skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certain breeds of dog get hip dysplasia. Dalmations go deaf. Molosser breeds often have respiratory issues, particularly pugs. This has not stopped people from breeding dogs.

Natural selection will be out the window. It will be replaced entirely by intentional selection. We will certainly see new diseases rooted in human vanity and hubris, and they will become business opportunities for surgeons and pharmacists, just as our natural and lifestyle ailments have become moneymaking industries.

So the great-grandchildren of people that were gifted by their parents with then-fashionable gene mutations will have all new reasons to pay for health care.

And Sylvester McMonkey McBean simply unveils his star-off machine.
Swift is 3 years old. Most people who use it will be on the latest version Swift 4 within a few months. Apple won’t let developers stay behind.

While it was unrealistic for Python to be that aggressive given its larger community, not forcing the issue created a lot of unnecessary work for the community. A benevolent dictator should have moved developers along faster. Having the language fragmented for this long is extremely unproductive.
This experience makes me sick. There are very different places, where people are generally polite and professional and even fun. And where a sexist comment would not go unnoticed. Hope your next job will be like that.

I once attended a hackathon around some humanitarian cause. Participants in general were nice. However, I joined a team, which had two kind of strong male characters in them. None of them would be able to discuss and think freely. One guy has worked in various startups. Without him telling me more about this, I could just infer how blame-driven his developer jobs were by seeing him interacting with the others. Really scary. The other imagined himself as an activist. So active, that in the end, we did not produce anything at that hackathon and I believe without these two males it would have been much simpler to actually get a discussion going and to have fun.

In general, the more educated and diverse people are, the more they are able to think and think independently. The more people are responsible for themselves the more they are responsible for creating a work atmosphere, that is healthy for all participants - because hate and exclusion lessen motivation and there is one thing that need to go out to all businesses and managers and hierarchical elements: You cannot motivate people - you can only demotivate them. And this can happen much faster than one might believe.
It's actually

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TOWARD ENEMY

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M18_Claymore_mine
This is what I get[0] which is much worse.

[0]http://i.imgur.com/sJ6qAQE.png
Yeah, but open access is just 'stuff the cost of publishing into the grant application' and because journals make money for each work published it encourages rubber stamp reviewing and publishing noise.

Open access is probably a net good, but it just shifts the costs around.
The way I have been putting it is like this:

It's a brave new world until you resist, and then it's 1984.
Pretty sure we're talking past one another here. Thought experiment: if I describe a topic in the forest, and nobody is there to hear it, am I still being divisive?
I'm aware of fastclick.js, and I've been using it. I was just excited to remove an extra dependency when they removed the delay from mobile Safari. Checked it into git, deployed...then realized it was still there in fullscreen mode. My point is that they develop stuff for mobile Safari, but then leave fullscreen mode in the dust.
> I had studied women in tech for two years as part of my master’s in Sociology degree

I don't think the author is extrapolating her personal experience to the industry. Her experience is a personal example of a trend she had previously studied.
further down, the author in question says he supports sci-hub and is happy to see it linked so that more people can read his work. he was just surprised that someone would post a link so blatantly to a pirate site. on the other hand, he says that he knows researchers who would be upset by this but doesn't give their rationale.
Actually, it's a different question. Check out the second diagram linked to below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14863949

So yes, you could supply the answer in terms of r radius, but you do need to know the radius unless I'm missing something obvious.
Rather, this is a reflection of an entire culture of woman-hating and female disempowerment that has been prevalent since Aeschylus wrote The Oresteia, of which these coworkers at this one small company are but a typical example.
Whaaaaat? Messenger's website is blatantly an iPad Master/Detail UI and they block you from accessing it on an iPad. That's a special kind of stupid.

I did just check, messenger.com gives you an App Store link for the messenger app and is definitely not accessible.

Request Desktop Site works on iPad, but when I tried it on an iPhone I got a spinny wheel where the login boxes should be. YMMV.
Yo I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you've never had a woman and a manager walk up and say "Move over I need room for my big tits."

I'm sure those experiences can exist in this world, but data we have paints a picture that these "socially awkward weirdos" aren't so weird and special and snowflake. They're garden variety sexists of the most boring and hurtful sort.
Yes, I agree completely. I'd hope that the arXiv model would win - making SciHub unnecessary in the process. It hasn't yet.
Wow. No one even attacked you directly, they merely made lewd comments in your presence. I can see how there is a huge disconnect if this is all it takes for someone to want to run back to a life of shelter.
Matrix is really wonderful and I hope it will continue to grow. It's federated, like IRC and unlike Slack. Also there's good support for bridges to other chat protocols / services, so matrix may be the solution to _reducing_ the number of chat clients you need to interact with.
Did u enjoy it? I started reading it, but stopped early on.
Company sounds like a bunch of clowns. This is one of the things VCs are thinking about when they talk about bringing in "adult supervision."
How about TypeScript?
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This is for a research project.

