skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do you believe there are any disparities in demographics between the general population and a given field (such as tech)?

I don't have to believe it, if you look at any statistics on this subject, you'll see some pretty obvious and typical trends (not many male nurses, not many female coal miners, etc).

>What demographic do you belong to?

Won't you just discard my opinion if I'm not of a demographic that's "allowed" to have a valid opinion on this? The most I'll say is that if you guessed, you'd probably be wrong.

>How do you think these disparities might affect society as a whole?

I think the push to correct these disparities is very harmful to society as a whole, as people are pushed into fields they don't actually like to correct for statistics that don't even matter, and who displace and disadvantage people who did not have to be pushed into their field nor lured with preferential hiring.

>If there are disparities, what, if anything, do you think should be done to lessen the disparity in demographics?

I will answer that question with a question: Why does this disparity need to be corrected? Do all such disparities need to be corrected? Where is the push for gender diversity in offshore oil rigs and coal mines, or for elementary education and nursing? If some do, and some don't, how do you decide which disparities to be corrected, and which ones not to be? What do we get out of correcting these disparities?

Many people, of a particular ideological demographic, believe gender disparities are solely attributed to social and cultural influences, and that women will have just as much interest in construction work and men will have just as much interest in nursing once you account for gender differences in socialization and upbringing and et cetera. I don't believe this has been proven.

Without knowing that every demographic has equal interest and potential in every job, what's the value in making sure every demographic has equal membership in every field of employment?
I just yesterday realized the difference between a Roth 401k and a Roth IRA... because I hadn't been contributing to my Roth 401k assuming it had the same Roth IRA income limit. But it doesn't. Oops. Would you recommend a traditional 401K or Roth 401k? I always assumed that if you weren't going to reinvest the immediate tax savings from a traditional IRA, then a Roth 401k is the way to go.
What about PyQt5? Or does it work differently?
Wouldn't this allow you to explain away all negative results? Say you get a negative result and you don't like it. Then you start fishing for a cause and found out someone sneezed during the experiment, so you'll delete the null result. Isn't that problematic?
If you read the post I linked, I have the correct DMARC, SPF and DKIM records and signatures happening. If I send them to my old University (google) account, I see all that get verified and correct. It doesn't really help.

I suspect part of it might be that it's on a Linode and might be sharing a subnet with other spammy machines. That's probably why MailChimp owns a class C and refuses to sell any of it.
It's clear where it's headed on the log chart. Up! https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?scale=1&timespan...
I used mh for a long time, but then I switched my mail folders over to Maildir for compatability with Dovecot. Also, I like how Maildir dodges a lot of file locking problems. So now I use a combination of mutt and iPhone Mail. I wish I could conveniently go back to the mh frontend while having Maildir folders.
>This is only a problem in the US (aka "list of countries with private healthcare").

This is complete nonsense and I'd like to see the source of this. Do you really think the state has any incentive to prevent health insurance and treatments from costing a lot? Spoiler alert: It doesn't. The state never has any incentive to save, it grows and grows. The more socialised and rigid your healthcare system, the more bloated it gets, and the more doctor and insurance mafia you get.

The strongest incentive to save is if the customer is free to decide. We see this time and time again. We do not have to force the people to save money, the market forces do a wonderful job all by themselves.

Now, what's got to happen is that patients inform themselves and diversify diagnosis. The crux of the problem is that patients seek advice from the exact same people who can make large financial gains if the patient opts for a certain treatment. Now, this is really just a beginner's mistake in negotiation and not something you can fix at the state level (since if you try to do that, the costs are socialised, but the poor judgement of the patient remains)

What needs to happen is that if doctors say "Don't inform yourself about your condition and don't read on the internet", get up, tell them to fuck off and get informed - like you would about every other service you like to buy. NEVER tolerate being taught ignorance. Nothing good comes out of ignorance, ever.
Interesting, but pretty niche. Targets not just the general "I prefer tty based email", but the more niche "I prefer separate, pipable shell commands to interact with email".

If I'm stuck with tty, I would probably gravitate towards mutt. It can deal with MH type folders if that's already the system default.
That's the vibe of the entire Android project, though. At least the developer-facing side of it.

Lots of the SDK feels poorly-thought-out, even relatively recent additions.

Some things that exist for both Web and Android are worse on Android, inexplicably (Location for instance).

Lots of Googling a problem, finding a bug report for it from 5 years ago, and reading in the comments saga of "not a bug, intended behavior", "no, seriously, it's a bug, learn to read (x10)", then a stretch of months of "will you please fix this? It's a big problem.", "here's a workaround", "thanks!", "here's the fix, it's a trivial 2-line change, please pay attention Google!" then a silent "CLOSED DUE TO BUG BEING OBSOLETE", then several, "but wait, this still happens in the latest. Do you guys even test?", the last of which dates to a week ago.

