skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the parent poster was referring to his own apps, not others'?

It's trivial to provide progress and retry capabilities, especially if you're using Redux where you can build retrying into the reducer pipeline itself instead of reimplementing it for every use case. With React/Redux I recommend integrating it into a reusable component such as this:

<ProgressStatus task={this.props.save}>
<Button
label="Save"
onClick={this.props.dispatch(save())}/>
</ProgressStatus>

Here, ProgressStatus is a high-level component that renders a progress spinner or similar if it's "task" is busy, otherwise displays its children. So the moment anyone clicks the save button, the save button will be replaced with a spinner. You can also build this directly into the button component and make it disabled while it's busy.

Of course a lot of SPAs are less great at dealing with slow/bad connections. I find Google's apps to be particularly bad at this.
There is not "obviously" something wrong.

Would you say there is obviously something wrong with the plumbing industry that keeps women away? Or is it just that the smell of shit is too unpleasant? Likewise, some aspects of tech could simply be unpleasant to women, and there are reasons why men are more likely to put up with unpleasant work (like the need to feed a family). I have personally experienced a lot of unpleasant aspects of the tech industry (let's just say the movie "Office Space" is not far off the mark), unrelated to gender.

Mind you, I am not claiming nothing is wrong (although personally I consider it unlikely), just that it is not obvious, because there are other explanations for the gender ratio that don't involve "wrongness".
How much will [Bitcoin] transaction fees eventually be?
I thought "NO WAY" were there 439 for and 6 against AHCA.
But, I could be wrong depending on the part of the country.

I checked your link, and you did in fact put those in the wrong order. There were 439 against and 6 for AHCA.
Double free is not necessary a C issue, but it can be also a program logic issue - I expect to have an object, but it's already deleted. So it's one of

1. object should not exist and the second free is incorrect
2. object should exist and the first free is incorrect
3. object existance is uncertain and the second free must somehow check that

Although I can double-free only in unsafe languages, the wrong logic behind it can be the same in safe languages. It just have different consequences.
Doing one thing better and a thousand things worse does not make the product a worthy alternative in most use cases.
A madman has already done it:

https://github.com/shinh/bflisp
Dumb admission of the day: the domain name, crainsnewyork.com, combined with a story about cranes caused a temporary brain short circuit. I thought "holy shit, this is a really impressive website for NY crane wonks".
Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues

by Alphonsus Rodriguez, S.J., 1609

as translated into English from the original Spanish by Joseph Rickaby, S.J., 1929

https://archive.org/details/PPCV-Manresa

I found it to be a mirror of my soul, in which I saw more clearly than ever before my many faults and areas for improvement; at the same time, it held out to me the prescriptions necessary for the cure... a work still in progress, to be sure.
Thanks for the paper.

It's indeed a game-changer to be able to mix Ada2012, Spark, and C in an industry-grade programming environment. You can gradually convert a legacy codebase. I've been replacing some crufty C parts with Ada-with-Spark-restrictions then full-Spark-with-AoRTE-proof and even some functional proof with great success and can now stop worrying about crashes in security-sensitive attack-surface parts. Network/file interfaces, etc. Most of my experiments are very encouraging ! Coupled with CodePeer and/or afl-fuzz for Ada code, almost-bug-free code becomes somewhat more accessible.

Rod Chapman is also a great showman with great success stories, also very funny... and Yannick Moy at AdaCore is an amazing teacher and doing great work leading Spark further, including on small embedded targets.

I think you're doing great work around here reminding everyone once in a while about Ada & Spark, especially in articles that devolve into 'Rust-would-have-caught-it' :-).
Just installed it myself and runs very smoothly. Also the changes in Safari are good especially interactive form validation.
Four Things a New Linux User Should Know
> Keep improving them. Can you explain it better now? Are there typos you missed before?

Are you essentially saying to go back and rewrite/improve old blog posts? Just for clarification.
I have this page on my "TODO" list. What is your opinion about it? I see already that you are recommending it but maybe you can give some more details. Thanks in advance.
14 day old anonymous troll account intentionally distorting several claims I made.
* Fact: Google doesn’t see everything you do on the Internet

Fact 1: Google sees very huge part of the Internet traffic through AdSense and Analytics and other smaller tools like fonts, scripts etc.

Fact 2: Google has access to more detailed traffic given SSL makes most traffic (thankfully so) opaque to a ISP.

Fact 3: ISP only sees its own traffic but Google has access to the traffic from multiple ISPs.

This does not mean that we should give the same advantage to ISP, quite contrary - we should take this advantage from Google (and everyone).
> I dont understand why docs.com even has a search bar in the first place?

