skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right: it's clear that there's no sharp divide between men's and women's aptitude for STEM jobs. There are many excellent women engineers, and many men who have no aptitude for engineering.

It's also true that there seem to be population-level differences that are connected to aptitude for engineering. If we're trying to answer the question "to what extent is sexism excluding women from engineering?" then these differences become important. If there are no population-level differences then any deviation from a 50/50 sex ratio among engineers is probably due to some kind of sex discrimination. But if there are real population-level differences then it would be a mistake to insist on a 50/50 sex ratio, and a mistake to assume that sexism is the problem if the ratio is not 50/50. (Of course, there might still be sexism, even if there are also population-level differences.)

The problem comes when people try to apply population-level sex differences at an individual level. Even if fewer women have an aptitude for engineering, that says nothing at all about any individual female engineer. The right way to assess an the ability of an engineer, whether male or female, is by looking at the information about what they've done -- they've achieved X qualification, won Y award, built Z product etc. -- not by assuming gender differences that can only be observed at the population level. Unfortunately, both negative and positive discrimination muddy the waters here, making these signals less useful.
> we define universe as having neither outside nor boundaries

Do we?

> boundaries

There's one at the Big Bang. You can go through contortions to try to remove it (Hartle & Hawking's "no boundary proposal"; Carroll & Chen's "two-ways-to-de-Sitter from arbitrary initial surface") but so far attempts have come at the cost of introducing a lot more conceptual baggage.

> outside

"more of mostly the same" unless you think that one metre or one light year or two hundred million light years beyond the Hubble radius the universe is vastly different from the stars and galaxies we have around here. What could have happened to early galaxies that 200 million years ago were in principle observable from the Milky Way, such that they wouldn't now resemble the descendants of early galaxies that are 200 million light years closer to us?
Uber Is an Old Scam – Richard D. Wolff
Black people aren't keeping white Americans out of college. Rich people are
Unfortunately the beagles are mostly gone from Hobart airport.
There's just the one now, I'm told, and s/he wasn't on duty last I flew down. Family that fly through there regularly all say they havnt seen it on duty much either.

This made my paranoid checking of whether my chosen brand of fruit-oil containing shower gel would be permitted kind of redundant.

For somewhere there's not supposed to be fruit fly, we sure saw a lot of fruit flies.
>Police dismissed the [bomb] as the work of “boys or pranksters.”

My father tells me stories about how he witnessed people openly and actively "recruiting terrorists" in public in San Francisco in the 1970s.

He said they were just standing around with signs and pamphlets, calling out and trying to get you to sign up to their terrorist campaign.

Just as the religious zealots you see on the streets today that are mostly ignored.

The world has really changed, and fast.
This is extremely disingenuous of them to have their FAQ essentially contradict their TOS. Honestly sounds like they are deliberately trying to deceive people.
And there goes your accessibility.
> In fact, this is hidden away all the way at the bottom of the terms and conditions!

Or not bottom but slightly above the bottom, since people may skim through and read first and last part only as a matter of verification.

> Exactly how is intentionally lying to your customers to the point that you can get them killed ethical?

I suppose its a survival of the fittest, to get rid of those humans ignorant or poor enough to deal with this.

Would it pass the Darwin Awards though?

And don't make the mistake that this business practice goes right for an X amount of times. A scammer on eBay can have hundreds of positive feedback before his exit strategy.

As for the "These guys totally have you covered." in the original article, I wouldn't want to do business with someone who's manner of first impression is to advertises themselves as a hardcore gamer, a dancer (with that stale face), and a beer drinker. Doesn't give me confidence at all!
Aha, three ways to concatenate arrays! I see Python conforms to the TIMTOWTDI principle. :)
Seems like the lion's share of the updates were last made about 10 years go.
99% of home garage doors have a manual cable release which detaches the pulley from the chain drive and allows you to manually open the door... I'm surprised people wouldn't know this especially in Texas
So going from 2GHz to 3, or getting 50÷ IPC from an updated chip isn't worth it?
Extend Kubernetes 1.7 with Custom Resources
Just imagine the pandemonium that would ensue if something like this would happen today. "Breaking News" 24/7 for as long as the campaign lasted.
It was a different era for media. Locally we had a week of hysteria when some nutjob crushed old mercury thermostat vials in a hospital cafeteria. A crank bomb threat at a community center brought a platoon of paramilitary police milling around smoking all day for two weeks.
Unions? The garbage pickup is done by private contractors... Usually based in NJ and probably connected to organized crime.
It's not a statistically random selection though. See the 1936 Literary Digest presidential election poll. (They polled 1/4th of the total number of eligible voters, and of that number almost 1/4th responded. They were off by a 19% absolute polling error.)

