skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have the correlation backwards, believe it or not.

Great writing, lots of sources, in http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...

> Do we find that “countries that lack gender equity in school enrollment” and “stereotypes associating science with males” have fewer women in tech?

> No. Galpin investigated the percent of women in computer classes all around the world. Her number of 26% for the US is slightly higher than I usually hear, probably because it’s older (the percent women in computing has actually gone down over time!). The least sexist countries I can think of – Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, etc – all have somewhere around the same number (30%, 20%, and 24%, respectively). The most sexist countries do extremely well on this metric! The highest numbers on the chart are all from non-Western, non-First-World countries that do middling-to-poor on the Gender Development Index: Thailand with 55%, Guyana with 54%, Malaysia with 51%, Iran with 41%, Zimbabwe with 41%, and Mexico with 39%. Needless to say, Zimbabwe is not exactly famous for its deep commitment to gender equality.

> Why is this? It’s a very common and well-replicated finding that the more progressive and gender-equal a country, the larger gender differences in personality of the sort Hyde found become. I agree this is a very strange finding, but it’s definitely true. See eg Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Sex Differences In Big Five Personality Traits Across 55 Cultures:

>> Previous research suggested that sex differences in personality traits are larger in prosperous, healthy, and egalitarian cultures in which women have more opportunities equal with those of men. In this article, the authors report cross-cultural findings in which this unintuitive result was replicated across samples from 55 nations (n = 17,637).

> In case you’re wondering, the countries with the highest gender differences in personality are France, Netherlands, and the Czech Republic. The countries with the lowest sex differences are Indonesia, Fiji, and the Congo.
RSS is one of my favorite formats. An RSS reader is always the focus of my pet projects when I need to learn a new language.
Unstoppable exploit in Nintendo Switch opens door to homebrew and piracy
why is this comment down voted by people? When I was born doctors were forbidden for reveal the gender of the baby. If anything I actually think one child policy helped the gender imbalance, before then, people could have how many ever children they want and abort how many ever baby girls they desired.
What a NIMBY :-(
> Generally I don't like to compare the struggles amongst minorities in America. There is a multitude of factors that come into play when analyzing these types of things..

You may not like to compare, but you really should. Because when you compare you get to ask the critical question, "What things did this group do right to overcome their challenges, and can we draw lessons that help replicate that success in another group?"

When you compare blacks and whites, the differences in privilege are so obvious that you really can't see anything else that might matter. But when you compare blacks and Cambodians, privilege goes the other way - blacks have more. For all that went wrong for blacks, they generally didn't flee on boats with only the shirts on their backs after witnessing a quarter of the people that they grew up with being killed. Only to land in a country where they didn't speak the language, or understand the culture, and were generally disliked.

So what did Cambodians have in their favor?

I'm drawing from my thoughts and other comments here. The determination that it takes to be a refugee. True hope that they can create a better life. A culture of helping fellow minority members. A certainty that no matter what the frustration, it really could be worse.

Now can we encourage those attitudes in blacks? I believe so. However you don't do it by focusing on a narrative of, "Your life is hopeless because of things that happened before you were born. Things that are entirely out of your control."
It looks weird when they only do one, but when they do both it becomes symmetrical again and looks less weird.
I vaguely recall Apple getting the patent for pinch to zoom for a while, and not getting native support on Android after Apple lost it, and having to reimplement it for the longest time when doing things on Android.
This is also causing the average age when girls are getting married to go down and it is increasing the age difference between the bride and groom.
...yes, as I said, as long as you aren't fucking shit up for others. I thought I was very clear about that.
This divide extends into politics too.

The North is dominated by a centre-right democratic party and a far-right nationalist party, whereas the South is a cacophony of center-right to far-left parties
Webassembly isn't designed or intended to run exclusively in the browser, though. A lot of people seem to assume that native webassembly apps would be packaged with Electron but I think that when the language matures a bit, it should be possible to get thinner native VMs without the unnecessary bulk of a browser.
The article is incredibly pandering to Khosla. Does he own the publishers parent company or something?
I didn't say I would reject their resume, I said it would be a slightly negative signal.

That being said, I just got my AWS Architect Associate certification this past weekend. The entire journey of me getting it, wasn't about the certification. I already had a job and probably by the time I am looking for a new one, I will have to renew it.

It forced me to learn about platform that I was just starting to build on and I was able to talk the talk - that's very important when you are an "architect" by name and/or responsibility.

