skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine
Interesting article. I think one thing to also consider is that women can also be toxic, so the question isn't really how to retain technical women or men, but rather, how can you promote leadership practices to women (and men) that retain women (and men).
There also is just more demand for these actors because there is so much TV content now. People pay lots of money for this stuff, actors & crew should get paid. Because you can bet that studio heads and Netflix execs are getting paid.
That's a lurid way to describe people boycotting (pretty successfully) a conference.
"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins. It describes biology from the perspective of the gene as the unit of natural selection, rather than the organism or the species, and demonstrates the power of that perspective to explain much about the natural world. But then, the author generalizes the concept of a gene to that of the replicator, which is any kind of pattern that influences its environment to produce copies of the pattern. (As an example, the author invents the concept of a meme, being a unit of culture that uses brains to spread itself across a culture.) This (the replicator) is the mind-blowing concept that I'm still thinking about 35 years after I first read this marvelous little book. Organisms and people and species and cultures are ephemeral side-effects of mindlessly self-replicating patterns. You'll never look at the world the same way after reading this one!
> The US is richer. It should be paying more.

No, it shouldn't. There exists no objective moral obligation that would dictate that the US suffer the brunt of drug development costs for the benefit of the third world.
Is there a way to use a local version of Wikipedia (english) on a raspberry pi? That can be accessed and searched via the shell? On a USB stick. Images and media fils excluded.

I know there is Gozim - http://scaleway.nobugware.com - but that serves a local website.
>> In fact, I would go so far as to say that three monitors is optimum

I would say that it's not the number of monitors that's important, but the total amount of real estate you get from your monitors that matters.

I would rather have a single 46"-50" curved 8K monitor than a grid of four 27" 4K monitors running off my computer. I'd rather have fewer cables and a simpler setup if given the choice.

Practically speaking, with today's tech and prices, you generally do need more than one monitor to get all the real estate your heart desires, but hopefully that changes drastically in the next few years.
> If a kid thinks that they've misunderstood the joke (and I'd support rating the video something like '15+ mature' or whatever youtube's equivalent is).

The biggest real hit for PewDiePie was that Disney studios dropped him as affiliate. Disney does not feature '15+ mature', they children+parents friendly as a strategy.
Completely agreed.

There's no way to make the animation delay be zero, probably because Apple wants you to switch desktops with the motion commands and they want the motion to seem natural, but I have always set them up with <modifier>-1, -2, -3, etc, so I don't think "I want to go right", I think "I want desktop #5". I don't care which direction it's in.

Also virtual desktops on OS X are completely broken when you plug multiple monitors in of different sizes. I always end up with hilariously mis-placed, mis-sized windows on both screens. This was how I learned about the "Zoom" item in the "Window" menu: even if you can't find the window decorations for a window (because they're outside the dimensions of your monitor), if you can cmd-tab to it, you can "zoom" it a few times and it will sometimes show up. Also, if you have any "memory pressure" at all, hope you're ready for minutes of beach balls when you plug / unplug the external monitor.
Netflix will release 1,000 hours of original programming in 2017 – BGR
The most important for me is directing social conversations. Most people think that social event is a time for everybody to talk freely about whatever topics, but no. The point of social event is inclusiveness. I see this scenario happening over and over again:

Social event starts off friendly. Gradually, the conversation starts turning very technical or very sci-fi, then women turned away and formed their own social group. Worse, the only woman engineer on the team spends the night sipping on her drink quietly wishing she found these topics more interesting or wishing she took more CS classes so she could appreciate the intensity of the conversation. (Note, I'm using women as an example because of the posted question. But this applies just as much to the minority race, age group, etc.)

I think it is important for the manager (or any teammate in general) to make social inclusivity their top priority in a social environment. Look around, if you see that someone in the group is not engaged, steer the group conversation towards the interests of that person. Its a hard skill do develop, but its a skill managers should be actively working to improve.
In Rust overflows generally will cause a panic. So "2 + 2" will return 4 or panic if you're on a 2-bit system (they provide .saturating_add() and .wrapping_add() to get code that will never panic)

Thus, you could have caused a denial of service by crashing a rust-based Curl, but the crash would have been modeled and just uncaught.
I don't like how content appears & disappears on these services. I pay for them, but I also download things because I'm not interested in the vagaries of who holds what contract with whom at what time, I just want to watch things I like.
> I wonder if their focus on original content will open the door for a Blockbuster-like revival.

