skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Women prefer working with people."

IMO the biggest counter-example of the "women are better at working with people / soft skill" theory is politics.

Politics is all about who you know, who has your back, how you can get people to do what you want (the voters, other party members), how you can get people to like you, can you predict when someone's going to stab you in the back? can you predict when to stab someone else in the back? Should you support person X? What will person/group X think if you support person Y/policy Y? It's all about soft skills, it's all about reading people, it's all about working people.

You don't need maths or logic, or numbers,or rationality, or science for politics. I'm sure we all know how bad many polticians are at science/STEM.

If these theory were true, you'd expect women dominate politics in the same way men dominate tech. But that's not what you see at all. Advocates for the "women are better at soft skills, and worse at numbers" need to explain this glaring counter-example. The other theory, of institutionalised sexism against women, fits observable reality better.
I wonder if government-operated brothels could be a better solution, this way there is a constant monitor on sex workers and human trafficking while providing extra income to the government and being able to protect the sex worker/citizens its meant to protect.

Not sure what would be the obvious cons. Happy to know if anyone points any out.
That's what it does, but the counting starts from zero. So if we select 7 as a prime we get 7n. For n=0,1,2 we get 0,7,14, of which only 14 is the one we want to remove.
It's more that, for people who have the money, the process of throwing serious money at education starts much earlier, and the amount of money is higher than ever. Go read about extremely-competitive pre-kindergarten programs with gigantic waiting lists for parents desperate to start their child on an Ivy League track as soon as possible. Follow up with top private schools, intense private tutoring, and parents who literally do things like buy a clinic or an orphanage somewhere in a developing country so their child can "work" there for a couple summers and write about the experience in their admissions application:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/sunday/to-get-to-...

Richard Weissbourd, a child psychologist and Harvard lecturer who has studied the admissions process in the interest of reforming it, recalled speaking with wealthy parents who had bought an orphanage in Botswana so their children could have a project to write and talk about. He later became aware of other parents who had bought an AIDS clinic in a similarly poor country for the same reason.
I'm sorry, but this post is not a very good explanation. Here's why we should invert the CDF:

> The issue is that if we flip x and y’s in a PDF, there would be multiple y values corresponding to the same x. This isn’t true in a CDF.

Surely there must be a better reason to invert the CDF than that it's possible?

Any textbook will explain this much, much better.
I see the German situation more a sign for completely negligent authorities. Pimps are illegal in Germany too. Prostitution is only legal as a contract between the client and the prostitute. But all of this only matters, if authorities perform regular checks which they often skip.
Vive la France Vive la Tech… but do these two taste great together?
For what it is worth, I went on a cruise to Antarctica last year but don't like farmers markets. What does that make me? :) I can only assume I have out-hipstered the self-identifying hipster in the parent comment? The mind boggles :-)

As an aside, is a hipster like quantum measurement? Once something/someone/someplace has been labelled as "hipster", it is immediately not-hipster any more? "this restaurant/bar is so hipster!" = immediate & total lack of cool now that everyone knows, and it is time for newer, cooler things to be found away from the maddening crowds? No offence intended to parent post, just general observations - just compare it to MySpace, Soundcloud, Facebook, WhatsApp etc - all really cool & hip initially but once everyone (including your parents!) were using them it got uncool really fast and the next cool & hip stuff was being found elsewhere.

Personally I find hipster more of an adjective really, and not a "group" like well-known subcultures - e.g. goth or emo are commonly known subcultre groups that people identify with, but I would say hipster does not fall into a subculture in the same way that Trekkie or Grunger would in my experience.
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So if I get this correctly, the 'renaissance' here is merely drilling smaller holes for the pipes to go in, so the cost of hauling the dug up debris is lowered. Anyone here know what the cost savings are as I can't image these are big to begin with.
Yeah, going offline to get bored and do stuff is a good solution. Joining classes, meetups or workout groups can also work well.
> Loneliness is a psychological problem masquerading as a social one.

> Look, there are people all around us. Neighborhood streets have, what, 50 people on them? People congregate at churches, bars, coffee shops, even Wal-Marts.

I like the idea of "personalized help"! I don't like the "psychological" part, though. In my experience, psychology is all about blaming people for their problems, labeling them, and looking for solutions in their minds instead of the greater context.

A friend of mine has had several hundred hours of psychotherepy, ranging from psychoanalysis the CEBT, and it did not help at all, but put a lot of pressure in the form of blame on him.

