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How many standard deviations past the mean do you need to be to work in STEM?

One way to bound this is to look at the number of people in STEM careers. 6.2% of US jobs were in STEM in 2015 (https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2017/science-technology-engine...), meaning that STEM employment requires at most being just under 2 standard deviations above the mean—and that only if you assume that society optimizes perfectly to fill all of those careers with the people most suited to them in terms of base biological aptitude. Once you throw in other factors like location and access to education, it probably gets significantly lower than that.

Would you say that all your coworkers at all STEM jobs you've been at have been at least one standard deviation above the mean at aptitude for the job?
95% of liberals (myself included) would have re-voted for Bill Clinton in 2000, if he was allowed to re-run, over Bush. They would have overlooked all of the shit with Monica (a 22 yo intern!) and the other women, because they would have viewed Bush as a worse choice. And I think nearly all of them do not endorse what he did.
It's hard to really wrap your mind how BIG it is there.

Those things you mention? They take up so little space they wouldn't even count if not for the fact there's nothing else.

Space is REALLY big, and REALLY empty.
In my experience this is controlled by shutting the blinds over the windows so the naughty sun doesn't make the laptop screen impossible to use. Great, no more sun in the cubicle farm. Thanks guys. :-(
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TL;DR cities have so much more money that there's an initial boom as farmers fill the need to feed the cities. Eventually, the market responds and farmers are challenged by razor-thin margins and turn to technology to become more efficient. The net result is higher population and fewer problems feeding everybody.
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Adobe used to do this. They'd send books on (IIRC) any Adobe product to hackers who got patches accepted into Flex.
Another common class of bugs in C++ is comparison functions that don't respect the strict weak ordering axioms [1]. I've seen a lot of implementations in which cmp(x, x) is true.

This causes undefined behavior in STL algorithms, for example std::sort can easily go out of bounds.

A good rule of thumb to remember the axioms is that the comparator should behave like <, not <=.

[1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/concept/LessThanComparable
>> How would you distinguish between such a "sowing chaos" campaign and random Russian people/groups who have different interests in the US?

>In the latter, superficially opposing strands of propaganda wouldn't trace back to the same actors.

You mean like "propornot," a cia affiliated group of "Ukrainian nationalists" who published enemy lists of American media sources as being Russian agents of influence ... via establishment mouthpiece Washington Post?
BTW does this foreign interference in the US political process, possibly with CIA aid concern you at all?

> Because it's worse—for Americans—to have foreign powers trying to manipulate America into tearing itself apart ...

Citations needed. When in the history of the human race has anything like this ever been effective? Let alone something like this which seems to have more or less completely taken place ... on twitter.

Meanwhile, the Saudis and Israelis have fomented actual wars, where people, including American people, actually die, interfering with the US electoral process, and limiting the Overton window of acceptable discourse to basically be "some wars" or "more wars." They continue to do so. Seems more dangerous to me than some silly conspiracy theory about "sowing chaos." The only chaos sown is that people like me are off the reservation.
The justice warrior echo chamber is strong...

It's hard to reply to justice warrior-talk without being incredibly condescending. Can you slow down for one minute and define what you mean by 'equality of all people'?

We have 2 genders, not 1, might be a good starting point.

Let's follow that up with how you know what all people want out of life, that you want them liberated from systems of whatever? Or you're interested in doing for people, what they don't want done to them? How does that work with liberating them from oppression exactly?
Quantum leap is also somewhat passable as a name for the period from 1905 to the 1950 when Quantum Mechanics established itself as the foundational theory of physics. I suspect the various pop-accounts of this period to be the source for quantum leap as a term for ”huge change”
. I think Quantum revolution is the more common term for the period.
If you're looking for a log that's not Kafka, also worthwhile to check out Redis Streams, which will be included in the upcoming Redis 5.0 release.

http://antirez.com/news/114 (I think the API has changed a bit since this blog post, but the concepts and capabilities are the same.)
New York Transit Wireless has a free, open wifi that is open in many stations, which I use frequently. It is a little bit of a throwback using it on the subway though, as it does not work in the tunnel, so you have to wait to stop at a station, get the wifi signal back, send out your web page request and receive it, then the train goes into the tunnel again and your connection goes dead again. It is better than nothing though.
Fn in France and AfD in Germany are firmly right, and it seems perverse to ignore fascist parties like Jobbik and others considering their relative electoral success, even if you believe that to be a flash in the pan. I spend a good deal of time worrying about this international drift.
It seems insincere to ask if he didn’t really mean it.

