skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loved this anecdote:

https://dev.to/thepracticaldev/nevertheless-she-coded/commen...

> The first thing I coded was an Everquest 7-page website in plain-old HTML. I was 15 and I had figured out HTML from right-clicking and wondering if 'View Source' was how it was made.

I went into computer engineering because I loved video games and wanted to write games. I believe my one of my first webpages was a Final Fantasy fanpage with Microsoft FrontPage, uploaded to my dad's Prodigy web space. I don't know what the actual stats are in terms of girls playing video games, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a correlation between that childhood activity and a later interest in programming.
This is a commodity service. Do not waste any extra brain cycles searching for The One, or trying to optimize for price.

(Hint: I try to optimize for "Don't make me think. I am willing to throw extra money at you if I don't have to think.")

IAAL and I have used all sorts of corporate service providers over the years. I don't care much.

That being said, I'm using http://eminutes.com these days whenever possible, because it is run by a real lawyer and they are efficient and cost-effective.
Ask HN: What is SAAS check list before/after release?
Experienced solo developers releasing SAAS kindly share checklist or things to take care before and after releasing SAAS.
I work in downtown Columbus, Ohio, USA and live 9 miles away from work. My commute is 20 minutes in peak traffic. Thing is I park in a garage that's a block away from my office and by the time I take the stairs to the ground floor of the garage (I usually park on the sixth floor), walk the block to the building and then take the elevator to the 25th floor I've added another 10-15 minutes. So it's 30-35 minutes total for me.
I really wish they would quit promulgating this because it's actually counterproductive:

"women face continued pay disparity"

Seeing this statement tells me immediately that the author is grinding an ax.

In some fields of engineering (EE, for example), women actually get paid more (104% last I checked). And, when you control for experience, time off for family, etc., pay disparities in most tech fields almost disappear.

Complaining about discrimination or harassment? Sure, go for it. Lack of child care and having undue burden with family health issues? The stats back you up.

However, attempting to promulgate something which is not true hurts the overall movement when there is so much that is true and needs to be fixed.
Yeah, this would be like complaining about pole vaulters' poles being made of increasingly better materials from hardwoods to composite materials, etc.
The criteria was "reversibility", not societal acceptance.

Also, "having children" is not "considered good" by society in 100% of cases. We'd never have Roe v Wade if that were the case. I think you are building a bit of a straw man there.
What's the concentration of that vs the concentration here. Note that we also use chlorine to treat drinking water (e.g. on canoe trips), but you don't want to be drinking that unless it's very low concentration.

A quick google search suggests that they are used to "improve water clarity" [0], so at a guess you don't use enough of it to turn the water pink.

There's also the fact that they think it's concentrated enough that you should avoid bathing in it if you have sensitive skin. That certainly doesn't inspire confidence that you should drink it (exposing some very important skin, that's usually more sensitive).

[0] http://www.livestrong.com/article/71333-use-potassium-perman...
Spotify bought echonest and shut down their api, resulting in the demise of this awesome website: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html
so is all of our medicare and social security...
"Is that sarcasm? I genuinely can't tell. Direct conflict with the US is a terrible idea, and both countries know that."

The US has not enough soldiers in South Korea to face CN or RU. RU could probably take out US carriers and planes "at will" with their unmatched rocket technology. The last thing I heard was that RU jamming technology is also far ahead of the curve. And they have a nuclear arsenal to match the US. At the same time, RU has a boarder with NK while the US supply lines would be far stretched.

By the way, it was the end of the German Empire when the king decided to "kick the Serbs in the nuts"
Happens literally every year, and someone writes some clickbaity news article about it every year.
Hi all (Erez from Rollout here) –I appreciate the discussion. Here’s our full statement – please weigh in with any questions

https://rollout.io/blog/rollout-statement-on-apple-guideline...
But having a baby has a 100% probability of altering one's schedule for the rest of the life!

Sure, but you can put your kid up for adoption if you are so deeply affected. I mean, Steve Job's biological mother did, so it is not really a 100% thing.
mixing g and oz - that's a novel and interesting excuse to avoid the work of weight loss. usually people just blame their thyroid but this bullshit excuse at least has some kind of passable scientific pedantry behind it. i'll have to file that one for later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
It seems odd to have used avatars as the sole metric. I know many male individuals that use female avatars and the vast majority of both males and females I know do not use any representative avatar.

Is there a particular reason you chose to use the avatar instead of gender weighting based off of the posts and questions, which tend to provide more accurate results? While we noted when we tried this that most technical discussion on stack overflow leaned towards masculine even when written by a female, it should still be far more accurate than the avatars.
Um, a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 is a pretty damn good laptop.

