skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting this, a refreshing perspective, on which I couldn't agree more. I founded and operate a software startup, and have > 20 years of semiconductor manufacturing and software development experience. As a very extroverted male, when I meet new people they almost always show genuine surprise when discovering what I do for a living. It’s a fact: there’s a social bias in tech. Personally, I can’t stand the term nerd, or anything like it - it’s derogatory to me, making it appear there is something lacking socially. Thanks for the positive advice here, I am already practicing a lot of it in my daily work life. And you’ve given me a couple more things to add to that practice.
Microsoft could return to charging for Windows (via OEM installs and fleet licenses); or just leave it free as the "best way to experience Live/365/Azure".
The only developments in cryptocurrency that I've personally found interesting have been smart contracts. Even then, there's no reason that couldn't be done by a traditional financial institution using fiat currency. The fact that smart contracts were first implemented with cryptocurrency is an implementation detail, not a fundamental requirement.

Frankly, I'd probably rather use smart contracts with regular currency. If there was some kind of scam or theft then the financial institution might be able to reverse some of the charges.

Most of the advantages of cryptocurrency don't really sound like advantages to me.
Lisa Bradley: Our Product Symbolizes the Strength of Rosie the Riveter
I'm assuming anyone writing React in this day and age is using JSX which is what I was referring to when I wrote that.

That it transpiles down to something else is just an implementation detail to the developer. For all I care it could be jQuery statements :)
Limiting the amount of single family homes? Sure, and we should be.

Rooftop solar is a drop in the bucket for multi-family buildings.
We want a lot of things from retail banking:

We want it to be ubiquitous.

We want it to be close to free for retail customers.

We want it to not lose money on underperforming loans.

We want it to extend the social benefits of credit in the community, even if the community is very poor.

We want it to be very closely regulated, so that people never lose their money.

We want opening a bank to cost less than the net present value of all future banking revenue in American Samoa.

It’s really rough satisfying all these wants at the same time.
It sure doesn’t match the reality I live in. I see guys with really bad social skills struggling with this, but that can be overcome.
Add to that: the EU is specifically excluding police and security services from GDPR. It's basically making the states the exclusive owners of private data.
“Scientists are leaving Amazon reviews and it's amazing”
> The number of Western classics the average incoming English major has read is probably pretty small.

You think there are a lot of kids declaring English Literature as their major who haven't really read any English literature? What type of college are you assuming?
You can't just drop compatibility. We will have A.I. trained voice systems that mimic natural speech just enough to be understood by duplex while compressing the exchange to a minimum. Data transfer will be measured in microwords per second. Future versions of duplex will of course detect this kind of compressed speech and reply in kind, falling back to normal speech only if the immediate response is similar to north american confusion.
There are still fling bugs to be fixed. :) Feel free to file a bug in Bugzilla that blocks bug 1448439. Perhaps you are seeing one of these known bugs:

* Weirdness at end of Fennec fling. Don't send duplicate DOM 'scroll' event for sub-pixel scrolling:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1230176

* Scrolling in Android has a distinct hitch when releasing finger:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425739

You can also tweak the fling physics parameters with these about:config prefs:

apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.friction
apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.inflexion
apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.stop_threshold
Given that if you write more than three paragraphs you get slammed with "I'm not reading that wall of text" and that "tl;dr" is a thing, is it surprising that people are employing the short form instead?
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. I like beer and pork fat and whiskey and cars. I don't so much like video games, but only because I'd rather code or yell on message boards. 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. The problem with the field is not that "men are bad".

Would you like to try asking me that again? It's also OK if you and I just don't try to have a dialog on this thread.
I think I'll do that. Actually, I think I did do that, and somehow it came back.
In one year someone will post an article about how burnout destroyed their business, and I will look for your comment saying "I was totally committed to my business, didn't even have a hobby or anything for fun, and I ended up wandering downtown naked, unaware of where or who I was".

All work and no play makes something something.
If we want to give charity to a class of people via subsidizing credit to them, we should be explicit about it rather than putting moral pressure on banks to make sub-optimal loans alongside honestly offered loans.

The idea that the bank is obligated to balance the scales of lending and borrowing seems odd to me as well. I keep a bank account for myself personally of course, and if some day I needed to take a big loan out to start a business I wouldn't consider my decades of having a checking account with the bank as obligating them to extend me the loan regardless of the credit risk they think I am. I voluntarily signed up for a bank account because it's good for me, and if there's nothing in the contract about them having to make me a loan in the future I shouldn't expect one and neither should they.
> It worsens local economic conditions by directing local resources to unprofitable forms of work.