Because it was designed for public sharing of documents and templates, and public sharing without discoverability sucks.
This book has had a great impact on me. My favorite quote (Dover Thrift edition)

"To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a speck of semen tomorrow will be a mummy or ashes. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end your journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it and thanking the tree on which it grew."

It makes me appreciate everything so much more and I feel like a fool for worrying over little things.
(FWIW I have watched and enjoyed all Bret Victor's videos, and am looking forward to his big reveal. I've also experimented with visual front-ends to tidalcycles, so agree with you to some extent.. But text is really good for describing pattern.)
NieR+-+Automata:+Fan-Patch+is+supposed+to+produce+a+performance+miracle
Infinite Jest destroyed me, in various places. It has picked up a stigma nowadays for being pretentious (well, sure, it is) and unfinishable, but it is if anything a work of genius, and if you give it a chance, it may destroy you as well. Have yet to find a piece of fiction to top it.
Right, or you could say that they were successful rent-seekers.
The one problem I see in the tech industry, and I've been in it about 14 years now, is that they try to answer a lot of immaterial problems with material solutions... such as technology.

You can't force someone to be more productive. A company could facilitate all possible means for the goal of productivity, but at the end of the day, some people are just more productive than others.

Laziness is not something that can be measured, it is a spiritual problem. Lethargy is not something that can be measured, it is a spiritual problem. Stress cannot be measured, it is a spiritual problem. Same with depression and anxiety. Some of these things can be helped with the use of pharmaceuticals, but not always, and they don't always cure the root cause, they mask the symptoms more often than not.

Tech companies need to stop focusing on trying to fix everything with technology, because technology is not the answer to everything. Stop treating people like they're mindless automatons and treat them with dignity and respect. Accept the human element. Accept that people may actually want more than 2 weeks paid vacation a year. Give dads paid paternity leave. Don't make them use PTO for a dentist appointment.

There are so many factors that go into why productivity may go down. Giving people an essentially sleeker chat room doesn't solve the issues.
Oh shit! That's why they sometimes don't fit 5 to a section in my coin holder. I thought it was just poor quality control on the 5p coins.
The entire HTTP request, including the destination, is bundled into the TOR packet, AFAIK. Only the exit node on the tor network can know where the destination is. But even then, when using HTTPS, the exit node only knows the host of the HTTP request, not the entire URL.
Shameless plug: http://equationmaker.hokuasoftware.com
I also disagree that Netflix has a superior UI. For instance, you can't even read reviews on the mobile app.
Tipping is often the only way for people to make end's meet. It lets people with excess money help out someone who really needs the help.

I think most people's view would change if they were in a situation where tipping makes the difference between being able to pay your heating bill.
Founders who can't code are like artist painters who can't paint
Sure it is definitely possible to for an artist to get someone else to create their artwork vision, but it's a whole lot easier and cheaper and quicker and the outcome is like to be better if the artist can do the painting.
That idea has been tried out before with great success - in the 1880s.(0)

Adjusted only for changes in the CPI, Josh Tatum netted $121 in today's dollars every time he spent a gold-plated nickel.

(0) https://www.pcgs.com/News/The-Man-Who-Could-Stop-The-Mint
How do you figure? If they're able to pass whatever company's interview and negotiation is no longer a factor it seems more likely that salaries will become more equitable. I'd guess the correlation between negotiating skill and technical skill is small at best.
The American Counseling Association membership is 80% women. Only 10% of all social workers under the age of 34 are men. 70% of all psychology PhDs go to women. Minority representation is also very tiny. The vast, vast majority of mental health practitioners are white women.

Yet those are professions where sex-diversity has a real impact on society. It's far more serious than the sex of the person writing the code for a fucking social network.

There has been about 1 story in the NY Times about this issue in the past 10 years.

And tech sex-disparity? A near constant stream of articles.

By the way, 1% of carpenters are women and 98% of dental hygienists are women.[1] Is that catastrophic? Does it warrant NY Times articles or endless pontification?

[1] https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/occ_gender_share_em_1020_txt.ht...
Been looking for Skylake GPU support for BSD. Does it support Skylake OpenCL?

How compatible is this with FreeBSD? Can I test it alongside a FreeBSD distribution with minimal changes? Does it use the same Ports/Packages system? Do I need to recompile/reinstall all applications? Is there ZFS support?
Not on YouTube - the menu entry is literally "Subtitles/CC"
Not just the people, but the structure. You can't just change the head and assume the body will change itself. If aspects of design and execution stay the same, you're not magically going to build better QA or better-thought-through systems/architecture because "new face".

