skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people get into the habit of presenting their software as uniquely capable. And wrapping up their own skills in that particular software. It is similar to a young programmer assuming that Perl (for example) is uniquely capable. In truth talent tends to transcend packages and other factors like ecosystem come in to play.

A talented CAD technician would be useful using pen and a drawing board. We are just not very good at selling those more inate qualities. It is just easier to just sell yourself as an AutoCAD driver.

Of course these sort of packages take a long time to learn, and you are much more productive using something you know. And people adapt their mental model to a particular package. So there is often little obvious point in changing software.
When I was working as a math tutor I would sometimes have to explain composition to a student for an introductory algebra class. When it finally clicked to them that you could pass functions into other functions many other concepts seemed to come to them more easily. Those were some of my favorite moments at that job.
However you’d expect an Mmmm-hm as reaction to certain phrases as an ACK. What it does is just ACKing the phrase from other user. I wonder if other user would get worried and started asking “are you there?” if they didn’t receive the ACK

Edit: typos
No, the numbers hold up all the way to PhDs. Women aren't obtaining math PhD's to become "math teachers" (and, if you read my original comment, you can also predict that they aren't doing academic crypto research to go teach math either).
Well perhaps it's regional to some degree, I can't say, but I certainly know other people who think this way and it's what I'm scared of when approaching women. I'm not scared of harassment accusations (that seems like it's been blown out of all proportion). I just don't want to be perceived as sexually interested in them and I know that if the tables were turned I would immediately assume exactly that.
Aha. Thanks! I understand better now, I didn't realize it was so general-purpose :)
I've been using an app called artpip for a while, it's great: https://www.artpip.com/
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I'm curious where you live. In my area, a "nanny" is exclusively or childcare (and well paid, including Social Security and Unemployment premiums), with no meal prep or laundry. We "cleaned the house for the nanny" to avoid embarrassment. Honestly it felt more like we were charitable sponsors to an underemployed youth (in exchange for having someone fulfill the obligation of keeping the toddler accompanied) than we were hiring an employee.

It's a far cry from the do-everything (and possibly cash-under-the-table) servant help I've seen in the past/elsewhere.
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Sounds like it may be due to Safari purposefully limiting the memory and processing resources available to a browser tab, no?
The same way California moved the entire world forward on car emissions. LA smog used to be so bad you couldn’t see the other side of the street, reactionaries predicted that doing anything would destroy the economy, but they wrote laws requiring cleaner cars anyway. Since everyone wanted to sell to California, they did the R&D to make it work and eventually economics won out against the cost of making different models for different states. The economy was destroyed right into being the 5th largest in the world.

This takes a ton of usage away from conventional power and more importantly it tells multiple industries it’s safe to make big investments because California will buy your solar panels, build your designs, etc. Everyone benefits directly from those economies of scale and research investments and indirectly from being able to pass similar laws in their states when it turns out not to wreck California.
Alex Aiken double majored in Music and CS.
NB: "computers" != "STEM"

In many science fields, women have reached near parity or are even in the majority now. Computer programming is much different.
Iceweasel was Debian's version necessary due to some trademark issue that was resolved last year. GNU Icecat is the fork with only free software.
Trees don't have to go over your roof to shade your house.
When Do Changes to a Web Page Restart the Statute of Limitations?
"Cheap enough" should take into account the expected future costs of climate change. That's the major reason for subsidies and regulations to encourage renewable energy usage. There is a huge externality to account for.
Which class was this?

I remember being shocked in my Classical Studies class that I was the only one who had read all of Thucydides (only books 6 an d7 where set) let alone doing a lot of reading of related text's
I understood some of those words.
I was expecting a tutorial on writing a GUI window manager. This manages physical, on-the-wall windows.
It's standard procedure but also a transgression against this woman if a man does it and isn't sufficiently attractive.
It’s either this, or grow big enough fast enough before the cash runs out that they have a strong bargaining position with big cinema chains to cut deals for cheaper tickets, perhaps also using the carrot of some kind of concession promotion to encourage subscribers to buy popcorn etc.

If this model works, it isn’t exactly hard for a large chain like AMC to do in house at all, I really don’t see the incentive to get into bed with MoviePass. Some European cinema chains already do this, like Cineworld in the UK.
Hacks as a human-driven search driven by competitive forces to find structures that solve human-like tasks. Though it's not guaranteed to produce biological neurology (unless it is somehow a singular solution), it is at least convergent evolution.
There are lots of posts of this nature, but there's also many, many posts that give the other side of the story -- explaining why young men in this field don't engage with women.

So, I think there is a good deal of empathy here. We understand that women feel excluded and have offered insight into why they may be excluded, which in turn can help society figure out how to help the next generation overcome this.
I had a very smart and talented professor for several undergraduate classes who entered the computer science field after getting an BA in Music and a PhD in Musicology. It didn't seem to slow him down.

