skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that boys are EXPECTED to play it at school (while girls are expected to cheer from the sidelines), so if you don't spend your time doing all the gender-appropriate activities that are expected of you in your spare time, then you miss questions on tests.

The question I couldn't understand discriminated as much against girls who don't give a shit about baseball as it did nerds who don't give a shit about baseball.
What about muscle? Does that follow the same thing as fat cells, they just stretch/grow, not increase in count? I always just assumed more cells were created as you got bigger.
There's an easier way to discourage pollution - fuel taxes.

If the law encourages someone to drive a pre-emissions car over a emissions compliant but not not emissions certified car, it encourages pollution.
I suppose in the 1980s it became possible to become a lone hacker simply because you actually could have an affordable computer at home in your bedroom. Even then though, there was a lot of socialising with other hackers at school (and a lot of bragging).

That's an interesting point. When I was in college, programming meant spending hours in a crowded, noisy terminal room, that was definitely a social atmosphere. The students certainly interacted and collaborated, plus the advanced students helped the beginners.

One evening, I was sitting in my dorm, and my roommate came in: "There's a pretty girl down in the terminal room. Maybe she needs some help." Okay, I kinda knew what to expect, but went down there anyway. The "girl" was the top CS student, very sharp, and a friend of mine. I told her what happened, and she laughed.
On the contrary, serif is easier to read in print.

Source: I've worked with magazines and newspapers.

Just check any newspaper or magazine, they all use serif.
This is really the one construction in Swift that I find hard to understand and hence remember, it's not a very fair example.
It got that far long a few years ago at least. If we had sensible enforcement of the regulations and laws against monopolies, Google would have been broken up already.
CLASP is for me the most exciting CL implementation right now. Compilation to the LLVM is a huge advantage.

Sadly, it's a one-man thing. And CL seems quite stagnant.

I wish one implementation triumphed over the others, and CL progressed beyond its ANSI standard.

Clojure has many interesting things. So does Racket. The Lisp landscape is too fragmented. And thus libraries are a huge problem.
Beautiful designs
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Anyone discussion of the (non-programmable, electronic) Atanasoff-Berry Computer will eventually segue into mentions of Zuse's (programmable, electromechanic) Z3, Babbage's (programmable, fully mechanic, only realized later on) Analytical Engine as well as Eckart and Mauchly's (programmable, electronic) ENIAC, which all were the first computer for some definition of computer.

The (electronic, programmable) chips that are in almost any device from the washing machine to the watch today are a product of a long series of inventions reaching from logic and arithmetic over the first automatons and calculation machines of the 1600s to more complex machines of the 1800s over to the development of electronics through tubes, transistors and integrated circuits of the 1900s.

And today they are a universal part of everyday life that nonetheless depends on large material flows across dozens of countries that would be in danger in any large-scale event like a World War (like the two world wars that have happened in the 20th century, and where anyone who has seen and survived that kind of large-scale war is rather old now).
uhhh, how can you say it's pure intellectual bullshit without reading? it would me like me calling you an asshole without knowing you.
One language that has popularized it in very recent years is Elm. It's mentioned everywhere.
Nope, it was over email.

I can point you at the various fixes for things I've reported since this first became available, but given your skepticism I'm sure it would not help since he seems to exclusively use the changeset description: "[add] various fixes" with no attribution.

Here's the link for that last bit: https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/alpine-secdb/log/

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You asked for reasoning, not evidence, so it might be helpful not to move those goalposts.
I'm currently in the process of manufacturing my first product in China. Last year, I spent upwards of 3 months in Shenzhen. In my experience, that is...not what happens.

Yes, many things get cloned in China. But I have, as yet, not seen a single thing cloned that uses the same design as the original. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I don't believe it to be the most common case. Very often, the copies of a design use local parts that western designers would never choose or are unaware of.

When making clones, the goal is rarely 'make it exactly the same.' More often, it's "make it look the same or work similarly, but cost much less to make." In most cases, a sketchy manufacturer is better off just doing a not-quite-cleanroom reimplementation of your design.

For example, there are clones of the APA102C 'smart' LED that Adafruit sells as a 'dotStar'. (One is branded the 'SK9822'. Some are sold as 'APA102C'. In a VERY weird twist, APA in Taiwan who made the original is now reselling one of the clones as the APA102C-something.) The external appearance is the same. It speaks roughly the same protocol. But the IC inside is a completely different design. In a couple ways, it's a nicer LED, with a couple extra features. It's cheaper, too. But in my use case, it behaved oddly.
From what I observed (and learned from others), state sanctioned discrimination against Soviet Jews did not exist at the time of the last wave (say, 1989 onwards). Don't have an axe to grind as I came around that time to the US as a Jewish refugee myself.