He had been lonely for about 20 years. Never alone, but always lonely. Of course, everybody assumed that something was "wrong" with him. Then we met. We clicked immediately and have been good friends ever since. So the solution just came to him without him contributing anything.

You always have to have a look at the bigger picture, especially when it comes to topics as complex as loneliness. It cannot be solved in an individual. It's a social problem, period.
When I was in Dunedin, there were rumored to be some rather underhanded tactics that brothels used against each other. One burned down shortly before I left, and word had it that it wasn't an accidental fire.

But you know how rumors are - all it takes is one person to decide that "It's obvious, innit?" and they start repeating it as fact.
Showing my age here, but I was a huge fan of Will Shortz long before the NYT crossword due his involvement with Games magazine in the 80s. I expect there are other Games fans here. In the age before the internet it was a huge part of my entertainment cycle each month.

Love the guy, he's a national treasure.
I wonder what is the point.

It seems to me like a back-justification of something not measurable analitically.

A 5 millions US$ bracket is not in any way an approximation.

IF you had narrowed the interval (and IF the picture is at the auction sold within it), then all your data mingling exercises might have some usefulness, otherwise it is just an arbitrary estimation like the one from Christie's.

So the similarity calculated by an arbitrarily chosen software between (photos of) study and painting of improvisation #8 is 64%.

The similarity between (photos of) study and painting of improvisation #20 is a MUCH lower 57%.

It is clear how this HUGE 7% different can easily bring down the value of the estimation by more than 50% from the improvisation #8 sale price of 23 millions for a 98x70=6,860 sqcm painting, i.e. 3,350 US$/sqcm to a mere 10 millions for the improvisation #20, a 71x99=7,029 sqcm painting, i.e. 1,423 US$/sqcm, give or take a couple of millions.
Politics at the national level is made up of outliers, like sports people and actors. It's entirely possible that women are better at politics but not better than this 0.01% of people at politics, especially considering that men deviate from the norm more often.
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Is it just me, or is this article using two different meanings of "coder" interchangeably when it shouldn't?

Seems like searching Indeed for "medical coder" would lead to data entry jobs and the boot camp is software development.
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We're talking Debian Unstable. That change is at least 2 years out if you're running Testing on your servers or 4 years with Stable. I think that's a reasonable goal.
Ouch :). I suppose I asked for it, and yeah, you're right. I mentioned doing symbols, drawings and diagrams on paper, but 90% of the time my notes are just plaintext stream of thoughts or outlines.
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I got "Standard computation time exceeded...".
I don't think the google founders started the company "just to sell ads".

It is just how they make money. What they DO is make the best search engine, host every video and livestream anyone on earth wants to upload, run the best email service on earth, run the best cloud office suite etc etc.
RPG? Something like Herokids http://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/106605
Which Registry will succeed in selling domains in supermarkets?
Or rather... politics. All about social interactions, group identity and building one's position in the social ladder, but with any information being only incidental.

(Idea not mine, it was somewhere in http://www.afieldguidetoearthlings.com/ book.)
Browsing shouldn't be affected as it doesn't use OpenSSL. However, I share your concerns. The target is the next stable (two years), but many of us are running unstable or testing.
Tcl is great as an extension language for applications. There are several reasons for this. The most obvious one is the syntax. A Tcl function call looks how a normal command typed on the shell would look like. You quote variables, not values. So any Tcl function can invoked by the user as easily as you would have in a command interpreter. Consequently, Tcl is used in many applications for command input/scripting. Especially in chip design, which Tcl was created for (Tool Control Language). Tcl is also easy to link into your executable.
Finally, and RMS won't like that, Tcl being BSD-licensed means, that there are no challenging license terms for including it in closed-source projects, as most commercial applications.
I literally wrote a book attempting this:

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

There's a pile of excerpts linked in the sidebar, and the Amazon "look inside!" shows you the first few chapters.

Honestly? Come by Reddit /r/buttcoin. The name gives you a good idea of the seriousness, and it's very much critics, but it's turned out to be the only place on Reddit you can have a serious discussion of blockchainy stuff, 'cos all the others are filled with the frankly delusional.
How much of this is driven by the heavy increase in postsecondary education costs

I would guess that the biggest increase comes not from post-secondary education, but K-12. Back when I was a kid no one talked about the relative merits of different K-12 schools. You went to your closest school and that was that. Now that market is hyper competitive, almost more so than for colleges. People spend a lot of time, money and effort to get their kids into the 'right' kindergarten and fret that if their kids don't get into a good school from literally day 1 they'll be set on a track for failure for the rest of their life.

