skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most writers aren't in a position to dictate terms, unfortunately. All the freelance work I've done over the years was payable on delivery.
Part of it is that the computer field grew out of the radio and electronics clubs which were overwhelmingly male.

Even if they were trying their best to be inclusive and open it's really hard to walk into a room for the first time and see that you're the only X in there and want to stick around. You will feel like an outsider for a long time even if you do stick around most likely. Worse, these feelings can amplify any perceived rejection from the community you feel.

Ironically to stick around you have to have a bit of an asshole streak because in the monkey part of your brain you know you don't belong and you have to ignore that and plow forward regardless of what you perceive the others in the group are thinking. This is an area where women are at a disadvantage as they tend to be more empathetic overall.
I have been fearing that this would happen. I subscribed around 6 months ago, but have yet to receive a print issue in the mail to date. After contacting support they gave me the runaround claiming delays. Over the last few months the number of clickbait articles and blog posts increased and the hard reporting / science in the main publication has reduced.

Nautilus has been an amazing publication over the years though. My household has subscribed since its launch. It's a shame to see it suffering. The writing staff deserves better. The brand deserves better.
Aurora Flight Sciences demonstrates a fully autonomous helicopter in action
A trustless blockchain most certainly does. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15915957
I think we're just going to put it on Github for now and say "here's this thing and here's what it can do" and not worry too much about an Eric and Al Ries-approved Positioning marketing strategy. Not giving a shit about stuff is pretty liberating. :)
Difference being that the first is someone taking your property and the second is you taking property from someone else.
I think the drag/drop tools are great for the younger kids but once they reach middle school age they are generally ready for something more.

I periodically teach middle school coding workshops. One of the top questions the kids ask at the start of a new workshop is will they be using scratch or hand coding. They associate scratch with the young kids and want more control by this age.
Ctrl+R is more convenient if you are a touch typist. Using an arrow key forces you to take your right hand off from the home row.
Easy: get rid of the blocking factors.

As I just mentioned in another post: You don't need pink office chairs to make an environment welcoming for women. You just need not to have catcalls, rapists, abusers, sexist jokes, etc.

[Edit] And for a bonus round: don't focus on culture. If you're interviewing someone for a SWE job, don't ask if they played videogames when they were kids. There is a good chance that they were too poor to afford them, or they never got it as a gift because they were females and people didn't think females would play videogames.
This calls for a full-blown essay at some point, but for now I'll just throw this comment out there.

[Using the terms girl and boy to continue the language of the parent comment; not meaning to be diminutive to anybody.]

Computers are inherently designed as girl toys, and boys are the foreigners in this world.

With the caveat that any statement you make about half the population is going to be wrong about a lot of people, statistically, girls are more risk-averse than boys.

Most of the advancement I've seen in programming over the past few decades has been for the purpose of reducing risk. Universal code reviews, automated tests, TDD, stronger type systems, distributed version control are prime examples off the top of my head.

Certainly there's a place in programming for more than one cognitive style, but it's the risk-averse style that puts the infrastructure in place such that the risk-taking style can create things that aren't a total disaster. So I'd summarize programming as a diverse world with a girlified core.
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The early releases of Nautilus as a quarterly back in 2014 were the best. I stopped subscribing in 2015 and have since gotten my fix by seeing Nautilus articles here on HN. I remember BJ Novak had a fiction piece [1] in one issue, might have been the same one with the excellent "Bridge From Nowhere" [2] piece by Amanda Gefter. If they can get back to that quality, I'll be re-sold!

[1] http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/kelloggs
[2] http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/the-bridge-from-nowher...
Schools exist for the same reason that farms and factories exist: it's a lot more efficient having specialised workers (in this case teachers) who can do the job far more effectively (in this case teach 30 or so children) than having every person do it themselves (in this case every parent take a large portion of time out of their day to teach their own child individually).

The alternative to school was for girls to help out around the house until they were married off and for boys to either learn their father's trade and then do that for the rest of their lives or get apprenticed off to whoever could take them and then do _that_ for the rest of their lives.

School helps children create a life for themselves. If children don't learn anything there they'll find far fewer paths open to them later on.
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How can I find cast-iron re-seasoning services?

I have a cast iron pan that I love. It's heavy as fuck but it's just the one I like cooking with the most. I've taken pretty good care of it, but still the seasoned surface is pocked and scratched after years of service.

I'd like to have it reseasoned from scratch, blank-slate style. I've found many guides on how to do that, but honestly I don't want to have to deal with lye or electrolizing to remove the old stuff off. Nor do I want to spend a day/weekend baby-sitting the pan in the oven as I put 3-7 layers of seasoning on it.