In 2009, I did the same thing with respect to the MS architect cert - I took 6 tests got the certifications but by the time I was looking for a job, I had let them expire. I was transitioning from being a C/C++ bit twiddler to being an "enterprise developer". It forced me to learn about the technology.

In both cases, the certifications were about learning, not the certifications and in both cases, I was able to apply what I learned on the job. I put the projects on my resume - not the certs.

I would say the same thing about the Coursera certs. If they force you to learn and allow you to apply that knowledge to a real world project, preferable on the job but at least with a side project, it doesn't hurt.

It's a lot like when I was training to run a half marathon. It wasn't about the race, it was about the training. After I did them two weeks apart, I was never motivated to do that distance again.
Yes. More generally, good programmers aren't crucial because they know how to code, they're crucial because they know how to construct good programs.
Prager's lawsuit claims that YouTube's censorship is violating their first amendment rights. This is simply bullshit, since first amendment rights don't apply to a private company like YouTube. YouTube has the right to remove / restrict whatever it likes on it's own site.
Migrating to React’s New Context API
Those 2 charts the author cites describe different things: the Ethereum chart shows _cumulative_ amount of BTC raised over time, while the Swarm chart shows BTC raised per block.

Furthermore, the author's argument that observing a power law distribution is an argument in favor of the Ethereum pre-sale being participated in by "one or very few hands" shows that his understanding of basic statistical concepts is lacking.

Observing a power law distribution is an argument in favor of many, many participants. This is what we see in nature when looking normally distributed variables among large populations.

Stick to law, Preston.
Link is to a trailer, not the actual film. The actual film is at https://shop.linotypefilm.com/ and is $20 for blu-ray or $8 on itunes or $8 on amazon video.

I loved the movie Helvetica, I'm sure I'll love Linotype!
I wonder how long until a critical mass of people get fed up with the resource hogging of the ultra rich. Seems likely to happen at some point if current trends in wealth inequality continue.
Would you care to share the server auction site? I've thought about doing something like that.
What happens if you cross the no trespassing sign?
Right, the problem with developing a completely new programming language is that you need to also create new support tooling for all the ways in which it is different. That's one of the reasons most programming languages are so similar: it's just less work that way.

If you use text as a storage medium, you can reuse diff, grep, sed and other text-based tools. They won't be perfectly adapted to the language semantics, but good enough. Debugging with gdb is a similar situation: if you include DWARF in compiled binaries it works, otherwise your language needs its own debugger.

I think the best thing you could do is to convert your graph into some common format like dot and create a generic diff tool for that format to make it easier for the next person with similar needs.
Great news! It's absurd that this is called an exploit or a hack. It's apparently wrong for people to use their own computer.
I’m very confused. What’s hard about nesting XML documents? That’s one of XML’s strengths, and JSON’s weaknesses, because JSON doesn’t have namespaces.
"tends to work best with Chrome" - back to 2000s with new tech.
Why are they lying?
If F# is a domain specific language, which domain is it specific to?

Hint: Functional programming isn't a domain.
Why you’ve never heard of the six Chinese men who survived the Titanic
Cool, an Indian billionaire is using to his wealth to privatize public lands. How they assimilate so quick!
I use matr[1], which is lets you define your build functions/tasks as ordinary go functions. There's a complementary library for issuing shell commands.

I like keeping just one language and tooling, but the biggest benefit to me is I'm always forgetting the arcane bits of shell syntax, and using Go saves me from having to search it all the time. Despite being more verbose than bash, I find it saves me time overall.

[1] https://github.com/matr-builder/matr
If the easement predates his ownership of the property, hasn’t he already been “compensated” in the form of a lower price for the property?
Please. :)
There are at least two variables he's missing that matter a lot:

(1) Selection bias. The pool of immigrants who make it to America in the first place likely skews well above average.

(2) Culture/ecosystem problems in black communities, even if it's politically incorrect to argue it. Black neighborhoods are plagued by gang culture/violence, drugs, patriarchal absenteeism (estimates vary, but roughly 50% seems likely), intergenerational educational deficit (if parents are illiterate/undereducated, their children are likely to be so as well), and various other more generic issues that stem from chronic poverty.
Yeah, I know the syntax is different, and I think you're right across the board. But I guess I kind of see it as just the next iteration of the old Web Pages w/ Razor functionality, just with better support for external models/code-behind, but also more package dependencies.

.NET Core definitely seems to be off to a great start, and once the tooling gets better I think I'll use it much more (EF support via VS is lacking, especially if you're trying to update a model going db-first).

