skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If 50/50 is a goal it would be easier to start in jobs which don't require extensive field-specific knowledge for new recruits to be gainfully employable. Once this goal is achieved there the field would be levelled for those jobs which deviate from the 50/50 target.

I suggest starting with the following jobs:

* garbage collectors

* butchers

* construction workers

* loggers

* fishermen

* miners

All these fields are heavily male-dominated. All of them are heavy jobs, some of them include challenging work environments. While many jobs need specific training, most of these fields allow beginners to gain experience on the job without having to spend a long time and a lot of money up-front.

If the reaction is "but women don't want to work in those fields" I'd like to know whether this is more important than the strive for 50/50. After all, many men work in fields they're not exactly enthusiastic about. They work there because those were the jobs which where available when (and, sometimes, where) they needed one.

An interesting observation can be made here: the more freedom people - man and women alike - have to choose where to work, the more the sexes differ in their choices [1]:

"Regression analyses explored the power of sex, gender equality, and their interaction to predict men's and women's 106 national trait means for each of the four traits. Only sex predicted means for all four traits, and sex predicted trait means much more strongly than did gender equality or the interaction between sex and gender equality. These results suggest that biological factors may contribute to sex differences in personality and that culture plays a negligible to small role in moderating sex differences in personality.". This study is cited in the first part of the Norwegian 'Hjernevask' documentary series [2], titled 'The Gender Equality Paradox' [3].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18712468

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask

[3] http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp0tg8
Watch this be used selectively to prevent the public from finding out how capital flows and which politicians it buys.

Publish the name of the owner of the company who built the bridge that collapsed due to cost-cutting? Now now, he didn't want that public, that's reidentification! He even hid behind several shell companies, so you can't claim you didn't know he wanted to stay anonymous.
Do you mean by "the real world" that Bitcoin price prediction does not work in the real world? Or that stock market prediction/strategies do not work in the real world?
At least he gets clicks.

I maintain a blog about a passionate subject and receive literally no hits at all.

Every week I ask myself who I'm really doing this for...

(Don't look, it's not there)
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> My friends did this many times (none became a worse person for it, either).

Hardly a neutral observer.
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The solution is what it always was - Church - the original real world social network where there is a shared obligatory narrative to meet every week.
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Apple seems to do it because it's in their ethos. Jobs and Cooks have both said it matters to them. They aren't big in enterprise (or even education) so I don't think that argument fits. I think they just care. That may be a bit of my bias but I can't come up with a good business case for them.

MS may or may not care, but accessibility is often a requirement for government contracts (or buisnesses who want government contracts) so it's a good sales feature for them, even if something if a checkbox feature. They work very hard at t too.

But the end result is that both of them work really hard on accessibility and everyone benefits.
That's a weird quote, since both the suburban house (=good schools and, more to the point, good peers) and braces (I guess orthodontistry is intended here?) are typically for your kids' benefit. Lower chances of falling into crime, higher chances of having a good education, and better looks all mean an easier life for them. If one loathes oneself over that, one should reexamine one's purpose and priorities—which isn't to say that some kind of endless, constant giving at any cost is necessary or even a good idea in parenting, but self loathing for spending money to send your kids to good schools and straighten their teeth, if you can afford those things, seems extreme.

I can think of plenty of other "tawdry baubles" I'd call out before those. They're not even really things. Very odd choices.
I believe prostitution is an indication of a lack economic and social well-being both in the case of buyers and sellers.

I went to strip clubs occasionally and once in a blue moon saw escorts in my late 20's and early 30's. I would fully agree that I was "socially unwell" (but quite fine economically) - when dating is all dead ends and your life completely lacks intimate touch, life isn't great, no matter how much money you make. A decade later, I see it as a phase that quickly passed, but helped me in ways that traditional self-improvement (including working out) and therapy were really not moving me toward. I have profound misgivings about the "industry" but it was really a bridge to living a full life and happy, fulfilling relationships.

I say this because it's underrated/ignored/mocked what a profound, innate human need sex work addresses. I certainly hope society can evolve enough to seriously consider creating ethical, legal and safe ways of addressing this need.
An excellent recommendation which I unreservedly second.
> and it's no more harmful than any other use of electricity

That's a tautological statement. My 50,000 watt bulb that I shine inside a closed box is also "no more harmful than any other use of electricity," but the question is whether I should be using that electricity in the first place.

You can argue whether the "wealth" generated is worth carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, but you can't deny that more carbon dioxide has been released because of BitCoin.

