skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like how they monkey with the "download" button. If you want volume control (among other things), you can just copy the download URL and paste that into your audio player (Quicktime is fine for this), but that's hard to do if they obscure the download link.
You're right, most of these problems stem from companies extending the Garbage C Compiler that encourages abuse of C's awful macro system to cover up its poor decisions.
The difference is that it is generally easier to swap money for fulfillment and satisfaction than the other way around.
Stratis: A daemon that manages a pool of block devices, built in Rust
Land of the free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't think storage is really the ideal long term solution either, storage is more short term and is more like a buffer I think. The ideal is having large interconnected grids with a great diversity of sources. We essentially have the technology right now, its just a matter of building the infrastructure which nobody is really willing to foot the bill for even though its needed for everyone.
That's so sad, when I was first aloud to "roam free" on the web at 12 was when I taught myself basic and pascal.

I used it differently back then too. I opened a browser with what I wanted in mind, I found it, then I closed the browser and did something else. There was never this mindless wandering or idle talking, just fetching pdfs and saving html tutorials and downloading compilers. Maybe I've romanticized it though...
This does not affect anyone who is affected by the criminalisation of non-marijuana drugs. This is just a "the drug war is fine, it just needs to have minor parameters tweaked" law, not an end to drug criminalisation.
I think we discount the behavioral effects of testosterone across the board. T is known to increase status-seeking behavior which surely has an influence in career choices.
Class action lawyers are at least investigating: https://www.consumeradlaw.com/coinbase
Giving away information to competition I expect
if you banned "competitive salary" they'd simply exaggerate the figure, then at the negotiation stage state "oh we say that to attract people"

been there before... wasn't happy
This project of mine uses 'recipes', 'ingredients' and 'products'! http://akkartik.name/post/mu
Women seek men with resources to reproduce with. Men tend to only care about youth/fertility. It's not like men can start reproducing with women who are no longer fertile, so they can't possibly lower the bar any further. Since women don't have social pressure to gather resources in order to reproduce, men are going to dominate in higher paying professions. This is similar to the same argument Christopher Hitchens famously made in his Vanity Fair article about why women aren't funny. It's not that women can't be funny, obviously many are. It's that they don't need to be funny to get laid.

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2007/01/hitchens200701

If you want to resolve this problem you need to either ask women to lower the bar and not seek men with resources or ask men to raise the bar and demand that women not only be youthful/fertile, but also have resources. Good luck.
This is great. Don't have kids, so I'm going to use it on myself.
None of your example figures are in the top decile (U.S.), so it wouldn't be worth it for me to evaluate the other aspects of compensation. In this case, getting out front with a $60K-$90K range would save us both some time.

Of course if your company's tech team lives for free in a seaside expat compound, or a ski-in/ski-out chalet, then definitely lead with that.
Just because I believe the number of reported violent crimes suggests our prison population is underpopulated, doesn't mean I don't also believe the system may currently be overpopulated with the wrong sorts.

That's why I used numbers for sex crimes only, but more broadly we have ~2.2M inmates and 1.2M reported violent crimes per year, throwing out all non violent offenders it would still be hard to conclude our prisons are overfilled unless All cases had a max sentence of 1 year.
I can't claim to represent the last two, but I would gladly trade a great deal less tolerance of autistic people for no one to ever be born with autism ever again, even if I didn't personally benefit at all.
DigiCert to Acquire Symantec's Website Security Business
Is this like clojure, but for python instead of java?
Is the system setup to value them with money? Can a parent walk into a school and agree to higher property taxes if their kid is placed in a specific teacher's classroom?
Correct. The 16 years old bit is for the driver license where, in north america, 16 is the minimal age to get it.
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I don't think it's worth the time to argue with these people who conceive of the human body as a "turing machine" and that genes are as simple as "config file".

This is also the guy who says that "Activism does not work. Grand social movements do not work." But I guess the Civil Rights Movement, women's liberation, and the LGBTQ movement don't count?

This is a serious problem I see with many tech / CS inclined people: in which useful abstractions become the map in which they see the territory.
I mean, we are talking about a company that, for some reason, takes over two years (I think) to switch to a new design completely, so I don't see why you are surprised.

In fact, they still haven't done so, and, for example, if you go to Settings -> Connections, an old design page opens in a new tab.
I'm curious if they also included benefits and likelihood of men vs women leaving the company or going on sick or extended maternity/paternity leave.

