you want to retag images? I'd suggest simply not doing this and adding all the tags and labels you need at build time.
I've been to a decent number of the meetings here to know what it's like. You might only be really needed to answer one or two questions, or for one item on the agenda. You can mostly ignore the meeting and can work on other things.

For example, I was stuck in a two hour support call meeting the other day, and I really only had to be passively listening to it and speak maybe four or five times briefly. I was designing puzzles in my notebook the rest of the time. They don't give devs laptops, so I couldn't get real work done.

But hey, I've been in plenty of classes back in the day when I didn't have to pay close attention and only had pen and paper to keep me entertained (I drew, wrote stories and poems, designed games and databases, etc), so it doesn't bother me too much.

There's a reason why there's a full team of BA's and they can't write up work fast enough to keep the devs busy, and I think this is part of the reason. But there isn't enough of a push to change things, and it seems like most people would rather communicate in person here instead of via email when possible.
I've done a bit a research on this. Company uses DOORS and hates it. We've evaluated JAMA and Polarion (both expensive) and both are better than DOORS. JAMA has a nice JIRA integration. Polarion can be integrated it seems but untested.
Here, I took a couple of screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/urg8s
This is very nice.

But right now as a programmer, I am using data-structures more on an as-needed basis. Sometimes it is difficult to find the right data-structures for the job. So then it would be nice to have a resource that provides the functionality of data-structures as a black box. Learning these would make more sense than learning also all of the gory technical details upfront.
I did, sorry. And I cannot delete it, will amend the comment and find and comment in the right context.
The Hidden Art of Designing Trains for Anti-Social Commuters
The version of OS X on the new MacBook Pros (late 2016)
will not work with existing Certified Thunderbolt 3 docks
and adapters (released prior to November 2016).

This is ridiculous.
No, if I want to support the creators i'll pay for the app. If I don't want to see ads, I'll block ads. It's a false equivalency to conflate support with willingly subjecting yourself to ads when other options exist, and as you can see here most people are rejecting it
It says the power supply can be anywhere between 3.2V to 6.0V. So about 1W at full speed and maybe a fifth of that on standby.
> everybody does it manually for real

I've been programming professionally for much longer than there's been a stack overflow. I have never, ever, cut and pasted code from stack overflow.
> Making a new filesystem in 1 year is an impossible mission

If this is "real" filesystem for disks, not proxy for other filesystems, mostly read-only.
God, what an awful site.

Here's the paper, in PRL: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117...
uMatrix offers a feature to randomly pick a UA every 5 (configurable) minutes from a set of configurable UAs. This works, although GMail might complain about the UA being too old. Reloading GMail resolves it.
I always find this method of argumentation intellectually dishonest, probably intentionally so.

You try and shift the burden of proof onto your opponent and ask them to prove a negative, and in the absence of this intentionally impossible proof you advocate stripping the rights of franchisement from broad swaths of minority groups by using a cute analogy that doesn't really map well to reality. And then you pat yourself on the back and walk away feeling smart.

Back in the real world, away from your fantasy, voting rights are central to American democracy and laws that strip americans of them should actually be shown to be needed, besides the fact that one political party currently only likes white people and subsequently stokes racist anger.
There is a difference between using statistical models and understanding the underlying processes. I can tell someone that when we smash together Muons and nucleons that there is a certain chance that we will produce Kaons. That, I believe, many can understand.

What I cannot explain briefly to a general audience is how quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics works and how we can compute the probabilities from that.

Just because you know that something is happening, doesn't mean you understand anything about the underlying processes involved.
> The commit referenced in the blog

Interesting, the date of the commit is April 20, 2015.

I did comment on April 16, 2015 about how the WOT extension could record a user's browsing history[1], so it does look like they were doing this before this specific commit.

Edit: ah never mind, my comment was for the Chrome version of the extension while the commit is for the Firefox extension. So they have been doing it since longer for the Chrome extension.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/65#issuecomment-937...
Data and Machine Learning to Get Out the Vote
Not here. http://imgur.com/ERwQrQq is all I see
Author is probably French or something.
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percent "megacommutes" is a pretty odd metric. LA is "leading" in total time wasted in traffic[1].

[1] http://inrix.com/scorecard/
Just to clarify, they don't use a scalpel anymore (getting snipped next month).
It's not valid to take the frequency of occurrence in a small sample size (320), and multiply it up to a large population (10 million). I still agree it's not worth the risk, but it's also not likely to be an additional 31,250 suicide attempts among men.

