skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the tests are flawed, fix the tests, don't eliminate them.

The tests are fine and we know it. The students are bad and so are their parents, who were also bad students.

Source: I was a bad student who had to change a lot in life. Magically when my attitude towards school changed so did my grades. Teachers can only do so much yet burden almost all of the blame.
Women used to be more prevalent in STEM fields. In the 80's there were actually more female programmers than males. Something changed in the mid 80's and the culprit might have been gender stereotypes in advertising. If the reason for less women in STEM is biological, they would never have outpaced males at any timepoint.
The practices at places like Google have been designed to get women who want to be in the field into the field. They're far from perfect. Being a straight white male in a progressive country and working at a larger corporation that is currently undergoing many of the same situations and issues that this whole thing is about -- I will likely be passed over to share the opportunity with people who traditionally have not even been given a chance to prove their ability. That's fine by me. I just have to adjust my trajectory. It's a great wide world with all kinds of wonder outside of optimized career paths.

To add, I started out as an English major. While I did well in most things I applied myself to, I spent the largest part of my youth studying humanities, the human condition, social mores (first hand, from the 'dirt' to the most pious), and art. I'm now back working in amongst the tech world, and studying science again, and that's how you have me here, contributing.

I'd also like to add that my grandmother was an early systems analyst and programmer (FORTRAN, COBOL) and had to work so hard to even be recognized that she wore it as a badge of honour the rest of her life. I didn't understand at the time she told me. I do now.

My mother on the other hand, left her career to look after my siblings and I to the chagrin of her feminista detractors who thought it was a move of weakness. She rallied against that her whole life, and I supported her then, too.

This wavering from one extreme to the other is really harmful, emotionally, on a large scale. However, sometimes we have to dig a little deep to make sure our colleagues, friends, and others get to see a little light. Somebody who's never had to struggle will never understand that fully.

The immediate and harsh backlash for proposing that science is not a good sole means for rationalizing how to work through social issues is pretty striking to me. Anyway, I never claimed to -- and certainly don't -- know what's best, but I know a slippery slope when I see one.
College was not for teaching high-school level concepts, it was for teaching advanced concepts to students who had already demonstrated some bona fides ... the onus is on the college ... even if that means re-teaching the basics.

If I put on my tinfoil hat, I start to think that the UC change is intended (at least in part) to avoid exposing the failures of California's primary and secondary schools. If they stop doing these tests, it becomes more difficult to demonstrate that the education up through high school was a failure.

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Neither of these apply.
Plants vs zombies
The old Hotel California rule. US Citizens are the only people in the world (besides a very small african nation) that still have to file and pay income taxes back home when they are no longer living in the United States. So much for being free.
Genuinely curious about how Tel Aviv, Israel, is considered safer than Toronto, Canada (4.13 vs 3.93).

Yes, a city that is under threat from terrorist rocket barrages and who's national army is currently occupying a foreign state is safer than a city that barely sees homicides.
They're beautiful. Would it kill you to use a sans-serif font so I could read it?
It's 1950, in a parallel universe differing from ours in exactly one way: scientists, using methods inferior to ours today but aided by good fortune, have generated essentially the same results about innate psychological preferences Debrah Soh cites in this piece, results we will stipulate as accurate.

We can predict the next 50 years with perfect clarity, having lived through them ourselves.

According to Soh's logic, as gender equality increases dramatically throughout the next 30 years, we should see reinforcement of "preferences" to avoid science fields. And yet the opposite thing occurs.

Why has Soh's hypothesis failed to predict? Why is it more trustworthy today?
Ask HN: Can you share advice on creating a Web Development/Consulting business?
Hey, everyone! For the past several years I've been learning web development(Django, Node, React), internet marketing, and building my portfolio. Now I think that I'm reasonably good at this stuff, and want to use my skills to create a web development/consulting business.

I want to start small, gain basic business skills, learn to work with clients, and gradually grow it into a big and successful business.

Can you share some advice on getting started? Are there any great learning resources that may help? How would you recommend to look for my first clients?

Also, I would be really grateful if you could look at the landing page [1] that I've built, and let me know what you think. Does it look good enough to show to people? What could I do better?

[1] https://startuplab.io
From my point of view, the religion-proxy-based travel ban, the abandonment of the Paris agreement, the attempt to dismantle the ACA, the (so-far attempted) banning of transgender soldiers, the refusal of the Census office to collect LGBT+ statistics, and the stepping-up of civil forfeiture, are all signs that right-wingers/conservatives are not tolerant of the existence of many people, let alone the opinions of left.