Another factor is private tutoring and other academic extracurricular expenses that also seems to have skyrocketed.
IMHO, the fact that Germany is surrounded by countries where prostitution is illegal is one of the causes of human trafficking victims. If legalization is generalized, this may reduce.
That is very surprising. What kind of business pays more for card processing than hosting or rent?
The obvious con for sex workers is that the government knows the names of all the sex workers involved. In case of a reactionary backlash (as happened in Rhode Island after 6 years), the government can easily round up everyone involved for surveillance if they're still in sex work.
For one Australia does not have a "bill of rights". In the US, the police require probable cause to even stop or question someone. In Australia there is no such requirement. While they can't just arrest or detain people at will, they have far more power over every day people.

Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicious_Lawless_Association_Di...

This law would not be possible in the US due to the US constitution's protection of freedom of association, while it has been strictly enforced at times in the state of Queensland. These sorts of powers substantially weaken organized crime but at major cost to civil rights.
And now WebAssembly is made of s-expressions (in textual form). If you are right, I am curious of what will be the future of the web.
I think that’s covered by the "Where typing fails me, though, is anything other than writing regular, linear text" part.

Also we’re not really talking about note taking, more by which mean you put ideas on a written support.

I am under the impression that people who spent the majority of their formative years on pen and paper will in mostly be more comfortable thinking on pen and paper, but increasingly I feel that the lack of practice in hand writing will put a lot more friction in that process, tiping the balance in a different way.

Also there’s a flurry of study floating around about university students who can’t think while typing (and It’s usually about note taking to get back to your point), but it feels counter to my own experience, and I wonder if it’s not an effect of the studies done on students who just came out of a decade of pen and paper learning. Just like how children can have a hard time reading and understanding the meaning at the same time, or how their first years of writing is really taking an input and transforming it to an output.
Well, not.

Autism is a spectrum and there is no clear cut between a perfectly neurotypical person and a profoundly disabled. You can measure number of autistic traits in general population and see that there are differences between groups, look e.g. here:

- The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ): evidence from Asperger Syndrome / high-functioning autism, males and females, scientists and mathematicians (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A100565341147...)

There is no a single paper proving that HFA is a binary condition, and many hints that it isn't.

(BTW: I dived into this topic some time ago, with already linked here http://crastina.se/autistic-traits-science-and-the-nerd-ster...)
This is why Ponzi schemes work so well. Everyone thinks someone else will be the chump who loses their shirt and they will get out just in time. It doesn't usually work out that way.
Here's an interesting piece by a female Associate Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University.

https://econjwatch.org/file_download/943/SternSept2016.pdf?m...

The paper is titled "Undoing Insularity: A Small Study
of Gender Sociology’s Big Problem" and it's core theme is that gender sociology insulates itself from ideas that are contrary to status quo. Do give it a read.
Public workers tend to get away with anything, like politicians or cops get away with murders, theft or even rape. Putting these unaccountable people in charge of brothels sounds like a nightmare.
I think as long as the lowest people have a good standard of living, I would argue it doesn't matter that the richest have a lot more.
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I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm something of an odd duck.

I don't really understand the desire that people have for status symbols and "keeping up with the Joneses" - but what really confounds me is the decisions virtually everyone else in my life makes when it comes to money.

It's like this is the conversation happening in my head: "Look, we're friends. I know what you do for a living, so I can guesstimate within a not-orders-of-magnitude margin of error what kind of money you make. You clearly can't afford this car/house/gadget without going into debt, and this is a luxury purchase. What the f* are you doing dude?", but I obviously don't say this because it's none of my business.

Some of my friends (and even extended family) seem to have some very naive views about the nature of money and wealth, and this is the part that really makes me uneasy.

It seems that going into high levels of debt and living month-to-month is, at least where I am in the world, the universally and culturally accepted lifestyle strategy.
I genuinely can't understand it at all. Is there something everyone else knows that I don't?

I'm fortunate I guess in that I have a STRONG preference that my friends/family don't know my personal finances or think I earn less than I do (I don't need our income differential making good friendships weird), so it suits me not to have showy toys and trinkets. I also get a lot more satisfaction knowing I'm making progress each month on a small but growing safety net for my kids rather than a shiny SUV in the driveway.
Makerspaces are sort-of empowering supercraftspeople.
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That makes me think about "luddite fallacy". The common understanding is that we can survive increasing productivity because people will always want more stuff.

