skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For better or worse, I think the idea of the surgical team runs counter to the prevailing egalitarian spirit in software development. Personally, I think there are some projects that are better suited to it than others. For example, I've been involved with technically-demanding projects that suffered from the "too many cooks in the kitchen" syndrome that the surgical team approach addresses. On the other hand, there's plenty of more mundane feature development work that probably doesn't benefit nearly as much from that approach.

One criticism that I would expect some to make against the surgical team approach is that it doesn't help to develop more junior team members. From personal experience, I think it's actually a good way to develop junior team members. I learned the most when I was around more technically experienced team members even if they were dictating the breakdown of the work rather than when I went off on my own to develop less technically challenging features. Some mix of the two is probably ideal, but I think there's some lack of appreciation for the benefits of a surgical team environment.
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Arguably politics is a profession. Just look at recent elections in the US and the UK to see how nasty it can get.
It's a good point, but I can't help but think of all the mistakes, disclosures, privacy violations, poor design, gratuitous change, etc. that has happened at the hands of "dedicated engineers." In this case specifically, are the engineers who caused this incident not dedicated and well paid?
Does that make Roundup a chemical weapon?
I'd like to think society can truely embrace diversity instead of uniformity.

Sadly, racial and sex discrimination still exist leaving society stuck with imperfect solutions to deep rooted problems.
Oh man, if there was a way to find sites that use that new mobile pattern where the ad slides up as you scroll down, I would nuke all of those sites from orbit.
Why is seeing someone new every three days an intrinsic wrong that we need to right with legislation?
In regards to the author who was upset his book was scanned; I believe you're referring to Babel and his "The Amiga Guru Book".

Currently on my bookshelf.
Women write back to Google engineer
But this guy might lose his job. His career. All for voicing his opinion.

This has always been true and I can't understand how you would imagine it was ever otherwise.
Quick reminder: We don't know what the majority of the mass/energy of the universe is. Dark matter is ~20% of the universe and pretty much all we know about it is that 'it falls down'. Dark Energy is ~75% of the universe and all we know about it is that it makes galaxies accelerate away from each other. So, defining life or intelligence as we do is maybe not the best idea for long term thinking.
I guess it cant be done in dense cities but in our area, the garbage collectors drive trucks with robot arms. They can stay in the cab the whole time and the machine does the work in a fraction of the time and workers involved. The catch is that the homeowner needs to pull their cart to the street curb but personally that is not a big deal. One good point is because the machine lifts the cart, I can fill them up quite heavy and they not complain.
I think Amazon the company is going to be fine. Bezos will adjust his business model when the growth slows down.

What everybody can agree with is that AMZN stock price is massively overvalued.

Amazon is on low margin retail business. Amazons market cap is 4751B. Assuming 10% ROI and 3% profit margin, Amazon must make $16 trillion in revenue some time in the future.

US retail sales are $5 trillion.

Total retail sales across the globe are $22 trillion.

Amazon runs out of markets before current stock price can be justified.
Just because some Wikipedia editor writes something doesn't make it a fact. There are other relevant quotes in there from the governments of the U.K. And US saying that it's not a chemical weapon.
Let's see your data. For things that drive fundamentals, I'm looking for data that a given use for Bitcoin has at least 1% market share versus competitor technologies, and hopefully above 15%, so it's clear that the idea has crossed the chasm.
This debate, like most, has a bell curve distribution of positions. Two tails of snowflakes on either side, throwing tantrums, yelling at each other, and the majority in the middle who are tired of their shit.

Who's right? Who's wrong? I don't care. I'm fresh out of goodwill.

My only desire is that society stop enabling the bickering. Which will continue as long as clickbaiting (selling advertisement) makes money.
When the barber is getting into the oil-field, it is time to get out

-Roughneck's Proverb
Of course cognitive differences can make one better than the other in certain tasks, stop being so defensive. PC is anti-intellectualism.
Give other people the benefits of your hard work.
You're thinking of DC. Puerto Ricans are actually pretty conservative, there's a chance that DC will finally become a state now that PR has voted to join.

https://rightedition.com/2016/03/11/puerto-rico-rejects-gay-...
Its certainly a hell of a lot more readable than most sites.
http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/new-orleans.shtml

Not an expert by any means, but aren't we looking at +2 meters sea level rise by 2100? Maybe less than 1 meter by 2050? Try it out!

IMHO, it would be better not to wait for global warming to take care of this for us. Coastal erosion due factors other than climate in Louisiana is a different (probably more urgent) problem which actually can be solved without world government. Just better government in Louisiana, which...well, OK, yeah, it's probably not going to happen. :)
"Stereotype threat" isn't doing well in replication.

https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/hidden-fig...