I desperately hope this is not, in fact, the prevailing sentiment of half the country. But to be convinced, I could really use examples of right-wing politicians affirming that LGBT+ people, the non-Christian religious , and people who can't afford their own living expenses are welcome in society.
DEPLOYMENT OF SOA INFRASTRUCTURE
In English we say "commaless".
The opening anecdote of this article is not a great look for Palantir. 100% consistency with the underlying database ACLs has long been one of the major selling points of the Gotham platform; perhaps the most important one.

The fact that (according to the FOIA emails, per the article) the gang detective was asking for a fix for the ACL on a specific record and not hearing back for months while the record remained accessible to other officers who should not have seen it is especially surprising, and bad.
I bought a cheap dell fx160 thin client (€50 @ 4gb RAM) has no HDMI but works well as a low power home server
A lot of modern games that offer convenience features like GPS navigation in GTA or the quest markers in Skyrim. I prefer playing GTA with the GPS turned off because it forces me to actually learn the lay of the land.
I lot of single player campaign FPSs (with or without arena sections) are railroady, not requiring map knowledge.
Rather than blame the people at the bottom of this scheme, the Afticans, the cell phone companies, or even the children, you should blame the people at the top who probably have much more power to effect change. It’s unlikely anyone at the bottom does it because they are malicious, or greedy. People at the bottom have fewer options. Even cell phone companies are passing the cost savings to you, the end consumer, as competitive markets give them fewer optioms too.

The consumers buying things are solely to blame, even if ignorant of the reality since willful ignorance is a thing. If there is any outrage it should be at those who buy these phones and let this happen. Every other part of this scheme is just a cog in the machine, being turned by the complicit consumer.

You should also be careful to stick your hand into something you don’t truly understand, and consider the motivation and implication. You may want it to be stopped to satiafy your own outrage, but they may want it to continue for survival.
I sometimes hear about “atop”, wonder Why haven’t I this installed?, install it, discover that it starts (and requires) two additional daemon processes, at which point I remember, and promptly uninstall it again.
> a) it's an open semi-public manifesto against a company policy

It was an internal memo in good civil form posted internally opening to an internal debate on a subject related to work conditions.

Despite Gizmodo's obvious attempt to frame it as such, it was not posted as a revolutionary manifesto.

It was public only when leaked by someone else. Notice how that person has not been fired.

> addresses sensitive and controversial issues.

So if a company makes a sensitive and controversial issue an internal policy, nobody should be allowed to question it? Really?

Are you still confident in your judgment?
the point is a US citizen who is a perpetual tourist still must pay US taxes.

as a non-US citizen i can live in the US for many years and keep accruing income/assets into a trust + take loans against said income/assets to fund expenses. then one year when i happen to be a perpetual tourist i distribute all of that from the trust to myself. zero taxes.
Economist’s Guide to Aware Decision Making
> When THAT lucky generation is gone, I think statisticians will realise that their children are /nowhere/ near as lucky, and I'm pretty sure the life expectancy number will fall off a cliff.

Much of the developed world is having a population crisis. When pensions/government benefits were created in the early 20th century in the US, western europe and japan, they were experiencing population booms.

Take japan for example, which is similar to US/Western Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bdrates_of_Japan_since_19...

Japan seems to have maxed out and now they are dying quicker than they are being born.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Po...

This is the same problem in most western europe countries. In the US, it's not as bad because of immigration, but if you only include native born americans ( non-immigrants ), our population demographics is even worse than japan. Native born americans stopped procreating at replacement levels since the late 1960s.

Unless Japan/Western Europe bring in millions of immigrants, they are going to be in for major problems because of their liabilities to retirees. A shrinking population can't hope to support the older generation. And the worst part is that if younger generation has to support the older generation, they will put off have kids because they simply can't afford them. Which in turn exacerbates the problem and it turns into a vicious cycle.

But immigration also has its own problems. So the industrialized world is caught between a rock and a hard place.

Even in the US, the pro-immigration policy is a stop-gap measure. The population can't grow forever.

Blackrock has an interesting paper on the overall trends.

https://www.blackrock.com/investing/retirement/blackrock-ret...
You must have missed the parts in the end where he advocated measures that systemically undermined diversity measures (let's not make this a moral issue, have less empathy, be more rational). While all of those arguments make sense individually, together they take down any diversity in thought: left side brain good, right side brain bad.

What we need more in this discussion is more emotional intelligence, not less.
Well if your country is doing digital elections without citizen signatures and block chain, then chances are you live in a corrupt country. :p
Unfortunately it would need to be a hack that purposefully gets itself caught in order to drive any point home. I can imagine the risk vs reward on something like that would be very undesirable.
The study focused on "first-person shooting games". I don't think that counts :)
Also, isn't running around blindly how you learn a map? I know that's how I 'trained' myself on CoD4 until I knew the maps inside out. So was I killing grey matter before creating it?
> If you don't believe the research is solid, please post some convincing counter studies.

