skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're concerned about controversy, because the origin is clearly sexist. Men running businesses wanted attractive women welcoming visitors (ie. other men) and helping them with tasks around the office.

The continuing problem is this hasn't changed much at all in the last half century. For example, you will not find one unattractive receptionist at any VC office on Sand Hill Rd.
They have managed to take the async/await pattern and make it as much fun as Perl POE.
He's expected a future where the growth in fundraising declines, but the costs they have committed to are unable to decline at the same rate.
Apparently not in the case of WMF.
yeah, go ahead. Ive just found a great place for bullet force @ http://bulletforcegame.com/
That is exactly the point of the theory. Wages increase roughly at parity for equally skilled workers, regardless of their productivity, since otherwise people wouldn't choose to go into careers that under-pay. While costs decrease for goods and services that benefit from productivity increases, they stay the same for goods and services where productivity doesn't improve. Since all other costs are dropping, this has the effect of making prices go UP for hands-on services.
> I would stop very far from calling the work that was already done "terrible".

You already declared you weren't going to debate me on this point, so I don't know why you're bringing it up again, especially since you're not saying anything substantive.

> why exactly people who built a reference management software must be running Wikimedia Foundation?

Because they are philanthropically funded non-profit who build great academic/research software on a small budget while responding rapidly to user feedback.

If your objections center around the fact that WMF does a lot more than develop Wikipedia software, then you are missing the whole point of this thread: that WMF's primary contribution is Wikipedia, and almost everything else is secondary. So long as it's being funded by private citizens because of the value they get from Wikipedia, then this should be the focus. Yes, that means the people running Wikipedia conferences and local meetups will have less power.
> While it's a good warning to WMF, it's not currently a problem.

I believe the author's thesis is that by the time "it's not currently a problem" is no longer an argument that makes sense, it will also no longer be possible to effectively correct the WMF's course in a way that will solve it.

I'm not sure I have any idea how to effectively determine if the author is correct about that, but certainly I don't think "it's not currently a problem" actually contradicts anything he's saying.
Scala.JS will be for JavaScript what Scala is for Java [2015]
Is this a case where the HN story originally appeared with a title matching the essay and was subsequently changed to a more descriptive title? Quite the opposite of the typical pattern :)
> the code has had to be replicated four times—for IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and Ethernet

This is terrifying, the possible security vulnerabilities which this could spawn are endless.
Synology 1513+ running Plex Server and a FireTV Box stuck to every TV in the house. All of my media is stored on the Synology (5x 4TB drives).

I also have one of the less used PCs in the house running Plex Server, and we connect to that for viewing Plex Channels (basically, plugins that front-end NBC.com, ABC.com, and a bunch of other services) to take some of the transcoding load off the Synology.

I have a lifetime subscription to Plex.tv and LOVE the service. The only thing I'd like to improve about my set up is the processor in the Synology, which is too slow to transcode on the fly so I have to target my encodes to my current hardware and rerip when my clients get more capable.
There are a lot of porn companies needing CS people for their webdev and such.

Good luck!
Seems like a worthless correlation to me.

Politics in the US just don't make sense anymore.

Those who consider themselves "conservative" push for more military power and control, while those who consider themselves "liberal" fight for individual liberties.

I just don't get it.
With all the thousands of corporations that get created and destroyed all the time, it seems like parent's proposed rule could probably work for one or two of them? If not, maybe we could come up with something more substantial than, "this could be hard!"
Little bitch street bakery by Jenny Colgan[review]
Humans do just that on a regular basis.
I think Mark has a hidden agenda, and it will be sometime before we all figure it out. As for my personal opinion, I do not trust him, and I am deeply suspicious of everything he says and does.
Because calling your assistant jeeves means you are the wooster drone.

On a serious note - a female voice is extremely pleasing. Male voice puts you instantly into play social status games mode.
I think you're forgetting a number of advantages.

1. Surprise. All land-based launch sites are actively monitored all the time, giving countries advance warning when a missile is launched. Submarine launches cut down this warning time, but still light up radar and thermal all over the place. A kinetic impactor falling from LEO can hit its target before the enemy even reports up the chain of command (we're talking single digit minutes).

2. Lack of radioactive fallout while still having larger destructive force than conventional munitions. If you need to destroy an entire air base far behind enemy lines, but don't want nearby population centers to be irradiated, you're looking at pretty bad options today, compared to a kinetic bombardment.

