skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with what Maria says. One huge problem at this point, is that the "women in tech" problem is completely dominated by activists in this field, that does not happen to be always very balanced in their visions. Normal people try to disappear when there are those kind of discussions, because they escalate easily, and you can get hurt in many ways. So we as a community of programmers, should try to get more involved to avoid that only people with extreme over-reacting thoughts handle it.
I'm not much of a conspiracy nut but I don't have any issues with the excerpt you quoted. Those "reality" TV shows are famously heavily scripted and edited, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they did script the "skip dessert to attend to vital business" to some degree. Maybe he did have to leave early because of a scheduled meeting but it just didn't have the same ring to it?

Now you could say that it's not a big deal either way and I would tend to agree but one could argue that there's a slippery slope when you muddy the line between reality and fiction in the minds of the audience of a mass media.
mind-blowing how complicated these equations are

each symbol with a superscript or subscript represents part of a system of differential equations

each individual equation is a function of 10 or more variables

wish I understood it better
Ask HN: Blockchain projects to work on
Anybody wants to share some ideas about potentially cool blockchain projects to work on? It has to be something feasible -- something that has real value, not just another twitter app, and also it has to be achievable -- something that can be done by one or two guys as an opensource github project on a spare time.
There really haven't been any changes to the H-1B program other than an increase in site visits to ensure that the employee and company exist and that the employee is doing what he or she is supposed to be doing. The cap still exists and is still getting filled up within a week so individuals must look at other options, such as the O-1 or green card, unless they are from a country with its own visa classification, such as Australia, Canada, and Mexico (and Chile and Singapore to a lesser degree).
Wouldn't the moon would be a better choice? Asteroids could be processed there, it could be a de facto source of microwave power for asteroid mining ops and a weigh station to bring metals back safely.
I live in Mexico and here everything is repairable since wages are so low.
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That's not what buf said. On HN, please be charitable when interpreting others, in the sense of responding to the strongest plausible interpretation of their meaning. It makes discussions more interesting and flamewars less likely.
Why not get in touch with us and let us help you instead of dropping us?
I have always wondered why spelling and grammar checkers - which could easily fit on your computer back in the 90s - needed a cloud-based provider.

One could easily build chrome extensions that DIDN'T phone home.

Today deep learning data can be downloaded to each computer. They are doing it with small IOT!!
Yes, I have flow though Doha many times. The fact that their might be special facilities there doesn't stop someone from damaging a flight en route to that airport with extra security equipment.
Yes they do. Either passport or national ID. Not sure if EU driver's license is enough or not. Plus also you need to take 5 second video of yourself where you say your name.
I'd argue that, in terms of features, Wordpress is little better than Jekyll/Hugo. Social integration is the aspect that's missing. Chat, access control, tagging, push/pull update, etc.

I envision this is a two part problem: the "back-end", one-click install or oauth register services to create your private space and identity (possibly a VPS or agglomeration of AWS services) for sending/receiving emails, direct messages, tags (push), and friend posts, group updates, news subscriptions (pull), plus APIs for search, access control, creating/managing your own content, so on; and the front-end, a glorified RSS reader for using the above services through standard APIs.

That's the challenge. The solution is way more complex then the existing offerings, like WP or other simple blogs, but all that complexity must be buried away so it's at least as easy as registering to Facebook.

It's possible, all of the constituent problems have been tackled separately... what's lacking is a unified standard, comprehensive tools, and stable (corporate) backing.
I really like how you broke down the sources, statistics and try to put things in perspective. I really tend to agree here.

There is no mention of pay in this article, but there are plenty of other sources that dispel the myth that women get paid less than men (it's more like people of lower confidence simply do not ask for as much money -- both men and women; see The Confidence Gap).

I also think part of the reason we see fewer women in Tech is they don't want shitty jobs. We have everything from Dilbert to Office Space to We The Robots, all showing how terrible life in a cube can be. Women often take jobs that pay less but are more fulfilling (teachers, nurses, non-profits).