No, their focus on original content is entirely because once you have a situation where other content producers are cognizant of the proven value of streaming and their is robust competition in streaming, it's no longer practically possible to have a profitable one-step shop for high-value content from other owners' catalogs, since the high-deductible content is either being used to secure exclusive deals for the highest bidder or held back to anchor the content owner's own streaming service.

The same thing happened with HBO once it proved the value of cable as a premium content delivery venue.
Breaking Bad. Personally found it the most rewarding (by far), and, from Wikipedia: (Season 5)

After receiving three nominations for seasons two, three, and four, both halves of season five won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2013 and 2014. The second half of the season also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2014. The season's Metacritic score of 99/100 led the show to be listed in Guinness World Records as the most acclaimed television series in history.[5]
The 90s were really great in a lot of ways. But as you've shown, it was really awful in a few others.

I wonder if there's a parallel universe out there where Windows 95 never happened and Microsoft went out of business somehow. That would be the universe where the 90s were a truly wondrous age.
There are dumps available that already have lots of metadata extracted and the content available as plaintext without wikimarkup or html. Specifically these are the dumps of the search indices used at wikimedia:

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/cirrussearch/current/

These dumps contain a json line per article and are formatted roughly like so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News?action=cirrusdump
This looks cool! Recently i switched to Kakoune editor because i wanted to try something a bit different than Vim (after using Vim for years of course). Always appreciate new work in the editor space!
Ummm. No. Federalist 10 does not design states to be the democracies. Indeed, it is positively hostile to democracy.

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a
pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a
small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the
government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs
of faction.

Also, states were formerly colonies with assemblies that stretched back 150 years already when the Articles of Confederation were written. And the big C didn't design states; it recognized them since they already existed both in the Colonial era and during the Articles decade.
It's not like women are aliens with concerns that are completely divorced from male employees. They just have a superset of concerns that also includes the potential for gender discrimination from coworkers and managers.
Generalizing, actually. But I don't think that it's necessarily a bad thing.

Taken individually, you'll find folks all over any given spectrum, but if we're going to address "Women in Tech" vs the implicit "Men in Tech" then we can't just say "well the two are exactly the same and therefore there's no discussion to be had."

Of course there's differences between men and women. Different values, different priorities, different sensitivities. Maybe there are issues in nursing and education which men are more sensitive towards, and that's why there's such a larger opposing gender disparity in those fields? That doesn't mean that either gender is necessarily "weaker", just "different".

If we want to help technical managers retain women, then it would be helpful to determine which issues women are generally more sensitive to, even if they're the same issues men have faced for however long but which have not driven them away from the industry.
I won't even use a single external monitor, for the simple reason that acclimating myself to a bigger monitor would, I'm pretty certain, make me feel less productive in the common case where I only have a laptop screen to work on. I'd rather invest effort into making myself more productive on the laptop screen than on things that make me more productive in the specific case where I'm at my desk.
IMO start with antifragile.
Refactor or Rewrite
I too have benefitted from noise-canceling headphones (Bose QuietComfort 25). On top of that, I use a technique called neural entrainment: an audio track with a specific repetitive beat which helps you attain a state of focus and flow. In fact, I am in the process of creating a product with neural entrainment audio tracks. If you are interested, let me know...
empath75 says:> "But I think experience has already shown that machine learning models blow away expert systems in a lot of domains."

I don't think there have been many head-to-head comparisons. Academic researchers simply ceased using "expert system" in their research grant applications and began to use "neural network".

For real-world applications your choice of model would likely depends on the data available (e.g., human expert vs historical data on electronic media).

I think this Quora posting characterizes well the status of expert systems vis-a-vis neural networks today:

"Artificial Intelligence: Are Expert Systems outdated?"

https://www.quora.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Are-Expert-Sys...
1) your acount shouldn't have been reactivated
2) but If you could get an account deaactivated without proving who you are, then that could cause a lot of issues.
Found the philosopher lol
Off topic: I love English idioms like "handful of smash." Keeps me smiling.
dude, you're gorgeous
Well, except for Firefly :(
Lectures, lectures, lectures!! I search for niche topics, restrict to videos 20 mins or longer, sometimes throw a "lecture", "talk", "speech", "debate", "discussion" etc tag into my search and watch those. There's a lot of amazingly dense insightful videos on youtube with <500 views. The only problem is that youtube is fantastically bad at making recommendations, their algorithm really only recommends the same speaker over and over again.

I would actually say restricting to 20 min or longer videos is a real key. I was looking for some information on backpacking yesterday. I did a couple searches, restricted to long videos, watched a few pieces of several of them until I found one I really liked then dug into the channel that made it.
We've already hit "peak content" for Netflix, which I define as "more hours of new content released that I'll watch in a year."

