skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does investment really grind to a halt though?

Well, it's discouraged, but yes, basically. Under inflation, you need to invest money just to stay even. The lower inflation is, the less urgent the need to invest. With deflation, you're somewhat incentivized not to lend. A fixed money supply guarantees deflation, so yes, this would significantly reduce lending and the economic growth that lending stimulates.

> Also, inflation means everyone needs to be investors or the money they worked hard for evaporates. Why should we force Joe Sixpack into being an investor for the good of the economy?

If Joe Sixpack lives paycheck-to-paycheck he can ignore inflation entirely, it doesn't affect him a whit. Once he gets some savings, if he doesn't like risk he can buy bonds or something and continue ignoring inflation. But since you brought it up and since this seems to be a point of confusion for a lot of people, yes, let's see how a fixed money supply would affect Joe Sixpack.

If the government stops printing money, we are guaranteed to get deflation any time the GDP grows, right? With money supply held constant, "The US currency deflated by 2% last year" is equivalent to saying "The US GDP grew by 2% last year." And what makes the GDP grow? Joe Sixpack and his friends, out there mining ore or building furniture or otherwise increasing the amount of value in the world.

2% deflation also means that anyone with savings sees the buying power of their savings increase by 2%. If Scrooge McDuck has $5M in his mattress, his inflation-adjusted net worth increased by $100,000. He can retire and spend the rest of his life living very comfortably on the equivalent of $90k/year, and despite him doing no work, despite him incurring no financial risk, somehow every year he'll get a little wealthier.

How is that possible? Who's paying for his life of luxury? Joe Sixpack. Deflation is quite literally a tax by capital on labor. As long as the GDP is increasing, arguing for deflation is tantamount to saying, "I think some of that GDP growth created by workers should go to anyone with money." AFAIK this is universally understood to be a Bad Thing (tm) by virtually everyone.
Montreal is on tires which gives a predictable stop, it’s not metal on metal which varies based on atmospherics
> men don't listen to or empathize with them when they speak about their opinions or perspectives.

The comments I've seen are on par with comments on other posts where the author was male. The fact that someone disagrees with the cause of some statistical result is not the same as not listening.
Big difference to me is how does the core work get done. If it’s like coding where you need zero distraction time and actively have to turn off socially, it becomes less appealing. As a former PM turned dev, the difference is striking in how isolated the work can require you do be.
I don't know that non-programmers should or need to learn react.

I understand that for employment - front-end devs need to learn react. I just question if websites have finally become more app-like, and hence require app-developers, not front-end developers.

They're two separate skills, and one cannot easily go from one to the other, nor should one expect it to be a smooth transition.
JFC. If you're afraid of accidentally harassing or molesting someone I think you have the wrong idea of how to interact with people.
Org-mode is really fantastic when I work on a project alone, but I always failed to use it when collaborating with others without finding myself with a huge amount of duplication with JIRA, Trello, or whatever collaborating tool is being used.

Not sure how that could be improved without adding a lot of complexity :(
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You don't get to check out because you are a jerk and are afraid you won't be able to stop being a jerk.

You have to try HARDER because you are PRIVILEGED to be part of the majority.

This applies to race, culture, whatever. Just because you suck at social skills (hello HN!) doesn't mean you get to check out and not try.

In fact if you are reading this and making excuses on why you don't have to make an effort, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO NEEDS TO MAKE THE MOST EFFORT.

The fact that men can't interact with women without making them feel excluded is the whole point of this whole thing.

You have to include women, POC, trans people, regardless of if you are capable of it. You. Have. To. Do. This.

Or you are a fascist. Full stop.

Frankly this whole male ego "I can't stop myself" excuse is bull hockey. Get with it nerds.
I have no idea if they have a bias on what they send to Firefox, but their approach (send stories with a list of other sites that signal you might be interested) is obviously going to facilitate a filter bubble. Is your usual filter bubble right wing? If it is that suggests a bias on their part, otherwise maybe they're just amplifying your left wing browser history?
In some sense yes. I don't have the stats at hand, but women who study math are very n likely doing so because they want to become math teachers which I would say leans social.
> Requiring specific technical solutions is rarely a good idea. ... The requirement should be formulated as a goal/limit, not a solution.

While I instinctively agree, does anyone know of any research in this area?

