skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is just another thing to think about while performing an already cognitively heavy task. A developer should be focused on ensuring what is written (code or commit message) is technically correct, well formed, and cogent. Adding another layer on top where one has to ensure they didn't accidentally use a gendered term just adds to the cognitive load.
And a lot of it isn't. https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports/rpt/mthTreasStmt/b... breaks out how military spending is allocated to some level of detail.
Sadly it's a T-junction, with the two lane approach (the broken one) lacking a right turn. Definitely a good trick for most broken lights, though.
Sorry but I don't see any intelligence in this.
It's not really a waste of anything. No time is being wasted. No resources are being used. The guidance is – 'try to use gender neutral language'. That's it. No cost.
Cool. I like to get my "facts" from an unverified source.
Here is a list - http://yclist.com/

You can filter for "Show Exited" and "Show Active"
Microsoft fixed security gaps allegedly used by spies a month before they leaked
This is half the battle. The other half is figuring out the value created by the spending.

Hopefully having the data in one place can help us calculate that fuzzier side of the equation.
Barring one gender from participating is not the same thing as having different categories per gender. There are also different categories for different age groups. That is just a reflection of the difference in athletic abilities.

No reasonable person is claiming that men and women have the same athletic abilities. That doesn't mean women shouldn't be allowed to run.
H1 visas work like a long tail. Most of the visas are used by big consulting companies to suppress wages. Most of these jobs pay less than 65k and displace American workers because they would demand more.

A small part of the visas (less than 10%) is used in the long tail by companies like Google and Facebook. They jobs pay relatively well. However because of difficulty in job mobility, the immigrant employees lose on negotiation and aren't paid we well as they could have gotten paid. At least these jobs do not displace American workers. The above companies have a lot of unfilled openings and if an American worker is available with the right skills, they would hire that person.
Dear deity i hate those...
Yes I know even Bruce has accepted this[0]. But, it is still Bible for Crypto. you will not find that much resources and ref. link in any other crypto book than this.

[0]. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/11/free_cryptogr...
Testing Azure Media Services with Ruby
Obviously you're not a coder. When I am in a coding flow the last thing I want to do is come out of my flow to make sure I didn't accidentally use a gendered term.
If only we could replace lawyers by computers too :)
For everyone whining about how this is "newspeak" and brainwashing, consider how the pronoun "Ms." didn't exist until the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms. (edit <- the period is part of the link, but HN strips it out)

Shouldn't the arguments that language can lead toward changes of thought (the "newspeak arguments") actually _spur_ these changes toward less biased thinking? If you agree that it is possible to change language, and that changing language changes thought, then the only remaining arguments at that point are appeals to a nebulous concept of "freedom" and that you like being a dude and saying whatever you want.

Appeals to 1984 are extra bankrupt because this is not a government, and there is absolutely no penalty for disobedience, except the social one -- and social punishments for disobedience of social norms has always been a part and parcel of living in, well, society.
Seems like that is starting to go away though, what with trans women being able to unfairly compete with cis women
You can hold any views you like in a democracy but you can't pretend your views are conservative when they are mostly shared by fascists. It was a conservative and greatest PM who defeated the last lot of moselys, nobody thought he was a socialist.
Backblaze B2 Drops Download Pricing by 60%
At a minimum, transparency lets you say "hey, we do all that stuff with this $, why is there all that extra $$$$ spent there where we can't see?"
If that's a problem, put it into your house-keeping - "please keep your questions short and to the point, and in the form of a question".

I'm a member (but not an organizer) of a meetup that doesn't do it, and our regular filibusterer will take up minutes of time with no urgency during Q&A. Really annoys me too.
I always mean to go to meetups to meet other programmers in my area, but 99.9% of the time I don't actually do it. Every single meetup is in the evening after work, when I'm tired and just want to go home. Maybe this is less of a problem when you're in your early twenties, single, and used to staying out late. But at this point in my life, not getting home to my wife until 9 or 10 so I can maybe making some soft connections just doesn't seem worth it.
Thank you for your reply @madcaptenor. It is actually hypothetical question to see what people are using at the moment. Basically I am trying to solve this problem using a web app and would like to see if it is a problem for people (it is for me) and whether there are any available solutions.
> There's no reason for it to cost as much as is does in the US, apart from greed.

The reason is people don't "pay" for it. Insurance does, and so nobody cares.