3. You can't really intercept a kinetic impactor. We have the technology right now to shoot small rockets right out of the sky, and at least a chance of intercepting ICBM payloads. With a kinetic rod, though, intercepting it wouldn't really do very much - it's just a big chunk of mass moving really fast. The best you could do is break it into smaller pieces that are still moving really fast.
for sure! I did about three serious test cases then got distracted into making random squiggles just to discover new wacko unicode characters.

Now that Python supports unicode identifiers.......
You haven't felt the pain of a relationship ending?
You don't see the value committed and deep long term relationship? The kind only possible if both parties commit to sticking with each other through thick and thin?
Symlinks are a poor example, IMO. Yes, they need to be carefully handled for security reasons. But they also offer great flexibility that is actually widely used, and that wouldn't be available through other mechanisms.
One of my favorite books is about Captain Kidd. It's a well researched take on his life and it argues, strongly in my opinion, that he was not a pirate and goes into great detail how he (supposedly) led his life. It's a surprisingly captivating read.

https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Hunter-True-Story-Captain/dp/0...
> I understand that beauty is subjective

It's not, really: displays of health, wealth, leisure are pretty much common. Youth and fertility for women. Status and wealth for men. Body symmetry.

My layperson's understanding is that some of the specifics can be contextual to a particular time and culture, but the principles are universal, and so are a good number of the specifics.
Biped running robot that doesn't need a computer or sensors
Can you name a single language that does that? I can't think of one.
You're making multiple unsupported assumptions and simplifications in these couple sentences that might not hold, so your conclusion becomes invalid. One example: the age of people in marriages compared to people in unmarried relations will be different and with it a variety of variables, such as the presence of kids. Another: single women are more interested in marriage than single men, so there could be even more differences between married/unmarried couples. Or let's take cheating - I could be completely satisfied throughout 99% of the duration of the relationship until the point when cheating occurred. Or we know that women are more likely to divorce men earning less than them or stay-at-home dads and the earning power of men and women in marriages changes as compared to unmarried men and women. Etc, etc. Social science gets very messy very quickly.
I disagree. He's been transparent with his goals, and people (besides a loud but relatively small amount of hard dissenters) don't seem to object. And by that, I mean: they use facebook.
Hm. Business plan: develop one that can look at your home and bug you into redecorating. Amazon/Ikea integration, of course.
I am the author of this op-ed, which I will prove by posting a comment on my Wikipedia talk page [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Guy_Macon#Hacker_New... ] before saving this. I am open to any questions, criticism, or discussion. BTW, as I noted in the op-ed. At the request of the editors of The Signpost, the version linked to at the top of this thread has fewer citations and less information in the graphic. The original version is at [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... ]
I'm a lawyer and so have dabbled at contributing to articles about law. That is definitely the deep end of wikipedia editing, a deep end full of political sharks. I learned that lesson and will not return. When I mention this to other lawyers they chuckle. We've all tried and given up. "Let the kids have their fun" they say. I've also tried to clean up a few non-law articles, mostly ones with horrible structure and confusing use of language. That is also a deep end. Many of the lesser-edited articles are 'owned' by entrenched editors who don't take kindly to anyone touching their prose. I've thought about penning some new articles, but have run into what I now know as deletionism. That would be my third lesson, after which I basically washed my hands of the entire process. Too many demigods.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletionism
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/0...
JGreat project and I just added it to my browser. Could you please add reviews or ratings? I want to know that a book has been favorably reviewed before investing time in reading it.
Exclusive mode is useful when used for good reasons - i.e. to get snapshot semantics (no-one else can change this) while reading, or implement atomic changes (no-one else can see the change halfway) when writing.

The problem on Windows is that too many APIs decided that exclusive should be the default mode if none is specified - which is the safer choice in a sense that it gives the most guarantees (and the least surprise) to the caller, but arguably the adverse effects it causes on other apps are more surprising and harmful in the end.
I edited that line out, because it was superfluous. It's clear why these individuals were hired, in addition to being great at their job.
This is a killer review.
Faulkner's Maps of Yoknapatawpha County, the Fictional Home of His Novels (2015)
Isn't this really an ad server?
> Most users don't care about compatibility, as Apple's success has clearly shown,

by having 3% of the desktop market and 10% of the smartphone market?
In [1]: breakfast = {"bacon": 2, "eggs": 3}

In [2]: sorted(breakfast)

Out[2]: ['bacon', 'eggs']

Done. One and only one obvious way to return a sorted list of keys of a dict.
So they did something positive but we'll somehow turn it into a negative to further our cause.

What is wrong with people.
> why should I consider python at all for a new, multi year project when there is no clear path forward for the language and there hasn't been in a decade?