It sounds like you don't understand the reproducibility crisis: It's not up to me to produce counter studies, it's up to you to produce replications of the already published work, using the exact same methods and techniques.

So far, the reproducibility in the psychological sciences has been pretty poor. Nature summarized the original test a couple of years ago: 61 out of 100 replications failed in the test.

https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-...
> BUT, I do think (hope?) we can agree that there are some ideas that are abhorrent. I use the example of race-based slavery above.

Well, if you feel confident that race-based slavery is in no way justifiable then it should be relatively easy to find arguments why it is not justifiable, no?

An obvious one would be pointing out largely overlapping intra- and inter-race variances in genetics.

If your race-based-slavery-advocate could actually show that specific races have attributes that make it the utilitarian choice to choose them then they would be making a valid point - on the assumption that it is necessary to have slaves in the first place - and you might want to shift to finding arguments against slavery in general instead of the slaver's specific choice of slaves.

Or you could argue that merit-based slavery is superior to using race as a proxy. E.g. genetic testing or performance evaluations of individuals.
Hey! Nice job I really like the idea and how it works.

One thing I have noticed that sort-of breaks the experience for me is that every song change, room change, or anything else that stops music automatically changes my current device on spotify to the incorrect device.

So constantly change it back to my work computer rather than my home computer it a huge pain currently.
Papineau vs. Dennett: a philosophical dispute
Wow this looks really cool. How does it compare to ActiveAdmin? What is the main differentiator?
Or social work, education, etc.

A: money
So...we should value the opinions of Nazis? Are we really at that level?
Wow didn't know that.

I uploaded a few suspected files to virustotal for a quick check but will have to refrain from doing that in the future.
I help my friends a lot and I'm always happy to chat it through with anyone. That said, no, I haven't looked into turning this into something more, for two reasons:

1) The nature of the game is that the more people play it, the less value it provides. A lot of my success in this is due to obscure opportunities that die as soon as they get too publicized.

2) Turning this from a hobby to a job would take the fun out of it.
CSS vs. JavaScript
I was reacting to the parent comment. For some reason in Northern Ireland example cited there proof of address was required.

Government can issue IDs without proof of address. This is matter of implementation. For national election at least you shouldn't need it. For local elections it should be required.
I used to use Google Play Music, and it was very nice. But for anyone who has a reaaaaalllly big library I might suggest something like Ampache (http://ampache.org/).

It's totally open source, has a relatively decent web player, allows you to stream your music anywhere, allows you to create accounts for others to have access to your music, can connect with Plex/subsonic to work with other devices/clients. I use DSub on my phone, and can sync music offline (like GPlay Music). Only downsides really is that it requires a web server and the initial import can take some time if your library is very large.
That's a fair point, and I agree that (if so; those of us who don't work at Google don't really know what's going on) the argument that he should have expected not to talk about this at all is invalid. That's useful context, thanks.

However, I don't think this necessarily excuses him entirely. If there's a company-wide discussion group for future directions on tech stacks inviting input, and I write a long post arguing, in complete seriousness, that the best long-term tech stack for the company is to use Classic ASP on Windows NT 4.0, and I pull some stats about successful companies in the dot-com boom that used ASP, I think it is entirely reasonable for the company to re-evaluate whether they badly misjudged my critical thinking skills. I am not excused simply because they invited feedback from the whole company.

Whether this particular post is a comparable situation is certainly debatable, but I think that we cannot simply excuse it by saying that feedback was requested.
No. Try actually reading the memo and learn a bit about statistics and bell curves.
How is that even legal? It's such a blatant rip off.

Are you not able to switch providers?
The problem with scientific studies is that they're great at describing a population, but generally have very little predictive power at the individual level.

For example, one of the studies that showed boys were better than girls at math showed that if you chose a random boy and a random girl, there was a 55% chance that the boy was better at math. Not very much different from flipping a coin at an individual level, but quite significant in a population.
But all four are (in my opinion, whatever that may be worth) qualified to comment on psychological claims, which is more what the paper was about.

This doesn't change the fact that psychology is a very fuzzy science with lots of room for ambiguity and subjectivity. The human brain is among the most complex computing devices known to humans, and it's one which humans had no real part in designing; psychology basically amounts to reverse-engineering a convoluted and obfuscated closed-source program running on an entirely-undocumented computing platform. Oh, and the software - and even hardware - in question is constantly rewriting itself as part of the way it processes inputs.

Our understanding of psychology is changing constantly as a result; information from even as little as a decade ago is fraught with inaccuracies revealed since, and information from today will almost certainly be invalidated - whether in part or entirely - within the next decade.