I know I have my own anecdotes about this, but I'd like to see some hard data.
IANAB. It's weird that it's so complex. I was expecting something very simple like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainvillea https://www.google.com/search?q=Bougainvillea+flower&tbm=isc... that has only three petals that look like colored leaves.
I'm tall, and when I use Lyft I typically sit in the front and move the seat back. Hasn't been a problem.
"These are four year olds, they have no preferences. It's purely parents projecting gender roles onto their kids."

Without litigating this specific case in any detail, I just want to argue more generally that of course 4-year-olds (and much younger) have gender-based preferences and that there is loads of research confirming this. It's remarkable that this is considered even remotely controversial.
This is neat! I like that it's responsive and provides a good variety of features along with auth pages. Will try and use this in my new project.

Some feedback:

* The envelope and bell icons at the top don't look great on a retina screen, can they be made into vectors?

* Not sure how I feel about the nav scrolling in its own container (vs just the entire page scrolling). Maybe it'll grow on me, but non-standard scrolling behaviour is a pet peeve of mine.

* Not a fan of the drop shadows around the place. E.g. the radio and check boxes look great, but I really dislike the buttons and alerts. The drop shadows around the "widgets" is also a bit much given everything else is flat. I'd suggest you go entirely flat or use much much more subtle shadows (a la material design).

* Black -> White icon transition on hover in nav is a little jarring, maybe a transition could help?

* Some form of separator in the messages and notifications dropdown might help to distinguish different items
>I used to just run one on my computer, but it usually involves installing a pretty hacky/custom audio takeover program and isn't really accessible for most people.

If you're on a windows box, most audio drivers (at least in the last few years) have some form of system-wide volume normalization. Of courses it's hidden in some oddly named tab under the audio device properties.
Agreed. This was their bread and butter for a long time. Now it's mostly electronic artists which also cross-post on other sites.
At the same time, it's miles better than AVG!
I don't fully understand this - It isn't critical to virus scan files when reading or writing them. It's important to scan them between a write and a read.

That means many written files (which won't be read for a long time) can be scanned hours later.

Others can be checked for matching a "known good" hash whitelist which can be downloaded from the net. That should cover all kinds of files which are parts of software distributions etc.

That leaves very few files which really need real time scanning.
> is it a matter of principle to hold forever?

There was a reply to this, now deleted:

> this is a pretty common (and self-destructive) phenomenon amongst unsophisticated investors

On the contrary, it's much more common for unsophisticated investors to sell their winners too early.

Dumb money is more emotional. Dumb money is risk averse and can't tolerate losses, so holds on to losers forever. Dumb money harvests winners after a 50% or 100% gain and reinvests in losers.

Smart money is coldly rational instead of emotional. Smart money isn't afraid of small losses. Smart money sells losers quickly and takes many small losses. Smart money holds one or two winners for a long time for 1000% and 10000% gains.

I'm sure some long-term bitcoin holders are ideological, but most are coldly rational smart money.
It's more actionable than you might think. Attitudes can be changed - by social pressure, through the media, and through education. And while legislation may not directly change attitudes, it can also help create pressures that reshape them indirectly.
And you like to assume things.

Name canonicalization gets you part of the way there. But unless you want to go full-on namespacing then you must realize you are fighting a pointless battle.

You cannot reasonably expect to save users from themselves in every way.
And the Juicero effect.
Nonsense. I disagree with many people on HN. The problem here is you lack the courage of your convictions to actually debate anybody.
I understand optimistic concurrency, especially the constraints it places on your code: you must in all cases access the data in the same order, otherwise you do get deadlocks.

The second half of this statement negates the first :-)

You have confused pessimistic concurrency with optimistic concurrency. An optimistic system detects collision at commit time and the actual order of operations in your transaction is irrelevant. You will never experience a deadlock, only aborts/retries.

In a pessimistic concurrency scenario, you take explicit locks as you access resources. Those locks block access by other transactions. This creates the dining philosophers problem and the risk of deadlocks. When locking resources, you must access resources in a consistent order to prevent deadlocks.

Please avoid database locks and let smart databases do what they are supposed to!
The bit where nobody bothered to listen to what experts were saying on the basis that both sides spent much of their time lying. If arguments that are counter to people's preconceived opinions are full of holes and exaggeration then they're really easy to dismiss imho.
It's restrictive that way, no doubt.

On the other hand, I suspect that as subsets go, Hy programmers would be a good one.

And I'm not sure the impact on getting people to use it would necessarily be that bad. It's just an extra import hy away to use modules written in Hy just as usual from Python, after all.
My SO is a high school teacher and it's actually pretty close to reality for her. She has had the entire summer off and still has over two weeks left before she goes back to work.