https://www.math.upenn.edu/~deturck/m170/wk4/lecture/case1.h...
Human individuals are a dynamic, changing pattern that persist for 80 years or so.
Yes. Check out Homebridge - it's already been done for you.
The usual losers
Water and liquids are permitted through security on domestic flights from domestic airport terminals. No reason to dump your bottle of water.

http://travelsecure.infrastructure.gov.au/onboard/liquids-ae...
Usually, if you don't checkin or board a flight, the airline will pull your bag off of the flight.
Any newspaper article whose headline is a question invariably fails to answer that question. So at the end of this Op-Ed, we have a nice quote about no-handed clocks, but no new information about the tech bubble, if it is indeed a bubble. People have been calling the peak since shortly after the Great Recession. Being pessimistic makes you look realistic and smart. But when the bubble doesn't burst, you still lose money based on an unfounded opinion, and that's just as stupid as groundless optimism.
This is another instance where the value of the work is visibly different than the value of the labor. Teachers are the classical example of providing much higher value than what they are compensated for.
I realize the journal is real, I was just speculating that the paper might not be. Real journals have jokes too.

I did a search for the authors and they seem reputable. But of course reputable people make jokes too. :-)

I'm still interested.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14937910
For that to be completely true Puerto Rico would have representation in the federal legislature.

Puerto Rico has it's own Olympic team. Which is sort of a basis for considering PR as a country.
>Richard Feynman was probably one of the most talented physicists of the 20th century.

Starts off bold.
And this, also from PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jOxEGVyPo
Entreprise ans consumer solutions are necessarily different because of the legal environment. You don't want random employees sending arbitrary files to each other with no auditing, security, organization, etc.
Sanctions.
The legacy film came out in 2010 or so.
I'd be interested in sources. I can see how method overloading looks like multiple dispatch, but again, it only works on static information.

If you want a collection of items where you call a different overloaded method on each, you are either checking the type of each one manually, or you are doing something like this.
Location: Cambridge, UK

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: javascript, css/html, nodejs, react, mongodb, jquery

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinebacon/

GitHub: https://github.com/CatherineBacon

Email: catherine.bacon@gmail.com

I am a career changer (from scientific publishing) looking for a first full time software engineering position after completing freeCodeCamp then a 3 month software development internship.
Clustered filesystems just means that one machine can wreak havock across many domains of fun. (I used early lustre, I know from fun experience)

ceph seems nice, but appears to be very CPU hungry and not very fast.

Seems easier to have sharded vanilla linux file servers. It requires a decent asset manager, but once you have that, backups and rebalancing become trivial.
I-10 from AZ still has an inspection station that seemed to wave through most passenger vehicles.
Interesting! My eldest has been working on sketches for a game he calls 'Hex'.
Breakthrough: solid-state alkaline batteries a viable alternative to lithium-ion
How This Qualcomm Is Backing China’s Tech Ambitions
That's insane.

All of human moral progress can be briefly summarized as "talking, not hitting."
Toxic Waste from U.S. Pot Farms Alarms Experts
Nice work. It would be nice if the citation were logically and visually separated from the body of each verse.
The Problem with Electric Cars? Not Enough Chargers
Because in general the military in the US is far more secretive than they used to be. In the past there was a certain expectation that the DOD had at least some obligation to keep the public informed of what was happening within our borders unless it needed to be heavily classified. Over time that's changed to where now they keep secret even mundane things that directly impact Americans, and even when the information is highly generalized and/or well known because we have things like radios and cameras too.

On one hand I kind of understand it - the world is slowly coming to the realization that information is the most important weapon in both war and peacetime, and no matter how inconsequential any piece of data may seem the ability to aggregate, cross-reference, and so on mean any shred of information could be dangerous. But at the same time that approach to the world doesn't really allow for a free society. I think the US government has made pretty clear they're happy to subvert or ignore American ideals to protect it (hell, the whole western world is like that now - see May's bald statement that no human right is too important to throw away in pursuit of bad guys).
At a glance it sounds like people in North Korea can't generally access Google because of the Internet censorship.

> In 2006, Julien Pain, head of the Internet Desk at Reporters Without Borders, described North Korea as the world's worst Internet black hole[18] in its list of the top 13 Internet enemies.[19]

> Internet access is not generally available in North Korea. Only some high-level officials are allowed to access the global internet.[20] In some universities, a small number of strictly monitored computers are provided. Other citizens may only get access to the country's own intranet, called Kwangmyong.[21] Foreigners can access the internet using the 3G phone network.[22][23]

> Internet access is restricted to regime elites and select university students. The state has created its own substitute "internet" – but even this network is restricted to certain elite grade schools, select research institutions, universities, factories, and privileged individuals. Moreover, the intranet is filtered by the Korea Computer Center, which ensures that only information deemed acceptable by the government can be accessed through the network.[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_North_Korea#Inte...
I'm a historically highly neurotic man. Klockan posts the following link above: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031866/

The author did not seem to me to be arguing for a biological cause, though I only read the manifesto once and may easily have missed this.

