skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two concerns with the ideology espoused in this article; the first is that a majority female program is lauded as "diverse", whereas a majority male program, even by a similarly small margin, is considered problematic. I don't buy the idea that any given subset of students has to either exactly match or disfavor men compared to the general population.

My second concern is with the stubborn insistence that we must force the demographics of different institutions to adhere to some arbitrary constructed criteria. Whether we like it or not, there are social differences between men and women that cause them to have different interests. Here's a recent article that speaks to this point (although taking the opposite stance as me): http://qz.com/823162/a-new-study-shows-how-star-trek-jokes-a...

The article I linked basically advocates some sort of planned social manipulation to make CS culture more appealing to women. That doesn't sit right with me at all. No one suggests that we should go and macho-fy teaching or nursing or literature so we can get more men in those majors. I think it would be very destructive to do something like that.

The reality is that different fields have characteristics that tend to match (or not match) with the unique social characteristics of different groups. I think it's fine if you don't like those unique characteristics (maybe you think everyone should have the exact same culture), but don't try to force the world to adhere to your vision by lowering educational standards or trying to manipulate the academic culture of whatever group you're targeting.
There's no preamble describing why this report is a thing, nor what will be included. I'm waiting on mine to be generated, but the landing page leaves much to be desired.
> It's my one gripe with Alexa is that the app name needs to be a prefixed.

The thing that annoys me is when this doesn't work.

> "Alexa, play <station name as it appears in Alexa App> on Pandora"

> "I couldn't find <station name as it appears in Alexa App>, here's some crap on Amazon Music"
> One of them plays the identity politics of inclusion, often duplicitously. The other plays the identity politics of exclusion and minority rule, often honestly.

I don't think that's really fair: the difference is regarding whom they exclude & whom the include. Democrats, for example, appear to be quite glad to exclude Christians.
The newer updates of MineCraft have gotten more RPG-y in that a semblance of a story has been included, alongside some other features like potions and experience/levels and a hunger bar.

I've been out of the community for a while, but the updates have been somewhat controversial due to people missing/enjoying the sandboxy simplicity of the game; the new systems have added complexity that some believe doesn't really enhance the game.

Minecraft was more of a social game for me anyways -shrugs-
So... you're saying it's unethical to invent tools that can be used to write software that works as intended and contains no exploitable bugs, because that software could then be used as a tool of oppression?

You can extend that absolutist argument to say that inventing anything that could be used as a tool of oppression is unethical. Like, inventing plumbing may have done great things for human society, but it was ultimately unethical because when the police came to take away your general-purpose computer they used a pipe to hit your kneecaps until you told them where it was. Or, how about this: developing any society beyond the level of the most primitive hunter-gatherer tribe is unethical, because what are governments if not the agents of oppression themselves?

This is the sort of abstract position that can't really be argued with in a vacuum, so I'm not going to try. But it's also not a useful ethic for building a modern society free of large-scale oppression, because it completely ignores the practical realities of doing so.

In the mean time, buggy, exploitable software is out there in the real world hurting real people every day.
There's going to be a lot of variance across different populations of developers. For tech sector, I've worked in big tech companies smaller ones, and the majority of developers consistently use macs as their laptops.

Your experience can be different, but without a global survey, there's no way to be sure.

The closest proxy we can probably find is what CS students are using - as they'll likely continue using that platform going forward. There aren't hard reasons to switch as there used to be -- VPN software tends to work well on all 3 platforms, and there's not nearly as much client-side native development as there used to be.
Make America Mate Again
Sadly video games seem to be the only source of agency for a great number of people. Our lives seem to be more and more constrained without any authentic choice available to us and in response we retreat to artificial environments.
Hey, if you're happy to walk three miles on a windy 20°F day in less, then more power to you. I prefer comfort, and five bucks plus a couple of CR2032s a year doesn't seem like that big an ask.
YouTube does not run on Grumpy. There is a lot of work left to do before Grumpy can run a large existing codebase.
A Stanford psychologist’s elegant three-step method for creating new habits
> The sliders to select tool properties, such as brush width. I can slide them (but not all the way from 100 to 0, that requires 6 slides!)

