skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In English, "man" and "woman" are the preferred terms for male and female humans, respectively. "Male" and "female" are clinical and dehumanizing. It's like saying "Laura is gestating an embryo" instead of saying "Laura is going to have a baby." They're also just grammatically weird, because they're adjectives that have been turned into nouns. It's like saying "Ben is a Hispanic" instead of "Ben is a Hispanic person." Finally, they're one letter longer for no benefit.

Neither of the reasons people use "male" and "female" instead of "man" and "woman" are any good. The first is attempting to sound educated by using French-derived words like male and female in preference to German-derived words like man and woman. The second is that "male" and "female" punt on having to refer to the person's age, and in our era of perpetual adolescence people are terrified of being considered a "man" or a "woman."

No offense, rayiner, but I think everything you wrote is simply ridiculous on its face. Saying they're "clinical and dehumanizing" or "grammatically weird" are simply your opinion, which I do not share. And saying that "they're one letter longer for no benefit" just smacks of desperation.

If you want to indicate the gender of a person, there is absolutely nothing wrong with using the terms "male" or "female".

But, as evidenced by this thread, there are people who want to make that usage taboo.
My commute (Livermore to south bay) is 2+ hours each way. From the folks I know/work with, this seems like a fairly average commute, maybe a little on the high side.
The idea is to go nearly every weekend - as a climber living in Munich, all those lakes and the mountains offer enormous weekend potential. As someone else deduced already, I'll be building some platform in the back and add curtains, something I can't be putting in a rented van.
Apple publishes security updates for 10.10 and 10.11:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
They have an international version that does not ship with encryption of the data stored on the device, to deal with the various laws around encryption in other countries. However, there's no hardware difference, and since it's all open-source, there's nothing stopping you from loading the "US" firmware on the "International" version.

More info at their site: https://crp.to/
US government for some time pushed abstinence only AIDS prevention programmes in Africa, against all the evidence of ABC.
How Your Mouse Movement Could Be Used to Stop Identity Theft
So Dart has a few different compilation targets: JavaScript for building front-end web apps and the Dart VM [1]. There's also some work being done for other compilation targets, specifically for faster development cycles when doing front-end web stuff.

The interesting thing about the Dart VM is there's no JavaScript at all. You can even link to C and C++ code from Dart.

1: Here's a discussion on how the Dart VM is implemented: https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/forum/#!topic/misc/...)
UBI will never work in a country as large and diverse as the US
Alberta pays about the same. This is still a long shot from the US and is a major factor why we're always gonna be stuck with a brain drain to the US.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538060
Facts Alone Won’t Convince People to Vaccinate Their Kids – FiveThirtyEight
Assessing accuracy? If you're running the same architecture with the same training regime, why would you expect differing accuracy numbers (other than a bug of some sort)? Seems a bit strange to include.
Hey new developers:

A fully funded retirement = Freedom

I know it doesn't seem important now, but if you focus on this early in your career, you'll have a lot of flexibility later in your career.
"Cultural Marxism" is nothing more than a fringe-right conspiracy theory that develops into antisemitism at its worst. [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040217231449/http://www.splcen...
It's not though. No mention of the device, eliquid, device parameters (power or temperature depending on the model), or puff duration. It's a pretty significant omission.
An excellent introduction to Windows reverse engineering are lena151's video tutorials:
https://tuts4you.com/download.php?list.17
Java versus C++ (funny)
Let's hope AMD's threadripper really offers 64 lanes.
The first todo system that worked for me was bullet journal.
It is essentially just a notebook where you write down every todo.

I partition it in days and put new things there.
Not actionable notes, todos and events get different symbols in front.

Not actionable notes: "-"

todos: "·"

events. "◯"

Once I have done a todo the "·" becomes a "x".

Events that are done will get a "x" drawn over the "◯".

When I have to start a new double-page I also migrate all the old todos and events that are not "x"-ed so far to the new page.