The only thing I programmed before I switched from a music major to computer science was a TI-83 calculator for a few weeks in the 8th grade. Technically that counts as experience but I have a feeling you meant more extensive experience.

Regardless of whether my experience counted or not, I find the notion that only those who start programming before university will not struggle to be ridiculous.
Be attractive. Don't be unattractive. Your job now depends on it. Unless you work 100% remote and don't use video chat.
It's kinda insane! what apps are they using !?
Ask HN: Top things to do before launch of my first product
I have been developing a niche financial product which my friends (5 of them) have been using it for a week. And they are positive about product. It has freemium model.

I have to yet to overcome my fears of real audience dismissing it.

What are the top things I should ensure before release.

PS: product looks a little too simple for advanced audience here so forgive me for not pasting the link :)
Reading "harry potter" does prepare you for reading classics. Sure the specific subject is different, but the practice reading makes you better at reading. When I went to college the only language I knew was BASIC, which of course was never touched in any class. However the practice and thought patterns that knowledge gave me did help.

I suppose civil engineers are more likely to start on an even ground because so few kids build a bridge. Even then I'd expect the kid who built a few "tree forts" to do better.
Isn't that just the problem? The moral of that insufferable article is not to treat women like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, but to fear women as if they're going to smash your head into the pavement like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson for saying the wrong thing. If women as a group actually want men to see them this way, it's no wonder men don't want to #mentorher.
Yes, and see the TSA for another example.

We've easily lost another 3000+ people on the roads since 9/11, simply because the professional pearl-clutchers have made it such a pain in the ass to fly anywhere.
It's much simpler: Private Banking is offered for a profit, not because it is in demand. If an international bank can make more black ink stateside rather than Samoa, even if the risk/reward ratio isn't that different, the larger bank chooses the more profitable market to distribute it's loans. This puts Samoa in an awkward spot where they have a dearth of services, despite demand, simply because every bank made this analysis. It's classic Tragedy Of The Commons.

A public bank, in contrast, does not have to put this absolute profit first, giving them the flexibility to enter markets where they might not be as successful, but they don't have nearly the competition for their services. Additionally, since this is operated by the state, they can benefit from business loans and interest as another form of revenue, giving them room to cut taxes or improve services.

EDIT: As consolidation creates both larger businesses and larger reserves of capital, this causes the bank to make more conservative loans. They must play more defensively. As these banks retreat from "riskier" markets, it leaves genuine demand behind. Look at the article's description of "predatory lending" near the top of the article.

Because there is this pent-up demand, a local bank could open a branch that captures some of that demand, and incentivizes locals with higher returns than the international bank because they can charge a higher interest rate. But the IntBank wouldn't still enter this market because the size is still too tiny to warrant their attention and/or the interest rates locally don't move the needle in their global reserves. It's literally too small to be worth the effort.
> Pretend you're a woman and then read the comments on this post.

To carry your point a couple steps further, HN demonstrates the huge gender disparity in tech. Are there any women in this discussion? Even the parent assumes the reader is male, with good reason.

Most of the discussion is complaints about how hard it is for the commenter because of #metoo and other actions against sexual harassment and discrimination, and then other people agreeing. Imagine how different it would be if half the commenters were women.

Those voices are not only missing from HN, but probably from your workplace and classroom as well.
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I believe comparing murder to sexual harassment is plain misleading.

If someone acuses someone else of murdering his neighbour they will have to go to all lenghts to prove it and it's a major moral line to cross.

If someone acuses someone else of sexually harassing a woman, whether they're guilty or not, they'd most likely lose their job straight away and be labelled as a "perv" or something similar.

I can't see how you can compare those.

In your particular case, the equivalent would be a man screaming "sexual harassment" from another man. There's a huge stigma accompanied with that. It's just not socially acceptable on society today. On top of that the homossexual community is another minority with all the weight of discrimination following it.

Let's say that happens. It's easier for you to prove he fired you because of your sexual orientation than for him to prove you harassed him.

I believe there's a reason you don't feel this threatened. It's because unfortunately that's how society works today.

