skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>reliable source that explains it

You're going to have to elaborate on "reliable source."

From an NPR interview concerning a report from the Association of University Women, a feminist organization: "After controlling for several relevant factors, they found that the wage gap narrowed to only 6.6 cents."

http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2012/10/24/28990/study-...

The study: http://www.aauw.org/GraduatetoaPayGap/upload/AAUWGraduatingt...

"How much of that is attributable to discrimination?" "We're still trying to figure that out." Do tell.

In fact, according to data from Census Bureau, "unmarried women who've never had a child earn more than unmarried men"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870442110457546...

From "An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women" prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor in '09:
http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20...

>This study leads to the unambiguous conclusion that the differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factors and that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers.

So, as with many good talking points, this is a game of statistics lacking important control factors. It's not exactly surprising that men are going to work on oil rigs, which is why the "77 cents" talking point is a brilliant piece of omission and great example of how statistics can be misused.

The purported "women's wage gap" virtually vanishes, and in fact it's a male wage gap in certain demographics, when you have proper controls for career decisions.

In summary: there is no wage gap when you compare apples to apples. If you are talking about women's career choices, then by all means encourage your daughter to be a professional in a high paying sector, as opposed to the low-paying education and health care sectors.

Or you could encourage her to join the lucrative fields of logging, piloting, construction or roofing, steel mill work, trash collection, mining, etc. where there is a very clear and distinct gap. They pay well.
Simple (and good policy). Defends against unknown attacks like additional circuits hidden in the ram and so on.
Weird unix thing: 'cd //'
Elementary Is Crowdfunding a Pay-What-You-Want App Store for Open Source Apps
I've written a system like that and it was also composed of microservices. I had one which was running on my computer for two months without a restart and it did not fail once. You can build robust systems on an AMQP backed MQ if you take care.
Those are not modules afaik
Closed source is a business model because the customer wants what your software does but can't see how it's achieved, so they pay you money to buy a license instead of just re-implementing it.
It's possible to increase accidents and save lives at the same time. If the average speed of accidents is greatly reduced, that could save lives.
I'm not so sure. It feels similar, but here's the difference, as I see it:

TPB provided direct tracker downloads and/or links to trackers that were illegal files.

These guys are installing some software that is the equivalent of TPB. The software provides "links" (more or less) to illegal video streams, but providing those streams, or the data to find them, is not something these guys have done.

I think this would be more like some other examples in this thread, where maybe you provided a browser or extension that kept up-to-date torrent site bookmarks.
I mean the collection and application of the optimizations take up more CPU than the optimizations remove. This isn't JIT but real time optimizations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optimization) while the system is running.
This comment crosses into incivility. Please don't do that on HN.
I think there is a Hollywood perception of how classified document handling occurs, which is quite different to actual practice.

The whole system runs at 'system high' mode, both computers and people, which is that everything with access is trusted, on penalty of prison time if you even make a mistake. Events are logged but not necessarily verified in real time. There are no metal detectors or routine cavity searches. The risk of leaks is treated by compartmentalisation of information.

There are a few fields, like crypto, where special hardware is used to handle data (e.g. KYK fill devices), but they would be the exception. These techniques were implemented after the Walker spy ring leaked all the USN keymat to the USSR for decades. Its typical that innovation was only allowed to occur in response to a problem. Who is to say the Russians/Chinese/* have not been paying an insider for the same access that Snowden had?
US airstrike said to kill 100-plus al-Qaida in Syria
Obviously, but given the low prospect of getting paid for doing open source work on it will be performed primarily by those who don't need a return on the time invested.
Insinuation of shilling is not allowed on HN without evidence. Opposite taste in programming languages is not evidence.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13601628 and marked it off-topic.
You can believe in the mission and the company and still the the CEO is an asshole. See: Steve Jobs
Facebook closing 100s of VR popups in Best Buy some stores went days wout a demo
Cartoons are a special snowflake: Jeremy Howard said in the fast.ai course that you probably need to retrain multiple layers of convolutional network to handle them. I.e you have a different model for them than for photos.
Literally every motorcyclist I know here in California calls it lanesplitting or just splittin'. We're not very good at sharing which is why we are riding single person vehicles in the first place.
Indeed. I'm just making a guess about the motivations of some OSS leaders, and a shallow one at that.
Let's have a big thread about it on HN! Might your dad be available to participate?
This reminds me of when newspapers described data in terms of the number of 1.44MB floppies it would fill, or how many Encyclopedia Brittanicas worth.
There are 3 type of benchmarks: Performances, Stress load and Security. You should get a good planning on how many user will be able to access your website and make good use of caching.