[EDIT] Oh, and mediocre technically-complete-is-the-best-kind-of-complete documentation full of bad examples (to the point of being outdated and broken, sometimes) and bad advice.
If it were all about features that would be true. You could build a better facebook that could do cooler stuff than facebook and it would never overtake facebook.

Not to mention it's not clear that features are the most important part of a digital currency. Scaleability, reliability, and simplicity could all end up being more important. Even branding meaning the name itself could be significant for the growth curve.
I haven't had any particular issues getting past spam filters, it certainly takes some time to build IP reputation but in general with nothing more than SPF and RDNS properly configured my mails get through. I really should get DKIM/DMARC working eventually, but my current email solution (GroupWise) doesn't support it natively so I'll have to do some nonsense for that..
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My Ubuntu development laptop has been running without swap since I bought it in early 2014. It's got 16 GB of RAM and sometimes it hits 11 GB of used memory. No problems whatsoever. If I'll start hitting the memory limit I'll buy another 16 GB. I've replaced the HDD with a SSD but I don't understand why I should use it as swap like in the old days of RAM scarcity.
https://cloudron.io/store/index.html is another app registry but meant for prepacked instant deploy apps (and not infra like nginx). I have been pushing them to use kubernetes or swarm to scale their offering.
On my 2015 MBP with 8GB & SSD, I am often stuck for 10-15 minutes unable to do anything while thrashing. And I am someone who has Activity Monitor handy. I do not have this on my much older and weaker Ubuntu X220s doing the same type of development. Not sure why that is.
What do you mean? do you need drag and drop to build UIs ?
www.slatestarcodex.com ?
Ah, but what if this post is anti-Reddit astroturfing?
> What could go wrong?

GBTC [0] has been trading since March 2015 [1], as of today is up 714% since inception [2]. My understanding is that nothing serious has gone wrong, so far, in nearly two years.

Also, for some, "ridiculous volatility" is a desirable feature for some portion of their portfolio.

[0] https://grayscale.co/bitcoin-investment-trust/
[1] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/073015/bitcoi...
[2] https://grayscale.co/bitcoin-investment-trust/#market-perfor...
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I agree with the first part of your statement, but disagree strongly with the second. I think that cryptocurrency is in general a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, outside of black market use.
True, biology is a horror show full of surprises. Many experimental instructions are as reliable as astrologic forecasts. I guess that is the price of complexity and the human factor.

I would love to hear more about your work, and the strategies you propose to improve the reproducibility of scientific experiments. My email can be found in my user description.

Cheers!
Just a note for people playing with vm.swappiness ( = 0 for ex) , what it does it's different depending on distro and version (as in with one version = 0 meant "absolutely no swap" and another version it may mean "try not to swap"
If you're talking about the HN comment thread, then please don't make it worse by posting like this. Instead, the way to be a good community member is by flagging the comments you find egregious so that moderators have a chance to see them.

To flag a comment (assuming your account has > 30 karma), click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top.
Is there an automated version of this somewhere? I'd love to be able to plug in my numbers (age, income, expenses, etc) and have recommendations pop out.
The topic here is not overall gun violence, but specifically the percentage of shootings that result in death, and the fact that this percentage is extremely different in different cities.
I'm not convinced that there has been sufficient litigation to show that fanart is actually copyright infringement. As I understand it, there's a district split on the issue and the Supreme Court hasn't said anything. The cases are also very old, mostly predating the concept of fanart.

Most cases these days are predicated on whether or not something is fair use, but don't explore whether or not copyright was infringed in the first place.

All in all, it's good for money to be poured in here, because it means the defense will have adequate legal resources to set the right precedent.
Takes me back... I used mh and later nmh all the time back in the 90's. Combined with some good procmail recipes and spam assassin, I found it really effective. I pretty much moved away from it, though, when rich text and images became overwhelmingly prevalent.

I still would love there to be common usage of text-only emails just between friends (you can't categorize or quote-reply text messages), and talk/ytalk sessions for real-time communication.
Can you provide a link to a method that is faster than the doomsday algorithm? If I know the doomsday for a given year, I can get the day of week for a date in about 3 seconds. I'd love to get that even faster(or have a faster method when I don't know the doomsday)
The legal thing does make reference to the technical thing in Europe[1] (and probably elsewhere too), by making digital signatures (which use crypto) legally binding. The question is more how courts would rule in a case where a colliding document is signed. That would probably depend on whether you can prove which of the two parties authored the colliding document (since that's a requirement for this particular attack).