THIS is the crux. You have to migrate them by hand. Your todo list won't grow to infinity because you are lazy. Instead you re-evaluate if the todo is really necessary still.

Yes? Migrate.

No? Cross it out.
It would be unimportant if nobody used C++.

Unfortunately, many languages have gotchas like these, and specifications and tutorials often fail to point them out. For the sake of education they should be shouted loudly. You don't really know a language, and aren't really safe using it, until you understand them.
GitHub pushes updates and launches Marketplace – AlternativeTo.net
When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism (2016)
Same here -- I'm a British male, 20s. I use kk casually and always have. I've never thought of it as being "feminine" in any shape or form.
> #111135 -> LILIES

That's really stretching it.
> I know IANAL, but I don't think you are either

I'm not, but I did pass Corporations (which, despite the name, covers all manner of business entities) before I left law school, so there's that.

> No, it's not.

Yes, partnerships absolutely can be formed why mere combination with a common purpose and no formal partnership document. In fact, much of the law of partnerships arose out of courts deciding how to resolve problems where people had done that.

> What is "joined together....but with no formal agreement"?

A relatively common situation that potentially creates a legal mess when it falls apart, or some third-party makes a claim involving the business.

> You can't take that to the bank, or to the court house.

You probably can't take it to the bank, because banks hate dealing with legal uncertainty and will demand that you resolve it first. You absolutely can take it to the courthouse, and many people have; of course, you'd usually do better to have a written agreement in place first, but that's often clearer in hindsight.

Moreover, other people can take you to court for it (including based on the conduct of your partner), so if you have formed a partnership by cooperation that you no longer want to have, you absolutely do want to make sure you have effectively dissolved it.
> it runs locally so you don't need to offer your info to a random website

Odd reasoning for this specific instance. The only thing to offer the website is a cron expression. Without any context, how sensitive is that information?
It's a fun article, but it actually drives me to a question: is it possible (by which I mean remotely feasible) to design a user experience from the ground up around a massively parallel system?

Let's say you had some low speed hardware to support a beefy GPU in a case, could a manageable operating system be built that wouldn't spend all of it's time in IO-wait? I like the idea and challenge in designing this way, but I don't see a way forward that doesn't just fall back on the architecture of core computational unit with specialized auxiliary units quite rapidly.
Yes but you grew up typing hex codes into a home computer connected to a tape drive. You know what 8192 looks like in binary but everything beyond 65535 you struggle with because you didn't have the registers for that on your 6502A.

It probably irritates you to see images scaled to 1000 pixels rather than 1024. What about that jpeg cell that is not 8 pixels square? Think of the computational overhead and the need to go floating point just because someone does not think in bytes. It is too late to tell them now, these kids ain't spending winter typing in hex. Hex to them is like BCD is to you and who needs binary coded decimal these days when emoji's need to be mastered?

I don't mean you personally, just them folk that know their hex from learning to code that way. I think hex is important but it seems most front end developers would prefer not to know.
Seems appropriate that #D15C05 (DISCOS) is an ugly, 70s orange-brown.
And on top of that, you need to (usually) be self-sufficient. If you're the type that constantly needs to be told what to do, remote work is a lot harder.
Random Vulnerability Name Generator
Set the goalposts and we can discuss it. If we're talking new cars, I think >$30k is for the affluent. If you want to consider used cars, maybe they become more attainable, but the supply is tiny (literally 50x as many used IC focuses as used electric focuses near me) and there's still a premium for the equivalent car (~20% from what I see).

I can buy a 2013 electric Focus for $13k. I can buy a 2012 BMW 328i for $14k. Are BMWs also affordable now?
My experience is that the normal reality is that your first stop is after about 2.5 hours, because you leave with a 100% charge from home, then you stop about every 1.5-2 hours, depending on supercharger placement and destination. That worked out pretty well for the 6.5 hour drive that I did most recently, with two stops one way (up into the mountains), and one returning (downhill helped with range). I think it would be more impactful on 10+ hour drives, but still within the realm of reasonable. If you are someone who does 10 hour drives regularly, then EVs aren't for you.
I agree completely. It happens so consistently for me that you'd think letting a problem go would have gotten easier. It hasn't. The part of me that needs closure must be very strong and seems to function largely in the subconscious/below the rational level.