How does this justify the MASSIVE price increase?
> Unless you cook every meal yourself, your count is always going to be off by a significant amount which seems to defeat the purpose of counting in the first place.

Consuming consistently similar foods provides a ballpark guide even if it's not perfectly accurate. You don't need perfect accuracy. For example, I know that a piece of cooked chicken breast of a relatively normal size, is going to be within an acceptable margin of error of N calories. I can calculate what a purchased turkey & swiss sandwich represents calorie wise, in a wide enough ballpark to make it completely meaningless as to whether it's a perfect count.

If you buy prepared food like that, the easy way to deal with calorie counting is to use an aggressive margin of error. Allocate more (possibly a lot more, user choice) calories to that meal than you think it probably represents. You won't die from under-consuming 50 or 100 calories because you guessed wrong to the high side. If you go the route of allocating a lot more calories to it, it simultaneously acts as encouragement to prepare your own food instead when possible.
$3 billion to acquire a team that has not proven an ability to generate a profit? That's what boggles my mind. It's still a risk, but it's valued like a sure thing.
FLIPPY: Burger Flipping Robit by Miso Robotics [video]
Indeed, I'm in the Midwest and my equivalent San Francisco salary is $240k, straight salary before bonus. The tech is old and shitty, but a lot of companies are in a position to modernize or die. Senior devs are in high demand.
Yes, sorry I should have mentioned that. You need to track your weight along with counting calories and make adjustments to your caloric intake based on the weight you are gaining/losing. You don't need to be within 2% accuracy (frankly that's not feasible anyways) just consistent.
Your distraction prevention tool stack sounds like it would be a major distraction for me.
Ask HN: What are the profitable business ideas?
derp, thanks for pointing it out.
I can't delete it now so I appended [duplicate].
My grandfather, a pioneering (unpaid) archeologist in Alberta during the 1930's was one of the thoroughly silenced voices. He had plenty of evidence of pre-Clovis points, but the priesthood of science had already decided the matter.
DVDFab Blu-Ray Cinavia Removal
"That's a little disrespectful to those who actually lived in surveillance states."

No it's not, and I highly resent this argument. It inevitably ends up with, but it's not at stasi levels... yet... When in truth what we have now would have made the Stasi have wet dreams! So stop it with this variation of affective fallacy already. Even if it was, somehow, disrespectful, which I don't think it is, even it was, who cares? It doesn't and shouldn't change the conversation whatsover. We are having a discussion about the current state of our mass modern surveillance engine, not about any other time in history (though they might be relevant to learn from).

Also, at this stage, if we don't talk about the potential before it gets too bad, we won't be able to stop it. Binney and Drake both refer to the current state as the "turn-key totalitarian state", and Drake for example got his start spying on east Germany during the cold war! As a matter of fact, if anything, I would find it to be highly respectful, for we are trying to prevent a similar fate those before us have failed to prevent.

"Tor makes it possible to do this with relatively little risk to yourself."

Nope, when they own enough fiber backbone nodes owning the tor network becomes much less non-trivial. Also, targeting tor-browser 0days, along with, as we can see from the NSA and CIA leaks, direct comprimise of machine, make tor not nearly as useful as a tool of anonymity as you seem to think. (Still useful, don't hate me J Appelbaum...)

"how much of a threat do you need to pose before they'll act against you in particular?"

Easy, all you need is to be effective and credible. It's been seen time and time again, since COINTELPRO and on. If you are just ranting and raving, maybe doing a protest or two, no one gives a fuck (other than to enter your name into a database somewhere). The second your protest actually starts doing something, or your dissident political campaign affects change in some way, thats when you become a target.

"The governments of old would routinely act against large numbers of their population for far less."

What's your point? First of all, with the surveillance engine storage, there is nothing to prevent the sudden repeal of ex post facto and suddenly they start walking the cat backwards 5 years, enmasse, against any potential dissidents. Remember there are over 1.1 million Americans on the "Terror Watch List", with no transparency of how they got there or any recourse to get off.

You say you aren't arguing for complacency, only for perspective, but your rhetoric does not match your claim.
Not sure why this is an issue. Why aren't we decrying male nurse shortages with only 8% of nurses being male? I've never once seen an article here or on reddit about the lack of male nurses. Or a male nursing shortage. Or an uneven gender ratio in Nursing.

