skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I guess I'm not giving the documentation enough credit here. The main issue I see is all the companies rewriting their applications in React. Because I don't think they see it as a complicated engineering decision with tradeoffs and potential issues. They see it as "we need x buzzword and y buzzword". I'd prefer that the documentation outright say "This is a BAD idea if you're just doing xyz" instead of "if you need, you can check out this". Because it's very easy for developers, especially magpie developers or younger developers to think "oh yeah, of course I need this. I need my app to be S C A L E Able". The idea behind the tutorial would be giving precise problems that are solved by the tools, while also demonstrating what can be accomplished without them.

Also, is it just me or is the tic tac toe tutorial really not useful? Sure, it's a good isolated example, but it's a really contrived one as well. Something like an address book or a blog would be a lot more fitting with people's usecases.
You're assuming CS class performance correlates with ability.

Most of the people on my CS course hadn't programmed before, and they mostly all passed. But many of them couldn't code at graduation and went into non-programming jobs.

They passed anyway because the university carefully rigged the course to ensure it was possible to get good grades despite being unable to write any sort of non-trivial program. After all what are they going to do, constantly fail 90% of their class and attract questions about their own competence as teachers?
Wasn't the group project at the end of the semester? It seems people would have had a good idea of their classmates' strengths by that point.
Land of the Free...
Anyone else getting an unsecured link warning from the freeze link on the NCTUE website?

https://www.exchangeservicecenter.com/Freeze/jsp/SFF_Persona...
I think this just falls under 'practical politics.' It's a revenue-neutral tax on a relatively wealthy demographic. Politicians get to be associated with something perceived as good by their voters.

I don't think a deeper analysis is required. Anything that meets those requirements will also be passed.
Agreed. Even trading fiat currency through Forex is a form of speculation. The Wikipedia page for Forex even describes it as such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market
I'm not fond of talking about how much "experience" I have so I've made this throwaway. I've been programming for most of my adult life. I've worked on every level of the tech stack from writing byte code for CPUs by hand to front end web development. In my college classes I helped many people survive by offering advice on tooling, implementation, and even sometimes direct one on one tutoring. I would never say I know everything about software development but I've had a lot of practice and I know how to find out how to do anything and I can teach and or exercise that same skill to anyone.

Unfortunately though I am what this author would call "a baggy-eyed programmer in a dark cave with Red Bull or a unintelligible savant who can’t get a date."

I'm extremely nervous in social situations to the point where I don't enjoy ordering something different from restaurants I've already been to for fear that the person behind the counter will ask me to clarify something and I won't know what to do. I've been getting much better at talking to people and I'm usually extroverted when I'm around people I've already met.

As for what the article asks as a solution, as many point out, this is very difficult.

> [If you’re a dude and you’re reading this article] Go befriend a girl in your class or company. It’s not creepy.

I'd consider the engineers I work with to all be my friends and that's only because I work with them on a day to day basis and I had time to acclimate to them.

The women who I've met university however did not pan out this way. I have many male friends. Many of whom have either noticed me, or who I have noticed, have terminals open and have been vigorously typing during a lecture. Whenever I see this I make a point to lean over and ask "what editor do you use?", "what class is this for?", "that's cool! Do you have any side project that you do outside of school".

I've made some very good friends by doing this but women for the most part are creeped out. It's understandable. I'm a weird looking dude with a 12 year old thinkpad that sports stickers from OSH Park and I'm likely going to be talking to people who I already know about anime or something else equally as strange.

One thing that has never happened to me, and that I've never seen happen anywhere, was see a women lean over and do what I have just described.

Unfortunately just due to the nature of the possible sample size (<20% of my degree track's population) this may just be a coincidence.

I love teaching and I want to get better at making friends. It's just very difficult for me, and the many others like me, to be the one to reach out. I think it would generally be positive if encouraged women to try and ask "what editor are you using?"

I'd definitely go to meetups, talk shop, work on projects, etc with someone else in the NYC area. I've got a lot I can teach and much more that we could learn together. I just don't know how to make that happen. Facilitating an environment where that could happen is probably the best bet if this author is correct imo.
Sorry, I don't really know, my knowledge of EU directives related to companies is sparse at best.
For todos, I love flightstrip racks. Yes, it’s ATC gear, but man it’s so satisfying to mark a task done by moving a series of plastic tokens. https://www.google.fr/search?tbm=isch&q=flightstrip+rack
>Between the ages of 16 and 24, girls have more sophisticated social lives than boys of the same age. Young women talk to their friends more often [1], care more about their reputation [2], spend more time talking about their friends [3], and assign more emotional value to close relationships [4]

I admire that she provided links for these, but I really don't believe any of those statements. That list of 4 things is difficult to measure because they probably occur in different forms for boys vs girls and the studies consequently "found" what they were looking for.