There are genuine sociological reasons for Women, who are on average much shorter and weaker than Men, who have historically raped and murdered in far greater numbers than Women, to have higher agreeableness and higher neuroticism scores on average in any society, much less modern society.

Unfortunately, like most social programs and surveys, these generalities miss the specifics and outliers. But they still statistically generalize.
Do you specify the huge amount of free software you use for every stuff you do ?

The licence allows it so it's ok.
Random software engineers don't tend to be experts in social psychology and sociology. Maybe the thing to do is to defer to experts in those fields rather than trying to parse through the literature with no experience whatsoever?
>Another exception occurred in November 1954 when, 30 minutes into a screening of Bing Crosby’s White Christmas at Radio City Music Hall, in an auditorium with around 6,000 patrons, a seat exploded and injured two women and two boys. Apologetic theater ushers asked 50 or so patrons near the bomb site to watch the remainder of the film from alternate seats, allowing ushers to rope the area off so the police could investigate after the movie.

Contrast this 50s crowd with the mass hysteria over the slightest disturbance today...

Can you imagine people today sitting to watch a movie in a theatre where a seat had just exploded and hurt people -- not to mention the total hysteria from the authorities jumping in like it's the end of the world.
Bounded non-linear optimisation with Commons Math
Behold: http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-general-news/watch-...

Two disc locks, chain, alarm, GPS tracker - none of it is enough.
Three phase power is a way to evenly supply current to a motor while still using AC.

It's not 'more efficient' as much as it is giving you a more even torque because the current through the motor doesn't drop to 0 10's of times per second, as it would with single phase. A nice side effect is that your motor (or alternator) can be a lot smaller for the same amount of power, a single phase motor would have to produce that power with the motor being at it's peak only once per cycle rather than all the time.
In the US, most of the wilderness areas, national forests, or the vast Bureau of Land Management areas will work. Especially in the western US, you are rarely more than a few hours from wilderness areas where people seldom tread.

While you do see people on the old mining/forest trails occasionally even in the remote areas, that quickly drops to zero if you leave the trails. In many regions there are semi-drivable trails that will take you to within a mile or two of lakes/rivers/etc that are completely off grid and never visited by people. Topographic maps are a good resource for finding these areas.
>It’s hard – if not impossible – to beat the $/GB and durability that Amazon is able to provide with their object storage offering.

what the actual fuck?? AWS S3 is a abominable rip off. After I rented to my own dedicated server, I am paying several times less.
Xanda, Another Lion's Life Lost at the Hands of Trophy Hunting
Can you imagine a bomb in a crowded audience only injuring four people today?
If it was always at equilibrium, price would always be the same. A crash occurs when there are no buyers. To generate demand people offer their shares at very low prices. Then hopefully someone will buy. But if no one does, the offer their shares at even lower prices, and that's how the tumble works.
I don't think it would be that bad. I spent weeks at a time alone on my desert parcel with my trailer. I had my computer and other comforts.

There was always a lot to do if I wanted to do it, and I could spend hours at a time doing stuff like making dirt-roads, practicing my dry-stone masonry, coding and whatnot on the computer.

I think if you're alone and have some purpose (i.e. building your ranch, spending time to study or learn new skills) you'd probably be fine.
I don't usually like posts that just link to an external resource, but Nomad List is a (free) search engine built for this exact use case. They have both domestic and international cities.

https://nomadlist.com/

The same guy that created that also recently made a second project of crowdsourced neighborhood characteristics within each city. For example, if you want to find where the tech or hipster neighborhood in a given city is.

https://hoodmaps.com/

For example, SF:

https://hoodmaps.com/san-francisco
Any GNU/Linux distro with a lightweight WM/DE will do.

I'm using Arch Linux with i3 on a dual core with 2GB of RAM and it works like a charm.

I even dual boot Ubuntu on this machine and have no issues.
It still shouldn't be offensive. If anything, it is more offensive to suggest that wage discrimination is caused by sexism because that's an attack on character. Indeed, a lot of men are hurt by the suggestion that they may be sexist. However, it obvious that such discussions are necessary.
Am I the only one who hated the mobile pop-out slideshow Twitter uses for this?

Also, the one about appending to arrays didn't seem too crazy.
Maybe in America, but in Britain it means the dense area surrounding the city centre. That can be wealthy, poor, or mixed.