Edit: Well, the insurance companies should care, but if it's something that's rarely prescribed, it might be easier to just pay the claim instead of devoting people to negotiating a lower price.
The Web Experience: The Customer Journey and Micro Moments
There are elements of race and class that underlie this phenomenon. The "van life" theme is a foil for "pretty people in pretty places" where pretty people look a certain way. And those people can afford to live that way. They are so transcendent that they don't have to think about the trappings of the common life. That requires quite a bit of confidence about your ability to have a soft landing when you fail. In a different station in life, you have no ability to conceive of following your dreams of surfing and biking because you have to worry about making rent and helping pay for your parents meals.
While it is more than a bit absurd it doesn't work with https, I am not sure the "s" provides much fact verification.
based on some studies I've seen, human judges are terrible due to basic human nature, so I'd like to see something happen to make things more objective. Of course, the algo would have to be open, as opposed to the proprietary software being used now.

For example just having your sentencing be before lunch or at the end of the day results in harsher punishment simply due to the judge being hungry or tired.

Same goes for other basic things like women getting lighter sentences, minorities harsher sentences, etc.
Space launch is positioned first on the basis of local infrastructure. It requires massive local manufacturing facilities and extensive range equipment. If orbital mechanics was the primary driver every pad would be on the equator and russia wouldnt launch much of anything.
Yes, but the idea that someone posting pictures of themselves in a van is a negative cultural impact is kind of ludicrous.
The books that cover JS-heavy dev cover most of what you need on the client side. Back- and front-end dev is quite different; a book that covered them all is probably a bit heavy.
Are you implying that your fragile mental state is going to fall apart when exposed to the idea of generally using gender-neutral language? :)

It's basically no imposition at all, and you have already expended more effort in arguing against this than it would take to simply make a mental note that gender-neutral language is ideal next time you submit code to Chromium.
Live Migrations, Queryable Backups and More AWS Regions in MongoDB Atlas
functional is simple, oop is easy

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy?variant...
Likely because the gaps were coded in at the request of said spies.
Sorry for the late reply, the act of living itself makes me see the world slightly differently every day as new events unfurl.

I prefer learning from observations rather than being subjected to ideological propaganda. One respects the sovereignty of my conscience, the other does not.

Art does have a great impact on everyone's conscience, this is what makes it poignant. But there is good art and bad art, and in my book, ideological art is always bad since it veers your mind towards ideologies, towards a self-imprisonment of the mind, towards a false sense of consciousness, etc.
I think it's easy to see my attack on the system as an attack on yourself and wall street. I tried to skirt the line and be vague in terms of what I think ownership and control should be in a company, but many people feel the current system is quite messed up.

Most workers nowadays are not unionized, and it's declining[0], giving people with the "largest responsibility" pretty much all the control and profit. Clearest demonstration of the problems with this is the skyrocketing disparity[1] or massive top CEO pay disparity[2]. Yes, start ups and smaller companies aren't anywhere near that bad, but that's where the dream of a start up leads to, and most US employees work at large companies.[3]

Anyways, the point in my comment was solely that workers should have a large say in their company, and the blood sweat and tears of founders should be compensated, but far above everyone else? Sure, people who provide capital should be compensated, but should they decide what worker compensation is? Should they get most of the profits? I think there's ample room for improvement.

I also echo what neon_electro says about focusing solely on risk and omitting reward.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_Sta...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...

[2] http://fortune.com/2015/06/22/ceo-vs-worker-pay/Z

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-20/big-compa...
I don't disagree with you at all. For our uses, it was a stupid amount of overkill specced by someone whose job was the same as his hobby. We don't have anywhere near the need to scale that such a system was designed for, the hardware that was specified was very poorly considered, and no maintenance was ever done on it except for daily care and feeding -- which quickly grew to consume all of the previous engineering team's day.

When the previous engineering team was shown the door, the entire system had no maintenance and no path forward. It's an epic management fail, but ... let's just color me cynically and sarcastically surprised that I used "management" and "fail" in the same sentence.
Ask HN: What are Android dark patterns?
Dark patterns make users do things they did not intended to do. Common examples are accidentally signing up for a service or sharing personal data.

What do HN readers consider Android dark patterns? This could be something added by Google or partners such as Samsung.

To get you started, here is a favorite of mine: Setting up a new Chromecast will mysteriously "fail" if the user opts out of sharing his location.
For such a simple looking website, the page performance itself is awfully slow. From the markup, it appears to use React (bias confirmed).
TDD is a bit of a red herring here - it's just a technique more suitable for some things than others. It cannot, by it's very nature, effectively replace many other techniques no matter how much one might wish it so.
I can't even imagine being that fragile that seeing a gendered pronoun would be upsetting.
What an unbelievably ill-informed decision. I know "Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence" and all that, but it's absolutely incredible that an adult try do this and not anticipate the consequences.
Do you mean the 1660s?