Sliders are split, so the top slides over the full range and the bottom is for fine adjustments.
This thread is political, just that it is Indian politics instead of American politics being discussed. An opportunity for American readers to get a first hand idea of what it feels like to have long threads of inane politically motivated discussion which doesnt' make much sense to readers from other countries ;-)
Because theres no use for it besides activity people want to do anonymously (often illegal) or avoidance of state economies (like venezuala). Outside of that, its mostly speculation and hoarding.
This comment totally sidetracked my day. I've been searching for a way to quickly do diagrams, but without the use of full-blown Visio-like flowchart software. I downloaded Paper back in the day and remember when it came out with its "Smart Shape" feature, but didn't ever think to use it for easily sketching charts.
They have to remove branding from Alexa "skills" so that more natural requests are possible. The #1 thing preventing me from installing most "skills" is that invariably I would have to speak "Alexa, ask <ridiculously-named product> to X" instead of just "do X". I should also be able to use the app to write the exact command text I want to use.
That felt informative. Was it... informative??
I just read somewhere that 802.11w is mandatory for the Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11ac certification. If true, the compatibility should get better.
Marcel Grünauer over on LifeIn19x19 has made a compilation of all 60 of Master's games. Found it just then! (A zip archive of 60 sgf[1] files) I _think_ that's all of them as of now.

http://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=13935

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Game_Format

ps: The Japanese term for a game record for the game of Go is kifu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kifu

Hence http://gokifu.com/ which tracks all pro games (and then some, I think)
>And they used windows 2000 and Delphi. They still do.

Ha ha, good one.

There was this interesting thread on Delphi a while ago on HN:

Delphi – why won't it die? (2013 (stevepeacocke.blogspot.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613543
Little known fact, but all you have to do is ask not to be contacted, watched, etc. - and the FBI will respect your request and note it in your file.

(Okay, ending sarcasm.)

Find it hard to believe they stopped, reads more like a note saying to stop keeping "official" records.
I'm confused because Jython runs on the JVM, but Go is a compiled language. Can you clarify?
Python3 was never the future of Python. It never got over the hump all new languages need to if attempting to reach relevance.

It's likely code using lots of C-extensions will continue with CPython2 and new code will be written in Grumpy (pure Python2).
In what sense have Democrats acted to legally disenfranchise Christian voters, ie: to keep them from the polls, override their voices, or reduce their voter efficiency? I don't even like the Dems, but the simple fact is that they're on the defensive with regards to voter efficiency right now, so they haven't had the opportunity and power to disenfranchise people in the same way as the Republicans have.
If you work at or are otherwise involved in a startup, here is your key takeaway: cross connections between fields is fundamental to creativity. If you eat, breathe, and sleep software, you will only look at your problem space from the perspective of a software engineer. Startups already nail pre-requisites like informality, permissiveness, and relaxation
>God help you if you close the layers window and don't know how to bring it back.

Assuming you even know you need to bring it back! I've had the experience of starting up GIMP for the first time, realizing I want to use it later instead, while trying to close it I close each individual panel first, and then the next time I opened it, it apparently remembered that I had closed all of the panels last time and helpfully didn't open them again. Took me a long time to figure out how I was supposed to do anything because I didn't realize anything was missing. I hope whoever has decided that UIs should be in many accidentally-closable-and-forgettable panels has seen the error of their ways or retired by now. See also: every single IDE...
From Awareness to Action: A Cybersecurity Agenda for the 45th President [pdf]
That's quite the cynical comment. I can only assume from your comment that you think this company doesn't deserve to have good news.

Some of us wants to have a future where electric car is the norm, rather than the exception and Tesla has arguably brought this possibility to our generation by itself.

I, for one, welcome this news and wish them the best.
It would be awesome if I could see the whole image in the landing page without having to resize the page. Maybe you could allow the visitors to, you know, scroll a bit?

Also, I'm under some NDAs so I cannot allow access to the private repositories. It'd be great if it took only the public ones or public data.
10+beneficios+que+notarás+al+dejar+de+comer+carne+y+Nutricion+Vegetariana
Commenting on social media is a far cry from activism, but it's an adequate form of dialog. How do you propose I make the argument, "I think I've got some unearned advantages" without being written of as virtue signalling or what have you? And "self-flagellation"? Really? By my reckoning I won the 'veil of ignorance' lottery. I won't apologize for that or feel bad about it, but that doesn't mean I'm going to hide from reality. Your point about "people outside the West" seems like further evidence of exactly my point. How lucky was it that I was born where I don't have to worry about my basic needs? Isn't a reasonable response to that luck to look for ways to back up people who didn't get the "be born a white dude in the US" memo? Maybe support some charities, try to see things from uncomfortable perspectives, do some civic duties, maybe chime in on a post or two to acknowledge that people who think that social media isn't always friendly to them aren't crazy, and as a consumer I'd prefer it if products would treat them better? (See! I was getting back to the topic!) Have I really gone off the "SJW" deep end? If you think I have feel free to add trigger warnings to your posts, maybe it will cushion the blow... ;-)
Since the capital gains tax isn't indexed to inflation (in the US), you are effectively paying a tax on inflation. Having the rate be lower at least makes thing a bit more fair.
It's doable. The original work on reflow was done by Thomas Breuel back in 2003: http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wda2003/Papers/Section_II/Paper_5....