Money quote:

"Research on stereotype threat and women’s performance on math tests is one example where publication bias undermines the findings in a seminal study that produced a large literature of studies on gender differences in math performance. After correcting for publication bias, this literature shows very little evidence that stereotype threat has a notable and practically significant effect on women’s math performance (Flore & Wicherts, 2014)."
Here here. "Punch a Nazi" is no longer figurative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvmGWqFYBGk
Could you give an example of an "imperfect solution to a deep rooted problem"?
Extremely high rent would seem to be indicative of too few housing units turning some of them into hotels might not be the best thing for everyone.
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I see what you mean. But following on from the article linked (which does the same) I'm addressing that the manifesto isn't even consistent in its own logic. My comment wasn't intended as an all-encompassing take down of the entire manifesto!

I've updated the end to reflect that I'm talking about the inconsistency in the manifesto itself.
Governments mainly value people as taxpayers, because taxpayers pay into the public coffers, which can then be emptied to ameliorate social disputes and ease reelection. If you don't pay taxes and do consume services at the same time, as a squatter does, you're making your leaders' lives harder and they will find a way to get rid of you.
In that case I hope you have your S3 under a different account than your main stuff. There are more reasons why stuff goes missing than just hardware failure.

Note that a backup need not make things worse, but should only make things better.
Somewhere beautiful an hour or so outside of LA or north of SF. Drive into town when there's meetups. Don't waste this opportunity to live in a really nice place that most people cannot viably live in due to lack of employment opportunities.
^ this ^ so much. It makes me very sad to see male masculinity being shamed and female empathy mocked as a weakness. The important differences should be celebrated, not viewed as a superiority contest.
What do you think will happen when it (inevitably) gets hacked?
"In conclusion, a replicability analysis with the R-Index shows that stereotype-threat is an elusive phenomenon. Even large replication studies with hundreds of participants were unable to provide evidence for an effect that appeared to be a robust effect in the original article. The R-Index of the meta-analysis by Flore and Wicherts corroborates concerns that the importance of stereotype-threat as an explanation for gender differences in math performance has been exaggerated. "

https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/tag/does-stereotype-t...
Dug up reference on Feynman tale: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs588/safecracker.pdf
I love that it's responsive :-)
Very nice. Has Dr. O weighed in? I found the example source especially easy to just read, coming from a 'history' of having written a bunch of C code.
How are you going to do that in a way that isn't shitty to "feminine" men or "masculine" women?
It really is only a matter of time. The problem with low frequency events is that you never have any idea how realistic your modeling is and the only way you'll find out is when that once in a 1000 year event happens tomorrow morning.
Hi, thanks for sharing the link!

Do you mean this comment: "Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance).This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs."?

It seems the premise (different average levels of neuroticism between males and females) passes the 10-minutes-of-scanning-google-results-test. But I am not sure that higher neuroticism necessarily causes lower tolerance to stress, although a connection is suggested by [1]. That is, if we agree to use the word "neuroticism" as defined by the big-five scale.

The conclusion is carefully worded ("may contribute to"), and not obviously implausible, so it might at least be a valid starting point for a dialogue.

Having said this much, I must add that I find the document to not be very well balanced.

Just for example: Women also tend to score higher on extraversion than men. The same study I cited before [1] links low extraversion to social phobia and (tentatively to) anxiety disorders. Shouldn't that have been on that list as well, then? Also women tend to score higher on agreeableness, so I guess I could claim that'd make them better team players, no?

So my conclusion about the document is that while it seems to me to list some arguably valid concerns, it does not play entirely fair. But that is a weakness primarily of what is omitted by the text, not by what's in it.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3690955/

{Ed. I am aware the text mentions extraversion and agreeableness as well, but only in the context of their disadvantages, not of their advantages.}
Maybe change the company name to "Brokedown Palace"?
Go 2, please don't make it happen
Any sort of market gradually becomes consolidated over time, until 2 or 3 big firms dominate it. Professionals practice specialization, which will always give them an advantage over amateurs. Sharing platforms at least don't lock out amateurs with high entry costs.
You didn't need a passport to go to Canada until relatively recently. That's fairly orthogonal to sovereignty.
That's cool for Eric and Bryan, but I was more making a point about the subject of the article: millennials who are launching startups in Puerto Rico.

The narrative that the article paints about this cohort moving to Puerto Rico just out of pure love of the island sounds starry-eyed and naive. Businesses make business decisions, and incredible tax breaks need to be factored into that rational.

