skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing the point. The vast majority of the ecosystem is only economically useful indirectly by maintaining an equilibrium and once that is destroyed, it is almost completely irreversible except for bio- and geoengineering on a scale that humans have never done wittingly. In your example, the delay between the tree getting cut down and replanted is such that the local environment supported by the trees largely disappear and restoring it becomes practically impossible. The consequences of this destruction are easily visible even in forests replanted by the logging industry decades ago.

In an information theory sense, the information disappears and cannot be recovered, no matter how many trees you plant. Entire local evolutionary trees disappear or permanently migrate, land erodes under the rain without old root networks to hold it, once diverse micro- and macro-biomes get taken over by opportunistic members better suited to human industrial/agricultural environments, and fertile lands wither without the balance developed over stretches of time far beyond what we as societies or individuals are capable of dealing with.

Our Earth cannot be "used up" but it can become unusable through the slow but irreversible destruction of even small parts of the monolithic, heavily interdependent system.
My understanding is that it was originally just a place for people in YC-funded startups (or people otherwise affiliated with YC) to share useful/interesting links and information with each other. I don't associate HN (then or now) with any particular crowd, it's just an ever-evolving nexus of common interests that YC maintains as a public service more than anything else.

I bet it's more focused on geeky interests and less focused on entrepreneurial topics than it was originally. Longtime readers might sense that it's more dumbed down or diluted now, but I suspect that's really just those longtime readers themselves getting more knowledgeable over the years, and HN seeming less revelatory than it did in the past. :)

Example: it seems like everyone I know used to read Slashdot but stopped at some point when they realized how much the discussion quality had deteriorated. What's funny is how different people's timelines are. I thought Slashdot was a great resource in 1998 but felt like the quality of the comments had descended to mostly garbage by 2001. I know other people who are way smarter than me (but a few years younger) who will swear that Slashdot was awesome in 2003 when they started reading it, but lament its downfall circa 2008 or something. The biggest factor in an individual's Slashdot timeline seems to be, they loved it when they were younger, less mature, and less knowledgable, then as they got older and more experienced they started getting annoyed by it. But really, Slashdot's demographics didn't change nearly as much as they did.
Thanks for digging it out, that part really should be explained in the readme.
In a word in which self driving cars are safer than human drivers, presumably.
I blog about React, Redux, and related topics, at http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/ . Just using Hugo, a variation on the "Vienna" theme, and Markdown content. Loving it so far.
It makes sense - they wanted Google Spaces to be a replacement for FB groups, but everyone already uses Facebook. Having to log onto a new app or website isn't cool anymore, and I don't think anything competing directly against what Facebook can do will succeed.
The "Annual meeting" section is the most entertaining. It sounds like woodstock for capitalists.
This would be much more meritocratic than our current system. And it would result in much better diversity.

You don't even have to be as extreme as your example (nobody could work in the conditions that you mentioned).

Things like blind resume screening have been shown to significantly reduce hiring bias, and more companies should be doing it.

Also, the biggest discrimination problems in tech aren't even direct hiring discrimination problems. One big reason why companies are not very diverse is that companies tell their employees "refer your friends!" and then they are surprised when the white men only refer other white men.

Making efforts to specifically reach out to women, and making sure they apply to your company (without lowering any bars or anything), work very well in increasing diversity.
About 10,000 relations, each with a unique point in time. Looks like the facet isn't quite what I want.
Did you even use spaces? I can't imagine this many people are mad about such a small project closing.
It's a sample size of one, but considering the rigorous methodology used I think it counts for at least as much evidence as the anecdotes of people going "it totally boosts my creativity man" with no control group and subjective measurements of efficacy that are highly vulnerable to a placebo effect.
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Hey,

This is my first Show HN.
I've built GoNevis, a blogging platform where people can have a blog.

It's in a very early stage but has its core features that people would expect from such system.

Main website: https://www.gonevis.com/

Announcement post: https://blog.gonevis.com/gonevis-the-blogging-platform/

I appreciate your feedbacks.
Some of these things, like focusing on the task at hand and trying to be as simple as possible, not thinking too much about the potential futures is important to me. If all would do that maybe there would not be 1000s of weird half baked npms and such.
Rather too much for somebody who once subsisted on stealing sugar, soap and sausages from American humanitarian aid to USSR.

A man of such calibre making The Free World standing on its toes tells more of how politicaly weak the Western bloc became, than of him being a significant threat.
Given the current bias our industry holds toward men, it will require people to give women (and people of color) the benefit of the doubt more often when making hiring or promoting decisions. If our biases favor some kinds of people, our "objective" assessment of people's abilities will not actually be objective, and we have to self-correct in some way. Intentionally giving a female candidate another look, or giving her a chance in the role, is likely a necessary step toward correcting those biases.