That has to be one of the most myopic and heartless things I've read all week. You're not going to improve local economic conditions in American Samoa by sucking all the money out their economy, so it can be used to chase profit elsewhere, while its people sit around idle because you've judged whatever work they can do as "unprofitable."

I advise you to put down whatever hyper-libertarian economic polemic you got your idea from and read something more humanistic.
I agree with this idea in spirit... is there another completely passive way to generate energy with unused space? Windmills and thermal couplers have issues and limitations too.

How do you rectify the free market innovation that was the VW/Audi/Porsche diesel scandal? There are mandated emissions requiments and the businesses are free to innovate solutions to meet them. Result: they just lied and cheated, in support of a specific technology that simply can’t meet the requirements but that they had made a century long commitment to. And became the largest car company in the world while doing it. How do you prevent net power draw regs from a) not resulting in just shitty home construction b) not encouraging cheating, many materials might not even be sourced from the US (like Canadian lumber) if you have to factor net energy into construction and c) not resulting in homes that require aftermarket additions like air conditioners which would in turn require new regulations? Or worse, really jacking up home prices when you simply can’t build new homes. what if you buy a house but then operate it differently than expected? Energy star numbers on TVs are this way, there are some really efficient TVs but nobody hardly ever operates their tv at those most efficient brightness settings, the viewing sucks.

It seems like you might want to reevaluate the rules in 10 years, it’s part of a big energy initiative they are taking on though. There is also room for a ton of grid innovation to make this work out reasonably. This law seems pretty simple in terms of the bigger goals the state has.
> as a male, you have absolutely nothing to gain, and everything to lose.

Having friendly, healthy relationships with your colleagues isn't valuable? Or just with the ones who are women?

Some of my best friendships/allies/contacts have been women who I worked with. I'm very thankful for the opportunities they have provided me and the value they add to my life.

The fact that you see /zero/ value in having genuine connections with women has me even more worried than the fact that the OP was afraid of harassing someone accidentally.
Programming started as a field very similar to Accounting. You manually assembled a list of operations to get the necessary numerical result. There was creativity, but in the same vein of creativity in accounting it was confined to the realm of statistics and business intelligence. Computers were used to calculate numbers from other numbers, and rarely did much else. The set of computer instructions were limited, and nothing was automated so there was a lot of tedium in physically writing programming out on paper.

With the advent of personal computers and monitors the fields diverged rapidly.
> There is a real concern, and to be honest I don't totally think invalid, that many men don't want to be perceived in any way as doing something that could be construed (or misconstrued) as harassment.

This is very real. Why complicate things if I can be more relaxed and free talking to my male colleagues? They will even tolerate childish jokes I'd never do in front of any women (and as we all know, some people did and lost their jobs because of that). No, thank you.
curious where did you see that >90% driver churn data? many drivers I speak with have been driving with uber / lyft for years (in SF)
So, basically, stick your head in the sand and pretend the problem doesn't exist.
How do we break the cycle?

Colleges need to get out of the business of teaching CompSci the way the do it now. Less emphasis on science and engineering and more on team building, project management, business analysis, and more. Don't make programmers. To me that's like forcing everyone that plans to work on cars to only understand how to repair brakes. There is a whole lot of car outside of repairing just the brakes.

Colleges need to engage in team-oriented software development practices. It shouldn't be computer science specific. It should be business oriented, social, teams, projects, testing, planning, white-boarding, _and_ programming.

This is how a lot of businesses run, so we should mimic the environments these graduates will end up in.

If we made this one valuable change, we'd possibly attract a more balanced gender population, create social environments for men to evolve properly, allow women to feel comfortable and respected, and generate advocacy for diverse and respectful work environments.
Not on the Pixel. On my Pixel, I can disable the Google app and if I use a different launcher, the Pixel launcher won't run at all. So they're getting more customizable over time.
The worst I've seen there is the sort of shortcut when your phone rings to automatically say you can't talk at the moment. It's not the same as having custom canned messages written even on a desktop client.
Looks like it's being hugged to death.
How far back do you need to be compatible? I'm pretty sure IE9 had all the necessary APIs, and it was released over seven years ago.
Good to know. Concurrent crises also F everything on paper without fam wealth, up but are less common and probably not considered. 800 credit until that, as we start talking about block chain of course. May we always be unchained in these matters, or use a chain model that rolls off old data and keeps an initial value aggregate of old data on the effective block0/genesis or so.
Surely you could solve this problem quite simply by having both participants and the experimenter join a group chat using COTS software+accounts (Skype, Hangouts, Whatsapp...) pre-installed on the machines?
Yeah, the telemarketing people who clog up the phone lines and interrupt dinner times all over the planet won't see the benefit of this at all </sarcasm>
The first thing that popped into my head was that this really bones homes that only get 1-2 hours of direct sunlight per day.
We did announce (but not yet release) custom Azure Machine Learning functions in Excel. I mention in the blog that since Python runs on Azure ML, you'll be able to run custom Python functions in the cloud, as part of Excel formulas[1].