Who could do this for me?
I use ddwrt on my wrt1900ac. its quite fine, but I may try LEDE anyway
I would really like to know why this was dovnvoted. Horses used to be boy toys when men worked with horses and now are exclusively girl toys.
Yeah that perplexed me as well. There's no reason you can't get a modern Java app server to do async io coupled with thread pools and achieve performance close to Go. Maybe Go's coroutines vs Java native threads may give Go a little advantage but it shouldn't be a great difference for sanely designed applications.
> catch-22 where smug criticisms will be levied, regardless of conscientiousness.

This is 90% of online discourse: most people have absolutely nothing to contribute except smug criticism. Trying to satisfy popular opinion online optimizes for mediocrity, cynicism, and least-common-denominator thinking.

If your pinkwashed bootcamp/outreach program/hackathon is getting people engaged who would not otherwise be engaged, then you're doing the right thing. Same for programs that prioritize technology over identity. There's a big audience for both. If people don't like that a group or event is not catering to their very specific idea of what inclusive environments should look like, then they're always free to go somewhere else or do their own thing.
I hope both SAML and OIDC go away.
I did not know this one but always rated the builtin terminal app very low. ITerm2 seems to be a better mac citizen.
Most TP-Link repeaters can act in Access Point mode. It uses the same firmware and has the same bugs no matter what mode it’s set to use.
https://github.com/Anstinus/lazy-linq/pull/1
Sorry for the term confusion: TinySAML is what I’m informally calling the tiny subset of SAML we’re choosing to care about. Neither full-SAML nor full-OIDC fit in my head; I’ll also concede that full-SAML is much more complicated than full-OIDC, but that doesn’t matter: narrowing scope is much more effective for SAML than OIDC.

I hope both protocols become obsolete. SAML may not be the future, but it’s definitely the present. I’m not convinced OIDC is materially better.

‘tptacek will have much more informed opinions about relative SAML library quality so I’ll leave that to him.
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go to local Mac/iOS dev meetups and ask around. they also show up at conferences and of course at WWDC.
And are replaced with what?
I definitely hear you on this :P but it does help with conversion. A lot of people end up buying the book a few weeks/months later after we send an email about a new release.
I thought Target pulled out of the Canadian market?
This is a textbook (dictionary) example of visualization.
At some point, you've got to have a layer that interacts with and is coupled to the database. Nothing is stopping you from creating abstractions above this. Why is this a problem?
Thanks for being on team Winnie and for all your support since launch!
The weight is an important feature: Cast iron has higher heat capacity and won't lose heat as fast when food is added. This is why cast-iron should be your go-to pan when searing a steak, for example.

The downside is that they take longer to heat, of course, so other pans can be more suitable for some cooking tasks.
Once your pan is well seasoned, do you worry about acidic food (tomato, citrus) damaging the seasoning?
In Schor's algorithm, the quantum computer finds the period p of B mod N were N is the number you are trying to factor and B is a random number less than N. The quantum computer may find p with imperfect accuracy. Running the algorithm repeatedly can improve the accuracy of p. You can also try other numbers close to p. Both are examples of error correcting a quantum algorithm.
Same applies to his Java related choices.
Let's be honest we might fail
So does reporting untruths. That people are upset isn't a measure of truth either way.
I ran a public NTP server for around a decade. I finally stopped, but these sorts of vendor abuse weren't the reason why.

We started running them before the NTP pool (though we eventually did include our servers in the pool). The worst it got was a largish regional ISP had put our servers in their CPE, and one day they had an event where they rebooted all of their CPE at once. That caused a noticeable spike in our network traffic.

The real DDoS that caused us to stop offering public DNS service was: misguided network admins. The week I had the second network admin calling me, asking why my network was attacking their network, and then started yelling at me over the phone and hung up in a huge huff. He had installed some sort of IDS and it was triggering on NTP traffic, and rather than investigate it he just called our emergency hotline and got me out of bed to deal with it.

"Those packets you are receiving are in response to packets you are sending our NTP server asking for the time." was not the answer he was looking for I guess. :-( Honestly, I was already mad from being woken up (the emergency hotline says it is for service outages only), and that it was the second call that week on it. So I take some blame in the call not going well. But this dude never stopped yelling at me.

The problem with running a public service is: The administration doesn't scale with the number of users.
This isn't a game, and it isn't about winning. The fact that you see it that way is "what an odd coincidence".
Yes, and just like Pepe, it has been adopted by a community and no longer means what it originally means.
Agreed. I've been considering dropping Prime, since something like 8 out of 8 deliveries didn't arrive within the 2 business days promised - often with delays of up to a week. Customer service would waste an hour of my time each time I called to ask and verify just so I could know whether I needed to go to a brick and mortar store to buy the item in time. Really, really unpleasant.
As a subscriber, I find it unfortunate that this issue has been dragging along for the past year or more. This is not the first time we're hearing about it. But it doesn't appear that there has been any material change in the situation.