PS: To put the OP in context (not to condone the practice in any way), the discrimination was directed not just against the Jews, but more generally against any graduates of a select few top specialized physics/math schools (most had over 50% Jewish students). From what I understand, the driving factors behind the discrimination were along the lines of: These schools at the time (70s through mid-80s) were viewed as disloyal; their graduates likely to emigrate to Israel/US post-graduation, overrepresented at top programs etc.
> we gain richer insights when we take both into account

If there really were fundamental differences, that would not be possible. When I take someone elses viewpoint or way of thinking or anything else that is fundamentally different from what I know "into account", what I really take into account what I imagine that other viewpoint to be, cobbled together from the things I do know. I don't say this to contradict, I think empathy goes a long way and is a very real thing, even though it doesn't mean we magically see things how others do. And luckily we have communication. We can make our own viewpoints and feelings clear, and encourage others to be open about theirs.

I'm wary about fundamental differences and all that.. spectra, maybe (I'm not sold on mutual exclusivity at all), but even then certainly not with one dimension and two poles -- but assuming it were literally that way, then there would be only halves, and nobody with an overview. Just abstractions about the other, which are useless, realize the self and let the other self self-realize, communicate, done. Sorry for sounding like a hippie, no dig against hippies intended. It's really hard to talk about this stuff, but not for political correctness and not for the assholes who take all sorts of things and misuse them anway, just in general.
Latex is too hard for mortals, but I’d suggest Sphinx or one of the markdown alternatives. I think atlassian confluence is another even friendlier alternative, with a price tag.
I fail to understand how this is a men VS women issue, as comments here are interpreting this. As evidenced by this part in the article, it is more a this person issue. Or their learning style, as one comment has already pointed out.

>It wasn’t my teacher’s fault; she tried hard to engage me and figure out why I wasn’t connecting well with the work. Nor was I facing discrimination or isolation based on my gender — it was an all-girls school, and every single other woman who took that computer science class that year became an engineer or scientist.

I felt compelled to make a comment myself because I am a woman, and I am kind of tired of broad, sweeping generalizations about women and how they learn or want to work.

I think there's something to note here, though, and that she was driven towards a particular field because of her childhood experiences. She sounds like someone who would have benefitted from guidance at that age. Human experiences are complex, and not only because of the number of varying factors that can shape and impact them. I don't think its simply about sex differences.
It's a quest of mine to understand this subject mathematically. I'm convinced that typography is an exact science, it's just easier to use intuition than find the formulae that govern it. Like catching a baseball versus understanding gravity and drag.

For example, when aligning that header, they're moving the leftmost pixels into alignment with the body's leftmost pixels. The correct state is well-defined, it's just not understood by the program.

More complex, the amount of space under a heading. A heading's bottom is neither its bottommost pixel (the space between the bottom of an "a" and "g" is mostly empty), nor its baseline (that space isn't entirely empty); it has a soft bottom, a fade to emptiness. The ideal spacing is a function not only of what's being separated and by how much, but also the gradients that border it.

Does anybody know of good resources on this subject? What I find tends to be more about habit than derivation.
>Another interesting thing is that several of my Jewish friends told me that their parents asked them to lie about anti-Semitism when they were interviewed at the US embassy in Moscow in the late 90s.

Sorry, there is so much racist astroturfing that I cannot believe anything of this sort from a green account.
Yes, please open source this. Also, it wasn't clear from the article exactly which part needs to run on the server. Does anyone understand that part?
Have you seen his subreddit? Or his comments about the KKK?
You may find it ugly, that's subjective - I personally find it weird and unintuitive. But you can't really say it's verbose, there is no redundant information there.
Well, I'll grant you that lots of people use the word "algorithm" in a way that doesn't respect the distinction andrewla and I are trying to draw.

Nonetheless, I believe there is a real distinction here. As it happens, there is a discussion about algorithms textbooks on HN right now [0]. I contend that GAs are not the kind of thing that would ever be described in a textbook on algorithms, no matter how comprehensive.

> Genetic algorithms can have formally specifiable postconditions, they just aren't definable in terms of the problem space to which they're typically applied.

Actually, I think this would be a pretty good definition of the distinction, if we changed "genetic algorithms" to "heuristics". I think if you look at the procedures described in algorithms textbooks, you'll see they all have postconditions definable in terms of the problem space.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15423045
>To somewhat counter-balance this ...

I am missing the counter-balance effect, it seems to me we are saying the same thing, the "senior investigators" were passed not because they were geniuses (or not only because of this) but rather because they managed to get the reputation of genius[1], while "younger investigator" got eviscerated not because they were not (possibly) geniuses, but rather because they had not such a reputation preceding them.