In Britain, we might say "local authority", "council housing", "council estate", but I can't think of a euphemism.
Here's something I think about sometimes: we're not far from a future where it would be trivial for every major city to have drones flying over it 24x7, collecting everything - license plates, faces, electronic signals, and so on. Cost and technological ability are basically there already, if we're willing to budget the money (as in, it wouldn't cost fifty trillion a year or whatever, its within the realm of financially possible). And all our laws say that is totally legal, even to share every bit of that data with every police department everywhere.

Are we ready for that? 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? How would those work, when the same laws that protect those methods also protect citizens right to photograph anything they want from a public location? Is there any degree of surveillance that Americans would reject, and would the government accept that rejection? Or has the world changed so much now that that's our inevitable future?

Honestly I think it's the latter.
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According to Google "For example, we took action when we saw that women in tech were less likely to self-nominate for promotions."

Sounds more like recognizing an imbalance than special promotions
You're running three geographically separated servers with 24x7 monitoring & security, automatic rebuilds, and active bit-rot scrubbing? If not, you're doing a lot less than S3.

It's possible to beat S3 pricing but you either need to be buying a lot of storage or cutting corners to do it. The most common mistake I've seen when people make those comparisons is excluding staff time, followed by presenting a system with no or manual bit-rot protection as equivalent.
as others said, youtube is great.

but take a look at permies.com and if you're interested, you can get into the permaculture movement. you can take advantage of an immense collection of knowledge.

these are some of the most resourceful people I know.
Clever move by LinkedIn but they are definitively very late to the party. Webmasters have so many options now for analytics. I mean how many analytics trackers should you install as there's a speed cost/info value ratio at play here.

What's your limit for installing analytics trackers or do you just install all the things?
> sometimes caricatured as "when did you stop beating your wife".

You misunderstood that one.

You cannot answer yes to that question since it implies you were beating your wife in the past.

You cannot answer no to the question since it implies you are still beating your wife nowadays.

Hence the question requires an in depth answer. Another poster above wrote as example reply: "I have never beaten my significant other". That's a clear answer, and if you said that under oath and its found out you lied, you got one more issue on your plate. And that's the goal of the question: it forces the other party to increase accountability.

Because the question provokes (or 'requires') an in depth answer like the example provided it is a good question in interrogation techniques, but also a good question to ask from the hands or mouth of a journalist (or interviewer). Which a blogger arguably is.

If anything, if you read through the article, the blogger is actually quite friendly and sympathetic about the startup. It just turned sour after the vague, dodging responses. When you get such vague, dodging responses you are at the very least dealing with amateurs, and at worst with people who know very well what they're up to.
Can't they already do that with cameras and fixed position sensors? Why drones?
A senior engineer at Google wrote a manifesto against diversity
Not to be inflammatory, but I wouldn't expect nationalism to be hard for Americans to relate to.
> If you organization has resolved to buying it's operations software off the shelf, like Oracle EBS, it's already admitted it can't develop software.

If "I" organization has resolved to buying "it has" software, it still does
not mean that the organization cannot write software. ERP systems or HR
systems, for instance, are rarely written in-house, even if the company does
nothing but writes software.

> I'm getting the feeling we are talking about different things.

Obviously. That's why I said: "funny choice of words".

> All of those things you listed are bug tracking / management software.

Not even half of them, but it doesn't matter here.

> I'm talking operational software that runs the business. It's all custom and fits like a glove if the business is competent.

And you should have started with providing this as your definition of
"enterprise class software". I would never have thought that this is what
you meant.
The latest Fed minutes suggest they intend to tighten up the QE balance sheets, and leave interest rates alone as long as interest rates stay below 2%. I think that means there'll be there'll be less money trying to figure out what to do with itself, and funding might get tighter for a bit. Don't know that there's a bubble to burst, but there might be a slowdown over the next couple of years.
It's hard to become a state when the majority of the population only speaks Spanish and the island has its own constitution.
GitHub top right was full of github user avatars
Yes, I guess the US has a lot of uninhabited regions, while in western Europe I often have a feeling, there is not a single hectare of land without a village.
Sigh, this proof bugs me so much.

Compute an approximate distance between nth powers, interpret this as the probability of an integer being an nth power, integrate this probability over the sum x^n + y^n, see that the probability of this being an nth power is also very low.

I guess this is close enough for government work, but it's so utterly fallacious. For example, the distance between n^2 and (n-1)^2 is 2n - 1. That "means" that the "probability" of N being a perfect square is about 1/(sqrt(2N - 1)). This probability also goes to zero in the limit as N goes to infinity. Not very quickly, but it does.

Does that mean that square numbers don't exist?

We have many examples of conjectures being disproved by very large counterexamples:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-of-a-conjecture-tha...
Amazon Set for “Spectacular Collapse”
The writing of this was incredibly twee--"booming side business" in particular inspired a groan. I think that added to my enjoyment of this article.