How would you feel if you applied for a job and it was given to someone else because they were a woman?

Probably not much different than women feel every day when passed over for a job they're similarly or better qualified for by a man. It sucks to lose an opportunity that you wanted, but the industry will be healthier for it.

Would this practice applied in aggregate not chase off even more talented people?

Our industry chases off, or under-utilizes by not promoting to their level of greatest impact, talented women every day. Evening that imbalance out is not unfair to men.
> friends and family?

Yes. Started my tech company with a 4 figure loan from a family member. Am now independently wealthy. I was told I would fail every step of the way from just about everyone.

> bank

No. Never needed to. Never needed any other outside capital.

My aunt got a loan from a bank to start her own successful business. (She was told that women couldn't get loans to start businesses. She was quite a firecracker.)
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Also frequently on flights in/out of China, though the cabin crew are quite happy to shout "Qing zuo" (please sit) during taxi when necessary.

I hate that. Of course, most likely nothing is going to happen, but it could, and then their stupid suitcase could also fall on my head.

When the plane arrives at the gate, there's still plenty of time to get your stuff... :-/
> Remember that atrocities like that happened in many places that did not grow into giant economies. Stealing land and enslaving people may have given a head start, but clearly something else delivered the big gains.

To be fair, there are few if any countries with the scale of stolen/free land and enslaved labor as in US history.

You'd have to look at the European 'colonies' for both. The US of course was the first colony to become independent -- meaning an end to it's profits being extracted for the home country, and instead re-invested locally.

So I'd say there are basically no other countries with close to the scale of profits built from stolen land and enslaved labor, and then not extracted for a colonial home country overseas.
This issue only means that once you find a collision, you kind find more collisions by extending it. Generally speaking it is expected that once a collision is found in a hash function it has already been mostly phased out, so this flaw is not seen as particularly important.
Actually, thinking more, we designed PSS to run in a sandbox specifically because we were parsing untrusted input. But leaking content from one site into responses from other sites would still be possible, because I think we didn't reinitialize the sandbox on every request (way expensive) and each server process handled many sites. Fix that, and then there's still the risk of leaking things between sites via the cache.

It's definitely possible to fix this (new sandbox per request, cache is fragmented by something outside of sandbox control) but I'm not sure the service would make sense economically.
As others have pointed out, this case was almost surely well within the normal range (imagine people going to the toilets), but yes.
As an an Indian, I completely agree and it annoys me every time I fly home. I just don't understand what's the rush? I mean, the plane hasn't even touched the runway yet and people are scrambling for overhead luggage, some of them are turning on their mobiles on and are on call, heck I even saw even once the toddler taken out of the belt. All for what? To go and wait in aisle or bus or in front of the airline staff or the luggage belt. It grinds my gears every time.
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Step functions has pre-defined parallel states, but have you come up with a solution for dynamic parallel states?

Such as: a parent state's output will determine the size of the input to pass on to multiple copies of identical parallel state children (the number of which is determined by the parent's output). These get the same input or a specific slice of the same input from their parent.

I guess these could be created dynamically within the parent, then deleted afterwards. Not as clean as declaring this in the states markup though.
I too had an anger management problem. I didn't like who I was or how I behaved. I tried every thing, every book, every bit of advice. Most of it terrible. Failure.

Part 1:

I eventually found quality help, who then recommended I read this:

When Anger Hurts

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/278196.When_Anger_Hurts

TL;DR: Anger is a cascade: Expectations, disappointment, resentment, blame and then BOOM anger. The fix to anger is to eliminate your expectations.

Part 2:

Awareness of the psychology only got me so far. I struggled to change my habits. Recalling that you can only replace a habit, vs unlearn, I decided to pretend to be happy. I would tell people "I'm fantastic! How are you?!" It started out sarcastic, wry.

About three years later, I woke up one day, thought "I feel phenomenal" and actually meant it. I was shocked. I didn't even notice the change.

TL;DR: How you talk changes how you think.

Good luck. Please believe me when I say the effort is worthwhile.
Without needing to get into an R vs Python discussion I think it is fair to say that this is a perfectly valid subjective opinion and that a lot of people will disagree completely... none of the ggplot2 Python ports holds a candle to the original, feature-wise. So the question is whether you will reach out for the lesser tool or learn a new programming style...
Those are great suggestions. I will look into adding that.
I think this misses another equally important reason, which is to do your part to help build the gift economy upon which we all rely in our day to day work. Near every common solution and recipe has been written up by someone, somewhere, and we all make use of these gifts.