I would estimate I watch about 200 hours a year, Netflix is releasing 1,000 hours of content this year[0]. This trend will only accelerate, especially considering all of the other providers pouring money into content.

I wish that video content licensing could be regulated similar to radio music, where the license holder receives a flat rate per play (this could be adjusted to be per-minute with modifiers for SD/HD/etc). That would open up a whole new market of streaming websites that could focus on cataloging and recommending content, instead of me having to pay for many websites full of content that I cannot physically spend the time to find the best of. Some streaming devices have cross-service search functionality built in, but it could be much better.

[0] http://bgr.com/2016/10/19/netflix-originals-1000-hours-progr...
You're confusing two different things.

When NICE decides not to fund something they have clear evidence that it is worse than current treatment, not just that it is more expensive than current treatment.

See, for example, Abraxane, a chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer.

To be accepted all it has to do is either:

i) Be better than current first line treatment or

ii) Have less side effects, and thus be usable as a second line treatment or

iii) Be much cheaper

It's fantastically expensive, has many side effects, and is less effective than current treatment. So it fails all three. But you wouldn't be able to tell that from the pharma-sponsored advocacy groups. Those groups talk about "2 years of life", when the manufacturer's own data talks of just 3 weeks.

It's incorrect to say that NICE has a profit motive. They very clearly - and this is the point of transparency - don't.
This is the most British thing I have seen in a while.
> Donald Trump may have campaigned as a negotiator for the common man but he identifies with CEOs, anything that hurts them is not something that appeals to him.

Do you have any primary sources you can link to prove this assertion?
Just install the bookmarklet referenced here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13964395
Well one of this (the Apple one) is clearly wrong because Samba (which is not a niche software) does not work with it and this is critical for me. Just saying I'm not the only one who is confused ;)
Going by my preconceived notions, I thought Perl 6 or elisp. I think in fact Perl 6 is shorter.
Old school feminists have been cringing at this trend for a couple of decades at this point. It's unfortunate the newer generations haven't been exposed to where we came from and how we're now regressing back, undoing much of the work they did.
The planning an AI could take over from existing elevator controllers already uses constrained access to the motors. Nothing about AI demands stupid system design.
I would hazard a guess that a weak manager, manages all employees poorly. However, I would bet a lot of money that, like so many things in life, when you are bad in all quadrants on one thing, you'll likely be bad at other things like managing women. Realistically, they are the nearly the same to manage, but you can do some dumb things to make them feel excluded or make them feel like there is a boys club (probably because there is.)

Susan Fowler's team, for example, a bad manager thought it was a good idea to save costs by not purchasing leather jackets for women on the Uber DevOps team. Spare the few hundred or thousand dollars (even if it were in the thousands) and make your employees feel equal and like they are a part of the same tribe. It's common sense. Pocket change to Uber and it makes people feel comfortable around their coworkers, and they will enjoy being part of a team and being passionate about their work-unit, co-workers and take pride in their company.

Here's some anecdotal evidence. I had a product manager last week tell me she thought it was great that our company bought women's jackets for the team instead of making them wear bulky men's sizes like so many companies she has worked for in the past. That cost me less than $150 for them to set up the plates/screens/whatever with the printer but it bought me thousands to tens of thousands of dollars in good-will. Great investment. For me, this was a small gesture on my part and the companies behalf. But, it went a long way. The ladies on my teams are strong contributors, and it's table stakes for me to make sure they feel included and part of the team. Even if I have to tailor to them. Pun intended.

My direct management of every employee is a little bit different based on who they are, their communication style, how they receive feedback and their work-style. I assume that gender goes a little bit into how I interact with each person on my team and I am willing to admit I probably have some biases but overall if you're already managing your team with a high eq, you'll fare well and create an inclusive team.
The question therefore is, why does the monopoly exist? You will find that, as _jal has commented, it is not because of some natural phenomenon springing out of a free market.
Absolutely agree that there is not fierce competition in ISPs and that when they do compete it is more on price and speed than privacy so really no market driven factors to protect privacy. Of course I could offer a specious argument that there are satellite providers and dial-up so of course there's competition wink-wink.

The argument is essentially the same for Google/Facebook et al. Try telling someone who has used gmail for the last 10 years before Google altered their privacy policy for Google's benefit that if they want to keep their email private they're free to switch to Yahoo or Outlook. And that's a case where consumers have a choice. Consumers have no voice in web sites use of Google Analytics or Doubleclick. Or Facebook's like button. Or Adbobe's audience tracking....
I think you have that backwards.. Manchester by the Sea distribution rights were picked up by Amazon (for ~$10M at Sundance last year). I don't believe they were involved at all in the production.
What's insulting about "mansplaining"?