Why is it always the tech part of STEM that gets this treatment? I'm genuinely curious as to why this issue isn't seen with men and nursing. Why is it that tech is always used as a narrative, when it is even more pronounced in nursing on the male end.

I'm not saying that because Y is a problem, that X isn't a problem. It's just that, I consistently and constantly hear about problem X, but never hear about problem Y which is almost identical. Almost never. It's just waved away. And that says something...

If we wave away men in nursing, you better believe we'll continue to wave away women in tech. And as a man, that's sad because women should be empowered in tech much more than what's currently being offered. It's very unwelcoming for them.
The cloudbuild service operates some other services on your behalf, and their relevant charges apply.

This most notably includes Cloud Storage (GCR is backed by Cloud Storage). If you use 'gcloud container builds submit' to kick off a build, Cloud Storage is used to get the source in as well.
This is great. But please note, some of the graphs presented use a common statistics cheat of logarithmic scale along one or more of the axis.

Many times, lz4 level 1 isn't just 25% faster [0] in Compression vs. say zlib level 1 (as it appears visually), it's actually 6 times (6x, or 600%) faster in terms of MB/s (~600 MB/s vs. ~100 MB/s)!

And it's not just 5% or so faster than zstd in Decompression (visually) [1], it's about twice as fast (~2000 MB/s vs. ~1000 MB/s).

Yes. It does not compress as well. But ~3.2:1 compression ratio best case for lz4 (listed as ~3.2 in the chart) compresses almost as quickly as the 6:1 zstd [0] but will then decompress twice as fast as zstd at any level [1]. Having a high-compression is a case I could (almost) not care about. If you're youtube/google or facebook/instagram, you might care (streaming, photos, static assets all at enormous scales).

For me, however, the above results mean far less CPU burden on the client with a twice the burden on the network I/O. If you're concerned about battery, loading screens, or download dialogs, I'd still pick lz4. Just turn the AC up a half notch in my AWS DC.

[0] http://gregoryszorc.com/images/compression-bundle-common.png

[1] http://gregoryszorc.com/images/decompression-bundle-output.p...
Things like this were partially why I got interested in electrical engineering & physics. Sadly, 15 years later, my career deviated to financial software, but I still find articles & progressions like these fascinating.
I was intrigued by your question. I tried the queries you mentioned on both Bing and Google and got similar responses on the first page. Perhaps our ad-blockers are configured differently. Interesting!

Wonder what other HNers are finding if they perform the same test(s).
I of course would follow up with "Why?" and "How?". And I'm really not looking for those exact words, but the fact that nothing even close was on this post made me want to succinctly bring up the topic.
Not a big deal. But it does underline the need to trust public water systems. Worse mistakes have been made.
Sorry but I don't believe you can look after your kid all day and work from home at the same time. It's not a matter of privilege, it's a matter of practicality. If you have a full time job, you need childcare whether you work in your home or out of it. I don't think that's particularly controversial.

edit: If it lends any weight to my opinion, I guess I could also point out I work from home and that that despite your assumption I've been the only parent for two children <= 5 years old for the last 9 weeks.
Not exactly like Delta; Falcon 9 second stages are still one-flight throwaways, and plans for reusing them have been shelved. (That might change if they build a second stage powered by the Raptor engine currently being prototyped for their Mars project -- or a scaled-down version of it -- but that remains a poorly-sourced rumor at this point. If they're working actively on any such thing, they've kept it fairly tightly under wraps.)
It's really tough to take the outputs seriously if they are not even on the same scale. That is, tiger, cat, and bengal tiger all imply terrestrial animal. That means that they should all be scaled around that. That is to say that terrestrial animal would need to be at least max(tiger, cat, bengal tiger).
There are better functions than SHA1 to use for hash tables. Candid question: really what is the use for MD5/SHA1 these days?
It's not too late if you're willing to take a pay cut.
Common Lisp :)
This type of response is exactly what is wrong with the world, in my opinion.

The attitude of "Oh that's absolutely demonstrably awful, here's X to subsidize your life," needs to stop.

How about we create societies where the onus of providing clean drinking water to humans is not arguable?
Curious: At any point, is it explained why the Global Interpreter Lock is necessary? If so, I'll spend the time to watch.
The title is somewhat misleading, I think.

> In total, the visual recognition API classified 1,428 profiles as masculine, 84 as feminine and 1,964 as unclassified.

> The top 100 Stack Overflow users consist of 77 masculine profiles, 21 unclassified and 1 feminine profile.

They only identified a single account belonging to a female, but there 21 unclassified accounts in the top 100 that could also belong to females.