During the school year, she probably does average more than 40 hours per week, but the excess is flexible and often done at her convenience and at home. That's quite a bit better than a 3AM emergency call to the operating room. And it's never 20 hours of excess.

She also got a signing bonus and all her undergraduate tuition debt paid off as part of the job offer. And she really does get a fully-funded pension.
"Under the terms of the agreement, Symantec will receive approximately $950 million in upfront cash proceeds and approximately a 30 percent stake in the common stock equity of the DigiCert business at the closing of the transaction."
Their 10 day notice is also consistent with messaging Coinbase has been putting out for months on what their initial fork policy would be.

https://blog.coinbase.com/update-for-customers-with-bitcoin-...
You are right.

Maybe I'm biased and a tad emotional. I was expecting more from Canada.
I find the examples of face brightening to detract from my impression of the entire work. Those images look so awkward, and are such poor photography that I'm not sure why someone would want to emulate them.
I went through a human neural development class in grad school and the most interesting thing I learned is that we have no/little idea what is going on. We know that rostralization/posteriorization is set up at initial fertilization in most vertebrates, but we have no what causes it (utube-spindles? actin responses to puncture?). Same with dorsal/ventralization. The way we know this small bit? Toads' (xenopus) have a dark/light side to their eggs and we can track that, but other 'clear' egged species are assumed to be like that, as we can't 'tattoo' a cell membrane reliably yet.

In general, I was really stunned at the insane complexity and fervor of development. I mean, you go from one tiny little cell and one tiny little sperm, and then you end up with a trillion little cells all different and all really specialized in under a year. And it mostly all works! Some of those cell migrate a very long way (from a baby elephant's head to it's toes with some nerves) almost perfectly. Some of the time, tons of cells are born, shepherd other cells about, and then die off in about a day (like apoptosis in breast-feeding). Why? No clue. Maybe evolutionary 'holdovers', dunno, more funding please. Really, the shear complexity and energy of the system, with things crashing into each other, traffic jams of cells in a neural cleft, all going about all at once, it is stunning. I can understand a lot of researchers that are in that field and how deeply religious they are, seeing and 'understanding' it all can be moving.
Maybe see with your employer if you could start working part-time? Taking two hours off every day, or one day per week or something like that might be enough to help move your project along. Best of luck!
I always got the impression (maybe mistakenly) that TopTal was basically like a temp job service for tech workers. Essentially I have been under the impression that one would not be able to work for TopTal while holding down a different job, but at the same time with TopTal you would never have guaranteed work and that their rate of pay would be only in line with what a developer would get at a regular day job except being paid hourly rather than salaried, thus effectively enabling TopTal to pay below market prices.

I'm not saying any of this is fact. I'm asking for clarification since you have first hand experience.
Show HN: Reddit news subreddits turned into a website
Spewing one-liners to stir people up while refusing to debate is trolling.
It may not be most, but according to statistics[1] from 2015, marijuana accounted for 24% of the drug case sentences. Reducing or eliminating these would be a major step in the right direction and would in my book count as "making progress".

1 - https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu... (top of page 9)
About 20% of the workforce in tech is women.

Less than 20% of students who take the AP Computer Science test are female. [1]

So whatever makes women uninterested in programming happens before college.

Men are much more thing-oriented than women, who are more people-oriented. The size of the effect is "very large", larger than any other difference in personality [2]. Programming is obviously a thing-oriented activity.

Anecdotally, this split seems to happen at a young age - little boys play with cars, little girls play house, etc.

Anecdotally, kids are far more sexist than any adult I know. Try being a 5 year old boy who likes to play with dolls.

(EDIT: maybe not 5 year old. I don't have kids of my own, I forget exactly when kids start thinking the other sex is gross, maybe a bit older)

I don't know how to even begin to fix this, as far as I know children learn most of their culture from each other and older peers, not from their parents or teachers [3].

I'm willing to bet that most of the problem comes way upstream of the workplace. The tech industry can do as much hand-wringing as they want over sexism in the workplace, it's not gonna fix the fact that adolescent girls are choosing to not take the AP Comp Sci test.

[1] https://thinkprogress.org/not-a-single-female-student-took-t...

[2] http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nurture_Assumption
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> If women were 25% cheaper than men while being as competent, wouldn't white/male capitalists trip over themselves to only hire women to increase their profits?