At the very least, the article could have examined this point and dismissed it if it's mostly untrue. But tax incentives (not including the one I mentioned) were barely discussed.
Probably not a huge issue - look up first home language in Texas or Arizona. Texas is also like 50%+ Hispanic, and I can't imagine the modern GOP being anti-Texas.
GP explicitly references Wikipedia as an authority, that should not suddenly be grounds to dismiss a reply.

The US saying it is not a chemical weapon is a bit like them declaring 'enhanced interrogation' not torture.
Higher incidents of noise violations, higher trash output, there are a bunch of factors that make hotel guests / airbnb guests less desirable than a typical tenant.
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Tcl had been a pretty good way to create things like embedded command shells for C-based programs, and this was great as long as people operated in fairly sequential ways like “command1, command2, command3”.

The problems with Tcl start to show up when invariably somebody decides they want something more logically complex than a sequence of commands. Debugging Tcl is extremely difficult, which makes it a huge maintenance liability. For example, a “line number” isn’t much help if the “line” refers to 90% of the file and Tcl thinks all of that is essentially one statement (no matter how many braces are in it). As another example, there are tons of places where a variable is referenced both like "$this" and "this"; that is just a whole series of accidents waiting to happen, especially when you consider that many functions depend on argument order and they don’t necessarily produce obvious malfunctions when variables are misused.
I'm surprised corporations haven't bought ghost towns, and turned them into themed resorts, etc. A place like this that is built for one person, the enjoyment of cannabis, with the right amenities, could be huge.
Yes and by nature too much money is at stake. Government in nyc is thus unreparably corrupt. The only practical answer is to simply shrink governmemt so that ethical, yet illega, behavior can flourish.

Society is not built on law, it is built on willpower.

If you have the will to compete against the hotel lobby and corrupt government, more power to you.
Having a contraceptive pill not working together well with alcohol is probably one of the worst user interfaces ever. At least judging from the behaviour I observe amongst people in the UK :)
FTA: "Your network configuration data is not lost or impacted - this issue is limited to user-uploaded data."

Errrrrrr... so the issue was limited only to data I would actually care about then? Or did I misread?

That is a frankly extraordinary use of weasel words.
> "A zoo is still a zoo if there aren't any animals..."

Sounds like a Zoo-Wannabe to me.
It's certainly not bad grammar, but starting a lot of sentences with the word I is often considered bad style (both for the repetition and for the emphasis it places on yourself), and it's something a lot of kids do naturally; I assume that's what they meant to say.
It's not a yes. A safe space is a safe free from criticism. Conservatives don't want or need safe spaces. They need spaces free from literal violence and from social violence (calls to firing, disruption of free assemblies, ostrichsization, etc.). Trying to equate these things does not make you clever.

> All you have to do is admit that diversity is good and you'll get your diversity of ideology there for free.

You seemed to have missed the point. The author of the treatise lives in an environment where diversity is widely seen as good and does not feel that he enjoys diversity of ideology. Your point is already disproven by OP.
A great male contraceptive is already here and it is testosterone injections.

"The two-and-a-half-year study of 399 couples in nine countries found that the injections of the male sex hormone were an effective contraceptive for 98.6 percent of the participants."

https://nytimes.com/1996/04/03/us/testosterone-injections-wo...
I don't understand the replies on stackoverflow.

The request seems perfectly sensible -- write a regexp to parse a single HTML tag, without a closing slash. Then all the replies are from smart-alecs trying to look clever about how regexps can't do generic nested parsing. Am I missing something?
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How about not shaming anyone, male or female, for any traits that aren't harmful to other people?
Ah yes only English translation for now. Ok I will add it!
https://www.epa.gov/la/laplace-louisiana-frequent-questions#...

It's 826 per million.

http://www.fox8live.com/story/33542135/air-of-uncertainty-ep...
That would certainly be my understanding of remediation.
Instead of beating them, I send them on an airline trip to Beijing with a suitcase full of contraband, and the Chinese government beats them for me.
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Celebrating 30 years right now at the Vintage Computer Festival being held at Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. Can't be there? join virtually: ssh vcf@tty.livingcomputers.org and choose option 1.
Now you're just being obtuse on purpose.
Not really. I used to use AirBnB, but I went back to hotels. It's worth the extra money. Let me know how it works out for you and your family when you get there and the host is nowhere to be found and doesn't pick up his phone for 3 hours because he forgot, or you realize at 1am on a Saturday you forgot to take the key to the front door with you and there's nothing you can do about it until 10am, or afterwards when you get an angry 1 star review from the host because you left in a hurry to catch a flight and forgot to put a sheet in the dryer.
I stopped after Donald Trump was brought up in about the fourth paragraph. Like him or not, he has nothing to do with the state of Louisana or New Orleans specifically. New Orleans has been governed by Democrats exclusively while all of this environmental damage happened.
That's not the full economic response. The tourist pays tax for n days a year. The resident does so as well as additional taxes which make the whole city possible.