(Note: I don't know whether this attack is practical for qualified electronic signatures as used by EU countries.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_electronic_signature
Because they did not invest in it. Becuase they fight it. LED was not invented in 2017.
Based on how the Android EMU used to run early on, it is much better. Even then, it is still 50/50 when starting if it will actually boot (and then if Android Studio will connect for debugging). HAXM has helped, but the whole process is very buggy.

Xcode is not the greatest development environment, but the iOS simulator/debugging actually works.

Android development is painful unless you have an physical device to develop with.
There is nothing more important than not being stuck with using a tool everyday for 8 hours a day that you hate.

After using R# everyday with Visusl Studio for years, I got a job that wouldn't provide Resharper for developers. I bought it myself without a second thought. I want the tools I use to be seamless as possible.

As far as the other reason I chose to base my career on .Net rather than Java once I decided to move away from C++ bit twiddling - that I trusted Microsoft to evolve the platform more than Sun, in hindsight it seemed prescient.
liquidity is not inspiring:

http://futures.tradingcharts.com/marketquotes/JM.html#footer...
I'm a bit surprised - I do almost all these things in my head anyway, never thought them as tricks just that I'm weird and cannot model school methods like others do.
(Not trying to brag)
Trailing whitespace! :)
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This author, per his own unintentional lede, opens Android Studio twice a year. Why does he have any authority on this? This article is a bunch of reactionary first impressions written by a novice.

I use AS every day, and have been since it was 0.8. It's powerful and makes everything I do easier. About the only point I'd give him as accurate is that you've got to have the powerful laptop to run it.
> a solution to a problem that doesn't exist

What alleged problem do you think Bitcoin is trying to solve?
Sadly, trying to investigate this is quite hard, since people are outright hostile to questions about it.

If you ASK about swapping on windows, you get people telling you that "Microsoft engineers are smart, don't disable swap and go <insert expletive here>" even if you asked something that is NOT about disabling swap.

So, I had this gamer laptop, i7, nVidia GPU, 8GB of RAM (when most machines had 2 or 4), but some stupidly slow 5k RPM HDD made for power saving and locked "noiseless mode", thus very slow seek too (ie: it moves the heads slowly to avoid making noise and for aerodynamic reasons).

I noticed that ever after I just booted up, RAM usage would jump to 6gb and the HDD would trash endlessy and make the machine unusable... after some research I found some interesting posts by MS employees about it:

Windows can "preemptively" use swap, it will write on swap things it thinks you might need to swap out. Sounds good on paper.

Also, Windows has several caching systems, that will write to "RAM" random crap.

One day that was particularly bad, I noticed that when I booted, Windows would immediately attempt to copy to RAM a gigantic binary file that was the sound files of a game I played a lot recently, this caused trashing due to reading the file, then, it would attempt to load other programs it had to, then page out immediately, and enter some crazy loop of trashing the I/O forever... Every time I opened the task manager and looked at the graphs, disk I/O would be constantly maxed out at 100%...

Disabling the VM made the laptop behave better (despite all the bugs Windows have when you disable VM).

But what I really wanted, was to change how the VM works... I wanted to keep the VM, and the caching, but change settings, for example I would set it to NOT page out anything at all unless RAM was used more than 80%, and also to never "cache" stuff unless HDD was actually idle and a good amount of RAM free. But sadly, this can't be done it seems, I got no useful answer on stackexchange sites when I asked this (But got a couple personal messages and e-mails full of expletives in many places where I asked about it, for some reason people get personally offended when the subject is virtual memory).
Wouldn't it be hard to achieve deep consistency between experiments, in so many labs around the world, with so different conditions/cultures/etc , and when the experimenters aren't experts in consistency , but in their science ?

Wouldn't it be better to use something like a cloud biology model - where you define experiments via code, CRO's compete on consistency(and efficiency and automation) and since they probably do a much larger volume of experiments than the regular lab, they would have stronger incentives to develop better processes and technologies ?
Just find funds that track bitcoin volatility, you should be fine. :)
Probably, the real problem is that "the scientific literature should be". It's not the right question to discuss today, because scientific literature is just a brief approximation of scientific knowledge and this is not what we need. Whole modern scientific system is outdated and has to be upgraded: journals, citation indexes, degrees should go away and be replaced. Science should become more formal and more digital, so that it will be easier to find and validate the results. There should be databases, search engines and digital signatures of the raw data and chains of proofs. Counting citations should be replaced with counting chains of proof produced by the scientist and included in others' works. Reliability of proof and contribution to ratings should be based on independent confirmations, which should be counted too - replication of new results should be considered an achievement too. Journals may remain, but not as a primary way to exchange scientific information - more likely, they should become the portals to the data which will link the results in databases to their human-readable interpretations.
Can you recommend a good resource for "how to set up your mail server like it's 2017" for those of us who would like to self-host but don't want to spend 6 months figuring it all out?
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Are there any clear examples "in the wild"? That were successful?
I'm not sure I've personally been able to figure out if it was sarcasm or willful ignorance, but yeah, this article annoyed the pants off me just as much as the first in the series. The fact that it's now worked twice to hit the front page is also a little unsettling, because apparently one of the best ways to reach people on HN now is to just post a bunch of misinformed FUD (with !!Attitude!!) and jump on board the rocket ship!
Android studio has improved a lot and I think it is easily the best Android IDE out there. It is in-fact hell lot better than Xcode in my opinion.