It's a constant struggle to leave things behind and properly unwind at the end of the day.
Idiot who voluntarily breaks their web browser, then complains that it's broken. Bye!
The problem is that many investment products in 401ks under perform. At my last company the best fund netted on 4%. Since I now manage my own IRA, I get 15-20%.
A GPU database isn't that useful, because the arithmetic intensity (ops/byte) is relatively low. Cross-sectional memory bandwidth is what really matters; you can get similar effects with a cluster of CPU machines provisioned appropriately, with a shard or a replica of the database on each CPU machine. I say this as someone who has written a GPU in-memory database of sorts that is used at Facebook (Faiss), but what is interesting if you can tie that to something that has higher arithmetic intensity before or after the database lookup on the GPU.

GPUs are only really being used for machine learning due to the sequential dependence of SGD and the relatively high arithmetic intensity (flops/byte) of convolutions or certain GEMMs. The faster you can take a gradient descent step means the faster wall clock time to converge, and you would lose by limiting memory reuse (for conv/GEMM) or on communication overhead or latency if you attempt to split a single computation between multiple nodes. The Volta "tensor cores" (fp16 units) make the GPU less arithmetic bound for operations such as convolution that require a GEMM-like operation, but the fact that the memory bandwidth did not increase by a similar factor means that Volta is fairly unbalanced.

The point about Intel not increasing their headline performance by as much as GPUs is also misleading. Intel CPUs are very good at branchy codes and are latency optimized, not throughput optimized (as far as a general purpose computer can be). Not everything we want to do, even in deep learning, will necessarily run well on a throughput-optimized machine.
hehe I'm in a rather similar situation, but instead of trying to find a job I'm trying to create my own, and since you talked about habits, I need to share my work now! https://everydaycheck.com :P
I agree with you, although also agree with another poster that net neutrality is still important, mostly because of interoperability reasons.

However, you're also bringing up an issue that seems really neglected in public discussion, which is the role of municipal infrastructure and policy.

To me there's three things:

1. The importance of net neutrality to the working of the internet, at a theoretical level.

2. The lack of competition.

3. The obligation of companies to the public because of advantages they've been granted.

These discussions always proceed like big ISPs own the land that cables are going over, etc. when that's anything but the case. There's things like the telephones you mention, plus right-of-way laws.

Why the EFF doesn't publish a huge map showing land used by ISPs that's not owned by them I don't understand.

It outrages me to see these ISPs being given right of way, and then having them turn around and act like they don't owe anything to the public, when in fact they wouldn't exist without the public bending over backward to give them all sorts of privileges. They're acting like parasites.

To me I might take arguments against net neutrality more seriously if those arguing against net neutrality would:

1. Lobby for the rights of municipalities and other institutions to set up their own ISPs and networks. No laws against public ISPs.

2. Lobby for ISPs to be held responsible for any and all criminally or civilly infringing content going over their networks. Want to preferentially treat packets? Then you should scan for child porn too. If not, you're implicitly supporting it.

3. Lobby for the elimination of right-of-way. Let municipalities, state and federal governments, and private landholders charge ISPs whatever they want for access over their land.

Of course, ISPs would scream bloody murder and argue such things are ridiculous, but I would argue that they're not at all unreasonable given what the government is asking for in terms of net neutrality. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
"Just because something is no longer in common/widespread use, does not mean you can come along and use its meaning or name on your shiny new product."

Just because you think that doesn't mean they can't.

Since when was the rest of the world obliged to follow your rules?

Besides, I doubt the world is about to ditch the usual operating systems for Gopher OS.