Sexism is dripping in irony. Damore can't say there are biological differences between males and females, but it's ok to say that as a male I care less about my friendships.

Try to be nice, try to be fair, try to be honest. Ignore everything and everyone else...
This seems like a pretty awful way of approaching it.

"Hey, how much can you squat?"
UPS' New Electic Delivery Truck Unvieled
Biggest concern I have about all these hosted Redis replacements is that of latency.

I use Redis on a highly controlled internal network and also local for its speed... This goes when moving to a hosted solution.
Why should homes generate power? California has vast desert areas to tile with solar panels at less expense.
"The greatest designer of our generation."

Pffft. Greatest stylist maybe.

Once again the distinction between design and styling is lost on journalists.
We all know about dev cultures that thrive on toxic behavior,

I think a part of the problem is that the programming field is immature and flubby with ideology masquerading as principles. I think the programming field inadvertently trains us to become ideologues and engage in behaviors reminiscent of sectarian religious conflicts of the past.

and a lot of us have seen firsthand how homogenized groups of developers have mistreated people from outside their narrow social experience...that can cause people to falsely attribute things to the outsiders.

Sure. I think one such event at Google recently was widely covered in news media, though it was ideological narrowness, not social narrowness. I saw a whole bunch of false attribution across social media.
There are parasites in this industry. One of the largest home builders in the United States, Lennar, owns a subsidiary, SunStreet Solar. When you buy a Lennar home, SunStreet then offers to sell you these panels at a very, very above market price. Or they offer to lease you the panels where you indefinitely pay for ALL of the energy the panels produce, even if you don't actually use it, at some "discounted" rate. Meanwhile, you are opted into the lease if you buy a Lennar home. Or you can always pay above market rate for panels that are often under or oversized due to lazy workmanship and practices by SunStreet.

Without even researching it, I feel pretty sure Lennar, very active in CA, lobbied for this. It is probably a net win for the environment, and our energy independence, but these guys have found a way to turn it into a recurring revenue stream that benefits them the most in the long run and not the consumer.

I have consulted a lawyer and they advised me it quite likely violates consumer protection laws in my state. Other states have had similar difficulties with shady solar providers cashing in on this wave of relatively inexpensive panels.
Eh, I don't know if the narrative around underfunding is collapsing. Most of the narrative around overpriced projects has been around the large flashy projects, but the mundane replacement and maintenance is still not fully funded.

The crux of the issue is that while operations are funded with a variety of dedicated resources, capital expenditures are not, and those include things like replacing tracks, signals, and trains. Most of the recent fare hikes, IIRC, would have been avoided if the State and City provided funding for these plans, but they don't, so the MTA issues debt, and these hikes are almost entirely just to keep up with debt interest.
Don't they pay about as much as the male dominated jobs?

brickmason, drywall installation, crane operator, roofer, etc

All of these jobs have 95%+ males. I can't imagine they pay very well.

That's genuinely a question, not trying to be smart. It seems to me like jobs on both ends of the spectrum might not pay the best.
> React is just mapping data to XML

Nit: It maps it to a virtual DOM, not XML.
It's a bit more complicated than that.

First: it's 'founded' in the sense that it's my opinion based on my experiences. Yes, it's subjective. I meant trends in my own anecdata / observations of the world. But I share them because I expect that many people have seen the same trends and might agree if they see them in words, which seems to be true.

Second, lumping all video games into one category and then talking about statistical trends among them is going to drastically misrepresent the actual picture of who's playing games and how much. But beyond that I'm not really talking about 'playing games at all' so much as playing in an obsessive, anti-social style -- like 12 hour sprints, all night, instead of playing outside, etc.

Third, I'm talking about ~10-15 years ago, not today. Not sure what things are like since then. I assume it has evened out somewhat as gaming became more normal.
I've held a few software jobs in Iowa, Kansas, and the valley. Between the three places I worked at in the midwest, I worked alongside a total of four women doing engineering work (the numbers get much, much larger if you include support and QA roles).

I've worked with many more women in engineering roles here in Silicon Valley, but the percentages are still low.
Natural language is not an API. But a business can assume (or weed out quickly) that caller is calling to hit a specific API endpoint. And as such their language will eventually lead to one of those endpoints.

And similarly, a caller can assume the business they are calling is trying to lead them to an endpoint.