JSON can be improve with Protocol buffer, flat buffer, etc

Databases are sufficient if you don't need scaling, this works for WordPress which makes up largest market share, your best investment is on VPS and low latency.
> Utter nonsense.

This counts as name-calling in the sense that the HN guidelines ask you not to do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your comment would be much better without that bit.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13599533 and marked it off-topic.
Ask HN: Will tools like Firebase lead to the automation of developers?
We tend to think that developers are immune to automation. However newer tools make smaller teams more productive and allow unsophisticated users to make apps that would have been quite complex to achieve 5 years ago.

Looking at the evolution of tools like Firebase and AWS Lambda it would seem that a lot of DevOps positions are at risk of being commoditised or automated away as we simply don't need DevOps if the app is quite simple.

Imagining what Firebase might be like 5 years from now , a lot of RoR developers could also be at risk. On the other end services like Squarespace and Wix are eating out the bottom end of commodity website development.

I have yet to see something similar for Apps or Design but if someone manages to integrate everything end to end then app development could turn into a commodity. And so development becomes a commodity activity that requires much less skill without it necessarily being automated.

5 years from now all you'll need might be 1-2 developers instead of the 10 you have now to fill in the edge cases.

What are the skills that you think are the most immune to commoditisation / automation ?
I saw this same advice on Marc Andresen's blog a long time ago: http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_career_planning_part2.html

One third strategy I've seen but unfortunately don't quite have the temperament for is:

3. Become the best at one very specific thing.
Unlike becoming the best at something hugely popular, there's a lot less competition once you niche down far enough. I've seen people do this with as youtuber analysts of a specific video game, as creators of art using an unusual medium, as bloggers with freemium content focused on a specific niche and with marketers who specialize in both an acquisition channel and an industry.

What's appealing about this is that after becoming #1 in a niche, it's often possible to use the success there to springboard into a larger territory, learn new skills and then enter either path #1 or path #2 with a significant advantage.
CIA STARTED FACEBOOK.
Seems like Africa would be a good geopolitical advantage for China. An area of the world ignored by mostly every other country.
Well, why isn't it possible to emulate just ntoskrnl, just like WSL does with the Linux kernel?

Granted, it would require people to have a valid Windows license and install media (because you can't redistribute Windows binaries), but I don't see any major problem.
Rustler – Safe Elixir and Erlang NIFs in Rust
Binge-listening to their back catalog was my Christmas pleasure. Matt Christman's hyper-articulate rants are superb. But for newbies I always recommend episode 3. I will never not laugh at the image of impressionable young Harvard student Ross Douthat being lured onto William F Buckley's yacht for some midnight skinnydipping.
Am I the only one that was expecting web assembly to be like 10x JS speeds?
> The change is only that, if you have a subscription to the streaming service from Ireland, you will still be able to access it when you travel to Croatia (or any other EU country).

So you want to force people to do business together by using the power of the law aka State violence? Shouldn't trade and labour be a voluntary thing? I thought we agreed on the immorality of the idea of forced labour a while ago.
NASA Studies a Rarity: Growing Louisiana Deltas
True, but not everyone wants to be part of a business. What if there were some umbrella nonprofit that collected funds for open source development and redistributed to various projects in approximate proportion to their deployment in production, as well as seed or micro-capital to encourage new contributions?
> Sugar is not the enemy (...) The problem is over-consumption of refined sugars

Sure, that's what I meant.
No personal attacks on HN, please, even when passionate about init systems.
I've flagged this article because the headline misrepresents the article's content. The manufacturing plant did not burst into flames. There was a small fire, away from the main production lines, in a waste disposal area. There's really nothing newsworthy here.
Abstract Syntax Trees for dummies
Can anyone comment on Fry's component selection these days?
Build a fast deep learning machine for under $1K
> I'm never going to be a doctor or pilot or in the military [...]

A friend of mine, bus driver at 30, decided to become a pilot.

10 years later he's a captain at a major commercial airline.

Sample size of one, but never underestimate some good old determination :)
If it was a small fire, it seems odd that 19 fire trucks were dispatched.
Then instead of bitching about the tools or the attitude of developers, which does nothing, why not work to encourage people to support it properly?

For example: I think personal donations can only go so far. I'd rather see an easier sell for simple "support packages" that developers can recommend to their organization that helps further development. "We're really invested in package X and it'd be great to be listed as a supporter on their page, it's cheap marketing and they'll help us with technical support issues! We could try a $50/mo. subscription..."

Compared to $50K annual server licences that's an easy sell if it can be phrased in a culturally compatible way.
BBM enterprise is different.
Outstanding Way to Find Fashion Jwellery Online
https://www.tigmoo.com/blog/how-to-choose-artificial-fashion-jwellery-as-per-your-looks/

If you are looking to buy jewellery online for your wedding or any occassion then you need to have particular attention of your dressing styles & colours to make your look glorious.
NASA Receives Science Report on Europa Lander Concept
Normal people use Android phones. Which use Linux.