I've stopped receiving my print copies of the magazine. I mind, but I haven't raised the issue because I want the publication to survive and assumed they might be focussing their efforts on more existential threats. As an otherwise happy subscriber, I'd rather miss a couple of paper copies now and let some sort of fundamental business restructuring happen in order to allow for the publication to survive. But I suspect this isn't happening now, at least in an effective way.

I have first-hand knowledge of how similar publications operate. They're kept alive by a publisher who lacks the business expertise needed to do more than keep their baby on chronic life support. It will never thrive on its own, and consequently, never realizes its full potential either.

As a publisher, if it gets to the point where you're so in debt to people who have otherwise contributed in good faith to the business, your livelihood and baby, you owe it to them to admit that you need help. Not help in the sense of asking customers for donations or by having fire sales on subscriptions, as Nautilus has. This is just a way of chasing future debt obligations. Rather, you owe it to them to get help with fundamentally restructuring the business itself.

I'd prefer to avoid speculating too much on why that hasn't happened yet. But I suspect this all boils down to good old publisher control and/or equity. For the publication to have a future, all options should be on the table no matter how undesirable they might be for the publisher.
if it is the 2010 article it was a bit ridiculous by bringing up every anti bailout reference possible to take away from a vehicle and comparing it to other cars when it was really a first of its kind; an EV with a REX.

I own a 2nd generation Volt and love it, never really cared for the styling or interior of the first generation but mostly because the range of the first attempt fell short of my needs. My current Volt solves both my problems, I have the ability to go all electric on my commute of 54 miles round trip if not 10 more in summer. I can go any long distance trip I want and not worry about being stranded or having to wait an hour or more for a recharge even 200 less miles.

https://dailykanban.com/2010/07/g-m-s-electric-lemon/
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Using uppercase for emphasis is against the HN guidelines. Please don't do that; it's like yelling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you can't run a business successfully* for a year after spending through a $5M grant, then your entire idea might be deeply flawed.

* - Honoring your debts.
When you're working on a startup the hustle is real. Walking into work this morning and seeing that somebody added us here and that it hit the front page is a great way to start the day. Thanks y'all :)

As a thank you here's a code to get 30,000 credits on me to test out some of the algorithms. Here's the code: HNDec2017
I also was pretty gender-agnostic in my choice of toys as a child, and get annoyed at parents who I assumed pushed "girly" stuff on their kids.

But then I got to know parents who were trying to actively discourage their kids from like princess garbage, but they couldn't stop it because the kids learn from their friends. I'm no child psychologist, but there's probably some age where what their peer group thinks is more important to them than what their parents have introduced at home.

I don't know how to avoid that when having kids myself besides being careful that I'm not plopping them into a school full of girls who are being told which things they should and shouldn't want to play with.
I've had to update several times in the last couple years due to some YT links not working. Updating always helps.
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I remember watching Full Metal Panic! ( Which after 10 years is finally getting its ending series this Summer ), there were lots of scene in Hong Kong where, it was exactly the same as in real life, so much that even small details like stairs and windows cover were exactly the same.

Turns out the crew went to Hong Kong for a week and actually filmed everything out as well as taking lots of Photos, before sitting down and draft out the action and anime.
Girls aisle in toystore is full of pink doctor tools. Our bookstore has "occupations for girls" book and there is doctor and female doctor is regular occurence in kids books/shows. That is how it was during my childhood too.

Where I thought I would be weird for choosing electrotechnics as a profession (and such occupations were only in "for boys" books), I never thought the same about being doctor.
Why Great Ideas Get Rejected
Memes aren't really welcome on Hacker News.

But yeah, that's the first thing I thought of, too.

For those who aren't aware, KMart had a commercial with that line in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xwUuSM06xQ
It’s easy for a determined interest to throw up enough smoke to make anything seem controversial — like evolution.

Some controversial things are genuinely problematic but not all of them are.
I guess what I was implying is that he is not known for his professionalism. In fact he primarily known for his lack there of.
You could do an ambassador program of some kind (check out The Skimm, they have a great one). But I wouldn't expect people to eagerly spread the word about solutions. For B2B you should be investing in content marketing and SEO above all else. Other clever ideas are like what Slack did; make it friendly enough for a consumer to use, and then that consumer ends up advocating for the product to their organization.
Buy old pans at yard sales if you can find them. They are much lighter and much more refined/polished compared to the new mass produced pans.
Half a billion worth of infrastructure?
Yeah, total misread on my part there. They're pretty close in name and it threw me off.
I've been using this technique for years and highly recommend it. I've only had to re-season my main pan from scratch once in five years, after accidently forgetting about it on the back porch for a week (that's Florida humidity for you).