Back to my lightbulb in a box: "If the world switches over to solar and wind my 50,000 watt useless bulb's problem is solved. If the world doesn't switch away from using coal, that's not my fault. It's not a problem I can solve."
...out of 8.788 million people, the response isn't proportional to the threat.
Ask HN: Making experiments actually work?
Our startup is seed funded and we've built some stuff but are still pre-product/market fit. I (founder) am worried we might be on the wrong track. I've read The Lean Startup but our attempts to test and learn don't seem to be as significant as we hoped.

For example, I went to a store where the sorts of users we're targeting would shop, and asked some questions of about 6 of them. At the time it felt really interesting, but it hasn't really changed our plan.

Are we doing it wrong? Is the whole experiment and learn thing just hype or do others get stuck?
Android watch phones are ten-a-penny from China. Here's one for the low low price of £47:

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Enjoy.
It's "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" v2.0.1b5.
If you silence him then it gives credence to what he's saying.
Hoo-Boy, the amazedprogrammer conflates programming languages with programming. It's a common error, but a significant one. Programming is separate and distinct from the programming languages used.

Moreover, this post provides a bibliography of books for learning programming languages for novice programmers, but provides no help in choosing which language a novice should choose.
Process is important. If we don't invest in an activity, it becomes worthless to us. This is well understood. Thus, ceremony and ritual in so many cultures. Making tea, greeting a guest and offering them a drink, taking a casserole to the church picnic.

Modern music is a click away. And dismissing it for the next track is another click away. Folks have confused the activity (listening) with the instant-gratification/enjoyment of the music. Both are important. Else the music just becomes so much cotton-candy sugar to our senses. Instead of an experience.
At least 14 deaths pre-antivenom according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider#Prognosis
I think that's partially true, but I also think it's because of negative stereotypes of people in tech being "nerds" who are to be looked down upon. It's more of a mismatch between what they think our social and economic class ought to be and what it actually is.
So now we have click-baity academic papers? Can someone summarizes to me the genius behind the idea? Because as far as my math goes, it is not theoretically possible.
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What's going on in the Himeno poisson pressure benchmark? Scientific optimizations all intel processors have but AMD lack?
thanks for this script, pretty helpful!
This article shows that IT has emerged as an important new industry, but it doesn't really convince me that it is the primary cause of inequality.

One of my favorite surveys of income inequality is a Krugman essay from 15 years ago (before he went full political). http://www.pkarchive.org/economy/ForRicher.html

He briefly covers globalization, technology, and returns to scale for celebrities, but ultimately argues that changing social norms and the resulting drop in taxes from 1980 onward explains most of the dramatic rise in income inequality.
The specs list it as 1 to 3mm thicker which doesn't seem like much.
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Why did this require a throwaway? unless you're a well-known bitcoin contributor, which would be entertaining.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691614568352

Done by a Prof. at BYU

edit:
Here's the original BYU new article as well: https://news.byu.edu/news/prescription-living-longer-spend-l...
As a counter-point (regardless of the legalities) if there are, as he conjectures, 1.2 million people on a drone kill-list (with seemingly no-oversight), is it not in the public interest that these things are highlighted by whistle blowers?
..and some Ryzen5 beating i7. Pretty nice.
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Ask HN: Books/online resources to understand full Java stack up to Grails?
In my current position, I'm doing Grails development. I'm fairly skilled at the high-level stuff... as long as I stay in Grails-land, I do fairly well. But I am weaker when it comes to lower-levels of the stack Grails is built upon: Java Servlets, Spring, etc.

For example, I understand somewhat that a session keeps state between browser requests... but that's the problem: "somewhat". Kinda. Sort of. I would like to be less uncertain about the whole stack, and I'd like to not get glassy-eyed when someone talks about storing sessions in memcached or get frustrated trying to understand security issues. Long list.

I'm not looking to be convinced to switch to some other tech: I'm happy where I am, both with regards to position and technology, and I'm always playing with all sorts of tech to keep my interest and learn new things. But my entrance into Grails development was top-down (i.e. started with Grails), so I really want to bone up on the fundamental building blocks here.

What do you recommend for becoming more fluent in the Java Servlet up to Grails stack?

Thanks...!
I think the confusion stems from the fact that the OP tries to set himself apart from the target of the article. It just sounds like he didn't read the link.
I think the assertion is that they never do. This is widely regarded in the ml classes as the advantage of data being much more important than the algos.

