skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ride in NYC and have for almost a decade now. The city has taken major leaps forward at becoming more bicycle friendly, thanks in part to Citi Bike proliferation and the addition of more protected bike paths. I think there's still a long way to go - especially in terms of education of riders around proper biking etiquette, especially towards pedestrians
Educational outreach is an important part of what NASA does. For the low cost of a letter they most likely encouraged a kid to have a career in the sciences. In my mind that is peak efficiency.
You are saying what the guy posted wasn't offensive and also that everyone is finding it offensive.

That makes no sense unless everyone is stupid.
I also had a strong bias against the sets, I saw them as completely against the spirit of Lego. Why would I want to build the one thing in the picture?

Now that I have a 5 year old daughter and we play Lego a lot, I see the value of the sets. They teach discipline, and following the instructions is very challenging for a child, requiring quite a bit of mental modelling, spatial awareness, patience and diligence. A feeling of satisfaction when complete, and a teachable moment when you encourage them destroy the built structure and combine it with your loose brick collection for later reuse.

Great toy.
How many chances do you think he should be given?"

Frequently implied answer:
"I don't really know but i feel it should be one more than the number of chances he's already been given and blown."

Not necessarily saying that's your opinion - it just aligns with other conversations I've had.
And they were clueless enough to say this to a female interviewee? Yikes! I hope she finds another opportunity :-(
As long as - if this is a company - different people have access to those accounts, yes.
I think this is a great idea actually. They wouldn't be able to put together very much in the grand scheme of things (even 100 M raised from employees wouldn't even give them a point on the cap table) but it would be a strong signal at least.
Lua is another thing that shouldn't really have happened, since Tcl already better served its niche. Sometimes it's like the whole tech industry is sleepwalking backwards.
Does money really solve all problems though? This is what is a bit naive about economics. Would people living downwind from the plant be ok with getting XX million dollars if they had to die early from cancer and miss out on 40 years of their lives? Why not move the plant somewhere where it's not getting anybody sick instead of trying to solve all problems with giving victims money. Money is not the universal and only solution to all problems.
> "Many cases of cancer have occurred in communities on both sides of the river, though the Louisiana Tumor Registry claims the numbers are not higher than the national average"

So... what are we then supposed to gather from this statement?
I'm against legos since they have special parts. duplo blocks are great, since they are all the same and require imagination to see the result.
I guess time will tell. Before Travis left Uber was without a COO, CFO, CMO, SVP of business, and SVP of engineering. I recall reading something about how they were having trouble recruiting senior level execs willing to work with Travis. If kicking out Travis can result in Uber hiring competent execs across the board, then maybe.
entrepreneur != hacker
For DIY toys, check out Arvind Gupta's toys from trash:
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/toys.html

A compelling way to introduce children to laws of nature. You can see him sharing his philosophy here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOllmFfELT8
>we have to invent something else, more fluid, secure, economical and less catastrophic in its essence.

like UFOs?
House rules: if you don't know what a word means you can't use it.
Tristate buses are mostly a workaround for interconnect (pins on chips & wires on boards) being expensive. Early CPUs sometimes took it even further, using not only tri-state but address/data latching; the 8008 is a classic example (8 data bits & 14 address bits output through a single byte-wide connection).

The tradeoff in something like the 8008 is lower performance: the 22 bits required to form a full address + data pair need 3 clock cycles to travel from inside the CPU to the peripherals.

What we see instead in FPGAs is "buses" like AMBA - unidirectional data & address, sometimes with wide paths for data (the Xilinx AXI4 generator claims up to 1024 bits). These let designers take advantage of plentiful interconnect to get more bandwidth without needing the underlying FPGA's clock rate to increase.
Well fork Lua, call the fork JavaStuff and be done with it. How can anybody think it's a good idea to create a language in 2 weeks and call it a day ?
Zenbooth: the quiet place to get your work done
[video]Independent App Dev Talk: Intro to Hybrid App Dev and OCR 2017
The US fought it's most deadly war over that type of situation. There is zero doubt that federal law supersedes state law, regardless of how much we'd rather it not be. The DEA agents would simply arrest the state troopers for obstruction, and every judge would be okay with it.
The same could apply to gender, race, age, and occupation groups. I don't think it's good policy to create laws based on generalisations.
I submitted this because I believe it sounds truly horrific.
> Especially when it made national news that it was Amazon's fault so nobody blamed the sites that were down.

That's an interesting viewpoint. I really don't agree with it though. When your service is down that is your responsibility, never Amazon's. And when you lose data that is your responsibility too, not your cloud provider's.
I'm having a look at Tcl at work due to legacy code and it's no language that I find easily accessible. Especially when having not that much time and having a large codebase.

The interpretation and the braces in braces parts are annoying. Not very readable.