There are indeed some issues with Android studio mostly related to visual design but I have never found that to be a handicap because you are generally better off hand coding all your layouts.

I would love to see tighter integration with Firebase, Azure and AWS though something that is missing right now.
If one side of the discussion is doing everything they can to prevent a discussion from even happening, what do you suggest be done?
So if I kill my friend just because "I want", that's also "a reason"? If yes, what was the point of your original argument?

You really, really need to learn to just give in when someone proves you wrong.

That kind of argumentation leads nowhere. These are straw mans at best.
I don't need to prove a negative.

It seems inevitable that on some time scale AGI will be achieved if we don't commit species suicide or bomb ourselves back to the stone age. It doesn't follow that AI less capable than AGI can produce non trivial software guided by non programmers. This requires proof because it has never been done in human history and thus without any examples it requires if not proof a coherent argument in its favor.

The most obvious flaw is that software that is capable of composing/improving software ought to be able to improve itself and with improvements in a finite amount of time ought to BE AGI.

This looks like the start of a great tool for people to find example code relevant to the current code. In other words new tools for programmers not a replacement thereof.
What is it that delphi did that you want? The gui designer? The speed of compilation?
Hahaha. That's great.
There are a few companies and products:

ACR Select- radiology focused: https://www.acr.org/Quality-Safety/Appropriateness-Criteria/...

Zynx Health - order set based: http://www.zynxhealth.com/

Ken Kawamoto - academic working on CDS: http://medicine.utah.edu/faculty/mddetail.php?facultyID=u077...

Avhana Health - point of care and patient specific: http://www.avhana.com/

And there are a few others as well as systems built into some EHRs (electronic health records)
I used Hachoir (https://github.com/haypo/hachoir3), a Python library that I've contributed to. Hachoir disassembles files using a library of parsers, with the intent of describing the function of every single bit in the file. You can see the resulting disassemblies (rendered with the hachoir-wx GUI) here: http://imgur.com/a/F1cnV
Not an excuse for bad implementations, but since I run i3wm, my feelings of happiness increased rapidly. To such an extend that I do not want to ever run anything else; stability, speed, memory use... Solves (for me) the issues you have.
I used to bash Eclipse, but AS made me change my mind to never use InteliJ, unless I really have to.

Unless this is a side-effect of Google's doing.

My PC runs VS 2015, Eclipse and Netbeans just fine.
Wow, nice. Thanks. It seems everyone is thinking the secret sauce had something to do with embedding appropriate junk to the PDF format itself.

I was cynically thinking that Google might, as an aside, be recruiting with this disclosure; looking for people (like you) who actually solved the "how they did it" puzzle.
They have almost 83,000,000 public repositories (https://api.github.com/repositories?since=82960000).

Many of them will be forks of the same projects, but I think it's fair to say there's a sizable number of unique commits.

Granted, the number will only be a tiny fraction of total address space of SHA1, but it'd still be an interesting thing to investigate.
I think he was referring to having the only method to alter frontend components is through the raw data which is XML. It sort of fits how things were done decades ago.

I'm not totally against it, but his point stands. Even C# and .NET with WPF has XAML data to modify directly, but it's much more robust. iOS puts a spiffy dev GUI in front of everything and tailored in a way that doesn't really restrict, but still allows the option to dig into the raw side of things. However, it's still very necessary to reference the raw data on AS, so much so that there's a UI for the raw data.
Not sure how it is on the prod side, but certain chunks of infra may also have designated "owners" and you needed to have someone on that list approve the diff to land it (e.g. rando engineer can't get his buddy to approve a diff that changes the push process...unless that buddy is chuckr or someone more heavily armed than chuckr)
No, because the insurance company needs a reason to jack rates year-after-year. They need the number of diabetic foot amputations to increase so that they can justify increasing premiums.
> Android development is painful unless you have an physical device to develop with.

Does anybody develop a serious Android application without testing it on an actual device?
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In some cases you use various statistical tools over many trials or in others you measure the effects of the variables in other experiments. Or you can control the important variables and allow those with small or no effect on what you're measuring to vary slightly.