From your link:

> ""Ms." began to be used as early as the 17th century, along with "Miss" and "Mrs.", as a title derived from the then formal "Mistress", which, like Mister, did not originally indicate marital status"
Yep just email that address and we'll take care of it.
MapReduce, which Google built for indexing the entire web, along with many other big data tasks, is an example of something that could only have been invented by someone familiar with the principles of functional programming:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Imperative/object oriented languages are often more practical for real-world use (MapReduce itself I believe is written in C++), however it's the ideas of functional programming that matter most. Those with experience working in functional languages are at an advantage over developers who've never had that exposure, because they have a wider range of mental tools at hand with which to solve problems.
Who pays for insurance? (Hint: its you and me, buddy.)
I'm looking around right now.
The registrar for reddit.com and ycombinator.com both are https://www.gandi.net/

I am considering them and a few foreign registrars right now.

I still am in shock how namecheap might have suspended my domain.
Having to work with female colleagues I now much prefer working with just males.
Unfortunately in my experience women are the root cause of many workplace issues and misunderstandings.

1) women gossip a lot

2) women are too emotional

3) women care about these little things that just do not matter

4) women want to be in good terms with almost everyone hence avoid confrontations
25 Highest Paying Companies in America for 2017
Can somebody fix Google's code? It's just Javascript, right?
I believe Inbox had major performance issues in non-Chrome browsers at launch, which was something they fixed in the weeks following its initial release. Once those were fixed, it was opened up to other browsers.
Most of my experience on it was just endless hard to read lists of people linking things that I already knew about, since I learned of their twitter through their blog. Followers also made no sense since so many were either bots or people using botlike tactics.

I think most of its goodwill was from being first in its niche, but as I grow older, I notice that increasingly many of the older net is becoming less fun to use. Netflix is just becoming a cable network when I loved it being a rental place, Amazon is a place where you consume streaming stuff and less a storefront you can trust, Facebook is a place to learn about the latest memes your grandmother likes, etc.

I wonder if we won't start to see a lot more failures to grow in coming years,
I'm in the same boat. There are a ton of Boston meetups, but I live in the suburbs for many lifestyle reasons. The commute doesn't justify sticking around after hours when I have an hour and a half walk/train/drive home.
I find your expectations to be unreasonably high.
The self correcting system is a fiction and will always be a fiction. The indefatigable infrastructure that corrects the errant member system with 5 9s is a fiction and will
always be a fiction.
LinuxKit: A Toolkit for Building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems
1) As true as that is, it's actually a worthwhile exercise for all of us to practice gender neutrality. If we move our industry toward inclusivity, we'll more than make up for these minute productivity fears.

2) Using a gendered term isn't "accidental", but a built-in bug. Our biases are constructed in us by our environment, and we only benefit from growing out of them. If not now, when?
Hmm. The high school dropouts I knew always said that they'd go down and live next to the river in a van. Now it's the new hipster cool thing. Reminds me of people glorifying living in "tiny houses" that are upscale versions of the wickiup tow-behind logging camps my father lived in. Minus the mice and weasels skittering across your sleeping bag in the night, or the bear that smashes your kitchen to pieces while you're out chopping.
Modding a business cloud NAS for home use
Link to meetup? Sounds fun
Evening SF time?
Why is email marketing so insanely overpriced?
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Obviously you're not a coder.

I very much am. I don't really understand your argument – do you have to 'come out of your flow' to make sure that you spell correctly, or are grammatically consistent, or aren't accidentally racist?
Cool! Thanks. It'd be interesting add a column for "total raised so far" to that list. For example, a $20M acquisition of a company that raised $40M would be a failure.
They also use Haskell (and the Haxl library) for their anti-spam engine.
on point 5, why don't people want to move to Linz? It looks quite charming.
The problem isn't that multiple time zones give the same local time at a particular time; the problem is that a person may experience the same local time multiple times during a day due to traveling or summer time.

Suppose I'm coming back to Chicago from a trip to Japan, and a friend wants to get an early dinner when I get back. One frequent direct flight from Tokyo leaves NRT around 6 PM and arrives at ORD at 4 PM on the same calendar date. Before I leave Chicago I set an event for meeting them at our favorite restaurant at 5:30 PM. Should my calendar remind me about the event when it's 5:00 PM where I'm at waiting for my flight to board at Narita or at 5:00 PM where I'm at back in Chicago?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14137328 and marked it off-topic.
While it's obvious, it's also disingenuous when making an argument to fail to make the entirety of your argument, and thus avoid saying "difficult" things.

"I feel that the requirement for non-gendered language is preventing people from thinking about the differences between genders", for example, would be something that can actually be dissected and responded to. A quote can't, so much.
Taleb: No Worship Without Skin in the Game
Specifically, you could give it away to a local library :)
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This would be really powerful if it provided access to the original data sources.