Modularization is not easy and other files can't be imported as fast as with Python or ES2015.

Resources and tutorials are not readily available, there is no community I ran into to ask stuff compared to the rest of the language world.

Finding a test framework or linting mechanisms is not easy either.

I'm no friend of Tcl at the moment, I'm not sure if that will change.
More Maths Games

We have Qwirkle and City of Zombies in the classroom. I hate them :) mainly because I am rubbish at them.
Getting Started in Star Lisp (1991) [pdf]
The whole reason monkeys even enter the picture is because the society currently unfairly favors a hypothesis that it's all due to socialization, and not at all due to biology. Any study that attempts to show biological aspects only results in the supposed socialization event resulting in the difference being pushed earlier in the development.

The studies showing that female infants are more interested in looking at pictures of faces, while male infants are more interested in looking at pictures of mechanical toys wasn't enough, so researchers are one upping and studying monkeys. It does not help though, I heard from someone saying this in good faith that the sex differences in toy preferences in monkeys are due to societal norms in monkey groups.

At this point I'm seriously starting to consider the socialization hypothesis (which is obviously true to some degree, i.e. socialization plays a huge role in the observed sex differences) to be unscientific, that is, unfalsifiable.
I just love that caption "Crowd of about one hundred people"
[Yes yes there are probably 98 hidden behind the sign]

also since when is binary camouflage a thing for the military?
Absolutely: I am accusing you of either that, clouded thinking, or both.

In fact, this discussion is a demonstration of my point. We are both attacking one another's intellectual and moral reasoning abilities via speech. This is better than than us having a fist fight over the matter.
I work at Uber. This behavior is totally inappropriate and I'm really sorry to hear your friend had this experience. My Twitter DMs are open (@codebutler) if you would like to share any more detail.
A Baccarat Binge Helped Launder the World’s Biggest Cyberheist
I'm glad to see that Ghana is gaining experience with satellites. I'm not going to read the article because of the headline but it seems like Ghana could be a great place to be involved in space launches eventually, as close to the equator as they are.

While people talk about the Chinese century or the rise of India, I think even more interesting will be the continued development of Africa.
Turning them into hotels reduces short term rental rates. If long term rental rates are extremely high, short term rental rates will be as well.
If it were used in a war then probably yes.
The big interest in GAs is due to their analogy with bio evolution, and its amazing ability to generate novel and effective solutions to very difficult problems with very few iterations. Unfortunately, computational evolution has not discovered the secret sauce that makes biological evolution so effective, so has languished to quicker and simpler methods such as simulated annealing and particle swarm optimization.
The comment I was replying to was referring to Node, so based on the context I wasn't discussing the browser.
ZrCoin. Right.[1] Each coin is supposed to be exchangeable for a kilo of zirconium oxide. That's worth about $25. Since the coin is currently selling for $1.37, down from $75, the market doesn't believe this.

Bitcoin is getting big enough to be useful for large-scale money laundering. At last, a use case at scale!

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/zrcoin/
There is a race?
Correct, why should we be excited at the newest schizophrenic fad.js?
Programming is not about frameworks. Python + Django are just tools. I suggest you learn more about the field in general otherwise you won't be able to put new hypes in context and will get overwhelmed every year. Also learning the basics (maths included) will enable you to solve an ever growing set of problems. But of course you can start doing something entirely different, luckily you didn't put much effort into programming yet.
Louisiana is a wonderful mix of good things tainted with backwards thinking and selfishness. It is uniquely great and tragically flawed.

There are several things at play in Louisiana:

- the US economy runs on noxious chemicals made in Louisiana

- families are tight

- people are at peace with adversity

- the food and music are like nowhere else

- everyone knows everyone

- the well off who stay in Louisana are very greedy and small minded

- people there have a way of life that is slowly going away and they feel threatened and short changed

This produces exactly what you'd expect.

I lived in central and western Louisiana for two years and also had business there off and on for several more years. I love Louisiana. I love the closeness of the families, the polite friendly attitudes, the amazing food, the laid back fun culture. I love the salt-of-the-earth people. Mixed in is a lot of ignorance, backwardness, and amongst those with money or power: selfishness, corruption, and nepotism.

Louisiana will remain in this low simmer of tragedy forever. As long as there are chemical plants there will be small communities of working poor. As long as there are small tight nit communities of working poor that can endure, along with pollution, there will be environmental tragedies.

Louisiana will never change. I imagine 200 years from now Louisiana will be one big superfund site which elite Americans are (once a year) horrified to find people still live in. It'll probably be some long-form bit of journalism just like this. People will say "oh that's terrible" and things will continue on as they always have.
“Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work
You are likely enormously underestimating the % of HN crowd who got into computers, science, engineering, etc because they were inspired at a young age by stuff like this.