In both cases, a set of assumptions lets natural language act as an API, even if neither end could pass a Turing test with someone who wasn't interested in any of the endpoints.

edit: I read your point about language changing, and that is true. But if we only have machines using the language with each other (no more training with humans), we can also assume the language won't change.
The way I see it:

1. Making friends isn't even remotely close to a line. The line is way out in workplace romance and sexual power politics land. The very basic mitigation strategy you have is simply not to go there. If you can't not go there, then you have other problems to deal with first, and the sooner you go about that the better!

2. If making friends isn't crossing a line, it's therefore not sticking your neck out at all.

3. There is no more liability than any other workplace friendship, and just as much potential for gain as any other workplace friendship. Plus, if you are socially awkward as you claim, you know darn well that the potential for gain is ginormous. If it's hard for you to make friends, you need all the good friends you can get!

4. I'm sorry you had a bad experience with nursing, but it's silly to hide behind that as an excuse. You need to get on with your life.

5. The less you put women on some weird fetishized platform of unobtanium, and the more you just treat them as fellow humans and geeks, the less likely you are to cross a line. At least, that's my conviction, and it seems to work pretty well.
In America that’s been a pretty safe assumption for some time. The problem is that when you take that gift and draw a hard vacuum on it, they tend to burst.
Yeah a tax on electricity would make the most sense.
There are also people w/o the anxieties, who live their lives as firefighters. Every day take on the emergencies!

That was me for a long time. When you have a job that is constantly filled with fires you can survive for a long time doing this. The problem is that sometimes a non-fire tasj can start out as low priority but eventually become the most important thing you have to do today all based on a due date. Unless you are good at managing your future tasks, you'll often miss them.

I never had anxieties about getting things out the door, mostly because my bosses were constantly chopping down one or two of the legs of my stool (money, time, resources). But it was easy for me to keep pushing a low priority task to the bottom of the list because its not due yet, totally forgetting about the fact that eventually it will be due.
You can directly expose the partitions using the tool `kpartx`, which will create a `loop` device for you:

> sudo kpartx -a test.raw
> lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 4G 0 loop
└─loop0p1 253:0 0 4G 0 part
> sudo kpartx -d test.raw
one could argue this is accepting that reality and taxing those wealthy enough to build homes.
The move to Fedora on its a huge negative from my perspective. If you're just dropping OpenShift and rebranding Tectonic as OpenShift, I guess that's ok, but I'm still stuck dealing with RedHat (the organization) which in my 20+ years of being a Linux user has largely been more negative than positive.
They didn't say rude, they mentioned empathy.

Julia Enthoven shared her experience as a Woman in tech, and this thread is filled with nitpicking, asking for sources, disagreement, alternate theories, debates, etc.

There is no empathy here. So I'll start:

Good for her for sharing her thoughts and experiences. It's a tough topic to talk about, and as we see here and elsewhere, people will immediately pick apart everything you say. Individual experiences like these are useful to read about for people like me who recognize that there is a problem but don't really know what to do about it. So thank you, Julia. I'm sorry it is such a difficult topic, but I hope you keep talking about this and that others are encouraged to do so as well.
I'm not talking about the comments that disagree with the hypothesis in the article. I disagree with it too. There's no statistical result being discussed in the article, but people are dismissing the author's opinion (saying things like she must be an outlier) and getting defensive about men's behavior (saying they have their reasons for how they act, like being unattractive).
Definitely. We live in very artificial environments.

When I spend a week camping, I don't need to be reminded, because it's really dark and there's been nothing exciting to do for a while. But at home, lights are bright and there are exciting things available at the push of a button. (Thanks to push notifications from things like the news and social media plus autoplay from video providers, they're often available without pushing a button at all.)

A few years back I build an automated lighting system that is sort of like Night Mode for my house: https://github.com/wpietri/sunrise

I thought the valuable part would be waking up early without the stress of an alarm. But actually the best part has been the auto-dimming in the evening. My brain get the hint. Instead of staying up and hacking on something or binge-watching TV, I am very likely to turn in early enough that I now get plenty of sleep.
If you're going to take that stance, you should do a better job of qualifying your opinions. You think women "avoid tech because they think tech guys are unattractive" - simply asserting this to be true doesn't do much for your argument. Likewise with the whole "women are also interested in money."
The author is obviously alluding to democracy.
I agree that social skills can be practiced and learned. But I think something like Toastmasters, improv classes, or Meetup groups are a much safer way, instead of the corporate environment.
Ok, I'll bite - enlighten us.
But it doesn't direct local resource to unprofitable forms of work, it directs local resources to less profitable local forms of work rather than more profitable foreign forms of work. That seems like a perfectly reasonable trade-off for a community to make.
This is actually an attempt to drive out poor people by increasing the cost of newly built homes. You have got it absolutely correct that there should be goal and mandating a specific solution only ends up hurting innovation.