Is this really a problem?
That's not even Econ 102, that's.. week 4 of Econ 101.
>If you're being a dick you can be expected to be called out for being a dick, we live in a polite society, this is how these things work.

True enough. And I happen to think that people who are trying to establish that referring to men as "male" and women as "female" are violating the rules of polite society are giant, throbbing dicks. So I'm going to call them out.
sounds like you need to get out more. there are plenty of responsible albeit "down on their luck" types. the issue is all the others.. the loafers, drug addicts, criminals, etc. and please don't be so naive as to pretend they don't exist.
$5.40/hour to rent one of these bare-metal bad boys:

OCPU: 36
Memory: 512GB
Local Disk: 28.8TB NVMe SSD

That easily mops the floor with AWS and Google on price/performance ratio for running high end database servers. I suppose that shouldn't come as a huge surprise that Oracle's cloud offering would be good for running databases.
"UConn researchers found that e-cigarettes loaded with a nicotine-based liquid are potentially as harmful as unfiltered cigarettes when it comes to causing DNA damage."

So in other words, less dangerous. (Given that most of the harms caused by smoking don't come from DNA damage.)
Ask HN: What would you do with $200K
Just finished a contract that left me with a little over $200K cash in the bank after taxes. Trying to be smart about what to do with it. Leaving it in the bank is not a good idea.

Ideas so far:

- Buy real estate, maybe rental, maybe commercial
- Dump it into an index fund and hope to get 7% + per annum
- Launch a startup I've had my mind on (only need $10K to $20K)
- Invest in other startups
- Buy bonds of some sort
- Day-trade individual stocks (I day traded successfully ten years ago)
- Buy individual stocks as long-term investments

I'm sure there are other ideas out there or brilliant combinations of the above.

Any thoughts you'd care to share?

Thanks.
Thank you for the link! Their course looks promising. And best of all free.
I'm in no way a fan of Uber, and I have a hard stance on not taking it anymore due to the company's actions in the past, but I really wish his possible leave of absence wasn't spun as a result of the investigation done by Holder, at least not majorly. I would imagine him taking a leave of absence may be much more due to his parents boating accident where his mother died and his father was seriously injured, and while the investigation may play a role in his stress, from my understanding the board is in support of Travis and he has major voting rights in the company anyway, so he can't just be forced to leave.
Mexican drug cartels have been found to be running their own cell networks, so the idea that ISIS or any other well-funded group could do the same is not outside the realm of possibility. Of course, from a SIGINT perspective, cell towers are pretty hard to hide.
The cover for the seminal book on AI (norvig) has a chessboard and games are a fundamental training ground for AI so I'd say there's some truth there.
Oh cultural "marxism", the meme that keeps on giving.

read https://www.academia.edu/10149049/The_Origins_and_Ideologica...
There's literally no evidence. If lifting heavy weights made you shorter, there would be plenty of evidence.
omg I wish I could downvote this 1000x
>I hope you are, because I don't think your "niggling feeling" has any rational basis.

How frequently do you hear a friend, colleague or family member use the phrase "I met a new male/female the other day"?

This is deeply abnormal language use. It's perfectly rational to assume that such abnormal language use might be the product of these people receiving limited exposure to normal, healthy society.
Resume-driven development is an organizational pattern, and like all patterns, it exists for better reasons than you'd first think.

The lifetime compensation of developers isn't just tied to how much salary they have at the moment. Getting into a dead-end and not developing your skills will definitely set you back over the long term. Like, there's a reason people will pay you a premium for working with COBOL. So there's a very rational pressure to get better total compensation out of a role by choosing resume-developing tools and technologies.