When you learn to do something useful that other people will likely also have to accomplish at some point in time, write it up. Not only will it benefit people out there in the world, but it is also a great way to ensure that you yourself don't have to reinvent the wheel a few years down the line. Who remembers the details after that long? So write it down, and if you write it down, you may as well publish it.
Try running it without the centuries of british and european progress and see what you end up with.
Not one of these matches my reason:

Cold email for marketing is spam.

But then maybe this is because i'm not famous? Do famous people not get spam, just real non-"liar" cold emails?
That's a lot of text for endorsing teaching something you can learn in 10 minutes.
When I read ,,the only thing you need is an editor'', I thought how cool it would be if what I write would be reviewed by some people before going public...it would make me less shy about it.

Then I realized he means a text editor (though he's an editor himself)
I live in fairly conservative country, but little kids here really tend to have very strict ideas about what is supposed to be for boys and what is for girls. Meaning they wont even look that way if they think the device/occupation is mean for other gender. I think that is why girls played with legos much less until the company started to frame certain series in girly colors (series becoming instant success).

Anecdotally, it had impact on me when I was young. Female detectives in detective stories made the idea of me becoming a cop seem socially acceptable and not a feminist statement. Did not became a cop, but I remember thinking "cool that means me doing that would not be weird" at the time.
I personally know lots of women who are multimillionaires. Maybe you should be asking them why they don't start VC funds. There is nobody to tell them they can't. Why doesn't Marissa Meyers start one? or Melinda Gates? or Chelsea Clinton? or Madonna? or Ellen Pao? or Oprah?
There were a lot more women graduating with CS degrees in past decades, it's been declining for a long time:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
Veracity[0] also had the same "distributed bug tracking" feature built in. Too bad the Sourcegear guys gave up on developing it further.

[0]: http://veracity-scm.com/
And only if large quantum computers are possible. If it turns out they're not, X25519/Ed25519 are safe.

But I'm not willing to be the farm on that risk. PQCrypto, please. :)
> Yes. Started my tech company with a 4 figure loan from a family member. Am now independently wealthy. I was told I would fail every step of the way from just about everyone.

Congratulations for being born into a family that could support you economically.

> No. Never needed to. Never needed any other outside capital.

That was lucky. Banks don't loan to tech startups. Unless you have assets to put up as collateral (say, your house that you have significant equity in), you will not be able to obtain a loan from a bank to start a tech company. The SBA does enable a limited number of loans for businesses, but they are almost exclusively of the brick and mortar kinda. I have never met a software company founder who could get a loan from a bank to start their company.

If you don't already have money, your ability to get money from a bank will be extremely limited.
That TDP is unreal. 95 Watts?

Looks like AMD has made a real performance breakthrough here. When is general availability expected?
I also find the whole "women in tech" problem very ignorant and kind of a first world problem, possibly invented by VCs PR companies for whatever reason (larger hiring pools?). It cannot possibly be a priority for someone who is even a little bit aware of what's going on in the world. And that's not even considering what states expect from women and how much propaganda and incentives are in place to make sure they do not pursue a career, but raise children.
"growing up in a poor country my two options were 1. become a software engineer 2. continue to live rest of your life in dire poverty"

Where exactly? Because frankly, that seems to be highly unlikely.
I won't be replacing my i7 6800K build any time soon, but I'm very happy to see AMD looking competitive again. There hasn't been much excitement about the recent generations of i7 for good reason, and hopefully this forces them to start pushing the envelope again.
You can of course animate it like this https://twitter.com/thomasp85/status/694905779539812352 but a static representation is often easier to interogate. I would try to bin the time points and facet on them...
"Ihre Papiere, bitte."

I also wish / would like to know whether someone recorded the exact wording that was conveyed, to the airline staff, and to the passengers, and by whom.

The numerous recountings by passengers give the strong impression that this was anything but "voluntary".
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I can no longer respect Koch as a scientist. The kook is too strong, with his constant pandering with consciousness, and apparent aversion to rigorous quantitative methods (I have it from someone close to the source that he's not interested in understanding the math behind Tononi's IIT, yet this is his go-to theory...).

There are many interesting, significant, and _concrete_ unsolved problems in neuroscience. And until we have a solid theory of what the brain is doing/how it computes, all talk of a model of consciousness is baseless pandering.

I really wish that kooky physicists would stop deciding that they can swoop in with their superior physicist abstraction powers and 'solve consciousness', without knowing anything about neuroscience (eg Michio Kaku). It's incredibly pretentious, and tiresome. Also looking at you, HN commenters. Keep your fucking theory of consciousness to yourself please, and go learn about what practicing neuroscientists actually do.