I can speculate about possible downsides to legislating a performance specification rather than a solution: Giving people every possible option could result in people gaming the system, it could hamper investment because it creates uncertainty about what the future solution will be, or it could simply reduce transparency because the specification may be written to favor one solution anyway. That's just speculation, however; we need data and expertise.
Your septic systems needs to be professionally designed, but you can hire that separate from the install.

In fact I would advise you to hire the design first separately and only after you have a design get bids on the install. My grandpa got bids from several design/installers, and only after the contract was signed did he discover that all the design/install bids in the county were for a more expensive mound system. My uncle next door learned and hired the design first and then tracked down the one installed in the county that would do the cheaper system that was designed.
My thoughts also turned to toolz.

Here's a example comparison:

glom

glom(target, ('system.planets', ['name']))
# ['earth', 'jupiter']

toolz

list(pluck('name', get_in(('system', 'planets'), target)))
# ['earth', 'jupiter']
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Trust me, if ranking had no value...no product team would bother implementing it.

The reason ranking is used left and right these days is because it makes products dramatically better.
Seems to me like a lot of people in this comment section read the article before responding? One of the things I like about HN is that the commenters more respond to the content of the article rather than the headline.
I personally love me some alone time, but yeah, as a lady, tech is a little too lonely even for me. Something that I think would help is if the social types in the engineering department (often men!) would post interesting tech events in Slack.

Maybe I don't enjoy sports or poker; maybe you don't enjoy sci-fi book readings or craft nights, but chances are we both want learn some new tricks (with free beer and snacks). I suppose the risk there is that it can feel like an obligation -- and I actually had a boss accuse me of networking for my next job by going to tech events.
> In all corporate ethics training courses, you're always hammered with the message of avoiding even the perception of a conflict of interests and such.

Some years ago I participated in a first aid course (these are required around here for many things). One of the others did it as part of retraining after leaving the navy. Problem for him was: He couldn't do any of the practical exercises in a group with women, because it seems the Navy had a sexual harassment problem some time ago and kinda overshot in the "teaching men not to touch women" department. It's of course entirely possible (plausible, even), that this guy had some issues before that, though.
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FiveStars was founded six years ago as a loyalty program. We replaced the punch card. That product has done well for us - today over 30 million consumers check in 1.2 million times every week. Our mission, however, transcends loyalty. Our mission is to turn transactions into relationships.

In a world ten years from now, when we can get anything we want delivered to our bedsides, I believe we’ll get out of bed in the morning to experience human relationships. It is this desire to connect that will drive us into restaurants, coffee shops, or our local bar.

I recently joined FiveStars over other great options because of our opportunity to serve this desire - to make commerce human. That opportunity is exciting; and ultimately I chose it instead of joining one of the familiar tech giants where I’d be scaling someone else’s product.

To seize this opportunity we must build a product that helps consumers understand we’re more than a punch card replacement. Consumers must seek out FiveStars as a way to connect with and advocate for the small businesses storefronts they love.

If our mission excites you, and you’re up for the challenge of helping us move past loyalty, then we want to get to know you.

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Pro: Java 9 compatible build tool
Btw. if you have other bugs than just those from left-over state from crashed processes, try xterm. There are too many other terminals that probably try to do too much that cannot work in all cases.
I’m halfway through the 5 and its an amazing resource.
If someone could please explain to me how this is an issue entirely completely uncoupled with the rise of "Tech" to be trendy (read lucrative) and the insistence for some people's assertions that THEY deserve this as much as others, it would be much appreciated. It feels like everyone is just turning a blind eye to the obvious parallels in deep sea welding or some other gender dominated profession because they don't want anyone to get hurt feelings and start a witch hunt.
Because social skills can be practiced and learned. #MeToo is about physical abuse and abuse of power, not some peer who has a hard time making eye contact.
So, summarizing the comments here:

A: Dudes, go befriend a girl, include her! It's not creepy!

B: My anecdata experience suggests girls in my lab, where they were in minority, had no problem being included if they wished to, dudes were very eager to do it.

C: Motivations of those dudes sound very dubious and creepy!

Yup, yup.
The only thing that holds back my personal slack groups from moving to Riot is Slacks under message reactions (especially the custom ones).

I did see there was an issue opened for it on github, but can't seem to find it now.
It's funny that the author disparages this Quillette article as, "discouraging theories of biological superiority," when a fair reading of it actually includes the author's point. Much of it addresses skews in preferences. Even James Damore's memo devoted a portion to consideration of preferences, and suggested changing the field to better fit preferences.

http://quillette.com/2018/02/15/sex-stem-stubborn-facts-stub...