Normal people use shared hosting. Which often uses Linux.

Normal people use Linux a lot more than they realize. I think it's fine they don't have to pay attention to that, that computers can be invisible that way, but if you call yourself someone familiar with technology you can't be ignorant to it.

So do you have an argument or just a whole lot of misplaced anger?
The most interesting part of this was seeing that apples review board provides UX design suggestions. I never would have expected that.
Have you tried the on premise IDE https://www.eclipse.org/che/docs/setup/getting-started/ ? It's kinda cool but I don't see any pricing. Awesome if it is free!
A quick look at the source code seems to suggest Li's work is based on Mark Harris' GPU implementation (with Jacobi iteration) of Jos Stam's method.
Ref: http://www.expresii.com/blog/innovations-in-digital-painting...
Refugees crossing into Canada from US on foot despite freezing temperatures
> Always a machine at the root of the problem.

I have a perfect example of this.

Years ago, my mom's coworker discovered that her bank card no longer worked. ATM's would error. Online systems would reject all transactions.

So she went to a bank branch to sort it out. After explaining to the teller her situation, the teller brought up her account details, looked up from her monitor and said, on a straight face: "You are dead."

What had happened was that she had had a full namesake who had also had an account in the same bank. When the other person had died, and her estate had closed the accounts, the person doing the account termination had only looked up account owners by their full name. Closed all of them, with the explanation "account holder deceased".

Human errors happen. So do computer errors. It only becomes a problem when humans rely only on what computers tell them. This particular bank teller didn't even realise that the facts stated by the computer were contradicting what was literally standing in front their eyes.

Critical thinking is a dying trait.
Marc Andresson's Guide to Personal Productivity
I am convinced that we are cursed to relive this nightmare once a generation:

1. Some chat application blows up in popularity.
2. Everyone looks around and says "Hey, that's an easy problem, let's build a competitor but with feature X and Y!"
3. We are stuck with a nightmarish number of chat apps until someone reverse engineers the protocols for each.
4. The bubble bursts and everyone realizes there wasn't any money in it anyway and goes off to doing something more interesting (like building better PKI).
5. ~10 years goes by and someone finds a new chat niche and the cycle repeats itself.
I strongly dislike the automated checkouts; I prefer to wait in line to get a human.

I don't like the bagging system that has to ensure you put your item into a bag, and that has a quite noticeable delay in responding to your actions.

I also don't like the tiny area they have for the bags. What am I supposed to do? Put full bags back into my half-emptied shopping cart alongside items that haven't been scanned yet? It makes me uncomfortable, like they'll think I'm up to something.

I also tend to buy items in bulk, like 2-liter bottles, and it's nice to say "I have 8 of these" and pass one to the cashier.
> They had a team with functional steer by wire -- I still haven't seen it in production!

Infinity has steer-by-wire in production now.
The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
> Now add the dimension of an ever changing UI.

Didn't MS add a "dancing UI" to office at one stage?
NASA-Led Campaign Studies Hawaii's Iconic Volcanoes
Vue 2.0 claims server side rendering support, so you should be covered on initial page load. After that it's progressive enhancement.

For complex pages, AJAX is going to pay off in the long run. It's a matter of whether you can avoid having to implement and debug your entire app 2-3 times in order to get that behavior. That's the (mostly undelivered) promise of Node.

But at this rate web assembly may server code written in more robust languages to find its way into the client and take market share. As someone who grew up on the advantages of static code analysis, I look forward to getting some of that power back.
I'm a pessimist at heart. What if I had a stroke tonight? Slip in the bathroom, kill someone while driving to work. What if my girlfriend leaves me today. My mother could die tomorrow, my brother can get hurt while working. Optimists live happily through it all, depressed people close themselves in. Realists try to potect themselves by mentally doubling the estimates.
I found the statistic interesting that for 11 jobs there were 950 applicants. How does this sort of competition compare to traditoonally blue collar jobs?
0 years ago when I was in grad school, everybody was still using Matlab. Ok, some used R and NumPy but 80% Matlab. Such a collection of sparse matrix routines (direct solve, iterative solve, preconditioning, eigensolvers, SVD) is very useful in applied sciences.
Where did you live in Spain? In Spain my mobile internet is far better than, let's say, in parts of the UK I work, let alone in China. And I live in the mountains down south, an hour away from the nearest city. Best so far have been Thailand + Cambodia. Just blazing fast, even in the rainforest with multiple laptops/phones tethered and cheap as chips. If I can have anywhere between 3G/4G stable, everything I need (including almost all heavy sites work fine); in the south of Spain I get enough to load heavy sites and Skype, download torrents, watch Netflix per device connection. In Cambodia I could do all that in the rainforest, away from everything, for a fraction of the price, with 4 devices tethered. I was impressed. The connection here in Hong Kong I'm on now is worse than that, and that's in the middle of the city.