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I don't know why this is being downvoted. This should be the top response to this thread...
In the hearing someone cited the numbers of $40 increase in mortgage cost and $80 of savings per month
Persuasion and the other thing: big data methodologies in politics (2017)
[EDIT:] Never mind folks, your marketing is perfect. Forget I said anything.
That's basically what we do now, but the trouble is cheap power sources with undesirable externalities win the energy market because consumers want more energy for less money.
Not to be confused as related to Common Lisp's ASDF build system.
Real cells use Hebbian learning, which in some cases is equivalent to back-propagation, but is way less efficient. Otherwise, yes, many of the techniques used in ML is also used in the body. Not only ML, actually, but also electrical engineering and surely many other fields. The more you learn about the body the more machine-like it will look to you. In some respects. In others, it's fucking space technology. Nanobots exist, they are called proteins, and each of your cells have hordes of them, for example.
And Dyslexia sucks :-)
Right, but the honor-killing was triggered by a miscommunication due to the phone's poor ability to transmit language.
You’re downvoted and my managers always make me look like a slacker for holding this one singular hobby/2 routines. Each one, while they are chubby and often have poor posture, fooling themselves into thinking they’re on turbo—nope. I can do 12x6 forever but don’t F with my 3-4pm empty gym slot which effectively saves time. Superman. Even when the gym was in the same building. Hour lunch out of office is the other. A couple workspaces have given me hell for this, and I just quit at first sign now. Last workplace was 4 people total and of course my supervisor was the fat ass and others did marathons and crossfit—guess how that went. I do judge workplaces based on fitness level; mind-body.
Yes, the Apple Watch is really not a good timepiece or a traditional watches. Really what it does best is fitness tracking and helping you out with your general health. You can see this in the cancellation of the high priced solid gold watches. Sure you can buy one made out of ceramic but I have never seen one wear it (it seems to be a halo unit to prototype designs in ceramic IMHO). Also there are expensive bands but comparatively any other watch will be much more attractive given $300.
This completely misses the point. The Rock isn't going to take things to HR or try to ruin anyone's life. The Rock is going to handle things like a man.
That article is almost certainly wrong, or at least misleading.

The question at hand was whether this statement was a direct request for a counsel, or just chatter.

"This is how I feel, if y’all think I did it, I know that I didn’t do it so why don’t you just give me a lawyer dog ’cause this is not what’s up.”

The court decided " (agreeing with the lower courts’ conclusion that the
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statement “[m]aybe I should talk to a lawyer” is not an unambiguous request for a
lawyer). In my view, the defendant’s ambiguous and equivocal reference to a “lawyer dog” does not constitute an invocation of counsel". There's a little bit of cultural bias in the "dog" part, but the main thrust is that the defendant didn't make a clear statement of invocation.

IMO the law as it stands is horrid -- legal representation should be the default unless explicitly waived, not the reverse, but under the current law the decision turned on whether that statements was a demand for a lawyer or merely a suggestion.

http://www.lasc.org/opinions/2017/17KK0954.sjc.addconc.pdfrt
Who wants less energy for more money?
It has everything to do with unions, specifically public-sector unions that shouldn't be allowed to exist anyway.

You can't expect the development and deployment of efficient automation in an environment where it's impossible to fire the existing human operators. Or where firing them would be just as expensive as keeping them around doing nothing useful.
If you believe Apple and Microsoft's CEOs, privacy is a human right, so I suppose that would put it up there.
"As I did, I looked down at the small section of my life situated at that airport dining table: my new Nike Air Max sneakers, my cashmere swacket (that’s 50% jacket, 50% sweater, 100% cozy), my almost-too-soft-to-be-taken-outside leather duffel bag, and my iPhone. All of these objects were central to me – I felt like they defined me."

These sentences are severely misaligned with my "take this author seriously" algorithm.
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That's only two uses, OP! There's also tables, flowcharts (https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-dot-diagrams.html), Gantt charts, and HTML publishing!
This new American Samoan bank is explicitly modeled after the Bank of North Dakota, and the OP goes quite a bit into its benefits.
Except, how do you get to choose what type of power you buy? What if I live back east and would happily pay for wind or solar but my only option is coal or natural gas?
Is something just flying over my head? What's off about that?
No, creepiness exists in your mind only. Believe it or not, we valued the fact that those women were there and we tried to help them out in whatever way we could. My field of study back then (guidance systems, weapons design) is even more male dominated than CS. All male peer groups are not a fun thing to be in.

To preclude the question, yes those girls did get asked for a date every now and then. If that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.
Depends on what your goals are and what makes one position "superior" to another and one company "inferior" to another in your mind.
The other problem with container tabs, which isn't really a Mozilla problem as much as a Google problem, is that if you have enough segregated google profiles going you seem to hit some google anti-abuse codepaths or aomething. I have 3 separate Google accounts separated with container tabs (on purpose, I know Google supports multiple accounts), and a separate regular browsing container, and occassionally just following a link from Gmail or hangouts where Google bounces you through their redirect hangs for 30 seconds or so. When it's doing that it generally does it consistently though.
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Lessee...