Many fields have demographic skews, and many of these are a result of preferences, some in favor of women, even in highly technical areas. (And these can change over time for non-nefarious reasons.) No-one you should take seriously thinks men are somehow biologically anointed to be "superior." However, no one you should take seriously thinks men and women are biologically identical blank slates, particularly if that is really motivated by an ideological feel-good story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmyO3hbOz8

Part 2: As a profession, computer engineering is perceived to be [X]

There is some important kernel of truth to this. I've known women who can code, but who definitely don't want to, including my wife who actually feels sorry for me whenever she tries to imagine what my day is like. Furthermore, I would say that there aspects of the culture of programming which act to degrade its meritocracy, and some of those are culturally skewed against women. I don't think that an attitude of witch-hunt and inquisition is the way to do that, however. Rather, I think the kind of discussion which James Damore thought he was going to have when he penned his memo is the solution. Note that this is entirely independent of what he said in his memo -- the kind of discussion he reportedly imagined would happen.

As jdavis notes below, accounting and book keeping employ more women than men. Computer programming was once seen as a preferred career for women in the very early days. I suspect that there's a common thread here, which is mediated by culture and social factors. One which is not nefarious, and one which would be useful to figure out.
> Increases the cost of homes

In a narrow sense; TCO, however, may be lower. (EDIT: TFA itself indicates +$9500 new home cost, -$19,000 30-year electricity cost as the average impact.)

> Gives solar power industry a boost in a way that's hard to get rid of--they will lobby to keep this even if other industries are around and it'll probably never change

Sure, the solar lobby will seek to preserve this as is as the landscape changes. Competing industries will seek either to remove or broaden it to accommodate other approaches to the same policy objective. The homebuilding industry lobbied against it, and it still was passed. “One industry will lobby to keep it” does not imply “it will never change”, or the past absence of the rule would never have changed.

> No incentive to research new energy technology in the meantime

Even with 100% residential solar deployment—not just on new construction—there’s a lot of energy demand that doesn't cover and plenty of incentive to find an efficient way of meeting that demand.
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Reverse tunnel to your SSH server over SSH
Have you used any of the Qt based client? I'm asking because I'm interested in Matrix, the idea and the protocol look great but there is no way I'm using an electron app...
I think far more people get lost trying to learn the libraries than grow an app to a size where pure react too painful.

First time I used react I hated it, because everything was done through flux, want to add a field to a form. Now you need to update 4 different files and create 8 methods. Not to mention interacting with non-react components in a react way can be super painful.

It was insane. Second time I dropped all of the libraries. Only used react, and any time I needed to use a non-react component I wrapped it myself, and many times did very unreacty things like use methods to do a lot of interaction.

And I loved it. Everything is so much easier. I can focus on solving the user's problems, and not my react problem.

The apps weren't huge, but they weren't small either. 3 months of work for 3 devs full time.
The content of the article presents no evidence, proof or confirmation from FB that such profiles exist
Good point. If we feel we need to "fix" the number of women in CS, we also need to "fix" the number of women in nursing, accounting, education, etc.
> "Well, I might be socially awkward talking to this girl anyway, so I'll just avoid the complication."

This is exactly how I am, but it has nothing to do with the #metoo movement. The reason is because I discovered at a young age that girls didn't want a ugly boy talking to them. It makes them uncomfortable, and as a result, it makes me uncomfortable.

So in my mind, avoiding attractive women is being polite.

Something nobody will admit is that "creepy" is really 90% based on the looks of a person, and 10% what they are doing. People aren't comfortable with the idea of an unattractive person potentially having a romantic interest in them (regardless of whether they do or not).

edit: My horrible solution to the issue of a lack of women in tech is to get more conventionally attractive men in tech. More guys like in that Napa photo and less ones like that chubby, 1980s stereotype one.
If the cost of the PV is now baked into the mortgage, then depending on payback periods, interest rates, etc., the reductions in utility costs may meet or exceed the increase in your typical monthly home payment. This could effectively make housing more affordable via lower electrical bills.