When I ask, I say: “did anyone want the last one?” - but only after its in my mouth of course. ;-)
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I think that the best name is "server for dummies".
Congrats on the launch! What are your long-term goals for this? Is this a side project right now and, if so, do you hope to eventually go full time?
Please keep standard political talking points off HN. If you repeat something stock, it will get stock responses. That makes it off-topic on a site dedicated to curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just to counter this anecdata, the startup I used to work at was founded by 4 conservatives, 2 of whom met working in the George W Bush White House. We used to discuss and debate all sorts of politic topics, and in fact I was quite often in the minority (a position that didn't bother me... it was a good way to learn different perspective on some key issues). They were then and I'm sure still now are quite openly conservative and happy to debate politics (in appropriate settings). They didn't hide it publicly either, for example in the early days of the 2016 presidential election they had Jeb Bush come over and give a talk. Jeb was made fun of quite a bit for the manner in which he put on the company swag [1].

The company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and has hundreds of employees. In my experience I didn't notice a single situation in which their conservative views had negative impacts on the company. In fact I think their conservative background helped the company raise money from VCs, who I'd wager are more conservative than average.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBg6hU5zXDA
"You should have a backup and double-check the address you send to" is a user-hostile high bar? I mean, maybe for non-technical people, but I'm not exactly recommending bitcoin or any cryptocurrency to them. Something can have its uses without having to be everything to everyone.
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> "The real problem isn’t fake news; it’s that people have given up on that search for truth"

I disagree. Most people have neither the time, inclination, or often the tools to "seek the truth" by themselves, and therefore they rely on the media to (in)form their views.

Moreover there is such a thing as influencers and trend-setters. The media do not simply report on what people are expressing, they can also (and often very much do) set an agenda. Knowing this, it's journalists' duty to report the news accurately and not mix reporting with opinions, not manufacture or distort facts, and avoid feeding into the Outrage Economy and its endless echo chamber.

By chance, I stumbled on a "meta-journalism" website just today, that analyses how mainstream print media (both left- and right-leaning) cover the news, it's pretty interesting. It's also often pretty damning. I hope they become better known:

https://www.theknifemedia.com/
Really cool project! Forwarded link to friend who’s alergic to gluten.

Is the information regarding where to purchase the products added manually?
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No, but people using it think it's a fact about frogs. Comparisons involving it contain an assumption/presupposition that's unknowingly false. Jesus employed facts about e.g. lilies in his parables; I doubt dodgy urban myths would have cut it. Please permit the people not so smart as you on the internet to learn someone without having to hear "Arghh I know that". But maybe you've read someone pointing out the frog myth 1000 more times than I! In which case I sympathize.

edit: Hehe I left HN after writing that to do something 'more useful', reading The Inmates are Running the Asylum. On about the 2nd page I read was:

"A frog that’s slipped into a pot of cold water never recognizes the deadly rising temperature as the stove heats the pot. Instead, the heat anesthetizes the frog’s senses. I was unaware, like the frog, of my cameras’ slow march from easy to hard to use as they slowly became computerized."
Is the game sold for free?

If I buy a video game and play it and occasionally get loot boxes that may have ultra-powerful items or may not, that's gambling. But if I buy a video game and play it and occasionally get items that aren't called loot boxes but may be ultra-powerful or may not, that's not gambling?
Having been here since the dot com boom in the 1990s I have to disagree. Large firms headquartering in SF is a relatively new thing, but there were plenty of small firms attracted by VC money but which didn't come out of the Stanford orbit that has shaped SV.
As far as I know, all the projects that promote themselves as "serverless" are stateless functions and not designed to store states, which means if you want a database you will need to store it elsewhere and utilize it from the "serverless" container. So no DB for you out of the box if you want to use serverless architecture.

So I don't think it's for "dummies". Dummies want an all-in-one server.
I don't understand how allergy hazards are being created for you. Please explain.

As far as I can tell, buckwheat is a fairly exotic ingredient even in specialist wheat-free foods. We once bought some buckwheat pasta: never finished the packet. Typical wheat-free pasta is made from rice and maize. I can't think what the justification would be for adding buckwheat as a minor ingredient to something.
Please don't do internet flame tropes on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the problem here is they are defining controversial as 'anything I don't agree with'.
I care much, much more about people who latch onto extremely minor public nuisances in order to stoke their own racial resentments. The parent commentator was clearly focused exclusively on black kids.

Put in your own headphones and get over it.
I'll take the bait. Great job on the app - seems like it really works. Also answers most questions about how this would be feasible

* How to track workouts where arms don't move? Add a second sensor, or create artificial arm movement.

- Want to track Leg Press? Strap phone to your leg. Or keep hands on your leg to move along.

* How to distinguish between similar workouts/add custom workouts? Custom classification per user means a smaller pool of workouts to distinguish.