EDIT: this could be seen as a rhetorical jab, but I really don't mean it that way, I'm just not sure in what context that would be insulting.
piggybacking on this question. I am really struggling with sbt. Is there is a good FP in scala equivalent for sbt that walks you through feature by feature via exercises and examples .
Drugs are 10% of US healthcare spending so the gains are not that huge. However, ~200$ per capita is only part of the costs as profit and advertising also increases drug prices. Further cost is concentrated onto a small fraction of the population. So, while I might not care about 20$/month I would care about a 1% risk of 2,000$ per month.
DMOZ-Open Directory Project Has Officially Closed After 19 Years of Efforts
The Netflix version of A Series of Unfortunate Events was orders of magnitude better than theatrically released abomination starring Jim Carrey.
It doesn't even need to be "young males beating their chest".

I've been in plenty of hostile reviews with completely harmless, introverted, soft spoken INTJ-types who simply can't get past some nitpick because it doesn't fit into their perfect, logical world view and refuse to budge an inch.

Our industry has a personality problem as much or more as it has a sex problem.
> 2) Some flexibility on hours/location when children come. Women have a harder 'stop' than men do on their child bearing age, which frequently coincides with moving into senior development roles.

Also paid maternity leave, funded by taxes.
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy.

We know the "rich", people who spent $10M on a Yacht as a parking space for their 1M private jet which they use as a cellar for their $10k wines.

And we think millionaires are like that but on a smaller scale. ACTUALLY... most folks who have $1M liquid are hard working, cheap, frugal (still cutting coupons from ads). The reason why this book is so good is not only because it shatters the perception about how millionaires live, but if you take the description of their lifestyles as a lesson, it will make you manage your money better.

Most people in the US have tons of debt, don't have $500 to use for an unplanned spending. Probably this forum full of well-paid high-tech professionals less so, but still, the principles are all the same. In fact, there are parts of the book talking about how big earners also spend big (and fast), so it's a good reminder of how not spending money is as good as earning it, and also usually easier to do.
Try a decent size 4k screen. I find a single one to be enough as it gives me effectively 4 1080P screens.

In windows 10 I snap each window into its own corner.

When doing Game Dev in Unity, it gets left half of screen (1920x2160) so I can see scene and preview comfortably simultaneously, Pale Moon top right, Visual Studio bottom left.

If I need to look at long file in Visual studio, then it'll take whole right side of screen.

Outlook and MS Project in 4k is great with 2160P height for looking thru inbox or looking at a lot of tasks.
>You're conflating the issues of running untrusted code with running trusted code on untrusted input. JS is untrusted code that you run on your computer. Your other examples generally do not fall into this camp.

No. The issue is that in C (or "release (not debug) rust" (someone here left a comment that rust programs in release mode don't check for array overflows)) untrusted input leads to untrusted code (through buffer-overflow).

So you can compromise a computer through a bug in imagemagick.

>Java being an allegedly safe server-side language has nothing to do with it being a very difficult language to sandbox when running untrusted code

Java was (in the 90s) advertised as safe client-side, hence applets.
If these are your issues as well, you can join in and help fix them. No one is trying to invalidate your problems; this is a call to action for better engineering management practices.
Point number 1 is ridiculous and sexist.
Oh yeah let's ship code that hasn't been reviewed because the young males in our company will act like chimpanzees, and those pesky technical debates let's scratch those too. Let's just use whatever piece of technology is trending today on HN
My first job out of college I worked for a company that looked for new ways to get sample vouchers into people's hands. There was so much money in finding gray areas to hand out samples.

The only job I've had that made me feel worse about what I did was insurance, but that didn't last long. I suppose we did innovate, but I didn't get paid enough to out-weigh the damage done to my soul.
Of course there's no simple fix.

US health reform has been attempted based on series of simple fixes with all the best-seeming ones already exhausted over the twenty or thirty years it's been tried. And the entities profiting (enormously) from US health care have become champions, geniuses at dodging all the simple fixes.

Of course you can't force companies to sell for the same prices elsewhere unless you had no regulation on drug imports and that would discard the whole regulation process effectively, blah, blah. Companies could just label the drugs they sold in different countries differently or even mix them differently (there's already re-mixing for patent and other purposes, etc).

As noted in the article, the countries with lower drug prices do real, good regulation. To do that here, you'd need to take on regulatory capture and so-forth, a not at all simple matter.