* "The Seasons: Autumn" — Alphonse Mucha

* "A Winding Road" — Sir Matthew Smith

* "Town View, Bogneux" — Anton Lindforss

* "Sea and Sky" — Rafael Martínez Padilla

* "The Ninth Wave" — Ivan Aivazovsky

* "Forever with Moscow. Forever with the Russian People" — Mikhail Khmelko

* "Tsar Dadon Before the Shemakha Queen" — Ivan Bilibin

* "Paysage" — Jean Metzinger
Lack of history kills your credit score and will cost you potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime if you buy a house/car/education/etc
And I 100% disagree. If you're new to React I strongly recommend sticking with classes and embracing React's 'component' model which is one of its strengths and which Redux + trying to use only stateless functional components throws out with the bathwater.
Yeah, a pure democracy would be an absolute shithole. You don't want to live in a world where people's reddit votes determine every action of state, from legislation to foreign policy and war to incarceration. Kind of like that episode of The Orville.
I tend to agree even though I have solar panels on my own roof. I have clear southern exposure but what about houses that are shaded? Maybe a better use of money in such a case would be better insulation or a geothermal heat pump. Perhaps a points system of some kind, with different energy reduction strategies getting different points.

I also think there should be a progressive component to the requirement. The standards could be looser for a $100K house vs a $1M house or perhaps a progressive tax credit of some kind.

One exciting thing about this is that the costs of solar will be much lower for solar than otherwise. All homebuilders will have to make their designs solar ready, soft costs such as customer acquisition will be lower for solar companies, economies of scale, etc.
There was a short time when Swiftkey was suggesting a worrying number of copyrighted brand names to me. Enough that I noticed it was doing it far more then usual (which previously was somewhere between never and almost never). It stopped within a week, but that was a little uncomfortable.
Good luck with that. Even though it is possible it is much harder than just to ignore the problem and pay the Microsoft tax. And if you're going to buy a computer without windows why would you then buy Windows separately, that's much more expensive, and people that go out of their way to buy machines without Windows likely don't run Windows at all.
It's easier to agree on what's evil than what's right
I'm not "vilifying men or the masculine". I am a dude. Also a dad, of a STEM college boy and a STEM HS girl. Also a dad, of a STEM college boy and a STEM HS girl. I like beer and pork fat and whiskey and cars.

Glad to hear it.

I'm happy to keep talking to you about this stuff, but I will not do that if you're trying to trap me in some weird ideological conflict about the persecution of men.

Well, likewise. I don't want ideological conflict, though sometimes I feel it's foisted upon me. I'm also quite open to the idea that something in the subculture of programming could be pushing women away. Please don't take my mention of vilification as an accusation, and my apologies if it came across that way. I don't think anyone can deny that the whole area of discussion has a history of someone vilifying someone else, so I think that steering away from that is useful.

When have I ever tried to ideologically trap you? If there was ever anything ideological I'd associate with you, it's this phrase about, "the social compact." (Not that I'm absolutely against redistribution. It just sounds like reparations between sovereign powers from centuries ago.)
Yes, I even cite it as an inspiration for making Backgroundifier! I loved the idea and execution, but I wanted to use my own art folders. It no longer appears to be for sale, unfortunately.
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The tooling to create the immutable image is what is changing from Mantle (our Gentoo and ChromeOS toolchain) to Fedora tools. From the consumer perspective, you will not see any RPMs or package managers in our distribution. If you have not built a custom image of Container Linux yourself, you weren't even aware this software existed.
Exactly, it’s not a reasonable position to take.
The problem is that "dramatically inefficient and less effective" is relative. People are comparing it to some scenario that is simply not going to happen like the state funding large solar and wind farms. Once again, I don't know whether this proposal is good or not. I just think it is a mistake to to oppose proposals that move us in the right direction solely because they don't move us in that direction quick enough or far enough.
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If you're still saying that in 4 years, then I'll believe you.
Does it matter? Why should we assume that whoever receives our message prefers reading it from left-to-right rather than top-to-bottom?
> Say, if you keep you containers, reducers, and actions in their own directory trees.

That layout is the biggest reason it took me so long to understand it when my team brought it in.

It goes a bit against the spirit of Redux, but the tutorials really should pair up action and reducer in the same directory, then later explain why the other way is also useful.

We currently do this:

state/
|---some_piece_of_state/
| |------reducer.js
| |------actions.js
| |------tests.js
|
|---another_piece_of_state/
|------reducer.js
|------actions.js
|------tests.js

It ended up way, way easier to understand and get people in on it, because in the vast majority of cases we don't need multiple reducers listening to the same action.
In 2013, the CPUC mandated installing about 1.3GWhr of grid energy storage by 2020. Installation of de facto additional capacity appears to be underway. Brief summary: [1] Absent base load or other dispatchable, non-renewable generation, energy storage is the only way to deal with the duck curve.

[1] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/california-puc-finalizes-ne...