If we want more women in tech, I think we'd need to make tech more fulfilling and less miserable for everyone.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines by going on about downvotes. Please don't do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It wasn't a great HN comment before that either, because of the combination of gratuitous resentment and category invocation in the last sentence. It probably seemed innocuous when you posted it, but this is the equivalent of dropping a lit match or a cigarette butt in a dry forest: the sort of thing that sparks other resentments and then a huge flamewar. People downvote such comments as a way of trying to protect the thread from the danger. No doubt we'd all prefer a robust discussion in which a comment like yours wasn't a problem but that, unfortunately, is not the fragile container we're working with.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14702833 and marked it off-topic.
Any particular languages?
Any ideas as to when the premium for skipping the H1B loterry will be reinstated?
Being limited to only 2 parties is fucking awful. I can't imagine how bad the USA would be if we were suddenly forced to just have one.
What gets me is that we have a ton of gender, sex, and race neutral user groups, but yet there is forceful attempts at creating a segregated user group. ("Bridge" being one) From what I've seen they're awful, they just reinforce really bad hyperbolic stereotypes about their group.

One of my experiences in this was a talk about imposture syndrome. They made the claim that "Women suffer syndrome the most". Also IIRC I couldn't attend because I didn't identify in their target audience and would have to "have a sponsor to attend."
Oryx Linux v0.2.0 released – A new container-focused Embedded Linux Distro
This might be fine for 20 somethings, but for the older folks with families looking for homes, I don't think Foggy Bottom or the surrounding area offer any realistic real estate. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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I would need to see the specifics to evaluate the chances but essentially where one or two publications might be sufficient for O-1, more are needed for EB1A. But to be clear, a PhD is absolutely not required for an EB1A or NIW green card. It's more what a PhD typically signifies, publications, presentations, and original work.
Well, NORAD guards used to keep warm by standing in front of the dishes. I vaguely recall that some also figured out that doing so temporarily reduced their sperm count ;)
And a valuable natural resource to make the whole colonization thing worth it.
He's got enough friends in the bay area to have himself covered in that regard. Right now I believe his biggest problem is renting an apartment in Canada to establish as his official primary residence so that he can enter the US as a visitor to go get his stuff.

Pretty shitty deal all around though.
Purchasing power has gone up for those who can take advantage of cheap goods, but as your question insinuates, wages have not gone up; they've been stagnant for decades.
There is this idea floating around that the corollary to "if you aren't paying, you're the product" to "if you are paying, you're not."

I wonder why so many people tacitly assume that paying for a service will make them forego mining your data and monetizing it. Very few people read the terms of service in its entirety regardless of whether they pay or not.

What we SHOULD do is standardize privacy policy clauses already.
The Empathic Programmer – Daniel Westheide
The electronics could have a 'repairability' rating similar to energy-efficiency one.

Otherwise there is no feasible way to know what's the build quality before opening it yourself.
It's important not to dismiss her experience as being extremely lucky. The thing is, there are lot of women like her, who were not harassed at their work places or have "grown-up" work environments with decent managers and HR policies.
I'm a US citizen, married to an French citizen, living in France. We are thinking of moving back to the US. If I have an immediate job offer there, is it possible to expedite the Green Card process for my spouse?
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/06/048

Received 8 May 2017

Accepted 13 June 2017

Published 23 June 2017
Hi Roberts, thank you so much for taking the time for an AMA.

Dutch Citizen, exploring possibilities of moving to the US.
Employed as executive at a US based company.

My research shows me that L1-A might be the most viable option for me, are they still very hard to get?

Most other options takes years to get a green card (except EB-*)
It's neat to see mid-sized cities succeed in attracting and building talent. Having specialized centres like this takes some pressure off of the Valley and encourages different viewpoints and perhaps approaches that you might not get otherwise.
As a general rule, USCIS's position is that you would need to go into the lottery again.
> But I want to take a different approach in this blog. I think we should dismiss this finding, simply because it is impossible.

That is truly begging the question. He goes into details about what the impact to society would be if we're that affected by hunger/fatigue, but the validity of the finding still remains.

> It is up to authors to interpret the effect size in their study, and to show the mechanism through which an effect that is impossibly large, becomes plausible. Without such an explanation, the finding should simply be dismissed.

Again, horrible circular logic here. Simply disregarding things because they're "impossible" is the antithesis of science. The authors of the paper gave a hypothesis that explains the (undisputed) data.