One of the problems with doing this in pdf is that for most documents, you need to infer reading order. A decade ago I wrote the code in poppler to do that (yet again, based off papers by Breuel) in order to get multi column select working. At the time I wanted pdfs to be readable on my iRex Iliad... anyhoo, most of the pieces are there in poppler. It can figure out reading order, render piece by piece, and already differentiates between images and text under the hood. Still a lot of work.
> > Basically, exec and eval don't work. Since we don't use those in production code at Google, this seemed acceptable.
> What about stuff like literal_eval? Or even just monkeypatching with name.__dict__[param] = value ?

literal_eval could in principle be supported I think. name.__dict__[param] = value works as you'd expect:

$ make run
class A(object):
pass
a = A()
a.__dict__['foo'] = 'bar'
print a.foo
bar

EDIT: fixed formatting
So, 1.5 million US dollars over two years (less, if you account for the saved unemployment costs. ref. trynewideas comment), for happier employees and better care. I personally have a hard time seeing this as any form of indication that it's "spiraling out of control".

I agree with other commenters, this smells of politics more than economics.
Bitcoin's intrinsic value is related to its ability to store a moderate amount of "debt" related data in an immutable way. As long as this "feature" continues to work well in our current economic environment, people/entities will continue using it. Saying it's going to the moon, or pop, is simply a result of a biased argument against the technology and neglects the real value in being able to say this transaction is related to these events created by human causality.
GitHub data is public (for public repositories) and archived, so you don't even need to use auth.

Example superquick BigQuery for tabulating all 2016 Push Events to GitHub by a given user for each day-of-week (1 = Sunday):

SELECT DAYOFWEEK(created_at) as day_of_week, COUNT(*) as num_pushes
FROM TABLE_DATE_RANGE([githubarchive:day.], TIMESTAMP('2016-01-01'), TIMESTAMP('2016-12-31'))
WHERE type = "PushEvent" AND actor.login = "minimaxir"
GROUP BY day_of_week
ORDER BY day_of_week

Tabulating commits is possible too but requires JSON shenanigans. (Although the BigQuery data does not have commit dates which may not necessarily be the same as Push dates, so that may be a problem)
digerati type overhypes over hyped tech...news at 11.
I remember the name and face but had forgotten the details. Here is a nice quote courtesy of Ed Meese's wiki page:

Suspects who are innocent of a crime should [have Miranda rights].
But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of
a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime,
then he is not a suspect.
The ast module itself is in Python, but it imports the _ast module which is an extension module. This actually isn't that big of a deal, though, as the entire AST is defined in a DSL (see https://cpython-devguide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compiler.h... for some details), so you just have to write some code to generate _ast in Python instead of C (which PyPy may have already done).
Musk and Tesla are masters of marketing.

Tech in the Gigafactory and probably much more production and process knowledge for running battery production is from Panasonic.

Nevertheless all positive spin is benefiting Tesla.

If it fails, I'm sure Tesla will spin the failure as Panasonic.
This is also a big gripe of mine. I created an app that can be used as a fun "neutral" third-party when instructing my toddler to do something.

What I want it to say:

> Alexa, tell %NAME% it's time (for a nap|to go to bed|to eat dinner)

What I have to say:

> Alexa, tell Toddler Boss to tell %NAME% it's time to go to bed.

It's not natural sounding at all.
Geographer: the center of North America is a town called ‘Center’
The first soviet atomic bomb was detonated in 1949[1] so this was nearly 10 years after that fact.

His association to Klaus Fuchs[2] was probably more suspect than Oppenheimer (despite how suspicious they were of him) given he was allegedly an actual spy (I say allegedly because I know how suspicious of the FBI people are around here, and not without reason in some cases).

According to the Feynman Bio I'm reading right now [3], Fuchs was said to have joked (when Feynman wasn't around) that he would be the most likely person to be a spy because of how often he left the base alone to visit his sick wife (or so he said).

[1] http://www.atomicheritage.org/history/soviet-atomic-program-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Life-Science-Richard-Feynman/d...
Who on Earth Is Investing in Med Tech Startups?
I never said everyone could do it. But a competent C programmer definitely can. I suppose I am an elitist in the sense that I don't think novice or careless programmers should be writing production code.

I mean people manage to do a lot of dangerous things due to sloppiness - cause car accidents, for example. I don't think it's hard to avoid that, and I don't think those people should be driving. I suppose others think we need wider roads and bumper cars.
I assume he was being bothered often for this reason.
Maybe you should learn from the fact that so many people are talking about Rust.
Biomedical research highlights from 2016
Well of course, since it's so blatantly hypocritical. When talking about the Senate, people claim the states are sovereign and separate, but when legislating regarding the drinking age, civil liberties, or even just how schools work, all of a sudden every state is compelled to play along as if the United States was a unitary nation-state.