That announced Azure ML feature is optimized for machine learning models (in terms of the tools/deployment/runtime we've provided), so even though it will work for any Python functions it might not be exactly what you're asking for. Also, depending on your specific use case, you may or may not need client-side execution (Azure ML functions run in the cloud today). I can't share specifics on other unannounced features, but Azure ML functions are only our first foray in this space: we think custom functions running in the cloud are very important for many different use cases in Excel.

Also, note that on the JavaScript side, the language choice isn't something new for Excel or Office: for example, there's a public ecosystem of add-ins that automate Excel via JavaScript today[2]. Custom functions are just the latest way we've enabled for extending Excel as part of an add-in[3].

[1] https://dev.office.com/blogs/azure-machine-learning-javascri...
[2] https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?produ...
[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/excel/ex...
I suspect people who made Comcast's telephone system had exactly the same notion. Feel free to experience it yourself at 1-800-COMCAST.
Maybe instead of one specific solution, give a couple existing ones like solar, mini wind turbines or something with equal power generating capacity, then give a more general guideline allowing new technologies to be uswd like: new buildings should be able to produce a this much power self sufficiently, then provide a reasonable range based on location and general usage patterns of the area.
That's a slick way to rotate images. Curious, can you name the paintings in the video?
I read through the comments on that post, and goodness, the fact that someone (especially supposedly a Berkeley professor) can seriously hold the views espoused at length in comment #49 just boggles my brain
Stonemason - $42,370 - https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472022.htm

Drywall/Ceiling tile installer - $49,250 - https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472081.htm

Crane and Tower Operators - $55,690 - https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes537021.htm

LPN - $45,030 - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/licensed-practical-and-li... !Requires licensure

Social Worker - $47,980 - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/community-and-social-service/social-... !Likely requires graduate degree

Preschool Teachers - $28,990 - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/presc...

Home Health Aides - $23,130 - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home-health-aides-and-per...

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Long story short, the trades (AKA: jobs that primarily men do) requires a time of apprenticeship, then you can work. Whereas the "women majority" jobs all pay around 45-50k and they require advanced degrees or state licensure. The nonlicensed primarily-women based jobs pay around 20-30k.
I presume from the general description the woman in question is a report so this is less gossip and more opening up to a manager.

You’re dealing with another person sharing something that is probably emotionally difficult for them to say. I’d suggest a subtler approach than immediately busting in with the evidence requests. It’s a slower process which is neither immediately believing or disbelieving the accusation but taking it seriously. Being open to the possibility and seeing where it leads rather than shutting things down because it’s uncomfortable. Because presumably the woman is also someone you know that you wouldn’t want to be hurt as well.
It's not automatically a bad idea, just because it's not changing the entire world. E.g. me choosing not to fly is not making any significant difference, but that does not change the fact that my carbon footprint is lower as a result. If I choose to share my motivation for not flying, it may affect others flying habits. The same could be the case for California
Who reads a story accusing a platform of spoofing streams and funneling royalties to top artists and thinks "Yeah, this is where I want to be"?
> If it doesn't make sense to a lot of people after a lot of thought, and there's a lot of rationalization required to plug that gap, it's probably not working out very well.

This makes me think of an interesting/bothersome phenomenon I've seen a lot in web development (it seems to be more present here than in other domains—but I won't pretend to have any profound objectivity on the subject). People speak confidently about rationales for architectural decisions—and at first it sounds coherent and persuasive (especially paired with their confidence), but if you start trying to test it, considering specific cases, or more generally just drilling into the specific meanings of the very abstract statements—then you are likely to discover that the supposed rationale is really a justification.

I'm guessing this comes about because decisions about technology often have to be made with time constraints, and the time required to really investigate the set of viable alternatives exceeds what's available. So you're left with a partially completed search process, where the engineer has told himself a story about why choice X was the best, based on promising looking aspects of the search so far completed.