It's far safer to operate on the assumption that MS is just through-and-through incompetent at this point than try and pinpoint the cause of any one problem in a long history of them. I gave up on them around the mid-IE days (think I might've been particularly miffed when they scrapped the Courier concept) but I haven't looked back and haven't regretted it since.
Corporations in the Age of Inequality: A Skeptic's Take
Ssh KeyBox
See the discussion on the original piece here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13959603
We're often guilty of the same sort of thing in IT. I've seen IT leaders go on witch-hunts for areas of a business solving their own small issues with Ms Access, FileMaker, etc. Or developers complaining about simple crud apps and their support being outsourced overseas.
It's also those who are willing to put up with the bullshit and play the political game that tend to rise to the top in a business, tech or otherwise. True, optimising a career for a healthier work-life balance is a valid strategy and arguably the best one, but the fact of the business world today is that those who deal with the dog and pony show tend to get further than those who don't.
I wish your post weren't true, but it hits the nail on the head on all fronts.
Fixing Monopoly
At the very least, TeXmacs is ideal for doing math assignments.
>Female leaders: Founders, CEOs, CTOs receive far more public criticism AND HOSTILITY than male CEOs and CTOs ie.e Ellen Pao as leader of reddit, Marissa Meyer, Sheryl Sandberg * The things that have been said about these women and their bodies and how evil they are I have never ever heard with male CEOs no matter how evil, nor have I seen criticism as harsh, unrelated to the business issue, cruel and emotionally punishing as these women have faced.

Oh please, there's no shortage of horrible male CEOs out there. Jack Welsh, Bob Nardelli, Travis Kalanick (Uber), Steve Ballmer, etc. The female tech CEOs who run companies into the ground might get more attention because they're female, but running a high-profile company like HP straight into the ground (right after ruining another one like Lucent) really should earn you infamy, as it has for Carly Fiorina. Marissa Meyer didn't exactly run Yahoo into the ground (it was already on that trajectory), but she certainly didn't help, and probably made it worse with her lavish parties. The Pao/Gamergate case is somewhat special though; that whole thing was just a mess.

Anyway, I don't hear that many complaints about Ebay's ex-CEO Meg Whitman (now current CEO of HP Enterprise). Maybe nothing great, but that's normal for most CEOs, who seem to be a bunch of crappy sociopaths anyway, but you can't claim she ran Ebay into the ground, and HPE seems to be doing OK.

>Dear god, how could any women aspire to be a leader when the women who aspire to

Why would anyone who isn't a sociopath aspire to be a CEO of a large company? They're all sociopaths. I'm not sure why I should really care about people who aspire to this position, or to any position in politics. You want me to care about why women aren't going into rank-and-file engineering positions? Great, this sounds like a valid problem to me. You want me to worry about sociopathic women getting into positions where they can get golden parachutes worth tens of millions or more after running companies into the ground? Sorry, I have no sympathy at all.

Finally, as to your opinion about who to blame for the gender disparity, I do agree: the problem starts far earlier than college, and I think it's endemic to our culture and how we raise kids. However, I do have to point out that even in the US, women used to go into tech fields much more in the 80s and earlier, so what changed?
I would argue that women and men are different both physically and psychologically and have different interests arising from these differences.

I would further argue that negotiation is a skill that some people have and others do not. Should we refuse to reward someone for their skill in negotiation? Should we even try?

On the first count, the brains of men and women are structurally different (women have drastically more white matter and men have drastically more gray matter). The observation that men and women view the world very differently is universal. When looking at the big five personality traits, men and women consistently show far different norms. If all observations both casual and professional tend to indicate significant differences, the possibility should be seriously entertained.

If men and women are identical, why do we need women in STEM? The men we have would work just as well. If one is making the case for more people overall in STEM, then they are making an economic argument (and one that doesn't favor STEM workers -- only employers of STEM workers). If one makes a case for different life experience, then there is an acknowledgement of difference. If men and women are different, then there is a distinct possibility that one group is better or more interested in a particular field than the other. In either situation, there seems to be little case for drastic change (except for employers suppressing wages by increasing the supply of workers).

As to the second count, let's say we put two people (of the same gender for sake of limiting differences) with the same qualifications into the same job with the exception that one is more skilled at negotiation. We then force both to work for the same pay. Will that end the advantages of the more skilled negotiator? The better negotiator will still be better at getting the good projects or a faster promotion.

In the long term, the negotiation skillset will simply turn into more profit in other ways and the level of control required to prevent this from happening is so draconian as to be unthinkable.
This is interesting. That said for some reason I think that posts like this stray far from the purpose of a site like this as it is more of a general interest and not specific to startups or technology.

I wonder if PG's 'anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity' conflicts with his 'If they'd cover it on TV news' (where I assume TV news is actually broader than just what would be on TV news and includes items of a more general audience business interest).