I'd be curious to know how accurate the assertion is.
I would refer to what you are calling "fiscal conservatives" as "economically liberal" and what you are calling "fiscal liberals" as "leftists". Fiscal conservatism really only deals with government budgetary policy which is not at issue here.
This is all publicly available information. You don't give up your right to free speech when you gain access to sensitive information. He probably vetted this content very carefully and had several friends within the intelligence community review it for him to ensure he wasn't revealing anything undisclosed to the public already.
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I've used both and Vue is a mess in comparison. I didn't use components or Vuex but in that scenario I may just as well use React + Redux.
Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?
I'm curious about some of the side projects that you guys and girls are working on.
> an efficient socialist economy is made much more realistic by modern technology

No, it isn't, because no amount of technology will solve the fundamental information problem with centralized control, which is what any socialist economy must depend on. Nor can technology fix the fundamental incentive problem with socialist government, which is that decisions affecting everyone are made by people with the least amount of stake in their outcomes.
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Author enforced vinyl unto themselves because it's the latest cool thing to do.

Had we been in the late nineties, author would have taking up trick yo-yos.
Thanks for the comments everyone. I clarified the definition of "degree" in that paragraph, it indeed wasn't well written.
How is it in terms of build quality compared to Lenovo or Apple?

How does Linux run on it?
I don't consider myself anti-intellectual, and I wrote a blog post on my claim that computer science is not math: http://www.scott-a-s.com/cs-is-not-math/ We discussed it a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928276
Could be a limited hangout.
I read that piece out of curiosity and didn't really see anything work discussing in it - it was pure opinion and thats about it.
Presumably, as a brand new architecture, there's more chance of AMD improving single-core performance (either through frequency or IPC) in the next iteration of Ryzen than Intel doing the same with Core i3/5/7?
> mass automation, which removes one of the worst aspects of socialism and communism; the permanent working underclass

Mass automation doesn't remove the underclass; it just makes it a non-working underclass instead of a working underclass. That is not an improvement.

> A friend of mine says Communism arrived 100 years too early, I'd say that's an excellent way to put it.

Only if you think that Communism is potentially workable. It isn't. See my response to jrs95 upthread.
I didn't really make a point, so I don't know what you think you're countering. I just asked a question, and apparently the answer is that he doesn't disclose classified information.
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> bias training is created by people

Yes it is, but I am afraid not by the people you say later on...

> To assume that a privileged engineer would know better than this hardworking team is pretty insulting, I think.

You assume he is privileged?

Psychology knows about cognitive biases not "unconscious biases" which people are "trained" for and being tested on today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sylvana-storey/unconscious-bia...

Also, for some reason "unconscious biases" test are mostly used to "measure racism and sexism" which is not what these types of tests are originally designed for.

Most of the views in his document are actually supported by psychological research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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I don't think that stops them.
There's a certain level of minimalism though that actually increases spending. For example, not keeping a toolbox around the house means having to call someone for even the smallest maintenance work you might need.
While I was an admin for hackthissite.org I created some basic encryption algorithms for people to break.

One person gave me a step by step guide to how he broke it. It was amazing, and incredibly enlightening how hard encryption truly is.

Mathematical analysis of the encrypted data poor encryption easy to break.
I got a "Add Create React App Sample to your home screen" notification on my phone.
I didn't watch the whole thing just jumped around but he has included slides that are marked 'SECRET//NOFORN' so if that material is accurately classified at that level (and its disclosure was not authorized), well he probably shouldn't be presenting to that.

Of course whether those slides would cause 'serious damage' to national security is a whole other matter or maybe it was 'authorized'.
I'm curious, what do you think about ebola1717's argument above in this thread?
My clue was their use of "SIGINT".
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I've always thought about how brutally sexist it is to take this industry where women have a massive competitive advantage, and criminalize it.
> The key difference is that you're allowed to make your own platform and set whatever rules you like

But can you really? What if suddenly Google decides your platform is producing fake news?
Nothing to study. Trees are recursively understood and the methods are recursive. Understand recursion and you understand recursion.
Same here - wonder how they did that.
Maybe, but be careful here though.

It's possible for both the parent post and the article to be on the right track. Wealth enables action and technology obviously enables and creates wealth.

It's also difficult to assign this to "Clintonian types" when in general the centrist side of the Democrats has been such an ardent supporter of the growth of the tech industry. They're eager to own the eneconic growth.
What about student loan debt, how does that factor into the economy or the stock market being affected?