At this point, you're sort of committed to the decision you made, so you have to continue justifying it to yourself and others; and since there isn't necessarily a valid justification, the one you employ has to succeed in part through its obfuscation and your rhetoric.
Seconded ;-) a few years in the UK ago I was a committee that ran the national raft race for an organisation like rotoract (the youth side of rotary) about a hundred teams and 1500 participants over the weekend (we also laid on camping and entertainment for the 3 days).

One of the other members was the PA to the chief fire officer for the county (State in us terms) and they where so efficient it was amazing.

At the first meeting before it started they had already worked out what formal letters need to be written updated them from last year and got the other committee members to sign - two copies on to send an done for the file.
There is a difference, even if I disagree with 089723645897236 that the distinction matters here. Design incorporates function as well as looks. A sports car can be beautifully styled, but if the electronics don't work and the engine is underpowered and the transmission has too few gears and the seats don't sit at the right angle, it's certainly not well designed despite its good looks.

What they're saying is that Apple's products are nice to look at but do not function well, which is a very arguable statement.
ReachNow to discontinue car-sharing service in Brooklyn
“Cost of Living” pay for remote workers is BS
Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April
I'm the founder and a core developer of Pachyderm so I can weigh in on how it compares (there is, of course, some potential bias here). I also was at Airbnb around the time we released Airflow, so I got to see it being built up close and used the system it was replacing quite a bit as well.

I think it's fair to say that Mara and Airflow are both in the same category of DAG (directed acyclic graph) schedulers for Python; Python makes a ton of sense as the language to focus on as it's the de facto lingua franca for data science. I'd also put Luigi in that bucket, although I think Airflow has degraded its mind-share quite a bit. All of them are targeting the data pipeline use case, which is very well represented as a DAG, but the actual management of the data is left up to the user. They (Mara, Airflow, or Luigi) schedule tasks for you after all the tasks they depended on have completed, but you have to figure out where to store your data so that downstream tasks can find the data their upstream tasks outputted. At Airbnb we used HDFS as this storage layer, often with Hive or Presto on top. Storing in s3 is also a common pattern.

Pachyderm is also a DAG scheduler but we're a lot more prescriptive about where you store the data, and a lot less prescriptive about what languages and tools you use. Pachyderm ships with its own distributed filesystem (pfs) that we use for storage, it does a few things that other storage solutions can't do. In particular, it version controls your data and records "provenance" i.e. where data comes from. For example if you train a machine learning model then its provenance will be the data you used to train it. In terms of processing we're much less prescriptive, because we let users express their code as a Docker container rather than only having bindings for one language. So you can use anything that you can fit in a Docker container. Data is exposed to your code via the local filesystem, so regardless of language you have a very natural interface to your data: system calls on files.

Hope this helps understand the differences between the various systems and thanks for your interest in Pachyderm. Swing by our users slack channel [0] if you'd like some help getting started with it.

[0] http://slack.pachyderm.io/
> Why should homes generate power?

To reduce transmission losses, among other reasons.

> California has vast desert areas to tile with solar panels at less expense.

Even if it would be less build/maintenance expense per unit of delivered energy, a lot of California's vast deserts are either federally protected, and so not available even if it was smart to use them otherwise or already being irrigated and used for agriculture. You can't really cover a farm with solar panels without killing it's function like you can a house.
Right. I think that I agree that in 10-15 years we may look back at these watches with the same curiosity that we look back on digital watches with. There will still be some around, but probably won't be talked about as much.

The thing that I found about it is that watches have such little real-estate, and I have my phone on me anyway, that having a computer with poor connectivity and a tiny screen on my wrist wasn't really doing it for me. I mean the magic in a watch isn't even the functionality. It's the engineering and art and story. Having a halfway-functional computer from the largest company in the world on my wrist just wasn't that interesting to me.
Awesome!can't wait to try it
I recently converted to your camp of thinking. Facebook is the manifestation of the ignorance, not the source of it. Recently I had conversations with female friends who said this directly to me: "I don't care if Facebook logs my sensitive messages and my nudes are leaked as a result of that."

Privacy to the average person is like hell to the non-Christian.
Politically expedient but dramatically inefficient and less effective is... still dramatically inefficient and less effective. The idea that it's clear that this is "good" relies on a bunch of assumptions about carbon costs that haven't been made. It's not sufficient to say "fossil fuels are bad, solar is good," because then you make stupidly inefficient decisions that limit your overall capacity to tackle the big problem.
Nice! I've been using a similar app for years. Love it: http://www.artfulmac.com