How have we gotten this so backwards?
Consider: each time you introduce a new device that has local, physical access to the place your data lives

Right. So don't do that. Put it somewhere else, and configure the original device to push to it rather than give the new device access to the original. You can use a service that implements the S3 API, then you don't even need to install new stuff on the original, just configure an extra endpoint. Also, encrypt before pushing (that counts for S3 too).
Denial of sexual dimorphism is an odd shibboleth, but amazingly persistent. It always makes me laugh when any ideology claims to be pro-science, as the left has done recently. They deny natural selection when it encumbers on their domain just as quickly as the religious right does. Reality has no ideology. Natural selection is a search process that is literally powered by death and suffering; why should we expect it, that vast indifferent thing, to distribute desirable characteristics in the manner prescribed by our flimsy ideologies?
they were there but gizmodo removed them
Most of the population is in the bucket that will be harmed by high housing prices, won't ever be able to derive any benefit from owning additional housing for rent, and will only occasionally if at all benefit from cheaper vacation rentals.

The people who will benefit most are the top 10% will will ultimately own most everything and can afford the hotel fare.

In short, screw them.
Yeah, you misread. Configuration data is what makes the network actually work and that was preserved.
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I mean, the replies are all jokes - that's why I submitted it. It's funny. Clearly the responders aren't trying to be helpful.
1) There are sex-differentiated characteristics of the brain.

2) Those sex-differentiated characteristics tend to be a mosaic in the brain [1].

3) Despite being a mosaic, statistics can still differentiate sex based on individual brain characteristics [2].

4) Therefore the current social structures that differentiate the roles men and women play in society are biologically derived /s /s /s /s

A long time ago, it was decided that women and men had their place because god ordained it. When that fell out of fashion (still fashionable in many places), shallow thinkers used sed to make it seem more respectable.

Putting this into the context of the recent discussion about the role of sex/gender in the tech industry, let's suppose that biological differences influence a person' career choice. Let's also acknowledge that until the last 60 or so years women were basically barred from pursuing technical work in great numbers by social obstacles. The question is, when did those social obstacles become so negligible that only biological factors are left as plausible reasons for gender disparities in, say, programming?

Very few people disagree with the idea that society should treat people equally irrespective of their gender. There's just a contingent of people who say that such social parity has already been achieved (or maybe we've gone too far), and another contingent who say that parity has not been achieved. If we're already in an egalitarian society, then clearly the only reason for significant differences in the division of labor and social participation between different genders must be of biological origin.

In other words, the contentious issue of biological differences between men and women isn't contentious because of the biology, but because of the assumptions that need to be made in order to correlate those differences with the structure of society.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468

[2] http://www.pnas.org/content/113/14/E1968.short
No, extended stay places do not require an extended stay. They are just equipped to provide for an extended stay should you choose to do so.
The particular situation with the neoprene plant couldn't possibly be OK, but the article is short on details. But I do think the risks of living in the general vicinity (yet outside the explosion range) of industrial facilities is oversold. For example, the east side of Houston towards the ship channel and its hundreds of refineries, terminals, plants, and other facilities shows a higher cancer risk than the rest of the metro area, but it's still less than many parts of LA, Seattle, NYC and San Francisco, due to other factors. The EPA doesn't recommend making these kind of comparisons for several reasons [1]. Also this dataset only covers air (not water / food / lifestyle) risks.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/national-air-toxics-assessment/nata-freq...
> nobody loses their job for wrongthink

Except, of course, that people actually do. We have laws against termination for political viewpoints in this country and hundreds of cases are successfully prosecuted every year. People do lose their jobs for wrongthink and sometimes they win lawsuits and their former employers are prosecuted for it. Of course, as these things go, some people also probably lose their job for the same reason and fail to pursue or win a lawsuit.
Similar services already exist and are sold to cities; I've seen articles about them for a year at least (in serious publications). I'm not sure they are 24x7 or that they have the resolution to read faces or license plates, though obviously that tech exists, but it's happening now.

In one article, they talked about how they record the video, and that later if they are investigating something that happened at location X, they can go back and track all the cars and people that came and went.

> How would the world respond? How would American respond? Would we collectively decide this is not something we want and pass laws to stop it?

You can see the response of Americans right now, which is nothing. My hypothesis is that the public is reactive to sensational issues (real or not), and is almost never proactive. The public lacks the time, understanding, attention and wisdom to be proactive about even a tiny fraction of public issues; that's why we need experts and "elites" in representative government, not pure democracy. Right now those elites are letting us down, badly, and on many issues.