Without knowing the numbers, I'm really just speculating, though; my point is just that it's not a given that this will increase everyone's cost of living.
No, that's an uncharitable simplification. I'm talking about statistical trends, and specifically about games- and nerdery- _in lieu of all socialization_.
The captain and the philosopher
Right, given the option for a man to try to befriend two people: a man and a woman, it's far lower risk to try and befriend the man, assuming both friendships have an equal probability of being fulfilling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfWYm0MYj_8 Pattern Matching en Java 10 (Remi Forax)

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1960

http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/docs/95style/html...

https://www.javaworld.com/article/2860079/learn-java/invoked...
You're presuming a whole lot about my political views. We've seen for a long time that the size of a political campaign in dollar amounts doesn't really correlate with who wins. We're not talking about official campaigns here. We're not talking about Hillary vs. Trump, although I see that you're getting all offended because you mistakenly thought I was slighting your boy. Calm down, this has nothing to do with him.

This is about the future. Social media moguls will arguably have immense power to choose which candidates can win or even compete in elections by selectively limiting or pushing coverage and managing incredibly insular social circles of people online. Forget superPACs or whatever. People who control a system this powerful don't need to campaign through the old-timey official political advertising system, they just push their agenda on their own network with no rules whatsoever.

And it's not national. It's global. Tons of actors are seeing just how effective it can be, and you better believe that people will be grinding that axe like mad in elections from here on. It's going to be very difficult to even quantify how broad an effect it has. As these algorithms get even more effective than they already are, we're going to essentially see the end of legitimate elections. PAC advertising has absolutely nothing on this new tactic.
You continue to incentivize the generation and consumption of renewables until you’ve put fossil generation in a position where it’s no longer profitable to operate, thereby accelerating the transition to renewables and storage?

It’s pretty straightforward. A single actor acting alone doesn’t solve the problem, everyone taking small actions does.
Are you a troll account? Because you speak like a troll account.
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And I'm rejecting it as unfounded. What specific statistical trend are you talking about?
Post a productive comment.
I had a quick look, but I didn't see filtering expressions, only shaping expressions. It seems like glom is more of a result shaper/mapper. Can you filter with glom (maybe with lambdas or something)? I could see the two going together quite well if you were "glomming" a big Python object.
The same way California apparently solved the cancer-causing components issue: by feel-good edict.
On the other hand, I care about communicating so much that I want to focus solely on the thoughts, not the form. So I defer the form (such as spelling and completing phrases) to a tool, so that I can focus on the content. This is essentially the same thing that writing tools like Hemingway do. They force you to focus on content, whereas autocomplete lets you focus on content.

Saying you don't want to be subjected to machine generated communication to me says that you don't want to read anything written in the past 10 or so years. Practically everything written in that time frame is in some way machine generated or edited.

Like I said, just because something is in part machine generated doesn't make it not thoughtful.
You and my apartment have some things in common.
I'd also add partners and gossip into the mix.

It's very easy for a third party to see a man and a woman having regular workplace relationship and associate that with flirtation and even cheating.

Of course this varies wildly in intensity depending on companies/partners, but it almost inevitably generates gossip. It's even worse if you're above her in the company hierarchy.

I know I would probably stray away from attempting this sort of work relationship with a woman for both my job and my partner's sake. It's a really thin line to navigate on both cases.

I've seen people get fired because a woman hinted that a man harassed her when I knew it was not the case.

But as said on another comment, this was true way before #metoo, that just brought even more visibility to this.
There is more than straight out energy efficiency. Nuclear power plants are very energy efficient, but because of their needed financial structure, end up not being very cost effective. Decentralized financing for energy is nice, it improves individual independence and freedom.
I think it is worth learning Elm first because it many ways it is much simpler. No JS "this" issues to worry about. No props vs. state. It is very opinionated. But it is also virtual dom and "component based" so the paradigm is instilled in the brain to go across and learn React.

Disclosure: I learned some Haskell before Elm so I may be "immunized" against some of the struggle!
Did you miss the "essentially in name only" part? It was fixed to gold, but they also fixed the price of gold by outlawing [1] people from owning it! When they wanted to deflate the USD they just raised the price of gold [2]. It was a crude fiat system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act
I agree with you. I just finished installing a solar system that covers 1.5x my needs in my Southen California house. 5.4kw. My system cost installed was $2.61/watt - with $7000 being labor from a contractor and $6300 the hardware and panels. And my payback will be 4.2 years based on the past 29 months of usage.

Let us assume that there is simply a hardware expense because the builders already have roofers and electricians. It’s such a fraction of a mouse fart (as mentioned) that going solar will essentially pay for itself after 2 years.

I can see builders charging a premium for the "electric car package" or the "double your consumption" service but something like 3W of production for each square foot per month would be amazing.