- It takes just 3 seconds to train any new exercise
> "(undiagnosed) Celiac disease"

Why undiagnosed? My brother has actual celiac, there were actual tests and biopsies that could be done.
I'm hoping for suggestions on the content and non disqus commenting systems.
Wow. Thanks for the detailed reply. I'll add that to my notes. I'm curious to see how this plays out with wlroots and how people will build on it to bring the something like variety of window manager X has to Wayland.

Using Xwayland for a significant number of things makes me curious about how much overhead it adds. The only article I found was from 2014 and it showed it adding significant overhead. Anyone know of any newer data?
Old enough to remember Bush’s popularity sky rocketing after 9/11. Bush received plenty of vilification from the extreme left, but the moderate left were willing to go along with him as long as everything worked out (which is why he won in 2004). Bush was incredibly likable and didn’t come off as profane even to those that hated his politics.

The thing about Trump is that the moderate left and even many from the moderate right (my uncle never voted for a democrat until 2016) are mostly disgusted with the guy. It isn’t really about politics as it is about human decency against sexism, racism, and so on.
>Okay, I'm going to toss out downvote material because I think it's important to say.

I didn't get past that first sentence of irrelevant filler.
It's very difficult to choose a single term to describe the cultural cluster that sho is referring to, that would not result in quibbling over the term, or whether it's a thing. I know which cultural cluster he's talking about. Closely related or alternate terms include social justice warrior, authoritarian left, regressive left, cultural marxist, identity politics, oppression stack, 3rd wave feminist, virtue-signaling left, neo-puritan, and so on. I've omitted a dozen other terms that are more like slurs, but I'm still a bit disappointed that most of these have some degree of negative connotation. I can't think of a totally neutral term that would be recognizable.
During the work week, the nj transit trains leaving hoboken have a “quiet car” where phone calls and talking in general are discouraged and it’s wonderful.
Like "cloud computing", the name "serverless" doesn't make much sense when used literally. It doesn't mean that there are no servers involved, just that there are none to be directly managed by the developer.

P2P also doesn't mean "no servers", but that every node is as much server as client.

Amazon popularized but didn't invent the term "serverless", which appears to have been first used in 2012.[1]

[1] http://readwrite.com/2012/10/15/why-the-future-of-software-a...
Please don't post unsubstantive swipes in discussions here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or maybe those two things aren't everyone's top concerns, especially if they're struggling with the lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy, as many people in less prosperous parts of the country seem to be.

But even if you're well fed and feel secure in your future economic prospects, not caring very much about racism and sexism doesn't make you racist or sexist. It seems to me that most Republicans just don't care about those two things nearly as much as they care about other things. If you're surrounded by only white people, racism becomes a very abstract concept, vs if you live in a large multicultural city.

As a party, Democrats really need to start working on understanding the people who don't vote for them, rather than just assuming they're just insane bigots and insulting them as such in the process.
When the topic of underrepresented groups comes up regarding women and minorities, the reason given a lot is that “they’re not interested” or something along those lines. Why would that not be the same reason here?
I think you'll find that is more likely Scots rather than English. The Big Yin famously described the effect in his Aussie tours. To be fair, us southerners can also burn as well (but I personally don't.)

What you might consider "English" is two countries and four nations. It's complicated. For safety, I'd refer to the two large islands off the NW of mainland Europe as "Britain and Ireland" (in short.) It's complicated.
> Work is for working; it's not a debating society, and especially not when the debating is done in bad faith.

If this were true the far left wouldn't be able to discuss social issues at work either, but they are.
Thank you Courtland!

Our long-term goal is to be the best global resource for finding certified gluten-free products. We want to have products from as many GF certifications as possible.

Another huge thing is adding ingredient lists and filters for other food allergies since many GF folks have other allergies.

I've been working full-time on this for about 7 weeks, but I'm expecting to do more consulting work before it provides a full-time income.

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> "Serverless" is a marketing term invented by Amazon for what might in retrospect have been better described as mini-PaaS.

Popularized by, but not invented by: http://readwrite.com/2012/10/15/why-the-future-of-software-a...
Who ever said that cities are supposed represent all values equally? Move to a different area of the country if you don't like a particular city's political leanings. There are plenty of Republican leaning areas of the country.
Yes, I'm aware of that, my intent was not to suggest that Linus invented the DVCS from whole cloth (DARCS preceded git and hg by several years). The point is that moving to an open source VCS had been a topic of discussion for years leading up to the Bitkeeper crisis, and Linus had been very vocal about the unsuitability of the mainstream options, going so far as to say email and tarballs would be preferable.