But yes, developers (including) me not accounting for slow connections is a pet peeve of mine. As I often do it myself, I do understand the issue; it is client constraints, time/money constraints and audience. But it does annoy me when often used sites (notably airline sites and banking sites) are top heavy and their apps time out because yes I do have a bad connection often.
Having a community leader who isn't afraid to crack some heads to keep people in line is always important. People like this poison any community.

Make a Code of Conduct and use it to control your community rather than let your community control you.

It's like parents complaining their kids are "out of control" and "there's nothing I can do". Seriously? We've been raising kids for a hundred thousand years. This shit isn't new.
There are so many parallels to what Yuri is talking about here, to plausible explanations behind the actions of and sentiment that elected Trump's administration, and some of the views of some of Trump's seemingly strange bedfellows such as Milo Yiannopoulos. If Trump was eloquent, this might be what he sounds like.

Yuri, in 1983, says that it takes 15-20 years to subvert a society. An undertone to his whole argument implied that the West was already at least partially subverted, and in motion even then.
Goodbye OpenShift All-In-One VM, Hello MiniShift for Local Development
They are a labour hire contractor in these instances. Some program needs qualified and cleared contractor staff, Booz have that sorted. The clearances are handled by another government agency (the notoriously hacked OPM) and their (sometimes lax) contractors. Probably his only interaction with Booz was they sent him a paycheck, 401k, social, health insurance, etc.
Yeah: Sometimes it takes Agent Orange to strip away all the confusion and lay bare what the things worth protecting are.
What she or he said is mostly true, though. But there are always exceptions.
Isn't the license concern pretty major though? IIRC even in the current form Wine at the early age had been quite controversial, due to legal concerns. They consciously prevented those who have knowledge of Windows internals from contributing to it just to make sure it's a clean room implementation.
You mean like http://www.numfocus.org ? That's not quite how their fiscal sponsorship agreements work, but close enough.
Tesla's sales are a rounding error for Toyota. Even if Tesla somehow delieved 100% off their Model 3 preorders in 2017, that would be less than 5% of the number of cars sold by Toyota.
It can help by letting you offload the work to something like a vps, which also negates the compile/build time.
When I was in college, 2 fire trucks would be dispatched for some burnt toast (on an unfortunately regular basis).

I think it makes sense to be conservative when responding to a fire at a battery plant.
You make some good points, but demonstrate a lack of understanding of ADHD and the large, non-placebo affect therapeutic doses (eg low) doses have on those with ADHD. Also many who have ADHD and take stimulants for a period (months or years) are often permanently improved. Dont write off your self medication as non-trivial. It gave you the space to gain the coping skills you needed and this is a clinically observed effect in classic ADHD patients, not jusy people who think theynhave ADHD.

Sure some groups may abuse it a bit but the good it does for true ADHD sufferers is probably more than sufficient to make it okay for the mich lower effect it has on non ADHD sufferers.
Evernote’s engagement with Google engineers was a pleasant surprise to
McCormack. The team was available 24/7 to handle Evernote’s concerns
remotely, and Google also sent a team of its engineers over to Evernote’s
facilities to help with the migration.

Those Google employees were around to help troubleshoot any technical
challenges Evernote was having with the move. That sort of
engineer-to-engineer engagement is something Google says is a big part of
its approach to service.

It's interesting to read that, given that one of the perennial complaints about GCE on Hacker News is the relative lack of support compared to AWS or Azure. Is it just that when you're a customer that big, even Google is willing to give you personalized service? Or is this a sign of a change in the GCE support model?
> 2) Take a photo and do a Google reverse image search

Does this really work most of the time? I'm typically only doing this to find the source(or more information) about an image I've found online.
CPython: GitHub migration scheduled for Friday
De rigueur for any HN mention of RadioShack:
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My heart breaks each time I discover a free tool of recognition is developed by some altruistic talent who lives at a near poverty level while their work generates millions in added value.

I suppose the simplest way would be to offer dual licensing. GPL for non-profit projects, proprietary for enterprises. The problem is, if the source code you are working on depends on third party GPL software it's very hard to do that.

I think this is what should be fixed. There should be some way to have a chain of dual licensing, so that if someone uses a dual-licensed library, they can forward revenues simply to the original license owner from their proprietary license sales.

Source remains open, and developers can eat (and pay for other amenities civilization has to offer).

Blockchains?