Imagine if you could analyze the results of public policy, with clean and detailed data, independently curated, without political or bureaucratic distortions.

The US has 3,000 counties and 20,000 towns and cities, each one a petri dish of experiments in governance. Imagine what we could learn!

From the NYT [1]:

Want to know how many police officers are employed in various
parts of the country and compare that against crime rates?

Want to know how much revenue is brought in from parking tickets
and the cost to collect?

Want to know what percentage of Americans suffer from diagnosed
depression and how much the government spends on it?

That’s in there. You can slice the numbers in all sorts of ways.

Unfortunately, I'm not seeing source data on the site. There are high-level charts and PDF reports so far.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/business/dealbook/steve-b...
How we deploy Django and Reactjs on Heroku – thoughts?
To be fair, the correct use case for Dispose is extremely confusing in .NET. Dispose feel like a language construct to novice developers, but it's left to library designers to properly implement it. There are multiple cases of Microsoft designed API's that don't properly implement dispose, and therefore can't properly be used with 'using.' I'm sure the amount of non-microsoft-blessed code with this issue is far larger.
I understand now. Thanks for clarifying :)

As a little side note - possibly helpful if you are willing to invest more time in this project in the long term: I've had some discussions long time ago with people from wikihouse [1], and am still struggling with similar issues with my own adventures (academic research sponsored by an industry network). The model wikihouse adopted was that everyone has a seat at the table, but nobody owns the table itself (or the chairs).

It can be simplistically simmered down to:
If this is a core feature that will allow your project to expand and make it relevant to a wider audience, considering labelling this as a "core feature" and insist on it being part of the open source project. They could sponsor it and/or have direct support of the developer and/or "first adopter" privileges but the code will fold back in the public branch after a given time. It would help if you had another company expressing interest (maybe just ask).

Good luck with your endeavours!

[1] https://wikihouse.cc/
A Flask Open Source Foundation
Hello to everyone,
I start this subject because i feel i need to. I am passionated with web application development and an open source lover, so i decide to give a try. To be honest until a few weeks ago i used mostly ruby on rails but it doesn't satisfied me as much as i want. So, i start to search a lot about Flask, the community behind it etc. Then i came up with an old idea. I am not learning web development to create apps for clients. I don't like to. And i realized that i will be happy if i create something on my own or if i will be able to offer to the open source community. So here i am. You probably realize: "What this dude want?". So here is the deal. I like to create a foundation along with other people who wants to contribute to the open source and especially to the Flask one. So, i drop this message and i will wait for some response to see if we can give it a shot. Hope to be a lot. Thanks everyone who takes the time to read this. !
I've never had any problem with Namecheap, but then I use them only as a domain registrar. I host my servers on DigitalOcean. That means I'm responsible for my servers, buy that's how I like it.
Before anyone goes putting a ton of trust in these charts...

Compare the following:
http://usafacts.org/metrics/31815 vs http://usafacts.org/metrics/12966

In the second chart half a million more people decide to die every 10th year?

( imgur link to screenshots in case the links don't work: http://imgur.com/a/tY02j )
Part of the failure, in my eyes, IS not buying into it. They know their profession is 'faking it'. Living a life you actually embody seems inherently more fufilling to me, having been on both sides of the phenomenon.
nice... somewhat glitchy, but still pretty good.

I doubt there is reinforcement learning going on though, I think the AIs of the mugen characters are hard coded.
"Miss Simpson, do you find something funny about the word 'tromboner'?"
I never defended that women shouldn't be allowed to run, quite on the contrary. I just find it odd that people keep pushing for equal access and opportunities but then gladly accept complete gender discrimination in some occasions like these ones.
What meetup is this? I'm a developer with a strong focus on Python in the NYC area.
"a 10% chance of making 100s of thousands" - I wish / hope ;)

I don't desperately need the money right now. I'm more attracted by the idea of a good base from which I can draw a steady income over the years. I've been quite surprised at how much effort is involved in maintaining an open source project though.

Its fun but its also quite tempting when an offer comes along. Would be interesting to know if there have been other projects that have shut down after an offer was made.
> For new code/comments, consider using just ‘A’, ‘B’ as names (instead of Alice and Bob)

This defeats the point of using Alice and Bob. There is a reason why Alice and Bob have different genders, because when thinking about complex scenarios, having different genders in addition to different names is more beneficial. Maybe they can use anthropomorphize animals, Archi the Alligator and Bob the Bunny.
Working with functional languages has made me value and seek out simplicity in my code. Before I write a loop or create another class I'll often ask myself if there is a more simple way to solve the problem - and oftentimes there is.
Some great points in this article. I've found that meetups happen a bit too frequently. I think instead of monthly, they should probably be quarterly.