NASA is doing a good thing with promotional actions like this.
First of all they have dumb names that can't be pronounced.
Oh golly, a quote taken without context. Now read it with context:

>Philosophically, I don’t think we should do arbitrary social engineering of tech just to make it appealing to equal portions of both men and women. For each of these changes, we need principles reasons for why it helps Google; that is, we should be optimizing for Google—with Google’s diversity being a component of that. For example currently those trying to work extra hours or take extra stress will inevitably get ahead and if we try to change that too much, it may have disastrous consequences. Also, when considering the costs and benefits, we should keep in mind that Google’s funding is finite so its allocation is more zero-sum than is generally acknowledged.

That quote does not, in any way, show he "clearly believes men are better at the kind of programming". That section is about the belief that those who work hard should be rewarded, and he does not want Google's culture to change that.

>He thinks women should be casually in the game like doing part time work

This is just plain false. In the actual quote, he says he wants to make Google's culture more inclusive by "endorsing part time work [because it] can keep more women in tech". This does not mean he believes "women should be casually in the game". He is suggesting changes to Google's culture that could support woman's needs (for example, part time would support mothers who want to devote time caring for their children).

Why do you see the need to defend your position with obviously false interpretations? It only takes a casual glance to dispel them. You are reinforcing my point that you are arguing against a phantom of your own invention, not the Google's authors arguments.
re: license, the SIL Open Font License is common and well-accepted. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...
We gather that the author did not acquire numbers from either side of the river, the Louisiana Tumor Registry, nor anything representing the national average.
Its used a ton in the EDA (Semiconductor) Industry. It has its uses for scripting. Everything doesn't have to revolve around web programming.
What would I do if programming was made illegal overnight?

I'd probably look at urban gardening, harvesting little plots of land on peoples' property. Maybe real farming, but make sure it's a niche that'll pay my bills.

After that, I'd probably print t-shirts and sell them at urban centers, maybe set up a stand. Then farmers markets, making little delicious things like crab rangoons, with some hipster spin on it(that's also good tasting). I'd probably work my way into the restaurant business somehow, but I know that the long hours and stuff I couldn't do, so I'd need a niche.

That's just what I'd do. You have to ask yourself what are some of your most triumphant memories and build on them.
U and I are adjacent on QWERTY. Easy typo. Even worse pick-up line. “Hey baby, I prefer QWERTY because it puts U and I together.”
More or less inhumane than forcing a gay employee to work alongside someone that has publicly stated he thinks gay people should be killed?

The problem is that someone has to bear a cost when opinions like this are made public.
I appreciate that and I'll ping my friend to see if she wants to reach out.
> Instead everyone shames him, tells him his mostly very valid thought process is sexist and his career is done.

It's a method: https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session
am a DevOps guy and while I love programming, I am also looking at a career change in the next couple of years. A book recommendation via a friend who moved from Regional Store Mgmt into Financial Advising is the book, "What Color is Your Parachute". Some good advice in there you may want to check
I remember reading some time ago about an Indian guy who was developing something like that. He said all he needed was investment but couldn't find anyone interested.

Edit: here it is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-29/a-new-kin...
Instead of wasting time watching something you aren't interested in, maybe just read a plot summary somewhere online?
TechCrunch hasn't been relevant for years.
It was a satire of the attitude of American society towards communism during the cold war. The equality-by-outcome it presents is a strawman, precisely the strawman attributed by conservative politics to people who want to make society more equitable not just in "opportunity" but "outcome" as well. Vonnegut was a socialist and was quite warm to concepts such as "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".

It's really hard to see how people miss this subtext when the main character of the story declares himself the emperor that all must obey and defies gravity. It's so cartoonishly heavy handed!
Both my kids enjoyed Mastermind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)) from a young age. Deductive logic game.
Good grief. Please do not take so much pride in what you consume or refrain from consuming.
Some variation could be explained by the existence of a second X chromosome. This redundancy hides variation that could otherwise be exposed by a recessive gene on a male's sole X chromosome, without the chance of a dominant gene on the second X chromosome to mask it.
This isn't exactly news. Archaeologists have known this for awhile, though it's maybe not part of popular thought. We have populations on earth that live as Paleolithic peoples elsewhere once did, and they cultivate plants.

The importance of the Neolithic Revolution was the population explosion that came with easily harvested grain in a hospitable environment and the resultant freeing up of labour to create more complex societies and technologies.
How would they be?
Money's not a universal solution. But in this particular case it would help. If re plant owners had to pay for the damage they inflicted on those around them, then given a choice between a site where they had to pay because people were there and a site where they did not have to pay because people were not there, what would they choose?