So if the future of .NET is .NET Core first, I look forward to continuing to be a .NET developer.
In some aspects China is more sexist towards women:
- girls are still less desirable simply because their children do not carry the last name
- people still believe older women = less value whereas older men = more value
- women who aren't married by 30 are considered "leftovers"

But in some areas less sexist than western society
- you don't take your husband's last name when you marry
- you're not expected to quit your job and become a housewife when you have children
- girls are expected to be good at math, science and engineering just as much as boys
I haven't heard that he's tried to limit beach access from the water's side (as certain Malibu types have tried); the legal battle is over access to the road.
Very well explained! Difficult for many in India to grasp this. Extremely easy for those not from India, to fall for the usual explanations of 'Hinduism'
8 Maddening Things That Developers do – And you wish, you could too
> killing baby girls

Sorry to nitpick, but female foeticide (sex-selective abortion) would be better described as “aborting female fetuses.”
You must not remember how small the Ethereum universe was in 2014. If you think that curve is the outcome of an organic market process, there's a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
Yep, capital has viewed the interwebs main purpose as a massive direct marketing platform.
In the first place, your repeated assertion that you are anonymous in the data is wrong. A combination of zip code, date of birth, and gender will uniquely identify 87% of the people in the country [1], and I assure you advertisers have far more detailed information than that. In some cases, they have your DNA. [2]

Secondly, that information is used to influence you. Cambridge Analytica still proudly proclaims, on their home page, that they "[use] data to change audience behavior." Ads on Facebook are being used by different groups to inflame political tensions [3]. The tracking widgets used on nearly every site you visit now means that some company, somewhere, knows everything you're interested in. They are in the business of using that information against you, to their benefit, whether it's in crafting sensational stories with clickbait headlines to get more of your attention, or selling you products you don't need by preying on your insecurities, or just trading it for money to other companies who will use it in new and creative ways -- like CA, who specialize in tilting voting behavior. [4]

Thirdly, you're counting on advertising firms having perfect security and never accidentally giving your information away to people who shouldn't have it. Advertising companies just don't have good history when it comes to data security [5] [6] [7].

People seem happy to ignore the ramifications of all of this, because it's not like they're feeling physical pain or discomfort or noticing any other immediate negative effect when more tracking data is collected or they see another ad. But this is a form of psychological warfare, and at least some of this stuff is designed to corrupt your thinking, to get more of your attention and change your opinions about things and convince you that it's all very harmless.

We've strayed away from tracking data and into advertising, but they are two sides of the same coin.

[1]: http://latanyasweeney.org/work/identifiability.html

[2]: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/09/07/ancestry-com-can-us...

[3]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-ads/majority-of-...

[4]: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/20/technology/what-is-cambridge...

[5]: https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-sa...

[6]: https://pagefair.com/blog/2015/halloween-security-breach/

[7]: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/16/10/09/208249/a-s...
Meet the team that builds 1Password.com
It wipes out reloading channels which is shame though.
Actual title: "A paranoid's guide to the internet"
Do you have a source for this? I hadn't seen the claim that there was any previous easement.
> I use my 10k gallon pool to dump heat from the house into until its thermal capacity has been reached

That sounds amazing. I can't seem to find any commercial solutions for that, only a DIY-ish toggle between a heat exchanger cooled by the pool pump and the usual condensor. Is that what you've done? Guessing this would also work for heating during winter; use the pool water when it's above ambient?

While looking, I did come across a tangentially related problem I thought was interesting too: cooling your pool in summer. [1]

[0]: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/how-to/how-to-heat-swimming-poo...
[1]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-28/cold-pool-in-hot-heat-...
Defining terms is important, but defining sets much less so. Arguments about "is X a Y?" often have little to no value in the abstract. There are exceptions, but these are when the definitions are the most precise and can be evaluated objectively. E.g., a square is a (type of) rectangle and therefore its area is length * width. As the article shows, "is a whale a fish" has no value in the abstract. It depends on if you want to hunt it or know about its evolutionary path.

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? It depends on if you are a chef or a botanist. The botanists have the more rigorous definition, but I wouldn't call the chefs wrong. What about a pumpkin? Is a strawberry a berry? (https://imgur.com/gallery/pfEnXNT)

You probably saw the memes go around a while back about what is a sandwich, according to D&D alignments. Good for a laugh and a debate. But let's say you settle the question "is a hotdog a sandwich?" Now what? What did you get from that effort? It doesn't tell you anything about a hotdog that you didn't already know.
You've asserted that there are "compelling 'overstep of regulatory authority' [considerations] to the case" but failed to make any points to persuade a reader to that conclusion.