[1] BTW not necessarily undeserved
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=male+80+kg+1+hour+runn... = 1050 calories
I don't give a shit about football (soccer) but do know at least the basics.

University is about a rounded education not just memorising text books - even more so in the USA with 4 year courses and major /minor.

As someone said its passing the airport test - high school should make this clear to students just be thank full its not like the UK when until fairly recently you had to have done Latin at school to get into Oxbridge
I didn't know such a thing even existed! (I would have been 4 years old according to Marco) This is the coolest hack I've ever seen. I'm sitting here in awe.
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Similarly, this automobile is well built despite having every design decision be wrong. There's some distinction between the architecture and the craftmanship - a poorly crafted and poorly architected anything is just a pile of rubble, but a well crafted thing with poor architecture is fascinatingly bizarre.
Is this less-dramatically stated as a particular non-Gaussian PDF (prob dist func)?
The US Direct Marketing Association claims that "direct marketing," which most people call "junk mail" or "spam," results in about 8.7% of US GDP per year. So, I would expect that quite a few people not only read junk mail but also purchase what it advertises.
Just to avoid confusion, not all clinical depression is fully treatable by exercise; I've known several people who were severely depressed while also being non-car-owning regular cyclists.

Sometimes antidepressants are required. Sometimes therapy is required. Please avoid turning this into "why don't you just exercise".
Do you have a link to those debates? I'm searching through the mailing list, no luck so far.
Seems like a good start though. LowRISC(http://www.lowrisc.org/) is working on completely open processors, so if the adoption of RISC through SiFives' processors can improve support for RISC-V, the path towards open processor hardware should be a lot easier.
I think there may be something similar for practical communication.As for whether it's a cheat ? IDK, but the goals there aren't "be solitary", but certain type of personal development, and relatively i think tibetian buddhists are good at it.
There's a tremendous amount of motivation to keep speculative bubbles running as long as possible. I'm not certain that expresses itself as self-delusion or attempts to manipulate others, though I suspect bits of both.

Oh, and Galbraith covers that in his short, very readable, book.
Wow, neither I nor my PhD girlfriend could do it on time. I bet if they had given it to all voters less than 1% could have voted.
Probably referring to the disappearance of external bumpers that could be cheaply replaced after an accident, or even a reasonable diy project.

The bumpers today are underneath body panels, so a even a light accident isn't cheap or easy to fix.

My guess is they don't exist anymore for several reasons. Style, aerodynamics, etc.
https://www.seafile.com is you're OK hosting it yourself : https://www.seafile.com/en/help/ignore/
Seriously. This is the invisible knapsack writ large. As a white dude from a family with no college connections, I was still basically allowed to half-ass my way into a career where I make $150K a year through a college that was all-too-happy to accept me.

"Privilege" is an uncountable part of that "luck" everybody in our shoes needs to recognize exists. That's why the concept is a thing in the first place.
Same for spam. Most likely people wouldn't send spam if they didn't make money that way.
As a self-taught developer, I prefer the Skiena book. The topics are ordered in a way that make sense to me, and the examples are practical.

However, the other books are probably a better match for a standard university algorithm course curriculum.
Yep. With all the talk about privilege and White privilege that gets slapped equally on everyone from Trump Jr to Joe the Coalminer... It only adds to the pile of injustice, not subtract from it.
First I would just like to say how impressed I am with the new WinDbg and TTD, this is fantastic work and a huge improvement on the existing debugging tools.

My question is: if I want to start taking a TTD trace after hitting a particular breakpoint in WinDbg, can this be done with the current tooling? Use case would be if there is a large amount of initialization code that doesn't need to be traced because the bug or crash is known to occur at a later stage in the program.
Processors will never read anything under a cache line, so it doesn't really matter (as memory access goes)
Sure. Still seems an odd arbitrary criteria. Wikipedia seems to do fine with php, as do several other large sites.

Would they pass up booking.com solely because it's Perl? The value there hasn't much to do with the plumbing.
Can you point me to cases of overtly White Europeans applying and being admitted to top programs as another race?
Public health officials do sometimes intentionally write at a 3rd grade level in order to reach the widest possible audience.
cancer = mold. nature collects garbage by recycling unused things by means of disease, insect, etc. just use your body and mind together all the time.
Just sent this to my mom who’s told me how this happened to her.

> Wow wow wow. I knew I was not the only one, but it still hurts. I looked at some problems: the most horrific part was that the guy next to me was asked what is the tangent. He got 4(/5). I got 3.
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Not a quotable one no, although some like colony.io have blog posts explaining why they are changing the terms or schedule of their ICO. Others have refunded their ICO. But it is Back channel sources that tell me the others have received calls too (I work in this industry).
It's not inaccurately low at all. You're basing your estimate on perfect/ideal scenarios, I'm basing it on the kind of thing the average overweight person trying to lose weight does when they spend an hour in a gym. They walk on a treadmill or they do more intense things with a lot of breaks in between.