Also, enforcing economic solutions does not necessarily prevent adding other non economic solutions. For an economic activity, such as production of these chemicals, economic solutions can go a really really long way to bettering behavior.
Ask HN: What is your biggest business expense besides salaries?
"White supremacy" as a movement, as a phrase in common usage, and as a matter of common sense, implies a whole host of beliefs and policy desires that aren't held or sought by Charles Murray or his defenders.

Not holding those beliefs doesn't render you a "benevolent supremacist;" it means, very plainly (and using ordinary definitions of ordinary words) that you're not a supremecist.

It is plainly misleading and obfuscatory to apply that term to anyone investigating population differences in good faith.

Perhaps you mean to say that all such investigations are evidence of nefarious motives? I think that's wrong, but it's at least a coherent worldview.
Would it be possible to make these into skyscrapers to house people and businesses? That would handle the financing part of it.
The glory days of programming are over, mate.

When the masses discovered programming to be profitable ~5 years ago, it became "cool" and was quickly gamed into the ground from both ends.

Look at what "cool" does to art and music. The "rockstars" get paid a lot, and everyone else works for peanuts (or no nuts) or gets a "real job". 90% of the work now is marketing yourself. So it is with programming. Programming is like music now.

This is all thanks to the supply of programmers (and wannabes) increasing tenfold thanks to boot camps, and a 400% increase in computer science majors in the past 5 years.

The craziest thing about all of this is that you can be a complete novice, but if you have a decent following on social media and are putting out somewhat interesting content and are a terrible programmer, you will absolutely get hired over the expert that isn't contributing publically. It's all about visibility now.

My advice is find something you intrinsically enjoy so much, that doing all the extra annoying stuff is at the very least tolerable.

Be happy you haven't invested 10 years into the industry like I have.
I love the concept, but no way would I try to pull it off in 99% of the USA. I know a lot of road biking, bike to work, etc. enthusiasts and every damned one of 'em has some horrific hit-and-run story :-/
No!

We need it for capitalism!

If we letting people own property, we need more of it so everyone can have some
Hmm. I guess I never got too excited about new frameworks.

For me, I usually extra-hate new frameworks, because I realize that I'll have to learn them, then I end up loving them.

I used to get excited by imagining millions of people using my software.

Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose. Those are exciting. Perhaps this is his autonomy screaming.
I wish there was a series not - on breakthroughs and tech-pr releases, but really on the obsticles that keeps those inventions and advances from becoming every day reality. Sort of like a progress blog, which updates the timeline with every new obsticle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_National_Space_A...

> In 1999, South Africa launched its first satellite, SUNSAT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the USA. A second satellite, SumbandilaSat, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2009.
Can slugs live inside the human stomach?
Is that really true though? Where I've worked, almost everyone was from an upper class or upper middle class background, grew up in a handful of superzip suburbs like Atherton/Scarsdale or high COL cities like NY, stable family life, attended a top tier university, had similar cultural interests or hobbies, read the same news sources, even had similar vices. They looked like a Benetton ad, but all acted exactly the same.

Is hiring Bs who are exactly like your As, except in superficial characteristics like appearance, really bringing in diverse points of view?
Paul Graham, John Maeda, Jonathan Rees, Guy Steele (Panel on Language Design)
I failed Calculus I twice and they basically had a B.A. degree just to graduate me. You can do it, and it's worth it. A moderately priced state school will have a decent-enough CS department, and what you'll learn there will help (as a senior/staff-level engineer, albeit a consultant these days, I do use what I learned in school quite a lot), but what's more valuable is the humanities and the general rounding-out-as-a-person that happens at college.

"Oh, I need to go join a trendy startup" is a pretty good way to stick your foot in a bear trap. There's more to life than a keyboard, as you have seemingly realized--college is a very good way to find out what (and, if you work in tech, there's no need to go broke doing it; I had my entire loan package paid off from my university by 26 because I didn't go to some crazy school).

If nothing else, you should explore it more seriously than "well, high school bored me." The experiences you get at college are really hard to replicate outside of it.
Good find! So maybe this organization needs to go beyond mere registration and start educating people, at the very least -- actual audits would be better, but of course much more expensive.
Not to discard novels either though. If they can encourage book reading they also fill a purpose!
They actually offer this: you can switch to "private room" or "shared room" listings instead of looking at "entire homes".
This makes sense. It would be really weird if this particular skill was completely unaffected by training, unlike... well, most other cognitive skills.

I've always wondered whether 4-dimensional spacial skills could be taught in an analogous way.
I kind of like it.
Many open source project are functioning in this way. In companies, it's more common in the initial phases, but when you just maintain code, it wouldn't make much sense.
Logical replication with PostgreSQL 10
How about doing ppc/other performance marketing stuff? There is some skill overlap and feedback loop might make it enjoyable.