(Which is how my math worked out - I'm not sure where your 50,000 number of successful suicides came from. The study had 320 participants with one suicide attempt. But, again, this sort of multiplication from small sample sizes to large sample sizes is not actually predictive, so it's kinda moot.)
Are you suggesting that signing a cleartext message would not involve encryption? Because I'm pretty sure the way "signing" works is to encrypt a hash of the message. So you need to send an encrypted message either way, even if it's a smaller one.
Stop trying to make "allowing ads" equivalent to "paying creators". It's not in any way the same thing, and it's just an attempt to paint everyone who disagrees with you with a big brush of "asshole".
>I personally would rather have a dozen well crafted battery sipping native C apps than a million awful contraptions built in a script interpreter on to of a VM by the lowest bidder on ODesk.

Amusingly enough, you just described how apps worked on my first mobile device - a Windows CE PDA. There weren't a lot of free programs available, but the ones I could find were very well-designed.
Trump Rolling to Learn about APIs
This is classic western scam to get you not to go to vacation :). I wouldn't trust anything.

Meditation is good for you and you will realize that you need to go on vacation during your meditation.
green tea matcha is a good alternative. 1 cup of green tea matcha has 1/3 of caffeine as a coffee cup. Since it is packed with L-theanine, it will also delay ingestion of caffeine, and you will feel less the typical crash

Wrote a quick post about coffee alternatives https://dailyhealthpoints.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/healthy-a...
I'm not saying "shove stuff out the door quickly". I'm saying that frameworks are tools that can help you:

1) Accomplish things.

2) Gain one overarching-if-shallow view of a problem domain works

However, they can also be a pile of complexity that prevents you from understanding problems or moving forward. The question to ask is: Can you form a solid mental model from the documentation? If you can, then the framework is useful and can be a decent curated entry-point into understanding something.

You'll still want to take that shallow understanding and dive deeper.
Yes, I would. Any timeframe on this?
Oh I missed that, thanks for the heads up though. I'm not sure why, but I really thought it would be more of game with some actual insight instead of "isn't Trump a bully".
How Apple’s stock apps will use the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro
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I know measuring power in amps is against everything high school physics told us, but it's a really common approach in electronics engineering. They literally do that all the time.

I think a sentence or two later the official site gives an explanation why: lipo battery sizes are measured in mAh, so dividing battery size by current you get hours of operation.

I'm still a noob when it comes to microelectronics, but my understanding is almost every chip runs on 3.3v, lipo batteries are 3.2-3.7v depending on charge level. When they talk about power in amps they assume everyone knows they mean at 3.3v
My children will have parents and grandparents for a very long time. On top of that, we couldn't really have spent more time with them, what with a stay at home wife and all. I'm sure they're glad for that.
Job security for us, I guess...
Trivia:

Polonium-210 in tobacco contributes to many of the cases of lung cancer worldwide. Most of this polonium is derived from lead-210 deposited on tobacco leaves from the atmosphere; the lead-210 is a product of radon-222 gas, much of which appears to originate from the decay of radium-226 from fertilizers applied to the tobacco soils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium#Tobacco
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From what I can tell, I think you're right about them being too late into the drone market. I've been researching Karma and DJI Mavic Pro because I'm planning on buying a drone. Most reviews say Mavic is much better, and some reviews have been absolutely scathing towards Karma (ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmqthgCvxk).
Can you advise an app or site? There are so many resources on the Net, from the crazy to the more esoteric, and it's hard to know which one makes sense.
Ugh it's not the browser but the resolution ... right between. Thanks for the screenshots!
So glad you got here first.
No, not in Germany, at least where I travel in Essen / Düsseldorf. There it sucks!

There's no 4G to speak of, you count yourself lucky to get 3G. And it's not just mobile, the Internet you get in hotels is so piss poor it's infuriating.
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For fun, next time you are on public transport, or sitting in an airport lounge, stand up and ask loudly 'Does anyone know what cron is?"

The lack of raised hands, should answer for you why LetsEncrypt is not ready for mainstream use.

Until Cert renewal is baked into all the hosting apps/platforms - HTTPs will never be ubiquitous.
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> I -THINK- you didn't answer his question

Q: Anyone know how much the participants were compensated for taking part in the study?

A: To answer you question, I do not know what they were compensated.

Yes they did.
Interesting, what country? It is covered by basic health care in Canada.
Open Source GSMMAP stack
This is even better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo6EkXHu5AI
HR everywhere should provide quiet rooms for meditation. It would cost almost nothing and be a benefit for attracting talent.
Yes, that was my point but I think I was unclear.

Like the US, Greece has many properties which would be illegal to build from scratch under existing zoning laws. Unlike the US, Greece has pushed a law requiring that all properties be certified as "having no illegal constructions" prior to sale.