What's the issue exactly? It crowds out and distracts from stories that might be of more value and relevance than simply something that is interesting.

Maybe a new way to describe would be 'of interest to hackers and relevant to what they do in a strong way'.
I wondered what was new about this particular implementation (since I've seen several others, notably the one this code is partially based on, from Justin Johnson). From the paper:

"Our contribution is to constrain the transformation from the
input to the output to be locally affine in colorspace, and
to express this constraint as a custom CNN layer through
which we can backpropagate. We show that this approach
successfully suppresses distortion and yields satisfying photorealistic style transfers in a broad variety of scenarios, including transfer of the time of day, weather, season, and artistic edits"

I was skeptical at first (even posted then deleted a sort of negative comment), but now that I read this, I see the value. The images are much more crisp and distortion free.
Aroundtheworldanddotinred.com
Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control
WOW..This was the book that helped me through a very tough period.

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."

This is also the reason why "Shawshank redemption" is my favorite movie. Very similar concepts.
I assumed everyone could use their wits and understand what part of that very short except was salient. In fact, I think you have, since you've gone ahead and elided it.
Filteries – An Interactive Political Simulator
Exactly. Maybe in 20 years they'll be competent when 95% of the current code has been retired but until then: Sayonara.

(Well, I doubt it, but there's at least a theoretical chance, right?)
you wrote: "the context of this discussion is SPECIFICALLY women's difficulties working within the masculine tech culture"

In what way did I misrepresent that? It is the only one of your claims that I referred to.

Btw just because an account is young it is not automatically a troll account. Watch your ageism.
Apparently it can present itself as actual system RAM to the host, in a different NUMA segment to the CPU.
I wonder how often this happens. Being into BDSM myself, even though I'm fairly cautious (no face photos on Fetlife, etc.) I'd always like to think my professional community would be relatively open-minded about this thing if it came to someone wanting to blackmail me.

This piece has made me wonder whether I'm wrong.
Good find :) .
Based on what? I'm pretty loyal to Uber and use it because I know what I'm going to pay when I order the ride and because I'm not pressured to tip in the app. I guess if another app had both those features, the same ride availability, and cost the same I'd download and try it but currently none of them, that I've tried, do.
They are in deeper trouble than that. If they cannot resolve the Waymo lawsuit in an economical fashion they will just wither and die, Lyft or not.
And the response from Dries, the man who made the decision to ban Garfield from the Drupal project: http://buytaert.net/living-our-values

He seems to allude that not all the facts are out, so it's hard to tell if this decision was a knee jerk reaction or a reasonable response.
Take a look at Stardog. Should let you load in dbpedia on your laptop no problem. They have a free trial license. http://stardog.com/

Modern and simple to get started.
That would fall under "tolerating a culture that gets in the way of making money".
I think disapproval with a federal government policy is a very weak base to build a union on.

It can certainly spur conversation, but I feel tech-unionization would have to be about issues which are more work-related. Like death-march projects, refusing unethical projects, training instead of hire-and-dispose, etc.
Helping you see all your insurances in one place with payment reminders along with providing you your customized insurance spending study comparing it with people who fall in the same bracket as you. It will only help you understand insurance even better.
Just updated all my devices and I must admit that things feel snappier, even the 5.
Thanks; you've done better justice to my position than I did.
I've noticed that Red shows up on HN with some regularity, and it sounds interesting. But I don't really understand where it comes from or who it's meant for. The Red / REBOL community seems more than usually self-contained, although it's possible that it's because almost everybody involved is Czech, and I am not. It seems like most of the English-language resources for Rebol were written by one guy with a thing for really long website names like withoutwritingcode.com.
Respectfully, I think you missed the point of the parent comment.

Parent comment says: if `(former programmer) turned manager` is more equal in gender than `programmer`, that might mean there is a sorting function that is pulling women out of engineering and into management.

His/her hypothesis is that being a "regular dev" is not very socially respected, and thus, pushes women to want out at a higher rate than other professions, like say, Doctor.

The fact that Doctor gender ratio is similar to Manager Doctor gender ratio, actually fits his hypothesis.

Not saying I disagree with either of you, just re stating.
No surprise that you get responses from the Rust Defence League.

They downvote any criticisms of Rust here and on reddit, and upvote anything that mentions it in a positive light. They rush to its defence everywhere.

I seriously reckon that steveklabnik and pcwalton must have a bot watching HN and reddit for mentions of Rust so they can immediately rush to its defence every time it comes up.

It's a pity because I actually think the language has potential, but it's not going to be successful if they're incapable of taking any critique on board. And it's not ready, it's not mature. They have to accept that.