Also, there is no proper form of exercise for an obese person that won't cause pains or aches, it doesn't exist. We might just be coming from different backgrounds and talking about different body types here.
Well, climate change science doesn't offend anyone. The science from the article does.
Isn’t their form of crowd funding to do a public offering to raise cash?
I became curious about quantum computing a few years ago. Googling around, I came across the QC chapter in Dasgupta. I found their description of the topic to be excellent, exactly what I was searching for. They provide a substantive presentation of QC, as contrasted with many "pop sci" hand-wavy impressionistic descriptions of QC. They tactfully avoid a few of the extremely difficult proofs, but they do give a solid mathematical underpinning for the subject. And, they convey in prose what the point of the whole thing is. Also, they forthrightly express the mysterious nature of what seems to be going on here. (If you have an N-qubit quantum computer, the universe seems to somehow maintain and manipulate a vector of 2^N complex elements as a quantum computation proceeds.)

They give a brilliant presentation of Shor's factorization algorithm, and how quantum computers offer an amazingly natural way to do FFT's (a key aspect of the Shor algorithm).

I would not contest the OP's questioning of the choice of a chapter on QC in an undergrad algorithms textbook. I would, however, offer the standard "your mileage may vary" caveat to the OP's very negative characterization. I had no idea what QC was about, and this chapter provided me with a great "on-ramp" to understanding what QC is all about.
The part that gets missed in most affirmative action discussions is the value of constituting class that is diverse goes beyond the value to individuals that are chosen despite lower objective selection criteria (GPA, SAT, etc). It also benefits the majority students who do get admitted.

University is a time to develop your thinking and students learn from their classmates arguably as much as they learn from their teachers. Studying slavery in an American History course was substantively different, for me, because I had African-American classmates that were able to comment on the lingering legacy of slavery from a perspective that I or any other white person could never get on our own. Had I only had white an Asian classmates, there would have been a far greater uniformity of thought and I would have had fewer of my preconceived notions challenged.

I will say that I find coarsely-grouped ethnicity to be a terribly reductionist way to achieve that diversity. That we group East Asians, South Asians and Southeast Asians together makes very little sense to me since I know these groups to have vastly different backgrounds, perspectives and opportunities. Grouping an American white person together with someone raised in Russia is also, similarly, nonsensical in my mind, as is grouping African-Americans with people born and raised in Africa. Genetic diversity is not the same as real diversity. But if Universities allow their enrollment to become 1 or 2 dimensional, they do a disservice not only to people who are disadvantaged by systemic challenges (the ones traditionally seen as the beneficiaries of affirmative action) but also to those in majority groups that would receive a more sheltered education.
that's the same reason why I posted it from a new account. Do not want to be claimed as one of the anti-Semitism deniers.
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I wonder if you could find a way to distribute assembly tasks and others to the "crowd". I bet you would find a lot of people who would be willing to put in significant work to help build some cool gadget. So you could get initial funding from the crowd and then also let them do the actual work. The only thing you have to do is to cash the profits. A little simplified but I bet someone will figure that out at some point.
>People should stop trying to force women as a category into computer science, and just focus on the individual.

That would be ideal. I think the reason they have to "force" anything is because of the gender gaps that get reported. But yes, any manager shouldn't make assumptions about how someone wants to work, or will excel at work, based on gender.

Separately, I hope the gender gaps in computer science or math etc. can be corrected by exposing boys and girls to education and career choices in a gender neutral manner, which I don't think happens enough.

Edit to clarify.
So what exactly are you eating now vs before?
Always has been, or at least so long as mass media have existed.

I've been exploring this topic, as a particular focus over the past year, though it's been an interest for some years.

If you look back to the Catholic inquisition (and its precursors), Gutenberg, Martin Luther (500th anniversary coming up at the end of October), J.S. Mill (I've run across some excellent discussion by Hans Jensen: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6x7u6a/on_the_... and http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346760110081599 (available via Sci-Hub)).

It's sobering.
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Don't things like this already exist?
Php today bears little resemblance to the performance drag it was years ago.

I’d wager they’d take a closer look these days.

That said, there is a lot of poorly written legacy php code out there before frameworks really took off for that language.
Obviate would be a better choice of word.
15 years of being very overweight and trying to lose weight through exercise = 1050 calories/hour only if I exercise at a level of intensity that risks injury and causes me to be practically bedridden for a week even without injury.

Your calculation is for a person who weighs 80kg, which is someone who doesn't need to lose any weight. People who have a lot of weight to lose aren't capable of running for an hour.