I'm trying to imagine the crisis you would get if you enforced zoning laws against secondary sales in the US. At the very least, all of Boston would be uninhabitable.
While advertisers would benefit if people are afraid to use adblockers, it doesn't necessarily mean that they did it themselves.

There was clearly a market for user browsing data (since WOT was able to find customers), so if WOT is shut down, more will pop up. And the apps that mine user data don't need to be adblockers, that's just the reason they give users to install the extension.
First public hydrogen station opened in Switzerland
I bought a GoPro a couple years ago because I was considering buying the stock as it was about to be listed. Took it on a ski trip. It was one of the worst pieces of consumer electronics I've ever used. Just atrocious. It seems they took every wrong turn possible whenever faced with any design decision. I avoided the stock but should have shorted it.
I guess the difficulty with this is that we're faced with groups that are actively telling us what to do by ways of advertising. They ask more nicely, and are at times much less obvious, but it's still has a great influence.
Let's not forget to LOL about those 2 animated GIFs. Just about ejected my morning coffee through my nostril.
I submit to you that web development and php are two different things. Many people learn them together, but they can be learned separately. For example, creating web pages is as simple as create .html file on your desktop, editing it with notepad (or whatever) and opening with your browser. There are CORS services you can make ajax calls against, when you get to that point. This way you can learn frontend html, css, and javascript completely independent of backend code.
VxWorks does not run on microcontrollers.
Yeah I agree on the accessibility. I have version 1, and I haven't even touched it yet. That's in contrast to the RPi, which I immediately began hacking with when I got it. VoCore just seems daunting.
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I really like the style of that book! I want to get it, but I'm hesitating at the $87 pricetag. Looks very nice, though....
Lung cancer is caused by smoking 85-90% of the time. Probably more if you add in secondhand smoke. I think it already meets any sort of "preponderance of evidence" sort of bar to just assume anyone with lung cancer got it from smoking.
With a bouncer you literally just scroll up.
Wi-Fi based IMSI Catcher
Ask HN: Cloud-based data dictionary tool
Thought about building a cloud-based data dictionary tool for personal use but was wondering if it's something that's useful for other data administrators?
I've worked with people who did it with pride. When I pointed out we had no license for the code, they proudly told me anything without an explicit license was public domain.

I quit not longer after that.
Dealing with sourcemaps absolutely causes extra trouble. Transpiler errors and bugs can also pop up at the worst times. Any time you add more steps to your compilation and deployment process, you're adding risk and potential trouble. That's just a fact of life. I'm not saying not to use es6 because I do and it's awesome, but I am not under the illusion that it's all sunshine and rainbows.
I really enjoyed Why Optimistic Merging Works Better[0] - and found it to be a very interesting topic and way to approach merging for projects.

[0] http://hintjens.com/blog:106
You'd be surprised (or maybe not ;-) how often a hiring mgr copies and pastes from some other job description he saw somewhere else.
I have some sympathy for the OP here, as I have heard of a lot of people running into pain with DBs. But yes, they definitely should not be writing to the UFS, as the OP seems to be doing. However, even if you're using volumes, you need to be careful about what happens when images change etc. It's not trivial.
I dunno, there's a fun argument to be had about informed consent.

It's fair to say that everyone know smoking is bad by now, but does everyone possess a correct and complete enough understanding of how and why to meaningfully consent to the risks? If you understand that smoking can cause cancer, but not that it can cause cancer even years after you stop smoking, is that good enough? If you think you can go on a cleanse and purge the toxins from your body, are you really competent to consent to the long-term risks? We don't let minors do nearly anything, from sex to signing contracts to receiving medical treatment, because we do not believe they are mature enough to properly weigh the consequences. If a minor decides to begin smoking, are they able to meaningfully consent to the risks, even if they have been adequately explained?

All medical interventions are weighing hopefully large benefits against hopefully small side effects, but even terrible side effects can be acceptable if the benefits are large enough and people receiving the treatments have been adequately informed and can meaningfully consent.
I would like to add another factual error to the list
- you can get linux 4.4 on debian stable with the backports instead of switching to an unstable release, and the current ubuntu LTS (16.04) runs 4.4 as well.

It seems that they started to use docker while it was changing a lot, I didn't have any issue in the past few months with docker, but I don't use it in production.
It's complicated. The school is actually part of UC, but the hospital system (UCSF Medical Center) is a separate company. Many people don't recall this but over a decade ago UCSF and Stanford merged their hospitals, renegotiated the contracts with their employees, then split the hospitals again.
You can also use Lynx if you want to go Full Stallman.
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Mashape?