The fact that Bitkeeper precipitated git does not really diminish the accomplishment in my eyes. Remember, Bitkeeper was closed source, and the licensing crisis was precipitated by reverse engineering of Bitkeeper in the broader kernel developer community. Linus specifically set out to build a replacement from first principles and he built an incredible foundation in a very short amount of time. If it was a straight clone that would be one thing, but in reality git is its own thing, and fairly par for the course in terms of a top engineer leveraging past experience to build something better.
Are you so sure about the rioting in Berkley? It takes two to tango.
Why does everyone want to try to belittle the children of rich and well-connected parents as being undeserving of their status? No man is an island. And specifically, children are a continuation of the lives of those who came before them. They carry the genes and often the wisdom of their ancestors. In a deeper, Darwinian sense, no one 'deserves' anything beyond or below what they have, and these 'lucky' people are just members of a different chain of life.
>> Push back? Will do when things really do go wrong. You don't know us ... mate.

Problem is, if things "really" do go wrong, it will be too late to push back.
If the jvm does, then assembly does.

I think the main reason that this wouldn’t work is that compilation isn’t perfectly reversible. Information is lost.

I think you will always have this problem with translation and it’s a analogous to the idea of two people working on a novel, one in French, the other in English, with neither knowing the other language, expecting the word processor to come up with some lower representation that it can use to translate flawlessly back and forth.
This hasn't been an issue for me once I moved my mail server into a VPS (ran it from home for a long time). Been running in a VPS now for 10+ years and downtime has never been an issue. The main pain points have been clean IPs and migrating user accounts when I upgrade the server.
The parent comment is clearly calling out the racial overtones on the GP comment and asking for more inclusive language. They're not talking about the obnoxious behaviour of teens (of any color).
These topics all have overwhelming support in local media, PR and marketing copy, in other words in the official ideology.

The actual people are not much different than anywhere else in the US. But they quickly learn to provide lip service to the official ideology, especially when seeking employment or acceptance in social media-mediated groups (and there are very few that are not.)

The real problem with computer techies is that they tend to be more sycophantic to the prevailing power than other profesions.
Finnish government runs bug bounty with rewards up to 30000 euro
You mean like a cell phone?
I think, contrary to what many people are saying, that what has really happened is that it has never been easier to hold an opinion about almost anything. Previously you had to at least partly subscribe to some sort of ideology that was somewhat reasoned. Which meant that you were prepared when you met someone who didn't agree with because most ideologies reason around the same things.

Today there are so many source of information that you are never really forced to dive deeper into something. If you see something repeated enough you get a very strong sense of it being true. Many fringe opinions spread without people realizing that they are just that. They aren't used to people disagreeing with them so when people do so strongly they feel alienated.

In regards to Thiel moving, and other VCs praising China, I think that has more to do with people in general becoming more skeptical about SV. Which is a bad thing if you are a VC and are selling "disruption", but probably a good thing for engineers.
I don't know what any of that means, but that is quite the impressive title. It really sticks to the back of your throat.
Good question! She stopped eating gluten a couple years before learning investigating a Celiac test. The problem is Celiac tests only work if you are currently eating gluten.

Since even a tiny speck of gluten gives her insane pain, she'll probably never be able to get properly tested.

That said, several doctors think she does have Celiac.
The goal isn't to defeat every possible form of tracking, it's to make it more difficult than it's worth to track you. Do you think this system even bothers to take into account the tiny number of people who turn MAC randomization on?

I don't think my door lock is going to protect me against a professional locksmith, having one is nonetheless still useful.
I'm sorry! I totally didn't see that and wouldn't have scolded you if I had.

This is a peril of how we spot-check the site. It's impossible to read through all the threads in order.
Oh, I thought this was going to be about floating point comparisons.

The IEEE floating point people thought this through, and a NaN is generated when there's no meaningful numeric value for a result. But they were just doing the floating point unit, which, at the time, wasn't even part of the main CPU. This led to a problem.

In IEEE floating point, the possible results of comparing two values are "greater", "less", "equal", and "none of the above". Any comparison involving a Not a Number is a "none of the above".

When "a > b" has no meaning, the hardware returns False. If a or b is a NaN, "a > b", "a < b", and "a == b" are all false. Most programmers don't expect that.

Booleans and branching don't handle this. There's no "not a boolean" value. A few languages throw an exception on if statements where the condition is undefined, but that's seldom hooked to floating point.

If you compute with non-signalling NaNs, don't compare the results until you've checked with "isnan()" that it's meaningful to do so.
I had a look (at the original 2001 article) - seems you have to know Haskell to understand anything.
I don't think it should add a lot of overhead. Performance wise it shouldn't be any worse than regular X.
Thank you! :)

Purchase links are added a few different ways. We're an affiliate for Nuts.com, so we have access to their entire product list. It takes a bit of manual work to match up the data, but I'll be able to automate it as soon as it makes sense to do so.