skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I've heard this argument before - that women are deliberately socialized to be subordinate.
>That's because it's a fairly well established fact.

Citation please. Work from Dr Simon Baron Cohen, the Director of Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge, appears to clash with your statement. He is an expert in child psychology and has conducted tests on young babies and noted strong trends based on gender at less than 12 months of age. This, at least in my mind, does not align with your "well established fact" that behaviour is socially driven and would point to biological differences playing a significant factor.
If you're going to cite a well established fact, it's value adding to provide credible sources because hear-say doesn't progress an intelligent conversation.
One concern I've had with Arch was how they would handle the big C/C++ library ABI changes. It only seems to happen about once a decade, but when it does it is a giant pain. Last time this happened while I was using Debian testing you had to pin a ton of packages for many months while everything moved over to the new ABI. How does Arch manage these core library ABI changes?
I use React, jQuery, Lodash and Babel and think they're great projects. What equivalent projects would you replace them with? What are you using that you consider a secret weapon? Going back to my original comment, I don't understand how you can pick these libraries as examples of things you should avoid if you read the source code.
I didn't realize you were insulting me until I read the child comment. I thought you meant you don't like to drink unless you're with your own girlfriend.
I don't use twitter can anyone explain this? When the article says he blocked users, that just means he blocked them from writing on his page? Those people are still free to create their own tweets on their page, correct?

I don't see how that violates free speech. Using the article's "town hall" metaphor, if he asked to have someone removed from the town hall meeting aren't they still free to protest outside on the street corner? If someone is disturbing a town hall meeting (which is entirely subjective), they can be removed, which doesn't violate their free speech.

If he goes around & starts forcing Twitter to ban anyone who tweets negative comments on their own page that is violating free speech. I don't think the 2nd amendment guarantees my right to tag the president in social media posts, unless I'm not understanding.
neogodless got it right. I didn’t downvote your particular comment, but I often downvote similar ones that effectively say, “I have no counter argument, so read this random link that’s probably some wackadoodle conspiracy theory, but I’ll give you absolutely no context to signal ‘wackadoodle’ from ‘reasonable argument’.” If you have something to say, say it. Don’t just barf up a link to $DEITY knows where.

IOW, don’t be lazy with your comments.
It's not necessary to uninstall the app after each use to prevent tracking - in Settings...Privacy...Location Services, you can disable location on a per-app basis.

(this is admittedly a pain, and Apple enforcing in-use-only option availability is a welcome change)
Ask HN: Whistle blowing when PII isn't protected?
Increasingly, vast amounts of personal information are being lost in data breaches. I know, from experience, that in a lot of cases the development team was well aware of unacceptable levels of risk long before the breach happened, but could not raise these concerns past management. Management who either didn't care or didn't understand. Not just people doing a bad job with new code, but lack of testing, relying on untrustworthy code for security, lack of review, lack of release engineering processes, lack of change control, insufficient access control, etc. Things truly outside the dev team's control.

I've seen great developers depressed and near-suicidal because they were involved in a massive PII breach that shouldn't have happened, but was inevitable due to nonexistent engineering and quality practices. The obvious answer is to leave those jobs and avoid the situation, but that doesn't remove the risks to the data. If anything, risks increase as conscientious staff leave and clueless staff accumulate.

The CVE system seems to work well to expose problems when an actual vulnerability exists, but we seem to lack a way to blow the whistle when too much risk exists that cannot be addressed internally to the company. It's great to think that those companies will eventually fail, but that doesn't un-steal an identity, and it doesn't hamper adoption of technology in general. In many cases, especially government breaches, the people who had their information stolen may not have a had a choice in sharing it in the first place.

It's in everyone's interest to prevent data breaches, but how can we do so when company politics won't allow it?
I'm wondering why this link has been [flagged]. Is it because it's breaking news, or not insightful?
Turned location off for Uber for this reason. Makes the app less useable - but still worth it. Without that feature, I'd rather just wave a taxi in (depending on city). Makes me feel like Uber is hostile towards users instead of servicing them.
Only said "I hope you can let this go" twice. Seems plausible it's an honest plea for a guy he thinks did nothing wrong. I don't see it obstructing the investigation. Which would be my main concern.
I don't think this informal study presents as strong of an argument as you may think it does. As the author themselves admitted, seniority was strongly correlated with rate of interruption, but they didn't control for that in their overall gender comparison. The top three out of four interrupters were women. As it turns out, that particular set of people had a lower number of women in positions of seniority. Is that not a plausible explanation, or at least a confounding factor that you would like to eliminate, before you declare that men interrupt x3 as much?
> I fall back to the copiously documented truism that you can't use technology to solve a people problem.