You should not simply dismiss this by just saying "it's not true because it can't possibly be true". For instance, try explaining the germ theory of disease to somebody before Anton van Leeuwenhoek invented the microsope.
Art is one of the businesses that is conducive to money laundering.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/arts/design/art-proves-att...
Culture is better at transmitting ideas and changing perceptions than elitist blowhards are.
10 You should publish PDFs because devices include readers.

20 Devices have readers because everyone publishes PDFs.

30 GOTO 10
terrible site full of malware-laden ads. imgur.com is way better for free image hosting
Two persons actually. Both have real visible problems lying or even saying something they are not 100% sure of. If uncertain they will tell you clearly how uncertain they are so you can assess how much weight to put on the statement.
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Great. I will check it out .
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We all do it, but sharing opinions tends not to be all that useful anyway. From someone else's point of view it's just another stranger's opinion on the Internet.

Better to ask questions, share links, and tell stories based on personal experience if you have any.
Technically that works when you assemble one yourself and en-masse won't make any sense.
Sure, but such reasoning only puts rather gross bounds on the possible rates of cancer.
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I'd prefer that the troops be behind our nation and not the other way around, thanks!

Anyway, how did you equate "military spending on propaganda" to mean that "the nation is behind the troops"? Obviously the nation is not behind them if they have to brainwash people into behaving a certain way.
A little off topic, I know, but Google must be freaking out about 'The Circle' with Tom Hanks and Emma Watson:

http://www.businessinsider.com/trailer-for-the-circle-starri...
Hm, this is after Google "merged the google voice calling into hangouts", which does require camera capabilities.

It only happens on the first call too.
If you think that, you can write about it and make your case instead of abusing 'Ask HN'. You're not asking anything, just insinuating.
Hasn't happened in India, yet.
The amount of explosive you can fit into a laptop (and have it not be obvious) isn't a lot. So it works best if you can place the laptop directly against the hull of the aircraft. Putting it in the hold makes that less likely to happen. So while not optimal, putting them in the hold is an improvement.
Red networks are intended for classified plaintext, by definition...
You must hear from relatively a lot of generativist linguists and syntacticians. The linguists at Language Log and elsewhere regularly praise Everett's scholarship in descriptive linguistics. And there is literally no important dispute left, except non-Pirahã specialists claiming Pirahã has subordinate clauses. Getting Everett banned from working with the Pirahã is just sad and pathetic.

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/03/28/poiso...
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3857
If you want real flexibility as a consultant or something.

I recommend living in the Crystal City/Arlington area until you have kids. You got easy access to DC/Pentagon, but you can go as west as Dulles Airport, north to Bathesda, or even slightly south on 95 because of the opposite commute.

There are even some jobs in the area.
I don't have an Imgur account; I just use it ad hoc for sharing low-res photo excerpts and whatever else in IRC channels. (Palaver's integration in particular makes this easy.)

But based on occasional browsing and the odd bit of inside baseball that makes it to the front page, I'd surmise Imgur is somewhere between stages 4 and 5 on your list, and closer to the latter than the former. I'm sure its eventual successor is doing a slow burn toward virality even now.
Google to start getting Norwegian wind power by September
I don't think Google call does video, does it? It was the same number, which did support Facetime, hm.

Tested again with the phone on, green light still only flashes.
There's no difference in selection in the lottery (it's truly random) and in terms of approval, it's probably slightly easier to get an H-1B through a larger/established company since USCIS is less likely to raise certain questions, such as the availability of work and the absence of non-qualifying duties.
Any language will do. I'm fairly well versed in any middleware technology -- Rails, Django, Java, node.js. For the presentation, I'd like to stick with Rect.js/ReactNative. So I guess, back to the language question -- combination of JS on the server and the client will do just fine. My goal is to keep it as simple as possible and really focus on what can be done with blockchain.
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Google DeepMind is expanding to Canada
Just because something is legal doesn't mean we're at liberty to do it. People mistake society for government and vice versa.
You're right, there is no obligation to help. Likewise there's no obligation for me as a straight, white man in tech to help either.

But the more people working along side me who I can collaborate with, the better. That only makes both our jobs easier. It doesn't matter what you label yourself as. If labels are getting in the way of our mutual increased success by arbitrarily keeping you from working with me as an equal, why wouldn't I want to help?
Based on this data, the difference between the height of 21-year-old men and women in The Netherlands is approximately 13 centimeters. That is a Cohen’s d of 2. That’s the effect size in the hungry judges study.