Say it costs $100 to install the solar roof. What if I were to invest the same $100 in a company that is building solar farms in Nevada and providing that electricity to California ? Wouldn't that give additional benefit to the planet ?

What if you expand from solar to all renewable including R&D labs ?

When you build a house in bay area you already more efficient because of relatively moderate temperature than the farmer's home in Fresno or Lake Shasta.

I think the politicians who get voted in power because of bay area yuppies have forgotten that their state is also an agricultural state with many hardworking people.
Not yet. But there's clearly some trend towards making smaller and smaller transgressions into #metoo issues. I'd hate to find out that I rolled the dice on ostracism (or worse) just to be friendly to someone who doesn't care enough to reach out to me.

In fact, it's much riskier for me to reach out to them than for them to reach out to me. If they're too stupid to realize that, I'm not interested in being their friend. And if they're perceptive of my risk and they still expect me to submit myself to it for their convenience or whatever then I'm not interested in being their friend.
libguestfs > losetup > fdisk

I.E. libguestfs is safer when dealing with images of unknown origin, and losetup has inbuilt support now for partition scanning.

Here's an old fdisk/parted wrapper I used to use:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/lomount.sh
Account data and password manager of the future
Many other countries mandate that you study at school the subject (or direct precursors) you take at Uni.

You not going to study Physics at Oxbridge if you don't have GCSE and A levels in the Subject why is EE and CS considered different.

Some lists of the "English" cannon are 200+ texts and that's not counting some of the classical authors you should have read - and that's not counting any BAME texts you might want to look at for diversity.
Trains also have really long braking distances. If you can see a track worker in the way, it's already too late. Hence the declaration of these work zones.

In my areas, they usually close a lane next to the accident in addition to the lane where the accident occurred. This is basically the exact same thing.
Yup, and make dirty power more expensive with a carbon tax.
I agree. It's curious that so many people believe they find it difficult to concentrate. Clearly, those beliefs can't possibly be accurate, as your story demonstrates. The solution is obviously to just try harder.
"Women in tech" events are a good example of how women exclude themselves. A typical event has the following attributes:

- Men strongly discouraged or banned from participating.

- Many of the attendees are "women in tech" but not "technical women", it's common to see women who describe themselves as co-founders, activists, HR staff and so on but relatively rare to find someone who actually spends all day banging out code.

- As a consequence of the above most of the talk at these events revolves around gender politics, not tech.

Source: girlfriend has learned to code and attended one or two meetup events advertised as being for women in tech, also from reading agendas or blog posts about such events.

Meanwhile the men are creating inclusive events that focus on knowledge sharing about hard tech topics. They use what they learn to build new things, they scope out each others talent and form professional relationships that can be used to build companies. True geek girls go to these events and are in the minority. The rest self-select out and create the exclusion they then blame men for. I have no sympathy.
Total Edit:

Banks don't have to be international to support international companies.
What does "freely given" mean in this context? Is GDPR forcing me to give access to my service for free if my business model is targeted ads?
Yes, but china has _much more_ inhabitants than the US. Per capita numbers are not misleading in this case as we want to know the mean commitment of every person.
I don't know if you are trolling or serious...I guess I and about 2B others might be using facebook differently than you then?

I also don't find any of the data that FB or Google have of me "disturbingly extensive" or that they have been "breaking laws" to get it.

I give them data so they can provide value to my life...it's as simple as that! If that deal doesn't work for you then you simply shouldn't use their products..nothing wrong with that.

I also personally prefer targeted ads over un-targeted ones btw. And I like using these services without having to pay for it...its a good deal!

I also want to add that, while you repeat popular believes, I have yet to see evidence for many/all of them and I would prefer you would either stay with the known facts or be more explicit about whats a personal opinion/internet myth. thanks
I use SO without Google sometimes, in this way: I search for a phrase or tag, and read the 20 - 30 highest upvoted questions & answers about that — and I learn a lot, sometimes things that I didn't know, that I ought to know.
this guy fucks
You must have missed all the comments of men complaining that they can't be friendly to women because they're an unattractive man.

I've missed them. Can you aggregate links? I honestly find this interesting. (You can "cheat" this using the reply links.)
A better word probably is haarudoni
That title is atrocious, though. The cellphone didn't kill anyone, this is basically an "honor killing".
actually had a boss accuse me of networking for my next job by going to tech events.

Someone who works in tech who is interested in tech and goes to tech events. I don't buy it :).
I really miss having the Pebble as a silent alarm clock. The motor in it was really strong, and my Fitbit Alta just doesn't compare.