Put simply: just because these authorities have validated the paper in question does not make that validation - or the paper - actually correct.
In the case of Vitalik, he was smart enough to enlist people more knowledgeable than him when organizing the Ethereum project. For example, he enlisted a PhD, Dr. Gavin Wood, to author the real white paper[0] (also known as the yellow paper). while it's possible that at 19 Vitalik could've been studying real CS long enough to work out the truely difficult parts of implementing his vision, it's highly unlikely and, to his credit, he was smart enough to know that. People who think they are the smartest people in the room rarely are. The really smart ones are the ones who realize this and are humble enough to seek the expertise of others.

[0]:https://bravenewcoin.com/assets/Whitepapers/Ethereum-A-Secur...
I hardly eat sugar or preprocessed food. But the biggest improvement in lifestyle was cutting wheat flour as much as possible. The first change I noticed was the weight loss, but I feel less "stuffy" too. I replaced it with corn flour.

Other than that, I really think there is some truth to the documentary Cooked. I don't deprive myself from food, as long as it is homemade food out of real ingredients. I can't afford organic food and the weather of the place I live in is not that great to grow my own food (and my time availability is not that much either).
Wondering this as well. Most games do use spacial memory although some shooters are pretty mindless and navigating requires very little thought or effort (think Diablo 3's more linear maps where it's see enemy, shoot, move forward, see enemy, shoot, move forward, etc).

It seems to me like games like Portal / Talos Principle / Amnesia would rely on spacial memory more than most games out there. Can anyone confirm or deny if this hypothesis is correct?
I am curious what you base your evaluation of "living conditions" on.

Or rather, whether or not you have experienced what the living conditions of the poor are.

I dropped everything and moved across the country when I was 20. I had nothing. I lived in a run down house that was originally a three story single family home but had been subdivided into five apartments. My bathroom had mushrooms growing through the floor boards at the base of the tub and toilet. One of my neighbors was a prostitute turning tricks out of her apartment. Which I suppose was tolerated because she was "dating" the landlord's alcoholic brother who also lived in the building.

I spent about three months living on plasma donations plus my girlfriend at the time's meager wages. I hauled laundry three blocks for the privilege of paying $50 to get a week's worth of clothes washed. The central heating was garbage so when the snow storm came that winter we were sleeping in our winter jackets and layering thermal underwear. Trying to go to a grocery store for food was an adventure...riding the bus with one transfer to a different line out to the store, then a ride back carrying all the bags.

I ate more rice and beans and potatoes than I want to remember.

And that wasn't even that bad to be honest. There are conditions that people live in which are much, much, much worse than that. In terms of dilapidated housing where, no, they don't get to keep out the elements, and no, they're not guaranteed to be free of lead or asbestos or other known contaminates. Food insecurity. Lack of clothing. And don't even start on access to health care. Forget about mental health care.

It's a totally different world being poor. Contrasted with the lifestyles of even the moderately well to do today I think the gap is quite enormous.
> edit: Wanted to add, a PhD of neurosexuality is probably one of the last people I would consult on philosophy, humanism or any kind of larger social issue. It's not exactly her scope. It does help to have an expert on the subject chime in on the science, though. It will help at least dispose of that less useful side of the discussion.

Please respect all the researches, they usually read out of their main topic to get more data and more opinions. She works in neursexuality and probably has read a lot more from philosophers, humansims and other larger social research than you.
Without further clarification or elaboration, your comment does not seem to make much sense.

Consider the extreme case of children vs adults. Should we advocate for policies that force companies to employ children because we think it's more equal that way?

I'm not trying to say women are children or anything like that, just taking your position to it's absurd conclusion to show that it's at least questionable.
It seems I have to install their software on my computer to see what the price is. I'm being curmudgeonly here, I know, but I'm not keen on installing iTunes, my previous experiences with that and other software on Windows were not that great.
Or I read the question, and mistakenly assumed DiskCryptor worked with Linux without confirming.

Oops.
If you count zero as a positive number then one solution is:

0, 109552575, 29354524 :)
Open sourcing a back end for auto-updating Electron apps
Opinions differ on the meaning of left/right. Europeans would probably consider her centrist or right-wing. Californians too, perhaps.

But by American standards, her platform was well left of the average politician.

(Though I suspect, had she been elected, she would have ignored the platform and governed as a corporatist.)
Not necessarily. These populations may have, for genetic reasons, a smaller gendered difference in tech interest.

The "young males prefer trucks, young females prefer dolls" split is also found in chimps FWIW.

Interest drives practice and practice drives skill.
The font is horrendous, too tall, and too compressed.
Still working can also be related to still being healthy enough to work.