However, the implicit assumption there is that once we get beyond satisfying basic needs the demand will be driven up by conspicuous consumption.

Yet, the logic of conspicuous consumption may as well work the other way round: Where being fat was seen as a sign on high social status once today it's a sign of low social status. One can signal status be consuming less rather than more.
Here's another possibility: The highly increased value of intellectual property that comes from IT has made transfer pricing a much more efficient means of tax avoidance for companies, who are free to move almost all their profits to the Cayman Islands and other tax havens. Expecting our tax authorities to judge whether a trade between two subsidiaries of a multinational is at 'fair market value' makes sense if they're trading steel bars, not so much if they're trading e.g. a 'license for the Google search algorithm'. Intellectual property, pretty much by definition, is unique rather than a commodity.
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> but the tactile nature of taking noted by hand still helps me remember better

As a data point, I can confirm that too - for me it also seems that writing something by hand is significantly more helpful to learning/remembering it than typing. Because of that, during my university years, while I often took lecture notes on the computer, I would rewrite key points on paper several time, to make them stick in my head.
This seems to have evolved in Little. http://www.little-lang.org/
Or is it a different language? The original name of Little is L.
A fitting phenomenon for the "Red Island" :)
Hardware prototyping related expenses. After that, office space and lawyers are looking about equal right now.
Kindly correct your link.. It currently points to your github profile instead of the content
My company operates during business hours and then some (6 AM - 2 AM). I think, for the most part, they have decent hours, but I'd say we could be just as productive with working 10 hour days, 4 days a week, instead of 5 days a week at 8-9 hours. But generally, I work 9 hour days 5 days a week. About 4 hours of my day is somewhat busy, but not always. Once in awhile, my entire shift is busy.

Luckily, my company doesn't have a policy that anything I work on during my shift is theirs. They don't mind me doing me during downtime, and in fact, they encourage it. I believe its right in the handbook that they encourage us to go on social media if we have nothing else to do and have gotten all of our work done. I work for a media company, so it kind of makes sense that they would want us to be up to date with social media trends and news.

I've built several successful websites during downtime and off-hours (after I leave work and continuing on it). I think much of my success outside of work has to do with the hours I've had downtime at work. We can definitely get busy... but we pretty much sit around, waiting for an inbox to have work in it, and we just get it done when it comes in. After it's done, I return back to what I was doing before.

While I definitely procrastinate, it's rare for me to not do anything. Always working on something. In my early days, I had started up a side gig freelancing, building, maintaining, and editing websites for clients, and then I started up a side business while working for my main job and currently in the process of starting up a second side business.

None of my side businesses steal away any business from my company, and if anything, only compliment their work and mine. In fact, I try to reel in business for my company so that I can keep doing what I do. Everyone wins.
The solution seems straight forward.

Okay with being eavesdropped? Do it unencrypted.

Not okay with being eavesdropped? Use not broken cryptography.
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All good points. Too bad it's not trendy to fight for those things at the moment. Sorry.
Well, Germany also legalitzed it and quickly rose up the ranks to be a top human trafficking spot in Europe, but it seems like everyone in this thread completely ignores it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Germany
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And yet nothing much happened -- just those kids got less snow-flakey and entitled, and with a better grounding in reality.
Not to undermine the increasing inequalities between employees and employers in many aspects, but there is a strong increase in work-at-home thanks to telecommuting and there is an increase in self-employed people thanks to ease of access of new technologies.
I do, but it seems to be less about the hours being longer and more about my being in the office when it's quiet and distraction-free. Therefore I am hoping that noise cancelling headphones will help me be more efficient during the normal workday. It won't be the same as having the whole office quiet and the room to myself, but it might be an improvement.
If it's your parent, partner, or kids, (or even if it's not -- it could be anyone) you're welcome to provide for them yourself.

You're also welcome to donate to (or even work for!) charities that provide for them.

But it's not OK to force everyone else to provide for them.
A somewhat related article about the rise and fall of Thinking Machines: https://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622.html
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How much money do you make per hour?
This is such an ignorant statement, it makes my blood boil.

People shouldn't be left to die, because they weren't naturally blessed with an adaptability that allows them to be retrained into software engineers. There are a huge number of reasons why someone might not be able to "keep up" in todays world. To write that off as 'being better' is disgusting.