There was an existing regulation upon the property, Khosla purchased it and now is subject to the regulation. Ignorance of the law is no defense, especially when one is as fortunate and well-equipped as Khosla is.
If I could edit still, I'd cut out the bulk about cellular carrier substitution etc, because it's silly long,

But I sure do wish moderation would take place concomitantly with the briefest reason why.

I think I'm shadow banned because of moderation I still can't figure out any reassuringly likely problems with. I accept,"too many problems", even, the effect would be a complete rewriting or withdrawal.
But I was recently nodded Dow after I was missed Dow after a reply stated I was wrong, and I was moderated down again when I supplied a linked source proof I had been correct, all along. That one, about law enforcement and entrapment, my comment exchange concerning England, if my reply is not seen could gravely mislead someone. It's also poor to worsen the general public mythology about criminal law in any event. I know I should write the mods not here, but I feel actually so disenfranchised by this situation that I feel, wrongly I admit, I act in a better way by attracting the attention here, which, again I would put this over the borderline if I was moderating, I feel like I'm entitled to use for comments while apparently invisible. I am not wanting to begin a new handle because I made a couple of personally very difficult comments, early on, that I feel shouldn't be abandoned. I don't want to be thinking about my self regard, when I know I wrote a unbiased and factually accurate comment of potential real value. But because I want to be of value to the community, and because historically I discarded a privileged education to painstakingly reconstitute a maturing passion for intellectual rigor despite a almost comically disadvantaged progress through later life, I find it hard to swallow what I can explain no other way than are gratuitous dismissals of knowledge and in the past case the sanctity of law, without explanation. Ironically I the sort of person who grew up defending a frequent attack that claims that because I was presumably better educated therefore I think myself socially superior. And here I am actuallyfeeling I think how such people may have felt i fever I was too brusque, or felt to be dismissive. My funny fate took me from being almost the biggest dreamer of a ... Friends didn't know how to answer where they're from, because growing up with a globetrotting household and six homes is confusing. I know that now I merge with a "down to earth" stratum so alien to my past, that friends have disbelieved my early life, and said that they were just teasing me about being a snob. If you told me in my teens, copy of UNIX Review in my hand, and told me that I'd be distinguishing social class concerns, in a computing engineering forum, I'd have given you the address for a rehab clinic. I underwent such a upheaval in life as I've blamed for disconnecting me to my cost, for a very long time, but I think I missed something else, and I'll accept the suggestion I am lacking in insight by nature of my nature, if you can attempt to illuminate how. But honestly, I actually feel hurt, the fact of which I am incredibly surprised by suddenly.
Nothing. It has no legal basis.
> For all that went wrong for blacks, they generally didn't flee on boats with only the shirts on their backs after witnessing a quarter of the people that they grew up with being killed. Only to land in a country where they didn't speak the language, or understand the culture, and were generally disliked.

This is literally what happened through the Atlantic slave trade.. just replace "flee" w/ "were sold".

> I'm drawing from my thoughts and other comments here. The determination that it takes to be a refugee. True hope that they can create a better life. A culture of helping fellow minority members. A certainty that no matter what the frustration, it really could be worse.

> Now can we encourage those attitudes in blacks? I believe so.

I know that these characteristics have been shown time and time again within the black community. If you want to see a culture of helping fellow minority members look to the NAACP, if you want to see an example of determination please read "Up From Slavery", if you want to understand the hope to create a better life read "The Warmth of Other Suns".

My argument is not "things are out of your control" nor is it that there is something lacking in the black community that other successful minorities have demonstrated.. my argument is "here are the institutional and systemic barriers that are present -- if you want to understand the present situation and how to move forward you must understand them".
The story from the other side:

https://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/martins-beach-t...
Laziness and complacency is the main hurdle you need to overcome. It needs to be automated.

Hey, this AC will cool your house and save you $$$.
Hey, turn on this automatic switch and your car will save you $$$.
Here are two quotes from Khosla on the notion of "fairness":

> “This is about unfairness, and I don't tolerate unfairness.”

> “I decide what's fair,” he says. “They can do it or not. I don't go back and forth six times.”
I bought the below heat exchanger system, which dropped right in to my pool equipment and condenser redridgeant lines. It would work in the winter if the pool was above ambient temp, but that rarely happens so I primarily use the condenser unit in heat pump mode to heat the house on cold days.

There is a controller that takes the pool temp as input, and switches the valves between the heat exchanger or the air condenser, while ensuring the pool pump is running.

http://www.hotspotenergy.com/pool-heater/
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