On the other end, organizations mostly just care about getting the task done. They've got the choice of doing it in a boring way and paying lots of money for developers who don't want to grow their resume, or indulging in the developers fancies and getting it done more cheaply.

tl;dr - resume driven development is a way for companies to pay for projects with "you'll get experience".
Top 6 Skills Techpreneurs Need to Succeed – The Growth Bar
That's common in the US as well.
My point still stands. People In this thread are talking like $40k/yr salaries are unheard of, yet aren't acknowledging that the economy of the high growth cities is nothing like the rest of the country.
> But I'm convinced that React only has a role to play in SPA's

Why? You can even use it for static site generation or purely server-rendered websites. You're probably thinking of jQuery.
These topics can be particularly tough to ask about because it isn't an oppressed persons job to be an "oppression explainer". I thought his recognition of this was very respectful.

FWIW in other parts of the world an electrified third rail is the norm on overground railroads too.
I'm not "making a claim" or inventing a heuristic, you can test this trivially:

$ git clone https://....:x-oauth-basic@github.com/dw/csvmonkey.git
Cloning into 'csvmonkey'...
remote: Counting objects: 340, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27/27), done.
remote: Total 340 (delta 19), reused 27 (delta 10), pack-reused 303
Receiving objects: 100% (340/340), 138.93 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (212/212), done.

$ cat csvmonkey/.git/logs/HEAD
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 c9d566bf167dcf3556008df58be37c4a27ff5062 David Wilson <dw@botanicus.net> 1497289486 +0100	clone: from https://....:x-oauth-basic@github.com/dw/csvmonkey.git

If you perform a Git checkout on a web server e.g. as part of an Ansible script, and you embedded secrets in the repo URL (common enough, believe me), then that secret is readable per above.

FWIW this isn't some unbelievable theory or hypothetical scenario, I've seen plenty of Ansible setups like this and found domains with this exact problem in the process of writing http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/52587443706/devs-plea... a few years back
Vegetarian Diets May Be More Effective for Weight Loss Than Restricting Calories
Your choice of where to live (therefore, commute time) is inextricably linked to your job/compensation. In theory I could move closer to work--but to do so, I would need to make more money, which, if it were possible, I'd already be doing. Similarly, I could change jobs to one closer to my home, but that would likely mean making less money, which may price me out of my current home, forcing me to move even farther away...
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to properly convert a PDF to epub (or text file)?
I've used many different moethods, including using Calibre, k2optpdf, and even OCR'ing the pages but none of it is really straightforward. It all takes considerable time, and linebreaks and paragraphs are my personal hell.

What's the easiest way to go about doing this? Even converting it to a simple text file with proper line breaks and paragraphs would take this problem a long way.

Consider that you have a pdf file with margins, a common font, the name of the book/chapter on the top/bottom gutters and the page number. Parsing the contents page would be great but it is not necessary.
> working more hours gives you more experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns
Study reveals neurological mechanism in concussions
>which although inevitable it does not mean it should be erased from history by something else

Why do you think it's inevitable, if not exactly because it is to be erased by something else?
Thanks, you and others have said similar things. I think how I should pursue this now is to:

1. Give him a little time to turn things around. Be perfectly clear about the expectations and keep asking him about his progress.

2. If he still doesn't seem motivated, try to convince him that it's better if we separate. Draw up a letter of separation and get him to sign it.

3. If he refuses to do that, try a buyout as dsr_ suggested.

4. Worst case, offer some small stake.

I'm really hopeful (1) happens but this gives me a plan to try and resolve this quickly if it doesn't. Grateful for everyone's advise here!
JsDelivr: A free Open Source CDN for webmasters and developers
Regarding commuting, it depends on how you look at it.

For example, commuting has been instrumental in helping me lose 35 kg in 10 months, from size 46 to size 36.

I made the decision to always commute walking (30 minutes commute which I do 4 times a day because I also wanted to have lunch at home with my family). Once you factor in that your commute is 30 minutes instead of 10 minutes (or 0 minutes if you work at home), things are rather easy.

So I end up spending 2 hours a day walking, which turns out to be an activity that I happen to like a lot (its been a bit of an evolution, possibly inspired by the "Love what you do" approach to things as opposed to "Do what you love") and therefore I do not see it as a time waste at all.