Just need the headlines for now -- not even the links (from the last 1-2yrs)
> Don't leave tech -- Leave this trash fire of a company.

Instructions unclear. left a trash can in fire at the office.

-Posted from jail
I would advise the tactical route of leaving, acquiring gainful employment elsewhere, then shaming. Got to look out for yourself first.
I guess we don't count in log scale. The billions of people on the world will never get millions, only thousands, hundreds, and tens.

Give a person a meter and they'll take a kilometer. Ehh?
By the sound of it, it's only the 8 people in the entire company. No place for HR in a company that small.
Just to add to the evidence others are posting, Dave McClure is a fine example and my go-to since people started complaining Uber's scandal wasn't "original enough."

[0]https://500hats.com/im-a-creep-i-m-sorry-d2c13e996ea0
[1]https://cherylyeoh.com/2017/07/03/shedding-light-on-the-blac...
So you just answered your own question. The absolute difference is worth a lot more. It's better to have the $1.5B difference between Bezos and Gates pay Africans than it is to use the $10k between our two people in poverty, even though one makes more than the other.

Your suggestion to use log scales hides that fact, and shows the ratio of $20k to $10k as visually larger than the ratio between $92.3B and $90.8B. That is why log scales are counter intuitive and not great for physical analogies. You asked, I answered.
I shared this story with my company (90% women). Not a single person here has ever experienced anything as overtly sexist as this. They all agree though that they would've quit on the spot and found another job.

This issue certainly isn't found in every tech company and I'd argue that it isn't even most.

There's also selection bias (is that what this is called?) in that folks write blog posts about these kinds of negative experiences but very few write blog posts saying "my team is great, everyone is respectful and we all get along swimmingly."
Interesting that you are going for a limited direct to consumer model for your orders. Is this something YC is recommending as means of showing traction? I remember Thalmic (W13) going for a similar approach, though in their case it was a pre order campaign.
This seems more like a versioning issue. Can't papers that pass review get a new DOI? I'm thinking something like semver for scientific papers or scientific data, more generally. DOIs even look like semver versions, so why not add more space for the different stages of publishing?
Telling your users how to add your app to the home screen should not be a thing. It makes your product look unprofessional. Prompting a user who has used the web app a bunch of times should be a thing on iOS like it is on Android.
Yes, if you have a seedbox or something please host a few random parts! I have three or four hosted pieces and there aren't too many peers.
The girl is right but sociopaths and weirdos will often outnumber her, not only in the coding field. I am afraid her reaction shows she has a long way to go before developing the thick skin she needs to survive and assert herself.
There's a distribution of companies raising more than 10M there, it's a start. From both, success looks very slightly biased towards 1 and 2 founders.
Net of taxes, and given the availability of hedge funds for someone of his wealth, 8% is probably on the low end.
You are literally arguing that people should pay for their own oppression.

Honestly, and I ask with sincerity as the answer is important to me, does that not bear at least a little upon your conscience?
Tachyons: beautiful, responsive and readable interfaces
Twitter is like facebook but with less features, and broken.
I think posting the "We don't give a f--k" video is a pretty direct attack.

And even if that specific incident hadn't happened: a climate of gendered or sexually explicit comments is hostile. I'm sorry if you work somewhere that this isn't obvious or explicit. At my company, we're working to maintain a good culture, and none of the behavior described in the article -- none -- would be acceptable.

Thankfully we haven't had to deal with that yet. But I'm formulating some new interview questions reading this HN thread....
Maybe not many consider sharing the video with the word "fuck" in it sexist?
We use WTF quite a lot, I'd never ever even dream to think about it as something sexist.

Edit: my bad, I missed the part in which context that repsonse was posted. It changes the perspective a lot.
Wow that is extremely insightful.

Now I understand why globalisation is dangerous; if people start to favor short term relationships (both personal and business) with many different partners (smaller number of rounds <interactions> per match <lifetime>), then society will evolve to become full of cheaters.
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Given the number of UFO sighting claims, you would think everyone's chance of encountering a silent flying saucer shaped object in their lifetime is near 100%. My point is, everyone sympathizes with stories of abuse/sexism/racism, but the number of articles written about them doesn't prove they happen frequently or even that they happen in the majority of workplaces.
So, fundamental question here - if scientific articles (or anything that can be copy protected, etc.) can be released online in this manner to "free the knowledge", and yet, given such free access, there are still people that will pay for a subscription to access the same scientific articles, wouldn't that be the best solution?