Besides, if we really wanted to equalize things, even within a federal system, we could just split up some of the larger states, which would instantly increase the voter efficiency of people living there.

Whether power rests at the federal level or the state level, people deserve control over the decisions that affect our lives.
Ha! this is good news. I've got Dolphin Smalltalk running on macOS
https://twitter.com/sebastianconcpt/status/81670666334446796...
I am not talking about the physical realisation, but rather the theoretical model of computation.

How quantum computers are deployed in the real world is irrelevant to the theoretical study...
Linux OS data compression options: Comparing behavior
That's a good point. I have been thinking along similar lines about the push to 401k instead of pensions and people having to do their own investing. There are people who can focus 100% of their time on finance whereas we have to be good at tech, which already is a complex full time job, but then we additionally have to be investment experts.
It seems that is the goal and intent: to increase both the supply and demand of batteries, infrastructure will improve, commoditization will increase, and prices will be driven down.

While it may be a profitable business in itself, Tesla does not seem to be targeting battery sales as its primary revenue source of the future. Instead, their stated and apparent goal is to sell many more electric vehicles once the cost of production reaches an inflection point where an electric drivetrain is cheaper to produce than an internal combustion one.
Care to explain the difference? It's much more useful in the long term to educate rather than criticise.
5 years in Hsieh’s Downtown Project is hardly any closer to being a real city
Well, the difference here is that Google seems to be looking at Golang as the future for their internal tooling currently implemented in Python 2.x, instead of Python 3.x. I'm curious to know how much additional work might be necessary for this to support 3.x, but it doesn't sound like that's part of their use case.
A friend of mine worked on adiabatic quantum computers at D-Wave for a few years. My understanding (which may be incorrect) is that the speedups are things like take 2^n algorithms and make them 2^(sqrt(n)) instead. It's still exponential, but it's a huge improvement when n hits 100.

Will these replace traditional computers? Probably not. But you can bet there will eventually be cloud services that you submit very hard jobs and it spits back an answer faster than any traditional computer could.
an unnamed colleague citing his hobby of cracking safes
at Los Alamos as evidence he was a “master of deception
and enemy of America.”

There is speculation that it was his ex-wife, Louise Bell: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-fe...
OP and article's point is that startups are sort of like a crapshoot. You can have the best product, the best team, do everything you read on HN and elsewhere and still fail. That's the type of environment-high risk but not necessarily high reward. It's not like speculating on financial markets because startup costs a chunk of your life. I've toiled for years trying to be a startup and what I realized is, people are so focused on startup they forget that it's just a business at the end of the day with checks and balances to answer to. Early stage VC funding is fuelling this aggressive style which only works in the favor of VC's not necessarily the founders and their employees.

You are just a naked call option for these VCs-unlimited upward potential, limited capital loss. It make sense for VC's to spray and pray to see what sticks.

I don't want my life to be a fucking call option for somebody to fulfill their ephemeral desires for more wealth with diminishing returns and benefit to society.
Gold actually physically exists and, aside from more practical uses, has been prized for decoration and jewelry for thousands of years. I don't really see that as a particularly good comparison.
MS Surface bang for your buck seems pretty much the same for comparable specs to Apple machines. It's great there's viable high quality alternatives to Apple on the market finally, but they don't really seem like a compelling reason to switch based on price and quality alone.
He decided to try to blackmail Apple by taking the matter to the news when they didn't comply with his illegal orders. It's like the police coming by your work to arrest you for questioning as intimidation.

To make the undue public attention worse, they (he specifically, as well) lied to the press about the facts of iphone issue, saying things he couldn't know as fact (the difficulty for Apple to crack the device) and inventing other details.

Also, I know he had offers from security firms to crack the phone from day 2. He sat on what he claimed to have thought could have been important evidence in an attempt to force Apple's hand. He could have ruined the investigation and let terrorists escape because he thought it was a good time to showboat.

Also, under his watch the FBI has pursued numerous stings against mentally handicapped Americans in America. Trying to create terrorists by inundating them with hateful propaganda, providing functional arms and ammunition, etc, and encouraging them to commit horrific crimes in an attempt to make the FBI look competent when they catch their creation.

We've rarely had someone either so incapable of doing their job, or so efficient at destroying everything the agency has stood for. In the end what's left will resemble the political wing of the KGB.
Real world. A surprisingly good source of information and insight, that can often rival (or even best) the best journals.