What does a "clear path forward" mean in the context of a programming language? In what way does python not have one?

>yet the choice will decide the future and success of their app

No it won't. I would argue that programming language choice generally has little effect on success, but it has even less effect when the languages are as similar as python 2 and 3.

>rewrites of python 2 code

Hardly a rewrite, I presume. They would need to change their syntax in some places, change package names in others, and any place they've dealt with strings might require some fiddling, but overall it would be relatively easy. Much easier than a rewrite at least.
Here are the two studies that are quoted by most of the articles on this topic.

The first is Does social desirability bias favor humans? Explicit–implicit evaluations of synthesized speech support a new HCI model of impression management[0]. This study found that both men and women interpret female voices as warmer.

The second is Are Computers Gender-Neutral? Gender Stereotypic Responses to Computers[1]. This study found that male voices are preferred when discussing computers and female voices are preferred when discussing relationships.

[0] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.669...

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.536...
should've been more specific that you were looking for those hardcore 9-5 cs jobs in LA
This reminds me of a novel weapon from the Daemon novels. Basically, small semi-guided darts dropped from weather balloons that were used as antipersonnel weapons rather than as a replacement for conventional explosives.
Of course the factors chosen are just another place to introduce bias.
1 in 5 Australians hit by revenge porn
Yosemite is not Yellowstone. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/bears.htm

There hasn't been a grizzly bear in Yosemite since the 1920s.
No idea. I'm just commenting on the way the data is presented. 300 doesn't seem absurd to me. How many they actually need, though, I don't know.
Ah, this is the key info that I was missing. It's not at all clear from the article.
I dunno... there's still a line one crosses when you stop treating you spouse as a person and start treating them as an adversary.

The things I've heard people say about, or worse, to their spouses sometimes stretches my definition of basic human decency.

Regardless of how someone changes, every person deserves basic respect. Even little things like complaining about bad habits behind a person's back fosters resentment borne of disrespect, resentment that can grow and fester. Resisting that urge and instead treating ones partner with dignity is a critical skill many couples lack.
you could also do the trick with zfs - just create an zpool on that loop device - this also gives you lz4 and gzip
It's not really a new tool, but clever usage of existing tools.
It is a huge red flag.
This is why I dislike most restaurants. The chef always feels the need to run a dish by adding some sort of "twist"
Have you compared the growth of costs with similar sized organizations?
Grats to the Sinatra team!

Sinatra is one of my all-time favorite libraries. To me, it is the ideal microframework for rapidly prototyping websites and APIs
Interestingly, most of ROS (core) is py3 compatible. Its only a lot of the libs that aren't. Unfortunately, that includes some very common libs.
There is some science behind this. Studies have shown that people, both men and women, react differently to a female voice. Sometimes that reaction can make a real difference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7-yvXf6f8
Yes, but ZFS is probably more memory hungry and somewhat an overkill just for compression alone. It's a pity simpler filesystems don't have transparent compression.
9-5 is not the exception, it's the rule. Let's keep it that way.
New Scientist has been uncritical gee-whiz garbage since at least the 90s.

It might have been before that, but I lacked the analytical skills to notice.
Papadia PLANTA MEDICINALA
To me, it sounds more like a problem with Rust that a single misnamed package could bring down the whole system. It's essentially a SQL injection attack (without the SQL).
My understanding is that Siri was intentionally chosen to be a gender agnostic name.
I'm just confused as to why you think this is a problem? OpenJDK is an open source project and Google, or any other company, can fork it and trim as much undesirable fat as they wish. Additionally, as it has repeatedly been pointed out to you, Google does not call their fork Java not do they use any of the Java trademarks so your accusation that it fragments the language isn't true because it was never intended to be compatible with Java and the JVM. If Oracle has a problem with other companies forking OpenJDK then perhaps they should change the license for further releases or perhaps not make it "Open" anymore.
Something I do more and more often in the last one year is to have a more ruthless and cold approach -- if something doesn't work well enough in a deadline I set myself, I just abandon it.

There's always a risk of never going far enough to actually become the best there is in something. That's an undeniable fact.

But it gives you (1) a priceless experience, and (2) teaches you to prioritize.

I am definitely not the wisest man -- quite the contrary, I am pretty flawed -- but I learned that holding on too much is much worse than letting go and maybe trying again one day.