As an example of a significant, interesting and _concrete_ problem that we can actually make progress on, consider vision.

Finally, I would be remiss if I did not mention the large scale connectomics projects in progress at HHMI Janelia: MouseLight[1], and FlyEM[2]. These projects are massive efforts with the eventual goal of almost entirely automated connectomics pipelines: fly goes in, map of all neurons in the fly brain come out.

In summary, shut the fuck up.

[1] https://www.janelia.org/project-team/mouselight
[2] https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem
I meant the opposite.

TLDR: Stop focusing on Kindergarden. Focus on the women who have already spent years of their life in tech, and are being driven out. Help these women, by fixing tech culture, so they are not driven out.

"the problems in STEM (and science in general) won't be solved by quantity but by quality. "

I agree. Quality. We need to stop driving the quality, talented women out of the industry.
You can get an idea of front page by using https://news.ycombinator.com/front

> Front page stories from today so far, ordered by time spent there.

> To see other days, add a day to the above URL in yyyy-mm-dd format. Example: front?day=2016-06-20.
Having a typo here seems too perfect: "I hate it when there “you’re or your” typos"

Especially given the smug follow up: "If you are making any typing mistake, then it shows your lack of interest and attention towards the work."
It's been a decade since I have been an actve job seeker, so things may be different now. But my response to that question was always "I'm not going to say what I'm currently making but I'll be happy to say what the minimum amount I'll consider is." If any of them balked at the number I would get up and walk. Some backed down immediately, and we continued the conversation, and others did not. Either outcome was fine with me.
I've been playing a lot of pool lately. A family member gifted us an Olhausen 8'. I played quite a bit in college. It's good, cheap entertainment. A little bit of exercise, and a great way to take your mind off whatever.

If you are talking about technologies, WebAPI is what all the kids are using these days, it's a more clever implementation than web services (WCF). Who knows what current saplings will grow. I usually don't pick something up until it's fairly well established.
Yes. When I was younger, before I was capable of any programming (but still somewhat technically competent), I used to visit the freerainbowtables.com forums. There was a poster there (sc00bz) who posted highly technical/mathematical posts which were completely incomprehensible to me at the time [0], but made me highly motivated to always want to learn more so someday I could communicate on that level.

As it happens, I 'rediscovered' him on twitter via another hackernews post [1] a while ago, so dropped him a message to say thanks for being an unwitting inspiration :)

[0] This is a relatively simple example, it's hard to find better ones now the site is down - http://web.archive.org/web/20111111050908/https://www.freera...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11691798
How does one improve on that?
It's a hard launch on March 2. I believe preorders are already sold out though.
Industrialization of the North started with textiles. Which were due to cotton. Which was due to slave labor.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cro...
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This is going to give you biased results. Consider what would happen if you used the same method to determine the life expectancy of computer programmers.
Blackswan events are probably contained through diversification.

His thinking on the surface is very solid: insurance business is a cash cow in some regard, and if the market is down, it is actually an opportunity to move that money into equities.
For me I just realized I wasn't very fulfilled by playing video games all of the time. Nowadays I still like to play games but in smaller amounts. Instead of building things in games I now find myself wanting to build software projects :p.
When you have a generation of people brought up to believe that exceptions are somehow evil, what do you expect?
Germany has no history of slavery

We'll just conveniently ignore the war years, gotcha.
That's my biggest problem, how do you improve your written communication without an editor? You can do the same thing over and over and call it practice, but without a reviewer how will you magically improve this skill?
Is fusion energy in our future?
Nice project! I'm doing something similar in julia, with the added advantage that as I build it the numerical types are variadic so I can play around with numbers that aren't IEEE FPs.
I tried very hard to make sure my comment did not come across as dismissive, evidently I failed. Just to reemphasize, I am not in any way trying to deny these women's responses.

I have just seen this concept of a role model bandied about before, and that is something that I have never experienced in my own life in computing. In the article, Rob mentions how in the field of astronomy, the women he has talked to consider role models to be important. But he never mentions any people he would consider role models to himself in computing.

So I was just curious if anyone else here had any role models in computing (man or woman), and if so would they mind sharing a little anecdote about that experience. I've often heard talk of the importance of role models, and I felt like I was kind of "missing out" for not having one. So I thought, how about I start a little side discussion on the role that role models in computing had had on others lives and careers on here.

I am NOT trying to imply any of these things:
"Women shouldn't need role models because I didn't have one"
"Role models are unimportant"
"Women should accept men as role models"
"Women are liars"

or any other such derogatory statements.
Stoicism is about achieving freedom, mindfulness is incidental to that.
Hacking happiness project
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cro...