It's great. I've seen people warn you to not wash your cast iron with soap so as to not damage the seasoning, but I use soap without fear. I've heard from others they even put their cast iron in the dish washer, although I haven't tried that personally. This creates a base layer of seasoning that's REALLY hard to get off.

Maybe it sounds like a lot of work, but it really isn't as long as you're not in a rush to get it all done in one day. I'd add a layer of oil, run the oven while I gave the kids their bath, and turned it off after. Maybe 5 minutes of work per day over 3-4 days.
So he acknowledges that has not benchmarked the best options for Java and then selects Go as a winner, what a joke.
1. Python 2 is EOL in 2020, don't use it for new projects.

2. async/await it just an API layer on top of a framework. Thus there is no such thing as raw async/await, it has to be used with a framework of some sort (e.g. Python's built-in asyncio).

3. gevent patches the socket library. Terrible idea. Don't use it.

4. What protocols do you need? Twisted probably has the most implemented, but asyncio and tornado have a bunch too, and not always the same ones.
I really hope the majority of these writers are working somewhere else and are just waiting to get paid for their work. Once you reach to a certain point with these startups, you'll never see any of that money, even if you win a court case or small claims court.

If the money is gone, you just have to live and learn and move on.

source: I've been apart of many startups that went tits up. As someone who got burned really bad in the mid aughts, I've always had my radar up for red flags and troubling signs in subsequent situations with other startups.
How is the Writer's Union a subset of the UAW? At what point do we consider this Union a monopoly itself. I am sick of their tactics.
To start (to answer your first question), if you’d held on to the bitcoins you had 5 years ago, they’d have increased in value well over a thousand-fold. So definitely speculation.
There's an event loop underneath, even if it's not directly exposed.
But for most people, that speed difference is purely academic, and doesn't actually benefit them. Sure, if you're compiling stuff or otherwise moving around a lot of data, it matters. But for most people, it's just some numbers on a spec sheet.
Just needs swipe left/swipe right on the Issues tab...
Seems like it'd be pretty easy to enforce this one. A teacher will still catch students on their phone, and then it goes in the box with the dummy phone. Plus punishment for sneaking a phone in.
Netty would be one possible option, but he selectively left out everything that could jeopardize Go's victory.
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>In either case, it's amazing to me that Google is able to get the whole world to do unpaid menial work for them by offering a free product to website owners.

Its an example of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble....
> your <100 year old field

We should not forget that the progress that science, mathematics and technology have made in the past 100 - 150 years by far exceeds all that had been done before.
Travis resigning had little to do with Susan Fowler story.

Travis' mother died. He thought he could mourn and be CEO at the same time, but he decided he couldn't handle both
Same happened to me. And there was no way to close it. I did a hard refresh and it loaded again without the popup - I'm guessing it's on a time delay? Either way, super annoying.
The "mindshare" of the US elite has been in law and finance.
Why can’t I set up a monthly donation to Nautilus like I can for my local PBS station?

(No, I’m not looking forward to “we need your support” interstitials either.)
Assuming you can afford at least some kind of inexpensive phone for your kid(s), this is kind of a messed up position to take. Your children are failing classes because you want to make them purchase their own phones and plans, which of course is not realistic. So they failed because of something completely beyond their control and entirely within yours. As a parent, I’d be ashamed of myself if I had allowed that to happen. Even worse, you seem to be bragging that you deprived your children of this necessary tool.

In modern society, a smartphone and plan is as essential for school age children as the clothing you presumably did not make them engage in child labor to buy.
But the example you cited is not a legitimate legal reason to dismiss a candidate in the United States. It is a philosophical belief and thus protected by the Equality Act of 2010.
The OP's phrasing makes it seem like state and local governments impose in order to favor incumbents. Rather, state and local governments impose these regulations because they're short-sighted. Baltimore is a great example. The city has been railing against the incumbent, Comcast. But then it didn't let Verizon build FiOS in the city, because Verizon wouldn't meet its demand of building out to every neighborhood in the city. The city then appealed to Google, which also wasn't interested, because Google categorically doesn't agree to build-out requirements: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/snubb....
Yup, I think the real measure of the cultural industrial repeatability comes at generational transitions in people and in tech. What happens in those nations when the next gen leadership and/or tech needs development and installation in the face of existing leadership/tech. I think you see that a little in Japan where there are some company breakdowns today because the leadership who did great in their new growth phase have basically stagnated in their thinking.