If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45 a.m. Or at the very least, our society would have organized itself around this incredibly strong effect of mental depletion. Just like manufacturers take size differences between men and women into account when producing items such as golf clubs or watches, we would stop teaching in the time before lunch, doctors would not schedule surgery, and driving before lunch would be illegal. If a psychological effect is this big, we don’t need to discover it and publish it in a scientific journal—you would already know it exists. Sort of how the “after lunch dip” is a strong and replicable finding that you can feel yourself (and that, as it happens, is directly in conflict with the finding that judges perform better immediately after lunch—surprisingly, the authors don’t discuss the after lunch dip).

It is impossible because we have very strong evidence against it.
I'm assuming that hackers that expect things like benchmarks for software performance claims who are then also skeptical enough to point out microbenchmarks aren't meaningful to be more skeptical than the average person. I don't have up-to-date knowledge about back pain or other medical topics but I know enough to be skeptical of certain claims and to ignore anecdotes.
it might be reference to simple fact that US embassy was covertly used by CIA to actively destabilize the region and revolution, plus support corrupt dictator - something no embassy should ever be used for. Not sure why CIA was naive enough to think they are safe there when rest of country is burning.

Iranians made a mistake that they imprisoned US staff - they should just seize all belongings and kick them out of their own country. But one must admit that common fate to spies caught during war - execution (also done by US troops in WW II) was not done on any of them and all returned home eventually.

Of course look at media portrayal of Iran back then and even now, when places like Saudi Arabia are big US friends and you hear no loud critics about them... what a sad, pathetic joke
I think there are a lot of people with back problems (definitely not all of them though) particularly desk workers (and not all of them either) who have a lot of their issues down more to a lack of core strength than anything else. Yoga, from what I have been told, is pretty awesome for core strength.

It's something I'm working on in physiotherapy, because although I went to see her because I was having horrendous knee problems (now in full retreat thanks to some very simple, well-chosen exercises), she looks more holistically than that and identified some back issues as well. More exercises.

The back ones are harder to do though, and don't seem to be as effective, but I'll be bringing that up at my next visit.
If self-driving cars ever actually work, then a robot arm that can plug the charger into the whatever car will not be a significant engineering challenge.
photo helped me relate .. fellow brightly coloured mohawk :)
Since all definitions of mathematics are controversial when subject to philosophical rigor, and the foundation of mathematics themselves are axioms (which by definition cannot be proven), and sometimes these axiomatizations are either incomplete and inconsistent with each other, I will just say it's an open question.

What we do however know is that mathematical principles so far hold up well and have been of vital importance to understand nature.
I tried that theory for 20 years, and it didn't work for me. I've always been active, playing lots of sports and going to the gym regularly, hiking, biking, running, etc.. Unless I'm counting calories, I always compensate for exercise by eating more. I finally realized exercise alone wouldn't help me lose weight.

In general, you probably can't get rid of a little hunger. If you want to lose weight and be in a calorie deficit, you might be 500 calories short. If you add 1,000 calories of exercise, and 1,000 calories of food, you're still 500 calories short, and still likely to experience hunger.

I feel stupid for how long it took me to "see" my own evidence. Like many people, I have a mental aversion to paying extreme attention to what I eat, to eating less, and to counting calories. The very idea of doing that is off-putting, and I didn't notice how subconsciously strong that mental aversion is until recently. It wasn't easy, but I did the hard mental work before I started the diet. Once I got going and formed some new habits, I didn't have to think about it much. One of my mental tricks was to realize that a little hunger is exactly how I'm supposed to feel. Rather than focusing willpower on combating my hunger and reminding myself not to eat, I came to the realization that not being hungry at all is the bad state, that is the feeling I have when I've eaten too much. Being a little hungry is a good thing.

Counting calories worked for me relatively quickly, and it worked regardless of whether I was exercising (as long as I tracked my exercise calories too.) It took less time than exercising, and it helped me see the differences more clearly between losing weight and getting strong. Those are two mostly different things. There's some cross-talk between them, but the main way to target each of them is different. Gyms all advertise weight loss, but now I see gyms as a place to get strong, and eating less as the way to lose weight.
The solution to the laptop bans is portable hard drives .Let the $15/hour worker lose your laptop. the software and files are more important