I would certainly expect women to be more reluctant than men to note their gender on their online profiles.
I'd rather pay for single payer than see $54B go to the military [1] or $20B for a pointless wall. And honestly, having a healthier populace would likely lower the overall cost over time. I don't think we spend enough effort on preventative care as opposed to treatment.

[1] This shows how crazy the current spend is already. https://i.redd.it/6srj4xgpmriy.png
Past discussion, 30+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752001
> This isn't something a minifier could do without also modifying HTML and JS, and since a lot of JS automatically generates CSS names (something like $(`.list-${i}`)), this would be nearly impossible.

the other option is what CSS modules does. your scripts essentially "require" classnames from your stylesheets so as classnames in your stylesheet are minified so are their js references.
yeah the doc-in-a-box practice is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. However the corporatization of medicine is not doing anyone any favors save for the administrators, and even then only the executives make out like bandits.
Right? Jenkins is a perfect example of how NOT to do installations and configurations.
> Would you be more likely to hire a man than a women for an engineering role?

If they are equally good, there's a good chance I'll choose the cheaper one.
We don't have any direct support of GitHub status updates. You can make whatever requests from within the build (presumably at the end), but we don't (yet!) have a supported way to get secrets into the build for access to POST the new status.

GCCB will also publish on Cloud Pub/Sub when the build's status changes (including when it goes to "SUCCESS" or "FAILURE"), and you can tell Cloud Pub/Sub to make POST requests with that data, but the format is not flexible so it might not work out for GitHub status updates.
The CA legislature uses a good deal of intent legislation. I assume the purpose is to formally announce the beginning of legislative development process, allowing stakeholders to become involved.
Unfortunately, I've lost a lot of my EE knowledge due to mental atrophy.
Except people have different needs in shoes. For example I can't run 3 miles in any shoe Nike makes without having a huge problem. The lasts do not fit my foot shape. But I can wear other brands perfectly.
In case anyone's interested, I did a 10-week IF experiment that yielded mixed results.[1]

[1]http://telegra.ph/My-experiment-with-IF-03-09
But if you're effective in that criticism you'll get harassed or attacked.

See Jacob Applebaum, Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald among others. Journalists, filmmakers, programmers, doesn't matter. The point is that if you don't move enough, you won't really notice the chains.
Wow, a boomer who thinks the boomers are reprehensible. Rare!
Ah, I read too much into that bit. My apologies.
This is interesting -- suppose that the choke point of negotiation was handled by the government on behalf of citizens, but the administration of programs was privatized? That could be interesting.

Lord knows I've had about enough red tape for several lifetimes from NIH, NSF, and similar organs; Medicare as it now stands somehow manages to result in both medicine-at-a-loss and also fraud on a spectacular scale. I'm not a big fan of government but between consolidation and fragmentation, I don't think the current medical care solution is working, nor is it sustainable.
Hey, no worries. Undefined behavior gets me angry too ;).
And when mistakes and accidents still happen?

(the post you replied to is pointing out that the potassium permanganate that turned the water pink is not especially dangerous, not arguing that the people should be given more potassium permanganate)
Aren't social security and many/most pensions ponzi-like? And all underfunded?
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Linux Benchmarks
Each thing takes some resources. Application performance tends to get worse over time, usually because the focus is on adding features, rather than improving efficiency (sweeping generalization). So eventually you'll find yourself in a spot where your monolithic app doesn't have much headroom on existing machines. You switch to a new auth system that's 20% more expensive, and the whole system is running out of memory.

This is a contrived example. I mostly agree with you. I think you do hit a point at the application level where the big monolithic app is a little bit to big, and that's a tough spot to be in.

If you can keep things small, light and efficient mono will work forever. But always keep in mind that it can outgrow your instance sizes. So prepare to either move up to the next size instance (tough if you're running your own hardware), or start thinking about splitting out parts of the app.
Huh... I always assumed it was marking either the center of mass, or the center of lift...
I know the episode from Simpsons. Never knew where it originated from.
Many asian countries culturally encourage STEM fields above all else so it's not surprising that they are both over represented in STEM fields and underrepresented in non-STEM fields.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here? That culture pushes people to certain expectations? I agree.
Who said anything about avoiding weight loss?

I've had far more success just keeping a simple food diary and going "wow I eat a lot of cakes" and cutting them out.

I have a theory that 'calorie counters' are shockingly inaccurate (one other poster mentioned a 25% margin is 'fine'!) and their success comes from the very act of attempting to quantify what they're eating being a defacto food diary.