Thing is, I don't buy that truism. IMO technology is sometimes the best way to solve a people problem, because it sidesteps all the issues of politics and ego.

> I don't concede that children can be educated within the same concepts that are used to harvest cows and cotton.

Why not? Just like modern agriculture makes a farmer more productive per unit of land, we should strive to make teachers be able to teach more children and teach them better.
That isn't normal.

Drinking to the point of passing out is alcoholism no matter how you look at it. Try to get them help if you value them.
Thanks for the concern. It was the first and only time I had a racing heart like that. I think I'll be fine if I'm careful.
Yeah that video gives me the chills. I am hoping we never have to see something like that in the future, but a cynical part of me feels like it is inevitable.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but for VCS, isn't it generally bad practice to unnecessarily branch off and introduce complex structures?

In my experience, branches generally lead to people feeling like they have free reign and introducing a slew of issues (reduced code quality, difficulties in merging, broken builds, etc)
At the rate things are going I'm going to need a curated list of curated lists...
> theories were contradictory

That's actually a desirable quality. It means that you are not emotionally attached to your theories (you shouldn't be, it's science not religion) and are willing to contradict them. Still, most people would think that a bad thing.
As somebody who's founded a couple companies, there just aren't enough people with the appetite for risk and drive needed to manage a controlling interest in a company.

And on an economic level, if the net compensation level, including crushing levels of stress and overwork, was so bad between founders and employees, you'd see a lot more founders until the system balanced itself out. And you do not. Most real good engineers just want a fat paycheck and a clear delineation of responsibility. Trust me, a senior valley level salary and not riding that ride is a good gig.

That said, the side of the bread with the butter on it is pretty clear. The reasons for that are less clear until you've done it, but nobody's standing in your way-- you want to be the daddy/get really rich, found a company.
Milan to Discuss James Rodriguez Transfer
Apathetic board/investors.
Elon Musk: The Man, the Myth, the Risk
Binge drinking is more harmful, so don't binge.

But people incorrectly think you can just spread out the drinks over a week and be fine, Drinking one glass (275 ml, not that big) of wine (12%, not that strong) every day is something like 23 units. We know that's increasing risks of a range of harm.

EDIT: I got my mls wrong! (Thanks mattmanser for pointing this out).

175 * 12 = just over 2 units.
Correct. Performance improvements are out of the scope of the standard. Much like how the HTML spec doesn't tell Google and Microsoft how fast their browsers need to work.
One option is to use the infinite garage of https://craigslist.com
Yeah this claim I don't understand in an otherwise very good article.

At the startup I worked at, a bunch of people made some money based on equity, and while it wasn't necessarily a perfect correlation between equity and contributions (and how could it be?), roughly speaking, equity and "having instrumental roles in the success" were certainly highly correlated.

I'm not even sure what the idea is here. Are early employees generally considered undeserving of the success of their companies? Who is deserving? The founders? Later employees?
I think we can agree the Russia issue is impacting his term. If he thinks he's innocent, he'd be asking for ways to get around it.

The loyalty part is worrying, agreed. But I don't see any actions to obstruct investigations.

I don't think I'd agree firing the director impaired the investigation.
I'm in marketing and do most of my work in a proprietary CMS.

1. See if it has to integrate with any software. Find out what marketing really really needs to still have, and what they could switch out if necessary.

2. See what they do. What kind of changes they need to make and how often. Find out what sorts of changes cannot wait weeks for an IT ticket.

This could narrow it down, and then you can get input from the other departments and iterate toward a decision.

Then have them play with it. They'll probably say oh shit, why can't I just do _____.
Do you have any evidence that that will work? Can you point to a situation in history when a 'massive retroactive redistribution of wealth' has solved poverty?
Probably not; I'm pretty sure the accepted interpretation is that binding agreements are forbidden, and paragraph 6 of the MOU between China and California [0] states “This MOU serves only as a record of the Participants' intentions and does not constitute or create any legally binding or enforceable rights or obligations, expressed or implied.” And paragraph 8 states “This MOU is neither a contract nor a treaty”.

Similar non-binding agreements between states (and in some cases subdivisions of states) and foreign countries (or subdivisions thereof) are extremely common, and I don't think anyone in the federal government wants to force them all through federal approval, even leaving aside the legalities.