The past is a very poor decider of whether you should persist. There are a lot more factors which are much more important.
Yes, it's really the case. Not for everyone; see the guy who replied bragging about all the physical stuff he's learned to do. However, the odds of both partners in a marriage not turning into fat couch potatoes is very small. (This happened to me: I was married, I'm like that other 40yo guy and do lots of physical stuff, my ex got fat, we got divorced.)

Be very, very, very careful who you marry, and if you're not planning on having kids, think very hard about whether you need to even bother getting married at all. It's usually not a good deal, and instead will cost you more with the IRS if you're both working and have similar incomes. IMO, the entire institution is obsolete and should be abolished.
Cool! Does this sort of thing ever upset users when you guess wrong?
Yes, or some other identifier that's unique to that crate. Assuming that the crate name is also a valid file name seems risky.
Same Stats, Different XKCD
I guess not. I'm just still running Slackware, so I haven't needed to grapple with it just yet - and I'm holding out hoping to find that one other distribution that also doesn't use systemd so I can use that instead. :P

I've heard good things about Void Linux, I'll likely have a look at that at some point.

On the flip side of the coin, I've kind of accepted that everyone who uses Linux has to put up with systemd now, so I'll accept my fate eventually. It's just that I value constructive and positive communication, I don't like the systemd team's blatant arrogance, and I consider it a corporate abuse of power that nothing has been done to curb or deal with it. (I hope I never have to deal with Red Hat in a business setting. Feathers, sparks, fur... everything would fly, and it wouldn't be pretty.)
Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013)
No, because it's just a silly romantic fantasy, that's all. People change, and relationships come and go. Embracing change (as this article recommends) means not holding onto relationships after they've gone stale.
This got me thinking about what a genderless voice would sound like.

I can see some parallels between that question and print vs hand writing[0]. Print is genderless, but not by design. A computer can produce more sounds more precisely than a human, could we invent a way of converting text to sound that could take advantage of that in some way?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8961315 https://dabamirror.sci-hub.cc/ba3402de799822a492cbb9f42a2fe3... 78% accuracy in sexing hand writing from a single word.
>> Bad experiences for new and established contributors mean less motivated contributors.

> This has nothing to do with the financials of the foundation and is completely a community issue.

I do not contribute financially to wikipedia, despite being very interested in doing so, because of this issue.

I am sick and tired of seeing large amounts of properly formatted, well formed articles, written in good faith, deleted by the little hitlers protecting their precious wikipedia turf.

This "community issue" costs wikipedia several thousand of my dollars per year. I wonder how many other people decline to support them financially due to these "community issues" ?
Except that only works for absolute paths. And then also changes other semantics that you might expect to be there - e.g. it disables handling of .. and . to mean parent and current directory (which is valid even in absolute paths, and often useful).
I would imagine that the airbag solution would be rather unpleasant for humans, even if it were possible/practical.
Marriage is probably more due to socialization - from religious marriages to shotgun weddings - than a deep desire to stay committed for the rest of one's life. Is it more likely that people are conforming to social norms, or that they have all found "the one?"
Abstract: "We use the most up to date Milky Way model and solar orbit data in order to test the hypothesis that the Sun's galactic spiral arm crossings cause mass extinction events on Earth. To do this, we created a new model of the Milky Way's spiral arms by combining a large quantity of data from several surveys. We then combined this model with a recently derived solution for the solar orbit to determine the timing of the Sun's historical passages through the Galaxy's spiral arms. Our new model was designed with a symmetrical appearance, with the major alteration being the addition of a spur at the far side of the Galaxy. A correlation was found between the times at which the Sun crosses the spiral arms and six known mass extinction events. Furthermore, we identify five additional historical mass extinction events that might be explained by the motion of the Sun around our Galaxy. These five additional significant drops in marine genera that we find include significant reductions in diversity at 415, 322, 300, 145 and 33 Myr ago. Our simulations indicate that the Sun has spent ~60% of its time passing through our Galaxy's various spiral arms. Also, we briefly discuss and combine previous work on the Galactic Habitable Zone with the new Milky Way model."

TL;DR: our Sun's bumpy orbit through the spiral arms of out galaxy means periodic increases of comets and other bodies being jarred loose and later hitting Earth, resulting in mass extinctions.

The full paper is a free download from this page.
> Men running businesses wanted attractive
> women

Maybe, but it seems equally plausible to me that young (and old) women represented a large labour pool of sufficiently educated and equally intelligent workers who expected not to pursue a career (or had not been pursuing a career), were cut off from manual work, and in many cases wouldn't be averse to an environment where they might meet a young man with an office job. Secretarial and clerkship work was a primary male profession until mid 1900s.
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