THis is not how it works. at all. There's not some cabal taht decided they should pay women less. Instead, the larger culture prootes behaviors and attitudes and devalues others that, as a consequence, lead to women getting paid less. Those are unconscious biases that influence hiring or promoting decisions. One example: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09585192.2015.107...
False. The blockchain is the DTCC. Coinbase is the exchange.
I really don't see how this fork is going to go down as anything other than a boondoggle. Right now the value of BCC is being propped up by having almost no way to actually sell it, but once an actual market opens I fully expect its price to crash hard.
Sounds likley that impersonating an old windows version would probably disable various security features.
The purpose of the article is to refute the claim that "women get paid significantly less for the same work as men". It does not try to prove that there is no discrimination in hiring or promoting. Most people think that the pay gap is as simple as managers deciding to pay women less, which is wildly inaccurate and nearly never happens, as the article shows. It is up for debate what has the larger impact on what jobs women take and how far they advance: their personal preferences or discrimination.
You can already have lisp (common) in jupyter notebooks via cl-jupyter. Here is an example https://github.com/mmaul/clml.tutorials/blob/master/CLML-Win...

If you want to use Hy in a note book you will need a jupyter kernel for it and I belive there is one called hy_kernel
I always really enjoy Matt Levine's columns in Bloomberg. Very detailed and technical but always very carefully explained and readable.
It's Symantec's past operation of the CA that's untrusted by Google, and in fact one of the proposals was that Symantec make a new CA and cross-sign it with their old one, which would maintain compatibility for previous customers that pinned the Symantec root as well as customers using up-to-date browsers. So if the setup here is that DigiCert signs their own CA with Symantec's, then everyone's happy: DigiCert gets the customers, the community believes DigiCert is competent, and old Symantec customers get business continuity. It possibly makes more business sense for Symantec to sell their root to a trusted CA than to continue to operate it.

And I think it makes sense for DigiCert to buy it: Symantec's customers are people who are clearly willing to pay too much for even a low-quality certificate because they let Symantec consultants set up their trust infrastructure years ago and have no idea how to modernize their infrastructure. If you want a target market of people who will pay lots of money for CA services despite the presence of free services like Let's Encrypt, Symantec's existing customer base is a perfect fit.
Here's an anecdote: My five year old daughter got a new classmate in kindergarten that didn't speak our language but knew a little English.

In some way my daughter must have learned just enough words and sentences to be able to communicate more or less right away. The teachers found this fascinating and asked us if we were teaching her or even talking English at home - which we don't. In fact we had no idea what they were talking about.

Anyway, she seems to understand quite much. I have absolutely no idea where this comes from - the only thing I can think of is that it's because of YouTube.

Not that she spends hours and hours, but since she more or less never watches TV I haven't been bothered that much if she get stuck in front of a tablet for a while.

That being said, I try to be aware of what she's watching because there is some weird stuff out there although I don't exactly think that Spidey kissing is harmful.
Perhaps it is because many women put their career advancement on hold if they choose to have children?
It's interesting to consider that many of these lower paying jobs - such as teachers/caregivers are very hard to tie performance to profits.

Therefore the market forces are different or nonexistent, who hires a $500,000/year rock star grade school teacher? Even if such a thing exists and has real impact.
I am confused... you advertise this as remote but on the job posting it states: "Relocation reimbursement, as needed. Please note: residence in or relocation to Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN is our one non-negotiable."
That's some deep shit right there.
Interesting time to buy it, I'd say.
Yep I understand that. The idea with e-residency is you cover your business expenses pretty much exclusively the company card you acquire when you establish your company in Estonia. This covers travel and accommodation primarily.

Everything else I must pay tax on as usual though HMRC. Any cash I want in my UK bank account for example is tax-deductable.
How is it sexism is sex is not a factor?
Probably an unpopular opinion, but when the startups receive $120,000,000 to make a juice machine that is only really accessible to the top 1 or 2% of the USA, it's not a bad idea to give funding a reset and give people a reason to step back from trying to raise funds and more time to work on more innovative ideas. America has it's fair of crises now, yet a good chunk of people have a smartphone. How can startups help people in the midwest and the coasts? Or what interesting things could be done given most of the world is online now? I'm sure we'll see some cool ideas and another funding boom again with some cool new ideas soon.
But the article didn't say you have to discount "all the things." The title did, but it was a poor title. The article notes many of the same reasons as you as contributing to the overall pay gap.
Great writeup. Almost anything written by Matt Levine is worth reading.

This is a concise and accurate description of the fun that occurred with Bitfinex's handling of the BCH fork.

At least, it's fun if you weren't involved. If you naively held BTC on Bitfinex and were hoping to receive an equal amount of BCH you probably didn't think it was fun. If you carefully read Bitfinex's statements and decided to take advantage of their policy to acquire risk-free BCH, you probably think it's even less fun. But for the rest of us, it's fun.