[0] https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=19832
Excellent historical summary. I wonder, in your opinion, how do you envision new VHF/UHF technology impacting wired monopolies? Do you see it shaking up the local wired monopolies or do you expect airwave frequencies to be snatched up by the big guys in order to maintain status quo (ie limited choices)?
The incentive effect is therefore entirely dependent on the employee's degree of ignorance! Experience has shown me that "options are worthless" is a pretty good rule of thumb, and I simply ignore everything but the so-called "base" salary when I evaluate a job offer.
How is asking to shut down an ongoing investigation not obstructing justice? If he was really so sure this "good guy" did nothing wrong, why not let the evidence validate him?
"The Elements of Computing Systems" and the accompanying course Nand2Tetris on Coursera. It's a course that starts with just nand gates, and leads you through the development of higher level logic gates, then an ALU, then a CPU, the an assembler, then a high level language compiler, and finally an operating system.

I've seen the "dragon book" mentioned several times, and I think it (and similar books) are good if you really do plan to (re-)invent a real world, large scale, programming language. If you really just want to get a feel for what's going on under the hood, the language presented in Nand2Tetris is specifically designed to have the necessary complexity to cover most of the details, but not so many special cases that you end up "chasing dragons". And the course is modular enough that you can jump right in and just implement the compiler if you want.
Drupal?

Dude got kicked out for giving talks on how women have biological predispositions against rational thought. He was a prominent developer that had a profound influence on the community.
That looks to be a potential solution. Thank you. I will make sure not to have snack foods in the cabinets that are able consumed without cooking (e.g. chips, cookies, etc.) I only keep rice, pasta, and sauce in the cabinets.

I could also lock the key in my mailbox before I go to sleep, then grab it in the morning.
I don't have a specific answer to your question. What I think would be much more sensible is to design your website without JS, and then sprinkle it here and there.

Ex: Make a request to an API upon page load. Populate tables or whatever you want. Then if JS is enabled, load a script that makes AJAX calls to the API to update the data every x seconds. That way your site gets "enhanced" by JS and is completely usable without it.
On a related note, here is a time lapse of all the nuclear detonations since 1945.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
If we're just throwing around anecdotes, I've seen significantly more projects fall behind due premature optimization than failing to scale due to the lack of ability to optimize the app.

Most products are wrong out of the gate and will see on the order of 0 users. Iterate quickly until you get the features that users actually want and then in the rare case that is unoptimizable just rewrite from the ground up.
GitHub cancels conference due to backlash from all male panel being selected
I'm not sure what you would consider acts of obstruction, then. The President said “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” Do you believe that because he was coy with his language, that his meaning was unclear?
Yes, and things don't go as expected 100% of the time. Again, that's the whole idea here.
You're doubling down on your quick definition by pushing a simpler, even broader definition that's more trivially satisfied. This isn't an issue of categories and word use, it's an issue of history and culture and every incident is tied up in a large amount of context. This is exactly why simplifying terms and definitions fail here. It's not the land of referential transparency.

I can't say whether either of your statements are substantially sexist because they only have real meaning once you get at what underlies each one. "Women aren't as good at men at critical thinking because they're genetically programmed for motherhood while men are programmed for leadership" seems very sexist because it's talking about essential traits of men and women. "Women aren't as good at interrupting as men are because they're socialized to be deferential while men are socialized to dominate" seems not sexist because it's describing an accident of history that could as easily be the other way.
> but once they do, everyone benefits

This is such a good point.

We (TechEmpower) had this in mind when we created our framework benchmarks project a few years back. Performance improvements in platforms and frameworks have the potential of very broad impact. With our project, we wanted to provide some inspiration for doing that kind of performance tuning. We had found ourselves in many conversations about how many real-world CRUD web applications take multiple seconds to render a page with a form. We realized that if, just as an example, the JSON serializer or template engine were substantially faster, many real-world applications that use those components would see notable improvements to their user experience.
I really like having a strong, visual indicator when you're doing something dangerous, as well.

I had a job where we would often sudo as other users and ssh into other boxes. I kept trying and trying to find a way to change the terminal when sudoed as someone else because occasionally I would execute something in the first terminal I could grab. At the time I couldn't find anything or think of a way.
That's the point. If they see atrophy in people who drink 14-20 units per week, that leaves room to wonder whether there's a significant difference between people within that group depending on whether they drink 2-3 units every day or drink 4-7 units three days a week with four rest days. You could then go further and see if it is different to have four consecutive rest days and three consecutive drinking days versus having each drinking day spaced with at least one rest day. Etc.

The point is that lumping everyone who has 14-20 drinks in a week into one category makes for a large variation in behaviors and possible interactions.
>If everyone started driving the moment they saw the light turn green, the collective traffic would move forward like a train.

Yes and we would all have to maintain the same following distance all the time.

I know there are some people that do like to follow me at the same distance regardless of whether I'm stopped or I'm going 65mph, but I am going to change my follow distance of cars in front of me depending on my driving speed.