Right now student loan debt is at 1.4 trillion

source: https://www.debt.org/students/
It is not really surprising. All the window composition with frame-buffer effects (such as multiple layers of blur) takes a toll.

Enabling “Reduce transparency” and “Reduce motion” in accessibility preferences also causes a considerable battery gain on Macs.
Could the fact that a lot of US companies book profits overseas and keep them there for tax reasons foil your assumption about the meaning of a high US market cap:domestic GDP ratio?
We have similar drainage fees here in Houston, based on the amount of impervious ground cover on the property. We've had a lot of flash flooding in the past 20 years because of the growth of neighborhoods and commercial properties with large parking lots on what used to be prairies on the perimeter of town. New commercial construction typically has to have catchment basins, permeable concrete, or other runoff mitigation strategies. There is, however, a lot of legacy properties which don't handle their runoff, and an outdated storm sewer system, so we still have problems.
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Hey! Is that a dig at Washington State/Washington DC team locales?

I may or may not have lived that lie for an embarrassingly long time before I was clued in.
Yes, you're doing it wrong. If you're not learning something significant, i.e. that changes what you build, then you're probably testing
the wrong thing.

One way to focus more is to look at what you're currently planning to build, and then figure out what risks that would test. And then
look for other ways to assess those same risks.

A classic article on this: https://hackernoon.com/the-mvp-is-dead-long-live-the-rat-233...
Personally, I don't care how well you've researched me before calling me; if I want a solution, I will go looking for it, and cold callers get short shrift.
Instead of using the Hyperloop for transportation, let's point it at the sky and fire water from it.
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Is this open source? Id like to see how/where you are pulling your data.
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>Why is this article talking about what we think about climate change only to go into the infrastructure we need regardless of climate change.

Because the infrastructure you "need regardless of climate change" is needed because of reasons that make your country much more sensitive to ocean levels rising from climate change.

As thus, the (not related to climate change) need for such infrastructure that you had, makes climate change all the more real and dangerous for you than for someone in Montana.

It's like a driver with unstable breaking mechanism in their car (due to it having sustained some previous damage) is much more sensitive to the alert of a snow storm coming.

Not because it was some prior snow storm that caused their issue, but because their issue makes it much more dangerous to drive on a snowy road.
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Economist here. You should really keep in mind that the same GDP must go both towards paying off the national debt and paying off household debt. Also you should track commodities (at the very least, the ratio between put & call options).
Don't you just love how people post on the internet with such confidence in what they believe.
We could also just write laws that allow grace periods to cover problems like that. It is already common legislative practice to do that in many cases...

My original point was I find the "It's too efficient" argument to be a very weak attack angle on the use of technology in surveillance.
So is there a guide to battery-optimal MacOS settings? That would be useful.
Looks like Electron is just as capable as a website: https://electron.atom.io/docs/tutorial/accessibility/
<link rel="manifest"> in the header, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest for more.
Every year I do NaNoGenMo, so I have a couple narrative-generation projects in planning stages for that.

I'm working on a VN involving time loops, which is essentially an attempt to integrate the typical completionist play style of hardcore VN players (wherein people will often try for 100% completion of all dialogue and game devs will often hide the canonical plot threads behind options that only open up when you get all the good ends or all the good & bad ends) with the narrative -- i.e., the plot only progresses when the character dies and restarts.

I also write small projects periodically. (For instance, recently I wrote a script that superimposed Jenny Holzer quotes in white-on-red on black and white images, aping Barbara Kreuger's iconic style.)
Says "Stock market is closed" at 10:45AM EDT. Is it really?
To Ben's point, what you described here is exactly a hardware subscription business where average consumer shell out a few hundred bucks every few years. The amount may vary but it's still is a hardware subscription business.
That is already implicit in the Efficient Market Hypothesis' valuation of the total market capitalisation of stocks (that is part of the reason for which the total value of the stock market exceeds GDP).
Or, you could make it useful rather than a vehicle for speculation. There are plenty of other ways.
When I worked with QT as a UI framework, I did regularly get a sense that the QT contributors were understaffed, and that they have barely enough time to deal with the huge scope that the framework is attacking.

The conclusion was that, if you desire to use QT, you should get yourself prepared to dive in and fix things yourself. This sort of defeats the point of using a cross platform framework, since you may have to become a platform expert.

Alternatively you have to be ready to pay a contractor to do the necessary QT adaptations/fixes.