I see people commenting that just because of this release, universities won't cancel their subscriptions to the journals. Well, that would be great - let them keep paying, while the content also gets out for free.

This is like the trend where you can pay what you want for stuff, or nothing. I wonder if that model would apply to scientific research - pay what you want for the paper, or nothing - but if you want to support that research.. hopefully people would still pay.

Just thinking out loud... probably already been thought of or wouldn't work (or I'm just self-defeatist). :)
> I understand the reason for a larger block - it seems like it's pure profit for the miners (should we just refer to it as greed?)

As space in blocks becomes crowded we should expect transaction fees to grow, and indeed they have: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

If space in blocks is abundant then transaction fees should settle at the approximate per byte cost to the miner of the additional transaction.

I would expect smaller block sizes to be more profitable for miners, all else being equal (e.g. ignoring that high transaction costs make BTC less valuable).
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At the same time, I've seen almost no PvP games based on randomness that really end up working. Hearthstone has a huge RNG element - which deck you're up against, what cards you get etc. People minmax their decks from rank 20 and below (out of 25), and while there is some difference in decision making it really doesn't fulfill the dream of having many different viable strategies and the ability to use them - usually 3-5 "meta" decks that everyone knows about are more powerful than most.

Thats why I think co-op games end up being far more satisfying, since they don't have to balance out a player vs player arms race.
> But when I read discussions like this I always wonder about the people who work at journals. The process of peer-review, copy-editing, and online publication is not something that can be done for free.

Peer review is done by others in the field (peers), typically for free. Online publication is "where do I stick this PDF", and does not require per-paper work (or if it does that can be done by the author). That leaves us with copyediting, and in many cases, copyediting issues are caught by peer review rather than any paid editor.
This is a comforting fiction, but all you're doing is renaming the special and unfair treatment men give women to "assholes being assholes."

And sure. Yes. That's not untrue. But read the article. She's particularly singled out for special treatment.

Redefining the words or claiming it's actually women being "more sensitive" is just a word game to try making excuses. To do anything but agree, "This is sexist behavior."
I think the issue comes up consistently when people say things like "what's wrong with people in this industry". The statement would seem to apply to literally everyone in the industry is bad, which is trivially untrue. Especially when you are doing all you can it's weird to just be lumped in with other people and being able to do nothing about it. I'm not saying that how she says things is bad but it often will make people defensive regardless of whether they agree that it's a problem or not
Twitter should fix lists, and make them collaborative.
Absolutely—they should integrate this kind of workflow into the web UX :D
You should probably try to pool-mine Monero (XMR) or Ethereum (ETH).
Pool mining is where a bunch of people mine to a common managed pool to increase the chances of finding a block and splitting the profits as opposed to solo mining where you'd get the full reward for finding a block but has lottery type odds.

My kind of recent experience: with an old Radeon HD7850 I could achieve ~430 H/s on Monero. An imac's i5 2.7ghz gives ~25 H/s per core, so about 100. With a setup of around 530-600 H/s I managed to mine a whooping 0.1 XMR in about 10 days (about $4.40 at current prices). Fun fact: the pool has a minimum payout of 0.3xmr, so I would have to mine another 20 days to get paid.

Still, monero is one of the more cpu/gpu friendly cryptos, so if you have some good graphics cards around, you can probably make some profit. I've also read somewhere that ethereum can be profitable with gpus but didn't get around to testing it.

Although you'd probably have to benchmark and know your hash-rate for the different coins, if you know that, here are some useful online calculators where you can input that along with your electricity cost and see how profitable it could potentially be:

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/

https://www.nicehash.com/?p=calc
Everyone begging for this company to be doxxed is no doubt just hoping to evaluate it and begin a "no true scotsman" argument that excludes this behavior from our industry from a whole, and, most importantly, excludes their own team/company from being part of the problem.
The IPFS network is ideal for this kind of situation.

I should say I'm bias as I run ipfsstore.it but to host all 26gb there would not be expensive.
I think the next step for web development will be a smooth blending of the server and front end which all these node stacks hint at. For instance, defining an endpoint defined both the code for running the endpoint as well as the front end code for consuming it.