You can't have a seamless flow of traffic and a safe speed dependent following distances.
Kubernetes is essentially platform as a service. The parent didn't address the backend infrastructure,only the services serving the web content.
It's not a great look, but it's nothing actually illegal. And likely a thing every politician also would have done in his place, albeit with more tact.

In short, Trump lacks tact and isn't a skilled politician. I think we knew these things.

Where this is going to bite him is adding more "acting suspiciously" wood on the woodpile, should Democrats win a majority and move to impeach on the basis of some other spark. Nixon probably wouldn't have been impeached over Watergate if there hadn't been a pattern of behavior.
> hittiles

Oh god please tell me that's not a real word.
Video Tutorial – making a kraken
And just to show how disconnected our government is, the Democrats barely support it, and the Republicans outright do not support it.

Ridiculous. But hey, continue not voting for a third party. That will sure fix things.
I find myself doing the same if I'm not on WiFi. I'll tether my samsung phone to my laptop, disable JS on chrome, whitelist what I like, jump into incognito to temporarily whitelist some page that requires JS; when done in incognito, the site isn't permanently whitelisted, it's just for that incognito session.

I know! Laborious, but it must be done.

I got into this habit because of the insane number of websites that have gotten into autoplay which essentially eats up all my mobile bundles. I love forbes for instance but it's essentially unreadable when on bundles.
Let's start with caloric requirements. I found http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Calories_per_acre_for_vario... which I'll take at face value. An acre irrigated and planted with potatoes supplies 17.8 million dietary calories per acre. To get a round number, assume yearly food needs of 1 million calories (2739 dietarycalories/day, or about 11500kJ). You'll need about 227m2 under cultivation. My house is on a .17 acre (690m2) lot, so I have room even without worrying about the area covered by the house itself. (this is an average-to-large size for my American city)

"Irrigation" means lots of water. I found http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/edcomm/pdf/bul/bul0789.pdf figure 6 showing peak yield at 23 in/year (60cm). Happily, my home town gets 31 inches of rain per year. Collecting and storing it will be a challenge; if I wanted to store a year's supply it would be around 136000 liters. Additionally, water is hard to store here over the winter because of below-freezing temperatures, but you may need to in order to have the water early in the season when your plants are starting to grow.

So, I'll go with yes to part of the question: on a good year weather-wise with good technologies, you can grow enough potatoes to fill your caloric requirements. With somewhat more area you can probably grow more diverse (but less energy-dense) foods that can meet other dietary needs.

.. the main item I realize this is ignoring is fertilizer, but with excess electricity you can use the Haber process to generate all the ammonia you need. So the main external input is solar energy and water. If you needed to for the purposes of your question, you could add enough technology so that you could reclaim substantially all of the water, too.
Programmers that drink (hard) are like cooks blunting their knives. I knew a couple in my 20´s that went down this route, they are not programming today. The brain is a complex piece of machinery and damage that you do to it when you are young will come back to haunt you later in life, when the aging of the brain removes some of the reserves. It is really hard to see people that were whip smart lose their faculties, especially if they had a hand in the change themselves.
Studies show people in groups are more relaxed than loners. This is not a ding against loners but there are pretty significant evolutionary drivers for conformance. It stands to reason we'd be biased.
When I was little and my brother was hitting me, I was always capable of moving away from him so he couldn't hit me. The right thing, though, was for him to stop hitting me.
I'm as willing as the next guy to dump on Uber, but in this case Apple didn't leave them many options.

If they chose "while in use" then a ton of functionality would never be possible for any user whatsoever... because the only options they had were, to coin some temporary terms:

Option A: "All or nothing with behavior 1 (while app is in use only)"

or

Option B: "All or nothing with behavior 2 (always use location whether app is in use or not)"

If they chose option A, their app would be a lot less useful.

If they chose option B, they piss off some people who think they should have offered option A. But Apple would not allow them to offer both option A and option B.

Now, with this upcoming change in iOS 11, Apple will allow them to offer both options, if they choose to.
‘I need loyalty’: James Comey’s riveting prepared testimony, annotated
As a climber who is also scared of heights, I like to describe it as "a rational fear of heights". If I'm actually safe, I'm fine with it. It's the thought that a single slip, mental or physical = death. Even with a waist-high barrier, I'm still not going to look over the edge for fear of leaning too far. Give me a glass room hanging over the grand canyon that's stable and I'll be happy to go inside, lie face down on the floor, etc.
This one is a two part video collaboration between Nathan Lovato from GDquest and myself. We are creating a kraken - doing the character design in vectors - for speed and flexibility - and taking it to Krita for the painting of light, colour and details.
The key elements featured are the path effects/ taper stroke in Inkscape and the inherit alpha functionality in Krita. Enjoy!