By defining both together, you reduce the amount of break points I'm your code dramatically.
Ha ha sure
Well, it wasn't wrong, necessarily. A large project in 2013 to start uncovering the genetics of intelligence did in fact finally succeed and end the debate over the heritability of intelligence once and for all. It just wasn't BGI's project... Hsu has acknowledged that it didn't work out, but BGI's primarily organizational failure, and intelligence/genetics research since then IMO, doesn't undermine any of his broader claims as expressed in https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3421 but supports them - intelligence is definitely highly heritable and reasonably close to the classic twin estimates, mostly genetically correlated with good things so boosting it will have mostly unintended good consequences, mostly additive so the extrapolations will work out at least several SDs, etc, all of which implies that very large boosts in intelligence are possible. And if BGI had been able to merely 10x its sample size, it really would have managed to find interesting things due to the enrichment & better phenotyping than SSGAC; but it was too small then (the approach works better, just not better enough). The main implication of the BGI failure is mostly that selection has a bit more potential than thought (more small variants to gradually increase), and editing will be a bit harder than thought (no big rare variants to edit one by one).
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You can't make something truly polyglot across all of 2.X and all of 3.X. However much of py3 syntax is supported by py2. As far as I know, 2to3 doesn't produce py3-only syntax. I diff the original and the converted code, merging the non-compatible parts into a version check.
Given that many popular distros still have Python 2.7 or older as their default, this seems unwise.
I'd rather see that money put into actual research rather than paying for access to free things. And approximately none of those funds go to pay for research.
I don't think Apple could even get away with this if Swift were more than 3 years old. I suspect the relationship between migration pain and age is exponential.
3x is the total number of youth participants in soccer vs total youth participants in tackle football.

I didn't see that your study was high school and college only.

It seems that girls suffer much higher rates of concussions in all sports likely do to less developed neck muscles according to this [1].

So you'd have to compare concussion rate in football vs boys soccer to get a real comparison.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/recruiting-insider/wp/20...
That's a very straightforward math problem.
No airline miles are not a security. They are non-negotiable, you can't sell them, they expire, they don't represent an ownership interest.
That being said, think about the other lines in the accountants books that could be better funded if universities didn't have to pay for journal subscriptions. That funding could go towards hiring more professors, paying professors better, hiring more research assistants, outfitting research labs better, etc.

If we aren't paying researchers for peer review, the journal pay wall is just a net loss in productivity. It's just one more useless middleman.
Agreed. Wouldn't it be MUCH easier to, say, invest heavily in our early and middle education systems?

Much cheaper than eugenics.
I rarely comment on Bitcoin these days, although I do still read things about it from time to time. I realise we're mostly in agreement, but on the technical arguments I'd like to briefly defend myself here - the arguments I made were not misleading or dishonest in any way. It's rather the post you link to which is.

No particularly special Bitcoin knowledge is required to figure out why, just careful study of that post with a critical and analytical mind (and not the mind of a "fan"). I wasted far too much of my life dealing with people Peter Todd had deliberately confused back in those years - it's a Sisyphean task that simply never ends if you let it - so I don't wish to write out a long rebuttal now, especially as I don't know you. But see if you can figure it out. Like I said, you don't need me to explain if you study things carefully.
Yeah, I should've clarified that I was curious about the people he mentioned. Researchers contribute some of the most valuable comments to HN, so mainly I wanted to avoid making them feel unwelcome. If linking to sci-hub ends up shooing them off HN, it's not worth the cost.

It seems like the sentiment is in the other direction, though. Maybe most researchers don't care.
I've met the author of the study, Daniel Himmelstein, who is quite passionate about making information free. Projects in his github account (https://github.com/dhimmel) tend to use a CC0 license. Some of his work involves aggregation of data (e.g., https://github.com/dhimmel/hetionet) that is encumbered and he has put a lot of effort into making it as free as possible. His project carefully documents the license for each data point and he took the time to ask copyright holders that do not provide an explicit license to do so.
It would be nice if someone actually managed to pin this down. It appears to primarily affect people that compile with haswell optimizations.

The bug was first reported in april yet to the date no narrowing down from either AMD or community.

This is the best hint we have so far: http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/b48d...
Mostly KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid), try not to be creative, try to reuse simple patterns as much as you can.

For instance, in the Java ecosystem there are the various Executors; Executors aren't good at everything, but they are good at many cases that turn up, and I've frequently spent a few days trying to understand what was going on with "sophisticated" solutions in Scala and/or Clojure and then spent 20 minutes coding it up with an Executor and at that point had something that worked correctly all the time and used all the CPU cores to boot.
Alternatively we could use the beloved principle of meritocracy to point out that none of those people are the kind of geniuses that would offset the cost of a sexual harassment lawsuit and they should all be disciplined and possibly fired for their unprofessional conduct.

But sure. Tell her to 'grow up.' Tell her that because there are bad people in the world, it's her responsibility and role to accept and cater to them.
Are there any performance benchmarks associated with building software? Similar to your point, gaming benchmarks are totally meaningless to me, but I would love to learn about the difference in time it takes to build some large software (e.g. Chrome) on various cpus.
Of course it is. There is no reason for these antics, if not for the sake of culture.
I think that you need to know context well to enjoy it.
I believe that translation may kill a lot from it